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Flats denial is flat wrong
Your recent Boulder Weekly article, “Flood raises questions at Rocky Flats” (News, Oct. 10), says Scott Surovchak, the manager of the DOE portion of the Rocky Flats site, disputes claims Marco Kaltofen of the Boston Chemical Data Corp. made in a report in early 2012 giving results of soil sampling he had done
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t’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or crook, and deceive and gouge consumers. Welcome once again to the phantasmagoric world of DNA manipulators. In particular, this branch of genetic engineering wizardry calls itself “synthetic biology.” Yes, that’s an oxy-
for the Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center on the eastern edge of the Rocky Flats site along Indiana Street. Kaltofen reported that according to his work the plutonium levels in this area were just as high in 2012 as they were 40 years earlier, before any cleanup activity had happened at Rocky Flats. He suggested that water leaving the site as a result of the
moron meaning “fake life.” But it’s also moronic in this case, for it’s a crude and costly attempt by high-tech alchemists at such corporate powers as BASF and Cargill to genetically modify micro-organisms to produce something wholly unnecessary: Artificial flavorings and fragrances. One of their “achievements” is to use a powerful form of gene-altering technology to re-engineer yeast and make synthetic vanilla. Hello — of all the world’s needs, why put so much money and scientific energy into something that’s on every grocery shelf, both in a natural and artificial form? Also, this corporate wizardry creates a massive threat to the livelihoods of thousands of small tropical farmers in developing nations. Madagascar, for example, one of the world’s poorest countries, has 80,000 farmers whose only reliable cash crop is vanilla beans. “I really count on that to make a liv-
September flood was quite possibly contaminated with small quantities of plutonium. Surovchak disputed this claim, saying (according to your article) that Kaltofen’s sampling “was done with an optical rather than radiological analysis and was therefore inappropriate for detersee LETTERS Page 10
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ing,” says one. Well, sniff the faraway synthetic makers, we can do it cheaper. But “can do” is not the same as “will do.” Even though the lab-made vanilla is not as good as nature’s own, corporations will use their political and marketing muscle to capture the market and jack up prices. Advertising gimmickry is already in play, for the synthetic biology industry is insisting that its fake stuff is a “natural” product, therefore it need not be labeled as a GMO — even though it is. To get a bigger whiff of this outrage, go to Friends of the Earth at www.foe.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 7, 2013 7
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resident John Kennedy was killed 50 years ago. There is still considerable controversy about who did it. The release of 4 million pages of longsecret documents since Oliver Stone’s movie JFK clarified some disputes but raised new questions. Many thousands of pages are still secret. The Kennedy years were a turbulent time inside and outside of the government. The civil rights movement was shaking things up. The year before the assassination, the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the planet to the threshold of a nuclear catastrophe. Afterwards, Kennedy responded in a leftward direction with a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviets and an order — weeks before he died — to withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam. Kennedy’s brother Robert, as attorney general, conducted an unparalleled war on organized crime. Yet, at the same time, the CIA was attempting to kill Fidel Castro by using mobsters who were prime targets of federal prosecution. In 1963, the president had ordered the FBI to raid anti-Castro terrorist camps in Florida and Louisiana. Mercenaries with far-right and mob affiliations were arrested. Militants claimed Kennedy now favored “peaceful co-existence” with Cuba. There was talk of killing JFK.
According to an FBI document in the Warren Report, Boulderite Robert K. Brown — who would go on to become publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine — told agents “he has been active in Cuban matters for several years and during the spring of 1963, in connection with anti-Castro activity, he was in contact with the National States Rights Party (NSRP) in Los Angeles, California.” While a guest in NSRP leader Stanley Drennan’s home, Brown said Drennan talked about organizing a group to murder Kennedy, his cabinet and thousands of liberal activists. Brown told the FBI he considered the remark to be “crackpot,” but as Drennan continued the conversation, he got the impression that Drennan was trying to recruit him to carry out this plan. NSRP was an often-violent white supremacist and quasi-Nazi outfit attacking the civil rights movement. The national leader served three years in prison for bombing a black church. Other NSRPers were tried for bombing a synagogue. Thirteen days before Kennedy was assassinated, an independently wealthy NSRP leader named Joseph Milteer was tape-recorded telling a Miami police informant that the murder of Kennedy was “in the working,” that the best see KENNEDY Page 10
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mining the true levels of plutonium in surface soil.” Kaltofen responded: “The plutonium was determined by both electron backscatter and gamma spectroscopy. Both are standard methods. Neither is an optical method.” Clearly, DOE Manager Surovchak either doesn’t know what he is talking about, or he is deliberately demeaning an experienced soil sampler. Neither enables the public to trust what a DOE official says. LeRoy Moore, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center/Boulder
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I watched a video at the emissions testing garage that stated that groundlevel ozone “can cause asthma, cancer, heart disease, emphysema, eye irritation and tightening of the chest.” Then I read a study by NOAA and CU recently published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal. The study reported that Erie had highly elevated levels of propane in its air — “10 times the levels found in famously smoggy Pasadena, California, and four times those in Houston.” This study was able to “separate how much (volatile organic compounds) came from oil and gas and how much came from vehicles,” identifying that 55 percent of the volatile organic compounds in the ground-level ozone formation in Erie are
caused by oil and gas activity (fracking). Gordon Pierce, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment manager, warns us that “when those compounds are combined with nitrogen oxide from vehicle tailpipes and baked in sun, they form ozone. At ground level, ozone can cause breathing difficulties and eye irritations, especially among the young and elderly.” Finally, an ozone pollution study stated that San Antonio’s ozone problem is so serious that the EPA “could designate the city a nonattainment area for ozone, a hazardous air pollutant that can cause serious respiratory problems. Ozone levels in San Antonio began rising in 2007, with the steepest increase seen around 2011, just as the Eagle Ford boom exploded.” Eagle Ford is arguably the nation’s largest oil and gas development. Preliminary numbers from this study indicate that much of the problem lies in the Eagle Ford. The data show that when San Antonio had the highest ozone levels “oil and gas development produced half of the amount of ozone-forming emissions per day as all other industrial sources combined.” Fracking causes more ground level ozone, which is harmful to our health. Keep Lafayette’s air clean. John C. Lamb/Lafayette
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means of killing Kennedy was “from an office building with a high-powered rifle,” and that “they will pick up somebody within hours afterwards, if anything like that would happen just to throw the public off.” Gary Hart, former senator from Colorado, speculates Kennedy might have been killed by an alliance between rogue CIA agents, mobsters and Cuban exiles. He concluded this in the 1970s after investigating the assassination as a member of the Church committee that probed intelligence agency abuses. When he ran for president, he publicly said he would open the JFK files if elected. Journalist Jefferson Morley filed a lawsuit to compel the CIA to release its files on George Joannides, who was the chief of CIA covert operations in Miami during the secret war against Cuba. Joannides specialized in “psychological warfare” and funded a Cuban exile student group whose leaders publicized the pro-Castro activities of accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the summer of 1963. Very quickly after JFK was dead, Joannides’ agents used CIA funds to link Oswald to Castro.
Here’s the background: In May 1963, Oswald wrote to the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) and formed a one-man chapter in New Orleans (he did send honorary membership cards to two national leaders of the Communist Party who lived in New York). In August, Oswald handed out FPCC leaflets and was punched by a supposedly irate Cuban exile who had called a TV station beforehand and happened to be an agent of Joannides. Oswald had hand-stamped the address “544 Camp Street” on many of his leaflets. This was the address of private detective/exFBI agent Guy Banister, who was involved with anti-Castro activities, organized crime and spying on leftists for the Lousiana legislature’s witchhunting committee. Banister’s secretary would later claim Oswald was infiltrating leftist groups for Banister. What really happened? As a democracy, we need a history that is truthful. Open the files. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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n yet another apparent example of big money infiltrating local elections, an individual who has reportedly become a frequent defender of “fracking” at recent Boulder City Council meetings has acknowledged that he is on the payroll of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA). Timothy Thomas recently challenged newly elected Boulder City Council member Sam Weaver about his claims regarding natural gas. In a Nov. 3 email, Thomas challenged an idea that he attributed to Weaver from a recent candidate forum: that a Boulder municipal electrical utility could use natural gas that was “frack-free,” or not produced through hydraulic fracturing, one of the controversial oil and gas extraction processes that spawned the Front Range bans and moratoriums approved in this week’s elections. Weaver defended himself via email, saying he wasn’t claiming there was already a “frack-free” source available, but instead advocating for best practices in a report from the International Energy Agency titled “Golden Rules for a Golden Age of Natural Gas.” In a follow-up email, Weaver asked if Thomas was being paid by anyone in the oil and gas industry, and Thomas acknowledged via email that, indeed, he was being compensated, and that his support was coming from Boulder Citizens for Rational Energy Decisions, an organization funded by COGA. It’s not the first time Thomas has acknowledged being paid to testify on behalf of the oil and gas industry. As Thomas admits in his own email, during a recent Boulder City Council meeting he told council member Macon Cowles — who was re-elected this week — that he was being compensated by the oil and gas industry after Cowles challenged his characterization of Weaver’s statements at the candidate forum. Thomas did not respond to a request for comment before press time. Weaver and Cowles told Boulder Weekly that the incident is yet another reason for city council to consider requiring paid lobbyists to disclose their affiliations before they testify during the council’s public comment periods, when they are discussing issues affecting their employers. They agree that the Boulder Weekly
issue is not unrelated to the need for city council members to disclose their possible conflicts of interest and appearances of impropriety when voting on matters that could affect their business interests, an issue that BW has shone light on in recent years.
Weaver adds that even though there may not currently be a viable means through which to obtain natural gas that was not fracked using horizontal drilling, the fact that there were decades when natural gas was obtained through conventional methods does not rule out
the possibility that a Boulder utility couldn’t push for frack-free sources of such gas. “Just because no one is doing it now doesn’t mean we couldn’t create that market,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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hen the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly retreated on its multimillion-dollar investigation into water contamination in a central Wyoming natural gas field earlier this year, it shocked environmentalists and energy industry supporters alike. In 2011, the agency had issued a blockbuster draft report saying that the controversial practice of fracking was to blame for the pollution of an aquifer deep below the town of Pavillion, Wyo. — the first time such a claim had been based on a scientific analysis. The study drew heated criticism over its methodology and awaited a peer review that promised to settle the dispute. Now the EPA will instead hand the study over to the state of Wyoming, whose research will be funded by EnCana, the very drilling company whose wells may have caused the contamination. Industry advocates say the EPA’s turnabout reflects an overdue recognition that it had over-reached on fracking and that its science was critically flawed.
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EnCana owns the gas wells in the Muddy Field that are suspected to have caused groundwater contamination in the Pavillion, Wyo., area. EnCana has drilled a number of wells in Weld and Boulder counties and is seeking permits to drill more.
But environmentalists see an agency that is systematically disengaging from any research that could
be perceived as questioning the safety of fracking or oil drilling, even as President Obama lays out a plan to
the natural gas flare off, raising questions among environmentalists about why a natural resource is being wasted and emitted into the air.) When asked whether the new draft rules meet the governor’s goals for methane emissions reduction, Megan Castle, Hickenlooper’s deputy director of communications, said via email, “The administration’s goal is for Colorado to have regulations that are a national model in protecting public health and the environment. The energy boom has been good for Colorado’s economy; we want to make sure our air regulations are good for the environment. Getting methane emissions to zero or as close to zero as we can get them remains an administration goal.” Christopher Dann, communications liaison for the Air Pollution Control Division, declined to comment on any of the complaints about the changes to the draft regulations, saying that there are many versions of the rules floating around, and they are likely to change further before the commission’s Nov. 21 meeting.
