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onnie Trump is for it, Barack Obama is too, as are Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton. “It” is the idea of finally ending a ridiculous tax loophole that was written by and for the richest, most pampered elites on Wall Street. An obscurely titled “carried-interest” tax break allows billionaire hedge-fund hucksters to have their massive incomes taxed at a much lower rate than the one teachers, main street businesses, carpen-
ters and other modest-income people must pay. This privileged treatment of money shufflers over people who do constructive work in our society adds to America’s widening chasm of inequality. It’s so unfair and unpopular that even Trump and Bush see that it has to go. So, it’s bye-bye loophole, right? Ha — just kidding! Trump can mouth all he wants, but no animal hath such fury as a hedge-funder whose special tax boondoggle is threatened. Trump had barely gotten the word “unfair” out of his puffy lips before the tax-loophole profiteers deployed battalions of lobbyists, PR flacks and frontgroup operatives out to defend their precious carried-interest provision. Just one group, with the arcane name of Private Equity Growth Capital Council, rushed a dozen Gucci-clad lobbyists to Capitol Hill to “inform” lawmakers about the virtues of coddling
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Wall Street elites with tax favors. Of course, “informing” meant flashing their checkbooks at key members of Congress. After all, even the loudest blast of political talk is cheap, and it’s the silent sound of a pen writing out a campaign check that makes WashingtonWorld keep spinning in favor of the rich. Sure enough, Rep. Paul Ryan, the new leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, has assured the check writers that, the will of the people aside, he’ll not allow any effort to repeal the hedge-fund loophole to get out of committee. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 19, 2015 7
commentary Co-ops collapsing Dave Anderson
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ecently, some 500,000 people around the country suddenly lost their health insurance as 10 of 23 nonprofit health care cooperatives collapsed. Some 80,000 Coloradans were left in the lurch when Colorado HealthOP collapsed. Nearly 40 percent of the people who purchased health insurance through the Colorado state exchange in 2015 were members of that co-op. Several more co-ops in other states may close soon. These businesses were established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare). One of the nation’s foremost experts on health care, Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, said she is not surprised. She’s a primary care physician, professor at the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College and the co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP). On the Democracy Now! program, Woolhandler said “these tiny insurance co-ops were like the peewee football league going against the NFL. They just didn’t have the size to make it in the marketplace. “But also, they weren’t cheaters. The way the health insurance market works is good guys finish last, and cheaters win. The way you make a killing in the health insurance market is by signing up lots of healthy people, collecting as high premiums as possible and giving them as little care as possible — and, if they get sick, figuring out ways to force them out of the insurance. That’s the way the U.S. insurance market works.” The “Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans” (co-ops) under the ACA were a compromise. During the Congressional debate over the reform law in 2009, most Democrats were supporting a so-called “public option,” a government-run plan in the ACA insurance exchanges that wouldn’t have to make a profit and would have stronger bargaining powers to obtain discounts from health care providers, enabling it to charge lower premiums than private plans. In a PNHP analysis, Dr. Don McCanne notes that the “public option” was soon emasculated by the private insurance lobbyists so that it wouldn’t be able to effectively compete. Then it became obvious that the option would be killed by Republicans anyway. 8 November 19, 2015
At that point, Sen. Kent Conrad (D-North Dakota) proposed creating the nonprofit co-ops which would be included in the ACA. McCanne describes how the private insurers crippled that: “Insurers require capital — both for start-up expenses and for establishing reserves from which to pay claims. Although the original intent was to provide government grants to the coops, these were changed to government loans which the co-ops would have to pay back (not to mention that borrowing to fund reserves is a shell game — the net reserves are zero). Adding the burden of debt service onto the backs of these co-ops basically destroyed their competitive advantage, especially at a time that they were facing high start-up costs. Further, as an extra measure, the insurers had included in ACA a rule that prohibited the co-ops from advertising. Thus the insurers saw to it that the co-ops were placed at a competitive disadvantage.” Since going live three years ago, the co-ops have faced huge cutbacks from the Republican-controlled Congress. The GOP has slashed funding by more than half and stopped the Obama administration from helping deal with the unexpected high costs of covering sicker beneficiaries. The co-ops enrolled many people who had never had health insurance because they couldn’t afford it before. Glenn Jennings, the interim CEO of the Kentucky Health Cooperative, said: “Many of our members had never had health insurance before Jan. 1, 2014. What happens when people don’t have health insurance? They probably aren’t looking after their health and well-being. They’re probably not seeing providers. If they aren’t seeing providers, they might not be aware that they have chronic conditions. Or, they might be dealing with something that’s acute, but they didn’t have the out-of-pocket funds to get treatment. All this adds up to a lot of people with pent-up medical needs. When they suddenly had health insurance — and again, with many of them having selected a co-op plan — they began using their benefits. When benefits are used, claims must be paid. Kentucky Health Cooperative has paid see COMMENTARY Page 10
letters Failed humor
The following appeared in the 10/29 column [Re: “New schools or a cup of coffee,” Weed Between the Lines]: “Sure, you may think your stoner neighbor is annoying, but when you realize his buzz is helping to build a new school for the kid who lives across the street, he doesn’t seem so bad (except when he mows the image of the Zig-Zag man into his lawn).” Great message in the column, too bad it includes a failed attempt at humor that perpetuates lame stereotypes. M.D. Coyle/via Internet
Cynicism confirmed
The Oil and Gas Task Force draft regulations failed to meet expectations? Whose expectations? Rep. Jared Polis? Rather than protect communities or the environment, he pulled his 2014 ballot initiatives at the 11th hour and sold Colorado communities down the river to ensure John Hickenlooper’s re-election. Environmental groups? They’ve watched the Task Force farce play out for over a year now while people in affected communities engage in yet more rounds of hamster-wheel activism. Local governments? As Boulder County Commissioner Elise Jones says, “Unless the COGCC makes significant changes and takes local governments seriously…it will be another disappointing experience.” A disappointing experience? That’s the best we local officials can come up with? How about an OUTRAGE. In fact, the Task Force and the two
toothless recommendations that came out of it accomplished just what they were intended to accomplish. In terms of “local control,” communities get exactly nothing — as was always the intention. The industry remains firmly in charge. And community members, intentionally diverted from taking action and demanding real democratic change, are channeled into “hearings” where they can waste time pleading to industry shills in front of microphones that aren’t even turned on. Exactly when will affected communities and local governments call bullshit? When a system of law elevates corporate rights over people’s rights, the only alternative is to fight for systemic change. That means we have to stop appealing to politicians and do something about it ourselves. In 2016 Coloradans must pass the Community Rights Amendment to the Colorado Constitution. This ballot initiative gives people, not corporations, the authority to decide how best to protect their health, safety, welfare, their communities and the natural environment. It allows communities to decide for themselves whether to allow corporate projects that violate the community’s fundamental rights. And it will force politicians to take a position on people’s rights rather than buying political cover with empty rhetoric. Led by a grassroots effort of Colorado communities, workers and environmental organizers, the Community Rights Amendment brings power and democracy back to where it see LETTERS Page 10
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Polis still selling TPP snake oil
This past Monday (Nov. 9, 2016) Rep. Jared Polis brought his “dog and pony show” to the CU Leeds Business School. The idea was to promote one of Polis’ favorite causes, the TransPacific Partnership (TPP). He made sure to have authority figures on each side of him, but only one side of the issue, for the presentation. Senior Economics Professor Keith Mascus was on his left and the U.S. Trade Representative’s Counselor Luis Jimenez on his right. There was TPP sales propaganda on every desk. The event promoted TPP as an opening to a new “golden age” of American prosperity. America would be able to export lots more to each of the 12 TPP countries. Little mention was given to the competitive trade that would be arriving from very low wage countries like Vietnam and Malaysia. Nothing was said about the impact of TPP upon climate change, medicine prices, food safety and environmental protections or about the new powers given to giant corporations and private courts. On the whole the presentation was a prod to get students and faculty to accept TPP as a great idea. It demanded next to nothing in terms of analysis by the audience. That, of course, is because the authorities giving the presentation offered only “TPP is great; we should all support it.” So much for critical thinking at CU’s School of Business. If you are interested in knowing more about what is wrong with TPP go to: citizen.org/tpp or eff.org/tpp or organicconsumers.org (search for TPP). Tom Moore and Nancy Sullo/Boulder
letters The costs of not fracking
There are voices that call for no fracking in Colorado. This is lacking in vision — and quite frankly, dangerous. What would life be like without the fuels that fracking provides? An obvious thing is fuel to drive our cars. (There are only 3,100 electric vehicles in the state.) Then there is the rather important task of lighting and heating our homes. (Solar power makes up only 0.6 percent of electricity generated in the United States.) Clearly, fossil fuels and the fracking that supplies them are necessities. In 2013, the Leeds School of Business at UC Boulder conducted a study on the economic impact of a statewide fracking ban in Colorado. This study was modeled to begin in 2015, assuming a 95 percent reduction of fracking. Below are some of their findings: • The economic consequence would be an average $10 billion in lower gross domestic product (GDP) in the first five years • 68,000 fewer jobs in the first five years • An average of $12 billion lower GDP and 93,000 fewer jobs between 2015 and 2040 • Loss of disposable income drags on the consumption-supported industries, such as retail and real estate, as well as on taxes. • Would leave Colorado jurisdictions with an average direct revenue reduction of $567 million over the first five years. These findings are sobering. Why would non-fracking activists advocate for something that can potentially destroy the economic health of our state? It has been proven that fracking can be done responsibly and safely. Perhaps more people should spend time learning about the positives of fracking and oil and gas. Rebekah Vicknair/Longmont
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lapping and interdependent systems of oppression based upon class, race, gender, age, sexual orientation and other categories. The convention discussed and voted to adopt a long-range political strategy for our era which is contained in a 60-page document. It had been worked on for two years via an online forum and in monthly small-group conference calls on various strategic issues, such as the future of the labor movement and racial politics. DSA’s major priority at the moment is working for Bernie Sanders. DSA has an independent Bernie campaign that emphasizes increasing public awareness of the democratic socialist alternative to capitalism. Sanders isn’t a member of DSA but he has had friendly relations with DSA since his days as mayor of Burlington. DSA held fund-raising parties around the country for him when he ran for the Senate seat in 2007. He has addressed DSA conventions a number of times. Nevertheless, DSAers have criticized him for some foreign policy positions and for not adequately addressing the racial justice issues at the beginning of his campaign. While Sanders doesn’t call for full democratic control of the economy in his campaign, he proposes economic redistribution to fund a Scandinavian-style welfare state. In this country, that is incredibly radical. Public opinion polls show that his radical proposals are supported by a majority of Americans. — Dave Anderson TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
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n April 13, a 21-year-old transgender man waiting for a bus at the 1600 block of 28th Street in Boulder was attacked — his attacker punched the un-named man in the face, then groped his breasts and stomach while yelling transphobic and homophobic slurs. The young man was able to escape and contact the police, but this is not the case for dozens of transgender individuals across the U.S. every year. According to the National LGBTQ Task Force, there have been at least 23 transgender women and gender nonconforming people murdered thus far in 2015. Not only were these victims women, but the majority were also of color. On a global scale, the death toll is approaching 300. “I have to stress these are only the people we know of,” says Sara Connell, education and services manager for Out Boulder. “It’s so common for families to use the wrong name and pronouns on a police report to cover it up, or for police themselves to misgender people and cover it up. And then there are the cases Boulder Weekly
news briefs that don’t ever get solved or don’t get any attention in the first place, especially when you look at this on a global scale.” So on Nov. 20, Out Boulder will lead a local Transgender Day of Remembrance march and vigil to honor the memory of those murdered because of transgender discrimination. TDOR is observed annually in recognition of the 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a highly visible member of the transgender community in Boston, who was stabbed 20 times in her apartment. Hester’s murder, like the majority of transgender murders, remains unsolved. This year’s Day of Remembrance in Boulder will begin at 6:45 p.m. at the old courthouse at 13th and Pearl with speakers from the state and federal government, transgender women of color and allies. Attendees will then take a silent, candlelit march down Pearl Street with banners bearing the names of the North American people who lost their lives this year and last. After the march, a nonreligious ceremony will be held from 8-9 p.m. at First United Methodist Church. Connell says attendees will read the names of those who lost their lives this year and a moment of silence will be taken for each life. For Connell, an activist and publically transgender woman, the Day of Remembrance is more than a vigil. “Every year it’s this very difficult line we have to walk of somber remembrance and honoring the folks that we’ve lost, and also embracing each other in the community and understanding that allyship and community between the transgender community is the only way to survive this level of violence and to survive a culture that is so oppressive and so alienating for a lot of us,” she says. LOCAL ORGANIZATION STILL SENDING DELEGATES TO UPCOMING CLIMATE SUMMIT IN PARIS
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Leaders and negotiators from more than 190 countries will be gathering in Paris, and organizers expect some 40,000 delegates a day to attend planned events around the city. Global Greengrants will add 40 some youth, indigenous peoples and grassroots women to this crowd. Terry Odendahl, president and CEO of Global Greengrants, says she and the rest of the Greengrants team are “grieving for the people who died, and their families, in Paris, Beirut and elsewhere.”
