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Highroad Big Food trying a big hoax by Jim Hightower

ear my home in Austin, Texas, there’s an old refurbished motel with a keep-it-real attitude that is expressed right on its iconic marquee: “No additives, No preservatives, Corporate-free since 1938.” The good news is that more and more businesses across the country are adopting this attitude, providing a buylocal, un-corporate, anti-chain alterna-

tive for customers. Food shoppers and restaurant goers, for example, have made a huge shift in recent years away from the likes of McDonald’s, Pepsi and Taco Bell, preferring upstart, independent outfits with names like “The Corner,” “Caleb’s Kola” and “US Taco Co.” But, uh-oh, guess who owns those little alternatives? Right — McDonald’s, PepsiCo and Taco Bell. Leave it to ethically challenged, profiteering monopolists to grab such valueladen terms as “genuine” and “honest,” empty them of any authenticity, then hurl them back at consumers as shamefully deceptive marketing scams. In Huntington Beach, Cali., US Taco Co. poses as a hip surfer haunt, with a colorful “Day of the Dead” Mexican skull as its logo. The airy place peddles lobster tacos and other fancifuls at $3 or $4 each — very un-fast-foody. Nowhere is it whispered that this is a Big Chain outlet was created by a

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group of Taco Bell insiders. They even usurped the enterprising word “entrepreneur,” stripped it of its outsider connotation and twisted it into a corporate vanity, calling themselves “intrapreneurs.” The problem with these fabricators of “corporatized authenticity” is that reality will win out. Small and local has a genuine feel and flavor that the imitators can’t sustain as they sprawl out into 1,000 and then 10,000 stores. And as they do that, it becomes obvious to customers that they’ve been duped — and that’s not a good marketing strategy. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 19, 2015 5

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arold Hamm, the multibillionaire oilman who is president of Continental Resources, the company that is the biggest player in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil patch, raised some eyebrows last week when he said the Russians were financing the anti-fracking movement in the United States. “Russia’s spent a great deal of money over here to cause a panic in the United States over fracking to stop it, because suddenly their market share [of global oil and natural gas sales] is going away,” Hamm said in an interview with Forbes Media. “There was a lot of money spent in the U.S. to send people into a panic over fracking because they wanted to stop what we were doing. They saw this coming.” Now where would Hamm have gotten an idea like that? Possibly after reading a remarkable piece of investigative reporting that was published on Jan. 27 by the Washington Free Beacon, a Washington, D.C.based conservative website that, needless to say, is hated and despised by liberals. The piece, written by a reporter named Lachlan Markay, appeared under the headline “Foreign Firm Funding U.S. Green Groups Tied to State-Owned Russian Oil Company.” Reports linking support for anti-fracking activists to Russian government and business interests are not new. Articles doing so appeared in The New York Times on Nov. 30 and in National Review on May 5 last year. And last, June Anders Fogh Rasmussen, then NATO’s secretary general and a former prime minister of Denmark, said some member states were complaining that the Russians “as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so-called non-governmental organizations — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain European dependence on imported Russian gas.” What sets Markay’s report apart is that he did something none of the others did. He followed the money. What he found was that “a shadowy Bermudan company that has funneled tens of millions of dollars to anti-fracking environmentalist groups in the 6 March 19, 2015

United States is run by executives with deep ties to Russian oil interests and off-shore money laundering schemes involving members of President Vladimer Putin’s inner circle.” “One of those executives, Nicholas Hoskins, is a director at a hedge fund management firm that has invested heavily in Russian oil and gas,” Markay found. Hoskins “is also senior counsel at the Bermudan law firm Wakefield Quin and vice president of a Londonbased investment firm [Marcuard Services Limited] whose president until recently chaired the board of the stateowned Russian oil company Rosneft.” The Wakefield Quin law firm acts as a corporate registered agent, providing office space for its clients, and, for some, managing their “day-to-day affairs.” Wakefield Quin is at the center of a tangled web of as many of 20 companies and investment funds with ties to the Russian government who are its clients. Many of them list Wakefield Quin’s address on official documents. Another company that shares the Wakefield Quin address is a firm called Klein Ltd. Hoskins is a director of Klein Ltd. According to documents filed with Bermuda’s registar of companies, Klein Ltd. was incorporated in March 2011 “exclusively for philantrophic purposes,” meaning “no part of the net earnings … inures to the benefit of any private sharehold or individual.” “The company does not propose to carry on business in Bermuda,” according to the documents. Where Kline Ltd. gets its money is not known, but where at least some of it has gone is known. According to Markay, “the only publicly available documentation of any business conducted by Klein Ltd. were two Internal Revenue Service filings by the California-based Sea Change Foundation, which showed that Klein had contributed $23 million to the group in 2010 and 2011. Klein Ltd. was responsible for more than 40 percent of contributions to Sea Change during those years.” The Sea Change Foundation handed out grants “to some of the nation’s most prominent and politically active environmentalist groups” to the tune of see DANISH PLAN Page 8

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letters Heroin in Boulder

Illegal “recreational” drugs such as marijuana, psychodelics and cocaine have been readily available in Boulder since at least the mid-’60s [Re: “Hightide,” News, Feb. 26]. The state legalization of marijuana has added narco-tourism to Colorado’s many attractions as well as a seemingly growing population of disaffected, homeless youth. It has also altered the focus of black market dealers into offering, at bargain basement prices, the more dangerous and addictive speed, crack cocaine and heroin. A growing number of drug overdose deaths has been the result. A story told is that when heroin first began appearing here at the end of the hippie era, the local dealers, apparently a more effective force than either the police or the DEA, managed to drive the hard drug dealers out of town. One has to wonder what agencies might have equal success today. Robert Porath/Boulder

An Obama let-down

Barack Obama has sincerely attempted to seriously implement some excellent political and social changes in policy for the average and below average person in this country. Ergo it is absolutely beyond me and seemingly a great contradiction to see his support for the TPP or Trans Pacific Partnership. According to some of the most prominent progressive spokespersons and media outlets and from all I’ve been able to gather in reading and researching this, it is a bad idea for labor and the American worker. Yes it is

simply beyond me how in the world he can try to justify this “NAFTA on steroids” idea. One good thing is that both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and in the country at large are putting up a strong resistance to it. One can only hope. And at a minimum write the papers and their congressmen and women. Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

Republicans double down as traitors

The March 9, 2015, letter addressed to the Islamic Republic of Iran, signed by 47 Republicans was a treasonous attempt to sabotage a nuclear nonproliferation treaty between Iran and the U.S., Britain, China, Germany and France. Still smarting from the beat down in the last two presidential elections, Republicans have pulled out all the stops in a pathetic and un-American attempt to discredit President Obama and Democrats in advance of the 2016 presidential election. In recent weeks, Republicans have embarked upon a desperate campaign of character assassination of President Obama: a senile Rudy Giuliani said President Obama did not love America; Republicans invited Netanyahu to speak before Congress and in the latest affront, Republicans have sent a treasonous letter to Iran. Republicans are un-American traitors that couldn’t care less about what is in the best interests of the U.S. Andrew J. O’Connor/Lafayette see LETTERS Page 8

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$100 million in 2010 and 2011. Recipients of Sea Change Foundation grants during those years included the Sierra Club, the Natural Resource Defense Council, Food and Water Watch, the League of Conservation Voters and the Center for American Progress, Markey found. The Sea Change Foundation is run by a man named Nathaniel Simons and his wife. Except for Klein Ltd, they are its only donors. Simons is a hedge fund millionaire. He also runs a venture capital firm that invests in companies that benefit from environmental and energy policies that Sea Change grantees promote, Markay said. Simons himself has ties to Klein Ltd. Several Wakefield Quin attorneys are listed as directors of hedge funds that his firm manages, and in which Sea Change has assets, Markay said. Rod Forest, a senior counsel with either the Sea Change Foundation or Simons’ company (the story doesn’t make clear which), was listed on documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a director of two investment funds, Medallion International Ltd. and Meritage Holdings Ltd., in which Sea Change had tens of millions invested while it received money from Klein Ltd. Simons’ company runs the Meritage Fund. The Medalion Fund is run by Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund management firm run by Simons’ father, Jim Simons, a billionaire and major Democratic Party donor. Both funds listed Wakefield Quin’s Himilton,

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Thank you for saying what needs to be said. I’m amazed I haven’t been able to find more pieces out there on the subject other than the rampant and deserved grumbling on discussion threads [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” Stew’s Views, March 5]. Like countless tens of thousands of other Grateful Dead fans, I’ve been completely dismayed, disgusted and insulted by the Fare Thee Well ticketing process. I used to mail order in the ’80s and was always overjoyed when those tiny glitter tickets showed up in my mailbox. This time around... I spent a couple hours on my envelope, two more (and a

Bermuda address on SEC filings. Markay also sketches out links between Wakefield Quin employees and a number of Russian funds and companies. You can read the full story at: http://freebeacon.com/issues/foreignfirm-funding-u-s-green-groups-tiedto-state-owned-russian-oil-company/ To be sure, none of this constitutes smoking gun evidence that Putin is funding American anti-fracking activism, much less that the American environmental groups knew the origin of the money. It is, however, suspicious as hell. Markay says the activities of Klein Ltd. were described this way in a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report last year: “None of this corporation’s funding is disclosed in any way,” it said. “This is clearly a deceitful way to hide the source of millions of dollars that are active in our system, attempting to effect political change.” Russian involvement in anti-fracking activism is a story that ought to be getting a lot more attention than it has received up to now, both from the mainstream media and from Congress. The web of relationships Markay found may cause the eyes to glaze over, but the bedrock questions they pose for everyone involved are straight forward and direct: 1) Who’s paying your bills, and 2) What did you know and when did you know it? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

letters pint of blood) dealing with the post office and tracking down a 3x5 index card and sent off $462 for two general tickets each to the July 4 and 5 shows. After hearing that the GDTS phone order had been cancelled and the TicketBastard sale pushed out two weeks, I and many others assumed this was to allow GDTS to process all the mail orders and give the leftovers to those who didn’t put in so much effort and spirit. Wrong. After fruitlessly checking my mailbox every day, hearing nothing until over a month later (“We’re working on it...”), sitting at my computer on a Saturday morning along with 500,000 others to needlessly watch a fraudulent “12-minutes queue” notice see LETTERS Page 9

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for an hour because I had no idea if I’d gotten tickets or not despite the twoweek pushback, I realized that either I was witnessing an unbelievable level of incompetence in the age of advanced communications options or simply and more darkly, that I’d been had. I closed my laptop and made pancakes. Having learned of the almostimpossible-to-believe preference given to Chicago Bears season ticket holders (WTF???) and the unknown allotments to the cheesy corporate package company and Ticketmaster and who-knowswhat-others, I realized, as I’d suspected, that The Dead (NOT The Grateful Dead, as listed on Ticketmaster’s site — no shame, whatsoever, I guess) knew the after-market prices would skyrocket and sought to keep their hand in the markup. I have no problem with a cash grab; that’s their right. What I do take issue with are the hollow words weakly set forth on the Fare Thee Well website and published ticket prices far, far below what the market would obviously establish. If they were serious and honest, they could have done either of two things: 1. Charge whatever they want, but at least do it up front and be prepared to answer to the court of public and Deadhead opinion. 2. Sell all tickets through their own online service and require purchasers to supply separate names for each ticket which would then be printed on the ticket and the ticketholder would present ID the gate. Tickets could be exchanged/sold to others leading up to the shows at no markup for a fee through GDTS’s own online ticketing operation to cover their costs. Instead, they seem to have chosen the veiled and murky path of backroom corporate dealing and dip their unseen ladle in the markup stew. Yuck. I crossed paths with Phil maybe 15 years ago and had a chance to thank him for many years of a lot of fun. He said, “Well, Peter, we did it for people like you.” Now I’m not so sure. My money orders came back yesterday with a paltry and pathetic flyer thanking me for “keeping Grateful Dead Spirit alive” and exhorting me to check dead50.net for additional ticketing options (read, our corporate packages). Shouldn’t it be “The Grateful Dead spirit?” Might be nice to have someone who can write handle the job of letting down 50,000 people. I’m realBoulder Weekly

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elcome once again to Sunshine Week! It’s that time of year when journalists, citizen watchdogs, community activists, data wizards, political gadflies, public-records litigators and open-gov fanatics come together to champion the cause of transparency and commiserate over the obstacles we face everyday while chasing sunlight. A few weeks ago, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) put out a call for nominations for The Foilies, a set of awards to recognize some of the most absurd, frustrating and outrageous interactions with the government that the transparency community experienced in 2014. We received dozens of submissions crossing the spectrum, from local citizens butting heads with city officials to national media organizations struggling against some of the largest federal agencies. With the help of the Sunlight Foundation, MuckRock and CJ Ciaramella of the FOIA Rundown, [EFF] filtered the most noteworthy and sorted them by broad themes. The following is the first batch of winners. [EFF is] calling these Round One winners the Process Foilies, because sometimes it’s the public records process itself that gets in the way of transparency, whether it’s exorbitant fees, epochal waiting periods or institutional indifference.

potentially the highest FOIA estimate in history. As a token of their good faith, the DEA told Dyer he could have two hours of search time and 100 pages of copies for free.

