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Candidate for Representative – State House District 13 ABOUT KEVIN SIPPLE
Rule of Law: Government agencies and officials should follow the law, not their own preferences or laws they’ve made up. If the government won’t follow the Laws, why should anyone? Law Enforcement: I’m a strong supporter of Law Enforcement. Military: I’m a strong supporter of the Military and Veteran’s Services. Expertise with Regulatory Agencies, Including the EPA, FDA, CDPHE Also Agriculture: I’m a strong supporter of Agriculture. various County and City Agencies including Land Use, Zoning, and Building Environment: I support maintaining strong enforcement of our Departments. environmental regulations in order to keep our air, land, and water clean. I support maintaining the Endangered Species Act. PUBLIC SERVICE Constitution: I am a strong supporter of the protection and enforcement Volunteer in various Boulder County Agencies. 1992-2002 Placement of our Constitutions. These documents are a large part of the reason our Alternatives Commission, an appointed Board managing seven social services programs designed to keep families together, and Victim Advocate nation and state are such a good place to live. Energy: I support the development of all forms of energy, Wind, Solar, with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office 2001 to present, a program that provides assistance to victims of crimes, personal tragedies, and natural Hydro, and Fossil Fuels. disasters. Background in Business - One of founders of Eldorado Artesian Springs, Inc., the bottled water company. Inducted into the Boulder County Business Hall of Fame in 2010, numerous other community awards.
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Twenty-six years ago when I entered public service as a volunteer, I discovered the great personal satisfaction that came from helping people. I consider the pursuit of public office in the State Legislature an opportunity to continue my public service.
Why Vote for Me: I believe that you, not the government, are in the best position to make decisions about what is right for you and your family. It’s not the role of government to dictate or regulate anyone’s personal choices. If elected, I pledge to do my best to keep alive free choice, fairness, and the American Way.
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s it possible to get public policies out of our political system that benefit common people rather than moneyed elites? Yes! We the people can bypass corporate-purchased lawmakers and write the laws ourselves. In 26 states and numerous cities, grassroots people can put statutes and constitutional amendments on the ballot through a citizens’ initiative process, that in this era of plutocratic rule, has become a major avenue for achieving progressive change. For example, on Nov. 6, voters in Albuquerque, Baltimore and Denver will be offered new forms of small-dol-
lar, public financing of elections to counter secret, unlimited donations by corporations. A South Dakota measure would ban corporate donations to candidates and political parties and bar “gifts” from lobbyists to elected officials. To stop incumbents from handpicking their voters by gerrymandering their districts, people in Colorado, Michigan, Missouri and Utah will have a chance to turn redistricting over to independent, non-partisan commissions — and other various reforms to democratize voting are proposed in Florida, Michigan, Nevada, Maryland, South Dakota and Massachusetts.
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Ballot measures have proven so successful that corporate front groups have begun proposing deceptively worded initiatives that — get this — would forestall citizens from putting initiatives on the ballot. So far this year, initiatives to stop or restrict initiatives have been filed in Maine and South Dakota to curtail people’s access to this process of direct democracy. Also, ALEC, the secretive, Kochfunded anti-democracy group, has generated bills in six state legislatures essentially to keep citizens’ initiatives off the ballot. Corporate elites are so afraid of democracy that they’re actually trying to outlaw it. To help protect direct democracy, go to: ballot.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 25 , 2018 5
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danish plan Some nasty unintended consequences of Prop 112 by Paul Danish
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ack in the early 1970s some- isn’t true because the industry can now one asked Colorado’s thendrill horizontal legs of wells, called latSenator Gordon Allott if he erals, that are 18,000 feet long or lonwould favor moving the ger. That much is true, but it misses the Rocky Flats Nuclear point. The issue isn’t how long can the Weapons plant because it was too close lateral be, but how close to an occupied to subdivisions in building can the Arvada. drilling rig be. It would be When the locaTHE OIL AND cheaper to move the tion of rural GAS INDUSTRY subdivisions, he homes, schools, HAS a way replied. churches and around Prop He was right, of business are faccourse. It ultimately tored in, the 112’s limit that cost about $7 billion 2,500-foot no one seems to to clean up the requirement have considered Rocky Flats plant could very well site (more or less), shut down drill... buy the never mind the cost ing in most of inhabited of building new the state. structures and nuclear bomb proBut the oil duction facilities and gas industry move them or somewhere else. You has a way around tear them down. could probably have Prop 112’s limit moved the subdivithat no one sions to Tierra del seems to have Fuego for that. considered — Gordon Allott’s Rocky What brought this to mind was Flats solution: Buy the inhabited strucProposition 112, which would prevent tures and move them or tear them oil and gas drilling within 2,500 feet of down. occupied homes and buildings. The industry could pursue all sorts The oil and gas industry claims of strategies for doing this. that, if passed, it would shut down The simplest would be to buy up all drilling on something like 95 percent of the inhabited buildings within 2,500 feet of potential drilling sites as they the private land in Colorado and effectively kill the local industry. Proponents of Prop 112 claim this see DANISH PLAN Page 7 Boulder Weekly
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come onto the market, tear them down doors to get in. and carry on as though nothing had If this scenario plays out, the result happened at the polls. is the oil company could make out like If the buildings aren’t on the mara bandit in the development business, ket, make the property owner an offer and Front Range will see an explosion too juicy to pass up — like offering two in leap-frog development. or three or four times market value for But what about an oil company a home. that wants to drill next to an existing It’s not like the industry can’t afford subdivision in an existing town? If it it. The ultimate production of oil from a thinks the resource on its leases is newly drilled well in Weld County rouvaluable enough, it could start buying tinely comes to one million barrels these up homes in the subdivision as they days, with most of it produced in the come on the market and either a) rent first three years. The current price of a them out on short-term leases, or b) barrel of oil is tear them down. A around $80, so a high percentage of single well has the short-term rentals THE MAIN potential to proand demolitions in duce $80 million in a neighborhood THINGS revenue at today’s means the popularequired by the prices. These days tion turns over rel24 wells are rouatively quickly and practitioners of the social fabric of tinely drilled from block-busting the neighborhood a single pad, so the unravels. As the revenue from just are patience existing homes one of those wells and deep come down and should be sufficient the long-time for depopulating pockets. Oil neighbors are the area around a companies have replaced by condrilling site. And all sorts stantly changing both. of other arrangestrangers, the ments could be remaining homemade as well. For owners see their instance, say a farmer wants to neighborhood disappearing and sell lease his or her mineral rights to an oil out. When the oil company has company but wants to keep living on acquired enough homes to get 2,500the farm? In that case, the oil company foot separation, it starts drilling. After might cut a deal where it takes down it finishes drilling, it can build a new the existing farmhouse, drills its wells, subdivision. which usually takes a year or less, and This would be a variant of a practice when the drilling is done builds the called “block-busting,” which used to be farmer a new home on the land. Prop used by developers in big cities who 112 prohibits drilling new wells within wanted to redevelop the land occupied 2,500 feet of existing occupied buildby existing neighborhoods. It may stink, ings. It doesn’t prohibit new construcbut it’s still probably legal if there isn’t a tion within 2,500 feet of existing wells. racial factor involved. Which raises another possibility. The main things required by the Say the oil company needs to acquire a practitioners of block-busting are couple thousand acres of contiguous patience and deep pockets. Oil compafarmland to get the setbacks it needs. nies have both. After it finishes drilling, it could sell Would oil and gas companies actuthe land to a developer or go into the ally resort to these sorts of strategies? development business itself. A single I’ve never heard or seen a hint of it section of land, 640 acres, could easily from anyone in the industry, and they be turned into a 1,000- or 1,500-unit would probably deny it if you asked subdivision, which will have orders of them. But the companies that are curmagnitude more environmental impacts rently drilling in Weld County have than oil and gas wells. already invested billions of dollars in But would anyone want to live in a infrastructure to develop their leases. It house within 2,500 feet of an oil well? stands to reason they are not going Hundreds of thousands of Coloradans walk away from them without a fight, already do. If the subdivision was devel- even if it involves scorched earth. oped as “affordable housing,” people This opinion column does not necessarily would probably be pounding down the reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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want to thank Joel Dyer for his Oct. 11, “My Willmeng Dilemma.” It’s written mainly about my candidacy for Boulder County Commissioner, but also touches on bigger issues, not just for Boulder County but for our planet as a whole. There’s discussion about Donald Trump, global warming and the quasi-activism of Democratic Party front groups like the Sierra Club. The billionaires directing the Colorado political script get an especially welldeserved spotlight. At the end of the article, brother Joel concludes he will vote for the radical in the Boulder County Commissioner’s race. That’s me. Radical aside, a few things about my candidacy for Boulder County Commissioner are entirely conventional. We need votes to get into office to help make the changes we feel are needed. We discuss the environment, affordable housing, working conditions, public transit and regenerative agriculture, among all of the other topics most pressing to the regular people of Boulder County. We are gaining endorsements, knocking on doors, winning debates, creating social media presence and driving a qualitatively different narrative for Boulder County political life. All of this is bread-andbutter grassroots organizing, and it’s what we do best. Along the way, our campaign has encountered some real resistance. I’ve been subpoenaed by Martin Marietta because of my efforts to keep Boulder County’s oil industry from being restarted. The campaign has also become upsetting enough to current political leadership that the chair of the Colorado Democratic Party, Morgan Carroll herself, had to be brought in to help craft talking points to counter us. Why is this? Why has a registered nurse, a union rep, community organizer and family man, someone lacking the resources, networks and giant political capital of the established political class, become such a problem for politicians and the CEOs of the oil and gas industry? It’s because I understand that no
significant political change comes from politicians alone. It comes from regular people building the independent political force needed to pressure a corrupt and calcified political system to do things it would not normally do. This understanding isn’t inconsequential, and it isn’t a platitude. Within my community organizing, this approach helped build an organization that led and won the fight to reduce the retirement age for 34,000 union carpenters. It informed our support for the Little Village Latino community in Chicago, an effort that compelled the building of a new neighborhood high school. It broke the meeting of corporate trade barons attempting to confer and govern at the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. And it’s what helped us force fracking to a complete halt in Boulder County for the last six years. We aren’t supposed to talk about or accomplish these types of results. But people traditionally build and utilize political power well beyond the comfort and expectations of politicians and corporations. Building this kind of grassroots power is effective, inspiring, powerful, audacious and enormously consequential for people and the environment. It also comes with a political price to those accustomed to making important decisions on our behalf. There you see why we are considered radical. We are using this campaign and would use the office of Commissioner to build that grassroots power. At the end of the day we all have a shared dilemma. The prescribed methods of political change are falling apart along with the collapse of the global climate and the crisis facing all humanity. We can cling to the past and perceived safety, or we can break free and lead a new movement that may have the chance to bring us all together and spare our children the disaster gathering on the horizon. It’s this vision that I will give my life to, and I hope it can take a great leap forward this Nov. 6 and beyond. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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letters Vote for Weiser Phil Weiser is pro-choice. George Brauchler is not prochoice. They are both running for Colorado Attorney General, a role that some have described as the “people’s lawyer.” In these days of Trump trying to overturn many of the important safety and environmental regulations and appointing judges who do not support women’s reproductive rights, we the people need someone who will fight for us. Phil Weiser is that person. In important down-ballot races, sometimes it is hard to know the right person to choose. There is no doubt in this race. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg chose Phil Weiser to clerk for her. I can’t imagine a better recommendation to guide us in knowing who to elect that going with RBG’s choice! Join me in supporting Phil Weiser for Attorney General. Josie Heath/Boulder
Vigil for Jamal Khashoggi Each successive version the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia produces concerning the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi only adds more credence to the grisly account put forth by the Turkish Government. People the world over must know that Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and murdered in cold blood. And Muslims the world over must be repulsed that the Crown Prince would sanction such a thing. This is not normal, and it certainly is not Islam. Local Muslims, in conjunction with the Colorado chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), will hold a vigil to honor Jamal Khashoggi and to demand the truth from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 3 p.m. on the Pearl Street Mall in front of the County Courthouse. They are also demanding that the United States government impose real consequences on the Kingdom for this appalling murder. All people of goodwill are invited to join this vigil, and are asked to bring appropriate signs if they wish. Todd Buchanan/Eldora
Cambridge Analytica had nothing on oil and gas Cambridge Analytica, primarily funded by oil and gas in Colorado, took credit for flipping control of the Colorado Senate to Republicans in 2014. Using the same psychographic Boulder Weekly
INDEPENDENT & LOCALLY OWNED SINCE 1993 voter targeting strategy, the oil and gas industry boasted in 2015 that they had profiled 3.9 million Colorado voters, also electing majorities of many city councils, including nine of 13 Denver City Council members. Oil and gas are among corporate groups that have allied with the American Legislative Exchange Council to draft industry-favorable laws that gut democracy, including voter suppression and state preemption laws denying local rights. Setting their sites on the elimination of communityrights initiatives, oil and gas industry were chief funders of Colorado Initiative 71 in 2016, the effort to place the Constitutional Ballot Initiative out of reach of the people, accessible only to big-money elites. Enlisting a who’s who of Republican and Democrat current and ex-electeds and ex-journalists shilling for them, oil and gas has raised well over $13 million to advance its agenda in 2018, including intimidation of signature gathering, misinformation and other scare tactics. Corporate elites fund a compromised electoral process that marginalizes people, the environment and democracy. It’s called oligarchy. M.R. Papale/Denver
Not happy with meat in BW’s food mag, Feast Your colorful “Feast” thing arrived in my mailbox yesterday. It took me less than two minutes to rip it into shreds and toss in recycle. As I skimmed through and saw one slab of animal flesh after another I wondered if this was Texas, Nebraska, etc. I’m sure you at Boulder Weekly think it is “chic” with the photography, etc. There are many of us who think chic is more related to plant-based, environmental humane concepts. This is yet another reminder of how “out of it” Boulder is with the plant-based ethic — so far behind other cities. I’m always embarrassed when I have friends come in from various places — say, Asheville, North Carolina — and are quite take aback that decent vegetarian/vegan options are few and far between on the great Pearl Street Mall! I get limp, lame, clueless replies at restaurants when I point this out. Going backwards in time it appears to me at times. You folks at the Weekly may think you are cool environmentalists and real hipsters. Real environmentalists don’t eat meat. D. DeMarco/via mail
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ake news is not a new thing. With the return of its annual list of censored stories in Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion, Project Censored’s vivid cover art recalls H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. The situation today may feel as desolate as the cover art suggests. “But Censored 2019 is a book about fighting fake news,” editors Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff observed in the book’s introduction. In the end, they argued that “critical media education — rather than censorship, blacklists, privatized fact-checkers, or legislative bans — is the best weapon for fighting the ongoing fake news invasion.” Project Censored’s annual list of 25 censored stories, which makes up the book’s lengthy first chapter, is one of the best resources one can have for such education. Censorship and fake news are “intertwined issues” they write. Project Censored has long been engaged in much more than just uncovering and publicizing stories kept down and out of the corporate media. Over the years its added new analytical categories: sensational-
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ist and titillating Junk Food News stories. Through it all, the list of censored stories remains central to Project Censored’s mission, which, the editors point out, can be read in two different ways: “as a critique of the shortcomings of U.S. corporate news media for their failure to adequately cover these stories, or as a celebration of independent news media, without which we would remain either uninformed or misinformed about these crucial stories and issues.” The cover art theme works at two levels, as the editors explain, which makes things more complex than might appear at first glance. First, the famous Orson Wells radio broadcast of the War of the Worlds on Oct. 30, 1938 used a number of dramatic devices to present the drama as though it were an actual crisis in progress. It became an example of the potential power of fake news in the radio media era. “The broadcast became legendary for allegedly leading to widespread panic throughout the United States,” the editors of Project Censored noted. That narrative about widespread panic is actually a more long-term form of fake news, as Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow have documented in a series of articles over the past decade. Both the audience size and degree of panic have been significantly inflated, they explained. They cited two main factors: newspaper editors, who saw radio as challenging their media dominance, and an influential media study, whose topline conclusions were at odds with some of its data.
