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contents news and views DIFFERING VIEWS ON HYDRAULIC FRACTURING / 5 A threat to children that is here to stay? by Paul Danish and Robyn O’Brien RETHINKING PINK / 7 What the Planned Parenthood decision says about Komen and a quiet majority by Pamela White ON THE COVER: IS FINDING LOVE A NUMBERS GAME? / 10 What the data shows about your dating life by Elizabeth Miller THE GHOSTS OF VALMONT BUTTE / 11 How Reagan and an EPA scandal may explain why butte is still contaminated by Joel Dyer

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Valmont is health risk

(Re: “Valmont cemetery families say city in danger of digging up human remains,” The Ghosts of Valmont Butte series, Feb. 2.) What I wanted to offer was the fact that the city should not be digging anywhere near this cemetery without first getting some ground penetrating radar studies done. In today’s modern cemeteries, the standard depth of burials is 18 to 24 inches below ground level, with heavy equipment utilization. In the pioneer days, hand-dug graves, especially in winter months, may have been as shallow as 6 to 8 inches deep, which presents a number of complex issues if the city starts digging the 18 inches the article speaks to. Not the least of these worries would be exposures to health hazards due to causes of death back in the day that, once exposed again to oxygen, could be an issue bigger than the ideal of cautiously moving forward with GPR first. Anyone involved with such a dig would be risking their own health along with anyone near the scene, and liabilities for the city would grow exponentially. I own a cemetery expert consultancy, and we have been involved in these

types of operations in other states. The World Health Organization has published hundreds of records over the last decade relative to the risks associated with such an endeavor. It would be highly recommended that the city listen to those who have warned them of the hazards and concerns, and proceed with great caution, and think beyond expense, if they are to move forward with this. We are also available to assist in this matter if need be. I was a 16-year resident of Boulder, and would hate to see them do anything to either deface this historic ground or put people at risk. Bob Roberts, CemOps/Midland, Texas

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ast year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple empire. “What would it take to make iPhones in the United States?” Good question! We need to put more people to work building more stuff in America, rather than

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Lots of highly educated people are frightened by what hydrofracking is doing to our environment. Watch a video by Tony Ingraffea for instance, from Cornell. Since most of this gas will eventually be shipped overseas, it will not help our energy independence. I could go on for hours relaying the facts of all the bad things related to this insane practice, but take some time, read up on it yourself! Jody Neugebauer/via Internet

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Way to go there Paul. Somebody needs to have the balls to stand up to the crazie commies in Boulder. SOPA is next. Jann Scott/via Internet

(Re: “Searching for a CSA,” Boulderganic, Feb. 2.) I run a CSA directory; here are all the CSAs that have pickups in Boulder: http://coloradocsas.info/csas/pickupCity/Boulder. I agree with Jessica George — there is a lot of variety out there, but if you want the vegetables and can handle the commitment, any CSA is better than none. Dan Moore/via Internet (Re: “War on fracking,” Danish Plan, Jan. 12.) Can’t believe this nonfactual drivel is still being written. Are you a gas company worker?

shipping all that manufacturing off to China. Instead of answering, however, Jobs just said, “Those jobs aren’t coming back.” Well, why not? Why shouldn’t American corporations go all out to help meet the obvious economic needs of the nation that nurtures them? The high-techers don’t mention the obvious reasons for their jobs dodge: raw corporate selfishness. Rather than looking inward, however, they blame America. First, they wail that American schools are failing to produce the high-skilled workers they need, so they must go abroad. Yet, these very executives constantly demand that governments exempt them from paying the taxes necessary to improve schools. Second, they say that the U.S. lacks an integrated supply chain, which would locate makers of assorted computer parts right next door to assembly plants.

Tech execs say U.S. is failing them by Jim Hightower

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But, wait — that’s their fault. Apple, Dell and the like have the market clout to entice suppliers to relocate anywhere in America. Indeed, U.S. suppliers say they’ve had to move to China because that’s where Apple et. al. went. Finally, industry leaders blame us, their customers! They assert that we insist on getting a new, cheap iGadget every year, no matter where it’s made or how workers are treated, so we’ve forced them to abandon America. Hogwash. These self-serving, over-pampered high-tech elites can make iPhones and anything else here — but they care more about their bottom lines than their country or their workers, and it’s time to call them on it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

opinions Differing views on hydraulic fracturing

Why fracking is here to stay

A fracking threat to children

by Paul Danish

by Robyn O’Brien

f you want to know why fracking is here to stay, consider what’s been going on in Weld County. The Wattenberg gas and oil field, which sprawls across 1.9 million acres of Weld County, is a pin cushion of more than 20,000 wells, more than 12,000 of which are still producing. It was discovered in 1970 and covers a swath of land from about 12 miles northwest of Greeley to the north side of Broomfield. It is the seventh largest gas field in the United States. Through 2008, the field had produced the equivalent of more than 4.2 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. (More about why the word “equivalent” appears in the previous sentence in a moment.) Until relatively recently, the oil industry regarded fields like Wattenberg as mature, meaning their production had peaked and that while there was still gas and oil to be wrung out of them, their annual output could be expected to decline year by year. Then along came horizontal drilling and fracking. Starting in about 2009, oil companies started buying acreage in the Wattenberg field, including parts that had been producing for decades. Several billion dollars were spent — and now its becoming clear why. Although only a few dozen new horizontal wells had started producing, in the third quarter of 2011 the Wattenberg field set a record for quarterly sales volumes of 72,400 barrels of oil equivalent per day, a 22 percent

increase from the same quarter in 2010. Not all of the new production came from horizontal wells; several hundred vertical wells were also drilled. But it is the horizontal wells and multi-stage fracking that are the game changers. Last November, one of the companies with substantial acreage in the field reported what it’s finding, and it’s pretty jaw-dropping. Anadarko petroleum, which holds 350,000 acres in the Wattenberg field, estimates its holdings contain 500 million to 1.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent. When oil companies report the output of wells that produce both oil and gas, they often conflate the combined production as “barrels of oil equivalent” or “cubic feet of gas equivalent,” by which they mean their field is producing oil and gas with the energy equivalent of so many barrels of oil or so many cubic feet of gas. (Roughly speaking, 5,800 cubic feet of natural gas contain the energy equivalent of a barrel of oil.) Crude oil and natural gas aren’t the only hydrocarbons in the “equivalent” equation, however. Natural gas is often found in combination with a light liquid hydrocarbon called “condensate.” Condensate is sometimes called “natural gasoline.” In the Wattenberg field, condensate makes up a big part of the “equivalent.” Gas, oil and condensate can be conflated see DANISH Page 6

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e’ve all seen (or at least heard of ) the movie Erin Brockovich, in which a bold and fiercely determined mom takes on a chemical company for exposing a small town and the families and children that live there to toxic chemicals that have been linked to cancer. It’s Academy Award-winning material. And it’s happening again. In Erie, 600 yards from three elementary schools and a childcare center, the natural gas industry is about to drill wells and expose hundreds of schoolchildren to chemicals that have never been proven safe, for which there is no accountability when it comes to their safe disposal, and for which there is no clarity on who would assume liability (and future medical bills) for the health of these children should they become ill. It’s an unprecedented situation, because in the haste to drill, no regulations and no long-term human health studies have been conducted to assess the impact that these processes and the chemicals used in them might have on the health of children. According to The Denver Post, “the American landscape is dotted with hundreds of thousands of new wells and thousands of drilling rigs, as the country scrambles to tap into this century’s gold rush for natural gas. Drilling companies have developed techniques to unlock these enormous reserves, and energy companies are clamoring to drill. But the relatively new drilling method — known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking — carries significant environmental risks. It involves injecting huge amounts of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, at high pressures to break up rock formations and release the gas.” Given that American children have already earned the title “Generation Rx” due to the rates of asthma, allergies, autism, ADHD and diabetes, and the fact that cancer is now the leading cause of death by disease in children under the age of 15, according to the Centers for Disease Control, perhaps it is time that we stop and learn a little bit more. Angie Nordstrum, a mother of a young child with multiple food allergies and asthma, sheds light on what is happen-

ing at her child’s school: “My son attends the new Red Hawk Elementary in Erie. This state of the art green school is a LEED-certified building, which means that it is complete with a geothermal heat system, a superinsulated building envelope, skylights and displacement ventilation. The mission of the school is to focus on math, science, technology and integration of the arts by fostering a sense of environmental responsibility by taking care of one’s self with healthy eating and exercise and reducing environmental waste. Students begin each school day outside. “The school also has a 1,500-squarefoot garden space. Students and staff will be an integral part of the gardens, with beds for each grade level. “In the news recently, you may have heard of something called “fracking” or “hydraulic fracturing.” It is a drilling process used by the natural gas industry to extract natural gas from beneath the ground. “And there are health and safety concerns about it. Despite provisions in the Clean Air Act, there is something called the ‘Halliburton loophole’ that allows the gas companies to inject proprietary mixtures of methane, ethane, liquid condensate and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the wells. Some of the VOCs that are used in the mixtures have a significant impact on health and include benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene. “Health effects of exposure to these chemicals include neurological problems, birth defects and cancer. Other symptoms may include bloody noses, asthma, GI distress, diarrhea, dizziness, migraines, nerve pain, neurological disorders and skin rashes. “These health risks pose a potential threat to children. Yet despite these concerns, drilling is beginning on eight natural gas wells less than 600 yards from our school, Erie Elementary, Erie Middle School and Exploring Minds Child care Center. Yes, three schools and a child care center are about to be exposed to an unprecedented experiment in children’s health. “Will the school nurse be seeing dozens of sick children in her office? What health issues will these students see O’BRIEN Page 6

