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State Supreme Court rules citizens have no right to protect themselves from the oil and gas industry or ‘the state’ by Joel Dyer
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Supreme Court decision ends Longmont fracking ban by Angela K. Evans
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Highroad Parsing the PR lies of Goldman Sachs by Jim Hightower
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orporateSpeak is an inane language that conveys seriousness without any sincerity. Consider this example from Goldman Sachs: “We are pleased to put these legacy matters behind us. Since the financial crisis, we have taken significant steps to strengthen our culture, reinforce our commitment to our clients and ensure our governance processes are robust.” This is Goldman’s rhetorical attempt to cleanse itself of
the massive fraud it committed in selling tens of billions of dollars in worthless mortgage investments to its clients, contributing to the crash of our economy in 2008. For its criminality, the Justice Department has now spanked Goldman Sachs with a stinging $5 billion penalty. But what lesson have the haughty banksters learned? Well, let’s parse that two-sentence Orwellian comment they issued. First, they term their crimes “legacy matters,” which means something from the past, implying that the bad was done by some previous regime. But, hello, the top executives who oversaw and profited from that criminal enterprise are still there, still in charge. Then, the PR statement refers vaguely to a “crisis,” as though it was not one the bankers caused. Next, they refer to strengthening “our culture,” rather than calling it what it was: A
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corporate-wide mindset of anythinggoes avarice. That culture needs to be eliminated, not strengthened, replacing it with common kindergarten ethics of fair play. Finally, they assert that we should believe that their self-governance processes are now “robust.” Ha! “self-governance” is Wall Street’s word for freedom to steal. And if you believe a $5 billion penalty will deter them, note that Goldman and the rest are robustly lobbying Congress to kill regulations that restrain their future criminality. Watch what they do, not what they say. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 5, 2016 5
the anderson files Beware the corporate takeover by Dave Anderson
“Bernie’s where the Democrats need to be. He’s speaking to fears that working families have about the future, but he’s not dividing people the way Trump is.” —Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the National Nurses United (NNU) union
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n this wild and peculiar election year, there has been a big political battle going on which is barely covered by the mainstream media. The conflict is over the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a “trade” deal negotiated behind closed doors which involves 12 countries: the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. There have been gigantic demonstrations against the TPP in many member countries. There has also been considerable discontent and dissent against it in the United States. The TPP is not primarily a trade deal. It wouldn’t do much to reduce barriers to trade in these countries, which are already low. Besides, the U.S. already has “free trade” agreements with Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Singapore. In 2014, 74 percent of U.S. goods traded with the TPP group was with these six nations. The TPP is actually a “secret corporate takeover” of democratic government as Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz has put it. The secret text was released awhile back and an analysis by Public Citizen said TPP would make it easier for multinationals to ship jobs overseas, flood America with unsafe imported food, increase the cost of medicines by giving Big Pharma new monopoly rights to keep generic drugs off the market, allow corporations to attack environmental and health safeguards, undermine internet freedom and roll back Wall Street reforms. President Obama said he would make the completion of the deal the number-one legislative priority of his second term. He said he would promote TPP in his 2016 State of the Union address. But he ended up devoting only 28 seconds to it. Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, guessed that he did this because “the pact is 6 May 5, 2016
very unpopular across the political spectrum and talking about it more only makes opposition grow.” The National Association of Manufacturers, the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced their support of the TPP. Obama quietly sent cabinet members to lobby Congress. Most of TPP’s opponents have been Democrats, not Republicans. This was a role reversal. From the beginning of Obama’s presidency, the Republicans have blocked him from doing much of anything. But last year, the Republicans helped him get “fast track” trade promotion authority for TPP and later trade agreements coming up. It was strange to see but Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were praising Obama. People were reminded of President Clinton’s “triangulation” tactic where he passed NAFTA with a majority of Republicans and a minority of Democrats. This year, however, the Republican congressional leadership has told Obama to wait until after the election when TPP could be voted on in a lame duck session. Meanwhile, TPP is a crucial issue in this year’s electoral politics. A recent New York Times article on the issue’s impact on both congressional and presidential races said TPP is pitting “moderates” who favor it against anti-TPPers who are on the “far right” (like Donald Trump) and the “far left” (like Bernie Sanders). Who is supporting this crazy “far left” position? The anti-TPP coalition is broad and deep and includes the entire labor movement, environmentalists, human rights groups, the Alliance for Retire Americans, Doctors Without Borders and the National Organization for Women (NOW). Terry O’Neill, NOW president, wrote a piece for Huffington Post entitled “Why TPP is a Feminist Issue.” It is interesting that while the Times reporters specifically name Sanders as being on this “far left.” they don’t mention that Hillary Clinton also claims to oppose bad trade deals including TPP. She has taken many populist positions similar to Sanders as well. Apparently the reporters don’t see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 8
letters Open Letter to Boulder City Council, Boulder County Commissioners and Arvada City Council
Dear Elected Officials: Please do not allow the Plutonium Superhighway (aka Rocky Mountain Greenway) to be built anywhere near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant (aka Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, an active Superfund site). There are dozens of pounds of plutonium, one of the most deadly substances on Earth, buried at Rocky Flats. This ground will be contaminated for thousands of years. Public health standards require that you allow this ground to be disturbed as little as possible. This is just common sense. The Department of Energy has already green-washed this area and this subject as much as it can. It’s time to face reality that this area should never become a road, a park or anywhere that is used by humans. Please read about how harmful plutonium is, even in very minute quantities: “Fukushima Absorbed: How Plutonium Poisons the Body” (http://tinyurl.com/zcz93kd) You should never allow even a shovel to be taken to this area. That will only disperse the plutonium into the community. Plenty of plutonium is probably leaching out through the groundwater already. Remember the 18 inches of rain that got dumped on Rocky Flats in the Floods of 2013? No amount of plutonium will ever be safe to humans. Since we can’t un-make the plutonium, the only thing to do is to leave it in the ground and leave the ground as undisturbed as possible. And pray that our government stops making toxic
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I’m appalled by the vitriol about the Boulder-Nablus Sister City Project (BNSCP) that I’ve been reading in Boulder newspapers lately. I think what many have forgotten is that sister-city projects are about cultural and human exchange, it’s not political. I am a teacher that has been working with the BNSCP to create a pen-pal exchange with my students. I began working with them because I noticed an increase in Islamophobia in our country and even within my classrooms. It seems that we have come to a point in our country in which the Muslim community is the most hated and, as evidenced by the recent letters and op-ed pieces, are the most misunderstood people in our country. National political candidates and now, even members of our own community, use fear mongering to further their agenda of separateness, and to paint Muslim communities that we know little about, in a monstrous light. For this reason, I decided that beginning an exchange between my students and students in Nablus would be a step towards creating understanding and therefore a step away from fear. I decided to go through the BNSCP because I became aware of their other cultural exchanges. They are involved in teaching children yoga and meditation in Nablus, publishing Palestinian children’s books, art exchanges and teaching sacred dance to woman in Nablus. All of these programs are aligned with my goals of promoting cross-cultural peace and see LETTERS Page 8
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understanding in my classroom. My students and Nablus students have started corresponding and my students are discovering that they have more things in common with the Nablus students then they have differences. The pen pal letters never mention religion or politics. They are about soccer, video games, birthday parties and pets, because that’s what kids, even Nablus kids, care about. I would love for more students and adults to get an opportunity like this, in which we discover the humanity in each other and can put aside our hate and fear of the unknown. If you really believe that the people of Nablus don’t share the same values that we hold dear, what better way to help show them “the way” than to put our values into action — in other words. If we value tolerance of differences then now may be the perfect opportunity to walk our talk ... and not just give it lip service. Andee Miller/Boulder
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Paul Danish [RE: “Forget Nablus and mediation,” April 28] has either forgotten, or never knew, about the successful mediation between pro-life and pro-choice advocates about 30 years ago. The mediation was never about resolving “the conflict over abortion.” It was an attempt to solve the problem of how to honor a pro-life advocate’s right to free speech while honoring a pro-choice patient’s right to safely enter a medical facility. A skilled mediator from CDR Associates worked with the group and reached a successful agreement defining the physical area that would allow both free speech and protect patient safety. Mediation is not about changing peoples’ values. It is about identifying joint problems and identifying areas of potential agreement. It involves empathy and vulnerability — a willingness to
actively listen to understand and be open to creative solutions that jointly meet interests. I do not know if mediation is appropriate for the Nablus sister city issue. I have never seen or heard any proposed problem statements so I’m not sure what is to be mediated. Council’s resolution calls for a “facilitated discussion” which might be helpful in getting the parties to better understand what is important to each of them. It does take some digging by a skilled facilitator to get at the underlying needs, interests, and fears behind the emotions displayed in a highly charged issue. The City does have a role to play in helping Boulderites work out issues, if possible, before they ignite and pit neighbor against neighbor. Marsha Caplan/Boulder
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believe her. Many in the business community feel her position is mere posturing to voters for the election and that she will switch back to supporting TPP immediately after the election. Didn’t Obama claim he would renegotiate NAFTA during the 2008 campaign and didn’t he become a “free trade” booster right afterwards? U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue has actually
said in an interview that he believes Clinton will switch to supporting TPP after the election. Clinton came out against TPP very belatedly and with little fanfare and a few weasel words. If she wants to be believed, she needs to be bold and demand that Obama withdraw TPP from consideration by Congress. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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t was quite a read. The further I delved into the Colorado Supreme Court’s decisions to overturn Longmont’s ban on fracking and Fort Collins’ five-year, voter-sanctioned moratorium on the same practice, the more disturbed I became. The decisions, which were predictably announced by recent Hickenlooper appointee to the Supreme Court Judge Richard Gabriel, didn’t just say that the ban and moratorium were in conflict with state law as has been widely reported in the media. Oh no, they went much further than that. Upon closer inspection, I found these rulings read more like a climate change-denier’s manifesto than the narrow opinion on preemption that they claim to be. According to the Court, it had to determine if oil and gas extraction was to be governed by state, local, or a mix of state and local regulations. In order to do this, the Court asked and then answered several questions beginning with, “Is there a need for statewide uniformity” when it comes to oil and gas extraction? The Court concluded that while “uniformity in itself is no virtue, it is necessary ‘when it achieves and maintains specific state goals.’” OK, so what are these “specific state goals?” I’ll leave the question of “who is the state?” for later. The Court determined that the “state’s goals,” based on existing law, include preventing anything, when it comes to drilling methods, spacing and well patterns, that could cause “less than optimal recovery and a corresponding waste of oil and gas.” The court then determined that Longmont’s “ban on drilling within the city limits could result in uneven and potentially wasteful production of oil and gas... ” I should point out that Longmont never actually banned drilling in its city limits, just fracking, but that’s just one of the giant details lost at times on a Supreme Court that appears to have
