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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 6, 2014 Volume XXI, Number 27 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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I was just reading the 20th anniversary edition [ Jan. 30] this morning — and it is very well done. Kudos to the Weekly for providing such a long-standing asset to the community. In this day and age, locally produced content and investigative journalism are two rapidly disappearing but incredibly important values to an informed and engaged citizenry.

So congrats on your 20-year milestone — and keep up the good work! Boulder City Council member Suzanne Jones/Boulder

Treat the disease

Paul Danish [“America needs more secret meetings,” Danish Plan, Jan. 23] is correct: politicians are unlikely to compromise when negotiations are public. But his proposal treats a symp-

the

Highroad Being a bankster means never saying, ‘I’m sorry’ by Jim Hightower

he funny thing about Wall Street banksters is that they make a killing by defrauding millions of homeowners, customers, investors and taxpayers — then, when caught, they wonder why we don’t love them. That’s “funny” as in bizarre, not as in ha-ha. Still, it’s hard not to laugh at Jamie

Dimon, the vainglorious, silver-haired boss of the JPMorgan Chase house of banksters. Last year alone the bank racked up a record level of regulatory fines for the recidivist criminal operation overseen by the boss. A little selfreproachment might have done him some good, but Dimon chose a funny way (again meaning bizarre) to express remorse: He’s been running a feel-sorryfor-me campaign, claiming that he’s the victim of this sordid story! Never mind his long rap sheet of malfeasance and incompetence, which cost so many so much, Jamie wails that everything from Wall Street’s bailout to the pay of top bank executives have made people envious of bankers’ success. Thus, he moans, an antiWall Street sentiment has spread through the public, prompting politicians and regulators to pander to this populist anger by persecuting enterprising bankers like him. He called the whole thing “unfair.” Good grief. This guy builds bank

tom, not the disease. California, it pains me to admit, has a better solution. Just over three years ago, Proposition 14 established a consolidated primary from which the top two finishers went on to the general election. Already their legislature is showing increased cooperation. Over 90 percent of the elected see LETTERS Page 8

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profits through rip-offs, piles billions of dollars in fines on the backs of shareholders, pockets $20 million in personal pay for one year’s work — and he wants us to weep for him? Being a Wall Street boss, you see, means never having to say you’re sorry, for it’s always someone else’s fault. Only 25 years ago, more than a thousand bankers were prosecuted for this sort of malfeasance during the savings and loan scandal. Let’s return to the ethical accountability of those days. Or maybe We the People should send our own message to today’s banksters by rolling a guillotine down the center of Wall Street. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. February 6, 2014 7

letters Really Bad Ideas

I think danish might have gone too far this time.

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offices in the United States are effectively controlled by one party or the other. Proposition 14 made it harder for radical factions in locally dominant parties to control nominations; their candidates now face moderates from their own parties, rather than easily defeated extremists from the minority party. The moderates usually win. Denver University professor Seth Masket, in his book No Middle Ground, documents how fear of re-nomination makes candidates beholden to extremist factions of their parties. Partisanship correlates highly to the presence of that fear. But even Proposition 14 is just a bandage. To the extent it works, it is because a two-candidate general election cannot result in split votes, or have “spoilers” (e.g. [Ralph] Nader in the 2000 election.) Split votes are possible because we are only allowed to vote for a single candidate. Instead of restricting the ballot to two candidates, which virtually guarantees no third party will ever arise, the real cure is to abandon the artificial constraint of single choice voting. “Approval voting,” in which voters check off every candidate they like, has been mathematically demonstrated to be the fairest and least gameable system. Getting back to Paul Danish, approval voting would shift electoral influence away from the extremist minorities that punish compromise, and to the currently disenfranchised moderate majority, who reward it. We wouldn’t need secret meetings, because “compromise” wouldn’t be a dirty word. David Rea/Boulder

Thanks for honesty, balance

[“Some still don’t get that whole ‘open records’ thing,” Dodge’s Bullets, Jan. 16.] I was in for back surgery the day after Christmas, and so I’m a bit late in thanking you for your fair report on election integrity, or the lack thereof, in the challenge to the Broomfield election raised by Marilyn Marks on behalf of voters. Thank you for not just hoeing the populist row and taking the time to investigate the facts of the issue independent of the desired outcome. I have always felt, and have made it known to Boulder County Republicans, that the Boulder Weekly gave the 2012 Canvass Board, regarding its position and treatment by the clerk, the most honest and balanced treatment of all the media within the sphere of influence of Boulder County voters. It did not surprise me to see in reading the attached article, sent to me by my board colleague Mary Eberle, 8 February 6, 2014

by Joel dyer & dave Kirby

that you have once again set the outcome of a populist issue aside and did not let it interfere with your reporting on the attempted influence of the Broomfield County clerk on election transparency. Thanks again as always for your honest journalism in support of activists for election integrity. Best regards and wishes for the new year. Russ Boehm/Longmont

‘BW’ lands Tarbell award

I hereby nominate BW for the Ida M. Tarbell Memorial occasional citation, periodically given by me, in my sole discretion, to that representative of the independent press who best exemplifies the muckraking tradition personified by Ms. Tarbell. Your reports are timely, substantive, balanced and informed, which is pretty hard to do on a shoestring. We in Boulder are lucky to have BW: You enhance our civic life. Keep up the good work! George A. Johnson/Boulder

Xcel’s profits

[Re: “Controversial PUC appointee got money from Xcel,” News, Jan. 23.] Our heating bills keep rising. The airwaves are filled with ads defending the safety of fracking. Xcel can no longer afford to promote individual solar installations. Guess where the profits are. Robert Porath/Boulder

Well done

[Re: “Secrets in the paint,” News, Jan. 16] What a delightfully written article. Ms. Miller has given us a hell of a good piece of research, beautifully done. Thanks. Bob Seiffert/Niwot

Vote yes on cop shop

April 1 may be April Fool’s Day, however, let us citizens of Erie not fool around. Get to the ballot box and vote yes on Issue 2A on your ballot. Tina Harris, member of the Keep Erie Safe Committee, thinks the new 17,000-square-foot police station is not the Taj Mahal of police stations, but for the 22 Erie police officers and civilian employees it surely will seem like it. I have been in many homes in Erie where the walk-in closets are much bigger than the current evidence, records and interrogation rooms, let alone the accommodations and limited see LETTERS Page 12

danish plan A modest proposal to begin updating our national symbols by Paul Danish

tart by replacing the eagle with the rat. Symbols matter. That’s why the time has come to replace the tired old bald eagle on the great seal of the United States and in other patriotic venues with a critter more in keeping with the lifestyle, values and morals of 21st-century America: The rat. Not just any rat, mind you, but the incomparable Rattus norvegicus — aka the Brown Rat, the Norway Rat, the Hanover Rat, the Street Rat, the Wharf Rat, the Sewer Rat and the Common Rat. None of these names do justice to this remarkable rodent. For openers, forget about Norway. Rattus norvegicus should really be called America’s Rat, or Rattus americanus, because, like no other critter save Homo sapiens, it has lived the American dream. America is a nation of immigrants, and Rattus norvegicus is one of us. He arrived in North America around 1755, just in time to take part in the American Revolution (as dinner at Valley Forge) and then went west and grew up with the country. Today he is found in all 50 states. Indeed, Rattus norvegicus accompanies

us everywhere we go. Judging by dogged loyalty alone, it is the rat, not the dog, that is man’s BFF. Rattus norvegicus lives everywhere we do — even though we treat him like shit. The bald eagle, on the other hand, prefers to live where we don’t — even though we treat him like royalty. He’s always getting in a snit over habitat destruction. Cut down a few thousand acres of trees and put up a subdivision, and he puts himself back on the endangered species list. When Americans moved off farms and into cities and suburbs, rats moved with them and exuberantly embraced urban life. Estimates of the number of rats living in New York City alone range from “only” 250,000 to a high of a staggering 100 million, 12 times the human population of the city. They live everywhere from sewers to high-rises, from the Bronx to the Bowery, from Westchester to Wall Street. Some of them have been there for, say, 250 generations, which is about 240 more generations than any of Gotham’s Blue Bloods. Contrast that with the eagle. see DANISH PLAN Page 11

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PRAIRIE DOG PRAISE Good news on the prairie dog front! WildEarth Guardians has released its anxiously awaited, sixth annual report card on how certain states and the feds are doing in protecting our official county mascot, and Colorado got the second-highest grade, a B-minus! We haven’t been this happy since avoiding a C in high school pre-calculus. Colorado was lauded in the report for its “plague mitigation and research.” Sexy. Others weren’t so fortunate. WildEarth Guardians placed the EPA in detention for the second year in a row for approving the use of Kaput-D, “a dangerous anti-coagulant rodenticide,” according to an angry-sounding press release. And New Mexico nearly got expelled for its “proliferation of irresponsible anti-prairie dog ordinances on the city and county level and a prairie dog killing contest.” Gadzooks! Where is the humanity?! Nebraska and North Dakota got Fs, naturally. Last time we were in Nebraska, prairie dog nuggets were a daily special on the menu. We sure hope they don’t get wind of the way we have dealt with a certain stray elk and that unfortunate raccoon. We might get sent to the principal’s office.

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POLIS HYPOCRISY Is anybody else bothered by Rep. Jared Polis’ dogged devotion to the TransPacific Partnership (TPP) and giving President Obama fast-track authority to approve such pacts? Doesn’t his support of TPP and fast-tracking fly in the face of his opposition to fracking in Colorado? After all, as Boulder Weekly has reported, TPP would fling the door wide open to allowing oil and gas companies to sue cities like Longmont, Boulder and Lafayette, which have passed bans or moratoriums on fracking and other oil and gas operations. After all, any oil and gas corporation wanting to challenge local fracking laws along the Front Range need only to own a mineral lease that it can no longer develop due to a fracking ban or moratorium, transfer all or part of the interest in that lease to a foreign subsidiary, and then file suit under one of the many international trade agreements to which the U.S. is a signatory. U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Lakewood, has finally seen the light and declared his opposition to fast-tracking. What’s wrong with Jared? We’ll go ahead and print his phone number again, in case he hasn’t gotten the message from his constituents yet: 202-225-2161. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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There’s been only one nesting pair seen in the city in recent memory (they settled in Harlem in 2010), and when they moved in, it was front-page news in every paper in town. Rats bring a hard driving, can-do, entrepreneurial spirit to their pursuit of the American Dream. They will chew and claw their way through concrete walls and climb over the bodies of their fellow rats in pursuit of their goals. When the going gets tough, rats turn pro. Eagles go fishing. Rats know how to cash in on their opportunities. Rattus norvegicus includes a relatively large proportion of albinos in its ranks. Many of these “geek” rats ended up going to college (admittedly not entirely voluntarily) and getting in on the ground floor of the life sciences revolution. Today lab rats are helping find cures for thousands of diseases and conditions. They’ve helped save thousands of lives. When was the last time you saw an eagle in a lab? Like most Americans, rats thrive on junk food. They’ll eat anything from Doritos to Big Macs and fries to D-Con and keep coming back for more. The little dickens has a constitution like that of the American Republic itself — tough as steel cables but flexible enough to adapt to new conditions. The eagle, in contrast, is a picky eater. His diet of choice is raw fish — sushi, in other words. What’s more, he can’t hold his DDT. Granted, eagles embrace family values. They are monogamous, mate for life and both parents participate in raising the young, values that are highly admired by Americans — on paper — but which are so 20th century. Rats are into the hook-up scene. Like millions of American children, most rat pups are raised by single moms — usually in bunches of seven to 14, with a new litter arriving every two and a half months. Talk about super moms. OK, when it comes to making whoopee, eagle nookie is in a class by itself. It involves elaborate aerial courtship dances during which the happy couple sometimes lock talons and plunge into a steep dive approaching speeds of 90 miles an hour. True, it’s hard to think of a more spectacular and romantic way to get it on, but is it really appropriate to have critters who put on such a bold and brassy show in broad daylight — carrying on like Miley Cyrus with a hang glider — as a national symbol? Rats are generally more discreet. Boulder Weekly

All of these qualities argue for the rat replacing the eagle as national critter. But what about the, uh, Black Death thing, you ask? Well first of all, Rattus norvegicus has an alibi. The Black Death reached Europe (Constantinople, to be precise) in 1347. Rattus n. didn’t show up in Europe until about 200 years later at the earliest, and wasn’t reported in sig-

nificant numbers until the 18th century. At the time of the Black Death, Europe’s main rat was the Black Rat, the ominously named Rattus rattus. And strictly speaking, it wasn’t even the Black Rat that caused the Black Death. It was the Oriental Rat Flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, that Rattus rattus carried. And even more strictly speaking, it was the Yersinia pestis bacterium in the flea’s gut that

spread to humans when the flea bit them. All that aside, the last thing America needs today is an acrimonious, polarizing argument over what our ancestors did in Europe 650 years ago. Besides, it was the prairie dogs that did it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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space for the officers to deal with police business. It’s sad. A yes vote on April 1 will get our Erie police out of the cramped 2,400 square feet in the basement of Town Hall, which is a dungeon filled with a hodgepodge of dingy rooms, and move Erie’s police department into a new police and courts building. You be the judge! David L. Johnson/Erie

