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I’ve been a fan of Boulder Weekly since moving to Longmont. The newspaper’s pull-no-punches reporting has always been refreshing. Its ability to see the significance of breaking information and to raise new issues to prominence in the community is outstanding. The characteristic that I celebrate the most is Boulder Weekly’s thorough,
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Highroad The class of 2013 seems to ‘get it’ by Jim Hightower
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arrell’s hardware store, located near my home in Austin, Texas, is the opposite of a big-box chain store. It’s an unchained, small-box store with a knowledgeable staff willing to help customers figure out how to do most any project. Harrell’s slogan is: “Together, we can do it yourself.” I borrowed that rich concept for a commencement speech I recently laid on high school graduates in my home-
accurate investigative reporting, mostly recently demonstrated in the in-depth analysis of the old coal gasification plant in Boulder and the contamination of soil and water left behind from operations more than half a century ago. As I read the latest articles, the immortal words of Ronald Reagan came to mind, “There you go again.” Not only is it my fervent hope, it now appears to be my life’s work to
assure that history does not repeat itself. I refer to the ever-unfolding situation of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling for gas and oil. Seventy years ago we may have been able to say that practices that contaminated the environment and damaged health were not well understood. They are now, however, and there is no excuse for the denial and
town of Denison, Texas. Like most commencement droners, I urged the bright kids in funny square hats to do “Big Things” in life. But my message was that bigness cannot be measured in terms of personal wealth and self aggrandizement, even though such narcissism is the ethic being preached and practiced by today’s corporate and political elite. Rather, only by joining with others in democratic actions can any of us achieve something bigger than ourselves — something for the betterment of the whole community. As Bill Moyers noted in an earlier speech, “Civilization is not just ‘what happens,’ it is what we make happen.” The key word there is “We,” for no “I” is big enough to do the job. But together, as Harrell’s says, “we can do it.” The proof of this was sitting right in front of me at the graduation ceremonies. When I was in their place in
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1961, every single person in my class and the audience was a white Anglo. Our schools and town were totally segregated. On this night, though, the ceremony was a glory of Anglo, African, Latino, Arab, Asian and other ancestries. Denison became a better, more civilized place only because so many people (including some of the grayheads in this audience) had dared to stand together to make it happen. The class of 2013 applauded this ethic of social progress — and they gave me hope that we can pull our country together again, E pluribus unum. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. June 20, 2013 7
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he four-lane Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River near Seattle seemed to be in good shape for a 58-year-old structure. Inspected as recently as last November, it wasn’t even on the list of bridges judged “structurally deficient.” Yet in May, it suddenly collapsed after a truck clipped a steel truss. Two cars careened into the river below. Fortunately, no one was killed. It was a “fracture critical” bridge, which means that it can break apart if a single, vital component is undermined. The I-35W bridge in Minneapolis was also such a structure. In 2007, it collapsed during rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others. However, public officials in recent years have been focused on repairing more dangerous bridges deemed “structurally deficient,” which means that a large portion of the bridge is in poor condition or worse. Thousands of “fracture critical” bridges are currently in use, according to a recent Associated Press analysis. Amazingly, 68,842 bridges in America — 11.5 percent — are classified as “structurally deficient,” requiring significant maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement. You can look up your local “structurally deficient” bridges on the website of Transportation for America (a national coalition for transportation policy reform) at http://t4america.org/resources/bridges. Boulder has three, Longmont has six, Lafayette has 10, Louisville has seven, Broomfield has three. In November 2011, Boulder MoveOn activists “occupied” the bridge at 38th and Arapahoe in a demonstration to support rebuilding the national infrastructure. Built in 1938, about 15,500 cars drive over it each day, and many people bike, jog and walk on the Boulder Creek Path that runs underneath it. At an average age of 43 years, the typical bridge in America is nearing the end of its 50-year design life, and many thousands are much older than that. But governments favor spending transportation dollars on widening roads or building new expressways that encourage sprawl. Transportation for America reports: “In recent years, most transportation agencies have delayed needed repairs and maintenance, while focusing their energy on new construction. In 2008, all states combined spent more than $18
billion, or 30 percent of the federal transportation funds they received, to build new roads or add capacity to existing roads. In that same year, states spent $8.1 billion of federal funds on repair and rehabilitation of bridges, or about 13 percent of total funds. States currently have the ability to ‘flex,’ or transfer out, up to 50 percent of their bridge repair money into other projects or programs.” The group notes that “repair work on roads and bridges generates 16 percent more jobs than construction of new bridges and roads,” and that over 25 years, deferring maintenance can cost three times as much as preventive repairs. In his State of the Union message this year, President Obama specifically mentioned the need to deal with the country’s “structurally deficient” bridges as part of his $50 billion “Fix-It-First” program for repairing the nation’s roads, highways, bridges and transit systems. The Economist notes: “Not counting the country’s functionally obsolete bridges (like the Seattle and Minneapolis bridges), the putative cost of the current backlog of work waiting to be done on the National Highway System’s bridge rehabilitation and replacement program is more than $32 billion (in 2004 dollars). It would take more than $5 billion a year for 20 years to catch up. Doing so at a pace President Obama had in mind would require at least $20 billion a year.” There’s another problem. The Highway Trust Fund, which receives money from gas taxes to pay for repairing bridges and other infrastructure, is expected to go broke next year. Revenue from these taxes has declined steadily as Americans have switched to more efficient cars, and also started driving less due to continuing high unemployment and a decline in living standards. Public transportation ridership is at record highs, while transit agencies are facing unprecedented fiscal crises in this economic downturn, which results in service cuts, layoffs and fare increases. Only 30 of America’s 100 largest metropolitan regions have light rail or subway systems. We need to re-think our priorities. Our national transportation policies have to go beyond the automobile and promote more ecological ways of getting around, such as public transit, railroads and bikes. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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t can be pretty hard to hear with fied information, Snowden was serving the word “terrorism” crammed into as a contract systems administrator at your ears. the agency. At least that appears to be true What Snowden has revealed so far is for many Americans these days, as that at least one telecom company, evidenced by recent poll results regardVerizon, is allowing the NSA to collect ing Edward Snowden and his revelations its metadata to create a bank of informaabout secret government spy programs. tion containing every telephone call on The polls show that most of us think Verizon’s system. The NSA claims that that Snowden — the it collects all the calls but 29-year-old former can only use the informaNational Security Agency tion once it has probable (NSA) contractor who cause and a courtleaked documents to the approved warrant to do so. Guardian newspaper, Based on past media exposing the agency’s surreporting from 2006 that veillance programs that exposed similar relationmonitor our phone ships between the NSA records and email — is and other phone compaguilty of espionage or nies, it is currently being even treason, and should assumed in most news be sentenced to prison reports that all or nearly Edward Snowden accordingly. all of the major telecomThese same polls also munication companies reveal that the majority of have similar relationships U.S. citizens believe that it’s acceptable with the NSA. for the government to collect such data Snowden also revealed the existence on hundreds of millions of us without of an NSA program known as Prism, warrants or probable cause as long as it which allows the NSA to monitor the uses the information only to fight terror- email of most Americans. The NSA ism. claims that it is not violating the privacy But what if that wasn’t the whole of any U.S. citizen and that it is constory? What if fighting terrorism were ducting these surveillance operations only an afterthought in the government’s legally under the authority of the USA motives behind the creation of the secret Patriot Act. But there appears to be a timeline spy programs exposed by Snowden? problem with the NSA’s claim. What would we do if it were discovered The USA Patriot Act was signed that this massive government intrusion into law by President George Bush on into our private lives had been going on Oct. 26, 2001, just six weeks after the long before the first plane hit the first Trade Center tower? These are the ques- Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The NSA now claims that it is the Patriot Act, which tions we should be asking. authorized warrantless surveillance and Edward Snowden was employed by other previously illegal spying techBooze Allen Hamilton, a defense conniques, that allowed the agency to tractor that bills itself as a strategy and technology consulting firm. The compa- launch the mass surveillance dragnets ny has very close ties to, and often works that are currently scooping up the phone and email data of hundreds of millions on projects for, the NSA. At the time of of Americans. But if that is the justificahis decision to expose the NSA surveiltion, then why was the NSA already crelance programs and other highly classiBoulder Weekly
