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7 LETTERS: Vote no on 310; Xcel just raised your rates ... again; No on municipalization; Lafayette fracking ban 7 the highroad: A tomato tale that’s hard to stomach 10 in case you missed it: Inside baseball, revisited; Council goes to pot 12 COMMENTARY: Limit corporate welfare ELECTION: Our endorsements for the 2013 election Overtones: Seicento Baroque Ensemble looks to the stars arts & Culture: Art as a canvas for comedy BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go reel to reel: Films showing locally screen: The Fifth Estate tidbites: Food happenings around Boulder County CUISINE review: Bramble and Hare Boulder weekly beer tour: Backcountry Pizza & Tap House boulder marketplace: Your community resource SAVAGE LOVE: Handling a suicidal ex and an anti-porn girlfriend astrology: By Rob Brezsny Weed between the lines: One toke over the bubble machine
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As the franchise with Xcel ends, Boulder wishes to create a municipal utility (muni) — an improvement indeed! The very responsible and locally owned utility Public Service Company, Xcel’s predecessor, was very personable to its customers. It merged into New
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Highroad A tomato tale that’s hard to stomach by Jim Hightower
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’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to The New York Times. Hmmm. Excuse me, professor, but “substantially better” than what? One of Momma Nature’s own heirloom varieties perhaps? No, no — Klee knows that tomato-tampering flavorologists like him can’t get near that quality. Rather,
Century Energies, later into Xcel, based in faraway Minnesota. Xcel may acquire more utilities or be acquired, such as by PG&E, OG&E or Entergy. Merged corporations tend to have poorer customer service, more focus on corporate profits and massive layoffs; consider our current national unemployment. Xcel recently injected $300K into
he’s merely out to endow the industrial, mass-produced fruits of agribusiness with enough tomato-y taste to pass as a minimally acceptable version of the real thing. How? By artificially injecting them with some flavor genes from actual tomatoes. Why? So the corporate powers can retake market share and profits they’ve been losing to small producers of the natural product. Where did this guy come from? Monsanto, where he was employed for 11 years to help bring dangerously untested and unlabeled bioengineered food to market. Now at the U of Florida’s Institute for Plant Innovation, backed by Monsanto, Klee leads the effort to innovate what’s called “a chemical recipe for the ideal tomato.” That mission raises another question: “Ideal” for whom? It’ll still be a bland, mass-produced tomato doused with pesticides, machine-harvested
the election to “level the playing field.” They’ve already spent a boatload of money for negative ads and misinformation about other successful munis around the country; look at the numerous Daily Camera full-page ads to promote issue 310, which they created see LETTERS Page 8
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while green, and shipped across country. It’s only ideal for the maximization of corporate profits. And beware, for the tomato is not the only target of this academic-industrial complex. Klee & Company are also re-doing the blueberry to be, as the Times called it, “crispy, almost apple-like.” Wow, I’ll bet that next they’ll manufacture apples to be almost blueberry-like. Why are the public’s scarce research dollars being frittered away on these corporate projects? Klee claims that it’s all about “bringing back flavor.” But professor — flavor never left. Go to a farmers’ market and taste for yourself. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 24, 2013 7
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through a front group. It will severely interfere with city funding to acquire the electric power infrastructure. A muni will provide reduced energy costs and more choices, since it will be more flexible than a mega-corporation, and hire more local people. Xcel may want you to believe that it promotes solar energy, but only delivered from large solar farms that they control, not from individuals’ rooftops that generate salable energy. Ironically, Minneapolis, the home office of Xcel, is deciding to also form a muni; they are noting our efforts first — let’s set an example! Libertarians should join liberals to help Boulder secede from Xcel. In the early 1900s Teddy Roosevelt and W.H. Taft busted several large corporations into smaller ones; we need to do the same and take back America from large monopolies and oligopolies — T.R. would be proud of us! While citizens have little effect on monopolies, you can now affect this outcome by supporting the muni and downsize Xcel by voting NO on 310 and YES on 2E for the fall election. With due respect to George Zimmer: You’re going to look good in a new muni, I guarantee it! Walter Goedecke/Boulder
Xcel just raised your rates … again On Oct. 1, 2013, the Electric Commodity Adjustment (ECA) went up about 2 percent. This rate adjustment is set by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission each quarter and
includes the transfer of fossil-fuel cost increases associated with Xcel’s fossilfuel dominated system. We can expect similar rate increases most quarters as long as Xcel provides our electricity and the price of coal and natural gas continues to rise. Check out your utility bill — you’ll see the ECA that you’ve probably been ignoring. It is typically the second largest item on your bill and not likely to end soon, since Xcel is tied to its fossilfuel investments. Its fuel mix is about 80 percent fossil fuel, and its last coal plant is not scheduled to be decommissioned until 2069. Xcel has little incentive to change its fuel sources as long as it can simply pass cost increases on to its ratepayers. This is the equivalent of me driving a Hummer and sending my fuel bills to you. A good deal if you can get it — which is why Xcel wants to hobble the municipal utility with its ballot issue designed to create obstacles and engender lawsuits, if it passes. And we know who would be liable for the legal expenses — ratepayers and citizens. On top of the ECA, we’ve had five increases in base rates in the last seven years (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013). Base rates are scheduled to go up again in 2014, and then likely again after Xcel applies for yet another increase. Staying with Xcel’s fossil-fuel dominated system is a sure path to everincreasing rates. Don’t be fooled by its slick advertising. Xcel is not protecting ratepayers. It’s protecting itself and its see LETTERS Page 13
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paying for the campaign and understood that just because a few has-been mayoral shills were willing to sell out the quality of life of their neighbors to please the Republican hierarchy at the state level — state Republican leadership beholden to the oil and gas industry — didn’t make allowing drilling within city limits a good idea. So the question is, could some of the same morally challenged folks — yes, lying is a moral issue — be behind this year’s deceitful push polls? Are our local Longmont council races really once again under attack from some of the same outside organizations that have used such despicable tactics in the past? Unfortunately, it appears that’s likely the case, based on that old cliché about leopards and their spots. But until the proper campaign finance paperwork is filed by whoever is soiling our local elections, we won’t be able to accurately identify exactly which disgusting pinheads authorized and/or are paying for the push polls. I will say that it is my best guess, as someone who has covered a few decades worth of elections, that generally the people who are benefiting the most from lying BS like these robo-call push polls tend to be the people who know who is behind them. And in my book, if you know who’s doing it and you don’t expose them, then you are equally a liar and fraud. Honestly, the only thing shocking about all this political subterfuge is that the slimy Neanderthals behind these push polls and the surely soon-to-arrive pamphlets of distorted facts actually believe that Longmont voters are too stupid to see through their deceptive tactics once again. Those behind the lies and those benefiting from the lies politically actually think that we’re too dumb to understand that this attempt by outside forces to play a role in who sits on Longmont’s city council is anything more than just the latest attempt by the oil and gas industry to get its dirty hands on Longmont by seeding our council with its known shills. see PUSH POLLS Page 11
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irst off, let me just warn you that I’m pretty angry about what’s going on in Longmont’s city council races. I’m upset because I naively thought, or at least hoped, that as a community we had matured and moved beyond the kind of childish, unsophisticated politics that are now taking place in our council races, races which are supposed to be unaffiliated and therefore above the typical manure that passes for partisan politics these days. I mean, give me a break, has someone really stooped so low, again, as to drag back up robo-call push polls that just flat out lie and deceive the public about certain candidates who are running for city council? And oh, spoiler alert, it’s the Democrats who are running for council, namely Dennis Coombs, Trisa Baxter, Polly Christensen and Ron Gallegos, who are being primarily targeted by the calls. Gee, I didn’t see that one coming. Surely it’s just a bizarre coincidence that it’s the Democratic mayoral and at-large council race candidates who are on the receiving end of these classless, deceptive push polls, which were obviously designed to help certain other candidates in those races who just happen to be affiliated with a different political party. I wonder who could be behind such a despicable, anti-democratic ploy that does nothing but hurt all of the citizens of Longmont (he asks while humming the theme song to the movie The Magnificent Seven). It’s an inside joke. (See bit. ly/197HnhU.) The movie reference is from the last time outside oil and gas money tried to buy Longmont’s elections with a silly campaign lauding the fact that seven former Republican mayors, including Bryan Baum, who is running again this election, apparently thought it was a great idea to allow oil and gas wells to be drilled in our neighborhoods. Of course the silly seven mayors campaign didn’t work last year because basically, Longmont voters aren’t stupid. They knew whose outside money was
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We took great interest in the fact that Boulder City Council member KC Becker was chosen to succeed Claire Levy as state representative to House District 13. After all, we broke the story about how one of the candidates to replace Levy, her former aide and campaign manager Tad Kline, served on the very vacancy committee charged with choosing her replacement — and had no plans to recuse himself from voting on his own appointment. It seemed to be a glimpse into the inside baseball that sometimes occurs within political parties when only a handful of people — in this case, a 35-member committee of Democratic insiders — are charged with selecting the person who may well represent our district for the next nine years, given the advantage that Democratic incumbents have in HD 13. After all, Levy had served since 2006 and was only stepping down 14 months before her final term ended because she got a job as executive director of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy. In the end, it turns out, Kline did the right thing and abstained from voting on the matter at the Oct. 19 meeting. Despite gaining the endorsement of Levy, he only garnered 12 votes to Becker’s 17. (Candidate George Clark of Evergreen was eliminated in an early voting round, and Gilpin County Coroner Zane Laubhan dropped out of the race.) We’re not sure whether the ethical questions played a role in this at all, but we take very seriously our responsibility to shine light on possible conflicts of interest, whether it’s Democrats or Republicans. It’s not that we were favoring Becker; we’ve raised questions about her own possible conflicts of interest during her service on city council. It’s pretty simple, folks. If you think it might look even slightly questionable if you were to read about it in the newspaper, go ahead and disclose it. If you have a problem doing that, maybe you shouldn’t run for public office.
Council goes to pot
Susan France
We are not shy about criticizing the bone-headed moves that Boulder City Council makes periodically, but this time it seems to have gotten one right. The council voted Oct. 22 to allow existing medical marijuana dispensaries to convert to a mixed-use model, combining retail with medical marijuana, in their current locations, instead of forcing them to choose one or the other and relocate if they opt for retail. The reason why this is important is that no one knows how the new retail marijuana shops will affect the existing medical marijuana market. Much depends on whether voters approve the hefty retail marijuana taxes on the ballot in November at the state and municipal levels, Proposition AA and City of Boulder Issue 2A. For instance, if both taxes pass, marijuana users may decide retail is simply too pricey and stick to their existing sources, whether it’s a dispensary or the black market. Alternatively, if the tax measures are defeated, perhaps retail marijuana will prove to be a thriving market, even taking business away from medical marijuana outlets. Allowing existing dispensaries to run retail under their roof in a joint operation, pun intended, gives them the flexibility to adjust their business model as needed and respond to market forces in a future that is still very smoky, er, cloudy. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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democracy last fall when voters of all party affiliations and independents turned out in great numbers to protect Longmont’s future. Please don’t fall asleep at the wheel this year. This year’s council elections are, in reality, still about the exact same issues. If there is not a massive turnout by those opposed to fracking and the sub-
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sequent destruction of our quality of life and property values that would follow from such industrial use of our neighborhoods, then the old guard, who is beholden not to Longmont citizens but rather to the state Republican Party and the oil and gas industry, could succeed in its attempt to reclaim a council majority and undo all that has been won through hard work and edu-
cation. That said, please take a look at our endorsements for Longmont City Council on page 15. We can’t stand still. If we aren’t moving forward, then we are surely sliding back. And we all can remember what that looks like. Please vote, and make sure your family and friends do so as well. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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One industry-friendly group after another, from Main Street Longmont to American Tradition Partnership (ATP), have thrown money at our local elections and to certain candidates in an effort to make sure that the industry gets what it wants. This push poll business is no different. No matter who turns out to be paying for the polls, it’s all about getting friends of the oil and gas industry on the council so that the council-generated oil and gas regulations passed last year can be weakened or eliminated, so that if the industry and state prevail in their lawsuit to overturn the fracking ban, then Longmont could be turned into a polluted pin cushion ASAP. That’s what this election, unfortunately, is really about, regardless of what is being claimed. Despite how this may sound, I’m not indicting the Republican Party. There are certainly Republicans who have run for council in a proper, unaffiliated way, just as there are Democrats who have not always done so. If Republican councilman Brian Bagley were running this November, Boulder Weekly would have endorsed him because he has proven that he is willing to let the facts, not the party or the oil and gas industry, determine how he will vote on any given issue. That’s all that can be asked of anyone on council. And likewise, while we did not endorse Republican councilman Alex Sammoury, who is running for reelection, he has been very quick to say that he does not support the push poll and that he is appalled by this negative campaigning, and I believe he’s sincere. But not everyone benefiting from the lies in the push polls has been so vocal in their protest of this latest campaign strategy that only insults Longmont voters. I do hope that if Sammoury or Bagley knows who is behind this scumbag electioneering designed to try and recreate some long-ago-outdated conservative bloc on council for the sole purpose of pleasing state-level Republican Party power players who want to serve up Longmont to their keepers in the oil and gas industry, they will make the identities of those persons and/or organizations public. This is not just business as usual at election time. Longmont is under assault by outside special interest groups with plenty of money to buy plenty of influence over our local government. But only if we let them. There was a massive outpouring of
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commentary Limit corporate welfare by Dave Anderson
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ea party politicians are denounced for their dangerous antics, but their doomsday warnings about profligate government spending are the conventional wisdom of the so-called “moderates” of big business, the mainstream media and too many politicians of both parties (including Colorado Sens. Bennet and Udall and Rep. Jared Polis). The shutdown/debt ceiling deal preserves “sequestration,” which mandates across-the-board budget cuts. A committee to negotiate further budget cuts is being created. In economics, this is called “austerity” and involves government cuts to social spending, health care, education, pensions, etc., in order to balance the budget. This has led to high unemployment, falling wages and increasing inequality. Recently, conservative establishment types have concluded that these policies are a failure. That includes the manager of PIMCO (the largest bond-buying outfit in the world), top figures at Blackrock (one of the most influential investment banks in the world), European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and Martin Wolf, the highly respected finance commentator for the Financial Times. Even the International Monetary Fund has become a critic. We need to go in the opposite direction. Our biggest deficit is of jobs. More than 21 million Americans can’t find full-time work. Big business is sitting on enormous profits (the richest 1 percent have gotten 95 percent of the income gains since 2009) but isn’t creating jobs. The public sector has to do it. Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute says we have had an “extreme cutback in public spending” since 2009, which can “entirely explain why the recovery from the Great Recession has been so sluggish compared to recoveries following previous recessions.” There is no fiscal crisis, argues progressive economist Dean Baker: “Contrary to the widely repeated stories of out-of-control deficits and spending, deficits have plunged in the last four years, falling from 10.1 percent of GDP in 2009 to just 4 percent of GDP in 2013. The Congressional Budget Office projects the deficit to be just 3.4 percent of GDP in 2014. The latest projections show the debt-to-GDP ratio falling for the rest of the decade.” More and more people are waking up to the lies. So the right wing has to
