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Danish misleads your readers again [Re: “A costly inconvenient truth,” Danish Plan, June 26], spinning industry’s myths while completely disregarding the facts. The true inconvenient truth about fracking is that rapidly rising ozone pollution caused by oil and gas drilling has hammered Front Range residents with massive adverse health impacts and health care

costs. Rather than Boulder County being threatened with a billion dollar bill for keeping oil and gas in the ground, the Clean Air Act empowers the County to protect its residents. Indeed, Colorado and the nine counties in the northern Front Range ozone nonattainment area are more likely to risk being sued for not limiting drilling pollution enough to meet the Act’s 2015 deadline for bringing the area into

compliance with the national health standard for ozone. In 2008, just as the Front Range drilling boom was launched, EPA granted Colorado an exception from being designated in marginal violation of the Clean Air Act for ozone. Ozone levels in 2010 barely exceeded the standard (75 ppb) on see LETTERS Page 7

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Highroad How Koch-headed billionaires plan to ‘save’ America by Jim Hightower

he Koch boys live in their own special world, enshrouded in a rarefied atmosphere created by the fumes emanating from their family’s enormous stockpiles of wealth. Thus, Charles and David have always felt very special, and they also expect those of us in the down-to-Earth world to treat them as special. The boys were born rich and right-wing, and they parlayed Daddy Fred Koch’s millions

into a huge industrial conglomerate that has made each of them überbillionaires. This has further bloated their sense of self-importance, while also giving them the financial muscle to try transforming our democratic world of egalitarian ideals into their fantasy world of laissezfairy, social Darwinism, ruled by supermen like … well, like them, of course. Twice a year, the Kochs convene a secret summit of superrich supermen to plot strategy and pledge millions of dollars to their political efforts. In June, about 300 of the billionaire brotherhood gathered with Charlie and Dave at the St. Regis Monarch Bay Resort on the Southern California coast. As investigative reporter Lauren Windsor wrote in The Nation, the Koch confab, which bore the heroic title of “American Courage,” took over the entire luxury resort for three days, costing nearly a million bucks. David Koch provided a keynote

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talk, modestly titled “Saving America,” and attendees were treated to a FeedFest of right-wing boilerplate from a gaggle of GOP congress critters summoned to the summit. The billionaires were especially delighted to hear Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell assure them that he would defend to his last sour breath their right to buy our elections. Then, reports Windsor, the 300 Koch-headed Supermen pledged to do just that, promising to put up $500 million this year to turn the U.S. senate over to Republican control. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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one day each at only two monitors (78 ppb and 76 ppb) out of 16 located in the nine north Front Range counties. EPA expected that Colorado could meet the ozone standard without an ozone plan because of the new reductions in car and truck emissions that EPA had ordered in 2007. As expected, vehicle emissions in the nine counties dropped by over 20 percent by 2013, and Governor Ritter’s Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act achieved significant reductions in power plant emissions too. But ozone is now off the charts, with 12 monitors violating the ozone standard, including violations in each of the nine Front Range counties. In 2013, ozone levels had risen to 85 ppb, and the number of days exceeding the standard has soared to 19 days at the worst monitor. The number of monitor days when ozone concentrations exceed the standard increased from 33 at all 16 monitors in 2010 to 126 in 2012. Over 3 million Front Range residents were exposed last year to weeks of dangerous ozone levels, the worst since the metro area’s most polluted year (2003). According to Colorado Air Pollution Control Division data, oil and gas drilling accounts for 57 percent of the organic gases that cause ozone, and is the only source category in the nine north Front Range counties that has increased its contribution to regional ozone pollution since 2008. At current rates of growth, the Air Division expects emissions from oil and gas drilling to increase its contribution to ozone formation 50 percent by 2018, more than wiping out all of the gains from cleaner vehicles and power plants. EPA’s Clean Air Science Advisory Committee (CASAC) last week recommended that EPA tighten the air quality standard because the most recent health research shows that when ozone exceeds 70 ppb, 1 percent of the population will get sick, and 5 percent of children under ten will experience an asthma attack or some other adverse health effect. In Colorado’s nine nonattainment counties, ozone exceeds 70 ppb more than 150 days at Front Range monitors. On each exceedance day, at least 32,000 Front Range residents (1 percent of 3.2 million) are expected to suffer an asthma attack or other respiratory condition requiring medication, staying home from work or school, needing urgent or emergency care, or in a few cases premature death. The Clean Air Act requires states to adopt permit programs designed to prevent emission increases from new sources to ensure that air quality does not worsen because of industrial growth. Colorado’s permit program prohibits permits for new sources that worsen regional pollution, but the Air Division continues to issue Boulder Weekly

more oil and gas drilling permits despite worsened ozone in Front Range counties. Boulder is the only county that has fully implemented Air Act mandates by halting new emissions from oil and gas drilling. Without Boulder’s moratorium, oil and gas pollution and regional ozone would be worse. Last winter, Governor Hickenlooper negotiated new rules with industry leaders

to control emissions from drilling, but those rules only roll back about 70 percent of the new pollution added since 2008 and do not halt the growing pollution from new drilling. These rules should lower ozone this summer, but not to levels that meet the current 75 ppb standard. More reductions are needed to protect Front Range residents from the well-documented harmful effects of ozone pollution.

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guest column Obituary for a river? Not if we start fighting by Gary Wockner

“Silence is a political stance. It defends the status quo.” – Lee Camp

hen I read “Obituary For A River” in this newspaper last week, I was surprised at the disempowerment and parochialism displayed by the various people interviewed in this article. My goodness — what a depressing story! That’s why I want to introduce you to the vaquita. The vaquita is the most endangered cetacean (whale species) in the world — it’s a beautiful and very small porpoise that lives in the Gulf of California where the Colorado River no longer meets the sea. Scientists estimate that only about 200 vaquita are still alive, and that it is increasingly threatened with extinction every year. One of its possible threats is because there are no freshwater and nutrients flowing into the Gulf, due to the damming and draining of the Colorado River from its headwaters in Grand County, Colorado, all the way to the City of Los Angeles. And so when we talk about the rivers of Colorado, including the Fraser River which was the subject of this article, we are not just talking about short-term or very localized issues, we are talking about people and endangered wildlife throughout the Southwest U.S. from Denver to Mexicali and the Gulf of California. The single biggest threat to every one of these rivers and the wildlife they support is new proposed dams and diversions, like Denver Water’s “Moffat Collect System Project.” And the single biggest thing you can do to address these threats is to stand up, speak out, and fight to stop the projects. Here’s what you need to know: First, several people in the article said that “Denver owns the water,” and thus that Denver can and should divert the water and thereby has the right to kill this river. That is not accurate. Water in the state of Colorado is owned by the public, and through a system of laws we the people grant “rights” to use that water to cities, farmers and industries. In so doing, we stipulate how they must use this water in a rightful manner. For example, they can’t waste it or use it for a purpose that is not beneficial, and when they propose dams and pipelines to divert it 8 July 3, 2014

out of rivers, they have to comply with a broad array of federal, state, and local laws including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act. Those three laws, and others at the state and local level, are part of the backbone of our democracy, and when congress passed those laws, they also gave we the people the right to enforce those laws for the future benefit of people and non-human critters we share this planet with. Second, the problems with the Moffat Project and the Fraser River are not just limited to the people of Grand County as was suggested in the article. Other people and groups have a stake in this issue: • As this newspaper has previously reported, the Moffat Project will dramatically and negatively impact the people of Boulder County — it is a massive dam enlargement and would be the biggest construction project in the county’s history. The people of Boulder County have extraordinary legal power to decide what happens in their county and have the right to exercise it. • The project will primarily support wasteful water use and lawn watering in the metro Denver area, both of which represent bad water policy by one of the most high-profile water agencies in the American West. Our organization — the Save The Colorado River Campaign — and others have spent years promoting alternatives to these projects, including conservation, efficiency, recycling, better growth management, and cooperative agreements with farmers. Federal and state laws require that those alternatives be considered and evaluated when dams are proposed. • If Denver gets to set a precedent of completely killing a river, then every city in the Colorado River basin (the entire Southwest U.S.) will see that as an example of not only how to act, but of how the public — including environmental groups — will respond. The people of the West Slope of Colorado and conservation see GUEST COLUMN Page 11

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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of our teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

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Thanks for TPP story

This is a great article [Re “Real people pushed out of TPP talks,” Commentary, June 12]. MoveOn members and other activists have gone to Rep. Polis’s office twice this spring to demand that he represent his constituents rather than the big corporations, but he is not listening. The only concern he seems to have is that the Internet would no longer be free and neutral and it might “stifle initiative.” Never mind the total ruin of our workers’ rights, environmental regulations, food and water safety laws, affordable prescriptions, allowing corporations to sue us for having these laws, and not even being able to see the proposal before voting on it. Surely he is aware of the incredible number of jobs lost to NAFTA,TAFTA, etc. and the staggering trade deficits that have resulted from these ill-conceived bills. I hope he reads this and learns and then announces his opposition to the fast track. How does he expect to be re-elected or respected by his constituents when he behaves like this? Laura Avant/via Internet

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Sum up the lengthy discourse [Re “The THC Fear Factor,” Weed Between the Lines, June 26]: “Plants do not lead animals.” This cuts the crap, more efficiently.

