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oor Barack Obama. He’s been making more flashy moves than an Olympic ice skater, trying to get Democrats in Congress to cheer his Trans-Pacific Partnership. But instead, they’re roundly booing him. The president is on such thin ice with this ponderous giveaway to global corporate giants that his appeals for support have turned desperate, includ-
ing this recent claim that TPP, “is the most progressive trade deal in history.” Wow, that’s a low bar! Does he mean more progressive than the thoroughly regressive NAFTA? Or maybe he’s comparing TPP to King George III’s East India Trading Company, which was such a bully that it sparked the American Revolution. Indeed, Obama is trying some bullying of his own. He’s pushing the lie that such Democrats as Sen. Elizabeth Warren are lying when they point out that TPP would let foreign corporations sue the USA in corporate-run, international tribunals to force our officials to weaken or kill laws that might pinch a corporation’s profits. “There is no chance, zero chance” of that happening, the president barked. But, as he knows, it already has happened! In April, under another trade agreement, his own administration was directed by a WTO tribunal to change, and essentially gut, a U.S. food
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labeling law that has dramatically reduced the killing of dolphins by commercial tuna-fishing fleets. Responding to public outrage over the mass slaughtering of the mammals, our Congress passed an effective dolphin-free law. But some tuna operations in Mexico complained that using dolphin-free nets hurt their profits, and the WTO ordered our sovereign nation to surrender our law to the dolphin-killing Mexican profiteers. By claiming that “no trade agreement is going to force us to change our laws,” President Obama is either lying, or he doesn’t know what’s in his own agreement. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 21, 2015 7
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t was a shock. Canada’s democratic socialist party, The New Democrats (NDP), won a resounding victory this month in Alberta, the country’s most rightwing province where the Progressive Conservatives have ruled for over four decades. The NDP promised to increase corporate taxes, social spending as well as oil and gas royalties. Alberta has fossil fuel reserves comparable to Saudi Arabia and is home to the notorious tar sands. Oil prices have fallen recently and NDP leader Rachel Notley said that the province should diversify their economy and get off “the boom-and-bust roller coaster.” She doesn’t support plans for Keystone XL and vowed to stop spending taxpayer dollars to promote the pipeline in Washington, D.C. A Canadian pundit said this was like Senator Bernie Sanders being elected the governor of Texas. It seemed appropriate that about the same time, Sanders declared that he was running for president. Sanders has become America’s most well-known democratic socialist. This might be the right time for Bernie’s economic populist message. A Pew poll found that 77 percent of Americans — including 53 percent of Republicans — agreed that “there is too much power in the hands of a few rich people and corporations.” Sixty one percent of Americans believed that “the
economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy.” Fifty seven percent thought wealthy people don’t pay their fair share of taxes. But Bernie is a socialist. For many Americans who lived through the Cold War, the word “socialism” has been identified with Communist totalitarianism and gulags. So it isn’t surprising that Pew found only 31 percent of Americans had a positive reaction to the word “socialism.” But it is interesting that scarcely 50 percent of Americans had a positive view of capitalism and 40 percent had a negative response. Young people were somewhat more favorable to socialism. Pew found that 49 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 have a positive view of socialism and only 43 percent say they have a negative view. Forty-seven percent had a positive view of capitalism and 47 percent had a negative view. With increasing income inequality and stagnant wages, rightwingers are concerned that capitalism is getting a bad reputation. During the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstrations, an influential GOP pollster Frank Luntz told a Republican Governors Association meeting that “I’m so scared of this antiWall Street effort. I’m frightened to death. They’re having an impact on what the American people think of see COMMENTARY Page 10
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The corporate media does an absymal job of covering the world so ordinary Americans don’t get to compare our social policies with those of other countries. We are told that we are the greatest and the most wonderful country in the world. That is, we don’t need to learn from anybody else. Sanders did point out that the U.S. has “the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth at the same time as we’re seeing a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires.” Sanders’ policy proposals should have wide appeal: free college tuition; a $1-trillion program to rebuild America’s roads and bridges; publicly funded elections and universal Medicare for All health care. Bernie comes out of a long tradition of American democratic socialism. You can find out more about this tradition on Memorial Day, May 25. Historian Jack Ross will speak about his new book The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History at 3 p.m. at Congregation Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Road in Boulder. The event is free and sponsored by Democratic Socialists of America. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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Congressman Jared Polis says “Fast Track” is passe and he now supports “Smart Track.” Smart Track is a euphemism to distract and refocus opposition to “Fast Track” for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Smart Track is a transparent attempt to give Fast Track a more acceptable and gentler appearance (www.exposetheTPP.org). Polis touts changes such as more transparency in Smart Track. While transparency is welcomed it does not change the basic tenet of Fast Track which is to transfer congressional power to the president. This will result in Congress having only an up or down vote on TPP with no amendments allowed. To give the president Fast Track authorization would allow the President to sign-off on trade agreements for three to six years. In other words, the next administration would continue to exert authority on several future trade agreements currently being negotiated. Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, regrets not having done more to strengthen side-agreements within NAFTA. He now calls the TPP “NAFTA on Steroids.” Kristinn Hrafnsson of Wikileaks calls it “...a coup d’etat of corporations... .” TPP is a giveaway to the multi-national corporations, a hijacking that will result in the exploitation of the middle and working classes, environmental degradation, increase the price of medications, threaten net neutrality and most dangerously allow these multi-nationals to sue governments in secret tribunals for laws which they believe impede their future profits. It is a “free trade” agreement with 29 chapters, only five of which deal with trade. It is secret and was engineered by 600 corporations. Multi-national corporations already buy elections. Politicians become beholden to corporations. The TPP will only embolden them further in their greed and pursuit of profits. Congressman Polis, do the right thing. Vote ‘No’ on “Fast Track” and “Smart Track.” Fair trade not “free” trade. Elizabeth Hondorf
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troops in Afghanistan through 2016 and probably beyond. Originally they were going to draw down to 5,500 troops. The Taliban continues to pose a threat in Afghanistan and ISIS could rear its ugly head. Our troops could be needed to quash enemy attacks in the region. Compared to our prior strength of 100,000 troops, the U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan might not have the numerical strength to counter
the Taliban throughout the country, and we cannot count on the Afghan army to stand up to the Taliban. General Joe Dunford, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, stated Afghan troops will not be capable to conduct meaningful operations in Afghanistan once U.S. forces leave. We should keep the 9,800, troops in Afghanistan until the end of 2017, and then re-evaluate the situation. We need ongoing capabilities to conduct special operations and
surgical air and missile strikes to support the troops. The release of five top level Taliban terrorists from Guantanamo will come back to haunt us when they return to Afghanistan to continue their destabilizing activities and attacks on our forces and Afghan citizens. Our national security is partially dependent on maintaining a significant military presence in Afghanistan. Donald A. Moskowitz/Londonderry, NH
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On Monday, May 18, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law a bill that lawmakers claim will strengthen the state’s medical marijuana laws and weed out folks who illegally use and sell untaxed pot. Sponsored by Senator Irene Aguilar (D-Denver) and Representative Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont), SB15-014 chiefly establishes new guidelines for primary caregivers — folks who grow pot on behalf of registered patients. The term caregiver encompasses a number of relationships, including that of a parent who grows marijuana for and assists an underage patient; someone who advises a patient on which marijuana products to use and at what doses; someone who purchases and transports marijuana to a homebound patient; or a person who cultivates medical marijuana for a patient. The new law encourages, but doesn’t require, caregivers to register with the state Department of Revenue — the Courtesy of Jonathan Singer state’s licensing agency — and limits the amount of plants they can cultivate to 99. It also requires caregivers who dispense pot to inform patients that the product may contain contamination and that THC levels may not be verified. The law also sets up a task force that will address setting up public access to the state’s limited number of marijuana testing labs. The recreational pot industry has argued that lax regulations on primary caregivers has created a black-market business because such marijuana growers don’t face the same residency requirements, background checks or commercial “seed-to-sale” tracking that recreRep. Jonathan Singer ational growers are subject to. These checks on the recreational industry are intended to guarantee pot is grown and sold legally. Early language in SB15-014 required caregivers to register with the state Department of Revenue within 10 days or face criminal penalties and a lifetime ban on serving as a caregiver. “Ultimately, it was too much to try to figure out when that 10-day clock started and how it started,” Singer says. “It was more work than any side wanted to do so we decided to leave it as is for now.” The law provides concessions that benefit some caregivers, such as the elimination of a requirement that parents of underage marijuana patients grow the drug instead of being able to seek the help of an experienced grower. However, Singer acknowledges that the 99-plant limit may hinder some patients from being able to get the medicine they need. “If a physician writes a recommendation and gives a patient an extended plant count of 85 plants, a single caregiver has hard cap of 99 plants, so that caregiver can’t grow more than another 14 plants for anybody,” Singer says. “So the limitation there is pretty significant. It’s not a big deal in Denver necessarily, but it’s a big deal in Lamar because there are no medical dispensaries in Lamar. So how far you have to drive if you live in Lamar, if you’re in that much severe pain, how are you going to be able to get access to your medication?” For Singer, the most important part of the bill was an “11th-hour” addition known as Jake’s Amendment, which permits school districts to allow student patients to use medical marijuana on school property as long as it is administered by a medical professional or guardian. “There were some people who wanted to push people out of medical marijuana completely and end medical marijuana as we know it,” he says. “That’s why I put my name on this. I think there are people who would have taken this bill a lot further and really hurt patients in process. Some of these patients are not 21. If we went to a completely recreational market tomorrow, these kids, by any stretch of imagination, would not be able to get access to their medicine.” Singer says that additional oversight and requirements for physicians will come this summer. — Caitlin Rockett Boulder Weekly
