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EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Josh Gross Interns, Mallane Dressel, Nadia Mishkin, Danielle Meltz, Caitlin Rockett Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Cayte Bosler, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Michael Krumholtz, Blair Madole, Dylan Owens, Brian Palmer, Adam Perry, Stephanie Riesco, Leland Rucker, Dan Savage, Alan Sculley, Camilla Sterne, Ruth Tobias, Christine Vazquez, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Digital Portfolio Sales Manager, Kirk Koskey Senior Account Executive, David Hasson Account Executives, Julian Bourke, Andrea Craven PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Assistant to the Publisher Julia Sallo Marketing Manager Stephanie Milliman Office Manager/Advertising Assistant Andrea Neville CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 14-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo February 13, 2014 Volume XXI, Number 28 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com Printed on 100% recycled paper with soy-based ink. Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2013 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Corrections: In a Feb. 6 story, “Two of hearts,” the name of Elizabeth Baron was misspelled. And a Jan. 16 Tidbite mischaracterized a celebrity chef series at the Indian Peaks Bar and Grill in Lafayette: The series features the food of the celebrity chefs, not the chefs themselves.

Spanish Jews

[Re: “Eracism: Exploring the roots,” Cover story, Feb. 6.] Regarding your

fascinating article on Hispanic origins in Boulder County that draws on the expertise of CU-Boulder Professor Marjorie McIntosh, Professor Janet Jacobs, also of CU-Boulder, is considered a national authority on this community, especially on its hidden Jewish ancestry. Often called Conversos, these people trace their roots back to the Spanish Inquisition, when many Spanish Jews

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Highroad What if antibiotics no longer work? by Jim Hightower

an antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes. Two factors are at work here. First, bacteria (one of the earliest forms of life on Earth) are miracles in their own right, with a stunning ability to outsmart the antibiotic drugs through rapid evolution. Second is the rather dull inclination of us supposedly superior humans to overuse and misuse

antibiotic medicines. Every time we take an antibiotic to kill some bad bacteria that is infecting our bodies, a few of the infectious germs are naturally resistant to the drug, so they survive, multiply and become a colony of Superbugs that antibiotics can’t touch. Multiply this colony by the jillions of doses prescribed for everything from deadly staph infections to the common cold, and we get the “antibiotic paradox:” The more we use them, the less effective they become, for they’re creating a spreading epidemic of immune Superbugs. A big cause of this is the push by drug companies to get patients and doctors to reach for antibiotics as a cure-all. For example, millions of doses a year are prescribed for children and adults who have common colds, flu, sore throats, etc. Nearly all these infections are caused by viruses — which cannot (repeat: cannot) be cured with

were forced to convert to Roman Catholicism. Professor Jacobs tracks their odyssey to the New World, where they attempted to elude the long arm of the Inquisition, which officially persisted in Mexico until the late 1800s! I hope Professor Jacobs can help to illuminate a future article about this very unique aspect of the local Hispanic see LETTERS Page 8

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antibiotics. Taking an antibiotic for a cold is as useless as taking a heart drug for heartburn. The antibiotics will do nothing for your cold, but they will help establish drug-resistant Superbugs in your body. That’s not a smart tradeoff. In fact, it’s incomprehensibly stupid. Antibiotics are invaluable medicines we need for serious, life-threatening illnesses, but squandering them on sore throats has already brought us to the brink of Superbugs that are resistant to everything. That’s the nightmare of all nightmares. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. February 13, 2014 7

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community. Michael Korn/Arvada

Where’s White?

In letters/comments from the Jan. 30 issue [20th Anniversary Edition], I never saw or read any mention of another former BW great journalist, Pamela White. In my opinion, one of the best BW ever had, and certainly the equal of any at the Daily Camera, with the exception of Clay Evans. Pamela wrote some of the best articles about some of the most controversial subjects. I always looked forward to her columns. But no more. Our loss. All too often we lose the best we have and don’t realize it ’til they’re gone. Forrest “Woody” Leigh/via email Editor’s note: White was featured in three of the letters we printed and was mentioned in pieces by Leland Rucker and Stewart Sallo.

Stale Danish

[Re: “A modest proposal to begin updating our national symbols,” Danish Plan, Feb. 6.] Old stale view with the same old stale argument and rationale. Not funny. View from West of the Cascades, Rodney Badger/Edmonds, Wash.

Domenico’s track record

My husband recently received a flyer in the mail asking for his support in Cindy Domenico’s county commissioner campaign, and all I can say is ... we will do everything in our power to remind the people of Boulder County how nearly she sold us down the fracking sewer for her political advancement. Oh, and I noticed in her charming list of accomplishments that she is taking credit for the fracking moratorium? That’s not how I remember it going down. As I recall, she was the commissioner who sided with the oil and gas cartel, and it was the outcry of her constituents that forced her to reconsider or face a recall. So please, do us all a favor and try to be a bit more truthful, though I doubt it is possible with the lack of integrity she has shown so far. May her campaign flow down the sewer of her corruption. Martha McPherson/via email

Study the dirty snow

[Re: “Dark snow,” Cover story, Jan. 9.] The phrase “as fresh and pure as the new fallen snow” is now but a romantic misnomer, if not an all-out oxymoron, but the transformation from white 8 February 13, 2014

flakes to brown slush upon falling on our streets, highways and parking lots seems to darken every year, and I would hope there are environmental studies being conducted to study its chemical make-up and its distribution and effects upon both groundwater and the streams into which our storm drains flow. Robert Porath/via email

He should be more careful, he’s hurting the environment!

We deserve healthy food

[Re: “Farmers’ suit against Monsanto reaches Supreme Court,” News, Jan. 2.] Farmers and healthy people should not have to defend their rights to plant natural seeds born from the earth, untainted by toxic chemically treated organisms! It’s not natural! It’s against all our human rights to not eat what God planted here on earth since the beginning of time! These chemicals do not belong in our foods or on them! Farmers were doing incredibly well growing natural, organic fruit, veggies and grains, and our animals on earth were doing great too, until the greedy government started manipulating our farms’ greenhouses, etc., back in the late’ 80s, and now this toxic poison with Monsanto’s poisonous seeds! Really, government of the U.S., is this what you want your children and grandchildren to eat, or your moms, dads, or anyone you love? Heck, I don’t even want my dogs eating Monsanto’s GMOs! This needs to stop right now in 2014; wake up or lose all cross-country trade agreements. Gayle Williams/via Internet

Cognitive therapists

I say this only half jokingly, but it seems rather clear to me that there will be a lot of room for the extremely welltrained private cognitive therapist(s) here in Colorado, for those wealthy enough to want to party quite heartily on one hand but need to be in touch with business and other-worldly practical realities on the other. What am I thinking? Knowing my “Old Boulder,” this is probably already happening even as we speak. Colorado, you are something else baby, and you have been for decades. Wow! Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

Fix Fido

Many organizations, including PETA, will celebrate World Spay Day on Feb. 25 by offering reduced-cost spay/neuter surgeries. If you haven’t already, there’s no better time to have your furry family members “fixed.” Spaying and neutering save lives by see LETTERS Page 10

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commentary Seeger’s true politics by Dave Anderson

olk singer Pete Seeger, who The Communists became fervent died at age 94 last month, followers of Franklin Roosevelt and provided a soundtrack for transformed their party into a “political every progressive crusade of association.” During World War II, our time, from labor unions when the U.S. and the Soviet Union to civil rights, from world peace to became allies, they attained a certain environmentalism. He wrote, “Where semi-respectability. They even defended Have All the Flowers Gone?” “If I Had FDR’s wartime “no-strike” policy in the A Hammer” and factories and his “Turn, Turn, wholesale imprisTurn.” He popuonment of Japanese IN 1995, SEEGER TOLD larized songs such Americans. The New York Times: “I as “We Shall The like to say I’m more conOvercome” and Communists servative than Goldwater. “This Land Is weren’t the first or Your Land.” the last Americans He just wanted to turn the Seeger’s rockto delude themclock back to when there solid commitment selves about govwas no income tax. I want to left-wing poliernments thouto turn the clock back to tics marginalized sands of miles when people lived in him. In particular, away. In the 1920s, small villages and took he was a member quite a few of the Communist American consercare of each other.” Party in the 1940s vatives were and was blacklisted thrilled with the for many years. new fascist regime in Many obituaries have called Italy led by Benito Mussolini. There him a “Stalinist,” but the label is somewas skepticism in the 1930s about what misleading. The party emphasized reports of Nazi genocide due to the domestic issues more than the cult of U.S. government lies during World War Joe Stalin. I about German soldiers bayoneting litDuring the Depression, Communist tle kids. Party members played a crucial role in In 1995, Seeger told The New York Times how his politics had changed: “I organizing unions, and the party was like to say I’m more conservative than one of the few predominately white groups in that era to actively fight racial segregation. see SEEGER Page 10 Boulder Weekly

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Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. My father, [musicologist and composer] Charles Seeger, got me into the Communist movement. He backed out around ‘38. I drifted out in the ’50s. I apologize [in my recent book] for following the party line so slavishly, for

not seeing that Stalin was a supremely cruel misleader. “I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it. But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.” Seeger also had a complicated rela-

tionship with Israel. In his blog for the Jewish Daily Forward (founded in 1897 by Yiddish-speaking democratic socialists), J.J. Goldberg reminisces about the folk singer: “In the spring of 1998, Pete Seeger headlined a free concert in Central Park celebrating Israel’s 50th birthday, sponsored by the Cantors’ Assembly. The event prompted a critical press release from the Zionist Organization of America, protesting

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the Cantors’ Assembly’s giving a platform to a harsh critic of Israel. “The evidence for the prosecution was an ad to which Pete had added his name in 1982 or ’83, protesting Israeli actions in Lebanon ... But there was a flip side to Seeger’s record, and it was a lot longer and deeper. His 1950 recording with The Weavers of the Israeli folk tune ‘Tzena, Tzena’ was the first and still the only Israeli song ever to hit the American pop charts, coming in at No. 2. For years afterward, he made a habit of performing and teaching at least one Israeli song at every one of his singalong concerts. He may have done more than anyone besides Leon Uris to teach Americans to love Israel in its early years.” He is referring to the Leon Uris who wrote a bestselling novel, Exodus, about the founding of the state of Israel, which was made into a Hollywood hit movie. It was highly romanticized and portrayed Arabs as savages. Seeger was quite popular in Israel despite his increasingly critical stance toward the country’s treatment of Palestinians. In his later years, Seeger tried to avoid issues that divided the left and concentrated on his crusade to clean up the Hudson River. That project was quite successful. In the final analysis, Seeger’s legacy is impressive. But complicated. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. LETTERS from Page 8

