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It’s time Tom Tomorrow got some fan mail. “This Modern World” is consistently hilarious. It’s one of the best political cartoons ever; Tomorrow deserves some kind of award. Is “This Modern World” syndicated? I wonder how many Americans are missing out on this little treasure with which Boulder
Weekly wisely opens each issue. Paul Dougan/Lafayette Editor’s note: Yes, “This Modern World ” is syndicated and appears in about 80 publications around the country. Check out http://thismodernworld. com.
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[Re: “Trader Joe’s opens,”
Tidbites, Feb. 20.] Who writes the Tidbites section, Rush Limbaugh or some other lying neocon gasbag? President Obama has nothing to do with the fact that the Boulder Trader Joe’s doesn’t have a liquor license. Why was it necessary to sarcastically thank him for that? What’s next, blaming President Obama for see LETTERS Page 11
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corporate lobbyist recently admitted to the New York Times: “Everybody is embarrassed about it. Although not so embarrassed that they don’t do it.” “It” is the scandalous copulation between corporate cash and willing legislators that’s taking place regularly in such secretive rendezvous resorts as the Dorado Beach Ritz-Carlton. Lawmakers and lobbyists don’t like to talk about what they’re doing (and cer-
tainly don’t want voters or the media to see them), for these getaways are explicit, tawdry examples of the prostitution of our legislative system. If you had wandered innocently into the tony Four Seasons hotel of Vail in early January, you could’ve witnessed one of these group gropes. Assorted lobbyists, including one who represents the utility giant PPL Corporation, had slipped tens of thousands of dollars into the political pockets of Rep. Ed Whitfield and four other House members for the pleasure of rubbing elbows, wining and dining, and whispering sweet legislative nothings to them for hours. At one dinner, the cozy group dug into juicy wagyu steaks and swilled $60-a-bottle wine as they played scratch-my-back, Washington-style politics. Whitfield, a Kentucky Republican, was especially popular with the utility lobbyists, for he chairs the House committee that handles legisla-
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tion affecting — guess who? — utilities! And Ed must’ve had a good time in Vail, because when he returned to Washington, he promptly introduced a bill to let PPL and other electric utilities build additional polluting, coalburning power plants — an industry favor that would overturn health protections recently approved by the Obama administration. Sure, the public approval rating for Congress is at historic lows, but the Vail experience of Whitfield and the others shows that lawmakers can be loveable — for a price. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 6, 2014 7
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Goodbye Jefferson Dodge. We will miss your great journalism, your kind spirit and your sense of humor.
Banking marijuana requires an ‘act of Congress’ by Don Childears
D
espite bankers’ varied attitudes about legalizing marijuana, now that it is legal in Colorado, banks are supportive of government efforts to permit financial services for marijuana businesses. However, numerous obstacles prevent banks from serving marijuana businesses and their customers as they conduct legal activities. Colorado can’t regulate or tax an industry for which it cannot track money. Public safety risks associated with cash-heavy businesses cause concern. And several federal laws preclude banks from serving these businesses, regardless of state law. Only Congress can resolve this. While recent comments by U.S. Attorney General [Eric] Holder [and others] indicate “guidance” against prosecuting banks for providing accounts to marijuana businesses, he cannot change the fact that marijuana remains illegal at the federal level and banks must follow all laws. You can’t change water into wine. Banks are responsible to regulators, most of which are independent and uncontrolled by the president’s executive branch. The idea of no prosecution is nice, but to banks, regulators have the real power. The only real solution is an act of Congress, which isn’t likely in the near future, though needed. Elections can bring a change in guidance — and Holder’s directive would be the fourth Department of Justice formal position on marijuana in recent years. Put simply: Banks need the permanence of law versus changeable guidance. A number of federal laws now preclude banks from opening accounts related to marijuana. The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) prohibits everyone, including banks, from dealing with controlled substances or the proceeds from them, like the cash from a pot shop. A bank commits money laundering by accepting deposits from marijuana activities. The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Anti-Money Laundering laws and Know Your Customer doctrine hold banks responsible when customers engage in federally illegal activities, even if a customer attempts to disguise the true nature of an account or a deposit’s origin. Some bank customers have gone 8 March 6, 2014
to great lengths to disguise accounts related to marijuana, even spraying deposited cash from “Susie’s Cookies” with Febreze air freshener, for example. But banks, as required by these laws aimed at fighting organized crime and terrorism, are on the lookout for attempts at money laundering and must file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) if anything appears amiss — and pot-related deposits fall in that category. Last year, about 1.6 million SARs were filed in the U.S., and 342 people were sentenced to an average of 40 months in prison as the result. Bankers face criminal and civil penalties should they fail to act on their suspicions. These laws can’t simply be swept aside; they are both technically and politically complex. Regulators can impose various civil money penalties, cease and desist orders, and fines, and can ban bankers from their careers for life, should they violate federal law. To provide services to marijuana businesses, a bank would require numerous “green lights.” To date, banking has seen only “red lights” from federal laws, the Department of Justice, bank regulators and others. Attorney General Holder’s statement at best indicates a “yellow light” from the federal Treasury. Among needed “green lights” are: detailed in-hand guidance from bank regulators about legal and regulatory obligations and a high probability of no regulatory action against a bank. Others needed are internal regimens to comply with numerous laws requiring special handling and massive reporting on marijuana deposits, and a low likelihood of private litigation, as well as the go-ahead from banks’ own attorneys. Additionally, a low prospect of prosecution now or in the future must be secured. The AG is able to provide this item, but not the others. Some have advanced the idea of a state-owned bank as a solution, but it won’t work. While a state can own its own bank, the moment it connects to the payment system with checks, ATMs, debit or credit cards, Internet banking or wire transfers, federal law applies to it, the same as any other bank. State ownership would do nothsee BANKS Page 12
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danish plan Obama, Putin and pigeon chess by Paul Danish
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t is not true — as some conservative websites have recently claimed — that Vladimir Putin once remarked that “negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game.” That particular wisecrack is attributed to one Scott D. Weitzenhoffer, who made it in 2005, not about negotiating with Obama, but about debating evolution with Christian creationists. Like a lot of topical humor, it’s been updated. Little matter. The important point is that the joke succinctly conveys the profound contempt with which Putin demonstrably regards Obama. And why shouldn’t Putin be contemptuous of him? Obama has worked hard for the last five years to earn his contempt. American foreign policy under Obama has run the gamut from insouciant bumbling to cavalier bumbling to feckless bumbling. Putin saw his opportunities and — once he got through rubbing his eyes in disbelief — took them. Thus Russia’s invasion of Georgia in 2010, its re-arming of Assad in Syria last year, its ongoing role as enabler of the Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons programs — and its recent
seizure of the Crimea. However, the question isn’t what should Obama have done in the past, but what should he be doing now. So far, the response of the administration and its main European allies to Russia’s seizure of the Crimea and massing of troops on the Ukrainian border has been ludicrously flaccid. Sharply worded condemnations have been issued. Ambassadors have been recalled for consultations. Secretary of State John Kerry has rushed off to Kiev on a hand-holding (and loan-guaranteeing) mission. The seven major industrial countries that along with Russia make up the G8 (the U.S., Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan) have all announced that they have suspended preparations for upcoming G8 summit meeting scheduled to be held in Sochi in June. The U.S. and Britain have gone so far as to announce that none of its cabinet ministers will attend the Paralympics, which are due to start in Sochi this Friday. Obama and other Western leaders are threatening to impose economic sanctions on Russia. All the responses except the last one are empty symbolism. The last, threatsee PUTIN Page 12
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JAIL TIME FOR MINOR OFFENSES Not content to simply spy on them with video cameras, make efforts to banish them with Shakespeare and boot them out of the public spaces they huddle in to hide from the winter weather, the Boulder City Council moved forward with its plans to flip yet another bird at the homeless this week when it considered making it a crime under city code to violate municipal rules, meaning infractions as small as smoking on the municipal campus or littering could be punished with jail time. “These are mostly not controversial,” City Attorney Tom Carr told the Daily Camera. The shift reverses a decision made in 2012, and is part of the efforts to “clean up” downtown Boulder, just like how Mussolini cleaned up Italy and Franco cleaned up Spain. And it’s true. Some families have complained that they can’t go to Central Park because of the homeless. But reading their complaints in local media about how they can’t use a park — not because it’s closed, but because those people are there — we’re reminded of a piece of advice from Dear Abby, when a reader asked how to restore the quality of a neighborhood after a gay couple moved in: “You could move,” she said. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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rising gasoline prices, which is what the lying Rethugs did to Al Gore? Colorado liquor law allows a grocery chain to have only one liquor outlet in the state, and Trader Joe’s decided to put it elsewhere. Fred Tomlin/via email Editor’s note: That was a joke. Apparently some of our readers didn’t get it. Thanks, Obama.