“But it’s important not to succumb to fear because that was the intention of the terrorists,” Odendahl says. She says it also offers an “unfortunate” opportunity to stress the linkage between global climate change and global security, referencing a number of analyses of the war in Syria and its relationship to climate change. Global Greengrants is working closely with grassroots campaign 350. org to not only sponsor a number of delegates from around the world, but to
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ate a viable commodity-based economy on this mashe first time I saw the Pawnee of whom hunted bison as they migrated in massive sive piece of prairie and failed. Its cycles of drought National Grassland, I was on a quest herds across the region. and flood, hail, insects and epidemics broke every to find a ghost town I’d heard about. These early inhabitants took only what the land wave of sodbusters who tried to convert its yucca, It shared its name with my place of gave and so it was a sustainable arrangement environbirth; a small town in Oklahoma mentally speaking. But that all changed with the com- prickly pear and prairie grasses into wheat or anything called Purcell. Aside from the name, I think my curiing of the railroad and the settlers who hitched a ride, else that could be sold. And then, like a giant end-block to a story, the osity is the only thing these two places ever had in carried west by the promise of free land. Dust Bowl hit and the settlers gave up in mass as they common. But that was enough connection to inspire By the late 1860s, the Union Pacific had made its watched the last of their dreams blow back to the citmy first Grassland walkabout. way across the northern portion of the Grassland. By ies and towns of the east from where they’d come. I eventually found Colorado’s Purcell, or at least the mid-1880s, the bison were gone, hunted to near The Grassland won that round. the last old wind-twisted buildings and foundations extinction for their hides and depriving the native Before the Dust Bowl, the Grassland had more that remained of it. Most of the place had blown away peoples of their most important food source. The than 600 families trying to scrape out a living by way or been buried under the dust a half century before I bison apparently made no sound in the forest when of dry-land wheat farming or something equally futile passed through. What’s left now is tucked away near they fell. due to its dependence on the fickle weather. By the four scraggly, out-of-place trees located in what most Barbed wire brought an end to the once great mid-1930s, only 64 families remained and most of folks think of as “the middle of nowhere,” aka the open range and the homesteaders did what homethose vanished soon thereafter. empty plains of Northeastern Colorado. steaders do, they tried to tame the land. During 1933-34, the federal government tried But everywhere is somewhere, even when it’s By the turn of the century, most of the 193,060 using the Great Depression’s Work Project empty of most things. acres that today comprise the nearly treeless Pawnee Administration (WPA) and the Public Works That trip turned out to be the first of many I’d National Grassland (which is, ironically, part of the Administration (PWA) to help the desperate farmers make to this prehistoric-looking landscape over the Arapaho National Forest) were under the plow. But of the Grassland, but these programs only extended next 30 years. For me, the Grassland has long been a the Grassland had a secret formula for survival: it their misery for a short while. lacked water, had poor soil and inconsistent weather. refuge, a place I run to when stress or indecision or About 15 years ago, I gave a ride to a local cowboy All this worked together to defeat the early settlers people in general became too much to bear. I love it I found walking down a dirt road just north of the old and all who came after them. for its lack. Briggsdale townsite. We spent much of the day For more than 50 years, people attempted to creAside from the occasional skeleton of a long-ago together driving slowly over narrow failed homestead or town, or a hawk or two-track trails most likely made by Golden Eagle floating overhead, the wagons. He showed me several of the Grassland is — or at least was until the WPA projects he’d stumbled onto over last three years or so — devoid of most the years while working cattle or just things, particularly the distractions of out exploring. the modern world. What I remember most were these These high plains have always large bone-dry reservoirs with their seemed a defiant, unconquered place to me. A landscape lost in time, influenced cracked earth bottoms and remarkably more by the wind than the hand of man, intact dams stretched across dry ravines despite a century of human effort to and holding back nothing but the wind. carve them into something profitable. They seemed unchanged by time as The earliest known inhabitants of they sat there 70 years later still waiting the Grassland were hunter-gatherers for the water that never came. They who appeared about 11,000 years ago. reminded me of movie ghosts who can’t Numerous artifacts from that time formove on to the afterlife because of some ward have been found at the Grassland unfinished business in their previous but most of it remains unexplored as far incarnation. as archeology goes. In the end, the WPA efforts failed Later Native American inhabitants to stem the inevitable. included the Pawnee, Shoshone, Apache, Top: The Pawnee Buttes in the Pawnee National Grassland. 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Top: The Pawnee Buttes, made famous by authors James Michener and Kent Haruf are now under assault by oil and gas operations and wind turbines. Middle: The oil and gas industry is constructing some of the state’s largest industrial production platforms in the Pawnee National Grassland, which is a part of the Arapaho National Forest. Below: Massive drilling operations covering many acres now stretch end to end across the Grassland. Four seperate rigs can be seen in this photo as the drilling operations disapear over the horizon. GRASSLAND from Page 15
The U.S. Forest Service describes what happened next on its website. “Emergency funding was soon provided to resettle some of the families. The first land was purchased by 1934 and the families relocated on land more conducive to farming. Congress passed the ‘Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act’ in 1937, authorizing the Soil Conservation Service to purchase sub-marginal farmland. The same year, the Resettlement Administration was formed in the Department of Agriculture. The stated objectives of the new office were: ‘to relocate families, purchase the more severely damaged lands and exert influence on the use of the neighboring land, and maintain stability and flexibility of the land.’ Finally, in 1938 responsibility was given to the Soil Conservation Service where it remained until 1954, when it was transferred to the United States Forest Service (USFS). During the period of 1934-54, most of the present area [Pawnee National Grassland] was acquired through purchase and in some cases by mutual transfer (swapping).” So that’s how the Grassland, a place once broken into countless pieces by railroads, barbed wire, farmers, ranchers and towns came to be put back together again and allowed to return to its natural prairie state under the authority of the U.S. Forest Service. This story might have had a happy ending if not for one other footnote in the Grassland’s history.
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In 1924, near what is today the ghost town of Keota, drought and a spate of hard winters caused the town’s few remaining citizens to seek out an alternative means of making a living. With seemingly no other option, they pooled the last of their resources and formed the Pioneers Oil and Gas Association.
