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Correction: The article “The aftermath” (Dec. 5, Buzz) incorrectly stated that 211 structures and 175 homes in Lyons took flood damage. The correct number given to BW was 211 total structures, including 175 homes.
Greenwashing, revisited
[Re: “Hickenlooper’s new oil and gas
regulations: Real substance or fracking greenwash?” Cover story, Nov. 28.] Thanks for the great article on Hickenlooper’s new fracking regs. You put it all together. In my limited time, I did similar but far less extensive research as you, reading the regs, thinking about enforcement, examining the process by
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Highroad The educated working poor: Adjunct professors by Jim Hightower
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here’s a growing army of the working poor in our USofA, and big contingents of it are now on the march. They’re strategizing, organizing and mobilizing against the immoral economics of inequality being hung around America’s neck by the likes of Walmart, McDonald’s and colleges. Wait a minute. Colleges? You go
there to get ahead in life. More education makes you better off, right? Well, ask a college professor about that — you know, the ones who earned Ph.D.s and are now teaching America’s next generation. The sorry secret of higher education — from community colleges to brandname universities — is that they’ve embraced the corporate culture of a contingent workforce, turning professors into part-time, low-paid, no-benefit, no-tenure, temporary teachers. Overall, more than half of America’s higher-ed faculty members today are “adjunct professors,” meaning they are attached to the school, but not essentially a part of it. It also means that these highly educated, fully credentialed professors have become part of America’s army of the working poor. They never know until a semester starts whether they’ll teach one class, three, or none — typically, this leaves them with take-home pay
which the draft was developed and looking at EDF’s money trail. I came up with similar though far less detailed observations. Unfortunately, your article was very helpful in confirming what I suspected. You and Jeff do a fabulous job bringing the facts to bear on important issues — a see LETTERS Page 8
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somewhere between zero and maybe $1,000 a month. Poverty. Adjuncts usually get no benefits, no real chance of earning full-time positions, no due process or severance pay if dismissed, no say in curriculum or school policies — sometimes not even office space. Like their counterparts at Walmart and McDonald’s, adjunct college professors are not treated as valuable resources to be nurtured, but as cheap, exploitable and disposable labor. Unsurprisingly, this contingent of the low-wage army is organizing, too. For information, contact New Faculty Majority: www.NewFacultyMajority. info. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 12, 2013 7
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ind turbines have killed at least 67 eagles in the last five years, and probably a lot more, according to a report issued last September by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists. “Can’t be helped,” said the Obama administration, in so many words, when it announced last Friday that it would start issuing permits to utilities and wind farm operators allowing them to accidentally kill a set number of eagles per year for 30 years without penalty, provided they do everything practicable to avoid killing the birds. Companies would have to take even more measures if they kill more birds than their permits allow. (It turns out that the tips of those seemingly slow-turning turbine blades are actually moving at 179 mph, and eagles collide with them because when they’re looking for prey on the ground they don’t always look where they’re going.) Killing eagles is a violation of federal law. If the Justice Department chose to pursue the cases, utilities could be looking at major fines, wind farms being shut down, and maybe even executives doing some hard time. So far the Justice Department has chosen to look the other way, because the administration believes that expanding the wind power industry is so critical to the fight against global warming that some birds are just going to have to take one for the team. Existing law and regulations allow the administration to issue such permits, but only for five years, after which they can be renewed. The Obama administration decided to extend the timeframe to 30 years (without bothering to ask Congress, of course) to give wind farm operators the sort of certainty they could take to the bank. Literally take to the bank — the industry was having trouble obtaining financing for new wind farms because of uncertainty over its liability for eagle kills. Needless to say, the Obama administration’s decision ruffled green feathers. “Instead of balancing the need for conservation and renewable energy, [the Interior Department] wrote the 8 December 12, 2013
wind industry a blank check,” Audubon Society President and CEO David Yarnold said in a statement. The society said it would challenge the decision. If it does, chances are the challenge will soar beyond the welfare of eagles. That’s because the wind industry has a flying critter problem, and eagles are the least of it. According to the Associated Press, a study earlier this year found that U.S. wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats a year (the breakdown is 800,000 birds and 600,000 bats). And the problem is apt to get a lot bigger. According to the American Wind Energy Association, as of the end of 2012, there were more than 45,000 “utility-size” wind turbines in the United States. (There are probably around 50,000 by now). Last year, wind accounted for about 3.5 percent of the electricity generated in the United States. Alternative energy advocates think that percentage could be increased to 20 percent to 30 percent without destabilizing the grid. Reaching that goal would require another 250,000 to 300,000 wind turbines, with a commensurate rise in bird/bat fatalities. So did the Obama administration do the right thing by cutting the wind energy slack on bird killings? If you believe that global warming caused by human activity is an existential threat to life on the planet, or at least to civilization as we know it, the answer is obviously yes. There are about 3 million species on the planet, and all of them are supposedly threatened by global warming. The sheer scale of the technological assault that will have to be mounted in a short time to curtail the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, never mind to reverse it, all but guarantees that some of those species suffer collateral damage — maybe even extinction in some cases — as a result of the effort. But if the threat is as serious as guys like Al Gore and James Hansen (the retired NASA climatologist who is arguably the dean of American global warming alarmists) say it is, then it can’t be helped. The see DANISH PLAN Page 10
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thousand times better job than the Post and 10 thousand times better than the Camera. Ken Bonetti/Boulder Facts matter. Unfortunately, they’re in short supply in Joel Dyer’s story “Hickenlooper’s new oil and gas regulations: Real substance or fracking greenwash?”. Rather than discuss the merits of Gov. Hickenlooper’s proposal, Dyer dismisses it out of hand — basically saying there’s no point in having tough rules, since he doesn’t believe they’ll be enforced. At Environmental Defense Fund, which was involved in negotiations leading up to the proposal, we completely agree strong oversight capacity is needed. Where we diverge is on the idea that we can’t improve regulations at the same time. We can do both. If this proposal is adopted in February, Colorado will have the nation’s strongest rules for controlling oil and gas air emissions. It would be the first state to directly regulate methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, and have the strongest requirements for finding and fixing equipment leaks — or “fugitive emissions.” New, strong requirements would be implemented for other equipment too, like tanks, dehydrators and valves. Critically, these requirements would apply to existing well sites, not just new ones — which most other states and the U.S. EPA fail to do in their rules. Colorado’s Air Pollution Control Division estimates these measures would reduce smog-forming volatile organic compounds by 92,000 tons annually — about the same amount that comes from
all the cars in Colorado — and would eliminate tens of thousands of tons of climate-damaging methane emissions. In attacking EDF and some of our supporters, Dyer also takes the position that anyone who ever worked in the energy industry, or invested in it, should be barred from supporting or working for environmental protection. We couldn’t disagree more. In reality, we need more industry leaders and investors to stand up. We also want to correct Dyer’s implication that EDF accepts money from energy companies. We don’t. EDF doesn’t accept any corporate contributions, not from energy companies or any others. EDF has always used an approach that draws on science, economics, partnerships and bipartisanship. We believe that by working with diverse groups, including energy companies, we can foster solutions that aren’t available otherwise. Dyer may not like that EDF worked with Colorado’s three largest energy producers to help shape Gov. Hickenlooper’s proposal. He may believe opposing all oil and gas development is the right path forward. We don’t begrudge him those beliefs. He’s entitled to his own opinions. But he’s not entitled to his own facts. Dan Grossman, Rocky Mountain Regional Director, Environmental Defense Fund/Boulder Best coverage I’ve seen on the subject yet. Important research, and strong piece of journalism. One key omission: The Air Division in its press release admits the deal only see LETTERS Page 10
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fact that the Obama administration is not letting attempts to increase U.S. alternate energy production be derailed every time an eagle, or a sparrow for that matter, flies into a windmill shows that it is prepared to make real trade-offs to combat global warming. Good. Like James Hansen’s endorsement of nuclear power a couple weeks ago, it shows a seriousness of purpose that’s been notable by its absence among American environmentalists up to now. Still, the wind turbine issue casts a couple of points into sharp relief: 1) Alternative energy isn’t entirely benign. If we are going to make transitioning to it a national goal, we need to recognize that fact at the outset and, if we can’t mitigate the negative consequences, be prepared to accept them. 2) Given the number of birds who get
done in every year by, among other things, cars, cats and collisions with windows — more than a billion by some estimates — but whose species continue to thrive, it’s clear that a lot of avian species are able to adapt pretty well to a world filled with rampaging, habitat-destroying Homo sapiens. Maybe creatures that can adapt to having their environment sliced up by 8 million miles of roads in a century and the transformation of several hundred million acres of North American forest and prairie to mono-crop agriculture can deal with the relatively minor intrusion of a few hundred thousand windmills. Or with the changes wrought by global warming, for that matter. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
letters ies as a regular feature. Remembering the great things that our neighbors and friends do is good. Jim Wilkinson/Boulder [Re: “You say you want a revolution?” Screen, Nov. 28.] Critics and reviewers keep proclaiming that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a “dangerous” and “bold” movie because it dares to take on the subject of income inequality in America, but nothing could be further from the truth. Katniss Everdeen is about as threatening to our plutocratic overlords as a free Justin Bieber concert held at the Bank of America Stadium and sponsored by Walmart. In the film the citizens of District 12 are impoverished, but don’t blame capitalism! Oh no, the only reason anyone is poor in Panem is because of an evil government. But not even a government that closely resembles our own, staffed with Paul Ryan wannabes cutting food stamps and access to medical care because they think the poor are lazy and undeserving. Instead what we get is a relatively safe movie trope. The government of Panem is depicted as cartoonishly evil to the point of being farcical and has no resemblance to our government at all. And what about the lives of the poor people? In Collins’ Panem all we see of the poor are mostly white citizens working crappy jobs and wearing unstylish clothes, but otherwise treating each other with good old-fashioned American dignity and respect. No drug epidemics. No alcoholism aside from Haymitch. No rapes or beatings from other impoverished members of District 12. Clearly Mrs. Collins and director Francis Lawrence has never heard of East L.A. or Detroit. The only violence in the entire film is when the noble poor are forced by the government to kill each other. In other words, poverty itself never caused any real breakdown of the social order, only bad government. A message the Tea Party would no doubt wholeheartedly embrace. Real socio-economic revolutions are not accompanied by a 32-ounce collectors cups from McDonalds. Chris Robison/Boulder
understand that Long Walk to Freedom is an important history. Last spring, Claire Elizabeth France started her presentation on the 1964 Rivonia trial by saying, “This is so amazing — we are lucky to read about Mandela, who said: ‘I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live
together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for, and to see realised. But my Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.’” Claire explained to the class that Mandela intended to use the trial as a platform for his beliefs. Mandela knew that defending himself in a moral sense might result in the death penalty, but that
didn’t stop him. When Ms. France learned of Mandela’s death from a CNN update on her phone she wrote in an email, “I have been having flashbacks to your class when we read and discussed Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela, to this day, actively is in my thoughts when I need inspiration in my life ... I see LETTERS Page 12
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Nelson Mandela died on Dec. 6, but his ideas live on. Since returning from a 2011 Fulbright in South Africa, I have taught Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk to Freedom to CU-Boulder students in an anthropology course called Regional Cultures of Africa. Though some students complain about reading a 656-page book, others Boulder Weekly
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admire Nelson so much because he had qualities that I am working on having. He had the ability to, no matter what, stand up for himself and for what he believed in.” Now Madiba (Mandela’s clan ancestral name) has passed to the realm of the ancestors, but his autobiography continues to inspire CU students in ANTH 1150. Laura DeLuca/Boulder History is on the side of freedom fighters. God bless Nelson Mandela. May he rest in peace. Tommy Holeman/Niwot
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I really didn’t want Walmart in Boulder and was angry when they managed to sneak into the Diagonal Mall, so you can imagine my annoyance when I recently started finding large advertisements from the new Neighborhood Market in my mailbox. “What a waste of paper,” I complained to my wife, “when Walmart knows most Boulderites will never choose to shop there, even if they can get some lower prices.” But then, suddenly, an idea hit me, and I went to my desk, took out scissors, a marker, and clear tape, and set to work. Minutes later, I had a durable, tapecovered badge affixed (with double-stick tape) to my shirt: below, on corporate green background, was the Neighborhood Market logo, above, bright red on bright white, the words “I BOYCOTT”. Who needs to buy buttons to promote the local campaign to close this Walmart store when the corporation sends us nicely printed material that we can use to make our own counter-ads? And every time another Neighborhood Market mailer arrives, we can make additional badges to pass on to our friends. I’m looking forward to seeing what creativity my fellow shoppers employ in making their badges! John Russell/Boulder
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This letter is to whomever is concerned with the industrial hemp industry in Colorado. With the passage by the people of Amendment 64 the possibility of a viable and profitable industry in the state was open. After attending the Industrial Hemp Forum hosted by Rep. Jared Polis in Fort Collins it is questionable if hemp production will take place. After reviewing the criteria for farmers to grow industrial hemp, the odds are signif-
icantly against it. Usually when an industry is encouraged by the community it is offered incentives in the form of tax breaks, free land and other aids to get it off the ground. Not so with industrial hemp. Despite the rhetoric by the newly formed Colorado Department of Agriculture Hemp commission that they want to be “partners” in the research and development of this brand new industry, their regulations speak just the opposite. In the guidelines the individual farmer must bear all the costs for such research and development (the state agricultural schools are not allowed to do research and development).The farmer first must pay a registration fee and then pay a fee for each acre cultivated (what other crop do you know has this requirement?). The farmer then must have the seeds smuggled in through undercover operations. After bearing the cost to purchase, plant and grow the crop the farmer must then pay for the inspection and diagnosis of the THC content. The risk being that if it is over 0.3 percent THC content his entire effort is destroyed by methods of arbitrary discretion by whom? No remuneration of any kind will be made and any chance of selling it are forbidden. If it is over 1 percent THC the federal authorities will be called in and the farmer stands the risk of arrest as a felon and even the loss of his property! Couple all of this with the fact that no one will sell crop insurance for this crop. All of this when certified seed of THC balanced industrial hemp are available in Canada, the European Union and Asia. Why remake the wheel? Allow for transport of certified seed to come to this state! Actually become a partner bearing some of the cost and risk involved in research, development and testing! Promote business by making a profit a sure thing! Consumers and users of industrial hemp attended the forum and are poised to purchase this crop in Colorado, and the possibility of moving those processing industries to the state of Colorado is high. As it stands none of this will happen under these criteria. Would you as a farmer venture into this field with these criteria? I am asking the governor to recall the commission and re-evaluate this criteria and truly become partners with farmers that want to re-introduce this crop in Colorado. Randy Luallin/Louisville Boulder Weekly
