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t last, America’s political leaders indicate that they now feel the pain of the poor and of the millions of working families slipping out of the middle class. Congress had previously paid no attention to the ever-widening chasm between the rich and the rest of us, but it has recently emerged as a central issue for such Republican presidential contenders as Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Rand
Paul and Marco Rubio. They are publicly lamenting the wealth gap and, by gollies, proposing solutions. Alas, though, the “solution” proposed by each of them is not to provide help for those who’ve been knocked down, but to offer aid to the same corporate elites who’ve been knocking down the middle class and holding down the poor. Specifically, their solution is to cut taxes on corporations and the rich, do away with environmental and labor protections, and cut or privatize government programs — from Head Start to Social Security — that ordinary people count on. For example, Sen. Rubio proposes to kill the food stamp program (even though the need for it is greater than ever) and redirect that money into what he calls a subsidy for low-wage workers. Does he think we have sucker-wrappers around our heads? That’s not a subsidy for workers, but for low-wage employers. Why
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should taxpayers subsidize the poverty pay of profitable giants like McDonald’s, rather than making them pay living wages and cover their own labor costs? I guess we should count it as progress that candidates are at least having to admit that inequality is a problem, but come on, offering the same old failed, anti-government snake oil is an insult to the American people. Jeb Bush shows how vacuous their flim-flammery is by saying that, to address the everwidening wealth and income gap, he’ll “celebrate success and cherish free enterprise.” Gosh, what a comfort that’ll be to America’s hard-hit majority. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 29, 2015 9
dyertimes Why I refused my GOP debate press credentials
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ike every other news organization, we were excited when it was originally announced that CNBC’s GOP presidential debate was going to be held at CU’s Coors Events Center. But since that original announcement, the debate has become embroiled in one controversy after another. First it was the unbelievable decision to leave 10,000 seats in the Events Center empty during the debate even though demand for the seats was incredibly high. Then we were told that of the thousand people who would be allowed to watch the debate live, only 50 of them would be chosen from the tuition-paying student body. That number was eventually expanded to a still-paltry 100 students, but even those had to be approved by campus administrators. Translation: CU President and Republican operative Bruce Benson was in effect the final filter on which students got in. Weeks ago, CU students figured out that this whole debate thing was pretty fishy. So they wisely asked for all the email correspondence concerning the debate between CU administrators, CNBC and faculty by way of an open records requests under CORA. Not surprisingly to those of us who have dealt with CU’s consistent hesitance to provide the public with its own records, the university is once again in violation of Colorado’s open records law having returned no documents within the actual three-day timeframe allowed under the law and has still only provided a fraction of the total documents requested even after weeks. The final straw for me came this week when I was told I could pick up my press credentials for the debate and was given my logistical instructions. I was shocked to discover my precious pass only gave me and all other news media an “assigned seat” in an “assigned room” in a separate building from the actual debate, where all news coverage was to be conducted by watching an “assigned monitor” that would be airing only the pictures CNBC made available. In other words, the news media is also being locked out of the actual 10 October 29, 2015
debate. So when the Camera or Post say they’ll be providing live coverage of the debate, what they really mean is that they will have someone watching a TV monitor and tweeting. But don’t worry, members of the press did get access to the “Spin Room” so talking heads could explain to to them what they just watched on TV. Who would agree to cover the “spin” live after being locked out of the debate? Not me. To even accept “press credentials” under such controlled terms would have been an insult to you, our readers. In conclusion, here’s the email I sent explaining why I wouldn’t be picking up my press credentials: Am I to understand that the press credentials issued by your organization do not get me into the actual debate hall, but rather into a media room where I am expected to watch the debate on a monitor seeing only the part of the story you choose to let me see? Why would I let you be my filter on a news story in my town? This is a ridiculous operation that has no journalistic integrity whatsoever. If you won’t allow journalists to cover the event then at least be honest enough to say so. If I can’t be in the hall to report on crowd reaction that I determine with my own eyes and ears, or to see what each of the candidates is doing while another candidate is speaking, then there is no reason to attend because I will only be reporting what you want me to see and hear and that is a disservice to my readers. Please reconsider and allow me to actually cover this debate. If you won’t allow journalists to honestly cover the debate then you can keep my so-called “press pass.” Or better yet, give it to some TV news-reader who doesn’t understand that letting you folks completely control and sanitize this story isn’t journalism at all. I have no interest in sitting in your “assigned seat” in your “assigned room” and watching this news story on your “assigned screen.” Please let me know if you will allow me to cover this story from the debate hall so I don’t waste my time picking up a pass that only lets me watch your monitor and then listen to talking heads in a spin room interpret what I saw on your monitor. This is what is wrong with media and politics. They did not reconsider.
danish plan Inconvenient truths about “affordable” housing and Ballot Question 300 by Paul Danish
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hatever else Ballot Questions 300 and 301 end up accomplishing, they have already succeeded in awakening the social consciences of most of the developers, builders, realtors and bankers in Boulder. They’ll get over it, of course, but in the meantime a lot of trash is being talked about planning, development, growth and housing prices in Boulder. And about Ballot Questions 300 and 301. Ballot Questions 300 and 301 would allow residents of neighborhoods to vote on zoning changes that affect their neighborhoods (Question 300) and require new growth to pay its own way (Question 301). Here, in no particular order, are a few inconvenient truths that ought to be part of the conversation but aren’t: 1. Both liberals and conservatives say they’re for “more affordable” housing, but the very term “affordable housing” is meaningless. All housing is affordable — by someone. It isn’t “affordable housing” that we’re after. It’s low-priced housing. 2. The reason Boulder housing prices are high isn’t “a simple matter of sup-
ply and demand” as pro-growthers (both those with recently awakened social consciences and those with interminable liberal guilt) sometimes claim. It’s a simple matter of demand and supply. Boulder housing prices are high because there are a lot of relatively high paying jobs in the Boulder. When it comes to buying a house, chances are Boulderites with six-figure incomes will want more than a double-wide. 3. Apart from demand and supply, Boulder housing is going to be more expensive than comparable housing elsewhere in the metro Denver area for at least two other reasons. The first is location, location, location; if you want to live within walking distance of the Rocky Mountains instead of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, you’re going to pay a premium. The second is that the people of Boulder have made an enormous investment in maintaining Boulder’s environment and character — starting with the purchase of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of open space — which makes Boulder a highly desirable place to live and pushes up property values. 4. When it comes to Boulder houssee DANISH PLAN Page 12
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ing, the 500-pound gorilla in the room is the University of Colorado. The current enrollment of the University of Colorado is about 32,000, and chances are it will continue to grow. Historically university dormitories and married student housing can accommodate maybe 25 to 30 percent of the student body, and that proportion is unlikely to change much in the future. The rest, more than 20,000, live in off-campus housing in Boulder or in surrounding
towns. It doesn’t take a genius to see that as CU grows an increasing number of students are going to find accommodations outside of Boulder — in Westminster, Longmont, Lafayette, Broomfield, Northglenn, Frederick and so on, and commute to school. Instead of trying to further densify the already over-crowded neighborhoods near the campus, a more realistic student housing policy for Boulder would be for the City to provide more
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parking lots near the campus. 5. There is no free lunch. The more Boulder grows, the more traffic-congested it is going to become. This is because a) Boulder is designed around the automobile, and b) thanks to Boulder’s geography, Boulder’s street network cannot be expanded much without doing real damage to the city. Buses, bicycles and hare-brained schemes like eliminating auto lanes on arterial streets in favor of bicycle lanes
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letters Please vote no on Questions 300 and 301
There are better ways to address and plan for Boulder’s evolution. Consider this: for decades thousands of people have moved to Boulder with a similar rationale — this is a place where they felt they could pursue and live their best life. We are a magnet. We match most of our best stereotypes and have dozens of empowering and niche attributes people find once they’re here. Everyone who has chosen to live here has some sense of gratitude they figured out a way to make it work — perhaps even finding their “dream” home. Think about how you spend your free time here: the events, the recreation, the schools, the restaurants you choose. The weather, the festivals, the bike paths and more places for a good coffee meeting than cities five times our size. The list continues with countless wonderful experiences and people. How we perceive and plan for the continued arrival of people also yearning to live here — as all of us nonnatives have managed to do — deserves thoughtful and sophisticated policies. Indeed, Boulder’s land use and growth control measures of the past decades were profoundly visionary in their holistic approach to guide and shape the city’s growth. There’s the height limit of 55 feet to ensure no towers block most views. We tax ourselves to surround the city with open space. Via the “blue line” across the foothills we keep our view of nature, not others’ mansions: brilliant! These planning concepts have both tangibly and spiritually benefited generations of Boulderites — while massively adding to our allure. Given that the City Attorney’s office has informed City Council that both the Neighborhood Vote and the Growth Must Pay measures contain vague instructions that will require further legal clarification, the guaranteed effect of these two measures is that the City will stop issuing all building permits and make no land use changes for months, maybe more than a year. That blunt and impractical effect on our city’s natural evolution is egregious. It would immediately affect projects of varying sizes and types. Perhaps even worse, these measures do nothing to decrease the allure of Boulder — but they further warp the supply and demand dynamics facing us, making property in Boulder instantly less accessible, more valuable and expensive (i.e. property taxes bump even more). At best we can merely guide the macro market forces on Boulder, and we’re aren’t going to “build our way Boulder Weekly
out”; I’m not advocating that. But not building anything, by design or by legal quagmire, is not “community planning”. We can’t act — and codify in our charter — as if we can slam the door on change with an attitude of “you’re too late, sorry!” Make no mistake: these two measures empower more costs, hurdles and standards than are ever likely to be met — but not in a manner that benefits everyone like those remarkable policies of the past. Instead they allow
small minorities to create standards for acceptance into Boulder that are more about keeping people out than welcoming people in. I’m glad this wasn’t the case when I first rented in 1989 when I left the CU dorms. We must take the neighborhood and growth debates into our Comp Plan process and hash out more flexible and realistic protocols. And most of all, let’s NOT become “that kind of town” where we completely flipped our ethos
