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PERSPECTIVES: Losing my place

by Joel Dyer

....................................................................... PERSPECTIVES: Everything here is terrible by Elizabeth Miller

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....................................................................... PERSPECTIVES: Surrendering to gravity by Caitlin Rockett

....................................................................... PERSPECTIVES:

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....................................................................... BUZZLEAD: Comets get to sing, so why can’t I? by Josh Gross

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Keep reduce and reuse in mind

The percentage of waste stream diverted to recycling doesn’t begin to tell the whole story [Re: “Reduce, reuse, rewhat?” Boulderganic, Nov. 20]. We need to know actual (per-capita) amounts. If the total waste stream drops by more than the recycled fraction drops, we’d see a net percentage drop in non-recycled waste. Not a bad thing, and quite possible, if material which could be recycled is

instead being re-used, or not even being used at all. Let’s see absolute numbers before jumping to conclusions. We must know what problems we’re trying to solve. To illustrate: Some “greenies” are proud to have a big party which results in a mountain of recyclable or compostable utensils, cups, plates, napkins, etc. By contrast, we don’t recycle — any — of our party ware... but please don’t mark us down for zero recycling! We use (inexpensive) real plates and glasses, metal utensils,

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by Jim Hightower

o you — or anyone — really need a book of rules and a three-hour briefing on ethics in order to do your job ethically? If you’re a congress critter, apparently so, for that’s what newly-elected members of the new Congress that’ll convene in January have just received. Nearly all of the newcomers rode to victory on a tsunami of inherently corrupting corporate cash, but now they’re being instructed in a crash course on Capitol Hill eth-

ics — not learning how to be ethical, but how to avoid ending up being investigated, indicted, or... jailed. You see, in the rarefied air of Washington, one can be blatantly unethical, as long as your behavior has not technically been declared illegal. It’s a fine line, so this latest class of specialinterest lawmakers were eager learners. But, in practice, actually crossing that line is no barrier to congressional service. GOP Rep. Michael Grimm of Staten Island, for example, is back in Congress even though he was caught on tape threatening to throw a reporter off a balcony. The appropriately named Grimm is also under indictment for 20 counts of accounting fraud. Errant Democrats can continue in office, too. Take Charlie Rangel of New York, who has been formally censured by Congress for a mess of ethics violations — but rather than going to The Big House,

cloth napkins. It takes one or two dishwasher loads, a few gallons of water, and that’s it. Plus, it spares our guests collapsein-your-lap plates and brittle fork tines that try men’s souls. Reuse! We must understand that recycled materials still have environmental costs! There’s manufacture, transport (multiple times) and reprocessing. There’s a reason that “recycle” is the third R, after “reduce” see LETTERS Page 9

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Rangel is back in the House of Representatives, reelected on November 4 with no Republican opposition. There’s now a bipartisan move in the House to require annual ethics training for every lawmaker, claiming that this will enhance the public reputation of each member and of Congress itself. Dream on — who do they think they’re kidding? As Lyndon Johnson put it, “chicken manure can’t turn to chicken salad.” If these so-called adults didn’t absorb basic ethics from their kindergarten teachers, they sure won’t learn anything to improve their morality in a congressional classroom. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 4, 2014 7

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Hick clueless on guest workers by Dave Anderson

o we want to create a permanent underclass of non-citizens in the United States? That is a crucial question in the immigration reform debate. Gov. John Hickenlooper’s answer is “yes” judging by his flippant remarks in a national newspaper. On the day before Obama announced his executive action on immigration, the governor told The Wall Street Journal that it would “be very combustible.” He said: “What’s amazing to me is, a lot of young Latinos, the vast majority don’t care about a pathway to citizenship. They want to be able to get on an airplane and get down to Mexico City and visit their grandparents. And they want to get a job and be able to get paid over the table. Why don’t we just take the pathway to citizenship and say, ‘We’re not going to worry about it.’ Let’s have a robust guest worker system where everybody gets five years and we secure the border and we actually hold business accountable if they’re going to pay people under the table.” Latino and immigrant rights groups were shocked and enraged. Julie Gonzales, board chair of the Colorado Latino Forum, said, “We are so disappointed in John Hickenlooper because the things he said in The Wall Street Journal article weren’t the things he said three weeks ago when he was running for re-election. Immigrant communities for so long and Latino voters have held a

pathway to citizenship as a cornerstone, as a marker to determine whether the bills being proposed are meaningful or not. And to see Governor Hickenlooper try to bargain away comprehensive immigration reform’s pathway to citizenship before we even have a bill on the table, I don’t even have words to describe how frustrating that is.” The idea that undocumented immigrants should just become “guest workers” is outrageous. Guest workers are a caste of indentured serfs. In a report titled “Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States,” the Southern Poverty Law Center described the H-2 guest worker program, which provides temporary farm workers and non-farm laborers for a variety of U.S. industries, as “rife with labor and human rights violations committed by employers who prey on a highly vulnerable workforce. It harms the interests of U.S. workers, as well, by undercutting wages and working conditions for those who labor at the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.” Bound to a single employer and without access to legal resources, guest workers are: • routinely cheated out of wages; • forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low-wage, temporary jobs; • held virtually captive by employers or labor brokers who seize their documents; see COMMENTARY Page 10

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CU’s unjust war on sexual harassment

Philosophy Professor David Barnett has been notified of CU’s plans to fire him. At first blush, you might be tempted to conclude that Barnett had charged with sexual assault or some other inappropriate relationship. Far from it. No, what’s really happening is that CU is overreacting to the problem of sexual assault on campus, and is injuring innocent people in the process, Barnett being just one of them. But it isn’t just CU that’s overreacting, this phenomena is playing out all across the country. The confluence of forces from Title IX, radical feminism, and the federal government’s investigation of over 80 universities, has propelled the administration to make outrageous decisions. The Office of Discrimination and Harassment (ODH) was ostensibly established to reduce the incidence of sexual harassment. But its existence has arguably been making matters worse. First, it’s important to state that rape is a real problem on college campuses. And rapists should be severely prosecuted. But one of the major issues here is the distortion of the term “rape.” Sexual harassment definitions have become so skewed that many consensual sexual encounters are now considered rape. According to some, here’s how it goes: 1) If positive, unambiguous consent is not gained, then rape has occurred; 2) It is impossible for someone under the influence to give consent; and 3) If both parties are under the influence, it is the responsibility of the male to gain consent. Unfortunately, because of this ridiculous re-definition, I must make a distinction between a “rapist” and a “real rapist.” The first problem is that the ODH doesn’t have the authority to convict the accused of a crime, but rather to just reprimand or expel them. This means that real rapists can go free, to rape again. Secondly, the ODH does not employ due process. Barnett’s Notice of Claims states, “Under C.U.’s policies, ODH delivers reports concluding that a violation more than likely than not has occurred to a secret, three-member panel that, proceeding entirely behind closed doors, decides whether to adopt the report and finding of guilt. The accused: does not receive a copy of, let alone a chance to respond to the draft report, has no opportunity to see the evidenced against him or her; has no right to a hearing at which he may confront witnesses against him or her or otherwise refute evidence; and has no right to appeal the finding of guilt.” And third, the ODH uses a lowered evidentiary standard — “more likely than Boulder Weekly

not” rather than “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” — for determining guilt. CU’s ODH office director, Katherine Erwin, says that she struggles with that fact. “Because at the end of the day, it’s a very low standard and (the outcome of an investigation) has a huge impact on peoples’ lives.” According to the New York Times, “At Harvard, 28 law professors recently condemned the university’s new sexual assault procedures for lacking ‘the most basic elements of fairness and due process’ and for being ‘overwhelmingly stacked against the accused.’”

You put all of that together and it explains how you can have a situation where a male student is found guilty of assault in a situation, where, according to the Notice filed by Barnett, “prior to walking into the bedroom of [the male] on the evening in question, [the female] had been actively attempting to initiate sexual contact with various men in the house, and complaining that no one would have sex with her; [the female] walked into [the male’s] bedroom wearing only undergarments while he was asleep; and a couple hours after the allegedly unwelcome contact, [the female]

returned to the house, alone (but leaving her boyfriend waiting in the car), and again attempted to initiate sexual contact with other men in the house.” The university is so determined to protect its image and prove that it’s tough on sex crimes that it sets up a kangaroo court to render rulings that destroy people’s lives without due process of law. And then if someone, like David Barnett, dares to challenge the findings of the sham investigation, they’re fired. Surely no reasonable person can consee LETTERS Page 10

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• forced to live in squalid conditions; and • denied medical benefits for on-thejob injuries. President Obama has taken an important step forward with his executive action. But this came after years of confrontational nonviolent activism in which undocumented immigrants reached out to the public and told their stories — which made them vulnerable to arrest, detention and deportation. Today, vulnerable Wal-Mart and fast-food workers are using the same risky, courageous tactics in fighting for a $15-per-hour minimum wage. This is not a coincidence. Labor reporter Josh Eidelson argues that undocumented immigrants and guest workers aren’t on the fringes of our society but are the “bellwethers.” They are the canaries in the coal mine. Eidelson says they “represent what’s happening to U.S. work in three critical ways. First, precarity: Workers lack job security, formal contracts or guaranteed hours. Second, legal exclusion: Labeled as

“independent contractors,” “domestic workers” or otherwise, they’re thrust beyond the reach of this country’s creaky, craven labor laws. And third, the mystification of employment: While a no-name contracted company signs your paycheck, your conditions are set by a major corporation with far away headquarters and legal impunity. These linked trends are both causes and consequences of the ongoing de-unionization of the United States.” Right-wingers manipulate the anxiety many Americans feel about their increasingly insecure lives and try to direct their justified anger at undocumented immigrants. The Republicans — and some Democrats like Hickenlooper — push for an expanded system of indentured servitude. That would be a step back in history. We already abolished slavery. If we are bamboozled by them, all of our lives will become meaner as we fight each other over the crumbs. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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sider this justice. The trouble with a legal system that does not demand due process and is not committed to the truth is that it ruins reputations, it encourages personal vendettas, and it blurs the line between decent people and actual criminals. I’m all for prosecuting criminals, especially when they assault women. I would love to reduce the prevalence of sexual assault. But when we convict innocent people using bogus definitions, corrupted processes, and phony courts, we damage society, and erode respect for the law. Charlie Danaher/Boulder

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Throughout my childhood, my mother only gave me antibiotics when I truly needed them. She was cautious and afraid that if not used with caution I would build a high tolerance to the medicine and be susceptible to ineffective antibiotic treatment. This example of responsible and careful use of antibiotics is an extreme contrast to the daily misuse of antibiotics on animals in factory farms. Just like you wouldn’t misuse antibiotics on your children, we shouldn’t misuse antibiotics on the animals we eat. Unfortunately, the reality is that we pump factory farm animals full of antibiotics. In fact, 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U.S are for livestock use, and 99 percent of farmed animals are raised in feedlots. So unless you personally hunt

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SeaWorld a bore for kids and fish alike

Kudos to Phoebe Goldstein for opposing her school’s planned trip to SeaWorld [Re: “SeaWorld sinks deeper,” Adventure, Nov. 27]. Today’s youth understand that jamming ocean dwellers in concrete bathtubs is cruel. They see right through SeaWorld’s self-serving marketing promotions. As disinterested as kids are in places like SeaWorld, try to conceive the unimaginable boredom for the whales, dolphins and fish that swim in endless circles, every hour of every day for their entire lives. The vast open ocean is calling to them, a call that can never be answered. SeaWorld’s captives can never experience the pleasures and pursuits they deserve. They exist in a world measured in gallons. People of all ages who care about animals condemn SeaWorld and its indefensible exploitation of sealife. Jennifer O’Connor/staff writer, PETA Foundation Boulder Weekly

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think all of us are influenced by a sense of place. Grow up amidst skyscrapers and it’s pretty easy to see humans as life’s central architects. Spend enough time in the wide-open West and you just might feel a bit less important in the overall scheme of things. For me, place is profoundly important to who I am. It has been that way as long as I can remember and it has shaped me to my core. In the small town where I was born in Oklahoma, there was a spot called Red Hill. It wasn’t a dramatic vista by Colorado standards, but it offered a placid view of the Canadian River with its sandbars and giant cottonwoods as it wound its way across the Great Plains. As a kid, it felt like I could see forever. I still retreat to the comforting familiarity of that place when I get the chance. Over the years, I’ve found myself in a few locations that have inexplicably moved me. For instance, places that have made me feel like I was home even though I’d never been there before. I remember feeling that way on the far eastern coast of Maine near Quoddy Head and Lubec. I imagined ending my days in a tiny bungalow atop a cliff looking out over the Bay of Fundy. That feeling is with me still even though I haven’t returned there for many years. It’s a part of me now. I have also experienced places that felt as though they had been molded from my own psyche, as if I had imagined the perfect place and then discovered it. One such place has been coming to mind a lot these days. But sadly, for all the wrong reasons. I made my first trip to Wyoming’s Red Desert in 1990. The sign said Wamsutter, Wyo., but it seemed like more letters than a gas station posing as a town along the emptiest stretch of 12 December 4, 2014