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POETRY IN MOTION Most of you have probably seen the ZIP Code Man, David Rosdeitcher, in action on the Pearl Street Mall, but have you had Bill Keys, the Poem Guy, compose a few lines for you while you wait? We got a note from Keys, who claims to have written more than 2,000 poems for passersby on the mall using a 1917 typewriter and a sign reading “Poems about anyone or anything.” His customers tell him what they want the poem to be about, and he churns out a piece in about five minutes. Then he takes a photo of the person holding the poem. Keys tells us that he got at least one repeat customer every day this spring and summer. One woman has gotten eight poems from him, he says, and another has the last line of a poem he did for her 2-yearold daughter tattooed on her arm in his typewriter font. And this winter, according to Keys, he’s teamed up with the Boulder Book Store to keep the poems flowing during frigid winter days — by setting up shop on the store’s second floor. He lauds Boulder Book Store owner David Bolduc and calls it “a fine collaboration of a local business and artist enriching the life of Boulder.” Roses are red, violets are blue, Bill is keeping Boulder weird, so why don’t you? NEEDLES TO GO Have you heard about the new concept in Boulder for keeping affordable health care on the move? It’s called the Acupuncture Bus, and the idea is to increase access to acupuncture, a medical treatment that is often both financially and physically out of reach for many people. Boulder acupuncturist Noah Goldstein decided to begin offering his services on an affordable sliding scale and setting up shop where he is needed most. The bus is expected to launch in February, and Goldstein has launched a crowdfunding campaign to help get the effort off the ground. He says in a press release that his hope is to someday have a fleet of buses across the country, “supporting communities in a myriad of underserved areas looking for affordable healing.” For more information, check out www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-acupuncture-bus. REST IN PEACE Here’s one you probably did miss, in fact. At least 15 homeless people died in Boulder in 2013. The homeless community and its friends, advocates and service providers host a ceremony annually to commemorate the lives of those who perished while on the streets, and this year it will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Central Park Bandshell. You may have noticed that we have been periodically running profiles on local homeless people throughout the year in an effort to combat the stigma and stereotypes too often attached to the homeless. We’ve been telling their stories in an effort to shine light on the various paths and circumstances that can lead to a life on the street. It hasn’t been an effort to be bleeding-heart liberals, to glorify or even generate sympathy for them; many have done inexcusable things and deserve the consequences. Instead, it’s been a series aimed at exploring the often complicated factors that can contribute to the lot of those on the lowest rung of our socioeconomic ladder. In that spirit of attaching names — and lives — to the faces, here are the members of the homeless community who will be remembered on Dec. 21: Lara Wilkerson; Joshua “Roach” Gunter Roach, 36; David Urban, 48; David Kiser, 45; Tyler “Frodo” Dory, 22; “DC,” late 40s; Terri Sternberg, 60; Michael Garriss, early 30s; Troy Peterson, 46; Thomas Carbone; Gary Purcell; Richard Bard; Hugh Gouthrou; David Dunn; Terry Allen Cooper. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Real estate buyers correctly realization that the current oil and gas It seems that while most of the understand that the scientific and politboom, which has been aggressively nation has been focused on the debate ical arguments that are increasingly marketed as an economic windfall for over whether or not fracking poses a being debated around the subject of the U.S. by both the industry and polirisk to the environment and public fracking and increasingly reported in ticians whose cash-strapped regions are health, a few curious minds have been the media are causing apprehension in desperate for new sources of revenue, researching fracking’s impacts on the the real estate market. They know that may, in fact, be something far different. real estate and mortgage markets. And because of that apprehension, regardless New research indicates that many of while the science on fracking’s very real of whether or not it is justified, a growthe 15.3 million Americans living with- potential health dangers is still being ing number of people don’t want to live in a mile of a hydraulically fractured collected, studied and debated, it or invest in a property near an existing well that’s been drilled since 2000 may appears that the verdict is in on the well or even in an area that could one have lost or be in the process of losing a controversial extraction practice’s day end up with a well nearby because good portion of their wealth as a result impact on what is, for most Americans, some third party owns the mineral of this drilling activity. their largest single investment, namely, rights. So just how big of a loss are we their homes. Because perception is reality in the talking about cumulatively? If the The fracking/real estate conundrum real estate market, informed buyers and research is correct, it’s billions upon bil- will not be easily solved. It is not so qualified real estate agents are beginlions of dollars. As a matter of perspec- simple as identifying the fact that most ning to steer clear of houses and proptive, recent research indicates that drill- people won’t buy a home if it’s sited erties near oil and gas shale plays unless ing wells within just one mid-size com- near oil and gas activity that they they are at a substantial discount to munity such as Longmont could, in a believe could be harmful to their health similar properties that are not threator negatively impact future property worst-case scenario, trigger a drop in ened by such drilling activity. And if values. That part of the equation is just home values of more than 15 percent. buyers and agents are aware of frackcommon sense and is indirectly linked And a 15 percent drop in Longmont ing’s impact on real estate values, you real estate values, a town with a popula- to the ongoing scientific health debate can bet that banks are also well aware over fracking. tion of only 88,000, would equal someof their potential exposure when lendIn the real world, housing prices rise ing money in those same areas. where around a $1.2 billion loss. The losses of those living near wells and fall with public perception, not If housing prices in an area fall is due to the diminishing values of their with the quality of Haliburton’s latest because of the fear of fracking, then homes and property as a result of the scientific explanation for why its 500 lenders stop lending in areas where fact that an increasing number of buytoxic chemicals used in the fracking fracking may occur, and when that hapers have become hesitant to purchase process won’t find their way into your pens, prices in those areas fall still furreal estate near fracked wells and their groundwater. Or put another way, ther. Like many ups and downs within accompanying industrial production industry white papers don’t sell houses. the investment community, it is a chain platforms. It also doesn’t help that For the most part, the real estate reaction triggered entirely by percepfracking/oil and gas shale development market operates on just one principle; if tion, but the results are all too real. is also threatening the primary and sec- a prospective buyer isn’t sure that they But if research is finding that oil ondary mortgage markets. No buyer, no will be able to sell a property later for at shale development is driving down real sale. No mortgage, no sale. It’s that least what they paid for it today, they estate values, then why does the indusBoulder Weekly
try continue to claim just the opposite to be true? The answer is likely twofold. First, if people in communities and counties sitting atop oil and gas shale formations realize that they could potentially lose 5 percent to 20 percent of their property values should drilling occur anywhere near their homes, they would likely go the same route as Colorado’s Front Range citizens and begin to vote for moratoriums and outright bans on fracking. And that would create a disastrous delay for an industry whose economic vitality is literally dependent upon its ability to drill, produce and export our natural gas overseas as quickly as possible. Foreign markets are currently willing to pay as much as four times the going rate for gas here in the states, but that won’t last forever. In fact, it is predicted that most foreign markets will be using their own domestically produced shale gas within the next five to 10 years. So if the oil and gas industry is going to capitalize on this short window of opportunity to secure mass profits from shale gas, it needs to keep the public on its side for as long as possible while it moves forward with plans to get U.S. natural gas to Asia, Europe and elsewhere. Oil and gas executives understand that nothing motivates the citizenry to grassroots action like hitting them in their pocketbooks. So for the industry, the story of job creation makes for better TV commercials than the story of real estate value declines. The second reason the industry claims that oil and gas shale development is a positive for real estate values is because it has been so in some select areas. These exceptions to the lowerprice-near-drilling rule are often used as examples by the industry to try and quell a community’s fear that its real estate values could be harmed by nearby drilling activity. But it seems a somewhat disingenuous argument when all the facts are known. See REAL ESTATE Page 16
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Communities that have experienced a boost in real estate prices due to oil and gas shale development tend to be small, isolated towns located in close proximity to a major shale play during the drilling phase. For example, Williston, N.D., has seen an extraordinary increase in property values due to the current oil shale drilling boom in the Bakken formation. Why this has occurred is not a mystery, nor is it applicable to other locations around the country such as the Front Range of Colorado. In Williston, 15,000 mostly shortterm (a few years at best) workers have descended, almost overnight, onto the tiny town with a population of 12,000 locals who already occupied nearly all of the 5,230 existing houses in the community. As a result, wheat fields around the town have become home to thousands of travel trailers and motor homes of every size and shape. In these “man camps,” as they’re called by locals, it’s not unusual to find recently arrived workers paying thousands of dollars a month for the privilege of sleeping in a bunk in a crowded travel trailer. Many workers wind up living in their cars. It’s true that existing home prices in the area have increased three- to fivefold because, during the drilling boom, they are being sold as rental properties that can be used to house the glut of workers who are willing to pay thousands to share a room with four to six of their oil-patch pals. Fast money tends to inflate things. Like the landlords, the local restaurants in Williston are enjoying the boom, but they are also shelling out $25 an hour just to get someone to wipe down tables or wash dishes. And more often than not, the restaurant owners also have to provide housing for employees in the form of a trailer in the eatery’s parking lot. When it booms, it booms. Strip clubs have shot up in Williston like gushers of oil from the plains. According to Hollywood Interrupted writer extraordinaire Mark Ebner, who has spent a fair amount of time of late rubbing against Williston’s underbelly, dancers at these clubs who entertain the roughnecks while helping to separate them from their paychecks can make as much as $2,000 a night. And the folks cooking meth can do even better than that. Williston is one of the real estate markets that the industry touts as being healthy and sustainable thanks to oil shale development? But as with all booms, the bust will most assuredly come when the brunt of the drilling activity moves on to the
next play. This is Williston’s third “boom” since 1981. I was there for the first one and can assure you that the real estate prices went up and then fell back to reality as soon as the rig count plummeted and the oilies moved on. The only thing that will be left when the current boom subsides will be a devastated little North Dakota town with a bad case of culture shock and a few new tattoos. This is what has happened to some extent in small towns near shale plays all across the country, including Colorado towns like Rifle and Trinidad that have already experienced the boom and bust cycles attributable to shale gas. The housing additions that were new and promising a few years ago are today bank-owned eyesores. The new restaurants, hotels and businesses that came have mostly gone. Today even the businesses that existed before the wells came are struggling to hold on now that the oil patch has shifted to the next unsuspecting, ill-prepared community. It seems hardly an honest position for the oil and gas industry to point to such boomtowns as examples of oil and gas shale development’s positive influence on real estate values. Industry folks know that, for the most part, the benefit to real estate values only occurs during a drilling boom phase of development due to severe housing shortages for workers in less populated corners of rural America. In most areas where a larger population exists before the rigs move in — areas such as Colorado’s Front Range or similarly populated parts of Pennsylvania, New York and Texas — researchers have found that fracking has a substantial and negative influence over real estate prices. In these more populated, more developed areas there is no upward pressure on housing prices when the drilling comes because there is ample housing and other businesses to handle any short-term influx of the drillingrelated workforce. So the real, long-term impact on housing values for most Americans living near oil and gas shale development is to the downside due to the perception, right or wrong, that drilling and fracking may contaminate the air and water, create a visual/noise nuisance and threaten public health, at least that is what the research is finding. A recent study titled “A Review of Hydro-Fracking and its Potential Impacts on Real Estate” which was conducted by the University of Denver’s Ron Throupe, a professor in the Daniels College of Business, along with his DU colleague Xue Mao and Robert A. Simons of Cleveland State
University, found that the term “fracking” is having an influence on public opinion, and that when it comes to real estate, that influence is likely causing people to not buy or at best pay less for homes near such oil and gas activity. The study surveyed homeowners in Texas, Alabama and Florida. The homeowners were asked if they would buy a home under certain conditions, which included that “an energy company had bought the rights to inject a pressurized mixture of water, sand and chemicals into a lower groundwater aquifer to recover natural gas under the property they were considering buying.” In Texas, where residents have had a long relationship with the oil and gas industry, only about a quarter of those surveyed said they would be willing to purchase the house. Of those who said they would still purchase the home, the best offers were around 6 percent below what should have been the home’s market value. While just over a third of those surveyed in Alabama and Florida said they would be willing to buy such a home under the set conditions, those still willing to purchase the property discounted the property more heavily than the Texans, claiming that they would only buy if they could pay 15 percent below what should have been market value. In a recent interview, Throupe told BW that in a county such as Boulder, where the apprehension over fracking is quite high, it is likely that homes near drilling operations could easily lose as much as 20 percent of their value. And he also pointed out that it isn’t just the homes adjacent to drilling that are being impacted. For instance, if a well is being drilled and fracked on the edge of a housing addition or within a town, the homes located in close proximity to the well and/or production platform will decrease in value, but so will all the homes within the addition or within a certain distance to the well. This loss in real estate value to homes that can’t even be seen from a well site is due to the comparable sales process used during the appraisal process. The DU research also found that other factors near drilling operations, such as whether or not a home was on well water or city supplied water, also influenced potential purchasers’ willingness to buy and pricing. Throupe and his colleagues are currently working on another research project examining the oil and gas industry’s impact on Colorado real estate specifically by actually mapping oil and gas wells and then analyzing the real estate nearby. That study will be completed in a few months. In 2004, another study titled, “The Boulder Weekly
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prevent invasive oil and gas shale development while more research on fracking’s impact on public health and the environment is conducted. If oil and gas companies were legally made to pay proper compensation for surface damages, which logically should include real estate value damages to homeowners, it is likely that much of the proposed drilling near populated areas such as Colorado Front Range communities like Longmont, Lafayette, Fort Collins and Broomfield would be
deemed uneconomical, as damages could easily reach into the tens of millions of dollars or more for any well located in close proximity to concentrated housing. At this point, the only reason that oil and gas companies can drill close to or even within communities is because outdated state laws regarding surface damages which exclude real estate value losses to nearby homeowners are, in fact, acting as a multi-billion dollar subsidy for the world’s most profitable industry.
