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Pearl Street tip system works
In last week’s letter dubbed “Tip your street performer” [Sept. 26], the author rightly suggests that if you enjoy and value a performance, then compensate the performer. She also states that one very discouraged performer vented to her his
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Highroad Tilling our public treasury by Jim Hightower
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ome aspects of American agriculture are quite odd. For example, to meet a farmer these days, there’s no need for you to venture out to the hinterland — because thousands of them actually are city slickers. And they’re really slick, for many of them neither plant nor harvest wheat, cotton, peanuts or any crops at all. Rather, relaxing in their often-luxurious urban nests, they farm the federal farm
frustrations about not making a decent wage by the end of the day. As someone who has watched many performances on Pearl Street over the years I can confidently say that the “busking” scene is one of the purest forms of free market capitalism (without the collateral damage — mostly). No room for whining here. Fact is,
some buskers get more donations than others because their performance is, in fact, more highly valued than others. I suggest that if a busker isn’t making enough bread on the street, either the performance needs to be tweaked and/ or other forms of income need to be
bill, harvesting millions of dollars each year from taxpayers. A new report from the Environmental Working Group reveals that more than 18,000 people living in America’s 54 largest cities pocketed about $24 million last year from the ag department’s direct payment program. New York City, for example, has 152 of these “farmers,” San Francisco has 116, Chicago 393, Denver 821, Tampa 100, Tucson 328 and Houston 1,405. That’s because the program makes payments not only to real farmers, but also to people who merely hold an ownership interest in farmland, whether or not any crops are raised on it and even if the city-dwelling recipient has never visited the place. Ironically, this cockamamie payment scheme was put into the 1996 farm bill as a transition measure to wean farmers off subsidies. But it’s been renewed twice, and it looks like our gridlocked
For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.
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Congress is about to do it again, even though it pays zero to the majority of America’s farm families. Indeed, the bulk of the $5 billion paid out annually goes to the biggest spreads, including multimillion-dollar corporate operations. Even if Congress critters finally muster the political gumption to stop this absurdity, they intend to replace it with a more bizarre crop-insurance scam that’s a guaranteed income program for multimillionaires, allowing them to keep tilling our public treasury. For more information go to www. ewg.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 3, 2013 7
Really BAD Ideas It ’s no t m y faul t th e go ve rnmen t go t sh ut do w n.
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n Sept. 17 I ended up the first to address the Boulder City Council during citizen participation. Several council members were nodding their heads by the end of the first sentence ... but soon they stopped. Here’s what I said, prettied up for print. Crises bring some opportunities. If and where the creek path needs reconstruction, it should be widened and straightened to accommodate the increase in biking and electric biking that Boulder will have to accomplish to avoid the coming “hockey stick” of congestion that the Transportation Master Plan predicts. You just can’t jam more 3/4empty cars and 6/7-empty big-city buses onto our narrow roads, especially with all the traffic circles, medians, neckdowns, chicanes and other
obstructions the city has installed in the last 20 years. I suggest perhaps an 8-foot-wide bike path and a 6-footwide pedestrian path. [I analyzed RTD’s “Ride Check” records in 1994, 2007 and 2009 to get the current 6/7 figure. The only nonPR response by RTD to such stats was in the early ‘90s to start using tinted windows to disguise the vast emptiness!] You also have the opportunity to get serious about pretty much all the official city goals by at least suspending the occupancy ordinance that limits most housing units to three unrelated people, and keeps hundreds or thousands of rooms unused or underused. Here are the city goals the ordinance thwarts: 1. Affordable housing: Less supply
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he U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the executive summary of its latest report on global warming on Sept. 26. It stated, among other things, that hundreds of scientists are more certain than ever that the planet is warming up and that humanity’s ever-growing use of fossil fuels is the cause. The report said its authors are 95 percent certain that this is so (up from 90 percent certainty in a similar conclusion in the IPCC’s 2007 report). The report also said that since 1750 (the approximate start of the industrial age) humans have released 545 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide have increased to levels “unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years,” that in most of the scenarios the panel considered the average global surface temperature is likely to go up 1.5-2.0 Celsius (2.7-3.6 Fahrenheit), that glaciers and sea ice have been melting at an accelerating rate, that sea levels could rise by as much as three feet or more by the end of the century, and that if another 455 billion tons of carbon dioxide are put into the atmosphere — raising cumulative human-caused carbon dioxide emissions to one trillion tons — average global temperature increases will break through the 2 C ceiling that the panel thinks is the highest that can be reached without major climate changes ensuing, and so on. No real surprises here. Also unsurprisingly, a number of environmentalists and media outlets chose to view the report with alarm and opine that it should serve as “a wake-up call.” The British magazine New Scientist contained a different take. It ran a piece by Adam Corner, a research associate in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, titled, “Climate Science: Why the world won’t listen.” Corner argued that by early 2008 compelling scientific and economic cases had been made for aggressive global action to contain and roll back the production of greenhouse gases — but “the exact opposite happened.” “Fast forward to today ... Apathy, lack of interest and even outright denial Boulder Weekly
are more widespread than they were in 2008,” he wrote. Corner offers some psychological reasons for why the world’s response to the IPCC’s “wake-up” calls has been to roll over and go back to sleep: Psychological research has shown that trying to scare or shame people into sustainable behavior is likely to backfire, that people’s beliefs about the climate are influenced by extreme and even daily weather, and that concern about climate change “is not only, or even mostly, a product of how much people know about science.” Increased knowledge “tends to harden existing opinions,” he said. I suspect there’s a lot of truth in Corner’s observations, but you don’t really need to rely on psychology to explain why both policymakers and the public at large are losing interest in trying to do anything about climate change. Political realities will suffice. Start with the following finding from the IPCC report: “A large fraction of anthropogenic climate change resulting from carbon dioxide emissions is irreversible on a multi-century to millennial time scale, except in the case of a large net removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over a sustained period. Surface temperatures will remain approximately constant at elevated levels for many centuries after a complete cessation of net anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions … ocean warming will continue for centuries. Depending on the scenario, about 15 to 40 percent of emitted carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere for longer than 1,000 years.” In short, even if the world stops using coal, oil and natural gas tomorrow, the climate will continue to get warmer for hundreds of years. That isn’t an oil company CEO talking. It is the 800 scientists of the IPCC. Political reality 1: No sane politician in the United States or anywhere is going to commit his country to policies that will extract a staggering price in national wealth, personal income and personal liberty from their constituents if there is no discernible payoff for centuries for doing so. Political reality 2: The American
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It’s mostly rich people that have been destroying our recent environment ever since I can remember, at least since the 1960s, when in southern California, they started building big and expensive buildings and homes and the smog encroached because there were no rules. I was right in my expectation of Mother Nature (of God) that you can’t keep messing with the Earth and not expect it to respond. This giant flood is proof! The rich and careless and indifferent have profited by building all over the place, again with huge homes, factories, box stores and highways. They never listen to people who know and have studied these things; they just go on their merry way, getting richer by profits and hurting all the environment and all the rest of us folks. If we do not learn from this experience and just continue to do the same old stuff i.e., 15,000-square-foot homes on the creek or on mudslide hills; i.e. air pollution from coal and factories; i.e. killing the natural flora and fauna in order to build and have larger families thereby using up Earth’s resources, this will not be the last catastrophe! This was only a warning! I believe that next time, Mom will really let us have it until we all wake up! We are lucky that not more folks were killed. Miriam Paisner/Boulder
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Amendment 66 (a billion-dollar tax increase to “improve” education) costs a lot of money, yet it doesn’t address the systemic problems of public education. If Amendment 66 passes: • Public schools will stick with the cockamamie policy of paying great teachers the same as average and awful ones, they’ll still defy common sense and pay teachers based on years of service and their college degrees instead of paying for results, and they’ll still have the lunacy of protecting teachers with tenure • Public school districts will have
more money to waste on the salaries of union bosses, they’ll have more money to blow on paying teachers to do union work, and they’ll have more money to waste on lavish school board conferences held at luxurious places (like the Broadmoor and Brown Palace hotels) • Public schools will still assign children to schools based on arbitrary political boundaries (Nearly everyone recognizes that it would be crazy if we were assigned a government-run grocery store based on arbitrary political boundaries. We would never tolerate it. Why do we tolerate such craziness for schools?) • Poorly run lousy public schools will still not have to worry about going out of business or about the competition, and still nobody will have to worry about being fired for rotten results (is there no end to the madness?) If Amendment 66 fails to improve academic results, the tax will not expire in 10, or even 20 years. It’s a forever tax increase with no accountability for results. Vote No on 66. Chuck Wright/Westminster
Food month
Looking through my calendar of national observances, it appears that October is turning into “food month,” beginning with World Vegetarian Day and World Day for Farmed Animals Oct. 1 and Oct. 2, continuing with National School Lunch Week Oct. 14-18 and World Food Day on Oct. 16, and culminating with Food Day on Oct. 24. World Day for Farmed Animals (www.WFAD.org), on Oct. 2, is perhaps the most dramatic of these. It celebrates the lives, exposes the abuses and memorializes the slaughter of billions of sentient animals raised for food. Recent undercover investigations showed male baby chicks suffocated in plastic garbage bags or ground to death, pigs clobbered with metal pipes, and cows skinned and dismembered while still conscious. Moreover, a recent Harvard study of more than 120,000 people confirmed once again that meat consumption raises mortality from cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Animal agriculture accounts for more water pollution than all other human activities. A 2011 United Nations report recommends eating less meat to reduce greenhouse gases. The good news is that our meat consumption has been dropping by nearly 4 percent annually! Entering “live vegan” in a search engine brings lots of useful transition tips. Stanley Silver/Boulder Boulder Weekly
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of rental rooms means higher prices. 2. Reducing traffic: less rentals and higher prices mean more people must commute into Boulder and drive farther. 3. Urban density. Obviously, emptiness is the opposite of density! 4. Diversity: Obviously, poorer minorities can’t afford Boulder rents. 5. Reducing our carbon footprint. Obviously, if we’re heating empty
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people are not going to agree to make the required sacrifices if the carbon reductions achieved by them are cancelled out by the expansion of coalfired electric power generation in China, India and other developing nations. That’s why Congress furiously rejected the Kyoto treaty in 2000. Political reality 3: Climatologists and environmentalists argue that global warming is an existential threat, but their actions suggest that they don’t take the threat very seriously. The two most mature and most commonly deployed technologies for generating carbon-free electricity are nuclear and hydro-electric power. Greens despise both and actively oppose new nuclear plants and hydro-electric dams. If they genuinely believed global warming posed a life-and-death threat to the planet or even civilization as we know it, they would be supporting both, despite any real or imagined risks. Political reality 4: If environmentalists really believed that global warming posed a clear and present danger to human existence, they would be finding ways to expedite the construction of utility-scale wind farms and solar power plants instead of finding ways to delay them — like by being overly solicitous of the Desert Tortoise or litigating to delay the construction of new power lines to connect alternative energy projects to the grid. The fact that they delay, sometimes by years, the green projects that they claim are needed to save the planet suggests that green solutions are being put forward in bad faith. And so on. People concerned about global warming think the reason people and governments are losing interest in climate change is because they don’t understand what’s happening. They ought to consider the possibility that maybe it is because they do. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
rooms and driving more. 6. Better relations with students: Not a chance, with students the biggest victim of the ordinance. So you have the opportunity to make this a really green town. As you know, for years I’ve been saying Boulder is a world center for greenwashing. I’d say Mother Nature hasn’t indicated approval, if there’s any meaning to what’s happened to us.
