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New documentary calls on elected official to abandon fracking and turn to renewables by Angela K. Evans
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‘Catching the Sun’ shines a light on the economic potential of solar energy by Sarah Haas
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Boulder’s skateboard community gets a new voice by Peter Ferrante
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Highroad How to make billboards uglier by Jim Hightower
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kay people, we need to discuss billboards. Yes, we really must. At best, these giant corporate placards are problematic — they garishly loom over us, clutter our landscapes, and intrude into our communities with no respect for local aesthetics or preferences. Now, however, billboards are getting a high-tech reboot, allowing advertisers to invade not only our places, but also our privacy.
Having to see billboards everywhere is bad enough; far worse, though, is that the modernized, digitalized, computerized structures can see you! And track you. Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, having already splattered the country with tens of thousands of billboards, has revealed that it is partnering with AT&T and other data snoops to erect “smart” billboards that will know and record when you drive or walk past one. Using your own mobile phone, they can then follow your travel patterns and consumer behavior. Aggregating that information with other available data, Clear Channel can then know the average age and gender of passersby who see an ad on a particular billboard and know whether they later make purchases. It’s “a bit creepy,” says Andy Stevens. And he works for Clear Channel! He’s the corporation’s vice president for “research and insights.”
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Stevens rationalizes the zippy, new, ever-watching, Orwellian Billboard as just another step into the digital future: “We’re just tapping into an existing data system,” he shrugs, noting that the millions of profiles collected by Clear Channel is “Obviously very valuable to an advertiser.” And even more valuable to us persons who treasure our privacy and have given no permission to be targeted and tracked by a billboard huckster. And we thought government spying was out of control! For information on corporate snooping, go to www.epic.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 14, 2016 5
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n the fall of 2013, a group of community members fighting to ban fracking in Lafayette met with our local State Representative, Mike Foote. The meeting centered around community members’ desire for legislation that codified Coloradans’ right to local selfgovernment and placed the fundamental rights of people, environments and communities, legally superior to the business dealings of industry and corporations. The legislation the group proposed was the forerunner of the state constitutional amendment, the Colorado Community Rights Amendment, now gaining signatures for the 2016 ballot. In a moment of insight and truthfulness, Mike Foote looked at the proposed legislation — legislation that would remove the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s legal means to sue his community of Lafayette and others like it — and told us, “Nothing passes the Colorado legislature that oil and gas doesn’t want passed.” That assertion came to fruition in the Colorado House this week in its rejection of the latest attempt to even regulate fracking. The measure that failed this time, House Bill 1355, was sponsored by Mike Foote himself. Coloradans should be getting used
to this pattern. Between attempts to gloss over the industry’s full-spectrum dominance of communities to scientifically meaningless regulations to the blatant bait and switch pulled on Colorado communities by wealthy Congressman Jared Polis in his faux ballot initiatives of 2014, the truth becomes impossible to deny. The Colorado legislature acts as the calcified political wing of big business and industry, and maneuvers by figures like Jared Polis are just a means to buy Governor Hickenlooper and the fossil fuel industry time and money. Our state government supports profits and power by repressing the basic needs of our environment, our health and our fundamental right to make decisions for our own communities. Politicians and industry are attempting to distract us from a truly basic question: Is the purpose of government to be the enforcement arm of corporations or to advance and defend the rights of people? To answer that question requires all manner of political contortion. The interests of Colorado’s people and those of the fossil fuel industry are in continuing and worsening conflict. And when democracy and fracking cannot coexist, one of them see GUEST COLUMN Page 8
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danish plan The Donald (a whining loser) and the caucuses by Paul Danish
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onald Trump is howling like a stuck pig over getting his ass kicked by the Cruz campaign last weekend, which won all 34 of Colorado’s delegates to the Republican National Convention in July. The Donald is claiming (loudly) that he was robbed in Colorado by “phony politicians” who changed the rules to rig the game against him and deny a million Colorado Republicans a chance to vote for the Republican presidential candidate of their choice (i.e. himself ). “The people of Colorado had their vote taken away from them by the phony politicians,” Trump tweeted Sunday. “Biggest story in politics. This will not be allowed!” Trump’s loss and subsequent whine reminds me of an old Borscht Belt joke — that can be updated like this: Every day Donald Trump prayed to God to let him win the lottery. “Please, God,” he would pray, “please, please let me win the lottery. Just once is all I ask. Just once. Let me win the lottery and I will never ask you for anything again. Please, please.” This went on for 20 years. Then one day a giant cloud gathered above Trump Tower, and a great beam of light emerged from it that bathed the building in a magnificent golden glow. And God uttered his voice before The Donald. “Trump!” The Almighty thundered, “Meet me half way! Buy a ticket!” Trump didn’t get beat because the rules were unfairly rigged against him. He got beat because he chose not to play the game by the rules — or even to play it at all. In short, he didn’t buy a ticket. The rule Trump seems to be most exercised about was the decision by the Colorado Republican Party to forego conducting a straw vote for president at the party’s precinct caucuses last February. This is presumably what he is referring to when he says a million Republicans had their vote taken away from them by phony politicians. I thought cancelling the straw poll was a dumb idea, but Trump’s characterization of the decision as rigging the game is flatly untrue. There is a reason that the straw poll Boulder Weekly
is called a straw poll. It’s an expression of preference on the part of precinct caucus attendees that is no more binding on delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland than, say, the straw poll taken at the Iowa State Fair. It’s not a primary by another name, as Trump seems to think. However, Colorado’s delegates to the national Republican convention will be bound. That’s because a party rule stipulates that if someone running for national convention delegate declares a preference for a particular presidential candidate while he is running, he’s bound to that candidate through the first ballot. All the delegates Cruz won had expressed such a preference. And contrary to what Trump thinks, Colorado’s 900,000-plus Republicans did have a voice and a vote in the selection of the party’s presidential candidate. All they had to do is go to their precinct caucuses and take part. That is because the principal business of precinct caucuses is selecting delegates for their county assemblies. In turn, delegates to county assemblies do two things: 1) they select candidates for county offices like county commissioners, county clerks, county assessors, county coroners, and so on, and 2) they select delegates for the Colorado Republican State Convention and for the seven Republican congressional district conventions. Delegates to the congressional district conventions 1) select candidates for Congress in their respective districts, and 2) elect three delegates and three alternates from each district to the national convention in Cleveland. The delegates to the state convention select 13 delegates and 13 alternates. (Democrats use a similar system.) In other words, the delegate selection process is a three tier exercise in representative democracy — precinct caucus, county assembly, and state and congressional district conventions. The process starts with registered Republicans voting — voting, Mr. Trump — in their precinct caucuses. Every registered Republican in the see DANISH PLAN Page 8
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who are running for national convention delegate who declare their support for a particular presidential candidate. If the candidate doesn’t designate a slate of “official” delegates, his supporters’ votes will fragment and a rival candidate with fewer but more focused supporters might win.) Ted Cruz campaign followed the foregoing script to the letter in Colorado, allowing it to skunk Trump. As for Trump, he didn’t bother setting up a ground game to get his supporters to the caucuses in Colorado. He didn’t even organize teams to give him a presence at the state and congressional district conventions until a few days before they were to occur. When the Trump campaign finally got organized enough to offer a slate of national convention delegates, the effort was so slapdash that it misspelled the names of some of the people on it and put out bad information about how to vote for them. And then Trump had the chutzpah to claim the game was rigged against him and that the Colorado process was corrupt. The truth is brother Trump is pretty clueless about Colorado Values, starting with straight shooting and playing by the rules. Want a one-word explanation about why The Donald got his clock cleaned? Try hubris. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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he last time the BoulderNablus Sister City project brought their plea to create an official Sister City partnership before Boulder City Council, the hearing dragged on for more than five hours. It’s been more than two years since that last meeting, but those who support the project have never given up on the
higher. After an exhausting five-hour hearing, the Council rejected the proposal but suggested the group keep working on their unofficial Sister City project and bring it before the Council again at a later date. They recommended the group work to mitigate the issue of divisiveness raised by their project before bringing it before the Council again.