“It would be inappropriate for us to pre-empt the commission,” he told BW, explaining that division staff won’t discuss the evolving language until the final draft is presented to the ninemember group, which is expected to have a three-month public comment period before making a final decision on the new regulations in February. “Comparing one draft to another is not something we’re going to do.” Dann acknowledges Hickenlooper’s statements about reducing methane, and says the draft regulations will be designed to address methane as well as VOCs, but he stopped short of saying the two will be placed on equal footing, and declined to comment on the newly added exemption for downstream compressor stations, where most methane leakage occurs. “The intent is to address emissions from oil and gas operations, and methane is one of those emissions,” he says. When asked why division staff asked to delay the initial hearing on the rules that was originally set for August until the commission’s November meeting,
combat climate change that rests heavily on the use of natural gas. Over the past 15 months, they point out, the EPA has: • Closed an investigation into groundwater pollution in Dimock, Pa., saying the level of contamination was below federal safety triggers. • Abandoned its claim that a driller in Parker County, Texas, was responsible for methane gas bubbling up in residents’ faucets, even though a geologist hired by the agency confirmed this finding. • Sharply revised downward a 2010 estimate showing that leaking gas from wells and pipelines was contributing to climate change, crediting better pollution controls by the drilling industry even as other reports indicate the leaks may be larger than previously thought. • Failed to enforce a statutory ban on using diesel fuel in fracking. “We’re seeing a pattern that is of great concern,” said Amy Mall, a senior policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington. “They need to make sure See EPA Page 17
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ed at least annually, Sura says, noting that 55 percent of the VOCs along the Front Range come from oil and gas operations, and since 2010, the number of counties in Colorado exceeding the EPA’s permissible ozone levels has gone from two to 10. He questions why the new rules would give companies 15 to 30 days to repair leaks once they are detected. “That’s absurd,” Sura says. “We need to respond to known gas leaks within hours, not days.” Other issues that are expected to prove contentious when the Air Quality Control Commission begins considering the draft regulations later this month include the definition of what amount of emissions constitutes a “leak;” the extent to which information on inspections is made public; whether operators will have to retrofit existing condensate tanks to keep them from venting; and the period in which companies must connect the natural gas they are producing into a pipeline. (Since natural gas is so plentiful and cheap, industry often pays closer attention to capturing the more lucrative oil from a well and lets Boulder Weekly
Dann says there was “a lot of progress and momentum and we wanted to continue the stakeholder process.” And in response to speculation that the delay was due to points of contention around the earlier, stricter version of the regulations, he says, “I don’t know what specific points of contention there may have been. I’m sure there have been many, but that’s part of any rulemaking process, any stakeholder process.” Dann declined to discuss the removal of the infrared camera requirement from wells and tanks that have between six and 20 tons per year of VOCs, but he said the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and his division have recently acquired a combined six new infrared cameras, and a newly formed team of inspectors is using them daily. The Nov. 21 meeting of the Air Quality Control Commission will be held at 9 a.m. at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment building at 4300 Cherry Creek Drive in Glendale. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 7, 2013 15
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John and Donna Fenton’s property in Pavillion is covered with gas wells and was one of the properties the now-abandoned EPA report claimed had been contaminated by fracking. John has constant headaches, his son is having unexplained seizures, and his wife and mother are often bedridden and have lost their ability to taste and smell. EPA from Page 15
that scientific investigations are thorough enough to ensure that the public is getting a full scientific explanation.” The EPA says that the string of decisions is not related, and the Pavillion matter will be resolved more quickly by state officials. The agency has maintained publicly that it remains committed to an ongoing national study of hydraulic fracturing, which it says will draw the definitive line on fracking’s risks to water. In private conversations, however, high-ranking agency officials acknowledge that fierce pressure from the drilling industry and its powerful allies on Capitol Hill — as well as financial constraints and a delicate policy balance sought by the White House — is squelching their ability to scrutinize not only the effects of oil and gas drilling, but other environmental protections as well. Last year, the agency’s budget was sliced 17 percent, to below 1998 levels. Sequestration forced further cuts, making research initiatives like the one in Pavillion harder to fund. One reflection of the intense political spotlight on the agency: In May, Senate Republicans boycotted a vote on President Obama’s nominee to head the EPA, Gina McCarthy, after asking her to answer more than 1,000 questions on regulatory and policy concerns, including energy. The Pavillion study touched a particular nerve for Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., the former ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works committee. According to correspondence obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Inhofe demanded repeated briefings from EPA officials on fracking initiatives and barraged the agency with questions on its Boulder Weekly
expenditures in Pavillion, down to how many dollars it paid a lab to check water samples for a particular contaminant. He also wrote a letter to the EPA’s top administrator calling a draft report that concluded fracking likely helped pollute Pavillion’s drinking water “unsubstantiated” and pillorying it as part of an “Administration-wide effort to hinder and unnecessarily regulate hydraulic fracturing on the federal level.” He called for the EPA’s inspector general to open an investigation into the agency’s actions related to fracking. When the EPA announced it would end its research in Pavillion, Inhofe — whose office did not respond to questions from ProPublica — was quick to applaud. “EPA thought it had a rock solid case linking groundwater contamination to hydraulic fracturing in Pavillion, WY, but we knew all along that the science was not there,” Inhofe said in a press release issued the day of the announcement. Others, however, wonder whether a gun-shy EPA is capable of answering the pressing question of whether the nation’s natural gas boom will also bring a wave of environmental harm. “The EPA has just put a ‘kick me’ sign on it,” John Hanger, a Democratic candidate for governor in Pennsylvania and the former secretary of the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, wrote on his blog in response to the EPA news about Pavillion. “Its critics from all quarters will now oblige.” • • • • Before fracking became the subject of a high-stakes national debate, federal agencies appeared to be moving aggressively to study whether the drilling technique was connected to
mounting complaints of water pollution and health problems near well sites nationwide. As some states began to strengthen regulations for fracking, the federal government prepared to issue rules for how wells would be fracked on lands it directly controlled. The EPA also launched prominent scientific studies in Texas, Wyoming and Pennsylvania, stepping into each case after residents voiced concerns that state environmental agencies had not properly examined problems. The EPA probe in Pavillion began in 2008 with the aim of determining whether the town’s water was safe to drink. The area was first drilled in 1960 and had been the site of extensive natural gas development since the 1990s. Starting at about the same time, residents had complained of physical ailments and said their drinking water was black and tasted of chemicals. The EPA conducted four rounds of sampling, first testing the water from more than 40 homes and later drilling two deep wells to test water from layers of earth that chemicals from farming and old oil and gas waste pits were unlikely to reach. The sampling revealed oil, methane, arsenic and metals including copper and vanadium — as well as other compounds — in shallow water wells. It also detected a trace of an obscure compound linked to materials used in fracking, called 2-butoxyethanol phosphate (2-BEp). The deep-well tests showed benzene, at 50 times the level that is considered safe for people, as well as phenols — another dangerous human carcinogen — acetone, toluene, naphthalene and traces of diesel fuel, which seemed to show that man-made pollutants had found their way deep into the cracks of the earth. In all, EPA
detected 13 different compounds in the deep aquifer that it said were often used with hydraulic fracturing processes, including 2-Butoxyethanol, a close relation to the 2-BEp found near the surface. The agency issued a draft report in 2011 stating that while some of the pollution in the shallow water wells was likely the result of seepage from old waste pits nearby, the array of chemicals found in the deep test wells was “the result of direct mixing of hydraulic fracturing fluids with ground water in the Pavillion gas field.” The report triggered a hailstorm of criticism not only from the drilling industry, but from state oil and gas regulators, who disagreed with the EPA’s interpretation of its data. They raised serious questions about the EPA’s methodology and the materials they used, postulating that contaminants found in deep-well samples could have been put there by the agency itself in the testing process. In response, the EPA agreed to more testing and repeatedly extended the comment period on its study, delaying the peer review process. Agency officials insist their data was correct, but the EPA’s decision to withdraw from Pavillion means the peer-review process won’t go forward and the findings in the draft report will never become final. “We stand by what our data said,” an EPA spokesperson told ProPublica after the June 20 announcement, “but I do think there is a difference between data and conclusions.” Wyoming officials say they will launch another year-long investigation to reach their own conclusions about Pavillion’s water. Meanwhile, local residents remain See PROPUBLICA Page 18
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suspended in a strange limbo. While controversy has swirled around the deep well test results — and critics have hailed the agency’s retreat as an admission that it could not defend its science — the shallow well contamination and waste pits have been all but forgotten. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the federal government’s main agency for evaluating health risk from pollution, has advised Pavillion residents not to bathe, cook with, or drink the water flowing from their taps. Some have reported worsening health conditions they suspect are related to the pollution. They are being provided temporary drinking water from the state in large cisterns. • • • • The EPA opened its inquiry in Dimock, Pa., after residents provided it with private water tests detecting contaminants and complained that state regulators weren’t doing enough to investigate the cause. When an elderly woman’s water well exploded on New Year’s morning in 2009, Pennsylvania officials discovered pervasive methane contamination in the well water of 18 homes and linked it to bad casing and cementing in gas company wells. In 2010, they took a series of steps against the drilling company involved, citing it for regulatory violations, barring it from new drilling until it proved its wells would not leak and requiring it to temporarily supply water to affected homes. But residents said state officials hadn’t investigated whether the drilling was responsible for the chemicals in their water. The EPA stepped in to find out if residents could trust the water to be safe after the drilling company stopped bringing replacement supplies. Starting in early 2012, federal officials tested water in more than five dozen homes for pollutants, finding hazardous levels of barium, arsenic and magnesium, all compounds that can occur naturally, and minute amounts of other contaminants, including several known to cause cancer. Still, the concentration of pollutants was not high enough to exceed safe drinking water standards in most of the homes, the EPA found (in five homes, filtering systems were installed to address concerns). Moreover, none of the contaminants — except methane — pointed clearly to drilling. The EPA ended its investigation that July. Critics pointed to the Dimock investigation as a classic example of the EPA being overly aggressive on 18 November 7, 2013
Pavillion resident Louis Meeks can’t drink or even shower in his water due to contamination from gas drilling near his home. He and the other residents in Pavillion have now been abandoned by the EPA due to industry pressure to not connect fracking to Pavillion contamination.
