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Highroad Using hokey numbers and neon lies to sell TPP by Jim Hightower

ome one, come all! Step right up and buy your ticket for a ride on the splendiferous, phantasmagoric, supersonic, miraculous, “Trans-Pacific Partnership!” TPP is not some sort of futuristic flying machine, but yet another global trade scam coming at us like a volcanic eruption straight out of hell. This thing is a “partnership” of, by and for global

corporations similar to NAFTA, only much, much, much bigger and far more destructive both to the middle class and to our people’s sovereignty. Negotiating in strict secrecy during the past seven years, a cabal of the Obama White House and corporate lobbyists are now ready to spring it on us, and Republican leaders intend to ram it into law before We the People can get a whiff of its anti-democratic stench. Indeed, to perfume it, they’ve already begun a PR campaign touting TPP as the long-sought wonder cure for America’s downtrodden working class. For example, such odd-bedfellow boosters as Secretary of State John Kerry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce both exclaim that the 12-nation scheme will “support 650,000 new jobs.” Wow, really? No. Glenn Kessler, who writes the Washington Post’s “Fact-Checker” column, dug into that number in January

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and found that it was incorrectly calculated, misleading and silly. In fact, he wrote, instead of TPP yielding 650,000 new jobs, “The correct number is zero.” He also pointed out that even if 650,000 jobs were created, that’s not even a drop in the bucket, for it would increase U.S. employment by less than one-half of 1 percent. Be alert, friends, for the TPP Gang will try to dazzle us with hokey numbers and neon lies while they steal our democratic rights and turn our future well-being over to global corporations. To get information and get involved, go to www.citizen.org/trade. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 9, 2015 7

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Momentum building to raise minimum wage by Dave Anderson

n April 15, America will witness a protest which is billed as “the largest low wage worker mobilization in modern history.” Workers will demand a $15 an hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without employer interference. Rallies will be held in more than 200 U.S. cities. It will be a one-day strike for many, but they will be joined by students from more than 170 universities, social justice advocates with the “Black Lives Matter” movement, numerous local community groups and religious people. In Denver, the protest will start at 5 p.m. on the Auraria campus near downtown. Allied protests are planned in nations such as France, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Brazil and Bangladesh. The movement is gaining momentum in Colorado. On March 23, about 300 people attended a “Raise the Wage” rally on the west steps of the state Capitol. Andrew Olson, a 25-year-old McDonald’s worker in Aurora, told the crowd that he makes $8.60 per hour. He collects food stamps, doesn’t have health insurance and has impacted wisdom teeth that he can’t afford to remove. He said, “People like us who work hard should be able to afford the basics — like food, a place to live and health care — without relying on public services.” Robert Lindgren, the lead organizer

for Colorado WINS (the state employee union), attended the rally. He told me that “nearly 3,000 classified state employees across 71 job classes make under $15 an hour. They include accountants, technicians, custodians, client care aids, childcare workers, security guards, IT professionals and admin support.” He noted that 503 classified workers at the University of Colorado Boulder make less than $15 an hour. The rally was designed partly to support Democrats in the state legislature who are trying to raise the minimum wage through legislation. There’s House Bill 1300, which would repeal a 16-year-old statute prohibiting local governments from establishing their own minimum wage. It was later approved by the House, which has a Democratic majority. It now moves on to the Senate, which is controlled by the Republicans. It will likely be killed there. There’s House Concurrent Resolution 1001, which would have put an initiative on the state ballot that would have amended the state’s constitution to raise Colorado’s current minimum wage of $8.23 per hour to $9.50 per hour, starting in 2017. The minimum wage would increase annually until it reached $12.50 per hour in 2020. The proposal won a 33-31 majorsee DANISH PLAN Page 10

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letters Open letter to CWA fans

Dear CWA Fans, I write with some unfortunate news. On Sunday, the Boulder Daily Camera featured, on its front page, what by all lights was a very negative story about the CWA. One of the things highlighted in the article was a letter that some CWA committee members and other individuals signed and sent to CU’s Chancellor DiStefano on April 2. In addition to doubting my leadership, that letter called into question the university’s commitment to keeping the CWA free and open to the public and to preserving our tradition of featuring participants who do not reside in Colorado. After speaking with several of the letter’s signatories yesterday, it is clear to me that their primary motivation in signing the letter (while acknowledging that others may have had a different goal in mind) was to underscore the importance of the fundamental principles above. I want to take this opportunity to explicitly state to you all my position on these two issues. I fully subscribe to the principle that the conference should remain free and open to the public. There are no plans to change the practice of the conference being free and open to the public, and I have no desire to change that longstanding practice. Moreover, given my high level of confidence in our ability to raise a good deal more revenue in years to come, I see no urgency to revisit this principle. If the very survival of the conference was at stake many years from now and the only viable option to allow it to continue was to charge admission, I think we’d have to consider that option as a CWA community. Next, our participants come from out of state, and I firmly believe that there is real value in that. In fact, I’d like to identify ways to attract more participants to the conference from other countries to enhance our diversity of perspectives. The conference has achieved a very high level of success under the current model. Any discussion to alter this, or any other, traditions of the conference even in the most gradual way will be a discussion that takes place over a long period of time, it will consider all the advantages and disadvantages of the status quo, and all conference stakeholders will have the opportunity to be heard. After these deliberate, careful, and open discussions if there is broad consensus that the status quo does not need tweaking, I would be reluctant, to say the least, to act otherwise. If you have follow up questions on Boulder Weekly

these issues, or other concerns about the CWA, please do not hesitate to e-mail me any time at John.Griffin@Colorado. edu. John D. Griffin/director, Conference on World Affairs

More magic from Kesem

On behalf of myself and the Camp Kesem CU Boulder staff, we would like to thank you for the truly amazing arti-

cle about our organization, featured in Boulder Weekly [Re: “The magic of Kesem,” News, March 26]. Not only was it beautifully written, but it shed a light on the work that we do, our purpose, and who these families are and what they experience. Furthermore, you portrayed both who we are, and our words in such a positive light. The fact that you were able to feature it as a full-length article is incredi-

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Marsh Riggs was correct on several points today [Re: “Celebrate Carbon Dioxide,” letter to the editor in Daily Camera, March 31]. Firstly, Riggs states that less than 2 percent of the energy on the planet comes from wind and solar energy. True, but he failed to note that energy from photovoltaic panels increased 485 percent since 2010 and wind energy is growing at an annual rate of 21 percent and we don’t have to eliminate fossil fuels entirely to reduce CO2 to acceptable levels. Secondly, Mr. Riggs suggests that we should rejoice about the fact that

there is carbon dioxide in the air. That is fine but it is disproportionally increasing due to man’s activities to levels that have not been seen in a million years and are already causing ice to melt at alarming rates at the poles and unseen droughts in many areas including New Mexico and California. These trends, as predicted previously by climate scientists, will continue to increase in intensity, destroying the delicate balance that was in place until the mid-20th century after the industrial revolution and the exponential use of fossil fuels went global. Lastly, Riggs mentioned that believers in climate change had vested interests. Yes we do. We are interested in avoiding sea levels rising a foot by midcentury and up to five feet by the end. We are interested in curbing the disturbing increasing acidity of our carbon dioxide absorbing oceans. We are interested in reducing the number of species that are becoming extinct due to global warming and we are interested in leaving our descendants a habitable planet. Tom Lopez/Longmont Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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employer with its franchisees, sharing liability for violations of our Act.” It will deal with numerous unfair labor practice complaints against the main company and franchises in hearings set to begin in May. The NLRB counsel said it found “merit” in allegations that the company, jointly with franchisees had engaged in “discriminatory discipline, reductions in hours, discharges and other coercive conduct directed at employees in response to union and protected concerted activity, including threats, surveillance, interrogations, promises of benefit and overbroad restrictions on communicating with union representatives or with other employees about unions and the employees’ terms and conditions of employment.” Unfortunately, McDonald’s behavior is quite common. The NLRB may rule against McDonald’s but our weak labor laws will guarantee that the grossly inadequate penalties they pay won’t keep them from doing it again. Workers need to win a living wage but they also need to to be able to form unions to fight for their rights. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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THE PERFECT STORM HOW COLORADO’S 1985 TRAIN WRECK COULD HAPPEN AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH EVEN MORE DIRE CONSEQUENCES BY PAUL GIBB

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five crew members died instantail traffic has ly. increased in It is easy to call this disaster Boulder a freak accident, the result of County in everything going wrong at the recent years same time. After all, there was largely due to the transportation the misreading of the date and of flammable crude oil, primarily the coincidence of two trains from the Niobrara shale formameeting exactly at the one point tion in Wyoming and here in on the entire line with least visiColorado. This is an important bility. turn of events because the tracks This is all true. But to that run through Boulder assume such chance happenings County have not been signifiwere the only causes of the accicantly updated since the last dent is to miss a very essential major railway accident on the point: that in 1985, the Front Range — a 1985 head-on Burlington Northern line collision between two trains that through the northern Front ended in an impressive blaze that Range was basically a 19th cenactually melted away a bridge on tury railroad, not a 20th century U.S. Highway 36. one. Could a similar crash happen Actually, its engineering again, this time involving an oil wasn’t good even by 19th centutrain? How safe is a train line ry standards. The portion of the that at times cuts right through line between Broomfield and the middle of communities like Old track, steep curves and outdated technology all plague Boulder County railways and could pose Fort Collins was built in the Longmont and Fort Collins or a threat to public safety with the increase of trains carrying crude oil on the track. 1870s by notorious “robber runs right next to neighborhoods baron” Jay Gould, who sold it to impossible to see the headlight of an in Lafayette, Louisville and 4.5 miles later at Clear Creek near the the competition-wary Union Pacific oncoming train. But you’re not paying Boulder, where any type of derailment Western Paving facility on West 64th Railroad at an inflated price in 1879. much attention because you’ve traveled or explosion could prove extremely Street. Once the train is fully stopped, Union Pacific wisely replaced it within this route hundreds of times and you’re hazardous depending on the cargo? you climb down from the cab, go into a a few years by taking over a far betternot expecting another train. You don’t So what caused the 1985 crash and booth and open the log book. The engineered route along the South even notice the approaching column of what has been done to the tracks and instructions in the train order you saw Platte through Greeley and Brighton. smoke that you might have seen above the system used to direct rail traffic to earlier were to stop at Clear Creek And the portion of the line in the highway ahead if only you had prevent similar accidents from occuruntil gravel train Extra 6575 East has Westminster, where the collision haplooked to your left. ring today? The answer may surprise arrived and been switched onto the pened, was built in the mid-1880s to Suddenly, there it is — the bright you. In the following pages, we offer a unloading tracks. You look down at the only slightly improved standards. By headlight of another train coming comprehensive look at the railroad log book and see an entry that says the early 1900s, the line, then known directly at you, less than 100 yards in tracks of Boulder County from 1985 to Extra 6575 East came through at 5:45 as the Colorado and Southern or C&S front of you. Nine million pounds of present, including an examination of p.m. on August 1. Somehow you have for short, had already developed the steel and cargo are about to collide at a the 1985 crash, a hard look at the curit in your mind that today is August 1, nickname “Crooked and Slow.” combined speed of 100 miles per hour. rent traffic and risks as well as an not August 2, and you don’t give it a Trains were still dispatched on this You rush to the door and leap and then examination of the failed RTD deal second thought. You then climb back line in 1985 using the old method everything goes blank. that would have used these tracks for up into the cab, tell your fellow crew called “Timetable and Train Order,” a This is how the accident happened, mass transit. member that Extra 6575 East already common practice of American railroads according to the National •••• cleared the main. Then the diesel at that time for operations on unsigTransportation Safety Board. NTSB Thirty years later, train crews along engines begin their growling ascent naled secondary lines. Burlington also reported that the explosion was Colorado’s Front Range still refer to it uphill toward Westminster, Boulder Northern locomotives had radios that heard 10 miles away; that a column of as the day of the “perfect storm.” That and points north. could link them to the dispatcher, but smoke was seen as far north as Fort Seven miles later you look ahead is because it was a day when everything the crews were not required to use Collins; that the U.S. 36 bridge was and see the concrete and steel bridge seemed to go wrong all at once. them in all situations. Scheduled destroyed by a combination of the colwhere U.S. 36 crosses over the tracks Imagine yourself on Aug. 2, 1985 as freights, of which there were several in lision and heat from diesel fuel that a crew member of Burlington Northern on a lengthy embankment that comeach direction each day between burned; that no flammable materials pletely obscures the rail line ahead. The Railroad mixed-freight train Extra Wyoming and Denver, simply headed were being hauled by either train other rails curve sharply to the left as they 6311 West, leaving the Denver yard than the engine’s diesel fuel; and that pass under the bridge, making it just before 7 p.m. and then stopping See PERFECT STORM Page 13 12 April 9, 2015

