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Highroad The legalized immorality of Big Pharma by Jim Hightower
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l Capone, the infamous mob boss and bootlegger in Chicagoland during the 1920s, always maintained that he was just a businessman, saying the only difference between him and others was that the law criminalized his business, while legalizing the criminality of socalled “legitimate” businessmen. Of course, big business bosses today
would find their comparison to mob bosses distasteful — yet it’s not that far from a true fit for many of their corporate “enterprises.” After all, we regularly see shameless racketeering schemes from the establishment peers of Wall Street, Big Oil, Big Food, etc. Then there are the wiseguys of Big Pharma, whose industry-wide business model is based on legalized price gouging. On Feb. 10, for example, Valeant Pharmaceuticals stunned heart patients, doctors and hospitals by suddenly jacking up the price of two essential lifesaving heart drugs. By a lot — Valeant tripled the price of a single vial of Nitropress, from $260 to more than $800, while sextupling the price of Isuprel from $215 a vial to nearly $1,400! Had the drug maker improved the medicines? No, they were exactly the same formulations as before. The only thing that changed was ownership — Valeant had bought the rights to the
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medications from another company on Feb. 10. Then, on that very day, it arbitrarily used its monopoly control to exact a rip-off price from those who have no choice but to pay it. A spokeswoman for Valeant was unrepentant: “Our duty is to our shareholders and to maximize the value” of their investments, she declared. By “duty,” the lady from Valeant didn’t mean a moral duty, but a “duty” manufactured by corporate lawyers and lobbyists to extract immoral profits from vulnerable people. Al Capone would smile approvingly at that rationalization. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com May 7, 2015 7
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hat does Smart Track have in common with the Brooklyn Bridge? They both get sold to suckers. First off, I apologize for writing this column. I really do. I feel guilty because writing this insinuates that I think there are people out there capable of reading this paper, voting or even reciting most of the alphabet who don’t already know that Smart Track and Fast Track are really the same thing. And I get nervous that people will think I’m like Congressman Jared Polis and his Fast Track-supporting pals, which is to say that I think you’re too stupid and lazy to see right through this latest TPP BS. I don’t believe that at all. But still, just in case some poor soul out there recently awoke from a coma only to be confused by this whole silly “fast to smart” name-change thing, I’ve decided to write a brief explanation. I won’t recap the whole Trans-Pacific
Partnership/Jared Polis controversy. We’ve written about that for some time now. I will simply say that even though most of his constituents along with more than 2,000 organizations representing labor, faith, family farms, consumers, Internet freedom and the environment oppose the passage of the TPP, along with more than 150 Democrats and a fair number of Republicans, Polis continues to move towards fast tracking this dreadful agreement, which will do great harm to American middle class jobs and the environment. Oops, did I say “Fast Track?” What a clumsy mistake. While it appeared a few days ago that Polis supported fasttrack status for the TPP, his recent press release now says he was concerned about Fast Track all along but now supports the new HatchWyden-Ryan Bill known as… you guessed it…“Smart Track.” Well that must be totally different,
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right? Polis seems to indicate that Smart same old Fast Track that puts Congress Track is going to bring about real in the trunk in handcuffs. I expect that Congressional oversight and transparen- Congress will say no to it. cy to the trade agreement process. He “Instead of establishing a new ‘exit says as much in his recent press release ramp,’ the bill literally replicates the same titled “Stopping Fast Track.” No kidding, impossible conditions from past Fast the subject line actually read “Stopping Track bills that make the ‘procedural disFast Track.” approval’ mechanism to remove an agreeFrankly, this tripe is insulting. We ment from Fast Track unusable. A resoaren’t 6-year-olds, Congressman, and by lution to do so must be approved by both now you should know that your constitu- the Senate Finance and the House Ways ents are at least as smart as you. They and Means committees and then be grasp how to use the magic of the passed by both chambers within 60 days. Internet to research things like legislation. The bill’s only new feature in this respect The proposed “Fast Track” legislation is a new ‘consultation and compliance’ put forward and defeated in 2014 was procedure that would only be usable after titled Bipartisan an agreement was Congressional already signed Trade Priorities Act and entered into, of 2014 (Baucusat which point ADVERTISED AS A NEW Hatch-Camp). It changes to the SAFEGUARD IS NOT AN was a lengthy act, pact could be made only if all containing 33,038 EXIT FROM FAST TRACK’S other negotiating words. CONFISCATION OF parties agreed to The “Smart CONGRESS’ POLICYMAKreopen negotiaTrack” legislation tions and then being put forward ING PREROGATIVES, BUT agreed to the currently is titled NEW CURTAINS HUNG changes (likely Bipartisan OVER THE SAME BRICK after extracting Congressional Trade Priorities and further concesWALL.” Accountability Act sions from the — LORI WALLACH, of 2015 (HatchUnited States). DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC Wyden-Ryan). It That process too is a lengthy act, would require CITIZEN’S GLOBAL TRADE with just over approval by 60 WATCH 33,000 words. Senators to take a What a coincipact off of Fast dence. Track considerNot really. You see ation, even though 96.63 percent of the exact language a simple majority ‘no’ vote in the Senate that appeared in Fast Track 2014 now would have the same effect on an agreeappears in Smart Track 2015. That’s ment. right, 96.63 percent of the act Polis wants “In contrast, the 1988 Fast Track to stop is contained in the act Polis empowered either the House Ways and intends to support. So what exactly is in Means or the Senate Finance committhe 1,113 words that comprise the entire tees to vote by simple majority to remove difference between Fast and Smart Track? a pact from Fast Track consideration, According to a good number of Fast with no additional floor votes required. Track critics, just enough to actually make And, such a disapproval action was Smart Track a little worse for Americans authorized before a president could sign than Fast Track would have been. and enter into a trade agreement. But why listen to me when you can “Chairman Hatch said he would get the analysis of Smart Track from the never accept changes that make it possiincredibly smart Lori Wallach, director ble for Congress to remove Fast Track of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch from an agreement that does not measure who writes the following: up, and he got his way. What is being “Congress is being asked to delegate advertised as a new safeguard is not an away its constitutional trade authority exit from Fast Track’s confiscation of over the TPP, even after the administraCongress’ policymaking prerogatives, but tion ignored bicameral, bipartisan new curtains hung over the same brick demands about the agreement’s terms, wall.” and then also grant blank-check authority And that, Congressman Polis, is why to whomever may be the next president we will not be fooled by your Fast Track for any agreements he or she may pursue. to Smart Track slight of hand. Now “Rather than putting Congress in the about that bridge… driver’s seat on trade, this bill is just the Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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danish plan The road to the Danish Plan by Paul Danish
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t would be wrong to say that couldn’t beat the ZPG amendment Boulder wasn’t concerned about without offering a plausible alternative. growth until 1971. In the 1950s The alternative they came up with was and 1960s Boulder was plenty an advisory referendum that urged the concerned about growth — specif- city council to adopt policies that would ically about how to get more of it. throttle back the city’s growth to a rate And over the next 20 years, Boulder “substantially below” that experienced got the growth it wanted — good and in the 1960s. hard. During the 1960s Boulder’s growth In 1950, Boulder’s population was rate had averaged 5 percent a year. 19,999. In 1960 it was 37,718. In 1970 Once the advisory referendum was it was 68,870. The University of assured a spot on the ballot, the busiColorado also grew. Between the early ness community unleashed an avalanche ’50s and the early ’70s, CU’s enrollment of advertising against the ZPG amendgrew from about 5,000 to 20,000. ment and in favor of the alternative. Along the way The ZPG there was some amendment went push-back, of down in flames and course. When the advisory referdevelopment startendum passed YEARS THE ed crawling up the handily. COUNCIL HAD SPENT backdrop in the Two other 1959, a grass-roots things happened in KICKING THE GROWTH initiative, lead by a that election. CAN DOWN THE ROAD citizens group that A charter was to become amendment limit(1972-1975) BOULDER’S PLAN-Boulder ing the height of HOUSING INVENTORY County (the new buildings in PLAN in the town to 55 feet was INCREASED BY name stood for passed. APPROXIMATELY 4,000 People’s League And four liberal for Action Now) city council memUNITS. pushed through bers were elected — Penfield Tate, the Blue Line Tim Fuller, Ken charter amendment, Wright and Karen Paget. With the vote which banned the City from supplying water to development above a of at least one hold-over liberal incumbent, this meant Boulder had a liberalcertain elevation (5,750 feet) on the majority city council for the first time backdrop. in its history. In 1965 a proposal to run a city The council’s new majority was water line south to Marshall Road was more interested in social issues than derailed by a citizen referendum after environmental issues, but it also recogthe city council approved it. In 1967 the first open space tax was nized that the voters expected them to do something about growth. So they approved. did what red-blooded 1970s liberals But it was in 1971 municipal elecalways did when faced with political tion that the growth issue was directly hot potatoes: They appointed a “blue confronted. A chapter of international organiza- ribbon” committee to study the probtion Zero Population Growth had been lem. Thus the Boulder Area Growth formed in Boulder, and it circulated a petition to put a charter amendment on Study (BAGS to its friends) came to be. A quarter million dollars in grants was the ballot that would have capped obtained. A director and staff were Boulder’s population as approximately hired. Leading representatives of the 100,000 by capping the city’s stock of environmental and business communisingle and multi-family residences at ties were appointed to the committee. 40,000. And for the next two years they studied The ZPG petition terrified the the problem. city’s fathers, mothers and business Eventually a 10-volume final report community, who were still pro-growth. emerged. It contained four scenarios, They quickly concluded they
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scores of maps and more than 100 recommendations. But what it really said, in so many words, was: 1) You really can’t stand in the way of growth, but you can manage it, and 2) Have the city planning staff produce a growth management plan for Boulder. The council told the city staff to do it, and the staff got on it. The council, meanwhile, moved on to other business — like surviving the conservative backlash to a gay rights amendment it had passed the year before. Hard as it is to believe today, in 1972 there were a lot of social conservatives in Boulder. The council’s liberal majority survived the 1973 election. But the gay rights amendment didn’t prove as durable. An initiative repealing the ordinance was overwhelmingly passed in 1974, and another petition drive forced Tate and Fuller into a recall election. Tate survived, but Fuller didn’t. By the time the 1975 election rolled around, environmental issues generally had been pretty well marginalized. The Camera was calling the 1975 council election “an election without issues.” Which pissed me off. So I threw my hat into the ring and wrote a platform with 20 planks in it — each one addressing a specific issue and stating what I thought should be done about it. I had a lot to say about environmental issues, but I didn’t propose a growth control plan during the campaign. I didn’t offer a specific growth control ordinance because a case challenging a growth control ordinance that had been adopted by the City of Petaluma in California was being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. It was clear that case was going to determine whether a city could enact quantitative growth controls by limiting construction. I didn’t want to propose something until the constitutional question was settled. The 1975 election ended with conservative, pro-growth candidates finishing in the top three spots, which was enough to restore a conservative majority to the city council. I finished fifth and got the two-year term. In February 1976 the City staff presented the growth control plan it had been working on for the past two years. It consisted of a Kafkaesque tangle of regulations. It did not set a growth rate. No one on the council liked it. It was dead on arrival. Boulder Weekly