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been trained at the Hickenlooper School of Critical Thinking. So in the end, the Court determined that the “state’s goals” are to optimize oil and gas recovery and prevent waste, and that the Longmont ban fails to maximize recovery and causes waste so it is clearly in conflict with the state’s goals and state rules and regulations designed to support the state’s goals. Therefore, the ban is illegal and no longer in force and effect. Case closed. This perceived state goal to maximize production is basically the underlying tenet that guided the Supreme Court’s entire decision-making process. The Court found that local governments can use their authority over zoning and land use when it comes to oil and gas extraction within their city limits, but only so long as local regulations are not in conflict with the “state’s goals.” In other words, local governments can write and enforce regulations on the oil industry only if those regulations help to maximize the amount of oil and gas coming out of the ground and prevent any hydrocarbons from being wasted by being left in the ground. Conversely, local regulations designed to prevent a company from locating a well near a school where it would force school children to breath in harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and ground level ozone would not be allowed under the Court’s ruling. Nor would regulations that protect the planet by causing hydrocarbons to be left in the ground where they can’t cause global warming. Even a regulation designed to create well setbacks extensive enough to protect an entire neighborhood from having its property values destroyed would be overturned by this ruling because, according to the Court, making an oil company drill further horizontally makes a well more expensive to drill and that wouldn’t be fair to mineral owners or the company, which means — you guessed it — it would not be supportive of the “state’s goals.” Are you getting a little queasy yet? The hypocrisy contained in the pages of these rulings is boundless. While it’s illegal for a community to enact any ordinance that could result in wasted natural gas, even if such a law is designed to protect human health, property values and/or the environment, the oil and gas industry is allowed to flare billions of cubic feet of natural gas into the atmosphere every year. It does this because it doesn’t want to go to the expense of building a pipeline to transport the stuff while there is a gas glut and prices are low. Entire natural gas fields have been found to be losing up to 10 percent of their overall production capacity into the atmosphere because of leaky pipelines, bad cement jobs and shoddy well plugging. It would seem that when it comes to the “state’s goals,” only the industry is allowed to minimize production and waste oil and gas, and it does so at the expense of the air we all breath. This Court’s lengthy explanation for why it rendered rulings that not only ended Longmont’s ban and Fort Collins’ moratorium but will ultimately unwind all the bans and moratoriums along the Front Range, is utterly unbelievable and unjustified in this day and age. These decisions might have seemed in step with the world 75 years ago, but not today. They truly lack scholarship and common sense. This Court’s logic reminds me of an inexperienced debater whose entire argument is based on a poorly thought out and inaccurate original assumption. How is it in 2016 that “the state” has an obligation to maximize the amount of hydrocarbons that are extracted and subsequently burned? How can a Colorado court in the See DYERTIMES Page 13
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Imagine if this was your dream home situated on a hill with a great view of the Back Range. For these homeowners in Frederick, Colorado, their dreams took a hit when three separate and massive drilling operations surrounded them. Giant production platforms covering several acres and containing dozens of tanks and towers are now being installed. The area is literally being transformed into an industrial setting. DYERTIMES from Page 10
modern world rule that any hydrocarbon left in the ground is being wasted when it knows that every hydrocarbon extracted translates into more greenhouse gasses being released into the atmosphere? It’s like Colorado is stuck in a time warp. Other state courts in places like Washington and New York are ruling that States actually have a legal obligation to preserve the air and water for future generations. These courts have sided with young people suing to stop oil and gas extraction, but not in Colorado. There is plenty of language on the books in Colorado regarding citizen’s rights to health and the state’s obligation to protect the environment to have allowed this Court to come to a different conclusion. The Supreme Court chose to only consider the sliver of language supporting the oil and gas industry, and for that it is as culpable for this foolishness as our climate changedenying Governor and his band of industry-influenced jestors in the state legislature. This decision is incredibly shortsighted in a place where the economy and quality of life depend primarily on maintaining a pristine environment. Colorado is a state that cares about the environment... wait, according to the Supreme Court, “the state” only cares about maximizing production and preventing waste by making sure that no oil and gas is left in the ground. This state thing is so confusing. I’ll get back to that in a minute. For now, I will say that Colorado is a state full of people who care about the environment and I must say, believe in science as well. Aside from the fully discredited, climate changedenying lies being put out and paid for by the oil, gas and coal industries, the scientists of planet Earth are virtually unanimous in their belief that climate change is occurring, mankind is contributing to it via the burning of oil, gas and coal, and that global warming is the greatest threat to mankind at this very moment. These same scientists, and I might add the vast majority of all Colorado residents, also understand that if we develop even a third of the world’s known hydrocarbon reserves, we will pass the point of no return, if we haven’t already, destroying our planet and our children’s future. This isn’t some pretend business battle that can be won by manipulating a handful of judges appointed by politicians whose loyalty is to their industry keepers. This battle is about our very survival, our lives, our loved one’s lives. The courts, even the almighty Supreme Court of Colorado, cannot order us into Boulder Weekly
mass extinction in the name of industry profits. So just who is “the state?” For the purposes of these Court rulings, it seems the composition of “the state” starts with our fracking-fluid-drinking governor, his oil and gas industry pals and a majority of the 100 politicians in both parties who currently comprise the Colorado General Assembly. But it’s a little more than that. In a real democracy one could argue that by way of representation, the voters are also part of “the state,” but we haven’t lived in a real democracy since 2002 when four billionaires first orchestrated their takeover of our state government via the infamous “Blueprint.” If you’re unfamiliar with this disgusting part of Colorado history, look it up. It’s quite enlightening. It has become the model for the establishment takeover of our entire nation. Colorado hasn’t changed much since 2002. We’ve just added a few more wealthy influencers to the mix. I would argue that “the state,” as mentioned in these Supreme Court decisions, is actually comprised primarily of the oil and gas industry, its political minions as mentioned above, along with the 118 uber-wealthy members of Colorado Concern and a relatively small number of other such lobbyists, political operatives and wealthy campaign donors who have made clear their desire to maximize oil and gas extraction. If this 1,000 or so folks, counting lobbyist and major campaign donors, are “the state,” then what the hell are the other 5.3 million of us who call this place home? You know, the 5.3 million of us who apparently aren’t allowed to do anything that might conflict with “the state’s” goals which now require us to do nothing more than stand by and suck in the pollution as they extract as much oil and gas as humanly possible from beneath our homes, giving special attention not to waste any of it by leaving it in the ground where the scientists tell us it must be left if we are to survive. How did we get here? Why didn’t we see this coming years ago? It would have been nice if the major media had done its job and played watchdog over this industry and its political pals, but that didn’t happen because the major media in these parts was too busy stuffing its pockets with oil industry money in the form of tens of millions of dollars in advertising revenue. As if we can be persuaded to kill ourselves by yet another oil industry commercial featuring its employee trampling down the tundra as she explains that she
is an environmentalist and actually got into the oil and gas industry because it was important to her to protect the environment. Huh? That argument is as illogical as the one the Supreme Court just handed down. And The Denver Post... it has gone even further to support “the state” than the TV stations who trade their silence on the fracking issue for millions of ad dollars. Consider that Mac Tully, President and CEO of The Denver Post, is actually one of the 118 members of Colorado Concern. That’s right, the top guy at the Post is a member of the state’s arguably most powerful lobbying organization — an organization that not only supports maximizing oil and gas production, but also played a pivotal role in keeping the last community control and increased setback initiatives from making it onto the ballot in 2014. Colorado Concern supported the two pro-industry initiatives that were pulled as part of the trade Rep. Jared Polis made with Hickenlooper, which resulted in throwing away roughly a quarter million signatures that could have given us the right to vote on this issue years ago. And it gets worse. Tully’s Colorado Concern was actually signed on to the lawsuits against Longmont and Fort Collins as a friend of the court (Amicus Curiae) in support of Colorado Oil and Gas Association, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Top Operating Company. No surprise then that Post employees helped sell ads into the newspaper’s 2014 fake “energy and environment” section, a pro oil and gas section funded by Citizens for Responsible Energy Development (CRED), an organization funded by Anadarko Petroleum and Noble Energy. I should also point out that Tully is the person most Post employees live in fear of when it comes to layoffs and buyouts in the newsroom. And the Post is once again in the process of losing another 26 journalists, one-fifth of its newsroom staff. That makes for a total one-third reduction in newsroom staff in just the last 12 months. All this is my of way of pointing out that it isn’t likely that you will be seeing any Post coverage particularly critical of this Supreme Court Ruling that found in favor of Tully’s friends. But you never know for sure. Digital First Media, the Post parent company, also owns the Daily Camera See DYERTIMES Page 14
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and the Times Call, and Camera Editorial Page Editor Dave Krieger recently penned a brilliant editorial on this issue in the paper’s May 4 issue. Journalists are a feisty breed; they sometimes stick it to their own owners. But I digress. I suspect all this sounds familiar to Bernie Sanders supporters. I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know about who really runs things. The bottom line is that unless we stop these establishment bastards who have hijacked our democracy in the interest of their own short-term, personal profits, they are going to destroy everything we care about in this state. Imagine the arrogance and self-importance of this handful of industry insiders, politicians, judges and millionaires telling us, the people of Colorado, that we are required by law to help them maximize oil and gas production and profits. I DON’T THINK SO. And I’m willing to write another $27 check to the people who are collecting the signatures that will put the new local control etc. initiatives on the November ballot, initiatives that will fix this mess once and for all. Even this Supreme Court acknowledged that its ruling was based on the fact that the Colorado Constitution currently offers no guidance as to whether local or state oil and gas regulations were the superior law of the land. Well, it’s time to give this Supreme Court the constitutional guidance it needs to reverse this ridiculously industry-/establishment-friendly ruling. No more elitist manipulation of our democratic process. We’ve already proven that the informed people of Colorado can win against this collection of wealth and political power with its millions in TV and newspaper advertising. It’s because we’re not stupid. If we will only engage, we outnumber them by 5.3 million votes. They can only control us if we let them. It boils down to who are we going to listen to: The 1,000 people who comprise “the state” in this Supreme Court decision, or our friends and fellow Colorado citizens who agree with the world’s scientists who have told us we must leave it in the ground if we are to survive? No court can order us to commit mass suicide in the name of profit. That is an end that we can only inflict on ourselves by being politically lazy or blind to reality. So what now? Find a petition and sign it. Keep the political revolution that so many of you have worked so hard for alive. You may not take the White House this year, but you can take back your state. It just takes 1,500 people collecting 100 signatures from their friends and neighbors. Boulder Weekly
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he Colorado Supreme Court ruled against the City of Longmont’s voter-approved 2012 fracking ban on Monday, May 2, stating it conflicts with state law and is therefore “invalid and unenforceable.” Furthermore, the Court ruled that the “the inalienable rights provision of the Colorado Constitution does not save the fracking ban from preemption by state law.” The Opinion of the Court was delivered by Judge Richard Gabriel, who was appointed to the Colorado Supreme Court by pro-fracking Governor John Hickenlooper in June 2015, and it came at the same time as a similar opinion in the case of Fort Collins’ five-year fracking moratorium. “It is the government whose first priority it is to be the protection of its people and clearly they did not do that and they did not care to do that,” says Kaye Fissinger from the grassroots organization Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont, who was party to the case along with the City of Longmont, Food and Water Watch, Earthworks and Sierra Club. Our Longmont has been fighting encroaching oil and gas development within the city since 2011 when citizens realized Top Operating Company had plans to build drilling platforms on the banks of Union Reservoir to access nearly 40 well sites under the water. Around the same time, residents also became aware that the company’s Rider No. 1 well near Trail Ridge Middle School had been leaking high levels of benzene and contaminating groundwater for years. Top Operating Company joined the Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) and the state’s Colorado Oil Boulder Weekly
and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) in the lawsuit against Longmont and its charter amendment fracking ban. In 2015, a district court ruled in favor of the state and upon Longmont’s appeal, the Court of Appeals punted the decision to the Supreme Court last August. The May 2 ruling effectively ends the case, as it has to do with states’ rights and cannot be appealed to the federal Supreme Court. “At this point there isn’t a whole lot of options for us to pursue,” says Dennis Coombs, Longmont mayor. “But I feel really confident that our city [regulations], they protect 97 percent of the city from gas and oil development. I’m glad that we were to get at least that backstop in place for the City of Longmont.” Coombs also says the Court’s ruling does not appear to have any immediate ramifications, as he’s not aware of any impending permits that could now start operations. After the ruling on Monday, other jurisdictions around Colorado with similar bans or moratoriums were left scrambling to understand how the Court’s opinion could affect their local jurisdictions. In Broomfield, voters approved a five-year fracking moratorium via charter amendment in November 2013, which is currently being challenged by COGA. At the end of June 2015, a district judge temporarily suspended the case at Broomfield’s request, pending the outcome of the Longmont and Fort Collins’ cases. “Those jurisdictions are the only parties in the case but the ruling is of See SUPREME COURT Page 16
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he water of the Rio Grande shimmers with a muddy green, lizard-like iridescence in late April sun, meandering slowly (unlike the actual lizards that scuttle about) through a deep canyon of banded limestone. A sandstone-colored snake winds its way, keeping pace with the languor of the river. It swims against the current, staying close to the rocks that line the shore farthest from where I sit on a shadeless mesa high above the river. Water in front of me, sun-bleached desert on every other side. Prickly pears, chollas, pitaya and yucca erupt from the dusty ground around me, sharp and menacing yet alluring with their blossoms of butter cream yellow, alabaster white and carmine pink. The silhouette of the Chisos Mountains, a third distinct ecosystem in this land of diversity, adds a postcard-worthy backdrop in the distance. This is Big Bend National Park.
