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Correction: In the June 20 edition of Boulderganic magazine, the article “Straight to the Point” incorrectly stated that physical therapist Jan Dommerholt was involved with a court case in 2009 in Oregon. The story incorrectly suggested that dry needling cannot be practiced by physical therapists in Oregon. Dommerholt was also incorrectly quoted as saying that a study he conducted shows that .04 percent of dry needling patients suffer any
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Highroad North Carolina’s Kafkaesque war on the unemployed by Jim Hightower
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omething profoundly awful has seeped into the top strata of American society: Our nation’s corporate and political elites have developed an immunity to shame. It has become morally acceptable in those lofty circles to enrich themselves while turning their backs on the rest of us. Even more damning, the power elites now feel ethically free to slash America’s tattered safety net, leaving more holes than net for the
kind of injury. Dommerholt’s study showed that the risk of a significant adverse event is .04 percent when dry needling is performed by practitioners in Ireland who completed Dommerholt’s dry needling course.
We need Xcel’s poles, wires
Mark Gelband’s letter of June 27 suggested that Boulder buy “green” electricity supplies while leaving
workaday majority of Americans who’ve been knocked down by an ongoing economic disaster created by these very elites. Welcome to North Carolina, the latest state to flaunt its shame-resistant political leadership, which now consists of corporate-funded tea party extremists who loathe the very idea of a safety net. They’ve been gutting everything from their public schools to health care, and now they’ve turned on their own citizens who’re out of work. In a state with the fifth-highest jobless rate in the country and with no recovery in sight, the right-wing governor and legislature recently whacked weekly unemployment benefits by a third and cut the number of weeks people can receive this essential aid. That official minginess automatically disqualified the state from getting $700 million a year for long-term jobless payments from the federal
maintenance of poles, wires and transformers to Xcel. Unfortunately, Colorado law says that the electricity distributor is allowed to pick the electricity provider. Boulder thus must accept the energy mix chosen by Xcel Energy. This means that if Boulder wants to take back our electricity choice from the for-profit corporation Xcel see LETTERS Page 8
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government. Yet Gov. Pat McCrory issued a cockamamie, Kafkaesque claim that the gut job ensures that “‘our citizens’ unemployment safety net is secure,” while providing “an economic climate that allows job creators to start hiring again.” Yeah, we’ll all hold our breath until those “job creators” get going. If ignorance is bliss, McCrory must be ecstatic. Meanwhile, his shameless immorality has unleashed a growing storm of weekly demonstrations at the capital. For information, link to the North Carolina Justice Center: www.ncjustice.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. July 11, 2013 7
danish plan The hills are alive with the sound of fracking by Paul Danish
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ad news, anti-frackers. The hills are alive with the sound of fracking. According to a recently published report by Leonardo Maugeri, an energy expert at the Kennedy School of Government, fracking isn’t just for shale oil and gas any more. It seems that everyone in the oil patch is doing it — and what’s more, they’ve been doing it for years. Interesting guy, Maugeri. From 2000 to 2010 he was senior executive vice president of strategy and development for the Italian oil company Eni, the sixth-largest multinational oil company in the world. He’s currently Roy Family Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His report “The Shale Oil Boom: A U.S. Phenomenon” makes fascinating reading for anyone interested in understanding the shale oil industry, instead of just sliming it. It also contained this inconvenient little factoid that bespeaks volumes about the on-going fracking controversy: In 2011, 95 percent of both the horizontal and vertical wells drilled in the United States were fracked. In other words, fracking is a routine part of oil and gas well completion these days. The wells that aren’t fracked are the exceptions. Maugeri got that factoid from a 2011 report produced by the National Petroleum Council, an industry trade group. The report, titled Prudent Development, was prepared by the council at the request of then-Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The council’s report also mentioned in passing 1) that fracking was first used in 1947, and 2) about 1 million wells have been fracked in the United States since then. In other words, the American petroleum industry is dependent on fracking for its continued survival and competitiveness. In other words, without the use of fracking, the domestic oil and gas industry, which currently is increasing production of both gas and oil hand over fist, would instead peter out over the next 10 or 20 years. And also in other words, those who advocate a ban on fracking are in effect calling for the shutdown of the domestic oil and gas industry. 8 July 11, 2013
Shutting down the domestic oil and gas industry is the real agenda of the antifracking movement, and chances are that a lot of the anti-fracking activists — especially the movement’s peace and justice/ Occupy Wall Street militants — wouldn’t bother to deny it. Fracking is just a convenient pretext for attacking the industry, not because fracking is particularly dangerous (which it isn’t), but because hardly anyone outside the oil and gas industry had heard of fracking until recently, so it could be portrayed as a sinister new threat, instead of a 60-year-old technology that is a crucial step in drilling nearly all new oil and gas wells — and which has been used safely for decades. (The few accidents that activists have tried to pin on fracking have almost all been traced to shortcomings in other steps of the well drilling process — usually improper casing and cementing of the well.) It isn’t just fracking that made the shale oil and shale gas booms possible. It was the use of fracking in combination with the newer technology of horizontal drilling that was the real breakthrough. The American oil industry is totally committed to horizontal drilling; according to Maugeri, 90 percent of the drilling rigs in the country have the capability to drill wells horizontally, often for as much as two miles. Those horizontal laterals can then be fracked in multiple places, vastly increasing the amount of oil a single well can access. This technology has not only made the shale boom possible, it is being used to squeeze more oil out of conventional deposits and additional oil from supposedly depleted fields. Vertical wells, in contrast, pass through an oil bearing formation top to bottom and are typically in contact with 100 to 200 feet or less of pay — which is only enough surface area of a single frack stage. Still, that didn’t stop oil companies from drilling — and fracking — more than 20,000 vertical wells in Weld County during the 40 years prior to the current oil and gas boom in the Wattenberg Field. Those wells don’t seem to have had much adverse impact. Weld County is and has been for years the fourth-most productive agricultural county in the country. And they haven’t kept Weld County from becoming one of the fastsee FRACKING Page 12
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3 t i me s t h c s r o B a a d ay i n o r t ai r p R us s i a n e r. . . f o re v n a d a s, a p m e r o duc k , ro a s te d . . . p o le n t a My gut tells me he’s going to Venezuela.
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Energy, and if we wish to stop spending our money for Xcel’s administrative overhead and stockholders’ dividends, we will first have to purchase the infrastructure through which that electricity will flow. We will then have the choice in a free market to choose among competing providers who will be happy to provide us the energy mix of our choice. MP Donahue/Boulder Xcel Energy’s claims for huge “stranded costs” if the city of Boulder municipalizes its electric power system appear greatly exaggerated. The City of Boulder filed a petition before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in mid-May. The city asked the FERC to rule that, after municipalization, if Boulder continued to purchase a portion of its electric power from Xcel there would be no “stranded costs” attributable to that portion. (For example, if Boulder continued to purchase 75 percent of its power from Xcel for the next seven years, there would be no stranded costs attributable to that 75 percent for the next seven years.) Since Boulder filed its petition, several other parties have also made filings, including Xcel. No one has opposed Boulder’s petition in principle. If the FERC rules in Boulder’s favor, Boulder could avoid paying stranded costs by purchasing power from Xcel for a number of years. So Boulder’s “stranded costs” may be much, much lower than Xcel claims. They might even be zero. Xcel has been involved in a proceeding before the Colorado Public
Utility Commission (PUC). In that proceeding, Xcel estimated it will need from 345 megawatts [million watts] to 432 megawatts of new generation capacity in 2018 — five years from now. The capacity which could be “released” by Boulder if it municipalizes is 243 megawatts — much less than the needed new generation. If the PUC were to approve selling Boulder’s released power capacity at full rates to new Xcel customers, or to Xcel customers with enlarged power needs, Xcel shareholders would notice no difference. Xcel ratepayers would save money because Xcel could avoid the costs of building new generation facilities. In this case, there would be no stranded costs. Phil Wardwell/Erie
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Kudos to Paul Danish for the first data-driven, honest examination of viable energy policy in a progressive publication. While any earth-loving Boulderite does not embrace further pollution of the air with ever more burning of fossil fuels, the truth is that few are willing to curtail their own use of electricity and fossil fuels when it means inconvenience to their lifestyle of travel and personal electronics. Hence the only practical strategy to get us to a low-polluting, renewable, country-wide policy is to embrace natural gas as the “bridge fuel” and then double down on longer-term research with battery technologies that will make solar more than a fraction. see LETTERS Page 11
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If there weren’t already enough reasons to support U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, this is a slam-dunk justification to vote for him in any future political endeavor he pursues. Polis was granted a request for an American flag made of hemp to fly over our nation’s Capitol on Independence Day. Please recall that, aside from your views on marijuana — which is a distinctly different substance than hemp — many of our Founding Fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, grew hemp. And in fact, the first American flag was made of the material. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Polis, along with Thomas Massie — wait for it, a Republican from Kentucky — and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) helped pass an amendment to the FARM Bill that allows colleges and universities to grow and cultivate industrial hemp for research purposes in states where industrial hemp cultivation is already legal. Polis held up an American flag made of hemp last week on the floor of the House of Representatives as he argued for the amendment, which passed 225-200. “Hemp is not marijuana, and at the very least, we should allow our universities — the greatest in the world — to research the potential benefits and downsides of this important agricultural commodity,” Polis said in a prepared statement. “Many states, including Colorado, have demonstrated that they are fully capable of regulating industrial hemp.” The flag that was flown over the Capitol building was made in Colorado from “a bolt of hemp fabric found locally.” The Rocky Mountain Hemp Association had it made and silk-screened in Colorado, according to a press release. We like that part where it says “a bolt of hemp fabric found locally.” Can’t divulge who grew it, since growing it is still, like, illegal. And “bolt” is a super-cool term for a chunk of cloth. You go, Jared. Hemp him out, people.
Boulder breweries overlooked
What are we, chopped liver? On July 8, CNN’s travel section, in one of those strange did-they-get-paid-forthis? listicles, named 10 “luxury beer vacations,” and Boulder didn’t make the list. So no, maybe there isn’t a whole lot luxurious about the day-packs-on, dogsallowed crowd on a Boulder brewery’s patio. And granted, the focus was upscale beer-themed vacations like resorts with breweries and brewery farms with lodging, but still. Even though the Boulderado doesn’t have a brewery in its basement yet — nudge, nudge, Catacombs — Boulder County still has more than 25 microbreweries, and plenty of high-end places to stay nearby. Maybe we need to jump on this bandwagon and convince Twisted Pine to allow camping in its parking lot or get Oskar Blues to change the name of its Longmont restaurant to “Liquids, Solids and Bunks.” We also like the motto “Room With A Brew,” which we have shamelessly horked from Cameron’s in Half Moon Bay, Calif., where you can literally stumble upstairs to your room after imbibing at the bar. At least Denver placed fifth in the related article linked to the beercation story: “8 best beer towns in the USA.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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The one topic Paul doesn’t engage is the issue of a government bureaucracy central planning philosophy that is working against the safe fracking industry that can create higher-paying, longterm jobs and contribute to a bridge on carbon pollution. I call on other non-ideologues to shed light on and to demonstrably support strategies that can move the country to a real market-based energy policy that will improve jobs and improve national security through lower foreign oil dependence called Natural Gas from Fracking! It’s not perfect, but it’s the best alternative for the next 25 years. Frank Bergen/Boulder
supposed (and probably minority) dyspepsia that may lead to a movement to have some Colorado counties secede from that state. While what is now Vermont and New York seem to have been “created” at the same time, as were many but not all of the counties in Colorado, the “grant” of power from the ruling monarch of England doesn’t come close to being similar to statehood achieved, accepted and practiced under the
Constitution of the U.S.A. The disgruntled grumblers on the eastern plains seem to be the kind of people who want no government, not a government “to their liking.” I wouldn’t be at all surprised if, assuming such a secession is approved and enacted, further secessions from the “great state of Northern Colorado” follow soon after. Eventually there would likely be 120,000 states or so, revealing many states “of one.”