nership. In the case of Boulder, that would be the City Council. Boulder has seven officially recognized sister cities: Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Jalapa, Nicaragua; Kisumu, Kenya; Lhasa, Tibet; Manté, Mexico; Yamagata, Japan; and Yateras, Cuba. Yes, the stunning Tajik masterpiece on 13th Street (the Dushanbe Teahouse) is a gift received through the Sister City partnership. In Haley Gray return, Boulder gave Dushanbe a cyber cafe in 2009. The Boulder-Nablus project, which became active in an informal capacity in 2011, is not aiming to construct any major projects in Boulder. They say their focus is rather on building person-to-person relationships. Among other efforts, the Boulder-Nablus project has so far sent 10 volunteers to Nablus; has facilitated a peer-to-peer pen pal campaign between same-aged students in Boulder and Nablus; and created a yoga exchange in which two Palestinian teachers were Essrea Cherin, Board Chair of the Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project, at the Project Hope office in brought to Boulder for Nablus in the summer of 2014. training. In the future, the project hopes to bring a idea. And on April 19, they will once This time around might be differPalestinian dance troupe to perform in again be requesting official recognition ent than the last. The Council had Boulder and plans to help construct a of their Sister City project. received 45 letters in favor of the projrock-climbing wall in Nablus. In June of 2013, the last time ect as of April 6, and three letters from While the group can continue to around, opponents argued that Nablus, two individuals in opposition to officarry out their programming without a Palestinian city in the occupied West cially recognizing the partnership. official recognition from the city, they Bank of the Palestinian territories, is a So what exactly is a Sister City say the recognition will allow them hotbed of terrorism and anti-Semitic partnership, why does the Boulderofficial status in Sister Cities sentiment that Boulder ought to steer Nablus group want official recognition, International, affording them access to clear of, or, at the very least, not attach and why is this city, Nablus, so divisive? greater resources. its name to via an official Sister City Sister Cities International is a proThe controversy over this project partnership. Proponents contested this gram founded by president Eisenhower can be explained by a couple of facts. view, arguing it is a gross mischaracter- in 1956 in which two cities, counties or Nablus, tucked into the West Bank of ization of a complex and particularly states in different countries form mutu- the occupied Palestinian territories, has, misunderstood region. They asserted ally beneficial connections with each like all Palestinian cities, exported some their mission of citizen-to-citizen other. The broadly defined relationship terrorists who have committed violence diplomacy would foster inter-cultural allows for flexibility to pursue proagainst Israelis. And, like all Palestinian understanding, therefore making their gramming that suits each partnership. cities, Nablus has endured violence in project a mutually beneficial step in the To be an official Sister City partnerthe form of Israeli military brutality to direction of world peace. ship, the highest elected official of each civilians under the auspices of rooting Emotions ran high, tension even community must recognize the partout terrorism or collective punishment Boulder Weekly
for the actions of a few terrorists or Hamas members. There is no question that the city is caught in a destructive political situation, and a particularly hotly debated one, at that. Boulder resident Marci Rosenthal, who says she has two friends who have been stabbed by Palestinian terrorists in Israel, submitted a letter to the City Council opposing the project, accusing the Palestinian government of inciting violence and denouncing the Sister City project as a “ploy” that is “purely political.” Essrea Cherin, Board Chair of the Boulder-Nablus Sister City project, says the project is political only insofar as its ultimate aim is world peace. Beyond that, the project has a firm policy of not aligning with any political party, ideology or public figure. It does not condone stabbing or violence of any kind. After the last hearing, members of the Boulder-Nablus Sister City project began dialoguing with individuals in opposition to their project in an effort to overcome emotionally-charged differences, such as those posed by Rosenthal. “After the City Council meeting [in 2013], it was very clear, just because it was a terrible meeting, personally I knew we needed to reach out to the people on the other side and understand why they were opposing it,” says Boulder-Nablus Sister City member Saib Jarrar. Jarrar says he reached out to a couple of ladies amongst the opposition to their project, and members of the two groups have been meeting to dialogue around the Arab-Israeli conflict every few months since. He says friendships have formed through the dialogue, even if some differences of opinion still remain. Jarrar hopes — having worked for more than two years on forging personal connections — it will be too difficult now, for either party to demonize the other. Perhaps the test will be April 19. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Municipal Building. April 14, 2016 11
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n late 2012, Governor Andrew of view.” Cuomo announced he was Over his 35-year career, considering opening New York Bowermaster has worked as a jourto fracking, allowing the oil nalist for National Geographic, written and gas industry to develop the a dozen books and created 20 docustate’s portion of the Marcellus mentary films. As a six-time grantee Shale. But local activists, nonprofits, of the National Geographic concerned citizens and people like Expeditions Council, the majority of filmmaker Jon Bowermaster and his career has focused on ocean conactor/activist Mark Ruffalo banded servation. together in protest. And what began But over the last 18 months, as a fight for their own state turned Bowermaster’s Oceans 8 Films has into a national movement for a full finished six documentaries about the transition to renewables and away environmental challenges that come from the burning of fossil fuels. with energy extraction, including “Solutions to our energy quandaAfter the Spill, which tracks the enviry are available today,” Ruffalo says ronmental, economic and social tragwhile narrating the new film, Dear edy of the Deep Horizon explosion Director Jon Bowermaster and executive producer Mark Ruffalo have released a new documentary asking elected officials to focus on renewables for all of our energy needs. President Obama: The Clean Energy and oil release in the Gulf of Mexico Revolution is Now. “...This could be Yva Momatuik and John Eastcott in 2010. our last moment to act to save much As a resident of New York’s of what we hold most precious and Hudson Valley, Bowermaster became to pass on a planet worthy of our involved in the anti-fracking movechildren.” ment when his home and communiDirected by Bowermaster and ty were threatened by Cuomo’s produced by Ruffalo, Dear President impending decision. Obama presents a sweeping look at “[Fracking] was happening across the impact oil and gas development the border in Pennsylvania,” has on local communities across the Bowermaster says. “That’s what got country, from inner city Los Angeles New Yorkers to pay attention. We to rural West Virginia. Beginning in started hearing about water contamilate 2013, Bowermaster and his crew nation and the industrialization of from Oceans 8 Films traveled to 20 small towns and fights between people whose land was being leased and states and conducted more than 130 whose land wasn’t being leased, and interviews. we thought we don’t want that in “I think what makes this film our backyard.” different from any other that’s talked As Bowermaster, Ruffalo and about the subject is that you recogmany others began their campaign nize in a pretty short period, 10 against fracking, the director years, [fracking has] impacted every released Dear Governor Cuomo, docsocioeconomic class, from poor to umenting a protest concert on the middle class to even the wealthy,” steps of the state capital in Albany, Bowermaster says. “You see it in and the short film eventually made urban areas, you see it in suburbs tion to renewables requires government support. The including suburban areas outside of Denver, and you film asks policy makers and elected representatives to its way to the governor himself. Due to the large see it in remote corners of rural states. It’s everyfocus resources on developing renewable energy tech- public outcry and the advise from his health and environmental departments, Cuomo officially banned where, everywhere.” nologies as a means to making America truly energy fracking in New York in December 2014, making it Furthermore, Dear President Obama makes a independent. the only state with significant shale reserves to do so. direct plea to elected officials to protect their citizens, Bowermaster identifies more as a journalist than “It became a really incredible example of grassabandon the false economic promises of fracking and an activist himself, although he acknowledges some roots political action working,” Bowermaster says, switch to renewable energy sources at the governmay see him in that vein. “This film and a couple “which we’re not really used to in this country. We’re mental level. others have definitely crossed a line into advocacy “It’s their responsibility,” Bowermaster says. journalism,” he says. “I feel like I’ve been reporting on used to protest, protest, protest and then things conLike expanding the railroads in the 19th century environmental issues for long enough that I have the See CLEAN ENERGY Page 14 and developing the Internet in the 20th, the transiknowledge necessary to tell stories that have a point Boulder Weekly
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tinue along as they always have.” my, never serving anyone well. Although the industry Now with Dear President Obama, Bowermaster and its government lobbyists argue that fracking will makes the same plea to elected officials across the produce jobs and be good for the economy and the country, including the president himself. environment, “Those things are proving just not to be Although Obama has yet to see the film, true,” Bowermaster says. Bowermaster sent digital copies to the heads of the And he shows this through his film, with images Environmental Protection Agency, the Department and interviews of water contamination in California, of Energy and the Department of the Interior, with the boom and bust in North Dakota and the earthplans to hand it to someone in the executive office as quakes in Arkansas, all a result of the fracking industry. well. In Colorado, residents of Longmont talk about “I can’t imagine Barack Obama their frustrations as oil and gas and Michelle Obama and their two development has moved in and Rep. ON THE BILL: Film screening and Q & A with kids sitting down and watching this Jared Polis and Gov. John director Jon Bowermaster film and afterwards going, ‘You know Hickenlooper have refused to listen moderated by Nick that fracking, it’s really great. We to their concerns. It shows the Forester. 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, eTown Hall, 1535 need to do more of that,’” plethora of wells and storage faciliSpruce St., Boulder, 303Bowermaster says. “So much of it is ties in Weld County built close to 443-8696. common sense when you see it all homes, schools and medical facililaid out.” ties. And it shows infrared images The director insists the film isn’t of a well leaking methane right next intended to point the finger, but rather should be to a playground. “There’s nothing natural about natural gas,” viewed as an invitation to side with scientists and conBowermaster says. “Most of natural gas is methane, cerned citizens who want to see a shift toward renewwhich is highly toxic. But [the industry] did a really able energy. good job of selling it to the politicians, to the public “Obviously, [the film] is nominally aimed at and initially to environmentalists. There were lots of President Obama because we think there are a few green thinkers who bought on to the natural gas as things he could do as he continues to burnish his the bridge to the future. As the film does a pretty environmental legacy,” Bowermaster says. “But the story is aimed at every elected official from county good job of showing, that bridge was pretty much a commissioner to congressperson to whoever the next dead end.” president is.” In demanding a clean energy revolution, the film Bowermaster believes the success of New York’s intends to reclaim the term “clean energy” from the grassroots activism can serve as a model throughout fossil fuel industry who used it to market natural gas the country, although he does recognize that places as an alternative to coal. Clean energy is renewable such as Colorado and California are battling a long energy, Bowermaster says, and the subtitle echoes history of drilling and exploration unknown in the Ruffalo’s campaign of the same name. Northeast. Still, he maintains his position that the “Mark is a huge part of this because he is such a industry will always produce a boom and bust econo- committed believer,” Bowermaster says. “He’s not just 14 April 14, 2016