fracking and then being proven wrong. Yet, as in Pavillion, the agency concluded its inquiry without following through on the essential question of whether Dimock residents face an ongoing risk from too much methane, which is not considered unsafe to drink, but can produce fumes that lead to explosions. The EPA also never addressed whether drilling — and perhaps the pressure of fracking — had contributed to moving methane up through cracks in the earth into their water wells. As drilling has resumed in Dimock, so have reports of ongoing methane leaks. On June 24, the National Academy of Sciences published a report by Duke University researchers that underscored a link between the methane contamination in water in Dimock and across the Marcellus shale, and the gas wells being drilled deep below. The gas industry maintains that methane is naturally occurring and, according to a response issued by the industry group Energy In Depth after the release of the Duke research, “there’s still no evidence of hydraulic fracturing fluids migrating from depth to contaminate aquifers.” • • • • In opening an inquiry in Parker County, Texas, in late 2010, the EPA examined a question similar to the one it faced in Dimock: Was a driller responsible for methane gas bubbling up in residents’ water wells? This time, though, tests conducted by a geologist hired by the agency appeared to confirm that the methane in the wells had resulted from drilling,
rather than occurring naturally. “The methane that was coming out of that well … was about as close a match as you are going to find,” said the consultant, Geoffrey Thyne, a geochemist and expert in unconventional oil and gas who has been a member of both the EPA’s Science Advisory Board for hydraulic fracturing and a National Research Council committee to examine coalbed methane development. The EPA issued an “imminent and substantial endangerment order” forcing Range Resources, the company it suspected of being responsible, to take immediate action to address the contamination. But once again, the EPA’s actions ignited an explosive response from the oil and gas industry, and a sharp rebuke from Texas state officials, who insisted that their own data and analysis proved Range had done no harm. According to the environmental news site Energy Wire, Ed Rendell, the former governor of Pennsylvania, whose law firm lobbies on behalf of energy companies, also took up Range’s case with then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. Internal EPA emails used in the Energy Wire report and also obtained by ProPublica discuss Rendell’s meeting with then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, though Range has denied it employed Rendell to argue on its behalf. Neither the EPA nor Rendell responded to a request for comment on the Parker County case. In March 2012, the EPA dropped its case against Range without explanation. Its administrator in Texas at the
time had been assailed for making comments that seemed to show an anti-industry bias. He subsequently lost his job. An Associated Press investigation found that the EPA abandoned its inquiry after Range threatened not to cooperate with the EPA on its other drilling-related research. Agency critics see a lack of will, rather than a lack of evidence, in the EPA’s approach in Parker County and elsewhere. “It would be one thing if these were isolated incidents,” said Alan Septoff, communications director for Earthworks, an environmental group opposed to fracking. “But every time the EPA has come up with something damning, somehow, something magically has occurred to have them walk it back.” • • • • So where does this leave the EPA’s remaining research into the effects of fracking? The agency has joined with the Department of Energy, U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Interior to study the environmental risks of developing unconventional fuels such as shale gas, but those involved in the collaboration say that little has happened. That leaves the EPA’s highly anticipated national study on hydraulic fracturing. When the EPA announced it was ending its research in Pavillion, it pointed to this study as a “major research program.” “The agency will look to the results of this program as the basis for its scientific conclusions and recommendations on hydraulic fracturing,” it said in a statement issued in partnership with Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead. That national study will concentrate on five case studies in Pennsylvania, Texas, North Dakota and Colorado. It will not, however, focus on Pavillion or Parker County or Dimock. Nor will it devote much attention to places like Sublette County, Wyo., where state and federal agencies have found both aquifer contamination and that drilling has caused dangerous levels of emissions and ozone pollution. It will be a long time before the EPA’s national study can inform the debate over fracking. While the agency has promised a draft by late 2014, it warned last month that no one should expect to read the final version before sometime in 2016, the last full year of President Obama’s term. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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or 48 hours straight, a painting and focused her academic work on brush will be on canvas at the survivors of trauma to prepare. She’s even Naropa Community Art participated in previous painting maraStudio. The two-day painting thons. This year, she’ll be painting for her marathon, which begins at 6 own way to Cambodia. p.m. on Friday, Nov. 8, is to raise money “I feel like I’m just really, fully into to support the Naropa Community Art this project,” says Bosco. “I really just Studio-International in its third annual believe in it and what it’s done after heartrip to Cambodia to practice art therapy ing stories from Sue and other students with survivors of sex trafficking. on what art can do and how it can heal.” Art therapy students and their sup“I think to go somewhere and really porters will paint on three canvases, one just be there, be in this discomfort,” for each of three teams, earning pledges Bosco says. “Even though it will be for every hour they paint. At the end of extremely challenging … I’d like to take the event, they should have completed the risk and see what’s there.” three paintings of mandalas, a Sanskirt The chance to go to Cambodia will term for “sacred circle” used to describe a force these students to dig into the funmeditation aid used by Buddhists and damental abilities of being present to Hindus across Asia, to be auctioned. support someone on his or her journey, The event’s aim is to Courtesy of NCAS-I whether you can speak the same language or really both raise funds to supcomprehend that person’s port that trip and build experience of violence and community awareness on poverty. the ongoing issue of sex “We’ll be learning not trafficking. just to be better therapists, In May 2014, Sue but better people,” says Wallingford, assistant Kelsey Butler, also an art professor at Naropa therapy student at Naropa. University’s art therapy program and faculty Like so many things advisor of the Naropa in the hands of a commuCommunity Art Studionity of people, perhaps International, and a particularly therapists, the group of art therapy stucanvases are expected to The 2012 48-Hour Painting dents — some of whom Marathon transform radically over applied to the university’s the course of the 48-hour art therapy master’s painting marathon. degree with an eye on this program — “Trust the process,” says Wallingford, will travel to Cambodia to volunteer with who has watched over the course of two nongovernmental organizations that previous painting marathons how canvasserve survivors of sex trafficking and es can go from chaos to form to chaos domestic violence. and back to form again. The trip is an opportunity to bring “Everybody’s mark is still there, even sex trafficking survivors and the local staff though it might be underneath other working with them, the art therapy techmarks,” she says. “It’s trusting that we niques that can teach the kind of skills will be able to offer something useful … often stripped through trauma, skills like and that the relationship between human confidence, problem solving and self-care. beings is powerful enough we can create But it’s also a chance for art therapy stusomething.” dents to put themselves to the test. “This is truly a service learning projThe NCAS-I 48-Hour Painting ect — there’s equal weight given to both,” Marathon beings at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. Wallingford says. “It’s equally important 8, and runs until 6 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. that the students learn so much about the 10 at the Nalanda Campus, 6287 Arapahoe culture, how to treat people of a different Ave., Boulder. The public is welcome culture, but first and foremost, how they between 8 a.m. and midnight each day. show up for something like that.” Shifts are still open and can be signed up for Art therapy master’s student Michelle by email at ncas-i@naropa.edu. Donations Bosco noticed the Cambodia program can be made at www.crowdrise.com/NCASwhen she was applying to Naropa, and IPaintingMarathon2013. has attended symposiums on sex traffickRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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program. As ProPublica has reported, some of the maps FEMA has issued in recent years have been based on outdated, inaccurate data, giving homeowners a misleading impression of flood risk and, in some cases, forcing them to buy insurance when they were not at great risk of flooding. Taking climate change into account when setting flood insurance rates is also a complex task. “That’s why we put the council in charge,” says Saks, from the National Wildlife Federation. “I can read the science and say storms are happening more often, and I can read the numbers and see that sea-level rise is happening. But I’m not an actuary, and I don’t know how you then translate that to” setting insurance rates. The risk-modeling companies that private insurers rely on have struggled to take climate change into account in their models, but they are making progress. “I wouldn’t be too surprised if within the next five years we could credibly start to incorporate climate change into aspects of the modeling,” says David F. Smith, the vice president of the model development group at Eqecat, a risk-modeling firm. Michael B. Gerrard, director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, says he wasn’t surprised FEMA had been slow in setting up the council. “It’s the rule, rather than the exception, that federal agencies miss the rule-making deadlines” set out in laws, he says. “Often they have to be sued to get back on schedule.” —ProPublica For more of ProPublica’s reporting on rebuilding as the climate changes, visit www.propublica.org/series/after-theflood. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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A lion’s share of a rescue Documentary follows lions rescued from Bolivian circuses that land in a Colorado sanctuary by Elizabeth Miller
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hen the Bolivian government passed a law banning animals from performing in circus acts, the first nationwide ban of its kind, the legislation was a huge step forward for animal rights activists long opposed to the conditions and treatment those circus animals faced. But it also presented a problem for the Bolivian government — what to do with the non-indigenous m fro d lions them to f recovere animals in the country that had been kept there ional staf es (bottom), flew at al rn m te ni In A rcus The Wild efenders Bolivian ci home at Animal D by circuses? Talk about lions and tigers and nditions at rmanent co pe d a pe t. em or th cram d Airp and foun rnational Colorado enver Inte y, near D Sanctuar
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monkeys, oh my. Bolivian officials turned to the Animal Defenders International, a United Kingdom-based organization that had campaigned for the legislation, to orchestrate the removal of those animals to a permanent, safe home. And that’s how Jan Creamer and Tim Phillips, husband-and-wife team and co-founders of Animal Defenders International, came to be sweeping through seven Bolivian circuses in a week, recovering 25 African lions from tiny cages and grim pros-
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Animal Defenders International co-founder Tim Phillips cradles one of three lion cubs recovered during an effort to rescue 25 lions from circuses in Bolivia.
pects for their 20- to 40-year lives. Some were starving, some were sick, two had been left in partial shade in the South American summer heat without water, and one had been so long abused just the sight of humans drives him to attack the bars around him. These were lions that had never felt grass beneath their feet or been able to look up and see the sky, as Creamer says. Their film, Lion Ark, tells the story of their air-lift rescue that ends in delivering those lions to what Phillips calls “our absolute ideal” home for them — nearly 5,000 miles away at The Wild Animal Sanctuary, a 720-acre sanctuary for large carnivores in Colorado. The sanctuary had 80 acres of land it could offer, divided into multiple tracts, so it could accommodate all the lions, but offer each family group its own space. It’s an incredible success story, a documentary on environmental and animal welfare issues with a very happy ending that shows the power people have when they come together to tackle a cause. The film also stokes an ongoing campaign to see similar laws passed in nations around the world — building off 20 countries where Animal Defenders International have led the charge to ban animals from circuses. “These animals are really deprived in these horrible conditions — which is self-evident, but you almost don’t realize just how much they’re missing,” Phillips
says. “As the film builds, you do see [the lions] rolling in the hay and being sociable with each other and kind of coming to life. There’s a big theme of lions become lions again.” The path to Bolivia began in Mozambique in 1996, when Animal Defenders International was first expanding to international animal welfare work and took a call asking the group to deal with a circus that was illegally trafficking animals. “It would arrive in one place with a group of chimpanzees, leave with no chimpanzees. Arrive with snakes, leave with no snakes. It was quite obviously a front for animal trafficking and it had run out of money in Mozambique, and the animals were literally starving. In fact, before we were called in, one tiger died of starvation,” Phillips says. “So we moved in and Jan and I seized all of those animals and we moved them to safety, and that was six lions, three tigers, a python, horses and dogs, the entire circus we rescued. And what we discovered was there were absolutely irregularities in all of the CITES permits, and there was a huge loophole that was allowing these circuses to be pretty much nodded through border controls.” They began lobbying to close those loopholes, and landed at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), a gathering of 172 countries, in Chile in 2002, when measures were
passed to secure cross-border movements of animals by requiring each animal to have, effectively, a passport — a document showing its age and where it had been previously. “We really closed that loophole. I don’t think it is an issue anymore,” Phillips says. But while in Chile, they discovered a chimpanzee at a circus that was chained in a packing crate; its teeth had been pulled out and it had been isolated for years. They rescued that chimpanzee, returning it to Africa. “There was such a massive response from the South American people to it, I mean it was just a huge story, there was this outpouring of warmth for this chimpanzee,” Phillips says. “We realized there was a massive potential to really do something, if we worked with the different South American countries, to really do something about this cruelty which up until this point, until Jan and I arrived, had really been unaddressed.” By 2004, they had recruited a team of people willing to work undercover at the circuses — and worked there for two years. “They moved from country to country, they crossed borders with circuses, working under cover in incredibly difficult and dangerous circumstances, but see LIONS Page 24