Interstate-80 deserved. Wamsutter served two purposes back then. It allowed travelers to get from Rawlins to Rock Springs without running out of gas, a particularly noble calling in the winter. And, more importantly to me, it marked the location of an unnamed dirt road heading north into a place unlike any other in the world, a place that in many ways no longer exists. It has been almost a quarter century since the Nature Conservancy first sent me to photograph Wyoming’s Red Desert, the big empty spot on Wyoming maps located above the tiny dot marked “Wamsutter.” At the time, I had never heard of the place and had no idea what to expect. I could not have imagined the impact it would have on my life. The Red Desert is huge. It encompasses 9,320 square miles and is the largest unfenced area in the continental U.S. I-80 cuts across its southern quarter. Highway 287 runs up its eastern side and then angles across its northern edge, following the route of the historic Oregon Trail whose 350,000 travelers between the 1840s and 1860s wanted no part of the arid Red Desert. The Green River creates the boundary to the west. On that first visit, my map showed only two dirt roads dissecting this massive, nearly treeless wilderness larger than some states. Just imagine that, two rough and nearly unused dirt roads in 9,320 square miles. On that first trip I parked my van in the middle of one of those two roads for several days. It had rained and I was afraid of getting stuck in the soft desert soil if I pulled off. Cell phones didn’t exist back then and getting stranded in such a remote place was the kind of mistake that could land you in a Jon Krakauer book. I worried about blocking the road, but I needn’t have. Not a single vehicle ever came along, not a car in Boulder Weekly

three days. great migration that once passed this was about that wall of carvings, it gave I wasn’t exaggerating before when I I had found my paradise. way, one that disappeared well over a me a deeper connection to this vast said the Red Desert no longer really Walking through the Red Desert century ago thanks to our lack of unspoiled wilderness. exists. back then was like nothing I had ever vision. I fear our commitment to the The Red Desert holds your soul like It is beyond my comprehension that experienced. The dark-red earth was an future hasn’t gotten much better it does the rain. It’s the only place that this place of wild horses and giant endless array of interconnected cracks since. keeps its water forever trapped with no herds of antelope and desert elk; this that stretched to the horizon. Every few These giant herds were long a food escape to an ocean. At its north end, place of sand dunes and the oldest steps led to another collection of source for Native Americans living in the Continental Divide splits into two messages from our earliest ancestors; bleached white bones; sometimes or visiting the region. In more modern separate strands; one that makes its way this place of bones and solitude that belonging to a horse, sometimes an times the Shoshone, Crow and along the eastern edge of the desert had existed nearly free of our influence antelope, sometimes just a jaw bone or Blackfeet spent time in the desert as while the other runs further to the west. for millions of years has now been skull and occasionally an entire skeleton evidenced by the many petroglyphs and These two Continental Divides rejoin completely destroyed in little more still positioned just as it had fallen. Courtesy of Google Earth than a decade. It all felt so prehistoric, so Here is one last maddening fact empty, so lonely. It was instantly about the Red Desert. As of 2014, my favorite secret in the world. 84 percent of it has now been To the west, the ground turned industrialized by the oil and gas from red cracked dirt to white, industry. hard-packed sand and the sageThis once roadless paradise is brush and clump grass gave way to now an endless tangle of graveled the black rock spires, white cliffs roads connecting thousands of and painted dry layers of the Jack wellpads. Wamsutter has become a Morrow Hills. Mountains were visman-camp of shoddy pressboard ible in the distance to the east and housing units, trailers and storage north. To the northwest, sand yards filled with pipe. An endless dunes stood out against the backtrain of white pickups coming and drop of distant mountains. going 24/7 now disperse up the Not just any dunes. Like everysame road to the north that once thing in the Red Desert, they have led so very few to so very much. an impressive resume. These dunes So how did it happen? Why are, in fact, the largest living dune didn’t we stop it? The very thing that made the system in the United States. Red Desert a paradise allowed its Named the Killpecker Dunes, murder to go largely unnoticed. they cover 110,000 acres or just The whole place is BLM land more than 170 square miles. Some and the Cheney/Bush years were of them are more than 100 feet tall. hard on BLM land. But I don’t In 1990, I didn’t see a footprint or a limit my rage. President Obama tire track on a single dune even The Red Desert has become a web of gravel roads and wellpads. As of 2014, 84 percent of this once-wild paradise has been industrialized by the oil and gas industry. has often boasted that his administhough motor vehicles were tration has increased oil and gas allowed to drive right over them. production on public lands to a greater Their wind-sculpted shapes and swirled pictographs they left behind. But even at the southern tip of the desert creatextent than his predecessor, and he’s sand patterns created an endless outmore ancient people left their marks in ing what is known as the Great Divide telling the truth. door gallery for my benefit. They these high-desert rocks. Petroglyphs at Basin, a geological quirk that allows no turned orange against the dark sky the Bores Tusk formation and at Black The destruction of our last remainwater between the two divides to flow when the sun came and went. They ing wilderness areas has become a game Rock date back nearly 12,000 years east or west to any ocean. were something to behold. making them some of the oldest rock Unfortunately, the same unique nat- of corporate-pleasing one-upmanship The Red Desert is also home to carvings in the U.S. Researchers believe ural forces that formed the Red Dessert that neither party has the wisdom to one of the nation’s largest populations lose. They need to stop playing. But these older glyphs were made for spiriare now, in a way, responsible for its of wild horses. Herds of 10 to 20 dot they won’t so long as our system of tual and ceremonial purposes, which destruction. the landcape. Harems of mares graze campaign finance treats money as makes sense. The place inspires such More than water was trapped here. while stallions stare you down when speech. It has become the only language reverence, or at least it did. During the Paleocene and later you get a step too close. The wild Washington can hear. Along the white sandstone cliffs epochs, the Red Desert was covered by horses here are distinguished by their So for now, both parties remain south of the dunes, there is an amazan ancient lake called Gosiute. It extra long manes and tails. I just committed to the destruction of any ing wall of rock carvings near some trapped between 10,000 and 20,000 remember thinking they looked at shallow caves and overhangs. One of feet of sediment in the geographic basin place found guilty of concealing a home and I felt the same way. hydrocarbon. the carvings is in the shape of a hand, of the Red Desert. This sediment The dunes are the biggest and so How did I lose my place? The sad but it is unlike any I have seen before. became shale and today, the Red are the antelope, at least when it comes answer is that our government gave the It is several inches deep and open at Desert is cursed to sit atop the world’s to herd size. The Red Desert boasts the the bottom. It’s the first thing you Red Desert to the oil and gas industry largest known oil-shale deposit. largest migratory herd of pronghorns in come to and it invites you to place because it could; because no one was I love the Red Dessert. It is a place the lower 48 — somewhere between watching; because no one lived there. your hand inside. And once you do, it that I have walked with friends and 40,000 and 50,000 animals. The Bureau is impossible not to think of all the There was simply nobody around to family many times. I have shared it of Land Management also claims the hear the scream when the trigger was people who have done the same for with those closest to me because doing desert is home to the world’s largest pulled. thousands of years. I found it a power- so allowed them to know me in a herd of desert elk. I hope that’s still I know I didn’t do enough to stop it. ful experience. deeper way, to understand who I am. true. But there is reason to doubt it. And now I’ve lost a big piece of who I Maybe it was the isolation or maybe It is the place that I have felt more You can still find skeletons of buffa- the sound of the wind given voice as it am … or was. connected to than any other, but it’s lo near the dunes, evidence of another Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com moved through the grass, whatever it gone now, and in some ways, so am I. Boulder Weekly

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t the end of a rough day of work brain, that sounded like plenty of time to fin— although at that job, all days ish a cross-country move that was already half were rough — I decided to over. I’d sent a bevy of emails out inquiring reward myself with a bag of about rooms for rent, because having a roomsugar cookies. They’d come mate would mean I knew at least one person home with me, alongside an equally healthy in Philadelphia. dinner of macaroni and cheese, a pair of Grey’s I was driving across Illinois when I finally Anatomy DVDs and the will to retreat into my received a call back from someone with a room bedroom with food and entertainment and no opening up in his rowhouse. He’d sent me good reason to leave until the middle of the photos and said, “It’s a little messy while my next day. My bedroom, at that point, was an roommate moves out,” so I didn’t look closely island of relative cleanliness and sanity in an at the clutter. We talked about the things that otherwise filthy and cluttered-beyond-allare priorities for roommates in their early 20s comprehension rowhouse in South — work hours, pet friendliness and music Philadelphia. Dick Swanson, National Archives and Records Administration And the perpetually difficult job was one in which I worked as a “research assistant” for a college professor, a nice and entirely inappropriate title, as the job I was just a couple weeks into at that point was rapidly losing any common ground it had once shared with what I believed I had been hired to do, in all the least promising ways. In an effort to jumpstart my career in a writing-related field, I’d sold everything that didn’t fit in my Subaru Impreza or the bag I strapped to the roof of it, and left my beloved Portland, Ore., for the East Coast. My precipreferences — and agreed it would work out sion job search consisted of blanketing that for me to move in. I told him I’d be there in coast from Georgia to Maine with applications two days, and he assured me his roommate for every job I found posted online that looked would be out and the room would be waiting. remotely promising. From my mother’s backMy last words, just as we were hanging up, yard in western Colorado, I had a phone inter- were, “And you’re clean, right?” view with a college professor looking for a He said yes. research assistant — the first hit from my Liar. search. On the promise of 20-hours of work When I arrived on that September eveeach week at $10 an hour, I turned my fully ning, I turned down an improbably narrow loaded car for a city I had never visited. He’d street squeezed with well-worn red brick rowasked for me to start two weeks from when he houses, found the door with 225 above it, and offered me the position, and to my 23-year-old knocked. He was surprised to see me that day,

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having confused my 48-hour arrival notice for something more like 72, or never. His “roommate” was actually his girlfriend and “moving out” meant moving her stuff into his room so they could rent out the extra bedroom. She was still very much there, as were the three guinea pigs she kept in the room that would be mine. It stank of their longunchanged bedding, and they had knocked sawdust shavings out of their cages and sawdust now drifted into corners and generous gaps between the wooden slats of the floorboards. I’ll say the only nice thing I have to say about that roommate: he was kind. He and his girlfriend explained the phenomenon that is a Wawa convenience store complete with a near infinite variety of coffees and a food counter, delivered Tasty Cakes, helped me carry in boxes from my car and insisted I take the futon mattress since I had nothing else to sleep on, my mattress having not fit inside my car for the drive east. I sat down on that futon mattress as dusk fell that first night and my room turned to toal darkness — there was no overhead light fixture, and I owned no lamp — and cried. I knew this was already a disaster. My roommate cheered me on when I undertook cleaning and painting projects, and his girlfriend provided helpful advice. To parallel park your car on those impossibly narrow streets, she said, required jumping a tire up on the opposite sidewalk. And when I mentioned that I’d opened the doors to the cupboard under the bathroom sink and watched several mice scurry away — there was a serious infestation — she replied, “Oh, I just don’t open See PHILLY Page 16

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that cupboard.” In the basement, the floor from the toe of the staircase to the washer and dryer on the far side was inches deep in clothing, towels and sheets. A neverplayed drum set hovered near the wall, only mostly immune to the spreading fabric chaos. On the ground level, floors were never cleaned, windows had likely never been washed and walls were painted in off-shades that came from the “oops!” rack at the hardware store. The kitchen counters were always covered in dirty dishes. My roommate would cook dinner and leave the chunks of steak he’d grilled on the stovetop for days to follow. His only partially housetrained dog, a mastiff mix with a square head largely emptied of any computing power, would frequently defecate on the living room floor during his 10- or 12-hour shifts at work. Our two bedrooms and the bathroom were on the third floor. I have nothing to report about his room. I’m not sure he ever left the door open. In mine, I’d swept and swept again, trying to knock the guinea pigs’ shavings from the cracks in the hardwood floors, and used another “oops” color that looked creamy yellow at night and pale mint green in the day to paint the walls, rolling over the dirt smears and places where fly paper that had been hung against the wall left sticky orange traces of both paper and flies. I spent one afternoon conquering the bathroom — scrubbing the shower so I didn’t feel compelled to wear shoes in it and mopping the floor until the tile was once again white. By the end of the day, the dog had paced from the living room and hallway into that room often enough to lay down a new carpet of dirt. I began desperately searching for somewhere else to live. The search took me to apartments in ever-shadier neighborhoods with only modest improvements on cleanliness to recommend them. I’d heard Fishtown was up-and-coming, but found myself in what looked like the murder-in-law apartment with only a microwave for a kitchen and inch-thick shag carpet, dark blue so you couldn’t see it had never been shampooed. I tried near one of the universities, and was told I’d better not plan to walk myself home alone at night, a key component in my daily commutes by train from downtown to the fringes of the western suburbs. I called about an apartment above a charming storefront in Manayunk, on the outskirts of Philly, that had a sign hung in the window. The landlord asked what I was looking to pay, and I

told him what I’d budgeted (remember, $10 an hour for 20 hours a week guaranteed work, and though my hours had mushroomed, I wasn’t willing to count on that lasting). He laughed and said “Miss, we’ll never be doing business together.” I carried on that search while working as many hours in two days as I’d been told I’d be putting in over a week — my first day was 12 hours long, my second 13. The professor was an exacting, German-born man who didn’t hesitate with a compliment or a criticism. I remember opening documents I’d never worked on before and being asked where a mistake had come from as if I were to blame for it. As he doled out my paycheck in cash each Sunday, sometimes for as many as 60 hours that week, I learned to count upwards in German by 20s. German language inquiries about food, coffee, tea and water were also all drilled in daily. My coffee cup wasn’t refilled until I had asked for it in wellpronounced German. My accent became quite good. He also corrected my conservational English — “say ‘yes,’ don’t drawl ‘yeeeaaaah’” and it’s “there are two,” not “there’s two” — adding a disparaging, “It’s only your mother tongue” with every revision. I’d been hired, I thought, to do primary source research to assist in the background for historical plays he was writing. We finished just one of those in my time there — a beautiful and compelling script for two readers, the text for which came entirely from letters the professor’s father, a war correspondent and propaganda officer for the Nazis, had written to his mother during World War II and a memoir written by a Jewish holocaust survivor and given to her son. My first day on the job was spent helping the professor finish a 120-item checklist for his English 101 and 201 students to use with their essays and my visions of spending hours in archives at libraries and backrooms in museums vanished behind stacks of essays as grading quickly became the bulk of what I did with my time. His rubric was so demanding that many of his students received zeros on the first drafts of their essays, having lost points for mistakes including starting two sentences in a five-page essay with the same word, grammatical or style errors and use of passive verbs. Missing circling one of the passive verbs or marking another mistake used incurred a deep intake of breath followed by clucking and “Not very good…” as a review of my work. Some students took the option to Boulder Weekly

rewrite. Many dropped his class, and he finished the semester with five or seven of the nearly 30 students who had begun with him. I was disheartened to see students wanting to learn to write, needing skills for years of courses to follow and pouring tuition money that in many cases had been tough to come by getting shut down and giving up. Like so many periods of growth, it was a difficult and often painful time. In addition to tremendous growth — learning to grade essays at a faster speed, read more closely and catch more mistakes; being diplomatic, calm under pressure and resilient to criticism — I saw myself in a light I never had before. In my nightly subway rides home, as I realized I was the only woman and only white person for as many train cars as I could see and a bubble of fear rose in my chest, I saw the face of the kind of racism that growing up white in towns full of white people can create. In my layered sweaters and boots or clogs, I was habitually seen as a lesbian — even my boss was sure I was gay, and that was an interesting side of the table to sit on. I reveled in and sometimes cringed from the freedom of being in a place where no one knows you, and so you are whoever you say you are. So I came back to that rowhouse, closed my bedroom door and turned to small comforts. Which brings us back to the night of the sugar cookies. In an effort to create a dog-proof but cat-passable barricade that would allow my two cats into my bedroom where they could eat and sleep in peace, I kept a stack of boxes of books near my door, which didn’t latch, and pulled that stack back behind me when I left the room, leaving a gap of a few inches. The day I came home with a dish of macaroni and cheese and those sugar cookies meant to comfort me, I set them down in my bedroom, left for mere minutes, and returned to find my roommate’s dog had shoved his way into my bedroom and devoured the entire bag of cookies. Meanwhile, my cats had undertaken another effort in their regular assistance with the mouse infestation problem — they were leaving two or three dead mouse presents daily. One of them was in the torture-play section of Project Mouse Eradication and the dog was attentively watching and waiting his turn to join in the game. The mouse leaped into the air, the dog lunged, and the two collided. Impact must have occurred right around the trigger for the dog’s gag reflex. It immediately vomited, and a puddle of liquefied sugar cookie with a Boulder Weekly

dead mouse in the center covered the hallway and began dripping down the stairs. The putrid reek of it filled the hallway. The cats fled, the dog fled, and I fetched paper towels and a trash bag. When my roommate came home, hours later, ready to spring to action to remedy a long-gone mess, I told him the next thing leaving would be me. I moved into a shoebox-sized studio apartment right downtown shortly after that, and spent another six months in

that professor’s home office, hunched over a lap desk covered in essays that I flooded with red ink. When I was corrected on my pronunciation of “the” (whether the vowel gets a long e sound or an a sound depends on if the following word begins with a vowel sound, I was told), and I laughed in response, I knew I had to be done. I didn’t want to be a quitter, to give up on this bold, brave undertaking of having embarked out on my own, but