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down the line expecting all unscheduled trains to know to stay out of their way. Crews of “extra” freights, such as the two involved here, relied on train orders handed to them at the start of their journey telling them where to wait for which other trains. Timetable and Train Order worked somewhat well when most trains on a line were scheduled, but in the 1980s the line was suddenly carrying many more unscheduled trains, including gravel trains like Extra 6575 East that shuttled daily between Western Paving and a quarry near Lyons. Extra trains were named according to the number The proximity of trains to roads and homes in Boulder County is cause for concern. on the side of the locomotive cab, so extra trains like 6575 that shuttled back and forth might appear in the log books multiple times patcher before and after every move Block Signaling (ABS). One of the each week, or even each day, easily and was given specific orders allowing things CTC and ABS do is send an leading to confusion by any employee it to occupy the track from location X electronic current down the rails. The who was mistaken about the date. As if to location Y and so forth. And the wheels of a train create a short circuit that were not confusing enough, north- dispatchers had computer programs causing trackside signals to turn red, that prevented them from issuing over- thereby giving approaching trains a bound trains were labeled “West” and lapping track warrants. southbound trains “East.” In fail-safe warning to stop. Another At the same time, telephone booths important function is to turn signals Longmont and Fort Collins were line were installed at most sidings and segments where “West” trains traveled red when a switch is not properly eastbound and “East” trains westbound switches, using phone lines from the aligned for mainline traffic. And just as local phone company — phone booths — another source of possible confuimportant is the ability of CTC and that could be used in the event the sion. ABS to turn signals red when there is a company’s own communication lines And communication with the disbroken rail. Not all broken rails are were severed. These telephones were patcher, who in 1985 was stationed in detected this way, but a significant McCook, Neb., was still done the old removed in the 1990s when dispatcher number can be. way too, using two wires stretched communication by radio became more Then too, most of the engineering along a trackside pole line for all but dependable. on the Boulder County line is still 19th 90 of the 490 miles between Wendover Since the late 1990s, BNSF has century. Quite a few extremely sharp and McCook. In the summer of 1985 taken advantage of technological innocurves (six-degree or higher) still exist, some of the poles were removed during vations as they came along, including one of them in a populated area of construction of a new intermodal yard cellular phones and satellite location Longmont. Difficult-to-traverse grades in Denver, and on the day of the crash, devices. The dispatcher now has inforof 1.5 percent and higher still exist too, mation on train location, speed and a temporary cable was run over and often combined with six-degree curves engine performance, and is promptly cut, leaving crews north of Denver — for example, near Arapahoe Avenue warned by computer technology of a temporarily without a link to the disand 75th Street in Boulder, or on the potential problem. patcher. It is not known if this was a hill just south of the Big Thompson BNSF has installed stronger, confactor in the crash, as crews were not River in Loveland. And “street runtinuously welded rail (with extra-heavy required to call the dispatcher, but it ning” still exists in Longmont and Fort might still be added to the list of rail on many curves), new ties and spe- Collins (i.e., the railroad runs down the things that made Timetable and Train cialized clips that keep rails from form- middle of a city street for some disOrder not a very safe way to run a rail- ing “sun kinks” when hot temperatures tance). Drainage is poor in many spots road. cause them to expand. along the right-of-way, leading to mud What has changed since 1985? BNSF has reduced at least a few of perennially working its way under the The good news is that Burlington the sharper curves on the line. Near the crossties and creating possible track Northern and its merged successor Pearl Street Parkway crossing in instability. Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Boulder, for example, two extremely Why have these things not changed have changed operating practices consharp curves have been combined into in all these years? The answer is simple. siderably in the intervening years. one somewhat less sharp curve, This line was, until recently, of marginWithin six months of the crash, although it is still sharper than many al value to its owner. Most freight on Burlington Northern abandoned the mainline curves. western railroads is east-west, not Timetable and Train Order practice on What has not changed since 1985? north-south. The freight that needs to all lines where it had been used. A new To begin, the Boulder County line, come south from Wyoming to practice called “Track Warrant unlike most U.S. main lines, has never Colorado, other than coal and oil, conControl” was established. Basically been upgraded to Centralized Traffic sists largely of lumber and miscellaeach train now had to contact the disControl (CTC) or even Automatic neous commodities, mostly from Boulder Weekly

Washington and Oregon. Before the coal and oil booms, only rarely did this line see more than two through freight trains per day in each direction. Once the coal boom started, and coal traffic became increasingly clogged on BNSF’s better but longer line through Northport, Sterling and Brush, the line through Boulder and Longmont was where overflow and detour trains were routed, at first mostly just empty coal trains going back north to the coal fields. Now that we have an oil boom, and the coal boom has not significantly abated, BNSF is having congestion problems all over its system. First priority for additional sidings and second tracks is of necessity going to be in the Dakotas and in the Chicago area, where congestion is worst. What can we be thankful for? Paradoxically, perhaps, we might be thankful that the line through Boulder is not better engineered and that its deficiencies — the curves and grades, the absence of CTC or ABS signaling, and the dearth of full-length passing tracks — discourage BNSF from sending even more trains our way, especially heavy ones. If the line were better engineered, we would likely have six to 10 additional full-length loaded coal trains a day, plus who knows how many more oil trains. This is because BNSF’s other route, the one through Sterling, is 43 miles longer. How much better is the route through Sterling? For one thing, it has hardly any curves sharper than five degrees, while the Boulder route has 56 of them. And the Sterling route has over 30 passing tracks longer than 7,000 feet, while the Boulder route has only five. Fortunately for us, perhaps, the cost of upgrading the Boulder line for heavy, full-length through trains, including coal and oil runs, is likely many times greater than that of improving the route through Sterling. What dangers may await? Oil trains (and molten sulfur trains as well) are, of course, a significant potential hazard, as local and national newspapers have been reporting for some time. But for an oil train disaster to occur there has to be a breakdown of some kind. Unlike the rail line through Lac-Megantic, Quebec, there is no siding on or on top of a steep grade, so a string of oil cars with brakes not properly set is not going to come careening down a hill and set a town on fire. Unlike the rail line near Lynchburg, April 9, 2015 13

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Va., the track does not parallel a river with an embankment that can easily wash out under a train. And because of increased communication between locomotives and dispatchers, along with satellite location reporting, the chances of head-on collisions are far slimmer than they were 30 years ago (although certainly not out of the question). What is far more likely along the Boulder line is a derailment caused by a broken rail and/or broken wheel. Even though the rail on this line is of average or better quality, and even though detectors that can pick up on damaged wheels are strategically placed, broken rails and wheels can still cause random accidents anywhere and at any time, possibly explosive ones if the derailed train carries crude oil or other flammable cargo. And loaded oil, molten sulfur and coal cars are six to seven times heavier than empty ones, thus many times more likely to cause broken rails or wheels. Broken rails have been the leading cause of derailments throughout the U.S. and Canada for many years. News reports have told of many derailments — 10 major ones just in the month of March 2015, two of which were in Colorado (Hudson and LaSalle) — and every one of them involved trains with heavy loads (coal, crude oil or molten sulfur). Clearly railroads have pushed their car weights to the limit. All it takes for a rail to break is to have a couple of split or rotten crossties underneath it while being pounded by string after string of oil or coal cars weighing around 140 tons apiece. This is not to say a disastrous derailment will occur tomorrow or next year or even in the next 10 years, with or without heavy trains hammering on the rails. But no one can guarantee such a tragedy will not happen. What can Front Range cities do? Unfortunately, local communities, or even states, cannot restrict what commodities railroads carry. Laws and legal precedents going back at least 100 years prevent this. So, then, how can cities like Boulder and Longmont keep dangerous cargoes from passing through? For some years Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) has been interested in using this line as a means to extend commuter rail to Boulder and possibly points north. If the line were to be purchased outright by RTD, that sale would theoretically put an end to through freight traffic on the line for good. The argument has been raised that local freight from customers in

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Loveland, Longmont and Boulder would still need to travel via the line. However, Loveland, Lyons and Longmont traffic could easily be handed off to the Great Western Railway, which could transport it to Union Pacific’s Greeley line at junctions to the east, and local freight from Boulder could go the same route if new track were to be laid on some abandoned roadbeds north of Lafayette and/or north or east of Erie. A small amount of freight, including lumber cars from Lafayette, grain cars from a plant north of Longmont and loadings from future new customers might still need to be handled on the Boulder line, which is certainly doable. But RTD’s negotiations with the BNSF Railway make for depressing reading by anyone hoping to see fewer freights and more “heavy rail” commuter cars. RTD missed its chance in 2005 when it backed out of a possible deal, claiming BNSF was asking for too much money, because by 2013 the price had gone up eightfold to $535 million. That figure was not actually to purchase the line outright, but simply to have trackage rights to run commuter trains on the same tracks during certain time slots. BNSF would have needed the money to install signals on the line and to double-track some segments, at least between Denver and Boulder or Longmont, for RTD’s benefit. What has changed since those last negotiations is the appearance of more oil and molten sulfur trains on the line, fueling residents’ fears of a possible fiery crash in a residential neighborhood. Six hundred thousand people live within a few miles of the line as it twists its way through Westminster, Broomfield, Louisville, Boulder, Longmont, Loveland and Fort Collins (compared to only about 60,000 along the three-state Sterling route). As already mentioned, BNSF would appear to value this line almost solely as an overflow and detour route. This is for the simple reason that upgrading it would likely cost far more than adding a similar amount of capacity to the Sterling route. Lengthening sidings and adding more track are one thing; getting rid of the curves and grades that give loaded coal and oil trains a hard time is quite another, involving construction of trestles, embankments and cuts, not to mention purchasing property. And what would it cost to bypass the “street running” in Longmont and Fort Collins? Fortunately, the cost of upgrading the line between Denver, Boulder and See PERFECT STORM Page 15

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Longmont for commuter trains is far less than upgrading the entire DenverBoulder-Longmont-CheyenneWendover line for more freight trains. The street running is to the north of downtown Longmont, so a commuter line from Denver to Longmont, if built, would stop short of it. And the tracks up Atwood Street could be torn up, or at the very least kept in place for a few short local freight train moves each week. Curves and grades are not as big a deal for commuter coaches as they are for full-length coal and oil trains. Commuter coaches typically weigh less than 25 percent of what loaded coal or oil cars weigh and can easily handle 2 percent grades and seldom cause broken rails. Portions of the line would still need to be double-tracked and a few of the very sharpest curves reduced, but there would be little or no need for building trestles, embankments and cuts to bring commuter service to Boulder and Longmont. BNSF is currently spending billions upgrading its trackage and adding more tracks and longer sidings, but almost all of it is in North Dakota, Wisconsin and Illinois. Eight locations in Colorado will get longer sidings and/or improved terminal facilities this year, but all eight are on the Sterling route, not the Boulder one. It would stand to reason that if BNSF continues upgrading the Sterling route, there may come a time when the Boulder line is even less valuable to the railroad than it is today. If a detour route is still needed, BNSF should be able to route via trackage rights on Union Pacific through Greeley and Brighton — at a cost, of course. Union Pacific already has trackage rights on BNSF to bring coal to Boulder for the Valmont Power Station. BNSF could easily secure similar rights on Union Pacific and Great Western for any new oil trains that originate along the Front Range; those trains could travel east across branch lines to reach the Union Pacific and then be switched back to BNSF in Commerce City or Denver. Currently, BNSF has nine crude oil loading sites in Wyoming and Colorado. Fortunately for us, seven of the nine are far enough north that their loads can be hauled via BNSF’s Sterling line to the east of us. The other two, Cheyenne, Wyo., and Windsor, Colo., are located in places without access to the Sterling line but with easy access to the Union Pacific. Trackage rights over Union Pacific would be a possible solution. And a map of northern Colorado Boulder Weekly

shows that Weld County, where most additional fracking is likely to take place, is very well covered by the Union Pacific and the Great Western, while BNSF is hardly a player. What would happen if Boulder County were to allow fracking? It is not the location of the wells that would be a concern, but that of the loading sites. Very likely any new sites would be to the east, even if some of the wells were situated to the west. Oil is nearly always trucked from wells to loading sites. A very efficient method of running trains is called “directional running” and is what is used on the Colorado Joint Line between Denver and Palmer Lake. In this case, trains of both railroads could go in one direction via BNSF’s Sterling route and in the other direction via Union Pacific’s Greeley route. The efficiency of both routes would be nearly doubled this way — without huge investment, except possibly on the portion of BNSF’s line between Denver and Brush, where trains would still need to be handled in two directions. Unfortunately, BNSF runs far more trains between Wyoming and Colorado than Union Pacific does, so it would not be an equal exchange and would cost BNSF money, although still possibly less money than increasing capacity on the Sterling line. Perhaps it is time for all parties to sit down at the table once again — BNSF, RTD, the communities along the line and possibly even Union Pacific and Great Western — and look at all possible options and figure out what each party would need to contribute to get BNSF to run all its trains farther east. Who knows, BNSF might actually be more willing than before to dispense with its “Curvy and Slow” line, especially if selling it would give it quick cash to help gets its trains moved to better engineered and less populated routes to the east. Clearly, the oil boom has changed the game, bringing with it new hazards, new challenges and, most importantly, new opportunities for negotiations — negotiations that might prove to be the only way to keep our rail line from having another one of those days when everything goes wrong. Paul Gibb is a former English professor and lifelong student of railroading who at the time of the 1985 train crash was working as an electronic technician in the Signal Department of the Burlington Northern Railroad, assigned to the Denver Region. He has lived in the Boulder area for 30 years.