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n Aug. 4, 2014, more than a quarter of a million signatures belonging to Colorado voters were on their way to the Secretary of State’s office for the purpose of putting two citizens-initiatives that would potentially amend the state’s constitution on the November ballot. The initiatives, known as Amendments 88 and 89, would have offered greater control to local communities over oil and gas extraction/fracking, as well as establishing a 2,000-foot setback between drilling operations and inhabited buildings. But as few Coloradans will forget, at the last minute, the ballot measures were pulled as the result of what was touted as a political compromise Protestors in Boulder confront Congressman Jared Polis a day after two ballot meabetween the initiatives’ principle finansures concerning local control over oil and gas extraction were suddenly pulled from cial supporter Democratic Congressman the ballot on August 4, 2014, as part of a political compromise with pro-oil and gas Democrat, Governor John Hickenlooper. With the passage of HB 1057, Hickenlooper Jared Polis, and oil and gas industry and Colorado Democrats may have once again prevented a vote on fracking, this time in 2016 and with no help from Polis. supporter, Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper. As previously reported by Boulder al of the initiatives that many onlookers House and Senate passed HB 1057 and Weekly, there was pressure being put on believed would have caused a massive then sent it to the desk of Gov. Polis to pull the initiatives by state and turnout for Democratic candidates had Hickenlooper, where it was enthusiastinational Democrats as well as by “Big they not been pulled. cally signed into law. Green” environmental groups who had Once the ballot initiatives were HB 1057 requires a fiscal impact been working with the oil and gas effectively killed by Democrats in 2014, statement to be printed on every petiindustry on the push to replace coal it meant that they could not be placed tion for every ballot initiative. It also with natural gas as an energy source. on a ballot again until 2016. At the changes the meeting attendance All of those pushing to pull the initiatime they were pulled, Boulder Weekly requirements. What this means is that tives believed that the effort to create warned voters that with a two-year instead of simply being asked for your stricter oil and gas indus- Wikimedia Commons window and tens of milsignature in an effort to give local comtry regulations would lions in oil dollars, it was munities more control over the indusspark a massive $50 millikely that the oil and gas trial practices of the oil and gas induslion-plus spend by the industry and its business try in neighborhoods, you will first have industry. Democratic supporters would attempt to see a note about the costs of impleParty funders and leaderto use its money and menting the proposed initiative preship believed that such influence over both pared and written by a state governmass spending to defeat Democrats and ment that has hardly hidden its support the initiatives would also Republicans in the for the oil and gas industry. For have benefited Republican Colorado legislature in an instance, if the petition aims to restrict turnout, causing the attempt to alter the longfracking, the note would likely say that, established right of defeat of Democratic should this initiative pass, the state Colorado citizens to Senator Mark Udall, pos- Gov. John Hickenlooper would receive less tax revenue from oil pushed hard for the pasamend their state constisibly bringing down and gas. The note would also go on to sage of HB 1057, a bill tution via the initiative Hickenlooper despite his threaten that if fracking is limited, also pushed by the oil and gas industry. process. We suspected they funding for public services would be pro-oil industry position would do this as a pathway cut, says Lois Court (D-Denver), one and likely costing to preventing voters from Democrats their control of of the sponsors of the bill in the House. the Colorado House or Senate or both. putting similar initiatives to those Making sure that the electorate is We now know that those pulled in 2014 on the 2016 ballot or informed is a good thing. When it Democratic Party/“Big Green” calculaany other future ballot. It appears that comes to the oil and gas industry, those tions were incorrect. Udall was defeated this is exactly what has occurred. who oppose HB 1057 believe that the by Republican hyper-conservative Cory Earlier this month, after intense state will intentionally be creating a Gardner and Democrats lost control of lobbying by the oil and gas industry one-sided message in order to pacify the Colorado Senate despite the remov- and its supporters, both the Colorado the industry and thwart initiatives that 16 May 21, 2015
could hurt its bottom line. For instance, a cost analysis note on local control over drilling operations would not include any analysis of benefits to air, water, human health, tourism, property values or quality of life, even though several of these categories could create greater positive economic impact to the people of Colorado than any revenue that will ever be generated by the oil and gas industry. It’s not just progressives who oppose HB 1057. “They’re disenfranchising people,” says Dennis Polhill, a senior fellow at libertarian think-tank the Independence Institute. He adds that 1057 is just the latest example of Colorado legislators trying to make the initiative process more difficult for average people. The bill was also opposed by progressive organizations like Food and Water Watch, which viewed it as a blatant attempt by the oil and gas industry and Gov. Hickenlooper to hamper citizens’ ability to fight fracking, says the organization’s regional director Sam Schabacker. “When you only see that limited fiscal impact statement, people will be less wiling to sign,” he explains. “When less people are willing to sign, it’s harder to get something on ballot. We don’t have the deep pockets of the oil and gas industry, so when they throw more barriers like this in place, it just makes it harder for people to participate in the democratic process.” Those opposing the bill were part of an unusually bipartisan coalition, notes Katie Dahl at Common Cause, another organization that testified against HB 1057. The fact that both liberals and progressives opposed the bill is what makes it so unusual that both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate wound up passing it. Critics clearly believe that HB 1057 passed for one reason and one reason only: the pressure being put on legislators by the oil and gas industry and the Hickenlooper administration. “There were a ton of lobbyists on this bill,” says Sen. Matt Jones (D-Louisville), noting that just on the way into the vote, one of his colleagues was approached by three different lobbyists — all of them specifically urging Boulder Weekly
him to vote yes on 1057. Jones voted no on the bill despite the pressure. Records confirm HB 1057 was one of the more heavily lobbied bills of the year. Lobbyists file reports with the Secretary of State each time they lobby on a specific bill. For HB 1057, more than 700 reports were filed. The Colorado Oil and Gas Association lobbied in support of the bill nine times. Jones believes the outcome of HB 1057 was “absolutely” influenced by these lobbyists. “People should have access to petiCourtesy of Matt Jones tions without a bunch of extra language added just to confuse them,” he says. “And why are you just looking at fiscal impacts?” Senator Matt Jones The Blue (D-Louisville) fought Book, state against HB 1057 and nearly had it defeated. ballot information booklet, already provides more comprehensive explanations of each issue, including its social and environmental impacts, he explains. He speculates that proponents of HB 1057 simply intend to make it harder to pass ballot initiatives. As to Jones’ argument that the Blue Book — which is mailed to every voter before each election to, in part, explain the fiscal impacts of every initiative on the ballot, including less quantifiable aspects such as impacts to the environment or public health — already does Ballotpedia what supporters of HB 1057 claim the new bill was needed to do, not all of the bill’s supporters, including its sponsors, agree. The bill’s House sponsor, Lois Court Lois Court (D-Denver) sponsored HB 1057. It (D-Denver), was not her first acknowledged attempt to make citizens’ initiatives a more to BW that the difficult process. Blue Book already provides voters with a fiscal impact analysis of ballot initiatives. “It’s the same information,” she says. “It’s just sooner.” But one of the bill’s Senate cosponsors, Senator Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling), disagrees with Court. “There is no fiscal impact included in the Blue Book,” he says. “That’s why Boulder Weekly
I think [1057] was important.” Boulder Weekly told Sonnenberg that his co-sponsor Court had stated otherwise, and he suggested that she must have misunderstood. This would not be the last time that Sonnenberg would accuse a colleague of misunderstanding what was going on with HB 1057. Because of his belief that Colorado citizens should have access to the ballot without having to jump through political hoops designed to impede the process, Jones worked to get the 18 votes necessary to defeat HB 1057 in the Senate.
On first vote, it appeared that he had succeeded as 18 senators voted “no” and 17 “yes” in support of the bill. But that vote would not stand. Sonnenberg was about to turn up the heat. The real process behind passing HB 1057 When the smoke cleared from the first vote in the Senate, Sonnenberg says he was surprised that the first-year Republican senator had voted against his bill. “I thought I could count on him for
a yes,” Sonnenberg says. Senator Chris Holbert (R-Parker) says he hadn’t realized how close the vote would be when he cast his “no” vote. He had anticipated that 20 senators would vote against the bill, and his vote wouldn’t matter as much. As the “no” votes were counted, he says he saw lobbyists react immediately. “There was a response from the lobby that, well, some people have noted was audible,” Holbert explains. “And that’s unusual in the capitol, so I See BILL Page 18
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looked carefully at my vote.” “I was like, ‘Oh, we’re not setting a Holbert says that until then, he new condition there?” Holbert recalls. hadn’t realized how vested the lobbyists “That was enough for me to vote yes.” were in this particular bill. So now that the bill is law, if either Shortly after the bill had been of the two persons required to be at a defeated on the initial vote, Jones meeting were to have a personal emerobserved Holbert across the aisle. gency and not be able to attend, tough “A lot of pressure was put on him,” luck. Even something as simple as Jones explains. “You could see other being in a fender-bender on your way Republicans and their leadership talkto the meeting would cause your initiaing to him.” tive to be withdrawn. One of those Republicans was Court notes that while this is a true Sonnenberg. Sonnenberg says it wasn’t result of the passage of HB 1057, the difficult to change Holbert’s vote. intiative would be able to be resubmit“I asked him about it, and he said, ted, starting the whole drawn-out pro‘Oh, shoot,’” Sonnenberg explains. “So I cess all over again. If the original draft don’t know if he just didn’t know what of 1057 had passed, missing such a bill we were on.” meeting would’ve ended an initiative Holbert recalls their conversation permanently. Court changed the bill differently. He had initially voted because she says she listened to its critagainst HB 1057, he says, because it ics, who were furious over the original requires both citizen representatives of language. “We did all kinds an initiative to show Wikimedia Commons of things to massage up at meetings. If it, based on what one of them misses opponents said,” she the meeting, their says. “They never initiative is thrown were satisfied. So we out. Holbert didn’t passed it as best we want to support a could get with as new restriction on the ballot initiative much change as we process, he explains, felt we could do, because ballot iniother than, you know, tiatives are so crunot pass the bill at cial to Colorado’s all.” democracy. The But after the Independence Senator Jerry Sonnenberg (R-Sterling) vote, Sonnenberg Institute’s Polhill co-sponsored the bill in the Senate told Holbert that acknowledges that and applied pressure to insure it passed. this new rule wasn’t Court’s people conreally anything new. tacted him for input “He said, ‘No, they already have to on the bill. And that he gave her sugbe at the meetings. Now it just includes gestions on how to make the process the fiscal meeting,’” Holbert recalls. more workable for average citizens. “When I realized that having both “I’m not aware that any of those there at the meeting is not something were considered or included,” Polhill new, that helped me realize, yes, I can says. support this.” Others also agree that Court As to Sonnenberg telling Holbert sought input from certain people, just that 1057 isn’t applying a new burden not for the reason of making the bill or standard regarding attendance at the more acceptable to its opponents. meetings, again not even the bill’s spon“The only thing Lois Court did was sors can agree. bend over backwards to fulfill the wishCourt says the bill does create a new es of the governor and the oil and gas requirement. industry, to make it harder for the peo“No, it used to be that only one [of ple of Colorado,” Schabacker says. the two citizen representatives] was Court confirms that Hickenlooper’s required to be there,” she says. “No, we administration was in touch with her didn’t create a new meeting. It’s that and wanted the bill passed. Other lobsame meeting.” byists and legislators also confirmed to After his initial first vote of “no,” BW that the governor had pushed hard Holbert went outside and had a conver- for HB 1057. sation with Court, he says, which also “The state capitol is swarmed by oil caused him to reconsider. Apparently and gas lobbyists,” Schabacker says. she didn’t counter Sonnenberg’s inaccu- “They can pay a whole bunch of highrate information about meeting attenpriced lobbyists to go in and execute dance that was given to the first-term their agenda. … The lobbyists come to senator. every hearing, and circulate misleading 18 May 21, 2015