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[Re: “Gregory Alan Isakov: The horticultural hypnotist,” Aug. 1.] Thank you for the review. I live in Louisville, and occasionally I listen online to WFUV, out of Fordham University in New York. They have been advertising his tour to play there in March, and playing the hell out of his music, and it is wonderful to hear! It could have something to do with the station’s love for Brandi Carlisle ... I was at the Waterloo in Louisville last Jan. 7, when Gregory Alan Isakov dropped in on Clay Rose of the Gasoline Lollipops, and sang an entire set, for free! What a tasty treat! Karen Janson/via Internet

Make love, not war

I was listening to President Obama’s State of the Union address for one simple acknowledgement: that peace cannot come from our country’s strategy of always being on the brink of war. Since 2001, presidents have been able to launch military action at any time, in any place — all because of one law that Congress passed in the wake of 9/11. The Authorization for the Use of Military Force has justified drone strikes, wiretapping without a warrant, and the U.S. war in Afghanistan. It’s time for a new approach to addressing the problems we face together as a nation and a world community. An important first step is repealing this law. I hope my representative, Jared Polis, will support Rep. Adam Schiff ’s legislation to repeal this law this year. Sara Avery/Lafayette

Meat-eating = smoking

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. surgeon general’s first report on health hazards of cigarette smoking, his office released a report linking smoking to several new chronic diseases. In addition to the previously known lung and oral cancer, high blood pressure, and heart disease, the new diseases include diabetes, erectile dysfunction, cancer of the colon and liver, and

stroke. The parallels between cigarette smoking and meat consumption are uncanny: * The chronic diseases linked to both activities and the associated costs of medical care and lost productivity are comparable * The first government reports warning consumers about health hazards of cigarette smoking and meat consumption were issued in 1964 (by the surgeon general) and in 1977 (by Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs), respectively * The first warning labels on cigarette and meat packaging were required in 1966 and 1994, respectively * Both activities are discouraged by health advocates, and both are declining But there is one important difference: The meat industry impacts more state economies with a stronger Congressional clout than the tobacco industry. Consequently, a surgeon general’s report on the hazards of meat consumption is most unlikely. Our health remains our personal responsibility. Stanley Silver/Boulder

Animal abusers need help

PETA is urging Pueblo authorities to prosecute Robert Heckmann — the man who allegedly strangled a 12-week-old kitten named Loki — to the fullest extent of the law. And we hope that if convicted and in addition to incarceration, Heckmann will receive a psychological evaluation, particularly given that he reportedly described killing as “addictive” and that murdering Loki made him feel “euphoric” and “high.” Medical experts and top lawenforcement officials agree: Cruelty to animals is a big red flag. Many serial rapists and murderers have a background of abusing animals. The link between cruelty to animals and interpersonal violence is undeniable. In fact, the FBI uses reports of cruelty in gauging the threat potential of suspected and known criminals, and the American Psychiatric Association identifies such crimes as one of the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorders. It’s vital that animal abusers receive intervention to prevent their violence from escalating. To learn more about the link between cruelty-to-animals and violence against humans, visit www. PETA.org. Martin Mersereau, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals/Norfolk, Va. Boulder Weekly

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How — and why — the first Latino residents came to Boulder County by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer Courtesy of the Longmont Museum

Editor’s note: The following is part one of Boulder Weekly’s Eracism series, inspired by the Boulder County Latino History Project being spearheaded by retired University of Colorado Boulder history professor Marjorie McIntosh. That project, which is documenting the history of Latinos in our community through oral, visual and written forms, is expected to result in a book, a website featuring source materials and curricular materials for local school districts. BW is partnering with the project not just to publicize it, but hopefully expand the boundaries of the field of information collected. We agree that many of these stories have remained untold for too long, and it serves future generations to ensure that this proud heritage of what Latinos have contributed to Boulder County for more than a century is not forgotten.

o fully understand the history of how Latinos originally made their way to Boulder County, one must go back centuries, to the Spanish colonization of North America. It’s a colorful tale, but one that is not always pretty. At its height, the Spanish empire, or New Spain, included most of the United States west of the Mississippi River. There are accounts of Spanish explorers making it as far north as Pueblo in the late 1600s and looking for gold in present-day Colorado in the 1700s. After Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821, the Mexican territory included parts of southern and western Colorado. After the MexicanAmerican War ended in 1848, the United States swallowed those areas and the rest of the present-day Southwest that had been under Spanish control. In a span of less than three decades, inhabitants of this area found themselves under the flags of three different countries — without ever leaving home. As Latino leaders have noted, the families who settled in this region before 1848 didn’t cross the border; the border crossed them. In a move that reflected the Manifest Destiny fever sweeping the country at the time, when the U.S. defeated Mexico, it acquired 500,000 square miles and added more than 80,000 people to Boulder Weekly

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its population, according to the 2009 book Footprints in the Sugar: A History of the Great Western Sugar Company by Candy Hamilton. She adds that those living in this territory were given a choice: They could move south of the border or they could agree to become American citizens (those who stayed but refused to become citizens were automatically granted citizenship a year later). Many of them brought their extended families north from Mexico, resulting in the first of several major migrations from Mexico into the United States. The first installment of the two-part documentary La Raza de Colorado, titled La Historia, recounts various paths that Latinos took to the state after San Luis, the oldest town in Colorado, was founded in 1851 in the San Luis Valley. Indeed, it is the San Luis Valley where Colorado’s earliest Latino roots can be found, and many of the first Latino residents of Boulder County came from there, looking for seasonal agricultural work. According to La Historia, the U.S. didn’t always honor Latino families’ historic land grants in areas like northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, contrary to the provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War. So these Spanish speakers were made to defend their land claims in the American court system, where the judges and attorneys were Anglo, and English was the only

language spoken. Not only was their land confiscated when they couldn’t satisfy the deed requirements of this new legal system, they were treated as an inferior race, like second-class citizens, Hamilton writes. According to the documentary, as a result of Latinos’ often-unsuccessful attempts to demonstrate their property ownership, white Americans were able to buy huge tracts of land for a song. It was a traumatic shift for many Latino families, in which the cultural understanding was that land was communal and shared, especially when neighboring families were in need. It was the land, after all, that would bring the first Latinos to Boulder County. Especially the mining and farming of the land.

Turmoil in Mexico The first real wave of Latinos came to our area in the early part of the 20th century, when growing industries like the railroads, coal mining and agriculture required workers. In addition to being actively recruited to come to the United States for work and the promise of a better life, another factor driving Mexicans northward was the turmoil in their own country. When it comes to examining how the first Latino citizens arrived in Boulder County between the late 1800s and the end of the 1920s, it is necessary to consider the push-pull theory of

immigration from Mexico during this timeframe. The theory is that the realities of life in Mexico during this period, with its poverty, political turmoil and general lack of opportunity, created the “push” that drove Latinos north. Conversely, the U.S., with its abundance of jobs and higher standard of living, became the “pull” that drew migrants. While this long-accepted theory is true to some degree, it fails to elaborate on the powers and acts that created this push-pull scenario to begin with. Following the end of the Civil War, there was a desire among many in the U.S. to take all of Mexico for its own. A debate raged over whether the U.S. should annex Mexico or simply own its precious natural resources and trade. In the end, the latter thinking would prevail due to the actions of wealthy U.S. industrialists and a controversial Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz. Unlike his predecessors, who had always refused to build rail lines north to the U.S. because they believed such access would make U.S. conquest of Mexico too tempting, Diaz did just that. Diaz removed peasants from the land so that he could sell the rights to build Mexican railroads to wealthy U.S. investors. As a result, these investors basically extended the U.S. rail system deep into the heart of Mexico, building more than 15,000 miles of new lines, which made it possible for foreign investors, primarily from the U.S., to acquire ownership of much of Mexico’s natural resources and industries, including mining, smelting, oil and gas and agriculture. In their article titled “Empire and the Origins of Twentieth-Century Migration from Mexico to the United States,” which appeared in Pacific Historical Review, Gilbert G. González and Raúl Fernandez made the following observations: At the dawn of the 20th century the United States controlled the Mexican economy. According to U.S. Consul-General Andrew D. Barlow, 1,117 U.S.-based companies and individuals had invested $500 million in Mexico. Railroads were the cornerstone of the modernization process, initiated, designed and constructed by foreign capital. Railroads enabled myriad economic See LATINO Page 16

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activities, principally those under foreign control, including mining, export of agricultural products and oil production. Interestingly, the railroads, which had little effect upon industrial development, strengthened the precapitalist economic form, the hacienda. However, the hacienda, originally organized for self-sufficiency, engaged in cash crop production on an extended scale to the detriment of staple crops, causing shortages of basic foodstuffs. Corn production fell by 50 percent between 1877 and 1910, and bean production declined by 75 percent, forcing the nation to rely on costly imported staples. In other words, it was the surrender of control over much of Mexico’s economy to U.S. investors by Diaz that led to Mexico’s poorest being forced from the land and, to a large degree, being unable to even feed themselves. These tens of thousands of landless, starving peasants first migrated to Mexico’s larger towns and cities from the rural countryside, but there was little opportunity for them there. As a result, the message of the recruiters who promised good jobs to the north resonated with a large segment of this economically deprived populace. It seems that the same Mexican railroads that were funded by wealthy U.S. investors not only made the Latino migration of 1890 to 1920 possible — as it gave them a way to come north — they were also the cause of the migration due to their negative influence over the Mexican economy. As with any rapid modernization of a nation, the poor are disproportionately impacted to the downside. In that light, the traditional pushpull Latino migration theory does not hold up. The reality is that both the push and the pull were authored by U.S. capitalists during this timeframe. So, after growing weary of the decades-long dictatorship run by Diaz in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Mexican citizens — about 90 percent of whom were living in poverty at the time — revolted and overthrew Diaz in 1911. But even after the ouster of Diaz, the Mexican Revolution devolved into civil war, and during this period of unrest, between 1910 and 1920, about 1 million Mexicans fled the country, according to La Historia. And Hamilton writes that during the first three decades of the 20th century, more than 10 percent of Mexico’s population, about 1.5 million people, migrated to the United States. According to Hamilton, labor recruiters for the railroad companies brought the first wave of Mexican workers, and in one month, more than 2,000 “traqueros” (section workers) came across 16 February 6, 2014

the border to El Paso. La Historia notes that one of the three major railroad lines out of El Paso led to Denver, and during the Mexican Revolution, more than 50,000 new workers from Mexico joined the mining and agricultural industries in Colorado. According to Hamilton, in 1910, the Mexican population in the state was 3,269. By 1920, it was 37,676. But the contributions of the growing Latino population weren’t always appreciated. In 1914, the growing Anglo backlash against Latinos was referred to as the “brown scare.” It would get worse in subsequent decades, especially during the Depression, when unemployment skyrocketed and Latinos were accused of taking American jobs.

Sugar beets A variety of crops were being grown in Boulder County during this time, just as they are today, but the sugar beet played a primary role, thanks to a certain factory built in Longmont. Hamilton says the first reference to Colorado’s cultivation of sugar beets, actually came from a Mexican citizen in 1841, before Colorado became a state in 1876. According to the April 1933 issue of The Sugar Press, Guadalupe Miranda and Carlos Beaubien petitioned the Spanish governor in 1841 for land in present-day Colorado “for the purpose of cultivating the sugar beet.” It was a parcel that would later become Las Animas County. Hamilton notes that the Latino agricultural roots of Colorado stretch back even further. It was a Spaniard who, more than 350 years ago, recorded one of the first descriptions of irrigation, a practice that proved integral to growing crops in the state’s arid valleys. The formation of Longmont, like Greeley before it, was the result of a group of prominent businessmen and politicians who sold memberships to Chicago families willing to relocate to this region of Colorado, Hamilton writes. The result was the ChicagoColorado Colony, or Longmont, named after Long’s Peak. While an 1872 bill to award a subsidy to the first sugar beet factory (also referred to as “beet sugar factory”) in Colorado failed, during that period the citizens of Longmont published and distributed a pamphlet about the benefits of having such a factory, according to Hamilton. In 1899, the contract for the state’s first sugar beet processing facility was issued to the E.H. Dyer Company of Cleveland, Ohio, for the Grand Valley on the Western Slope. The Great Western Sugar Company was formed in Loveland in 1901, and the Longmont factory was opened within five years.

