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secret: How billions of barrels of toxic oil and gas waste fall through the cracks by Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge

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EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Josh Gross Interns, Mallane Dressel, Nadia Mishkin, Danielle Meltz, Kiera Park, Caitlin Rockett, Alejandra Valles Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Cayte Bosler, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Michael Krumholtz, Blair Madole, Dylan Owens, Brian Palmer, Adam Perry, Stephanie Riesco, Leland Rucker, Dan Savage, Alan Sculley, Camilla Sterne, Ruth Tobias, Christine Vazquez, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Digital Portfolio Sales Manager, Kirk Koskey Senior Account Executive, David Hasson Account Executives, Julian Bourke, Andrea Craven, Jacqueline Grewe, Nick Paetsch PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Assistant to the Publisher Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant Andrea Neville CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 14-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo March 13, 2014 Volume XXI, Number 32 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com Printed on 100% recycled paper with soy-based ink. Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2013 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.

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Thanks for Latino history

I wanted to write and say how much my partner and I are enjoying the articles of the early history of Hispanics in Boulder County. My partner’s family has roots in Boulder County reaching back to the mid 1800s; she has told me many firsthand stories of discrimination and marginalization both she and her family have experienced. Thank you for shed-

ding light on Boulder’ s shameful past. D.L. Butler/Denver Thank you very much for your continuing series (in collaboration with Marjorie) on the history of Latinos in Boulder County. I know that it has taken a lot of time and effort, to uncover this harsh past. Reminders should remain up front so that we never forget them.

Mary Young/Boulder

Bad NBC news

Hi, I wanted to let you know that the North Boulder Cafe closed this weekend. The day your article came out about the awesome home fries at the NBC (Feb. 20) was their last day. This is a total shame, as the NBC rocked see LETTERS Page 12

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Highroad The flim flam of the Employment Policies Institute by Jim Hightower

others everywhere warn children not to put any food in their mouths unless they know where it came from. The same should apply to putting information in our heads. For instance, the Employment Policies Institute has recently run fullpage newspaper ads alerting the public and policymakers that an impressive group of some 650 economists who are

supporting an increase in America’s minimum wage includes many who are “radical researchers.” The institute’s message is that no one should listen to, much less respect, this group of economists. But wait — “many” in the group are radical? How many? The ads only list eight and offer only innuendo as “proof ” of their radicalism. And, by the way, what and who is the Employment Policies Institute? Sounds legit, but is it? Not at all. It’s a nonprofit front group run by longtime corporate operative Richard Berman. It gets millions of dollars in tax-exempt donations from fast-food chains and other corporate interests trying to kill the wage increase, then funnels that money into Berman’s for-profit PR firm, which also represents the restaurant industry. To make its case, the institute has cited several “academic” reports that assail the wage increase on multiple

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

fronts. But, just as Berman refuses to disclose the names of the corporate giants funding him, he also never mentions that more than half of the economists whose papers he cites are paid by him. One, Joseph Sabia, has been given a quarter-million dollars in eight grants from Berman’s institute. In addition, an independent analysis of one of Sabia’s reports found that the data was skewed to make it seem that a New York wage hike had a negative impact on employment, which simply was not true. This phony institute is a scam and a scandal — so momma says don’t put any of its stuff in your head. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 13, 2014 7

dodge’s bullets Letting go of my hump day

Really BAD Ideas Th e EPA ha s de cided xic to exem pt al l oil & ga s to wa ste from re gu lat ion be caus e th e st ates have it co ve re d jus t fine.

Th e s t ate o C o lo rado v ig f or e n f o rc e s a ll o us ly f e de laws g o ve r n ra l in o il & g a s wa s g te .

by Jefferson Dodge

’ve spent the majority of my past two decades living Thursday to Thursday. Working at weekly newspapers that came out that day, it just became second nature to think of dates like that. If I knew the 7th was our next issue, then when someone said we should meet on the 9th, I could easily calculate that as the following Saturday. And Wednesdays have always been stressful. That’s been my production day, deadline day, the day when every story had to be written, copyedited and laid out; the day when every photo had to be placed and properly captioned and credited; the day when every headline had to be double-checked and every page had to be submitted to the printer, whether it was hand-delivered on large paper sheets, like it was when I started, or uploaded as a PDF file to a server, as it is today. That Wednesday crunch has been the same for me since the mid-1990s, with the exception of one year at a daily newspaper, where I actually had to turn around a couple of stories every 24 hours. After tasting that daily environment, I realized that I preferred the pace of the weekly newspaper, where you actually have the time to do a thorough, in-depth job on an article, where you have the luxury of interviewing most, if not all, of the sources you need to give a story justice, where you don’t have to cut corners and settle for whatever sources call you back in the remaining 18 minutes before your daily deadline. And now I’m leaving that weekly pace, and journalism in general. After nearly two years at the weekly Clear Creek Courant, a year at the Summit Daily News, 12 years at the CU faculty/staff newspaper Silver & Gold Record and four and half years at Boulder Weekly, I’m taking a job as communications coordinator for Colorado State University. And for someone who’s been a reporter and editor for nearly 20 years, that’s a big transition. Some of my journalist colleagues call public relations the “Dark Side.” I’ve been conditioned to consider PR folks as potential adversaries, especially when pursu8 March 13, 2014

ing a story that might cast their organizations in a negative light. And yet, I’ve worked with many PR professionals who have actually been helpful and honest, people who have pointed me to the right interviews, who have been upfront about problems, whose immediate reaction hasn’t been a defensive, circle-the-wagons stance when faced with controversy. I plan to be one of those. After all, I have a deep appreciation for the value of a free press, for the value that the fourth estate contributes to the health of a democracy, in which the open exchange of ideas usually means that the best concepts rise to the top, in which transparency is the best medicine for fending off corruption, conflicts of interest and greed. I’m proud of the job that Boulder Weekly and the other publications I’ve worked for have done in shining light on the often obscured edges of society, in giving a voice to the voiceless, in challenging the powers that be — and holding them accountable. When the University of Colorado shut down the Silver & Gold Record in 2009, I knew it wasn’t just about budget cuts, it was about silencing an independent voice that wasn’t always popular or towing the company line, and that is a troubling, recurring pattern of “controlling the message” that has reared its ugly head repeatedly at CU, from attacks on the journalism school and the Campus Press to controversial professors like Patti Adler and Ward Churchill. When former BW editor Pamela White and BW publisher and founder Stewart Sallo gave me a new lease on journalistic life in 2009, after the Silver & Gold staff had been laid off, it renewed my faith in independent, local, aggressive journalism. We took on stories that I’d never been able to tackle when my salary was funded by the CU president’s office. Among other accomplishments, we changed a state law that had permitted female inmates to be shackled to the bed while they gave birth. And when Joel Dyer took over as editor after Pamela’s departure, we exposed the forces behind the push for GMO see DODGE’S BULLETS Page 11

by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby

He does know that there are no laws to enforce, right?

Somehow, I suspect he knows.

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Paying to pump

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enver was number three in a survey of the top 10 oil-andgas cities in the world done by Rigzone, an industry employment and data clear-

inghouse. The list comes from a poll of 8,000 industry executives and engineers focused on the places with oil-and-gasindustry growth and opportunities. Colorado’s opportunities lie in tight sands and shale formations — especially the oil-rich Niobrara shale. Niobrara may hold a reserve the equivalent of as much as 2 billion barrels of oil, according to industry estimates. The number one city in the survey was Dubai, United Arab Emirates; followed by Calgary, Alberta; Denver; Singapore; and Jakarta, Indonesia. Colorado is rich in natural resources but we don’t benefit too much. The late energy analyst Randy Udall said Coloradans think of themselves as smart progressives as opposed to the dumb rednecks of Wyoming. But “we are playing the rube” and being seriously screwed by the fossil fuel industry. Udall devastatingly documented this in a 2008 report called “Torched and Burned: Why Does Colorado Subsidize the World’s Most Profitable Industry?” (You can view it at http://aspencore.org/wordpress/wpcontent/uploads/2012/06/ torched-and-burned.pdf ) In 1977, Colorado imposed a “severance tax” to capture some of the wealth

that is lost when non-renewable natural resources are extracted from the earth. Although the state assesses a nominal 5 percent severance tax on oil and gas producers, there are many exemptions and deductions which reduce the effective rate to 1.9 percent. This is about onethird of what the energy industry pays in nearby states. Udall noted that Colorado producers would have had to pay $1.3 billion more in taxes between 2002 and 2006 if their oil and gas wells had been located in Wyoming. Colorado — unlike other states — allows energy companies to deduct the county property taxes they pay from their severance tax bill. This loophole — the “ad valoreum” deduction — currently costs the state $200 million or more each year. Three-fourths of Colorado’s wells pay no severance tax at all. These “stripper” wells, which provide 60 percent of the state’s oil and 20 percent of its natural gas, have become extremely profitable. Udall stressed that “mineral riches can be viewed as a windfall to squander or as an inheritance to conserve.” In the 1960s, Norway and Britain each discovered 30 billion barrels of oil in the North Sea. The British spent most its proceeds each and every year while Norway established a special reserve called the Petroleum Fund which has grown to $315 billion, which provides about $70,000 for every man, woman and see ANDERSON Page 11

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c w DON’T EAT THE BROWN BROWNIES In something of a study from “the duh institute,” The Denver Post published n research last week that showed that the level of THC in many of Colorado’s mari- e c juana edibles is inconsistent and occasionally mislabeled. “One Dr. J’s milk chocolate Star Barz labeled for 100 milligrams of THC had p h 0.37 milligrams of the valued psychoactive component, according to three tests o conducted by Steep Hill Halent of Colorado, a state-licensed marijuana testing facility. Another popular Dr. J’s choco- m Susan France t late bar, the 100-milligram Winter Mint flavor, tested similarly in two experiments, showing 0.28 milligrams of THC,” wrote the Post’s Ricardo Baca. We here at BW conducted a similar test and found that the third bite of our marijuana chocolate bar, was like, whoa, man, and that it made Battlestar Galactica seem like a documentary. We also wrote about the ways that the edibles industry would be monitored and regulated back in December, which you can read here: www.boulderweekly.com/article-12058-boulderand-brownies.html HE SHOT THE SHERIFF’S DEPUTY, BUT HE SWEARS IT WAS IN SELFDEFENSE Courts in Pensacola, Fla., shot Green Tree Medicinals, Hali McDonald down an attempt by 24-year-old Keenan Finkelstein to use the muchmaligned “Stand Your Ground,” law to have charges against him dismissed. But there’s a twist. And it’s all in who he stood his ground against: a deputy looking for a robbery suspect, Deputy Sgt. Shendrick Johnson. Defense attorneys argued that the deputy emerged from the shadows without identifying himself, and that Finkelstein’s gunshot to the deputy’s leg was an act of self-defense. The real laugh riot? Finkelstein wasn’t even the suspect police were looking for. Just a poor, armed schlub living on the same block. Trial is set for April, where Finkelstein is expected to continue the self-defense argument. Will the defense work? Well, we here at BW aren’t fancy big-city lawyers by any means, but online images of Sgt. Johnson receiving a purple heart indicate he is black, so… NUMBER OF INSURED ON THE RISE Data released from Gallup this week shows that the level of Americans without health insurance is continuing to decline, and has reached the lowest quarterly level since 2008, a drop that it links to the effects of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. The data is based on more than 21,000 interviews, and shows a 1.5 percent drop in the rate of uninsured, a percentage representing approximately 3 million people. The data also found that enrollment is lagging among Latinos, but that it is booming among people who make less than $36,000 year. The deadest of deadlines to sign up and avoid paying a financial penalty is by the end of March. K-A-N-S-A-S A spelling bee in Jackson County, Kan., last week didn’t just give up when they ran out of words on the list. Contestants went an additional 20 rounds by picking them out of the dictionary, topping off a 75-round marathon contest. In the end, seventh-grader Kush Sharma, 13, beat out fifth-grader Sophia Hoffman, 11 when she choked on the word “stifling.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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crops on county open space; we wrote a 10-part series that won a national award for documenting the environmentally sordid history of the city of Boulder’s Valmont Butte property; and we unearthed what was hidden under the contaminated site of the Dushanbe Teahouse, and what missteps the city made in building it there.

I may never again be in an environment where I can bring about so much change, and that has been rewarding beyond words, from telling the stories of the homeless to making those in power very uncomfortable by exposing that which they have concealed. I owe so much to my current and former colleagues in this field, who have not only taught me about the

proper use of the comma, but about being ethical and responsible about how we tell people’s stories. It’s going to be a big adjustment for me to go into public relations, but in this digital environment, in the age of the Internet and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, it’s still about telling those stories, and being one’s own media outlet, no matter what the medium.

