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Opening your heart for Valentine’s Day by Arvin Paranjpe

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departments 5 T HE HIGHROAD: The real stink in Flint, Michigan’s water scandal 6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Environmenal transformation or a future of Katrinas 7 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 17 NEWS BRIEFS: Legislators look to increase driver’s licensing, change death penalty jury vote 32 OVERTONES: Jesse Cook talks fighting

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Highroad The real stink in Flint, Michigan’s water scandal by Jim Hightower

he governor and his agency heads who caused the sudden appearance of lead and other toxics in the water that the families of Flint drank and showered in for a year and a half are even more disgusting than the water itself. Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, a laissez-fairyland corporate ideologue, supported the switch of Flint’s water source from Lake

Huron to the cheaper stuff in the contaminated Flint River, claiming that this could cut some $2 million from the city’s budget. Never mind that the corrosive river water caused lead to leach from the city’s pipes into the water that every resident uses. For more than a year, Snyder and his agency heads denied that this might pose a health problem, even mocking locals who complained about the foul liquid coming out of their taps. Recently, however, a citizens group called Progress Michigan uncovered internal documents from Snyder’s budget department revealing that in January of last year the agency’s honchos were so alarmed by Flint’s toxin-laced H2O that they supplied coolers filled with bottled water for their employees in the Flint office. Yes, Snyder’s budgeteers were not about to drink that poisonous stuff themselves. A January 2015 advisory from the

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budget agency’s headquarters assured the Flint office that pure bottled water “will be provided [on each floor of the Flint office] as long as the public water does not meet treatment requirements.” This cynical, self-serving move came a full year before nationwide public outrage finally forced Snyder to provide safe bottled water to the regular people of Flint. The Flint water scandal is a perfect expression of the right-wing mentality of self-entitlement. To them “public service” means elites serving themselves — the actual public be damned. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. February 11, 2016 5

the anderson files Environmental transformation or a future of Katrinas by Dave Anderson

aomi Klein says we had an opportunity for big changes in 2008 after the financial crisis hit and Barack Obama was elected president. She says, “Imagine if there had been a powerful social movement — a robust coalition of trade unions, immigrants, students, environmentalists and everyone else whose dreams were getting crushed by the crashing economic model — demanding that Obama do no less” than “build the new economy.” Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and the author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She’s on the board of directors of 350.org, the global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Her most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN Literary Awards in the nonfiction category. A documentary based on the book, directed by her husband Avi Lewis, was released last fall. She argues that while it is urgent that we deal with climate change because time is short, it shouldn’t trump everything else. People are also dealing with other urgent issues such as fighting against police violence or for health care or a living wage. She says “we need to create integrated solutions — ones that radically bring down emissions, while closing the inequality gap and making life tangibly better for the majority. ... We can create millions of living wage jobs in public transit and in renewable energy, in re-imagining our cities.” The issues are interconnected. Klein says, “Climate change is an accelerant...lf you’ve got a problem with racism in your society and then you add climate change to it, it goes crazy. If you’ve got a problem with inequality and then you add climate change to it, then it becomes scifi. ... This is not just about things getting hotter and wetter, it’s about things getting meaner. That’s why we have to talk about values and who we want to be in the face of this crisis.” She saw this in New Orleans when she was reporting about Hurricane Katrina. People were abandoned on their rooftops and in the Superdome. There was vigilante violence. Corporate lobbyists were coming in to privatize the school system and close down public housing. Klein says it was so shocking that she had trouble believing it was happening. She 6 February 11, 2016

says, “African American residents were given one-way tickets out of their city, forcibly relocated, at gunpoint, people were loaded into buses. And there was no plan to bring them back. And while they were gone, their homes were bulldozed.” The rise of global greenhouse gas emissions happened at the same time that capitalism became nastier. Life became more difficult for ordinary people as real wages went down and public services were slashed. It is called “neoliberalism” in other parts of the world. This is confusing to Americans because it was carried out by rightwingers such as Reagan, Thatcher and Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. Democrats have offered kinder and gentler versions. Neo-liberals argue that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital to create economic growth that will trickle down to the rest of us. This is done by privatization, deregulation and cuts to corporate taxes offset by cuts to public services. Klein sees hope in the growing grassroots climate justice movement around the world. She is encouraged by what has happened in Germany, the most powerful industrial economy in Europe. In the last 15 years, the Germans have shifted their electricity system to 30 percent renewable and created 400,000 new jobs. There are 900 energy cooperatives where they de-privatized electricity utilities across the country through referendum and a citizens’ movement. This energy transition didn’t happen due to benevolent politicians. Militant environmental activists — struggling over many years — played a decisive role in this national transformation. So serious change is possible if we fight back. If we don’t, Klein argues that we will be faced with “a future of Katrinas because there will be more and more climate shocks intersecting with weak and neglected public infrastructure.” On Sunday, Feb. 14, the local Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) chapter is presenting a free showing of the This Changes Everything film at 3 p.m. in the Boulder Creek Room (first floor) of the main branch of the Boulder Public Library at 1001 Arapahoe Ave. The screening will be followed by a discussion of the ideas in the film in light of Bernie Sanders’ call for a political revolution. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

guest column Opening your heart for Valentine’s Day by Arvin Paranjpe

n the United States, St. Valentine’s Day is celebrated widely with candy, flowers and private expressions of affection. I proposed to my wife on Valentine’s Day and my kindergartner daughter, who was born on its eve, observes it with heartfelt cards to friends and family. I never suspected that St. Valentine’s Day, so sweet and whimsical, actually stands tribute for the ancient struggle against war and oppression. Valentinus lived in the Roman Empire during the third century and is recognized officially as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. At the time, Roman Emperor Claudias II was facing an intractable problem. His soldiers, whom he preferred to consider faceless fighting drones, would marry, start families and begin to find greater meaning and purpose to life. Their rehumanization made them worse fighters, less likely to kill and be killed. Claudias would not have this. He passed an edict that prohibited soldiers from marrying. All engagements were unceremoniously severed and chaplain-wedding services for soldiers came to a grinding halt. Except, one brave soul chose to continue. Valentinus, a modest priest, secretly married soldiers apparently in and around Rome. When Claudias received word, he imprisoned Valentine and ordered his execution. Valentine died around A.D. 270. Though the Roman Empire has

come and gone, don’t think their methods have come to an end. In the U.S., we subscribe to the falsehood that adults under 21 are too young to be trusted with alcohol but may kill, threaten to kill, and be thrown in perilous, hostile situations that can permanently damage them emotionally and physically. Further, going AWOL (absent without leave) after signing up for military service is a criminal offense — punishable under martial law (the Uniform Code of Military Justice) to the tune of confinement for up to one year and forfeiture of all pay and allowances. This point takes some reflection. Thankfully, the ways of slavery and indentured servitude have lost all support in our civil rights laws, property laws and contract law. Furthermore, modern courts abhor specific performance, the concept that the breaching defendant be forced to perform his or her contractual obligations against his or her will. But martial law goes much further in that it attempts to make the military service obligation irrevocable by threatening punishment through a criminal justice system, which is by its nature much harsher than the civil law system. If you were an active duty member of the military service, what would be better? Losing your right to marry or facing a military trial and likely imprisonment if you refuse to participate in a see GUEST COLUMN Page 7

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letters Ted Cruz: A dangerous absolutist

I caught a brief clip of Ted Cruz working from the pulpit of a church prior to the Iowa caucuses and he was masterful. He could go on the evangelical circuit in a heartbeat should he ever decide politics was not his A-game. The problem I have is imagining the nature of a government led by him (or any Libertarian for that matter, Mr. Danish). Self-righteousness is usually ascribed to Donald Trump, but Cruz beats him by a landslide. The bully pulpit is a dangerous office for anyone so absolutist in his beliefs. Robert Porath/Boulder

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As a person who hears trees crashing to the ground 4,000 miles away in the Amazon jungle when the, socalled, happy news of a stock market positive spike is proclaimed in the media, I found it chilling that a recent hike in oil prices was cited as the reason for the market to rise. It again reinforces my sad conviction that the stock market reveres money over the health of the planet. Like so many other things that we are programmed to respect, the stock market has eroded through the last century to reflect not the real health of our economy, the planet or its people, but the financial excesses of the wealthy and their ability to manipulate our government. As a former owner of a company once acquired by a public company it fast became obvious to me that the quality

of a product and the focus on innovation and a healthy workforce would take a back seat to quick profits. Now, the science is proven. The planet is overheating and faces a perilous future caused by human greed/stock market growth. For many of us our natural inclination is to rationalize our conduct with a reluctance to accept reality and make the hard changes needed to prevent disaster.

We have only one choice left; change or desist as a species. A vote for Bernie Sanders would mean a vote for a difficult opportunity to shatter the status quo and establish a status futura with all of its heavy impediments. The stock market must be reprogrammed with a realistic value system that reveres the health of life over cash. The future of our future is ours to struggle for and we must look

beyond the moment to endure. Tom Lopez/Longmont

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military conflict? The struggle against war and oppression continues to smolder. Not just in war-torn countries, but right here at home, in the customs and laws that we live under. Many great men and women have lost their lives in this struggle. But we can carry them in our heart when we withdraw our support for the accepted governmental practices that unjustly impede free will and dehumanize us, and choose to support and promote constructive programs that do just the opposite. So on Valentine’s Day, let us bring new meaning to the countless paper and candy hearts by sharing with others heartfelt rehumanization as inspired by St. Valentinus. Arvin Paranjpe, MS, JD, is a biotech specialist and writes for PeaceVoice. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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any woman who cares about children and family shouldn’t let a sweetly colored hunting vest convince her to gun down animals. It’s important to remember that animals love their families too, and hunting tears those families apart. Hunting turns terrified animals’ habitats into a warzone and disrupts migration and hibernation patterns. Many animals endure prolonged, painful deaths when they are injured but not killed by hunters. When hunters kill mothers, their young are left to fend for themselves, often starving to death or being killed by predators. For animals such as wolves, who mate for life and live in close-knit family units, hunting can devastate entire communities. Families who want to enjoy nature together can hike, bike, kayak, canoe, camp, stargaze, rock climb, and swim, along with countless other activities. There is no need for them to destroy other families in the process. Michelle Kretzer, The PETA Foundation/Norfolk, VA

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If only “polls” could vote. We are enmeshed in yet another national political power search, as candidates jockey through the sound bites and photo ops, seeking the brass ring stored at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. In just a year, one of them may well hang his or her overcoat in the elliptical workspace there, but where do we hang our hopes today? It has been well said that in our collective way — our unity in community — lies our strength. True, in WWII we sent Japanese soldiers to Italy, along with African American pilots trained in Tuskegee, Alabama. But it is very difficult to say that our pulling together as a nation did not materially contribute to our ability to defeat the Axis powers. Would that Americans knew this now. We have 310 million nations now, exemplified, but not highlighted, by the vestiges of the Sagebrush Rebellion in Oregon. Failure to comprehend how much we can do only as a greater whole means we cannot and will not do very much, if anything. Oh, we have at least one political candidate who claims to be the populist’s champion, the apolitical dealmaker, the unpol. This one spends a lot of breath saying what ought to be done to this or that person or group, but never says a word about what should be done for anyone. That would be too liberal, to labor union, too common. Where are we to discover statesmanship now? What honor and justice can we demonstrate to the world? How

many times will we be apologizing for shooting up a hospital in Afghanistan, or Homs or Kirkuk? What makes us think we somehow can lay claim to some birthright of security, convenience or privilege? Take a look at the society around you. As long as we don’t have to pay for anything (except fast food, the smartphone bill and gasoline), never have to wait, and can eat 4,500 calories a day, everything is jake. Right? Pogo, I’m convinced you have always been correct. The enemy is beneath our noses, in our mirrors, behind our garage doors. If you think we in Colorado can trust the electorate any longer, I offer only two words: marijuana and TABOR. The fattest thing here is the chance. Fifty to one against. Gregory Iwan/Longmont