This sounds very much like Protestantism, wherein if you don’t like this church or that you simply start your own. Fine. But it’s still Christianity, hopefully. I don’t believe the mudboots up I-76 or U.S. 85 subscribe to the practical idea of a democratic republic. Anarchy is more like it. Lotsa luck. Gregory Iwan/Longmont see LETTERS Page 12
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Loveland voters have a petition going to place a moratorium on fracking on the November ballot. Fort Collins and Lafayette are headed in the same direction. The City of Boulder is making news for its decision to extend the moratorium there until June of 2014. There is a movement to create moratoria. There could only be this kind of action created by a galvanizing of voters because the legislature is not set up to protect citizens and the environment when it comes to oil and gas operations in Colorado. The government structure was created by the people, and there are builtin mechanisms so that it can be modified by the people, as needed. That’s the beauty of the system we created in the United States of America. Elected officials take an oath to advocate the will of the people who voted for them. But right now we are seeing politicians siding with the oil industry, so voters are taking petitions to the street. Instead of fracking now and examining consequences later, there are ways to have an impact when people we elected seem to be bought out. Halting fracking is the way to go at this time. These moratoriums are a way to override politicians who have lost perspective. Moratoria were created in our judicial system for a reason. This is how citizens can balance out the power of money and lobbyists. Moratoriums require time and energy on the part of the citizens involved, but right now they are our best option to keep Colorado lands beautiful, safe and healthy. Laurel M. Miller/Boulder
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As parents of a Prospect Ridge Academy student, we are writing to express our concern about the proposed new oil and gas wells in close proximity to the school. Due to the health risks and dangers that fracking directly poses to people exposed, nobody is exempt from the serious effects of the toxins. The children are obviously not the only people at risk, rather everyone near the site is at risk for health problems. The health problems that have been documented by people residing or working near fracking are not light in nature. They range from daily nosebleeds and nausea to endocrine system disruption and much higher risks of getting cancer. In addition to the health hazards, there will be significant disruption to the surrounding area. At a recent Zoning Board meeting, a representative discussing Sovereign Energy’s proposal admitted that the traffic from big rig trucks would be “tremendous” during drilling, and when pressed, said maybe 100-200 trucks per day would be coming and going, per well. Some trucks will carry water, some sand and some toxic chemicals, which are combined with millions of gallons of our precious resource, water, to make up the fracking fluid that will be pumped into each well. Drilling will go on throughout the day and night — 24 hours with light, noise and vibration. The representative said it would take approximately one month per well. One proposal is for 11 additional wells to be drilled. But there are permits for a total of 31 new wells in the area. The increased traffic, excessive pollution from the large trucks and noise in and of itself would surely be disruptive each school day. This coupled with the far worse effects of air pollution and release of toxic chemicals in such close proximity to where our children, teachers and staff of PRA will be each day is simply
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er growing residential counties in the state (current population about 250,000). That rather strongly suggests that the activists’ narrative of the harmful effects of oil drilling and fracking is more imagined than real and ludicrously over-blown. The real question is why are we even having a discussion about fracking? When a technology has been 12 July 11, 2013
letters unthinkable; yet it is being considered. An abundance of documentation and testimonials from people in neighboring Erie are readily available as evidence of the risks and serious health problems that fracking poses, especially when conducted so close to where people live, learn and work. To those who question the health risks, we ask then, why is the industry exempt from the Clean Air and Clean Water Act? And to the rest, we ask, is this the environment in which we want to educate our children? Jamie and Michelle Judson/Thornton
Meat and climate change
A review of 12,000 papers on climate change in the May 15 issue of Environmental Research Letters found that 97 percent of scientists attribute climate change to human activities. Although we’re unlikely to reverse climate change, we can mitigate its effects by reducing our driving, energy use and meat consumption. Yes, meat consumption. A 2006 U.N. report estimated that meat consumption accounts for 18 percent of man-made greenhouse gases. A 2009 article in the respected World Watch magazine suggested that it may be closer to 50 percent. Carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas, is generated by burning forests to create animal pastures and by combustion of fossil fuels to confine, feed, transport and slaughter animals. The much more damaging methane and nitrous oxide are discharged from digestive tracts of cattle and from animal waste cesspools, respectively. Each of us has the power to reduce the devastating effects of climate change every time we eat. Our local supermarket offers a rich variety of soy-based lunch meats, hotdogs, veggie burgers and soy and nut-based dairy products, as well as an ample selection of vegetables, fruits, grains and nuts. Product lists, easy recipes, and transition tips can be found at www.livevegan.org. Stanley Silver/Boulder
danish plan used a million times over the space of 60 years, and its use has been so uneventful that its very existence remained off most people’s radar until activists started hyperventilating about it, there isn’t much reason to doubt its safety. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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roups that feed the homeless in downtown Boulder on Saturdays say the city is trying to run them out of the area in yet another attempt to get rid of those the city considers undesirable. But city officials insist that they support the feeding operations, and that they are just trying to alleviate congestion in the area and reduce criminal activity. Still, the implication that providing meals to the needy is somehow connected to crime along Boulder Creek leaves advocates for the homeless chapped. “We’ve never had the police called, we’ve never had a fight,” says volunteer Chris Mitchell of Friends Encouraging Eating Daily (FEED). “It’s cleaner when we leave than when we get there,” adds Stephen Bolling, who helps serve the weekly lunches as a way to spend quality time with his 18-year-old son. Bolling volunteers with Food Not Bombs, which teams up with FEED to serve the lunches. Another organization, a ministry group called Sevens, provides dinner on Saturdays, to help fill the gap left by the fact that the Bridge House only serves meals on weekdays. Lunch is provided on the south side of the creek near the Boulder Public Library parking lot, while dinner is served on the opposite side of the creek. Mitchell says the harassment the groups have received include an instance when a library employee threatened them with trespassing charges while they were serving food under the library bridge because it was raining — even though the property is public and owned by the city. He also says one of the city’s police 14 July 11, 2013
Mitch Clement, left, helps serve food near Boulder Creek.
by Jefferson Dodge officers who is friendly with the homeless warned them that the cops were going to start cracking down and finding any excuse to write tickets for the most minor offenses, like littering. And the city has received complaints. City spokesperson Sarah Huntley says citizens have spoken out against the feeding operations during city council’s public comment periods and in letters. But she adds that there hasn’t been a “groundswell” of complaints. Police Chief Mark Beckner says his department has received no complaints about the effort. “I’m not aware of anyone saying, ‘Hey, we don’t like feeding the homeless,’” he told Boulder Weekly. “Nobody’s complained about that.” ***** And yet the advocacy groups say they have been told that complaints are driving the city’s desire to move their operations to a nearby church or another less visible spot. They say that, like the city’s anti-camping ordinance and nighttime park closures, it’s just another effort by officials to sweep Boulder’s homeless problem under the rug, out of sight and out of mind. “There’s too many homeless in one spot, and no one wants to see them,” says Mitchell, adding that he chose the location four years ago “to get people away from the Farmers’ Market.” Bolling claims that the city seems to have a double standard, given its desire to feed the affluent at the market and with food trucks in the area. “We’re doing the exact same thing, but it’s free,” he says. “That, to me, says some people are more valuable than others,” adds Hana
Dansky of Food Not Bombs. She explains that the current location is ideal because it’s where the homeless congregate already. Besides, she says, its prominence serves as a good reminder for the people of Boulder that the city does have a significant homeless population, as unsavory as that may be for some. “We feel like we’re being targeted because we’re low-income, grungylooking people,” Dansky says. “I think the city does a great job of hiding its poverty already, and I don’t want to cater to that. It’s catering to the prejudice. … We want to stay close, and we want to stay visible.” Benny Nowell of Sevens agrees. “I want it to be semi-public,” he says, adding that his group used to serve food near the county courthouse on the Pearl Street Mall until complaints from restaurants like The Cheesecake Factory prompted their ouster. “Maybe they thought I was taking business away from them,” Nowell laughs. On the contrary, Bolling says he has heard hundreds of compliments from passersby over the years, and unlike other feeding operations that serve canned and processed food, it’s mostly organic, vegetarian fare provided by Boulder Food Rescue and prepared at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church. According to Mitchell, a host of other religious organizations have been involved in the weekly meals, including Crestview Church, Creekside Christian Reformed Church, Hope Boulder and the Boulder Seventh Day Baptist Church. One of the alternate sites the city has proposed is Pine Street Church, but Nowell says that the church is not as centrally located and would be too long
of a haul for those who are disabled or “blitzed out of their minds.” Another location the city suggested for the dinner operation is the Boulder County Justice Center parking lot, he says. Nowell says he just found out a couple of weeks ago that the city had received complaints, but they are probably being driven by fear and ignorance. “You get a large group of homeless people together and people perceive the danger level going up,” he says. “But you could say the same thing with college kids on the Hill. … There are probably less problems at our deal than at frat parties.” He notes that city council member George Karakehian gave him $100 last summer and donated spiral hams to the effort. Once, a homeless man used his own food stamps to provide some food when the designated donor failed to deliver. And most police are supportive of the operation, he adds, because it is conducted responsibly. “We bring in our own stuff and take out our own stuff,” Nowell explains. “We’re never on the sidewalk. I can’t wrap my brain around the idea that the majority of Boulder has a problem with what we’re doing.” “The beauty I see is the appreciation they’re feeling,” Bolling says, describing how the impoverished help set up and clean afterwards. “Everyone is working together; it’s not them and us.” But the advocates say one technicality that the city may use to get the groups to relocate is a relatively new law that requires people to register for a city permit if they expect to have a gathering of more than 50 people on public land. Nowell says that when he offered to get a permit, he was told by Boulder Weekly
one city official that “they’ll rewrite the laws so we can’t be there,” like they did with the park closures. ***** But officials deny that there is any agenda to protect Boulder residents’ sensibilities by relocating an unsightly element. When asked about the alleged crackdown by the police, Huntley acknowledges that the groups should have permits, but the city has intentionally avoided enforcing that regulation in this case. “If it were the city’s desire to use a code violation to move these groups, frankly, these groups regularly violate our permit requirements by their numbers, and we support their ability to do their missions,” she told BW. “The police community has been very open to the actual need to feed people and help that happen in a safe and orderly way. I think there’s concern among some people in that population that that might be what this comes to, but that is certainly not the city’s intention or motivation.” Police Chief Beckner echoed those sentiments. “We’re not targeting the homeless,” he says. “People lining up to get food, we’re not going to write them a ticket for that. If there are 51 people in line, we’re not going to worry about it.” Karen Rahn, the city’s director of housing and human services, has been holding meetings with the groups to discuss alternate locations. “I told her point blank, ‘We’re going to fight you,’” Mitchell recalls. But Rahn takes a conciliatory tone, saying that the impetus for the move is that the area, called the “municipal campus” and bordered by Arapahoe Avenue, Canyon Boulevard, 9th Street and Broadway is heavily used, has become a hotbed of criminal activity and is “an unwelcoming and intimidating place to be.” City officials stop short of accusing the advocacy groups of attracting a criminal element, although Huntley says “there is some overlap” between those at the meals and the troublemakers. “I’m not sure the food programs become necessarily a magnet, it’s just
there is a large gathering of people, and combined with other things going on on campus, people are assuming it’s the homeless people who are actually contributing to that problem,” Rahn says. In fact, Huntley says, it’s in the groups’ best interest to move so that they and the homeless they serve aren’t lumped in with the criminal element in the public’s mind. “The public perception is not to differentiate between the two,” she explains. “The community sees them all as one group, so one of the things the city is trying to do is really support the homeless organizations who are helping the truly homeless people in need reclaim their identity and find a location that really works well for them, and for letting the community know the value they provide.” Rahn adds, “It would really help destigmatize those groups from being associated with what’s going on on campus.” ***** As for what’s going on, statistics provided by Huntley show that as of July 7, there had already been 111 arrests on the municipal campus, compared to 88 at this point last year and 70 the year before. During the entire calendar year of 2012, there were 216 arrests, compared to 161 in 2011 and 149 in 2010. While the number of citations police have issued is actually down from 342 to 292 compared to this point last year, there were a total of 739 tickets written in 2012, up from 429 in 2011. Officials did not provide a breakdown of the statistics by crime; Beckner said listing the data by type of offense would require research and would cost BW (the city charges $35 an hour for staff time spent researching and producing open records). Beckner says it’s not just that crimes are being committed along that stretch of the creek, it’s that the area has become a gathering place for “people who have criminal backgrounds.” He says that when officers run background checks on individuals they contact on the municipal campus, it’s become increasingly
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common to find people with a history of burglary, assault, theft, drugs or weapons violations. Beckner adds that officers have had altercations with crowds in the area, including one incident in which a group of hecklers surrounded officers making an arrest, and one individual picked up a bicycle and was about to hit one of the cops with it until another officer drew his gun. But he says police don’t profile or target people who look homeless. “We don’t care what someone’s socioeconomic status is,” Beckner explains. “All we’re focused on is behavior. If they’re down there handing out flowers, we don’t care. They’re not targeted for their socioeconomic status, I can assure you that. But we have numerous complaints, oftentimes from city employees who work down there and see the behavior, defecating and urinating outside their windows, drug sales, aggressive behavior toward others.” He says moving the feeding operations would alleviate congestion in the area and free it up to a wider variety of visitors. “It’s become a gathering place, and the more attractions that create it as a gathering place, it just exacerbates other people’s use of that area,” Beckner told BW. “It’s kind of like, spread the wealth a little bit. Everyone doesn’t have to hang out in the same place all the time.” He was quick to point out, though, that the food programs are not the source of the problems. “I don’t think anybody is saying the food truck is the cause of it,” Beckner says. “I think it’s just, how many services do you provide in one area? … Nobody can associate it with the fact that a food truck shows up and feeds the homeless. Nobody’s saying that. All we’re saying is, hey, should this space be more accessible to other people, and should this be the hangout where peoAmanda Stephenson