BOUND BY NOTHING Exploring borders, real and
Nearly 120 miles of the Rio Grande run through Big Bend National Park, creating a natural border between the U.S. and Mexico.
Caitlin Rockett
imaginary, in the remote desert of Big Bend National Park
BY CAITLIN ROCKETT Covering more than 801,000 acres in the wide-open expanse of southwest Texas, Big Bend is the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert in the U.S. It is also, despite its significant biodiversity, one of the States’ least visited national parks, with less than 300,000 visitors annually. Compare that to the landscape of my native home, the Great Smoky Mountains, which hosts more than 10 million visitors a year. Those who have ventured to Big Bend know the hidden treasures within. The region supports more than 1,200 species of plants (including some 60 cacti species), 11 species of amphibians, 56 species of reptiles, 40 species of fish, 75 species of mammals, 450 species of birds and around 3,600 species of insects. It is home to more types of birds, bats and cacti than any other national park in the U.S. But in a land where shade is hard to come by, where temperatures soar to 115 degrees Fahrenheit along the river in late May and June, where nary an animal is seen by day save for vultures, where cacti sprout from every rock and canyons rise like sacred temples around the moss-green Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park can feel like no man’s land, a place too inhospitable for life of any sort. Yet the park teems with life, and always has. The ocean has shored up against and spilled into Big Bend more than once, leaving behind the remains of sea-dwelling organisms such as oysters, giant clams, snails, ammonites, turtles and marine reptiles. Further inland, fossils show dinosaurs roamed the land. Throughout history, periodic volcanic eruptions changed the geologic landscape and biological makeup of Big Bend, as does the process of erosion today. Indeed, the land of Big Bend is a work in progress 500 million years in the making. In the here and now, beside me on the mesa in the late April sun, my see BOUND Page 24
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The landscape around Big Bend National Park seems devoid of life during the day, but at night the critters come out to play. Caitlin Rockett
Outside Big Bend National Park is a small town called Terlingua, an old mercury mining town now home to perhaps 60 permanent residents. The Chisos Mountains of Big Bend are visible from Terlingua.
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best friend picked up a smooth, National Park, but I thought about the little village of Boquillas often as we sumblanched-white seashell and handed it to mited peaks in the Chisos Mountains, me. Living in San Antonio for the past descended into Santa Elena Canyon or few years, this was her second trip to Big dipped our feet into the warm waters of Bend. When she and I decided to plan a the Rio Grande. vacation together after not seeing each My best friend and I grew up in a other for a year, Big Bend seemed like small town in North Carolina, surroundthe perfect place to reconnect, far away ed by other equally small — and often from the beeps and dings of our cell even smaller — towns. Many of the peophones and laptops. ple who populated these small municipalI rubbed the cone-shaped shell in my ities made their living in the textile hand wondering what colors it held in its industry. prime before time washed it clean. Everything here feels ancient. Timeless. My hometown of around 4,000 people Artistic. Bound by nothing. took a hard hit in the 1980s when mergers And yet there is the border. and takeovers in the textiles industry From where I sat on the mesa, the stripped the town of more than 1,000 jobs land on the other side of the river is over the course of a decade. The textile Mexico. This struck me as strange as there mills also were major customers for the is nothing different about the earth a foot- The village of Boquillas is home to around 200 people and relies heavily on tourism town’s utilities and with their departure the ball-field’s distance away from me. In fact, to stay afloat. Visitors at Big Bend National Park can enter Boquillas through a port of town also lost $500,000 in utility revenue, entry near Boquillas Canyon. the land just across from Big Bend is not to mention tax dollars. Mexico’s equivalent of the park, Parque Born in the mid ’80s, right in the Nacional Ocampo. through the Boquillas Canyon. The village rests in an thick of the town’s downturn, I mostly grew up in a Yet geographic borders are part of human civilizaisolated area called Maderas del Carmen, with mountown that felt economically dead. My mother and tion, and in Big Bend the Rio Grande creates a natural tains on one side and the Rio Grande and U.S. border grandmother remembered a town full of diverse border (and thus a political border) between the United on the other. With only about 200 people living in the businesses, but I grew up in place that was made States and Mexico for 118 miles. Much as the landvillage year-round, Boquillas relies on tourism to surmostly of churches and businesses that failed nearly scape of Big Bend continues to evolve, so do the politi- vive. From Big Bend National Park, visitors can enter as quickly as they opened. Neighboring towns faired cal and social pressures of enforcing a natural border Boquillas through the Boquillas Crossing Port of Entry, even worse. It took decades — I was well out of my that was fluid for much of history, allowing people to Wednesday through Sunday year round. A passport is undergraduate college days — before my hometown flow between the two nations at will. needed to make the crossing, and $5 will secure a short began to bounce back, focusing on niche industries In many places near the Rio Grande, Mexican boat ride the other side. (If you don’t have $5, you can and, like Boquillas, tourism. nationals will cross the river into the U.S. park to sell always swim.) While my hometown and Boquillas are vastly difwalking sticks, bracelets and other handmade crafts. But 15 years ago the village of Boquillas nearly col- ferent, our common ground seems more important — Big Bend discourages park visitors from purchasing lapsed when the border crossing was closed after the our need to survive in a world that increasingly seems souvenirs this way and considers such items “contra9/11 attacks. Year after year after year the border cross- to favor the big over the small. The health of our world, band.” While it’s hard to say how often it actually haping remained closed, forcing a mass exodus of villagers its economies and infrastructures, depends on remempens, park officials say Mexican vendors selling crafts who were left with no work and no guarantee when the bering the value of individual humans. across the border are subject to arrest, fines and deporborder would open again. It wasn’t until 2013 that the In a time when politicians clamor to “make America tation through Presidio, Texas, a town nearly 100 miles U.S. reopened the border at Boquillas. The Mexican great again” by building walls and retreating into isolation, from Big Bend — a harsh punishment for people simgovernment took measures to help the village recupera town like Boquillas reminds that we are all human, and ply trying to survive in a harsh environment, both envi- ate, sending supplies and building a new hospital and we prosper most together, not apart. ronmentally and economically. school. Sometimes it takes a place as remote as Big Many of the Mexican vendors are from a tiny vilThe border crossing was closed for the three days Bend to remember how interconnected the world my friend and I spent hiking and camping in Big Bend lage known as Boquillas, just across the river as it runs really is.
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he doors to eTown Hall might be closed on a gloomy weekday afternoon, but while the stage is vacant and the curtains are drawn, the performances haven’t stopped. Behind the scenes, 15-year-old Chloe Southern is getting ready to professiontesy of eTown ally record her music for the Co u r first time. For the past four years, eTown has hosted the Handmade Songs competition that gives high school students a chance to perform Photos left and and record right: Dafna their origiMargalit and Harper Corumnal music. Var at the April On April 6, 6 eTown performance. 25 high school students performed on the eTown stage, and five were selected to professionally record for the Handmade Songs album. Southern is one of those five finalists. “Have you ever recorded before?” eTown Producer John McVey asks Southern, who walks into the studio for the first time, gazing at the various buttons on the soundboard. “Not professionally, but I played around with GarageBand,” she says. In the studio, Southern has to record mulBoulder Weekly
tiple times, sometimes playing piano to her voice and other times singing to her music. Normally, Southern plays both parts at the same time, but today, she gets to hear every component of her song separately. In between sessions McVey and Southern discuss the process. While listening back to the track, Southern says she hears her vocals start to sound strange — it is the moment she realizes she was recording in a professional studio for the first time. “It’s like riding a bike: the minute you realize you’re doing it, you crash,” McVey says, with a laugh. This is the first of many sessions for Southern to record her original song, “Lullabies and Blues.” The song was inspired by a boy Southern liked and how far she’d go to get noticed by him. “I wanted to write a song that a lot of people could connect to, so it wouldn’t just speak to me, it would speak to a lot of other people and what they were going through,” Southern says. One of her favorite verses in the song reads, “I would give the stars, the moon, the lullabies and blues, for another day, another day or two.” The song’s creation wasn’t so easy. “In the beginning I had the chorus, that was set, but I couldn’t figure out the first verse,” Southern says. “There was something weird about it, and I hated it, so I took a giant pen and I crossed it out. I sat with it for awhile.” But all of Southern’s hard work paid off when she was selected as a finalist. Nick
Forster, eTown host and co-founder, says the songs and musicians were chosen because of their strong lyrical composition. “I don’t think there’s another program like [the Handmade Song Series] in that we are really focused on the songwriting more than the performance. ... It’s more about what’s going on in these young peoples’ hearts and minds,” Forster says. Another winner of the series is 15-year-old Dafna Margalit. Her song, “Fever,” is a portrayal of social standards and how people with depression might feel in those contexts. “I wanted to take depression and portray it as some-ourtesy of eTown C thing physical, like a fever,” she says. “In high school, as I was growing up, I started realizing things about all of the social norms. If you stay home because you have a mental illness then you’re lazy, but if you stay home because you have the flu, you’re fine.” The songwriting experience was overwhelming at times. “I guess I didn’t think it would be so depressing, but then stuff just kept falling out of me,” she says. “It’s just scary thinking what’s in your mind, and you don’t even realize it.”
