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Danish drives a bad argument

Once again Mr. Danish indulges his Captain Ahab-like pursuit of Moby Dick obsession [Re: “Driving to ban drilling,” Danish Plan, Nov. 13]. Only his Moby Dick is the quest to put a fracking well in every backyard. Mr. Danish snarkily sniggers that people who are concerned about this dangerous practice are hypocrites because many of them drive cars. But almost by definition, most human beings are hypo-

crites. Except for the rare Raoul Wallenberg, our actions often do not live up to our values. Mr. Danish, for instance, is a hypocrite because he has not moved next door to a oil refinery, despite his gung ho enthusiasm for fracking. He writes that “We like” auto-centric communities. But, at least in part, this is because auto use is heavily subsidized. For instance, the costs of the blood bath on the highways, killing over 30,000 a year and maiming many more, are not borne

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Highroad America’s good food movement

by Jim Hightower

hat better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country’s food rebels! I’m talking about the growing movement of small farmers, food artisans, local retailers, co-ops, community organizers, restaurateurs, environmentalists, consumers and others — perhaps including you. This movement has spread the rich ideas of sustainability, organic, local economies and the common good from the fringe of

our food economy into the mainstream. It began as an “upchuck rebellion” — ordinary folks rejecting the industrialized, chemicalized, corporatized and globalized food system. Farmers wanted a more natural connection to the good earth that they were working. Meanwhile, consumers began seeking edibles that were not saturated with pesticides, injected with antibiotics, ripened with chemicals, dosed with artificial flavorings and otherwise tortured. These two interests began to find each other and to create an alternative way of thinking about food. Today, more than 16,500 organic farmers produce everything from wheat to meat, and organic sales top nearly $35 billion a year. Some 8,000 vibrant farmers’ markets operate in practically every city and town across the land, linking farmers and food makers directly to consumers in a local, supportive economy. Restaurants, supermarkets, food

directly by drivers. Flooding is exacerbated by all the asphalt needed by cars, and there are many other costs drivers do not directly pay. A policy that addresses this would be to set a price on carbon, and then refund the extra money this costs the most heavily impacted person. This would be a tax cut, with those using the least amount of energy getting the biggest tax break. So see LETTERS Page 9

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

wholesalers and school districts are now buying foodstuffs that are produced sustainably and locally. This shift did not come from corporate or governmental powers — it percolated up from the grassroots. And it’s spreading, as ordinary people inform themselves, organize locally and assert their own democratic values over those of the corporate structure. Family by family, town by town, this good food movement has changed not only the market, but also the culture of food. As you, your family, and friends sit down for a good meal this Thanksgiving, celebrate this change, which is truly worthy of our thanks. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 27, 2014 7

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danish plan GMOs: Boulder County’s November surprise by Paul Danish

Boulder is full of Democrats — Ds outnumber Rs two-to-one — so the county’s election results didn’t exactly come as a bolt from the blue. Every Democrat on the ballot in Boulder County won in Boulder County. Mark Udall and John Hickenlooper each got more than two-thirds of the votes cast in their races in Boulder County. Jared Polis got more than three-fourths. Almost all of the proposals involving tax increases in Boulder County and Boulder County cities passed. Amendment 67, the anti-abortion “personhood” amendment was rejected by more than 80 percent of Boulder County voters. In other words, there weren’t any surprises in the county election returns. With one exception. Boulder County voters rejected Proposition 105, the GMO labeling initiative, by a vote of 71,180 “no” to 68,120 “yes,” a 51.1 percent to 48.9 percent margin. The proposition would have required that foods produced from plants or animals that have been genetically modified or treated with genetically modified materials be labeled “Produced with genetic engineering.” Statewide, Proposition 105 was smashed flat. As of last weekend, the vote on the issue was 1,317,179 “no” (65.47 percent) vs. 694,624 “yes” (34.53 percent). Although the vote in Boulder County was much closer, the fact that it lost here at all is nonetheless telling, given that opposition

to GMOs has been a litmus test for local left activists for years. How to account for the loss? Chances are the preening greens and food cranks who sponsored the initiative will claim that it was because Monsanto and like-minded companies poured millions of dollars in anti-initiative advertising into Colorado that drowned out the Prop 105 supporters side of the debate and fooled hundreds of thousands of ignorant, gullible Coloradans into voting “no.” In a pig’s eye. For openers, Prop 105 backers made some political amateurs’ mistakes. They assumed that successfully petitioning their initiative onto the ballot was tantamount to passing it, and that the case for the initiative was so self-evident that they didn’t have to run much of a campaign on its behalf. When a petition drive succeeds in putting an initiative on the ballot, the proponents often say, in so many words, “Our work is done.” The truth is that’s when the real work begins. If you want to pass an initiative, any initiative, you have to run a serious campaign on its behalf — one that gives voters both good reasons to vote for it and, more important, convincingly answers the arguments of the opposition. You also have to have the financial and/or human resources to beat back a campaign against the measure. You don’t see DANISH Page 10

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even the most hard core Republican would turn into a rabid environmentalist, since the only thing they love more than life itself is tax cuts. This tax cut should replace the tax cuts given to Wall Street speculators. This especially includes the infamous tax break given to $1 billion/year hedge fund honchos who pay a lower rate than the fire fighters who paid such an awful price on 9/11. This tax cut for them is given even through they make around $20,000 for every $1 a firefighter makes. The last thing we should be doing is encouraging the gambling on the Wall Street casino that crashed the economy, rather than actions to help heal our hurting planet. I would suggest Mr. Danish refrain from casting aspersions from his ivory tower, and do some actual reporting. One way to do this is to visit people who oppose fracking and live next to fracking wells. At one point I believe Mr. Danish used to promote some creative solutions, such as open space and against endless population growth. But lately, it seems he has a single-track mind, writing only columns in pursuit of his Moby Dick that poisons our air and water, and causes catastrophic climate impacts such as droughts and flooding. So what happened? Brett O’Sullivan/Lafayette

This Thanksgiving, I won’t be calling the government’s Poultry Hotline, wondering how that turkey lived and died, or dozing through the football game. Our Thanksgiving dinner may include a “tofurky” (soy-based roast), mashed potatoes, stuffed squash, chestnut soup, candied yams, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and carrot cake. An Internet search on vegan Thanksgiving and a visit to my local supermarket will provide me more recipes and delicious turkey alternatives than I can possibly use. Stanley Silver/Boulder

Thanks for awareness on nurses

Thank you for the opportunity to share my experience as a cadet nurse [Re: “Women warriors,” News, Nov. 6]. The U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps was the largest (180,000) and youngest group (average age 19) of women to serve in a uniformed service during World War II. Cadet nurses served under the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service and the Corps is credited in preventing a collapse of our health care system on the home front during World War II and the early post war years. Thelma Robinson/Boulder

Capitalism is capitalism, conscious or not

Bizarre, that one should hear about conscious capitalism (as Whole Foods describes its philosophy and operation) as some kind of viable alternative. It is yet another attempt to put a new humanistic face on a system that as recently as 2008 failed yet again, and spectacularly. Especially in the area of the financial markets, there is very little motivation beyond the attempt to gain more profit from their economic arrangements, such as derivatives. see LETTERS Page 10

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Thanks for reminder of Sand Creek massacre

I applaud Dave Anderson and the Boulder Weekly for publishing Dave’s column about the atrocities committed against the Native Americans, specifically at Sand Creek [Re: “A histor of atrocities against American Indians,” Commentary, Nov. 20]. It’s important for everyone to know the truth about what humans have done to one another. It’s important that we honor those who were wronged by acknowledging what was done to them. Thanks for your courage. Tina Zabielski/via Internet

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Pardon more than the two turkeys

[This] week, President Obama will pardon two turkeys to promote the turkey industry. Every one of us can exercise that same pardon power by choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance. It’s a most fitting way to give thanks for our own life, health and happiness. The 240 million turkeys killed in the U.S. this year have nothing to give thanks for. They are raised in crowded sheds filled with toxic fumes. Their beaks and toes are severed. At the slaughterhouse, workers cut their throats and dump them into boiling water, sometimes while still alive. Consumers, too, pay a heavy price. Turkey flesh is laced with cholesterol and saturated fats that elevate the risk of chronic killer diseases. Labels warn of food poisoning potential. Boulder Weekly

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have to match your opponents dollar for dollar, volunteer for volunteer, or ad for ad, but you do have to have sufficient resources to ensure that your side is heard and that you can respond swiftly and robustly to attacks. In the case of Prop 105, supporters were caught flat-footed when opponents started pushing back hard less than a month before the election. Second, the suggestion that hundreds of thousands of Colorado voters were fooled by a Monsanto media blitz assumes that the voters were unfamiliar with Prop 105 supporters’ arguments against GMOs — despite the fact that those arguments have been routinely presented in the mainstream media for more than 20 years. Indeed, it’s hard to think of any green cause that has been the beneficiary of more sympathetic and uncritical coverage in the press. In the case of Boulder County, voters have been marinated in anti-GMO propaganda since at least 2003, when the folks at the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center spearheaded an antiGMO crusade against planting GMO corn on county land. They launched a separate pogrom against GMO sugar beets on county land in 2009. Both failed, but each went on for years. Ultimately one reason that does not account for why Boulder County voters chose to reject Proposition 105 is lack of exposure to the anti-GMO narrative. Third, GMO opponents routinely conflate their opposition to GMOs with shrill anti-corporatism. The real passion within the movement — the real venom

— is directed against corporations, not GMOs. That gives a lot of voters the impression that they are dealing not with an environmental or food safety issue but with radicals with a hidden Marxist agenda. Moderate voters tend to gag on that. Fourth, although Boulder County is often stereotyped as a green/new age/ neo-hippy oasis, the county’s economy is defined by intensely knowledge-based institutions and businesses (like CU, NIST, NCAR, IBM, Sun, Amgen and scores of high tech and life science startups). It is also one of the most exuberantly entrepreneurial places on the planet. In other words, Boulder County is chock full of people who are into a) the scientific method, b) the age of reason, and c) free enterprise — values routinely rejected, demonized and defamed by the anti-GMO food cranks behind Prop 105. And they vote. One final point. It wasn’t Monsanto that killed Proposition 105. It was farmers. The anti-Proposition 105 campaign consisted almost entirely of Colorado farmers and other members of the agricultural community urging people to vote “no” on grounds that Prop 105 posed a threat to consumer food prices, the economic viability of Colorado’s agricultural sector and to their livelihoods. Here’s an inconvenient little truth: When it comes to issues involving agriculture, most people find farmers more knowledgeable and credible than green activists. And less rude. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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This kind of a new face on capitalism is, in some ways, much more of a dangerous discussion in the political realm in that those who might be hostile to capitalist organizations as epitomized by Wal-Mart or sympathetic to alternatives to it, can easily be lured into this type of thinking (like maybe it is OK to be a capitalistic, if you only sell cool New Age stuff, hippie items, etc.). It’s interesting that we heard these similar types of arguments during the dot.com boom in the computer industry in Silicon Valley, that in this “new” type of business model, that the rules of capitalism did not apply to these start-up ventures. It is also of some interest here that many of those involved in the distribution of financial instruments have this idea in their head that they are somehow helping people. The reason that this is mentioned here is that this applies to Whole Foods and their foundation (Whole Planet Foundation) in which they are attempting to turn overseas 10 November 27, 2014

workers/farmers into little capitalists, which is, they think, somehow actually helping people. Ideology aside, there have been recent studies in India where this has actually shown to not be the case (i.e., is not helping alleviate lowincome status). With Whole Foods, Conscious Capitalism plays some kind of quasi-religious (New Age) role in their attributing a “higher purpose” with their brand of capitalism to be contrasted with Wal-Mart where traditional religious values played a role in their initial growth period (i.e., To Serve God & WalMart, The making of Christina Free Enterprise, by B. Moreton). One has to remember that jobs are a by-product of capitalism and if they could do without the workers, they most certainly would. The workers for Whole Foods have the same terminology applied to them as Wal-Mart: associates. “Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their Wealth.” — Lucy Parsons Jack Meeks/Boulder Boulder Weekly

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Program to drive veterans to medical appointments seeing continued growth by Elizabeth Miller Veterans Helping Veterans Now volunteer drivers, like Roger Potts, shown here, help veterans get to medical appointments.