of progressive idealism into selfish NIMBYism. Vote no on 300 and 301. Dan Powers/Boulder
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struggle mightily to have their voices heard. Usually by the time they become aware of a large scale development project it is far along the planning pipe line. They have to scramble to organize and compete with the highly paid development staff and their professional presentations. The Safeway project in Boulder a number of years ago is an excellent example. Their plan for a 55,000-square foot store was in direct opposition to the sub community plan that took neighbors years to create. It had all kinds of size and height exemptions. What stopped this development was a group of dedicated neighbors who spent more a year doing their own research and traffic studies to show that the proposed site was not right for such a large store. Interestingly, the Safeway store was eventually and appropriately sited at the intersection of two four lane highways at Iris and 28th just as the neighborhood citizen group recommended. But what a struggle it was! 300 would give citizens a much needed presence and voice. 301 would help decrease the strain on our critical city services and infrastructure. Just how did it come to be that affordable housing somehow got conjoined with big development? If 301 gets passed the city would have sufficient funds to do their own affordable housing. Ellen Stark/Boulder
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I am voting for Angie Layton for Louisville City Council Ward III and hope you will also. I am a 10-year resident of Louisville and have known Angie that entire time. I have never seen someone as dedicated to Louisville and the things that make this city great. Angie has lived in Louisville with her husband for almost 15 years raising their two daughters in the community. Angie is a business owner and has also worked, volunteered and been on the board of numerous non-profit organizations in the region. Angie has attended and participated in countless City Council meetings. Both of Angie’s daughters attended schools in Louisville and the Boulder Valley School District. Angie is understandably concerned about growing population in our City and schools and will ensure that our voice is heard when the city develops its plan for the redevelopment of the Sam’s Club property. Angie will work well with City Boards and Commissions to manage growth and maintain the high quality of life residents now enjoy. Angie has also served on the Louisville Cultural Council for the past three years, especially important experi-
letters ence in light of the new Cultural Arts Master Plan that the City envisions having available in draft form by early 2016. This Master Plan will be vital in the current discussion at City Council concerning special events, including the future of the Street Faire, the use of Community Park, and the ability to expand the City’s offerings in the arts. To review Angie’s experience, numerous accomplishments, and dedication to public service go to: www. angielayton.com Thank you. Dominick M. Saia/Louisville
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I don’t always agree with Steve Pomerance, but I respect him as one of Boulder’s most involved and visionary citizens. Years ago, he wrote and spoke widely about his concerns with what he saw as out-of-control commercial development in Boulder. He warned that this would create an unhealthy imbalance between jobs and housing that would lead to rising rents and housing prices, a work force that would need to live in outlying areas, and the ensuing traffic and unhappiness this would create. Now, years later, do you think he was right? This year, Steve helped write two citizen initiatives: 300 and 301. Their aim is to have development fully pay for the costs it creates and to allow neighborhoods the right to have a vote on proposed major changes. Some opponents to these measures say they “are flawed;” but all agree that they will slow down the commercial machine. Do you believe that our present system is also flawed? Would it be good to have a slowdown of development until a truly inclusinve process exists? And is it time to give more citizens a voice? Some are concerned that these proposals will limit opportunities for affordable housing, homeless shelters and other needed projects. In these last years of ever-increasing development, has Boulder become more affordable? Have there been sufficient proposals for group homes or shelters? If development pays its full share of impact costs — instead of those costs being placed upon all residents — and is no longer allowed to “buy out” of providing affordable housing, could the city become more affordable for all? And how did Boulder’s affordable housing become so dependent on development? Finally, do you believe that at our best, we are a government of, by, and for the people? These are questions we should all consider before voting. Rivvy Neshama/Boulder
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item last year and endorses f ballot question 3A passBVSD this time around. es, Boulder Valley School “We recognize that an District (BVSD) would innovation economy like ours attempt to earn revenue demands this kind of broadand expand Internet band infrastructure,” CEO access. Thanks to a state law John Tayer says. “We also passed in 2005 (SB-152), which appreciate that our full comrestricts local governments from munity deserves access to high competing with broadband prospeed Internet for their own viders, BVSD must get permispersonal use to participate in sion from voters before leveragour society and to stay ing its own fiber optic network’s informed on important issues.” excess capacity. Voters face a A dozen cities and counties question with a fairly obvious have now passed exemptions to answer: Should schools keep the decade-old law. The mere innovating? threat of a town considering an Last year, BVSD launched a override can create a more pilot project called 1:Web (One to Web), issuing Chromebooks, competitive environment. After laptops running Google’s Longmont broke ground on Chrome operating system, to NextLight, touting the best incoming freshmen at prices in the state on gigabit The Boulder Valley School District is the first school district seeking to override SB-152, a piece of 2005 Centaurus High School. Now fiber-to-the-home, legislation that restricts local jurisdictions from competing with broadband Internet service providers. all ninth and tenth graders at CenturyLink started promoting Centaurus have one, and their nascent gigabit offerings miles of fiber capacity in the ground, Broomfield High freshmen are getting doing their homework because they with ads at Rockies games, mailers and one too. didn’t have the assumed access at home. including unused “dark” fiber. But the door-knocking campaigns in areas “We are working hard to try to get Textbooks are very rarely on the device. district can’t offer new broadband serwhere gigabit service isn’t even availvices unless voters override SB-152. the equivalent of a printing press into They are available via a link to the able. Voters were in favor of SB-152 “We’re restricted from leasing fiber everyone’s backpack,” says Andrew cloud, so to speak. If you don’t have overrides in urban and rural communito private entities, and we’re restricted Moore, chief information officer at access at home, you can’t read your ties alike. from providing Internet services,” BVSD. “If you’ve got a digital device — homework.” Last year, Yuma County Economic Moore says. “So we really followed the a Chromebook, a laptop, an iPad — in “That creates an achievement gap,” Development Corporation executive your backpack, it is the gateway.” Moore says. “We are doing what we can City of Boulder’s lead.” director Darlene Carpio told BW, “We After an analysis of their own infra- just don’t have what we need here, the As online learning becomes a bigger to remove that gap but you have to structure, Boulder presented voters with speeds, affordability, reliability.” part of the curriculum, content is more have Internet capabilities as well. That ballot item 2C last year, which passed likely to come from apps and websites is where partnerships come in which The Federal Communications than traditional textbooks. A student one day could allow us to go to more of with over 84 percent approval. Commission estimates that about half Moore says if Boulder, Louisville, who goes home to no Internet or no the housing developments to ensure of rural America can’t access the speeds Lafayette, Broomfield, Nederland or device is at a disadvantage. that Internet is provided to reduce the urban areas take for granted. Erie wanted to enter into partnerships Angela Siefer, director of the digital divide, reduce the homework Jeff Gavlinksi, co-chair of the annuto provide Internet services, BVSD National Digital Inclusion Alliance, gap, and create an equal playing field al broadband development conference could not get involved until district vot- Mountain Connect, says Archuleta says Boulder Valley residents should be for opportunity for our students.” ers opt for the exemption. At its August County, La Plata County, San Juan very proud of BVSD’s innovations. A member of the superintendent’s meeting, the BVSD Board of “They are on the edge,” she said cabinet, Moore supports professional County, Bayfield, Ignacio, Pagosa Education voted unanimously to during a KGNU radio panel discussion development for teachers using educaSprings and Silverton are all inspired by become the first school district seeking about the digital divide. “I had not tional technology in classrooms and Durango, where roughly 14 of the city’s its own SB-152 override. heard the term One to Web before, and leads a dozen technicians who manage 19 miles of conduit are leased to local No known opposition has emerged. networks, phone systems and traditional I think it’s quite brilliant. These disproviders. The Boulder Chamber of tricts that have gone toward one-to-one IT services across the district’s 55 Most communities don’t want to Commerce supported the city’s ballot schools. 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vider, he says. BVSD superintendent Dr. Bruce Messinger isn’t interested in the district becoming an ISP, but he would like to be able to light up areas of the community where families can’t afford service or where high speeds are not available. “They’re looking for long-term sustainable partnerships,” Gavlinski told BW at the Digital Government Summit in Denver. “Incumbents should look at it as an opportunity. If communities can figure out a way to work in an open access model, they are presumably spending money that incumbents have decided they can’t make a business case to spend.” Moore clarifies that BVSD has no plans to follow up this year’s ballot question with a tax increase or bond proposal. “I don’t see a scenario where we would go back to ask voters for money,” Moore says. “It’s really the opposite of that. We are interested in partnering with any private entity that may want to utilize our fiber. If we get permission, I would be going out to private entities to see if I couldn’t generate revenue that would go into our general fund. It would be at the Board of Education’s discretion on how best to spend that money. It’s a matter of prioritizing with all the other needs at a time when K-12 funding across the state is under stress.” Many parents wonder why BVSD has to commit resources to a ballot question in the first place. Public policy advocates decry state laws like SB-152, saying they serve to reduce infrastructure investments while hurting competition. “It’s an obnoxious law that was passed by the industry to protect their monopoly,” Colorado Municipal League counsel Geoff Wilson told the Durango Herald. “The law is designed to protect the provider of inferior service from the local government doing anything about it.” Yet legislators like Colorado Sen. Cheri Jahn (D-Wheat Ridge), an original sponsor of the bill back in 2005, deny protectionism was the intent. She told KUNC, “It’s doing exactly what my intention was,” asking taxpayers to approve local broadband activity. The Boulder Chamber doesn’t think the step should be necessary. “We wish we hadn’t had that barrier to begin with,” says Tayer. So is it time for the state legislature to revisit the restrictions outBoulder Weekly
lined in SB-152? “The message is clear,” Gavlinski says. “Look at how many communities are taking this to a vote. SB-152 needs to be revisited. What’s the tipping point? Does it have to be 50 communities, 100 communities?” Gavlinski has seen the attendance at
his conference triple and says it is no surprise that 40 Colorado jurisdictions are offering similar ballot items seeking to reestablish control of their broadband future on Nov. 3. “I think it would make all of our lives easier if the state would revisit it because it does take time and energy to
put something to a vote,” Moore says of BVSD’s 3A efforts. “Of course I would love to have an even playing field and to not have to do what we’re doing. The good news is that there is a mechanism to work through this and do exactly what a number of cities have done before us.”