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The Handmade Song Series has says of the benefits of music. three goals: to inspire and to educate The audience at the April 6 perforhigh school kids, and to help them mance was as much a high point for communicate with music professionthe finalists as the actual performance. als to learn how to make music. Margalit says one of her favorite parts “I thought about, ‘Is there an of the experience was the support that opportunity to celebrate the poetry and she got from the crowd and other artistry that teenagers create, in private, finalists. that might help them feel connected to “It feels sort of like you’re at home,” a bigger community?’ That certainly she says. “Everyone there is there for became part of the inspiration for the the same thing that you are.” Handmade Song Series,” Forster says. Seventeen-year-old Harper CorumHe goes on to explain that eTown Var, another finalist, also felt the sense uses its studio space and equipment to of community between young songteach the student finalists. The team writers. Before the performance, he was also strives to connect them to an audi- nervous, even with hours of practice ence that is composed of fellow songunder his belt. Backstage however, writers, both old and new. Connection those nerves were calmed by the energy is one of the of all of the Courtesy of eTown most imporother contestant parts of tants. the process. “The “We live night of the in a very diviperformance, sive and dividI was a lot ed era, and more comthere’s lots of fortable. It’s opportunities always an to separate out exciting atmoand imagine sphere. that you’re a There’s just Winners of the Handmade Songs Series competition Harper Corum-Var, duo Sidney and Caitlin part of one something Powell, Chloe Southern, Harper Powell and Dafna group and not Margalit. about the another,” energy. ...” he Forster says. “I think what music does says. “It’s always interesting too, to see is it cuts through all of that stuff.” that everyone is different. It helps peoBut music and art aren’t always pri- ple connect in that way.” oritized when it comes to school. As Corum-Var says one of the highschool budget-cuts are made, the first lights of the night for him was the programs to go are usually the art ones. sense of validation he felt. Both the According to an education study performance and the recording are part from 2014, Colorado has “held the of an exciting process and he believes line” with the provision of art studies. that support and teamwork, especially That being said, an estimated 28,000 between musical experts, is vital in the students in Colorado attended schools field. that offer no formal arts education. “I think a lot of the art in music Only half of enrolled high school stucomes from collaboration and at first it dents are in art classes and the arts is those relationships that you work on community is still struggling for funds for awhile,” Corum-Var says. and time in the school day. The finalists all agree that one of Many studies have proven there is the biggest keys to music production, a positive correlation between particiespecially for a younger generation, is perseverance. Margalit, who is part of a pating in inventive classes and doing family that has performed in the comwell in school. One study from the petition many times, emphasized that University of California at Los with a piece of advice for other songAngeles used a federal database of writers. 25,000 students to show that students “Don’t give up. My family has done with arts education did better in this for five years and none of us had exams. In addition, they found that won anything,” Margalit says. “If you more of these students didn’t rely as want to try it, go for it. You don’t have much on technological entertainment anything to lose. If anything, you just throughout the day. gain experience.” “We observe all of this [technology] Look for eTown’s newest volume of but the reality is that’s passive. It doesn’t the Handmade Songs Series album out engage us in the same way as actually playing music with other people,” Forster sometime this fall. Boulder Weekly
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overtones Something a little unique and different With their newest album, The Infamous Stringdusters push themselves and the genre by Alan Sculley
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he Infamous Stringdusters’ website includes what come pay your money and watch us perform songs. We’re trymight seem like a bold statement from the group. ing to create a community of people who are caring and comIt says simply: “The Future of Bluegrass.” munity oriented and socially oriented. Hopefully there’s someIn talking to Andy Hall, the group’s dobro thing a little bit bigger than just an exchange going on of player, it’s clear the statement isn’t meant to neces- money for entertainment.” sarily say The Infamous Stringdusters see themselves as the All three of those areas come into play on the group’s world’s premier bluenewly released sixth Courtesy of The Infamous Stringdusters grass group — studio album, Ladies although the band & Gentlemen, and probably belongs in current tour. that conversation — The new album or to slight any of the features a dozen many other talented songs written and acts on the scene. played by The But “The Future Infamous of Bluegrass” does say Stringdusters, 11 of something about what which feature a difthe group is ferent female artist on trying to lead vocals, and it ON THE BILL: The may well be the best accomplish Infamous Stringdusters. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, example yet of the within its May 7, The Fox Theatre, group’s boundarygenre. While 1135 13th St., Boulder, stretching approach certainly rooted 303-447-0095. to bluegrass. in traditional “I think Ladies & bluegrass, The Gentlemen sort of Infamous The Infamous Stringdusters bring the sounds of their new album Ladies & Gentleembodies some of Stringdusters are seek- men to The Fox Theatre. the farther reaches ing to push the bluefor us away from our (bluegrass) origins,” Hall says. “It’s fun grass form forward. And Hall sees three distinct areas where a forward-looking approach to their music has come into play to see. You never know how a record is going to come out or over the group’s decade-long existence. how a project is going to come out, and it’s just fun to experi“I think a lot of it comes from the songwriting,” he says. ment. That’s where, if you quit experimenting and being cre“Over time, we’ve gone from being a more traditional blueative, you’re sunk. So for us, that’s been a great challenge, and grass band to, I think, [being] more wide open. And the songs we do think Ladies & Gentlemen really embodies that more really guide it. What happens is, most of us came from noncreative spirit.” bluegrass backgrounds originally. So I think when you’re first The instrumentation on Ladies & Gentlemen, obviously, starting into bluegrass and you’re learning how to play it, you is still bluegrass, and several songs — including “See How kind of narrow your field of influences and you stick to sort of Far You’ve Come” (with Sara Watkins) and “Ladders in the the bluegrass influences. As we’ve grown, I feel like we’ve Sky” (with Claire Lynch) — fit the genre. But many of the actually let more of our original influences, whether that be songs favor deliberate tempos and cross-pollinate bluegrass from rock or blues or jam band, come out. ...So I think the and other rootsy styles. Joan Osborne brings some soul to writing guides us as far as our look to the future.” “Listen.” There’s some gospel running through “Have A A second way the group is stretching musically is with its Little Faith” (with Joss Stone) and a bit of blues in the arrangements and the roles of their individual instruments vocals Celia Woodsmith delivers on “Old Whiskey Bottle.” within songs. Meanwhile, “I Believe” (with Lee Ann Womack) and “Rock “When you learn bluegrass, you learn that each instruand Roll” (with Abigail Washburn) and “Still The One” ment has a specific role that it does. We want to use that (with Nicki Bluhm) split the difference between folk, coun(bluegrass template) when we want to,” Hall says. “But we try, pop and bluegrass. also try to dismantle it. And we take the time when we’re Taking the Ladies & Gentlemen material on the road will arranging songs to come up with new ways to play a rhythm offer a new way for The Infamous Stringdusters to grow as a or use our instruments in ways they’re not traditionally used, band and continue to create a sense of community with conlike dobro as a rhythm instrument or whatever.” cert audiences. Bluhm will join the group for most of the Hall also feels The Infamous Stringdusters, which also spring/summer dates and will handle the female vocals on the includes Travis Book (bass), Andy Falco (guitar), Jeremy Ladies & Gentlemen material. Della Mae will appear on some Garrett (fiddle) and Chris Pandolfi (banjo), are trying to rededates as well, and that group’s lead singer, Woodsmith, figures fine the concert experience, which is another part of moving to also contribute vocals. the genre forward. “We’re excited,” Hall says. “It’s not going to be a huge “Our look to the future is not necessarily just a musical departure, but it will be a little bit different for us and for the one. It’s the way we engage with fans and put on a live show,” fans. And that’s part of the idea with this whole record and he says. “We’re really trying to build something greater than tour — something a little unique and different.” Boulder Weekly
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his Mother’s Day weekend is all about nature for Boulder’s classical musicians. The weekend kicks off Friday night with conductor Bahman Saless and the Boulder Chamber Orchestra performing a concert titled “Mother Nature” in Broomfield. The concert, which also features violinist Chloe Kate L Photography Trevor, will be repeated Sunday evening in Boulder. Between those performances, conductor Devin Patrick Hughes and the Boulder Symphony will offer “Nature’s Voice” on Saturday evening, with guest soloist Gal Faganel on cello. Friday and Sunday the Boulder Chamber Orchestra will present, somewhat curiously, the only piece overtly about nature: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, the “Pastoral Symphony,” depicting an afternoon’s walk through the countryside. It was that piece, and the coincidence of the second performance falling on Mother’s Day, that led Saless to his title. “There really wasn’t any other reason to call it ‘Mother Nature,’” he admits. The other works on the program — the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, with Trevor playing the virtuoso solo part, and the Pavane by Gabriel Fauré — don’t have any apparent connection to nature. Saless says he selected the “Pastoral” because it is one of only two Beethoven symphonies he has not yet conducted. “It’s one of the favorites of all Beethoven symphonies, through its connection to [the animated Disney film] Fantasia,” he says.