I’m glad I’ll be able to keep interviewing interesting people and telling their stories. And I’ll try to keep doing it accurately and fairly. I just hope the stress that I automatically feel every Wednesday fades with time. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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child in that country. The nations of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have similar “rainy day” permanent funds. So do the states of Alaska, Wyoming and New Mexico. Udall noted, “The Alaskan fund is valued at $40 billion. Each resident of the state received a check of $1,600 this year. High school graduates in Wyoming get free college tuition, thanks to the $3 billion in that state’s fund. The Navajo Nation, which sprawls across parts of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, has put aside $1 billion into their permanent fund.” He asked, “If they can do it, why can’t we?” In 2008, Udall supported Gov. Bill Ritter’s statutory Amendment 58 which would have eliminated the ad valorem tax credit and would have changed how the tax-exempt “stripper wells” are defined. Sixty percent of the new revenue would have funded college scholarships. Fifteen percent would have helped alleviate the local impact of the oil and gas industry on transportation and water quality. Fifteen percent would have been for preservation of wildlife habitat and 10 percent for clean energy projects. Oil and gas firms such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP, ConocoPhillips, Williams, Noble, and EnCana raised $10 million to defeat Amendment 58 — a record amount for a single issue campaign. By contrast, proponents raised $1.63 million to support the measure and counter the lies about the measure increasing utility bills and pump prices. Amendment 58 was rejected by 57.9 percent of the voters. Nevertheless, Shane Davis, a leader of Colorado’s antifracking movement, says it’s time to raise the issue again. We need the revenue given our constitutional TABOR straightjacket and the prediction that the general fund will run dry by 2025. Tell the oil and gas bullies — pay up! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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Paul Danish, in the Feb. 20 edition, proposes a water supply plan in defiance of all principles of economics and common sense: Colorado should build desalination plants off the coast of California in exchange for an equal amount of California’s allocation of Colorado River water. Obvious surprise and indignation aside, there are three serious flaws in his plan: first, it contains very bad applied economics, second, it’s a bad deal for California, and third, it’s a bad deal for Colorado. To the first point, Mr. Danish claims that for $2.5 billion dollars we could “double Denver and Boulder’s water supply.” But where exactly would we put all this water? I would love to hear where Mr. Danish proposes to build over 600,000 acre-feet of new reservoirs on the Front Range. Without new storage, the water we bought from California will run downhill toward the Pacific Ocean, where I guarantee California will be happy to use it anyway. Mr. Danish attempts to assuage us by citing the low cost of Hoover Dam. To be blunt, Hoover is a dam, and desalination plants are not. Hoover represents one large sunk cost paid off with sales of cheap water and hydropower. Desalination plants use electricity, not produce it, to make water, so there is less reason to believe that the project would be paid off. Most water projects in the West have never overcome their initial costs, and most of them didn’t require electricity to run. Why would California choose to use these expensive operations rather than low-cost water from the Colorado River? Right now California gets to use 4.4 million acre-feet of Colorado River water even if water levels in the river are historically low. Throwing away any of that allocation, which costs them only some pump operation and treatment, in exchange for very expensive desalinated water, is a losing proposition for

California. Finally, it’s a whale of a loser for Colorado. First, assuming we also built sufficient storage space, this new 600,000 acre-feet of water is just as drought-prone as the 600,000 we already have. If the Rockies suffer a drought like that of the Sierras this winter, there won’t be 600,000 acre-feet of new supply to divert through the mountains to Denver and Boulder, much less 1.2 million. Our shiny new reservoirs could sit as empty as our pocketbooks. Brian Devine/Boulder

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Arizona Governor Ms. Brewer would be wise to learn from the mistakes of her neighbor to the northeast and ignore extremist demands that would deny human rights to their fellow Americans. One example of fiscal bad-decision-made-into law is the fact that the TV show Frasier was originally planned to take place in Denver, but was moved to Seattle as a result of Colorado’s Amendment 2, which would have repealed anti-gay discrimination laws (later declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court). Frasier ultimately went on to record-breaking award nominations and viewership, with the Seattle space needle as a backdrop instead of Colorado’s Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. (Massive free publicity anyone?) If Arizona really wants to show how devolution works, all enlightened Americans can say is, “Please proceed.” Or secede and return to being a part of Mexico. Buena suerte, amigos. Tommy Holeman/Niwot

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I wonder often why we need more laws (the General Assembly could meet every other year, saving some money?) when I see those on the books so loosely enforced, if at all. Coming to mind would be “no-call” lists (similar to all the stuff that intrudes on Web pages that the user does not request); heavily tinted, even opaque, vehicle windows; television commercials way louder than the programming. The list goes on. You get my drift. The ultimate blame — and responsibility — lies with the electorate. I wish that gave me confidence, but it does not. Maybe the next thing voters will legalize is intentional ignorance. Such could find nearly every legislator wearing a hoosegow suit. Greg Iwan/Longmont Boulder Weekly

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he oil and gas industry has a dirty little secret, make that a dirty big secret … no, make that one of the biggest, dirtiest secrets in U.S. history. What is no secret these days is that the potential for negative environmental and health impacts as a result of oil and gas exploration and production activity is very real. Concern over fracking, with its toxic cocktail composed of some combination of between 300 and 750 chemicals, 70 percent of which are known to be harmful to humans because they are carcinogenic or endocrine disruptors, etc., gets most of our collective attention these days. But this industry practice is not the only or largest contamination problem our nation faces as the result of oil and gas development. In fact, the oil and gas industry’s other contamination problems are so large, they have literally been deemed impossible to prevent or even clean up by both industry and government. As a result, an unimaginable tonnage of contamination is being placed into our environment every year thanks to the near total lack of regulations over oil 16 March 13, 2014

and gas exploration and production wastes. The story behind this unregulated onslaught of contamination is so bizarre as to seem impossible, but it isn’t. We often hear of the “Halliburton loophole,” a name used to describe a regulatory exemption that was created for the industry in 2005 to relieve fracking fluid of the burden of the Safe Drinking Water Act. But the Halliburton loophole is just one small exemption to federal regulations for the oil and gas industry. There are many others. The mother of all oil and gas waste exemptions had its beginnings in 1978 when the EPA proposed reduced requirements for a couple of types of large-volume wastes associated with the oil and gas industry, namely produced water and drilling muds. Today, the federal government and the oil and gas industry seem to have created a revisionist history of this early exemption process that gutted the requirements of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) of 1976 — an act created specifically to guarantee that there was cradle-to-grave oversight and enforcement

a far different rationale for the largest for all hazardous wastes under RCRA’s exemption of toxic wastes in U.S. histoSubtitle C. ry. The modern version of the Subtitle In the late 1970s, the EPA had C exemption fictitiously purports that decided to study the idea of removing the reason for reducing requirements large volume oil and gas exploration for oil and gas waste was because these and production wastes from RCRA’s large-volume wastes were deemed to be Subtitle C. The “lower in toxicity” Schum collection study was barely and therefore not off the ground as much of a when Ronald threat to human Reagan took health and the office in 1980 and environment as government once other wastes being regulated under again started tinSubtitle C. You kering with RCRA. can find such According to a statements 2002 EPA report throughout the on the RCRA oil websites and literand gas exempature of local, tion, “The oil and This mechanical seal was alleged to have state and federal gas exemption was used for hydraulic fracturing. If so, government regu- been expanded in the the discolored scale could contain many dangerous chemicals. Such potentially lators of toxic 1980 legislative hazardous waste as this scale is exempt waste and in amendments to from the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Subtitle C. industry marketRCRA to include ing materials. “drilling fluids, But it is simply not true, not by any produced water, and other wastes assostretch of the imagination. ciated with the exploration, developGo back and research the records of ment, or production of crude oil or natthe exemption process and you will find ural gas. . . .” Boulder Weekly

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By the time they had finished defining “other wastes,” every single ounce of toxic waste generated by the process of exploring for and/or producing oil and gas had been removed from RCRA’s hazardous waste oversight. The 1980 exemption was deemed temporary, pending EPA’s final report on whether it was a good idea to exempt such wastes. It was a cart and horse problem to be sure, but not one that the industry or its friends were going to complain about. Finally, in 1987, EPA presented its exemption report to Congress. What it did not say is that the exemption was being recommended because oil and gas waste isn’t as toxic as other waste governed by RCRA’s Subtitle C. What EPA did say is a startling indictment of our system of environmental and public health oversight. EPA’s report found that “oil, gas, and geothermal wastes originate in very diverse ecologic settings and contain a wide variety of hazardous constituents.” EPA further found that “Imposition of Subtitle C regulations for all oil and gas wastes could subject billions of barrels of waste to regulation under Subtitle C as hazardous wastes and would cause a severe economic impact on the industry and on oil and gas production in the U.S. Additionally, because a large part of these wastes is managed in off-site commercial facilities, removal of the exemption could cause severe short-term strains on the capacity of Subtitle C Treatment, Storage, and Disposal Facilities, and a significant increase in the Subtitle C permitting burden for State and Federal hazardous waste programs.” The report concluded that regulating toxic oil and gas exploration and production waste under RCRA Subtitle C would not give the agency the “flexibility to consider costs when applying these requirements to oil and gas Boulder Weekly

The oil industry — with its long history of creating billions of tons of waste annually from exploration and production activities — has been exempt since 1980 from the RCRA’s Subtitle C, our nation’s premier piece of toxic waste legislation designed specifically to protect us from just this type of waste.

wastes. Consequently, EPA would not be able to craft a regulatory program to reduce or eliminate the serious economic impacts that it has predicted.” Translation: Even though this waste is hazardous to human health and the environment, EPA is going to exempt it from the federal laws written to protect the public from toxic waste because the problem is so massive (billions upon billions of barrels) that it would make it literally impossible to drill for oil and gas in the U.S. if the industry had to pick up the tab for remediating the contamination it creates. It is just math. More than 10 barrels of waste are created for every barrel of oil. Having to properly deal with this waste to Subtitle C standards would be so cost-prohibitive as to be a threat to our economy and, therefore, our security. And besides, the industry creates so much toxic waste that EPA was concerned that we couldn’t possibly find enough places to safely store it, so we might as well just make it legal to get rid of it wherever. In fact, there are so many billions and billions of barrels of toxic waste being created by the industry that the EPA was afraid that the federal government wasn’t capable of creating a bureaucratic licensing system large and efficient enough to produce enough permits to make the creation, transportation and disposal of the waste legal on paper. And finally, the government doesn’t want to cut into industry profits. End of translation. This is the real history of oil and

gas toxic waste regulations in this country, whether it’s drilling fluids, mud, produced water, radioactive sludge and scale or fracking fluid. As hard as it is for most people to believe, there is virtually no regulation on the vast majority of the oil and gas industry’s waste at any level of government. There are plenty of “policies and guidance” concerning this waste — at least that’s what government likes to call them. “Suggestions” is the word most of us tend to use for the same meaning. But these government suggestions are not laws and they have very little, if any, enforcement mechanism. They can be completely ignored without fear of fine or other punishment. The regulatory agencies at every level of government charged with overseeing oil and gas industry waste are engaged in a shell game of sorts called “find the regulation.” The EPA says that it doesn’t need to regulate oil and gas exploration and production toxic waste under Subtitle C because the states mostly have this covered. The states, on the other hand, claim that they are charged with enforcing all federal laws concerning this waste, they just don’t tell you that the waste has been exempted from the federal law they claim to be enforcing. Literally everyone is using some version of legalese to claim that every other regulatory agency has authority over this waste when, in truth, no one does for the most part. Some states, like Colorado, even

have statutes on the books prohibiting their state regulatory agencies from creating any enforceable laws on oil and gas toxic waste unless and until the EPA ends its exemption, which of course it says it doesn’t need to do because the states have it covered. It is a dangerous game for all of us. The real numbers of how much exempted exploration and production waste we are talking about is hard to come by because the government relies on the industry to provide them. The American Petroleum Institute (API) estimated that 149 million barrels of drilling wastes, 17.9 billion barrels of produced water and 20.6 million barrels of other associated wastes were generated in 1995 from exploration and production (E&P) operations. But that was before the largest drilling boom in history started. And the horizontal drilling in shale formations as well as production from coal bed gas fields is creating far more waste than traditional wells. So those numbers could easily have doubled or tripled by now. The EPA claims it hasn’t given up on the idea of someday regulating the oil and gas industry’s toxic waste. It says that it is working with the industry to come up with appropriate options. The agency says that it’s just waiting for API to finish its analysis and recommend what the industry thinks should be done to better regulate its waste. That’s all fine and good, but API has been working on its analysis now for a quarter of a century. Perhaps we already have the industry’s answer. In the weeks and months ahead, Boulder Weekly will be reporting on this lack of government oversight concerning the oil and gas industry’s toxic waste. The industry has received some level of exemptions from virtually every major environmental act that has come See TOXIC Page 18

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Denver resident Dennis Schum says he never heard the term TENORM until 2013, but it’s a constant part of his vocabulary these days. But first a little background. Most of the shale formations that produce oil and gas were once ocean floors. That’s why the brine that is comingled with the hydrocarbons in these formations is so salty; often six times the salinity of the ocean. These formations most often also contain elements of uranium and thorium and their decay products such as Radium 226 and Radium 228. In short, when the oil and gas in these formations is produced, so is radioactive salt water, which is referred to as produced water. The radiation in produced water is referred to as NORM, which stands for naturally occurring radioactive material. Produced water in some parts of the country, particularly Louisiana, Mississippi and some parts of Texas can come out of the ground very radioactive. In other states, the radiation tends to be closer to background levels. But if you run mineral-heavy produced water containing radioactive particles through pipes and equipment, it forms a scale, a solid substance of impurities from the water, on the metal that accumulates radiation over time in pipes, pumps and seals, becoming much more radioactive than the produced water flowing though it. This is how TENORM is formed in pipes and tanks. TENORM is an acronym for technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materi-

als. TENORM is NORM whose radiation has been enhanced by way of a human action of some sort. The EPA’s website says that a single well can produce many tons of scale every year in pipes and tank bottoms or other equipment. Scale tends to form anywhere there is a change in temperature and pressure. While not all scale is radioactive, much of it is, and the radiation levels can be quite high. It is a major problem for the industry, but thanks to the RCRA Subtitle C exemption, oil companies can use a variety of questionable disposal methods to inexpensively dump their radioactive scale. They can simply spread it on the ground, dump it in plugged wells, bury it on site or add it to fracking fluid and inject it underground. While states, like Colorado, may have policies and guidance that suggest that companies act more responsibly and send their TENORM waste to an appropriately licensed radioactive dump, they can’t make them do it or fine them if they don’t because of the exemptions to RCRA Subtitle C. BW spoke with Dr. Marvin Resnikoff, a physicist at Radioactive Waste Management Associates and a national expert on the oil and gas industry’s TENORM scale. Resnikoff says workers who work in pipe yards that clean TENORM scale from pipes are getting major doses of radiation. “It’s like working in front of an x-ray machine that never turns off all day long,” he says. Even people living nearby such pipe yards who were subjected to TENORM

scale particles blowing in the wind could become sick and develop cancers and other illnesses, Resnikoff said. He has been involved in numerous lawsuits from affected workers in the Gulf States, including a billion dollar jury award against Exxon that was later reduced $240 million. Now back to our self-described whistleblower. Dennis Schum is — or was — a senior mechanical seal repair technician at John Crane, Inc., an international corporation with a repair facility in Golden, Colo. The company, whose slogan is “empowering global energy through engineering,” has more than 6,900 employees worldwide and $1.9 billion in annual revenue, according to its website. Earlier in March, Schum explained to BW that he doesn’t actually know what his employment status is at this time because he claims that the company is no longer taking his phone calls or answering his emails. He says he doesn’t even know if he still has a job or health insurance. All he knows, for now, is that the money has stopped coming in and his family is really struggling to get by. He also knows he’s scared. Schum says he is afraid that he’s been breathing in radioactive particles and dangerous chemicals for years at his workplace and that he believes it may have harmed his health. Beginning in 2005, Schum says, his job at John Crane was to repair and See TOXIC Page 20