some drop by celebrity who just lends his name to something to burnish his own green reputation. He lives and breathes this stuff.” In 2011, Ruffalo launched The Solutions Project nonprofit with several experts also featured in Dear President Obama including the Director of the Atmosphere and Energy Program at Stanford University, Marc Jacobson, and Gasland director Josh Fox. The group works within all 50 states creating a pathway to 100 percent renewable energy use by the year 2050. Bowermaster says the group has several events planned this year, including a presentation at the Democratic National Convention in July. “We should be investing in nothing but renewables going forward,” Bowermaster says. “That said, I’m not naïve. I understand that we as citizens have to sacrifice in order to make that happen. We have to drive smaller cars. We have to live in smaller houses. We have to use less energy. We are the ones demanding the energy.” But by interacting with scientists working on solar and wind technology through the making of this film, Bowermaster believes a truly clean energy future is possible. “It’s allowing me to see past the short-term mentality of most executives working in the fossil fuel industry,” he says. “The possibilities of renewables are so mind-blowing it makes those still insisting that burning things is our only energy future seem like cavemen.” The filmmaker is currently on tour with the film, visiting 40 different cities including Boulder at eTown Hall on April 19 and Denver April 23. He also has plans to release the film on Netflix, Amazon and iTunes as soon as possible, making it available to anyone and everyone. Hopefully that includes all candidates running for elected office this year. Boulder Weekly
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group of domestic abuse counselors, police officers, detectives, lawyers, district attorneys and more will meet this Thursday, April 14 and Friday, April 15 to discuss the role of technology in bullying and domestic violence. The Safe Shelter Symposium on Domestic Violence, which will be held at the Plaza Convention Center (1850 Industrial Circle, Longmont), will host a series of events for kids and adults, as well as industry professionals. The topics for discussion range from those concerning how to talk to kids about digital relationships without being overbearing to how stalkers can use GPS technology to find their victims (and how law enforcement is working to thwart those efforts). This is the second year for the symposium, which is run by Longmont’s Safe Shelter of St. Vrain Valley, a group that provides resources like a crisis hotline, emergency shelter, counseling, legal help and more for all domestic abuse victims. “I think that creating awareness and giving people education is absolutely essential to changing the world and eliminating violence,” says Safe Shelter Executive Director Jackie List. “It has to do with understanding the roots and motivation of one person using power over another.” List says the symposium has a special focus on how domestic violence affects children, because in her experience, she says “people are not any more generally knowledgeable about how domestic violence impacts children than they were five to 10 years ago.” Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett will give a keynote address on Friday morning about modernizing prevention and prosecution tactics against domestic violence. List says the symposium was fortunate that Longmont law enforcement has a renowned computer forensics lab, which has now grown to be part of the county Sheriff ’s Department. Longmont Police Officer Brian Franke, who helped shape the program, will join Deputy District Attorney Tim Johnson to talk about how they’re using technology to fight technology used by stalkers. Other topics include how the digital age has ushered in new abuses on women, as technology has made it easy for abusers to share and distribute everything from photos to contact information. There will also be another presentation on revenge porn — the Boulder Weekly
act of former relationship partners sharing compromising photos or videos of another — and how people can protect themselves from being a victim. The opening Thursday night event will be a community event, List says. With breakout groups for adults and kids aged middle school and above, the talks will include simple and practical
ways to stay safe online and recognize warning signs of abuse in others’ social media uses. Being helpful without being overbearing is the trick, says Safe Shelter Development Director Naomi Harris, and so teaching parents how to be efficient with their monitoring is key. “We do have sessions for parents who have kids and what to look for,
how to set healthy boundaries without being hovering or punitive,” Harris says. The Thursday breakout sessions for kids and adults are free to attend. Tickets to the second day with more law enforcement and legal industryspecific talks are available, along with more information, at safesheltersymposium.org.
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osh Agenbroad has found his own way to meet people wherever he goes, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he grew up, to Beijing, China, and many different parts of Colorado. However, it wasn’t until he moved to Boulder that his almost foolproof method failed him. “All these places that I’ve moved to, I basically went to the skate park and met people and that would be my first set of friends, and that’s how I got to know people and got integrated into the community, but in Boulder that just didn’t happen,” Agenbroad says. When Agenbroad initially moved to Boulder in the summer of 2014, the skate park at Scott Carpenter Park threw him off. After hearing great things about the skate scene in town, he was surprised to see the park relatively empty. Hearing of skateboarders leaving Boulder to skate newer parks in Lafayette and Arvada, he became eager to help the community. “I went to the skate shop and was like, ‘Somebody’s got to be working on this — who’s working on it? Is there any way I can help out?’” he explains. That’s when Agenbroad took it into his own hands, and he has since been gathering support and building a plan. Still in preliminary stages, the campaign for a new Boulder skate park has been an
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effective way for him to interact with the town’s skateboarders and the Boulder community at large. The skate park at Scott Carpenter Park was built in 1999 and was one of the first skate parks on the Front Range, setting up a solid skate scene. And it was innovative, being one of the first all-concrete parks of its Peter Ferrante time. Now Boulder has two skate shops to service the many talented boarders who live in town. The only issue is that as the sport grew, Boulder’s facility for it didn’t. Instead, surrounding towns Lafayette’s park like Lafayette, Arvada and has street features Erie have all incorporated (above) as well as beginner’s features numerous new, well(below). designed parks that draw skaters looking for variety away from Boulder. So Agenbroad started a campaign to build a new skate park in Boulder. He launched an online petition Dec. 3, 2015 with a goal of getting 1,000 signatures. There are currently more than 550 sig-
natures. From Agenbroad’s own survey that ran on the campaign’s website, he found 55 percent of respondents are driving to other parks along the Front Range more often than skating in town. “I think that’s pretty significant, seeing as though you’ve got to drive 20 minutes at least to get to somewhere else,” he says. Agenbroad is in early discussions with members from Boulder’s Parks and Recreation department, Parks and Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB) and PLAY Boulder Foundation about what space there is in town for a new skate park and what fundraising is available. He has also been speaking with the skateboarders of the community to figure out what type of design see SKATE PARK Page 24
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wanted, but also with Parks and Recreation to figure out what is possible and what funding is needed. Jeff Haley is the Parks and Recreation planning, design and community engagement manager and one of the first people Agenbroad spoke with. “On the City side, we recognize that the skate park at Scott Carpenter Park is old and outdated, and there are many other communities that have newer and more enhanced skate parks,” Haley says. “So I explained to Josh (Agenbroad) that currently we don’t have any designated funding; there’s no plans to repair or replace the skate park. However, we are Peter Ferrante starting a planning process for Another feature at Scott Carpenter Park to look at the Lafayette skate redesigning the park, specifically park. the pool and that area. So we would definitely enjoy the opportunity to look at the skate park and have that be a part of the design process.” Funding is one of the largest difficulties with Parks and Recreation projects, so those wishing to complete projects must look for funding from the larger community. PLAY Boulder Foundation was founded in 1976 for just this purpose — to act as a partner to the Parks and Recreation Department and help find funding for community projects. Kelly Wyatt is the current president of PLAY Boulder as well as a PRAB member. “It all sounds exciting,” Wyatt says. “Josh has done a really good job of doing his due diligence and talking to the right people in the Parks Department and attending a couple Parks Board meetings and researching other cities and the best approaches.” The national average cost for a skate park is just above $250,000. The biggest skate park in Arvada opened June 2012 and exceeds 40,000 square feet. At $2.1 million, it is one of the town’s four skate parks and is almost three times larger than Boulder’s only skate park. Agenbroad doesn’t think Boulder needs anywhere near what has been done in Arvada, but instead believes a lot can be done with any amount of available space. Between updating the skate park at Scott Carpenter Park and establishing what many call “pocket parks” in different neighborhoods, Boulder can find a unique way to update its skate facilities. “The main constraint in Boulder is there’s just not any room, but there’s a lot of pockets you could stick things in,” Agenbroad says. Agenbroad came to Boulder and saw a strong skateboarding community lacking organization. After realizing there was nobody leading the way, he’s taken the responsibility upon himself and is engaging the community in a way similar to how he had previously hoped. “It’s been a really good way for me to actually do the same thing I wanted to in the first place,” Agenbroad says, “which is meet people and have people to skate with.” Boulder Weekly
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The Dairy Arts Center kicks off a monthly stand-up comedy program to take advantage of Boulder’s burgeoning comedy scene by Tommy Wood
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rt is meant to endure. That’s why centuries-old paintings hang from museum walls, film reels are preserved and restored and books are reprinted long after their authors’ deaths.