(During the four years the council had spent kicking the growth can down the road [1972-1975] Boulder’s housing inventory increased by approximately 4,000 units.) The U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear the Petaluma case, which left standing the appellate court decision in favor of Petaluma. This meant there was at least one way for a city to control growth that had passed constitutional muster — building permit limitation. The conservative majority on the council voted to sack the city manager, Archie Twitchell, who had been hired by the liberal council. It also tried to annex the Gunbarrel subdivisions to crank up growth (and add a few thousand more conservatives to Boulder’s voter rolls). “Might as well swing for the bleachers,” I said to myself. I wrote off to Petaluma and got a copy of their ordinance. It was clear it could serve as a template for a Boulder growth-control ordinance. So I drafted one and showed it to a number of liberal attorneys. They were sympathetic, but refrained from making specific suggestions to improve the ordinance — or from offering their support. There were two exceptions: Tom Lamm, brother of then-governor Dick Lamm, and a young attorney named Alan Schwartz who volunteered his services. Alan immediately got the concept. He took my draft, went over it line-by-line, and made it bullet-proof. I started recruiting supporters and raising money. By August we had a campaign organization in place. I knew there was zero chance of the council passing the ordinance, but I felt it was important to pay decent respect to the legislative process, so I formally submitted it for the council’s consideration. I also had 200 initiative petitions printed and ready to go. In August, the plan was voted down five to four. I asked the council to put it on the ballot. That was also voted down five to four. By the end of the week, we were circulating petitions to put it on the ballot. To be continued next week: How to pass a growth control ordinance when no one wants it except the people. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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n April 21, KGNU Radio hosted a 1960s-themed party at the History Colorado Center at 1200 Broadway in Denver. Psychedelic music played while people visited a touring exhibit entitled 1968: The Year That Rocked History and a locally-produced show on the Chicano movement in Colorado. State historian Bill Convery gave an impressionistic, half-humorous talk on ‘The Hippie Problem” emphasizing the “idealism and intense optimism” of hippies in the early days. Colorado was called a “hippie haven” and the country’s first hippie commune, Drop City, was founded in 1965 outside Grand Junction. However, many mainstream people felt threatened. Cowboys attending the National Western Stock Show in Denver wandered the streets looking for hippies to beat up. In Boulder, there was “aggressive enforcement” of vagrancy and drug laws. In Denver, zoning laws were used against nontraditional living arrangements (people who weren’t blood-related living together). The baby boomers were becoming young adults and the most visible boomers were hippies. Like many college towns at that time, Boulder was transformed by the cultural and political dissidence of the 1960s. It went from being moderately Republican to liberal Democrat. David Hays, archivist at University of Colorado Boulder’s Norlin Library, wrote in an unpublished paper that there was “an enormous rise” in the Boulder’s population at the time: “Between 1960 and 1970, the city grew from 37,718 to 66,870, or by 70 percent. By 1975, the estimated population for the city of Boulder was 81,900, an overall increase from 1960 of 44,182, or 117 percent... By 1970, 55 percent of a much larger city were under 24 years of age, split fifty-fifty at age 18. More than a quarter of the town’s population was between 18 and 24. In 1970, the town’s median age was 23.5 years.” I recently spent time reading local newspaper articles on the counterculture from that period. There were frequent conflicts with the “straight” world. Sheriff ’s officers raided camps of young people in the foothills and on U.S. Forest Service land. On the Hill, merchants complained about barefooted panhandlers using foul language and blocking store entrances. Boulder residents were angry about loud music and
lack of sanitation in Central Park. In response, outdoor concerts were banned. In the summer of 1970, an anonymous letter circulated in Boulder calling for vigilante action against the outsiders. People were to gather at Central Park on July 4th with clubs, shovels or any kind of weapon to “clean up the city.” Fortunately, the mob attack never happened. The cops got tougher on hitch hikers, raided the Hill Youth Hostel and punished loiterers blocking sidewalks with fines that could be as high as $300 or 90 days in jail. Two people were ticketed for patching their clothes with parts of an American flag. On May 1971, police carried out a round-up of “street people” on the Hill for obstructing sidewalks, disorderly conduct, interference with a police officer and use of obscene language. At the end of these sweeps, both the city and county jails were overflowing. This provoked a riot. Patrol cars were rolled and one of them was set on fire. Damage and theft losses for 18 businesses totaled nearly $50,000. In June 1972, the Boulder city council discussed the “summer transient problem” and decided to spend $15,000 for additional law enforcement and $9,000 to the Boulder Council of Churches to hire five social workers to work in the Hill area. In September, the social workers issued a report about the young people coming to Boulder. They could be divided into “transients” and “street people.” The “transients” came from middle class families, stayed in Boulder for about three to four weeks and were “on a road to maturity.” They had more schooling and were younger than the “street people,” who came from poorer families, had become permanent residents of Boulder and were “on a path to selfdestruction.” The report predicted that “the street life question” would persist for some time to come. The social workers found that the “street people” weren’t escaping affluence and living a voluntary “lifestyle,” but were rather desperate poor kids seeking the American dream. We didn’t know it then but the right-wing was rising due partly to a backlash against the social changes of the ’60s. Income inequality was increasing. It wasn’t just “street people” who were disappointed in the American dream. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
letters Driving vs. eating
The piece by Tim Radford (Re: “Well drilling has deep impact,” News, April 30) is appropriate, measured and smart. Sadly, a significant portion of our populace believes our food comes from a supermarket. Considering what has already occurred atop the Ogallala Aquifer and is happening in California’s Central Valley (between them responsible for nearly half our homegrown foodstuffs), one could reasonably say it is high time we awoke. Who needs climate change? The squeezers have got it handled! Alas, we’d rather drive than eat. Gregory Iwan/Longmont
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DANDY-LIONS I love a yard with dandelions: they smile as if to say, “No chemicals nor malithions, here, did Satan spray.” Sheri L. Southern/via Internet
Are you listening, Jared Polis?
Fast Track for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be a disaster. It would transfer virtually all Congressional authority over the secret TPP to the president. Congress would be unable to offer amendments or ensure that the TPP benefits the American people. Fast Track would also require changes in an untold number of our domestic laws to conform with TPP. Even though Congressman Jared Polis says he is undecided, his public statements, website and letters, appear strongly supportive of Fast Track and TPP. All the “Helpful Resources” on the web site are supportive. There’s not a word from Public Citizen, AARP, the Sierra Club, Consumer Union or the AFL-CIO, to name only several of the approximately 2,000 groups opposing this multi-chapter, secretly negotiated “trade” treaty. Rep. Polis does have one letter on his website from three “environmental organizations” supportive of TPP. Two I’ve never heard of. The third is Nature Conservancy, a group that has received large donations from British Petroleum (BP) and “long ago forged a relationship that has lent BP an Earth-friendly image and helped the Conservancy pursue causes it holds dear” (Washington Post, May 24, 2010). Polis’ recent forum on trade featured five speakers, four in favor of the Fast Track and TPP and one opposed. This was in spite of several appeals from the community to make the forum more balanced. Polis has to know that the primary Boulder Weekly
purpose of TPP is to increase the power of multinational corporations. Only five chapters of its 29 chapters deal directly with trade. The rest is a corporate takeover of our sovereignty and democracy. Polis betrayed his constituency regarding fracking. If he does so again, we will oppose him in the primary. He’s not representing us. There are people who can and will represent us. We should begin raising money to get the job done. Jacqui Goeldner/Boulder
Corporate carte blanche
The media spin machine is trumpeting a monster deal called the TransPacific Partnership (TPP). Promoters want to use a legislative gimmick known as “fast track” or Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) to help push TPP through with a minimum of debate and no amendments. Congressman Polis says he is “undecided” about fast track. Government trade officials and nearly 600 corporate advisors negotiated TPP over six years in secret. Now they want to use fast track to ram TPP through Congress. Polis says his interest is intellectual property. Unfortunately, TPP affects much more than that. TPP gives corporations virtual carte blanche to move financial assets and capital around the globe without any hindrances from local communities or national policies. TPP gives corporations the right to sue governments in international “tribunals.” and impose fines for public policies that might reduce expected profits. Suits can be brought over public health, workplace safety, product safety, protecting communities and preserving the environment. Facilitating inexpensive drugs or saving local open space from fracking could cost taxpayers millions in fines. With respect to intellectual property, recently leaked draft texts of the TPP contain language that will negatively impact Internet users’ freedom of speech, right to privacy and due process. U.S. negotiators are pushing for copyright measures far more restrictive than currently required by international treaties. TPP would also hinder individuals’ abilities to innovate. According to the Electronic Freedom Foundation, TPP could stifle Internet innovation and growth. A free and open intellectual commons is the sort of intellectual property Mr. Polis should work to protect. Please contact Mr. Polis at http:// polis.house.gov/contact/ or 303-4849596. Tell him to oppose fast track. We need a free and open Internet and public discussion of the TPP. Andrew Bryson/Boulder Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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A Longmont-based nonprofit group provides emergency relief to a marginalized community in Nepal by Caitlin Rockett
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andy Baker hasn’t gotten a lot of the nation’s most devastating disaster in sleep since April 25, but as he’s nearly a century. discovered, that’s what happens Just days after the earthquake, Baker when there’s an earthquake in says they were able to wire $25,000 to the Nepal and you run a nonprofit village for Jagat Lama to purchase food, organization. medicine, tents and blankets. However, in The Longmont resident is co-founder of national disaster situations such as the one Health & Ed 4 Nepal, an NGO formed in Nepal is experiencing, banking operations 2009 to help the people of Kumari, a remote can become mountain community in the Himalayan sluggish or shut Mountains of Nepal, which is closer to the down completeepicenter of April’s massive quake than the ly. Baker was nation’s capital of Kathmandu. The people unable to conof Kumari are of the Tamang Tribe, which, firm whether despite being an ancient tribe thought to be Lama had been the original inhabitants of the Kathmandu able to access Valley, is considered the lowest social status this money by in the country. As such, the Kumari people press time. often receive little to no aid from the Nepali On Friday, government. May 2, a threeBaker and fellow Longmont resident and person medical friend Bob Nielson developed Health & Ed team from the 4 Nepal after meeting a Kumari native U.S. set out for named Jagat Lama who led the Coloradans Kumari. Once on a group trek through Nepal in April they arrived in 2006. Lama told the trekkers that his father Kathmandu died from internal injuries after a fall in the (where the country’s only international airhills of Kumari because a medical facility port is located), they loaded a truck with was too far away — a nine hour walk. medical supplies, water purifiers, solar According to Lama’s story, his father’s final equipment, tents, blankets and food purwish was that his son would help the chased in Delhi, India. The folks at Health Kumari people get better medical care and & Ed 4 Nepal called it “Operation Hope,” education. because it was the first aid to arrive in “He later told us that he’d told that story Kumari since the quake. Randy Baker, co-founder of Health & Ed 4 Nepal, says that 100 percent of the to hundreds and hundreds of people while Baker says it’s situations like these that buildings in Kumari are damaged, with 40-50 percent completely unsalvagatrekking, but my friend Bob [Nielson] and I ble.(Right) Post-earthquake, a medical tent provides a place to treat patients. keep him awake at night. listened and things started to happen,” “I’ve been concerned all day to hear if Baker says. ter relief as an organization. the truck caravan made it from Kathmandu to While the journey to make Health & Ed 4 Nepal “The earth shook and then there was work. So Kumari,” Baker says while on the phone with Boulder a reality has not been without its difficulties, the you’re in it, right?” Baker says. “We had done most of Weekly. “They’re targets. If you could drive [a truck group set out to make Lama’s dream — and his our [previous] work through a sister organization in full of food] through three communities with no food father’s final wish — a reality. They set up a five year Kumari called Health and Education for Nepal. [If … that’s a dangerous situation.” plan to bring the people of Kumari a medical clinic you’re] in America, you can’t go out and pound nails, Later that day Baker received confirmation that with trained staff, and to improve school facilities and you can’t go drive people [medical supplies]. Basically, the supply truck reached Kumari. Now safely in their educational opportunities — all of which they have what you can do is raise funds and we work through destination, the medical team will begin to assess the accomplished. In addition, Health & Ed 4 Nepal their organization [in Nepal]. The people of that damage done to the clinic and report back to Baker helped bring electricity to the community for the first organization, last Saturday night they are standing in about the situation. time, created a clean water system for the clinic and the street. It’s raining on them. They have no food. Another part of Health & Ed 4 Nepal’s realigned school and facilitated the construction of the first Their homes have been destroyed. We can have the focus involves the work of University of Northern Colorado student Megan Cain. Cain, who is working drivable road into the community. point of view all we went that we are going to The group had plans to start a micro credit prorebuild, and we’ll save our money now and then use it toward her master’s degree in public health, spent last summer in Nepal working with sexually exploited gram this summer that would help the Sukman later to rebuild, but if your friend and brother are women and children. While she hasn’t been to Memorial Polyclinic, which opened in Kumari in standing there wet and hungry, you gotta do someKumari yet, Cain says many of the women and girls March 2013, become a self-sustaining facility. thing right now. So it moved our hearts.” But then the earthquake hit. For the time being, the organization has shifted See KUMARI Page 16 Baker admits they never planned to provide disas- its focus to help the Kumari community get through Boulder Weekly