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Workman’s compensation doctor says the concerns at Casey go well past the irritation of hydrogen sulfide by Elizabeth Miller

ydrogen sulfide may not be the heart of the problem at Casey Middle School, says Dr. Sander Orent, medical director of Arbor Occupational Medicine and the workman’s compensation doctor who has treated the teachers who believe they have health effects from working in the school. Carbon dioxide building up in classrooms due to poor air circulation may be compounding the problem, and increasing the effects of volatile organic compounds and irritants that do exist in the school, he says. The community response shows mounting, not dissipating concern, and Orent says part of that is in how Boulder Valley School District has responded to the questions raised about whether the air quality is safe at Casey. “I just think that people [with the school district] need to really dedicate themselves to, number one, paying attention to what’s being said by these folks and giving them a realistic appraisal. Don’t blow them off. Don’t tell them there’s nothing wrong. Because, first of all, I don’t believe that and, second of all, I think that’s a recipe for people get16 April 9, 2015

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news ting even more concerned,” he says. “I feel like the intentions are good. I do feel that it’s important to share all information in an open fashion in situations like this, and to be sure that people’s concerns are addressed in a considered, thoughtful and soundly based way — in other words, based on data and information and what people are actually experiencing. Data and information only go so far. We have to listen to what people are saying, and I think that’s really important.” Orent reiterates much of what the Boulder Valley School District has said about the school — breaches in sewer pipes and dried out traps in pipes allowed gas into the school, and testing shows that hydrogen sulfide is found in Casey, but at low enough levels that it should not be expected to cause any long-term health effects. “That is not to say that I find it acceptable that there is hydrogen sulfide in that building. I don’t,” he says. “I think it’s a significant distraction. And the other thing it induces is significant fear, because people don’t know — and this is common in toxicology. When there’s a question of an unknown irritant, question mark toxicant, in the air, people get very concerned. That’s the way humans are, and it’s understandable, because they can’t see it but they can smell it, and we all know about the toxins that surround us in this world and it does create a lot of anxiety. So they have to get rid of that smell.” Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Bruce Messinger says mostly, they have. “There’s a little bit of misinformation around this — we’ve had one event this year where there was actually an odor in the building. That was the last [sewer pipe] breach that was found and it happened to be on a pipe near the air handling system, so it pushed [sewer gas] into a part of the building,” he said in a March 31 interview with Boulder Weekly. “So we really have not had occasions during this school year where we’ve had — like we did early on — when there were multiple sources.” School board members have mentioned that based on the information they’ve received from teachers and parents in the Casey community, the odor has been noticable on several occasions this year. Orent has been meeting with teachers and staff at Casey since shortly after the school was reopened in August 2010 and initial complaints of sewer gas smells began. In a February 2011 letter to Casey staff, parents and children, he explains that the problem appeared to have come from dried-out water traps, Boulder Weekly

those that prevent sewer gas from reentering a building. He explains that while hydrogen sulfide is easily absorbed by the lungs, and exposure can cause headaches, nausea, eye and throat irritation and increased issues for asthmatics — symptoms teachers have since expressed experiencing — the substance metabolizes quickly through the body and is excreted. He thought the problem was solved, he says, and didn’t hear anything until about six months ago. “I started getting complaints from patients, specifically teachers in the school, that there were ongoing issues,” he says. The district has been asking teachers to go to the workman’s compensation doctor with any symptoms believed to be related to their working environment, whether from hydrogen sulfide or something else, since March of 2014. At last count from the Boulder Valley School District superintendent, seven teachers had seen the doctor for health issues they believed to be related to their work environment at Casey. “We have several — now two — teachers who have continued to see the workman’s comp doctor around symptoms they believe could at least be related to something with the school, but we’re still working through that,” Messinger says. Messinger has received updates on their cases, though he has not spoken directly with the doctor, Orent says. “I don’t want to speak for the doctor, although he has communicated to us in general terms that they’ve eliminated hydrogen sulfide as being any potential source in his assessment and that they are continuing to identify, is there an environmental variable that’s affecting their health and does it have anything to do with Casey Middle School or it might be something else in their environment, because obviously you don’t spend your whole day in the school,” Messinger says While Orent acknowledges that based on the data he’s seen from the school on the levels of hydrogen sulfide present and the patients he’s seen, he would anticipate no long-term health effects, and no abnormalities have appeared on the tests he’s run, that doesn’t mean the air quality in the school isn’t irritating to those who have to spend their days there. “The irritant smell of poop while you’re trying to teach or eat or learn I think is a problem, but I have not found medical consequences in terms of any sort of organ damage in the people

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that I have seen,” Orent says. tently through the coming year, based But he adds, that’s not the whole on the recommendations of Indoor Air story, in more ways than one. Diagnostics and the Colorado “Just because I don’t find abnormal- Department of Public Health and ities in laboratory tests or x-rays or Environment. other things, and I have looked, that Orent argues against getting caught doesn’t mean that these people aren’t up in the thiosulfate levels and other suffering irritating effects that don’t issues tied to hydrogen sulfide. show up in laboratory tests and don’t “I think to some degree the hydroshow up on an x-ray,” he says. “When gen sulfide is a distraction here,” he someone comes in to work in the says. “Yes it’s there, yes it stinks, yes it’s morning after a weekend and feels real- intermittent, and somebody needs to ly good and by the end of the day their figure out where it’s coming from. I throats are hoarse, their eyes are irritatthink the bigger issue is the ventilaed, some of them have headaches, they tion.” go home, they feel better when they go A marker for how well air is circuhome, they feel worse when they come lating in a building is the level of carinto work — bon dioxide found these are the in the building’s kinds of things rooms and how we just can’t quickly that carbon dioxide clears ignore, and say SOME SIGNS OF from the rooms. that they don’t Carbon dioxide is exist. They do IRRITATION IN PEOPLE’S generated by exist. There’s just MUCOUS MEMBRANES humans as they no MRI that’s breathe, and so going to show it. WHEN I’VE EXAMINED it’s not toxic, but There’s no blood THEM. SO THERE HAVE leads to a stale test that’s going to show it, but we feeling in the air. BEEN SOME PHYSICAL have sincere indiBVSD enviSIGNS. THIS ISN’T MADE viduals who are ronmental technitelling me this, cians tested for UP.’ — DR. SANDER and I’ve actually carbon monoxide ORENT seen some signs and carbon dioxof irritation in ide at several people’s mucous locations in the membranes when school in I’ve examined December “in them. So there have been some response to specific complaints,” physical signs. This isn’t made up. according to a letter from Messigner to These people aren’t trying to create a the Casey community sent Jan. 22, and problem that doesn’t exist. I really don’t “results of the test were well within see it that way. I see these as good sinacceptable OSHA and ASHRAE stancere people that just want to get their dards.” To bring those levels lower still, job done, that’s how I see it.” the air handling units for those areas Blood and urine tests of thiosulfate were adjusted. A second round of tests levels, a metabolic product of hydrogen completed in January by Quality sulfide, can indicate hydrogen sulfide Environmental Services & poisoning. He’s looked for that, Orent Technologies, Inc. (QUEST), showed says, but has not found elevated levels. reduced levels of carbon monoxide and Without having air quality monitors carbon dioxide from the December present to measure the hydrogen sulfide results, although they were still slightly levels, he says, thiosulfate found in the elevated, ranging during occupied hours blood can’t be directly tied to exposure from 270 parts per million to 1,565 at Casey. He would have to look for parts per million. Monitors had been other sources. The district has tested air placed in five locations, including three quality in the school on roughly 40 of classrooms. During the same period of the days since the school re-opened in time, QUEST also tested the school for August 2010 after being closed for volatile organic compounds in a single extensive remodeling. The school board location. passed a motion in March that called “What we’re finding at Casey for ongoing air quality monitoring, but school is that the carbon dioxide levels so far the superintendent has are no where near toxic, but they’re announced plans to monitor intermitindicative of the fact that there is inad-

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equate ventilation of the building,” Orent says. “We expect to see carbon dioxide levels in an occupied building of 1,000 parts per million or less — that’s considered reasonable, decent indoor air. It means that there is adequate air exchange with fresh air from the outside removing carbon dioxide and other contaminants or irritants that build up in a building. … When carbon dioxide levels are high, the irritants may reach increasing concentrations.” People who are sensitive — and kids have especially sensitive noses, he says — may experience increased irritation from the various and common substances and contaminants that surround them. “Instead of trying to figure out exactly what the irritant is, because it can be different for different people, the better solution is to make sure the building is adequately ventilated so that the concentration of those irritants is low and they will not bother people,” Orent says. “That’s the goal and that’s why we have modern HVAC systems is to clear out these contaminants and irritants. It’s not because there are toxins being generated in the building — there aren’t, as far as I know — but just daily living, electronics, human beings, breathing, eating, there’s a lot of cooking that goes on in that facility … [and] any time that you’re cooking things, you’re letting off a variety of different compounds, so I don’t know what the irritants are. And it could take the most intensive industrial hygiene survey, and you still might not figure it out because like I said, what’s irritating to one person may not be to another, so the trick is make sure the ventilation is good, make sure there’s plenty of fresh air coming in the building, so these normal irritants are at very low concentrations and people do fine.” There are people concerned about whether the testing was done well — some who are even looking into the qualifications of the president of QUEST, Inc., which have been contested during several previous court cases. Orent raised some questions in how the carbon dioxide tests were conducted at the school and whether the way they were conducted may have recorded carbon dioxide levels that are “falsely low.” Monitoring should be stratified in a room — some monitors up high, some about head-height for children and some near the floor, he says. In a wellventilated room, the carbon dioxide levels found by all those monitors should be close to the same.

How testing for carbon dioxide is done depends on the objectives of the measurement, says Caoimhín P. Connell, a forensic industrial hygienist with Forensic Applications Consulting Technologies, Inc. “If I’m looking at carbon dioxide in a school, I’m probably going to be looking at the return air. That’s a really good indication of what’s coming out of that room,” he says. In that case, he would put the air quality monitor inside the return air vent, or dangle it in front of the vent. In another case, to test for increased carbon dioxide levels in a classroom where a teacher believed the levels may be elevated, he wanted the monitor to be placed “as close as we could to the teacher’s breathing zone throughout the course of the day.” The air quality monitors used by QUEST to measure carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, relative humidity and temperature in the school were “placed on top of cabinets nearest to return air grilles [sic]”, according to QUEST’s report. A photo included in QUEST’s report suggests that the monitors were well above head-height, or the breathing zone, for children. Work at the school that took place at the end of March, largely during spring break, was meant to balance air flow in the school to increase ventilation to classrooms. A team worked for almost two weeks going room by room, checking pressure in every duct, according to Messinger. The aim, he says, was to balance the air to adjust the negative air pressure that had existed in the school and could contribute to pulling fumes into the building. During a community meeting on April 2, Richard Shaughnessy, program director of indoor air quality research at the University of Tulsa and the air quality specialist hired by the district to work on Casey, said that ventilation in most schools is well below desired levels. Poor air circulation in schools can lead to increased fatigue and difficulty focusing. During that same meeting, Messinger said that improving air quality at all district schools will be a goal moving forward, funded by the $576.5 million bond issue voters approved in November. The Casey community has been asking the district for increased transparency and access to the specialists hired to address Casey’s air quality concerns in addition to answers to a bevy of questions. The sentiment — as expressed in the signs toted by protesBoulder Weekly

news tors outside the April 2 meeting — is that the school is sick and the district is denying just how severe the problem is. One sign suggested Messinger’s office be relocated to the school. “I think that one of the most important points is not to discredit or discount what people are experiencing. It’s important to put into context, so they understand that this doesn’t mean that 10 years down the road they’re going to develop lung cancer or other diseases. That’s not why we’re doing this. Because again, the data on long term effects of hydrogen sulfide are very, very minimal in my view,” Orent says. “The worst thing to do, in my view, is to tell people that there’s nothing wrong.” In a December letter from the Casey Faculty Advisory Committee to the Boulder Valley School District superintendent and deputy superintendent, the committee expressed their concerns about the levels of gas at the school and the negative affects of the school’s air quality, as well as an interest in having more access to Indoor Air Diagnostics’ team, including Shaughnessy. The committee asked that at least two teachers and two parents tour the school with Indoor Air Diagnostics experts during winter break, that committee members be able to speak with or view the research done by Indoor Air Diagnostics, and that the school be given portable parts per billion meters until the hydrogen sulfide levels no longer measure above .11 to .33 parts per billion. In her response letter, Deputy Superintendent Deirdre Pilch stated that the Indoor Air Diagnostics team would need to focus their attention during their visit to the school on the building and its environment, mechanics and operations, and would not be meeting with staff. A community meeting to be held in late January would give faculty the chance to ask questions and share comments. That meeting was held in April, and staff, faculty and parents were allowed to submit questions on 3-inch by 5-inch note cards that were read and answered at the end of the meeting. Unanswered questions were to be addressed online at a later time. “I have continuously felt that the best way to deal with this is you shine a light on it. Let’s look at all the num-

bers. Let’s look at the whole picture. Let people ask all the questions they want. Let’s shine the light on it, because I really don’t believe there’s poison in that school at high enough concentrations to hurt people, but I think there are irritants in that school that are really bothering people, and they’re not just doing this to be irritating or for no reason,” Orent says. “Certain people in the district haven’t been as open with the information, and I think that the problem with that is, if they were open with the information, the information is not damning. It’s not. It’s not like ‘Oh my god, this is terrible. We’ve got to get these kids out.’ The information shows that Casey Middle School, in my view, has two indoor air quality issues, neither of which are dangerous but both of which are irritating as heck.” The side effect circulating the building now, Orent says, is fear. In the academic literature, the term is “toxic panic.” In the absence of answers, or presented with information that can be misinterpreted, to a certain degree, people have begun to come up with their own answers and theories. They’re turning to their own research and their own testing. He cautions that the variety of compounds toxicological tests can pick up “may or may not be relevant.” “The more that people deny that there’s a problem, the more you’re going to be confronted with the data that may be obscure or not particularly well studied that might allude to possible chronic effects or things like that. I’ve seen some of this stuff come by,” Orent says. “But if you really look at the mass of information on hydrogen sulfide, what you find is that only when it reaches high concentrations do we see acute effects and there’s no evidence of longterm effects unless somebody had a severe enough chronic exposure to cause them to lose consciousness.” His goal at this point, he says, is the same as everyone else’s: “It’s to make this thing go away so that students and teachers can go in there and have a great, successful learning experience without irritating odors or irritating concentrations of irritants that some people are sensitive to. That’s all that I want, that’s all that the people at Casey Middle School want and I’m sure that’s all that Boulder Valley Schools wants.”