ometimes, they trade war stories — from Vietnam, Guadalcanal, Korea, Japan. Sometimes, they just sit in the silence. Once, they sang. When Gary Jones opens his car door to drive veterans to and from their medical appointments, a program run by Veterans Helping Veterans Now, he’s never quite sure who’s going to get into the passenger seat. Once, a veteran who had been stationed in Nagasaki, Japan on clean-up assignment for a month got into his car. As did his wife. In addition to doing the driving these two no longer felt comfortable doing for themselves, Jones helped them with wheelchairs, walkers and cafeteria trays, waited as long as their appointment lasted, and then drove them home. If that guy calls again, Jones says, he’ll take him anywhere, any time. “Sometimes it’s cool because I get to learn a little bit about their history — I’m a history buff,” says Jones, who is also a Vietnam veteran and recently met a couple other Vietnam veterans who were stationed in the same area of Vietnam as he was at nearly the same time. Local veterans services providers say Vietnam veterans are the fastest growing segment of the veteran population seeking healthcare. “All these guys have all got stories, and sometimes they’ll only tell it to somebody who’s kind of been there,” Jones says. Jones is connecting with these veterans as a driver for Veterans Helping Veterans Now, a Longmont-based nonprofit that began offering a free ride service to veterans who need to travel to medical appointments at the Veterans Administration hospitals and clinics in Cheyenne, Greeley, Fort Collins and Denver. In addition to providing a little comBoulder Weekly

panionship, the drives provide a muchneeded service of taking veterans who can’t or don’t feel comfortable driving themselves the distance from their homes around Longmont and Boulder to their medical appointments, particularly if that requires navigating Denver traffic. “The problem is that veterans get free healthcare through the VA [hospitals], but unfortunately they don’t get to pick where those appointments are and a lot of times they’re very far distances,” says Deanna Pike, with Veterans Helping Veterans Now. The program has seen almost double the number of passengers this year. In 2013, they gave 450 rides to 46 different veterans. As of early November, they had already had 70 passengers, who had taken 550 rides. Word has spread entirely by referrals. “I see no slowing down,” Pike says. “There’s always a point where it levels out, but I don’t think it’ll be in the next year. I think we’re going to continue to see a lot of growth.” The number of aging Vietnam veterans and baby boomers, coupled with recent VA policy changes that have made those services more hospitable to veterans in that age group, she says, means that there are likely to be more veterans needing more rides. For evidence that the VA anticipates growth, she points to their construction of a new VA hospital in Denver — a 1.1-million-square-foot and $800 million replacement facility expected to open in 2015. The Department of Veterans Affairs reported processing 1.3 million veterans’ disability compensation and pension claims, the highest number in the history of the VA, for the 2014 fiscal year. It was

an increase in 150,000 over the previous year, and the second year in a row the VA saw record-breaking numbers. More than 4.5 million veterans and survivors received compensation and pension benefits in 2014. “We definitely have an increase in veterans, just as a whole,” says Karen Townsend, Boulder County veterans service officer. Though for veterans needing to get to Denver for medical appointments, there are buses that run from Longmont to Denver — and she keeps bus passes on hand for veterans wanting to take that option — bus rides can be time-consuming. And while they’re wheelchair accessible, sometimes getting on and off the bus is still an issue, she adds. She also estimates that 80 percent of the veterans she works with want to go to VA offices in Fort Collins, Greeley or Cheyenne. “A lot of veterans get really, really good care in Denver, but a lot of them feel like they’re not just a number at Cheyenne,” she says. Of the Veterans Helping Veterans Now transportation program, she says, “I’m thinking it’s a great thing. I probably would rather drive with somebody than take the bus, especially if you’ve never done it before.” Veterans also have the option to use a van service that starts in Fort Collins and comes down Interstate-25 to the Denver VA. But because it’s a group ride, scheduling is made to fit everyone’s medical appointments, meaning the need to go to Denver for a quick appointment can take all day. Veterans Helping Veterans Now is one year through a two-year grant from the Colorado Department of Transportation that’s been funding this program. “We’ve only had this program for about two years, and nobody else had anything like it before this,” Pike says. “I think it’s a huge need. I think it’s something that was really unmet.” In short, she expects to see a growing need for more drivers. Drivers are required to pass a background check and submit a copy of their license, registration and insurance. Despite the name of the organization — Veterans Helping Veterans Now — drivers don’t need to be veterans. Just someone with some time available. They’re reimbursed for mileage and provided a $39 per diem if the time commitment exceeds five hours. “So it’s not a total suck because of gas, it’s really just giving your time,” Pike says. Like Jones, Bob Price had recently retired and was looking for some things to do and decided the Veterans Helping Veterans program was a good fit. He says

most of his riders have been picked up in Longmont, and most of them, like him, have been Vietnam veterans. Usually the appointments last about an hour, though some have gone as long as six hours. He says that’s part of what makes it tough for these veterans to find rides with someone else — that’s a long stretch of time to take off work or away from the day to give someone a ride. “Some guys just don’t want to talk at all, they’re just looking for a ride. Other guys want to tell you their whole life story,” he says. Cherylan Jackson, a U.S. Army veteran who served in the military for 17 years and is now disabled, has taken multiple rides with the program. “My health issues had gotten to the point where driving outside Boulder was getting really challenging,” says Jackson, who relocated this year from Fraser to Boulder at her doctors’ recommendation to be closer to medical services. She initially tried the RTD shuttle that picks riders up from home, but found the ride so uncomfortable that she arrived in her medical appointment in tears. “I got to the doctor and was in so much pain I was crying because I’d been jarred about so much on that little RTD bus,” she says. With the Veterans Helping Veterans Now program, she’s been able to make it to appointments for physical therapy, annual exams and procedures, and to the pain clinic to manage her chronic pain. When she had surgery on her back, she was told she’d be able to walk out after the procedure, but that wasn’t the case. So the volunteer she was with wheeled her out to his car and helped her in. “I had appointments I’d been putting off for years because when the appointment came I just couldn’t make the drive,” she says. “I’m able to make my appointments and so my doctors are able to follow me better, I’m getting better medical care. … I just don’t have the words to express just how wonderful it’s been.” She does advise calling ahead to make your appointment in advance, but says she’s never had a problem getting a ride. Though she hadn’t thought about it before, she says, those drives are the only contact she has with other veterans at this point. While some of her drivers look a little surprised to find themselves picking up an African American in Boulder, she says, they get beyond that quickly. “Because when it boils down to it, we’re all veterans, so that’s a major thing we all have in common, we’ve all served our country very proudly. That transcends everything,” she says. “If we ever talk about something, it’s our service.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 27, 2014 13

news Deadly Force, in Black and White

by Ryan Gabrielson, Ryann Grochowski Jones and Eric Sagara ProPublica (Hannah Birch and David Sleight/ProPublica)

A ProPublica analysis of killings by police shows outsize risk for young black males.

oung black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts — 21 times greater, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings. The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in the federal data show that blacks, age 15 to 19, were killed at a rate of 31.17 per million, while just 1.47 per million white males in that age range died at the hands of police. One way of appreciating that stark disparity, ProPublica’s analysis shows, is to calculate how many more whites over those three years would have had to have been killed for them to have been at equal risk. The number is jarring – 185, more than one per week. ProPublica’s risk analysis on young males killed by police certainly seems to support what has been an article of faith in the African American community for decades: Blacks are being killed at disturbing rates when set against the rest of the American population. Our examination involved detailed accounts of more than 12,000 police homicides stretching from 1980 to 2012 contained in the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report. The data, annually self-reported by hundreds of police departments across the country, confirms some assumptions, runs counter to others, and adds nuance 14 November 27, 2014

to a wide range of questions about the use of deadly police force. Colin Loftin, University at Albany professor and co-director of the Violence Research Group, said the FBI data is a minimum count of homicides by police, and that it is impossible to precisely measure what puts people at risk of homicide by police without more and better records. Still, what the data shows about the race of victims and officers, and the circumstances of killings, are “certainly relevant,” Loftin said. “No question, there are all kinds of racial disparities across our criminal justice system,” he said. “This is one example.” The FBI’s data has appeared in news accounts over the years, and surfaced again with the August killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. To a great degree, observers and experts lamented the limited nature of the FBI’s reports. Their shortcomings are inarguable. The data, for instance, is terribly incomplete. Vast numbers of the country’s 17,000 police departments don’t file fatal police shooting reports at all, and many have filed reports for some years but not others. Florida departments haven’t filed reports since 1997 and New York City last reported in 2007. Information contained in the individual reports can also be flawed. Still, lots of the reporting police departments are in larger cities, and at least 1000 police

departments filed a report or reports over the 33 years. There is, then, value in what the data can show while accepting, and accounting for, its limitations. Indeed, while the absolute numbers are problematic, a comparison between white and black victims shows important trends. Our analysis included dividing the number of people of each race killed by police by the number of people of that race living in the country at the time, to produce two different rates: the risk of getting killed by police if you are white and if you are black. David Klinger, a University of Missouri-St. Louis professor and expert on police use of deadly force, said racial disparities in the data could result from “measurement error,” meaning that the unreported killings could alter ProPublica’s findings. However, he said the disparity between black and white teenage boys is so wide, “I doubt the measurement error would account for that.” ProPublica spent weeks digging into the many rich categories of information the reports hold: the race of the officers involved; the circumstances cited for the use of deadly force; the age of those killed. Who Gets Killed? The finding that young black men are 21 times as likely as their white peers to be killed by police is drawn

from reports filed for the years 2010 to 2012, the three most recent years for which FBI numbers are available. The black boys killed can be disturbingly young. There were 41 teens 14 years or younger reported killed by police from 1980 to 2012. Twenty Seven of them were black; Eight were white; four were Hispanic and one was Asian. That’s not to say officers weren’t killing white people. Indeed, some 44 percent of all those killed by police across the 33 years were white. White or black, though, those slain by police tended to be roughly the same age. The average age of blacks killed by police was 30. The average age of whites was 35. Who is killing all those black men and boys? Mostly white officers. But in hundreds of instances, black officers, too. Black officers account for a little more than 10 percent of all fatal police shootings. Of those they kill, though, 78 percent were black. White officers, given their great numbers in so many of the country’s police departments, are well represented in all categories of police killings. White officers killed 91 percent of the whites who died at the hands of police. And they were responsible for 68 percent of the people of color killed. Those people of color represented 46 percent of all those killed by white officers. Boulder Weekly

news What were the circumstances surrounding all those fatal encounters? There were 151 instances in which police noted that teens they had shot dead had been fleeing or resisting arrest at the time of the encounter. Sixty-seven percent of those killed in such circumstances were black. That disparity was even starker in the last couple of years: of the 15 teens shot fleeing arrest from 2010 to 2012, 14 were black. Did police always list the circumstances of the killings? No, actually, there were many deadly shootings where the circumstances were listed as “undetermined.” Seventy-seven percent of those killed in such instances were black. Certainly, there were instances where police truly feared for their lives. Of course, although the data show that police reported that as the cause of their actions in far greater numbers after the 1985 Supreme Court decision that said police could only justify using deadly force if the suspects posed a threat to the officer or others. From 1980 to 1984, “officer under attack” was listed as the cause for 33 percent of the deadly shootings. Twenty years later, looking at data from 2005 to 2009, “officer under attack” was cited in 62 percent of police killings.

Does the data include cases where police killed people with something other than a standard service handgun? Yes, and the Los Angeles Police Department stood out in its use of shotguns. Most police killings involve officers firing handguns. But from 1980 to 2012, 714 involved the use of a shotgun. The Los Angeles Police Department has a special claim on that category. It accounted for 47 cases in which an officer used a shotgun. The next highest total came from the Dallas Police Department: 14. ProPublica calculated a statistical figure called a risk ratio by dividing the rate of black homicide victims by the rate of white victims. This ratio, commonly used in epidemiology, gives an estimate for how much more at risk black teenagers were to be killed by police officers. Risk ratios can have varying levels of precision, depending on a variety of mathematical factors. In this case, because such shootings are rare from a statistical perspective, a 95 percent confidence interval indicates that black teenagers are at between 10 and 40 times greater risk of being killed by a police officer. The calculation used 2010 to 2012 population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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or two years, while Alex Masarie worked in the Peace Corps in San Juanito, Panama, developing clean water sources for the town of 220 people, he fed one of the many dogs running around the town. Carmensita was named for the nearly 90-year-old abuelo who owned her, Señor Carmen, but didn’t feed her. “He barely had enough time and energy to feed himself, much less the dog, so Carmensita hung around with us because we had more scraps available,” Masarie says. Masarie and his wife, Lauren Hayes, started to see more of her around the mud house in which they lived. By the end of his two years in San Juanito, Carmensita was going everywhere with him, hiking for miles up into the mountains, through the jungle,

every day to visit water sources and the homes they were supplying. They watched her have two litters of puppies, and then to feed them, would run down the road for more than an hour to a restaurant where she’d be fed scraps, then run back to feed her puppies. “She’s an incredible dog, loving to humans, super brave,” Masarie says.