Fat biking and nordic skiing, compatible winter sports

Recently, a letter to the editor was published concerning Nordic skiers’ perception of fat bike use on area trails. We at Boulder Mountainbike Alliance take seriously these issues of potential conflict and have been proactive in raising awareness to avoid issues amongst legitimate users of USFS lands. We’d appreciate the opportunity to respond in kind. Thank you for your consideration. As executive director of the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance, I am concerned when misinformation and unfamiliarity of best practices and trail etiquette cause user conflict. The area in question is Brainard Lake, which is maintained by a plethora of multi-user trail organizations, namely, the National Forest Foundation, Bryan Mountain Nordic Ski Patrol, Colorado Mountain Club, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance, and BMA. These organizations supply countless hours of volunteer labor for the public good, regardless of their chosen form of outdoor recreation. Winter access to this area is open for Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, dog walking and mountain biking. Fat biking is allowed on trails not designated as ski-only, i.e., the Colorado Mountain Club (CMC) Ski Trail #814.2 and Little Raven #802. These 4.5 miles of trails are off-limits to snowshoes, hiking and biking! There are no other recreation specific, designated trails for winter use. Please refer to the USFS Occupancy & Use Restrictions for Brainard Lake: http:// tinyurl.com/jfoetd3. The balance of the trail system is designated multi-use and is where Boulder Weekly

letters user conflicts can occur. BMA believes that self-policing amongst user groups is preferred over regulation and should be the basis of behavior for sharing public lands. BMA has adopted the International Mountain Bicycling Association’s Winter Mountain Biking Best Practices. Some of the more salient points being: 1) Yield to all other trail users, especially downhill skiers! 2) Use only tires that are 3.7” or wider and maintain tire pressures (4 to 8 psi) so that impressions are 1” or less, 3) Ride to the right side of the trail and avoid classic ski tracks, 4) Allow groomed trails to set-up, 5) Be courteous ambassadors of the sport! BMA has also been proactive this year in teaching best practices to fat bikers by holding public education events, namely a Fatbikeology seminar and a fat bike demonstration ride at Brainard Lake. These events were designed to inform cyclists of the proper use of fat bikes on our public lands, and proper etiquette. While these were attended by over 50 folks, we suggest that there are 10 to 20 times that amount of fat bikers using USFS trails, many who are not part of our 1000 plus membership base. BMA takes seriously the concerns of our fellow multi-use trail friends and are committed to doing our part to maintain the experience sought by all — recreating cooperatively in our beautiful high country this winter. Steve Watts, Executive Director, Boulder Mountainbike Alliance

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A new day is dawning for Colorado’s solar power. With solar installation costs falling, the efficiency of solar cells improving, and the threats of air pollution and climate disruption mounting, solar power’s growth could not come at a more critical time. We are poised both globally and nationally to accelerate the development of renewable energy, and in Colorado there is an especially great opportunity to become a leader in the U.S. in solar power capacity per capita. Meeting the goal laid out in the global climate commitment made in Paris earlier in the month would require that the world stop emitting greenhouse gases altogether, most of which come from the combustion of oil, coal and gas for energy. An emissions reduction goal of this scale involves a complete transformation in how people get energy, and states like Colorado need to be leaders in meeting these goals and bringing us closer Boulder Weekly

to a clean energy future. The U.S. positioned itself to meet the goals in the Paris agreement when Congress agreed to extend the federal tax credit for renewable energy. The extension of this important tax credit will allow more Colorado homes, businesses and communities to go solar. Our accelerated transition to renewable energy will also support jobs in Colorado. Governor Hickenlooper and Mayor Hancock announced on December 11th that Sunrun, one of the top solar installation providers in the country, is opening a new corporate office in downtown Denver, and plans to hire 800 people. The new year brings optimism for solar power in Colorado. I urge city councils across the state of Colorado to start the new year off right by making a commitment to develop solar power in their city to 20 percent by 2025. Let’s ensure Colorado is lighting the way toward a clean energy future. Katie Otterbeck ,Solar Power Campaign Organizer, Environment Colorado/Denver

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It’s time for resolutions, particularly those to improve our diet and exercise routine. Although gun violence and traffic accidents remain the leading causes of death among young people, the most dangerous weapon for the rest of us is still our fork. Well over a million of us are killed each year by high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other chronic diseases linked to our meat-based diet. But times are changing. According to Gallup, 22 percent of American consumers are avoiding meat and 12 percent are avoiding dairy products. Supermarket chains, along with Target and Walmart, offer a growing selection of delicious and healthy plant-based meats and dairy products. Animal meat consumption has dropped by 8 percent in the past decade. Hundreds of school, college, hospital, and corporate cafeterias have embraced Meatless Monday and vegan meals. Fast-food chains like Chipotle, Panera, Subway, Taco Bell, and White Castle are rolling out vegan options. Let’s make this year’s resolution about exploring the rich variety of plant-based entrees, lunch meats, cheeses, ice creams and milks, as well as the more traditional green and yellow veggies. The Internet offers tons of recipes and transition tips. Rudolph Helman/Boulder

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Common Core because it simply and immediately resulted in better education standards. In short, the bill had widespread, bipartisan support and 45 states adopted the Common Core in just a few years. But then critics emerged, taking the form of school reformers led by the support of the Koch brothers. A groundswell of right-wing individuals slowly unionized, lamenting that Common Core math wasn’t intuitive and made students laboriously show how they had arrived at test answers. Moreover, conservatives and Tea Partiers claimed federal overreach, and that Common Core mandated teaching that didn’t necessarily agree with everyone’s beliefs. For instance, a lawmaker in Florida, Rep. Charles Van Zant, even said Common Core would “attract every one of your children to become as homosexual as they possibly can.” It created widespread panic from the right, you could say. Common Core eventually took critique from the other side too, as teachers expressed concern about over-testing students and rigid curriculums. Businesses and politicians started to switch sides. General Electric, which had funded the promotion of Common Core, vowed not to fund it anymore. Future 2016 Republican presidential candidates Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee and Carly Fiorina all once supported Common Core only before reproaching the

standards as federal overreach. States began to strip away Common Core from their agendas, though many just renamed the standards to avoid political headaches. Riding the anti-Common Core wave, Tea Party advocates swept into local school boards like those in Thompson, Jefferson and Douglas counties, buoyed by money from wealthy policy-shapers like the Kochs, billionaire oilman Alex Cranberg and more. In light of the turmoil, the Obama administration asked for an education bill the president could sign. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee), the new education committee chair and the former education secretary under George H.W. Bush, began to craft a bill. Alexander had just beaten a Tea Party-funded candidate in Tennessee for his senate seat, and was noted (and knocked by reformers) for his propensity to compromise. Input on the bill came from both sides of the aisle — Colorado’s Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner were active — and then some, it seemed. Jeb Bush, in an interview with Fox News before the bill was signed last year, said he “helped work on” writing the new legislation. Bush, as BW reported last week, runs a nonprofit funded by Microsoft, Dell and other tech publishing groups, that implements virtual charter schools throughout the country, which ESSA’s relaxed federal standards would figure to benefit. But Bush isn’t the only one that figures to benefit from the new legislation. A look at the lobbyists on ESSA reveals much. The top lobbyer on the bill was Exxon Mobil, which spent millions. Again, Exxon head Rex Tillerson had been an outspoken proponent of Common Core, even going so far once as to threaten doing business in states that didn’t accept the standards. Tillerson is an influential member of the third-highest lobbyer of ESSA, Business Roundtable, a group of 202 major company CEOs that mostly supported Common Core, too. Business Roundtable outlined their goals for lobbying ESSA, namely calling for states to measure their progress by testing students at least once a year with tests that are “aligned to the state’s academic standards.” Federal standards, the group wrote, should be used as a gauge. That is, a lot like NCLB. Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Virginia), it’s worth noting, was considered instrumental in drumming up support for ESSA among Democrats. In his last election cycle, two of Scott’s biggest donors were NelNet, a group that provides student loans, and the Penn Hill Group, the lobbying firm for the Business Roundtable. The second-highest lobbyer on the bill was the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The group is directed by charter school heads, politicians, and also Jeb Bush, Jr. It receives funding from both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who have Boulder Weekly

news pushed for charter schools as well as Common Core standards, and the Walton Family Foundation, of Walmart, who recently announced their intention to drop $1 billion over the next five years on charter and virtual schools. Virtual schools, by the way, pushed by the Bushes, Microsoft, Walmart and others, were recently found by a Stanford University study to leave students up to a year behind in math and half a year behind in reading. But they do rake in a lot of cash. K12 Inc., a virtual school company, for instance, paid its top officials upwards of $3.5 million last year, almost all taxpayer money, despite their programs largely failing in schools. Another notable player on the lobby list for ESSA includes College Board, the company that provides the SAT and AP courses to schools nationwide. Colorado recently announced it would begin administering the SAT this year instead of the ACT. College Board is funded by grants, including millions from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It also makes millions in fees from test- and coursetaking students, and executives make hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual salary. Microsoft, Texas Instruments and Intel also lobbied heavily, as did dozens of smaller groups from teachers’ unions to universities to private businesses. That ESSA has garnered such widespread support is remarkable. And curious. Everyone — from teachers’ unions who give fewer tests, to billionaires who can now profit further from education — got theirs, except for a significant portion of kids, particularly underprivileged kids. The League of Latin American United Citizens wrote that “[we] cannot support a bill that concedes so much federal oversight and power to the states — especially given that many states are failing to meet the needs of Latino students.” The group cited that 26 percent of public school students are Latino, and that ESSA does not guarantee them equal access to resources or teachers. Still, the group expressed what many on either side of the issue have said: “These concerns aside, we acknowledge that the legislation could have been much worse.” The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said the bill leaves English language learners in the dust, claiming that ESSA allows states to wait up to four years to address failing schools and subgroups, including ethnic groups. And while the American Civil Liberties Union attributed some successes to ESSA, they claimed that the law doesn’t do enough to ensure education success for students of color, nor does it help students in poor areas that have to attend poor schools. Baffled by their state and local teachers’ unions’ support of ESSA, some teachers in underfunded districts and schools are now protesting on their own. Organized without the unions’ support, teachers in Detroit and Chicago recently held protests and walked out of classes to draw attention to the dwindling financial resources available to them. ESSA, they said, will only further the gap between low-income schools like theirs and an increasingly privatized education system. That privatization of the system includes how tests, and which tests, are administered to gauge student achievement. Early data indicates the number of students opting out of standardized tests will increase, and states, given the control to determine their own testing standards under ESSA, are reacting in various ways. Indiana, which led the anti-Common Core movement, voted to scrap their current standardized test in order to rethink how they can best judge the quality of their students’ education. New Colorado Board of Education Commissioner Rich Crandall, as BW reported, is a reform advocate and has already told some board members that he plans to institute a standardized test specific to Colorado, and that in his experience, there has been no difference in the accuracy of state or federal tests. As mentioned previously, there is no indication what company will win the bid to develop these tests. With so much politicking, and money, swirling around the issue, it’s hard to know anymore what works for students and what doesn’t. ESSA, like No Child Left Behind, gives states the right to determine academic performance standards. The difference is NCLB came before the school reform movement boomed in 2013, and before virtual schools and educational technology became a viable money-making venture. Combined with increased responsibility, the malleability of state education departments now creates a situation in which the $69 billion annual education fund (and that’s just public funds, not the billions spent on private and extracurricular endeavors) can be siphoned by any number of power players — unions, politicians, tech companies, charter schools — a development that threatens the conventional notion that education is a right for all in this country. Boulder Weekly