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Contaminated tribe
Hormone-blocking chemicals found in First Nations families by Brian Bienkowski
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others and children of a First Nations tribe living in one of Canada’s most industrialized regions are highly exposed to estrogen-blocking chemicals, according to a new study. The research is the first to confirm the Aamjiwnaang community’s fears of elevated exposure to pollutants, and it may help shed some light on why the tribe has an unusually low percentage of baby boys. The findings do not prove that chemicals are causing fewer baby boys in the community, but they provide some limited evidence suggesting a possible link. “While we’re far from a conclusive statement, the kinds of health problems they experience — neurodevelopment, skewed sex ratios — are the health effects we would expect from such chemicals and metals,” says Niladri Basu, lead author of the study and associate professor at McGill University in Montreal. The reservation is within 15 miles of “Chemical Valley,” a region along the U.S.-Canada border near Lake Huron with more than 50 industrial facilities, including oil refineries and chemical manufacturers. Forty-two pairs of Aamjiwnaang mothers and children were tested for the study. For four types of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the average levels found in the children ranged from two to seven times higher than the average Canadian child. The mothers’ average levels were about double the Canadian average for three of the compounds. PCBs were widely used industrial compounds until they were banned in the 1970s in the United States and Canada because they were building up in the environment. Eating fish is the most common exposure route for PCBs. But a survey revealed the community eats very little fish, so the high levels of PCBs remain “a puzzle,” Basu said. He suspects the chemicals are still
in the soil and air from decades ago. The Aamjiwnaang First Nations community has about 2,000 tribe members, with about 850 living on the reservation near Sarnia, Ontario, just east of Michigan’s thumb across the St. Clair River. The name Aamjiwnaang means “at the spawning stream,” a nod to the tribe’s rich historical relationship with the nearby river and its fish. Fish advisories warning of contamination have been ubiquitous there since the 1970s. The tribe received international attention in 2005 when scientists reported that baby boys accounted for only 35 percent of births there comCyrus Storm-Sinopole of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation tribe from Sarnia, pared with 51.2 percent Ontario, dances at a pow wow in Michigan. Tribal members’ exposure to nationwide. The University of hormone-blocking chemicals may be connected to an unusually low percentage of baby boys in recent births. Ottawa researchers concluded that the decline may “partly reflect effects of chemical exposures.” means they mimic it. The new study reported that the types of PCBs Hormones are necessary for proper fetal developthat are elevated in the Aamjiwnaang community are ment but it’s not understood how, or if, hormone-disthe same types linked to reduced male births in a rupting chemicals in the environment may alter small study of women in New York. human sex ratios. “I’m struck by the elevated PCB levels,” said The new study was small and didn’t investigate Nancy Langston, a professor of environmental history any health problems, so it’s important to not jump to at Michigan Technological University who was not any conclusions, said Shanna Swan, a professor and involved in the study. “And the fact that all are antivice chair for research and mentoring at the Icahn estrogenic.” School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. Some PCBs are anti-estrogenic, which means they block the hormone, while others are estrogenic, which See CHEMICALS Page 28
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vice chair for research and mentoring at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. “Chemicals have been linked to altered sex ratios. But things like stress can alter ratios, too,” Swan said. No one has studied the tribe’s sex ratio since the original research, which was based on births from 1999 through 2003. Swan surveyed the community to see if there was interest in a follow-up study. The answer was no. “There was sensitivity to outsiders coming in and studying them. There’s no question there’s exposure, it’s clearly a polluted place. But this is their ancestral home … what do they get out of you telling them how badly off they are?” said Swan, who specializes in reproductive effects of environmental chemicals. In addition to PCBs, the mothers and children had elevated levels of cadmium, some perfluorinated chemicals and the pesticides hexachlorocyclohexane and DDT compared with the Canadian average. Sharilyn Johnston, environmental coordinator of the tribe’s health and environment committee, said the findings were somewhat expected, stoking a fear that already has changed Aamjiwnaang. “There’s a constant odor issue, many people just do not want to be outside,” she said. “We used to be able to go into areas to hunt and fish that are now blocked off with fence lines that say ‘No Trespassing.’ Centuries of industrial development have impacted traditions and land use.” In addition to the skewed sex ratio, 23 percent of Aamjiwnaang children have learning or behavioral difficulties — a rate about six times higher than
The northwest border of the Aamjiwnaang native reserve is less than 2,000 feet from Suncor plant property and has a clear view of a Michigan coal station.
children in a neighboring county, according to a 2005 community study. The asthma rate for children on the reservation is about 2.5 times higher than the rest of the county, according to a 2007 study by Ecojustice, a Canadian environmental organization. Birth complications also are commonplace. Of 132 women surveyed in the community in 2005, 39 percent had at least one stillbirth or miscarriage. The average for U.S. women is 15 percent, according to the National Institutes of Health. As oil sands production ramps up in Canada, there’s fear that Aamjiwnaang’s problems will worsen, Basu said. Canada-based Enbridge, an energy transport company, wants to boost and reverse the flow of a pipeline that currently runs from east to west across Canada, in part to send oil sands petroleum to refineries in Ontario and Quebec, according to a company press release. Suncor Energy’s Sarnia refinery
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already expanded its capacity to bring in crude from Alberta oil sands in 2007 as part of a $1 billion upgrade. Oil and gas investment in the oil sands — mostly located in northern Alberta — has increased from $4.2 billion in 2000 to about $26.9 billion in 2012, according to the Alberta Energy Department. Langston said the oil sands activity would “without a doubt” compound the problems for Aamjiwnaang and other indigenous communities in both Canada and the United States. Aamjiwnaang means “at the spawning stream,” but the tribe has cut its fish consumption because of contaminants. Areas experiencing a boom in petrochemical refining are already experiencing health problems. Men in Fort Saskatchewan — downwind of refineries and chemical manufacturers and oilsands processors — suffer from leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma at higher rates than neighboring communities, according to a new study. Two known carcinogens — butadiene and
benzene — were found at higher levels in rural Fort Saskatchewan than in many of the world’s most polluted cities, the authors wrote. Isobel Simpson, lead author of the study and a chemist at the University of California, Irvine, said it is not clear if the oil sands boom has spread its reach to Sarnia yet. But she and the co-authors have been advocating for a more cautious approach as refining communities increase production. “Things are really starting to ramp up. Fort Saskatchewan and other communities are frustrated with pollutants and have been trying for years to be heard,” Simpson said. “We are pushing for a more prudent approach, one that seeks to reduce known carcinogens and other harmful contaminants.” Johnston said the tribe’s focus remains on the more immediate problems. “We continue to go to the regulators — they’re the ones who are allowing these pollutants to be released,” she said. “They’re the ones who can refine and set standards that reduce pollution among our people.” Basu wants to conduct more research — including a larger sample and examining more health data. But it will take time, money and continued trust from a tribe that has long felt slighted by outsiders. The Ministry of the Environment directed media requests to the Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, which did not return requests for comment. “The community has been complaining about health problems and pollution for decades,” he said. “We’d like to get to a point where we can look at a certain chemical and say,
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Writer David Rothman racing at the fundraiser to support World Cup skier David Chodounsky in 2011. Now a writing teacher and poet, Rothman was a ski racer for most of a decade.
Ode to the ski life
Local author pens homage to mountain life and ski towns by Elizabeth Miller
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o be a skier is to be ever hopeful, waiting on the uncertain miracle maker that is the weather. A skier could hang all of life up in the name of being free for the moment that winter storm hits. And David Rothman’s book of essays about skiing has plenty of those days in it. Days when perfect conditions set in, when the rumored miracles were right, when the previously impassable chutes opened up. But mostly, it’s about everything else that happens around those days — the hundreds of days a year that
aren’t perfect, bluebird powder days, and the people that live them out. Athleticism is not the point — and that’s the beauty of it. The former NCAA ski racer, poet and writing teacher looked at ski literature and how it figures in comparison to the literature for sports like baseball and surfing and thought, you know, skiing deserves to be canonized that way. And as we know, baseball stories are mostly not really about baseball, just like surfing stories are not really about surfing. They’re about capturing a lifestyle, a sense of place, a unique set of char-
acters. And that was what Rothman set out to record in the essays he’s now compiled into Living the Life: Tales from America’s Mountains & Ski Towns, published by the Golden-based Conundrum Press on Nov. 5. “The best writing in these traditions about surfing and fishing and mountaineering and sailing is deeply imbued with all sorts of different kinds of human purpose, and it’s not just about going someplace and doing a sport,” Rothman tells me over a plate of hash browns, eggs and bacon at the Village Coffee House in downtown Boulder. He’s so frequently there the wait-
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Utah that the locals, ress no longer asks for his order and instead simply when Rothman was delivers it to the table. among them, called He’s like a stray dog “SFB” — “Shit for there, he says, he just brains,” which is what you’d have to be to huck keeps showing up and they just keep feeding it — and the cover image him. of Living the Life is of It’s also the kind of Rothman dropping it. place he seems to seek But he begins with a out, a place where locals story about an old friend, come — the quirky University of Utah proBoulder locals, the guys fessor Brooke Hopkins, a dressed on a frigid day longtime skiing companfor working outdoors in ion, who became a quadthe cold. This is not the riplegic unable to breathe home of Patagucci and without life support Whole Paycheck. It’s the after a severe bike accibackdrop for characters dent. Hopkins came to who understand, like his wife, Peggy Battin, a Rothman, that life has leading philosopher on much more to it than the right to choose the fresh tracks and big cliffs time and manner of with pillowtop landings. your own death, to David Rothman climbing Gunbarrel Couloir on Mt. Owen, a mostly north-facing couloir that can hold on to nearly 800 And that’s the life assist him at that time feet of snow into August. that fills the pages of and in that manner. Living the Life. “It’s all in there,” “I really wanted to people drive and their body language to be people. I suppose that’s the key of Rothman says, gesturing the book. I’m interested in the people. write a book about the way we live and what kind of shoes they wear and to the copy of Living the Life on the when we live in the mountains together what it’s like when you’re living in a Of course it’s the skiing that threw us table. “I’m not going to not put that in. all together.” in this way,” Rothman says. “I didn’t town so small that people stop you in It’s part of life, it’s what happens.” want it to be, here is my memoir as a the grocery story because they hear you “It’s about the place itself and the So Living the Life is not about skiing skier, that’s really not my goal … had a hemorrhoid.” He laughs. “That’s a people themselves and the spiritual down big lines and off cliffs, but about although, of course, it’s my life that’s in bit of an exaggeration, but not much.” aspect of it, the historical aspect of it, the unmarked runs only repeat season there. But there are hundreds of other “I really want people to feel that it’s the aesthetic aspect of it, the human, pass-holders know about or the days we people that are in there, too, and it’s a book that speaks, I hope, a little bit for emotional aspect of it — that’s what I trudge uphill through crap conditions really, I hope, for all those people and them, not just to them. I don’t want to wanted, all of it, as much as possible, in eager for any few turns that can be the way they live. There are so many tell you my story, I want people to read the book,” he says. “So I don’t look away snuck into May in southern Colorado aspects of that life that people simply this book and feel, yeah, that’s the way from anything.” — Rothman makes a point of skiing don’t write about, it’s like this huge we live. That’s a piece of it, anyways,” he Indeed, among the opening essays every month of the year. His stories are world that gets obscured because people continues. “If you get to really know the are pieces that recall big turns, sunny not about heli-skiing, but hut trips. Not days and tough calls. He briefly recounts want to write about hucking off a huge people in the ski world, they’re people cornice instead of what kinds of cars who ski, they’re not skiers who happen a now roped-off chute at Snowbird in see SKIING Page 32
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the athletes he knew from his time in the NCAA, or the aspiring Olympians he taught at the school in Crested Butte. But people like a high school dropout who went on to craft methods for standardizing and evaluating education and then, naturally, to be the clown in the Crested Butte Fourth of July parade, and the guy who inspired Rothman’s telemark instructor, Wyn Cooper, to write the words Sheryl Crow later crooned: “All I want to do is have a little fun before I die.” It’s the wisdom of having skied at least once a month for who knows how many years and accumulating backcountry skiers’ advice — not the advice that comes from an Avy One class, but the knowledge of having skied those Colorado seasons countless times, enough to know how to expect the snow to set up, settle in and wear out. It’s not about competition, it’s about community. Rothman grew up on the East Coast, picked Harvard over Dartmouth for college because he knew he’d actually get to ski in the carnivals there, and skied East Coast NCAA Division 1 as an alpine ski racer. “When people are surprised to learn that Harvard has a Division I ski team,
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I tell them you know, the caboose going to do with that? You’re is a very important part of the going to enjoy your life.” train, and we were the caboose,” he And then, at one point, he says. “But we had a good time, a knew it was time to accept his very good time, and there were career was with his other love, some very good skiers, actually. … not skiing, but literature — his So I got to race and have a good “great passion.” A master’s at the time, and I’m still deep friends University of Utah (hurrah for skiwith many of those people, and I ing at Alta) and then a Ph.D. at had a wonderful, wonderful time New York University. It’s been a and learned a lot about life. Made winding road to where he is now, great friends, learned a lot about teaching writing at the University life, developed as a human being of Colorado, the Lighthouse — what else can you ask for? Writers Workshop in Denver and That’s what it’s supposed to be for. the Western State Colorado I mean only one guy wins every University low residency MFA race. What does that mean for all program. Along the way, there the rest of the other 110 guys?” were stops teaching English in The lessons from that experiChina and in a drug rehabilitation ence come back to the same point center for adolescents, mapping he has taken from life, and from the curriculum for a college prep writing — that only a very few private school in Crested Butte Self portrait of Rothman, taken at St. Mary’s Glacier in 2011 while determinedly seeking out some turns. people go on to become with an emphasis on mountain Olympians. On average, one boy sports, founding the Crested and one girl from each birth year, he and you finish 18th, that means you’re Butte Music Festival (he’s a classically says. 18th in the world — that’s incredible. I trained bassoonist and jazz pianist, and “Even if you were in the NCAAs mean ski racing is the biggest sport in played piano at ski resorts to earn a livyou usually don’t wind up going to the Norway and in Austria, and it’s huge, ing through graduate school). And Olympics. Almost nobody does. Those there’s 20 major nations, it represents a always skiing — leaving New York City people are so, so, so rare,” he says. “And billion people, you’re 18th, that’s incred- behind for a day to ski New Jersey on then, you know, you go to the Olympics ible and guess what? What are you those miracle powder days, to ski even
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Longmont, 303-678-6201. Registration required. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 Holiday Open House. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406. Newcomers’ Hike to a Flatiron — With an Open Space Mountain Parks naturalist. 1 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18 Avalanche and Beacon Clinic. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866. Ski Waxing Clinic. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Adventure.”