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ne of renewable energy’s bonus, the same process would accelermore energetic voices in climate more outspoken enthusiate the downward flow of carbon, where research: he and his Carnegie colleagues asts has delivered bad news it could be sequestered on the seabed. have already warned that the world is for the prospects of develNow one of renewable energy’s feeling the heat from carbon dioxide oping ocean thermal enermore vocal supporters has taken a closer released from car exhausts and factory gy. His prediction is chimneys and he has spoken up Wikimedia Commons that although the techloudly for nuclear power and nology could work for a indeed any “clean” energy while, after about 50 sources. years it could actually He and Stanford colleagues exacerbate long-term Lester Kwiatkowski and global warning. Katharine Ricke report in Of all the renewable Environmental Research Letters energy technologies, that when they began to simuocean thermal energy late an ocean dotted with verticonversion (OTEC) cal pipes that exchanged deeper sounded like the perfect and shallower waters, they choice. This is a plan to expected to confirm the value of exploit the difference such an approach. They could between the warm surnot. “Our simulations indicate face and the cold depths Turns out the ocean might not be a great place to develop thermal the likely sign and character of of the seas, and turn energy. unintended atmospheric consethat difference into quences of such ocean technoloenergy. look at the long-term consequences of gies,” they conclude, in formal scienceA network of vertical pipes floating the ocean pipes and come up with some speak. “Prolonged application of ocean below the surface of the ocean would discouraging news: an engineering propipe technologies, rather than avoiding create energy, leaving the view from the gram intended to cool the planet would global warming, could exacerbate longcoast unsullied, and delivering power term warming of the climate system.” day or night, whatever the weather. But end up making it warmer. It would work for a while, he says, but after Research exercises such as this one there was more. about half a century it would reduce the cost nothing more than laboratory Enthusiasts pointed out that as a cloud cover and at the same time computing power and research time: bonus, the pipes used in the energy reduce sea ice, to accelerate climate their value, once again, is in reminding conversion would bring a flow of nutrichange once more. governments, campaigners and energy ents from the cold, deep waters to the Ken Caldeira, senior scientist in the investors that the climate is an intricate less-fertile but sunlit surface of the Department of Global Ecology at piece of global machinery, and that ocean, thus encouraging the growth of Stanford University’s Carnegie there are no easy answers to the probmarine algae that would soak up more Institution for Science, is one of the lems presented by renewable energy. carbon from the atmosphere. And, as a

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They are also a reminder that geoengineering of any kind to damp climate change could have unintended consequences. In this case — in an ideal, global simulation — it would change the thermal structure of the ocean altogether. The Carnegie calculations work like this: cold air is denser than warm air. Water funneled up the pipes on a very large scale from the depths would cool the air above the seas, and increase atmospheric pressure, which would reduce cloud formation over the seas. Since most of the planet is ocean, that means fewer clouds overall, which means more sunlight absorbed by the Earth rather than reflected back into space by the clouds. And the same mixing of sea waters would bring sea ice into contact with warmer waters, which would mean less sea ice to reflect radiation, with the same result: accelerated global warming. After 60 years, the simulated network of ocean pipes would cause an increase of global temperature by up to 1.2 degrees Celsius. After a few centuries, the same technology would take temperatures up by a catastrophic 8.5 degrees Celsius. “I cannot envisage any scenario in which a large scale global implementation of ocean pipes would be advisable,” said the report’s lead author, Kwiatkowski. “In fact, our study shows it could exacerbate long-term warning and is therefore highly inadvisable at global scales.”

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t 27,000 feet, Amelia Rose Earhart was soaring over Howland Island, the intended destination of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart, when she used a small handheld GPS device to tweet the names of the young women who were set to receive flight-training scholarships from her own aviation non-profit organization, the Fly With Amelia Foundation. This experience, which Earhart describes as the proudest moment not only of Rose Earhart quit her job as a radio and television reporter and became the youngest her 28,000-mile circumnavigation of Amelia woman to fly around the globe in a single-engine aircraft. the globe but also of her life, combined her passion for aviation, her curiosity for her namesake and her mission to spark an interest in the next generation of female pilots. But aviation had not always been an integral part of Earhart’s life. Throughout most of her childhood, she went by the nickname “Amy” rather than her full name, Amelia. “When I was a little kid growing up, I used to get teased about it a life I would be explaining why I wasn’t and a half to plan her endeavor. lot,” Earhart says. “I avoided it for a a pilot,” Earhart says. On June 26, Earhart began her long time because as a kid, if you’re not With a budding career as a radio journey around the world. Flying eastready to handle a big name like that, it and television reporter, Earhart worked bound out of Oakland, Calif., her flight can be kind of tough.” long hours, sometimes starting as early around the world took a total of 18 It wasn’t until Earhart was 18 years as 2:30 a.m., which made it difficult to days to complete and included stops in old that she felt comfortable in find enough time to fly. 14 countries while crossing the equator embracing her namesake and accepting “For me, it was that work-life balsix times. She flew anywhere between what it might have to offer. ance of knowing that flying wouldn’t seven and 10 hours each day at an “I just found that people were necessarily be a career, but it would be average of 27,000 feet in a Pilatus instantly engaged in conversation with a hobby,” Earhart says. PC-12 NG, a $4.5 million aircraft, me. It was all about asking questions Soon enough, her hobby began to Earhart says. The completion of this about the history of the name and ask- become an even larger part of her life. trip has earned her the title of the ing questions about whether or not I Rather than continue on with a youngest woman to circumnavigate the would be a pilot or if I could ever fly normal job and simply look to aviation globe in a single-engine aircraft. around the world. So, it was a good as a hobby, Earhart says, she decided to “I have never done so much work in thing,” Earhart says. embrace and honor her namesake by my entire life as I did over the course At 21 years old, after Earhart had symbolically completing the flight the of those 18 days,” Earhart says. “This saved up enough money to pursue a first Amelia Earhart started in 1937. was ultimate exhaustion.” private pilot’s license, she took her dis“I thought, ‘What if I can go, pick But then again, Earhart says, the covery flight, which is an introductory up where she left off, do the flight in a feeling of exhaustion is what fuels her flight lesson, at the Boulder Airport modern-day aircraft, and show the to keep moving forward. and fell in love with flying from that world that it’s absolutely possible with “If my head hits the pillow, and I’m moment forward. today’s technology to have a safe flight completely worn out because I did as “I was like, ‘Gosh, it’s really lucky around the world?’” Earhart says. much as I possibly could — that’s my that I actually like to do this,’ because Earhart quit her job, eliminated thing. That’s what gets me excited to if I didn’t, I kind of felt that my whole most of her social life and took a year get up and do it again,” Earhart says.

History re-made Female pilot honors namesake by successfully circumnavigating globe by Devin Blomquist

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And do it again she does. Each day, Earhart juggles a career as a motivational speaker while simultaneously acting as the founder and president of the Fly With Amelia Foundation, which grants flight-training scholarships to young women between the ages of 16 and 18 years old and fosters aviation opportunities for all through an aviation-based educational curriculum, according to her website. The foundation is of particular importance to Earhart as a way for her to give back to the aviation community. Through her personal experience, she learned that one of the most difficult parts of pursuing her private pilot’s license was figuring out how to pay for the training, which can cost anywhere between $7,000 and $9,000. By way of her foundation, she can try to help relieve some of the monetary stress for the next generation of female pilots. Earhart says her foundation currently has 11 young women going through flight training. “For me, giving back is the most rewarding part,” Earhart says. “It’s made me really proud, and that’ll be something that I run for the rest of my life.” When she’s not speaking at conferences or universities and when she isn’t too busy running her foundation, Earhart can be found near the Centennial Airport, flying. “It’s the most fun I can imagine having,” Earhart says. “It’s total freedom.” Getting off of the ground and up in the sky allows her to forget the small things that bog her down from day to day. Flying allows her to focus on other things, like the responsibility, discipline and knowledge required to fly safely. Earhart is currently training for her commercial pilot’s license in a Cessna 182RG, which she says will allow her see EARHART Page 28

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to be a flight instructor one day. How does she have the energy to do it all? “I think that when you’re doing things that make you happy, you have as much energy as you need,” Earhart says. For the last seven months, Earhart has been writing a book Earhart’s trip has her flying between seven and 10 hours every day. about the planning and the execution of On Tuesday, April 14, Amelia Rose her flight around the world. Earhart will be attending the “I want that to be, you know, really Democratic Women of Boulder County’s encouraging for women out there who monthly program at the Hotel want to go and do big things. Whether Boulderado to speak about her historic it’s an adventure or starting a business, trip, as well as her advocacy work. The or even just getting into something they’ve been scared to try through the event begins at 6 p.m. and includes dinner and the program for $75 per ticket. years,” Earhart says. “I was definitely Registration for the event can be comscared to plan this trip and make it all pleted at www.dw-bc.org. happen.” Boulder Weekly

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Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, of Lichens, uses the modular synthesizer to complement his voice in his spontaneous musical perofmances.

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Communikey holds its final festival as it looks to the future by Amanda Moutinho

he Communikey festival is not easily defined. Perhaps it could be loosely pinned down as a transcendental experi-

ence surpassing mediums and disciplines in a desire to explore the intersection of artistic and technological innovation, with a smattering of electronic music throughout. The festival started from the organization with the same name. The Boulder-based organization CMKY Boulder Weekly

was started by people in the electronic dance community who were interested in edgier art and music outside of the dance floor. It started with a series of one-time events that developed into the festival. “The larger purpose of the festival is to expose new and emerging art forms, whether it’s soundbased, visual-based, interactive art or set design,” says Kate Lesta, the creative and managing director of CMKY. “We’re not showcasing big-name artists to sell tickets. The idea is, we want new, cutting edge work to be showcased, and we want all the festival participants to experience something they would not have come across otherwise.” But just as the festival is hard to put in a box, it seems to have outgrown its own structure. This year marks the eighth and final year for the festival. Lesta says that it wasn’t an easy decision to make, but the organization is expected to keep growing outside of a festival parameter. She says she’s grateful for everything learned over the past eight years. “When we started it in 2008, we really had no idea what we were doing. We didn’t know if it was going to work, and we didn’t know if it was going to

happen or happen again,” she says. “Now getting eight years down the line, it feels very different. We’ve grown a lot as creative professionals, and the community’s changed, and CMKY has international recognition. … It’s really exciting. We can take whatever we’ve done with it, and apply it to the future.” This last CMKY will be a grand finale for the festival, she says — a celebration of the past eight years and a look to the future with the lineup full of artists that encompass their mission of celebrating innovation. One such event is a showcase for the Canadian electronic music record label Silent Season. The label’s founder and curator, Jamie McCue, spent a lot of his time DJ-ing and in the outdoors. Through that, McCue drew inspiration from his natural surroundings in British Columbia for his music. “The sounds of dub-influenced music, given that it has structure rhythm, bass and echoes, really work with the natural environment in a way that the music is very organic feeling — soft and subtle, not harsh or sharp in any way,” McCue says. McCue uses field recordings from the forest of see CMKY Page 32

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elements including birds, wind and rain roads extremely well traveled, and I felt Lewin says, the focus is on the self, and then layers in white noise and elec- like there was room to create a new ver- navigating through the piece and the tronic music. He also couples the music nacular without using actual words. It sounds you create. But the next phase from his label with a photographer and was more interesting to me. ... There is outside of yourself, collaborating videographer, so audiences can immerse are systems and theories and scales in with others who are also interacting themselves in the feeling of being in place, and people adhere to those things with the piece. nature in a multi-dimensional way. Lewin’s work includes a lot of interbecause they’re taught that’s what it’s “When you really look at a really section between science and art. She supposed to be. … It’s more interesting captivating forest on a rainy afternoon, says she’s always been drawn to art that to me to try things that haven’t been Courtesy of Jamie McCue it’s dark and soft, and calls for participation. you can almost hear the It’s especially important music,” he says. “The nowadays, she says, with music washes over you. society constantly There’s a thickness to it, engaging with the world where the sounds create around it through techa texture. It feels thick nology. and mossy like the rain“I have two kids, and forest floor, wet and we were at a museum soggy. That’s how I and my 12-year-old envision the music to walked up to a piece and be.” said, ‘Well, what does it One of the biggest do? What can I do with differences of CMKY it?’” she says. “His expecfrom another festival, tation is that he can Lesta says, is the lack of interact with it and focus on entertainment Jamie McCue, founder and curator of record label Silent Season, couples change it and affect it.” electronic music with views of nature to create a multi-dimensional and more on experiCMKY has more ence. This is a large part experience. than just interaction of the performances, but with art pieces, but also also in the timeline for the festival has workshops for goers to create their done or done in a certain way.” itself. In an effort to tell a story and own art. Workshops include software Through his spontaneous perforavoid a feeling of fragmentation, there synth development and paper electronmances and study of the voice, Lowe is are no overlapping events. This way, able to offer the experience to the audi- ics. Lewin is hosting a wearables workshop, which involves painting silk Lesta says, people have room to breathe ence while navigating the moment and experience the festival as a whole. himself — this idea embodies this year’s scarves and then weaving LED lights into them to make wearable technology. “CMKY is not entertainmenttheme of Inner Space//Outer Space. With her harp and workshop, based. I mean it’s entertaining, but it’s While the two concepts are literally Lewin says, she values the participation not an entertainment vehicle,” she says. worlds apart, Lesta says, there’s a conaspect of the festival. With her own “It’s an experiential vehicle.” nection between the two. One performer who demonstrates “Since the ’50s, there has been a cul- work, she says, she’s starting to stray that concept is Lichens. Robert Aiki tural obsession with getting off the rock away from strictly music festivals and focus on more community-driven Aubrey Lowe, the mind behind or exploring space, and it’s been identievents, which is why she chose to work Lichens, is an artist who’s more interfied as the last frontier,” Lesta says. “So ested in exploring spontaneity with while that’s very interesting to us, there’s with CMKY. “It’s a very different kind of festival,” music and the moment than playing the so much that happens in our societies she says. “It doesn’t just feel like a rave. I same set of music over and social structures like the part that it’s part of the city.” and over again. and in ourselves as ON THE BILL: Communikey Festival. April 16-19. Various Those core community-oriented “I was always of individuals. times and locations. the mind that the first “Those two spaces values will not be lost as CMKY, the Schedule and tickets on organization, continues to evolve, Lesta time you do some— inner and outer — cmky.org/festival says. And she hopes that festivalgoers thing, it’s the best,” are essentially one in will help contribute to a vision for the Lowe says. “It’s the the same. We want to future. CMKY, she says, will continue freshest the idea will foster a place [at to do one-off events but has bigger ever be. After that point it begins to CMKY] for people — that while aspirations on the horizon for someage and will never be as fresh or excitthey’re launching into outer space at thing greater. ing for the person who has created it or these events, there’s also a lot of room “The idea is that with a clear mind, the audience.” for contemplation and self exploration without only thinking about the frameHis instruments of choice are the about our own inner space.” work of festival to define what we do, modular synthesizer and his own voice. This concept bodes well with the But Lowe isn’t a songwriter; he says he most of the artists at the festival, like that the possibilities are endless,” Lesta works with the expressive, tonal quality Jen Lewin who creates interactive art. says. “And my hopes are that everyone who’s been involved will continue to of the voice without being bound to Lewin says all of her pieces have work together, and that we will create words or language these kinds of layers. Her piece “The something new and exciting and dis“I felt like there was a way that Chandelier Harp,” which will be feacover a new way to showcase all these another set of rules could be applied, so tured at the festival, is a structure that’s why I did it the way that I did,” with a series of lasers that play differ- different mediums and ideas as a collective.” Lowe says. “Language and words are ent sounds when triggered. At first, Boulder Weekly