ating such intrusive than half a year domestic spy probefore the 9/11 grams in early 2001, attacks or the cremonths before the ation of the Patriot 9/11 attacks or the Act. creation of the According to an Patriot Act? unsealed document One of the best Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest, titled “Renewed sources proving the whose trial exposed NSA spying prior to objection by Joseph 9/11. existence of this P. Nacchio to exclupre-9/11 NSA sion of classified tesdomestic spying can be found in the timony as violative of his constitutional court proceedings of Joseph Nacchio, the right to mount a defense,” Nacchio and former CEO of Denver-based Qwest James Payne, who was in charge of garCommunications, now CenturyLink. nering government business for Qwest at You may recall that Nacchio was tried the time, traveled to NSA headquarters and convicted for insider trading in at Fort Meade to discuss Qwest getting 2007. He is currently in prison, but has a a contract as part of an NSA program chance of being released later this year. called “Groundbreaker” (see “A history The government’s case against of Groundbreaker,” page 13). The document also states that the court has “proNacchio, including the Security and Exchange Commission’s investigation of hibited Mr. Nacchio from eliciting testimony as to what also occurred at the Qwest’s accounting practices, was quite meeting.” The description of what else strong (see “Nacchio’s trial, defense and occurred at the meeting is redacted. The conviction,” page 14). The government document then says, “The court has also contends that Qwest, under Nacchio’s refused to allow Mr. Nacchio to demonleadership, was improperly accounting strate that the agency retaliated for this for one-time sales of its assets to artifirefusal by denying the Groundbreaker cially prop up its stock value. This pracand perhaps other work to Qwest.” tice was occurring between 2000 and The redacted area of the unsealed 2002. At the same time that the Qwest documents was filled in by The New York stock price was reportedly being frauduTimes on Dec. 16, 2007, when it reportlently inflated, Nacchio sold his own ed that “executives at a Denver phone shares in the company in 2001, reaping carrier, Qwest, refused in early 2001 to more than $100 million. Eventually the give the agency [NSA] access to their truth about the company’s accounting most localized communications switches, practices became public and the stock which primarily carry domestic calls, price fell from $55 a share to $1.11 per according to people aware of the request, share. which has not been previously reported. While the government’s case against Nacchio was quite strong, the same can’t They say the arrangement could have permitted neighborhood-by-neighborbe said for the CEO’s defense. That’s because the court never allowed Nacchio hood surveillance of phone traffic without a court order.” and his attorneys to mount the defense The NSA’s Groundbreaker project they wanted to present because the court was no ordinary government program. It determined it would be a threat to was, in fact, at the time, the largest fednational security. Nacchio and his attorneys wanted to eral outsourcing of work in history, with explain to jurors that Qwest’s financial an overall budget estimated at between woes were the result of the federal gov$4 billion and $5 billion. The purpose of ernment’s, particularly the NSA’s, withGroundbreaker was to completely reinholding of promised, lucrative contracts vent and update the NSA’s IT systems worth hundreds of millions of dollars. to more effectively interact with the Nacchio wanted to present evidence to changing digital systems that were in use show that this pull-back of promised at the major telecommunications compacontracts was in retaliation for Qwest’s nies, among other things. More than 40 refusal to allow the NSA to collect its companies would eventually get massive customers’ phone data on a massive contracts from the Groundbreaker projscale, without court approval. And most ect, including Verizon. Qwest never got importantly to this story, redacted docuone dollar. ments that were only unsealed after Nacchio’s defense wanted to paint Nacchio’s trial and conviction show that the picture that at the time Nacchio sold the NSA’s demand to collect Qwest’s his Qwest stock for a personal gain of customers’ phone information came at a more than $50 million, he was not aware meeting at the NSA’s Fort Meade, Md., See NSA Page 12 headquarters on Feb. 27, 2001, more Boulder Weekly
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that the company’s stock price was inflated and about to crash. Nacchio wanted to tell jurors that he thought the company was about to get hundreds of millions of dollars from the NSA’s Groundbreaker program, which had not been accounted for in the company’s revenue projections. In other words, according to Nacchio, at the time he sold his stock, he was actually expecting Qwest’s stock price to soon rise, on the announcement of the NSA Groundbreaker contract, not collapse, as The NSA’s Fort Meade, Md., headquarters where Nacchio met with agency officials on it eventually did. Feb. 27, 2001. At one point, the documents show that the court seems to agree about the significance of Nacchio’s desired defense views conducted with NSA counsel. A Also, according to a federal lawsuit argument. The unsealed documents summary memorandum of those interfiled on June 23, 2006, in New Jersey, state, “And the court believes that this is views was given to the Nacchio defense the NSA, AT&T and IBM were workstill relevant. If there was such a contract team. According to the unsealed docuing together as early as February 2001 to to be awarded during the relevant time, ments, the summary memorandum con- construct a network operations center and as a matter of fact, that contract was firmed that one reason that Nacchio and identical to the AT&T facility in not awarded because of Mr. Nacchio’s Payne were brought to the Feb. 27 meet- Bedminster, N.J., so that the NSA could reactions [refusing to allow NSA to ing at NSA headquarters was to try to monitor all calls and Internet traffic on gather Qwest customer information gain access to the company’s phone call the company’s network. without warrants], then the fact that it data. The memorandum also says that “The NSA program was initially was not awarded and he did not learn of “Qwest was denied any agency work as a conceived at least one year prior to 2001 the reasons until after May 29, is someresult of Mr. Nacchio’s refusal.” The but had been called off; it was reinstated thing that certainly comes out in front of document goes on to say that when within 11 days of the entry into office of the jury and can be evaluated by the Nacchio’s attorneys “brought this admis- defendant George W. Bush,” the suit jury.” sion to the court’s attention, the stateclaimed. Would this defense argument have ment was then disavowed.” The same lawsuit also alleges that in helped Nacchio in the end? We’ll never Such is the difficulty of trying to get 2003, Verizon allowed the installation of know, because, despite its acknowledgeclassified information into the public a high-speed transmission line connectment of the argument’s merits, the court realm. ing a Verizon data center to Quantico, mysteriously reversed As important as the Va., the site of a major U.S. intelligence itself and never allowed Nacchio/Qwest docuand military base. The suit claimed that Nacchio’s attorneys to ments are in establishthe line had no firewall, giving a governfully present the NSA ing that the NSA was ment agency “unlimited, unrestricted retaliation argument actively working on and unfettered access to all wireless call because of the classified gathering massive data, information and contents” on the nature of the informaamounts of phone data Verizon network. tion. without warrants in In yet another example, a 22-year But what the early 2001, well before AT&T employee named Mark Klein unsealed documents the 9/11 attacks or the alleged in a class-action lawsuit that in did do was to show authorization for such the early 2000s, he became aware of a that the NSA was covert activity through secret room in AT&T’s San Francisco actively engaged in the Patriot Act, they facility, used by the NSA, that received gathering massive are hardly the only evi- signals thanks to a “splitter cabinet” that amounts of domestic dence of such surveilhad been installed to divert information phone data prior to lance activity on the from the company’s fiber-optic cables. Mark Klein claims there was a secret NSA room at AT&T’s San 9/11 and the creation part of the NSA. There Klein claimed that the pieces of equipFrancisco facility. of the Patriot Act. are other credible ment in the secret room included a The documents examples as well. “semantic traffic analyzer,” and that also confirm that interFor instance, it’s “splitter cabinets” were being installed at views conducted with James Payne colbeen widely reported that the Drug AT&T facilities in several other cities, laborated Nacchio’s claims regarding Enforcement Administration has including Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles what happened at the Feb. 27, 2001 received assistance from the NSA since and San Diego. meeting with the NSA, including the the 1990s in tracking records of phone Finally, there are the accounts of agency’s request to gather Qwest’s cuscalls, using mass amounts of telecommu- whistleblowers William Binney, Thomas tomer call data. Payne also stated that nications metadata generated by calls Drake, Edward Loomis and J. Kirk the NSA continued to request access to between the United States and Latin Wiebe, former NSA employees who Qwest’s customer call data for several America, as well as other regions have been highly critical of the agency years, and that the agency basically suginvolved in the drug trade. The drug and its mass surveillance program — gested that if it didn’t get the access it program collects data on all phone calls both before and since 9/11 — and who wanted, Qwest could be jeopardizing its between the U.S. and other countries, have backed the Electronic Frontier future contracts with all departments of and then uses computers to analyze the Foundation in its efforts to combat NSA the government, not just the NSA. call data for patterns that might expose monitoring efforts. The documents also refer to interdrug trafficking communications. According to the Government 12 June 20, 2013
Accountability Project (GAP), the NSA could not keep up with the information and communication explosion associated with the rise of the Internet in the 1990s, so a team that included Loomis, Binney and Wiebe developed a program to analyze, streamline and isolate the growing amount of data available. That system, called ThinThread, could filter out irrelevant data, removing the need to send and store large amounts of information for later analysis. The program even had an “anonymizing” feature to protect the privacy rights of U.S. citizens, according to the GAP. The system was ready to roll in January 2001, but Binney and Wiebe say the NSA opted for a more expensive and undeveloped program, Trailblazer, whose bloated budget would benefit private contractors more than the in-house system they had developed. (Trailblazer was retired in 2006 after costing more than $1 billion and is considered by some to be one of the worst failures in U.S. intelligence history.) Binney and Wiebe retired in October 2001, saying that they could no longer work for the agency in good conscience after the NSA used a component of their ThinThread system to spy on the private communications of U.S. citizens. They also claim that if their system had been in use, the movements of al Qaeda in the days leading up to 9/11 would have been detected. Binney estimates that the NSA has intercepted between 15 trillion and 20 trillion information transmissions since 9/11, relying on a system called Stellar Wind, a system based on a component of ThinThread — but without the builtin privacy protections, according to the GAP. The whistleblowers felt the repercussions of their complaints about the NSA. They were subjected to armed FBI raids on their homes and investigation as possible sources behind a New York Times story about the NSA’s domestic spying program in December 2005. In April 2010, Drake was indicted on charges related to national security, but all except one — a misdemeanor charge of misusing an NSA computer — were dropped in June 2011. Drake joins the likes of Daniel Ellsberg as being among only four individuals in the history of the U.S. who have been charged with the “willful retention” of “national defense” under the Espionage Act. All of this documented mass surveillance activity by the NSA in 2001, prior to 9/11 and the signing of the Patriot Act, would seem to fly in the face of what we have been told — and are still being told — about such spying even today, as NSA officials testify before Congressional hearings regarding the Boulder Weekly
news recent NSA leaks at the hands of Edward Snowden. The NSA claims that all of its spying started as a result of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and has always been done legally — either approved by the executive branch by way of the Patriot Act or authorized by Congress — and all the while overseen and condoned by the courts. But as the evidence points out, such a claim simply isn’t true. The NSA was clearly working hard to create systems that would collect massive amounts of phone and Internet data in 2001, prior to the attacks. For a plausible explanation for this behavior, we have to look at one of the most important underreported stories of our time. Literally underreported. In 1996, New Zealand based journalist Nicky Hager shocked the world with his exposé on a global surveillance system known as ECHELON. Hager wrote a book about his findings, which were controversial enough that elements within the British government wanted to ban the book from being sold in the U.K. In the U.S., a summary of Hager’s ECHELON revelations was published in the award-winning Covert Action Quarterly in its winter 1996/1997 edition. That same story went on to be named as one of Project Censored’s 25 most important underreported stories of the year in 1998.