They drilled a few wells, and while they did find oil, it was too little, too late and the town soon surrendered to the elements. But oil is not the kind of thing people forget. Over the years a few more wells were drilled here and there but nothing to write home about, or more
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importantly, nothing that significantly threatened the Grassland’s ecosystem. By 1986, there were only 21 oil and gas leases in the Pawnee National Grassland held by production. By 2012, that number had increased only slightly and there were just 63 active vertically drilled wells and 19 very small production platforms under the oversight of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the agency that has the final say over the authorization of oil and gas activity on all lands under the U.S. Forest Service umbrella. But times change and so does technology. On its website, as of the writing of this article, the Forest Service still posts the following description of current oil and gas operations on the Grassland under a “frequently asked questions” header: “Most wells consist of a pumping unit (pump jack) and two to four above ground storage tanks along with one or two heater-treaters, possibly a gas sales meter. Wells, along with the access roads, typically occupy about 1.0 to 1.5 acres.” As you can see from the photos accompanying this story, this information is simply wrong, out of date, incredibly misleading and likely intentionally so. The USFS can only get away with providing such false information because so few people visit the Pawnee National Grassland. Everything has changed in the past three years due to the horizontal drilling and fracking of the Niobrara shale formation that underlies nearly the entirety of the Grassland. I hope and believe that if the Forest Service were to accurately and honestly describe the large-scale environmental carnage that is now occurring on these public lands, the outcry of Coloradans who care deeply for their state would be heard all the way to Washington D.C. Allowing the current level of unchecked environmental destruction to occur at the Pawnee National Grassland makes it clear that it is one of those places in the West that people have largely forgotten. Most folks have never been there and frankly wouldn’t know the Grassland even exists if it weren’t for the obligatory photo of the Pawnee Buttes at sunset that always gets included on the border of gas-station road maps to our state or in John Fielder coffee-table books. If you want proof the Grassland has been forgotten, just Google it and read. One website after another offers up the same information, something along the lines of: the Grassland is a hauntingly beautiful and empty landscape home to the deer and the antelope; It is an important world-class birding area offering up a large variety of species Boulder Weekly
from the endangered burrowing owl to mountain plovers, ferrugionous hawks, lark buntings and golden eagles; And migratory birds by the thousands visit each year. Wikipedia still says the Pawnee National Grassland is “especially depopulated.” Which is only true today if you don’t count all the laborers who commute in everyday in support of the oil wells and massive production platforms that spew hundreds of tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the air every year; the countless
rows of bird-killing wind turbines; the multitude of trucks throwing up dust from the endless miles of newly cut gravel roads; or any of the other industrial activity that has fully invaded this once protected landscape. All of the Internet’s bucolic descriptions of the Grassland were once true, and not that long ago. But it’s clear that hardly anyone has been keeping tabs on the area of late. If they had we would find descriptions of how wind turbines now comingle with oil wells on the bluffs above the Pawnee Buttes where
birds of prey used to roost as they watched for inattentive prairie dogs below. We’d be reading how the Grassland is under siege by the oil and gas industry, which is now building the state’s largest well pads and stacking them literally end to end in some places. We’d be seeing photos of the new production platforms that cover many acres each and dwarf similar industrial sites being built elsewhere in the state. The See GRASSLAND Page 18
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Grassland today is what the oil and gas industry and BLM do when they think that nobody is watching. But it appears that people are starting to take notice. On Thursday, Nov. 12, the BLM held an oil and gas lease auction at its offices in Lakewood. Inside the building, the BLM was selling off oil and gas leases covering another 73,388 acres of the Pawnee National Grassland. At the end of the day, the BLM sent out a press release touting its success at having sold off the Grassland’s mineral
rights for $4.2 million. What they didn’t point out was that this figure represents only an average price of a paltry $57 per acre. While I was taking photos in the auction room, one parcel was sold for $2 an acre; two lousy bucks for the right to extract oil and gas from our public lands in a sensitive ecosystem. Not sure I’d be boasting about that if I were them. Sadly, giving away the resources of our public lands has become a longstanding tradition at the BLM. But what made this sale different was what
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news was happening outside. landscapes like a video game: they stimAll along the sidewalk in front of ulate us at every turn without much the BLM building, more than 100 con- effort needed on our part. We find cerned citizens held banners and signs them beautiful so we protect them. But protesting the auction that was happen- when it comes to the plains, we too ing inside. The messages ranged from often act like a 10-year-old whose game “stop fracking” to “keep it in the has run out of battery, whining of boreground,” the latter referencing the scidom as if flat and empty places are the entific community’s consensus that in opposite of beauty and therefore order to prevent and/or reverse the cliunworthy of our concern. We think to mate crisis, we must leave at least 80 ourselves, “If we have to compromise, percent of known hydrocarbon reserves let them ruin that.” in the ground and unused. This discrimination against the One group of protesters sat down plains has come at serious cost. Our blocking the main entrance to the absence from them both physically BLM parking lot, sparking a response and emotionally has allowed the oil from local law and gas industry enforcement to destroy them who, in the end, before we even let them stay put knew they were mainly because threatened. But now we know. oil industry and And now we BLM employees must act were still able to responsibly to use a side protect them. entrance to the We turned a lot and attend blind eye as the auction. Native At one point the auctioneer Americans and insinuated to the the buffalo were bidding oil and Lakewood Police question Russell Mendell wiped from the (green hat) about blocking the BLM parking lot Grassland 130 gas folks inside entrance during the Nov. 12 protest. Mendell that the proteyears ago. We was later hospitalized after being hit by a car while blocking the BLM property exit. tors outside didn’t know were “eco-terenough about rorists.” It turned out to be an ironic the environment to keep the Grassland accusation considering that after the away from the plow until it was too late lease sale was over, according to witto stop the Dust Bowl. But what will be nesses, one of the auctioneers honked at our excuse this time? Don’t we know the protestors trying to get them to better now? move from the exit. When they refused We would never allow this level of to do so, he proceeded anyway, hitting environmental destruction of our public protester Russell Mendell with his car. lands at the hands of any industry if it Mendell was taken to a local hospital were occurring in our mountains or by ambulance. Witnesses said the along our coastline. So why do we so police, who had watched the event easily surrender the important and fragunfold, stopped the auctioneer but then ile eco-system of the Grassland? Perhaps let him leave via the side exit. it’s time for more of us to join those who What all this means is pretty clear. have heard the grass falling and are takThe battle over oil and gas extraction is ing action to protect what’s left by heating up. It isn’t going away because demanding that climate-changing fossil of $20 million worth of “fracking is fuels beneath the Pawnee National good for you” ads on TV, or bought and Grassland be left in the ground. paid for Energy and Environment secAs for me, I’ll continue to make my tions that push for unbridled oil and gas Grassland pilgrimages until the last of extraction in The Denver Post. People it’s gone or saved. Sadly, it will never be are paying attention even to the less the same. It’s already too late for that. popular parts of our state. The Great Plains, and in particular It’s understandable why we flock to the vast expanse of the Grassland, are the grandeur of the mountains or crawl not akin to a video game. They are like all over each other for a spot along a a good book. They require effort. You crystal clear river or near a lake. We have to bring your imagination and plan our vacations around the chance to intellect. You have to invest your time stand on the edge and stare out over a to get the full experience. But when you vast canyon or gorge. When it comes to do, the reward is great and like nothing topography, we are a discriminatory lot. else. Let’s make sure the next generaI think of our nation’s dramatic tion still has something to read. Boulder Weekly
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throughout Boulder County, but the County is currently applying for a grant to increase charging stations by 20 percent. Given that most people charge their electric vehicles at home, which works for people who have garages in single-family homes but not those who live in multi-family housing units such as apartment complexes, the greatest demand for charging stations is in shared parking situations. Workplace charging is also in high-demand, as it extends the range an owner can drive an electric vehicle while encouraging more people to purchase the cars. “There is much higher levels of electric vehicle adoption in workplaces where there is workplace charging,” Toor says. In the long run, Toor says, electric vehicles are key to meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. “You really can’t get there in transportation without vehicle electrification and a very low carbon grid,” he says. “While there are political challenges to getting there, we basically know how we can transform our electrical generating mix towards very high levels of renewable energy. … If we want to get to low carbon transportation, electric vehicles combined with low carbon generation is by far the most plausible way.” And as Solar Benefits Colorado seeks to increase energy efficiency and the use of renewables on the Front Range, Strife is working with other municipalities, organizations and governments across the nation to implement similar programs. The program has drawn interest from communities in Northern Colorado, Utah and even the U.S. Department of Energy. “You know what we do here is just a drop in the bucket in terms of greenhouse gas emission reduction,” Strife says. “But if we can replicate the model across the country and do it at a larger scale, we’re much more successful.” Boulder Weekly
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Where the next turn leads
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Exploring the switchbacks of Nacimiento-Fergusson Road
t was a cold spring morning, a Monday, signaling my first week off work Sean Kendall climbs above the California fog on Nacimiento-Fergusson road (as a veterans-law paralegal in Boulder) in seven months. The steep and unrelenting, not unlike previous day I’d comroad, but not many people…” Flagstaff Road in Boulder. The foggy pleted the eccentric 70-mile Eroica And I interrupted, giddily, “We weather was so dreary we couldn’t see California, with around 6,000 feet of came from Colorado, so we like climbthe coast, but we could see the steady elevation gain meandering Central ing. Where is it?” series of switchbacks ahead, just not any California wine country on a 12-speed The ranger proceeded to describe a sign of them ending. After riding Torelli from the early ’80s. But on this four-and-a-half-mile climb that, she day I had access to a posh Surly said, included about 1,000 feet of eleva- around Paso Robles in the Eroica the day before — sometimes struggling to Trucker Deluxe. The bike’s granny gear tion gain. meant virtually any rides — any climbs “It’s really steep,” she said. “Just tons get my unwieldy old Torelli up sandy, rocky ascents — it was wonderfully — were possible, but my buddy and I of switchbacks leading up to an intercomfortable not only to be on a touring had booked a spot for two nights at section with a great view, but it’ll get Surly with mountain-bike gearing but idyllic Kirk Creek campground, just a you above the fog and…” also enjoy the relative lushness of pavedozen miles south of Big Sur’s heart, Before she had finished, I was ment. Even on the Trucker Deluxe, solely because it was available. already walking away, saying, “Perfect! Nacimiento was far from a cinch to We had no idea what rides were See you later” on the way to sharing grind up, but I fell in love with where near, just that we’d be there for two news about the road, called days and nights of a five-day California Nacimiento-Fergusson, with my travel- the road, and my mind, took me as I climbed into the complete unknown. bike tour and, well, we’d find someing partner. When you know all about an exaltwhere to ride. It was around 11 a.m., and we left ed ride because of its wide reputation, Just seconds after our van pulled our camping gear in the van, got our it’s easy to spend much of the experiinto the cold, fog-covered campground, bikes ready and rushed across heavily ence feeling proud and hip, looking fortrafficked Highway 1 — which, to me, I approached the young ranger in ward to telling friends that your bucket seems nearly suicidal to bike on — to charge to ask, “Where’s the cycling list just shrunk and even taking photos. make a left on Nacimiento. around here?” But during a route you’re just discoverFrom the moment we turned it was She said, “Well, there’s one steep Boulder Weekly
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ing, when you have neither expectations nor an idea of what’s around the next switchback, it’s hard to feel anything but curiosity, excitement, anxiety and — in the best of situations — wonder. With no office to get back to and really no destination, climbing Nacimiento-Fergusson Road gave me the feeling of wonder from the start, especially because it was impossible to really see the Pacific coast — where we’d begun — or know where we were going. Around the four-and-a-half-mile marker we ascended out of the fog and were covered in warm California sun, looking down on a heavenly abyss with, thankfully, close to zero motorists around. The view was otherworldly, dreamlike. Simultaneously, however, we were looking up at more climbing, as the ranger had underestimated the distance, which was actually about seven miles with 2,500 feet of elevation gain. When we reached the intersection, see NACIMIENTO Page 26
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there was a hiking-only trail to the left, a or spend the day at the campground forest descent straight ahead and an unas- with my nose in a book. suming dirt road to the right. Having an I sucked it up and did the climb entire day to kill, we took the dirt road to again. Slowly. Sometimes painfully. And find out where it led. Loose rocks made had a great time. the gentle hills a little annoying, but they The forest descent at the top of eventually led to a screaming, fun-filled Nacimiento is a 21-mile, mostly piecedescent on paveof-cake plunge to Adam Perry ment and then the isolated town more dirt roads that of Jolon. The setled to private land. ting for We turned Steinbeck’s 1933 around, climbed novel, To a God back to the interUnknown. Jolon section, and careoffered us just an fully returned to army base (Ft. the foggy campHunter Liggett), ground to explore an unforgettable the jagged coast, mission built in set up camp for the the 1770s and a night and drink convenience store beer. After some that doubles as a online research, it greasy spoon with The ride up Nacimiento-Fergusson Road turned out we had is seven miles with around 2,500 feet of surprisingly good climbed 4,400 feet elevation gain. beer on draft. in just 13 of our Getting back day’s seemingly miniscule 25 miles. to camp as early evening approached, The next morning, with the fog it also turned out that Nacimientocleared and another night booked at the Fergusson is, according to BestRides. org, “the best ride in California and campground, it seemed we had no Oregon.” I’ve only hiked in Oregon, choice but to climb Nacimiento again, and only biked select parts of Central taking in the exquisite coastal view “for reals” this time and then heading down- and Northern California, so I can’t agree or disagree, but it was certainly hill after the intersection at the top. an equally challenging and gorgeous The only problem was that my ridride. ing partner, on a custom-made Soma It’s amazing what a cyclist can find touring bike, had “cannibalized” his when he or she is not looking for anywife’s Trucker Deluxe to fix his front thing but where the next turn leads, and brakes, which were missing parts that’d amazing what rides you can discover fallen off, presumably on the bumpy when the only goal is riding, rather dirt road the day before. I’d have to than crossing a famous ride off your tackle Nacimiento on my 12-speed bucket list. Torelli, with no substantially low gears, Boulder Weekly
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ON THE BILL: FAITH — presented by LOCAL Theater Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Dec. 3.