1) Global Decline in Rule of Law as Basic Human Rights Diminish According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2017–2018, released in January 2018, a striking worldwide decline in basic human rights has driven an overall decline in the rule of law since October 2016, the month before Trump’s election. Fundamental rights — one of eight categories measured — declined in 71 out of 113 nations surveyed. Overall, 34 percent of countries’ scores declined, while just 29 percent improved. The United States ranked 19th, down one from 2016, with declines in checks on government powers and deepening discrimination. Fundamental rights include absence of discrimination, right to life and security, due process, freedom of expression and religion, right to privacy, freedom of association and labor rights. “All signs point to a crisis not just for human rights, but for the human rights movement,” Yale professor of history and law Samuel Moyn told The Boulder Weekly
Guardian the day the index was released. “Within many nations, these fundamental rights are falling prey to the backlash against a globalising economy in which the rich are winning. But human rights movements have not historically set out to name or shame inequality.” This reflects the thesis of Moyn’s most recent book, Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. Constraints on government powers, which measures the extent to which those who govern are bound by law, saw the second greatest decline (64 countries out of 113 dropped). This is where the United States saw the greatest deterioration, World Justice Project stated in a press release. “While all sub-factors in this dimension declined at least slightly from 2016, the score for lawful transition of power — based on responses to survey questions on confidence in national and local election processes and procedures — declined most markedly,” the press release stated. The United States also scored notably poorly on several measurements of discrimination. “With scores of .50 for equal treatment and absence of discrimination (on a scale of 0 to 1), .48 for discrimination in the civil justice system, and .37 for discrimination in the criminal justice system, the U.S. finds itself ranked 78 out of 113 countries on all three subfactors,” World Justice Project stated. The four Nordic countries — Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden — remained in the top four positions. New Zealand, Canada and Australia were the only top 10 countries outside of Europe. “The WJP’s 2017–2018 Rule of Law Index received scant attention from U.S. corporate media,” Project Censored noted. The only coverage they found was a Newsweek article drawing on The Guardian’s coverage. This pattern of ignoring international comparisons, across all subject matter, is pervasive in the corporate media. It severely cripples our capacity for objective self-reflection and self-improvement as a nation.
2) “Open-Source” Intelligence Secrets Sold to Highest Bidders In March 2017, WikiLeaks released Vault 7, a trove of 8,761 leaked confidential CIA files about its global hacking programs, which WikiLeaks described as the “largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.” It drew significant media attention. But almost no one noticed what George Eliason of OpEdNews pointed out. “Sure, the CIA has all these tools
available,” Eliason pointed out. “Yes, they are used on the public. The important part is [that] it’s not the CIA that’s using them. That’s the part that needs to frighten you.” As Eliason went on to explain, the CIA’s mission prevents it from using the tools, especially on Americans. “All the tools are unclassified, opensource, and can be used by anyone,” Eliason explained. “It makes them not exactly usable for secret agent work. That’s what makes it impossible for them to use Vault 7 tools directly.” Drawing heavily on more than a decade of reporting by Tim Shorrock for Mother Jones and The Nation, Eliason’s OpEdNews series reported on the explosive growth of private contractors in the intelligence community, which allows the CIA and other agencies to gain access to intelligence gathered by methods they’re prohibited from using. In a 2016, report for The Nation, Shorrock estimated that 80 percent of an estimated 58,000 private intelligence contractors worked for the five largest companies. He concluded that “not only has intelligence been privatized to an unimaginable degree, but an unprecedented consolidation of corporate power inside U.S. intelligence has left the country dangerously dependent on a handful of companies for its spying and surveillance needs.” Eliason reported how private contractors pioneered open-source intelligence by circulating or selling the information they gathered before the agency employing them had reviewed and classified it, therefore, “no one broke any laws.” As a result, according to Eliason’s second article, “People with no security clearances and radical political agendas have state sized cyber tools at their disposal, [which they can use] for their own political agendas, private business, and personal vendettas.” Corporate media reporting on Vault 7 sometimes noted, but failed to focus on the dangerous role of private contractors, Project Censored pointed out — with the notable exception of a The Washington Post op-ed in which Shorrock reviewed his previous reporting and concluded that overreliance on private intelligence contractors was “a liability built into our system that intelligence officials have long known about and done nothing to correct.”
3) World’s Richest 1 Percent Continue to Become Wealthier In November 2017, Credit Suisse released its 8th Annual Global Wealth Report, which The Guardian reported on under the headline, “Richest 1 percent own half the world’s wealth, study
finds.” The wealth share of the world’s richest people increased “from 42.5 percent at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1 percent in 2017, or $140tn (£106tn),” The Guardian reported, adding that “The biggest losers ... are young people who should not expect to become as rich as their parents.” “[Despite being more educated than their parents,] millennials are doing less well than their parents at the same age, especially in relation to income, home ownership and other dimensions of well-being assessed in this report,” Rohner Credit Suisse Chairman Urs Rohner said. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage.’” “No other part of the wealth pyramid has been transformed as much since 2000 as the millionaire and ultrahigh net worth individual (known as UHNWI) segments,” the report said. “The number of millionaires has increased by 170 percent, while the number of UHNWIs (individuals with net worth of USD 50 million or more) has risen five-fold, making them by far the fastest-growing group of wealth holders.” There were of 2.3 million new dollar millionaires this year, taking the total to 36 million. “At the other end of the spectrum, the world’s 3.5 billion poorest adults each have assets of less than $10,000,” The Guardian reported. “Collectively these people, who account for 70 percent of the world’s working age population, account for just 2.7 percent of global wealth.” “Tremendous concentration of wealth and the extreme poverty that results from it are problems that affect everyone in the world, but wealth inequalities do not receive nearly as much attention as they should in the establishment press,” Project Censored noted. “The few corporate news reports that have addressed this issue — including an August 2017 Bloomberg article and a July 2016 report for CBS’s MoneyWatch — focused exclusively on wealth inequality within the United States. As Project Censored has previously reported, corporate news consistently covers the world’s billionaires while ignoring millions of humans who live in poverty.”
4) How Big Wireless Convinced Us Cell Phones and Wi-Fi are Safe Are cell phones and other wireless devices really as safe we’ve been lead to See PROJECT CENSORED Page 12
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believe? Don’t bet on it, according to decades of buried research reviewed in a March 2018 investigation for The Nation by Mark Hertsgaard and Mark Dowie. “The wireless industry not only made the same moral choices that the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries did, it also borrowed from the same public relations playbook those industries pioneered,” Hertsgaard and Dowie reported. “Like their tobacco and fossil-fuel brethren, wireless executives have chosen not to publicize what their own scientists have said about the risks of their products. ... On the contrary, the industry — in America, Europe and Asia — has spent untold millions of dollars in the past 25 years proclaiming that science is on its side, that the critics are quack, and that consumers have nothing to fear.” Their report comes at the same time as several new developments are bringing the issue to the fore, including a Kaiser Permanente study (published December 2017 in Scientific Reports) finding much higher risks of miscarriage, a study in the October 2017 American Journal of Epidemiology, finding increased risk for glioma (a type of brain tumor), and a disclosure by the National Frequency Agency of France that nine out of 10 cell phones exceed government radiation safety limits when tested in the way they are actually used, next to the human body. As the The Nation reported, George Carlo was a scientist hired by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1993 to research cell phone safety and allay public fears, heading up the industry-financed Wireless Technology Research project. But he was unceremoniously fired and publicly attacked by the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association in 1999, after uncovering disturbing evidence of danger. Carlo sent letters to each of the 12 October 25, 2018
industry’s chieftains on Oct. 7, 1999, reiterating that the Wireless Technology Research project had found the following: “The risk of rare neuro-epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain was more than doubled ... in cell phone users;” there was an apparent “correlation between brain tumors occurring on the right side of the head and the use of the phone on the right side of the head;” and “the ability of radiation from a phone’s antenna to cause functional genetic damage [was] definitely positive. ...” Carlo urged the CEOs to do the right thing and give consumers the information they need to make an informed judgment about how much of this unknown risk they wish to assume, especially since some in the industry had repeatedly and falsely claimed that wireless phones are safe for all consumers “including children.” The Kaiser Permanente study involved exposure to magnetic field non-ionizing radiation associated with wireless devices as well as cell phones and found a 2.72 times higher risk of miscarriage for those with higher versus lower exposure. Lead investigator De-Kun Li warned that the possible effects of this radiation have been controversial because, “from a public health point of view, everybody is exposed. If there is any health effect, the potential impact is huge.” “The wireless industry has ‘wargamed’ science by playing offense as well as defense, actively sponsoring studies that result in published findings supportive of the industry, while aiming to discredit competing research that raises questions about the safety of cellular devices and other wireless technologies,” Project Censored summarized. “When studies have linked wireless radiation to cancer or genetic damage, industry spokespeople have pointed out that the findings are disputed by other researchers.” This is exact same strategy used by
the tobacco and fossil fuel industries described in the 2010 book, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway. While some local media have covered the findings of a few selected studies, Project Censored noted, “the norm for corporate media is to report the telecom industry line — that is, that evidence linking Wi-Fi and cell phone radiation to health issues, including cancer and other medical problems, is either inconclusive or disputed. ... As Hertsgaard and Dowie’s Nation report suggested, corporate coverage of this sort is partly how the telecom industry remains successful in avoiding the consequences of [its] actions.”
5) ‘Washington Post’ Bans Employees from Using Social Media to Criticize Sponsors On May 1, 2017, The Washington Post introduced a policy prohibiting its employees from criticizing its advertisers and business partners, and encouraging them to snitch on one another. “A new social-media policy at The Washington Post prohibits conduct on social media that ‘adversely affects The Post’s customers, advertisers, subscribers, vendors, suppliers or partners,” Andrew Beaujon reported in The Washingtonian the next month. “In such cases, Post management reserves the right to take disciplinary action ‘up to and including termination of employment.’” Beaujon also cited, “A clause that encourages employees to snitch on one another: ‘If you have any reason to believe that an employee may be in violation of The Post’s Social Media Policy ... you should contact The Post’s Human Resources Department.’” At the time, the WashingtonBaltimore News Guild, which represents Post’s employees, was protesting the policy and was seeking removal of the controversial parts in a new labor agreement. A follow-up report by Whitney Webb for MintPress News highlighted the broader possible censorship effects, as prohibiting social media criticism could spill over into reporting as well. “Among The Washington Post’s advertisers are corporate giants like GlaxoSmithKline, Bank of America and Koch Industries,” Webb wrote. “With the new policy, social media posts criticizing GlaxoSmithKline’s habit of making false and misleading claims about its products, inflating prices and withholding crucial drug safety information from the government will
no longer be made by Post employees.” Beyond that, Webb suggested it could protect the CIA, which has $600 million contract with Amazon Web Services. Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos, purchased The Post four months after that contract was signed. “While criticism of the CIA is not technically prohibited by the new policy, former Post reporters have suggested that making such criticisms could endanger one’s career,” Webb noted. He added that in 2013, former Post writer John Hanrahan told Alternet, “Post reporters and editors are aware that Bezos, as majority owner of Amazon, has a financial stake in maintaining good relations with the CIA — and this sends a clear message to even the hardest-nosed journalist that making the CIA look bad might not be a good career move.” “Corporate news coverage of The Washington Post’s social media policy has been extremely limited,” Project Censored noted. It’s part of a much broader problem, identified in Jeremy Iggers’ 1998 book, Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics And The Public Interest. Iggers argued that journalism ethics focused on individual reporters completely missed the larger issue of corporate conflicts whose systemic effects fundamentally undermined journalism’s role in a democracy.
