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ast spring, President Obama got downright crabby about people criticizing the gleaming TransPacific Partnership (TPP) he’s trying to sell to Congress and the public. More and more Americans are learning that TPP would undermine America’s very sovereignty, giving multinational corporations direct access to secretive tribunals empowered to roll back our nation’s consumer, labor and

other laws that global corporate giants don’t like. Yet, an irked Obama called this untrue: “They’re making this stuff up,” he cried. “No trade agreement is going to force us to change our laws.” Perhaps he was misinformed. Perhaps he hasn’t actually read the deal he’s pushing. Or, dare we say it?, perhaps he’s lying. In unmistakable language, TPP does indeed create the private, corporate-run mechanism for changing our laws. Moreover, surely Obama knows that foreign corporations are already doing this indirectly. Through little-known provisions in the NAFTA and WTO trade scams, powerful corporations in other countries have pressured their governments to challenge our laws in similar tribunals. From Canada to Malaysia, many countries have, on behalf of their corporate powers, successfully forced Congress and U.S. agencies to weaken

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or eliminate everything from some of our environmental protections to consumer right-to-know laws. In fact, this very year, Obama’s own administration has been told by the World Trade Organization that it must alter or repeal two of America’s laws! Shockingly, his TPP flimflam would elevate private profiteering corporations to the legal status of nation states, enabling them to sue directly in rigged corporate courts “to force us to change our laws.” Obama knows this — or he doesn’t. Either one destroys his presidential credibility and moral authority to keep pushing this giveaway of our People’s sovereignty. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 17, 2015 5

commentary Why are so many working class whites killing themselves? by Dave Anderson

n a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, two Princeton economists — Angus Deaton (who just won the Nobel Prize) and Anne Case — revealed that death rates among middle-aged, white, non-Hispanic Americans have increased sharply. Mostly among those with a high school degree or less. This was largely due to drug and alcohol “poisonings,” suicide, and chronic liver diseases and cirrhosis. Between 1999 and 2013, the number of deaths per 100,000 people rose by 134.4 for this group. That’s more than a 20 percent jump in the death rate. Deaton sees only one parallel: “Only HIV/AIDS in contemporary times has done anything like this.” This hasn’t happened in any other advanced country or among any other demographic group in the U.S. Between 1979 and 1999, mortality for white Americans aged 45 to 54 declined at nearly 2 percent per year. This was similar as the average rate of decline in mortality for all people the same age in such nations as the United Kingdom, France and Germany. After 1999, the 2 percent annual decline continued in other industrialized nations, but the death rate for middle-aged, white, non-Hispanic Americans began rising half a percent a year. Interestingly, the death rate for middle-aged blacks and Hispanics continued to decline during the same period, as did death rates for younger and older people of all races and ethnic groups. Middle-aged blacks have always had a higher mortality rate

than whites and they still do — 581 per 100,000, compared with 415 for whites — but the rift is narrowing. Deaton and Case say there was a significant increase in middle-aged, less-educated whites reporting poor health, chronic pain and difficulties with walking a quarter mile, climbing ten steps and socializing with others. The percentage reporting themselves unable to work doubled. Drug-related deaths are now higher among whites than minorities. In the 1990s, there was a sudden and ready availability of opioid prescription painkillers such as Oxycontin. Social commentator Barbara Ehrenreich notes: “Manual labor — from waitressing to construction work — tends to wear the body down quickly, from knees to back and rotator cuffs, and when Tylenol fails, the doctor may opt for an opiate just to get you through the day.” Deaton and Case suggest the working class whites they studied are experiencing stress and despair from economic change resulting from slower economic growth and rising inequality. They have “lost the narrative of their lives.” They were raised to believe in a fraudulent American Dream. “Many of the baby-boom generation,” Deaton and Case note, “are the first to find, in midlife, that they will not be better off than were their parents. Growth in real median earnings has been slow for this group, especially those with only a high school education.” But they also observe that some other wealthy nations have seen “even slower growth in median earnings than the

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t times of increased tension, both ISIL and racists in the West are taking a similar path to polarize the public. I’d propose an alternative approach to avoid a bleak future with limited civil liberties. Coming back from a medical mission that treated the unfortunate Syrian refugees in Jordan, I could imagine the customs and border protection officer denying my entrance to the country of my citizenship because I am a Muslim. “I am sorry, doctor, but the rules have changed since your departure,” he would say. Sitting in that cold waiting room waiting for an airline to take me somewhere in the world, my past 18 years would flash in front of my eyes. This is a situation that I hope would never transpire. Born with blue eyes and fair complexion to a father from Latakia, a town on the coast of Syria, and a mother from the heart of Damascus, I can’t say that my experiences have been similar to other Arabs or Muslims. I have witnessed, however, the horror of 9/11 and the backlash experienced by many of them and even by non-Muslim Indians wearing turbans. We are living today in similar times with high tension since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. Of course these cowardly attacks do not represent Islam just as the Oklahoma City bombing does not represent Christianity. The heart of the matter,

nevertheless, is that we are all falling into a ploy leading us to believe in a clash of civilizations or religions. In 2011, a group of Syrians started a nonviolent uprising against the injustice and lack of political liberty imposed upon them by the Assad regime. They were met with brutal force. Unfortunately, some started carrying weapons to defend themselves. Many neighboring countries, with blessing from major world powers, added fuel to the fire by allowing foreign fighters to enter Syria. ISIL was, therefore, formed. The latter, however, does not represent Islam nor the Syrians. Its extreme ideology has been supplemented by spectacular, horrific and televised acts of terror. Since then, the whole world determined that it is the enemy, and countless countries commissioned airstrikes in Syria with no regard to civilian lives. Meanwhile in the West, there is a rise of fascism with racist slurs and religious bigotry. It is built on a rhetoric that ignites fear and rage in a population that is not familiar with foreign events, and leads to alienation and cornering of minorities. Hate crimes are on the rise and Muslim minorities are finding themselves in a defensive position. Two of them with sick brains in San Bernardino adopted an extremist reaction. By doing that, they validated the racist rhetoric and see GUEST COLUMN Page 8

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mortality numbers and the volatility of right-wing politics.” He added, “Some people who feel left behind by the American story turn self-destructive; others turn on the elites they feel have betrayed them. No, deporting immigrants and wearing baseball caps bearing slogans won’t solve their problems, but neither will cutting taxes on capital gains. So you can understand why some voters have rallied around politicians who at least seem to feel their pain.” Donald Trump channels their rage and frustration toward scapegoated, dark-skinned people. His idiotic and racist rants are given unlimited free air time on TV while a genuine populist like Bernie Sanders is hardly mentioned. A recent study showed that ABC World News Tonight has devoted 81 minutes to Trump, 20 seconds to Sanders. The other networks were similar. If democracy is to survive, this has to change. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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assessment and, thus, increased its popularity. Both ISIL in the Middle East and the racists in the West have the same agenda: polarizing the populace into an “us against them” mentality. With every televised horrific ISIL act and the ensuing bombings, more civilians in the Middle East are turning to ISIL for safe haven. On the other side, with every racist action in the West, more Muslim youth feel alienated and regress into an extreme religious propaganda available all over the Internet and thus more join an extremist organization. This closes the loop on a vicious cycle. Unfortunately, the media is falling into this trap like many of us. They are overplaying and overanalyzing every action and contributing to the division. Sitting in that cold room, I could remember abandoning the medical specialty that I loved the most because it was popular among American graduates and choosing a less popular specialty. I could recollect practicing in an under-

served area with a salary below the reasonable wages for my specialty for several years. I could remember the countless number of U.S. patients that I treated from the heart without ever asking them about their religion or nationality. I would wish that people stood together across all religions and races and stopped this slippery slope. I would hope that instead of bombing Syria, we shut down ISIL’s social media and bank accounts, arrested their oil exports to Europe and halted the flow of weapons to Syria. I would desire that we called out racists when we saw them, that we wrote to the media when they produced biased reports, that we networked with each other and rallied to tell the country and the world that that was not the trajectory we wanted for humankind. I would wish that we built bridges, not destroyed them. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Majd Isreb, M.D., Vancouver, Washington, is an immigrant from Syria and a nephrologist. Boulder Weekly

letters Due process missing at Ryan Elementary and BVSD

In September 2015, I had to file a Federal lawsuit against Ryan Elementary and Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) because they unconstitutionally banned me from walking my daughter to school because I criticized my daughter’s teacher and lack of school safety at the school. I also wrote a letter to the editor about the incident, which was published in this newspaper. On Dec. 11, 2015, I was forced to file a fourth motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction filed in federal court after speaking with BVSD about what steps I needed to take to get back on campus and BVSD continues to act in bad faith and they are keeping my indefinite ban from campus in place. The attorney for BVSD even cited my letter to the editor published in the Daily Camera as an example of a negative interaction. Evidently, BVSD thinks that it can get away with depriving parents of due process and equal protection, if they don’t like when a parent criticizes a school. Andrew J. O’Connor/Lafayette

With viable alternatives, like electric cars powered with electricity from only solar or wind, we will be able to reduce our carbon footprint and really move toward decarbonization. If our government would put a fee on carbon at its source and then return those monies back to households, then the majority of people would get back more with this rebate than they would be paying for higher energy prices. This is all part of a bigger solution being offered by

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Citizens Climate Lobby. My wish is that more young people would join Citizens Climate Lobby, and become a part of an organization which is offering up non-partisan solutions that stand a chance of being approved by Congress. You could join the Boulder Chapter. Go to citizensclimatelobby.org and find out how to become involved. Our country and our world needs you. Roberta Benson/Boulder

We’ll be in big trouble if we don’t take steps now to reduce the present national debt within 10 years; and we should let our elected representatives know this. One compromise might be to please the democrats by going along the lines of the Simpson-Bowles plan — or at least keeping Obamacare — and to please the Republicans by not funding Planned Parenthood. Alex Sokolow/Santa Monica, CA

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n the coming months, Mental Health Partners’ Walk-In Crisis Clinic will move from its current location at 1000 Alpine Ave., to 3180 Airport Road, just off Valmont Road. While the move will consolidate a number of mental health services under one roof, it will do so at the cost of longer bus rides and more walking, which means the new location could be less convenient for clients in crisis who do not have personal transportation. Estimated travel times will vary according to traffic conditions throughout the day, but the new location will triple the distance for clients traveling via bus from downtown Boulder. According to a Tuesdayevening Google Map search, making the one-mile trip by bus from the Boulder Transit Center to the Crisis Clinic’s current location on Alpine takes approximately 10 minutes during 5 p.m. traffic. This trip includes a six-minute bus ride (with six stops) and two-tenths of a mile of walking (around three minutes). The shortest bus trip from the transit center to the new location on Airport Road is estimated at 29 minutes, with a 22-minute bus ride (26 stops) and three-tenths of a mile of walking (about seven minutes). The new location is just more than three miles from the Transit Center. Though the difference may seem minor, current and previous employees say they worry the move will make it too difficult for some clients to reach the critical services they need. “My understanding is there’s little to no available public transpiration [to the facility on Airport Road] and it’s pretty far out there,” says Chuck Littman, a former employee of Mental Health Partners (MHP). “From the center of town it’s probably, I would guess, 3 or 4 miles. It would be a very tough walk, particularly in bad weather and particularly for folks who have physical or mental handicaps. I don’t think it’s the brightest idea.” Boulder Weekly