“This is our chance to give the audience something that’s not the normal Beethoven. It’s so new for Beethoven to have an impressionist piece rather than something about fate. It’s the in-touch-with nature Beethoven — the Boulderite in Beethoven.” He wants the performance to offer more than you may remember from Fantasia. “I’m going to bring out all the non-famous parts,” he says. “I think the ‘Scene by the Book’ can have a fresh look, and the chorale at the end of the last movement — a lot of people miss that. It’s an amazing homage to Mother Nature.” Saless describes violin soloist Chloe Trevor as “an extremely talented up-andViolin soloist Chloe Trevor will be appearing in two rising star.” Raised in a musical family, shows with the Boulder Trevor was featured on NPR’s “From the Chamber Orchestra. Top” when she was 13. Still a young performer who identifies with “Generation Z,” she has already won several major competitions and performed concertos from Latvia to her home state of Texas. For the Boulder Symphony Saturday evening, it is the composers rather than the pieces that suggested the title “Nature’s Voice.” The major works will be Sibelius’s Third Symphony and Dvorák’s Cello Concerto with Faganel as soloist. Opening the concert will be the world premiere of Everything All at Once by Jonathan Sokol. see MOTHER’S DAY Page 34
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Both Sibelius and Dvorák are known as composers who stressed the heritage of their homelands — Finland and Bohemia, respectively — and often portrayed the natural landscape of those countries. “I was thinking in terms of the composers and what they’re known for,” Hughes says. “With both composers, and Sokol to some extent, one can’t listen without having some kind of visualization of nature and the relationship between man and nature. For me, that is always coming up with both of those composers.” If Dvorák’s Cello Concerto was inspired by a landscape, it would have been the American landscape. He spent the years 1892–’94 in the United States and saw much of the countryside. He was inspired to write the concerto after travelling around the country, having been particularly impressed by Niagara Falls, and after hearing the premiere of a cello concerto by Victor Herbert. Like Trevor, Faganel grew up in a musical family. He started studying cello at 8 in his home country, Slovenia, and later studied at the University of Southern California. He currently teaches cello at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley and recently appeared with the Boulder Bach Festival playing electric and acoustic cello. Just like Sibelius and Dvorák, Sokol has an association with music inspired by nature. Hughes and the Boulder Symphony previously premiered his What Trees May Speak, which mourned the shrinking bird population. But this time it is changes in his own life that inspired Sokol. Since the previous premiere in 2014, Sokol says, “I’ve gotten married, bought a house and have an infant. Stacking one on top of the other — everything all at once is how it seemed. I went from being myself to suddenly being more responsible. “The title is kind of a double entendre, because the entire orchestra is playing for much of the piece. This big opening block of sound, very loud and dramatic, represents those shifts or transitions [in my life]. As the piece goes on those become less frequent, and it turns to the more melodic, lyrical side.” After so many late blizzards and days confined to the house, Saless sees these concerts as an opportunity to finally break out. “Come celebrate spring!” he says. “The long winter is over!” ON THE BILL: “Mother Nature” — Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 6, Broomfield Auditorium, Broomfield. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 8, SeventhDay Adventist Church, Boulder. Info & Tickets: 303-583-1278, boulderchamberorchestra.com “Nature’s Voice” — Boulder Symphony. 7 p.m. Saturday, May 7, First Presbyterian Church, Boulder. Info & Tickets: 970-577-1550, bouldersymphony.org
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Row one, left to right: The Mike’s Camera crew take advantage of their own photobooth and costumes; Edwin Zoe and his mother Anna, winners of Best Chinese Restaurant; (BR)Jason Myers, Cal Winn, Hilary and Dave Hasson, (FR) Julian and Erica Bourke; Kevin Daly (center) owner and founder of Mountain Sun Pubs and Breweries with friends, winner of Best of Boulder categories for “American Restaurant,” “Burger,” “Restaurant Service” and “Beer Selection”; Great disguise, who knows?
Row two, Left to right: Boulder County Farmers’ Market Director Brian Coppom sports his victory plaque and a carrot; Bolder Ink’s Lance Talon and friend, winner of Best Tattoo/Piercing Parlor; Hazel Miller; Ann, Jesse and Lennon Castro of Voodoo Hair Lounge, winner of Best Hair Salon; Cal Winn and Julia Sallo (she’s tickling him); Tim Newton and Brian Otenberger of Hindsight Row three, left to right: Julia Sallo with her dad, BW publisher Stewart Sallo; Rebecca Luna owner and founder of Rebecca’s Herbal Apothecary, winner of Best Bath and Body Shop, with Brigitte Mars, local Boulder herbalist; Josh and Lauren Ginsberg of The Dandelion, winner of Best Medical Marijuana Dispensary; Colorado Mountain Ranch Executive Manger and Director Gail Walker Grissom (holding award for Best Summer Camp) accompanied by some enthusiastic folks we suspect are counselors, campers and family; La Revolucion Taqueria y Cantina Owner Rick Betance
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Row one, left to right: The Mike’s Camera crew take advantage of their own photobooth and costumes; Edwin Zoe and his mother Anna, winners of Best Chinese Restaurant; (BR)Jason Myers, Cal Winn, Hilary and Dave Hasson, (FR) Julian and Erica Bourke; Kevin Daly (center) owner and founder of Mountain Sun Pubs and Breweries with friends, winner of Best of Boulder categories for “American Restaurant,” “Burger,” “Restaurant Service” and “Beer Selection”; Great disguise, who knows?
Row two, Left to right: Boulder County Farmers’ Market Director Brian Coppom sports his victory plaque and a carrot; Bolder Ink’s Lance Talon and friend, winner of Best Tattoo/Piercing Parlor; Hazel Miller; Ann, Jesse and Lennon Castro of Voodoo Hair Lounge, winner of Best Hair Salon; Cal Winn and Julia Sallo (she’s tickling him); Tim Newton and Brian Otenberger of Hindsight Row three, left to right: Julia Sallo with her dad, BW publisher Stewart Sallo; Rebecca Luna owner and founder of Rebecca’s Herbal Apothecary, winner of Best Bath and Body Shop, with Brigitte Mars, local Boulder herbalist; Josh and Lauren Ginsberg of The Dandelion, winner of Best Medical Marijuana Dispensary; Colorado Mountain Ranch Executive Manger and Director Gail Walker Grissom (holding award for Best Summer Camp) accompanied by some enthusiastic folks we suspect are counselors, campers and family; La Revolucion Taqueria y Cantina Owner Rick Betance
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Alfredo Muro. 7:30 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Corey Rezner. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Danny Shafer Duo. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Hillary Susz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Hippie Buckaroos. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. May Daze ft. Bird of Prey, J. Wail. 8 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.
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Paa Kow’s Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Limb Song and Other Dances — Hannah Kahn Dance Company 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7, The Dairy Arts Center, 2950 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Fritz Penning Join the Hannah Kahn Dance Company for a retrospective of Kahn’s career. The 12-member company will journey through her career and choreography to provide a night full of beautiful movement. Starting with the 1978 “Limb Song,” the dancers will move to the late ’90s for “Dreams that Linger” and “Surge.” The night will leap through melancholy and heartfelt to chaotic and energetic. Hannah Kahn has 40 years of experience and has been in Colorado since 1992. It’s sure to be a wonderful performance.
Sam Storm. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
Sean Farley. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Tenth Mountain Division. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Third Annual May Daze. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Vinyl Night — Bring Your Own Album. 7 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Wonderlic. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. see EVENTS Page 40
Purple Rain, Movie Screening + Dance Party 7 p.m. Thursday, May 5, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The world was stunned on April 21 when news broke that music icon Prince had been found dead in his Minnesota home at the young age of 57. The Purple One gave us songs that not only withstood the test of time but also influenced future generations of musicians. His ability to blend funk, rock, gospel and soul with poetic song writing was, some might say, unparalleled by his peers. His songs were irresistibly catchy, ruthlessly emotional and unapologetically sexual. On Thursday, May 5, head to the Boulder Theater to celebrate His Royal Badness with a screening of his rock musical drama Purple Rain. A “Prince inspired” dance party will follow. It’s gonna be a beautiful night. Tickets are $5 for general admission.
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Zuma, A Tribute to Neil Young. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Events Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Acrylic Painting by Lori Mattina. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28.
Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
Critical Focus: Lanny DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.
Guild Spring Show & Sale. 10 a.m. Boulder Country Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. One More Time. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Glass Mosaics by Delcia Litt. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28.
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Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Martha Russo: coalescere. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through June 12. Mountain Standard Clay. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through June 12. The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5. Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3.
Photography One-On-One Consulting. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7.
Spring Tent Sale. 7:30 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Unit D1, Boulder, 303-443-1822. Friday, May 6 Music
Samurai. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through June 5. NCAR’s latest exhibit features the stained glass and mosaic work of Delcia Litt.
Al Capones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Arthur Lee Land. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Blues Babes Duo. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.
Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 25. Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St.,
Sangeeta Reddy: Fractured Landscapes of the West. BMoCA at Macky, 285, University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through May 29.
Stone Mosaics by Susan A. Judy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 28. UPlift! by Joshua Goss. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 13.
Bourbon Street Jazz. 6 p.m. Bourbon Street, 328 McCaslin Blvd., Louisville, 303-955-0845. Brian Hornbuckle. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. C.J. Boyd, A Light Among Many. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145. Carbonated Insight. 7 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Dan Harris Trio. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. The Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Fire It Up Brass Band. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. James Ciago. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. KC Groves Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Kevin Dooley. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Luke Redfield. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Matt Fuller Group. 7 p.m. East Simpson Coffee, 414 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-502-7010. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Miles Wide. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
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Missy Raines & The New Hip. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Moon Poodle. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Native Station. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Pete Stein. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The Railsplitters. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Ravin’wolf. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Robin Davis. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Tim Ostdiek. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Torbin Hadlock. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Turkuaz, The Nth Power. 9:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Events Boulder Potters’ Guild Spring Show & Sale. 10 a.m. Boulder Country Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. Bridgend. 8:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Customer Appreciation Tasting Party. 6 p.m. Oliverdé, 2027 Broadway, Boulder, 303-442-2199. Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. see EVENTS Page 42
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Wednesday May 11th
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Thursday May 12th
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Friday May 13th
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Saturday May 14th
BLUEZ HOUSE “Soul / Blues”
Fusion Friday. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Meet Kelly Miller of the Louisville Farmers’ Market. 6 p.m. Louisville Historical Museum, 1001 Main St., Louisville, 303-665-9048. New Works by French Artist Gerard Mortier. 2 p.m. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. NoBo First Friday Artwalk. 6 p.m. NoBo Art District, North Broadway from Pine Street to Highway 36, Boulder. Spring Tent Sale. 7:30 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Unit D1, Boulder, 303-4431822. Saturday, May 7 Music 50 Shades of Blue. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Barrett & Perterson. 6 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Blues on Tap. 6 p.m. Bourbon Street, 328 McCaslin Blvd., Louisville, 303-955-0845. Bob Mould Band, South of France. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Boulder Symphony’s Season Finale, “Nature’s Voice.” 7 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-402-6400. The CBDs. 5 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Cozmik with Calvin Hobbs and Love Muscle. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Dueling Ukuleles. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. El Javi. 8:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Face Concert to Benefit Second Wind Fund of Boulder County. 9:30 a.m. City of Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, 303-441-3461. Four Loves. 10 a.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 303-731-2036. Good Manners Quartet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. The Infamous Stringdusters. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
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Thursday, May 5 Poetry Workshop Reading. 8:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, May 9 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, May 10 Tom Wilke — Climbing is Ageless: Life Lessons on Colorado’s Fourteeners. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Tami Simon — Being True. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074. Wednesday, May 11 Joshua Berman — Moon Colorado Camping. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
The Rhythm Allstars. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Rogue 2. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Scott Martin. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Shadow Of Jaguar. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Silent Bear & Lionel Young Duo. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
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“Jazz” FREE ADMISSION
Joshua VanAchorn, Skean Dubh. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Our Town — presented by The Upstart Crow. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Through May 7.
Lee Johnson. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
Peter and the Star Catcher. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through May 14.
“Blues” FREE ADMISSION
Maus Nomdeguerre. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
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Mojomama. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Ravin’wolf Live. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
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2016 Spring Dual Slalom Series. 1 p.m. Valmont Bike Park, 3160 Airport Road, Boulder, 303-413-7200.
Spring Fever Bluegrass. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Cabaret. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through May 21.
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Events
Final Cut Pro X Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Wednesday May 18th
Wallpaper House Band. 2 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.
Soul Sacrifice, A Tribute to Santana & War. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUES FEATURING
Ultralowfi. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
Belle and Sebastian. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
RED HOT RHYTHM FEATURING
Taken. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.