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in terms of the amount of energy they contain, but they differ spectacularly in value. Crude oil and condensate are currently selling for about $100 a barrel. Natural gas is currently selling for about $2.50 a thousand cubic feet; 5,800 cubic feet would cost under $15. Anadarko said that it has identified 1,200 to 2,700 future horizontal well sites with estimated ultimate recoveries of 300,000 to 600,000 barrels of oil equivalent per well — with 70 percent of that liquids (condensate and crude). In other words, the condensate and oil on Anadarko’s share of the Wattenberg alone could be worth more than $100 billion — a windfall that would be unobtainable without horizontal drilling and fracking. Any technology that can conjure up $100 billion of new wealth from 18 percent of a 42-year-old, over-the-hill oil field and do it without breaking a sweat — and in a stagnant economy at that — is here to stay. The Wattenberg field is locally interesting because it’s on Boulder’s doorstep — a bit of it actually extends into Boulder County — but it is just the tip of the iceberg. The Niobrara shale formation and the low-permeability Codell sandstone directly below it, which will be the source of most of the new production, underlies the entire Denver-

Julesburg Basin, i.e, most of northeastern Colorado, and extends into parts of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming. Drilling is ramping up throughout the region. The Niobrara extends under the mountains into northwestern Colorado as well. And the Niobrara shale is just one of more than a dozen shale formations in the U.S. that are delivering a petroleum bonanza; two of the better known in the West are the Bracken shale in North Dakota and Montana and the Eagle Ford Shale in Texas. It doesn’t take a genius to see where this is headed. Horizontal drilling and fracking are revolutionizing the oil industry, and maybe the balance of economic and political power in the world. The U.S. would be insane to forego it. But what of the environment? Consider Weld County. The Wattenberg Field covers about threequarters of it, but after 20,000 oil wells and 40 years of drilling and oil production, it is the fourth richest agricultural county in the United States. Subdivisions are a far greater threat to its agriculture and environment than oil wells. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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have in five years? In 10 years? “The companies will begin the drilling process in the next couple of weeks. It will be visible from my son’s classroom. The only access to the site will be from the road that runs right in front of the school. Let me repeat that the only access to the site will be from the road which runs right in front of the school, because while there is another road that is actually closer to the drilling site, this road cannot be used for drilling transportation because the chemical-carrying trucks are not allowed to cross railroad tracks on the course of their path. “At what point are children more valuable than railroad tracks? The

trucks transporting the chemicals cannot cross the railroad tracks but they can transport toxic chemicals right in front of the entrance to our school? “Erie is an old coal mining town. There are parks and ball fields built on top of these mines for kids to enjoy all over our town. Our school garden sits on top of an old mine. We don’t want our children to be the canaries in the natural gas coal mine.” This article originally appeared on the website allergykids.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases — to women who would otherwise go without. Still, it is reassuring to see that so many people are no longer willing to allow religionists and politicians like Karen Handel to place millions of women at risk just to score a victory in their fight against abortion. For more information about the Safe Chemicals Act, go to www.saferchemicals.org. To learn more about Breast Cancer Action, go to bcaction.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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What the people know Only someone with a pen as menacing as Nora Ephron should have plotted the rom-com disaster that befell Claire Hunsaker in real life. Having just come back into the dating mix, Hunsaker went on a date with someone she’d met online. He hit on the waitress, insulted the taxi driver and stole flowers from the entrance to the restaurant, she says. She was so desperate to get away that when he went to the bathroom she told the waitress to drop the bill or she would flee the scene. “I hadn’t really dated in a long time and really found it very overwhelming,” says Hunsaker, who works for a San Francisco marketing firm and has an MBA from Stanford. “So for me, I thought, well if I can put a little bit of data around what’s going on with my dates, maybe it won’t feel so scary.” She tracked three data points: how interested she was in the person before the date, did she want him to call her afterwards, and did he call. “I was just hoping to get a little bit of a sense about, do I even know what’s going on here? Is my radar just off? Do I even know who likes me? Do I know who I like?” she says. Then it started to yield results. So Hunsaker made a spreadsheet and passed it around to her friends. “They went crazy,” she says. Her friends, both male and female, tracked 132 data points, including everything

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from height to hair color to hook-up date. Forty percent of these dates originated from real-world connections and 60 percent began online. The results were a startling spray of information. We’ll skip to the punchline. On any given date, there’s about a one in eight chance that you’ll want to hear from that person again, according to Hunsaker’s data. Given those odds, the chance that feeling will be mutual is one in 64. Meaning, according to the odds, it takes 65 first dates to find someone to develop a relationship with. “That’s a randomly distributed probability, so you could hit it on date two, or you could hit it on date 180,” she says. That’s a whole lot of time spent on awkward small talk and sinking down

in your chair, willing the universe to cut power to the restaurant so you have an excuse to go home to your own couch. “I think actually dating now is hard,” Hunsaker says. She points to the social circles we scramble by moving around from place to place, and to the difficulty of knowing who we are and who we want to be with amid the thousands of people we meet in a lifetime. In short, the way we live now makes it hard to find love these days. “I think it’s really hard to know what’s normal,” Hunsaker says. “We get a lot of messages from TV and movies, but normal is really about what the data says. And I kind of wanted to get away from the visions of normal that we get told about by Hollywood

Even Match.com knows that we don’t know what we want. Solving that problem takes far more than Mel Gibson’s What Women Want mind-reading powers. Mind-reading requires a mind that knows what it wants, and the evidence shows we don’t. That’s why Match and other online dating websites have invested in algorithms designed to reprogram the matches they give you to undo the damage the misinformation you gave them at the beginning is doing to the chance that you will find a decent match. “We actually find that when you go online and start a profile, a lot of people don’t tweak it as they go on through the site,” says Amy Canaday, public relations manager at Match.com. “So they just upload their profile, set their preferences and kind of forget about it. But the more they discover about people and read all different types of profiles, the more they really start to change their criteria and really bend a lot more than they thought they would.” The Match.com algorithm takes in information on users’ habits — such as which profiles they spend the most time on — and gets smarter as users respond to suggested matches with “yes,” “no,” or “maybe.” In the end, the algorithm learns more about you than you might know about yourself. “You might have said you don’t want a guy who’s under six feet tall, but we notice that you’re not really weighing that criteria as heavily as you told us at the beginning, so then we’ll start serving you in your matches more guys that are under six feet tall,” Canaday says. And Match.com claims responsibility for more dates, relationships and marriages than any other online dating site. But that, they’ll admit, comes down to one factor. “We’re the biggest,” Canaday says. “It’s a numbers game no matter where you’re dating, and we’re the biggest, so I think that’s a large part.”

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news Match has 1.6 million paid subscribers. That’s just a little more than the population of the city of Philadelphia. It’s also a seventh of the current number of paid subscribers for World of Warcraft. But an estimated one in six relationships start online now, according to a study from Match.com and research firm Chadwich Martin Bailey. People are busier, people live in smaller social circles, spend more time on their careers. Online dating introduces people who might not otherwise meet, she says. Of course, so does joining a club or activity. “One thing we always say here is that you can’t just rely on Match.com to find someone. You need to put yourself out there in all different ways,” Canaday says. “Go to a book club, join a kickball league, or whatever — and Match.com. But you always need to put yourself out there to find someone.”

What the people who study this stuff say As much as romantic comedies may have filled our brains with useless nonsense about the validity of chasing down men you met through radio shows and the importance of finding a person who says “Bless you” when you sneeze, the panicked heroine of What’s Your Number? may just be on to something. According to new research coming from Stanford University, the way we make decisions about who to marry is set up to be fraught with emotions that undermine our confidence in a decision that ultimately succeeds or fails based on how much confidence we have. Baba Shiv, a professor of marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business, studies how confident people feel about sequential decisions versus simultaneous decisions and applying this research to marriage — love marriages versus arranged marriages. “In a true love marriage way of making a decision, if you move for the next option, very often the past option is going to disappear. … So the decision here is about whether I stick to the present known option or do I move to a subsequent option which often is unknown? So we are dealing with an unknown bird in the bush versus a known bird in the hand,” Shiv says. “So since most of us are eternal optimists, we kind of think that the next option is going to be better than the present Boulder Weekly

option.” Two emotions come into play: Hope for something better in the future and fear of being stuck with an inferior option. So what you’ll see, Shiv says, is people moving on and on and not deciding. “Even if they make a decision, they’re less confident that they made the right decision simply because of, again, these emotions,” he says. Confidence is contagious and persuasive. It convinces investors to dump money into startups, and it convinces people to engage with and put resources into the choices they’ve made — like a partner. Lose confidence, and you quit investing. A relationship could fail just because you doubted its success. If you could line up all the people you might ever date and compare them, you’d feel more confident in that decision, Shiv asserts — and this is why arranged marriages, where possible candidates are considered simultaneously, lead to a confident choice. That’s not an option, though. So Shiv suggests a “quasi-simultaneous” decision. Talk to anyone who has been in a relationship, he says, and often they can name one or two people from their past they probably should have chosen as a partner. Line those people up with the present option and compare that. Not that you should spend the rest of your days singing along with Katy Perry’s “In another life…” but that you should structure your decisions to steer clear of those problematic emotions that might otherwise have you rushing across busy streets and getting run over by taxi cabs a la An Affair to Remember. “The thing that really blew me away wasn’t the numbers. There’s fascinating insights from the data — people are 11 percent less attractive than their online profiles. That’s hilarious,” Hunsaker says. “But I think the real takeaway is that everybody who gave me data was somebody who really just wanted to find a partner to love and love them back.” Maybe that’s knowing the data — or funny data, or funny stories. As for Hunsaker herself, she hasn’t yet found number 65. “I am still on the search, although I don’t keep track of the data any more,” Hunsaker says. “I think I’ve learned what I was going to learn out of that.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