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Third, Obama should ship sufficient arms to non-Islamist Syrian rebels to counter the aid Putin has been giving to Assad. Finally, there is the matter of the Budapest Memorandum. Unlike 10 former Soviet Republics and Warsaw Pact members, Ukraine is not part of NATO. But in 1994, Ukraine entered into an agreement with the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China called the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances — under which the five nuclear powers agreed to guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity and political independence in return for which Ukraine agreed to give up the nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that it inherited when the Soviet Union collapsed and to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. At the time, Ukraine had the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Today it has no nuclear weapons. The most substantive thing the United States could do in the present crisis is to announce it will honor the Budapest memorandum — which Russia has violated, of course. Since Obama has little or no stomach for military action, the U.S. should, at a minimum, start a major arms lift to Ukraine, so that it could mount a serious defense of its territory if Putin chooses to invade the eastern part of the country. Then there’s the nuclear option. Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for an American guarantee of its territorial integrity. If Obama isn’t prepared to honor that guarantee with boots on the ground, he should do the honorable thing and replace Ukraine’s nukes with a gift of some of ours. A couple hundred Tomahawk Cruise Missiles fitted with nuclear bombs should be sufficient. If that be pigeon chess, make the most of it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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State representative and Mexican Consul to speak at grassroots organizations’ dinner by Caitlin Rockett Boulder Weekly
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t’s good food, good music and plenty of community building this Saturday, March 8 as El Comite de Longmont hosts its 5th annual fundraising dinner at First Lutheran Evangelical Church in Longmont. Since 1980, the nonprofit organization has worked with policy makers, schools and other organizations in Boulder County to connect the Latino community with services that promote social justice and equality in education and economic status. This year’s fundraiser will feature music from a local marimba group, a raffle for a
Hawaiian Kukui nut necklace, and Mexican Consul General Carlos J. Bello Roch and Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont) as guest speakers. “I am honored in such a huge way to be asked to speak at El Comite,” says Singer. “They have done amazing work in Longmont to build bridges between the Hispanic community and the rest of the city — I hope I’ve been able to emulate that community-building at the capital.” While the fundraiser serves primarily as See EL COMITE Page 22
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a means to raise money so that El Comite can pay staff members and provide services to the community, Marta Moreno, executive director, says the event is an exciting “family” affair for the whole community. “People really enjoy the fundraiser because we have lots of good food,” says Moreno. “Besides that, I tell people — I even tell [Boulder County District Attorney] Stan Garnett — ‘It’s familia casa, buddy — bring your Tupperware, so whatever’s left, ¡vámonos!” And there’ll be no lack of food: 3 Margaritas, Santiagos, Los Palmas, La Panda Bakery, Mariposa and Chipotle will provide dishes for the event. Leftover food will be taken to the OUR Center, which provides food for people in need. Robert Norris, a member of El Comite’s board of directors, says the fundraising event draws community members and leaders including city council members, school board affiliates, county commissioners and members of the local sheriff ’s department. “It’s a real community builder,” says Norris. “It’s great that we get that community support from them.” Norris says that part of what makes El Comite effective is collaboration with a number community facilities and organizations. El Comite’s humanitarian reach extends beyond the Latino community. “We’ve always helped anybody that came in the door,” says Norris. As much as citizens in need seek El Comite, the organization seeks out those in need. After September’s historic flooding across the Front Range of Colorado, Norris says, many people in the Latino community didn’t know where to go for assistance.
“El Comite and the Colorado Rights Coalition got together and made sure there were bilingual events so Latinos could get their questions answered,” says Norris. “We made sure the social security folks came up here because many people had lost their cars or didn’t have driver’s licenses.” El Comite is also acting as the new home for the St. Vrain School District’s long-running adult education program, which was terminated in the spring of 2013. “El Comite stepped in when nobody else in this community wanted to help the adult education program last year,” says Kat Bradley-Bennett, director for the adult education program. “It’s kind of a match made in heaven — we serve so much the same population.” A flood victim and adult education student will speak briefly about their experiences at Saturday’s fundraiser. Above all, the staff at El Comite sees the annual fundraiser as a way to engage the community — as a reminder that there is always someone in need. “Community awareness is really important. I think that when you’ve been doing your hard work, fighting the good fight for as long as El Comite has, the community can sometimes get complacent,” says Bennett. “The fundraiser is a way of keeping the community aware that the need is still here.” El Comite’s annual fundraiser, with guest speakers State Representative Jonathan Singer and the Mexican Consul, takes place 5:30-8 p.m. on Saturday, March 8, at the First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont. Tickets are $60 at the door, $400 for a table that seats eight. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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e can, thankfully, U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Bruce Cummins], via Wikimedia Commons another problem: Boys also suffer remove one threat from asthma at higher rates. to the future exisThere’s also a stronger tence of the link between air pollution and human male from autism in boys. our worry list: The male Y chroWhat is up here? Why do mosome, after dwindling from its boys face such a burden of physioriginal robust size over millions cal challenges? of years, apparently has halted its The answer is that the male’s disappearing act. problems start in the womb: from But don’t start cheering yet. his more complicated fetal develContrary to cultural assumptions opment, to his genetic makeup, to that boys are stronger and sturdier, how his hormones work. basic biological weaknesses are The nine-month transformabuilt into the male of our species. tion from a few cells to an infant These frailties leave them more is a time of great vulnerability. vulnerable than girls to life’s hazMany chronic illnesses are seeded ards, including environmental in the womb. In our species, the pollutants such as insecticides, female is the default gender, the lead and plasticizers that target basic simpler model: Humans their brains or hormones. Several start out in the womb with studies suggest that boys are female features (that’s why males harmed in some ways by these have nipples). The complicated chemical exposures that girls are transformation in utero from A 3-year-old boy diagnosed with autism identifies items from flash cards during an in-home therapy not. It’s man’s fate, so to speak. female to male exposes the male session. Boys are more prone to neurological disorders, including autism, and more susceptible to First of all, human males are to a journey packed with special environmental toxins and pollutants than girls. disappearing. Mother Nature has perils. When the first blast of tesalways acknowledged and compensated for the fragility tosterone from the Y gene comes along at about the Boys are also more than two-thirds more likely and loss of boys by arranging for more of them: 106 eighth week, the unisex brain has to morph into a than girls to be born prematurely — before the 37th male births to 100 female newborns over the course of week of pregnancy. And, despite advances in public male brain, killing off some cells in the communicahuman history. (Humans are not unique in this setup: health, boys in the 1970s faced a 30 percent higher tion centers and growing more cells in the sex and Male piglets, as an example, are conceived in greater chance of death by their first birthday than girls; in aggression centers. The simpler female reproductive proportion to compensate for being more likely than contrast, back in the 1750s, they were 10 percent more system has to turn into the more complex male reprofemale piglets to die before birth.) But in recent likely than girls to die so early in their lives. ductive tract, developing tissues such as the testis and decades, from the United States to Japan, from Canada Once they make it to childhood, boys face other prostate. Further, it takes a greater number of cell divito northern Europe, wherever researchers have looked, challenges. They are more prone to a range of neurosions to make a male; with each comes the greater risk the rate of male newborns has declined. Examining logical disorders. Autism is notoriously higher among of an error as well as the greater vulnerability to a hit U.S. records of births for the years between 1970 and boys than girls: now nearly five times more likely, as from pollutants. 1990, they found 1.7 fewer boys per 1,000 than in tallied by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and On top of that challenge, the human male’s XY decades and centuries past; Japan’s loss in the same Prevention. They are more susceptible than girls to decades was 3.7 boys. damage from very low-level exposure to lead. Yet See MALES Page 26
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A good feeling
Montana inherits Colorado’s backcountry hut wisdom and hits the sweet spot for skiing story and photos by Tom Winter
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enison von Maur adds another log to the wood stove, looks up and smiles. He’s in his element, high up in the Beaverhead mountains, the wind blasting across the ridge as a snow squall spits flakes across the windows of the remote log cabin he built by hand. The fire now blazing, he sits down, cracks a cold beer and starts talking about Altoona Ridge Lodge. The lodge is actually one of three small cabins on a mining claim Maur built with his wife, using local materials, during summer from 2007 to 2010. They’re clustered in a group, and complemented by a yurt and a wood-powered sauna. Just over three hours from Bozeman, the cabins are part of a growing collection of options that backcountry skiers have in Montana. From yurts to tents to the luxury of Altoona, it’s a trend that has been inspired by the rich array of options in other states, particularly Colorado, with its famed 10th Mountain Hut system.
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In fact, Maur spent several years living The access — part of Maur’s plan — and skiing in Vail, and the lessons he learned allows for multiple runs in a day. Sure, you when taking advantage of the 10th’s system of could hike farther, but you don’t have to if backcountry accommodations as a customer you don’t want to. have been applied to the layout of Altoona “I learned from some of my experiences in Ridge. Colorado that most people don’t want epic First, there’s the multiple structure layout tours to get to good terrain,” says Maur. of Altoona. Maur had the “joy,” as he “Sure, there is a core group that will go harddescribes it, of spending a night in a er, but most groups want to relax a bit and Colorado hut with a fraternity and some enjoy themselves. They’ll ski a few runs, then kegs. That’s a fine set of circumstances if come back for lunch and then maybe hit the you’ve headed into the backcountry with the sauna. It’s about enjoying quality time with idea of partying all night. But as a passionate friends.” and accomplished skier, Maur’s priorities tend The sauna? Well, they’re ubiquitous at toward early morning powder runs versus allmany of the 10th’s huts, and that’s another night revelry. By design, Altoona has one great idea that Maur borrowed from the main cabin for cooking, hanging out and, of Colorado system. The Altoona hut in Montana imports some of Colorado’s wisdom about course, late-night storytelling. The other cab- backcountry accomodations. While the Altoona Ridge Hut may be the ins and the yurt are for sleeping. Want to get gem of Montana’s offerings, it’s not the only rowdy all night long? Sure, go for it. The rest of your the hut. Once there, the snowmobiles remain parked, option. A few days prior to our visit, we’d humped big party can opt out and hit the hay early. They won’t be and the human-powered adventure starts. Maur loads up a long ski approach deep into the Tobacco kept awake by your tomfoolery. knows that people tend to go into the backcountry in Root Mountains to Bell Lake Yurt. Where Altoona is Other lessons learned? Ditch long ski-in winter to ski. And they want to ski powder — the plush, the Bell Lake Yurt is minimalist. A single canapproaches with heavy packs in favor of snowmobile more the better. Situated close to the top of a northvas structure with simple bunks and a wood stove, the access. While “snowmobile” may be a dirty word facing ridge, Aloona’s best ski terrain is composed of yurt and its associated U.S. Forest Service permit was among some aficionados of human-powered backshort and steep laps: A 15- to 20-minute tour from purchased this year by Drew Pogge, a former editor of country adventure, at Altoona, the shuttle service the front door and you’re accessing runs like Gil’s, a Backcountry Magazine. allows for painless access with a lot of provisions. powder-stash that features steep pillow lines comple“It was pretty ratty,” admits Pogge when he first Forget freeze-dried food, our first meal featured thick mented by an open face. At the bottom, a mellow pulled the yurt out of summer storage (the structure steaks and baked potatoes (along with plenty of beer), hike up an old road leads back to the ridge, and you has to be taken down each spring and is then rebuilt the perfect fuel for the big days of skiing to follow. can lap the same run you just skied in 20 minutes or see HUTS Page 32 The ease of access doesn’t end with the shuttle to less.