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Surrendering to gravity by Caitlin Rockett

knew there was something strange about John from the first time I met him, but that’s what drew me to him. The black polish on his nails was chipping off and the ebony liner framing his glacial blue eyes was melting in the crushing humidity of East Tennessee in August. He looked a little like Kurt Cobain — sharp eyes, a strong jaw, yet frail beneath his punky appearance. It was my first day of classes as a college freshman, and at the time I smoked cigarettes. That’s how I met all of my first college friends — we all smoked. In our minds we were rebels, braving the heat and cold and rain to shave minutes off our lives, one puff at a time. Looking back, smoking was a status symbol of sorts, the way we identified members of our unruly clan. I was already bewildered by where I fit in this great mass of people. It was a Wednesday evening, my classes were over and I was making my way back to the dorm after having dinner with my roommate. John was sitting on the corner of a brick flowerbed outside the dorm — “the stoop” we called it — a cigarette dangling from his fingers. Other people surrounded John and my gregarious roommate suggested we stop and “make friends.” I was anorexic and completely neurotic about how people saw me — my mind, my body, the whole package — but I hid behind a smile and extroversion that belied my feelings. Some things never change. John barely said a word while everyone around him buzzed — sophomores laughing about a friend vomiting from a balcony at a keg party the previous year, freshmen listening intently, laughing at the stories, their need to fit in unmistakable, uncomfortable at times. Through his silence John smiled and

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laughed. When he did finally speak, I remember noting that he waited for a break in conversation. He never forced his way in. His remarks were the pithy kind that only come from truly listening. I can’t remember talking directly to John that first night, but as the weeks passed I would find myself sitting beside him on that stoop, smoking too many cigarettes and talking about our mutual love of Nirvana, Tool and Nine Inch Nails. We loved the same books and movies, and both of us were nearly crippled by self-consciousness, which we hid in order to be a part of the rowdy gang of Stoop Smokers. John smoked more than any of us. The first and second digits of the pointer and middle fingers of his right hand were yellowed from a constant stream of cigarettes. He was always perched near the ashtray post just outside the front doors of our dorm, pack of Marlboro Reds at his side, staring out into the courtyard as though he were waiting for something. I would tag along for long rides in John’s truck, toking on skunky pot and listening to the newest A Perfect Circle record, plotting what concert we’d see next, replaying last weekend’s raucous party and, of course, smoking cigarettes. I did most of the talking. But I always knew, somewhere deep inside, that John’s silence was more than just his personality. Despite the fun we had, despite our shared struggles with selfesteem and depression, there were signs that something powerful lurking just beneath the surface controlled much of my friend’s behavior. John made it through first semester, but his grade point average placed him on academic probation. He was constantly on the stoop chain smoking, rarely venturing to class, and his ability to interact with

people seemed like it was deteriorating. It was just a few weeks into second semester when John told me he was leaving school. I was upset, but it seemed like the only viable option. He moved out of the dorm and back home with his parents. For a while I would hear from him, a phone call here or a letter there, but communications got fewer and further between until one night I realized it had been many months since I’d spoken with him and I called John during a break at work. He was terse. He offered little information about his own life and asked almost nothing about mine. He said he was dating someone and I wondered if the relationship was the catalyst for his brusque behavior. The conversation lasted only a few minutes before I said good-bye, asking that he call me soon. * * * * Time passed in that imperceptible way it moves when you’re young. It was more than a year before I heard from John again. It was the summer of 2007 that fully brought John back into my life. He began calling and emailing me, expressing extreme displeasure with his living situation (at home with his parents) and his job (cooking at a chain restaurant). He said he was sorry for how he treated me the last time we spoke, and while I felt discomfort during our conversation, I chalked the feeling up to John’s unhappiness and told him he could always look to me for help. And then he called one day and said he wanted to move out of his parents’ home and in with me — just for a while. I was panicked. I was living with my best friend and three cats, serving banquets at a hotel, working through college and shriveling under the anxiety of a very unhealthy romantic relationship. When I

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had offered help I hadn’t expected it to involve housing my friend. I could barely keep myself afloat. But I didn’t want to turn him away. I had offered after all, but I was too young and naive to understand that I couldn’t really help at all. John had purchased a ticket to attend a music festival with my boyfriend and me and I knew John’s home life was suffocating, to say the least. Within a day or two John showed up with a duffle bag of clothes and a box of CDs and other knick-knacks. John was anxious and unfocused from day one and he was still smoking like a chimney. When we packed the car to head to the festival the day after he arrived, John spoke little. It was a long drive, just under three hours, and when traffic brought us to a dead stop John hopped out of the car to smoke, lighting one cigarette off another. We arrived at the festival late in the evening. It had taken the better part of six hours to travel and get through security, park and set up camp. I was exhausted as I cooked dinner for everyone on my old propane stove, and once we’d eaten we agreed to call it a night and make the most of the next day. But when we woke the next morning, John wasn’t in his tent. His phone was dead. There were tens of thousands of festivalgoers already milling about the grounds, with thousands more piling in every hour. As my partner and I headed out into the festival late in the morning, we saw John. He looked dazed and pale. Shell-shocked. We asked that he come back with us to the campsite where I dragged out the propane stove and began to make cheese quesadillas for lunch — an endeavor intended more to shift my focus away from my anxiety than to actually feed anyone. My stomach was in knots. We cracked beers and tried to keep the conversation light, but it was clear John was too agitated and confused. He had wandered the festival grounds all night. “I met people who told me the whole story. They told me the truth,” John told us. He couldn’t tell us much about these people or about the truth they had shared. I tried to calm John, but he was inconsolable. He repeated that he knew the truth. He told us he forgave us for lying to him, but couldn’t explain how we’d lied. My boyfriend thought John had spent the night using drugs — he was anxious, confused and refusing to eat. And we doubted these “truth-speakers” John spoke of were real. But I never believed it was drugs — at least it wasn’t solely drugs. After what felt like an eternity of awkward, cyclic conversation, my boyfriend and I stopped trying to reason with John and asked him to seek help from a medical professional or call his family. Boulder Weekly

me regularly. David had been so concerned about John that he sought me out to discuss John’s health. I explained the emails and text messages to David, who told me that John had not revealed such delusions to him, nor had John battered David with a similar blitz of messages. There was little David or I could do, both knowing that John would have to seek help for himself. But there was comfort in knowing that someone else cared so much about John.

John left the campsite and called his family, who drove three hours to pick him up. The following week he came to my home and picked up his things. He apologized for his behavior, and I forgave him. We didn’t speak for months. In the early days of 2008 I began receiving strange text messages from John. Sometimes they were little more than word salad, but sometimes they indicated in clear, structured sentences that God had spoken to him, that leaders of an unnamed project had been blocking our line of communication, or that cameras had been set up in my apartment to watch me. I tried to reason with John and explain that his messages weren’t based in reality, but he never responded to reason. I asked him to get help, but he ignored my pleas. His messages came and came at all hours of the day and night. I finally changed my phone number. I decided to call to the police in his hometown, who told me they could do nothing for me if John had made no physical threats to me, and they could do nothing for John unless he consented to treatment at a facility. My next call was to John’s mother. In no uncertain terms she told me to mind my own business. Sometimes months would pass and I’d hear nothing from John, then an onslaught of emails would appear for weeks on end. I went a long time without responding, afraid that any response might exacerbate his delusions. I became angry with John, but I regularly found myself awake at night writing in journals about how angry I was at myself for being mad at him. The cycle was never-ending. One day I got an email from John’s friend David, whom I’d never met. He said that John’s behavior had been strange, but it was evident that John valued my friendship above all things. David said John spoke of

For the last seven years I have received messages from John at any account he can find for me. Sometimes the messages involve delusions and paranoia; sometimes they only include his mailing address and phone number. As I was writing this essay I got an email informing me that someone had looked at my LinkedIn profile — it was John. I try to respond from time to time, particularly when he seems lucid, but I no longer try to reason his delusions away. This story has no end, no satisfying closure. That’s kind of the way it is with mental illness — it doesn’t just go away. My friend is still out there presumably suffering from something that I can only speculate is schizophrenia, but I’m no doctor. All I know is that my friend is experiencing something I can’t understand, seeing and hearing things that can’t be there, and it holds him back from being the brilliant man I know he is. I know that John fits the profile of a schizophrenic — the time of onset, the compulsive smoking, the delusions, the ebb and flow of his symptoms, his refusal to address his hallucinations. From what I’ve read, schizophrenics are rarely violent toward others, but they do have a high rate of attempted suicide. This keeps me awake some nights. I’ve learned to separate my friend from his disorder. I’ve learned that you have to set boundaries and you have to forgive yourself for mistakes you make as you try to cope with mental illness. Sometimes you must put your own needs first. But I still struggle with feeling like I failed John. I’ll always love my friend. Through my own debilitating depression I have thought of him, his struggle, our good times, and I found strength. I still think of him each time I listen to “Gravity” by A Perfect Circle: I am surrendering to gravity and the unknown Catch me, heal me, lift me back up to the sun I choose to live Please choose to live, my friend.

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started getting headaches a couple years ago but the hallucinations didn’t start until I was, relatively, just about dead. My head was literally killing me and I didn’t know it. Doctors didn’t know it, my lovely, wellmeaning mother didn’t know it and WebMD was close but no, they did not know it either. I was hearing and seeing things that I knew didn’t belong. They were caused by an indescribable pain that ebbed and flowed throughout the day. At its worst, it could only be understood by the images I saw and sounds I heard, rolling in and out of consciousness, writhing at the foot of my bed or in the tub of the shower. It was pain that changed my physical view of the world and my

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personal worldview. It was a fever dream in waking life and it was strange and electric. The first inclinations I got that there might be something wrong happened in college. Once I was helping my parents weed their garden and every time I stood up I’d get a rush of blood to the head. My vision would turn mostly black and I’d rest for second, hands on knees until the rush receded. Another time, I was painting my bedroom walls and felt the same sensation. Every time I reached up from applying the paint to the roller, I’d have to rest my hand on the wall until the blackness dissipated. Both times, and a few others, it was hot and I was being active so I thought it was just dehydration. Drink some water and get back out there, son,

said the high school football coaches that lived in my head and who came out in a Pavlovian conditioned response to pain. Over time, the head rushes became more common and more painful. They were blacker, lasted longer, throbbed harder and became harder to ignore. Unfortunately, my response did not change. I was drinking enough Crystal Light to rehydrate rocks in my feeble attempt to convince myself that the pain could be simply explained. Soon, my head began to fog. Pain stealthily replaced normal. If you turn an unserviced radio frequency from mute to the highest volume on the dial steadily over the course of two months, you’ll hear what I heard over that time. There See PAIN Page 22

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were metallic clangs over a droning low buzz that was ever rising. The world became darker. My eyes couldn’t look past the horizon as pain took hold as a ring around my head. We would turn off lights in whatever room I was in because little rays of light would jump through my iris and strike away at the core of my brain like lightning bolts. A full minute of darkness would proceed every time I stood up along with the searing thwomp of break pads against my temples. It was deflating and depressing. I was calling out of work or else writing horrible stories for the newspaper, unable to recall what it was I wrote about by the end of the day — not because my memory was fading but because the pain was so severe I couldn’t think of anything else. It was then that my life, for a time, became a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. I was in Baltimore at the wedding of my brother at which I was serving as best man. I was barely awake on the wedding day, before the sun was up, when I started heaving. Good lord, I’ll save you the details but it was a horrific cycle of the pounding head and the fruitless purge. It was a cycle that had me gripping the big white square tiles of the Hilton bathroom floor, crawling as if I was shot and trying to get away from the front line, crying for the first time in years, unsure if I was awake or asleep. My brother called and told me that he brought the wrong suspenders for his tuxedo and could I run out and get him a pair with button fasteners, not clips? What a sight I must’ve been walking around the Inner Harbor, but what a sight every one else was. They were bodies, not people, ugly under fluorescent Brooks Brothers and H&M lights. I was ugly too in the full-length mirror next to the belts. Just a sack of flesh in weird cloth with black eyes and dry skin. This pain was dehumanizing. The best man speech went well, surprisingly. But I spoke with one eye swollen. When we arrived at the reception hall, I went to find some family on the steps, next to a hedge. I barely got a word out before I heard the heartsinking buzz of a hornet too close before feeling the sting of its stinger enter my right eye. My eye. It was metaphysical, man. It was poetic. It was nature saying, “Buddy, something’s going on. Here’s a clue.”