distract us with a scapegoat and, just incidentally, create some money-making opportunities for themselves. So public employees are becoming the new welfare queens. Matt Taibbi (in a lengthy piece in Rolling Stone) and David Sirota (in a report for the progressive think tank Institute for America’s Future) describe a secretive national campaign against the pensions of municipal and state workers by politically active billionaires such as former Enron executive John Arnold, Wall Street think tanks like the Manhattan Institute, and foundations viewed as centrist, such as the Pew Center on the States. They are attempting to cut public workers’ guaranteed retirement income, transform pensions into 401(k)style individual accounts, and turn over the management of pension money to people like the hedge-fund tycoons on the board of the Manhattan Institute. They like to pretend that the modest retirement benefits of public workers caused the shortfalls in pension plans. That’s nonsense. Pensions took a hit due to Wall Street fraud and greed during the equity and real estate market meltdown in 2008 and 2009. Indeed, public pensions were 85 percent funded (on aggregate) in 2007 before the meltdown. In Colorado, right-wingers persistently attack the Public Employees’ Retirement Association (PERA), which provides a pension for workers in more than 400 government agencies and public entities (including CU, the state, cities, K-12 schools). In 2010, a law was passed that reduced the cost-of-living increase PERA retirees receive. A lawsuit was filed charging that the law is an unconstitutional breach of contract. It is now before the Colorado Supreme Court. When people in the general public hear about a PERA pension, many think that it’s an add-on to Social Security. But it is a substitute. PERA members do not earn Social Security. According to the Census Bureau, pension expenditures account for just 3 percent of all state and local government spending. If you want to find wasteful spending, look at corporate welfare. According to The New York Times, “states, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies in the form of subsidies and tax expenditures.” How about some austerity in that department? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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No on municipalization
More than 2,200 people from Boulder County have signed a petition to the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) (docket number 13D-0498E) opposing the city’s plan for municipalization. Only about 10 support the City of Boulder. This is a good indicator of the level of opposition to our electric service being taken over without a vote. The City of Boulder has yet to produce a public model that does not include serving the county. They seek to take substations and a transmission line that are in the county. According to a city attorney who spoke at a county meeting, the municipalization plan would be nearly impossible without the county being included. The cost to separate the system would be in the tens of millions, but the city doesn’t really know how much. Please join 2,000 residents of Boulder County and oppose the plan by the City of Boulder to provide electric service. Here is a link to the PUC website: www.dora.state.co.us/pls/efi/EFI_ Search_UI.search. Search docket number 13D-0498E. Jill Hammel/via Internet
Lafayette fracking ban
This week we learned that the oil and gas industry is throwing hundreds of thousands of dollars against local ballot initiatives delaying or prohibiting drilling in city limits. Having failed at keeping a democratic vote on Lafayette drilling and community rights off the November ballot, the oil and gas industry has now fallen back on its mercenaries in the corporate PR firms. The numbers involved with oil and gas development are telling in themselves. According to Forbes, the individual yearly compensation shared by James Hacket, CEO of Anadarko, and Nobel Energy CEO Charles Davidson is larger than $50 million. Putting this in perspective, Lafayette’s annual budget is only around $47 million. If we are wondering what the intense motivation is of this industry, we don’t have to look very far. Lafayette is clearly in the crosshairs of what will now become a major corporate PR adventure. The industry is going to hope it can swing public opinion with money so that our town can become their next gas field, and the Boulder Weekly
letters money line can keep flowing. The flyers, mailings, commercials and talking points will let us know all of the standard board-room angles, and behind them all is the position that our community will is secondary to corporate mineral interests. Lafayette, a small city of 24,000, will now weigh a question that places the Lafayette Community Rights Act and corporate revenue on opposite sides of the scale. In the end, we also have our own numbers, and they are based in families, schools and homes that are asserting themselves over an inherently short-termed and dangerous industry. The number that stands out against all corporate spending remains that of the ballot initiative itself. Vote yes on Proposition 300 — the Lafayette Community Rights Act to Ban Hydraulic Fracturing. Cliff Willmeng/Lafayette Why would we want to advocate for jobs that create nosebleeds, headaches and burning skin rashes? Why would Lafayette want jobs that have the potential for swarms of minor quakes near injection wells from powerful earthquakes thousands of miles away? Why have jobs in Lafayette that need millions of gallons of water to be injected underground and fracking companies to compete with farming, domestic use and other industries for an increasingly scarce resource? I don’t want jobs that lead to polluting our waters where radioactive pollution in Pennsylvania rivers, even after waste water was treated at the plant to remove dangerous chemicals, had radium levels 200 times greater than control water from the area. I surely don’t want to advocate for jobs that have the potential for adrenal tumors. Why advocate for jobs that will not bring wealth and social harmony, where workers are often not local, where infrastructure is laid to waste by the industry? Why advocate for jobs where people more often lose their homes because fracking occurs too close to their property for safety and land value drops? Yes, ban fracking, ban these kinds of jobs. Keep our community healthy by voting yes on Ballot Issue 300, Lafayette’s Community Rights Bill. And vote for Merrily Mazza, Tom Dowling and Cliff Smedley, candidates who support 300! Ann Griffin/Lafayette
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Oil/gas rep: Anti-fracking groups are well-funded, too by Jefferson Dodge
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spokesperson for the oil and gas industry is claiming that local anti-fracking groups benefit from just as much financial support as the industry when it comes to campaigning on the upcoming oil and gas ballot measures in Boulder and Lafayette. The allegation has drawn laughter from activists. Former state Rep. B.J. Nikkel has been hired as a consultant by iKue Strategies, thanks to funding from the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA), to serve as a spokesperson for the industry regarding several of the proposed bans and moratoriums on oil and gas exploration along the Front Range. Nikkel told Boulder Weekly that concerns about the health risks associated with oil and gas operations like hydraulic fracturing (fracking) have been vastly exaggerated, that the industry is effectively regulated by the government, that environmental activists have been resorting to “scare tactics” and that the local antifracking groups are the beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of dollars of spending from national nonprofit groups. She says it’s not David versus Goliath, not the wealthy oil and gas industry and COGA bankrolling campaigns against the bans and moratoriums backed by meagerly funded activist groups. “I think that’s really disingenuous for that perspective to be said by these local groups,” Nikkel says, noting that the “radical” Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund helped Lafayette’s activists with the language of Question 300 in that city. “Let’s look at these other organizations, these national organizations that came in and wrote these initiatives for them. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Frack Free Colorado, Clean Water Action, do you really think they aren’t spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on all of these efforts, beginning more than a year ago?” When BW pointed out that municipal campaign finance disclosure reports show that, in Boulder for instance, COGA has donated $110,237 to Boulder Citizens for Rational Energy Decisions, compared to the $3,802 raised by the Yes on 2H committee, Nikkel claimed she was unclear 14 October 24, 2013
on the specifics of the discrepancy. “I don’t have the monetary, all that stuff, right here in front of me, I’m just an advisor to these organizations, so I don’t really get involved in the campaign finance end of it,” she told BW. When asked whether she thinks that the playing field is even, Nikkel replies, “I think it’s even, yeah. But this is the difference, and I think this is worthy of mentioning, is that our side of it is transparent about where the money comes from, whereas theirs isn’t. They want to make these disingenuous claims that, ‘Oh, poor them, they get no funding and COGA’s this big, bad organization,’ but the fact is they are getting tons and hundreds of thousands of dollars of support.” She says that because national groups like the Sierra Club and Food and Water Watch are nonprofit, 501(c)4 organizations, they don’t have to reveal their donors, and expenses can be hidden. Local committees would still be required to disclose all contributions they received, of course, but Nikkel says even if national groups are not contributing directly to the campaign committees, they are still spending money on their behalf. She says it’s misleading for local groups like East Boulder County United to “depict themselves as this meager group who is battling, you know, a corporation, when in fact they have their own nonprofit organizations that are spending thousands upon thousands of dollars in hidden support to write the initiatives, get the signatures, pay people to get the signatures, to go out and canvass, to pay for all the literature that’s been given out, and has been over a year. … It’s not the little guy against the big guy in this whole issue, it’s pretty even-steven out there.” Area fractivists say they find Nikkel’s claims ludicrous. “An obviously ridiculous claim,” Phil Doe, environmental issues director for Be the Change, said via email when asked to respond to Nikkel’s assertions. “It must come from the same nonsense factory where the oil boys coined the whopper that there has never been any groundwater contamination from fracking. Seems like the greater the lie, the higher the volume with which it is delivered. The resistance to fracking is from citizens, spend-
ing their own time and money to protect themselves, their property and their families from drilling in their neighborhoods. If now and then other citizens and citizen groups rise to their defense, that hardly constitutes a gusher of money. The gushers have always been on the other side.” East Boulder County United (EBCU) Treasurer Merrily Mazza agreed, noting that all of her group’s signaturegatherers were local volunteers. “The assertion that these groups are heavily funding local anti-fracking campaigns is laughable, but typical of oil and gas talking points,” she told BW, noting that of the $7,500 her group plans to spend on the campaign, they received $1,000 from MoveOn.org, $2,500 from the Sierra Club and about $150 worth of consulting from Food & Water Watch. “That’s it — the sum total of what EBCU has received from environmental or other national groups,” Mazza said. “We’ve never received a contribution from the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Clean Water Action or anyone else. All other contributions to EBCU have been local, individual donors. Oil and gas is indeed pouring money into the local anti-fracking campaigns — $67,000 in Lafayette alone, much more in Fort Collins and Broomfield. EBCU pales in comparison. We’ve been almost totally funded by local donors giving small amounts. That’s an ‘even playing field’? “It’s also funny that the local group members — who actually live in the communities — bust their butts to organize speakers; walk turfs with community volunteers; get mailers and yard signs designed, printed and distributed; communicate via websites and email, and COGA outsources its efforts to a consulting firm in Denver,” she continues. “There’s a real grassroots effort — buy it! At least COGA didn’t outsource the work to India — there’s that.” Similarly, Neshama Abraham of Yes on 2H in Boulder told BW that her group has not received funding from the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund or Clean Water Action. Nikkel also downplays the possible health risks associated with oil and gas extraction activities.
“There have been study after study, dozens and dozens of studies, and independent studies, and studies even by the EPA, that show that hydraulic fracturing is done safely, and they can’t show any kind of ill health effects,” she says. When asked if she thinks there are no risks associated with oil and gas extraction, she replies, “I’m not saying that, I’m just saying it’s so strictly regulated, that I think scare tactics are being used to freak people out and make them think that they are at risk, when I don’t believe that they are. … I see no real information that shows me definitively that there are cases cited, legitimate cases cited, as issues with any health effects. I really believe it’s hype.” When asked about the May 2012 University of Colorado study showing elevated risks of cancer and other health problems among those living within a half-mile of wells, and the 2011 study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration showing increased levels of propane and other emissions in Erie’s air, Nikkel replied, “I haven’t read the studies that you’re talking about, so I’m not sure what exactly they say.” When asked to respond to Nikkel’s claims, Doe notes that there has not been enough research on the fairly new method of horizontal drilling. “There have been no national studies, and those that have been undertaken by the EPA have either been shut down or denuded as the result of industry pressure,” he says. “And those that have been completed, such as that by our [CU] School of Public Health, are simply ignored. “In a very real sense, there is no regulation, there is only a book of rules that the state, using basically an honor system, hopes the industry observes,” Doe continues. “How would that approach work with traffic signs and speed limits? I don’t think the oil and gas boys are necessarily a better class of citizen than your average driver, and without severe penalties for traffic violations and a large police force for enforcement, the highways would be chaos. What do you think that means for the oil patch if we allow our worst impulses, such as greed and self-dealing, to reign supreme?” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
Boulder Weekly’s endorsements Boulder Weekly has withdrawn its endorsement for candidate Christie Adams in the Estes Park School District R-3: School Director at Large race. BW received an anonymous tip in the form of an online comment on our endorsements stating that Adams did not have a Ph.D., as had been claimed. BW contacted Adams twice asking her to simply tell us which school had issued her Ph.D. so that we could remove the anonymous post if it was inaccurate. Adams refused to tell BW where she had earned her Ph.D. We informed her that we would have no choice but to withdraw our endorsement if she couldn’t provide us with the name of the university that issued her Ph.D. She still refused to answer and hung up on us. n Colorado Amendment 66: Yes
n Longmont Ballot Question 2B, bonds for city’s fiber-optic network: Yes n Longmont Ballot Question 2C, Shall Municipal Judge Diana VanDeHey be retained for 2 years? Yes n Lafayette City Council: Tom Dowling, Clifton E. Smedley, Gustavo Reyna and Merrily Mazza n Lafayette Ballot Question 2A, Xcel franchise renewal: No n Lafayette Ballot Issue 301, utility occupation tax: Yes n Lafayette Ballot Question 300, gas and oil charter amendment: Yes n Louisville City Council Ward I: No endorsement n Louisville City Council Ward II: Debby Fahey
n Colorado Proposition AA: Yes
n Louisville City Council Ward III: Ashley Stolzmann
n Boulder City Council: Mary Young, Matthew Appelbaum, Macon Cowles, Andrew Shoemaker and Sam Weaver
n Lyons Regional Library District Ballot Issue 4C, tax for new library district: Yes
n Boulder Ballot Issue 2A, recreational marijuana tax: No
n Lyons Regional Library District Ballot Issue 4D, collect grants and revenues with no new taxes: Yes
n Boulder Ballot Issue 2B, sales and use tax: Yes n Boulder Ballot Issue 2C, sales and use tax extension: Yes n Boulder Ballot Issue 2D, sales and use tax extension: Yes n Boulder Ballot Question 2E, electric utility amendments, $214 million acquisition debt limit and superseding other initiatives: Yes n Boulder Ballot Question 2F, negotiated or private bond sales: Yes n Boulder Ballot Question 2G, qualification for appointment to city commissions: Yes n Boulder Ballot Question 2H, oil and gas exploration moratorium extension: Yes n Boulder Ballot Question 310, city debt limitations: No n Longmont Mayor: Dennis Coombs n Longmont City Council At Large: Polly Christensen and Trisa Baxter
n Thompson School District Director District A: Donna Rice n Thompson School District Director District B: Janice Marchman n Thompson School District Director District E: Lori Hvizda Ward n Thompson School District Director District F: No endorsement n Estes Park School District R-3 Ballot Issue 3A, tax increase for education: Yes n Estes Park School District School Director at Large: Laura Case n Boulder County Nederland EcoPass Public Improvement District Issue 5D, tax for community-wide bus pass: Yes n Boulder County Subdivision Paving Public Improvement District Issue 5C, formation, mill levy and debt authorization: Yes n Rocky Mountain Fire Protection District Ballot Question 5B, term limits: Yes
n Longmont City Council Ward 2: Jeff Moore
n Lefthand Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 5A, general tax increase: Yes
n Longmont Ballot Question 2A, bonds for wastewater system improvements: Yes
n Superior Town Center metropolitan district ballot content: No endorsement
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We’re told a municipal utility is risky. The real risk is sticking with Xcel. We’re barraged these days by an Xcel-backed fear campaign about the risks of a city electric utility. Animated dollars pile up supposedly representing the alleged runaway costs. But they have the story backward. The real risk is staying with Xcel.
Rate risks with Xcel.
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No chance to vote — ever.
Interesting they don’t mention rates have gone up five times in the last seven years with Xcel. They’ll increase again in 2014, and Xcel is expected to file next year for a large rate increase in 2015.
Recklessly committing over $1.5 billion to build and refurbish coal plants in the past decade, Xcel is betting on the wrong horse. Nearly 60% of Xcel’s Colorado electricity is from coal plants, which do not integrate well with renewables.
Xcel ratepayers are already on the hook for billions of dollars of debt -- $5.6 billion in the “rate base” as of the end of 2012 with billions more to come. Make no mistake, Boulder ratepayers are paying for Xcel’s debt.
If 310 passes, we are stuck with Xcel. No chance to vote on rate increases. No vote on investment decisions. No vote on issuance of debt, or how much profits they take from us. No options for the future. No way out.
As the Daily Camera makes clear, “All the 310 measure will do is derail the process and prematurely kill the potential for municipalization.” Boulder Weekly calls 310 “a time bomb waiting to destroy all the hard work that’s gone into the municipalization process thus far.”
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An MK6 Titan II nuclear missile, similar to the one that Schlosser claims was almost detonated in Damascus, Ark., when a worker dropped a nine-pound socket from his wrench.
Eric Schlosser burrows into one of the U.S.’s biggest nuclear threats: our own weapons by David Schmalz
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n the autumn of 1980, at a massive underground missile silo in rural Arkansas, the course of human history almost changed forever. When celebrated journalist Eric Schlosser learned
how just a small bit of clumsiness nearly led to the detonation of a thermonuclear warhead on American soil — one with the equivalent of four pounds of high explosives for every person then living on Earth — his course certainly did change.