hen examining the stacks of records concerning Valmont Butte and its long history of contamination, you never know what specter is going to come floating from the pages. This week we take a look at the impact that President Ronald Reagan and his controversial environmental policies had on the butte. While it may sound like a stretch to say that Reagan, the father of modern conservatism, with its smallgovernment, anti-environment, pro-business undertones, had a significant influence on our local landmark, it’s not. The evidence leads all the way down to the infamous appointment book of Rita Lavelle, the Reagan appointee in charge of Superfund disbursements in 1982 and 1983, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suffered the worst scandal in its history. When all the evidence is examined, it appears quite likely that Reagan, Lavelle and Anne Gorsuch Burford — the president’s first appointed administrator of the EPA — may all qualify as ghosts who have haunted Valmont Butte. **** When it comes to the public record concerning the 103-acre property now owned by the City of Boulder on Valmont Butte, all roads lead to Rome, or more specifically, all roads lead to 1982. Even the remediation that has taken place at the butte in recent years seems to flow from assumptions made and actions taken, right or wrong, around this critical period. To put this slice of time into context, we must go back a ways. The City’s tract of land at Valmont Butte was owned by Allied Chemical from 1941 to 1974. The chemical giant operated a fluorspar mill on the site

during this period. While the site was also used as a gold and silver mill as well as a fluorspar mill by other parties for approximately six years prior to Allied’s acquisition of the property, and also as a gold mill for a few years after it was sold, it was Allied’s actions that accounted for the vast majority of the tailings contamination at the site. It is estimated that more than 430,000 net tons of radioactive tailings containing significant levels of heavy metals, primarily lead and arsenic, are buried at the site in the primary and secondary tailings ponds (see map on page 14). As the map also indicates, radioactive hot spots and lead-contaminated soils are found on many areas outside the ponds as well. In addition, between 150 and 200 truckloads of radium-contaminated soil were buried in two holes at the site in 1971. This radium-contaminated soil came from a construction site at Third and Pearl streets in Boulder, where the Housing Authority of the City of Boulder (HACB) was building a low-income housing project when the contamination was discovered and transported to the butte. As important as what was contaminating the site in the years leading up to 1982 was the evidence that had been gathered by state and county health officials that indicated that nearby properties and water supplies were also being contaminated by Allied’s milling operation. By 1982, authorities knew that Allied was actually pumping liquids from its primary tailings pond over a ridge and down into another tailings pond built on the Public Service property to the south, contaminating that parcel of land as well. From there the see VALMONT Page 12

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memo, were also concerned that leaching contamination had made its way into the local aquifer that was supplying municipal wells within three miles of the property. It was a significant threat. If true, emergency action was surely needed. Enter EPA. **** The EPA was created in 1970 by President Richard Nixon. It was at first touted as a money-saving move towards efficiency as it combined several previously separate sectors of government oversight. During its first few years, the agency levied only a few, relatively small fines. But in October 1976, during the last days of Gerald Ford’s administration, the EPA dropped a bomb. Allied Chemical was hit with a $13 million fine for dumping Kepone-laden process water and other chemical discharges into the James River. The company was also accused of withholding vital information about the contamination from the EPA. This Allied fine was larger than all the other fines ever issued by the EPA added together. Under Jimmy Carter, the EPA continued to make itself an expensive problem for the nation’s largest polluters, especially the large chemical manufacturers. And this was the backdrop when Ronald Reagan took the oath of office for the first time in 1981. From the beginning, Reagan made it clear that the EPA was not going to continue to impede business as it had in the past. Reagan’s solution? He appointed an ultra-conservative lawyer and Republican former state legislator from Colorado, Anne Gorsuch Burford (Anne Gorsuch at the time), to be his Boulder Weekly

news EPA administrator. He also appointed an old ally, California political operative Rita Lavelle, as assistant EPA administrator for solid waste and emergency response. It was the perfect position for a person with Lavelle’s political skills, as it came with control over disbursements from the newly created $1.6 billion “Superfund” program. So the stage was set. In 1982 it was Burford and Lavelle’s job, along with a couple dozen other hand-selected Reagan appointees to EPA, to decide who got Superfund dollars and who got fined. It was truly “morning in America” for the giant chemical companies, which could not have been more pleased. Allied Chemical even started running an ad campaign using the likeness of Reagan. Under Burford’s leadership, action at the EPA, or rather inaction, came quickly. The environmental agency’s enforcement actions dropped by 60 percent her first year as administrator. And of the $700 million that the EPA was owed in fines when she took office, she ended up collecting only $40 million. It was said, and not in jest, that it was her desire to put the agency she was appointed to lead out of business. As for Superfund dollars being doled out by Lavelle in 1981 and 1982, an odd pattern seemed to be emerging. More than a few Democrats noticed that Republicans in districts with close re-election races were getting the Superfund dollars and the associated press coverage. Observers also noticed that the giant chemical companies, once the favorite target of EPA, didn’t seem to be on the agency’s radar hardly at all. Democrats knew that something wasn’t right, but getting to the bottom of it would prove a difficult task. It would also prove to be a difficult and frustrating time for the state of Colorado and its efforts to clean up Valmont Butte. According to a memo written by EPA National Superfund Priority List Coordinator David Wilson, “In 1982, CDPHE (Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment) requested EPA look into submitting the Hendricks site [another name for Allied Chemical’s mill site] to the NPL [National Priority List]. This was an important step for the cash-strapped CDPHE. The sites on the EPA’s NPL are those deemed by the agency to be the most important sites for clean-up based on several criteria. Once the EPA has placed a site on the NPL, it can then either provide Superfund dollars to remediate the site if no party responsible for the contamination can be identified, or if guilty parties are identified, the agency can take enforcement action to ensure those Boulder Weekly

parties clean up the site properly and pay for the expense. To determine which sites qualify for NPL status, EPA calculates a Hazardous Ranking System Score (HRS). To be placed onto the NPL, a site has to score 28.5 or higher. With what we now know was transpiring at EPA in 1982, it appears that this was a pretty hard number to hit if your potential Superfund site was sitting in the shadow of Boulder, one of the most liberal towns in America. It also didn’t help if your potential NPL site was in a region represented by a Democratic congressman named Tim Wirth, who happened to be an actual environmentalist, and who was also an outspoken critic of Reagan and former fellow Coloradan Burford. He also happened to be on the very House committee calling for a full investigation into Burford and Lavelle’s increasingly questionable actions at the EPA. It was truly bad timing for Valmont Butte and the state. After the EPA’s assessment and inspection of Allied’s Valmont Butte site in 1982, the agency controlled by Burford, Lavelle and their like-minded Reagan appointees scored the contaminated site at 27.8 points on the HRS and labeled it for “no further action.” There would be no Superfund dollars to help the state clean up the butte and thereby disrupt what it believed were dangerous pathways for contamination to reach the public through surface and groundwater as well as in the air. There would be no federal dollars because the butte had come up short by seventenths of a single point from making it onto the EPA’s Superfund NPL. The state objected, of course, but their arguments fell on deaf ears at an agency whose top priority had become to spend no taxpayer money, levy no fines on polluting businesses and find no contamination unless it served a greater political purpose for the Republican Party. It was truly a scandalous time at EPA, but it was a scandal that would be exposed. Having seen enough, Congress launched an investigation of the EPA and demanded documents it believed would show, among other charges, that the agency had inappropriately used the $1.6 billion Superfund. Reagan tried to thwart the investigation. Apparently not having learned the lesson of Richard Nixon, Reagan claimed that the EPA did not have to turn over the subpoenaed documents, on the basis of executive privilege. With Reagan behind her, Burford refused to cooperate and became the first agency director see VALMONT Page 14

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in U.S. history to be found in contempt of Congress. As for Rita Lavelle, she, too, was uncooperative to Congress, but a whistleblower came forward and her EPA dealings began to come to light. Seeing the writing on the wall, Burford eventually fired Lavelle in the middle of the investigation now dubbed “sewergate” by the press. It is even speculated that it was Burford who directed the FBI to examine Lavelle’s appointment book. It was this appointment book that would finally bring clarity to the nation as to what the congressional investigation was really about. Journalist Richard J. Maloy, Washington Bureau correspondent for the Press Courier, summed it up this way in his newspaper account dated Feb. 26, 1983. “Sometimes a single document can illuminate a complex issue with stunning clarity. Such a document has just surfaced here, and it is finally giving the public an inside look at what the fight is all about between Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency.” Maloy’s “document” was Lavelle’s appointment book. Maloy went on to write with regard to the appointment book, “What is also true — and damning — is the revelation of who Ms. Levelle met with on a regular basis to discuss the hazardous waste clean-up program. The appointment book shows she had dozens and dozens of meetings last year with officials and lobbyists for the very chemical 14 February 9, 2011

companies and other industries who had created the dangerous dumps in the first place.” While some meetings were at the EPA offices, most were at lunch and in the evenings at many of the finest restaurants in D.C. As for the legality of those meetings, Maloy summed it up like this: “Legally Ms. Lavelle was in the clear. Unless, of course, any of those chemical companies were involved in EPA enforcement actions, or could be future enforcement targets. Then such meetings are cautioned against and regarded as wrongful ‘ex parte’ contacts.” So while it could be construed that such meetings were not absolutely against the law, they were if Lavelle was meeting privately with companies that had contaminated sites being investigated at the time by the EPA for possible enforcement actions. Companies who were meeting with Lavelle included Allied, Dow, Monsanto, Chevron, Dupont and Union Carbide. While it is likely that Allied had several contaminated sites in the crosshairs of the EPA in 1982, we know for absolute certainty that there was at least one while the company was holding its inappropriate meetings with Lavelle: Allied’s Valmont Butte Mill, which the CDPHE had put forward in 1982 for inclusion on the NPL. As the extent of Levelle’s questionable actions began to see the light of day in media accounts, even Reagan headed for cover by giving up on his