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Motet founder Dave Watts talks Afrobeat by Dave Kirby

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ON THE BILL: Felabration, featuring members of The Motet, Euforquestra and Atomga. Doors at 8:30 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Friday, April 10, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-447-0095. All ages. $12.50 in advance, $15 day of show.

otet founder and drumAfro-Cuban funk, so this gig reprebrass figures — is at once engaging mer Dave Watts had just sents a sort of return to an earlier time and dislocating, a kind of half-time wrapped up rehearsal in Watt’s Colorado career. mediation, usually served up in lengthy when we caught him last “Yeah, we worked up some of the compositions of 15- or 20-minute week, sounding a bit arrangements that Motet did about 10 helpings. drained. And for good reason: his day years ago, some of the cross-pollination And at the basis of all his best job franchise The Motet had finished a of electronics, Afrobeat and disco that work, generally thought to be from the swing through Texas and, connected by we were doing, so this is kind of a mid to late ’70s, lies Fela’s longtime a two-plane redeye Courtesy of Dave Watts drummer, Tony to Utah, a ski town Allen, the greatest gig at Park City drummer that barely a day later, non-drumming just in time to get Westerners have home and throw never heard of. together a rehears(Allen is still al for his upcomrecording in ing multi-band Europe, at age mashup spectacu74.) Fela once lar Felabration. said, “Without Watts is long Tony, there is no associated with Afrobeat.” these one-off We asked (sometimes two or Watts what the three-off — this is key was to underthe third time he’s standing Allen. staged this gig) “Ugh,” Watts extravaganzas at reacted, dwarfed home, sometimes by Allen’s repute. with Motet, some“I don’t know yet. times with fragI haven’t figured ments of Motet that out yet, and Watts has led the charge in assembling a group of musicians to celebrate Afroand other cats, but Dave really, it’s not like beat artist Fela Kuti. Felabration may be I’m performing this music to try to his crowning overplay like Tony, because he is such his achievement, folding no fewer than 15 chance to go back and revisit some of own thing. For me, I’m just bringing players from his own band, Euforquesta those arrangements.” my own funk vibe into this music and and Atomga onto the Fox Theatre Fela Kuti, the legendary Nigerian doing my own thing. He’s got such his stage for a deep dive into the heady multi-instrumentalist, who died from own bag and his own feel that comes miasma of Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat. The AIDS-related complications in the brass section alone makes up almost late ’90s, casts a uniquely long shadow from his jazz side; he plays like a percussionist instead of a kit drummer.” half of that — a back-of-the-envelope across the development of African Along those lines, Watts is careful calculation suggests that everyone will popular music and the pitiless recent to draw a distinction between celebratfit up there if no one exhales. history of oil-soaked Nigerian poliing Fela’s gig and reproducing it; it’s But seriously, how do you actually tics. He assembled and disassembled not as if many in attendance at the Fox put together a 15-piece band? bands according to his whims and gig can draw on personal experience “Ha! Well, it helps that people love inspirations. And he frequently used from the Lagos club scene of the midFela’s music so much that they don’t his gigs as platforms for political and 1970s, anyway. care that they’re not getting paid,” social causes, often laced with a kind “I’ve seen a decent amount of Watts joked. “Basically it’s a miracle of appeal to spirituality and social that we can find the time to make this activism that wobbled between coher- Afrobeat and Fela cover bands, and shit happen.” ent and disjointed, populist and deep- honestly I get bored of it after a while, to a certain degree, when it’s just one Watts, who’s been a devotee of Fela ly personal. thing. So for me, yeah, I like to mix it (and Fela’s legendary drummer, Tony In some respects, Fela is Nigeria’s up. I love the tune, that’s the key Allen) since his days at Berklee College Sun Ra, Bob Marley and Miles Davis thing. I love the songs and I love the of Music in the late 1980s, is hardly a kind of rolled into one. parts and the grooves, but I don’t want newcomer to Afrobeat; the Motet may But the music — skittering and to be doing these 20-minute things have assumed the mantle of straight-up lengthy compositions built around just because I’m the drummer, y’know? funk band in the last couple of years, polyrhythmic beats, laced together … I want to give everyone a chance to but the outfit’s mid-career days were with repeated and intertwining guitar solo and showcase the melodies.” deeply invested in both Afrobeat and lines and punctuated by dry, staccato

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Ars Nova Singers map a new world of music in the New World by Peter Alexander

ON THE BILL: “New World Renaissance.” Ars Nova Singers, Tom Morgan, conductor. Ann Marie Morgan, viola da gamba, William Simms, theorbo and Baroque guitar. 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11, Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 Hampden Blvd., Englewood. Tickets on arsnovasingers.com.

have seen the map of the world...” chance to perform with that level of — who was also making and selling Those are the opening words player is really quite wonderful.” wind instruments. of a lively Italian song of the late When the Spanish came into the “In the Missa Ego flos campi there’s a 15th century, when that statement Western Hemisphere, they built lot of rhythmic things related to the meant something. It is even possichurches and cathedrals wherever they popular dance music and street music of ble that Columbus’ sailors sang those went. Many of those buildings, from Central America,” Morgan says. “Some words on the way to a world that was the Andes to California, have become of those rhythmic gestures make [the not yet on the European music] very lively. You Courtesy of the Ars Nova Singers maps. can tell that the comMore than 500 years poser was intentional later, the same song will about it, that he was tryopen a concert by ing to connect with his Boulder’s Ars Nova audience. Singers, “New World “It gives it a rhythRenaissance,” presented mic vitality that a lot of at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the standard church Boulder and Saturday in music of that era doesn’t Englewood. Ars Nova’s really express.” artistic director Thomas Morgan says that Edward Morgan will the Mass is interesting conduct the perforin other ways. It is writmance, which will featen for eight parts, ture guest artists Ann divided into two sepaMarie Morgan, viola da rate choirs that sing in gamba, and William dialogue with one Simms, theorbo (a longanother. And the Credo necked bass lute) and movement, the largest Baroque guitar. single movement of the William Sims will play the theorbo, a long-necked bass lute, in the upcom“We open the pro- ing “New World Renaissance” concert. Mass, has a unique and gram with that, dramatic musical gesture because we’re sailing throughout. off to the New World,” says Thomas well-known historical monuments. “He has 27 statements of just the Morgan, artistic director and conducLess well known is the music that was word credo all the way through the tor of the Ars Nova Singers. He is of performed in those spaces, some of it movement. I don’t know any other mass course speaking metaphorically: The brought from Spain but much of it in any repertoire that does this,” he says. concert will explore music that was created locally. “We’re going to make little concertos by written or was likely performed in the “There’s quite a lot of repertoire,” dividing up the voices into little ensemNew World during the 16th and 17th Morgan explains, “but it’s challenging to bles, and then have the whole ensemble centuries. The featured work, Missa get good performing editions. Some of respond with the credos.” Ego flos campi by Juan Gutiérrez de it appears in academic collections, but Several pieces on the program were Padilla, was written for performance not in performance editions. written by composers who never saw the at the cathedral in Puebla, Mexico, in “One of the things that is appealing New World. Instead, they were taken the mid-17th century. is that a lot of the work is based on from the most important source for The program includes [music] of the Spanish Golden Age. Spanish music of the period, the “Hanacpachap cussicuinin,” a hymn Some of the composers were trained in Cancionero de Palacio (The Palace written in the Quechua language of the Spain and then came to the New World. Songbook). Incan Empire by the Franciscan priest It’s interesting to see how the indigenous “It was assembled from the best Juan Pérez Bocanegra. Published in music of Central America infiltrates into composers in Spain during the time of Lima, Peru, in 1631, it was the first the traditional polyphony.” Ferdinand and Isabella,” Morgan says. piece of music printed in the Western A case in point is the featured work. “It was a very popular collection, and Hemisphere. There will also be several The composer, Gutiérrez de Padilla, probably these pieces were performed in shorter choral pieces and instrumental was born in Spain around 1590 and the New World as well.” music played by the two guest artists. travelled to Mexico in 1620. By the Written or performed in Mexico “One of the highlights of the pro1630s he was head of a large musical and Peru, the music on this program is gram is being able to perform with Ann establishment in Puebla, with singers as as much a new world to modern audiMarie and William Simms,” Morgan well as instrumentalists performing at ences as the Americas were to the says of the guests. “They’re world-class the services. He was a very busy comSpanish explorers. And it is a world players, and for an ensemble to get a poser — more than 700 works survive worth discovering. Boulder Weekly

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‘The Vagina Monologues’ isn’t about genitals by Caitlin Rockett

early 20 years ago, a woman from New York City decided the world needed to talk about vaginas. Since 1996, Eve Ensler’s celebrated play The Vagina Monologues has made its way around the globe, inviting audiences to laugh, weep, seethe and rejoice at the real stories of women — from the bliss of sexual awakenings to the embarrassment of trips to the gynecologist to the terror of sexual assault. In 1998, the success of Ensler’s work spawned V-Day, a global nonprofit movement to raise money for groups working to end violence against women and girls through performances of The Vagina Monologues. It seems, perhaps, like the world now is at least more capable of talking about vaginas. But for folks like Miriam Schiff, the conversation is much bigger, and it isn’t about genitals at all. “My heart is open to all women, with or without vaginas — if you identify as a woman, I don’t really care,” says Schiff, a V-Day coordinator in Boulder. She is directing The Vagina Monologues for the fourth year running, with proceeds from three showings at the Nomad Theatre going to Out Boulder, a nonprofit organization that provides education, services and programming to Boulder

County’s LGBTQ communities. “This year Eve Ensler said in the [V-Day] guidelines that anybody who identifies as a woman belongs in The Vagina Monologues,” Schiff says. “Last year I had to call her up and say, ‘Can they have penises?’” Schiff wasn’t alone in her questions

about how the play defines a woman. The clarification in the guidelines for benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues — such as the production Schiff is staging in Boulder — came after all-female liberal arts college Mount Holyoke canceled their yearly performance of the play this January, calling the show’s perspective on being a woman “reductionist and exclusive,” particularly because they felt the play is not inclusive of transgender women.

ON THE BILL: The Vagina Monologues. Friday, April 17, 8 p.m. Saturday, April 18th, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder. Tickets $20 for adults, $15 for seniors/students at www.miriamschiff.com/ v-day-boulder-2015.

However, in 2004, Ensler created a monologue called “They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy,” written from interviews with transgender women. This piece has been available for inclusion in performances ever since. Through four years of performances, Schiff has been adamant about including the trans monologue in her productions, but only if she has trans women who are willing to perform it. Sara Connell and Jennifer Molde performed the trans piece last year. Molde, who has been living as a woman for eight years, will be joining the Boulder cast again this year. “Despite the problems with The Vagina Monologues, I believe it is primarily a production about gender rights — about women’s rights — and so despite the problems that it has, that message comes across that we need to start treating people better and no one should be discriminated for their gender,” Molde says. Connell, a trans woman, agrees that for her, the play has some shortcomings, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of performance. “I’m a really strong believer in being able to be critical of something and loving it at the same time,” Connell says. “I think if anything you’re most critical of the things you love because you’re invested in them, because you want

them to be better. “There are a lot of trans people that are critical of [television shows like] Orange is the New Black or Transparent but it’s not because they don’t want those shows to exist, it’s because they want those shows to be better than they already are,” she says. Connell adds that it takes intentional work — “front end work” — to make sure that transgender women are a part of the conversation in the Monologues — work that Schiff has done. “They had an intro to the transgender piece,” Schiff says. “I read it and I said, ‘What a piece of crap. Fluff. Complete fluff.’” The intro, Schiff says, had no statistics about transgender women, including numbers about violence against trans women. So, Schiff went back to the V-Day organization and asked that it be rewritten — and it was. “The intro is about as long as the monologue now, but everything in it is what it should be,” she says. At the end of the day, Schiff says, the Monologues are about starting conversations and bringing awareness to the fact that women all over the world are still subject to violence. “As long as violence against women is escalating, as long as I see commercials on television for women’s feminine products, as long as women are marginalized in this society, as long as there are women in the Congo who are being raped and killed because of the minerals we put in our cells phones — I could go on and on,” she says, “but it’s as relevant today as it was 20 years ago.”