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refurbish seals of various types and sizes that are used in the oil and gas industry as well as other industries that use high-pressured systems with large pumps. During this time he estimates that he worked on approximately “100 to 200 pipeline seals a year, plus another 100 to 200 seals related to fracking sites and then about 400 to 500 refinery seals.” Such seals can range from relatively small up to several hundred pounds. The pipeline seals, for example, weighed about 75 pounds each. Schum claims that he has been cleaning and refurbishing engineered mechanical seals for the Enterprise Mid-America Pipeline (EMAP) for the past eight years. The EMAP is a 7,840-mile-long pipeline, which, according to the operator, transports mixed natural gas liquids from plants in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico to the Seminole pipeline in western Texas. Schum alleges he was told in July that he would be receiving seals from the EMAP that were contaminated with NORM. He also asserts that this was the first time he had ever been told that seals he was working on were, or even could be, radioactive. According to Schum, the NORMcontaminated EMAP seals looked just like the other EMAP seals he had been working on for years. When he took them apart, the inside components were covered with the same variously colored hard scale, which is difficult to remove and ultimately requires sandblasting to clear it from the surface of the metal. Schum alleges that the sandblasted material, which would have included any pulverized radioactive particles from the scale, was vented directly from the sand-blasting machine into the air outdoors via a vent on the roof of the building without being filtered.

Schum says that he was growing increasingly concerned about how he was handling the scale removal because he suspected the TENORM scale could be much higher in radiation than background levels. He also says he was told by a training consultant hired by the company in September that safe NORM levels should be no more than three times background radiation levels as a rule of thumb. At the shop where he worked, Schum claims, background radiation is around 70 counts per minute (CPM), meaning that anything over 210 CPM would be a matter of concern for him. Schum also told BW that the same consultant told him that the respirator he had been issued by the company was not appropriate for working with radiation because it could still allow him to ingest radioactive particles. Boulder Weekly contacted the consultant, Robert Krumberger of New Generation Solutions, in an attempt to verify Schum’s claims about their conversations. Krumberger says that all of his work is proprietary to his clients. As a result, he says, he could not comment on anything specific having to do with his contracted work for John Crane including anything he might or might not have said to any employee of the company. Documents examined by BW indicate that Krumberger provided a two-hour radiation safety awareness class at the company’s Golden facility. Schum says his employer finally provided him with a Geiger counter on Sept. 17. But, he adds, “I had already cleaned and refurbished eight [EMAP] seals that the pump company claimed to have decontaminated down to background NORM levels. But I could tell that the insides of the seals where the scale was located hadn’t been tested or Boulder Weekly

news cleaned at all, because it was obvious that the seals hadn’t been disassembled, so it wasn’t possible.” Schum says he used the Geiger counter on the next EMAP seals he opened and that, in some of them, the internal scale measured much more than the presumed safe level of three times background. In one seal, he alleges, the Geiger counter found scale measuring as high as 2,700 CPM. Other seals, according to Schum, had components with radiation levels ranging from 700 to 2,400 CPM. A nuclear industry health technician — who asked that his identity be withheld because he isn’t personally familiar with the circumstances Schum allegedly faced — told BW that, if confirmed, the levels of radiation Schum claims he found in the seals would definitely be a matter for concern. The technician says that from a long-term, external exposure perspective, the biggest concern would be that a worker could hit his/ her annual limit for exposure to bodypenetrating gamma rays, but that at such levels as those purported by Schum, this would require nearly constant exposure to the radioactive scale. “The more concerning threat from oil and gas generated TENORM,” says the technician, “is inhalation.” He says Radium 226 has a half-life of 1,600 years and Radium 228 has a half-life of approximately 5.7 years. “If even one particle is inhaled,” he explains, “it can lodge in the lungs and cause damage to tissue for the rest of a person’s life. Such damage can include cancers and other serious illnesses.” The EPA’s posted warnings for radium inhalation confirm the technician’s analysis. Schum says he grew more weary and depressed with each revelation concerning TENORM in the seals. “For seven years, my company only gave me disposable gloves, safety glasses and shoes to work around this scale,” he says. “Not just the TENORM scale from pipelines, but the scale made of unknown chemicals that are inside all the fracking seals I worked on. What was in that fracking scale that I was breathing in when I put it in the ultrasonic cleaner or sandblaster? No one can tell me because fracking fluid’s a secret. They are supposed to write down what chemicals you could be exposed to and send it along with the seals, but they don’t do it with fracking seals.” As Schum’s apprehension over how he was being asked to carry out his job grew, he says he began to take pictures Boulder Weekly

to document his concerns. He photographed the Geiger counter with its readings of the seals they were measuring. He photographed the scale he found in the seals. He photographed himself in his respirator and he dug up photos to show his pre-respirator personal protective equipment. He also photographed the sand-

blasting machine, which he alleges had leaks in the door that sent particulates flying around the room, a powdery dust he says he couldn’t help but breathe in and now suspects contained radioactive particles and unknown fracking chemicals. “[The sandblasting machine] would just cover my head and my shoes with

white dust when I used it,” he says. “I’m afraid I carried TENORM particulates home on my clothes or shoes or in my hair and exposed my family. For seven years, no one ever warned me that could happen. Now I know it can.” After he spoke to and listened to See TOXIC Page 22

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the consultant’s training, Over adds that, “This is Schum says, he became even relatively low level radiation, more concerned for his welland it’s not harmful unless it being. gets ingested, breathed in, “I finally felt like I had to and we’ve taken precautions. tell someone,” he says. “So I I don’t think Dennis has a called OSHA.” case.” Schum could not have Over then suggested that timed it worse. The federal BW call back the next morngovernment shut down took ing after he had contacted his effect immediately after he attorney. During the second filed his complaint. It was call the next morning he said nearly three weeks later when that he had emailed his Occupational Safety and attorney and hadn’t heard Health Administration back, but he expected that inspectors finally arrived in she would be getting in touch Golden. directly with BW. BW didn’t They walked through the hear from the attorney before shop and found no radioacpress time. tivity above acceptable backSchum also asked the ground levels. As a result, Colorado Department of Scale, such as that shown above, can contain toxic chemicals, heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cyanide and substantial radiation. after one trip to the plant, Public Health and they declared that Schum’s Environment (CDPHE) to claims about working with investigate his concerns. dangerous levels of TENORM that he (the day before the formal complaint After his request, an investigation being sent to John Crane. wasn’t properly trained to handle were was filed) … OSHA determined that, was conducted. Schum eventually OSHA is not unfamiliar with oil “unsubstantiated.” although there probably was NORMreceived a letter from the CDPHE and gas TENORM contamination. As Schum says that when the inspeccontaminated pumps in the facility at Hazardous Material and Waste early as 1989, OSHA was issuing tors came, there was no work being some time, the steps taken by the Management Division. The letter Safety Hazard Bulletins on the potendone on radioactive seals contaminated employer before OSHA’s arrival were tial health hazards associated with han- states that, “Based on the results of the with scale. sufficient to eliminate or minimize any investigation, no violations of current dling pipe used in oil and gas produc“They couldn’t have found what I future NORM exposure. No citations regulations or policies were found and tion that had become radioactive. was claiming because [ John Crane] had were recommended for the NORM there is no evidence that the It also appears that before closing moved all the seals out before the issue.” Shum’s case, OSHA never attempted to TENORM-contaminated seals proinspection,” he says. “I tried to show In an interview with BW, OSHA’s cessed from July through September set up times with his employer to take them my pictures to prove I was telling Dave Nelson explained that OSHA’s created an undo health risk to employsamples of scales for testing of chemithe truth and they said they didn’t even primary responsibility was to prevent cals and/or radiation from inside pumps ees. Additionally, the operating procewant to see them. I told them what the any future problems at the facility that dures at John Crane appear adequate coming into the repair shop in the consultant said and they didn’t care. could endanger workers. He also said future. for controlling potential TENORM The company even admitted to them that the photographs taken by Schum exposure and contamination at their At this point, Schum has given a that they had some TENORMcould not be used as proof of past expo- letter to OSHA disputing the results of facility.” Dennis Schum is getting more contaminated seals and OSHA just sure to radiation. He concluded that the agency’s inspection findings. He has desperate every day. He feels like closed the case anyway.” OSHA could not establish past expoalso given OSHA an additional letter there is no place for him to turn in BW examined documents from the sure of Schum as no Geiger counter alleging whistleblower discrimination. order to find out what radiation and OSHA files concerning Schum’s case. readings or other records had ever been BW contacted John Over, operations chemicals were in the scale of the In a letter-style report summarizing taken on seals during Schum’s first manager at John Crane’s Golden faciliseven years. hundreds of seals he cleaned over the OSHA’s investigation of John Crane ty. Over told BW that OSHA “didn’t BW asked Krumberger, the consuldated Dec. 9, Area Director Dave find anything here so nothing applies, past eight years. He is only now tant, if OSHA had ever bothered to Nelson wrote the following: that’s all I can tell you.” beginning to realize just how unreguinterview him about the things that “Prior to the filing of the formal When asked about Schum’s asserlated the world of oil and gas waste Schum told OSHA, the allegations that tion that he believes that he was likely complaint, the employer identified that really is. He gets told that no regulathe consultant had said things were certain pumps were arriving at the exposed to radiation during his eight tions were broken, but he never hears worksite for repair which were contami- being done incorrectly regarding years at the company, Over said, the truth, that there are no regulanated with Naturally Occurring NORM contamination at John Crane. “There’s no way to know what haptions to break. He’s more concerned Radioactive Material (NORM). This Krumberger says that OSHA had not pened in the past.” about his health than ever and can’t NORM consisted of radioactive miner- spoken with him at all. From the files it He continues, “Nobody knew anyfigure out where to turn next. al deposits which were found on pumps also appears that OSHA never attempt- thing. NORM is relatively new to He says he’s thinking about making which the employer was rebuilding for ed to contact anyone who had provided Colorado, it’s just being brought to the a sign and heading to the steps of the the oil and gas industry. Basic NORM seals over the past seven years to deterlimelight. Colorado doesn’t even have state Capitol. He says, “Maybe then training was given to all employees mine if any of the seals might have NORM standards. I can’t comment on someone will hear me.” (including the complainant) on Sept. 26 been checked for radiation prior to Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com the past.” 22 March 13, 2014

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alf a century ago, the legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow came to the pancake-flat town of Cranbury in central New Jersey to document the plight of migrant farmworkers for a television special called “Harvest of Shame.” Today, many of Cranbury’s potato fields have been built up with giant warehouses that form a distribution hub off Exit 8A of the Jersey Turnpike. But amid this 21st century system of commerce, an old way of labor persists. Temporary workers make a daily migration on buses to this area, just as farmworkers did for every harvest in the 1960s. Temp workers today face many similar conditions in how they get hired, how they live and what they can afford to eat. Adjusted for inflation, many of today’s temp workers earn roughly the same amount as those farmworkers did 50 years ago. Across the country, farms full of migrant workers have been replaced with warehouses full of temp workers, as American consumers depend more on foreign products, online shopping and just-intime delivery. It is a story that begins at the ports of Los Angeles and Newark, N.J., follows the railroads to Chicago and ends at your neighborhood box store, or your doorstep. The temp industry now employs 2.8 million workers — the highest number and highest proportion of the American workforce in history. As the economy continues to recover from the Great Recession, temp work has grown nine times faster than private-sector employment as a whole. Overall, nearly onesixth of the total job growth since the recession ended has been in the temp sector. Many temps work for months or years packing and assembling products for some of the world’s largest companies, including Walmart, Amazon and Nestlé. They make our frozen pizzas, cut our vegetables and sort the recycling from our trash. They unload clothing 24 March 13, 2014

and toys made overseas and pack them to fill our store shelves. The temp system insulates companies from workers’ compensation claims, unemployment taxes, union drives and the duty to ensure that their workers are citizens or legal immigrants. In turn, temp workers suffer

high injury rates, wait unpaid for work to begin and face fees that depress their pay below minimum wage. Temp agencies consistently rank among the worst large industries for the rate of wage and hour violations, according to a ProPublica analysis of federal enforcement data. It is one of our fastest-growing industries, yet one of the few in which the injury rates have been rising. A ProPublica analysis of millions of workers’ comp claims found that in five states, representing more than a fifth of the U.S. population, temps face a significantly greater risk of getting injured on the job than permanent employees. In Florida, for example, temps were about twice as likely as regular employees to suffer crushing injuries, dislocations, lacerations, fractures and punc-

tures. They were about three times as likely to suffer an amputation on the job in Florida and the three other states for which records were available. The disparity was even worse when we looked just at dangerous occupations, such as manufacturing, construction and warehousing. In Florida, temps in blue-collar workplaces were about six times as likely to be injured as permanent employees doing similar jobs. Day Davis, 21, was crushed by a machine at a Bacardi bottling plant barely 90 minutes into the first day on the first job of his life. Samir Storey, 39, suffocated from hydrogen sulfide gas on his first day when he was assigned to clean the inside of a tank at a paper mill. Mark Jefferson, 47, died after collapsing from heat stroke after a long day on a garbage route. Here too, the plight of the lowest level workers has changed little. The workers who reaped the nation’s fruit and vegetables also passed out from working in the heat or became sick from pesticides such as DDT. In “Harvest of Shame,” two Florida towns — Belle Glade and Immokalee — became symbolic of the plight of farm labor. Today, researchers have identified “temp towns,” such as New Brunswick, N.J., and Little Village in Chicago, Ill. “Temp towns” are often densely populated Latino neighborhoods teeming with temp agencies. Or they are cities where it has become nearly impossible for anyone, even for whites and African-Americans with vocational training, to find bluecollar work without going through a temp firm. New Jersey has five of the counties — Middlesex, Passaic, Burlington, Camden and Union — with the highest concentration of temp workers in the country. Lou Kimmel, an organizer for New Labor, a workers advocacy center in New Brunswick, said that when he first started working there, the founder used to say, “We’re all farmworkers in a way.”