That course, into the dark heart of America’s nuclear weapons, began in Colorado Springs, as he was researching a very different, but similarly mighty force — our nation’s fast food industry. That research ultimately culminated with his bestselling book Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking exposé that forever altered the way See NUCLEAR Page 20
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Americans view fast food. As he was seeking for the right project to take on next, he began spending time with local Air Force personnel, and began hearing again and again about nuclear near disasters that had been kept from the public. And then he heard about the Damascus accident (see excerpt below), a chilling event that nearly unleashed a firestorm big enough to consume the state of Arkansas. As he began to learn more about that incident, he realized that just under the surface was something much bigger and scarier than a single, devasting accident — the past and present dangers of our nuclear arsenal. After five years of research and another one in writing, he has brought us a harrowing, page-turning book that is a must-read for anyone remotely interested in nuclear — and American — security.
Courtesy of The Titan Missile Museum
The Damascus Accident. The sizable devastation left in the wake of the Damascus accident represents a tiny fraction of the wreckage that could result from similar simple human error.
**** The following is an excerpt from Eric Schlosser’s book, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. It has been reprinted by arrangement with The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © Eric Schlosser, 2013. On September 18, 1980, at about 6:30pm, Senior Airman David F. Powell and Airman Jeffrey L. Plumb walked into the silo at Launch Complex 374-7, a few miles north of Damascus, Arkansas. They were planning to do a routine maintenance procedure on a Titan II missile. They’d spent countless hours underground at complexes like this one. But no matter how many times they entered the silo, the Titan II always looked impressive. It was the largest intercontinental ballistic missile ever built by the United States: 10 feet in diameter and 103 feet tall, roughly the height of a nine-story building. It had an aluminum skin with a matte finish and U.S. AIR FORCE painted in big letters down the side. The nose cone on top of the Titan II was deep black, and inside it sat a W-53 thermonuclear warhead, the most powerful weapon ever carried by an American missile. The warhead had a yield of 9 megatons — about three times the explosive force of all the bombs dropped during the Second World War, including both atomic bombs. Day or night, winter or spring, the silo always felt the same. It was eerily quiet, and mercury vapor lights on the walls bathed the missile in a bright white glow. When you opened the door on a lower level and stepped into the launch 20 October 24, 2013
duct, the Titan II loomed above you like an immense blacktipped silver bullet, loaded in a concrete gun barrel, primed, cocked, ready to go, and pointed at the sky. The missile was designed to launch within a minute and hit a target as far as six thousand miles away. In order to do that, the Titan II relied upon a pair of liquid propellants — a rocket fuel and an oxidizer — that were “hypergolic.” The moment they came into contact with each other, they’d instantly and forcefully ignite. The missile had two stages, and inside both of them, an oxidizer tank rested on top of a fuel tank, with pipes leading down to an engine. Stage 1, which extended about seventy feet upward from the bottom of the missile, contained about 85,000 pounds of fuel and 163,000 pounds of oxidizer. Stage 2, the upper section where the warhead sat, was smaller and held about one fourth of those amounts. If the missile were launched, fuel and oxidizer would flow through the stage 1 pipes, mix inside the combustion chambers of the engine, catch on fire, emit hot gases, and send almost half a million pounds of thrust through the supersonic convergentdivergent nozzles beneath it. Within a few minutes, the Titan II would be fifty miles off the ground. The two propellants were extremely efficient — and extremely dangerous. The fuel, Aerozine-50, could spontaneously ignite when it came into contact with everyday things like wool, rags, or rust. As a liquid, Aerozine-50 was clear and colorless. As a vapor, it reacted with the water and the oxygen in the air and became a whitish cloud with a fishy smell. This fuel vapor could be explosive in proportions as low as 2 percent. Inhaling it could cause breathing difficulties, a reduced heart rate, vomiting, convulsions, tremors, and death. The fuel was also highly carcinogenic and easily
absorbed through the skin. The missile’s oxidizer, nitrogen tetroxide, was even more hazardous. Under federal law, it was classified as a “Poison A,” the most deadly category of man-made chemicals. In its liquid form, the oxidizer was a translucent, yellowy brown. Although not as flammable as the fuel, it could spontaneously ignite if it touched leather, paper, cloth, or wood. And its boiling point was only 70 degrees Fahrenheit. At temperatures any higher, the liquid oxidizer boiled into a reddish brown vapor that smelled like ammonia. Contact with water turned the vapor into a corrosive acid that could react with the moisture in a person’s eyes or skin and cause severe burns. When inhaled, the oxidizer could destroy tissue in the upper respiratory system and the lungs. The damage might not be felt immediately. Six to twelve hours after being inhaled, the stuff could suddenly cause headaches, dizziness, difficulty breathing, pneumonia, and pulmonary edema leading to death. Powell and Plumb were missile repairmen. They belonged to Propellant Transfer System (PTS) Team A of the 308th Strategic Missile Wing, whose headquarters was about an hour or so away at Little Rock Air Force Base. They’d been called to the site that day because a warning light had signaled that pressure was low in the stage 2 oxidizer tank. If the pressure fell too low, the oxidizer wouldn’t flow smoothly to the engine. A “low light” could mean a serious problem — a rupture, a leak. But it was far more likely that a slight change in temperature had lowered the pressure inside the tank. Airconditioning units in the silo were supposed to keep the missile cooled to about 60 degrees. If Powell and Plumb didn’t find any leaks, they’d simply unscrew the cap on the oxidizer tank and add more nitrogen gas. The nitrogen
maintained a steady pressure on the liquid inside, pushing downward. It was a simple, mundane task, like putting air in your tires before a long drive. Powell had served on a PTS team for almost three years and knew the hazards of the Titan II. During his first visit to a launch complex, an oxidizer leak created a toxic cloud that shut down operations for three days. He was twenty-one years old, a proud “hillbilly” from rural Kentucky who loved the job and planned to reenlist at the end of the year. Plumb had been with the 308th for just nine months. He wasn’t qualified to do this sort of missile maintenance or to handle these propellants. Accompanying Powell and watching everything that Powell did was considered Plumb’s “OJT,” his on-thejob training. Plumb was nineteen, raised in suburban Detroit. Although an oxidizer low light wasn’t unusual, Air Force technical orders required that both men wear Category I protective gear when entering the silo to investigate it. “Going Category I” meant getting into a Rocket Fuel Handler’s Clothing Outfit (RFHCO) — an airtight, liquidproof, vaporproof, fire-resistant combination of gear designed to protect them from the oxidizer and the fuel. The men called it a “ref-co.” A RFHCO looked like a space suit from an early-1960s science fiction movie. It had a white detachable bubble helmet with a voice-actuated radio and a transparent Plexiglas face screen. The suit was off white, with a long zipper extending from the top of the left shoulder, across the torso, to the right knee. You stepped into the RFHCO and wore long johns underneath it. The black vinyl gloves and boots weren’t attached, so the RFHCO had roll-down cuffs at the wrists and the ankles to maintain a tight seal. The suit weighed about twenty-two pounds. The RFHCO backpack weighed an additional thirty-five and carried about an hour’s worth of air. The outfit was heavy and cumbersome. It could be hot, sticky, and uncomfortable, especially when worn outside the air-conditioned silo. But it could also save your life. The stage 2 oxidizer pressure cap was about two thirds of the way up the missile. In order to reach it, Powell and Plumb had to walk across a retractable steel platform that extended from the silo wall. The tall, hollow cylinder in which the Titan II stood was enclosed by another concrete cylinder with nine interior levels, housing equipment. Level See NUCLEAR Page 22
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Overtorquing may result in damage to the missile skin.” “Roger.” As Powell used a socket wrench to unscrew the pressure cap, the socket fell off. It struck the platform and bounced. Powell grabbed for it but missed. Plumb watched the nine-pound socket slip through the narrow gap between the platform and the missile, fall about seventy feet, hit the thrust mount, and then ricochet off the Titan II. It seemed to happen in slow motion. A moment later, fuel sprayed from a hole in the missile like water from a garden hose. “Oh man,” Plumb thought. “This is not good.” **** The unraveling progression of that incident in Damascus threads the narrative of Command and Control, which examines the development and proliferation of America’s nuclear arsenal, the many accidents and near-misses that have occurred over the years since its inception, and the grave risk we still face from the very mega-weapons that were designed to protect us. I first became acquainted with the book back in March, when unexpected circumstances forced Schlosser to bring in another fact-checker in the closing moments before his deadline. I met him at his house on a Sunday at around 5 p.m., and he presented me with a cardboard box stacked with documents and books. The first thing he demanded was that I remain sworn to secrecy about everything I read until the book was published. He then presented me with a section of text that needed checking, highlighting certain points and advising me where I might find the relevant source material. “So, do you want all this done tonight?” I asked, a little incredulous. “I don’t even know if it’s possible,” he said, “but if you can get it done, that would be great.” He made little attempt to veil his desperation, and my heart sank — the last thing I wanted was to disappoint one of my idols. I put on a good face and vowed to do my best, but privately I was terrified of coming up short. After feverishly working until 3 a.m. (and almost, but not quite, finishing), I arrived back at his house the next morning, where I would spend the next five days doing much of the same: scanning through hundreds of pages of documents, books and articles. Often times, I would flip through a dull, declassified Air Force report a few hundred pages long and find only a handful of sentences highlighted. The depth of Schlosser’s research, seen firsthand, was awe-inspirBoulder Weekly
news ing. The office he disappeared into every day to finish his endnotes was, in my mind, a top-secret laboratory. He never let me look inside. But every afternoon we would hang out briefly on his patio and bask in the sun, and he would talk candidly about nuclear weapons, and writing. More than once, he likened himself to a farmer, laboring for six years in research and writing to make this book come alive. Or as he said it, “for the crop to come in.” But from an outsider’s perspective looking in, his work to create Command and Control seemed more akin to a nuclear weapons designer: He delved deep into complex problems. He focused on elegant structure, ensuring all the pieces fit together just right. He wrestled with the darkest of all eventualities. And in the end, he wrote a book that is masterfully researched and conceived, that is both explosive and haunting, and most urgently, intended to make this country safer. **** While in Colorado Springs, Schlosser was interested in learning more about space warfare. But as he spent more time with Air Force personnel stationed there — many of whom had formerly spent time working in missile silos — the subject of nuclear weapons kept creeping into conversation. “I found myself more interested in the stories they were telling me of nearmisses than I was in space,” Schlosser says. And then he heard about Damascus. What began initially as an account of that incident alone became, through research, something much bigger. Though he’d been interested in nuclear weapons in his youth, and had studied nuclear strategy and game theory at Princeton, he realized his ignorance about the past and present realities of our nuclear arsenal “was profound.” “The story got bigger,” he says, “and to me, it became much more important than the thrilling story of just one accident. It became the story of just how close we came to having many, many accidents.” The first near miss of the nuclear age, we learn from his book, happened at its very beginning, in July 1945. On the night before testing the first atomic bomb near Carrizozo, N.M., a young Harvard-trained chemist named Donald Hornig was ordered, for security purposes, to guard the weapon until morning (he drew the short straw on account of his youth). It just so happened that on that night there was a violent electrical storm, one that threatened to set off the bomb’s “X-unit,” a detonating compoBoulder Weekly
nent that was highly sensitive to electricity. It was a fact that Hornig was all too aware of — he had designed the X-unit, and a week prior one had fired prematurely (outside of a bomb) due to a lightning storm. At midnight, Hornig was given permission to abandon his post, which he did happily. The bomb survived the night, and at 5:30 the next morning, scientists and military personnel witnessed the world’s first atomic explosion, a mushroom cloud that reached eight miles into the sky. “It didn’t happen,” Schlosser says of that first near miss, “but it really could’ve.” The same truth holds, he says, for the many near misses since. “The fine line has always been there.” A quick run through of some of the accidents that Schlosser has gleaned from declassified documents is a terrifying exercise: In 1958, on a runway in Morocco, a B-47 carrying a hydrogen bomb blew a tire and quickly caught fire, consuming the bomb, which burned but did not detonate. The U.S. government kept the incident secret, informing only the King of Morocco. Not even one month later, due to the mechanical failure of a locking pin, an atomic bomb fell out of a B-47 and landed in a yard in South Carolina. Though it lacked a nuclear core, the high explosives it contained carved a crater 50 feet wide and 35 feet deep, blowing the doors off a nearby house. Thankfully only a half dozen chickens were killed. In 1961, a B-52 carrying two hydrogen bombs took off from Goldsboro, N.C., for a routine circular route along the East Coast. As it finished its second loop, the plane sprung a fuel leak and soon began spinning out of control. As it fell, a bomb was pulled from the plane by g-forces, its arming wires yanked out. When that bomb parachuted to the ground in a field outside Faro, N.C., its nose sent a firing signal, but the core did not explode — only a single ready/safe switch in the cockpit had prevented a thermonuclear detonation. The other bomb’s chute failed to open, and it sank more than 70 feet into the ground, never to be recovered. These examples are a few of many that Schlosser has uncovered, and they vividly illustrate a point that he brings home repeatedly. “It’s hard to think of a machine that we use in our lives that doesn’t screw up occasionally,” he says. “But there are some machines that, when they go wrong, have much greater consequences.” His examination of recent mishaps is See NUCLEAR Page 24
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no less troubling and — given the techSan Francisco. We were back at his hotel, nological advancements of the age — one-on-one for the first time since maybe even more so. Take an incident March. I denied him his right to sulk, that occurred in 2007, when six cruise and told him he had been great. missiles armed with nuclear warheads And he was. In a too-sparsely filled were mistakenly loaded onto a B-52 in auditorium that evening, Schlosser sumNorth Dakota. They sat on the plane marized key points. His voice retained its overnight, and were flown the next morn- characteristic passion, and the crowd ing to a base in Louisiana (in violation of stayed rapt. And though on the exterior U.S. law), where they sat for nine hours he was cool, calm and collected as always, before anybody realized they were missit was apparent to my eyes that I was ing. Occasional human error, Schlosser looking at a man on fire. The urgency he reminds us, is every bit feels about the subject David Schmalz as unavoidable as the of nuclear weapons mechanical kind. burns within, impossiA Wise Choice That event thankble to fully contain. for Boulder! fully led to the recent “This problem (and long overdue) never went away, this advent of bar codes on danger never went for Boulder City Council nuclear weapons in lieu away,” he said in closof serial numbers that ing, “but our memory “I have known John Gerstle since he was young, and I have high had to be written of it has, our thinking regard for his scientific ability, his concern for the environment, down when they about it has. And ultifor the welfare of others, and his ability to be an outstanding changed hands. Finally, mately, the point of Boulder City Council member. “ Albert A. Bartlett our military can now my book is to remind John istrack its nuclear weappeople these weapons A water resource and environmental engineer A voice for Open Space, sustainable transportation and land use planning ons like FedEx can are out there, they’re A strong supporter of municipalization, zero waste, and carbon reduction track its packages. ready to be used … Despite repeated government through our climate action plan claims that the warhead on the and that we need to Titan II could not have detonated Concerned about the welfare of all of Boulder’s residents * * * * have a national disin the Damascus accident, Eric Watch John talking about the issues at JohnGerstle.com Schlosser’s interviews with people cussion and debate on With degrees in Paid for by John Gerstle for Boulder City Council, Joe McDonald, Treasurer. A copy of our report is on file with the Boulder City Clerk. who were there offer evidence to history from both these sorts of questhe contrary. tions. How many Princeton and Oxford, nuclear weapons do Schlosser’s command we need? What do we need them for? of the past and his talent for research are From libraries to parks and open space, from our historic From libraries and space, from our historic From librariesto parks andopen open core our historic From libraries totoparks parks and open space, from our historic Where will we aim them? Why would on full display in Command and Control. neighborhoods to the downtown andfrom retail centers, neighborhoods to the downtown retail centers, neighborhoods to the downtown core and retail centers, we use them? When would we use The endnotes alone are more than 100 neighborhoods to thetodowntown and retailfoster centers, city council needs protect ourcore environment, citycouncil council needsto toand protect our promise environment, foster From libraries toneeds parks open space, our historic city protect our environment, foster vitality, and make the offrom Boulder pages long, in small print. (“My notes are them? Do we need to get rid of them cityeconomic council needs to protect our environment, foster economic vitality,toand make the promise of Boulder everyone whopromise lives here. neighborhoods to theto downtown core and retail centers,insane,” he says. “If someone reads the entirely? These are issues of fundaeconomicavailable vitality, and make the of Boulder available everyone who lives here. mental importance, and without a book and doesn’t even look at the notes, I am running for city council to: city council needs to protect our environment, foster available tocouncil everyone I am running for city to: who lives here. national debate on them, decisions are it wouldn’t bother me at all. I wanted to economic vitality, and make the promise of Boulder Maintain and improve human services in our community Maintain human I am runningand forimprove city council to: services in our community going to be made as they were made put them there to be completely transavailable to everyone who lives here. Strengthen and enhance community partnerships parent, the opposite of the government.”) throughout the Cold War — by a Strengthen and enhance community partnerships Maintain and improve human services in our community Maintain and improve services in our community libraries to parks andhealthier, open space, from our historic Provide opportunities tohuman live more environmentally small number of policymakers in But it is Schlosser’s gift for storytellI amFrom running for city council Providelives opportunities to liveto: healthier, more environmentally friendly through tangible benefits like Eco Passes and neighborhoods to the downtown core and retail centers, From libraries to parks and open space, from our historic Chair, City of Boulder Human Strengthen and enhance community partnerships Washington D.C., acting in secret.” ing that brings the book to life. He friendly lives through tangible benefits like Eco Passes and Strengthen and enhance community partnerships Chair, City of Boulder Human increased outreach efforts to promote benefits of cycling, walking Relations Commission city council needs protect our environment, foster neighborhoods to efforts thetohuman downtown core and retail centers, Maintain andoutreach improve services incycling, our community increased to promote benefits of walking Relations twice Commission “Good things can happen,” he conassembles the Damascus narrative and other good habits —elected in five years Provide opportunities to live healthier, more environmentally economic and make the environment, promise of Boulder city council needs tolive protect our foster and other goodvitality, habits to twice Provide opportunities healthier, more environmentally of—elected service to the in cityfive years tinued, “and I think the president of the through countless hours of interviews Strengthen and enhance community partnerships friendly lives through tangible benefits like Eco Passes and available to everyone who lives here. Protect the natural environment of open space and parks for economic vitality, and make the promise of Boulder service to the city Chair,ofCity of Boulder Human friendly lives through tangible benefits Eco Passes and Protect natural environment of like open space andcleanest parks for ofofPlanning Assessment, United States right now is right on the with men who were there. He describes hair,Chief CityCommission Boulder and Human everyone inthe our community topromote enjoy, and tolives secure the increased outreach efforts to benefits of cycling, walking available to everyone who here. 