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ple who want to hang out, for whatever reason, come together every day? “It’s a quality of life question for everybody, to try to keep the parks as livable and useable for as many people as possible, not for any one particular group or groups,” he continues. “I think it would be the same concern if it were 100 high school students hanging out every day, if they were creating problems.” “It’s definitely not about moving the homeless because they’re an eyesore,” Rahn says. “That has never been part of the conversation.” “The city has always supported the homeless population, and the decisions we make in terms of enforcing codes have to do with criminal behavior, not people’s classification as a homeless person or non-homeless person,” Huntley says. “We’re really trying to strike a balance. This is a community that values serving people in need, and it’s also a community that values access to open space and public space.” They also deny that the anti-camping ordinance and nighttime park closures were an effort to drive out homeless people. “It’s really not about moving the homeless because they are the problem,” Rahn says. But Huntley suggests that there are people hanging out by the creek whose motives aren’t pure, as evidenced by the calls of “Heads up!” that echo down the paths when cops approach. “It leads me to question, if people are there during these periods of time, and again, I’m not saying these are the same people who are in the food program, but if people are engaging in that kind of alert warning system, it makes you wonder what other activities they’re engaging in that they’re concerned about,” she says. “If people are enjoying public space just to enjoy public space, you would think they would welcome the law enforcement presence.” But the advocates say the issue comes down to giving a hand to those in need, and doing it in a highly visible location that raises awareness. “There’s just a basic common decency,” Nowell says. “They’re people too.” “We’ve got to take care of our community,” Mitchell adds. “We can’t let the state do it or the feds do it. We, as a community, have to do it.” “They’re good people, but some have made poor choices,” Nowell concludes. “How can you educate a society on who these people really are if you just move their services out to the sides?” Respond: letters@ Boulder Weekly
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ne in three women has an abortion, according to Dr. Susan Wicklund, an abortion provider in Montana and author of This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor. But most people say they don’t know someone who has had an abortion. That mothers, daughters, sisters and friends have this procedure and do not talk to one another is a symptom of abortion having become more stigmatized now than ever — and changing that perception is part of the mission of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, organized by StopPatriarchy.org. “We’re really at a tipping point where abortion has never been more difficult to access, more dangerous to provide or more stigmatized to get,” says Sunsara Taylor, an organizer for the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride, coordinated carcaravans from New York City and San Francisco that will visit places around the country where abortions are becoming increasingly difficult to access. “The core message of this freedom ride is, it is really essential that people fight each new attack that’s coming down on abortion rights and abortion access. Women’s lives depend on it,” Taylor says. “But it is even more essential that we get off the defensive and that we launch a national counter-offense and that we unapologetically come out and say that fetuses are not babies, abortion is not murder and women are not incubators, and we make the demand that abortion be available on demand and without apology.” The last few years have seen record numbers of restrictions on abortions introduced, including some 278 bills in 2012 alone, and 97 percent of rural counties have no abortion provider, while five states — North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Arkansas and Mississippi — have only one. Taylor calls it a state of emergency, language echoed by Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, in her statement of support for the ride. “The right for women to decide for themselves when and whether to have a child is very central to what women’s role in society will be,” Taylor says. “When women didn’t have access and the right to abortion or birth control … they had their lives foreclosed, their dreams extinguished. ... If you want to have a child, if you’re ready for a child, it can be the most beautiful thing there is, it can be extraordinary. But if you do not want a child you Boulder Weekly
really are being reduced to a breeder, and your whole life’s course is being determined for you.” The situation amounts to enslavement, she says. Caravan riders will be delivering plaques to abortion providers to acknowledge their work and the risks they take by doing it, and “bloody coat hanger awards” to the organizations and legislative leaders that have done the most to restrict access to abortions. Kick-off rallies in New York City and San Francisco on July 23 will send the riders on their way to convergence events in the Midwest. On Aug. 1, North Dakota’s one clinic will be closed when new restrictions requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital take effect. Participants in the ride aim to visit the clinic before it closes its doors, as well as the clinic in Wichita, Kan., formerly run by Dr. George Tiller, who was killed four years ago. That clinic re-opened in May. “My biggest fear is that it’s too quiet,” says Boulder resident Miriam Schiff, who is looking to draw together a group of women to join the ride. “I am deathly afraid of the overpowering silence, that nobody is saying anything, and that women have forgotten how to take to the streets, that we’ve become complacent. ... Instead of keeping up with the Kardashians, it should be keeping up with the legislature, because that’s what’s going to screw you over.” Schiff says she may join the caravan at stops in Salt Lake City or Wichita, or fly to join a starting point if a caravan from Colorado doesn’t come together. “I am not a militant feminist,” she says. “I’m just somebody who is scared to death that time is not marching forward, that rights aren’t being won and gained and held on to, but rights are being lost.” She remembers what illegal abortions were like, she says, and wouldn’t want other women to have to go through that. “We have a duty as women to make sure that it doesn’t happen anywhere else, because then we’re ensuring that it won’t happen here,” she says. A Democratic majority in the Colorado House and Senate has meant the issue has stayed largely out of the state legislature, but that tide can turn with any election. For more information on the local group headed to the ride, contact Miriam Schiff at miriamschiff123@gmail.com or 303-619-3744.
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n April 2003, Pam Gilbert was hiking through the rocky and canyon-laden Andes when she and her Ecuadorian tour guide lost their way. It was sunny, and the steep slopes were sprinkled with thatched-roof huts. Two young boys planting fava beans noticed their plight from across the canyon, and walked an hour and a half out of their way to lead the two to safety. Gilbert was struck by the boys’ altruism and sense of community, and then the boys, Pedro and Lautaro, mentioned that they walked two hours every day in an attempt receive an education. Six months after her initial trip to Ecuador, Gilbert returned to the boys’ village, Malingua Pamba, where the community expressed the need for a new classroom, among other things. Being a schoolteacher herself, Gilbert realized the greatest possibility lay in building a small and sustainable school within the village. The local residents would take part in a “minga,” a communal barn-raising or gathering in which community members complete a task meant to benefit the community as a whole. “I went back to help the two boys get a high school education,” Gilbert says. “I’m a retired math teacher from Boulder, and I spent three years working alone before I approached organizations to help.” But Centro Educativo La Minga, which opened in 2004, struggled for years to keep teachers because of its lack of potable water, Gilbert says. Many of the teachers fell ill and were unable to continue. Noticing a trend, Gilbert made a plea to the Denver chapter of Engineers Without Borders, an organization that originated in Boulder, hoping it might put in piping and potable water systems in Malingua
EWB member Albert Kettner and the folks of Malingua Pamba work together to clean out a culvert.
Getting lost leads to building community by Camilla Sterne Pamba to provide the village with clean water. The organization agreed to aid Gilbert’s cause. Ten years later, the people of Malingua Pamba have a new school, potable water and frequent visits by Engineers Without Borders, whose erosion control team is currently in the process of fundraising for another trip to Ecuador. The country as a whole has seen its primary school enrollment increase from below the Latin American average in 2009 to above it, according to the World Bank. “Pam did a lot of the work originally to get the school built down there, but they had a lot of problems keeping teachers because they didn’t have a working shower,” says Jennifer Walsh, treasurer and director at Engineers Without Borders. Engineers Without Borders imple-
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mented potable water and irrigation systems starting in 2006, and in 2009 the Malingua Pamban community expressed the need for erosion control, prompting the erosion control program of Denver’s Engineers Without Borders chapter to be established. In 2011, supported by the International Erosion Control Association SOIL Fund and Engineers Without Borders, William Mahoney, a professional geologist and certified professional in storm water quality, spent eight days in Malingua Pamba evaluating approximately 75 eroded sites, according to Walsh. Mahoney was able to assess the causes of erosion at 46 of these sites and suggest possible mitigation measures. In October 2012, Engineers Without Borders’ erosion control team traveled to Malingua Pamba, where it
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addressed five of the 46 erosion sites that had been detailed. “On our next trip, we will visit all of the sites we worked on last year and evaluate how they are doing,” Walsh says. “We used several different erosion techniques and different species of plants, and we will probably find that some things worked better than others. We’ll use this knowledge on future sites and, if necessary, to make adjustments to previous sites.” The team also collaborated with the community in Ecuadorian “minga” style to address the most critical erosion sites by implementing a series of “best management practices” to help prevent erosion on roads. Damage to the roads, according to a report Mahoney authored for Environmental Services International LLC, would require outside government assistance, while their compromised state would present the risk of failures in the community’s water delivery system. “Over the years we’ve built a really good relationship with the community and they appreciate the work we’ve done,” Walsh says. “We require that they do the manual labor and make sure they have interest and buy-in. We have great turnout when we go down there and do a project. They’re really excited to do work that improves their community.” The plants put in as part of the Engineers Without Borders effort in October have had less than a year to grow and will take a couple of years to really become established, but so far, Walsh says, the results look good. “We have gotten pictures from the community that show good plant growth, so we are optimistic that they will continue to grow and we will have See ECUADOR Page 22
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the environmental events happening in Colorado to crises on a global scale, the event will touch on forest fires, fracking, Nigerian oil spills and other environmental Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman issues. The three panelists include Nnimmo will moderate a panel of international Bassey, a Nigerian human and environactivists at “Fossil Fuels, Forests, and Fires: What can we do about climate change?” mental rights activist, Nonette Royo, a Filipina lawyer with a focus on indigenous The event, hosted by Boulder nonpeople’s rights, and Leslie Glustrom, a profit Global Greengrants Fund, will focus scientist and activist with a focus on local on climate change and encouraging energy. The event aims to encourage people to get involved. While connecting global and local communities to take action against climate change. “Without high-level political leadership on climate change, grassroots leadership is an absolute imperative,” said Global Greengrants Fund CEO Terry Odendahl in a press release. “Global Greengrants Fund supports grassroots action around the world. Effective local solutions must be part of the international discussion surrounding climate change.” The event will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, at First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., and at Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St. Tickets to the panel cost $10 and can be purchased on Global Greengrants Fund’s website. Amy Goodman — Ainslee Mac Naughton
The United Church of Christ, a Protestant denomination with more than 1 million members, has become the first major religious organization to vote to divest from fossil fuel companies in the United States. A resolution approved at a national gathering on July 1 was part of a collection of strategies for addressing climate change approved by the church. The Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ proposed the resolution and was backed by 10 other conferences across the country. The conferences have committed to fossil fuel-free investment vehicles, asking for increased shareholder engagement in fossil fuel companies and identifying fossil fuel companies with best practices by 2015. “This resolution calls on each and all of us to make difficult changes to the way we live each day of our lives,” said Donald Hart, United Church Funds president, in a press release. “Implementing the multiple strategies outlined in this resolution will demand time, money and care — but we believe creation deserves no less.” The religious organization also passed a resolution calling for its buildings to become carbon-neutral, a move that may affect nearly 5,200 church buildings. — Ainslee Mac Naughton
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good results,” she says. “[Engineers Without Borders] really does their due diligence,” Gilbert says. “Everything we’ve done thus far has been sustainable.” In hopes of continued erosion site mitigation and in true “minga” style, the Erosion Control Program has organized a community fundraiser called Jam of the Andes. The fundraiser will feature the Manabí Salsa Band, and proceeds from the event will help Engineers Without Borders take their
October 2013 trip to Malingua Pamba. The Manabí Salsa Band’s leader, Achilles Quiroga, hails from the Manabi province of Ecuador, not too far from the Cotopaxi providence, where Malingua Pamba lies. He left Ecuador for the United States with nothing but two suitcases. “It is an event that is for a good cause in my country,” Quiroga says. “We want to unify
Pam Gilbert with Pedro and Lautaro
everybody with the music we play. No hate involved, being positive basically, being happy, sharing the culture, sharing the love.” The Engineers Without Borders chapter is looking to raise $2,000 to $3,000 at the upcoming event to fund their next trip to Ecuador. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com The Jam of the Andes benefit takes place at 6 p.m. on July 13 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder. Tickets are $30. Additional information is available at https://sites. google.com/site/andesewb.
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waiting on deliberation in the House place in the United States at places where passes, it could help several million peofamily or friends have contacts. ple, including some of the couples menThere are also some 30,000 same-sex tioned in his book, Hoffman says. couples that are binational in the United Obtaining a waiver for a foreign national States. They had no access to immigration with a permanent ban requires demonbenefits and were unable to sponsor a partstrating “extreme hardship” currently, and ner for a green card until the Defense of that will be loosened to demonstrating a Marriage Act was overturned in June. “hardship” and applications will be taken “The day they overturned DOMA, from immigrants still in the country and immigration started processing same sex will take children into account. The curgreen card applications,” Hoffman says. rent system doesn’t consider American The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration citizen children. Services office had essentially been stackBut the approach is a bit punitive — ing up those applications for a year while waiting for the Obama administration to .Salgado says she was disappointed to see the militarization that was attached to the make a call on the act and has now bill, and Hoffman contends that the announced plans to expedite them. immigration system needs to focus on The decision on the Defense of family values at least as much as it weighs Marriage Act is a signal, and a potential national security and business interests. influence, of the United States opening up After all, except the 1.7 percent of the U.S. popu- Margarito Resendiz and Nicole Salgado with their daughter in lation that’s American Cadereyta, Mexico Indian, we’re all just generations from being immigrants ourselves. “It just kind of seems like a no-brainer to me — how did all of our ancestors get here without having been permanently barred from the country?” Salgado says. At best, immigration reform will take a couple years off the time until o Salgado can take her husband to meet her family and friends. “The bill that the Senate and the House is now considering kind of reframes our immigration system more along the lines of employment, the need for workers, and my contention in its policies to accept more people. the book is, immigration has always been “I think the long term prospect in our about, as much if not more, relationships. country is toward justice for immigrants,” People go places because they have relahe says. “But I don’t think it’s going to be tionships with those places,” Hoffman immediate. I think it’s going to take some says. That’s proven particularly true with time, sort of politically and philosophically, Mexico, he says, where generations of a for the United States to figure out how to family will come to work in the same incorporate mixed status families.”