DON’T DIVIDE BOULDER A BROAD COALITION OF INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS URGE YOU TO VOTE NO ON 300 & 301 “Prop 300 speaks directly to the kind of town Boulder wants to be – inclusive or exclusive. Mayor Matt Appelbaum calls Prop 300 ‘the Gated Community Act’ because he believes the effect will be to shut the door and create an enclave of affluence.” “Prop 301 is simply too vague for us to understand, let alone support....We have no doubt it would end up in the courts, with progress in the city put on hold awaiting judicial outcomes, which may be the intent. In any case, a requirement that is little more than a political slogan does not belong in the city charter, in our view.” —Daily Camera, Editorial 10/03/2015
BALLOT MEASURE 300
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• Will divide Boulder into 66 specified neighborhoods
• Will have paralyzing effects in Boulder, just as TABOR has had in Colorado
• Will allow just 10% of the voters in a neighborhood to call an election
• Will be difficult and expensive to implement
• The city attorney’s analysis anticipates multiple costly processes
• Will expose the City of Boulder to perpetual and expensive taxpayerfunded lawsuits
• Will have a chilling effect on projects of community-wide interest • Will prevent us from achieving our longstanding community goals addressing the environment, climate change, jobs, affordable housing and diversity
• Will restrict existing revenue stream from development related fees • Will negatively impact jobs, small business, innovation and Boulder’s economy
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The activist group ProgressNow walked around the CU campus on Tuesday and Wednesday this week with giant puppets of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
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Activist groups planned unique strategies in order to be heard at Republican debate by Matt Cortina
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he number of protesters planning to show up to CNBC’s GOP presidential debate at the University of Colorado Boulder on Wednesday, Oct. 28 meant that activist groups had to find a way to stand out from the crowd to get their messages heard. One way to do that is with spooky giant papier-mâché puppets of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. The puppets were symbolic of the relationship between the Koch brothers and the Republican Party, says Amy Runyon-Harms, executive director of ProgressNow, the advocacy group that made the puppets. “It’s a message about [the Koch brothers] to the masses. We want people to understand who is calling the shots,” said Runyon-Harms. “It’s a fun way to get the message across, and it’s educational as well.” On Tuesday, ProgressNow members unloaded the giant dolls from a U-haul truck in the parking lot outside the University Memorial Center on the CU campus. The puppets were hooked onto the shoulders of two volunteers, and the Boulder Weekly
group then began a daylong walk around campus and downtown Boulder. They stopped to take photos with curious passers-by, who looked generally amused by the display. The process was repeated on Wednesday. Overhead on both days, there was a banner flying from a prop plane that highlighted the Republican Party’s “Koch problem.” “We really wanted to highlight how out of touch Republicans are with mainstream Coloradans on almost every issue,” Runyon-Harms says. The two displays represent a more light-hearted approach to the protestations at the Republican debate. And to be sure, a lot of groups had to formulate unique approaches. As of press time, several student groups, a coalition of people against gun violence, some members of Black Lives Matter, a cadre of Latino cultural leaders, Fossil Free CU and more had all gone through the process of figuring out the best way to spread their messages. Federico Peña, the former mayor of Denver and U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Energy, said on
Tuesday that he hoped to see several thousand people from all walks of life show up to Farrand Field at CU for a rally against the anti-immigrant rhetoric heard from some Republican candidates and to launch a voter registration campaign called “My Country, My Vote,” a play on the debate’s name, “Your Money, Your Vote.” Peña says the rally would “stand alone” against the backdrop of all the other protesters. “We’re going to have a stage, and we’ve taken care of all the logistical necessities. It’s going to be professionally held. We have a list of extraordinary guests,” Peña says. “Hopefully we’ll get the right kind of attention. We’ve already received one call from a Japanese TV station.” The list of speakers who were booked for the rally represents the variety of cultures, professions and ages that care about Latino and immigrant rights. Those speakers included Katherine Archuleta, the 2012 political director for Obama for America; Marco Dorado, a DREAMer and graduate of CU; Colorado Lt. Governor Joe Garcia; Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the
United Farm Workers Union; and actor Esai Morales, among others. Peña says they chose the Republican debate to launch their voter registration program, which intends to register as many as 50,000 documented Latino and immigrant voters in Colorado in the next 12 months, because it’s a huge platform and because GOP rhetoric specifically calls out the Latino community. “I was disappointed that there has not been a large public pushback anywhere in the country against this rhetoric we have been hearing for several months now,” says Peña. “I’ve been thinking we in Colorado are much better than this. We should lead. “Anybody running for office will know you cannot be elected if you offend the Hispanic community.” Peña says it was important to plan a professional, orchestrated rally in order to provide a credible foundation from which to spread their message. That approach differs from groups like Black Lives Matter, whose assertive protests See PROTESTS Page 21
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EDWARD SCISSORHANDS have drawn national attention. The tion, minority rights and more in the country. group decided not to have a formal GOP debate. “Our focus on this message is to presence at the debate, but did send Morgan Shimabuku, core team really bring the topic to the national members to protest. member of Fossil Free CU, told BW on scene, not so much the Republican “With all eyes on tonight’s debate Tuesday their protest would be effective Party,” she says. “We are using the and the protests surrounding it, we because of the dozen or so groups from Party’s event to bring these issues up.” hope the candidates present will Students — some with Fossil Joel Dyer hear the masses and go beyond the Free CU but also other groups predictable rhetoric,” the Denver — also protested their inability chapter of the group said in a to enter the debate. Only 150 statement to Boulder Weekly. tickets were made available to A group of survivors of the students, faculty and university recent attacks at an Aurora movie board members (only 100 went theater and at an elementary to students.) The well-docuschool in Newtown, Connecticut mented controversy around this also protested the debate. They are issue is that the debate, which members of the Everytown was held in the 11,000-seat Survivor Network, and together Coors Event Center, did not with the Colorado chapter of attempt accommodate the Moms Demand Action for Gun Boulder and CU community, Sense in America, they rallied in allowing only 1,000 people into Black Lives Matter showed up with a giant elephant support of stricter gun laws to the event, mostly Republicans. display for their protest. combat the 88 deaths from gun In response, The gro violence that happen in the U.S. up Student Voices Count every day. the campus and around the state with planned to hold a live broadcast and The student group Fossil Free CU whom they collaborated to plan the discussion during the debate outside the marched from downtown Boulder, rally. University Club at CU. where they started the day with legal “I think that our strength is going If there’s one thing we might be and protest training alongside music to be one in numbers,” Shimabuku says. able to learn in the wake of the GOP and festivities. The march route was “We’re expecting upwards of 1,000 for debate at CU, it’s likely not anything planned to bring them to the campus to our group, because we are focusing on that was said by a Republican onstage, join others protesting on subjects such such a wide range of topics. We have a but what was said outside and around as climate change, healthcare, immigra- very large stake in the future of our Boulder, and who said it best. Boulder Weekly
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position one way or the other until some of those elements are in place.” Members of DHOL also run into zoning roadblocks throughout the city when they attempt to find their own location for tiny homes. But in July, the group held a public demonstration day and tour of tiny homes in Denver, as part of the Biennial of the Americas event, wherein its supporters constructed a Conestoga hut in two hours. Then, DHOL initiated a community-funded online campaign to raise money for the “Little Denver Tiny Home Village” raising over $5,000 since the beginning of October. The materials for one tiny home costs $2,500 and a Conestoga hut costs approximately $600. On Oct. 24, the activists erected two tiny homes and three Conestoga huts at Sustainability Park, renaming it Resurrection Village. Ten members were eventually arrested for trespassing. DHA, owner of the land at Sustainability Park, is a “quasi-municipal corporation,” which receives almost 90 percent of its funds from the federal government. Its Board of Commissioners is appointed by the Denver mayor and approved by City Council. However, the “quasi-municipal corporation” status ensures that the land it owns is private property according to Madrid. DHA is in the process of selling the property to Curtis Park Group, LLC, a private developer with plans to build mixed-income housing on the site. The sale is scheduled to close within the next 30 days, and DHA is unable to release the price of the land with the sale still pending. The proceeds from the sale will be reinvested into permanent affordable housing. But DHOL insists the land is public, paid for by federal and local tax dollars. When the activists refused to leave, roughly 70 police cars, SWAT team and a helicopter arrived, arresting the 10 people, Hyde says. DHA then hired a private contractor to come and remove the DHOL structures, which it has yet to return. “The ridiculous thing is there is so much public support for this. People donated to the bail fund, which was raised before we even got down to the jail,” Hyde says. “People want other people experiencing homelessness to have housing and they want tiny homes to be legal. They want people to be treated with dignity and their rights to be respected. “The solution to homelessness is Boulder Weekly
Six of the 10 DHOL members arrested on Oct. 24 attend the rally on Oct. 26 on the steps of the City and County Building in Denver. Angela K. Evans
The construction of a Conestoga hut at Sustainability Park, renamed Ressurection Village by members of Denver Homeless Out Loud.
not cops and caseworkers,” he continues. “Homelessness ends in one simple step. Give them a house. We know it’s cheaper; it’s more dignified. We know it’s been proven.” “There’s no question that we believe wholeheartedly in housing as a platform for change in people’s lives,” says Betsey Martens of Boulder Housing Partners (BHP), the housing authority for the city of Boulder. “The results have been quite astonishing of using housing as a platform to then provide support for people to make the changes in their
lives that they want and need. The research on it is vast.” BHP uses this concept as part of its Housing First initiative at the 1175 Lee Hill property, which has 31 apartments for people experiencing chronic homelessness. The facility also offers support services through case managers, which Martens emphasizes as a key part of the solution in a housing first model. Boulder City Councilmember Lisa Morzel is in support of tiny homes and even a tiny village. The only obstacle, she says, is finding a location. “But I do
think they are a good solution because if you can find the land, to construct them is relatively inexpensive.” Tiny homes would allow people the safety of having their own space, as well as privacy, and a place to leave belongings during the day while they are out in the community, Morzel says. “Something like a tiny home village for homeless people would have to be managed. I think it would also have to have some kind of central facility that has bathing facilities, cooking facilities and maybe a common area for people to sit and visit.” She suggests the possibility of using land owned by Boulder Housing Partners, although she admits zoning could be another obstacle. “We will look at [tiny homes] but we just haven’t spent time exploring it yet,” Martens says. She also wasn’t able to answer whether or not BHP land is public or private. “I’ve never been asked that question,” Martens says. “We will begin today to ask the question. It’s always something new.” Following the arrests of DHOL members in Denver on Saturday night, a rally to repeal Denver’s urban camping ban ordinance took place on the steps of the City and County building prior to the regular Monday City Council meeting. Occupy Denver led the rally, while members of DHOL also spoke. After the rally on the building’s steps, the group delivered a petition, which has more than 14,000 signatures, some from Colorado but mostly from around the world, to the City Council. City Council took a recess when the protesters entered the room. They left the petition on the dais as parts of the audience cheered. Hyde and other members of DHOL returned to Sustainability Park after the rally on Monday night, where they await the return of their belongings. “We sent a public letter yesterday asking for the safe return of our materials and reimbursement for things that they destroyed, but we’ll see what happens,” Hyde says. The letter asks for the materials to be returned to 2500 Lawrence St., the site they were taken from. The letter also invites DHA to dialogue with DHOL regarding Resurrection Village. They haven’t yet been given a response. “We’re a non-violent group just trying to exist somewhere,” Hyde says. “We just want our houses back. We’re not threatening anyone, no one but the system.” October 29, 2015 25
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Characterized by colorful cyclists, festive pop-up tents and roadside breakfast stations, Bike to Work Day has become one of Way to Go’s familiar annual smart-commuting initiatives. The success of Bike to Work Day is, in fact, what inspired Way to Go’s creation of Go-Tober this year. The division spent two years researching for the event, Miller says, including seeking feedback from Bike to Work Day company coordinators and obtaining their support for Go-Tober. “HR people know that statistics show that when employees have less stressful commutes, they work smarter and better. They’re more focused,” she says. Now in full swing throughout the region, the good-natured commuting competition encourages participants to engage in smart-commuting options. For this year’s pilot program, Way to Go has capped participation at 25 regional companies with a minimum of 100 employees each. The companies occupy three size categories, with an effort index applied to level the playing field. Among this year’s Go-Tober participants are three government entities: Boulder County, City of Lakewood and City of Aurora. Rocky Mountain Institute, winner of the 2014 Bike to Work Day Business Challenge, is the other participant located in Boulder County. Competition rules are simple. Throughout the month of October, employees are encouraged to log at least one smart commute per week or a total of four for the month. Individual trips are tracked online at MyWaytoGo.org. Each week, Way to Go tallies the trip numbers and issues a leaderboard by email, listing the topperforming companies in each category. (On tap for Go-Tober 2016 is an online dashboard that tracks real-time results.) So far, more than 1,300 employees have logged non-SOV trips. Individual company coordinators are privy to their employees’ commuting statistics, allowing them to offer personalized encouragement and awards. Some companies have partnered with Way to Go to host “Surprise & Delight” events for their employees, treating them to everything from back massages and bike tune-ups to ice cream and foosball. Way to Go also holds a weekly prize drawing for individuals who post on social media using the hashtag #WayToGoTober.
