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Highroad Why are we taxpayers subsidizing corporate crime? by Jim Hightower
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o the crime, do the time,” goes the old saying. Unless of course, the criminals are corporate executives. In those cases, the culprits are practically always given a “Get out of jail free” card. Even the corporate crimes that produce horrible injuries, illnesses, death, etc. are routinely settled by fines and payoffs from the corporate treasury, with no punishment of the hon-
chos who oversee what amount to crime-for-profit syndicates. The only bit of justice in these money settlements is that some of them have become quite large, with multibilliondollar “punitive damages” meant to deter the perpetrators from doing it again. Yet, the same bad corporate actors seem to keep at it. What’s going on here is a game of winkin’ and noddin’ in which corporate criminals know that those headlinegrabbing assessments come with a secret escape hatch. Congress has generously written the law so corporations can deduct much of their punitive payments from their income taxes! As Sen. Pat Leahy points out, “This tax loophole allows corporations to wreak havoc and then write it off as a cost of doing business.” For example, oil giant BP certainly wreaked havoc with its careless oil rig explosion in 2010, killing 11 workers, deeply contaminating the Gulf of
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Mexico and devastating the livelihoods of millions of people along the Gulf Coast. So, BP was socked with a punishing payout topping $42 billion. But — shhhh — 80 percent of that is eligible for a tax deduction, a little fact that was effectively covered up by the bosses and politicians. Sen. Leahy has introduced legislation to lock down this escape hatch for thieves, killers and executive-suite villains. For more information on the moral outrage of ordinary taxpayers being forced to subsidize corporate criminals, contact U.S. PIRG at www. uspirg.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 26, 2015 7
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Hardhats, hippies and hawks by Dave Anderson
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ccording to a widespread urban legend, the Vietnam anti-war movement was mostly composed of privileged college kids and the war was most enthusiastically supported by blue collar workers. That’s the story perpetuated in countless TV shows, movies, press reports and history textbooks. Sociologist and labor educator Penny Lewis debunks this story in her meticulous and nuanced book Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement As Myth and Reality (ILR Press, Cornell University Press). Class and culture divides did exist around the war. It is certainly true that AFLCIO president George Meany supported the war and that a mob of New York construction workers attacked peaceful anti-war demonstrators outside the Wall Street stock exchange in 1970. However, a national poll found that 53 percent of unionists surveyed immediately after the attacks condemned the hardhats. Anti-war unions in New York organized a peace demonstration in response. In another national poll at that time, a majority of union members opposed the war. All over the country, many thousands of workers participated in antiwar activities through their unions. The national leadership of a significant minority of unions opposed Meany and denounced the war. Labor for Peace provided a sophisticated analysis in their book, A Rich Man’s War and A Poor Man’s Fight. Paradoxically, the movement originated on elite campuses, but working class people were more likely to oppose the war. From the earliest days, polls showed that the Americans most likely to be pro-war were those who had the highest education, the highest incomes
and high status occupations. Lewis notes that Charles Chatfield, a renowned historian of peace movements, argued the Vietnam anti-war movement “never succeeded in becoming a ‘positive reference point’ for sentiment against the war, a feeling whose parameters he estimates exceeded the organized movement by a ratio of 60 to 1.” Chatfield said organized opposition “came mainly from middle class, college-educated whites, materially comfortable and motivated by moral considerations.” He said the “great majority” of Vietnam dissenters were a “people apart.” They were “lower-economic class, often women and black, with grade school educations and lowprestige jobs” who Chatfield characterized as “isolationist,” “politically inarticulate” and “disaffected.” At the beginning, they tended to oppose the war on pragmatic grounds, that it was “a waste of men and money.” Lewis qualifies and challenges these conclusions. She says the organized movement attracted many individuals and groups who were working class but didn’t identify themselves primarily as “labor.” This was a time when many working class families were able to send their kids to college for the first time. Many of those students got involved in the anti-war movement. The anti-war movement interacted with predominately working class civil rights, black power and other ethnicitybased groups (especially the Chicano movement). She notes, “Each movement developed its own form of antiwar critique and mobilized against the war on its own terms.” The GI and veteran peaceniks provided an angry working class perspective. In a large demonstration by
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letters Danish fails again
Paul Danish jumps the shark again [Re: “Putin and anti-fracking activism,” March 19]. And, he has now infected the Boulder Weekly with a stinking pile of trash from conspiracists like Lachlan Markay of the Daily Beacon. In addition, he has disparaged a whole community across this country who do not wish to see their land, water and air despoiled by fracking simply because the evil bogey man Vladimir Putin is also against U.S. fracking for geopolitical reasons. On the last point regarding geopolitical gamesmanship regarding energy, it is very complex, and there are players across the globe whom have their hand in manipulating energy supplies and prices for their own reasons. See this article http://oilprice.com/ Energy/Oil-Prices/Did-The-SaudisAnd-The-US-Collude-In-DroppingOil-Prices.html for another point of view regarding this issue. What say about the Saudis Mr. Danish? As is always the case, Mr. Danish starts his arguments with his own POV and then searches for information to support it. This is the failure of lazy narrow-minded ideologues. They don’t wish to engage complex issues with as many “facts” as possible. They find a nugget of information to support their theory and disregard anything that competes with it. Failure once again Mr. Danish. David Segal/Lafayette
Dead bodies do not perpetuate a species. In 2014 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service (USFWS) imposed “trophy hunting” import bans on Zimbabwe and Tanzania. This ban is in danger of being lifted by the U.S. The ban prevents the bodies of animals killed for trophies from being exported into the United States. The ban is in danger of being lifted. Support for ending the ban is supported by Safari Club International, a strong pro-trophy hunting and lobbying organization that promotes hunting of endangered species. Elephant, rhinoceros and now giraffe populations are being heavily poached, and populations are fast dwindling. Elephants in Zimbabwe and Tanzania are being especially hard hit by poaching and by taking baby elephants for zoos in China and Thailand. And though China has called for an ivory moratorium publicly, BBC News reports that ivory continues to go there. Zimbabwe and Tanzania lack sustainable management practices and law enforcement, which makes exploiting the animal populations to their economic advantage rather than actually managing them. Elephant populations are especially suffering, and by upholding the ban, the U.S. will aid in their hopeful recovery and send a strong message to other African countries to stop unacceptable policies of poaching and hunting. Time is critical. If you’re frustrated of hearing about elephant exploitation, please take a moment to send an email to dan_ashe@fws.com at the USFWS see LETTERS Page 10
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Dead story should go deeper
I read the article [Re: “Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead,” Stew’s Views, March 5] and share your frustration about the monetization of special events and concerts like this one. My first taste of this was when Phish came off their seven-year hiatus to return for a three-night stand at Hampton Coliseum. I tried like the masses to get tickets, only to see that the show was sold out it under 30 seconds, yet scores of tickets were readily available on StubHub and eBay for anywhere between five and ten times the face value. My friend went to all three nights with his wife for the low, low price of $3,500, stating that “you only live once.” In the article, you took issue with the fact that thousands of tickets immediately became available on StubHub because Chicago Bears season ticket holders, who have first right of refusal on all ticketed events at the stadium, bought and then flipped the tickets for a massive profit. You then suggest that this had something to do with the
letters choice of venue, and you finish the paragraph with the comment, “The party line that Soldier Field was chosen because it was the site of the last Grateful Dead concert on July 9, 1995 rings more hollow with every passing scalped ticket purchase.” So, what would be the motivation driving the decision of venue based on this one point? If Bears ticket holders are the ones who turned $119.50 into $3500, then what skin does Ticketmaster or StubHub have in this game, other than a nominal fee to process the secondary sale? I’m not saying you’re wrong; rather, I am saying you might be right on a much larger scale than you allude to in the article. And, I just want to know if there is a bigger issue here. It could be fiction, but I had heard Ticketmaster and/or the StubHub people employ sweat shops of people in India to pound the public on-sale windows from call centers with stacks of credit card numbers to buy up as many tickets as possible “the right way” in the primary market. The show then sells out in minutes, yet thousands of tickets are almost immediately available on StubHub for as much as ten times the price. If TM or StubHub don’t own the tickets as this point, they stand only to make about 10-15 percent fee on the resale, see LETTERS Page 11
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War, vets threw their medals on the steps of Capitol Hill. They held “Winter Soldier” hearings about atrocities in Vietnam. Rebellious soldiers in Vietnam may have been the group that played the biggest role in ending the war. Dissenting GIs could pay a high price for just speaking up. Nevertheless, resistance and sabotage was widespread. In a 1971 article in the Armed Forces Journal, Marine Colonel Robert D. Heinl Jr. wrote: “Our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and noncommissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinous. ... [C]onditions [exist] among American forces in Vietnam that have only been exceeded in this
century by ... the collapse of the Tsarist armies in 1916 and 1917.” Lewis says that the movement was “a massive, sprawling, multiheaded phenomenon” with as many as 6 million active participants and another 25 million close sympathizers. At war’s end, a vast majority of Americans concluded not only that the war was a mistake but also “fundamentally wrong and immoral.” Many years later in 2011, scruffy young protesters converged on Wall Street saying the one percent was screwing over the 99 percent. Unions rushed to support them, both to protect them from the cops and to provide aid. For the first time in decades, class had become a central issue in American politics. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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instead of something more like 1,700 percent by marking up $199 tickets to $3,500. It seems to me that the issue is way bigger than a record-setting money grab over a singular event, the Chicago Dead shows of 2015. Rather, it seems to be a systemic problem on a much larger scale. There are several articles out there about the $5 billion secondary market for tickets in this country and about the ongoing battles between TM+ and StubHub for market share, but are these behemoths really after a meager 10-15 percent grab on the secondary purchase while’ Joe Concertgoer’ clears $3-grand for a trip to Mexico? Maybe someone should dig even deeper. After all, the same thing happened to me trying for Phish tickets at Hampton Coliseum years ago. To my knowledge, there are no football fans there with first right of refusal on concert tickets that will end up in the secondary market. Yet, the same thing still happened. And how do all those tickets end up online for resale so damned fast? The system these days seems to be built for it. Mark H. Frederick/Waitsfield
under consideration in Longmont, you might think it’s a battle over a permonth fee. That perspective is so narrow as to miss the big picture and the undeniable benefits completely. The current system was inherited from our forefathers who set up a trash system based on linear thinking. You pick the trash up and drop it off at the landfill. Our call for curbside composting is
to take the broken circle and put it back together. Instead of ignoring nature’s system, go with it. Instead of burying the half of our trash that is organic in a landfill, make it into black gold. Instead of mindlessly accepting the concept of “away,” let’s admit that the standard system is short-sighted and buries our unsolved problems for our grandkids to figure out. The benefits of curbside composting