Ann Noonan, interim vice president for Acute Care at MHP, says the nonprofit organization isn’t blind to the possibility that the Crisis Center move could be hard on some clients, but they will be “carefully” watching for significant changes. “I would say we would prefer if there were more robust bus service out there, but there is a bus that stops at the corner of Airport and Valmont,” she says. “It’s still in city limits. It’s further away, but still in city limits. “We’re concerned about the bus schedule itself,” she elaborates. “We have plans to talk to RTD about increasing their service to that area.” Noonan says MHP hopes to have the new Crisis Center open at Airport Road before the end of winter, but unfortunately, she doubts RTD will be able to beef up services to the area before then. However, she says the point of moving the Crisis Clinic to Airport Road is ultimately to better assist clients. “The whole point is integration. People don’t just have substance abuse issues. They don’t just have mental health issues. We’re more complex creatures than that,” says Noonan. “We treat people who are intoxicated and psychotic, people who are suicidal and in withdrawal. We want to be able to treat people concurrently and in an integrated way.” MHP’s current Walk-In Crisis Clinic has been located on Alpine Avenue for the past year, since MHP received state funding through Colorado Crisis Services specifically to develop a 24-hour walk-in crisis clinic for Boulder County. Noonan says when the County received the state grant, placing the new walk-in clinic with MHP’s other facilities on Iris Avenue wasn’t a possibility, so the clinic ended up on Alpine. Boulder County built the facilities on Airport Road around eight years ago. That building currently houses MHP’s Addiction Recovery Centers Division

and the Transitional Residential Treatment program. “In our continuing plan, now it’s time to bring those services together where it’s less expensive, but also less traumatic for clients,” Noonan says. “Sitting in an emergency room, there are lots of things happening and people are waiting for hours — it’s traumatic for someone who is already in crisis. This new facility will be a much more customer-friendly site. People will be able to walk in the door not having decided whether they should go to the ER. Should they go to the crisis clinic? Should they go to detox? They just come in one door and we help assess what their needs are.” Former MHP employee Littman says he understands why the organization wants to integrate services, but he thinks the move is counterproductive. “It doesn’t make sense to me to make it more difficult for patients that are already experiencing some difficulties,” he says. Noonan says there’s always been concern about transportation across the county for MHP clients. “We have people in Longmont who need to come to detox [in Boulder]. The challenge is there are no finances within the County to pay for that,” she says. “If you’re using an ambulance, you must go from one medical facility to another, and we’re nonmedical. When police are picking folks up, they transport folks to us, but it takes officers off beat while they do that transportation.” She adds that MHP has a new proposal in development to look into alternative options for transportation, such as the MHP owning a van or subleasing with other transportation services. “The challenge is to find community support for that,” she says. “There’s no health insurance coverage for that, so law enforcement ends up holding the bag for it. It is a tough situation. All programs like ours have to deal with it in one way or another. I think we’re going to have to be creative to set up funding for our own transportation — it’s not like Uber. We have to have someone available with the van, 24/7.” Despite mild concerns about transportation, Noonan says the consolidated services at the Airport Road facility are a positive change for Boulder County’s mental health services. “We’re super excited about this opportunity to bring these services together. We’ve wanted to have a triage center for many years. I visited one 18 years ago with the idea that we’d do something here,” she says. “It’s a dream we’ve had within this community for very long time. “ December 17, 2015 13

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he video shows a suspect walking away from the police when an officer drives onto the scene and immediately opens fire. Moments later, the 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is dead — shot 16 times. On the face of it, this is yet another case of unreasonable use of force by police against black men: Ferguson, North Charleston, Minneapolis and now Chicago. The difference here is that the video footage was kept under wraps for over a year. Such secrecy has sparked calls for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign. After sketching an outline of what it calls a “cover-up,” The New York Times recently editorialized that while it long appeared Emanuel’s administration was going to succeed in withholding dashcam footage of the shooting, “Fortunately, a journalist working the case sued for release of the video.” That journalist, a freelancer named Brandon Smith, was, until recently, little-known outside of Chicago activist circles. His work has now led to murder charges against the officer involved in the shooting, as well as the resignation of the Chicago police chief, Gary McCarthy. Accustomed to working with progressive, independent media outlets such as In These Times and Chicago Reader, Smith has had to adjust to his new role in the public eye in the wake of the video’s release. “I’ve been fielding interview requests full time for the past week-and-a-half,” he says in a recent phone interview. He explained the media’s interest in the story as a combination of two factors: “There’s a police brutality angle, certainly,” Smith states. “But there’s also a media story, one where I had to fight for transparency and the city was fighting back.” The Windy City is home to two of the biggest daily newspapers in the country: the Sun-Times and the Tribune. But both have sustained major cutbacks in staffing in recent years, Boulder Weekly

reflecting a national trend in the daily newspaper business. What does it say that it was left to a freelancer to uncover this story? Smith is deliberate in his answer, careful to point out that there are still good reporters at newspapers like the Tribune. However, he notes: “They’ve cut their staff down to a shadow of what it used to be. I’ve seen some dogged reporting by them. But maybe the question is: Why don’t they do it always?” The Chicago papers still have a substantial budget for investigative reporting, especially compared to freelancers like Smith. “They have reporters who cover the story,” he says, “and they submitted FOIA requests like I did.” Indeed, before Smith came along, the Chicago police had fielded — and refused — at least 15 other FOIA requests for the dashcam footage from other media outlets. “The only difference,” he suggests, “seems to be that their executives didn’t approve of a lawsuit. Why? I have no idea.” While his freelance work doesn’t exactly afford him a steady income, the independence permitted him to pursue a lawsuit after the police initially denied his request for the video. He

was aided in the struggle by Craig Futterman, a lawyer and founder of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project at the University of Chicago; and Jamie Kelvin, another independent journalist and founder of the nonprofit Invisible Institute. In an NPR interview, Futterman discussed the parts of this story that are still obscure. Take, for instance, the missing 80 minutes of surveillance video recorded by cameras at a nearby Burger King. Alvarez, the Cook County attorney, says she found no evidence of tampering while the Burger King manager on duty that night has accused the police of deleting the footage. In the same interview, Futterman mentions a witness to the shooting who said she was taken from the scene by police and browbeaten into not talking about what she saw. To anyone following national stories on policing, that witness’s claim sounds eerily familiar. There is the couple in Greensboro, North Carolina, who claim that for weeks after filing a police brutality complaint, officers sat in a squad car parked in front of their home. An eyewitness to a police killing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, also reported a police car parked in front

of her home for weeks on end. And Black Lives Matter protesters in Chicago and New York have been targets of surveillance by law enforcement officials, according to reporting by the Chicago Sun-Times, and muckraking website The Intercept. Are police trying to silence their critics? “Yeah, I think that’s more than safe to say,” Smith says. He notes that there were other witnesses to the Laquan McDonald shooting who were asked to leave the scene by police. “When I continue my court case I’m going to figure out how the police interacted with these witnesses, taking sworn testimony from every officer who was there that night.” Read any of the media coverage of the Laquan McDonald shooting, and you will find mention of the Chicago Police Department’s long history of abuse. Agents working within the Chicago Police Department’s notorious “Red Squad” spent decades spying on the political left. In 1990, a local journalist broke the story of a Chicago precinct commander who had tortured more than 100 African-American suspects over the course of two decades. Today, the Chicago Police Department can claim it is accountable to the Independent Police Review Authority. Oversight, however, is notoriously lax. Out of more than 400 officer-involved shootings since 2007, the board’s investigations found only a single case to be “unjustified.” Smith calls this “a startling ratio.” Given this history of police abuse, I wanted to know whether Smith thought the Laquan McDonald case had a chance to spark any lasting change in police culture. He told me that this is hard to predict, noting that it would depend on what activists and civil rights leaders demand from their elected officials. “A lot of the final outcome,” he concludes, “will also depend on how hard the national and local media stick with the story.” December 17, 2015 15

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hile the nations of the world were putting the final touches on the historic Paris accord on climate change, I stood below the Eiffel tower gripping a 100 meter long banner with a simple, salient message, “It’s Up to Us to Leave It in the Ground.” The second “It” on the football field-sized banner refers to a polarizing substance not mentioned once in the agreement. That substance is fossil fuels, and despite the dozens of articles circulating on the Internet that claim the Paris deal signals an end to the fossil fuel era, no reference to “petroleum”, “oil”, “coal”, “natural gas” or “fossil fuels” appears anywhere within the 31 page document signed on Saturday, Dec. 12. Renewable energy is mentioned just once, in the preamble. Throughout the two weeks leading up to the agreement, a large group of committed young activists fought to have an expiration date on the use of fossil fuels included in the agreement. They painted zeros around their eyes to signify the need for a commitment to zero fossil fuels by 2050. This is what scientists estimate is needed to achieve a 1.5 degree target for temperature increase. While the group’s actions at the talks resonated, as it so often happens, the physical reality did not meet the political reality. The fossil fuel industry was not only present throughout the talks, but also some companies had helped to fund COP21, such as European companies Engie, Suez and EDF. The influence showed in the negotiations, and experts believe the non-binding targets selected by countries will lead to a rise in temperatures between 2.7 and 3.7 degrees Celsius. It does not do nearly enough to deter climate disaster or to protect human rights. For instance the agreement mobilized a small fraction of the climate finance needed to help developing nations shift off of fossil fuels and protect against climate disaster. The text even left it open for wealthier nations to use much maligned carbon offset programs. One such proposal, known as REDD, has come under heavy criticism by representatives from the Indigenous Environmental Network because it allows corporations to offsets their pollution in exchange for “protecting” forested land that native peoples are already stewarding. Boulder Weekly