When the end of their time in the Peace Corps was reached, he says, they just couldn’t leave her behind. “We fought the idea for a long time because it’s a different lifestyle out there, she was free to run around without a leash all day every day, but I think the bottom line was that the old abuelo who owned her, the grandpa, wouldn’t take care of her,” Masarie says. “It was either we take her, or she probably wouldn’t have made it.” The town they lived in was a closeknit community, where they knew everyone by name and it was common to drop by someone’s house unannounced to talk about crops and community happenings — passear is the

Alex Masarie and his wife Lauren Hayes lived in a mud hut in Panama for two years while in the Peace Corps (left). They got to know Carmensita while she was living on the streets of the town they were working in (above). Alex’s mother, Shelly Masarie, paid a visit to them in Panama.

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verb to mean just that. It was a hard-working Catholic community that took enormous pride in their church and their school. While dogs in town seemed to piece enough food together scavenging, veterinary services for animals were tough to come by. So Hayes helped organize a spay and neuter clinic, facilitating food and lodging for veterinarians who came to Panama to treat the dogs there. In two days, those veterinarians spayed and neutered 83 dogs, Carmensita among them. The dogs were also given tick treatment and basic vitamin injections, and their teeth and ears were cleaned. Word had spread out into the area and people walked hours to come to the temporary vet clinic, many of them bringing multiple dogs — one brought four dogs, another six. Once before, Masarie had gotten a dog rescued out of Panama, one that had tumors and was in need of serious help. He searched for months for a home for that dog in Panama, first, and then moved to relocating it to the U.S., working with charitable organizations to get the dog out of the country. Now, he says, that dog is happy and “fat as a pig.” So he and Hayes decided to do the same for Carmensita. He bought her from the old man who owned her for $5. The man tried to sell him two dogs for that price, he says, but Masarie said because he was leaving the country, he could only take the one. When it came to getting Carmensita out of Panama, the primary challenge was transportation, Masarie says. “There’s really only one set of buses that’s available, and they are not overly excited about taking a dog on the bus, so we kind of paid some bribes, and said, ‘We’ll pay you twice a passenger and promise that she won’t throw up,’” Masarie says. They got her vaccinated, then took her to a cargo building in Panama City where an airline ran a program to transport pets to and from international destinations. His mother was on the receiving end in Colorado, and Carmensita has been staying with her in Longmont since the summer. Masariem who now lives in Fort Collins, comes to visit and takes her out on runs. She’s also gone on a four-day backpacking trip in Indian Peaks with him. She did great, he says, but she still gets cold adjusting from Panama’s tropical weather to Colorado’s snowy hillsides. “Since coming back to the states, she’s been more and more like a pet instead of this wild, brave campo dog,” he says. She did arrive with a tick-carried disease — ehrlichiosis — that was treated with antibiotics and she has since recovered. Masarie says she’s eating well and her energy level is high. While she’s obviously well loved in the Masarie family, because Masarie has pet allergies that trigger asthma and his mother travels frequently, they’re still looking for a permanent home for her. Local dog rescue organization Summit Dog Rescue is helping with that search. “The key with her is someone who is going to be very active. She’s a dog that can run every day and she can keep up with your average running pace,” Masarie says. “That would be the perfect situation for her, someone who runs daily.” While conditions for dogs can be tough in lots of places around the world — including Arkansas and Texas and even Colorado’s La Junta county — conditions for dogs in third world countries can be particularly difficult. “There’s no laws to protect them and there’s no infrastructure like shelters,” says Emily Wolf, founder and director of Summit Dog Rescue. “They just run the streets and suffer until they die.”

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Before coming to Boulder, Carmensita was at risk of starving to death in Panama. She’s now happy and healthy living in Longmont.

Medical procedures, even ones considered as routine as spaying and neutering, can often cost a full day’s wages. Carmensita is among the first international candidates the rescue has worked to re-home. For her, and any other dog that lands in Boulder County, Wolf says, the future looks bright: “Boulder County is like the lottery win for any dog.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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N T I H E Y S S NO P Y G W Ursula Gypsy smiles for the camera just under two weeks after being found on the side of the road in Churchill, Manitoba with a severe gash on the left side of her neck. The pup has found a new home here on the Front Range.

A wounded dog in Manitoba, Canada finds a new lease on life and a new home on the Front Range

By Caitlin Rockett

usk was falling on the tiny town of Churchill, Manitoba. It was the first day of November, and a 15-passenger van was trundling along the outskirts of town. The van was carrying a group of adventure tourists back into Churchill after a day of watching polar bears romp in their natural habitat (Churchill is known as the polar bear capital of the world, a premiere destination for tourists looking to catch of glimpse of the native maritime bears). All day the group had surveyed the snowy tundra for white on white, but now in the twilight something else white, something much smaller, caught the group’s attention. “At first we thought, ‘wow, this is a wolf,’” says Brad Joseph, an expedition leader for Natural Habitat Adventures, the Louisville-based company leading the adventure tourists on their Churchill polar bear expedition. But Joseph quickly realized it was a domestic dog, a white Husky mix.

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“I jumped out of the van to look at it — it was limping really bad. I closed the back door of the van because you never know, dogs can be aggressive, especially when they’re hurt,” Joseph says. “And I squat down to get a better look. It was obviously scared, but certainly not aggressive at all, and she came up to me and sniffed my hand.” And that’s when Joseph saw the wound on the dog’s neck — a clean, straight gash, maybe 7 or 8 inches along the left side. “And I knew that this dog would probably not make it if we left it there — she would probably die,” Joseph says. While the day was mild for this time of year in Churchill — single digit temperatures but no snowfall — Joseph says the weather was slated to take a turn for the worse in the coming days. Night was falling quickly and everyone on the bus agreed the dog had to come with them. “So we opened the back door up and the dog

knew exactly what to do,” Joseph says. “I kind of patted the stairs with my hand and said, ‘Come on,’ and she just hobbled up.” Joseph asked the group to avoid touching the pup for fear she might become aggressive due to the severity of her wounds, but the dog only wanted to rest in the warmth of the van. Around and around she turned, trying to find a comfortable way to curl up and lay down, but between the neck wound and her injured right paw, she could find no respite. “She was just hobbling around in a circle over and over,” Joseph says. Churchill is a town of slightly more than 800 residents. There is no vet. There is no animal shelter. As the group made the short journey back into town, Joseph and the bus driver began to brainstorm how they were going to treat a severely injured animal with no veterinarian and limited supplies. But help seemed to surface at every turn. “One of the travelers with the group was an ER

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news surgeon, a trauma surgeon, and she also loves animals,” Joseph says of California-based doctor Sam Johnson. “She [ Johnson] said she actually likes animals better than people and she should have been a vet.” While Joseph was hesitant to let Johnson take care of the pup for fear that the dog might get aggressive during treatment, the doctor was their only hope — time was running out for the dog. And there was still the matter of supplies — sutures, a needle, cleansing agents. “We happened to drive past the mayor of the town, Mike Spence, and he took a look and started making some phone calls and got people to come over and help us,” Joseph says. Before long, a local paramedic and dog musher, Dan Dimuzio, was on the scene with basic supplies to treat the dog, but even then, there were limitations to what they could get their hands on. “That first night we couldn’t tell what was wrong with her foot, but her foot didn’t look broken, so we

made a splint out of No. 2 pencils, gauze and duct tape so she wouldn’t put weight on it,” Joseph says. Joseph, Dimuzio and Johnson were given permission to use a room in the town’s public works building to treat the pup. “I was holding on the dog’s back legs and Dan [Dimuzio] was holding on to her front, and Dr. Sam sewed her up,” Joseph says. “Unfortunately there was no anesthetic for the dog, so she had to suffer through it. You’d think the dog would get a little defensive because I know it hurt like hell, but she trusted us and she got with and we got her sewed up.” During the medical care, Joseph says someone from the town put calls out to local mushers to see if anyone was missing a dog or knew someone who was, but in the end, after many visits to see if anyone recognized her, no one knew the dog. With the mystery dog in stable condition, one question still remained: who was going to pay to fly the pup to Winnipeg where she could get full treat-

ment from a vet and find a place in a shelter until adoption? “I said, ‘Well, Natural Habitat charters a plane and we can take whatever we want,’ so we did the next day, we took her to the airport and flew her down to Winnipeg,” Joseph says. At Tuxedo Animal Hospital in Winnipeg, Dr. Sam Johnson assisted a veterinarian in further treating the dog’s wounds and then spaying and vaccinating her. It was here that the still nameless pup (some had been calling her “Cali” after Johnson’s home state of California) met the man that would give her a real home, Corbin Hawkins. Hawkins does contract work in Winnipeg for Natural Habitat Adventures and had heard about the dog’s harrowing journey. Hawkins says he knew before he met her that he wanted to give her a home. “And when I actually met her there was no doubt, she was coming home with me,” Hawkins says. There was still the matter of the dog’s name. “Originally,” says Joseph, “somebody said we should name her and I said Ursula. I like that name because it means bear. She looks like a little polar bear a little bit in the face.” When Hawkins met the pup he tacked on the name Gypsy — and after the travels that she’s made, it’s understandable. Hawkins was en route to pick up Ursula Gypsy when Boulder Weekly called. The two are now settled in at Hawkins’ home in Lakewood. “She’s a total goofball,” Hawkins says. “She’s been trying to hide bones in the couch.” Hawkins says her wounds are healing nicely, and Ursula Gypsy seems friendly with his other dog — and it’s clear she’s happy in her new home. “She actually just crawled up in my lap,” Hawkins says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Corbin Hawkins meets his new dog friend Ursula Gypsy for the first time at the Tuxedo Animal Hospital in Winnipeg. The two are now home in Lakewood, Colo.

Sam Johnson, a trauma doctor from California, was a tourist with Natural Habitat Adventures’ polar bear expedition when the group found a wounded Husky mix on the side of the road in Churchill, Manitoba. Johnson provided initial medical care to the dog before she was transported to Winnipeg.

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f you don’t like the message on climate change, it seems that the answer is to shoot the messenger. According to a new book by veteran environmentalist George Marshall, thousands of abusive emails — including demands that he commit suicide or be “shot, quartered and fed to the pigs, along with your family” — were received by climate scientist Michael Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University’s Earth System Science Center, who drew and published the “hockey stick graph” that charts a steep rise in global average temperatures. Glenn Beck, a former commentator on Fox News, called on climate scientists to commit suicide. Climate denial blogger Marc Morano claimed that one group of climate scientists deserved “to be publicly flogged.” And the late Stephen Schneider found his name and that of other Jewish climate scientists on a “death list” maintained by an American neo-Nazi website. As Marshall points out in his absorbing, all-embracing, immensely readable book, Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, something very strange is going on. Louis Pasteur’s revolutionary microbiology work on disease prevention never resulted in him having to think about how to use a gun. Jonas Salk never needed to fortify his house as result of working on the development of a polio vaccine. Other scientists are trusted and respected. But the way climate scientists are now treated, Marshall argues, is without parallel in the history of science: “They have been set up to play that role in a climate storyline that, it would seem, cannot refute climate change without demonizing the people who warn us about it.” Forget, if you can, the people who seem to be whipping up these furious responses. Climate change can only be met or mitigated by action — and there are plenty of reasons why a very large number of people nod in agreement Boulder Weekly

about what must be done and then fail to insist that it is done. Dan Gilbert, a psychologist who won The Royal Society’s science book prize in 2007 with an examination of the puzzles of happiness, says that climate change is something unlikely to strike fear in the human heart anyway. It is impersonal, it is gradual, it is amoral, and doesn’t seem to be happening now, he says. Other researchers have pointed out the alarming tendency, shared by all humans, to believe what they want to believe. Furthermore, climate change is not (death threats and public flogging fantasies aside) an immediate or an emotional issue. There are other difficulties. When, for instance, will the awful things start to happen? How do you mobilize public opinion on an argument with uncertain timescales, imprecise outcomes and real puzzles about the costs and benefits of any actions? No one, Marshall says, is ever going to march under a banner that says “100 months before the Odds Shift into a Greater Likelihood of Feedbacks.” Marshall founded the Climate Outreach and Information Network (COIN), based in Oxford, England. He is a veteran of Greenpeace and the Rainforest Foundation, and there isn’t much doubt about what he thinks and knows to be true. But the appeal of this book is that he lets others talk. He examines the political doublethink that seems to infect some legislatures in the U.S. He listens to the sceptics, the worriers, the oil giants, the conspiracy theorists, the celebrity environmental campaigners and the other ones who invoke imagery of death, fever and smoking ruin. And he refers to the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute,