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I read your article on coal plant construction in this week’s Boulder Weekly [Re: “Old King Coal is sick — but not yet dying,” Boulderganic, March 19]. I expected your statements regarding coal plants and usage were off my millions of coal tons. I thought a little online research might shed light through the polluted air haze, and it didn’t take long. Here is a recent summary of coal use in the world offered by the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/30/chinainstalled-a-record-number-of-solarpanels-in-2013-but-coal-is-still-winning/ Both India and China continue to add and use vast coal capacity, and the graphs show this succinctly. Yes, China is now dominant in solar and is adding capacity with solar, but this is a small percentage when put into proper context regarding coal and its resulting consequences. Your article seems misleading and missing the larger concern regarding the growing world use of coal today and for the future. Rob Moore/Boulder
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I’m a current CU undergraduate, and I am writing to you today to express my concern about the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement between the United States and many other nations that will affect 720,000,000 people and 40 percent of the world’s economy. This extremely complex document has been drafted by corporations and government officials behind closed doors over the past four or five years. U.S. representatives have recently been allowed to read the document, but they are forced to read it without the assistance of their staff or lawyers who could help them decode its confusing legal jargon. As if this isn’t concerning enough, the Obama administration is trying to convince Congress to adopt “Fast Track,” which aims to rush the TPP through Congress without public review or amending. I think that this bill unjustly validates the kind of secrecy in which the TPP was written. If it weren’t for Wikileaks, we would have no idea what the TPP entailed. According to the information that has been leaked, the TPP allow for more job outsourcing, and it gives pharmaceutical companies stronger patents, which means that cheaper, generic drugs will be delayed if they are to be released at all. The TPP would also allow corporations to sue nations, states, or municipalities that make any law, which interferes with their profits. Obviously, these are questionable ideas, and they seem to serve corporate interests, and nothing else. We need to call Jared Polis at 303484-9596, and tell him to vote against Fast Track and the TPP. If Fast Track is passed, then we will be one step further away from democracy, and if the TPP is passed, then we will be one step closer towards a corporate state. Andrew Bryson/Boulder
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At times he is a strong progressive voice on some very important issues. But when it comes to a most important issue affecting corporate control over our lives and protection of our jobs, communities and environment against corporate predation, he comes up woefully short. I’m speaking of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), an all-encompassing treaty involving a dozen Pacific Rim nations, with provisions to add more. For the past five years the Obama Administration has been negotiating the TPP in secret meetings attended by 600 corporate operatives but effectively closed to civil society and largely hidden from our elective representatives. Leaked documents reveal TPP would enforce intensive competition between American workers and bastions of abusive low-wage sweatshop labor like Mexico, Malaysia and Vietnam. Protection of American jobs, our environment, food safety, consumer product quality and workplace standards would be subject to costly and undemocratic “state-investor tribunals” empowered to heavily fine governments that attempt to protect citizens, communities and environments from destructive corporate practices. Access to affordable drugs and use of the Internet would be highly restricted in order to protect corporate profits. Regulation of big banks that caused the crash of 2008 would be virtually eliminated. Promotion of American-made products would be illegal. The Obama Administration, fearing public scrutiny would doom TPP to ignominious defeat, will soon ask Congress to pass a bill popularly known as “Fast Track,” now euphemistically dubbed “Trade Promotion Authority” (TPA). TPA is intended to bypass Congressional authority, forcing all-ornothing ratification of TPP with no amendments. Worst of all, TPA would void public debate; a prospect Wall Street backers, trans-national corporations and the 1 percent drool over. So where is Jared Polis on this seminal issue? Sadly, the congressman is non-committal, apologetic of the President and seemingly indifferent to the prospect of unfettered profiteering by elites who stand to benefit from the pending corporate free-or-all. We must insist he stand up for democracy and the majority of his constituents. No more pussyfooting. No more waffling. Tell Mr. Polis to join 161 Democratic colleagues and oppose TPA. Email Jared now at polis.house.gov/contact/ or leave a message at 303-484-9596. Ken Bonetti/Boulder Boulder Weekly
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orty-six years ago, a group of Denver high school students and Chicano supporters participated in a walkout. Some were beaten by police and arrested. They were protesting the fact that a history teacher was teaching them a washed-over, ethnocentric version of history. When they asked to include more of their own experience in the lesson plan, they were ignored. Carlos Santistevan was arrested during that walkout. He was a founding member of the Chicano rights group, Crusade for Justice, which organized the event with the high school students. As the anniversary for his walkout came a few days ago, on March 20, Santistevan reflects on that day and notes that many of the issues fought for that day are still being fought today in Colorado schools. In 1969, Jeannie Perez was in Denver’s West High School. She was the daughter of a member of Crusade for Justice and one of a small number of students of Hispanic descent in the school. One day, Santistevan says, Perez’s history teacher belittled her identity. “One of the things that came up, first of all, was her teacher at West High School was mispronouncing her 16 March 26, 2015
name,” Santistevan says. “Her name was Perez, and she corrected him. The teacher, being spiteful, started calling her ‘Parrish.’ And he did it purposely, even though she corrected him. So Jeannie began to correct some of his history. He was talking about American history, and he was not too happy with [being corrected]. So he challenged her and said, ‘Bring some teachers to class, and let me hear what they have to say about American history.’” The teachers to whom Jeannie’s teacher was referring were members of Crusade for Justice, including Santistevan, Chicano leader Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and others. The group decided it might be a good idea to take the teacher up on his offer. “[Gonzales and others] went to the class and when they got there, [the teacher] left the class so he didn’t even give them the privilege of even caring what they had to say,” Santistevan says. So the group reconvened and galvanized support to remove the teacher from the school. By consulting with Perez, other students and their parents, the group sought to gain support before making a push to remove the teacher. “[Members] said, ‘Why don’t you talk to your parents? Let’s see if we can talk to them and gain support so they as parents can get involved with this so
we can resolve this problem.’ That was what do you want to do?’ and [Perez the important part,” Santistevan says. and the students] said, ‘Maybe we “That was a key thing that we just should stage a walkout to get the attendidn’t want the students to start sometion of the school.’ So we asked them, thing and then it wouldn’t go any place. ‘How many fellow students support But by having their parents support you?’ and they said, ‘Maybe 50.’ them, it would make more sense.” “So that night, the Crusade memSo Gonzales called the principal, bers helped them put together leaflets Santistevan says, and arranged a meetand picket signs, and the plan was the ing with him, students would go administrators and to school the next parents. He says day and hand out “there were a lot of leaflets calling for a people to listen” at walkout at about 9 that meeting, and o’clock. And some STUDENTS when it was of the adults and STARTED TO FIGHT BACK adjourned the members told them BECAUSE THEY DIDN’T principal “agreed we would be there … that it was to support them. WANT TO GET HIT BY important to get “So about 9 POLICE. AND THAT SORT rid of this teacher.” o’clock, a few stuBut after a few dents began to OF STARTED A RIOT.” — days, the Crusade leave. Pretty soon CARLOS SANTISTEVAN learned that the 300 people were administration was outside plus some not going to get of the adults that rid of the teacher were there to supand that, in fact, “even the port them. teachers at the school supported the “Well the police were there in riot teacher.” gear, and they blocked the entrance to In response, the group reconvened the school. But the student organizers and discussed the topic at their next had a blow horn, and they were talking meeting. to the kids about why they felt it was “[Crusade members] said, ‘Well, important to walkout. And the crowd
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started to get a little larger. And [a stuLincoln Park. Shortly thereafter, the dent] asked Corky [Gonzales] to come arrested protestors were released after up to the steps to speak, and when Gonzales, a former bondsman, was Corky was going up to speak, the police offered release on bail, but he refused ordered the crowd to go across the until all were let go. The authorities street to the park. obliged and Santistevan and the rest “Some of us didn’t hear the order so were released. we just sort of stood there. So the Santistevan says the event has perpolice began to push the crowd and sonal and cultural impacts. It remains as some of the students fell. Some of the a symbol of the power of protest, he students were kicked by police that had says, and several Denver schools fallen. So some of the students started installed their first Latino administrato fight back because they didn’t want tors after the fact. He says teachers who to get hit by police. And that sort of had changed their names from Spanish started a riot.” pronunciations to sound more Santistevan lets out a big laugh at Americanized felt freer to change them this point in telling the story. back, or at least, those who would have “And it was not a happy scene. changed their names didn’t necessarily Then the police started to use mace and feel compelled to do so. clubs, and they were really going at it. The Chicano movement as a whole, Some of the girls were dragged by their Santistevan says, was responsible for a hair into the street.” lot of growth in his life — he set up the first Chicano art gallery in 1968, and A neighborhood newspaper writer organized Chicano at the time, Jim artists in the late Hall, was at the ’70s for a humanity event and wrote in and arts council. the West Side Santistevan says Recorder after the HAPPY SCENE. THEN the West High fact that, School walkout and “Everything broke THE POLICE STARTED TO loose — night protest certainly USE MACE AND CLUBS, sticks started differed in violence swinging and cops and impact from AND THEY WERE REALLY were pulling girls’ the ones seen last hair by the handyear in Jefferson GOING AT IT. SOME ful. Nearly every County schools, but OF THE GIRLS WERE cop I saw had a the impetus was mindless look and unfortunately simiDRAGGED BY THEIR HAIR was beating kids lar: that history was INTO THE STREET.” — savagely.” being misrepresent“I happened to ed and manipulatCARLOS SANTISTEVAN look up,” ed. Santistevan says, “I saw that,” he “and saw this guy says of the Jefferson in street clothes and he’s rushCounty schools walkouts. “I support the ing and throwing Corky to the students because some of the students ground so immediately my response were protesting the way American histowas, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’ and ry is being fed to them. I compliment went over and tried to pull them off, them because they had the guts to say, and that’s how I got arrested.” ‘Teach us what real American history is. By the end of the episode, 25 people Don’t try to teach us this filtered, right were arrested and six people were wing of what American history is. We injured including a police officer. are a nation of many things to many peoSantistevan was taken to jail and he ple, and we should acknowledge that.’” says they were told they would be held And now History Colorado, a for investigation, which means they’d be Smithsonian Affiliate, is hosting a new in jail for 72 hours. In jail, Santistevan exhibit, El Movimento: Chicano remembers a swell of support from Movement in Colorado through October those on the outside. 25 to celebrate, commemorate and “We were on the top floor, and I remind people of the efforts and outremember looking out the window, and comes of the movement. The exhibit all of a sudden we see a bunch of peoexamines some of the larger outcomes ple turning the corner, and there was a of the Chicano movement including lot of support for us, and they demand- how Mexican and Latino cultures have ed that they let us out,” he says. shaped what it means to be American. In actuality, 1,200 students of vary“One of my favorite sayings is, ‘As a ing races from several Denver middle Chicano we’re a slice of Americana. and high schools had gathered together And Americana has different slices,’” and organized a march to nearby Santistevan says.