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But most f service to the city Homeowner’s Pawnee Meadows Association Board Member Protect theand natural environment of open space parkswalking for Maintain improve human services in our community increased outreach efforts to promote benefits ofand cycling, mission Strengthen and enhance community partnerships service to the city The impact of Command and revealing of all, he tells us their thoughts Association Board Member Chief of Planning and Assessment, Protect the natural environment open space the andcleanest parks for everyone in our community tocommunity enjoy,ofand to secure and other good habits e inENDORSED five yearsBY Strengthen and enhance partnerships Control might not be immediate, but it in the moments as the disaster unfolds, Provide opportunities to live healthier, more environmentally oulder Valley School District of Planning and ENDORSED BY Assessment, energy weinlives can everyone ourafford community to enjoy, andlike to Eco secure the and cleanest ehiefcity friendly through tangible benefits Passes will be game-changing. The alarming and ultimately escalates. The result is a Boulder CityofCouncil Member Provide opportunities to live healthier, more environmentally Chair, City Boulder Human Protect the natural environment of open space and parks for oulder Valley School District Boulder City Council awnee Meadows Homeowner’s increased outreach efforts to promote cycling,and walking energy welives can afford KC Becker, former CityMember Council Relations friendly through tangible benefitsbenefits like EcoofPasses risks of retaining a nuclear arsenal of hair-raising, minute-by-minute account Chair, City Commission offormer Boulder Human ng and Assessment, KC Becker, City Council everyone in our community enjoy,benefits and toofsecure the cleanest members Crystal and ssociation Board Member and other good habits —elected twiceHomeowner’s inGray five years increased outreach efforts totopromote cycling, walking Relations Commission awnee Meadows America’s size (at the time of of the most rarefied order. members Crystal Gray and school School District Angelique Espinoza, BVSD of service to the city we cangood afford other habits environment of open space and parks for —elected twice in fiveBVSD years schoolenergyand Protect the natural Angelique Espinoza, ssociation Board Member board members Laurie Albright, Schlosser’s writing, approximately The last piece I fact-checked for of service to the city NDORSED BY Chief ofmembers Planning andBenford, Assessment, board Laurie Albright, ows Homeowner’s everyone in our community to enjoy,ofand to secure Lesley Smith, Shelly Protect the natural environment open space the andcleanest parks for 4,650 nuclear weapons) are meticulousCommand and Control was the climactic Boulder Valley School District Lesley Smith, Shelly Benford, energy weincan Chief of Planning and Assessment, and former board president ard Member everyone ourafford community to enjoy, and to secure the cleanest oulder City Council Member NDORSED BYBVSD and former BVSD board president finish to the Damascus accident. Truth be ly illustrated, and seem to dwarf the Boulder Valley School District Ken Roberge Pawnee Meadows Homeowner’s energy we can afford C Becker, former City Council Ken Roberge Association Board Member threat they were designed to protect us told, I had difficulty interrupting my Meadows Homeowner’s oulder City Council Member Y Pawnee members Crystal Gray and Association Board Member from. This book will bring nuclear reading to check on the facts. Even more Cngelique Becker, former City Council Espinoza, BVSD school ENDORSED BY ouncil Member difficult was to not be able to talk about it weapons back to the forefront of the embers Crystal Gray and oard members Laurie Albright, ENDORSED BY BoulderCouncil City Council Member mer nation’s psyche. It’s that powerful. with anyone but Eric. Keeping that story esleyKCCity Smith, Shelly BVSD Benford, ngelique Espinoza, school Becker, Council Boulder Cityformer CouncilCity Member tal Gray and members Crystal Gray and nd former BVSD board president And hopefully, it can spark the kind to myself over the last six months has oard members Laurie Albright, KC Becker, former City Council inoza, BVSD school Angelique Espinoza, en members Roberge Crystal GrayBVSD and school esley Smith, Shelly Benford, of popular movement that Schlosser says been the hardest secret I’ve had to keep. board members Laurie Albright, s Laurie Albright, Angelique Espinoza, BVSD school nd former BVSD president Obama is lacking, and America’s nuclear **** Lesleymembers Smith, board Shelly board LaurieBenford, Albright, Shelly Benford, and former BVSD board president en Roberge “If I had been talking about food, that age can end in the same way it began: as Smith, Shelly Benford, SDLesley board president Kenformer Roberge and BVSD board president place would have been packed,” Schlosser a near miss. 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rom the moment they are born, sea turtles fight to survive. Buried alive, they dig themselves out and evade hungry crabs and birds as they crawl to the ocean, where they begin a long and treacherous migration. One out of 1,000 will survive into adulthood. And those that do will bear a toxic burden. Scientists are discovering that sea turtles, long ignored by toxicologists who study wildlife, are highly contaminated with industrial chemicals and pesticides. Loggerhead turtles have altered immune systems and smaller eggs that some studies have linked to contaminants. These chemicals kill turtle cells in lab experiments, and based on research on other marine life, scientists suspect that sea turtles may be vulnerable to thyroid, liver and neurological damage. No one, however, knows the extent to which sea turtles in the wild may be harmed. While other ocean creatures, including whales, seals and some fish, are well-studied, the chemical threats to sea turtles remain mostly hidden under a shell. Decimated by climate change, poaching, accidental snaring and ocean trash, all U.S. species of sea turtles are protected by the
Endangered Species Act, which makes studying them difficult. “We really have just barely touched the tip of the iceberg,” says Jennifer Keller, a marine biologist at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., run in partnership with NOAA’s National Ocean Service and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is the top expert on pollution in sea turtles. Sea turtles have some industrial compounds in their blood nearing levels that damage marine mammals. Keller’s lab last year measured perfluorochemicals (PFCs) in the blood of five sea turtle species off the southeastern U.S. coast, and her calculations suggest that the turtles’ potential risk for toxic effects is high. Other long-lived chemicals also contaminate sea turtles, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are widely used industrial compounds banned in the late 1970s, and brominated flame retardants. “These chemicals may not acutely poison the animals, but they can make exposed individuals a little more vulnerable to opportunistic infections or new and emerging infectious diseases,” says Peter Ross, a research scientist in Canada who is one of the world’s leading experts on marine mammals and contaminants. Some chemicals, particularly PCBs,
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Research biologist Jennifer Keller taking a blood sample from a loggerhead turtle as part of her study looking at health impacts of perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) on the endangered marine reptile.
have been shown to suppress the immune systems of wildlife, contributing to mass die-offs of seals and other marine mammals in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This catastrophic damage hasn’t been seen in turtles. Pollutants in their blood are orders of magnitude lower than levels in marine mammal blood, Keller says. Nevertheless, Keller’s research with loggerheads caught off South Carolina has linked immune system changes to a variety of contaminants. As levels of chlordane and mirex — two pesticides banned in the United States decades ago but still in the environment — went up in the turtles, their
production of some disease-fighting immune cells decreased. And as PCBs and the pesticide DDT went up, some of their immune cells increased. “Any alteration of immune function, even enhancement, can be considered an adverse effect,” the authors wrote. Enhanced immune responses can lead to autoimmune diseases and hypersensitivity. “Exposure to even relatively low concentrations of persistent pollutants can reduce the effectiveness of immune defense against any number of pathogens,” Ross says. The chemical soup inside turtles See TURTLES Page 28
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cells,” says Sarah Webb, the research comes from the food they eat, which project manager at Texas Tech. varies from the crab-eating Kemp’s ridThe doses used are higher than leys, jellyfish-eating leatherbacks, those found in sea turtle blood. That’s omnivorous loggerheads, spongivorous because PFCs build up in tissues, so an hawksbills and herbivorous green sea animal’s cells will have more PFCs than turtles. its blood. No one has measured them in Persistent organic pollutants magniturtle tissues yet. fy every step up a food web to top All five species of sea turtles in predators such as dolphins, seals and sea Keller’s study were at risk for potential lions. Killer whales are the most conimmune suppression, according to the taminated wild creatures on the planet. researchers’ estimated margins of safety. Sea turtles vary in their pecking order, This calculation is based on effects seen and chemicals build up in them accordin lab mice and rats. Regulatory ageningly. Because some can live to 100 cies use these margins of safety to deteryears old, they can accumulate high mine potential risk of toxic effects. levels of contaminants. For the highly exposed hawksbills In leatherbacks, research has shown and Kemp’s ridleys, the safety margins that some contamination is passed on also put them at risk of liver, thyroid to their eggs. PCBs and flame retarResearchers have found changes in the immune systems of loggerhead turtles linked and neurobehavioral damage. dants correlate with smaller turtle eggs, to their exposure to a variety of contaminants. To learn more, Keller’s lab is looking according to a recent study by Keller. to the U.S. Pacific, where sea turtles Research in birds has shown similar haven’t been tested for contaminants. effects. and green turtles. One hypothesis is that chemicals might be “If this is a cause-and-effect relationship, smaller Hawksbill turtles, which are spongivores, have responsible for a virus, called fibropapillomatosis, that eggs could lead to smaller hatchlings and reduced fit- “surprisingly high concentrations of PFOS and promotes the growth of tumors in the Pacific’s sea ness,” Keller said. PFCs,” the researchers wrote in the study. Crabturtles. If chemicals suppress their immune system, Young marine animals are most at risk. eating Kemp’s ridleys had even higher levels. The the virus could grow into tumors. “It’s in the young that we tend to see the most data support previous PFC measurements in Kemp’s poignant evidence of effects, and those effects can be ridley and loggerhead turtles. But so far Keller has not found any evidence of permanent,” Ross said. In dolphins and some other marine mammals, that. PFCs, used as water and grease repellants, have PFCs have been linked to damage to the immune “Our pilot study is showing that it does not look been found in humans and wildlife around the world. system, blood cells, kidneys and liver. like organic contaminants are the trigger or cause,” PFOS, or perfluorooctane sulfonate, produced by 3M “We know they’re exposed, and we know at least she says. and used in Scotchgard, was phased out in 2001, but for PFOS, sea turtles approach concentrations that Since the 2001 phaseout of PFOS, levels have remains the predominant PFC in the environment. cause thyroid and neurological disruptions and decreased in many marine animals. From 2000 to Keller found that PFOS was the main PFC in sea immune suppression [in mammals],” Keller said. 2008, PFOS declined by 20 percent annually in logturtles, which is similar to what’s found in other To see if the damage to reptiles mirrors the damgerhead turtles tested near Charleston, S.C. Yet wildlife, says Craig Butt, an environmental chemist at age seen in mammals, Celine Godard-Codding, an PFOS and its precursors remain in older consumer Duke University. environmental toxicologist at Texas Tech University products, and sea turtles remain contaminated. “This is true whether you look at sea turtles off in Lubbock, has been examining how turtle cells “PFOS is still out there in consumer products. It’s the coast of Georgia or polar bears in the Arctic,” respond to PFCs. Preliminary data from her lab still on couches and carpets,” Keller said. “Eventually Butt said. found that PFOA doses that are toxic to mammalian those things are going to go to the landfill. We need Concentrations of the five most abundant PFCs cells will also kill 80 percent of reptilian cells tested. better ways to dispose of them.” More recent experiments with PFOS found similar in these turtles are related to their different levels on Brett Israel is staff writer at Environmental Health results. the food web, with decreasing concentrations beginNews. “So far turtle cells react identically to mammal ning with Kemp’s ridley, then loggerhead, leatherback Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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“That’s one of the greatest cruxes within our organization is creating that structure — because that’s what guides want. They want to be able to make a living as a guide, but in order to do that you have to professionalize the trade, and when you professionalize a trade, you give it the structure and organization that kind of goes against the grain of what makes a guide a guide.” Following the “State of the Guiding Industry” brand audit, which included interviews with current, potential and former members, the organization started to adjust what it offers in the way of education and training to broaden beyond the technical skills necessary to guide novices in alpine environments or take a group of first-timers top-roping. “We offer courses and exams and we train guides, but now we need to be doing more,” Winter says. “We need to help them develop their businesses, help them market themselves, help them gain skills beyond the technical skills, so the high altitude symposium and our annual meeting is part of that initiative.” The AMGA is rebounding in a couple of ways — by embracing that tension between the organization and its members; by finding ways to let guides bring their personalities to their work while maintaining professionalism; and by providing members with a caliber of education that’s nearly unparalleled. So when Dr. Peter Hackett, director of the Institute for Altitude Medicine at Telluride, approached the organization with the idea for a day-long seminar focused exclusively on high altitude medicine, the answer was an easy “yes.” Hackett started as a climber and took his first job after medical school as a helicopter rescue doctor at Yosemite National Park. Nearly 40 years later, he’s looking to reduce the number of calls the doctor in that position now has to take. “My goal is to eliminate all deaths from high altitude illness and even go further, eliminate evacuations for high altitude illness, so the target group where I’m going to have most impact is by training the guides,” says Hackett, who is course director of the Advanced Mountain Medicine for Guides’ Lhotka Conference held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder on Oct. 24 during the AMGA’s weeklong annual meeting, held in Boulder beginning Oct. 21. “It’s the guides that have to deal with the altitude illnesses, and they’re the ones that have to recognize it and make decisions on how to treat it.” High altitude illness falls into two categories, common mountain sickness, which feels like a bad hangover, and serious altitude illness, high altitude pulmo-
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field because we haven’t spent enough time educating the guides and the climbers themselves.” And the funding for the conference comes from one family who knows that reality all too well. In 2007, Jason Lhotka, a sheriff from Grand Junction, turned back from his summit attempt on Mount Kilimanjaro because he felt unwell, but no one identified his symptoms of high altitude pulmonary edema until too late. Lhotka
died. “He was a young, healthy guy who had no medical problems and died purely because he went too high, too fast, for his own body, and that’s the way it often is, and it’s often young, healthy people, vigorous people that succumb to pulmonary edema,” Hackett says. “The problem wasn’t recognized and he didn’t receive emergency medical care for pulmonary edema and that’s why he died, and that’s usually the situation, the problem isn’t
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All around Longmont, Day of the Dead celebrations abound. The Longmont Museum is putting up a Day of the Dead exhibit to celebrate its 13th year in existence, and members of the community are invited to come and build an altar themselves to honor their loved ones. There’s also a re-creation of a cemetery, decorated for Day of the Dead, and murals painted by Longmont’s 201 Main Tattoo Parlor. The Muse Gallery will display artist Tony Ortega’s Day of the Dead illustrations as well as the papier mache and embroidery of folk artist Rita Flores de Wallace. On Monday, Oct. 28, the Longmont Library (409 4th Ave., Longmont) will host a celebration with puppet shows, dancers, face painting and food. Through Nov. 2, the Rabid Rabits Galeria offers its Sacred Spaces exhibition, in which artists Kelly Moore, Anita Jantz, Colleen Horner, Karen Divine and Eileen Starnes answer the question, “What does the concept ‘sacred spaces’ mean to you?” The resulting work is all themed around Dia de los Muertos.