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each fall due to its operating permit country luxury” experience. with the Forest Service). Still, it remains to be seen how But Pogge has bounced back from rapid the growth curve is for Montana’s the inauspicious beginnings and has huts, yurts and tents. Pogge is already made a variety of improvements, includ- talking about trying to spearhead the ing installing bunks, adding a table and creation of a marketing group to help chairs and installing a address visibility and simple and functional other issues, while the GET YOUR kitchen. The amenities continued growth of MONTANA ON: Book your flight from Denver are impressive when the backcountry skiing into the Bozeman Yellowstone you consider that category should also International Airport (bozemanairport.com) and plan to everything, including continue to help boost spend at least a night in this the wooden platform visitation from visitors hip, happening town featuring breweries, eclectic dining and that the yurt sits on, and locals alike. affordable hotels: must be deconstructed It’s a segment of visitmt.com every spring and the market that has the The Altoona Lake Lodge: removed from the site, ski industry, including Plan your stay, drool over their ski terrain and learn more at leaving only a meadow. those in the Montana altoonaridgelodge.com “It’s tough work,” hut business, feeling Bell Lake Yurt: admits Pogge, who bullish. According to More information, great phosays that when the Snowsports tos and booking information at belllakeyurt.com Industry Association recruiting volunteers (SIA), sales of alpine to help him construct touring gear have the yurt for the first exploded, with retailers selling more time he “learned who his true friends of the gear skiers need to go into the really were.” backcountry. For example, the sales of That’s probably because getting the alpine touring ski boots, which are lightyurt and everything associated with it er and more technical than traditional requires navigating the last steep pitch to the high basin it calls home: a hercuski boots, doubled from the 2011-12 ski lean effort that Pogge will have to face season to the 2012-13 ski season. each year. But while skiers in Colorado come “You don’t even want to know what face to face with the realities of this we named that hill,” laughs Pogge trend each weekend in the form of before admitting to an epithet-spiced tracked-out faces and increasingly moniker. crowded backcountry spots like Bell Lake and Altoona are compleLoveland and Berthoud passes, it’s mented by Montana’s other backcountry unlikely that the popularity of skiing huts. There are six in the state, Montana’s backcountry accommodaranging from Hellroaring Adventures, a tions will reach Colorado’s 10th primitive walled tent operation, to Mountain system levels soon. The Downing Mountain Lodge, which joins 10th’s huts rapidly sell out each winter Altoona as offering more of a “backand the association has instituted a lot-
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Drew Pogge makes some powder turns near the Bell Lake Yurt, which he purchased this year and runs for fellow backcountry skiers.
tery system for the most popular dates, like New Year’s Eve. Right now things are different in Montana. Availability remains good and terrain is untouched: the sweet spot in the backcountry equation for skiers who like solitude and powder. We end our stay at Altoona by skiing one last open run through a mead-
ow below the hut as we return to the trailhead. Our sleeping bags and the rest of our gear is being shuttled out by Maur, and we float unencumbered through the soft powder snow, contrails of snow glistening in the soft rays of a clearing storm. This is Montana. And Montana feels pretty good. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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n a world that plunks authors into brushed-aside categories like science fiction, fantasy and romance, one author is tiring of the “guilty pleasure” label. “I have a very good friend, and I’m standing in her house listening to her tell me that she doesn’t really like fantasy literature,” says Longmont author Carrie Vaughn, a “mass market” novelist with nine books on the New York Times bestseller list. Her most recent book, Dreams of the Golden Age, came out in January. “And I’m looking at her shelf, and there’s the Narnia books, and there’s Harry Potter and this and that, and it’s like, what are you calling fantasy? … There’s this thing that happens that once something gets popular enough, it’s no longer considered hardcore science fiction. “[Having worked] in [a] bookstore, I’ve known about this for a long time. There are some books that, once they become acceptable enough to the mainstream, they are no longer shelved in the science fiction, they’re shelved in the literature section, like [George] Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, [Anthony Burgess’] A Clockwork Orange.” Vaughn points out that some of the most successful franchises — Star Wars, for example, and more recently the slew of Avengers movies that recently came out — are science fiction. Yet if you mention someone’s a science fiction fan, they’re likely to take it as an accusation rather than a statement of fact. That said, Vaughn says she’s content to live and dwell in the world of science fiction. A lifelong fan who grew up reading Ursula Le Guin and Robin McKinley along with Arthur C. Clarke and “the master,” Ray Bradbury, she’s always found herself drawn to the world of speculative fiction. She’s best known for the Kitty Norville series, now 12 books long, a paranormal “urban fantasy” about a call-in radio advice show host, Kitty, who happens to be a werewolf. She’s written 17 books since 2004 and dozens of short stories, one of which, 34 March 6, 2014
ing, again, English lit when she saw her first true success as a writer — her short story “The Haunting of Princess Elizabeth” appeared in the Sword and Sorceress anthology in 2000 (volume 17, Vaughn recalls, without missing a beat). Four years and a couple more short story successes later, she had a book deal, and, in 2005, her first book, Kitty and the Midnight Hour, was published. Vaughn shared her thoughts with Boulder Weekly about the sometimes awkward interactions between science fiction and the mainstream, and her simple plan to keep her profession of writing fun and interesting.
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“Amaryllis,” received a nomination for the 2010 Hugo Award, which Vaughn calls “the Pulitzer of science fiction.” She started out ambitious and never changed. In high school, she started submitting short stories to anthologies, and her skin grew thick after the rejection letters arrived. Rather than dissuading her, she became more set in her ways. She attended Occidental College in Los Angeles and met some resistance from the creative writing department, which was skeptical of her literary ambitions.
Instead, she studied English literature. “The creative writing professor at Occidental College is this wonderful woman, really talented, really supportive, but she did not get science fiction at all,” Vaughn says with a smile. “I ended up not doing a whole lot of creative writing classes and degrees. … I figured, I was already writing, I didn’t need somebody to tell me how to write. I needed to study other people’s writings. I think that was more valuable.” Still, she was in grad school at the University of Colorado Boulder study-
Boulder Weekly: I read a science fiction blog recently that tore George Saunders’ short stories apart for not being properly science fictional. Carrie Vaughn: That’s actually a huge source of anxiety for a lot of science fiction writers. It’s tough when you’re a longtime science fiction writer and then a mainstream literary author comes along and does something science fictional, because what usually happens is that within science fiction, that idea has probably been done. And not just been done, but done 30 years ago, by someone who was able to get a lot deeper into the idea. You’ve written 12 books in the Kitty series. You’re not sick of her yet? No! In fact, I keep finding more things to say. And that’s kind of been the key for me, that I have something interesting to say with every book and that I’m not telling the same story over and over again. But in the meantime, I’ve gotten to do other things as well. Having success in that series has given me a platform that I can go off and do other things. I’m still writing a bunch of short stories. I got nominated for a Hugo award a couple years ago, which was a really big deal for me. Having grown up in science fiction, the Hugo is the Pulitzer of science fiction, so that was a really cool thing to get nominated for. I’ve written other books — my superhero novels, I’ve done some young adult fantasy. That’s Boulder Weekly
kind of my plan from here on out, to just kind of keep doing what I want to do and convince other people to read it and publish it. So far, so good. It’s very simple when you put it that way. It turns out it is pretty simple; it just takes a heck of a lot of hard work and sticking with it. I see too many people who give up, because it is hard, it’s really hard, and it’s really hard because you have to keep doing the same thing over and over again, beating your head against the same walls. But … I write what I want to write. I left my first publisher because they wanted me to stick to Kitty and not do anything else, and it was really important for me to branch out and do other things. So I switched publishers. … I didn’t want to be known as the writer who just does that werewolf series, I wanted to be known as a writer who does a little bit of everything, and I think it’s paying off. It seems to me the writers who are most successful are the ones who kind of stick to their guns and do what they want to do and diversify and are just known as good writers, not that good writer who does that one thing, but good writers in general, and that’s who I wanted to be. I wanted to be someone known for just good writing, no matter what I’m doing. Is it important to you at all to get some of that mainstream crossover recognition? Not really, because that’s never been my world, you know. But you studied English literature. I studied English lit and I learned a ton. I love literature in all its forms. But my community has been science fiction pretty much my whole life. I’m completely happy being within that community. The thing I’ve had to battle is that in that community, urban fantasy doesn’t always get that much respect. There are other science fiction and fantasy writers who look at what I do with the Kitty series and don’t want to take it seriously. So that’s that battle I’ve been fighting. It’s very strange. Those same people who look down on urban fantasy will then turn around and complain about not getting mainstream attention. And it’s like, “Hey guys, that thing that you’re complaining about, literary writers looking down their nose at science fiction, that’s what science fiction is doing to urban fantasy a lot, is looking down their nose.” It’s kind of playground high school stuff that I don’t want to waste my time on. What I wish would happen ... literary fiction is its own genre. No one calls it genre writing. But it’s its own Boulder Weekly
genre, with its own characteristics and quirks. I don’t think anyone should be mocked for what they read. I don’t think anyone should be looked down on for what they read. There’s value to be found in lots of different kinds of fiction and lots of different kinds of stories. You’ve been doing urban fantasy for almost a decade; what do you think about how mainstream it is now? The Hunger Games is science fiction, and I love The Hunger Games.