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Shane Tully and The Rain. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Spoonfed Tribe. 10 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Zenobia. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

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DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

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

The Fremonts Live. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Bell Hours. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Karaoke with DJ Jim. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Boulder Swing Collective. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Lorrie Shepard, Professor. 11:30 a.m. The Boulder Cork, 3295 30th St., Boulder, 303-443-9505.

Steve Manshel. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Carolyn Nicely Due. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Nora Jane Struthers and The Party Line. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Strings Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Daniel Ondaro and The Shy Birds. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Open Mic Night with Foxfeather. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

Them Raggedy Bones. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

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

Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

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Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance presents “Star Sailors.” Friday to Sunday, April 10 to 12, various times, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. As aerial dancers, the Frequent Flyers troupe spends most of its time off the ground, making it no surprise that their latest show is space themed. In their show, “Star Sailors,” the group works with the ideas of “afloat” and “far from shore.” The dancers hurtle through different genres and stories from time travel to the supernatural, from the 1800s to 50,000 years in the future. The Flyers collaborated with physicists at the Fiske Planetarium and added video projections to immerse the audience in another world.

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Rob Bell and Pete Holmes: Together at Last 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. “Together at Last” pairs up the seemingly unlikely pair of Rob Bell and Pete Holmes. Bell is an author, filmmaker and pastor who was featured on Time’s list of the Most Influential People in the World in 2011. Holmes is a comedian, actor, writer and producer who featured Bell on his talk show The Pete Holmes Show. Now the pair are taking their act on the road dissecting major issues of the day, including religion and existence. Together they couple humor with insight for a show with something for everyone. Tickets are $30.

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Men of the Cloth. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monthly Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. Orlando by Handel: Baroque Opera for Kids. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Sit-in at Congressman Polis’ office. 11 a.m. 1644 Walnut St., Boulder. Timbuktu. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Friday, April 10 Music Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Road, N20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Ars Nova Singers: New World Renaissance. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 720-220-9288. Aspen Hourglass. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-4407666. Augustus’. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. The Barrel House String Band. 9 p.m. Zenza Smokehouse, 4479 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-862-4277. Bonnie & the Clydes. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. BoomBox. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 7 p.m. Roundhouse Spirits, 5311 Western Ave., Suite 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134. Dave Tamkin. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Eric Adrian. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Felabration. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Full Belly. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Honeytree. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

The Book’s Undoing: Dieter Roth’s Artist’s Books. Special Collections Reading, Room Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-6144. Through May 15. Calling all Photgraphers for 2015 Land Through the Lens Exhibit. The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-7293. Submission deadline June 19.

Kairos. Particulars Art Gallery, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 720-890-7888. Through May 1. Legacy: The Photojournalism of Edward (Ted) Rozumalski. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10.

Margaret Neumann: Inscapes. Boulder Museum of ConCourtesy of the Firehouse Art Gallery temporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through June 7. Means of Approach Jeffco Alumni Exhibition — Lui Ferreyra. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through May 10.

EcoCreations 6. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through April 25. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through April 19.

Firehouse Art Gallery gives a peak into the artists of the future with its Juried High School Art Show.

44th Annual Jeffco Schools Foundation High School Exhibition — Lui Ferreyra. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through May 10. Graceful Appearance: Passion, Perception and Expression. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 28. Juried High School Art Show. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787. Through April 19.

Monocle Band. 9 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Jalbatross. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

North Boulder Underground. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Jesse Holt & the Cult. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Policulture. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

REMember and Hey, Lady! 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Laurie Dameron. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Lee Johnson. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Lorna’s Swingset. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Many Mountains. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Meniskus. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Mitchel Evan Band. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore. 6:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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

Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 26.

Passion for Glass: Art Glass from Colorado Collecitons. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through May 31. Still Life: Three Perspectives. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Substrate. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through May 3. Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17. Unseen Structure Jeffco Tearcher Solo — Joe Fretz. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 10.

Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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303-530-0642. Yuris Night. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Events The Boulder Filmmaking Incubator. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647. Men of the Cloth. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Timbuktu. 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Saturday, April 11 Music The Angle. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Arden Park Roots. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. BoomBox. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Brothers Ward. 9 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., see EVENTS Page 42

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A Cup of Redemption — by Carole Bumpus. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Exposed: Tragedy & Triumph in Mountain Climbing— by Brad and Melissa McQueen. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Saturday, April 4 The Crimson Gate — by Whitney Miller. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

An Electronic Silent Spring — Katie Singer. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 W. Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Monday, April 6 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, April 7

Boulder-native Sarah Elizabeth Schantz debuts her new Young Adult book Fig at the Boulder Book Store on April 9.

Wednesday, April 8 Innisfree: Classical Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-

Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133. Lee Johnson. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

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Longmont Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

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Lyons Old-Time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Aghet: The Armenian Genocide. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Sunrise Photography Session. 6:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303776-8848.

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

Timbuktu. 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tour the Newly Renovated Main Library: Various Events. All day. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, April 12

Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Music

Sea Change: Love Song for a Warming Planet. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-623-7876.

Blake Russell. 8 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.

Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Shamwari Tamba. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Colorado Blues Society IBC Challenge. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720297-6397.

Strangebyrds. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Felonius Smith Blues Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Touch of Blue. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Whitherward. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Finders & Drickey. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Boulder Road Runners Sunday Social Run. 9 a.m. First National Bank Annex, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303-905-2415. Flamenco@the Library. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. History on Screen: Irmgard Hunt, Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood and Lore. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. The Library Concert Series Presents: Journey from the Fjords to the Andes. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Orlando by Handel: Baroque Opera For Kids. 2 p.m. The Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

Monday, April 13 Music Brandon Hagen Duo. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Jami Lunde and Eben Grace. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Joel Kachel. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

1970’s Throwback Party with Kit Colt and The Groupers. 8 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

Journey From the Fords to the Andes. 2 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Stage with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Back to Basics Kitchen Pairings. 3 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.

The Ridgelings CD Release Party. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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

Cosmic Connection Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Sea Change: Love Song for a Warming Planet. 3 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-623-7876.

Men of the Cloth. Various times, The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

The Shy Birds. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Monthly Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

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Old Friends. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Orlando by Handel: Baroque Opera For Kids. 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

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Song of the Sea. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Steel Pulse. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Events Free Screening of Sonic Outlaws. 6 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Habits of Breathing. 5:30 p.m. Marine Street Wellness Center, 2825 Marine St., Suite 103, Boulder, 720-2844306. Library Festival Anthology. 6 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. CU Staff Council Blood Drive. 9:30 a.m. CU Rec see EVENTS Page 44

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Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Ash Ganely. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Blue Streak. 5 p.m. West Boulder Senior Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3148.

The Austin Piazzolla Quintet. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Chance Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

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

The Clarks. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

New Wizard Oil Combination Annual Invitational Concert. 6:30 p.m. BDT Stage: Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-938-4399.

Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Ryan Bingham & Nikki Lane. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Weltklassik: The Best of Beethoven. 7 p.m. Mountain View United Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-494-5025.

Events Brown Bag Series: What Is Community Solar? 12 p.m. Boulder Clerk & Recorder Office, 1750 33rd St., Boulder, 303-413-7700. Canal Boating in France. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-7868406. Dance for Parkinson’s Events: Capturing Grace. 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Getting Started with Adobe Dreamweaver. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. An Honest Liar. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Vincent van Gogh — A New Way of Seeing from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 7 p.m. Cen-

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Events Creating a Pollinator and Water Friendly Landscape. 6 p.m. Center for ReSource Conservation, 2639 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-999-3820. An Honest Liar. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Joe Bryan and Weaponizing Maps. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Like Sunday, Like Rain. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Mystery of Bird Migration Slide Program. 6 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5200. OneBook4Colorado. 11 a.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470. CU Staff Council Blood Drive. 9:30 a.m. CU Rec Center, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-6880. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

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Death of the handmade

‘Men of the Cloth’ and the art of the tailor by Michael J. Casey

lothes make the man. But tailors — Nino Corvato (working out of who makes the clothes? New York City), Joe Centofanti Nowadays, most of us walk (Philadelphia) and Checchino Fonticoli around wearing cookie-cut(Penne, Italy) — armed with shears and ter shirts, pants and jackets, tape measures. All three are artists and the all produced en masse and for no one in body is their canvas. Fabric is their paint. particular. Sure, they come in a variety Vasilopoulos uses title cards to of standardized sizes, but very few bod- explain the particulars and the steps ies are standard. involved in tailoring, which allows her Purchasing subjects to fill in clothes in the 21st menoftheclothfilm.com the rest with discentury is less cussions about the about accentuating process. Free from personality and static talking more about wearheads, Vasilopoulos ing billboards. Our casually and quietclothes announce ly observes the taito the world what lors at work, allowbrands we buy, ing the audience to what teams we see their skill first cheer for and what hand. While they music we listen to. work, they muse They say so little candidly about about our own their upbringing individual personand training, never ality that it’s dwelling too long almost an afteron any one thing, thought. That is, with each word, until that man in each anecdote the fully tailored carefully placed suit enters the like stiches on a room. lapel. Men of the Cloth follows three tailors keeping the art alive. It’s amazing All three come from a similar what that suit can background, one that tell us. The color, the taught them to concut, the buttons, even ON THE BILL: Men of the Cloth. Playing at The Boedecker serve every scrap of which buttons are Theater, 2590 Walnut St., fabric, but all three buttoned and which Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through have developed a buttons are for show, April 11. Tickets start at $6 at www.thedairy.org. specialized approach every inch of that to their work. You suit displays specificsee how they measure ity. Each stitch, butthe client, design the patterns, cut the ton and thread speaks to the craft and fabric, hide little signatures of color the care with which it was made. That suit was made for one individual and no under the collar or pockets, etc. It’s all well thought out and thought out over one else. And, it was made by hand. a lifetime of work. That very craft and care is dutifully Which begs the inevitable question, captured in director Vicki Vasilopoulos’ what will become of them and their talMen of the Cloth, a small but beautiful ents, their skills and their knowledge documentary currently playing at The after they pass? Their art is a dying art, Boedecker Theater. one they are trying to teach and pass Modern day tailoring stems from on, but like all art the consumer must the Italian Renaissance and Humanism be present. In a way, their struggle is — the glorification of the human form akin to the struggle of the independent in art, painting and sculpture — but it filmmaker. One Vasilopoulos is most is quickly becoming a dying art. likely familiar with. Vasilopoulos focuses on three master Boulder Weekly

film Changing the face of cinema The birth of neo-realism and ‘Rome Open City’ by Michael J. Casey

emember those old movies? priest during wartime. As he continued The ones where a couple to write, Rossellini opened the story up drives down the road, only to incorporate an entire city suffering they aren’t driving, they’re under occupation of fascists. The priest sitting in a car on some stu(Aldo Fabrizi) remained the moral cendio lot. And that’s not a road behind ter, but the addition of a widowed single them; it’s a rear projection of road. mother (Anna Magnani), a resistance Looks fake doesn’t it? fighter (Marcello Pagliero) and a collabDid this fakery bother audiences orator (Maria Michi) painted a picture back then? Not in the slightest. Back in of the Roman middle class and the the 1920s, ’30s sheer exasperation International Film Series and even into the of their predica’40s, movies were ment. about beautiful To bring his people living in images to life, fabulous mid-city Rossellini filmed apartments, dressin hallways and hotels, brought ing glamorously, his camera out saying the right into the streets thing at the right and photographed time and always his actors against finding a parking the rubble, placspace. Movies Rome Open City is credited as one of the ing the leads in were not reality; starting points of the Italian neo-realism scenarios populatthey were dream movement in cinema. ed by non-actors, machines. And effectively blureveryone seemed ring the lines of what was cinema and pretty happy with that. That was, until what was reality. World War II came along. Not only did World War II change Yet, it is not just the documentary the way people saw the world, but it aspect of Rome Open City that made it a changed their desire to understand it. shock then and a legacy now. It was The filmmakers how seamlessly who witnessed Rossellini blended these horrors were realism with meloON THE BILL: Rome Open City. suddenly filled drama, giving the 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 12, with a new urgenaudience just Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., Boulder. 303-492cy, one that found enough to emo8662. Tickets $7 for students and Italy as Ground tionally latch on to seniors, $8 for general admission. Zero to what before ripping it www.internationalfilmseries.com would become one all away. of the most While impactful moveRossellini was ments in all of cinema, Italian neo-realmaking Rome Open City, he considered ism. calling it A Story of Yesterday. That But before there could be a movewould have been an accurate title, but ment, a maestro was needed, and the even though Rossellini works with hisRoman-born Roberto Rossellini heeded tory, he does not set his movie in histothe call. The writer/director had been ry. Rome Open City is not about what dabbling in cinema since the late ’30s, happened, but about what is happening. but it wasn’t until his 1945 movie, Rome A trick that makes the movie every bit Open City, that the game changed. as relevant and urgent today as it was When Rossellini started working on 70 years ago. No easy feat, but then the script for Rome Open City, his plan again, changing the face of cinema isn’t was to focus mainly on the plight of a something that is done lightly. Boulder Weekly

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his food was made for beer. So it’s a good thing the beer at Pumphouse Brewery in Longmont is both tasty and plentiful. Otherwise who knows if this bustling restaurant, with an attached bar called Red Zone, would be so bustling. That is to say, most diners in touch with reality and their own pretention, give a pass to fast casual bar and grills on the quality of the meals that accompany the beer, so long as the food is fresh and filling. Pumphouse’s food checks off both requirements and then some. The most striking thing about the menu is its variety and creativeness. This is innovative bar food, elevated not by some exceptional quality, but by its clean presentation and the restaurant’s refreshing willingness to try something new. Take the southwestern egg rolls for instance. A mix of spinach, cheddar and jack cheese, black beans, olives, corn and chilies are rolled into a thick wonton wrapper and fried. The spices within are hot and smoky, which makes for a nice kick. The roll was neatly fried, cut and presented, served alongside red salsa and a chipotle ranch dipping sauce. It was a fun appetizer, and it would’ve been stellar if it weren’t for a slightly over-salted and slightly too-thick roll, and a homogeneity of flavor that suggested the whole thing was intentionally over-spiced to blanket the ingredients.