For temp workers today, he said, “A lot of the conditions are the same: Low wages, wage theft, unsafe conditions, working with chemicals with no respect and dignity, and no organized effort to try to fight back.” Murrow opened his documentary with the scene of a “shape up,” in which labor contractors hawk available jobs. Temp agencies today use a similar system that researchers have called a “modern-day shape up.” Temp workers stand on street corners or arrive at agency hiring halls as early as 4 a.m. so the agency’s dispatchers can round up enough to fill an order. In New Brunswick, one agency operated for a while out of a neon-lit beauty salon. One morning last year, in Little Village, Chicago, workers lined up in an alleyway behind a dentist clinic and a shop selling quinceañer adresses. They knew little of where they were going to work, except that everyone called it los peluches — Spanish for stuffed animals — and that a guy named “Rigo” told them there was work. After following the bus, I discovered the warehouse was run by Ty Inc., one of the largest makers of stuffed animals in the world. Rigo, whose full name is Rigoberto Aguilar, was what’s known in Little Village as a raitero, a Spanglish invention that roughly means “a person who gives rides.” But raiteros do more than that, essentially serving as immigrant labor brokers for the temp agencies. They recruit the workers, often charging them to apply for the job; then round up the workers in the predawn hours, charging them for the obligatory ride to the warehouse or factory. At the end of the week, the raiteros pick up the workers’ paychecks from the agencies and bring them to check-cashing stores, where workers are charged to cash them. If they don’t have the money for the ride, dozens of workers said, they don’t get their paychecks. In “Harvest of Shame,” the farm laborers had similar brokers known as “crew leaders,” who skimmed money from workers’ wages. After ProPublica published a story on the raiteros in Chicago, some temp agencies there stopped using them and started providing free transportation for the workers. Many agencies stopped giving the paychecks to the raiteros— although others continue to operate as Boulder Weekly

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Locations of temp workers These counties had high concentrations of temporary help service workers for counties with more than 100,000 workers in 2012. Overall, 2.2 percent of privatesector workers were temps in 2012. Source: ProPublica analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Quarterly Census of Employment and

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sit on the laps of men they do not know. Sometimes, workers must lie on the floor, the other passengers’ feet on top of them. As before, the products change by the season. But now, instead of picking strawberries, tomatoes and corn, the temp workers pack chocolates for Valentine’s Day, barbecue grills for Memorial Day, turkey pans for Thanksgiving, and clothing and toys for Christmas. Back then, the farms provided housing, often shacks with shoddy bunk beds. Temp workers rent rooms in rundown houses, sometimes in a basement or attic with not much space other than for a bed. It is not uncommon to find a different family in every room. Rosa Ramirez, a 50-year-old temp worker, rents the living room of an old boarding house in Elgin, Ill. There is a cheap mattress on the floor, and a sheet blocks the French doors that separate her room from the hallway. A trap by her door guards against the rats that have woken her up at night. “Harvest of Shame” reported that migrant farmworkers in 1960 worked 136 days of the year and earned just $900–$7,087 in today’s dollars. Many temp workers struggle to find steady work. In 2010, a good year in which she wasn’t out for an injury, Ramirez earned $6,549, according to tax forms she provided. One of the most memorable scenes in “Harvest of Shame” comes when the correspondent asks the mother of a migrant family, “What is an average dinner for the family?” Surrounded by her children, she replies, “Well, I cook a pot of beans and fry some potatoes.” Remembering this scene, I began asking the temp workers I met the same question. A conversation with one Chicago man, whose family shares an attic with another family, underscored how very little things have changed. “Frijoles y algunas papitas,” he said. Beans and potatoes. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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deBoisblanc says. Climate warming House to protest the construction of the allows invasive species — Mallane Dressel Keystone XL pipeline, is to invade alpine vegeconsidered one of the tation Whole Foods and B-cycle partner up largest student-led enviResearch in Norway’s B-cycle, the developer of Boulder’s bike ronmental demonstrasubarctic mountains share network, will celebrate opening its tions in U.S. history, but shows that high altitude new office during a launch party on March no University of vegetation is more likely 20, where it will also announce when its two Colorado Boulder stuto experience invasion new stations at Whole Foods stores — on dents were present for by alien plant species. Baseline at Broadway and Pearl at 28th the event. “Most likely, these Street — will be open for use. The March 2 protest alien lowland species This is just the beginning for Boulder included students from are becoming increasB-cycle’s expansion plans for this year after over 50 colleges and ingly successful in alpine winning a federal grant. The organization universities. terrain due to the warm- Ann Milnau, assistant professor at the Cliwill be adding 16 more stations to its curSince the release of er weather we have rent 22 and including 130 more bikes, its mate Impacts Research Centre in Abisko, the State Department’s experienced in the past Sweden, has found that alien roadside largest expansion effort since the bike share plant species more easily invade alpine Final Supplemental decades,” Ann Milnau, program was introduced to Boulder in 2011. areas than lowland areas. Environmental Impact assistant professor at the Kevin Bell, Boulder B-cycle’s marketing and Statement for the Climate Impacts communications manager, says he knows Research Centre in Sweden and one of the Keystone XL pipeline, which concluded the rapid expansion of this transportation authors of the study, said in Umea University that the pipeline would have little impact solution will greatly improve the network’s on climate change, hundreds of vigils have press release. “Climate warming and ability to reach people that the system been held across the nation in hopes of increasing human disturbances in high latihadn’t been able to serve before. They’ll tude mountain regions may further increase deterring President have access to transPhoto courtesy of Boulder B-Cycle Obama from permitting the pressure from introduced species in the portation that’s clean, the TransCanada pipecoming years.” green, healthy, susline. The study, published by Public Library of tainable and even “We have done vigils Science One on Feb. 26, states that though fun, he says. in the past that didn’t the volume of alien species growing along B-cycle has involve civil disobediroads (commonly used for transportation of recently gotten more ence, but they don’t get invasive species) decreased in higher eleinvolved in a longnearly as much press vations, their ability to invade vegetation standing partnership coverage,” says Jenna beyond the roadside increased. The with Whole Foods, deBoisblanc, who travamount of alien plants infiltrating the natuaccording to Bell. The eled from her home in ral vegetation increased by 30 percent two have been supNew Orleans to particiwith the increase of 2,296 feet. porting one another’s pate in the demonstraThough alpine species cope well with events, and B-cycle tion, where she was one the tough conditions that exist at high altistaff attended the of 400 nonviolent protesttudes, their slow growth causes them to be unveiling of the ers arrested for civil dispoor competitors. That allows invasive speremodeled Whole A B-Cycle chalkboard bike made for the obedience, including cies that have competitive traits and cope Foods on Baseline unveiling event at Whole Foods. zip-tying themselves to better with changing conditions can easily Road. the White House gates. invade at higher elevations. “The presence of “In my mind, I think civil disobedience the new stations, as well as our periodic — Mallane Dressel is important because it catches the presence at Whole Food’s events, will help attention of the public and media, and it spread the word about just one of the XL Dissent among the largest studentalso demonstrates to the world how this many ways that riders can integrate bike led environmental demonstrations in history issue is so important to the people sharing into their daily routines,” Bell says. The XL Dissent, in which 1,200 young involved that we are willing to risk arrest,” people gathered in front of the White — Mallane Dressel

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boulderganic whether there was a disconnect between the task force recommendations and the new bills now pending in Denver. But the legislative task force wasn’t convened specifically to try to implement the task force recommendations, says co-Chair Millie Hamner (D-Dillon). The public needs to understand that the two processes were different, Hamner says, adding that the task force recommendations are an important first step toward starting a public dialogue about the big changes needed at the state level if the government wants to get real about addressing the wildfire threat. “I found it interesting that there were two similar groups. We were tasked with looking at legislation that will keep our communities and citizens safe,” Hamner says. “Is Colorado really prepared to deal with catastrophic wildfires?” The bills now pending in the state Legislature are based on input garnered from experts at a series of hearings during late summer and fall, and, taken together as a package, will help address the wildfire threat incrementally. “Firefighters have recommended these kinds of changes ... the last thing we want is inconsistencies in state law — if there’s any confusion whatsoever about how to respond to a wildfire, we need to make sure we clear that up ahead of time,” Hamner says. “One of the things we learned, for every $1 we spend on mitigation saves $4 in firefighting.” Toward that end, the packet of bills includes tax credits to encourage people to clear flammable materials from their properties, and to increase opportunities for start-up businesses that work with beetle-killed trees. But other key pieces of legislation have already died in committee, as few lawmakers want to challenge the powerful home-building lobby, or, God forbid, interfere with an individual property owner’s right to live in a pile of kindling in the middle of a flammable forest. So a proposal to authorize local governments to remove trees on private property is already DOA. Other measures that would restrict agricultural burning (HB 14-1007) face stiff opposition in the Senate Local Government Committee, where lawmakers don’t want to step on any toes, either. HB 14-1008 has been passed by the Boulder Weekly

Colorado House and Senate, and will enable water districts to help fund forest projects that threaten water supplies. Another measure that would change the wildfire mitigation tax deduction to a tax credit is in the House Appropriations Committee. That bill could help encourage homeowners to do more brush- and treeclearing by promising a healthy tax

advantage. Bills funding local firefighter safety grants and expanding state educational efforts are also in the appropriations committee. It’s possible that the political and social momentum for making fundamental changes will fade if there aren’t any major wildfires this summer, but that would be a mistake

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what they told me in my last avalanche class.’ When spring finally arrives is not dictated by a calendar date in the mountains. It is dictated by the weather. We often swap back and forth between winter and spring. That makes it kind of tricky sometimes. The snowpack kind of turns into a Jekyll and Hyde personality; sometimes spring does not happen until May.” In the past 10 years across the United States, 98 deaths have resulted from avalanches in the months between March and July. Last year’s enormous avalanche that killed five experienced backcountry snowboarders and buried another near Sheep Creek off Loveland Pass occurred on April 20. As of press time, March had already seen two avalanche-related deaths in Colorado — one skier fatality near Conejos Peak on March 4 and one snowmobiler death on Sharkstooth Peak on March 5. Meteorologist Chris Tomer explains why 2014 has the potential to produce difficult snow conditions in the next few months: “It’s been a big winter in the Central and Northern Mountains, with season totals now pushing 400 inches in the West Elks. That translates into snowpack depths 50 percent to 80 percent deeper than last winter — very similar to the big winter of 2011. On the other hand, the Southern Mountains have a thinner snowpack and need more snow. The high volume of snow this winter, combined with periods of high winds and cyclic warming periods, has created a snowpack ripe for avalanches. There are weaker layers embedded within the snowpack just waiting to fail, especially on steeper slopes. Terrain selection is the most important way to avoid getting caught in an avalanche.” Toepher says that neutral temperatures in the Pacific Ocean — also known as “No Niño” — placed the jetstream over the Northern and Central Rockies, causing this year’s heavy snowfall. “That leaves the Southern Mountains with less snow,” he says. “Reservoir storage has risen since last winter, now up to 89 percent of average.” Toepher agrees with Tomer’s observation that assessing terrain is of vital importance. “Of course terrain awareness is one of the most important things for backcountry travelers to recognize and evaluate,” he says. “It is a more complex problem than most people realize, though. Our vulnerability to the consequences of a ride in an avalanche is a byproduct of our choice in terrain. This vulnerability increases due to more factors than just how steep a slope is. “If you hit a tree or a rock at 35 miles an hour, it won’t be pretty. If you are swept 50 meters off an ice

climb and land on a rock ledge, your odds are not ple than in past seasons, and hopefully increase their understanding of the conditions so that they can avoid good. If you get buried upside down in a gully with typical mistakes while recreating in the backcountry. your mouth and nose packed full of avalanche debris, Most importantly, we want them to return safely for you will have a lot of trouble breathing. These consemany more powder days ahead.” quences and our vulnerability of getting caught in an Warmer weather and sunny days can create an illuavalanche are often missed or even ignored. And these sion of stability. are all dependent on the terrain we choose to ride. It “During the ‘spring’ we need to monitor both temmight be the easiest part of the puzzle to decipher, but peratures and cloud cover,” Toepher says. “If we did it is still complex.” not get an overnight freeze, it may not be safe to travel Given the increased danger this year, those who teach avalanche awareness have extended their reach to into the backcountry at all the next day. For example, help keep backcountry skiers safe. Friends of Berthoud let’s say we have a mid-level stratus cloud deck overnight, making for a bit Pass, a non-profit B.J. Marraccini of a natural greenorganization dedicated house, but temperato backcountry snow tures fall a few degrees safety, recently added below freezing. We free avalanche awarewould have minimal ness seminars this or no long wave radiaspring. tional heat loss, which “This season there might aid in keeping has been an abundance the snow surface from of snowfall, which, freezing hard and the after two seasons of snowpack could mediocre snowfall, is remain in a state of welcome, but also prothaw. You could be viding more opportuwalking into a wet nity for snow-starved slab avalanche probskiers, riders and lem when you leave snowmobilers to get your car at 6 a.m. out further into avaSometimes the overlanche terrain than Groves, Friends of Berthoud Pass vice president, holds a night lows are above usual,” B.J. Marraccini, Chris slap example for an on-snow educational session. freezing, but the skies communications direcare clear. This allows tor for Friends of strong radiational cooling, which means the snow surBerthoud Pass, said via email. “We are seeing the face gets a solid freeze. The snow surface heating and number of reported accidents rise and, unfortunately, cooling balance involves some complicated physics. the number of avalanche fatalities this season has “Normally, it is a good rule of thumb to be out of already reached Colorado’s five-year average, and it’s the mountains by around noon in the spring. Rules only early March.” of thumb are not facts, though. You may need to On average, eight people die in avalanches in tweak your rule of thumb to match the need. Colorado each year. Certain types of avalanches are Monitor temperatures, cloud cover and free water more common in spring, such as wet snow avalanches content in the snowpack on a regular basis to aid which trigger when the snowpack develops a layer of you in determining an appropriate exit time and water below a heavy mass of snow. Rapidly changing conditions for precipitation and temperature, as well as strategy.” Colorado has the dubious claim to 33 percent of all wind — just like we see in spring — can also lead to avalanche-related deaths in the country. Data from unstable snow conditions. “The snow has been great, but the avalanche prob- across the U.S. shows that snowmobilers are most at lems are numerous yet also deceptive,” Marraccini says. risk to trigger a deadly avalanche. In the past 10 years, “We feel that adding additional basic avalanche awaresee AVALANCHES Page 37 ness classes to our calendar will help reach more peo-