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For now, American citizens who partner with foreign nationals find themselves pulled semi-underground through the situation or living in exile. “I just can’t think of something that could turn your life more upside down — other than, for example, a terminal illness in a family,” Salgado says. “It just completely takes away all of the empowerment that you’ve had as a citizen and you’re basically at the behest of a foreign country. … Putting an American citizen through that is actually kind of cruel.” A couple from Denver Hoffman profiles decided not to go into exile. The husband continues to work as a contractor on jobs found through referrals while his wife puts all the banking and paperwork in her name. They can road trip around the states, but he cannot go home to Mexico to visit his family. If he’s found out — and every new business contact is another chance he’ll be caught — he’ll be sent home with a mandatory ban to be appealed in a decade. For now, they wait for immigration laws to change. Small inconveniences stack up in things like cashing checks, or getting a driver’s license. “On top of all this they have to learn to embrace their partner’s culture, learn Spanish, learn foods they share,” Hoffman ways. “There’s all kinds of beyond the legal, there’s social issues also. They’re difficult, challenging, but really cool, too, and increasingly common.” “It’s such a long period of time out of my comfort zone and my culture,” says Salgado, who now holds dual citizenship for the U.S. and Mexico. As they were leaving in 2006, she recalls joking that
maybe after 10 years in Mexico she wouldn’t need to come back to the U.S. Now, she’s wondering if that may be true. Some of her friends in Mexico in a similar situation say they’re completely integrated and may not go back. “In my case, we’re eking out a life that’s pretty close to comfortable,” Salgado says. But despite her Ivy League education, she hasn’t made a salary that’s above the U.S. poverty line in more than 10 years. She’s taught English, written a cookbook about regional cuisine and is just starting a temporary position in the environmental department with Peace Corps Mexico — the closest she’s come to using her education as a biologist. “I think that what we want to do is just to be able to establish our autonomy of choice,” Salgado says. “We want to obtain the opportunity for us to come and go as we please.” Members of her family and some of her friends from high school have never met her husband, she says. “For me it definitely has been hard, planning my life,” Salgado says. “Part of me has always wondered, how many roots do I put down here if they’re just going to get uprooted again?” For ideas to change, and reform to come, she suggests a little critical thinking, looking around at neighbors and thinking about family history and the country’s legacy. After all, she says, if the laws governing immigration now were in place decades ago, she wouldn’t be an American either. “Everybody knows somebody in this situation and they may not realize it,” Hoffman says. “We all know somebody who’s undocumented and think that they’re fine, but then we may have different views about the border or immigration reform. Once you realize that you know somebody in this situation, it changes.” Amor & Exile: True Stories of Love Across America’s Borders is available in print and Kindle editions on the website http://amorandexile.com as well as through Amazon. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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limbers are always looking for lines that push possibilities and take their abilities to a next realm. They push the limits of their mental and physical endurance while toeing the fine line between mastery of the unknown and reckless risk. In January, professional climber Ben Spannuth, adventure writer Climbing in Colombia Chris Van Leuven and climbing afforded the chance to push photographer Rich Crowder grades and put up first ascents. decided to throw the stresses of Courtesy of Chris Van Leuven travel through the volatile Colombian interior into the mix. Their trip took them to remote crags largely unseen by gringo climbers. It tested their limits as they overcame the hurdles of navigating a country known for violence, poverty and drug trafficking — as well as a spectacular rugged landscape. “I think most people who have fallen in love with rock climbing are keen for a little adventure,” Crowder says. “That’s all we wanted.” Van Leuven had visited the country about seven years prior. With political change rippling through the nation, he says he felt eager to return. Crowder had intended to film a big wall ascent in the Colombian alpine area a year before, he says, but plans fell through. Van Leuven renewed his stoke, convincing him it’d be a great place to document and craft a climbing story. Crowder invited Spannuth, who had heard of Colombia’s potential from friends, along. He saw an opportunity for first ascents and a chance to push his skillset. The entire trio met only once before finally departing on the trip, Van Leuven says. But they were united by their drive to explore Colombia’s emerging climbing scene, newly accessible to gringos after a quell in narcotics-related violence. “It’s only been in the last few years that the area has really opened up,” Van Leuven says. While the drug cartels remain, violence in Colombia has started to wane, largely due to support from the United States and increased governmental capacity to crack down on trafficking. According to a U.S. Department of State International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, the Colombian government amped up its efforts to secure rural areas where drugs and violence converged in 2009. As the guerillas are pushed out, towns in the interior have drawn intrepid travelers in, lured by a thirst for adventure and a desire to explore areas still unknown. For Spannuth, Van Leuven and Crowder, 2013 was the year the town of Florian calmed and the La Ventana cave beckoned. “I enjoy dispelling myths about danger, so I figured this would be a good opportunity to show it was a safe country,” Crowder says. Ultimately, the climbers learned to maintain their calm after being through a gamut of Colombian travel snafus. According to Van Leuven, on his first trip through Colombia, he traveled light and alone. This time around, the trip involved a significant amount of baggage — cameras, tripods, power drills, hammers, bolts and multiple ropes. Just getting out of the airport was exhausting. “We would do bus transfers all day long,” Van Leuven says. “It’s like catching a bus in Denver — if you walk onto a bus in Denver with five over-sized bags, they’re going to say ‘No way.’ We had to learn to just wing it.” After a cirque through the country’s more popular and reachable sport crags at Suesca and Mesa de los Santos, the three hopped a van taking passengers to Florian — home of a newer and wilder Colombian climbing mecca of La Ventana cave — and a few small towns along the way. Boulder Weekly
The road was long and rocky. One of those rocks popped a tire. The driver jimmy-rigged a jack that Crowder said was not exactly made for a big van. “The jack came loose and probably would have killed the guy if he didn’t happen to get out from under right before,” Crowder says. “It was a pretty impressive display of tire-changing ingenuity.” It served as a testament to the changes sweeping Colombia over the last decade. Only a few years ago, the road was accessible only by donkey, tractor or possibly motorcycle. And it once ran through the heart of drug country. “At the time, things feel a little out there — that’s sort of the fun thing about trips like this, your perception versus the reality of things,” Van Leuven says. After a few more hours of bumpy riding, the climbers reached Florian, nestled below a looming 2,000-foot limestone cliff. Spannuth noticed three waterfalls pouring from the cliff from three separate caves. The largest, highest and most spectacular among those caves was La Ventana. “It’s more a tunnel than a cave,” Van Leuven says. “You look through this tunnel into never-ending jungle.” Crowder featured the cave in his video documentary Forbidden Fruit: First Ascents in Colombia. The limestone cave drips with stalactites — one of the most arduous rock features in climbing. By nature, stalactites are often monstrously overhung. They’re juggy but delicate, sometimes snapping on a whim or when pulled with too much force. “It’s really quite challenging to climb on,” Van Leuven says, who has extensive experience both on Yosemite’s pumpy boulders and its heady big walls. The unfamiliar features fueled Spannuth’s drive. He spent the first day bolting a line connecting stalactite to stalactite, moving from the ground up, stopping only when the features became too fragile at the cave’s apex. After working the crux, Spannuth established a new 5.13+ line, calling it “Macho Man.” The ascent is featured in Crowder’s film. High on success and ready for more, Spannuth looked for more lines and greater challenge. He turned his attention to the smaller cave just below La Ventana. Crowder was able to zoom in on a photograph he took of the unnamed hollow, which looked chock-full of stalactites and climbing potential. “It was the exploration bug in all of us,” Crowder says. “We just looked for the coolest place that would keep us psyched.” The climbers asked local villagers about the unnamed cave. The area surrounding it had never been explored, they said, apart from a few rappellers who had ascended the waterfall linking the cave with La Ventana above. They were recovering the body of a young boy who had fallen to his death. “Only a very strong climber would consider going there, and only for the sole purpose of climbing,” Van Leuven says. For his part, Van Leuven stayed behind to do laundry, write and mingle with locals. But Spannuth and Crowder decided to push on.
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It took four rappels and some intense jungle-whacking, but Crowder and Spannuth made it to the lower cave. They were in awe of the blobby stalactites, views of a long valley and deep jungle, the waterfall rushing to the left, birds whirling in the breeze above. But the bliss was soon interrupted, at least for Crowder. One of the ropes they’d used for the tumultuous ascent was missing, leaving them stranded. “I figured out our rope was pulled way before Ben did, so I had plenty of time to have an internal freak-out,” Crowder says. As darkness set in and the two didn’t return, Van Leuven also began to worry. “When they didn’t come back that night we went out to rescue them,” he says. “‘We’ — as in basically half the town.” After some bushwhacking and shouting over the roar of the waterfall, Van Leuven was able to throw a rope to their rescue. Spannuth, for his part, was able to send a new 5.13 line. He dubbed it “Gringos Verados” — or “Stranded White Guys” — as a tribute to their misadventure. Despite the snafus, the three travelers made it home relatively unscathed. They returned with their load of equipment and a new appreciation for Colombia’s rock — finicky and challenging, set among friendly people and a rich culture, with plenty of lines left untamed. “It was a wild trip,” Crowder says. “Adventure at its finest!”
At 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, Chris Van Leuven will share highlights of the trip at Neptune Mountaineering. He’ll discuss the details of “Stranded White Guys,” the joys of stalactite climbing and the finer points of Colombian travel. More information is available at www.neptunemountaineering.com/ events/. Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly does not endorse climbing on cave features. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
Advice on Colombian travel “Go to Suesca, hang out with the local climbing scene. Just go with the flow from there. It would be hard to pre-plan a trip. There aren’t online hostel booking or bus tickets to be purchased in advance via the Internet.” — Rich Crowder “Go for it! It’s far safer than I was told, has been in the past, and probably the Forbidden Fruit video makes it out to be. Everyone we met was openly friendly and anxious to show off their country.” — Ben Spannuth “There are so many different things to see — beautiful beaches, jagged Andes, culture, great people … [but] you wouldn’t want to go to nightclubs in Bogota and take a random taxi home.” — Chris Van Leuven
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Losing his religion s in la il v t u o b a s lk a t n a m r e t s lo K k c u h C e r o m y n a s d n a b e t a h ’t azzo n m a o c c c e A h id v y a h D w y b d n a
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write music criticism takes a certain level of self-assurance. That’s pretty obvious: You have to think pretty highly of your own opinion to be motivated to tell others why they should feel that way, too. But it also takes a certain emotional investment to really convince yourself that something is good — and perhaps even more energy to actively think something is bad. At some point, Chuck Klosterman lost the reserves of feelings he used to invest in disliking a band. He once relished the arguments over why the Red Hot Chili Peppers suck, or which mid-period Beach Boys album is the best. But now, he says he just doesn’t care like he used to, something he realized 10 years ago when he slid into his CD player a promo copy of The Very Best of the Eagles, a band he had once loathed. He writes about this change in his latest book, I Wear The Black Hat: The first track was “Take It Easy.” It sounded OK, but — then again — it had always sounded OK. I’d accidentally heard this song hundreds of times in my life, so there wasn’t going to be any big surprise. It was the same 30 July 11, 2013
song it had always been, remastered but unchanged. The only thing that was different was how I felt about the band itself: Suddenly, I felt nothing. I didn’t hate them. I didn’t love them, but I certainly didn’t view their subsistence as problematic or false or socially sinister. They were just an old rock band who made music that was significant and relaxing and inevitable, and who seemed to be hated (particularly by people like myself ) for reasons that were both valid and ridiculous. So I listened to “Take It Easy” and I thought about its lyrical content, and I came to a mostly positive — but highly uncomfortable — realization about who I was and how I thought about art. I no longer possessed the capacity to hate rock bands. As a result, he started writing more about a broader range of topics. He began contributing sportswriting to ESPN, and since his epiphany he’s written two novels. Klosterman, 41, is now an essayist and pop culture critic in addition to a music writer. He writes The Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine, and he’s a contributing editor at Grantland. I Wear The Black Hat explores villainy in popular culture, and why popular opinion turns against certain people and characters, regardless of how bad they actually are. He starts with a premise — “The villain
is the person who knows the most but cares the least” — and goes on, in vintage Klosterman form, to spin a web of seemingly unconnected pop culture moments and historical events into surprisingly compelling arguments. His essay about those who craft an image of villainy — in this case, N.W.A. in the late-’80s — wanders into the Oakland Raiders and their owner, Al Davis, and director Lars Von Trier. He writes about how Bill Clinton escaped his sex scandal unscathed by discussing the Sharon Stone movie Basic Instinct, Ted Bundy and Wilt Chamberlain. If you think that sounds a bit meandering, it is. And yet — Klosterman’s style has always been casually intellectual and easily digestible. Reading Klosterman always takes less time than it should, given the headiness of some of his subject matter. This is by design, perhaps a product of his early years writing for newspapers. “When I’m working on something … I put most of my effort into making most of the writing very simple,” Klosterman says. “I want it to be very accessible. I do want it to look effortless, kind of. I do want people to feel like, as they are reading the book, they are writing see klosterman Page 32
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it with their own minds; I’m just kind of typing one sentence ahead of them. So if it looks casual, that would be great. It’s probably less casual than it looks, but I would like that to be the case.” His changing opinions on criticism and his dwindling hatred of asinine music were hot on his mind when he spoke to Boulder Weekly. One of the things you write about is how you can’t hate rock bands anymore. Do you ever find yourself listening to rock radio and somehow enjoying an Eagles song? I enjoy lots of Eagles songs, you know. That’s the thing. I realize that I do like the music of The Eagles. I didn’t like the idea of The Eagles because I thought the idea of liking The Eagles represented something about the liker. In other words, I wasn’t interfacing with the music as much as I should have. I think that this is actually incredibly common among critics, but they’ll never admit it. In fact, they’ll be upset that I say it. They will argue that, “Well, he’s a bad critic, so he’s saying that criticism is bad.” That’s not what I’m arguing. I love criticism. I’ll read it my whole life, and I’ll write it my whole life. All I’m saying is that I am now cognizant of the fact that I can’t control the way I think and feel, and that no one can. Basically, the way we’re socialized, the way we’re raised, our biology, and our unwillingness to get outside our own minds, pretty much directs our thought process, and then we spend the rest of our lives trying to explain, cogently, why we think that way. Well, I’m aware of that now, so I’m not going to lie about it anymore. I’m not going to pretend that I listen to the
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Eagles and I find something sinister about what they do just because they’re kind of bad guys. They’re bad guys. They’re a good band. They’re good songwriters, they’re talented musicians, and they understand what makes a song properly constructed. They have good voices. They know how to play their instruments. They’re prolific. So it’s pretty stupid for me to argue that there’s something wrong with the Eagles and that I hate them when all I’m really talking about is myself.