Hanging over the entire agreement is the influence of the U.S. Congress, which is so drunk on the influence of fossil fuels that many representatives deny the dangers of human caused climate change entirely. Since Congress must approve all federal funding, the U.S. negotiators opposed all UN-mandated climate finance for developing nations. It is up to us to overcome this political reality. We must build robust, progressive coalitions that oust politicians who oppose climate action along with the greater social and racial justice movements. We must overcome the power of the fossil fuel industry by overturning Citizens United and instituting publicly financed elections. We need to fight against voter suppression of youth and people of color and outlaw politically motivated gerrymandering. But fixing our political system alone will not solve the problem. The fossil fuel industry and the banks that finance them are hell-bent on extracting every last bit of fossil fuel profit from the earth. That is why nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience is essential to turning the tide and bringing about the end of the fossil fuel era. Recent victories in blocking the Keystone XL Pipeline and drilling in the Arctic show what we can accomplish with a strong commitment to escalating nonviolent tactics. This May, a global campaign called Break Free will take this kind of action to another level as communities around the world engage in nonviolent direct action to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The campaign recognizes that if we are to prevent

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tricity, dry grain, accept food waste, [and] mitigate odors and groundwater pollution.” Additionally, “the digester engine is a good source of heat for milking parlors, farm shops and milking centers,” he says. Europe has been utilizing this process for a number of years. With their limited land space and stricter environmental guidelines, European countries have faced the added pressure to design and use creative waste management techniques. They don’t have the luxury of sacrificing hundreds of thousands of acres of land to landfills, as the United States has been wont to do. And although the number of landfills in the States has decreased, the acreage devoted to covering up our trash has increased, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Advancing Sustainable Materials Management report. Questions are now being asked as to how to not only decrease our reliance on landfills, but also on how to perhaps save money and even create power while reducing the environmental impacts of landfills. And the magic biogas called methane? Landfills make the perfect environment for naturally occurring anaerobic digestion, but un-harvested methane has a frightening global warming capacity 21 times higher than CO2. And while some landfills are capitalizing on what’s occurring naturally on their grounds by harvesting the methane into tanks, others allow it to leak into the atmosphere. Diverting food scraps alone from landfills to digesters could decrease methane emissions drastically and create a valuable renewable energy source. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates

that if only 50 percent of the food waste generated yearly in the U.S. were to be anaerobically digested, enough energy could be created to power more than 2.5 million homes for a year. The benefits of using anaerobic digesters would trickle into a number of other areas, too. Fats, oils and grease (FOG) clog municipal sewer pipes, but in diverting FOG from our wastewater facilities to digesters, sewer overflows could be prevented and municipalities could experience money savings, as well as improved water quality. The digestion of livestock manure, currently the leading use of AD in the States, not only allows for the production of biogas, but can save farms money, decrease odors, reduce methane emissions (and thereby increase safety) on the farm and improve water quality. In a report by S. Sharvelle and L. Loetscher of Colorado State University, they estimate a large dairy could potentially produce enough energy to heat 100 homes. And that solid byproduct known as digestate produced by the anaerobic digesters can be mixed with added nutrients to create compost, or can be used alone as a soil amendment to aid in improving soil quality, help prevent runoff, retain surface water, improve plant growth and a number of additional applications. Currently, according to the American Biogas Council, there are approximately 191 digesters on farms, and around 1,500 operating in wastewater treatment facilities around the country. With the invention of food depackaging units that separate plastics and nonorganic material from food waste before sending the waste into the digester, larger chain grocery stores such Boulder Weekly

as Wal-Mart are considering these machines for their distribution centers. However, therein lies the problem: There needs to be a suitable amount of waste. As with most things, it comes down to dollar signs. The return on investment needs to be high enough to justify the introduction of an AD unit. Anaerobic digesters are not designed for home, or even small-scale farm use. And while mini digesters are on the drawing boards of engineers across Europe, a time may never come when every city is equipped with its very own energy-producing vessel. And it’s still a new idea in the United States. “We are currently 20 years behind Europe,” says Will Hancock, a pre- and post-consumer food waste specialist for AD applications in North America. He believes the trend will continue to rise in the States as real estate becomes more valuable than burying waste, and with increasing support from the government subsidies. Already a number of subsidy programs are on the slate for government review. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the EPA and the Department of Energy (DOE) are working together to foster support for the utilization of biogas in clean energy markets. According to the Biogas Opportunities Roadmap, a joint publication from the USDA, EPA and DOE outlining steps to increase awareness of biogas and AD benefits, the government agencies are diligently working to improve communication across state, federal and local governments to foster the adoption of biogas systems. But Hancock is wary of the staying power of government subsidies, noting the roller coaster ups and downs of the wind energy programs as subsidies were given out and then taken away. “We need to be more diligent in the beginning with dump fees and capital costs to make sure [AD programs] don’t close when subsidies go away or we will be back where we are right now,” he says. As awareness continues to grow in the United States, there will be kinks in the system that will need to be worked out. But, for now, several states continue to implement anaerobic digesters in their systems. Hancock points to the Heartland Biogas anaerobic digester and renewable natural gas facility in Weld County, Colorado, as an example in our own backyard. The facility will produce up to 4,700 MMBtu (1 million British Thermal Units, which are the units natural gas are measured in) of biogas daily, making it the largest anaerobic digester facility in the United States. The digestate and fertilizer produced Boulder Weekly

will be used by local farms, while the biogas will be supplied to a municipal power authority through a 20-year Gas Purchase Agreement. A1 Organics, an organic recycling company based in Colorado, has the exclusive contract to supply all nonmanure feed stocks to the Heartland digester. “It is our plan for these solids [digestate] to be used as a peat moss replacement,” says Ted Mathews, biogas project manager with A1 Organics. “The nutrient rich liquid [byproduct]

… will be irrigated on crop land to replace commercial fertilizer.” Mathews goes on to note that it is A1’s hope to gain the contracts necessary to provide the “incidental loads,” or packaged food waste and waste acquired from transport losses or cooler breakdowns, in addition to their nonmanure feed stock supply. Incidental loads are often landfill bound, but with the addition of food de-packaging units, this waste can be harvested and sent to the digester. “This presents a beneficial use much

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Coming and going: Tim Dardis rides the short track at CU Boulder. Dardis recently published his first book, a collection of poems called Road Rash.

arl Jung believed reaching full potential as a human required exploration of our deepest thoughts, those feelings that lay buried deep beneath our consciousness. As he put it, “There is no energy unless there is a tension of opposites; hence it is necessary to discover the opposite attitude of the conscious mind.” Sometimes, Jung said, one’s “opposite attitude” can counter conscious thoughts so completely as to seem destructive, so we avoid and fear whole parts of ourselves. If we search ourselves truthfully, there’s duality within us all — a desire to live a long life, yet the strange, fatal impulse we can feel near the edge of a cliff. Or, less morbid, a lifetime of guitar lessons and dreams of life as a musician thwarted by shyness and fear of rejection and failure. We stand in our own way. We ignore parts of our personalities because we think it’ll keep us safe from physical and emotional harm. But sometimes all it does is keep us from being who we want to be. Some people learn to cliff dive, and others fight stage fright to become stars. There’s always been this awareness of duality in competitive mountain bike racer Tim Dardis. “There’s part of me that likes to be outside, and part of me that likes to be by myself on the couch reading books and watching Netflix,” Dardis says. The long-time Boulder resident has always found himself caught between these seemingly opposite qualities, but instead of shunning one for the other, he found inspiration in the space between. Boulder Weekly

Dardis recently debuted his first book, a selected collection of poetry called Road Rash, at Innisfree Bookstore. While the title and the front cover — a photo of a mountain biker sailing through the air in what appears to be the moments just before a crash — might indicate this is exclusively a collection of adventure poems, Road Rash is a broader examination of life and the world in general. The collection highlights Dardis’ stylized practice of poetics through a blend of personal exploration, cultural curiosity and eco-poetics. It’s the day of his debut at Innisfree, and Dardis has taken off work a few hours early to meet in a coffee shop and talk about his book before his reading that evening. He admits he wondered what he’d have to say about himself, about his work. “If you’d asked me a year ago, ‘Can you imagine sitting and having someone interview you about your poetry? That you’re going to be reading out of your own book to people?’ No,” he says, with a gentle shake of his head. “I’m a guy that works in a cube. What the hell? I think the biggest adventure I’ve done in a while is getting up tonight [at the reading], and trusting that everything is going to be OK.” Actually, Dardis says, if he’s being honest, his first response when asked to read from his book was “no.” But something made him feel as though it was OK to say yes — that it was OK to share this private side of his personality. So Dardis said yes, despite his fear and trepidation. He trusted a different part of himself.

There was tension. There was energy. That unconscious trust has led Dardis through his life, to the in-between space where his creativity and athleticism both seem to flourish. • • • • Bikes were always a part of Dardis’ life — he remembers his first fixie bike as a child in Northbrook, Illinois — but it was his parents that inadvertently gave their son his passion for bikes. It was the late ’70s, and Dardis’ parents asked their pre-teen son to ride in the RAGBRAI, The Des Moines Register’s annual bike ride across Iowa. The young Dardis did not want to go. “But they made me,” he says. “And I just remember being by myself on a country road in Iowa on a fivespeed Schwinn bike and thinking, ‘This is the coolest thing I’ve ever done’ — and I’ve never lost that.” Years later, Dardis found himself living in the suburbs of Chicago pursuing a master’s degree in special education, working with students who had behavioral disorders in a class room “known as the cage.” Something wasn’t right in his life, and instead of ignoring his discomfort and continuing on what some might have called the safest path, Dardis listened to his inner voice. “I looked up at the skyline one night from the University of Illinois Circle Campus and this thought just said, ‘You need to go to Boulder and study poetry.’” Dardis’ brother was living in Boulder, and Dardis has traveled through the city on numerous occasions with his family on vacations to California. He knew Boulder was a Mecca for cyclists, and he knew Chicago wasn’t conducive to the lifestyle he wanted to lead. So he packed up and moved west, leaving behind see MIND-BODY Page 26

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his master’s in special education to pursue a master’s in creative writing at the University of Colorado. He admits that while graduate school got him to Boulder, the real intention was to be a part of a community that valued an outdoor life, namely biking and skiing. But even at this point, Dardis wasn’t consistently competitive with his cycling. He had competed in his first bike race, a cyclocross, when he was 20, then raced on velodromes in Illinois and Wisconsin and did a few criterions around northern Chicago. But Dardis says he was never quite able — or willing — to commit to the training it took to truly be competitive. So he decided to just ride his bike and ski — a lot. Courtesy of Tim Dardis And grad school kept him busy, though he wasn’t enjoying it the way he thought he would. “I had a hard time writing to order in grad school,” he says. “Those things (poems) were delivered to me, and I followed. I couldn’t do it when I was asked. I internalized this as, ‘I suck as this.’” But that fear never stopped him from writing, nor from riding. He jokes that his friends would ask, “How’s your writing?” and he always had to ask if they were inquiring about his poetry (writing) or his bike (riding). Dardis had also developed a love for mountain biking. He had a group of friends that rode regularly, Dardis riding his way to third place at the Fall and he found he preferred riding Classic stage race in Breckenridge. on dirt to asphalt or concrete. But still, cycling was something he did for himself, never competitively. He made it through grad school but felt, like many graduate students, like that was enough. He did not pursue a Ph.D., nor a teaching career. He found a job as a content services specialist for a startup business in Boulder that allowed him to work to live, as opposed to living to work. Dardis and many of his coworkers were able to take bike rides or long runs during their lunch breaks. The Valmont Bike Park was right next door to their offices. More than a decade passed before Dardis “committed” himself to training for mountain bike racing. He was 43. “There was suddenly this moment,” he says. “I had tried racing, dabbled in it, but never really felt I wanted to commit to it. Then the voice in my head said, ‘It’s Boulder Weekly