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what we gathered was this huge body of evidence of chimpanzees being beaten and lions being kicked and abused, and just appalling conditions, people hurling rocks at animals,” Phillips says. There’s a direct line from the campaign they mounted with that evidence to the legislation just passed or on the books in countries around the world, from Brazil to Greece to Costa Rica to Singapore. “[Animal Defenders International] really believes that evidence is the way forward, that governments and the public respond to clear evidence,” Phillips says. “These bans are in such different countries now, European countries, Asian countries, South American countries, Central American countries — all very, very different socioeconomically, but they’re all responding to this understanding that really, just in the name of entertainment, we should not be doing these things to animals anymore. It’s absolutely resonating with people. … Over 20 countries now have prohibitions, and I’ve never in 35 years of campaigning seen laws that prohibit something being done to animals, sweeping
through so many counties and such different countries.” Moving forward, they’ll be working with Colombia and Peru on enforcing their recently passed bans. Like Bolivia, those countries will be looking to Animal Defenders International to orchestrate retrieving animals from circuses and finding a permanent home for them. It’s a decision Phillips says he agrees with, given that there are very limited facilities there to ensure both a good life for the lions, and that no person is ever harmed by them, either. Once they were committed to relocating all two dozen lions to somewhere outside the country, the ideal was to find a location to take the entire group of animals. That place emerged thousands of miles away at The Wild Animal Sanctuary northeast of Denver. Pat Craig built the sanctuary for just such an occasion. Craig, who grew up in Colorado, started rescuing animals from the zoo systems around the country that might have otherwise been euthanized as excess to a farm outside Boulder 34 Boulder Weekly
adventure years ago. As the sanctuary grew, it moved from Boulder to Lyons finally to its home now near Keenesburg, where 19 years ago it started on just 160 acres. Now, they’ve acquired 720 acres. “We’ve done lots of large rescues with anywhere from 20 to 30 lions at a time,” Craig says. “Our facility is built for that kind of thing.” But Craig echoed the importance of demonstrating to the South American countries also considering a ban like Bolivia’s that it’s possible to see those bans effectively endorsed. While Creamer and Phillips were gathering the lions in Bolivia and readying crates for the flight to Colorado, Craig and his staff at The Wild Animal Sanctuary were quickly constructing a 15,000-square-foot biosphere heated to about 60 degrees to house the lions, which arrived from a Bolivian summer to February in Colorado, until they had acclimated. Within a couple of months, they were spending all of their time outdoors. “Most animals can acclimate pretty quickly, but when they first showed up here they were skin and bones, so it would have been really hard to acclimate,” Craig says. “Northern Africa still freezes, it just doesn’t snow.” Now, each family group has a 20-acre free-range habitat to roam. When the weather takes a turn, they have dens they can retreat to. Animal Defenders International and The Wild Animal Sanctuary have an ongoing partnership that includes assisting with financing the $8,000 annually required to support a single lion — $200,000 for the entire group. Phillips says he’s looking forward to returning for the Starz Denver Film Festival, where Lion Ark is screening, in part because he and Creamer will be able to make another of the regular visits to the lions at the sanctuary. “It is quite amazing seeing them now because they’re so settled and calm, I think it’s the closest you can get to how lions behave in the wild,” Phillips says. “It sort of charges your batteries for the next project, which is Peru.” As Animal Defenders International looks at assisting in enforcement of new laws banning circus animals in Peru, Ecuador, Paraguay and Colombia, it is bracing for a task that may prove even more difficult than the Bolivian rescue. The countries are bigger, and they’ve lost the advantage of surprise. “I think we’re expecting more resistance,” Phillips says. Animal Defense International (ADI) personnel in Peru and Colombia have been assaulted multiple times this year, including an attack that landed a field officer in the hospital with a broken leg. Their field officers are Boulder Weekly
now traveling in pairs as they conduct a census of the animals that will need to be relocated from those countries. “These things do get harder as there’s more awareness of who ADI is and that these bans are really serious — they are going to be enforced however long it takes and whatever it takes,” Phillips says. “Many of these circuses do not believe what they are doing is wrong to these animals — or they think it’s entirely acceptable to treat animals in that way, that they are just possessions
that can be stored, and they live and they die in those small cages, and that’s their right to do that. So people are resistant to this change.” Which has made helping with enforcement all the more critical. “One of the single biggest challenges to animal protection and conservation is getting it enforced, because often the very places — whether it’s elephants being slaughtered for their tusks in Africa or whether it’s trying to enforce anti-cruelty legislation in South
America — often the very places where it is most needed are where there is the least resources, so we need to raise funds to go and do this, otherwise [the law] suddenly becomes not worth the paper it’s written on,” Phillips says. “As we’ve shown in Bolivia, we’ve got a good model here, we’re showing how governments can work with [nongovernmental organizations] and how animals can be saved and cruelty can be stopped.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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home served as sort of a refugee center for people in the lowlands, ’cause they were up high. … You really feel helpless, you just want to send out love to everyone back home. “And so we dedicated our whole tour to it. We’re going to hope to raise some funds for the Lyons Musicians Relief Fund at our shows this weekend in Denver and Boulder, and get some people to help out with that. … We got back from our first leg of the tour in the Northeast, and every one of us came down and pitched in a little to help Taarka dig out from the six feet of mud.” Bittersweet way to kick off a tour, indeed. The band is just following up on its fourth long player, recorded with producer Ryan Hadlock at his Bear Creek Studios in Washington state. Hadlock has been on something of a Midas-touch hot streak lately, with successful projects for The Lumineers and Brandi see ELEPHANT REVIVAL Page 28
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Carlile. While Elephant Revival’s outside of Seattle. And, like, that same back-porch Americana still glows as day, we were at Mulberry Mountain warmly as ever, due in no small part in Arkansas, and our manager John to their uncanny vocal harmonies, Joy flew in and said, ‘Hey, I just most critics recognize both a steady reached out to Ryan Hadlock, who arc of maturity and a band has a studio in cohesion emerging Washington called Bear ON THE BILL: through this recording, Creek.’ And the thing is, Elephant Revival and Hadlock’s hand in we’d been trying to find a plays the Boulder the recording process studio and a producer for Theater on Saturday, Nov. 9. may be one component. months actually, without Doors at 7:30 p.m. From the quiet throb having gotten much clariTaarka and Aofie of the opener “Birds and ty on it. O’Donovan open. Tickets are $22 in Stars,” the poised Celtic “And then, you know, advance, $25 day fiddle waltz “The Rakers” within one or two days, it of show. and Bonnie Paine’s desall clicked.” perately cool a capella, Rose says that much Baptist revival/Appalachia of the material was field holler mash-up “Rogue River,” already pretty solid when they went a tune that’s been drifting through in, with a couple of tracks that were their sets for a few years now, the completely new: “Birds and Stars” Elephants sound like they have found and the mando/fiddle-driven instruthe perfect venue to channel their air- mental slow burner “The Pasture.” borne talents into a truly integrated But as far as how the thing was supsonic fabric, without compromise or posed to sound, Rose says that just chart-success cheapness. kind of happened. Rose says that the hookup with Evidently it happens to everyone Hadlock was a fated thing. who cuts tracks at this place. “It was pretty synchronistic, real“There is a ‘Bear Creek’ kind of ly,” Rose says. “Bonnie had just been sound, which we began to realize once in touch with Brandi Carlile in some we were there. You can hear if you lisway and had been informed about this ten back to The Lumineers’ stuff, great studio called Bear Creek, right Brandi Carlile’s stuff. And, we also
allowed more openness in the process, with Ryan and his assistant Jerry Streeter, who was a big, big help with the creation of this album. “And also, we had so much time. We had three weeks solid where we woke up — we lived there, we lived in the barn — and it was just music, from 10 a.m. till 2 a.m. every day. It really allowed us the time to delve deeper into the songs, what they were asking for, what Ryan’s ideas were about a part, and it really allowed us to have a back and forth about the songs. And to be sure everyone’s voice was heard, and that the arrangements were allowed to take on new lives of their own.” There is always a little peril in turning a delicately balanced creation like Elephant Revival’s unique Americana over to an outsider, but Rose says that the time they afforded themselves made the project successful. “That was the coolest thing about it,” Rose said. “We had the time to figure each other out and get to know each other, within the context of the music. And being up in the Pacific Northwest was cool. It’s definitely a magical place.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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ON THE BILL: Buddy Guy plays the Boulder Theater on Tuesday, Nov. 5. Tom Hambridge opens. Tickets start at $39.50. Doors at 7 p.m. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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uddy Guy’s new release, Rhythm signed by Silvertone Records and released & Blues, is a rarity in an era when the 1991 Grammy-winning comeback CD, EPs and singles are becoming Damn Right, I’ve Got The Blues. popular formats to release new Guy has recorded regularly ever since. music. It’s a double album, 22 allAnd he’s delivered one of his best albums new tracks deep. with Rhythm & Blues. Even with 22 songs, Guy and his producer Tom Hambridge there isn’t much filler, as Guy shows his didn’t go into the project expecting to make command of several forms of blues. There any more than the usual single album. are hard-hitting rockers like “Justifyin’” and “What really happened was every time “What’s Up With That Woman,” tunes we came up with a song and we were both with a little funk and Memphis soul (“Best excited about it, [we’d say] ‘Let’s do it,’” Guy In Town”), a little (mostly) acoustic country says. “And every time we finished that, there blues (“I Could Die Happy”), and even was another one. ‘Well, let’s do it.’ … All of some horn-filled jump blues — a style Guy a sudden we had, I figured, 22.” has not often recorded — on songs like Guy and Hambridge believed in all of “Well I Done Got Over It” and “Poison the tracks, but they weren’t so sure the idea Ivy.” of a double album would fly with Guy’s label, Rhythm & Blues could convert its share It’s not too often you get a chance to see a master of the blues, like RCA Records. of the uninitiated into blues fans. Guy is also Buddy Guy, do his thing on stage in Boulder. “I was going to meet the top guy from doing his part to keep the blues going by RCA, and he said ‘Hey man,’ and I’m thinktouring extensively and bringing his music and energetic showmanship directly to the ing he’s going to [give me a pink slip,]” says people. He also makes a point of touting Guy, who one can only assume wasn’t ever in young blues talents. In this interview, he danger of being dropped by the label. talked up Gary Clark Jr., who guests on the In fact, Guy, in all seriousness, said he song “Blues Don’t Care” from Rhythm & thought RCA would accept just a single Blues, and a 14-year-old guitar phenom, album and have him hold some of the 22 Quinn Sullivan, whom he first saw play tracks for a future album. when Sullivan was just 9. Instead, RCA bought off on the double As a performer, Guy tries to cater to his album. ing about it. ‘If I leave here before you do, you had audiences from night to night by not working from a “I’m like saying ‘Oh, thank God,’” Guy says. “I better not let that goddamn blues die.’” can’t wait to see what’s going to happen. If we can A native of Louisiana, Guy, 77, began his career set list. get a little airplay, hopefully I can sell … more CDs in earnest when he moved to Chicago in September “I go to the stage, and you can hear people,” Guy and keep the blues alive a little longer.” 1957, where he was signed by that city’s legendary says. “They’ll call out a song. I’ll look at my band Introducing the blues to more fans and breathing blues label, Chess Records, in 1960, home to the and say ‘Let’s do it.’ That’s why I’m here. That’s why life into the genre was a topic that Guy brought up likes of Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter. this particular fan came to hear me. several times during the interview. It’s a mission he Already an accomplished guitarist, Guy was “I listen to the audience,” he says. “I’m going has been trying to fulfill for more than three decades recruited to play on numerous albums by the label’s to give you the best that I got, whatever I do. But I don’t go there saying I’m going to drive ‘Damn now. leading artists, but struggled to get label co-owner Right, I Got The Blues’ down your throat. You “I’ve dedicated my life to the music,” he says. Leonard Chess to embrace the high-charged, hardmight want to hear ‘Slippin’ In.’ Or you might “The late Muddy Waters, Little Walter, the late edged type of blues he wanted to record. Junior Wells, I could go on and on, and we used to Guy’s tenure with Chess ended in 1967, when he want to hear me try to do something like Muddy Waters.” sit down and talk and be having a shot of wine or a moved to Vanguard Records. But he went through shot of whiskey, and we would be joking and laughthe 1980s without a record deal, before he was Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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all it “Bahman’s bon-bons.” That would ON THE BILL: The be Bahman Boulder Chamber Saless, music Orchestra plays the First Congregational Church director of the Boulder (1128 Pine St., Boulder) on Chamber Orchestra Friday, Nov. 8. Show starts (BCO), who usually gives at 7:30 p.m. The BCO will also play the Broomfield the group’s seasons a theme Auditorium (3 Community — such as “Symphonic Park Road, Broomfield) on Alchemy” or “Road to Saturday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. Visit www. Mastery.” But not this year. boulderchamberorchestra. “Yeah, there is nothorg for more info. ing,” Saless says when asked about a theme for the current season. “I would say it’s a season about doing Bahman’s The Boulder Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 10th season by programming some of Music Director favorite pieces.” Bahman Saless’ lost favorites. In other words, Bahman’s bon-bons? “Sure!” he says with a big smile. French symbolist Arthur Rimbaud. A probably one of the brightest pieces But when pressed, Saless acknowlphenomenon of the 19th century literBeethoven ever wrote.” edges that 2013-14 is, in fact, the ary world, Rimbaud wrote all of his Saless especially wants the audience BCO’s 10th anniversary. poetry in a three-year period, 1872–75, to notice how the seating of the orches“The season is basically about celeand then, at the age of 21, gave up writ- tra brings out Beethoven’s humor. “The brating our 10-year anniversary doing ing to travel through Asia and Africa. way that Beethoven wrote was first viothings that have always been my favorIt was soprano Sylvia Schranz who lins on the left side, seconds on the ites, pieces that I’ve missed doing, and introduced Saless to Britten’s settings, right side, and they talk to each other,” pieces that I know the audiences have composed in England and America on he explains. “It’s stereophonic writing. been wanting to come back,” Saless says. the eve of World War II. “Beethoven was a very humorous guy. He loved to do these funny things, That season opened in September “Sylvia and I have been talking where firsts talk, seconds answer, firsts and continues this weekend with about that for a few years,” Saless says. talk, seconds answer—then the cellos “Timeless Simplicity” — the concerts “She has been a frequent guest with come in. It’s like two children talking still carry titles — a program of pieces the orchestra and I love working with and suddenly the parents go ‘Wait a written in the early years of the comher. She said it was one of her all-time minute!’ posers’ respective careers: Mozart favorite pieces, and I love doing things “I love that about Beethoven. It’s Symphony No. 29, written when where it makes peoples’ lives more really cool.” Mozart was 18; Beethoven’s Piano meaningful. So I said, ‘Let’s do it!’” In soloist Soheil Nasseri, Saless has Concerto No. 2, written when Rimbaud’s texts, written partly Beethoven was 24; and Britten’s “Les under the influence of hashish, are com- found an ideal partner to reveal the “humorous guy” in the young Illuminations” for soprano and strings, plex and emotionally intense, but Saless Beethoven. Not that Nasseri treats written when Britten was 26. is confident their meanings will come music flippantly; on the contrary, the Performances are Friday, Nov. 8, in through in performance. Boulder, and Saturday, Nov. 9, in “I had to read them many times,” he Iranian-born American pianist has established a serious reputation as a virBroomfield (www.boulderchambersays. “We’ll have a translation in the tuoso performer and earned outstanding orchestra.org/concerts/201311.html). program for the audience to follow, but reviews in the New York Times. Boulder Featured soloists will be pianist I think Sylvia is fabulous enough to audiences will relish the chance to hear Soheil Nasseri in the Beethoven, makreally portray the essence well. this accomplished pianist. ing his Boulder debut; and soprano “One thing I’d love for the audience But his expressive palette clearly Sylvia Schranz, a regular on the Boulder to leave with is what a great composer includes all tints. Times critic Corinna music scene, in the Britten. Britten was.” “What these pieces have in common Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto da Fonseca-Wollheim made exactly that point, unintentionally promoting him is a simplicity and brightness, a positivi- is definitely one of Saless’ favorite piecfor this very program. “Nasseri revealed ty,” Saless says. “I think tunefulness usu- es. Although published second, it was a sure eye for drama and the psychologally goes with optimism and youth. But actually the first piano concerto ically telling detail,” she wrote on Sept. simplicity and profoundness are literally Beethoven wrote, and it has a playful 4. “There is a full-body expressiveness the two sides of the same coin. Often quality that Saless associates with the to Mr. Nasseri’s playing that came the simplest [pieces] are the best.” composer’s youthfulness. through most strongly in the comic The least familiar piece on the pro“Just like any creature as they grow, moments by Beethoven.” gram is Britten’s “Les Illuminations,” a composers have to play—it’s part of the Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com song cycle based on prose poems by the discovery journey,” he says. “This is Boulder Weekly
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BMoCA exhibition reframes technology from a feminist view
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elly Monico, Nebraska ry, theory and criticism and native though she may Metropolitan State University of be, has always been a Denver. fan of rap — old That tendency of female digischool rap. Then the tal artists to engage in something Metropolitan State University of a lot bigger than the medium at Denver art professor encountered hand is the driving pulse behind her first Nicki Minaj video on a Craft Tech. The galleries show student’s blog. women putting technology at “I was disgusted, I was like, oh work in delivering messages about, my gosh, there is so much selfyes, how we use technology and objectifying and twerking,” she how it shapes us and our view of says, laughing at the word Miley ourselves, but also about the Cyrus most recently popularized. urgency of discussions about “I thought, well, before I really broader social issues, sexism and judge here, I want to listen closer racism among them, as well as to her lyrics and see what the metviolence and environmental aphors were that were happening, change. It is, arguably, a feminist because I could tell there were take on predominantly masculine some language layers and sexual technology. politics. ... And, I think, you know, The exhibition moves from her beats are really good.” Monico’s work to Lynn So Monico, who’s always Hershmann Leeson, who engaged more with the concepts of the looking for ways to represent data potentially gender ambiguous, or visually — for example, picturing at least gender neutralizing, a pie chart at a dinner party cyborg and the distorted body where someone is dominating the Nicki Minaj’s song “Stupid Hoe” as presented in Kelly image issues built by the media. conversation — started looking Monico’s “Bitches n’ Hoes,” which used an algorithm to Her photo montages attach televifor a way to create a visual sound visually represent the use of derogatory slang in songs by female rappers. sion sets to female body parts, score. She wrote a program that, when a song is played, represents with the screen displaying a heavithe various lyrical components in differ- that you’re using before it or in that ly mascara’d eye. Then it’s on to works ent colors or shapes or patterns. same sentence,” Monico says. “These by pioneering video artist Beryl Korot, In the final product for Minaj’s hip-hop artists have reclaimed this who was creating some of her seminal “Stupid Hoe,” a swirl of black and gray misogynistic language and they’ve kind works about the time fellow exhibition semicircles is punctuated with semicirof flipped the script on it and taken artist Krysten Cunningham was born, cles in hot pink in a giraffe-like mottle ownership of these words.” and returns to themes she started delvand yellow and black tiger stripes — This year, on commission for the ing into decades ago about language patterns drawn from Boulder Museum of and the relationship between ancient the rapper’s decorative Contemporary Art’s technologies, specifically weaving, and ON THE BILL: Craft fingernails. The pink Craft Tech/Coded Media: video technology, and the interconnectTech/Coded Media: Women, Art & Technology shapes are for uses of Women, Art & ed and, at times, cautionary tales associis on view at the Boulder the word “bitch” in Technology, Monico ated with the embrace of technology. Museum of Contemporary From Korot it’s on to Marina Minaj’s lyrics, the tigercompleted “Bitches n’ Art, located at 1750 13th St., Boulder, until Jan. 26. Zurkow’s works on the environmental striped shapes for the Hoes,” a triptych of Tickets are $8. Kelly effects of oil and gas development and word “cunt,” and all of works addressing songs Monico will be speaking climate change. them play out amid a by female rappers, adding about her work at an expert talk at 6 p.m. on They are, more than anything else, backdrop of black and to Minaj’s with Azealia Nov. 14 at the museum. cautionary. Confident in their artistic gray representations of Banks’ “212” and Brooke She will also participate in choices, but a bit hesitant about the Minaj’s self-aggrandizCandy’s “Daz Me.” “Femcee: Lyrics decoded,” a panel discussion ways in which that same technology has ing lyrics. “Kelly’s very interwith hip hop artists and been implemented to affect our world. “I really enjoy this ested in technology, and scholars, at 6:30 p.m. on “The thread that I think collects a idea of getting people she uses technology in a Jan. 23. Tickets are $15. Additional information is sophisticated way to lot of this is these women artists all are to think about language at www.bmoca.org. looking at the theme of technology in a visualize what’s going and how you can give way that’s an alternative to that wholeon, but it’s this broader words power or take cultural theme that some hearted celebration of the machine, this power away from spekind of progressivist attitude that was people love, some people hate, some cific words — you know, this idea of really strong throughout most of the people don’t know anything about,” says using ‘bitch’ so many times that it loses Deanne Pytlinski, curator of the exhibiits sting, or it actually has a positive association just based on the adjective tion and associate professor of art histo- see TECHNOLOGY Page 38 Boulder Weekly
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idea of merging equality for women and the rap world — it’s a probing analysis, she says, if not a statement. At an expert talk at the museum on Nov. 14, Monico will be quizzed, Inside the Actors Studio-style, by fellow rap fan and self-proclaimed Kelly Monico expert Matthew Jenkins, and interrupted by the rap videos that sparked her work. It’s a chance to view the exhibition in a way that may make the experience more meaningful and more memorable, she says, in addition to allowing audiences to break down a few expectations. Given the chance to curate, Pytlinski says, she knew she wanted to return to a study of women and technology that began with her dissertation on lesser-known women producing video art in the 1960s and ’70s. “Women had been sort of socialized in the U.S. away from high tech, away from engineering, computers, so I wondered what it was like for women artists to work in this milieu when generally women had been socialized away from technology,” Pytlinski says. The source for technology-based careers — math, science, engineering, computer programming — are still dominated by men. Even the art world, Monico says, is probably as disproportionately male as the computer programming world. “So what happens when you open up the conversation to more players?” Pytlinski asks. “By opening that conversation about science, technology, so that we have women artists who talk about technology through the body, through the senses, through fiber, it makes a lot of us interact with science and technology in a much more intuitive way, where we might have been alienated from it with those very abstract kind of hard, masculinist approaches.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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restaurants in Boulder will donate 15% of sales to Attention Homes’ Runaway & Homeless Youth Program Mark the Wednesdays dates and dine with us! Participating on select in out November. restaurants in Boulder will donate 15% of sales to Nov 6 Attention Homes’ & 1690 Homeless Youth Program BJs Restaurant & Runaway Brewhouse, 28th Street on select Wednesdays in November. Nov 13 Nov 6 Kasa Japanese Bar & Grill, 1468 Pearl Street BJs Restaurant & Brewhouse, 1690 28th Street Nov 20 Nov 13 Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Avenue, Unit A Kasa Japanese Bar & Grill, 1468 Pearl Street Nov Nov 27 20 Casa Alvarez, 3161 Walnut Street Avenue, Unit A Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Nov 27 Casa 3161 Walnut Street Nov 7Alvarez, - Hope Boulder Church, 4705 Baseline Road,
Boulder, CO. 6 pm. Attend a community meeting to learn more7about efforts to help4705 runaway andRoad, homeless Nov - Hopelocal Boulder Church, Baseline Boulder, 6 pm. Attend a community meeting youth andCO. view a film screening of Sugar, based to onlearn the morestory aboutoflocal efforts to runaway and homeless true a homeless girlhelp coping with PTSD. youth and view a film screening of Sugar, based on the true story a homelesswith girl REMAX coping with PTSD. and Nov 16 - Inofpartnership of Boulder
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In November, porch lights across the country and youth. Obtain your for green light will homeless glow green to show support runaway bulb visitingyouth. us at 1443 Spruce and by homeless Obtain your St. green light Abulb $5 donation is suggested. by visiting us at 1443 Spruce St. A $5 donation is suggested.
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Hot Rize Benefit Concert A bluegrass extravaganza on Thursday, Nov. 7, featuring local legends Hot Rize and special guests Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers (of course), Jeff Austin, Billy Nershi, Sally Van Meter, Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore, Chris Pandolfi, Andy Hall, Eric Thorin, Justin Hoffenberg, and more. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
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Jake Joyce McCoy. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Big Daddy Love. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bill and John McKay. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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When 14-year-old Wilbur agrees to be the messenger in his older brother’s break-up with Annabelle, he doesn’t expect it to be as difficult as she makes it. Lunafest, a film festival celebrating women in filmmaking, featuring award-winning shorts, will feature this twist on a romantic comedy in the 2013 program alongside contributions from South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. Audiences can look forward to clips focused on humor, darkness, and hope at this one-night event centered on both the subjects in the films, and the women who envisioned them.
Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Casual Sinners. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
David Dondero. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Pickin’ Up The Pieces: A Hot Rize Benefit Concert
Espresso! 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway,
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Thursday, November 7: ATLAS Speaker Series: Blending Animated Graphics, Live Performance & Video, ATLAS 100, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577.
Thursday, November 7: Lunafest: Short Films by, for and about Women, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 6 p.m.
The Meditations. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Experimental animator, performance artist and TED Talk veteran Miwa Matreyek will be sharing her taste for the fantastical as a speaker on the University of Colorado Boulder campus this week. Exploring how the animated interacts with the physical, Matreyek will lead her audience through the creative process while displaying her own work in film, projection and performance. Matreyek is speaking as a part of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s MediaLive 2013 docket, this year focused around artists in the live audiovisual fields who are adapting, exploring and experimenting with technology and tradition.
music Friday, November 8: Hazel Miller, Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Called “Colorado’s Queen of Soul,” Hazel Miller has been a force on the Colorado music scene for 25 years and a regular performer at festivals across the country. Miller’s distinct blend of jazz, blues, pop and gospel influences in her vocals, and versatility with musical arrangements of both “big band” stylings and lighter sounds, has given her a reputation as a varied and refreshing soul performer. Fans will appreciate the Queen in this intimate venue before she returns to performing for sold-out theaters with the likes of James Brown, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Big Head Todd and the Monsters.
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Shadow Me Blue. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Signe Rustad. 7:30 p.m Swallow Hill Music Café, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Winchester Holiday & The Lonelyhearts. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
events Ana María Hernando and Kenneth Robinson. Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. ATLAS Speaker Series: “Blending Animated Graphics, Live Performance & Video.” 7 p.m. ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-4902. Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Brave Bold Beautiful — Fundraiser for Moving to End Sexual Assault featuring olympic medalist Kellie Wells. 6:30 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St, Boulder, 303-442-4344. Heroes is Horsehair Fundraiser featuring Richie Furay. 6 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Lunafest: Short Films by, for and about Women. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Medialive: Exploring Live Audiovisual Arts 2013. 6 p.m. ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303492-4902. Paint ’n’ Party. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. “What Can I Do?” Multimedia Environmental Presentation. 6:30 p.m. REI, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970.