Hamilton says that the Mexicans Hamilton notes that, during the 50 who had come to the U.S. before 1900 years it operated, the Longmont sugar — or had been absorbed into the counbeet factory was the city’s largest and try after the Mexican-American War — most-respected employer, serving as the were, for the most, part, bilingual and backbone of Longmont’s economy until had chosen to assimilate into American the mid-1950s. In 1920, Colorado was the nation’s top sugar producer, account- life, whereas those who came as laborers after 1900 primarily spoke Spanish and ing for one-fourth of all the sugar continued their way of life in the colorefined in the country, according to nias, conducting Catholic mass, playing “Mexicans in the Beet Field,” a chapter traditional written by Courtesy of the Longmont Museum Mexican music Robert McLean and eating tradiin the 1924 tional Mexican book Spanish food. and Mexican in Colorado, coIndustry authored with growth Charles A. The sugar Thomson. beet industry As part of exploded in the its labor recruitfirst decade of ment efforts, the 20th century, Great Western thanks in part to put out a proa hefty tax on motional film to imported foreign recruit workers cane sugar from Mexico, passed in 1897, touting the and from 1900 good pay and to 1906 the lifestyle, accordcountry’s acreage ing to La of sugar beets Historia. more than triHamilton pled, according says Great to Hamilton. Western and Emma Suazo uses a short-handed hoe in a Great Western three other sugar beet field near Longmont. turned to sugar been comMexican workpanies set up ers during strikes and after Germanrecruiting stations in cities adjacent to Russian and Japanese beetworkers the Mexican border, where they offered increasingly became discontent with prospective workers free transportation being stoop laborers, demanded higher and other inducements. They placed ads wages, and began acquiring their own in newspapers and theaters, distributed posters and handbills, and made sure the farmlands. “In no place but Fort Collins was trains used to transport the workers were filled to capacity before they left, accord- there any report of [Latinos] becoming ing to Hamilton. She adds that the con- farm tenants or owners,” McLean wrote in 1924. “There the labor manager stated ditions on most trains, with the exception of those operated by Great Western, that 10 or 12 were farming beets for were terrible: There was little or no room themselves. He said, ‘I do not look for to sit; the workers got a single meal of a them to buy land. They are not thrifty bologna sandwich, sardines and coffee; like the German-Russians. But the and the trains only made one stop on farmers may come more and more to journeys that typically spanned more turn the beets over to them and let them than 700 miles. farm them. This work, you know, is And when the workers arrived, the adapted to the Mexican temperament. lifestyle was much different than what They take life easily and don’t mind they had been promised. Most of the being idle a part of the year.’” Mexicans who helped make Colorado He went on to ask a Mr. Kaspar, the leading producer of beet sugar in the manager of the Holly Sugar Company, nation lived in “colonias,” or “barrios,” “what they would do without the tiny communities near the factory or on Mexican.” Kaspar “threw up his hands the outskirts of town that consisted of and said, ‘We would be out of luck. We’d tents or shacks that lacked running water have to close up our factory and the or sewer systems. According to the docfarmers would lose the crop. You can’t umentary, they were initially barred from get white labor to do this work. We are using Anglo schools, hospitals or churches. See LATINO Page 18 Boulder Weekly

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absolutely dependent on the Mexican.” Mexican labor in agricultural and indusSimilarly, an official with the trial businesses, according to Mexican American Beet Sugar Company told Americans: A Historical Perspective by McLean, “The Mexican is a good work- Richard Ahlborn. During this period, er, if treated right. If not, he won’t work. about 40 percent of the nation’s vegetaHe is very loyal or very mean. The troubles, fruits and truck-delivered crops ble is, we haven’t known how to treat were being grown in the Southwest, and him. Too many have thought they could Mexicans accounted for 75 percent of beat the Mexican and they would be the labor force, Ahlborn writes. that much ahead. If any Wikimedia Commons farmer beats the ‘Los betabeleros’ Mexican now, he has to At Great Western, talk to us.” they were known as “los McLean acknowlbetabeleros,” or the beet edges that child labor field workers. And they was an issue that was endured grueling work. being studied, but disUsing short hoes and misses it because “the beet knives, Hamilton children, with rare says the laborers spent exceptions, work with much of their time on all and under the supervifours, cutting out undesion of their own parsirable plants and removents, and except where ing all but one plant the parents are ignorant The presidency of Porfirio Diaz from a cluster. It was and cruel, may not suffer is responsible for much of the known as “blocking” and Mexican migration to the physically from over“thinning,” McLean United States in the early 1900s. work. The greatest evil explains, and the latter seems to be that they are was typically performed kept out of school, especially in the fall, by children. Next came four to five and thus retarded in their advancement.” weeks of hoeing, he says. According to Hamilton, from 1909 And when it was time to harvest, to 1927, the number of Mexicans Hamilton says, workers would have to lift each three- to five-pound beet, grip employed by Great Western increased from 1,000 to 14,300, going from 9 per- it between their thighs or knees, and cent of the company’s field laborers to 59 chop off the large, leafy top. They were paid $15 to $80 a month percent. (McLean estimates it at $21 to $23 per And Latinos proved integral to acre), which was less than the prevailing industry nationwide. By the conclusion wage, but they were unaware of what of the first World War, despite public they should have been paid, and Great anti-Mexican sentiment, leaders of Western never bargained with its field American companies testified before labor, taking advantage of their Mexican Congress about the importance of

Census figures offer insight on growth, occupations

aterials provided by retired University of Colorado history professor Marjorie McIntosh, who is spearheading the Boulder County Latino History Project that inspired this series of articles, shed light on the demographics of the Latino population in several Boulder County cities. CU undergrad and Latino History Project intern Emmanuel Melgoza used old city directories to compile three snapshots of families with Latino surnames for Longmont and Lafayette over a two-decade period in the early 1900s. In 1916, his analysis shows three such households in Boulder, 25 in Longmont and 18 in Lafayette. By 1936, those numbers had risen to 85, 175 and 132, respectively. The rise in the Boulder numbers may be explained at least partially by accounts of Latinos moving to Boulder to escape the discrimination and racism they experienced in eastern parts of the county. Another compilation provided by the Latino History Project, prepared by CU undergrad and Latino History Project volunteer Abi Peters, features profiles of Latino households for the year 1930 based on Census records and ancestry.com. There were only three such households listed for Boulder, 29 in Lafayette and 37 in Longmont. When the heads of those households were asked to provide their occupation, 15 listed “coal miner” and 36 listed farm work of some sort, including 18 who identified themselves as beet field laborers.

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news workers’ docility, Hamilton writes. The problem was, at least initially, most of the Mexican workers would return home at the end of each season, and Great Western found itself shelling out too much money on transportation, so the company started deducting amounts from their pay — amounts that would be paid only if they agreed to “winter over” after the season ended in November, according to Footprints in the Sugar. Eventually, the company created additional substandard housing in the colonias as further incentive to keep the Mexican workers in the area year-round. (The workers would reimburse the company for the cost of the home and land in payments over a five-year period.) When Great Western built its first colonia in Greeley in 1923, it consisted of 12 adobe homes and 70 residents, according to Hamilton, but later that decade, most of the “housing” around the area’s beet factories consisted of temporary shacks or boxcar-like wooden shanties that sat on the ground with no foundation. She says most of the communal toilets were located outdoors and had no doors, much less a seat. In his quaint 1924 account, on the other hand, McLean offers a rosier characterization of the colonias: “Ground is furnished for a garden if desired, with sufficient water for irrigation. It is planned to set out trees, and make these colonies really pleasant little communities.” In her descriptions of life in the colonia, Hamilton says there was much emphasis on family, and it served as a safe haven in a strange country. Meals, prepared by the women, typically consisted of seasoned chicken or turkey served with the spicy chocolate sauce called mole, rice, beans and “picadillo,” or minced onions, tomatoes and spices. And the men would provide homebrewed beer or another type of alcohol. At weekend dances, whoever in the colonia had the beer brewed first would host the fiesta, Hamilton writes, and while home brewing was illegal in Colorado at the time, the colonias were never policed. Among the materials collected during the Latino History Project is an undated interview with Emerenciano Bernal and his wife, identified in the transcript only as “Mrs. Bernal.” In describing the conditions while working the beet fields from 1919 to 1934, Mrs. Bernal says most workers’ homes in the Broomfield and Lafayette area were made of wood and “about to fall down.” They used a wood-burning heater and a wood-burning stove to stay warm, and had oil lamps for light. The couple said they went to school Boulder Weekly

only briefly as very young children, “and all I knew after that was work,” Mrs. Bernal says. After telling the unidentified interviewer that he only went to school for one week, Emerenciano Bernal was asked whether he liked school. “Yes, I did, but I had to take care of my father’s goats,” he replied. According to Mrs. B, there were no doctors or hospitals available to them at that time, so they relied on herbs, including “osha” for cuts, “mariola” for the stomach and “volcanic oil” for broken wrists. She also described going dancing at family parties and driving all the way to Denver on Sunday mornings to attend a church that had a Mexican priest.

Coal mines play pivotal role At the end of the 19th century, coal mining in Boulder County was a growing enterprise. It all started in 1859 when two brothers began mining a seam of surface coal they had discovered between Boulder and Denver. They sold their coal to gold miners in the area. Over the next 80 years, more than 100 coal mines would be tunneled beneath Boulder County and the western edge of Weld County (see sidebar page 24). The mines ranged from Marshall road just south of Boulder to Superior, Louisville, Lafayette, Erie, Frederick, Firestone, Dacono and Fort Morgan. These mines were collectively know as the Northern Fields, and they would play an important role in Colorado history as well as in early Boulder County Latino history. Colorado’s coal mines were divided into two fields, the Northern Field, in Boulder and Weld Counties, and the Southern Field, to the west of Trinidad and Pueblo. Many of the mines were owned by some of the nation’s wealthiest industrialists, including John D. Rockefeller, Jr. It was no coincidence that the men who owned the railroads, steel mills and oil companies also controlled the coal fields that fed those other industries. It was a time of monopolies and vertical integration. The only threat to these wealthy aristocrats was labor, either the lack of it or the organization of it by the unions. It is here in the labor market and unionization of the coal fields that the Latino population would play an important role. Latino coal miners were always present in large numbers in Colorado’s Southern Fields and in the mines of New Mexico and Arizona. The Southern Fields were developed

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published in the Journal of Arizona History 18 (Summer 1977), Joseph Park described the process of bringing Latino labor to Colorado: American agents preferred crews imported from the interior of Mexico to those picked up by chance along the border. The agent worked through his Mexican counterpart, the enganchador, the “hooker,” who enlisted workers largely from the tramp population around cities. … In some cases, the gangs of workers were placed aboard a northbound train in charge of a boss who held the tickets. The cost of transportation was passed on to the American agent, who deducted it from the workers’ salaries once they were placed on a job. … On delivering a group of workers to the border, the enganchador was paid off by an American labor contractor, who either delivered the recruits directly to an employer and collected his commission or sold them to another agent. At Tucson and at Trinidad and Denver, Colorado, large agencies handled a considerable number of Mexicans. The Department of Commerce published a report by Victor S. Clark in 1908. Clark’s report was the first study concerning the migration of Latino laborers to the U.S. His report confirmed the unlawful, immoral activities of the labor contractors working both sides of the border at the turn of the last century. He described locked rail cars and guards at stops along the way to prevent the laborers from attempting escape. Despite the preference of Latino laborers from deep in the interior, recruiting Latinos who had recently crossed into the U.S. was also common practice by the Colorado mining companies. In testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee of the Committee on Mines and Mining in 1914, mine representatives said that they would go to the Mexican border in Texas to recruit laborers for the coal mines in Colorado. It is also possible that as violent labor strikes hit the Southern Fields in 1903, some Latinos may have ventured to the Northern Fields of Boulder County to seek work under less volatile circumstances, though this is speculation. The United Mine Workers union had been organizing the Colorado coal mines, and in 1903 they called a strike in the Southern Fields. At first the strike was going well, but eventually the owners shipped in large numbers of Latino laborers by rail and used them as strikebreakers to defeat the union. The mine owners also exploited the anti-Mexican sentiment that developed from the strike to prevent the union from being able to organize the newly arrived Latino replacement workers and 22 February 6, 2014

to drive a wedge between the native Latino miners and their European immigrant counterparts. Eventually the Union would recognize that the Latinos were very good at forcing concessions from ownership, and by the next strike in 1915, the labor war that led to the Ludlow Massacre, it was the Latinos, Italians and Greeks who stood fast in the face of unbelievable violence against them. In her autobiography, famed labor activist Mother Jones reflected, “The strike in the southern fields dragged on and on. But from the moment the southern miners had been deserted by their northern brothers, I felt their strike was doomed. Bravely did those miners fight before giving in to the old peonage. The military had no regard for human life. They were sanctified cannibals. Is it any wonder that we have murders and holdups when the youth of the land is trained by the great industrialists to a belief in force; when they see that the possession of money puts one above law. “No more loyal, courageous men could be found than those southern miners, scornfully referred to by ‘Citizens’ Alliances’ as ‘foreigners.’ Italians and Mexicans endured to the end. They were defeated on the industrial field but theirs was the victory of the spirit.” The miners in the Northern Fields of Boulder County had accepted better housing in exchange for not joining the strike in the south. According to Barron B. Beshoar in his book Out of the Depths: The Story of John R. Lawson, a Labor Leader, when the owners tried to ship in Latino strikebreakers again, Mother Jones headed to El Paso, Texas, intending to cross the border to meet with Pancho Villa and ask for his help in stopping the flow of strikebreakers from that area of Mexico into the coal fields of Colorado. Eventually the union and the strikes would come to the coal fields of Boulder County in the 1920s, where another slaughter of miners would occur at the hands of the owners’ thugs, with support from the state government. The Columbine Mine massacre took place just outside of Lafayette in the mining camp at Serene. The massacre is an incredible story that sheds much light on the lives of our county’s early Latino citizens, and as such, we will be doing a separate story on that subject later in our Eracism series. We know from the historical mine accident reports that Latinos worked in a number of Boulder and Weld County mines (see sidebar above). But by examining these records we can also