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commentary Workers organize in Denver by Dave Anderson

n America today, only 11.8 percent of workers are union members. When the labor movement was more powerful, union workers generally had a 20 percent wage advantage and many nonunion firms tended to mimic the wages and benefits of their unionized competitors. If we want to fight economic inequality, we have to bring back the unions. Today, the United States is perilously behind other countries in protecting workers’ rights, according to a new survey released last May by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). The rankings are based upon 97 internationally recognized indicators and standards to evaluate where workers’ rights are best protected, in law and in practice. The nations are rated on a scale from one (the best with merely occasional violations of workers’ rights) to five (with no guarantee of workers’ rights at all). The United States received a mark of four. The ITUC says: “Workers in countries with the rating of four have reported systematic violations. The government and/or companies are engaged in serious efforts to crush the collective voice of workers putting fundamental rights under continuous threat.” Unions and economic justice activists have been reaching out to the general public in various ways. Jobs with Justice ( JwJ) — a national grassroots coalition of labor, community and religious groups — has campaigns to support workers at Walmart, Verizon, T-Mobile as well as direct-care providers for the elderly and disabled, immigrant workers and college students burdened by debt. In many cities, JwJ hosts “Workers’ Rights Boards,” which are public forums where workers can bring complaints against employers for violating their human and legal rights in the workplace. Many years ago, the Denver area JwJ was able to get Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, a Catholic bishop, the mayor and city auditor of Denver to sit on a board. They got results. Once, a single letter produced thousands of dollars in overtime pay that had been denied to workers in a nonunion bakery. On June 18, they revived the tradition and held a Workers’ Rights Board for DIA SuperShuttle drivers who are fighting the company for imposing a 30 percent pay cut. Fekadu Eijegdesew told the board that he graduated from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia in 1983

and eventually became director of Ethiopia’s national park system. However, he wanted to escape Ethiopia’s murderous military dictatorship. Eijegdesew traveled to London and became a cab driver for a while. But he really wanted to go to America. “I have always wanted to provide my family with everything they wanted. Working in the United States would finally allow me to do this,” Eijegdesew said. Eijegdesew started with Denver SuperShuttle in May 2005. The company promised him the American dream of becoming a small businessman. He was an “independent contractor.” That sounds good but it actually meant he would be denied workers’ rights under U.S. labor law. Noureddine Berezqi came from Morocco and began with SuperShuttle in 1997. “Drivers were able to work comfortable schedules in order to fulfill their personal financial needs,” he said. After the French multinational Veolia purchased SuperShuttle in 2002, drivers in Denver saw their income fall when SuperShuttle began contracting with more franchisees, which reduced opportunities for fares. Drivers now put in 60-hour weeks, working six to seven days each week. “Exhausting schedules left workers no time for bathroom breaks while working 10- to 12-hour shifts,” Berezqi said. “There were harsh new disciplinary actions with no justification. The company began firing and suspending drivers without cause or for minor infractions.” Berezqi said there was verbal abuse with racial and religious slurs. The majority of Denver SuperShuttle drivers are black African immigrants. Many are Muslims. There was a supervisor who joked about the high turnover of drivers by saying “Muhammed comes, Muhammed goes” and “Monkey comes, monkey goes.” So Eijegdesew and Berezqi arrived looking for the American dream and ended up working for a European multinational which was attracted to our banana republic labor laws. Meanwhile in the U.K. and Germany, SuperShuttle workers have good pay and working conditions. This is due to strong unions and good labor laws. So a better life is possible — if we fight for it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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called End Partisanship on behalf of eight New Jersey voters, IndependentVoting.org and the Independent Voter Project. The suit challenges state funding of closed primaries and demands that every voter have an equal and meaningful vote at every stage of the state-funded election process. Independent/unaffiliated voters throughout the country are watching the case closely. If you would like to know more about the efforts of unaffiliated voters to bring

full voting rights to Colorado residents, please contact me at giballard@Q.com. Gwen Ballard, Coalition of Independent Voters in Colorado (“CIVIC”)/Carbondale

The darker side of the World Cup

Yes, the most “beautiful game” in the world is being played in one of the most beautiful (and sexiest) countries in the world. Seems so very perfect. I’m just hoping that the millions upon millions watch-

ing and enjoying this incredible and wonderful, every-four-year international spectacle don’t forget the others/las otras. With a glamour beyond belief, it may be difficult for the world to remember that the Brasilian military continues to maim and kill the poor in the flavellas or ghettoes. Was is too long ago that there were death squads formed to eliminate the excessive amount of poor children to remember? They also continue with their oppression of the average man with an

uncontrolled corruption and excessive, controversial World Cup spending while people just can’t make it... “we starve, homeless, while you, the wealthy, just party on.” I love futbol. And I love Brasil, I do, geologically, geographically and above all for its profound, futuristic mix of races and cultures that still seem so promising. But let us not for a minute forget the horrors behind the glamour. Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

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groups throughout the Southwest have the right to respond differently, to exercise their voices and the political will to address this threat. Finally, there’s an underlying feeling in this “obituary” of extraordinary disempowerment, and even more surprising is that it comes from the West Slope of Colorado, which is partly a libertarian bastion of the American West. Does Grand County have the Stockholm Syndrome? Conversely, not too far downstream in western Colorado there’s a very different and more empowered discussion about a “Not One More Drop” campaign, meaning that some folks in Glenwood Springs, Grand Junction and farther west don’t want one more drop of their rivers diverted over to Denver and the Front Range. The folks in Grand County ought to look west, not east to Denver, to solve their problem — spirited voices to save the rivers of western Colorado are alive and well downstream. Which brings me back to the vaquita. What an amazing little critter. Cute, shy, nearly extinct, and completely voiceless without our help. Whether these rivers live or die, whether this little porpoise lives or dies, is up to us. We need to unite together from the Front Range to the West Slope, and downstream to the Gulf of California, to keep our rivers, our culture, and our wildlife alive. To get more involved, sign up for email alerts from the Boulder County group fighting this project, TEGColorado.org, and from the Save The Colorado River Campaign, SaveTheColorado.org. Gary Wockner, PhD, is the Coordinator for the Save The Colorado River Campaign,based in Fort Collins. Contact: Gary@SaveTheColorado.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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With Iraq and the VA trading terrible headlines these days, we asked veterans for their view on life and current events. by Boulder Weekly staff

March 2003, the United States the problem on the part of the military hierarchy. faced so much are now literally dying because they military, accompanied by a coaliSuch lasting mental anguish has taken its own toll. can’t cut through the red tape to see a doctor. All the tion of international forces, On any given night there are an estimated 63,000 while they think that people are trying their best to invaded Iraq. homeless vets living on our streets, many who served help them because their own government, by way of In December 2011, after nearly 9 years of occupa- in Iraq. And these days more soldiers are dying as a their own veterans administration, has scribbled their tion and continuous fighting against first the Iraqi result of suicide than are being killed by any foreign names on fake waiting lists that it knows will never military and later an entrenched insurgency, the U.S. enemy. We now have an average of 22 veterans a day get anyone’s name to the top. Cover-ups and lies are completed its final withdrawal of combat troops from taking their own lives. now rocking one Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital after the country. On top of that, wives and husbands and children another, including here in Colorado, as it becomes By any measure, the price for this conflict was of veterans by the tens of thousands are being physiincreasingly clear that many of the promises to take Wikimedia Commons/ Soldier’s Media Center staggering. care of those who have so selflessThere were 4,486 U.S. soldiers ly served their county are proving killed in action along with 318 to be hollow words carrying little men and women from the coaliweight that promote no action. tion. It is now estimated that This year’s Pulitzer Prize for more than 500,000 Iraqi men, national reporting was yet another women and children lost their illustration of our lacking effort lives as a result of the war. towards our soldiers. In an exposé More than 52,000 Americans that ran in the Colorado Springs were wounded in action with Gazette titled “Other Than more than 6,000 of those needing Honorable,” reporter Dave to have at least one limb amputatPhilipps exposed how soldiers ed. According to the U.S. injured during war are being disDepartment of Defense’s own charged from the military without records, which are considered to any benefits — left to fend for be conservative, more than themselves when it comes to cov300,000 soldiers have suffered a ering the often astronomical cost traumatic brain injury, most due of the injuries they have suffered. to being in close proximity to an All of these recent revelations explosion. must surely feel like a slap in the All of these numbers are low face to our veterans, and yet, in because they do not take into many instances they are the ones consideration those who died or who have come to the defense of were injured while deployed in the government that has seemingMore than 300,000 service men and women have suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury since the year Iraq as a result of illness or vehicle 2000. Most such injuries can be attributed to close proximity to explosions such as those involving ly forsaken them. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) like the one that caused this damage in Iraq in 2007. accidents or other causes not The mental health and other attributed directly to military healthcare issues, unemployment, action. suicides and PTSD are really bad, As difficult as these numbers are, they are only a cally and emotionally abused. Millions of military but perhaps worst of all these days, veterans can only fraction of the total carnage that this war has inflicted families are being crushed under the weight of this watch helplessly as every day another piece of Iraq on those who served there. Coming home was not the mental chaos, which too often expresses itself in anger that was bought with their blood falls back into the end of the trouble for many, if not most, of the men and depression that lead to substance abuse, violence, hands of Islamic extremists determined to turn that and women deployed to Iraq. unemployment and divorce. country into something far more threatening to the More than a million veterans have been diagnosed But just when it seemed that things could not rest of the world than anything Saddam Hussein ever with at least one mental disorder associated with their get much more difficult for our veterans of the Iraq had in mind. service since returning home and nearly a half million War, they have. After so much sacrifice, it’s hard to imagine what of those have two or more mental issues with which After all they have been through, these men and it must be like to hear and see in the news that places to cope. To date, 338,294 men and woman have been women who served their country and sacrificed so like Tal Afar, Mosul, Ramadi, Falluja and Takrit — diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder sites of some of the bloodiest incidents in the U.S. war much are now being bombarded by a news cycle that (PTSD). Experts believe that the real numbers of in Iraq — have now fallen to an army of Al-Qaedais salt to their many wounds. those veterans suffering from PTSD could be twice aligned militants known as the Islamic State (formerly As this year’s Fourth of July holiday arrives, each that high, due to a reluctance to admit the problem on day’s headlines seem to scream out another injustice the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria, ISIS). the part of soldiers and the hesitancy to acknowledge How does it feel to see a decade of sacrifice to our veterans. These men and women who have 12 July 3, 2014