6) Russiagate: Two-Headed Monster of Propaganda and Censorship Is Russiagate a censored story? In my view, not exactly. This entry seems to reflect a well-intentioned effort to critically examine fake news-related issues within a “censored story” framework. It’s important that these issues be raised — which is one reason why I suggested that Project Censored add “fake news” as a new analytical category to examine annually along with its censored stories list, “junk food news,” and “news abuse.” What Project Censored calls attention to is important: “Corporate media coverage of Russiagate has created a two-headed monster of propaganda and censorship. By saturating news coverage with a sensationalized narrative, Russiagate has superseded other important, newsworthy stories.” As a frustrated journalist with omnivorous interests, I heartily concur — but what’s involved is too complex to simply be labelled “propaganda.” On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic voices is a classic, well-defined Project Censored story, which suffers from the attempt to fit both together. In April 2017, Aaron Maté reported Boulder Weekly
for The Intercept on a quantitative study of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show from Feb. 20 to March 31, 2017 which found that “Russia-focused segments accounted for 53 percent of these broadcasts.” Maté wrote: “Maddow’s Russia coverage has dwarfed the time devoted to other top issues, including Trump’s escalating crackdown on undocumented immigrants (1.3 percent of coverage); Obamacare repeal (3.8 percent); the legal battle over Trump’s Muslim ban (5.6 percent), a surge of anti-GOP activism and town halls since Trump took office (5.8 percent), and Trump administration scandals and stumbles (11 percent).” Well and good. But is this propaganda? At Truthdig, Norman Solomon wrote: “As the cable news network most trusted by Democrats as a liberal beacon, MSNBC plays a special role in fueling rage among progressive-minded viewers toward Russia’s ‘attack on our democracy’ that is somehow deemed more sinister and newsworthy than corporate dominance of American politics (including Democrats), racist voter suppression, gerrymandering and many other U.S. electoral defects all put together.” Also true. But not so much propaganda as Project Censored’s broader category of “news abuse,” which includes propaganda and spin, among other forms of “distraction to direct our attention away from what we really need to know.” To fully grasp what’s involved requires a more complex analysis. On the other hand, the censorship of alternative journalistic voices is far more clearcut and straightforward. In a report for Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, Robin Andersen examined Russiagate-inspired censorship moves by Twitter, Google and others. A key initial target was RT. “RT’s reporting bears striking similarities to alternative and independent media content, and that is why letting the charges against RT stand unexamined is so dangerous,” Andersen noted. In fact, the government’s intelligence report on RT included its reporting on the dangers of fracking as part of its suspect activity. Beyond that, the spill-over suppression was dramatic: “Yet in the battle against fake news, much of the best, most accurate independent reporting is disappearing from Google searches,” Anderson said. “The World Socialist Web Site (8/2/17) reported that Google’s new search protocol is restricting access to leading independent, left-wing, progressive, Boulder Weekly
anti-war and democratic rights websites. The estimated declines in traffic generated by Google searches for news sites are striking.” There were declines for AlterNet. org (63 percent), DemocracyNow.org (36 percent), CounterPunch.org (21 percent), ConsortiumNews.com (47 percent), MediaMatters.org (42 percent), and TheIntercept.com (19 percent), among others. See PROJECT CENSORED Page 14
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On top of that, in Rolling Stone Matt Taibbi pointed to much broader stifling of alternative views: “Two years ago, remember, the American political establishment was on the ropes. ... “From Trump to Bernie Sanders to Brexit to Catalonia, voter repudiation of the status quo was the story of the day. The sense of panic among political elites was palpable. ... “Two years later, the narrative has completely shifted. By an extraordinary coincidence, virtually all the ‘anti-system’ movements and candidates that so terrified the political establishment two years ago have since been identified as covert or overt Russian destabilization initiatives. ... “We’ve jumped straight past debating the efficacy of democracy to just reflexively identifying most anti-establishment sentiment as illegitimate, treasonous and foreign in nature,” Taibbi wrote. “Many people suffer when lies are reported as facts, but it seems that corporate media are the only ones that profit when they reinforce blind hostility — against not only Russia but also legitimate domestic dissent,” Project Censored noted.
7) Regenerative Agriculture as “Next Stage” of Civilization The world’s agricultural and degraded soils have the capacity to recover 50 to 66 percent of the historic carbon loss to the atmosphere, according to a 2004 paper in Science, actually reversing the processes driving global warming. A set of practices known as “regenerative agriculture” could play a major role in accomplishing that, while substantially increasing crop yields as well, according to information compiled and published by Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association in May 2017. “For thousands of years we grew food by depleting soil carbon and, in the last hundred or so, the carbon in fossil fuel as well,” food and farming writer Michael Polin wrote. “But now we know how to grow even more food while at the same time returning carbon and fertility and water to the soil” Cummins, who’s also a founding member of Regeneration International, wrote that regenerative agriculture offers a “world-changing paradigm” that can help solve many of today’s environmental and public health problems. As The Guardian explained: “Regenerative agriculture comprises an array of techniques that rebuild soil and, in the process, sequester carbon.
Typically, it uses cover crops and perennials so that bare soil is never exposed, and grazes animals in ways that mimic animals in nature. It also offers ecological benefits far beyond carbon storage: it stops soil erosion, re-mineralizes soil, protects the purity of groundwater and reduces damaging pesticide and fertilizer runoff.” “We can’t really solve the climate crisis (and the related soil, environmental, and public health crisis) without simultaneously solving the food and farming crisis,” Cummings wrote. “We need to stop putting greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere (by moving to 100 percent renewable energy), but we also need to move away from chemical-intensive, energy-intensive food, factory farming and land use, as soon as possible.” In addition to global warming, there are profound economic and social justice concerns involved. “Out-of-touch and out-of-control governments of the world now take our tax money and spend $500 billion ... a year mainly subsidizing 50 million industrial farmers to do the wrong thing,” Cummins wrote. “Meanwhile, 700 million small family farms and herders, comprising the 3 billion people who produce 70 percent of the world’s food on just 25 percent of the world’s acreage, struggle to make ends meet. ... The basic menu for a Regeneration Revolution is to unite the world’s 3 billion rural farmers, ranchers and herders with several billion health, environmental and justice-minded consumers to overturn ‘business as usual’ and embark on a global campaign of cooperation, solidarity and regeneration.” If you’ve never heard of it before, don’t be surprised. “Regenerative agriculture has received limited attention in the establishment press, highlighted by only two recent, substantive reports in the New York Times Magazine and Salon,” Project Censored wrote.
8) Congress Passes Intrusive Data Sharing Law Under Cover of Spending Bill On March 21, House Republicans released a 2,232-page omnibus spending bill. It passed both houses and was signed into law in two days. Attached to the spending provisions that made it urgent “must-pass” legislation was the completely unrelated Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act of 2018, also known as the CLOUD Act. “The CLOUD Act enables the U.S. government to acquire data across international borders regardless of other Boulder Weekly
ENERGY COST R U O Y S! CUT Quality You Can Count On... nations’ data privacy laws and without the need for warrants,” Project Censored summarized. It also significantly weakens protections against foreign government actions. “It was never reviewed or marked up by any committee in either the House or the Senate,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s David Ruiz wrote. “It never received a hearing. ... It was robbed of a stand-alone floor vote because Congressional leadership decided, behind closed doors, to attach this unvetted, unrelated data bill to the $1.3 trillion government spending bill.” Congressional leadership failed to listen to citizen concerns, Ruiz wrote, with devastating consequences: “Because of this failure, U.S. and foreign police will have new mechanisms to seize data across the globe. Because of this failure, your private emails, your online chats, your Facebook, Google, Flickr photos, your Snapchat videos, your private lives online, your moments shared digitally between only those you trust, will be open to foreign law enforcement without a warrant and with few restrictions on using and sharing your information, privacy and human rights,” concluded Greene Robyn Greene, who reported for Just Security. “The little corporate news coverage that the CLOUD Act received tended to put a positive spin on it,” Project Censored noted. “[A glowing Washington Post op-ed] made no mention of potential risks to the privacy of citizens’ personal data, [and a CNET report that] highlighted the liberties that the CLOUD Act would provide corporations by simplifying legal issues concerning overseas servers.” Because of this failure, U.S. laws will be bypassed on U.S. soil. Greene noted that the CLOUD Act negates protections of two interrelated existing laws. It creates an exception to the Stored Communications Act that allows certified foreign governments to request personal data directly from U.S. Boulder Weekly
companies. “This exception enables those countries to bypass the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty process, which protects human rights by requiring foreign governments to work with the Department of Justice to obtain warrants from U.S. judges before they can access that data for their criminal investigations,” Greene explained. “The version of the bill that was included in the omnibus does include some improvements over the earlier version to help to mitigate the risks of bypassing the MLAT process ... two changes [that] are important improvements ... many of the other changes to the bill are only partial or ineffective fixes to problems privacy advocates, human rights advocates, and even a former high-ranking official at the U.S. State Department have raised. ... Several other concerns have been left entirely unaddressed.” “While the bill sponsors did try to address some of the concerns that have been raised, the improvements are not enough to shift the balance so that the CLOUD Act will be a boon, rather than a threat, to privacy and human rights,” Greene concluded.
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9) Indigenous Communities Around World Helping to Win Legal Rights of Nature In March 2017, the government of New Zealand ended a 140-year dispute with an indigenous Maori tribe by enacting a law that officially recognized the Whanganui River, which the tribe considers their ancestor, as a living entity with rights. The Guardian reported it as “a world-first,” although the surrounding Te Urewera National Park had been similarly recognized in a 2014 law, and the U.S. Supreme Court came within on vote of potentially recognizing such a right in the 1972 case Sierra Club v. Morton, expressed in a dissent by Justice William O. Douglas. In addition, the broader idea of “rights of nature” has been adopted in Ecuador, See PROJECT CENSORED Page 16
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these reports have not provided the depth of coverage found in the independent press or addressed how legal decisions in other countries might provide models for the United States.”
10) FBI Racially Profiling “Black Identity Extremists” At the same time that white supremacists were preparing for the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville, which resulted in the murder of Heather Heyer in August 2017. The FBI’s counterterrorism division produced an intelligence assessment warning of a very different — though actually non-existent threat: “Black Identity Extremists.” The report appeared to be the first time the term had been used to identify a movement, according to Foreign Policy magazine, which broke the story. “But former government officials and legal experts said no such movement exists, and some expressed concern that the term is part of a politically motivated effort to find an equivalent threat to white supremacists,” Foreign Policy reported. “The use of terms like ‘black identity extremists’ is part of a long-standing FBI attempt to define a movement where none exists,” said former FBI agent Mike German, who now works for the Brennan Center for Justice. “Basically, it’s black people who scare them.” “It’s classic Hoover-style labeling with little bit of maliciousness and euphemism wrapped up together,” said William Maxwell, a Washington University professor working on a book about FBI monitoring of black writers. “The language — black identity extremist — strikes me as weird and really a continuation of the worst of Hoover’s past.” “There is a long tradition of the FBI targeting black activists and this is not surprising,” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson told Foreign Policy. A former homeland security official told them that carelessly connecting unrelated groups will make it harder for law enforcement to identify real threats. It’s so convoluted — it’s compromising officer safety, the former official said.” “The corporate media [has] covered the FBI report on ‘black identity extremists’ in narrow or misleading ways,” Project Censored noted, citing examples from the New York Times, Fox News and NBC News. “Coverage like this both draws focus away from the active white supremacist movement and feeds the hate and fear on which such a movement thrives.” Boulder Weekly
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ould you like to go to the cemetery this afternoon?” The question, posed by Pavel, my Peruvian tour guide whom I’ve only just met outside the gates of Cusco’s Alejandro Velasco Astete Airport, jars me from my jetlagged state. I hesitate, brain scrambling to piece together why visiting a cemetery would be the lead item on what’s to be an eight-day hiking tour of Cusco’s Sacred Valley. It takes me a minute, more like two, but finally those scattered puzzle parts come together.