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Good bar grub, better with beer, at Pumphouse by Matt Cortina However, that spice in the rolls was more robust than the other starter on the table: pork carnitas tacos. Avocado and pepper jack cheese covered rips of pork, with a “guajillo pepper sauce” and “poblano slaw,” at the base of the taco. They were hearty bites and tasted fine, but I was left wanting more flavor — the tacos hinted at something more interesting, but were refined to something you could stuff your face with at a bar. Given the sheer amount of options on the menu, and the number of patrons Pumphouse serves (and has served for about 20 years), it’s no wonder that every dish felt like it had been tested to appeal

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Snarf’s is coming to south Boulder later this spring, according to the sandwich shop’s website. A “coming soon” sign now hangs from an empty shop across from King Sooper’s in the Table Mesa Shopping Center. And, Ras Kassa’s in Boulder shut down its location near Pearl Place in late March. It is yet to be known if they will reopen elsewhere, but the award-winning restaurant said on its website that “negotiations for a new home for Ras Kassa’s are proceeding slowly, but, hopefully we will reopen for business in Boulder, Colo., by Ethiopian New Year’s in September.”

Spring is the season of change. As we take the time to clean the junk from our homes, make plans for the summer and reorganize our lives, the restaurant scene in Boulder County is doing the same thing. New restaurants are replacing old ones, Boulder favorites are relocating and local businesses Longmont based Basil Flats is one of many restaurants opening in Boulder County this are expanding. Here are a few spring. of the changes you may have noticed already or will notice EARLY SPRING DINNER in a few weeks. Nederland’s fantastic restaurant Kathmandu, Longmont-based restaurant Basil Flats recently purchased the building for $3.5 milBoulder County has a bevy of outdoor opened in Boulder this week, replacing what lion and is planning to open a Nepalese and was the burger joint Drakes Haus on Baseline Indian Restaurant in the space. Grand open- pop-up dinners hosted by some of the best farms and prepared by some of the best Road. Basil Flats is a fast casual restaurant ing for the new restaurant is scheduled for chefs in the state. Blank Plate Boulder is one that serves pizzas, sandwiches, salads and May. of those dinners and it returns on April 18. more with a Mediterranean flavor and style. Boulder Baked, the dessert and comfort The group held two pop-up dinners in The Boulder Creek Winery closed in food baker and delivery service, has September and November, with plans to Gunbarrel. It was one of the oldest wineries expanded to Denver. A new shop is opening host more during the winter but couldn’t in Boulder County and owners Mike and on South Broadway in Denver. make it happen. Now with renewed fervor, Jackie Thompson tried relocating someAlpine Modern Cafe in Boulder is schedBlank Plate Boulder is hosting “Fickle Spring,” where else in the area but could not make it uled to open in mid-May or early June on a five-course dinner with five cocktails for work. They will be known for their award-win- the Hill. It will replace Delilah’s Pretty Good $80. Location in Boulder will be announced ning wines and their famed annual Grocery. The café will be run by the publishafter tickets are purchased, but Blank Plate Consensus wine, which was the product of a ers of Alpine Modern, a “coffee-table magpromises it will be “somewhere fun.” The dincommunity tasting where patrons picked the azine that explores elevated living, architecner runs from 5-10 p.m. best barrels and made a blend. ture and design in mountain regions around For tickets or more information, visit www. Golden Lotus in Boulder has shuttered its the world.” The café will serve hot drinks, blankplateboulder.com. doors but Resham Gurung, owner of small plates and pastries.

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A street smart chicken

Why one breed rises above the rest for backyard coops by Ari LeVaux

The Buff Orpington is the chicken breed of choice if you want a proper, functiong coop.

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here are many ways that a hen can die. If you raise them long enough, you’ll see your share. I’ve been keeping hens since before it was even legal in my hometown, since before anyone in Brooklyn or Portland had even heard of a chicken. Along the way, in both the city and the country, I’ve seen hens meet all manner of early demise. But one breed of hen, I’ve noticed, keeps dodging life’s bullets. Buff Orpington chickens are survivors. My first clue to their talent for living came when a wandering Siberian husky snuck into my backyard while the girls were grazing. A more efficient chicken-killing machine than a Siberian husky does not exist. The wolfish canine made quick work of the girls, as they ran around like chickens about to have their heads cut off. The dog would pin one down with a paw, bite hard, crush bones and shake vigorously, before pouncing on the next panicked hen. By the time we chased the dog out of the yard, six hens were dead. The only survivors were the two Buff Orpingtons, both of whom were named Annabelle, because we could never tell them apart. Like all Buff Orpingtons they were puffy and round, with reddish gold plumage the color of egg yolk from a pastured hen. The Annabelles had survived the incident by strolling into the coop, through a door that was too small for the dog to fit through. I’ve since observed Buff Orpingtons similarly repair to the hen house when a non-bloodthirsty dog enters the scene. The loss of their coop-mates took a toll on those see CHICKENS Page 54

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Annabelles. They took to escaping the yard and wandering, I presume in search of their friends. One Annabelle was picked up by a well-meaning Samaritan, only to be eaten by a raccoon on the Samaritan’s back porch, I found out later. Down to our last hen, we ordered another round of freshly hatched chicks. As soon as they met Annabelle, the chicks treated her as mom, and she obliged. They jumped and pecked at her mouth to get food, stood or burrowed under her and followed her away from the shadows of opportunistic ravens. Annabelle went on to become my first chicken, ever, to die of old age. Since then, every Buff Orpington has been named Annabelle, including a pair in the current generation of spring chickens. When they were about two weeks old, I had let the chicks peck around the lawn on a hot afternoon and was putting them back into their chick box. But I was having trouble catching a certain chick. A big chicken can be hard to catch. Pro boxers used to chase chickens as a training exercise. But baby chicks are easy to catch. Usually. But I could not catch this one darn chick. She stayed free not by quickness or agility, but by running to places that were too small for me to follow. It was Annabelle, of course. There are many qualities that keepers look for in our chickens. Sometimes we want fancy feathers, or 300 eggs per year or big breasts and thighs. The Buff Orpington is a pretty-enough bird, but it’s no Crested Polish or Silver Spangled Hamburg. In her prime, a Buff Orpington is a solid layer but not an egg machine like a California White. I would never eat a Buff, so I can’t comment on their breast and thighs. Good natured and non-bullying, a Buff Orpington is a solid, all-around chicken with no weaknesses, especially in the realm of common sense, which is a challenging area for many chickens. Washington Post food columnist Tamar Haspel recently wrote an impassioned case for why the Rhode Island Red is, in fact, the best chicken. I certainly would welcome one or two Rhode Island Reds in my flock, but Haspel didn’t convince me of their

superiority over Buff Orpingtons. Still, we share the same sentiment on diversity in one’s flock. “I don’t think we’ll ever have a flock that’s all Rhode Island Reds. But we’ll never have a flock without them,” she wrote earlier this year. Since we’re on the subject, no flock should be devoid of an Ameraucana, either. These large birds with feathered ears and multicolored plumage are friendlier than Buff Orpingtons, and in the coop they can out-lay most hens, in both size and number. Ameraucanas have a decent measure of street smarts, too. And their eggs are blue, and sometimes speckled. I got my new Buff Orpingtons, as well as a couple of Ameraucanas, at a feed store, where this time of year it is common to find chicks peep-peeping under heat lamps. Day-old chicks can also be ordered online from many outfits, with Murray McMurray and Cackle Hatchery being the industry elders, and younger upstarts like Ideal Poultry and Meyer Hatchery gaining ground. But be warned, most chicken keepers would need a hen house as big as the Pentagon if they allowed themselves to order every crazy-looking breed they wanted to. I recently attended my first poultry swap, which is like a farmers’ market built around chickens. If you’re curious about the chicken-keeping lifestyle, or want to meet some other practitioners, and perhaps bring home some poultry, it’s worth a web search to find the next poultry swap closest to you. In the parking lot of a feed store in Edgewood, New Mexico, I purchased a Sicilian Buttercup, a Speckled Sussex and an Old English Game Bantam Chicken, all alleged to be female, along with some really good cinnamon rolls made by a veteran with PTSD. Having a couple of Buff Orpingtons already in my growing flock gave me the confidence to purchase these random hens. In all likelihood, they will be wonderful girls, adding their quirky personalities and yummy eggs to the scene. But even if they turn out to be duds, or bullies, or dead, I know that my flock will nonetheless rock on, thanks to the chicken that has never let me down.

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drink Go big or go home

The new Avery Brewery impresses in size and style by Hudson Lindenberger

ike a proud father Adam result in more balanced flavors and Avery would be justified in even bigger hop hits. bragging about his new brewTo ensure the high quality of their ery. After 22 years bumping products, a custom 1,000-square-foot into walls and struggling to lab is testing every batch. Their yeast brew enough beer to keep up with the plant is something out of Star Trek — a public’s unquenchable thirst for his sig- positive-pressure environment to nature products, the opening of his ensure no outside air contamination new state-ofwhile they are the-art brew- Hudson Lindenberger growing all of ery calls for their own some chest yeasts. pounding. “People But when might not you are showrealize the ing Kim importance of Jordan, the good yeast in founder of beer,” says Steve New Belgium Breezley, Brewing; director of Steve Hindy, the founder of The new Avery Brewery is loaded with state-of-the- operations at art technology that sets it above many similarAvery’s brew Brooklyn sized producers. house. “We Brewing; Steve make a lot of Wagner, the high gravity beers with a lot of chalfounder of Stone Brewing; the rest of lenging styles and it all starts with havthe board of directors of the Brewers ing healthy yeast. Bad yeast means bad Association (and me) around, it’s good beers.” to play it humble. But he shouldn’t — his brewery might be one of the most As for any waste being generated by sophisticated in the country. the new brewery, they have that covGone are the days of running from ered also. A partnership with New Sky one building to another during produc- Energy is allowing the brewery to caption. With a custom automated brew ture any CO2 emissions from operahouse designed by the Krones Group tions and recycle them for use. Even from Germany — a company known cooler is the plan to supply thousands for designing much larger national of gallons of weak wort (essentially breweries — everything is controlled sugar water) left over from brewing to from one room. the city of Boulder’s wastewater plant “The quality and clarity of our beer for use during water treatment. has never been this good before,” Avery As for getting more beer into the says. “We always strove for the highest market, plans are to almost double in quality beer at our old location but size the amount of beer being brewed what we are seeing here is blowing our over the next two years. A new highminds.” speed canning line will churn out 340 Every aspect of the new $30 milcans per minute, an almost six-fold lion brewery is cutting edge. Starting increase over their old system. with the grains used to create their beer “People will start seeing many a state-of-the-art wet mill allows for a more brews from us hitting the market natural filter bed to form during millin cans, bottles and larger format boting. What this means is a dramatic tles,” Breezley says. “A significant drop in off-flavor particulates leading expansion of our barrel program is to clear batches of wort — beer at its planned also.” infancy stages. After an hour of being shown Instead of adding their prodigious around the new brewery I was piles of hops by hand into the boiling impressed, and so were the aforemenbrew kettles, three custom-designed tioned liquid luminaries. So stop into hop-dosing vessels automatically infuse the brewery and if you see Avery, ask the botanic during brewing. It will him to show you around. Boulder Weekly