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ne does not sell the earth and human rights in the region.” upon which the people Assuredly, the situation of the walk.” Baka people is complicated. The quote is attribIndigenous people make up an estiuted to Crazy Horse in mated 1 percent of the population in the late 19th century, as he fought to Cameroon, but it’s difficult to obtain keep the federal government off the precise numbers as the groups are land his Sioux ancestors had been livlargely nomadic and they have never ing in for generations. A war that been adequately represented during centuries of indigenous populations censuses. Needless to say, they don’t across the globe before and after him hold much sway when it comes to have fought, both violently and more setting both conservation and ecooften peacefully, from myriad Native nomic policy. American tribes to the people of the As with most colonized countries, Amazon rainforest to the hill tribes the current governmental and legal in South-East Asia to hunter-gatherstructures in Cameroon and elseer tribes in Africa. Yes, Africa. where in Africa are adapted from Although many consider everyone European culture and don’t recognize in Africa to be indigenous with the the rights of indigenous people, nor same ethnicity as their pre-colonial do they require or even leave room ancestors, there are groups of hunterfor adequate consultation with the gatherers deep in the rainforests of communities still living in the forest. the Congo Basin who are marginal“The pygmies are not recognized. women in Penzele, Democratic Republic of the Congo, reflecting on how to use ized and underrepresented because of Indigenous Their whole mode of life is not rechi-tech GPS systems to map their lands. their way of life. ognized by the bureaucrats, by central “In Africa, you’ll find pygmies, as government. Their land rights aren’t they are called in the literature, and recognized,” Ndobe says. “All the these are the original inhabitants of land belongs to the state, but who is the forest,” says Samuel Nnah Ndobe, the state? The state are people sitting an environmentalist working with the in Yaounde, in the capitals, who don’t hunter-gatherer Baka populations in know the issues that are happening his native Cameroon and throughout on the ground.” Central Africa. “They have stayed Furthermore, the indigenous peostrong to their culture for ages. ple don’t see the land as something to They’ve remained attached to the own but rather a partner in survival, a forest for ages.” As part of that work, Ndobe has been a volunteer resource to be used symbiotically but not abused. And it’s these people that are largely feeling the advisor for the Boulder-based nonprofit Global “They don’t want to possess [the land],” Ndobe effects of environmental degradation that is a result of Greengrants Fund for the last decade, helping to con- says, “but they want to have access. I was talking to international companies’ operations in the Congo nect grassroots organizations and activists on the [an older pygmy man] and he said, ‘The forest is cryBasin. With a degree in agriculture engineering, ground in Central Africa with small grants to fund ing because of the number of ancient souls that you Ndobe collaborates with community and grassroots their efforts. find there. It is no longer our forest, it has become the organizations to document what’s happening in the “He’s an extremely passionate environmentalist forest of orders because we don’t have access.’” region, i.e., deforestation, mining and wildlife poachand at the same time a really dedicated scholar,” says Ndobe first became interested in the indigenous ing, while also working with local governments and Terry Odendahl, the executive director at Global people while working on his final paper for a degree international NGOs on forest issues, specifically Greengrants Fund. “We really value local knowledge... in agricultural economy. “This took me deep into the “ensuring there is forest governance,” he says via and we know that he knows what’s going on in forests where I was so disappointed by the level of Skype from Yaounde. “Ensuring the rights of the peo- Central Africa. There’s no way that from Boulder we ple who live in the forest are respected.” can have the depth of understanding of environmental See FORESTS Page 14

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discrimination these people were going Besingi and his grassroots organization, through,” he says. “I’ve been very pasthe Struggle to Economize Future sionate about the issue because of the Environment, was able to draw the injustice — the social, the environmen- attention of large environmental players. tal injustices — that I experienced.” “The small grant that we could give Ndobe is no stranger to discriminamade his voice heard to the big environtion. Present day Cameroon was coloment groups like Greenpeace...” Ndobe nized by both the French and the says. Greenpeace then launched a huge British, with roughly investigation into 20 percent of the Herakles Farms, population identifying which drew the attenas Anglophone comtion of the president pared to the majority of Cameroon, who in francophone populaturn reduced Herakles’ tion. Although the lease to 20,000 acres two populations while increasing rent remained more or less 1,400 percent. autonomous for the Ndobe has also first decade after been very active in independence, the documenting the Samuel Nnah Ndobe. 1972 constitution Chad-Cameroon united the two popuPipeline Project, lations and Ndobe says the which was funded by International Anglophones, like himself, were widely Finance Group and the World Bank as a discriminated against. new paradigm for sustainable developAfter spending time with the hunter- ment with environmental and social reggatherers, he started working on forest ulations attached. Although Ndobe funissues with the Center for Environment damentally disagrees with the pipeline and Development and quickly realized model of development and has been outthat perhaps the largest threat to the Baka spoken about the project from the very people is the ongoing deforestation across beginning, he is using the international the Congo Basin that threatens the very regulations to push for national reform. “We are building capacity for comexistence of these tribes who depend on munities and groups to biodiversity for their surunderstand how the vival. international financial Ndobe says the level ON THE BILL: Protecting Africa’s Last institutions function of deforestation in the Rainforests: A Google and how they can use Congo Basin is low Hangout Q&A with Samuel their compliance when compared to the Nnah Ndobe. 12:30 p.m Tuesday, Feb. 22. http:// mechanisms to make larger Amazon rainforow.ly/Y8ibh their voices heard,” est, but his country is Ndobe says. the most deforested in “International polithe region, and Ndobe cies, in principle, inform the national expects it to escalate in the near future. policies,” he continues. “And the Industrial logging is the historic cause national policies should reflect what is of deforestation. As the industry happening on the ground. So, if people searches out rare wood, forest is fragdon’t raise their voices, if we don’t docmented, which makes way for poachers ument what is happening, then it and others to come by road and hunt wildlife, limiting the availability of food becomes very, very difficult for national policies to shift international policies.” for the indigenous people due to And this is where the situation in national hunting quotas. Cameroon adds to the global environPlus, as the area is further fragmentmental conversation. The issues sured and degraded, the government allows rounding the indigenous people in the agriculture and other industrial uses on Congo Basin rainforest are similar to the land. But as the indigenous people problems happening in other countries, are given more of a voice, the deforestaand through his work with Global tion can be curbed. Recently, activists Greengrants, Ndobe is able to share the saw a huge victory as the government of challenges and successes of his work Cameroon significantly reduced the size with others outside his region. of proposed oil palm operation by New “The governments [in Central York-based Herakles Farms. The comAfrica] aren’t doing any thing to underpany had plans to turn 170,000 acres stand their culture and propose develinto the country’s largest oil palm planopment scenarios that are adapted to tation when it began operations in these people’s culture,” he says. “Which Cameroon in 2009. With funding from I think this is a problem happening all the Global Greengrants Fund and help over the world.” from Ndobe, local activist Nasako Boulder Weekly

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tate Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont) plans to introduce a bill to the House that will strengthen a thus-far ineffective driver’s license program for immigrant residents of Colorado. The new legislation comes three years after the passage of SB 251, the Colorado Road and Community Safety Act, which created a self-funded program to provide driver’s licenses and ID cards for any Coloradan who has temporary status or is undocumented. According to research by the Colorado Fiscal Institute, there are 168,400 immigrants who are ineligible for a driver’s license in Colorado, and without a license these Coloradans are also ineligible for insurance. About 16 percent of all Colorado drivers are uninsured, and around one-quarter of those uninsured motorists are unlicensed immigrants. Rep. Singer says SB 251 was passed to “pull immigrants out of the shadows

and get them to learn the rules of the road that would make everyone safer.” But the bill was all but shut down in 2015 when the Republican-led Joint Budget Committee denied spending authority on more than $166,000 in fees collected from immigrants seeking licenses. “Because of politics we now have a pot of money sitting out there, and we have immigrants waiting months if not years to get a driver’s license, and in the meantime the whole public is put at risk,” Singer says. The fees were meant to expand the number of Department of Motor Vehicle offices offering SB 251 licenses and IDs from five to 15. Without available funds, the Department of Revenue actually reduced the number of offices to three, in Denver, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction. These offices offer

93 appointments each day. “Ultimately, what you see now is additional illegal activity, where people are taking up spots to go to the DMV to get their driver’s license and then are basically acting as ticket scalpers, trying to sell these spots online to people, which is horrid,” Singer says. “Instead of pulling people out of the shadows and increasing legal activity, this defunding is actually increasing illegal activity.” The new legislation will authorize spending on the program, but will also remove caps on the number of appointments DMVs can offer each day. In

addition, the bill would allow immigrants to use either a Social Security or Taxpayer ID number as proof of tax payment. New Mexico and Utah have had success implementing legislation that provides licenses to undocumented immigrants. New Mexico, which began issuing such licenses in 2003, saw the rate of uninsured vehicles decrease almost 24 percent between 2002 and 2011. Utah’s Driving Privilege Cards decreased the state’s uninsured motorists to only 8 percent. The Colorado Fiscal Institute estimates that as newly licensed immigrants register vehicles, Colorado could see between $5.3 and $6.9 million in new revenue. State auto insurance companies could see an additional $113.1 million annually. Singer says that the new legislation simply fulfills the promise of an effective government. “Even people who are upset with the idea [of issuing licenses to undocumented immigrants] understand that we can’t solve immigration reform in Colorado, but we can do things to build better trust in the community and actually create public safety for immigrants and nonimmigrants alike.”

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olorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would remove the need for a unanimous jury decision in death penalty sentencing. SB 64 would allow a death sentence if at least nine of the 12 jurors vote for it — a unanimous jury would still be needed to convict someone of a crime. State Sen. Kevin Lundberg (R-Berthoud) is the lead sponsor of the bill. While Lundberg did not respond to Boulder Weekly’s requests for comment prior to publication, he’s publically stated that he’s sponsoring the bill to create a penalty “that will cause the bad guy to think twice before they pull the trigger.” Michael Radelet, a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder Weekly

Boulder, has studied capital punishment for more than 30 years. He calls SB 64 “the Donald Trump Colorado death sentencing bill of 2016, because it’s all for show. “First of all what the sponsor does not know is that the Colorado Supreme Court very clearly said that non-unanimous jury votes are unconstitutional. They did that in 1939, so this bill is [dead on arrival],” Radelet says. Radelet and Raci Lacock conducted a study in 2009 that found 88 percent of the nation’s leading criminologists do not believe the death penalty is an effective deterrent to crime.

“The thing about deterrents,” Radelet adds, “is that there are virtually no credible studies that have shown the death penalty is a stronger deterrent than life without parole.” Radelet points to a 2012 report by the National Academy of Sciences that poured over more than 30 years of studies conducted on deterrence and the death penalty. “And their very strong conclusions,

after looking at all these studies, is that there is no evidence at all to conclude the death penalty is a superior deterrent to life without parole,” Radelet says. “So unfortunately, the sponsor of this legislation is deceiving the public and creating the misimpression that this bill will do something to reduce homicide rates. Colorado’s homicide rates are already lower than the national average.” While Radelet opposes the death penalty, he says he very much supports SB 64. “Because if it’s passed, every new death sentence will be unconstitutional and those people who otherwise would be on death row would be resentenced to prison terms,” he says. “Passing a non-constitutional death penalty statute is a good way to gum up the works.” February 11, 2016 17

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Anton Sponar and Evan Pletcher approach the summit of Denali in May 2014. Along with Jordan White and Aaron Diamond, the team bagged three of America’s most challenging peaks in record time.

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kiing and climbing three of the most challenging mountains in the world while often withstanding temperatures below minus 30 degrees Fahrenheit, sky-tickling altitudes and winds that can blow climbers off the mountains may seem impossible to most people, but to the four men who did it in record time, they simply call it the month of May. Jordan White In May 2014, Evan Pletcher, Jordan White, Anton Sponar and Aaron Diamond climbed and skied all of Alaska’s “Big Three,” a mountain range that has three of the most challenging mountains in the U.S., in only 31 days. The team will give a presentation about their journey at Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder on Feb. 25. The Big Three is comprised of Mount Hunter, Mount Foraker and Mount McKinley (also called Denali), the latter of which has the highest peak in the U.S. at 20,322 feet. The mountaineers estimated only a 5 percent chance of success for achieving their goal of being the first to summit all three mountains in one season. “In a project like the Big Three, there are so many variables: weather, conditions, gear, our own skill level, etc.,” Diamond Evan, Aaron and Anton on the West Buttress of Denali, wrote in an email while on his way to a new adventure in approaching 17,000 feet — just over 3,000 feet left to climb. Argentina. “We just guessed that the chance of them all lining up just right was slim to none.” Although the men were all more than qualified for the journey, having all worked as either guides or mountain rescuers, preparations for their impressive goal were surprisingly minimal. “My strategy could probably be described as ‘going in a bit clueless as to how much you’ve bitten see BIG THREE Page 26