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thrown away in a matter of hours like the uniforms of thing again. This time we got retasked as convoy secuthe Iraqi police supposedly trained to take the place of rity. We were the trucks in between the convoys of their U.S. military counterparts? How does it feel for truckers and made sure they got to their destination, our vets to know that they and their brothers and sisfrom point A to point B throughout the county. It’s ters in arms are suffering at the hands of their own how we got supplies across country, because it’s cheapgovernment’s seeming incompetence as illustrated by er than doing airdrops from planes. We got blown up a a trail of broken promises, neglect and even deceplot — a lot. IEDs were a constant thing. We were tion? probably getting blown up three times a week. These are the questions that we have chosen to “There were a lot of injuries from IEDs. Ultimately explore this week even as we honor and celebrate those who have given so Wikimedia Commons/ U.S. Navy/ Alan D. Monyelle much to our country. We hope to learn by exploring current events through the eyes of our soldiers in their own words. As is our long-standing tradition at Boulder Weekly, we are using our Fourth of July issue to examine patriotism and nationalism from a perspective that isn’t likely to find its way into the mainstream media. Thanks for reading this important issue and thanks to all the men and woman of our armed forces who have sacrificed so much in the service to our country. And a special thanks to all those veterans who took the time to share their stories and opinions.

if we dropped them over there and said, ‘Live for a while.’ Same thing about if people saw where their meat comes from, they wouldn’t eat meat. With war and conflict, don’t be quick to judge unless you’ve seen this situation. “It was never a war to me, either, so there was nothing to win. First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then it was trying to train the country so they could be a democracy. And we’ll never really know why [the U.S. was] there, but I’m assuming they got it [whatever they wanted] because when they were done, we pulled out. “The Bush administration signed the contract to pull out of Iraq — they got what they wanted from over there. Companies got their contracts and got their money. I’m sure Blackwater and other agencies got what they wanted. “Do I feel that my time was wasted? No, because I still had a job to do. Could my time be better spent? Could the military’s time and money be better spent? Yes. “When you come home, it’s a culture shock. The military doesn’t teach you how to deal with that situation. All these new feelings, these sensations, these colors, even tastes Jake Holmes, U.S. and smells, it’s a shock to your sysNational Guard, 133rd tem that you’re not prepared for. Engineer Company, “Even wives who are used to run2001-2008 ning the house and all of sudden U.S. Army personnel worked side by side with and trained Iraqi soldiers and police until the final U.S. pullout in 2011. In recent weeks, Iraqi forces have suffered swift and significant was 18 or 19 when I enlisted [for dads come back and they are used to losses of territory to radical Islamic fighters calling themselves ISIS. Iraq is now in chaos. the National Guard] and I always telling people what do to and it kind of knew I was going to growing causes problems. The divorce ratio is up. My grandfather did. My dad did. I had some everyone came back in one piece — physically. so high in the military now. Even spouses and kids extended family members who served. I just didn’t Mentally, not everybody came back. It was hard to see. and husbands, they offer classes at the VA for them know to what extent I would serve. And I knew that was probably gonna happen after my because they don’t know how to handle vets when “First company I was originally with was the first tour and I wasn’t right when I came back. they come home. I hope the government and military 133rd Engineer Company out of Laramie. That was “The second time corrected me and I decided I and VA are starting to realize those problems. I was my father’s original unit and probably didn’t want to do this anymore. Well, hoping they would be quicker to catch on to that.” one of the reasons I went into that unit, we came to an agreement: the military with the legacy and all. In 2004 we got said, ‘We don’t want you anymore,’ and Xuno Gildelamadrid, U.S. Army, the notice [of deployment], but we I said, ‘Fuck you, I don’t want to be in First Calvary Division/75th didn’t actually get into [Iraq] until a litanymore.’ I was barred from enlistRegiment Second Battalion, tle after New Year’s 2005.” ment. I was outspoken and very rebel2001-2008 “That first day, I was gung-ho about lious. I didn’t like to follow things I it. I was only 22, 23 maybe when we didn’t agree with. uno Gildelamadrid was stationed in Kuwait on got in country. I was ready. They need“I took a different mindset when I September 11, 2001. No one knew exactly what ed gunners on the bus, but they didn’t got back and disassociated myself with had happened, but it was clear that the U.S. had come have enough ammo to issue everyone, everything for a long, long time. under attack. There were mass casualties. Soon people so I put myself out there, not knowing “The group of people I went with started to say it was the largest terrorist attack in U.S. we were in Kuwait and nothing would always knew it [Iraq’s return to relihistory. happen, but it was still that first day. I was still naive gious infighting] was going to happen. We called it 10 At the time many believed that Iraqi forces were to how things were actually working. You were ready, years ago when we went over there. It’s like the status responsible for the attacks in New York, Pennsylvania wide-eyed, like going to school for the first time. quo now: We go in somewhere, sometimes we estaband Washington, D.C., because that was the false “That first [deployment] was mainly our engineer- lish full time bases, but ultimately we let the country information that was repeatedly put forward by Vice go back to whoever was the ruling power over there. ing task, so we were building roads, culverts and President Dick Cheney. Gildelamadrid’s division was “I think that’s the problem in general is that we bridges, helping out with infrastructure on base and the closest to the Iraqi border, so they were ordered to off base. It wasn’t too bad, but it put you in a different haven’t finished anything definitively in almost 100 stage themselves about a kilometer from the border in years, since World War I, really. mindset while you were over there. So when I got Humvees. But after a few days of waiting, they were “We, as Americans, were involved in that war, at back [to the U.S.], I wasn’t really feeling comfortable sent to Afghanistan to spend the next five months least from scrimping on materials and the food you at home and so immediately I started looking for setting up roads and doing recon as the U.S. prepared could buy to making planes and ammunition. As wars to send troops to fight Al Qaeda. another unit to deploy with. I found one and they were leaving for a mobile station three months later, progressed and time went on, the population got disIt wasn’t until the latter part of 2002 that so I just kind of bummed around. And I didn’t really associated and with that comes a lack of interest and Gildelamadrid went to Iraq to aid as U.S. and British do anything. I spent a lot of time drinking. caring. People will say, ‘Let the Middle East do what “In 2007, I went back overseas and did the whole they want to do,’ but I think they would feel different See PROMISES Page 14