Institute, a nonprofit that advocates for information to legislators. … The end school funding, actually testified against result is what we see with 1057. It’s 1057 because the organization believes something that serves their interests to that a state-issued fiscal impact statemake money.” ment will paint an incomplete picture One of the lobbyists working on HB 1057 was Stan Dempsey, the presi- of an issue, explains spokesman Tim Hoover. dent of the Colorado Petroleum For its part, the Colorado Petroleum Association. Association was following the lead of a “I’m trying to think,” Dempsey said business-interest committee called when Boulder Weekly asked about his Colorado Concern, Dempsey says, repeated lobbying in support of HB which rallied several groups to push for 1057. “I think we had mentioned our passage of 1057. support to legislators, but going over “Our organization was one of 38 there and spending, talking to memthat were in support of the measure,” bers, we did not. … I think when we says Colorado Concern President and visited with legislators, it was kind of a CEO Tamra Ward. “And we have two ‘By the way, we support this bill.’” contract lobbyists that were at the capiBut public records reveal Stan Dempsey filed lobbyist reports with the tol on a daily basis. We just believe that additional transparency for Colorado Secretary of State for lobbying specifivoters makes good sense.” cally in support of 1057 on four sepaThat’s why the Colorado Petroleum rate occasions — as recently as March. Association supported it, too, Dempsey “We were very pleased that it says. passed,” Dempsey says. “And by the But critics aren’t buying it, end, it was kind of fun to have the “Transparency may be the talking drama [with Holbert changing his point,” Schabacker says, “but what this vote].” bill is really about is wasting taxpayer Dempsey doesn’t think proponents’ money so we can give more power to motivation was to limit ballot initiathe oil and gas industry.” tives, he says. HB 1057 will cost taxpayers money “I do not for one minute think it because the state will have to pay legiswill have any influence on a person collative staff to analyze hundreds of inilecting the signatures,” he laughs. Ballotpedia tiatives introduced “They’re being paid. every election year You might be handed — instead of just the a clipboard out in the handful that make it hot sun, and unless to the ballot, he the person who explains. approaches you is a HB 1057 isn’t volunteer, they’re Court’s first attempt being paid to get to weaken the initiayour signature. Often, tive process. they’re carrying mulIn 2014, even as tiple petitions on a the oil and gas variety of topics.” industry was anticiHe adds that pating having to fend faced with a hot sun and a variety of off several oil and First tern Senator Chris Holbert issues, a person gas related ballot was pressured hard to might sign a petition (R-Parker) initiatives, Court change his vote on HB 1057 after his “no” vote caused the bill to lose its without thinking it introduced a bill that first vote 18 to 17. through properly. would have fully “If somebody doubled the number comes up to you and of voter signatures says, ‘Gosh, don’t you think it’d be rearequired to get an initiative on the balsonable to have a larger setback lot. Her 2014 bill would have also between an oil and gas well and a required signatures from all of home?’ Well, gosh, that sounds pretty Colorado’s congressional districts, makgood,” he explains. “But don’t you think ing it nearly impossible for Colorado it would be wise to have a clue about citizens to amend their state constituthe costs to the state? If that larger settion. back precluded the drilling of a well But this time around Court assures that would result in lost property tax her attempt to change the citizen initiarevenue that would go to the county, tive process is simply about information. that would go to schools.” “I teach,” she says. “I think informaWhile school funding was frequent- tion is always valuable.” ly mentioned by proponents of 1057 It wasn’t always easy for Court to such as Dempsey, the Colorado Fiscal persuade her colleagues to vote for HB Boulder Weekly
news 1057. Holbert wasn’t alone in his indecision, she says. “I had several members of the House say the same thing to me, like, ‘I’m conflicted, if I see you have the votes you need, will you release me from my commitment to you to vote yes?’ she explains. “Because our word is our bond. If we tell our colleague we’re voting a given way on their bill, and then at some point in the process, we rethink, it is really bad form to not talk to the sponsor about that.” She says she does understand the opposition’s argument. Sonnenberg, on the other hand, says opposing arguments are “bogus.” “I think people are grasping at straws,” he says about people who, like Sen. Jones, believe HB 1057 is out of line with the Constitution. It’s not Sonnenberg’s first involvement with ballot initiatives. Last year, he worked with a committee called Protect Colorado, which was promoting two initiatives: one that would have denied oil and gas tax money to municipalities with fracking restrictions, like Boulder, Longmont, Broomfield, Fort Collins, Lafayette and Boulder County; the other would have required a fiscal impact statement on ballot initiatives, just like HB 1057. Both were withdrawn before they made it onto the ballot, as part of the Polis/Hickenlooper compromise. As noted earlier, we now know that the Democratic Party wanted 2014’s amendments 88 and 89 pulled because they feared it would cause oil and gas spending that would result in election losses for the party, as well as the initiatives. Which raises the question of why Democrats have now supported HB 1057, which on the surface appears to be in conflict with the party’s proclaimed stance on environmental issues and democracy because passage of the bill has made it difficult to impossible for those who support local control over oil and gas extraction/fracking to place similar initiatives on future ballots? According to various media reports, it appears Democrats may have learned little from their last election defeat. For instance, The Colorado Statesman speculates that Democrats played it safe this legislative session and supported HB 1057 because Democratic “Sen. Michael Bennett has popped up on recent lists of endangered Senate incumbents for 2016, making it even more important for Democrats to avoid provoking the oil and gas industry into uncorking a gusher of campaign cash that could wind up benefitting Republicans.” It should be noted that this is the same Michael Bennett who voted in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline for Boulder Weekly
likely the same reasons Democrats voted for HB 1057, namely self-preservation. It appears to be another example of Colorado Democrats’ willingness to support any and all manner of oil and gas extraction/fracking in order to win elections at the expense of the environment, human health and the fight against global warming. Barring legal action by opponents of HB 1057, fiscal statements will now be added to ballot initiatives. If history is any gauge, such legal
action is at least a possibility. Numerous attempts have been made by past legislatures to restrict citizens’ rights to the initiative process. In fact, Colorado has gone to the Supreme Court on this issue more than any other state, according to Polhill. The Supreme Court has consistently sided with the citizens of Colorado. It’s unclear if any citizen groups will take the state to court to overturn HB 1057. Going to court costs money, and most citizens’ groups don’t have the funds.
So what will be the ultimate result of Colorado’s Democrats and Republicans banding together to help business interests, primarily the oil and gas industry, pass HB 1057? It depends who you ask. “Grassroots people have no hope of using [the initiative process] now,” Polhill says. “It’s business as usual,” says Colorado Concern’s Tamra Ward. Joel Dyer contributed to the reporting for this story.
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head and former town site would jeopardize a critical wildlife migration corridor, they argue, and expansion to the south would cross over existing trails used by cross country skiers and snowshoers, forcing those recreationists to cross up to four downhill ski runs heading each direction. The conservation groups asked the Forest Service to issue a new decision that makes more use of the infill alternative to minimize environmental impacts or “remand the documents for issuance of a redresses the legal violations and better addresses the intense public controversy set forth below and in other objections to the current decision.” “We’re pretty set on trying to have them do a full analysis of an infill alternative,” says Dave Hallock, with the Middle Boulder Creek Coalition. In the more than 30 years he’s lived in the town of Eldora, this is the third time he’s run up against the ski area over questions of growth. The first, in the 1980s, overnight lodging in the town and the second, in the 1990s, was the addition of the existing Indian Peaks lift and snowmaking on Corona, on the side of the mountain that faces the town of Eldora. The community of Eldora, Hallock says, has been working to maintain its footprint at the size it is — and have seen collaboration in working towards that goal from the county, which has purchased or co-purchased with the Boulder Weekly
Eldora Civic Association almost all the mining claims between the ski area and the town of Eldora to preserve that land as open space. The owner of the 700-acre ranch on the east side of town has placed a conservation easement on it (he did so following a map issued from the Town of Nederland suggesting they saw that ranch as a future growth area). They’ve even worked to establish a shuttle to the busy trailhead at Hessie to prevent the construction of a larger parking area there. “Ski areas kind of have a different philosophy from what we’ve been trying to achieve here, but we thought we had an agreement with the Forest Service through the update of the forest plan,” Hallock says. “Wording was put into the forest plan that the ski area master plan approved for that point in time was kind of the final expansion for them. We felt that that’s what that wording meant, and when we saw the forest plan come out, we were elated. … “So here we are, down the road almost 20 years, and the Forest Service staff is interpreting that language differently.” Hence, the fight. The expansion proposed by Eldora Mountain Resort’s 2011 Master Plan would require revisions to both the forest plan and the county plan to move forward. “I think we’ve got a really strong case, and it’s up to the forest service at this point if they want to avoid litigation,” says attorney Mike Chiropolos, who filed the objection. He cites overwhelming public support of at least examining the infill alternative, and he says elected representatives are listening to the public on this issue — and now it’s time for the Forest Service to listen as well. “For local governments to be signing objections and feel this ignored and marginalized by the federal manager — it’s not good resource management,” Chiropolos says. They’re hoping Forest Supervisor Glenn Casamassa will change his mind between this draft decision and whatever final decision is released, or that someone else in the Forest Service will take a look at the objections and decide to revise the decision. Hallock raises the point that turnover in the Boulder district office for the Forest Service punted the decision to the Fort Collins-area office, and managers there may have felt fewer ties to the communities affected by this decision. The Middle Boulder Creek Coalition and Sierra Club Indian Peaks Group have requested a meeting with the Forest Service to discuss their objections. As of Tuesday afternoon, Boulder Weekly
they had not heard back. “Some of us have a heavy feeling that our only option, if we get nothing out of the objection process, our only option is to go to a court,” Hallock says. “If the resort wants to do anything any time soon on the mountain, they’ve got to start listening and get better in touch with their customer base,” Chiropolos says. “We all consider ourselves Eldora customers — or at least we were until they pushed this through.” He cites other ski area decisions that have set precedent for courts ruling in the favor of a public opposed to a ski area expansion on their public lands, specifically the Snodgrass Mountain expansion at Crested Butte. The Forest Service determined in 2009 that that mountain was unsuitable for lift-serviced skiing and that the public support favored protecting the current recreational uses and environment on the mountain. The controversy over Eldora, Chiropolos says, parallels that one. He estimates that 60 to 70 percent of what Eldora wants to do can be achieved within its existing footprint. “It’s not quite everything that Eldora is asking for in its master plan, but these lands are owned by all Americans,” he says, “And it’s not the Forest Service’s job to limit their analysis based on the ski resorts wanting to expand in two directions.” “We don’t feel that we’re being heard at all,” Hallock says. “And it’s not just us. … Everyone from Boulder County to the Town of Nederland to the Division of Parks and Wildlife to Middle Boulder Creek Coalition, we’re all seeing that the expansion down to Middle Boulder Creek goes really against what we’ve been trying to achieve in this valley.” He looked through the comments received on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for other comments from Eldora residents, and he found 51 people who wrote in against the expansion and five in favor of it. “Overall I think it’s pretty overwhelming that people are against it, and we just kind of see it as not only a short-term impact in terms of noise, and then they’re going to be cutting trees and to add insult to injury, they’ll be bringing logging trust to town,” he says. “In all honesty, we do feel that this is just a foot in the door for them. … [And] we do fear the future of what the ski area will do once they’ve got their foot down into town.” Existing management and ownership has said that’s not the plan, but three decades in, Hallock has seen that ownership changes, and with it, so can those promises.