It’s the empty rooms, empty car and bus seats and especially the empty mansions of Boulder and America that are sucking the planet dry. There’s no “Boulder exceptionalism” here. Don’t forget the empty hearts of the people who made and keep it this way. “Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surrounds it, it shines clear.” — Gandhi
I hope this flood sweeps clean. Evan Ravitz was Evan from Heaven, a tightrope artist on the Pearl Street Mall, from 1978 to 1998. He’s now a wilderness guide and freelance editor. He started the Ebike petition: http://petitions. moveon.org/sign/legalize-ebikes-on-boulder. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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hen it comes to environmental impacts from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, Colorado ranks among the three most negatively affected states in the country in most categories, according to a new report from the Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center. And Colorado ranks second only to Texas in the report when it comes to certain indicators on the spread of fracking and its effects. As of press time, the center was set to formally unveil its report, “Fracking by the Numbers: Key Impacts of Dirty Drilling at the State and National Level,” at an Oct. 3 event in downtown Denver featuring Boulder City Council member and environmental attorney Macon Cowles, Lafayette community activist and trauma nurse Cliff Willmeng and Environment Colorado field associate Lindsey Wilson. The 46-page report breaks down fracking and its impacts by listing estimates for each state in categories such as number of fracked wells, wastewater produced and water used. According to the center, Colorado has seen 18,168 new fracking wells drilled since 2005, trailing only Texas, which added 33,753 during that period. Wastewater produced in 2012 was the only category in the report in which Colorado evaded landing in the top three: There were 2.2 billion gallons of wastewater produced in Colorado, behind the 3 billion in New Mexico, the 12 billion in North Dakota and the 260 billion in Texas. And according to the report, when it comes to the amount of water used for fracking since 2005, Colorado’s 26 billion gallons trails only Pennsylvania and Texas. “The amount of water used for fracking in Colorado was enough to meet the water needs of nearly 200,000 Denver households for a year,” the report says. The center also estimates air pollution caused by oil and gas operations,
listing several types of emissions: particulate matter, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), sulphur dioxide and nitric oxide/nitrogen dioxide. Again, Colorado had the distinction of being in the top three in all five categories, along with North Dakota and Texas. As for the methane emitted from wells, which experts say contributes to global warming more than carbon dioxide, the report says Colorado’s emissions from 2005 to 2012 are equivalent to 23 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, trailing only Texas’ 40 million metric tons. And this estimate is understated, according to the center. Colorado also ranks second in the number of acres of land damaged by oil and gas operations, the report says, with 57,000 acres, compared to 130,000 in Texas. The Environment Colorado center also outlines several policy recommendations in the report, suggesting that states, counties and municipalities enact outright bans on fracking “to protect the environment and public health.” States bordering areas seeing extensive oil and gas operations should bar the processing of fracking waste so that they don’t become “dumping grounds” for the practice, the report says, and government should reduce the environmental and health impacts of fracking by closing loopholes in environmental laws, prohibiting fracking near national parks/ forests and watersheds that provide drinking water and ending negative practices such as open waste pits and the use of toxic chemicals. In addition, the center recommends that states and the Bureau of Land Management require “robust financial assurance from operators at every well site” to ensure that the taxpayers don’t end up on the hook for paying costs associated with fracking damage. The report was written by Elizabeth Ridlington of the Frontier Group and John Rumpler of the Environment America Research & Policy Center. For more information, visit www.environmentcolorado.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Annual media watchdog list critiques coverage of whistleblowers and wealth gaps -- and the notion of journalistic objectivity by Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
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his year’s annual Project Censored list of the most underreported news stories includes the widening wealth gap, the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning for leaking classified documents, and President Obama’s war on whistleblowers — all stories that actually received considerable news coverage. So how exactly were they “censored” and what does that say of this venerable media watchdog project? Project Censored isn’t only about stories that were deliberately buried or ignored. It’s about stories the media has covered poorly through a sort of false objectivity that skews the truth. Journalists do cry out against injustice, on occasion, but they don’t always do it well. That’s why Project Censored was started back in 1967: to highlight stories the mainstream media missed or gave scant attention to. Sonoma State University academics and students pore through hundreds of submissions of overlooked and under-reportBoulder Weekly
Watching the watchdogs The Project for Excellence in Journalism, which conducts an annual analysis of trends in news, found that as revenue in journalism declined, newsrooms have shed 30 percent of their staff in the last decade. In 2012, the number of reporters in the U.S. dipped to its lowest level since 1978, with fewer than 40,000 reporters nationally. This creates a sense of desperation in the newsroom, and in the end, it’s the public that loses. “What won out is something much more palpable to the advertisers,” says Robert McChesney, an author, long-time media reform advocate, professor at University of Illinois, and host of Media Matters from 2000 to 2012. Blandness beat out fearless truth-telling. Even worse than kowtowing to advertisers is the false objectivity the media tries to achieve, McChesney
told us, neutering its news to stay “neutral” on a topic. This handcuffs journalists into not drawing conclusions, even when they are well-supported by the facts. In order to report a story, they rely on the words of others to make claims, limiting what they can report. “You allow people in power to set the range of legitimate debate, and you report on it,” McChesney said. Project Censored stories reflect that dynamic — many of them require journalists to take a stand or present an illuminating perspective on a set of dry facts. For example, reporting on the increasing gulf between the rich and the poor is easy, but talking about why the rich are getting richer is where journalists begin to worry about their objectivity, Gladstone said. “I think that there is a desire to stay away from stories that will inspire rhetoric of class warfare,” she said. Unable to tell the story of a trend and unable to talk about rising inequality for fear of appearing partisan, reporters often fail to connect the dots for their readers. One of Project Censored stories this year, “Bank Interests Inflate Global Prices by 35 to 40 Percent,” is a good example of the need for a media watchdog. Researchers point to interest payments as the primary way wealth is transferred from Main Street to Wall Street. It’s how the banks are picking the pockets of the 99 percent. But if no politician is calling out the banks on this practice, if no advocacy group is gaining enough traction, shouldn’t it be the media’s role to protect the public and sound the battle cry? “So much of media criticism is really political commentary squeezed through a media squeezer,” Gladstone said, “and it comes out media shaped.”
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McChesney says journalism should be a proactive watchdog by independently stating that something needs to be done. He said there’s more watchdog journalism calling out inequity in democracies where there is a more robust and funded media. And they often have one thing we in U.S. don’t — government subsidies for journalism. “All the other democracies in the world, there are huge subsidies for public media and journalism,” McChesney said. “They not only rank ahead of us in terms of being democratic, they also rank ahead of us in terms of having a free press. Our press is shrinking.” No matter what the ultimate economic solution is, the crisis of reporting is largely a crisis of money. McChesney calls it a “whole knife in the heart of journalism.” See CENSORED Page 18
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For American journalism to revive itself, it has to move beyond its corporate ties. It has to become a truly free press. It’s time to end the myth that corporate journalism is the only way for media to be objective, monolithic and correct. The failures of that prescription are clear in Project Censored’s top 10 stories of the year:
1. Manning and the failure of corporate media Untold stories of Iraqi civilian deaths by American soldiers, U.S. diplomats pushing aircraft sales on foreign royalty, uninvestigated abuse by Iraqi allies, the perils of the rise in private war contractors — this is what Manning exposed. They were stories that challenge the U.S. political elite, and they were only made possible by a sacrifice. Manning got a 35-year prison sentence for the revelation of state secrets to WikiLeaks, a story told countless times in corporate media. But as Project Censored posits, the failure of our media was not in the lack of coverage of Manning, but in its focus. Though The New York Times partnered with WikiLeaks to release stories based on the documents, many published in 2010 through 2011, news from the leaks have since slowed to a trickle — a waste of more than 700,000 pieces of classified intelligence giving unparalleled ground-level views of America’s costly wars. The media quickly took a scathing indictment of U.S. military policy and spun it into a story about Manning’s politics and patriotism. As Rolling Stone pointed out (“Did the Media Fail Bradley Manning?”), Manning initially took the trove of leaks to The Washington Post and The New York Times, only to be turned away. Alexa O’Brien, a former Occupy activist, scooped most of the media by actually attending Manning’s trial. She produced tens of thousands of words in transcriptions of the court hearings, as one of the only reporters on the beat.
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the tax havens are used in Ponzi schemes. Moving money offshore has implications that ripped through the world economy. Part of Greece’s economic collapse was due to these tax havens, ICIJ reporter Gerard Ryle told Gladstone on her radio show. “It’s because people don’t want to pay taxes,” he said. “You avoid taxes by going offshore and playing by different rules.” U.S. Senator Carl Levin, D-Michigan, introduced legislation to combat the practice, SB 1533, The Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, but so far the bill has had little play in the media. Researcher James Henry said the hidden wealth was a “huge black hole” in the world economy that has never been measured, and could generate income tax revenues between $190 billion $280 billion a year.
3. Trans-Pacific Partnership Take 600 corporate advisors, mix in officials from 11 international governments, let it bake for about two years, and out pops international partnerships that threaten to cripple progressive movements worldwide. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a trade agreement, but leaked texts show it may allow foreign investors to use “investor-state” tribunals to extract extravagant extra damages for “expected future profits,” according to the Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch. The trade watch group investigated the TPP and is the main advocate in opposition of its policies. The AFLCIO, Sierra Club, and other organizations have also had growing concerns about the level of access granted to corporations in these agreements. With extra powers granted to foreign firms, the possibility that companies would continue moving offshore could grow. But even with the risks of outsized corporate influence, the U.S. has a strong interest in the TPP in order to maintain trade agreements with Asia. The balancing act between corporate and public interests is at stake, but until the U.S. releases more documents from negotiations, the American people will remain in the dark.
4. Obama’s war on whistleblowers
President Obama has invoked the Espionage Act of 1917 more than every other president combined. Seven times, Obama has pursued leakers with the act, against Thomas Drake, Shamai Leibowitz, Bradley Manning, Stephen Kim, Jeffrey Sterling, John Kiriakou, and most recently, Edward Snowden. All had ties to the State Department, FBI, CIA or NSA, and all of them leaked to journalists. “Neither party is raising hell over this. This is the sort of story that sort of slips through the cracks,” McChesney said. And when the politicians don’t raise a fuss, neither does the media. Pro Publica covered the issue, constructing timelines and mapping out the various arrests and indictments. But where Project Censored points out the lack of coverage is in Obama’s hypocrisy — only a year before, he signed The Whistleblower Protection Act. Later on, he said he wouldn’t follow every letter of the law in the bill he had only just signed. “Certain provisions in the Act threaten to interfere with my constitutional duty to supervise the executive branch,” Obama said. “As my Administration previously informed the Congress, I will interpret those sections consistent with my authority.”
5. Hate groups and anti-government groups on rise across U.S. Hate groups in the U.S. are on the rise, according to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. There are 1,007 known hate groups operating across the country, it wrote, including neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, border vigilantes and others. Since 2000, those groups have grown by more than half, and there was a “powerful resurgence” of Patriot groups, the likes of which were involved in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Worst of all, the huge growth in armed militias seems to have conspicuous timing with Obama’s election. “The number of Patriot groups, including armed militias, has grown 813 percent since Obama was elected — from 149 in 2008 to 1,360 in 2012,” the See CENSORED Page 20
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6. Billionaires’ rising wealth intensifies poverty and inequality The world’s billionaires added $241 billion to their collective net worth in 2012. That’s an economic recovery, right? That gain, coupled with the world’s richest peoples’ new total worth of $1.9 trillion (more than the GDP of Canada), wasn’t reported by some kooky socialist group, but by Bloomberg News. But few journalists are asking the important question: Why? Project Censored points to journalist George Monbiot, who highlights a reduction of taxes and tax enforcement, the privatization of public assets, and the weakening of labor unions. His conclusions are backed up by the United Nations’ Trade and Development Report from 2012, which noted how the trend hurts everyone: “Recent empirical and analytical work reviewed here mostly shows a negative correlation between inequality and growth.”
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8. Bank interests inflate global prices by 35 percent to 40 percent Does 35 percent of everything bought in the United States go to interest? Professor Margrit Kennedy of the University of Hanover thinks so, and she says it’s a major funnel of money from the 99 percent to the rich. In her 2012 book, Occupy Money, Kennedy wrote that tradespeople, suppliers, wholesalers and retailers along the chain of production rely on credit. Her figures were initially drawn from the German economy, but Ellen Brown of the Web of Debt and Global Research said she found similar patterns in the U.S. This “hidden interest” has sapped the growth of other industries, she said, lining the pockets of the financial sector. So if interest is stagnating so many industries, why would journalists avoid the topic? Few economists have echoed her views, and few experts emerged to back up her assertions. Notably, she’s a professor in an architectural school, with no formal credentials in economics. Boulder Weekly
news From her own website, she said she became an “expert” in economics “through her continuous research and scrutiny.” Without people in power pushing the topic, McChesney said that a mainstream journalist would be seen as going out on a limb. “The reporters raise an issue the elites are not raising themselves, then you’re ideological, have an axe to grind, sort of a hack,” he said. “It makes journalism worthless on pretty important issues.”
9. Icelanders vote to include commons in their constitution In 2012, Icelandic citizens voted on a referendum to change the country’s 1944 constitution. When asked, “In the new constitution, do you want natural resources that are not privately owned to be declared national property?” its citizens voted 81 percent in favor. Project Censored says this is important for us to know, but in the end, U.S. journalism is notably American-centric. Even the Nieman Watchdog, a foundation for journalism at Harvard University, issued a report in 2011 citing the lack of reporting on a war the U.S. funneled more than $4 trillion into over the past decade, not to mention the cost in human lives. If we don’t pay attention to our own wars, why exactly does Project Censored think we’d pay attention to Iceland? “The constitutional reforms are a direct response to the nation’s 2008 financial crash,” Project Censored wrote, “when Iceland’s unregulated banks borrowed more than the country’s gross domestic product from international wholesale money markets.” Solutions-based journalism rears its head again, and the idea is that the U.S. has much to learn from Iceland, but even Gladstone was dubious. “Iceland is being undercovered, goddamnit! Where is our Iceland news?” she joked with us. “Certainly I agree with some of this list, Bradley Manning was covered badly, I was sad the tax haven story didn’t get more coverage. But when has anyone cared about Iceland?”