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96 people have died in snowmobilerelated accidents across the country. In this same time bracket, 90 people perished in ski/snowboard tours and 27 climbers lost their lives in avalanches as well. There have even been 11 avalanche deaths from in-bounds accidents at patrolled ski areas. Because predicting avalanche activity is not foolproof, there will always be a risk of danger until the snow has melted. Beyond all the academic experience of studying the nature of avalanches, the human element cannot be ignored. Indeed, the groupthink mentality to push on late in the day in considerable avalanche conditions played a role in the Loveland Pass slide last spring. Having competent, trusted partners is a key component of backcountry safety. “On the fun days, I tend to only go into the backcountry with a couple different people. My boss once told me, ‘Good backcountry ski partners are hard to find.’ I think this is really true,” Toepfer adds. “So a fun day usually starts a day or two before I go out. We’ll have a conversation over the phone, toss around some ideas. Talk about the snowpack problems and the weather Boulder Weekly

forecast. Talk some about group dynamics and what our goals for the day might be. Sometimes we just want to climb a peak. Other days, we look for powder or corn. Sometimes we get both.” The Colorado Avalanche Information Center website, www.avalanche.state.co.us — provides information on backcountry conditions. The Friends of Berthoud Pass website at www.berthoudpass.org will continue to update conditions specifically for Berthoud Pass as well as statewide information. Both sites will post when they offer classes and seminars. Once you have properly equipped yourself and assessed the potential risks, Colorado’s backcountry mountains offer some of the most glorious and adventurous terrain imaginable. Good judgment and a strong knowledge of potential threats will increase likelihood for a safe passage and fun days in the high country. While no mountain outing is ever 100 percent safe, stacking the odds in your favor help mitigate the risk. Avalanches will remain an unstoppable force of nature; making sure you aren’t in their way isn’t just a matter of luck, it’s a matter of smart planning. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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year and a half ago, we had a chance to chat with John Magnie and Steve Amedee to get a little background on their work with singer/songwriter Rebecca Folsom, who was just getting ready to release her new album Reunion. During the course of that conversation, we asked Amedee what was happening with the subdudes, the swamp-roots-folk outfit that he and Magnie led for several heady years from the late ’80s to the late ’90s, and again in a slightly modified lineup from about 2002 to 2011. We kind of knew what the answer would be. see SUBDUDES Page 42

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“Aw, man,” Amedee lamented, “the ’dudes are in a deep freeze, about as close to absolute zero as you can get. That’s as close to an observation as I can give you on it.” Amedee sounded pretty glum about it, too, as if he missed that band as much as their fans did. But sometimes the good stuff thaws out, and the announcement this past January that the original four-piece lineup — Magnie, Amedee, Tommy Malone and Johnny Ray Allen — were going to put the thing back together for a series of live gigs glowed across the wires like a minor stroke of divine redemption. Now, band reunions are tricky propositions — fans may clamor for them, agents and PR-types start counting the nickels, but they’re almost never as easy as that. Bands break up for a reason, members go off and establish new musical identities, and interpersonal chafe marks from years of ceaseless road and studio work can take a long time to heal. Sometimes they don’t. And truth be told, most bands that do it just for the money really aren’t having much fun. Players move, they have ongoing commitments with new bands, some start or grow families, some just retire from music altogether. Some lose interest. Life happens. In the case of the subdudes, according to Magnie, it took one of those circle-closing life events to get the band back together.

ON THE BILL: An evening with The Subdudes with Original LineUp is at the Boulder Theater on Saturday, March 22. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show starts at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 general admission, open to all ages. The subdudes also play Herman’s Hideaway on Friday, March 21. Doors at 7 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Tickets are $30 to $240.

“Well, you know, it usually is like what you said,” Magnie explained. “But actually, this one was really easy. It was just one of those things; the time seemed right. “We’d been off for a while, and we got together for a party — sort of a party — a friend of ours in New Orleans was dying, he had a brain cancer operation the next day, so we had a party for him. He was a big subdudes fan, so we played some songs right there in his living room, with our original bass player Johnnie Allen. And it just felt really good, so we said, ‘Let’s do some gigs.’ It was actually pretty easy.” Bassist Jimmy Messa, who took over for Allen when the band split for the first time in 1996, is sitting this reunion out (“…for right now, ” says Magnie), while Tim Cook, who also stood in on bass for spell, is reprising his original role as band manager and business guy. Malone and Allen both live in New Orleans, while Magnie and Amedee collect their mail in Fort Collins. Geographic challenges are a minor deal, though, as the band plans to hole up for a couple days of rehearsal time before the Boulder Theater show. The mention of actually rehearsing, though, gave Magnie a bit of a

laugh. The stuff ’s in the DNA at this point, right? “Yeah, I got a little studio in my house, and we’ll get together. I think we’ll be able to pull ’em off…Between us, some people like Steve have this photographic memory and they just remember everything. And others, like me, have a mind like a sieve. But yeah, I’ll learn ’em enough to get over. As usual.” One defining virtue of the subdudes’ music was a kind of limber immediacy, a relaxed band tightness that gave the material a unique and unforced loft. But all songs travel through time differently, especially if you played them a million times, years ago. We asked Magnie how the subdudes’ material has aged for him. Do they sound fresh, or aged, or merely voices from the past? “What’s great is when you can get away from it a little bit and see the thing. I really like the whole subdudes repertoire over the years. And that’s kind of what this is about, is just us enjoying playing all those tunes. There’s no plan for doing more tunes or making records — we have other projects going.” “When you put it all together, we just have a nice collection to draw from. And we want to get out to play some of it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ON THE BILL: Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, with music by Claude Debussy, Philip Lasser and Steve Heitzeg, under the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra’s Music Director Michael Butterman and with Simone Dinnerstein on piano, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 22 in Macky Auditorium in Boulder and at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, March 24 at the Vilar Center in Beaver Creek. Additional information can be found at www.boulderphil.org/ concerts/mar-22-rhapsody-in-blue

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hey say God and the Devil only her celebrated Bach recordings, but Like many great works of the past, are in the details, and in this also Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, the concerto grew out of a relationship case the details reveal a contemporary works she herself has of deep respect between composer and most unusual and intriguing commissioned, George Crumb, and a performer. program — one aimed CD collaboration with North Carolina “It’s a unique experience playing directly at what this concerto because it was Lisa-Marie Mazzucco the Boulder written for me by a very Philharmonic close friend,” Dinnerstein Orchestra calls says. “It’s almost like a let“The Spirit of ter to me from him. I feel Boulder.” extremely aware of his presIt is unusual, ence in the music as a perfor example, that son, in a way that I don’t a pianist — in this feel when I play music by case the remarkdead composers. able Simone “At the same time, I Dinnerstein — would say that Philip places plays two concera lot of trust in me and how tos on the same I will interpret his music.” concert. (Boulder Lasser agrees. audiences may be “There is an enormous forgiven for not amount of implicit trust,” realizing that, he says. “Some of the indiDinnerstein will play two concertos, one of which was written for her, after last summer’s Simone cations that I put in, she at the next Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra concert. Sergei told me — and I take it as Rachmaninoff a great compliment: ‘I like marathon at the Colorado Music singer-songwriter Tift Merritt. them, but I don’t need them and I’m Festival, with Olga Kern playing five As for Gershwin, “I’ve loved [his not going to look at them!’ I find that a major works in two concerts.) music] since I was a child,” Dinnerstein very, very heartwarming thing, to have a And it is intriguing that says. “I came to Bach later. I’ve always performer say I know your music, I Dinnerstein has chosen to present loved jazz, [but] I’ve never studied it understand your music, so well that I George Gershwin’s jazzy Rhapsody in and so the Rhapsody in Blue is the closdon’t need to see these indications.” Blue alongside a new concerto written est I get to doing any kind of jazz.” The concerto’s title does not refer to for her by composer Philip Lasser, a Bach may have come later, but a specific story, but to Lasser’s underwork founded in their mutual love for Dinnerstein’s experience with his music standing of life and music. the music of J.S. Bach. influences her Gershwin performances. “My titles are not trying to be overEqually intriguing is the juxtaposi“One of the things that playing a lot ly descriptive,” he explains. “But they tion of two orchestral works that take of Bach does is it really makes you cast a deep insight into how I feel this their inspiration from nature: Debussy’s think about clarity,” she says. “The piece goes, and music in general. For La Mer — a beloved piece of orchestra Gershwin [Rhapsody] has a transparenme, music, like life, travels on a circle of fare firmly in the Impressionist mode cy to it that I don’t think you always are time from a beginning back to the — and Ghosts of the Grasslands from the aware of when listening to it.” beginning. Hence the image of the If Bach lies beneath Dinnerstein’s child who represents the repeating Symphony to the Prairie Farm by conperformance of Gershwin, he is found cycles of life.” temporary eco-composer Steven throughout the score of “The Circle Lasser visualizes a circle for his lisHeitzig, who advocates for “peaceful and the Child,” the concerto Lasser teners as well, one that loops back into coexistence of all species through wrote for Dinnerstein. Lasser explains themselves. music.” that the concerto has a Bach chorale “at “I would like them to listen, travel If you only skimmed the publicity, its core. … The first movement brings with the work in pleasure, and maybe you might think that Dinnerstein, come into contact with feelings and whose career has been built with perfor- us to the world of the chorale, the second movement is the clearest example memories of their own that the piece mances and recordings of Bach, was an unlikely soloist for Gershwin. In fact — of the chorale — you can hear it — and elicits,” he says. “I think that is the biggest compliment to a composer.” those devilish details again — her reper- then the last movement is where the chorale would evolve.” toire is pretty eclectic, including not Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

Events 3/15 | 5:30 p.m. Vita morte e resurrezione di Pulcinella, Performance by Antonio Fava Old Main, University of Colorado–Boulder

Presented by Naropa University in collaboration with the University of Colorado–Boulder acto author, Antonio Fava is an actor, theatre director, and maestro of Commedia dell’Arte.

3/18 & 19 | 7:30 p.m. Symposium on Queer Poetics Performing Arts Center, Cente 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder

Join Naropa's Jack Kerouac School for a panel discussion (3/18) and reading (3/19) with Ana Božičević, Teresa Carmody, Lucas de Lima, and Trace Peterson.

4/3 | 7:00 p.m. Lenz Foundation Distinguished Guest Lecturer Program in Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values: Sharon Salzberg Nalanda Events Center, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder

Celebrated meditation teacher and best-selling author Sharon Salzberg shares insights and teachings from her newest book, Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace.

Visit Naropa.edu/ upcoming-events for details.

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arts & culture Eden Lane

Michael Ensminger

Eden Lane in the playwriting workshop at a previous Local Lab festival (left). Pesha Rudnick, artistic director of the Local Theater Company, takes questions from the audience during Local Lab’s annual festival.