ADVENTURE time to go do that now.’ I had folks in my life who were involved in it and I just sort of reached out and said, ‘Yes.’” His first race was in Winter Park — a hill climb. “I thought, ‘I just don’t want to be last,’ and I wasn’t,” Dardis says. “I found myself committed to it. I got a coach and she started giving me workouts, so I didn’t have to think about that kind of stuff, and I developed a taste for hard work and discipline. Then you start to race and you go faster than people and it becomes addictive. Then when you start getting results, it’s very good for the ego. That lifestyle just became my lifestyle.” And all the while, Dardis continued to write poetry. His work appeared in House Organ, Exquisite Corpse, Toad Suck Review, Flatirons Literary Review, Chicago Literati, Fat City Review, Tic Toc, Courtesy of Tim Dardis Midnight Screaming, Hudson Valley Echoes, Grasslands Review, Sierra Nevada College Review and more. Still, this was a side of Dardis that few people knew. He often submitted his work anonymously. “There’s a quote by a poet named Jill McDonough that says — and I’m paraphrasing this — ‘Poems are a great place to tell your secrets because nobody reads them but you and me,’” Dardis says. He delivers the joke with a tiny smile, but he’s serious. In addition to submitting his poems to literary reviews, Dardis also shared his work with close friends, like fellow writer Mark Spitzer. Eventually, Dardis realized how much work he’d built up over the years, and he reached out to Spitzer to ask what to do next. The In addition to mountain biking, Dardis has also answer was simple: publish a book. always loved skiing. Spitzer and an assistant helped select poems from Dardis’ collection, sequence them, edit and design a book cover. Dardis says the process was difficult; he often had to let go of his beliefs about his work and put his faith in someone else. “To bring it outside to people is a real artifact of my experience,” Dardis says. “Nobody knew this about me... a few people did, but a lot of people I’ve gotten to know in my life recently didn’t know that I write. I’ve been able to present this part of myself and then step up into it.” His poems range in subject matter: some look at shared experiences like the 9/11 attacks. One poem, called “The First Israeli Astronaut,” is written from the perspective of Colonel Ilan Ramon: The Middle East/appears to be at peace/he said from space./There is no war in zero g. Many poems are more personal, like “Viscosupplementation:” Crossing Boulder by car is a crap shoot,/a throw of the dice, a bet on/congestion from construction,/red lights, crosswalks, and people/ who drive beneath the speed limit./But I arrive on time/at the sports medicine center/for the first set of five/intra-articular injections:/the biannual anatomical oil change/for my osteoarthritic, microfractured knees. “Just thinking about how I grow with my racing, it’s the same with my writing…” Dardis says, trailing off a bit as he thinks in real time. “By saying yes to this (competitive racing) and showing up and then continuing... I’m just a run-of-themill guy who rides his bike — I’m never gonna be a pro racer. Nobody knows who I am, but to get out there and compete and go faster than somebody, to get on a podium, to say yes to a race in Keystone or Breckenridge and feeling strong and confident, that opened up a new part of myself to experiencing the world and saying yes to my life in a different way.” At 51, healing from blown out knees and other injuries, Dardis says he wonders if he’ll keep racing. One of his goals this season is to figure that out. But there’s one thing he knows will always be true, no matter how old he is. “When I am on my bike, I feel like I’m 9.” Road Rash is available for purchase at the Beat Book Shop in Boulder and Local Editions Books and Coffee in Longmont. It can also be purchased through online booksellers or directly through the publisher at shakestoadsuck@gmail.com Boulder Weekly

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I believe it’s nearly very successful,” she impossible for a woman adds with a chuckle. not to relate to This cultural enviMinter’s work. In myrronment sparked a iad ways, Minter has defiance that Minter deconstructed the femwould continue to inine experience work with throughout through beauty, sexualher career. Pretty/ ity, presentation and Dirty starts with consumption by chalMinter’s “Coral Ridge lenging the way we Towers” photo series look and morphing the from 1969. The phoimage we see. While tos were done while the feelings and conMinter was an undercepts Minter explores graduate at the are not unique to the University of Florida female experience, she and feature pictures of uses women and props her mother. of femininity to focus “I had a very on perception. beautiful, glamorous mother Minter critiques, what who was a drug addict,” she calls, “the bombardment Minter says. “So it was this of images” seen through constant beauty that was fashion ads and social off. She had acrylic nails media, which seem inescapwith fungus growing underable in today’s world. But neath because she didn’t the artist goes beyond these bother to take care of “perfect” images to show them.” the truth: dirty feet, sweat, The series features hair, faded makeup. Minter’s mother doing variMinter’s work mirrors ous activities, including the same sensation we get dying her eyebrows or putwhen looking at fashion ting on makeup. There’s a distance and bleakness that ads. A part of us rejects the envelops each frame — a standard being thrust upon dark sentimentality that us, but that is coupled with frequently shows up in undeniable desire to fit into the mold that is regarded as Top: “Coral Ridge Towers (Mom Smoking);” Bottom: “Food Porn #35” Minter’s work. Minter’s mother presents herself culturally superior. And with an air of Hollywood those who do subscribe to glamour, yet in Minter’s photographs that perfect image are told it’s shallow, the exhibit. she stands in the mirror alone or debased and fleeting. Her work conBut even before the start of her art smokes a cigarette slouched over in bed fronts, yet also acknowledges, the career, Minter challenged the norms wearing a frumpy nightgown. It’s a strength of these ideals. she grew up with. She was born in strange dichotomy that places Minter’s “I’m seeing academics do nothing Louisiana in 1948 to an anti-feminist, mother out of context, which offers a but criticize the [fashion/beauty] indus- pill-popping Southern belle mother in try, even though it’s this billion dollar an environment that, Minter says, didn’t critique on the way women present themselves and the pressure to stay industry. It gives so much pleasure, and encourage intellectual thought. And young forever. at the very same time it gives us so though Minter showed a knack for art “It feels like there is this entropy of much shame, and the knowledge that early on, she was encouraged to marry beauty — the decay and the fact that it you’re never gonna look like that,” well, not become an artist. Minter says. “I think all of the work is “I rebelled against all the values that just melts eventually. You can’t hold on trying to capture all that paradox. Both I was brought up with, which were typ- to it. It’s elusive,” Minter says. In the ’80s, Minter painted “Big the hatred of yourself of wanting to ical Southern values that made me ill. Girls,” a reinterpretation of the infaeven look, and also the pleasure you get My brothers [were] too,” she says. mous photo of Sophia Loren side-eyeat the same time, and denying that it “We were brought up in this gening Jayne Mansfield’s bosom, and has power.” teel, racist culture, and we rebelled “Little Girls #1,” a picture of a young Pretty/Dirty covers the entirety of against it. We didn’t have a lot of peogirl looking at her reflection in a fun Minter’s career, and while there are ple who agreed with us. My brothers house mirror. Both pieces engage with variations with her style and aesthetic, kept their mouths shut. I was a bigthe idea of the female gaze. It shows her main themes remain throughout mouth troublemaker, and they were Boulder Weekly

buzz the power it can hold as we stare at others or ourselves. No one is safe from a critical look, even if you’re a big-time movie star or an impressionable child. The paintings also belabor the idea of distorted personal perspectives and constant comparison that plague society. In the late ’80s, Minter shifted her depictions to food. In 100 Food Porn, she made several up-close paintings of food preparations including fish, artichokes, corn, lobster and oranges. Most feature women’s hands, with striking red nail polish, pulling, chopping, squeezing and touching. The nature of these paintings is gritty and intimate. With an inherent sexual nature to otherwise neutral activities, Minter’s paintings evoke a provocative undercurrent that leads to her future work, which is far from subtle. In her next series, Minter exchanged food for phallus. “Porn Grid” uses the same visual technique, but now with up-close sex acts, including a foursome, foreplay, gay and straight oral sex. Pushing past the initial surprise, which is barely shocking to today’s mediadrenched audience, the paintings are radiant. Minter’s technique of dripping paint elicits passion and carnal desire that is ingrained in humanity. She gleaned inspiration from Mark Kelly’s work where he repurposed items like stuffed animals, afghans, candles and more into a project called Half a Man. The work was highly regarded for a man reclaiming things seen as delicate, feminine and juvenile. Minter wondered what the equivalent would be for a female artist and decided on graphic sexual imagery. At the time, she was reading queer and feminist theory, which she found sex positive and transgressive. “I was just trying to show people having a good time,” she says. “This is where the gay community was my support system because they believed that women should make images for their own pleasure. That didn’t exist, unless it was underground, until the ’80s.” However, not everyone thought like Minter and her LGBT friends, and the collection was received poorly by the art world, which said it was vulgar and exploitative. This also polarized female artists into separate battlefields: the good feminist versus the bad feminist. Minter was in the latter camp with her sex positive approach that allowed women to enjoy sexual freedom. She was pitted against artists like the equally progressive Cindy Sherman, who critiqued sexuality and how women were portrayed. When in reality, neither Sherman nor Minter Boulder Weekly

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communicating [my point],’ I thought, ‘Well, fuck you. If you thought that was bad, wait until you see this.’” She followed up with darker, raw paintings like “Juicier” of a large breast, “White Cotton Panties” of female genitalia and “Chiaroscuro” of a woman masturbating. These paintings are remarkable for their defiance — yes women have sex, and they enjoy it. Minter spent a career spotlighting these