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Exclusive interview with environmentalist who escaped Russia to avoid arrest by Jefferson Dodge

he Russian government has reportedly frozen the assets of an environmental group funded by a Boulder nonprofit because the group has been critical of ecological damage done by construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi. Boulder-based Global Greengrants, which over the past two decades has provided nearly $40 million in small grants for environmental efforts in 140 different countries, sent a $4,000 award to the Russian organization Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC) in 2011, as the sole funder of the group’s study on the impact of the new structures built for the Sochi Olympics. The study declared that the 2014 Winter Olympic Games are the most environmentally destructive ever. Now, according to representatives from both organizations, Russian officials have seized EWNC’s bank accounts and jailed the group’s geologist, Evgeny Vitishko, on trumped-up charges that have earned him three years in a penal colony. Another EWNC leader, Suren Gazaryan, who also faced criminal charges he believes were intended to quell his environmental activism, fled the country in summer 2012 because he faced imprisonment. He is in exile in Estonia, which offered him asylum. In an exclusive interview from Estonia via Skype, on the eve of the Feb. 12 release of his group’s controversial Sochi report, Gazaryan told Boulder Weekly about his experiences with Russian officials and their efforts to quash environmentalists critical of the government. Gazaryan says EWNC has been harassed by the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin before, like when the group opposed an “illegal seiBoulder Weekly

zure” of forest and coastal lands along the Black Sea, but it seems that the group’s work at the site of the Olympics was the last straw. “There wasn’t [such] huge harassment for us before the Olympics,” he says, adding that the intimidating desist letters and minor administrative charges suddenly escalated into criminal charges. “They tried to stop our report, to prevent our work.” Gazaryan was with now-jailed Vitishko when the two were detained on charges related to damaging what Gazaryan calls “an illegal fence” erected in a public forest (Vitishko’s appeal was denied this week, the same day the EWNC report was released. According to media reports, in 2011 the two were accused of causing $4,000 of damage to the corrugated metal fence, which had been placed around the governor of the region where Sochi is located.) EWNC and Greengrants say the area used for the Olympic village in Sochi was a protected national park. “This was what, in the U.S., we might consider a wilderness area,” Greengrants Executive Director Terry Odendahl says of the Olympics site. “It had no roads going through it.” Greengrants claims that to make way for the Olympic village, the Russians razed old-growth forests and rich montane meadows, and converted the Mzymta River into a walled-in, polluted trickle that threatened downstream water users. According to Gazaryan, “10 square miles are completely destroyed because of this construction,” and the Russian government was able to sidestep the nation’s highest level of protection afforded to wilderness areas by passing a law in 2006 that allowed construction of recreational facilities, roads, hotels and

other amenities in the country’s national parks. “It’s impossible to describe the damage done to the environment.” After the fence incident — in which Gazaryan says he simply folded one section of the barrier down, to cross it, and others spraypainted words — Vitishko received the three-year sentence because he was on probation and failed to show up for a designated check-in. Gazaryan says he fled the country after an additional charge was levied, involving a death threat against Putin’s guards. He says he was wrongly accused of throwing a stone at the guards, and faced three and a half years in jail. The incident occurred in Gelendzhik, a famous Russian resort town, at what Gazaryan refers to as “Putin’s Palace,” which he says was constructed in another ecologically destructive move, without an environmental impact assessment, proper licensure for tree removal or public hearings. According to Gazaryan, EWNC had already spent a portion of the $4,000 it received from Greengrants, but the Russian government froze the remainder — and the rest of EWNC’s assets — on the basis of a relatively new law designating environmental groups as “foreign agents” if they receive money from other countries. Odendahl explains that the legislation, approved in the past year, requires such groups to register if they receive foreign money, and EWNC didn’t declare the contribution because it had been awarded prior to the passage of the law. The new regulations treat such groups “like spies because they took nonRussian money,” she says. Odendahl adds that government officials discovered the foreign contribution in March 2013, when See OLYMPICS Page 14

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they visited the EWNC office as part of the Russian version of an audit, and saw the award letter. She adds that this kind of law is not unique to Russia. India and other countries are adopting similar rules to dissuade philanthropic funds from being donated by foreign nations, and in India a female journalist who received Greengrants money was jailed after she began documenting corporate takeovers of indigenous lands. “Unfortunately, it happens all the time, the worldwide criminalization of activists,” Odendahl says. Gazaryan and Vitishko are not the only members of the group to be targeted by their government. According to media reports, there have been at least six detentions of EWNC members over the past four months. And EWNC founder Andrey Rudomakha, who remains in Russia, is out on bail after sending a text containing “some impolite words about a judge” and was charged with offending the judicial official, according to Gazaryan. In one of their earliest conflicts with the Russian government, Rudomakha and Gazaryan had tried to stop the cutting of a protected tree species in 2009, but only faced minor administrative charges as a result of that standoff, Gazaryan says. He adds that while in exile he has remained in touch with his colleagues, and it proved difficult to release the EWNC report this week because of the jailing of geologist Vitishko, who was the key player in documenting the geologic impact of the Olympic construction in Sochi. “We are trying to survive, somehow,” Gazaryan says, adding that the intimidation of environmental groups “is not exceptional in Russia.” Many cases of such harassment have been reported across the country, he explains, and the situation exemplifies “the 14 February 13, 2014

decline of democracy, the decline of human rights and pressure on civil rights.” Odendahl says the grant that her organization made to EWNC, which was the first it had received, is not unusual. Greengrants, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has issued similar awards for studies on the environmental impacts of the Olympic Games at Beijing and Vancouver, as well as the World Cup in Brazil. She says her group’s annual budget for grants in Russia is less than $200,000, and the Greengrants advisory board elected to issue awards of $4,000 — less than the organization’s average of about $5,000 — in an effort to reach more initiatives. Greengrants was founded on the principle that “the environment doesn’t know boundaries or state lines,” Odendahl explains, and since the majority of environmental activism was being funded in the United States, there was a need to invest in similar efforts in developing countries. She says that while Greengrants recipients have been persecuted in the past, this reaction is unprecedented. “We really want to get the word out in other countries, because getting the word out can help protect the activists,” Odendahl says, adding that it’s not like EWNC was engaging in confrontational actions. “They’re not holding signs and protesting at the Olympics. They’re publishing a scientific report.” When asked whether he thinks he will ever return to Russia, Gazaryan replies, “I don’t know yet. It depends on how long Putin is still alive. I’m not sure the situation will change before he dies, unfortunately. “He’s like a czar,” Gazaryan says. “He won’t go away, himself, and I don’t think the people will overthrow him.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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s the Boulder International Film Feb. 13, there are not one, but two parties. Toss in Festival (BIFF) celebrates its 10th the various filmmaker lounges and V.I.P. parties and anniversary, founders Kathy and everything else that can happen when 20,000 people Robin Beeck have much to celecome to your film festival, and the weekend sets up brate. to be a wild one. The 10th festival, taking place Thursday, Feb. 13 “We like our parties,” Kathy Beeck says, sitting through Sunday, Feb. 16, includes almost 60 films, across from her sister Robin in a conference room at 12 musical acts, dozens of directors and other speBIFF’s headquarters in a building off Broadway and cial guests, six films nominated for Academy High Street. “I always think the parties are so Awards, and four films important because Courtesy of Boulder International Film Festival coming directly to that’s where you do the BIFF from Sundance. networking, you know. There are several mileIf you don’t have parstones, too. This will ties, you just walk out be the first BIFF to of Ida [screening at show movies on a digi2:30 p.m. at the First tal cinema projector — United Methodist the movie industry’s Church on Friday, Feb. new, expensive stan14] and you don’t even dard for exhibiting talk about it, you just films — and the first go home. You need to festival to show a 3-D go to somebody, ‘Did movie. RealD — which you see Ida? What did makes the technology you think?’” used in most 3-D the- Fading Gigalo is the feature film screening on opening night And the Beecks are of the 10th annual Boulder International Film Festival. aters — is outfitting master networkers. the Boulder Theater They have to be in with a special screen order to make a festival and projector and is providing 800 pairs of glasses of this size work. A small battalion of volunteers for the screening of the Oscar-nominated short “Mr. helps coordinate the festival (for example, someone Hublot.” from Google will coordinate a video conference call And of course, there are the parties. Preceding during the “Global Town Hall” event). the opening night film, Fading Gigolo, on Thursday, Robin Beeck points out that having 10 years’

worth of contacts helps fill out the program. Filmmaker Jeffrey Radice first screened a documentary short at BIFF in the festival’s early years; this year, his feature-length No No: A Dockmentary screened at Sundance. Having known him for years made convincing him to bring the film to Boulder an easy sell, she says. “I think our programming has just gotten better and better every year, and I think people, looking at our ticket sales, now trust that when they buy a ticket, they’re going to get something. They trust the program, which is exactly what you want,” Kathy Beeck says. “And that’s really the mark of 10 years of a lot of work on Robin’s part to put together and build relationships.” This year, the sisters are giving actress Shirley MacLaine a Career Achievement Award, and the actress will accept the award on Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Boulder Theater. MacLaine has acted in almost 50 films and won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1984 for Terms of Endearment, her sixth time being nominated for the award. The singer-songwriter showcase continues this year with a great lineup of local musicians, highlighted by bluesman Otis Taylor. Also on the bill are Andy Palmer, Scott Dale, Rebecca Folsom, Janis Kelly, Patrick Dune, Sherrie Scott and Mark Meyer, John Bunzli, Mer Sal and Lindsey Saunders. Ten years is a long life for a film festival. And if this year is any indication, Boulder residents have much to look forward to next decade. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Drop acid, play baseball, make history Documentary explores the fascinating man behind baseball’s lysergic no-hitter by David Accomazzo

n 1970, Dock Ellis, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, threw a no-hitter. Years later, he would claim that during the game, he was tripping on LSD. The revelation, made by a somewhat sheepish Ellis, turned him into a minor counterculture star, spawning predictable articles in magazines like High Times and Lysergic World. Robin Williams joked about the feat in his stand-up. It’s an easy thing to take lightly. But when looked at from an athletic standpoint, the feat is actually phe-

Only 282 (depending on how you count) were no-hitters. It’s extremely rare. Ellis’ no-hitter wasn’t pretty — his control was all over the place — but at the end of the day, he had made history. He had pitched the 174th no-hitter in Major League Baseball history. It’d be easy to dismiss Ellis as a goofy sideshow. But the man was far more complex than that. A selfdescribed “angry black man” who idolized Muhammad Ali and who had to sleep in separate hotels from white players while playing in the minor leagues, Ellis was brash, outspoken, stylish and unapoloCourtesy of Boulder International Film Festival getic for who he was. As a player, Ellis had drug problems that ranged beyond LSD, and in his later years he became an outspoken advocate calling for MLB to address drug use among players. He died in 2008 of chronic liver failure at the age of 63. Dock Ellis is known for pitching a no-hitter on LSD, but the Director Jeffrey man behind the acid is complex and fascinating. Radice explores the circumstances that nomenal. Ellis was a pitcher, and pitch- molded Ellis into the type of man who ing is, as they say, a game of inches. would play professional baseball on The difference between a great pitch acid in No No: A Dockumentary, which and a terrible one is not very far. The is playing at the Boulder International best pitchers command pinpoint accuFilm Festival fresh from Sundance. racy, and to throw a no-hitter takes a This isn’t Radice’s first rodeo. He’s combination of pitching talent, solid made several short documentaries, defense and luck. To do so while expeincluding “The Collegians Are Go!!” riencing LSD-induced hallucinations is and “LSD A Go Go.” It was during absolutely outrageous, completely the production cycle of the latter that unfathomable. he first heard about Ellis’ lysergic Since 1876, there have been more no-no. than 200,000 professional baseball “[‘LSD A Go Go’] was about kind games played in the United States. of the secret history of LSD with the 20 February 13, 2014

he filmmaker John Waters and his muse, the larger-than-life drag queen Divine, are responsible for some of the most bizarre and shocking films of the ’70s. Divine’s turns in Waters’ movies propelled her into a star of the era’s mostly underground gay subculture, culminating in Pink Flamingos, at the end of which Divine ate fresh dog droppings. She was, as Waters says in Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary I Am Divine, a “cinematic terrorist,” “sexy, monstrous, terrifying.” Divine’s story begins with the birth of Clay Geerdes Harris Glenn Milstead, whose childhood doctor, according to his mother, proclaimed to be more masculine than feminine. An outsider bullied and teased for his hefty size and girlish demeanor, Milstead made his way into the social circle of Waters in Baltimore, and the rest in history. With Waters’ encouragement, Divine, a badass drag queen whose girth was only succeeded by her sass and attitude, emerged. Waters has said that he always intended for Divine to be scary. With painted-on eyebrows, hairline shaved back to the top of the head, and copious amounts of make-up and eyeliner, Waters probably succeeded. However, as the documentary reveals, beneath the flashy, female exterior of Divine was a serious, hard-working professional trying desperately to achieve critical recognition as a serious actor. Divine was slowly making progress toward that goal towards the end of her life. Waters cast Milstead, as Divine, to play Harris Glenn Milstead, as Divine Ricki Lake’s mom in his 1988 film Hairspray, and to everyone’s surprise, Divine received mainstream recognition not just as a drag queen novelty but as a serious actor. Milstead died at age of 42 in 1988, just after being cast to appear on Married With Children — as a man. Through archival interviews and exclusive ones conducted with Waters, Milstead’s mother, his family, friends and acquaintances, Schwarz constructs a sunny, highly entertaining profile of Milstead and Divine. At the essence of the film is a tale of a man who took the traits that made him different — his size and his femininity — and embraced them, forging an unforgettable career in the process.