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Department, had just The next day, Boulder firefighter Jacob Dickes’ house, at 342 Park St. in Lyons, was washed about 30 feet downstream in the flooding. finished the annual Sept. 12, Dickes’ 9/11 Memorial Stair father and brother, Climb in downtown both Lyons residents, Denver, an event in went to check on his which firefighters in house. full gear climb dozens “Water was lapping up against my of flights of stairways windows, and my in the CenturyLink building to honor windows are about six emergency personnel feet off the ground,” who responded to the Dickes says. “We had attacks on the World Trade Center that day in 2001. one of those guys who would bend over backwards talked about this before. We always knew we would If that grueling climb wasn’t enough, over the next helping other people out. He’s constantly training, he’s possibly encounter floods at our house. We just didn’t 48 hours, the torrential downpour prompted flooding a very self-motivated guy, he’s always got a positive think it would be September, and not this magnitude.” that kept Dickes busy responding to calls — even attitude. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him in a bad When Dickes finally got some time off on while his own wife and two small children had to mood. He’s a friendly, light-hearted guy who is rockSaturday, Sept. 14, he went to Lyons and was let back evacuate their Lyons home to escape the rising waters. solid.” into town only because he was wearing firefighter And now that his home has been washed downstream, Cofrin, who says the last day to donate is Dec. 1, gear. His captain, Rob Kaplan, says that when he his fellow firefighters and community members are set up the fundraising Web page about a week after went into Lyons, Dickes was wearing a wildfire pack raising money to help him rebuild. the flooding. stuffed with crucial supplies for his family: diapers. Fellow Boulder Rural firefighter Aaron Kirby “I heard what happened, and I couldn’t think of What he discovered when he returned to inspect lauds Dickes for working to evacuate others when his any other person who’d be more deserving of somehis house was a jaw-dropper. Apparently, when the own family and house were threatened, and he says thing like this,” he says. “You’ve got people you know home was constructed in 1959, the builders never tied Dickes is deserving of the $14,640 that has been and work with that you donate a few bucks to because the floor joists to the foundation, so the floodwaters raised so far at a YouCaring.com page, http://bit. you feel bad for them, but this is the kind of guy … literally picked up and relocated the entire structure. ly/17m3Yap. he’s family.” “My whole house just lifted up and moved 30 feet, “Jake has been phenomenal in his attitude,” Kirby Dickes says that as the waters were rising the and then it was stopped by the tree in my front yard says. “I mean, he’s just been a shining beacon of hope night of Sept. 11, he was keeping close tabs on the and the tree in my neighbor’s front yard, and then it and happiness, and I haven’t seen a down moment situation in Lyons via radio, and staying in close touch just settled back down again,” Dickes says. “And in a with the guy. He’s really an inspirational figure for with his wife, Colleen. way, that may have been a blessing in disguise, because everybody.” “I was concerned about water getting into my if the house had been tied to the foundation, it probaThe fire department seemed to agree, since the crawlspace,” he says with a laugh. “I was like, honey, bly would’ve ripped and had a lot more destruction. you might have to get out there and build a little dam We were able to salvage a lot of stuff upstairs.” members voted to donate $5,000 from their discrearound our crawlspace door.” tionary Boulder Rural Firefighters’ Fund to Dickes. Later that day, he was reunited with his family in At around 1:30 a.m., when he heard officials ques- Lyons. One of Dickes’ fellow firefighters, Ian Cofrin, set tioning the stability of a couple of dams above Lyons, up the YouCaring.com page to collect donations for “It was great, it was crazy, just a surreal feeling to he told his wife to pack up their 3-year-old daughter, the family, and the drive is well on its way to its hug my kids after something like that, to hug my Taylor, and 1-year-old son, Gavin, and drive up to her wife, and of course she broke down,” Dickes recalls. $30,000 goal. Cofrin works at the Longmont Fire parents’ house on Blue Mountain Road. They made it “Then she said she wanted to go see the house. That Department but volunteers at the Boulder Rural Fire Department with Dickes. out safely, bringing only an external hard drive and was hard, that was a hard couple of hours, because a “Jake is an outstanding guy, he’s one of the best some important documents, like passports. At that lot of our life was in that house, and it’s just all gone. firefighters I’ve ever worked with,” Cofrin says. “He point, Dickes says, the roads were just wet, but an See FLOOD Page 24 was like a mentor to me when I first got started. He’s hour later they were under two feet of water, accord-
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hen Colorado voters approved the marijuana-legalizing Amendment 64 last year, they also granted permission to the legislature to enact an excise tax of up to 15 percent on all wholesale marijuana purchases. The first $40 million collected from such a tax would, each year, go to a fund dedicated to public school construction, and any additional taxes raised would go to enforcement agencies. Counter-intuitively for tax-averse Colorado, the excise tax was a main selling point for Amendment 64. People who didn’t buy marijuana wouldn’t have to pay it, and revenues collected from recreational marijuana smokers would go to a good cause, while medical marijuana patients would be exempt from the new tax. Many viewed it as a win-win-win. The tax is on the ballot this year as Proposition AA. However, in addition to the excise tax, the legislature also tacked on a sales tax, of which Amendment 64 made no mention. The sales tax would be set at 10 percent and could rise up to 15 percent at the whim of the legislature. Fifteen percent of the collected state sales tax would go to the local jurisdiction in which it was collected, with the remaining 85 percent going to the state. The sales tax would be in addition to the existing 2.9 percent state sales tax, as well as any local sales tax. These two taxes make up Proposition AA: a 15 percent excise tax, the first $40 million of which annually would go towards school construction, and a 10 percent sales tax, which would be used for regulation and enforcement of the retail marijuana industry. “It’s important that we demonstrate that marijuana is a product that is safely, effectively regulated, and this will allow us to have the oversight to do that,” says Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado and the leader of a committee backing Proposition AA. “The first $40 million annually goes to public school construction. So it’s a way for this community to give back. … It’s the responsible path.” Proposition AA has a long list of supporters, including Colorado attorney general John Suthers and Gov. John Hickenlooper. (Though the latter hasn’t given an official endorsement, as of press time he was slated to appear at an Oct. 2 Yes on Prop. AA campaign fundraiser at the Denver Brewing Company.) Some early Boulder Weekly
polling showed the taxes had astronomically high levels of support among voters, making its passage seemingly foretold. That doesn’t mean the proposition is without critics. The Colorado chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) has come out against it, as has prominent marijuana advocate and attorney Rob Corry. It’s difficult to predict the effective rate the two taxes will have for consumers of retail marijuana. Estimates have ranged from 21 percent to 33 percent. Regardless, opponents of the proposition say that the taxes are too high and could stifle the burgeoning industry or even drive people to the black market. “It’s the largest tax ever proposed in Colorado history,” says Corry. “It’s excessive, it’s unnecessary. The premise is that we need these excess taxes to regulate marijuana. Alcohol is regulated with a less than 1 percent excise tax, and it’s regulated just fine.” Corry also says that the tax burden just might be too high for retail marijuana businesses to make a profit. He points out that marijuana businesses already pay a higher federal tax rate than other businesses. Since
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more money at the regulators would not necessarily improve regulation. “Robust regulation doesn’t necessary mean really expensive regulation,” Gillette says. “It just means effective regulation.” Vicente notes that the retail marijuana market will be much bigger than the medical marijuana market, so more money will be needed for regulation. He points out that now, just a small percentage of the Colorado population holds medical marijuana cards, but 71.5 percent of the population is over the age of 21 and, therefore, potential purchasers of retail marijuana. “I think it’s a learning process,” Vicente says of the MMED audit. “This was a product that was illegal, by and large, for 80 years. I think the regulators by and large did a pretty good job. … It’s the Department of Revenue, and we trust them.” Opponents of AA say that the tax rates will drive people away from the legitimate retail marijuana businesses and back into the black market. Gillette says that NORML has figured that
there could be as much as a $100 price difference for an ounce at retail stores versus the black market. “People are going to go to the black market, especially if the price difference is $100 for an ounce,” Gillette says. “The government needs to be sensitive that this is not just an unlimited cash cow for them,” Corry says. “There is collateral damage to overtaxing an industry that only recently was in the black market and can easily go back to that.” Medical marijuana dispensaries, which under Amendment 64 have the first crack at applying to become retail marijuana stores, have, for the most part, quietly supported the proposition. The Medical Marijuana Industry Group (MMIG), which is based in Denver, endorsed the proposition. “MMIG is endorsing Proposition AA to ensure proper and thorough regulation of this new industry, to fulfill the mandate recently set out by the Department of Justice, and perhaps most importantly, to provide sorely needed funds for Colorado schools,” Norton Boulder Weekly
STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Arbelaez of MMIG said in a statement posted on the Yes on Prop AA website. Dispensaries also see the taxes as a way to satisfy the feds. The Department of Justice released a memo on Aug. 26 saying that states legalizing marijuana must “provide the necessary resources and demonstrate the willingness to enforce their laws” — in other words, tax and regulate, says Shawn Coleman, a lobbyist who works for several medical marijuana dispensaries in Boulder County and beyond. Susan France “The industry is very much in support of Proposition AA, at least the more dogmatic, professional side of the industry,” Coleman says. These arguments beg the question: What will happen to the retail marijuana industry should the regulations not pass? Corry contends that without what he considers overbearing taxes, the industry would flourish. There would be plenty of money available for regulation as well. “It would certainly be well-regulated because it would also pay licensing fees up to $18,000 per store, so for every two to three stores, they could hire one employee.” Corry says. “The industry would flourish if Prop. AA fails. ... It won’t be crushed by these extreme proposals.” Vicente says that the money for the regulation would have to come from somewhere. If the licensing fees weren’t enough, then the legislature might plunder other government programs. It’s only fair that the other programs should not have to bear the burden of regulating marijuana, he says. “We feel like the folks that use marijuana should pay for this program, and folks who don’t use it won’t have to worry about it,” Vicente says. And might an underfunded regulatory arm draw the ire of the feds? “I think the answer is absolutely,” Vicente says.