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atirist Tom Lehrer once said, aforementioned food pantries. There are surgical. I don’t know if it’s harder or “Life is like a piano. What you also a string of benefit albums Winston easier but it doesn’t involve surgery. I get out of it depends on how has recorded that helped out those who think I had it super easy compared to a you play it.” lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks lot of people,” Winston observes. “I’m For George Winston, his (Remembrance: A Memorial Benefit), vicsure it was harder than I remember. I’ll approach has been one of total immertims of Hurricane Katrina (Gulf Coast do whatever it takes to get the music sion and a laser-focus on his chosen Blues & Impressions: A Hurricane Relief good besides drugs or drinking. instrument dating back to 1972, when Benefit) and the 2010 Deepwater “I had treatment at City of Hope in he forsake playing organ after getting Horizon oil spill (Gulf Coast Blues & 2013. I was recovering and staying close turned on to the stride piano stylings of Impressions 2: A Louisiana Wetlands by. They have a village, so then you can Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson. Winston Benefit). just walk to your doctor’s appointment. never looked back and went on to And while some may view his unerr- It’s like their hotel, so I was just at the become a self-described “rural folk piaing willingness to throw his efforts piano every night and these songs just nist,” more than happy to play live, peri- behind various charitable causes as kind of emerged. That whole experiodically record and raise ence took place on their Courtesy of George WInston money for charities at seemgrounds, in their lecture room ingly every turn. on their piano. It was very serWinston originally made endipitous.” his recording debut with For this current tour, Ballads and Blues 1972 on the Winston is playing what he Takoma Records imprint of calls a “winter show,” which will fellow musical iconoclast John feature him playing solo on his Fahey. It would be another trademark 9-foot Steinway. eight years before Winston From there, Winston will play entered the studio to make fall and winter-themed songs Autumn, his Windham Hill mixed with Vince Guaraldi’s Records debut for label owner “Peanuts” pieces with stride Will Ackerman. And while piano, folk piano and New this wound up being the inauOrleans-influenced music. Or as gural release for this seminal he puts it, “kind of a mixture of George Winston marries inventive piano music with charitable New Age label, it also wound where I’m coming from musigiving. up saddling Winston with the cally.” nickname, “Father of New Aside from the plan to Age,” a tag he’s quite happy to release a full-length two-CD disavow. being slightly New Agey, Winston is version of the Spring Carousel EP, “I have nothing to do with that, and I rather nonchalant about why he chooses Winston has loose plans to eventually have a vasectomy anyway. That’s a misto help out in this manner. do a follow-up to 2002’s Night Divides nomer. I have nothing to do with any“My job is to try and clean up a the Day — The Music of the Doors and a thing spiritual. I just play the song,” mess after it happens. I’m not really a long-planned project of songs either Winston explains with a laugh. “It’s kind changer or preventer. Stuff happens and written by or inspired by New Orleans of like if someone called you Jim and it’s I try to do something like a benefit to piano legend Professor Longhair. But not your name. I don’t know where that help out. That’s my area,” he says. it’s about as close as he’ll get to actually came from. I don’t even know what that Winston’s latest release is the threeplanning anything, as Winston is of the even is. I’m sure there’s good stuff everysong Spring Carousel — A Cancer Research mindset that inspiration comes at its where, but I have no clue what it even is Benefit that will be released in 2016, and own pace. or where it even came from.” 100 percent of his artist royalties will go “If a song happens that’s original or For Winston, simplicity has always to benefit cancer research. The latest a song of somebody’s to interpret, it’s all been the key to a career in which he uses effort strikes close to home because something that I notice. That’s serenhis passions and inspirations to forge his Winston was working on this project dipity, but I’ve got to get the fingers creative path, whether it’s the weather after being diagnosed with having a low going so that I’m able to play [it],” he patterns of his native Montana, cats, platelet count. Having already survived says. “Some things take a long time. It’s slack-key guitar, Vince Guaraldi, the thyroid and skin cancer, he flew to really just like watching the weather. Doors or the music and culture of New California-based City of Hope, a private, When it snows, we do certain things Orleans. not-for-profit clinical research/medical and when it rains, we do certain things. Winston is also quick to throw his treatment/graduate medical school for a It’s kind of like reacting to what the efforts behind numerous charitable bone marrow transplant. Not only was he music tells me what to do. causes. Proceeds for CDs sold at his successfully treated, Winston got musi“It’s not an entity, but it’s like one. shows go to local food kitchens. And cally inspired. It’s of me but not of me. It’s one of concert attendees are always encouraged “It was great being there. It was a those undefinable things. It is what it is to bring canned food to donate to the bone marrow transplant, which is not or isn’t what it isn’t.” Boulder Weekly

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“Glazed” / Marilyn Minter

feet, lipstick on teeth, smeared glitter, the leftover indents of constrictive clothing. Here lies the amalgamation of the themes seen in her previous work — the underbelly of beauty. “It all gets messed up. That’s where I really go to, it doesn’t last ... the sweat does start happening and you get greasy after a while,” she says. “And your mascara gets clumpy … and if you live in New York City you’re gonna get dirty feet, no matter how expensive your shoes are, if it’s raining.” Minter’s work captures these snapshots of femininity, sans the glossy ideal of fashion ads. She challenges these preconceived notions and forces the viewer to confront their culturally imposed standards. “Why does a picture of armpit hair make me uneasy when it’s natural?” she asks. “Because women aren’t ‘supposed’ to have armpit hair.” She dives deeper with electrifying pieces like “Gasp” and “Vampire,” which feature lipsticked mouths overflowing with jewels, or “Wangechi Gold,” a glitter-covered face drooling gold paint. Disturbing yet devilishly delicious, these works comment on consumption and the never-ending hunger for beauty so strong we might choke on it. Like the porn paintings, all these pieces question the definition of womanhood and the pressures and insecurities women face. The paintings are beautiful to look at, but also uncomfortable. With “Blue Poles,” the glitter draws

us in, yet the pimple distances us. It’s that distance that is so critical to Minter’s work because therein lies the cultural confrontation. It grounds us in reality and pulls back the curtain on the glamour sold to us through the Kardashians or Dolce & Gabbana or Facebook. While relatable, Minter’s work tells no story, and Minter says the lack of narrative is intentional. Is she taking down the patriarchy with a hairy pit? Maybe. But that’s not necessarily what she was thinking when she made it.

“In my case, my art is so Recently, Playboy commissioned intuitive,” she says. “I don’t Minter to do some work for their 60th have any intellectual groundanniversary issue. Minter came up with ing until after I made it, and the PLUSH collection, a series counterthen it all makes sense and ing the porn-influenced trend of female someone writes words, and pubic hair removal. The pictures show that’s so much better. [During painted fingernails grazing long pubic the creation process], it’s in hairs; some feature pantyhose, thigh the ocean of my brain.” high stockings, tattoos and chainmail; But Minter’s work isn’t and some are so abstract, it’s hard to decisive, one way or the other. immediately decipher them. She isn’t But in the end, making a Playboy wasn’t interchoice or ested in her contriON THE BILL: Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, telling the bution, entitled 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303audience to “Bring Back the 298-7554. Through Jan. 31. make one Bush,” and instead either. ran only one small “I’m photo of her work. always dealAgain, Minter butts ing with both — the love and heads with patriarchal imposed stanthe hate,” she says. “There’s dards. Naked ladies: OK! Natural naked never one or the other. When ladies: Not OK. I get criticized, it’s because I Minter did receive positive feedback don’t criticize. And that’s from the public and her limited-release because I think the paradox is PLUSH book sold quickly. The paintwhat’s interesting.” ings weren’t as desirable, but luckily, That relationship is clear Minter’s good humored about it. with Minter’s intermingling “I keep making them because I love with pop culture and fashion them. Yeah, but they don’t sell,” she icons. She’s done ads for forsays. “There was a guy about to buy mer Gucci Director Tom one... and he didn’t know what it was, Ford, and Madonna featured and I said, ‘Oh, you bought the pubic Minter’s short video “Green hair! And he goes, ‘That’s pubic hair?’ Pink Caviar” on her Sticky & Sweet And that killed the sale!” tour in 2009. The video features Minter doesn’t pretend to know why mouths licking, sliding and spitting of her work negatively affects people. She colored goops on a glass surface. For continues to work and she loves her life modern-day pop fans, the video might as an artist. Her work stirs the pot and seem eerily familiar with Miley Cyrus’ serves up contemplation, not explanavideo for “Do It,” released in October. tions or solutions. The similarity was not lost on Minter. “I don’t understand it; who would?” “I know, what a rip off, huh? … I’m she says. “I think most things are so used to it. I don’t care. They’re never nuanced without answers. That is where going to do what I do. She should have I get in trouble because I constantly say hired me. I would have made it a lot that. … People want black and white better!” she says with a laugh. answers, but they don’t exist.”

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Music Antonio Lopez. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-3279318. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Chris Kresge Band. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Kevin Smith 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Some people only know Kevin Smith as his reoccurring character Silent Bob. But those who know Smith’s work well know that he’s far from silent. For a majority of his career, along with making movies, Smith has gone out on the road and done hours of Q&As with fans talking about anything from his personal life, to his movies, to the latest comic book blockbuster. Smith is a filmmaker, cinephile and your typical “average guy,” whose storytelling, humor and wisdom shine through every event. No matter how big of a Smith fan you are, his candor and laid back attitude will make for an interesting night.

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Open Jam: Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Purple Squirrel. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Reverend Horton Heat. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Selby Clyman Duo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

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Sherefe: Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.

The Pearl Button. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Holiday Art Market. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Dec. 31.

Sleeping With Other People. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Oil Paintings by Theresa Beckemeyer. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30.

Friday, December 18 Music

Ain’t No Folkin Around with Paul Sullivan. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Honeycomb 9pm-1am

DJ ON SATURDAY NIGHTS DEC. 19

DJ Baby Boy (from KS 107.5) 9pm-1:30am

Burns Twice. 8:30 p.m. Dillingers, 1202 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, 303-666-6979. Christmas Concert. All day. Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1000 15th Ave., Longmont, 303-7763290. Clisset & Company. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Contraband. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Dechen Hawk & Colin Robison. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Denny Driscoll. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Ethyl and the Regulars. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Foxfeather. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Friday Afternoon Club. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Groovealicious. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10.

Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 20.

Green Holiday Bazaar. 10:30 a.m. Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328.

DJ ON THURSDAY NIGHTS DEC. 17

LIVE BAND ON FRIDAY NIGHTS DEC. 18

Marilyn Minter

A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24.

Events

Tenth Mountain Division. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

50 Shades of Blue. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

9pm-1am

arts

Good Penmanship — Elizabeth Morrisette. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Jan. 3.

KARAOKE

DJ Done

events

Marilyn Minter’s retrospective, Pretty/ Dirty, fills MCA through Jan. 31. Get a more in-depth look at her work on pg. 29.

Photography by Glenn Randall. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30. Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 31.

Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.

Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967-1980. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 17. Susan Wick: Wild Women Never Get the Blues. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 3. Uncommon Clay: Functional to Fantastic. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-6787869. Through Dec. 23 Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 7.

Boulder, 508-873-9185.

linsville, 303-258-0649.

Lee Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Mitchel Evan & The Mangrove. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970259-3555.

Lonesome Days. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. The Long Run: Eagles Tribute Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Magpie. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rol-

New Family Dog, The Mile High Horn. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355. see EVENTS Page 40

theater Jennifer Scheidies

A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239, Through Dec. 27. A Christmas Story, The Musical. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Dec. 27. A Tuna Christmas. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 20. The Addams Family. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 27.