Calling all armchair theater critics

Festival lets audiences help playwrights take key step in crafting scripts by Nadia Mishkin

n plays, unlike other art forms, the audience Local consider a typical live audience member imporitself is a fundamental element of the perfortant in the development of new work. mance. “[The festival] is our way of giving Boulder a “Theater is not theater until it is performed snapshot of what’s happening in theater right now,” in front of an audience,” says Pesha Rudnick, Rudnick says. “It is high-quality, professional enterartistic director of Boulder’s Local Theater Company. tainment, but also a way of getting involved with the “The developmental phase in front of an audience is art.” essential in the creation of a play and is very imporLocal Theater Company consists of five women tant for emerging scriptwriters.” with backgrounds in acting, directing, producing, For those who are not enticed by the live element casting and teaching theater. Company members of theatre alone, Boulder’s Local Theater Company spend up to five months reviewing over 100 submisinvites everyday patrons to become a part of the cresions to the festival, ultimately narrowing it down to ative process. Local Theater Company is dedicated to three plays. They select works that impress and creating new theatrical works demonstrate the potential to by connecting up-and-coming benefit from development by playwrights with local actors the seasoned professionals in and live audiences to aid plays the group. Rudnick explains ON THE BILL: Local Lab 2014 begins with a launch party at 5:30 p.m. at Todd still in developmental stages. that Local selects plays that Reed, 2015 Pearl St., Boulder, and continFrom Friday, March 14 illustrate Aristotle’s fundamenues with a reading of Faith at 7 p.m. at through Sunday, March 16, tals of theater — great writing, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder. The reading of Thoreau, and Other Assholes Local puts on the third annual plot, story, character and specis at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at eTown tacle — and have the potential Local Lab festival at eTown Hall. On Sunday, March 16, the festival’s to blossom into exceptional Hall. final days includes The Write Angle script analysis workshop at 10 a.m. and the works. “[Boulder] is not New reading of You’re Getting Warmer at 2 The three final selections York City in terms of the p.m. Additional details are available at for the festival include Faith quantity of theater that we www.localtheatercompany.org. by James McLindon, a story can offer, but the quality is about fanaticism and religion, not lacking. We have found that Boulder really is a perfect place for this event Thoreau, and Other Assholes, by Kyle Warren, about because the audiences here are really smart. Local Lab plagiarism and the ownership of ideas, and You’re has given us this format to spark some really imporGetting Warmer, a play by Megan Mathews about clitant discussions.” mate change and the future. The festival features a staged reading of a play “Hearing the play read out-loud is absolutely each night, accompanied by post-show discussions led vital,” says Warren, author of the play Thoreau, and by theater practitioners. The conversations precede Other Assholes, “There is no other way to create a work after-parties that include music, champagne, Japanese that is complete. It’s not like a short story or a work hors d’oeuvres, pasta dinners and more. Being an actor of non-fiction. It only exists on stage and through or a theater guru is not necessary — the members of people’s voices. Having a group of talented actors proBoulder Weekly

vide those voices is invaluable.” Warren says he began working on his piece in March of 2012. “I have never felt that anything I have ever written has been finished,” Warren says. “I could probably keep working on this for years and not have it be complete.” Warren says he hopes that, at some point, someone will want to produce his play so that he will be forced to call it finished. The performances in the Local Lab are staged readings put on by professional actors, Rudnick says, not full productions of the plays. “There are no sets and no costumes,” Rudnick says, emphasizing, “it is a chance for audiences to hear new plays, and for playwrights to get feedback and grow their work.” “This will be the first time I have interacted with an audience on this work,” Warren says. “The audience’s presence and reactions change how the work is performed. Whenever I watch a reading like this, I usually try to sit in the very back, usually the corner. As much as you are watching the actors, you are also watching the audience. You are feeling what they feel. You can tell when an audience is no longer on board with a scene or moment, as much as you can tell when an audience truly is on board. You can feel the entire audience get lost or stay riveted in certain moments, and that’s how you build as you continue to develop the play.” The Lab also features a script analysis workshop, The Write Angle, on Sunday of the festival for writers and non-writers to learn fundamentals of dramatic literature. Works included in past Local Lab readings such as Elijah, by Michael Mitnick, have gone on to premieres in fully staged productions at the Dairy Center for the Arts. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com March 13, 2014 45

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arts & culture Square Product proves they’re no squares by Gary Zeidner

Jess Childs

riving home from seeing BoulderAfter a wonderfully unexpected plot twist, based Square Product Theatre’s latest, Wren Robin (Lindsey Pierce), chairwoman of the 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche, I was quiche-off, is the first proudly to proclaim, “I am a reminded of the Oscar Paradox. The lesbian!” Seconding the Oscar Paradox, according to me, is notion enthusiastically is ON THE BILL: 5 Lesbians the phenomenon that Oscar winning movies — the pseudo-sergeant-atEating A Quiche plays through March 22 at the First movies that, by definition, have earned the higharms of the group, Vern Divine Science Church of est honor offered by their industry — generally Schultz (Laurie Lynch). Denver, 1400 Williams St., lack when it comes to basic entertainment value. Wren and Vern are soon Denver. Tickets are $10-$18. For tickets or information, visit They may tell important stories (12 Years a joined in their Sapphic www.squareproducttheatre. Slave), contain exceptional performances (Cate confessional by the prissy org. Blanchett in Blue Jasmine, Matthew Dale Prist (Emily K. McConaughey and Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Harrison) and, eventually, Club) or feature mind-blowing special effects by bouncy Brit Ginny (Gravity), but when you ask yourself, “Am I not Cadbury ( Jessica entertained?” the honest answer usually comes Robblee). The president of the SBASSGS, Lulie back, “Meh.” Stanwyck (Michelle Moore), never goes on record So, instead of handing over another $10-$20 about her sexual preferences, but it’s safe to say of your hard-earned money to the Hollywood that she counts herself part of Team Lesbos. machine and walking away marginally enter5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche skirts absurdity as it tained at best, why not buy a ticket for 5 Lesbians brings home the laughs. Each character specializes in a different genre of humor, and each actress Eating A Quiche and guarantee yourself a rollickplays to her character’s idiosyncratic strengths. In ing evening full of laughter, unrepentant goofiparticular, Pierce’s Wren begins as the epitome of ness and an ample helping of early-21st-Century 1950’s female domesticity before transforming subentertainment? tly but effectively into a fully self-actualized lesbiIt’s 1956, and the women of the Susan B. an. Lynch’s Vern, with her Girl Scout uniform and Anthony Society for the Sisters of Gertrude Lindsey Pierce and Michelle Moore in 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. butch demeanor, presents as lesbian from moment Stein are holding their annual quiche contest. These women love quiche like sailors love to one, but once the cat is out of the sexual orientaswear. To them, quiche transcends mere foodlingering on the faces of this all-female group are by tion bag she earns the most enthusiastic reactions stuffery. Its primary ingredient, the egg, represents no means limited to appreciation of the various from the appreciative crowd. the very primordial essence of life. The creation, quiches on display. And some of these “widows” have Despite an obvious lack of funding and a very sharing, judging and consuming of the quiches never even been married. DIY aesthetic, 5 Lesbians Eating A Quiche goes for whips the members of the SBASSGS into a frenzy Certainly, something seems a little queer here, the brass ring and snatches it. Square Product almost religious in its intensity and reverence. and if the title of the play didn’t give it away, someTheatre has a habit of performing in varied spaces So sisterly is the vibe of this group of widows thing is. More accurately, everyone is. That’s right, and geographies, and in accordance with that tradithat the only rules they have for their annual quiche- the Susan B. Anthony Society for the Sisters of tion they are producing this show in a converted analia are 1) no men and 2) no meat in a quiche. It Gertrude Stein is, in actuality, a secret lesbian club! church basement in Denver. The space fits the play, doesn’t take a women’s studies major to start to read Though even a few of its members seem surprised and the end result is a shimmering example of doing between the lines. The presence of men is so abhorby this, once the chips are down, everyone comes more with less. rent that even meat is verboten. The longing looks quickly out of the closet. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Good Gravy. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Jeremy Dion & The Buck Fifty. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Saturday, March 15 :James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13 St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Dexter Payne Quartet CD Release. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985.

Johnny Johnston. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, Layfayette, 303-3390767.

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

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Meryl Romer Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Treppeda’s Italian Ristorante, 300 Second Ave., Niwot, 303-652-1606.

The Wolftones. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Ste. 110, Boulder, 303449-2911.

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Michael Bellmont. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

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M Squared. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Music by the Moonlight. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Pink Floyd Experience. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130. Run Boy Run. 7 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver, 303-292-0529. The Unforgettable Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Mike Gordon. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Model Stranger. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447BREW.

New Family Dog. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

A Raucous St. Patick’s. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Brian Parton. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Rd, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Rocktin’ Grove. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Open Mic Night. 7 pm Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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

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

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

Dean Himes. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Sisters of Swing. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

The Dendrites and Highway 50. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

95.7 FM The Party’s Ski Hooky Day. Exit 216 Interstate 70, Georgetown, 303-571-5580.

DJ Starman. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Dream-Maker Breakfast. 7:30 p.m. 1850 Industrial Circle, Longmont, 303-444-3639. The Nerd. 7:30 pm Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200.

Monday, March 17: Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

This celebration to raise awareness on water issues aims to fulfill the abundant number of craft beer- and nature-lovers in Boulder. Not to mention the live music, short films, panel discussions and food truck to feed the hearts, minds and bellies of all attendees of the Rocky Mountain River Celebration. The Environmental Group of Colorado will host the second annual event at Upslope Brewing Company. The gathering takes place on the International Day of Action for Rivers, presenting a call for action along with awareness of preserving the world’s rivers and the communities that depend on them. The Environmental Group is raising money for a public radio show to educate about western water issues. Upslope will donate one dollar for every beer sold. Prize drawing donations and tickets sales, which start at $10 and include a free beer, also will go toward the foundation’s efforts to keep Colorado’s rivers flowing and thriving.

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Josiah Hamill. 7:30 p.m. 1200 W. Littleton Blvd., #250, 303-7811892.

Barbara Paris & Time Wendell Bossa. 6 p.m. Sun Rose 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Friday, March 14: Rocky Mountain River Celebration. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Ste. 110, Boulder, 303-4492911

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Funk, rock and electronic energy are what “the pigeons” promise to bring every night. The four-piece group, based out of Baltimore, Md., take the stage on St. Patty’s day for those Jordan August Photography who want to celebrate with some danceable, psychedelic jams. The band challenges their “flock” to come out and groove to the music and party as hard as they do.

SynthDef. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Taylor Scott. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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Thursday, March 13: Sisters of Swing. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000 Sisters of Swing is the theatrical account of the Andrews sisters — icons of the “boogie-woogie” swing era. One of the best-selling female groups of all time, the Sisters have sold more than 75 million records. The play offers a unique perspective following the story of the women from youngsters to rising stars, touching on the defining moments as well as the individuality of each sister.

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Paintings by Elen Feinberg are on display at the NCAR art museum in Boulder till March 29.

Critical Focus — Artist Ian Fisher. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 13. Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. Ed Tangen, the Pictureman. Boulder Public Library, Carnegie branch for Local History. 1125 Pine St., Boulder. 303-441-3110. Through April 19. Interlaced: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through March 22. A Language of Structure — Artist Derrick Velasquez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633. Through April 13. The Land, The Space, The Square — Artist Anibal Catalan. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633. Through April 13. Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through March 30. Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery — Features works collected by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and more. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 8. The Month of Printmaking – Features the work of Theresa Haberkorn, Cheryl Rogers and Debbie Clapper. The Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. 303-651-2787. Through April 6. Nature as Muse — Features works collected by Frederic C. Hamilton, Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-

5000. Through March 23. New Growth — Artist Rashid Johnson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through June 15. Second Skin — Features the work of Nick Cave, Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24. Seen in Passing: Photographs by Chuch Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-856-5000. Through May 25. Steel Powder Painting and Landscape — Artist Kim Jongku. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through March 30. Oil Paintings by Jan Burch. NCAR. 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through May 29 PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 21. Paintings by Elen Feinberg. NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through May 29. Rebranded: Polish Film Posters for the American Western. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 1. Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Stories in Print — Features the work of Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

EVENTS from Page 49 Deviant Still Lifes And Zen Landscapes. All Day The Great Frame Up - Artists’ Gallery, 430 Main St, Longmont, 303-444-7172.

Center Green Court, G210, Boulder, 303-499-5777.

Ken Masarie. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. The Nerd. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Rocky Mountain River Celebration. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Ct, Ste. 110, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Taste a Rainbow- Cooking Class. 6 p.m. 2945

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Saturday March 15 Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Barstool Blackout Tour. 10 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Bettman & Halpin Trio. 8 p.m. Little Tree Acoustic House Concert Series, Lafayette, 303-661-0891. Bonnie Lowdermilk Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Brian Payne Live. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing

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Boulder School of Rock. 7 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Almost Maine. The Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 24.

Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, Lafayette, 303-3390767.

Blood Wedding. The Upstart Crow, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 15.

Cedar Ave Blues Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche. Divine Theater at the First Divine Science Church of Denver. 1400 Williams St., Denver, CO. Through March 15.

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

Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women. The Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. 303893-4100. Through March 9.

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

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Jack and the Beanstalk. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through March 22.

The Nerd. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through March 15. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through April 19. Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. 303-449-6000. Through May 11.

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There Is A Happiness That Morning. The Dairy Colorado River Center for the Arts. 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. 303440-7826. Through March 30.

The Longmont Theatre Company presents Larry Shue’s 1981 play The Nerd through March 15.

Conspirator. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. DJ Rockstar. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jeremy Parker. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Jerry Garcia Band Cover Band. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-3355. Joshua Powell & the Great Train Robbery. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Kevin Dooley’s Irish Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Longest Day of the Year. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Los Cheesies Chiquitos. 5 p.m. Restaurante 100% Mexicano, 2850 Iris Ave. Ste. H, Boulder, 303-4404141. The Magic of Ireland: A Visual Tribute to her Beauty, Culture and Celtic Mystery. 7 p.m. Caritas Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. 1A, Boulder, 303449-3066. Olde Town Arvada- St. Patrick’s Day Festival. 12 p.m. 7307 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-420-6100. Otis Taylor. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Shine On Jamestown! Benefit Concert for Rebuild Jamestown. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. School of Rock. 7 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

events Art Exiled Show and Fundraiser. 7 p.m. 1031 33rd St., Denver, 303-333-0551. Brazilian Carnival. 7:30 p.m. 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9258. Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, Layfayette, 303-3390767. Deviant Still Lifes And Zen Landscapes. All Day The Great Frame Up - Artists’ Gallery, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-444-7172. Flatiron Tribe Purim Party. 7 p.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900. Homeward Bound. 6 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Live Painting Demo with Colorado-Based Artist Cheryl St. John. 1 p.m. SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. LOCAL Lab. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., see EVENTS Page 52

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Slam UP— 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Thursday, March 13 Martin Balgach & Barbara Ellen Sorensen. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303495-3303.