little bit of money, enough for a chicha.” “A chicha?” I ask. His smile broadens, a grin wreathing his pleasant, early-30s face. “A corn beer. For toasting. At the tomb.” • • • • Set on the southern outskirts of the city (Huayra Calle 310), Cementerio de Almudena is Cusco’s largest and oldest ossuary. Built in 1845 from the rubble of the St. Augustine church and convent destroyed during the Peruvian War of Independence from Spain, the cemetery covers approximately seven acres and holds the remains of more than 23,000 people. Among its more celebrated denizens are artist and activist Mariano Fuentes Lira (1904-1986) and writer Clorinda Matto de Turner (1852-1909), both Cusco-born. By the time we arrive at Calle Almudena, the drop-off point for the cemetery, we’ve picked up two other members of our hiking group, the others electing to stay back at the hotel and rest. All together, we quickly climb out of our travel van amid honking car horns. Lining the sidewalk, food and chicha sellers do a brisk business from their folding tables, carts and makeshift stalls, the air thick with the pungent aroma of grilling meats, some pork but mostly cuy — guinea pig — Peruvians’ mainstay meat for more than 5,000 years. Cuy is both a street food staple and a delicacy featured on most restaurant menus, served whole, often with a cherry tomato or other garnish wedged within the agape mouth. (Cusco’s “Last Supper,” painted in 1753 by Quechua artist Marcos Zapata and on display in
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Today isn’t just any day in early November. It is Nov. 2, known in the West as All Souls’ Day, and in Peru and much of Latin America as El Día de los Difuntos. The Day of the Dead. Tradition holds that on this day the souls of the ancestors return to Earth to visit with their loved ones. The eve of Nov. 1 through sunset on Nov. 2 finds families flocking to cemeteries throughout Peru to honor their departed loved ones with music and dancing, picnics and toasts. My head spins, with sleep deprivation and altitude sensitivity, to be sure, but also with... possibility. I take a sensible sip of bottled water before answering, “That’d be great. Is there... uh, anything I should bring?” Pavel’s expression relaxes into a smile. “Just bring a Boulder Weekly
the Cathedral at Plaza de Armas, depicts Christ Every year, on the and his disciples tucking second day of into a feast of cuy and November, souls of ancestors return chicha). to Earth to visit with Pleasantly replete their loved ones in Peru. from a late lunch of ceviche — a dish of fresh raw fish cured in citrus juices — and quinoa soup, I give the food sellers a pass and instead focus on the gorgeous arrays of flowers, Christian religious statues and icons on offer. The icons fascinate me, everything from miniaturized replicas of Coca-Cola and beer bottles and pisco sours to cars, trains, tools and home furnishings fit for a dollhouse, all sold as gifts for the deceased. (Going to the gravesite empty-handed is unheard of, on par with showing up to a dinner party without the requisite bottle of wine). Though my impulse is to tarry and take it all in, Pavel ushers us along with strict instructions to keep wallets out of sight and a tight grip on backpacks and handbags. We climb the uphill path to the stonework entrance archway and step in line. Skulls festoon the green painted wrought-iron gate. By the time we pass through the portal to the inside it’s pushing 5 p.m. Graveside picnics are winding down, though plenty of blankets and lawn chairs still cover the craggy patchwork of grass and exposed rockface. Music comes courtesy of the errant instrument or portable boom box. Groups of kids play soccer and tag, but most adults are in a mellower mood, sipping from bottles of cerveza (beer) and Coke. Unleashed dogs circulate, October 25 , 2018 21
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scrounging for scraps. As we move through, our way guided by stone-sculpted angels and painted Christian saints, Pavel explains a bit about Peruvian burial customs. A fourhour funeral is typical, with the Catholic religious service segueing into boisterous feasting and drinking. All food and beverages are consumed before leaving the cemetery; to bring anything home is considered unlucky. Additional commemorative services are held one month and one year after the funeral. After that, a weekly graveside visit continues for the duration of the interment, the duty rotated among close relatives. Tomb-tending is a family affair. Signs of neglect such as dead flowers almost always prompt a flurry of phone calls from relatives. In more recent years, the trend toward smaller families has made carrying out the weekly obligation more of a challenge, especially as most families have more than one grave to keep up. We sidle on for several more minutes, following sloping, mud-packed footpaths toward the cemetery center. Gradually the ground levels off and we reach a cluster of mausolea: white-washed, storied constructions capped with terra cotta tile roofs and niched with hollow, boxed compartments — the tombs. An individual tomb looks like a shadow box filled with treasured keepsakes and enclosed by a clear glass door to which the family holds the key. Flowers, trinkets, statuary and icons commemorating who the deceased was in life fill the hollow compartment. Often a framed photograph of the departed takes pride of place among the artifacts. To reach the upper tombs, family members must scale the steep librarylike ladders, a task taken on by the young and fit. Almost all the glass fronts are spotless, polished with a special solution of lime juice, I learn. Young children, mostly boys, circulate the grounds, offering to do the job for tips. Moving along the aisles, I peer into
one hollow after another, On the Day of the Dead, families my writer’s gather at tombs imagination to honor and celebrate the lives of stitching lost loved ones. together possible stories based upon their contents. Stories of lives well-lived as well as those tragically cut short. Particularly poignant is the section set aside for children, the tombs specially sized. Sighting a miniature SpongeBob SquarePants grinning out at me, I feel my heart give a lurch. We pass through aisle after aisle of tombs, with Pavel pausing to slap one cousin on the back and to ask another cousin how his kid is doing in school. Everyone seems to know everyone, the atmosphere far more festive than funerary. Finally, we stop. “My tío, tía and abuelo and papá all are resting here,” Pavel explains, gesturing to a cluster of adjacent tombs. A large bottle of Cusqueña cerveza materializes from his pack along with a sleeve of plastic cups. Though bringing food or drink into the ossuary area is officially forbidden, on this day at least no one seems to notice or mind. The beer is divided among the eight of us, which now includes Pavel’s uncle and aunt, grandfather and father, whom he thanks for being with us on this very special day. We salute each in turn and drink until our cups are drained. It is a beautifully solemn set of moments. When a sudden gust of laughter from nearby causes me to start, I can almost believe it is one of Pavel’s kin toasting us back from the Great Beyond. With the daylight waning, and ourselves pleasantly buzzed, we retrace our steps to the main gate. As we pass families folding picnic blankets and carrying small children spent from the holiday, I consider that though I’ve come to Cusco for the hiking, in just these first few hours I’ve been invited inside a treasured tradition. Boulder Weekly
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BUZZ A revealing look at four decades of the Bustop Gentlemen’s Club
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usk fell outside the Bustop Gentlemen’s Club on Broadway at the far edge of north Boulder. Skye, a Bustop regular dressed in a miniskirt and stiletto boots, hoisted herself up the chrome pole that had been erected in the parking lot as four other dancers shimmied and swayed around her to R&B. Kneeling at the base of the pole, one of the dancers flicked a lighter and ignited a pool of kerosene in a circle of fire. Gripping the pole with her thighs, Skye spun upsidedown, flames licking inches away. The performance ended to thunderous applause from the 40 or so audience members, but contrary to strip club etiquette, not a single dollar bill was tossed. That’s because this wasn’t the typical nudie bar crowd, but an event held by local artists called Transforming the Bustop, commemorating the end of the club’s 42-year run and its replacement with affordable housing and artist space. Though Sept. 1 marked the closing of the Bustop Gentleman’s Club and the building itself is soon to be demolished, its impact on the Boulder community — for better or for worse — is unlikely to fade anytime soon.
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“It had been around so long you could just feel the energy of all the women who had ever been through there,” says Tesla, 30, who danced at the Bustop for three years. “I’ve worked all over the country and not many clubs you can just walk into and feel instant camaraderie among the women.” “It’s a legacy of family that has been there for a long time that gets transmitted to every group of girls that works there,” says Dalia, 31, a 5-year veteran. “All the girls there were very family, it felt like,” agrees Cinnamon, speaking of her four years at the club. “You go to other places and you’re lucky to find a couple of actual friends, [but] the girls there, we actually hung out.” While the dancers generated the unique atmosphere, staff played a vital role in maintaining it. “Best job I’ve ever had,” says Kurt, DJ and security from 2016 until its closing. “It was more of a community of friends.” In 1993, Ken Scar responded to an ad in the paper for a DJ at the Bustop, but didn’t realize it was for a strip club until he came in for an interview. “At first I was like, I don’t know if I can work at a place that takes advantage of women and demeans women,” he says. “But after you’re there for a while you realize it’s not that way at all, it’s quite the opposite: it’s the men that go in those places that are taken advantage of.”
A business like the Bustop couldn’t have subsisted for over four decades without a steady client base. Judging from the feedback of several of its former patrons, it’s clear the club had a certain appeal. “I had a good time drinking, watching all the women in there,” says Jeff, 62, who first visited the Bustop soon after its 1977 opening. “Most of them were real friendly. The atmosphere was pretty open.” Similarly, scads of online activity attested to the club’s early popularity. “Miss the days of pool, poker and blackjack tables,” wrote NoCoGeezer, an on-and-off patron for 30 years, on an online forum dedicated to escorts called The Other Board. Dozens of Yelp reviews also helped paint a picture of what things were like back in the day. “I had my first experiance [sic]…at a gentlemens [sic] club here and I never expected that I would be discussing politics with a topless dancer wearing a necklace that said ‘Perfect Mom,’” recounted Aaron M. “Nowhere else in the universe could you see a fellow classmate, a grad teacher, a friend’s mom and a girlfriend dance in the same day….” shared Uncle Fishbits.
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in 1977, it featured both women and men. In an ad in the Greeley Tribune, the Bustop boasted of being the “only club in [Colorado] that has male dancers for your pleasure,” and proudly featured Lee, NCAA wrestling champ of 1974. Back in the mid-to-late ’80s, NoCoGeezer recalls the Bustop being more of a locals bar than a strip club. Thanks to the cheap beer, billiards, poker and blackjack tables, both men and women frequented the place, and he remembers one long stage he says resembled that of an old burlesque house. When the club first changed hands, he says the single stage, billiards and card tables were switched out with several smaller stages and private dance areas, transforming the place from a “locals bar that just happens to also have boobs to a standard strip club and the hustle for tips and private dances.” But it wasn’t until 1990, when Omar Aldabbagh took over, that the Bustop’s local legend status was ensured.
THE REIGN OF ALDABBAGH Amer “Omar” Aldabbagh, 66, was born in Baghdad, Iraq, entered the U.S. in 1973, and soon found work at a cluster of Chicago strip clubs owned by his older brother Ussama “Sam” Aldabbagh. In 1974, Omar was arrested for a
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handful of liquor license violations and for being the “keeper of a disorderly house,” neither of which resulted in convictions, according to a 2014 City of Boulder Beverages Licensing Authority Preliminary Findings and Report. In 1977, he was twice charged with the crime of keeping a house of prostitution, but that didn’t stick either. In written communications with the City of Boulder, he explained the arrest only happened thanks to a Chicago Police Department custom of pinching everyone on site during a raid. Indeed, the Aldabbaghs insisted in media accounts that the police attention was nothing but harassment and that they were routinely shaken down by corrupt cops. Shortly thereafter, the Aldabbaghs started up several clubs in and around Phoenix, Arizona, yet their legal troubles followed close behind. In 1979, the younger Aldabbagh was cited for more liquor license violations and was accused of allowing overexposed dancers and physical contact with patrons. In 1981 he plead guilty to permitting customers to play blackjack with real money and in 1983 the U.S. Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against him for allegedly withholding pay from staff. Though he denied the charges, he eventually paid out $5,500 in back wages.
Two years later Omar became a naturalized citizen and in 1990, he purchased the Bustop. Then the hammer dropped. In 1992, 200 federal and state authorities raided over a dozen Aldabbagh establishments in Arizona, Minnesota and Colorado — including Omar’s Denver residence — garnering 30 arrests ranging from racketeering, to prostitution, to influencing and tampering with witnesses, to tax fraud. According to media accounts at the time, the Arizona Department of Public Safety accused Aldabbagh and associates of being responsible for half of the prostitution in the Phoenix area, with Omar as the “major figure.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation referred to Aldabbagh’s operations as a “perfect example of non-traditional organized crime that was operating at a sophisticated level,” while the state liquor director for Arizona dubbed him simply a “sleazy operator.” Police also accused him of running shell corporations with hidden ownerships to throw regulators off the trail. Later that year he was indicted on nine counts of “knowingly” neglecting to file personal and business income tax returns from 1988-1992, all felonies. Ultimately, Aldabbagh plead guilty to several misdemeanor charges of
attempt to commit fraud, forfeited a quarter-million dollars in assets, was saddled with three years probation, and banned from further business in Arizona. Since then, Aldabbagh appears to have stayed out of trouble, focusing on the Bustop, his two Las Vegas strip clubs, and breeding racehorses — including a former champion named Omar. [Boulder Weekly made multiple unsuccessful attempts to contact Aldabbagh for this story.] Unlike the Bustop, Aldabbagh’s reviews from former employees are mixed. “I’ve met a lot of bar owners,” Scar says. “Most of them are kind of slimy and [Aldabbagh was] no exception.” “He’s pleasant enough as long as you’re not really engaging with him,” Cinnamon says of her handful of interactions with him over the years. “He’s definitely an opportunist,” she continues, while also acknowledging that “he provided a good environment for us.” But it was the circumstances of the club’s closing that finally spoiled Aldabbagh’s reputation for many.
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Management for $2.8 million in 2016, it was clear the club’s days were numbered. Just the same, when the Sept. 1 closing date finally came, it ended up being a surprise to nearly everyone, particularly the dancers. A few of the dancers say they learned the truth the day-of from an Instagram post, while others found out from the organizer of Transforming the Bustop Merlyn Holmes, who came into the club to ask if any of the dancers would like to perform for the Sept. 29 event. “Staff members said [the club was] definitely staying open until next year,” Dalia recalls. “We were deliberately deceived.” Kurt, the house DJ, corroborates the fact that the management kept a lid on things until the final night. Sierra, a Bustop dancer from 2016 until its closing, says she personally addressed the potential closing with Aldabbagh a month earlier, reminding him there were 40 to 50 dancers who counted on the club to support them and their families. With this in mind, she asked him to provide them with a two-week notice when he finally decided to shut the place down. “He assured me he would let us know when he knew, and that it was not going to be closing for another long while and not to worry,” she says. “And then he ended by telling me I was a pretty girl and I wouldn’t have a hard time finding a job elsewhere. And that’s when I knew he was totally full of shit.”
SHADOW SIDE Not everyone is mourning the end of the Bustop Gentleman’s Club. In fact, some locals are glad it’s gone. For the past three years Beth Merckel has taught people how to make jewelry at her nonprofit, Boulder Metalsmithing Association, next door to the Bustop. She cites the #MeToo movement as a reason clubs like the Bustop that “objectify women” aren’t a positive influence in the community. “I don’t like this whole concept of women as sexual objects,” agrees Susan Bertram, art therapist with Boulder Art Therapy Collective, who helped facilitate a mural painted on the wall of the Bustop at the Transforming event. “I don’t like the commercializing of it for profit,” Betram says about stripping in general, while adding
that she does “believe in women’s ability to choose however they want to live their life.” One Boulder County resident and former stripper of seven years (who asked to remain anonymous), says the Bustop “existed because it profited from dehumanizing, objectifying and commodifying women. Men in the Boulder community participated in sexually subordinating women in this club.” “It is a good day when even one of these ventures fails,” she says. “It will be an even better day when patriarchy has been eradicated from society and the exploitation of women and women’s bodies is unthinkable.” Even some working dancers have misgivings about their chosen trade. “For the most part [The Bustop] was a good place for me,” Sierra says, while adding that, “I definitely saw a lot of girls just get run down by the place.” “You meet and see some people that, within a couple years that they start working there, they just completely declined,” Sierra admits. “The club can destroy a person.”
IT’S A LIVING Aria, a 22-year-old former Bustop dancer, doesn’t see herself as oppressed and doesn’t appreciate those who do. “I get really annoyed when people come in and try to save us,” she says. “People act like they are so above us. I know that I’m an honest person and trustworthy and... yet I’m bad because I’m doing this? It’s like, fuck you.” Aria started at the Bustop as a cocktail waitress to help pay her tuition at CU Boulder. But the long hours for low pay took their toll and when she got sick, she decided to switch to dancing. “Dancing saved my life, definitely,” says Tesla. “I have a house, two cars, I travel, I just got my welding certificate. But when I came here I was homeless with nothing. ... Dancing was the only way I was able live a reasonable life and not kill myself with work.” While nearly all Bustop dancers cited money as their prime motivator — up to $1,000 a night, in some cases — it’s far from the only one. “Everyone is here for a reason,” says Dalia. “We all have issues that we’re bringing into it that we’re trying
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Skye, Tesla, Cinnamon, Livi, Sierra and Aria have all found work in other clubs around the Front Range, Denver and the country. Sierra, however, admits it’s “not really what I want to be doing anymore.” “It’s exhausting, it’s draining, and it’s just a constant 24/7 party,” she explains. “Eventually you kind of just need a break.” Dalia, too, is thinking of calling it quits. As a selfdescribed “curvier girl,” she’s learned that most Denver-area clubs don’t hire dancers with her “sort of body type.” Instead, she’s been focusing on her music and creating a documentary about strippers, whose GoFundMe page touts an “unprecedented glimpse into the positive aspects of being a stripper.” Looking at her time at the Bustop in the rearview mirror, Dalia mentions another Bustop dancer who she says plans to carry that “idea of friendship and community” to other area clubs. Dalia says it warmed her heart to hear that message and has high hopes that — even when the Bustop is just a memory — other members of the “family” will continue to transform the industry simply by being who they are.