CIA, and something about LSD in particular, I think, causes some people to want to share their experiences,” Radice says. “So I was getting a lot, not a lot, but I was getting a certain amount of anecdotal sharing from people in the audience during festivals, and it kind of made me think about what was the craziest story that I had ever heard.” The novelty drew his eye, but when he looked deeper he became fascinated with his character — an effect, Radice would come to realize, Ellis has on many people. One person drawn into the orbit of Dock was Donald Hall, a college professor who would become the U.S. poet laureate in 2006. Hall and Dock became friends while Hall was researching a magazine article on baseball, and he eventually wrote a biography about Ellis in 1976, three years before Ellis retired.

“The thing that intrigues me about [Ellis] was that he was able to move into different circles,” Radice says. “His appeal follows him. He can interact with people in the African American community, and he can appeal to a college professor poet.” “Dock resonates pretty well with audience,” Radice continues. “There’s something about his style and his outspokenness. People who remember him from that time remember him fondly.” Ellis’ first year in the minor leagues was in 1964. A little context: That was the year President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and the year the states ratified the 24th Amendment, which outlawed poll taxes, a tactic Southern states employed to impede black people from voting. Congress would pass the Voting Rights See DOCK Page 24

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enny Chenery, the owner of Secretariat, the Triple Crown-winning racehorse, reveals the truth behind her life in a new documentary, Penny & Red: The Life of Secretariat’s Owner. The documentary, directed by her son, John Tweedy, tells the true story of one of the most influential women in horse racing. After sifting through home footage of Chenery growing up, and conducting interviews with her, Tweedy combined the footage into an hour-long story of her life. Chenery had always kept her private life hidden away from the public eye. She reveals secrets in the documentary not disclosed in the 2009 Disney movie, Secretariat, based off of her life. “After the release of the Disney version of our family’s life, we, and my mother in particular, felt like there was more of a story to tell,” Tweedy says. Tweedy says that as his mother has aged, she has started coming to terms with her past, and wants to open up about her life more. Given her status in the world, she really felt like it was the right time to show the true Penny. “For Penny’s world, she’s kind an aging rock star. She’s kind of the Mick Jagger of her world,” Tweedy says. A lot of the documentary reveals how Chenery was extremely angry growing up. She talks about the first year of a horse’s life being focused on fitting into the herd, and compares it to a lack of belonging she felt during her own adolescence. In an interview in the documentary, Chenery’s third son, Chris, talks about the way he did not understand why his mother was so angry, but he knew she couldn’t control it. Growing up with a controlling father and an abusive brother led Chenery to feel like she didn’t have a safe place even within her own home. Those experiences turned into anger for her growing up, and the documentary makes clear she still carries some of that anger to this day.

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very single one of us is being transformed daily into a walking cocktail of chemicals. With more than 80,000 different chemicals currently in use in the United States, even newborn babies who has never eaten food or taken a breath can come out of the womb with more than 20 chemicals already in their blood. The Human Experiment examines how our constant exposure to things like plastics and flame-retardants in furniture may be impacting our health. This is an informative and terrifying film. Sean Penn is both the executive producer and narrator of this documentary that tells the story of our ever-increasing exposure to chemicals through the lives of several people dealing with a variety of health issues ranging from breast cancer to infertility to autism. It’s a massive problem. There are currently 42 billion pounds of chemicals — enough to fill 623,000 tanker trucks — entering American commerce every single day. This raises the question: How is our exposure to so much and so many toxic chemicals impacting our health? Unfortunately, no one can answer that question with certainty, hence the title of the film, The Human Experiment. But a lot of things appear to be resulting from this exposure. In 1999, 1 in 500 kids had autism. Today, it’s one in 88. According to the film, during the past 45 years, childhood brain cancer has increased 38 percent; asthma 80 percent; leukemia in children 74 percent; early onset puberty 55 percent; ADHD 53 percent; genital deformities in baby boys 122 percent; life-threatening birth defects more than 100 percent. The filmmakers spoke with a variety of experts who believe that our exposure to chemicals is at the heart of these rapidly increasing health threats to our children. They also examined why it is so hard to protect ourselves and our loved ones from this unwanted chemical assault. The short answer is money. The chemical industry spent $52 million on its lobbying efforts in 2011. For every lobbyist trying to convince Congress to reform our outdated and dangerous toxic laws — laws written in the 1970s that declare that every chemical is safe for market until proven otherwise — there are six lobbyists for the chemical industry filling campaign coffers in order to keep things just as they are. The Human Experiment is a must see at this year’s film festival. But beware, it might just turn you into an activist.

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uperstitions of rural Laos lay the groundwork for this award-winning film from Australian director Kim Mordaunt. Its central character is Ahlo, a young boy whose birth preceded that of his stillborn twin. According to the traditions of his tribe, twins carry both a blessing and curse, one assigned to each child. Ahlo’s grandmother is convinced he is the cursed one, a belief seemingly backed up by a series of tragedies faced by the village and Ahlo’s family, including the destruction of their village by the communist government flooding the valley it occupies. In order to convince a new village to let his family settle there, Ahlo decides he needs to win an amateur rocketry competition, the goal of which is to shoot rockets at the sky gods to convince them to send some rain and end a drought. But since Ahlo is cursed, the only person who will help him is a fellow outcast, a James Brown-obsessed drunk who collaborated with the Americans as a child soldier in Vietnam and never removes his bright purple suit. The Rocket is beautifully filmed, depicting an almost mythical landscape full of sunken Buddhas, dams the size of fortresses and half-buried unexploded munitions that can level a village around every corner, all of it woven into lush forests and mountains full of ritual and history. But just as striking as its imagery is the acting from The Rocket’s young stars, Sitthipon Disamoe and Loungnam Kaosainam, both acting for the first time, and both delivering captivatingly nuanced performances rarely seen from child actors. The Rocket is all at once an odyssey, a coming-of-age drama and a look inside a culture Americans have mostly only seen while dropping bombs on it. Amongst the many honors it has received so far are Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor and the Audience Award from the Tribeca Film Festival, Best Debut Film from the Berlin International Film Festival and the Best Original Screenplay from the Australian Film Institute.

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tured servitude for the duration of their playing careers. In 1969, St. Louis Cardinals player Curt Flood challenged the reserve clause, setting off a chain of events that would eventually lead to the Seitz Decision in 1975, which struck down the reserve clause for good. So Ellis played his career during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, and also during a time of See DOCK Page 25

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Radice says. “This was a story that baseball was trying to tell in ’81 ... and nothing’s changed. That’s the point I’m trying to make with that. Major League Baseball hasn’t really changed. The greenies era, the cocaine era, and the steroids era. ... It just moves on to the next crisis. [Now], baseball players are just being prescribed Adderall and Ritalin. ... They just replaced one drug with another drug. If [amphetamines are] not performance enhancing, [they] definitely keep your attention.” For the baseball fans out there, Ellis finished his 12-year career as a one-time All Star with a 138-119 record, more than 2,000 innings pitched, a career WHIP of 1.28 and an ERA+ of 104. For non-seamheads, that means Ellis was a pretty good player — perhaps one of the finer pitchers of the early- and mid-’70s. But as with most good-butnot-great players, Ellis would most likely be all-but-forgotten today had he not copped to the LSD-aided no-hitter. (And it’s unlikely that Ellis revealed that in a moment of braggadocio. In a 1990 interview, Ellis said that he first mentioned the feat to a reporter as part of his fresh rehabilitation — recovered addicts tend to have no qualms discussing their drug use, and Ellis said that when he was asked if he did drugs while playing baseball, that was the first story that came to his still-boisterous mind.) As is, though, Ellis’ story holds a strange novelty that appeals beyond baseball fans. In 2009, animator James Blagden turned a 2008 interview Ellis gave to NPR into an animated short video, and it has since garnered more than 3 million views. But the story of Ellis is more complicated and fascinating and that, and No No: A Dockumentary paints a complete picture of a talented ballplayer whose intellect, charisma and outspokenness hid a troubled, drug-addled dark side. “I think he was definitely a trailblazer,” Radice says. “It depends on where you want to draw the line. I think within the civil rights of baseball players, there’s no question he was out in front. He wasn’t Jesse Jackson or anything. He wasn’t marching in the streets ... he was playing baseball.”

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From a very young age, Chenery’s source of happiness came from being with horses. When she was young, Chenery would let go of her anger by learning how to ride. She would go out into the fields in her back yard, take off her belt to put around the horse as reins, and just ride. That love for horses grew when she took over her father’s breeding industry, and became the owner of the fastest horse to ever graze the industry, Secretariat.

Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973, setting records that still stand today. In the same week, Secretariat managed to make it onto the cover of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated. But Chenery did more than own this magnificent horse; she became a spokesperson for women jockeys and owners across the country. Chenery’s son directed, produced, and edited the documentary. He is a lawyer by day, but uses documentary making as a way to express himself artistically.

Tweedy says that two professions are more similar than you’d think. “Lawyering in litigation and lawsuits is a form of storytelling, and documentary filmmaking is a sense of storytelling,” he says. “It’s a search for truth.” Tweedy really wanted to focus the documentary on revealing the depths of his mom’s life, and tell stories that no one has heard until recently. “Most of [her] fans appreciate the deepening of the portrait and are fascinated by the events because they had no

idea what she was going through,” Tweedy says. Exploring someone as a whole person, the good and the bad, is one of the things Tweedy says he loves about being a filmmaker. On the subject of finding out about his mother’s past, he seems to have a very positive outlook on it. “Well, I think life is long. I’m 53 years old now. My mother and I have gone through a lot of phases and I think we’re in a wonderful phase now,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he documentary God Loves Uganda begins innocently enough, outlining evangelical outreach efforts by the Kansas City-based International House of Prayer (yes, they refer to it as IHOP) to Uganda. By the end, however, the mega-church’s effort is exposed for its true ulterior motive: to stamp out homosexuality in this African country. The filmmakers were afforded inside access to and interviews with the missionaries of the Christian Right, who probably didn’t know at the time what the angle of the documentary would be. And in a surprisingly even-handed way for a film directed by a gay black man (Roger Ross Williams), whose agenda was clearly to expose such bigotry, the views of the religious group are given plenty of airtime. Fundamentalist church leaders are pictured describing their honest, passionate belief in biblical law, and they initially portray their missionary trips as being in the typical spirit of saving additional souls. But before long, it becomes clear that the IHOP devotees view Uganda as ground zero in the battle against “sexual immorality,” and they are shown preaching fire and brimstone about the evils of homosexuality — even at one point showing a graphic film clip of an oral sex act to a group of Africans simply for its shock value. The award-winning film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, also features testimony from defenders of homosexual rights, including an Anglican priest who fled the country when his safety was threatened while investigating inhumane treatment of LGBT people, as well as a bishop who had his titles revoked by the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda because of his LGBT rights activism. While one side preaches abstinence, the other distributes condoms, and the political winds blowing in the U.S. even play a role in the dynamics: Former President George W. Bush’s administration refused to fund AIDS prevention campaigns unless they focused solely on abstinence. The religious right’s fervent anti-gay activism culminates in the introduction of a bill making homosexuality punishable by death. As the discussion about the morals of homosexuality grows into a national furor, a Ugandan gay activist is murdered, becoming a martyr. It’s powerful film that sheds bright light on the lengths to which some American fundamentalists will go to export their brand of morality to Third World countries.