Boulder County’s Employee Transportation Coordinator, Alex Hyde-Wright, has seen the benefits of a commuting initiative that reaches employees who live too far away to participate in Bike to Work Day. “We really promote environmental stewardship at Boulder County,” he says. “Promoting sustainable ways to get to work fits really naturally with our core values.” At Rocky Mountain Institute, Go-Tober aligns comfortably with the nonprofit’s efforts to shift mobility services toward a more efficient paradigm. “We’re trying to bring new options enabled by new technology to the masses,” says Jonathan Walker, RMI’s mobility transformation program manager. “We think the most tangible step we can take right now is around commuting.” Go-Tober, he adds, offers RMI a chance to test that theory within its own office. Miller describes plans to expand the competition next year. Asked what feedback she’s received this month, she speaks brightly about a woman who never carpooled before but has carpooled every day in October. She’s heard praise for the new U.S. 36 bikeway and fielded questions about Way to Go’s vanpool program (in which Way to Go provides the van, insurance and gas, and riders split the monthly fare.) “We want to demonstrate how easy it is to make a change just one day a week for a month,” Miller says. “Our past surveys have shown that something that simple can, in fact, change behavior. And being rewarded for making the change certainly doesn’t hurt.” Asked what employee comments she’s overheard during Go-Tober, Miller pauses to reflect, then quotes simply, “‘I never thought about walking to work before. I walked today. It was great.’” Go-Tober winners will be announced the first week in November. The individual employee with the highest number of smart commutes will receive an Ikea gift card. The topperforming company in each size category will receive $10,000 in free congratulatory advertising coordinated by Way to Go. More about Way to Go’s services can be found at WaytoGo.org. Companies interested in participating in Go-Tober 2016 can send an email to WayToGo@ DRCOG.org. Boulder Weekly
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FEDERAL REPORT FINDS EPA NEGLIGENCE TO BLAME FOR GOLD KING SPILL The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is solely to blame for the Aug. 5 blowout and spill of the Gold King Mine, according to a recent report from the Department of the Interior (DOI). EPA workers were attempting to pump groundwater out of the mine and prevent the sealed mine from bursting under the pressure when the spill occurred, accidently causing the very disaster they were working to prevent. The spill could have been prevented if EPA engineers had used technical equipment to adequately measure the levels of groundwater in the mine, the report concluded, contrastJerry McBride ing the operation at the Gold King Mine with a successful one at Red and Bonita Mine in 2011. “A critical difference… was the use in the latter case of a drill rig to bore into the mine from above and directly determine the level of the mine pool prior to excavating backfill at the portal,” says the DOI report. “Had it been done, the plan to open the mine would have been revised, and the blowout would not have occurred.” Just north of Silverton, the Gold King Mine was one of the most profitable gold mines in the region at the turn of the 20th century. The mine’s disuse for decades, combined with the depth of mining tunnels, resulted in the extensive accumulation of groundwater that EPA operators unwillingly released. The spill released 3 million gallons of arsenicand lead-infested water through Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. — Grant Stringer
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race yourself, the Twerk Tour is commember. Enter Zdenek Gubbmitrouleas (or ing. But, have no fear, this is a twerk Gubb, for short). tour sans, well, twerking. Instead of “Zdenek was even younger than all of us, that strange form of upside down I think he was 17 at the time and in high shaking, or what some call dancing, school,” Savoulidis says. “I just remember his this tour features the musical combination of friends kinda bugging me that their buddy two eclectic, funk jam bands: Twiddle and was good at bass, so we called him up and he The Werks. auditioned, and it worked out from there.” The Twerk Tour, spanning October and Vermont and Colorado are huge hubs for November with 32 performances, is the first Twiddle fans, but not only because of the joint touring experience with the two similar popularity of jam bands in the Centennial jam bands. Members of both bands are good State. friends, making this tour especially fun and “I have a few theories about this. One, exciting for the musicians and the listeners, definitely our affiliation with the Frends says Mihali Savoulidis, the guitarist and lead Crew helps a lot in the snowboarding world,” vocalist for Twiddle. “I think both of our Savoulidis says. “And two, early on in our Twiddle at Red Rocks. Left to right: Zdenek Gubb, Brook Jordan, Ryan styles are approachable to either one’s fan career we were playing a lot of the Vermont Dempsey, Mihali Savoulidis. base. So we’re getting a lot of Werks fans to ski mountains.” like Twiddle, and I know for a fact The Werks The Frends Crew are a group of have won over our fans.” Northeast-based snowboarders who put on the annual festival the Frendly Twiddle began in 2005 at Castleton State University in Vermont when Gathering, which Twiddle plays every year. Many of those early skiing and snowSavoulidis and keyboardist Ryan Dempsey, who’s classically trained, met while boarding fans moved to Colorado to pursue the snow sports more seriously, Savoulidis says. attending college. At the time, the drummer Brook Jordan and the bassist were “When we finally got out to Colorado,” Savoulidis continues, “we already had a still in high school. The four toured the northeast and built up an impressive catalog of songs by the time they were upperclassmen. When the bassist decided to continue his education and study upright bass, the group was left without a fourth see TWERK Page 34 Boulder Weekly
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ton of fans who knew the songs, and it kind of grew from there.” The Werks also experienced their genesis in 2005, but in Dayton, Ohio. Chris Houser, the lead guitarist and Rob Chafin, the drummer, are the only two original members. Cycling through a number of musicians for various reasons, the group now features its second bassist, Dino Dimitrouleas, and its third keyboardist, Dan Shaw. The latter’s addition in 2013 brought a certain flair to the band. “[Shaw] is more knowledgeable, more schooled, than both of our original keyboardists. He’s more classically trained. I myself learned a lot from him,” Houser continues. “I’ve never been a real buff with music theory, I play by ear. He’s taught us how to teach ourselves more. He’s a great addition. He’s really added to the intensity we bring every show.” The group climbed through the musical ranks in the supportive atmosphere of the Midwest, which was a great starting point, Houser says. Being in a prime location for bands traveling across the country, The Werks got to meet several big players in the music scene from both coasts, Houser says. “That’s the big thing with the Midwest — it was a family thing,” Houser says. “Everyone’s pretty nice around that region and everyone really just wanted to help everyone else out.” Though The Werks are becoming a household name, they “learned to be the little guys first and be respectful,” which helps them stay humble, Houser says, in addition to his belief that there’s always someone better musically. Their graceful rise in popularity resulted in the band being completely comfortable playing larger shows.
“There hasn’t been any real moments when we’re like, ‘Oh shit, we’re about to play this big-ass show,’” Houser says. “It’s like, ‘Cool, we’re excited for this, we’re ready for this.’” Similarly to Twiddle, The Werks gained recognition for playing music festivals, but most notably they started their own festival: The Werk Out Music and Arts Festival. Now also in it’s sixth year, “It’s really grown into a monster,” Houser says. Held in Ohio, this summer’s edition of the festival featured Umphrey’s McGee, Papadosio and Dopapod and was still successful despite Phish’s performance just down the road the same weekend. The two Twerk tour headliners also mirror each other in their music, though certain aspects differentiate the two. Twiddle is upbeat, lyrically-based and has strong reggae and jazz vibes. Within the last year, Savoulidis has noticed that even in places Twiddle hasn’t played yet, crowds are filled with fans singing the words to their songs. “I think people are really holding tight to the message we’re trying to portray. I think people relate to what we’re trying to say,” Savoulidis says. “I feel like we’re all pretty approachable. I don’t think there’s too much of a separation between us and our fan base. We know a lot of people, and we always try and make time to talk to them the best we can.” Savoulidis tends to write music within the vein of “be kind to each other, take care of the planet, look beyond the cell phones and technology, and try to experience life for what is it,”he says. And he notices it effecting people. Relatable music is key, Savoulidis says, and he consciously chooses to Boulder Weekly
write this way to connect with his fans. While Savoulidis writes most of the lyrics for Twiddle, Dempsey comes up with the chord progressions and Brook occasionally writes his own songs. Most of the time, one member pitches a song idea and the band collectively turns it into a Twiddle-sounding song. The band utilized this collaborative song-writing process in their third studio album. Twiddle’s new album is double-sided and the first disc, being released in December, features staple songs in the group’s live performances that have yet to make it onto an album and songs from Savoulidis’ solo shows in Twiddlestyle. The second disc, coming in June, is still being added to and features brand new songs from the band. “It’ll be completely new to people’s ears,” Savoulidis continues, “which we’re excited about.” As for The Werks, their music tends to alternate between slower tunes and intense jams and also incorporates electronica, to a higher degree than Twiddle, along with a Southern feel. They also utilize three- and four-part vocal harmonies, as all members of the group sing, and are known for strange jams during live performances. “We play a lot more in minor,” Houser says. “I like to creep people out sometimes. There are fans out there goggle-eyed, and you lock eyes with them and just get weird.” Most of the group’s older music focuses on calamities and sad times the musicians have endured, as Houser writes music from life experiences. “My dad passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2010, and I wrote a song for him called ‘Golden Shore.’ And that’s kind of a sad tune, but it’s helped a lot of people with losing loved ones, I’ve found. It helped our family get through it also,” Houser says. “Everybody goes through hardships, especially in the music industry. There’s a lot of influences you can get caught up in, and that absolutely happened to me, personally. I had my problems with addiction but I’ve been clean for five years, and everything keeps getting better, so that comes through in the song writing.” Recently, the band has been trying to put a more positive message. The song “Better Than Before” on the group’s third studio album, Mr. Small Sessions, features the lyrics “Because everyday is a new beginning, and it always seems to be darkest before dawn. So hold your head up higher than the clouds, then maybe you’ll see the light before it’s gone.” The music writing process of The Werks is also highly collaborative, varying from Houser writing a song and doling out parts, to starting with a riff and building on it, to even starting with Boulder Weekly
a poem and writing music around it as a group. “Even when I have an entire song, or when any member has an entire song already written out, each member still puts their own flair on it. Every musician’s personality is still coming through in the playing; it’s not rigidly written,” Houser continues. “Once we write down parts, it’s what the song needs, not what we need.” Within the jam band vein, The Werk’s studio albums stand out and their fourth album, Inside A Dream, recorded earlier this year, will most
likely uphold this status quo. They strive to give their fans something different in the studio than live shows, including myriad harmonies to fill out sections of the music. “We decided, ‘Well, we’re in the studio, let’s do some stuff we can’t do live,’” Houser says. “On the last album, I think I laid down five harmonies for one song, we just can’t do that live, but it sounds great on the album.” Nonetheless, the live performances of The Werks and Twiddle, will, with all of their similarities, be sure to enthrall the listener with unpredictabili-
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n his attempt to reach Boulder YouTube views of Emmanuel’s stage Weekly via Skype a couple of weeks performance has helped him reach mass ago from the megalopolis of audiences in places like Wuhan, with Wuhan, China, Tommy citizens who likely have limited access Emmanuel just gave up and broto, or appreciation of, American counkered an old-fashioned long distance try blues guitar. And Emmanuel, who phone call. If the Chinese really are has held the rapt respect of stateside nicking the Pentagon’s pancake recipes, acoustic guitarists for decades, isn’t they’re probably not doing it from exactly a central-casting superstar. Wuhan. Somewhat rumpled and “The Internet is so self-effacing, bearing a ON THE BILL: Tommy bad here, even with blunted but unmistakEmmanuel. 8 p.m. Thursday, Skype, it just kept able Aussie accent, Nov. 5, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, dropping out. So I had Emmanuel’s stage gig is 303-492-8423. Tickets at $35 to call long distance on part technical dazzle, and $45. my cell phone,” he says part country humorist. with a laugh. A passable singer, most If the proposition of of his show is instruan Australian-born finmental — a few origiger-picking country blues solo guitarist nals, some familiar covers — and years playing a sold out theater gig in Central of touring have instilled in Emmanuel the need to humanize his presentation China seems a bit unlikely — well, it by sharing jokes and stories from the really isn’t. Emmanuel has been sprayroad. ing his uniquely frenetic six-string This, presumably, is a bit more chaltyphoon across the Far East since lenging in a place like China. shortly after the 2008 Beijing “Well, you can’t tell too many stoOlympics, and the rest of his latest tour ries,” he concedes, “and you have to included two sold out nights in both Tokyo and Osaka. The Wuhan gig was speak really slowly and really clearly. his first in that city; it was also sold out. The humor and the banter I use when I One assumes that the abundance of go onstage, it only really works with an Boulder Weekly