Coal mining accidents involved first Latino families in Boulder County

ue to the fact that the early Latino history of Boulder County was never recorded well and is therefore largely missing, it is important to unearth any information regarding the identities of early Latino residents in the county. In our effort to discover the identities of some of the first families in the area, Boulder Weekly examined the coal mining accident records in the Western History and Genealogy section of the Denver Public Library. These records covered all reported mining deaths in the state of Colorado between the years 1884 and 1963. The following is a list of Latino coal miners who died in mining accidents in the northern coal fields, which spanned Boulder and Weld counties from the southern edge of Boulder near Marshall Road east to Superior, Louisville, Lafayette, Erie, Frederick, Firestone and Dacono. In some cases, these names represent some of Boulder County’s first Latino families. Mine Name Columbine Columbine Columbine Boulder Valley Columbine Puritan Puritan Columbine Columbine Puritan Monarch No. 2 Hecla No. 1 Boulder (Boulder County?) Columbine Puritan Parkdale Columbine Columbine Boulder Valley Puritan Standard

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see that certain mines employed large numbers of miners of the same nationality; this was for the purpose of improving communication and therefore safety. More miners per capita died in Colorado coal mines than in any other coal mines in the nation. Investigators during state hearings on mine safety determined that one of the problems stemmed from having so many languages spoken in the mines. “Fire in the hole” sounds different in every language. At the imperial mine in Boulder County, for instance, a large number of the miners were from Russia. At several mines near Lafayette, Italians were the dominant nationality, which explains the long history of Italian Americans in the Lafayette community. As for the Latino miners, it appears that the Columbine Mine owned by the

#Children Year Died 3 1922 0 1925 ? 1938 0 1932 0 1925 3 1929 2 1930 1 1926 3 1922 0 1929 3 1936 ? 1893 ? 1952 2 1927 2 1928 0 1922 ? 1911 6 1934 ? 1945 0 1922 0 1934 0 1917

Rocky Mountain Fuel Company and the Puritan mine owned by National Fuel employed the largest numbers of Latino miners in the area. It is not clear from the historical record if Latino strikebreakers were brought in to the Columbine Mine at the time of the Northern Field’s 1927 strike, but it is noteworthy that the Columbine was the only mine in the field still producing coal during the strike, which is why the strikers went there the day of the Columbine Massacre. Eventually the unions realized the need to knock down all race barriers, and Latinos would go on to become some of the most important labor organizers in the Southwest, organizing both the mining and sugar-beet industries. It was a strike of 2,000 Latino See LATINO Page 24

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miners at a copper mine owned by U.S. investors in Cananea, Sonora, that led to yet another slaughter of more than 20 miners in 1906 at the hands of Sonoran authorities, with the help of Arizona Rangers. When word of the slaughter spread in Mexico, it helped to finally topple the Diaz presidency by ushering in the Mexican Revolution. Coal mining brought some of the first Latino families to Boulder County more than 100 years ago. And those same Latino citizens helped to organize labor unions and ultimately bring a greater degree of fairness and safety to the mining industry. **** Americans’ willingness to import

Mexican labor began to fade in the 1920s, and the Immigration Act of 1924 put new regulations in place governing how many immigrants — and which ones — were allowed to enter the U.S. The Act also established the U.S. Border Patrol, and after 1924, the peak year for Mexican immigration, the terms “illegal” and “Mexican” became synonymous, as those who snuck over the border were treated like criminals, Hamilton says. And as we will see in subsequent installments in our Eracism series, in Boulder County the mistreatment of Latinos — this imported workforce that served as the backbone of our early mining and farming industries — was just beginning. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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than mothers with no wells within a 10-mile radius of their homes. Out of 1,000 births, nine babies will have some form of congenital heart disorder, according to the American Heart Association — to ease the math, that would be 180 births in 20,000. In this study, of 19,793 births to women near 126 to 1,400 wells, 355 had congenital heart defects. Congenital heart defects are malformations present at birth that can range from holes between chambers of the heart to the complete absence of one or more chambers or valves in the heart, leading to medical conditions such as arrhythmias, as well as heart failure. Births to mothers living in the study’s high risk areas also showed a possible association with increase in incidence of neural tube defects, birth defects of the brain, spine or spinal cord. Those defects can include spina bifida, in which the spinal column doesn’t completely close, often causing at least some leg paralysis, and anencephaly, in which the brain and skull do not develop. Exposure to benzene was linked to neural tube defects in a previous study. “We’ve just seen a growing body of science develop over the past several years in particular that raise serious concerns for this rapid expansion of drilling and fracking across the country, especially as it moves into more populated areas,” says Emily Wurth, water program director for Food and Water Watch, which has been campaigning against fracking for four years. “The technology really got way out ahead of the science and we’re seeing increasing evidence that this process is inherently a risk to public health and the environment.” Dr. Larry Wolk, chief medical officer and executive director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, issued the following response to the study: “It is difficult to draw conclusions from this study, due to its design and limitations. We appreciate continuing research about possible public health implications that may be associated with oil and gas operations in Colorado. With regard to this particular study, people should not rush to judgment.” Wolk goes on to say that the study

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has not distinguished between active and inactive wells or taken into account other risk factors for birth defects, such as smoking, drinking and the mother’s folic acid intake, and was unable to pinpoint where mothers lived at the time of conception or during the first trimester of pregnancy. Pre-term birth rates actually decreased, as did lowbirth-weight babies, he adds. Contrary to Wolk’s statement, the study did, in fact, register whether birth mothers had reported smoking or consuming alcohol during pregnancy. Wolk added that the way the risk of congenital heart disease was presented was “difficult to interpret” and that their findings indicated only association, not causation, in a state he insists has some of the most stringent oil and gas rules in the country. He also pointed out that the authors themselves provided three pages of limitations — but among those, the researchers noted that birth defects were most likely undercounted because non-live births (babies with severe neural defects may be stillborn), terminated pregnancies and later-life diagnoses were left out. “Overall, we feel this study highlights interesting areas for further research and investigation, but is not conclusive in itself. We agree there is public concern about the effects of oil and gas operations on health, including birth outcomes. While this paper was an attempt to address those concerns, we disagree with many of the specific associations with the occurrence of birth defects noted within the study,” Boulder Weekly

Wolk concludes. “As Chief Medical Officer, I would tell pregnant women and mothers who live, or who at the time of their pregnancy lived, in proximity to a gas well not to rely on this study as an explanation of why one of their children might have had a birth defect. Many factors known to contribute to birth defects were ignored in this study.” “I am absolutely stunned that the Hickenlooper administration would launch this broad-scale attack on the medical researchers at the University of Colorado,” Gary Wockner, Colorado Program Director of Clean Water Action, said in an emailed statement. “That Hickenlooper’s appointee is telling pregnant women to disregard this study is seriously questionable.” The study concludes that further research on specific activities and production levels near homes over the course of pregnancy would provide more refined estimates. Recent data has indicated that exposure to natural gas development is increasingly common, with the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission estimating that 26 percent of more than 47,000 wells in Colorado are within 150 to 1,000 feet of a home or other building occupied by humans. The study concludes, “Taken together, our results and current trends in [natural gas development] underscore the importance of conducting more comprehensive and rigorous research on the potential health effects of [natural gas development].” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ruce Vaughn is behind thermogenic, or petrothermic, the wheel of his pickup, sources of methane — methane and I’m cradling an iPad that originates deep underground, in the passenger seat. like in shale beds that store vast amounts of natural gas. The screen shows a GPS Each type of methane has a map of our location and a colored line behind where we’ve traveled. distinct isotopic “signature.” As we I’m supposed to be navigating, drive alongside the capped landfill, but I’m absorbed by the iPad. An the Picarro is constantly sampling arrow swivels on its axis and leaves the air through the plastic tube a tail of colored pixels, showing the intakes along the mast and meawind’s speed and direction. Along suring the atmospheric concentrathe bottom of the screen, a colored tion of methane. Any concentraline graph dips and climbs and tion higher than four parts per changes color as we travel. Colored million — about twice the normal dots along the left-hand side levels of methane in the air — will explain the changing colors of the trigger an isotopic analysis, and the line. air will be pumped into the appro“The nice thing about this is, priate gray box, humming along in let’s say I’m by myself, I can’t really the truck bed. The sonic anemomdrive and look at that at the same eter at the top of the mast — a Bruce Vaughn checks instrument readings from his pickup, which is outfitted to detect methane emissions from oil and gas wells, among other sources. time,” Vaughn remarks. “All this high-tech wind gauge — can tell data is being pumped up to the where the methane originated, cloud, so it can all be stored and I bring clear data to the hazy debate over methane emiseven as the truck moves past the can look at it later.” sions resulting from fracking. source, ideally at speeds no higher than 30 miles per Behind me hangs a large computer monitor, susThe instruments hidden inside the gray boxes are hour. And all of this complex computing is displayed pended and latched to the backseat to protect it from what make Vaughn’s mobile laboratory so interesting: in real time, in the form of a map and a graph on the bumpy roads. A MiFi mobile wireless device sits in the one box measures methane concentration and the monitor hanging behind me and on the iPad in my center console. Above our heads, a three-and-a-halfother reads its isotopic signature — a sort of “fingerlap. I watch the display as we talk in the truck. foot mast stamped with the word “PICARRO” is bolt- print” that indicates the type or source of methane. “We got a little spike! Just 2.18, I think,” I inform ed to the roof of the cab, whistling in the wind as we Vaughn’s other job is director of the Stable Isotopes Vaughn, adding that even as a non-scientist, the iPad drive. In the bed of the truck, Vaughn has bolted and Laboratory at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine interface seems very intuitive. belted a battery, inverter and two large gray boxes to a Research, housed at the University of Colorado “They won’t be big leaks out here,” Vaughn says. wooden platform. Thin plastic tubes connected to the Boulder. He’s a certified isotopic expert. The biggest spike on the graph from the landfill is no mast wind their way down to the truck bed, feeding “Why don’t we go out to a landfill where I know I higher than 4 ppm; apparently its methane capture into the back of the gray boxes. can get a signal?” Vaughn asks. “From there, we can process is doing a pretty good job. We expect a differThis array of equipment and an independent power head out to Weld County.” ent scenario when we reach Weld County, the largest source have converted his sturdy pickup truck into a We drive to Marshall Landfill in southeast oil and gas producer in the state with more than mobile methane emissions detection unit. As a scienBoulder, capped since 1992. Methane from landfills is 17,000 active wells, and a hotspot for the debate over tist behind the scene of the AirWaterGas project, he’s biogenic — a result of bacterial decomposition of responsible for exploring the equipment’s potential to organic matter in the waste. This is different from See METHANE Page 30

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methane emissions from oil and gas exploration. The recent advent of horizontal drilling in hydraulic fracturing has revolutionized the “fracking” process, making it possible to extract vast quantities of formerly inaccessible natural gas in shale-beds — but it may also be unlocking unknown quantities of methane, contaminating the air and water supply. The Colorado legislature is debating proposed amendments to emissions regulations, aimed at controlling methane as well as other hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Meanwhile, Vaughn’s research with the Picarro mobile methane unit may ultimately help enforce the new legislation and inform the heated public debate. Will Allison, director of the state Air Quality Control Division, calls the proposed revisions to emissions regulations both firm and fair. “I think that’s reflected by the fact that we’ve already got support from some of the biggest environmental and industry groups in the state,” Allison says, referring to the Environmental Defense Fund, and major oil and gas players Noble, Anadarko and Encana. In broad terms, the proposed revisions will do two things: expand the state’s control over storage tanks in the oil and gas industry, and create a statewide leak detection and repair program to reduce hydrocarbon emissions — both VOCs (that contribute to ozone, among other hazards), as well as methane, the second-most potent greenhouse gas behind carbon dioxide. The proposed revisions will be open to public comment on Feb. 19 at a session held at the Aurora Municipal Center, big enough to house the expected large crowd of participants. While the Picarro is crunching complex data into a precise analysis of methane in the air, Vaughn contemplates how difficult it can be for even a well-

informed layperson to judge the presence and level of risk surrounding methane emissions in the oil and gas debate. “I think a significant portion of the power of this technology is that seeing is believing,” Vaughn says. “Providing factual information to the discussion is really important to the issue, and that’s where AirWaterGas comes in. We don’t have an agenda. We just want to provide solid data to support informed discussion.” Besides, it would be disingenuous to simply point a finger at frackers, or at the oil and gas industry in general. In one way or another, we all still rely on fossil fuels whether we like it or not. “We just got another spike,” I tell Vaughn — only 2.034 this time. Eventually, driving by a well head in Erie, the line graph jumps to just above 15 ppm — about eight times “normal” background levels — but that’s the highest number we record on our twohour drive. And taken in the context of our rather small and only somewhat random sample, it’s no cause for alarm. The Picarro is one of several of technologies that can detect the location, size and nature of a methane leak — like infrared devices, mentioned in the proposed revisions to Colorado’s air quality regulations for methane and VOCs — and could be used to enforce new regulations when they eventually come online. But it is arguably the most sophisticated technology available, three orders of magnitude more sensitive than the competition, according to Picarro Chief Technical Officer Eric Crosson. That’s not to mention its ability to constantly sample the air as it moves, while feeding its analysis into a sleek user interface. I can’t help imagining a fleet of mobile methane measuring machines roving the state, holding violators accountable and answering valid public concerns with clear scientific data. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The National Park Experience film series explores how people fall in love with their national parks — as well as love between people that arises from relationships built in national parks.