claims of executive privilege and clearing the way for the congressional investigation to move forward. It was a bloodbath for the EPA. As Time magazine would write in December of 1983, “For months the charges of influence peddling, political favoritism and conflicts of interest ricocheted around Congress. By the time the scandal subsided, more than 20 Reagan administration appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency had resigned under pressure.” Included in the 20 who resigned in disgrace was Anne Gorsuch Burford, the head of the EPA. It would not be so easy for Rita Lavelle. Lavelle was convicted of perjury and obstructing a congressional investigation and faced a maximum 25 years in prison. Ultimately she received a sixmonth sentence and a $10,000 fine. The largest scandal in EPA history was over. So what would have happened had the Valmont Butte site been placed onto the NPL in 1982? It’s hard to know for sure, but it would likely have cost the city of Boulder a lot of money, even though the city didn’t buy the property until 2000. That’s because the EPA uses four criteria to determine who is a responsible party for contamination at a Superfund site. Qualifying for even a single one of the criteria makes you responsible for the full expense of clean-up at the site. You are, however, allowed to sue to have others

declared as responsible parties, who must then share in the costs. The criteria are 1) did you transport any waste to the site? 2) is any waste at the site attributable to you? 3) Did you authorize waste to be placed at the site? 4) are you the current land owner? Unfortunately for the City of Boulder and we taxpayers, when the city moved its 200 truckloads of radiumcontaminated soil from its construction site at Third and Pearl and buried it at Valmont Butte, it quite likely became a responsible party in perpetuity for all future clean-up at the site, at least any clean-up that would involve the EPA and Superfund. Its purchase of the property in 2000 simply means it now qualifies for all four of the EPA’s criteria, as opposed to only three. This likely explains the recent decision by the city to split the $5 million remediation cost of capping the primary tailings pond with Honeywell, the company that purchased Allied and is now responsible for Allied’s contamination at the site. But more importantly, what ever happened to the important surface and groundwater pathways that the state and county believed were exposing the public to potential danger from the site in 1982? We will be exploring these questions and more as our series continues in the coming weeks. —Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller contributed to this article. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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day after the publisher of the Boulder Camera, Times-Call and other local newspapers denied reports of outsourcing and numerous layoffs at his company, he announced Tuesday that Prairie Mountain Publishing is laying off 17 employees and outsourcing ad design and production functions. When asked about a tip that Boulder Weekly had received about the move, Camera Publisher Al Manzi acknowledged on Feb. 6 that there could be one layoff when the work of a four-person layout production operation is relocated to The Denver Post, which is also owned by MediaNews Group. But he called reports of almost 20 people being laid off and ad design functions being outsourced to a company in India “speculation, not accurate.” However, according to a news story posted to the Camera website the day after Boulder Weekly’s inquiry, plans call for eliminating another 15 positions as part of a broader initiative by Digital First Media (a partnership operated by MediaNews and the Journal Register Co.) “to outsource print and digital advertising design operations to Illinois-based Affinity Express. Affinity Express, an advertising production firm, has locations in India and Indonesia.” When interviewed the day before, Manzi did acknowledge that outsourcing would not be inconsistent with the views of the new CEO of MediaNews. “We are constantly looking for ways to become more efficient, whatever direction that takes, because, as the CEO of the company has said, we’ve got to make sure we’re cognizant of the reduction of legacy costs so we can grow into our digital future.” John Paton, who was named to replace former MediaNews CEO Dean Singleton in September, writes in blog posts about the need to “stop, reduce, outsource and sell all legacy cost areas” and “slay the production god” by focusing resources on journalism and ad sales, eliminating infrastructure expenses. When asked whether there are concerns about how outsourcing to other countries might be viewed by the public, Manzi replied, “No, because we’re in a global economy. Your computer, probably half the stuff in it is made somewhere else. We can no longer be myopic and protectionist in the way we Boulder Weekly

look at our economies. … That’s not what Boulder is about; that’s not what America is about.” The Camera reported that Prairie Mountain will give affected employees severance packages based on workers’

years of service. The transitions to Affinity Express and the Post are expected within the next three months. Outsourcing ad design and production work overseas is nothing new for corporate media conglomerates.

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mental hazards at those sites, an agreement that increased the sale price of those sites, the lawsuit alleges. ConocoPhillips claimed in more than 2,000 filings with the state that they had no insurance to cover the cost of these cleanups, according to the lawsuit. The company had agreed, in contracts with the state, to “immediately pay to the State any monies it received from their parties for the same costs paid by the State, ‘including insurance proceeds,’” the lawsuit says. These claims were filed up to 2010. But ConocoPhillips never told the state it had settled with its insurers, and didn’t repay the state for the funds it was awarded. According to the lawsuit, the company has been a shareholder with the affiliated mutual insurance companies Oil Insurance Limited since 1971 and Oil Casualty Insurance Ltd. since 1986. The lawsuit references court cases from the early ’90s in which

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ConocoPhillips in fact sues its insurer for environmental liability coverage, and states that ConocoPhillips has made insurance claims for environmental liabilities totaling approximately $2.4 billion. ConocoPhillips has sued its insurers for the costs of corrective actions at service stations across the United States, including 95 sites in Colorado, first settling with its insurance company in 1994 and settling for approximately $286 million. ConocoPhillips is listed as a shareholder at Oil Casualty Insurance, Ltd., which states that shareholders are required to purchase an excess general liability policy that provides a minimum of $25 million in limits. The state’s Petroleum Storage Tank Fund had a balance of $11.2 million as of Dec. 31, according to the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The fund was established in 1989 as a public-benefit fund to cover the costs of environmental clean-ups from leaked petroleum fuels, which can contaminate soil and groundwater, according to the CDLE. The money for the fund is supplied by the state environmental surcharge on petroleum products. Reimbursements for a single applicant are limited to $3 million per fiscal year. “If you add up all the claims that ConocoPhillips made out of the state fund, it totals about $70 million, however when you include interest to that, we’re seeking $152 million from ConocoPhillips to essentially reimburse the fund for what we believe were improper withdrawals,” Saccone says. Precedents include a previous settlement with Exxon Mobile Corporation for a similar complaint. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Greensky Bluegrass — If you like bluegrass, you probably already know this band. There’s a reason. With Oakhurst. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

FRIDAY, FEB. 10

My Life after My Death — A lecture on a dramatic military neardeath experience. With Robert Caplan. 7 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 1A, Boulder, 303-449-3066.

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Whiskey & Game Dinner — Nothing chases freshly slaughtered game meats better than whiskey. 6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344.

Rick Erickson, the new director of the Boulder Bach Fest, discusses why Bach remains so popular by Peter Alexander ick Erickson’s father told him, “When you have Bach, you don’t need anything else.” Erickson, the new director of the Boulder Bach Festival, took that advice to heart. As a child he studied Bach on piano and organ, he performed Bach’s cantatas as a student at the Eastman School of Music, and for nearly 20 years he has headed the renowned Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Church in

New York. Now he adds the Boulder Bach Festival to his list of professional accomplishments. Boulder Weekly asked Erickson some questions recently about his background and his plans for the festival. Boulder Weekly: Bach was a part of your training 18 February 9, 2012

SUNDAY, FEB. 12

No Such Thing as Supply and Demand — Stories on Stage. 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. SuTeatro @ The Denver Civic Theatre, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-4940523.

MONDAY, FEB. 13

Takács Encore Series — With CU-Boulder faculty Michael Thornton, horn; Erika Eckert, viola; Margaret McDonald, piano. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

from the very beginning. Rick Erickson: From the very beginning. I remember the first piano lesson I had with a marvelous piano teacher I studied with as a child. I looked at her and said, “I’m going to be an organist,” and she said, “Well, then we’re going to work on Bach!” That was pretty much that. BW: Apart from those early piano lessons, tell me about your musical background. RE: I am originally from Superior, Wis. I was very fortunate that I grew up in a family with a lot of musicians. My mother’s an organist, and my father always said, “When you have Bach, you don’t need anything else.”

TUESDAY, FEB. 14

The Anti-Valentine’s Party –– Lonely? Drown your sorrows in populist anti-consumerist sentiments. With The Goonies. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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The Unsinkable Molly Brown: Denver’s Heroine of the Titanic — Grand opening of exhibit. Molly Brown House Museum, 1340 Pennsylvania St., Denver, 303-832-4092 x15.