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Courtesy image © ReelThing Films to the mill, and meetings ranium ate poverty plaguing her town. in Naturita and Nucla Drive-In is as “I was very up front, I said, ‘Hey I’m where the mill is welmuch a story from Telluride and I’m a filmmaker but comed as the source for about a place I really do want to tell the story more more than a thousand jobs from your point of view,’ and people and its people in an economically as the thing happening to really opened up,” Beraza says. “They depressed town. Nucla’s it. That’s to say, in a story just said they wanted their voice to be grade school has closed, about the first uranium heard and that nobody really seemed to and Naturita’s grocery mill proposed in the be listening to them.” story and shoe store are United States in 30 years, She sat through meetings they now empty buildings and it is the people and their thought too routine for her to take vacant lots. The Uranium love for their towns that interest in, and followed them into the Drive-In itself, once a vital grit of life on a ranch without flinching. take the wheel to drive the part of picturesque story. What Uranium Drive-In, which Naturita in the ’50s, is From images of lush premiered at Telluride, has done is Bette Nickle looks out over the former townsite of Uravan, near Nucla abandoned, its sign topfields being watered at illustrate those people to the rest of the and Naturita, Colo., and now a Superfund site. pled and lying in the dust. dusk, coiled rattlesnakes world. Her cast of characters and blonde sandstone “I feel like a lot of the locals here — environmental activists; injured mine were kind of shocked that they had sprouting with piñon trees, director talking to people.” and mill workers; a cowgirl with 50 Susan Beraza draws viewers into the From the start, her interest was in neighbors so close that they were comyears in the saddle; a family almost town meetings and ranch house living showing the perspective of the people pletely clueless about. They just were entirely off the grid, fetching their rooms of the small Colorado towns of who wanted the mill — a view left out like, ‘Oh, we don’t want that dang mill,’ water from a spring Naturita and Nucla. These western of much of the coverage, and a story and they didn’t think outposts of Montrose County are four not about the David and Goliath of the and killing their own about the actual peoON THE BILL: Suzan sheep for meat; a miles apart and 60 miles from a stopsmall towns versus the big companies. ple,” Beraza says. The Beraza will be attending the screening of Uranium Drive-In woman who lost a light, with populations in the hun“I just wanted to see what hapresponse has been a at 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. dreds that are still deeply entrenched pened, see what unfolded and really just father and brothers to flood inquiries about 16, during the Boulder International Film Festival, lung cancer, a known in a sense of tradition and community. trying to honor and tell their point of what can be done to which will include a Q&A after result of uranium They’re often overshadowed by their view,” Beraza says. “It’s very subjective. help the West End. the film. neighbor to the east, the bustling One person’s truth is completely differexposure — is Since the film tourist stop of Telluride. ent than someone else’s truth, and I anchored by three opened, Naturita, Beraza, a 20-year resident of wanted that to be the point of the story central characters Nucla and Telluride Telluride, had heard stories about the as opposed to what’s right or wrong from each of the three towns. Ayngel residents have started to come together proposed Piñon Ridge Mill in Paradox about the uranium debate and nuclear Overson is a Nucla resident eager to see to organize toward finding solutions Valley, the so-called “West End,” and energy because, first of all, it’s incrediher husband end three years of unemthat will mean jobs and economic began attending meetings about the bly complicated and I can’t even preployment with a job at the proposed growth in the region, including cottage mill. tend to know the answer there. So I just mill; Jennifer Thurston is a Sheep industries and tourism centered around “It was just really different than I decided to approach it in a different Mountain Alliance environmental the area’s recreation opportunities thought it would be — it was almost way.” activist who visits the sites of uranium and mining history, with or without like the communities [Telluride, For more than two years, she attend- mills and mines with a Geiger counter the mill. Additional information on ed and filmed meetings in Telluride Naturita and Nucla] were versus each in hand; and Tami Lowrance is the those efforts can be found at www. with the environmental groups, specifiother,” Beraza says. “So I just started mayor of Naturita, often brought to afteruraniumdrivein.com. cally Sheep Mountain Alliance, opposed tears or kept up at night by the despertentatively picking up the camera and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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great plotline is nothing without a character — one that generates an emotional investment, one we continue to care about long after the final pages of a book or final frames of film. The stories of the men — and in this case, one particular woman — who went to Nepal shortly after it opened to tourists in 1960 to pursue its Himalayan peaks offer no shortage of great plot points: daring climbs, emergency bivouacs at 28,000 feet in elevation, even the brazen steering of a VW beetle through the crowded streets of Kathmandu. But more than that, they offer characters much larger than the screens they’ll be playing on over the coming weekends. Two film’s at this year’s Boulder International Film Festival, High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 and Keeper of the Mountains, deliver the stories of those people, now in the twilight of their years, to new audiences before their achievements are forgotten and their living memories lost.

Audacious Americans Fifty years ago, high-altitude mountain climbing was about doing whatever it took to complete the mission, and when Americans set off, in 1963, to get to the top of the world’s tallest mountain, they took a team of about 20 and a determination that nothing get in the way of the goal: putting an American on the top of the world. It took a month of walking every day and half a million dollars raised over three years to get Americans just to the base of a peak that Boulder Weekly

Get over your Everest ennui Two films recall the history and renew the inspiration of the Himalayas by Elizabeth Miller had seen only nine other men on its summit. Over the course of acclimatizing hikes, including a sobering trip across the now notoriously dangerous Khumbu Icefall in which one of the expedition’s members was killed, Jim Whittaker emerged as the most likely to succeed in the summit push and he, with a Sherpa, Nawang Gombu, set off on the main objective: reaching the summit of Mt. Everest by the South Col. On May 1, 1963, Whittaker planted an American flag there. But there was a separate story, a story of two vaguely rebellious hotshot climbers loaded with ambition and vision, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, who wanted to tackle a riskier project. They scouted out, and, once Whittaker had completed the objective for the whole team of putting an American on the summit, were able to secure enough resources to pursue their own mission of summiting the peak by the never-beforeclimbed West Ridge. The route climbs several thousand feet up a steep headwall before attaining the left shoulder and traversing a snowfield to the Hornbein Couloir, requiring technical rock and ice climbing along the way.

The expedition they undertook wasn’t just a game-changer as an ascent of an unclimbed route to the highest summit in the world, it was a revolution in the way climbers thought about climbing. And that story is the heart of High and Hallowed: Everest 1963. “I’ve always felt that that story was certainly one of the greats of American Himalayan mountaineering, if not, I would argue, one of the greatest ascents in Himalayan mountaineering of all time and yet, especially to the younger generation of climbers, was largely unknown,” says Jake Norton, producer/director of High and Hallowed. Norton says he’s been mesmerized by the images and stories of Everest’s West Ridge since he was young and credits them among the reasons he got into climbing in the first place. “At that time and that era, on Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks, the only reason people would do a new route on those peaks was because it was easier than the first ascent route,” Norton says. “So for Hornbein and Unsoeld to deliberately choose a route that was more difficult and unclimbed was beyond belief. … For us climbers, it really did usher in

a whole new era. The West Ridge ascent basically proved that you could pioneer new audacious routes on the world’s highest peaks, and nobody had thought that way before, it was always find the easiest way to get up this thing, and Tom and Willi just said, ‘Hey, that looks like a cool route, let’s try it. We have no idea if it goes. We have no idea if we’ll live. But let’s go for it because this is what climbing is about. It’s about adventuring and stepping into the unknown.’ So I think for climbers it really did mark a huge transition and a new way of playing the game.” Fifty years later, is there still room left in the world for enterprising climbing like that? “Definitely,” Norton says. “The Himalaya, even Mt. Everest, there are incredible routes that still haven’t been done. You hear people all the time barking about Everest, how it’s washed up and it’s over, there’s nothing exciting there anymore, but I can guarantee that if you get off the standard route, there’s ample excitement to be done. New routes are put up every few years on Everest, and throughout the great Himalaya ranges, there’s a myriad of peaks, big ones and little ones, unnamed ones, ones that have never seen a human boot print before. So there’s an incredible amount still to be done, it just takes a little bit of that pioneering spirit of Tom and Willi and a willingness to cut the cord a little bit.” As part of the filmmaking, he and David Morton, fellow director/producer, went with Charley Mace and Brent see EVEREST Page 32

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Bishop, son of Barry Bishop, who was we can on the mountain,” Norton says. on the 1963 expedition, to Everest to “For me, as I think of all of us, it gave us attempt the West Ridge, which, like the even more respect for what that team standard route on the southeast face, did in ’63 — conditions and size of team crosses the Khumbu Icefall beforing aside, and support aside — what they climbing to the ridgeline. As of 2013, pulled off on an unknown route, doing more than 6,200 people had climbed things in a totally different way than Everest, only 14 completing the West anybody had ever done anything at that Ridge — and 16 have died while climbpoint in the high Himalaya. The audaciSpecializing In: ing or descending that route. ty and the courage and vision of Residential, Construction, “You have a greater chance of dying Hornbein and Unsoeld, especially, who on the West Ridge than reaching the were the driving forces behind it — I Move Out and Commercial top,” Jon Krakauer says in the film. think we all walked away just humbled Cleans, Serving Boulder County In 2012, the team set out after the and awed by what they accomplished.” for over 18 years West Ridge in the more contemporary, The woman who made it all streamlined, light and fast style, without What would be a count the support team and crew of sherpas in better gift than to Special discounts tow Unsoeld and Hornbein had, a give your loved one for choice that worked both with budget Elizabeth Hawley was a Depressiona sparkling Valentine’s Day! constraints and personal climbing ambiEra child, daughter of an often solo clean house!! tions. mother active in the movement to secure Conditions, however, were not in women the vote, a University of v v their favor. Michigan graduate who moved to New “We knew as we started approaching York and got a job as a researcher for the mountain that it wasn’t going to be a Fortune magazine. A decade later, bored very forgiving, easy year up there,” with covering business, she took off to Norton says. “We could see immediately travel, circumnavigating the globe with that there had been very little winter stops in Spain, France, Egypt, India, snow. Everything was melted back to China and Nepal, which had only just kind of this pre-Cambrian ice, just opened its borders to tourists. ancient bullet-proof ice everywhere, and Once there, opportunity, willingness we knew that was going to give us a and timing worked out for her to problem, but thought we still had a become a correspondent for Reuters, covering some of the earliest expeditions chance until we got above Camp Two into the Himalayas, including the first and onto the route.” ascent of Mt. Everest by an American. At that point, a stretch of climbing 2757 they Iris thought Ave. Boulder Co, 80304 in a was kind of like ambulance chas“It they could complete 2757 Iris Ave. Boulder • 303.444.1803 ing in those days,” Hawley says in the couple days took 10 days of hammering (303)444.1803 25-minute film documenting her life, uphill without making it to the ridge Bring this ad in for... Keeper of the Mountains, which will itself. It became clear that, as climbers • $10 off Mani/Pedi* Bring this ad in for..... say, *$10 Mani/Ped screen with the Boulder International theoff route wouldn’t go. A team from • $10 off Brazilian Waxing* *$10 North off BFace razilian WaxingGeographic Film Festival on Feb. 14 and with the The and National • Free Hair Cut with purchase of Full Highlight Service* Banff film tour on Feb. 25 (in a 16-minhadwalready turned back in favor of sum-service light service *Free Hair Cut ith purchase of full Highlight ute edit). miting via the standard route. Hawley took the job with Reuters “All of us on our team had already expecting to stay in Kathmandu and climbed the standard route on the cover politics there for three years. More mountain and really had no interest in *Offer valid for first-time clients only, with select stylist. Expires 5/31/2014. than 50 years later, Hawley is still there, doing that again, so we figured, we’ll get nly, with select stylist. Exp: 5/31/2014 Offer valid for Frist time clients only, with select stylist. Exp: 5/31/2014 as far as we can and do everything that see EVEREST Page 34 Check us out at www.foundationsalonboulder.com

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Hawley was tracking and reporting on Himalayan climbers, her mother was tracking Hawley, saving her letters, postcards and clips of her news stories. Otto used the original postcards and even their stamps for images in the film, and Hawley reads letters she wrote to her mother, announcing her arrival in “timeless Asia” and the purchase of a royal blue Volkswagen bug that would carry her all over Kathmandu for appointments with mountaineers. “I really think it speaks to the rich-

ness of the life she lived and the places she’s been. … The statistics from the Himalayan Database speak to her career, but the letters speak to who she is as a person and what her life has been like,” Otto says. “The mountaineers, a lot of them don’t know about her personal life and what she’s done outside of interviewing them and the relationships she’s had and the people she’s loved and the things she’s accomplished.” To some extent, that’s because Hawley has been an intensely private

person. To longtime rumors that she had a fling with Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with Tenzing Norgay, completed the first ascent of Mt. Everest, she says, no, but anyway, that’s “nobody’s business.” The film has provided a chance for them to learn those things about the woman usually asking the questions, not answering them. At the premiere screening of the film, during a dinner to honor see EVEREST Page 34

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for people to be away from their family and experience the dirty public bathrooms and rest stops of the world for very little money.” It’s not quite as bad as Kattner jokes. Yes, band members have been in flux. Yes, Kattner spent nearly a year couchsurfing and being audited by the IRS. But Man Man’s bookings have gone steadily upwards over the years, and it has done tours opening for indie-megastars like Modest Mouse and played no shortage of festival dates. And then there’s the fact that its current album, On Oni Pond, is a major step forward sonically that has tossed the band into the shark tank of radio rotations nationwide. Man Man’s earlier material was rooted in a sort of gypsy-stomp, coming off a