Is there any rational basis for hating any popular band? I used to really, really hate the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I hated them so much. I thought they were the most idiotic band. But that’s a different thing. I thought they were idiotic, but that’s fine. But hating them is something different.
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How serious of a concern is that for you? (Pauses) Well, if you’re asking the question authentically, how much do I worry about it? I’m ready to move on and write different things anyways. When I was a younger person, I loved arguing about rock bands. I loved to fucking sit down with dudes and have three-hour arguments over mid-period Beach Boys records. I loved that. Now, I still like those records. … I just don’t like having that sort of combustible, emotive response to things that made me pick an argument and defend it. I’m afraid if I keep doing it, I’m going to become a caricature of somebody that does that. That’s always my fear, becoming a caricature of something that I used to do organically. Do you think this is sort of a natural progression for critics as they age? They become a little more seasoned and levelheaded in their writing? No, and the ones who do usually quit. The ones who stay in it, when you look at the critics that are still going to war over the new Kanye record in their 50s and 60s, they’re actually less intellectually flexible than they used to be. Because now that they’re actually discussing these records, they’re not comparing the new Kanye record to other music, or even to Kanye’s career. They’re really comparing Kanye’s music to this aesthetic of rock music that they created. It tends to be when you’re a critic, you either drop out of the game, you move on to something else, or you kind of stick with it and you become this really rigid person who is trying to protect the canon of rock. I’m trying to figure out if there’s a middle way between that. To me, the middle path seems to be being completely transparent over my inability to pretend to have arguments. So if I am arguing something, I’m arguing over why it feels confusing to me. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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overtones A study in contrasts
Central City Opera presents two different, satisfying shows by Peter Alexander
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entral City Opera (CCO), one of the jewels of the summer season in Colorado, is offering two productions in the historic Central City Opera House this year. The operas were carefully chosen for both contrast and quality: Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, a delightful comedy with the vocal fireworks of early 19th-century Italy; and Ned Rorem’s Our Town, a moving contemporary opera based on one of the great American stage works (through July 28; a third production, Jerome Kern’s 1927 musical Showboat, will be presented Aug. 6–11 in Denver). I could exhaust my thesaurus listing the contrasts between Barber and Our Town: artificiality vs. reality; exotic vs. native; hijinks vs. solemnity; etc. But the underlying point is that these two works give operalovers many and varied reasons to drive into the mountains this summer. And happily for audiences, the performances live up to the promise of the programming. The Barber of Seville is a delightful, sparkling production of Rossini’s classic. Arnulfo Maldonaldo’s set makes effective use of CCO’s limited stage area to create a stylized gilded cage, representing Rosina’s imprisonment by her lecherous guardian, Don Bartolo. The vibrant Technicolor costumes by Sara Jean Tosetti are eye-catching reminders that we are in a world of fantasy where anything can happen. The singing actors are thoroughly invested in director Marc Astafan’s staging. The inherent silliness of his approach serves the work very well, with only a few gratuitous bits that go too far. One of the joys of the production is seeing the excellent young singers in the principal roles. If you
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attention to themselves, exactly as they should. The libretto is based largely in a distilled text of Thornton Wilder’s play. Anyone familiar with the original may find the occasional alterations, either for verbal efficiency or to create a rhyming text, disconcerting. In some cases nuance is sacrificed, although most audiences will not be disturbed. Rorem does not aim for conknow Rosina and Count Almaviva from Mozart’s ventionally expressive music, setting the text instead in Marriage of Figaro, you will be happy to be reminded natural, conversational vocal lines highlighted with that this earlier story (but later opera) presents them at occasionally sweeping flourishes. This places emotional a much younger age, in the throes of first love. impact largely in the hands of the singers, who must The entire cast was solid and the characterizations convey feeling through performance. The Central City on target from beginning to end. As singers, Jennifer cast contains genuine actors who found many ways to Rivera as Rosina and David Portillo as Almaviva bring their characters to life, well beyond the expresimpressed the most, handling Rossini’s vocal demands siveness of their singing. handily, even while charging about the stage. Rivera In the crucial role of the stage manager, Vale commanded attention in Rosina’s big Rideout managed the extreme rangaria “Una voce poco fa” (although I es, register shifts and vocal cascades thought the audience surprisingly with aplomb, in spite of occasional On the Bill: Central City Opera’s productions of Our polite in its response for an opera roughness of voice. William Town and The Barber of Seville house). As the title character, Daniel Ferguson was an appealingly youthrun through July 28 at the Belcher was an energetic and winful George Gibbs, full of the energy Central City Opera House. Tickets start at $30. Visit ning Figaro. and uncertainty of adolescence. www.centralcityopera.org The beginning of Our Town Anna Christy was touching as the for more information. underlines the contrast between the story’s central character, Emily Webb, two productions: no bright colors, who affects and motivates everyone but a bare stage, soon filled with blackaround her. She sang Emily’s showclad townspeople in mourning. Rorem’s atmospheric ending aria, summing up the message that the living can’t music helps set the scene, as gauzy chords surround an see how much they miss while alive, with focus and impressionistic rendering of a simple hymn. intensity. Turn-of-the-20th-century Grover’s Corners is sugFinally, in contrast (again!) to the youthful cast of gested with a few pieces of furniture and fragments of The Barber of Seville, that of Our Town profits from the buildings. Alan E. Muraoka’s scene design makes inclusion of CCO veterans in the roles of Grover’s effective use of projections to complete the setting: Corners’ older generation, especially the parents: Kevin Main Street, the Webb and Gibbs homes, the surLangan and Phyllis Pancella (Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs); and rounding hills. John Hancock and Sally Wolf (Mr. and Mrs. Webb). Stage director Ken Kazan moves the characters, Conductors John Baril (Barber) and Christopher particularly the omnipresent stage manager, efficiently Zemliauskas (Our Town) wielded effective control, and through the abstract spaces. Marcy Froehlich’s simple the orchestra performed incisively in both works. costumes evoke the everyday world without calling Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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o hear a person talk about tango is to witness a blushing love affair. They’ll speak of the heart, of an unspoken connection between partners, of passion; they might even go so far as to call it an addiction. To hear tango dancers describe their art is to be a voyeur of smoldering intimacy, one that is only understood by those who are in on the secret. And soon enough, Boulder, too, will be in on the secret of tango. Gustavo Naveira and Giselle Anne, professional tango dancers who teach workshops all over the world, will open the Boulder Tango Studio on Sept. 28. The studio is currently under construction in the Avalon Ballroom, a space that is run by the Village Arts Coalition, at 6185 Arapahoe Ave. in Boulder. To establish a presence in Boulder before their studio opens, Naveira and Anne have brought in prominent tango couples Donato
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Juárez and Carolina del Rivero as well as Fernando Sanchez and Ariadna Naveira (Gustavo’s daughter), for a weekend of workshops, practicas, milongas and performances this upcoming weekend, from July 12 to 14. The event, called Yunta Brava, will take place at the Avalon Ballroom.
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ife is pain. It is also beautiful and awe-inspiring, to be sure, but it’s full of sharp corners and people who would just as soon spit on you as shake your hand. A random act of attempted kindness — say, overlooking someone’s glaring deficiencies rather than enumerating them in detail — is just as likely to be met with baseless rancor as smiling appreciation. But as Sinatra (or depending on your generation, David Lee Roth) sang, “That’s life,” and so far as I
“Both are internationally ranked couples,” Naveira says. “They could be two of the best tango couples of the moment.” Naveira says he and Anne have travelled to every continent but have chosen Boulder as the place to settle down and raise their young children, all the while teaching the passionate and improvisational dance to the Boulder community. “Boulder is a kind of paradise. It’s one of the best places in the world. Very different from other United States cities,” Anne says. The Argentinean couple has been dancing together for 20 years after meeting at a tango festival in Sitges, Spain. According to Naveira and Anne,
the studio will feature classes throughout the week as well as a number of three-day weekend seminars. They will also host Friday evening practicas and Saturday night milongas, which are group dances that require couples to maneuver around one another on the dance floor. A milonga is essential to the community aspect of tango, and is a tradition that evolved in the late 19th century in Buenos Aires. Naveira likens the history of tango in Argentina to that of jazz in the United States. “The golden age of tango in the ’40s and ’50s was full of artists, musicians and singers,” he says. “However, one of the problems is that the dance doesn’t have documentation, only from the 1930s on. There is not documentation to prove how the dance developed to what we have now. It is very difficult to study the dance.”
can tell it’s the best game going. As terrible and weird as life can be, the more we focus on the good the less room there is for the bad. It seems that around every corner, there’s another chance to make a friend or smell a flower or find your way — actually or metaphorically — home. You may not be the smartest person in the room; you might lack the bravery to rush boldly into a fray, and you could easily be an emotional cripple, but if you keep an open heart and try every day to be a
better person, you might just find what you’re looking for. Often, the grandest of life’s adventures begin under the humblest circumstances. A little girl, threatened with the loss of her beloved pooch, runs away from home. She is magically transported to a mysterious land far away and set on a journey fraught with peril and full of excitement. As incredible as her adventure
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In response to this difficulty, Naveira and Anne have developed a comprehensive curriculum. The dancers have developed a series of specific moves to be taught in an almost academic program, similar to the step-bystep way in which ballet is taught. “We are planning to do a very gradual development for someone who wants to learn to start from zero until they really get high-level,” he says. “Parallel to that we will have a program to train teachers. There will be three levels, and each level will take at least one year to complete. The training for the teachers will include going through all that knowledge.” Naveira also emphasizes the health benefits of tango. “It is said, and it’s absolutely true, that to dance tango is a very, very good moderate exercise,” Naveira says. “It’s good for the heart, and many doctors are recommending tango in Buenos Aires.” But much of tango is not in the steps, the couple says. “We don’t dance to choreography,” Anne says. “I think this is another aspect, to live a new experience each time you dance.” Marlena Rich, Boulder tango enthusiast and current publicist for the pair, reaffirms Anne’s sentiments about tango. “It’s magical what can happen,” she says. “It’s something that’s co-created with two people; one person is not responsible alone. And each person is making something unique each time.” The dance relies on the chemistry between partners in creating the irreplaceable experience that Rich
describes. Its textured variance, its unexpected lilts, its tendency to speed up and slow down simultaneously — these things are only achieved by a deep bond and bodily harmony between partners. Naveira and Anne’s dancing is both perfectly unified and seemingly unanticipated from moment to moment. “There is no other dance that you can find something so strong, so intense. The whole dance is based on this connection. This creates an attraction and people become addicted,” Naveira says. They hope that Boulderites will become equally infatuated with tango. “We want more people to play with,” says Rich. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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becomes, it remains firmly grounded in the simplest motivation. The girl will do anything to protect her little dog and to get both of them back to the family farm. I am, of course, talking about The Wizard of Oz. This cultural powerhouse, this multigenerationally muchbeloved masterpiece, has been touching hearts and opening minds since the turn of the 20th century. The L. Frank Baum novel upon which all of Oz is based was first published in 1900. It was followed a couple of years later by the lesser musical version, which was in turn followed in 1939 by the Judy Garland-starring motion picture. Though the original film is considered the apotheosis of Oz-dom by most fans, Oz has been revisited in cartoons, Broadway musicals, cereal commercials and just about every other medium, and it still captivates audiences regularly to this very day. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre has brought The Wizard of Oz back to Boulder and, as usual, they’ve mounted a fabulous production. While at its most basic, The Wizard of Oz is the story of a girl and her dog, it is also a testament to the power of love, friendship and belief in oneself. It is full of wonders, both big and small, and it is a sincere, uplifting entertainment for audiences of all ages. With so much of The Wizard of Oz dependent on the ageless tunes of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, the musicians playing those tunes better be on the money. Neal Dunfee and the BDT Orchestra (Nick Vocatura, Dean Vlachos, April Johannesen, Nick Boulder Weekly
Gnojek, Roby Reynolds, Jon Stubbs, John King, Carlton Bacon, Michael Hilton and Sam Griffith) do what they always do and play the heck out of each and every song. The casting by Director Alicia Dunfee is also by and large spot on. Making her BDT debut but having played Dorothy before, Sarah Grover fills the ruby slippers quite well. Her strong singing skills showcase her power and range, even on the notoriously difficult “Over the Rainbow,” and her acting is more than up to snuff. I definitely heard sniffles from the crowd when she begged her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry not to let Miss Gulch take Toto away. Bob Hoppe plays the Tin Man with the requisite amounts of earnestness and tap dancing. Seth Caikowski’s Cowardly Lion was a fan favorite on the night I attended. He earns big laughs as he sends up Bert Lahr’s movie incarnation of the famous ’fraidy cat. Lately, BDT has been using longtime cast member Scott Beyette in more heel rather than hero roles, and though he’s good at playing the jerk, it’s nice to see him in the unequivocally good-guy role of the Scarecrow. He brings excellent physicality as well as emotional heft and easy humor to the part. Tracy Warren makes for a passable Glinda, but I would have loved to have seen what Joanie Brosseau or even Dunfee herself would have done as the Good Witch of the North. BDT’s The Wizard of Oz gives audiences every reason to take another stroll down the yellow brick road. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Wanda and the wave
The puppet masters at Public Works Theatre Company present their first show, a family friendly affair, based on the children’s book the old woman & The wave by Shelley Jackson. July 13-14, 11 a.m., 3 p.m. The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-891-1882.