NATIONAL PARK SERIES AIMS TO PROMOTE PARK ADVOCACY AMONG DIVERSE COMMUNITIES The National Park Experience will premier its film, Love in the Tetons, on Feb. 8 at eTown Hall in Boulder. The goal of the film series, National Park Experience, is to revive the adoration for national parks through true and diverse stories of people’s relationships with these parks. The National Park Experience’s creative teams want people to realize that regardless of age, race, religion, politics and economic status, there is a place for everyone at national parks. Love in the Tetons, the first of 10 in the series, presents Juan Martinez, whose experience of first seeing the stars at the national park sparked a relationship that has influenced his life and secured him a more promising future. Martinez’s growing connection with the park also prompted a relationship with a park ranger, Vanessa Torres. The film trailer reveals the expansive impact of the park by showing how their wedding brought friends and family from all different cultures to the park for the first time. “Pairing the national parks with emotional personal stories like this is a great way to remind us all of the treasures we have available to us. For free,” Pam Huling of Blue Chalk Media said, according to the National Park Experience’s website.

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Boulder-based developer building a new shopping center in Frisco — to be anchored by a Whole Foods grocery store — has run afoul of federal regulators with unauthorized construction in a wetlands area. Work at the site by Brynn Grey Partners violated the terms of a federal permit and could drain a wetlands area near the intersection of Interstate 70 and U.S. Highway 9. The wetlands help moderate flooding risks during wet times and also help sustain base flows in a nearby mountain stream during the dry season.

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Developer dips in wetlands Deadlines missed after permit violations by Bob Berwyn Essentially, the pad for the new grocery store was excavated in a way that may cause water to drain out of the wetlands. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency have been aware of the problem since late summer. The Corps of Engineers have repeatedly asked the devel-

oper to submit new plans showing how the problem will be corrected. In a Jan. 17 letter to Brynn Grey’s David O’Neill, the Corps pointed out that the developers have already missed several deadlines to comply with federal wetlands requirements. “You and your consultant were aware that water was entering the project site from

adjacent wetlands early during project construction,” wrote Susan Bachini Nall, chief of the Corps’ Colorado West Regulatory Branch. “And you constructed drains and infrastructure on the site that were not shown in the authorized project plans and without contacting the Corps ... Please understand this unanticipated effect on adjacent wetland hydrology is [a] serious issue and must be addressed in a timely fashion.” O’Neill, a developer known in Summit County for building affordable residential areas, says the builders at the Whole Foods site have remained in compliance with “every single condition” of the federal permit — an apparent contradiction to Nall’s Jan. 17 letter. “Our interests in protecting the wetland are identical… we just want some science/expert opinion guiding what we do,” O’Neil said via email, after submitting a letter to the Corps that suggested hydrological monitoring at the site. According to a Nov. 5 letter from Nall, the Corps has required the developer to build a retaining wall around parts of the Whole Foods site to prevent water from draining out of the wetlands. That letter set specific deadlines for conceptual and final plans for the wall as well as other mitigation measures — conditions that still haven’t been met by the developer. Only a small section of the site has wetland characteristics as a result of snow storage, according to O’Neill, who says more information is needed to determine whether the aquatic resources will be affected by the work. According to the Corps, the suggested monitoring could be too little, too late. “[T]he Corps is not willing to embark on a monitoring program in lieu of designing and constructing engineered features that will prevent the drainage and migration of groundwater from the adjacent wetlands,” Nall wrote. Frisco Mayor Gary Wilkinson said the town expects the developer to meet all Corps requirements. Wilkinson also said the project is in compliance with all town requirements, putting the town at odds with federal environmental laws. Meadow Creek flows out of the Eagles Nest Wilderness just a couple of miles from the Whole Foods site and sustains a town fishing pond, along with a rich wetlands near the shore of Dillon Reservoir. “We defer to our development partner on environmental questions associated with the build of the store,” Ben Friedland, Rocky Mountain region executive marketing coordinator for Whole Foods, said in an emailed statement. “They are working directly with the Army Corps and we are confident all concerns will be addressed in an appropriate and expedient manner. In the meantime, we remain focused on designing and opening a store the community of Frisco can truly be proud of.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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or the first time in more years that we’d like to recall, the Boulder Weekly had a staffer who was flitting in and out among the booths of the Outdoor Retailer trade show in Salt Lake City, scoping out some of the latest in outdoor gear for the coming season. Here are a few products that caught some attention.

I want to save the planet, too! Patagonia is known for a conservation ethos and eco-friendly, low-impact designs that hold up well to wear, and they’re not overlooking the details (or the price point) when it comes to letting people buy a piece of that philosophy. To that end, all of their beanies are free of acrylic, a man-made environmental ass-kicker. They use recycled polyester or chlorine-free wool instead. And at $29-$35, a beanie is a much easier way to buy into a piece of the Patagonia action.

Wax on, wax off Waxing isn’t just for your skis anymore. A number of Fjallraven’s jackets — from the city-ready Reporter Lite Jacket to the mountains-in-mind Sarek Trekking Jacket — are made with their G-1000 fabric, a cotton-polyester blend that can be waxed to increase water and wind resistance, then washed to make it more breathable when you know you’ve got dry days ahead. How neat is that? They’ve used the G-1000 Heavy Duty fabric in their Keb Gaiter Trousers, which zip off to allow the lower leg to be used as gaiters. Pants are proving The Sarek Winter Jacket, to be released this fall, uses to be their fastest growing category. Fjallraven’s G-1000 signature Designs draw classic retro notes from the 1960s waxed fabric. start date of the Scandinavian company, which recently relocated its headquarters to Boulder.

Expect the unexpected You know who has a line of women’s footwear with some surprisingly rockin’ options? Timberland. That’s right, boys, it’s not just camel-colored work boots for you anymore. From ballerina flats (lined with 100 percent PET lining from recycled plastic bottles — the same stuff PolarTec uses in their recycling) to boots that lace a mile high (OK, knee-high), they’ve got plenty to please.

These little piggies stayed warm Savvy outdoors folks know if you want warm toes, you’re probably going to want to go for wool. And gone are the days of wool meaning itchy, bulky or inclined to slouch. While there were many, many great entries in this category, including Colorado-based SmartWool (its neck gaiter has extended this skier’s day in the face of windy, blowing snow more than any other single purchase in the last decade), we’re going to give special props to Wigwam’s socks. Merino wool keeps the feet warm, while a cushioned sole helped pad some recent bony skiing days in Utah. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Elmore come out at the beginning of where from 30 seconds to three minthe play, throw a deck of cards in the utes, resulting in an 80-minute long air, and then proceed to pick one up play. The entire relationship is acted and act out the scene until no cards out, but the order changes night to remain. Each performance of the play, night. It could start with the breakup as a result, is drastically different. and end with the first kiss. 52 Pick Up was first written and “It is part of the excitement of perperformed by TJ Dawe and his roman- forming it and watching it, I believe,” tic partner at the time, Rita Bozi. Wilcox says. Wilcox, longtime friends with Dawe, “We’ve had shows where the first saw him act out the play in Canada 10 cards are heavy-duty breakups and several years ago and asked if she could all have to do with the last few months perform it herself. After finding of the relationship when things aren’t Elmore, the two went on to perform going so well, and that creates a very the play, winning the Best-of-Fest different effect on the audience. They award at the know the relationBoulder ship’s going to end International with all the heaviFringe Festival in ness,” Wilcox says. ON THE BILL: 52 Pick Up plays at the Wesley Chapel on Friday, 2008. “But then we’ve Feb. 7, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, The two actors had other shows Feb. 8, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 for joke about their where all the first reserved seating, $20 for general admission. Visit http://bit. personal relationscenes are the highs ly/52PiCKUp for tickets. 1290 Folsom ships throughout of love and the St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. their time with the honeymoon stage show. and the bliss of “It’s been a wild falling in love, and ride with you, I remember the drive so that has a very different effect and down to Austin you were going they have a different investment in the through something,” Elmore says, grin- couple.” ning. As Wilcox discusses the different “Are you sure it wasn’t Fresno?” elements of the play, Elmore begins to Wilcox says as she starts laughing. “I set up the stage. The props used for the remember being in a coffee shop with play are quite sparse, with just two red you and just crying about something.” shiny chairs and two red pillows on the The two talked about how different ground, but they use the set economithey’ve become since the first time they cally. The two chairs turn into a car at did the show five years ago. Elmore, one point, and the two pillows turn who’s since gotten married and bought into a bed. a house, mentioned the way the play Wilcox admits that wiping the slate has been helpful for him, too. clean after every scene is a unique “It’s given me more access to parts aspect of the play, compared to other of myself,” he says. “It’s really fun to plays or real life, where one moment perform and has a positive effect on builds on the past. The play requires me.” the actors to pivot from one extreme Each of the 52 scenes lasts anyemotion to its opposite. Their director,

Elizabeth Barren, was a big part of the training process. “She kicked our asses to really find these characters and make them sharp and clear,” Wilcox says. Barren trained them to compartmentalize the emotion of each scene, so that they could jump from an argument scene to a love scene to the time they first met. “If [the characters] are in an argument, we really stay committed to that level of anger towards each other … [and] don’t let that lessen just because we had a lovey-dovey scene the time before,” Wilcox says. It’s not the order that most impacts how the two actors react to the scenes, they say. Rather, it’s what’s happening in their personal lives. Elmore, who was sweeping the stage while Wilcox was speaking, stops and leans on the broom. “There is variety from show to show depending on the order, but also just depending on us and what’s happening outside of our lives, too, that can influence us,” he says. When asked what she hoped the audience would leave the performance with, Wilcox looks over at Elmore, and he steps in to answer. “It’s a sense that sometimes relationships can be so consuming, we can’t always get that bird’s-eye view. This show, for me, helps put relationships into perspective,” Elmore says, taking a seat on one of the red chairs. Both actors talk about the way what they’re currently going through comes out in the play. “It’s been incredibly healing, I’ve had a couple of relationships end, and it’s been kind of cathartic to start shouting and letting that through,” Wilcox says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Venice Baroque Orchestra brings the music of Vivaldi to Boulder by Peter Alexander