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So he added them. A lot. band’s new material is, where it truly The song “Engwish Bwudd” from shines is on stage. A Man Man concert is Man Man’s second album, Six Demon a 60-minute blitzkrieg of weird perforBag, has lyrics that are a dialog between mance art crossed with a church revival. an abusive father and the victim of his Kattner apes the bombastic style of rage, complete with Kattner falsettoing Southern preachers and the dead-eyed “no daddy daddy, no daddy daddy,” then intensity of a goth act. Sometimes, he growling, “get the fuck out of my house” wears a tunic covered with pictures of in response. CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer’s face and But he says the quest was always the tosses sparkles into the crowd as he sings perfect pop song, for example, something like James Brown on PCP. He and his like Outkast’s “Hey Ya!” drummer execute synchronized jumps. “I’m always try“Most of that ing to get a song came from being stuck in your head,” not that cool,” ON THE BILL: Man Man plays he says. “I know Kattner says. “I the Fox Theater on Monday, Feb. people don’t want to couldn’t play the 17, with Xenia Rubios opening. Tickets are $18 in advance, and do that. But I don’t songs and be aloof $20 at the door. Doors at 8:30 p.m. understand that. I and cool. I had to 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. think that’s difficult be myself.” to do. Don’t you But being himwant to strive to self also means make that happen?” being someone that came to music by And that quest paid off when Man way of being a failed screenwriter, and Man sat down to record On Oni Pond, its therefore being someone who grasps the fifth album. importance of imagery. Man Man had previously been a “Jodorowsky, The Holy Mountain, that band that appealed largely to musicians was a big thing in the beginning,” he or creatives who appreciated the chaotic says, referring to the 1973 Mexican sci-fi and unhinged experimentation of seeing film. “That was mostly the concept of members bounce among the dozens of finding really hideous, ugly, awful imagbizarre and homemade instruments the ery. But in the same breath, I’m just as influenced by Teen Wolf.” group toted around on tour. But for On Kattner says both his songwriting Oni Pond, producer Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes helped prune the sound into and stage presence are attempts to create compelling characters that allow showmore streamlined tunes with broader appeal. The first single, “Head On,” even goers to get lost in the performance. On songwriting: “Lyrically, it’s about broke into the Top 40 Billboard creating visuals, but also weighing them Alternative Songs, something Kattner thought was pretty surreal when he heard down with an emotional connection,” he says. it come on the radio at a bowling alley. On stage: “I think it’s important to “I felt like the only way that song try to sell your songs,” he says. “I think could ever get heard is if someone covit’s important to put on a good show.” ered it,” he says. That’s also why he offers nothing in On Oni Pond maintains much of the the way of banter on stage. manic songwriting style that Man Man “Nothing pulls you out of that creatbegan with. But instead of a shotgun ing an aura more than bantering,” he says. blast of sounds, it’s a headshot from a sniper that lets the individual instrumen- “If you go dance your ass off to a DJ set, the DJ doesn’t talk in between the songs.” tal lines shine through, along with the That said ... rawness of Kattner’s voice. His vocals had “Some people are good at it. Leonard always had a sort of Tom Waits growl to Cohen. I could just watch a set of him them, but unburying them from their bantering,” Kattner says. many layers revealed a new soulfulness. Man Man still has some time left in Track seven, “Deep Cover,” is a ukulelethe promotional touring phase for On centric ballad that makes the world’s Oni Pond. But the progress it represents most cheerful instrument into a mournfor the band has Kattner excited for ful cry into the darkness, even when the whatever comes next. major-key horns come in. “I’ve been trying from the beginning “The heart is a motherfucker, I’m to write the perfect pop song and missed positive of that,” Kattner sings. the mark over and over and over again,” The big single, “Head On,” is downhe says. “We’re going to start working on right touching, with Kattner crooning, the new record when we’re done with “Hold on to your heart, even when your this tour, and I have no idea what it’s body is bitter / Don’t let nobody ever going to sound like.” take it over from you,” as strings purr in Cheers to that. the background. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com But as immediately likable as the Boulder Weekly

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overtones Beyond Bach

Boulder Bach Festival looks beyond its namesake by Peter Alexander

he Boulder Bach Festival is chorus and I are thrilled to collaborate branching out. on these fantastic works.” This year’s festival week A second element of the expanded opens with a concert of festival are works by other composers instrumental concertos by who were important for Bach. Antonio Vivaldi (Feb. 18 in Boulder “As a festival that honors Bach, we and Feb. 22 in Longmont); and a secneed to look at his Italian influences, ond concert, featuring Johann Sebastian his French influences, his organ teachBach choral music (Feb. 22 in Denver ers, and [influences] from other parts of and Feb. 23 in Boulder), opens with an Europe,” Carrettin explains. oboe concerto by Michelle Maloy Dillon Alessandro Marcello (festival programs at www. boulderbachfestival.org). If that seems surprising for a Bach festival, you may have missed just how much the festival has grown in the past few years. Founded in 1981, the festival originally focused on annual performances of Bach’s major sacred choral works: The St. Matthew and St. John passions, the Mass in B Minor and the “Magnificat.” And while Zachary Carrettin, director of Boulder Bach Festival masterworks are still very much on the mind of festival director Zachary Carrettin, the festival has expanded Carrettin, a violinist who will play in from one or two concerts during festival the concertos concert, did not program week to nearly a year-long season. Vivaldi to jump on the Vivaldi band“We have a festival week, and that wagon represented by the recent perforhas been the tradition mance in Macky by for 33 years,” the Venice Baroque ON THE BILL: Boulder Bach Carrettin says. “We Orchestra (Feb. 13). Festival runs from Tuesday, Feb. 18, are continuing that He programmed through Sunday, Feb. 23. Visit tradition, which cenVivaldi as one of www.boulderbachfestival.com for tickets and more information. ters around the great Bach’s important masterworks of Italian influences. Johann Sebastian “The finale to our Bach. But we are expanding the season concertos concert is [Vivaldi’s] fourthroughout the year to include more violin concerto in B minor,” he says. concerts, from solo to chamber to “Bach transcribed that concerto for four orchestral.” harpsichords, and it was one of dozens With expanded programming of Vivaldi concertos that Bach either comes an expanded view of Bach. One copied by hand or transcribed for difelement of that is presenting a wider ferent instruments.” range of Bach’s sacred music, such as A curiosity of the all-Vivaldi prothis year’s choral concert featuring three gram is that the concertos are all in cantatas and a motet. minor keys. Carrettin thought about “My predecessor, Rick Erickson, adding a concerto in major, just for introduced the cantatas to this festival,” variety. Carrettin notes. “The cantatas can each “But why not present a program be considered a masterwork, and the that features an excess of deep longing Boulder Weekly

and yearning?” he asks. “I think the minor modes have such a diverse palette of emotional content, especially when there are the moments of the major key.” As for the Marcello concerto that opens the program of sacred choral works, Carrettin chose it for two reasons. “This is a very popular concerto, and Bach created his own version by heavily ornamenting all of the movements, and in the most amazing manner,” he says. “But the idea of starting the program with that [concerto] has to do with the way we are ending, with Cantata 131, ‘From the Depths I Call to You,’ which features the oboe as dominant voice in the music.” Between those two works, the program will feature two more cantatas — No. 196, which may have been written for Bach’s wedding to Maria Barbara Bach, and No. 150, which will be performed as a chamber cantata for vocal soloists in place of chorus — and the double-chorus motet “Come, Jesus, Come,” which is Carrettin’s favorite piece by Bach. “I picked the motet for purely selfish reasons,” he admits. “It’s an absolutely extraordinary composition, almost a personal calling out to God.” The final work of the choral concert, Cantata 131, was chosen to wrap up the whole festival. “The final chorus is nothing short of amazing,” Carrettin explains. “It has a four-minute crescendo of activity and of harmonic build that I think is the perfect culmination of both our programs. The final build, which is so enormous and complex, is about being freed from all of our transgressions, and all in the minor key until finally the last chord [in major], when there’s the promise of being forgiven. On the last chord there’s absolute stillness and radiance.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com February 13, 2014 41

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arts & culture Just give him a camera

How ‘Mistaken For Strangers’ transformed Tom Berninger from a basement dweller into a documentary filmmaker by Nadia Mishkin

he National is a band of ever seen.” had no experience [with the genre].” brothers. Aaron Dessner, on The National is a five-piece indie Nobody on the tour seemed to take guitar and keyboard, and his rock group recognized by Matt him seriously enough to predict that the twin brother Bryce, on guitar, Berninger’s baritone vocals and dark, result would actually be a successful docare joined by Scott and Bryan melancholy lyrics. They originally umentary. However, Tom was certainly Devendorf on bass and drums. Then formed in Cincinnati, Ohio, but are now able to capture some impassioned there’s the odd-man-out: Matt Berninger, based out of Brooklyn, N.Y. The group moments with the band, from energetic lead singer of the indie rock band. has gained a large following over the performances on stage to the reality of “I do have a brother,” Matt Berninger years, evidenced by the huge success and their lives on tour. once explained in an interview, saying popularity launched by the 2007 album “People didn’t think [the filming] was that his younger sibling is anything important, so I was more of a metal-head who able to access a lot of venues I thinks indie rock is “pretenmay not have been able to,” he tious bullshit.” says. “I got away with a lot.” However, The National is Most people seemed to certainly doing something humor him. Whether it was right. During the group’s because he was the lead sing15-year career, the band has er’s little brother, or because enjoyed enormous success and they never thought he would a gained a passionate followmake a real movie, the band ing, culminating in a Grammy members all were patient with nomination for Best his oft-ridiculous and unpreAlternative Album in 2014. pared interview questions. Back in 2011, Matt “What I really care about Tom Berninger, director of Mistaken for Strangers, enjoyed full access to the band The National as the lead singer’s little brother. is who drools in their sleep Berninger’s band was getting ready to tour Europe in supand who gets sick on the bus,” port of its 2010 breakout album High The Boxer. A lyric from the album’s single he says. “Those are the things that I find Violet. Meanwhile, his 29-year-old “Mistaken for Strangers” seems to funny. As the lead singer’s younger younger brother, Tom Berninger, was liv- encompass much of the subject matter: brother, nobody’s going to yell at me; I ing in their parents’ basement. So Matt “The unmagnificent lives of adults.” can really push the limits. I wasn’t trying threw his little brother a bone and invit“I was the last person in the world to to be a pest, but I did have a unique pered him to tour with the band as a roadie. make a music documentary,” says Tom spective.” He would no longer be the “brother-less” Berninger, an aspiring horror filmmaker. Being on tour with The National one in the group. “I was going through some difficult times didn’t quite live up to the rock ’n’ roll With a small camera hanging from a in my life before my brother took me on lifestyle that he had imagined. lanyard around his neck, Tom Berninger tour. I was really excited, I had never “These guys are a well-oiled tagged along on tour, planning to make a been to Europe before.” machine,” he explains. “There were no rock documentary. The result is Mistaken Tom had made a couple of films fights to film or anything, so the best for Strangers, named after the group’s before. His first was about a barbarian stuff I had was me on the bus getting 2007 single. Michael Moore calls it “one with an identity crisis, called Wages of Sin. drunk by myself.” of the best music documentaries I have “I don’t follow indie rock,” he says. “I Through Tom’s filming of what goes

on behind the scenes, it becomes clear that the band could only put up with his antics for so long. Everyone gets fed up with him shoving his camera in their faces at stressful moments and slacking on his duties as a roadie. His older brother tells him that he has to get his act together and come up with an idea for the film if he wants to stay. Tom begins to wonder what he is doing on tour, living in the shadow of his brother’s spotlight. “The film certainly evolved. I was in a weird, soul-searching dilemma, not knowing what I wanted to do in life. I had to complete this — finish something I started,” Tom explains. “It’s a very personal movie, a funny doc about me and my brother in the world of indie rock. It was a journey, and a very sobering moment when I realized that I was the subject of my own movie.” Matt’s wife played a huge role in helping him edit the film. “She sat behind me and looked over my shoulder and we really narrowed it down to the best stuff,” he says. The heartwarming and hilarious story of two very different brothers is not just for fans of The National. “It’s really about us getting to know each other,” Tom says. “My story isn’t finished until the film comes out.” The documentary will be released to theaters and on demand March 28. But starting in February, Tom will be going to screenings of the film and doing Q&As, making a stop at the Boulder International Film Festival on Saturday, Feb. 15, at the Boulder Theater. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

love notes

Friday, February 14, 7:30 PM Composers and lyricists have waxed poetic on the subject of love since the beginning of time. Central City Opera has picked a few choice moments from favorite operas and American musicals to illustrate the ups, downs, and all-around magic of love. Relive the rollercoaster of love through this eclectic program of songs and duets including selections from La Bohème, Carmen, Kiss Me, Kate and Camelot.