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hen Al Visconti was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma in 2004, his son was only 4 weeks old. Intense chemotherapy followed, as well as debates about whether the affected leg would need to be amputated. Surgery saved the leg, but the chemo continued. For nine months, Vicsonti would come home from the doctor connected to a pump that delivered drugs for five days straight. He endured this every three weeks for the entire nine months. “Then he was clean — clean for almost five years,” says Al’s wife Amy. “In that time we had our second child. But when our kids were 5 and 2, the cancer came back in his lung.” The cycle began again: The tumor in Al’s lung was removed. More chemo. Three years clean and the cancer came back in the same lung. By that time the Visconti children were 8 and 5. They watched their father undergo another surgery to remove the tumor in his lung, but just six months later it was back — and this time it was inoperable. And this is where the family is now. Amy says Al has been undergoing chemotherapy relentlessly for the past two years. Al’s chemotherapy regimen was so intense he couldn’t work, and now he’s on disability. Their children, now 7 and 10, have never known a life that wasn’t controlled by cancer. “Our kids are around it all the time, and he has a very intense chemotherapy, so there’s no way of hiding that he’s ill,” Amy says. “They see him sick and weak — his body has changed a lot. We don’t talk about prognosis and outcomes, but they’ve always known about everything. You can’t hide those emotions, and you can’t hide the fact that he’s sick, so they’ve always been a part of all of it, and their life is highly disrupted when he goes through chemotherapy because I go with him, and so people pick them up and take them to school and bring us different foods. It’s very obvious that there’s something going on in our life. “So when we had an opportunity for the kids to just escape all of that, that’s what Camp Kesem is,” Amy says. “It’s just an opportunity for a kid to be a kid and not stare cancer in the eye every Boulder Weekly
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day.” Camp Kesem is a nationwide network of camps that support children through a parent’s cancer, completely free of charge to the family. Each chapter is founded and led by college students, just as the first Camp Kesem was in 2001. Now with 62 chapters across the U.S., Kesem serves thousands of children ages 6 through 16 each year. Some of their parents have cancer. Some are in remission. Some have succumbed to it. Some have been cancer free for years. Whatever the situation, Kesem provides community and support — and magic. The word kesem means “magic” in Hebrew, the original idea being Camp Kesem’s ability to bring “magic” to families coping with cancer. In 2013, two students from the University of Colorado Boulder started Colorado’s first chapter of Camp Kesem. Santiago Gonzalez, now a senior in biochemistry at CU Boulder, was one of those students. Then, Gonzalez was just 18 years old and “looking for something fulfilling” to do with his time, so when a Camp Kesem leader from Vanderbilt University brought the idea to CU when she transferred, Gonzalez jumped at the opportunity to make it happen. With grant money from the LIVESTRONG Foundation, Camp
Kesem CU Boulder was one of 12 new chapters started in 2013, with their inaugural weeks of camp occurring in the summer of 2014. Gonzalez says planning was overwhelming at times — there was still money to be raised, committees to be chosen, a camp location to book, staff to hire. “You see these numbers of money you have to raise and you’re like, ‘I’ve never seen that amount of money in my life. I don’t think it’s possible.’ But it is,” he says. “You have to deal with lots of things, whether it’s families or trying to get a medical professional who needs to go to camp or trying to depend on college students. It does cause some really stressful situations, but it’s worth it. I really never have experienced anything like it. I’ve gone to many camps and gone to cool places, but this is a highlight of my college career.” The CU Boulder chapter held their first summer of Camp Kesem at CalWood Education Center in Jamestown with just over 40 campers. This year’s camp will be held at Camp Shady Brook in Deckers, and Gonzalez says they’re aiming for a minimum of 60 campers. Kids will have access to an array of activities, including an archery range, ropes course and lake for canoeing, swimming or fishing. Experts will
be on hand to teach and lead all activities. The idea, Gonzalez says, is not to focus on whatever is happening at home, but to create community and support. “At camp we rarely bring [cancer] up,” he says. “I mean, everyone knows why they’re there — it’s kind of the elephant in the room sometimes. At camp we have cabin chats every night where we just sit in our cabin and we hang out kind of as a family. We talk about random things. Sometimes cancer comes up, sometimes it doesn’t.” Danea Sharp is one of this year’s co-director’s for CU Boulder’s chapter of Camp Kesem. Now 23, Sharp was 14 when she lost her own mother to cancer. “Even though I’ve experienced what these kids have experienced, sometimes I don’t know the right words to say, but in those moments... even if you’re just crying with them, even if you’re just hanging on to them... you can’t tell them everything’s going to be all right, but you can tell them, ‘Hey, we’re in this together,’” she says. Amy Visconti says she was impressed with the students running the show at CU Boulder’s Camp Kesem. Her children still talk about counselors who snuck marshmallows into their cabins after curfew. They will both be going back to Kesem this summer. “When a family is hit with something like cancer ... there’s an immediate ‘put everything else on hold’ [mentality],” Amy says. “Your entire focus is on the patient and the cancer, and that’s just life. It’s everything for a while. But for some of us it hasn’t stopped now for two years. At the beginning we were putting our lives on hold and then we realized how fast [our kids] were growing up. We couldn’t put off their childhood anymore. This is the only time they were going to be 7 and 10, so for someone else to scoop them up and take them and let them be kids, that was huge for us.” For details on this year’s camp, counselor applications and how to donate to the CU Boulder chapter of Camp Kesem, visit campkesem.org. March 26, 2015 19
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n average, the U.S. generates about 25 However, it seems clear that clothing recycling is a billion pounds of textiles each year — 85 growing trend. The Environmental Protection Agency percent of which end up in landfills, estimates 2.3 million tons of clothing were recovered according to the nonprofit Council for in the U.S. for recycling in 2012 — compared to the Textile Recycling. 1.3 million tons recovered in 2009. With post-consumer textile waste accounting for But there are obstacles. One issue facing the texmore than 5 percent of tile recycling industry, Courtesy of USAgain all municipal solid waste Wallander says, is the generated in the U.S. somewhat misleading each year, the need for notion that many of the convenient solutions to organizations are nota complex problem are for-profit. Wallander becoming crucial. says he feels that com“There haven’t been panies should be a lot of studies made on required to list their the climate change status as a for-profit impact of clothing, but company on collection bins, and that the comone statistic that stands panies responsible for out is that the global those bins should be textile industry is responsible for 10 perThe textile industry is responsible for 10 percent of global car- required to keep up bon emissions. Companies like USAgain work to keep textiles maintenance. cent of the global carout of landfills. “It’s kind of a bon emissions,” says squirrely industry,” says Mattias Wallander, Dan Match, facility operator for Boulder’s Center for CEO of USAgain. Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM). “It’s been fairly USAgain is a Denver-based, for-profit company common that a lot of those collection boxes that are that takes unwanted textiles and resells them to keep in parking lots, they sort of present themselves in a them out of landfills. By operating 14,000 collection somewhat misleading way. In other words, they imply bins in 19 states, including 10 located in Boulder, USAgain attempts to make recycling a practice interthat by bringing your clothing, by putting your clothwoven into the fabric of communities, because, as ing in that bin, you’re donating to some charitable Wallander points out, it’s not just about waste piling cause. Whereas the reality very often is, yeah they up in landfills. might give a charitable donation at the end of the “One pound of clothing, so two T-shirts, emits 15 year, or they might even be directly tied to a charity, pounds of CO2,” Wallander says. “So in order to but it’s a for-profit organization, and they don’t necesmanufacture — to grow the cotton, to ship it to sarily present themselves in that way. And it also has China to make the T-shirt, to ship it back over here been kind of a shadowy, rather opaque industry in — you have created 15 times the weight of the garterms of, who is behind all these boxes? Where is this ment in carbon emissions.” stuff going? Should I be participating in it or not?”
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Wallander says that being for-profit is actually a “sustainable model.” “We have a triple bottom line mission — for people, for planet, for profit,” he adds. “By being profitable, by paying living wages, by contributing to the local community by paying taxes, we are creating a model that’s sustainable into the future for reusing and recycling textiles where we’re not depending on grants or government contributions or anything like that. It’s a business, but it’s a business that’s doing something good.” Last year, Colorado residents diverted 2 million pounds of textiles, which “prevented 17 million pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere, saved more than 3 billion gallons of water and 14,325 cubic yards of landfill space,” according to a press release from USAgain, using figures from an EPA Office of Solid Waste Report. The Secondary Materials And Recycled Textiles Association (SMART), an international, recyclingbased nonprofit trade association comprised of nearly 200 companies in the textile recycling industry, says that 45 percent of recycled textiles are reused as apparel, 30 percent is cut into wiping rags or polishing cloths, 20 percent is reprocessed into its basic fiber content and remanufactured to create things like furniture stuffing and upholstery, and 5 percent is simply unusable and is discarded. The Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) outlines three classifications of recycled textiles — post industrial, by-product from yarn and fabric manufacturing and post-consumer. Once categorized, the textiles are manually sorted as “wearable,” and resold domestically and abroad, or “unwearable,” and sold to the flocking industry for shredding and respinning. Companies grade incoming material according to type and color, making redying unnecSee REWEAR Page 24
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The rapids of the Colorado River and the Roaring Fork River in Glenwood Canyon pass by options for rock climbing, ice climbing and mountain biking.