A tour of open space affected by the September floods will be held in Longmont on Dec. 13 and 15.
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have to go to the place where it’s done and that means you all have to live together,” he says. From that perspective, an essay about skiing can encompass everything from architecture to politics to the weather to personalities. There’s humor, and sadness. Joy, then, and death. Death from accidents, from alcohol, from skiing. “I wanted to honor all of it, not just fairly typical and obvious and visible reasons that people live in these towns but rather, the whole life, since that’s what we’re living anyways,” he says. The essays and occasional poems — Rothman has published a handful of books about poetry, too — contain a sense of place almost impossible to even brush up against unless you live there. His prose takes on the feeling of a poem, sometimes conversational, sometimes loose in a way that leaves you feeling that you caught the meaning even if you couldn’t recount the specific details of events that led to this thought-puzzle; chronologies get blurry for the sake of the story. And again, it’s not about the wellsculpted experience of an ideal day skiing, but the occasionally harsh realities of life in the mountains. “I have so many good stories I
haven’t told yet, so many — because he’s seen engagements, he’s heard of once you begin to feel that idiom, you deaths. People get thrown out for realize you could write about having behaving badly. People make friendships lunch with a friend and talking,” he for life. says. “You get this feeling that, when “It’s about what happens when peoyou hit the right idiom, you could write ple go off into a hut for a week, you about a spoon, know, get flown into you know, it a backcountry hut. I IF YOU GO: David Rothman doesn’t matter. mean, tennis players presents “An Evening of Skiing Because it’s a don’t do this. They Stories and Poetry” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 19, at Neptune matter of how don’t say, we’re going Mountaineering, 633 S. you can grasp its into the wilderness Broadway, Unit A, Boulder. meaningfulness.” where there’s going Honing that to be an outhouse idiom, as he says, and we’re going to be took commit60 miles from the ment, practice and patience — the nearest road and it’s going to be 10 same challenges that face any writing below zero and we’re all going to live task. together and play tennis. That’s not the “It’s not something that happens way it goes,” Rothman says. “But it creeasily, it’s not something that happens ates a different social dynamic, so it’s simply because you want it to. You have not just about skiing, it’s about how do to be patient and work hard at it over people interact in this situation, which time,” Rothman says. “So what does it can get pretty intense.” take, it’s a hard question to answer. A For today, though, the interaction lot of hard work and a little luck and a he’s focused on as he bundles up to lot of commitment.” adjourn his morning session at the What the idiom reveals is that all of Village Coffee House starts in the forlife comes into view, eventually, from the lorn faces of students whose essays still perspective of skiing. Take a hut trip — need to be graded. he’s written essays about those. As the waitress comes by to clear the Anything can happen on a hut trip — plates, she observes, “He loves to make a
statement and always leaves one solitary piece of tomato.” “I don’t know why,” he says, and laughs. “It might be a question.” “Yes, I think it is,” she replies as she carries the near empty plates away. Maybe we’ll catch some turns, he offers in parting, though he’s likely understating the canyon between his skill set as a skier and where most of the rest of us spend our turns. At this point, though, he’s the antithesis of the guys who sit down over lunch, pausing the interminable accumulation of footage on their GoPros and comparing stats from apps on their phones. Even if he were to slow down a bit so the conversation can continue on the lift line or the blissfully sun-soaked patio of a spring ski day, that would be worth it. “Once you hit 40, the number of back flips in your life decreases, but that doesn’t mean you’re done,” he says emphatically. “I mean there’s so much more, like teaching your kids to ski, helping other people to become good skiers, just going and living in the mountains. … I admire the athleticism, but once again I’m more interested in life. After you’ve seen 10,000 guys huck huge, there’s a lot more to life than that.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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been more than a year since Tig Notaro’s now-famous set at the Largo in Los Angeles. Just days before the performance, Notaro received word that she had cancer in both breasts, and she was still processing the news. The cancer diagnosis wasn’t the only blow to hit her life. Her mother had suddenly and tragically died, and on top of that, her relationship had just ended. As all this swirled through her head, her normal set — quirky jokes, such as what a bee thinks about when it’s in a car going down the highway — just didn’t seem doable to her. So she chucked it, went on stage and bared it all. “I wasn’t really sure what my future was going to be,” Notaro tells Boulder Weekly. “I didn’t know about my health. I love doing stand-up, and if my health was going to be deteriorating or if I was dying, I wanted to do it one last time before I went into treatment and recovery.” The reaction to the show was explosively positive. Louis C.K. called it one of the greatest stand-up performances he had ever seen. “The show was an amazing example of what comedy can be. A way to visit your worst fears and laugh at them. Tig took us to a scary place and made us laugh there. Not by distracting us from the terror but by looking right at it and just turning to us and saying, ‘Wow. Right?’ She proved that everything is funny. And has to be. And she could only do this by giving us her own death as an example,” he would later write on his blog. Since that set, her career has exploded. Suddenly, news outlets everywhere wanted to interview her, and offers for book deals came rolling in. She would eventually sell almost a hundred thousand copies of the set, and when she started doing stand-up tours again, she found herself playing bigger venues for more money. She’s developing several television shows and has a Showtime comedy special coming out soon. After a double mastectomy, the cancer is in remission. Putting her personal life on display for the world was a risk born out of exasperation, but so far, it seems to be nothing but positive. The show itself started out in the normal way. You know how comedy shows start — the emcee hops on the stage, grabs a mic, says some kind words about the comedian, maybe cracks a joke or two, then says the comedian’s name, and the comedian enters the stage saying things like, “Thank you,” “You’re great,” or other such inconsequential greetings. After the
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applause dies down, the set begins. But for Notaro, on that night, with everything that had just happened to her, normal wouldn’t cut it. “Hello. Good evening, hello. I have cancer, how are you?” said Notaro as she started the set. It was a confusing opening for the audience. Even a seasoned comedy fan probably hasn’t heard many jokes about cancer. Some in the audience laughed nervously, but as Notaro launched into her story, they eventually came around. Notaro was being brutally honest and revealing, and the audience was along for the ride. “I was definitely scared or nervous and not quite sure how the audience would be, and they were absolutely amazing, and the show went so much better than I could have imagined,” Notaro says. Notaro went on to take everything that had hit her in the past few months of her life and find a way to make it funny. Her appearance is somewhat androgynous, and in the set, she told a story about a guy who constantly called her “sir” as she walked home.
Normally, she has a sense of humor about that, she said during the Largo set, but that day, she couldn’t have it. “After the news I had just gotten that I probably had cancer … I said, ‘I just got diagnosed with breast cancer in both breasts. That’s how much I’m not a man,’” she deadpanned. She proceeded during the set to take many things cancer patients struggle with — how every conversation with friends changes, how she didn’t know how she would date, how her body had changed — and found ways to make them funny. It was a stunning display of light-heartedness in the face of soulcrushing adversity. “I always think about how lucky I am that I have standup as an outlet, because I always wonder, what do other people do? How do they handle life? How do they get it out?” Notaro reflects. “I never had to deal with dark subjects to the degree that I did in that point in time. I just didn’t feel like it was an option to go on stage and my normal, typical material. It just seems like this is how it’s going to go, this is what i’m going to do. It just seemed like an obvious thing for me to do, to use comedy for that.” She pauses when asked how her comedy has changed since the set. “Oddly enough, not really at all. I feel like I’m pretty much the same comedian I’ve always been,” she says. “The Largo show was a moment in time. … I realized I was exactly who I was before that show.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com December 12, 2013 39
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Courtesy of Longmont Downtown Development Authority (LDDA) owntown May of 2013, Rabid Rabits has Longmont was no brought diversity to the visual hotspot when arts, with photography, paintJoanne Kirves, ings, ceramics, the work of executive director ironsmith Rusty Brockman and of the Longmont Council for more. the Arts, began working in the Local artist Gamma Acosta community in 1999. However, has also contributed to the it wasn’t for a lack of creative 300 block of Main Street. His energy. mural “Longmont Stories” now “There’s always been a covers a breezeway with imagvery strong basis for an arts es of the town’s history, leadcommunity here, and the ing pedestrians to venues just thing we saw as a community off Main Street. of arts organizations is that But visual arts are not all people didn’t really know we downtown Longmont has to were here,” Kirves says. offer. Firehouse Art Center has This, she says, is why the operated as a gallery in a hisLongmont Council for the toric firehouse downtown Arts and the Longmont since 1986. Executive Director Downtown Development Jessica Kooiman is now trying Authority began working to expand its offerings to Longmont’s proposed arts and entertainment district is together. include big-name musical outlined in red above. “We saw that if we could guests. It will periodically conbring all of our resources togethvert into a concert space to bring er and promote each other, promote the venues.” “highly successful acts to Longmont, community as a whole, it would not while supporting local and rising talMcKee thinks downtown only benefit our own organizations but ents,” the Firehouse website says. For Longmont fits the bill perfectly. help grow the entire district.” the first concert, a Nov. 23 Gregory “We had great things to build on: With new galleries and offerings, Alan Isakov show, tickets sold out two independent theaters, the old more artists settling in the area, and Firehouse and Muse galleries, six places quickly. historic venues looking to expand in the to take music lessons, a dance studio, Firehouse Art Center’s work is community, those growing the district important, says McKee, because music interactive merchants, a yarn store to is exactly what the community asked are excited about the possibility of learn knitting, paint-your-own-pottery, to see more of when surveyed in Longmont gaining recognition as an lots of vibrant retail and restaurants,” 2010. arts center. says McKee. “Stakeholder interviews and comIn 2013 Colorado Creative The district saw an uptick in cremunity input put music as the No. 1 Industries, a division of the Colorado ative spaces this fall, as new galleries priority,” McKee says. “I think Jessica Office of Economic Development and took root along Main Street. [Kooiman] has done a fabulous job International Trade, named parts of Gallery aHa, created by local artist diversifying what they do.” downtown Longmont a Prospective Gary Markowitz, opened in November The Firehouse isn’t the only gallery Colorado Creative District. Come at 338 Main St. after Markowitz offering musical opportunities down2014, those behind the district are hop- returned from time spent abroad. town, though, as Kirves notes, the Muse ing to become an official Colorado Markowitz says his work with the Gallery also puts on a music program Creative District. Longmont Council for the Arts is called “Longmont Live” three times a With the official title comes a focused on making Gallery aHa into year. $15,000 creative development grant, the sort of “creative hub” the district “The whole idea behind the project recognition by the governor, and assiswants to see downtown, with “artistic is to help emerging musicians learn tance with marketing, data gathering, discussion groups, events and music.” how to promote themselves; they stay fundraising and more. “We’re working to create a space of for the whole event so they’re interactKimberlee McKee of the Longmont creativity, for artists locally, nationally ing with other musicians and learning Downtown Development Authority, is and eventually internationally,” from them, and at the end, they all play leading the charge to get Longmont’s Markowitz says. a song together. We’re building camarafull certification. Markowitz also teaches oil painting derie,” Kirves says. “What we’re trying to do is energize in his gallery, and he joins Longmont “There are so many synergies going downtown and the downtown area,” artist Patricia Burton in spreading arts on right now,” McKee says. “The disMcKee says. education. Burton, an artist with Rabid trict just has lots of dedicated volunColorado Creative Industries sets Rabits Galeria & Studio at 319 Main out guidelines for the creative districts, St., offers jewelry-making classes at the teers and organizations really working together to make this [art district] hapincluding “economic vitality,” “regularly gallery alongside the displays of 30 difpen in downtown Longmont.” scheduled events and attractions,” and ferent local artists. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com “a cluster of galleries and performing Since moving to Main Street in