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off,’” Diamond wrote. Their trip was sponsored by Dynafit, 40 Below, Liberty Skis, Folsom Skis, Oakley, Bern Helmets, Opensnow.com and Black Diamond. Lou Dawson and Wildsnow.com also supported them by editing and publishing blog posts that recount their remarkable trip. Yet the team remains humble. “I think for the most part, we aren’t really like the pro athlete type that you see,” Pletcher says. “We’re all the kind of guys who are just trying to make it in the mountains with goals, intense love and passion for big trips and big lines and just being out there.” The journey began with the ascent of Mount Hunter, which stands at 14,573 feet. Although it is the shortest of the Big Three, it is arguably the most challenging because of its exceptionally steep faces. “All of our summit days were [challenging] — I mean it was just a really incredible experience, each and every one of them,” Pletcher says. “And I’d say they were all really, really memorable. But our ascent of Mount Hunter was by far the hardest, which is kind of interesting because it was also 6,000 feet lower than Mount McKinley.” Climbing 3,000 vertical feet in Colorado takes experienced climbers about an hour. Because of its steep and icy nature, ascending the steepest 3,000 vertical feet of Mount Hunter took the group approximately six hours. “The route we took actually had never been navigated before. The other options were, you could say, less favorable,” Pletcher says. “One went under a really nasty icefall — the way an icefall works, it kind of can sheet off at any time and drop a bunch of unbelievably heavy, explosive and destructive blocks of ice down, which will either hit you or cause an avalanche that could kill you.” Mount Hunter also presents the dangerous obstacle of blue ice — snow that has formed dense, blue-hued ice that fresh snow cannot stick to. “I’d say when we all got to the top of Mount Hunter, it had been such an ordeal,” Pletcher says. “From our camp above the icefall, it took us 24 hours to get to the top of Mount Hunter, and that was a very powerful moment for all of us. It was the hardest climb I’d ever done.” Completing Mount Hunter meant completing the hardest of the Big Three, which was already an accomplishment that only a small number of people in the world can say they have done. According to climbalaska.org, less than 40 percent of the few brave explorers who attempt to climb Mount Hunter succeed. “It was probably the hardest physical challenge I’ve ever endured, and there were multiple times while we were up there where we really had to try, really to push ourselves to keep going,” Pletcher says. “We had great weather. It was a beautiful day up there. I think we all felt really accomplished. And I think if that had been the only thing that we were able to climb up, we would have still been really stoked on the trip.” After successfully summiting Mount Hunter, the men moved on to brave the dangers of Mount Foraker. Boulder Weekly

ADVENTURE “First, you have to climb this one mountain, and then you have to drop down and go on this ridge called the Sultana, which has in the past blown very experienced climbers and mountaineers off in severe weather just because of the way that it is positioned in the Alaska Range,” Pletcher says. “It kind of gets the brunt of all the bad weather, so people have been blown off of that before and never found.” They packed six days worth of food for their journey up Mount Foraker and used a fast technique called alpine snow in a “make-it-or-break-it” attempt to avoid spending too much time on the dangerous Sultana Ridge. “[Mount Foraker] had really great moments, but until I got off of that ridge, I don’t know if this goes for the other guys, I was uncomfortable because I knew what that ridge could do to us,” Pletcher says. “So, I was really relieved to get to the summit because it meant we could go home. We were really excited — we Matt Kamper were that much closer to our goal.” Completing Mount Foraker was a turning point on their expedition. “When we had skied Hunter and Foraker,” Diamond wrote, “at that point we were determined to stick it out until Denali lined up.” With two of the Big Three The four mountaineers, atop Denali, preparing to finish their “Ski the completed, the Big Three” trek. four men began climbing the tallest mountain in the U.S. At the 14,000-foot basecamp of Denali, they encountered groups of climbers who had been stuck camping there for three weeks, waiting for a weather window that would allow them to continue to the summit. “We almost got shut down on Denali, which for us would have been a real disappointment,” Pletcher says. “And I mean, the climbing community would have probably also kind of laughed at us a little bit. And obviously they understand the weather up there, but after climbing two of the more difficult peaks certainly in the area, if not possibly in the world, and then going on Denali where there’s hundreds of people and wandered routes everywhere and extra food everywhere, it would have been silly.” Denali presented the least amount of obstacles relative to the dangers of climbing Mount Hunter and Mount Foraker. However, Denali had the unique challenge of its immense altitude. “Our summit day on Denali was slow, and we all had some degree of altitude ailment from that,” Pletcher says. “It was quite cold up there and just slow moving. We were pretty determined to get up there, but we also knew that our window was pretty short.” Another factor that made Denali difficult for their expedition was the physical and mental exhaustion that the men had already been victim to from the first two mountains. “Obviously, when we got to Denali and got to the summit there, we knew we could actually go home-home; that we’d actually, crazily, somehow accomplished our goal — that was pretty damn overwhelming,” Pletcher says. “That was probably the pinnacle, but I think Hunter was also right up there with it. The thing about being on Denali was that we were just, whether we knew it or not, we were all really physically and mentally exhausted at that point from the other things that we had gone through.” Reaching their final summit and standing more than 20,000 feet high, the four men knew that the hardest part was over and that they had accomplished something that had not been achieved before. “It was an extremely happy as well as emotional moment,” Diamond wrote. “I think most or all of us cried. We hugged. I’d guess it’s probably the happiest any of us have been while mildly hypoxic and freezing.” Boulder Weekly

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ot to sound cliché, but it’s my generation’s job to mop up whatever you guys did to fuck it up,” says teenage Mica JarmelSchneider lightheartedly at the beginning of Havana Curveball. Playing at The Dairy Arts Center on Monday, Feb. 11, Havana Curveball follows the story of Mica as he attempts to donate baseball equipment from San Francisco to Cuba as part of a community service project for his bar mitzvah. Along the way he learns firsthand about the complex relationship between the two countries and how doing good deeds isn’t always simple. Joining the film at The Dairy will be co-director, and Mica’s mom, Marcia Jarmel. This will be a homecoming for Jarmel, who went to Boulder High and the University of Colorado, where she got a bachelor’s in philosophy and a master’s in journalism. She went on to work for an independent documentary producer and then became a documentary filmmaker herself. For the past 20 years, Jarmel has worked with husband Ken Schneider — co-director of Havana Curveball — to run their company PatchWorks Films. Boulder Weekly

They’ve covered a variety of topics including feminism, poverty, homelessness, multiculturalism and the world of Orthodox Judaism. “I’ve always been Documentarians Ken interested in storytellSchneider and Marcia Jarmel ing that illuminates make films that shed light on contemporary social issues. contemporary social issue landscapes — not so much for advocacy, but creating conversations that aren’t happening about contemporary issues,” Jarmel says. “I don’t just make environmental films or just make health care films. It’s more about where is there a need, and where is there a good story that’s going to bring that issue to life.” But one topic Jarmel and her husband agreed they’d never cover was their children. “We always said we weren’t the kind of parents who would make films about their own kids, but in this case we did because the story was happening right under

our noses at our dinner table,” she says. The idea for Havana Curveball initially emerged from Mica’s bar mitzvah, but the whole story starts with Mica’s grandfather. As a child, Herb Schneider was a Holocaust refugee who ended up in Cuba for two years after the U.S. closed its borders following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. In the film, Herb Schneider talks about growing up in Vienna and the hardships he faced because of his religion. Even as a seventh grader, Mica is clearly touched by his grandfather’s past perils. “Mica’s a very thoughtful kid, and he’s always been that way — considerate and pondering,” Jarmel says. see CURVEBALL Page 30

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“He’s always had a strong sense of justice, and you see that in his face when his grandfather tells him about having to wear the yellow star as a young kid. You see how hurt he is by that.” But what truly sticks with Mica is his grandfather’s description of life in Cuba. As an avid baseball player, Mica is saddened to hear about the conditions kids played in. “My grandpa told me, when he was living in Cuba, he would see kids playing baseball everywhere, with mitts made of cardboard and balls made of rocks wrapped in paper rags. The bats were just sticks,” Mica says in the film. With his bar mitzvah coming up, Mica needed to pick a service project and he chose gathering baseball equipment to donate to Cuba. When starting to film Havana Curveball, Jarmel says they thought it would be a short film about kids giving back. “We’d make a 10 minute film, and we’d be in and out of it,” she says. But thanks to global politics, it wasn’t that easy. In the film, we see Mica hit multiple obstacles to send packages from the U.S. to Cuba, later heading to Canada to ship the equipment. Months go by, then a year or two, without ever getting notice if the boxes made it to the final destination. Throughout, Mica learns more — in the classroom and out — about America’s embargo on Cuba and its many conditions and consequences. Eventually, the family packs up their bags, gathers up more equipment and heads to the island to deliver it in person. Havana Curveball doesn’t just depict the tumultuous relationship between the two countries, but also shows the catch-22 of giving back. Mica wants to help spread resources, but he also wants to avoid the “American savior” role. “I didn’t want the kids to think that I thought I was any better than them,” he says in the film. In the end, they donated about 500 pounds of equipment to various groups and teams around Cuba. But, as Mica would learn, that wasn’t enough. In one poignant scene, Mica and his father stop to watch a group of kids playing in the street. It’s then Boulder Weekly

he sees firsthand how desperate kids are for new equipment. Jarmel calls it the toughest moment of the whole film. “I’ve watched that scene hundreds of times, and I always get my stomach in a knot,” she says. “I think it was in that moment, Mica felt what he had done, even though he felt like he worked so hard, hadn’t really changed anything. But in my mind the truth is more complicated.” Jarmel knows that kids have mitts, bats and helmets that they didn’t have before. “But in terms of the larger picture — how much need there is, why don’t these kids have access to that equipment — there still remains a problem. He didn’t fix it,” she says. The film has so many moving parts that are equally important to the story. The movie ends with several lessons learned — whether that is knowing your heritage or learning about the world firsthand or the importance of giving back. Jarmel says they’ve screened the movie to people of all ages and each person has their own takeaway. The film is not so much a prescription for all or a wagging finger, but more something to reflect on. “Different audiences take different things away from it. ...” she says. “It’s really about encouraging people to think about their place in the world and consider what, if any, responsibility they have and what they have to contribute in that way.” In the global context, Havana Curveball serendipitously had its Latin America premiere on a significant day in history. It first debuted in America in August 2014, then opened in Havana Dec. 17, 2014, the day President Obama announced his plan to mend relations with Cuba. It’s a multifaceted issue with different views on either side of the equation. And Jarmel was wary how the screening would be received. “I wasn’t sure how Cubans were going to respond to a story about a middle class, American, Jewish boy trying to do something good by helping them. It seemed like it could backfire,” Jarmel says. “But people were very responsive and warmhearted and touched by him.” That positive response led to their next venture. The filmmakers were invited on a bus tour of college campuses on the island. It was for a campaign to raise awareness about domestic violence by helping young people consider what masculinity is without machismo. On the bus, Jarmel says, they built friendships with Cuban musicians, Olympic athletes, prominent academics and artists. Jarmel and her husband heard Cuban perspectives that are rarely represented. Most of what you hear, she says, Boulder Weekly

is about business opportumore opportunities. It ON THE BILL: Havana Curveball. 7 nities, regime changes or feels like a really imporp.m. Monday, Feb. 11, the crisis in migration. tant time to create more The Boedecker “There’s the assumpawareness here, to tell Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, tion that it’s only their more stories to give a 303-440-7826. government that’s keepperspective of what it ing them from flinging looks like from their the doors wide open and point of view.” letting American capital pour in. That’s This will take place in their next not what we’ve heard. They have a project, (R)evolution Cuba, which they’re much more nuanced view of what they currently raising money for. They plan to have; they’re very proud of what they make several short films telling the stohave. They want self-determination. ... ries of Cuba through the lenses of various artists, including a photographer who They don’t want to give up their national value,” she says. “They want rarely uses money, a hip-hop artist trying

to bring women’s voices to the genre, a world-renowned jazz pianist and more. A lot has changed since Herb Schneider landed in Cuba during World War II. But the Jarmel-Schneiders continue to shine a light on the country. Nowadays Mica is a sophomore in college, hoping to return to Cuba in his junior year, and Jarmel says the family plans to spend a few months living there in the near future. She’s excited to see what Cuba’s future holds. “I’m fascinated,” she says, “and hopeful that we’re going to see something new in this evolution.”