Stand-up comedy is different, says veteran local comedian Nancy Norton. It’s a temporary art, each bit surviving only as long as it takes to deliver to the audience. Perform it again, and you better breathe fresh life into it, because even the best jokes aren’t as funny the second time. Boulder audiences will get a taste of this on April 16, Nancy Norton when The Dairy Arts Center launches its monthly stand-up comedy program. Headlining the show is Norton, a mainstay of the Colorado comedy scene who’s toured in places like Amsterdam, Guam and Iceland. Her routine draws from her experience as a nurse, her time, as she puts it, identifying solely as a lesbian, and adopting a young child at an older age — “His first words were ‘hot flash,’” she cracks. “I love sipping whiskey and talking dirty,” she offers. “I can work smart and clean. This particular show, we’ve sorta tailored it a little more geeky. It’s got a little mix. It’s smart and sassy.” Joining Norton will be fellow comedian James Goldmill, who also serves as the marketing manager for The Dairy. “There’s a pretty solid comedy scene [in Boulder],” he says. “The Dairy is trying to get in on that.” see COMEDY Page 28
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Goldmill is getting back into the undergoing a massive three-step renogame after a year-and-a-half sabbatical. vation program that started last He overcame feeling burned out, got August and is due to finish in married and is attacking stand-up with December, which includes expansions a renewed vigor. to its theaters that make them curDenver regular Eric Henderson and rently unavailable. It’s perfect timing CU student Jacob Rupp round out the for The Dairy, which is completing its lineup. Henderson is “hitting the scene renovations and bringing back standhard,” as Goldmill puts it, and Rupp is up just as Boulder is starting to a relative newcomer but has had sucembrace the medium. cess with his campus radio show, Ice “Ever since I came to the Dairy, I’ve Cream Social. fantasized about having a comedy showThe new Dairy program also case in this particular space,” Goldmill throws in a twist — random audience says. “Once you go in there, you’ll see participation. If you’ve never tried it’s perfect, perfect for comedy.” stand-up before, you can put your “And they have cocktails,” Norton name in a drawing, and if you get adds, noting one of stand-up’s most picked you have a couple minutes to essential ingredients. show your stuff. That was the setup the Goldmill says that Boulder’s standfirst time Norton tried up comedy comedy. She wrote her scene is material, put her name in leagues ahead ON THE BILL: Dairy Comedy in the Boe — a hat and planned to do of where it Nancy Norton, James Goldmill, it once and be done. But was even three Eric Henderson and Jacob Rupp, they didn’t draw her years ago, 9 p.m., Saturday, April 16, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., name, and it gave her the when he startBoulder, 303-440-7826. Tickets comedy bug. ed doing (ages 18 and up) at thedairy.org. “It’s a more forgiving stand-up here. audience than an open Norton mic, because these are remembers the people who bought tickdays when the ets to come see a comedy show,” only stand-up gigs a comedian could Goldmill says. get in Boulder were a one-night tour Ask Norton and Goldmill why The stop at the Broker Inn sandwiched Dairy is bringing comedy back now, between performances in Nevada and and you’ll get the answer you’d expect Montana, or — the horror — an alcofrom two stand-up comedians. hol-free show in a strip mall. “It was an astrological decision, Now, Boulder supports several wasn’t it?” Norton quips. monthly showcases and multiple open “I saw a psychic,” adds Goldmill. mic nights a week. The Bohemian “There was a planetary alignment Biergarten hosts Boulder Comedy of Venus and Mars.” Show, a free weekly program that fea“Something to do with the equinox tures comedians from Boulder, or something… nah, this is just a Denver and nationwide. There’s the rebirth.” Boulder Stand-Up Comedy Club, The Dairy itself is being reborn, which puts on open mic multiple not just its comedy program. It’s nights a week at places such as Conor
O’Neil’s, Illegal Pete’s and Twisted Pine; Johnny’s Cigar Bar holds their weekly “Smokes and Jokes” show; they also do a bi-weekly showcase on CU campus. There are comedy nights around Boulder County as well with showcases at the Dicken’s Opera House, Longmont Museum and Nissi’s, just to name a few. But Boulder may never support a nightly comedy club like Denver’s Comedy Works, Goldmill says. Comedy Works is regarded as one of the best clubs in the nation; it’s where Roseanne Barr launched her career, and it’s a favorite of Dave Chappelle’s, who Goldmill says always goes out with local comedians after his show. Norton got started there, too. She was working in Hawaii and asked every comic she saw about the best places to perform as a young comedian. They told her San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago — and Denver. Norton did five nights a week at Comedy Works when she first broke into the business. It’s a launching pad because they let less-well-known local comedians open for the big acts who come through. Compared to the warm reception and support at Comedy Works, she says, one-night tour stops on the road in different towns every night are a harsh dose of reality. Boulder may never beat Denver’s comedy scene, but still, Boulder’s quick progression is a positive sign. “It’s a big, fat baby,” is how Norton describes Boulder’s comedy landscape. “Sort of a toddler. A hilarious toddler. A precocious toddler. This is the best it’s been, to be honest.” Like any baby, it has only room to grow. It needs to be nurtured by comedians and by its audience. On April 16, they’ll do just that — one bit at a time. Boulder Weekly
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overtones Art imitates life imitates art
For cast and director, Copland’s ‘The Tender Land’ hits close to home by Peter Alexander
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iery gypsy smugglers, humpLaurie’s story strikes particularly backed court jesters, cruel close to home for Holman, who says “I tyrants, Japanese geishas and grew up in a small town in the South, French nuns facing the guiland I wanted to be an opera singer. I lotine — it’s a good bet that wanted to go out in the world, so I can most operatic characters are outside the really relate to this character.” personal experience of the singers who The parallels even extend to the portray them. But University of opera’s conductor, CU graduate student Colorado Boulder’s Eklund Opera Joshua Horsch. “He’s about to finish his Program stands that observation on its (doctorate), and he’s going to go out head this weekend with its producCasey A. Cass tion of Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land. Partly inspired by Walker Evans’s Depression-era photos of rural southern poverty, The Tender Land is the quintessential American story of Laurie, a young woman graduating from high school. Facing an uncertain future with courage, she strikes out to follow her dreams. In other words, Laurie does exactly what the opera students at CU — and many of the rest of us, for that matter — have done. The Tender Land takes place on a 1930s Midwestern farm — the realistic CU production places it in Iowa. The night before Laurie’s graduation, two down-and-out drifters arrive at the farm asking for work. Even though they seem more than a little shady, Laurie falls in love with one of them dur- Sara Lin Yoder and Michael Hoffman in The Tender Land. ing her graduation party. They make plans to run away, but at the last minute the drifters disappear. into the world,” Holman says. Her bags already packed, Laurie But she quickly points out that makes the courageous decision to leave Horsch has plenty of preparation for his on her own. At the end, her mother role as conductor. “He’s been working and younger sister are left at the farm with (Eklund Opera music director) house, just as they were seen at the Nicholas Carthy for the last three or beginning. four years,” she says. “We wanted to give Eklund Opera director Leigh him this opportunity, and he’s doing a Holman says she told the cast, “‘We great job. I’m really proud of him.” should all be able to relate to Laurie, Horsch has racked up quite a bit of because the very fact that we got into experience on his way to the Eklund this profession means that we were Opera podium. Two years ago he was some kid, maybe in middle school or the onstage pianist in the production of high school, thinking about being an Side by Side by Sondheim. At CU, he is opera singer.’ They all started nodding conductor of the campus orchestra and their heads. They could all relate to conductor/pianist for the New Opera Laurie following her dreams.” Workshop. Among other professional Boulder Weekly
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engagements, he has been conductor and pianist at the Saratoga (New York) Opera and assistant conductor for the Fort Worth Opera. One aspect of The Tender Land Holman particularly relates to is Laurie’s strength as a character. At the beginning she sings an aria where she is afraid of the future. “Throughout the opera, she starts to gain confidence,” Holman says. “I love the fact that she deals with this at the end, and decides to go ahead and leave her fears behind. “I find this to be a very feminist mood for Laurie, and I think that’s really advanced for the 1950s.” Although The Tender Land is often performed by universities, it represents a real challenge. “The roles of Laurie and (the drifter) Martin are not easy,” Holman says. “For Martin, the tenor, a lot of range is involved — vocal range, and the acting range as well. And Ma Moss, Laurie’s mother, has a lot of singing to do.” Fortunately, the singers returned from spring break well prepared. “It’s quite impressive how fast they’ve put it together,” she says. “Everything was memorized and ready to go, so we were able to start staging (right away).” The Tender Land comes right on the heels of the Eklund Opera Program’s production of Dialogues of the Carmelites, which ends with its protagonists all walking off stage to the guillotine. After that, singers and audiences are probably ready for something less emotionally wrenching. Fortunately, Copland’s opera provides just that. “There’s a wonderful square dance scene and a big party that’s a lot of fun,” Holman says. “The two drifters that come onto the farm are really fun. The opera’s famous (choral) piece ‘The Promise of Living’ is extremely hopeful and uplifting, so it’s a big emotional change from Carmelites. “It’s really a joyful opera.”
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This silence is golden
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ny theater purists out there who weep into their chamomile about the stage being corrupted by more and more adaptations of (gasp!) films, need to bear two things in mind or else run the very real risk of being outed as the pretentious twits they are. First, just like every other art form, theater has always been an equal opportunity theme thief and Christine Fisk plot pilferer. For fook’s sake, Shakespeare stole liberally from the Romans, Greeks and just about anyone else unlikely to show up and challenge him to a duel. Second, the trend of adapting movies from farther and farther afield — say, for instance, the horror genre — is just another example of the inevitability of change in an ever-more mutable world. Certainly, the spate of musicals based on properties like The Evil Dead, Night of the Living Dead, Carrie and The Toxic Avenger may seem opportunistically crass... until one reflects that their theatrical ancestors include adaptations of Flashdance, Barbarella and one of the grande dames of porn, Debbie Does Dallas. If we theater-folk were being totally honest with ourselves, we’d have to replace the comedy and tragedy masks on the proscenium arch with a picture of a photocopier. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Without cross-media appropriation and fertilization, small wonders like Silence! The Musical would never come to be. An “unauthorized parody” of the Academy Award-winning, Jodie Foster-starring, 1991 flick The Silence of the Lambs, the musical is a rollicking, irreverent and often hilarious retelling of FBI trainee Clarice Starling’s collaboration with the incarcerated Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter in her pursuit of another serial killer, Buffalo Bill.
Silence! The Musical — presented by Equinox Theatre Company, The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303477-9984. Through April 30. equinoxtheatredenver.com.