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Maria Vasquez. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Dexter Payne Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Troubadours. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Funkiphino. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Galactic. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
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Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.
Danny Shafer solo. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Joseph Barton Trio. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
After making the rounds in Prague and OffBroadway last year, Tina Packer’s exploration of Shakespeare’s female characters, Women of Will: The Overview, returns to Boulder.
Rogue Sound. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.
Barry Manilow. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Holiday Blue. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.
Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13: Women of Will: The Overview, University Theater on CU campus, 7:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. respectively
Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303993-2094.
Alice Wallace. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.
Friday, July 12, and Saturday, July 13: Railroad Earth, Red Rocks Amphitheater and Boulder Theater, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Railroad Earth mixes bluegrass and rock with hearty jams, defying genres and creating its own unique sound. Combining electric and acoustic instruments as well as drums and amplifiers into its sound, the six-member, New Jersey-based band has grown from three-night stands at the Fox Theatre in 2009 to headlining two nights at Red Rocks this year. What’s next, the Pepsi Center?
July 17: The Big Lebowski, Boulder Theater, 7:30 p.m. When perpetually stoned “The Dude” is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, he finds himself and his bowling teammates trying to solve the kidnapping of the millionaire’s wife. There’s bowling, violence, carjacking, embezzlement and In-N-Out as the 1998 movie follows The Dude’s attempts to find the missing woman, who may not have actually been kidnapped. The cult classic offers a weird comedic mystery complete with dream sequences, profanity and White Russians.
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Cover Story. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22. Cut and Paste. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 15. Erotic Nature — Photography by Kate Zari Roberts. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430. Through Sept. 3. 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. Historic Photographic Exhibit: Revealing Our Routes: Women of Boulder County. Carnegie Branch for Local History, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 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, 303-492-8300. Through July 27. A Moment in Time: Here. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22. Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22. Not Exactly. RedLine, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver, 303-296-4448. Through July 28. Perception: Color | Line | Power. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 25. 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.
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Friday, July 12 music Black Water. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Brad Upton Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Colin Robison’s Honest Soul. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Comedians — With Goodwater. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397. Country Touch. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Dan Treanor and the Afrosippi band — With Erica Brown. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main
St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The David Wax Museum — With Max Gomez. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Cafe Daniels Hall, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. The Desciples. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Dopapod. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Fullbelly. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jarrad Menard. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Knight and Woodward. 4:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Laurie Morvan Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Mara Levine — With Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Cafe Tuft Theatre, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Railroad Earth — With Galactic and Greensky Bluegrass. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
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watch this Comic Jil Chrissie will emcee the Dairy Comedy Night on Saturday, July 13.
July 13 Dairy Comedy Night, 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. When James Gold started working at the Dairy Center in November, the comedy scene in Boulder was lacking. Since then, Gold has seen the comedy scene expand, with multiple bars and other venues putting on monthly comedy shows. Among this expansion is Gold’s own comedy series at the Dairy Center. According to Gold, the goal of the series was to build a showcase of local comics that the Dairy Center could call its own. For the Dairy Center’s fourth event of the series, Gold focused on the female comics in the area, creating an all-female lineup. “There’s this unfounded belief that stand-up comedy is a boy’s game,” Gold says. “It always kind of was, but that was the early stage of it. It’s not the case anymore. In fact, Denver and Boulder have a lot of really good working female comics so I thought it would be cool to have a show to showcase the talent of a few of them.” The lineup includes Jodee Champion, Jil Chrissie, Christie Buchele, Mara Wiles, Kendra Thompson and Haley Driscoll. Online, tickets are buy one, get one free, and a discounted rate of $8 is available for groups of five or more. —Ainslee Mac Naughton
Selasee and the FaFa Family. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Delta Sonic Duo. 3:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
She Groovez band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Lee Johnson. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Shepherd Moon. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.
Lindsey Saunders. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Son Profundo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Lucero and Son Volt. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, 303-440-7666.
Steve Earle and the Dukes. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Matt Flaherty. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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The Nacho Men. 7 p.m. 29th Street Live!, Twenty Ninth Street mall, Boulder, 303-444-0722.
Arabian Nights Dance Party. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Becoming Traviata. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099. Women of Will: The Overview. 7:30 p.m. University Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-8008.
Saturday, July 13 music Bluez House. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Brandi Carlile. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-8652494. Dance party and live radio show — Feat. DJ/ MC Cool Style and Lady Midnight. 9 p.m. Cool Spirit Nature & Star Elements, 4949 N. Broadway, Suite 117, Boulder, 720-239-2761. David Byrne and St. Vincent. 7 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 8500 W Deer Creek Canyon Rd., Littleton, 303-777-1003.
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New Family Dog. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Orchard Lounge. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Railroad Earth. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Randall Dubis & Bastille Blues Show. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-4433322. Riff Raff. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Semophores band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Shaving Peggy. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Tom Weiser Jazz Trio. 8 p.m.Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. see EVENTS Page 44
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Paul Bogard will discuss the diminishing human connection to the night sky on Tuesday at the Boulder Book Store.
Thursday, July 11 An Introduction to Self Publishing with the Troy Book Makers — with Jessika Hazellton. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Karen Rigby. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Saturday, July 13 God’s Relentless Generosities — by Dr. Zeal Okogeri. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.
uJuly 22 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Pete Wernick & Flexigrass
The Orphan Master’s Son — by Adam Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-322-7727.
uJuly 27 John Hiatt & The Combo with Holly Williams
Release party for Naropa’s new literary magazine, Bombay Gin. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
uAug 3 Paula Poundstone uAug 5 Indigo Girls with von Grey
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Monday, July 15 I Wear the Black Hat — by Chuck Klosterman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Tuesday, July 16 The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light — by Paul Bogard. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
uAug 6 Elephant Revival w CMF Orchestra uAug 10 Toad the Wet Sprocket uAug 22 Shawn Colvin
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events Adobe Photoshop Hands-on Intensive. 9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. The Comedy Crew. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
The Short Grass Prairie Saga Puppet Show. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Women of Will: The Overview. 1 p.m. University Theatre, CU campus, 303-492-8008.
The Dairy Comedy Night. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Sunday, July 14
Irish Saturday Evenings with The McTeggart Irish Dancers. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Pulling for Colorado — Volunteer to pull weeds from open space. 8 a.m., Walker Ranch, www.BoulderCountyOpenSpace.org/wildwork. The Rabbi’s Cat. 12:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Arlo Guthrie. 7 p.m. Denver Botanic Gardens, 8500 W Deer Creek Canyon Rd., Littleton, 303-777-1003. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
watch this Wednesday, July 17 Girl Shy. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd, 303-440-7666. Despite his complete inexperience with women, Harold Meadows decides to write a how-to book about courting women. On his way to the publisher, Harold meets a rich socialite who is about to marry a wealthy man she doesn’t love. The two fall in love over Harold’s manuscript, despite his enthusiastic stuttering, but when Harold’s book is initially turned down by the publisher, a future together seems impossible. When things suddenly turn around, however, Harold has a chance to stop his lover’s wedding to another man and get the girl. Girl Shy, a 1924 silent film, mixes romance, comedy and fantasy in a relatable, familiar form. The film will be accompanied by a live piano performance by Hank Troy. —Ainslee Mac Naughton
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events Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Farmer’s Market, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303-919-2279.
Brooklyn Circle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Colcannon. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Darrin Kobetich. 6 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Opera de Paris: Tales of Hoffman. 1 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.
The Groovetramps. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. John Williams and the Music of the Movies — with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Opera de Paris: Tales of Hoffman. 1 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
The Stilletos. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Third Thursday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: CU Quartet Program. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.
events Herbs for Pregnancy and Postpartum with Teresa Koby. 5:30 p.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies. Registration required. www.integrativebotanical. com, 877-202-9329. Introduction to HTML. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Teen Summer Film Nexus — The Perks of Being a Wallflower. 5 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. "What Can I Do?" Multimedia Environmental Presentation. 3 p.m. Carillon Boulder, 2525 Taft St., Boulder, 720-565-6844.
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The Big Blues Jam. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Blues Jam hosted by the Firebreathers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Electron. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Fresh Hops. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Harry Tuft and Dick Weissman. 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park, 715 South Forest St., Denver, 303-777-1003. see EVENTS Page 46
The Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Swing Chicks band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Vagabond Swing. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
events Ground-breaking Ladies. 11 a.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 7701 Flagstaff Road, Boulder. Let’s Talk Chickens. 1 p.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8848. No Ropes Universal: Open Mic. 8 p.m. Trident Booksellers & Café, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133. Open Mic — Hosted by Dechen Hawk. Pearl Street Pub, 9 p.m. 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. Tour des Farms. Call 303-807-6634 for more information.
Monday, July 15 music Blues Caravan 2013. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Vagabond Swing. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
events Film on the Rocks: The Hunger Games. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Wordpress — Creating Image Galleries. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.
Tuesday, July 16 music An Evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter and Marc Cohn On Stage Together. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, 303-440-7666. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Glo Duo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Joe Johnson. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. John Mayer. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Laurie Dameron. 6 p.m. Buona Sera Louisville
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream, presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, continues through Aug. 11.
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50 Shades Of Loud. Heritage Square Music Hall,18301 W. Colfax Ave., Golden, 303-279-7800. Through Sept. 8.
Fiddler On The Roof. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-468-2030. Through July 14.
TRIVIA NIGHT
Collected Stories — Presented by Miners Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington St., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through July 14.
809 Main St. Louisville, CO 80027 www.waterloolouisville.com 303-993-2094
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. University Mainstage, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 10.
Macbeth — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Outdoor Ampitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-4920554. Through Aug. 10.
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The Doyle and Debbie Show — At the Galleria Theatre. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through July 14.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Amphitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554.Through Aug. 11. The Wizard of Oz. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 31.
EVENTS from Page 45 John Mayer. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Mike Robinson Jam Session. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Mountain Standard Time. 5:30 p.m. Bands on the Bricks, 1300 Block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-1582. Treen McCurdy. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Tribute to The Grateful Dead. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
events The Big Lebowski. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Hannah Arendt. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Herbal Kitchen with Erin Smith. 5:30 p.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies. Registration required. www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329. Girl Shy. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, 303-440-7666. Into the Woods. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Marketing with Google AdWords. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, July 11 Thursday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099. Stamp Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Friday, July 12 Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099. Paint Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Science of Ice Cream. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Saturday, July 13 Toddler-Palooza. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Wanda and the Wave. 11 a.m., 3 p.m. The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-891-1882.
Sunday, July 14 Wanda and the Wave. 11 a.m., 3 p.m. The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-891-1882.
Monday, July 15 Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.
Tuesday, July 16 Clay Day. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Discovery Days. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
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reel to reel 20 Feet From Stardom Director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Becoming Traviata The reinvention of Verdi’s masterpiece, La Traviata, as sung by world-famous French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay, is the subject of this documentary. For more than two months, in rehearsal rooms and behind the scenes we see director Jean-Francois Sivadier strip away the grandiosity normally associated with opera and follow a minimalist post-punk approach, retaining the ageless passion. With music performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Before Midnight Jesse and Celine first met in their 20s in Before Sunrise, reunited in their 30s in Before Sunset and now, in director/co-writer Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, they face the past, present and future. Rated R. At Century, Mayan and Esquire.
Between Us In this darkly comedic drama, two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
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 — Landmark Theatres
Byzantium Byzantium is director Neil Jordan’s sexy and stylish fantasy thriller about mother and daughter vampires dealing with the pitfalls of eternal life. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Despicable Me Super-villain Gru adopts three girls as part of an evil plan to steal a shrink ray from his nemesis but doesn’t plan on the girls becoming family. At Boulder Outdoor Cinema.
Hannah Arendt The sublime Barbara Sukowa re-teams with director Margarethe von Trotta for her brilliant new biopic of Hannah Arendt. At Boedecker and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Heat A foul-mouthed, dirty methods cop (played by Melissa McCarthy) is forced to team up with a suit-wearing, micro-managing FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) to go after a drug lord. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The History of Future Folk The History of Future Folk tells the hilarious (and possibly exaggerated) origin story of the real-life alien bluegrass band Future Folk, which has been charming NYC audiences with its live act for the better part of a decade. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.
The Hot Flashes The Hot Flashes is about a basketball team of underappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, who challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
How to Make Money Selling Drugs A shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.
The Lone Ranger There is much action and killing as the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) and Tonto (Johnny Depp) take to the western landscape in this TV-to-cinema redo. Rated PG13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Maniac Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.