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Cook, of course, is a nylon string What ‘road’ are these people on? For me, middle of the road player, and he has been for decades. is Taylor Swift. [That’s] right down the middle.” The song’s title kind of gives it away. It’s the category of music that offends exactly no one. “That’s Tommy Emmanuel playing on that cut,” Cook “Yeah, making music that everyone embraces and loves, says. “I just wanted to do something with him, so I sent him and I’m not putting it down at all. It’s great, it’s popular — a couple of tracks, he said, ‘Oh, I want to do that one.’ I just that’s why they call it ‘popular music.’ But to somehow call sent him a recording; he soloed all over it and sent me three what I do, with weird sounds and exotic instruments and takes back. Honestly, I could have used any of them; they [usually] no vocals is ‘middle of the road?’” were all amazing. He’s just Cook says he managed Allen Clark kind of a creative fountain; to keep and grow an audience by slipping through all you just turn on the tap and the various genres (he’s won boom, ideas just come out.” or been nominated for For longtime followers awards for Best of the Canadian guitarist’s Instrumental career, One World delivers ON THE BILL: Album, Best some new sonority, new An Evening With Jesse Global Album, rhythms and a fairly generCook. 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 12, Boulder Smooth Jazz ous use of electronics. Cook, Theater, 2032 14th St., Guitarist and who is best known as an Boulder, 303-786-7030. Flamenco arranger and player of origiGuitarist) and just nal Latin-inspired music sticking to his borrowing heavily from instincts. gypsy, Cuban and flamenco “Over the years, I’ve traditions, has charted an been on the jazz charts, I’ve impressive two-decade been on the world music career through the fickle charts, I’ve been on the and sometimes risky waters New Age charts — that of world music. He does it one really made my skin by combining measured crawl. ... My feeling is that, doses of technical virtuosity, dance floor-friendly percus- Acoustic guitarist Jesse Cook brings his varied sound to the Boulder as an artist, if you establish Theater. yourself early on as somesion shakedowns and an one who is just chasing uncommonly keen facility at tapping into ancient musical traditions without sounding like their muse, then people will come to expect that. “And let’s face it. We as a society, we do revere those an opportunist. kinds of artists. Talk about the Beatles, or Miles Davis, One World, released in April 2015, arrives as a follow-up Madonna ... David Bowie. Artists who constantly break the to his 2012 The Blue Guitar Sessions, a moody, evocative, playbook and push the boundaries are the people who we largely solo and duo CD, kicked off by a counter-intuitively bluesy “I Put a Spell On You,” with a seductive vocal appear- admire. Frank Zappa, Paco de Lucia in the flamenco world — those are the kinds of artists I’ve always tried to be like.” ance by singer Emma Lee. On a playing field where advenThinking about Tommy Emmanuel’s appearance on One turism is often discouraged and older listening audiences World, we couldn’t help but ask Cook how long it had been tend to embrace the knowable and predictable, Cook moves since his calluses had danced across a set of steel strings. Not restlessly through his influences — modern and ancient, counting the guitars that people bring to shows from time to familiar and foreign — with refreshing incaution. It’s a gesture as much to the trust he has in his audience as he time, asking for autographs. “Well, I never do. I actually own a 1969 Les Paul that I has in his own musical instincts. And the fact that he incorporates jazz, romantic balladry and studio-electronica dressing, with bought when I was a kid. I don’t know, 14 or 15. And I love it. I haven’t played it decades. a full band and a nylon string guitar casts him as a rare breed. “Honestly, I’m not sure where it is. I think it’s in my We wondered if there was ever a time he felt a bit out on basement. It’s terrible, it’s a beautiful guitar, and I’ll never the fringes. “Any time?” he asks. “How about every time! I’m about as part with it. But it’s just not me.” Boulder Weekly

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ertain locations can capture the imagination. Some wish to travel to a galaxy far, far away, others yearn to pass through the barricade of Platform 9 3/4, and then there are days we all wish to go where troubles melt like lemon drops high above the chimney tops. In 1900 L. Frank Baum introduced the world to the wonderful world of Oz with his classic children’s novel and in 1939 film versiou Judy Garland took us over the rainbow. More than a century later, Oz remains ripe for exploration. It’s a timeless story of hope, friendship and family that perfectly straddles the line between dreamland and acid trip. mood in every scene, from the sepia-toned Kansas to So it’s no surprise that a stage musical version of the technicolor munchkin land to the Wicked Witch’s The Wizard of Oz was destined for glory. Add in two evil lair. musical theater heavyweights, Andrew Lloyd Webber Technology in theater should be used warily, but and Tim Rice, and you’ve got yourself a delightful video screens were a nice addition in this show. The night of theater. The musical opened on the West point of theater is to navigate the obstacles to showEnd in 2011 and is now on its North American tour, ing a variety of scenes in a small space. In most stopping at the Buell Theater scenes, video added nice backthrough Feb. 13. ground elements and enhanced the Most reincarnations of The production. It was only when it was ON THE BILL: The Wizard Wizard of Oz have been applauded relied on for plot points and transiof Oz. Denver Performing renditions — take The Wiz, Wicked, tions that it felt lazy. Figuring out Arts Complex, 1345 how to stage a twister in an innovaOz the Great and Powerful and even Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239, Through Feb. 13. tive way would have been better the Muppets version had its than using a video projection that moments. Every adaptation of the left the audience dizzy. classic allows for some wiggle room The costumes were truly a highto give each version personality. And light. Each character’s clothes were intricatley this stage version of The Wizard of Oz had its own designed, making them pop in such a rich show. flair. Adhering to the story line, there were surprises (Color and detail and glitter, oh my!) No costume was that delighted the audiences, be it not-so-subtle foreoverlooked — the chorus garb stunned and even the shadowing, sound effects, staging choices or modern pre-Oz costumes were stitched with clever accents. twists, (e.g., the Lollipop Guild in letterman jackets). It’s notable that the Cowardly Lion did look like an The well-known subject matter allowed room for extra from Cats, but that isn’t surprising considering the other elements of the stage production to shine. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s involvement. The set acted as a tool to tell the story rather than Glinda and the Wicked Witch tied for best simply a backdrop. Each set created an enveloping

dressed of the night. Glinda’s sparkly, twirly gown was mesmerizing each time she was on stage and the Wicked Witch of the West’s black feather frock was equal parts evil and delectable. Not only did their costumes stand out, but the performances given by both the witches were wonderful to watch. As the Wicked Witch of the West, Shani Hadjian brought to life one of the most notorious baddies in pop culture, and she seemed to being having fun while doing it. In a production sprinkled with unremarkable-butpalatable original songs, the Wicked Witch sang the only one that stood out. In “Red Shoe Blues” she criticizes dimwitted Dorothy while beating up a doll in the girl’s likeness. The best performance of the night was from Rachel Womble who played Glinda. While the munchkins sang their welcomes to Dorothy, Womble was hilariously in the background enjoying every minute like everyone’s favorite aunt who is ready to party and always has a little too much to drink. Unsurprisingly, Dorothy and her companions also gave excellent performances. And the production was backed by a great chorus who shined in each scene, whether as Munchkins, Ozians or Winkies. The biggest cheer of the night went to Toto, played by a dog named Nigel. Always meeting his cues, he supplied myriad “aww” moments. He also served for a good chuckle in each scene, looking slightly confused, but chill, as to why he was being held by a guy in a lion costume or being tormented by a green-faced lady. The Wizard of Oz on stage is a delightful addition to the beloved franchise. It has its own pizzazz but underneath the surface is just another adaptation, which isn’t a bad thing. To put it into Oz jargon: it’s not necessarily a horse of a different color. But it is a damn fine horse.

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A SPECIAL Q & A WITH THE DENVER POST’S RICARDO BACA TUES. FEB 23 & WED. FEB 24 6:00 PM ACCESS FUND PRESENTS

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FRI. APR 22 7:00 PM

MOON TAXI

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MAR 18 ........................................................................... MARCO BENEVENTO MAR 24 ..................................................... ANUHEA & THROUGH THE ROOTS MAR 25 ............................................................................ 40 OZ TO FREEDOM MAR 29 ............................................................................. MURDER BY DEATH MAR 31 ...................................................................................... FELABRATION APR 1 ............................................................. PIGEONS PLAYING PING PONG

APR 27 ...................................................................................... GRAHAM NASH APR 29 ....................... RICHARD CHEESE & LOUNGE AGAINST THE MACHINE MAY 7 ................................................................................. BOB MOULD BAND MAY 9 ............................................................................................... THE WAIFS MAY 10 & 11 ............................................................................. DAVID SEDARIS MAY 20 ............................................................................... DESERT DWELLERS

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LEFT COAST COUNTRY. 8 P.M. SATURDAY, FEB. 13, 108 MAIN ST., JAMESTOWN, 303-442-5847.

Thursday, February 11 SEE FULL EVENT LISTINGS ONLINE. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@ boulderweekly. com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

Music Augustus. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847.

Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Dexter Payne. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

Fire It Up Brass Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

David Potter. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131.

DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839.

George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Kevin Dooley. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Open Stage. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Strings Attached ft. Amoramora. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Voodoo Julia. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

see EVENTS Page 38

Courtesy of CU

Regardless of your relationship status this Valentine’s Day, you deserve to treat yourself, and maybe a significant other, to a relaxing concert experience. For 25 years, instructor and musician, Wah! has taught yoga and performed her “healing concerts” in planetariums and theaters across the country. Her shows are a combination of visual sonic images and laser light patterns portraying the universe — think speckled star constellations and Northern Lights on the horizon. The show is meant to guide audiences into a state of deep relaxation and rejuvenation. — Chelsea Abdullah

Boulder Weekly

Community Concert: For the Love of Music!

John Maushammer

7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Boulder’s eTown Hall presents a musical evening highlighting various musical styles from local musical novices and experts. The event is interactive and Valentine’s themed, and will feature artists that are “everyday folk,” according to eTown’s website. For the Love of Music! will showcase the talents of single musicians, duos and groups. Some of the artists performing include Dieter Bruhn, who is able to sing on the spot with true impromptu style, local music teacher Georgia Peach, who plays piano compositions as a hobby, and vocalist Taishya Adams, a returning artist whose solo performances were a hit last year. — Chelsea Abdullah

BODYTRAFFIC 7:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 14, Macky Auditorium, Room 102, 1595 Pleasant St, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Critically acclaimed contemporary dance group, BODYTRAFFIC is bringing its hip and innovative choreography to Boulder. The dance company has performed for sold-out audiences at prestigious theaters and festivals throughout the country. The group collaborates with many different composers and conductors, and is praised for its creativity and ambition in such performances. The perfromances are a hybrid of urban dance styles, seamlessly shifting from ballet to break dance to hip-hop. Event-goers also have access to a pre-concert lecture with Professor Erika Randall, co-director of Dance at CU’s Department of Theatre and Dance, which will take place at 6:45 p.m. in the designated venue. — Chelsea Abdullah

Dance

Heal

7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, University of Colorado Boulder, Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Listen

Wah! Healing Concert

Courtesy of Wah!

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Events Acrylics 2. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. DJ Tip Top. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11 8PM

FIRE IT UP BRASS BAND FRIDAY FEBRUARY 12

DANIEL CHAMPAGNE 8PM BILLY SHADDOX 9PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13

BETHEL STEELE A.J. FULLERTON

8PM 9PM

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 14

BEN RABB 8PM THE HEARTSTRING HUNTERS 9PM MONDAY FEBRUARY 15 8PM

THE LAUGHING GOATS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

POETRY NIGHT

“So, You’re a Poet,” presents

The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Late Night At The Museum. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Marianna’s L’Esthetique Medi Spa. 5:30 p.m. Marianna’s L’Esthetique Medi Spa, 1215 Spruce St, Ste. 100, Boulder, 720-329-7327. Open Access For Painters & Potters. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Friday, February 12 Music Andy Matteo. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Ben Hannah. 6:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131. Billy Shaddox, Daniel Champagne. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Philharmonic: Spheres of Influence. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Boulder Symphony Valentine Special “Snapshot of Love.” 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th Street, Boulder, 303-402-6400. Brazillian Collaborative. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Dave Tamkin Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. David Booker Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 16 8PM

Eminence Ensemble With Neon Sines. 8:30 a.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

THE LAUGHING GOATS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

JAZZ NIGHT with FLUXUS

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 17 8PM

THE LAUGHING GOATS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

JAZZ NIGHT with VON DISCO

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 18 8PM

THE LAUGHING GOATS 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

BRAZIL NIGHT

Happy Hour 4-8 Every Day

Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

Above the Fold: New Expression in Origami. The Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark Street, Longmont, 303-776-6050. Through May 1.

Mardi Gras Kids: An Untold Story. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Feb. 26.

Arrangement for Pastel Paintings by Celebrate Mardi Gras with artist a Silent Orchestra Diane Wood. ComAlexei Kazantsev’s exhibit now at the — Julie Comnick. munity Art Program Dairy Arts Center. Firehouse Art Center, Gallery, NCAR, 1850 667, Fourth Ave., Table Mesa Drive, Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb. 28. Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1. Art of the State 2016. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 27. Be Here Now: Conversations Between Objects. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through March 19. Case Work. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 17. The Engaged Object. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through March 26.

Plein Air Pastel Painting by Sandra Haberkorn. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1. Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 1. Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. When the Winds Whisper. Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-678-7869. Through Feb. 27.