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I have had a pretty clear sail all of my life, in terms of what I wanted to pursue. My mother made sure I had wonderful teachers, and at that time I was also singing in all the choirs I could get into. I did my bachelor’s degree at the University of Wisconsin, Superior, and then went on to the Eastman School, where I studied both organ and conducting. In Rochester I found myself at a wonderful church that was very closely connected to the Eastman School — a lot of faculty and students attend — and we put together a Bach cantata series. Then, almost 20 years ago, Holy Trinity [Church] in New York, with the Bach Vespers series, rang up and asked me if I would be interested in talking to them about coming down there. I had the experience of inheriting this wonderful program that had existed for 25 years. I have been fortunate to have worked with a lot brilliant players and singers, and I hope that I have paid attention to what they were doing. The fact that I do an enormous amount of Bach in the Vespers Series has meant that I have done well over 100 of the cantatas and all of the socalled major works. And I think that I’ve been very fortunate; I’ve been able to just simply learn as I go. BW: There are more Bach festivals around the world than any other composer. Why do you think that is? RE: I think Bach survives, and more than survives, thrives, in such a wide variety of settings, whether it be from period instruments to Bach on kazoos. I’ll never forget walking down a street in Amsterdam and hearing the “A-minor Prelude and Fugue,” but it was not an organ playing — it was four accordionists, and it was absolutely stunning. Bach is always worth the effort. It doesn’t matter. Bach speaks in a sacred setting, in a secular setting, in a Western setting, in an Eastern setting. So it makes sense that there are Bach festivals everywhere. What a great thing! What better thing to have a festival about? BW: Were you familiar with the Boulder Bach Festival before you came here as director? RE: I was certainly aware of Bob Spillman’s work here, and I had studied

accompanying with Bob when I was at Eastman. BW: How did you hear about the job here? RE: I received a letter but I was on sabbatical, and I got back to the states and picked up the phone, I think it was right at the deadline. I said, “This seems like something I’d be very interested in,” and the way the festival has been constructed it was not in conflict with my time commitment in New York. I love living in New York, but it’s also sometimes wonderful to get your head out of New York and have different perspectives. I love Boulder — I have a sister who lives here, a niece who lives here, and another niece in Denver, so I’ve known Boulder for years and I really enjoy coming out here. BW: Do you have plans to take this festival in a new direction? RE: That has certainly been the indication from the board. I think the Boulder Bach Festival has had a really fine history. I have begun by focusing on the instrumental ensemble, building a strong instrumental core and then letting that strengthen the choral language which is there. We’ve brought in a marvelous new choral master, Gregg Cannady, who went though a strong audition process. Our concertmaster, Zacahry Carrettin, is just a phenomenally talented person, as is everyone that I have met in the ensemble. BW: Finally, a couple of silly questions. What would people be surprised to know about you? RE: That I’m a really avid bike rider. Not a sport rider — I’m the guy who likes to look up and see the scenery — but I bike everywhere. And I love Boulder’s trails. BW: What else do you do when you’re not doing Bach? RE: This is a great town for foodies, and I love the restaurants that I’m getting to know here. It’s a super eating and drinking life here. BW: Finally, can you sum up in one sentence why Bach is so special to musicians and audiences alike? RE: I think Bach is good for our soul. [Laughs.] I really do! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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l Schnier, guitarist/singer of moe., recognizes the irony of his band signing a deal with Sugar Hill Records. These days, it’s become common for groups, especially in the rock genre, to start their own record labels and handle their own distribution and promotion. And here is moe., having released all but two of its previous 10 studio CDs on its own label, teaming up with a record company for a new CD, Whatever Happened to the La Las. “We’ve built a really great cottage industry out of this somehow,” Schnier says, noting that the band is not by any means dissatisfied with the career it has built with its do-it-yourself approach. “After doing it for so many years, though, the one thing that’s always sort of eluded us, I guess, was being able ON THE BILL: moe. plays the to tap into a broader audience or a wider Boulder Theater on Friday, Feb. 10, and Saturday, Feb. 11. Doors at 7:30 p.m. audience or getting some kind of addiTickets are $41. 2032 14th St., Boulder, tional exposure. We’ve always flown 303-786-7030. under the radar.” And that’s where the band hopes Sugar Hill can help. The last time moe. had a record deal, it was on a larger scale. Formed in 1991 in Buffalo, N.Y., the band started out taking the do-it-yourself route, self-releasing its started to think its democratic approach to songwritfirst two CDs, Fatboy in 1992 and Headseed a year ing and arranging might not have been resulting in later, before signing with Sony 550 Records. the best musical decisions. The band, which also includes guitarist Chuck “The thing about that is because we’re very much Garvey, singer/bassist Rob Derhak, drummer Vinnie like brothers and democratic almost to a fault, you Amico and percussionist Jim Loughlin, released two end up compromising all of the time,” he says. CDs on that label —No Doy in 1996 and Tin Cans & “Nobody is really steering the ship. We kind of all are, Car Tires in 1998 — but didn’t get the kind of boost and nobody really wants to ruffle any feathers.” in its popularity that it hoped would come with the To be sure, sometimes the collaborative approach resources of a major label. results in better music than what any single band So moe. returned to releasing its own CDs and member might create on his own, Schnier says. had stuck with that approach in releasing its four sub“But sometimes that compromise just means that sequent studio albums — Wormwood, Okayalright, The everybody’s ideas got distilled, and none of them are Conch and Sticks and Stones (not to mention the band’s really great and nobody’s really happy at the end of six-album series of live performances, Warts & All, the day,” Schnier says. and its two-volume, three-CD live album, Dr. Stan’s From what Schnier says of Travis, the producer Prescription). wasn’t shy about directing the band. Many of the The Sugar Hill deal isn’t the only way in which songs the band recorded for Whatever Happened To moe. has gone outside of its camp to try to improve The La Las had been played live and developed over a on what it does. period of time. For Whatever Happened To The La Las, the group, But in the studio, Travis steered the band in new directions on some of the songs. For example, “Suck for one of the rare times in its career, brought in a A Lemon,” a tune that helps set the rocking tone for producer, John Travis. Schnier says the band had

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the new CD, lost an instrumental section the band had been playing. The CD’s multi-faceted opener, “The Bones Of Lazarus,” another song that had been played on tour, also changed considerably. Then there was the dreamy rocker “Puebla,” which clocks in at just over four minutes on the CD. The songs from Whatever Happened To The La Las figure to evolve as moe. tours behind the CD. Set lists will vary, but the feel of the show has evolved a bit from recent tours, where the group tried to create more of a structured presentation, to the point that the band was writing and rehearsing instrumental segments of its show. “The idea was to tighten up the show, to really see if we could actually make the show more exciting somehow,” Schnier says. “But I think in the end, we all sort of found that it actually took something away from the show for all of us because there was less freedom in the show, first of all, and it somehow was less fun because you were working so hard and because of the structure. And I don’t know if the fans enjoyed it any more.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he Vagina Monologues are not for the squeamish. During the annual performance at the University of Colorado Boulder you’ll see women rip the covers off and lay bare the wondrous mysteries of an oft-ignored region. In the early ’80s, activist Eve Ensler realized that what the national dialogue lacked sorely was vaginas. She started talking to women, and those interviews became the material for her offBroadway show The Vagina Monologues. She turned those stories into a show that centers on telling stories — good, bad, angry, funny and horrific. There’s a monologue about the day-to-day challenges vaginas face — thong underwear, vaginal exams and tampons — and how that pisses the vagina off. “Why can’t they find a way to subtly lubricate the tampon?” the speaker asks in the monologue “My Angry Vagina.” “As soon as my vagina sees it, it goes into shock. It says forget it. It closes up. You need to work with the vagina, introduce it to things, prepare the way. That’s what foreplay’s all about.” In “The Woman Who Liked to Make Vaginas Happy,” the room fills with the sound of orgasms, from the machine gun moan to the semi-religious moan to the surprise, triple-orgasm moan. But then you’ll also hear more painful stories. “My Vagina Was My Village” talks about the accounts of women who lived in Bosnian rape camps. Since the play debuted in 1994, there have been productions around the world, including the yearly show at CU. Emily Shipley, a senior integrative physiology

ON THE BILL: The Vagina Monologues plays Old Main on Friday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Doors 45 minutes prior to show time. Tickets are free for students and $5 for community members. For more information, visit j.mp/vaginamonologues.

Movement to End Sexual Assault. As the show evolves each year, one thing that stays the same is the diversity of women who perform. All ethnicities, ages, majors and lifestyles are welcome, with no acting experience necessary. Shipley says the broad range of women helps the show appeal to wider audience and includes many unique experiences. When Megan Denman, a first-time Monologues performer, saw the show a few years ago, she took it as a call for women to stand together and not rely on men to fix the violence problem. Despite her shyness and lack of acting experience, she says she knew she wanted to be involved. She says the play empowers women to be proactive and confident. “Some women don’t take pride in being a woman or having a vagina,” says Denman, who thinks the show played a vital part in her self-acceptance. “The show helps to make women feel more comfortable,” she says. “It’s really changed the way I think about vaginas. I never thought of it as something to be proud of — I wasn’t ashamed but I wasn’t proud.” But the performers say the show is for everyone, not just women. Monologues performer Kelly Mackey says the show helped her break out of her shell, and hopes it does the same for the audience. “The show is very eye-opening,” Mackey says. “We discuss a lot of violence against women, and you don’t have to be a woman to know that it’s not OK. You can be a man and see this show and decide what’s good and bad and what needs to change. The audience is just as involved as the performers.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Valentine’s Day weekend in nether-land ‘The Vagina Monologues’ explores the trials and tribulations of vaginas by Amanda Moutinho major, is directing this year’s production and calls the show an “emotional roller coaster.” She saw the show eight years ago, as a freshman in high school, when her sister performed in it. Four years later, as a freshman at CU, she got a part in the production and has been performing ever since. “When I first saw it, I was like 13 or 14, still kind of that age where you would giggle every time you heard the word ‘vagina’ or ‘penis,’” she says. “I don’t think I understood or grasped a lot of the things that come up, like the gravity of sexual assault, rape or even having a relationship with your vagina, and exploring your sexuality. “As I grew with it, [the play] showed me there are so many different ways to