Semper Absurdus Medal U.S. Marine Corps’ Five Oldest FOIA Requests If Inception was actually a comedy of errors about paperwork, then FOIA requester Jason Smathers might’ve been cast in Leonardo DiCaprio’s

2014, the Marines told Smathers that the files he sought were sent to an encrypted, external archiving server, which then crashed and had to be sent out for repair, with no estimate when it might be back in service. Now four years on, his request for old requests is well on its way to becoming an old request itself.

Most Analog-Age Excuse The Mississippi Department of Human Services’ Metal File Fasteners

Soggiest Records The Great FBI Flood of 2011

Round 1: Process Foilies Most Expensive FOIA Estimate Drug Enforcement Administration’s “El Chapo” Files In March 2014, MuckRock user John Dyer filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records associated with the DEA’s involvement in capturing Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in Mexico. The DEA responded that they had identified 13,051 potentially relevant case files and they’d be happy to provide them as long as Dyer paid $1,461,712 upfront for search fees — Boulder Weekly

records request, which for parents in the poorest and most rural parts of the state, can be an immense challenge, if not impossible.” Mississippi gave The Hechinger Report a quote of $26,527, claiming it would take 45 minutes to compile each 10-page record, at a cost of $40 per hour. Some of that effort would involve redacting children’s personal information and standing at the copying machine, but that wasn’t the only cost. As the department lawyers told the state’s ethics commission after The Hechinger Report filed a complaint (bolding added): “...the Department’s child care licensing files are paper files maintained in expandable file folders — they are not digital, because they involve a great deal of handwritten inspection and investigation notes. A staff member will then remove all of the responsive paperwork for the past year from the files of each of the 438 facilities. (We would point out that all of the files are two-hole punched at the top with metal fasteners, so it is somewhat time-consuming to remove paper from the files.)”

place. Like entering a dream within a dream, Smathers filed a FOIA request in 2010 for the Marines’ five oldest FOIA requests. Four years later, everything that could’ve gone wrong has gone wrong. Months at a time passed with no response to his follow-up emails, except for the occasional automatic “away” message. The request was bounced between administrators, put on hold during the government shutdown and stalled when an employee retired. In

In April 2014, The Hechinger Report set out to investigate the quality of Mississippi’s licensed childcare centers and filed a public records request with the Mississippi Department of Human Services for a year’s worth of inspection reports. As Education Reporter Jackie Mader writes: “These reports are public records, but are not published anywhere. That means if a parent would like to see an inspection report before enrolling their child in a center, they must file a public

Kevin Savetz of AtariPodcast.com wanted to see if the FBI has investigated Atari or Mattel. Meanwhile, Miles Madison wanted to know if the FBI had investigated a certain Romanian cycling champion. Both received this response: “On September 8, 2011, the facility where the records are stored suffered a catastrophic flood that temporarily prohibits access to these records. Remediation is ongoing for the records stored in this facility. Unfortunately, we are unable to determine if, or when, these records will be available for review.” After he got nowhere with his appeal, Madison filed a new FOIA request in August 2014, this time seeking all records relating to the flood, including damage assessments, the remediation plan and its associated costs, and any reports outlining the See SUNSHINE Page 14

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cause of the flood. Seven months later, the FBI still hasn’t provided any documents to prove that the records will ever be salvaged.

Least Transparent Transparency New York Police Department’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Materials Frustrated with being stymied by the NYPD’s FOIL unit, MuckRock’s Shawn Musgrave filed a FOIL request for the handbooks and training materials that guide the FOIL units’ processing of requests. No dice, a “records access officer” wrote back, those documents are exempt from FOIL because they are attorney work product and covered by the attorney-client privilege.

Round 2: Law Enforcement Accountability Foilies Police practices came under intense public scrutiny in 2014, as citizens raised further questions about the use of mass surveillance technologies and deadly force. From Ferguson, MO., to New York City, from Alameda County to Tucson, watchdogs have sought records to hold law enforcement agencies accountable for abuses. As one might expect, many of these local and federal police agencies have shunned sunlight, often citing absurd excuses to withhold documents. For Sunshine Week, EFF began collecting transparency horror stories for The Foilies to highlight problems citizens face in the Freedom of Information Act and other publicrecords request processes. So many of the nominations involved secrecy within law enforcement agencies that we decided to compile them together for our Round 2 of the Foilies. EFF has been engaged in a yearslong battle over various surveillance

technologies, including lawsuits against Los Angeles law enforcement agencies over automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) and against the U.S. Department of Justice over cell phone tracking devices on planes. We’re glad that we’re not the only ones working to shine light on these issues.

Special Achievement in Battery Draining, Mass Surveillance Category City of Lansing/Lansing Police Department’s Automatic License Plate Readers

The Lansing Police Department purchased a set of automatic license plate readers, little cameras that cops mount on the trunks of their cars to capture the license plate of any other car nearby. Yet, when a local resident filed a records request for ALPR data, he was told it didn’t exist due to “malfunctioning of the automated LPR technology.” A few weeks later, the Lansing city attorney sent a second letter admitting that a few months of ALPR data did exist and that it was all an “internal misunderstanding.” The letter further explained that the police were using ALPR less and less due to myriad problems, including the devices “draining the car batteries” and “hot sheets not downloading automatically.” Nevertheless, the city refused to hand over the limited data in their possession. In earlier justifications for using ALPR, police had cited case law to claim “that a person traveling on public roads has no expectation of privacy in his movements.” Now, however, the city is claiming that data must be withheld because “disclosure of the information would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of an individual’s privacy.”

Most Egregious Nationwide Conspiracy to Hide Surveillance Technologies Federal and local law enforcement agencies across the United States We received scores of nominations regarding law enforcement use of Boulder Weekly

news “Stingrays,” also known as IMSI catchers, devices that emulate cell towers to track mobile phone users. In San Diego, the city attorney refused to turn over documents related to Stingrays, even ones already available on the city’s website. The Tacoma Police Department responded to a request for non-disclosure agreements with that same company with four completely blacked out pages. We received similar stories from Erie County in New York and the city of Charlotte, N.C., but perhaps the FBI’s secrecy was the worst. The FBI told MuckRock it couldn’t locate a log of non-disclosure agreements with police departments regarding Stingrays, only to later find it and claim that document would be withheld in full. In Daniel Rigmaiden’s FOIA battle over Stingrays, the FBI tried all sorts of tricks to withhold the records, including arguing that “the stigma of working with the FBI would cause customers to cancel the companies’ services and file civil actions to prevent further disclosure of subscriber information” and that releasing the information would result in “economic retaliation against the United States.” The FBI has also butted into local public-records cases to keep the information from becoming public. In one affidavit, the FBI even claimed that any official who released Stingray details to a media organization could face 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. These cases may just be the tips of a field of icebergs.

Corpus Christie police stalled release of the document, claiming it was “copyrighted” and required special authorization. That delay gave the department enough time to amend the policy so that the version they eventually gave the requester was not the version in place during the controversial chokehold.

Most Dubious Delay in Providing Police Use of Force Records

These Foilies and more, along with a wealth of additional information on transperancy issues, can be found at www. eff.org where they were previously published.

Corpus Christie Police Department A Texas woman made a selfie-style video as she was put in a chokehold by a police officer in a Whataburger parking lot. After the YouTube clip went viral, Mike Rekart of Photographyisnotacrime.com put in a public records request for the department “use of force” policy. Boulder Weekly

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Most Outrageous Argument for Withholding Police Use of Force Records Victoria Police Department In Victoria, Texas, a police officer was caught on dashcam video throwing a senior citizen to the ground and zapping him with a Taser. When Rekart tried to obtain the policy related to use of force and weapon discharges, the police asked the Texas attorney general to rule that these could be kept secret, because release “could impair an officer’s ability to arrest a suspect by placing individuals at an advantage in confrontations with police.” Citizens have a right to know what to expect when interacting with police, so they can behave in a way that won’t get them choked, Tased or shot. Similarly, citizens should know what to expect in terms of surveillance technologies, so they can participate in crafting policing policies and priorities in their communities. Yes, transparency gives the public an advantage, but that’s also an advantage for law enforcement, through trust-building and mutual understanding. Sunshine makes us all safer. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Dave Maass is an investigative researcher for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He uses transparency and public records to shine light on the surveillance state. Before joining EFF, he worked as a writer for a number of altweeklies located along the southern U.S. border.

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BLACKINBOULDER BOULDER RACISM THROUGH THE EYES OF PEOPLE OF COLOR BY MATT CORTINA

t’s the Boulder liberal attitude versus the KKK,” says Derrick Jones, a black professor at Naropa living in Boulder. He’s trying to decide what’s worse. “For me, I can respect to a degree someone who identifies as a member of the KKK and is out with their views. It’s a little easier to take in, digest and in some degree respect than to encounter racism denial, because I know what I’m getting. It’s a little harder to accept the racist activity or the perpetuation of a privilege structure from someone who claims to be colorblind or not racist or liberal.” Jones is sitting at a table in a popular bar close to downtown Boulder. He likes to go to restaurants he’s been to before. Jones is tall and wearing a brown Henley. His dark hair is cut high and tight, and he has a brown freckle on his gums above his left incisor that pops out when he smiles, which he does frequently. “One of the reasons I like coming here is because at this point I’m kind of known here, and I don’t have to necessarily worry about awkward feelings,” Jones says. “Usually when I go somewhere new I, not always, but usually will encounter someone who will strike up a conversation and usually the conversations will have to go to something about my blackness where it is about them having black friends or them not seeing too many black people around here. Rap music. ‘Whose your favorite rapper?’ I usually get asked if I play football. If I play for CU. One guy asked if I play for Denver.” Jones’ story is typical of the experience many people of color have in Boulder every day. He calls these incidents “micro-infractions,” but these casual incidents just hint at what is a much deeper racial problem in Boulder. Through conversations with Boulder people of color, a picture is painted of a place that believes it is progressive, but whose views on race are not quite so.