Silence! The Musical follows the plot of the movie closely but tweaks virtually every element of the story for comic effect. Foster’s heavy West Virginia accent becomes a persistent speech impediment where every “s” sounds like “sh” leading to Clarice’s introductory number being called “Thish Ish It” and her painful flashback/parting the veil duet with her dearly departed dad having the title “Papa Shtarling.”
features numerous Urban Dictionary-ready references to female genitalia, including “tuna fish,” “bearded clam” and “hairy hole.” Buffalo Bill’s (Shawn Smith) iconic dick-tucking dance routine scene is presented in most of its original glory in the Act 2 opener, “I’d Fuck Me,” a lyric that’s reprised multiple times during the remainder of the show. And, of course, the oft-quoted “It puts the lotion in the basket ... Put the fucking lotion in the basket!” exchange between Bill and his down-the-well captive pops up as well — garnering the loudest applause on opening night. One other thing to note about the music in Silence! The Musical is how much of it there is. With only the most minimal dialogue connecting one song to the next, the show ends up feeling as much like an opera as anything else. Albeit a seriously fucked up one. The chorus (Colleen Herskovits, Cammie Kolber, Cameron Leonard, Sara Michael, Mike Moran and Wade Wood), who actually get some In Silence! The Musical, Clarice is a of the best one-liners in the show, are dancin’ FBI agent tryall dressed as lambs, and that cosing to find a serial killer by teaming up with tuming remains in place even when another serial killer. they’re playing specific characters like Clarice’s FBI boss or the cops guarding Lecter, leading to some extremely Clarice (Holly Dalton) explains she minored in dance humorous visual juxtapositions. This regional premiere is presented by the before engaging in multiple dance numbers, including Equinox Theatre Company in its trademark passiona Plexiglas-divided waltz with Dr. Lecter ( Jim ately low-budget style. Equinox appears to be Landis). embracing the horror movie musical as its go-to proIn perhaps the most audacious and effective creduction choice. Its next two shows will be Evil Dead: ative coup, a few of the more famous lines from the The Musical (complete with “splatter zone”) and The movie become centerpieces of outrageous musical Toxic Avenger: The Musical. If those productions are numbers. In a reference to “Multiple” Miggs’ lewd half as rib-tickling as Silence! The Musical, The Bug comment to her as she passes his cell, when Clarice first meets Hannibal he breaks into “If I Could Smell Theatre should be packed all the way through September. Her Cunt,” which, as if the title wasn’t bold enough,
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Bach's St. Matthew Passion In an unprecedented collaboration, the Boulder Phil, along with Central City Opera, Boulder Bach Festival and the CU College of Music present a semi-staged realization of J.S. Bach’s masterpiece—a very human drama that examines core matters of faith, spirituality and life itself.
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arts & culture Keeping the heart alive
‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ reminds us of life before growing up by Amanda Moutinho
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hen you grow up, your heart dies,” Allison “Basketcase” Reynolds sadly theorizes in The Breakfast Club. It serves as a forewarning, one that teenagers shrug off, dismissing the thought it could happen to them. But words like
never grow up. Starcatcher is a fresh take on this well-known story and is a great addition to the Peter Pan lore. The play follows Molly Aster, a 13-year-old starcatcher apprentice who is tasked with protecting the magical “starstuff.” She then runs into three down-on-
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these can haunt adults as we look back wondering if “growing up” changed us for better or worse. It’s one of the ultimate detriments of aging — the older we get, the less in touch we are with our past self. But these observations have a positive effect. They make us revisit those pivotal junctions, those feelings lost in our consciousness. Because you don’t notice it in the moment, you only understand it when you’ve seen how far you’ve come. Those necessary reminders of childhood and adolescence are why shows like Peter and the Starcatcher are so important. Billed as a prequel to Peter Pan, Peter and the Starcatcher introduces us to Peter and company before Neverland. The play, now showing at BDT Stage through May 15, sits in that sweet spot of innocence, teetering on the line before Peter tips the scale, becoming the perpetual boy who will Boulder Weekly
their-luck orphan boys who help her on her mission. When pirates get involved, disastrous, and hilarious, chaos ensues. The show received six Tony’s when it premiered on Broadway back in 2009, including best play. And it’s not surprising. With a cutting, fast-talking script peppered with varied, clever comedy, Starcatcher is snappy and unexpected, drawing the audience in and keeping them entertained throughout. While it does capitalize on the sentimentality from the source material, Starcatcher is a new story in its own right. Sprinkled with the pizazz and passion of the company, the BDT Stage production went beyond doing justice to the play. One of the highlights of the show was the ingenuity of the sets and props. The cast and crew transformed a moderately-sized stage into a space fit for jungle races and pirate ship battles. With some interesting prop use, the
production embodied the creative problem solving that is so vital to theater’s ability to transcend space and tickle the imagination. Starcatcher is an ensemble piece with a rotating door of characters, and each member of the BDT cast shined in every role. Jack Barton brought the appropriate amount of boyish charm to the most boyishly charming character in all of fairytale land. And Sarah Grover gave a standout performance as Molly, a character who demands respect and claims leadership — someone whom little girls can look up to. Grover infused the space with a spunky energy and held her ground as the only woman on stage. But the best performance of the night went to Scott Beyette who plays the hilarious Black Stache. His portrayal of the flamboyant buffoon pirate prompted some knee slaps and belly laughs and was easily the best part of the show. Even though Starcatcher has a conclusion that seems inevitable, it layers the audience with a series of epiphanies. It beautifully captures the bittersweet limbo — the before and after of growing up. Though we in the “real world” are never presented with the choice of staying in Neverland, we live vicariously through the characters, who deal with the wide range of realities of making the irreversible decision. We see the cycle of life mirrored to us on stage, as the characters process the nostalgia in their storylines, the audience members process the nostalgia of their own life. We need shows like Starcatcher to awaken that youthful spirit and prompt the recollection of childhood fearlessness. We need them to remember that life isn’t all about money, and responsibilities, and 9-to-5 jobs. It’s also about magic and wonder and whimsy in the world. Your heart needn’t die just because you grew up. Thanks for the reminder, Peter.
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Chachuba. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.
Banshee Tree. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Bryce Merritt. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. C-Bob’s Gin Joint Jam. 6 p.m. Vapor Distillery, 5311 Western Avenue, Suite 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134. Cali Shaw Duo with Meredith Wilder. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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The Complete Unknowns. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Dark Star Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. David Sheingold, Sam Rae, Jeb Bows. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
Paa Kow’s Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Honeytree Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Romero. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Sun-Baked Folk Music. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. 7:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
The Sweet Lillies, Jon Ridnell. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
EGI. 9 p.m. Sancho’s Boulder Arrow, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458.
Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Events
Envy Alo. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Dynohunter And Evanoff, The Digital Connection. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
Courtesy Sheldon Sands
Whether or not you’ve heard Propinquity’s 1970s jams before, their upcoming reunion concert will certainly leave you feeling nostalgic with their acoustic vibe. Come this Saturday to see the band perform their original pieces once again with unique instrumental and vocal finesse. The band was the beginning of many successful musical careers, like those of local singer Carla Sciaky and backup and session musician Pat Hubbard. Back in the day, Propinquity impressed both local and regional audiences, and their reunion is sure to wow newcomers too. — Chelsea Abdullah
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Open Mic with Foxfeather Duo. 6 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.
Many Mountains. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16, Congregation Nevei Kodesh, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 303-443-4567.
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An Evening with Jamie Tworkowski at CU. 7 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-6161.
DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., see EVENTS Page 38
Never to Be Forgotten music performance
International Blues Challenge
4 p.m. Sunday, April 17, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
1 p.m. Sunday, April 17, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Courtesy of The Dairy In remembrance of all the work that was tragically lost in a time of bloodshed, the musical performance “Never to Be Forgotten” will feature music from composers who were killed during the Holocaust. The concert will showcase musical pieces of renowned composers like Erwin Schulhoff and Mordecai Gebiritig, and will be performed by several talented in-state artists. The event will present all genres of music, from serene lullabies to earnest music from the ghettos. The afternoon is a part of Holocaust Remembrance Week and will be a reminder of the great musical talent that persevered even in times of strife. — Chelsea Abdullah
Feeling a little blue that your Sunday is free? Then look no further than the International blues challenge, which will feature a variety of performers, both local and out-of-state. From the Glasgow duo to 50 Shades of Blue to Denver-based Midnight Pressure, there will be a wide array of performances and styles at the Dickens Opera House. The show is hosted by the Colorado Blues Society, which is dedicated to raising awareness for the blues genre as a native American art form, and it also strives to inspire appreciation for the genre. The society always donates the money earned to Blues-related education and hosting blues jams in Colorado. — Chelsea Abdullah
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Barrel of Blues. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Billy Strings. 7 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 West Main, Lyons, 303-823-0848. Bonnie & the Clydes. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-7444. Claude Bourbon. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Dan and Yoshi. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Dark Star Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Dechen Hawk, Colin Robison. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Don Giovanni. 7 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. EGI. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Farmer Sisters. 5:30 p.m. The 28th Street Tavern, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-1562. Girls on Top! 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Guerrilla Fan Fair. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Jack Hadley. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Jai Wolf. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. The Jet Set. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. King Cardinal. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Left Hand Market Boys. 5:30 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Meredith Wilder, Clay Hamilton, Cali Shaw. 7:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145. My Blue Sky, Jubilingo. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Nice Work Jazz Combo with Heidi Schmidt. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Above the Fold: New Expression in Origami. The Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark Street, Longmont, 303776-6050. Through May 1. Acrylic Painting by Lori Mattina. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28. Case Work. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through April 17.