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eonard Bernstein’s West dance. Jerome Robbins’ choreSide Story opened on ography for the original show Broadway just over 61 was revolutionary in the 1950s years ago — Sept. 26, and is still considered a turning 1957 — but for Leigh point for Broadway singer/ Holman, the story does not get dancers. “Bernstein and old. Robbins were pushing the Holman is the director of the envelope, creating something Eklund Opera Program at the that didn’t fit any stereotype at CU College of Music, which the time,” Hesketh says. will be presenting Bernstein’s “This show stretches [everymasterpiece Friday through one] not only vocally but Sunday, Oct. 26–28. dance-wise and acting-wise,” The cast of CU stuHolman says. “We have a few dents, freshman students from the theater and though graduate dance department that have students, will be dance background, and a few stage-directed by opera singers have dance background, but I would say that’s Holman. Guest the biggest challenge.” conductor Philip Hesketh, who has conducted Hesketh will lead both opera and ballet in his the singers and stunative England, agrees. “One of dent orchestra. the biggest challenges is that you’ve got The show is a transplanted ON THE BILL: West Side people on stage who have to do both,” he version of Romeo and Juliet, Story. 7:30 pm. Friday Oct. says. Sometimes “a character is preparing with New York street gangs 26 and Saturday, Oct. 27, Eklund Opera Theater, 972 their body from the diaphragm upwards to replacing the rival families. The Broadway, Boulder; 2 p.m. sing, at the same time as they’re preparing conflict is between immigrants Sunday, Oct. 28, Macky and newer immigrants, the Jets their body to jump, and sometimes they Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Tickets: cupreand the Sharks, a white gang clash. sents.org/event/1607/cu-opera/ and a Puerto Rican gang. “What’s fascinating is working with the west-side-story “West Side Story has a theme cast to find mechanisms to do both of these that’s important to talk about things well. I can’t imagine how I could right now,” Holman says. “It’s a story about peocope if I wasn’t familiar with preparing both opera and ple who are immigrants, and nothing could be dance,” Hesketh says. more relevant. When someone moves into our He is particularly complimentary of the students in the area, is in the workplace or in school with us, cast. Unlike some opera singers — he won’t name names, so people who don’t look like us, what sort of fear don’t ask — “these casts move very beautifully,” he says. ignites in us and how do we act upon that? “They obviously know precisely what they’re doing when it “To me it sounds like a story from 2018.” comes to their bodies, which is marvelous.” The production will be set in the original time of the Both Holman and Hesketh have noticed that while many 1950s, with no updatings or other twists to connect with students are familiar with the style and the music of West Side contemporary audiences. “I don’t have to do anything [to Story, for others it is a new discovery. “An old show for a make it relevant],” Holman says. “Just let the story play out.” freshman could be Rent,” which opened on Broadway in Easy to say, but Holman observes that the show is very 1996, Holman says. complex and challenging for all participants, from the actors “Some of us grew up listening to this music, or some of on stage to the director herself. “I’ve learned how challenging the students did the show in high school. But there are other a big show like this is,” she says. “It really requires so much of students who are just being introduced to Bernstein.” the performer, and there’s such a huge team of people that For his part, Hesketh has conducted West Side Story work together.” before, but admits that it is not part of his native musical Most operas, she explains, have a few individual roles and heritage. “I did think about the American-ness,” he admits. a chorus that can learn their parts separately and come “My home is the Edwardian splendor of Elgar and pastotogether at the end. In West Side Story, however, every person ral nationalism of Vaughn-Williams. But having said that, on stage has a named role — there is no separate chorus, and West Side Story itself is a piece. It’s an opera, it’s a ballet, it’s some of the larger scenes are musically very complex. “That’s an orchestral piece, and as a conductor those are three things tougher than I realized before,” says Holman, who has never that I do all the time.” directed the show before. And, as Holman is quick to point out, after 61 years West Another monumental challenge is that all of the actors Side Story belongs to everyone. “We don’t have to hog this not only have to sing individual parts, they also have to music,” she says. “Bernstein has influenced the world!” Boulder Weekly
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a r t s & culture ‘Breathe like you are giving birth’
Local’s ‘Paper Cut’ undresses the stereotype of the all-American soldier by Sarah Haas
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aper Cut, the new play by Andrew Rosendorf, proa soldier is, how all of us are, somehow, duced by Boulder’s Local defined by manhood at the extreme. Theater Company, ends But Paper Cut crescendos in a surwith two men on a beach, prisingly feminine way, in a scene in one fallen into the other, the big spoon which Kyle is suffering phantom limb and the little. The men, very much in pains. His brother, a civilian, scrambles love, are wondering about regret. Even to get him pain medication and after before the actors exit the stage the Kyle swallows the pills dry, his brother audience begins applauding. The lights asks him what else there is to do. fall and the duo scurries off stage. “Breathe,” Kyle says, and when it Immediately, they’re back to take a bow, doesn’t work, his brother says, “Breathe and less than 30 seconds after the curlike you are giving birth.” The pain subtain fell, the room begins rising for an sides, and suddenly Kyle is not defined ovation. Most of us hesitate though, by the masculinity a soldier must lumbering to stand, not because the assume, but by the spectrum between actors don’t deserve it, Michael Ensminger Photography but because we need a minute. To sit, to settle our psyches, to wipe our tears. By the end of Paper Cut the lead character, Kyle, i.e. the little spoon, has literally and symbolically undressed; he is not the “stereotypical, allAmerican soldier” we were once promised. Yes, he is a man with a buzz cut and a dry sense of humor, a man whose patriotism is taking and giving life. inseparable from his Director Pesha ON THE BILL: Paper identity. Yes, he is a Rudnick says this scene Cut. Dairy Arts Center, tough guy, one who parwas perhaps the trickiest Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut rots the quote, “People to direct, the one in which St., Boulder, 303-444sleep peaceably in their the actors most struggled 7328. Through Nov. 11. beds at night because to submit to the transition rough men stand ready they were asked to perto do violence on their form. behalf,” as a way to make sense of the While it might be easiest to let our costs of being a soldier, costs he knew traumas distance us, Paper Cut presses going in, but that were impossible to them, one up against another, until understand until they were incurred: they form a bond instead. losing a leg, losing his penis, and so losEven the play’s set, designed by ing his ability to serve as a soldier. Susan Crabtree, works to contain its The “rough men” phrase was multitude of scenes and themes in an scorched into Kyle’s memory by his impossibly small space. The set begins father, a veteran, a bigot and a brute, a vacant one, but by the end seems but a hero nonetheless. It was his banoverfull, as if it might burst, mimickner of toxic masculinity, waved, not ing the feel of the play itself, the feelquite like an excuse, but as a rationale ing that Kyle has been given too much for the at-times violent machismo of to bear. But in its smallest detail, danmen, especially men at war. In the play, gling star lights extending from stage Kyle attributes the quote to George all the way to the back of the audiOrwell, although both in reality and in ence, we are reminded that we all exist the script, the quote is unattributable. It under the same sky, that we all bear simply exists, just like our idea of what Kyle’s burden. Boulder Weekly
Playwright Rosendorf admits to having eschewed his complicity in a country so long at war, for he had his own battles to fight. A gay man in America, his life, and his work, have long revolved around his desire to explore a homosexual character who is not defined by their sexuality or stereotype. He was surprised when the inspiration for Paper Cut struck in 2012 while reading the Pulitzer Prizewinning articles by David Wood detailing the alarming number of soldiers losing their genitals in IED explosions. Until then it was a hidden phenomenon, cloaked both by pants and by the shame of the soldiers who wore them. Although there is no way to truly understand the losses they incurred (and incur still), Rosendorf found a closeness in their pain, closing the gap between a civilian and a soldier. It’s a gap that Rex Laceby, a veteran consulting on the Local production, knows well. Injured while holding the city of Ramadi in Iraq, Laceby lost the vision in one eye and mobility in his hands and shoulders. Now, back stateside, it’s common for him to have post-traumatic stress, for example, to drop to the ground at the sound of a zipper zipping or a cannon going off at a football game. But in watching Paper Cut, he says he felt his triggers brought to stage in a redemptive way, in a way that could help him bridge the gap between his experience in combat and his experience in a country in a time of supposed peace. “What I’ve been through is impossible to convey, but Kyle’s trajectory refused the idea that distance is also difference,” he says. Instead, with the players and the audience all under the same starry sky, Paper Cut posits that the struggle for freedom of identity is universal, and hard, and so proves the existence of empathy.
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Since 2015, Kamasi Washington has been known to draw multigenerational and multi-ethnic crowds with his progressive, improvisational music. The saxophonist, band leader, multiinstrumentalist and producer composes music that exceeds expectations of traditional jazz. Born and raised in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park neighborhood, Washington has collaborated with influential artists like Snoop Dogg, Raphael Saadiq, Kendrick Lamar, John Legend and Ibeyi. His new album, Heaven and Earth, follows his critically acclaimed debut, The Epic, which won Washington the inaugural American Music Prize and Gilles Peterson Worldwide album of the year. He plays Boulder Theater with Victory, a soul/funk fusion artist. Tickets are $40.
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Eli Saslow — Rising Out of Hatred. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Adrienne Rinaldi — Brew and Asana. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
David E. Nielson — The 9 Dimensions of Conscious Success. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
Sunday, Oct. 28
Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.
Arthur A. Hansen — Barbed Voices and Nisei Nysayer. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver.
The Learning Source Book Bash with Matthew Sullivan. 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver. Monday, Oct. 29 John August — Arlo Finch in the Valley of Fire. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Tuesday, Oct. 30 Tattered Tales Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Nancy Stohlman. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Tara Powers — Virtual Teams for Dummies. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
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Thursday, October 25 Music Chris Lake. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Disney in Concert: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. 7 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Katie Farmer and Kyle Donovan. 6 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Orgone. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Soul Purpose featuring Paul Junior, Pat Anthony, Rachel Bailey, Mandy Groves — with Cory Kendrix. 8 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. Thunder and Rain — with very special guests Bridget Law (of Elephant Revival). 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772.
Sunday November 4
DIXIE LEADFOOT “Rockabilly”
FREE ADMISSION Wednesday November 7
BOURBON & BLUES WITH THE BLUES EXPRESS “Blues”
FREE ADMISSION Friday November 9
SOMETHING UNDERGROUND “Roots Rock”
Sunday November 11 TH
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“70s/80s Soft Rock”
Lynn Fleming
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey who sees both sets of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he’s been offered his dream job in Seattle. He tells them, but the news doesn’t sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick from moving. The resulting action is one hilarious moment after another. Coal Creek Theater of Louisville presents Over the River and Through The Woods Oct. 26 through Nov. 10.
The Cake. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Oct. 31. Educating Rita. Arvada Center for the Performing Arts, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Nov. 11. Harvey — presented by Phamaly Theatre. The Olin Hotel, 1420 Logan St., Denver. Through Nov. 11.
Aloha: Postcards from Polynesia. The BiTSY Stage, 1137 South Huron St., Denver. Through Nov. 18.
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 3.
The Adventures of Dracula. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Nov. 24.
Invaders from Planet 9 — presented by Arts in the Open. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline road, Boulder. Through Oct. 28.
Annie Get Your Gun. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through Nov. 25. Boston Marriage. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Nov. 11. Bite-Size. DCPA Off Center, Book Bar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver. Through Nov. 18.
A Kiss for My Daughter, a Kiss for my Father and Motherhood: The Agony and the Ecstasy — presented by Front Range Theatre Company. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 28.
Love Alone — presented by Firehouse Theater Company. The John Hand Theater, CFU Lowry Campus, 7653 E. First Place, Denver. Through Nov. 10. Love Never Dies. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Buell Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through Oct. 28. My Name is Asher Lev— presented by Cherry Creek Theater Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia, Denver. Through Nov. 11. Over the River and Through The Woods — presented by Coal Creek Theater of Louisville. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Opens Oct. 26. Through. Nov. 10. Seussical! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 29. The Toxic Avenger. The Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. Through Oct. 27. West Side Story — presented by CU’s Eklund Opera Program. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Opens Oct. 26. Through Oct. 28. The Wolves — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Carson Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 18.
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events events Events Blaze. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Comedian Karlous Miller. 7:30 p.m. Denver Improv, 8246 Northfield Ave., Denver, 303-307-1777. More show times at comedyworks.com. Franken-Tea: A Tea to Mark the 200th Anniversary of Frankenstein. 4 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Halloween Help Open Sew. 5 p.m. Fabricate, 2017 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245. Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch (meet at the group picnic shelter near the Lichen Loop), Boulder.
Nightmares on Wax (live band) — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver, 303-297-1772. One Flew West, Slow Caves: Halloween Special. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.
Thievery Corporation. 7:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Time Warp: The Music of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.
Rob Duquette. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
The Toxic Avenger and Costume Contest. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Theatre, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200.
Sound Temple: ReCalibrating the Energy Body. 7:30 p.m. Double Rainbow Ranch, 6541 N. 63rd St., Boulder, 303-516-1004.
Wild Beautiful Piano Solos and Duets. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.