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A disheartened harbinger in the LOCAL Theater Company worldpremiere of FAITH by James McLindon.
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the midst of the violence, suffering and fear unleashed in the last week, we seek someone to blame for creating global terror. The face of AbdelHamid Abu Oud flashes on screens across the country — the alleged mastermind of the Paris attacks that killed at least 129 people. He is 27 years old, a young man smiling broadly in one picture, proudly holding the Koran in the next. Seeing his face and confronting the anger and blame is to see a young man, driven by an extreme belief, who turned almost inexplicably malevolent. Unfortunately, our society is accustomed to terrorism and to living with the fear of violent extremism. And we are quick to see and react to the fanaticism in others, but there is a hesitancy to see it at home or to recognize the humanity in the faces of distant jihadists and other radicals. Boulder Weekly
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FAITH, a new play by James McLindon making its world premiere in Boulder this week, challenges these stereotypes by bringing fanaticism closer to home, setting the play in the United States and planting the seed of extremism in an ordinary American teenager. McLindon hopes that audiences are able to relate to the fanaticism in his play, to use the production as an opportunity to recognize it within themselves. Although McLindon says that what happened in Beirut and Paris hasn’t changed the production in any way, he fears it will change the way FAITH is received by audiences. “One concern that I have is that Americans will be even more likely to see fanaticism in others, but less likely to see it at home, even through there are many examples,” McLindon says. “The assassination of a doctor performing abortions in Buffalo by
a Christian with a sniper’s rifle; an attack on a black church in South Carolina by a racist; the people massacred in a Jewish community center in Kansas City by an anti-Semite. It happens in this country a lot, and I think the scale has been smaller often, although not in Oklahoma City. But I think people have a tendency to think that it is something that happens over there and that is occasionally brought home to the United States, like 9/11, from overseas. But we have our home grown fanatics that we need to be aware of.” The fanatic in FAITH is 13-year-old Simon, a puberty-wrought boy who desperately wants to be a prophet for God. In search of such a biblical experience, Simon seeks out a desert, the Bible’s most popular setting for exaltation, and in short supply in see FAITH Page 30
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upstate New York. Instead, Simon makes his way to a Wal-Mart parking lot, which provides, to his imagination at least, the closest approximation — a vast, swept and barren place. Here, he kneels in prayer to God, who presents a harbinger to the devotee. FAITH is a re-imagination of the stigmas of religious fanaticism. McLindon invites his audiences to relate to motivation in the extreme by connecting unreasoning enthusiasm to vocation. Although the word is most often used to mean career, vocation more accurately means a divine call to undertake a certain kind of work, according to its Latin roots. “I think lots of people are taught about the idea of vocation, the idea that God is calling you to the clergy in one fashion or another,” McLindon says. “It is a very serious thing. If you are born with a vocation and you do not accept it, you will not be happy in life, so kind of high stakes. … That basic impulse to sort out what God intends for you is very common with teenagers and I imagine, with anyone really.” Boulder is famous for its greatness: among the smartest, most athletic and happiest cities in the country, and we ought to pause to recognize the fanaticism that makes that all possible. That success requires attunement to vocation, a commitment to cultivating a special purpose in life. Although at first the religiosity of the play seems an odd coupling for the secular community, Pesha Rudnick, the play’s director and co-founder of LOCAL Theater Company producing the play, says the company selected FAITH specifically because of Boulder’s agnostic laurels, hoping the play would spur audiences to re-imagine their own experiences with non-religious martyrdom. “We chose this play because it is a show that really tackles religion and fanaticism,” Rudnick says. “This is a community that is filled with fanatics, maybe not religious, but entrepreneurs or sports fanatics or food fanatics. We are a really interesting community of extremists. I was intrigued by the psyche of man’s search for meaning in a secular community and how that will land. … I think it is really interesting for parents and for non-religious people to talk about religiosity. It is a conversation about [judging] fanatics versus embracing the fanatics of our own lives.” This multiplicity of fanaticism is poetically resolved in the relationship between Simon and the actor who plays him, Em Grosland. Grosland is a transgender actor who uses the pronouns 30 November 19, 2015
buzz they, them and their. Although we all fall somewhere different on the gender spectrum, very few of us would be asked to explain our positioning in a professional interview. But, Grosland insists, bringing it up even, because for them it’s not an optional part of the story. Both Grosland and Simon made a choice to pursue their calling, although in very different ways, and both risked being outcast in doing so. “It’s weird, because it is absolutely both, as fanaticism is as well I suppose,” Grosland says with a laugh. “I often find it very isolating because there is sort of like a club mentality in gender and in theater. ... Often times people are shut down to me because of that. They don’t know what to do with that, they don’t know where to put me. There are actually audition calls that are separated by gender. I feel a little but like I can’t go to either, and that is very, very isolating. “But it has, first of all, been worth it because I am actually being me, and it’s really nice,” Grosland continues. “I perform better because I am being honest, and I am more in touch with who I am. … But also because it builds community, because I am open about it. People talk to me about it a lot, and we are all encouraged.” It seems to come easily to Grosland, to subsume their own experiences to a framework of fanaticism, a part of the idea that all greatness stems from an extreme and committed passion. But in the wake of recent events, there must be some obvious and necessary distinction between what drives an act of terror and an act of art. In talking to McLindon a few days after the Paris attacks and a few days before the opening production, I ask how one can tell the difference. McLindon laughs and then thinks for a minute before saying, “I don’t know. I don’t have an answer for you. The research indicates that it is a really fine line, and why some people cross it and some people don’t — I don’t know. It’s not a question I could answer in a play, or at least I don’t. But that’s the question, and I wish I had an answer.” In the face of tragedy, of global mourning and global fear, there is a tendency to be reactionary and to fight violence with violence. FAITH offers an alternative — an opportunity to be entertained by a consideration of the difference between terror and love, destruction and creation. Leave it to art to ask the unanswerable questions, to bring up the connection between the extremism that leads to greatness and that which leads to something a bit darker. Boulder Weekly
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ON THE BILL: The Tales of Hoffmann. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-4928662. Tickets are $7 for students and seniors, $8 for general admission, internationalfilmseries.com.
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Academy Archive,” Bodde says. “Mike Pogorzelski [the head of the Academy Archive] has a team of archivists, 10 or 20 archivists, that work on all the different projects that they take on.” The Film Foundation also worked with Warner Brothers Motion Picture Imaging and various companies capable of handling the picture and sound elements needed for the restoration. “You have be careful to make sure you know you are doing the right thing,” Schoonmaker explains. “Michael wanted, and Hein Heckroth particularly wanted, to have each act have its own color palette — and so the yellow in the first act, and the red in Venice, and then Aegean blue in the third act. It was very important for us to try and really make sure we got that right.” Hoffmann is a movie drunk with color. The yellows, reds and blues pour off the screen in a way that no other director, living or dead, has managed to match. “It was hard. It was really hard,” Schoonmaker continues. “But with a combination of different levels of contrast, and all kinds of things, we finally got it right.” “That’s truly what a restoration on the level of something like Tales of Hoffmann is,” Bodde explains. “Just going back and restoring a film to the original intent of the director.” Thanks to their hard work, The Tales of Hoffmann has been reinstated to its proper glory. Nearly seven minutes of lost footage has been recovered and added, allowing audiences in 2015 a more complete picture of Powell and Pressburger’s vision than those who saw it in 1951. Living proof of Faulkner’s infamous line from Requiem for a Nun: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” “There is so much humanity in the Powell and Pressburger films,” Schoonmaker says. “You never know what’s going to happen, and their films are filmed with that. Of course, that’s why they last. Because films that are clichéd and sentimental, they don’t last. But these do!”