Head to the Denver Art Museum for the final days of A Place in the Sun.
Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.
Glass Mosaics by Delcia Litt. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28.
Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 1.
Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through June 25.
Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7.
Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Martha Russo: coalescere. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through June 12. The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver,
Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Weary Bones. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Stone Mosaics by Susan A. Judy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28.
Yamandu Costa: An Evening of Brazilian Guitar. 8 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-623-7876.
Franny & The Jets. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Events The Current. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre at CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. Improv Over Silents. 9 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. King Georges. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Lamb. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Amberly Chalberg with Joe Mazza, A.J. Fullerton. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Strange Byrds. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Sangeeta Reddy: Fractured Landscapes of the West. BMoCA at Macy, 285, University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 29.
Foxfeather. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
Sandra MacDougall. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Steepland String Band. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
Samurai. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 5.
Wildwood Roots. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
REMember, A Tribute to R.E.M. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Selasee & The FaFa Family. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
303-298-7554. Through June 5.
Critical Focus: Lanny DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.
Saturday, April 16
SleepWalker. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
380 Main St. Longmont, CO 303-772-3839
A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through April 24.
Music
Banshee Tree. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents Virtuosity & Grace. 7:30 p.m. Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522. Dark Star Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Dexter Payne. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Eric Gonzales. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Felonius Smith & Steve Sheldon. 2 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Funkiphino. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Gasoline Lollipops. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Glenn Miller Orchestra & Lannie Garrett. 7 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-6161. Greg Schochet and Katie Glassman. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. HenScratch. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770. Kilborn Alley. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. LeesaAnn-Local. Lyrical. Original. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Magpie Zero. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Moontang. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Native Station. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Nick O’Connor. 3 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery see EVENTS Page 40
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Space Orphan. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Events
Bryce Merritt. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508873-9185.
Strawberrie Riot, Flower Crown Me A Queen, Jay. 7 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder. Events
Lamb. 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Love Thy Nature. 1:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Rocks Karma Arrows Part 3. 7 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville.
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Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
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A Tale of a Tiger. 3 p.m. Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder.
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Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Barrel House. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
LASER: NIRVANA 1:00 PM
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Cosmopolitics. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
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Danny Shafer. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Hartwood Duo. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
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Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
King Georges. 5:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Snakehips, Covex. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
Dairy Comedy: Nancy Norton & Friends. 9 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.
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Sixty Minute Men, The Plates. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
The Current. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre at CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181.
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Holly and the Husbands. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Kenneth Brown Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Lindsay Saunders. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Longmont Songwriter Series: Eric Adrian. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Maya Bennett. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Phyhodillo. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Resonance Women’s Chorus: Each of Us. 3 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.
Boris Godunov. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Current. 2 p.m. University Theatre at CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-8181. The Magnificent Seven. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday, April 18 Music Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. I & The Many. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Johnny Clegg. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Many Mountains. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont. The Sixty Minute Men. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Events Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
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Peter and the Starcatcher now playing at BDT Stage, tells the story of Peter Pan before he got to Neverland. Read BW’s review on page 35.
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Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Wednesday, April 20 Music DIGG. 4 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Fortunate Youth, Na’an Stop, Policulture. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-6452467. Jeff Austin and Friends, Gipsy Moon. 8 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.
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Boris Godunov. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Born To Be Blue. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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There are many corners of this world deserving of our attention. To delve into a few, head to Colorado State University’s inaugural ACT Human Rights Film Festival April 15 through 22. The lineup features 18 films, discussing a slew of human rights issues, including hunger, homelessness, women’s and GLBTQ rights. Moderators will accompany the screenings to contextualize the films and will conduct Q&A sessions with filmmakers, film subjects and experts on issues. The festival will also host a “Call to ACT” initiative after each film, including more than 20 student organizations and nonprofits to help the audience figure out what they can do to help the issues addressed in the films. For schedule and tickets head to actfilmfest.org.
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Chantal Ackerman’s mother is the subject of Ackerman’s latest, and last, feature.
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or the godfather of narrative cinema, D.W. Griffith, moving pictures “moved.” As he said in 1944, “What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees.” For Griffith — and the vast majority of storytellers who use the cinematic medium — that wind creates life, energy and beauty for the viewers. But for the great Belgian director, Chantal Ackerman, that movement creates a Zen-like stillness. It’s possible that Ackerman had Griffith’s aphorism in mind when she decided to open her latest, and last, feature film, No Home Movie, with a shot of a tree blowing in the wind. Or it’s possible that Ackerman sees herself as that tree, forever beating against forces beyond her control. Either way, the four-minute, unbroken shot of a tree whipping in the wind sets the table perfectly for Ackerman’s swan song. No Home Movie is a documentary about the director’s mother, Natalia, an aging octogenarian and Auschwitz survivor. Ackerman converses with her mother and observes her daily routine while simultaneously questioning her own place, or lack thereof, in this world. Long stretches of landscape photography suggest that Ackerman no longer feels connected to any place or anything. All of this Ackerman captures on consumer cameras. Her story requires no flashy photography, no dazzling aesthetics. Ackerman’s unencumbered style is naked and inviting, beckoning the audience to observe passively alongside her. As the French critic and filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard put it, “The history of cinema is the story of men looking at women.” Ackerman spent her career turning Godard’s words on their ear by not only watching women, but by not objectifying them — a simple shot of two women standing on the street, possibly waiting for a bus to arrive, attracts as much attention from Ackerman as does her own mother. The key to Ackerman’s work is in the duration of her shots. The longer Ackerman allows shots to unfold, the longer the context of the frame is allowed to develop. And in many cases, that context can be confining. Natalia, who was ill during the shooting of No Home Movie, died before it was complete. She was 86. In these last months of her mother’s life, Ackerman compiled more than 40 hours of footage, which she paired down to the movie’s final 115 minute running time. Two months after No Home Movie premiered at last year’s Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, Ackerman took her own life. She was 65. Ackerman was 25 years old when her acclaimed masterpiece, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels premiered at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. Employing long takes and static shots, Dielman was a revolutionary work, one that showed the private life of the housewife in a manner unseen at the cinema. The same could be said of Ackerman’s final film, where the personal conversation between Ackerman and her mother echoes one that Ackerman had with Dielman. For 40 years, Ackerman conducted private conversations in the most public of spaces — the cinema. And the cinema is where Ackerman — like Griffith and Godard — made her home. No home movie? They’re all home movies.
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ne of the first restaurants at which I ate when I moved to Boulder four years ago was Zolo Southwestern Grill. And that meal was stunning. I remember a big, fat slab of pork belly Zolo Southwestern Grill seared on one side 2525 Arapahoe Ave., sitting atop a bowl Boulder, 303-449-0444. of mussels, which were simmering in a spicy tomato and onion broth. Beside that I had an extra anejo tequila that was smooth and fruity with just a hint of salt. It was a great meal, and I anticipated my return to Zolo shortly thereafter. But as things go, I didn’t make it back to Zolo. And as time wore on, the romance of a great meal made it increasingly difficult to go back. How could Zolo live up to what I’d built it up to be? And so four years later, this week, I finally returned having eaten pretty much everywhere else in Boulder County. It was a longer hiatus, obviously, than I had planned, but my return trip proved I had set no expectation high enough. I had nothing to fear this whole time. On a recent early evening, we ordered the entire happy hour menu. It was epic and awesome. We started with the basics: chips with guacamole and salsa. The chips were notable because they were warm and perfectly thick — not too crunchy, not too thin. The salsa was slightly chunky with good heat and some kind of fruity sweetness, either from peach or mango. The guacamole was simply and expertly prepared, with small, sparse bits of red onion mixed into the creamy avocado with cilantro, tomato and lime. Now the good stuff. The pork belly sliders were
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Zolo Southwestern Grill is still slinging exceptional fare by Matt Cortina excellent. The pork belly literally melted onto the soft bun, and the sensation was a lot like eating a roll that had been buttered with the finest butter in all of the Land of Lakes. There was slight heat from a chile spread, and a minor crunch from some pickled veggies, but that slider was all about the thick, evanescent piece of pork belly. The pork ribs were also exceptional. Two meaty hunks of half ribs were lathered in rich, smoky barbecue sauce. The succulent meat fell right off the bone. The light char on the topside of the meat added a nice texture and better smoke. The herb rub on the ribs was excellent as well, though I devoured my rib too fast to parse anything particular out even if I could.
The chorizo stuffed dates were my favorite. The dates were wrapped in bacon and bathed in a “ranchero” sauce, which was close to the chocolate, spice and herb in mole. The dates had excellent consistency and the chorizo on the inside was bright, salty and spicy. The overall texture was all mush once it got into my mouth, but the flavors were so spot-on that I made a mental note that if the tonsillectomy ever comes back in fashion, I’ll needlessly get one, go onto a soft foods-only diet, and then eschew the traditional ice cream for the Zolo chorizo stuffed date. The jalapeño relleno was about as good as a jalapeño popper gets. A large, long jalapeño was lightly fried after being stuffed with Haystack goat cheese. It wasn’t too spicy nor too greasy, and the goat cheese popped and brought out the fruit in the jalapeño. The chicken wings were also well done. They weren’t battered, which is a good thing, and they were baked and lightly charred. The buffalo-ish sauce wasn’t spicy at all, but there was a fiery tomatillo salsa that came with it, which completed the wing experience. We also had a serviceable fried oyster — oysters, once you fry them, sort of lose their point, in my opinion. They could be anything for all I know. But the slaw and cream sauce on the oyster was well prepared. Lastly, the house favorite dessert of banana cream pie was a full indulgence and is definitely recommended. It was massive, with bananas, peanut butter, chocolate and whipped cream. Just like Zolo, it’s worth having much more often than every four years.