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Locals, environmental groups continue to question the wisdom of Eldora’s proposed expansion by Elizabeth Miller
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f Eldora Mountain Resort’s expan- Gilpin counties, as well as privately Jolly Jug trail and glades, and one that sion moves forward, it’ll be at the owned land and public land owned by would in part parallel the Indian Peaks objections of local business owners the U.S. Forest Service — and those vari- lift on the north-facing side of the and residents, who have congealed ous parties have weighed in on the Forest resort and drop below that lift all the in the citizens’ group Middle Service’s Draft and Final Environmental way to County Road 130, which runs Boulder Creek Coalition and been Impact Statements and Draft Record of through the small mountain town of joined by the Indian Peaks Group of the Decision, released in February, which Eldora alongside Middle Boulder Creek Sierra Club, as well as the Boulder show the Forest Service approving much and ends at the Hessie and Fourth of County Commissioners and the Town of the requested expansion. July trailheads. of Nederland’s “The upgrades KamenG, via Wikimedia Commons Parks, Recreation and expansions and Open Space included in my Advisory Board, decision will proand at the hesitavide additional tertions of the rain, improve reliEnvironmental ability and safety of Protection Agency operations (particuand Colorado larly during wind Parks and events), and generWildlife. Their ally modernize the concerns center on resort’s infrastruca new chairlift and ture to provide an ski runs that reach improved recredown to Hessie ational experience,” Road, one of few Forest Supervisor access points to Glenn Casamassa the Indian Peaks wrote in the Draft Wilderness, and a Record of Decision. bridge across “I believe that skiMiddle Boulder ers from Front Creek requested to Range communiservice that new ties will measurably lift. Development Eldora Mountain Resort viewed from the top of an intermediate run on the front, eastbenefit from these facing side of the mountain. The expansion would extend both north and south. in the area would projects.” disrupt a key wildThe Forest life migration corService recently ridor, damage wetlands and forests that “The [National Environmental closed the comment period on the speare approaching old growth status, and Policy Act] process is an exhaustive cific components, like chairlifts and ski bring noise and air pollution to an othreview of conditions and impacts both runs, of their draft decision. erwise quiet valley. They’ve questioned potential and known for a project. We “That opens a dialogue and creates the effects to aquatic and forest habitats, went into it knowing that it was going an opportunity for us to go back and water quality and the views enjoyed by to take about the time that it has taken,” correct any errors or mistakes, things those who seek out the area for somesays Jim Spenst, planning director for that didn’t get addressed,” says K. “Reid” thing other than downhill skiing. Eldora Mountain Resort. Armstrong, public affairs specialist and In 2011, Eldora released a revision The Forest Service drew compocommunity liaison for the Boulder and to its master plan that called for improv- nents from two alternatives submitted to Clear Creek districts of the Arapaho and ing chairlifts, adding terrain and new give the go-ahead for the addition of 66 Roosevelt National Forests. “The decichairlifts, constructing a new on-moun- acres of ski trails, 77 acres of tree and sion may not change at all, so there’s tain lodge and expanding parking areas. gladed skiing areas and modifications to from that end of the spectrum to comAn assessment of existing facilities 42 acres in six areas of existing tree and ponents of it could change if that’s found areas to address to improve the gladed skiing. The decision allows the what’s determined necessary.” experience, and perhaps the safety, of resort to add a total of 185 new acres of Comments, or objections, were skiers and snowboarders at the resort, intermediate, advanced intermediate and taken only from those who had previand the opportunity to improve forest expert terrain, more than half of which ously submitted objections on the issue. health and vegetation management. are in tree and gladed skiing areas. The There are still a couple weeks for comThe ski area, located 21 miles west ski area was also granted the addition of ments on the Forest Plan amendments of Boulder, straddles land managed by two new chairlifts, one on the southeast that accompany the decision. several agencies — both Boulder and side of the mountain, off the existing In their latest letter to the Forest 18 May 7, 2015
Service, Boulder County Commissioners reiterated objections they issued in 2014 after a public hearing in which testimony predominantly opposed the expansion. The commissioners acknowledged the value of the ski area to local residents, but stated that they’re not convinced the ski area couldn’t accomplish their goals of increased offerings to downhill skiers and snowboarders within their existing footprint or with a much smaller expansion. “The fundamental flaw in the Draft Record of Decision … is a lack of analysis of environmental impacts and reasonable alternatives upon which the decision is based,” the commissioners’ letter states. The final document “represents an improperly truncated review of alternatives; a lack of meaningful analysis on secondary and cumulative impacts, given the reasonably foreseeable full-build-out of the Ski Area’s Master Plan; substantial and potentially unacceptable impacts to the Middle Boulder Creek drainage; and insufficient details on mitigation to compensate for unavoidable impacts.” Objections generally skip over the replacement chairlifts (new six-person chairlifts to replace the existing Corona and parallel Cannonball/Challenge lifts the Forest Service describes as “old, uncomfortable, slow and … susceptible to wind closures”) and even the onmountain facilities updates, which would see the Lookout, a former firewatch tower, double in square footage and add an additional 16,000- to 20,000-square-foot lodge near the top of the Indian Peaks lift. Adjustments would be made accordingly to the potable drinking water and sewage disposal systems. A parking lot would also expand to include 560 additional spaces. The new Challenge Chairlift will terminate in an enclosed structure — passengers unload shielded from the wind. They’ll start construction as soon as they’re given the final go-ahead, and exactly what that will be will depend on the time of year, Spenst says. “The ski area has been a part of Boulder County’s recreational opportunities for more than half a century,” Armstrong says. “This decision would continue to allow the resort to provide that experience.” Ski areas occupy a small portion of Boulder Weekly
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the national forest, but offer a connection between the American public and their lands, and an economic boost to communities, Armstrong adds. Roy Young, owner of Nature’s Own store in Nederland, says he sees the proposed expansion running quite the opposite direction for Nederland’s business and restaurants. “An expansion of 500 parking spaces and the additional lifts and the large restaurant on the top of the mountain just means that people that might otherwise visit our community will be turned away by traffic congestion,” says Young, who has been running a business in Nederland for almost 30 years and seen seasons when the ski area didn’t open at all. Cars already back up on Shelf Road, the narrow road that provides the only access to the ski area, and increased traffic will just push the A map of Eldora’s proposed expansion shows new runs in dark green and new gladed and tree skiing areas in pale green. New lifts are in red. line farther down the hill toward town. “Once you spend that time sitting in your car and if you’ve got a huge dusky grouse, mule deer, elk, moose and tion how the ski area will enforce that restaurant complex on the mountain, I black bear, among others. Glade terrain closure and suggest that the bridge will see little reason why anyone would stop projects could improve productivity of do what bridges always do — provide in Nederland, and there wouldn’t be a the forest understory and allow plant access. That access will put people on a place to park anyway,” he says. species to thrive as they do after a forest side of the creek they don’t often visit, Approved new terrain would put five is thinned. But they also expressed that and see human activity year-round in an new ski trails in the Jolly Jug area, six extreme winds in the area could scour area that, because of the natural topognew trails in the Placer area and four in snow from newly cleared ski runs and raphy, is a funnel-like wildlife corridor. the Corona area. Those numbers are a thinned forests, and result in moisture There’s also a sense that the bridge bit generous, including some trails that loss for plants. opens a door to expanding the ski area are merely dog-legs to connect existing Their primary concern was the into the Hessie valley, and that’s sometrails to new ones and some that are extension of the ski resort boundary thing Eldora locals adamantly oppose. only a few hundred feet long. But still, toward Middle Boulder Creek and the County Commissioners had sugmore terrain, more trails. An exciting riparian habitat along Hessie Road. The gested the ski area build a service road move for the ski area. natural corridor along the creek funnels from the existing Corona lift to the base “All of those improvements will give wildlife through the drainage and has of the proposed Placer lift, some 1,600 the area more vertical, it fully utilizes created a well-functioning riparian com- feet, instead of the bridge. That proposal the terrain and will provide greater vari- plex of beaver ponds and wetlands. is unanswered in the latest draft from ety for people,” Spenst says. Marshy conditions along the creek keep the Forest Service. The bulk of objections from an envi- hikers on Hessie Road until trails lead Traffic through the town of Eldora ronmental perspective center on the to points farther west in the Indian would see an increase year-round, and proposed Placer Express and the ski Peaks Wilderness. an already crowded parking area for the Because of that traffic, wildlife tend area’s intrusion into Forest Service land trailhead could lose parking spaces, the to use the south side of the creek — in the Middle Boulder Creek valley — Coalition and Boulder County where the ski area has proposed new it simply isn’t worth the costs to the Commissioners say. The commissioners developments, including the bridge, lift localized environment, objections say. argue the Forest Service should analyze terminal and lift towers, which could “All the ski area will get out of it is how many people and vehicles use those adversely affect wildlife moving through trails and road, and what experience about 200 feet, which if you’re downhill the corridor, and would be expected to skiing, it’s going to take you about two they’re seeking. minutes,” says Alan Apt, wilderness do so year-round. As it is now, the busy trails at Hessie chair for the Rocky Mountain State The Placer lift, and other expansion stay on the north side of the creek and Chapter of the Sierra Club. “It’s not a operations in the area including tree the south side, with its peaty fen huge addition to what they already have removal, will also need to be serviced by (marsh) and forests nearing old growth back there.” vehicles, and to that end, the resort has status, remains undisturbed. Elk, moose Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s 2014 proposed building a bridge across and Canada lynx make use of that quiet, assessment of the proposal weighs pros Middle Boulder Creek that connects as do marten, goshawks and boreal owl. and cons. Some aspects of the expansion newly constructed roads for service Willows along the creek are also imporcould improve habitat quality by creatvehicles around the ski area with tant habitat and a primary migration ing a “mosaic effect” that would diversi- County Road 130. The bridge will be corridor for moose, which could be negfy a forest stand that is otherwise of a gated year-round and posted with signs, atively affected by noise pollution and fairly even age and perhaps increase but Middle Boulder Creek Coalition human activity in the area. The Forest productivity of forage plants used by the and Colorado Parks and Wildlife quesService’s Draft Environmental Impact Boulder Weekly
Statement mentioned that this is a small portion of the overall range for moose. “This statement is true in the context of overall range, but it is not accurate in relation to primary movement corridors and quality forage areas typically associated with riparian areas similar to [Middle Boulder Creek],” Colorado Parks and Wildlife writes. “Between Middle Boulder Creek and the bottom of the existing Indian Peaks lift is completely undisturbed. It’s north-facing, it’s a very lush environment, there are no roads there, and fishermen fish along the creek there. It’s a documented wildlife migration corridor — there’s an elk herd that migrates through there,” says Bill Ikler, with the Indian Peaks Group of the Sierra Club. The Indian Peaks Group of the Sierra Club will be signing the Middle Boulder Creek Coalition’s objection to the draft record of decision and final environmental impact statement on Eldora’s proposed expansion. “So it’s a small amount of acreage, relatively speaking, but a very critical acreage because of where the elk migrate through and the fact that it is undisturbed.” Elk would likely move on, according to the Middle Boulder Creek Coalition, having lost to ski trails and glades the islands of habitat they and mule deer use as transitional and summer range for fawning, calving and rearing young. Compacting snow, as skiing does, alongside the human activity on the new ski runs would also discourage lynx from establishing winter bedding in the area. To allow the expansion, the Forest Service plan will have to be amended to grant the ski area an exception to a standard that requires riparian areas be maintained along the entire length of the zone on at least one side of a drainage to maintain wildlife travel corridors. Cutting trees to make these runs would also prevent the late successional stage stands from attaining old growth status. Old growth and late successional forests do not lend themselves to thinning or opening up, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Forest Plan guidelines call for maintaining or increasing habitat for old growth areas and sites not planned for harvest. Creating, and even just having, the new trails may increase erosion. Some of the tree removal could occur within 50 feet of streams, and 12 acres of tree removal would occur in the water influence zone. Reducing organic groundcover can increase stream flows, leading to the erosion of banks and adding sediSee ELDORA Page 20