Something Underground. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Jah Kings. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Sunday May 15th
To get pumped up for camping season, head to the Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, May 10 to hear Joshua Berman share insights from his book Moon Colorado Camping: The Complete Guide to Tent and RV Camping.
Sweeney Todd. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through May 15. The Realish Housewives of Cherry Creek. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through May 22.
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Upstart Crow tackles Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play Our Town, playing through May 7.
This Aunt is Not a Cockroach — presented by Square Product Theatre. The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 800-838-3006. Through May 7.
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events Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Spring Tent Sale. 8 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Unit D1, Boulder, 303-443-1822.
Patrick Latella and Acoustic Fusion. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
Movement Mondays (Ecstatic Dance!). 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Sunday, May 8
The Waifs, Ruby Boots. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Science on Screen: Concussion. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Ziggy Marley. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Banshee Tree. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Events
Music
Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Tuesday, May 10
David Sedaris. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Espresso! 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Jalbatross. 9 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. see EVENTS Page 44
Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents “Mother Nature.” 7:30 p.m. Seventh-day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522. Dogtooth & Nail, Ludlow. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145. Follow the Fox. 12 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. George Nelson Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Johnny Long. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jon Weiss. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. King Cardinal. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Reverend Freakchild, Ameranouche. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tom Cornwell. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Toney Rocks in Concert with Kenny Lee Young. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Weston Smith. 12 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Events Boulder Potters’ Guild Spring Show & Sale. 10 a.m. Boulder Country Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. A Light Beneath Their Feet. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Mother’s Day Power Running Workshop. 10 a.m. Athleta, 1133 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-550-3491. Mother’s Day Wildflower Hike. 10 a.m. Legion Park Open Space, Boulder, 303-678-6200. Monday, May 9 Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Erik the Viking and Carter Sampson. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
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Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont. Roots & Rhythm. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Tuesday Jam hosted by The Workshy. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Events Frhlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Video Camera Basics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Wednesday, May 11 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. David Sedaris. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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Live Music. 8:30 p.m. 12Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Many Mountains. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Moonlight Breakdown. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Bluegrass Pick Hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Shamanic Happy Dance! 5:30 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Wednesday Night Blues featuring Randall Dubis. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Opening Crossing Borders. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2950 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Sunday, May 7
Exploring the Immigration Experience. 10:30 a.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2950 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Saturday, May 14
Longmont Celebrates Cinco de Mayo. 11 a.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., 888-409-1713.
Saturday, May 21
Salsa Lotería Monologs. 2 p.m. Boulder Main Public Library Auditorium, 303-441-3100. Immigration HI-stories, 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center,
Events
Frühlingsfest 2016. 11 a.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.
Facebook Marketing Hands-On. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies 2016. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583.
Flatirons Running FunRun. 5:30 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway, Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837.
I Spy Beaks and Feet. 10 a.m. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Boulder, 303-441-3407.
2950 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Ongoing:
Where We’re From. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., 303-6518470. Through May 30. Graficomovil. Throughout Boulder County, check one-action.org/event/ graficomovil/for location. Through May 30. Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Sept. 10. Crossing Borders. The Dairy Arts Center, 2950 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 27.
Louder Than Bombs. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Soma Cafe. 12 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
A Space Program. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 577 by David Huddle
My father spent his life in the retail business, and loved almost every minute of it, so I was especially pleased to see this poem by David Huddle, from his new book, Dream Sender, from Louisiana State University Press. The poet lives in Vermont. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate
Stores Fifteen I got a job at Leggett’s, stock boy, fifty cents an hour. Moved up—I come from that kind of people—to toys at Christmas, then Menswear and finally Shoes. Quit to go to college, never worked retail again, but I still really like stores, savor merchandise neatly stacked on tables, sweaters wanting my gliding palm as I walk by, mannequins weirdly sexy behind big glass windows, shoes shiny and just waiting for the right feet. So why in my seventies do Target, Lowes, and Home Depot spin me dizzy and lost, wanting my mother to find me, wipe my eyes, hold my hand all the way out to the car? We do not accept unsolicited submissions. 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 ©2015 by Louisiana State University Press, “Stores,” from Dream Sender, (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of David Huddle and the publisher. 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.
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‘Keanu’ is bloated ‘Key & Peele,’ for better or worse by Ryan Syrek It’s your classic story of boy meets cat, boy loses cat to vicious drug lords, other boy teaches a gang to love the music of George Michael.
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ou either find it unbearably funny that a suburban dad named Clarence finds himself in a strip club called HPV surrounded by hardcore gangsters who force him to take on a more “bad-ass name” — and that the “bad-ass name” he comes up with is “Shark Tank” — or you don’t. If you don’t, you are going to blipping hate Keanu. It is a relentless barrage of a slow-motion kitten frolicking wearing a do-rag while a street gang called “Blips” (made of Bloods and Crips) are taught to love the profound lyricism of George Michael. Watching an urban hitman named Stitches ( Jamar Malachi Neighbors) unpack the meaning of “Father Figure” while weeping may well be the apex of comedic cinema. The plot is obviously a bloated sketch from Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele’s criminally underloved/underawarded series from Comedy Central. And that’s mostly forgivable because their “hit-to-miss” ratio on bits should have SNL writers playing Russian roulette until none remain. Rell (Peele) is recently dumped and inconsolable... for somewhere around a bong hit or two. Then he finds the single most scientifically adorable kitten in history, our titular character. The Blips steal Keanu in order to... um... because of... uh... reasons? So Rell grabs Clarence (Key), and the two pretend to be hardcore thugs to get Whiskers McAdorableNess back. Rell, who becomes “Tectonic” as a street name, and Shark Tank are mistaken by Blip leader Cheddar (Method Man) for a pair of deadly assassins — because, sure they are. Cheddar agrees to surrender the kitten, provided Shark Tank and
Tectonic roll with Hi-C (Tiffany Haddish), the gang’s right-hand woman, and expand drug sales into a new market. Because, as all white people know, that is how the sale of illegal narcotics works: Kittens are used as blackmail to force faux gangsters to introduce supercrack to new neighborhoods. Sight gags and a really great obligatory hallucination sequence makes everything else not matter at all. People don’t think guns are dangerous. A significant portion of the country doesn’t believe in global warming. Donald Trump is the GOP frontrunner for president in May. So, even though the statement “Comedies must, first and foremost, be funny” seems like it should be obvious beyond mentioning, remember we’re living in the darkest timeline, presumably run by a God resembling the kid from Toy Story who melted stuff with a magnifying glass. Keanu is funny. Relentlessly. You want a good sight gag? Two cameos have you covered. You want some clever social commentary? Watch Key and Peele again mine the dance of racial code-switching to hilarious and brilliant effect. You want cat gags? That’s why the internet was made. Keanu is never “transcendent.” Yes, it’s basically a 90-plus minute sketch from the Key & Peele show. And that does make it derivative at times, with several obvious riffs on their best bits. But it’s also nonstop, top-to-bottom funny in every avenue available. It’s quotable, silly, clever... and funny. Did I mention funny? Because at the end of the day, if it was just that, Keanu would still be the pick of the litter. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
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‘The Huntsman: Winter’s War’ is awful good by Ryan Syrek Snow White is not in this sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman… Look, it’s dumb. But it’s also a lot of fun.
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od, The Huntsman: Winter’s War should not work. Like, it should cause uncontrollable vomiting and permanent erectile dysfunction. So, sweet Jeebus, do I have my work cut out for me here. Nobody look at the score I gave at the bottom before reading all of this first, OK? Oh, come on! You looked. Just now. You looked just now, didn’t you? Dammit. Fine, to recap: This movie is a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, a completely unneeded “action-oriented” retelling of the decidedly nonaction-oriented fairy tale about Snow White. Oh, and this sequel does not feature Snow White. She’s mentioned, but it’s in the same way a family member slips up in public and refers to “Uncle Eddie” who nobody has seen “since the incident.” That’s because this is a prequel. Until it becomes a sequel. A sequel about defeating Ravenna (Charlize Theron) who died in the first movie. But who is now not dead. Well, mostly not dead. Anyhoo, Snow White is gone, but the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) is definitely still around. And apparently his real name is “Eric,” which is the second least “warrior-sounding” name after Chester. His wife, Sara ( Jessica Chastain), who isn’t dead at the beginning of this movie but was definitely dead in the first movie, dies early in the prequel part of this movie until she isn’t dead any more in the sequel part. Still with me? Eric and Sara fight like bad-ass medieval ninjas, yet they have names that make them sound like they should be passive-aggressively hosting a couples Tupperware party. The couple is joined by some dwarfs, including Nion (Nick Boulder Weekly
Frost) and Gryff (Rob Brydon), as they attempt to destroy an evil mirror I would swear was destroyed in the first movie. This time, they also have to fight against the ice queen Freya (Emily Blunt), who is totally and completely Elsa from Frozen if Elsa from Frozen lost her mind from listening to kids sing songs about Elsa from Frozen all day. So why, given the cyclone of clustercluck I just described, did I like it? Because from the first few moments when Liam Neeson delivers a voiceover with dulcet tones typically reserved for threatening terrorist testicles via cell phones, Winter’s War tells you it wants nothing more than to be cheeky and fun to look at. From Frost and Brydon’s banter to incredibly explicit sex jokes, at no point is there any passing attempt to convince the audience of emotional or intellectual weight. Just inoffensive, silly pleasure. Roger Ebert, who is still sorely missed, said you judge a movie how it tells you to judge it. A Winter’s War asked me to decide if I had fun. I did. I liked the cool goblins who rocked Mr. T’s bling from the 1980s for no reason. I liked Chastain and Hemsworth’s chemistry. I loved Blunt and Theron’s overacting diva duel. You can’t, and shouldn’t, shut your brain off for any entertainment. But you can be asked by said entertainment to forgive its stupidity in exchange for a good time. A Winter’s War asked. I said yes. And that’s how babies are made. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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The Colorado Chocolate Festival is May 7 at the Denver Mart serving tastes of everything from truffles to chocolate martinis (chocolate-festival.org). ... Boulder’s other contribution to national holidays (besides National Pie Day, January 23) is National Homebrew Day (this year May 7), celebrated by the locally based American Homebrewers Association. At 1 p.m. homebrewers are encouraged to raise a glass in a simultaneous toast. Note: Both days were instigated by local pie and brew icon Charlie Papazian. ... Haystack Mountain Creamery hosts its monthly First Friday Open Creamery Social Hour 3 to 6 p.m. May 6 at 505 Weaver Park Road, Longmont with free tours, cheese samples and the chance to quiz the cheesemaker (haystackgoatcheese.com/events).
FOOD NEWS
The “Grocerant” trend in action: One of Denver’s hottest ethnic eateries, Biju’s Little Curry House, has opened a stand in the Pearl Street Whole Foods Market. Meanwhile, Longmont’s Georgia Boys BBQ will be serving Southern fare every Wednesday at the Boulder Alfalfa’s Market. ... Five on Black, a fast casual chain serving Brazilian fare, has opened a store at 29th Street. ... Boulder’s Paleo-centric Blooming Beets will open a second location in Denver’s Baker neighborhood in 2017.