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14-minute ballet sequence in The Red Shoes. Hoffmann ilmmaking is an act of optimism. Setting ended up being their first, and only, fully composed ideas to paper, convincing others to come feature film. and join the party, devoting time, money, With Hein Heckroth in charge of designs, Sir blood, sweat and tears to capture those Thomas Beecham conducting the Royal Philharmonic images on celluloid, believing those images Orchestra and performances from the magnificent can carry meaning throughout the world and, hopeRobert Helpmann, Ludmilla Tchérina, Léonide fully, that those images will last — that they will outMassine and Moira Shearer, Hoffman is pure invenlive you — doesn’t just require faith, it requires a tion. The Archers’ acolyte downright bullish attitude. Courtesy of Martin Scorsese’s personal collection George Romero calls Hoffmann Thankfully, Michael Powell had “the first music video” while both in spades. Just check his Scorsese states, “the whole film gravestone. “It says, ‘Michael Powell: film dances.” director and optimist,’” says “It’s stunning,” Schoonmaker Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell, says. “As we were going through the late director’s widow and [the movie] over and over and Academy Award-winning editor over again every day, we would of Raging Bull, The Aviator and discover another little beautiful The Departed, and at least a detail and reveal in it. It was dozen masterworks with director really a labor of love, a fantastic Martin Scorsese. labor of love.” Schoonmaker has taken up The Archers shot their song the call and is making sure her of love on three-strip late husband’s films are not just Technicolor stock, which propreserved, but restored to their duces glorious and vibrant imagproper glory. It is glory that will From left to right: Martin Scorsese, Michael es, but it is sadly fragile. To Thelma Schoonmaker. Scorsese, be on display at the International Powell, make sure Hoffmann lasts, an ardent devotee of The Archers, is reFilm Series on Friday, Nov. 20 sponsible for bringing recognition back to Schoonmaker and The Film the life and work of Powell. when the 1951 cinematic masFoundation worked diligently to terpiece The Tales of Hoffmann recover the original print, digireturns to the big screen. tize it and restore it for future generations of movie“To see it come back is just one of the great goers. thrills,” Schoonmaker says. “A lot of times, studios don’t have an economic The Tales of Hoffmann — adapted from Jacques incentive for restoring and preserving a film. It might Offenbach’s opéra fantastique, Les contes d’Hoffmann just stay in a vault and not be seen by audiences,” says — was written, produced and directed by The Margaret Bodde, executive director at The Film Archers, or Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Foundation. “It’s important to get those films out and Their partnership is one of cinema’s high-water make them available for audiences.” marks, and Hoffmann captures them at their most Bodde works closely with studio archives and presaudacious. Powell had long wanted to perfect his idea ervation facilities to wrangle the multitude of techniof a “composed film” — a marriage of image and cians and historians it takes to restore a work to its music that the two filmmakers had experimented with original form. For Hoffmann, it was roughly three years. to great effect in the finale of Black Narcissus and the “Tales of Hoffman was done in partnership with the
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Pro Musica Colorado looks ahead and back
Opening program may be pianist Larry Graham’s farewell orchestra concert — or not by Peter Alexander
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he Pro Musica Colorado will look both forward and back in their 2015–16 season, which music director Cynthia Katsarelis and the orchestra call “Remembrance.” The season will open Friday and Saturday (Nov. 21-22) with the world premiere of a new work by CU composition competition winner Kurt Mehlenbacher — looking ahead — and end (April 8-9) with Mozart’s Requiem — a work that compels us to look back. In between will be a concert of music by J.S. Bach and Dmitri Shostakovich ( Jan. 22-23) that will be part of a two-year festival of all of Shostakovich’s chamber music. This will be the program most closely tied to the theme of remembrance, since Pro Musica will play the string orchestra version of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8, dedicated to “the victims of fascism and war.” The opening concert features Larry Graham, a revered former CU piano professor, playing Mozart’s C-minor Piano Concert, K491. The concert will open with Mehlenbacher’s Flying Crooked for chamber orchestra, commissioned by an endowment established by the late Thurston E. Manning, and also include Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504, known as the “Prague” Symphony. Katsarelis says she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to present the Mozart concerto with Graham. “Larry is a Colorado legend, and every performance with Larry is memorable,” she says. “He says this is going to be his last performance with orchestra. “We’ll see, because he said that the last time.” Graham admits that “maybe” this will be his last concert with orchestra. He still enjoys teaching, and recording and playing privately, but doesn’t like facing the nerves of a concerto performance. “You never know what could happen,” he says. But asked to confirm that this would be his last concerto appearance, he hesitates. “Well, I think people should come
and hear him just in case he means it this time!” Katsarelis comments. Remarkably, Graham has never performed the C-minor concerto, one of Mozart’s greatest, with orchestra. He learned it as a student, and once gave a student performance with piano accompaniment, but never played it with orchestra. Courtesy of Larry Graham
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“This concerto is really amazing, among the most dramatic concertos of all,” Katsarelis says. “(Mozart) spins out these long lines that emotionally long for resolution, and you really have to wait for them. It’s really poignant, and it really pulls on the heartstrings.” Katsarelis and Graham both point out that the concerto is one of only two that Mozart wrote in a minor key. This gives it an unusually dark and intense quality. Another special characteristic is that it has the largest orchestra of any of Mozart’s concertos. The large orchestra seems to go hand-in-hand with a large-scale sense of form. “It’s almost symphonic in construction, which makes for a pretty intensive journey from the home key through a
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wide range of key areas,” Katsarelis says. “The narrative develops through all of these keys that finally have to be resolved, and the tension of it and the drama of it are almost overwhelming.” In spite of the title, Mehlenbacher insists that Flying Crooked is not in any way descriptive. In a program note he writes, “this work does not ... draw influence from any known extra-musical influences.” Katsarelis says, “I think this will be a piece that people will really enjoy. It’s colorful and playful. It’s got a rhythmic drive, but it’s driven by pizzicato strings, so it’s not hammered. It’s got charm to it.” Mozart’s Symphony No. 38 was written in 1786, while the composer was in Prague for the local premiere of The Marriage of Figaro. Mozart was especially loved in Prague, so it is assumed that the symphony was written specifically for the audiences there. That idea is supported by Mozart’s extensive use of wind instruments. “There’s almost wind-band type playing — elegant wind-band playing,” Katsarelis says. “That’s probably (Mozart) speaking to Prague, because Prague was famous for excellent wind players.” There are a couple of other unique features of the symphony. Unlike most of Mozart’s late symphonies, it is in three movements, omitting the usual minuet. That does not conform to the Romantic four-movement model of the symphony, but “I don’t find the piece lacking at all,” Katsarelis says. “Some people have suggested that omitting the minuet movement actually strengthens the dramatic argument of the other movements.” The other quality Katsarelis would like audiences to notice is the use of counterpoint, which derived partly from Mozart’s intensive study of Bach in his later years. “He’ll spin out one beautiful theme after another, as you expect from Mozart,” she says. “But what’s intriguing is that he combines them contrapuntally. “The layering of these themes is overwhelmingly beautiful.” Boulder Weekly
overtones Keeping it real
Allen Stone breaks down the music industry, soul music and staying true to creative impulses by Grant Stringer
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n the music industry, where major record labels conthen they really are the same thing,” he says. stantly turn out new pop hits reminiscent of something Stone also believes that despite our natural categorization we heard the week before, great music doesn’t always of artists into genres and a classic set of sounds, the way make successful music. In this restrictive environment, audiences typically view soul music is limiting. Instead, Stone musicians often have to balance commercial aspirations offers a new vision of the genre that is more inclusive and with sincere desires to make original music — which is simpler than one might expect. something that renowned soul singer Allen Stone isn’t strug“That to me is the sneaky part of it, where people will gling with. classify music in a specific genre. It’s not a sound, it’s a feelFor a musician who values ing — it’s an emotion,” Stone Courtesy of Red Light Management honesty and authenticity as says. “Soul music is very honmuch as Stone, that conflict est. I believe that, like, James between commercializing forcTaylor was soul music. es and individual expression Nirvana was soul music. I makes straddling the line hear soul in all types of music, between the genres of soul and even though it is without pop a balancing act. question classified as a specific “The music industry is like, genre.” ‘Well, this one thing is workWith an open mind, Stone ing, so let’s all copy this whole offers a vision of the future in thing. You wanna be on the which soul transcends a speradio? You gotta do a song like cific sound while staying true this.’ It was just like, ‘You gotta to its roots of human expressound like this, and you gotta sion. On the other side of the look this,’ and I was just like, coin, Stone laments the lack of nah, that’s so lame.” truthful emotion in contemThe 28-year-old singer will porary soul music itself. stop by Fox Theatre on Nov. “There’s a lot of classified 25 while on tour across the soul music goin’ nation in promotion for his on right now ON THE BILL: Allen Stone. third album Radius, which has where, to me, Doors at 7:30 p.m., show at 8 enjoyed critical acclaim since there’s no soul,” p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, its release last May. he says. “It’s just 720-645-2467. Tickets are $15 in Stone describes himself as a a reincarnation advance, $17 at the door. +$2 “hippie with soul” from the of something each for under 21. “backwoods” of Washington that other people state. For Stone, this tour is an have already opportunity to connect with done.” people all over the country That’s one of the reasons through the shared experience of why Stone tries to avoid music, an attitude that goes back defining himself as a soul artto his hometown roots. Like ist. many of his idols, Stone got his For Allen Stone, soul music defies genre — it encapsulates a “I think you either have more than a sound. See Stone get soulful at the Fox on start singing in church, where he feeling [soul] or you don’t,” he says. “I Nov. 25. learned early on how powerful hope I have it. I would never the experience of music can be say that [I play soul music]. I — a conviction on which his musical ethos is founded to this day. tell people I play funk and R&B. I don’t think you can classi“I grew up in the church, and the thing that was really fy yourself as that. It’s an emotion you can’t attempt to capspecial to me was the community aspect of it,” he says. “The ture — it’s either there or it’s not, I think.” emotion of that is so powerful.” Stone isn’t concerned about where his music will take him Searching outside of the church for music that channeled and his audiences. He’s in it for the long run: to make timethe power of gospel music, Stone discovered a love of Stevie less music that connects on an intimate level with future genWonder and Donny Hathaway records, and began to find his erations — to keep it real and make great, honest music. own voice as a singer. The transition from gospel to Stevie “Money, for me, does not apply in a facet of the music was an easy one, he believes, in part because of the intimate that you make and whether or not it’s actually going to have connection between soul and Southern gospel music that an impact on the generations to come,” he says. “And that’s gave rise to the former. what I make music for. I do music because I want to make “Pop/soul music really comes out of the church. To me something that’s immortal — something that will make genthe reason why church music spawns soul music is because erations talk for years to come. That’s the goal: to write music it’s the same thing. If it’s good, like Southern Baptist stylings, that is almost [prophetic], that sticks around.” Boulder Weekly
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(From left) Diane Linstrom, Erin Otenberger, Brian Otenberger and Jane Otenberger do their best air guitar; Heather Lucero and BW Production Manager Dave Kirby; JoPat Ozambela and Mrs. Boulder Weekly, Mari Nevar; BW editorial staff Angela K. Evans, Amanda Moutinho, Matt Cortina, Caitlin Rockett, Joel Dyer; Marcelo Fernandez poses with BW Market Development Manager Kellie Robinson; BW Publisher Stewart Sallo rocking out with Hindsight
(From left) Magical emcee Erica Sodos takes the stage; Guests dance up a storm to the classic rock sounds of Hindsight; Full Circle Yoga pulling some killer poses and accepting their award with BW Publisher Stewart Sallo
(From left) Owners of the Dickens Opera House Sean and Lynn Owens showcasing one of their awards; The ladies of Fabulous Finds receive their award for best used clothing in Longmont; Dawn Beck and Gerard Gatz dance the night away; Bin No. 46 owner Candy Campbell and bartender Matt Krebs provide tastes from a selection of their wines; Jordan Wardell and Mia Sallo celebrate Best of Boulder East County
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Thursday, November 19 Music Beatspeak. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bluegrass Jam. 6 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Ave., Suite 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Celtic Session. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Colin Kelly. 6 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-9938131.