Man of Steel
It’s time for more Minion madness as this animated sequel starring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and others is sure to be a family favorite. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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 PG13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Elemental
Monsters University
An Indian water official campaigns to clean the polluted Ganges river; an indigenous Canadian activist crusades against the development of the Alberta tar sands; and an Australian inventor struggles to find funding for his nature-inspired solutions. Focusing more on the environmentalists than the issues they’re facing, this documentary reveals three fascinating portraits of the people behind movements. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
This prequel to Monsters, Inc. follows Mike and Sulley through their scare training and their attempts to join the best fraternity. Rated G. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
One man’s wild, lifelong adventure of testing society’s boundaries through his subversive art, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough combines traditional documentary storytelling with original animation culled from seven decades worth of art from Tomi Ungerer, the renegade children’s book author and illustrator. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Fill the Void Eighteen-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron), the youngest daughter in an Orthodox Hasidic family from Tel Aviv, is about to be married off to a promising young man of the same age and background. It is a dream come true, and Shira feels prepared and excited. But on Purim, her 28-year-old sister, Esther (Renana Raz), dies while giving birth to her first child, and the pain and grief that overwhelm the family postpone Shira’s promised match. At Chez Artiste.
Grown Ups 2 This sequel to Grown Ups features Adam Sandler, Kevin
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James, Chris Rock and David Spade learning lessons from their kids on the last day of school. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Despicable Me 2
Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story
Grown Ups 2
More Than Honey Markus Imhoof, whose family has kept honeybees for three generations, travels the globe investigating the mystery of bees dying off in large numbers. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Much Ado About Nothing 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
Mud 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.
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 Century.
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das follows young musician Jeffrey Kagel’s journey to India and back, his struggles with depression and drug abuse and his even-
tual emergence as Krishna Das — the world-renowned spiritual teacher, chant master and Grammy-nominated recording artist. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society.
Pacific Rim When giant monsters rise from the Pacific Ocean, mankind turns to massive robots piloted by soldiers to defeat them. The robots aren’t enough, however, and an unlikely team must find a way to save mankind. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world. At Boulder Library. — Boulder Public Library
Primer By day, a small group of engineers work for a large corporation. By night, they conduct extracurricular experiments in their garage. While tweaking their latest project, they accidentally discover it has highly unexpected capabilities — ones that may enable them to do and gain anything they conceive. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Rabbi’s Cat Based on the best-selling graphic novel of Algeria in the 1930s, an intersection of Jewish, Arab and French culture, this animation tells the story of a rabbi and his cat — a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi’s voluptuous teenage daughter. Not rated. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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This conspiracy thriller set around an act of betrayal within a tight-knit family stars Clive Owen and Gillian Anderson. A woman is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London and offered a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Star Trek Into Darkness When the crew of the Enterprise returns to earth it finds 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 Colony Square.
Streets of Fire Romance and violence collide in this rock n’ roll fantasy set against a background of highly stylized urban decay. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
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.
Unfinished Song Unfinished Song is a funny and inspiring comedic drama about curmudgeonly pensioner Arthur, who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local seniors choir. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
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Globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones races the Nazis for possession of the long-lost Ark of the Covenant in this breathtakingly exciting adventure. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
A lonely and awkward yet intelligent teenage boy, Duncan, begins his transition into adulthood over the course of one transformative summer. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Room
White House Down
The Room is an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal and lies, starring writer/ director Tommy Wiseau as a successful banker with a great respect for — and dedication to — the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
A reluctant hero steps in to save the president when the White House comes under attack. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
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. — Denver Film Society
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.
Also at the SIE FilmCenter A Band Called Death, V/H/S 2, The Human Scale, Rock The Casbah, and SOMM.
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If it were just intent on achieving stupidity, The Lone Ranger would have outkicked its coverage. Honestly, the best part is knowing that preproduction of the film was halted at one point to rewrite the script because of a ballooning budget. The cause of the cash crisis? Werewolves. Sight unseen, that was a better script. All we get here are bloodthirsty, fanged bunny rabbits and a villain who eats a human heart. And yet, cannibalism is the least horrifying thing a human being does to other human beings in this movie. Think these claims of racism are too much? Consider the framing device in which Tonto is included in an exhibit called “The Noble Savage” in a carnival sideshow. This is a thing that people wrote, acted in and recorded. Never has a revered fictional hero of the past been treated with the vast amount of contempt that is shown to Mr. The Lone Ranger. Tonto spends most of the film telling him that he should have died instead of his brother and his horse actually does more heroic deeds than he does. Not to beat a dead horse about how bad this film is, but they actually beat a dead horse in it. Nonironically. After The Tourist, no flaccid dreck that Depp excretes for a paycheck can be surprising. Everyone involved should be red-faced about this “red face” reboot. If it somehow launches a franchise, at least the Washington Redskins will send congratulatory flowers. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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oulder’s University Hill neighborhood has a reputation for being the students’ part of the city. After all, it’s located directly across Broadway from the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Hill’s home to many of the bars frequented by students. But what happens to business when they leave for the summer? Do Hill businesses hit tough times, and how hard is it to survive without students? Mark Heinritz, a co-owner of The Sink, says that he notices more of a “shift” in business rather than a drop-off. He says year-round Boulder residents do fill in some of the space that www.thesink.com students leave behind. “Summer definitely changes over to more of a tourist and university visitor demographic, along with Boulder residents,” Heinritz says. “There are all of these misconceptions about the Hill, like you can never get a parking space. They come when the students are gone. We see a lot of different folks that way.” Heinritz added that the times when The Sink is busy change. “Lunches get busier than they are in the school year,” Heinritz says. “We are fortunate overall that it is pretty steady in a way. The reasons people are walking through the door change.” The Sink, though, is one of the more historic res-
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Hill’s restaurants aim to replace students with other customers by Patrick Fort taurants in Boulder, especially after an appearance on the Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Most other restaurants on the Hill lack the crossover appeal that The Sink has, and some say they do feel a hit to their business in the summer months. “The biggest dropoff happens in June when kids go back home,” says Sean Ryan, general manager at Half Fast Subs. Half Fast Subs generally does not see as many non-students during the school year, Ryan says. Like Heinritz, Ryan says that people usually come in when the students aren’t around. “During the school year, [Boulder residents] know we get crazy, crazy busy,” Ryan says. “I think that they know [summer] is a good time to come in. It is a little slower, so it is not as wild in the restaurant.” Heinritz suggests that the shifts in business patterns are more about seasonal changes than population changes. “Summer and winter are a big change in dynamic,” Heinritz says. “People are out and happy. They are active this time of year, compared to February, when everyone is hunkered down.”
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But besides Heinritz’s point, some numbers from CU illustrate just how much of a dropoff the businesses face. During the 2013 spring semester, CU-Boulder reported almost 28,000 degree-seeking students. There are currently only about 8,000 enrolled for the current summer semester. “It’s definitely quieter on the Hill in the summer — not as many people around,” Heinritz says. “The school year is really event-driven: football games and graduation. You don’t have too many things going on like that this time of the year.” In a meeting of various Boulder business owners last month, Heinritz cited CU football games as a draw for customers on the Hill. He suggested at the June 28 meeting that the poor performance of CU’s team last season could have had a negative impact on the Hill’s business, as fewer people attended the games or stayed until the end. Ryan says that the bar scene at night helps Half Fast along, even though the sandwich shop does generally staff fewer people, on shorter shifts, in the summer than during the spring and fall. “Our lunches stay pretty similar. People come over from the university — they work across the street,” Ryan says. “But once lunch passes by, we get the same crowd at night — the younger drinking crowd. On weekends we get more families than we would during school.” Heinritz also emphasizes the variety of customers The Sink relies on in the summer. “The fun thing about The Sink is that it is so dynamic,” he says. “There are so many different types of people that come through here. see HILL Page 52
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Boulder-based burrito chain Illegal Pete’s will open its sixth location in the popular Baker District of Denver on South Broadway. The new Pete’s, at 270 S. Broadway, was formerly a car lot and has undergone extensive renovation, with design by Denver architect Melissa Friday, who designed Denver’s Snooze. The redesigned location will include a stage, a patio and a “play area” that includes games like bocce ball. The restaurant will hold a grand opening over two days, July 13 and 14, at the new location between Cedar and Alameda on Broadway. July 13 will feature demonstrations by the Yellow Designs Stunt Team and APEX Movement, as well as tequila tastings from Dulce Vida Tequila and drafts of New Belgium beer, which are free with a donation to Wish For Wheels, a Greenwood Village nonprofit. Mile High Soul Club will play at 9 p.m. July 13. The following day, The Parlor Pickers will play at 7 p.m. The event is free; more information can be found at illegalpetes.com.
State employees begin fruit program
The state of Colorado has selected Lafayette’s Door to Door Organics as a partner in the state’s new “State of Colorado Employee Wellness Program,” intended to improve the health of the state’s employees. Door to Door Organics will deliver “healthy snack boxes of farm-fresh organic fruit” to more than 100 Colorado state office locations in two waves this summer, reaching approximately 20,000 employees, a press release from Door to Door Organics says. The company will deliver 528 of the boxes over the course of the program, and each box includes 35-45 pieces of organic fruit. State employees will also receive online
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Trillium, the American- and Scandinavianinspired restaurant in Denver, will be holding the next entry in its Scandinavian Dinner Series on July 17, featuring the cuisine of Sweden. Authentic ingredients include gjetost mousse — gjetost, of course, being a Scandinavian goat cheese — sweet crab salad, pan-fried walleye and blueberry crème fraiche. The four-course meal, served with rolling seating for multiple time slots, will feature amouse bouche, a palate cleanser and wine, cocktail and beer pairings for all of the food. The dinner costs $65 per seat. Upcoming dinner series installments include Denmark on Aug. 14 and Michigan on Oct. 16. More information is available at www.trilliumdenver.com.
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A food festival focused on education will return to Crested Butte July 11-14, bringing with it dining events, food pairings and seminars on varieties of wine. The weekend-long event includes tastings with master sommeliers and a screening of the wine-stained comedy Sideways. The wine seminars, with both visiting and local sommeliers and chefs, span topics from Wine 101 to Anything but Chardonnay: Unique Whites. There will also be a seminar on artisan cocktails. Two dinners, the evenings of July 12 and 13, will be presented by multiple executive chefs from around Colorado, including Boulder’s Hosea Rosenberg of Blackbelly Catering on July 12, cooking alongside Jorel Pierce of Denver’s Euclid Hall and Kelly Whitaker of Denver’s Basta. The dinners are benefits for the food-focused James Beard Foundation. The Crested Butte Wine and Food Festival culminates in a grand tasting event with more than 500 wines from 25 wineries and music from acoustic/string/bluegrass group the Matt Flinner Trio. More information is available at www.crestedbuttearts.org or by calling 970-349-7487.
The Agora Event Center, a new venue in downtown Boulder, has announced a monthly culinary/entertainment combination series feaRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com turing local chefs and local artists. The first installment, taking place at 7:30 Courtesy of the Agora Event Center p.m. on July 19, will be catered by Spruce Street’s Sushi Zanmai. It will feature a “Japanese inspired film,” as yet unnamed, at 8:15 p.m. inside the Agora, located at 1724 Broadway, between Arapahoe and Canyon. The following event, on Aug. 18, will feature jazz singer Hazel Miller and a five-course dinner. Tickets are sold in advance only for $40. More information is available at boulderagora.com and on the venue’s Facebook page. The Agora Event Center in Boulder
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n some ways the Chautauqua Dining Hall might be to Boulderites what the Statue of Liberty might be to New Yorkers. Sure, you know it’s there, but you may not venture out there that much unless you have out-of-town visitors or are obligated to attend a special event. Personally, I felt I was due for a visit, Chautauqua Dining Hall especially after I 900 Baseline Road, learned this veneraBoulder, 303-440-3776 ble spot was under new management. The folks from Three Leaf Concepts, the same outfit that runs the Dushanbe Teahouse, Leaf and the Huckleberry, among others, took the reins here this past spring. They’ve spruced up the interior, but not so much as to detract from the space’s considerable historic charm. Many of the new details evoke the Golden Age of railroad travel and include offerings are split between breakfast at least one toy train (those things are like and lunch options. Egg dishes like skilcatnip to me), and reclaimed boxcar lets and Benedicts, including a veggie flooring serves as the bar counter. version, abound, but there are also plain However, friend Sara and I didn’t flapjacks and tofu scrambles. Lunch spend too much time taking in the inside choices include flatbreads (we used to dining space, as we opted to dine al fresco call them pizzas), salads and sandwiches on the wraparound porch. We had arrived ranging from a vegetable mushroom on the earlier side for weekend brunch, burger to a Reuben featuring corned and it’s worth noting that this eatery bison. doesn’t take reservations for seatings after Sara began with a familiar beverage, 9:45 a.m. for this popular meal. a $3 chai from the Dushanbe Teahouse, In addition to the interior, the a mellow blend of dairy and comforting menu’s also been refreshed, and brunch spice. My $2 house coffee was a dark,
full-bodied blend, which is how I prefer my java when relishing a hearty meal. Incidentally, if I let the attentive waitstaff refill my cup each time they asked, I probably would have speed-climbed each Flatiron like a crazed weasel. Instead, I stuck around to split a $3 house Danish, berry-filled with a pleasantly flaky texture, and much more palatable than an overly sweet supermarket analog. My $11 corned buffalo hash arrived attractively presented, a generous heap of potato, surprisingly tender pulled meat, and peppers. Atop it were two impeccably timed sunnyside-up eggs with a slightly giving white and correctly viscous yolk. However, a surplus of salt made it difficult to fully appreciate the meat’s flavor. Consequently I spent more time focusing on my fresh and attractive side of blackberry, melon and strawberry and hefty biscuit. Sara fared much better with a $9 Caprese omelet, a rolled omelet stuffed with fresh basil and vibrantly colored heirloom tomato. The eggs were thin and light, evoking, as Sara noted, classic French technique. But what blew both of us away was the impossibly creamy
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Clay’s Obscurity Corner Texas roots
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he Chautauqua movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was centered around education and culture for adults. Boulder’s Colorado Chautauqua was initially founded as a summer institution for Texas schoolteachers, although one is hard-pressed to imagine why Texans would want to leave their state during this season. Nevertheless, the Boulder venue attracted many of the day’s top figures. Speakers included presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, the second place finisher in the Scopes trial. John Phillip Sousa, the composer best known for “Stars and Stripes Forever” and the Monty Python theme, gave a concert here in 1904.