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city would use that tax revenue for “public safety, enforcement and administrative purposes” and for “comprehensive substance abuse programs.” “The licensing fees don’t really cover the costs [of regulating retail marijuana outlets],” says councilman Ken Wilson. “We have costs associated with managing recreational marijuana and we’ll also have enforcement. ... We want to spend some money on educating young people so it doesn’t become an even larger problem in the community with young people getting marijuana.” While the proposed Boulder taxes are much lower than those proposed at the state level, Wilson says he doesn’t think the cumulative tax rates will increase the price enough to drive people to the black market. He figures that the risk of buying it illegally doesn’t justify the increased cost of the legal route, and he compares marijuana to cigarettes. “The tax on cigarettes is huge, but not many people do much to avoid that tax,” Wilson says. “You don’t see that many people ordering cigarettes out of Canada [to] avoid it.” Coleman says that dispensaries are holding their breath on supporting the local sales tax. A lot hinges on the upcoming city council meetings that will create city rules for retail marijuana businesses. The first drafts of Boulder’s rules contained aspects that many in the marijuana industry thought would prevent them from opening retail marijuana stores, and they made recommendations to council on how to fix them. “We’re kind of ‘wait and see,’” Coleman says. “We’re going to see what the city council is going to do. And if the city council does go with the recommendations from the industry about the impacts of the ordinances on businesses … I think we’ll see stronger support from the industry. Until then, I think the support will be a little more tepid.” Council members Suzy Ageton, Macon Cowles, Suzanne Jones, Lisa Morzel and Tim Plass did not return phone calls related to this story by press time. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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connect two semiconductor crystals, which otherwise cannot be grown on top of each other with high crystal quality. In this way we can produce the optimal semiconductor combination to create the highest efficiency solar cells.” — Zak Weinberg
cols based off of designs in nature,” says Mike Wird, biotech expert and co-founder of Denver Earthship, who will be speaking at the event. “We use those patterns in design to make decisions and solve problems. These lessons of design principles originated in the garVanessa Espinoza den, but they’re applicable to any Permaculture aspect of life, workshop hosted whether financial, social or environin Boulder mental.” Local permaculCourses offered ture experts as part of Regenerative Permaculture: Lifestyles and Perennial Culture Madelife, a Boulder Part 1 dive into company that looks mycology (the study to promote and of fungi), soil ecolosupport local artists Earthship building will be among the topics disgy, mulching, comand entrepreneurs, cussed at Permaculture: Perennial Culture Part 1. posting, grey water are teaming up to systems, aquaponics and sustainable provide a variety of permaculture workdesign techniques, including earthship shops Oct. 4-6. Topics revolve around perbuilding. maculture, a design science based on the Tickets for the entire weekend cost $150 observation of nature, and a play on words and can be purchased online at www. that embodies both “permanent culture,” madelife.com. or “perennial culture,” and “permanent agriculture.” — Zak Weinberg “Basically permaculture is a set of protoRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Another alternative protein source for fish feed is soy, but the process is still gaining traction. Bernstein says she hopes to serve the growing individual interest in aquaponics, as her company hosts its grand opening from 2 to 5 p.m. on Oct. 5 at 1860 Lefthand Circle, Suite E, in Longmont. The new center will feature an education and research center, retail equipment for at-home aquaponics and aquaponic system demonstrations. More information is available at www.theaquaponicsource.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ordan Campbell’s jourgrandchildren for the first ney to South Sudan, time. and the film docuIn December 2011, after menting the volunteer two attempts that were both work of eye doctors turned back because of viofrom the U.S. there, started lence in the area, Tabin, far across the globe in Tibet. Campbell and Kvale, as well “I think there just comes as Dr. Alan Crandall and his a point in anybody’s life wife Julie Crandall and other where you start taking a doctors from the John A. hard look at things and Moran Eye Center in Utah, thinking, ‘What’s the best finally flew in over the wide use of my life?’” Campbell savannas of Africa into South says. He and photographer Sudan, the world’s newest Ace Kvale, both Marmot country, created in July 2011 Ambassador Athletes, startafter a popular vote and ed discussing that at a base emerging from a 40-year civil camp in Tibet in a commuwar. nity so remote that many of Of the 34 million people the World Health Organization estimates are blind, half may be curable. “I was actually working the people there had never eight, 10 hours a day as a seen Americans before. volunteer, screening people or They’d driven days by Jeep putting eye drops in eyeballs to get there and climb a preand really just taking care of viously unclimbed peak. these people who really had “I remember thinking, never been to doctors, and we were spending so much holding their hand so they time at base camp looking at weren’t nervous or scared,” the locals and seeing there’s Campbell says. Temperatures so much more we can do soared above 100 degrees, than just be mountaineers,” Campbell recounts. “When doctors who came along on the journey retell their story mosquitoes and black flies swarmed around patients and you start taking a look at that — maybe doing an eye doctors, and in the evening, fruit bats came to roost in in Duk County: Peace is in Sight in the New South Sudan, camp with [Geoff ] Tabin or with [Alan and Julie a short film directed by Campbell screening in Boulder’s the clinic’s rafters. Crandall], this is a great use of my time, and my time Campbell and Kvale and Boulder-based videograAdventure Film Festival on Oct. 4. pher and clinic volunteer Michelle Bar-Even found off.” “Being blind, you’re like a mouth with no hands,” time to shoot still photos and video, just on the instinct Dr. Geoff Tabin is an ophthalmologist with the Tabin says in an interview in the film. there was a story there to tell. Himalayan Cataract Project and the Moray Eye Center In South Sudan, an estimated one in 50 people are “When I got back to the United States, I looked at in Utah. He’d done eye clinics in the Himalaya, where totally blind, often with cataracts, lenses so clouded over all the media assets that were in front of me, with Campbell and Kvale were first exposed to his work. But they can’t tell light from dark, or traucoma, an infection Michelle’s footage, my footage, my stills and Ace’s stills, Tabin wanted to take the project — a concentration of in the eyelids that leads to the eyelashes scraping the and I thought, there is definitely a story to tell here,” eye doctors working together to treat some of the estifront of the eye. With replaced, artificial lenses, these mated 17 million people in the world whose blindness people are able to see — children can go to school, see BLINDNESS Page 36 is curable — to Africa. Campbell, Kvale and the other fathers and grandmothers can see their children and
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Hired local militia guarding the Duk Lost Boys Clinic during the 2011 medical mission. Violence would erupt in the area just days after the medical team departed. BLINDNESS from Page 35
Campbell recounts. “So what’s kind of interesting about Duk County is it really wasn’t initially a film project at its genesis. It was a story I wanted to tell, and I had it in my mind that there might be a way to capture enough video to make a small film, but I had no guarantee. I had no idea what we were going to get into.” What they got into was a medical clinic, the Duk Lost Boys Clinic, founded by John Dau, one of the 10,000 Lost Boys of Sudan — a group of children who fled on foot to escape to Ethiopia trying to avoid violence in Sudan that seemed targeted on children. Duk County is also a chance to revisit some of those boys who were in refugee camps for a decade and are just now, finally, coming back home as part of this brand new country’s precarious independence. “I thought it would be a great opportunity to report on the world’s newest country, and delivering eye care to the most remote, underserved country in the world, arguably, which has been suffering under civil war for 40 years and there’s no access to any doctors, so I
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thought this would be a terrific story to chronicle,” Campbell says. “The story is a story about global stewardship for sure. It’s a story about these cataract surgeons going into this remote and underserved part of the world, and treating this unnecessary form of blindness. And that is a story in and of itself, and we could have easily made a film about just going and doing that, and I think it would
If You Go: Duk County screens in the 8-10:30 p.m. session on Friday, Oct. 4 at the Adventure Film Festival at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. The film is followed by a panel discussion with doctors from the team. More information is at www.adventurefilm.com.
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Tibor, I felt a real moral imperative to tell the story, and that’s what really pushed me over the edge to say I really want to make a film. As a writer, I’d never really directed a film, but I felt like the main thing was to make it a timeless piece of journalism.” He secured footage of the conflict from BBC, the Associated Press and Reuters and included that in the film. That footage is matched with film from Campbell’s team and still photographs he and Kvale took — moments of pause to look in the eyes of the people of South Sudan — and gracefully edited together by Michael Herbener. The film is going on to screenings in New York City and at the United Nations film festival later in October, but that Duk County is screening at the Adventure Film Festival comes with a
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particular resonance to Campbell, who was friends with Jonny Copp, the founder and spirit advisor for the Adventure Film Festival. “I remember having several conversations with Jonny years ago, just about the spirit of the festival, and it was really like, he envisioned a festival that was for every man, every person, everyone,” Campbell says. “He really celebrated adventure in every form that it took, and so … I think that was kind of the part of this festival vision. I think he wanted to celebrate environmentalism, conservation, and then global stewardship I think was a big part of it too, and adventure in the many forms it could take on. So this certainly is a film I think he would be very proud to see.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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spaces, for other people to express themselves. And, in turn, it feels good to enter other people’s spaces, where I can perform and elaborate on The Word, which has led me to doing more performance art.” “Coming back to Brooklyn a couple years ago, I didn’t really know anybody,” the poet explains. “I had to start all over.” Herman says the reason she immediately gravitated toward so many creative New York scribes is that “the people I get along with the most are poets and writers, because they understand, and they pay attention. They notice things. Those are the kind of creatures I want to be around.” The self-described “performance poet,” who has released numerous solo chapbooks and the full-length to go without blinking (BlazeVox Books), is also doing a lot of work in publishing, from guest-editing issues of poetry journals such as And/Or to working on larger projects, like the just-released The Body Electric (Ars Omnia Press). Inspired by “I Sing the Body Electric,” the timeless New York poet Walt Whitman’s distinctly American mid-1800s ode to all things physically and spiritually male and female (or genderless), Herman’s new book collects around 50 diversely visceral original works on sex and the human body, some directly inspired by Whitman. The idea for a Whitman-inspired collection of poems about the body came from fellow New York poet Mike Russo, who also chose the black-andwhite nude photos included in The Body Electric, and it took Herman about a year to sift through poetry and prose submissions. “[It was] an interesting process,” she says. “I was really pleased with what was sent to me, and I’m so proud of what’s in there because it’s all really beautiful and eclectic work. Most of the reason why it took so long [to edit] is that some people were sending in erotica, which is fine, but … it’s very easy to write bad erotica, and that’s what I was getting a lot of. I wanted to see risks taken on the page, and when I started to see [submissions] looking beyond just body and just language of the body, these submissions all stirred me in some way. “And that’s why I write. I’ve read so many fantastic books of poetry and fiction that call my skin to feel like the
writer is digging into me. That’s really exciting.” Though Herman is physically attracted only to women, she says she has no problem identifying with writing that speaks of the body, and of sex, from the straight perspective, which is represented in The Body Electric somewhat less than the homosexual perspective. “I write erotica and a lot of my erotica has been heterosexual,” she says. “I don’t necessarily feel that there’s a homosexual sex act or a heterosexual sex act. It’s extremely fluid. It really depends on the body. It’s for the humans who are engaging. I don’t feel excluded.” One would probably assume that Herman became keenly interested in the human body at a very early age, but she never got “The Talk” and says that sex was never discussed in her house growing up (in Manalapan, N.J.). Having been raised Catholic, though Herman was raised Jewish, I can certainly understand her intimation that she most likely became so intensely curious about sex and the body because of a “true unawareness of what existed.” The poet says she recently said to her mother, “You never told me about sex! Maybe that’s why I’m horny.” “When I was a kid I was frightened by sex,” Herman admits. “I was curious and frightened at the same time, so as my friends got older and were into boys … I didn’t understand it. But now, as I’ve gotten older, I’m so deeply turned on by what turns other people on, and now that’s become my curiosity. My relationship with sex is extremely complicated, but I think that’s why I write about it so much. It helps me understand my relationship with it.” Herman, who earned her M.F.A. in
creative writing at Long Island University, has a singular ability to captivate a room full of people with her slow, smart and shockingly sincere deliveries of poems about life inside the body and mind of an independent, uncompromising young woman. Even lines from her blog, on which she posts daily, such as “It is difficult not to search for the flaps of skin that may be used like deadbolts to lock out the ones who crawl their way in” (Sept. 23), have a tendency to, as Herman says, “dig in” to a reader. And her time in Boulder, though it often felt foreign, helped shape that vivid, open voice. “Boulder to me was the last place to live because it felt very small, and I wasn’t used to that,” Herman says. “It’s also extremely white, which I’m also not used to. I guess that’s why I love Brooklyn and New York so much, because you feel like you are living deep inside of a globe, where you’re surrounded by every part of the world. So many cultures. You walk two blocks and suddenly you’re in another world. “Boulder, although the smallness in many ways is lovely because you run into people much quicker and feel like you know everyone, when I moved [there] I moved slower, which is necessary, and I think I found the hippie that was always longing to come out of me. And it has remained, which feels really good. And that I will forever be grateful for. I feel like I found myself because I was surrounded by so many wonderful poets, and it’s a magical place in so many ways.” The Body Electric and to go without blinking are both available at Amazon. com, and Herman’s blog can be read at aimeeherman.wordpress.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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aura Stevenson knew from an Garwacke (drums). early age that she loved music The familiarity Stevenson is gain— enough, in fact, to believe ing with her band allowed Wheel to it probably would always be a become more of a collaborative project, big part of her life. even though Stevenson remained the “Maybe not as a career,” Stevenson songwriter. says. “But I knew I would use it as an “There’s definitely a lot more input outlet personally.” in terms of arrangements and where the Stevenson’s grandfather was Harry Simeone, who wrote “The Little Drummer She grew up Nassau County, N.Y., Laura Boy” and “Do You Hear What I Hear,” and her grandmother sang for Benny Goodman. songs are going to go in general,” She says music came naturally to her, given such a family environment. with parents who loved playing music Stevenson said. “I’ll bring them the (Neil Young and the Grateful Dead song. I’ll bring them the melody and were among the favorites) at their house. And music, driving around. So we were always really nervous it the chords I play, or my guitar part and my vocal in a literal sense, was in the blood of the family. was going to break down.” part and the lyrics and all of that. The songs are Stevenson’s grandfather was Harry Simeone, the Stevenson and the Cans made it to enough gigs structurally ready, but sometimes they’ll be like ‘This composer who wrote “The Little Drummer Boy” and A Record made enough of an impression that in song should be faster.’ Or this song, ‘Sink, Swim,’ and “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Her grandmother, fall 2010, she was signed by Don Giovanni Records. has like a calypso beat, and that totally evolves at Margaret McCravy, sang for Benny Goodman. Soon she turned her attention to making her first practice because it started out kind of like fast, like a “Having the genetics that I do, like having that full-band album, the 2011 release Sit Resist. cool punk song. Then we had to slow it down and part of my brain be able to function well, I give that That album got far more attention from the press put an interesting beat to it. So the songs totally to my grandparents because they definitely just had for Stevenson’s catchy and frequently edgy rock-pop evolve around the tastes and the skills of the other that gift,” Stevenson says. songs. Another round of extensive touring further musicians in the band, absolutely. It’s definitely very Those familial connections also helped Stevenson built a fan base big enough to enable Stevenson and fun to experience their take on something and then develop a realistic attitude about music as a career. the Cans to headline clubs from coast to coast. just kind of flesh that out and see where it goes.” “There’s always the fear that it’s not going to They even have been able to afford a new van. Stevenson also sought out a producer in Kevin work out,” she says. “You have to have that view on “We just bought a nice van and we’re making McMahon who could evolve the sound of her music. it because if you’re just blindly going for it without payments on it, and we’re getting more responsiSit Resist was a decidedly lo-fi affair, but for Wheel, knowing that it might not work out, I think [failure] ble,” Stevenson said. “It’s really helped us because Stevenson wanted to raise the production value. would be really crushing. I was always remembering we’re not too nervous about being able to get to the “I think that I wanted there to be more depth to that it’s a hard thing to make a career of.” next location.” it sonically,” she said. “I traditionally am drawn to Difficult, yes, but singer/guitarist Stevenson has That van isn’t the only thing that’s new for Laura the aesthetic of like a one-dimensional sound, kind put in the work needed to develop a sustainable Stevenson & the Cans. In April, she released her of like a wall-of-sound thing, where it’s not like career. She debuted with a largely acoustic solo third album, Wheel, an impressive effort that should instruments are stacked in a way where you can’t see album, A Record, in 2010 and put together an early introduce Stevenson and her band to a larger audithe depth. It’s more like fuzzy and blaring and trebly, version of her backing band, the Cans, for touring. ence and further establish her as one of the most and that’s what I like aesthetically. I was trying to Those early tours weren’t easy. For one thing, her promising artists on the indie rock scene. get away from that because I wanted to experience van seemed to perpetually be on the verge of a trip It’s the first album that Stevenson has made listening to it like I experience playing it, and I hear to a repair shop. with what has become a stable current lineup of the the drums and they sit in a certain place. The bass is “Our old van had like a drive shaft problem,” Cans — Mike Campbell (bass), Alex Billig (accorsee STEVENSON Page 50 Stevenson says. “It was a really dangerous van to be dion, trumpet), Peter Naddeo (guitar) and Dave
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Indie rock singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson’s third album, Wheel, came out in April.