The Schiff Dance Collective Winter Showcase 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.
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David and Enion Petla Tiller of Taarka. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. David Booker. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344. Open Jam: Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Pete Seeger. 7:15 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. see EVENTS Page 40
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Paper Bird
7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
For the first time in more than 40 years, Magic Music will reunite to play the Boulder Theater stage. Ahead of its time, this local band didn’t hit it big, but the jam bands of today play the same vein of music that Magic Music played all those years ago. Along with the show, CU alum Lee Aronsohn (co-creator of Two and Half Men and producer of The Big Bang Theory) will be there to film for his upcoming documentary about the band and the Boulder music scene. Best of all enjoy 1972 ticket prices — $9 a pop — with proceeds going to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Paper Bird has been a Colorado staple since their 2007 formation in Denver. The band plays a mixture of indie folk, soul rock with guitar, bass, banjo, trumpet, keys and drums. Each member in the band writes lyrics, making their songs thoughtful and relatable to a wide audience. They’ve garnered national attention for their soulful sounds, which have been described as “vintage” and “timeless.” Their mellow vibes, yet powerful stage presence, make for a show filled with great music that will be unforgettable. Courtesy of the Fox Theatre
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Peter Garland. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Purple Squirrel. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Richard Thompson Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Roosevelt Collier’s Colorado Getdown. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Selby Clyman Duo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. A Shadow of Jaguar, Boulder Sound Lab. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
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Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29.
Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 31. Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Jan. 10.
Donald Fodness: #food$pool. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122. Through Nov. 29.
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Firehouse Artisan Market. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Nov. 29.
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Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through Dec. 20.
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Operation Christmas Child. 3 p.m. Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-442-3484.
Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.
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CodeCraft School Open House. 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647.
PlantPure Nation. 7:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Story Club in Motion: Where the Wild Things Are. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Friday, November 20 Music
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Adam Brooks Dudding. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Ain’t No Folkin Around with Paul Sullivan. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Arthur Lee Land. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Augustus. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Aulternate Reality Jazz Quartet. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Ben Hanna with Whiskey Autumn and Hunter Stone. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Big Something. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Champions. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Danny Bastos Collective. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Dave Grimsland. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Dechen Hawk & Colin Robinson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Ego Likeness. 9 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Flynn & Co. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Friday Afternoon Club. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303339-0767. Friday Afternoon Concert & Art Show — Colorado Chamber Players. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
John Birchak displays his photos from Tibet in the latest exhibit at the Paramita Naropa Gallery.
Holiday Art Market. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Dec. 31. Pastel Paintings by Xenia J. Sease. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 28. Photo Exhibition by John Birchak. Paramita Naropa Gallery, 3285 30th St., Boulder, 928-9782799. Through Dec. 12.
Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.
Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967-1980. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 17. Susan Wick: Wild Women Never Get the Blues. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 3. Uncommon Clay: Functional to Fantastic. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-6787869. Through Dec. 23 Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 7.
Hot Soup. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Intuit Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Jacob Green. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. James Ciago. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-8739185. Jerry Granelli Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Johnny O. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.
Boulder Bookies Book Discussion Group. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. The Boulder Filmmaking Incubator. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647. Deathgasm. 7:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Featured Artists’ Reception. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Jordan and Natalie Thompson. 8 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
Mountain MidLife Social Dinner. 5 p.m. Nederland Community Center, 750 Colorado 72, Nederland, 303258-9721.
The Magic Beans. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Operation Christmas Child. 3 p.m. Calvary Bible Church, 3245 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-442-3484.
Martian Acres. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
PlantPure Nation. 7:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Paul Kimbiris & The Dark Side of Pearl. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Transgender Day of Remembrance Vigil and Rally. 6:45 p.m. Old Courthouse, Pearl and 13th, Boulder, 303-499-5777.
Polytoxic, The Denver Horns. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
WordPress One-On-One Consulting. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. The Return of the Wolves Tour. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Samsara. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-5300642. Slidin’ Delta. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Saturday, November 21 Music Adam Brooks Dudding. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. see EVENTS Page 42
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Aqueous. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177. Cousin Curtiss. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Dustin Devine and the Real Deal. 8 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Flynn & Co. Band. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Funkiphino. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Holly and the Husbands. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill — Southside Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-5437339. I & The Many. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. III. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Joe Cool Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Josh Max. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Michael McPherson. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Mozart with Larry Graham. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4423770. Multiple Piano Festival. 7 p.m. Vance Brand Auditorium at Skyline High School, Longmont, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 720-494-3741. Niya, Patchy Sanders. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Thursday, Nov. 19 One Day to Volunteer with Trans* Youth Channel. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303. Stuart Schaar — Eqbal Ahmad. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Friday, Nov. 20 Open Poetry Reading Hosted by Innisfree. 6 p.m. The Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Monday, Nov. 23 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, Nov. 24 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Hands-On Digital Photography Introduction. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
On Nov. 20 Innisfree goes on the road with a poetry reading at The Mercantile in Jamestown, hosted by poet and publisher Joseph Braun.
Oak Steel and Lightening. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Porch Song. 4:30 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.
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Theeb. 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Peter Traxler Band. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303339-0767.
Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.
WOW!’s 19th Birthday Party. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Wylie “Crazy Horse” Jones. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258.
Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.
Sunday, November 22
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Rachel and the Ruckus. 9:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.
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The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
RADIATE Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Taken. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Taylor Scott Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Thomas Gronberg. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Thunk! 10 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Bluegrass Pick with Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Brandon Hagen, Chris Berry & Bright Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Britannia. 7:30 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-6530. Chris McGarry and The Insomniacs. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. David Collie. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.
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Foxfeather. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Willy Bean Bluegrass. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
The Jake and KC Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Magic Music Reunion and Filming. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Quantum Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Sundays at Vic’s. 12 p.m. Vic’s Espresso & News, 2680 Broadway, Boulder, 303-440-8209.
Nurturing Your Connection to Yourself and Others. 12 p.m. Bodywork Bistro Living Arts Center, 3825 Iris Ave., Suite 300, Boulder, 303-413-1992.
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Monday, November 23 Music The Alcapones. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Augustus. 9:30 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Blues Jam with Boa and The Constrictors. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Events Cinema Program Free Screening Robert Schaller Program. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Geography of Imagination. 9 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. see EVENTS Page 44
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If reading through Shakespeare’s entire repertoire seems daunting, stop by Longmont Theatre Company’s production of The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised].
Lion King. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 29.
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The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through Nov. 22.
Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21. EVENTS from Page 42
Longmont Area Intercessors. 6 p.m. The Upper Room, 463 Main St., Sute 200, Longmont, 720-2901634.
Open Code for Youth with Coder Dojo. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.
Where the Wild Things Are Shadow Puppet Show. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Particulars Holiday Craft Faire. 12 p.m. pARTiculars Art Gallery and Teaching Studio, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 720-890-7888.
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Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Alex Heffron Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Louisville Singing Seniors. 10 a.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0898.
Allen Stone with Bernhoft. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Matt Michaud Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Ash Ganely. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Open Jam. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Open Mic. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Jackson Cloud. 9 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Miles Wide. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.
Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303339-0767.
Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Open Mic Night with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Racket in the Roost. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. The Slants and The Goonies with Eldren. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Weld County Ramblers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Events A Ballerina’s Tale. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Creative Writing Class. 6:15 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Mr. Holmes. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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No One Cares String Band. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Eric Wiggs. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Vince Herman and Friends. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Events A Ballerina’s Tale. 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Mr. Holmes. 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Rotary Club of Longmont St. Vrain. 7 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-7762704.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 551 by Patrick Phillips
In our 10 years of publishing this column I don’t believe we’ve ever printed a poem about lullabies, the first poetry each of us is to hear. Now is the time. Patrick Phillips lives in Brooklyn. Here’s a poem from Elegy for a Broken Machine published by Alfred A. Knopf. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Laureate
The Singing I can hear her through the thin wall, singing, up before the sun: two notes, a kind of hushed half-breathing, each time the baby makes that little moan — can hear her trying not to sing, then singing anyway, a thing so old it might as well be Hittite or Minoan,
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and so soft no one would ever guess that I myself once sang that very song: back when my son and then his brother used to cry all night or half the morning, though nothing in all the world was wrong. And now how strange: to be the man from next door, listening, as the baby cries then quiets, cries and quiets each time she sings their secret song, that would sound the same ten thousand years ago, and has no meaning but to calm. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Patrick Phillips, “The Singing,” from Elegy for a Broken Machine, (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Patrick Phillips and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. Send poetry submissions of 250 words or fewer to poetry@boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly
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inding a place at the Boulder breakfast table is often troublesome. Though it’s not necessarily a Boulder-specific problem — the truth is that, proportionately, there aren’t a lot of breakfast joints, and people like eating breakfast out. It’s cheap, it’s delicious and it’s just to easier to order a fried egg than to make one. So it was with open arms that we welcomed Doug’s Day Diner in Boulder. Just by its existence, the diner is likely to disperse crowds from the greater Boulder County breakfast scene, while also adding its own new spin on breakfast and lunch. Doug’s is tucked away in the corner of a strip mall at Arapahoe and Folsom. Inside, it has a small seating area in front of the kitchen, and then a larger, wrap-around dining room on the side. There are a couple of TVs displaying muted news or sports, and on the radio overhead is top-40 country music. The tables and chairs are modest and wooden. The service is exceptionally friendly, accommodating and quick. It’s a nice place to spend an early morning; unpretentious and comfortable. The menu doesn’t quite go full-diner. That is, it doesn’t span a dozen pages, but instead concentrates kitchen offerings to a few categories: huevos rancheros, papas, “Doug’s Grub” or American breakfast platters, burritos and omelets. There is clearly a bent toward Mexican fare, and there’s a message from Doug at the top of the menu proclaiming that just about everything is house-made, and so that’s a nice touch. On the flip side of the menu are burgers, sand-
slightly spicy but flavorful. The adovado 2400 Arapahoe chunks weren’t as tenAve., Boulder, der as one would 303- 449-5733. hope, but the flavor was spot on. Make no mistake, this was a heavy breakfast, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. The portions on the papas and the huevos rancheros were gigantic, and if you perhaps drank too much the night before, or your plans for the day include serious napping, then you can eat the whole dish. The huevos rancheros come with a choice of green or red chili, and are structured as is typical with tortillas, black beans, eggs and those giant strips of the potato from the papas plate. It’s a satisfying, huge and sloppy rendition of the classic breakfast dish. The vegetable soup was some variation of minestrone, with a consortium of leftover pastas, and a mix of base vegetables like carrots, peas, tomatoes and corn. It’s warm and satisfying, though mostly unremarkable. The fiesta salad was loaded with southwest ingredients like corn, black beans, tortilla strips, bell peppers, almonds, cucumbers and guacamole. You can also throw some cheese and meat on there if you want, but the core of the salad is solid enough. All the ingredients were fresh and flavorful, and the balsamic vinaigrette accompanying it was tangy and amplified the veggies in the salad. Doug’s Day Diner was always set up to succeed based on the crushing demand for breakfast joints in Boulder County. But with friendly service, a cozy atmosphere, low prices and stomachbloating breakfast plates, they probably didn’t need the help. Doug’s Day Diner
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Richardo’s Decaf Coffee Liqueur (which is delicious) was awarded the Double Gold Medal at the Still on the Hill Breckenridge Craft Spirits Festival on the weekend of Oct. 23-25. Richardo’s is a craft spirit made in Lyons with decaffeinated coffee, vanilla and neutral grain spirits. “We’re very honored our Decaf Coffee Liqueur is receiving such a great response around Colorado,” said Rick England, founder of Richardo’s and partner at Spirit Hound Distillers, in a press release. “Our liqueur is made with the utmost care by folks who know how to distill spirits. We’re really happy people are enjoying Richardo’s by itself, in a variety of cocktails and even using it as their ‘secret ingredient’ in candies and baked goods.” Richardo’s is made through a process of blending neutral grain spirits with Richardo’s signature blend and then aging the liqueur for 30 days. England has been making batches since 1986, but teamed with Spirit Hound in 2012 to sell it commercially. Since, Richardo’s has been
WINTER DRINKING PASSPORT The folks who made The Passport Program a hit these past few summers are releasing the second annual Winter Warmer, a book of 2-for-1 drink specials at top restaurants and bars in Boulder (and Fort Collins and Denver). “We find that a lot of people don’t explore as many bars and restaurants in the winter,” said Casey Berry, co-founder of The Passport Program, in a press release. “It is kind of hard to do a bike crawl in the middle of winter, so we challenged ourselves to find the coziest bars in town and give our followers a fun and easy way to imbibe during the colder months.” The booklet is available for purchase online starting on Dec. 8 for $20, and it’s valid for use between Jan. 1 and March 1. There are limited supplies so go to thepassportprogram.com/winterwarmer now if you want one.
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he story of American Indian food is as complex as the story of the American Indian people. It’s a story we’re not told often. And the hard truth might be that it’s a story that most Americans have been afraid or haven’t thought or wanted to ask. But that dissociation might end soon. Ben Jacobs is co-owner of Tocabe, a restaurant in Denver that is one of the only commercial establishments to serve American Indian food in the country. Jacobs is a member of the Osage Nation, a tribe with roots in Oklahama, Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. He sees Tocabe as a way to reintroduce the story of American Indians through interesting and new food. “We have a goal of trying to make American Indian cuisine have a voice in the larger culinary world,” says Jacobs. “From Korean to Ethiopian, you name it, you can find it, but you can’t find American Indian food many places. We want to help build that story of what American Indian food is on a larger scale.” It is difficult for the casual diner to define what American Indian food is. There is a lack of education about, and presence of, the cuisine in American culture, and tribes from across the country have access to different native
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Native foods like Indian corn are a staple of American Indian cuisine. There is a small effort in Colorado to tell the story of that cuisine to the masses.
foods and thus have different cuisines. The solution, Jacobs says, is to slowly add chapters to the story, taking firsthand recipes from tribes he and coowner Matt Chandra visit, and relaying that to their customers. “The way to try to help build this voice is bring these foods together and tell the story, and tell the story of different tribes within one dish, or in one concept,” he says. Much of Tocabe’s menu is derived from recipes from Jacobs’ grandmother, and the recipes of Jacobs’ parents who
briefly owned an American Indian restaurant in the early ’80s. Jacobs says Tocabe has been slowly introducing more adventurous items on the menu to ease diners into American Indian cuisine. But the foods Tocabe is easing people into aren’t necessarily exotic or distasteful. In fact, it’s quite the opposite — the foods are native. Native is relative to the region of course, but Katrina Mora, an assistant at the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, says there are four main food groups that most tribes consider staples:
berries, meat, corn and water. “There’s a lot of native foods [in Colorado], because this is the backbone of our mother,” says Mora, pointing to the Flatirons and referring to the Rockies. “This goes all the way up to the Lakota, all the way down to the Apache.” Mora, a member of the Lakota tribe, says there are numerous ways in which preparations of native foods are still performed today. Take buffalo, for instance, where what used to be a multi-day process of dry curing muscle in the sun without salt has now been modernized by the advent of dehydrators. Mora says now, “very few people dry it in the old way.” A common Lakota recipe also native to Colorado is a chokecherry mash, Mora says. Chokecherries are ground with their pits to form a paste, and then it is dried in the sun. Mora says there’s something in the pit that preserves the mash, but the pit also cuts the natural sourness of the berry and makes for good eating. Women historically gathered the water using buffalo bladders (“We used every single thing in the buffalo,” Mora says) from nearby waterways. And the final staple group, corn, is the typical see NATIVE Page 54
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“Indian corn” you see in the stores. It is less sweet than yellow corn, but is robust in flavor. “The corn these days is sort of tasteless,” Mora says. “One year our family was able to get some seeds of non-GMO Indian corn to plant, and it was the most delicious corn. Now everything is GMO enlarged, but what’s surprising is the stalks of the Indian corn aren’t big and long.” Sourcing those native foods commercially is tricky, Jacobs says, but Tocabe has been able to set up a network of American Indian producers, as well as rely on friends and family on the Osage Nation reservation. “We’re sort of flip-flopped,” Jacobs says, “and we say native first and local second, so if we can find a food that’s native-produced even if it’s farther away, we will get that first because it sustains native food business.” Jacobs plans to grow native foods for Tocabe like stinging nettles, fiddlehead ferns and hickory nut. Jacobs also burns cedar wood from his grandmother’s trees in Oklahoma to create an ash that is cooked into blue corn. Sourcing native foods and bringing the history of American Indian cuisine to modern diners is an opportunity to also provide those diners an understanding of the greater American Indian culture and what modern day life is like on reservations. In addition to little access to health care and epidemics of alcoholism, diabetes and suicide, Jacobs says a main cause of health issues on reservations is that “there’s no access to quality ingredients,” and many of the restaurants that come in are fast food chains. It’s symbolic of a larger discrepancy between native tribes and the U.S. government, and Jacobs says that conflict can be best expressed through food. One food, actually: frybread. “Frybread came from food offered by the government to tribes once they were placed in reservations or forts,” he says. “So it was like, ‘Here’s flour, here’s lard.’ In my mind, something had to be reared, and so they created frybread.” Tocabe serves frybread, and Jacobs sees it as a “survivor food.” But frybread is more about the technique than the ingredients, Jacobs says, because American Indian tribes had been cooking food in animal fat for years. “So they took what they knew, and instead of frying meats or things they had foraged and cooking it, they had to make this dough and bread,” Jacobs says. “I think it’s so tied into the cul-
ture, and I think it’s important to not just do away with frybread. We [at Tocabe] serve it as something that’s meaningful to us.” Conversely, Mora says a lot of tribes go to her Lakota people to learn about traditions, language and food because the Lakota “did not sell out to the U.S. government,” and so were able to retain unique aspects of their culture and identity that other tribes sacrificed. One cultural aspect is the way food is involved in communal events. During a wake, the community will mourn for four days and nights, Mora says, and at all times at least one person must be on hand to watch over the body and serve food to visiting mourners. Mora says there’s also a ritual of spiritual offering before many meals. “One of the most important things is we take a spiritual plate first before anybody eats,” she says. “We take a piece of every single solitary food that’s displayed, and we make a prayer to the spirit and tell the spirit that it’s time to come and eat, and we put it next to a cedar tree, and we come back inside, and it’s our turn. We always respect the spirit in that way.” Sharing those traditions is part of the story for Jacobs and Tocabe. He’s excited about exploring a whole style of food with new ingredients that has yet to be tapped into commercially. “Obviously being the first peoples here, we’re the oldest culture in the Americas, but right now we have the youngest cuisine, because it’s not clearly defined,” Jacobs says. Mora doesn’t see anything inherently wrong with sharing American Indian food commercially. But she says that for some tribe members, there remains mistrust of people from outside the community to appropriate parts of American Indian culture for their own gain. “In our Lakota language, we have this word wasi’chu, and what that word defines is ‘fat taker,’ and the fat is really important to us from the buffalo,” Mora says. “But if someone’s called wasi’chu, that means they come in and they take all the wonderful things, and they say, ‘That’s mine now.’ So there’s not a greedy mindset with how we are as people, but there might be Indians out there that say, ‘We don’t want no white people here because they take the fat.’ If they could pay respect to the people from where they got the knowledge from, then there might not be a problem at all.” Boulder Weekly
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he previous two years of wine production in Colorado were poor. There was some doubt many of the vineyards and farms in Colorado’s high country, along the Colorado River, would recover this year. However, this year brought optimal growing weather for nearly all of the state’s producers, and Boulder County wineries are excited about the rebound. “Finally a good one. We have a lot more fruit,” Bookcliff Vineyards Owner John Garlich says of the season, which he thinks brought in about 30 percent more fruit in the region overall and 15 percent more grapes in the vineyards. “The winery will have more grapes so this year we’ll have a lot of malbec, which is something that’s always a great wine but sometimes it suffers in the winter. So up until this summer we had really limited supplies, and now we can pull out the stops.” Garlich says the season was particularly suited to malbec and to most red varietals. It was a much longer growing season, he says, that started much earlier than usual with a rainy and cool season in Palisade, where Garlich owns a farm and vineyard. “It started early but didn’t get really cranked up because of the cooler weather, and so that slowed it down a little, because you don’t want things to ripen in August … which is too warm,” Garlich says. The season in the growing region saw a mild July, where typical temperatures can soar over 100 degrees and linger there. August is typically cool and rainy, much like a monsoon season, Garlich says, and that cools everything down. This year, though, it remained warm and sunny through August into September. That warmth, without overbearing heat, will serve the wines well, Garlich says, but it’s too early to say. “I think this long growing season and kind of warm and not hot weather will be good, and the proof will be in the wine itself,” he says. Blake Eliasson, owner of Settembre Cellars, also experienced abundance from his producers. “There was fruit this year, so that was a really good thing,” Eliasson says. “There were lots of [growers] saying, ‘It’s coming in heavy, do you want more fruit?’ so it’s certainly a good vintage in that regard.” Eliasson says the grape he’s most excited for is chardonnay, which hasn’t panned out in the last two years. Like others in the region and in the Colorado wine industry, this was an important recovery year for Settembre and its growers. “This year we’re pretty much back on track to what we usually do,” Eliasson says. Garlich says he’s just happy to see fruit coming back on the vines this year, but he was able to cultivate a second-year grape in souzão, a Portuguese varietal that’s typically used in port wine. Garlich turned that grape into dry red wine and currently has a previous vintage of it in a high-end blend. There are rumors that this winter is supposed to be bad, but Garlich is taking a wait-and-see approach. “I’m optimistic, otherwise I wouldn’t be in the business,” he says. “Last time, 1987 or 1989, I remember one being a big El Nino year, it didn’t get that cold. Weather is fickle, but I’m hoping it’s not that cold.” Boulder Weekly
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Urbandictionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.