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t’s late April and Polly dens the size of Living Ruff pulls a few weeds Harvest could fill this need. growing from the outAt Ruff ’s invitation, side edge of her raised Growing Gardens sent a representative to talk to the bed at Living Harvest members of the church. Garden. The 30 plots sur“We are typically rounding her are in various approached by a community, stages of preparation for the an organization, an HOA, a first season of this freshly church — someone who really minted community garden. wants to have a community Thanks to the hard work garden on their land and is of Ruff and her fellow conwilling to put in the initial gregants of Peace grunt work,” Reehl says. Evangelical Lutheran Garden leader Polly Ruff and Peace Evangelical Lutheran Growing Gardens providChurch, Boulder’s newest Church pastor Jesse Stern stand in the Living Harvest Garden, ed the technical support community garden will help one of Boulder’s newest community gardens, made possible with help from Growing Gardens. needed to get the church’s feed an estimated 60 people nascent garden planned. They this season. offered advice on layout and materials “We have all this land,” Ruff says Growing Gardens manages 12 commu— for example, raised beds allow for about the church property on the corner nity gardens in Boulder County, which better soil amendment and a neater of 28th Street and Jay Road. “It just sits contain a total of more than 500 plots. look, and pathways need to be wide here. We don’t even water it in the sumOperations coordinator Megan Reehl enough to accommodate wheelbarrows. mer because water’s very expensive. So I estimates that each plots serves, on Growing Gardens also suggested — as was like, what could we possibly do with average, two people when you take into they do with all new garden projects — this land that would be beneficial?” consideration that some plots belong to a full year to plan and build the infraThat idea came to Ruff several one person and others to couples, years ago. She floated the idea of a gar- friends or families — making it an esti- structure before opening it to the pubden, but says the biggest challenge was mated 1,000 people in Boulder County lic. They also offered a sample budget getting the congregation on board. who use these public plots. with pricing for timbers, gravel, irrigaWhen Pastor Jesse Stern arrived in Still, Growing Gardens has some tion systems and other materials. But 2010, he enthusiastically supported the 50 people on a waitlist for garden plots with an estimated budget of about garden idea and drummed up support. for the 2015 season. And Reehl expects $16,000, the Peace Evangelical “If you do it, you have to have a this number to grow. Lutheran Church had more work to do group of people … that are really dedi“I find that this is the time of year in terms of fundraising and in-kind supcated or committed to the success of when a lot of people who are new to port. the garden. If you don’t, it could just gardening [start thinking about it],” A member of the church’s congrefall apart,” Ruff says. she says. “I would expect another 50 gation made a large donation to the So Ruff reached out to Growing people to sign up between now and garden project and the congregation as Gardens, a Boulder nonprofit that sup- July 1.” a whole agreed to kick in some money Just one or maybe two more garports sustainable urban agriculture.
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unning. The elemental act of putting one foot in front of the other: rhythmic, effortless motion when it’s done right, grueling and difficult at times and — though this fact is lost to history — probably the first sport that humans ever competed against each other in. But running is more than a sport, although it’s sometimes hard to see it that way. Running’s simplicity provides opportunity. The opportunity to change your life in fundamental and profound ways. The opportunity to give back and the opportunity to share. It’s these nuances that make the mere act of running so profound and for Amelia Tanttila and Brian Tomas, the founders of Run Deep, a running film festival set to kick off its inaugural year on May 23 at the Boulder Theater, so interesting. While Tanttila and Tomas are both runners, it’s the action on the margins of the sport that provided the catalyst for Run Deep: the stories that few have heard and the stories that are still being told. Running provides a constant thread, but the festival aims to provide a look at the deeper currents that shape both the motivation of runners and how the simple act of running across the landscape has shaped them. “I don’t know exactly how we stared thinking about this,” admits Tanttila of the festival, which features an eclectic program with offerings that range from local filmmaker and runner Ryan Van Duzer’s whimsical take on the 2014 Bolder Boulder 10K to the hauntingly beautiful “Focus” by Sean Slobodan. “A friend said to me years ago that it might be nice to have a film festival in Boulder on Memorial Day weekend.” “And then we started talking about running films,” interjects Tomas, with a laugh, over coffee at the Trident, before
Ass-kicking complete and bitten by the running bug, Tomas has gone on to compete in some pretty serious events, including the Leadville 100. The process for Tanttila was From “Focus” more organic. “I was running for a time as a kid,” she says. “I’d run around the block or run around the house. It wasn’t a competitive thing, I just liked it.” “My sister then brainwashed me into running a marathon,” she adds. “I started doing longer and slower runs and, was like, ‘Wow, it’s so much more than running,’ and that got me thinking about doing a documentary.” Documentaries on running hard and far round out Run Deep’s 2015 offerings. There’s “100 Miles High,” which follows Darcy Piceu as she sets out to defend her title in the 2013 Hardrock 100, a grueling 100-mile endurance run in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains that crushes competitors with more than 33,000 feet of elevation gain. There’s also “Finding Traction,” an intimate look at chasing dreams, which features Nikki Kimball, who sets out to clock the fastest known time on America’s oldest hiking trail, the 273-mile Vermont Long Trail. Van Duzer’s “Bolder Boulder Reason,’ is about a homeless guy who 2014” kicks off the festival program. started running and ended up competFor locals who have run, watched or ing in a 10k to raise money for a shelvolunteered for this legendary 10K over ter. That was totally unexpected.” the years, Van Duzer’s effort brings As passionate runners, both Tomas home everything that makes the Bolder and Tanttila understand and appreciate Boulder special. these stories. They have their own rea“The highlight of the Bolder sons for running, after all. For Tomas it Boulder is the slip and slides,” laughs was a friendly wager that got him off Van Duzer, who also filmed and prothe couch. duced “Running Wild,” a look at the “Someone in my office bet me that 2015 Ultramarathon Caballo Blanco he could beat me in a race,” says Tomas event. with a wry smile. “He was a jock, but I see RUNNING Page 28 kicked his ass!”
It’s not about the shoes Running film festival covers the highs and lows of a classic sport by Tom Winter
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Tanttila adds, “So I said, ‘We should do this!’” The pair started with nothing but the concept. The process was made easier by their love of running and Tomas’ mastery of technology (he’s involved with software design and development). Tomas scoured the Internet for potential films, tracked down filmmakers and discovered some gems along the way, gems that the pair are excited to showcase to Boulder’s community. “Some of it is so cool,” says Tomas. “One film, ‘Every Runner Has a
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“‘Running Wild’ is much more serious,” adds Van Duzer. “It’s about this year’s race getting cancelled and the impacts that has on the local community.” That local community is, of course, the Tarahumara Indians of the Copper Canyon area of Mexico, who unfortunately face the challenges of being innocents trapped between the violence of Mexico’s drug cartels and the corruption of the local authorities. Efforts like Van Duzer’s “Running Wild” add an interesting dimension to Run Deep’s inaugural event. You don’t have to be a runner to find many of 28 May 21, 2015
these films compelling. Perhaps that’s because the simplicity of running allows it to be a mechanism to pass through cultures, events and emotions easily, without static. Anyone can be a runner, you might need shoes, but even those can be optional. And while you’re running, you can see the world a bit clearer, while bettering yourself. Run Deep’s offerings capture that, while celebrating the world’s oldest sport. “I think that one of the things I’m most excited about,” says Tanttila, “is creating a community event for people.” Boulder Weekly
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(Top) In Critical Focus, Monique Crine explores the stereotypical American fooball star with her photorealistic paintings. (Bottom) Sam Falls’ “Blueberries (2)” is an example of the current contemporary art climate shown in the Theif Among Theives exhibit.