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forced to sit and figure out my mileage to culinary destinations. Last year I travelled farther and more often than any 12-month stretch in my career in search of something to eat. Looking through my 2015 diary of a serial snacker made me smile. On January 14, I drove to Aurora to the Cuban Bakery and Cafe, Mu Brewery, Two22 Brewery and Daniel’s of Paris Bakery. It was fun but a little heavy on the carbs. April 11 found me researching a dozen Vail Valley eateries in Eagle (the Eagle Diner is a classic), Cordillera, Eagle Vail and finally Avon for Turkish coffee at Kiwi International Delights. Dual assignments took me to El Matador Restaurant in Raton, New Mexico, and Mission at the Bell restaurant in Trinidad for green chile with stops at Amy’s Donuts (Colorado Springs) and The plate of crudo — two types of raw fish — is ready to serve at Larkspur.
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Pueblo’s Bingo Burgers, where green chilies are mixed in the beef. Looking back now, these expeditions were as much about the people I met and travelled with as the food. On July 10, 2015, I was lucky to spend the day with my son visiting Glazed & Confuzed Doughnuts in Denver, Broken Shovel Farm in Henderson
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ARIES
MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “When I discover who I am, I’ll
be free,” said novelist Ralph Ellison. Would you consider making that a paramount theme in the coming weeks? Will you keep it in the forefront of your mind, and be vigilant for juicy clues that might show up in the experiences headed your way? In suggesting that you do, I’m not guaranteeing that you will gather numerous extravagant insights about your true identity and thereby achieve a blissful eruption of total liberation. But I suspect that at the very least you will understand previously hidden mysteries about your primal nature. And as they come into focus, you will indeed be led in the direction of cathartic emancipation.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: “We never know the wine we are becoming while we are being crushed like grapes,” said author Henri Nouwen. I don’t think that’s true in your case, Taurus. Any minute now, you could get a clear intuition about what wine you will ultimately turn into once the grape-crushing stage ends. So my advice is to expect that clear intuition. Once you’re in possession of it, I bet the crushing will begin to feel more like a massage — maybe even a series of strong but tender caresses.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: Your sustaining mantra for the coming weeks comes from Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer: “I am not empty; I am open.” Say that aloud whenever you’re inclined to feel lonely or lost. “I am not empty; I am open.” Whisper it to yourself as you wonder about the things that used to be important but no longer are. “I am not empty; I am open.” Allow it to loop through your imagination like a catchy song lyric whenever you’re tempted to feel melancholy about vanished certainties or unavailable stabilizers or missing fillers. “I am not empty; I am open.”
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are close to tapping into hidden powers, dormant talents, and future knowledge. Truths that have been off-limits are on the verge of catching your attention and revealing themselves. Secrets you have been concealing from yourself are ready to be plucked and transformed. And now I will tell you a trick you can use that will enable you to fully cash in on these pregnant possibilities: Don’t adopt a passive wait-and-see attitude. Don’t expect everything to happen on its own. Instead, be a willful magician who aggressively collects and activates the potential gifts.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: This would be a perfect moment to give yourself a new nickname like “Sugar Pepper” or “Honey Chili” or “Itchy Sweet.” It’s also a favorable time to explore the joys of running in slow motion or getting a tattoo of a fierce howling bunny or having gentle sex standing up. This phase of your cycle is most likely to unfold with maximum effectiveness if you play along with its complicated, sometimes paradoxical twists and turns. The more willing you are to celebrate life’s riddles as blessings in disguise, the more likely you’ll be to use the riddles to your advantage.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Right about now you might be feeling a bit extreme, maybe even zealous or melodramatic. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were tempted to make outlandish expostulations similar to those that the poet Arthur Rimbaud articulated in one of his histrionic poems: “What beast must I worship? What sacred images should I destroy? What hearts shall I break? What lies am I supposed to believe?” I encourage you to articulate salty sentiments like these in the coming days — with the understanding that by venting your intensity you won’t need to actually act it all out in real life. In other words, allow your fantasy life and creative artistry to be boisterous outlets for emotions that shouldn’t necessarily get translated into literal behavior.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Adyashanti is my favorite mindscrambling philosopher. One of his doses of crazy wisdom
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is just what you need to hear right now. “Whatever you resist you become,” he says. “If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.” Can you wrap your imagination around Adyashanti’s counsel, Libra? I hope so, because the key to dissipating at least some of the dicey stuff that has been tweaking you lately is to STOP RESISTING IT!
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: During every election season, media pundits exult in criticizing candidates who have altered their opinions about important issues. This puzzles me. In my understanding, an intelligent human is always learning new information about how the world works, and is therefore constantly evolving his or her beliefs and ideas. I don’t trust people who stubbornly cling to all of their musty dogmas. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an especially ripe time for you to change your mind about a few things, some of them rather important. Be alert for the cues and clues that will activate dormant aspects of your wisdom. Be eager to see further and deeper.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Friedrich Nietzsche published his first
book, The Birth of Tragedy, in 1872, when he was 28 years old. In 1886, he put out a revised edition that included a preface entitled “An Attempt at Self-Criticism.” In this unprecedented essay, he said that he now found his text “clumsy and embarrassing, its images frenzied and confused, sentimental, uneven in pace, so sure of its convictions that it is above any need for proof.” And yet he also glorified The Birth of Tragedy, praising it for its powerful impact on the world, for its “strange knack of seeking out its fellow-revelers and enticing them on to new secret paths and dancing-places.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I invite you to engage in an equally brave and celebratory re-evaluation of some of your earlier life and work.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: “Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.” So advised Thaddeus Golas in his book The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment. I think that’s exactly what you should do right now, Capricorn. To undertake such a quest would reap long-lasting benefits. Here’s what I propose: First, identify three dreams that are important for your future. Next, brainstorm about how you could return to the roots of your relationships with them. Finally, reinvigorate your love for those dreams. Supercharge your excitement about them.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “What am I doing here in mid-air?”
asks Ted Hughes in his poem “Wodwo.” Right about now you might have an urge to wonder that yourself. The challenging part of your situation is that you’re unanchored, unable to find a firm footing. The fun part is that you have an unusual amount of leeway to improvise and experiment. Here’s a suggestion: Why not focus on the fun part for now? You just may find that doing so will minimize the unsettled feelings. I suspect that as a result you will also be able to accomplish some interesting and unexpected work.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: How many fireflies would you have
to gather together in order to create a light as bright as the sun? Entomologist Cole Gilbert estimates the number to be 14,286,000,000. That’s probably beyond your ability to accomplish, Pisces, so I don’t recommend you attempt it. But I bet you could pull off a more modest feat with a similar theme: accumulating a lot of small influences that add up to a big effect. Now is an excellent time to capitalize on the power of gradual, incremental progress.