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t will be a Charlie Brown Christmas when the Turtle Island Quartet and jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton take the stage at Macky Auditorium at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15. It will also be Hanukkah, the Hindu celebration of Diwali, and a winter solstice celebration that includes music from Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and Miles Davis. “It’s not going to be a Christmas show like people are used to,” says Turtle Island’s cellist Mark Summer. “It’s going to be something different.” Turtle Island itself is something different. Started in 1985 with the standard string quartet setting, the group has specialized in playing jazz as improvising musicians. As Summer explains it, “One of the things that sets Turtle Island apart is that we are improvisers. There aren’t a lot of groups that can play over [chord] changes like we can.” ON THE BILL: Tierney Or as Colorado’s own Aspen Times Sutton and Turtle Island Jazz singer Tierney Sutton (center) joins Turtle Island Quartet for an unusually voiced jazz conQuartet play Macky cert at Macky Auditorium on Sunday, Dec. 15. wrote, “These guys play real jazz. They Auditorium on Sunday, improvise solos. They swing. They Dec. 15, at 4 p.m. Tickets employ jazz inflections. And they play start at $14. Visit http://bit. ly/cutands for tickets and the same instruments Haydn used in the more information. 18th century.” And they do more than jazz. From the beginning, the group has called on the east Indian-American heritage of their founder and first violinist David Balakrishnan, a practicing Hindu and the group’s principal arranger. “Turtle Island has always been about being a self-contained unit that can imitate all the sounds of a jazz ensemble,” Summer says, “but also to play music that David Balakrishnan has written, that combines Indian music, classi- ality,” she says. “What all spiritual paths create is a sense of harmony and oneness. cal music and bluegrass and jazz and rock ’n’ roll.” The Baha’i writings say that God has made music as a ladder by which the soul This eclecticism and the mastery of multiple elements has earned Turtle Island a ascends to heaven. And I think that’s true. I think people intuitively listen to music unique place among touring musicians and recording artists. The group’s solstice because it centers them, they sense it as a metaphor for something bigger. They feel program, which it has performed for several years now, grew out of the members’ it as a meditation, whether they are making it or listening.” Like Turtle Island, Sutton is also “something different.” She often sings classics built-in diversity: In addition to Balakrishnan and Summers, “a Jew from the San from the great American songbook, but in an utterly individual, unique way. Her Fernando Valley” as he puts it, the quartet also includes a Pole and German. “The broad idea was to present music associated with each of our backgrounds,” singing combines pitch-perfect intonation and stunning agility into a virtuoso style. Summer says. “We chose to call it ‘A Festival of Lights’ because there is a Hindu “When I’m singing a song that’s been recorded many, many times by the greatcelebration of Diwali, called the Festival of Lights, and of course, Hanukkah, which est vocalists in history, I don’t want my version to be compared to theirs,” she says. I celebrate, is also called the Festival of Lights. And then we threw in some “I want it to be enough of a departure that it takes the listener away completely Christmas tunes [and] some of the Charlie Brown Christmas music.” from that other version.” Adding Sutton, who follows the Baha’i faith, only increased the diversity. She What do you get when you put together such distinctive artists as Tierney and had been touring with the quartet in a program called “Poets and Prayers” that the Turtle Islanders? included music by Joni Mitchell, and part of that program will end up on the con“I don’t think the words string quartet and vocalist really describe so much what cert as well — along with, possibly, some Hendrix and Miles Davis. you’re going to hear,” Sutton says, “and that’s kind of cool.” “It’s going to be a mixture of seasonal things and not-seasonal things,” Sutton “It’s like coming to a jazz club sometimes, and sometimes it’s like being in explains. Carnegie Hall,” Sutton says. “It’s great theater to watch our quartet do our thing, But Sutton doesn’t see a big difference between the “seasonal things” and any and adding Tierney to the mix makes it that much more interesting.” other music. For her, all music has a spiritual dimension. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com “I consider the making of music to be a fairly perfect metaphor for true spiritu-
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A Gift of Music Friday, December 20th at 7:30pm First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St. Boulder
Saturday, December 21st at 7:30pm Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia St. Denver
Sunday, December 22nd at 4:30pm Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Rd. Broomfield
Music Selections:
David Korevaar, piano
Max Soto, Oboe
Mozart - Piano Concerto 12 Bill Douglas - Songs and Dances for Oboe and Strings Handel - Water Music Suite 1 Special Holiday Selections
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hristmastime and cynically humorous morality tale about booze go together the dangers of drink, but in the end it like Santa Claus and cops out, letting Sharky, Richard and the reindeer, like snow rest off the hook in the name of feelon the ground and a good Christmas miracles. fire in the hearth. There’s a reaNot that there’s anything son you don’t hear the term wrong with that. I mean, ON THE BILL: The Seafarer “holiday drunk” thrown around what fun would A Christmas plays through Dec. 21 at the on Independence Day or Easter; Carol be if Scrooge woke up Dairy Center for the Arts. Tickets are $15-$25. For tickets it’s because only the Christmadead or, worse, unchanged or information, call 303-444hanu-kwanza-kkah season has on Christmas morn? The 7328 or visit www.thedairy. the power to seduce those sober acting throughout this org. the rest of the year to the dark Ashton Entertainment proside of unrepentant inebriation. duction is outstanding with December’s drunken debauch Steef Sealy’s Richard and — brought on most often by an Warren Sherrill’s Ivan earning highest excess of either frenzied Frosty marks. The interplay among all five cheer or dour Scrooge depression characters feels so organic that even — is as much a tradition as when it becomes uncomfortable or outlighting candles or hanging misrageous it still seems utterly believable. tletoe. And yet, the holiday seaMuch of the credit for both drawing son is also meant to be a time of the audience in and for making it laugh reflection, a time to take stock of at things it might not usually goes to From left, John Ashton, Brock Benson and Kevin Hart perform in The Seafarer, an Ashton Enterplaywright Conor McPherson, who cerone’s life and, ideally, be thankful tainment production showing at the Dairy Center through Dec. 21. tainly has an ear for the language of real for all of the good things in it. life, especially in Dublin City. The cenAs popular culture for generatral conceit of the The Seafarer shows tions has hammered home, ’tis him to be an adventurous writer the season for family, friends and unafraid of the occasional whimsy. As redemption, and its stories take good as it is, though, The Seafarer’s tonal all forms. The Seafarer introduces us to inconsistencies and pacing irregularities a group of middle-aged misfits in make McPherson out to be a sort of Dublin, Ireland, on a moderncut-rate Martin McDonagh. day Christmas Eve. James “Sharky” Harkin ( John sort of way. You see, Sharky is a ne’er do well who, we The Seafarer is definitely a product of its time. Ask Ashton) has recently returned to Dublin to check in learn, has taken just about every wrong turn one could the Catholic Church. The Western world is quickly on his older brother, Richard (Steef Sealy). Having take in a life. Richard’s blindness is due to a head losing its sense of religious wonder. The “magic” of gone blind some months earlier, Richard is still trauma that was largely his own fault. Ivan would Christmas — as evidenced primarily by Richard’s adjusting to a sightless life. The brothers’ good friend, rather hang out with his mates than discharge his bullheaded insistence on a very specific type of celeIvan (Warren Sherrill), welcomes Sharky home. fatherly duties and thus neglects his wife and children. bration — often feels progressively more like holding Sharky’s frenemy, Nicky (Brock Benson), rounds out Nicky? Well, Nicky is just a prat. onto an expired idea of prefab happiness. the quartet and brings along two-fifths, one a bottle The Seafarer posits that all of the lads’ troubles I suppose that’s as good a reason as any for happy of Ireland’s finest and the other a fellow pub-crawler, stem from an overly developed love of libation. They endings and joyful tears beneath the twinkle of red Mr. Lockhart (Kevin Hart). are all either alcoholics or drunks, depending on the and green lights and amidst the clinking Jameson Sounds cozy and quaint, does it not? And, in fairimportance one attaches to attending AA meetings. glasses and bottles of Harp. ness, it is — in a whiskey-soaked, loudly dysfunctional For most of the play, The Seafarer seems to be a tart, Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Thursday, December 12 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Dead Tenant. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Dexter Payne Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Dukes of Winter. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Earphunk performing as Daft Phunk — With Amerigo Gazaway. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. The Head and the Heart — With Ark Life. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. Kara Grainger. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Sacrebleu. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Smooth Sound Smith. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Stephen Thurston Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.
events Ascending to Better Typography. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. see EVENTS Page 48
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Sunday, December 15: Jet Edison, Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 10 p.m.
With an album released in October and a track on CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, this folk-rock group stormed the indie scene this year. Made up of six musicians — who met during open mic nights in Seattle — The Head and the Heart offers sweet lyrics with a full sound behind them. Male and female vocals along with a string section of guitars, bass and violin are just the beginning to this group’s delicately layered tunes, commanding the Ogden Theatre this weekend.
After a year of touring the Midwest and going so far south as Georgia, Jet Edison has returned to its Rocky Mountain roots. Recently nominated for the title of Colorado’s Best Rock Band in the Jam/Improv category by Denver’s Westword, these high-energy Colorado natives can be counted on to please a crowd. The band’s fusion of ’70s funk and contemporary rock will be shaking up the Mountain Sun this weekend for Boulderites ready to welcome them home.
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Berlin Graphics 1928–1938 — Artist Herbert Bayer. Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 23, 2014.
Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 26. Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. 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. Through Jan. 12. Landscape M — Artist Heimrad Bäcker (1925-2003). Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 5.
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. Pattern: Follow the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Feb. 9. Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Yellowstone: A Project for the Nation — Artist Thomas Moran. Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 19. You, Me, and Everyone We Don’t Know: Fall 2013 BFA Exhibition — Artists AJ Davis, Taylor Lawrence, Leif V. Newberg, George P. Perez, and Susan Walicki. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20.
Nuestra Cultura: Our People, Our Heritage. Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901
EVENTS from Page 47 Business Research 101. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Free Disaster Long-Term Recovery Workshop. 8:30 a.m. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 4215 Grinnell Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0615. How Can We Power Modern Civilization Without Destroying It? A Reply to Pandora’s Promise — Lecture by Dr. Frank Kreith. 3:30 p.m. Engineering Building Room 1B40, CU campus, Boulder, 303-4925071.
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December 20-22, 2013 | The Dairy Performance Space A twisted musical comedy about an innocent American cyclist who encounters the strange inhabitants of a small French village and the hellish night he spends waiting for his bike to be repaired. Music and lyrics by Mark Nutter, performed by Joe Liss, John Rubano, Derek Manson and Bruce Green.
Four fabulous actors with commanding pipes strut and cavort like the Marx Brothers doing Theater of the Absurd on steroids! - LA WEEkLY
Public Meeting about Emergency Stream Rehabilitation Work along St. Vrain Creek. 6 p.m. 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, 303-678-6269.
Friday, December 13 music Acoustic Eidolon. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Bongo Love. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Brad Upton Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams — With The Cowboy Dave Band. 8 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. The Head and the Heart — With Ark Life. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303832-1874. Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Jaden Carlson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E.
First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. L Town All Stars. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Music from a Winter World. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282. Nate Hrivnak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. New Time Ensemble. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Outliers. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Phat Daddy. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Sambadende. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Sound Circle Solstice Concert. 7 p.m. Columbine Unity Church, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303546-0114. Treehouse Sanctum. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
events A Benefit for the Philippines at the Biergarten. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Flatirons Mineral Club Annual Gem and Mineral Show — Through Dec. 15. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. The Magic Flute. 10:30 a.m., 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. The Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder,
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Pete Stein. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The Railsplitters. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Ron LeGault. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Acoustic Mining Company. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Chuck Pyle. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
A Country Christmas with Bonnie & the Clydes and Halden Wofford & the Hi Beams. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Trace Bundy’s Acoustic Holiday — With David Wilcox. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Dan Treanor & Afrosippi — With Erica Brown. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Deep Dark Woods — With Crow Moses and Edmund Wayne. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. DJ Ish. 10 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. DJ Mos Funk. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Dub Police — With Lotus Drops and Coult-45. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
Turtle Island Quartet. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Women in Song. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
events Adobe Premiere Pro Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276. Ascendance Dance-Climb Fusion Workshop. 2 p.m. AscenDance Studios, 5721 Arapahoe Ave., Unit C, Boulder, http://ascendanceproject.com. Bolder Acts. 7 p.m. Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 720-431-5355.
Ester Sparks. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313.
Free Film Screening — A Christmas Story. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Full Belly. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.