Mountain of a man

Beckey discusses his new book by Elizabeth Miller

hat impresses Fred Beckey, the 89-year-old mountaineer with more first ascents than he can, or at least has bothered to, count, is Madonna’s halftime show. “I mean that dancing is hard work, you know all those bends and shakes,” he says as he slides into a booth to talk Boulder Weekly

with Boulder Weekly before his Monday night book signing and presentation at the Patagonia store on Pearl Street. “I thought she was really good. I don’t know how she keeps up all that. I mean, talk about energy.” You could say the same about Beckey. Seventy years after he started pioneering routes up mountains, he’s

explore and express your sexuality. The whole show is about breaking the silence surrounding the vagina and women experiences.” Along with a powerful message, the performance is also tied to activism. Years after creating the show, on Valentine’s Day in 1998, Ensler and others created V-Day, “a global movement to end violence against women and girls,” according to its website. V-Day encourages worldwide performances of The Vagina Monologues and collects money to donate to anti-violence groups. For CU’s production, 10 percent of proceeds from ticket sales and a silent auction will go to V-Day, while the other 90 percent will benefit the Boulder-based organization

still chasing new summits. And no, he’s not selling a secret formula to successful mountaineering when you’re on the verge of your 10th decade. “Just, go out and do it. Just like anything else,” he says. “I don’t do any preparations, really. I go to the gym once in a while, but I really don’t like gyms very well. Just go out hiking, climbing, skiing. Just go out and do it.” Let him steer the conversation and it’s not about the climbing he’s spent a lifetime doing. It’s about his latest accomplishment, which was published by Patagonia and is far more accessible

than many of the peaks he’s topped out. “I’d really rather talk about the book than about me,” he says. “If you want to get anything about me, you can get all the dirt and junk on Wikipedia.” Patagonia has recently published Fred Beckey’s 100 Favorite North American Climbs, a book more appropriate burdening a table than a backpack, but filled with detailed topographical maps and other route beta. Just enough details to get you fired up to look for something less hardbound and packed see BECKEY Page 49

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eenagers acquire superpowers and, being teenagers, videotape themselves as they learn what they can do in Chronicle, an entertaining comicbook movie without the comic book. Featuring effects that put the last two Spider-Man movies to shame; engaging, believable characters; and a kind of real-teens/ real-problems melodramatic screenplay, this makes an entertaining exercise in that child’s game, “What would you do if you had super powers?” You know that virginal, nerdy, downtrodden Andrew (Dane DeHaan) is going to address every tormentor and every torment (the sex thing) once he’s wandered down that crater and touched the magic, pulsating crystals. His cerebral, Jung-andSchopenhauer-quoting cousin, Matt (Alex Russell), will get to test out what he’s read about humans as “beings of pure will.” And Steve (Michael B. Jordan), the popular kid, will find something to do with his

new skills in telekinesis. The clever conceit here is that each boy already has the emotional issues or a personality that will inform how he handles great, seemingly unlimited power. They can goof around, figuring out who can take a smack from a baseball and who can master flying first. But when teenagers do what teenagers do — act impulsively — some will handle the ugly consequences better than others. Matt wants them to follow some rules: “No using it on living things. ... You can’t use it when you’re angry.” He’d also like to impress a lovely video blogger (Ashley Hinshaw), if only he could show her his little secret. The gregarious Steve helps Andrew come out of his shell and join the ranks of the popular by concocting a cute magic act with him. And Andrew is so

Harry Potter grows up

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bent, so twisted up by his dying mom, his alcoholic dad and the bitter hand that life has dealt him that he can’t come up with a way to try and help his mother with this new omnipotence. The young actors are charismatic, sympathetic and charming. The flying effects are first-rate, a marvelous next-generation version of something we’ve seen done reasonably well since Superman. The video gimmick has been done to death, and on a couple of occasions, how we get the footage we’re watching falls outside of the movie’s own logic loop. The gimmick never lets you forget that this is Cloverfield meets Fantastic Four. But the script — by director Josh Trank and Max Landis — sets us up for obvious payoffs, and then trips us up. Even when it follows a predictable path, it takes detours. That makes Chronicle a semi-serious sci-fi romp, lighter and more fun than many of the comicbook movies that it steals from, a superhero movie in which nobody ever crusades, or wears a cape. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

The stage version has run for decades in London and has gotten around all over the world.

by Michael Phillips uch as I like the Paranormal Activity pictures for their unfashionable minimalism and quaintly Victorian lack of gore, it’s nice to get back to something like The Woman in Black — not authentic Victoriana, exactly (Susan Hill’s novel was published in 1983), and certainly not afraid of a little muck and blood, but fully invested in the spirit and spirits of that era. The film, a handsome nerve-jangler co-produced under the storied Hammer horror banner, amps up the scares without turning them into something completely stupid. Success! Harry Potter finally behind him, Daniel Radcliffe has chosen a different sort of supernatural fantasy to launch his film career as an adult. In the 1920s, a London solicitor named Arthur Kipps is sent north to a grim, moist residence known as Eel Marsh House in order to settle the affairs of its recently deceased owner. Years earlier the recluse Alice Drablow lost her little boy in a drowning accident in the nearby marsh. His cries for help can be heard, still. With the help of a kindly but not entirely forthcoming local landowner

The clever conceit here is that each boy already has the emotional issues or a personality that will inform how he handles great, seemingly unlimited power.

(Ciaran Hinds) and his grieving wife ( Janet McTeer), Kipps learns the truth of the village of Crythin Gifford, having to do with a startling fatality rate for its young people and the title specter, whom Kipps spies in suitably eerie locations. The Woman in Black is a highly known multimedia quantity in England. The stage version has run for decades in London and has gotten around all over the world. A 1989 British TV adaptation scored with the public, rewriting Hill’s storyline substantially. The new film, written by Jane Goldman and directed by Eden Lake’s James Watkins, revises a fair bit as well, and effectively. In slightly overstuffed fashion Goldman and Watkins increase substantially the number of deadly incidents and near-death experiences, opening with a

triple-suicide prologue and keeping the crises mounting throughout. Unlike the callow, untested Kipps of the novel and previous versions, Radcliffe’s character comes pre-haunted this time, having already lost his wife (she dies while giving birth to their son) and in danger of losing his job. These changes give Radcliffe less to do in terms of change-ups, but large, thickly atmospheric sections of The Woman in Black are nearly dialoguefree and all the better for it. The work Radcliffe does here is primarily reactive. It’s also quite good. I’d say he’s on his way as a postPotter entity, and The Woman in Black deserves a stateside audience. I only wish Watkins had done without the “WHUUNNNGGGG!!!!” sound effects whenever somebody or something suddenly appears in frame, further racking the nerves of our ectoplasmically beset hero. —MCT, Tribune Media Service Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ADDICTION INC In the 1980s, Victor DeNoble was a research scientist at a major tobacco company, where he was given the task of finding a substitute for nicotine that would not cause heart attacks. He succeeded, but in the process he proved something the industry had been denying for years: that cigarettes were addictive. At Boedecker Theater and Chez Artiste. — Boedecker Theater

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When an intrepid young reporter purchases a model ship that holds the key to a mystery, he and his dog embark on a globe-trotting adventure. Rated PG. At Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

Set in the venerable Yankee Pedlar Inn, which is about to shut its doors for good after over a century of service. Believed by many to be one of New England’s “most haunted hotels,” the last remaining employees — Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) — are determined to uncover proof before it shuts down for good. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

ALBERT NOBBS Glenn Close stars in this emotional and thought-provoking tale of a woman forced to live as a man in order to work and survive in 19th-century Ireland. After 30 years of keeping up the charade, a new love threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard to build. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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Hollywood 1927. Silent movie matinee idol George Valentin is enjoying the good life, although he seems fonder of his faithful dog than of his trophy wife. He meets funny, sexy young extra Peppy Miller, a dancer set for a big break, and sparks fly. With the advent of the talkies George’s career nosedives. At Century, Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method takes a glimpse into the turbulent relationships among fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

This religious fable from director Robert Bresson traces the lives of a farm girl, Marie, and her beloved pet donkey, Balthazar. The two eventually become separated, but their experiences follow strangely parallel paths. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society BEAUTY AND THE BEAST A three-dimensional version of the classic animated tale about a princess taken captive by a monster who may be more than meets the eye. Rated G. At Century and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT BIG MIRACLE Amid the Cold War, a small-town reporter and his environmentalist ex-girlfriend lead an unlikely international coalition to save a family of gray whales trapped in the Arctic circle. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT CHICO & RITA Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Their journey — in the tradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero — brings heartache and torment. A sensual animated love story. At International Film Series. — IFS CHRONICLE See full review page 37. At Century, Colony 38 February 9, 2012

IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, In the Land of Blood and Honey is the story of two people from different sides of a brutal ethnic conflict. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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tion tries to unlock a mystery left behind by his late father. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT

THE IRON LADY

THE DESCENDANTS From Alexander Payne, creator of Sideways, comes The Descendants, a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney), a distracted husband and back-up parent to two girls who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a life-threatening boating accident off of Waikiki. At Century, Colony Square and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres DRIVE Breakout Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn throttles into the fast lane with this precision-crafted action caper. Ryan Gosling stars as a wheelman for hire, stunt-driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE Stephen Daldry (The Hours) directs this adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel about a young boy (Thomas Horn) trying to make sense of the world after his father (Tom Hanks) is killed in the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez/MCT THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Mikael Blomkvist and his colleague, the heavily pierced bisexual fantasy pin-up Lisbeth, go about nailing a killer of women. All roads lead to a rich family led by

Henrik Vanger, whose relatives have a lot to hide. Rated R. At Century. — Michael Phillips/TMS THE GREY When their plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness, a group of roughneck oil rig workers struggle to survive injuries, the elements and a vicious pack of wolves. Rated R. At Century, Colony Squre and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/MCT HAPPY This feature documentary takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater HAYWIRE An elite black-ops soldier seeks vengeance after being betrayed and set up during a mission. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square. — Los Angeles Times/MCT THE HELP Best Picture nominee The Help stars Emma Stone as Skeeter, Academy Award nominee Viola Davis (Doubt) as Aibileen and Academy Award nominee Octavia Spencer as Minny — three very different, extraordinary women in Mississippi during the1960s, who build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project that breaks societal rules and puts them all at risk. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL Sam is a pretty college sophomore so desperate to earn some cash for a deposit on an apartment that she accepts a babysitting job even after she finds out there is no baby. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society HUGO In 1930s Paris, an orphan living in a train sta-