Monster Mash Adult Costume Ball
Leave the kids at home for this one. The Longmont Elks Lodge is hosting an adults-only costume ball at the group’s lodge on 306 Coffman St. in Longmont. The affair is a benefit for the OUR Center food pantry, and in addition to the $10 entry fee, if you bring canned food you will receive entry into a raffle. There will be live music, a cash bar, food and concessions. Oh, and don’t skimp on the costume: A total of $800 in prizes are available for those dressed up well, including $100 for the sexiest costume and $100 for the most disgusting one.
‘Macbeth’ at CU
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth has all the elements for a good Halloween play — witches, ghosts, cold-blooded murder. The students at the University of Colorado Boulder are putting this play on, and director Hadley Kamminga-Peck, a grad student in the Theatre and Dance program, promises eerie projections and other special effects designed to amp up the creepiness factor. And she says it will be a little sexy, too. “We’ll pull out the witches as the primary force operating on Macbeth and his lady,” Kamminga-Peck said in a press release. “At a time of the year when the veil is thin and mists obscure more than just trees, they can no longer be sure what it is that drives them into their murderous crimes — or what may await them on the other side.”
Exotica Erotica Ball
The name of this event might put a smile in the minds of some Boulderites, bringing back memories of the Exotic Erotic ball, a once-popular fundraiser put on by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art each year. In recent years, the event had somewhat petered out, but now new organizers are bringing it back to life. Steve Wallis is teaming up with Burlesque Colorado to offer the Exotica Erotica Ball at Shine on Friday, Oct. 25, at 9 p.m. Tickets are $20. Costumes required; risqué attire (for all genders) is strongly encouraged.
Ghost Talk Ghost Walk
Take a trip through architecturally interesting, ghost-ridden homes in Boulder’s historic North Mapleton neighborhood, on Maxwell Avenue. Travel at your own pace from home to home, where tour guides and psychics await to inform and spook you. Guides will dress up as historical figures, and refreshments will be offered. The event is a benefit for Historic Boulder and takes place on Saturday, Oct. 26, and Sunday, Oct. 27, at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $15 for members, $17 for non-members and $8 for children.
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fending off zombies sounds more appealing than hearing “Monster Mash” at another costume party, never fear: Boulder musicians have much to offer this Halloween. Acts like Devotchka, Paper Bird, The Motet and more are coming to town, offering Halloweenthemed concerts sure to rock the dead right out of their graves. And at some shows, like The Widow’s Bane at Bohemian Biergarten on Oct. 31, undead creatures are even included with the price of admission. The Widow’s Bane is Boulder’s premiere zombie band, a group that terrifies and entertains mortals all year-round. Legend has it that, after they were each murdered by their lovers, the zombies spent the afterlife sailing and playing music aboard the devil’s ship. But before the vagrants drop anchor for their fourth annual Halloween Ball, their foulmouthed front man, Gov. Mortimer Leech (Clay Rose), has a few zombie myths he’d like to see debunked.
“We’re well dressed, for one — we’ve had 300 years to hone our fashion sense so we’re not wearing ripped clothes,” Leech says. “People just expect me to grunt and moan, but I’ve been learning how to speak for centuries. And how could I eat so many brains and not be smart? Talk about brain food.” The crusty crew begrudgingly plays on Halloween, despite the fact that some humans mistake them for normal people in zombie costumes. To clear things up, the zombies get dressed up too — this year they’re going as The Village People. But all Leech really cares about is pillaging and debauchery, which is the kind of spirit he knows he’ll see on Halloween. “Get crazy, why not?” Leech says. “Especially on Devil’s Night — if you only serve the devil for one night you best be doing it with the twisted freaks at our show.” The Widow’s Bane is just one of the Halloweensee HORROR Page 38
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The Pamlico Sound at the Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. ver the last few years, The Pamlico Sound has built a reputation on knowing how to party. But the band’s résumé, stacked with multiple headlining gigs at venues like Bluebird Theater, The Fox Theatre and Boulder Theater, shows that the band has clearly tapped into a hungry niche in the local scene. The seven-piece outfit melds together funk and soul, while bursting with a big-band ensemble presence. With wailing vocals, psychedelic rhythms, and a Halloween show they’re calling a “Funkstravaganza,” it’s sure to be a groovy night.
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Risen from the Dead! ft. Ska SKANK REDEMPTION at Moe’s Barbecue, 3295 S. Broadway, Englewood, 303-781-0414. Moe’s Barbecue is kicking off a slew of Halloween events starting with a zombie-lovers fest titled Risen from the Dead! The show features local ska/ swing/jazz group Ska Skank Redemption, who are self-described as “the sweetest singing crowbar to the face you’ll ever experience.” The bands plan to sing the zombies (who pay a discounted price) into a brains-eating frenzy. Other Halloween shows this week at Moe’s Barbecue include a Halloween Bash featuring SF1 (a local
boyhollow at Bluebird Theater, 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10. 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. luebird Theater will host its 13th annual Halloween Hootenanny, featuring a costume contest and a chance to win tickets to Bluebird Theater shows. Music will be provided by boyhollow, the local DJ who founded Lipgloss, Denver’s long-running indie music dance party at Beauty Bar. Boyhollow will spin some of his favorite selections, which have previously included LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, The XX, New Order, The Cure and more.
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The Devil Makes Three at eTown Hall, 7 p.m. Tickets are $25. 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4438696. he folk punk trio will make a stop in Boulder for a live recording at eTown Hall. The boisterous group is known for its unsettling, era-bending style, and delving into themes like loneliness, disasters and mortality. They will be joined by Parker Millsap, a blues/roots singer-songwriter. The Devil Makes Three will also perform its Halloween show on Nov. 1 at The Ogden Theatre with Shakey Graves.
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South Broadway, Englewood, 303-7899206. esponsible for “Cult of Personality,” which contains one of rock’s most anthemic, recognizable riffs, Living Colour is the stuff of ’80s heavy-metal legend. In its heyday, the band was a sort of grim reaper of funk, dragging the sound down into darker and heavier territory than it had ever been before. The group reunited in early 2000 with as much political vigor and propulsive energy as ever. Denver is the stop for its Jack-O-Lantern Ball.
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DeVotchKa at the Boulder Theater, 9 p.m. Tickets are $29.50. 2032 14th St. Boulder, 303-786-7030. t this point, DeVotchKa has successfully cultivated an air of magic around its annual Halloween Celebration. The theatrical experience always features a theme, which has ranged from colonial America to Mayan apocalypse. And with elaborate decorations, visuals, and the band in full costume, fans have enjoyed going along for the ride. For some, DeVotchKa as a favorite Halloween-night decadence may seem strange. Their worldwide fame, after all, came when the group provided the soundtrack to the delightfully quirky indie flick, Little Miss Sunshine. However, DeVotchKa has perfected an eerie, old-timey quality that, even at its most accessible, sounds like it could be floating out of the back of a gypsy caravan or echoing from a bustling, warm
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Paper Bird with Shakey Graves at the Fox Theatre, 9 p.m. Tickets are $20. 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. aper Bird is breaking out its instruments and carefree harmonies for a good old-fashioned Halloween jamboree. The Denver folk darlings will perform many favorites, as well songs off of Rooms, their first release in two years. Joining them is Shakey Graves, a budding singer-songwriter who hails from Austin, Texas. Equipped with a homemade kick drum, guitar and a haunting warble to his voice, Shakey Graves is a Western specter who will add an extra twinge of darkness to the evening. The show’s theme is space cowboys, and costumes are encouraged.
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ying a plaid flannel T-shirt around your waist and calling it grunge? Hoping people will guess you’re Rivers Cuomo and not just some bespectacled hipster? Then the Gin Doctors’ Halloweezer show may be the night for you. The ’90s cover band from Denver will perform Weezer’s Blue Album, along with a nostalgia-charged set that’ll bring some of your favorite bands (like The Foo Fighters, Nirvana, No Doubt and Smashing Pumpkins) back from the dead.
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ing out the kinks. “The rooms are a lot more put together this year,” says student actress Mandie Vigil, while sister Sosha Vigil helps smear her face with ghostly white paint. “And it’s a lot more unexpected,” Sosha adds. “Last year, it had more of a theme. This year, it’s just a haunted house, so you don’t know what to expect.” Louie Lopez is the man responsible for the divergence. Though staff members have no official titles, he is in essence Purgatory’s creative director (“He’s an artist,” one volunteer organizer offers). In the hours leading up to the house’s first guests, he’s scurrying around Purgatory’s 10-odd rooms, making sure the traps are set and all safety precautions are in order. Though Lopez is the only staff member out of costume, the radio headset he issues directives into lends him the air of a professional football coach. I find Lopez in the first room, tweaking Purgatory’s
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nder a full moon during the lead-up to Halloween, zombies, killer clowns and a bloody bride mill around in a defunct furniture store in Longmont’s Twin Peaks mall, snacking on burritos and corn chips while they trade scare tactics and reminisce about their former victims. “Were you in the room with me when we made that football player scream like a girl?” a ghoul asks. “I don’t think so,” another bemoans before recounting a story of his own. These monsters are actors — mostly high schoolers — readying themselves for opening night at the Longmont Purgatory haunted house. Now in its second year, Purgatory is starting to find its groove after work-
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introductory set piece: an eye-level spotlight that hits customers right after they read a list of safety guidelines. He asks me to help him test it out and I oblige. The concentrated light flicks on for a few seconds and back off. In the sudden darkness, I’m all but blind. “Now try and walk forward in the dark,” Lopez says mischievously. “Kinda crazy, right?” For all their work, Lopez and his crew are humble, preferring to focus on the volunteers’ effort rather than their own. Longmont’s Children and Youth Resources see HAUNTED Page 41
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or some years now, The Motet has been leading kind of a schizophrenic life, serving up its regular, originals-heavy set on the festival circuit, while spending some portion of its off time working up coverversion tribute shows The Motet’s cover shows are always a big hit, and on Halloween the band will play the best for mainly local gigs hits of 1980 at the Boulder Theater. (Ft. Collins, Boulder, Denver.) Drummer and Motet majordomo Dave Watts says it’s been an effective way to keep the band sharp and shake up what could otherwise be a one-set-per-year grind, and anyone who’s caught the band in full retro-trib form knows that the cover sets are far from perfunctory. Watts and Co. sink their teeth into the material, deftly mining the originals for composition and groove (Parliament/Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire) or audacious re-arrangement (Grateful Dead). But Watts admits that charting up cover shows over the years have helped to move the band’s original material focus into a newly sharpened focus. The band is putting the finishing touches on a new straight-ahead funk record, due out in January and featuring the heartbreaking soulfulness of longtime vocalist Jans Ingber, that reflects Watts’ and the band’s re-energized focus on songcraft. “After doing all this Halloween stuff,” he told us last week, “[we realized] how effective a great song is on a crowd. Instead of just the energetics [sic] we’re used to bringing, with improvising and soloing and extended arrangements across all the genre changes, we really decided to focus just on tunes, because we realized how powerful a good song is.” The album was teased by Relix last month, with a video of the new single “123,” featuring Ingber on vox and Porter’s slithery keyboard lines winding their way around the punchy, airtight horn section of Gabe Mervine and Matt Pitts. In a sense, the covers have drawn The Motet back to their funk and R&B roots. Having tapped a healthy portion of the band’s retro faves in recent years, Watts ingeniously decided to approach this year’s Halloween gig with “Mixtape 1980.” The mix tape idea cleverly allows the band to mine crowd-familiar material while still being able to drop The Motet into different genres. “Yeah, 1980. I mean, you had Bob Marley had an album come out then [Uprising], and you listen to some of that stuff and still it’s so rootsy. And then you had Devo, who had this hit with ‘Whip It.’ So you have ‘Work’ by Bob Marley, and ‘Whip It’ by Devo, and this all came out in the same year? It’s like, 1980 was some kind of weird crossroad,” Watts says. The Motet plays the Boulder Theater on Thursday, Oct. 31. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 day of show. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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On the Bill: Seicento Baroque Ensemble plays “Celestial Music: Celebrating the Music of Henry Purcell” on the following dates: Friday, Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E Hampden Ave., Cherry Hills Village, 303-758-2820; Saturday, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770; Sunday, Oct. 27, 4 p.m., St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 2000 Stover St., Fort Collins, 970-493-7512. Visit www.seicentobaroque.org/ Concerts.html for tickets and more information.
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t’s not the end of the world.” That will be the musical message when Boulder’s Seicento Baroque Ensemble celebrates the Great Comet of 1680 by performing the music of Henry Purcell, Friday through Sunday in Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins (www.seicentobaroque. org). The 36-voice choir of Seicento (“17th-century” in Italian) will be joined for the performance by vocal soloists and a period-instrument ensemble led by Baroque violinist Mimi Mitchell. Colorado Public Radio’s Charley Samson will narrate the performance, which will be under the direction of Seicento’s artistic director, Evanne Browne. The concert precedes and was inspired by the expected appearance of comet ISON in November (www.space. com/19973-comet-ison.html), which has a similar orbit to the Great Comet of 1680 — one of the brightest ever seen. (Happily, that comet did not mark the end of the world, nor is ISON expected to do so. Astronomers are not yet certain if ISON will match the Great Comet in brilliance.) Because the peak of Purcell’s career came around 1680, there is a logical connection between comet and composer. Browne is using that link to tell a story about the fears and hopes often aroused by comets. It was Browne’s neighbor Eliot Young, a planetary scientist with Boulder’s Southwest Research Institute, who first gave her the idea for the concert. When he mentioned comet ISON and she learned of its connection to the Great Comet of 1680, “immediately my mind went to the music of Henry Boulder Weekly
Purcell,” she says. “I had thought about doing a program of all Purcell anyway, because I think Purcell is underperformed.” Purcell is well known in Great Britain, where he is revered as one of the greatest English composers. In this country, his music is sometimes heard in church, but much less frequently in concert venues. “Just looking at the music of Purcell, I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to tell a story of the people who might have seen this comet, and wondered, is the world coming to an end?” Browne explains. “Or is something wonderful about to happen? People had to have been in awe of this magnificent sighting.” At Browne’s suggestion, Becca Tice wrote a fictional narration that links the texts of Purcell’s music to historical writings, relating people’s reaction to comets over the centuries. Samson will read that narration as part of the performance. “I think the program is just great fun,” Browne says. “We have quotes, we did a bit of research. Charley’s a wonderful supporter of all kinds of music, and was willing to go along with this fictitious presentation.” Just about the first piece that Browne decided to include was Purcell’s “Celestial Music,” written in 1689 as a “Welcome Song for Lewis Maidwell’s School.” “After Eliot Young mentioned the comet, just casually, I went, ‘OK! “Celestial Music!”’” Browne says. “It’s a great title, and it’s hardly ever performed. It’s grounded in Greek and Roman mythology, and the text extols the virtues of the celestial inhabitants that inspire music worthy of these gods.