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boulderganic Saving forests not enough Seasonal swings in temperatures and CO2 levels are evidence of agricultural advances and population explosion tilting nature’s balance by Tim Radford

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umans are changing not just climate overall, but also the difference between seasons in any given year. Researchers believe they now know why global warming has begun to announce itself both in annual rises in temperature and in the seasonal records of carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere — the same seasonal variation in atmospheric chemistry that also contains within it the signature of the Green Revolution and the 20th-century population explosion. And it’s all because the natural swing from high carbon dioxide levels to low each year has become more dramatic in the last 50 years. Each year, in the northern hemisphere growing season, the CO2 levels drop as plants grow and soak up the atmospheric carbon. Later in the year, as leaves fall, crops are harvested and consumed, and soil is freshly tilled, most of that CO2 gets back into the atmosphere. It’s an inexorable pattern that follows the seasons. Systematic measurements of CO2 levels began in 1958, and they show that swings within each year from high to low, and back again, have increased in amplitude by 50 percent, and go on increasing by 0.3 percent every year. Two groups of researchers report that they concentrated on the northern hemisphere because that’s the part of the globe where most of the continental landmass, most of the vegetation and the greatest part of the human population is concentrated. And both groups identified the cause of the widening CO2 swing as being a mix of steadily higher temperatures and the Green Revolution — the dramatic advance in agricultural productivity that fueled the tripling of the human burden of the planet in less than a human lifetime. Josh Gray, research assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Boston University, reports with colleagues in Nature journal that they have gone one better by identifying the crop that makes the biggest difference: maize, or corn. Together, the world harvest of corn, wheat, rice and soybean grew by 240 percent between 1961 and 2008, increasing the uptake of carbon during that time by 330 million tonnes. 22 November 27, 2014

Corn, grown ever-more intensively in the midwestern U.S. and in China, is responsible for two-thirds of this change, the researchers calculate. Gray calls the super-productive croplands “ecosystems on steroids.” Ning Zeng, professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science at the University of Maryland, and lead author of the other Nature paper, reports that he and colleagues devised a new model of the terrestrial carbon cycle to explore the increase in seasonal CO2 swings, and the role of the Green Revolution in these swings. There are several reasons for the increasing swings: average temperatures have started to rise; there is the natural “fertilization” effect of carbon dioxide, as some plants respond well to higher levels; and as the Arctic regions have thawed, more growing land is available — and vegetation has been marching north. But a fourth reason is that farmers are now producing more yield from the same land, and the same crops. Between 1961 and 2010, the area of land planted with the world’s great crops grew by 20 percent, but — with improved strains, better fertilizers and more irrigation — yield grew threefold. So more CO2 was taken up each year, and more released. “What we are seeing is the effect of the Green Revolution on Earth’s metabolism,” said Professor Zeng. “Changes in the way we manage the land can literally alter the breathing of the biosphere.” — Climate News Network Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ighth-grade field trips are not usually a cause of ethical dilemmas. But this year at Alexander Dawson School in Lafayette, the itinerary was questioned by 13-year-old student Phoebe Goldstein. Every spring the school offers a variety of educational trips to both domestic and international destinations. This year, one option was going to San Diego to study species diversity with a stop at SeaWorld. As an animal activist, Phoebe was vehemently against supporting SeaWorld and made it her mission to eliminate that excursion. Officials at the school took notice, and worked with Phoebe, ultimately deciding to remove the outing. Phoebe grew up in New Jersey and spent her time near the ocean, where she fell in love with marine life. When she moved to Boulder two years ago, she vowed to continue fighting for animal rights. Phoebe draws parallels from her own life to the lives of captive animals. With ADHD, she finds it hard to sit and focus at school, but when she goes rp.boulder.weekly.holiday.2014.pdf to camp, she’s allowed to run free and be loud.1 11/14/14

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“When animals are in captivity, they’re not themselves,” Phoebe says. “It’s basically like putting a human in a chair and strapping them down forever. I can’t even imagine that. It’s so sad. I think I can really relate to these animals. They have it way worse than me obviously, but I can understand.” There are two documentaries specifically that have fueled Phoebe’s SeaWorld angst, one of them being The Cove, which sheds light on the dolphin massacres that happen in Japan. Phoebe’s first taste of activism was in August when she attended the Dolphin Day protest in Denver against the Japanese dolphin killings. Since then, she knew she wanted to continue with her advocacy. The other documentary that inspired her was Blackfish, the 2013 film about orcas at SeaWorld. Blackfish delves into the death of SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau, who was killed by one of the park’s orcas. The film lists several grievances with the park, 10:59 AM including the separation of orca families, constraining

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orcas to small tanks and also how captivity can lead to aggressive behavior in the killer whales. Since Blackfish’s release, SeaWorld has received a slew of bad press. Bands including The Barenaked Ladies, Willie Nelson and Heart have all cancelled shows and others have spoken out against the company. In August, SeaWorld’s stock prices plunged more than 30 percent in one day after it announced its secondquarter earnings. According to its third-quarter reports, compared to last year, SeaWorld’s net income is down more than $30 million, attendance has declined by half a million visitors and revenue has fallen 8 percent. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been working against SeaWorld since 1998. Nina Kahn, a coordinator for PETA, says everything about an orca’s life at SeaWorld is cruel, from the unnatural way that they’re bred to the small tanks that they’re confined to for their entire lives. “They’re really deprived of everything that’s natural to them,” Kahn says. “Orcas are separated

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from their families, they’re trapped in tiny chemically treated concrete pools, and they’re forced to perform these ridiculous tricks for food. Supporting SeaWorld in any way sends the dangerous message that it’s OK to abuse animals for entertainment.” When Phoebe heard her school wanted to go to the park, she immediately snapped into action and took her concerns to the administration. She says she believes that kids can have a powerful voice as activists. “Kids are the future of the human race,” Phoebe says. “If people see that kids are getting involved and see that kids are caring at this young of an age, it shows them that they can put their trust in our hands.” George Moore, Dawson’s head of school, taught Phoebe’s math class last year and describes her as positive and enthusiastic. Moore worked closely with Phoebe about revising the trip itinerary. He encouraged her to meet with the school director and trip chaperones to voice her concerns. “As we like to do as educators, I turned the question

on her,” Moore says. “I asked her what she thinks we should do, and how could this be an educational opportunity in terms of advocating for something you’re passionate about and also an educational opportunity for the community. It would have been easy to just say, ‘We’re not going,’ but I didn’t feel that was the best solution.” For her effort, Phoebe was granted the Hero to Orcas Award from PETA’s humane education division, TeachKind. Dawson also received the Compassionate School Award. Kahn says more and more young people are getting involved with the campaign against SeaWorld. PETA has acknowledged several students who have had field trips cancelled or started petitions. “I think young people are naturally compassionate toward animals so we have kids who do a ton of things to speak up for animals — posting info on their social media or speaking up at school,” she says. Director of Blackfish Gabriela Cowperthwaite said in an emailed statement that she thought the film would stir

people, but was surprised it hit such a nerve. She says she couldn’t predict that people would feel called to action. “I call this generation of kids the ‘I can’t believe we used to do that’ generation,” Cowperthwaite says. “Phoebe is a leader. It takes more than watching a movie. Someone has to take that experience and put it to work. That’s where people like Phoebe come in. What an awesome girl.” Moore calls the SeaWorld debate a polarizing issue. Students have enjoyed the field trip in the past, but Phoebe’s concerns prompted the school to reconsider. He says they want to respect their student’s beliefs and want them to feel free to express themselves. “We encourage our kids to not only find their passions, but also to find ways to not wait until you’re an adult to try to make a difference or try to create something,” Moore says. “When the opportunity arises, we encourage them to take advantage of that.” see SEAWORLD Page 26

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The Dawson school cancellation is not an isolated event; there have been several schools across the country cancelling field trips. Moore says the community was supportive of Phoebe, but it was not a uniform opinion. He notes that while there’s been criticism against SeaWorld, it does positive things as well. Fred Jacobs, vice president of communications for SeaWorld, says the recent backlash toward the company is unfortunate. He has worked for the company for over 20 years, and he calls Blackfish propaganda that is very misleading and dishonest. On its website, SeaWorld refutes several of the film’s accusations including that it separates families or keeps any information from its trainers. It claims the documentary deceives the viewer by mismatching footage and narrative, and the film also speaks with certain trainers who haven’t worked at SeaWorld for several years. SeaWorld also highlights its charity efforts for whales in the wild and its work with rescuing animals. Jacobs, who says he’s seen Blackfish dozens of times, says he wishes he could watch the movie with every kid in America to have a conversation about the film. For any doubters of the park, his best suggestion is to gather your own evidence. “Watch Blackfish if you care to and listen to PETA if you want,” he says. “But pay us a visit if you have any doubts at all. Come see for yourself. And if you still don’t like the idea of the killer whales living at SeaWorld, you’ve operated in good faith, and that’s all we ask for.” In August, SeaWorld announced its next endeavor called the Blue World Project, in which it plans to double its tank size from 5 million gallons to 10 million, with a 40-foot viewing area for guests. It will also add new features including a kind

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of whale treadmill where whales can swim against a current to get exercise and stimulation. It plans to break ground next summer in San Diego. That’s not enough for SeaWorld’s critics. Cowperthwaite says it is a dodgy public relations move and questions where SeaWorld will get the money. Kahn says PETA’s stance is that a bigger prison cell is still a prison cell. The ultimate goal for activists is to release the orcas into open ocean pens. “PETA hopes that SeaWorld will fund some seaside sanctuaries so that these orcas no longer have to perform, and they can be with their families, and swim freely to live out the rest of their lives in the most natural setting possible,” Kahn says. This course of action does not seem to be in SeaWorld’s future. Jacobs says that it’s unnecessary and would suggest SeaWorld is doing something wrong. He also says that there are several problems with that solution. “The main problem is virtually all our animals were born in our parks,” Jacobs says. “They’re healthy and welladapted and live long lives. There’s no evidence that they don’t adapt well. You can hold that opinion if you want to. We hold a different one that comes from 50 years of experience.” Regardless of what happens, Phoebe says she isn’t done with activism yet. She hopes to continue fighting for animal rights and wants to move to Japan when she’s older. “When I started all this, I was a newbie,” she says. “Even if I didn’t get noticed by anyone, I’d still want to make a difference. I want to do as much as I can for these animals. Everything little thing counts.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Same language, new story BMoCA exhibit on Romanian painting a rare look into a dark world by Elizabeth Miller

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Defaced is on view at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, until Jan. 18. On Dec. 1, the museum is celebrating the Romanian national holiday Great Union Day, with the Doina Romanian Folk Choir, Balkanika Dancers, and opportunities for guests to sample the Romanian traditional sweet bread cozonac and Romanian firewater.

mong the anachronisms likely to linger in former Communist-bloc countries, where borders were closed and travel limited for half a century, one might not expect to find figurative painting. But for a handful of rising artists from a generation who have forgotten figurative painting’s legacy as a tool for the Communist propaganda machine but remember the imprint of that rule and see its shadow in the now capitalist Romania, figurative painting has proved a way to bring some of the dark truth into the light. The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is featuring those painters in their winter exhibition, Defaced — an exhibition Mardee Goff, associate curator of BMoCA, says hasn’t been done anywhere else in the U.S. and a focus area not frequently touched in exhibitions anywhere. The show isn’t meant to be representative of the artwork being done in Romania as a whole — nor is this a set group of artists who identify as coming from one school, despite some of their similarities. It’s just a glimpse into a world where figurative painting has endured in ways western countries have forgotten. 28 November 27, 2014

“Girl Imitating a Palm” by Marius Bercea from 2014.

“When you see the works, there’s something undeniably similar in the aesthetic, no matter how they’ve approached it, and I think there’s a little bit of an undertone and less direct conversation about the very violent past,” says Goff, who has been following Romanian art movements closely for the last five years. “Romania’s history before Communism came in was — they have a very violent history, and a very unsteady history, all of these different government systems coming in and completely transforming the systems. Communism though, in Romania, under Nicolae Ceausescu was incredibly oppressive, probably one of the more oppressive and more isolated … and the revolution that happened in Romania was the most violent of the Central and Eastern Bloc revolutions. So that’s something that’s definitely there.” During Communist rule in Romania, among other oppressive moves, the government forcibly relocated people from their rural communities into cities, then scraped those small towns down to the church foundations, and, convinced the state could raise children better than their parents, created hundreds of orphanages that housed 170,000 under-nurtured children.