Sunday, March 16 A Burnable Book — by Bruce Holsinger. 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4472074.

What is Relativity? — by Jeffrey Bennett. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. 303447-2074. Space Encyclopedia and Alien Worlds — by David Aguilar. 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 9315 Dorchester St., Denver. 303-470-7050. Gemini — by Carol Cassella. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver. 303-322-7727.

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David Stuart MacLean will read from and sign his bood The Answer to the Riddle Is Me the Boulder Book Store on Thursday, March 19.

Friday, March 14 Eating Dangerously — by Michael Booth and Jennifer Brown. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver. 303-3227727. Poetry slam invitational — 10:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Saturday, March 15

Astoria — by Peter Stark. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver. 303-322-7727. Weekly Open Poetry Reading— 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Lighthouse Writers Workshop “Big Read” Book discussion — 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver. 303-322-7727. Wednesday, March 19 The Lost Sisterhood — by Anne Fortier. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver. 303-322-7727. The Answer to the Riddle is Me — by David Stuart MacLean. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-444-2074.

EVENTS from Page 51 Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Nerd. 7:30 p.m. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Town Hall Meeting. 10 a.m. Boulder City Council Chambers, 1777 Broadway, Boulder. exp. 10.31 2013

Slam Up. 7 p.m. 1203 13th St. Ste. A, Boulder, 303495-3303. Shine On Jamestown! Benefit Concert for Rebuild Jamestown. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

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Warehouse Saturdays Featuring Oscar L. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4438600.

Sunday, March 16 music

The Stanleytones. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Stovall & Sims. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events How I Learned to Talk. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St.. Boulder, 303-4423770 x137. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St, Boulder, 720-328-8328. Community Purim Carnival. 10:00 a.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900.

Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Annual Ridi VanZandt Concert. 2 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

LOCAL Lab. 2 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Big Swing Trio. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Erin Richard Stone. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Granias: Colorado’s Own Celtic Women. 4 p.m. Longmont Council for the Arts, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. How I Learned to Talk. 7 p.m. 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Kevin Dooley’s Irish Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Longest Day of the Year. 4 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Roadd, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

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Mollie Collier. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Memory Play. 6 p.m. 910 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720810-1641. Movement Mass ~ Align with the Divine With Melissa Michaels and Friends. 10:45 am Boulder Circus Center, 4747 N. 26th St., Boulder. What Can I Do?. 4 p.m. Maitreya Sangha Spirit Buiding, 4665 Nautilus Court, South Ste. 100, Boulder, 720-3102207.

Monday, March 17 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Face. 5:30 p.m. Boulders Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapa-

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hoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. The Granias. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Mtn. Dog Team. 6 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.Pick ‘n’ Brew. 8 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-BREW.

Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.

Long Peak & Frederick. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Wednesday, March 19 music Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor ONeills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. On the Wing: A Birds-Eye View of Boulder County Weather. 7 p.m. 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-678-6207. The Prairie Scholars. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

Smokin Joe Kubek. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Jake Schepps & Expedition. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music Hall, 2525 1/2 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444.

Strange Byrds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Cosmos Episode 2 — With commentary and Q&A with CU Planetarium Director Doug Duncan and author Jeffrey Bennett. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, University of Colorado, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Tribute to David Bowie and Lou Reed. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. Tribute to the Queens of Country. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

events Impact Awards. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Wednesday Mini Bike Races. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th Street, Boulder, 303-444-7465.

The Horse Paws. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Thursday March 20: Antonio Lopez. 6 to 8 p.m. Flatiron Park, 1898 S. Flatiron Court, 303-396-1898. Come celebrate the Spring season with the soulful sounds of Antonio Lopez and your favorite Upslope brews.

Prairie Constructs. All Day Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Buckcherry. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

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Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing

Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Groovetramps. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House,

300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

The Heavy Cats. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Jonny Barber & the Rhythm Razors. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922

13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St.,

Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Piano Jazz Tuesday. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S.

Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Youth Jazz Band All Stars. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Faculty Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303492-1411. Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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reel to reel NEED FOR SPEED 3D ‘My hair kicks your hair’s ass.’ American Hustle

limits of sexual desire. Frank (Pierre Deladonchamps) spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. His only friend there is Henri (Patrick D’Assumçao), an older married man who insists he comes to the lake for the views, not the men. One day, Frank meets Michel (Christophe Paou), an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. They quickly become lovers, yet something remains off about Michel. When a death occurs at the lake, Frank and Michel become the primary suspects, but despite constant inquiries from the area’s detective, they choose to ignore the danger and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship. NR. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

When the FBI decides to recruit con artists to infiltrate the Jersey mob and crooked power brokers, things get interesting in a hurry. Rated R. At Colony Square and Century.

Classics: Nashville A winner of numerous awards and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, Nashville is generally considered to be one of Altman’s best. The film takes a snapshot of people involved in the country music and gospel music businesses in Nashville, Tennessee. It has 24 main characters, an hour of musical numbers, and multiple storylines. The characters’ efforts to succeed or hold on to their success are interwoven with the efforts of a political operative and a local businessman to stage a concert rally before the state’s presidential primary for a populist outsider running for President. At Boedecker. — Boedecker theater

The Tempest

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

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

include the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Australia and South Africa.At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (also in 3D) The movie version of the old cartoon featuring a genius dog and a less accomplished young man who travel time and encounter great adventures. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant. So begins a dangerous game — is he playing his Israeli handler (Waleed F. Zuaiter) or will he really betray his cause? And who can he trust on either side? NR. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2014: Animated Check in with the theater for details and showtimes. At Boedecker, Mayan.

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This culminating masterpiece of Shakespeare’s career pits the desire for revenge against the demands of love and asks if man is capable of creating a brave new world. Filmed live in high definition over three performances, this spectacular and griping play is captured by 14 high definition cameras that gives the viewer an upfront and intimate theatrical experience unlike any other. Directed for the stage by Des McAnuff and starring Christopher Plummer. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

3 Days to Kill Kevin Costner plays a spy who wants out of the racket but has to do one more hit job while watching his teenage daughter and rushing around trying not to die. Rated PG-13. At Century.

300: Rise of an Empire 3D

Check in with the theater for details and showtimes. At Boedecker, Mayan.

If you liked the strange and bloody effects in the original, you’ll probably like the strange and bloody effects in this 3-D gorefest as well. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Philomena

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Like George Clooney’s character in this Oscar-winning film about Sandra Bullock being stranded in space, this film just keeps coming back. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

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

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

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

Aaron Paul plays Tobey Marshall, a working-class mechanic who likes to make muscle cars and illegally street races. He teams up with a rich and famous racecar driver and things go bad. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Milo (Kit Harington) is a slave-turned-gladiator who has to hurry up and fight his way out of the arena in order to save Cassia (Emily Browning) before the volcano wipes out everything. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor and the visionary behind the desktop video revolution, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo-realistically — 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning eight years, Jenison’s adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, on a pilgrimage to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer masterpiece in the collection of the Queen. Rated PG-13. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

The Grand Budepest Hotel A respected concierge at a famous hotel after WWI and pre-WWII, takes a liking to a young chap. Together they have a great aventure that includes action, art and thievery. Rated R. At Esquire and Century.

Gravity

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

Maidentrip 14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out — camera in hand — on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure and distant dreams of her early youth at sea. Jillian Schlesinger’s debut feature amplifies Laura’s brave, defiant voice through a mix of Laura’s own video and voice recordings at sea and intimate vérité footage from locations that

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Non-Stop Liam Neeson plays an air marshal on a flight from New York to London on which a passenger is being murdered every 20 minutes by someone demanding $150 million by text. All is not as it appears in this action thriller. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Omar This is a tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s either a freedom fighter or a terrorist — you decide — ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat). Arrested

The Rocket Australia’s submission to the Oscars is an exotic and surprising take on the “hero’s journey.” A boy, believed to carry a curse, leads his dispossessed family through Laos to find a new home. The journey through a land scarred by war culminates when the boy, in order to prove he’s not cursed and to earn his family a new home, enters a lucrative but dangerous competition at an annual rocket festival. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Son of God This story of the life and death of Jesus is approriate for families. Mel Gibson is nowhere to be found. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Stranger by the Lake This film is an erotic thriller that tests the lengths and

12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. The heart-wrenching film won the Oscar for best picture. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) Writer Director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi in this epic tale set in 1927. Rated PG13. At Mayan and Century. Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE Film Center in Denver: The Great Beauty; Visitors; Galaxy Quest; Jimmy P; Love and Airsex; Stranger by a Lake; The Wolf of Wall Steet; Visitors.

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hen director Zack Snyder’s opus of underwear modeling amidst geysers of animated blood, 300, first arrived eight years ago, no one expected a sequel. And not just because 299 of the 300 Spartans were way too dead to return. Technically, 300: Rise of an Empire isn’t a sequel: It’s a prequel… and a side-quel…and a sequel… Look, to fans of the first film, all that really matters is swordfight, naval battle, crazy sex scene, severed head toss and hunchbacks throwing fireballs. Any questions? The non-sequel sequel opens with the widowed Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) readying Spartan warriors for battle. Rightfully super pissed about her husband’s decapitation, Gorgo tells the troops about what started the conflict between the Persian Empire and the Greek city states. Using language lifted from Dick Cheney’s Mad Libs, Gorgo explains that the Persians “hated the Greeks’ freedom.” Flashing back to years before the original 300, we see a chubby Persian king try to show Greeks democracy is dumb by killing them. Only, Themistokles (Sullivan Stapleton) kills him in front of his son, Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro). That’s old school diplomacy. From the past, the new film catches up and spends a long time occurring simultaneously as the original; Themistokles and the outnumbered Greeks are holding off a Persian naval invasion while Leonidas and the 300 are dying elsewhere. Sadly, the crappy Greek ships seem to be made of balsa wood and bubble gum, and the bad guys have an awesome naval commander, Artemisia (Eva Green). Dressed like a Goth dude’s dream girl, Artemisia

was born in Greece but was sex trafficked into Persia by fellow Greeks. Now she wants to kill them all. The only hope of defeating the superior force is if the Spartans join the Greek army to avenge the 300 warriors who are dead by the third act of this film. It’s far less complicated than it sounds. In fact, it feels like there almost is no real plot, as if it is nothing but face stabbing and a truly unique sex scene between Artemisia and Themistokles. In the middle of an epic battle, the two leaders hatefully consummate their feud atop a strategy map. It’s one of those “thin line between love and hate” moments, where the only thing that prevents it from being an extension of patriarchal rape culture is the fact that Artemisia initiates, dominates and terminates said weird intercourse. New director Noam Murro is clearly ghost-directed here by Snyder, imitating every stylistic choice from the first film. This isn’t bad, but also isn’t surprising or original, thanks to the scores of imitators who copycatted the original film. It should be noted that part of the “fun” with this graphic violence is the unreality. As plumes of human juice spurt in impossible shapes and quantities, the movie becomes less and less real and more and more cartoony/comic booky (and more and more enjoyable). Elevated only by Green’s gleefully demented performance, 300: Rise of an Empire, to its credit and its detriment, plays like a fun but needless extension of its predecessor. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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“No quiero terminar en una celda sin mi fernet” “I don’t want to die in a cell without my fernet.” —Vilma Palma e los Vampiros, “Fernet con Coca”

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“For the players, it tastes a little bit like Yaeger, but smoother / tell me if you feeling the flavor” —Equipto and Mike Marshall, “I Drink Fernet feat. Skeptic and Cognito” “Hagamo un asado; tomemo fernet.” “We have an asado [barbeque]; we drink fernet.” —Los Caligaris, “Asado y Fernet” “Just go, if you want to go, I could kill you / Just go, anywhere you / This always happens when fernet is gone” —Los Coming Soon, “Fernet is Gone”

The scent is somewhat stronger than the taste, however, yet the flavor is extremely herbal and somewhat medicinal, with a black licorice front and a mint-like aftertaste. Some have compared it to an unsweetened Jägermeister. It tastes like something an Italian grandmother would buy from a dentist-surgeon in the 1890s to cure her children’s ails. Ingredients flavored with herbs and sweetened with sugar, often include a heavy dose of saffron (Fernet-Branca is said drunk to ease digestion at the ends of meals. Whereas to be the world’s largest single consumer Connect with usof the spice), many spirits in the amaro family — the plural in aloe, myrrh, linden, galangal, chamomile, cinnamon, Italian is amari, and the translation is “bitters” — have iris, bitter orange, and perhaps even certain musha sweetness that cuts the bitterness of the herbs, fernrooms and barks. ets are famous (or infamous, depending on your perThe alcohol became popular in Italy in the 18th spective) for almost ditching the sugar altogether. and 19th centuries. Argentina, which saw multiple with us That’s the claim to fame of Fernet-Branca, theConnect waves of Italian immigration in the 20th century, now largest producer of the alcohol in the world. And consumes massive amounts of the spirit. By the midthough there is debate over just how much sugar is in 2000s, fernet appeared on menus at chic bars in San Fernet-Branca, no one can possibly accuse FernetFrancisco and New York, and now has made its way Branca of being sweet. The manufacturers claim that into Boulder. It seems that Boulderites are finally disthe alcohol contains around 60 herbs, and the cacoph- covering what has been a long-held secret in the serony of scents assaults your nose on first encounter. see FERNET Page 64

Allison Anderson, director of distillates at Frasca Food and Wine, mixes up a Double Dare cocktail using fernet.