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n Monique Crine’s picture “Jake,” a buff man stands alone in a pool gazing at the viewer. When standing a few feet away from the 6-foot-by-9-foot portrait, it seems as if you’re staring at a photograph. But upon closer inspection of the curve of the jaw or curl of a hair, you see the stroke of a paintbrush. Capturing a snapshot of time with a camera is instantaneous, but for her photorealistic style of painting, Crine pours days of work into a single moment. “It extends the temporality of the image,” Crine says. “You can see the movement of the brush and the artist’s hand. There’s a sense of time, which is something you don’t get with the immediacy of a photograph. You can see the time that went in it, and it makes that moment so much heavier. It becomes ineffable.” Crine’s show, Critical Focus, is just one of the new exhibits on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, along with Kim Dorland: Everyday Monsters and Thief Among Thieves. The Critical Focus series shines light on emerging artists with a unique point of view. Boulder Weekly
Kim Dorland (left and right)
Nora Abrams, curator for able and engaging. Crine’s exhibit, was drawn A common thread to the hyper-realistic porstringing all three exhibitraiture that, she says, tricks tions together is the use of your eye and seduces the iconography — from the viewer into looking closer. football star to Bigfoot to “The thing that you Mickey Mouse. For achieve in painting rather Dorland, the archetypes than photography is it really poke at bigger societal feelslows you down. You stop ings that most people can and look,” Abrams says. “A relate to. He says he uses photograph of all of these these horror characters to would not work because you work through his own wouldn’t find them so rocky past and his biggerarresting. But because picture concerns. they’re paintings we become “With each painting, really curious about the proI’m trying to elicit a specifcess and curious about ic response,” he says. image-making and how “Mostly, they’re storytellthese things come to life.” ing. So if it’s a painting of Slowing down also gives Kim Dorland exploits the tension of the moment in his pictures through his subject matter and technique. In zombies, I’m trying to use “Zombies (Parents)” he uses fluorescent colors in a creepy landscape and in “Sasquatch #2” he mixes thick the audience a chance to that medium to get the paint and fur to disorient the viewer. get a deeper look at the feeling of contemporary men in the portraits. The isolation and societal decay, three Crine painted are all former football players or if I’m working with the forest, it’s environmental macabre. Through generous amounts of paint, somewho each made it to the NFL but all retired early due times jutting several inches off the canvas, Dorland decay. If I’m working with my family, it’s about to injury. Part of Crine’s desire with the series, she social dynamics.” creates texture so lush that the viewer feels as if they says, was to show a more vulnerable side to the player. can almost step into the world beyond the canvas. But As Dorland uses archetypes to exorcise his own To do that, Crine, who has always been heavily infludemons, Crine’s work also led her on a personal jourhe doesn’t just stop at paint, you’ll see also notice fur, ney to release her own preconceived judgments and enced by film, used lighting and framing of the subfeathers, nails and other props to enhance a multibetter understand the men behind the myth. Even jects, almost as if taking a film still out of their own dimensional quality to the work. Dorland uses these though all these men did play in the NFL, Crine lives. Abrams likens the pictures to a story where we abstractions to provide distance and remind the audistayed away from choosing anyone too famous. She don’t know the end or the beginence they’re looking at a painting. says if she has painted a picture of someone like ning, but we want to know more. Variety continues in MCA’s Peyton Manning, the audience might not have looked The expressions in each of third new exhibit Thief Among ON THE BILL: Critical Focus: past the image to see the person. Crine’s intention Crine’s portraits contain a conThieves. It features paintings, Monique Crine, Kim Dorland: was to show these men for who they are. templativeness that begs the sculptures and other media from Everyday Monsters and Thief Among Thieves. Museum of “I wanted to break down and understand our stequestion of what the future holds. more than 20 artists showcasing Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 reotypes of football players and American masculini“Initially, [because of their several different perspectives and Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. ty,” she says. “Football players are these American early retirements] I was going for approaches, including manipulatThrough June 28. gladiators. In photographing them, I wanted them to a darker sense, but I got to know ing photography, using found them, and they’re just beautiful objects and appropriating pop cul- be more vulnerable, without the aesthetic protection people,” Crine says. “These ture icons like Mickey Mouse and of their uniform. I wanted them to be themselves … “I thought they were gonna be big meathead moments feel more hopeful. This isn’t the end. Stewie from Family Guy. Abrams, who co-curated the dicks, that they’re just gonna be dudes in the worst They’re all looking toward the future; they’re all more exhibit, says their idea was to capture the current cliway. But they were so nice. That’s what blew me promising.” mate in the art world. away,” she says. “They were so unbelievably generous, The idea of capturing a loaded moment also runs “There’s this whole generation of young artists kind, thoughtful and sincere.” through Kim Dorland’s exhibit, Everyday Monsters. In that are looking to the past unabashedly. They’re Through her discovery, Crine was able to provide contrast to Crine’s work, Dorland’s work lives in the stealing from the past, hence the title,” Abrams says. the audience with a deeper look into a well-known abstract world. His subject matter revolves around the “They’re borrowing ideas, motifs, processes, subject subculture, questioning what it means to be a football mythical creatures that haunt our nightmares — zom- matter from the past, and they’re exploiting it and player and the duality of masculinity and vulnerability. bies, Bigfoot, Sasquatch and even Friday the 13th’s transforming it and working with it… Now you see Jason Voorhees. While the paintings aren’t overtyly artists and their fingers are in so many different paths, As with all the exhibits in the show, the artists draw you in, whether with a technique, an anxious feeling violent, there’s an uneasy feeling present in each picand they’re exploring all of it in their way. Artists ture. aren’t limiting themselves or boxing themselves in one or a recognizable subject matter. And that activates audiences to take another look and search for mean“I feel like I’m a very sober person, and I’m always particular way.” ing. trying to capture these moments that are pregnant This lack of hesitation to borrow from the past “All of it it is a way to engage the viewer directly with tension — not necessarily a bad tension,” allows for a fresh perspective in the art world. There’s and make them connect in a more intimate way with Dorland says. “It’s about that perfect kind of moment a curiosity in the exhibit, with many artists looking at the work,” Abrams says. “It’s an experience that is where something is about to happen.” the world around them for inspiration or material. universal or an object that’s so familiar. … The work Dorland’s painting style further unsettles the You’ll see blueberries used to make actual marks on facilitates asking questions on the part of the viewer, viewer. 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orin Ashton, better know as friendly and open hearted,” he adds. “I Alliance. In 2011, he donated $1 of Bassnectar, has not cut his felt a lot more resonance with that every Bassnectar concert ticket sold hair since he was 19 years than I did with the death metal scene, via the “Dollar Per Basshead” camold. The Santa Cruz, Calif., which made it an easy transition.” paign (basshead = loyal fan). He native has been growing it Ashton continued to hone his DJ begins his latest U.S. tour in support out for nearly two decades. It all start- skills at house parties in San Francisco of 2015’s Noise Vs. Beauty ready for ed with his love of death metal, the in the late ’90s. He gained a small fol- his three-day stint at Red Rocks only genre of music Amphitheater. he could connect with Courtesy of Bassnectar During the event, as a teenager. At an he’s relaunching the age when many high Love, Hope, school students are Strength drive, a trying to establish donor drive to find their own identity and bone marrow transrebel against any plant matches for authoritative consick patients. Last straints, Ashton was year’s show resulted no different. in two perfect “I’ve always been a matches. goof and a little bit of Music, he says, is a pansy,” Ashton says the thread that ties with a laugh. “I liked everything together. death metal because it “The music that was so raw and I make is a very perintense. When I was a sonal reflection,” he 15-year-old boy, I says. “It isn’t always appreciated the shock intended to satisfy value. I wanted to your every need. It Lorin Ashton, aka Bassnectar, will use his music to help match bone marrow with sick patients through the Love, Hope, Strength drive, which will be push back on authori- donors may be intended for running through his three-day stint at Red Rocks. ty systems that were something entirely trying to make me different. I think believe in one thing or act a certain lowing under the moniker DJ Lorin, some people get confused and think way. I needed help asserting who I but he eventually changed his name to I’m trying to please them with every was and pushing back on Christianity Bassnectar in 2002. Since then, his life song I make, and I’m not. When someand things that I thought were illogihas been a whirlwind of overseas one asks me to go back to my old style cal. Death metal was an amazing tech- tours, sold-out festivals, albums and or return to my roots, that’s usually a nique to do that.” press. EDM’s recent surge in populari- sign that they have no idea what my As Ashton became more enveloped ty has given more and more aspiring real style is or what my roots are. I am in music (and his hair grew longer), he DJs a platform for expression. There fascinated by so many different styles found a connection between metal and are countless variations, which he and sound combinations that everyelectronic music. seems to welcome. thing I make is just a natural result of Though many people “It’s interesting combining those influences.” couldn’t see unifying how the current elecA Bassnectar event is highlighted ON THE BILL: Bassnectar characteristics, tronic explosion by its intricate light show and heavy with special guests, May 29-31, at Red Rocks Ashton saw a link. doesn’t have that bass as the massive crowd unleashes Amphitheater. Doors at 6 p.m. “I definitely feel same formula to folits unbridled enthusiasm. Ashton, Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. like each step in my low when it comes to however, will be on stage hiding comon Sunday. Tickets are sold out. Visit www.redrocksonline. musical evolution style,” he says. “I real- fortably behind his hair. com for more information. moved from one step ly like that. I like that “It’s there because I just don’t to the next with a there is more of a want to cut my hair,” he says. “If I very related, but cross-cultural thing. ever do, I will. I used to wear it up to cryptic path,” he explains. “I appear to It’s a more open scene with more keep it out of my face when I’d DJ, have interests that are very diverse but, types of people. It’s open to the but I compulsively twitch and bounce to me, are very connected. I was really nerds.” around and freak out, and it would used to playing really small, DIY-type While Bassnectar’s shows are very always fall out. I would always spend death metal shows and also promoting much about the music, Ashton has half my set having to tie my hair up. all of my friend’s music as well. many worthy causes on his agenda. Now I just let it hang down, and it’s “When I found the rave scene, it He’s a known advocate for numerous nice because it’s like a little curtain was a similar underground type of charities such as Free Press that I can see through, but other peosound, but this time it was extremely Organization and Conscious ple can’t. … You gotta try it.” Boulder Weekly
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A computer crash creates a new aesthetic for one photographer by Kate Lacroix
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olorado-based photographer of getting back the files I had lost, so all Visitors to The Dairy can expect to Angela Faris Belt was I saw was tragedy for a while,” Belt said see a handful of Belt’s images in the uploading pictures to her in an interview by email. McMahon Gallery. Curator Mary computer when something Her favorite is from “Entropy 5141 Horrocks gravitated toward pieces that dreadful occurred: it (Stick-Rescue).” The compiled image were more abstract, saying, “I wanted crashed. Once the shock settled, with a shows Belt playing with her nowher pieces to come across with the digiglass of wine in hand, she ran a recovdeceased dog Dharma, and it includes tal lines being a predominant theme. ... ery program to see what I didn’t want a clearly she could salvage. As it Angela Belt defined landscape.” turned out, not much. This gestalt is Landscape images were apparent in all of the overlaid with static and work, most notably in once crisp images gave a piece called “Blue way to data mashups. Ridge MountainsYet, what she saw began Stitch” a seemingly to appear less vexing self-explanatory title, and, well, quite beautisave for the perfect ful. Belt assembled the intersect of mistaken images into a collection line and landscape. It named Entropy and is seems so purposeful among two other artists that it’s hard to imagfeatured in a current ine the picture any exhibit entitled Of Line other way. In another, and Color at The Dairy entitled, “Flocking,” Center for the Arts, birds seem to fly both which runs through away from and toward June 12. a blurred outer landBelt, a photography scape, creating an area coordinator at urgency that would Arapahoe Community not have been present “Entropy 5141 (Stick-Rescue)” is among the corrupted photo files Angela Belt College, describes herin the unaltered salvaged as art in her series Entropy. self on her portfolio image. website as a fine art “We get a lot of photographer whose work researches an image of flowers sent by her mother people in here doing a double take,” two primary themes: natural phenomeand a dining room window view of a Horrocks says. “They glance at the picna and human interaction with the lush field of grass where horses used to tures, not quite understanding what it is “more than human world.” pasture. The blending of these distinct they are seeing, and then they have to After that computer crash, she memories is poignant for Belt. They go read the artist statement to parse ambled through the altered images until were not taken on the same “roll,” so to meaning and gain further clarification.” she saw what they had to offer. speak, but rather were taken years apart, Belt arrived at the show’s name, “Initially, I was attached to the idea in vastly different settings. Entropy, because, she says, “It is the most
ON THE BILL: Angela Belt’s work is part of Of Line and Color, on view at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 12.
visible fundamental law of nature. Everything moves from order to disorder (or chaos), and in my work I’m always trying to create order from that chaos.” Processes of nature are irreversible and remind us that life is temporary, she says. She wants viewers to see beyond the initial beauty of the images and take them in on a much deeper level. “I want people to look at them and question what they are and realize I didn’t alter them [deliberately] and that photography is a kind of language that’s written visually,” she says. It is exactly this transmitted language that makes these images so stunning. The digital interruption of these pieces makes them appealing to a younger audience, a demographic that otherwise might just gloss over them as landscape photography. Good imagery is increasingly attainable with clever cameras and fancy photo software, but Entropy tells us something different. Belt adeptly takes pictures, but by foregoing her canon of standard imagery she transports the viewer with an unfamiliar visual experience, one that is curious, nuanced and unique. Her crash course in backing up files is one she continually shares with her students, telling them: “Always back up your back-up with another back-up that you keep off-site. “The redundancy of the phrase makes them laugh, but they get the point,” she says. And now, she adds, she shoots with a camera that takes a backup card to save her images from start to finish.