Or it was just a really bad day. After days in pain, I went to the doctor who, citing a strong family history of migraines, promptly prescribed me some migraine medicine and sent me on my way. That sounded right to me but by nightfall I was on Jupiter. I was sitting on the couch, with only the dull light of dusk coming into the living room. I looked up from my computer and I realized I couldn’t quite see. In front of me was a bizarre display of colors and lights, as if the cones and rods in my eye had just decided to fall apart. It was an aura and it followed me wherever I looked. It was like looking at a pot of boiling water if each bubble were some shade of white, pink or green. The aura left after a couple minutes and I got in the car to drive to my parents house. Darkness and lightness bled together. Headlights disintegrated into dark sky and they shone refractions of the rainbow across this suddenly endless field of vision. It was like some demon dragonfly’s vision tessellated to infinity. And then this pain emanated steadily from deep within in my head, like a fat Samoan pounding a deep, sheathed drum by firelight. I fell into bed when I got home. When I awoke, my eyes were in the back of my head, looking in. It was empty and pitch black in my head and the outlines were traced in thick white lines, like a 3-D sketch of a head on a blackboard. And floating on the right was this fist-sized cyan blue diamond. It did not glisten but it shone as if it radiated its own light. It came to a sharp point, a point that could cut the human glass of my eyeball. The diamond was twisting and turning slowly into the back of my eye, point to point with the hornet’s sting a few days earlier. Twisting and twisting. Then I was puking. Then I was asleep. Then I was on the floor. Then I was at the pharmacy. Then I was puking. Then darkness. Then the diamond. The aura. The static buzz in my ears. The ice cold water raining down on me at the bottom of the tub. The taste of raw tooth from grinding my teeth so hard. Then darkness. It was two full days before I regained awareness. I was hooked up to several bags of fluid and medicine in the emergency room. My mouth tasted like latex from some dye they had injected into me. My family was there. I had a CAT scan, I had a MRI. I had a brain tumor. It was big. And it Boulder Weekly

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takes your doctor’s co-pay. Pain is temporary and diagnosable, and so we pat you on the head when you’re in pain and say “Thank God” when it’s over. Pain is a lightning strike. Suffering is the storm. But like lightning strikes, pain returns. And it hurts, man. When you experience chronic episodic pain, time begins to lose meaning. Time is quantified by how long pain lasts and how long until it returns. There are no more minute hands or dawns and dusks. Just pain and no pain, and the line between gets hazy in a hurry. And pain rises from and returns to nothing arbitrarily, on no time schedule. It is a phenomenon. What’s exciting and terrifying then is that we are always on the verge of the phenomenon of great pain or great pleasure. My head can blow up or I can blow my nose and feel great. An 18-wheeler could blow its brakes and crash through the walls of your office right now, pinning you up against the wall and crushing your legs and squeezing your organs out a slit in between your ribs. Or your husband could call just now and say he doesn’t know why, but he bought a lottery ticket today and guess what, you won! Pack the dogs we’re blowing this joint and moving to St. Lucia. And so take it or leave it, and you may have been offered it before, but all-consuming pain left me one thing. When you experience the big blue diamond and the Samoan drum, the grey head cloud and the world of perpetual darkness, when you experience these supersensory hallucinations no matter if you’ve blown out your knee or have a chronic pain disorder or are in tremendous grief or you’ve just been breathing the recycled air of a damn airplane in a holding pattern, you don’t see anything clearly at all except for one thing: The hallucinations you are experiencing are not some deep insight into reality, it’s that everything else you perceive has been unreal this whole time. Enjoy it while you can. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hree-D printing is the new industrial revolution. Ty Syt, a member of the Boulder hackerspace Solid State Depot, says interest in 3-D printing will only continue to grow as more people learn to use the technology. But, it’s a wasteful process, he says, and there’s not really a good way to recycle or reuse the materials, which vary in type, processing requirements and options for disposal. The filament, or plastic string that is

But the fast, inexpensive 3-D printing process is attractive to innovators and local businesses, and the technology has made big improvements in the past few years. “If you’re making one to 10 of something, 3-D printing is almost certainly one of the fastest and cheapest ways to make it,” says Rob Bryan, a member of the Depot’s board of directors. The Depot has seven 3-D printers, all about 16-inch-square metal frames with 3-D-printed plastic corners. April Nowicki As technology improves, some of the sources of waste have been reduced. “The software has gotten so much better at telling you when it’s going to be a bad print,” says Ryan St. Pierre, a member of Solid State Depot. But bad prints Plastic trinkets 3-D printed at Solid State Depot still happen, and April Nowicki not much can be done with them. Some printed items can be recycled in Boulder. It depends on what kind of plastic it is, says Teresa Weston, operator at Eco-Cycle. Those items must go to Eco-Cycle, which operates a service to collect hard-to-recycle items, not the Solid State Depot’s 3-D printer city’s recycling center. Solid State fed through an extruder to print things Depot members haven’t tried recycling three-dimensionally, is usually just that: bad prints yet. plastic — although some printers can For Eight Days A Week, an imaging use metal as a printing material. Most and copy center on Pearl Street, bad printed items around the Depot are prints go in the “graveyard,” a cardboard plastic trinkets that can fit in one’s palm. box full of colorful plastic bits that lives Another sustainability problem with underneath a desk. Simon Kugel, a 3-D printing, Syt says, is that compodesigner for the shop and the resident nents of a printer are often made in 3-D printing expert, doesn’t throw the China and have the same carbon footbits away because he plans to reuse them print of any item manufactured there one day. and shipped across the world. “ABS plastic is ultimately reclaimBoulder Weekly

able,” Kugel says. “You can take it to someone who has a machine that grinds it and melts it, and turns it back into the filament.” Eight Days hasn’t accumulated enough of the bad prints yet to need to do something with them. The owner, Sam Sussman, says that much of the filament they use is PLA plastic, which is cornstarch-based and will eventually break down into organic matter in a landfill. But ABS plastic is more durable, Kugel says, and the shop also prints ABS plastic items. And the more times a material is recycled, the more it degrades. “Ideally, you only want to melt it once,” says Syt, from Solid State Depot. “Also, it’s cheaper to just buy more filament. A spool of filament is around $15 to $25.” More variables in printer processes bring different sustainability issues. About a block away from the Depot is Boulder Engineering Studio, where a larger, enclosed 3-D printer sits making printer-type noises in the corner of one work room. John English, partner and CTO of Boulder Engineering Studio, explains how this printer modifies the chemical makeup of the plastic it is printing with — rendering it unable to be recycled. He points out the special ventilation system attached to the printer, directing molten-plastic fumes outside. The printer runs almost non-stop, he says. While 3-D printing may have its problems, it does create opportunities for items that can be environmentally friendly in other ways. One local project, the CompoKeeper, a big compost bin with mechanisms for sealing off its contents and repelling insects and pets, was produced by the Boulder Engineering Studio via a 3-D printer. English’s colleague worked with the local team for about a year and a half, from initial concept to prototyping, manufacturing and production. “3-D printing was fundamental for that process,” English says. “We couldn’t have gone down that path in the same way. It would have been a mixture of more time, more work and more money without the 3-D printer.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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t rains for the first on players, if lucky, mantime this summer in age coin tips with their Athens during my few chipper chords and stay. A welcome even livelier grins. plummet to the It is one thing to visit brooding temperatures. a country as a native The days are humid and returning for a jaunt, and seemingly eternal. The sea quite another to see it for swells in ridiculous blues the first time jostling and greens. Whole towns within a Greek American converge to swim. Cicadas family; sometimes invisihum vacuously in the sulbly sliding by, other times try air. A few tree-sitting Athens as viewed from the Parthenon and the Parthenon on display like a reluctant itself. bugs caught by clever clown. Traveling with hands stun unsuspecting someone else’s family cershoulders. If you want to hear a proper shriek, try this tainly enables you to toss aside travel guides, but it also trick. means that you must find your role in a small ensemBy nightfall, the city plazas swarm with commoble play on parade through cozy dinners and endless tion and with rare breezes that young children snatch museums. The self of your day-to-day routine back to play with. The city displays an immodest raucoushome disintegrates as you are confronted with greatness, impervious to order and content in its fitful mess. ness (see: ancient history). But it is inevitable that Boundaries blur as restaurants seep into courtyards, occasionally your vacation ease takes an uncomfortable cigarette smoke curls into sticky air, stray dogs and cats pit stop at the door of awkwardness. With later reflecwhine next to carts of flashy merchandise pitched to tion, these foibles can form into ropey scars of maturitourists. Old men line apartment walls in rows of ty. In real time, you gulp wine, swallow and repeat. chairs, twirling kompoloi beads, their movements My time is divided between the heart of Athens marked by habit, not piety. Garbed priests smoke in and a little-known village on the shore called Raches. alleys. Families covet conversation over food long past The house where we stay first in Athens wears its any standard American dinner time. Circling accordimetal entry gates like an old uniform, snug and friend-

ly, with all the traces of a prideful owner. The yard is mostly barren, save the small lives of ants capitalizing on rogue scraps of food. An almost blind dog barks at the wind, the most improbable watchdog. Upon entering, a smell not unlike burning moss confronts the nose, normalizing itself with each reentry. A closetsized elevator, common in homes, travels the three floors. It’s furnished with Greek Orthodox iconography. A spiral staircase precarious to traverse — even in the soberest of states — is one of many antiquated charms. The inhabitants are hospitable, as are all Greeks I will meet. When a Greek person offers their summer home to you for a month, they mean it. It was not at all surprising then when we arrive in the village my travel companion visits each summer to see extended family in huddles awaiting us. Doublecheek kisses abound. In a population of under 2,300, the youth often leave the area to work or study and return for summers. Nights are marked by late dinners with an impossible amount of food. You can never eat enough for the liking of the cooks. On occasion, I will admit to plopping a few bites in my napkin. The women, I note night after night, responsibly prepare then dissemble the table as the men sit contented. I am told by the younger generation that while this holds as tradition on occasion, most couples have adopted sharing houseGREECE from Page 28

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hold duties. Some obvious social niceities differ; personal health is fair game for conversation. I am asked how my bowels are over appetizers. Waiters interupt when they think you’ve ordered enough. Sarcasm gets mistaken for ignorance: I ask why the Greeks didn’t bother to finish building any of the ancient temples Athens I’ve seen in their toppled forms. I’m called a dumb American. My companion, half Greek, half American, becomes the mediator in these moments between my cultural blind spots and the underlying intentions of the native customs or language. Over Greek salad and plates of tzatziki, we clumsily try to craft a bridge of understanding. I’m repeatedly prompted by those I meet to share my ethnic background as a source of my identity. In fifth grade for nationality week, I whipped up fluffy chocolate cookies and called them “Danish” cookies. Everyone thought they tasted good and that’s all I really cared about. Now, tossing over everyone who decided it would be a good idea to reproduce up until me, I feel a bit sheepish. “A mix” sounds lazy and like I’m a neighborhood dog. I side with saying Danish, but stop when this prompts one gentleman to speak to me in the language. I return blinking eyes and open it up to — “Well, Scandinavian” — because it sounds better than “I don’t know.” I am relieved when the initial introduction period stops, and the exploration of daily village life begins. Two days and I am acquainted with tales of local legends. A man dubbed the Baboon, I’m told, goes to the docks each day after closing his sweets shop to enjoy two bottles of red wine. The undisputed claim is that he can urinate for five minutes straight. He is a town fixture whether he wants to be or not. A smattering of pin-drop islands just out of swimming range glitter on the horizon. A mass of lava rocks from a nearby mildly active volcano make up the form of a lying body. It is said Hercules murdered a treasonous Titan and displayed his body as a warning. A quick trek on a boat to one of these

small hints of paradise makes the plot of Cast Away seem downright romantic. More romantic, than, say, the constant club music emanating from beach restaurants lining the shore. I can’t help but question how many locals understand the crude English lyrics set to four beats. My favorite: “sexy mother… [you know the rest]” on cycle for six grueling minutes over jarring pop sounds. Warm breezes and exuberant DJs set the nightlife tone: a not unpleasant crowded feeling of bodies packed around hightop tables, inescapable cigarette smoke, jovial banter and an ocean a mere 15 feet away for timeouts. Over drinks, the youth speak casually of hard economic times, of low wages, of not being paid on time by bosses, of long hours and not enough money for food when venturing out into the cities. The elders ask jokingly if I’ll build a house here, the glint in their eyes telling me they are still quite in love with their place on the map. Try as I might, the inordinate amount of vowel sounds in the Greek language make it difficult for my tongue to mimic back phrases I am taught. I try harder for the curse words in honor of the junior high lunch table we all once sat at. If I was organized enough to have a bucket list, I would have the satisfaction of ticking off: climbing atop tumbled war towers, treading the Mediterranean near floating castles and overcoming my fear of nibbling fish. Nibble away, foes! It is one thing to travel to a country expecting paradise. It is another to surrender to the offbeat charm of too-personal questions, of haughty waiters, of not knowing how to introduce yourself. I know it is a depraved confession, but at times, I revel in the cultural miscommunication, on the crudely built bridge between cultures — the whole thing vulnerable to the woes of judging and being judged. It is through this weathering that we perform our discordant family stories. To the tune of buskers, in the stuff of legend. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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was dreaming of Costa Rica. Of long nights drinking guaro and mangling Spanish grammar; of sea turtle-laden beaches stretching into the horizon, iridescent with moonlight. But that paradise suddenly vanished with the nasal whine of a twostroke alarm clock that hit like an aneurysm. An orange-vested maintenance man was piloting a leaf-blower outside my apartment window, just an arms-reach from my bed. Drugged with sleep, my head splitting in two, my snap emotional reaction was to start stabbing, or at least yelling in protest. But my clock said 7 a.m., meaning it was too late to do a damned thing about it. His noise was on the clock. • • • • I was 18 the first time I was issued a noise complaint by the police. It was 1:30 p.m. on a Saturday and my first rock band was working on a new song inside a bedroom we had soundproofed with so many layers of carpet, foam and mattresses on the walls that the space doubled as our house wrestling ring. Though this new song was only marginally less mediocre than our other songs, it still felt like unfiltered magic, and we were sure the world would soon be beating down our door to hear it. But it wasn’t the world that came to our door. It was the police, who had been called by the couple who had moved into the house across the street the year previous to run a bed and breakfast. They were not fans. The feeling was mutual. For rocking a little too hard, the judge at civic court ruled that I must pay a $250 fine and be fingerprinted for the FBI database. Further violations could result in a city-forced eviction from the house I rented from my parents and potential jailtime. The criteria he used for this and future violations was that the noise was “unnecessary.” One of the few effective outlets I’d found for the emotional volatility of being a teenager was playing the drums. Primal screams of indiscriminate rage became crash cymbals. Turbo-charged giggle-fits became double-time, four-on-the-floor beats and

NASA’s recording of Comet 67p “singing” is available to stream on Soundcloud. Musician Andrew Huang’s cover of The Beatles “Across the Universe” made entirely from the comet’s sounds is available on YouTube.

ed tropical jungles. Ocean waves stretch upwards of 80 decibels. Niagara Falls roars at 95. Barking dogs can reach 115. Thunder routinely hits 120, near the point where sound can hurt. Blue whales sing at 188 decibels, and can be heard for hundreds of miles. Earthquakes can reach 235 decibels. Then there are volcanoes. The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia was so loud it was heard nearly 2,000 miles away in Perth, Australia. This noise is not just an earthly phenomenon. When scientists recently landed the Rosetta probe on Comet 67P, they discovered that the comet “sings” by ionizing particles that it sheds into space. Even in space, where there is no sound, nature is loud. And that is to say nothing of civilization. A blender is 80 decibels, and a home dishwasher pushes closer to 90. Fifty feet from the freeway, a single passing car is still 80 decibels. Motorcycles average 100 decibels. Rush hour can create sustained levels closer to 120. Decibels are measured logarithmically, which means that an increase of 10 is a doubling of volume. So these are not small leaps. Nor is it a small leap that from 100 feet away, a jet engine is measured at 140 decibels, or that fireworks can reach 150 decibels. It is also not a small distinction that the sound of the lumber mill 500 feet down the street from where I was ticketed for playing music is 118 decibels, about 10 decibels louder than the average rock concert. Even just the ambient sound of the power transformers on the average house can be measured at 50 decibels from 100 feet away. Noise, not silence, is the norm. That means that the conflict is really over what noise is perceived as legitimate, and what noise is perceived as a nuisance. And when it is industrial noise that chews up and spits out pieces of the earth like a wood chipper, its legitimacy is never questioned. When it is cultural, a matter of free expression, noise is an issue of constant controversy. • • • • Boise, Idaho. Summer, 2013. I had been laid off from my job in March and turned to busking for rent in the nightlife district until I found a new job. Preferring to stand apart from the legions of acoustic