Spafford. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Events Acrophobia 4.0 and Halloween Bash. 7 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. BMoCA + Swoon: James Tapscott Dinner. 6:30 p.m. Swoon Art House, 4295 Broadway, Boulder. Dead Snow. 8:45 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Enchanted Hollows. 6 p.m. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver, 720-337-1400. see EVENTS Page 36
Laser Halloween Spooktacular. 9 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. More show times at colorado.edu/fiske. Ode to Muir — Teton Gravity Research. 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Over the Limit. 4:30 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Peter Heller: Celine, A Novel. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Visual Art Meets the Spoken Word. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Friday, October 26 Music A.J. Fullerton. 7 p.m. Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Ben Carr. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Eric Hutchinson. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Birds of Chicago — with Daniel Rodriguez (of Elephant Revival). 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Finn O’Sullivan. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Flatirons Jazz Festival. 6:45 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Halloween Block Party: Deviant Divas. 8 p.m. Deviant Spirits Distillery-DV8, 2480 49th St., Unit E, Boulder, 719-440-4477. Halloween Music Fest and Costume Ball. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-777-5840. Harry and the Potters. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Invasion. 9 p.m. Dillinger’s Food and Spirits, 1202 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, 303-666-6979. Joyce Manor. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Kamasi Washington. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. The Land of Deborah. 7:30 p.m. The Tune Up @ Full Cycle, 1795 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-1002. Many Mountains. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Mersiv. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Neil Bridge’s Quintessence featuring Karen Lee. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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events events Courtesy of Firehouse Art Center
Stop by the Firehouse Art Center to see a series of photographs chronicling the life of Amalia Hernández, founder of Ballet Folkórico de México. Ballet Folklórico combines traditional folk dancing with ballet characteristics, emphasizing the artistic and cultural value of Mexico. Showing now through Nov. 4.
All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Anthrome: A Survey of Jason DeMarte’s Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 18. Centenario De Amalia Hernández, founder of Balley Folklorico. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Nov. 4. Clas Oldenburg with Coosje Van Bruggen. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 2), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6. Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Daisy Patton: This Is Not Goodbye. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17. Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2019.
Oil Paintings — by Nickie Barbee. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Nov. 3. Prints on Metal — by Jim Miller. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Through Nov. 3. REMBRANDT: Painter as Printmaker. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 6. Small Wood Sculptures — by Charles Counter. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through Jan. 6.
EYES ON Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building (Level 4), 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
So authentic, it hurts — Amber St Lucia. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 25.
EYES ON Shimabuku. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, Level 4, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 3.
Someday, Everything — Dave Rowe. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 25.
Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.
Strong Women in Bloom — by Stephen Parlato. Naropa University, Arapahoe Campus, Lincoln Gallery, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Dec. 15.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 13. Hungry Birds: The Photography of David Leatherman. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 15th and Broadway Boulder. Through Dec. 1. Is It Photography? — Fu Wenjun. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy & MacMillon Family Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 25.
Tara Donovan: Fieldwork. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through Jan. 27. Worlds Suspended in Reality. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 20. World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.
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Halloween Comedy Brew Tour. 6 p.m. Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. International Coffee Hour Halloween Costume Party. 4 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Boulder, 303-492-6161. Longmont Back Alley Ghost Tour. 8 p.m. Historic Downtown Longmont, Main St., Longmont. Longmont Haunted? Haunted History Tour. 6 p.m. Historic Downtown Longmont, Main St., Longmont. Password:Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 970-787-1251. Trick or Treat Street — A Three-Day Festival. 9 a.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Childrens Museum Drive, Denver, 303-433-7444. Through Oct. 28. WOW! Halloween Party. 5:30 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Yappy Hour and Winnie Lou The Canine Company. 3 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Saturday, October 27 Music Andy Eppler. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave, Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292. Artisan Show and Halloween Festivities. 8 a.m. Longmont Farmers Market, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-910-2236. Ben Hammond. 3 p.m. Alternation Brewing Company, 1539 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-802-5340. Boulder Chorale: ¡Viva Cuba! 7:30 p.m. Boulder Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-554-7692. Curiosity Concert. 1 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 720-383-1610.
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Dragondeer vs. The Dead: First Annual Dragondeer Halloween Throwdown. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Guerrilla Fanfare. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Gunbarrel ’80s Halloween Bash. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732. Haldon Wofford and the Highbeams: Costume Party. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Halloween Block Party: Deviant Divas. Noon. Deviant Spirits Distillery-DV8, 2480 49th St., Unit E, Boulder, 719-440-4477. Halloween Dance Party with BooDaddy. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875. Jackie Venson. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Kamasi Washington. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Kyle Donovan’s ‘The Songwriter Hour’ featuring Dave Tamkin and Harper Powell. 7:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Lindsey Saunders. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing, 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. The Nederland Witches Ball Featuring Banshee Tree. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637. Papadosio. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Reverend Freakchild and Fridens. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Upslope Swills & Chills — Halloween Costume Party. 8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill
Tap Room), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Events 2018 Craft Spirits Festival. 2 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696. 8-Bit Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-997-9548. Acrophobia 4.0 and Halloween Bash. 7 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Annual Halloween Parade and Trick or Treat Street. 9:30 a.m. City of Longmont Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8404. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder Beard And Moustache Competition. 4 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Broncos Trick-or-Treat. 10 a.m. Broncos Stadium at Mile High, 1701 Bryant St., Denver, 720-258-3000. Day of the Dead: Altars on Display. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Day of the Dead Celebration. 10:30 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Denver Halloween Costume Ball. 9 p.m. Downtown Denver Sheraton Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver, 720-319-8441. Dia de los Muertos Billingual Tours. 1 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Free Annual Halloween Parade. 9:30 a.m. Main Street, Longmont. see EVENTS Page 38
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saTurday OcTOber 27 @ 1sT banK cenTer
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Tuesday OcTOber 30
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Friday nOveMber 2
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w/ ruM creeK FeaT MeMbers OF hOT buTTered ruM & cOral creeK
Thunder and rain
Friday OcTOber 26
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w/ ryan viser, chandO (live band) & avry
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Thursday nOveMber 1
wOOdshed red Plays “The darK side OF The MOOn” w/ laney lOu and The bird dOGs, sTrinGs & The bOx
Friday nOveMber 2
cOnsider The sOurce
w/ arTurO cOMPlex & MOOnliGhT blOOM
saTurday nOveMber 3
deadPhish OrchesTra FeaT JOhn KadleciK
OF FurThur w/ evil dave FeaT shawn ecKels (andy FrascO & The un), TOdd sMallie & shaun GilMOur (JJ Grey & MOFrO)
Oliver Francis
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wednesday nOveMber 14
aMine
w/ buddy & KayO Genesis
Thursday nOveMber 15
GOOPsTePPa
w/ Khiva, suPerTasK & lOwPrO
Friday nOveMber 16
G herbO
w/ sOuThside, Queen Key, lil JaMes & Q MOney
saTurday nOveMber 17
Marvel years & deFunK w/ JanTsen & unFOld
sunday nOveMber 18
dOM Kennedy saTurday nOveMber 24
“The seM GOd” PhilThy rich w/ TrauMa & cOOl nuTz
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TrOuT sTeaK revival
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FeaT sTanTOn MOOre & rOberT MercuriO (GalacTic), ivan neville (duMPsTaPhunK) & eric lindell w/ lieberMOnsTer
Thursday deceMber 6
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w/ auTOnOMix
yunG Pinch w/ PhilThy
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wednesday nOveMber 14 re: search
PlasTician & wicK-iT The insTiGaTOr
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Thursday nOveMber 15
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Jerry JOsePh & The JacKMOrMOns
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Otis Taylor’s
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FeaT GianT cOunTry hOrns
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Friday deceMber 7
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CU BOULDER EVENTS For more information on any event, visit calendar.colorado.edu. THURSDAY, OCT. 25 Friends and Family Support Meeting.
November is Homeless & Runaway Youth Awareness Month
5 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), Room 102, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.
Give the Women a Chance: 125th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in Colorado. 6 p.m. Elevations Diagonal Branch
2960 Diagonal Highway, Boulder.
Climate Change in Our Backyard — Discovering the changes at the poles and implications for Colorado.
AttentionHomes.org/sleepout
Sleep Out 11/9
Raise funds and awareness by sleeping out in downtown Boulder.
Dine Out all Nov.
Mention AH and 20% of sales donated all month long. California Pizza Kitchen 29th Street Mall Boulder
Shout Out 11/1 Join best-selling author Rosalind Wiseman
and Cultures of Dignity co-founder Charlie Kuhn, for breakfast as they address issues facing youth today.
Sutherland Seminar Series: Bipolar Disorder & Relationships. 6 p.m.
Muenzinger Psychology, E214, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder.
Impeachment: A Panel Discussion. 7 p.m. Fleming Building, 155, 2445 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder.
Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music,
TUESDAY, OCT. 30 Mini Law School. 7:30 p.m. University of
Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Unnatural Succession: Rocky Flats and the Future of Conservation. 5 p.m. Guggenheim Geography, 205, 1475 Central Campus Mall, Boulder.
Two Catalonias: Film and Debate.
4 p.m. Koelbel Building: Leeds School of Business, Room 210, 995 Regent Drive, Boulder.
SATURDAY, OCT. 27 Real Life: An Installation. 7:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, Black Box Theatre, 1125 18th St., Boulder.
SUNDAY, OCT. 28 Takács Quartet: Haydn, Bartók and Brahms. 4 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020
Colorado Law School and via Livestream, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450, Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.
AIA Lecture: At Home on Board: the Kyrenia Ship and the Goods of its Crew. 7 p.m. Hale Science, 270, 1350 Pleasant
Drive, Boulder.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 31 Halloween Party. 11:30 a.m. Visual Arts Complex, Plaza, 1085 18th St., Boulder.
Pendulum New Music Ensemble: October 2018. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin
Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.
18th St., Boulder. Another show on Monday, Oct. 29.
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Full STEAM Ahead: Get Slimey! 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100; 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100; 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Trunk or Treat at Aces of Opportunity Ranch. 4 p.m. Acres of Opportunity Ranch, 4338 N. 109th St., Lafayette, 720-989-7726.
Gold Panning. 12 p.m. Nederland Mining Museum, 200 N. Bridge St., Nederland, 303-258-7332.
Boulder Chorale: ¡Viva Cuba! 4 p.m. Boulder Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-554-7692.
Halloween Children’s Tea Party. 3 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Halloween Wonder Walk. 3 p.m. Shining Mountain Waldorf School, 999 Violet Ave., Boulder, 303-444-7697. Macaroni Kid Boulder Trunk or Treat. 11:30 a.m. Unity of Boulder (Parking Lot), 2855 Folsom St., Boulder. Monstah Mash Halloween Party. 5 p.m. Asher Brewing Company, 4699 Nautilus Court South, Boulder, 303-530-1381. Parents’ Night Out — Aerial Mini Camp. 4 p.m. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, 3022 E. Sterling Circle, Unit 150, Boulder, 303-245-8272. Seventh Annual Halloween Costume Bash at Caffe Sole. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Trunk of Treat and Chili Dinner. 4 p.m. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 701 W. South Boulder Road, Louisville, 303-668-6960.
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8 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.
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Sunday, October 28 Music
Concert Series Presents: Colorado Chamber Players ‘Masque of the Red Death’. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Harley Eblen. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. HIRIE, Tenelle. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Joe Smith & The Spicy Pickles. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Mason Jennings. 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Niya. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Polarity. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 East South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327. Steve Ertl. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Steven Curtis Chapman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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events Traditional Irish Music. 7:30 p.m. Boulderado Hotel License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4560. Trick-or-Treat Street. 11:30 a.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523. Events Acrophobia 4.0 and Halloween Bash. 7 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Fall Festival. 3:30 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Haunted Library. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Jay Larson: Mostly Crowd Work. 8 p.m. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303-477-9984. Kusama: Infinity. 1 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More show times at thedairy.org. Lafayette Lions Club Pumpkin Decorating Contest. 3:30 p.m. Bob Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-204-2736. Trunk-or-Treat. 4:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399. Monday, October 29 Music Bob Weir. 7 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Don Alder. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4407666. Events Body Song: A Mmmwhah! Vocal Playshop — with Marta Aarli and Merlyn. 6 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Chasing Brews. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. David Barsamian — State of the World Address. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Horror Flick: Insidious. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Rocky Horror Picture Show. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Women of the West and Beyond. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday, October 30 Music Alyssa Frost. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Bear Grillz. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Black Moth Super Rainbow. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Goo Goo Dolls. 8 p.m. Paramount Denver, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303-623-0106. Josh Groban. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Loud Luxury. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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The Moonlit Wild. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. MusicMoves: Yoga with Musicians of the Colorado Symphony. 6 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Night of Grief & Mystery Concert. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
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Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Girls Night Out: Ladies Revenge Tour 2018. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Halloween Hike. 6 p.m. Mount Sanitas Trailhead, Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder. Halloween Science. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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Halloween Storytime & Costume Parade. 10:15 a.m. Longmont Senior Center, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Tween/Teen Bonus Tuesday: Monster Mason Jar Lanterns. 10 p.m. and 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4845. Wednesday, October 31 Music Bruce Campbell’s Last Fan Standing. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030. Carl Broemel. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
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Cherub — with Maddy O’Neal. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Danzig: 30 Year Anniversary Tour. 6:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360. Heavy Beauty. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. itchy-O Hallowmass. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. The Joy Formidable. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Magic Beans Halloween Celebration. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Events 41st Denver Film Festival. 12 a.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-381-0813. BoulderReads Tutor Roundtable. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Carousel of Spookiness. 4 p.m. Carousel of Happiness, 20 Lakeview Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3457. Halloween Crafts. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville, 303-335-4821. Halloween Mummies Craft. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Mad Scientist Day: Flying Ghost Rockets. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3100. A Paris Education. 4 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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The failure in our living by Edward Lee
Dying where we stand, slouched, our eyes closed, hands covering our ears, one could almost imagine the world has stopped revolving, a silent protest against our collective indifference of the rot that festers in the deep wake of the footsteps stretching behind us, akin to all the possibilities that live inside us unrealised, endlessly unrealised.
Edward Lee’s poetry, short stories, non-fiction and photography have been published in magazines in Ireland, England and the United States, including “The Stinging Fly,” “Skylight 47,” “Acumen and Smiths Knoll.” His debut poetry collection Playing Poohsticks On Ha’Penny Bridge was published in 2010. He is currently working towards a second collection.