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This delectable pastiche features a romantic trio and dynamic pianist from the Central City Opera Ensemble and brought to Boulder by The Dairy Center for the Arts.

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Thursday, February 13 music Andy Palmer. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bluegrass Pick Under the Sun. 8:30 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-543-0886. Craig Cornett. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Thursday, February 13: Selasee and the Fa Fa Family. 10 p.m. Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Selasee and the Fa Fa Family will continue the reggae night tradition at the Lazy Dog this Thursday. The local group brings feel-good reggae music influenced by lead singer Selasee’s West African roots. In 2009 the group was awarded “Best World Fusion Song” at the Independent Music Awards. Selasee has worked with internationally recognized acts such as The Mighty Diamonds, The Wailers and Anthony B. Live reggae is free at the Lazy Dog every Thursday.

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Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 15, 7:30 p.m., February 16, 2 p.m.: Catapult. Irey Theatre, University Theatre Building, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-8181. New choreography by three CU dancers tells a tale of a young woman’s reality through memories of her childhood. The piece explores concepts developed by the students focusing on the capability of the human mind and children having the opportunity to share their thoughts in the classroom setting. Catapult is an original University of Colorado Boulder production.

film Friday, February 14, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, February 15, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, February 16, 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m.: OscarNominated Documentary Short Films. Muenzinger Auditorium. 2301 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-1531. The International Film Series will be screening the Oscarnominated documentary shorts this weekend. The showcase is a rare chance to see the films locally prior to the Academy Awards ceremony. Among the five nominated titles are the uplifting “Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life,” about 106-year-old Holocaust survivor and pianist Alice Herz Sommer, and “Facing Fear,” about a former neo-Nazi and the victim of one of his hate crimes becoming friends.

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American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through May 10. Boulder Stories of Romance and Courtships. Boulder Public Library Carnegie Branch, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 30.

Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through March 30.

Elen Feinberg will exhibit her paintings at NCAR until March 29.

Collect: The Art of Colorado Individuals. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-441-3110. Through Feb. 28.

Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. Humanity, Earth, Intention and Consequences — Features the work of Tania Dibbs, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Interlaced: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through March 22. A Language of Structure — by Derrick Velasquez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, www.bmoca.org. Through April 13. The Land, The Space, The Square — by Anibal Catalan. Boulder Museum of Contemporary

Narrative Forms at the WESTend — Paintings and sculpture by Damon Mohl, metal work of Jessica Mohl. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through March 1.

Oil Paintings by Jan Burch. NCAR Spark. 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through May 29. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 21. The Power of Water. Fire House Art, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through March 5. Paintings by Elen Feinberg. NCAR Spark, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through May 29 Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Stories in Print — Features the work of Cynthia Brinich-Langlois. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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events Boulder International Film Festival 2014. 5 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. Cooking with Confidence: Taste A Rainbow. 6 p.m. Classes held in private homes in Boulder. Call 303499-5777 for location.

Highwater. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Iration. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Johnny O. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Nano-Twin. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theatre at CU-Boulder, 1201 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577.

Valentine’s Singles Party. 7 p.m. AscenDance Studios, 5721 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, http://singlezparty. brownpapertickets.com.

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

Venice Baroque Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Friday, February 14 music BIFF Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 4 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Brad Upton Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Chain Station Mountain Music. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Chris Daniels and the Kings. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397. DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Gretchen Peters. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3283.

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Hazel Miller. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Swing St. Vrain. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafè, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Todd Bills. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-4921411. Tuck and Daisy. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Valentine’s Day with The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

events Boulder International Film Festival. 9 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Catapult. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. One Billion Rising. 3 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe

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Black Odyssey. The Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through Feb. 16.

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Dance, Baby, Dance. The LOCAL Theater Company, 1630 30th St., Suite A 171, Boulder, 720-379-4470. Through Feb. 14. Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women. The Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. 303-893-4100. Through March 9.

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The Legend of Georgia McBride. The Ricketson Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303893-4100. Through Feb. 23. Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501

Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through March 1. The Whipping Man. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524. Through Feb. 15.

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Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Out Boulder Red Party. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Quilters. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. World Sound Healing Day. 5 p.m. Solstice, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-8181.

Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Rob Nance. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. 4H Royalty. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Saturday, February 15

Selasee and the FaFa Family Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397.

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BIFF Singer Songwriter Showcase. 4 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Boulder Acts. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 720-431-5355.

Buckner Funken. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Danny Shafer. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-3390767. Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Iration. 7:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Jurassicasters. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. King Cardinal. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Laurie D and Diane Zimmerman. 7 p.m. Brewing Market Lafayette, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720890-3993. Monica & Eric. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Purple Squirrel. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-3175522. The Railsplitters Melody & Jacob. 8:30 p.m. Oskar

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Boulder International Film Festival. 9 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Catapult. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Chinese New Year Martial Arts Demonstration. 6:30 p.m. Golden Lotus, 1964 28th St, Boulder, 303442-6868. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344. Quilters. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Radiate. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Running Club. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Third & Fifth Saturday Swing Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.

Sunday, February 16 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bergen Christensen. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-492-1411. Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Liebermonster. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-543-0886. My Only Friends. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 see EVENTS Page 48

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In 1974, with the founding of Naropa, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche realized his vision of creating a place of learning where “East meets West and sparks y.” We are planning a year of performances, lectures, and seminars, bringing to the Boulder community the excitement and creativity that launched Naropa in the old Boulder Bus Barn in 1974 and is now represented by our undergraduate and graduate programs on three campuses.

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Wednesday, Feb 19 - 6pm - In the Tavern

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The Memory of Love — by Jim Fergus. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

And Life Comes Back — by Tricia Lott Williford. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050.

Moods, Emotions, and Aging: Hormones and the Mind-Body Connection — by Phyllis Bronson. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303447-2074.

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Monday, February 17

Rivvy Neshama. 7 p.m.–8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

‘’So, You’re a Poet,’’ presents Amiri Baraka Memorial Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Buchenwald: Hell on a Hilltop — by Flint Whitlock. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-4361070.

Tuesday, February 18

Flint Whitlock will discuss and sign his new book, Bunchenwald: Hell on Hilltop, at the Tattered Cover Book Store, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.–8:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Black History Month Storytime. 10:30 a.m.

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Sol Quatro. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Hot Soup. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

John mcKay band

Toku Kawata. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-4921411.

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

JImbo darvIlle and The TrucKadours

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

Wednesday, Feb 26 - 6pm - In the Tavern

Friday, Feb 28 • 8pm

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Tuesday, march 4 - 6pm - In the Tavern

Willie Bean. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Boulder International Film Festival. 9 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Wednesday, march 5 - 6pm - In the Tavern

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Tuesday, march 11 - 6pm - In the Tavern

FranKIe and Floyd

Wednesday, march 12 - 6pm - In the Tavern

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Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St, Boulder, 720-328-8328. Catapult. 2 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Frontrunners. 9:15 a.m. Whole Foods at Basemar Shopping Center, corner of Broadway & Baseline, Boulder, 303-499-7636.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th Street, Boulder, 303-449-0884. Shannon Hagan. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-492-1411.

events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th Street, Boulder, 303-449-0884. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2690 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Tuesday, Februrary 18

Make Your Own Native American-Style Frame/ Hoop Drum Workshop. 1 p.m. Enriching Elements, 2712 28th St., Boulder, 303-515-7974.

12th Planet. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Movement Mass — Align with the Divine With Melissa Michaels and Friends. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-415-0272. Quilters. 2 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

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Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Boulder Public Library’s Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: Trio Cordilleras. 12 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Faculty Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-492-1411.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road,

Good Rattle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Mother-Daughter Book Club Night: Kelly Corrigan’s Glitter and Glue. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303436-1070.

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events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic every Tuesday in February. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733. Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344. Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th Street, Boulder, 303-444-7465

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der, 303-447-0095. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Meryl Room Jazz Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Tribute to David Bowie & Lou Reed. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Quilters. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bobby Doran. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Wednesday Mini Bike Races. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.

Dirt Monkey. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. J Boog. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boul-

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An updated version of the classic romantic comedy. This film follows two couples from pickup line to bedroom. Rated R. At Century.

The year is 2028 and a good cop, Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), has been all but killed doing his job. To save Murphy and advance their technology, OmniCorp turns him into a human/robot we all know as Robocop. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

All Is Lost Robert Redford stars in All Is Lost, an open-water thriller about one man’s battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Romeo & Juliet on Broadway This is as good as it gets. NR. At Century.

American Hustle

That Awkward Moment

When the FBI decides to recruit con artists to infiltrate the Jersey mob and crooked power brokers, things get interesting in a hurry. Soon, the con artists are in over their heads, helping to take down corrupt politicians while the ambitious FBI agent spearheading the whole thing aims even higher. Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence shine in this supremely well-acted film. Rated R. At Colony Square and Century.

Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan star in this film about three friends who find themselves confused by their dating situation. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Century.

August: Osage County Oscar regulars Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Sam Shepard lead an extraordinary cast in this play-turnedfilm about a family reuniting in Oklahoma that none of us will ever forget. Don’t miss it. Rated R. Century and SIE Film Center.

Carmen: Paris Opera Carmen has lust, betrayal, murder — not to mention some of the most famous music in the history of opera. Anna Caterina Antonacci is “in her prime ... a musically intelligent and vocally splendid singer” (New York Times); she tackles the title role with fire and intensity, also starring Nikolai Schukoff. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose freewheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Rated R. At Colony Square and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

Endless Love Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde star as two teens having a love affair of which their parents don’t approve. This creates drama as the parents try to keep them apart. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Frozen When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the reindeer and a comical snowman that has trouble keeping his head, set out to end the spell. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks and Century. There is also a Frozen sing-along.

Girl on a Bicycle An Italian who drives a Paris tour bus has just proposed to his true love, a German stewardess, when a young French beauty pulls up beside his bus on her bicycle — and, in short order, following some very bad advice from his friend, he finds himself with a German fiancée, a French “wife,” two Australian children who call him “Papa,” and his life upside-down. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Gloria Gloria (Paulina García) is a “woman of a certain age” but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo (Sergio Hernández). Their intense passion, to which Gloria

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gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair — until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her golden years, she can shine brighter than ever. Rated R. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres

finds Mark Wahlberg telling the story of a group of Navy SEALs on a covert mission gone wrong trying to kill a big-shot Taliban operative. The SEALs get ambushed in Afghanistan. The film is based on a bestselling book. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Her

The Monuments Men

Only Spike Jonze could come up with a comedy flick wherein a shy writer (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his computer’s sexy-voiced operating system. Rated R. At Century

Based on the true story, this film follows a special platoon of art experts and soldiers charged with finding and saving the art that has been stolen by the Nazis before it is destroyed and lost forever. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Another entertaining installment in the Lord of the Rings series. This one has a giant dragon guarding treasure. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.

Nebraska

The Coen brothers craft this story of a homeless young folk singer trying to create a name for himself in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. Rated R. At Mayan.

After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

The Invisible Woman

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Ralph Fiennes (who also directs) shines as the most famous writer of his day, novelist Charles Dickens, who had a secret affair with 18-year-old actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones, Like Crazy). Dickens was 45 and at the top of his fame when he met the beautiful young actress, performing in a troupe with her sisters, and was immediately struck. Her pragmatic mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) encouraged Nelly to welcome the interest of such a famous man, even if she can never become his wife. Rated R. At Century. — Landmark Theatres

This animated film is an action-packed comedy starring a mischievous squirrel named Surly (voiced by Will Arnett). Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.

Labor Day

After a four-year separation and at his estranged French wife Marie’s (Bérénice Bejo, The Artist) request, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa, Leila) returns to Paris from Tehran to finalize their divorce procedure so she can marry her new boyfriend Samir (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet). During his tense brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie’s relationship with their teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet), and his efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past. NR. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Inside Llewyn Davis

A 13-year-old and his mom go shopping only to get abducted and taken back to their home by an escaped and wounded convict. They all grow into a happy family and have to dodge the heat looking for the escaped fellow. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Century.