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Anthony Bourdain “performs” Nov. 13 at Denver’s Paramount Theater. “To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living,” the CNN star wrote in Kitchen Confidential, his breakthrough memoir (ticketmaster.com).
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John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU (88.5 FM, 1390 AM, streaming at kgnu.org). news.kgnu.org/category/features/radio-nibbles ... Pat Miller talks about Denver metro eateries on the Gabby Gourmet Show 1 p.m. Saturdays on KHOW (630 AM).
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to the aroma of muffins, bacon and pancakes. Mom would get up early so she had time to have her coffee and a cigarette before we came tumbling in.” In honor of Mother’s Day, I asked readers to share the best things they learned from their Moms or elders in the kitchen. Here are a few of their memories: • “My most important food memory ever was of my Granny spreading real butter, which we never had in our house unless she was visiting, on some beautiful whole-wheat toast, carefully covering every corner with total concentration. I learned that making even a simple piece of toast was an act of love for our food and have never forgotten that lesson.” • “Thinking about mom recipes — I had a favorite — which my Mother called ‘wiggle:’ hamburger, gravy, and frozen peas served over white Wonder Bread. I thought it was just danged tasty. What I didn’t realize at the time was that my clever mother was stretching hamburger into a big meal.” • “Layer the flavors. Enhance as you go.” • “The single best thing I learned from my Mother in the kitchen? That she was a strong enough person to ask for free ‘dog bones’ from the store’s butcher, and then later that day, craft these bones into a loving gift of a nourishing and delicious soup for her family. The dogs did eventually enjoy the bones, keeping to her word.” • “Baking bread was my favorite thing to learn how to make. The magical process of mixing, waiting and baking. Enjoying the smell of baking bread permeating the house. Oh, and slicing a warm loaf, slathering butter on it, savoring each delicious bite. Ahhhh. It’s still my favorite food.” • “Ma taught me to put a piece of bread in the cookie jar (or with super dry brown sugar) to soften it up. It totally works!” • “My childhood friends used to beg to come over to my house for lunch (since we actually went home from school for it :-) because I never had peanut butter and jelly or bologna sandwiches on Wonder Bread with Campbell’s soup. Instead my grandmother (who lived with us) and my mother baked bread from scratch (before breadmakers) and made sandwiches from leftover meatloaf or turkey or roast beef. They served it with homemade soups like lentil, split pea, chicken noodle or tomato with croutons (from the homemade bread, of course). Sometimes we’d have creamed chip beef on toast or open-faced, grilled cheese with chopped onions, see NIBBLES Page 54
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tomatoes and bacon on top (still my favorite sandwich). So the single, best thing I learned about cooking from my mother (and grandmother) was that homemade ANYTHING tasted better (and was healthier) than packaged or canned ... and my daughter has hopefully learned that from me.”
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pring has finally arrived. Lemonade stands will start popping up soon. And when the mercury rises, it’s nearly impossible to pass one without making a purchase. Of course, neighborhood kids would never dare charge more than a dollar or two for a cup of lemonade. But what if a budding entrepreneur asked for $20? Would you still make the purchase? Probably not. But if offered a glass of great wine, few oenophiles would hesitate to spend such a sum. Many would be willing to pay $20 for just a two-ounce pour. Obviously, wine is different from lemonade. But what makes it so special? Michael Madrigale, one of the nation’s top sommeliers, recently suggested two answers to that question. He was visiting San Francisco from New York, where he directs the wine program at several of Daniel Boulud’s restaurants. Madrigale was speaking at 18 Reasons, a nonprofit that focuses on the relationship between food and community. The topic? What sommeliers drink when spending their own money. Many wine enthusiasts envy sommeliers, since they routinely open and taste bottles most of us could never afford. And they get to hang Susan France out with fascinating winemakers from across the world. But when they’re home, sommeliers are just like the rest of us — fully aware of budgets and priorities but still looking for something great. A “great wine,” Madrigale contended, “offers an honest reflection of where it came from.” Madrigale’s words were spot on. In part, wine is special because it’s able to translate time and place. Great ones achieve that higher purpose. This concept certainly isn’t original. Fans of Burgundy and Mosel often battle over which region’s wines better express the characteristics of their vintage and the soils and climate in which they’re grown. Ted Lemon, one of America’s leading Pinot Noir producers, has even gone so far as to urge his colleagues to “give up being a winemaker” and instead “have the confidence to listen [to the vineyard] and allow the site to speak.” Lemon was addressing the 2013 Mornington Peninsula International Pinot Noir Celebration, a major event in Australia. “Your job is to craft wines which are the most honest, crystalline expression of their place and then let others decide if they feel that your efforts are worthy,” he continued. So when picking up their own tab, sommeliers seek wines that are truthful and transparent. Madrigale’s second answer to what makes wine so special is just as important. “Wine is not just a beverage,” he said. “It’s a story.” This concept, too, has been around for quite some time. Consider older wines. They’re a connection to the past and each bottle has a story to tell. I’ll never forget the evening a friend shared a 1961 Château Ausone. The estate is one of Bordeaux’s most celebrated, and 1961 was a legendary vintage. The wine was stunning — still fresh and vibrant — but that was almost beside the point. In 1961, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated and France was still at war with Algeria. So while tasting the wine, much of my focus was on those who made it and the world they inhabited. Young wines are just as capable of telling great stories. This past weekend, I opened a Pinot Noir from Forge Cellars, a producer in New York’s Finger Lakes. Those of us who obsess over Pinot Noir like to think we can identify a wine’s origin by simply putting our noses in a glass. But this wine was unlike anything I’d ever had. It stopped me in my tracks, as it had obviously captured the essence of Finger Lakes Pinot Noir. Lemonade simply can’t offer a window to other places and cultures. Few would ever discuss lemonade’s honesty. But wine? Great ones always tell an honest story. David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com, which was named “Best Overall Wine Blog” at the 2013 Wine Blog Awards. His columns are housed at Grape Collective. Boulder Weekly
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hearing,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem “Everything Has Two Endings.” This observation is apropos for you right now. There are potentially important messages you’re not registering and catalytic influences you can’t detect. But their apparent absence is due to a blank spot in your awareness, or maybe a willful ignorance left over from the old days. Now here’s the good news: You are primed to expand your listening field. You have an enhanced ability to open certain doors of perception that have been closed. If you capitalize on this opportunity, silence will give way to revelation.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: Your ability to accomplish magic is at
a peak, and will continue to soar for at least two more weeks. And when I use that word “magic,” I’m not referring to the hocus-pocus performed by illusionists like Criss Angel or Harry Houdini. I’m talking about real feats of transformation that will generate practical benefits in your day-to-day life. Now study the following definitions by writer Somerset Maugham, and have faith in your ability to embody them: “Magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love, and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician.”
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: According to author Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian word toska means “a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness.” Linguist Anna Wierzbicka says it conveys an emotion that blends melancholy, boredom and yearning. Journalist Nick Ashdown suggests that for someone experiencing toska, the thing that’s yearned for may be “intangible and impossible to actually obtain.” How are doing with your own toska, Gemini? Is it conceivable that you could escape it — maybe even heal it? I think you can. I think you will. Before you do, though, I hope you’ll take time to explore it further. Toska has more to teach you about the previously hidden meaning of your life.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: “Gandhi’s autobiography is on my pil-
low,” writes Cancerian poet Buddy Wakefield. “I put it there every morning after making my bed so I’ll remember to read it before falling asleep. I’ve been reading it for 6 years. I’m on Chapter 2.” What’s the equivalent phenomenon in your world, my fellow Crab? What good deed or righteous activity have you been pursuing with glacial diligence? Is there a healthy change you’ve been thinking about forever, but not making much progress on? The mood and the sway of the coming days will bring you a good chance to expedite the process. In Wakefield’s case, he could get up to Chapter 17.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: In the 16th century, European explorers searched South America in quest of a mythical city of gold known as El Dorado. Tibetan Buddhist tradition speaks of Shambhala, a magical holy kingdom where only enlightened beings live. In the legends of ancient Greece, Hyperborea was a sunny paradise where the average human life span was a thousand years and happiness was normal. Now is an excellent time for you to fantasize about your own version of utopia, Leo. Why? First, your imagination is primed to expand. Second, dreaming big will be good for your mental and physical health. There’s another reason, too: By envisioning the most beautiful world possible, you will mobilize your idealism and boost your ability to create the best life for yourself in the coming months.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “Anytime you’re going to grow, you’re going to lose something,” said psychologist James Hillman. “You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.” I nominate these thoughts to serve as your words of wisdom in the coming weeks, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, you are in a phase when luxuriant growth is possible. To harvest the fullness of the lush opportunities, you should be willing to shed outworn stuff that might interfere.
LIBRA
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the Sphinx when they were stationed in Egypt. In regards to starving peasants, Marie Antoinette never derisively said, “Let them eat cake.” And no Christians ever became meals for lions in ancient Rome’s Colosseum. (More: tinyurl.com/ historicaljive.) In the spirit of Auntie Meme’s exposé, and in alignment with the astrological omens, I invite you to uncover and correct at least three fabrications, fables, and lies about your own past.
with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.” I’m pleased to inform you, Sagittarius, that now is a time when you have an exceptional capacity for meeting Aristotle’s high standards. In fact, I encourage you to honor and learn all you can from your finely-honed and well-expressed anger. Make it work wonders for you. Use it so constructively that no one can complain.
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mingbird, “who has to eat sixty times his own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that’s a life on the edge.” In the coming weeks, Scorpio, your modus operandi may have resemblances to the hummingbird’s approach. I don’t mean to suggest that you will be in a manic survival mode. Rather, I expect you’ll feel called to nourish your soul with more intensity than usual. You’ll need to continuously fill yourself up with experiences that inspire, teach and transform you.
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: To celebrate your arrival at the height
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AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: When he was a boy, Mayan poet
Humberto Ak’ab’al asked his mother, “What are those things that shine in the sky?” “Bees,” she answered mischievously. “Every night since then,” Humberto writes, “my eyes eat honey.” In response to this lyrical play, the logical part of our brains might rise up and say, “What a load of nonsense!” But I will ask you to set aside the logical part of your brain for now, Aquarius. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, the coming days will be a time when you need a big dose of sweet fantasies, dreamy stories and maybe even beautiful nonsense. What are your equivalents of seeing bees making honey in the night sky’s pinpoints of light?