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in a certain place, the guitars are separated in my ears. So it’s nice to have that actual sonic separation. “It was scary for me because it sounds slicker than I’m used to hearing us recorded,” Stevenson says. “But I thought it was time to experiment with that, especially with these songs because I felt like they were really strong and needed that.” Stevenson chose producer McMahon to bring out the detail in her music in part because she felt his talents fit the character of her music. “The people he works with are all over the place,” she says. “Like Frightened Rabbit, who I love, love, love, like seriously, so much, and then Titus Andronicus, who I also love, they’re totally different bands. So everything is like so different, but he can capture the thing about each of those bands, that certain thing. … He had that range. That was really important, that he could capture the thing about the song. It’s not like the thing about the sound. It’s like what the song needs, and he could serve that better than anybody else I could think of.” Stevenson is right about the eclectic nature of her music. Although her music falls under the pop umbrella, this covers a lot of territory. On Wheel, the songs run the gamut from big-boned catchy rock (“Triangle” and “Eleonora”) to pure pop (“Runner”) to dreamy orchestral pop (“Every Tense”) to spare acoustic ballads (“The Move”). Sit Resist was multi-faceted as well, which should allow the new songs to fit well in the live shows Stevenson and the Cans will play this fall. Stevenson says the mix of old and new material will depend on what she senses the audience prefers. “We’re going to play it by ear, but we’re prepared to play a lot of them [new songs],” she says. “We’ll see what the energy of the crowd is calling for. If they seem like they want to hear more songs from Sit Resist than Wheel, then we’ll figure that out. But we’re ready to play a lot of [Wheel], and I’m really excited about it because they’re really fun songs to play. Some of them are hyper-emotional, some of them are just really rock rippers to play. It’s going to be a well rounded set.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com 50 October 3, 2013
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Upcoming Events at eTown Hall ! Friday, Oct 4 - Taping
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arts & culture Fear and self-loathing in New York BETC kicks off its eighth season in style by Gary Zeidner
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oulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC) is one of Boulder’s best, bar none. From its first production, Antigone, BETC began raising the bar for Front Range theater. With Seminar, BETC gets its eighth season started with the second lively, sly and often humorous Theresa Rebeck play it has produced. If you’ve ever been part of a group project that called for each member to provide feedback to the others, you are the target audience of Seminar. If your group project experience had an artistic or otherwise creative focus, you’re in the bull’s-eye. If at any point you found yourself rolling your eyes at the fact that in most such situations useful, brutal honesty is almost always avoided in favor of fruitless, facile compliments, Seminar is a must-see. Honestly, if none of the above applies but you’ve been a victim of the recent natural disaster, a night with the writers of Seminar might be just the respite you need from all the devastation and disquietude. Yes, the seminar in Seminar is a private affair in which four young, aspiring writers have each forked over thousands of dollars to be critiqued and instructed by formerly famous novelist Leonard ( John C. Ashton, late of Breaking Bad). The 10-week course is hosted at the Upper West Side abode of Kate (Devon James). Kate is joined by her old friend and the twitchiest of the group, Martin (Sean Scrutchins), the sexually adventurous Izzy (Mary Kay Riley) and
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Douglas (Matthew Blood-Smyth) who has already been published thanks, at least in part, to bearing a semi-famous surname. Leonard, a misanthropic oncewas vaguely in the mold of a failed Hunter S. Thompson, espouses expe-
Mauritius, a few seasons ago. His choices related to blocking, lighting, set and pacing keep this one-act moving, centered and energized. Every actor seems to have responded to him and the material. Each has at least one moment in which he or she dominates the stage, which is itself Michael Enseminger mostly static but still draws the audience in. With the meatiest role, Ashton is a curmudgeonly joy as Leonard. His bullying and, at times, astonishment feel completely organic and believable. Plus, he knows how to employ a variety of curse words with equal parts effectiveness and relish. When, later in the On the Bill: Seminar plays play, we get to see beneath through Oct. 20 at the Dairy his surface, he succeeds in Center for the Arts. Tickets are $15-$25. For tickets or informashowing us Leonard’s intetion, visit www.boulderensemrior life without discarding bletheatre.org or call 303-444all that we’ve seen of him 7328. before. As the other central-most character, Scrutchins’ Martin fares somewhat less well. After many early moments John C. Ashton (on right) plays Leonard, a washed-up novelist who convinces four young writers, including Martin (Sean Scrutchins, left), to pay him to critique their work in of real humor and humanity, Martin Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of the Theresa Rebeck play Seminar. becomes too one-note hysterical for my liking. I would have preferred to rience to his students. He’d ship engaging character, functions more as have seen more emotional nuance to them all off to Somalia for a year or a pot-stirrer than an actual participant go along with the biggest dramatic two if he could to try to shake them in the Writing Games. And Martin, arc of the play. from their privileged, upper-middle the writer so passionate about his Seminar is another undeniable win class (or is it lower-upper class?) craft that he borderline abhors the for BETC, and it heralds great things ruts. One by one, he reads their stonotion of sharing his work with anyto come for the remainder of Season 8, ries and offers caustic criticism along one, faces the biggest challenge of the which includes The Santaland Diaries with the occasional bit of encourage- bunch. (this year at the Denver Center), ment. Director Stephen Weitz clearly Annapurna, And The Sun Stood Still and Kate takes the brunt of his abuse has fun with Seminar, as he did when This. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com and evolves most as a writer — and a directing another Rebeck play,
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An image from John Noltner’s book A Peace of My Mind.
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Thursday, October 3 music Blue October — With Tori Vasquez and Unlikely Candidates. 7:30 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Funky Fresh Trio. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Henscratch. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Hey Marseilles — With Apache Relay and Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Intuit. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120. Kristen Ford and Sweetfire. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Matt Flaherty Band. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
John Noltner The photographer will share stories from his book A Peace of My Mind,
in which he asked 100 diverse people, “What does peace mean to you? Musician Heatherlyn will join Noltner. Friday, Oct. 4, 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. Photo by Pinque
Featuring work by more than 100 different visual artists, the annual Open Studios Fall Artists Tour has returned for another event across downtown Boulder. The self-guided art walk can be personalized every step of the way, with maps of the tour available online and from a number of local retailers. For those unsure of where to start, the Canyon Gallery at the Boulder Public Library Main Branch will display one piece from each participating artist as a preview, and patrons can meet directly with the artists themselves as they enjoy works of ceramics, jewelry, watercolor and all mediums in between.
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Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Paris Swing Set. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. The Patti Fiasco and Feufollet — With Grant Farm. 8 see EVENTS Page 56
music Saturday, Oct. 5: Slanted Jack, The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 10 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5: Rocky Mountain Brassworks, Estes Park High School, 1600 Manford Ave., Estes Park, 7:30 p.m.
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Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 5-6: Open Studios Fall Artists Tour, beginning at the Canyon Gallery at the Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 12 p.m.
New England Tunes Jam. 7 p.m. 230 South Cleveland Ave., Louisville, 720-890-7568.
A brass band that prefers to skip the trumpets and French horns, Rocky Mountain Brassworks began in 1978 and has continued to bring British-style brass music to the Front Range. With a history of performances that includes the national anthem at a Colorado Rockies game and musical classes in local schools, as well as audiences with Princess Ann and Pope John Paul, the band can be expected to deliver a performance that will appeal to a variety of music enthusiasts.
Slanted Jack formed last autumn between two solo performers, a neighbor, a promising Craigslist ad and a hot-tub party. Since their first jam session, this local band has taken on blending folk, rock and jazz as they tour the state. Backed by a loose bass and laid-back drumming, the three vocalists and two guitarists will be showing off intricate harmonies and catchy riffs at The Lazy Dog this weekend in a combination of originals and, as drummer Matt Lowber promises, “covers with a twist.”
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Continuing Legacies: Evolving Ceramic Traditions. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 10 CRAFT TECH / CODED MEDIA: WOMEN, ART AND TECHNOLOGY. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th Street, Boulder, 303443-2122. Oct. 3 through Jan. 26.
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Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 10.
Heart Lines: Expressions of Native North American Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th
Nuestra Cultura: Our People, Our Heritage. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through Dec.22.
Open Studios Fall Artist Tour. Boulder Public Library Main Branch. 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Oct. 13. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through June 21.
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p.m. Swallow Hill Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-777-1003. Rachel and the Ruckus. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Radical Something — With Matty Mac and Splyt. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. RJ Mischo & Red Hot Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Soul Quatro. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Triple Threat Tour — featuring Tracing Skylines and Mutiny. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. events Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-6687355. Dairy Comedy. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Introduction to Digital Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Michio Kaku. 6:45 p.m. Macky Auditorium,
285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. “What Can I Do?” Multimedia Environmental Presentation by Laurie Dameron. 3:30 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. Friday, October 4 music Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Captain Quirk and the Cosmic Rangers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Caribou Mountain Collective. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Chase N The Dream. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Ginga. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Isa and JoeAlan. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Jim Herlihy and The Whale Tales. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Weekly
events Lotus — With BOOMBOX and Break Science. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Lucy Rose and Big “Al” Anderson — Live taping. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Magic Beans & Rocktin Grove — With Intuit. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Musketeer Gripweed — With The Quick and Easy Boys and Birch Street. 8:30 p.m. The HiDive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Old Fashioned Hootenanny. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Papadosio — With YAMN and Earthcry. 9 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Policulture. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Ray Bonneville. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Rocktin Grove. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Stonefed. 7 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Wild West. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. events Adobe Premiere Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689. Boulder Tango Festival. Through Oct. 6. 12 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. David Valentine. 4 p.m. Hale Science, 1350 Pleasant St., Boulder, 513-708-7558. Getting Started with Adobe InDesign Part 1. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. John Noltner — Sharing stories from his book A Peace of Mind. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. One Act — A fully improvised one-act play directed by Meridith C. Grundei. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. “What Can I Do?” Multimedia Environmental Presentation by Laurie Dameron. 11:40 a.m. Watershed School, 1661 Alpine Ave., Boulder, 303-440-7520. Saturday, October 5 music David Booker. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313. DJ Ish. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. The Genre Wars Anticompetition — With Jet Edison, The Wandering, Anarchy Blues and Space Race. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
The Anata Project Colorado Dance Tour — A Flood Relief Benefit. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Head for the Hills — With Grant Farm and Trout Steak Revival. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
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Thursday, October 3 Leslie Ullman. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. A Fall Book Feast with Middle Grade Authors. Authors include: Jeannie Mobley (Katerina’s Wish), Laura Resau (What the Moon Saw), Melanie Crowder (Parched) and Jenny Goebel (Grave Images). 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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Weekly Open Poetry Reading. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
Killing Custer — by Margaret Coel 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349
Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting – “In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys.” 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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Healthy Start Storytime Sponsored by Whole Foods. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349
Storytime With Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349
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Star Wars Reads Day. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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Death of a Salesman, presented by the Denver Center Theatre Company, runs through Oct.20 in the Space Theatre.