Hager’s investigadescribed the tion took him years to ECHELON system as complete and ultimately being ripe for abuse allowed him to interbecause it operated virview more than 50 peotually without any ple who had worked in restraints, a sobering the intelligence comassessment, considermunity under a secret ing Hager’s description program known as the of the system’s capabilUKUSA agreement. ities. According to Hager, “The system works the UKUSA agreement by indiscriminately was created in 1948 and intercepting very large was a secret Cold Warquantities of commuera intelligence alliance nications and using Nicky Hager, the journalist who between the United computers to identify first exposed the NSA’s ECHELON program. States, Great Britain, and extract messages Canada, Australia and of interest from the New Zealand. The mass of unwanted organization spied on every country ones. Computers at each secret station in around the world that it considered a the ECHELON network automatically threat. search millions of messages for pre-proThe main players in the organization grammed key words. For each message were the NSA; the UK’s spy agency containing one of those key words, the equivalent, the British Government computer automatically notes time and Communications Headquarters place of origin and interception, and (GCHQ); New Zealand’s Government gives the message a four-digit code for Communications Security Bureau future reference. Computers that can (GCSB); and the intelligence services of automatically search through traffic for Canada and Australia. key words have existed since at least the In the 1980s, the NSA introduced a 1970s, but the ECHELON system was new program to the UKUSA agreement designed by NSA to interconnect all that had amazing capabilities. The prothese computers and allow the stations gram was called ECHELON. to function as components of an inteIn Covert Action Quarterly, Hager grated whole. Using the ECHELON
A history of Groundbreaker
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n 1999, the National Security Agency began a feasibility study to determine whether the agency could outsource the job of upgrading its massive IT systems to companies in the private sector. By 2000, the agency had decided to move forward with the project and began soliciting bids and contracts from major telecommunications firms and defense contractors. In 2001, the NSA chose Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to lead a large group of companies to implement the project, which the agency dubbed Project Groundbreaker. CSC led a group called Eagle Alliance, a joint venture including Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, ACS Defense, BTG, CACI, Compaq, TRW, Windemere, Fiber Plus, Superior Communications and Verizon. The NSA announced in a press release at the time that Groundbreaker would update “non-mission” infrastructure in four areas, “telephony, distributed computing, enterprise management, and networks.” The contract required contractors to hire up to 750 NSA employees to help with the process. Agency estimates said the project could take up to 10 years to complete and that the cost of the project would be around $2 billion, though the CSC CEO at the time assured stockholders the price would be more in the $5 billion range. The contract will let NSA “refocus assets on the Boulder Weekly
agency’s core missions of providing foreign signals intelligence and protecting U.S. national security-related information systems by turning over several information technology infrastructure services for industry’s purview,” said Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the then-NSA director, in a press release. (Hayden became director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2006, and in September 2009, he joined CSC as a member of a “Cyber Advisory Committee.”) It was one of the largest-ever outsources of government contracts at the time, and as soon as 2003, the agency’s inspector general was criticizing the implementation of the project. The Baltimore Sun reported in 2006 that according to an executive summary of the report, “‘key elements’ for managing the Groundbreaker contract ‘were missing,’ including a ‘contract management program’ and a quality control mechanism. … Expenditures amounting to millions of dollars were unaccounted for, according to the inspector general.” Congress took away the NSA’s ability to sign large contracts in 2003, putting that authority in the hands of Congress, the Sun reported. Sources said the price of the project in 2006 had reached around $4 billion. Nevertheless, despite the numerous problems in implementing Groundbreaker, the NSA extended its contract with CSC and the Eagle Alliance in 2007 at the price of more than $500 million and again in 2009. The group is now contracted through 2014. Most of the details of the project are secret. However, according to court documents filed by Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio during his insider trading trial, at the
system, an agency in one country may automatically pick up information gathered elsewhere in the system. Thus, the stations of the junior UKUSA allies function for the NSA no differently than if they were overtly NSA-run bases located on their soil.” Hager discovered that ECHELON was intercepting email, faxes, telex messages and telephone calls. In a later update to his article he noted that the NSA had achieved an “ominous capability for large-scale automated telephone monitoring.” What made ECHELON so effective at gathering mass amounts of indiscriminate data was its ability to pull in virtually every form of communication that moved through the world’s global network of communications satellites and microwave towers. ECHELON had the perfect system — until technology once again changed. By 2000, fewer and fewer of the world’s messages the NSA wanted to collect and store (much as it claims to be doing today in the programs leaked by Snowden) were moving through the air via satellites. By early 2000, it was estimated that only about 5 percent of Europe’s phone and email messages were being carried by satellite, and much of the developed world used the old techSee NSA Page 14
same time the NSA was talking to Qwest about Project Groundbreaker in February 2001, the NSA also discussed a separate project, the details of which were redacted. In 2007, the New York Times reported that those with knowledge of the incident said that the NSA was asking Qwest to install equipment that would allow the NSA to monitor domestic and some limited international phone calls. Qwest refused, and the NSA eventually opted not to include the company as part of the Groundbreaker project. But the NSA wasn’t just asking Qwest to cooperate with monitoring efforts. For decades, as the New York Times reported, most communication was transmitted via satellites, and all the NSA had to do in order to gather information was build its own satellite dishes. But by the late ’90s, most communication had transferred to underground fiber optic cable, forcing the communication companies to solicit cooperation from the telecom companies that owned the cables. At the same time Qwest refused to cooperate with the NSA, USA Today reported in 2006, AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth were handing over data to the government. Though the link between NSA’s access to the fiber optic cables of major telecom companies and Project Groundbreaker isn’t clear, the nature and timing of both projects seems to imply a relationship — the NSA needed infrastructure upgrades to handle the vast amounts of data coming in via fiber optic cable, data it wasn’t equipped to handle in the late ’90s. And perhaps that explains the name, “Project Groundbreaker”: In order to gather that data, the NSA had to dig to where the cables are located — underground.
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hen former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio was convicted of insider trading in Denver in April 2007, the jury was not permitted to hear what may well have been his strongest defense: that his company’s stock went south because it lost federal government contracts after Nacchio refused to provide the feds with access to private customer data. And while that defense may have painted a picture of National Security Agency retribution against the CEO for not engaging in a questionable monitoring campaign, the amount of those government contracts doesn’t appear to account for Nacchio’s positive outlook on the company’s fiscal situation on the eve of its financial collapse. Nacchio’s seemingly less-effective defense against the claim that he sold off $52 million in stocks because he knew their value was about plummet included his attorney’s argument that he needed to sell them because the options were about to expire. The defense also argued that Nacchio’s insistently positive public forecasts about the company’s financial future were legitimately based on a 1999 report from a consultant, and that his decision to sell so much stock in the first half of 2001 may have been affected by stress over one of his sons attempting suicide. Nacchio claimed that the NSA withdrew a $200 million contract after Qwest declined to participate in an agency program that Qwest attorneys said was illegal, but that amount doesn’t seem significant enough to have caused the downward financial spiral that ensued, when compared with figures that the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Qwest with fudging. And while that contract may indeed have been accompanied by other government contracts that Qwest stood to lose, the SEC charges paint a picture that makes those amounts seem like a drop in the bucket when compared with the company’s alleged accounting falsehoods.
According to the SEC’s filing against Qwest, between June 1999 and April 2002, the company “engaged in a massive financial fraud designed to mislead the investing public about its revenue and growth.” The SEC claims that Qwest “fraudulently recognized approximately $3.8 billion of spurious revenue, and fraudulently excluded $231 million in expenses. The fraudulent scheme, approved and directed by Qwest’s senior management and implemented by numerous other managers and employees, was orchestrated to meet the company’s outrageously optimistic revenue projections, artificially inflate Qwest’s stock price, and falsely present Qwest as a ‘new technology’ company with enormous earnings growth and potential.” The SEC filing alleges that Qwest’s “lack of internal controls and inadequate books and records resulted in numerous other accounting errors during the same period, including a $56 million overstatement in operator services revenue, $200 million in improper capitalized costs associated with its design service centers, and a total of $850 million understatement of expenses in accounting for its merger with US West, Inc. and in certain restructuring charges.” According to the redacted pretrial documents released about six months after the conviction, the defense was prepared to put Nacchio on the stand to testify about the lucrative federal government contracts, how they factored into his optimistic financial projections, and his claim about losing them only after refusing to provide the NSA with private customer data. According to media reports, Nacchio’s attorneys opted against putting the CEO on the stand because allowing him to be cross-examined was too risky — and he would not have been permitted to outline the allegation about retaliation by the federal agency. Ultimately, bolstered by testimony from former Qwest executives who said Nacchio’s optimistic predictions and aggressive goals were not in line with deep concerns within the company about how Qwest was faring financially, the jury sided with the prosecution, finding him guilty on 19 of 42 counts of insider trading. In July 2007, Nacchio was fined $19 million, forced to repay the $52 million in stocks and sentenced to six years in federal prison. He was unsuccessful in appealing the conviction.
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nology even less than that. And the problem for the NSA’s ECHELON program would only get worse. By 2006, 98 percent of all international messages — phone, email or others — were traveling underground by fiber optics. This was true of nearly all of the phone and email messages in the U.S. as well. The NSA needed a new system if it was going to continue to eavesdrop and collect data. The following concept, while admittedly speculative, may well explain what was happening in 2001 before the 9/11 attacks. Technology dictated that as the year 2000 arrived, ECHELON needed a major makeover if it was going to continue to be capable of monitoring most of the world’s communications as it had been doing. In light of this fact, and the timing, it could be that the largest outsourcing project in U.S. history, the 2001 NSA Groundbreaker program, which was launched prior to 9/11, was the agency’s answer to continuing ECHELON surveillance into the new century. This would explain the justification of the $5 billion Groundbreaker budget, as well as why the NSA wanted, and needed, to bring all of the major telecommunications companies on board — by way of offering them a carrot, in the form of lucrative contracts worth, in
some cases, hundreds of millions of dollars. Groundbreaker also required that the companies getting the contracts had to hire NSA staffers as their own employees. This makes sense, if ECHELON was going to be tapping directly into the global telecommunications apparatus, because that system was more geared to “underground” fiber optics than satellites. This fact even makes sense of the program’s “Groundbreaker” moniker. Apparently, should this theory turn out to be accurate, the NSA’s plan for remaking ECHELON by virtually incorporating the telecommunication industry and its technologies into the spy network worked very well. It was reported by USA Today in 2006 that Qwest was the only major U.S. telecommunications company that had not given the NSA access to its phone data. It does make one wonder at what price to Qwest. Any other telecommunications company and its leadership watching the government’s handling of Nacchio and Qwest might certainly have thought twice about not cooperating. In summary, the existence of ECHELON could explain why so much mass information-gathering by the NSA was occurring before the 9/11 attacks and the Patriot Act. And the technological advances that pulled global commu-
nications increasingly away from satellite and microwave tower transmissions, and into fiber optics, could likewise explain the need for the $5 billion Groundbreaker program. It is clear that the NSA has been collecting massive amounts of indiscriminate information on people, including U.S. citizens, for many years, dating back to before the 9/11 attacks. Does the NSA use its mass collection of data to fight terrorism? No doubt it does. But the question should be, what else does it use its data for, and what was it using it for before terrorism became the perfect rationale or excuse for such activities? According to Hager’s sources within the system, ECHELON data was used for many purposes, including corporate espionage on the part of the NSA. Hager’s reporting noted that many governments around the world have been frustrated with the U.S. because of what they view as unfair economic use of intelligence data. Hager has cited several specific examples in his writings. In 1995, the Baltimore Sun reported that European aerospace company Airbus lost a multi-billion-dollar contract with the Saudi Arabian government because the NSA leaked information that Airbus had bribed the officials making the decision, so that the U.S. company Boeing would have a better shot at the contract. Boulder Weekly
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Rod Brueske and his son, Arden, at the family farm in June 2012.