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his is my idea of the perfect a.m. trifecta. First, an exceptional cup of freshly made coffee that fits the mood: light and fruity or dark and moody. Next, expertly toasted, thick slices from a crusty loaf of hearty, hand-kneaded and baked bread, lightly buttered. The coup de grâce is jam, fruit butter, marmalade and preserves, preferably made with local fruit. And, a comfortable seat and something to read. Many Colorado restaurants, cafes and bakeries serve toast — sometimes topped with almost everything — but far too few appreciate toasting as a craft. Brice Young, co-owner and chief barista of Louisville’s Precision Pours, gets it. “If you look in big cities around the country, in Europe and Japan, there are these shops that basically offer just great coffee and great toast,” he says. see NIBBLES Page 46
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At 7:30 a.m. on a recent weekday, Precision Pours saw a steady line of bicyclists, moms and locals crowding into the odd, tiny building near the railroad tracks on South Boulder Road. The place is so small the storage area is in the rafters, accessible from a drop-down wooden ladder. Since opening in Louisville more than three years ago, Young and his partner and fiancée, Amy Newman, have gotten a reputation for a geeky, detail-oriented obsession with making coffee. The name of the place says it all. “A nerd, yup,” Young says. The Boulder native graduated from Fairview High and studied biology at CU, so he’s a process-oriented guy. He wants to know which one coffee you want among the nutty, chocolate-y, wine-y, and dark beans he has on hand at any given time. Instead of using one roaster, Young sources beans from boutique roasters across the country. “We’re always up for new, interesting coffees that no one else has,” he says. He brought that focus on craft to bread when he decided to add sourdough bread and homemade jams to the menu and put toast front and center. By the way, that doesn’t mean Precision serves sandwiches, and it certainly doesn’t sell that ubiquitous hipster menu item, avocado toast. “We’re not about charging four bucks extra for a few slices of avocado,” he says.
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Young takes a minimalist approach, mixing and kneading one loaf at a time and baking it in a moist cast-iron pot in a small convection oven. It’s strictly sourdough with only naturally occurring wild yeasts. “It’s a 60- to 72-hour process — really there are 11 processes involved including folding and proofing the dough,” he says. The lengthy wait develops a wonderful, clean, tart sourdough flavor. The crust is fantastic with roasted, caramelized crunch and occasional crunchy char. His classic sourdough is the most popular choice, but my favorite is the sprouted seeded bread with tons
of flavor. Other loaves incorporate fresh local pumpkin or dried blueberries with just a hint of sweetness. “I like to go to local gardeners and farmers to get organic produce of different kinds that will go well in the breads. I’m seeing the great things chef Kelly (Whitaker of Basta) and Andy (Clark) at Moxie Bread Co. are doing with local heirloom grains. It’s just a matter of time before we source local flour for our loaves,” he says. There is usually a whole loaf or two available to take home, but it is first come, first served bread-wise every morning.
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When you order your toast at Precision pours, you need to specify exactly how you like your toast. Some like it lightly toasted, others prefer golden, dark and caramelized. Me? I like a moderate toast, a little butter and a lot of jam. When I visited Precision Pours, the selection included chunky, roasted nectarine preserves; spiced, silky apple butter with thyme; and dark plum jam. “A lot of Europeans come in — especially Brits and Germans, and they are really happy with coffee and toast, usually with no butter, just toasted,” Young said.
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“It’s tough to pin down the ‘thing’ that really defines Colorado food-wise — it’s kind of a mish-
mash of Western influences that’ve migrated from elsewhere (they’re big on green chile) with a heavy dose of meats like buffalo and Colorado lamb. Also, it’s hard to discover that Rocky Mountain oysters are actually delicious without a little metaphysical courage,” writes Thrillist, which recently ranked Colorado No. 19 on a list of states ranked by their food scenes. ... Japanese baked goods have been scarce in the metro area. Now, Tokyo Premium Bakery has opened at 1540 S. Pearl St. in Denver offering authentic milk bread, matcha tea-cream-filled pastries, savory curry-filled pastries, sausage rolls and baguettes with cod roe. ... The annual Hard Cider Festival Oct. 27 at Delicious Orchards in Hotchkiss features one of the state’s largest tastings of hard ciders from Colorado and elsewhere. northforkcreative.org/events/hard-cider-fest
Colorado wine for Thanksgiving
The annual Colorado Governor’s Cup Collection is a great way to see how far wines made with Colorado grapes have come. Among the judges’ picks are two wines from Boulder’s Bookcliff Vineyards: a 2016 tempranillo and a 2015 cabernet franc reserve. Other winners include: 2016 petit verdot (Colterris, Palisade), 2016 cabernet franc (The Infinite Monkey Theorem, Denver), 2017 riesling (Whitewater Hill Vineyards, Grand Junction), and 1999 port (Colorado Cellars, Palisade). The grape exception is a Carlson Vineyards wine made from Grand Valley plums. The Colorado Uncorked tasting of all the winning wines is Nov. 8 at History Colorado Center in Denver. coloradowine.com/governors-cup
Words to chew on
“All you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich and you haven’t broken any rules.” — Jack Nicholson, Five Easy Pieces John Lehndorff is a prep cook. Listen to his Radio Nibbles podcasts at: news.kgnu.org/category/radio-nibbles. Comment: nibbles@boulderweekly.com
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ndy Parker is not a meteorologist. He runs the barrel program at Avery Brewing, and 16 years into his tenure at the brewery, is a seasoned jack of all trades who has his figurative hand in every brew the company puts out. But he can’t read the weather, and so he has no idea what made this year’s batch of Colorado spruce tips in the Fall Day IPAs we’re drinking at one of the bars inside the Avery mothership in Gunbarrel taste like cantaloupe and not like pine, like they have in previous years. “I haven’t really bothered to do research on it,” Parker admits. “If we were to [make Fall Day] on a large scale, we’d want it to be more consistent from year to year. But on the small scale, we can have fun. It’s stress-free to get a really good supplier and do it from year to year.” Avery has 30 beers on tap at all times. About 10 of them, you can’t get on tap or in bottles or cans anywhere else. Beyond those 30 tapped beers, Parker and the rest of the brewing team have several kegs of experimental beer that they sample multiple times over the course of weeks. And beyond those kegs, there are growlers filled with various beers, often filled with various herbs, spices and other flavor-making additives. If there’s one thing I learn walking around the Avery facility with Parker, checking out these beer trials and chatting about spruce tips, it’s that despite the brewery’s growth over the years, they still like to push the envelope. In fact, their growth has enabled them to refine their process. Take the Bug Zapper, for example. A brewer at Avery had an idea for the beer he wanted to create: a sour ale with ginger, lime and mint. So the team experimented: raw ginger and juiced ginger; dried mint and fresh mint; lime juice, peel and zest. They
sourced ingredients from myriad producers, tried dozens of proportions, until, at last, Parker and a panel of Avery’s beer experts gave it the OK. They ran it through a cost analysis and, fortunately, the ingredients used in the chosen recipe worked out financially. It went to the taproom, where it flew out of kegs, and now the funky, precisely named ale is in cans and going gangbusters. So how did they know when a beer that tastes like nothing else ever concocted was good to go? “At some point you go around the room of people who have been in the industry for 10 to 15 years and they all say, ‘I’d buy this in a six-pack, this is awesome,’” Parker says. “Could you spend another month and make it another 5 percent better? Yeah, maybe. But at some point you just gotta call it.” Not all beers get the seal of approval from the masses. Not even the folks at Avery know what’s going to take off. Real Peel, for instance, a zesty IPA that gets a kick of dry citrus from tangerine peel, was a hit among the tasting panel, but hasn’t gotten the traction that other Avery beers have enjoyed. On the other hand, El Gose, a German-style sour with lime and sea salt, is the company’s number-two seller nationwide despite the fact that Parker says he doesn’t like the gose style. “I think we’re having a difficult time predicting what everybody wants anymore. I think everyone is,” Parker says. But the key, Parker says, is committing to making the best in class and trusting their collective palate. Even though gose isn’t Parker’s favorite style, he stands by the final recipe because he knows they made the best version of that beer that they could. That represents a slight change in approach for Parker and Avery. In the early days, when the market wasn’t so saturated, they could put out practically anything, and by virtue of being at the right place at the right time, Boulder Weekly
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TO GONDOLIER ITALIAN EATERY Where Going Out Feels Like Coming Home The Gondolier has played a big part of Boulder’s community history for over 50 years, and we want to make memories with Boulder County families for years to come. Quality local ingredients they’d get customers. Now, with breweries still popping up across the country, the folks at Avery have had to The Avery barrelaging program adjust. includes some “For last 15 years it was, ‘We’re gonna make what unique tequilabarrel-aged sour we want. We love beer and a portion of people will beers. love [what we make] too.’ That’s when there were 1,000 breweries. Now there are 6,000 breweries. We have a lot of talks like, ‘We can’t just make what the six of us in R and D want to make,’” Parker says. Parker travels the country trying the best brews from craft producers, hoping to pinpoint what the next big thing in brewing will be. When they pinpoint a style they‘d like to go after, Avery can use the resources they’ve amassed from their growth — including a team of scientists, a fully stocked warehouse of barrels, state-of-theart brewing equipment serviced by the industry’s top technicians, a de facto tasting panel in their tap room, and a country-wide network of markets to sell to — not only to find the right mixture for that style but to get it to market before it gets flooded. Right now, one example would be brewed IPAs. Created, literally, six months ago at Social Kitchen in San Francisco, brewed IPAs are made with an enzyme that chips away at sugars in the brewing process so that all the bitterness from the hops are stripped, leaving only the citrus or floral notes. It’s a style that’s primed to bombard beer shelves and tap rooms in the coming months, but Avery already has an experimental brewed IPA on tap (which Parker admits is not perfect) and two in the brewing process (which Parker says are much better). So the race is on to make a brewed IPA that tastes good and to get it to market. “Right now, because of the internet, everyone knows about them,” Parker says. “We won’t be the first ones to have one in a can, but we’ll be close. Sierra Nevada’s trying to put one out right now. Our first effort was not great, but that’s OK.” The thing is, some people mistakenly assume Avery’s growth is a precursor to the brewery making bad beer. But Parker says that in addition to the ability to get experimental and new beers before consumers earlier, the growth has enabled Avery to ensure quality. All the tanks at their old brewery off Arapahoe in Boulder were outside, and so even switching pipes off and on the tanks presented the chance for unwanted particles to get inside the brew. White Rascal, for instance, is as good as its ever been because every part of the brewing process is monitored and quarantined from contaminants at the new facility. Too, the growth hasn’t just affected the technical parts of Avery’s process — it’s improved the collective wisdom of the brewers themselves. For instance, unsavory flavors they would’ve chalked up to “batch variation” 10 years ago, can now be pinpointed. “Not every batch of our beer has been awesome,” Parker says. “We weren’t educated enough as brewers to know we were doing it.” Several years ago, brewers kept tasting an off flavor in Ellie’s Brown Ale. They sent a sample to New Belgium, who had already installed an industry-best quality control team, and found out it was high amounts of acetaldehyde, a naturally occurring compound that tastes fine at small levels (Parker says the green apple flavor is the characteristic flavor of Budweiser), but kind of like a Sharpie at high levels. They didn’t know at the time acetaldehyde could taint a batch. “We were like, ‘Oh shit, we just learned something.’” Parker says. And so given their combined knowledge, Parker claims Avery hasn’t made a bad batch in seven years. He’ll stand behind everything Avery’s put out, even the experimental ones, because that’s all part of the process of creating great, unique, exciting beer. Knowing how to work with every ingredient that goes into Avery’s beer is the real reward for their growth, not whatever financial gains the company has made. They’ve learned to turn lemons into lemonade; to make canteloupe-y spruce tips into delicious IPA. Boulder Weekly
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f ever there were a time to dive into homebrewing, now would be it. Not only does 2018 mark the 40th anniversary of President Jimmy Carter signing H.R. 1337 — making it legal to relax and have a homebrew — Nov. 3 is the American Homebrew Association’s 20th annual Learn to Homebrew Day. Those who’ve celebrated the holidsy in the past know that Boulder Fermentation Supply is a one-stop shop for all your homebrewing/wine-making needs. “No matter how much or how little people want to do, we’re here to make that happen,” Greg Kallfa says. “It’s like an art supply store for people making beer,” Adam Kandle adds. Founders, owners and brewers, Kallfa and Kandle, opened BFS in late 2013. The two met while working at Hop To It, Boulder’s previous homebrew shop. It turned out to be fortuitous for both as Kallfa was building up a brewery in his garage — “bootstrapMichael J. Casey ping” a barrel-and-a-half frankensystem — while Kandle was looking for the kind of job he could devote himself to. Their idea: open their own homebrew shop, one that would offer something Hop To It didn’t. “We were going to focus on Colorado malting companies, we were going to get the local grains, and we were also going to make sure that we didn’t run out of things,” Kandle explains. “I just had to convince myself that Boulder could sustain two homebrew shops if we’re a really different homebrew shop.” “It was kind of an easy in for us because we knew the scenario,” Kallfa adds. “Since we had both been immersed in it, we knew we could do it.” The two ended up being a perfect fit, and while each brought something different to the table, both agreed on core aesthetics. For one, Kallfa resents the notion that retail stores have to be sterile. Kandle was on board, knowing full well that a distinct portion of the Boulder population appreciated a shaggy, lived-in space full of character. “Here’s Macy’s over here and here’s a bunch of people hanging out under a bridge,” Kandle says holding his hands up to mimic a scale. “We want to be closer to Macy’s than the halfway point, [but] we don’t want to be a surf shop: when the tide comes in, everybody leaves work and puts a sign on the door.” Consistency, a vast selection of grains and gadgetry, and a whole lot of knowhow has served Kallfa and Kandle well. As has VisionQuest Brewing, their sevenbarrel brewery next door that consistently puts out excellent and unique beers. Both businesses work hand-in-hand, supporting the other through sustained organic growth. “It’s just been a slow build,” Kallfa says. “A very true and earned slow build.” Boulder Fermentation Supply celebrates its fifth anniversary this Thanksgiving while VisionQuest recently celebrated its third year of brewing. The future looks bright for Kallfa and Kandle; not too mention, the Boulder homebrew scene. “We’re in this Boulder market, and we’re not leaving,” Kallfa says with a smile. “We’re staying here.” Boulder Weekly
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that. In accordance with the astrological omens, I endorse her persepcIn her poem “Shedding tive as true and useful Skin,” Harryette Mullen Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob for you. You’ve zipped compares her own transBrezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES through your time of formation to the action and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio fertile chaos, conjuring a snake periodically carhoroscopes are also available by phone at up fresh possibilities. 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. ries out to renew itself. When January arrives, Since you now have an you’ll be ready to work excellent opportunity to on stability and security. But for now, your assignment undertake your own molting process, you may find her is to blossom. Halloween costume suggestions: beautiful thoughts helpful. (I’ve rendered them in prose for eascreature hatching from an egg; strong sprout cracking ier reading.) “Pulling out of the old scarred skin — old out of a seed. rough thing I don’t need now — I strip off, slip out of, leave behind. Shedding toughness, peeling layers down SCORPIO to vulnerable stuff. And I’m blinking off old eyelids OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “He believed in magic,” writes for a new way of seeing. By the rock I rub against, I’m author Michael Chabon about a character in his novel going to be tender again.” Halloween costume suggesThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. “Not in tion: snake sloughing its skin. the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams, and bat wings,” nor “dowsing rods, séances, weeping statues, TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20: “Only the young and stupid are werewolves, wonders or miracles.” Then what kind? Chabon says it’s the “impersonal magic of life,” like confident about sex and romance,” says 49-year-old coincidences and portents that reveal their meanings author Elizabeth Gilbert, who has written extensively in retrospect. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, about those subjects. I agree with her. I’ve devoted because now is a favorable time to call on the specific myself to studying the mysteries of love for many years, kind of magic that you regard as real and helpful. What yet still feel like a rookie. Even if you are smarter about kind of magic is that? Halloween costume suggestion: these matters than Gilbert and me, Taurus, I urge you magician, witch, wizard. to adopt a humble and curious attitude during the next few weeks. The cosmos has prepared some interesting SAGITTARIUS lessons for you, and the best way to take advantage is to NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “If adventures will not befall a be eagerly receptive and open-minded. Halloween cosyoung lady in her own village, she must seek them tume suggestion: sex researcher, love explorer, intimacy abroad.” Sagittarian author Jane Austen wrote that in experimenter. her novel Northanger Abbey, and now I’m passing her message on to you, slightly altered. My version is, “If GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20: “My way of learning is to heave adventures will not befall Sagittarian people of any age or gender in their own neighborhood, they must a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the seek them abroad.” And where exactly is “abroad”? The machinery,” wrote Gemini author Dashiell Hammett. dictionary says it might mean a foreign country, or it But I recommend that you use his approach very rarely, could simply mean outside or in another place. I’d like and only when other learning methods aren’t working. to extend the meaning further to include anywhere Most of the time, your best strategy for getting the lesoutside your known and familiar world. Halloween sons you need is to put lubricating oil into the machincostume suggestion: traveler on a pilgrimage or explorer ery, not a monkey-wrench. That’ll be especially true in on a holy quest. the coming weeks. I suggest that you turn the machinery off for a while as you add the oil and do some mainteCAPRICORN nance. Halloween costume suggestion: repair person, DEC. 22-JAN. 19: PR executives at a beer company computer techie, machine whisperer. offered to pay me a lot of money if I would sneak a product placement ad into your horoscope. They asked CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: The great Swedish filmmaker me to pretend there was a viable astrological reason to recommend that you imbibe their product in abundance. Ingmar Bergman was a Cancerian like you and me. One But the truth is, the actual planetary omens suggest the of the factors contributing to his success was that he opposite. You should not in fact be lounging around put his demons to good use, “by harnessing them to his in a haze of intoxication. You should instead be workchariot.” He also testified that he gained control over his ing hard to drum up support for your labor of love demons by taking long walks after breakfast. “Demons or your favorite cause. Very Important People will be don’t like fresh air,” he said. “They prefer it if you stay more available to you than usual, and you’ll be wise to in bed with cold feet.” I suspect that now would be an seek their input. Halloween costume suggestion: the excellent time to adopt his advice. Halloween costume Ultimate Fundraiser; Networker of the Year; Chief suggestion: walk your demon on a leash, or make it into Hobnobber. a puppet, or harness it to your chariot.