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eighth-note rolls. Sobs became a softly-brushed ride. I was closer to Ringo Starr than Buddy Rich skillwise, but it kept me together when it felt like I was falling apart in a way nothing else could. But according to Judge Drescher, none of that was “necessary.” I could hear the roar of a car-sized riding lawnmower outside as he struck his gavel. • • • • As a musician, my life is a philosophical war over noise; where, when and how it is acceptable and legal. It has shaped where I live and work, and what sort of music I play and listen to, and even whether I can pay my rent. The first element of the conflict stems from the paradigm that silence is the world’s default setting and that noise is a deviation. If you take a strict scientific view that sound only occurs when previously at-rest air is set to vibrating, then sure, that’s the way it is. But we don’t live in a vacuum, and the meaning of the facts changes with existential context. The average conversation is between 60-70 decibels. The constant chatter of sylvan wildlife is about the same, though far louder in more densely populat-

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guitar players doing the same, I armed myself with a Even if the cop who arrested him is disciplined, there ukulele and belted out a set of heavy metal parodies are countless others who will treat Kalleen and his and country classics that did well at open mics. People peers similarly. What the law says is largely secondary gave generously when they could hear me, but it didn’t to the fact that if the police want you to move on take long to discover that the thin sonic range of the because they don’t like what you’re doing, then the instrument couldn’t cut through the din of thousands issue won’t be dropped. If not noise violations, then of drunks. Several hours of busking left my voice police can say you’re loitering, harassing people or ragged and my hat empty. something else — things they would never say to a After a week of lemon tea and financial anxiety, I maintenance person with a leaf-blower, though street tried a new strategy: plugging my synthesizer and a musicians are also just doing their job. small amp into one of the open outlets in the urban Nearly anyone who has performed on the street plaza. (often the most dependable way to make money as a Within minutes I was scoring a dance party, with musician) should be able to tell you some version of happy revelers dumping money into my case by the this story. Some towns ban open cases or hats, some fistfull. One scooped up a wad of cash to “make it require permits, others have limited zones in which rain,” back into my case. The financial anxiety of musicians may perform. Sometimes those regulations Josh Gross unemployment began a slow have to do with retreat. ensuring that Until the police arrived pathways are not with the message that unaublocked — which thorized “amplified sound” is is totally reasonillegal. able — but with them generally “You need to go the store comes regulations and get yourself an acoustic on noise (which guitar,” one of the three cops almost all towns told me. have independent There are so many things I of busking regulawanted to say in response, like tions as well) and that the next time he needs to those are where shoot someone, he should just point his finger and say, “Bang!” things get dicey. (since just like switching a synNoise regulathesizer for an acoustic guitar, tions tend to disit’s the same thing), or that tinguish between acoustic guitars are expensive “amplified” and and I’m busy trying to make “un-amplified rent money. sound,” and they But none of it mattered. I tend to cap the was surrounded by three men limits on ampliwith their hands on their guns fied sound — The synthesizer too dangerous for the police and no interest in talking most commonly things out. that it can be So I returned home to the heard no more dilapidated house I rented in an abandoned neighbor- than 50 feet from its source — but apply no limits to hood that I deliberately picked so I could play the unamplified sound. That’s why the police told me to drums without issue, where my only neighbors were a get an acoustic guitar. boarded-up house full of feral cats, an AA drop-in But according to that delineation, a hand-cranked center and a rock promoter who once had to do five air-raid siren is legal (audible for miles), as is a drumdays in jail for a noise violation. line (capable of being heard in a noisy football stadiI passed two fights outside bars on the way home. um), and opera singers whose voices can rival the volNot a cop in sight. ume of a jackhammer, and countless other things that • • • • can be heard more than 50 feet away. If the issue is It was not the first time I’d faced the police while volume, then noise ordinances regulating “amplified busking, nor am I the only street performer who deals sound” are poorly tasked to address it. with this issue. In October, a video of New York City The result is that noise enforcement is largely subway (average volume between 92-102 decibels) arbitrary, subject to the whims of those tasked with performer Andrew Kalleen being arrested went mega- enforcement. viral, garnering writeups in major news outlets like Some might say that the delineation has someTime Magazine, The Guardian and Russia Today, as thing to do with what music is soothing, and which is well as countless music blogs. Outrage wasn’t just that aggravating. Except that the listening experience is busking clearly didn’t rank on the most pressing issues highly subjective. Most metalheads would rather be facing the police that day in New York City, but that stabbed in the eyes than listen to The Carpenters, and the busker cited the law showing his actions were vice-versa. And it implies that something being soothlegal and was arrested anyway. He will have to spend ing is somehow objectively superior to being rattled, time and money fighting the issue in court, and will rather than just a different place on the emotional then probably be more hesitant to return to his comspectrum. But even if that were true, it still wouldn’t pletely legal activities, making it harder for him to account for the fact that the volume of music is a subearn a living and resulting in less music in the world. ject of debate, but not the volume of a factory. 32 December 4, 2014

To that some might say that a factory creates jobs — is a valuable part of the economy. But that not only places a premium on money as the only measurement of value, but it also ignores the jobs that come with culture. A rock club creates jobs just like a factory, oftentimes even beyond its walls by serving as the cultural anchor that helps revive a depressed neighborhood. A lively business district full of buskers gives work to performers, while making the street more attractive to shoppers. The same can’t be said of a sidewalk cafe next to an airport or a factory or even a four-lane street. Noise from culture draws people in; noise from industry drives them away. But the former is highly regulated and the latter is not. In addition to all those questions, there is a bigger problem: an innaccurate distinction. Amplification increases the volume of sound. The wooden box of an acoustic guitar is an amplifier, as is your voicebox, and countless other items that are lumped into the unamplified category of sound. Amplified, legally, means electric. And the subtext has less to do with volume and more to do with style. Not just any musician but any designer will tell you: form leads content. No matter what you do, a single-coil Fender Stratocaster played through an amp loaded with spring reverb will sound like surf music, which will then lead the guitarist in that direction. A Les Paul played through a fullycranked Marshall stack will always sound like rock, and lead all jazz guitarists back from Django Reinhardt’s catalog to that of Guns N’ Roses. The sound of a sitar will inevitably lead one to play East Asian music. Not all sounds are that hyper-specific, and sometimes sounds lead to new genres, but the point is that there is no way to make a tuba sound like heavy metal instead of weighty brass. And if you want to play something that cannot be done on an “unamplified” instrument, then you face legal restrictions that hamper that effort. America is a country founded by cultural outliers on the idea that fringe forms of expression should not be legally discriminated against. Yet that is exactly what noise codes do. Their limitations create a form of cultural hegemony that explains why walking the Pearl Street Mall recently in Boulder, a town that views itself as endlessly open and creative, I heard three different acoustic guitar versions of the same Beatles song, but no hip-hop, no EDM, no Kraftwerk, no black metal, no gospel organ and so on. I didn’t even hear a theremin version of “Blackbird.” • • • • Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring is now recognized as one of the most important symphonies in history, an intensely emotive piece of avant-garde compositional wizardry. But when it premiered in 1913, the audience didn’t feel that way at all. They rioted, turning on each other, hurling things at the orchestra and trashing the theater. It has even been reported that members of the audience pummeled one another in time with the dissonant stabs that famously open the piece, which is almost comic to imagine. More than 40 people were ejected from the performance. Neurologists examining how the brain reacts to sound would later conclude that new or unfamiliar sounds can be interpreted as a threat, and that the audience’s reaction was one of psychological selfdefense against a symphony far ahead of its time. Boulder Weekly

buzz However, once the ear acclimates to a new sound, the perceived threat would recede, which helps explain why The Rite of Spring was hailed as a masterpiece within a few years of its debut. It also helps explain why Bill Haley and the Comets’ now almost childishly innocent hit song “Rock Around the Clock” inspired riots across Europe in 1958, why white people panicked over rap in the ’80s and why so many small-metro TV stations have a report on the threat posed by punk rock somewhere in their archives. The opposition to noise has nothing to do with volume and everything to do with cultural acceptance. That is why the music my band played was legally punishable, but when the same neighbors who called the police on band practice put a speaker on their front porch to play Muzak renditions of Christmas songs 24 hours a day, the police weren’t interested. “It’s just Christmas music,” the officer told me after my revenge complaint. Jennifer Orr But more importantly, that’s why when my band set up outside a different practice space to enjoy a sunny spring day, a man running a Skillsaw at a nearby construction site unironically stopped working to ask us to turn down. Though the noise of his labor literally sounded like a buzzsaw, no one questioned the legitimacy of building another ugly apartment building in another ugly subdivision. He was on the clock; we were just hopeful amateurs. • • • • Though I’ve always maintained a strict personal code of no drums after dark (except in winter, obviously), and try to keep my noise to hours in which it won’t cause others harm, I have lost track of how many times I’ve had to deal with the police over noise violations. At home, in the streets, at gigs. I’ve had to take down my equipment under armed watch and load it out Ukulele busking on the streets of Boise through a fleet of police cars. There is always the threat of jail, eviction or just a giant ticket that could cripple me financially. Considering that I’m just trying to go about my business, it’s frustrating. We are drowning in sound, but somehow musicians are accountable for it in a way others aren’t. And I’ll admit, I’ll take a world of leafy lawns over one with leafblowers, a world of quiet bikes over gasoline-powered cars and one in which the wood in my guitar was shaped by hand-tools over the roar of motorized blades. I have yet to encounter the pothole I wanted fixed badly enough to suffer the sound of a jackhammer, especially as an alarm clock. So perhaps I’m no different and I perceive my noise as legitimate primarily because it’s noise I like. But other than the half-joking revenge complaint about my complaining neighbors, I have also never taken action against other’s sonic indiscretions, because I can see how the American ideal that your rights end at the tip of my nose doesn’t apply to noise. That would mean no one gets to make any noise for any reason because someone else might hear it, or that no one should ever have to hear something they didn’t expressly authorize, a nightmarish scenario in which there is almost no ability to accidentally encounter new ideas. For me to make the sounds I hold dear, I accept that others value other sounds, no matter how horrible they may be. To repurpose that old free speech trope: I may not agree with what Nickelback is doing to a defenseless guitar, but I’ll forever defend their right to do it. I’d even take to the streets, chanting and marching and playing an unamplified drum for the rights of that maintenance man who didn’t have the courtesy to wait until the sun came up to start blowing leaves around a parking lot instead of using a rake. But should that march ever happen, I wouldn’t be surprised if its plea were drowned out by the din of a passing streetsweeper, its roar wiping the world blank once again. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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t’s all about the blend. No, not coffee. Blend is how countertenor Timothy WayneWright explains the unique and unmistakable sound of the King’s Singers, who bring their men’s a capella singing to Macky Auditorium for a Christmas program at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11. “At the core of everything we do is the blend [of the voices],” Wayne-Wright says. “We say that we go on stage as six voices but we want the audience to hear just the one voice.” Founded in 1968 by six friends at King’s College, Cambridge — hence their name — the King’s Singers have become known worldwide for their “close-harmony” style. Indeed, they invented the term, which describes their style of singing, featuring chords with notes very close together — what Wayne-Wright calls “clashy chords.” “The only way that these chords would work was by singing without vibrato, with a very soft, breathy tone,” he explains. “That’s the way the chords would sound true. If you add any vibrato or add any edge to the sound, the chords simply don’t shimmer as they need to.” The blended sound that puts the group ahead of the individual is rooted in the English choral tradition, which members of the group have all grown up with. And it is the first priority when they audition new members. At his audition, Wayne-Wright remembers, “Philip Lawson, the previous baritone, said to me, ‘This is the only audition that you come into that we do not want to hear you.’ I left the audition not really knowing if I’d done a good audition or a bad audition, because I didn’t feel I had really sung anything.” It was only when he was called back that he was able to use his solo voice. “Then you can enjoy yourself, when you’ve got a solo line,” he says. “But not in an operatic way — it’s sort of a half-step forward.” From the beginning, the King’s Singers have featured the unusual combination of two countertenors (men singing in falsetto voice), one tenor, two baritones and one bass — which just happened to be the configuration of the original six voices. They have kept that combination for 46 years, as members retired and new singers came on board. Today they tour for six months of the year, presenting 120 concerts around the world, including U.S. tours that take them from coast to coast. Another feature of the original King’s Singers is the basic outline of their programs. “At the start, the group needed to do everything, because it didn’t have enough of [one kind of music] to fill a whole concert,”

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Wayne-Wright says. “It had to look upon the folk songs, the spirituals, the pop songs of the day, had to do bits of everything just to fill up a concert. So the group quickly became known for doing different types of genres in one program.” For “Christmas with the King’s Singers,” they will open with Renaissance pieces for the season by William Byrd and Orlandus Lassus. Those will be followed by three pieces by Herbert Howells, whose music is one of the foundation stones of the English choral repertoire, and some contemporary pieces ending with Un soir de neige (“A Snowy Evening”) by Francis Poulenc. “After we come back on for the second half, the audience have earned their light repertoire,’” Wayne-Wright says. “We’ve got four lovely pieces from the Catalan region of Spain, and then we finish with ‘Jingle Bells,’ the ‘God Rest Ye Gentlemen,’ the ‘Deck the Halls,’ these sort of things, so the audience comes out with a smile.” “Christmas with the King’s Singers” is only the tip of the holiday music offerings in and around Boulder. Before they hit town, the University of Colorado will offer its popular annual Holiday Festival at Macky Auditorium Friday though Sunday, Dec. 5 to Dec. 7. These performances may be sold out; check with CU Presents for the latest ticket information at 303-492-8008. Here are some other musical holiday events in the region: A Broadway Christmas Carol — With CU Theatre and Dance. Dec. 4–21, University Theatre, University of Colorado campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Nutcracker Ballet — With Boulder Ballet and Longmont Symphony Orchestra. 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 and 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 300 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-651-0401. December Reflections — Christmas with Ars Nova Singers. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6 and Friday Dec. 12. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7, St. Paul’s Lutheran, 1600 Grant St., Denver, and 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E. Hampden Ave., Cherry Hills Village, 303-499-3165. Candlelight Concert — With Longmont Symphony. 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, First United Methodist Church, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796. The Gift of Music — Boulder Chamber Orchestra and Seicento Baroque Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, First United Methodist, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, Montview Presbyterian, 1980 Dahlia St., Denver, www.boulderchamberorchestra.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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arts & culture From flood to film

Jake Fink looks to revitalize with the Lyons Film Festival by Michael J. Casey But starting a film festival is no easy task. Fink received a $500 grant from the Lyons Community Foundation last month to get things going. “It’s only $500 and we have a $40,000 budget,” Fink says chuckling. “Regardless of the money we get, we’re going ahead with the film festival and the whole town is really supportive.” At the time of publication, there are 182 days left until the debut of the Lyons Film Festival ( June 5 and June 6, 2015). Fink knows now’s the time to start rattling the can. To start, Fink needs to inform the community that a film festival is coming and get people excited, and that all starts on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew when Fink will host the first Lyons Film Festival Monthly Movie Screening. The film being screened is being selected through a voting process that had not finished as of press time, but Fink says it will be a holiday film. Although the Wednesday event isn’t officially designed as a fundraiser, Fink is more than happy to accept donations. “Licensing a film alone is not cheap,” Fink says. “It’s a sacrifice I’ll make so I can get up there and let them know how much a reality this film festival is essentially. And get people as excited about it as possible.”