There’s a saying that you will hear from some in the science fiction community: science fiction is mainstream. These tropes and this kind of story is very much accepted. You look at the movies that are making tons of money, the superhero movies. What I get kind of twitchy about is that I will have conversations with people and they will tell me, Hunger Games isn’t science fiction. And I’m like, what are you talking about? And they’re like, doesn’t science fiction have to be space? There’s a miscom-
munication that I think goes on. As a science fiction writer, I wish people would just accept the term and not associate it with Star Trek and nerds. There’s a segment of people, they hear science fiction and they immediately think Star Trek and nerdy people and social misfits, and they don’t want to be associated with that, but they love Harry Potter, and they love Hunger Games, and therefore it can’t be science fiction, because they’re not one of those nerdy Star Trek kids. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com
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BMoCA exhibitions encourage new ways of thinking about old things by Nadia Mishkin
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rtist Kim Jongku creates calRepurposing industrial materials ligraphic poetry on canvas also fascinates Denver-based artist out of the same material used Velasquez. He uses materials such as in military tanks and weaptwo-by-fours, Masonite and acrylic paint ons. Derrick Velasquez lets in his work. In this exhibition, which he gravity work on boat upholstery to crecalls A Language of Structure, he uses ate stacks of vivid, colorful patterns in marine vinyl, the fabric used in the intehis wall installations. Aníbal Catalan rior of boats. Velasquez’s work is organic examines basic scenes from everyday life yet deliberate, as he carefully places the and re-imagines them in his bold, vinyl strips on top of one another in colabstract paintings and digital prints. orful patterns hanging over a wooden The Boulder Museum of wall-piece, and then allows them to be Contemporary Art’s (BMoCA) current shaped by gravity as they fall into place. exhibitions feature these three artists, “[Velasquez] is interested in discovpresenting works that encourage viewers ering that moment when a material to see the everyday materials that they reveals itself as something new based on interact with and the spaces they inhabit the force or manipulation put on it,” in a new light. explains Mardee Goff, assistant curator Coming from distinct geographical at BMoCA. “He has hit it head on the and cultural backgrounds — Catalan nail for a young artist, incorporating balfrom Mexico, Jongku from South Korea, ance, pressure and tension to show how and Velasquez from California — each a material can lose its understanding, artist approaches a common idea from a and gain a new one when displayed in a unique perspective. In these exhibitions different way.” they arrive at their own interpretations While Jongku and Velasquez manipulate physical material into new forms, of the human relationship to materials Catalan takes a more imaginary and their environment, or their perception of everyday sights and places. approach to his work. He displays his Velasquez, “Deep Hug Part III,” 2014, oak, vinyl, oil stick, gesso, folding metric Jongku’s series, Steel Powder Painting Derrick perception of a place in an abstract measuring stick. and Landscape, consists of six large-scale form. Catalan’s work in the show is called The Land, The Space and The works. Jongku works using a proprietary Square. It is an interdisciplinary production that joins technique he calls steel-powder painting, in which he hard metal into poetry. This dramatic transformation digital prints, sculpture and video elements, exploring grinds down industrial iron material into powder filencompasses his interest in probing the potential of a these perceptions of space. ings. He then paints the resulting steel powder onto material. His work examines relationships to the sub“He regards each of his pieces as individual works, his canvases. He writes poetry in Korean script, then stance, and allows it to have new meaning. Jongku although they really come together as a whole to turns the piece 180 degrees to let the loose powder fall produced the paintings during a two-month visiting explain this concept,” Goff says. The sculpture instaldownward via gravity. The result leaves only a vague artist residency at University of Colorado Boulder, whisper of the letters, leaving to your imagination and they are on display at BMoCA’s satellite gallery lation features fluorescent lights and two-dimensional what the words once said. The process turns cold, in Macky Auditorium on the CU campus. see BMOCA Page 38
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fragments of geometwork is like a whole ric shapes built onto menu of possibilities wires that span diagof representation that onally from the floor addresses the idea of to the ceiling. The land and architecture structure connects and how they are digital prints growing and invadthroughout the room ing space. For the that feature the same video works, I wantcolors and shapes as ed to mix all of those the sculpture. The elements from a difinstallation allows ferent vision or point the viewer to feel as of view. Many shots if they are entering are from very basic the piece, which is and daily life events, his abstract re-crehigh contrast shadation of another ows, flying machines space. or lights in the sky “[Velasquez] and so on, and the relays a three-dimenfinal result looks like sional structure in a abstract paintings.” two-dimensional The concepts image plane,” Goff presented in this explains. “This creexhibition may Kim Jongku, “Iron Powder Painting” ates an illusion of inspire us to quesspace that might lead tion our relationship us to new perspecto material and tives of the space space: How does a ON THE BILL: The exhibitions space — be it a that we didn’t know of Derrick Velasquez and Aníbal Catalan are on display at the building, park or natexisted.” Boulder Museum of ural landscape — Catalan takes Contemporary Art through April exist beyond how everyday sights and 13. The work of Kim Jongku will be at BMoCA’s Macky humans inhabit or redefines them. Auditorium space through perceive it? How can “Contemplation March 30. Visit www.bmoca.org steel, marine vinyl or is the basic element for more information. any man-made matein my process,” rial be used beyond Catalan explains. “I its pre-conceived function? The exhibican spend hours a day just watching tions of Catalan and Velasquez can be and observing the land, a cityscape, a pondered from now until April 13 at simple event in the city or even in the BMoCA. Jongku’s works are on display country. I make analogies between natin the Macky Auditorium gallery ural and artificial growth, from somethrough March 30. thing visually recognizable to someRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com thing more abstract. The exhibited Boulder Weekly
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ancy an old-fashioned coffin have made plans to come, we have a guy race? Or icy turkey bowling making a documentary from the U.K., perhaps? Then Frozen Dead and then there are two Norwegians Guy Days might just be the coming,” she says. festival for you. Starting With people coming in from all March 7 and running through March 9, over, MacDonald’s biggest concern is Nederland celebrates the 25th year of that the weather does not intervene Bredo Morstoel on ice. with the festival. In 2011 the festival As the festival drew in between Barbara Lawlor celebrates its 13th 5,000 and 10,000 year, Nederland people, she says, continues the trabut the event has dition based closed a day early around Morstoel, the past two years who passed away due to snow. in 1989. After Weather perbeing sent from mitting, the festiNorway to val will be able to California to go to carry on its annual a cryogenics instiHearse Parade, tute, Morstoel where people enter ended up packed 15 to 20 hearses on dry ice outside and parade them of his daughter’s around town. house in The festival is Nederland. also bringing back Team Hypothermia gets its coffin race on. When the other annual Don’t make it weird. Nederland events, such as the Chamber of coffin races, when Commerce was teams of seven — looking for a way to increase tourism in one in the coffin and six carrying it — 2001, it decided to capitalize on what go through a snowy obstacle course at the town was already known for and cre- Chipeta Park. ated the event, Frozen Dead Guy Days, Competitors, as well as audience according to the event director, Amanda members, dress up for the annual event, MacDonald. like the Alferd Packer group, the Mario The festival is bringing back all the Brothers and a group that dresses in classics, along with a few new events this pink socks, who no one seems to beat. year. “The pink socks who have won four “This year we’re having the Frozen years in a row, they have to go down!” Dead Poets Society. A local poetry MacDonald says. group will be offering people a soap box As the event grows every year, the to do their readings on and presenting festival has almost turned into a holiday readings for the dead poets,” for the people of Nederland. MacDonald says. In addition, there will be the Frozen They are also adding the Frozen T-shirt contest, the Brain Freeze contest, Beard and Mustache contest, where the Icy Turkey Bowling, and the Frozen best beard and mustache get picked Salmon Toss. from the crowd, after the band Zen “The story is there, but the festival Mustache plays. And a Frozen Monster itself has taken on its own life,” she says. Remote Control Truck Demo, which The family of Bredo Morstoel is entails people controlling mini helicopseparate but supportive of the event, ters. according to MacDonald. As the event grows every year, it has “Aud Morstoel, the daughter of successfully drawn attention to Bredo Morstoel, was the parade marshal Nederland, MacDonald says. in the parade last time,” she says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com “There’s a Japanese film crew who Boulder Weekly
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f you follow sity because we have University of so many female singColorado ers,” Holman says. Boulder Opera, “Hansel and Gretel you’ve seen it are both played by before. But on the females, and the other hand, it won’t be sandman, the dew the same, either. fairy, the witch and It’s Hansel & the mother are all Gretel by the German female roles.” composer Engelbert The role of the Humperdinck (the boy Hansel is a paroriginal Engelbert ticularly juicy role for Humperdinck, not the a young mezzo. English pop-schlock Holman knows this singer), the spring profirst-hand — she used duction of the CU to perform the role as Opera Theater, with a singer. There’s no performances in role that has meant as Macky Auditorium much to her as that March 14-16 (Friday one, she says This isn’t the first rodeo for CU Opera as far as Hansel & Gretel is concerned. and Saturday, 7:30 “It’s a whole lot of p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m. fun. Hansel’s jumping http://www.cupresents. up on furniture and org/events/hansel-gretel). dancing and falling down and doing all in the woods to die,” Holman explains. In many ways, the production is the “They go out to pick strawberries and kinds of stuff like that,” she says. same one mounted by CU in 2006. “We’ve staged the sword fight with just get lost. [The witch] is more of a After those performances, the CU brooms in the first act, so the two comic character, and the little boy and College of Music kept the sets and cos- girl are the heroes. They not only save Hansels that are double cast are just tumes, which they will use again. But in themselves, they save all of those chiljumping all over the place. They really some ways, it will be a new production. enjoy it.” dren that were going to be eaten by the “There are some things that are dif- witch. It’s really a wonderful, happy The fight happens pretty fast ferent,” Leigh Holman, CU director of onstage, but it takes a lot of rehearsal to ending.” make it look natural — and be safe for opera, explains. “In addition to the Even when they are lost, it’s not all the singers. principal singers, we that frightening, she “All the parries they do with each have between 50 and says. ON THE BILL: Hansel and other are numbered, so it’s choreo60 schoolchildren “They say their Gretel plays at Macky graphed by numbers,” Holman explains. singing the final choprayers and angels Auditorium on Friday, March 14, “We have fight call every night before rus, and we’re staging come [to watch over and Saturday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. The opera also plays rehearsal, so they can rehearse the the full ballet, during them], so we feel on Sunday, March 16, at 2 p.m. swordfight.” the dream pantopretty safe by the Visit http://www.cupresents. Holman’s experience singing the mime scene. That’s time they go to org/events/hansel-gretel for more. part of Hansel has led to another aspect gong to be a ballet sleep,” Holman says. of her staging. “Every director likes to with ballet students She notes the have a point of view,” she says. “My as the 14 angels.” university saved the idea is that the whole story is told The school chilsets last time around through the viewpoint of Hansel himdren come from Black Rock because they were sure they would reself. So even in the dream ballet, he Elementary in Erie, with 10 more from use them. Hansel & Gretel is a popular imagines that he is one of the angels. Boulder. The angels are students from production for opera departments. “And so for instance one of the little CU and Longmont Dance Theatre One reason it’s a particularly boy dancers is wearing a white outfit Academy. The performances, directed appealing opera to produce is that the like Hansel’s. That’s in Hansel’s dream by Holman with the CU orchestra fairytale story is one that almost every— he imagines himself being one of the under music director Nicholas Carthy, one knows and can relate to. Another will be sung in German with English one is the lush music in Humperdinck’s 14 angels, but also being taken care of by the other 13. I would say it’s a psytitles projected above the stage. score. chological concept, but it’s not thrown Hansel & Gretel is a fairytale opera, “The orchestral music is very in the audience’s face.” with lots of magic and a flying witch, Wagnerian,” Holman says. “It’s sweepBut in the end, Holman says Hansel but Holman wants people to know that ing, with broad lines and great melo& Gretel is just plain fun for all. “It’s the opera is not quite the dark and dies. It’s really strong and wonderful.” almost like Harry Potter goes to the scary tale that they may know from the A final reason is that the opera has opera!” brothers Grimm. so many great female roles. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com “The mother isn’t leaving them out “That’s really valuable for a univer40 March 6, 2014