Broke Down Shack. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

29TH ANNUAL VALENTINE’ DAY

OPEN POETRY READING

Alexei Kazantsev

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

Feral Heart. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Flatirons Jazz Orchestra. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Foxfeather. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Fred Dawson. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Girls On Top. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Goatz. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Highway 50. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Jack Hadley. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Jesse Cook. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Metaphonics, Cycles, Genetics. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Masterpiece Makers. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Mountain Mojo. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Opening Reception Above The Fold: New Expressions In Contemporary Origami. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Nina Storey. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Old Shoe, Desmond Jones. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Saturday, February 13 Music

Paul Sullivan. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

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

The Prairie Scholars. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Augustus. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Riley Ann. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Bethel Steele. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Seth Phillips. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Catfish Kray Blues Band. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Silent Bear Trio and Birthday Celebration! 8:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill (Southside Bar), 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

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

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Torbin Hadlock. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Wash Park. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Whiskey Autumn. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278. Events Aferim! 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

The Custom Shop Band. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. Hwy 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623. Dr. Dog, Hop Along. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Eric Stone. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Erica Papillion-Posey. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. see EVENTS Page 40

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THURSDAY NIGHTS FEBRUARY 4 - APRIL 28

VIEWS & BREWS

AT THE STEWART

performers speakers events

Zen and the

Sierra Boggess

Brain Selma (film), 2014, PG13 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4

Sierra Boggess In Concert

POPS

FEB 13-14 T SAT 7:30 T SUN 1:00

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

Andres Lopera, conductor Sierra Boggess, vocals Colorado Children’s Chorale, Deborah DeSantis, artistic director

Mahler Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection” FEB 19-20 T FRI-SAT 7:30

MASTERWORKS

Igudesman and Joo: “BIG Nightmare Music” T

COMEDY

FEB 27 SAT 7:30 Andrew Litton, conductor Aleksey Igudesman, violin Hyung-ki Joo, piano

MAR 4-5 T FRI-SAT 7:30

MAR 11 T FRI 7:30

MASTERWORKS

INSIDE THE SCORE

An Evening with Wonderbound MAR 12 T SAT 7:30

Carnival of the Animals and The Story of Babar MAR 13 T SUN 1:00

The Secret of Roan Inish (film), 1994, PG THURSDAY, MARCH 17

SPECIAL

Christopher Dragon, conductor Wonderbound FAMILY

Andres Lopera, conductor

Please join us for HalfNotes pre-concert family activities in Gallery 2.

box office 1000 14th St., Denver, CO 80202 mon-fri: 10am - 6pm T sat: 12pm - 6 pm Boettcher Concert Hall at the Denver Performing Arts Complex Boulder Weekly

Between the Folds (documentary), 2008 THURSDAY, MARCH 3

Duain Wolfe, conductor Colorado Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director

coloradosymphony.org T 303.623.7876

Curved-Space Comedy

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25

Hans Graf, conductor Maureen Thomas, actor Colorado Children’s Chorale, Deborah DeSantis, artistic director

Shakespeare Festival : Colorado Symphony Chorus

Amelie (film), 2001, R

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18

Andrew Litton, conductor Colorado Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, director

Shakespeare Festival : A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Love Story (film), 1970, PG

Contemplative Practice for a Multi-tasking World with Dr. Al Kaszniak.

$8 Admission 6 pm Lounge & bar 7:15 pm Films & comedy in our new theatre 6 – 8 pm Museum galleries open

How can contemplative practices help manage multi-tasking demands at work and home? This lecture will review research on the consequences of multi-tasking on the brain, and on how practices such as meditation impact multi-tasking.

Thursday, February 18 7 p.m. - $15 Nalanda Events Center 6287 Arapahoe Avenue For more information and tickets

400 Quail Road | Longmont (303) 651-8374 longmontmuseum.org

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George Nelson. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Guerrilla Fanfare. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Hog Magundy, Reckon. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Jack Hadley Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Lionel Young Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Love Hurts. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Magpie Zero. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Mass Hipsteria. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Metaphonics, Cycles, Genetics. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

theater Adams Visual Communications

4000 Miles. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through March 6. The Addams Family. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 27. All the Way. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 28. Fade. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Mar. 13. Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Follow the yellow brick road on down Through Feb. 21. to DCPA for The Wizard of Oz playing The Nest. Denver Performing Arts Complex, Feb. 13. Read BW’s review on page 35. 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21. Twelve Angry Jurors — presented by The Upstart Crow. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, 303-443-7510. Through Feb. 28. The Wizard of Oz. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 13.

Pete And The Incidentals. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303-339-0767. The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Quiles & Cloud. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Shane Borillo. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Swing St. Vrain. 6 p.m. BIN 46 Wine Bar & Restaurant, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 720-438-7410. That’s My City! With Jeff & Paige. 12:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Wallpaper House Band. 2 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Whiskey Autumn. 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131. You Knew Me When. 4 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Billy Shaddox. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bluegrass Pick. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Cat Jerky. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Chain Station. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. The Drunken Hearts. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Enion and David Tiller. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Forgotten Space. 8 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. George Nelson Band. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Greg Schochet & Katie Glassman Band. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Hazel Miller. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Heartstring Hunters, Ben Rabb. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Laurie D with Stacy Zeisloft. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Unity Church, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder. The Library Concert Series Presents: Modern Valentines. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Love Notes — The Sweetest Sound. 3 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Matt Skinner Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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Events Alterna-tine’s: A Valentine’s Snuggle Party. 7 p.m. Adi Shakti Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962. Boy and the World. 1:30 a.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. DJ Chonz. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Hands on Healings. 3 p.m. Boulder Psychic Institute, 1332 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-530-0920. Love or Lust Valentine’s Burlesque Extravaganza. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Noma: My Perfect Storm. 3:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

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Thursday, Feb. 11 Diane Les Bequets — Breaking Wild. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Sigman M. Byrd and Randall Potts. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, Feb. 15 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, Feb. 16

Vertical Fusion. 5 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

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

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

All Star Jazz Band. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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Modern Valentines. 2 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Expires May 1, 2016

Romance — Opus Two. 1:30 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th St., Boulder. Ryan Montbleau. 5 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Strangebyrds With Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Events Das Boot. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Bub Comedy & The Prairie Scholars: Anti-Valentine’s Day Party. 5 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Wednesday, February 17 Music Anderson Competition: Finals. 7:30 p.m. Chamber Hall, Imig Music Building, CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352.

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

Hotsoup. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Entrepreneur Lunch & Learn. 12 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Flynn & Co. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Karaoke with Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Strum and Blow. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Moonlight Breakdown. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Boulder Industry Night! 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Chinese New Year Celebration. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Havana Curveball. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tumbledown. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Music

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The Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Presents: Nicolo Spera. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Director Conversations: Above The Fold. 12 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

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Open Mic Hosted by Dan Perez. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Broke Down Shack. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Emily King, Jus’ Sayin & Venus Cruz, What Young Men Do. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Face. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Fluxus. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Jalbatross. 9 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Open Jam Hosted by Technicolor Tone Factory. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Open Mic Hosted by Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Open Bluegrass Pick Hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Reel Big Fish, Suburban Legends, The Maxies. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Whiskey Autumn. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Events Acrylic Painting. 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. ALDA-Boulder (Social Sign Language Class). 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder Mountain Repair. 3 p.m. Flatirons Park, 2200 Central Ave, Suite F, Boulder. Flatirons Mineral Club Junior Geologists Meeting. 6 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Flatirons Running FunRun. 5:30 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway Street, Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837. Getting Started with JavaScript. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Intro to Acrylics. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Oscar Shorts: Live Action. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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American Life in Poetry: Column 565 by Vanessa Stauffer

This column is more than 10 years old and I’ve finally gotten around to trying a little origami! Here’s a poem about that, and about a good deal more than that, by Vanessa Stauffer, who teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

Lessons To crease a sheet of paper is to change its memory, says the origami master: what was a field of snow folded into flake. A crane, erect, structured from surface. A tree emerges from a leaf—each form undone reveals the seams, pressed with ruler’s edge. Some figures take hundreds to be shaped, crossed & doubled over, the sheet bound to its making—a web of scars that maps a body out of space, how I fashion memory: idling at an intersection next to Jack Yates High, an hour past the bell, I saw a girl fold herself in half to slip beneath the busted chain-link, books thrust ahead, splayed on asphalt broiling in Houston sun. What memory will she retain? Her cindered palms, the scraped shin? Braids brushing the dirt? The white kite of her homework taking flight? Finding herself locked out, or being made to break herself in. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Vanessa Stauffer, “Lessons,” from third coast, (Winter, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Vanessa Stauffer and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 20042006. Send poetry submissions of 250 words or fewer to poetry@boulderweekly.com.

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‘Hail, Caesar!’ is cheeky genius  by Ryan Syrek

he funniest scene in Hail, Caesar! is a microcosm of the film’s overall genius. Foppish British director Laurence Laurentz (Ralph Fiennes) tries to get Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich), a singin’ and dancin’ cowboy movie star, to deliver a single line of dialogue in a refined, “rueful” way. They repeat the line back and forth to increasingly hilarious effect. It’s such a simple conceit, and yet the instructions Laurentz gives reveal so much intelligence, as he suggests his wooden Western fella begin the scene with a “mirthful chuckle.” Hail, Caesar! captures laughs from literal slapstick, insane imagery and witty banter. But all of it is under the moon of a fascinating argument about “faith” and art. Jarringly, given the trailers for the film, the movie opens on Hollywood executive Eddie Mannix ( Josh Brolin) praying beneath a crucifix. Mannix is having a crisis of faith, though not in his religion. His taxing job requires him to wrangle movie stars and keep production rolling on scores of various films. He’s offered a lucrative job with Lockheed-Martin, which, in the 1950s when the film is set, is a pretty promising gig. Channing Tatum does an impressive dance number among other great performances in Hail, Caesar!. Mannix’s actual “religion” is cinema; so much so that the temptation of a cushier job prompts him to ask his priest if doing something “easy” is always “bad.” What’s certain is his current job isn’t easy. He has to simultaneously manage screen siren DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson) and her out-of-wedlock pregnancy; the abduction of Baird Whitlock (George Clooney), the star of the studio’s biggest picture in production; twin-sister gossip columnists (Tilda Swinton) who are hungry to stir up trouble and, as is always a nuisance, an organized cell of communists. Along the way, Channing Tatum does an impressive dance number, the adorable Hobie tries to adorably save the day and Clooney gets slapped a lot. There may not be a better scene in a comedy all year than the one in which Mannix calls in all manner of religious leaders to determine if anything in their titular epic is offensive on a theological level. The discussion isn’t just hilarious wordplay and banter; it’s a brilliantly stated reminder of the intellectual messiness inherent in faith. The Coen Brothers have mined Hollywood’s soul before, most notably in Barton Fink, but this feels different, more optimistic. It affirms that art does matter as more than just a money-making product, even if such affirmation requires a delusional leap of faith. Hail, Caesar! doesn’t get by on just its brains; it’s a looker, too! Roger Deakin’s lush cinematography replicates and recreates not the realism of the way movies looked in the golden age, but how they felt. It’s a true visual splendor, right down to a gorgeous Russian propaganda painting come-to-life near the end. An impossibly great cast paired with heady themes and burning dialogue (“We’re not talking about money, we’re talking about economics!”), Hail, Caesar! would have been at home had it been released for Oscar contention. Forgive it the release date, and see it soon. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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This emotionally devastating, intimate film follows Ma (Brie Larson) and her son, Jack (Jacob Tremblay), prisoners kept in a one-room shed, until they’re finally able to escape.