Fink isn’t the only one excited for a Lyons Film Festival; Jessica ( Jesse) Garland is on board and helping Fink out with the day-to-day tasks. “Jesse’s been my partner in it,” Fink says. “From selecting venues [Oskar Blues, Red Fox and Lyons Cinema have all signed on] to getting physical sponsors and finding grants.” Joining Fink and Garland is Rebecca Louzon from Louzon Marketing and Sam and Mindy Tallent from Stone Cup who, “decided to be my fiscal sponsor so it would be easier for me to get money,” Fink says. Fink is currently tracking down more sponsors and deciding on programming for the festival. “Feature films to feature documentaries, all genres,” Fink explains, “versus being a niche-type of festival.” But Fink has a lot of hard work ahead of him. “I definitely have very large aspirations to turn it into something pretty significant and help make [Lyons] a destination,” Fink says. “Not just for filmmaking but for people to take a second look.” And the Lyons Film Festival Monthly Movie Series is where that all starts. In addition to the free movie and information on the festival’s progress, Fink has Lyons Love hosting a free chocolate workshop — with a lesson about the history and benefit of chocolate — and a fundraiser raffle for some of those delicious wares. “We’re definitely looking for a turnout,” Fink says. “Some of that money we can put toward the festival, but I’m not reliant on it in any way. Through grants, through sponsors, we’ll get the money that we need.” Come hell or high water, Fink is going to bring a film festival to Lyons, one that will bring life back to businesses and put the town in the news and back on the map. “Regardless of what happens with the money,” Fink says. “I’m going to make it happen. No matter what.” T-minus 182 days and counting. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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yons has a new man in town and he’s starting up a film festival. That man is Jake Fink. Fink spent 15 years as a journeyman on film sets, starting out as a production assistant in New York City, before moving on to work for the NHL. A project on alien abduction got Fink out of New York and brought him to Arizona, where the warm Courtesy of Lyons Cinema desert air hooked him. Then a soonto-be launched web series, Mother Nature’s Warriors (highlighting positive actions people take to improve the environment), landed Fink in Lyons. That was nine months ago. “I got acquainted with the flood and what happened to people in town and did some productions for the local organization, the Lyons Community Foundation,” Fink explains. “I know the families and I know intimately what happened. I just really felt at home here and I wanted to stay. I said, ‘What can I do?’” That’s when it hit Fink: A successful film festival could mean an awful lot to a town that was nearly washed away a year ago. “Let me help bring business, help revitalize the town and hopefully put Lyons on the map,” he says. We presume he means on the map for film, as Lyons is already a renowned destination for bluegrass and folk music fans.

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ick Fleetwood is mostly creative process behind the photo very much alike. They both involve known for co-founding sucked me in. I felt I found a way to stages of construction. and drumming in the leg- express myself other than banging “It’s a process starting with an idea, endary band Fleetwood drums.” going back to the idea, adding to the Mac. But between tours, Fleetwood’s photographs are mostly idea, disregarding it for a while, and Fleetwood is putting down the sticks still-lifes of nature and watching then coming back to it,” he says. “So I and picking up the camera. His new Mother Nature unfold, as he says. The create my picture by thinking, ‘I like show, Reflections, will be at the gallery images include experimentation with that valley I saw the other week. Now Fascination St. Fine Art in Denver color, composition and exposure. One I’m going to go back and try to take a through December 31. of his inspirations is Ansel Adams and picture of that tree with that hill. Oh, it Fleetwood’s interest in photography his ability to create photos that look looks like a painting! No, it doesn’t.’ started with his father, Then I’ll start the Mick Fleetwood Dominique Pandolfi who was in the Royal process over again. Air Force. As a child, The end result is like Fleetwood’s family music where you end traveled around the up with a song, then world, and he says his you buff it out and father was constantly you fix it. Mixing a taking pictures to docsong is like developument their trips. But ing a photo.” it wasn’t until The progress of a Fleetwood Mac startphoto can be quick ed to take off that his like a snapshot or interest grew deeper. labored over. He “When I stared compares it to his rockin’ and rolling, I bandmate’s songremember John writing. McVie [the band’s “There are songs bass player] was that just come to always keen to take you,” Fleetwood says. photos,” he says. “I think ‘Songbird’ “Once we started came to Christine Fleetwood’s favorite subject to photoMick Fleetwood, co-founder of earning a little bit of [McVie] in minutes. graph are roads with no final destinaFleetwod Mac, shows off his love of money, John was the It’s almost like taking tion, which mirrors the idea of journey photography in his new gallery show consistent in his show. Reflections. first guy in the band a picture of a race car. to buy himself a really But then there’s songs cool camera. And I that she or Lindsey immediately went, ‘Well if he’s got one, like paintings using balance and depth [Buckingham] spent weeks and months I need one.’ of field. on. You put it away, then return, like a “I became the annoying family phoHe shoots on a Contax camera he’s painting.” tographer in Fleetwood Mac. I took had for more than 20 years. He occaFleetwood says the name Reflections photos of everything, anywhere and sionally uses a digital camera, but he is both literal and figurative, that the anything, and I still have thousands of says he’s more comfortable with film show is about self-evaluation, the jourshots of everything we did in the band.” and that he likes the extra texture it ney he’s been on and where he’s going. Fleetwood started to notice the difadds. While he says shooting digitally is This makes sense considering ference between McVie’s calculated and tempting, it’s the finality of film that Fleetwood’s favorite subject to photothoughtful approach to photography really appeals to him. graph is open-ended. and his own tendency to photograph “Film disallows you to stream off “I like taking shots of roads that everything. Slowly, Fleetwood says, he hundreds of shots,” he says. “It makes appear to be going nowhere,” he says. “I started becoming more artistically you work a little harder to get it right. will always be looking for a pathway or involved in his photos and actually I like the drama of that. It begs you to a road that says something to me and thinking about the picture he wanted to make a commitment. Crash or burn, which is somehow involved in my take. He began to deliberately try to you don’t find out you got it wrong world. I think it’s about the path we all create beautiful photos instead of stum- until you take it home. I’m trying to take. I always like to get reminded of bling on a great one. connect with that old school that.” “I would take loads of pictures,” approach.” Fleetwood will be visiting Fleetwood says. “Of course, by the After having performed for years in Fascination St. Fine Art December 11. nature of you doing that, you’d blunder a mega-successful band, Fleetwood says RSVP for the reception at info@fasciinto a great photo. But I prefer to feel there aren’t major differences in phonationst.com or by calling 303-333that I somewhat created a framework tography and music. In fact, the journey 1566. that I can take responsibility for. The Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com of creating the right photo or song are Boulder Weekly

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Fitz & The Tantrums. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

American Babies. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Blue Canyon Boys. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. David Booker. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The New LPs. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

An Enchanted Evening of Turkish Mystic Music & Poetry. 7 p.m. Congregation Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 303-443-4567.

Roots & Rhythm Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Eric Wiggs. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court Suite 110, Boulder.

Strings Attached. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Espresso! at Caffe Sole. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St.,

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Michael Bellmont. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Ed Breazeale’s Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

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Matt Flaherty. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Movies RiffTrax Live: Santa Claus. 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder. Tragically, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is long gone, but from its ashes rose RiffTrax, where comedians Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (all of whom were involved with MST3K) heckle some of the worst films ever made. Century Boulder will be streaming a live RiffTrax performance from Nashville where the lads will skewer the bejeezus out of Santa Claus, a dubbed 1959 Mexi- Courtesy of RiffTrax can film about Saint Nick doing battle with Lucifer in outer space. So nothing ripe for parody there. Get tickets and more info at www.RiffTrax. com/

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events EVENTS from Page 41 Swing Night! W/ Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Children Living on the Edge. 6 p.m. Houston Room, Boulder County Clerk and Recorder, 1750 33rd St., Boulder, 303-443-0419. Eric Baus, J. Michael Martinez, Andrea Rexilius and Mathias Svalina. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th Street Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Intelligent Fabrics Presentation. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Newton Running Lab Fun Run. 6 p.m. Newton Running Lab/ Active Imprints, 1300 Walnut St. Suite 20, Boulder. Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

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Billy Shaddox, Highway 50. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Family Dance. 6 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-499-6363. Britta & Brooke. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Caribou Mountain Collective. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. The CBDs. 6 p.m. Salto Coffeeworks, 112 E. Second St., Nederland, 303-258-3537. Craig Cornett. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Electric Red. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. First Friday Funk. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Flynn & Co. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Full Belly. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. HotSox. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Jami Lunde Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Last Men On Earth. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Lorna’s Swingset. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

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ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/ Nature’s Creative Potential — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20. Brillitant: Cartier in the 20th Century. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through March 15, 2015.

— by Mick Fleetwood. Fascination St. Fine Art, 315 Detroit St., Denver, 303-333-1566.

Cynthia Marsh’s acrylic paintings will be on display at the NCAR Community Gallery through Jan. 30.

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Cabinets of Curiosity — by Clayton Blair Dougherty, various artists. Longmont Center for The Arts Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-678-7869. Through Dec. 23 Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122. Through Jan. 8. Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb. 15. Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Jan. 18. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through March 22. Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017. Reflections: The Mick Fleetwood Collection

Rogue 2. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Hwy 287 Ste. 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Shane Tully and The Rain. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.

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

The Stilettos. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

The Music of LCD Soundsystem. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Stone Soup. 7:30 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court Suite 110, Boulder.

Nice Work Jazz Combo with MaryLynn Gillaspie. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Tyler Thompson. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Old’s Cool Rock. 7 p.m. Longmont American Legion, 315 S. Bowen St., Longmont, 720-635-0840.

WhiteWater Ramble. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Party with a Purpose: Helping the Homeless and Working Poor. 4 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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

The Railsplitters. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472.

American Sun, Mexican Moon. 7 p.m. Rising Tide Tattoo & Gallery, 3193 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-500-5046.

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

Boulder Festivus. 7 p.m. OpenArts Gallery@Rembrandt Road, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder.

Events

Acrylic Paintings by Cynthia Marsh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through Jan. 30.

Photography for Change group exhibit. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30. Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 25. Matisse and Friends — by Henri Matisse and friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25. The Art of Fiber: 50 Years of the Boulder Handweaver’s Guild — by various artists. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 18. Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. 303298-7554. Through April 12. Recent Aquisitions — Oliver Herring. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18, 2015. A Table (Somewhat): Conversations Between Objects — by Various Artists. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20. Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17, 2015.

Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. CFOOTMAD — Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Club de literatura en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Contemporary Artist Hilario Gutierrez. 2 p.m. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. Family Game Night. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. First Friday Contact Improvisation Jam. 7:30 p.m. Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St., Boulder, 303-440YOGA. FRESH. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Holiday Cards for Heroes. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. see EVENTS Page 44

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Masterpiece Makers: All About Animals. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Minecrafternoons* at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Salsa Night. 9:30 p.m. Boulder Agora, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-477-4164. Tales of Wonder with Colorado Educational Theatre. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Tango Ground School Class. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Saturday, December 6 Music The Angle. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Barrel of Blues Live! 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303339-0767. The Big Little Band. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. The Clarks. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Cowboy Christmas Concert. 7 p.m. Barn A, Boulder County Fairgrounds Longmont, CO 80501, 9595 Nelson Rd Suite 200, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

Eric Baus, J. Michael Martinez, Andrea Rexilius and Mathias Svalina. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Tuesday, Dec. 9

The Church For the World — by Jennifer McBride. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Living Poets Society Bookclub: What is this Thing Called Love? 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074

Love, Money and HIV — by Sanyu Mojola. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074

The Best Women’s Travel Writing — by Jayme Moye. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303447-2074

Friday, Dec. 5 Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Christopher Hill will be discussing his book Outpost at the Tattered Cover on Monday, Dec. 8.

The Doctor Crisis — by Jack Cochran. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Saturday, Dec. 6

Danny Shafer Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Gabby Gourmet live broadcast. Pat Miller. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Dilated Peoples. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Sunday, Dec. 7

Dustin Edge, Thunder the Radar. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Early Joni Revival Concert. 7:30 p.m. Valmont Community Presbyterian Church, 3262 61st St., Boulder. Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 415-290-9242. Foxfeather. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Gasoline Lollipops. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Holiday Festival 2014. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Holiday Mountain Market. 10 a.m. Nederland Community Center, 750 Colorado 72, Nederland. Holiday Tea. 12 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Idlewhile. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy — by Ambassador Christopher Hill. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Thursday, Dec. 4

25 Days of Grinch-Mas Holiday Storytime. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303447-2074 Monday, Dec. 8

Company, 297 N. US Hwy 287, Lafayette, 303-4498623. Treena McCurdy. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Ultralowfi. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Young Ancients Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Events Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Lost Ski Areas of Colorado’s Front Range, and Hammond’s Candies — by Caryn & Peter Boddie and Mary “Corky” Thompson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Wednesday, Dec. 10 Why We Need Nuclear Power — by Michael Fox. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Bombay Gin. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303.

and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Holiday ManCraft. 4 p.m. American Legion Post 10, 4760 28th Ave., Boulder. LGBTQ All-Gender Self-Defense Class. 1 p.m. BC3, 1637 28th St., Boulder, 303-499-5777. The Library Concert Series Presents: Holiday Harps. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Marcus Lucas Game Show. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Santa’s Card Making Workshop. 12 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Josh Garner & Tim Smisek. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Kyle & Ryan. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Boulder Swing Dance — Saturday Stomp. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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

Boulder Track Club Youth Group. 9 a.m. Viele Lake Park, Boulder.

Off The Record. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

December Lights. 4 p.m. Sunflower Farm, 11150 Prospect Road, Longmont, 303-774-8001.

Alejandro Castano Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Old’s Cool Rock. 12:30 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Billy Shaddox. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Reggae Remix Night. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder. Repeal Day Party w/ Shotgun Moses. 7 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Hwy, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

Family Workshop: Natural History Ornaments. 10 a.m. CU Museum of Natural History South Entrance, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, 303492-6892.

Bottom Dollar String Band. 3:30 p.m. Salto Coffee Works, 112 E Second St, Nederland, Nederland, 303258-3537.

Santa’s House. 10 a.m. Pi Beta Phi Sorority House, 890 11th St., Boulder.

Flamenco Technique. 12:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Boulder County Fair. 7 p.m. Barn A Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Rd Suite 200, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

Seth Phillips. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400.