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of similar size and demographics to Boulder. “I joke off-hand what’s the difference between Asheville and Boulder? And I say Asheville has smaller mountains Ariel Amaru is in her first year of university in but greater interracial relationships.” Washington, D.C. It is her first time living outside of Wilson talks carefully, but always with a layer of Boulder since she was 2 years old. She is biracial. She conviviality beneath his words. He makes an effort to was raised by her white mother, and has no relationsmile, which is why someone may have been promptship with her black father. ed to tell him recently that “He’s one of the good Amaru says it’s always been hard in Boulder to ones.” Anyway: convince people that she was not adopted. She identi“I was taking the bus down to Denver and as we fies confidently as biracial but often has a race defined were standing in line, a security guard asked me for to her by complete strangers. Sometimes strangers in my ID and nobody else. I was the only African town will play a guessing game. American in line. He said, ‘We just got a complaint “I had this guy once trying to guess where I’m that somebody took something.’ And I didn’t feel from, he’s pointing with his fincomfortable asking him why I ger,” Amaru says. “‘Ethiopian? was the one singled out because it Sudanese?’ I was like, might escalate the issue. Just ‘Norwegian? Swedish?’ This isn’t show him the license, and let it what you do. This isn’t how you be. I’m pretty sure somebody REALLY HARD PLACE interact with someone in public.” could’ve called and said, ‘There’s a TO FEEL LIKE YOU Amaru says many people in black guy wearing a blue shirt,’ Boulder possess a sense of “entiand I just happened to fit that BELONG HERE... I GUESS profile. A lot of times when we tlement that because we’re really THERE’S A THIN LINE talk about profiling with the open and free that we can just BETWEEN AWARENESS police officers we don’t talk about say what we want to.” That people making calls.” includes guessing her race or AND PARANOIA. I’M It was a similar story of profilapplying an identity to her with DEFINITELY ON EDGE ing to one Jones experienced in which she is uncomfortable. Lafayette. “This summer I was working HERE A LORE MORE.” “I was stopped by two differat Under the Sun, and they have — DERRICK JONES, those big chalkboard drawings,” ent cars. They came up on me. I NAROPA PROFESSOR Amaru says. “One of the chalkwas walking somewhere and they board drawings was of a black wanted to know what I was up to woman. He did a great job. She because they had heard about was pretty; didn’t look like me at some robberies in the area,” Jones all. It was up for the entire summer. says. “One officer... got out and was like, ‘Hey, how ya “I think I got asked if it was me three times a doing?’ and at this point I’m like, ‘What is it that you shift. And every other server or bartender had to deal want from me?’ And so he’s trying to be all matter-ofwith it, like, ‘Nope, that’s not her.’ But then by the fact about it. It was kind of like he was trying to shoot end we’re like just like, ‘Yep that’s her.’ And I’ve had the breeze with me. They ran my ID and let me go. my picture taken in front of it. It was crazy. Like, the “I talked to my friends about it once they got there fact that because this girl had dark skin they immediand they were like, ‘Yeah there’s hardly any black peoately associated it with me. Whereas the other chalkple here. You kind of stand out.’” board was a white blond girl. There’s tons of white But, as Wilson alluded to, these incidents of problond girls working in there, and they didn’t get asked filing don’t always happen with police in Boulder. once if it was them.” Jones says the worst experience he’s had on the street Donald Wilson works in a government position in came from an interaction with his son and a resident. the county. He asked that his name be changed for “My son was born with a condition that restricted this piece, in part, because he likes his job. his lung growth. At that time when you went out with Wilson moved to Boulder a year ago from the him he had a ventilator and oxygen and supplies and a East Coast. He echoes the claims Amaru makes of double stroller,” Jones says. “And this guy looks at him racism and stereotyping born out of plain ignorance, and he asks me, ‘Is he going to be a football player or or at least thoughtlessness. a basketball player?’ And then he says, ‘You know, I “There have been minor incidents, like when I think he’s going to be a football player. I can see the play kickball with my friends and run, the umpire will dollar signs dripping off him.’ be like, ‘Man he’s fast. Does he play football here?’ “For me it was like doubly impactful because it Because, you know, the idea of an African American was another situation where we were going through man being educated and having a graduate degree and this kind of stuff, but it was the first time I experiworking with finances can be unforeseen.” enced it with my son. I’m constantly thinking about These seemingly small incidents, including one the fact that as he gets older, he’s going to have to time when Jones said he had a fellow bar patron start learn about this stuff. It was a reality of how this is a conversation, saying, “I have this friend who is, no poised to move into the next generation. I don’t feel as offense, black,” add up, especially when they happen though that person was trying to be like, ‘You’re less every day. But these were the casual infractions. than’ but that person had some perceptions about Boulder ignorance also breeds uglier incidents that what it means to be black, what black males can suggest a much deeper problem that can’t be changed amount to and again trying to connect with me someby simply thinking before speaking. how.” “I like to joke to people that Asheville, N.C., is Jones likes to go on walks, but some people tense probably some place I’ll still want to end up in,” up when they see him. Some cross the street, he says. Wilson says, noting a town he worked in briefly that’s Men and women. There is a lot of “silent action,”

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when they spot him walking. He says given recent national events, he feels some of those same apprehensions himself when he sees a white person because he doesn’t know what they’re thinking and what they might do out of fear. “Boulder’s a really hard place to feel like you belong here. I know some good people. I’ve met some good people.” Jones says. “Overall my sense is that it’s very difficult to feel connected, even comfortable, to some degree. I guess there’s a thin line between awareness and paranoia. I’m definitely on edge here a lot more. And who knows how much of it I bring on myself. But I know that’s not because I’m a naturally paranoid person. It comes from experiences.”

‘Children of color are not expected to be smart.’ Judith Landsman has lived in Boulder since 1977, and when she married a dark-skinned man from the Virgin Islands, she blended the two biracial children she had with him with the four white children she had from a previous marriage. She has a unique viewpoint of race to say the least. She says she’s had the police called on her husband when he went to pick up their children from a Boulder preschool; she’s had a circle of gun-drawn state troopers surround their car with small children in the back only to write no ticket; and she’s had an older woman slap the hand of her 3-year-old daughter in a Boulder grocery store when she went to grab something. But Landsman says the really sinister racism in Boulder, in her experience, comes from the institutions, namely the education system. “I would say that one of the biggest ways that [racism] is felt here is that children of color are not expected to be smart,” Landsman says. “They’re not expected to be intelligent. There is not that expectation. I found that at the doctor’s office. It’s minor but it shows a mentality. I had the nurse ask my daughter if she knew the alphabet. I have four other white children, I never recall them asking my school age child if they knew the alphabet.” Landsman says her biracial children’s schooling has vacillated between public and private, Boulder and not Boulder, mostly because the public school system here failed them. “My son went right into the private school system, and that was wonderful in a lot of ways,” Landsman says. “As soon as they went into the public school system, that all changed, and the expectations were not there. I could not get anyone to my son, who had been identified as gifted in second grade in private school. I could not get anyone in public school to take me seriously. And I didn’t know quite what that was about so I let it go. “My daughter is now a senior at Boulder High, and we’ve talked about this. It wasn’t just my imagination. ‘People think you’re dumb,’ [she says]. She’s been in the same place with the same friends, but my son did not survive that transition [to public school]. I took him out of the Boulder Valley School District. And it’s too bad.” In school, Ariel Amaru says she was actually given special treatment throughout her schooling, but that she did eventually grow skeptical of her schools’ intentions. “The fact that I was a standout student and athlete See BLACK Page 18

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in high school, they really tried to cash in on that a third part of the problem is the assumption that there little bit,” Amaru says. “I went to Boulder High and I is no race problem.” graduated with one other biracial girl. We were both To that end, Wilson posits that the assumption the graduation speakers. I felt like the school was like, there is no race problem is born from various sources, ‘Oh, Boulder High is the diverse school from including fear. He wonders what would happen if an Fairview. We have these diverse girls who are doing influx of people of color came to Boulder and put the well.’ ... The fact that I was an Advanced Placement race issue in front of people. student was seen as an accolade that a person of color “I don’t know how it would be if there was an could be that.” influx of people of color here,” Wilson says, “but if it Amaru says her treatment from students in schools was anything like the reaction to the homeless popuwas, understandably, slightly different. lation here, it would disturb me.” “The biggest thing with me is that I truly identify And that’s how we get to why these people of as biracial ... but blackness is thrust upon me because color and many more in Boulder experience racism on my skin shade is a few shades darker,” Amaru says. a daily basis: willful ignorance of entitlement. “So through my friends, the only identifying thing was that I was a tall black girl. And that was like a lit- ‘I think Boulder totally thinks they tle weird, you always have to be identified through don’t have a race problem.’ your race. With my peers I was being exoticized in a big way. On the flight back from ‘Oh, but your skin tone looks so Colorado to Washington, D.C., good with that. Oh, your hair, do the other day Ariel Amaru was, you curl it every morning?’” on cue, asked if she played basENDEMIC IN AMERICA. Amaru says friendships had ketball or volleyball. BOULDER IS NO those dynamics but relationships Starting her second semester were on a different level. away from home, she looks back DIFFERENT. BUT THE “There were definite levels of at Boulder and says “for the most BOULDER POPULATION leeriness for white girls dating part it’s a good city,” but that livTHINKS THAT THEY’RE black guys in school, whereas a ing in a diverse city has given her white guy dating one of the birathe perspective of “how small DIFFERENT. THEY THINK cial girls was seen like an exotic Boulder is in terms of its political THAT THEY’RE BEYOND — it sounds so gross — but I scope and ideas.” once went out with a guy, and he “It’s an entitled city, and SAYING RACIST THINGS.” was like, ‘My friends were really there’s no getting around that. — JUDITH LANDSMAN impressed because I got to go out And the fact is that because people think they’re liberal and openwith the girl that was exotic.’ I was like what the f— . It was like minded, they have kind of like a jungle fever,” she says. knowing attitude toward race,” There’s also the institution of Amaru says. “But then you saw city government. Wilson, who works in local things where like a black kid gets called a nigger in a government, says the city’s diversity policy is outdated CU class and this town has no idea how to deal with that. So when issues of actual racism come up, they by four or five years. Wilson and Amaru both quesdon’t know how to deal with it. But when it’s celetion why black people are not represented on City brating MLK Day or just trying to guess a girl’s backCouncil or in city government — Wilson says he can name just about every black person who works for the ground it’s totally fine. I find that to be a little strange.” city. Landsman, the 40-year Boulder resident and But Wilson also recognizes the issue that there just may not be enough people of color to serve the mother of two biracial children, echoes Amaru’s senticity and that convincing people of color to move here ment. isn’t easy. “What’s weird about Boulder — and if you talk to “[My job in the county] has nice benefits, and it’s other people of color they’ve said similar things, is a good place to work,” Wilson says. “It’s one thing to that racism is endemic in America. Boulder is no difget somebody to work for the city, it’s another thing ferent. But the Boulder population thinks that they’re to get somebody to come to the city, work for the city different. They think that they’re beyond saying racist and feel a part of the city. You can give them all the things,” she says. jobs they want, and after a while they’ll say, ‘OK, time Wilson, the county employee, says the value systo move closer to Denver,’ which is exactly the mestem in Boulder is skewed. sage that I got when I met with another African “Don’t get me wrong, a lot of things people value American in the city.” here are good things to value,” he says. “It’s great to Jones, who has lived in predominantly white colvalue the outdoors. It’s great to value the environment. lege towns his entire life, agrees with Wilson and says It’s great to value your dogs and alternative modes of there isn’t much to attract black people to Boulder. transportation, but sometimes I feel like there isn’t a “Boulder does not represent itself as a place for way of including it all together and realizing that all people of color to just come to,” Wilson says. “That’s the struggles tie in together. And sometimes I feel like part of the race problem that there isn’t a sense of some of the things that are valued are done at the belonging here. Another part of the race problem is expense of other priorities. Like, we always get the attitudes of people, and there is some of that. But the backburner.”

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Jones, the professor, says a system that promotes racism is partly to blame but that people, particularly in Boulder, need to own the discussion and think critically about privilege. “Color blindness is nice in theory; the idea that you don’t see someone’s color,” Jones says. “But it’s problematic in the sense that because you don’t see my color, you don’t see how my experience is shaped because of it. “I think, generally speaking, people in Boulder pride themselves on being very liberal, very progressive. On top of that, they’re very well off overall. I think that idea of liberalism sometimes blinds to the notion of where people in this community contribute to the perpetuation of white privilege or white supremacy — even if they aren’t of mind or heart a person who thinks that these other people are less than.” Jones brings up the recent tape that surfaced of University of Oklahoma fraternity members singing a racist chant. “When someone in Boulder sees that, they say, ‘That’s disgusting, that’s so wrong. Look at what they did. That’s an example of people doing racist stuff.’ So once these types of things come out in the media, they become the situations people latch onto and people to some degree say, ‘I didn’t do that, I don’t have a race issue.’ Whereas what [the fraternity] did is part of a structure. And it is very difficult work to get privileged people to recognize privilege.”