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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Uitwaaien is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it’s exhilarating. I don’t know any language that has parallel terms for running in the rain for the dizzy joy of it, or dancing through a meadow in the dark because it’s such nonsensical fun, or singing at full volume while riding alone in an elevator in the mad-happy quest to purge your tension. But in the coming weeks, you don’t need to describe or explain experiences like this; you just need to do them. Experiment with giving your instinctive need for exuberance lots of room to play. TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20: Your nasty, nagging little demon isn’t nasty or nagging any more. It’s not doing what demons are supposed to do. It’s confused, haggard, and ineffective. I almost feel sorry for the thing. It is barely even keeping you awake at night, and its ability to motivate you through fear is at an all-time low. Here’s what I suggest: Now, when the demon’s strength is waning and its hold on you is weak, you should break up with it for good. Perform an ultimate, non-reversible exorcism. Buy it a one-way bus ticket to the wasteland and say goodbye forever. GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20: When he was in his fifties, French painter Claude Monet finally achieved financial success. He used his new riches to buy a house and land, then hired gardeners to help him make a pond full of water lilies. For the first time in his life, he began to paint water lilies. During the next 30 years, they were his obsession and his specialty. He made them a central feature of 250 canvases, which now serve as one of his signature contributions to art history. “I planted my water lilies for pleasure,” he said. “I cultivated them without thinking of painting them. And then suddenly, I had the revelation of the magic of my pond.” I regard the imminent future as a good time for you to do something similar, Gemini: Create or find a source of beauty that will stimulate your sense of wonder and fuel your passion to express yourself for a long time. CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: “Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love,” said Cancerian comedian Mel Brooks. Although he was joking, he was also quite serious. More often than we like to admit, desperation infects our quest to be cared for. Our decisions about love may be motivated by a dread of loneliness. We worry about whether we are worthy of getting the help and support we need. It’s a fundamental human problem, so there’s no reason to be ashamed if you have this tendency yourself. Having said that, I’m happy to report that you now have the necessary power to overcome this tendency. You will be able to summon tremendous courage as you revise and refine your relationship with love. It’s time to disappear the fear. LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: Do you ever feel reverence and awe, Leo? Are there times when you spontaneously yearn to engage in acts of worship? Is there anyone or anything that evokes your admiration, humility, and gratitude? The coming weeks will be a good time to seek out experiences like these. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will get tender jolts of transformational inspiration if you blend yourself with a sublime force that you trust and respect. VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: A lot has happened since you were . . . uh . . . indisposed. You’ve missed out on several plot twists. The circle has been broken, repaired, broken again, and partially repaired. Rumors have been flying, allegiances have been shifting, and riddles have been deepening. So are you ready yet to return to the heated action? Have you learned as much as you can from the commotion that provoked your retreat? Don’t try to return too early. Make sure you are at least 70 percent healed. LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Rent, but don’t buy yet. That’s my $250-per-hour advice. Keep rehearsing, but don’t start performing the actual show. OK? Flirt, but don’t fall in love. Can you handle that much impulse control? Are you strong enough to explore the deeper mysteries of patience? I swear to you that your burning questions will ultimately be answered if you don’t try to force the answers to arrive according to a set timetable. I guarantee that you will make the necessary connections as long as you don’t insist that they satisfy every single one of your criteria. SCORPIO OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The Guerrilla Girls are a group of prankster activists who use humor to expose sexism and racism in the art world. Every so often they take a “weenie count” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. During their first survey in 1989, they found that five percent of the artists who had work hanging in the galleries were women, while 85 percent of the nudes depicted in the paintings were women. More recently, in 2012, their weenie count revealed that four percent of the artists were female, but 76 percent of the naked people in the paintings were female. The coming week would be a good time for you to take a weenie count in your own sphere, Scorpio. Conditions are more favorable than usual to call attention to gender disparities, and to initiate corrective action.

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SAGITTARIUS CAPRICORN NOV. 22-DEC. 21: DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The English term What I’m about to say is “engine” refers primarnot a hard scientific fact, ily to a machine that but it is a rigorous poetic transforms energy into fable. You don’t need to go mechanical power. But to the mountain, because its roots are in the Old the mountain is willing Go to RealAstrology.com to check out French word engin, and able to come to you. Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO which meant skill or wit, But will it actually come HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE and in the Latin word to you? Yes, but only if you HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes ingenium, defined as meet two conditions. The are also available by phone at 1-877“inborn talent.” I’d like mountain will pick itself to borrow the original up and move all the way 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. meanings to devise your to where you are if you horoscope this week. make a lot of room for it According to my reading and if you are prepared to of the astrological omens, your “engine” is unusually strong right work with the changes its arrival will bring. now, which means that your cultivated skills and innate talents AQUARIUS are functioning at peak levels. I suggest you make intensive use JAN. 20-FEB. 18: of them to produce maximum amounts of energy and gather If you were a four-year-old, cookies might be a valuable treasure to more of the clout you’d love to wield. you. Given a choice between a bowl of stir-fried organic vegetables

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PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20: On June 23, 1917, Babe Ruth was the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in a Major League Baseball game against the Washington Senators. After the first batter drew a walk, Ruth got upset with the home plate umpire and punched him in the head. Ejected! Banished! The Babe had to be dragged off the field by the cops. The new pitcher was Ernie Shore. He proceeded to pitch a perfect game, allowing no further Washington player to reach base in all nine innings. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I see you as having the potential to duplicate Ernie Shore’s performance in your own sphere. Coming in as a replacement, you will excel. Chosen as a substitute, you will outdo the original.

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Dear Dan: I’m a straight male kinkster who used to do live performances as a rope bondage top, but I recently jumped out of the kink community. I just think I’ll have better luck finding a long-term relationship with a girl from the vanilla world. So long as she’s GGG, I can live with it. As much as I loved the sex/kink with people I met in “the scene,” I never found anything/anyone for the “long term.” My question: I’m unsure of how much I should share about my past. Should I tell vanilla girls that I performed at bondage shows? I don’t want to scare them off, but I also don’t want it to come up years down the road and have it scare them off then. — Should He Always Reveal Experiences? Dear SHARE: When something awesome, interesting or commendable about you scares someone off — your fun and sexy kinks, your sexually adventurous history — your best course of action is to shrug and say “good riddance.” But if you’re afraid the otherwise GGG woman you recently met on a vanilla dating app or in a vanilla drinking establishment will panic and bolt, SHARE, you can wait to disclose your history of tying people up in front of crowds until she’s gotten to know you better. Your past as a bondage performer doesn’t present a health risk for the GGG women you’ll be tying up in private, SHARE, so you can go ahead and roll it out slowly. But do roll it out eventually. If you find that you’re unable to locate any LTR-worthy women in the vanilla world — just like you couldn’t find any in the fetish scene — then the problem was you, SHARE, not the scene. Dear Dan: The thought of my wife being with another guy is a fantasy of mine. We’ll sometimes role-play that she has just come home from a fling, at which point I’ll go down on her while she tells me all the sexy condomless details. For health reasons, we aren’t going to actually do this. But can

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you recommend some substance that feels and perhaps even tastes like come that she can, um, insert into herself to add a sexy dose of verisimilitude to our play? It’s got to be safe and nonirritating for her, but it needs to look and maybe taste like semen. — Boy After Realistic Emulsions P.S. This isn’t a cuckold thing for us, as I have no desire to be humiliated. It’s more of a “hotwife” fantasy with a guy/guy bi twist. Dear BARE: There’s a brand of silicone lubricant called Spunk that looks and feels — can you guess? — just like spunk. You might not want to guzzle bottles of it, BARE, but ingesting a little safe-and-nonirritating silicone lube isn’t going to kill you. Order yourself a case at spunklube.com. Dear Dan: I am a bi married father who recently fell on hard times. In order to make rent, I posted a few Craigslist ads, and now I occasionally suck dick for money. I don’t intend to tell my wife, but I’m getting frequent STI tests. I’m kind of freaked out by how not freaked out I am. I mean, sucking 15 cocks for cash just to make rent seems pretty extreme, but aside from some low-level shame, I feel okay about it. Do you think regular people occasionally do this? Should I feel bad? — Paying Bills Regularly Dear PBR: Tons of stories were written at the height of the Great Recession about average people doing sex work to make ends meet, PBR. So lots of “regular people” have done sex work. (And sex workers? They’re regular people, too.) And while I don’t think you should feel bad, PBR, I do think you should tell the wife. Regular STI testing will only let you know that

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you’ve caught an STI, if you should ever catch one — it doesn’t immunize you against catching an STI. So your wife, if you’re having sex with her, too, has a right to know where the rent money is coming from. Dear Dan: A friend of mine who indulged my foot fetish (let me jack off while looking at and fondling her feet) while we were dating mentioned recently that lots of women would be up for indulging it for the right price. I replied, “Well, sure, but you can’t just walk up to women on the street and be like, ‘Hey, can I jack off to your feet for a hundred bucks?’” She said, “The internet, duh.” My question: Is it illegal to offer money for such services online? What kind of risk would I be running if I ran an ad that hinted at what I’m interested in without getting too explicit? — Cash For Toes Dear CFT: The risk of being busted for an ad like that — particularly if there’s no explicit offer of cash in exchange for sexual services — is low, CFT, but not nonexistent. Busting consenting adult sex workers and johns is easier than catching thieves, rapists and murderers, and it all but guarantees a police department some positive coverage on the local evening news. But the risk, again, is pretty small, and the rewards — for a foot fetishist — would be pretty great. Just remember the escort-ad dodge: You’re paying someone for their time — for their companionship — and whatever happens during that time is between two consenting adults. Dear Dan: My boyfriend, “Jack,” is into pretty intense bondage (in addition to the

vanilla sex we have all the time). Some light bondage with sex is fine, but I don’t like the kind of bondage he does because it’s way too much for me — and we can’t exactly have sex when he’s in layers of latex gear, hooded and gagged, strapped down inside a coffinlike “bondage box” with the lid closed and padlocked shut. We don’t have that kind of gear, but he knows some older guys who do. I’m uncomfortable with the idea of him going over to play with these men without me there, but I find these bondage sessions really tedious. I also don’t like feeling pressured to get tied up myself by two guys that I like well enough but don’t find attractive at all. Is letting him go over there without me the only workable solution? — Jack In The Box Dear JITB: Yup. Dear Dan: Longtime reader, first-time writer. I recently acquired the panties of a young lady after replying to her ad on Craigslist. She’d offered to “enhance” them for me for a small extra charge. They arrived enhanced, all right — heady aroma(s), but nothing truly memoryinducing since I’d never been intimate with her. But I digress. What I’m wondering is if I could “get” anything by holding her undies against my nose? I know the old pregnant-from-semen-on-atoilet-seat story is a myth, but these were still moist when I got them. — Seeks Needed Info From Friendly Faggot Dear SNIFFF: You’re getting a thrill from those panties, SNIFFF, but you’re probably not getting your money’s worth. A friend who helped put herself through school selling “used” panties used a small dollop of mayo to “enhance” the panties she bought and sold in bulk. Caveat emptor, caveat scortator. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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byist in the country, And he tried cannabis as medicine and for recreation. What he found really surprised him. He discovered that the subject of cannabis has been so steeped in misinformation, morals and politics over the last century that it was hard to even study it. And he found industry people in Colorado and Washington different than he expected. “Besides there being some fantastic characters in the industry,” he said in a recent interview, “what it came down to was that these are people who are retail shop owners and farmers.” Barcott, who resides near Seattle and lived in Boulder from 2006 to 2008, says that legalization has gone better in Colorado than his home state. “That’s something we are struggling with. Our regulatory and taxing schemes are tough. We need some reform to the laws already, but that’s hard to sell now.” The main advantage is the regulatory framework Colorado enacted for medical marijuana in 2010. “When retail marijuana came online, state officials already had a fairly wellfunctioning regulatory scheme in place,” Barcott explained. “And the first opportunity to apply for a retail license went to the known good actors in the medical marijuana space.” After voters passed Washington Initiative 502, Gov. Christine Gregoire, expressing fears that state employees might be at risk for federal prosecution, vetoed the best chance at a similar regulatory scheme, Barcott said. Because the medical system was outside the law, state officials opened the retail license application process to anybody. “The bar for applying was set too

low, we got thousands of applicants, and winners were drawn by lottery. Result: Many, many winners who had zero experience with pot, zero retail experience, no real financing capacity or plan,” he said. Some of those winners partnered with more experienced, well-financed entrepreneurs while others tried to go it alone and failed, leaving the state with dozens of unfulfilled “ghost licenses” attached to would-be entrepreneurs who had no chance of actually opening a store. “And that is why, as of early 2015, Colorado has a pretty well-functioning system, and Washington’s is still hobbled,” he said. Barcott is writing history as it happens, which means the book stops at the end of 2014. “If I had had a couple more months, I would have covered the D.C. vote for legalization,” he said. “I think that’s interesting, the wrangling over whether Congress was going to allow the law to go through.” One of the things I enjoyed most about the book was how he approaches the inevitable cultural clashes as cannabis moves out of the shadows. “One of my favorite times was the Classically Cannabis evening in Colorado,” he said. “It was fascinating to see how we could use this legally at a technically private but public event. I found that the sort of friendly, neighborly culture lived and continued in that setting, with people sharing easily. It helped serve to break down barriers better than alcohol.” You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed

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THERE ARE WORDS AND THERE ARE ACTIONS Words: President Obama has declared April 6-12 to be National Public Health Week. Not exactly a name that inspires party hats and kegs, but the stated purpose of this newly minted occasion is purportedly to convince the public health system along with the private sector and local governments that it is critical for them to mitigate the impacts of global warming on public health. Actions: President Obama forced the EPA to kill three investigations that had determined that fracking had conWikimedia Commons taminated groundwater in three different states. As a result, fracking has proliferated unchecked throughout the U.S. Obama approved of Hillary Clinton spending much of her time as Secretary of State opening up foreign shale oil and gas plays for U.S. companies around the world. Obama, with the help of “Big Green” environmental groups, is pushing to convert electric generation from coal to cheap natural gas, a move that, in reality, will delay the world’s conversion to actually clean, renewable energy sources. Obama is pushing for LNG exports for U.S. oil and gas companies, which will cause more drilling here while delaying the deployment of renewable energy sources abroad. Obama’s enthusiastic support for natural gas — which for all you nonscientists out there comes out of the same damn hole in the ground at the same time as oil more often than not — has given cover to the oil and gas industry to triple the known reserves of oil here and around the world. This massive surge in Earth-killing oil production is being hidden behind the pretty blue flame of natural gas, which is itself being image-wrapped in the lie known as “clean energy.” Clean energy is the code word for when planet-killing methane is being packaged with wind and solar and sold as “clean” by politicians and environmental groups who place fundraising from rich people in the oil and gas business ahead of the Earth’s survival. Thanks in part to the industry’s faux push for natural gas, we now have enough oil to guarantee the Boulder Weekly

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destruction of the world by way in case you of global warming several times over, and we owe it all to the actions of politicians like Obama and his political peers on both sides of the aisle who have grown powerful and fat feeding at the tit of the oil AND gas industry. Words are cheap. It’s the actions that are killing us.

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