This biopic presents a portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the only woman to be prime minister of the United Kingdom. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Los Angeles Times/MCT JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND 3D A family embarks on an adventure to a mysterious island in this sequel to the 2008 film Journey to the Center of the Earth. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL The latest in the M:I franchise begins with a Moscow prison break, proceeds to a terrorist bombing of the Kremlin, skedaddles off to Dubai and the world’s tallest building, and then heads to Mumbai, chasing nuclear madmen, goons and Mrs. Patton’s cleavage. Rated PG-13. At Century. — Michael Phillips/TMS MAN ON A LEDGE As a police negotiator tries to talk a fugitive former cop off a ledge, she discovers he may have a plan to prove his innocence and reveal an NYPD conspiracy. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times/ MCT MISS REPRESENTATION It’s clear the mainstream media objectifies women, but what most people don’t realize is the magnitude of that phenomenon and the way objectification gets internalized — a symbolic annihilation of self-worth — and impedes girls and women from realizing their full potential. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society MY REINCARNATION Namkhai Norbu’s rose to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax. — Denver Film Society Boulder Weekly

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In the early summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, who was also on honeymoon with her new husband, the playwright Arthur Miller. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

SING YOUR SONG

OUT OF SIGHT Florida bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) plays a genteel game of cat and mouse with Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez), the stunning federal marshal he meets in the trunk of a getaway car, in this Steven Soderbergh-directed film that shows off his trademark nonlinear storytelling. At Boedecker Theater. — Boedecker Theater PARIAH

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Sing Your Song surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. Belafonte’s groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement and impacted many other social-justice movements. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Landmark Theatres

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ties of the honey wine — hence the word, “honeymoon.” Mead was also thought to increase fertility, so be careful if you don’t have any baby plans for the near future. Visit www. redstonemeadery.com for tour times. If you really don’t feel like getting drunk on Valentine’s Day, Celestial Seasonings offers free tours of their tea production plant. The free tea flows abundantly, and even the ticket to go on the tour is a tea bag to take home. The powerful smells and vapors of the Mint Room will knock anything out of your sinuses in seconds and leave you smelling like a pretty little mint leaf for the rest of the day. For information on tea tour times, go to www. celestialseasonings.com. Though these free tours may have your mouth watering already, tread carefully if you’re in a new relationship. “If someone is going to go to take another person on a free tour for Valentine’s Day, people really need to communicate and find out what they’re interested in, what’s attractive to them,” says Robins. “If you take someone on a free tour for Valentine’s Day as a surprise, they might be really insulted. But if you bring it up first as a fun and free alternative, then they might see it as a bonding experience. Everything in a relationship needs to be about negotiation and communication.” Singles can also benefit from venturing into the unknown world of free tours. “If you’re single, first you really need to know yourself and what you value before you can be in a relationship with anyone else,” Robins says. “Exploring something new with a friend is a great way to discover what you like.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Clay’s Obscurity Corner Robert Mitchum

Pearl Street Steak Room 1035 Pearl St., Boulder 303-938-9604

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ollywood legend Robert Mitchum provides the ultimate link between steaks and on- and offscreen noir badness. Younger folks may remember him doing the gravelly voiceovers for beef commercials in the 90s, but he’s better known for roles in films like Out of the Past. Pitting Mitchum’s gas station owner against slick gangster Kirk Douglas, this film is possibly the greatest American film noir. Mitchum also twice portrayed Raymond Chandler’s Phillip Marlowe, the ultimate L.A. private eye. But Mitchum’s off-screen persona was equally compelling, highlighted by the fact he was one of the first celebs to be publicly busted for pot.

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ord was the Lady in Gray wanted to meet. She’s my counterpart at our cross-town rival, the Obscura, or whatever it’s called, and she thought it would be interesting if we reviewed a place together. She made reservations at the new Pearl Street Steak Room. I got there early and sat with my back to the wall so she didn’t get the drop on me. This is a fancy place with prices to match. It’s the kind of joint where high rollers entertain clients with Unobtanium card expense accounts, not batting an eye at premium Wagyu steaks for two at $89 a pop. True to its “room” moniker, this is a small, cozy space with alligator-pattern red banquettes, white wallpaper with circular patterns, and all-out retro ambience. I half expected Don Draper to come sauntering by when in walked this sharplooking dame in gray, and I knew it was her. Liz was her name, and I figured I’d met my match when she ordered her smooth $8 martini extra dirty and didn’t flinch when I suggested the $11 chicken-fried sweetbread starter. Any woman who doesn’t shy away from possibly eating

thymus glands is OK with me. We parted company on these savory sweet morsels, though. I dug the breading and apple cream sauce dotted with crisptender pea shoots. I thought these were smart adornments to tempt the uninitiated, while Liz felt these additions knocked it out of whack. Our detail-oriented server confirmed my suspicions; they were trying to take a more user-friendly approach with this preparation, so score one for Fong. Next up was the $10 Caesar, a deconstructed job, which means the romaine, anchovy and croutons were stacked into neat little piles. The dressing packed a creamy punch, and the high point was a thick chunk of house-cured Berkshire pork, top-shelf bacon. Smart cookie Liz asked if she could get a plateful of pork for herself. Our $7 sides were spiffed-up takes on steakhouse staples. You can’t go

wrong with the truffled fries, which deliver earthy flavor and sticky cheese. We also sampled creamed greens, enriched by what our server called a flourless béchamel. Not as creamy as dairy-heavy versions, these greens did have more complex texture and flavor than run-of-the-mill spinach. We could have had chicken or fish, but the label here is steak room. Although a .38 snubnose is my usual choice, our server gave us our pick of knives — I grabbed a pearl-handled shiv. Liz went for the $41, 14-ounce, prime Holstein New York Strip. It was unquestionably tasty and tender, but the Aussie Wagyu, specifically the $48 eight-ounce filet, scored the bovine TKO. Both were grain-finished, thick and perfectly cooked to requested doneness. The Down Under slab was buttery in both flavor and texture thanks to this breed’s unfettered marbling, and sweeter and more tender than the Holstein. There’s no question the kitchen cooks a mean steak, and sure, Wagyu’s

rare around here. But at these prices, I want utterly over-the-top presentation, or barring that, what some fancy pants might call a mythos. Brooklyn’s Peter Luger’s gets away with sky-high prices because Jimmy Cagney ate there, ditto L.A.’s Pacific Dining Car, a hangout for real-life noir figures like mobster Mickey Cohen. As for the Lady in Gray, we possibly ate pancreas, and I’ll be seeing her around. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The St Julien Hotel will offer a slate of Valentine’s Day dining, including a brunch, afternoon tea and a prix fixe dinner. Brunch will feature a live jazz dance band and a “Best Couple” dance contest, with prizes like a dinner for two, couples massage and an overnight stay at St Julien. The meal, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., runs $39.95 for adults and $19.95 for children, with bottomless mimosas and Bloody Marys for the adults. After brunch, St Julien turns to tea with housemade scones, tea sandwiches and petits fours from 2 to 4 p.m. for $21.95. At 5:30 p.m., Jill’s Restaurant in the hotel will host the prix fixe dinner, featuring four courses leaning heavily on seafood like Dungeness crab, scallops, oysters, rock shrimp and grouper. Reservations are recommended for the $49.95 meal; contact St Julien at 720-406-7399.

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Salt the Bistro and Colterra Food and Wine are offering specials for Valentine’s Day. Salt will serve a three-course prix fixe menu for $55, plus an optional flight of bubbles, beer or wine. The menu is available at bit.ly/SaltVday. In addition, the restaurant is offering a special Opus One dinner: the Valentine’s menu for two, plus a bottle of Opus One, for $300 per couple (plus tax and gratuity). Colterra is serving a $75 prix fixe menu with an optional $25 wine flight. The menu is available at bit.ly/ColtVday. The Dom Perignon dinner option includes the Valentine’s menu for two plus a bottle of Dom for $350 per couple (plus tax and gratuity).

ARUGULA TURNS THREE

To celebrate its third anniversary — or third birthday, if restaurants can have birthdays — Arugula is offering a five-course Valentine’s meal for $65, with four optional paired wines for $25 per person. The restaurant will also be offering meals a la carte, but will not be holding happy hour on Valentine’s Day. Arugula recommends reservations for the five-course meal; call 303-4435100.

WHISKEY AND GAME AT Q’S

Q’s Restaurant in Boulder will present a “North American Whiskey & Game Dinner” at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11. Customers will be able to taste some of North America’s finest whiskeys paired with a wild game menu. Dinner will be hosted by Master of Whisky Robert Sickler. Chefs Shawn Murrell and Samir Aniba will be creating masterful game dishes paired with whiskeys, both neat and in classic cocktails. The four courses are available for $65 per person (including tax and gratuity). Visit www.qsboulder.com/events/ to view the menu and to make reservations. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Vegan: My least favorite culinary modifier

The ingredients in split pea soup are about as wholesome as it gets.