‘If you get called out, don’t shut down.’ Unprompted, Wilson says, “I would not raise my kids here because I feel like I would be robbing them of an experience.” But he hopes to leave Boulder better than when he came here, and he hopes to leave Boulder a better person. Wilson viewed coming to Boulder as a personal challenge. He offers some advice to those looking to eliminate the casual racism that he and other experience daily here. “Just remember that this person is coming from a wealth of experience that you cannot relate to,” Wilson says. “You may not understand my experience, but understand that they are my experiences.” “The first step in solving a problem is recognizing that there is one,” Jones agrees. “I think that we all have a right to our opinion, but I think that maybe whenever we list rights, we should also list responsibilities because that’s what makes the rights work. We have the right to our opinions, but we have the responsibility to make sure our opinions are informed.” At the end of the conversation, Jones reaches into his bag and takes out the annual “Home & Hood” neighborhood guide to Boulder County from Yellow Scene. He flips through the pages front to back and points out that there are no black people in the entire magazine — no ads, no photos, nothing. “I’m just like, you know what, where am I?” he says. “I see a black dog. Where am I in here? Where am in this neighborhood guide, even just visually? “I don’t see myself here.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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global investigation into every coal-fired quantities of coal, including lignite. And global coal power plant proposed in the last five years consumption grew by 3 percent in 2013, well below shows that only one in three of them has the 10-year average of 3.9 percent, but it is still the actually been built. fastest-growing fossil fuel. Researchers say that for each new plant Ted Nace of CoalSwarm, a network of researchers constructed somewhere in the world, two more have who study coal’s impacts and alternatives to it, said, been shelved or can“What’s striking is how Greg Goebel via Wikimedia Commons celled. They say this rate quickly the business cliis significantly higher in mate has turned against Europe, South Asia, coal since 2012. Because Latin America and these projects require Africa. In India, since large capital outlays, 2012, six plants have they’re vulnerable to risbeen cancelled for each ing perceptions of risk.” one built. The report, Boom Coal use has also and Bust: Tracking The shrunk significantly. In Global Coal Plant Pipeline, by the Sierra China it fell in 2014 for Club and CoalSwarm, the first time for 14 details the findings of years, while the econoresearch into every promy grew by 7.3 percent. New research shows that even if two coal plant proposals are halted for every plant built, the remaining one-third will posed coal-fired power From 2003 to 2014, the account for nearly all of the greenhouse gases that can be plant worldwide since amount of coal-fired emitted before climate change crosses the 2 degree Celsius threshold. 2010. The data in the generating capacity report will be continuretired in the U.S. and ously updated on the the European Union Global Coal Plant Tracker website. exceeded new capacity by 22 percent. The report’s findings suggest strongly that the But it is more than simply a question of the nummarket for coal is contracting, but the authors ber of plants being built (or not). The report says, “The amount of new coal-fired generating capacity in acknowledge that the trend will have to accelerate if the proposal pipeline worldwide dropped from 1,401 the world is to avoid crossing the internationally GW in 2012 to 1,080 GW in 2014, a 23 percent agreed threshold that is thought able to prevent dandecline” (one GW, or gigawatt, would supply enough gerous climate change. electricity for 750,000 to 1 million typical U.S. The International Energy Agency is among those homes). warning that, to keep global warming from rising Against this, concentrations of planned new coal beyond the agreed maximum of 2 degrees Celsius plants can still be found in Turkey, Vietnam, above pre-industrial levels, no more than one-third of Indonesia, Poland, some Balkan countries and Japan. proven reserves of fossil fuels can be burned before Germany is one country that continues to burn large 2050.

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reg Salvesen, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, didn’t compete on his high school track team. His running hobby began in college with a casual exercise routine, generally peaking around eight miles. In 2008, he completed his first half-marathon. After moving to Boulder in 2009, however, Salvesen was quick to discover that there is no reason to stop moving at 13.1 miles, or even close to it. In January, Salvesen completed a quest of finishing 12 100-mile races in 12 months — a feat that seems to burst through the normal barriers of human convention. The 12 100-milers project was fueled by a love of running and the Courtesy of Greg Salvesen community that it fosters, and was also a way to cope with the passing of fellow Boulder ultramarathoner, Marcy Servita, who lost a battle with pancreatic cancer last year. While Salvesen’s running accomplishments seem to place him into a category of the world’s top runners, his humble nature won’t let you make such assumptions so easily. “I’m not one of these elite runners. I don’t win races, I don’t have a strict training plan or diet, I don’t even think about that stuff. Maybe I should. Really I just like the community. I’m generally pretty social, so it’s just a fun way to see your friends… That’s kind of what it is for me,” says Salvesen, adding, “It just sounds harder than it really is. It’s hard to convey that. People don’t believe that. But really, it’s just another sport.” So just how does one go from eight-mile exercise runs to casually referring to 100-mile runs as “just another sport”? “You meet some bad influences and this stuff seems normal,” says Salvesen. Shortly after moving to Boulder, Salvesen joined a local running group, The Boulder Banditos, from which there was no turning back. With encouragement from his new running community, Salvesen soon found himself running his first Boulder Weekly

marathon in Estes Park. Not long after that, he was running his second marathon, this one near his hometown in Massachusetts. He managed, however, to hit his first major running roadblock in the Massachusetts marathon — literally. While making a late-race pass, Salvesen ran face-first into a light post. “I sort of staggered around and fell down and wound up hitting my chin and got up again and staggered into another pole,” he says. “Long story short, somebody saw this happen and I wound up going to the hospital and getting stitches in my face.” The stitches didn’t hold Salvesen down for long. Since the failed Greg Salvesen with Marcy Servita at Sawtooth Mountain. Massachusetts marathon, he estimates that he’s run about 80 races, most of which have been ultramarathons, with his inspiration her. He thought that it may have been a congratulatory tracing back to the community that the sport is built text, but when they later spoke on the phone Salvesen around. learned of the devastating news Servita had to give It’s what his friends were doing, he says, and just him — Servita had been diagnosed with pancreatic seemed logical. The transition to ultramarathons, and cancer. While the news was shocking, Salvesen says that especially 100-mile races, however, wasn’t easy at first. “The first couple of times were miserable and terri- he initially didn’t appreciate how serious the situation was. After returning to Boulder, however, the gravity ble and you learn a lot of things,” he says. Some of these lessons included how to take care of of the situation began to sink in. Only two weeks later she was noticeably deteriorating, and just two months your feet and how to deal with nutrition and hydraafter the initial phone call, Servita passed away. tion. After Servita’s memorial service, Salvesen and a After running a combined eight 100-mile races in couple of friends from the Boulder running communi2012 and 2013, in January of 2014 Salvesen registered ty had the urge to leave town. Naturally, they pointed to run the HURT 100-mile race in Hawaii. This race their car in the direction of a 100-mile race happening consists of running a 20-mile loop five times, with a in Zion National Park in Utah. They soon discovered total of 25,000 feet of elevation gain. Even among the that the race was completely full, but after explaining select crowd of 100-mile runners, HURT is known to their situation to the race organizer, they were allowed be a grueling event. to run. The morning after completing HURT, Salvesen It was around this time that Salvesen decided he received a text from Servita. Servita had just completed her first 100-mile race the previous September, a race see ULTRARUNNER Page 26 in California for which Salvesen flew out to support March 19 , 2015 25

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would run one 100-mile race every month through January 2015. He didn’t push it as a grand memorial race series for Servita. He just looked at it as “something to do.” Rather than grieving at home, these races gave Salvesen a chance to be outside and clear his mind. “When you do these runs, you have a lot of time to yourself and it’s a good way to do your own thing,” he says. “You’re in your own head for a long time.” So the quest was on. It turned out to be as much of a travel quest as it was a running quest. Following the Utah race, Salvesen’s monthly 100-mile race plan wove a path through Vermont, Wyoming, British Columbia, Arizona, Colorado, Alabama and Hawaii. While Salvesen enjoyed hopping around these various locations, eventually the travel started to wear him down. For three of the four weekends in any given month he was either preparing for a race, racing, or recovering from a race. This schedule often tore him away from

the weekend runs that his Boulder running friends were putting together. But Salvesen stuck to his commitment. As the end of the 2014 calendar year approached, Ryan Smith and Silke Koester, founding members of the Rocky Mountain Runners, decided that the last race of the calendar year ought to be a special one. Smith and Koester began planning the inaugural “Boulder Badass,” a 106mile race throughout Boulder that would include no repeating routes and would finish with the completion of the Boulder Skyline Traverse — an infamous route that includes summiting Flagstaff Mountain, Green Mountain, Bear Peak and South Boulder Peak. And in an effort to ensure that the “Badass” factor was emphasized, Smith and Koester’s route included descending the mountain after each peak, whereas the traditional Skyline Traverse remains up on the ridge that connects the peaks. see ULTRARUNNER Page 27

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omewhere amid the picking, processing and packing of tea leaves at a tea factory in India, Bill Giebler began to see a reflection of his own life: Grown to one purpose, and eventually turned to another. “The metaphor just struck me,” he says. His travel essay “The Tea in Me” interweaves a deeply personal journey from a job departure and in some ways an acceptance that his family has ceased to be what he once imagined it might be, to the experience of working at a tea factory in India. He’d come to writing almost by happenstance — a gifted iPad, a blog a friend created and a trip to India that he admits, laughing, he didn’t want to say was about going to India to find himself, but was about going to India to find himself. “I needed to shake myself up,” he says, “to find some time alone among a billion people.” ON THE BILL: Bill Giebler will speak about his travel He’d gone to music school essay “The Tea in Me” from and continued to play music as a The Best Travel Writing Vol. 10 creative outlet while building a at 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book career at a software company and Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. supporting a family. Writing didn’t need to be added to the list of things he did with his time, but somehow, it added itself. “The sense of purpose was really just felt every time I wrote, I just felt like I was doing what I was meant to do,” he says. Playing the piano, selling solar panels, it all feels good, he says. But writing was different. What he wants to do now is find a way to keep telling those at times almost uncomfortably confessional stories — looking at “The Tea in Me” now, four years after his trip, he says he wonders if he’d be quite as bracingly honest if he wrote it today, but then again, that’s when the writing seems to resonate with his readers. “I think people are hungry for something that feels real,” he says. “That is where I want to connect as a writer with my reader. … That’s when it feels like doing what I’m supposed to be doing.” — Elizabeth Miller

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Salvesen estimates that this special route kink tacked about 8,000 feet of climbing to the end of the race. The “Boulder Badass” turned into a display of Boulder running camaraderie. Friends set up aid stations every eight miles along the route, and at times there would be 30 people waiting at the stations to support Salvesen and the other runners. Erin and Matt Shaw hiked up South Boulder peak at 2 a.m. to provide the runners with down jackets, food and hot soup. Salvesen says that he was never alone during the event. In total, Salvesen was awake for 48 straight hours during the run, of which he was on his feet for 32. The race was strategically set up to start and finish at Salvesen’s house. Upon finishing, he walked inside, showered and went to bed. For the final race of the series, Salvesen returned in January 2015 to once more run the HURT race in Hawaii — the same race where he received the news about Servita just one year prior. The completion of