n the lead up to its release, I can only imagine how many times director Lenny Abrahamson had to clarify, “No, you’re thinking of THE Room” when separating his project from the oft-spoofed “worst movie ever.” Now that it’s out, however, writer Emma Donoghue’s quiet emotional wrecking ball is heretofore the official owner of the title Room. Anyone who hears that word and thinks of the Tommy Wiseau garbage-palooza is cinematically negligent, as Abrahamson and Donoghue have combined for one of the most sophisticated explorations of emotional trauma and the weight of motherhood. For some reason, the trailers all spoiled what could have been a shocking twist. For that reason, I’m going to spoil it too. I refuse to be the first douche to ruin something, but if other douches have ruined it, I will sometimes play in said ruin. Joy (Brie Larson) and her 5-year-old son, Jack ( Jacob Tremblay), are prisoners kept in a shed by “Old Nick” (Sean Bridgers). Joy was abducted seven years prior to the film’s opening and is subjected to routine rapes, one of which produced her son. When Old Nick cops to having been unemployed for some time, Joy gets nervous. When he punishes her for an outburst by cutting off power to the one-room shed during a brutally cold winter’s night, she knows she can no longer protect her child. This leads Joy, known onscreen almost only as “Ma,” to take a huge risk with her son’s life. I will say, despite knowing the outcome from advertisements, the escape is no less harrowing or traumatic to watch. If the first half of the film is a mother trying to provide “normal” for a son trapped in a one-room world by a psychopath, the second half is a son trying to save a mother no longer equipped for the real world. Both halves are fraught with as much emotional consternation as any piece of entertainment, with Jack and Ma taking turns one-upping each other for the “statement most capable of producing immediate tears.” I’ve been a fan of Larson’s for a while now, as her work in the criminally underseen Short Term 12 was every bit as masterful and revelatory as her performance here. So while I wasn’t surprised to find her depth here, it was still jaw-dropping to watch her explore the darkened corners of a powerful woman who thinks herself weak. Tremblay is equally spectacular, infusing his young character with seasoned weight. But any time a young actor delivers a performance that good, it’s more a reflection on the patience and instruction of the director. This is why Abrahamson deserved Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s nomination for Best Director... although that would have only made Oscar whiter, so never mind... The point is that everything in this controlled, terse, gut-wrenching movie is handled with such nuance and sophistication, from Donoghue’s script to William H. Macy and Joan Allen in small, pivotal roles. Room is a “one and done” film for me for all the right reasons. Too heartbreakingly dense for repeat viewings, it leaves its scar, beautiful enough to last, after just the once. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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ne of the best things about food is that you can be astonished by simplicity. By virtue of using fresh ingredients and letting food speak for itself, a good chef does well when his or her fingerprints are hard to find in a simple dish. A great chef makes simple undeniably their own. That’s what Heirloom is close to doing. And they’re doing it in a food truck. They use fresh, local ingredients to prepare unique takes on hand-held favorites from pork sandwiches to lamb sliders to hamburgers. Their rotating menu also includes soups, salads and sides like fries or poutine. I caught the truck outside of Upslope’s Flatiron

and deep aged cheddar. The spring greens on top tasted fruity because of their freshness. And the star was the bacon-onion jam, which was salty and abundant in umami. Those are two foods meant to be eaten together — bacon and onion — as the onion’s sweet and bacon’s savory meet in harmony. If anything was wrong, it was that there wasn’t enough of it on the burger. Last was the pork hoagie. It had chunks of avocado, tomato, pickled red onion and was loaded with extra-tender shredded pork shoulder. The flavors and textures worked well, like a fresher sloppy joe with a lot less slop. Assuming the pork is done ahead of time, it’s still remarkable how tender and flavorful Heirloom has gotten the meat. Especially because when shredded pork sits out or its use is delayed, the texture tends to harden and the flavor tends to seep out. Neither was the case, and the moisture in the sandwich was refreshing — without the bread losing integrity and falling apart. Heirloom’s reputation is strong in Boulder County and in other areas of Colorado where it ventures. The chef and operators are friendly. The prices are just a tad high, but I’d argue the value is pretty spot-on. If you can find it, which shouldn’t be hard, hit it up.

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y the dawn’s early light Jennifer Bush has already been at work awhile. Scratch-made muffins, quiche, cupcakes, fruit galettes and seriously caramelized dark chocolate chunk cookies need to be ready for the regulars when Lucky’s Bakehouse opens at 7 a.m. “I like the quiet in the morning and being one of the first ones up,” says Bush who co-owns the 3-year-old bakery, which is related to the Boulder-born Lucky’s Market supermarket chain, but is an independent business. “I get to the bakery by 4:30 or 5 in the morning so I go to sleep early. The girls tuck me in at night,” she says with a grin. Bush lives near the bakery in North Boulder with her daughters. Chloe, 16, attends Fairview High School, and Charlotte, 13, is at Casey Middle School and heading to Boulder High in the fall. The Bakehouse is the kind of quintessential neighborhood bakery so commonplace a generation ago but now largely replaced by supermarket bakeries. Between the wedding cakes, baby cakes, birthday cakes and cakes for memorial services, Bush’s Bakehouse is stitched into the lives of the families it serves. That includes baking vegan lemon poppyseed cake, paleo walnut coconut coffee cake and glutenfree black tea cake sweetened with hibiscusinfused syrup and frosted with uber-creamy Boulder Weekly

vanilla panna cotta. More than 500 pounds of butter arrive weekly and a lot of it ends up in the most popular item: plain, chocolate and almond croissants. “It takes two days to make them. You laminate butter between sheets of dough until it develops the layers and flakes,” Bush says. Bush grew up in the mountain foothills in Jamestown. She got an early taste for the baker’s life when her mother supplied desserts to the Flagstaff House Restaurant. After falling in love with jewel-like Parisian pastries, she moved to San Francisco, attended culinary school and went to work at a French restaurant in the Napa Valley. “They immediately sent women down to the pastry room. It was 12-hour shifts every day. I didn’t see the light of day for a year. It was horrible, but I learned how to work see NIBBLES Page 50

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hard,” she says. When Bush returned to Boulder she became the head pastry chef for Dave Query’s Big Red F Restaurants (including Zolo Grill and Jax Fish House) and later launched Icebox Bakery, a producer of natural cookie dough. Now she helms a successful bakery in Boulder, a place where fitness is highly valued and white sugar and solid fat are the great Satan. Not bad for someone who never worked in a bakery and never went to pastry school, she says. Bush chose Alpine Modern Café in Boulder as the place to meet and chat for this Out of the Kitchen Q&A. First thing you ever baked? “It was after school. I would take Pillsbury biscuit dough — from the tube, roll it out and sprinkle on brown sugar, and bake it. I also dipped graham crackers in frosting. It was so good.” Do you bake cakes for family birthdays? “As a birthday present every year I let each of my daughters design their own cakes. They give me a sketch with colors and tell me what flavor cake, filling and frosting the want. I take it very seriously. On my birthday my mom bakes my favorite: angel food cake from a box with strawberries.” Anything new in cakes? “Wedding cakes have gotten smaller. Brides will have a small cake to cut and a big dessert spread. We’ve been doing more ‘baby reveal’ cakes. Women have an ultrasound done but they don’t look at it. They find out the gender by the color of the filling we put in the middle, blue or pink.” Best thing about working at a bakery? “In restaurants you were always tucked away in the back of the kitchen. Here see NIBBLES Page 52

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we have an open kitchen so I get to see everyone. I love to see people’s eyes light up when they walk in. You get to see them taste what you made.” Worst thing about bakery life? “It’s the sugar and flour. It hangs in the air and gets on everything including your contacts.” Any secret junk food passions? “Sometimes you just want to go home and rip open a bag of peanut M&Ms.”

Time to bake a cake

“I have made this recipe for many years. It’s just a lovely and simple cake made with almond paste, which keeps it unbelievably moist.”

Jen Bush’s Gluten-Free Black Onyx Cake 6 ounces unsalted butter, room temperature ¼ cup granulated cane sugar 1 cup almond paste ½ cup Black Onyx cocoa powder (see note) 4 eggs Glaze: ½ cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons honey 1 teaspoon instant coffee 8 ounces semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate Slivered almonds

Cream the almond paste in a stand mixer until all the clumps are broken up. Stream in the sugar and continue mixing for one minute, until the mixture is sand textured. Add butter little by little, then add eggs one by one until mixture is smooth. Sift cocoa to remove lumps and add to mixture. Mix until combined, and remember to scrape sides of bowl. Line a 9-inch cake pan with parchment paper or use nonstick spray. Scrape mixture into pan and bake at 325 degrees for about 20-25 minutes, until cake is firm to the touch. Let cake cool completely before unmolding and inverting on a plate. To make the glaze, gently heat cream, coffee and honey. Pour over chocolate and whisk until combined. Pour warm glaze over cake; decorate with slivered almonds. Makes one 9-inch cake Note: Black Onyx cocoa powder is available at Boulder’s Savory Spice Shop. Any high-quality (unsweetened) cocoa powder can substitute.

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“Guys do like to bake with their children because it allows them to sound like experts. My son Hans is only 9 months old, but we’re already baking and bonding and making a mess together. The other day we made footprint cookies for his grandmother. I pressed his feet into sugar cookie dough and baked them. The cookies, that is.” - From a 1994 Nibbles column in the Daily Camera. John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 FM, kgnu.org). Send your comments to: Nibbles@boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly

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ixteen years ago, Stephen Tanzer, one of the world’s leading wine critics, described the cabernet sauvignon from Ridge’s 1991 harvest in Monte Bello Vineyard as “among the top dozen made in California during the last 20 years.” So when I tasted the wine recently, my expectations were high. A few friends and I had gathered at a local steakhouse to explore some of California’s top wines from the 1990s; bottles from producers like Seavey, Dominus, Chappellet and Dunn were on the table. And the Ridge outclassed everything. The wine, grown in the Santa Cruz Mountains, exploded out of the glass with sweet, fleshy fruit, wild herbs and graphite. It was concentrated but light on its feet. The finish lingered impressively. The Ridge Monte Bello stopped Wikimedia Commons us in our tracks. It was as if we had discovered the Holy Grail. Without question, it was the best California wine I’d ever had. That evening, I went home and checked Wine-Searcher.com — a website that combs through the inventory of nearly 14,000 U.S. wine shops — to see if the wine was available for sale. It wasn’t. But I desperately wanted to recreate that initial experience. So when I learned, 16 months later, that a collector in A later vintage of the Monte Bello. Florida was looking to sell some 1991 Monte Bello, I bought two bottles. I drank both within a year, opening up my final bottle last January with two friends who had just welcomed a baby. This past Christmas, those friends left me speechless when they gave me a bottle of the wine. Remembering that I’d described it as the best California wine I’d ever tasted, they purchased a bottle when they spotted it online. That bottle was opened over lunch this past Saturday in New York. It was as thrilling and delicious as it was three years ago. Just as important, though, it demonstrated that great wine is more than just a beverage. By uncorking the 1991 Monte Bello, I was able to tell five friends, old and new alike, why the wine meant so much to me. Two California winemakers were present, so the wine quickly inspired a profound conversation about the Santa Cruz Mountains and the past, present and future of California cabernet. Pleasure matters, obviously. But those of us who obsess over what we drink aren’t just looking for something tasty; we’re looking for an experience, an indescribable story that only wine can tell. That combination revealed itself again on Saturday evening when my group met up with two others at Marta, a hot new Italian restaurant just north of Madison Square Park. One of the friends who joined us brought a 1971 Aglianico from Mastroberardino, an Italian winery in Campania. In part, he purchased it because of the vintage; he was born in 1971. He brought the wine to dinner because one of our companions is infatuated by old Italian wines, so he knew it’d be appreciated. When we noticed that the restaurant had the 1998 offering of the same wine on its list, we ordered it for a side-by-side comparison. Both wines were positively arresting. And, like the Ridge, the two Aglianicos offered us something beyond deliciousness. The side-by-side comparison inspired a conversation about the remarkable value offered by many Italian wines — and the seductiveness and sensuality of old wine. Saturday’s experiences help illuminate my obsession with wine. No other beverage can so connect us to the past, offering a window to other places and cultures. Alcohol matters, of course, but no other drink can so effectively connect us to one another, inspiring conversations about life’s deepest questions. Wine is romantic. In its greatest moments, it provides far more than pleasure; it provides an idealized reality. David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com, which was named “Best Overall Wine Blog” at the 2013 Wine Blog Awards. His columns are housed at Grape Collective. Boulder Weekly