ew York critics call it Baroque period, and the more obscure Bajazet, the first and Vivaldi half of the “scruffy-elegant” (The New Boccherini. “Vivaldi wrote almost the concert will feature two concertos for Yorker) and its offerings first cello concertos,” she says. “Vivaldi’s solo cello and one for two cellos. The “fresh, zesty” (The New York cello concertos are very important for Boccherini half will offer a sonata and Times). the development and the technique of a concerto for cello, and conclude with That sounds like a trendy new bistro the instrument.” one of the quintets for two violins, in Soho, but it’s actually the Venice From there it is an easy step to viola and two cellos, which portrays Baroque Orchestra, which brings its Boccherini, who worked a little later nocturnal serenades “from the Streets “vivid, nearly reckless performances” than Vivaldi and took the style of the of Madrid” and features an added per(The Washington Post) and “sheer delight concerto into the early Classical era. cussion part. in virtuosity” (The New York Times) to One of the great instrumental virtuosos Venice Baroque’s success with Boulder next Thursday. of his day, he wrote 19 cello concertos Vivaldi reflects a remarkable turnaround That’s extravagant for a composer once Courtesy of Venice Baroque Orchestra praise for a group playing considered routine at music more than 300 best. Played in the years old, but the critics rigid, mechanical way didn’t stop there. National that used to be prePublic Radio called ferred for Baroque Venice Baroque “one of music, Vivaldi became the world’s most advena purveyor of “sewingturous and dramatic perimachine music,” all of od-instrument ensemit clicking along and bles,” and the The sounding more or less Washington Post described the same. But played the group as “tearing the with zest and virtuosity, powdered wig off this as the critics note, with music once and for all.” energy, brilliance and For their Boulder stressing the individuconcert, Venice Baroque ality of each concerto, Venice Baroque is bringing its joyful, nearly wreckless music to Macky will be joined by cellist his music becomes — Auditorium. Mario Brunello to “tear yes — vivid, fresh and the powdered wig off ” dramatic. cello concertos by Vivaldi, a Venetian and more than 100 string quintets with Di Vicenzo has an idea why Venice and a specialty of Venice Baroque; and two cellos, which remain his most popBaroque has led this flowering of Boccherini, a cellist who worked most ular works. Vivaldi’s music. of his life in Spain but left behind a “This is the meaning of this con“Vivaldi’s music is our music,” she great legacy of chamber and orchestral cert,” di Vincenzo says: “The first says. “We are Venetians, so it is our music for the cello. expression of the cello as a solo instru[musical] language, and maybe we know Alessandra di Vincenzo, one of the ment, [which] you can find in the how to read it. founding members of the orchestra, Vivaldi concertos, and then the apothe“We think that the environment points out the link between Vivaldi, one osis of the cello in Boccherini.” where music was born or was written, of the best-known composers of the Following an overture to the opera where a musician lives, is very important

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to understand that kind of music. Most Venice Baroque Orchestra members grew up in Venice and studied in Venice, many of us live in Venice. “Venice is a special city. It’s a city on the water, on the sea, and this helps you maybe to understand the lightness of Venetian music, the colors that are in Venetian music. The music is very lively and at the same time light — light as water. “In Vivaldi you can find bolder colors, too. We like very much to compare in particular Vivaldi’s music to painting. You need just to show the colors, so we try to paint it.” In the past the orchestra has been known to travel with their own homegrown food from Italy. Perhaps Venetian food contributes to the understanding of Vivaldi as much as the light of Venice? Di Vicenzo laughs. “Some time in the past we brought some pasta,” she admits. “Italian people need to eat, sometimes, pasta. “One person brings with him coffee, he brings coffee and the [espresso] machine. Drink and food, it is important, but we like American food, really.” Finally, there is one thing that di Vicenzo wants the audience to know, above all else. “We enjoy ourselves when we play together,” she says. “Maybe it’s because we are friends for many years, and so many of us grew up together. The audience will see the joy of making music together. “I think music is one of the most beautiful things in the world. And Vivaldi’s music is really joy.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Gleason and Kendall elevate ‘Annapurna’ by Gary Zeidner

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olor me a hopeless romantic, but I say fuck Valentine’s Day. Sure, the holiday has its liturgical and secular historical bases, but as it exists today it is nothing more than a crass, commercialized cash grab that mocks relationships and commitment while purporting to celebrate them. In the vast majority of cases, Valentine’s Day has as much to do with pure love as St. Patrick’s Day does with the banishment of legless reptiles from the Emerald Isle. Love knows no measure, and love knows no bounds. It has as many definitions as manifestations, and none have anything at all to do with Hallmark greeting cards and chalky candy hearts. (What is it about religion and cannibalistic iconography?) How wonderful it is, then, that Boulder’s preeminent theatre company, the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC), has chosen to present an honest, meaningful depiction of love in all of its flawed and passionate glory over this year’s Feast of Saint Fraud-entine. Annapurna, written by Sharr White, takes its name from the Nepalese mountain that was the first 8,000-meter (26,247 feet) peak to be summited. The leader of that fateful mountaineering expedition, Maurice Herzog, titled his chronicle of the journey Annapurna as well. In the decades since it was published, conflicting accounts of what hapKate Gleason and Chris Kendall’s performances are ascendant pened to Herzog and his team have surfaced. in BETC’s Annapurna. Those accounts, which are generally accepted as more accurate descriptions of the harrowing trek, illustrate the subjectivity of both experience and Rockies,” Paonia, Colo. Scratch the marketing-birthed memory. Annapurna, the play, focuses on this aspect of “mobile home.” Ulysses’ abode is a trailer sitting in a human nature and uses it to power a gripping and stereotypical trailer park populated almost exclusively highly amusing tale of true and messy love. by “CDS” types. CDS, we’re informed, describes peoThe play opens with an extremely improbable ple who can’t do shit, lost losers hiding out from the reunion. Out of the clear blue and after decades with- world and, in some cases, simply waiting to die. out any contact, Emma (Kate Gleason) shows up on Why Emma has returned after so many years and, the doorstep of her ex-husband Ulysses’ (Chris perhaps more importantly, why she left so abruptly in Kendall’s) mobile home in “the ass crack of the the first place, are too central to Annapurna for me to

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discuss here. What I can divulge is that the relationship between these two damaged souls is as vibrant, touching and credible as any you’ll see depicted, on stage or otherwise. Playwright Sharr White deserves credit for some of this (and after seeing his vaguely disappointing but perplexingly lauded The Other Place I’m happy to see the improvement), but the bulk of my praise is reserved for Gleason, Kendall and their director, Rebecca Remaly. Remaly, a seasoned director of BETC productions and co-founder of the company, nails every aspect of Annapurna. She and Set Designer Ron Mueller have created a wonder with Ulysses’ trailer, where all of the action unfolds. The trailer is constructed cut-away style, which gives the actors nowhere to hide and emphasizes their characters’ vulnerability. Remaly and Costume Designer Brenda King clothe Emma and Ulysses simply and fittingly. For many audience members, Ulysses’ first “outfit” will be remembered for years to come. It is Remaly’s work with her actors, however, that allows Annapurna to summit greatness. As I’ve noted before, Kendall is an actor’s actor as defined by the fact that he is nearly unrecognizable from role to role. As believable as he was as a New York Rabbi in the 2012 BETC production of Elijah: An Adventure, he disappears even more completely into the published-poet-turned-trailer-trash that is Ulysses. Matching him stride for stride, Gleason makes the complicated character of Emma completely relatable and supremely sympathetic. By way of illustration, late in the play when Emma asks Ulysses if he really thinks she returned solely for his benefit, Gleason’s delivery of that one basic query gently but insistently forces the audience to question everything that has come before. If you’re anything like me, the answer to Emma’s question is sweeter than any heart-shaped box full of sugary distractions. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Analog Days. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Bob Marley’s Birthday Celebration. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Cold River City. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder,

Liz Berube. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Papa Juke. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Out-

Strangebyrds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720406-9696. Wind Symphony & Symphonic Band Concert. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-4921411. see EVENTS Page 46

Monday, February 10: Stephen Wade — Roots music detective. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music Building, CU campus, Boulder, 303-735-3645.

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American West, an art exhibit at the CU Art Museum, will be on display until March 22.

Boulder Stories of Romance and Courtships. Boulder Public Library Carnegie Branch, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-441-3110. Through Feb. 28. Derrick Velasquez: A Language of Structure. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through April 13.

Narrative Forms at the WESTend — Features the paintings and sculpture of Damon Mohl and the small metal work of Jessica Mohl. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303678-7869. Through March 1.

PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through June 21. Passport to Paris. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 9. Pattern: Follow the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Feb. 9.

Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13.

Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24.

Humanity, Earth, Intention and Consequences — Features the work of Tania Dibbs. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Show in Red — Lela Kay. SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. Through Feb. 28.

Interlaced: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through March 22. Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through March 30.

Studio Spotlight — Features the work of Rick Stoner, Dwayne Wolf and Martha Williams. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb. 2. Stories in Print — Features the work of Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 7.

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events BikeWalk Summit Open House. 5 p.m. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., 303-441-4138. Winter exhibitions opening reception. 5:30 p.m. for members, 6:30 p.m. for the public. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Friday, February 7 music Cleason Dunn Wright. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. John Wesley Saterfield. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Monocle Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Neptune’s Only Daughter. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. “Peace Through Music” Open Mic/Singalong. SouLove South, 2785 Lafayette Drive, Boulder, 916-873-4856. Quemando. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Steve Itterly. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Something Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Somewhere in the Middle. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787. Technicolor Tone Factory with Tauk. 9 Boulder Weekly

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1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. DJ Ish. 10 p.m. The Attic, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Dreamboat Annie. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Henscratch. 8 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955. Kort McCumber & Ray Smith. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Gallery Art Showing: “Gathering My Wits” by Joy Bradbury. 6 p.m. Enriching Elements, 2712 28th St, Boulder, 303-515-7974.

Lionel Young Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

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

Na’an Stop. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

OpenArts pARTy. 6:30 p.m. DiDomenico Art House, 4295 Broadway, Boulder, www. openartsboulder.org.

Old Friends and Memories. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Turn The Lights Out! Deep Disco. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Pete Stein. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

music Ars Nova Singers with Edward Dusinberre — “Passion: The Violin and the Voice.” 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Blues on the Lamb. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite Boulder Weekly

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

Dancin’ Divas. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.

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Caregiving for the Genius — by Jane Barton. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070. Scent of Butterflies — by Dora Levy Mossanen. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave. Denver, 303-3227727.

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Sex Workers Unite — by Melinda Chateavert. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-436-1070. Saturday, February 8 Handmade Valentine’s Fundraiser for Metro Denver Promotion of Letters — by Melinda Chateavert. 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2510 Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Helen Rose. 2 p.m. Innisfree Poetry, 1203 13th

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Wednesday, February 12 Emily T. Yeh — “Taming Tibet Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chine Development.” 7 p.m.Innisfree Poetry, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. The Free — by Willy Vlautin. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave. Denver, 303-322-7727.

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Tommy and the Tangerines. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Tom Weiser Jazz Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985. Vertical Fusion. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397. events 52 Pick Up. 8 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. As You Like It. 1:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m., Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, 303443-7510. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Love in the Tetons. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Polar Plunge for Special Olympics Colorado. 1 p.m. City of Boulder Reservoir, 5565 North 51st St., Boulder, 303-592-1361. Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 48 February 6, 2014

13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Rock Your Soul Triathlon — Pilates, yoga, dance. Erie High School, 3180 County Road 5, Erie, 303-665-5244. Running Club. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258. Second City Improv. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Sunday, February 9 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Aural Elixir’s Musical Brunch. 11 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-8232345. Bilinda Lou. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of The Beatles. 7:30 p.m. The 28th Street Tavern, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-1562. Kids for Bach Concert. 2 p.m. Boulder PubBoulder Weekly

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Master of the Flying Guillotine is Taiwanese director Jimmy Wang Yu’s 1976 sequel to One Armed Boxer. Yu not only directed and wrote the film but starred as the main character, a martial arts master who is stalked by a blind assassin seeking revenge. The film is titled after the assassin’s deadly weapon, the “flying guillotine,” which is described on the cover as “the most gruesome weapon ever conceived.” If that isn’t bad enough bad-ass Kung Fu action for you, know that Method Man of the The Wu Tang Clan alluded to the flick on “Shadowboxin’” from GZA’s classic 1995 album Liquid Swords, and Quentin Tarantino has called the film one of his all-time favorites. American film producer (Garden State) Dan Halsted has said, “This is one of the greatest Kung Fu movies of all time, and truly must be seen to be believed.” This screening of the film at the International Film Series will be on rare, original 35 mm film, made possible by a private collector who rescued the prints. —Nadia Mishkin

lic Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lazer Bunny Bluegrass Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Leigh Jones. 8 p.m.The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Prairie Scholars: Dinner Music. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

events As You Like It. 1:30, 7:30 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave, Boulder, 303-443-7510. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St, Boulder, 720-328-8328. Frontrunners. 9:15 a.m. Frontrunners, Whole Foods at Basemar Shopping Center, corner of Broadway & Baseline, Boulder, 303-499-7636. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2690 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Riley O’Toole. 2 p.m.Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

Lazy Person’s Book Club. 3 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Timothy Wednel. 4:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

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.

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tanner Sands. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

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Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Robert R. & Ruth J. Fink. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. Supervention. 8 p.m. 633 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tuesday, Februrary 11 music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Boulder Women’s Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Enriching Elements, 2712 28th St, Boulder, 303-515-7974. Boulder Weekly

events Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Frankie and Floyd. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397. Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. sign-up. The Attic, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

tro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Los Lonely Boys. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. events Cravings — With Stephanie Pollock. Registration required. 6:30 p.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, Boulder, www. integrativebotanical.com.

Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Trivia. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Wednesday Mini Bike Races. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-4447465. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. aBEERham Lincoln’s Birthday Party. 10 a.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Post-Flood Income Tax Workshop. 6:30 p.m. Commissioners’ Hearing Room, Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-441-3930. Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-4448448.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Piano Jazz Tuesday. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Thurston Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. University Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. events Chinese New Year Celebration. 2 p.m. Silver Creek High School, Longmont, 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-494-3721. Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Kim Jongku lecture. 6:15 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, CU-Boulder, 303-492-2539. Trivia Night. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465. Wednesday, February 12 music Afortunado. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m.Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985. Dave Tamkin. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303786-9270. David Booker Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397. The Ed Breazeale Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Joseph Plamer. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU-Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & BisBoulder Weekly

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American Hustle 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.

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

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

Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven’s Final Symphony Filmed on five continents and in 12 countries, this is the story of four people whose lives have been transformed, repaired and healed by the Ninth’s message: “Alle Menschen werden Bruder (All People Are Connected).” At Tienanmen Square in 1989, students played the Ninth over loudspeakers as the army came in to crush their protests for freedom. In Chile, women under the Pinochet dictatorship sang the Ninth at torture prisons, and those inside took hope when they heard the music. In Japan each December, the Ninth is performed hundreds of times, often with 10,000 people in the chorus. Part road trip, part adventure, Following The Ninth is a story about the power of music and human resilience in dark times. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Frozen When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the

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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 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

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit The latest action film based on author Tom Clancy’s character “Jack Ryan.” In this thriller Jack (Chris Pine) uncovers a global finacial terrorist plot and has to thwart it. Jack is mentored by his handler, Harper (Kevin Costner). Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

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Astronauts played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney get stranded in space when a space walk goes terribly wrong. Rated PG-13. At Century.

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 Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

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The LEGO Movie 3D

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

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.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lone Survivor

Another entertaining installment in the Lord of the Rings series. This one has a giant dragon guarding treasure. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square. Jennifer Lawrence dazzles in this adventure sequel. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.

If you still have the stomach for such tales, this film 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.

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The Magic Flute: Salzburg Festival

In a world of gargoyles and demons, a battle for ultimate power rages as both try to uncover the secret behind the immortality of Victor Frankenstein’s creation, Adam (Aaron Eckhart). PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Mozart’s colorful parade of wild and whimsical characters — from the high-flying coloratura of the Queen of the Night to Papageno and his flighty bird songs — is magical in this production from the Salzburg Festival. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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The Monuments Men

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 and 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.

Gravity

Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Invisible Woman 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

Nebraska 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

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

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 Esquire 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 and Century.

That Awkward Moment 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, Colony Square and Century.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Ben Stiller stars in this film version of author James Thurber’s classic. It’s a tale of a man who escapes his ordinary life by day-dreaming his way into fantasy worlds filled with adventure. But when his real world gets threatened, he and his co-worker, played by Kristen Wiig, get caught up in a wilder adventure than Mitty ever could have imagined. Rated PG. At Century.

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 (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

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 and Colony Square. Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE Film Center in Denver: Oscar Nominated Shorts; Captain Phillips; 12 O’Clock Boys; Act of Killing; Broken Circle Breakdown; Raze; The Great Beauty.

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ust as the short story trembles in the footprint of the novel, the short film plays David to featurelength film Goliaths. But with the help of shiny, naked bald men, these wee bits of cinematic splendor step from the shadows and sling their short shots. And in the 12 years I’ve had the pleasure of covering them, this year’s bunch is easily the best. The animated shorts screen at the International Film Series Friday, Feb. 14, and Saturday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. All screenings take place at Muenzinger Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

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“Get a Horse” — directed by Lauren MacMullen Nominating any Disney animation feels obvious and obligatory. But “Get a Horse” is a delightful madcap romp that brings a classic version of Mickey Mouse back on screen. Little more than a series of cartoon character slapstick sight gags, it’s a throwback that still has a bit of pep in its step, even if it has nothing to say.

“Feral” — directed by Daniel Sousa This gorgeous endeavor feels like a moving painting. Following a wild boy who is brought to a school to be civilized, the short reminds us that the savagery of the animals is outdone by the beastly nature of “society.” It’s the most visually arresting film of the bunch, even if its theme is as old as Tarzan.

“Room on the Broom” — directed by Jan Lachauer and Max Lang This faux clay-mation special is pure kids’ stuff, which is surprisingly refreshing. The whimsical narration provided by Simon Pegg advances a delightful morality tale about acceptance, collaboration and the power of the dark arts. Parents may not be wild about that last part, but it’s a lot of fun.

“Possessions” — directored by Shuhei Morita “Possessions” is a three-dimensional, computer-generated version of handdrawn Japanese anime, infused with the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki. Umbrellas and tapestries come to life and “attack” a wayward soul who defeats them by repairing them. It’s as silly and delightful as it is lush and vibrant. It’s why I love animated shorts, and it’s not even the best one.

“Mr. Hublot” — directed by Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares I watched “Mr. Hublot” twice in a row. I love it. I want it made into a fulllength feature, and I would buy the inevitable associated toy line. A fusty robot with OCD is transformed when he adopts a growing robo-pup. This gem is part steampunk visuals and part E.T. scifi tear-jerking. “Get a Horse” will take home Oscar gold (ugh), but “Mr. Hublot” stole my heart. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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t’s that time of year again, when you cannot sidestep all of the fireengine red, Pepto-pink, proliferation of hearts and the cunning cupids. But there is one redeeming quality about all of the Valentine’s Day hype: chocolate. Serious amounts of chocolate. It also doesn’t hurt that chocolate’s perceived status as an aphrodisiac makes it a perfect gift for Hallmark’s customer appreciation day. Especially since when that chocolate is gifted, it tastes all the better. So if you’re thinking of giving your sweetie some sweets this Feb. 14th, here are some of Boulder’s leading chocolaterias. ROBIN CHOCOLATES Robin Chocolates in Longmont is nationally recognized, and its owner, Robin Autorino, has received no shortage of accolades for her small edible pieces of art. “If it doesn’t look good,” says Autorino, “we’re probably not going to enjoy it as much. It’s true that we eat with our eyes first.” The visual artistry of Robin Chocolates’ special molds, swirls, drizzles, sprinkles of sea salt and brushstrokes of edible gold dazzle the eye before the chocolate even comes out of the case. The true excitement of luxe

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Boulder County has plenty of special options to show your adoration by Christine Vazquez chocolate always begins there. The cocoa butter is what gives high-quality chocolates their gleam, which makes them all the more attractive. Autorino’s Mexican Mole Caramel, Orange Spice, Chocolate Caramel Fleur de Sel, Pomegranate, Raspberry Heart, Lavender and Lemon Souffle molded truffles have all won awards. Autorino’s Dulce Blond won for both molded truffle and Grand Champion at the 2013 Holiday Chocolate Festival, held at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. It’s impressive to see such a long list of award-winning chocolates coming out of one shop, and this list would be a good place to start when selecting your own for your personal stash, or for gifting. Or both.

It’s all the more impressive considering Autorino, the brains behind the recipes, grew up allergic to chocolate, had a Navy career, and then worked in the tech industry for more than a decade after that before pursuing a formal education in pastry. While in pastry school, she discovered in the process of tasting things that her allergy had waned, a development that worked out well for everyone. Autorino opened Robin Chocolates in 2008, adding a retail store in the fall of 2011. Autorino’s chocolates are now so well-loved people drive from Denver to get their hands on them, and some drive from as far as Colorado Springs. Autorino uses the French luxury chocolate Valrhona as her base. She also

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uses high-fat cream and butter, top shelf liquors and, when possible, locally sourced products, like Lyons’ Spirit Hound Distillery’s coffee liqueur. “I like my flavors simple. When someone eats my chocolate — raspberry for example — it tastes like raspberry,” she says. “A lot of chocolatiers get too complicated with their flavors, but the simpler it is, the more the main flavors can shine.” SUN CUPS Brothers Rick and Neil Levine were Boulder high-end chocolate producers for years, operating as Seth Ellis Chocolates (a name derived from their middle names) before a Boulder County resident came to them with a request that they produce a “peanut” butter cup his peanut-allergic son could eat. With the help of their other partner, Swiss-trained chef and now only remaining founder, David Lurie, they came up with a recipe they were happy with, and Sun Cups was created. Sun Cups is actually a registered trademark of Seth Ellis Chocolates, LLC, but to most, both locally and nationally, it’s thought of and recognized as a completely separate entity. The all-natural treats are nut-free, see CHOCOLATE Page 60

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Was it the carbs? The gluten? The fact that Marilyn Hagerty didn’t lambast it for being a soulless chain? Whatever the reason, the Boulder Olive Garden said arrivederci last week, taking its bottomless breadsticks and going home. Darden Restaurants Inc., owners of the franchise, told local media the restaurant was simply underperforming. Attempts were made to shift employees to other Olive Garden and/or Red Lobster locations in Westminster, Longmont and Thornton. As for what will become of the nowvacant building that Darden Restaurants Inc., owns at 2685 Pearl St., no one yet knows. Which means it would be a perfect time for someone to approach the owners with a sitcom idea about a pair of wacky mountain climbers that decide to leave the mountain life behind them to open an Olive Garden-like restaurant that certain BW food writers may or may not already have a screenplay for sitting in the top drawer of their desks at work. Call us, Darden. Call us.

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ever felt the urge to combine them into one effort, then you’re in luck. On Monday, Feb. 10, Shine will be offering a free yoga class at 6:30 p.m., after which there will be a shiny happy hour. Loosen up the muscles in your back, then loosen up your tongue, all in one fell sukhasana. Shine is located at 2027 13th St. The class starts at 6 p.m. and is free.

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Also happening Saturday, Feb. 8, is A Taste of the Highlands, which will explore the eateries of Denver’s Highlands Bridge neighborhood. Tickets are available through www. DenverGourmetTours. com. It runs from 1 to 4 p.m. and costs $49.

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As Boulder’s favorite vaudevillian Karl Marx once said, from those with the greatest ability to conWALK, DON’T RUN sume wine and Asian If you’re getting a food, to those with bit of Boulder fever the greatest need for and feeling the need it. to stretch your legs And this week you culinarily, there’s a can put K-Ma’s grip of restaurant words into action tours going down in with a charity shindig Denver this weekend. at Wok Eat in downOn Friday, Feb. 7, The Emich sisters, the owners of Shine, displaying town Boulder. from 3 to 5 p.m., the their Yo-face. Wednesday, Feb. Savor the Flavors tour 12, The Asian street will be leading foodfood cafe at 946 Pearl St. will be hosting a ies on a two-hour walking and tasting tour fundraising event for the Emergency Family through LoDo, East Colfax and South Pearl Assistance Association. All you have to do at a cost of $39 per person. is chow down on some Wok Eat delights, The Denver Top Restaurant tour will be drink up on wine flights and snack sideheld Saturday, Feb. 8, featuring three of ways on desserts. the city’s top eateries, with exclusive pairThe event runs from 5 to 8 p.m. Get ings and insight. That one costs $99 per person and runs from 2 to 5 p.m. more info at efaa.org. Tickets for both of those tours are availRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com able at www.culinaryconnectors.com.