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(from left) Brigette Mars and Bethy Lovelight; Erica Sodos’ emceeing was magical; Boulder Theater was packed with attendees eager to recognize this year’s winners; Blackbelly Market dressed to the max in the Cirque Nouveau theme.
(from left) Boulder Weekly Marketing Development Manager Kellie Robinson and Michah Heilveil of La Vita Bella Coffee House; Frequent Flyers’ Nicole Predki amused from on high; Hindsight shared the microphone with Hazel Miller; Revelers enjoyed the evening’s festivities; Hazel Miller and Boulder Weekly Publisher Stewart Sallo filled the dance floor; Office Manager Andrea Neville with her daughter Mikayla King (from left) Mrs. Boulder Weekly Mari Nevar, Publisher Stewart Sallo, Julia Sallo and Mia Sallo; Anna Zoe, chef of Zoe Ma Ma showing off this year’s award for Best Chinese Restaurant and one cute little girl; a couple of festive attendees in their circus attire; Justin and Rebekah Hartman of Ozo Coffee with the plaque showing their many awards for this year; David Rubin and staff at A Spice of Life; Partygoers enjoying music and fun to celebrate Best of Boulder; and, finally, our favorite Boulder Theater bartender
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DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
AJ Fullerton. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Boulder Swing Collective. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Brazil Night. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. The Complete Unknowns. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Dale Bruning. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. The Delta Sonics. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park),
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Finders & Drickey. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Ragged Union. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Retrosonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. see EVENTS Page 40
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Dance Walk Off the Earth.
Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.
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7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 23, Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095. Nowadays, viral videos are a commonplace occurrence. But to break through all the white noise of laughing babies and kooky cats, you have to do something that really stands out. And Walk off the Earth pulled it off. The five-person band covered Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used to Know” all playing the same guitar. Since their YouTube hit, the band has gained popularity for their creative approach to music. The Canadian band’s innovative, heartfelt lyrics complement their varying vocal stylings and interesting musical arrangements. All those elements blend together to create Walk Off the Earth’s unique sound.
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Alaska Wilderness League: A Boulder Night in Alaska. 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 27, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. If Boulder’s feeling too cramped and you’re craving a sense of adventure, The Dairy has got you covered. Be whisked off to the northwest with A Boulder Night in Alaska. Check out a multimedia presentation by the Extreme Ice Survey director and photographer James Balog Larson, who will recount the Last North expedition. The event will be to benefit the Alaska Wilderness League, which works to conserve the land and water in Alaska by civic engagement. Learn and help to preserve Alaska, all while staying close to home; it’s a winwin for all.
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Sherefe: Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Sixty Minute Men with Lady and The Gentlemen. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-3355. Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tim Hill Combo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Trio con Brio Tango! 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Events Barley-Har-Har Comedy Night. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Flatlander Opening Reception. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Gallery Opening: David Hollander, Chris Campbell, Jenny Pag. 5:30 p.m. Fine Art Associates Boulder, 1949 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-413-1000. Navigation For Sailors And Pilots. All day. UnitarianUniversalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195. Paint Flowers in Still Life. 10:30 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-6655200. Running Group. 7 a.m. Outdoor DIVAS, 2317 30th, Boulder, 303-449-DIVA. U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Friday, May 22 Music Anna Shoemaker. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Archie Funker. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Arthur Lee Land. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.
arts Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through May 30.
Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 26.
Gay E. Lasher
Of Line and Color. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through June 12.
Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 20. Calling all Photgraphers for 2015 Land Through the Lens Exhibit. The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303772-7293. Submission deadline June 19.
Gay E. Lasher explores re-creation and transformation through combining photography, computers and textiles. Her exhibit is showing at NCAR through May 30.
Evan Colbert. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through May 25.
3922. Through May 31.
Palette Knife Gone Wild. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 12. Passion for Glass: Art Glass from Colorado Collecitons. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-
Fiber Art by Gay E. Lasher. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30.
Starring Linda: A Trio of John DeAndrea Sculptures. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 21.
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 28.
Tom Rice: Monuments to the Ephemeral. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through May 25.
Margaret Neumann: Inscapes. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through June 7.
Wildflowers. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 12.
Aulternate Reality Jazz Trio. All day. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Bill Smith Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Brothers Warde. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Burns Twice. 8 p.m. Dillingers, 1202 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, 303-666-6979. The Burroughs. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Citizen Dan. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Country Touch. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Felonius Smith Trio. 7:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Fragments. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Full Belly. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Funky Tonk Heroes. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Ginga. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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The J Band. 6:30 p.m. Wild Woods Brewery, 5460 Conestoga Court, Boulder, 303-484-1465.
Wellington Bullings. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
JC and the Deadly Sins. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Events
Joe Kuckla. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Julia Bryan. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Kevin Lufkin & Bergen Christianson. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Le Pompe Brazilian Jazz Band. 9 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. The Mighty Twisters Dance Party. 8 p.m. The Tandoori Next Doori, 623 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303543-7339. A Night of Song and Poetry. 7:30 p.m. Sandbox Stage at the Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. North Boulder Underground. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Pete Kartsounes. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Robert Cline Jr. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.
Global Soul Experience. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-8739185.
Groovement. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Tolan Shaw, Many Mountains. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Coffee Cupping. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Saturday, May 23 Music AJ Fullerton. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Beauty of My Land. 6 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. DJ Gangsterish. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Doc Haze. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Dustin Prinz. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Emily Takahashi Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Eminence Ensemble. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Funkiphino. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. George Nelson. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Global Soul Experience. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Highwater. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. see EVENTS Page 42
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EVENTS from Page 40 The Hill Dogs. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jill Cohn. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578.
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Justin Konrad & Dave Willis. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
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JV3 Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133.
The Daylight Marriage — Heidi Pitlor. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Lea Holz. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.
Friday, May 22
Malai Llama. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
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Mojo Medicine Show. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Mountain Meadow. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Peculiar Patriots. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Rachel and the Ruckus. 3 p.m. Boulder Creek Festival, Broadway and 13th streets, Boulder, 303-4493137. Radiate Unified Dance Party with DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
A Night of Song and Poetry. 7:30 p.m. Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess — Meg Cabot. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Monday, May 25 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, May 26 Spring Chicken — Bill Gifford. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
The Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Wednesday, May 27
Popular YA writer Meg Cabot heads to the Boulder Book Store with her newest book From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess. The Water Knife — Paolo Bacigalupi. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Two By Chance. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.
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Ultralowfi. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Whiskey Autumn. 12:30 p.m. Boulder Creek Festival, Broadway and 13th streets, Boulder, 303-449-3137. Xerephine. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Events EarthAERIAL. 4 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Let’s Talk Chickens. 1 p.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway 66, Longmont, 303-776-8848. Marie’s Story. 2:30 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Open Up Yoga. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Painting Class in the “Primitivista” Style of Nicaragua. 1 p.m. Intercambio: Uniting Communities, 4735 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-996-0275.
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Run Deep Film Festival. 2 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Special Movie Presentation: The Power of the Heart. 7 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3066. Sunset Photography Session. 5 p.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space Park, 14950 N. 55th St., Longmont. Symphony of the Wild. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.e WOW: Women of Wisdom. 2:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.
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Aural Elixir. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bella Musser. 4 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.
a.m. Boulder Bandshell, Broadway and Canyon, Boulder, 303-449-3137.
Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720999-4099.
Honey Tree. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.
Michael Bellmont: BBQ & Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720999-4099.
Jeff Finlin Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
New Family Dog. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770.
Kimberly Otte, Professor Fox’s One Man Band, Julian Peterson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Kyle & Ryan. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Left Hand Artist Group Showcase. 12 p.m. Georgia
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events EVENTS from Page 42 Skanson & Hansen “At The Movies.” 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Timber. 8 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Victor Mestas. 2 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4427771. Woodpotter. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Events Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.
Introduction to Fly Fishing. 9 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375.
Monday, May 25 Music Danny Shafer and Josh Elioseff. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Electric Blues jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jacob Larson. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Mark Diamond & Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Memorial Day Mountain Music Fest with Gasoline Lollipops. 12 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508873-9185. Open Mic Night with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962. Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Tuesday, May 26 Music Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Matt Michaud Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Paa Kow Band. 9 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303339-0767. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Paakow’s Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Events Boulder Dance for Parkinsons. 11:30 a.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Open Free Form Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-8463. Steve Jones, “Sandhills Serenade.” 7:15 p.m. Unitarian-Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195.
Wednesday, May 27 Music Art Lande: Jazz Supper Club. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Burn The Covers Open Mic. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Interstate Stash Express. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. John Craigie and Friends. 7 p.m. Starling Farms, 7770 Valmont Road, Boulder. Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Passion Pit. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Prairie Scholars: Grill Night in the Clubhouse. 5 p.m. Haystack Mountain Golf Course, 5877 Niwot Road, Longmont, 303-530-1400. Ryan Seward Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Steve Selinsky. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Events
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American Life in Poetry: Column 529 & 530 by Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate People speak of “hearts and flowers” when they’re talking about poems with predictable sentimentality, but here’s an antidote to all those valentines, from Sally Bliumis-Dunn, who lives in New York. Her most recent book of poems is Second Skin, Wind Publications, 2010. Heart She has painted her lips hibiscus pink. The upper lip dips perfectly in the center like a Valentine heart. It makes sense to me— that the lips, the open ah of the mouth is shaped more like a heart than the actual human heart. I remember the first time I saw it— veined and shiny as the ooze of a snail— if this were what we had been taught to draw how differently we might have learned to love.