temporary,” says Christopher Dann, communications liaison for the state’s air pollution division. For a sporadically occurring event, like the off-gassing Brueske witnessed, whether there’s a permit issued depends on the event, Dann says. Oil and gas production activities have a variety of jurisdictions, he adds, and this may have gone to the COGCC. Brueske argues that, at the very least, he should be notified of these events before they happen so he has a choice to leave his house before they occur. Brueske filed an application for a hearing in December with the COGCC regarding their enforcement actions against Encana after an inspection by state staff — prompted by a complaint he’d filed about odors and a metallic taste in the air — found the well out of compliance (see Boulder Weekly May 2). The inspectors, staff of the Air Pollution Control Division, reported that Encana was not keeping air emissions to a minimum. The emissions control device on the Ross G Unit 1 well was too small and as a result was leaking condensate. Encana replaced the device and was offered a reduced settlement of $53,900 as a fine. Brueske, in his application to the state, argued that Encana, based on documentation by the COGCC and CDPHE, was in violation of the rules for air quality protection, significantly impacting the health and welfare of his family, and that the fines assessed are based on an outdated system and were inadequate based on the risks posed to his family’s health. He encouraged the COGCC to update the system for violations and fines, and formally requested a hearing to address his protest. He called Encana’s actions negligent, careless and dangerous and has asked, as relief, that Encana plug and abandon, never to re-enter, the Ross G Unit 1 well, in addition to fitting wells within half a mile of
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says, exposures of 200,000-250,000 parts per million were lethal, and that “there was only a small margin of safety between the anesthetic and lethal concentration.” Ethane also acts as an asphyxiant. Brueske called the county sheriff and County Commissioner Elise Jones, who returned his call about the event suggesting that he call the number for the public health department air and water emissions office. He did. The call went to an answering machine. When he did get Mark McMillan, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Air Pollution Control Division supervisor for Oil and Gas Production Processing, on the phone, McMillan told him the well operator, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, does not have to get a permit through the division for an event because it’s a temporary activity. “We permit sources and we permit equipment. Those permits are not classified or characterized as
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by Boulder Weekly staff basic issue. The agency should be responsive to the public as well as to the industry and that’s not been clear that they are.” INCREASE IN DUST STORMS COULD CAUSE Following Brueske’s Dec. 31 submittal of PROBLEMS FOR SOIL, RURAL AREAS A study led by the University of Colorado that application, Encana has replied with a Boulder found that the amount of dust blown series of motions to dismiss which were across the West has increased since 1994. eventually withdrawn (see Boulder Weekly Because dust storms transport dust from May 9). one place to another, dust storms change the composition of the Earth’s surface in places afIn their answer to his application, Encana fected by them. The increase in dust storms can denies ever having installed inadequate weaken the soil and redistribute the dust parequipment at the well and that any alleged ticles with the most nutrients. More dust storms emissions from the dates surrounding can also cause poor air quality and low visibility Brueske’s complaint were harmful to public for people living in rural areas. “Dust storms cause a large-scale reorhealth, safety or welfare, though it admits the ganization of nutrients on the surface of the COGCC issued a Notice of Alleged Earth,” Janice Brahney, who led the study as Violation for Complaint #200348796. (That a CU-Boulder doctoral student, said in a news document does not immediately appear in a release. The researchers said they suspected search of COGCC records for documents more dust storms were happening from anecdotes of people who had lived in the West for related to the Ross G Unit 1 well.) years and had noticed the storms more freEncana’s listed defenses include that quently. there’s no proximate cause for the acts and Researchers at CU looked at calcium omissions of Encana and the alleged damagdeposition data from across the United States es, that the events described were not signifibecause wind erosion of soils moves calcium through the atmosphere. The researchers cant adverse environmental incidents and found that the calcium deposition has inthat the Commission does not have the statcreased in 116 of the 175 collection sites beutory or regulatory authority to require the tween 1994 and 2010, indicating more blowing relief Brueske requested. dust. The Northwest, Midwest and IntermounBrueske has absorbed the legal responsitain West saw the largest increases. Looking at calcium deposition can underestimate the bility for this case. In a hearing that previamount of traveling dust because not all dust ously was between the COGCC and has the same amount of calcium and the data Encana, it is now Brueske and Encana. only measured dust that had hit water in the In previously reported cases in Colorado, atmosphere, according to the news release. residents have been offered hundreds of — Ainslee Mac Naughton thousands of dollars in settlement offers from oil and gas companies or seen oil and gas companies buy them out of their property altogether — with the stipulation they agree to a nondisclosure agreement. It’s almost impacted, so I don’t think we’ve seen the last of this in impossible to know how many people have signed those agreements, Baizel says, because they can’t the legislature. … It always matters when you’re impacting a lot of voters, so I think it will continue to talk about it. The agreements also impede the tracking be an issue until there’s a sense that the agency is really of ongoing health effects. doing something about it, including the penalties, the “For many years, most of the oil and gas developenforcement and the complaints, and until they do it’s ment in Colorado was not in highly populated areas going to be a headache for everybody, literally and figuand now in the last few years they’ve gotten into a lot ratively, whether it’s from the emissions or just from of people’s backyards,” Baizel says. “I think that has hassle factor.” brought some of these issues to the forefront in a way Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com that matters politically and a lot of voters are being
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ing. Not only did this put wear-and-tear dark or in the cold, and definitely not in the snow. I’d rather bike during the on my reliable but aging 1997 Subaru daylight hours and the pleasant Outback wagon, but it also produced Colorado weather in the late-spring-tomore pollution and carbon dioxide. early-fall timeframe. In part because of my love for skiMy goal to offset my ski driving ing, I am concerned about global climiles with miles on my bike would defmate change. Skiing and snowboarding initely push me out of my comfort zone are lifelong sports that I want my chil— I would soon find myself riding on dren and grandchildren to be able to days that I never would have in the past enjoy, not something they read about in — days so cold my hands and feet were history books. Like any good forwardnumb by the time I got to work, days thinking Colorado guy, I have been trywhen I had mid-day meetings and ing to do what I can about it — we barely made it because of flat tires, days have a clothesline to dry the laundry when I had to leave work early to pick outside, I combine errands whenever up the kids from school. In the past, I possible, we purchase wind energy would have used these circumstances as through Xcel, and I ride my bike to excuses not to ride. Now, I am looking work as much asOur I canEntire in the summer. Inventory of Clothing, Footwear, for opportunities to add to my riding With a family and other responsibiliCamp & Travel Gear Sunglasses goal, despite&these obstacles. ties, though, I can’t ride my bike every day. Plus, I’ve typically been a fair weather cyclist — I don’t ride in the ••••
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Though I ride a bike, I don’t really consider myself a cyclist, especially in such an active town like Boulder. I don’t ride to Jamestown or Carter Lake for fun. I’ve never done the Triple Bypass or Ride the Rockies. I ride a 20-yearold, bright-orange, hand-me-down cross bike. “That is not a new bike,” a friend diplomatically commented upon seeing my bike for the first time. I wear a plain jersey and black cycling shorts, eschewing the flashier, sponsor-laden matching kits some other cyclists sport. With each passing mile and day in the saddle, however, I am becoming a stronger rider, laying the foundation for success in reaching my goal. ••••
Day One of Bike Commute 2013 was a warm day for mid-March, with a high of 71 degrees — so far, so good. I got three more days of riding in before Boulder saw its biggest snowstorm of the season to that point (10 inches on March 22), followed by four days of below-average temperatures, which curtailed my riding. Little did I know that that snowstorm was only the beginning of a long, cold and snowy spring, the snowiest spring on record, with repeated snowstorms in late March, April and even into May (82.7 total inches of snow this spring). For safety concerns, I didn’t ride in the snow. I just didn’t feel comfortable riding on roads and paths slick enough to potentially cause me to slide out on my bike and risk an injury. I consequently missed quite a few days ,of riding, shoveling my driveway and sidewalk and driving my Subaru to work instead of pedaling the pavement. With each successive snowstorm, I fell further behind the pace I needed to
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but long uphill eastbound section of Baseline Road, I passed two pretty fitlooking guys, albeit riding mountain bikes. As I passed, the guy closer to me muttered, “showoff.” I was surprised to hear another rider vocalize the words I had always thought when someone else overtook me on the road — the combination of jealousy and frustration when someone else passes you, even though it’s only a commute and not a race. I was also a little gratified to realize that, for that moment at least, the roles of passer and passee had been temporarily reversed. To keep track of the miles I use the RunKeeper app on my iPhone, which allows you to categorize your activities into various buckets (running, cycling, mountain biking, walking, even swimming and skiing). I categorize my rec-
reational riding under “mountain biking” to keep those miles separate from my commuting miles. To keep track of my progress, the app also has a function to set goals for achieving a total distance by a certain date. As of June 17, I have ridden 596 miles, or 30 percent, of the way to my goal. •••• I’m not naïve enough to think that my biking offset is going to make a huge difference in global carbon dioxide output. Indeed, in late May the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reached 400 parts per million, a significant number that indicates our collective failure to curtail one of the primary global warming gasses. At the same time, I also know that every one Boulder Weekly
adventure of us has a role to play in making changes that, over time, will have a positive impact on our environment, our planet and our future. In many respects, Bike and Walk to Work Day, on June 26, is about just that: getting people to try something new, get outside their comfort zone, think about the alternatives, as well as get some exercise. The safety tips, commuting maps, breakfast stations and other activities and promotions are primarily geared around getting people to start bike commuting for the first time, as well as celebrating those who are regular bike commuters. Not long ago I was in the former category, unsure how long it would take or what to wear. Now, I consider myself solidly in the latter group. While the environmental benefits are the primary motivation for my carbon-offset goal, other reasons for bike commuting include financial, physical health and mental health. As my neighbor says, “Every time I ride to work it’s like putting six bucks in my pocket.” While biking isn’t free (I recently replaced a rear tire, shifter cables, and handlebar tape — around $90), the maintenance is orders of magnitude cheaper than a car. The fitness aspect is also an important benefit, as the daily commute and exercise are combined into one activity. Many other cyclists I have talked to mention the benefit of decompressing and thinking while riding — alone time that many of us don’t get in our otherwise connected and multi-tasking world. Just having time to think and see the world while getting some fresh air and exercise is a significant positive outcome from biking. It has certainly given me a mental respite, providing time to think about, among other things, ideas and thoughts for this article. Upon arriving home, I have frequently jotted down on a notepad a few of my reflections, while they are fresh in my head and before the hustle of kids and dinner makes me completely forget the thoughts forged during my solitary evening commute. Anyone who rides a lot will probably relate to some of the other experiences I have had while on two wheels: numerous times getting caught in the rain on the way home (and a few times on the way to work as well), fighting crosswinds so strong that the drivers on the road probably thought I was drunk, and getting two flat tires within 10 minutes while on the way to an important daytime meeting (I was only two minutes late). I’m sure most other frequent bike commuters have many tales of challenges and eventful rides as well. I still have a ways to go to reach my Boulder Weekly