soft burrata cheese that served as both addictive topping and filling. Over-seasoned hash aside, I’d say current quality and service justify a visit to this venue by even the most jaded Boulderite. Our tab came to about $30, which seemed reasonable given the dramatic setting. Certainly a meal here can be half of a quintessential Boulder experience, combining both brunch and a vigorous Chautauqua hike. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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have been ready for it to come around. “I didn’t think it would happen so quickly,” Gleave says. Gleave says that although the student traffic has been very small and continues to dwindle, she, like Heinritz and Ryan, has noticed that more of the residential demographics are coming out to try her restaurant. “It’s nice that we got community members that we didn’t get during the school year,” Gleave says. Another new business on the Hill is finding the summer equally difficult. Peter Howser, owner of the new restaurant The Corner at 13th Street and College Avenue — not to be confused with The Corner Bar downtown — said at the June 28 Hill business owners’ meeting that he was struggling through the summer. Howser previously owned the Del Taco franchise at the same location, and acknowledged that summer months can be deadly for a business. “I get business seven months a year,” Howser said at the meeting. “I
coming back during school for all of the [events],” like football games and graduation, he adds. Though The Sink and Half Fast Subs are two of the Hill’s more wellestablished restaurants, not all of the businesses there have the same advantage. Boss Lady Pizza, which opened its doors just before the spring 2013 semester, has been having a bit more of a struggle. Whitney Gleave, who co-owns the store with her husband, has seen the size of her staff go from 15-20 to eight. “We could run the store with just the four managers and two people to fill in the gaps,” Gleave says. She says she has had to cut the hours from all six www.bossladypizza.com of her delivery drivers. “It’s worse than I anticipated,” Gleave says about the sumpay bills 12 months a year.” mer season, “but we are going to Despite her newly found fans, make it.” though, Boss Lady’s Gleave still canBecause Boss Lady Pizza opened not wait until the students come during CU’s winter break, which back for the fall. stretches all the way until mid-Janu“We rely on the students during ary, Gleave says she and her the year,” Gleave says. Steve Weishampel contributed to the husband got a bit of a taste reporting of this story. of what summer would be Respond: letters@boulderweekly. like, but they might not
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fter four days, six breweries and 13 beers, my conclusion on Northeast Ohio beer is that there’s something in the water. I’m not a chemist, but I am blaming the water for the little differences in the taste of the beer. A few months ago, Northeast Ohio readers weren’t happy with my characterization of the NEO beer scene, which I said was Great Lakes Brewing and not much else. So on a return trip for the Fourth of July, I took a selfguided tour of some of the breweries in the area to try as much beer as I could. And I think it’s the water. According to water quality reports from the two cities, Akron water has a little less copper and a little bit more fluoride, lead, chlorine and volatile organic chemicals — now there’s a cheerful phrase — than Boulder water. It’s important to note neither city’s water is in violation of state or federal regulations in these categories. I don’t know which difference is to blame, but the end result is clear enough: Quite a few NEO beers, regardless of style, just have a bitter aftertaste. That includes Great Lakes’ limited release beer, an imperial smoked porter. It’s easily the smokiest beer I’ve ever had, unrelenting and long-lasting. After most of a pint it became a challenge nearing the level of Billy’s Chilies or Ghost Face Killah from Twisted Pine, and I admit I failed that challenge. Aside from the fans blowing 24/7 to fight dampness, my first stop, Akron’s Thirsty Dog Brewing Company, feels quite familiar, with a line of barrels along one wall in an old warehouse a few blocks from the University of Akron. Thirsty Dog’s tap offerings include four barrel-aged selections out of 11 total taps. That includes an incredible whiskey-barrel-aged wee heavy, sweet, powerful, liquor-ish and full. Then there’s a highly smoky rauchbier and a buttery, slightly watery scotch ale. I also got to try a malty, smooth brown ale called Chomo-lungma from college town Athens’ Jackie O’s Brewery. Just a few blocks from Thirsty Dog,
Ohio Brewing Company is tucked deep into another warehouse. Ohio Brewing is Akron’s Asher: A handful of knowledgeable employees, a good range of beers and brew named after the founder, Chris. Verich Gold is a simple, refreshing kolsch-style ale. Tops at Ohio Brewing Company is the Steel Valley Stout, a coffee-scented, coffeeflavored, roasty affair. Then there’s the almost-floral caramel of the Cardinal Irish Red Ale and the slightly bitter Buckeye Blonde, a Belgian Wit. At the grocery store for two bombers (imagine!), I notice that there are more bottles and cans of Colorado brew — Avery, Breckenridge, Great Divide, Left Hand and Oskar Blues — than there are Ohio beers. I went with a wide variety: Spicebush Wheat from Akron’s Hoppin’ Frog and a chocolate rye smoked porter from the Buckeye Brewery in Cleveland. The wheat is a light, standard ale, without much hint of the added lemon peel or spicebush berries. The smoked porter, a collaboration with Danish brewery Fanø Bryghus, is heavy and thick, with a dominant rye flavor. But at the end of both beers, bitterness in the aftertaste brought me back to that water issue. It needs more study, and obviously by someone more knowledgeable than I. So for now, as I await a new wave of hate comments from Ohioans — and plan a trip back for Christmas and Christmas ales, one style Ohio does better than Colorado — I want to say the trip to Northeast Ohio definitely improved my opinion of craft beer in the area. I hope more and more breweries keep popping up. Boulder is half the size of Akron, but has almost five times the breweries. I’m excited to see my hometown catch up. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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The Italian artist Duccio di Buoninsegna painted his “Madonna and Child” sometime around the year 1300. It’s a compact piece of art — just 11 inches high and eight inches wide. Nevertheless, New York’s Metropolitan Museum paid $45 million for the pleasure of owning it. I propose that we choose this diminutive treasure as your lucky symbol for the next eight to 10 months, Gemini. May it inspire you as you work hard to create a small thing of great value.
Breakthrough will probably not arrive wrapped in sweetness and a warm glow, nor is it likely to be catalyzed by a handsome prince or pretty princess. No, Sagittarius. When the breakthrough barges into your life, it may be a bit dingy and dank, and it may be triggered by questionable decisions or weird karma. So in other words, the breakthrough may have resemblances to a breakdown, at least in the beginning. This would actually be a good omen — a sign that your deliverance is nothing like you imagined it would be, and probably much more interesting.
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When the comic book hero Superman first appeared on the scene in 1938, he had the power to jump over tall buildings, but he couldn’t fly. By 1941, he was hovering in mid-air, and sometimes moving around while floating. Eventually, he attained the ability to soar long distances, even between stars. Your own destiny may have parallels to Superman’s in the coming months, Cancerian. It’s possible you will graduate, metaphorically speaking, from taking big leaps to hovering in mid-air. And if you work your butt off to increase your skill, you might progress to the next level — the equivalent of full-out flight — by March 2014.
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In a wheat field, a rose is a weed — even if that rose is voluptuous and vibrant. I want you to promise me that you will work hard to avoid a fate like that in the coming months, Capricorn. Everything depends on you being in the right place at the right time. It’s your sacred duty to identify the contexts in which you can thrive and then put yourself in those contexts. Please note: The ambiance that’s most likely to bring out the best in you is not necessarily located in a high-status situation where everyone’s ambition is amped to the max.
Is your soul feeling parched? In your inner world, are you experiencing the equivalent of a drought? If so, maybe you will consider performing a magic ritual that could help get you on track for a cure. Try this: Go outside when it’s raining or misting. If your area is going through a dry spell, find a waterfall or high-spouting fountain and put yourself in close proximity. Then stand with your legs apart and spread your arms upwards in a gesture of welcome. Turn your face toward the heavens, open up your mouth, and drink in the wetness for as long as it takes for your soul to be hydrated again. (In an emergency, frolicking under a sprinkler might also work.)
When I first arrived in Santa Cruz some years back, I helped start a New Wave-punk band called Mystery Spot. Our first drummer was a guy named Lucky Lehrer. After a few months, our manager decided Lucky wasn’t good enough and kicked him out of the band. Lucky took it hard, but didn’t give up. He joined the seminal punk band the Circle Jerks, and went on to have a long and successful career. Flipside magazine even named him the best punk drummer of all time. I suspect, Virgo, that in the next 10 to 12 months you will have a chance to achieve the beginning of some Lucky Lehrer-type redemption. In what area of your life would you like to experience it?
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Igor Stravinsky was a 20th-century composer who experimented with many styles of music, including the avantgarde work “The Rite of Spring.” “My music is best understood by children and animals,” he said. In my vision of your ideal life, Pisces, that will also be true about you in the coming week: You will be best understood by children and animals. Why? Because I think you will achieve your highest potential if you’re as wild and free as you dare. You will be fueled by spontaneity and innocence, and care little about what people think of you. Play a lot, Pisces! Be amazingly, blazingly uninhibited.
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1. 5,187,582 - Population of Colorado in 2012. 2. 1,383,140 - Number of Coloradans who voted for Amendment 64 in 2012. 3. 1,116,894 - Number of Coloradans who voted against Amendment 64 in 2012. 4. 1,238,490 - Number of Coloradans who voted for Barack Obama in 2012. 5. 141,696 - number of voters in El Paso County who voted for Amendment 64 in 2012. 6. 141,686 - number of voters in El Paso County who voted against Amendment 64 in 2012. 7. $199,118,715 - Medical marijuana sales in Colorado in 2012. 8. $5,409,622 - Taxes collected on medical marijuana sales in Colorado in 2012. 9. $88,462,453 - Medical marijuana sales in Denver in 2012. 10. $2,407,341 - Medical marijuana sales tax collected in Denver in 2012. 11. $34,903,683 - Medical marijuana sales in El Paso County in 2012. 12. $924,509 - Medical marijuana sales taxes collected in El Paso County in 2012. 13. $24,473,658 - Medical marijuana sales in the city of Boulder. 14. $670,392 - Taxes collected by the city of Boulder from medical marijuana in 2012. 15. $279,000 - Cost for CU to stop 4/20 event in 2012. 16. $107,000 - Cost for CU to stop 4/20 event in 2013. 17. 108,483 - Number of active patients on Colorado medical marijuana registry as of April 1, 2013. 18. 108,440 - Number of active patients on Colorado medical marijuana registry as of January 1, 2013. 19. 40 - Average age of men on medical marijuana registry. 20. 43 - Average age of women on medical marijuana registry. 21. 735 - Number of grow operations in Colorado. 22. 411 - Number of licensed grow operations in Colorado. 23. 324 - Number of grow operations awaiting permits in Colorado.
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29. 77 - Marijuana-infused products companies in Colorado in the process of getting a license. 30. 68.2% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who have drank in their lives. 31. 41% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who have used marijuana in their lives. 32. 7.8% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who used marijuana before age 13. 33. 25.1% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who use marijuana at least once a month. 34. 9% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who believe that regularly smoking marijuana posed a moderate or great risk of harm. 35. 51.9% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who believe it is wrong or very wrong for someone their age to smoke marijuana.
36. 4.5% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who are current cocaine users (e.g., used some form of cocaine at least once per month). 37. 2.8% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who have ever used heroin. 38. 3.2% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who have ever used methamphetamine. 39. 11.2% - Percentage of Boulder County high school students who have ever used ecstasy. 40. 200,000+ - Number of students who have lost federal financial aid eligibility because of a drug conviction. 41. 7,295,880 - Number of Americans arrested for marijuana offenses between 2001 and 2010. 42. 784,021 - Number of Americans arrested for marijuana possession in 2010. 43. 88% - Percentage of all marijuana-related arrests between 2001 and 2010 for possession. 44. 192 per 100,000 - U.S. white arrest rate for marijuana offenses in 2010. 45. 716 per 100,000 - U.S. black arrest rate for marijuana offenses in 2010. 46. 11,009 - Number of Coloradans arrested in 2010 for marijuana offenses. 47. 10,343 - Number of Coloradans arrested in 2010 for possession of marijuana. 48. 6,000 - Number of Americans who try marijuana for the first time each day. 49. 162,000,000 - Number of people worldwide who use marijuana at least once per year. 50. 0 - Number of people who have died of an overdose of marijuana. Sources: 1-6 from the State of Colorado, 7-14 from the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division, 15-16 from The Denver Post, 17-29 from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, 30-39 from the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Study, Boulder County School District, 40 from Rolling Stone, 41-47 from The War On Marijuana — In Black and White (2013), 48-50 from RandomHistory.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com What do you want to know about legal marijuana in Colorado? Send tips, suggestions or criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com.
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