Friday, November 8 music Americana Highway. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bill McKay. 4:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Brad Upton Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. David Booker and the Swingtet. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Elephant Revival — With Aofie O’Donovan & Taarka. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. GAMB Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Hazel Miller. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. ISSOVEE. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Jacques Crow. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Shel. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Signe Marie Rustad. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Teledonna. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Under a Blood Red Sky. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Vadym Kholodenko. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Wonderlic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
events Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow: Living With the Atomic Bomb, 1945-1965. 5:30 p.m. Through Jan. 12. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Art as Action: Break Open. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Condom Couture: A Safe and Sexy Fashion Show. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Front Range Bioneers. Various times through Nov. 10. Eaton Humanities Building, CU-Boulder campus, visit www.colorado.edu/ecenter/bioneers for more information. Medialive: Exploring Live Audiovisual Arts 2013. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Niwot Native American Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Elysian Fields Auction Co., 6924 79th St., Niwot, 303931-3084. Voices in Conflict — A look at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Waypoints Film Premiere. 7:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Saturday, November 9 music African Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Blackberry Smoke — With Ryan Chrys & The Rough Cuts. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Chain Station. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
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for Boulder County Flood Relief. 7 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
Rachel Eng’s clay installation, Biodiversity, will be featured in Figure/Object. Time/Place, the 2013 MFA exhibition at the CU Art Museum, through Nov. 21.
Children of the Rains — Artist Nancy Rynes. NCAR Visitor Center Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 29. Continuing Legacies: Evolving Ceramic Traditions. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Nov. 10. Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Jan. 26. Earth Moves: Shifts in Ceramic Art and Design. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities. Through Nov. 10. Figure/Object. Time/Place.: Fall 2013 MFA Exhibition. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Nov. 21 Heart Lines: Expressions of Native North American Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 21. Julie Puma: The Immortal Jellyfish. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.
Dechen Hawk and A Murder of Prose. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Mariachi Ensemble. 4:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.
DJ Ish. 10 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.
Master Time for the Real World — Retreat and Benefit for Flood Relief. Millennium Harvest House Boulder, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 720-515-1315.
Elephant Revival — With Aofie O’Donovan & Taarka. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Monocle. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Hey Lady! — With Goodwater. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Nacho Men. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Hobo Swagger — With The Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720297-6397.
New Family Dog. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Orchard Lounge — With Falcon Punch and Sam Warren. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Inner Oceans — With Prism Waves, Lake Mary & The Room Outside. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Marcus Lucas. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Johnny O Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Rachel James and Dave Preston. 7:30 p.m Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Mark Mallmain — With Distant Correspondent & Talk All Night. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
JV3. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Rihanna. 8 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100.
Kiss Kiss Electro Dance Party. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Robin & Linda Williams. 8 p.m Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003.
Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
The Polish Ambassador featuring Visuals by Liminus — With DJ Vadim and Wildlight. 8:30 p.m.
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Landscape M — Artist Heimrad Bäcker (1925-2003). Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 5. Local Showcase — 15 local artists. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Avenue, Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Dec. 8. MediaLive: Exploring Live Audiovisual Arts 2013. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Nov. 7-10. Nuestra Cultura: Our People, Our Heritage. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 22. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 21. The Photography of Mike Berenson. NCAR Visitor Center Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 29.
David Potter. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
Lurrie Bell and Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Monocle. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Through Jan. 12.
WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St.,
Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Wolftones. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 ext. 313.
events Art as Action: Break Open. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Breaking the Silence: Honoring the Voices of Queer Youth in Schools. Film screening. 3:30 p.m. ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-4902. Dance Bridge Showcase. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Digital Dada Festival Video Showcase. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Historic Home Tour — Art and gift sale. 10 a.m. Five locations in Longmont, visit http://hwnalongmont. wordpress.com for more details. How to Make Money With Your Photography in Your Spare Time. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Longmont Elks Lodge 1055 Annual Craft Fair. 9 a.m. Longmont Elks Lodge, 306 Coffman St., Long-
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Video Lighting 101. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Video Lighting 202. 1:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Wildlife and Winter Hike. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, 2 miles north of Nederland on County Road 126. 303-678-6214. Women of the West Saturday Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Sunday, November 10
Mazzy Star — With The Entrance Band. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-8321874. Neil Bridge Jazz Trio with Karen Lee. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Oscar Adams. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Renaissance Project. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Rocky Mountain Brassworks. 2 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 720-887-2371.
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Sacreblue. 4 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
A Silent Film — With Hands. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Steve Manshel. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.
Bonnie and the Blugrass Clydes. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.
Yo: Spirit of Asia. Featuring Ty Burhoe, Yutaka Oyama, & Akihisa Kominato. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Brandon Hagen. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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The Breaking Yard. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.
Deerhoof — With LXMP & Wheelchair Sports Camp. 8 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-7330230.
Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Drunken Hearts. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303-546-0886.
Honoring Your Moontime — With Rachel Farinelli. see EVENTS Page 44
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Carrie, the Musical. Presented by the Equinox Theatre Company. Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St. Denver, 720-984-0781. Nov. 8 through 30. Do You Know Who I Am? Presented by Motus Theater, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Nov. 8, 9. The Full Monty. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through Nov. 9. The Gut Girls. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Nov. 9.
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Wednesday, November 13 Walk Like a Buddha — Author Lodro Rinzler. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
EVENTS from Page 43 Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, 717 Poplar Ave., Boulder, 877-202-9329. Medialive: Exploring Live Audiovisual Arts 2013. 11 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Photography Hands-On Intensive Part 3 of 3: Composing Thoughtfully. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. UP Talks: Revenue to Revolution. 12:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Monday, November 11 music The Black Crowes. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Brett Dennen — With Noah Gunderson. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Electric Blues Jam. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Malai Llama. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Stage — With The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 ext. 313.
Tracorum. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-543-0886.
Interactive Tour of the Universe. 7 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua. 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282. Movie Night — Vicky Cristina Barcelona. 6:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720328-8328. Nautrally Boulder Networking Night. 5:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Web Design Transitions Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Though Nov. 15. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Wind Symphony & Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-8008.
Tuesday, November 12 music Ash Ganley. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Buddy Guy — With Tom Hambridge. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Chance the Rapper — With DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Exra Furman — With Tristen. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
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ATLAS Speaker Series: “Geospatial Data: Analytic Super Food.” 4 p.m. ATLAS Center, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-4902.
Jesse Garland Show. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Beijing Bicycle. Film screening. 2:30 p.m. Wolf Law 206, 2450 Kittredge Loop Road, Boulder, 303-4928047.
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Why Dogs Hump and Bees Get Depressed — Author Marc Bekoff. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Mic with Maus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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Saturday, Nov. 9 Art as Action: Break Open. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. An “artivist,” according to local multimedia performance art troupe Art as Action, stands in the place where social relevance and the arts meet. Celebrating this intersection, the group of creative minds will be sharing their latest performance piece, “Break Open,” at The Dairy Center for the Arts this weekend. Combining aerial and ground dancers, musicians, poets and visual artists on stage to inspire discussion around the vulnerability and beauty that comes with breaking oneself open, this show is the culminating work of 25 different contributors who have spent the past year, as Artistic Director Sarah Leversee says, “becoming more than the sum of our parts … breaking open together through the art process and through our work.” The result is a truly collaborative work, as the performers not only designed their performances together, but built this particular show around an already existing creative piece — a poem titled “Break Open” written by longtime group member Wayne A. Gilbert. As Leversee reads Gilbert’s poem, Gilbert responds with a poem formed from the words of community members, and two types of dancers take the stage in front of a photography display. These “artivists” are taking their latest piece to a place of complete openness, attempting to demonstrate the benefits of deep collaboration. —Lexi Schwartz
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Blues Jam Hosted by Todd Johnson. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Steve Aoki — With Borgore, Waka Flocka Flame, Deorro & Kryoman. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
The Thurston Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Delta Sonics Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Flip & Fly. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
nine inch nails: tension 2013 & Explosions in the Sky. 6:30 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700.
Get to Know Your Funders: The Insider’s Perspective on Public Funding for the Arts and Culture in Boulder County. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
NaNoWriMo Write In. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Portrait Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Wednesday, November 13 music The Bad Lovers — With Disaster Canyon & Codename: Carter. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Strange Byrds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
The Black Crowes. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Wednesday Waltz. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.
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reel to reel Films showing during the Starz Denver Film Festival, Nov. 6-17 Gloria; The Animal Project; American Mustang; When I Walk; The Resurrection of a Bastard; Monkey King; The Marathon; Grigris; Gold Fever; Days and Nights; Black Cloud; Torn Cloth; Sarah Prefers to Run; By Force of Character; Eternal Amazon; Hannah Ranch; Borgman; The Kill Team; If You Build It; Bending Steel. For full listings go to denverfilm.org.
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About Time A father explains to his son that all men in the family can time-travel. So the son goes back in time to find a girlfriend, which turns out to be harder than he thought. Rated R. At Century.
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All Is Lost Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water. Rated PG-13. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Blue Jasmine After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Esquire.
Capital When the CEO of a French bank collapses on the golf course, Machiavellian young executive Marc Tourneuil (Gad Elmaleh) is crowned as his replacement. Tourneuil’s brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund leader (Gabriel Byrne), erotic distractions from an international supermodel (Liya Kebede) and adversaries with an agenda for destruction. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Captain Phillips This film, starring Tom Hanks as Captain Phillips, is director Paul Greengrass’ interpretation of the real-life hijacking of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama in 2009 by Somali pirates. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Carrie Another remake of the classic. A shy girl who gets treated like crap by her family and peers discovers she has super evil powers and decides to get even. Rated R. At Twin Peaks.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 If you and the kids liked the first version, then you’ll no doubt like the second. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
The Counselor Filmmaker Ridley Scott and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy team up with talented actors Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem and Brad Pitt in this story of an attorney’s old dirty business deal that comes back to haunt him. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Cutie and the Boxer Once a rising star in the ’70’s New York art scene, 80-year-old “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara is prepping for his latest show, hoping to reinvigorate his career. His wife and de facto assistant, Noriko, seeks her own recognition through her “Cutie” illustrations, which depict their chaotic 40-year marriage. This film captures two lives united by a dedication to art-making for a touching meditation on the eternal themes of love and sacrifice. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Muscle Shoals Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Ala., is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. At its heart is Rick Hall, who founded FAME Studios. Overcoming crushing poverty and staggering tragedies, Hall brought black and white together in Alabama’s cauldron of racial hostility to create music for the generations. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro) One of the most endearing and internationally renowned films of all time, My Neighbor Totoro is a deceptively simple tale of two girls, Satsuki and Mei, who move with their father to a new house in the countryside. They soon discover that the surrounding forests are home to a family of Totoros, gentle but powerful creatures who live in a huge and ancient camphor tree and are seen only by children. Rated G. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Blood Brother Blood Brother is the story of a group of children infected with HIV and Rocky Braat, a disenchanted young American that met them while drifting through India. They were left on the doorstep of a slum orphanage by their families; he had bounced between parents and jobs his whole life. He wanted to adopt them all, but in reality, he couldn’t cure even one of them. He had to stay. Today, he lives in a concrete hut a few hundred yards from the orphanage. Every day they teach him what some of us will never really learn: Love is the only thing that makes life worth living. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
brick plant and a thriving middle class. The factories have since closed, crippling Medora’s economy and its pride. The population has slowly dwindled to around 500 people. Drug use is common, the school faces consolidation, and as one resident put it, “This town’s on the ropes.” Medora follows the down-but-not-out Medora Hornets varsity basketball team over the course of the 2011 season, capturing the players’ stories both on and off the court. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Patience Stone Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how to combat the virus. Ron, now shunned and ostracized by many of his old friends, and bereft of government-approved effective medicines, decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
forever? In this animated flick, time-travel is at least part of the equation. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Direct from Broadway: Sondheim’s Putting It Together
When we think of GIs and the Holocaust, we typically envision soldiers liberating death camps. They don’t think of American GIs themselves being victims in the Nazis’ Final Solution. But in a place called Berga, American POWs became just that, working and dying as slave laborers in one of Hitler’s most secretive concentration camps. Created by Boulder’s Hoggard Films for National Geographic, this movie tells their story. After the screening, Norman Fellman, one of the GI veteran survivors featured in the film, will join via Internet and take questions from the audience, along with producer Daphna Rubin and director Steven Hoggard. At Boedecker — Boedecker Theater
This musical review celebrates award-winning composer/ lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s humor, poignancy and sophistication in material taken from a number of his original musicals, including A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday In The Park With George, Assassins, the film Dick Tracy, and Do You Hear A Waltz? At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Don Jon Jon Martello is addicted to porn. Barbara Sugarman is addicted to romantic Hollywood movies. When the pair’s fantasy worlds collide, it gets interesting. Rated R. At Century.