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erforming arts companies in months of performance happening in September 2016. The Performance progress from there, rather than squeezBoulder have few options for town?’” Space, largely used for dance perforing into the wings. venues to book within city For the Dairy Center’s upcoming A lounge for students and parents, a mances, may reopen within a month, limits that meet the needs dic- renovations, funded primarily by $3.8 but the Carson and East theaters will be particular need for Dairy resident orgatated by time, space and cost. million in tax dollars through 2014’s nizations the Parlando School for the closed for most of the year. All theaters Theater companies in town point to Boulder County Ballot Issue 2A, the Arts and Boulder Ballet, may be added, will be sound-proofed, their lighting The Dairy Center for the Arts as the performance spaces there are expected if funding allows. Renovations for the and sound systems and seats will be only real option for a professional proto be closed for nine months in 2016, front of the theater will include adding updated. New, more versatile seating in duction. But with the a café and a patio and planned closures of its the- Courtesy of the Dairy Center for the Arts enhanced meeting spaces. atrical performance spaces, The hope is that with the East and the Carson enhanced meeting spaces theaters, from January to for for-profit companies, August 2016, those theater which pay more than noncompanies won’t just be profit arts organizations do bumping up against one to rent space, they’ll be able another trying to fit into to further disperse costs and limited space for their prohelp keep the prices low for ductions. They’ll be downarts organizations. right homeless. The Dairy tries to keep The squeeze on space their rentals comparably caused by the closing has lower so they can provide a the potential to affect both home for artists who otherthe amount and the nature wise couldn’t afford to perof the work these young, form in the City of growing theater companies Boulder. produce as well as the “If we were to make options for audiences in them comparable there town as these artists look would be a lot of arts orgato options outside the city nizations who would simply limits to keep producing say they can’t afford it, they The remodeled Dairy Center for the Arts promises to improve the experience for performers and audiences, but work next year. couldn’t perform here, and the multiple months of closure will force theater companies to come up with alternative venues for next season. “The Dairy is a citythey would have no place owned building and the to perform,” Obermeier renovation of it is being supplemented according to Bill Obermeier, executive says. “And so part of our mission is to the Carson will be able to be reconfigby tax. … But no one has come in and director of the Dairy Center. make sure they do have a place to perured as needed. said, ‘While the Dairy is being renovat“Everybody is excited about the end form.” Dressing rooms, which are now ed, because there are so many arts orgaFor the Dairy, 70 percent of the result, the parent lounge if we can do made of temporary walls with just the nizations that produce their work there, budget comes from earned income — that,” Obermeier says. “The pain is basics of mirrors and chairs, will also be we are going to provide this alternate ticket sales and venue rentals — and 30 those six months. ... You can’t redo a remodeled to include bathrooms — venue.’ … There’s been nobody from the building without closing it down, so percent from charitable giving and allowing companies booking shows city who’s taking leadership there,” says there’s concern but understanding at the there to book Actors Equity Association grants. They ask for donations, he says, Amanda Berg Wilson, artistic director because underwriting the Dairy in part same time.” actors. Equity actors can’t currently of The Catamounts. “I don’t know underwrites the theater companies that The lobby and gallery spaces will work at the Dairy because their conwhat’s happening to the arts organizaproduce work there. The Dairy and the close from August to December of this tracts require venues to provide en suite tions while the Dairy is being renovated year, then reopen just before two of the experimental theater companies that use bathrooms. Three green rooms, where because there’s nowhere to perform and its space share the same issues with the three performance venues close from actors and dancers await cues to go on I don’t feel like anybody from the city is January until August, with a grand stage, will be equipped with sound syssee PERFORMANCE SPACES Page 30 going, ‘Do we really want to lose six reopening currently planned for tems so they can hear the performances Boulder Weekly

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Ani DiFranco says kids brought a balance to her battle for peace and social justice by L. Kent Wolgamott Charles Waldorf

of songs from it.” ni DiFranco is a social DiFranco, of course, will be activist, feminist, indeplaying songs from throughout her pendent music pioneer 20-year career. and a consistently chalDiFranco says her music, lenging folk-pop singer, which blends folk, songwriter and performer. rock, jazz, soul, She’s also a mom. And being electronic elemom had much to do with what ON THE BILL: Ani ments and, early was on her mind as she started her DiFranco with special guest Pearl and the on, even some touring behind her current album, Beard. Doors 7 p.m., hip-hop, has Allergic to Water. show at 8 p.m. always had some “I’m good,” she says just after Sunday, March 29 and Monday, March messages. answering her phone. “But my 30. Boulder Theater, “I think there brain is a little scattered. I’ve got 2032 14th St., Boulder, are different both my kids with me.” 303-786-7030. themes that run Those kids are 7-year-old through my work,” daughter Petah, a veteran of mom’s she says. “For me, there’s a lot tours, and son Dante, who was about becoming yourself, on your born in 2013. own terms. One of the things I try “It’s a grand experiment,” to inspire [people] to do is not DiFranco says of taking Dante on come up with your own answers, the bus. “I actually brought him on but come up with your own questhe road when he was five months tions. Something that’s been a old, and it didn’t go so well. He’s theme in my music and in my hisnow a year-and-a-half. We’re going tory is ‘jump out of that box and to do this for a while and see if we that box and that box. Burn ’em. survive. Set yourself free.’” “I went to Europe for three Ani DiFranco was pregnant with her youngest child, Dante, while making her new album Allergic to Water. A second viewpoint that has weeks last month,” she adds. Now Dante is 1-and-a-half and will be joining DiFranco informed her writing is DiFranco’s “That’s a long time to leave a on tour. “I hope it works,” she says. knowledge of patriarchy, which 1-year-old when you’re mom. It’s she says permeates thinking in, hard. It really fucks with a baby’s Even more important for listeners, not just America, but in every society in head to have a disappearing mommy, Allergic to Water has a Dante-related the world. and it’s hard for mommy, too. So we’re theme: “What we think of as human trying this. I hope it works.” “Relationship, family — the last nature is predominantly masculine,” Even if Dante is back home in New two years of my life has been a lot of DiFranco says. “Is it human nature to Orleans, the little guy will still have an family. … Having kids has affected war, to be dominant and submissive? impact every time DiFranco performs me,” DiFranco said. “It’s not in that All you can do is ask, ‘What is patriarone of the songs from Allergic to Water. classic way — ‘Now I need to worry chy like?’ and work for balance. It’s a The album was recorded, for the about the future, environmental apocabig, big task to create balance between most part, while she was pregnant with lypse, whoa, eternal warfare, whoa.’ I the sexes. But we have to do that. If Dante and completed after he was born. was always on that tip. Kids, conversely there’s one thing I’ve learned in 43 “I started making the record with for me, have brought a kind of balance years on Earth, it’s balance is the prehim in my belly, and I finished with in my life. I can put down the heavy requisite for peace.” him in my face,” she says. “He affected things and play with the little things, DiFranco was in the midst of a disthe whole process. He’s a demanding the small things.” cussion of the state of feminism today guy. So I found myself working on this DiFranco and her band, bassist — “it’s not what it should be” — when record in little snatches, in the wee Todd Sickafoose, drummer Terence she stopped the conversation and says: hours, whenever I could.” Higgins and, on some shows, violinist/ “Just a minute, I’ve got to talk on the Dante’s also the main reason that vocalist/opening act Jenny Scheinman, phone for a couple more minutes.” DiFranco produced Allergic to Water by will likely perform many of the songs But daughter Petah had a pressing herself, rather than teaming up with her they recorded for Allergic to Water neardemand, and DiFranco, as any good husband, Mike Napolitano. ly every night. mother, politely had to end the interBut there’s no guarantee what she’ll “It was hard for me to steal away view. After all, being a mother now play. and get anything done, and we don’t ranks ahead of promoting her records “I pull out whatever my spleen leads have the childcare thing down so we and her career. As it should. me to do on whatever day,” DiFranco couldn’t steal away together,” she says. says. “But we’ll still probably play lots “So I did a lot of work alone.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Sister trio shares childhood memories in new book by Devin Blomquist

n a late spring night, three little girls were readying themselves for bed when they noticed Mother Eagle perched on a tree in their backyard. “Come on an adventure,” she said to them. And with that, the girls climbed through the window and onto Mother Eagle’s back. Before they knew it, they were headed for the moon. Now, the adventure for those three sisters, Alice, Mae and Zahara Porter, is charting a different path — they’ve recently published a children’s book they’d never really intended to write. Mother Eagle began as a Christmas gift from the trio of sisters for their mother. But, Alice Porter says, after seeing Mae’s illustrations for the gift, she thought they had to share them. Before long, the three sisters from Lyons began transforming their gift into the makings of a children’s fantasy book. “When we were little, our grandma used to tell us stories about Mother Eagle,” Alice Porter says. Whenever the sisters had a problem, whether it be they were afraid of the dark or something had been broken, their grandmother would try to help solve those problems through Mother Eagle stories. A few of their favorite and most memorable childhood tales from their grandmother have become the basis for their new book.

When they were younger, the three girls shared a single bedroom. In it, they pushed all of their mattresses together to make one big bed on the floor, Alice Porter says. Each night, when it was time for the storytelling to begin, the sisters would climb into the big bed with their grandmother — Alice would lay on one side of her, Mae on the other, and Zahara on her chest. The stories would just come to her grandmother, Alice Porter says, and she based them on the stories her father had told her about Grandpa Turtle and Grandpa Catfish. The sisters spent much of their childhood living with their mother and grandmother on a farm in Lyons. During this time, the four of them would often partake in Native American traditions like the sweat lodge, a purification ceremony that, in the Porter sisters’ experience, incorporated spirits like Mother Earth, Father Wind and Brother Bear. Though their own Native American heritage comes from their father’s lineage, Alice Porter says, the traditions they all took part in played a role in the characters and the stories their grandmother would tell. This Native influence can even be seen in some of Mae Porter’s illustrations for the children’s book. The cover of the book shows one sister donning an intricate

feathered headdress, while the other two each have a single white and brown feather tucked behind their ear. All three of the girls also appear to be wearing face paint, either under their eyes or on the chin, as they soar confidently through the sky atop Mother Eagle. “I got a bunch of pictures of us when we were little,” Mae Porter says. “And so all of the characters are based off of certain photos that we have.” Once Mae Porter had finished the illustrations, Alice and Zahara Porter collaborated on the text, weaving together a couple of their grandmother’s tales to create a story that follows three young girls on an adventure to a distant planet. Their grandmother’s influence didn’t end with the stories. Alice Porter says her grandmother also helped with the writing process as well. She would recall certain details if the sisters’ memories proved to be lacking. The trio even asked her to write the foreword. “Our grandma’s voice comes through in the story that we wrote,” Alice Porter says. The story doesn’t end there. Alice Porter says she hopes to continue the storytelling tradition when she has her own children. But for now, she says, her job as a paraprofessional at Academia Ana Marie Sandoval allows her to tell her own stories to her students. One student recently came up to her and asked, “Miss Alice, will you read me your book?” which was an awesome experience, Alice Porter says. Mother Eagle has been dropped off at Trident Booksellers and Café and the Boulder Book Store, where they will have a book signing in April. The sisters also have the intention of getting it on the shelves at the Tattered Cover Book Store. Currently, they are focusing on local bookstores, but they are interested in making it available online as well. So far, a lot of the book sales have been through word of mouth by friends and family, Mae Porter says, and the sisters are happy to accommodate such customers who approach them on a whim. “I have like 20 [books] in my trunk at all times,” Alice says with a chuckle. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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arts & culture More than meets the eye

‘Urinetown’ brings pee jokes to the point of a call for revolution

ON THE BILL: Urinetown. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303772-5200. Through March 28. Tickets $16-18.

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don’t think too many people are going to come see this musical...” says a skeptical Little Sally at the end of Urinetown. Sure, the subject matter’s a little iffy, the moral is depressing and talk about an unappetizing title, but considering the full auditorium on opening night at the Longmont Theatre Company, Little Sally might be wrong. Urinetown, not the place but The Musical, is about a town stricken by a 20-year drought. Water is a scarce resource, so now using the bathroom comes with a fee, which is a constant struggle for the poor peasants who just want to relieve themselves. If you break the rules, you’re banished to the mysterious Urinetown, a fate that strikes fear in the heart of all. As the evil corporation Urine Good Company proposes a fee hike, a rebellion starts to bubble. The show premiered on Broadway in 2001 and won three Tony Awards for best book, score and direction. It has since garnered a reputation as a musical theater gem that provides humor, great music and poignant social commentary. The Longmont Theatre Company’s production, playing through March 28, added to that reputation by delivering talented singers, fun dance numbers, lots of laughs and an overall entertaining performance. For those who have wondered how many urine puns you can make before it gets old, don’t look for an answer in Urinetown. The musical uses the idea for some laughs, then lets it fade into the background. Bathroom humor is one of the laziest sorts of humor, but Urinetown uses it more like a seasoning than a main course.