“Another piece I want to highlight is ‘Funeral Music for Queen Mary,’ and we’re doing the three choral sections of that. That may be a title that doesn’t ring a bell, but it is familiar. Some of that music appeared in [A] Clockwork Orange in 1971, and they did a part of this for the funeral of Princess Diana. Purcell had written it for the queen’s funeral, and 10 months later they performed it at his own funeral.” Other works on the program will include “We Must Assemble a Sacrifice,” theater music Purcell wrote in 1689, and several church pieces known as verse anthems, in which solo verses alternate with choral sections. There will also be pieces that are definitely not fit for church performance, songs called “catches” that were written to be sung in social settings. “Purcell wrote a lot of catches that were appropriate for the bar,” Browne says. “I looked through many pages of catches to find the ones that we could do in a family-friendly concert. “What’s fun is that of course these pieces we’re performing were not written in response to the comet, but we can make the texts fit in such a way that it will be a delightful program. And since this concert is all in English, [the texts are] very accessible. “Purcell, like all composers of the Baroque, understood word painting. His word painting is exquisite. Being a group that specializes in performance practice, and knowing that the Baroque period was very much about the text, I would say Seicento does a nice job of delivering that text. “If you come, you’ll understand all of it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com October 24, 2013 43
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Thursday, October 24 music Alex Paul and The Firewall. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Andy Palmer — With The Changing Colors & Chella and The Charm. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Austin Miller. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Banshee Bones. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Brian Haas and Scott Amendola. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Dave and Enion Tiller. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dwarf Planets. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Flip and Fly. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985. Greensky Bluegrass — With The California Honeydrops. 8:30 p.m. see EVENTS Page 48
Saturday, October 26: Rogue Sound, The Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 10 p.m. Thursday, October 24: Andy Palmer with The Changing Colors & Chella and The Charm, The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 8:30 p.m.
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Chimney Choir. 9 p.m. The Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303442-3050.
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Thursday, October 24: Your Brain on Art 2013: What Drives Creativity? Music and the Unexpected, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 7 p.m. This week, as part of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s “Your Brain on Art” program, artists and intellectuals alike will come together to discuss creativity in music composition and its effect on the mind. Hearing from musician Otis Taylor, Colorado Symphony Conductor Scott O’Neil and University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor Vijay Mittal of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, audiences will be granted a wide range of perspectives on the topic and a dissection of how the brain interprets making — and appreciating — music.
Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. IMIG Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
Denver musician Andy Palmer’s distinctly “gritty” sound can be attributed not only to his musical talents, but his life experience as well. A former public defender in New York City, Palmer uses his powerful, growling voice to sing scenes of hardships, while still putting his audience at ease with smooth guitars and percussion. This week, Palmer will be performing in Denver alongside a full band, and with three albums out — one from earlier this year — the audience can expect a variety of tunes and topics in Palmer’s own style.
A bilingual blend of hiphop, reggae and ska, Rogue Sound formed in 2000. The group often welcomes guest musicians to share their stage as well — incorporating the occasional saxophone, MC and bass in with the regular line-up. Rogue Sound will be at The Pioneer Inn this weekend, playing a free show, where loyal fans and newcomers alike can experience a sound that has been around for years.
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The Dreamer’s Dilemma by Amber Cobb will be featured at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 29 through Nov. 3.
The Dreamer’s Dilemma — Artist Amber Cobb. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Nov. 3. Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities. Through Nov. 10.
Amber Cobb’s installation in the Boulder Museum of Contempory Art’s Present Box portrays a surreal world inhabited by a pink horse.
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BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Oct. 27. Children of the Rains — Artist Nancy Rynes. NCAR Visitor Center Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 29.
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Continuing Legacies: Evolving Ceramic Traditions. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 10. Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26.
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Heart Lines: Expressions of Native North American Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through Dec. 21.
Julie Puma: The Immortal Jellyfish. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Jan. 12. Landscape M — Artist Heimrad Bäcker (1925-2003). Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 5. Nuestra Cultura: Our People, Our Heritage. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 22. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 21. The Photography of Mike Berenson. NCAR Visitor Center Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 29.
EVENTS from Page 47 Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Friday, October 25
LeeLah. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.
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The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
A.K.A. Laser Bunny. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Attic Wolves — With Poet’s Row. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Ori Naftaly Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Brewer and Shipley — With Steve Law Band. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003.
Reggae Night with World Citizen Band. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Butch Hancock. 9:30 p.m. The Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Third Stream. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
Thursday Night Bike to Farm Tour. 4:30 p.m. Sol y Sombra Farm, Hygiene, 303-204-1954.
Flamenco with Rene Heredia. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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Gary Loffler. 4:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
A Beautiful Disaster — Steven Lee Adams’ plein air painting. 5 p.m. Mary Williams Fine Arts, 5311 Western Ave., Unit 112, Boulder, 303-938-1588. Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. A Conversation on Natural Gas. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Gora Gora Orkestar. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Greensky Bluegrass — With The California Honeydrops. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Kelli Said. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Getting Started with Adobe Premiere Pro. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.
Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band — With Now, Now, Harrison Hudson, and The Maykit. 7 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Your Brain on Art. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122.
La Bohème. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Last Men on Earth. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House,
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Saturday, October 26
The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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The Neighbourhood — With Lovelife and Ghost Loft. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. The Pamlico Sound. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Randall Dubis. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Rebel Tongue. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Blockhead & Little People — With Krooked Drivers. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399.
Dennis John Glanville. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Fall Fest. 12:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
The Trubelos. 9 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Jill Powers. 9:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
Navajo Moccasin Making Lecture — With William B. Tsosie, Jr. 6:30 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 Broadway, Boulder, 303-4926892. Twenty Feet from Stardom — Movie screening. 9 p.m. Chem 140, behind the University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-4879.
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Bill McKay Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
The Split Wild — Contemporary opera. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-717-6619.
Game Night at Meadows. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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Bad Brad and Nic Clark. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313.
Sambadende. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
First Ascents: CU on the Summit. 11:30 a.m. Folsom Field Club Level, 2400 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8900.
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Austrian Connection. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Chimney Choir — With Poet’s Row and Attic Wolves. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303733-0230.
Evolving Doors Dance. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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John Common and Blinding Flashes of Light. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Julie Monley Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Kelli Said. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. La Bohème. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Like Explorer. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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The Book of Mormon is showing at Denver Performing Art Complex’s Buell Theater through Nov. 24.
The Book of Mormon. Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-8934100. Through Nov. 24.
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Failure: A Love Story. Presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 26.
The Most Deserving. Ricketson Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Nov. 17.
The Foreigner. Presented by CU-Boulder’s theatre and dance department. Acting Studio, 261 UCB, University Theatre Building, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Oct. 27.
The Turn of the Screw. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 28.
The Full Monty. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 9. The Gut Girls. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Nov. 9. Just Like Us. Stage Theatre, Denver Perform-
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The Twilight Zone. Presented by the Theatre Company of Lafayette. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson, Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 16. Witness for the Prosecution— Presented by The Spotlight Theatre Company. John Hand Theater, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. 720880-8727. Through Nov. 9.
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Inside the Writer’s Studio with Jennifer Egan. 6:30 p.m. L2 Arts and Culture Center, 1477 Columbine St., Denver. 303-321-3291. $15 for L2 Members, $25 for non-members. Jeff Spahr-Summers. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-5791644.
Friday, October 25 Fallen Women — Author Sandra Dallas. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Fifteen Strange Seconds: An evening of Phantom Poems, Murder Ballads and Communion with the Haunted Optic. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St.,
Saturday, October 26 Halloween Storytime featuring Go Away, Big Green Monster— Author Ed Emberley. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349. Tuesday, October 29 The Vegan Cheat Sheet — Author Amy Cramer. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, October 30 Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Treasure Hunters Halloween Party. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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EVENTS from Page 49 Pangea. 9 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Pete Stein. 9:30 p.m. The Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Planina: 25th Anniversary Reunion Concert & Balkan Bash. 6 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Policulture. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Rogue Sound. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Shook Twins. 9:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St.,
Boulder, 303-449-0120. Solas. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Somethin’ About Lulu. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. The Split Wild — Contemporary opera. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-717-6619. Tame Impala — With White Denim. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Trio Con Brio Tango. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Japanese Film Presentations: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Retrospective Muenzinger Auditorium All showings at 7 p.m. Friday, October 25: CURE Sunday, October 27: Serpent’s Path Friday, November 1: Eyes of the Spider Saturday November 2: License to Live Sunday, November 3: Barren Illusion The University of Colorado’s International Film Series (IFS), The Japan Foundation and The Consulate-General of Japan are showing five of director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s films on 35 mm print in a cinematic event celebrating and reviewing Kurosawa’s oeuvre. Kurosawa, no relation to Rashamon director Akira Kurosawa, has been a media presence since the 1980s, and he is perhaps best known for his impact on the genre of horror and thriller films as both a writer and director. Kurosawa’s work has been featured at the International Film Series before; however, the films at this particular event are so rare that most cannot be found elsewhere — they come only on the 35 mm prints, from a foreign archive, and are getting harder to track down. Pablo Kjolseth, director of the IFS, says that the rare nature of these films is part of the reason Kurosawa was chosen as the subject of the retrospective. “This is what we at the International Film Series are doing that’s different,” Kjolseth says, referring to the fact that the IFS has held onto its reel-to-reel projectors and is one of the dwindling number of theaters able to screen the films. “The event is as much as about Kurosawa as it is about the importance — and difficulty — of securing these prints and keeping rare films with such a powerful cinematic influence available to the public.” Moviegoers have five chances to catch Kurosawa’s work free at Muenzinger Auditorium, beginning Oct. 25 with his 1997 feature film, CURE, and continuing with a series of his influential horror and thriller films. Kjolseth is sure this program “will get people into that Halloween mood” as they absorb Kurosawa’s distinct visual style and enjoy his simply unusual work. — Lexi Schwartz
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Tyler Grant’s Jerry Jam Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Walk the Moon — With The Mowglis and Smallpool. 7 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Watersong. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 79th St., Niwot, 303-547-6152. Zeppephilia. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
events Adobe Lightroom Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. Boulder Folders. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Clever Corvids. 10 a.m. Betasso Preserve, Boulder Canyon (Highway 119) to Sugarloaf Road, 303-6786214. Evolving Doors Dance. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Fundraiser for Mipham Shedra and stray dogs in India. 6 p.m. Tibet’s Restaurant, 321 S. McCaslin Drive, Louisville, 303-440-0940. Ghost Walk Ghost Talk — Ghostly architecture tour in the Maxwell Avenue area. 5:30 p.m. Call 303-4445192 for tickets and more info. Halloween PUMP-kin Workout Benefitting EFAA. 8:45 a.m. Scott Carpenter Park, Boulder, 303-5503491. Living on Burrowed Time Gala to Honor Con Slo-
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bodchikoff, Ph.D. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Make a Difference Day — Volunteer opportunity. 8:30 a.m. Visit www.BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/ wildwork to register. Monster Mash Adult Costume Ball. 6 p.m. Longmont Elks Lodge, 306 Coffman St., Longmont, 303-579-2979. Niwot Great Pumpkin Party. 10 a.m. Cottonwood Square, 2nd & Niwot Road, and Whistle Stop Park, Niwot, 303-652-2626. RADIATE Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Some Pig & Some Beer. 6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4880. Soul Talks with Jennifer Smith — Demystifying Past Lives. 1 p.m. Holobeing, 3008 Folsom St., Boulder, 941-323-3145. Theatre Hike: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 3 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303442-3282. “What Can I Do?” Multimedia Environmental Presentation. 11 a.m. NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-449-3529. WOW: Women of Wisdom at Meadows. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Rateliff. 6 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700.
Sacrebleu. 4 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Gypsy Trickters Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Smashy Claw. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Humming House. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Bob Sima. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
ISSOVE. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303-546-0886.
Colorado Rising: A Benefit for Flood Relief. With Dave Matthews, Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Wesley Schultz, Jeremiah Fraitz and Neylah Pekarek of The Lumineers, The Fray, DeVotchka, and Nathaniel
Mello Cello Sundays with Sam Rae. 7:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Open Stage with Dr. Doctor. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Tame Impala — With White Denim. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.
Front Range Day of Folding. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Ghost Walk Ghost Talk — Ghostly architecture tour in the Maxwell Avenue area. 5:30 p.m. Call 303-4445192 for tickets and more info. Halloween Party. 10 a.m. 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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Hawaiian Hula Class. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.
Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Healthy Eating for Kids. 2 p.m. 3960 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-0215. Photography Hands-On Intensive Part 2 of 3: Focusing Carefully. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Race to Nowhere. Movie screening. 3:30 p.m. ATLAS 100, 1125 18th St., Building 223, Boulder, 303-735-4577.
Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Tango Titan Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.
Monday, October 28 music By All Means Band. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
A tour of distinctive, ghostly homes – with spooky stories to tell, in Boulder’s historic north Mapleton Hill neighborhood.
Electric Blues Jam. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Hoodie Allen — With OCD, MOD SUN, D-Why and Splyt. 6 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Laura Marling and Phosphorescent. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Stage — With The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313. Zing the Great Big Band. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
events Data Science: Art and Craft. 4 p.m. ATLAS 100, 1125 18th St., Building 223, Boulder, 303-735-4577. Movie Night — Shaun of the Dead. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Understanding CSS — Continues on Oct. 30. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Tuesday, October 29 music Empire of the Sun — With Alpine. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Faculty Tuesday: Patrick Mason. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Jazz Nicholson. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Jump Swing Blues with The Stilettos. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Justin Hackl and Dan McCarthy Birthday Party with Native Daughters — With Black Acid Devil, Rebel Steele and Bloodlines. 8 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. M. Doughty (Used To Be In) Soul Coughing — With Moon Hooch. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Mathias and The Crooked Streets. 8:30 p.m. The Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949
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listen up Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic with Maus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Soul Explosion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Terakaft. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-777-1003.
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Tuesday, Oct. 29: M. Doughty (Used To Be In) Soul Coughing — With Moon Hooch. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Time has had a way of making Mike Doughty more comfortable with his past. In the ’90s, Doughty was the lead singer and guitar player for Soul Coughing, a quirky alt-rock outfit steeped in jazz influence and heroin. In his 2012 memoir The Book of Drugs, Doughty chronicled the drug-fueled haze in which he spent a good chunk of his time in the band, as well as the turmoil that eventually led to the band’s demise. He then launched a successful solo career, but he previous fame followed him. Fans would request Soul Coughing songs, to Doughty’s ire. But now, his perspective has changed. He has re-recorded 13 Soul Coughing songs — including “Circles” and “Super Bon Bon” — with new instrumentation and players, and he is currently on tour to support the album. He’s a tremendously engaging performer, and this show should showcase his captivating on-stage presence. — David Accomazzo
Mike Doughty plays the Fox Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 29.
events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. International Night. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Marketing with Social Media. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Switch 3. 6 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Understanding Your Breast Cancer Risks. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Yarn Shoppe, 454 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-8242.
Wednesday, October 30 music Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Big Blues Jam with Los Terrificos. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Carnage — With Kicks N Licks. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. The Delta Routine. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Devil Makes Three and Parker Millsap. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4438696. DJ Ish. 9 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. The Moondoggies. With Rose Windows and Ark Life. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Nathan Reich. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Pendulum New Music & Wind Symphony Concert. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. P!NK. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100. Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Streetlight Manifesto — With Mike Park and Dan Potthast. 7 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874
events Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.
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Romeo & Juliet offers a new generation the opportunity to savor and cherish literature’s most enduring romance. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres.