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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “What kind of idea are you?” asks author Salmon Rushdie. “Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloodyminded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?” I pose this question to you, Aquarius, because I think you could be an effective version of either idea in the coming weeks. If you’re the latter — the cussed, damnfool notion — you may change your world in dramatic ways. Halloween costume suggestions: revolutionary; crusader; agitator; rabble-rouser.
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JULY 23-AUG. 22: Throughout the Halloween season, I encourage you to fantasize extensively about what your dream home would look like and feel like if you had all the money necessary to create it. What colors would you paint the walls? Would you have carpets or hardwood floors? What would be your perfect lighting, furniture and décor? As you gazed out your windows, what views would you see? Would there be nature nearby or urban hotspots? Would you have an office or music room or art studio? Have fun imagining the sanctuary that would bring out the best in you. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate homebody.
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FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “There is no beauty without some strangeness,” wrote Edgar Allen Poe. Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo ventured further, declaring, “Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” She also added another nuance to her definition: “For something to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be pretty.” I’ll offer you one more seed for thought: wabi-sabi. It’s a Japanese term that refers to a kind of beauty that’s imperfect, transitory and incomplete. I bring these clues to your attention, Pisces, because now is an excellent time to refine and clarify your own notion of beauty — and re-commit yourself to embodying it. Halloween costume suggestion: the embodiment of your definition of beauty.
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Dear Dan: I’m a gay male, and one of my good friends has put me in a strange position. The friend has been married to his husband for 15 years, and they are allowed to “play.” I have no desire to be in an open relationship, and I don’t think my boyfriend does either. I occasionally go over to this friend’s house right after work to buy weed, and he’s always alone when I come by. He joked about answering the door naked and then did it. (He told me he was going to, but I honestly didn’t think he would do it.) I was extremely uncomfortable, and he knew it. The last time I went over, he was naked again — and this time, he jerked off to completion in front of me. He asked me to join in, and I told him I couldn’t because I hadn’t discussed anything like this with my boyfriend. I’m supposed to go over again tomorrow, and he asked me to come by early because his husband would be getting home from work early that day. This leads me to believe that the husband would not be OK with this. I haven’t said anything to his husband or my boyfriend because I don’t want this to become a huge mess and I hoped my palpable discomfort would put an end to it. Any thoughts on how I should handle this nicely to make
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it stop without hurting his feelings? —Undressed Naked Friend Really Is Engineering Needless Drama Dear UNFRIEND: Your “good friend” is an asshole, UNFRIEND. He’s violating a whole bunch of social norms — chiefly the don’t-jerk-off-tocompletion-in-front-of-other-peoplewithout-their-enthusiastic-consent norm (aka the Louis C.K. Career in Comedy Memorial Norm) — and relying on your adherence to other social norms (avoid being rude, defuse don’t confront, spare others’ feelings) to get away with violating you as well. This asshole is sexually harassing you, and you haven’t told him to stop in unambiguous language. The only reason you’ve given him for not whipping it out yourself is that you haven’t “discussed anything like this with [your] boyfriend.” He has self-servingly interpreted your reason for not joining in like this: “He wants
Love
to, and maybe he will after he has a ‘discussion’ with his boyfriend.” I’m sorry, UNFRIEND, but you’re going to have to be blunt: “You have to knock this shit off. It’s disrespectful, it’s nonconsensual, and it’s pissing me off.” Don’t worry about hurting his feelings — he obviously doesn’t care about your feelings — and find a new weed dealer. Dear Dan: I have a follow-up question on your advice for JACKS, the gay manager who ran into an employee at a JO party. Alison “Ask a Manager” Green told him he couldn’t go to these parties anymore. A distinction was made between sexual situation encounters between bosses and those they manage in “private clubs” (the JO club) or at “public events” (Folsom Street Fair). My question is about Grindr/Scruff/Growlr/etc. Are these more like “private clubs” or “public events”? In part, my question stems from being a professor and having
seen students and colleagues on these apps. I feel like I should not be reading the profiles of students in my department (who are mostly graduate students). I am also troubled by my colleagues appearing on these apps — from the perspective that this seems to be a sexually oriented space and there is the power differential between faculty and students. —Basics Of Sexual Spaces Dear BOSS: Dating apps are the new gay bars — more than 75 percent of same-sex couples met online — so telling gay bosses or college profs they can’t go on dating apps because their gay male students or underlings might be on them means condemning gay bosses and profs to celibacy. Bosses and profs shouldn’t flirt with their students and underlings, of course, and it might be a good idea to block ’em when you spot ’em — so you won’t be tempted by their profiles/torsos and they won’t be tempted by yours — but gay bosses and profs are free to look for dick on dating apps. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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alloween is pretty much the best. What’s not to love about a holiday that encourages you to eat excessive amounts of sugar while pretending to be someone else? Whether you’re taking the kids trick-or-treating, getting into Facebook fights about cultural appropriation or drunk dialing your ex in a pair of poorly constructed animal ears, there’s a lot
don’t be a dick and eat all of your kid’s hardearned candy when you get the munchies. Speaking of which, the media and law enforcement love to spend this time of year warning parents of the scary things that could potentially be handed out to their children, with an emphasis on looking out for weed-laced candy. The amount of hysteria that has been generated around this is insulting to a legalized industry that is striving to do all it can to deliver the highest standards of safety. If you’re a parent feeling anxious about this, I would like to calm your fears by reminding you that your kids are more likely to die in a school shooting than dying because the neighbors fed them weed. Besides the fact that I was unable to find a report of a child being killed or seriously injured by pot candy acquired while trick-ortreating, edibles are expensive. So if you find them in your kid’s orange pumpkin basket this year, please let me know which neighborhood you live in because I would very much like to meet the wealthy sociopath giving out free drugs by the handful.
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Edibles Candy is the reason we all started caring about Halloween in the first place, like way back in the ’90s before we all found out about our gluten allergies. Now as a health conscious adult, I try to avoid sugar, so if I’m eating candy, it better get me stoned. There are a variety of delicious options available at dispensaries, my favorite being Coda Signature truffles or brownie bites from Sweet Grass Kitchen. Just
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At this point in my life, Halloween isn’t about being scary, it’s about looking for tasteful ways to put my cleavage on display and shoving my body into a corset before I start eating carbs for the winter. When it comes to cannabisthemed costumes, the possibilities are endless. Dressing up as a famous stoner in pop culture is always classic, like Willie Nelson, Puff the Magic Dragon, Cheech and Chong, Abbi and Ilana from Broad City, the cast of That 70’s Show, the cast of Scooby Doo, Nancy Botwin from Weeds, Harold and Kumar, Snoop Dog and Martha Stewart, and so on. Some of those are a little played out and part of doing
Halloween right is showing the world your creative side, which can be done with straininspired costumes like Granddaddy Purple, White Widow, Space Queen and Grape Ape. You could also make a political statement by going as Attorney General Jeff Sessions or dress in an orange jumper and tell people you’re representing one of the thousands who are still incarcerated for nonviolent marijuana offenses. Whatever you do, just don’t promote the stereotype of stoners being lazy with a last-minute decision to go out with a pot on your head.
Going out Unless you are pregnant or super old, there is not a single reason you shouldn’t go out on Halloween. It’s so annoying when friends are like, “I’m just going to stay in and watch Hocus Pocus.” No, we’re not 10 years old. Get off your couch and go eat some mushrooms and visit a corn maze like a real adult. There are a ton of haunted houses nearby, including Denver’s 13th Floor Haunted House, which was shown on the Travel Channel as one of America’s scariest attractions. If you don’t like partying or are looking for something family friendly, there are a plethora of local pumpkin patches, parades and other Halloween events happening all October.
Movies If you want to participate in this holiday without ever leaving your house, Netflix has a category just for you. I don’t like horror movies, so my favorite Halloween movies are The Craft, Practical Magic and Mean Girls. Don’t even try to argue with me on the last one because it’s a cinematic masterpiece and it’s just as much of a Halloween movie as Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas.
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ood news. The Gallup organization’s latest poll on marijuana legalization has found that Americans now favor legalizing pot by a two-to-one margin, an all-time record. The poll found 66 percent of those surveyed favor legalizing marijuana, compared to 32 percent who don’t. The figures for 2017 were 64 to 32 percent, and 60 to 39 percent for 2016. Not only are the numbers the highest in Gallup’s 49-year history of polling on marijuana legalization, I think they are the most favorable of any national poll ever taken on the subject. Earlier this month, a Pew Research poll found 62 percent support for legalizing pot. But, man, what a long, agonizing trip it’s been. Gallup first asked a marijuana legalization question in 1969. At the time just 12 percent of Americans favored legalization. Support rose into the 20 percent range in the 1970s, and stayed there for the next 25 years. It didn’t start to grow again until the year 2000, and in 2013, the year after Colorado voted to legalize recreational marijuana, national support for
legalization finally breached 50 percent. Every demographic in this year’s poll supported legalization, including Republicans, 53 percent of whom favored legalization. This is the second year a majority of Republicans have favored legalization; last year it was 51
percent. Democrats and Independents were overwhelmingly in favor at 75 percent and 71 percent respectively. Gallup also found that a big jump in the number of older Americans who supported legalizing marijuana to 59 percent from 50 percent in 2017, but
the number should be taken with a grain of salt. That’s because Gallup defines its “older Americans” demographic as those over age 55. Most other national polls define it as those over 65, and those polls usually find that among Americans eligible for Social Security, legalizing pot is still a minority opinion. Americans aged 18-34 are overwhelmingly in support of legalization, with 78 percent in favor. The figure for those aged 35 to 54 is 65 percent in favor. One of the bigger changes in the survey was in regional support for ending pot prohibition. In most previous Gallup polls, there was 10 to 15 percent greater support for legalization on the East and West coasts than in the South and Midwest. This year there is virtually no difference between the regions. The Midwest, South and West all clocked in with 65 percent support; the figure for the East was 67 percent. “Like support for gay marriage — and in prior years, interracial marriage — support for marijuana legalization has generally only expanded, even if slowly, over the course of multiple
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