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added skill set of turning familiar, multi-voiced compositions into singleguitar orchestral pieces. Still, he told us, this one was a challenge. “I actually worked on this for a long time,” Bundy said. “I worked on all these different techniques [for it], sent them a longer and shorter video (they took the shorter one, which I think was good). But yeah, it was hard. It was kind of a classic melody line, but the rest of it was just…I don’t know, I picked an older version of it. They really liked it; they actually contacted me and talked to me about writing some music for them in the future.” There’s a subtle irony in Bundy competing against a Korean artist for the winning spot. Years ago, as Bundy was perfecting his aerobic, two handed, tap-intensive guitar technique, one of his first YouTube creations was an elegantly arranged version of German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel’s iconic Canon in D, still one of Bundy’s signature live pieces. The YouTube video went massively viral in Korea, inspiring a young Korean kid to emulate Bundy’s fluid fingerpicking guitar technique. His name was Sungha Jung, and over the years Bundy and Jung have developed a friendship, performing together a few times a year. He was one of Bundy’s first Internet fans, and now has a YouTube fanbase of his own — according to Bundy, who still kind of keeps track of these things, Sungha currently boasts something north of 800 million (not a misprint) views. “I know,” Bundy sighed last week, before he knew he had prevailed in the finals. “I was thinking that I wanted to get Sungha to post on Twitter and Facebook to vote for me, but now that I’m up against the Korean girl, I kind of can’t do that. So, now I’m not even going to tell him about it.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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t may be the most recognized last six notes amongst all of TV theme shows — the punctuating triplets (DUD duh DUH … DUH DUH DUH) that close the ESPN SportsCenter theme song. OK, that’s a pretty weird superlative, and no, it doesn’t translate well to the printed page. But trust us, you’d know it if you heard it. The folks at ESPN, who are known for their offbeat promotional ads There’s a Trace Bundy under that hat, we promise. and generally subtle (for sports announcers, anyway) but unmistakably cracked sense of this slightly bizarre/kind of awesome humor, decided to start a competition mini-project last week, before the winlast year for best fan-performed render- ner was announced. ing of the SportsCenter theme song, “[ESPN] emailed me a while back, fully consistent with their unique brand said hey, we really like your music, we of self-deprecating vanity that has want you to be part of this ‘competiendeared the nightly sports wrap-up tion.’ They said they were going to program to viewers for many years. contact eight different musicians, and Colorado’s own Trace Bundy, well have all of us provide our own unique established and long-esteemed acoustic arrangement of the SportsCenter theme fretboard maestro, was tapped early on song.” to submit his own version, and after a “So they get these other seven comfashion he submitted a dizzying presti- petitors: a piano player, a beat boxer, a digitation of overhand chords, bouncheavy metal guy, all these different ing percussion harmonics and threegenres. The voting started up, they did voice phrasing; Bundy has this almost like a bracket system [of course they eerie ability to make absurdly syncodid], I think I got 87 percent on the pated and complex guitar phrasings first round, and then the second round look elegantly simple. You can judge I won with like 90 percent.” for yourself by doing a YouTube search Now, most working musicians on “SportsCenter Fan Jam — Trace would immediately recognize this piece Bundy,” and if you’re not familiar with of music as standard issue, productionBundy’s work, be prepared to pick up studio soundtrack work, which is to say, your jaw afterward. typically catchy and busy and decepAfter a few rounds of fan-vote tively complex. Composers and studio elimination, Bundy was in the finals. players toil over these things, massaging And just this week, ESPN announced them relentlessly for time and velocity that Bundy, based on Internet voting, and punch, while still managing to renhad won, besting his last remaining der them, paradoxically, memorable and rival, South Korea’s Luna Lee, who functionally unobtrusive. Studio musiperformed the theme song on a tradicians and players rarely get the credit tional Korean stringed instrument they deserve for this sort of craft, but it called “gayageum,” a sort of Southeast is high art. Or, at least, meticulously Asian zither. Bundy performed his crafted middle-brow art. version on ESPN this past Tuesday Like any advanced instrumental stylist, Bundy works effortlessly within morning. Bundy gave us the history behind his own compositions, but he has the
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Holly Roberds. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Left Hand Market Boys. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Ste. 110, Boulder, 303-449-2911.
Bluegrass Pick Under the Sun. 8:30 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
David Booker. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. see EVENTS Page 44
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American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through May 10. Collect: The Art of Colorado Individuals, Corporations and Institutions. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., 720-898-7200. Through March 30. Critical Focus — Artist Ian Fisher. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through April 13.
Nature as Muse — Features works collected by Frederic C. Hamilton, Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 23. The Firehouse Art Center is celebrating The Month of Printmaking by featuring the work of Theresa Haberkorn, Cheryl Rogers and Debbie Clapper through April 6.
Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13.
Ed Tangen, the Pictureman. Boulder Public Library, Carnegie branch for Local History, 1125 Pine Street, Boulder, 303-441-3110. Through April 19. Focus — Artist Robert Motherwell. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 9. Humanity, Earth, Intention and Consequences — Featuring the work of Tania Dibbs, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 7. Interlaced: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through March 22.
New Growth — Artist Rashid Johnson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 15.
Oil Paintings by Jan Burch. NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through May 29 PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 21. Paintings by Elen Feinberg. NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through May 29. Rebranded: Polish Film Posters for the American Western. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 1. Second Skin — Features the work of Nick Cave. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24.
The Land, The Space, The Square — Artist Anibal Catalan. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633. Through April 13.
Seen in Passing — Photographs by Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-856-5000. Through May 25.
A Language of Structure — Artist Derrick Velasquez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633. Through April 13.
Steel Powder Painting and Landscape — Artist Kim Jongku. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through March 30.
Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through March 30.
Stories in Print — Features the work of Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
EVENTS from Page 43 Mojo Medicine Show. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. U Rock Live Band Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Wolftones. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.
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music Adam Bodine. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Barbara Paris Classic Jazz. 4 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Big Paddy. 8 p.m. The Exchange Tavern, 11940 Bradburn Blvd., Westminister, 303-469-0404.
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Bonnie & the Clydes. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Shrek the Musical. 7 p.m. Rocky Mountain Theatre for Kids, 5311 Western Ave., Boulder, 303-245-8150.
The CBDs. 7 p.m. The Kathmandu Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-1169.
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David Grisman’s Folk Jazz Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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Dave Watts and Friends. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Dead Set. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Delta Sonics. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Frozen Dead Guy Days. 6 p.m. Nederland, www. frozendeadguydays.org.
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Art Show Opening: Dizzy Mammoth Art. 6 p.m. Salto Coffee Works, 112 E 2nd St., Nederland, 303258-3537. Bag Lady Sue. 5 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Connection through Portaiture — Juror talk with Amy Arbus. 6 p.m. Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 North College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-224-1010.
The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
The Current. 7:30 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.
Jeff Scroggins. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Deadset. 9 p.m. Dicken’s Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Knight of Jazz. 6:15 p.m. 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-5347.
Frozen Dead Guy Days. 6 p.m. Nederland, www. frozendeadguydays.org.
Lazy Dog Music. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
The Lyons Project. 7:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Melt — Barbara Paris. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Shrek the Musical. 7 p.m. Rocky Mountain Theatre for Kids, 5311 Western Ave., Boulder, 303-245-8150.
The Outliners. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.
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Papadosio. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
AJAX Blues Band. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303339-0767.
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Astro Trio. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
The Railsplitters. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Big Paddy. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band. 9 p.m. Bluebird, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
Big Paddy. 8 p.m. The Exchange Tavern, 11940 Bradburn Blvd., Westminister, 303-469-0404.
Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.
Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th
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The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
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words The Chomsky Effect — by Robert Barsky. 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble. 2999 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-4440349.
Thursday, March 6 A Well-Tempered Heart — by JanPhilipp Sendker. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver. 303-322-7727.
March 1939: Before the Madness — by Terry Frei. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., 303-322-7727.
The Ogallala Road — by Julene Bair. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.
Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-4953303.
Friday, March 7 Murder in Pigalle — by Cara Black. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.
Jan-Phillip Sendker will read from and sign his novel A Well-Tempered Heart at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver on Thursday, March 6.
An Evening with Dave Barry – You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty. 7 p.m. University of Denver, Sturm Hall, partnering with The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2000 East Asbury Road, Denver. 303-322-7727. Tuesday, March 11
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St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Big Medicine Gang. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Bluez House. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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Papadosio. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.
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Tom Wesier Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Tracorum. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Von Stomper. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-259-0649.
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Dr. Dog. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Holly y Los Esposos Malos. 5 p.m. Restaurante 100% Mexicano, 2850 Iris Ave., Ste. H, Boulder, 303440-4141.
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Teaching the Cat to Sit — by Michelle Theall. 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., 303-322-7727.
WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Highway 50. 10 p.m. Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.
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Alien Worlds — by David Aguilar. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-2074.
Dave Honig. 4:30 p.m. Kettle and Stone Taproom, 6800 Winchester Circle, Gunbarrel, 303-530-0642.
Frozen Dead Guy Days. 11 a.m. Nederland, www. frozendeadguydays.org.
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Danny Shafer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Bluez House. DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.
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Self Portrait with Expletives — Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.
The Prairie Scholars: Dinner Music. 6 p.m. Fresh Thymes Eatery, 2500 30th St. #101, Boulder, 303955-7988.
The Current. 2 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Ecstatic Dance Boulder. 7:30 p.m. Agora, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Frozen Dead Guy Days. 11 a.m. Nederland, www. frozendeadguydays.org. Lyrical Tales from the Southeast. 2 p.m. Norlin Library, CU Boulder, 303-492-7511. Toe to Toe: Canelo vs. Angulo. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583. Shrek the Musical. 2 p.m. Rocky Mountain Theatre for Kids, 5311 Western Ave., Boulder, 303-245-8150.
Sunday, March 9 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Another Earth. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Soaring in Song. 2 p.m. Trinity United Methodist Church, 1820 Broadway, Denver, 303-839-1493.