After the Revolution. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., 303-623-0524. Through Oct. 19. Cabaret. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 6. Death of a Salesman. Space Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Oct. 20
The Full Monty. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 9. Much Ado About Nothing. Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Oct. 5. Picnic. Presented by CU-Boulder’s theatre and
dance department. University Theatre, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-7355.Oct. 4 through Oct. 13. Sister Act. Buell Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Oct. 6. Seminar. Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 20.
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History of the Eagles. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100. Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road., Longmont, 303-485-9400. KoRn — With Hollywood Undead, Asking Alexandria, Machine Gun Kelly and Beware of Darkness. 7 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. Lefthand Market Boys. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 79th St., Niwot, 303547-6152. Lisa Bell Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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The Anata Project Colorado Dance Tour — A Flood Relief Benefit. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Bolder Acts. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., 720-431-5355. Bomba! ... Feel Puerto Rico. 3:30 p.m. 1300 Block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 214784-5582. Coal Creek Meals on Wheels Charity Gala — With live music by FACE. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.
Ray Bonneville — With Ashleigh Flynn. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
First Friday Nite Art Walk — Through North Boulder. 6 p.m. Visit http://bit.ly/NoboArt for a map.
Residual Kid — With Dirty Few and Colfax Speed Queen. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Free “Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day.” 9 a.m. Valmont Bike Park, Valmont Road east of Airport Road, Boulder, 303-441-4160.
Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
My Enemy — Traveling art exhibition by Yisrael Feldsott. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center, 3970 Broadway, Boulder, 720-444-6981.
Roots & Rhythm. 7 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
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Living with the Past. 9 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397.
Rocky Mountain Brassworks. 7:30 p.m. Estes Park High School, 1600 Manford Ave., Estes Park, 970-586-3450.
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Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355. Stacy Riley. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Oktoberfest. 2 p.m. Cottonwood Square, N 79th St. and Niwot Road, Niwot, www. niwotrotary.org/oktoberfest/. Open Studios Fall Artists Tour. 12 p.m. Beginning at the Canyon Gallery at the Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-1862. Sunday, October 6
We Came As Romans — With Silverstein, Chunk! No Captain Chunk!, The Color Morale and Dangerkids. 7 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
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The Yawpers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
40th Parallel — Woodwind Quintet. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352.
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Sunday, Oct. 6 Andrea Gibson and Chris Pureka. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Felonius Smith Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Frazier Band. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303-546-0886. Jalan Crossland. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Jazz Jam with Big Swing Trio. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Shane Jonas. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, Boulder Weekly
1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Young Galaxy — With Mister Lies and We Like Monsters. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4427689. Casablanca — Movie screening. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Climate Wise Women. 7:30 p.m. University see EVENTS Page 60
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Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Thursday, Oct. 3 Michio Kaku. 6:45 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-4928423. “You’ll simply talk to the wallpaper, say, ‘I want to see a doctor,’ and boom! Robo-doctor appears,” author, TV personality and theoretical physicist Michio Kaku explains. This, he says, is going to be a simple fact of life sooner than many people expect. Speaking at Macky Auditorium this week, Kaku will address intelligent paper, how contact lenses will soon provide the wearer with subtitles, the digitalizing fields of health care and education, where science will be in 500 years, and, for his student audience, how to avoid graduating into the unemployment line. “Science is the engine of wealth and prosperity,” he says, and armed with photographs of organs grown in laboratories and cars that drive themselves, he will prove that the stuff of science fiction is now the stuff of every day. —Lexi Schwartz
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Frazier Band. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
Comedy and Movie Night. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Global Soul Gives Back: A Flood Relief Benefit. 7 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 916-873-4856.
Free First Sundays. Boulder History Museum, 2205 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-3464.
KT Tunstall — With Brian Lopez. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.
Hawaiian Hula Class. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Open Studios Fall Artists Tour. 12 p.m. Beginning at the Canyon Gallery at the Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-1862.
Symphonic Winds. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352.
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Advanced Search Engine Optimization. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Andrea Gibson and Chris Pureka. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Ash Ganley. 5:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Electric Blues Jam. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. 60 October 3, 2013
Open Stage — With Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313.
Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Introduction to Search Engine Optimization. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. League of Women Voters of Boulder Boulder Weekly
events County Unit Meetings — Discussion of election issues. 11:15 a.m. Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-916-1519. Leveraging Local Cultures. 7 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689. Tuesday, October 8 music
Kangaroo. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Wolcott Jazz/Blues Duo. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720297-6397. events
The Business Side of Filmmaking. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers — Movie screening. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. League of Women Voters of Boulder
County Unit Meetings — Discussion of election issues. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-916-1519. League of Women Voters of Boulder County Unit Meetings — Discussion of election issues. 10:30 a.m. Double Happy Chinese/Vietnamese Restaurant, 740 Main St., Louisville, 303-916-1519. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Through Oct. 13. 7 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100.
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Through a magic spell, Ash (Bruce Campbell), a modernday discount-store employee, finds himself back in the Middle Ages with a chainsaw and a ’73 Oldsmobile. Given the key to return home by an alchemist, he bungles the incantation and instead releases the forces of darkness. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
This film features interviews with 150 subjects, including J.D. Salinger’s friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before, as well as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen. Rated PG-13. At SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society
Blue Jasmine
Short Term 12
After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Boedecker, Esquire, Colony Square and Century. — Landmark Theatres
Director Destin Daniel Cretton has turned his 2008 short film of the same name into a feature. A compassionate 20-something who works with troubled kids runs into her own troubles when her life starts spinning out of control. Rated R. At Mayan.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
The Spectacular Now
If you and the kids liked the first version, then you’ll no doubt like number 2. It starts where the first story ended and inventor Flint Lockwood is at his best trying to better mankind. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, The Spectacular Now creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood. At SIE Film Center and Colony Square.
GRAVITY
Is attraction between two people enough to keep them alive? In space, no.
Despicable Me 2 It’s time for more Minion madness in this animated sequel. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
Don Jon Jon Martello (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is addicted to porn. His pals refer to him as Don Jon because he scores with a different woman every week. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is addicted to romantic Hollywood movies. When the pair’s fantasy worlds collide, it gets interesting. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Elysium In the future, two classes of people exist: the very rich who live a beautiful life on a space station called Elysium, and the very poor who carry on a dreadful existence down on Earth. Rated R. At Colony Square and Century.
Enough Said Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a divorced, single parent masseuse whose daughter is about to fly the nest, much to her chagrin. Then she meets Albert (James Gandolfini), a nice guy in the same boat. Love and laughs follow. Rated PG-13. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres
The Family An offbeat action comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro, who play mobsters in the witness protection program and revert to their old ways when they are moved to France and find themselves threatened. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Free the Mind Professor Richard J. Davidson, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, took the Dalai Lama’s advice to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness. Dr. Davidson, who was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2006, did just that, and the results of his studies at Wisconsin’s Center for Investigating Healthy Minds are portrayed in this fascinating new documentary. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Grace Unplugged Grace Trey (AJ Michalka) is 18 and a great singer and wants to do more than sing in the church choir led by her dad, Johnny (James Denton). Tension rises when she decides to be a pop star. Rated PG. At Century.
nomic policy expert Robert Reich takes on the enormous question of what has been happening to our economy. In the wake of the financial crisis and the recent rise of the Occupy movement, the issue of income inequality has gained unprecedented public awareness. Rated PG. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that’s not the life Rose longs for. Rated R. At SIE Film Center — Denver Film Society
Insidious: Chapter 2 Director James Wan gives us a terrifying sequel to his original horror film. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
How far would you go to save your kid? What would you be willing to do? These are the questions that Hugh Jackman’s character Keller Dover is forced to answer when his 6-year-old daughter mysteriously disappears. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
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Valentin (Eugenio Derbez) is a playboy in Acapulco until someone leaves a baby on his doorstep telling him it’s his. This begins a journey that leads him to Hollywood where he becomes a stunt-man while raising his daughter alone. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, this atmospheric drama lushly tells the story of the celebrated Impressionist painter. In declining health at age 74, his middle son Jean returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. Both father and son fall under the spell of the free-spirited young Andrée, who will be Renoir’s last model. Their beautiful home and countryside grounds reverberate with the enchanting and headstrong young muse. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Lee Daniels’ The Butler Forest Whitaker stars as a White House butler whose 34-year tenure sees incredible social change. Based on the life of Eugene Allen. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square.
Manhattan Short Film Festival An extraordinary global event will take place when more than 100,000 people in more than 300 cities across six continents gather in cinemas, galleries, universities, museums and cafes for one purpose: to view and vote on finalists’ films in the annual Manhattan Short Film Festival. This year’s 10 finalists: Irish Folk Furniture (Ireland), Pale of Settlement (USA), Friday (England), #30 (Australia), Do I Have to Take Care of Everything (Finland), No Comment (France), Faces from Places (France), I Am a Big Ball of Sadness (USA), Kizmet Diner (England) and Black Metal (USA). At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in this visually stunning film that strands two astronauts in space when a routine spacewalk goes wrong. Also in 3D. Rated PG13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
A hundred years after its creation, the power of the Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman’s every word. Yet the average American knows very little about the most powerful financial institution on Earth. Narrated by acclaimed actor Liev Schreiber, Money For Nothing is the first documentary to take viewers inside America’s central bank and reveal the impact of Fed policies — past, present and future — on our lives. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
In a World...
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Carol, a struggling vocal coach, strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry’s reigning king: her father. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Percy teams up with his other-worldly friends to go after the Golden Fleece. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.
Inequality for All
Spring 1958: 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father, who runs the village store.
Gravity
In this timely and entertaining documentary, noted eco-
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The Summit In August 2008, 22 climbers from several countries comprising several seperate expeditions wound up at High Camp on K2. This documentary shows what happened next on this mountain where one in four climbers never make it down. NR. At Century.
Teatro Antico’s RIGOLETTO The love between a deformed and ridiculed court jester, Rigoletto, and his daughter Gilda, is pushed to the limit in Verdi’s dark tale of betrayal and vengeance. In honor of Verdi’s bicentennial, director Enrico Castiglione sends the audience on a dramatic journey of passionate love and sacrifice, set on the stunningly beautiful open-air stage in Taormina, Sicily. With a score much loved for such arias as ‘La donna e mobile’ sung by womanizing Duke and the virtuosic ‘Caro nome’ performed by the innocent Gilda, Rigoletto is considered one of the greatest operatic masterpieces. Starring Carlos Almaguer, Gianluca Terranova and Rocio Ignacio. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Thanks for Sharing At first it’s hard to imagine what an environmental consultant, a small-business owner and a doctor have in common, but as this film unfolds we learn it is addiction and that it is taking a toll on all of their lives and relationships. Rated R. At Century.
The Trials of Muhammad Ali A documentary on the struggles of the world’s greatest fighter. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The latest installment in the story of escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) picks up where The Chronicles of Riddick left off — on a sun-baked planet with Riddick battling aliens and bounty-hunting mercenaries for a chance at surviving. Rated R. At Twin Peaks.
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Runner Runner
A lonely and awkward yet intelligent teenage boy begins his transition into adulthood. At Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
A Princeton college student who earns his tuition money by gambling online winds up in Costa Rica trying to get back his losses from the gambling sites owner who he thinks swindled him. The two team up, but when things go bad they turn on each other. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde An incredible documentary directed by Suzanne Mitchell and executive produced by two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple. Running Wild follows the remarkable life of author, photographer, activist and cowboy Dayton O. Hyde as he maintains his sanctuary for wild horses and works tirelessly to protect the vanishing landscape of the American West. Director Mitchell captures the beauty, soul and spirituality of this American hero as he continues his endless work in conservation and saving the wild mustang. At SIE Film Center and Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Rush Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard creates a visual masterpiece that recreates the well-documented 1970s rivalry between race-car drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Eirick, a forgotten king, is tasked with killing Thor, the God of Thunder. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Way, Way Back
We’re the Millers Everything that can go wrong does in this comedy when a small-time pot dealer to the soccer mom world decides to help out some local kids. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Century.