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my veganism, I had a craving for split pea soup. For anyone that’s ever had split pea soup, you’ll recall a certain porkiness to it. The ham or sausage in the soup is a major flavor profile in most split pea soups, and it’s why you can get away with making it with water instead of stock. Common “vegan” recipes are just split peas, water, onions and carrots. So how do you get ham or sausage flavors into something without using the flesh of an innocent animal (We always assume they are innocent. Maybe the chicken wings you ate for dinner last night belonged to a real vindictive bitch of a hen)? Luckily, it’s easier than you think. Raw pork tastes like, I don’t know, actually. Nothing, really. Ham is delicious because of the curing techniques, which include spices and either honey or brown sugar in many cases — sausage, because of the spices, most notably, paprika and fennel. We already have the sugars from the peas and carrots, so all we need is smoked paprika and fennel. Smoked paprika will give us that ham glaze aroma, and fennel will give us just a hint of the licorice taste of sausage. Because we don’t have the pork fat to infuse the cooking liquid and make it more robust, we need to use vegetable stock. You’ll notice, I will not use my most hated adjective for this recipe. For one reason, I don’t want it to mingle with those other flavorless recipes. But most of all, I think vegans should have to read entire recipes before deciding to cook it or not. Why give them a shortcut?

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hef Radek Czerny’s L’Atelier, deeply influenced by classic French cuisine, builds upon a traditional foundation. At dinner, starters range from Thai-spiced mussels to traditional escargot and shrimp Louis. Classicism marks the entrée menu, which includes filet mignon and rack of lamb. The lunch menu features lighter options like a tuna nicoise salad and a salmon, lettuce and tomato panini, and both meals feature the can’t-miss lobster ravioli.

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ormerly Chy Thai, Aloy Thai Cuisine claims the same ownership and food as its predecessor with an upgraded dining room. Indeed, the solid Thai selections of the old venue live on, and the lunch menu provides an opportunity to enjoy several classic choices for less than $9. Lunch highlights include the red roast chicken curry and Pad Kra Pow, a basil-scented stir-fry.

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he Grateful Dead is the main influence on the ambience at Minglewood, a new eatery primarily catering to a lunchtime worker crowd near 55th and Arapahoe. Hot and cold sandwiches, entrée salads and a rotating selection of soups and desserts make up the bulk of the menu. Rotating special highlights include the lamb meatball panini and cream of red pepper soup.

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nder new management since last spring, Boulder’s Korea House has a newly upgraded ambience. It still serves up a menu of Japanese items such as sushi and teriyaki, as well as classic Korean specialties such as barbecue beef and short ribs. The gal bi, or short ribs, are a can’tmiss selection featuring tender beef and a marinade balancing soy, garlic and a hint of sweet.

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1515 Main St., Longmont 303-684-8400

ongmont’s Brooklyn Deli brings a taste of the Big Apple to the Front Range. Classic selections include a can’t-miss Reuben with a choice of turkey, pastrami or corned beef on grilled rye, and a satisfyingly homespun matzo ball soup. Other star attractions include Long Island A&S bagels topped with cream cheese and lox from Brooklyn’s Acme Smoked Fish.

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1617 Pearl St., Boulder 303-225-7344

nooze, a self-described “a.m. eatery” that originated in Denver, now has a Pearl Street outpost. The menu includes a variety of eggs Benedict interpretations, like the delightful Upstream, featuring a hunk of delicately honeyed smoked salmon. There are also several $7.50 pancakes, which include the usual suspects, like blueberry, as well as more unique selections like a dessert-like pineapple upside-down version. Of course, a full complement of egg dishes, ranging from omelets to huevos rancheros, are available, as are oatmeal, granola and French toast.

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1115 Pearl St., Boulder 303-440-6699

iffs Urban Fare occupies the former site of Boulder’s Bookends Café. Featuring small plates, Riffs also offers larger dishes like short rib ravioli and lobster risotto. Soups, salads and sandwiches are also on tap, including a Colorado’s Best Beef Burger and a Kentucky Hot Brown, featuring cheese sauce over turkey. Top choices here include the tangy house-made pickles and a perfectly prepared duck confit worthy of a Parisian bistro.

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“Love loves to love love,” wrote James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses. “Nurse loves the new chemist. Constable 14A loves Mary Kelly. Jumbo, the elephant, loves Alice, the elephant. Old Mr Verschole with the ear trumpet loves old Mrs Verschoyle with the turnedin eye. The man in the brown macintosh loves a lady who is dead. His Majesty the King loves Her Majesty the Queen.” What Joyce said 90 years ago is still true: The world is a churning, burning uproar of yearning. The droning moan of “I want you, I need you” never dies down. Give yourself to that cosmic current without apology this Valentine season, Taurus. Celebrate your voracious ache for love. Honor your urge to merge with reverence and awe for its raw splendor.

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I’ve ghostwritten a personal ad for you to give to your Valentine or potential Valentine: “I’m looking for a free yet disciplined spirit I can roll down hills with on sunny days and solve thorny puzzles with when the skies are cloudy. Can you see the absurd in the serious and the serious in the absurd? Are you a curious chameleon always working to sharpen your communication skills? Might you be attracted to a sweet-talking wise-ass who’s evolving into a holy goofball? Emotional baggage is expected, of course, but please make sure yours is organized and well-packed. Let’s create the most unpredictably intriguing versions of beauty and truth that anyone ever imagined.”

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On average, an adult on planet Earth has sex 103 times a year. But I’m guessing that in the immediate future, Cancerians everywhere may be motivated to exceed that rate by a large margin. The astrological omens suggest that your tribe’s levels of sensual desire may reach astronomical heights. Do you know anyone you’re attracted to who might be willing to help you out as you follow your bliss? If not, be your own Valentine. One way or another, it’s prime time to celebrate your relationship with eros.

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I’d love for you to be able to always give the best gifts you have to give without worrying about whether they will be received in the spirit with which you offer them. But that’s just not realistic. I would also be ecstatic if you never had to tone down your big, beautiful self out of fear that others would be jealous or intimidated. And yet that’s not a rational possibility, either. Having said that, though, I do want to note that now and then both of those pleasurable scenarios can prevail for extended lengths of time. And I believe you’re now in one of those grace periods.

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In accordance with the astrological omens, here’s what I wish and predict for you in the near future: You will be a connoisseur of temptations. By that I mean you will have a knack for attracting and playing with allurements and enticements. More importantly, you’ll have a sixth sense about the distinction between good bait and bad bait — between provocative temptations that will serve your most fervent dreams and debilitating traps that will dissipate your integrity. And when you get a lock on the invigorating, ennobling kind, you will know just how to work with it so that it drives you wild with smart longing.

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Ancient Egyptians thought that drinking bear grease could stimulate ardor, while the Greeks believed that eating sparrow brains would do the trick. When potatoes first appeared in Spain in 1534, imported from the New World, they were used in love potions and worth more than $1,000 a pound. The Asian rhinoceros was hunted nearly to extinction because its horn was thought to have aphrodisiac properties. Just in time for Valentine season, I’d like to suggest that you call on a very different kind of romantic stimulant that costs nothing and doesn’t endanger any species: being a good listener.

AQUARIUS

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Maybe there is a soulmate for you in this world. Maybe there isn’t. But you can count on this: If that person is out there, you will never bond with him or her by clinging to a set of specific expectations about how it should happen. He or she will not possess all the qualities you wish for and will not always treat you exactly as you want to be. I’m sure you already know this deep down, Aquarius, but hearing it from an objective observer like me might help liberate you further from the oppressive fantasy of romantic perfection. That way you can better recognize and celebrate the real thing.

PISCES

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“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” So proclaimed Dr. Seuss. I think this is an excellent meditation for you during this season of love. You need more permission to share your idiosyncrasies and eccentricities, and you need more freedom to ally yourself with people whose idiosyncrasies and eccentricities you’re compatible with — and on behalf of the cosmos, I’m hereby giving you that permission.

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about danger, rock fall, avalanches, the commitment involved because there was only two of us on a climb for six weeks in the field in Canada and we had no communication of any kind. It’s different than today when you have cell phones, satellite phones or maybe aerial contact with planes,” he says. “If you don’t show up in a month at the beachhead where you started from, it’s about that time people are going to start worrying about you, or make a search. If something happened to you it would be way too late anyway.” Beckey got his start climbing as a Boy Scout, but speculates that geography had something to do with it, too, growing up near Seattle with mountains all around and plenty of opportunities to hike and climb. And although there are more people looking up at those mountains and deciding to spend time in them, it’s still a small activity group, he says. “If you want to get an idea of how important mountaineering and skiing is, in the general context of activity, all you’ve got to do is go to a grocery store or a book store and see how many magazines there are. There’s two or three magazines about climbing, maybe one, two ski magazines, and there’s at least, at least 10 hot rod magazines, at least, many gardening magazines, knitting, home cooking, domestic magazines,” he says. “Climbing is, I think it’s become far more mainstream, but it’s still a long way to go, which is fine with me. … If climbing became extremely mainstream, like people going out and biking, all converging on the third Flatiron on one Sunday morning, I mean it would be chaos. You’d have a line 100 yards long.” He’s not, of course, one for those high traffic routes anyway. He knows people who do Mount Rainier every year and says that’s just not for him. He wants the travel. “I got interested in new routes as something different to do, climbs that people had attempted or had not climbed yet, took maybe more effort to get to them, why, I really don’t know,” he says. “I’m maybe a little bit, by nature, a little bit on the adventurous side, and it’s what I happened to choose to do.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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$50/ounce* *If you make us your caregiver, and receive monthly benefits thereafter! Applies to first 50 patients on a first come, first serve basis

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5420 Arapahoe Ave. (Unit F) Boulder Between Connestoga & 55th. Going east, make right after Conestoga w w w. b o u l d e r w c . c o m

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A Holistic Family Practice : Treating chronic dis-ease. Teaching optimal self-care.

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3970 North Broadway, Suite 201A, Boulder (Park FREE in Lucky’s Shopping Center, just above Dagabi)

3000 Center Green Dr. Suite 130, Boulder (corner of Foothills and Valmont)