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goal, but I’m quite motivated to complete that 1,950-mile objective. Regardless of whether I make it, I’m getting in better shape, reducing my carbon output, saving money on gas (and wear and tear on my car) and getting some alone time just to think. By the time the snow starts flying again in the fall and my thoughts turn to the ski slopes, I am hopeful that Mother Earth will thank me for my efforts. I know my Subaru will. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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What can be done with what we throw away Nick Cave’s work journeys through our own kitschy past by Elizabeth Miller
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ick Cave can take a garish ceramic bird, and a kitschy ceramic fruit bowl, and a few strings of plastic beads, and put it all together in a way that makes a stunning, and beautiful, sculpture. There’s no breaking that equation down to make the math work on how ugly adds up to entrancing, but read the answer to the equation and it’s a valuable comment on the often overlooked kitsch in our lives. From a distance, the draped lines of beads and the conglomeration of ceramic figurines takes on an unexpected symmetry. As a whole, the pieces have a unified feel that breaks down as you get closer, and each individual bird face and fruit rind and bead emerges. The pieces are carefully controlled chaos, it seems — artfully composed and meticulously assembled to make a meditation on the detritus of our lives. The knickknacks, the discarded clothes, the spare buttons. Cave, who lives in Chicago but has exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York City and Verona, Italy, visits thrift stores and flea markets wherever he goes. His art begins with objects he finds there. “It’s always an object that sort of provokes the beginning of an idea — I don’t sketch anything,” Cave says. “It’s really just through an object that provides me this sort of impulse or sensation of multiple ways in which I perhaps could read into it.” Cave takes what other people have discarded — the three-foottall, buck-toothed, glittered-egg-bearing Easter bunnies and the unwanted sweaters, the sock monkeys and the doilies, and turns them into “soundsuits.” The first room in his Denver Art Museum exhibition, Sojourn, greets viewers with a row of predominantly white suits, an aisle to walk along. Their surfaces are entirely covered in buttons. “This entire room is based around working with the button as a source of material, as a source of application, as an embellishment, as a way of adorning the body,” he says. “So that’s,” he laughs, “what’s happening here.” The soundsuits in that room and a later room in the exhibition are poised at the ready. They look as though they might move. And on June 28, they will. Cave, a former Alvin Ailey modern dancer, is choreographing a performance in which the soundsuits will be brought to life. During Untitled #58 (Getup), Cave’s soundsuits will take over the All images courtesy of Nick Cave and the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
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museum — animated by dancers from three local companies, joined by a music improv group, a DJ, video elements, 15 community participants and Cave himself. Want a taste? Check the video installation in the back of the current show. Performers on pogo sticks bring furred soundsuits to pulsating life. Black raffia suits ripple. The human forms are just alluded to, just hinted at, but the kinship is recognizable, and suddenly, the viewer’s relationship with what looks like a hot-pink, head-banging jellyfish is redefined. That, really, is the heart of what Cave is doing, but he plays along with lines that explore what can be done with what we throw away. The invitation, Denver Art Museum Curator of Contemporary Art William Morrow says, is for the viewer to come on a journey to a different world. The experience is shared and the art immersive. It’s also easily translatable. “You don’t have to know anything about contemporary art or art history to really appreciate the craft and the technical beauty of all of the objects in this exhibition,” Morrow says. Except for the 16-foot circular wall hanging — a tondo — called “Constellation,” made from sequined garments cut up and sewn back together in a pattern Cave says reminded him of the sky at his family farm, all of the 26 June 20, 2013
pieces are original to the Denver Art Museum exhibition. The “Rescues” collection is Cave’s newest concept. While thrifting, a friend directed his attention to a sculpture of a poodle. It didn’t initially strike him, but he took it anyway, then found a second dog, a Doberman, and found that dog a gold couch (in an incident at the next thrift store that started with him asking a befuddled sales associate, “Can I bring my dog to sit on the sofa?”) on which to be seated and surrounded in a halo of porcelain figurines and other bric-a-brac. “I think, to me, I’m sort of bringing a closure to or a departure from the soundsuits and sort of looking at other ways of thinking and making, and the most important thing in that process is, what is the essence?” Cave says. “How do I transfer the essence of my work into this new way of thinking and making? I wanted to maintain this sort of found object point of reference, inspiration, and yet I wanted to also sort of open up a new sort of vocabulary around another form of symbolism and commitment around an object, such as here, the dog.” In this case, he’s considering the symbolism of dogs in 19th century paintings — one of loyalty, protection and guardianship. He’s gone on to create haloed thrones for six sculptures of dogs, and one of a monkey. “I find that a lot of my work now
really is, I’m making it right on the spot,” Cave says. “The foundation of this is happening right there.” Cave also made a 24-foot triptych for the Denver Art Museum, taking the concepts of repurposed items — interworking figurines and strings of beads and crystals, metal lawn ornaments and afghans as backdrops for it all — and bringing it out of orbit and onto a flat surface. He describes the results as deliberately gauche and verging on baroque. “It very much is a commentary on our time,” Morrow says. “It’s relevant in terms of contemporary art and what other artists outside of the art world are looking at — this opulence of contemporary culture. What is that about, this idea that we have to have more, more, more. And Nick is sort of shoving that in our face a little bit and making us question these things. I think that’s what great art does, it creates this dialogue.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Untitled #58 (Getup) at 6 p.m. on June 28 will see Cave’s soundsuits come to life in an evening performance. The “Untitled” multimedia events are the final Friday of each month at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver. Nick Cave’s Sojourn is on view through Sept. 22. Visit www.denverartmuseum.org for more information. Boulder Weekly
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he first thing I notice when I find my seat for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is that black-clad stagehands are all over the stage, moving various props and other junk around. In fact, save for a giant pair of doubledoors in the center of the stage, the set resembles more of a prop closet you’d find in the bowels of a theater than something you’d see on stage. At first I think it’s because I’m attending the preview night instead of opening night, but after watching a crewmember polish the heck out of a sword for five minutes, it dawns on me that no one is actually doing anything useful, everyone is just chatting and moving stuff slightly from one location to another. It’s confusing until my companion informs me of a theater convention — apparently, plays whose subjects include theater itself often will make elements of the set transparent to the audience in an attempt to be honest to the audience. I take her at her word. She knows more about these things than I. It’s fitting that The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) is so transparent about its aims as a play. It’s a three-man show (rarely are there women players, as much of the humor comes from the cross-dressing male actors) that tries to portray all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays in less than two hours. The actors play themselves, and the fourth wall is nonexistent. It gets even more meta when the actors suffer a crisis near the intermission. But I’d better not spoil that here. Complete Works stars 11-season CSF vet Ian Andersen alongside newcomers Patrick Elkins-
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More than a few laughs come when the Bard gets abridged by David Accomazzo Zeglarski and Evan Zes. They all play themselves, as mentioned before. The script, written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield and first performed at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, is dashingly clever and extremely ambitious. The first scene opens with the actors taking out the trash and summoning a nervous pre-eminent Shakespearean scholar to instruct the audience. (“I’m only eminent!” he exclaims.) Shakespeare is vital, the scholar says, after a brief lecture, but in this modern world who has the time? Hence, Shakespeare abridged. The star-crossed lovers get the first treatment as a fairly straightforward and funny condensation, and
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CONSCIOUS MEDIA FILM FESTIVAL
MY WAY TO OLYMPIA AND MARS & AVRIL SHOW AT THE BOULDER THEATER ON THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 6 P.M., 2032 14TH ST., BOULDER, 303-786-7030. SEE FULL EVENT LISTINGS ONLINE, INCLUDING HAPPY HOURS. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@boulderweekly. com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.
Mars & Avril screens at the Boulder Theater on Thursday, June 20, as part of the Conscious Media Film Festival.
Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Thursday, June 20 music
Vieux Farka Toure — With Maxwell Hughes. 6 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Ash and Andria Ganley. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Vodka REYKA party. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Brittany Reilly. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Evan Cantor: A Musicological Journey. 6 p.m. Minglewood, 1606 Conestoga St., Boulder, 303-499-1829. Face. 7 p.m. Louisville Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-525-6731. Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Holden Young Trio. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Howie Day. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Johnny Rawls. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Jubal. 9 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7771. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720297-6397. Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094. Pangaea. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Paul Fowler Trio. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-4992985. Selasee. 10:30 p.m. The Walrus, 1174 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-9902. Trio Con Brio Tango. 6:30 p.m. St Julien
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Health Reform Discussion and How It Will Impact Transgender. 6 p.m. Out Boulder, 2132 14th St., Boulder, 303-499-5777. High-Impact Story Telling with Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Artist Reception. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
History Happy Hour with Female Boulder Brewers. 5:30 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.
Blancanieves. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Friday, June 21
Clean Energy Action celebration. 6 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Conscious Media Film Festivial presented by Gaiamtv.com. 6 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
theater
Hey Lady! — Tribute to the B-52s. 6:45 p.m. Whistle Stop Park, corner of 1st and Murray St., Niwot, info@Niwot.com.
events
Gimme the Loot. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
We’re not in Boulder anymore, at least not if you go to The Wizard of Oz, playing at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre through Aug. 31. 50 Shades Of Loud. Heritage Square Music Hall,18301 W. Colfax Ave., Golden, 303279-7800. Through Sept. 8.
Collected Stories — Presented by Miners Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington St., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through July 14. The Complete Works of William
Eliza Gilkyson — with Amy Speace. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café Daniels Hall, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Highwater. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Janine Gastineau and Her Rhythm. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Liz Berube. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Austrian Connection. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Moses Walker. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
An Evening with Richard Thompson. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, 303-440-7666.
Novus Folim - With Lost Point and Glass Delirium. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Courtesy of Boulder’s Dinner Theatre
Shakespeare (Abridged) — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Mainstage, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 10. The Doyle and Debbie Show — At the Galleria Theatre. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through July 14. Fiddler On The Roof. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303468-2030. Through July 14. The Jackalope Play Festival: Summer Tales of Strangeness — Pre-
Ori Naftaly. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Phat Daddy. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Rocktin’ Grove. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
sented by Theatre Company of Lafayette. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through June 30.
Rocky Mountain Grateful Dead Revue featuring Bob Eaton. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Amphitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 11.