The World’s End A pub crawl aiming for a long-awaited pint at the World’s End pub draws a group of middle-aged friends into a battle to save the world. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.
You Will Be My Son (Tu seras mon fils) Paul is the passionate, demanding proprietor of his prestigious family wine estate. But he has no faith in his son, Martin, who works at the vineyard. Can Paul turn against his own blood and turn Philippe, the son of the estate’s manager, into the rightful heir of his family estate? Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE FilmCenter include the following: Arise; C.O.G.; Therese; Haute Cuisine; Blue Caprice; Hey Girl: The Craft.
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Formula 1 is that most audiences won’t know who won in real life! For once, ignorance delivers entertainment and not just regrettable elected officials! You’ll notice there’s no mention of Olivia Wilde’s character, Suzy, in that summary. Nor is there mention of Alexandra Maria Lara, who plays Lauda’s wife Marlene. There’s a reason for that. Suzy is such an afterthought that when she is shown watching the final race of the season, you’ve almost forgotten she existed. And Marlene, who seemingly altered the foundational personality of Lauda in real life and thus indirectly changed the outcome of the racing season, has something like three spoken lines after her clever and playful introduction. The only time any two women are on screen together is when Hunt has a ménage à trois, which I’m pretty sure isn’t part of the Bechdel Test. That aside, the film is briskly paced, with racing scenes that somehow don’t feel repetitive despite the fact that racing is basically doing the same thing over and over again as fast as you can. Hemsworth and Brühl are both in tip-top form, with the latter standing toe-to-toe with Thor’s performance, despite wearing the world’s silliest prosthetic overbite. It’s not quite a sports movie (and not just because some don’t see racing as a sport) and not quite a character sketch, yet somehow Rush is a photofinish away from being excellent. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ed by the floodwaters.” ederal law lays it all Rochelle says only two or out: If the edible porthree farms have had to pull out tion of a crop directly touched floodwater, it’s of the market entirely, and two of “adulterated” and those only sold flowers. Burger should not enter human food adds that the market provides a channels. unique platform for communicaThe reason is that nobody tion between the grower and the knows for sure exactly what is in customer, ensuring safety. floodwater; as various creeks spill “Customers have the opporover their banks they pass tunity to speak directly to the through parking lots and streets farmer,” Burger says. “You can’t covered with oil, feed lots, water get that at Lucky’s, Safeway or treatment plants and dozens of Whole Foods. … In a situation other sources of potential conlike this, you have the source tamination. right in front of you.” “Adulterated crops” might Consumers at the Sept. 28 ring a bell for Colorado newsmarket — which saw average to above-average crowds — readers, as the proprietors of expressed some concern for food Rocky Ford’s Jensen Farms were Saturday crowds have remained strong at the Boulder County Farmers’ Market on 13th Street. safety, but said it didn’t worry charged with six counts each of them too much. introducing adulterated food to Agriculture, Ron Carleton, said producers would make “No, we’re not worried,” one the food supply after selling cantaloupes allegedly contaminated with listeria. the assessment of their own crops. woman said. “We wash our stuff.” Could Boulder County farmers face the same But government agencies are helping inform farmAnother shopper said the face-to-face interaction charges in the aftermath of the floods? ers; at the Sept. 25 farmers’ market in Boulder, a repre- with farmers reassured him. If they were selling adulterated food, theoretically sentative of the county was handing out stapled sheets “We’re not worried. We’ve been coming to the they could. But ask around the Boulder County to farmers explaining the FDA’s recommendations same vendors for a long time,” the man said. “He did Farmers’ Markets, a significant source of income for about crops in floodwater or near flooded areas. say he lost some things.” farmers who participate, and it’s evident that farmers The farmers’ market itself will also leave it up the Another shopper, while saying crop contamination are taking the contamination issue seriously. In all farmers to decide whether their crops are safe for their was “a legit issue,” said he had confidence that farmers cases Boulder Weekly inquired about, farmers said they customers, according to farmers’ market forensic marweren’t selling contaminated food. are not selling adulterated crops, saying they’ve disket specialist and manager Brad Burger. Produce that was not in direct contact with floodposed of any crops that came into contact with flood“I think that every single farm has lost some prodwater can be washed and eaten. The FDA and water. uct due to the floods, but not every single farm was Colorado Department of Public Health and The government — federal, state and local — flooded,” Burger says. “For us to put a stop to all Environment recommend washing food with a chloleaves the process of evaluating crops and deciding to would be a disservice to the farmer.” rine bleach solution of two tablespoons of bleach per sell or discard them to the farmers themselves. In an Mary Rochelle of Fresh Ideas Group, a spokespergallon of water. interview for a Sept. 19 Boulder Weekly story, the depu- son for the farmers’ market, says, “More than 90 perWhen told about the bleach solution, one shopper ty commissioner for the Colorado Department of cent of farmers at the farmers’ market were not affectsee FARMERS Page 70
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due to contamination. But that won’t stop The Chautauqua Farm-to-table dinners are a Dining Hall from hosting a Flood Relief Dinner dime a dozen — well, not literally Tuesday, Oct. 8, benefiting the Foothills Flood — these days in Boulder County. Relief Fund through the Foothills United Way. But they still deserve headlines, The dinner costs $95 a person and consists of especially when they combine a five-course harvest menu and wine pairing fresh, locally grown food with prepared by dining hall Executive Chef Brian fundraising for a good cause. Horton. The ingredients for the dinner will That’s the setup at the Oct. 4 come from other local Harvest Farm Courtesy of The Chautauqua Dining Hall providers. Reservations Dinner at can be made by calling Pastures of 303-440-3775. Plenty in Longmont, which is being held in Eat up with Berkshire honor of Domestic and Golden Road Violence Awareness Timed to coincide with Month. The dinner, hosted the parade of rarities that by Pastures of Plenty and is the Great American Big Bang Catering, also of Beer Festival, Boulder’s Longmont, features local OAK at Fourteenth will vegetables, fruit, meat host a pork-centric fiveand cheese, as well as course menu with some artisan breads and desnotable rarities: Berkshire The Chautauqua Dining Hall is the site of serts from the bakery of pork, a rare British breed, an Oct. 8 benefit for flood victims. the Mediterranean and Golden Road beer, a Restaurant in Boulder. rare Los Angeles breed. Proceeds from the dinBerkshire pigs, listed as ner will benefit SPAN, the Safehouse “vulnerable” by a British farm group, are Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence. highly prized for their marbling and tenderHeadquartered in Boulder, the group offers ness. And just because a breed is “vulneraresources and support to victims of domestic ble” doesn’t mean it can’t be eaten, by the violence. The dinner is $80; an ad on www. way. safehousealliance.org directs viewers to the The five-course dinner, taking place Oct. registration page. 9, makes use of the animal in all five courses, including candied bacon alongside chocoFive courses for flood relief late custard, graham cracker crumble and The Chautauqua Dining Hall is no stranger spiced marshmallow in the s’mores dessert. to the harms of September’s flooding. As a OAK will serve beer from Longmont’s part of Three Leaf Concepts, the dining hall Oskar Blues as well as Los Angeles brewery gets most of its produce from Three Leaf Golden Road Brewing, which only distributes Farms. However, due to the flooding from in California. Golden Road, which like Oskar nearby Coal Creek, the farm has been Blues packages its beer in cans, will be servforced to discard the entire year’s harvest ing at the GABF. OAK Beverage Director
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Boulder chefs get together to benefit Lyons
Six well-known Boulder chefs are banding together to support the community of Lyons the best way they know how: Making food. The proceeds of an Oct. 8 benefit dinner at Pearl Street’s Mateo will go to Lyons-area farms and ranches that were affected by the flood. But the charity doesn’t stop there: Mateo is offering a complimentary community table for Lyons residents at both seatings, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. The seven-course meal with cocktail and wine pairings will cost $150. More information is available at www.mateorestaurant.com. Featured chefs are Nate Bychinski of Mateo, Kelly Whitaker of Basta, Ann Cooper of the Boulder Valley School District, WIll and Coral Frischkorn of Cured, Bryan Dayton of OAK and others to be announced. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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fter taking a head count on my most recent visit to the Beehive and arriving at a grand total of 20 women and four babies to only two men, I found myself rushing home to watch Fried Green Tomatoes for the first time in years. Between the circulation of estrogen and the rustic-chic setting — embossed tin ceilings, weathered wood floors, Mason jar pendant lamps, community tables and all — I did declare brunching at this farm-to-fork charmer downtown was like stepping into the Whistle Stop Café, and I wanted to see how far I could stretch the metaphor. Well — to kill the suspense — the answer is not far, 21st-century Beehive Boulder being Restaurant light years from 2018 10th pre-CivilSt., Rights-era Boulder, Alabama. But 303-789owner Janice 8585 Henning’s culinary philosophy does hearken to the days of home canning and chicken cooping and making do with what you’ve got in any given season — what many chefs today paraphrase as “taking quality ingredients and not screwing them up.” It’s an ever-admirable approach that, at its most successful, yields dishes of notable clarity and purity: think deviled eggs that boast a zesty, almost mousse-like filling beneath a sprightly garnish of pickled carrot and watermelon rind, or a profiterole that embodies summer’s last hurrah — the light, fresh pastry bursting with the tang of lemon curd and plump raspberries, softened by dollops of whipped cream. The food here can also be just plain fun, from a basket of weightless gougères (cheese puffs) to a skewer of “devils on
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horseback,” or hot, juicy, bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with pungent blue cheese. Sometimes, though, the overarching focus on simplicity only serves as a nagging reminder of the difference between home cooking and the cuisine we go to restaurants for in the first place. Given their respective price-to-portion ratios, we rightly expect rather more panache from a place like the Beehive than from your average Whistle Stop Café, yet we don’t always get it. Take the Harvest I tried on another visit, a chunky stew served over polenta for lunch and dinner or oats at brunch. (The three menus overlap quite a bit, though the evening repertoire is somewhat more elaborate than the daytime roster of shared plates, egg dishes, salads and sandwiches.)