Gravity Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in this visually stunning film that strands two astronauts in space when a routine spacewalk goes wrong. Also in 3-D. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
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In a World... Carol strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself competing with her father. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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When aliens attack Earth, International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley) and Col. Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) turn to a young boy, Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), to help them save the planet. Much action transpires. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Johnny Knoxville as 86-year-old Irving Zisman goes roadtripping with Billy, his 8-year-old grandson. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Enough Said Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a divorced, single parent masseuse who meets Albert (James Gandolfini), a nice guy in the same boat. Love and laughs follow. Rated PG-13. At Esquire, Colony Square and Century. — Landmark Theatres
Last Vegas An aging group of friends heads to Vegas to throw a party for the last of their single crew. An all-star cast of aging Hollywood folk like Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Michael Douglas make for the laughs. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Let the Fire Burn
Classic fright film. When a 12-year-old girl is possessed by demons, a young priest takes it upon himself to selflessly save her at the behest of her famous movie-star mother. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: A found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial Black Power group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated — and resulted in the tragic deaths of 11 people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “... let the fire burn.” At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
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Escape Plan Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger team up to break out of an escape-proof prison. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war ... A young woman in her 30s watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to the state of a vegetable because of a bullet in the neck. Not only is he abandoned by his companions of the Jihad, but also by his brothers. One day, the woman decides to tell him the truth about her feelings about their relationship. She says things she could never have said before, even though they have been married for the past 10 years. Therefore, this paralyzed man unconsciously becomes syngue sabour, a magic stone that, according to Persian mythology, when placed in front of a person, shields her from unhappiness, suffering, pains and miseries. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Rush Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard creates a visual masterpiece that recreates the well-documented 1970s rivalry between race-car drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda. Rated R. At Colony Square.
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Collection Two This is a niche film festival specializing in the integration of dance and cinema. It offers a rich program of short films from around the world. Meaning “without worry,” Sans Souci was conceived one fine spring day in 2003 when the founders sat on the porch of a 1967 Marlette Mobile home in the Sans Souci Trailer Park in Boulder, musing about the pleasures of viewing and creating dances for the screen. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Thor: The Dark World Thor battles to save Earth from really bad evil things ... again. It is a sequel after all. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Twelve Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender), as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the 12th year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) will forever alter his life. Rated R. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Wadjda Wadjda, a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, is fun-loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. Rated PG. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres
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Tame, lame video game ‘Ender’s Game’ has no winner by Ryan Syrek
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lam it up all you want: Ender’s Game is about a kid playing a high-stakes video game. And before Fred Savage-fueled visions of The Wizard go SuperMario-dancing in your head, you should know this features absolutely no Power Glove love. Based on a beloved book by awful homophobe and terrible human being Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game is about how bad/good war is, how noble/ irrelevant compassion is and how important/meaningless individuality is. If there was a clear message in the book beyond “kids can play video games like whoa,” screenwriter/director Gavin Hood lost it in adaptation. The result is a tepid, vanilla, special-effects bonanza with no stakes that squanders Harrison Ford’s attempt to kind of give a damn for once. Asa Butterfield is the titular Ender Wiggin, a brilliant boy trained to command military action against aliens from a young age. As is always the case, smart children in fiction are played as emotionally stunted and devoid of true personality, so Butterfield isn’t given much to do when his voice isn’t cracking while belting out commands. Colonel Graff (Ford) is convinced that the insect-like aliens are going to return to Earth and treat us like we treat actual insects, so he rushes Ender through the training program in the hopes of turning the tide once and for all. This all leads to a climactic battle that takes place in what is basically the holodeck from Star Trek’s Enterprise, the Danger Room from X-Men or the dreamatorium from NBC’s Community. More talented actresses Abigail Breslin and Hailee Steinfeld are forced
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to play “Go get ’em, male-hero-guy!” roles because Card’s brain is the kind of place where having female genitals fully eliminates independent heroism. Their characters exist solely to help Ender reach his objective. Worse yet is Major Gwen Anderson (Viola Davis), whose job it is to whine about hurt feelings and fragile emotions to Colonel “My name even looks like gruff ” Graff. In the hands of a more gifted artist than Hood, the adaptation may have focused on modern extrapolations of the book’s themes. For example, the detached, robotic military equipment that kills enemies while its users are safe far, far away certainly mirrors the current hubbub over U.S. drone strikes. Likewise, the stale “coming of age too young in the face of war” theme that has been present since movies first grew to prominence in the wake of World War II could have been replaced by an examination of the intellectual and revolutionary power of youth (see The Arab Spring, for example). Instead, Ender just plays with a fancy X-Box, and Hood hopes you’re distracted enough. Ender’s Game is perfectly serviceable, wholly inoffensive and spectacularly average entertainment. The saddest part is that Ford appeared to have actually woken up for a scene or two, but Hood was seemingly unprepared for that possibility, so nothing much comes of it. Nothing much comes of any of this really, save for Card getting another chance to cling to relevance and advance his agenda of hate. So, maybe this was a bad idea. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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s waves of cloudyeyed CU students ascended the stairs from the University of Colorado Boulder campus to the front of the Colorado Book Store on Halloween, CUSG volunteers in costumes distribute free food on Oct. 31. they were met by a group of individuals, some in suits and some in costumes, serving 10 pizzas from The Sink, two large party subs from Cheba Hut and four cases of bottled water. The group, which included CU Student Government Health Director Sam Golon, his brother Matt Golon, CUSG Director of Communications Lauren Cross and a few other volunteers, hoped to reduce the risk of alcohol poisoning, reduction,” Sam Golon says. Rather than combating the chance of unwise alcohol-fueled behavior and the the issue of dangerous drinking with an “abstinence number of hangovers in the morning. In 20 minutes, approach,” the harm reduction approach focuses on everything was gone and hordes of sauced students teaching students safe and responsible drinking habits continued on their way with smiles on their faces and like eating and drinking water between alcoholic bevfood in their bellies. erages and drinking steadily rather than quickly. The This is the fourth time this semester that volunefforts are mostly directed towards freshmen and teers have handed out free food to intoxicated stuunderage students who, according to Sam Golon, are dents on the Hill. CU Community Health is hoping especially susceptible to binge drinking. to turn it into a regular program starting in the spring. “It’s all about student behavior around alcohol, This effort and other similar ones are part of CU specifically underage students. That’s really our risk Community Health’s newly adopted strategy of “harm group,” Golon says. “The kids aren’t drinking legally;
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they’re not in a bar where there’s a bartender to cut them off. There are no hospitality guidelines at house parties.” And Golon says house parties are indeed the most common locations of problematic drinking. In recent years, Boulder City Council has also attempted to address the issue of alcohol abuse within the city. In 2004, city council passed Resolution 960, which brought the issue to light and prompted a review of city beverage licensing policies, code enforcement and zoning and land use regulations. Though city ordinances have been passed to reduce the harms of house parties, council is focusing its current efforts on bars. In October, council passed ordinances prohibiting new liquor license holders that serve alcohol from staying open past 11 p.m. If new businesses want to stay open later than 11 p.m., they cannot serve alcohol at all. Council members argued that tighter restrictions on commercial establishments would reduce noise complaints and overconsumption, although business owners on the Hill, and Boulder residents in an online survey conducted by the city,
Harm reduction approach to alcohol overconsumption focuses on minimizing risk of alcohol abuse, one slice of pizza at a time by Ali Tadayon
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fast. FADE BACK The Boulderado will host its The wild card of Left Hand buffet in the ballroom Nov. 28 Brewing Company’s lineup is from 12 to 4:30 p.m. On the Fade to Black. A seasonal menu — not to ruin the susavailable in the fall and winter pense — is roast turkey, vegemonths, Fade to Black changes tarian stuffing, mashed potaevery year as Left Hand’s brewtoes, candied sweet potatoes, ing team plays around with steamed vegetables and Diners at one of Boulder’s newest restaurants, Volta, which will participate in First Bite dark beers. This year, drinkers Boulder Nov. 15-23. pumpkin pie. can follow the arc of the Fade But of course there’s a lot to Black series, as Left Hand is more than the traditional fare. releasing a 12-pack with three First Bite, founded in 2006 by Kate Lacroix Molasses-and-chili-rubbed tenderloins, bottles each of Volumes 1 through 4 of Fade of restaurant publicity company dishwire and Scottish salmon, quinoa-stuffed sweet pepto Black, as well as six-packs of this year’s Josh Dinar of DiningOut Magazine, resembles pers, pasta with spinach and squash, fig and release, Volume 5. Denver Restaurant Week, in its 10th year. spice crème brulee: Boulderado is definitely Fade to Black’s first four volumes are: a Restaurants design a separate menu, typicalgoing above and beyond the spread at foreign export stout; a smoked Baltic porter; a ly three courses, for $26, offering diners a Grandma’s. There are five other desserts on pepper porter; and a Rocky Mountain black chance to dine at some of Boulder’s most the menu as well, including a gluten-free ale. The stout, which was Volume 1, has won upscale eateries for a more affordable price. chocolate lava cake. gold twice at the Great American Beer This year’s participants favor Italian restauThe cost is $49 for adults, $25 for children Festival, in 2009 when it was first brewed and rants; 13 of the 48 restaurants that have been ages 4-10 and there is no charge for children announced serve Italian food. That includes two this year. under 3. Reservations can be made on the Volume 5 is a black rye ale, described by top-five finishers in the Italian category in the Boulderado’s Open Table page, and questhe brewery as a deep dark brown ale with a Boulder Weekly Best of Boulder 2013, secondtions can be directed to 303-440-2880. coffee scent and flavors of nut bread, molasplace winner Carelli’s and fifth-place restaurant ses, spicy rye and a hops finish. Arugula. The top overall restaurant in Best of And just to be clear: Left Hand is not bottling Boulder, The Mediterranean Restaurant (OK, The FIRST BITE TIME 5-year-old beer. The brewery re-brewed each Med), is participating; it will offer a menu of two For the eighth year, Boulder County rescourses followed by dessert. In the recent Best taurants will set out prix-fixe menus at $26 per of the previous Fade to Blacks this year. of Boulder East County, Colterra was voted person for First Bite Boulder Nov. 15-23. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ith my Italian family, the kitchen is the focal point of our lives. Gathering around the kitchen table is where we find ourselves as we sit through laughter, joy, sadness and loss. It is our common denominator and of course there is always endless food to fill our bellies. Visiting my Nunnie and Popo (Calabrese Italian for ‘Grandma’ and ‘Grandpa’) on the East Coast, their small kitchen is really the only place we socialize and for that reason it’s incredibly special as we all find ourselves back there on those old, wooden chairs, year after year. Arabesque’s small, sun-lit restaurant evokes that same special kind of inviting kitchen that Arabesque wraps you up, enveloping you 1634 Walnut in warmth as soon as you St., Boulder enter. 720-242-8623 Owner/Chef Manal Jarrar was born in Israel and she helps transport customers gastronomically through her authentic, home-style Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine. Sitting in a small brick building off the beaten path on the corner of 16th and Walnut, they’ve been open since 2009 and are only open 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday for breakfast and lunch. Jararr is the epitome of warmth and hospitality. The moment you walk into the small restaurant you see her smiling broadly over a pot, stirring, humming and dancing around the kitchen. You can always find Jarrar — who was a longtime ballerina — gracefully whisking through the restaurant, hugging and chatting with customers, clearing tables, making jokes tableside, ringing guests up at the end of their meal and singing to herself as she prepares dishes from