Sweetfire. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Sylvia — Presented by Firehouse Theater Company with Spotlight Theater Company. John Hand Theatre, 7653 E. 1st Place, Denver, 303-562-3232. Through June 29.
Todd Johnson Blues Band. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.
The Wizard of Oz. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 31.
The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
The Ultimate Thriller — Michael Jackson tribute. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Woody Pines from North Carolina. see EVENTS Page 34
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The Denver Art Museum’s Spun: Adventures in Textiles continues its 10 featured exhibitions that will run through Sept. 22.
Barbara Yates Beasley, Rob Wardell. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Aug. 2.
BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Oct. 27.
303-441-3110. Through Aug. 17. Imagine! Presents. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 12. Jen Lewin: It’s Electric. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through July 27. Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 21.
Cut and Paste. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 15.
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Cover Story. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Sept. 22.
Dance Rehearsal: Karen Jacqueline Groag’s “Paper Kilimnik’s World of Ballet Dolls,” Denver Art Museum Primal Seen — Selections and Theatre — Solo show from the CU photography by Karen Kilimnik. Museum collection. CU Art Museum, of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 23. June 22. Erotic Nature — Photography by Kate Zari Roberts. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430. Through Sept. 3. Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century. Norlin Library second floor, CU campus, Boulder, ucblibraries.colorado.edu. Through June 2014. Herbert Bayer 1900 to 1928: The Bauhaus and Pre-Bauhaus Years. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 14.
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Rocky Mountain Majesty — The paintings of Charles Partridge Adams. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 21. Spun: Adventures in Textiles. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 22. This Is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Through Sept. 8. Transitions — by Anne Gifford. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Through Sept. 8. Unmasked: The Language of Cultural Identity — Various artists. WESTend at The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 29.
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Young Dubliners. 6 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-666-7400.
Dave Tamkin Band. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
events
The Dunwells. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Arise Music Festival Pre-Party. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Dusty Sunshine. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Guillermo Kuitca: Diarios Public Celebration. 10 a.m. Musuem of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 720-236-1826
The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Saturday, June 22 music Alexis Pastuhov. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Bob’s Big Band. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Dan Fogelberg Tribute — With Kenny Luna, John Decrenza, Shelden Felich. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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Julie Monley Quintet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Levee Town. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Maria Vazquez. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Mike Berges. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Mr. Anonymous — With Highway 50. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Dan Hicks and Hot Licks. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-485-9400.
O.A.R. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Danielle Ate The Sandwich. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café Daniels Hall, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-
Ozomatli. 4 p.m. Left Hand Brewery, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
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events Smooth Money Gesture. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Split Jive Broadcast. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Strange Parade — Tribute to the Doors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Woody Pines. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café Tuft Theatre, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
events Adobe Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Boulder Market. 10 a.m. University Hill Elementary, 956 16th St., Boulder, 720-272-7467.
1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-492-8008. Eddie and the Haskels. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Quick and Easy Boys. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Zing The Big Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
events Moovers and Shakers - “Hey Bartender” Premiere. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Tuesday, June 25 music
Billy Hoke's Xtravaganze #9. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Catherine Feeny, Sama Dams and John Statz. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Chris Theron. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Josh Rouse — with Jami Lunde. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café Walnut Room, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Mathias and the Crooked Streets. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Open Mic — Hosted by Maus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E.
First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Portland Cello Project. 6 p.m. eTown, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Second Set. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Terra Gatos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
events Film on the Rocks — Blues Brothers. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator. 6 p.m. Boulder see EVENTS Page 36
Bridge House Community Garden Day. 10 a.m. Hawthorn Community Garden, 1630 Hawthorn Ave., Boulder, 303-443-9952. Celebrate Summer Hike at Mud Lake. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, Boulder, 303-678-6214. The Dairy Center for the Arts Presents The Dairy Comedy Night. 8 p.m. Performance Space. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Eagle Rock Theater: In the Blood, A Play by Suzan-Lori Parks. 1 and 7 p.m. East Theatre, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Irish Saturday Evenings with The McTeggart Irish Dancers. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Yoga Rocks the Park — with Dave Farmar and Marsha Austin Radwin. 9 a.m. Foothill Elementary School, 1001 Hawthorn Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2600.
Sunday, June 23 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Barnyard Critter Day. 10 a.m. Boulder County Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, 303-678-8688. The Big Pick Open Folk and Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues Jam — With Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Bob Harris — “A Salute to the Legends.” 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Brittany Reilly Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill and Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-485-9400. Joshua Powell and the Great Train Robbery. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Mello Cello Sundays with Sam Rae. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Mike Galaxy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Mile Markers. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.
events Ballet in the Park. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Four Funny Films. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch. 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303441-4390. Theatre-Hikes: Snow White. 10:30 a.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Twisted Pine’s 18th Anniversary Party. 2 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303786-9270.
Monday, June 24 music Beerasana. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. The Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Boulder Library Lawn,
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Friday, June 21
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feaT aLLen aucoin (disco BiscuiTs) & Beard-o-Bees feaT Jesse MiLLer (LoTus) w/ Munson Meeks & diGiTaL BeaT down
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Michelle Auerbach. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303579-1644.
Craig Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Historic Lodo Tattered Cover. 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.
Teen Summer Film Nexus — Lincoln. 5 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.
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Saturday, June 22
Arianne Zwartjes and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
Musical Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.
splyt & shelton harris x tyler dopps
w/ MarVeL years, arTifakTs, krooked driVers & sPeciaL GuesTs
Wednesday, June 26
Mothering and Daughtering — by Sil & Eliza Reynolds. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.
Hike at Sunset — Pella Crossing Open Space. 6:30 p.m. Pella Crossing Open Space, Longmont, 303-678-6214.
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane — by Neil Gaiman. 6 p.m. Historic Lodo Tattered Cover. 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.
Justin Sirois and Chris Pusateri. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
Wednesday July 3
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Tuesday, June 25
Paint Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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Maps of Fate: Book Two — by Reid Lance Rosenthal. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4440349.
Digital Arts, Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Tori PaTer’s BiG Bad Band
feaT daVid MurPHy (sTs9) & JereMy saLken (BiG GiGanTic)
Dick Kreck. 7:30 p.m. Historic Lodo Tattered Cover. 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-4361070.
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feaT TroLLey snaTcHa w/ PiLLow fiGHT (June sHowcase winners)
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Thursday, June 20
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Wednesday June 19
Sci-fi writer Neil Gaiman comes to Denver on June 25 to discuss his latest novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
West Flanders Fundraiser and Beer Trivia Night. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Co., 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.
Wednesday, June 26
Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099. Hats Off to Dr. Seuss! Touring Exhibition. 6 p.m. Clayton Lane Fine Art, 110 Clayton Lane, Denver, 720-2145263.
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Stamp Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
The Big Blues Jam. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
“Wanda & The Wave.” 7 p.m. The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 720-891-1882.
Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Saturday, June 22
The Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Hazel Miller Band. 7 p.m. Bands on the Bricks, 1300 block of Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. John McKay. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Streetlight Manifesto — With Rodeo Ruby Love and Empty Orchestra. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Trout Steak Revival. 6:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café Four Mile Historic Park. 715 South Forest St., Denver, 303777-1003.
KIDS CALENDAR
Saturday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099. “Wanda & The Wave.” 11 a.m. The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 720-891-1882.
Sunday, June 23 Baby Boogie, Bring your kids into dance! 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Barnyard Critter Day. 10 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, Longmont, 303-776-8688. “Wanda & The Wave.” 3 p.m. The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 720-891-1882.
Tuesday, June 25 Clay Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Wednesday, June 26
Thursday, June 20
Stencil Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
I Spy Bones. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch Group Picnic Shelter, Boulder, 303-678-6214.
Storytime for Children. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library
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reel to reel After Earth
Pandora’s Promise
In the future, a father and son (Will and Jaden Smith) crash land on Earth 1,000 years after the last human was forced to evacuate the planet. The dad is badly injured and the son must face many obstacles and odd animals to try to save him. Rated PG-13 . At Twin Peaks and Century.
Filmmaker Robert Stone’s controversial new film dares to tackle the emerging divide within the environmental movement over the desirability of nuclear power as the solution for the world’s energy crisis. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Purge If you lived in a world where on one night every year, you could commit any crime and know with certainty that you would suffer no consequences, what would you do? Figure it out or go to this movie to get a few ideas. Rated R. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
Before Midnight Jesse and Celine first met in their 20s in Before Sunrise, reunited in their 30s in Before Sunset and now, in director/cowriter Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, they face the past, present and future. Rated R. At Century and Mayan.
Berberian Sound Studio 1976. A mild-mannered British sound engineer named Gilderoy arrives in Rome to work on the post-synchronized soundtrack to The Equestian Vortex, a tale of witchcraft and murder set inside an allgirls riding academy. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Sapphires Inspired by a true story, the dramatic comedy The Sapphires follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. At SIE FilmCenter. — Landmark Theatres
WORLD WAR Z
Looks like Brangelina is shopping for another kid.
Blancanieves Once upon a time there was a little girl who had never known her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves and became a legend in this tribute to black and white silent film. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Bling Ring The Bling Ring tells the story of a group of teenagers who burglarize celebrities’ homes in Los Angeles. Rated R. At Chez Artiste and Century. — Landmark Theatres
The Cabin in the Woods Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know the story, think again. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
The East This espionage thriller stars co-writer Brit Marling as former FBI agent Sarah Moss, who’s starting a new career at an elite private intelligence firm that ruthlessly protects the interests of its A-list corporate clientele. Sarah goes deep undercover to infiltrate The East, an elusive anarchist collective seeking revenge against major corporations guilty of covering up criminal activity. Rated R. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Epic
Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s romance as they join forces to save their high school’s ramshackle clubhouse from demolition. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Gimme the Loot Malcolm and Sofia, two determined teens from the Bronx, are the ultimate graffiti-writers. When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece, they hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but they need to raise $500 to pull off their spectacular scheme. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
As the Civil War continues to rage, America’s president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield and fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves. At Boulder Library. — Boulder Public Library
The Hangover Part III
The reboot of the Superman series focuses on Clark Kent’s childhood and transformation into a superhero after being transported to Earth from Krypton. Rated PG 13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
After the death of Alan’s father, the guys get together to help Alan with his mental issues. Of course, things don’t go as planned, and Doug is kidnapped. The wolfpack must find the gangster behind the kidnapping to save their friend. Rated R. At Century.