Poets often do their best work when they’re telling us about something they’ve seen without stepping into the poem and talking about themselves. Here’s a lovely poem of observation by Terri Kirby Erickson, who lives in North Carolina. Hospital Parking Lot Headscarf fluttering in the wind, stockings hanging loose on her veinroped legs, an old woman clings to her husband as if he were the last tree standing in a storm, though he is not the strong one. His skin is translucent—more like a window than a shade. Without a shirt and coat, we could see his lungs swell and shrink, his heart skip. But he has offered her his arm, and for sixty years, she has taken it.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright © 2014 by Sally Bliumus-Dunn and reprinted by permission. Poem copyright © 2014 by Terri Kirby Erickson, “Hospital Parking Lot,” from A Lake of Light and Clouds (Press 53, 2014). Poem reprinted by permission of Terri Kirby Erickson and Press 53. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts . Boulder Weekly takes poetry submissions of 250 words or fewer, along with a onesentence bio, at poetry@boulderweekly.com.
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Yes, ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ is as good as you’ve heard by Ryan Syrek
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don’t want to review Mad Max: over a wailing guitar riff. The brides Fury Road. I want to write love let- scrawl graffiti in the dungeon they ters to it or draw it like one of escaped, reading “We are not things” those French girls. If I could find and “Who killed the world?” The latter the right keystroke combination, has a clear answer: Dudes. Dudes killed this review would just be one long onothe world. Unchecked masculinity killed matopoetic recreation of the feral roar of civilization. Joe’s vile kingdom is the approval bellowed from deep within my furthest point in testosterone-fueled bosom as the credits rolled. They’ve evolution: Men are solely bred for war, called it a “game-changer,” a “masterwomen are disposable resources. piece” and a “work of genius,” but none Enter Furiosa. With one metal arm, of those capture the totality of what no hair and so much bad-ass nobody writer/director else can have any, George Miller has Furiosa is a human done here. It ax born to lop the deserves some new head off the top of term, some unique the patriarchy. She series of letters is powerful without fused together by surrendering her explosions underdesired femininity neath a desert sun. and one of the I don’t know? greatest action Maxcellent. There heroes ever. Miller you go: It’s pulled off one of Maxcellent. the boldest funding It’s been asked, stunts, convincing “Is this a sequel to the studio this was the other Mad a Mad Max movie Max movies? A when Max is winprequel? A dow dressing in a remake?” Shhh. leather jacket, there Don’t you worry simply to look your pretty head cool. Fury Road is about that none. violence as opera; it You just keep your is car chases as eyes on that extra Mad Max: Fury Road gives us one of the fiery fire and char- greatest action heroes ever. No, not Max visual poetry. The (Tom Hardy), but Furiosa (Charlize Therstunning physical acters with names on), a one-armed warrior trying to save sex slaves from the grips of a madman. and practical effects like “Rictus trump any and all Erectus” and computer-generated tomfoolery. Your “Toast the Knowing.” The film is set eyes literally can’t consume all that’s some time in the future when Earth is happening, flicking back and forth like almost uninhabitable, so given the nightmare-fueled REM sleep. Miller’s Senate’s recent denial that climate magnum opus is proof a film can be change is a thing, at least 2016. Lone fueled by meaningful social subtext and wolf Max (Tom Hardy) is grabbed by still kick ass. It’s evidence that all-out goons who serve Immortan Joe (Hugh action need not be reduced to “dumb Keays-Byrne), a decrepit and bloated fun.” It’s a reminder that computers can monster who rules over a group of surnever, will never, be able to out-adrenavivors. The entirety of the plot is line real stuntpeople doing real stunts. Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) It’s brilliant. It’s glorious. It is trying to escape with five of Joe’s sex Maxcellent. slave brides and Max’s reluctant help. That’s it. Literally, there is no more plot. This isn’t to say that the film isn’t This review first appeared in The speaking volumes. Hell, it’s not even Reader of Omaha Neb. speaking: it’s shouting and screaming Boulder Weekly
film One is the loneliest number Midway through life’s journey with ‘L’intrepido’ by Michael J. Casey
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ntonio Pane (Antonio reality for so long. That fact becomes Albanese) is a 48-year-old painfully obvious when Antonio starts a blue-collar journeyman who relationship with a younger woman, has spent his life bouncing Lucia (Livia Rossi), and learns that his from odd job to odd job. outlook may help him, but it cannot Some days he is a cook at a five-star res- help everyone. taurant, on others he could be cleaning Antonio’s plight is further comout coffins or ripping apart cars at a junk pounded when he takes a position as a yard. It’s hard work, shoe salesman, one often physical, but that painfully reveals Antonio finds pleasure to Antonio that there in each position and may be nothing but meaning in a largely hollowness in his wanfaceless world. derings. It is an Bully for Antonio, incredibly visual and because the world of powerful moment — L’intrepido: A Lonely one that director Hero isn’t just faceless, Gianni Amelio doesn’t it’s practically empty. dwell on long enough This is a world familiar — that speaks to just to the existentialist how alone Antonio is writings of Camus, in this journey. Dostoevsky and Sartre, Much like the but unlike those wandering Antonio, authors, Antonio is a L’intrepido is chocked happy-go-lucky profull of ideas but lacks L’intrepido follows Antonio as he tagonist moving breez- navigates a mid-life crisis through focus. It is a pretty picwork and relationships and puts ily through life without a person to the faceless working ture to look at, with man that blends into the backmuch care toward the Amelio and cinemaground. grave matters at hand. tographer Luca Bigazzi Antonio is an eduphotographing cated man who could Antonio in large, vast easily land a cushy position somewhere, spaces of nothingness. Antonio’s is but a but he prefers to be everywhere and humble human face amongst the modnowhere simultaneern angles of steel, ously. He is a fast glass and concrete, but learner, which makes that face is what ON THE BILL: L’Intrepido: him a perfect fit for makes L’intrepido The Lonely Hero. May 27 – 30, this kind of work, but work. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440a chance encounter L’intrepido is not 7825. Tickets start at $6 at with his ex-wife, about the work of the www.thedairy.org. Adriana (Sandra everyman, but about Ceccarelli) alludes to the facelessness of more than Antonio that worker. Who is would like to admit. Some people find this man selling roses on the side of the their identity in work, others find a way road? What kind of situation is he in? to escape it. What kind of family does he have? Or That search for identity lies at the did he have? No one knows because no heart of L’intrepido. one pauses to care. If they did, they Like most people, Antonio does not would find that the he isn’t faceless at live in this world, but his world, choosall, but he is far too familiar. That realing to play by the rules that suit him best ization can be jarring. and the reality that pleases him the This reporter will host a talkback folmost. But Antonio can only control his lowing the May 27 7 p.m. show. Boulder Weekly
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cuisine review Susan France
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hez Thuy rewards the brave. The menu is large and varied, representing Vietnamese cuisine that blends French, Chinese, Thai and Indonesian elements. There are myriad noodle dishes, many familiar. There are appetizers, soups, meats and curries that are no doubt delicious, but that are available at about the same quality just about everywhere. The reward, then, of Chez Thuy is in the menu’s deeper cuts. We started with a plate of duck wrapped in betel leaves. Betel leaves are similar to grape leaves, but are believed to have medicinal properties. It is chewed and treated as a stimulant mainly in the Asian world. Here, it was steamed and wrapped around a blend of duck meat, a five-spice blend, lemongrass, chili and pepper. It tasted and felt like sausage, and it was accompanied by a bowl of bright salmon-colored lime fish sauce. Served hot and alongside glass noodles and fresh greens like cucumber, lettuce and lemongrass, it was a substantial opener to the meal. Next was a bowl of pho. If you’ve eaten at Chez Thuy, you know two things about the pho: it is delicious and the servings are gigantic. In this pho was a mix of steak brisket, sliced meatballs, tendon and tripe. Pho here comes with a large basket of accoutrements, including a branch of basil, jalapenos, lemongrass and cilantro. The light
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obin Autorino demands per- cy and quiet servitude are the same fection. She demands it of qualifications for a good soldier. In that herself, of the employees in way, Autorino and Fred are alike. her Longmont chocolate Autorino assembled circuit boards in shop and of the ingredients the U.S. Navy for a large part of her she uses to make her award-winning adult life. chocolates. She demands it, too, of her Autorino was shipped around the chocolate-squirting robot, Frédéric. globe during that time. She had a son Fred is a magto support. Work nificent beast, was long and Matt Cortina about the size and tedious, but design of a comAutorino found mercial-grade fromoments to share zen yogurt humanity and machine. In 10 happiness. At minutes, he melts dinner parties, home-weary hard chocolate friends and cofeves — ovals of workers left with various percents pretzels handand types of chocdipped in chocoolate — into a Autorino sprays molds with colored chocolate by Autorino silky, liquid late. and her son. stream. The After her time stream pools into in the service, Autorino got married, a slowly rotating basin, where it eventumoved to Colorado and got a well-payally works its way to the bottom of the ing job in IT. They were soon making tun, is piped up to the top and entered more money than they needed and back into the endless stream. Fred is precise and reliable. He saves when the nest egg got too big to Autorino hours every day by his mere neglect their true passions longer, existence. His is the work she doesn’t Autorino returned to food. She enrolled have to check. Fred’s diligence, efficien- at the Culinary School of the Rockies,
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Robin Autorino, owner of Robin Chocolates in Longmont, blow dries chocolate molds in her shop.