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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “Love is a fire,” declared Aries actress Joan Crawford. “But whether it’s going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” I disagree with her conclusion. There are practical steps you can take to ensure that love’s fire warms but doesn’t burn. Start with these strategies: Suffuse your libido with compassion. Imbue your romantic fervor with empathy. Instill your animal passions and instinctual longings with affectionate tenderness. If you catch your sexual urges driving you toward narcissists who are no damn good for you, firmly redirect those sexual urges toward emotionally intelligent, selfresponsible beauties. TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20: Fifteenth-century writer Thomas à Kempis thought that real love can arouse enormous fortitude in the person who loves. “Love feels no burden,” he wrote. “It attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.” As you might imagine, the “real love” he was referring to is not the kind that’s motivated by egotism, power drives, blind lust, or insecurity. I think you know what I mean, Taurus, because in the past few months you have had unprecedented access to the primal glory that Thomas referred to. And in the coming months you will have even more. What do you plan to do with all that mojo? GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20: Gemini novelist Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) was fascinated in life with the lid on and what happens when the lid comes off. She knew both states from her own experience. “When you love someone,” she mused about the times the lid had come off, “all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that you engage in the following three-part exercise. First, identify a part of your life that has the lid tightly clamped over it. Second, visualize the suppressed feelings and saved-up wishes that might pour forth if you took the lid off. Third, do what it takes to love someone so well that you’ll knock the lid off. CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: “No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved,” wrote author Mignon McLaughlin. I think that may be true. The gap between what we yearn for and what we actually get is never fully closed. Nevertheless, I suggest that you strive to refute McLaughlin’s curse in the coming days. Why? Because you now have an enhanced capacity to love the people you care about in ways they want to be loved. So be experimental with your tenderness. Take the risk of going beyond what you’ve been willing or able to give before. Trust your fertile imagination to guide your ingenious empathy. LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: Here’s the counsel of French writer Anatole France: “You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.” What he says is always true, but it’s especially apropos for you Leos in the coming weeks. You now have a special talent for learning more about love by loving deeply, excitedly and imaginatively. To add further nuance and inspiration, meditate on this advice from author Aldous Huxley: “There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving — by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.” VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you,’” said author Maya Angelou. She concludes: “There is an African saying: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” With this in mind, I invite you to take inventory of the allies and relatives whose relationships are most important to you. How well do they love themselves? Is there anything you could do to help them upgrade their love for themselves? If their self-love is lacking, what might you do to protect yourself from that problem? LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “Only love interests me,” declared painter Marc Chagall, “and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.” That seems like an impossibly high standard. Our daily adventures bring us into proximity with loveless messes all the time. It’s hard to focus on love to the exclusion of all other concerns. But it’s a worthy goal to strive toward Chagall’s ideal for short bursts of time. And the coming weeks happen to be a favorable phase for you to do just that. Your success may be partial, but dramatic nonetheless. SCORPIO OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love,” said Mahatma Gandhi. “It is the prerogative of the brave.” That’s my challenge to you, Scorpio. In accordance with the astrological currents, I urge you to stoke your uninhibited audacity so you can press onward toward the frontiers of intimacy. It’s not enough to be wilder, and it’s not enough to be freer. To fulfill love’s potential in the next chapter of your story, you’ve got to be wilder, freer, and bolder. SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21: “It is not lack of love but lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages,” said Friedrich Nietzsche. He believed that if you want to join your fortunes with another’s, you should ask your-

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is something that finds you.” Singer Kylie Minogue concurs: “You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend your life. Love is like a lottery.” I think these perspectives are at best misleading, and at worst debilitating. They Go to RealAstrology.com to check out imply we have no power to Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO shape our relationship with HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE love. My view is different. HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes I say there’s a lot we can are also available by phone at 1-877do to attract intimate allies who teach us, stimulate us, 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. and fulfill us. Like what? 1) We clarify what qualities we want in a partner, and we make sure that those qualities are also healthy for us. 2) We get free of unconscious conditioning that’s at odds with our conscious values. 3) We work to transform ourselves into lovable CAPRICORN collaborators who communicate well. Anything else? What can DEC. 22-JAN. 19: you do to make sure love isn’t a lottery? “Love isn’t something you find,” says singer Loretta Lynn. “Love self whether you will enjoy your conversations with this person for the next 30 years — because that’s what you’ll be doing much of the time you’re together. How do you measure up to this gold standard, Sagittarius? What role does friendship play in your romantic adventures? If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to seek improvements. Start with yourself, of course. How could you infuse more camaraderie into the way you express love? What might you do to upgrade your skills as a conversationalist?

AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime,” writes Chuck Klosterman. “It’s easy. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. You’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years.” He concludes, “A lover like this sets the template for what you will always love about other people.” I suspect that you have either recently met or will soon meet such a person, Aquarius. Or else you are on the verge of going deeper than ever before with an ally you have known for a while. That’s why I think what happens in the next six months will put an enduring stamp on your relationship with intimacy.

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Dear Dan: I’m a gay male college student in a healthy D/s relationship with a bisexual guy. My boyfriend posts pictures of our kink sessions to his Tumblr. (No faces.) A trans woman active in campus queer politics confronted me today. Ze had seen my boyfriend’s Tumblr (!) and recognized me (!!!). Ze demanded I stop engaging in BDSM because ze has to see me on campus and knowing my © LaRae Lobdell boyfriend “controls and abuses” me is triggering for zir. Ze said images of me in medical restraints were particularly traumatizing. Ze was shaking and crying, and I wound up comforting zir. I stupidly let zir think I would stop. Now what? — Scenario Utterly Bananas P.S. Ze also threatened to out my boyfriend if ze saw new pictures go up on his Tumblr. My boyfriend is already out — about being bi and being kinky — so he laughed it off. But how fucked up is that? Dear SUB: You tell this woman you take orders from your boyfriend, SUB,

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odern feminism boils down to two main The data to verify this claim is hard to track angles. The first is a movement driven down, mostly because the cannabis industry is still too by equality: equal pay, equal representayoung and irregular to know almost anything for sure. tion, equal access to power and position. Nonetheless, pretty much everyone at the Women The second seeks to elevate the status of Grow Leadership Summit endorsed the claim. Sure, roles commonly perceived as feminine, recognizing there are certain areas of the industry that are domithe value of caretaking in society and increased social nated by men; anecdotally women are underrepresentstature. ed in the grow side of operations. Overall, women Women who attempt to achieve both know how appear to be on par to lead the industry. difficult that feat can be because achieving one tends What makes this so remarkable is just how big to preclude the other. and how explosive the Women Grow Either women step into cannabis industry is. A traditionally male posirecent study by ArcView tions that are more and New Frontier values demanding on their time the 2015 legal cannabis and energy or they commit market at $5.4 billion and to more nurturing roles predicts that it will bring that disassociate them in $21.8 billion in annual from money and power. revenue by 2020, making Even if a woman is willing it one of the fastest growto go for it all, her efforts ing markets in the country. That kind of rapid are likely stymied by an growth attracts a lot of inflexible society that capital and attention, and struggles to accommodate women are well-posishifting gender roles. Last week, 1,300 women working in cannabis gathered at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver as the tioned to be the ones getThe macro picture industry positions to be the first billion dollar industry led ting that money and leadechos these individual by women. ing that growth. struggles. No major indusIt is possible that this try in the U.S. is led by will change. The industry is so young that it is tenuous women, and no caretaking industry is even close to to use its demographic track record as an indication of challenging the power or money in those typified by its future, but the women at the core of the industry men. But, according to insiders, cannabis is poised to don’t think that is likely because women are emerging do both. Last week 1,300 women gathered at the Ellie as more than just business leaders; they are playing Caulkins Opera House in Denver to celebrate and crucial roles in the normalization of cannabis. stoke that momentum at the second annual Women Mothers, nurses, hostesses, community organizers and Grow Leadership Summit. other roles traditionally perceived as feminine are help“This may be the first billion-dollar industry not dominated by men,” Sheri Orlowitz, founder of D.C.- ing to overcome decades of anti-marijuana propaganda and prejudice, crucial to the markets continued growth. based investing company Artemis, says to the theater Boulder businesswoman Kendall Norris, founder full of women cannabis entrepreneurs. “But I want it and owner of Mason Jar Event Groups, is growing a to be the first billion-dollar industry led by women. successful cannabis event company. Her new business We are not here to emulate men, our job is to lead throws lavish parties for the A-list of the Colorado like women.”

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cannabis industry, and she has found social status therein, one never available to her in all her years of working in event planning for big corporations. “I spent nearly my whole career in hospitality,” Norris says. “It is interesting for me to see that the hospitality space is predominantly women — in my experience it is probably 80 to 90 percent women at hospitality conferences and in hospitality careers. The interesting thing is that in the hospitality world it is hard to make a decent living. You can certainly make a living, but they tend to be lower paying jobs, even director positions.” Norris is an example of a woman who is not only leading a business but proving the social value of hospitality. The mission of her company is not to make money or gains in equality for women — although she is doing both — it is to normalize cannabis use. And as she does this, she is also seizing that opportunity to make money rather than providing the service for free. Norris charges a lot of money to attend her events, just like Women Grow charges women to become a part of its community or attend its conferences, and charges even more to businesses who want access to that network. Putting a price tag on something society is used to getting for free comes with pushback and many people in the cannabis world like to chastise the cost that now comes with culture. Women Grow acknowledges that viewpoint and their retort couldn’t be more on message. “Women Grow is proof that you can be purposedriven and still be make a difference,” says Jazmin Hupp, CEO and co-founder of Women Grow. “There is a reason we are for-profit. It is time to stop being nonprofit angels and start being women who work for money.” There is cause for some celebration as the cannabis industry is on track to do what has never been done before, to build a billion dollar industry led by women that simultaneously elevates their cultural roles. While this change might be welcome and celebrated, it can also be uncomfortable. But maybe that is a sign of progress.

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acob Sullum, who describes himself as a journalist covering “the war on drugs from a conscientious objector’s perspective” for Forbes Magazine, has come up with a genuinely useful metric for vetting candidates: “marijuana federalist.” “Marijuana federalists” are candidates who believe the final say on marijuana legalization should be left to the states, regardless of their personal feelings on legalization. Sullum calls candidates on the other end of the spectrum — candidates who want to enforce existing federal law criminalizing pot in states like Colorado that have legalized at the state level — “marijuana prohibitionists.” So how do the candidates currently running for president stack up on the marijuana federalist to prohibitionist scale? The strongest marijuana federalist in either party is Bernie Sanders. Sanders has not only called for an end to the federal ban on marijuana — talk is cheap — but last year introduced a bill in the Senate to de-list marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act, where it is currently (dishonestly) listed as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance, along with heroin. Sanders’ bill would effectively put pot in the same legal category as alcohol in federal law. On the issue of pot, the socialist Sanders is the strongest advocate of states’ rights among the candidates of either party. It’s that kind of year. Hillary Clinton has said she would keep President Obama’s policy of not enforcing federal law that contradicts state law in states that have legalized and she supports reclassifying pot from a Schedule 1

Controlled Substance to a Schedule 2 Controlled Substance. Whoopee. Schedule 2 Controlled Substances includes cocaine and methamphetamines. When it comes to marijuana federalism, Clinton barely moves the needle beyond where it is today. Four of the surviving Republican candidates,

Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush, have come out as marijuana federalists. A fifth, John Kasich, says he “probably” is one. All say they are against legalization, but that decisions by the states to legalize should be respected. Among the five, the most ideologically rigorous marijuana federalist is Ted Cruz. He has said he thinks that leaving marijuana policy to the states “is a great embodiment of what Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called ‘the laboratories of democracy.’

If the citizens of Colorado decide they want to go down that road, that’s their prerogative. I personally don’t agree with it, but that’s their right.” As for Trump, last October, while campaigning in Nevada, which will vote on legalization next November, he said, “In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, state by state.” The three remaining candidates, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Chris Christie, are marijuana prohibitionists. Carson is relatively moderate. He says he would enforce the federal prohibition in states that have legalized but would make an exception for medical use. Rubio says he’s a pot prohibitionist, but he’s also ducking, weaving and talking out of both sides of his mouth on the issue. Last April he told Hugh Hewitt that he was against marijuana legalization, but that “states have a right to do what they want,” then adding that “they don’t have a right to write federal policy,” and “we need to enforce our federal laws.” Go figure. Last week, casino magnate and Republican heavy hitter Sheldon Adelson, who has donated millions to anti-marijuana legalization groups, endorsed Rubio. Christie is the Darth Vader of marijuana prohibitionists. During a town hall meeting in New Hampshire last July, he said, “If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it. As of January 2017, I will enforce federal laws.” Then again, maybe not. Late Tuesday, New Hampshire news organizations reported that an Imperial Death Star had crashed and burned in the White Mountains. Crews were having difficulty reaching the site due to elevated levels of purple haze and schadenfreude in the area.

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No, we’re not talking about decades of scandals, from the firing of the folks at the White House travel office to the unsupervised destruction of more than 50,000 emails she claimed were private that were on the same server from which she was illegally conducting her state department business. Nope, that is not all you need to know about Hillary Clinton, although it is enough. All you need to know about Hillary is that she has such a total disregard for truth and morality that she was willing to go on national television and claim that Wall Street has spent $6 million dollars to try and keep her from being elected while at that very moment having some $15 million in Wall Street donations sitting in her super PAC. Only a narcissist who thinks other people are too stupid to see through her lies would have had the lack of character to even contemplate such a disgusting act. Done. Game over. What Clinton did in her last debate with Sanders makes Gary Hart challenging the media to catch him having an affair look like a reasonable political strategy. Hell, not only should she not be president, at this point, no self-respecting parent would let her play with their kids. Boulder Weekly

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