Hatchet III
In the series’ sixth installment, the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service offers to clear the gang’s criminal records in return for its help taking down a mercenary organization. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Hatchet III continues the tale of the now-iconic villian Victor Crowley. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The award-winning documentary tells the story of a mother and former Communist Party member, Jennifer Zeng, who, along with more than 70 million Chinese, was practicing a belief that combined Buddhism and Daoism until the Chinese government outlawed it. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The sublime Barbara Sukowa re-teams with director Margarethe von Trotta for her brilliant new biopic of Hannah Arendt. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Hey Bartender This new documentary explores the history of the bartending profession and takes a look at the artistry and skill involved with being a successful cocktail bartender. At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Boedecker Theater
Hollywood Sound: Music for the Movies This excellent overview of the Golden Age of Hollywood film music is brimming with musical and historical insight. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Internship Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are teaming up again. This time they are pals trying to get internships at Google. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
From Up on Poppy Hill
Iron Man 3
From the legendary Studio Ghibli comes an inspired coming-of-age story set in 1960s Japan. In a lovingly hand-drawn tale, two students develop a budding
When his enemy leaves Tony Stark’s personal life in shambles, he must suit up once again as Iron Man. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square.
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This film recreates the amazing adventure of explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific Ocean crossing in 1947 in a balsa wood raft with five men. Rated PG-13. At Esquire.
Set in New York during the roaring ’20s, Nick Carraway is thrust in to Jay Gatsby’s world of lavish parties and disposable wealth. But as the writer pieces together the truth about his dazzling neighbor’s unrequited love, Carraway’s vision of the American Dream begins to crumble. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Century.
Fast and Furious 6
Free China: The Courage to Believe
Kon-tiki
Lincoln
Hannah Arendt
Living in New York and apprenticing at a dance company, Frances struggles with maintaining her relationship with her best friend Sophie and following her dreams to be a dancer. Rated R. At Mayan.
This film got great reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. It’s a comedy about three teenage friends who decide to build their own house and live off the land. Rated R. At Century and Mayan.
The Great Gatsby
When Mary Katherine visits her father, she gets lost in the forest near his house and discovers tiny warriors that her father has been studying. She joins them in a war against evil while trying to find her way home. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Frances Ha
The Kings of Summer
Man of Steel
Monsters University This prequel to Monsters, Inc. follows Mike and Sulley through their scare training and their attempts to join the best fraternity. Rated G. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Much Ado About Nothing
It’s the most mythic of all American emporiums—and the scene of many an ultimate fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings of Bergdorf’s. 35mm presentation. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
SOMM SOMM takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into a mysterious world — the Court of Master Sommeliers and the massively intimidating Master Sommelier exam. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Star Trek Into Darkness When the crew of the Enterprise returns to earth they find the whole place in chaos. Captain Kirk takes his merry band of space pals to a forbidding prison planet to restore order and exact revenge. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Stories We Tell Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Tabu
A series of comic and tragic events conspire to keep two couples from truly finding happiness — but then again, perhaps love will prevail. Rated PG-13. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres
A restless, retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbor’s maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothills of Mount Tabu in Africa. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Mud
Tears of the Black Tiger
When two boys discover a mysterious stranger hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River, their lives and those of everyone in their small town are changed forever. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
In the countryside of Thailand, a gang of outlaws makes the region unsafe. Among them is handsome gun hero Dum, who made a promise to upper-crust lover Rumpocy: They will get married. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Now You See Me The world’s greatest illusionists take to robbing corporate bad guys and giving the spoils to their fans, all the while avoiding capture by the feds. Think magic Robin Hoods. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The Painting A kingdom is divided into the three castes: the impeccably painted Alldunns, who reside in a majestic palace; the Halfies, who the Painter has left incomplete; and the untouchable Sketchies, simple charcoal outlines who are banished to the cursed forest. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
This is the End When the apocalypse hits, six friends — fictional versions of James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride and Craig Robinson — find out what true friendship really means. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
World War Z As the zombie apocalypse hits, a retired UN worker must find a way to stop the pandemic and save the world. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
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silent film reimagining Snow White shot in black and white and set in Spain, in which the heroine is a bullfighter, is not an easy sell. Who knows what lengths writer/director Pablo Berger had to go through to secure financing for this gothic reworking of a famous fairy tale, set in 1920s Seville. But whatever he did was worth it. Blancanieves is what The Artist wants to be when The Artist grows up. It’s proof that a powerful score, expressive physical acting and imaginative directing can still deliver a silent film as resonant today as it would have been all those decades ago. Renowned matador Antonio Villalta (Daniel Giménez Cacho) is gored thanks to an ill-timed camera flash just as his wife dies in childbirth. The evil Encarna (Maribel Verdú) hatches a plan; she makes the now-crippled Antonio dependent upon her and, once married, treats his daughter as a slave. Unbeknownst to Encarna, Antonio teaches his daughter to bullfight. And by the time Carmen (Macarena García) is full-grown, she is quite skilled. Of course, she gets run off and winds up with amnesia in the care of a troupe of traveling, bullfighting dwarves. And one day, as luck would have it, she is forced to jump in the ring, where her dazzling display of beauty and grace combines with her deceased mother’s dancing and her father’s matador skill. She becomes a phenomenon known as Blancanieves and, thus, a threat to Encarna’s self-aggrandizing attempts at dominating the public view. Enter poisoned fruit and kissing.
To take nothing away from Berger’s script or direction, there is no more important component in a silent film than the score. Alfonso de Vilallonga’s work here is absolutely transcendent; it is a lethal combination of flamenco, dark fantasy and passionate rhythm. What need is there for dialogue when music like this can express the emotion so delicately? Add to this the exceptional work of Verdú, whose villainous performance is decidedly better than Jean Dujardin’s as a tragic hero in The Artist. She even gets a chance to engage in some decidedly non-period-appropriate S&M behavior, which simultaneously frightens and lightens the mood. If there’s a flaw here, it is in the pacing. Berger frontloads too much time with Antonio. As a rule, more time spent with matador dwarves (matadwarves?) and less time spent with wheelchair-bound papas is always best. Still, the film manages to take a particularly dark but insightful turn in the final act. It calls into question the complacency with which modern audiences accept Snow White’s rebirth as a byproduct of male physical affection. Let’s leave it at that. But you’ll also leave quite pleased. The Artist was over-praised because it used its silent approach as a sellable gimmick. Blancanieves is like the antiArtist, concerned less about making a point about form and more about using form to make a point. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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uick. It’s your company’s Osborne, marketing manager for Avery, birthday. What do you make? says that it takes the brewery almost two Cake? Cookies? Brownies? years for a beer to get from just a concept What about beer? to a fully produced product. Twisted Pine Brewery in Just to get to the lineup Avery has Boulder is celebrating its 18th anniversary now, Osborne says, took nearly two in July, and according to Justin Tilotta, decades. who manages logistics for the brewery, “We have a very large assortment of Twisted Pine will have up to 40 different beers that we package and release,” beers ready — a pretty huge number, even Osborne says. “It’s taken us 20 years to for a brewery that’s among the larger in come up with that assortment.” Boulder County. The company’s national marketing The Twisted Pine anniversary celebra- Twisted Pine Head Brewer Henry Jager preparing Hoppy Knight India Black Ale. director, Darin McGregor, says the brewtion points to a larger issue that faces ery embraces its large lineup. He says Boulder County’s bigger breweries: strikanother model might be easier but ing a balance between experimentation, wouldn’t be as satisfying. adventure and rarity on the one hand, and “We’d probably make about five beers reliability, smooth operation and constant and make them well and market them like production of the classics on the other. crazy, and that would be the easiest way to For the county’s bigger breweries — go,” he says. “But that’s not where we’ve Twisted Pine, Avery, Left Hand, Boulder ever come from. For [President and Beer and others — there’s no single Brewmaster] Adam [Avery], it was about answer. Some breweries get a pilot system what the possibilities were, making sure to let employees test new ideas, some ask we were more of a brewery than we were their brewers to try things at home and a factory.” others break in new brews with a bang, Osborne says that the guiding idea dedicating their whole production line to a behind where their new ideas come from new recipe. is to ask, “What am I not tasting in my Twisted Pine’s approach just might be the most ing the beer during the fermentation process. The trial beer?” aggressively creative. Each employee involved in beers are kept in kegs and containers next to or on top “We are looking at what part of our palette is not brewing is required to bring in a new beer each of packaged beer that is ready to be sent to restaurants getting hit yet,” Osborne says. Osborne adds that month. The 2012 decision by brewery President and and distributors, often on pallets that stand 20 or 30 many of the brewers at Avery also work at home on CEO Bob Baile has seen some interesting results, feet high. their own home brewing kits to figure out what they yielding beers based on the flavors and aromas of veg“It’s nothing pretty,” Tilotta says, “but it gets the would enjoy making. But McGregor says it’s rare for etables like carrots and cucumbers. job done.” an Avery beer to be any one person’s project. “We’ve gotten some really weird stuff out of Twisted Pine goes with the no-holds-barred “One thing we’ve discovered is any one of our there,” Tilotta says of the ideas that they receive, many method of creating new ideas, but fellow Boulder brewers could sit down and sketch out and make a of which are made on brewers’ homebrew kits. brewery Avery Brewing Company has a much more really good beer,” he says, “but when we get a roomful The brewery has a less than organized way of stor- conservative approach to creating new beers. Joe see BREWING Page 44
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t recently Sushi Yoshi dawned on 406 Center me that Drive, Unit D, location Superior doesn’t 720-304-0300 seem to be a predictor of the quality of Boulder County Japanese restaurants. Sure, I’ve had fine Asian meals at the high-end downtown Boulder stalwarts. But I’ve also enjoyed equally satisfying repasts in strip mall joints and haunts tucked away in the corners of grocery stores. The latest example of an off-the-beaten path Japanese establishment that I’ve come across is Superior’s Sushi Yoshi. This sleek establishment is located a California roll’s throw away from Costco; I suppose the resourceful could come here and enjoy a sushi dinner while having a set of tires mounted. Nevertheless, the menu here is more sophisticated and expansive than the restaurant’s location would indicate. Prices aren’t what one would call cheap, but they are in line with the high quality of ingredients and preparation. Unsurprisingly, sushi variants as well as tempura, sashimi and bento combination meals make up the bulk of the menu. Sushi Yoshi isn’t the place for a rushed repast, as most food preparation appears to be to order, and one master sushi chef seems responsible for all the
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kitchen’s output. Pal Mara and I started dinner with a pair of appetizers, a $4.50 helping of Agedashi and a $6.50 plate of Tatsutaage. Agedashi consists of fried soft tofu (quite possibly the hardest thing to pick up with chopsticks in recorded history) in a low-key sauce of dashi fish stock and soy. Dried bonito fish flakes contributed textural interest and the subtle but intriguing flavors masterfully contrasted against the relatively blank canvas of silken bean curd. Tatsuta-age, bits of fried chicken, was remarkably light in texture, but possessed surprising depth of flavor. A squeeze of lemon added a tangy accent to the poultry. A miscommunication with the server resulted in Mara receiving a $16 lobster sushi roll instead of the $23 tempu-
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ra dinner featuring this crustacean. However, there was little to criticize about this decadent roll, which adroitly contrasted crisp cucumber with creamy avocado and delicately fried shellfish morsels. My friend rounded out her meal with a $6 side of veggie tempura. Unlike some restaurants that offer a fried batter closely resembling that of a fast-food fruit turnover, Yoshi’s gets it absolutely right with proper lacy texture. Another winning touch is that rather than serving a dish of cheaper vegetables such as carrots and onions, the offering here features such weighty produce as eggplant and squash. My $25 Tsuru bento allowed me to sample a little of everything, including a bowl of not-too-salty miso and a wasabi dressed green salad. Besides the aforementioned tempura, there were also slices of clean-tasting and silky sashimi, including tuna, yellowtail and salmon. Simmered vegetables like earthy shittake and pumpkin evoked the best of rural Japanese fare. A piece of perfectly grilled salmon rounded out the meal. In lieu of a more traditional dessert such as the green tea ice cream that accompanied my bento, Mara finished
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Boulder has become a mecca of microbreweries, and the University of Colorado Boulder’s Alumni Association and the Boulder History Museum are celebrating this June 21 with “Buffs on Tap: A Taste of Boulder’s Brewing History.” The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a reception featuring local beer and appetizers. A panel of CU alumni brewers starts at 6 p.m. and will be followed with time to explore the Boulder History Museum’s exhibit “Beer! Boulder’s History On Tap.” Local beer, food and ice cream from local food trucks will be available after the panel, from 6:45 to 8 p.m. Boulder’s Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts will also provide a cooking with beer demonstration. The local participating breweries are J. Wells Brewery, Bootstrap Brewing, Upslope Brewing, FATE Brewing Company and Twisted Pine Brewing Co. Sweet Cow Ice Cream and the Tasterie Truck will provide food at the event. Admission is $15 and includes one free drink, museum admission and food. Locally brewed beer will also be available from a cash bar. The event takes place at the Boulder History Museum, at 1206 Euclid Ave. and is open to CU alumni.