Brush Strokes. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Toad in the Hole. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade
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Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Contraband. 2:15 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-259-0649. An Evening of Raag & Taal. 7 p.m. Hamsa Arts, 1919 Spruce ST, Boulder, 303-449-5030. Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Frozen Dead Guy Days. 11 a.m. Nederland, www. frozendeadguydays.org. Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Helen Gillet. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
watch this! Tuesday. March 11: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. 7:30 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, Boulder, 303-492-1531. Alison Klayman’s documentary on Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei started out as profile of an exhibition of the artist before becoming a fascinating look at his political leanings and an examination of the perilous process of making art under the eye of a tyrannical government. New York magazine called the film one of the 10 best documentaries in 2012, and The New York Times called it “a galvanizing documentary” and “an intimate portrait of the artist.”
Ladysmith Black Mambazo. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Live Bluegrass Pluckin. 4 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Real Estate. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
events Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St, Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Current. 2 p.m. Irey Dance Theatre, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Frozen Dead Guy Days. 11 a.m. Nederland, www. frozendeadguydays.org. Front Range Coin Club Spring Show. All Day, Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. Movement Mass — Align with the Divine With Melissa Michaels and Friends. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Circus Center, 4747 26th St., Boulder, 303-444-8110. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Sunday Afternoon Tea Dance. 11 a.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Araphoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-5962. The Soul of Siberian Shamanism. 1 p.m. Kimba’s Home, 2323 4th St., Boulder, 719-629-8055. Shrek the Musical. 2 p.m. Rocky Mountain Theatre for Kids, 5311 Western Ave., Boulder, 303-245-8150.
Monday, March 10 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186. Open Jovan. 5:30 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Pick ’n’ Brew. 8 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Takacs Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303492-1411. events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tuesday, March 11 music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Boulder Women’s Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Enriching see EVENTS Page 48
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Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women. The Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. Through March 9. Jack and the Beanstalk. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through March 22.
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The Lyons. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through March 9.
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Nothing is Trash. Saturday, March 8. 1:30 & 7:30 p.m. Su Teatro Cultural & Performing Arts Center. 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303296-0219. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through April 19. Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 11. There Is A Happiness That Morning — Presented by The Catamounts. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. March 7-30.
EVENTS from Page 47 Elements, 2712 28th St., Boulder, 303-515-7974. Faculty Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-492-1411. Frankie and Floyd. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397. Highway 50. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Piano Jazz Tuesday. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Thurston Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Tuesday Night Trivia. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.
Griz. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Jesse Garland. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Joe Smith and the Spicy Pickles. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Marty Nightengale. 9 p.m. Baker Street Pub Westminster, 2931 W 120th Ave., Ste. F1, Westminster, 720-382-1025. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Travelin’ McCourys. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Araphoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-5962. events
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Elephant Poaching & Ivory Smashing: A Colorado Cause. 7 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, 303-492-6892.
Bad Daisy and The Duke. 7 p.m. Rockabillies Bar, 12363 West 64th Ave., Arvada, 303-421-1799.
Euchre. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.
Birds of Chicago. 8:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Team Trivia. 7 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Wednesday Mini Bike Races. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.
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David Booker Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 8 ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park 11:00pm - 12:30pm New Family Dog 1:00pm - 2:30pm Kort McCumber and the High Road 3:00pm - 4:30pm Tracorum 5:00pm - 6:30pm Smooth Money Gesture 7:00pm - 8:30pm Dead Floyd
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‘I could kick Jennifer Lawrence’s ass.’
American Hustle When the FBI decides to recruit con artists to infiltrate the Jersey mob and crooked power brokers, things get interesting in a hurry. Rated R. At Colony Square and Century.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Super-Sized R-Rated Version Ron Burgundy and his pals are back in this all-new cut of the movie that manages to be even more foul and sophomoric than the foul and sophomoric original. Oh boy. Rated R. At Century and Twin Peaks.
revenge in the lower depths of 1860s Paris. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Big Trouble in Little China
Inside Llewyn Davis
Kurt Russell stars in this action fantasy about a wisecracking trucker, Jack Burton, who attempts to rescue his friend’s fiancee from a 2,000-year-old magician (James Hong) who lives beneath San Francisco’s Chinatown. He must battle demons, goblins and other terrors as he makes his way through the magician’s dark domain. Also starring Kim Cattrall and Suzee Pai. Directed by John Carpenter. Rated PG-13. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
The Coen brothers craft this story of a homeless young folk singer trying to create a name for himself in the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. Rated R. At SIE Film Center.
The Boulder Jewish Film Festival The following films will be showing at the festival. Check with the theater for days and times. Natan; Alyiah; Fill the Void; The Sturgeon Queens: Russ and Daughters; Lenin in October; The Ballad of Weeping Spring. At Boedecker.
Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose freewheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Rated R. At Colony Square and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Endless Love Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde star as two teens having a love affair of which their parents don’t approve. This creates drama as the parents try to keep them apart. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Frozen When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the reindeer and a comical snowman that has trouble keeping his head, set out to end the spell. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Gloria Gloria (Paulina García) is a “woman of a certain age” but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo (Sergio Hernández). Rated R. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Gravity Like George Clooney’s character in this Oscar-winning film about Sandra Bullock being stranded in space, this film just keeps coming back. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
Her Only Spike Jonze could come up with a comedy flick wherein a shy writer (Joaquin Phoenix) falls in love with his computer’s sexy-voiced operating system. Rated R. At Century.
In Secret This film is a tale of obsessive love turned to crime and
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The LEGO Movie 3D Emmet is a normal, nerdy LEGO dude. So when he is mistakenly identified as the only LEGO who can topple an evil tyrant, things get pretty funny. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Maidentrip 14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out — camera in hand — on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to be the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone. In the wake of a year-long battle with Dutch authorities that sparked a global storm of media scrutiny, Laura now finds herself far from land, family and unwanted attention, exploring the world in search of freedom, adventure and distant dreams of her early youth at sea. Jillian Schlesinger’s debut feature amplifies Laura’s brave, defiant voice through a mix of Laura’s own video and voice recordings at sea and intimate vérité footage from locations that include the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia, Australia and South Africa.At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Monuments Men Based on the true story, this film follows a special platoon of art experts and soldiers charged with finding and saving the art that has been stolen by the Nazis before it is destroyed and lost forever. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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Arnett). Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.
Omar This is a tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar (Adam Bakri) is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja (Leem Lubany). By night, he’s either a freedom fighter or a terrorist — you decide — ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek (Eyad Hourani) and Amjad (Samer Bisharat). Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant. So begins a dangerous game — is he playing his Israeli handler (Waleed F. Zuaiter) or will he really betray his cause? And who can he trust on either side? NR. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2014: Animated Check in with the theater for details and showtimes. At Boedecker, Mayan and SIE Film Center.
The Oscar-Nominated Short Films of 2014: Action Check in with the theater for details and showtimes. At Mayan and SIE Film Center.
Philomena The unparalleled Dame Judi Dench brings to life the story of a woman who gave away the child she conceived out of wedlock for adoption in the United States and her search, decades later, to find that son with the help of a BBC reporter. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Chez Artiste.
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The movie version of the old cartoon featuring a genius dog and a less accomplished young man who travel time and encounter great adventures. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Milo (Kit Harington) is a slave-turned-gladiator who has to hurry up and fight his way out of the arena in order to save Cassia (Emily Browning) before the volcano wipes out everything. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Rated R. At Colony Square and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Kevin Hart and Ice Cube star in this latest tale about misfit cops as partners. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.
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Robocop The year is 2028 and a good cop, Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman), has been all but killed doing his job. Technology gives him a new lease on life. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Liam Neeson plays an air marshal on a flight from New York to London on which a passenger is being murdered every 20 minutes by someone demanding $150 million by text. All is not as it appears in this action thriller. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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This animated film is an action-packed comedy starring a mischievous squirrel named Surly (voiced by Will
This story of the life and death of Jesus is approriate for families. Mel Gibson is nowhere to be found. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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of a lake in rural France. His only friend there is Henri (Patrick D’Assumçao), an older married man who insists he comes to the lake for the views, not the men. One day, Frank meets Michel (Christophe Paou), an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love. They quickly become lovers, yet something remains off about Michel. When a death occurs at the lake, Frank and Michel become the primary suspects, but despite constant inquiries from the area’s detective, they choose to ignore the danger and instead continue to engage in their passionate and potentially lethal relationship. NR. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
3 Days to Kill Kevin Costner plays a spy who wants out of the racket but has to do one more hit job while watching his teenage daughter and rushing around trying not to die. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
300: Rise of an Empire 3D If you liked the strange and bloody effects in the original, you’ll probably like the strange and bloody effects in this 3-D gorefest as well. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Tim’s Vermeer Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor and the visionary behind the desktop video revolution, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo-realistically — 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning eight years, Jenison’s adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, on a pilgrimage to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer masterpiece in the collection of the Queen. Rated PG-13. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. The heart-wrenching film won the Oscar for best picture. Rated R. At Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Visitors Thirty years after Koyaanisqatsi, writer, producer and director Godfrey Reggio — with the support of composer Philip Glass and editor, producer and associate director Jon Kane — once again leapfrogs over earth-bound filmmakers and creates another stunning, wordless portrait of modern life. Presented by Steven Soderbergh in black and white digital projection, Visitors reveals humanity’s trancelike relationship with technology, which, when commandeered by extreme emotional states, produces massive effects far beyond the human species. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) Writer Director Hayao Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi in this epic tale set in 1927. Rated PG13. At Mayan and Century. Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE Film Center in Denver: Running the Edge: The Colorado Trail; The Great Beauty; Cutie and the Boxer; Jimmy P; Love and Airsex; Visitors; The Best Offer; Bronies: The Extrememly Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony.