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English-speaking audience. But if you speak really slowly and really clearly, most audiences everywhere in the world will pick up most of what you say. Even in places like Italy and Croatia and Serbia.” Currently touring behind his first all-solo studio recording in over a decade, It’s Never Too Late, Emmanuel has the luxury of drawing from a deep catalog. Longtime fans will peg his blistering read of Mason Williams’ iconic “Classical Gas” or a typically blown-out arrangement of Arthur Smith’s “Guitar Boogie” as Emmanuel staples, but the guitarist says the set usually takes on a life of its own. “The biggest decision of the night is what do I start with. Once I start, that’s it, I’m off. “How that first song goes, and not necessarily the audience response but how I play it, usually sets the tone for the night. There are times when I’ll start off with a really fast number, just to kick it into high gear straight away. In places like Sweden, I sometimes come out and start the show with a ballad. Just to give people a chance to hear see TOMMY EMMANUEL Page 38
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As a teenager in Australia, Tommy Emmanuel discovered the music of American country blues guitarist Chet Atkins. The two became friends and collaborators. TOMMY EMMANUEL from Page 37
all the tones and sustains and the beautiful overtones. It’s a whole different approach.” Playing since his toddler years, Emmanuel has been performing since about age 10. A deep appreciation for tonality, the color of the guitar’s sound, is unquestionably one of the gifts Emmanuel inherited from his mentor and greatest inspiration, the late Chet Atkins. As a teen, Emmanuel discovered Atkins’ music through the sparsely available vinyl that made it to his native New South Wales. Emmanuel then wrote a letter to the Nashville legend and (unsurprisingly to anyone who knew Atkins) got a supportive and appreciative letter back, extending an invitation for the young Aussie guitarist to come to Nashville. Emmanuel eventually made the trip, and from there the two struck up an enduring friendship, with Emmanuel later moving to Nashville. Atkins came to regard him as “one of the greatest guitar players I’ve ever seen” and bestowed his own “Certified Guitar Player” award to Emmanuel, recognition that Atkins only ever gave to three other players. The two recorded The 38 October 29, 2015
Day Finger Pickers Took Over the World in 1997. “He was the real deal. He was really like a daddy to me, took care of me and showed me a lot of respect,” Emmanuel says. “I sure do miss him, but the good thing is, you pick up a guitar and play one of Chet’s tunes, and there he is. You can hear his voice.” Emmanuel’s been at this so long — 50 years as a performer — we wondered what he would be doing if he wasn’t doing this. “There are other things that I like, but I’ve never really pursued them. Trying to write songs and come up with arrangements and entertain people and raise my family and do the best with whatever I’ve been given… that kind of sums up me and my art, you know? Work, work, work and spend my time off with my family. “ And having just passed 60 years of age, we questioned if Emmanuel does anything special to keep his hands in shape, out of the clutches of arthritis or other age-related infirmities. “Guitarists who have trouble with their hands are usually trying too hard,” he says. “I do one thing to keep my hands in shape. Practice.” Boulder Weekly
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Thursday, October 29 Music Andreas Kapsalis. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Black Tiger Sex Machine. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass, BBQ & Bourbon. 8:30 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535.
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Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Dexter Payne. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Dixie Leadfoot and The Chrome Struts: Red Hot Rockabilly. 7:30 p.m. The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.
Friday, Oct. 30, The Recess Factory, 3220 Weld County Road 8, Erie. Get tickets at thezombierun.com.
DJ Royal Swan. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Ft. Collins Chamber Music Society presents... Classical Revolution! 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Funky Milkshake. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. see EVENTS Page 46
Moongrass Friday, Oct. 30, 9-11 p.m. 1709 Pearl Street, Boulder, The Laughing Goat.
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Moongrass will bring their take on country-blues Americana to The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse on Friday, October 30. Hailing from Bellingham, Washington, Moongrass has enjoyed considerable local acclaim and is currently touring the American West in promotion of their latest, self-released album Shadow in the Country. Consisting of a wide range of instruments including banjo, piano and steel-string lap guitar along with five vocalists, Moongrass craft songs they describe as “sweet and loud country stompalongs,” that will undoubtedly fill The Laughing Goat with campfire vibes and good times. — Grant Stringer
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5-11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, and 1-11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, Longmont Police & BCSO Firing Range, 10916 CR 5, Longmont, 303-774-4589. Longmont will continue to satisfy all your Halloween desires with the high-energy Halloween Zombie Shoot. Players armed with paintballgun style guns will have to make their way through a zombie-infested “House of Horrors” by neutralizing live zombies (played by actors, unfortunately) and find the zombie antidote before being overwhelmed or running out of ammunition. Players can either fly solo or bring a friend and snag one of the six slots that are offered per hour on Friday the 30th and Saturday the 31st. Everything necessary to survive the zombie infiltration will be provided, including tactical weaponry. Slots run at $40 for a single, $65 for a pair. — Grant Stringer
Halloween Parade and Trick or Treat Street 9:30-11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31. St. Vrain Memorial Building, 700 Longs Peak Ave, Longmont, 303-6518404. Petar Milošević/Wikimedia
This year’s Halloween Parade will sweep through downtown Longmont on Saturday morning. Costumed participants are encouraged to meet at 9:30 a.m. in front of the St. Vrain Memorial Building to assemble for the parade, which is limited to nonmotorized vehicles and pedestrians. The parade will shut down Main Street between Third Avenue and Longs Peak Avenue and is open to any participant, though costumes are highly encouraged. Directly following the parade, downtown Longmont stores will open their doors for trick-or-treating. Streets will remain car-free until 11 a.m., which should be sufficient time to get one’s fair share of free treats. — Grant Stringer
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Inlaws and Outlaws. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847. Jenn Cleary. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Jon Wayne and the Pain. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Michael Bellmont. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Open Jam: Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Rebecca Folsom. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Sleazy Grease. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Events Effective E-Newsletters: Start & Improve Your Email Marketing. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647. GED Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geopolitics Series. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. GoDoh Story Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch, 1994 Geer Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-6786200. Influential Infographic Design. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Secrets for Successful Relationship. 7:30 p.m. Edie Stone’s Office, 2027 Broadway, Suite H, Boulder, 303-415-3755. Story Club in Motion. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Tangerine. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Unbranded. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Views & Brews Halloween Film Series: Rocky Horror Picture Show. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374. Friday, October 30 Music
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Pastel Paintings by Xenia J. Sease. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 28.
Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29. Celebrating Dia de los Muertos. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Nov. 9.
Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 31.
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Boulder Chamber Orchestra: Spook Symphony. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.
Michael Howard & Moongrass. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Citizen Dan. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Mimosa. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
The Rough and Tumble. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
Devotchka. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Salem. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Erin Inglish and the Stringtown Ambassadors. 8 p.m. Little Tree Acoustic House Concert Series, Lafayette, 303-620-6634.
The Screaming J’s. 7 p.m. Boulder Distillery, 2500 47th St. Unit 10, Boulder, 303-444-6121.
HenScratch. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-8903993. Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Hyzenborg and DVK-VTK. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720849-8458. Joe Teichman. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE.
Antonio Lopez. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Lorenzo Casey. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
Azra Sings. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Lula Granji with Fuzz Nasty. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
Makeshift. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
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Super Hero Movie Music. 7 p.m. Harvest Baptist Church, 7493 Old Mill Trail, Boulder, 303-494-5081. Theresa Peterson. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Tupelo Honey. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Will Dudley. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. WoolEye. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Zen Mustache. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Boulder High School Visual Art Show. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2200. see EVENTS Page 48
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Community Fall Festival. 6:30 p.m. Peace Lutheran Church, 2790 Jay Road, Boulder, 303424-4454. CU Boulder’s Haunted Fest With Porter Robinson. 8 p.m. Balch Fieldhouse, 1440 15th St., Boulder, 303-492-7931.
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Halloween Extravaganza and Costume Contest. 9 p.m. Under The Sun, 627 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-927-6921. Minecrafternoons at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Spring. 10:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tangerine. 4:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Teens, Trivia, and Tea. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Unbranded. 2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Nov 14 Workshop: Joseph Campbell: Cri de Coeur (The Heart’s Cry for Meaning) Nov 18 Forum: CanopyBoulder Demo Day Nov 21 Concert Series: Ottmar Liebert Nov 30 Concert Series: Michael Martin Murphey’s Cowboy Christmas
BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 14. Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 23. Evil Dead: The Musical. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through Oct. 31.
If you can’t get enough Halloween, head over to Longmont Theatre Company’s production of Evil Dead: The Musical. And head over to page 41 for a review.
The Few — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Nov. 15.
Banned in Japan. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239,
David Williams. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE. Defunkt Railroad. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. DeVotchka. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Forever Entertainment Halloween Party. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
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DJ Old Man Winters. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
Radio Show Taping
As You Like It. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 1.
How I Learned to Drive — presented by Square Product Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 7.
Classical Music Played Foul: Boulder Symphony. 2 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, Boulder, 303-402-6400.
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George Nelson. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Halden Wofford & The Hi*Beams. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Hey, Lady! A Tribute to the B-52s. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House , 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Holly and the Husbands. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill Southside Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Jababa. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Through Feb. 21. Tribes. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 15. The Twilight Zone: A Parody. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 14.
Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
New Wave Revival, Fuse. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
The Mighty Twisters Fourth Annual Halloween Bash. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Paakow’s By All Means Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Mimosa. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Pete Kartsounes. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Monocle Stache. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Mother’s Day Invention. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Mr. Gettdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. New Family Dog. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
Reverend Freakchild. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Whiskey Autumn. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278. see EVENTS Page 50
words Thursday, Oct. 29 Victor Levine — Spiritualized. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. A Night of Hallowing. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, Nov. 2
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James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Dec 11 Radio Taping: Noah Gunderson & more
Joe Cool Band. 8 p.m. The Eagle Grill, 1600 Hover Road, Longmont, 303-772-2555.
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Malai Llama, JC & Woodshed Red & The Rough & Tumble. 6 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.
Liebermonster. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
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Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, Nov. 4 Don Miguel Ruiz — The Art of Life & Death. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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The Widow’s Bane. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Events Adobe Lightroom Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Boulder High School Visual Art Show. All day. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2200.
Josh Reed Trio. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258. Motive Vocal Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Sundays at Vic’s. 12 p.m. Vic’s Espresso & News, 2680 Broadway, Boulder, 303-440-8209.
Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Farmer Girl Pumpkin Dinner. 7 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.
Women In Song. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Free Fly Tying Classes. 11 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400.
Events
A Lego Brickumentary. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Munchkin Masquerade. 2 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. ORVIS Fly Fishing 101 with Front Range Anglers. 10 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Samhain Celebration... All Hallow’s Eve. 6:30 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Spring. 9 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Story in the Rocks: Our Changing Landscape. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch, 1994 Geer Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-678-6200.
Cinema Program free screening Meet Me in St. Louis. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Graphic Design Certificate Program. All day. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. iCureCancer with Director Ian Jacklin. 2 p.m. Unity of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Kids Paint. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Marriage of Figaro: Royal Opera House. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Tangerine. 4:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
PhotoJAM. 7 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236.
Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902.
Truth Be Told Story Slam. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Trick or Treat Street. 11:30 a.m. Heart of Longmont Methodist Church, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523.
Unbranded. 5 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Unbranded. 2:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Sunday, November 1 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Barrel of Blues. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-5932066. Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder, 303-442-5003. David Booker. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Flatirons Community Orchestra: Super Hero Movie Music. 2 p.m. Harvest Baptist Church, 7493 Old Mill Trail, Boulder, 303-494-5081. Jeff and Paige Album Release Party. 2:30 p.m. CU Campus, UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom, 50 October 29, 2015
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Monday, November 2 Music Brandon Hagen Duo. 9:30 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Hunter & The Dirty Jacks. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Union Driftwood. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886. Events Arabic Literature. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Babies and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-2523962. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder Weekly
Flights of Fancy Exhibit. All day. pARTiculars Art Gallery and Teaching Studio, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 720-890-7888. Future Arts Foundation One Year Anniversary Party. 5 p.m. The Kitchen Next Door, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-542-8159. Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Intercambio English as a Second Language Class. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Unbranded. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tuesday, November 3 Music Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Los Cheesies. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Open Jam. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Third Circle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Mojo Medicine Show. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Eric Wiggs. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625.
Sushi & Sake Night with The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., Suite 1, Longmont, 303-684-8383. Events Angie Ricketts: No Man’s War. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Breakfast Club. 9 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Copywriting for the Web. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Cruisers & Crawlers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Great Books Discussion Group at Meadows. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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Handweavers of Boulder Art Show and Sale. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.
Boulder Valley Adobe User Group. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Intercambio English as a Second Language Class. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Irrational Man. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Creative Writing Class. 6:15 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.
Kids Creative Movement Class. 4 p.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-484-5559.
Marriage of Figaro: Royal Opera House. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Lap Babies. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Meet the Patels. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.
Pages & Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.
Open Code for Youth with Coder Dojo. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
The Rotary Club of Longmont St. Vrain. 7 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2704.
Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Socrates Cafe. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Wednesday, November 4 Music Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Heartless Bastards & Charlie Musselwhite. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, Boulder, 323-449-2983. Lightly Toasted. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 NorthBoulder Weekly
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Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Teatime with Susan Wick. 3 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
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pparently, writer Aaron Sorkin has decided that his “thing” is making fascinating films out of seemingly unfilmable, boring-ass ideas. I don’t have an iPhone. I don’t like Apple. I don’t like Steve Jobs. I don’t care about Steve Jobs. I didn’t care to ever see a movie about Steve Jobs. Actually, it kind of pissed me off that Steve Jobs had two movies made about him so soon. Well, one movie and whatever the hell that Ashton Kutcher thing was. And yet, holy shit, did I love Steve Jobs! Set in near real time just before Jobs (Michael Fassbender) is about to unveil a new product at three different conventions years apart, Steve Jobs is basically a stage play on screen. Actually, it’s basically Walking Whilst Talking: The Movie, as Sorkin’s trademark, fast-paced dialogue delivered in near fullsprint makes up literally almost every scene. For those who feast on the man’s words, like I do, it’s a glorious buffet of nouns and verbs. Those looking for “plot,” “events” or “fully developed supporting characters who do more than come into a scene and say or do something cool and then slink away” may be more Michael Fassbender plays Steve jobs in the new biopic disappointed. based on the best-selling book. This is neither a deification nor condemnation of Jobs. Actually, who knows how much of this is even “true?” The myths swirling around the man were so sweeping and thick, it is almost irrelevant that Sorkin was technically adapting a “nonfiction” book. Instead, the film is best seen as an exploration of the prototypical self-aggrandizing genius, a myopic mastermind willing to sacrifice every relationship with every single person in order to create something. Jobs’ long suffering assistant, Joanna (Kate Winslet), constantly reminds him that life is about more than the work you produce. And Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Apple’s co-founder and Jobs’ “best friend” (if he has such a thing), reminds him explicitly that life isn’t “binary,” that Jobs could be a genius and, you know, not a huge asshole. Which he is. Sorkin’s ability for snark ensures several flinches at just how big a d-bag Jobs can be. The only real narrative arc is Jobs’ relationship with his daughter, Lisa, who he initially claimed he didn’t father despite a test that confirmed it with 94 percent accuracy. The reasons tie into Jobs’ own adoptive upbringing. In doing so, the film gives Jobs an “out” with the “I was never loved as a child” excuse. It also provides redemption through his changed fatherly perspective. In real life, this may all be total hokum. But as a movie? It works so, so well. And that’s the thing: Who cares if this is how it went down? Fact becomes fiction in every biography, and this fiction is fantastic. So fantastic, we haven’t even gotten to how nuanced Fassbender is, somehow wildly charismatic and yet wholly unlikable. Steve Jobs is a breathless, brilliant character study that gloriously relies on nothing more than words and performances. For a film about a guy pushing towards a revolutionary future, this is as much a blissfully simplistic throwback as could be imagined. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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inders Keepers is as delightful as it is bizarre. It is the story of an ampuON THE BILL: Finders Keepers. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, tated left foot and the two men Nov. 3, Muenzinger who fought over it from 2008 to Auditorium, 1905 Colorado 2014. Some things you just have to Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8662. Tickets $7 for students and see to believe. seniors, $8 for general admisIn 2004, John Wood lost his foot when his sion. father — a prop plane pilot — crashed, killing himself and injuring his son. Wood survived, but his left leg was so damaged in the crash that doctors amputated his leg from the knee down. When Wood found out that hospitals incinerate amputated body parts, he claimed religious reasons and recovered the severed foot, mummifying it for posterity. Due to complications from the crash and the mental anguish of losing his father, Wood fell into drug addiction and made a series of poor choices. With no home and no place to store the foot, Wood tucked it inside a BBQ smoker and stored the smoker in a rented storage locker. With no capital to maintain the rental, the locker went up for auction, as did the foot in the smoker inside. Enter Shannon Whisnant, a larger-thanlife character who makes his living trading on his gregarious personality and secondhand goods. Whisnant purchased Wood’s discarded locker at auction and was shocked to find what it held. After getting over his initial disgust with the mummified food, and the cholesterol — a word Whisnant relishes with every syllable — it leaked, Whisnant sought to capitalize on the find, charging adults $3 and children $1 to peek inside the smoker. It made local news and Whisnant, who always dreamed of being on TV, became a local celebrity. Wood, still in the throws of addiction, took to the media to recover his foot and their feud made national and international news, even intersecting with the world of reality TV in a manner that directors Bryan Carberry and J. Clay Tweel use to uncover the core truths. Finders Keepers tells the odd story Wood didn’t just lose his foot in that crash, but of a foot in a barbeque, and the two men who want it. his father. If holding on to that foot is a way of holding on to Dad, then hell or high water won’t come between them. Whisnant, the product of an abusive home, learned at an early age that being funny could get him out of many a jam. Whisnant uses that well-honed humor to further himself and his career, but when TV producers start using that humor against him, Whisnant sours quickly. Up to that point, Whisnant couldn’t see he wasn’t just making the jokes, but was the subject of them as well. Carberry and Tweel maintain a respectable distance, letting the subjects speak for themselves, often giving them enough rope. And the battle over the foot is merely one aspect of Wood and Whisnant’s feud. The idea of possession and property is another. What rings most true in Finders Keepers is an echo of Andy Wharhol’s often misquoted line: “In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” But as Finders Keepers suggests, maybe not for reasons of their choosing. Boulder Weekly
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here’s no better name for Precision Pours in Louisville than what they chose. Like many in the craft coffee world, there is a focus on acquiring the best beans from around the world, and there is a second focus on using the best methods available to extract flavor, aroma and texture from the coffee beans they source. Precision Pours walks right up to the line where coffee passion crosses into coffee pretension and sits down for a cup. Owner Bryce Young spent a long time getting here, and he’s been meticulous in not only making an excellent cup of coffee, but in cultivating a community around his brews. Young left medical school years ago and couldn’t quite keep the odd jobs that came in the wake of that decision. But he always had a passion for coffee, and spent years learning the craft of coffee making at Vic’s, Ozo and Paul’s in his native Boulder County. Next came a dive into entrepreneurship, opening a mobile coffee stand that quickly became a hit. And when he soon needed to grow, he raised money on a crowd-funding site and asked his donors to tell him what they wanted to see his coffee cart become. And so in April, Young opened Precision Pours, a small coffee shop off South Boulder Road next to the train line. You can see their big “Craft Coffee” sandwich board out on the sidewalk as you drive by, and that’s what drew me in one recent morning. Precision Pours doesn’t have the long list of specialty drinks you might see at other coffee shops. Here, there is a focus on using quality methods to