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You’ve arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back towards where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20:
English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, selfrevealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are and who you will become.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22:
A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a 9-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign
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The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
How well do you treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: 1. Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself. 2. Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.
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To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.
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Some athletes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all but one of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.
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Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: bit.ly/liberateslaves.
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A new study led by George Washington University examined about 200 chimpanzee and human brains and confirmed that humans are more intelligent than chimpanzees. The news was met with a collective sigh of relief from all mankind, but especially from a zoo in West Virginia, where after getting into a shouting and feces-throwing match about who was smarter, a pack of locals were preparing to angrily flip over a chess board after they slowly realized that Koko had put them in checkmate after four turns. In response to the study, the nation’s only monkey-run advocacy group, the Monkey Center for Observing Chimpanzee Knowledge, or MONKEYCOCK, released a study of their own, citing Keeping up with the Kardashians, ISIS, Buzzfeed, Donald Trump, Taco Bell’s cheesy gordita crunch and the 2001 FOX documentary questioning if we landed on the moon as reasons for humankind’s innate stupidity and inferiority. They also mentioned Tom Hanks, but the monkeys are wrong there. He is an American treasure. Patches, a spokesman for the group, said that studies like the George Washington one were a waste of time and clearly meant to “give humanity a win.” “Ooh ooh ahh ahh, ooh ooh ahh,” Patches says to Boulder Weekly, before opening his mouth to reveal a whole mess of mashed plantains. “Ooh ooh, ahh.” Human researchers are reportedly now working on studies to determine if dolphins are happier than humans, and if sloths like House of Cards as much as we do.
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Welcome to Ben Carson’s America. The land flowing with milk and honey. A land without refugees or immigrants. A land without universal healthcare but with a copious amount of guns. A land without taxes. A land without the #BlackLivesMatter campaign or Planned Parenthood. A land without Donald Trump. And a land where New York and Vermont have miles of beachfront property, Massachusetts borders Canada and the Delmarva Peninsula is part of Maryland not Virginia. This is at least according to a map sent out as a tweet by the Ben Carson campaign in support of the 31 U.S. governors refusing Syrian refugees. The map was quickly deleted from social media after twitterers soon caught on to the mishaps. But who knows what will happen if Carson is elected as the Leader of the Free World. Boulder Weekly
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mood and appetite instead of leaving them with unwanted side effects? There are new strains low in THC and high in CBD, which are helping with symptoms of arthritis, nausea and muscle spasms for those who don’t want the “high.” Oh, and did I mention that if you’ve made it to retirement age, a little cannabis certainly isn’t going to hurt you now? To obtain a medical card, you must be a Colorado resident receiving treatment for and examined by a doctor with whom you have a relationship. Not every doctor will prescribe cannabis — mine won’t — but 266 state physicians have signed prescriptions for 113,585 patients as of June 2015. The average age of a medical patient is 42. The cost is $15. If you can’t meet those qualifications, you’re still old enough to buy recreational cannabis at a dispensary. Budtenders I speak with see a lot of seniors, including first timers and the cannabis-curious who stopped using in their youth and are interested again. Most want to discuss that person’s history and how dosage affects people before they recommend anything, and they all explain the basic philosophy of taking things slowly. There is a learning process involved. You won’t find as many items as you might in a medical dispensary, but recreational shops carry an assortment of topical ointments, creams and salves for everything from sore joints to cuts and scratches. The point here is that if you’re a senior and cannabis-curious, you should talk with your doctor, read the literature (there’s plenty on both sides of the issue) question everything (including this column) and make up your own mind, especially if you or someone you know is having problems with pain meds. And after reading the literature, if you’re still curious, head for a dispensary and have a long talk with your favorite budtender. The Bruce Banner is really nice this time of year. You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed
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Dear Dan: I’ve always been a big believer in the common-sense obviousness that monogamy is hard. Additionally, I like the idea of my wife getting fucked. I don’t have any desire to be denigrated or emasculated; I just get off on the idea of her being satisfied and a little transgressive. Early in our relationship, we talked about monogomish guidelines: I’d like to be informed and consulted, and she would rather I kept mine to myself. Last weekend we were having sex, and she asked me if I “wanted to hear a story,” code for treating me to a tale of a sexual contact. She’d been out of town for work most of the summer, and she told me that one of her roommates had gotten in the shower with her and fingered her until she came. I asked her if she’d fucked him, and she said yes. It was all hot and awesome. But a few hours later, I was experiencing pangs: Why hadn’t she told me or asked me at the time? Also, I felt very alone and depressed that summer, and when I’d gone to visit her, my wife and this roommate acted very strangely. I told her that I thought it was hot and cool, but that I didn’t think it was cool that she’d kept this from me for so long. Things got worse from there: Over the last week, we’ve had some great sex and open conversations but also a lot of anger and hurt. The truth is that she carried on with this guy all summer. It’s not the sex that bothers me so much as the breadth of the deception, the disregard for my feelings, and the violation of our agreement. And, yes, I’m feeling a little emasculated. How does a loving husband who intellectually believes that fooling around is okay — and who finds it hot sexually — get over this kind of hurt and anger? Help me get right with GGGesus. — Cocked Up Cuckold Keeps Stressing Dear CUCKS: Two things have to happen in order for you to move on. One thing your wife has to do, CUCKS, and one thing you have to do. Your wife has to express remorse for this affair — and it was an affair, not an adventure — and take responsibility for the anger, the hurt, and, um, all the great sex you two have been having since the big reveal. You don’t give her version of events — why she kept this from you — but you were depressed and lonely while she was away, and she may have concluded that informing and consulting you about this guy (first when she wanted to fuck him, and then when she was actually fucking him) would’ve made you feel worse. This conclusion is a massive self-serving rationalization, of course, because she knew you would Boulder Weekly
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veto the affair if she informed and consulted you. Figuring it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, she went ahead and fucked the guy all summer long and then disclosed when your dick was hard. Your wife needs to own up to the deception, the dishonesty, and the manipulation, and then take responsibility for the hurt she caused — that requires a sincere expression of remorse — and promise it won’t happen again. She shouldn’t promise not to fuck around on you again. You don’t want that, right? What she’s promising is not to deceive you again, not to go in for self-serving rationalizations again, and not to avoid informing and consulting you again. And one more thing that won’t do: She won’t humiliate you again. You feel emasculated in the wake of this affair because her summer fuck buddy knew what was up when you two met and you didn’t. He knew who you were (the husband), but you didn’t know who he was (the fuck buddy). Now here’s the thing you have to do, CUCKS: You have to forgive your wife. Mistakes were made, feelings were hurt, massive loads were blown. The fact that there was an upside for you even in this messy affair (see: massive loads, blown) should make forgiving your wife a little easier. Dear Dan: This is NGAA, the guy you advised to make a gay friend and listen to some musicals with him. I didn’t find a gay friend, but I did buy recordings of the shows you suggested and I’ve been listening to the songs you recommended. I don’t know them by heart yet, so I have more listening to do. But Mr. Stephen Sondheim’s message seems to be that I need to quietly move on. Thanks for your answer, Dan. It really helped. — No Good At Acronyms Dear NGAA: Thank you for writing back, NGAA, and for listening to the shows I recommended: Company, Follies and A Little Night Music. My advice for you made a lot of my other readers angry — really angry. They accused me of blowing you off and not answering your question and failing at this whole advice column thing. But I didn’t blow you off. I directed you, as I’ve directed many other readers, to the expert I thought could help you. In your case, NGAA, that person was Mr. Stephen Sondheim. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter. November 19, 2015 67
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