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troops took over the Baghdad airport. Buell was deployed in Iraq from 2008 to Most of his work in both his first and 2009 and Afghanistan in 2011. Tracey second tour in Iraq involved community lived in Albany (where they met), then relations. on their base station in Jacksonville, “We have to try to hold the commuN.C. after they married between deploynity, make them feel safe so they can ments. give us intell so we can do our jobs,” says “I don’t think the sacrifices I made Gildelamadrid. “Without them, we are while Tyler was serving can be even lost. To do that you have to have relaremotely compared to his own sacrifices tionships. At the end of the day people and the sacrifices of his brothers,” Tracey are interested in the best interest for says. “Those men made different sacritheir family. It’s very much a clan society fices, harder sacrifices. It’s hard to see over there. That’s why Iraq has the probthings unravel [in Iraq] after so many lems they have now and may have forevlives were lost and sacrifices were made, er. You have to understand their needs.” and it does make it feel like, in the end, “I was always someone who tried to it was all for nothing because people learn Arabic. I felt it helped me,” says seem to have forgotten all that was given Gildelamadrid. “The more you can sym- Veterans are being forced from the military with no benefits. As a result, they are up by those men. But I think this is a pathize with their culture, the more you being made to fend for themselves when it comes to paying the medical bills question they should answer, not me.” can understand them, even though their stemming from injuries they suffered while serving their country. Is it though? Tracey made a sacrifice religion and culture are different, they’re of the heart and mind; Tyler, a sacrifice still a person and you’re still a person. better way of life for them, then that’s a success. If it’s of the body and soul. Both recognize the other’s sacriAs for Iraq slipping back into disarray since U.S. a group coming in and implementing Shiite law — fice and agree they are both entitled to answer that troops have withdrawn, Gildelamadrid isn’t shocked. this whole region has been working towards that for question. Tyler, however, has the benefit of first-hand “I’ll start off by saying that anyone who says it’s a so long [becoming different countries]. Maybe [the experience training the very Iraqi police that have surprise, they either haven’t been in the country or U.S. invasion was] the catalyst for that. There are difeither been slain by ISIS or abandoned their posts. they’re lying,” he says. “Anyone who’s been there, they ferent ways of looking at it. I tend to believe this area, “We were living on a split base with Iraqi Army said give it a year and it’d be a goat fuck, for lack of a the borders aren’t meant to be drawn the way they are and mentoring the local Iraqi police and I was less better term. today. I think that’ll change. If you want to see optithan impressed with either force,” Tyler said. “They “My political views and ideas of international mistic views, if anything else, [the war] triggered this struck me as lazy and unmotivated, and were in it for affairs have changed over the years through experience fracturing and it might settle things for 50 or 75 years, the paycheck. and education,” says Gildelamadrid, who just last year which seems to be the cycle for this region.” “I don’t think that the current situation in Iraq wrapped up his studies in engineering physics and takes anything away from what the U.S. armed forces international relations at the University of Colorado Sgt. Tyler Buell and did in that country. We can’t want things for people Boulder. “At the time [most military personnel Tracey Buell more than they want them themselves. If they don’t deploy], you’re young and you think America can do U.S. Marine Corps want to stand up for themselves and their families it whatever it wants. I thought we could do this. ‘We Iraq (2008-2009), has no impact on my honor or the quality of training can help you. We’ve got your back.’ And you try to Afghanistan (2011) we supplied them with. exude that, too. Also it’s the typical American cocki“Patrolling was really where you saw the issue. They were perfectly content to sit at the police station ness. I thought we would be able to not necessarily ike many loving military couples, Tyler and and drink chai and smoke cigarettes. When they had guarantee, but to help them have a better future. Now Tracey Buell have agreed to keep things from I have different ideas about democracy and how you one other. their weekly meeting in Ramadi or Fallujah, we would can come upon it. Tyler tidies the gruesome realities of war for her. have to escort them and usually we would have to go “I think democracy is something people have to He doesn’t report from overseas on who has been to the police station early enough to make sure that earn,” he says. “If you don’t earn it, you can’t appreciinjured or killed — news that spreads as a heartened, they were ready to go and that we would only be ate it. You have to fight for it. It cannot be given to a sympathetic gossip amongst wives on bases back about an hour or so behind. When we told them a society that is historically clan-based. If you don’t have home. Tyler keeps from her the lingering effects of his time and asked if they would be ready the response an idea of what a nation is, what would motivate you four years in Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields. He was generally ‘n’sha Allah’ which means ‘God willing’ to protecting a nation?” says he’s simply “startled at loud noises”; she’s more but translated more accurately to ‘If we feel like it, but While Gildelamadrid echos the sentiments of frank, he “has some PTSD moments.” probably not.’” other veterans when he says that the U.S. intervention Tracey hides from him the swollen aortas of worry Tyler’s blame for the ISIS insurgency falls on the in Iraq was “half-assed” at best, and futile at worst, he that come from hearing a sliver of news on the base Iraqi police who forfeited what U.S. troops helped says, in the end, it’s not so black and white. — “no news is good news,” she says — and then not them fight for, and to the Iraqi al-Malaki government “I think it comes down to how it’s gonna end up. hearing from Tyler for days or even weeks. She hides that he says enacted bad policy and exacted bad govLooking there and seeing the people and seeing their from him her sacrifice in the wake of his. ernance. He doesn’t blame those in the U.S. who give hope, whether it be Afghanistan or Iraq, letting them All couples do it; these little white omissions to orders, U.S. politicians or military strategy. He doesn’t do things they couldn’t do before. If they continue to ease the mind of their beloved. blame himself or his fellow soldiers. He did his job do that and change progressively and continue to do “It was probably easier for me to be away because honorably and knew what he was getting into when what they want — we can’t judge their progression by I knew that she was safe and sound and I had plenty he enlisted. what we want. If they do things that they consider is a to keep me busy while I was deployed,” says Tyler. Tracey, on the other hand, has the benefit of con-

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text, distance and perspective on these issues. Far removed from the ineptitude her husband says he encountered and the daily grind of war, she keeps her own opinion. She said she’s “absolutely angry” when politicians or military personnel make decisions she doesn’t understand or agree with. “Many politicians don’t see military issues as they should be seen because they aren’t in the situation that actual military men and women, as well as veterans, are in,” she says. What Tracey alludes to are the bits of strategy and politics that are not told to U.S. troops while on active duty, the white omissions recruiters do not — and could not possibly — tell recruits about the realities of war, and the busy signals from government organizations that many soldiers get upon their return. It’s clear in talking to veterans that those omissions take a toll. Consider that on some level, the ability for soldiers to control the risks to which they are subjected and the ability to maintain context for their sacrifices is lost while on active duty. This, as many soldiers will say, is their choice and their job. However, a common byproduct of this subjective suspension is a cognitive dissonance wherein soldiers must not ask questions while serving — even to themselves — so as to remain focused, safe and sane. This effect can lead to the ornament of a coping bow on what is a chaotic, complex, unknowable, intractable episode in each soldiers’ life and the lives of their loved ones. And upon their return, that bow needs to be unstrung — some need more help than others. This kind of self-preserving mental yoga exists because these men and women are tested constantly. “I distinctly remember waking up on a January morning on the border [of Syria and Iraq] and struggling to get out of my sleeping bag because during the night the condensation from my breath had frozen to the inside of the sleeping bag and had frozen up the zipper,” Tyler says. “As far as the heat, the worst of it was in Afghanistan. It would hit 130 degrees by 11 a.m. and we would begin a patrol at about 11:30 a.m. The water that we carried would get so hot that I’m fairly certain that I could have boiled a nice cup of tea in the bottles I carried in the pouch on my back.” And because it was so hot in Afghanistan, troops would have to carry out orders at night, when most of the locals would do their work as well. “[Afghani farmers would] tend the Boulder Weekly

fields in the evening and overnight, which made it tense because you were never sure who was out walking around when you would go out on a night patrol. It could be a bomb-maker or emplacer or it could just be a wheat farmer,” he says. Some soldiers adopt a removed, dark humor about these constant risks. Tyler recounts a story wherein Taliban fighters in Afghanistan would hop on motorcycles and zip through narrow village streets, shooting at his patrol who couldn’t maneuver as well as the enemy could (a fighting style he calls “scoot and shoot”). After attempts to track down the Taliban fighters, a single gunman firing an AK-47 ambushed his patrol. “We dropped to the ground and began to return fire,” Tyler says. “When I got to my feet to move up and reposition for a better line of fire, an RPK [machine gun] to my direct front opened up and put four rounds between my legs, leaving a hole in my camouflage bottoms and shredding the pack of Marlborough 27s in my right cargo pocket.” “I was more mad about that than being shot at,” he says. Now, in the police academy with funding from the GI Bill, Tyler says he doesn’t need help untying the bow on his war experience, but that if he did, he wouldn’t be confident he could get it. “Since I’ve been out, I haven’t even made a disability claim due to the horror stories I’ve heard from other vets about how long it takes and the fight they had to be approved,” Tyler says. “I don’t need it, but I’ve earned it and every little bit helps. I just don’t have the patience to fight the system.” One string pulled from the bow; one white omission spoken. “Why aren’t veterans treated better in the country they fought so hard for is a question that shouldn’t [have to] be asked, but is every day,” Tracey says. So although Tyler says he kept and keeps things from Tracey for her sake, he can’t keep everything from her, even if it remains unsaid. Sometimes it’s a small change in the face or a long gaze or an odd laugh. Hints like that add up. And reddened by love and emboldened by perspective and the freedom to say something, sometimes Tracey is better suited to verbalize their reality; sometimes it’s Tyler. And so together, from both ends, they are pulling the strings of the bow they had to tie to make it through the war.