Romanians who lived through that era have recounted a barrage of propaganda that concealed the deprivation they lived in, being imprisoned for trying to escape the country and living surrounded by informants and ongoing surveillance. The generation Goff has specifically chosen to work with — eight artists in their 30s and 40s — were children in 1989 when the Iron Curtain came down. These artists’ memories and experience of that era are largely secondhand, but the fingerprints of that history cover their work. “There’s this sense of isolation and alienation and some of that is the figures in their own world, some of that is the fact that we’re not really given access to it, so we feel isolated,” Goff says. “Additionally, though, there’s this kind of collective understanding of doom.” Many artists old enough to remember the threads of Communist rule in Romania avoided figurative painting, particularly because it was used by the Communist regime. “There was actually a trend towards going away from representational painting because that’s something that the Communist regime used for propaganda, so Boulder Weekly

there’s this social realist art that was used to show this reality that didn’t exist,” Goff says. New media and video work were more popular art forms immediately following the fall of the Iron Curtain. What these artists did grow up amid was the thrashing development of the country immediately post-communist society, and its sudden influx of consumerism and capitalism, leaping into the line marching toward the information age along with every other country. Some of the more direct wranglings with this newfound capitalism appear in Teodora Axente’s paintings — she shows human forms so wrapped in materials that they can’t escape. Whether they’re living or dead, or dying, is obscured in the objects that encase them. “I think it was hard for everyone at that time, right. All the sudden, we’re in the information age, and we’re inundated with more and more technology and information readily available. Everything has become a hyper-mediated world, and I think everyone has had a struggle with that, every culture,” Goff says. “But I think you can imagine how dramatic that might be for a culture that really was isolated to all of the sudden have it thrown at them … and you see that in the work.” Each of the artists addresses it differently, but Goff points to a few common themes — a general sense of darkness and sinister presences, paintings often provide the viewer a look into that world from a bird’s eye view, or perhaps the view of a surveillance camera, and an almost total absence of faces. “In all of the works that I’ve seen from the artists that are figurative painters from Romania, I would say that in 90 percent of the work, the figure’s faces are intentionally blurred, turned away, obscured — we’re not given access to them,” Goff says. “This exhibition is not providing answers for why that is, but it kind of is asking questions about why it might be, and I think that it gives a psychological distancing and emotional impact to the viewer.” The surveillance view, she says, equates to looking into worlds we’re not given access to. The narrative moments are ones that feel purposely unresolved — the energy is stagnant, or the action and its intentions are unknown and unknowable. “I think that this has to do a little bit with this idea that one, they grew up under this idea of universal truth in communism and this lack of individual, and all the sudden, now they’re able to be individuals, and there’s this erasing of a past identity and a discovering of a new identity, as well as an erasing of a past history and a development of a new history,” Goff says. The fate of communism itself comes out a bit in Marius Bercea’s work Boulder Weekly

“Untitled (cement flower),” in which a skyline of Communist-era blocky cement buildings is being slowly overtaken by vegetation. It represents the inevitable return of those reluctant urban residents to more bucolic communities. Beyond the subject material, there’s a story in the paint itself, and the paint itself sings. “In the 1950s and ’60s, when painting was proclaimed dead in western art history, figurative painting particularly passé, Romanian artists actually held on to this under the Iron Curtain — and some of that was because that was what they were being taught at the academy — and they never left it, and it never left their history,” Goff says. “I think that artists in western contemporary art, when they use painting, there’s a tendency to need a conceptual twist to it to justify it. That it can’t be about the paint anymore — that that’s been done. But I think here, what you’re seeing is that actually, there’s still a lot to be discovered in the medium and that you don’t need to revert to some sort of conceptual twist to make it relevant or interesting.” The images are both representational and abstract — clearly drawn, many times, but in a way that obscures some of the purposes. The influences of earlier European art movements shine through. Axente’s paintings show echoes of Dutch and Flemish still life painters from centuries before in the textures of velvet, fur and tinsel and the way the light catches on the hard edges of cellophane — as that plastic is being drawn over the head of a kneeling person or that tinsel drips from sealed lips, a

decidedly twisted take on the subject matter. In Răzvan Boar, the textures of flesh shows in the kind of smooth, painterly brushwork that’s often been set aside in the last century for rougher, Impressionistic-style brushwork, though there’s that, too, particularly in Serban Savu’s work. “All of these artists are holding on to something that’s really Old Master, even though they’ve reinvented it,” Goff says. “They’re using paint in a way it’s been used for centuries, but telling a new narrative.” The stories they’re telling in some ways bite as much into the dark side of America as they do Romania. In Mircea Suciu’s painting “Liberated I,” from a series called “The Fallen,” a row of children stands before a black background, the rough brushwork drawing in shoed feet, legs, the somber grays and browns of their skirts and pant legs all the way up to their shirt collars, which open to the black background. The painting was done shortly after the 2008 financial crisis, and in this row of headless children, we’re meant to see a referendum on our own capitalist economy — the empty promises of commercialism, the rosy picture capitalism has painted that, like those communist propaganda images, has turned out not to exist at all. “It’s this idea that capitalism has also failed us, the same way that it’s failed Romania,” Goff says. With the Iron Curtain down, these artists are no longer limited to talking about their own failed ideologies. Now they can talk about ours, too. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Beartooth, and This Wild Life s Pierce The Veil 7 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 3, Boulder Theater, gears up for the 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030 release of its fourth album, some are predicting big things for the band, Sleeping With Sirens, will precede the which has enjoyed steady and substantial planned early 2015 release of the group’s growth in its popularity. fourth studio album. The band’s third album, 2012’s Collide Preciado said the group might get with the Sky, debuted at number 12 on the first single from the album released Billboard Magazine’s all-genre Top 200 in time to add that song to its set this album chart — an impressive achievement fall, but may wait until the next album is at a time when hard rock bands have out before adding other new material to struggled to sell albums and reach the high the set. Whatever songs Pierce The Veil end of the charts. plays on a given night, he said one thing Coupled with the considerable praise will be consistent. Pierce The Veil has received for its ability “It will be a good time, as they say,” to craft songs that combine the fierceness Preciado said. The return to touring comes of hardcore and metal with the songcraft after Pierce The Veil spent most of this and melodicism of pop, this has some year working on the next album — all in predicting that the fourth album could an effort to make the best album possible bust the band into the mainstream and at this point in its career. major popularity. “We definitely take our time. We’re Pierce The Veil bassist Jaime Preciado not the fastest writers on Earth, and we says the group knows there are expectadefinitely take advantage of it,” Preciado tions, but has done its best to focus on a said. “I know sometimes people get a little impatient with us, but it seemed to work more fundamental goal. out OK. So we’re going to keep doing “I know a lot of people are saying, ‘How are you planning on topping the last that. We don’t try to rush anything.” The luxury of time is something the album you guys did?’ That question always group didn’t have the first time the curgets brought up,” Preciado said during a rent four-man lineup did an album. Pierce mid-October phone interview. “And for us, The Veil actually started out as a duo of it’s never been about topping anything. It’s about writing and getting better individu- brothers, Vic Fuentes (vocals/guitar) and ally and also in a group. You want to Mike Fuentes (drums), and they recorded become a better songwriter, a better singer, the 2007 debut album, A Flair for the a better musician, a better everything.” Dramatic, themselves. The goal of being the best band it can Then Preciado and lead guitarist Tony be translates to virtually every facet of what Perry came aboard to complete the lineup Pierce The Veil does. and tour behind the debut. When it was For instance, as Preciado explained, on time to get to work on a second album, the its fall tour, Pierce The Veil will continue band found itself in a time crunch. Only its tradition of trying to give fans the bigabout half of the songs were written when gest and best shows its finances and imagi- the band arrived at the studio. nations allow. Things went down to the wire, and the “We try to make the show as big as group rushed to finish the instrumental possible,” he said. “We also like to tracks for the songs over the final few days push ourselves, whether it’s with probefore its studio time was up. Pierce The duction, with lights, with stage proVeil was literally taking its gear out of the duction set-ups.” studio while the band that had the studio The fall tour, a co-headlining run with next loaded in its equipment.

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The vocals for that 2010 album, Selfish Machines, had to get done at a home studio afterward, completing the now overdue album. Things were far more orderly with the as-yet-untitled fourth album. To begin the process, the band set up shop early this year in its home base of San Diego to begin working through song ideas. The group then relocated to a cabin at California’s Big Bear Lake for further work on the songs. At least that was the plan. “We were up in Big Bear for a while and actually ended up moving back to San Diego because we were getting noise complaints,” Preciado said. “So that really didn’t last too long. But we brought it back. We have a studio here in San Diego where we rehearse and stuff. We were just hashing out ideas for a couple of months.” Finally, as summer headed toward fall, Pierce The Veil headed to Long Island, where producer Dan Korneff (who also co-produced Collide with the Sky) had built a new studio. Over the next three months, the group did pre-production and completed recording of the fourth album. The preproduction session, in particular, gave the group time to try out multiple approaches to songs and land on a version of each song that the four band members and Korneff agreed was the best. The group, obviously, put considerable effort into the new album. But Preciado — just as he didn’t want to make any predictions of impending stardom for Pierce The Veil — didn’t promise anything about the fourth album other than confirming that he and his bandmates gave it their best shot. “I think it’s going to be a Pierce The Veil record,” he said. “ It’s still going to have its heavy parts. It’s still going to have its poppy parts. It’s going to have its fast stuff. We always incorporate everything. We want to make a full record, you know. And I think we did that. I think it will be just the newest Pierce The Veil album, where we’re at now, where we were at when we were making it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The Longest Day of the Year finally sounds like The Longest Day of the Year by Nadia Mishkin ON THE BILL:

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hen local band The Longest Day of the Year got their start playing at breweries in Boulder and Fort Collins, “bluegrass-brewery bands” were kind of a thing in the area. Being from Boulder and being a brewery band, naturally, people assumed the band was another bluegrass act. “It was a common confusion, especially because our first iteration of the band had a mandolin,” explains the group’s lead singer Sean Lamborne. However, Lamborne is adamant that the five-member band plays rock and roll, though he says it’s their own version, rooted in gritty folk with elements of alternative-country and Americana. But there was a problem: Bands in the Boulder area have to cater to their venues, and starting out as a brewery band in a bluegrass scene became an obstacle to the true sound that The Longest Day of the Year wanted to cultivate. “One of the tough things about playing in Boulder and some of the venues in the Denver area is that you really have to have a few hours of music before you can play in a bar or bigger venue, because you have to play all night long,” says Lamborne. “There’s very few split-bills for the local bars. So the first few years, we really had to push to have as much music as we could, rehearse as much as we could and also had to stretch out the songs a little bit more.” The group quickly adapted to play three-hour shows to fill their awarded slots. They upped the jam element, adding improvisation to their style that sometimes landed them mention in the jam-band category, even further from where they wanted to be. Musicianship allowed The Longest Day of the Year to adapt, and they kept trucking along the Front Range, playing to full houses and adoring fans, but still not

The Longest Day of the Year, with Radical Knitting Circle and Small Houses 8 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 30, Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095

quite being able to come across as the alt-rock, folk band that they always had in them. But finally, after putting in the work, they are getting the chance to do what they really want. “To play more straightforward rock songs,” Lanborne tells Boulder Weekly. “To be less of a jam band, just play three-minute songs. It’s really been an evolution of our ability to become who we wanted to be over time and be able to focus on playing rock music. We still have to fill three hours often enough, but now we have six hours of music because we’ve been together for a long time. So it’s been an interesting transition and it’s been great, and we’ve gotten a lot of great responses over the years, a lot of people who have been following us for a long time.” That sound The Longest Day of the Year has been chasing for years now is chronicled on the band’s latest CD, Carapace, which will be released at the Fox Theatre on Sunday, Nov. 30.