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ment to the water, as well as impairing soil quality for years to follow. Stream turbidity increased by the expansion could also affect aquatic invertebrates, larval fish and adult brook and brown trout, and could be noticed by recreationalists and downstream neighbors, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Revegetating areas could take three to five years, or up to 10 years where the land has been graded. The plan for the upgraded Corona lift would also require direct and permanent impacts to 0.07 acres of wetlands and indirect impacts to 1.41 acres of wetlands, including 0.11 acres of fen, low-lying, peaty marshes. Eldora Mountain Resort’s construction so far has already led to the loss of 30 acres of wetlands, most of them now under parking lots. The slow accumulation of peat in fens makes these areas generally irreplaceable, and the EPA strongly recommended avoiding any affects to fens. The Forest Service also in general advises against any damage to fens. The coalition also mentions concerns about noise from chairlifts, snowmaking guns and ski run grooming echoing off the valley walls that could be heard by local residents and hikers on the popular trail up to Lost Lake during as much as 40 percent of their hike; air pollution; rare plants likely to be adversely affected by development; damage to the viewscape; archaeological artifacts in the area that could be destroyed; and incompatibility with local land use plans. Wind is notorious for closing down chairlifts at the ski area, and according to the Eldora plan and the Forest Service, the new, lower elevation Placer Express could continue operations when others are shut down by wind. But the Forest Service decided against doing a wind study, and so the Middle Boulder Creek Coalition says, “It is at best unclear how the proposed new lifts would help during wind closures.” The Coalition cites data from a private weather station at the western end of the town of Eldora that found many days with winds over 50 miles per hour, some at more than 80 miles per hour. That suggests the lift may be every bit as likely to close existing lifts. If the ski area wants to address wind closures, the Coalition suggests, they should work to make the Corona and Challenge lifts more wind-resistant. “It seems important to know what the wind levels are near Middle Boulder Creek on the days when wind levels are so high as to close the lifts at the resort,” the Boulder County
Commissioners’ letter states. The idea of hiking out of the Hessie trailhead with ski area infrastructure immediately visible is almost unimaginable, says Young, with Nature’s Own. “It just changes its character,” he says. “The expansion of the area outside its boundaries addresses in no ways the impacts on water, on wildlife, on the impacts on recreational enjoyment of anyone but intermediate expert alpine skiers.” “The Forest Service is a multiuse agency, and so we’re committed to providing a variety of recreational opportunities, and among those is downhill skiing,” Armstrong says. The Jolly Jug expansion raises its own question marks, namely that it pushes into the existing trail system used by cross country skiers and snowshoers. Those trails wouldn’t be closed, but users would be forced to traverse four ski runs and the Jolly Jug Glades to follow the Jenny Creek Trail. “With the configuration the Forest Service granted, it’s going to pretty much obliterate that trail or at least make it very hazardous — I mean, would you want to snowshoe across a trail that has high-speed skiers and snowboarders?” says Alan Apt, with the Sierra Club. “It basically is kind of lopsided, what they have approved. It heavily favors downhill at the expense of other users.” The Middle Boulder Creek Coalition points out that counting on these southeast-facing slopes to get and keep enough snow to enjoy the terrain is a gamble. The ski area’s efforts to increase their terrain, particularly for expert skiers, might be achieved within their existing boundaries, the Middle Boulder Creek Coalition argues, and without extensive tree removal or expensive mitigation measures and the desired increase in wind resilient chairlifts could be accomplished by upgrading the existing Indian Peaks chairlift. Boulder County Commissioners agree an in-fill option wasn’t given due consideration. “Preservation of the ‘critical balance between active recreation and wilderness,’ as we urged in our comments on the [Draft Environmental Impact Statement] last year, can best be achieved by denying expansion of the Resort boundaries north to Middle Boulder Creek,” writes Randy Lee, Town of Nederland Trustee and Nederland Parks, Recreation and Open Space Advisory Board chair, in his letter on the Final Environmental Impact Statement. While the water quality monitoring the Forest Service’s decision called for is Boulder Weekly
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appreciated, a preferable approach would avoid the risks of degrading water quality in the first place, he says. The creek is the town of Nederland’s sole source for drinking water and their intake isn’t far from the resort. “We are not reassured by a ‘we’ll monitor and fix it if it’s broken’ approach (we know the speed of government),” Lee writes. The potential for carbaryl contamination — the insecticide used to treat trees at Eldora Mountain Resort to prevent mountain pine beetle infestation — is alarming to Nederland, as well as Boulder city and county. If the expansion proceeds, Lee writes, the town will begin testing for the substance in the water supply. Both his letter and that from the County Commissioners express concerns over increased traffic to the area. “I recognize that the Placer Express chairlift and terrain project has been a point of contention with members of the community,” the Forest Service’s Casamassa writes in his draft decision. “Alternative configurations were considered for the Placer Express chairlift, however, these various alignments created other resource issues due to extensive grading, additional vegetation removal and other ground disturbance. As the Forest Supervisor managing approximately 2 million acres, I consider how projects affect the ARP [Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslands] as a whole, while understanding there are localized impacts resulting from site-specific decisions. ... Impacts disclosed in the [Final Environmental Impact Statement] are localized. However, I firmly believe these impacts are nominal in the context of the entire ARP and even at the spatially smaller county level.” Young says that opinion “fails to address that this is a key gateway into the Indian Peaks Wilderness, which is a crown jewel of Boulder County.” The Draft Record of Decision, Lee, with Nederland’s parks and open space board, writes, “appears to be a USFS partnership with private enterprise that accepts local impacts as acceptable collateral damage and shuts out the dissenting voices of those agencies and local governments that are more naturally partners than adversaries of the Forest Service.” Boulder County’s commissioners also contest the metric, stating: “One might as well use the entire state of Colorado as one’s comparative metric; it is equally misguided.” Spenst, with Eldora Mountain Resort, describes the whole process as exhaustive and having looked at all sides Boulder Weekly
of the issue. Asked why he would proceed with the expansion, particularly toward Middle Boulder Creek, in the face of the concerns, he says, “Because I don’t think that their concerns are valid and the EIS addresses all the comments and everything that has been concerns and we see really no reason not to continue.” Some question the incentive the Forest Service has to foster ski area growth, given the millions of dollars in leases they receive from resorts. “I’ve noticed that the Forest Service has been very accommodating to Eldora Mountain Resort’s expansion proposal from the very beginning,” Ikler says. “They gave EMR a favorable interpretation of the 2011 Forest Plan Revision that opened the door for the ski area to expand, an exemption to a wetland impact rule and failed to do a promised independent wind study, despite the fact that one of the major rationale for Eldora’s expansion is wind.” The Boulder County Commissioners letter states, “the County does not agree that the Final [Environmental Impact Statement] has used the best available science and information.” The Environmental Protection Agency concluded that in some ways, they didn’t have enough information in the 550-page Environmental Impact Statement to fully assess the environmental impacts of the proposed expansion. In general, the agency found the two action alternatives had “potential impacts that should be avoided” but that the Draft EIS didn’t contain sufficient information to fully assess those environmental impacts. Both that draft assessment and the master plan revisions from Eldora were prepared by SE Group. The Forest Service doesn’t see that as a conflict of interest; SE Group doesn’t have a financial stake in the outcome, and though paid for by the proponent, in this case Eldora, cannot communicate with Eldora through the process. “You’re hiring a neutral third party whose purpose is to consult and to do projects like this,” she says. Requiring the proponent to hire a consultant takes part of the burden off the taxpayers, she adds, and the Forest Service’s in-house team of experts reviews all of the information compiled by the consultant. “There’s a conflict of interest that is rather glaring when it’s an exercise in self-justification,” says Young. “The suspicion in the community is that this is, as a lot of real estate is, a way to get permits and plans approved and in place and then try to sell.”
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by Mary Reed and Yvon Chouinard, who founded is Friday at 5 p.m. at the Agora at the Chouinard Equipment and its successor, Riverside, where there will be a happy Patagonia. It was in a 1972 Chouinard hour and a screening of the 1988 Equipment catalog that Robinson wrote climbing film, Moving Over Stone. Labeled an “instructional-inspirational” an essay about “clean climbing” — that is, climbing without hammering in rockrock climbing film, today it might be scarring pitons and seen as campy in using only removformat (and able gear to ascend clothing style) but ON THE BILL: Moving Over Stone with Doug Robinson. 5 p.m. Friday, the rock. the locations feaMay 15, 2015. Agora at the Brady Robinson tured — Yosemite Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder. It is free to attend Solid says the selection of Valley, Protection, but registration is Doug Robinson to Canyonlands required. Go to www.accessfund. org/SolidProtection. give the keynote National Park, address is perfect for Smith Rocks and a gathering of climbmore — are timeers concerned about the environment. less. The film’s director, Doug “What can we learn today from the Robinson (no relation to Brady), will be clean climbing revolution from the ’70s? on hand for the event and will also The issues have changed and some of deliver the weekend’s keynote at a dinthe lessons, techniques, tactics that he ner Saturday. used may be universal,” Brady Robinson The Access Fund refers to Doug says, “Given also that Patagonia, [which Robinson as a legend, and the argument then] was Chouinard Equipment, played can certainly be made. He was a contemporary of the generation of Yosemite a really key role in that transition in the ’70s … them partnering with this event climbers that included Royal Robbins
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Conservation Campaign. “Conservation has risen in importance and probably our ability to be a player.” The Access Fund Land Conservation Campaign is a revolving loan program that steps in to help local climbing organizations access money when necessary to move quickly to access or keep open climbing areas. For example, in 2014 the campaign helped the Western Colorado Climbers’ Coalition purchase additional cliffs in Unaweep Canyon, near Grand Junction. “We support 90 local climbing organizations. We’re stronger than ever and a lot of these organizations are showing up and working productively with land managers,” Robinson says, referring to public land (in most cases) managers in areas open to climbing. The average age of a traditional conservation organization’s membership is close to retirement age, Robinson said in his TedxBoulder talk. He points out that the future of conservation is in the hands of future conservationists, that is, today’s youth who are engaging with the outdoor environment — the boulderers, rock climbers, mountain bikers and other so-called extreme sports enthusiasts. “The newer generations in a sport tend to be more open and accepting that there are some limitations to what we can and can’t do,” Robinson says, “What we’re trying to do is say, ‘How can we encourage all of these people to
be more responsible users?’” But Robinson also wants to take these users to the next level beyond responsible use and to active engagement in protection. He sees a bright future for this as well. “I think it’s fair to say the climbing community and the mountain biking community, they show up in force” at trail-building and conservation events, he says. And they put their youthful vigor to good work. “I’ve heard land managers say when the climbers show up at a conservation event, one climber is worth like three average people.” The Solid Protection event will serve as a reunion of sorts for climbers who are already highly involved in local access and conservation campaigns, but is open to climbers who may not yet be connected in that way. In addition to the everyday climbers in attendance, other rock climbing and mountaineering legends are expected to attend as well, including Lynn Hill, Jeff Lowe and Tommy Caldwell — whose recent historymaking first ascent with partner Kevin Jorgeson of the Dawn Wall on Yosemite’s El Capitan drew worldwide attention from the general public in addition to climbers. “We’re part of a greater community,” Robinson says of climbers, “a greater community of people who are willing to step forward and say these lands, these places that we love are protected.” Boulder Weekly
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Listen to Your Mother showcases local writers’ stories about motherhood.