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epending on who you ask, it’s a miracle hangover cure, a delicious digestive aid or a secret handshake for those in an exclusive club. But try it for the first time, and you might feel like Bill Cosby did, as he described in one of his stand-up routines: “Fernet … It does the job,” Cosby said. “But oh, how it tastes.” And the taste is, indeed, something to believe. Watch someone stick their nose in a glass of FernetBranca and, judging by their reaction, they might as well have taken a deep whiff of wasabi. Fernet is an Italian spirit that’s part of the “amaro” family, a group of alcohols favored by Italians for drinking either before or after dinner. Amaro are grape-based spirits

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Sometimes you just want to eat like a pig. Sometimes you just want to do so by eating a pig. You can do both in style this week at SALT with the “Boar and Bourbon” dinner on Thursday, March 20. And in case you’re wondering, yes, everything on the six-course menu that night will be boar-tastic. Even the donuts that come for dessert all dressed up in creme anglaise and spicy chocolate ganache will be topped off with boar Salt is serving an all boar and bourbon dinner on March 20. bacon. That’s right, boar bacon. And the rest of the meal sounds even better than the donuts, which is a creamy goodness is now available in pints at high bar for any meal. Appetizers include finer local grocery establishments. wild boar chicharrons with kaffir lime chili “The distribution is just the Boulder/ powder, followed by a wild boar cabbage Denver area for now,” says Greg Miller, soup, crispy pork belly with barbecue who handles wholesale accounts for Two sauce and a root vegetable slaw, baconSpoons. “If they sell well at Whole Foods wrapped tenderloin with braised collard and Lucky’s Market, we should be going greens and then the boar d’resistance, oak fired wild boar chops and sweet potato puree with dried apricots and date roulade. And then there’s the paired bourbon cocktails on top of that. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. and costs $75. Space is limited. Call 303444-7258 to make reservations.

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Two Spoons Gelato & Soup recently took steps to radically expand the number of spoons involved in its gelato by including those in your kitchen as well as their own. The downtown Boulder shop’s

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national relatively quickly.” Miller says that though the pints are a new development, expanding beyond the shop and into the market has been a part of the plan at Two Spoons since it opened six years ago. Six of the shop’s signature flavors are currently available in pints, with four more on the way. “We have 100 flavors, but it is all about the label and getting the design work done and printed in sticker form for our containers,” says Miller. Flavors currently available include cappuccino brownie, malt chocolate chip, sweet potato candied pecan, banana brownie, cinnamon oat raisin cookie and triple chocolate chunk. Indonesian vanilla, almond amaretto, caramel sea salt and chocolate hazelnut are on the way.

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Want to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without waking up in a strange bathtub two towns away? Perhaps you should take this year as an opportunity to learn to cook with beer instead of drinking it from a funnel while shouting curses at the British crown. If that’s the road you want to take, Escoffier School of Culinary Arts in Boulder has just the thing. It will be teaching a class on Monday, March 17 that will show students how to make things like beer and artichoke dip, ale vinaigrette salad dressing, beer-brined grilled pork chops and beer over soda bread. The class costs $95. Register at http://homecookboulder.eventbrite. com/. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Two Spoons is now dishing up their gelato in pints sold at grocery stores.

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hen thinking of places to eat, it’s unlikely that a deli counter inside a convenience store in the drunk epicenter of University Hill is high on the list. But there’s a good chance you ought to rethink that in the case of The University Hill Market and Deli, which I discovered — as I imagine many do — by wandering in drunk around midnight. It’s true that it’s Boulder’s best place to order truly adequate chili cheese fries at the same time The University Hill as a you pick up a pack Market and Deli of smokes and a two1134 13th St., liter of sugar water. Boulder And that the initial 303-449-2923 gut-reaction upon entry of it being the sort of place that’s catering to students pursuing marijuana research is pretty accurate. And it’s also true that there’s an obnoxiously loud television blaring at all hours of the day and night that kills whatever ambiance is available in the front window of a convenience store setting. But what you don’t see coming is just how good some of the food is. There is a selection of sandwiches and gyros available, as well as some fried delights, such as the aforementioned chili cheese fries, an excellent hangoverbusting drunk snack at $3.49, but far from the best incarnation of the chili cheese fry found by this researcher. But the real goods at University Hill Market are in the Mediterranean portions of the menu. Hummus and dolmas and shawarmas, oh my; there’s a reason the kids hit this place after hitting the bong, multiple reasons actually. The first is that the plates are so ginormous

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they’re almost like some sort of parody of how Europeans think Americans eat. The shawarma plate ($9.95) I ordered ended up being enough for two meals with generous portions of saffron rice, beef, pita, tabbouli and hummus. The chicken Caesar salad my dining companion went for lasted three. Luckily, it was more chicken than salad, or else it would have been a sad leftover by meal three. That’s great for the munchie set, but it’s also some serious value to get a twofer like that, and an excellent opportunity to make a new shawarma-buddy. But gigantism of the portions wouldn’t matter much if it’s a Texas-sized pile of meh. That brings us to fact number two of the case: it’s good. The schwarma was tender and well-spiced, delivered fresh and steaming. The tabouli was thick with lemon juice and olive oil, a fresh and lightly bitter taste that balanced the richness of the beef. The hummus was some of the best I’ve had in a long time. I’ve had a lot of Mediterranean food, everywhere from the Middle East to the mall food court, and while University Hill Market wasn’t the best — that honor goes to a hole in the wall shawarmatarium in downtown Vancouver, B.C. — the shawarma plate is in my top 10 Mediterranean to-go meals. If the meal had a failing, it was the pita, which was sliced up and storebought, probably from an aisle over. But considering not only the limitations of a

convenience store deli counter and that precious few sit-downs make their pita fresh to order, it’s forgivable. Maybe you’re drunk as a cartoon black cat with a white stripe of paint on its back so it looks like a skunk right now. Maybe you’re just about to break from the office for lunch. Maybe you just like using the word shawarma whenever possible. Whatever the case may be, give it a shot. Just get it to go. The TV is REALLY loud. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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eer lovers rarely need an excuse to toss back a few pints. But if you’re looking for one, Saint Patrick’s Day (Monday, March 17) generally qualifies. And there’s some decent happenings this week to toast the patron saint of green on green outfits and bad decision making. First up is Conor O’Neill’s, which will be going bonkers all weekend long. They’ll have live Irish music and dancing on Saturday, March 15 from 5 p.m. on, then the world’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday, March 16 at noon, followed by more music and dancing, including the McTeggart Irish Dancers, in a giant tent out back that will run pretty much up until closing time. Get more info at www.conoroneills.com. If you prefer your Saint Paddy’s Day to be a classier affair without parades or giant tents, then try Sanitas Brewing, which will be hosting a special Saint Paddy’s Day dinner featuring grub from Chef Hosea Rosenburg of Blackbelly Catering, whom you might have heard of from winning a little television show called Top Chef. Tickets for the dinner cost $95 and are available through www.eventbrite. com. Get more information at www. SanitasBrewing.com. Twisted Pine Brewing won’t exactly be having a Saint Patrick’s Day party, just its regularly scheduled Geeks Who Drink pub trivia event, but Geeks Who Drink are known for crafting their questions around themes and/or events.

So expect questions about all things Irish. But more than that, if there’s anything more in the spirit of Saint Patrick’s Day than belligerently shouting out the answers to questions that weren’t asked to you directly, we don’t know about it. If you want to double up on your celebration, you’re in luck, since the calendar-challenged staff over at Boulder Brewing will be doing their Saint Patty’s Day shindig not on the day itself, but on Saturday, March 15. “We’ll be featuring corned buffalo Reubens, potato and leek soup, Neopolitan Porter, Obovoid Stout, Irish step dancers at 3 p.m. and live music starting at 4 p.m.,” says Boulder Beer’s website. The festivities kick off at noon. If for some reason you haven’t had enough after the epic epicness of SPD14, then head back to Boulder Beer on Tuesday, March 18 for the tapping of a special limited edition brew: Pachuca Sunrise, “a dry-hopped, peach golden ale, aged in a first-use port wine barrel.” And finally, if all of that sounds far away and new-fangled, then stick to Pearl and hit up Old Chicago, which is currently pouring a special batch of Drowning Shamrock Irish Red Ale, a red IPA brewed by Boulder Beer exclusively for Old Chicago. But here’s the thing, like Saint Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland, so too will he drive the Drowning Shamrock from Old Chicago. The last day you can get that beer is Monday, March 17. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Have you ever heard of the sasquatch, also known as bigfoot? You know, one of those big, hairy, humanoid beasts that walks upright and lives in dense forests? Scientists assure us that there is no such thing. But then they used to say the same thing about the platypus. It was a myth, they declared; a figment of explorers’ vivid imaginations. A duck-billed, egg-laying mammal simply could not exist. When the respected British zoologist George Shaw claimed there was indeed such a creature, he was mocked by his contemporaries. Eventually, though, the truth emerged and Shaw was vindicated. I suspect that you Leos will soon experience an event akin to the discovery and confirmation that the platypus is real.

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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Kyoka is a Japanese word that means a flower reflected in a mirror. I suggest you use it as a metaphor to help you understand what’s happening in your life right now. Here are some clues to jumpstart your ruminations. Are you more focused on the image of what you love than on what you love? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Are you more interested in ephemeral beauty that you can admire from afar than in tangible beauty you can actually touch? If so, is there anything wrong with that, or is it perfectly fine? Should you turn away from a dreamy surrogate and turn toward the real thing? If so, why?

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

You won’t be the recipient of good luck in the coming days. Nor will you experience bad luck or dumb luck or weird luck. No, Scorpio. The serendipitous slew of synchronicities that will slip and slide into your sphere requires a new word, which I have coined for this occasion. That word is “shluck.” Shluck is a cracked yet plucky sort of backwards luck that provides you with an abundance of curious slack. Shluck slings your way a series of happy accidents and curious coincidences that give you experiences you didn’t even realize you needed. To take maximum advantage of shluck’s benefits, you have to dispense with your agendas and drop your expectations.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In the old fairy tale “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” the poor woodcutter Ali Baba is collecting firewood in the forest when he spies a gang of thieves bragging about their exploits. Observing them from a hiding place, he hears them chant a phrase, “open sesame.” This magically unseals the opening to a cave that happens to be full of their stolen treasure. Later, when the thieves have departed, Ali Baba goes to the cave and says “open sesame” himself. The hocuspocus works. He slips into the cave and steals a bag of gold from the robbers’ plunder. This story has resemblances to an adventure you could enjoy sometime soon, Sagittarius. I suspect you may discover your own version of “open sesame.” It will give you access to a less literal and more legitimate bounty.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Your ability to heal rifts and bridge gaps is unusually high. You could connect seemingly irreconcilable elements and forge apparently impossible links. Former allies who have become estranged might be moved to bond again through your compassionate intervention. I’m not promising amazingly miraculous feats of unification, but I’m not ruling them out, either. You have a sixth sense about how to create interesting mixtures by applying just the right amount of pressure and offering just the right kind of tenderness.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

My friend Harry said he wanted to teach me to play golf. “Are you kidding?” I asked him incredulously. “The dullest game on the planet?” He tried to convince me that it would provide lots of interesting metaphors I could use in writing horoscopes. “Name one,” I challenged him. He told me that “Volkswagen” is a slang term that describes what happens when a golfer makes an awkward shot that nevertheless turns out to be quite good. “Hmmm,” I replied. “That is exactly the theme I have decided on for the Aquarius horoscope.”

PISCES

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Do you remember being in your mother’s womb? Probably not. But here’s what I know about that time: In the first few weeks after you were conceived, your body grew at a very rapid rate. Once you were born, if you had continued to expand and develop with that much vigor, you would literally have grown to be as big as a mountain by now. So let’s be thankful you slowed down. But I do want to sound an alert and let you know that you are currently in a growth spurt with some metaphorical resemblances to that original eruption. It’s basically a good thing. Just be aware that you may experience growing pains.

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structing a treatment industrial complex to deal with a problem that doesn’t actually exist — the build-it-and-theywill-come approach? As a professor of psychiatry and director of the Division of Substance Dependence at the University of Colorado-Denver, Dr. Paula Riggs is a popular presence in state cannabis debates and an outspoken voice against legalization. She sits prominently on the board of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, or SAM, the prohibitionist organization founded by Patrick Kennedy after legalization passed in Washington and Colorado, whose philosophy seems to be that the Drug War should continue as is, but the federal government needs to do a better job. Dr. Christian Thurstone is director of the Denver Health prevention and treatment facility and a member of the SAM board, whose Encompass protocol, developed with Riggs, was created to deal with the perceived overload that legalization is going to create. Both deny that cannabis has any medical applications whatsoever. Both are vested in prohibition and will be among those eligible for that money. Teen substance abuse is a problem. But these “solutions” sound much like the old Ronald Reagan “Just Say No” or DARE programs that have never worked and never will. “Any new marijuana education efforts should include a discussion of the relative harms of alcohol and prescription drugs,” said Mason Tvert of

the Marijuana Policy Project about the governor’s plans. “We support efforts to educate people about marijuana and prevent use by minors, but not when they are as myopic and wasteful as those proposed by the governor’s office.” Art Way, who works in the Drug Policy Alliance’s Denver office, voiced a similar wariness. “The concern is that grants provided to school health professionals to deliver education within schools would favor the current prevention and treatment establishment,” he wrote last week on the organization’s weblog. “The end result is a biased approach that fosters fear over knowledge, and we lose the ear and respect of those we most want to reach.” Fear over knowledge is a pillar of the prohibition movement. Cannabis has been abundantly and cheaply available in Colorado despite decades of the prohibitive policies advocated by Riggs, Thurstone and SAM. Hundreds of thousands of Coloradans have been using it without incident. The only difference now is that the state is taxing and regulating it. The legislature will ultimately decide how all this money will be spent. No one is suggesting that it not be used for prevention. But can’t we at least funnel it into treatment that emphasizes science and knowledge instead of continuing to fund the war of fear and retribution? Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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