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o review The Wolf of Wall Street at this stage of the game is to enter into a narrative feud with able critical champions on both sides. Does the film’s dramatization of realworld douchehammer Jordan Belfort’s drug-fueled depravity lend tacit approval, implicitly embracing harmful excess for entertainment? Or does it offer a backhanded critique of “Wall Street executive as modern Caligula” and our apathy about prosecuting it? It does neither. Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) is depicted as the aspiring asshole’s Horatio Alger. He starts at ground zero with a firm led by a chest-thumping madman (Matthew McConaughey) that quickly dissolves. Instead of giving up, he leads a ragtag band of misfits to success selling “penny stocks” in a less-than-savory-orlegal scheme. With the help of the ridiculously toothed Donnie ( Jonah Hill), Belfort soon starts his own firm that uses beyond-shady practices. Before you know it, Belfort and his boys are snowboarding on cocaine drifts and putting their business wherever they want in both literal and euphemistic senses. As comes the rise to riches, so comes the inevitable fall to conviction and despair. Those who see The Wolf of Wall Street as the modern bookend to Goodfellas aren’t wrong, as once more greed and criminality befall the charming but crooked. But there’s the rub: The comeuppance in director Martin Scorsese’s earlier movie was palpable. The last line in Goodfellas is Henry’s admission that he’ll spend the rest of his life “as a shnook.” The last thing shown in The Wolf of Wall Street is Belfort looking healthy and happy, having reinventing himself as a seminar-leading sales strategy teacher. That ending, combined with unnecBoulder Weekly
essary and wholly redundant sequences of debauched extravagance, have led to a critique of the film as a “secondary exploitation” of all the victims of Belfort’s real-life crimes. But that reading completely ignores the repeated shaming and emasculation of Belfort; Scorsese shows him to be a feeble coward and a flat-out depraved criminal. The problem is that the film drops the ball when it comes to FBI agent Denham (Kyle Chandler). The easiest way to stick a middle finger at Wall Street would be to depict Denham as a hero, the white knight champion of the 99 percent. Instead, he mostly gets ignored, save for a weird final shot on the subway that almost suggests he wishes he were Belfort himself. DiCaprio gives his best performance yet, seductively selling when not frantically yelling. That alone redeems an experience that is a wolf in sheep’s clothing: It is a film that appears to be about something but really has little to say. One more note: Margot Robbie crackled as Belfort’s wife, a fascinating character that is largely ignored. It sure would have been nice to see more of her. More of her character, that is; we see plenty of her physical form and those of scores of other women paraded about and copulated with relentlessly. Trim an hour of the repetitive smut and insert a cohesive thesis for DiCaprio’s performance to rely on and maybe this would have earned all the praise it has received. Wolf of Wall Street screens at the International Film Series on Saturday, March 15, and Sunday, March 16, in Muenzinger Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.
—This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ince the State of the Union speech in January, President Obama has made a push to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10, from $7.25, where it has sat since 2009. Less discussed is the fact that the move would also raise the pay rate for tipped employees — 0including restaurant industry servers — which is currently set at $2.13 an hour nationally, to $7.07. For some workers that will amount to nearly a $5-an-hour pay raise. Here in Colorado, it wouldn’t be quite that much. The state minimum for tipped employees is $4.98 per hour. But that potential $2.09 an hour raise is still enough to raise a few eyebrows. Jessica Villanueva of the South Side Walnut Cafe drops off a check to a customer. Peter Meersman, head of the Colorado Restaurant Association, opined about the wage hike in The Denver Post on Feb. 8, writing that the increase would raise menu prices, risk depleting customers and threaten existing jobs, a move that could dampen economic growth during the still fragile recovery from the 2008 recession. to pay for an increased minimum wage Some Boulder restaurant operators Before going on to describe the will not come from those profits. It will reject the restaurant association’s posirazor-thin profit margins of the restaucome from an increase in menu prices.” tion. rant industry, Meersman pointed out Under Colorado law, employers of “I don’t buy that argument,” says that Colorado’s state-set minimum wage tipped workers must pay a cash wage of Kevin Daly, proprietor of the popular for tipped workers is already significant- at least $4.98 per hour if they claim a Mountain Sun pubs. “We pay anwith $8 us Connect ly higher than the federal minimum of tip credit against their minimum hourly minimum wage to everybody ... If you $2.13 per hour for tipped workers. wage obligation. If an employee’s tips, pay your people well, you’ll do well. We “The profit margin in a restaurant is combined with the employer’s cash can’t have people in poverty. There’s too less than 4 percent before income taxes, wage of at least $4.98 per hour, do not much greed and avarice in this country.” so a restaurant that grosses $1 million in equal the minimum hourly wage, the Daly says the Colorado Restaurant sales makes $40,000 in pre-income-tax employer must make up the difference Association’s position on the minimum profit,” Meersman wrote. “The money in cash wages on a weekly basis. wage is shaped by the fact that the orga-
nization is a tool of mainstream corporate interests geared toward maximizing profits. “It’s pretty much owned by the big chain restaurants,” he says. “The restaurant association has taken the Republican greed stance. If you can’t can’t afford to pay your people an extra dollar, you’re probably not running it right.” He adds that some other states with thriving restaurant scenes have much higher minimum wage requirements for tipped workers. Meersman says none of the association’s Boulder member restaurants were willing to speak about the minimum wage on the record with Boulder Weekly, but he did acknowledge there were some mixed feelings on the issue in the local restaurant community. Other restaurant managers spoke about the specifics of the minimum wage issue on the condition of anonymity, including the general manager of a large Boulder eatery who says that though he supports a wage increase on principle, it isn’t a with make-or-break propoConnect us sition. “I think it’s absolutely great, but it definitely makes me think more about labor costs. ... You kind of deal with taking the bump in labor costs and eventually it will play out in prices,” he says. But he also explains that the labor cost for tipped workers isn’t the biggest slice of the budget pie. “Most of the money we spend on labor is for staff that doesn’t make tips.
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The World Bank released a report on Feb. 27 stating that one of the biggest obstacles to conquering poverty is the sheer magnitude of food waste, somewhere between one-fourth and one-third of all food produced globally for human consumption. “In regions rife with undernourishment, such as Africa and South Asia, this shocking loss translates to 400 to 500 calories per person, per day — and up to 1,520 calories in the developed world,” it said. That waste increases food prices, further exacerbating the problems of poverty. Costs to the average family in the U.S. or U.K. were estimated at more than $1,000 annually. For the First World, the largest areas of waste were in food spoilage, but in less developed countries, the bulk of the waste came from the production process. The World Bank also outlined several initiatives it was pursuing towards addressing the issue, including investments and resources towards improving irrigation, nutrition and agricultural strategies.
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News broke this week that Denver-based sandwich chain Quiznos is prepping for bankruptcy to deal with overwhelming debts and a rash of store closures. The chain was 5,000 strong in 2008, but now operates only 2,100 restaurants. Though competition with other sandwich chains is a major factor, the chain has also faced a series of lawsuits from franchisees that allege the chain overcharges them for marketing and supplies. In 2009, Quiznos had to pay a $95 million settlement, according to media reports, and another legal challenge was filed in 2013 for similar reasons.
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Also freshly opened and freshly baked is Nothing Bundt Cakes, at 2710 Arapahoe in Boulder. It is the fourth Colorado location for the 86-strong national chain, which focuses on fancy cakes like Red Velvet, White Chocolate Raspberry, Carrot, Lemon and more. There will be several shindigs through March celebrating the opening. The first is a ribboncutting on Thursday, March 13. The following weekend will have two events, with 20 percent of sales on Friday, March 21, going to Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence and the chance to win free cakes for a year on Saturday, March 22.
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Boulder Weekly recently published a review of North Boulder Cafe that started by pointing out that its not-on-the-way-anywhere-in-particular location made it easy to understand why our reviewers last visited in 2009. Apparently, we weren’t the only people not going there. The North Boulder Cafe just closed. Owners cited financial effects of flooddamage — and the lessened stream of customers that came with it — for the closure. Fare thee well, sweet huevos rancheros. We’ll still see you in our dreams. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Cup of Peace doesn’t look like much from the outside. A plain storefront in an unglamorous lot on the side of the less-distinguished end of Arapahoe. The best thing it has going for it is a big vinyl sign advertising budget Korean lunch specials within like some sort of gas station cafe. But like an Oreo cookie, that drab exterior contains creamy delights within. The space is full of nice tables sitting atop lovely hardwood floors. The soft yellow walls are bathed in natural light from large picture windows. Classical music sets the mood. It had the same overwhelmingly pleasant feel of a treelined patio in spring. Satisfying yet mysterious white cream filling accomplished. The difference is that unlike an Oreo cookie, Cup of Peace is probably kind of good for you. I say probably because a large poster inside the door quacks out consultations to “heal your own organs” and “be your own doctor,” and the menu sings a similarly holistic tune, which means it could help turn things around on a dime after a life of mainlining Cheetos, or it could do nothing at all. Holism certainly accomplishes the do-no-harm portion of medical practice. But that’s fine. Miracle organ repair or not, the ingredients and techniques in holistic cooking make for good eating and better general health, so as an avid diner, I say have at it. The menu focuses on Korean cuisine made with
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lean, natural and gluten-free ingredients. There is also a wide selection of herbal teas and similar health drinks. Though both the Korean Spicy Stew and the Korean Ban Sang, a sort of one-of-everything meal, caught my eye, I went for the “Dub Bob,” ($7.99) a Korean barbecue bowl with seven-grain rice and vegetables that also sounds like it could be an album of Marley remixes. With an egg added on top for 99 cents, it was delicious, with a nice balance between earthy flavors and Asian tang. It needed a bit of extra hot sauce to feel truly Korean, but that’s hardly an unwinnable struggle. My dining companion, who had steered us into Cup of Peace “because tacos aren’t for breakfast” — a
statement made at 1:30 p.m. — went for the order of Steam Rice Oat Meal ($4.50), which was delightfully light and frothy, served with your choice of whole, skim, almond or soy milks, choices that landed the dish about as far away from the term gruel as oatmeal is likely to travel. It was served with a ramekin of dried fruit and nuts on the side. We both added a cup of miso soup for $1. Probably the most interesting thing I had at Cup of Peace was the Multigrain Coffee Latte, a cup of coffee that leans in the direction of their health shakes, offerings that aim to be a meal in a glass. It was made with an earthy house mix of 20 different grains and nutrients that gave the coffee a richer, nuttier flavor and left nearly a half inch of tasty sediment in the bottom of my cup. It was hard not to notice that noise from the open kitchen was present throughout the meal, as it is an interesting clash with the general theme of A Cup of Peace. But lunch was still an undeniably pleasant experience even with the bleeps and bloops of various kitchen gadgets bleep-blooping away in the background. It was undeniably peaceful. Then we had to go back out the front door, into the traffic, into the madness, into the gluten. Don’t be fooled by the uninviting exterior. A Cup of Peace is a cozy respite from the mean streets west of 30th, and a bargain to boot. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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They’ll be tapping a fresh batch of Grandfathered In, a heavy Scottish ale. While tossing that back and getting pissed, you can check out live music from Caribou Mountain Collective, see the live broadcast of Colorado Craft Beer Radio, get a copy of Colorado’s Top Brewers signed by its author, Emily Hutto, or take part in a doozy of a pinball tournament. Why a doozy? ’Cause like a post-stroke penguin, you only get to use the right flipper. Events are happening both Friday, March 7, and Saturday, March 8. Get more information at www. VeryNiceBrewing.com. But if you prefer your boozin’ with both flippers, and free of the piercing gaze of a creepster corpse, one place worth hitting up this weekend is Front Range Brewing, in Lafayette. They’ll be dropping a new Rumrunner Quad on Friday, March 7. What the heck is that, you may ask? A Belgian coffee quad made with Ethiopian coffee and aged for several months in 30-year-old Peruvian dark rum barrels. Right? We just got thirsty, too. But if you’re fully booked this weekend, don’t worry. Front Range Brewing made a full batch of Rumrunner Quad, so it should be around for a spell. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing,” wrote the Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius more than 1,800 years ago. Is that true for you, Scorpio? Do you experience more strenuous struggle and grunting exertion than frisky exuberance? Even if that’s usually the case, I’m guessing that in the coming weeks your default mode should be more akin to dancing than wrestling. The cosmos has decided to grant you a grace period — on one condition, that is: You must agree to experiment more freely and have more fun that you normally allow yourself.