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torytelling is one of the most ancient traditions among us. Stories form connections. Whether passed down from generations or an anecdote from the grocery store, stories help break down the barriers between shared human experiences. It’s through their stories that the cast of Listen to Your Mother hopes to bring people together. “The stories in the show are The stories in Listen about humanity. It’s not just to Your Mother vary about being a mom or having a from funny, to tragic, to heartfelt mom,” says the show’s co-producmemorials. er Pam Moore. “It’s about how everyone can relate to all these crazy emotions that you’re feeling. Motherhood is the says. “It gives you the highest of highs and the lowest lens we’re looking at this through, but really it’s just of lows, so it piques your imagination, for sure.” amazing stories.” The show also welcomes non-writers. Moore and Listen to Your Mother, playing at the Dairy Center Wisler say it’s for anyone who has a story to share, for the Arts on Saturday, May 9, features readings such as Elyana Funk. Last year, Funk attended the about motherhood from local authors. The LTYM show and knew she wanted to get involved. She says organization was born six years ago in Madison, Wis., she’s not a writer, she just wanted to tell a story other when founder Ann Imig assembled community mem- people could relate to. In her piece, “The Chicken bers to share their various experiences. Since then, the Mirror of Motherhood,” she talks about learning from show has spread to 39 cities across the country. certain mistakes she’s made along the way, including Three years ago it came to Boulder with the help using a certain F-word and hearing it come out of her of Moore and fellow producer Joelle Wisler. They are child’s mouth. both writers and bloggers, and while they both write “Here I thought motherhood was going to be about other topics, Wisler says, they’ve encountered a about the kids and learning about them and who they plethora of stories emerging from being a mom. were,” Funk says. “And what I didn’t realize was that I “[Motherhood] gives you a lot of emotions,” she would be learning about myself a lot more than I had Boulder Weekly
ever before, and that I would look at myself more than I ever had. And part of that is because I’m reflected in my kids. The good, the bad and the ugly — you see that come out in your kids.” Participation in the show is not limited to mothers. One of the most popular monologues from a past show was Eddy Jordan’s tribute to his mother, whom he lost to breast cancer. In “My Mother the Protector,” Jordan tells the harrowing tale of her saving him from the tea cups ride at Elitch Gardens as a child and how even in her final days of life, he knew she would always be there for him. Sharing these stories comes with a certain level of raw emotional truth. Tracy Ross, one of this year’s participants, is reading an excerpt from her memoir, The Source of All Things, about giving birth as a survivor of abuse. Ross says while it’s nervewracking to bare your soul, it’s gratifying to write such personal stories, especially if they’re universal. By sharing the dark parts, Ross says, the stories become more substantial. “I think if it was all, ‘I’m so happy to be a mommy, and look at this cool new teething ring’ that would be so boring,” Ross says. “These stories are more honest.” One of these honest stories was shared by Wisler at last year’s production. After her first child, Wisler struggled with painful breastfeeding and postpartum see SHOW AND TELL Page 32
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depression. In “When a Mother Needs Mothering,” Wisler talks about suffering “the mother of all panic attacks” on an airplane sitting next to her husband while holding her 14-month-old son. She says she began to unravel and lost sight of herself as a person and as a mother. She then decided she needed a break and, along with her son, went to live with her parents for a few months. In that time period, Wisler says, she slowly found herself again, and she received the space she needed to take on her new role. “I had struggled with my shifting identity with being a mom,” Wisler says. “And I just needed this steady schedule. I needed my mom, and I needed someone to take care of me. Maybe it was selfish, but it worked and made me a happier person.” Along with sharing personal stories comes support from the LTYM community. Moore acknowledges Wisler’s strength for telling her story and for putting a face to the very real problems mothers face. “One of the reasons I really love [Wisler’s] essay is that it makes her vulnerable,” Moore says. “Because she talks in detail about the anxiety. It’s one thing to hear from people, ‘Oh yeah, it’s hard.’ But to be in a room and somebody that you don’t know is baring her soul and saying, ‘This was terrifying and this is exactly what it was like’ is powerful.” Writing can also help to work out emotions. Ross says writing has provided understanding and insight into her past, and she hopes working through her own stories could prompt others to do the same. “For me, the writing is my motivation to figure it out. When you put it down on paper, there’s a way that you distance yourself from the things you’re writing about. I can look at myself almost as a character in a story and feel a compassion for myself that I don’t feel otherwise,” she says. “And it’s just trying to answer questions and hoping my answers will shine light on these difficult topics for other people.” Healing through writing is also an essential practice for Christine Kahane, who will be reading in this year’s production. While working on her recent book, Boulder Weekly
buzz Kahane went on a journey through her and her mother’s past. More than 20 years ago, in the few months before her mother’s passing, Kahane discovered that her mother, a Viennese Jew, had lost her entire family in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Then began Kahane’s mission to piece together her mother’s past. In her essay, “My Mother the Book Thief,” Kahane talks about her own self-discovery by learning about her mother’s shortcomings. “I gained a huge understanding of how out of sync my expectations were of her ability to love me in the way that I wanted,” Kahane says. “She didn’t get up every morning saying, ‘Hmm, how can I mess this kid up,’ but she got up every morning and met the walls of the prison that she lived in.” Kahane says she’s still learning from her mother and working on her own issues, including the regret she feels for never having children of her own. But through learning about her mother, she says she better understood the intricacies of being a daughter. “There’s an innocence between mothers and daughters, and my mom was terrified of it. We didn’t express a lot of between us,” she says. “I’m finding that touchstone, that lineage from grandmother to mother to daughter. There’s something really holy and sacred about that lineage we all carry. It’s in our DNA, ON THE BILL: and I think that’s what my mother gave Listen to Your Mother. 4 p.m me.” and 7 p.m. Saturday, May 9, Along with forgiving her mother, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303Kahane gained acceptance as well — the 440-7826. acceptance many people have to face Listen to Your Mother Book when they realize they’re becoming their Reading with Ann Stewart Zachwieja, Katie Wise, Yoon mother. Park and Eddy Jordan. 7:30 “In my 20s and 30s, I was living a life of p.m. Thursday, May 7, defense,” she says. “We all do this, saying Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447‘I’m nothing like my mother,’ that I’d never 2074. do this or be that. But I was finding in so many ways that I was, and that I had lived out so much of her own heartbreak and fears of diving into life.” Along with noticing the parallels with your own mother can come understanding. When having her own child, Moore says, she realized how much love her mother must have felt for her when she was born. And now, she says, she finally gets why later in life her mom would wait up for her until she got home safe and sound. Wisler says she also recognized that sometimes painful, but universal, truth that mom is usually right. “I find myself saying things that she used to say like, ‘If you don’t stop messing with that you’re going to break it and you’re not going to have it anymore,’” Wisler says. “You open your mouth and your mom comes out, and you’re just like, ‘Oh my God, that’s weird!’” Sharing and listening to these different experiences, Moore says, is a great way to reach out, especially since motherhood can at times be lonely and a little maddening. “It can be isolating to be a mom,” Moore says. “When you’re at work, you feel like you’re in the world, and when you’re at home you’re in the world in a different way. And your to-do list keeps regenerating itself — change a diaper, change a diaper, change a diaper again. You can’t ever cross something off.” “And being with irrational people all day can drive you crazy,” Wisler adds. “I mean, toddlers can make you feel like you’re losing your mind. So it’s nice to have some outlets like this show where you can complain about things and celebrate things.” “And to just be a human outside of being a mom,” Moore finishes. The women also point out a bond they feel with fellow cast members. Despite only having met a few times, Ross says, she’s found an intimacy with these women through their similar experiences. “There is nothing more human than procreating. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what your social position is or how much money you make or what your career is. This is what binds everyone together — everyone has a mom or is a mom,” Ross says. “There’s such a huge pool of experiences and perspectives and depths of feeling [in the show] that it’s a great community.” That community comes in handy when trying to navigate the tricky territory of parenthood and everything that life has to throw at you. In the end, Moore says, she hopes the show helps the audience feel more connected. “We can all learn from each other and know that we’re not alone,” she says. “That’s what it all comes back to. We’re all in this together.” Boulder Weekly
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armonyGrass turns 10 years And in some sense, surrounded by old this summer, almost old friends and supporters, this may be a enough to wander off on the kind of defining moment for the quingrounds of Rancho Del Rio tet, one of those rare landmark gigs that without direct supervision, defines or redefines a group. The last six and founder Andrew McConathy just months, the band has faced the kind of published the lineup for the annual challenges no band should ever have to high country stringpalooza August endure. Founding drummer and long13-16 with headliners The Traveling time friend of McConathy, Ted Welles McCoury’s with Bill Nershi, Rebel passed away last October two weeks shy Alliance Jam and Head for the Hills of his 35th birthday, in between sessions atop a lengthy marquee. One of in which the band was working on the Colorado’s most essential and quirkiest long-awaited follow-up to their debut ’grass fests, the event will be stationed Carbone-produced debut album. at The Center of the “It was a big hurdle Universe… but more on for all of us to get over ON THE BILL: that later. this and make sense of The Drunken Hearts all of it, which you realFor the time being, featuring Tim Carbone & Duane Trucks with ly can’t make sense of McConathy has been special guests Allie Kral something like this,” preparing for his other & Andy Thorn. McConathy reflected. main enterprise: his band Doors: 8:30 p.m. Show: 9 p.m. Saturday, “Just trying to pick up The Drunken Hearts’ May 9, Fox Theatre, the pieces, but the one blow-out gig at the Fox 1135 13th St., Boulder, thing that came out of this Saturday night. Tim 720-645-2467All ages. $15 advance, $18 day that was we woke up Carbone, longtime friend of, plus $2 for under-21 that day, and everything and mentor, and Derek had changed in terms of Trucks will be featured what music now really guests, along with current embodied to us. And now for us, taking Yonder Mountain String Band violist Allie Kral and Leftover Salmon’s ace it to the next level is all the more banjoist Andy Thorn, who was once important because we knew that’s what McConathy’s roommate. Ted wanted to do.” “We got some heavy hitters with Under other circumstances this conTim and Derek Trucks,” McConathy cert may have been a CD release party told us last week, “as well as Ally and on the cusp of festival season, but Andy, plus some serious surprises in McConathy says the new material is there, too. Actually, it’s all been a little progressing slowly and deliberately. No nerve-wracking, but we’re ready for it. one is trying to beat the clock on this It’s going to be a burner.” one.
The Drunken Hearts are focusing on attaining new levels of greatness with the next album as a tribute to their recently deceased drummer.
“This album is dedicated to Ted. He was and is such a huge part of who we are as a band and as people. ... Making sure it stands the test of time is of the utmost importance to us,” he said. “We think this album is the most genuine way that we can collectively serve Ted’s legacy and everything he stood for. We want to make sure we do it right.” And it’s unclear whether the album will even be ready in time for the Drunken Hearts’ set at YarmonyGrass, although McConathy indicates that a couple of digitals will probably be circulating by then. McConathy’s actually been doing YarmonyGrass longer than he’s played in his own band. “I grew up in the Vail Valley,” he explained, “and my parents’ old ranch, Yarmony Creek Ranch, is just about two miles away as the crow flies from Rancho, between Bond and McCoy. ... All the stuff around there — Yarmony Bridge, Yarmony Rapid, Yarmony Mountain — was all named after Chief Yarmony, who was a Ute Indian Chief in the Kremmling area. “But that’s where the festival was originally conceptualized. It moved down to State Bridge, which burned in year two, then we moved it over to
Copper Mountain, and then it came home to the Center of the Universe.” For the uninitiated, that’s Rancho Del Rio, the ramshackle guest resort planted along a sandy bottom on the Colorado River between Kremmling and State Bridge. During most of the year, the small overnight resort hosts some log cabins and provisions shuttles for river runners doing the Pumphouse segment of the river, a 10-mile stretch that drifts through high country scrub and peaceful ranches, punctuated here and there with Class III rapids, a place seemingly pasted from a Colorado Tourist Board brochure designer’s fevered dream. On a YarmonyGrass weekend in August, The Center of the Universe is packed riverbank to cliffside with domed tents, from above looking as if the otherwise sullen gray and green riparian environment has caught an inexplicable localized dose of kaleidoscopic polyester psoriasis. “We’ve thought about finding a more convenient location,” McConathy says, “but it would just lose all the magic, to my mind.” The gritty charm. “Yes, and there’s some seriously gritty charm out there.”
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arts & culture A portrait of the artist as a young transplant ‘The Norwegians’ presents fresh spin on stereotypical jokes by Gary Zeidner
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ore than a lot of other locales, Boulder is peopled by transplants. Almost everyone you meet is from somewhere else. In all my years living in our fair city, I’d estimate only a miniscule percentage of the people I’ve known were actually from here. Maybe it’s a byproduct of our proximity to Denver, the old Crossroads of the West, or maybe it’s just the increased transience offered by a well-developed highway system and inexpensive (well, relatively inexpensive) air travel, but finding a native Boulderite is on par with striking a vein of Unobtanium. Playwright C. Denby Swanson’s status as a transplant informs every moment of her dark comedy, The Norwegians. Swanson first lived in Texas and later moved to Minnesota. Her dramatic simulacrum is Olive (Rachel Ricca), a recent transplant from the Lone Star State to the North Star State. Olive not only struggles with the climatic and cultural differences between the land of steer horn-studded Cadillacs and the Land of 1,000 Lakes, but her boyfriend also recently dumped her, and she’s not taking it at all well. In a dark, divey bar, Olive meets fellow transplant Betty (Anna Hershey). Betty hails from Kentucky but has lived in Minnesota long enough to act as a Sacagawea of sorts, and she, too, has recently suffered a bad breakup. As the ladies commiserate, the bar becomes an echo chamber for their self-pity and spite for their exes. Soon, Olive gives in to the dark side and declares that she wants to have hers killed. Surprisingly, Betty not only gets behind the notion,
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politeness. If you liked Fargo — either the movie or television series — or simply have a hankering for some Minnesota-, Texas- or man-bashing, The Norwegians is the play for you. It will help if you were also a fan of Twin Peaks or Lynch’s other lighter work, because the second act embraces a certain surreality exemplified by a dreamlike stripper two-step interlude and an oddly protracted episode of purse-rummaging. Director Madge Montgomery’s love of the material comes through louder than a cowbell, and the cast are all game. Martin and Hershey, in particular, appear to relish their roles. Martin’s Tor is easily the funniest character on display, and he manages to maintain his “Oh yah” Minnesota accent nearly the entire time. Whether Swanson has succeeded in crafting a true neo-noir is debatable (I’d be willing to give her “noir-ish” with Montgomery’s musical choices carrying much of the load), but Hershey satisfyingly finds the femme fatale in Betty. She’s all brassy confidence with just the right undercurrent of restrained menace. As usual, the small but strong Theater Company of Lafayette delivers an exemplary production. Few companies of its size would even consider performing a lesser-known, edgier play like The Norwegians, and but this little company that could continues to bring daring shows to Boulder County.