Mountain Resort. The big stat for skiers — and one that Sunlight likes to brag about, albeit with tongue slightly in cheek — is the fact that the ski area has the steepest run in Colorado. This seems a bit outrageous until you drop into the resort’s expert terrain. Comprising a series of short and steep avalanche chutes that plunge through aspen glades, this zone is modest in total skiable acreage but rewards experts with phenomenal and uncrowded powder skiing. It’s so good, in fact, that it probably shouldn’t be mentioned here. But with Aspen just up the road, there will always be fresh lines tucked away at Sunlight. The rest of the mountain offers a nice counterpoint to the steeps: fun groomers and some bump runs are complemented by a low-key après scene in the bar. It’s mellow and ends early, but that’s not an issue, because there are places to go and things to see, primarily the hot springs that sit just outside the center of town. Most people know Glenwood
Springs due to the town’s hot springs pool. It’s easily visible from the cars speeding by on Interstate 70, and at just over $20 bucks, might be the largest hot tub and most expensive hot tub in the world that you’ll ever experience. Still, it’s worth doing once if just for the novelty as well as to experience a slice of history. The springs have a rich and illustrious past, hosting everyone from luminaries to socialites to average tourists. These waters, coupled with easy access provided by the railways, first put Glenwood Springs on the map. The town boomed in the late 1800s, becoming a summer destination for East Coast society, many of whom stayed at the Hotel Colorado, which rises behind the springs. Notable guests include Teddy Roosevelt, who summered at the hotel one season. The hotel is located a pole position close to the hot springs and at the western side of Glenwood Canyon, a climbsee GLENWOOD Page 28
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na, rich in histoing hot spot that ry. Originally, features sport the Hotel routes on limeColorado was a stone crags less classy summer than five miles spot for blue outside of town chip clients, as well as comincluding the mitted ice routes founders and such as athletes of the Glenwood Falls Glenwood and the classic Springs polo Hidden Falls team, a highnear mile marker class outfit that 123. The climbwon a national ing here remains Aspen’s ski runs are just 45 minutes from Glenchampionship, relatively empty wood Springs. fueled by East and after a day Coast money. on the ice in Glenwood Canyon, the springs provide Then, during World War II, the edifice an interesting dethawing option, was converted into a military hospital. although they can be crowded and those Hints remain — including the paranorseeking solitude along with their hot mal activity — of this utilitarian and, water may wish to hit the shower at for the injured and dying, tragic past. their hotel instead. Phenomena include the aforementioned Also captivating is the hotel’s patibumps in the night, as well as a room Boulder Weekly
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that was under renovation which saw wallpaper mysteriously stripped off of the walls each night until a pattern suitable for the “occuTom Winter pant” was installed. Busy during the summer months, recreationalists won’t have any problems finding elbowroom at the historic Copper Bar after a day outside in winter or the shoulder seasons of fall and spring. With ice covering the edges of the Colorado River, we Hotel Colorado don’t indulge in any watersports; kayakers and rafters do ply the rapids here yearround, but both sports take on a much bigger role in the local recreational scene during the warmer months of summer. Instead, we explore the shops downtown. They’re an eclectic mishmash of the utilitarian: banks, restauBoulder Weekly
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Craig MacArthur in Misterman, one of the theater performances showcased as part of Boulder Arts Week.
Free-range art
Boulder Arts Week is both about drawing audiences in and bringing art out into the world
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omewhere between the cupcakes and the ciabatta, a cluster of singers will belt out love ballads. Watercolor landscape paintings will provide a backdrop to the rods and reels for sale at Front Range Anglers. The tale of Little Red Riding Hood will be retold — for adults — with shadow puppets on the walls of a dance studio. Amid the shelves of cumin and curry at Savory Spice Shop, stories about chocolate, salt and food will be told. The North Boulder Recreation Center swimming pool will become a stage. It’s all part of Boulder Arts Week’s efforts to remind the city of the vibrant arts scene present here, to bring it out of doors to meet with the people where they are. Of course, people are also invited in to traditional venues to see the many concerts, theater and dance performances, film screenings and visual art exhibitions that go on all the time and from March 29 to April 4 have been welcomed under the umbrella of Boulder Arts Week. “The hope is that there will be art Boulder Weekly
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everywhere, and as the week progresses, no person will be in Boulder and not have a creative collision, so to speak,” says Deborah Malden, arts liaison and advisor for Boulder Chamber, who serves on the event’s steering committee. “Nationally and internationally, art is being taken out of traditional spaces and being made available in places that are unexpected, and I think it delights people and engages them in unexpected ways. ... The view of public art is changing — public art can be an experience. It doesn’t have to be an art installation.” Boulder Arts Week was created in 2014 following conversations between the executive directors of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art and the Dairy Center for the Arts on how to increase the city’s visibility as an arts
destination. Last year’s 10-day event included 750 artists from 115 organizations and 120 events — not counting events that occurred multiple times throughout the week, in which case the tally is more like 439 — in 116 venues. An estimated 14,300 people attended, 25 percent of whom came from outside Boulder County, according to audience surveys. “Overwhelmingly, the artists who participated felt like it was a really good start,” says Emily K. Harrison, Boulder Arts Week project manager. Of artists surveyed after the 2014 event, 90.6 percent said they were likely to participate again. It’s not curated. “Anyone who wants to be involved, can get involved,” Harrison says. In addition to inviting artists out of
traditional doors — and inviting audiences in — Boulder Arts Week also brings artists together in the name of support, visibility and perhaps even collaboration. Third Law Dance/Theater and Boulder Bach Fest’s joint venture “Bach UnCaged” is one of those (see full story on page 35). The week is also about supporting the next generations of artists. This year, there’s an increased participation from University of Colorado students, a trend Malden says she hopes to see built on in years to follow. And the bakery-boundchoir? That’s the Cantabile Singers, and they’re collecting musical instruments to be refurbished and distributed to Boulder County students who can’t afford them, both during their mini concert at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 29 at the Pearl Street Whole Foods and throughout the week at the Boulder Public Library. Last year, they collected more than 75 instruments, according to Linda Haertling, with Cantabile Singers. see ARTS WEEK Page 32
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She points to examples from around the “Bit by bit, he’s revealed as the play world that show that when kids are goes on,” he says. “It’s like spending time involved in music, high school graduawith somebody and you really get to see tion rates increase. the depths of them and the question “Music saves children’s lives and becomes, can you see the good with the gives them a future,” she says. bad? Can you write somebody off after “In Boulder County, there is a big you’ve gotten to know them? Can you need for this kind of thing,” she adds of accept everything about them?” the music instrument drive. “There are Those thematic elements sparked a a lot of students living at or in the pov- lot of conversation at talkbacks during erty level.” the Pagosa John Maushammer Attendees Springs run. can access places MacArthur says they might not what seemed to otherwise be resonate with taken — or even those audiences know exist, like was the stigma into a metalof mental illness. smithing studio. “It was Beth Merkel interesting to founded Boulder see people in the Metalsmithing audience who Association in knew each other, 2009 after movbut didn’t know ing to Colorado that the other and not finding a person had a shared studio nephew or a Taishya Adams at the Community Music Night space or easydaughter who Collective. Adams will be performing at the access classes for Celebration of the Arts for Boulder Arts Week. was suffering metalsmithing in from depression the Boulder area. On or schizophrenia,” ON THE BILL: Boulder Arts April 3, they’ll host a MacArthur says. Week, March 29 to April 4. “That was really grand opening for a Opening Party, 5 p.m. Friday, exciting for us, to new studio that will March 27 at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th know that we had offer space for memSt., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Free. affected that bers to work and for A full schedule of events is at change, even as outmonthly demonstrawww.boulderartsweek.org. siders. … What is tions and weekly art and what is theclasses. ater if it is not a “I think the fact that Boulder Arts Week raises awareness platform for furthering community discussions and community conversaof the arts even during the short time of year is very helpful, especially to more of tions?” He’s reached out to mental health the less visible arts,” Merkel says. professionals to participate in those con“There’s a lot of exposure for the perversations when Misterman comes to forming arts in Boulder and less so for Boulder, as well as recruiting experts to the visual arts.” speak to the play’s other elements. The resident creative pulse in town “We’re trying to use the play as glue will get an infusion of new blood during to bring people together,” he says. the week as artists from out of town are Of course, the week brings together drawn in. The play Misterman is one more than just audiences. such example. The production was “When you work alone, when developed by a New York City-based you’re very insular trying to do team that was first able to produce it at things as a sole theater company or a the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts sole painter or a sole sculptor, it can in October. The project was tough, be a very lonely experience, and I rewarding, and seemed to deserve a don’t think it should be so when you search for somewhere else it might have have a community come together and an extended life after its southern you have artists of all natures joining Colorado premiere, says Craig MacArthur, who stars in the show. Their hands, joining arms, the presence is just that much bolder and more poweyes turned toward Boulder, and the Dairy management nudged them toward erful,” MacArthur says. “Boulder Arts Week is fantastic in that regard. an open slot during Boulder Arts Week. It’s bringing old and new into the The play itself is about a fervently fold and letting everybody work religious central man MacArthur comtogether.” pares to an onion. Boulder Weekly
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Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes’ latest incarnation by Kyle Eustice
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hile he was growing up in Athens, Georgia, nobody in Kevin Barnes’ immediate family played music. They had a piano in the house and his sisters took piano lessons briefly, but his parents never listened to music unless they were in the car. Fortunately, the Of Montreal mastermind had some uncles and cousins who played music. It was up to him what he wanted to do with it. Taking a few cues from The Rolling Stones led him to the guitar. “I guess on some level, there was music in my life,” Barnes says in an exclusive interview with Boulder Weekly. “But it was always From David Bowie to The Rolling Stones, Kevin Barnes can play it all. But his latest album is something I kind of stumbled about getting personal. upon myself, and found that I had a strong interest and passion for. It was my own thing. I had an uncle Ziggy Stardust, Barnes had Georgie lution as not only a musician but also as who taught me some Rolling Stone Fruite. a man. The lyrics are very personal and songs. That’s the first thing I learned “There’s probably some vestiges of paint a clear portrait of where Barnes is how to play on the guitar. I got this col- Georgie lingering inside of me, but I’ve in his life, no matter how abstract the lection of Stones singles from the early moved into something new,” he notes. music behind it sounds. Aureate Gloom days. They’re all pretty simple. They With eclectic costumes and a very was written as his 11-year marriage to were basically blues-based songs. I visual, psychedelic feel, his live shows his wife, Nina, fell apart. knew they used the same three chords are much like a 1972 Bowie show. His “It’s definitely a therapy album in in every song, so I would be like, ‘OK, voice is also eerily similar at times, not the sense I was dealing head-on with what’s the combination of chords this necessarily in tone, but in the way he what was going on in my personal life,” time?’ I would just play along. The delivers each word. While nowhere near he says. “I was trying to direct all of Stones were my thing.” “perfect,” it retains a uniqueness that that energy into something more positive and creative rather than just sink Evidence of classic rock influences, might take a few listens to get used to. into misery, or whatever. You can feel like the Stones, can be found all over “I’ve had that many times with the misery, but it’s put into something Of Montreal’s 13th stubands where initially I artistic so you at least have something dio album, Aureate Gloom. couldn’t deal,” he says, ON THE BILL: to show for it. To me, the album is full From album opener, laughing. “Then once I Of Montreal with Yip Deceiver, 7 p.m. of emotional power. It’s very much like “Bassem Sabry” to “Like got into it, I loved it. Tuesday March 31, Ashoka’s Inferno Of Bowie is definitely a huge an open journal. It’s not dark at all right Bluebird Theater, 3317 now though. We’re both in a really Memory,” the album influence. Not just with E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Tickets are good place and there’s a light at the end soars with incredible guimusic that he made, but $15-$18. Visit www. of the tunnel.” tar riffs, taking the listenhis approach to making bluebirdtheater.net As Of Montreal hits the road on an er on a journey through music and reestablishing for more information. the deepest facets of himself as something new. expansive nationwide tour in support of Aureate Gloom, there’s a sense Barnes is Barnes’ mind. He tried to frame it in a finally at peace with the recent upheaval “There’s more guitar and riffing different way every time and explore going on,” he says. “There’s more cavedifferent kinds of music. That, to me, is in his personal life. Music is clearly the one constant in his life that keeps him man rock ‘n’ roll happening. Hopefully the most exciting aspect to him that he going. it’s done in a way that’s more sophistiwas able to do. On every record, he “My life is geared towards creating cated and not too one dimensional or almost seemed like a different artist. It things so I kind of just try to stay in a idiotic,” he adds with a laugh. “I like riff was never predictable or formulaic. It good state of mind where I can be rock a lot, like AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, was always special.” productive and fairly healthy,” he says. Black Sabbath and things like that. I Beginning with 1997’s Cherry Peel, “I take life seriously. I’m not a nihilist. wanted there to be some element with Of Montreal has always managed to I try to live in the present moment as some bad ass guitar moments.” keep people guessing. With 2004’s much as possible and just appreciate Since inception, Barnes has always Satanic Panic in the Attic, 2010’s False drawn comparisons to ’70s-era David Priest and now 2015’s Aureate Gloom, all the beauty around me and be engaged.” Bowie. Much like Bowie’s alter-ego, have followed 40-year-old Barnes’ evo34 March 26, 2015