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oulder’s baked goods mainstay, Shamane’s Bake Shop, will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year. It’s easy to understand why it has lasted. Throughout my visit — though the space is small — both the lobby and dining room were full to overflowing. There were families ordering lunch to go, and couples ordering lunch to eat there. There were people placing their holiday pie orders at the counter. There was even a gal patiently waiting her turn to order, holding an empty, large white bowl, which was subsequently filled with Shamane’s chili. I wanted to sample a variety of things, and first ordered the Black Bean Quinoa Burger, made with sweet potato and topped with avocado, tomato, lettuce and chipotle aioli. The menu says it comes on an onion brioche, but my bun was straight brioche, which was just fine with me, grilled like a panini. On any of the menu’s six sandwiches — and a rotating daily special sandwich each day — you can add an egg for $1 more, which I did. It was flavorful. The sweet potato and egg helped. The sandwich was also so generously sized I had to take half home. Shamane’s alternates the available sides weekly among pasta salad, potato salad and quinoa, and they come in small for $4.50 or medium for just 50 cents more. I got a small potato salad, which had large, tender chunks of potato, soft slices of egg white and herbs, in

There’s always a soup and quiche of the day — the soup you can even buy by the quart to go. And these are just the savory options. Shamane’s Bake Though the Shoppe shop’s tagline is 2825 Wilderness “making your Place, Suite 800 sweet dreams come Boulder true,” they are clearly 303-417-9338 making a run at satisfying savory dreams as well. There’s a whole panel on their menu of their sweet selections — which is what Shamane’s is known for. Everything from chocolate croissants and pound cakes to fourto six-inch pies [$6/$20]. Five types of cookies, including ones you don’t see often — like raspberry linzer and gingersnap — as well as brownies and cupcakes, are also available. They do specialty cakes for all occasions and have a wall of sample books you can look through for inspiration and ideas. I sampled a handful of their sweets — a cheesecake square, a chocolate-chocolate to think about them. When just 10 cupcake with the best chocolate frosting minutes later I decided I wanted one, I’ve ever tasted, chocolate walnut and went back to the counter to order, biscotti and mini flourless chocolate the two that were in the case had cake – and each one was better than the already been snatched up. Instead, I last; that says a lot when the first one ordered a chicken pot pie, which came was delicious. enclosed in a crust I’ve never quite seen While Shamane’s location, tucked the likes of before: perfectly browned, into a nondescript strip just south of flaky and tender. When I shared a few Valmont and west of Foothills Parkway bites with my husband — who considmakes it a destination spot for most, it ers himself a pot pie connoisseur — he is worth your while. said it was the best one he’s ever had. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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a mustard-mayonnaise sauce. They offer two salads — a weekly spinach salad special, and a mixed green cobb — for $7.50 each. There’s both a green chile and a chorizo burrito available, for $4.95 each, and a number of savory pot pies and galettes — from chicken and roast beef pot pies to beef pasties and seasonal galettes. All are $7. One thing about Shamane’s is you have to act quickly. I had eyed the galettes when I walked in, but wanted

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gluten-free, organic, Certified Kosher and, most recently, non-GMO Project verified. Sun Cups are also allergen-free of seven of the top food allergies, with the only remaining being dairy. Using cacao from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, they do good for the Earth also. These are rare products, making them an important option for chocolate lovers in Boulder County and across the country who deal with all kinds of food allergies. In 2009, Sun Cups introduced milk chocolate cups and dark chocolate cups, and two years later, their milk chocolate caramel cups as well as their dark chocolate mint cups. These chocolate treats may be considered more of an everyday snack, but their goodness and flavor can stand up to any Valentine’s Day chocolate giving, especially for those chocoholics averse to nuts and eggs. They’re also launching their new chocolate bars exclusively through their website in time for Valentine’s Day, which you can find at www.suncups.com. Sun Cups is also running a large online sale through Feb. 10. PIECE, LOVE AND CHOCOLATE At Piece, Love and Chocolate, founder and owner Sarah Amorese — coincidence the root of her name is Amore? — creates all of the housemade recipes that she and her kitchen manager, Genevieve Fetherston, supply for the sweet tooths in Boulder and beyond. In Amorese’s charming shop on the historic West End of Pearl Street, they sell everything from rows and rows of chocolate truffles lined up like small, scintillating soldiers, to a large variety of cakes — by the slice or whole. They also source luxury chocolate bars from around the world, as well as offer chocolatethemed gift items. It’s a true chocolate-lover’s dream. With house-made flavors like basil — using only fresh and organic basil — and S’mores, here you can find bites of chocolate that are inventive and fun. Piece, Love and Chocolate also does classes on a range of chocolate-related topics, and you can find their current class schedule on their website — www. pieceloveandchocolate.com. They will have special Valentine’s hours on both Thursday, Feb. 13, and Friday, Feb. 14, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and as a special holiday treat, they’ll have chocolate fountains flowing from 5 to 8 p.m. each of these evenings, with fresh strawberries provided. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Spears (no relation to Britney), the first distiller to label his whiskey as bourbon. The name comes from the fact that Uncle Jacob’s is aged for six months in bourbon barrels. Yummers. The release party is Sunday, Feb. 9, at 1 p.m. Also going down at Avery this week is All You Need is a Beer, a paired beer and chocolate tasteapalooza that will include no shortage of yakking about the history, culture and “health benefits” of chocobooze combos. All You Need is Beer goes down Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $26 and are available in the Avery Tap Room. Space is limited. So don’t drink too much Uncle Jacob’s and forget to get your ticket.

HERE, TASTE THIS WEASEL Some say Longmont is all about the tacos. Others say it’s all about the tasty weasels. Others, still, follow that last statement up with a “that’s what she said.” Whichever sort you may be, you oughta know that the Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel tapSusan France room in Longmont STOUTS BEYOND is turning 5 this THE MOUNTAIN SUN week, and will be Mountain Sun throwing itself a ain’t the only place par-tay. dishing the dark. On Saturday, Avery Brewing is Feb. 8, at 4 p.m., the holding a release Weaseliversary will party for its new kick off with live brew, Uncle Jacob’s music and speciality Stout. tastings. Oskar We know what Blues will also be you’re thinking. That showcasing its latest weird empty rocking creation, chair from Lost? G’Afternoon Hoppy Why does it get a Red Ale, which — stout named after it Shannon McGrath at the Tasty Weasel, as you probably figwhen you, the hum- Longmont ured out by now — ble BW reader, has is a hoppy red ale. put in long hours of And a specially heroic beer drinking in front of the brewed one at that. television? Music, ahem, “on tap,” includes But turns out that’s the wrong singer/songwriter Kort McCumber at Jacob. 4:30 p.m., and Strategic Beef Plan B: According to the brew lads at The Morning After at 6 p.m. Avery, it’s actually named after Jacob Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com 62 February 6, 2014

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When songwriters make a “slant rhyme,” the words they use don’t really rhyme, but they sound close enough alike to mimic a rhyme. An example occurs in “The Bad Touch,” a tune by the Bloodhound Gang: “You and me baby ain’t nothing but mammals / So let’s do it like they do on the Discovery Channel.” Technically, “mammals” doesn’t rhyme with “channel.” I suspect that in the coming week you will have experiences with metaphorical resemblances to slant rhymes. But as long as you don’t fuss and fret about the inexactness you encounter, as long as you don’t demand that everything be precise and cleaned-up, you will be entertained and educated. Vow to see the so-called imperfections as soulful.

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“Almost,” writes novelist Joan Bauer. “It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.” I’m sure you know about that feeling yourself, Cancerian. Sometimes it has seemed like your entire life is composed of thousands of small almosts that add up to one gigantic almost. But I have good news: There is an excellent chance that in the next 14 to 16 weeks you will graduate from the endless and omnipresent almost; you will rise up and snatch a bold measure of completeness from out of the ever-shifting flow. And it all kicks into high gear now.

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves,” wrote the poet Federico García Lorca. I urge you to make sure you are not inflicting that abuse on yourself in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’s always dangerous to be out of touch with or secretive about your holy passions, but it’s especially risky these days. I’m not necessarily saying you should rent a megaphone and shout news of your yearnings in the crowded streets. In fact, it’s better if you are discriminating about whom you tell. The most important thing is to not be hiding anything from yourself about what moves you the most.

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Dear Dan: I’m a 30-year-old straight guy 18 months into a relationship with a 30-year-old bisexual woman. We get along wonderfully and fuck wonderfully. Have you ever tried to see who can outrim whom? Fun stuff. We want a life together. The snag is that while she’s nontraditional in many respects, she also has a certain dedication to Catholicism and wants us to marry. I’m agnostic on God, but I don’t care at all for his earthly representatives; the idea of a priest giving me permission to kiss her is repellent. A secular courthouse wedding isn’t much more appealing to me. I know that a marriage license doesn’t automatically come with a dead bedroom and a dresser full of pleated jeans to put in it, but it seems utterly unnecessary. It’s also a binary sort of thing, and thus our go-to solution when we have a conflict — compromise — doesn’t work here. I suggested flipping a coin as a sort of probabilistic compromise. She wasn’t interested. Breaking up over the details of your future life together seems like a dumb thing for two smart people in love to do, but that’s the outcome we’re inexorably moving toward. —Running Into No Go Dear RING: If you were my boyfriend, RING, and you told me — right after I had defeated you in a rimming contest — that you would marry me if you lost a coin toss, but not because marriage mattered to me, I would never rim your ass again. Because if my feelings, however contaminated they were by Catholicism, mattered less to you than a coin toss, well, then your ass would have to learn to eat itself. Maybe it will help if you look at it this way: You’ve already lost the coin toss. You fell in love with a woman who wants to spend her life with you, and you want to spend the rest of yours with her. And the woman you want to spend the rest of your life rimming wants to marry the man she spends her life rimming. Since you would be willing to marry her if you lost a coin toss, RING, then clearly marriage isn’t something you couldn’t bring yourself to do. That means you’re the one who should compromise.

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Will CU become the center of the universe for cannabis? Susan France

ow ironic would it be if the University of Colorado Boulder became the world’s leading university to study cannabis? The school’s history with the plant has been checkered at best. Anybody who’s lived here awhile knows about the longstanding 4/20 event, an annual tradition until the school went on the offensive, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and, one year, even pouring fish guts on campus grass to keep celebrants away. Still, the school is often mentioned in those idiotic Top 10 Stoner Schools lists, and CU is prominent in the Wikipedia entry for 4/20. And though CU administrators insist that an increase in enrollment applications had nothing to do with legalization in the state, we all know that it had at least something to do with it. So how cool would it be if CU becomes the major center for research into the cannabis plant? A CU team under the leadership of Professor Nolan Kane of the ecology and evolutionary biology department has begun a project to develop a genetic map of the Cannabis genus. This study will follow in the vein of Kane’s groundbreaking work on other genuses, including the sunflower. “It has to happen here,” says Ben Holmes. “Boulder is this big innovation soup — beer, restaurants and software. It’s a culture. Boulder lends itself to that.” Holmes is the owner of Centennial Seeds in Lafayette, which will be providing seed for the project. Holmes is registered with the Colorado Department of Agriculture as a farmer seed labeler. “It gives me the ability to farm seed and then certify it and make sure it performs to certain standards,” he says. “I try to go seed-to-seed. That’s the way all major crops are reproduced.” The implications of having a full genetic map of cannabis are staggering. This kind of information will become the starting point for all other research into and the manufacture of industrial hemp, as well as development of the Boulder Weekly

Tokes of days past: 4/20 and marijuana have a long history on the CU campus.

sativa and indica varieties favored for pleasure and medicine and now legal in Colorado. “It’s a plan to develop a genomic map of the genus Cannabis,” Holmes says, “so we can place individual genes on chromosomes and then develop assays for important genes so that you can screen plants at the seedling level.”

grown for fiber, not resin. It was legal for more than 150 years to grow hemp in the U.S., and hemp farming here dates to the founding fathers. It is used in building materials, fibers, textiles, oils, food and thousands of other products here in the U.S. The irony is that all hemp used here must be imported.

It was legal for more than 150 years to grow hemp in the U.S., and hemp farming here dates to the founding fathers. It is used in building materials, fibers, textiles, oils, food and thousands of other products here in the U.S. The irony is that all hemp used here must be imported.

“We’ll be able to figure out how these traits work with each other and how they can be harnessed and exploited,” he says. “To have the abilities that this will provide — to screen plants at a young age — is like having super powers.” Holmes is especially interested in hemp, which is basically cannabis

Except for a short period during World War II, there has been no hemp legally grown in the United States since the 1930s, when it was lumped into the war against marijuana, and it is still classified as a controlled substance on a federal level. Amendment 64 allows the production of hemp in Colorado, and the

Farm Bill, which just passed the U.S. House and Senate, includes a provision championed by Rep. Jared Polis that allows universities to study hemp. Holmes’ interest is in trying to bring back a crop that has been discouraged, deliberately neglected and nearly forgotten. The Kane study’s genetic maps will help expedite the process of building that seed stock again. “It’s a seed-propagated industry,” says Holmes. “We’ve had 75 to 76 years where there’s been no maintenance of crop, no seed stocks. That exists for most crops that are kept in a seed system — the USDA keeps 30-plus varieties of sunflowers. That doesn’t exist for hemp, and we’ve lost those seed stocks.” Holmes has been buying and collecting cannabis seeds since 2004. “I purchased some complete collections,” he says. “I lean toward the heirloom stuff that hasn’t been hybridized. It can be reproduced in a geographically isolated manner so it doesn’t get contaminated.” The Kane Lab maps will also help farmers develop better cultivation and development practices. “That partnership with agriculture schools is an old tradition that covers every crop we grow,” Holmes says. “Land-grant colleges were put together by an act of Congress that granted support to teach farming.” Holmes notes that Colorado State University developed a farm community around its ag school. And if a recent meeting for potential hemp farmers that drew a huge, overflow crowd to the Reynolds Library branch on a recent Saturday is any indication, interest in hemp’s potential for local farmers is high. “It’s just a first mapping of this genus that will be the basis for the bioscience industry and all work on the plant going forward,” Holmes says. “I’ll bet you’ll see ag schools start teaching a curriculum based on hemp. It’s a big idea.” Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com February 6, 2014 69

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