Denny Driscoll. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Taylor Radio. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing

FRESH. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue

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UFC 181: Hendricks bs. Lawler II. 8 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder.

Wilderness First Aid Class with WMI and REI. 10 a.m. REI Boulder, Community Room, 1789 28th St., Boulder.

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6TH Lyons Holiday Show

Rogers Hall (410 High Street) 10.00am - 4.00pm

40th Annual Lyons Holiday Craft Bazaar

Lyons Elementary School (338 High St.) 10.00am - 5.00pm

Lyons Lights Show

Sandstone Park (4th & Broadway) 5.00pm - 6.30pm

Parade of Lights

Main Street (starting at Broadway) 6.30pm

Live Music & Entertainment

Sandstone Park (4th & Broadway) 7.15pm

Firework Show

West of Main Street (Off Mountain) 7.40pm

Parade Award Ceremony

Sandstone Park (4th & Broadway) 8.05pm

Lyons Lights Show Encore

Sandstone Park (4th & Broadway) 8.00pm - 9.00pm

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7TH Lyons Holiday Show

Rogers Hall (410 High Street) 10.00am - 4.00pm

Oskar Blueâ€™s Holiday Craft Sale

Oskar Blues (303 Main Street) 10.00am - 5.00pm

40th Annual Lyons Holiday Craft Bazaar

Lyons Elementary School (338 High St.) 11.00am - 4.00pm

Santa at the Lyons Holiday Bazaar

Lyons Elementary School (338 High St.) 1.30pm - 4.00pm

Lyons Lights Show

Sandstone Park (4th & Broadway) 6.00pm - 8.00pm

The Repeal Party

Spirit Hound Distillers (U.S.66) 8.00pm

Holiday Lights Show Schedule

All Performances at Sandstone Park (4th & Broadway) Saturday, December 6th 5.00pm - 6.30pm Saturday, December 6th 8.00pm - 9.00pm Sunday, December 7th 6.00pm - 8.00pm Friday, December 12th 6.00pm - 8.00pm Saturday, December 13th 6.00pm - 8.00pm Sunday, December 14th 6.00pm - 8.00pm Friday, December 19th 6.00pm - 8.00pm Saturday, December 20 6.00pm - 8.00pm Sunday, December 21th 6.00pm - 8.00pm Wednesday, December 24 5.00pm - 9.00pm

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Eric Adrian. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Evan Cantor’s Complete Grateful Dead. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court Suite 110, Boulder. Gypsy Lumberjacks. 9 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

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Holiday Festival 2014. 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Jeff and Paige. 4:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Joyful & Triumphant’ — Longmont Chorale. 3 p.m. Life Bridge Church, 10345 Ute Hwy (66), Longmont.

Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. 720-865-4239. Through May 8.

Pete Kartsounes. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Fiddler on the Roof. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28.

Skanson & Hansen. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Juno and the Paycock. The Upstart Crow. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. 303-442-1415. Through Dec. 6.

Sunday Music in the Yard. 5 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Traditional Irish Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Pick any 4 games in the remaining schedule and choose an autographed puck by:

O’REILLY, VARLAMOV, LANDESKOG, DUCHENE, MacKINNON OR IGINLA!

Events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. 720-8654239. Through Dec. 28.

K.C. Groves & Greg Blake. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Songwriting Workshop with Ashleigh Caudill. 1 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-7444.

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Art as Action: “both/and”. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. 303-4421415. Through Dec. 6.

Moulin Scrooge. The Catamounts and Band of Toughs. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver. 303-447-5977. Through Dec. 20. Miracle on 34th Street. The Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver. 720-346-7396. Through Dec. 21. Naughty Bits. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver.720-946-1388. Through Dec. 6. The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Center for the Perforing Arts, 1345 Champa St., Denver. 800641-1222. Through Dec. 24.

Ladies Fly Tying Classes. 11 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400.

Scrooge, Bah Humbug! will be playing at Jester’s Dinner Theater through through Dec. 28. Scrooge, Bah Humbug! Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Dec. 28. Songs for a New World. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washing Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 21. Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. 720-865-4239. Through Mar. 1. Love, Loss & What I Wore. Viva Theatre. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. 303-442-1415. Through Dec. 13.

LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Lyons Holiday Show. 10 a.m. Rogers Hall, Fourth and High Streets, Lyons.

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Sneak Preview Screening of The Last Avatar. 2 p.m., 4:30 p.m, and 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

Monday, December 8 Music Campus Band and Campus Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928008.

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Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164.

Tuesday Hikers. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, Ninth St., Boulder.

Wednesday, December 10 Music Josh Quinlan Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Free Improvisation Workshop. 6:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-7444.

Birds of Prey Slide Show. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 4th Avenue and Emery St., Longmont.

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

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Boulder Folders- Learn Origami. 6:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Michael & Jeanette McPherson. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Boulder Lightpackers December Meeting. 6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S Broadway St., Boulder.

Branding Basics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Skanson & Hansen. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Colorado Gives Day. All Day. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

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Curator’s Tour. 5 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, 1750-13th-Street.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Open Stage. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

CU Dairy Show. 6 p.m. University Memorial Center (UMC), 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

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Funk Jam w/Technicolor Tone Factory. 7 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp and PowerFit Yoga Camp Begins Today. 6 a.m. Scott Carpenter Park, 30th St., Boulder. Scandinavian Dance Basics & Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Women and the Body Series with Melissa Michae. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Electrical for High Performance Homes and Buildings. 12 p.m. Elevation Credit Union 2960 Diagonal Highway, Boulder. Flatirons Running/Under the Sun Fun Run. 5:30 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway St., Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837. Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Out Boulder Holiday Party. 7 p.m. Out Boulder Pridehouse, 2132 14th St., Boulder.

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Pages and Paws. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Art Lande’s Funko Moderno. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar,

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Craft Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Engaging Children’s Emotions in Learning. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Ski Conditioning Class. 6:15 p.m. Mountains Edge Fitness, 555 30th St., Boulder, 303-494-5000. Vatican Museums 3D. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179. Wednesday Night Zumba Gold. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

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he story of the Great Emancipator began on February 12, 1809 when Abraham Lincoln was born to Thomas and Nancy Hanks in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky. A few years later, the Lincolns left Kentucky, crossed the Ohio River to non-slave territory in Indiana and set up a farm. Here, the boy grew into the man who would take up law and later politics, forever shaping and evolving the free world. It is in Pigeon Creek, Ind., where The Better Angels, opening at The Ruby Katilius Boedecker Theatre Dec. 10, picks up Abe’s life at age 10. As Abe (played by newcomer, Braydon Denney) grew into a man of wonder, America around him changed into what became known as the Second Great Awakening, an expansion of several Christian sects that shaped the morality of the nation. Although Abe never formally joined a church, The Better Angels depicts the influence that religion and personal spirituality had on his upbringing. The Better Angels opens with a quote from Abraham: “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” His birth mother, Nancy (Brit Marling) is a believer and in her son she instills virtue. Nancy dies and Abe’s father, the solid and statuesque Thomas ( Jason Clarke), takes Sarah (Diane Kruger) as a wife and Sarah continues the role of spiritual guidance in Abe’s life. From his father, Abe learns to farm and fight. From his mother, Abe learns to love and empathize. Thomas is the rock upon which Abraham is built. Mother is the way of grace. Although Better Angels depicts the spiritual landscape and morality that

would shape the life of Lincoln, the movie never becomes heavy-handed or stilted. Shot in beautiful black and white by cinematographer Matthew J. Lloyd and edited by Alex Milan, Better Angels manages to move and soar, each frame imbued with a sense of urgency. The movie may be set in the past, but it comes across as present. The Better Angels is the debut feature from writer/director, A.J. Edwards, a collaborator and protégé of the great American Transcendentalist, writer, producer and director, Terrence Malick. Edwards’ Better Angels reflects Malick’s latest efforts: The New World (2005), The Tree of Life (2011), To The Wonder (2013), all of which Edward worked on in various roles. Better Angels not only boasts Malick as a producer, but his style permeates every frame. From the floating, swirling camera exploring the world with the ever-penetrating gaze of deep focus, to the voice-overs whispered like prayers (the voice-overs are based on the interview with Dennis Hanks, Lincoln’s cousin, in The Boyhood of Lincoln by Eleanor Atkinson), Edwards comes very close to the realm of parody, but his intent is honest and true. Malick’s work can sometimes be cumbersome and difficult to unpack. Edward’s movie is accessible and immediate with a clear vision that overcomes even the biggest of shadows. The Better Angels is not a historical biopic designed to educate the audience about the intricacies of Abraham Lincoln’s upbringing, but about the emotional ordeal all children must traverse. To borrow a line from the movie, “When a story learns you a good lesson, it ain’t no lie. God tells truth in parables.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ecently, CNN showed reporters physically chasing a woman connected to the Ebola scare. Not too long ago, a Fox News affiliate aired a suicide live on television. So, no, Nightcrawler isn’t farfetched. It’s perfectly fetched. It’s importantly fetched. Beyond the indictment of journalism in service of voyeuristic pleasure, Nightcrawler is a stunning thriller with a career-defining performance from Jake Gyllenhaal (sorry, Bubble Boy). Louis Bloom (Gyllenhaal) is part Patrick Bateman, part Jordan Belfort. He is a sociopath with laser focus, a monster completely in control of himself. He is terrifying and you cannot look away from him. The film wastes no time in telling us that we are to despise this man, who will do whatever he needs to in order to succeed. He is harassed by a security guard as he is stealing copper and wire, sees that the guard has a nice watch and beats him and takes it. It takes all of one minute for Bloom to bare his teeth and declare himself a predator. When he sells the stolen goods to a construction manager, he also tries to sell himself, asking for a job … any job. When he’s turned down, he drives home and stumbles upon a fiery wreck and sees cameramen filming the carnage. Bloom has found his calling: visually feasting on the carcass of tragedy. He makes a connection with a local TV producer, Nina (Rene Russo), who tells him the specific type of horrifying shots she wants: white suburban victims. So Louis coaxes a broke drifter, Rick (Riz Ahmed), into being his co-pilot, helpBoulder Weekly

ing him navigate the streets at night, using a police scanner to chase down the goriest crimes as fast as they can. The more successful Bloom gets, the more dangerous he becomes, leading to a thrilling final 45 minutes that are as tense as any imaginable. Gyllenhaal is visual flypaper here. Bug-eyed and floppy haired, you can’t stop looking at him, contemplating him. He’s not a serial killer or sexual assailant; he’s the twisted endpoint of the American dream. He’s ruthless capitalism in the flesh, unconcerned with how many dead bodies he must step on to reach the next rung in the ladder. Russo is also amazing as the type of character most stories don’t consider: she’s a smart, grizzled woman on the back end of her career, willing to compromise her integrity for one last go. Writer/director Dan Gilroy has made something remarkable. Much like the work of Joon-ho Bong, Nightcrawler bends genres. In its darkest moments, it is sometimes intentionally funny. Its scathing criticism of this type of media and its audience flips between satire and violent condemnation over and over again. Beyond all of that, the film simply sizzles, racing towards the conclusion like Bloom after his next story. Nightcrawler is an audacious mainstream thriller, a bombastic character study and a hell of a first movie for Gilroy, even if it’s a little terrifying to think of what characters he will dream up next. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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erhaps one of the greatest joys in eating out is wandering into somewhere new on a whim and finding greatness. That’s probably not an experience you’ll have at Dagabi Cucina. Not because the food isn’t fantastic, but because while most Boulder restaurants are clustered in one of the city’s two walking neighborhoods, or in major-roadway stripmalls you could easily wander into, Dagabi Cucina is tucked away in the back spot in a lonely shopping center deep in the residential northern section of Broadway and only open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily. About the only Boulder restaurant less prone to random walk-ins that comes to mind is the mountain-top Flagstaff House. If you want to go to Dagabi, then you’ll probably have to plan ahead. And that’s a plan worth making. The space is deceptively large, with a patio and three dining areas (including a bar), all decorated in a simple and classy feel. My dining companion and I both moved to Boulder from Boise, Idaho, the city with the largest Basque population outside of Europe, so the menu was populated with delights we feared might have been left behind in Spudtown, such as croquettas de pescado (bite-size seafood fritters for $7), and manchego cheese available on almost anything. Considering those

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Thanksgiving is in the rearview mirror and the ski areas are open. There’s no point trying to deny it any longer. Winter is nigh. But that’s OK, because with it comes the Boulder County Farmers’ Market’s eighth annual Winter Market, which will go down Saturday, Dec. 6 and Sunday, Dec. 7 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Boulder County Fairgrounds’ Exhibit Hall, 9595 Nelson Road in Longmont. The two-day event will be chock full of vendors, live music, crafts and all kinds of local food. There will be more than 60 vendors participating, representing farmers, bakers, jewelers, painters, craftspersons, candy-makers and more. There will also be live demos from vendors such as MM Local Foods, My Mom’s Pie, Silver Canyon Coffee and El Regalo Ranch. Admission is free. Get more info at www. bcfm.org or call 303-910-2236. — Josh Gross

BRU WITHOUT THE BRUTALITY

Even in a food-obsessed town like Boulder, it’s a fact that vegetarians just don’t have as many menu options. Show us a menu with five entrees on it and chances are one of them at most will be free of dead something or other. But for the next installment of BRU’s monthly beer dinner, vegetarians will get their turn on top. Taking a cue from the vegetarian lifestyle of his neighbors Jake and

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Erin Evans (owners of Wild Woods Brewery), founder and chef Ian Clark of BRU is, ahem, “brewing” up an all-veggie menu. “The evening will also highlight delicious dishes like a beet latke with parsnip sauerkraut paired with Susan France BRU’s Gabe & The Giant Peach sour mash golden ale or butternut brown toffee pudding with roasted squash and crème fraîche ice cream and paired with Wild Woods Butternut Brown Ale,” BRU wrote in a press release. There is also a special Wild Woods/BRU collaborative beer to go with all that vegheaven: Winter Warmer, made with cranberries, mace, clove, bitter orange and honey. The dinner will go down Monday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. It costs $45 per person. The full menu can be seen at www. BruBoulder.com. Call 720-638-5193 for reservations. — Josh Gross

ALSO GOOD FOR WINTER: WINE AND BOOKS

OK. You’ve been to the Winter Market. You’re fully stocked on mittens and scarves. You even have four-wheel drive. You’re