“The first song on the new album is called ‘Live Wire,’” says Lamborne. “It’s about the beginning of relationships specifically with my wife and son, about my son being born and meeting my wife so many years ago. That song means a lot to me. I really tried to dig a little deeper on the lyrics on this album.” In his early career as a solo artist, Lamborne was an alt-rock guy, but transitioned to a more folk, country style when everyone else started being altrock guys. “Now I’ve kind of fallen back more on the alt-rock again,” he says, “but still with that folk drive behind it. It has a lot of the feel of the music I grew up with, like Pearl Jam and a lot of other ’90s rock.” While The Longest Day of the Year is ready to show audiences who they really are with new, original music and well-deserved headlining shows, they haven’t forgotten where they came from. To add to the festivities at the CD release party, the group has teamed up with their old friend Upslope Brewing Co., one of the breweries where they started out playing regularly. At the CD release party, they will be serving a special-edition, limited-release beer designed in a joint-effort by the band and Upslope. “That was really cool that they wanted to do that with us, just another cool thing about being in the community,” comments Lamborne. So the group who once was mistaken for a bluegrass jam band is coming out with their new CD of heartfelt alternative-rock music, with a strong foundation in folk and country, that will leave no more room for misinterpretation. Boulder will get the first taste of their true sound, and beer, at the Fox Theatre on Nov. 30. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Thursday, November 27 SEE FULL EVENT LISTINGS ONLINE. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@ boulderweekly.com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

Events Louisville Turkey Trot. 9 a.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville. Thanksgiving Service. 10 a.m. Unity Church of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-746-7648.

Friday, November 28 Music Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd. Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209. Christmas Begins. All Day. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.

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Wednesday, Dec. 3. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Elvis? Dead? Not so long as he’s alive in our hearts in all his sequin-jumpsuitedthat’s-all-right-mama-there’sgood-rocking-tonight-hunkaburning-love glory. And there may be no heart in which he is more gloriously alive than in that of George Gray, frontman for Elvis tribute band known as George Gray and the Elvis experience. Gray’s southern drawl, elastic hips and world-class lip curl are accompanied by a 14-piece band dedicated to keeping the music and the spirit of the King alive. They will be embodying Elvis and performing his hits at Nissi’s in Lafayette on Wednesday, Dec. 3. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

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Redford Watershed screening Thursday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282 The 1,450-mile Colorado River passes through seven U.S. states and two Mexican states. It is vital for generating energy, agricultural production and the lives of over 30 million people. But growing demands on the river are putting the southwestern region of North America Redford Center and Content Films at risk. Watershed, by award-winning filmmaker Mark Decena, examines threats to the Colorado River, as well as potential solutions. The film is narrated by Robert Redford. Environmental consultant Gary Wockner will lead a post-screening discussion. Tickets are $15.

Citizen Dan Straight-Up Steely Dan. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Cosmic Serenity. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Davy Allard. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Deltasonics. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Drunken Hearts. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Eef Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

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eTown Live Radio Show Taping with Bruce Cockburn and Special Guest Kat Edmonson. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696 Since his self-titled debut in 1970, Canadian singersongwriter-guitarist Bruce Cockburn has put out over 25 albums covering genres from folk-rock to jazz, blues and reggae. He’s collected a lot of stories in that time, stories that are collected in his new memoir, Rumors of Glory. Cockburn will be discussing and signing the book, as well as playing some of his signature songs for eTown’s live radio taping. He will be joined on the show by Kat Edmondson. Tickets are $28.

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Friday Afternoon Club. 3 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771. Funky Tonk Heroes. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Global Soul Experience. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Many Mountains. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287 Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Megan Burtt. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Outliers. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Pete Kartsounes. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

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ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Potential — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20. Brillitant: Cartier in the 20th Century. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 15, 2015.

Oil Paintings by Steven Homsher. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29. Photography by Fernando Boza. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29.

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Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss Bubble Garden — Ar— Various artists. Denver chitect Paul AnderArt Museum, 100 W. 14th sen. MCA Denver, 1485 Ave. Parkway, Denver, Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Trespassing, by William Matthews, 720-865-5000.Through has recently opened and will be on Jan. 25. Cabinets of Curiosdisplay at the Denver Art Museum Matisse and Friends ity — by Clayton Blair — by Henri Matisse Dougherty, various artists. through May 2015. and friends. Denver Art Longmont Center for The Museum, 100 W. 14th Arts Muse Gallery, 356 Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Main St., Longmont., 303-678-7869. Through Jan. 25. Dec. 23

Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122. Through Jan. 8.

Chief Niwot — Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 15.

Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18.

Ramaya. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Robin Lewis. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Strangebyrds. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Thunder the Radar. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Conversations in English — for Beginners. 12:45 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Figures in Flux: Hybrid Collages by California Artist Livia Stein. 10 a.m. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841. Freaky Fridays — for Teens — Holiday Gift Making. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Memory: Loss and Found — by Laurie Beth Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12. Recent Aquisitions — Oliver Herring. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18, 2015.

First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 22.

A Table (Somewhat): Conversations Between Objects — by Various artists. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-4928300. Through Dec. 20.

Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017.

Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17, 2015.

Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Masterpiece Makers: All About Animals. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Tango Ground School Class. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Zumba plus Zumba Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Saturday, November 29 Music 40 oz to Freedom. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Fifth Saturday Swing Dance. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom Boulder, 185 Arapahoe Road, CO 80303, Boulder. The Almond Butters. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Bear. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 W. Second St. HWY 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981.

Drunken Hearts. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Br’er Fox’s One Man Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 415-290-9242.

Brandon Hagen. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Felonius Smith Trio. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287 Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Christmas Begins. All Day. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454. Citizen Dan Straight-Up Steely Dan. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Cleason Dunn Wright. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-5300642. Danny Shafer & Chris Ramey. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Free Concert & Fundraiser for Coleman Dickson. 4 p.m. Alfalfa’s Market Louisville, 785 E. South Boulder Road, Louisville, 303-335-4200. George Nelson. 8 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578. Glass Delirium and Resonance. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Josh Maxey Trio. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Kort McCumber. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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events Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Sushi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133.

Jenn Minor, Cancellieri. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Kort McCumber Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

The Mighty Twisters Dance Party. 9:30 p.m. Under the Sun Brewery, 627 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-927-6921.

The Longest Day of the Year. 7 a.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Mountain Meadow String Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

The Louder Sisters. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Ronnie Shellist Blues Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Pete Kartsounes. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Zimmermans. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Prairie Scholars: Burgers & Brews. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Events Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chief Niwot — Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Conversations in English. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Figures in Flux: Hybrid Collages by California Artist Livia Stein. 10 a.m. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841. Free Fly-Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400. Leftover Turkey Trot 5K. 10 a.m. Roger’s Grove Park, 220 S Hover St., Longmont, 303-776-6050. Longmont Theater Company Fundraiser. 11 a.m. Barbed Wire Books, 504 Main St., Longmont. Saturday Swing with Live Music. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Scandinavian Bygdedans. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tango Technique Class with G&G. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Third and Fifth Saturday Swing with Live Music! 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Zumba plus Zumba Toning 90 Minute Class. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Scott Von. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Sunday Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Sunday Music in the Yard. 5 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 West Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Traditional Irish Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events Alive Mind Series: Monk with a Camera. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chief Niwot — Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Jess Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Banchee Tree. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Christmas Begins. All Day. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.

Sphinx. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Events Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Clay & Sculpt. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Conversations in English. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. German Speaking Table. All Day. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Great Union Day. 6 p.m. BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Musical Storytime with Alice and Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Scandinavian Dance Basics & Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wheel Throwing. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Zumba plus Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Tuesday, December 2 Music

LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Bassjackers. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

New Hawaiian Hula Clases. 5 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2690 Walnut St., Boulder.

Dead Winter Carpenters. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Sunday morning Zumba. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tennis Fit. 10:15 a.m. Mountains Edge Fitness, 555 30th St., Boulder.

Monday, December 1 Music

Sunday, November 30

Open Stage. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Intuit. 9 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Mark Diamond Music Experience. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Faculty Tuesday: Margaret McDonald, piano. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Ology Ensemble. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Mic at the Pioneer Inn. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 5:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. World AIDS Day Concert. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

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words Wednesday, Nov. 26 Wednesday november 26

shaggy W/ apex vibe & dJ Chris milly

Friday november 28

all good Funk allianCe & mikey Thunder W/ milk & ryel

saTurday november 29

unlimiTed aspeCT & nasTynasTy W/ arTime, kruza kid, ross pennoCk & sammy marz

Thursday deCember 4

k Theory live W/ livedliFe movemenT (hushliFe & (uniT)e)

Friday deCember 5

snoW Tha produCT W/ sTay Tuned, sarCasT & Joey spindle

saTurday deCember 6 alTiTude The dispensary presenTs

2 Chainz W/ red doT, splyT, The Chroniklez, rimes, The Famm CreW & J-krupT

sunday deCember 7

denver baTTle oF The bands Friday deCember 12

hoW The grouCh sTole xmas Tour FeaT The grouCh & eligh, CunninlyguisTs, dJ abiliTies, sCarub, dJ Fresh & reason The CiTizen

sunday deCember 14

CervanTes hip hop shoWdoWn (33 aCTs)

Thursday deCember 18

Waka FloCka Flame FeaT kid vegas & Trev riCh W/ speCial guesTs

Friday & saTurday deCember 19-20

The Funky meTers W/ The earFul FeaT live painTing by FrenChy, sCramble Campbell & John bukaTy

sunday deCember 21

denver baTTle oF The bands

every Thursday @ The oTher side

grass For ThaT ass

Free beFore 9pm or beFore 10pm For TexT message subsCribers!

12/4: WhiTe WaTer ramble plays The graTeFul dead FeaT Jeremy garreTT (The sTringdusTers) & Friends and silver plume FeaT roCky grass banJo Champ kane hollins, niCk dunbar oF msT & boTTom dollar sTring band 12/11: World’s FinesT and Wood & Wire W/ Chain sTaTion Wednesday november 26

100 round Tour

FeaT Jphelpz, bommer, ranga & sekTah sWayd

Friday november 28

“breaking bread”

Co hip hop gives Thanks FeaT Fo ChieF (Fresh breaTh CommiTTee), denT, ag Flux (blaCk mask), bianCa mikahn, ill se7en, Team laTChkey, The arkhighTek, odx & dJ havok

saTurday november 29

Caspa & The oThers W/ pk sound

sunday november 30

denver all-sTars Tuesday deCember 2 sub.mission presenTs

eleCTroniC Tuesday FeaT Jpod The beaT CheF W/ dave seied & so doWn

Wednesday deCember 3

bahamadia x georgia anne muldroW (sTones ThroW)

W/ dudley perkins, kankiCk, dJ Cavem & arTisTsenT

Friday deCember 5

Jerry Joseph W/ ignaTius reilly

saTurday deCember 6

eleCTroniC Tuesday

FeaT sTylusT beaTs W/ grymeTyme

Joey porTer’s shady business

FeaT Joey porTer (moTeT), eddie roberTs (neW masTersounds), nigel hall & nikki glaspie (nTh poWer), Jans ingber & garreTT sayers (moTeT) & dan sChWindT (kyle hollingsWorTh band) W/ eddie roberTs’ WesT CoasT sounds & Jaden Carlson band

saTurday deCember 13 W/ The reCovery aCT

Events Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Flatirons Running/Under the Sun Fun Run. 5:30 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway St., Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837. Intermediate DSLR Video Hands-On. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

monday deCember 22

Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

(led zeppelin TribuTe) W/ rah, & dorian vibe

Foleydub

The ben miller band W/ CroW moses

Friday January 9

Turkuaz

W/ JonaThan sCales FourChesTra

Friday January 16

Fishbone

W/ dragondeer & Judge roughneCk

al sChnier, durga mCbroom (pink

saTurday January 17

gabe mervine & maTT piTTs

Shep the Turnpike Dog — by Charlotte Havey. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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FeaT oTeil burbridge, eriC krasno,

Cressman (Trey anasTasio band),

Hansel & Gretel — Storytime featuring Boulder Opera. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074

Friday deCember 12

W/ liberaTion, JaCk Flash, Cory kendrix, mikeminded

Wednesday January 7

Floyd), roberT WalTer, dave WaTTs,

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303.

Conversations in English. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Wednesday deCember 10

W/ yukona, dillard, valaC & umble

Jans ingber, Jeremy salken, naTalie

Tuesday, Dec. 2

Annie Brook will be discussing her book Birth’s Hidden Legacy at the Boulder Book Store on Wednesday, Dec. 3.

blaCkaliCious & daniel marley

Friday January 2

everyone orChesTra

Innisfree: Norse Poetry. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Chief Niwot — Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

dirTy dozen brass band

CervanTes’ 12Th anniversary

As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride — by Cary Elwes. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Tuesday deCember 9 sub.mission presenTs

saTurday deCember 20

Friday & saTurday January 16-17

Monday, Dec. 1

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

viCTor WooTen

Chris robinson broTherhood

Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Boulder Rogue Runners Fun Run. 6:15 p.m. Walnut Brewery, 1123 Walnut St., Boulder.