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In The Norwegians, when Olive and Betty want revenge on their boyfriends, they hire hitpeople to finish the job.
but she just happens to know some guys who might be able to do the job. The hitmen, or “hitpeople” as they are dubbed in a moment of winkingly misplaced political correctness, are Gus (Tommy Plunkett) and Tor (Artemus Martin). They are Minnesotans through and through, and both come from Norwegian stock. While Gus is of mixed ancestry, Tor is 100 percent Norwegian and exhibits that rare level of cultural pride that manifests in his belief that everything — from the night sky to the Kama Sutra — is of Norwegian origin. The vast majority of the humor in The Norwegians derives from stereotypes. Texas tropes are trotted out in
the form of exaggerated accents, unbearable heat, cowboy culture and the ever-present threat of secession. In one of the play’s best moments, Betty notes that if Texas ever really did try to secede, no one would stop them. Minnesota clichés get the same treatment. The winters are brutal and endless, with short days and interminable nights. During the 10 minutes of summer, the mosquitoes are the size of Volkswagens. The locals are all “Minnesota nice.” And much of the population counts Norway its ancestral home, which leads to a litany of Norwegian shibboleths like homemade elderberry wine, gravlax, lutefisk, pervasive Lutheranism and preternatural
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JESSE LAFSER. 8 P.M. FRIDAY,
MAY 8, THE LAUGHING GOAT, 1709 PEARL ST., BOULDER, 303-440-4628.
Danny Shafer. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Music Alex Culbreth. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Alfredo Muro. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boogie Nights Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Swing Collective. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Time Warp
7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Hot patootie, bless my soul! With six months until Halloween, the Boulder Theater is gearing up for the holiday with the cult classic Rocky Horror Picture Show. As per tradition, along with the screening enjoy a performance by shadowcast Colorado’s Elusive Ingredient, which has been performing in Denver since 2000. Expect dancing, yelling, costumes, props and highly inappropriate behavior — just as Dr. Frank-N-Furter would expect. Whether it’s your first time or your 100th time, Rocky Horror will rose tint your world and keep you safe from your trouble and pain. You’ll surely be quivering with antici… pation.
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DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Long’s Peak School Band. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. see EVENTS Page 40
Listen
Grow Secret Garden Spring Opening and Mother’s Day Extravaganza
Dave Honig’s Latin Quarter. All day. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-2260.
Courtesy of Ed Jabari
9 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday to Sunday, May 8 to 10, The Secret Garden, 4715 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-997-7704. With the amount of rain being dumped on Boulder, hopefully that will lead to a lush, green summer full of delicious produce. To celebrate the start of gardening season, head to The Secret Garden for their Spring Opening and Mother’s Day Extravaganza. Now under new ownership, the Garden stands to preserve the history of North Boulder through community, sustainability and creativity. At their spring opening, there will be crafts, activities, gardening, premaculture workshops and farmto-table dinners. There will also be live music from Magpie, Colorado Misfists, Sam Rae and Sandra Wong. And for Mother’s Day there will be special stuff for mom to enjoy, including free massages.
Courtesy of Katie Mahan
Katie Mahan 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 8, Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720297-6397. Katie Mahan knew she wanted to be a concert pianist since the age of 4. She had her first solo recital at the age of 6, and since then she has performed on stages across the globe. She studied in some of the best institutes in the world and graduated with the highest honors from the University of Colorado College of Music where she studied under Robert Spillman. Her music explores a variety of eras and composers, and Mahan brings exciting new takes on classics including Gershwin, Chopin and Beethoven. Along with her technical skill, Mahan’s personality shines through in every key she hits, putting on a powerfully moving performance.
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MaryLynn Gillaspie. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Max Davies, Jason Horodyski. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Moon Puddle. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Old Town Pickers. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Pat Foley. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Sophia Zanowick. 8 p.m. Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Two By Chance. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Waka Flocka Flame. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Zen Mustache. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Events GohDoh Story Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Landscape Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647. Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Navigation For Sailors And Pilots. All day. Unitarian-Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195. Story Club in Motion. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Friday, May 8 Music Acoustic Stew. 12 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. All day. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. The Constant Tourists. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Eef of Destruction. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE. Fast Eddy Duo. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Flynn & Co. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Front Country. 7 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 303823-0848. The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Gutboy Barrelhouse. 6 p.m. Jamestown 40 May 7, 2015
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Acrylic Paintings by M.G. Davis. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30. Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Sept. 20.
M.G. Davis works to capture the Front Range landscapes using Pointillism2. HIs work is now on display The Book’s Undoing: at NCAR through May 30. Dieter Roth’s Artist’s Books. Special Collections Reading Room, Norlin Of Line and Color. The Dairy Center for the Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. 6144. Through May 15. Through June 12. Calling all Photgraphers for 2015 Land Palette Knife Gone Wild. The Dairy Center for Through the Lens Exhibit. The Great Frame the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-7293. 7826. Through June 12. Submission deadline June 19. Passion for Glass: Art Glass from Colorado Evan Colbert. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Collecitons. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Golden, 303-279-3922. Through May 31. Through May 25. Fiber Art by Gay E. Lasher. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through May 30. 44th Annual Jeffco Schools Foundation High School Exhibition — Lui Ferreyra. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. Through May 10.
Starring Linda: A Trio of John DeAndrea Sculptures. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 21. Tom Rice: Monuments to the Ephemeral. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through May 25.
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 28.
Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.
Margaret Neumann: Inscapes. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through June 7.
Unseen Structure Jeffco Tearcher Solo — Joe Fretz. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 10.
Means of Approach Jeffco Alumni Exhibition — Lui Ferreyra. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 10.
Wildflowers. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 12.
Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847. The Hunters. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Idlewhile. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Jesse Lafser, Gang Forward. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Katie Mahan. 7:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Kort McCumber. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Lee Johnson. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Silent Bear. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Soul Sacrifice “A Tribute to Santana, War, and More.” 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Tim Hill Combo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Toney Rocks. 8 p.m. Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Torbin Hadlock. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Vance Romance. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
MoonWavve. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.
Wallpaper House BANd. 6 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433683.
Naan Stop. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Weston Smith. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.
Whiskey Autumn. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.
Rogue Sound. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Wild Mountain Celts. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.
Shakedown Street. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre,
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Events Nicholas Thompson & Maruca Designs. 6 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Opening for Three Colorful New Exhibits. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, May 9 Music Amoramora. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Aural Elixir. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. David Coile. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. DJ Mr. GetDowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. The Drunken Hearts. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Felonius Smith and Johnny Johnston. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Flatirons Community Orchestra Concert. 7 p.m. Harvest Baptist Church, 7493 Old Mill Trail, Boulder, 303-494-5081. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Girls on Top. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Henscratch. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955. Intergalactic Radio. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. Intuitive Compass. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Lee Gabriel and John Cacciatore. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303651-7886.
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The Library Concert Series. 2 p.m. Canyon Theater, Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Lionel Young. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Live Jazz with Mary Wallace. 8 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578. Longmont Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-6510401. Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Matt Skinner Band. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847. Message In A Bottle. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Misadventures. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Monocle Band. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Moonlight Breakdown. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Nick O’Connor. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.
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Thursday, May 7
303-440-4628.
Listen to Your Mother — Anne Stewart Zachwieja, Kaitie Wise, Yook Park and Eddy Jordan. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.
Tuesday, May 12 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Poets ElizaA New Buddhist beth Robinson, Path — David Graham Foust Poet Elizabeth Robinson heads to Innisfree Loy. 7:30 p.m. and Bin Ramke. on May 7. Boulder Book 7 p.m. Innisfree Store, 1107 Pearl Poetry Bookstore & St., Boulder, 303Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495447-2074. 3303. Wednesday, May 13 Monday, May 11 Secrets of Ancient America — Carl Lehr“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 burger. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.
303-908-6036.
The Orb with Androcell. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Porcelain City. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
Wild Asparagus Ball. 8 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Ruth Galloway and Students. 1 p.m. Founders Hall, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-6650599.
Wrong Side Right. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.
Shindig. All day. Rogers Hall, Fourth and High streets, Lyons, 303-823-6433. Slyders Band. 6 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Sound Circle: 20th Anniversary Concert. 8 p.m. Unity Columbine Spiritual Center, 8900 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-546-0114. Springdale Quartet. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Taylor Radio. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette,
Events Eighth Annual Boulder Home & Garden Fair. 10 a.m. 29th St., Boulder, 303-443-0600 x 106. Cosmic Connection Karaoke. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Dior and I. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Free Entrepreneur Lunch and Learn. 12 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100,
theater Annie. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239, Through May 10.
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Forever Plaid. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through May 10. Hysteria — preLittle orphan Annie finally finds a home sented by Boulder with Daddy Warbucks in the musical now Ensemble Theatre playing at the DCPA. Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 209-2154. Through May Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 17.
Les Miserables. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through May 10. Murder on the Nile. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through May 16. The Norwegians. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 72023.
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events Boulder, 303-800-4647. Geology of Rabbit Mountain. 9 a.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space, 55th St., Lyons, 303-6786200. Hands-On Healing. 3 p.m. Boulder Psychic Institute, 1332 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-530-0920. Hands-On Digital Photography Introduction. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Happy Smackah Fun Run. 8 a.m. Dawson Park, Lakeshore Drive, Longmont, 303-651-8446. Laurie D. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Home and Garden Fair, 29th Street Mall, Boulder, 303-443-0600, ext. 106. Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133.
New Family Dog. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Nick O’Connor. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. The Prairie Scholars Happy Hour. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., Suite 1, Longmont, 303-684-8383. Events Adaptive Mountain Bike Open House. 10 a.m. Marshall Mesa Trailhead, 5258 Eldorado Springs Drive, Boulder, 303-818-0284. Boulder Road Runners Sunday Social Run. 9 a.m. First National Bank Annex, 3033 Iris Ave.,
Boulder, 303-905-2415. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Cyclofemme Ride. 10 a.m. Green Guru Gear, 2500 47th St. Unit Suite 12, Boulder, 303-2581611. Flower Show Demonstration. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Go Club for Kids and Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772.
Mother’s Day Flower Show. All day. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Welcome to Me. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday, May 11 Music Acoustic Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720638-1623. Antonio Lopez Band. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues see EVENTS Page 44
The Library Concert Series Presents: The Colorado Chamber Players. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Mother’s Day Flower Show. All day. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Silent Films. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Silent Films. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. STEAM Saturdays — Learn Coding with Coder Dojo and SparkFun. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Symphony of the Wild. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Western Views. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Sunday, May 10 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Eric Adrian Gonzales: BBQ & Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Felonius Smith and Steve Shelton. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Flatirons Community Orchestra. 7 p.m. Harvest Baptist Church, 7493 Old Mill Trail, Boulder, 303-494-5081. The Good Manners. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jill Cohn. 11 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Left Hand Artist Group Showcase. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont. Max Garca Conover and The Ghost of Paul Revere. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The MOMs. 8 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Mother’s Day Brunch Jazz and Blues Brunch. 10 a.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Mother’s Day Invention. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Weekly
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Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.
NY Film Critics Series: Every Secret Thing plus interview with Diane Lane, Dakota Fanning, Amy Berg and Frances McDormand. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. The Prairie Scholars: Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Prospect Sound Bites with Dotsero. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Events BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-2523962.
Chance Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Burn The Covers Open Mic. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-4428292.
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Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
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Open Free Form Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-9398463.