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he Boulder Bach Festival will As dancers, Schirmer and LaVita are “I’m watching [the] dancers with the reprise its highly successful familiar with Cunningham’s work and eye of an eagle,” he says, “responding to 2014 partnership with 3rd his eccentric way of working with Cage. them, sometimes changing my phrasing Law Dance/Theater with a As an outgrowth of their fascination right then and there, based on what’s hapnew work that combines the with creativity born of chance, each prepening with a leg, or an arm or a torso.” music of J.S. Bach with iconoclastic pared their own work — Cage the The music for “Bach UnCaged” will 20th-century American composer John music, Cunningham the dance — sepacomprise a series of solo movements by Cage. rately and only put them together for the Bach, from both the solo sonatas for The performance, “Bach UnCaged,” performances. As a result, the music and violin and the solo suites for cello. is part of the festival’s “Compass Series,” dance merely “coexisted,” as they said, in Between the Bach movements, which aims to present Schirmer will play indiHeather Gray Photography Bach’s music in new and vidual sonatas for preunexpected contexts. pared piano by Cage. The The performances separate pieces will be will feature pieces for solo preceded and linked strings by Bach, played together by improvised by Boulder Bach Festival passages by Carrettin — music director Zachary some using the notes Carrettin on electric vioC-A-G-E. lin; interludes drawn Only at the end will from the sonatas for prethe music of Bach and pared piano by Cage, Cage sound together. played by the festival’s “In the very last piece, executive director, Marcia the material from the preSchirmer; and dance by lude that opened the pro3rd Law Dance/Theater gram will return, in fragand choreographer Katie ments, as Marcia plays a Dancers and musicians collaborate to create “Bach UnCaged.” Elliott. Cage sonata,” Carrettin After last year’s soldsays. “The idea is to have out “Obstinate Pearl,” fragments appear and discombining Bach and modern dance, the same time and space. appear of the Bach that we remember Carrettin and Schirmer got together LaVita and Elliot have their own from an hour ago when the show began.” with Elliott and her co-director at 3rd way of working, very different from Cage, a composer who sometimes Law, Jim LaVita, to discuss what they Cage and Cunningham. Far from being constructed pieces by chance and who is could do next. random, their approach occupies a high- best known for four minutes and 33 sec“We had dinners together and colly collaborative middle ground between onds of silence, seems an odd musical lectively came up with this idea, based a pre-conceived dance and spontaneous bedfellow for Bach, a composer of monon some of our own experiences,” improvisation to the music. umental, elegantly constructed masterCarrettin explains. “Some chorepieces. But beyond their shared fascinaIt was those ographers come in tion with numbers, Carrettin sees a ON THE BILL: “Bach UnCaged: Music of J.S. Bach and John Cage.” experiences that with the notebook deeper connection. Boulder Bach Festival and 3rd Law suggested the and all the moves “We’re talking about philosophers Dance/Theater 7 p.m. Friday and unlikely combinaare planned out, who are intensely spiritual,” he says, Saturday, March 27 and 28. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., tion of Bach and and then they ask “Cage in [his] Zen expressions, the Boulder, 303-444-7328. Cage as the basis the dancers to do notion of transcendence, examining for the new work. these moves,” silence and nothingness; and Bach, with Schirmer once LaVita explains. the mystical, passionate longing to be worked personally with Cage on his “Our dances are built up through the one with the beyond. music for prepared piano and the intrirehearsal process. “For me that’s the greatest commoncacies of “preparing” a piano by placing “We come in with ideas and we ality between these two composers.” nuts, bolts, rubber wedges and other make phrases and ask the dancers to Carrettin says he believes the two objects on the piano strings. This creates expand the phrases to create the movecomposers’ shared mysticism, and the different tone qualities for different ments that actually appear on the dance collaborative interchange between music notes, or even individual strings on the floor. We have a recording of the music, and dance are creating a larger whole. same note. we listen to the music, and we use “This is a show in which music and For his part, Carrettin has a family phrases and improvisatory techniques to movement vocabulary have a unified connection to Cage: his mother studied create a dance piece. So [the dance] does message throughout the entire hour,” he with Cage and the dancer/choreographer reflect the music in our case.” says. “I hope [that message] inspires Merce Cunningham, Cage’s lifelong At the same time, Carrettin says his reflection and offers a sense of space and artistic and personal partner. playing will reflect the dancers. time that is expanded.” Boulder Weekly
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MESA’s sexual assault poetry event strives to put faces to statistics by Amanda Moutinho Courtesy of The Dairy Center for the Arts
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alking about sexual of her body, enough to reach out assault is uncomfortto those in the audience. able. It’s sensitive, “There’s something really disruptive and comimportant and restorative about bative. But talking speaking those things into a about sexual assault is vital, says space,” she says. “Because, more poet Dominique Christina. often than not, there’s someone “You have to interrupt, and in that space that hears it and you have to agitate,” Christina needs it.” says. “I’m interested in radical Pages Matam calls poetry the conversations that pull people doorway to healing. In his poem into consciousness and call “Piñatas,” he talks about working power out. You have to risk the as a teacher and having students discomfort because you know of various ages and genders what the end game is, and you approaching him with their inciknow how bad it can be if you dents of sexual assault. It then don’t. All of it is inconvenient. triggered his own experience of Any fight is inconvenient. Any being molested at 8 years old by rebellion is inconvenient. Any a cousin. His students’ stories, he revolution is inconvenient.” says, were the catalyst for dealing As a kick-off to Sexual with his own issues. “Tell the one in three women of this world, that you will not make piñatas of their bodies, watch morsels of them, spill greedily to the famished smiles of your ignorance... how your words hit repeatedly, until Assault Awareness Month in “Some of these things, you they broke open like shattered papier-mache cradle, how their blood flowed like candy until hollowed April, Moving to End Sexual think if you don’t talk about insides, jaws mangled into misfortune from when they tried to scream...” — excerpt from “Piñatas” by Pages Matam. Assault (MESA), is holding a them or think about them they poetry event with award-wingo away, but that’s not true…” ning poet Pages Matam and female duo Sister their rib cage, so that they understand the weight of he says. “It was good to be able to go through that Outsider, comprised of Christina and Denice it, the mass of it, the critical nature of it and the moment and have that process and feel everything I Frohman, both world championship-winning poets. urgency of it,” Christina says. “Poetry allows for story needed to feel and truly begin tackling my healing.” MESA is a rape crisis center that serves Boulder telling. … [Statistics] sound far away. And that Sexual assault also affects the loved ones around County and Broomfield. It provides a 24-hour crisis woman is not your mother or your sister or your next- the survivor. As her partner worked through former and information hotline, programs that support sexual door neighbor or your favorite aunt. Poetry is about trauma, Denice Frohman says she learned how to be a assault survivors and preventative programs to the fleshing those bones … [and] forcing you to feel it support system. community. from the inside. Forcing you to be uproarious. It’s not “I’ve learned that sometimes it feels like it’s always According to MESA’s website, one in four women in the abstract anymore. It’s not far away. It’s close.” in the room and that’s OK. ... And that it doesn’t and one in 17 men in Colorado will experience sexual Christina had her own experience with sexual mean you’re going to slay all the person’s demons — assault in their lifetime. While the numbers are essen- assault as a child being molested by her stepfather, they still may exist because you yourself are not the tial, the poetry event is an effort to put a face to the which she talks about in her poem “Star Gazer.” She solution. You can be part of the solution. ... All you statistic. says that along with doing the emotional work, poetry can do is work every day to remind them that whatev“You have to talk to a person’s heart, the inside of also helped her address the issue and push it outside er defense mechanisms they need to survive, that they
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may not need it here with you.” just one answer because there’s so many to include more marginalized groups, the problem. As a woman, Frohman says, she was issues that stem from the personal to he says. The numbers of sexual assault “You can’t interrupt power by havable to offer empathy and compassion, the public to the judicial and all the increase for people of color, and they ing powwows with the people who because she understands what it feels other bigger institutions and systems continue to worsen for lesbian, gay, understand it,” she says. “You have to like to be violated. Her first interaction that are out there.” bisexual and especially transgender interrupt it by getting in front of the with harassment was at a young age This is not a new issue, but as num- communities. Matam says he wants to people who don’t understand.” when someone commented on her bers continue to skyrocket society is see safe spaces for these survivors Various studies say over 90 percent developing body. She then proceeded to taking notice. Slowly, the conversations because it’s the people who are ignored of sexual offenders are men, says spend the whole summer in sweat Camilo Casas, coordinator of the pants and long-sleeved shirts because Courtesy of sisteroutsiderpoetry.com Men Standing Up program at she didn’t want to be noticed. She MESA. Casas, Frohman, Christina says everyone comes at it from differand Matam all wish to see more ent experiences, but the source is the emphasis on bringing men into the same. discussion. MESA’s doing footwork “Most women do the things we in the community to engage with do to avoid being raped,” she says. boys, especially in middle and high “I’ve been harassed and intimidated school, to promote healthy masculinifor being queer and visible. [Women] ty, Casas says. understand what it’s like to live under Through his work, Matam has the threat of violence.” also reached out to several men and That ongoing threat is something boys. He says when boys lack strong Christina says she doesn’t see improvmale figures or other guidance, boys ing any time soon. Especially with learn how to treat women through social media, she sees people posting other harmful avenues. Matam says pictures of unconscious girls at parties he himself learned about sex from with hashtags — there’s no healthy watching porn. level of shame, she says. The term Once when talking to men at a “rape culture” didn’t exist when she detention center, Matam asked why was younger, and she says she wants the detainees catcall women, and the people to realize that sexual assault response? Because they can. Because can’t be ignored. Sister Outsider is comprised of poets Dominique Christina (left) and Denice Frohman, both win- no one will stop them. Matam says “[Rape culture] is when you nor- ners of Women of the World Poetry Slam Competition. patriarchy teaches men that they malize an event that should be know better — men are on the top abhorred by you, where it should send and everyone else is at the bottom shockwaves through your body and are shifting, and the problem is beginthe most who need the most care. “We need to start revamping the interrupt your day, but instead you ning to shed its misguided reputaFor Frohman, she wants the diaway we talk to people, most definitely can shrug it off and tion of being “a logue to transition away from victimmen, and teaching them not to rape sip your coffee,” she women’s issue.” blaming to stopping the act itself. and undoing patriarchy and undoing ON THE BILL: MESA: Be says. “There are three While sexual assault prevention is an sexism,” Matam says. Moved: Poetry for Sexual Assault Those cultural types of violence — important conversation to have, she says The MESA poetry event can be a Awareness. 6 p.m. Thursday, April 2, The Dairy, 2590 Walnut standards have actions, words and it’s a dangerous game to ask what the step toward starting the discussion St., 303-440-7826. Tickets $10-20 seeped into our silence,” Matam victim was wearing or how hard he or about sexual assault. Matam says he at www.thedairy.org. societal structures, says. “If we continue she actually struggled. hopes that by the end of the perforcreating bigger systo remain silent it’s “The primary conversation and the mance everyone leaves with more love temic problems, an act of violence in one we need to keep pushing it back to than they came in with. Matam says. He sees cracks in the sys“That’s what we need,” he says. “We itself, and it’s not something we can is why did it happen, and maybe sectem where people fall through, such as need more people loving themselves so keep standing for. It’s not just a womondarily is how do we react to it,” survivors not being believed by police they can love other people and support en’s issue, it’s an everyone issue. We all Frohman says. or being turned away from hospitals. other people. My sincere hope is to crehave to take our part in this and do the As she says, it’s an issue that affects “There are so many layers and com- work.” ate a safe space full of love for everyeveryone, yet mostly women are the plexities to this,” he says. “There’s not one.” The awareness also needs to expand only focus. Christina says therein lies