FeaT eve oluTion W/ nominus, soulaCybin & Templo

saTurday deCember 27

Tuesday & Wednesday deCember 30-31

Friday, Nov. 28

kalya sCinTilla

The Congress & eddie roberTs’ WesT CoasT sounds

W/ garreTT sayers Trio

PAX 360. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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Open Mic. 8 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Wednesday, Dec. 3 Birth’s Hidden Legacy — by Annie Brook. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074 Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble — by Marilyn Johnson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Storytimes for Children. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Crystal Springs Brewing Company, 657 S. Taylor Ave., Unit E, Louisville, 303-665-8888. Tuesday Hikers. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, Ninth St., Boulder. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tuesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Wheel Throwing 1. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Wheel Throwing 2. 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Zumba Gold at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Wednesday, December 3 Music

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Acoustic Open Mic. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

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The Adventures of Dracula. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through Nov. 29. A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through Dec. 28. Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through May 8. Fiddler on the Roof. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28. Juno and the Paycock — The Upstart Crow. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-442-1415. Through Dec. 6. The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Center for the Perfomring Arts, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 800641-1222. Through Dec. 24. Seussical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 30. Songs for a New World. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washing Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 21.

The SantaLand Diaries will be playing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through through Dec. 24. Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex , 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 1.

Force Majeure. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Latin Jazz and Bateria Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Opera Scenes. 7:30 p.m. Music Theater, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Pierce The Veil and Sleeping with Sirens. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. RUN DMT. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Lapsit Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Learning the Business of Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Lego Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Open Art | Drop In Art Class for Children Under 5. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

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Preschool Storytime. 11 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 6

Awake: The Life of Yogananda. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Boulder Public Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Ski Conditioning Class. 6:15 p.m. Mountains Edge Fitness, 555 30th St., Boulder, 303-494-5000.

Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th and Pearl streets, Boulder, 800-807-6179.

Chief Niwot — Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Wednesday Night Zumba Gold. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Citizen-Soldiers in Classical Antiquity. 7 p.m. Paleontology Hall, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 N. Broadway St., Boulder, 303492-6892.

Wednesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Cruisers & Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/ Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Wheel Throwing for Adults. 7:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Zumba plus Zumba Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

BSD Rehearsals or Intermediate Intensive Class. 7:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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film You’re gonna go far, kid Missy Franklin & ‘Touch the Wall’ by Michael J. Casey

wo years ago, Missy Franklin — a swimmer from Centennial, Colo. – caught the attention of the Olympic world. The freshfaced phenom became the first female to qualify for seven Olympic events and ended up collecting one bronze and four gold medals, and setting two world records. With that level of success, it was apparent that the face of U.S. swimming wasn’t going to solely belong to Michael Phelps. Which is what makes a documentary about Missy Franklin all the more relevant. Directed by Grant Barbeito (a Denver native) and Christo Brock, Touch the Wall, which premiered at the Starz Film Festival on Nov. 16 and is opening a regular run this weekend at the Sie Film Center, follows Missy Franklin as she trains and prepares for the 2012 London Summer Olympics. Few have looked as natural or as graceful in a pool as Franklin does. Standing 6’2” with broad shoulders and a long torso, Franklin is a natural, and knows it. No matter how early she has to get up to train, or how hard she has to work, or how cold the ice baths are, Franklin is never without a smile or a laugh. Barbeito and Brock must have known they were getting gold when they started taping the brace-faced fourteen-year-old, because gold is exactly what they got. They probably did, which is probably why they include Franklin’s training partner and friend, Kara Lynn Joyce. Joyce, a four-time Olympic silver medalist is only a decade older than Franklin, but in the tough competitive world of swimming, Franklin is on her

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way up while Joyce is already on her way down. Touch the Wall is an uncomplicated documentary about Missy Franklin’s uncomplicated drive to be the best. Candy-colored graphics don’t do much more than provide statistics and keep an Olympic countdown clock running, but they fit Missy’s personality perfectly. So does the bubblegum-pop music that permeates the soundtrack. As Franklin’s trainer, Todd Schmidt, says, “What are the first three letters in ‘fundamentals?’” Yet, what is most impressive about Touch the Wall is how incredibly mature and levelheaded its subject is, even at the age of seventeen (Franklin is now nineteen and prepping for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro). I doubt that athletes start on the path they take because they want to be role models. In fact, I would suspect many resent the fact that they end up becoming one. It’s not entirely their fault, they were just doing what came naturally to them, someone paid them to do it, and by sheer virtue of being on television and in the papers, they inadvertently became someone children look up to and model themselves after. Many of them do not deserve this honor — hopefully, anyone with a Ray Rice poster has since taken it down. But if there are young girls out there with a Missy Franklin poster over their bed, they are in good hands. I’m sure that there were plenty who dove into the pool after Franklin won those medals, and if the young girls who packed the Buell Theatre on Nov. 16 for the red carpet premiere are any indication, Touch the Wall will inspire many more. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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n the one hand, any film subtitled “Part 1” is a naked cash grab. On the other hand, shut up and take my money, Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Picking up where Catching Fire left off, we see Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence) lookin’ rough. As is wont to happen when you’re placed in a cage and forced to kill humans, Katniss has extreme post-traumatic stress disorder and tons of guilt over leaving Peeta ( Josh Hutcherson) behind. Now ensconced in the Fraggle-like, underground military bunker of District 13, Katniss is hounded by Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and President Coin ( Julianne Moore) to become their symbolic leader. In a hilarious scene, Plutarch lays out his plans for propaganda, which he gigglingly calls “propos.” Because Katniss sucks at acting, they send her into the field accompanied by a director, Cressida (Natalie Dormer), and cameramen. When she sees the price paid by the impoverished who have used her near-childish acts of personal rebellion as a catalyst for a holistic revolution, Katniss finally understands that the stakes are bigger than her love triangle. Speaking of which, it turns out President Snow (Donald Sutherland) kidnapped Peeta and is using him in the press to counter Plutarch’s propos. In the film’s most brilliant sequences, Katniss and Peeta exchange dueling rhetorical instigations, a “propo off,” if you will. Like the rest of the franchise, it is billed as “Young Adult” fare. Because what hormonal “young adult” doesn’t constantly think about the role of media-savvy propaganda in influencing dissidents to provoke regime change rallied around a hesitant figurehead? If Boulder Weekly

you’re keeping score at home, “Should I kiss him/her or not?” is a young adult question. “Should I knowingly endorse mass bloodshed for the greater good?” is just a damn good question. It’s hard to judge a film that outright tells you it’s half a movie. Functionally, it does little to further events in the larger story. Lawrence gives another raw, broken performance in a series that will define her acting legacy. The sparse action is well delivered by director Frances Lawrence. But, honestly, nothing in Mockingjay Part 1 is necessary. Audiences would accept Katniss immediately embarking on a final conflict to overthrow the Capital. Of course, this is why Mockingjay Part 1 is what makes The Hunger Games special. This film is a psychological exploration of the complex genesis of dissident movements. The faceless military of District 13 is no less savage than the faceless militia of the Capital, they just have crappier uniforms. Coin’s manipulation of Katniss isn’t as overt as Snow’s torturing of Peeta, but both are puppeteers. Even the core conceit of the rebellion is questioned, as Katniss pauses to consider that maybe the Capital is right; maybe avoiding huge death tolls is worth surrendering certain freedom. As a movie unto itself, Mockingjay Part 1 should earn a grade of “incomplete.” It opens and ends mid-thought and has absolutely no arc. Yet, when absorbed into the series as a whole, this chapter supplies some of the most thought-provoking, sophisticated thematic content to ever find its way into so-called “young adult” science fiction. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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oulder’s strict growth boundaries make heading north on Broadway a bit of a cliffdrop, with the city ending abruptly as the street y’s into U.S. 36. But nestled right up against the edge is a restaurant that would be as at home in the urban core as it is on the fringes: The North End at 4580. The eatery follows a well-trod path in Boulder, with upscaled takes on American classics served in a relaxed atmosphere. Large south-facing windows in the dining room let in loads of natural light (and, at certain times in the afternoon, loads of glare off the polish of the tables), and the decor is largely comforting wood and soft tones. The feel is bright, fresh and clean. That feel continues onto the menu, which strikes a fine balance between heavier comfort foods and lighter offerings. The roasted root vegetable and lentil salad ($9) is a perfect example. It starts with a bed of French green lentils, then mixes in carrots, pomegranate seeds and other root vegetables. “It’s very earthy,” the server said. And it was. But a light herb vinaigrette dressing gave the dish an unexpected freshness that went well with the browner flavor of the lentils. Its lightness also comes in the fact that it’s not a particularly filling dish,

but it’s a nice pairing of flavors that are good for you. Another standout offering is the burger ($11.95), which despite its half-pound patty and caramelized onions, manages an almost fluffy feel from the combined juiciness of the patty and a thick, airy bun. With the butter leaf lettuce and garlic aioli, it feels positively airy. Swap the fries out for a salad and the effect is magnified. The North End also offers a rotating weekly burger/sandwich option that gets a little more experimental. Another standout offering from the sandwich selections is the pastrami on rye ($12). Granted, bad pastrami is about as rare as blue whales, but The North End still does it right, with Swiss cheese and stone ground dijon on grilled rye. My only complaint on both of those dishes is the

pickle. Don’t misunderstand, it’s a mighty pickle, a fulllength, quartered wedge. But pickles are nearly as divisive an issue as the proper role of the federal government. Anything they touch ends up absorbing their flavor, which is fine if you’re pro-pickle, but I’m most definitely not. And it’s always frustrating when restaurants don’t mention its inclusion on the menu. That’s why I was stuck with a light case of picklemouth on both sandwiches I tried at The North End at 4580. Other interesting options at The North End include lobster mac and cheese ($13), pan-seared duck ($26) and vegetable risotto ($15.50). The North End at 4580 exists in a perfect space where you can upscale your experience a bit, but without going overboard. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The cast of eateries in the North Boulder business cluster is growing, with the addition of Zenza, which is now open at 4479 Broadway. The restaurant took its time taking over the spot that used to house the North Boulder Cafe, staggering the opening with a big party on Halloween, featuring performances from hip hop acts Afroman and Nappy Roots, and then pulling things back before opening up all the way earlier in mid-November. Zenza is open from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. daily, and plans to keep the food, drink and live entertainment going in NoBo. -Nadia Mishkin

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Also now open is Naked Lunch, a new lunchtime sandwich joint started by Anthony Millazo, a co-owner of The Sundown Saloon. “I’m not gonna lie, we’re hard to find,” Naked Lunch wrote on its website about its location next to Basta in the Peloton Building at 33rd and Arapahoe. “We wanted to be in a neighborhood and build really amazing relationships with our customers

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and we sacrificed a decent Google Maps listing with that. But we do get to see our favorite dogs everyday.” Naked Lunch’s menu has a small selection of hot sandwiches like pastrami, bahn mi and a reuben, and a longer list of cold deli style sandwiches. There are also a selection of seasonal salads and coffee. Naked Lunch is open from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily. -Josh Gross

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When you’re a national company whose product is as cool as “green beans,” sometimes you get weird with your marketing. In the case of Del Monte, they asked 1,500 Americans to rank where green bean casserole rated as a side-dish for Thanksgiving and then released the stateby-state rankings. Colorado is number eight, one spot ahead of California and one behind Florida. *Shakes fist at the sky* Florida! Eat up everybody. We have to catch up to Kentucky, the green-bean-casserolelovingest state in the nation. -Josh Gross

Tuesday, Dec. 2, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., will be the first “Truckin’ It” event on 13th Street, between Arapahoe and Canyon streets. It’s not a complicated event. There will be food trucks there at lunchtime. That’s about it. But what makes it cool is that Truckin’ It is being organized by local students tired of limited food options at nearby Boulder High School. “The food at our high school Courtesy of Truckin’ It sucks so why not use food trucks to fix that?” the group wrote online. To pay for it, the student group is trying to raise $500 online through crowdfunding website Indiegogo. “We will be using the money for our permit from the city, to print posters and flyers, and to close down the street where we are holding our event,” they wrote. The campaign runs through Sunday, Nov. 30. At press time, the Truckin’ It campaign had raised $220. “If we don’t raise our $500 we will have to dramatically reduce the scale of our event,” they wrote. The Truckin’ It team banded together in the name of better lunches for Boulder High School students. That might mean instead of

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here is a fight brewing that could become one of the biggest ballot issues in 2016. After failing five times to get legislative approval for sales of full-strength beer and wine in the last decade, grocery stores are attempting an online petition aimed at getting the issue on the statewide ballot in two years.