without added cream or sugar, it is full of flavor without much bitterness. It’s thin, but the nuttiness in the flavor of the pourover and the balance of its acidity and bitterness, make it a satisfying cup of coffee. The next cup contains a cortado — a pour of espresso cut with about an equal part of warm milk after the espresso is brewed. Tasting it after the pour-over amplified the creamiPrecision Pours 1030 E. South ness of the added milk, but also Boulder Road, brought out some new flavors: Louisville, butter, macadamia nut, citrus 303-834-5071 and blueberry. It’s a great cup of espresso, to put it simply, balanced in flavor and consistency, while coaxing out some hidden flavors in the bean. And speaking of coaxing out flavor, there’s the last cup of AeroPress-brewed coffee. It’s essentially a cylinder that acts as a coffee press. Coarse grounds are added to a chamber and water is heated on a hot produce quality, simple espresso, lattes and coffee. plate to a specific temperature. The water is then What’s odd about this review is that I only techslowly poured over the grounds just enough to cover nically drank one product: the Yirgacheffe Ethiopian them and left to steep. After about 45 seconds, the bean from Dragonfly Roasters. It’s a renowned and cylinder is filled with more water, the chamber is popular bean. Precision Pours rotates their selections, sealed and the whole device is flipped upside down. about three beans every two weeks or so, mostly The coffee begins to swirl, releasing essential elesourced from Colorado purveyors. But the point of ments of the coffee grounds, and then the press goes Precision Pours is to get the most out of the bean, down, filtering out the grounds. and so Young lines up three cups with liquid proWhat’s left is a cloudy and light brown coffee. It cured from three different methods: a cortado, a has a remarkably thick consistency and tastes like a pour-over and an AeroPress. combination of dark chocolate and deep cherry. Its First the pour-over. It’s made by getting filtered acidity and bitterness are in perfect check, and the water extremely hot, and pouring it over grounds of whole drink — from operation to my final sip — is the bean into a triangular glass tube. The coffee is stunning. dark brown and what’s remarkable is at that color,
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The second year of Left Hand Brewing’s Nitro Fest is coming Nov. 14 from 6-10 p.m. at Longmont’s Courtesy of Sushi Zanmai Roosevelt Park. Nitro Fest is the only event in the country that honors exclusively nitrogenated beer, and Left Hand is bringing together 39 craft breweries from around the country to participate. Participating breweries include Ballast Point, Founders, Dogfish Head, Firestone Walker, Victory and more. The big draw of the event is the opportunity to try unique nitro beers that have never been and may never be served nitrogenated again. BLACKBELLY MARKET EXPANDING The fest will also include fire dancers, stilt walkers, aerBlackbelly has been a much-welcomed ial artists, music and local food. Guests are addition to the Boulder dining scene since encouraged to dress in their best cocktail opening last year. Their array of raw, cured attire for the event. Tickets are $50 for generand cooked meats has attracted national al admission, available at www.lefthandattention. brewing.com. So it’s good news that they’ll be taking over the vacant space next door to them — formerly a donut shop — and expanding PUMPKIN DINNER ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT their popular butcher counter into a full butcher shop. The expansion allows If you’re not slinging candy from your Blackbelly to offer more fresh cuts, sausagdoorstep this Halloween, you might want to es and cured meats. They’ll also dive deep head up to Settembre Cellars for a unique into pickles, cheeses and other similar wine pairing dinner. Farmer Girl, a local farm items. dinner host, and Settembre, a Boulder winAnd, if you’ve had trouble getting a ery, are teaming up again for their annual reservation there, you’ll be happy to know Pumpkin Dinner on Saturday, Oct. 31 at the the new space will allow more seating for winery’s North Boulder shop. breakfast and lunch services. Early 2016 is Farmer Girl Chef Tim Payne will be serving
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SUSHI ZANMAI: 30 YEARS OF GOODNESS Boulder’s Sushi Zanmai celebrated 30 years in business this month with a rip-roaring party at Boulder Theater. Owner Nao San spoke about the ups and downs of running a sushi business for three decades. Fans, diners, staff past and present and fans of Sushi Zanmai all stopped by to celebrate the milestone.
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ne would think that, as research on diet and health continues to pile up, we might start inching toward consensus about what is good to eat, and what isn’t. But in many cases the opposite is happening. We can’t even agree on the essential goodness or badness of basic macronutrients like fat or carbohydrates, with each side enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet of studies to back up its case. Everyone but the sugar and junk food industries at least is in agreement about the toxic qualities of sugar, but there are some other commonly eaten foods that can hurt you as well, and much more immediately, with less controversy about them. Of course, too much of anything can kill you. Water intoxication, aka hyponatremia, for example, is a real, and really serious condition. But there are also some foods of which even a modest amount, consumed on a regular basis, can be bad. And unlike sugar, these foods are widely perceived as healthy.
Beans
Kidney beans and some species of lima beans are very high in phytohaemagglutinin, which is present at some level in most legume seeds. Ten minutes in boiling water can deactivate this
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Sclerosis (ALS). Mass-produced dried fruits have some of the highest sulfite concentrations of all foods, from 500-2,000 parts per million (wine by contrast contains between 20-350 ppm). Many commercial dried fruits also contain lots of added sugars. Organic dried fruits will be free of sulfites, but may still contain (organic) added sugars. A better alternative is to dehydrate fruit yourself when it’s in-season and cheap.
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toxin, but it’s not uncommon for people to soak beans and then add them to a salad, or cook them slowly in a crock pot at sub-boiling temperatures. According to the Food and Drug Administration, as few as five undercooked kidney beans can cause belly pain, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms of severe gastrointestinal distress. Legumes also contain a long list of anti-nutrients, so-called because they can impair the body’s ability to properly digest them and extract their full nutrient value (some of which gets turned
into the legendary flatulence). These anti-nutrients include saponins, phytate, polyphenols (tannins, isoflavones), protease inhibitors, raffinose oligosaccharides, cyanogenetic glycosides and favism glycosides. Some, like saponins, are not destroyed by cooking.
Dried fruit (that isn’t homemade or organic)
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Nature’s most perfect food might not be as perfect as we once thought, at least for grown-ups, according to a large study conducted in Sweden last year that involved nearly 100,000 middle-aged people who’d previously filled out dietary questionnaires for other research projects. Surprisingly, higher levels of milk consumption appeared to make people more susceptible to broken bones, which is the opposite of what they expected. Even worse, it also appeared to make them more likely to die earlier. But since these results came from data collected for other purposes, many scientists (not to mention dairy industry lobbyists) are cautioning that more studies are needed before it’s clear if, and at what age, we see NUTRITION Page 60
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should wean ourselves from the mammary secretions of bovines, or perhaps dial down our consumption.
Polar bear liver
If you’re alive to read this then you probably don’t eat too much polar bear liver, which contains toxic levels of vitamin A. The more benign symptoms of vitamin A toxicity include headaches and nausea, but depending on the dose they can also include skin peeling off in sheets and death, as some arctic explorers found out the hard way after feasting on polar bear liver, a single ounce of which contains five times the amount of vitamin A considered toxic to humans. Vitamin A also occurs, in much lower levels, in the livers of turkeys, cows and chicken. Retinol, which is converted to vitamin A in the body, is found in many plant foods, like sweet potato, pumpkin, carrots and other orange things. The problem comes from the fact that vitamin A is also found in many supplements, and some foods, like breakfast cereals, are fortified with it. The resulting ubiquity of vitamin A makes it possible to ingest too much of this good thing. A study of middleaged men, for example, found that high retinol and vitamin A levels made the participants seven times more likely to suffer broken bones. The authors suggested that, “...current levels of vitamin A supplementation and food fortification in many Western countries may need to be reassessed.”
Spinach and parsley?!
If you have kidney issues, then yes.
And you can add strawberries, star fruit, beets, rhubarb and chard to this list as well. All of these foods are high in oxalates, which can build up in your kidneys and crystallize into stones, which are dangerous and painful to eliminate.
Pretty much anything from China
China’s air pollution is so bad that respiratory issues represent one of the nation’s biggest killers, responsible for 17 percent of deaths in China according to one recent study. This pollution includes a lot of airborne heavy metals, which contaminate dirt and water, from which they enter plants, even those grown organically.
Soy sauce (and other forms of salt)
Perhaps this belongs in the “enough of anything can kill you” category, but a lot less soy sauce will poison you than water. One 19-year-old American woke up convulsing in the emergency room with acute salt toxicity after drinking a quart of soy sauce on a dare. In Asia, suicide by soy sauce is a real thing. But the biggest threat is to babies and small children, who could be put in danger by a much smaller dose. A gram of salt per kilogram of body weight can be lethal. A tablespoon contains about 20 grams, and that bottle of soy sauce contains 170 grams of salt, which put the fellow who drank it at just under 2 grams per/kg. He lived to tell the tale, but I don’t think he’ll be doing that again. Boulder Weekly
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even years ago, I organized my first wine dinner. I’d fallen hard for wine two years prior but still didn’t know much. Sure, I was reading all the right books and magazines. But the number of wines I had tasted was still quite small. Fortunately, four close friends shared my interest in wine. So we gathered at my house to explore the wines of France. Each attendee was tasked with purchasing a $35 to $50 bottle from Champagne, Burgundy or the Rhône Valley. I volunteered to spend $135 on a “trophy” wine from Bordeaux. The decision to spend so much Wikimedia Commons on Bordeaux made sense to us. We knew that Bordeaux had dominated the global wine marketplace for centuries. And even though we were new to wine, we could rattle off details about Bordeaux’s 1855 classification of its estates. After weeks of research, I purchased a bottle of 1989 Château La FleurPétrus from a local collector. Online notes suggested the wine was drinking well. And I got a kick out of the fact that the property was a stone’s throw from Château Pétrus, one of Bordeaux’s most famous estates. The wine was exceptional. And I’ve loved Bordeaux ever since. But I’ve also kept the region’s wines in the box I put them in that night, assuming that every wine worth drinking carried a hefty price tag and required a decade or more in the cellar. Earlier this month, I visited Bordeaux to see what else the region could offer. I learned that, contrary to perception, Bordeaux is home to countless mud-on-their-boots farmers who produce affordable, authentic wines. An illustrative example was found in Cars, a village of just over 1,000 people on the right bank of the Gironde, directly opposite the renowned Médoc communes of Margaux, St-Julien and Pauillac. Together with three other journalists, I visited Cars to meet with Guillaume Hubert, the sixth-generation vigneron at Château PeybonhommeBoulder Weekly
Les-Tours. Hubert has gained a small and loyal following in the United States thanks to his commitment to biodynamic farming, his hands-off approach to winemaking and passionate support from Chambers Street Wines and Astor Wines & Spirits, two of New York’s top wine shops. Upon our arrival, Hubert emerged from his vineyard covered in dirt, wearing boots, cargo shorts and a well-worn sweatshirt. We toured his property and tasted in his no-frills cellar, but only after greeting his parents and the family’s three dogs. All Hubert’s wines tasted real, without a hint of expensive oak or manipulated fruit. And all can be found for less than $25 per bottle. Another example was found in Camblanes, a small town 25 minutes south of Bordeaux, where we visited Cécile Mallié Verdier at Château Brethous. Despite the imposing name, Château Brethous isn’t a grand castle; it’s an unassuming, onelevel farmhouse. Mallié Verdier’s family purchased the property in 1963, and she began working there in 1998, transitioning to organic viticulture ten years later. We tasted through her lineup over a casual, outdoor lunch grilled by her husband, Thierry, over vine cuttings. These wines, too, were the real deal. The trip wasn’t without reminders of why I had relegated Bordeaux to trophy status. But luxury tastings in luxury settings weren’t what I was after. I was far more interested in down-home conviviality and nose-to-the-soil local producers than exclusivity and extravagance. Bordeaux might forever be defined by its marquee estates. But Guillaume Hubert and Cécile Mallié Verdier demonstrate that once you remove Bordeaux’s pomp and circumstance, you’ll find vignerons who recognize that wine is agricultural — and know that great wines can and should be made in the vineyard. David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com, one of the world’s most popular wine blogs. His columns are housed at GrapeCollective.com.