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7 p.m., Saturday March 28, Hamburger Mary’s Denver, 700 E. 17th Ave., Denver, 303-832-1333. American Sign Language is an expressive language that doesn’t use volume or tone to make a point, but uses expression and movement instead. While most poetry is associated with spoken word, ASL Slam is working to expand those limits and provide a platform for literary and performing artists in the deaf community. Instead of a treat for the ears, you’ll get a powerfully visual performance filled with story and emotion. All the poems will be in sign language, with voice interpreters for the hearing folks. Experience poetry in a whole different way and see the world through someone else’s hands. Tickets available at ASLSlam.com
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Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-2793922. Through March 22. Bon Bon — by Kristen Hatgi Sink and Jillian FitzMaurice. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through April 5.
Oil Paintings by Shari Farabaugh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through March 28. Barbara Bosworth’s exhibit Quiet Wonder at the Denver Art Museum features work from decades of her career, including “Salmon” (1994, gelatin silver print).
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, 303497-1174. Deadline April 1. Calling all Photgraphers for 2015 Land Through the Lens Exhibit. The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-7293. Submission deadline June 19. 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. Fire-
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Irished-Themed Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.
Ellis. 8 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 303-823-0848.
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Full Belly. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Lindsey Saunders. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.
Full Frequency Modulator. 8:30 p.m. Zenza Smokehouse, 4479 Broadway St., Boulder, 303862-4277. Healing in Harmony. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. Hog MaGundy, Ellus Bellus. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. The Hot Licks. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
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Mary Wallace. 3 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Megan Burtt. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Monte and Larry. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Mortuary Whore. 9 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. New Family Dog. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First
Phil Bender. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29.
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, 303-4407826. 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.
St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Phat Daddy. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Policulture. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE. Rex Peoples. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Trinity Demask. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Tyler T. Thompson. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill tap room), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Events Boulder Arts Week Opening Party. 5 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th see EVENTS Page 42
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Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Fine Arts Festival. 5:30 p.m. Skyline High School — Boulder County School District, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 720-494-3741. Gamers Guild. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. I’ve Never Seen That Before. 5 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
10:00 AM STARS AND LASERS 11:30 AM ZULA PATROL: DOWN TO EARTH AND PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA 1:00 PM LIFE OF TREES 2:30 PM DYNAMIC EARTH 9:00 PM 106.7 KBPI’S “A NIGHT OUT WITH SWEETCHEEKS” FEATURING PRIMUS 10:30 PM LASER: JIMI HENDRIX 11:59 PM LASER: DAFT PUNK
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Becoming a Mountain— by Stephen Alter. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, March 30 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, March 31
Music
Children of the Canyon — by David Kukoff. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Aaron Peace, Holiday Blue. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Acoustics Anonymous. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
Beauty of My Land. 8:30 p.m. Zenza Smokehouse, 4479 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-8624277.
SATURDAY MARCH 28
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Saturday, March 28
Bassoon Quartet. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177.
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Coffee Cupping. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303495-3303.
Bach Uncaged. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
THURSDAY MARCH 26
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“Walt Whitman Sings” A Spirit Revival in Story and Song. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, April 1 Contendors — by Erika Krouse. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Brendan James. 7:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Contraband. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.” Dark Star Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Dave Fulker Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Denny Driscoll. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-4913578. DJ Goodie. 10 p.m. Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600. Dukes of Winter. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE. Earth Hour. 4 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Last Tango in the Stone Cup. 9 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Digital Arts Training Center, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Laurie D at Thai Shi House. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133.
All Ages Art Class. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902.
Long Road Home, Chris Elliot. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Longmont Live: Sharon Glassman with Paul Kiteck. 7 p.m. Kay Carol & Priscila Gallery, 364 Main St., Longmont, 720-271-3544. Los Cheesies. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Mary Russell. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Moores & McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.
Art at the Riverside. 6 p.m. Agora Event Center at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Boulder Folders: Learn Origami. 10 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Dialogue and Process. 12 p.m. Vilona Gallery, 1815 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-287-4580. Easter Egg Hunt. 10 a.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-5588. “Eat/Ate.” 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303.”
Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4472400.
The Goonies. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
The River Session Concord. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.
Gallery Showing. 1 p.m. Uplifting Art Gallery of Boulder, 1520 Eisenhower Drive, Suite 132, Boulder, 314-363-5091.
The Hippie Buckaroos. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625.
Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Pre-Mortem Presentation and Conversation with Michelle Ellsworth. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
Euforquestra, Whitewater Ramble. 12 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Home for the Bewildered Music. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720442-8292. Hops + Handrails. 12 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Taylor Radio. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. The Whale Tales. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.
PLANETS AND LASERS
Hurray for the Riff Raff. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Wild Mountain Honey. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.
(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder)
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Ken Saydak. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Zach and KY of Sixty Minute Men. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
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Kerry Prestine and The Crime Scene. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Becoming a Mountain details Stephen Alter’s life and treks throughout the Himalayas. Hear him talk more about the book and his life at the Boulder Book Store on March 26.
Adobe Illustrator Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder
Women of Wisdom. 2:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Sunday, March 29 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Ani DiFranco. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Bay Bryan. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Weekly
events Coop & the Chicken Pluckers. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Frank French Recital. 2 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177.
Search Engine Optimization Hands-On. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts Training Center, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Hartwood Duo. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. Intuit. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-543-0886. Ken Saydak. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Ridi VanZandt Concert. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Women of the West. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tuesday, March 31 Music Foxygen. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
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Leftapalooza: My Blue Sky, Hey Lady. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Open Jam. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Signel-Z. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl
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Express, Create, Learn Kids Art Group. 3 p.m. Boulder Art Therapy Collective, 1400 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 7, Boulder, 303-593-0277. Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. see EVENTS Page 44
Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Turquoise Jeep. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events Awakening at Mid-Life with Dixie Clarke. 1 p.m. Joy in Motion Meadows Center, 4800 Baseline Ave., Unit D206, Boulder, 720-428-8612. Boulder Road Runners Sunday Social Run. 9 a.m. First National Bank Annex, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303-905-2415. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Gallery Showing. 1 p.m. Uplifting Art Gallery of Boulder, 1520 Eisenhower Drive, Suite 132, Boulder, 314-363-5091. Sensory Friendly Playtime. 9:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Monday, March 30 Music Ani DiFranco. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. I & The Many Jazz. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Jon Pickett Duo. 8 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Kaleidoscope Music Free Demo. 9:15 a.m. JCC Boulder, 3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303998-1900. Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Stage. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Events BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-2523962. Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Led Zeppelin. 7:30 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583. NCAR Community Art Program: Gay Lasher and M.G. Davis. 8 a.m. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-2570. Boulder Weekly
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A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney. madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-927-0802. Through March 28 Ain’t Misbehavin’. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-8567830. Through April 26.
4239. Through April 19. One Night in Miami. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239. Through April 19.
Stupid F##king Bird, playing at The Dairy, is a contemptuous reimagining of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.
Drag Machine. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 29. 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. Motown The Musical. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-
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, 303-440-7826. Through April 5. The 12. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through April 26. 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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NCAR Community Art Program: Gay Lasher and M.G. Davis. 8 a.m. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-2570.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
North Boulder Corner Library Celebrates First Birthday. 10 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.
Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130.
Open Free Form Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-8000601. Packing Light Clinic. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303786-8406. Public Reception and Performance. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
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Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Complete Unknowns. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Denny Driscoll. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.
Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Quick and Easy Boys. 4 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-8498458. Rubblebucket. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Son Tres. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Events The Art of Photojournalism, Lecture Event. 6:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Fly Fishing Film Tour ‘Behind Scenes’ PreParty. 4:30 p.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375. Fly Fishing Film Tour. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Eef and The Blues Express. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Getting Started with Adobe After Effects. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts Training Center, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Karaoke Hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Juried High School Art Show. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
Lewis and Church Expeditions. 6:30 p.m. Eclectic Cafe, 917 Front St., Louisville, 303-6659761.