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scratch in the open kitchen over the only two burners in the restaurant. Along with her quippy sense of humor that’s infectious, it’s obvious that she finds deep gratitude and joy in cooking and sharing her favorite childhood dishes from both sides of her family. Arabesque is a true family affair. When you enter, Jarrar’s husband, Saib, or their children serve as front of the house and motion you to a table if one’s open, then promptly bring you cool, rose-scented water. The service is casual and nothing over the top, but it’s comfortable. The space is small with just eight tables in addition to a few small couches in a corner by the door, which are perfect for comfortably waiting for an open table, or enjoying some Arabic coffee and baklava. In warmer months, you can also sit outside on the brick patio at the restaurant’s few outdoor tables under bright orange umbrellas. The menu is hand-written on a chalkboard on a wall showcasing their staple dishes to choose from — for lunch, there are just nine items. Arabesque doesn’t hand out menus and at the end of your meal, you pay by going up to the cash register and relaying what you ordered. I always gravitate toward the succulent Chicken Shawarma Plate that comes with vibrantly saffronin-color chicken shawarma spiced to perfection — but Jarrar’s lips are sealed, the recipe is a secret. The plate comes with house-made, pillowy, warm Arabic bread, creamy hummus sprinkled with bright orange paprika, fresh salad greens and baba ghannush. You can also find a tasty appetizer in their handrolled dolmas that are filled with brown rice, fresh
squeezed lemon and tomatoes that are cool to the touch and freshly wrapped. For dessert, look in the cooler up front by the cash register and choose between fruit tarts, baklava, mousse, brownies or tiramisu. When asked if the baklava and Arabic bread are made in house, she gives a “What do you take me for?” face and exclaims, “Oh yes, everything made here!” motioning with her slender fingers to the tiny kitchen behind her. You will find the lunch prices range from $9-$14 and you can guarantee the food is all made from scratch. With the small family staff and Jarrar being the only main chef, occasionally dishes take longer to get to you, but the restaurant isn’t meant to be speedy. An indulgent, leisurely lunch is more Arabesque’s speed. If you, too, find solace and enjoyment in the kitchen around a table, you can find that same comfort at Arabesque under Jarrar’s warmth and homey Middle Eastern food. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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said house parties are a greater contributor to these problems. Councilman Ken Wilson, a proponent of the newly adopted ordinances, cites bars and house parties as equally responsible in the overconsumption issue. “It’s about even,” Wilson says. “If you look at serious crimes like DUIs, assault and rape, half come from bars and half come from parties.” Wilson’s information comes from a “last drink survey” that the Boulder Police Department conducted over several years, in which officers would ask people charged with these crimes where they had their last drink and write the answer on the ticket. According to Wilson, anecdotal reports from police officers convinced him that these crimes came equally from house parties and bars. Wilson adds that house parties aren’t as disruptive as they used to be, when parties in Boulder often spilled out onto the street and most of the guests were strangers to the hosts. Wilson credits students and Hill residents for “partying smarter.” “The parties now tend to be smaller,” Wilson says. “I’ve seen signs in houses, in doors, that say, ‘If you don’t know anyone, then don’t come in.’ They used to be run like open bars. They realize when people they don’t know come, that’s when there’s problems.” Golon and the CU Community Health office base their approach on different findings. “The harm reduction approach is based on data from a couple universities showing that unsupervised house parties are more dangerous and people are more likely to binge drink,” Golon says, referring to a national survey in 2002 published in the Journal of Studies on
Alcohol and Drugs. CUSG released a statement in the form of a public letter before the Oct. 22 city council meeting that expressed their disapproval of the ordinances. Drafted by Golon, the letter outlined CUSG’s concern about the economic well-being of the Hill, accessibility of late-night food options and the fact that students are more at risk of alcohol abuse at unsupervised house parties. “CUSG’s belief is that by taking away professional alcohol distribution facilities, students are encouraged to participate in the overconsumption of alcohol and drug use,” says Cross, the CUSG communications director. In the letter, Golon suggests that enacting the ordinances “makes it unfeasible to operate food-service restaurants in the area in late night hours,” which Golon argues would increase the risk of alcohol abuse. He cites the other instances in which CUSG handed out free food and water on the Hill to students on their way to house parties and how students he encountered didn’t think of eating and drinking before and after going to house parties, had there not been food readily available. In the conclusion of the letter, Golon asks that city council “consider evidence-based policies and strategies that reduce off-premises drinking and its inherent community impacts.” Golon adds that CUSG hopes to maintain “the ongoing conversation” surrounding alcohol enforcement on the Hill, but that “creating policies that only target alcohol-serving establishments does not address the most significant problem: off-premise alcohol consumption that takes place in house parties, fraternities and private residences.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Adam Draeger uses the same chai spice mix that the restaurant uses in its “proper Indian chai.” That means, of course, the spice blend recipe is a secret, kept in an “unlabeled container surrounded by other unlabeled containers,” Max says. Chai recipes are no joke. The other Yak and Yeti top seller, Max says, is the Himalayan IPA, because we’re in Colorado, after all. This one’s got a very hoppy nose but good balance in the flavor, just a little sweet mixed with bitterness. I didn’t contact any state authorities to verify this, but Max says a request to approve a label for Himalayan IPA — a required step in canning and bottling — was rejected by a state authority because “people would think it was water.” So I’d like to point out that Himalayan IPA is beer, which contains water but is not water. Speaking of water, have some nearby for Jalapeño Lena. Max soft-pedaled the heat in the jalapeño ale; I like a little spice but the back-of-the-throat heat was more than a little. Rounding out my samples were the gluten-free apple ale — very nearly a cider, slightly dry, slightly buttery and not very sweet — and the Sherpa Prima, a brown ale aged in whiskey barrels that impart a very definite whiskey flavor and feel. As I depart — keeping my head down so I don’t get another glimpse of the rice and honey brown ale, the Belgian golden strong ale, the Oktoberfest — I overhear a well-meaning dude at the bar placing his order. “I’ll have the MAH-tur PAIN-ur,” he says. Yes, for both craft beer and ethnic food, we’ve got a long way to go. But I strongly recommend the — how do you say it? — KAI Stout? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: I am a kinky, youthful 72-year-old guy. I grew up in the Pleistocene era, when there was virtually no way to meet a kinky woman. I’ve had two vanilla marriages, and three months ago I ended a four-year vanilla relationship with the best woman I’ve ever met. I just couldn’t take not being a BDSM person anymore, and I broke up with this wonderful woman so I could do BDSM. I’ve had some fun, but no candidate for a possible LTR has come along. In the meantime, my most recent ex (I’ll call her “Mel”) and I have both been bereft over our split. It is like a death, and we grieve it every day. But I need the BDSM lifestyle, and I figured that sooner or later I would meet someone else and get over Mel. Two days ago, Mel called me and said she wants me back. She says she’s willing to do what I need if it will make it possible for us to be together. Since I am a switch, it would be perfectly acceptable to me to have her abuse and torture me. I am functioning as a Dom in the BDSM world at the moment, since there are so few female switches around and virtually all female subs turn green at the idea of being with a switch. Also, the competition for female dominants is fierce, and it’s too much for me — especially at age 72. However, if I had to choose to be one or the other, I would choose to be a sub to a dominant woman. Can Mel be that woman? Is it possible for a vanilla person to adapt to BDSM? Also, she does have a few weirdo fantasies of her own, such as making it with a chimp. But she stresses these are not very intensely compelling, as mine are. If it is possible for her to make this change, are there any good books on this? —Wants Helpful Insight, Please! P.S.: My son turned me on to your column recently! Dear WHIP: “Good for you for being honest about the importance of kink in your life,” says Joan Price, author of Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex. “At our age, we often realize that life is too short for bad sex. Sometimes it takes a series of unfulfilling relationships to make sexy, silver-haired folks like us say, ‘If not now, when?’” And if not Mel, who? You’re a new reader, WHIP, so you missed this insight the first 10,000 times it appeared in my column: You’ll meet two kinds of people at leather/fetish/ BDSM contests, play parties, and street festivals: people who were always kinky — men and women who’ve been Boulder Weekly
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“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings,” wrote W.H. Auden. If that’s true, then your job is to be a poet right now. You seem to be awash in a hubbub of paradoxical inclinations, complete with conflicting desires and mismatched truths. There’s no shame or blame in that. But you do have a responsibility to communicate your complexity with honesty and precision. If you can manage that, people will treat you with affection and give you extra slack. They might even thank you.
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What can you do to improve your flow? Are there obstructions in your environment that keep you from having a more fluidic rhythm? Do you harbor negative beliefs that make it harder for life to bestow its natural blessings on you? Now is the time to take care of glitches like these, Gemini. You have more power than usual to eliminate constrictions and dissolve fixations. Your intuition will be strong when you use it to drum up graceful luck for your personal use. Be aggressive. Be bold. Be lyrical. It’s high time for you to slip into a smooth groove.
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In the beginning of his novel The White Castle, Orhan Pamuk offers this meditation: “To imagine that a person who intrigues us has access to a way of life unknown and all the more attractive for its mystery, to believe that we will begin to live only through the love of that person — what else is this but the birth of great passion?” How do you respond to this provocative statement, Cancerian? Here are my thoughts: On the one hand, maybe it’s not healthy for you to fantasize that a special someone can give you what you can’t give yourself. On the other hand, believing this is true may inspire you to take an intriguing risk that would catalyze invigorating transformations. Which is it? Now is a good time to ruminate on these matters.
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Canadians Tommy Larkin and Stephen Goosney are biological brothers, but they were adopted by different families when they were young. They lost touch for almost 30 years. Once they began looking for each other, it didn’t take long to be reunited. Nor did they have to travel far to celebrate. It turns out that they were living across the street from each other in the same small town in Newfoundland. I foresee a metaphorically similar experience in your future, Leo. When you get reconnected to your past, you will find that it has been closer than you realized.
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This will be an excellent week for you to talk with yourself — or rather, with yourselves. I’m envisioning in-depth conversations between your inner saint and your inner evil twin … between the hard worker and the lover of creature comforts … between the eager-to-please servant of the greater good and the self-sufficient smartie who’s dedicated to personal success. I think that in at least some of these confabs, you should speak every word out loud. You should gesture with your hands and express colorful body language. It’s prime time for your different sub-personalities to get to know each other better.
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“Not for all the whiskey in heaven,” begins a poem by Charles Bernstein. “Not for all the flies in Vermont. Not for all the tears in the basement. Not for a million trips to Mars. Not for all the fire in hell. Not for all the blue in the sky.” Can you guess what he’s driving at? Those are the things he will gladly do without in order to serve his passion. “No, never, I’ll never stop loving you,” he concludes. According to my understanding of your astrological cycle, Scorpio, now is a good time for you to make a comparable pledge. What is the one passion you promise to devote yourself to above all others? And what are you willing to live without in order to focus on that passion? Be extravagant, pure, wild and explicit.
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Dmitri Razumikhin is a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. His surname is derived from the Russian word for “reason.” At one point he makes a drunken speech that includes these observations: “It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even 10 dozen reams of it.” Let’s make this a centerpiece of your current strategy, Sagittarius. Just assume that in order to ferret out the core insights that will fuel your next transformations, you may need to speak and hear a lot of babble.
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AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
Some spiritual traditions regard the ego as a bad thing. They imply it’s the source of suffering — a chronically infected pustule that must be regularly lanced and drained. I understand this argument. The ego has probably been the single most destructive force in the history of civilization. But I also think it’s our sacred duty to redeem and rehabilitate it. After all, we often need our egos in order to get important things done. Our egos give us the confidence to push through difficulties. They motivate us to work hard to achieve our dreams. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to beautify your ego as you strengthen it. Build your self-esteem without stirring up arrogance. Love yourself brilliantly, not neurotically. Express your talents in ways that stimulate others to express their talents.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
Dr. Seuss wrote his children’s books in English, but he liked to stretch the limits of his native tongue. “You’ll be surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond ‘Z’ and start poking around,” he said. One of the extra letters he found out there was “yuzz,” which he used to spell the made-up word “yuzz-a-ma-tuzz.” I recommend that you take after Seuss — not only in the way you speak, but also in the ways you work, play, love, dream and seek adventure. It’s time to explore the territory beyond your comfort zone.
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