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“Usually when he has a PTSD moment he gets sad and sometimes emotional when he starts thinking about certain things like the death of one of his friends,” Tracey says. “Other times he gets angry. Occasionally there are times, like on July 4th, for example, where if he hears fireworks and can’t see them or where they’re coming from, it brings him back to deployments because the sound is very familiar to him and his experience. There’s nothing I can do to help, other than to just let him know that I’m there if he needs me. While these moments are rare and are less frequent then they used to be, it’s still hard to watch because I can’t do anything to help and because I can’t even imagine what he’s gone through.” With a baby boy on the way and Tyler’s graduation from the police academy imminent, it appears another string or two will be pulled from the bow and soon the whole thing will open up. Chris Somoza, Marine Corps, First Battalion, First Marines, Alpha Company, 2004-2008

joined when I was 18 years old. I guess I joined because of 9/11. I think I was a junior in high school and we watched the planes fly into the twin towers. We spent the whole day in school just watching. We didn’t do any academic work. It had a really big impact on us: myself, my family — I mean, everyone. We saw how vulnerable we were. It was hard to comprehend how tragic that was. So I was really upset about that and felt I needed to do something about it. I decided to join the Marine Corps and I guess take the fight to the enemy. “Before I went to war, it’s almost like this Hollywood image — valor and glory and these guys doing heroic things. They fight and they win and things are over and everything’s peachy. Deploying was an interesting experience. There was a big parade, a helicopter flew over and there were guys with bagpipes and we thought, ‘Wow. We’re gonna die.” So then we boarded these busses and we’re gone for seven months. It’s hard to comprehend at first. “I did two tours of Iraq. I think it’s always been my mentality is, go for the toughest thing. The machine gunner position was great. I learned a lot from it and I met a lot of great people. It was 16 July 3, 2014

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really rewarding to be able to have that job and not only support the infantry, but it’s cool to say I played with these big machine guns. “As a military, they [the U.S.] were unprepared for what happened in Iraq. We went in and took over and declared victory and then what? We’re stuck with this country. These people have no clue what’s going on. We disbanded their military they have no police. They have no enforcement of government. People aren’t working. We created this disarray and what happens now? I don’t think there was any thought of cultural issues: The Sunnis and Shiites, what we’re seeing today. It was just, get rid of him [Saddam Hussein], take over the country, which we’re really freaking good at. But when it comes to the aftermath, we got caught with our hands in the cookie jar. I think that was a higher-level absolute failure. “I’m proud of what we did. Everything we did was outstanding, at an individual level, at unit level. Beyond that, what did we get out of that? We didn’t give them freedom. Essentially, we killed two really bad people, and a lot more, but what was the point? That’s a challenging thing to think about is, ‘What did we do there?’ It sucks because we all sacrificed and some scarified everything. “There’s a lot of instability [in Iraq] and I don’t think they as a country are capable of fixing it. It’s challenging to see a place you’ve fought for so hard fall to insurgents. If you look at it, we kind of created a Shiite army in a Sunni area.

What did we expect? Another what I guess you’d call a higher-level failing. Vietnam fell back to the communists and that was it. [Iraq] fell back to the insurgency and there’s civil war. Let’s not kid ourselves: It’s almost like mirror images in different areas. Might not seem the same because there’s almost one-tenth the loss of life [in the Iraq war]. I don’t think things are going to change there anytime soon. I don’t think our involvement there is necessary. Gets into a level of politics I don’t want to get into. It’s just stupid. These two parties are giving each other a hard time — it’s all the same. They don’t understand what they are putting their veterans through. Lee Briggeman, Sergeant in the U.S. Army, Fort Carson, Colo., 1975-1978 The military Lee Briggeman joined in November 1975 was Somoza’s mirror image. It was the same year American helicopters were filmed lifting out of Saigon as Americans fled, and the Army was riddled with men coming back from Vietnam, angry with their government, angry over the war and angry with the unfriendly welcome they’d received when they got home. “A lot of guys were coming back and they were either disillusioned or angry, or had PTSD,” Briggeman recounts. “My brother was in the Navy during that time, he came home in ’70, my other brother was marching in the peace parades, so I saw it from both sides.”

Times were tough when she enlisted — she had a not-quite-finished college education and was having a hard time finding a job, so she joined the Army. Two military bases offered basic training for women at the time, one that covered physical training and one where women bound for secretarial jobs “learned to be pretty.” Headed for an electronics shop, where she’d work as a desk clerk, it didn’t matter much if she put makeup on before she went to work, she says, so she went to the regular basic training. Once stationed at Fort Carson, Colorado, she asked her top sergeant why women weren’t participating in PT [physical training]. He responded that if she wanted to, she could lead PT for women. So she did. In her last year in service, she was invited to be the first woman in the non-commissioned officer academy, where she graduated with first honors. “I felt like I had sort of a transitional role in women in the service at that time,” she says. “I enjoyed a lot of it. When my captain got upset with me, he would send me out to change truck tires on my Deuce and a half [cargo truck] — and he got upset with me just once, thank goodness. But I knew how to change my tires, I knew how to change my oil.” For most of her life, aside from the GI Bill that put her through college, she never called on the VA for help. Then, in 2008, she found herself having to spend her income on medicine instead of rent. Had she known the VA would have paid for her medication, she says, she wouldn’t have lost her house. But like so many female veterans, she didn’t know that option was out there. Earlier this year, she was looking at having to live out of her truck when someone referred her to a house run by the Volunteers of America along with the Department of Veterans Affairs, which houses female veterans. Women can stay for up to two years. Briggeman now lives in a room in one of three houses operated by the organizations on a shady, tree-lined street in Denver near the VA medical center. They’re the only ones of their kind in the country, a pilot program of sorts where Volunteers of America provides housing to women veterans who were homeless or were about to become homeless. See PROMISES Page 18

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And then, from the wars in Iraq and what a tragedy. And that’s what I Afghanistan. Those women are think, what a tragedy. More than 52,000 U.S. soldiers were wounded during the still working their way through “We’ve left behind hundreds nearly decade long war in Iraq. No less than 6,000 of family and friends or may not of thousands of dead Iraqis, those wounded had at least one limb amputated. even be aware that these services we’ve left behind all those nasty are available to them. For now, bombs that are going to harm many of the residents are like did surprise me in all that was that they their people for how long, and we’ve Briggeman and began their service dur- give bonuses to people who aren’t doing left behind no resolution, just a war. ing or shortly after the Vietnam War. And we’ve left it open for these people their jobs, that really upset me. That “The Vietnam vets, a lot of them really very much upset me. I understand to go in and take over their country, died without the help,” says Briggeman. that they’re backlogged, because they ISIS. We didn’t leave behind strong “My brother did not get help and he leadership but we can’t control that, we have a lot to deal with. … What bothdied because he drank and smoked him- ered me was the book where I read can’t control what happens there. We self to death. He never went to a where they weren’t accepting their Iraqi want to think we can, but we can’t. Veterans Center. He never went in for “But all of our guys, women and troops that came home that needed help, and I talk to people still whose men, who’ve ruined their lives or help, they were kind of side-slipping brothers haven’t gotten help, who still changed their lives for that mess, it’s a them and just ignoring them. That haven’t come home from Vietnam. So tragedy. All those people that lost their bothered me when I read that. … If lives or their limbs or their brains, there are still people out there that could you’re a soldier and you’ve served, they’ll never be the same. All the rapes benefit. ... I was lucky because I got to there’s no reason that you can’t get serthat took place over there, men and talk to Vietnam vets at Vet Centers and vices. There’s no excuse for that. So women… Not real happy.” got to help a little bit. But I know bonuses? No, no bonuses. Not for peothere’s still vets, Vietnam vets out there, ple that aren’t signing up people that Joseph Young, Army that could benefit if they’d ever come in should be getting services.” musician, 2009-2014 for help. The problem was, Vietnam For her own experiences, with the Fort Rucker, Ala. and vets were so angry and so upset with the VA, she’s always seen her needs met if people and so disillusioned with the she called, but adds, “I would say that if Fort Carson, Colo. government when they came back … you need help, you have to be a squeaky s a musician, Joe Young knew he there was so much anger and hostility wheel.” was up against it but never did he toward the government, toward the peoAnd she sees this generation has no ple of America for their treatment, that shortage of need for services, particular- think his only career option would be to join the Army. But when the economy you’ll still see them on the streets or ly because, while there have been tanked in 2007, Young, originally from under the railroad trestles. They’re the advancements in treating PTSD, she Kansas City, decided to leave his comones that dropped out and they just says, we’re only just beginning to never came back. They’re the ones that, understand the now pervasive traumatic munity college and enlist after getting advice from a friend. if they’re still alive, they just never brain injuries. All that’s tough to weigh “I was looking around and deciding would come in for help. … It’s just a the balance of the fight for a country if I should get a blue collar job or try to great American tragedy, that’s all.” that’s now disintegrating. ride it out and a friend of mine who She’s only been using veterans bene“It is so hard to watch a mess like used to serve in the Army said, ‘You fits since 2010, she says, and in general, this [Iraq] going on again. You think know, the Army has a band.’ So I feels fortunate that they’ve taken care of you finish something, and it’s not findecided to at least go look at it and see her and that she’s found a place in the ished,” Briggeman says. “You’re just if that’s an option. 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Afghanistan from Fort Carson. One was a lieutenant and one was a battalion sergeant major. And that one was huge because when you’re on a large post — it’s a family kind of feel. And for all of those soldiers — some came out — it was an emotional ceremony. I’m getting goose bumps now remembering it. We played hymnals. “As a kid I studied jazz, classical, rock, reggae all this fun music and I even played in a few churches, but the memorial portion of it is something that is so — it really impacts you,” Young says. Young says that during his time in the service he played dozens of memorials for soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each time is deeply affecting, he says, but like soldiers must remain calm and execute in times of stress on the battlefield, Young’s job was to honor fallen soldiers in the midst of great heartache by playing taps unwaveringly. Perhaps there’s no other role in the military that encounters death as much as the music corp. — front line men and women see more violence and are confronted with their own mortality on a daily basis, but their time for reflection — by nature of their jobs — is limited. They don’t see the weeping widow or the mystified children. Just imagine trying to do your job at a funeral for someone who died too early. So one could imagine that Young has a unique perspective on the current state of affairs in Iraq and for our veteran issues. He called the lack of VA accountability and the militant resurgence in Iraq “disheartening.” “I was never a commander. I was never in charge so I don’t know what’s going on on that side of the house. From a soldier standpoint, you will go do whatever you’re told to do. You don’t think about the issues back home, you don’t think about Republicans versus Democrats. You don’t think about whether you love or hate Obama — the only thing you think about is, this is the order that was given and this is what I’m going to go do. From a military standpoint, that’s probably the widely accepted viewpoint, but there’s also wide demographics in the Army so opinions differ. “The VA gets better every year,” Young says. “Their equipment gets better, their treatment gets better. Definitely the backlog needs to be taken care of, but the VA has still provided a lot for a lot of soldiers.” Young is now preparing to attend CU in the fall via the GI Bill. He intends to major in communications and minor in business. See PROMISES Page 21