HoliDairy. 6 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Last Men on Earth. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Manic Focus & the Floozies — With Krooked Drivers. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Matt Abraxas — Live painting demonstration. 1 p.m. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-887-1611. Scandinavian Monthly Dance. 8 p.m. The Avalon, see EVENTS Page 50
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The Longmont Theatre Company’s Annie Jr. plays through Dec. 14.
Annie Jr. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Dec. 5 through Dec. 14. A Christmas Carol. Stage Theater Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303893-4100. Through Dec. 29.
A Christmas Carol. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada 720-8987200. Through Dec. 22. The Christmas Candle Burns. Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Dec. 14 for adult audiences. Cirque Dreams: Holidaze. Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Dec. 22.
forming Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Dec. 22. One Act. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Fridays through May 2, 2014. The Seafarer. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Dec. 21. Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through March 1. Santa’s Big Red Sack. The Avenue Theatre, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. 303-321-5925. Through Dec. 24. The Santaland Diaries — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Garner Galleria Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Dec. 24. The Velveteen Rabbit. Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Dec. 22.
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Thursday, December 12 SETH and Native-American & bamboo flute player, Julia Reid. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. The Valley of Amazement — Author Amy Tan. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store LoDo, 1628 16th St. Denver, 303-4361070. Friday, December 13
The Handoff — Author John Tournour “JT the Brick.” 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, 303-322-7727. Saturday, December 14 Bombay Gin. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. The Big Golden Book of Dinosaurs — Author Robert Bakker. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.
Sunday, December 15 Recipes for a Sacred LIfe: True Stories and a Few Miracles — Author Rivvy Neshama. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Monday, December 16 “So, You’re a Poet,” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, December 17 Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Holiday Storytime featuring “The Grinch” 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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EVENTS from Page 49 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Stories on Stage — Making Merry. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Sunday, December 15 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Brian Payne. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Celtic Holiday Concert. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Connally and Ramey. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Rocky Mountain Ukulele Orchestra. 12:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Timberline Handbell Ensemble Holiday Concert. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Turtle Island String Quartet & Tierney Sutton. 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.
events Boulder Holiday Gift Festival. 11 a.m. YMCA, 2850 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 720-272-7467. The Christmas Revels: Christmas Spirits and the Ghosts of Bartow-Pell. 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
David Williams and the Gypsy Jazz Tricksters. 5 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Holiday Tasting Fair. 3 p.m. Lucky’s Market, 3960 Broadway, 3960 Broadway #104, Boulder, 303-4440215.
George Gray & the Elvis Experience. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.
The Magic Flute. 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. The Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.
Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Haunted Windchimes. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003. Jet Edison. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., 303-546-0886. Kaleigh Baker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Stage with El Bando. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Stage with Free Range Marmot. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Truth Be Told — Story slam. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Monday, December 16 music Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Go-Go Lab Annual Christmas Show and Movie. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-543-0886. Open Stage — With Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313.
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Thursday, December 12: Dead Tenant, The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 8 p.m. Johann Sebastian Bach wrote Chaconne in D Minor between 1717 and 1723. In August 2013, Dead Tenant uploaded Chaconne in D Minor as performed on an electric guitar to YouTube. Dead Tenant, a project of Columbus, Ohio, musician Andrew Amirzadeh, is drawing attention for this convergence of genres as Amirzadeh takes classical compositions and adapts them into precise electric guitar interpretations. Even more intensely, each piece is performed on one single track, with no pedals or finger tricks: just Amirzadeh, his guitar and his pick. Stopping by The Laughing Goat this week as part of a cross-country tour, Amirzadeh will be performing his renditions of everything from the baroque to the post-minimalist with the sounds of classic composers and the styles of classic rock. Amirzadeh’s performance promises something performers of all genres and experiences can appreciate, with melodies that have lasted through time and impeccable musicianship that can uphold even the most complex of arrangements. —Lexi Schwartz
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Holidays At The Riverside. 5:30 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.
events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Lisa Jones. 7 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
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Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Tuesday, December 17 music Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Essence of Larynx. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100. FACE. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Goodrattle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Historian — With Anthony Ruptak and Boots Brown with C.P. Carrington. 8 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic with Maus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Terra Gatos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Fissure Mystic — With Pythian Whispers. 8 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Holiday Concerts — Presented by Fairview High School Choral Department. 7 p.m. 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100. Jeremy Mohney Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Strange Byrds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Tribute to the Rolling Stones. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. William Close and the Earth Harp Collective. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.
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Philomena
Robert Redford is brilliant in his role as a nameless man who must survive after his sailboat sinks leaving him lost at sea. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
See review on page 54. Rated PG-13. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
LAST DAYS ON MARS
The Armstrong Lie
WTF ... Two years in space and it looks just like the last trip I took to Utah.
In 2008, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) set out to make a documentary about Lance Armstrong’s comeback to the world of competitive cycling. An unprecedented scandal, however, would rewrite both the Armstrong legend and Gibney’s film. NR, At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
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 SIE Film Center.
Free Birds Two “odd couple” turkeys overcome their many differences to get turkey off of the Thanksgiving menu forever. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.
search of signs of life, one that has lasted months without any major discoveries. The crew is tired and discouraged and bickering among themselves as they wrap up and prepare to go home. But when one crew member delays returning to the ship so he can collect a sample of an amazing discovery he has made — fossilized evidence of bacterial life–it soon leads to disaster, jeopardizing the mission and the lives of all the crew. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Last Vegas An aging group of friends heads to Vegas to throw a party for the last of their single crew. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
Blue Jasmine
Frozen
Cate Blanchett gives a powerhouse performance in writer/ director Woody Allen’s new dramatic comedy. She plays New York socialite Jasmine (a name she chose herself), a beautiful, neurotic, self-centered and vastly self-deluding woman who, having lost all her money, in desperation has come to stay with her sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in her modest San Francisco apartment. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — Landmark Theatres
When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the reindeer and a comical snowman that has trouble keeping his head, set out to end the spell. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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Gravity
Muscle Shoals
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in this visually stunning film that strands two astronauts in space. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Ala., is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music, and this documentary gives a glimpse of some of the best. At SIE Film Center.
The Book Thief This film tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a new family in World War II Germany. Young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) embarks upon a journey marked by discovery, courage, friendship — and the power to triumph over the most daunting obstacles. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Broken Circle Breakdown An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order.When an unexpected tragedy hits a new family, everything they know and love is tested. At SIE Film Center and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Captain Phillips This film 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 Colony Square.
Dallas Buyers Club 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. Rated R. At Esquire, Colony Square and Century. — Landmark Theatres
The Great Beauty Gorgeously photographed in Rome and Tuscany, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) is a dazzling, lyrical and at times surreal dramatic comedy, like a modern-day La Dolce Vita. The magnetic Toni Servillo plays dapper journalist Jep Gambardella, slick and soulful, who has been a permanent fixture in Rome’s literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. When his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself taking stock of his life. At SIE Film Center, Boedecker and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug If you liked all the other films in this series you will no doubt like this one as well. Stunning imagery and great action abound. Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
A young woman in New York City (played by the late model, actress, musician and screenwriter Zoë Lund), whose beauty draws the aggressive attention of men, is intensely shy and mute — physically unable to speak. One evening while walking home, she is assaulted at gunpoint and brutally raped by two thugs. She fights back. Eventually, she carries her dead assailant’s .45 automatic, initially for protection, but ultimately for unrelenting revenge against all males. Rated R. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
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Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Nebraska
Jennifer Lawrence dazzles in this adventure sequel. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Kill Your Darlings A true story of love and murder, this film recounts the pivotal year that changed Allen Ginsberg’s (Daniel Radcliffe) life forever, bringing him together with William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. Rated R. At SIE Film Center and Century.
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Ms. 45
After losing his wife, an ex-DEA agent moves with his 10-year-old daughter to a small town to offer her a better way of life, but he picked the wrong town. Let the action begin. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Homefront
Loser David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) is quietly going about his life when he finds out that the sperm he donated 20 years earlier has created 533 kids. He’s in debt to the mob and his pregnant girlfried finds no humor in his situation. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century. When aliens attack Earth, International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham and Col. Hyrum Graff turn to a young boy, Ender Wiggin, to help them save the planet. Rated PG-13. At
In case you missed it the first time around, here’s your chance. This film tells the story of the White House butler who served eight presidents. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Fuzzy Baby Animals features an assortment of animals in cute, cuddly, infant form. Spectacular visuals are coupled with furry little critters to create a riveting, heart-melting picture the entire family will enjoy. Microworlds examines the patterns, cycles and daily rituals that are repeated on every scale, both in nature and in the lives of all creatures, from the earthworms in our backyards to the alien beauty of a garden snail. (Run time for both combined is one hour). At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Delivery Man
Ender’s Game
This film is a feature-length documentary about two worlds colliding when cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda, Africa, to help a group of struggling genocide survivors pursue their dream of a national team. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Singin’ in the Rain
Blue Is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle) Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years. At 15, she is approaching adulthood and dreams of experiencing her first love. A handsome male classmate falls hard for her, but an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered in the street slips into her bed and possesses her with overwhelming pleasure. That blue-haired girl is a confident older art student named Emma (Léa Seydoux), who will soon enter Adèle’s life for real, making way for an intense and complicated love story that is touchingly universal in its depiction. Rated NC-17. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
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Last Days on Mars It’s the final 19 hours of the first manned mission to Mars in
Out of the Furnace Christian Bale plays Russell, a blue-collar guy who works at the local steel mill and also takes care of his sick father. When Russell’s brother Rodney (Casey Affleck) comes home from Iraq and gets involved with local bad guys and disappears, it’s up to Russell to solve the case. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Ebert said, “There is no movie musical more fun… and few that remain as fresh over the years.” Originally it was overshadowed by the multi-Oscar winning An American in Paris from the year before, there is now much more love for this vehicle for Arthur Freed to make something of catalog of unused songs written by him and Nacio Herb Brown for other MGM musicals from the previous decade. Debbie Reynolds said years later that “Singin’ in the Rain and childbirth were the two hardest things I ever had to do in my life.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Sleeping Beauty: The Bolshoi Ballet A treasured tale of fairies, spells and storybook romance: The Sleeping Beauty is the ultimate in classical ballet. Yuri Grigorovich’s adaptation of Marius Petipa’s choreography, called “the best of the Bolshoi” (New York Times), is paired with some of Tchaikovsky’s most memorable melodies. The Sleeping Beauty stars David Hallberg, the first ever American Premier dancer (principal dancer) at the Bolshoi, as Prince Désirè and Svetlana Zakharova as Princess Aurora. 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.
Tiger Eyes This film marks the first major motion picture adaptation from the work of iconic author Judy Blume, whose books have sold more than 82 million copies in 41 countries. Davey is a 17-year-old girl abruptly relocated by her grieving mother to the strange “atom bomb” town of Los Alamos, N.M. With the sudden and violent death of her father, the displaced Davey no longer knows who to be or how to fit in. But when she meets Wolf, a mysterious young Native American, while exploring the surrounding canyons, she feels he is able to see past her pain and into her true self. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Twelve Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War U.S., Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas Madea pays her daughter a surprise visit in the boondocks for Christmas. but the surprise is on Madea when she sees what is really going on. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Wadjda An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school’s Koran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest. Wadjda is a movie of firsts. This first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia is the story of a young girl living in a suburb of Riyadh determined to raise enough money to buy a bike in a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. Even more impressive, Wadjda is the first feature film made by a female Saudi filmmaker. In a country where cinemas are banned and women cannot drive or vote, writer-director Haifaa Al Mansour has broken many barriers with her new film. Rated PG. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Additional films showing at SIE Film Center include: National Theatre Live: Macbeth w/ Kenneth Branagh; Best of Sundance Shorts; Go For Sisters; Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?; Silent Night, Deadly Night; Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer; The Polar Express and Hannah the Mountain Dog.