The LEGO Movie 3D Emmet is a normal, nerdy LEGO dude. So when he is mistakenly identified as the only LEGO who can topple an evil tyrant, things get pretty funny. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Like Father Like Son Ryota (Masaharu Fukuyama) is a hardworking architect in Tokyo taking care of his 6-year-old son and wife Midori (Machiko Ono). All is going well until Ryota learns that his son was switched at birth with another baby. At Chez Artiste.

Lone Survivor

The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2014: Animated and Action The animated shorts and action shorts have different showtimes, so check in with the theater. At Mayan and SIE Film Center.

The Past

Philomena The unparalleled Dame Judi Dench brings to life the story of a woman who gave away the child she conceived out of wedlock for adoption in the United States and her search, decades later, to find that son with the help of a BBC reporter. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Chez Artiste.

Ride Along Kevin Hart and Ice Cube star in this latest tale about misfit cops as partners. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.

Dr. David Nesbitt is the winner of the 2013 Science Pacesetter Award. He is the director of the CU Wizards program, which is dedicated to entertaining youngsters while teaching them about science. The program has presented free shows each month for the past three decades. This film is based on a Carl Sagan novel about an astronomer (played by Jodie Foster) who, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine. With the help of a rich entrepreneur she mounts an international project to build the machine and send someone in it, even though they are unsure what will happen. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

12 Years a Slave

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. The heart-wrenching film has Oscar potential, and it landed nine nominations. Rated R. At Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Vampire Academy Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch) is a nice vampire living among us mortals who is charged with protecting her kind and the rest of us from bad vampires. Rated PG13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Weekend of a Champion

In 1971, motor racing fan Roman Polanski spent a weekend with world champion driver Jackie Stewart as he attempted to win the Monaco Grand Prix. Polanski was given intimate access to Stewart’s world for three days, both on the track and off. The result is an extraordinarily rare glimpse into the life of a gifted athlete at the height of his powers. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Winter’s Tale In this film that spans more than a century, the ageold battle of good and evil plays out in New York City. The film stars Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Eva Marie Saint and Russell Crowe. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Century.

The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Jean Dujardin in this adaptation of 1990s banker-gone-bad Jordan Belfort’s memoir. Rated R. At Century. Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE Film Center in Denver: Boogie Nights; Showgirls; The Last Tango in Paris; Oscar-Nominated Shorts; The Past; The Square; Broken Circle Breakdown; Raze; The Great Beauty; Alice in Wonderland; The Sarnos: A Life in Dirty Movies; Johnny Minotaur; Moebius; King: A Filmed Record; A Labor of Love; Let My Puppets Come; Deep Throat; Inside Deep Throat; Act of Killing.

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“Helium”  Directed by Anders Walter If, somehow, “That Wasn’t Me” doesn’t win, it will be because Oscar voters couldn’t pass over a film about a boy dying of cancer and a kindly hospital worker who invents heaven. It may be a bit cloying and clichéd with its heart-string puppetry, but the fantasy sequences alone elevate the material beyond Lifetime TV-style limits. Audiences will be split into two camps: those who say they got misty eyed and liars.

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“Avant Que De Tout Perdre ( Just Before Losing Everything)” Directed by Xavier Legrand Legrand’s film is basically a heist movie. Money is transferred into accounts and cons are underway. But the “treasure” stolen here is freedom from domestic violence. A woman seeking to save herself and her children asks for help escaping her abuser from her job. Her boss fires her instead of letting her resign, so she gets severance, her coworkers lie to cover for her … but then her husband shows up. It delivers unreal tension in just less than 30 minutes. Related: I can apparently hold my breath for just under 30 minutes.

“Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)”  Directed by Selma Vilhunen The lone dud among the 10 liveaction and animated shorts, this slightly goofy comedy is eight minutes of a family rushing to a wedding. People fall down and wear silly clothes, if you’re into that. I can only hope some form of nepotism got this a nod because I don’t get it. Oof.

“The Voorman Problem”  Directed by Mark Gill If one film from this bunch is developed into a feature, it should be this. Starring Martin Freeman as a psychiatrist interviewing Tom Hollander playing a man who claims to be God, this has at least two “holy eff ” moments and the coolest ending of the bunch. “That Wasn’t Me” was the “best” short of the year, but “The Voorman Problem” was my favorite.

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Dinner and a show BIFF launches the ‘Foovie’ by Josh Gross

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he Boulder International Film Festival “The food was a character in the film,” says launched in 2005, going from zero to Beeck. “And I really liked that.” destination with well-curated lineups, Set in a Paris restaurant, Le Chef is a comedy visiting stars and generally well-run about a chef desperate to avoid his restaurant losing shindigs. one of the stars on its rating, a blow that would vioThis year, they’re adding something new to try late his contract and allow the CEO to clean house, to tap into Boulder’s biggest natural resource behind fire the staff and embrace the decidedly un-French its strategic national rock-climber reserve: classy molecular gastronomy. Gadzooks! It should be a grub. breeze considering what a cooking On Friday, Feb. 14, BIFF will whiz the famed chef, Alexandre The Foovie will run from 5:30be staging the Foovie, a schmancy Vauclair ( Jean Reno), is. Only 9:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 14 at catered meal from the folks at problem is, he’s running on empty, eTown Hall. Tickets are $95 per person and are available for Front Range Catering that will be with no fresh ideas for his fresh purchase at www. paired with the 2012 French comproduce and has to turn to a brilBoulderTheater.com. More edy Le Chef, starring Jean Reno liant intern to help him out. Enter information is available at www.Biff1.com. and directed by Daniel Cohen. the clash of personalities and let That’s right: dinner and a movie. the hilarity ensue. “We think this is perfect for Le Chef premiered internationalBoulder because it’s such a foodie town,” says ly at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in Kathy Beeck, director of the Boulder International 2012, and festival organizers allege it is the funniest Film Festival. “It also happens to be Valentine’s Day, restaurant movie since Ratatouille. This will be the which makes it even more perfect.” first time it has shown in Colorado. “It’s a nice light comedy,” says Beeck. “You want Beeck says the inspiration came from a member a light mood for Valentine’s Day.” of her board of advisors who attended a similar But for Valentine’s Day, you also want some event at a film festival in California, and that it first-class grub. And for that, Beeck and crew seemed like good expansion as part BIFF’s 10th turned to Front Range Catering. anniversary. “Front Rage Catering is not a French caterer,” The movie was largely chosen because of its food says Beeck. “But several people on my board had themes.

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used them in the past and said they’d do a great job. We called them up and said we wanted to do a French-themed movie and it would be all Frenchthemed appetizers, and it was later that day that they had a full menu for me.” Front Range Catering specializes in handcrafted menu items made from scratch, but spread across multiple food disciplines. Available menus offer everything from sushi and mandarin chicken to prosciutto and caramelized onion pizza. Instead of popcorn, Beeck says, the menu Front Range Catering is delivering includes Gruyère puffs, mini-tartlets, petite quiche lorraine, salmon, olive tapenade crostini, cedar-planked brie, roasted sirloin crostinis and bacon-wrapped dates, with chocolates from Seth Ellis Chocolates and pastries from Shamane’s for dessert, which are, like, le delicioussounding. But none of that is complete without the hooch. That’s why there will also be beer from Boulder Beer. Wine will be provided by Francis Ford Coppola, though Beeck says that just means his winery is donating it, not that he will be wandering through the party in a sommelier’s outfit refilling glasses. Coppola will be providing the bubbly for the afterparty as well. Though Coppola won’t be there, Sacre Bleu will see FOOVIE Page 58

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SPRINGTIME IS FOR LOVERS

Unfortunately, it’s still f@#$ing February, which is a time for forcing romance on an unwitting public so they can make it through the winter doldrums and reach spring without telling their partners what they really think of that noise they make in their sleep and then spending a cozy evening for one on the couch. You know, Valentine’s Day. And for those looking to have love enforced on them in style (or to demonstrate your financial worth in order to increase your likelihood of “scoring”), the following is BW’s roundup of some hot haps to heal your hunger and have your heart humming.

ZOLO GRILL

The always-excellent Zolo Grill in Boulder will be hosting a four-course prix fixe dinner for V-day, featuring oysters, crab and black bean cakes, roasted squash and chile bisque, lobster tamales, braised lamb shank and chile cheesecake. The prix fixe is $45. Reservations are available by calling 303-449-0444.

OAK AT FOURTEENTH

Oak at Fourteenth will be doing its thing with classy American food, serving roasted chicken and mushroom soup, sweet potato and sage ravioli with crispy duck leg confit and smoked ricotta cheese, and grilled quail with Gruyère cheese and chestnut stuffing over four courses. That one will run you $70 before tax and tip. Call 303-444-3622 to make reservations.

KACHINA SOUTHWESTERN GRILL

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a three-course menu featuring pork tamales and rack of lamb with tepary beans, pimento butters asparagus, a mustard demi-glace and house-made mint jelly. After that, chocolate-dipped strawberries, prickly pear truffles and cola cake. Select items on the menu will also be available a la carte for those that prefer foodie freedom over the totalitarianism of menu-planning. Dinner will run you $40. Contact 303-4105813 for reservations.

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be coming from the entertainment. There will be a free dance party in observance of V-Day and One Billion Rising for Justice from 4:30 to 6 p.m., and then the Rocky Mountain Kings and Boulder Burlesque will perform a “Draglesque” show at 8:30 p.m. that should run until just after midnight. Tickets for that show are $10 in advance or $12 at the door and are available at www.boulderburlesque.com.

ZUCCA ITALIAN RISTORANTE

If you’re looking for a menu that doesn’t zuck, Louisville is also for this may be the one. lovers, thanks to the Zucca is doing four William Kelley, executive chef of Zucca Italian three-course dinner Ristorante in Louisville courses for the 14th, going down at The starting out with seared Huckleberry. buffalo tenderloin or Lovers will start with dungeoness crab cakes for appetizers, then their choice of savory bread pudding, crab fritthe choice of a chervil crepe or a shaved ters or roasted butternut squash ravioli, before Brussels sprout and cured pork tenderloin salad. choosing from roasted chicken, grilled beef tenThen there’s the choice of a roasted quail with derloin, mango chili mahi and wild mushroom creamy polenta and mustard green, milkpolenta, and finish things off with their choice of braised lamb with root vegetable gnocchi, chocolate lava cake or raspberry swirl cheeseseared scallops with sweet pea rissotto, or safcake. That dinner costs $29 per person and fron fettucine with olive croquettes, followed by includes a glass of the bubbly. Call 303-666-8020 your choice of brioche or a white chocolate to make reservations. mousse. That four-courser will run you $49 per person. SHINE Reservations are available by calling 303-666Downtown good vibesery Shine will be dish6499. ing out treats like butternut squash ravioli and mushroom bisque, and doing up some special Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com dishes with lamb and beef, but the big shiny will

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Zeal shows enthusiasm in its take on fresh, local, organic food by Josh Gross

ne by one, the nations participating in the Winter Olympics in Sochi strolled past the cameras, waving flags and led by pretty women wearing go-go boots and enormous, garish metal and plastic cages. Poor Tajikistan only had one athlete to boast of. And though I had no interest in the international athletic swordfight taking place, it was impossible to look away. That’s because the rest of the newly opened Zeal is what Boulder has come to expect from sleek, Pearl Street eateries: A clean, modern design with high ceilings, plenty of light and colors as natural and comforting as the food. But with decor like that, the single, enormous plasmascreen television hung on Zeal’s eastern wall was a sore thumb, wrapped in an attention-suck, inside a fish out of water. But then somewhere in between Latvia and Venezuela, the TV flashed the words “good food changes everything.” It was a dog food commercial. But the message still held true, because the spread Zeal laid out was pretty top-notch. Zeal’s culinary schtick isn’t anything new. Fresh. Local. Organic. Etc. They describe it as “food for enthusiasts,” and beat diners over the head with the messaging at every opportunity. “No GMOs ever, period,” the menu boasts, thumbing its nose at punc-