Events Boulder Dance for Parkinsons. 11:30 a.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Das Boot Trivia. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Intuitive Compass. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. Johnny O Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Karaoke with Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328. Midday Music. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Nick O’Connor. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Events ’80s Party — Celebrating 30 Years of Arts Longmont. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Craft Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Dickens Comedy House. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Rotary Club of Longmont St. Vrain. 7 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2704. Spring Concert: Voices of the Knight Chivalry, Troubadours, Festival and Mass Choir. 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100. Welcome to Me. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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nother epic tale about incredi- “enhanced” humans: the Scarlet Witch bly powerful beings fighting (Elizabeth Olsen) and Quicksilver against one another with (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). As Maria Hill melodramatic overtones? (Cobie Smulders) explains to Cap, Ugh.” – Theater critics in “He’s fast, she’s weird.” One of the ancient Greece reacting to the latest play “weird” things Scarlet Witch can do is about Gods and mortals make people see their worst nightmares. Iron Man’s worst nightmare is failing to Whenever a new cinematic comic protect the Earth against invading alien book adaptation hits — and, admittedly, it’s becoming a near weekly event — forces, like the ones that almost killed critical reaction divides into two camps: Earth in the first movie. So he creates “Yahoo!” and “Poo-Poo.” The Yahooers an artificially intelligent robot, Ultron irritate the Poo-Pooers ( James Spader), that with their exuberance will protect Earth. In for a film more conthe history of film, cerned with “oohs and creating artificial intelahs” than realistic ligence has never gone pathos. The Poowell. So the remainder Pooers irritate the of the film is one big Yahooers because the fight between The Poo-Pooers are joyless Avengers and Ultron’s horde of robot lackeys. dicks who think themWriter/director selves intellectually Joss Whedon so superior when really deeply grasps the core they’re just being conappeal of Marvel trarian fart boxes. comics: fun and disIt’s totally fine to tinct characters who not like comic book try to do good against movies… or any genre, impossible odds while really. But it’s the engaging in super height of pseudointelThe Avengers are back with a cool action. There are lectual snobbery to new movie packed with big acsome delightful slyly suggest that somehow tion and super hero antics. meta moments, like we’ve “had enough” of Hawkeye admitting a certain type of movie he’s sorta lame and Hill noting the or that the proliferation of superhero lack of women in the film (which is movies has literally had any impact on the films the Poo-Poo gang prefers. The clever, Joss, but isn’t a fix for, you tropes explored by comic book films are know, actually having more women in the film). By its very nature, this timeless, borrowing from themes as old sequel can’t replicate the singularly as those in biblical storytelling and creation mythology. And if you can look at fantastic feel of seeing the gang come together for the first time. But what it a towering spectacle of an animated loses in surprise, it makes up for in character like The Vision (Paul understanding the best parts of every Bettany) in Avengers: Age of Ultron and character. aren’t impressed by the technical prowAnother thing people only do to ess necessary to birth such a creation on comic book movies is compare them to screen… see the aforementioned fart each other. Nobody walks out of a drama box comment. like Boyhood and says “Now rank all the Age of Ultron opens with the Black dramas.” Age of Ultron is fun, ephemeral Widow (Scarlett Johansson), Captain summer fare. As lame-o Hawkeye says in America (Chris Evans), Hawkeye the film, “That’s our job.” ( Jeremy Renner), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) and the Hulk (Mark This reviews first appeared in The Ruffalo) raiding a compound where bad Reader of Omaha, Neb. guys have already created two new Boulder Weekly
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hen Alice Klieg enact tragic moments of her life for all (Kristen Wiig) was 11, to see. Alice may be off her meds, but she was diagnosed she’s a multi-millionaire after-all and manic-depressive, put certainly not the first rich eccentric on medication and that wants to get into television. How grew up like most teenagers do. Yet, could they say no? the events that shaped Alice’s upbringAlice’s show, Welcome to Me, which ing, although not abnormal, stuck she designs and crafts every aspect of deeper in her mind the production, prothan most. Where vides her exactly most people learn to what she needs, a move on from certain medium where she is moments, Alice allowed to indulge in remains in those every aspect of hermoments, holding on self, including a proto them while withducer who she can drawing from the knock out quickies with in the back and world. She is waiting audience members for her moment to that call her an “artshare these memories, ist” and sleep with but not until she has a her in the limo. For big enough platform Alice, a woman who to do so. has spent the last 11 Now at the age of years of her life sit42, Alice has won the ting in front of TV California lottery, hitthat she never turns ting the jackpot for off, it’s a dream come $86 million. The true. world is now her oyster. Alice happily goes Alice’s view of on television to television has been a ON THE BILL: Welcome to Me. May 8 – 14 at The receive her winnings, long time coming, Boedecker Theater, 2590 but when her and her spiritual Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440rehearsed statement older brother, Rupert 7825. Tickets start at $6 at www.thedairy.org. touches on sexual Pupkin from 1982’s tendencies, the feed is The King of Comedy, pulled, and Alice’s big saw television the moment is cut short. same way: not preferable to reality, but Although brief, Alice enjoys the as reality. Yet, when The King of spotlight and sees an opportunity to tell Comedy was released in 1982, the her story, all her stories. As Alice tells 24-hour network cycle had just been her mother, “Everyone wants to be on born and reality television was still a TV.” premonition of things to come. In Rich ( James Marsden) and Gabe Welcome to Me, that time has come. (Wes Bentley), two brothers who run a Anyone with enough money and cable access network out of Palm enough narcissism can be a reality star Springs, Calif., also wanted to be in or a game show contestant. And if television, but then the revenue streams they are a train wreck at the same dried up long ago, and they’ll take time, all the better. At one point, whatever comes their way. Alice and Alice’s mother (Lisa Shields) tells her, her blank check comes knocking, tell“Not everyone is an emotional exhibiing them that she wants her own TV tionist.” Alice, and a multitude of realtalk show, like Oprah, where she will ity TV stars, talk show hosts and game write, direct, star, sing, cook and recontestants would beg to differ. Boulder Weekly
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ach new plate arrived to the table as a twist of a kaleidoscope. When we drained the color from one, another arrived, swirling colors into a different combination and pattern. We remembered the food by its color, not by each dish, when we left Busaba in Louisville. Like, for instance, the cymbal smash of sliced red pepper and chili flakes in the drunken noodles. The pepper was juicy like a tomato and the chili’s heat worked its way from the inside out. The noodles were flat and golden, dressed lightly in a garlic and basil paste. It was all a deep foundation for the pink and red whisps of grilled shrimp. The shrimp, about the size of a curled index finer, were tender with a crunchy exterior, the product of a high-heat char that also imparted smoke and fire to the dish. Beside the mosaic of plates was a sweating glass of coconut Thai iced tea. Dark, rich Ceylon tea turned burnt orange midway through the cup, ceding eventually to white coconut milk. I’ve always thought Thai iced tea was the most beautiful man-made foodstuff; simple and evocative in flavor, color and texture. Busaba’s was floral, fresh and nutty. That drink was the first on the table, but it so much mirrored the last dish we had. Bua Loy was a revelation at dessert. It was a bowl of hot coconut milk with quarter-sized, bright orange pumpkin and brown rice balls floating beside black and white sesame seeds. The pumpkin and rice balls were firm but fleshy like tapioca, and flavored
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then — diced and pickled cucumbers came alongside the Busaba satay; scallion and 133 S. McCaslin Blvd., Louisville, 303-665-0330 cilantro garnished most dishes. The occasional leaf lettuce. But the flavor of green was most concentrated in the vegetable potstickers — broccoli, cilantro and basil alongside potato and carrot stuffed and steamed in a thin and expertly browned pocket and accompanied by a glassy black soy chili sauce. One notable exception from the color spectrum on the table was blue. That is until you look up. The giant glass windows are tinted just so to refract the evening light into that tiny band of color waves. It’s odd, you feel like you’re on some airy cliff in Busaba, not next to a dry cleaner and across from a frumpy CVS pharmacy. Getting darker, indigo cabbage and effortless webs of shredded beets balanced the aesthetic of the drunken noodles and a wonderfully bright fruit that is, it was so damn good, I ate salad, Som Tum. Shredded papaspoonfuls of it until it was gone. ya was interwoven with tomatoes, carLater added to the table was a bowl rots, green beans and peanuts into a of yellow curry. Sauteed striplets of juicy bird’s nest. In a bowl nearby, violet peppered pork and potato found equishells of onion floated between three librium in a coconut creamy, rich yellow different types of mushrooms in a curry. It was ordered at the hottest of punchy and lemony Tom Yum. the three heat options, despite the courBusaba, we’re told at the beginning teous but definitive head shake from of the meal, means flower in Thai, and the waitress, and it unsurprisingly came so it’s no wonder there is such attention really spicy. It was certainly within reato flavor and color in its dishes. son for any spice lover, and within the Leaving, a dark purple sky blends us context of the greater meal, it added a back into the real world and yet again new layer that most diners would enjoy. I’m reminded how much else food can Splashes of green appeared now and be.
Busaba in Louisville is vibrant Thai by Matt Cortina modestly. The whole dish was so elegantly simple, in presentation, taste and color. I don’t want to offend it by such a low-brow comparison, but just to contextualize it, it was a bit like eating the best bowl of Cap’n Crunch in your life. Moving back, the understated sweetness of Bua Loy was also reflected in the first course chicken satay with chili peanut butter sauce. The skewered chicken, rubbed in yellow spices and grilled, was as juicy and tender as you can get a piece of chicken that thin. The peanut butter sauce was the apex of a salty, sweet and savory pyramid —
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n Dec. 17, President 22 USD a month), according to Cuba’s Obama announced a mon- National Statistics and Information umental decision for Cuba Bureau. When it comes to food, and United States relations Cubans depend on specified rations in a speech on Cuba policy mostly filled with subsidized food like changes from the White House. rice, beans, sugar and coffee that they “We will end an outdated can pick up at bodegas where food approach,” the president said, “that for ration coupons are accepted. Although decades has failed to there is a “black marCourtesy of Spenser Havlick advance our interests ket” where the likes of and instead we will gourmet food, cheese begin to normalize relaand meat find their way tions between our two to foreigners and countries.” wealthy Cubans, the So after 53 years, majority of food the the embargo on Cuba is Cuban population has about to be lifted, access to is limited which has myriad based on the embargo implications for politics, that has been officially culture, economics and in place since 1962. more. But what we’re Spenser Havlick, most concerned — and president of the excited — about is the Boulder-Cuba Sister food. What Cuban traCity Organization, says A Cuban worker takes down ditions will infiltrate that although food coconuts from a tree. American cooking? Or, options are slowly getperhaps more relevant, ting better in Cuba, for what will we do to the average family it’s Cuban cuisine? Changes won’t come still not plentiful and the options are overnight, but it’s worth a look ahead. narrow. “Food is scarce,” Havlick says. “A Cuban food today typical Cuban family eats very, very A typical Cuban’s monthly salary simply with daily tortillas, rice and averages 466 pesos (which equals about beans and when lucky, chicken that may
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A traditional Cuban plate of fried platinains, beans, rice and chicken found at Boulder restaurant Cuba Cuba.