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othing sets the box office ablaze quite like the quiet emotional journey of an 80-year-old Irish woman and a disgraced, pompous British journalist exploring murky ancestry across two continents. Philomena is kind of a tough sell. It’s not a feel-good holiday picture or a tour-de-force acting showcase destined to be showered with Oscar kisses. All the movie has to offer is the fact that it’s really, really good. The peerless Dame Judi Dench plays the title character, a lovingly sweet and jarringly frank Irish woman who is looking for her son. After “dropping her knickers” back when she was barely a teenager, she was sent to a convent to have her shame baby. As if the Catholic Church needed a bigger diversity of institutional sins against children, the nuns proceeded to sell said baby to Americans while keeping Philomena as virtual slave labor. When the recently fired Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) stumbles upon the story, he deploys journalistic skills that had been gathering dust to get at the truth, which somehow involves President Reagan and the AIDS epidemic… And that truth is the truth, which is to say Philomena is based on the real account of Sixsmith’s investigation. Yes, this means that evil nuns in Ireland actually sold babies. But this isn’t about kicking mud into the eye of the church. Instead, the film plays like an intellectual exploration of the active role we play in accepting events in our past and the function of faith. The script by Coogan and Jeff Pope not only cleverly tackles heady thematic components but it plays out almost like a murder mystery, a her-
itage-based whodunit. Director Stephen Frears keeps things tight, allowing Coogan and Dench just enough space to deliver the resonance the film needs. And really, hats off to Coogan. Not only did the oddly toothed funnyman help write the darn thing, he stands toe-to-toe with one of the greatest living performers and doesn’t flinch. For her part, Dench crafts a complex character that cannot be dismissed with some adjective affixed to the words “old lady.” She is inspirational and irritating, kind and shrewd, daffy and insightful. Dench is given the span of one line of dialogue to sell the film’s take-home message, and she makes it look like it wasn’t even a challenge. Two notes of interest: first, the MPAA originally gave Philomena an R rating. The stars had to crusade to get it reduced, which is mind-boggling, considering the only offense was a handful of F-bombs (at least two of which were technically Irish slang). That’s just a reminder that a heartfelt film about emotional absolution was considered inappropriate for 13-year-olds but Wolverine can skewer ninjas ad nauseam. Second, Philomena is an example of a “based on a true story” flick that absolutely thrives. Why? Because it’s not about trying to replicate events but trying to infuse those events with new meaning. Philomena is a delightful surprise, a finely crafted yarn told by skilled storytellers all around. It may not be found across “best of 2013” lists, but that’s not on the movie, it’s on the list-writers. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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s the medical marijuana industry in Colorado has expanded over the past five years, the demand, quality and variety of edibles has also grown, but industry insiders say we haven’t seen anything yet. After Jan. 1, when your average Joe on the street won’t need a doctor’s prescription and a red card to buy marijuana, the popularity of edibles is expected to skyrocket, and the state is on the verge of issuing new regulations designed to make sure that all products are properly tested, handled and packaged. We’re not just talking about brownies anymore. These days, they’re putting THC in everything from cereal to salad dressing. Boulder-based Mountain High Products makes mints, peanut butter crisps, hot cocoa and other powdered drink mixes under the brand Wana Edibles. Green Tree Medicinals in Boulder carries a wide range of candies, including cannabis-infused chocolate bars, chews, gummis and hard candy. There are also an assortment of flavors and colorful names like Mile High Mint, Peaches and Dream, Choclava and Ganjalas. There are even THC twists on old classics, such as Budda Finger, Snockers, Twigs, Hasheath and Daba Zaba. “I’ve even heard of medicated wedding cakes,” says Hali McDonald, a bud tender for Green Tree.
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And the taste has Genifer Murray, improved significantly as founder and CEO of well. CannLabs, which she “I’d eat these even if describes as the state’s they didn’t have medicine largest brick-and-morin them,” Green Tree tar cannabis testing manager Heather facility, estimates that Augimeri says of the less than 10 percent of candy bars made by the the state’s edibles proColorado company ducers are doing the Incredibles. necessary potency testThere are even drinks ing to their products. and shampoos for detoxSince the strength of ing “because unfortunatethe oil or butter used ly, even if you have your in preparing edibles card if a company has a can vary widely, she no-marijuana policy, you says, often products can’t get around it,” are weaker or stronger Augimeri says. than their packaging Another sign of the indicates. For instance, anticipated growth in the according to Murray, edibles market is that it’s hard to make an While brownies are still available, as seen here with bud tender Hali McDonone local dispensary edible taste good if it’s ald of the Green Tree in Boulder, there are many other options in the world of plans to launch its own a small piece of candy edibles today. kitchen to make highand it has a high end, non-GMO edibles using the potency, say 300 milligrams of THC. In illegal substance in the eyes of the feds, healthiest ingredients possible. one case, she found a candy that had but Cole says she plans to employ Jan Cole, founder of The Farm, says organic practices as much as possible been advertised as 300 mg weighing in her company is acquiring a commercial at only 16 mg when her company tested and use natural substances, like real kitchen in Boulder and plans to make it. sugar instead of high fructose corn and carry only products that use natural syrup. The state’s Marijuana Enforcement extraction processes, not chemical ones Division is rolling out new rules at the In addition, Cole says she has been (like using carbon dioxide to extract end of the month aimed at regulating dedicated to testing her products’ medicine from the plant instead of the new retail marijuana stores that will potency. But that is an added expense butane). She won’t be able to get organ- that until now hasn’t been required, and be opening after the first of the year. ic certification, since that’s a federal some edibles manufacturers haven’t see EDIBLES Page 60 designation and marijuana is still an been taking that extra step.
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Wok Eat, a casual Asian-fusion restaurant, has opened at 946 Pearl Street. Priding themselves on using “fresh, well-sourced ingredients,”, Wok Eat’s menu differs from a traditional one in that it lets you “build your box” (that’s what she said) by choosing a base of rice, noodles or veggies, protein, add-ins and sauce. Wok Eat also offers nine “special boxes” ranging from a traditional Kung Pow box with tofu, hand pulled noodles, “saigon sizzle sauce,” onion, peanut and cilantro to the Bhutanese “Mountain Climber” box consisting of braised chicken and egg, red jasmine rice, green curry sauce, mushroom, onion and green onion. Prices average $7-$10. Wok Eat is open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
HAVE A BJORGY, BJORGY SWEDISH CHRISTMAS
Traditionally, a Swedish Christmas “Julbord” is served buffet-style and could consist of all sorts of different dishes. Classic dishes include Inglad sill (pickled herring), Julskinka (Christmas ham), Pig’s feet, rice pudding and Julmust, a malted soft drink with a taste similar to root beer. But the “Swedish Christmas” dinner hosted by Denver’s Trillium at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18, will be a little different. The fourcourse meal will start with a winter fruit and cabbage salad followed by root vegetable and potato sausage meatballs with seared kale, spiced egg cream and lingonberries. Look em’ up, they’re real berries. The main course will either be caribou, venison or pork, depending on availability. Dessert will include a cinnamon bun with Swedish pearl sugar, chai ice cream and apple chutney. The din-
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For the third year in a row, The Catamounts theatre company will blend food and performance with Feed: Short and Sweet at Sanitas Brewing Company 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 14. The seated fourcourse meal will feature beer and Greta Kuhlman of Avery Brewing CO dessert pairings from Sanitas Brewing Company, Catamounts chef de cuisine Zachary Wilkinson and pastry Take note cab drivers: Avery will hold a chef Kathy Moore. Catamount actors, release party for Mephistopheles on Friday, Heather Grimes from Truth Be Told, the FEED Dec. 13 at 5 p.m. In addition to the new house band, and special guests will provide release, it will feature vintages dating back entertainment. Tickets for the event cost $30 to 2005 available on tap and in bottles. Get and can be purchased at www.brownpapmore info at www.averybrewing.com. ertickets.com.
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Hey kids? Want to black out for the holidays? Then you’re in luck, cause Avery Brewing is re-releasing its demonically strong Mephistopheles Stout this week. First brewed in 2005 as the the third installment in Avery’s “Demons of Ale” series, it measures in at 14.5 percent alcohol. Lawdy lawd will that get you drunky drunk. “For me this is one of the most diverse dessert beers out there,” Adam Avery, the brewery’s president, CEO and brewmaster said in a press release. “It can pair with almost any dessert. It’s perfect for the holidays — a time when we eat tons of food with rich, decadent, and excessive flavors and need a beer that can match up.”
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Longtime organic and local favorite Lucky’s Market is hosting their final tasting event of the year on Sunday, Dec. 15. For the event, Lucky’s will be veritable sample-topia, packed with samples and ideas on how to make your holiday dinner one to truly loosen belts all across the living room. Try holiday favorites like prime rib, vegetable sides, fruitcakes, marinated Playstation 4s and more. Then take the opportunity to stock up since Lucky’s will be closed for both Christmas and New Years and you’ll be S.O.L. if you run out of lutefisk. Lucky’s is located at 3960 Broadway St. The tasting event runs from 3-5 p.m. and is free. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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here’s no way around it; with its efficient combination order-counter/steam-heated prep line, brightly colored walls and easy-clean tile floors packed into a strip mall unit on Arapahoe Street, Yellowbelly looks just like a fast food restaurant. And the contents of the $9.95 Fried White Plate could cynically be described as chicken strips. But slandering Yellowbelly as KFCesque wouldn’t hold up in a food court. Because while Yellowbelly harnesses that uniquely American approach to dining and decor, the Vailbased chain makes items generally relegated to a bad supermarket deli a proud personal choice, rather than a sad admission of defeat. Co-owner Barry Davis even told Vail’s SneakPEAK outright that his aim was to make fast food natural and gourmet, to do for chicken what Chipotle did for burritos. One of the places it’s most obvious is in the chicken strips. Excuse me, “Fried White Meat.” The gluten-free batter is light and peppery for a flaky texture, instead of a rock-hard crunch. The breast meat contained within comes from chickens as freerange, vegetarian and local as a CU sociology major. Fried white indeed. The combination is a tender and flavorful delight, especially dipped in the sweet and smoky house barbecue sauce. The fried white is available as a side for $3 or with two sides and a drink for $9.99. Chicken is also available as a roasted breast-wing combo, a roasted leg and thigh, or a fried leg, all on
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the bone and available a la carte or as a combo plate. A small ramekin of vinegar thick with chopped onions and hot peppers offered with the roasted chicken is a tangy, spicy delight, but the chunkiness of the slurry is awkward to dip into, especially when the chicken is on the bone. Better to use it as a spread, even though spreading liquid can be a struggle against physics. Another place the classy fast food vibe is obvious is the drink selection. To the left of the register is what on first glance appears to be one standard-issue soda fountain. Except the sugar-water contained within isn’t Coke or Pepsi products, but six selections from Boylen’s, a small-batch artisan soda maker out of New Jersey that is rarely found outside of upscale grocery stores and is made with natural cane sugars instead of corn syrup processed straight from Satan’s cornhole. Pro tip: cut the cream soda with a splash of black cherry for maximum effect. And then there’s the sides. Yellowbelly offers a take on fries (smashing the ’taters first) as well as a nice citrus quinoa and a rotating selection of seasonal
veggies like beets, greens and cucumbers. You can also choose Brussels sprout slaw or a truly delightful serving of fresh-baked mac and cheese. Salads, generally a laughable concept in fast food, are also on the menu in stellar form, featuring spinach and baby kale dressed up in roasted carrots, dates, toasted pumpkin seeds and more. You can also get a full rotisserie chicken or large order that totally doesn’t come in a bucket to feed whatever hordes you may be associated with. That’s not to say classing up a fast food joint is a flawless formula. One of the reasons tiles are made easy to clean is that they’re like velcro for whatever diamonds are on the soles of your shoes, making for a nearly muddy floor near closing time in wet winter weather. A dining companion of mine also took issue with the fluorescent lights harshing her yellow (belly), proving that sadly, not quite everything in the fast food system can be foodified, even if a restaurant locally sourced their bulbs. But get it to go like a true American and your problem is effectively swept out of visibility just the way the Founders intended. But even bathed in the fluorescent hell of electrically-excited mercury vapor, Yellowbelly is a delight because of its overall approachability. Typically to get a good meal, you have to plan ahead, be seated, peruse a menu and probably wear pants. You can easily stroll into Yellowbelly on a whim and eat something delicious, relatable and affordable all while dressed like you live in Boulder. Unlike adding fries, a drink and a movie tie-in toy, that’s a winning combo. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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The regs are expected to include manopposed to having more THC in one datory testing for all edible products, side than the other. The new state reguand it won’t just be limited to potency. lations are expected to require homogeMurray, who says she is increasing her nization, for consistency’s sake, a rule staff and quadrupling the size of her that may also be applied to the medical facility to accommodate the anticipated marijuana field of products as well. demand for testing, expects four types In addition, the regs will likely of tests to be phased in by the state over require edibles producers to undergo time. training in food Susan France In addition to handling and food potency, she safety, and contain explains, edible minimum stanproducts will likedards for labeling ly have to be testand packaging all ed for residual edibles. Packaging solvent (to make will have to qualisure the level of fy as child-proof, hydrocarbons, like because of public the aforemenhealth officials’ tioned butane, growing concern doesn’t exceed over how the certain threshgrowth in the edibles market might olds), microbials be a threat to (to avoid things young children like E. coli, salwho find their monella, molds, daddy’s cannabis fungus and millollipop visually dew) and pestiappealing. cides. Lane Drager, A representaconsumer protective of Bouldertion program based Mountain Green Tree manager Heather Augimeri shows off some of the various edibles that coordinator for High Products, are now for sale. Boulder County who requested Public Health, anonymity served on the state Marijuana because the stigma her association with Enforcement Division’s Edible Product the industry might affect her children, says the state’s new regulations — espe- Production Safety Working Group. For Drager, it’s not just young kids stumcially the various required testing — bling across their parents’ THC-laced will be a significant expense, but they gummi bears or soda that represents a are an important move to make sure health threat. He says that the legalizaedibles are prepared safely. tion of marijuana under Amendment She says edibles have accounted for 64 will naturally result in making canonly about 10 percent of a dispensary’s nabis more socially acceptable and less business historically, but she expects stigmatized, perhaps making young their popularity to begin growing in people think there’s no harm in it. But 2014, especially products with small according to Drager, pot can have sigamounts of THC that allow those with nificant negative effects on the developa low tolerance to control their dosage. ing brain when people become chronic For example, instead of having a users at a young age. It’s less of a con300-milligram cookie, which a medical marijuana patient might use, the gener- cern among adults, he says, because al public will probably find a package of their brains are fully developed. Drager says he’s also a proponent of 10-milligram candies more appealing, taxing marijuana products significantly, she explains. Besides, the state is “because price point can be a deterrent expected to issue a 100-milligram limit to use” among youth. on edibles sold in the retail market, The state’s new rules on edibles are whereas there is currently no limit in expected to be issued by Dec. 24, and the medical marijuana realm. industry insiders say the state will likely She says candies and other sweets be lenient in expecting full compliance tend to be the most popular edibles, on Jan. 1, given that tight timeframe. and they are the easiest to make, “The bottom line is we need to conbecause in those products the THC can tinue to educate ourselves, because be homogenized, or spread evenly there’s something new every day with throughout — so that if a 100-millithis plant,” Murray says. gram candy bar is cut into 10 equal Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com pieces, each will have 10 milligrams, as 60 December 12, 2013