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t was Easter weekend 2012, in the wee hours bleeding into Monday. This weekend was a lot like other weekends for Dan Janosko. The 25-year-old from Catawba, Va., had been off active duty with the Marines

for a little under two years and his drinking had become a problem. He’d jumped right into college after leaving the military, but found little inspiration for the endeavor and dropped out of Colorado State University after a year. He worked in the oil and gas industry for about a year, and at this point in his story, this fateful Easter weekend, he was employed as a roughneck in the North Dakota oil fields. He’d had multiple brushes with the law since coming back to civilian life, but this night, Janosko ran head first into trouble. Drunk and angry — Janosko can’t remember what triggered it — he fired 18 rounds into a wall of the house he was living in at the time. “After your first deployment, you really come in touch with anger a lot,” Janosko says. “In some ways I found myself yelling a lot more. I remember when I got home, somebody’d say something and I’d turn around: ‘You wanna fucking go?’ [They’re] like, ‘What?’ When you’re over there [on combat deployment],” he pauses to think. “I don’t know if it’s necessarily how you handle business, but everybody’s so stressed and frayed that it does happen quite a bit.” Janosko joined the Marines in 2005 at 17 years old and deployed for Iraq in October of 2007. He was a radio operator, but like every Marine he was a rifleman, and he volunteered to be a turret gunner during his first few days in Iraq. He spent the winter holidays of 2007 living out of a Humvee in northern Iraq, drinking instant coffee and eating Ramen noodles, “happier than a pig in shit.” But in 2010 he made the choice to come home. He wasn’t interested in further promotions that would have taken him away from the front lines, and college — while he still wasn’t sure it was the right choice for him — was “what you do next.” “Up until literally the day I got out, my command was like, ‘Do you wanna Boulder Weekly

stay?’” says Janosko. “And had they let me stay for the Afghanistan deployment I would have stayed, but they weren’t allowing Marines to extend. I got out on the first wave of the downsize.” And so began his rocky road to reintegration. That incident over Easter, he’s not afraid to say, turned Janosko’s life around. He’s still working through four years of probation, but he’s got a good relationship with his parole officer — he calls her his “state-appointed girlfriend.” As long as he keeps his nose clean, his only charge will be negligent discharge of a weapon. He no longer owns any guns. And it brought him to Veterans Helping Veterans Now, a nonprofit organization in Longmont that provides free services to vets, from support groups to legal aid to massage therapy. Janosko completed his 200 hours of court-mandated community service at the vet organization in around three months. These days, Janosko works full-time as a policy coordinator and program manager for VHVN through AmeriCorps’ Vista program. Janosko admits he’s completely stopped listening to the news. “There’s no point to it. It’s like, ‘Who could’ve believed this shit?’ I don’t know,” he pauses, his words heavy under the weight of sarcasm. “From the day we set up the Green Zone to the day we left the Green Zone, there’s still mortar rounds dropping — OK, let’s be real fucking honest, you know?” “I actually remember being [in Iraq] for the anniversary of the initial invasion,” he says. “The U.S. has been there for five years at that point. This is part of the stuff I struggle with to this day. At that point, you couldn’t be a rah-rah patriot. There’s enough shit on either side, whether it was conspiracy, whether it wasn’t. I remember walking into my battalion building and hearing another guy go, ‘Fuck! It cost us X billion dollars to fucking keep one convoy and infantry battalion in the country.’ And you just kind of …” He throws his hands up and shrugs. “The esprit d’cour and the morale for being there for each other, the mission at that point was just — I don’t know. It started to fall apart. The stuff we were doing, you know, it’s like putting a Band-Aid on a shotgun wound. Like here, here’s your Barney BandAid. Don’t let it bleed through.” “Iraq, whether you believe biblically or textbook or whatever, it’s where the cradle of civilization started. I mean the Euphrates and Tigris river valleys. And we’re gonna change something that’s been in place from the dawn of time? We’re going to go in and convert them? Boulder Weekly

How are we going to go in and create something that’s never been created and it’s gonna take 10 years? Full of shit. What’s gonna happen? What did we expect to happen?” He couldn’t say if he felt like his efforts were wasted in Iraq, but he does know one thing: “There are still days when I wish I’d never left the Marines.” Jason J. King, Sergeant E-5 U.S. Marine Corps, 2005-2010

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ly take on any challenge that was thrown at me. However, trying to convey that on a resumé was different story. No one cares about the things you were in charge of; they care about whether they need to train you for the job you are applying for. It sucked, but after seeing a management position from the inside I understood that I didn’t have the necessary knowledge to really effectively hold that title. It was a shot to my pride, but after a while I got

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weathering process. “This study provides another fascinating, and troubling, example of a cascading impact from climate warming as the rate of temperature-dependent chemical reactions accelerate in the environment, leaching metals into streams,” says U.S. Geological Survey director Marcia McNutt. “The same concentration of metals in the mountains that drew prospectors to the Rockies more than a century ago are now the source of toxic trace elements that are harming the environment as the planet warms.” Deep in the heart of the state’s wildest mountains, near Gothic, University of Maryland biologist David Inouye has also been tracking the effects of global warming. In the forests and meadows at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, he’s painstakingly counted wildflower blossoms for decades. Graceful glacier lilies, for example, are one of the first flowers to bloom when the snow melts, but the research shows they are blooming 17 days earlier than in the 1970s. The hummingbirds are also migrating a bit earlier, but perhaps not soon enough — by the time they arrive, many of the nectar-laden plants have withered away. Biologists calculate that if current trends continue, in two decades the hummingbirds will miss the first flowers entirely. Disruption of the delicate balance between flowering and the nesting cycle could make it difficult for the birds to sustain their populations at the northern end of their range. The hummingbirds only lay two eggs per year and have a relatively short lifespan of only two years. Within a few decades they could disappear from the Southern Rockies, researchers suggest in a new study based on the findings at the lab. Inouye started monitoring twometer-square study plots at the lab in 1973, counting all the flowers every other day, and documenting year-toyear changes about 100 species. “Plants that flower early in the season are changing a little faster, but all of the species out here are changing their phenology,” he says, adding that this year the glacier lilies won’t be producing any seeds because of the unusual winter and spring weather. The plants are long-lived, so it won’t wipe out the population, but it could be a long-term problem, especially if similar weather patterns prevail more frequently, he says. These rapid climate-driven changes in plant communities are having a cascading effect on other species throughout Rocky Mountain ecosystems. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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‘I Hate Hamlet’ is an inside joke, inside a reference, wrapped in an annotation by Josh Gross

here’s an unnamed but pervasive phenomenon widely known by literary agents, publishers and film and theater festival submissions agents that is best summarized as “early novel syndrome,” in which someone with a clear and focused talent for writing/acting/filmmaking turns their sights on the only story they yet know: the struggle to create whatever it is they’re trying to create. Books about writing. Films about filmmaking. Plays about stagecraft. It is largely in this space that that I Hate Hamlet, by playwright Paul Rudnick, currently showing at Colorado Shakespeare Festival through August 9, lives. The play is the story of Andrew Rally (played by Alex Esola), a TV actor known for his role on LA Medical, a E.R./Chicago Hope-style hospital drama. After the show ends, Rally accepts a role as Hamlet in a New York-based Shakespeare in the Park production of The Bard’s Danish play. Rally quickly begins panicking about the role and thanks to a seance performed by his real estate agent, summons the ghost of his apartment’s former inhabitant: famed Hamlet-portrayer — and famed drunk — John Barrymore (played by Sam Gregory) who decides to coach Rally through the role despite Rally’s attempts to bow out altogether. Hilarity ensues. see HAMLET Page 32