Toilet-centric jokes cloak a more good. Tyler Nielson delivers a solid persophisticated political message. At its formance as the musical’s hero Bobby core, Urinetown is about corruption, Strong. Not only did he have a beauticapitalism, bureaucracy, municipal poli- ful singing voice, but he also had the tics, dirty cops, the corporatization of necessary charisma of an impassioned human rights for profit and the need leader of a revolution. for rebellion against tyrannical systems. Two other notable performances Jennifer Schiedies The messages were given by shine through in Lonnie Persons songs including and Robin “It’s a Privilege Bandurin who to Pee” and in play Officer lyrics like, Lockstock and “People are free. Little Sally, How can a fee respectively. enslave us… Adults taking on We’re suffering the part of chilnow such lives of dren can somesorrow. Don’t times be dauntgive us tomoring to watch — row just give us with pigtails, today.” But just penciled-in as the musical freckles and a itself is complex, permanent pouty it also takes a face. While critical look at Bandurin has all rebels and shows attributes, she that the logistics nails the innoof revolutions cent yet wiseTyler Nielson and Lacey Eberl play the stararen’t so easy to beyond-hercrossed lovers of Urinetown The Musical. achieve. years Little Sally Urinetown by infusing her boasts a list of rich, interesting characwith child-like energy and tenacity. ters that each get a moment in the Lockstock’s character presents the dualspotlight. At the Longmont production, ity of being a corrupted character in the there were several standout perforshow, yet a lovable narrator who promances. Lacey Eberl plays Hope vides comic relief. Persons juggled the Cladwell, the naive, good-hearted dual aspect of the character perfectly daughter of evil businessman Cladwell along with his velvety voice that was a B. Cladwell. The role of Hope could pleasure to the ears. The pair serve as come off as fleeting and slightly annoy- co-narrators, with Little Sally constanting, but Eberl made the character feel ly pointing out the problems with the grounded in the “hope” for the greater musical — like overloading the audi-

ence with too much exposition and the over-simplified premise — and with Lockstock explaining metaphors and hinting at spoilers. That self aware nature of Lockstock and Sally carries on throughout the show as it pokes fun at musical theater itself — taking playful jabs at Les Miserables, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Chicago and Fiddler on the Roof. The cast turned up the ham factor with jazz hands, cheesy grins, excessive use of spotlight, stereotypical dance moves and embellished poses at the end of each song — all perfectly over used to question and poke fun at common musical standards. The chorus, present in almost every song, was just as fun to watch as the main cast. The small ensemble allowed for the audience to recognize each individual’s strengths. Whether on their own or all together, the members of the chorus were talented and a delightful part of the show. The set, while simple, suited the needs of the show and was appropriately painted in a mixture of varying shades of browns and yellows. There were some questionable costume choices, including Little Sally dressed in an obvious Dorothy replica outfit and a somewhat-distracting old man costume. The occasional misstep or awkward pause slowed the pace at times, but in the end, the material shown through and the cast’s energy and chutzpah overshadowed small imperfections. The characters in the show are the first to point out that Urinetown is not a “happy musical,” and that it has a list of seemingly problematic aspects. But dammit, is it fun to watch. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Celtic Session Hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Com-

pany, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

The Complete Unknowns. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303

Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Don Conoscenti. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St.,

Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Evan Cantor’s Compleat Grateful Dead. 6 p.m. Buchanan’s Coffee

Pub, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-440-0222.

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5 p.m. Sunday, March 22, Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 720-8872371. Fifty years ago, America forever changed by ushering in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Among other things, the time bred a rich history of music and a reawakening of spirituals from the enslaved Africans of Courtesy of the Spirituals Project America in the 18th and 19th centuries. The songs went on to breathe life in to the civil rights movement and inspire revolution. The Spirituals Project aims to keep the music and lessons alive to be passed down to future generations. On March 22, the 50th anniversary of the voting rights campaign in Selma, Ala., and the passage of voting act will be celebrated with The Spirituals Project Choir.

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Knight of Jazz. 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd.,

Boulder, 720-561-3100.

Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub,

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

Members of Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St.,

Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St.,

Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, see EVENTS Page 40

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Watch Ham McBeth — presented by Square Product Theatre.

Idlewhile. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Through March 21. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. With a little imagination, Shakespeare’s work can be a theatrical playground. When theater companies take a different approach, it revitalizes the Bard and gives it a fresh approach for modern audiences. Set in a trailer park, Ham McBeth explores the mother-daughter relationship through Ham Jones and her teenage daughter Aquanetta, who’s studying Shakespeare’s classic tragedy MacBeth for the SATs. The women have their own dreams — Ham to overthrow the trailer park president and Aquanetta to escape the trailer park precedent. Utilizing Shakespeare, the play tackles power struggles and the human condition, with comedy to boot.

Bon Bon — by Kristen Hatgi Sink and Jillian FitzMaurice.

Kristen Hatgi Sink and Jillian FitzMaurice

March 24 to April 5. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. As part of Month of Photography 2015 and Boulder Arts Week, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting Bon Bon, a collaborative exhibit with Kristen Hatgi Sink and Jillian FitzMaurice. This is the first time both artists are teaming up to bring their unique perspectives to a multimedia presentation. Bon Bon features a whimsical video presentation with pictures of broken butterfly wings, flowers and sweets, using the metaphor of a sugar high, followed by a harsh reality crash. The exhibit will also comment on the tension between fantasies and damaging consumption through other props and public performances.

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Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20.

Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through April 12.

Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-2793922. Through March 22.

Oil Paintings by Shari Farabaugh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through March 28.

Bon Bon — by Kristen Hatgi Sink and Jillian FitzMaurice. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through April 5.

As part of The Dairy’s photography month celebration, Legacy: The Photojournalism of Ted Rozumalski features a selection of photos from throughout Rozumalski’s career.

The Book’s Undoing: Dieter Roth’s Artist’s Books. Special Collections Reading Room Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-6144. Through May 15. Call for Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Deadline April 1. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 19. Graceful Appearance: Passion, Perception and Expression. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10.

Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 28. Legacy: The Photojournalism of Edward (Ted) Rozumalski. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Life Once Removed — Suzanne Heintz. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through March 29.

Boulder, 303-927-6921. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Prairie Scholars. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Robby Peoples. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile

Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-2046064.

Strings Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

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Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017. rePOPulated: Contemporary Perspectives on Pop Art. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. Sean O’Meallie: Freeplay. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. Seeing, as I am — by Conor King. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through March 29. Still Life: Three Perspectives. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Substrate. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through April 5. Textile Art by Annette Kennedy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through March 28. Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.

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Phil Bender. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29.

The Wolftones. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Events

African Group Dance Class with Teber. 10:30 a.m. Joy in Motion Meadows Center, 4800 Baseline Ave., Unit D206, Boulder, 720-428-8612. Boulder Jewish Film Festival: Above and Beyond.

6:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

BJFF: Welcome to Kutshers. 3 p.m. The Boedecker

Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

A Celebration of Bhanu Kapil’s BAN. 7 p.m. In-

nisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret. 6:30 p.m. Mathematics Building, Room 100, University of Colorado, Boulder. Do You Know Who I Am? 7 p.m. Naropa Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-444-0202. Is That Pain in Your Leg Muscles Serious? 7 p.m. Boulder Marriott, 2660 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-440-8877.

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The Ghost in Us was Multiplying — by Brent Armendinger. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, March 25 Triathletes in Motion — by Marc Evans. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Marc Evans heads to the Boulder Bookstore to discuss his book Triathletes in Motion.

Secrets for Successful Relationship. 7:30 p.m.

Espresso Swing. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten,

Swan Lake. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th

Friday Afternoon Concert and Art Show: Faur and Friends. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910

2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

St., Boulder, 303-444-0583.

Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Systematics, Social Evolution and Historical Biogeography of Sweat Bees. 7 p.m. University of

Global Soul Experience. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Colorado Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder, 303-4926892. What is Your Body Telling You? Tracking BodySymptoms Through Sensation. 5:45 p.m. Joy in

Motion Meadows Center, 4800 Baseline Ave., Unit D206, Boulder, 720-428-8612. Friday, March 20 Music Acoustic Stew. 3 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main

St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Almighty i.z. 10 p.m. Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600.

Americana Highway. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main

St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Charlie Musselwhite and John Hammond. 8 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

Chris Webb. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Mar-

ket, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Connally and Ramey. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Consider The Source. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Craig Cornett and the Phast and Wreckless. 5 p.m.

Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

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Holy Ghost Tent Revival. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Isa and JoeAlan. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and

Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Jack Hadley. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

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Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Julia Bryant. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Last Men On Earth. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North-

park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Mighty Twisters Dance Party. 8 p.m. The

Tandoori Next Doori, 623 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Monte and Larry. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Con-

fections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Moses Jones Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. New Family Dog. 8 p.m. Very Nice Brewing

Style & Comfort

Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Outliers. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Paul Sullivan’s Folk-a-rama. 6 p.m. Cannon Mine Cof-

fee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. see EVENTS Page 42

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Delilah’s Revenge. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing

Steve Itterly. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe,

Denny Driscoll. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing

108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Strange Byrds. 8 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

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Third Friday Contact Improvisation Jam. 7:30 p.m. Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St., Boulder, 303-440-YOGA.

Foxfeather. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578.

Tyler T. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken

Interstate Stash Express. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

Yoshi and Dan Zrelak. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill tap room), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Jami Lunde Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS,

The Zimmermans. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Tradi-

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

tional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Events Third Annual Women’s History Month Tea. 2 p.m.

Boulder Jewish Film Festival: Because I was a Painter. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Boulder Bookies Book Discussion Group. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

store & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-4953303.

Dance Jam for A Cause. 5:45 p.m. Joy in Motion Meadows Center, 4800 Baseline Ave., Unit D206, Boulder, 720-428-8612. Gamers Guild. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001

Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

MOD (Meadows On Design). 4 p.m. Meadows

Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Spring Equinox Celebration. 7 p.m. The StarHouse,

3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-2458452. Whiplash. 7:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater,

2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

WordPress One-On-One Consulting. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Saturday, March 21 Music Al Chesis and Bob. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Nederland, 303-258-7733.

600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Johnny O Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & King Sage. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Martin Sexton. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th

St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Nina Storey. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark

Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Of Stones and Waves, Wind and Flame. 11 a.m.

Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303443-7510.

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p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095.

The Prairie Scholars: Brews and Tunes. 7 p.m.

Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Private Gripweed. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional

Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Prohibition Six. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broad-

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

Quinn Deveaux, Roma Ransom. 8 p.m. The Laugh-

ing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Spring Equinox Celebration. 12 p.m. Unity of

Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411. Wild Road Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Events

Adobe InDesign Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647. Boulder Jewish Film Festival: The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Pictures. 7:45 p.m. The

All Chiefs No Indians. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Brad Murphey and Rich Zimmerman of Slipstream.

Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4472400.

The CBDs. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rol-

Front Range Anglers Fly Tying with Michael Kephart. 10 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St.,

8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. linsville, 303-258-0649.

Danny Shafer. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confec-

tions, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Tai

Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-4443133.

Dean Himes. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa,

900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Dj Goodie. 10 p.m. Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600.

Hog Magundy. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St.,

Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Coffee Cupping. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry BookBoulder County’s True Independent Voice

Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Third Stream. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St.,

Boulder History Museum Downtown Location, 2205 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Julian Z., Owner, Curating the Cool

Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258.

Boulder, 303-494-1375.

Making Peace During Difficult Times. 5 p.m.

Nalandabodhi Boulder, 100 Arapahoe Ave., Suite 6, Boulder.

Marcus Lucas Game Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Radical Rainforests. 11 a.m. George Reynolds

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4239. March 21. One Night in Miami. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through April 19. Drag Machine gives an inside look on drag queens through the time. At the DCPA through March 29.

Ham McBeth — presented by Square Product Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 21. Forever Plaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 10. In the Red and Brown Water. Curious Theater, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524. Through April 18. Les Miserables. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through April 26.

Proof. The Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-3467396. Through March 28.

Stupid F##king Bird — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through March 21. Urinetown. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through March 28. Victor/Victoria. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 28.

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Radical Rainforests. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch

Mike Finders. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel

Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Spring Begins. All day. The Flower Bin, 1805

The Prairie Scholars, Foxfeather. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., Suite 1, Longmont, 303-684-8383.

Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.

Spring Has Sprung Hike. 10 a.m. Heil Valley

Ranch, Boulder, 303-678-6214.

STEAM Saturdays: Eco-Cycle’s Boulder U-Fix-It Clinic. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe

Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Third Saturday Swing Dance. 7 p.m. Avalon

Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Unbe-weave-able: A Play Spun From the Threads of Greek Mythology. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for

the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Whiplash. 5 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

BJFF: The Outrageous Sophie Tucker. 4 p.m. The

Booster. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl

Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Jazz Party. 6 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111

BJFF: Run, Boy, Run. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Honeytree. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids

Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177.

and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center

Lazer Bunny. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew,

for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772.

Lindsey Saunders. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing

Navruz Persian New Year Celebration. 1 p.m. The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4993.

303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-5932066. Longmont Youth Symphony Winter Concert. 2 p.m.

Longmont High School (Boulder County School District), 1040 Sunset St., Longmont, 303-7766014.

Nymphing 101: A Sub Surface Class. 12 p.m.

Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400. see EVENTS Page 44

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Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303665-0625.

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Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Ryan Seward Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

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Boulder Folders. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch

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t this point, there is just one Liam Neeson movie: Taken a Non-Stop Run All Night to Walk Among the Tombstones 3. Neeson isn’t in the midst of some Nicolas Cage supernova, in which an actor’s need to perpetually work and “get dat paper” creates an acting black hole more realistic than anything in Interstellar. It’s worse. Sadder somehow. Neeson is still trying, still making a genuine effort in each of these rote, clichéd, repetitive “old man” action movies. There’s a scene early in Run All Night where Neeson’s character, Jimmy, is forced to play Santa in order to get money he desperately needs. His look of shame and humbling acceptance, an expression that says “this is my life now,” was realistic for a reason. The actor has mentioned several times during the press tour for this film that he has maybe two years left in his “action hero” tenure. Make no mistake, that’s Neeson praying in public. Run All Night follows an aging hitman (of course) who has one shot at redemption (of course) that will require him to use his bad-assery (of course) in defense of someone he loves (of course). In this case, it’s his son, Michael ( Joel Kinnaman). When Michael accidentally witnesses Danny (Boyd Holbrook), the son of mafia don Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris), killing an Albanian drug dealer, Jimmy kills Danny to stop him from killing Michael. Even though Shawn is aware his son was so douchey he was basically a human can of Axe body spray, vengeance must be his. The “plan” that Jimmy comes up

with for some reason is that he and Michael must simply survive the night. It makes no sense really, as things will be literally just as bad in the morning, but it artificially raises the stakes. Jimmy must battle crooked cops, mafia thugs and newly minted Oscar-winner Common, who plays a deadly hitman with the worst aim this side of a Stormtrooper. Blah blah blah, car chase, blah blah blah, showdown with the boss, blah blah blah, forced pseudo-poignant resolution. The scripts for Liam Neeson movies these days are basically Mad Libs. Easily the most watchable scenes in the film feature Harris and Neeson alone, each nonverbally asking each other “how did it come to this,” which works for their characters as well as the actors playing them. In a true act of cruelty, Neeson’s face during their final confrontation as he silently does the math on what his options are and what his choice will mean for what’s left of his soul reveals a thespian with much, much more left in the tank than this. Enough. Enough about Run All Night. Enough of Neeson wearing a figurative Santa suit and being shamed for money. Even the diminishing box office returns on these films no longer justify their useless existence or the repeated wasting of a man with Neeson’s talents. Let this be the end. Not two years, Liam, but now. For you. For all of us. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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his might be a little naïve,” director Mitch Dickman tells Boulder Weekly. “But I’ve been... talking about this film-to-table idea. I think the food community has done a tremendous job of capitalizing on the farm-to-table movement. I don’t think film is all that dissimilar.” Documentarian Dickman, whose previous film was the ColoradoMitch Dickman says the landscape is improving for produced Hanna Ranch, is filmmaking in Colorado. back with a new documentary, Rolling Papers. The film takes a look at Colorado post that tipping point, he says. At BIFF, legalization of recreational marijuana Junge brought his Being Evel production and how print media is changing to team on the stage of the Boulder cover it. Theater and also acknowledged the slew Rolling Papers is much more than a of fellow Colorado filmmakers, both documentary about Colorado; it is a those on stage and those in the audidocumentary from Colorado, another ence. Recognition like that makes a film entry into a growing trend of homemovement possible. Saying that grown Coloradan cinema. With Rolling Colorado has a film scene isn’t just lip Papers recently premiering at the South service anymore. by Southwest Film Festival, Dickman But for Colorado to compete in an adds his voice to the many Colorado ever-growing movie market, it must filmmakers who are stepping out on to accommodate filmmakers. a large stage. “The Colorado Film Office and “I think there were four films at [Commissioner] Donald Zuckerman Tribeca last year,” Dickman explains. “I have done a great job,” Dickman says. believe that there were two that had “It’s a very supportive place, if we can Colorado ties at Sundance this year. work on finding financing here, Just people seeing that there is good instead of having to go to the Coast work coming out of Colorado definitely and compete with the number of talhelps.” ented people and projects out there, Dickman has also been hard at work and secure more equity and financing in-state. Also, there are distribution on another documentary coming out of outlets like the Sie Film Center, or the Centennial State, Being Evel — Starz, based in Colorado. It kind of which premiered this year at the becomes a sustainable cycle. You could Sundance Film Festival and played the Boulder International Film Festival, for fund projects, make projects and get projects seen here. I think that will which Dickman worked as a line proonly help the community stay and ducer for another filmmaker who has set up shop in Colorado, Daniel Junge. grow.” “We’ve been able to collaborate,” Money and distribution are part of Dickman says on his relationship with the equation, but so is the audience. Junge. “A lot of people here do that Thankfully, you won’t have to wait very kind of thing. It raises the water for long; Rolling Papers was just acquired by everybody involved.” Alchemy and will reach theaters later Building a community of artists this year. takes time, but Colorado has reached Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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nsurprisingly, the Asian fusion restaurant was all about combinations. But not in the way one might expect. Indeed, expectations for Bao Asian Fusion in Louisville were sort of blurry. The building is a big beige block on a busy intersection, flanked by a closed-down Chili’s and an Outback Steakhouse, that you have to drive through a McDonald’s parking lot to get to. Plus “Asian fusion,” is one of those darn trends that for those who dove in and continue to innovate are producing great cuisine and inspired combinations. For those who rode the trend, they probably ended up like that Chili’s across the street. But so the expectation was for Bao to fuse some continental Asian elements with some other storied cuisine. Or, for Bao to make fusion dishes using, say, Thai ingredients and Japanese methods. Neither was the case. “Asian fusion,” for Bao, basically means a pan-Asian smattering of individual Thai, Vietnamese and Chinese dishes, alongside sushi. Everything considered, expectations were low. But Bao delivered again and again. It began with the hot and sour soup. It’s usually do-able to pick out the main components of a dish but the only thing I was sure of were the Chinese mushrooms and the tofu. And black pepper for certain. I’m no expert, but it

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was easily the best take on the soup I’ve had in a long time — rich umami flavor, thick broth, salty and well-textured, it enlivened the taste buds and the stomach. Oh, and it comes free at Bao. Next were Thai spring rolls, notable for their crispness, dryness and heat. The goopy plum sauce that accompanied was fine and the burnt end bits of the roll were the two best bites. Now let’s talk sushi by way of interior design. The restaurant really does have the “big, open, casual,” feel of its neighbors but the interior funnels down into a beautiful and smartly designed sushi bar. It’s got modern fixtures and

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brothers and me. Pies, cakes and cookies were sweets saved for special occasions: Thanksgiving, birthdays or Christmas. But for Easter we got pink eggs.” The class is run through the Golden History Museum, and tickets are $40. Participants leave with their own jar of pickled pink beet eggs, as well as the knowledge of canning. All materials are provided. It will take place at the Pearce Cabin at the Clear Creek History Park in Golden.

The Post Brewing Company in Lafayette is opening their new taproom on Thursday, March 19 with festivities running through the weekend. On Thursday, attendees will receive free beer and appetizers starting at 5 p.m. The taproom is unique in that it Wikipedia employs a beer engine, which is a machine that pumps cask beer directly from the cask into the glass. Cask beer typically has lower carbonation and a softer mouth feel, and it is an unfiltered beer that is conditioned “in its final dispense vessel,” aka the cask. Thus, the beer engine preserves the unique characteristics of the beer. The taproom will open at 5 p.m. on Thursday, and Learn how to make pickled beet 3 p.m. throughout the eggs in Golden this weekend. weekend.

BEET EGGS For a special springtime treat, head down to Golden on Saturday, March 21 at 10 a.m. and learn how to make pickled beet eggs. “I’ve never liked pickled beets,” said class instructor Priscilla Marshall in a press release, “but I loved the beet Easter eggs that Grandmom made each year for my

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The Jacob Springs Farm Meat CSA is accepting reservations for their 2015 season. By participating in the Boulder farm’s CSA, you’ll get a smattering of organic, grass-fed, non-GMO-fed meat over five installments. July brings pork, August brings chicken, September brings beef, October brings lamb and November brings turkey. A full share will cost you $1,000 for the five installments, though you’ll get a $150 discount for participating in the farm’s work program. There are 24 shares total in the program, which equates to one turkey, four chickens, half a lamb, one-sixth of a hog and onetwelfth of a steer per share. For more information, call Jacob Springs Farm at 720-2015725.

BLACKBELLY IS HOT Zagat recently named Blackbelly Market

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WORLD WHISKEY DAYS That just sounds good, doesn’t it? The West End Tavern, renowned Pearl St. Bourbon bar, will be slinging a “World Whiskey Flight,” starting March 27 in honor of World Whisky Day. The flight includes Yamazaki, a singlemalt from Japan; Jameson 12-year whiskey; and an Eagle Rare 10-year-old single barrel bourbon bought specifically for West End. The flight only runs you $11 and the deal runs out on World Whisky Day, May 16.

COLORADO CRAFT BEER WEEK Since it’s state law to have a craft brewing event every week in Colorado, the Colorado Craft Beer Week will kick off on Saturday, March 21. The week of events will feature both inand out-of-state breweries in a multitude of capacities. Check out www.coloradocraftbeerweek.com for more information, but one particularly interesting event is the Fuss Off secret beer festival run by the Colorado Brewer’s Guild. The location is still secret — only ticket holders will know the location — and the event will feature beard competitions and celebrate the “fussiness” of craft brewers that Super Bowl ads past have mocked. For tickets, go to www.axs.com/ events. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he Front Range is poised to change how the world eats. That’s the message at the first ever “Advancing the Agriculture Economy Through Innovation” Summit at Colorado State University. Over the course of three days, March 18-20, Colorado farmers, entrepreneurs, experts, industry members and more discussed cutting edge topics related to agriculture in a series of panels and lectures. The topics ranged from dealing with water shortages to financing agricultural entrepreneurs to passing a collective $1 trillion and entrenched agricultural knowledge from the current generation of farmers to a new one. In short, the summit was designed to address topics that could promote

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major agricultural growth in Colorado and start to solve problems before they become unsolvable. Kathay Rennels, associate vice president of engagement at CSU and coorganizer of the event, says the impetus for the summit came after she and a team surveyed Colorado for economic opportunities with Governor John Hickenlooper shortly after he first took office. They realized that the Front Range had a surplus of knowledge and potential for innovation that was not being tapped. “What we found was along the Front Range, from Northern Colorado to approximately Colorado Springs, we have an innovation corridor; the only other one similar is around UC Davis,” Rennels says. “We have a significant amount of intellectual property along

that Front Range innovation corridor, those startups began to work with the and looking at that we came up with agriculture industry, but have heretofore 400 companies that really fit into the not been identified as part of the indusagriculture and [agriculture] innovation try and not approached by the industry spaces.” for innovation. Those 400 comRennels says the Courtesy of Colorado State University panies that feed into summit provides an the Front Range agriopportunity to help cultural system range technology companies from craft breweries and agricultural proto specialty food makducers — and everyers like Justin’s Nut one in between — Butter to companies start making those that make technology connections and havThe Front Range is the epicenter of used by the agriculing those discussions. innovation in agriculture. ture industry. Rennels And the Front Range says when technology provides a unique area giant Hewlett-Packard closed its facility for the discussion to occur, she says. 15 years ago, many of those skilled “Colorado really has a unique workers opted to stay in Colorado, and see AG SUMMIT Page 54 worked to create startups. Many of

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panel called “Climate Smart Agriculture,” addressing how climate change will specifically affect agriculture and how innovation in the field can mitigate damages. Likewise, many of the panels at the summit were designed to address specific issues or fields that technological innovation could amend — the dairy industry, water scarcity, the fast food industry, food safety, fertilizers and more. But Rennels says the topic she thinks might have the most lasting impact, and for which many of the other topics discussed would be in vain without, concerned the issue of getting people with money to invest in agriculture and agriculture-based technology companies. “I was visiting with a gentleman from California who runs a venture capital fund,” Rennels says. “One of the things he said is, ‘We don’t understand you in agriculture.’ And I said, ‘My generation thinks technology is risky.’ (Rennels is a third-generation agricultural producer herself ). And his comment back to me was, ‘I work in tech, and I think planting a seed and waiting for it to get rained on is riskier.’ And so those are two very different mindsets. But between my generation to him, the transfer of wealth is a challenge. Because in that transfer you want to keep the connection of agriculture and innovation together.” Critical too is making sure the outgoing and incoming generation in the agriculture industry does not lose ageold knowledge, nor misses out on technological innovation. “As my generation of agriculture embraces tech, the generation that understands it is the generation in back of me,” Rennels says. “We need to bring those together closer and closer and closer. If you’re doing that, then the next generation gets to bring in those really interesting topics that I think current generations might not reach into.” Ultimately, the agricultural challenges ahead for Colorado, the country and the world will be solved only by cooperation from producers, entrepreneurs, government and consumers. Off to a good start, Colorado’s agriculture innovation leaders have Rennels feeling confident about the challenges her industry faces. “I am probably more hopeful for my agricultural industry than I have been in 15 years, because I think we have an opportunity here in agriculture and innovation and in Colorado that I don’t see anywhere else,” she says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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You’re entering a time and space known as the Adlib Zone. In this territory, fertile chaos and inspirational uncertainty are freely available. Improvised formulas will generate stronger mojo than timeworn maxims. Creativity is de rigueur, and street smarts count for more than book-learning. May I offer some mottoes to live by when “common sense” is inadequate? 1. Don’t be a slave to necessity. 2. Be as slippery as you can be and still maintain your integrity. 3. Don’t just question authority; be thrilled about every chance you get to also question habit, tradition, fashion, trendiness, apathy and dogma.