Come get a unique taste of the holiday classic with Longmont Theatre’s production of It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

Happiness and Cheer. 7:30 p.m. St John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303442-5246.

Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 23.

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The Heartstring Hunters. 8 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Dec 20.

Holly Hathaway. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21.

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

The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239, Through Dec. 27.

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Kort McCumber. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20,

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speakers lectures events Reimagining Death & Dying: Changing the Way We Care A Contemplative Conference Featuring a Keynote with Vassar Byrd

Friday, January 8, 7:30 p.m. Keynote with Vassar Byrd, CEO of Rose Villa Senior Living & Naropa Alum. $20 advance, $25 at the door

Saturday, January 9, 9:00 a.m.â€“5:00 p.m. Contemplative Conference $175 Saturday only $185 Friday and Saturday

Nalanda Events Center 6287 Arapahoe Avenue Boulder, CO $95 General Admission

For more information and tickets visit Naropa.edu/events Boulder Weekly

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Once Upon a Christmas Concert. 7 p.m. Heart of Longmont Methodist Church, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523. The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-7747698. Rogue 2. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Scott Martin Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Victor Wooten Workshop. 1 p.m. Lafayette Music, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1500, Lafayette, 303-661-9335. Weary Bones. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Whiskey Autumn. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.

“Acapella Pop & Rock”

Events

Friday December 18

Boulder Bookies Book Discussion Group. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

GIRLS ON TOP! “Dance/R&B”

Saturday December 19

SOUL SCHOOL

“Dance Music from Yesterday & Today”

Sunday December 20

COLCANNON

“Traditional Celtic Christmas”

Tuesday December 22

FRANNY & THE JETS With a Special Appearance by

HAZEL MILLER

Wednesday December 23

NELSON RANGELL HOLIDAY CONCERT “Smooth Jazz”

Saturday December 26

HINDSIGHT “Classic Rock”

Sunday December 27

HOLLY AND THE HUSBANDS “Classic Jazz”

Friday December 31

Boulder Weekly presents

NEW YEAR’S EVE Featuring

THE CORPORATION First Seating: 6:30-9:30pm Dinner & Show Second Seating: 10:30pm-12:30am Ring in The New Year Show

Saturday January 2

ONE ON ONE “Motown/R&B”

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WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUES Featuring

ROOTS & RHYTHM BAND Thursday January 7

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Green Holiday Bazaar. 10:30 a.m. Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328. Holiday Hike. 6 p.m. The Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Intercambio English as a Second Language Class Level 4/5. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Music & Movement Program. 10:30 a.m. Wow Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. The Pearl Button. 2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Gift Of Music. 7:30 p.m. Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-4421522

Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Grupo Chegando L and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Happy Hour Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill Southside Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303543-7339. The Heartstring Hunters. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Hotfoot. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. JC and the Deadly Sins. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jockomo. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Anthony Evans. 5 p.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway (Highway 66), Longmont, 720-443-1605. Big Head Todd And The Monsters. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Breakfast for Dinner. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Chancers Hooley. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258. Dave Connelly. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. David Potter. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-5507813.

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Fishpool Medicine. 8 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Julie’s Studio Victorian Carolers Tea. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344. Longmont Museum Holiday Festival. 4 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. The Pearl Button. 2 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Kort McCumber. 1:30 p.m. Ski Eldora (Corona Bar), 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Suite 140, Eldora Mountain Resort, Nederland, 303-440-8700.

St. Nick on the Bricks. 11 a.m. Visitor Information Center, Boulder, 303-449-3774. Sunday, December 20

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

Music

Lindsey Saunders. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE. Lorenzo Casey. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Los Cheesies. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The McPhersons. 7 p.m. Modena Wine Cafe, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 720-438-7410. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Powerlung Rangers. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Music

Holiday Kink Carnival Burlesque Dance Party! 9 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-449-4410.

Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning. 10:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, December 19

Green Holiday Bazaar. 10:30 a.m. Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328.

Sleeping With Other People. 4 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Once Upon a Christmas Concert. 2:30 p.m. Heart of Longmont Methodist Church, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523.

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Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Sleeping With Other People. 4 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

The Farmer Sisters. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

(SE Corner of 95th & Arapahoe)

Foxfeather. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970259-3555. RADIATE Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Rebecca Folsom and Sally Barris. 6 p.m. Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center, 20 Lakeview Drive Unit 107, Nederland, 303-258-0495. The Robin Davis Duo. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625. Soul School. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Tim & Amy Ostdiek. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Adult Ballet at Reverence Academy of Dance. 9 a.m. Reverence Academy of Dance, 1370 Miners Drive, Suite 111, Lafayette, 303-661-0719. B.L.A.M! Solstice Pop-up Group Art Fair. 4:30 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Co., 3550 Frontier Ave, Unit A, Boulder, 303-998-2895. Best of NYICFF: Kid Flix Mix. 12:30 p.m. The

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Anthony Evans. 9:30 a.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway (Highway 66), Longmont, 720-443-1605. The Berle Band. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Bill Smith. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Billy Shaddox. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bluegrass Pick with Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Christmas with the Boulder Philharmonic. 2 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-494-5025. Colcannon Holiday Show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Denny Driscoll. 4 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Honeytree Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Joshua Vanachorn, The Steamboat Bandits. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Kort McCumber. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258. Mattie Montgomery: Frontman of For Today. 11 a.m. Boulder Rock Church / Rock Of Frontrange, 2897 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-4427625. New Family Dog. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Sundays at Vic’s. 12 p.m. Vic’s Espresso & News, 2680 Broadway, Boulder, 303-440-8209. Tim Ostidiek. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel see EVENTS Page 42

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Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events

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

Last Chance Gift Fest. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.

Green Holiday Bazaar. 10:30 a.m. Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328.

LifeBridge Christian Church Blood Drive. 8:30 a.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway (Highway 66), Longmont, 720-443-1605.

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

Three Tenors Christmas Concert. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Run With The Newton Running Lab. 5 p.m. Newton Running Lab & Retail Store, 1222 Pearl St. Mall, Boulder, 303-357-2383.

Monday, December 21

Wednesday, December 23

Music

Blues Jam with Boa & The Constrictors. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Alex Heffron Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Brandon and Josh. 9:30 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Coral Creek. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886.

David Sheingold. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Celebrate the pioneering spirit of early Colorado, the traditions of Christmas, and rituals of the winter solstice.

Open Mic Hosted by Silent Bear. 7 p.m. Sancho’s Boulder Arrow, 1325 Broadway St., Boulder (Above Bova’s), 720-849-8458. Yotam Horin. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955. Events Apur Sansar (The World of Apu). 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Community Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Winter Chill Out Camp. 7:30 a.m. Bob L Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Tuesday, December 22 Music

Boulder Theater December 20, 2 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Last two shows— tickets going fast!

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Brandon Hagen. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Franny & The Jets With Special Guest Hazel Miller. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Matt Michaud Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Open Jam. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night with The Prairie Scholars.

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Flash Mountain Flood. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-8498458. George Winston. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Gregory Allen Isakov and Reed Foehl. 8 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-4436461. Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Nelson Rangell Holiday Show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Eric Wiggs. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Willie Bean Bluegrass. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Events ALDA-Boulder (Social Sign Language Class). 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Green Holiday Bazaar. 10:30 a.m. Bricolage Gallery, at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328. Heart of a Dog. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Pearl Street Runners. 6:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Rotary Club of Longmont St. Vrain. 7 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2704. Three Tenors Christmas Concert. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tunes at the Piano Tea. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Winter Chill Out Camp. 7:30 a.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Zarafa. 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Weekly

GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC

American Life in Poetry: Column 557

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Debra Marquart, who teaches at Iowa State, is a poet, a memoirist, a writer of stories and a singer with her own R&B group, The Bone People. She knows the musician’s life, and here’s a road poem from her most recent book from New Rivers Press, Small Buried Things. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

Traveling with Guitar For you can travel with a screaming red rolling bag and float unnoticed on conveyors, through terminals or you can lug half a moose rack from Maine to Minnesota, carry it like a broken wing through airports as my friend Gro did, and draw only the curious touches of children waiting at gates. But dare to travel with a guitar and invite confessions from strangers in pinstripe suits of garage band summers, invite winks, gotcha smiles, and devil’s horns rock on gestures. Invite finger points and winks, the long tongue licks, and the rubberneck glance to check if you are someone famous. To dare to travel with a guitar is to mark yourself charismatic megafauna of the airport terminal. Old friend, what else could I do but carry you? I have stored you in closets, propped you in corners, hunched over you late-nights, staring perplexed at the mysteries of your neck. Body of my body, string of my strings, see how the world began to hum and sing that day at thirteen when I opened the big birthday box. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Debra Marquart “Traveling with Guitar,” from Small Buried Things, (New Rivers Press, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Debra Marquart and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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While a bit stiff despite its great cast, Spotlight is an ode to the importance of journalism.

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o I’m talking to a friend the other day, and he says “I don’t see why we need the news anymore if we have social media.” The minute I stopped beating him senseless whilst vomiting due to the sulfuric smell of stupidity, I pointed out that Twitter has yet to take down a sitting American President like Woodward and Bernstein did. Spotlight is a well-crafted (if slightly stiff ) reminder that good journalism, real journalism, isn’t just important, it may be the only thing that can stop unspeakable evil at times. Spotlight is the retelling of how a handful of reporters at the Boston Globe exposed one of the most repellant chapters in the oft-repellant history of the Catholic Church. Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton) is the head of the “Spotlight” team at the Globe. His reporters, Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James), are deep-dive investigative journalists. Days after arriving in 2001, new Globe editor, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), tasks the squad to investigate allegations that high-ranking members of the Boston Catholic Clergy were sheltering child molesters. Attacking the Catholic Church in Boston is akin to wearing a cheesehead in Soldier Field. Everyone wants the team to drop it, but they can’t. What starts out as a journalistic addiction to discover the truth becomes a moral crusade, as Robby’s team finds victim after victim and molester after molester. The biggest problem with Spotlight is actually a side effect of its biggest strength. This isn’t the story of the people