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It’s not hard to understand why I overtly sexist, just that their primary Hate Hamlet was chosen for this season purpose in the story was as a supporting at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. cast for the lead, as if they had no real It’s a theater-lover’s play, and as should drive or purpose of their own that was be obvious from the title, fits perfectly worth including. There was a small subinto the Shakespeare theme. And plot with the agent being sick, but it though it’s an obvious gimmick, Hamlet wasn’t really developed and felt tossed in is an excellent device for comedy, as more to weigh on Rally’s mind than to comedy requires some elements of give her character another dimension. shared understanding, something But what saves the show from a Shakespeare’s oeuvre and fan-culture meta-meltdown is clever writing and provides. strong comedic performances from the But for all the inside jokes that hit cast. like a Mike Tyson uppercut, the metaWhat Rudnick’s script lacks in complexity and depth it makes up for in ness of the script is as much hindrance zingers. as it is a help in a dramatic sense, as it And the best zingers and perforpushes the characters more toward fillmance come from Steven Cole Hughes ing roles in the story than it does in the role of the Gary Peter toward them being independent, fullyLefkowitz, Rally’’s “L.A.-guy” stereoimagined characters. type of a friend, The most obviwho is trying to lure ous struggle is with him away from the the female characON THE BILL: I Hate Hamlet Colorado Shakespeare Festival theater and back to ters, who exist mostUniversity Theater, University of what may well be ly as moons of Rally. Colorado Campus. Through Aug. the worst idea for a Rally’s agent, 9. $18-59. More information at www.ColoradoShakes.org. television program Lillian Troy (Martha ever — which, Harmon Pardee), being such a terrible doesn’t really have idea, pays a truly much need to be in obscene amount of money. the show, other than to fill some space “Shakespeare? Isn’t that like algebra by offering up a few punchlines based on stage?” he says, baffled by Rally’s off of the one-note joke of her being decision to play Hamlet. German. The role is pure sleazy agent/proAnd Rally’s girlfriend, Deirdre ducer stereotype, but the venom McDavey, played by Jamie Ann towards live theater in Hughes’ delivery Romero, is a stage version of a Disney princess, existing solely to find her true is so barbed, so precisely befuddled, that you just want to set him loose on a verlove, which she describes as some sort bal rampage to watch the carnage. of unrealistically romantic hero poet. Gregory is also fantastic in the role She’ll settle for nothing less. of Barrymore, a swaggering, self-imporConsequently, McDavey is a 28-yeartant drunk who wants to duel Rally old virgin, who will only consummate into submission. But much of the selfher years-long relationship with Rally importance of the character also feels if he nails Hamlet, which further present in the play as a whole, as it is maintains the vanilla patriarchal narrapiggybacking its narrative on greater tive of male sexual conquest as the works rather than making an effort to plot-driver. stand on its own. “She was just the one-dimensional, In the end, I Hate Hamlet is fun. unobtainable fuckbait that’s in nearly Not knee-slapping, gut-busting, overevery story about a guy,” my girlfriend the-top fun, but cleverly composed, shrugged on the way out, unfazed after tasteful frivolity fun. But it’s more for a lifetime of such storytelling. Granted, I Hate Hamlet premiered at fun those who love Hamlet and want to see Barrymore dish out some jusCSF in the midst of #YesAllWomen, tice to the haters of the world than it and shortly after a provocative opinion piece in The Washington Post linking the is for those who prefer their plays to be in the president’s English, as misogyny-motivated shooting rampage opposed to the Queen’s. Luckily, in Santa Barbara to male-centric storyShakespeare’s demographic — and telling devices in American culture, items that were weighing heavily on this much of theater’s as a whole — tends to skew towards thee, thou and yore, critic’s mind when I Hate Hamlet premore than yo, y’all and foshizzle. miered at CSF. But what was striking Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com isn’t that the female characters were 32 July 3, 2014

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illiam Boughton does not believe the concert hall should be a cathedral of high art. The first of three candidates for music director of the Colorado Music Festival to conduct at Chautauqua this summer, Boughton will lead two programs, with the chamber orchestra July 6 and the full orchestra July 10-11 (7:30 p.m. in the Chautauqua Auditorium; tickets https://tickets.chautauqua.com/Online/default.asp). And he is clear that he aspires to be no high priest at the altar of great music. “Concerts are supposed to be enjoyable things,” he says. “Music and religion are both foreboding places. That’s taken mostly from authentic old English our big downfall. We’ve erected these folk songs that were collected for a volwonderful buildings, but a lot of peoume published by John Playford in 1650. ple find them very intimidating.” On the other hand, “Sibelius doesn’t Not that he shies away from great fit into folk songs,” Boughton admits. music, but he aims to leaven his concerts But he adds, “it’s wistful, it’s humorous, with lighter pieces as well. it’s light-hearted, so there’s that over“I try not to do programs that are arching theme of folk song-like lightness heavy in content throughout,” he says. to the whole program.” “Otherwise one goes away soaking wet Then he quickly qualifies the characand exhausted.” terization of the whole program: “The Boughton builds his programs by last of the Britten songs has a kind of finding pieces that fit an overarching profundity to it. It was his last orchestral theme, and then taking the audience on work. It was written two years before he a journey through the music — “like a died, and the work is imbued with a kind chef does creating a four- or five-course of longing and a recognition that he was meal,” he says. going to be dying.” For his visit to the CMF, Boughton The full orchestra program on July proposed three programs for each orches- 10 and 11 is more serious overall. The tra, and the major works are CMF selected Sibelius’ Violin ON THE BILL: one from each Concerto, with Colorado Music Festival William Boughton, conductor set of three. For the violinist Chamber Orchestra: Sunday, July 6 the July 6 conChad Hoopes Symphony Orchestra: cert, the program already making a Thursday & Friday, June 10 & 11 7:30 p.m., Chautauqua Auditorium features the Suite return to CMF at www.comusic.org/music-director-search/ on English the age of 19; and Tunes “A time Edward Elgar’s there was” by Enigma Benjamin Britten; the “Humoresque” for Variations. violin and orchestra by Jean Sibelius, with Not wanting to leave us all “soaking Joseph Meyer, CMF associate concertwet and exhausted,” however, Boughton master, as soloist; and the “Mother Goose has included some lighter works. Calling Suite” by Maurice Ravel. the program “Dancing with Friends,” he “The overriding theme is folk tales chose a Brahms Hungarian Dance, the and moral stories,” Boughton says. Waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping That theme is pretty clear with Beauty and ballet music from Gounod’s Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite.” Based on Faust to fill out the evening. Perrault’s familiar collection of old The program is geographically diverse, French children’s stories, it includes with composers from Finland, England, movements titled “The Pavanne of France, Germany and Russia. This is interSleeping Beauty” and “Conversation of esting, because there has been a tendency Beauty and the Beast.” Britten’s suite is for record labels and broadcasters to

William Boughton, first of three candidates for music director for the Colorado Music Festival

pigeonhole Boughton as a specialist in the music of his native country. When he started his career, he says, “there were very, very few recordings of English music. [It] was a niche market, and that’s what I’ve been kind of branded because of the recordings. But my tastes are extremely catholic, and my love of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, is as great as my love of English music.” Boughton is now adding American music to his list. He has been living in the U.S. as conductor of the New Haven Symphony for the past six years and has made it a point to work with American composers. One of those has been Chris Brubeck, who has appeared at CMF and will be the New Haven Symphony’s artist-in-residence next year. “It has been a fantastic journey for me to learn about American music,” he says. “That has broadened my repertoire. Music directors are not curators of museum pieces. It’s a living art form. And if we don’t foster composers and young artists, then there is no future. They are the life blood of our art form.” Looking forward to his appearance at CMF, Boughton is especially happy about the Chautauqua Auditorium and the fact that it is not one of those highart cathedrals. “It’s not your typical concert hall,” he says. “There is no backstage, and it breaks down all sorts of barriers. We’re all there for one purpose: the experience of great music, whatever the genre is.” For more of Peter Alexander’s conversation with William Boughton, visit his blog at http://sharpsandflatirons.com Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