It was almost stunning: under a dusting of grana padano, the airy cornmeal porridge beefed up the broth without dissolving into it, as did the yolk of the perfectly over-easy egg. And the vegetables — various squashes, shiitake mushrooms, onions — looked and tasted as though they’d seen the inside of a picking basket moments prior. But in addition to salt and pepper (which my companion and I had to ask for, as there are no shakers on the table), the dish as a whole lacked textural contrast, and I found myself crushing gaufrettes over the top just to keep it interesting. At $6, those freshfried, waffle-cut potato chips are an addictive staple that hardly need the small ramekin of garlic aioli they come with — for an extra $2, that is. Happily, they also come with the $13 burger; toppings, however,
don’t, other than pickled onions and a romaine leaf, plus ketchup and mustard on request. Add cheese, bacon, or the admittedly excellent, mustard-seed-studded sweet cucumber pickles, and it’s another $2 each; at that point, you might understandably begin to feel a bit nickel-and-dimed, not to mention confused as to why a “locally pastured, certified Angus” beef patty atop a soft white bun from Breadworks, while good, should cost noticeably more than its likewise carefully sourced counterparts at countless eateries nearby. I had similar quibbles with other items. Adorably presented though it was, a chilled leek-and-potato soup du jour proved lackluster until we added, you guessed it, salt and pepper. Luscious potted salmon would have made for a satisfying appetizer with some crackers or crostini — which, judging by the website, is how it’s sometimes served. But a small scoop atop what was essentially a garden salad did not a polished entrée make. Then again, we didn’t have many options; by the middle of a weekday lunch rush, the kitchen was out of chicken for two main courses, leaving only three or four non-breakfast plates to choose from. The Beehive, in short, seems less to bridge two concepts — that of the casual farmhouse café and that of the twinkling upscale destination — than to be stuck between them. Along with the emphasis on premium ingredients, earnestly attentive service and a fine bar program featuring boutique wines, craft beers, and seasonal cocktails like the frothy, zippy Indian Summer Lemonade are hallmarks of the latter. But one too many overlooked details would be easier to accept at the former, with its lower tabs. If they’re seen to, all the rest might well snap into place. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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the community,” he says. “People in the CSA, they totally understand. … People are very supportive.” And, like the shoppers, he expresses confidence that farmers are holding themselves to high standards. “The farmers who sell at the Boulder market, they’re perfectionists,” he says. Other farmers promptly back up Dew’s assumption. Asked if any of the produce from Longmont’s Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Ranch directly touched floodwater, a farmer behind the table has a simple answer. “No way,” he says. “Thirteen thousand gallons of oil in that water.” Adrian Card, agriculture and natural resources agent for the CSU Extension for Boulder County, says he has confidence in local farmers and their crops. “I’ve driven through most of the county and agricultural land,” Card says. “I can say that floodwaters impacted about 10 percent of the actual acres.” Card adds, “From a human health perspective, the risks are being managed and people should have confidence in their local farmers. “Ask immediately: ‘Did the edible portion of the produce come in contact with the floodwater?’ … The answer should be a standardized ‘No.’” If farmers’ crops are still bearing fruit, produce grown after the waters subside should be safe to consume, according to a fact sheet from the University of Minnesota. As the season ends, tilling of soil should help remove contamination from the soil, the fact sheets say, although they recommend chemical and biological testing of soil samples to be sure. They also suggest waiting 60 days between flooding and planting the next crop. As for the farmers’ markets, they are running in Boulder and Longmont just as scheduled: Wednesdays in Boulder finished up Oct. 2; Saturdays in Boulder run through Nov. 16; Saturdays in Longmont run through Nov. 2. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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atmosphere with the detail game, studying the tasting room top to bottom. “This feels like a pub in a small town in the mountains where everybody goes,” Fran says. I’m in Glendale after hitting the Cherry Creek Mall, acknowledging I have zero appropriate clothes for an upcoming wedding. Or, to put it another way, “You got a column and an outfit,” Fran says. “Very Sex and the City.” The beer list at Bull & Bush changes daily, with some emphasis on lighter ales. The Allgood Amber is balanced between malt and hops and is slightly watery; the 4.0 GPA (that’s grapefruit pale ale) has a very strong, clean pale ale aftertaste. “I get grapefruit, as a woman,” Fran says. “I taste citrus.” The stout, Stonehenge, is a classic, thick, grainy and malty. But the best beers are the Marriage and the MAN. A Belgian golden ale, Marriage is not overly yeasty or sweet; MAN, Bull & Bush’s signature IPA, is a very balanced IPA that’s malty upfront and avoids bitterness in the aftertaste. Yes, I liked an IPA. Beer lovers can take me seriously now. But really, I can see at Bull & Bush how much I’ve changed in writing this column. I don’t have to seek out the brown, porter or stout on every menu any more, even if I usually still do. I can taste IPAs on their own terms now instead of recoiling from them all. In the spirit of variety, we’re looking at touring Boulder County again — not as a thorough inventory this time, but as a tour of authenticity. We’ll be tracking down the most authentic Belgian, German, British and American beers in the county over the next few weeks. Like with Bull & Bush, we wish we were going to those places for real. But maybe, just maybe, beer can transport us there. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: I am a straight male, 30, in a long-term monogamous relationship. I love my wife; we have good sex, and often. When we first got together, I had a mild foot fetish, and she has gorgeous pedis. We have done and still do foot play on occasion. But my fetish has grown stronger as time has passed, and I have grown thirstier for her appendages. They are all I can think about. I am still willing to do everything with my partner and make sure she is satisfied. I don’t want anyone else, and the relationship is wonderful other than this issue. It’s just that she is not much into foot play and is rarely willing to partake. When she does partake, it is brief, and then we are on to the next. How can I relate to her my insatiable desire for her lovely appendages without sounding like an absolute freak? Is it fair for me to ask for this after being together so long without the same need? —Fighting Extreme Erotic Tension Dear FEET: I didn’t run your letter the first 10,000 times you sent it, FEET, because any regular reader of my column — and someone who e-mails me on a daily basis for three years is presumed to be a regular reader — would know what my advice would be in a case like yours: Level with your fucking wife about your boring fucking foot fetish already, you fucking coward. You downplayed your kink at the start of your relationship, and you haven’t opened up to your wife about how your kink has grown in intensity over the years. So she may think those brief-and-on-to-the-next foot sessions are enough to satisfy what you’ve allowed her to believe is a mild foot fetish. Would those sessions be longer, more intense, and freakier if she knew how central this was to your sexuality? There’s only one way to find out, FEET: Stop worrying about sounding like an “absolute freak” and come out to your partner as the absolute freak that you are. (“My darling, for years I’ve pretended that my thing for feet is mild, but it’s actually an all-consuming passion, and I need to spend more time licking, kissing, and whatever-thefucking your lovely appendages or I shall go mad blah blah blah.”) While your dilemma is stupid and your spamming is annoying (and your wife potentially fictitious), FEET, I chose to run your letter because this is actually a pretty good hypothetical: “Is it fair for me to ask for this after being together so long without the same need?”
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April 20-May 20:
In David Markson’s experimental novel Wittgenstein’s Mistress, the protagonist fantasizes about the winter she lived at the Louvre Museum in Paris. She says that to keep warm she made big fires and burned some of the museum’s precious artifacts. I’m hoping you won’t do anything remotely resembling that mythic event in the coming week, Taurus. I understand that you may be going through a cold spell — a time when you’re longing for more heat and light. But I beg you not to sacrifice enduring beauty in order to ameliorate your temporary discomfort. This, too, shall pass.
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May 21-June 20:
“Don’t say you want love,” writes San Francisco author Stephen Sparks. “Say you want the morning light through a paint-flecked window; say you want a gust of wind scraping leaves along the pavement and hills rolling toward the sea; say you want to notice, in a tree you walk past every day, the ruins of a nest exposed as the leaves fall away; a slow afternoon of conversation in a shadowy bar; the smell of bread baking.” That’s exactly the oracle I want to give you, Gemini. In my opinion, you can’t afford to be generic or blank in your requests for love. You must be highly specific. You’ve got to ask for the exact feelings and experiences that will boost the intensity of your lust for life. (Here’s Sparks’ Tumblr page: invisiblestories.tumblr.com.)
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger in the broken places,” wrote Cancerian writer Ernest Hemingway. By my estimation, my fellow Crabs, we are now entering a phase of our astrological cycle when we can make dramatic progress in healing the broken places in ourselves. But even better than that: As we deal dynamically with the touchy issues that caused our wounds, we will become stronger than we were before we got broken.
LEO
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Let’s hope you have given deep thought to understanding who you are at this moment of your life. Let’s also hope that you have developed a clear vision of the person you would like to become in, say, three years. How do you feel about the gap between the current you and the future you? Does it oppress you? Does it motivate you? Maybe a little of both? I’ll offer you the perspective of actress Tracee Ellis Ross. “I am learning every day,” she told Uptown Magazine, “to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.”
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Aug. 23-Sept. 22:
Do the words “purity” and “purify” have any useful purpose? Or have they been so twisted by religious fundamentalists and mocked by decadent cynics that they’re mostly just farcical? I propose that you take them seriously in the coming week. Give them your own spin. For instance, you could decide to purify yourself of petty attitudes and trivial desires that aren’t in alignment with your highest values. You might purify yourself of self-deceptions that have gotten you into trouble and purify yourself of resentments that have blocked your creative energy. At the very least, Virgo, cleanse your body with extra-healthy food, good sleep, massage, exercise and sacred sex.
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SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:
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In her book Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard apologizes to God and Santa Claus and a nice but eccentric older woman named Miss White, whom she knew as a child. “I am sorry I ran from you,” she writes to them. “I am still running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge. For you meant only love, and love, and I felt only fear, and pain.” Judging from your current astrological omens, Capricorn, I’d say that now would be a good time for you to do something similar: Take an inventory of the beauty and love and power you have sought to escape and may still be trying to avoid. You’re finally ready to stop running and embrace at least some of that good stuff.
AQUARIUS
Jan. 20-Feb. 18:
The Dragon Lives Again is a 1977 film that tells the story of martial arts legend Bruce Lee fighting bad guys in the underworld. Among the villains he defeats are Dracula, James Bond, the Godfather, Clint Eastwood and the Exorcist. I urge you to use this as inspiration, Aquarius. Create an imaginary movie in your mind’s eye. You’re the hero, of course. Give yourself a few superpowers, and assemble a cast of scoundrels from your past — anyone who has done you wrong. Then watch the epic tale unfold as you do with them what Bruce Lee did to Dracula and company. Yes, it’s only pretend. But you may be surprised at how much this helps you put your past behind you. Think of it as a purgative meditation that will free you to move in the direction of the best possible future.
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After studying the myths and stories of many cultures throughout history, Joseph Campbell arrived at a few conclusions about the nature of the human quest. Here’s one that’s apropos for you right now: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” He came up with several variations on this idea, including this one: “The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.” I urge you to consider making this your operative hypothesis for the coming weeks, Pisces.
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enver lawyer/activist Robert Corry has the fountain and downtown buildings as a backdrop. become the public face of a campaign to It looked like there were a lot of people, but the scene overturn the marijuana taxes proposed by was an odd blend of a Hollywood Robin Hood film the state legislature for adoption on the and 1970s-era rock festivals. Nothing like feeding the November ballot. Amendment AA would stereotype of the hippie stoner while trying to get place a 15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales tax your point across. on retail marijuana at the state level, with the first $40 News reports of the Boulder event noted that the million raised going to school construction and the event’s timing couldn’t have been worse, coming in rest for cannabis regulation and education, with a per- the days while people were still fighting water and centage split among counties and cities that will trying to save their homes. Adding the message that a allow retail outlets. It also allows the legislature to free joint could help people who were flooded didn’t bump up the sales tax to make for a particularly 15 percent without voter appealing pitch. And approval if the taxes then, last weekend, Corry aren’t enough to cover was in the news again costs. Cities and counties after being cited for are free to add their own smoking a joint at a excise and/or sales tax. Colorado Rockies game. The No on Not the best thing for Proposition AA the public face of a political campaign, even here Campaign has no money in Colorado in 2013. to mount an offensive for The bigger question an election that’s less is whether Corry and No than six weeks away, so on Proposition AA is the to spread the word, it correct vote. He’s certaincame up with, so far, two ly not wrong about the made-for-media events, numbers; when city/ with the gimmick being a county taxes are added, free joint for anyone over 21 who attended. I an ounce might be taxed missed the one in somewhere around 40 If voters pass Amendment AA in November, Marijuana Boulder, but the Denver percent in places like could be taxed as much as 40 percent in some places. rally was kind of sad, Boulder, far more than with a couple hundred any other so-called “sin people in line dutifully waiting for their free blunt tax” in Colorado. And his reasoning includes the claswhile the TV cameras rolled and Corry and his band sic argument against sumptuary taxes: that making of protesters cavorted in front of the cameras. You got cannabis more expensive by taxing it discriminates the feeling that, had the media not showed up, neither against the poor. would anyone else except those in line for the freebie. In an editorial in The Denver Post, Corry argues I give Corry credit for subverting a compliant, that higher taxes are destructive, contrary to the spirit perfunctory TV media. Crews came early to Denver of Amendment 64 and unnecessary except as punishCivic Plaza and set up so Corry could arrive in time ment for using the product itself. “No other product to deliver his anti-tax message as cameras rolled with or industry has ever been taxed this high,” he writes.
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I strongly believe that cannabis legalization should pay its own way. I liked Amendment 64’s requirement that the first $40 million every year goes to school buildings, and I want to assure that the state has the money to pay for Amendment 64. But the legislature’s proposal for taxes on cannabis seems less than reasonable. Proponents sometimes forget that 45 percent of voters, and many in the legislature, too, were and are still against Amendment 64. Before they finally settled down to the business of writing the regulations, some legislators tried to have the law negated, and there are still some who are only doing this because they have to. That’s also evidenced by the growing number of counties and municipalities banning sales, some without voter approval, although once sales begin, that might change. According to the amendment language, the Department of Revenue, with a 2013 budget of $5 million, will develop a computer system and hire staff to collect, monitor and enforce retail marijuana taxes, estimated to cost $4.2 million in the first year and $1.3 million annually thereafter. The department is expected to add approximately 22 new staff members. The state estimates there will be almost $67 million in excise and sales taxes for fiscal year 2014, with the first $27.5 million going to schools and about $6 million split between counties and cities. That leaves roughly $34 million to regulate and educate. State sales tax is 2.9 percent, which translates to another $11.5 million, and I’m not sure where all that money is going. I’m all for cannabis paying its own way, but gouging consumers for taxes isn’t in the spirit of Amendment 64, either. Should marijuana be taxed? Of course it should, but not for anything more than regulation/education and schools as outlined in Amendment 64. I want to support Amendment AA, but the state will need to better explain what it’s going to do with the money it estimates it will receive from retail sales taxes before it gets my vote. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com.
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