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who exposed the scandal; this is the story of the process it took to do so. What that means is that far more time is spent showing how the dots were connected than examining the toll it took on those connecting said dots. Sure, there are brief moments near the film’s end when we see Robby confront his implicit guilt, Mike have a temper tantrum and Sacha break her church-loving Nana’s heart. But none of them feel like anything approaching three-dimensional characters, despite each being played by masters of their craft. In a sense, the most well-developed character in the film isn’t a human being but journalism itself. Responsible journalism spurns sound-bite obsessions and the race to break news; it is methodical and patient but relentless. At one point, Mike is tasked to get information from a curmudgeonly and odd attorney named Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci). No matter how much he gets stonewalled, Mike keeps pestering him, like ocean waves relentlessly pounding until resistance erodes. And that’s what defines journalism every bit as much as when Robby decides to hold the story longer to get the “real” bad guys. Spotlight isn’t perfect. Its jangly score is oddly obnoxious, certain moments feel far too self-congratulatory and the Catholic Church actually gets off fairly light, given the circumstances. Still, as a much-needed ode to the type of media coverage this country is desperately, painfully, ominously in need of, Spotlight is a very important film. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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want to tell you a story about a story,” writer/director/performance artist Laurie ON THE BILL: Heart of Anderson tells the audience. She recounts a Dog. December 23–27, the time she spent in the hospital as a child The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, after breaking her back. Anderson tells it in 303-440-7825. Tickets start a rather typical manner: accident, negative progat $6, thedairy.org. nosis, defiance, recovery period, emergence from the hospital and, finally, her return to the world. But that’s not the real story. The real story is the one she edited out of her memory, the story of every other child in that hospital, the ones whose own stories may not have had such a happy ending. Or maybe it’s not about that at all. The presumption that death is the ending is an incorrect perspective, and Anderson doubles back. Compiling evidence that is far from new, yet constantly relevant, Anderson weaves ancient motifs through her own life story in Heart of a Dog, a 75-minute reconciliation of losing a loved one. Heart of a Dog is a collage piece that fluidly moves back and forth between memory, reality and dream. Melding experimental photography, animation, documentary footage, staged scenarios and narration, Anderson recounts the life of her beloved rat terrier, Lolabelle, and her subsequent departure from this world. But Lolabelle’s story is merely a jumping off point for Anderson, who incorporates musings about post-9/11 security and surveillance, alongside Buddhism, the Tibetan Book of the Dead and what Lolabelle, and other loved ones, might be doing now that they have passed on. It is believed that the earliest forms Heart of a Dog explores the meaning of death through the eyes of Laurie Anderof religion stemmed from the need for son and her loved ones, including her burial rituals. These primitive ceremolate dog Lolabelle. nies were designed so the living could comprehend what had happened to those who were once walking and talking, but now lay cold and still in the ground. Over the course of the following centuries and millenniums, these rituals were refined, sophisticated and established en masse. They continue to this day, but while the rituals help us understand and reconcile death, society continues to play antagonist by constantly terrifying us with the potentiality of death and the threat of oblivion. Anderson’s Heart of a Dog is the antidote to that threat. Much like the rituals, art calms us, prepares us and guides us across that next great threshold. Anderson is only 68 years old and is not ready for that threshold just yet. But it was the recent lost of Lolabelle and her husband — singer/songwriter Lou Reed who died in 2013 and can be seen briefly in Heart of a Dog — that has Anderson thinking about what’s next. And naturally, when one considers the future, the mind drifts toward the past. Like Anderson’s recollection of her time in the hospital, other memories have become clear and taken on new dimensions. They are on display here, faded and jagged, blurry and concrete while Anderson’s voice soothingly recounts the lessons she has learned and the observations she has made. Heart of a Dog is a triumph and not simply in its love and candor, but in its calming ease that gently reminds viewers: no matter what, everything will be OK. Boulder Weekly

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t’s hard to be unassuming so close to the Pearl Street Mall, but that’s just what Fuji Cafe and Bar is. The shop is clean and welllighted, but that’s about all you can say about the physical space of the restaurant. It’s small, with seating for maybe 20 people, and the menu is plastered on and above the counter, where you also place your order at the register. It’s a setup that puts the food on center stage, and fortunately, the food is excellent. It’s a chilly weekday night, and so we start with momo soup. The dumplings are filled with ground pork. The broth is seasoned artfully with light curry spices and just enough salt to bring out the flavor of the steamed vegetables. Matt Cortina The vegetables in the soup include broccoli, chard, carrots and onions. The dumplings retain perfect structural integrity in the soup; they are thick-shelled but chewy. The pork on the inside is lightly seasoned and packed with bright, citrusy green herbs. The dumplings don’t have any browning, but the richness of the broth imparts smokiness to each bite of the massive momos. Next is a plate of onigiri. Onigiri are rice pyramids. Some places will sculpt them into fun shapes or animals, but at Fuji Cafe, they are large prisms of sticky rice and fillings, with a rectangular sheet of dried seaweed wrapped under its base and up the sides. We get two ume and two beef shigure onigiri. Ume is pickled Japanese plum. In onigiri, it is shaved like sheets of pickled ginger and rolled into the rice. It is fantastic — this roll is one of the best things I’ve eaten all year. All at once, the ume is sour, salty and sweet. The seaweed adds the smallest bit of crisp and the subtle flavor of ocean and bitter green. It is

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More than what meets the eyes Fuji Cafe and Bar is unassuming… and great by Matt Cortina moist but perfectly packed. It is satisfying but light. It has enough flavor on its own, but is yet embellished by hot pepper sauce or soy sauce. The other onigiri is excellent as well. The beef is cubed and juicy with the character of soy marinade. The roll packs an herbal punch of ginger, and each bite brings out varying emanations of citrus. Next is a bowl of hiya-yakko. It is a cube of chilled tofu, covered in pickled ginger and katsuobushi, or bonito flakes. The katsuobushi makes the dish, with its robust smoky flavor and subtle fish foundation. With soy sauce, a bite with tofu, ginger and the flakes is wholly satisfying, playing on all flavor centers of the tongue and balancing both texture and temperature. Last is a plate of chawman. It’s a dish of thick,

long noodles with flowery spices and vegetables. It’s a plate of carb-indulgence, where the steamed vegetables and spices all carry a subdued flavor. I add Japanese pepper and hot sauce to my share of the dish and finish it quickly. Fuji Cafe fuses together cuisine from multiple parts of Asia — notably Japan, Tibet, Nepal and China. That they’re able to do it so well and with such little pomp is remarkable. Dishes are all under $10, and food comes out fast and simple. If you’re so inclined, Fuji Cafe also serves a variety of Asian tea, chai and matcha. Why the unassuming places in Boulder always make the best food remains a mystery. But if Fuji Cafe keeps doing what they’re doing, they won’t be inconspicuous for long.

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With commitment, seasonal beverages needn’t stop after the holidays by Matt Cortina

o season is paired with better drinking than winter. Hot alcoholic beverages warm bodies on snowy strolls or mountain hikes. Powerful and rich drinks warm the soul with fat and liquor. All too often, though, we succumb to several common pitfalls of wintertime drinking: we associate them only with the holidays and stop drinking still-seasonal beverages after New Year’s; we burn out on them before December’s over; or we don’t think to expand our seasonal drinking horizons with new drinks. Some of those issues are caused by tradition, and some are caused by commercialism. You can’t always find eggnog in stores after the holidays, and we’re so used to drinking it at specific times and during specific holidays, that you might not want to seek it out or make it at home at all. But as long as the weather is cold and snow is falling, there are plenty of drinks from around the world and from many traditions that can make this drinking season a good one. Let’s start with mulled wine. There simply is nothing like a cup of piping hot, spiced red wine on a chilly day. It’s a drink celebrated and spun by many cultures around the world, and estimates put its origin back to second cen-

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tury Rome. Though it’s gaining popularity in the U.S. (you can snag some local mulled wine at What We Love in Boulder), mulled wine is most celebrated in the United Kingdom, Germany and Norway. In the UK, it’s consumed almost exclusively as a drink for those celebrating the Christmas season. Though there is precedent for it being served throughout winter, the hot beverage of choice for the full season is historically mulled ale or cider, which we’ll get to in a bit. The British version of mulled wine, though, varies by region and family, but is likely to include some forms

of citrus, fennel, ginger and baking spices When I was 17, I had my first taste of mulled wine at the Christmas market in Munich, Germany. I drank too much and puked behind a shop that sold cuckoo clocks. I’ve tried to eradicate that memory, and instead, the image of families and friends gathering and standing around waist-high tables made of old drink barrels, with steam from wine mixing with the visible condensation of breath is the romantic, wintry image I choose to remember. In Germany and Austria, mulled wine (typically called glühwein) con-

tains many of the same ingredients as the British version, but is sometimes embellished with vanilla, chocolate or liqueur. Norway’s mulled wine, glogg, embellishes the German glühwein, with the same spices, an added shot of liquor and food accompaniments like ginger cookies or raisin bread. Pre-made glogg mixes are sold in stores for the thirsty masses, and it is sometimes made throughout Scandinavia with white wine or port wine. Other countries do mulled wine uniquely, too: Bulgaria mixes in peppercorns and honey; France’s vin chaud is dry and unsweet; and in Quebec, they mix maple syrup and hard liquor into the wine and heat it all up for drinking throughout the season, but especially during the illustrious Winter Carnival. You could also try spiced sake, what the Japanese call toso. It’s consumed during New Year’s celebrations to essentially get rid of the old and welcome in the new. The hot rice wine is typically spiced with ginger, Japanese pepper, cinnamon, Chinese bellflower, rhubarb and medicinal roots and herbs. Once trying out the variations of mulled wine run their course, you can switch over to wassail, or hot cider. Wassail is, again, traditionally downed see WARMERS Page 52

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during the holiday season, but the drink is practically made for winter adventures. It started in Southern England as warmed mead with roasted crabapples tossed in. It’s gotten better since then, thankfully. Centuries of trial and error turned wassail into a mixture of hot wine, cider or ale, with brandy or liqueur added, and then stirred together with apples, oranges and other fruits. Eggs are sometimes added for thickness, as are spices like cinnamon sticks, nutmeg and cloves. The best part of wassail is going wassailing. Early wassailers would take the beverage out and sing and drink to the health of trees in local orchards, in hopes that it would scare away evil demons and promote a good harvest the following year. Then, the wassail king and queen directed songs, and placed a piece of wassail-soaked toast on a tree at each orchard as a gift to the spirits. (If this all sounds too British for you, just remember that Johnny Appleseed planted orchards throughout the Midwest mostly for Wikimedia Commons people to produce cider, and thus wassail. Think of him as our American wassail king.) All you need to do to go modern day wassailing is brew up a batch, put it in a thermos and walk about town singing about trees. That’s bound to make a cold February afternoon fun, no? Perhaps no drink summons the holiday spirit and dies more quickly than eggnog, though its history doesn’t directly tie in to Christmas or any other winter holiday at all. Born, again, out of England, it’s traditionally been made with milk or cream, sugar, raw eggs, spices and some kind, or kinds, of alcohol. Nowadays, thankfully for us lacEggnog comes in myriad varieties, too. tose-intolerant and vegan folks, they make eggnog without dairy or eggs, and often it tastes better than milk- or cream-based stuff. Soynog, thickened by tofu, is nice, and coconut nog has fatty richness, but the go-to for me is almond nog, which most accurately mimics the flavor and consistency of the real stuff. The important thing with a traditional eggnog is the liquor. Brandy should make up the majority of the liquor base, with a splash of rum and a splash of bourbon added in. The combination of rum and brandy adds deep fruity sweetness, and the bourbon adds heat and fire. Nutmeg and cinnamon should be used liberally. There’s also variations on eggnog from around the world. In Chile, folks drink colemono, or monkey’s tail. It’s a bit like a white Russian, with a liquor like pisco, vodka or rum mixed with milk, sugar, coffee and cloves. There’s also the Puerto Rican coquito, which is a shot of rum, coconut milk, condensed milk, egg yolks, vanilla and baking spices. And in Germany, there’s eierpunsch, or egg punch, which is warmed eggnog with black tea and an optional liquor addition. Boulder Weekly