NCAR Community Art Program: Gay Lasher and M.G. Davis. 8 a.m. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-2570. Boulder Weekly
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Tim Johnson brings families together at ‘Home’ by Michael J. Casey
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’ve just always been fascinated by what happens when you take a doodle and breathe life into it,” animation director Tim Johnson says, describing his career and passion. Ever since the birth of the flickering image, writers, directors, animators and viewers have been enamored by the simple act of watching an idea come to life and move. For Johnson, that moment dates back to his second grade English class. “I tell this rather cruel story, but it’s true,” Johnson tells Boulder Weekly with a mischievous smile. “My English textbook was very, very large... and Miss Radosevich was our teacher, but we didn’t call her that. She was a rather cruel headmistress, and I found that I could take little stick figures and by drawing one and then another make a little flipbook, so Miss Radosevich was beheaded as you flipped that book. And then even better, you could flip it backwards and murder her again and again and again!” This story clearly holds a great deal of significance to Johnson as he repeated it a few hours later after his latest movie, Home from DreamWorks Animation, held a special sneak pre-
view at the Boulder International Film Festival. After the packed screening, Johnson jumped on the Boulder Theater stage to answer a few questions and once again recounted his crude discovery of animation and its possible cruel applications. But parents don’t fret, Home — which won Best Animated Feature at the festival — opens in wide release on March 27 and doesn’t contain the beheading of a teacher, or anyone for that matter. In fact, Home is typical family fare, a movie that entertains first but still manages to teach. To show kids a little bit about the world, while giving them a fun ride at the same time. For Johnson, Home started seven years ago at his own house, when Johnson chose Adam Rex’s book, The True Meaning of Smek Day, of which the film is based on, to read to his sons — then 7 and 5 — as a bedtime story. The book follows Oh (voiced in the movie by Jim Parsons), a member of an alien race called the Boov, who come to Earth, relocate the human population and take over the vacated homes and landmarks as their own. Oh, a rubbery little alien full of Boulder Weekly
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ou’ll have to be OK with picnic casual: good food made simply by friendly people. If you like that, you’ll like Caspian Deli & Grocery — an unassuming Middle Eastern market on Pearl and 26th Street that does nothing but charm as soon as you walk in the door. In fact, you might overlook the door. Sandwiched between Salvaggio’s and a store that sells afghan rugs, Caspian may be the place that you always drive past and just never stop into. Well, time to stop. You’re immediately met by smiles. Three women chatting around a clean, wooden table with a small vase in the middle. One of the women greets us and goes behind the counter. The assumption, prompted by posters so old, with such low prices and so curiously in good shape that they look like they were overnighted from 1992 Kuwait, was that I should get a gyro. The recommendation from our shopkeep was lamb loin and chicken curry over rice. That worked. The woman went back and pulled a few things together in the small kitchen, and I browsed the store. The market side of the shop did not succumb to the haphazardry of other international markets. That is, it was clean, and all the products were fresh and without dust — a low standard, I know. Looking through five varieties of rosewater and twice as many brands of grilled eggplant, it was easy to see the
and almonds — a Middle Eastern specialty. The raisins were plump black orbs that popped Caspian Deli & with juice and the Grocery orange rice was 2607 Pearl St., Boulder, dry, long and 303-443-1210 cooked to perfection. Also on the plate was a small salad with a zesty and medium-bodied dressing, red onion, cucumber and tomato. There was also a fantastic yogurt on the plate that was sweeter than normal and without that dank yogurt tang. I mixed it in with the rice and chicken and had a blast. The other dish was a lamb loin that was served on the bone and fell apart just by looking at it. It was clear that this masterpiece was cooked down for a day (or maybe even longer) in tomato and minimal spices. The meat had such deep character, and no gaminess, and the marrow and fat on the original loin we take the first bites, the woman who made me recall the recent greeted us heads out the door, arm study that “fat” is the sixth taste sense. around arm with a friend, laughing, Ending with a great baklava — never to be seen again that night and dense, moist cake with honey and before I can ask, “Where are you from,” brown sugar — I was happy to throw or “Who’d you learn to cook from,” or out the plates, chat with the new shop“What flavors of ‘Yuri’s Non-alcoholic keeper behind the counter about the Grain Drink’ should I get?” food and be on my way. Also casual But the food on the plastic plate tells (and perhaps a product of its location the stories for her. The first plate of near the university) were the prices: chicken curry had a subtle, well-balanced about $6 for our plates, and less than spice. It was nearly charred on the out$4 for some sandwiches. side; the meat inside was dark and Caspian is a great place to grab a savory. It also fell immediately off the leg casual bite you can’t really get elsebone. Accompanying the drumstick was where. That is, it’s worth stopping in a plate of rice pilaf cooked with raisins finally.
Stopping in, stepping out Caspian Deli & Grocery is great casual food with a story by Matt Cortina care involved in stocking the store and that my assumption of Caspian being largely passed by must be wrong — they must turn over products quickly. In the refrigerators were drinks from all over the Middle East, braids of goat cheese, giant jars of freshly pickled items, yogurts and more. There was just so much variety in things you never see one of at Whole Foods (there were like eight brands of Turkish delight), and that seems to be a good way to judge an international market. We get the food and bring it to the end of the dining area that looks out on the business end of Pearl Street. As
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It’s a shame to see it go. Volta Mediterranean Restaurant, which Boulder Weekly recently reviewed (and raved about), is shutting its doors this Sunday, March 29. “We are thankful for this opportunity to have served Boulder’s dining community,” said owners John and Eleni Deering in a press release. “We gave it all our love which makes our closing bitter- Greek dinner at Volta sweet. We will miss all our wonderful customers and friends and our special connections with our SAUSAGE FEST local arts community like the Dairy Center. We are not taking our closing personally, Get ready to throw on your bib and rather as a sign that it’s time to move on to gorge yourself on meat because the new things.” Bohemian Biergarten in downtown Boulder Moving on to new things will bring the is holding a Sausage Fest from Wednesday, Deerings to the Pacific Northwest. Before April 1 to Sunday, April 5. they go, however, you can celebrate their The fest will include a variety of unique tenure at Volta. From now until Sunday, and delicious sausages, wieners, kielbasa March 29, you can receive a free drink just and more. There will also be drink specials by wishing them well on Facebook, win spethroughout the nights. cial prizes if you find a blue ribbon in your Stop by the Biergarten between 5-10:30 napkin, and request anything in the wine p.m. during Sausage Fest to participate. For cellar to be opened and pay only for what more information, call the restaurant at 720you drink. 328-8328. Festivities end with a bang on Sunday, which is traditionally Volta’s Greek dinner night. A Sunday brunch will be held from 10 TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF FOOD a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and the final Greek dinner will be held from 5-9 p.m. Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate: Volta, you will be missed. Field Notes on the Future of Food, will be reading and speaking about “a new way of
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thinking about food that will heal the land and taste good, too,” at the Boulder Book Store on April 15 at 7:30 p.m. Barber, a chef, posits that a future “third plate” will emerge in the U.S. that will combine good farming practices with healthy and positive eating standards. He says the local food movement has “failed to change how we eat,” despite being heralded as the savior of local farms and the healthy American consumer. You can purchase a voucher in advance to take $5 off a book purchase at the store at www. boulderbookstore.com.
FARMER’S MARKET SET TO OPEN It’s not like the super-popular Boulder County Farmer’s Markets need any announcement of their openings this year, but… the Boulder and Longmont markets open Saturday, April 4. “Farmer sales at our markets in 2014 reached a new record, with the largest growth occurring in Longmont,” said Mark Guttridge, board president for Boulder County Farmers Markets and owner of Ollin Farms. “This year we have some exciting new vendors as well as new events going on at the markets. Customers can expect to see more chef demos, kid’s activities, community collaborations, as well as new seasonal food festivals. The recent warm weather has allowed many of our farmers to get a jump start on the season, and greenhouses and fields are already filling up with crops destined for those first markets in April.” For more information, visit www.bcfm.org.
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judging by how quick Query picked his head up, was “Can seafood be good in Colorado?” “When you look at airports as harbors and airplanes as boats, we’ve got the ninth largest harbor in the world in DIA,” Query says. “We have some of the most celebrated seafood restaurants in the world in New York City. They’re serving product from California and the Northwest Coast. They’re serving product from Hawaii. So, you know, somebody sitting next to the water in New York, they’re eating Hawaiian swordfish and saying, ‘This is the best seafood I’ve ever had.’ It flew five times longer to get to there than it did to get to here. “I think the slam that you can’t get great seafood in Colorado is starting to fade,” Query says. “Twenty years ago, it’s all we ever heard, and we were serving as great a seafood then as we are now.” As the market for seafood increases in Colorado (Query says 10 to 15 oyster bars have opened in the
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airlines flying everywhere. It was easy, and then the airlines all got in trouble, and if you’ve flown recently, you know you’re on smaller planes and they’re jampacked and so you don’t have these big containers that you used to be able to ship in. “The other part is 9/11 made it very expensive. When we had that tragedy, they put in all the extra security in and screening and that just drove up rates.” So what exactly then does a shipment from say, New Zealand to Jax in Boulder, look like? “Let’s say the boats fish there, and they could be out three to five days,” Packer says. “So they come into Auckland in the port, and the fish are brought to a fish processing plant. They’re prepped. Most of the stuff we’ll buy from there are in their whole form. You got swordfish from there, we get a fish called John Dory, we get a fish called bluenose, different types of snappers. We also bring in green-lipped mussels and cockle clam. And all this stuff gets consolidated and is flown directly to the United States. The port of entry is Los Angeles. It gets to L.A., clears customs, our importer picks it up, and we get it the next day. Most of the time they’re flown in from LAX.” Packer says fish that arrive from Los Angeles are typically flown because they have a good system set up with that airport, but that most fish are shipped in tractor-trailers. In fact, Packer says he can get to Denver from anywhere in the U.S. in 33 hours, which is sometimes quicker than dealing with airlines and is a climate-controlled method of transportation — better than the possibility of leaving it out on a tarmac, which can exceed temperatures that insulation can’t help. When it gets to the Northeast Seafood Denver facility, it’s repacked on one of 24 trucks and delivered statewide. Sometimes those deliveries can be the same-day, but Packer says guaranteeing that is “flirting with disaster.” Thus, from the waters of New Zealand to a plate in Jax, you can eat John Dory in less than a week. However, once it gets to Boulder, the logistics that made it possible to do that are reflected in the price. “As with anything, when you’re bringing in a product, you have to factor in transportation costs and availability,” Query says. “Storms, certainly this last three weeks [in the Northeast], have made it really difficult to get product in. Product has been more expensive. You have to look long beyond next week or next month when you’re doing this. We buy sometimes from [Packer] in larger quantities so that he can lock in prices so that he knows what’s coming.”