COLORADO BREWERS’ FESTIVAL OFFERS TASTE OF LOCAL BEER If you haven’t gotten your fill of locally brewed beer yet, you’re in luck. The 24th Annual Colorado Brewers’ Festival will bring together more than 40 Colorado breweries with more than 80 beers, offering beer tastings and musical entertainment. The festival will take place from June 21 to June 23 in
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Maybe you’ve seen that meme circulating on the LIBRA Internet: “My desire to be SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Go to RealAstrology.com to check out well-informed is at odds Johnny Appleseed was a Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO with my desire to remain 19th-century folk hero HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE sane.” If you feel that way renowned for planting HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes now — and I suspect you apple trees in vast areas might soon if you don’t are also available by phone at 1-877of rural America. During already — you have cos873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. the 70 years this famous mic permission, at least Libra was alive, he never for a while, to emphasize got married. He believed sanity over being wellthat if he remained informed. Lose track of unwed during his time on earth, he would be blessed what Kim Jong-un and Kim Kardashian are up to, ignore with two spirit-wives in the after-life. Have you ever done the statements of every jerk on the planet and maybe even something like that yourself, Libra? Is there an adventure go AWOL from the flood of data that relentlessly pours you’ve denied yourself in the here and now because you toward you. Instead, pay attention to every little thing your think that’s the only way you can get some bigger, better body has to tell you. Remember and marvel at your nightly adventure at a later date? If so, now would be an excellent dreams. Go slow. Lay low. Be soft. Have fun with unspectime to adjust your attitude. tacular influences that make you feel at home in the world.
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I expect you will be called on to move fluidly between opposing camps or competing interests or different realities. Maybe you’ll volunteer to serve as an arbiter between the crabby good guys and the righteous bad guys. Perhaps you’ll try to decode one friend’s quirky behavior so that another friend can understand it. You might have to interpret my horoscopes for people who think astrology is bunk. You may even have to be a mediator between your own heart and head, or explain the motivations of your past self to your future self. You can’t be perfect, of course. There will be details lost in translation. But if you’re as patient as a saint and as tricky as a crow, you’ll succeed.
“It is kind of fun to do the impossible,” said Walt Disney, a pioneer animator whose cartoon innovations were remarkable. Judging from your current astrological omens, I think you Scorpios have every right to adopt his battle cry as your mantra. You’ve got an appointment with the frontier. You’re primed to perform experiments at the edge of your understanding. Great mysteries will be tempting you to come closer and lost secrets will be teasing you with juicy clues. As you explore and tinker with the unknown, you might also want to meditate on the graffiti I saw scrawled on a mirror in a public restroom: “Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
GEMINI
SAGITTARIUS
Pablo Casals was one of the greatest cello players who ever lived. Among his early inspirations was the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Casals discovered Bach’s six cello suites when he was 13 years old, and played them every day for the next 13 years. Have you ever done something similar, Gemini? Devoted yourself to a pleasurable discipline on a regular basis for a long time? I invite you to try it. The coming months will be an excellent time to seek mastery through a diligent attention to the details.
Astronauts on lunar expeditions have orbited the moon and seen its entire surface. But the rest of us have never seen more than 59 percent of it. As the moon revolves around the Earth, it always keeps one side turned away from our view. Isn’t that amazing and eerie? The second most important heavenly body, which is such a constant and intimate factor in our lives, is half-hidden. I’d like to propose that there is an analogous phenomenon in your inner world, Sagittarius: a part of you that forever conceals some of its true nature. But I’m pretty sure you will soon be offered an unprecedented chance to explore that mysterious realm.
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“I know that I am not a category,” said philosopher Buckminster Fuller. “I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process.” Philosopher Norman O. Brown had a similar experience. “The human body is not a thing or substance, but a continuous creation,” he mused. “It is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction.” Now is an excellent time to imagine yourself in these terms, Cancerian. You’re not a finished product, and never will be! Celebrate your fluidity, your changeableness, your instinctual urge to reinvent yourself.
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Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne married his wife Elizabeth in 1741. Twenty-five years later he fell in love with another woman, Eliza. In composing love letters to his new infatuation, he lifted some of the same romantic passages he had originally written to Elizabeth when he was courting her. Try hard not to do anything remotely resembling that, Capricorn. Give your intimate allies your freshest stuff. Treat them as the unique creatures they are. Resist the temptation to use shticks that worked to create closeness in the past.
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
VIRGO
For over three decades, a man in Assam, India, has worked to build a forest. When Jadav “Molai” Payeng started planting and tending seeds at the age of 16, the sandbars bordering the Brahmaputra River were barren. Today, almost entirely thanks to him, they’re covered with a 1,360-acre forest that harbors deer, birds, tigers, rhinos and elephants. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you could launch a comparable project in the next 12 months, Pisces — a labor of love that will require your persistent creativity and provide you with sanctuary for a long time.
Susannah Cibber was a popular 18th-century English contralto whose singing was expressive and moving. On one occasion, she performed Handel’s Messiah with such verve that an influential priest responded by making an extravagant guarantee. He told her that as a result of her glorious singing, any sins she had committed or would commit were forever forgiven. I’d like to see you perpetrate an equivalent amazement, Virgo: a good or beautiful or soulful deed that wins you a flood of enduring slack. The
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Dear Dan: I’m a straight guy in my early 30s with an amazing girlfriend of two years. A few months ago, I felt open enough to share my taboo fantasy: father/daughter incest. My GF, to my delight, not only understands the fantasy but enjoys participating in it! Quickly: I have ZERO interest in this kind of thing actually happening. I understand the kind of damage that sexual abuse can do and has done to many, many women, and I would never pursue something like this in real life. Now the problem: We’ve added the “wrinkle” of me talking to another man on the phone while my GF fellates me. The man — a stranger, someone we found online — has been led to believe that I am being fellated by my daughter while we speak. Of course, he can hear the noises associated with said activity while he and I are talking. We do not in any way lead these guys to believe that they have a chance to meet us. We want to enjoy our sexual fantasies, but we worry that we could be inadvertently encouraging someone to make their fantasies a reality. Any advice? —No Acronym Seems To Yodel Dear NASTY: The incest fetishists you meet in chat rooms and get on the phone? For all they know, you could be alone in a room stirring a jar of mayonnaise with a slotted spoon. And for all you know, NASTY, the incest fetishists you’re meeting in chat rooms could be police officers looking to bust men who are actually raping their daughters. Just sayin’. As for your problem, NASTY, most people with incest fantasies insist that they’re not turned on by the idea of having sex with their actual parents, siblings or children. Incest scenarios turn them on abstractly, but they have ZERO interest in their own siblings or parents or children specifically. That can’t be true for all incest fetishists — statistically speaking — but any incest fetishists who’re turned on by the thought of actually fucking their sibs/ parents/children would have a motive and/or the good sense to lie. But let’s set your specific fantasy aside for the moment — which is an upsetting one for most people to contemplate (because ick), particularly those who were sexually abused by family members (because rape) — and focus on the underlying question: Does exploring something taboo through fantasy make someone likelier to go and do that thing in real life? The evidence we’ve got about porn points to no. “Perhaps the most serious accusation against pornography is that it incites sexual aggression,” Melinda Wenner Moyer wrote
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30,000 people in which at least 2 percent of the residents are black, blacks are arrested at higher rates than whites for marijuana possession. Many wind up ensnared in the justice system, which affects their ability to get jobs and education and complicates their lives and that of their families, for doing, let’s not forget, something that, though it’s illegal under federal law, 20 million Americans admit to doing. The Colorado figures show less racial disparity. Blacks were three times more likely to be arrested than whites in 2001 and 1.9 percent more likely in 2010. But arrest numbers were disturbing. In 2010 there were 11,009 arrests in Colorado for marijuana offenses. That’s like busting everyone in a town the size of Steamboat Springs — every year. Of those, 94 percent (10,343) were for possession. Though arrest rates in general decreased during the period, dropping 14 percent from 2001 to 2010, pot arrests continued to rise. It gets worse. The study found that about $37 million was spent enforcing marijuana possession laws in 2010 in Colorado — $19 million for police, $14 million for judicial/legal and more than $3 million for corrections. Colorado’s prison system costs taxpayers a whopping $780 million a year, some of that outsourced to
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