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Sabrage: Almost as impressive as a keg stand by David White

eer pong. Flip cup. Quarters. For beer guzzlers, there’s no shortage of ways to make drinking fun. Even if college is solidly in the rearview mirror, most of us can bank on one friend — or several — attempting to shotgun a beer at some point every summer. Wine is more sophisticated. Oenophiles scoff at cans and red Solo cups and pooh-pooh drinking games — or at least that’s what we pretend. But for wine enthusiasts, there’s one party trick that’s almost as impressive as a keg stand. It’s flamboyant yet distinguished, ostentatious yet noble. Sabrage, the ceremonial art of opening Champagne with a sword, is always a hit. And it’s worth learning before your next barbecue. The tradition traces its roots to the Napoleonic Wars. As Napoleon Bonaparte swept through Europe in the years following the French Revolution of 1789, he relied on his light cavalry — the Hussars — to lead the charge. For Bonaparte’s fans and foes alike, the Hussars were seen as a symbol of the empire’s early invincibility. The horse-mounted troops were always armed with brass-hilted sabers, and historians credit them with inventing sabrage. The precise details, though, are murky. Some suggest that as these young cavalrymen rode off to battle, townspeople would toss them Champagne for the journey. Others suggest that when the Hussars returned home, inevitably victorious, townspeople would celebrate by offering bottles of Wikimedia Commons Champagne. Others trace the tradition to the vineyards of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, better known as Veuve Clicquot. After Ponsardin’s husband died in 1805, Napoleon’s soldiers would frequent the young widow’s Sabrage is a fun party trick if you can learn to do it safely. estate, eager to impress her. Legend has it that Clicquot would welcome the men and hand out Champagne as they left for battle. Opening a foil-wrapped cage and pulling out a cork while mounted on a horse is difficult, obviously, so the Hussars used their swords to pop open their wine. Take your pick of which story to believe — and share it with your friends the next time you see an easy opportunity to behead a bottle of bubbly. Most sparkling wines will do, but make sure the bottle is thick with prominent seams. Avoid cheap, screw-top sparklers like Andre. To begin, acquire a saber. While a brass-hilted sword looks impressive, you don’t actually need one; any sturdy instrument will do. Most performers simply use the back of a chef ’s knife. Next, remove all the foil and paper around the neck of the bottle, but leave on the cage. You’ll want the Champagne to be ice cold, as the low temperature will help calm the bubbles, ensuring you don’t lose much wine. Now, the fun begins. Locate one of the bottle’s two vertical seams and remove the wire cage. Hold the bottle at a 45-degree angle, pointed away from people, pets and anything breakable. With confidence, run your blade flat along the seam, striking the lip of the neck ring. So long as you follow through, the top should come right off. Finally, bask in the glow of your success. Sabrage carries danger, of course. While most drinking games only threaten the liver, using a sword to dramatically open a bottle of Champagne puts, well, virtually everyone within a 30-foot circumference at risk. And there’s nothing fun about broken glass. Sabering takes a bit of practice, but once mastered, it’s quite simple. So go get it… with care. David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com, which was named “Best Overall Wine Blog” at the 2013 Wine Blog Awards. His columns are housed at Grape Collective. Boulder Weekly

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in. Cultivate a more conscious connection with the core resources you someThe Neanderthals were a times take for granted. This different human species is one time when delving that co-existed with our into the darkness can lead ancestors, homo sapiens, Go to RealAstrology.com to check out you to pleasure and treafor at least 5,000 years. But Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO sure. As you explore, keep they eventually died out HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE in mind this advice from while our people thrived. HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes author T. Harv Eker: “In Why? One reason, says every forest, on every farm, are also available by phone at 1-877science writer Marcus in every orchard on earth, 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. Chown, is that we alone what’s under the ground invented sewing needles. creates what’s above the Our newborn babies had ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits you well-made clothes to keep them warm and healthy through have already grown is futile. You can’t change the fruits that frigid winters. Neanderthal infants, covered with ill-fitting are already hanging on the tree. But you can change tomoranimal skins, had a lower survival rate. Chown suggests that row’s fruits. To do so, you will have to dig below the ground although this provided us with a mere 1 percent survival and strengthen the roots.” advantage, that turned out to be significant. I think you’re ready to find and use a small yet ultimately crucial edge like SCORPIO that over your competitors, Aries.

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Artist Robert Barry created “30 Pieces,” an installation that consisted of pieces of paper on which he had typed the following statement: “Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, this theme captures the spirit of the phase you’re now entering. But I think it will evolve in the coming weeks. First it’ll be, “Something which is very near in place and time, and is becoming known to me.” By mid-January it could turn into, “Something which is very near and dear, and has become known to me.”

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“There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is uncanny, wild and lawless.” Greek philosopher Plato wrote that in his book The Republic, and I’m bringing it to your attention just in time for your Season of Awakening and Deepening Desire. The coming days will be a time when you can, if you choose, more fully tune in to the uncanny, wild and lawless aspects of your primal yearnings. But wait a minute! I’m not suggesting you should immediately take action to gratify them. For now, just feel them and observe them. Find out what they have to teach you. Wait until the new year before you consider the possibility of expressing them.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Congratulations! You have broken all your previous records for doing boring tasks that are good for you. In behalf of the other 11 signs, I thank you for your heroic, if unexciting, campaign of self-improvement. You have not only purified your emotional resources and cleared out some breathing room for yourself, but you have also made it easier for people to help you and feel close to you. Your duty has not yet been completed, however. There are a few more details to take care of before the gods of healthy tedium will be finished with you. But start looking for signs of your big chance to make a break for freedom. They’ll arrive soon.

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The English word “fluke” means “lucky stroke.” It was originally used in the game of billiards when a player made a good shot that he or she wasn’t even trying to accomplish. Later its definition expanded to include any fortuitous event that happens by chance rather than because of skill: good fortune generated accidentally. I suspect that you are about to be the beneficiary of what may seem to be a series of flukes, Leo. In at least one case, though, your lucky break will have been earned by the steady work you’ve done without any fanfare.

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In the coming weeks, the pursuit of pleasure could drain your creative powers, diminish your collaborative possibilities and wear you out. But it’s also possible that the pursuit of pleasure will enhance your creative powers, synergize your alliances and lead you to new opportunities. Which way will you go? It all depends on the kinds of pleasures you pursue. The dumb, numbing, mediocre type will shrink your soul. The smart, intriguing, invigorating variety will expand your mind. Got all that? Say, “Hell, no” to trivializing decadence so you can say, “Wow, yes” to uplifting bliss.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Garnets are considered less valuable than diamonds. But out in the wild, there’s an intimate connection between these two gemstones. Wherever you find garnets near the surface of the earth, you can be reasonably sure that diamonds are buried deeper down in the same location. Let’s use this relationship as a metaphor for your life, Sagittarius. I suspect you have recently chanced upon a metaphorical version of garnets, or will do so soon. Maybe you should make plans to search for the bigger treasure towards which they point the way.

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A fourth-century monk named Martin was a pioneer wine-maker in France. He founded the Marmoutier Abbey and planted vineyards on the surrounding land. According to legend, Martin’s donkey had a crucial role in lifting viticulture out of its primitive state. Midway through one growing season, the beast escaped its tether and nibbled on a lot of the grapevines. All the monks freaked out, fearing that the crop was wrecked. But ultimately the grapes grew better than they had in previous years, and the wine they produced was fabulous. Thus was born the practice of pruning, which became de rigueur for all grape-growers. What’s your equivalent of Martin’s donkey, Aquarius? I bet it’ll exert its influence very soon.

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important,” said educator John Dewey. If that’s true, Pisces, you are on the verge of having your deepest urge fulfilled more than it has in a long time. The astrological alignments suggest that you are reaching the peak of your value to other people. You’re unusually likely to be seen and appreciated and acknowledged for who you really are. If you have been underestimating your worth, I doubt you will be able to continue doing so. Here’s your homework: Take a realistic inventory of the ways your life has had a positive impact on the lives of people you have known.

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We’ve previously examined the hilarious claim that the oil and gas industry and its politician (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) An irreverent and supporters are really only drilling the hell out of not always accurate view of the world our neighborhoods because they want to keep us safe by making America energy independent. Of course we found these claims completely false. From the draping of every drilling rig with an news outlets have run approximately 80 minutes of American flag to those obnoxious, lying TV commer- news coverage on Republican Donald Trump comcials where the blonde, planet-hating model tells us pared to approximately 30 seconds of air time for fracking is making us energy independent, it’s all one Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. That’s right, big industry lie and now Congress has finally proved the mainstream media has force fed us Donald Trump it. 160 times more often than they have let us even hear Last Friday, under heavy pressure from the industhe name Bernie Sanders. The media keeps claiming try, the House voted to lift the 40-yearold ban on oil exports. The ban was put into place following the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s. The reason we made it law that oil produced in the U.S. had to be used here was for the exact reason of making us more energy independent. And now the ever-lying oil industry wants to make us less energy independent by exporting our oil to Japan and China and Europe while still importing Middle East oil. This isn’t a surprise. BW reported that this was the industry’s intention all along two years ago. Along with our pal Jim Hightower, we were even ridiculed by an energy columnist at Forbes for making such a suggestion. So let us explain it one more time. A good portion of the drilling right here in Colorado is being paid for by companies from other countries who want Weld and Boulder County oil to be shipped overseas. In exchange for all this drilling, foreign countries get the oil, the oil industry gets the profits and all we get is the contamination, the lost property values and a major loss of quality of life… oh, and did we mention the planet dies? If you think this sucks, then stop whining and start recalling and/or voting out politicians like Hickenlooper, Bennet, Gardner and Buck, and frankly most of their Democratic and Republican peers at the state level. These are the hired liars the industry pays to wield the phrase “energy independence” like a knife against a citizenry that too often puts patriotism ahead of sound judgment. If you don’t have time to figure out which politicians are bought and paid for by the oil and gas industry, just vote against any politician who accepts money from Colorado Concern or any Providing a sense of professionalism that of its 118 members. Do that and we just has not yet been introduced to the medical might return to a democracy some day.

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