The ensemble comedy A.C.O.D. follows Carter (Adam Scott), a seemingly well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce. Having survived the madness of his parents’ (Richard Jenkins and Catherine O’Hara) divorce, Carter now has a successful career and supportive girlfriend (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). But when his younger brother (Clark Duke) gets engaged, Carter is forced to reunite his bitterly divorced parents and their new spouses (Amy Poehler and Ken Howard) for the wedding, causing the chaos of his childhood to return, including his wacky therapist (Jane Lynch). At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Runner Runner A Princeton college student who earns his tuition money by gambling online winds up in Costa Rica trying to get back his losses from the gambling site’s owner, who he thinks swindled him. The two team up, but when things go bad, they turn on each other. Rated R. At Century.
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All Is Lost Robert Redford is the entire cast. This film is a gripping, visceral and powerfully moving tribute to ingenuity and resilience. Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Counselor
Cameron Diaz and her pony are sent to a time-out during this ensemble cast train wreck.
Blue Jasmine After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Esquire and Colony Square.
Captain Phillips This film, starring Tom Hanks as Captain Phillips, is director Paul Greengrass’ interpretation of the real-life hijacking of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama in 2009 by Somali pirates. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Carrie Another remake of the classic. A shy girl who gets treated like crap by her family and peers discovers she has super evil powers and decides to get even. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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Forest Whitaker stars as a White House butler whose 34-year tenure sees incredible social change. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square.
Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun-loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. Rated PG. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres
Escape Plan Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up to break out of an escape-proof prison. Rated PG13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century. This is a film about WikiLeaks and its role in our new world where our own government is constantly spying on us and whistleblowing has become a life-threatening pursuit. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Ricky Jay is a world-renowned magician, author, historian and actor (often a mischievous presence in the films of David Mamet and Paul Thomas Anderson) — and a performer who regularly provokes astonishment from even the most jaded audiences. Deceptive Practice traces Jay’s achievements and influences, from his apprenticeship at age 4 with his grandfather to such now-forgotten legends as Al Flosso, Slydini, Cardini and his primary mentors, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Despicable Me 2 It’s time for more Minion madness in this animated sequel. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.
Direct from Broadway: Smokey Joe’s Cafe This film with the Songs of Leiber and Stoller features the original Tony Award-nominated cast performing 40 songs that provided the soundtrack to the lives of a generation of Americans. Smokey Joe’s Cafe has the distinction of being the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history. Captured in brilliant high definition. Rated PG. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Gravity Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in this visually stunning film that strands two astronauts in space when a routine spacewalk goes wrong. Also in 3-D. Rated PG13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
A Hijacking The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbor when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship’s cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) and the engineer Jan (Roland Møller), who, along with the rest of the seamen, are taken hostage in a cynical game of life and death. With the demand for a ransom of millions of dollars, a psychological drama unfolds between the CEO of the shipping company (Søren Malling) and the Somali pirates. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
In a World... Carol, a struggling vocal coach, strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry’s reigning king: her father. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Inequality for All In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted economic policy expert Robert Reich takes on the enormous question of what has been happening to our economy. Rated PG. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Insidious: Chapter 2
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Director James Wan gives us a terrifying sequel to his original horror film. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.
Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is addicted to porn. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is addicted to romantic Hollywood movies. When the pair’s fantasy worlds collide, it gets interesting. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.
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Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a divorced, single parent masseuse who meets Albert (James Gandolfini), a nice guy in the same boat. Love and laughs follow. Rated PG-13. At Esquire, Colony Square and Century. — Landmark Theatres
If you and the kids liked the first version, then you’ll no doubt like the second. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
A compassionate 20-something who works with troubled kids runs into her own troubles when her life starts spinning out of control. Rated R. At SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society
Enough Said
The Fifth Estate
Ridley Scott and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy team up with a great cast, including Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt, to tell the tale of an old illegal business deal that comes back to haunt a lawyer. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Short Term 12
In August 2008, 22 climbers from several countries and in several separate expeditions wound up at High Camp on K2. This documentary shows what happened next on this mountain where one in four climbers never make it down. NR. At Mayan.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
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Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard creates a visual masterpiece that recreates the welldocumented 1970s rivalry between race-car drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Johnny Knoxville as 86-year-old Irving Zisman goes roadtripping with Billy, his 8-year-old grandson. Add a hidden camera and the Jackass team and it gets gross and sometimes humorous. Rated R. At Twin Peaks,
Machete Kills Just when it looks like a madman and his billionaire partner are about to take over the world, the President calls on super agent Machete to save the day. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Muscle Shoals Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Ala., is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. At its heart is Rick Hall, who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Hall brought black and white together in Alabama’s cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. He is responsible for creating the “Muscle Shoals sound” and The Swampers, the house band at FAME that eventually left to start its own successful studio, known as Muscle Shoals Sound. Greg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Mick Jagger, Etta James, Alicia Keys, Keith Richards, Percy Sledge and others bear witness to Muscle Shoals’ magnetism, mystery and why it remains influential today. At Chez Artiste and Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton As Himself This moving and engaging film tells the story of writer, editor, amateur sportsman and friend to many. Using Plimpton’s own narration — along with thoughts and stories from friends, family and contemporaries — the film is a joyful celebration of a life lived fully, richly, strangely, and, at times, a life that is hard to believe was actually lived by just one man. At SIE Film Center. — Denver Film Society
Prisoners How far would you go to save your kid? What would you be willing to do? These are the questions that Hugh Jackman’s character Keller Dover is forced to answer when his 6-year-old daughter mysteriously disappears. Rated R. At Century and Twin Peaks.
RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead Go watch the Mystery Science Theater 300 guys make fun of this classic horror film. At Century.
Romeo and Juliet (2013) The ultimate romantic story, traditionally told in a Renaissance setting, Romeo & Juliet shows us love at its purest and tragedy at its most fateful. Having been decades since its last representation through film,
We Are What We Are In We Are What We Are, a seemingly wholesome and benevolent family, the Parkers, have always kept to themselves, and for good reason. Behind closed doors, patriarch Frank (Bill Sage) rules his family with a rigorous fervor, determined to keep his ancestral customs intact at any cost. As a torrential rainstorm moves into the area, tragedy strikes, and his daughters Iris and Rose are forced to assume responsibilities that extend beyond those of a typical family. Rated R. At SIE FilmCenter and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
We Served Too: The Story of the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots of World War II This is a story of a group of young, determined and courageous women during World War II who broke through barriers and shattered stereotypes. They were the first women pilots to ever fly for the United States military. However, after a nasty and aggressive campaign by male pilots who wanted the WASPs’ jobs during World War II, they were the only wartime unit that was denied military status by Congress and were sent home before the war was over and their job was done.
Zaytoun This film is a moving story of survival, reconciliation and friendship set in 1982, amid the Lebanese Civil War. While on a mission, Israeli fighter pilot Yoni (Stephen Dorff) is shot down over Beirut and taken prisoner by inhabitants of a Palestinian refugee camp. Among the captors is 10-year-old Fahed (Abdallah El Akal), whose father is killed in the bombing raid. Having listened to stories all his life about the supposedly idyllic village his grandfather called home when Israel was still Palestine, Fahed is overtaken by a powerful urge to return to the land of his ancestors and plant the olive tree his father had been nurturing. At Mayan. —Landmark Theatres Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE FilmCenter include: Escape from Tomorrow; Bad Milo; This Is JIM; Birth of the Living Dead; Delivery Man.
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is perfectly root-for-able as the radical with a better sense of reason. But their interaction never feels right; it’s never intimate enough to explain their bond and never adversarial enough to emotionally explain Berg’s final actions. Worse yet, the movie’s refusal to take a stance on Assange is easily the most boring way to approach the subject. For the first half, he’s Robin Hood; in the second half, he’s The Joker. But saying “you decide” to the audience is lazy storytelling sometimes, and it negates the purpose of making this film. We already know the real evidence and can decide for ourselves; so, how about you show us what you decided, people who did more research? Condon tries to spice things up with shaky cam and scenes where the characters go into their own minds, but there’s only so many times you can quickly circle around a guy on his laptop before you get nauseous. Without a script from Aaron Sorkin, The Fifth Estate became the movie we feared The Social Network would be. And one last thing: the rape charges against Assange have not been proven (mostly because he refuses to stand trial). But to shuffle such a major part of his personal story to text at the end of the film, especially when said text points out a blatant lie he made about the accusations, seems like a lie of omission. You can’t make a character study of a man with this many secrets and you can’t make a thriller out of people typing. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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t’s getting increasobjection to something ingly hard to find like Ford’s proposal. But anything good to if they are animals, then say about meat. It is perhaps we should stop expensive, swalloweating them. At the very ing huge tracts of land least, their capacity for and tons of grain. It has a fear, pain and suffering is large carbon footprint. morally relevant to how Finally, industrial meat we treat them. production is hard on the But what if there was animals, even before a technology that did they’re slaughtered. The away with all of these operational slogan of drawbacks, cutting PETA, the animal rights through the moral bad organization known for faith while giving us a its radical politics and constant supply of lowattention-grabbing stunts, cost, environmentally susis “meat is murder.” But tainable and suffering-free you don’t need to grapple meat products? That is, if with metaphysics of perwe could grow meat in a sonhood to concede that Advances in technology may soon make it possible to breed chickens and harvest chicken meat strictly in vat, would there be any for most people, eating reasonable objection to laboratories, without keeping them on a farm. animals involves a certain eating it? amount of deliberate denial It’s still a hypothetical about the circumstances question, but it won’t be for under which meat is prolong. At the American duced and how the animals Academy for the are treated. Advancement of Science As things stand, we are (AAAS) annual meeting in largely divorced from the Vancouver recently, profesanimal origins of our food sor Mark Post of Maastricht — what we see in the University announced that supermarket are not animal parts, but flat white slabs But while this project is more shock art than industrial his team is getting closer to a workable process for labgrown meat. Their first successes were with pork, and of chicken, dark cubes of beef, rounded discs of lamb architecture, Ford makes an important philosophical by the end of this year they hope to replicate the prowith convenient bone handles. The extreme end of point: “It is time we stopped using the term ‘animal’ cess with beef, giving them a product “that looks, feels this distancing is a proposal that was presented when referring to the precursor of the meat that ends recently by André Ford, a student in the architecture up on our plates,” he says. “Animals are things we keep and hopefully tastes like meat.” Another scientist working on meat in a vat is Vladimir Mironov of the department at the Royal College of Art in London. in our homes and watch on David Attenborough proMedical University of South Carolina. Mironov enviHe has designed a sort of vertical biomechanical latgrams. ‘Animals’ bred for consumption are crops and sions “football field-sized buildings filled with large ticework into which lobotomized chickens could be agricultural products like any other.” bioreactors, or bioreactors the size of a coffee machine plugged, with food, water and air delivered by a netIf that strikes you as repulsive, perhaps that is work of tubes, with excrement removed in the same because it forces us to confront the bad faith that per- in grocery stores” to produce this meat. “It will be functional, natural, designed food,” he says. “How do manner. meates our debate over industrial meat production If that sounds disturbingly like the Matrix for and consumption: If chickens are not “animals” (in the see MEAT Page 62 chickens, that’s pretty much what Ford is proposing. David Attenborough sense) then there is no real
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Tables to Farms
Niwot’s Colterra restaurant will be hosting a fivecourse benefit dinner with wine pairings at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, for $150. All of the proceeds from the dinner will be split among Oxford Gardens, The Fresh Herb Company, Full Circle Farm, Black Cat Farm and 63rd Street Farm, all of which were damaged by the flood. The fundraising cause of the dinner is the inspiration for its name, the Tables to Farms dinner series. It was created by Boulder chefs looking for a way to give back. The Colterra dinner’s menu includes caramelized scallops, beef bourguignon and beef carpaccio. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 303-652-0777.
Michael Drazsnzak, executive chef of Colterra Food and Wine in Niwot.
Get Hazed
J Wells Brewery will be celebrating the release of its new version of Hop Haze Imperial IPA at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, with free samples and food provided by the Heirloom food truck. According to owner Jamie Wells, this version of Hop Haze is dry hopped with a “distinctively citrus flavor” that comes in at 9 percent ABV and 120 IBUs. The J Wells brewery and taproom is located at 2516 49th St., #5, in Boulder; more information is available through the brewery’s Facebook page.
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Are your kids picky eaters who hate bedtime? Lucky’s Market will be hosting “Healthy Habits for Kids,” a presentation by Lucky’s Market in-store nutritionist Tracee Box on how
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to get your kids to eat well and be healthy. The presentation will include statistics on what kids are eating, new health risks to kids, information on healthy sleeping patterns, a visual overview of what healthful choices would look like and more. Lucky’s Market is located at 3960 Broadway, and the event, which takes place at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, will be free.
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The nationwide search for contestants for the fifth season of MasterChef will bring the show to Denver Nov. 2 for auditions of home chefs. The TV show, which airs on FOX, pits home chefs against each other in cooking competitions. It is co-hosted and co-judged by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, alongside vineyard owner Joe Bastianich and chef Graham Elliot. To audition, home chefs must bring a dish prepared at home, as the audi-
tions — held 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1450 Glenarm Place in Denver — will not offer a kitchen to cook in or warm contestants’ dishes. Like many competitive reality contest shows, MasterChef asks contestants to participate in weekly challenges, with judges naming at least one person to be removed from the show each week. Auditions are also being held in Chicago, Columbus, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia and Phoenix. Interested home chefs can pre-register and create a profile at www.masterchefcasting.com. Even without pre-registering, chefs can attend the open casting call.
Pork menu at Q’s
Beer and pork again will be paired in a five-course dinner at a Boulder restaurant. This time around, Q’s Restaurant inside the Hotel Boulderado will host the dinner at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, offering five courses of pork- and bacon-themed dishes, each paired with a craft beer. Erin Yant, event coordinator for the restaurant, says in an email that the beers have been finalized for the dinner: True Blonde Ale from Ska, Pivo Pilsner and Union Jack IPA from Firestone Walker, and Sawtooth and Milk Stout from Left Hand. The menu is not yet set, but Yant lists the choices as “somewhere along the lines of” a pate, barbecue ribs, prosciutto-wrapped fish and a chocolate cupcake with bacon. The dinner will cost $55 per person, which includes food and beer but not tax or gratuity. Reservations can be made by calling 303442-4880.