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The chicken diavolo went in the other direction altogether. Bold, bright and brassy, the roasted chicken breast was covered in a hunter-safety-orange diavolo sauce made from calabrian chiles that gave it strong, sweet and megaspicy bite that, unlike most intensely spicy dishes, didn’t linger. It was the spicy equivalent of a guerrilla fighter, jabbing and retreating to fight another

day. And at the price, I’d be glad to let it do battle with my tongue anytime. The dish was also unusual in that diavolo sauce typically tastes more in line with the Italian spice palate, being prepared as something of a spicy, creamy marinara, and Zeal’s didn’t bother with the typical sauce base, delivering a subtle Asian flair, despite the chiles still being an Italian item. On the side was a mix of roasted carrots, radishes and broccoli that didn’t bother with much in the way of spices, just let their natural flavors fly. To close out the evening, we split a slice of vegan brownie cheesecake from Zaza and watched as hour 28 of Pootie’s Most Supreme Olympic Pageant Hostage Crisis 2014 played out on the TV. Then the dog food commercial came on again. Bottom line: Annoying giant vibekilling TV or not, the eats were topnotch. I’ll go to Zeal again, and I’ll probably order the diavolo, ’cause it was that good. But next time, I’ll sit facing west. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com FOOVIE from Page 55

be. The Boulder-based quartet specializes in French and Euro-gypsy jazz and will be holding down the blue notes for the wining and dining portions of the evening. And if all that still ain’t enough for you, Beeck is sweetening the pot with fabulous prizes. One lucky attendee will walk away from the Foovie having won a pair of earrings donated by local master jeweler Todd Reed that are valued at a cool $10,000. “I think it’s going to be one of the highlights of the festival,” says Beeck. There’s just one big drawback to all this hoopla, and that’s limited space. Because of the venue capacity and food, only 200 tickets to the Foovie are available. And they must be purchased separately from festival passes. Of course, this all raises one big question: Is the Foovie a la carte, or will it be a regular at BIFF? Beeck says it’s too soon to say yet, that’s she’s just busy trying to get through this first before thinking too far ahead. But there’s a good chance. “Without having attended it yet, I can’t confirm for next year,” she says. But: “I can’t imagine that we wouldn’t do it next year, because it’s turning out to be so fabulous this year.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com 58 February 13, 2014

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Here’s what I wish for you during the Valentine season: to be happily in love with an intimate partner who loves you back. If that’s not feasible, here’s what I hope: that you are learning provocative lessons about yourself through your growth-inducing relationship with a close ally. And if you’re not blessed with either of those experiences, here’s a third alternative: that you cherish your fathomless longing for its own sake, feeling wonder and reverence for its wild power even if it’s unfulfilled.

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Making eye contact is essential for building potent links with people you care about. It bypasses rational thought, stimulating chemical reactions in your bodies that enhance empathy and intimacy. In practicing the art of love, it’s one of the most potent moves you can make. This Valentine season would be an excellent time for you Leos to explore the frontiers of what’s possible through prolonged eye contact. Start here: Cultivate a sincere desire to know what’s simmering inside the souls of your dearest allies. With that as your driving force, your gaze won’t be clouded by shyness or self-consciousness.

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“I prefer an ecstatic orgasm to a lot of angst,” says Filipino artist David Medalla. I hope you consider making that your battle cry during this Valentine season. It would be in rapt harmony with the current cosmic omens. There really is no need for you to get sidelined by anxiety or distracted by stress when the natural remedy is so easily available. In every way you can imagine, Virgo, fight off sourness and dourness by engaging in acts of joy and pleasure.

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Do you feel oppressed by Valentine’s Day? Maybe you’re single and reject the cultural bias that says being in an intimate relationship is the healthy norm. Or maybe you’re part of a couple but are allergic to the cartoonish caricatures of romance that bombard you during the Valentine marketing assault. If you’d rather consecrate love and intimacy in your own unique way, untainted by the stereotypes flying around, I invite you to rebel. Make this the year you overthrow the old ways and start a new tradition: Valentine’s Day 2.0. Mock sappy, sentimental expressions of romance even as you carry out futuristic experiments in radically slaphappy love.

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Dear Dan: I’m a 24-year-old straight male and I’m unattractive. Physically I’m not bad (not hot, but not ugly), but sadly, I’ve suffered from extreme depression all my life. I’ve gotten help, and it’s made me a little better, to the point where I’m functional. Now here’s my issue: Low self-esteem and lethargy aren’t exactly the best things for attracting the opposite sex. My sex life is poor, and my love life is nonexistent. I’ve never felt romantic chemistry with a woman ever, and I’m honestly losing any faith that it will ever happen. I’ve always tried to respect women, but my inability to attract them sometimes leaves me feeling resentful. I don’t want to become a bitter men’s rights activist, so I’m wondering if you have any advice. —Unattractive Guy Longingly Yearns Dear UGLY: Did you see Louis C.K.’s most recent comedy special? He does this bit about schlumpy guys—guys like him—who don’t have much luck with women when they’re young. “I like getting older,” he says, “because for me, the kind of guy I am, getting older makes my life better. My sex life? Way better at 45… I’d like to make one of those ‘It Gets Better’ ads for dumpy young guys. We could use a little help, a little encouragement.” Louis C.K.’s advice for you: “Stay relatively employed and washed; you’re going to be amazing in your 40s. You’re going to be the branch that she can grab before she hits the ground. It’s going to be so great. It just takes time for her circumstances to match your looks. When real shit matters, you’re going to be the sexiest motherfucker in the world.” My advice for you: Keep working on your depression, throw yourself into nonsexual pursuits that you enjoy, find a job you like and build a career, locate and patronize (and overtip) an independent sex worker (which can help you learn to interact with women), and don’t allow bitterness to ruin you for all those women you’re gonna get with in your 40s. Dear Dan: What is the lesbian synonym for twink? —Can’t Ask Lesbian Friends Dear CALF: I tossed your question to the wolves who follow me on Twitter, CALF, and got a few suggestions: twyke, dykelet, and Boulder Weekly

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Bieber. But the term of art is “baby dyke.” Dear Dan: Love you, Dan, but I expected a little bit more from you in your response to ERR, a restaurant manager who was attempting to advise a “Mexican” employee who was having romantic problems. Unless the word Mexican was used to describe a hardworking, loyal, honest, eager worker, I’m not sure how it was in any way germane to the story. When reading your response, I was surprised you didn’t address this with ERR. I’m not sure what being Mexican has to do with this issue at all. On some levels, ERR including it, or you not addressing it, seems to underlie, and subliminally support, some people’s predisposed — OK, prejudicial — views. Here’s a fun exercise. Replace the word Mexican with the word “black” in ERR’s question. Now try Jew. Now try Russian… French… Italian… Thousand Islands? (Kidding, but this is a restaurant we’re talking about.) See how the descriptor of the person can change the feel of the story, without it actually being in any way part of it? Care to comment? ¿Por favor? —Tim In Toronto  Dear TIT: A lot of immigrants from Mexico — documented and undocumented — work in restaurants in the United States, TIT. Having worked in restaurants myself, and having worked with a lot of Mexican immigrants, I thought the detail was germane for this reason: New or relatively new residents are often baffled by our strange sexual mores, which can include married ladies sleeping with restaurant workers who aren’t their husbands. (This never happens in Mexico, of course, because Mexican wives are loyal and honest and eager.) And during my years in the restaurant industry, TIT, I witnessed many decent and kind restaurant managers help their Mexican employees — some of whom were struggling not just with cultural barriers but also with language barriers — navigate the strange and unfamiliar social, political, and sexual mores, norms, and expectations they were encountering in the United States. So the detail struck me as both relevant and benign. Send your questions for Dan to mail@savagelove.net, and follow Dan on twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Cannabis should not be a controlled substance

s more state legislatures vote to allow medical marijuana use and research, and public approval in the United States for ending the federal ban on cannabis continues to rise, there is still much official opposition. And perhaps the most entrenched opponents are those in Washington actually charged with enforcing that federal ban. Some of President Barack Obama’s own “drug abuse” advisers have publicly disagreed with his published comments that cannabis is no more dangerous than alcohol or other drugs. DEA chief Michele Leonhart reportedly told a law enforcement group in a speech a few days later that the president’s comments were reckless and irresponsible. The schizophrenia in the executive branch’s oversight of cannabis has never been more apparent than during a Feb. 4 House Oversight Committee hearing on (what else?) the schizophrenia in the executive branch’s oversight of cannabis. At one point, Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly (D) questioned Michael Botticelli, the deputy director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, on the harmfulness of cannabis in light of the president’s comments. Connolly called himself “a child of the ’60s” and no advocate for the legalization of any drugs, but he’s serious that the federal government bases its drug policies on science, not politics. It’s an amazing nine minutes that anyone who cares about cannabis legalization needs to watch. (It’s here: http:// bit.ly/1l5AiUu) Taking advantage of the opportunity and armed with facts gleaned from government statistics, Connolly actually forces Botticelli to answer him, guiding him back to the question at hand when Botticelli tries to wander off. What the interrogation outlines, in starkly human detail, is that, in spite of Obama’s comments, there are those in the White House who don’t, or possibly, can’t approach cannabis except in a negative light. It also shows the difficulty of getting anyone in the government — well, apparently beyond the president and attorney general — to actually analyze federal drug policies. Boulder Weekly

Assistant Drug Czar Michael Botticelli struggles to avoid answering questions during a House hearing on Feb. 4.

The key exchange is priceless: Connolly: “How many people die from marijuana overdoses every year?” Botticelli: “I don’t know that I know. It is very rare.” Connolly: “Very rare. Now let’s contrast that with prescription drugs, unintentional deaths from prescription drugs. One American dies every 19 minutes. Nothing comparable to marijuana. Is that correct?” Botticelli: “Correct.” Connolly: “Alcohol — hundreds of thousands of people die every year from alcohol-related deaths: automobile accidents, liver disease, esophageal cancer, blood

nificant public health effects of the drug.” Connolly: “I guess I’m sticking with the president — the head of your administration — who is making a different point. He is making a point that is empirically true. That isn’t a normative statement that marijuana is good or bad, but he was contrasting it with alcohol and empirically he is correct, is he not?” Botticelli begins to reiterate the “public health” argument. Connolly: “Is it not a scientific fact that there is nothing comparable with marijuana? And I’m not saying it is good or bad, but when we look at deaths and

There is some thawing. A bipartisan group of congresspeople that includes Rep. Jared Polis is supporting bills that would give cannabusinesses the same tax opportunities as any other enterprise. And the recent Farm Bill allows the production of hemp to begin again in a few states after a 70-year limbo because the government wasn’t able to distinguish it from marijuana.

poisoning. Is that correct?” Botticelli: “I think the way you have to look at this is the totality of harm associated with this substance and to basically say that even though it doesn’t have the lethality of those other drugs. I think it’s the sig-

illnesses, alcohol and other hard drugs are certainly — even prescription drugs — are a threat to public health in a way that just, isolated, marijuana is not. Isn’t that a scientific fact? Or do you dispute that fact?” Botticelli: “I don’t dispute that fact.”

Since being added to the Schedule I classification under the Controlled Substances Act in 1970, cannabis has been considered a drug equally as addicting as heroin and even more dangerous than cocaine or methamphetamine. Connolly, again using the government’s own facts and figures, suggests that perhaps the classification should be re-examined. But if you work for the DEA or in the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, apparently you can’t even consider the growing evidence that cannabinoids provide benefits that even medical doctors are now acknowledging. Though it has a facility in Mississippi that grows it, the government won’t provide cannabis for researchers who want to study its medical properties. The Institute for Drug Abuse is just that. It doesn’t study drug use — only drug abuse. There is some thawing. A bipartisan group of congresspeople that includes Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) is supporting bills that would give cannabusinesses the same tax opportunities as any other enterprise. Others are seeing the evil behind arresting and incarcerating Americans, mostly those of color, for simply using cannabis. The recent Farm Bill allows the production of hemp to begin again in a few states after a 70-year limbo because the government wasn’t able to distinguish it from marijuana. As Connolly noted, almost half the country is now allowing medical cannabis. After mentioning Just Say No and other failed prohibitive drug campaigns and programs over the decades, the representative from Virginia concludes that the war on drugs hasn’t worked very well — either in influencing public opinion or in curbing demand for the product. He notes that other campaigns, for tobacco and alcohol that are voluntary, actually have worked to lower demand and satisfied public opinion. “Maybe we could learn something from that,” the representative intones. I’m not holding my breath. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com February 13, 2014 69

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