have been sacrificed instead of surviving as an egg producer.” In Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, author Ken Albala echoes Havlick’s assertion of the simplicity of Cuban everyday cuisine, saying that Cubans eat rice for lunch and dinner almost every day. Meat has always been in short supply in Cuba, and imports have been unreliable. But Cuban cuisine has largely been influenced by the cuisines of Spain, Africa and South America. Besides moros y cristianos (Cuban version of rice and beans), a sofrito (sauce), made of garlic, cumin, onion, green peppers, oregano and bay leaves, is most commonly found as the flavor base to enhance their rationed food. Easier
found food like root vegetables such as yucca and plantains are also commonly found in Cuban meals to accompany the likes of empanadas, when available. When desserts may be created, you can find the traditional Cuban flan, tres leches cake or pastelitos (a baked puff pastry filled with a sweet filling like guava), alongside a cafe con leche. There are various food markets in Cuba, and in the larger cities such as Havana and Guantanamo City, there are daily markets that are often situated under a makeshift shelter located in the same place every day. In this case, the food that’s available relies on the season with fruits, vegetables and a limited see CUBA Page 54
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into the U.S. is unlikely. The numbers supply of fish or chicken. Havlick describes “informal” or inversely point more toward a U.S. push “spontaneous” markets that may also of goods directly to Cuba. occur in neighborhood streets that offer According to the World Food the limited likes of cabbage, garlic and Program, 80 percent of Cubans import perhaps some citrus fruit. their food. In 2013 alone, American “Once I saw a vendor in the shadow firms sold $348 million worth of agriof the old Capitol building in Havana,” cultural goods to Cuba, according to he remembers, “with three cardboard the U.S. Cuban Trade and Economic boxes of apples [with a Washington state Council. Even with that import volume, label on the boxes]. They were sold very estimates from the U.S. Chamber of rapidly. I never saw them again.” Commerce place the dire cost of the Smaller towns will have the occaCuban embargo to the U.S. economy sional farmer-to-vendor markets, where between $1.2 billion and $4.84 billion you might see vegetables for sale right annually. A 2010 study by Texas A&M from their gardens, including green University calculated that 6,000 beans, corn, onions, taro root and coco- American jobs could be created by liftnuts. ing the embargo as well. Although there are no real famous The difficulties of importing lie food festivals due to the above menwith the current taxes and red tape tioned limitations, Cubans in larger cit- involved in sending food to Cuba. If an ies with more resources Courtesy of Spenser Havlick agricultural or food do still find the time to producer wants to sell celebrate over their joy or import into Cuba, for music, whether it’s they have to get cash Havana Carnival in July upfront from the with dancers, live music Cuban government before they ship, and and street food like roast pork, or Havana then the money International Jazz exchange has to be Festival, featuring infahandled through a mous Afrocuban beats, third-party bank, which Latin jazz and salsa also extends many addimusic. tional transaction costs. What may not be The barrier to entry is clear to someone with ominous. limited knowledge of Even if the influCommunity pig roasts are speCuba and the effect of ence of U.S.-imported cial events in Cuba. the embargo is that povfoods will eventually aid erty is widespread and as Cuba, very little has Havlick remarks, “family eating is a priactually taken place for U.S. citizens to vate undertaking.” Although their spirits travel to Cuba. There is still the are not entirely broken, the storied and requirement for obtaining a license zesty Cuban food we might know of in from the U.S. Treasury Department, the United States is largely found in a and there are just 12 categories whereby permission is given to travel to Cuba, few upscale restaurants in Cuba that which leaves us wondering when these very few locals would step foot into, if economic and culinary implications are ever. going to actually improve and take Importing stipulations and place. U.S. and Cuban relations: This desire for change is important With the embargo lift, there is the for economic and political standards consideration that perhaps we’ll see between the two countries. There will more Cuban food, spices and influence be an economic uptick for U.S. food in the United States in the near future. producers and farmers, and Cuba’s To date, rum and cigars are the main influx of quality and varietal foods will sources of imports we see from Cuba. be monumental. The quality of life for Some changes that are looking to be Cubans would improve and many adjusted with the embargo lift for believe there would be steps to binding Americans returning from a trip to the severed tie that has existed for so Cuba would be that you could return many years. with up to $400 in Cuban goods, a Given the nature of Cuban day-toquarter of which can be spent on alcoday life and the benefits both countries hol and tobacco. will realize after the embargo is lifted, Nonetheless, since Cubans don’t pro- it’s easy to agree with the recent comduce nearly enough food even for them- ments from Agriculture Secretary John selves and their food supply is so limited Block: “We should have done it a long time ago.” already, a surge in imports from Cuba Boulder Weekly
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udging by Boulder County menus, wine shelves and conversations, the only two red grapes that matter from Italy are nebbiolo and sangiovese. The only regions that matter for reds, it seems sometimes, are Piedmont and Tuscany. Tuscan wines like Chianti, brunello di Montalcino, super Tuscans and others have been, rightfully, Wikipedia afforded elite status. Nebbiolo, often seen in wine from Barolo and Barbaresco, is considered a more challenging grape, but still many hold it in the highest regard. Take this introduction from Frasca’s wine list — a James Beard Awardwinning wine list — as an example of the esteem with which many hold the grape. “Nebbiolo is Italy’s greatest red grape,” the menu reads. “There is a taut crispness in the mouth, an aristocratic reticence even, particularly when compared to the palate shape of plush super Tuscans or the full-throttle reds of the New World.” Far be it from me to dispute that. I don’t know how, and I’m scared to. But in that due bluster around nebbiolo and sangiovese, and their subsequent products, it’s hard to find on Boulder County menus what some of us hiding over in the corner consider Italy’s finest red: amarone della Valpolicella. Amarone is a dry red wine made from a majority of the corvina grape blended with up to 30 percent rondinella and up to 25 percent of other varietals, often molinara. Valpolicella is a wine region that lies in the hills outside Venice in the northeast Italian region of Veneto. Amarone is considered a vino da meditazione, or meditative wine, because it’s often consumed toward the end of meals, as festivities begin to wind down. It can be imbibed with sharp cheeses, roasts or gamey meats, or just enjoyed on its own. It can be legally no less than Boulder Weekly
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ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Benedictine monks observe the Latin motto Laborare est Orare. The 19th-century abbot Maurus Wolter interpreted these words to mean “work is worship” or “work is prayer.” He was trying to impress upon his fellow monks that the work they did was not a grudging distraction from their service to God, but rather at the heart of their devotion. To do their tasks with love was a way to express gratitude for having been blessed with the gift of life. I propose that you experiment with this approach in the coming weeks, even if your version is more secular. What would it be like to feel contentment with and appreciation for the duties you have been allotted? TAURUS APRIL 20-MAY 20: Here’s one of the best things you can do for your mental and physical health: Withdraw your attention from the life that lies behind you, and be excited about the life that stretches ahead of you. Forget about the past, and get wildly inventive as you imagine the interesting future you will create for yourself. Forgive everyone who has offended you, and fantasize about the fun adventures you’ll go on, the inspiring plans you’ll carry out, and the invigorating lessons you hope to learn. GEMINI MAY 21-JUNE 20: In the children’s book The Little Engine That Could, a little blue engine volunteers to pull a long chain of train cars up a steep hill, even though it’s not confident it has the power to do so. As it strains to haul the heavy weight, it recites a mantra to give itself hope: “I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.” The story ends happily. The little blue engine reaches the top of the hill with its many cars in tow and is able to glide down the rest of the way. As you deal with your own challenge, Gemini, I recommend that you use an even more forceful incantation. Chant this: “I know I can, I know I can, I know I can.” CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: Here’s a confession: I have taken a vow to foster beauty, truth, love, justice, equality, tolerance, creativity, playfulness and hope. To do this work is one of my life goals. I approach it with the devotion of a monk and the rigor of a warrior. Does that mean I ignore difficulty and suffering and cruelty? Of course not. I’m trying to diminish the power of those problems, so I sure as hell better know a lot about them. On the other hand, my main focus is on redemption and exaltation. I prefer not to describe in detail the world’s poisons, but rather to provide an antidote for them. Even if you don’t normally share my approach, Cancerian, I invite you to try it for the next two weeks. The astrological time is right. LEO JULY 23-AUG. 22: The hill where I take my late afternoon hikes is teeming with the six-petaled purple wildflower known as the elegant cluster-lily. Every one of them — and there are hundreds — lean hard in the direction of the sun in the west. Should I deride them as conformists that follow the law of the pack? Should I ridicule them for their blind devotion? Or should I more sensibly regard them as having a healthy instinct to gravitate toward the life-giving light? I’ll go with the latter theory. In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to ignore the opinions of others as you turn strongly toward the sources that provide you with essential nourishment. VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Am I reading the astrological omens correctly? I hope so. From what I can tell, you have been flying under the radar and over the rainbow. You have been exploiting the loopholes in the big bad system and enjoying some rather daring experiments with liberation. At this point in the adventure, you may be worried that your lucky streak can’t continue much longer. I’m here to tell you that it can. It will. It must. I predict that your detail-loving intelligence will paradoxically guide you to expand your possibilities even further. LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: According to the three science fiction films collectively known as The Matrix, we humans suffer from a fundamental delusion. What we think is real life is actually a sophisticated computer simulation. Intelligent machines have created this dream world to keep us in suspended animation while they harvest our energy to fuel their civilization. Now as far as I can tell, this scenario isn’t literally true. But it is an apt metaphor for how many of us seem to be half-asleep or under a spell, lost in our addiction to the simulated world created by technology. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a favorable time to diminish the hold that the metaphorical Matrix has on you. What can you do to at least partially escape your bondage? (Hint: A little more contact with nature could do the trick.) SCORPIO OCT. 23-NOV. 21: In the coming weeks, you may be as alluring and intriguing and tempting as you have been in a long time. I suggest you capitalize on this advantage. Proceed as if you do indeed have the power to attract more of the emotional riches you desire. Assume that are primed to learn new secrets about the arts of intimacy, and that these secrets will make you even smarter and more soulful than you already are. Cultivate your ability to be the kind of trusted ally and imaginative lover who creates successful relationships.
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SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21: CAPRICORN Physicist Frank DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Wilczek won a Nobel In 1934, Capricorn Prize for his research baseball player Dizzy into quarks, the tiny Dean was named particles that comthe Most Valuable pose protons and Player after winning neutrons. The guy 30 games. It was a Go to RealAstrology.com to check out is breathtakingly feat that no National Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO smart. Here’s one of League pitcher has HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE his operating prinrepeated ever since. ciples: “If you don’t HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes After Dean retired, he make mistakes, you’re was inducted into the are also available by phone at 1-877not working on hard Hall of Fame. Never 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. enough problems. shy about acknowledgAnd that’s a big mising his own prowess, take.” Let’s enshrine he declared that “if his advice as your you can do it, it ain’t meditation, Sagittarius. I think you’re strong enough bragging.” It is in this spirit that I invite you to freely and brave enough to go hunting for some new superexpound on your talents and accomplishments in the rich dilemmas. Yes, they may lead you to commit some coming week. You won’t be boasting. You will simply be booboos. But they will also stretch your intelligence providing information. And that will ultimately result in beyond its previous limits, giving you a more vigorous you being offered an interesting new opportunity or two. understanding of the way the world works.
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Dear Dan: Last summer, I reconnected with a high-school teacher I hadn’t seen for a year. We first met when I was 15, and I had nothing but respect for him and his intelligence. I also had a crush on him for the next four years. Fast-forward a year. He is sexting me and sending dick pics and wants to hook up. He has told me he loves me. I feel violated and tricked, like he was supposed to be someone I could trust and he didn’t respect that. Now I wonder how teachers really see underage high-school girls. This whole experience has made me feel dirty. Moreover, he has never respected that I have a boyfriend and that I want nothing to do with his advances. I met up with a former classmate, and she told me that this teacher and another teacher said similar things to her. Ew! Most former classmates of mine still believe him to be a respectable man and a great teacher. But I know him for what he really is, and when I think of it, I get so angry. How do I move on from this? — Schooling Thankfully Over Permanently Dear STOP: I would never want to minimize the creepiness factor of a former teacher sending you dick pics and refusing to take “I want nothing to do with your advances” for an answer. (And you didn’t just say “I have a boyfriend” and hope that he would hear “And I want nothing to do with your advances,” right? Because if all you said was “I have a boyfriend,” STOP, he may have heard, “I would love to fuck you, but I have a boyfriend.”) And I defi-
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nitely believe high-school teachers — all teachers who work with minors — should refrain from fucking current students and sending dick pics to former students. One is statutory rape and an abuse of power (fucking underage students); the other is career suicide (hitting on former students will get your ass fired eventually). As for the other issues you raise… This guy was your teacher when you were 15… you had a crush on him for four years… a crush he doubtless picked up on… and you somehow reconnected with him after not seeing him for a year… and one year after reconnecting, he’s still contacting you despite your rejection of him. If I’ve got the timeline right (math is still hard!), STOP, you were 19 or 20 when you reconnected with your former teacher and you’re 20 or 21 now. Maybe even 22. That means nothing happened — nothing appropriate or inappropriate — until you were (1) no longer his student and (2) legally an adult. Your former teacher did nothing inappropriate when you were his student (you surely would’ve included that detail), and so far as you know, he’s never behaved inappropriately toward a current student. Which means either your former teacher has a solid age-range floor (he’s not
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attracted to anyone under the age of 18) or he’s capable of exercising self-control (not only can he refrain from fucking girls under the age of 18 who he happens to find attractive, but he can conduct himself in such a way that those girls have no idea he finds them attractive). Your former classmate’s story complicates the picture — and yucks the picture — but she was a former student and an adult when these teachers said “similar things” to her, right? That’s still creepy, of course, it’s still not OK, and it’s still potential career suicide for both these idiots. But it’s not technically illegal. If you honestly believe that either or both of these idiots are behaving inappropriately toward their current students, STOP, you should approach the administration at your old high school with your concerns. Doing so will result in the end of their careers as educators — but if these guys are trying to fuck their current students and/or grooming their current students for fucking a year or two after they graduate, then both should get the fuck out of teaching. As for feeling dirty, STOP, I don’t understand where that’s coming from. You didn’t do anything dirty. The realization that this teacher might have had a crush on
you back when you had one on him — and he might not have had a crush on you then — shouldn’t hurl you into some sort of existential crisis. If knowing that a teacher might have found you sexually attractive back when you were a junior in high school leaves you feeling violated, tricked, and angry, STOP, if that realization has you convinced that all teachers are secret perverts, then you seem to be operating under a faulty set of assumptions about what teachers are. They’re not robots, they’re not eunuchs, they’re not humanoids from a parallel universe where life isn’t occasionally complicated by an unwanted sexual attraction. Teachers are human beings, and like all other human beings*, they sometimes experience sexual attraction, including sexual attraction of the unwelcome and/or inappropriate variety. What they choose to do about it — suppress it, act on it — determines whether they’re respectable men and women and (possibly) great teachers or total creeps and/or sex offenders. This does not, of course, excuse what your former teacher is doing to you now. He’s sexually harassing you. Tell him to stop and threaten to take it up with the school board if he doesn’t. How do you move on? You do what I do on Twitter: Block and forget the asshole — BAFTA. * Except for asexual humans, of course. Except for them. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter
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