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According to the international code of food standards, there are 13 possible sizes for an olive. They include large, extra large, jumbo, extra jumbo, giant, colossal, super colossal, mammoth and super mammoth. If I had my way, Leo, you would apply this mind-set to everything you do in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to think very big. You will thrive as you expand your mind, stretch your boundaries, increase your territory, amplify your self-expression, magnify your focus and broaden your innocence.

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LIBRA

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Your mind says, “I need more room to move. I’ve got to feel free to experiment.” Your heart says, “I think maybe I need more commitment and certainty.” Your astrologer suggests, “Be a bit more skeptical about the dream lover who seems to be interfering with your efforts to bond with the Real Thing.” I’m not sure which of these three sources you should heed, Libra. Do you think it might somehow be possible to honor them all? I invite you to try.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

“Without your wound where would your power be?” asked writer Thornton Wilder. “The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.” Let’s make that one of your ongoing meditations, Scorpio. I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to come to a greater appreciation for your past losses. What capacities has your suffering given birth to? What failures have made you stronger? What crucial lessons and unexpected benefits have emerged from your sadness and madness?

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

“Creating is not magic but work,” says Kevin Ashton, author of the book How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. In other words, inspiration is a relatively small part of the creative process. Over the long haul, the more important factors are self-discipline, organized thinking, hard work and attention to detail. And yet inspiration isn’t irrelevant, either. Brainstorms and periodic leaps of insight can be highly useful. That’s a good reminder as you enter a phase when you’re likely to be more imaginative and original than usual. I expect creative excitement to be a regular visitor.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes was a good Capricorn, born January 6, 1854. In the course of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 60 stories about his life, he revealed his exceptional talent as an analytical thinker. His attention to details was essential to his success, and so was his expertise at gathering information. He did have a problem with addictive drugs, however. Morphine tempted him now and then and cocaine more often, usually when he wasn’t feeling sufficiently challenged. Let this serve as a gentle warning, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, seek more relaxation and downtime than usual. Focus on recharging your psychic batteries. But please be sure that doesn’t cause you to get bored and then dabble with self-sabotaging stimuli.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

English is my first language. Years ago there was a time when I spoke a lot of French with my Parisian girlfriend, but my skill faded after we broke up. So I’m not bilingual in the usual sense. But I do have some mastery in the language of music, thanks to my career as a singer-songwriter. Having raised a daughter, I also learned to converse in the language of children. And I’ve remembered and worked with my nightly dreams every day for decades, so I speak the language of dreams. What about you, Aquarius? In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll be challenged to make more extensive use of one of your second languages. It’s time to be adaptable and resourceful in your approach to communication.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Do you need a reason to think sharper and work smarter and try harder? I’ll give you four reasons. 1. Because you’re finally ready to get healing for the inner saboteur who in the past has undermined your confidence. 2. Because you’re finally ready to see the objective truth about one of your selfdoubts, which is that it’s a delusion. 3. Because you’re finally ready to stop blaming an adversary for a certain obstacle you face, which means the obstacle will become easier to overcome. 4. Because you’re finally ready to understand that in order to nurture and hone your ample creativity, you have to use it to improve your life on a regular basis.

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Dear Dan: I’m a straight guy in my 30s dating a woman in her mid-20s. We’ve been together for a year, and I’m crazy about her. In love, even. She’s gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving, and very sexual. She’s perfect. In her late teens and early 20s, she had a wild sex life. She attended sex parties, had loads of NSA hookups, sexted with random guys she met online, etc. She revealed this to me slowly and carefully out of fear that I’d look down on her, but what she didn’t know is that I have an intense cuckold interest. I’ve asked her, ad nauseam, for every detail she can recall about these encounters. The ones centering on “alpha jocks” with extremely large cocks are the ones I enjoy most. I’m a nerdy guy, definitely not muscular or athletic. I have intense fantasies of some alpha male taking her away from me, or catching her with a hot young soccer player or a good-looking musician — any guy at the top of the social pile. The idea of watching her have sex with one of them is exhilarating. But it’s also gutwrenching. I haven’t told her how much I would like her to go through with an actual hookup. However, I’m certain this would not be well-received on her part; she’s made it clear that she’s not proud of her wild past. To complicate this, my interest in cuckolding does not come from a healthy place. I experienced a series of rejections in my late teens and early 20s, all of which involved being outclassed by better guys. The first girl I was ever in love with, who kept stringing me along, had sex with another guy while talking to me on the phone. She went into detail about how huge his penis was, how good it felt, and so forth, while I shook with envy and misery and excitement. It was a terrible, traumatizing experience, but now it rules my sexual fantasies. Is it okay to indulge an interest that likely stems from a traumatic experience? (Assuming she’s willing.) — Harrowingly Upsetting Reckless Tendencies Mostly Excite Dear HURTME: First things first, HURTME: Your girlfriend can’t put this period of her life behind her — all those hung alpha jocks, all those NSA hookups — while she’s with a man who demands to have every last detail recounted ad nauseam. So you might wanna check in with your gorgeous, sweet, kind, etc. girlfriend before she decides to put you behind her, too. It’s possible she enjoys sharing her stories with you because your enjoyment makes Boulder Weekly

her feel better about those experiences in retrospect; all those meaningless sexual encounters now mean something because they enhance the relationship she’s in. Checking in with her about how she’s feeling will give you a better idea of how receptive she would be to cuckolding you. If sharing stories about her past makes her feel sexy (because the encounters were hot) and it feels meaningful (because the stories enhance your sexual connection), then your girlfriend might be open to the idea of coming home with a brand-new story to tell you. Or she might not. Like I said, you need to check in with her. As for you, HURTME, your erotic imagination seized on that experience — that cruel girl on the phone — and through a mysterious process that sex researchers don’t quite understand, your mildly-to-wildly-traumatizing early sexual experience emerged in adulthood as a full-blown kink. There may be other boys out there who had the exact same experience — that girl could have had other victims — who don’t have any interest in being cuckolded. The alchemy of kinks isn’t fully understood. There’s only one way to find out if you would enjoy being cuckolded, HURTME, and that’s to do it. But there are three questions (at least) that you need to ask yourself before you act: Have you built a firewall between your sense of your own sexual desirability and your kink, a kink that’s about your eroticized fear of sexual inadequacy and not your actual sexual inadequacy? (You landed a gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving, and very sexual girlfriend — you’re clearly more than adequate!) Are you sure you won’t wind up in the fetal position on the floor after your girlfriend fucks some alpha stud? And if you do react badly, if being cuckolded in reality is painful, not sexy, can you process your feelings without lashing out at or slut-shaming your girlfriend? A few sessions with a kink-positive shrink might help you answer those questions. You can find one through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (aasect.org). Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Send questions to mail@savagelove. net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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The cannabis debate drifts into the halls of Congress

ast week I wrote about a bill that was then being debated in the Utah state legislature. S.B. 259 would have amended a law passed last year that allowed Utah citizens to use certain strains of CBD-dominate cannabis to treat medical conditions but mandated no legal way that patients could obtain them. Like many others, I concentrated on the testimony of a DEA agent whose job is to eradicate illicit marijuana from national forest land. Matt Fairbanks testified against the bill because he feared that wildlife might be adversely affected by ingesting cannabis. It reminded me that about all prohibitionists have left is to continue to make up things this ridiculous to press the point that cannabis is more dangerous than alcohol. But as I quickly found out, the ramifications ran much deeper. By the time the column appeared, the bill had died on third reading after one senator flipped his vote at the last minute. As Angela Bacca wrote in a lengthy examination of the bill’s demise on the SFGate blog, “The bill was killed behind closed doors by special interest groups who feared financial loss by providing freedom of medical choice to chronic and terminally ill patients.” Legislators killed the bill despite outrageously high support for legalized medical cannabis from Utah citizens. A Y2 Analytics poll from the Libertas Institute and the Drug Policy Project of Utah found that 72 percent of Utah citizens believe doctors should be able to

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recommend medical cannabis to patients with serious conditions. Support for medical cannabis use is consistent across all Utah demographic groups, including 66 percent of Republicans, 67 percent of LDS/ Mormon respondents and 64 percent of those over age 65. “I’ve had a very strong emotional

knee-jerk-type of reaction from a lot of folks. I think we need to push past that emotion and push past much of the propaganda that’s been promulgated for a number of years,” said Sen. Mark Madsen, the Republican who shepherded S.B. 259 to its inevitable conclusion. “Reefer Madness is neither medical research nor public policy. It’s propaganda, and we can’t be basing our policy on propaganda.” Wikipedia defines propaganda as “a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population

toward some cause or position,” which means that the United States has based its cannabis policies on propaganda that tries to make us believe it’s better to spend billions of dollars to fail at keeping people from getting high rather than dealing with drugs in any kind of sensible way. The propaganda began with Harry Anslinger in the 1930s, and it hasn’t stopped. In 1970, President Richard Nixon disregarded the advice of his own presidential marijuana commission that suggested legalizing it and instead made marijuana a Schedule One drug. Since then, seven presidents and endless Congresses have continued to fund the prohibition based mostly on that hype, without any real scientific evidence to back up their claims. Americans are currently using the amendment process to vote their displeasure with government propaganda. It’s no longer just cannabis users who are voting against marijuana prohibition. At least 13 states are considering or in the process of ballot initiatives for medical or recreational use in 2016, and Virginia legislators introduced a legalization bill in that state last month. Last week the ante was upped considerably when a bipartisan Senatorial trio, Republican Rand Paul and Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand and Cory Booker, introduced S. 683, The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States (CARERS) Act, “a bill to extend the principle of federalism to state drug policy, provide access to medical mari-

juana, and enable research into the medicinal properties of marijuana.” That’s a mouthful of a title, but it’s a pretty accurate accounting of what it intends. It would not legalize medical marijuana in the U.S., but it would end all federal prosecution for medical patients and caregivers in states that have approved it, allow them access to cannabis (remember, that is the problem in Utah and other states that have allowed limited access to CBD products) and help jump-start actual unbiased research into medical cannabis. On March 10, it was assigned to the Judicial Committee. Its chances of getting out of there are not good. Only 15 percent of introduced bills actually become law, and as we have found out, there are some propagandists in Congress who are perfectly willing to try and thwart the will of almost 80 percent of D.C. voters in their quest to keep people from using cannabis like alcohol. Representatives Jared Polis and Earl Blumenauer have introduced similar bills in the House, which means this is the first time cannabis is being debated on the floors of both the House and Senate. President Obama told NPR this week, “At a certain point, if enough states end up decriminalizing, then Congress may then reschedule marijuana.” Real cannabis reform can’t happen without Congress changing our antiquated laws. While I don’t expect the current bills to pass, I don’t expect that the debate is going to leave Congress anytime soon, either. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed Even

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