For the itch you are experiencing, neither chamomile nor aloe vera will bring you relief. Nor would over-the-counter medications like calamine lotion. No, Sagittarius. Your itch isn’t caused by something as tangible as a rash or hives, and can’t be soothed by any obvious healing agent. It is, shall we say, more in the realm of a soul itch — a prickly tickle that is hard to diagnose, let alone treat. I’m guessing that there may be just one effective cure: Become as still and quiet and empty as you possibly can, and then invite your Future Self to scratch it for you.
“My old paintings no longer interest me,” said the prolific artist Pablo Picasso when he was 79 years old. “I’m much more curious about those I haven’t done yet.” I realize it might be controversial for me to suggest that you adopt a similar perspective, Cancerian. After all, you are renowned for being a connoisseur of old stories and past glories. One of your specialties is to keep memories alive and vibrant by feeding them with your generous love. To be clear, I don’t mean that you should apologize for or repress those aptitudes. But for now — say, the next three weeks — I invite you to turn your attention toward the exciting things you haven’t done yet.
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Dear Dan: Straight female with a question. It’s about something that sometimes happens to me that I’ve never really told anyone about because it’s so weird and gross. It involves my bowel movements, so it’s not very sexy. (No offense to scat lovers, but I have zero interest in “poop play.”) After I have a normal bowel movement, I pull up my jeans. When I do that, the crotch seam presses on my clit as I begin to close the zipper, and I get what I can only describe as an intense miniorgasm. This is directly related to the recent BM because it happens only after one. I find myself just standing there in the bathroom, holding my pants up with my hands frozen on the zipper, eyes half closed, gently pressing my jeans into my crotch while my clit just hammers out an unsolicited series of intense orgasmic spasms. It’s not really a full-on climax, rather just a dozen or so fast and strong fluttering contractions of pleasure right in my clit/pussy area. I find myself enjoying these post-poop-gasms when they happen, although it’s something I’ve kept to myself for obvious reasons. I am not complaining. I am merely curious to know if you’ve ever heard of this and if you know why and how it happens. Do other people have similar experiences? —Possibly Odd Or Perhaps Curious Orgasm Mostly Enjoyed Regularly Dear POOPCOMER: I shared your letter with Dr. Debby Herbenick, a research scientist at Indiana University, a sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute, and the author of Great in Bed and numerous books about sexuality. Dr. Herbenick’s short answer: “Genitals are magical, mysterious places of wonder.” And her much more satisfying long answer: “There are other documented cases of people having orgasms while pooping. Most are on Internet message boards, but some have made it into the medical and scientific literature. ‘Defecation-induced orgasms’ seem to be more common than orgasms from peeing, but both kinds happen.” Yes, yes: But why and how do defecation-induced orgasms happen? “It’s not entirely clear, but here are some possibilities,” said Dr. Herbenick. “The pelvic nerve — which is one orgasmic pathway — links up to not only the vagina and cervix, but also the rectum and bladder. Another possibility is something called nerve ‘crosstalk.’ In essence, the genital and excretory parts are smooshed closely together, and some nerves (like the pelvic nerve) service more than one part. Thus, feelings and messages carried in the nerves can get a little muddled. For example, some people can have vaginal pain from bladder problems. Similarly, people Boulder Weekly
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describe genital orgasms from stimulation of nearby parts, and nerve crosstalk is thought to be part of that.” (Want to shut up an “intelligent design” creationist? Ask them to defend the illadvised, none-too-intelligent smooshing together of our excretory and reproductive systems — after making them google “obstetric fistula.”) “POOPCOMER doesn’t have to like the fact that she orgasms from pooping,” said Dr. Herbenick, “but it’s better than the opposite scenario: unintentionally pooping during orgasm. That also happens.” Follow Dr. Herbenick on Twitter @ DebbyHerbenick. Dear Dan: You always take questions from BDSMers and cuckolds and other hardcore sexers, but will you take mine? I plead with you! Won’t you please offer some advice for me, a simple heterosexual girl having problems with her heterosexual male?!? My boyfriend always closes and locks the door behind him when he pees. It hurts my feelings! Being a part of his pissing experience would turn me on and arouse me! He claims he does this because he is pee shy. But he pees in public restrooms in front of other men! So if he knows that I like it, and if the issue isn’t about being pee shy, then why can’t he pee in front of me?!? Why is he “NO GIRLS ALLOWED” about this?!? I would be grateful for your advice on how to get him to relax with his peeing moments a little more because I’m BORED. Thanks! —Personally Insulted Since Sexy Entrance Denied
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ike Elliott is executive direc“I think with Amendment 64, we’re tor of the Marijuana taking our heads out of the sand,” he Industry Group, a trade says. “We’ve been fighting this war on association for cannabis marijuana for 40 years and spent a trilbusinesses based in Denver. lion dollars for the war on drugs. We He founded MIG as the Medical have the highest incarceration rate in the Marijuana Industry Group at a critical world, and after all that, marijuana is still moment in the state’s cannabis movement. universally available. It’s still in our The stampede of dispensary openschools. It’s out of control. We’re not ings in Colorado that began in 2009 on getting tax revenue, and everyone knows it hasn’t worked. The question has been, the heels of the Obama administration ‘What is the solution?’” announcement Courtesy of Mike Elliott And for right now, he that it wouldn’t explains, it’s dealing with 500 prosecute medpages of laws. ical marijuana “In many ways we’ve gone in states where way, way overboard,” Elliott it was legal says. “But that’s OK, because spawned more people demand that we take all than a thouthese public-safety issues very sand dispensaseriously. We’re coming up with ries across the good solutions. Business ownstate in less ers are completely transparent. than a year, a They’ve given up their lives, majority of those in Mike Elliott is executive director of and there’s no hiding what they’re doing anymore. If they Denver. None the Marijuana Industry Group. screw up, it’s not just going out were licensed, of business. The reality is that they and the attorney general and law would be living the rest of their life in enforcement were ready to ban them all. orange.” “That’s the environment in which On Feb. 17, the Washington state my trade association formed,” Elliott House voted to ban medical dispensaries told me recently. “We took the philosoand impose new restrictions on medical phy of ‘If we don’t hang together, we’re users. Elliott doesn’t think that will hapgoing to hang separately’ and pooled our pen here or that medical is in danger of resources.” The organization successfully going away in Colorado anytime soon. lobbied to pass Colorado HB 10-1284 “Medical is the roots of this industry in June 2010, which created the licensing — those patients and maintaining those structure that forced medical marijuana relationships,” he says. “A lot of people businesses to submit to background would say that medical is just a stepping checks and financial disclosures. stone to legalization, but those people MIG now represents more than 50 licensed medical and retail marijuana dis- forget the fact that there are sick people pensaries, grow facilities, infused products who do get a great benefit, and businessmanufacturers, vendors and investors. es want to keep catering to medical mar-
ijuana patients.” Elliott says current rules encourage businesses to cater to both markets. Each city can choose whether to allow medical and/or recreational cannabis. “So you have a community like Colorado Springs, which has allowed medical businesses but banned recreational,” he notes. “How do you make sense of Colorado Springs? It’s good to have medical businesses catering to patients. I don’t see anything big changing anytime soon.” One coming challenge to is codify some rules that differ for each market. “It could be worse. We created two industries, one for medical and one for recreational,” he says. “There are a lot of similarities that make sense, but when we’re talking about 500 pages of law, there’s an awful lot in there.” That said, there isn’t much appetite in the legislature for cannabis. “It dominated last year, and we’re in an election cycle. The tone is: ‘Why don’t we let things work and see what the problems are, and when they come up, we’ll address them.’” The most frustrating issue, of course, is lack of access to banking. “The real reason is that forces outside of Colorado are interfering with this program, and in so doing are disrupting banking relationships, the relationship with merchant-services companies like credit cards, security companies and the armored-car companies,” Elliott says. “They’ve gotten threats from the DEA to drop marijuana businesses or else. We’ve heard, and I tend to believe it’s true, that the DEA is not out there saying they are doing this. But you put those industries together, and it starts looking and feeling that there are folks out there that are try-
ing to create public-safety issues, that are forcing us to be a cash-only industry that can’t protect itself.” And, he points out, everybody is calling for banking clarity, including the governor and Denver mayor, who opposed Amendment 64, and the attorney general. “Everyone wants to fix this problem — pro or against — because this is a public safety issue. This is about saving lives, and it’s also about accountability.” Speaking of accountability, MIG supported Proposition AA, which placed higher sales and excise taxes at the state level and gave cities and counties the ability to add more, a position that was opposed by some in the cannabis industry but which was approved by 65 percent of Colorado voters last November. “We ultimately would like to be treated with fairness like other businesses and industries,” Elliott says. “So the taxes, from that perspective, seem too high.” But there’s more than that going on. “There are a lot of legitimate concerns that people have about keeping it out of schools, doing education prevention and treatment,” he says. “There are public-safety issues, like keeping it from going out of state, and research. All of that needs funding, and it makes sense to have this industry pay for it. We’re going to be partners, and we’re going to use the money that these businesses have been making to invest back into our communities to address issues and to do the job that prohibition never did. Prohibition was a failure, and we’re going to be part of the solution.” Tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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