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Dear Dan: I’m a virgin in my late 20s. I’m not waiting until marriage, just for the right person. I’ve dated enough and had enough fun to continue being a happy, normal, socially competent guy, much to the disbelief of my various knuckle-dragging, vagina-blinded pals. I’ve been dating this gal for a few months. She’s special — we have tons of chemistry and she cares about me. We had a brief conversation about my lack of sexperience when we first started dating, and she was very cool about it. I really like this girl, but I’m not sure yet if she’s the future Mrs. I am a worrier (thanks, mom!), and I find myself thinking that if I share © LaRae Lobdell this with her and somewhere down the road we end up breaking up, she’s going to be even more devastated because I shared my first time with her. Am I just having silly virgin worries? Not only am I concerned about her feelings if things don’t work out, but I’m also concerned that I might become vagina-blinded — that I might immediately tell this girl I want to spend my life with her just because she’s having sex with me only to find myself a few years down the road feeling trapped. What should I do? — Very Indecisive, Really Gettin’ Naughty
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Dear VIRGN: You should fuck this girl already — provided, of course, that this girl wants to fuck you. You could wind up saying things you come to regret or have to walk back — her vagina might be that bedazzling — but that’s an unavoidable risk, and not one that’s unique to virgins. The right vagina, ass, face, skill set, or bank balance can blind a fucker with decades of experience. The only way to avoid vagina-blindness — or ass-blindness, etc. — is to never have sex with anyone. And I don’t think you’re interested in celibacy, so stop freaking out about the risk that you’ll imprint, duckling-like, on the first vagina your pee-pee sees the inside of. You must also eliminate “sexperience” from your vocabulary, VIRGN, as it’s equal parts cloying and annoying. Dear Dan: I’ve been with my boy-
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friend for more than a year. He’s the first person I’ve had sex with. Four times now while we were having passionate sex, he has slipped out of my vagina and accidentally penetrated me anally. That shit hurts, and I can’t help but cry. I know he feels super guilty each time. I love sex, but I’m kind of scared every time we have it now. We’ve engaged in a little anal play before, and I wasn’t really a fan. But I’m not adverse to the idea of using a butt plug. Do you think this would work? Surely other people have this problem too, right? — Wrong Hole, Anal Torment Dear WHAT: My own personal sexperience with anal led me to doubt claims of accidental anal penetration, WHAT, as anal penetration always required focus, precision, and proper breathing techniques — in my own sexperience. But listeners of the Savage Lovecast schooled me in Episode 340, and I’m now convinced that accidental anal penetration is something too many women have sexperienced. (Do you see
how annoying that is, VIRGN?) A strategically deployed butt plug sounds like a sexcellent solution to the problem, WHAT, but get yourself a plug with a wider-than-usual base to prevent your boyfriend’s misdirected cock from pushing the plug, base and all, all the way in you (ouch) or his misdirected cock from sliding in alongside the plug. (If you hate single penetration, you’ll really hate double penetration.) If the problem persists even with a plug — if your boyfriend’s cock is constantly slamming into the plug in a way that you find uncomfortable — a thumbtack glued to the base of the plug will inspire your boyfriend to be more focused and precise. And speaking of the Savage Lovecast, we’re coming up on our 500th episode, which is a significant milestone for this relatively new genre/platform/doohickey. If you’re not already listening, find it here: savagelovecast.com. And a big thanks to Nancy Hartunian, the Lovecast’s producer since Episode 1, and to the tech-savvy, at-risk youth who pushed me to start podcasting before it was cool. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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eterinarian Stephen Katz has a totally dif- those early findings, he decided to add CBD to his nered with the University of Pennsylvania where his ferent clientele than you would see in existing formula, just to see what would happen. formulas are undergoing a year-long clinical trial. Boulder, or in most suburbs anywhere. “My god! It really potentiated the action of it,” For Katz, this is much more than a savvy business “I mean, it is raw,” he says. “It is raw Katz says. “I was able to use less to get the same move or even a way to help his animal clients. This is and real, and it is certainly not what they effect. The rationale in all medicine is that you want a way to do everything that he can to advance taught you in veterinary school.” to use the least amount of whatever you are using to research into the medical aspects of cannabis. For years, Katz was most well known for having create the maximum effect, which is what I was able “We all know that delta 9 THC is going to make the largest pit bull clientele in the country Wikimedia Commons you high,” Katz says. “CBD, on the other with upwards of 10,000 active pitbull clihand, is going reduce your inflammation ents at any given time. But now he is most or stop a seizure. There is quite a big difwell known for treating their anxiety, itchference between giving somebody some ing and symptoms of old age with weed to smoke or giving some pot to a Therabis, a line of his own hemp-derived dog in hopes that it is going to make cannabinoid pet supplements. them better. Marijuana itself has been so His formula didn’t always have cannalittle studied by the veterinarian commubidiol (CBD) in it. Up until two years ago nity. So that’s why I did what I did, and he simply described it as a blend of natural that is what my research and development products that provided an effective and safe department will continue to do.” alternative to prescription drugs. Katz, a Katz is experimenting with a bunch of vocal critic of the economics of big pharma, different methods for the extraction of didn’t want to force his low-income clients cannabinoids, like CBD and the lesser into buying drugs that they couldn’t afford talked about CBN or CBC, all of which or to deal with the slew of side effects that have medicinal qualities. He sees himself often accompany brand-name drug use. as a part of the leading edge in science He probably wouldn’t have added CBD Veterinarian Stephen Katz describes the difference between industrial hemp and and also as playing a key role in the politimarijuana as similar to the difference between species of dogs. to the formula were it not for his own run cal effort to reschedule marijuana. in with the law. Currently a Schedule 1 drug, in the Two years ago, Katz was stopped by the ranks of heroin, he hopes to reschedule it police who found three grams of marijuana in his car. to accomplish by using the CBD.” to a Schedule 2 or 3 drug, classifications that, if Also a New York State Assemblyman, Katz was put Katz attributes the enhanced efficacy of his fornothing else, would make marijuana available for sciinto an awkward position. Rather than sweep the mula to the entourage effect, a phrase that was intro- entific and medical research in universities and allow issue under the rug, he decided to leverage his posiduced in cannabinoid science in 1998 by S. Benit to be prescribed by doctors and veterinarians. tion as an elected official and veterinary doctor to Shabat to describe an endogenous cannabinoid Even if Katz’s work is just for the dogs, he is drivmake a statement and become involved with the legal molecular regulation route. In layman’s terms, en by the belief that by helping our companions he is business of medical marijuana. please... also helping people. His first step was to study up on existing research, “Basically, the small amount of THC makes the “We don’t treat one without the other,” Katz says. of which there is very little. But he did find some CBD more effective,” Katz explains. “And I believe I “In my practice, the mission statement on the door coming out of Israel and England on Charlotte’s am getting that same entourage effect with the CBD, says we treat our clients ... and their pets. And we Web, a strain of marijuana that is gaining strong evibut with the ingredients in my formula, without the really mean that.” dence for its efficacy to treat seizures in people with This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views use of THC, which is pretty remarkable.” epilepsy. Impressed and inspired by the promise of of Boulder Weekly. To confirm this anecdotal evidence, Katz part-
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he first time I saw the term “420” was in the May, 1991 issue of High Times magazine. That’s when 420 truly went global. But the term had been in use for 20 years by then. A High Times reporter named Steven Bloom was walking through the parking lot at a Grateful Dead concert in Oakland, when someone shoved a flyer into his hand. It said, “We are going to meet at 4:20 on 4/20 for 420-ing in Marin County at the Bolinas Ridge sunset spot on Mt. Tamalpais.” The flyer also helpfully explained where the term 420 came from: “420 started somewhere in San Rafael, California, in the late ’70s. It started as the police code for Marijuana Smoking in Progress. After local heads heard of the police call, they started using the expression 420 when referring to herb — Let’s Go 420, dude!” Bloom, who had never encountered the term 420, wrote a piece on it. His yarn appeared in the May 1991 issue, along with the picture of the flyer. Alas, the information in the flyer was hazy. It turns out there is no 420 police code in California; for years nobody bothered to look it up. And while the term originated in San Rafael, it was in 1971,
not the late ’70s. Little matter. High Times Editor Steven Hager jumped on the story like a hippie on an abandoned stash. “I started incorporating it (420) into everything we were doing...,” he told the Huffington Post in 2011. “The publicity that High Times gave it is what made it an international thing...” By the time Bloom acquired the leaflet, the term had been in use for years among Dead Heads. But where did the Dead get it? From the true originators of the term 420, who outed themselves to Hager in 1997, and later to the Huffington Post. The originators were a clique of five San Rafael High School students called the Waldos — because they used to hang out around a particular wall at the school. In September 1971 they heard that a Coast Guardsman stationed at Point Reyes in Marin County who had been tending a personal grow near the station. He had gotten cold feet and abandoned the patch, but not before drawing up a map showing its location, which he gave to his brothers-in-law. Who shared it with one of the Waldos. Who set out to find the secret garden.
San Rafael High had a statue of Louis Pasteur on the campus, and the Waldos would meet at the statue, at 4:20 p.m., before setting out for Point Reyes. On pot hunting days they would tell each other “420 Louis”, which eventually got shortened to 420 and turned into their code word for anything involving pot. “We’d meet at 4:20 and get in my old ’66 Chevy Impala and, of course, we’d smoke instantly and smoke all the way to Point Reyes and smoke the entire time we were out there,” said Steve Capper, one of the Waldos. “We did it week after week. We never actually found the patch.” So how did the story spread to the Dead? In the late ’60s the Grateful Dead decamped from San Francisco and landed in San Rafael. It turned out the father of one of the Waldos handled real estate for the Dead, and the older brother of another was good friends with bassist Phil Lesh. The Waldos started hanging with the band, smoking with its members, and using the term 420 in their presence. And before long the term spread to the Dead Heads. A while back the Waldos, all of whom are reasonably successful adults, decided to tie up the final loose ends of the story and cement their claim to being the originators of 420. By finding the mysterious Coast Guardsman. And, after years of looking, they did. His name was Gary Newman. They found him earlier this year in a homeless camp in San Jose — slated for bulldozing due to its proximity to the stadium where Super Bowl 50 was to be played. The Waldos put Newman up in a motel until after the game, and they all took a trip up to Point Reyes. Newman had planted the pot patch on federal land near the lighthouse. Now 68, he never knew he was the inspiration for 420. “It was like having a meeting with an old friend you never knew,” said Dave Reddix, one of the Waldos. And a fitting ending for a long, strange trip.
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Summer vacation is right around the corner, and that means it’s time to start planning that fun-filled family vay-cay. This year, skip Disney World and go for something more exotic. How about Kuwait? To be fair, it is frequently called “The Disney World of the Middle East.” So round up the kids and pack your bags and don’t forget those samples of DNA you’re required to provide if you want to enter Kuwait. Think of it as your entrance fee. Now if you’re wondering why you need to hand over a sample of DNA — not that it’s weird or anything — it’s actually to prevent crime and terrorism. Upon arrival at the airport, you will be asked for a saliva test or a few drops of blood — and you thought taking your shoes off in airport security was bad! That sample will then be uploaded to a secure database. So, if you’re planning on going on a jaywalking rampage or a littering spree, careful not to leave any DNA at the scene or Kuwait authorities will find you! But if you want to refuse testing, then you only have to face a $35,000 fine, which multiplied by mom, dad, the twins and baby Jane comes out to a totally manageable $175,000. This is just the newest marketing scheme from the Kuwait tourism board, which previously used special “gaydar” technology to sleuth out gays and prevent them from crossing its borders. What’s next, Kuwait? A water slide? Boulder Weekly
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