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elebrity chef Mario Batali is pitching tion? Why do only four restaurants in all of hard for the Green Restaurant Colorado — ChoLon Bistro and Coohills in Association in a YouTube clip, slingDenver, Hurricane Grill in Littleton and ing stats and leading by example. Pizzeria Rustica in Colorado Springs — hold He’s certified all of his eatery empire green stars? via the Boston-based nonprofit advocacy group, Surely all the others making at least modest and he’s not shy about sharing the sustainability efforts aren’t just greenwashing? efforts behind his salami. “I can’t answer for others as to why they At New York’s Otto pizzeria, he’s added wouldn’t do it,” says Pizzeria Rustica’s Dave meatless Mondays and incorporated lessBrackett, who got certified in fall 2009, a year after opening and tops the list of Colorado resresource-intensive vegan and vegetarian items taurants with four stars. “But it does take time into the menu; he’s nixed bottled water service and money.” in favor of a house system and reusable glass Rustica was only the third three-star eatery bottles; food delivery is done via bicycle; grease in the nation, he says, and now there’s scores of is converted to biodiesel; everything from hand those; he also became the 11th four-star, out of dryers to dishwasher gadgets and lighting has just over 20 — it’s a rigorous process. been overhauled; and composting and recycling Celebrity Chef Mario Batali at the third annual Food Summit. Batali has He notes almost two weeks of work for a plus avoiding foam to-go boxes are all musts. been promoting farm-to-table dining and other sustainable practices single staffer to assemble all the required docuThat’s to combat the 100,000 pounds of for the restaurant industry. mentation, from utility-usage charts and food waste a typical restaurant sends to landfills annually and the 300,000 gallons of water it purchasing receipts to proof of alternative energy uses. The industry as a whole, says the Green If you want to bend it like Batali, you can actually credits and efficient appliances. And a contract fee Restaurant Association, consumes a third of the retail save money by diverting 90,000 pounds of that trash, that equates to $50 a month. sector’s energy in the U.S. Diners go through 3.2 mil- and trimming utility bills. Much of what Batali has done physically, so has lion tons of food packaging, less than 1 percent of So why, in the Green Restaurant Association’s 24 see SUSTAINABILITY Page 56 which is recycled. years, haven’t more restaurants reached for certifica-

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Brackett, who composts and pays for we bring in.” single-stream recycling through All that info gathered by eateries Bestway, and actually buys as much must be audited and crunched, looking locally as possible: “Some local restaufor every area for improvement, and the rants do one farm-to-table dinner a Green Restaurant Association will work year and the rest of the time are Syscowith vendors directly for clients. to-table,” he says. “... the industry needs “If you know the industry, you know a shot in the arm. The big deal will be how hard it is for them to do anything, when a couple of big chains do it — because they’re so busy ... you have to there’s not even a certified restaurant in meet them where they are,” he says. Boulder, where you’d expect a dozen.” He shouldn’t have to twist arms Brackett believes area greenhouse considering that he has savings figures capacity is the big on his side, with barrier between some sizable returnseasonal and yearon-investments round local food coming as early as a sourcing. Some year out. Plus, havhave exclusive coning star chefs such tracts with grocery as Batali, Eric HAS outlets, and Ripert and Rick Brackett says he’s Bayless in his corCREATED THE WORLD’S pushing Colorado ner doesn’t hurt LARGEST DATABASE OF Springs Public credibility. Market organizers “Those people GREEN SOLUTIONS FOR THE to address this gap don’t do things that when they finally don’t make business RESTAURANT INDUSTRY. cut their ribbon. sense,” he says. EVEN IF A RESTAURANT Green “Someone like Restaurant Mario chose to DIDN’T CARE TO GO FOR Association CEO make this video and founder with us because he’s CERTIFICATION ... IT COULD Michael Oshman authentically enthuAT LEAST UTILIZE THAT — now 43, but siastic — my team has done wonderful who launched the COMPENDIUM. work with his team organization when over the years, he’s he was 19 — says responding to real one important data ... this is sciaspect of being cerence, it’s not pie-intified by a pointsthe-sky.” based system is to remove the greenHe points to low-hanging fruit such washing doubt. as low-flow sprayer valves for dishwash“It becomes very subjective, what a ers, and LED lighting upgrades that restaurant is claiming,” he says, quescan save 80 percent on lighting costs tioning whether a “we-buy-local” claim and the savings that come from not equates to 5 or 50 percent of purchaspaying for so much garbage hauling. ing. “It’s difficult for consumers to The ideal time to invest is upon openknow. We pride ourselves on transparing, he says, where green equipment ency. ... The word green is just a color options are often price-competitive before you put standards behind it.” with or even cheaper than conventional The Green Restaurant Association ones, depending on local rebates. But has created the world’s largest database upgrades on clunkers will still pay off in of green solutions for the restaurant time. industry, which an online tour easily “We make it easy to do the right reveals. Even if a restaurant didn’t care thing,” he says, pointing out the marto go for certification, which can take keting potential of going green. months to finalize, it could at least utiBrackett, who’s received national lize that compendium to directly link to distributors of a bounty of best options. press more than once, is well aware of the edge it gives him. He follows the Oshman defends the modest same practices at his second eatery, monthly fee by noting how if he weren’t operating as a nonprofit, it’d be TAPAteria, but hasn’t certified it, he says, because “our customers know.” five to 10 times that amount considerRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com ing “the amount of work and expertise

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Now and then, it is in fact possible to fix malfunctioning machines by giving them a few swift kicks or authoritative whacks. This strategy is called “percussive maintenance.” In the coming days, you might be inclined to use it a lot. That’s probably OK. I suspect it’ll work even better than it usually does. There will be problems, though, if you adopt a similar approach as you try to correct glitches that are more psychological, interpersonal, and spiritual in nature. For those, I recommend sensitivity and finesse.

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What feelings or subjects have you been wanting to talk about, but have not yet been able to? Are there messages you are aching to convey to certain people, but can’t summon the courage to be as candid as you need to be? Can you think of any secrets you’ve been keeping for reasons that used to be good but aren’t good any more? The time has come to relieve at least some of that tension, Leo. I suggest you smash your excuses, break down barriers, and let the revelations flow. If you do, you will unleash unforeseen blessings.

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In 1662, Dutch painter Rembrandt finished “The Oath of Claudius Civilis.” It was 18 feet by 18 feet, the largest painting he ever made. For a short time, it hung on a wall in Amsterdam’s Town Hall. But local burgomasters soon decided it was offensive, and returned it to the artist to be reworked. Rembrandt ultimately chopped off threefourths of the original. What’s left is now hanging in a Stockholm museum, and the rest has been lost. Art critic Svetlana Alpers wishes the entire painting still existed, but nevertheless raves about the remaining portion, calling it “a magnificent fragment.” I urge you to think like Alpers. It’s time to celebrate your own magnificent fragments.

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Science-fiction novelist Philip K. Dick has been one of my favorite authors since I discovered his work years ago. I love how he reconfigured my mind with his metaphysical riffs about politics and his prophetic questions about what’s real and what’s not. Recently I discovered he once lived in a house that’s a few blocks from where I now live. While he was there, he wrote two of his best books. I went to the place and found it was unoccupied. That night I slept in a sleeping bag on the back porch, hoping to soak up inspiration. It worked! Afterwards, I had amazing creative breakthroughs for days. I recommend a comparable ritual for you, Aquarius. Go in quest of greatness that you want to rub off on you.

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Dear Dan: I’m a straight 20-yearold woman in a relationship with a straight 30-year-old male. We have been dating for a year and living together for seven months. There is a lot of love but there has also been a lot of arguing. Our conflicts stem from issues of abuse and abandonment on his part and issues of poor self-esteem and anger on my part. We have started to go to couples counseling to address these issues and see what we can do to make it work. About a week ago, we got into a yelling match over his drinking (it’s constant and a LOT) and over him arranging for me to go hang out with our downstairs neighbor (my interactions with the neighbor have not been positive due to parking issues) to smoke weed with her. To cut to the chase: We got in a screaming match that resulted in me slapping him. I really didn’t mean to. It just came out of my body, and I immediately regretted it. He asked me to leave the apartment, and I have been staying with my mom for the past few days. We agreed to stay away from each other until our next therapy session. If he shows up, I know he wants to give me a second chance; if not, I have to pack my shit and leave. I guess what my question really boils down to is: Am I an attacker? Am I the female equivalent of a “wife beater”? Is there anything I can do to prove my regret and willingness to change? I love him with everything I have inside of me and I don’t want to lose him over such a stupid mistake. — Lost And Confused, Knowing I Need Guidance Dear LACKING: Couples who wind up in counseling before their first year together is up are, in my opinion, better off being counseled singly. By which I mean to say: being counseled as singles, not as a couple. We don’t have to be perfect to date, LACKING, but we do have to be in good working order. It doesn’t sound like either of you qualify. His abuse and abandonment issues, your self-esteem and anger issues: I think you both should address your issues in counseling — with separate counselors — for your own sakes, not for the sake of this relationship. You get your shit together, he gets his shit together, and then you can either get back together or be in good working order for the next guy who comes along. Boulder Weekly

And finally, LACKING: One slap at age 20 — one that was instantly regretted, one that the slapper has taken full responsibility for (no bullshit claims that the slappee provoked you) — does not a lifelong abuser make. Dear Dan: I am a 24-year-old woman who loves everything butt — except butthole. Anal penetration and anilingus are hard limits for me, but the most sensitive erogenous zones on my body are my cheeks, crack, and coin slot. But I can’t figure out a clear way to communicate this. Terms like “ass play” generally mean assHOLE play. I can’t be the only person who feels this way. Help a girl get her ass worked (not fucked), and give me a term! — Nuts For Butts Dear NFB: Some sexual interests and/or limits are too complicated to be expressed with a simple term, NFB. So you’ll have to use your words: “I love having my butt played with — cheeks, crack, coin slot — but my butthole is off-limits. Get on my ass, not in it.” Dear Dan: This girl just hit a bump with her boyfriend. I offered to do something he secretly wanted to try, and he said, “Urinate on me.” I get the fantasy — surrender, being marked, the naughtiness. However, I can’t imagine liking it and I do not want to build it into our repertoire. Set aside that I have no idea how to do it so it’s sexy, safe and sanitary. Is it okay to negotiate “one-and-done” and put it on my “No” list afterward? — Wet And Wild Dear WAW: You can certainly negotiate a “one-and-done” agreement, WAW, but if you find the idea of pissing on your boyfriend upsetting — if the thought doesn’t just leave you cold but actually revolts and/or traumatizes you — then you don’t have to go through with it. (You’re not trapped in some piss-fetish version of The Merchant of Venice, WAW. You don’t need a Portia to rescue you from this verbal contract.) As for sexy, safe and sanitary: You don’t have to find it sexy, he’s not going to drown, droppeth your gentle rain upon him in the tub. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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changes your brain, may even lower your IQ, study says.” The Daily Mail took it a step further: “Smoking cannabis every day ‘warps your brain and shrinks grey matter,’ scientists warn.” “We cannot honestly say that that is what’s happening here,” said Francesca Filbey, a professor of neuropsychology at the University of Texas, who headed the study, which didn’t address whether the differences in brain size might have existed before the subjects used cannabis or even whether the cannabis caused the brain shrinkage. “The changes in connectivity may be considered a way of compensating for the reduction in volume,” Filbey said. “This may explain why chronic users appear to be doing fine, even though an important region of their brain is smaller in terms of volume.” Cannabis isn’t a benign drug. It should be used and handled with care. Still, millions of Americans use it, whether legally or illegally, annually, monthly, weekly, daily or hourly. Their brains might be smaller, or larger, than other peoples’ brains. Their orbitofrontal cortices might be more connected, or less connected, than non-users. But most of them function in society just like anyone else. With legalization, we have even more control over its growth and distribution. So bring on the research. Bring on the studies. But for goodness sakes, lay off the hyperbole. You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http:// news.kgnu.org/category/features/weedbetween-the-lines/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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cannabis abuse, not study its use. Let’s hope that more of this kind of research helps end that nonsense. A steady-running prohibitionist meme these days touts studies that “prove” that marijuana causes users’ brains to shrink. And that has to be bad, right? Turns out perhaps not. A study from researchers at the University of Texas (funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, no less) found that “chronic marijuana users have smaller brain volume in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a part of the brain commonly associated with addiction, but also increased brain connectivity.” The study looked at 48 adult threetimes-daily marijuana users and 62 gender- and age-matched non-users. It employed several advanced MRI techniques to create brain images. “Cognitive tests show that chronic marijuana users had lower IQ compared to age- and gender-matched controls,” researchers wrote. “But the differences do not seem to be related to the brain abnormalities as no direct correlation can be drawn between IQ deficits and OFC volume decrease.” Mainstream media outlets seemed to only read the first half of that particular sentence while not grasping the implications of the second. The researchers didn’t find that marijuana shrank the brains, and made clear that, most likely, other factors were involved outside the parameters of the study. But that didn’t stop the headline writers from chiming in with a new round of Reefer Madness. “Regular pot smokers have shrunken brains, study says,” crowed the Los Angeles Times. CNN warned, “Regular pot habit

he state’s Public Health indicates there is definitely something Department is recommending happening, enough so that parents are more than $7 million in grant moving to Colorado to gain access to a money for eight studies cenparticular CBD strain. A scientific study tered on research into both might shed light on why it’s happening. the safety of cannabis and the possibilities Some research has suggested a confor its use as a treatment for symptoms of nection between the endocannabinoid various ailments and diseases. system and how the brain processes Some of the research seems to be traumatic memories. So “Treating based around promising earlier work PTSD with Marijuana: Clinical and Leland Rucker done outside the Functional Outcomes” United States. A 2004 and “A Double Blind, survey at the Prague Placebo-Controlled Movement Disorder Cross Study Center indicated that Comparing the more that half of Analgesic Efficacy of Parkinson’s Disease Cannabis versus patients who tried Oxycodone” aim right cannabis noticed subat the heart of a serijective improvement. ous debate about Israeli researchers in whether cannabis Colorado is spending some of its cannabis revenue to study the might be effective in 2013 presented an plant’s medical properties. treating symptoms of observational study of post traumatic stress 17 Parkinson’s syndrome in our veterans, who are patients that showed a 30 percent sometimes treated with narcotic drugs, increase in their average Parkinson’s which puts them at risk for opioid abuse Disease Rating Scale. So “A and other side effects. Randomized, Double-blind, PlaceboOther studies approved include one controlled Crossover Study of on the use of cannabis to treat adolesTolerability and Efficacy of Cannabidiol (CBD) on Tremor in Parkinson’s cents and young adults with inflammaDisease” sounds really promising in tory bowel disease and the use of CBD finding out whether those results were in possibly treating pediatric epilepsy subjective or not. and brain tumors. Another, “Cannabidiol (CBD) and The grants range from $472,000 to Pediatric Epilepsy,” might share some $2 million per project. The Board of insight into why CBD, one of the most Health will consider the recommendaactive cannabinoids, eases symptoms of tions Dec. 17. Beyond that, applicants certain forms of epilepsy in children. will need federal approval to get access to This is a subject of interest to a growing government-grown cannabis, so research number of Americans, especially after the could begin as early as next year. It used Sanjay Gupta CNN medical marijuana to be virtually impossible to get approval documentaries last year and work done for government marijuana product for by Israeli scientists. Subjective evidence any research that wasn’t aimed at proving

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