worked at a patisserie in southern France and returned to Colorado to work for good and bad chefs in Denver and Boulder. Six years after her decision, Autorino opened Robin Chocolates in Longmont. It was an incredible transformation in total, especially to those who knew Autorino had long been allergic to chocolate. But it’s precisely because of that allergy that Autorino (and Fred) needs chocolate that strives for perfection. Most of the chocolate that comes in to her shop and small factory is from a high-end French producer, Valrhona. Valrhona sources from around the world, choosing only products that have
distinctive characteristics and that are refined and shipped with care. Delegating that task to Valrhona, experts in cocoa sourcing according to Autorino, may not be the trendy decision, but she says it simply gives her the highest quality product from which to make her fare. It’s hard to argue. Autorino pulls out about 12 bags of Valrhona feves and piles them on a stainless steel table next to Fred, whose chocolate stream looks like it’s constantly reciting gutteral Austrian love poems. Autorino splits the feves in two, handing over one half see CHOCOLATE Page 54
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and eating the other. There are dark butter from a workstation. She dips chocolates from Madagascar, Venezuela, her finger in and artfully flicks splashthe Caribbean and more. They each, in es of the chocolate into the shells. The this context, unsullied by added sugar effortless scarring of the molds is a or flavoring, and produced by one of process she mastered over several years the world’s top chocolate sellers, taste as well. Autorino then picks up a almost unlike chocolate. There are the small spray gun and loads golden tastes of bananas, of deep leather and cocoa butter into its magazine. She wood, of bright raspberry, but nowhere sprays the golden chocolate mist into on the palate is the sweet flavor of the molds, and wipes off the excess on chocolate found in many finished choc- the ridges. Inside each crater is a glisolate products. That is until Autorino tening film of chocolate that will pulls out a Dove chocolate bar for com- harden over the next day or two and parison. That, she says, she would have become a shell. an allergy to. But the pure chocolate She pulls from the rack a tray of with which she works, and which danc- hardened shells and approaches Fred. es like coffee or wine in The tray is placed Matt Cortina the indefinable regions under his chocolate of the palate, does not stream, filling each crabother her. ter, careful not to crack We try milk and the delicate shell, nor white chocolate, too — damage the two-millia revelation given how meter thick chocolate over-sweetened and cast lip that has formed, aside those two chocowhich will protect the lates can be in many integrity of the chocoAmerican chocolate late when the final products. Again, earth touches are done. tones pop more than Autorino spackles the sweetness. The texture excess chocolate away, is rich from fat, but the careful not to scar nor flavor is light and varadd any bubbles into Autorino torches marshmallow the molds. This too is a ied. time-perfected process It’s from these prod- for a s’more. that Autorino makes ucts that Autorino prolook easy. The trays are placed on the duces chocolate candies, fudge, pastries and more. We walk through the process steel table and Autorino blow-dries the mold, delicately tamping down any of a classic heart-shaped chocolate bubbles that arise. The tray is carefully candy. In the corner, two interns are replaced in the rack. cleaning small plastic molds, about the Before I leave, Autorino asks if I size of ice trays. Every square millimewant to try the best s’more ever. That’s ter needs to shine. Any speck of hazinot really a question. She knows that ness will result in an imperfect shell, because she’s already pulling down and so any tray that is not glistening after the tedious cleaning process is sent ingredients as she asks it. The base is a shortbread cookie, the chocolate is a back to the interns’ cleaning table. The rich (above 80 percent) dark chocolate interns are chosen from some schools feve, and the marshmallow is a homeand not others, none to be named here, made brick that does not taste like Jet but those distinctions have been made Puffed. She pulls out a blow torch and from experience, Autorino says. carefully browns the marshmallow. “It Chocolate is a game of millimeters. is,” I say, mouth tar and feathered with When Autorino spots an imperfection s’more. in one of the trays, I ask her to point it There are a lot of options in out. It is not a layman’s exercise. Boulder County for handmade chocoAutorino says she wasted countless late. Each place takes on its own perchocolates early on in her career on sonality and approach, Autorino says. imperfect trays, so the process is not Her customers, she continues, apprecionly important to the integrity of the chocolate, but to the bottom line of her ate the attention to detail in her work. She says it’s a more European approach growing business. to chocolate, where chocolatiers are In the back corner by her office, more like cafes. which has a small bookcase of thick It’s not for everybody. The pursuit culinary books, is an artist’s nook. Splotches of neon pink, green and yel- of perfection is not for everybody, but it is for Robin and Fred. That’s why this low decorate a white protective sheet. chocolate tastes so good. Autorino picks a jar of yellow cocoa Boulder Weekly
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When he found out he had been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature, he wanted to turn it down but his wife convinced him to accept it. The English government also sought to give him the prestigious Order of Merit, but he rejected it, saying, “I have already conferred this order upon myself.” He’s your role model for right now, Taurus. Congratulate yourself for your successes, whether or not anyone else does. GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20: “Aha!” is your mantra for the coming weeks, Gemini. Keep it on the tip of your tongue, ready to unleash. This always-ready-to-be-surprised-by-inspiration attitude will train you to expect the arrival of wonders and marvels. And that will be an effective way to actually attract wonders and marvels! With “Aha!” as your talisman, all of your wake-up calls will be benevolent, and all of the chaos you encounter — or at least most of it — will be fertile. CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: Do you chronically indulge in feelings of guilt? Do you berate yourself for the wrong turns and sad mistakes you made in the past? These behaviors may be sneaky ways of avoiding change. How can you summon enough energy to transform your life if you’re wallowing in worries and regrets? In presenting the possibility that you might be caught in this trap, I want you to know that I’m not sitting in judgment of you. Not at all. Like you, I’m a Cancerian, and I have periodically gotten bogged down in the very morass I’m warning you against. The bad news is that right now you are especially susceptible to falling under this spell. The good news is that right now you have extra power to break this spell. LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: In the TV comedy-drama Jane the Virgin, the fictional character known as Rogelio de la Vega is a vain but lovable actor who performs in telenovelas. “I’m very easy to dress,” he tells the wardrobe supervisor of a new show he’ll be working on. “Everything looks good on me. Except for peach. 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LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “Glory” is the theme song of the film Selma. It’s an anthem about the ongoing struggle for equal rights by African Americans. I want to borrow one of its lines for your use in the coming weeks: “Freedom is like a religion to us.” I think those will be good words for you to live by. Are you part of a group that suffers oppression and injustice? Are you mixed up in a situation that squashes your self-expression? Are you being squelched by the conditioned habits of your own unconscious mind? It’s high time to rebel. The quest for liberation should be your spiritual calling. SCORPIO OCT. 23-NOV. 21: If you’re planning on breaking a taboo, sneaking into a forbidden zone or getting intimate with an edge-dweller, don’t tell boastful stories about what you’re doing. For now, secrecy is not only sexy; it’s a smart way to keep you safe and effective. Usually I’m fond of you telling the whole truth. I like it when you reveal the nuanced depths of your feelings. 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PISCES FEB. 19-MARCH 20: The English writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm moved away from his native land when he was 37 years old. He settled in Rapallo, Italy, where he lived for much of the rest of his life. Here’s the twist: When he died at age 83, he had still not learned to speak Italian. For 40 years, he used his native tongue in his foreign home. This is a failing you can’t afford to have in the coming months, Pisces. The old proverb “When in Rome, do as the Romans,” has never been so important for you to observe.
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BILL NYE SAYS CLIMATE CHANGE THE CRISIS OF THIS GENERATION In Bill Nye’s commencement speech at Rutgers University, he declared climate change “the most serious environmental crisis in human history.” Which, considering most environmental crises predate the written record, may not be the most potent qualifier. But anyway, it’s getting serious out there, kids. Nye challenged students to take action to avert the disaster — indeed, to rise to the occasion as the generation of Americans during World War II rose to address those crises. He finished with his condolences: “If you know any climate deniers, I’m sorry.” MARCO RUBIO SAYS ‘NUH UH’ Meanwhile, Florida Senator Marco Rubio told Face the Nation that scientists can’t say for sure what impact cap and trade would have on climate change, “But I can tell you with certainty it would have a devastating impact on our economy.” Online fact-checker Politifact looked into the claim and found that predictions about the effects of cap and trade on both the environment and the economy are uncertain. It depends on the policy. In cap-and-trade, government sets pollution limits and companies either pay for technology to limit their pollution or trade. California, New England and Europe and their economies have all seemed to survive cap and trade programs, and a program in the Northeast has lowered emissions by 40 percent since 2005, Politifact found. Cap-and-trade programs have also created jobs and saved billions in energy bills. Some economic studies found there could be slower economic growth with some cap-and-trade policies — slower by 0.3 percent. Devastating. Politifact rated the claim false. Oh yeah, and this guy’s running for president. DON’T LOOK AT US! The House Appropriations Committee recently approved a 2016 spending bill that would rearrange NASA’s budget, giving the organization more money to search for life on other planets and the moon, but cut funding for the study of our own planet. We’re guessing that video NASA released this year that showed, in bright, glowing red, the flux of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere had a little something to do with Republican Representatives wishing NASA would find something to do with their time other than compile evidence that climate change is, you know, real and happening right now. The cuts aren’t entirely specific but would eliminate the replacement spacecraft for the Landsat 7, the satellite that sends Boulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: Yesterday, I found my 5-year-old son putting things up his butt in the bath. This isn’t the first time — and it’s not just a “Hey! There’s a hole here! Let’s put things in there!” kind of thing. The little dude was rocking quite the stiffy while he did it. I’m well aware of how sexual kids can be (I freaking was!), although I wasn’t quite expecting to be catching him exploring anal at this young age. I want to avoid a trip to the emergency room to extract a toy car or whatever else from his rear end, and I don’t want to see him damage himself. So do you have any suggestions of what I can give him as a butt toy? Yes, I am serious, and no, I’m not molesting him. I know he’s going to do this on his own with or without my knowing, and I want him to be safe! Just today, he proudly showed me a toy car that he stuck up his butt. I told him that it wasn’t a good idea due to the sharp bits on it, and while he may have gotten this one out, one could get stuck and then we would have to go to the hospital. Help! — Helping Ingenious Son Make Other Moves Dear HISMOM: “HISMOM has handled this really well so far, and I am impressed with her clarity and calm
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about this situation,” says Amy Lang, a childhood sexuality expert and educator, a public speaker, and the author of Birds + Bees + Your Kids (birdsandbeesandkids. com). “But NO BUTT TOYS for 5-year-olds! This is insane and will cause a host of problems — can you imagine if he says to his teacher, ‘Yesterday, I played with my butt plug!’ Instant CPS call!” I’m going to break in for a second: Do NOT buy a butt toy for your 5-yearold kid — if, indeed, you and your 5-year-old kid’s butt actually exist. I’m way more than half convinced that your letter is a fake, HISMOM, something sent in by a Christian conservative out to prove that I’m the sort of degenerate who would tell a mom to buy a butt toy for a 5-year-old. I’m some sort of degenerate, I’ll happily admit, but I’m not that sort. “This clearly isn’t a safe way for her boy to explore his body for a variety of
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never know.” Regardless of where he picked this trick up, HISMOM, you gotta tell him that it’s not OK to put stuff up his butt because he could seriously hurt himself. I know, I know: You are a progressive, sexpositive parent — if you exist — and you don’t wanna saddle your kid with a complex about butt stuff. But think of all the sexually active adults out there, gay and bi and straight, who have overcome standard-issue butt-stuff complexes and now safely and responsibly enjoy their assholes and the assholes of others. If you give your son a minor complex by, say, taking his toy cars away until he stops putting them in his ass, rest assured that he’ll be able to overcome that complex later in life. “She should tell him that she totally gets that it feels good,” Lang says, “but there are other ways he can have those good feelings that are safer, like rubbing and touching his penis, and he is welcome to do that any time he wants — as long as he’s in private and alone. You can also tell him the safest thing to put up there is his own finger. But he MUST wash his hands if he does that. Nothing else, finger only. And did I mention NO BUTT TOY? Seriously.” Follow Amy Lang on Twitter @birdsandbees. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter
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