Packer says he has connections with fisheries around the globe and has people at auctions in Massachusetts and Hawaii, which occur every day, in order to get fresh fish at a good price. “In general, you’re typically trying to create relationships with the resource. [For instance], we try to buy from an Alaskan company who is based right in Cordova on the Copper River,” Packer says. “And most of the fisherman are independents. It’s truly the last bastion of entrepreneurship because if those guys don’t want to work, there’s nothing you can do to make them work. Our whole joke with Mexico is when these guys run out of drinking money they go back and fish because they need more money. Guys are motivated by different situations.” Packer says, “once upon a time, all of ” the fish he sold was wild-caught. Now it’s about half of that. And though it’s impossible to get wild-caught species year-round (by nature and to prevent over-fishing), some seasons and populations are being impacting by both environmental and man-made causes. He says despite the challenges, importing fish to Colorado is a “healthy business.” “I try to tell this to people,” Packer says. “I say for everyone who wants to complain about a man-made disaster like an oil spill impacting the environment, Mother Nature can do it all by herself because this winter season in the Northeast has been horrendous. And we don’t even know what the long-term effects are going to be on the health of the oyster bays. We’ve been having trouble getting a rope cultured mussel out of Prince Edward Island, which is a beautiful agricultural product, but it’s under 4 feet of ice and then 4 feet of snow on top of that. So just getting to their racks, they’re cutting through barges to be able to get to the mussels.” The solution to help a growing demand for seafood in Colorado and nationwide may be to support aquaculture ventures like, for instance, one in southern California where one group is growing mussels that are not native to the area. Packer also says the idea of promoting “trash fish,” or abundant species that aren’t typical on American menus, might not catch on because of American palates. “Someone’s trash fish is someone’s treasure,” Packer says, adding that mackerel, sardines and monk fish all used to fall into that category simply because they have a strong flavor. What’s clear from both Packer and Query is that the more thriving a market for seafood, the better the quality and the lower the price of the food. So, eat up. Boulder Weekly
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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: The term “jumped the shark” often refers to a TV show that was once great but gradually grew stale, and then resorted to implausible plot twists in a desperate attempt to revive its creative verve. I’m a little worried that you may do the equivalent of jumping the shark in your own sphere. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I’m not at all worried that you’ll jump the shark. It’s true that you did go through a stagnant, meandering phase there for a short time. But you responded by getting fierce and fertile rather than stuck and contrived. Am I right? And now you’re on the verge of breaking out in a surge of just-the-right-kindof-craziness. TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20: If you happen to be singing lead vocals in an Ozzy Osbourne cover band, and someone in the audience throws what you think is a toy rubber animal up on stage, DO NOT rambunctiously bite its head off to entertain everyone. It most likely won’t be a toy, but rather an actual critter. APRIL FOOL! In fact, it’s not likely you’ll be fronting an Ozzy Osbourne cover band any time soon. But I hope you will avoid having to learn a lesson similar to the one that Ozzy did during a show back in 1982, when he bit into a real bat — a small flying mammal with webbed wings — thinking it was a toy. Don’t make a mistake like that. What you think is fake or pretend may turn out to be authentic.
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SAGITTARIUS one was oneself a different NOV. 22-DEC. 21: person.” With this as your If you were a ladybug theme, Capricorn, I invite beetle, you might be ready you to spend a lot of time and eager to have sex for visiting the Old You in the nine hours straight. If you Old World. Immerse yourwere a pig, you’d be capable self in that person and that of enjoying 30-minute place. Get lost there. And Go to RealAstrology.com to check out orgasms. If you were a doldon’t come back until you’ve Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO phin, you’d seek out erotic relived at least a thousand HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE encounters not just with memories. APRIL FOOL! HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes other dolphins of both genI was exaggerating. While are also available by phone at 1-877ders, but also with turtles, it is a good time to get reacseals and sharks. Since you quainted with the old days 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. are merely human, however, and old ways, I don’t recomyour urges will probably be mend that you get utterly milder and more containconsumed by the past. able. APRIL FOOL! In truth, Sagittarius, I’m not so sure your urges will be milder and more containable. AQUARIUS JAN. 20-FEB. 18: CAPRICORN Some Aquarian readers have been complaining. They want DEC. 22-JAN. 19: me to use more celebrity references in my horoscopes. They “The past is not only another country where they do things demand fewer metaphors drawn from literature, art and scidifferently,” says writer Theodore Dalrymple, “but also where ence, and more metaphors rooted in gossipy events reported
on by tabloids. “Tell me how Kanye West’s recent travails relate to my personal destiny,” wrote one Aquarius. So here’s a sop to you kvetchers: The current planetary omens say it’s in your interest to be more like Taylor Swift and less like Miley Cyrus. Be peppy, shimmery and breezy, not earthy, salty and raucous. APRIL FOOL! In truth, I wouldn’t write about celebrities’ antics if you paid me. Besides, for the time being, Miley Cyrus is a better role model for you than Taylor Swift.
PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20: Annie Edson Taylor needed money. She was 63 years old, and didn’t have any savings. She came up with a plan: to be the first person to tuck herself inside a barrel and ride over Niagara Falls. (This was back in 1901.) She reasoned that her stunt would make her wealthy as she toured the country speaking about it. I recommend that you consider out-of-the-box ideas like hers, Pisces. It’s an excellent time to get extra creative in your approach to raising revenue. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. It’s true that now is a favorable time to be imaginative about your financial life. But don’t try outlandish escapades like hers.
GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20: In the spring of 1754, Benjamin Franklin visited friends in Maryland. While out riding horses, they spied a small tornado whirling through a meadow. Although Franklin had written about this weather phenomenon, he had never seen it. With boyish curiosity, he sped toward it. At one point, he caught up to it and lashed it with his whip to see if it would dissipate. This is the kind of adventure I advise you to seek out, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. I don’t really believe you should endanger your safety by engaging in stunts like chasing tornadoes. But I do think that now is a favorable time to seek out daring exploits that quench your urge to learn. CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: Novelist L. Frank Baum created the make-believe realm known as Oz. Lewis Carroll conjured up Wonderland and C. S. Lewis invented Narnia. Now you are primed to dream up your own fantasy land and live there full-time, forever protected from the confusion and malaise of the profane world. Have fun in your imaginary utopia, Cancerian! APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. It’s true that now would be a good time to give extra attention to cultivating vivid visions of your perfect life. But I wouldn’t recommend that you live there full-time. LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: “The national anthem of Hell must be the old Frank Sinatra song ‘I Did It My Way,’” declares Richard Wagner, author of the book Christianity for Dummies. “Selfish pride is Hell’s most common trait,” he adds. “Hell’s inhabitants have a sense of satisfaction that they can at least say ‘they’ve been true to themselves.’” Heed this warning, Leo. Tame your lust for self-expression. APRIL FOOL! I was making a little joke. The truth is not as simplistic as I implied. I actually think it’s important for you to be able to declare “I did it my way” and “I’ve been true to myself.” But for best results, do it in ways that aren’t selfish, insensitive or arrogant.
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Dear Dan: My girlfriend can’t use hormonal birth control and “doesn’t like” condoms but wants sex. What would you do? — Paternal Anxiety Upsetting Sexual Escapades Dear PAUSE: I would fuck her in the ass, PAUSE, but only with her enthusiastic and sustained consent. And one day I would leave her, come out as gay and get myself a boyfriend who likes condoms and start fucking him in the ass instead. Dear Dan: I recently started dating a girl who likes to be submissive. It’s more of a psychological thing than a pain thing. She opened up about her kink, and I was all for it, thinking myself the ultimate GGG lover. Thing is, I find being a Dom quite boring. I love getting her off, but I just can’t get into the role. I’m not sure if this is funny or horrible, but the other day, she was strapped to the bed and just as she was reaching a climax, I stopped. I uncuffed her, told her I was leaving the room, and ordered her not to take the blindfold off or touch herself. She loved it, but I did it so I could go to the toilet and check my phone. I’d say something to her if I found it gross or it wasn’t working, but she enjoys it to the point where she has little interest in doing anything else. Even when regular intercourse takes place, there are still clear submissive overtones — to have vanilla sex at all, I basically have to lecture her first about her dirty ways to get her going. I like more “mutual” activities like 69ing, massages, etc. She seems open to it but then steers it back to her submissiveness. I enjoy sex with her, but this Dom/ sub thing is a roadblock to me getting off. Am I just being self-centered? — Dom Only On Demand Dear DOOD: All BDSM tops — all Masters, Mistresses, Pro-Doms, switches, vanilla-but-GGG partners of submissive types — occasionally check their phones, go to the toilet, take a snack break, etc., while their subs wait blindfolded or hooded back in the bedroom/playroom/dungeon. The sub gets to tremble in anticipation; the Dom gets to relax for a second. So taking a quick toilet/phone break doesn’t mean you are a lousy Dom, DOOD, but I definitely see why you’re bored: BDSM isn’t your thing, you’re doing it for her, and she’s taking you for granted. You’re being GGG (and indulging all her kinks); she’s not being GGG (she’s making it all about her kinks). Tell your girlfriend that she’ll have to lecture herself about her dirty ways when you two are having vanilla PIV sex, 69ing or swapping massages, if that’s what it takes to get her going, because you don’t want to have to play at being dominant every time you have sex. I suspect the Dom/sub play will feel Boulder Weekly
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they’re more like the Marijuana Policy Project’s Consume Responsibly campaign that began rolling out last year. The $5.7 million drive, which is paid for by marijuana tax monies, began in January with radio ads and the launch of the Good to Know Colorado website. Around the beginning of this month, the television ads began to really kick in.
Watching them, I am reminded of something that Rep. Jonathan Singer, who doesn’t use cannabis, told me last fall, “We need to treat it like the drug it is and not the drug that some fear it to be.” Singer has been quoted often saying this, but it is at the very essence of the legalization debate. Before 2014, remember the stories about how “officials fear an epidemic of teen use” or “a higher frequency of automobile accidents” or a “surge in crime?” But there hasn’t been an epidemic of teen use or an increase in automobile accidents. There have been problems, notably with edibles education, and people like Singer are facing up to those as the legislature firms up laws it made somewhat hastily in 2013 according to the Amendment 64 timetable. I have been a critic of the state’s “education” attempts for basing them on fear and stereotypes. Who could forget the “Drive High — Get a DUI” ads that clumsily poked fun at typecast young stoners doing stupid things while reminding people of the consequences of impaired driving? Nothing topped last fall’s “Don’t Be a Lab Rat.” The governor’s misguided attempt last fall to use a MadisonAvenue styled campaign to frighten teenagers instead of educating them. The ad included ridiculous, larger-
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