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Dear Dan: I’m a 49-year-old gay man. I’ve become friends with a 21-yearold straight guy. He’s really hot. He’s had to drop out of college and return home. I by Dan Savage know he needs money, as he hasn’t found a job yet and has resorted to selling off old own fantasy was to be the slave on a music equipment. I would love to have 19th-century plantation, raped by her some sweaty clothes of his, namely his tion, drop it. If he’s into the idea, white owner. How about some advice for underwear, but I’d settle for a sweaty tank offer to be his first customer. the human fetish objects in these scenaritop. Is it legal to buy someone’s underwear? os, Dan? I didn’t want to stigmatize He’s a sweet guy, and I don’t want to freak Dear Dan: I am totally with your these women for their sexual desires, and him out by asking something so personal. German friend, who wouldn’t do Nazi © LaRae Lobdell I wanted to be GGG, but it was, frankly, How do I broach the subject? role-play “in six million hard (or not, as it were). Being asked to — Lustfully Obsessed years.” I’ve been in a simiact out roles I feel guilty about, and to Stink Seeker lar position — not quite use the kind of racial epithets I make Holocaust level, but not far Dear LOSS: It’s peroff. I’m a white British guy. every effort to avoid… the guilt is a boner-killer. Any tips on how a GGG fectly legal to buy and A while back, while living partner can get past this kind of mental sell used underwear, in the UK, I was dating a block and at least act the role enthusiastiLOSS, so there’s no legal woman from Bangalore. cally enough to fulfill the fantasy? Or risk. But you risk losing She revealed — after her was a subsequent girlfriend’s outrage this guy as a friend if you face lit up when I dressed about my willingness to indulge such broach the subject. You in a way that made me can approach it indirectly “look like a colonialist” (her socially regressive fantasies justified? — I Might Play Every Role I’m by saying something like words) — that her deepest Asked Less Ideologically-Scrupulous “So sorry to hear you’re selling off fantasy was to be an Indian slave girl Motives your music equipment. You’re young raped by an English imperialist. And then, living in the U.S. a few years later, and hot — you could probably make Dear IMPERIALISM: Actors play I was dating a black woman. We got to more money selling used underwear Nazis in hit movies, British colonialists talking about the kinks of exes. I told her or sweaty tanks.” Then follow his for prestigious BBC miniseries, and about this one, and she revealed that her lead: If he’s disgusted by the sugges-
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serial killers on long-running television shows. I don’t see why playing monsters in entertainments devised for millions wins Oscars (Christoph Waltz for playing a Nazi in Inglourious Basterds), BAFTAs (Tim Pigott-Smith for playing a brutal colonialist in The Jewel in the Crown), and Golden Globes (Michael C. Hall for playing a sociopathic serial killer in Dexter), but playing a monster for an audience of one should outrage “subsequent girlfriends” or anyone else. My advice for people asked to play monsters in the bedroom mirrors my advice to a gay guy attracted to degrading “antigay” gay porn: “A person can safely explore degrading fantasies — even fantasies rooted in ‘hate ideologies’ — so long as he/she is capable of compartmentalizing this stuff. Basically, you have to build a fire wall between your fantasies and your self-esteem. (And between your fantasies and your politics.)” If you can build a fire wall between their fantasies and your politics and beliefs, IMPERIALISM, go for it. If you can’t, don’t. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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pril 20 is a legendary day in University of mere consumption and toward the interlinking of drug rium on classes at the University of Michigan to allow Colorado history, when in the past, policy and social justice. for teaching and learning about the Vietnam War. upwards of 10,000 people would descend SSDP chapter president, sophomore Elizabeth With roots in civil rights strategies, the day matched on Norlin Quad to toke up at 4:20 p.m. in Henneman, is an advocate for drug policy reform and protest action with a constructive, educative method celebration of all things cannabis. The harm reduction policy. She says it is important to that did not disrupt the mission of the university. annual event was a holiday for many but an expensive change the culture of the smokeout and that students Framed as an educational exercise, it received the and unproductive nightmare to others, and it became a play a crucial role. endorsement of the school’s administrators and the contentious occasion to all. “I have my own rebel spirit, but I know that I have support needed to bring light to issues underI say “legend” because few students at CU know to work within a system to change it for the positive,” addressed in the political sphere. firsthand about the day’s history. The four-year turnHenneman says. “People with authority respect hard Drawing on that history, SSDP hopes to use the Wikimedia Commons over in students on a college teach-in to shed light on the campus translates to a four-year ongoing war on drugs, the zeroturnover in institutional knowltolerance drug policy and masedge, so the memory and consive expansion of drug penalties cept of the event is dissipating. that used mandatory minimums The last year of the notorito put even petty offenders ous smokeout was 2011. For the behind bars. next three years, campus adminThe policies were launched istrators closed the campus to in the 1970s with promises of April 20 used to draw crowds of 10,000 or more to Norlin Quad at University of Colorado Boulder. This the public in an attempt to lower crime rates, less drug use year, students are being encouraged to gather instead at the 2016 Cannabis Symposium, a non-consumption event. squash the massive smokeout. and safer streets, but the results The campus reopened last year were different. Drug use rates to no incident. increased along with criminalwork and have an appreciation for working within ization and the policies led to mass incarceration and This year, campus will not only remain open on constraints. In the long run, [conversation about drug international drug conflicts. 4/20, but the university is sanctioning the 2016 policy] is much more powerful than standing in a field In 1980 there were 50,000 people in jail for drugs, Cannabis Symposium, a teach-in hosted by the CU smoking pot.” Chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) by 1997 there were 400,000. Today there are over 1 milCampus administrators agree. “The symposium is and the Cultural Events Board at the University lion. exactly what we want on this campus,” says Ryan Huff, Memorial Center. “Because of the war on drugs, we are left with stigchief spokesman to the university. “We want good, The Symposium was born out of a drug policy mas and perceptions portraying people who use drugs academic discussions on a variety of issues and that class taught by Caroline Conzelman, Ph.D., an as doing something immoral or wrong,” Henneman includes drug laws and marijuana. Having academic anthropology instructor at CU. Recognizing the consays. “But drug use is not a moral issue.” forums to debate and discuss those issues is exactly trast between the silence of the campus closure and It is a multifaceted one, and the symposium will what a university should do.” their own lively conversation about drug policy, leave no face of the issue unexamined. The all-day For some Boulderites, there is a romanticism about event features keynote speakers, including drug policy Conzelman and the students decided to host a small the smokeouts of years past, remnants of the town’s teach-in on 4/20 and brought campus Chancellor Phil activist and owner of Simply Pure dispensary, Wanda fading hippie character. But the nostalgia is quickly DiStefano in to discuss the closure. James, along with several others. overshadowed by the potential of the Symposium to This year’s symposium is the third and largest to And, when the clock tolls 4:20, students will be affect the ongoing war on drugs. In that spirit, date, featuring five keynote speakers, eight panels and holding a moment of silence, a pause in a rally at the Conzelman and the SSDP both refer to the event as a discussions led by student organizations. UMC Fountain to remember the victims of the war on Conzelman says this year’s non-consumption event teach-in, an intentional nod to the term’s roots in anti- drugs. war political activism. strives to turn the day into a more productive occasion This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views that redirects the campus’s conversation away from of Boulder Weekly. The first teach-in was in 1965, a one-day morato-
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He told the paper that he thought the question of the legalization of marijuana should be left to the states, and that if elected president he would not interfere with Colorado’s legalization of marijuana. “I think on the question of marijuana legalization, we should leave it to the states,” Cruz said. “If it were me personally, voting on it in the state of Texas, I would vote against it. “The people of Colorado have made a different decision. I respect that decision,” he continued.
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the convention involved Jerry Eller, a disabled vet from Pueblo who was one of eight candidates who was seeking to get his name on the state’s senatorial primary ballot by getting the support of 30 percent of the convention delegates. If I understand his position correctly, Eller isn’t calling for the re-criminalization of pot, but he says he’s sick of the “ridiculous” proliferation of marijuana stores “with their funky names” in Pueblo West and thinks Amendment 64 was “way too loosey-goosey.” He’d ban smokable pot on the medical side because smoking is unhealthy, and while he would allow sales of both medical and recreational marijuana, he’d ban all advertising, including signage on both medical and recreational stores. Commercial grows would be regulated by “the Department of Agriculture, HHS, FDA, ATF, DEA, FBI, CIA and or local police and sheriffs...” I get the impression that his real beef is with in-your-face signage on pot stores. Essentially he’s willing to (grudgingly) accept legal marijuana as long as it isn’t seen, heard or smelled in public. However he didn’t get very far when he tried to explain the nuances of his position during his allotted 10 minute speech to the convention. When he said he wanted to ban medical pot shops with funky names, he was interrupted by a chorus of boos, which in turn elicited some cheering. Most of the delegates just sat in silence. Eller realized he was getting nowhere and moved on — leaving the impression that he favored Chris Christie style re-criminalization. “Eller got only 30 votes — out of 3,796 cast.” But the important point is that the only Republican Senate candidate who wanted to come down hard on legal pot encountered noisy pushback on the convention floor and bombed with the issue. That brings us to the third newsworthy thing to come out of the Republican convention involving marijuana: the state party’s 2016 platform. The word “marijuana” didn’t appear in it.
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So what exactly has this election season taught us about the Democratic Party in Colorado. Well, we now know they are lousy planners. They just couldn’t rent enough space or find enough staff to get all those caucus-goers in to participate in the process. At least they couldn’t accommodate them in areas where Bernie Sanders was predicted to do well. And then, in some precincts, at least 10, where Sanders did well, the Party just Wikimedia Commons couldn’t add the numbers up right. But, conveniently, by the time they came clean about their bad math, the mistake had already allowed Clinton to grab important, albeit incorrect headlines claiming that she had won more total delegates in Colorado despite getting trounced in the voting. And when it came time to shift delegates from Clinton to Sanders as a result of correcting the faulty math, the Colorado Democratic Party only felt compelled to tell Clinton what the real count was. They didn’t think it important to notify the Sanders camp that his delegate count went up or even the media so they could correct their false propaganda aka headlines. And now none of this will matter unless all those same Sanders voters continue to show up at things like the upcoming state convention. Of course we are hearing that Sanders supporters aren’t getting notified by the Colorado Democratic Party about upcoming events. Apparently, such notification to attend is being reserved for Clinton supporters. It seems a dangerous game to play in a state where Sanders supporters could easily remove these high-profile Hillary Clinton manipulators and their elected pals within the Colorado Democratic Party in the next election cycle — should they decide that it’s time to put a little democracy back into our state’s Democratic Party. You know, that sounds like the beginning of a plan.
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So this climate denier huckster named Marc Morano is trying to promote his new documentary — or more accurately mockumentary — called Climate Hustle. Now you may remember Morano as a frequent global warming critic who is associated with the obviously unbiased Committee for a Conservative Tomorrow think tank. He says fossil fuels have nothing Wikimedia Commons to do with climate change, which is, of course, imaginary. He apparently has no children or grand-children, although we haven’t confirmed this fact. It could be he just doesn’t give a rat’s ass about them. But we digress. As part of his quest to make some bucks at the planet’s expense, Morano decided to interview Bill Nye “The Science Guy” and take him down. But he got more than he bargained for — something that regularly happens when dumb people take on smart people. Nye not only schooled him on how ludicrous his climate stance is, he actually challenged Morano to put his money where his really big mouth is. Nye offered up two $10,000 bets. One was that 2016 will be the warmest year on record and the other was that the current decade will turn out to be the hottest in history. Needless to say, Morano refused the bets. How’s that for confidence in his stupid position? The only sad part to this story is that Nye clearly failed to learn the lessons of Pete Rose. As of this week, Bill Nye “The Science Guy” has been permanently barred from the Baseball Hall of Fame for gambling. Boulder Weekly
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