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It’s such a strong variety I can’t even find space for Old Jubilation, which is always among Colorado’s best holiday ales, to the point that I’d even recommend a full 16 ounces. And don’t worry, Avery knows that it’s dark beer season but it still has five IPAs on tap. On a Friday afternoon, the tasters stretch out for a lot longer than necessary — and yes, lunch hour beers are necessary. We’re working here, after all. And the whole crew is here because pumpkin ales aren’t the only thing reaching their end: It’s my last day at the paper and my final trip for the beer tour. Which might explain why The Boss’s fatalist lyrics are on my mind. As much as I’ve enjoyed the job of writing about beer — although, as I always mention when I describe my job, that’s not the only thing I do — it’s time to move on. So we all get four more ounces to buy time to reflect on the beer tour, which at 11 months has now covered about 45 breweries and probably 300 beers. We’re recounting our favorite brews — recently, Russian imperial stouts, and more broadly, most things with a unique character — and our favorite stops — opening night for Kettle & Stone, tasting the hottest beer in the known universe with Bob Baile of Twisted Pine, that time we went to BJ’s for the beer. Then my replacement notices the final round of tasters. “I’m seriously starting to wonder if you ever work,” Josh says, not just of me but of the whole staff. That kind of attitude won’t fly for a column about beer. I mean, what does he think we’re doing? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: I recently ended things with a guy I liked because he wanted to stop using condoms, but he balked when I said we should both get tested for sexually transmitted infections. He said he felt I didn’t trust him. I tried to explain that trust has nothing to do with it, and that if he didn’t care whether I felt safe, I shouldn’t trust him. That was the end of it. I’m not seeing this guy anymore. But what do you say to someone who conflates a request for STI testing with a lack of trust? —Seeking Truthful Insight Dear STI: “Bye.” Dear Dan: My husband and I have been married for 20 years, and we both also share our lives with additional partners. Rather than spend a lot of time dishing about who and how we love — and how fortunate we feel! — I’d like to get right to my plea for support. I want freedom. I want the freedom in my life that I’ve always wanted for you, Dan: to be able to live and love and talk about your actual life without being afraid that it could cost you your job, your kids, your family. Having to live in the closet is difficult. I cannot say that it is as difficult for us as it is for someone who is LGBT. I did not know I was “poly” as a kid. I never felt like I didn’t fit in for that reason growing up — and I agree with you that this is a relationship structure rather than a sexual orientation. But it doesn’t matter. This isn’t a contest about who suffers more or where these things come from. Instead, I think we should ask ourselves if we stand for the same things and if we can become part of a movement toward freedom and equality for everyone, even if some of the ways we live and love are choices and some are not. The progress we have made together toward a more tolerant world for gay people gives me hope that we could be next. I don’t think you are the emperor of acronyms, Dan, but you should be, and that is why I am starting with you. So can we be added to the acronym, please? Perhaps we can honor the differences between our experience and the LGBT experience with an ampersand. What do you think of LGBT&P? —Privately Polyamorous Person Dear PPP: You haven’t been keeping up, PPP. We are no longer the LGBT community. We are the
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LGBTQLFTSQIA community, aka the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, leather/fetish, two-spirit, questioning, intersex and asexual community/ communities. I don’t see why we can’t slap a “P” onto the end of our acronym, so say it with me now: “I’m proud to be a member of the LGBTQLFTSQIAP community/communities!” But I have to draw the line at the ampersand. Because if we give poly folks a punctuation mark, PPP, then soon everybody is gonna want a punctuation mark, and our evermetastasizing acronym is an unwieldy, sprawling enough mess already. So no special punctuation mark rights for you guys, PPP. And why should poly folks be held at arm’s length with an ampersand? Because most poly folks are straight? Lots of leather/fetish folks are straight, and they’re covered in the acronym. Lots of trans men and trans women are straight, and they’re covered. David Jay, founder of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network, “is in a romantic relationship with an asexual girlfriend and hopes to adopt a child,” according to his Wiki page, and he’s covered. If the Ts and LFs and As aren’t being held with a pair of punctuational tongs, PPP, why should poly folks be? You’re a sexual minority, too, and poly people sometimes face discrimination, bigotry and oppression. So welcome to the club, PPP. Congrats! And here’s the best part of putting poly folks in the acronym: It brings us one step closer to seizing control of the entire alphabet. While religious conservatives are fighting a losing battle to “take back the rainbow” from the gays — a movement led by a fundamentalist preacher in Washington State — we’ve been making off with the alphabet one letter at a time. Pretty soon, angry religious conservatives will have to post their hateful screeds in hieroglyphics because using the alphabet will be just as gay as putting a rainbow bumper sticker on your car. So… gee… maybe I ought to let you have your ampersand. Why not steal punctuation marks from the haters, too? On the Savage Lovecast, hear the tale of a college slut-shaming intervention: savagelovecast.com. Send questions for Dan to mail@ savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com BoulderWeekly
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You may will be to make a decisive move — either in or out, either be more successful working on the big picture than you are forward or backward, either up or down. in your immediate situation. It could be easier for you to maneuver when you’re not dealing with familiar, up-close SCORPIO matters. What’s outside your circle might be more attracted OCT. 23-NOV. 21: to your influence than what’s nearer to home. “It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear,” said TV talk show host Dick Cavett. I will love it TAURUS if you make yourself one of those rare types in the coming APRIL 20-MAY 20: week, Scorpio. Can you bring yourself to be receptive to In 2009, actress Sandra Bullock starred in three films, two truths that might be disruptive? Are you willing to send out of which earned her major recognition. For her performance an invitation to the world, asking to be shown revelations in All About Steve, she was given a Golden Raspberry Award that contradict your fixed theories and foregone conclufor Worst Actress. Her work in The Blind Side, on the other sions? If you do this hard work, I promise that you will be hand, won her an Oscar for Best Actress. I’m thinking granted a brainstorm and a breakthrough. You might also be that you may experience a similar paradox in the coming given a new reason to brag. days, Taurus. Some of your efforts might be denigrated, while others are praised. It may even be the case that you’re SAGITTARIUS criticized and applauded for the same damn thing. How to NOV. 22-DEC. 21: respond? Learn from Bullock’s example. She gave gracious There are pregnant truths I could reveal to you right now acceptance speeches at the award ceremonies for both the that I’ve decided not to disclose. I don’t think you’re preGolden Raspberry and the Oscar. pared to hear them yet. If I told you what they are, you wouldn’t be receptive or able to register their full meaning; GEMINI you might even misinterpret them. It is possible, however, MAY 21-JUNE 20: that you could evolve rather quickly in the next two weeks. Almost 2,000 years ago, a Roman doctor named Scribonius So let’s see if I can nudge you in the direction of getting the Largus developed recipes for three different kinds of toothexperiences necessary to become ready. Meditate on what paste. One contained the ashes of burned-up deer antler, parts of you are immature or underdeveloped — aspects that aromatic resin from an evergreen shrub known as mastic and may one day be skilled and gracious, but are not yet. I bet a rare mineral called sal ammoniac. His second toothpaste that once you identify what needs ripening, you will expedite was a mix of barley flour, vinegar, honey and rock salt. Then the ripening. And then you will become ready to welcome there was the third: sun-dried radish blended with finely the pregnant truths. ground glass. Let’s get a bit rowdy here and propose that these three toothpastes have metaphorical resemblances CAPRICORN to the life choices in front of you right now. I’m going to DEC. 22-JAN. 19: suggest you go with the second option. At the very least, “Finifugal” is a rarely used English adjective that I need to avoid the third. invoke in order to provide you with the proper horoscope. It refers to someone who avoids or dislikes endings — like CANCER a child who doesn’t want a bedtime story to conclude, JUNE 21-JULY 22: or an adult who’s in denial about how it’s finally time to Are you feeling a bit pinched, parched and prickly? Given wrap up long-unfinished business. You can’t afford to be the limitations you’ve had to wrestle with lately, I wouldn’t finifugal in the coming days, Capricorn. This is the tail end be surprised if you were. Even though you have passed of your cycle. It won’t be healthy for you to shun climaxes some of the sneaky tests and solved some of the itchy and denouements. Neither will it be wise to merely tolerriddles you’ve been compelled to deal with, they have no ate them. Somehow, you’ve got to find a way to love and doubt contributed to the pinched, parched prickliness. embrace them. (P.S. That’s the best strategy for ensuring Now what can be done to help you recover your verve? I’m the slow-motion eruption of vibrant beginnings after your thinking that all you will have to do is respond smartly to birthday.) the succulent temptations that life will bring your way in the coming weeks.
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“I am not fearless,” says Mexican journalist and women’s right advocate Lydia Cacho, “but I’m not overtaken by fear. Fear is quite an interesting animal. It’s like a pet. If you mistreat it, it will bite, but if you understand it and accept it in your house, it might protect you.” This is an excellent time to work on transforming your fright reflexes, Pisces. You have just the right kind of power over them: strong and crafty and dynamic, but not grandiose or cocky or delusional. You’re ready to make your fears serve you, not drain you.
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K. You’re a tourist flying into Colorado to hit the slopes, hike the trails, ride bikes, spend some money on the Pearl Street Mall and maybe buy some of the newly legal cannabis you’ve been reading about. You find a retail store, listen to a salesperson explain the differences between the many varieties and strains and make a purchase — with a valid driver’s license you’re allowed to buy up to a quarter of an ounce at a time if you’re from out-of-state. So far, so good. Now where are you going to enjoy it? You can’t smoke it in the retail store itself or outside on the sidewalk. Can’t walk along the creek path or in the library or City Park — those are all public areas. Your hotel might be non-smoking. It’s legal on private property, but you don’t know anyone who lives here. Will tourists soon be able to purchase marijuana legally but not have anywhere to consume it except perhaps in the alley behind the trash cans? Can marijuana tourism co-exist with more traditional Colorado boosterism? The Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau promotes Boulder on its website with photos of patio diners on the Pearl Street Mall and people hiking and biking and shopping. “We’re curious as to how this will unfold,” says Executive Director Mary Ann Mahoney. “The residents of Colorado spoke, and if tourists come for that reason, where will they be able to use it? It’s almost like saying that you can buy marijuana, but then what?” Though it’s illegal to partake in public, police have made public usage a low-enforcement priority. Still, since it’s illegal, Mahoney says the bureau doesn’t have any options if tourists ask where they can consume it.
If somebody calls and asks where to buy marijuana when stores open, “We would Google where you can buy it,” says Mahoney. Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, says that hotels have the right to allow marijuana use in their rooms, just as they currently allow cigarette smoking in designated rooms. “As long as they do not have a specific ‘no marijuana smoking in our cigarette smoking rooms’ policy, visitors should be able to do it.” Tvert brought up another interesting point that probably goes largely unsaid publicly in the lodging business for many years now. “There’s also the question of whether hotels are going to bother hassling their customers. I know some hotels are very lax on it,” he says. “Obviously, people have been consuming marijuana in hotel rooms for years, so I don’t see there being any sort of new issue here.” Industry consultant Shawn Coleman says people are going to smoke marijuana just as they always have. “The more interesting question is: How many communities are going to be smart enough to allow businesses to take the opportunity to attract marijuana tourists?” As legalization proceeds and long-held attitudes about marijuana are re-evaluated, communities probably will have to consider rules and regulations for private places or clubs where marijuana can be legally consumed — not sold. There are plenty of good reasons for this — a parent who doesn’t want to consume in front of his children — but tourism is a major one. Mahoney said one possibility for tourist lodging is the rental-by-owner market. The bureau can’t promote them because they aren’t licensed, but look for an increase in rentals, especially in ski areas, that
would be marijuana-friendly, and even non-smoking hotels might have to consider cannabis-friendly areas or wings. Another popular new way to avoid smoke is by using a vaporizer. There are hundreds of models for what has become a popular way for people to consume because it eliminates the smoke and odor. The upside is that portable vapes come in all sizes and shapes, but not everybody wants to spring an average price of $250 for today’s pen, pocket and herbal models. I think I understand the hesitation from traditional organizations to consider cannabis part of their tourist campaigns. This is a new, probably very lucrative industry that is illegal in every state touching our borders and beyond. It fits uneasily into Boulder’s “brand.” As the late-night television jokes in the last week over the Denver Post hiring a marijuana editor, the stoner stigma is still the dominant view in popular culture. But I also believe that many of the fears that accompany cannabis legalization will begin to evaporate as legalization proceeds. Coleman is asking the right question, one that local, county and state governments and tourist and amenities businesses should be asking themselves right now instead of having to catch up later. Are bud and breakfasts in Colorado’s future? Nobody knows exactly what the annual market might be, but given that this year’s medical marijuana market is around $250 million, it’s not hard to see that that could easily double or triple in 2014 or 2015, and tourists will make up a percentage of those sales. The reality is that the tourist market for cannabis won’t be Rainbow People, but rather mostly folks like anyone else except they might stop by to pick up a joint before heading home, just like regular people stop for a six-pack. Lodging establishments and tourist bureaus will be hard-pressed to ignore them. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@ boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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