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Nonprofit Colorado Consumers for Choice has also set up a website, Facebook page and Twitter account aimed at making the issue top of mind for consumers. Let’s dig into both sides of the issue. The argument for “Let’s do it”: Major grocery chains say Colorado is outdated when it comes to alcohol sales. Its laws have existed since the

repeal of the Volstead Act in 1933, and only issuing one liquor license per company for full-strength alcohol sales is out of step with today’s modern marketplace. There were no King Soopers or Safeway chains with multiple outlets back then, plus 3.2 ABV beer is a relic of a more reactionary past. Big-box retailers say this is anti-free market. The effects could be seen when

Colorado voters approved Sunday sales by liquor stores in 2008. Grocery stores experienced a loss of 66 percent of their beer sales according to data from national market research company IRI, showing the system is unfair to grocery stores. “How is it fair that liquor stores have a government supported monopoly? We are frozen out of a market our customers ask for,” one local Safeway manager that commented on condition of anonymity told Boulder Weekly. “Let consumers decide where they want to shop.” This side also argues that when the grocery chains can sell full-strength beer and wine in all of their stores, prices will go down due to the competitive nature of the market. But grocers say it is also about consumer convenience. “In the one King Soopers with a liquor licence in Glendale, they sell tons see BREWING BATTLE Page 48

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cuisine because the liquor store owners are so dedicated to Colorado beer,” says Matt Fowler, founder of Upslope Brewing. “We currently are in a few other states in large chain stores and it’s a battle to get them to carry more than two of our products; the beer cooler is tiny compared to what you see across Colorado.” Traditionally, large brands often get to set up the layout and flow of a beer cooler in larger stores. The two largest beer companies in America are Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, so they are the ones who often have a large influence on what beers have the most prominent placement, or get space in the beer cooler door. Understandably, these companies will seek to increase their own domestic beer placements, and as you see multiple package options from Coors Light fill the cooler, something has to give — usually that’s craft beer. You see this dynamic at play when you travel to other states and see 10 different Bud Light packages but only three New Belgium beers. Then there’s the issue of minors. “Alcohol is a controlled substance, it’s not green beans or frozen pizza, therefore it needs heightened awareness when being sold,” says Jim Dean, manager of Hazel’s Beverage World. “Currently you have to be 21 to enter a liquor store unaccompanied, you have to be 21 to sell and handle alcohol. What happens if the law changes?” In 2013, when a bill was put to the legislature to allow grocers to sell fullstrength beer and wine, it also included changes to the law to allow 18-yearolds to sell alcohol. That’s a problem according to liquor store owners. “We heavily monitor our customers. To sell to a minor would cripple us, but not so much a grocery store,” says Dean. Lastly, many argue that it is inevitable that a large percentage of independent liquor stores would go out of business if the law were changed. They could not compete if they lost a significant amount of their sales to chains. These are businesses that are owned by Coloradans, people that reinvest their moneys in the state, if they lose their store who does it benefit? “The profits from sales will leave the state instead of staying here,” says Fowler. “The real question is does convenience trump all?” This is sure to be an issue that will come to the forefront in the months ahead. What the final outcome will be, is up to Colorado residents. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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verything old is new again, including ancient herbal beers regaining popularity in the craft beer world after about a 250-year hiatus. They’re called gruits, which refers to a mixture of oldfashioned herbs and spices used to bitter and flavor beer prior to the prevalence of hops (although hops began being used in gruits around the second century). Several local breweries recently concocted their own spins on this style of beer, employing unique blends of herbs and spices. Loveland-based Buckhorn Brewers adds nontraditional ingredients to no less than half of their beers on tap, using the likes of marshmallow root, licorice root, chamomile and Indonesian sugar, just to name a few. Head brewer David Currie credits Belgian beers with his fascination for making spiced beers, as Abbey-style ales often require dark candi-sugars and wit beers contain orange peel and coriander. “Well gosh, if you can use this, why not that?” Currie asks. “I start with the malt base first and try to think about what sugar character or what you’re tasting in the malt base. Then from there I take a run at it.” When working with unfamiliar spices, Currie makes teas and blends them with the fermented beer. Lauren Salazar, the wood cellar and specialty brand manager at New Belgium, describes a similar process for the Lips of Faith series beer Gruit. “We just sat around and made a bunch of teas to find out really what the flavor was of each of the ingredients,” she says. Boulder Weekly

Descriptions of the ingredients in New Belgium’s Gruit are similar to more familiar hoppy beers. Salazar describes bog myrtle as having a “sappy, resin flavor.” Other ingredients contribute more than just bitterness such as horehound which adds “sweetness” and yarrow which contains a “dry floral aroma.” Although the brewers describe the experimental process and brewing of these beers with great gusto, there are some inherent issues when trying to acquire specialty herbs and spices. For a smaller brewery like Buckhorn, they can procure herbs over the Internet and sometimes even locally. However for New Belgium, who brewed Gruit on a 200-barrel system (that’s 6,300 gallons if you’re wondering), items such as bog myrtle are hard to come by. However Salazar predicts those obstacles aren’t likely to deter future brewers. “Every brewery is going to make one,” she says. “The herbs are going to become a signature of their portfolio.” Salazar says it’s similar to branding the particular blend of hops each brewery uses in their pale ales. Two Boulder breweries are already doing just that, Upslope Brewing with their Summer Herbal Ale and BRU Handbuilt Ales, which uses exotic sugars and spices in a majority of their beers. “When I get a killer ingredient, whether it’s some amazing local fruit, funky unique sugar, or some spice that is rarely used in brewing, that’s how I come up with the beer,” says Ian Clark, BRU’s head brewer. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Should you cut back and retrench? Definitely. Should you lop off and bastardize? Definitely not. Do I recommend that you spend time editing and purifying? Yes, please. Does this mean you should censor and repress? No, thank you. Here’s my third pair of questions: Will you be wise enough to shed some of your defense mechanisms and strip away one of your lame excuses? I hope so. Should you therefore dispense with all of your psychic protections and leave yourself vulnerable to being abused? I hope not.

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I know you’re beautiful and you know you’re beautiful. But I think you could be even more beautiful than you already are. What do you think? Have you reached the limits of how beautiful you can be? Or will you consider the possibility that there is even more beauty lying dormant within you, ready to be groomed and expressed? I encourage you to ruminate on these questions: 1. Are you hiding a complicated part of your beauty because it would be hard work to liberate it? 2. Are you afraid of some aspect of your beauty because revealing it would force you to acknowledge truths about yourself that are at odds with your self-image? 3. Are you worried that expressing your full beauty would intimidate other people?

VIRGO

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Helsinki, Finland is growing downwards. By cutting out space in the bedrock below the city’s surface, farseeing leaders have made room to build shops, a data center, a hockey rink, a church and a swimming pool. There are also projects underway to construct 200 other underground structures. I’d like to see you start working along those lines, Virgo — at least metaphorically. Now would be an excellent time to renovate your foundations so as to accommodate your future growth.

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CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

While in his early twenties, actor Robert Downey Jr. appeared in the films Less Than Zero and Weird Science. That got him semi-typecast as a member of Hollywood’s Brat Pack, a group of popular young actors and actresses who starred in coming-of-age films in the 1980s. Eager to be free of that pigeonhole, Downey performed a ritual in 1991: He dug a hole in his backyard and buried the clothes he had worn in Less Than Zero. I recommend that you carry out a comparable ceremony to help you graduate from the parts of your past that are holding you back.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

In her book Revolution from Within, Gloria Steinem offers a challenge: “Think of the times you have said: ‘I can’t write,’ ‘I can’t paint,’ ‘I can’t run,’ ‘I can’t shout,’ ‘I can’t dance,’ ‘I can’t sing.’” That’s your first assignment, Aquarius: Think of those times. Your second assignment is to write down other “I can’t” statements you have made over the years. Assignment three is to objectively evaluate whether any of these “I can’t” statements are literally true. If you find that some of them are not literally true, your fourth assignment is to actually do them. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform “I can’t” into “I can.”

PISCES

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e should get some indication of how the new Republican Congress feels about cannabis when it convenes in January. The District of Columbia intends to offer Initiative 71, its recent law decriminalizing marijuana possession, to the new Congress as soon as it is seated. The resolution was passed by almost 70 percent of District voters (which should give the new Congress some indication of what people closest to them think of the government-sponsored Drug War). Congress then has 30 days to act or it automatically becomes law. The two branches could pass a joint resolution (ha ha!) that would disallow the initiative, or both could vote to stop money intended to implement the program, effectively ending it that way. It’s possible, but highly unlikely since that’s only been done once before. Still, the District’s delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, called a press conference last week urging members to lay off after Maryland Rep. Andy Harris told the Washington Post that he would do everything in his power to stop the law from going into effect. Harris will have to work quickly to get both houses to approve a measure, which would also require the signature of President Obama, and the administration has indicated it has a hands-off policy when it comes to the District. But that’s probably not what Harris has in mind, anyway. Earlier this year he got an amendment attached to a bill passed in the House Committee for Appropriations that would have blocked funding after the District made possession of small amounts a civil offense rather than a criminal one. “Congress has the authority to stop irre-

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sponsible actions by Congress acted before local officials,” Harris, they all do. who says he is a doctor, I was deleting old told the Huffington Post. files and manila folders “And I am glad we did in my office the other for the health and safety day when I came across of children throughout one that was labeled, the District.” simply, “Drug War.” It This method of was filled with old attaching amendments marijuana magazines to other bills to stall (who remembers Head U.S. House of District legislation, or Rush or Representatives, via Wikimedia sneaky though it is, has Homegrown?) and artiCommons precedent. The District cles I clipped from the voted to approve medi1970s and 1980s from Maryland Rep. Andy Harris wants to cal marijuana in 1998, mostly “underground” stop the implementation of the Disbut the attachment magazines. The one on trict of Columbia law decriminalizing cannabis. He can do it, too. process helped delay top had been clipped the opening of medical from The Los Angeles stores until 2013. That’s Times. It was dated 14 years of pure Congressional obstrucMarch 10, 1990, and had quite the tantationism. lizing headline: “Red Dye May Be Pot’s Whether Harris is bloviating or actual- Kiss of Death.” ly has support will be known soon enough. The story, picked up by newspapers But that a member of a party that professes across the country, began even more proto believe in states’ rights, personal liberty vocatively: “A government test has deterand limited government would want to mined that a red dye used in many lipsticks overturn a 2-1 vote boggles the brain. Isn’t is a powerful herbicide capable of killing that the definition of the word autocratic? marijuana plants, prompting some Bush So even though cannabis is considered administration officials to propose using by uninformed elected officials like Harris the dye in an airborne offensive against as a dangerous drug, it will be legal to use domestic marijuana cultivation.” it, grow it and gift it in the District of As Jon Stewart might say, go on. “The Columbia. And the federal government prospective new weapon, Red Dye No. 22, will continue to tax legitimate cannabis is regarded by many government experts as businesses in states where it is legal. Could safer than conventional herbicides such as anything possibly be more hypocritical? paraquat. In addition, its rosy hue would tip Congress does need to act, but not to stop off users that their marijuana had been decriminalization of pot inside its own bor- sprayed should the growers choose to marders. What it needs to do is take cannabis ket the spoiled crop.” Some officials added off its Schedule 1 designation and let the that it also rids the plants of their THC states decide for themselves. More than content so that even if it were smoked, the half already have, and it would be nice if user couldn’t get a buzz.

Wow. An almost perfect “weapon” against the marijuana scourge. Kills the plants, sucks out the THC and tags the pot crimson all at the same time. Visions of helicopters shooting red dye from 100-foot-long tubes into fields all around the country. Who would have thought? That year, the Bush administration doubled its spending on domestic pot eradication, and administration officials asked for an extensive spraying campaign. Some even suggested that the United States get other countries to apply it to their cannabis crops, too. It was all based on one test done on a Hawaiian hillside with results the government wouldn’t share. What could go wrong? “Since the test, state and federal officials in Hawaii have continued to use the red dye in an aggressive joint spraying campaign against marijuana cultivation, officials said. But, for the time being, they have decided to mix the dye with a commercial product called Rodeo, which contains a proven herbicide called glyphosate.” (Glyphosate, or Roundup, of course, is the most-used herbicide today.) Needless to say, the red dye campaign, which was dopey from the word go, was never carried out, although I’m sure some taxpayer dollars were expended by Poppy Bush’s administration before the program mercifully ended. You’d like to think we learn from those kinds of mistakes, but as the case of Rep. Andy Harris trying to keep the District of Columbia from enforcing its own laws, I’m not betting on it. You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/category/features/weed-between-the-lines/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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