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On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota experienced very weird weather. At 7:30 a.m. the temperature was minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, thermometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to minus 4 degrees. I’m wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. As long as you keep in mind that no single feeling is likely to last very long, it doesn’t have to be a problem. You may even find a way to enjoy the breathtaking ebbs and flows. Halloween costume suggestion: roller coaster rider, Jekyll and Hyde, warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts or bathing suit on the other.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20:
How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can’t bring yourself to be a little less attractive — if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down — please at least try to be extra kind and generous. Share your emotional wealth. Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings. Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
In the last ten days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks, and mythic escapades. But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper, and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that? If so, I bet you will get sneak peaks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:
I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don’t just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you’re in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21:
I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming? I don’t think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you guess why I’m bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It’s one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that. I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.
Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does this serve? Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David Attenborough. In the documentary film Africa, he follows a springbok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping to find a rare rainstorm. Finally it happens. As if in celebration, the springboks erupt with an outbreak of pronking. “They are dancing for joy,” Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar. Halloween costume suggestion: a pronking gazelle, a hippety-hopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat.
CAPRICORN
LEO
I hope you will chose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it’s in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion, and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you? Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero, or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
“A very little key will open a very heavy door,” wrote Charles Dickens in his short story “Hunted Down.” Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you’ll be alert when clues about the real key’s location become available. You will have a keen intuitive sense of how you’ll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage in chapter four, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.” Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want
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Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I’m letting you know that you’re due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.
AQUARIUS
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It’s time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wild-eyed revolutionary, Dr. Who.
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Dear Dan: I am a straight, married, 38-year-old woman. My husband and I have two children. I have been with my husband for 12 years, married for six. Three years after we were married, we found out that he was HIV positive. We had both had multiple tests throughout our relationship because of physicals and the process we went through to get pregnant. Both of us were negative then, but only I am now. Needless to say, he was infected as a result of him cheating. We worked through that and remained married. Recently I saw a message from a woman saying, “Call me or I am calling your wife.” I identified myself, and she and I spoke briefly. I asked her how long they were having a relationship, and she told me since January. I did not mention his status. I confronted him, and he claims she is a crazy stalker. He says there was a brief flirtation, but then she became clingy and “crazy,” and he did not know how to tell me without compromising our relationship. He blocked her calls and e-mails. He is undetectable, and we use condoms. He has never tried to not use a condom when we have had sex. In the state where we live, a positive person who does not inform a person of their status before having sex faces up to five years in prison. I have brought this to his attention. He is sticking to his story that he did not have sex with her. I do not believe him. We met with a therapist last week, only for a placement consultation. We did not mention his status. This is my biggest issue: I don’t think we can work through our problems without honesty. I need him to come clean and admit to me — and our therapist — that he had sex with this woman. If he does, I believe the therapist will be legally obligated to report his behavior to the police. I am preparing myself for divorce, something he doesn’t know, and while I don’t want to have him arrested, I feel we need the therapy in order to respectfully coparent — and lying to a therapist or omitting the full truth seems crazy. — Seeking Truth About This Unpleasant Situation
Dear STATUS: “Where to start?” asks Peter Staley, the legendary AIDS activist, founding director of the Treatment Action Group, and longtime board member of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. “I’ll leave the relationship issues to you, Dan, but isn’t the level of distrust here the most toxic part of the story?” The level of distrust does strike me as toxic — but seeing as your husband cheated, STATUS, and not for the first time, your distrust is understandable. What I don’t understand is your desire to see your husband sent to prison. You don’t want honesty (he doesn’t seem capable of that), you don’t want to “work through your problems” (your marriage is Boulder Weekly
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over), you just want your soon-to-be exhusband to rot in jail. But since you don’t want to call the police yourself — you don’t want your fingerprints on this — you want to con your husband (with my help!) into telling “the full truth” to a therapist who will have to call the police. “STATUS really does appear to be plotting her revenge here,” Staley says. “Divorce, checking her state’s HIV criminalization laws, drawing her husband into making a confession that could land him in prison.” And the instrument of your revenge — laws that require HIV-positive people to disclose to their sex partners — are unjust and unworkable. “I stand with every public-health organization, including UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, in abhorring HIV criminalization laws like the one STATUS cites,” Staley says. “We already have laws on the books that can adequately deal with someone who knowingly and intentionally transmits HIV to someone else. Adding additional laws around HIV disclosure, especially when no transmission occurs, ends up causing more harm than good. Stigma rises. Fewer people disclose. Jilted partners use the laws to lash out.” That’s exactly what you sound like, STATUS: a jilted partner who hopes to use an unjust law to lash out at her soonto-be ex-husband. And while you have cause to be angry (serial adulterers suck), you don’t have grounds to destroy your husband’s life. And you can’t rationalize your plot based on the “danger” your husband presented to the other woman. Your husband is taking his meds and has an undetectable viral load. That means he’s effectively noninfectious. So even if he didn’t use condoms with this woman — and you don’t even know for sure if he was fucking her (and he’d be a fool to admit to you that he was) — he didn’t put her at risk of acquiring HIV. “There’s a great organization called SERO (seroproject.com) fighting these laws,” Staley says. “Their website is filled with frightening cases of people with HIV rotting in jail for supposed nondisclosure, even when no transmission occurred. There are no similar convictions for nondisclosure of hepatitis C, HPV, syphilis, herpes, etc., some of which can kill. People with HIV are being singled out by legislatures trying to ‘protect’ the public from ‘AIDS monsters’ created by local TV stations looking for ratings.” Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter October 29, 2015 71
EEDBETWEENTHELINES New schools or a cup of coffee?
We say let the retail marijuana tax do what it was intended to do by Boulder Weekly Staff
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n 2013, Colorado voters passed proposition AA, permitting the state to charge a retail marijuana tax as a follow-up to 2012’s Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana in Colorado. The passing of Amendment 64 and the subsequent passing of Proposition AA were enticing to voters because first, it made it legal to possess and consume cannabis and second, the additional state revenue generated by AA was earmarked to fund badly needed public school construction across the state. The pairing of these two initiatives created a win-win whether you smoked pot or not. Sure, you may think your stoner neighbor is annoying, but when you realize his buzz is helping to build a new school for the kid who lives across the street, he doesn’t seem so bad (except when he mows the image of the Zig-Zag man into his lawn). But here we are in 2015 and the whole beautiful marriage of pot and school construction is heading for an ugly divorce unless voters step up and make sure their original intent is fulfilled by passing yet another proposition — this time it’s Proposition BB. And why is this necessary? Because, once again, common sense has run headlong into Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR as it is commonly referred to, usually sandwiched between two expletives. As part of Proposition AA, the state provided estimates of tax revenue for
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the first full year the new taxes were to apply (FY 2014-15.) However, the revenues from these voter-approved taxes exceeded the estimates by $66.1 million. Due to the state’s constitutional spending limits (compliments of TABOR), unless we pass Prop BB on Nov. 3, the state will have to refund the school construction taxes it collected simply because it guessed wrong as to how much pot people were going to buy in the first year after the passage of Prop AA. This is the stupidity known as TABOR. Instead of getting to spend $40 million on school construction and $12
million on state programs including marijuana education, anti-bullying campaigns, substance abuse and enforcement and another $14.1 million toward education yet to be allocated, TABOR would make the state write each of us an $8 check. That’s right, if you vote for Proposition BB, education gets $66.1 million. If you vote against Prop BB you can buy yourself two cups of coffee and a pack of gum. You might even have enough change left over to buy an “idiot” sticker to put on your forehead. All kidding aside, if BB fails to pass, an average of $8 per taxpayer
would be refunded (a total of $25 million) and $24 million would be refunded to retail marijuana cultivators. The retail marijuana sales tax would also be cut from 10 percent to .1 percent until taxes are reduced to match the original estimates. Additionally, local governments would receive less from the state to address the effects of marijuana legalization on the community due to a decrease in tax rate from 15 percent to 7.5 percent until the 2014-15 benchmarks are reached. Proponents argue these tax revenues express the intention of voters when Amendment 64 and Proposition AA passed. By refunding the excess taxes, valuable projects and programs would remain unfunded and a year of marijuana taxation would be wasted. Think of it this way; for a whole year, your dopesmokin’ neighbor will return to just being an irritant with no redeeming school-construction value. Critics argue that Proposition BB is a temporary tax increase by disregarding the tax refund provision in the state constitution. They argue the state should have prioritized these program expenditures when estimating the potential revenue of Proposition AA. We think the critics are wrong. Boulder Weekly supports the one-time tax refund exemption that Proposition BB proposes, as the refund to tax payers is minimal but the benefits to the education system is exponential.
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by Erica Berry of Food & Environment Reporting Network and Katie Kuntz of Rocky Mountain PBS I-News Boulder Weekly brings you this report in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Learn more at rmpbs.org/news. ccording to a 2013 study published in the Journal of Toxicology, up to 69.5 percent of the pesticides on a marijuana bud can transfer into the smoker’s lungs. Jeffrey Raber, who directed the study and owns a cannabis-testing lab in California, said the risks to consumers and workers are clear. “It’s easy to understand that these compounds are toxic. We’ve studied that ad nauseum,” he said. “That’s why regulations exist for every other item we consume.” Colorado law requires pesticide testing for cannabis products, but nearly two years into recreational legalization, the state has not begun testing. “The MED (The Marijuana Enforcement Division), along with the Department of Agriculture and other state departments, are working very hard on this issue to come up with a process that our licensees can be compliant with,” said Thomas Moore, a spokesman for the agency. State laws in Colorado also require cannabis cultivators to comply with the Federal Worker Protection Standard to protect employees from acute and chronic pesticide exposure, but the guidelines are complex and enforcement has been slow to materialize. According to the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s (CDA) John Scott, his agency has inspected nearly 100 of the 1,000-plus licensed grow
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and city inspectors. “We initiated an investigation the very next day after that article came out,” Scott said, explaining how seriously the CDA takes allegations of pesticide misuse. The Denver Department of Environmental Health reports receiving several complaints from workers. “That’s one of the conversations that came up when all of this started: What is going on in these facilities? Are the people that are working there being put in harm’s way without even knowing what’s going on?” said Dan Rowland, a spokesman for the City and County of Denver. In mid-May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent a letter to the Colorado agriculture department indicating that states could apply for EPA testing on certain chemicals used on cannabis. Jim Jones, the EPA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, said that though the crop remains an illegal Schedule 1 drug, his office is willing to conduct the necessary toxicology tests to determine safe usage of some pesticides on cannabis. He said states must submit applications for pesticides already regulated for both food and tobacco use. More than four months after the EPA sent its letter, no state has applied. This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit news organization producing investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and environmental health. To read the full report in depth, go to http:// tinyurl.com/q5ob8cj.
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