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ou know a restaurant is truly farm-to-table when the menu has to be printed daily. Don’t worry. The paper gets recycled. Chef Eric Skokan and his wife Jill deliver ingredients directly after a harvest from their 130-acre farm to sister restaurants Black Cat and Bramble and Hare. Inventive, seasonal dishes is how the couple seeks to set themselves apart: Salads made with cured salmon and tarragon latke with anise yogurt, and duck served with grapefruit mustard and tempura parsnips make the menu at Black Cat, the more grown-up sister to neighboring piano bar Bramble and Hare. Don’t expect to be able to try a dish a friend recommends. It may be a one-time creation. Both restaurants open in the evening and close whenBramble ever business tapers off. The and Hare Bramble and Hare, named for 1970 13th St., its 1925 farmstead on Boulder Bramble Hill, unlatches its 303-444-9110 doors a tad earlier at 5 p.m. for a $5-plates-and-drinks happy hour. I arrive on a Thursday as the first and only patron. The antique furnishings make me feel like I’m in an entertainment chamber on a ship. Lit with lanterns and dim bulbs, it’s at once nostalgic and kitschy like your favorite grandmother’s house — porcelain bunnies abound. Cheese is the hot ticket on the menu, appearing in three of the five dishes. It’s too early for the cheesecake made from goat cheese, so I go for two savory plates: ricotta with pesto and tomato and crispy fingerlings dusted with cayenne pepper served with tomato aioli. What makes these standards remarkable is the freshness — I watch through a small window
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into the close kitchen as the chef prepares the food on order — and the quality of the ingredients. My tomato actually tastes like a tomato, making what might otherwise be a boring french fry with dip refreshing in taste. At 5 p.m., it’s the fringe period where either a coffee or a cocktail is acceptable. Though the normally $10 cocktails are a steal at $5, I side conservatively with a French-pressed coffee. By the time everything arrives, I am still the only patron. If I had not been here the weekend before in the evening for drinks, I would not believe how boisterous this place can get. Connected by a skinny corridor and set apart by a marked difference in atmosphere, the Black Cat teeters between lavish and cozy. The weekend prior, I almost ran into the brimming coat rack. The chandeliers reflected light, making the room appear both serene and austere. Cuff links were not out of place. It was a rare situation where any attire fit, Birkenstocks or blouses. The same goes with the variance in prices. You can get away with spending $20 a person for an entree and drink, or quickly get extravagant with multiple courses and expensive bottles of wine. The menu pleases most palates with rich meat dishes, as well as vegetarian crafted plates; the beet and potato main course was dressed up with ricotta cheese and baked quinoa. I order dessert after the filling vegetarian main dish and a cocktail. The dessert sampler came with chocolate ganache and sorbet. My specialty cocktail was served with one round, obnoxiously huge ice cube
that kept bumping my face (my only real grievance of the night). I settled my bill, which seemed reasonable for the chic meal concepts that the chefs execute with flair. I journeyed over to the Bramble and Hare for the rumored musical late-night entertainment. An unassuming brown piano sat in the corner of the Bramble and Hare with a dried rose on top. On a Friday night, it was the source of entertainment. The dinner menu expanded from the happy hour menu in the evening to include straightforward, comfort cuisine like mac and cheese and the best grilled cheese sandwich I’ve had in my life. What you gain in entertainment and affordable food, you make up for with your wallet by shelling out a minimum of $10 per cocktail. You are paying for innovation right down to the name — Not Really Dumb or More Baby — filled with unusual ingredients like absinthe and whipped egg. Top-shelf liqueur and fresh fruit juice come standard in each specialty drink. The impressive variety of ingredients and the ingenuity of the chefs is what makes these sister restaurants special. What solidifies it is the satisfying experience of the cozy atmospheres, felt when enjoying happy hour alone or sipping whipped egg over liqueur and munching on grilled cheese on a lively Friday night. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Meat in a vat just sounds gross, even before you read that the Maastricht group’s process requires stem cells from cows and calf serum as inputs. But we humans have a strong tendency to confuse esthetic reactions with moral judgments, and if you want to see something that is genuinely objectionable, as opposed to merely repellent, take a visit to your local abattoir. Mironov’s lab was shut down recently by the university over what it described as “human resources” issues. PETA has lobbied for him to continue his work, and is funding his research even though the U.S. government will not. This is telling, because PETA understands that the goal is not to micromanage consumer preferences, it is to prevent harm to animals and to the environment. And if all of that is taken out of the equation, there’s really not a lot to object to when it comes to eating meat. Andrew Potter is the author of The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves, out now in paperback from McLelland & Stewart. This story first appeared in the Ottawa Citizen. — Featurewell.com Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ead carefully. Always ask your server. And maybe bring a dictionary. Those are the hard lessons Jeff learned in a visit to Backcountry Pizza & Tap House. We aren’t going to every restaurant with a good beer list. In Boulder, that would be an endless task. But Backcountry probably holds the title for biggest tap list in Boulder, rivaled only by Old Chicago, and it’s as much a beer destination as anywhere else in the county. And it’s an opportunity to look beyond Boulder County for interesting beer, as Backcountry brings in kegs — not to mention bottles, with its incredibly long bottled beer list — from around the world. Backcountry has taps on from the U.S., of course; Belgium; Denmark; and Italy. Bottles come from Spain, New Zealand, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan — almost anywhere on the map. But on a recent lunch trip, we keep it close: Elizabeth and Jeff opt for lesser-distributed Colorado beers, while I try a Chicago creation. That brings us to Jeff ’s choice, the 7 Day Gueuze from Trinity Brewing in Colorado Springs. Now, if Jeff had known that gueuze is a Belgian sour — Trinity’s own website calls the beer 7 Day Sour — he might have thought twice. And if he had known that this particular sour turned out to be one of the sourest beers he’d ever had, he might have thought more than twice. Instead, he’s lunging for his water immediately after taking a sip. 7 Day is simply a puckerfest, nothing more. “It’s like if the Sour Patch Kids Boulder Weekly
ended up …” Elizabeth starts, searching for the right metaphor. “Making a beer,” Jeff suggests. He nearly finishes the whole thing, to my surprise. So, OK, a misstep there. Lesson learned about “gueuze,” if we ever see the term again. Unfortunately, Elizabeth’s choice is not so different. Her pick, Black Bottle Brewery’s Home Brewers Do It in the Garage, is also a sour, albeit quite a bit less sour than Jeff ’s. It does resemble beer, at least. The name’s a bit confusing — the homebrewers I know have never attempted sours; you’d think a homebrewer reference would fit a pale ale, not a sour — but the flavor is balanced. I clearly picked the winner that day with Morning Wood, an oak-aged coffee ale from Chicago’s Local Option Bierwerker. Apparently based on an amber ale, it’s got definite wood notes along with a coffee scent and flavor. While Morning Wood is oak-aged and has coffee added, neither dominates the flavor. As we pack it up after just one beer — a crime at Backcountry, but it’s a lunch trip — Elizabeth notes a flaw in the Backcountry setup that, if we were petty people, we could blame for the unexpected sours. Each table only has one beer list, a massive tome of beer after beer. Each of us probably wanted half an hour with that thing to flip back and forth, weigh our options and pick our beer. We say menus for all. Reading up on all those beers is a task that just can’t be rushed — at least not without running a big risk. Just ask Jeff, when he finally untwists his face. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Dear Dan: I’m a 21-year-old female college student going to school on the East Coast. Two days ago, I broke up with my manipulative, controlling, insecure, longdistance boyfriend of one year. I truly care for this man, but I need to live my life the way I want to, and that wasn’t possible in this relationship. The problem is, he’s been leaving voice mails, texting, and emailing me threatening suicide. I’ve told his mother about this, but I don’t think she’s taking it seriously. I feel horrible, but I don’t want to talk to him because I refuse to get sucked back into his problems. How can I deal with this serious threat without getting personally involved? —Single And Worried Dear SAW: Your ex-boyfriend’s mom presumably knows her son better than you do, SAW, and she isn’t taking his threats seriously. So it’s possible that he has a long history of manipulating people with idle suicide threats, essentially taking himself hostage to get what he wants. But if you’re worried — maybe his mother is neglectful and/or nuts — you might want to listen to Episode 364 of the Savage Lovecast (you can find that episode, and 363 others, at savagelovecast.com). I took a question from a man whose girlfriend threatened suicide when he tried to dump her. Jill Harkavy-Friedman of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention had some excellent advice for him. Summing it up: Alert his friends and relatives, and pass the AFSP’s hotline number (1-800-273-TALK) on to them and on to the person making the threat. I would add: Don’t respond to his texts or voice mails, consider blocking his number, and forward any truly worrying e-mails to his mother. Dear Dan: My girlfriend snooped on my browser history the other day specifically to see what porn I had been looking at. I’ve told her I look at porn a few times a week, and she said she didn’t mind. She asked me what type of stuff I usually look at, and I was mostly honest. My viewing habits are pretty vanilla except for BBW porn. It’s not my go-to, but it was what she found in my browser history the day she snooped. She had some issues, and I don’t know how to address them. I’m not more attracted to overweight women than other women, but sometimes that type just does it for me. Compounding this, my girlfriend is overweight — not on 66 October 24, 2013
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par with the women in the videos I watched — and now she’s worried that her weight is the only reason I’m attracted to her. It’s not! How can I explain this to her and put her mind at ease? —Busted Boyfriend Worries Dear BBW: If you looked only at porn that featured conventionally attractive women — all those skinny bitches — your girlfriend would be worried that you’re not attracted to her because of her size. But she caught you looking at BBW porn, and now she’s worried that her size is the only reason you’re attracted to her. I don’t think you can win this one, BBW, but you can try saying this to her: “I like women of all shapes and sizes, honey, including yours — as you can clearly see if you look at all the porn sites I’ve visited, instead of just obsessing about that particular one.” I don’t think it’ll do much good, because your girlfriend probably doesn’t want you looking at porn at all — saying it’s OK, snooping, and grilling aren’t signs of “OK with porn.” So use private browsing, clear your browser history, or watch porn on a secure computer in a secret, undisclosed location. HATE CRIME: One of the shitbags invited to speak at the gay-bash-a-thon known as the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., earlier this month called homophobia a myth. He said gay people are not victims. We are the violent and intolerant ones, he argued, and Bible-believing Christians like him are the real victims. Later that very same day — Oct. 12 — a gay man was attacked in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in an apparent hate crime. Scott Jones was stabbed twice in the back and his throat was slashed. He survived the attack, but his spinal cord was severed and he is now paralyzed from the waist down. Scott is Canadian and has access to high-quality medical care because of socialism. But Scott faces a long struggle, and there will be expenses — retrofitting his home, loss of income — that he’ll need help with. If you have a few bucks or loonies to spare, please consider making a donation at supportscottjones.com. Send questions for Dan to mail@ savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com BoulderWeekly
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April 20-May 20:
French philosopher Simone Weil described the following scene: “Two prisoners in adjoining cells communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication.” This muted type of conversation is a useful metaphor for the current state of one of your important alliances, Taurus. That which separates you also connects you. But I’m wondering if it’s time to create a more direct link. Is it possible to bore a hole through the barrier between you so you can create a more intimate exchange?
GEMINI
May 21-June 20:
“I had tended to view waiting as mere passivity,” says author Sue Monk Kidd in her memoir. “When I looked it up in my dictionary, however, I found that the words ‘passive’ and ‘passion’ come from the same Latin root, pati, which means ‘to endure.’ Waiting is thus both passive and passionate. It’s a vibrant, contemplative work. … It involves listening to disinherited voices within, facing the wounded holes in the soul, the denied and undiscovered, the places one lives falsely.” This is excellent counsel for you, Gemini. Are you devoted enough to refrain from leaping into action for now? Are you strong enough to bide your time?
CANCER
June 21-July 22:
“Venice is to the man-made world what the Grand Canyon is to the natural one,” said travel writer Thomas Swick in an article praising the awe-inciting beauty of the Italian city. “When I went to Venice,” testified French novelist Marcel Proust, “my dream became my address.” American author Truman Capote chimed in that “Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go.” I bring this up, Cancerian, because even if you don’t make a pilgrimage to Venice, I expect that you will soon have the chance, metaphorically speaking, to consume an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go. Take your sweet time. Nibble slowly. Assume that each bite will offer a distinct new epiphany.
LEO
July 23-Aug. 22:
Do you have any interest in reworking — even revolutionizing — your relationship with the past? If so, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do so. Cosmic forces will be on your side if you attempt any of the following actions: 1. Forgive yourself for your former failures and missteps. 2. Make atonement to anyone whom you hurt out of ignorance. 3. Reinterpret your life story to account for the ways that more recent events have changed the meaning of what happened long ago. 4. Resolve old business as thoroughly as you can. 5. Feel grateful for everyone who helped make you who you are today.
VIRGO
Aug. 23-Sept. 22:
“As a bee seeks nectar from all kinds of flowers, seek teachings everywhere,” advises the Tibetan Buddhist holy text known as the Dzogchen Tantra. That’s your assignment, Virgo. Be a student 24 hours a day, seven days a week — yes, even while you’re sleeping. (Maybe you could go to school in your dreams.) Regard every experience as an opportunity to learn something new and unexpected. Be ready to rejoice in all the revelations, both subtle and dramatic, that will nudge you to adjust your theories and change your mind.
LIBRA
Oct. 23-Nov. 21:
Scorpios are obsessive, brooding, suspicious, demanding and secretive, right? That’s what traditional astrologers say, isn’t it? Well, no, actually. I think that’s a misleading assessment. It’s true that some Scorpios are dominated by the qualities I named. But my research shows that those types of Scorpios are generally not attracted to reading my horoscopes. My Scorpios tend instead to be passionately focused, deeply thoughtful, smartly discerning, intensely committed to excellence and devoted to understanding the complex truth. These are all assets that are especially important to draw on right now. The world has an extraordinarily urgent need for the talents of you evolved Scorpios.
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:
“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.” That helpful advice appears in Norwegian Wood, a novel by Haruki Murakami. Now I’m passing it on to you, just in time for your cruise through the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. When you first arrive, you may feel blind and dumb. Your surroundings might seem impenetrable and your next move unfathomable. But don’t worry. Refrain from drawing any conclusions whatsoever. Cultivate an empty mind and an innocent heart. Sooner or later, you will be able gather the clues you need to take wise action.
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Dec. 22-Jan. 19:
Have you thought about launching a crowdfunding campaign for your pet project? The coming weeks might be a good time. Have you fantasized about getting involved in an organization that will help save the world even as it feeds your dreams to become the person you want to be? Do it! Would you consider hatching a benevolent conspiracy that will serve as an antidote to an evil conspiracy? Now is the time. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to build alliances. Your specialties between now and Dec. 1 will be to mobilize group energy and round up supporters and translate high ideals into practical actions.
AQUARIUS
Jan. 20-Feb. 18:
In 2008, writer Andrew Kessler hung out with scientists at NASA’s mission control as they looked for water on the planet Mars. Three years later, he published a book about his experiences, Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission. To promote sales, he opened a new bookstore that was filled with copies of just one book: his own. I suggest that you come up with a comparable plan to promote your own product, service, brand or personality. The time is right to summon extra chutzpah as you expand your scope.
PISCES
Feb. 19-March 20:
Right now you have a genius for escaping, for dodging, for eluding. That could be expressed relatively negatively or relatively positively. So for instance, I don’t recommend that you abscond from boring but crucial responsibilities. You shouldn’t ignore or stonewall people whose alliances with you are important to keep healthy. On the other hand, I encourage you to fly, fly away from onerous obligations that give you little in return. I will applaud your decision to blow off limitations that are enforced by neurotic habits, and I will celebrate your departure from energy-draining situations that manipulate your emotions.
Sept. 23-Oct. 22:
Don’t you wish your friends and loved ones would just somehow figure out what you want without you having to
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One toke over the bubble machine: Lawrence Welk scores!
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stone ya when you’re tryin’ to make a buck/They’ll stone ya and then they’ll say, ‘good luck.’”) That said, the general frivolity of the production, which emphasizes raucous laughter among the musicians — Howard Sounes’ biography, Down the Line, says that Dylan passed out joints at the recording session — the wheezing, almost out-of-control horn charts and the cheerleading quality of the refrain strongly suggest the drug connection. I could go either way. But my all-time best dope-song story concerns the misappropriation of an actual cannabis song by a most unlikely source. I was on the couch, must have been 1970 or 1971, and on came The Lawrence Welk Show. Myron Floren, Welk’s prominent accordionist, introduced Gail and Dale to sing one of the “newer songs.” Whereupon, in perfect harmony and with Pepsodent smiles, the duo performed Brewer & Shipley’s “One Toke Over the Line.” Welk came on afterwards and praised the song as “a modern spiritual.” I almost fell off the couch laughing. Brewer & Shipley were based in Kansas City when they had their day, and I was pretty proud that two local hippies had gotten into the Top 40 with such an obvious cannabis reference. Another song on the Tarkio album, “Tarkio Road,” was about two long-hairs moving product on their motorcycles along the back roads of Missouri and Nebraska. All I could imagine was that Welk’s people, in a sincere attempt to attract a younger audience in the era of Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell, might have missed the meaning of “toke,” but they sure as hell knew what “sweet Jesus” meant. I repeated the story to friends, and after awhile, I began to question if it were actually true or if I had just been stoned and imagined it. But in the early 1980s, Michael Brewer, who co-wrote the song with Shipley, confirmed the Welk story for me during an interview with the Kansas City Times. I didn’t see the clip again until the YouTube era. Now anyone can see a truly great countercultural moment by typing “Lawrence Welk One Toke Over the Line” into YouTube’s search engine. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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