Voices of a generation The Revellie 3 sing history by Josh Gross

enver singer Marnie Ward’s “Sweethearts of the Armed Forces But as much as The Andrews grandfather fought in Radio Service,” and were reputed to Sisters mean to American vets, The World War II. Her father pick a trio of serviceman at random to Revellie 3 has discovered they mean fought in Vietnam. She join them for dinner at every perforeven more to Europeans. The band wasn’t a military kid per se, mance. recently returned from France, where it but that family history did instill in In many ways that makes The performed for the 70th anniversary of Ward an appreciation for the sacrifices Reveille 3 transcend simple entertainthe liberation of Sainte-Mère-Église by service members make. ment and become something closer to the soldiers that landed on D-Day. That was why she volunteered to oral historians or cultural memory More than 20,000 were in attendance, take part in a two-week-long event keepers, especially for older vets. including more Andrews Sisters tribute organized by the Rocky Mountain “We get told, ‘The last time I heard acts. And they all ate it up. USO: Knitting for Our Troops. that song was when I was on a subma“It’s not to say that we don’t get Originally, Ward that reaction here, had just planned to Courtesy of The Revellie 3 but it’s not on the wield a pair of neescale,” says Ward. dles. But one of the “When you have event’s organizers fought a war on knew of her backyour own land, ground in musical and your language theater and asked and your culture is Ward to take part in being threatened a performance to to be taken away serve as the climax from you, the hisfor the knitathon. tory is taught difHer assignment? ferent.” Fifteen minutes of The one outlier material from some for The Revellie of the most iconic 3’s military supperformers in port is that it American culture: hasn’t performed An Andrews Sisters tribute for a troop benefit five years ago has turned into a fullThe Andrews for U.S. troops in time job for The Revellie 3. Sisters. the Middle East, Ward recruited largely because it requires too much of a time commitfellow vocalists Christine Herivel and rine that got hit up the rear end,’ or ‘I ment for the band to logistically make Amy Siebert and began rehearsing. danced with my girlfriend to that song the trip. But it performs frequently for Before they even reached the perforbefore I was deployed,’” says Ward. military functions domestically. mance, the trio knew it wasn’t going to Because of that role, the band perIn addition to the straight musical be a one-time thing; that they would forms nearly as often in atypical venues keep going with the act. like retirement homes as it does on fes- performances, The Revellie 3 also wrap the songs of The Andrews Sisters into Now, five years later, The Revellie 3 tival stages. And Ward says those gigs musical theater performances, such as is a full-time job for Ward, Herivel and are some of the most affecting. the performance it has scheduled at Siebert, who perform upwards of 70 “There’s times when we’ve done Molly Supports the Troops, happening times a year, domestically and abroad. shows in memory care units when we And everywhere they play, the songs don’t get applause because it can’t physi- at Denver’s historic Molly Brown House on Sunday, July 20. are intrinsically intertwined with milically happen, or because there isn’t that But if you can’t wait that long, The tary history. mental connection anymore,” says Ward. Revellie 3 will be performing at The “It really told the stories of what “But there’s a tension that replaces it Highlands Ranch Fourth of July celewas happening pre-[WWII], during that you can tell that listeners have and bration in Civic Green Park, from the war and after the war,” says Ward. we can feel. It’s a very different feel 7-9:30 p.m. “When you talk to people, you can see from there than the 1940s Ball.” And if you’ve served, don’t be shy in their eyes, it is literally the There have even been times when about talking to them after the show. soundtrack to their generation. As a the performance has brought seniors The Revellie 3 doesn’t go quite as far generation, we haven’t seen music tie us back from the mental brink, like the as The Andrews Sisters and pick a together in the same way since then.” woman at a memory care clinic that couple of fellas to join them at dinner, Though there’s an obvious connecdoctors told Ward no longer spoke or but Ward is happy to chat. tion with songs like “Boogie Woogie sat up straight, but who sang along “I like to hear the stories of what Bugle Boy of Company B,” the ties with every word. between The Andrews Sisters and the “They said this woman doesn’t usu- The Andrews Sisters have meant to vetarans,” she says. “I didn’t suspect it at military are much deeper. The megaally have conversations,” Ward says. the beginning, that connection. But we selling swing-era vocal act did so many “For her to have physical posturing, to have only been warmly welcomed.” USO performances and promotions for have her mouthing the words along Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com war bonds they were officially dubbed with us, that’s really powerful.”

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Little known fact: Umphrey’s McGee don’t actually have torsos.

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oel Cummins admits that of sludge metal and dirty blues. One of Umphrey’s McGee is not a Cummins’ favorites is the groovy rock band whose sound can be track “Hourglass.” described in an easy to digest, “We had been playing that one live cookie-cutter fashion. for a couple years, but didn’t quite have “One of the double-edged swords of the energy perfect yet,” he says. “Then Umphrey’s McGee is that we can we went into the studio and refined it, become many things,” explains the key- let the vocal arrangement take over a boardist and sometimes vocalist, “but bit in the chorus, added some synths, it’s sometimes hard to pin down exactly and so forth. We nearly stopped playing who we are.” it for the past year just because we In an attempt to clear things up a wanted people to experience it on the bit — both for themselves and their album and hear it live knowing it from fans — they began work on their justthat context.” released album Similar Skin with an aim Make no mistake, the Umphrey’s to zero in on one particular sound so McGee concert experience is a big that, at least for one deal. They are known record, it would be for their energetic live ON THE BILL: Umphrey’s easy for them to shows, epic jams and McGee, doors at 8 p.m. Friday, explain their sound electric stage presJuly 4, the Boulder Theater, 2032 to others. ence, so fans will be 14th St., Boulder, www.bouldertheater.com and doors at 6 “With Similar in for a treat when p.m., Saturday, July 5, at Red Skin, we approached the band plays Red Rocks Amphitheatre, www.tickthe album as a versaRocks on Saturday, etmaster.com. tile but focused rock July 5 as well as a record,” Cummins long sold-out show at says. “We’re known for the Boulder Theater hitting many different musical areas sty- on Friday, July 4. But when you add in listically, so we looked at this as an the prospect of hearing some of the opportunity to focus on one of those.” new tunes from a rock-centric record And Cummins is not kidding when like Skin, the experience will undoubthe says this album leans heavily in the edly end up being something new for rock and roll direction. While there are concertgoers. After all, if the band melodic moments, like the Police-esque doesn’t believe in doing the same thing opener “The Linear,” songs like “Cut over and over again in the studio, it the Cable” are balls-to-the-wall rockers stands to reason that the same would be that teem with chugging, gritty guitar true of their live shows. riffs. The space rock title track will have “I’m not sure how we’ll try to define you air-guitaring in no time flat, and the next album we put out, but I know get ready for something different on it will be different than Similar Skin,” “Hindsight” as it plays like a mash-up Cummins says. “One of the things I

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loved most about my favorite bands as a kid — Led Zeppelin, U2, Queen, The Beatles — is they all went through different periods where the sound of the band evolved. We don’t want to keep making Anchor Drops or Safety in Numbers or even Mantis. Similar Skin will stand on its own as a time piece and hopefully the next album will do the same for us.” That never-ending urge to evolve, to push their own creative boundaries, to do the unexpected, is a large reason why the band’s fan base has followed them through thick and thin for well over a decade now. Sticking to their guns and making the decisions they feel are best — even if they seem odd to others — is what makes this band so noteworthy. Take their approach to touring, for example. “The music is hugely important to us, but for us to keep doing what we’re doing, we have to enjoy being around each other on the road,” says Cummins. “So we typically tour a few weeks in a row, doing four shows a week, and then everyone goes home for a few days. That consistency helps keep the band tight musically while also allowing us to be at home with our families. It might not be the most efficient way to tour, but it’s the best bet to keep the band together for as long as possible. And that’s what we intend to do.” They might not always be an easy band to describe, but as long as they are comfortable in their own skin then that won’t matter. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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David Potter. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Mark Viator & Susan Maxey. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Matt Otis. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Fluffers. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Monte Selbe and Larry Clyman. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Blair Crimmins & the Hookers. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Boulder Swing Collective. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The CBD’s. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-3961898. Craig Satterfield. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-

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Swing-fingers Thursday, July 3: Blair Crimmins and The Hookers. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl Street, Boulder.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 5 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303442-4130. Ron S. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Strange Byrds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. see EVENTS Page 42

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Jazz and coffeehouses have been going together since as long as they’ve both been around, and it’s a genre that’s no stranger to Boulder’s Laughing Goat Coffeehouse. But this week, things are gonna get a heckuva lot peppier, with the ragtime and swing stylings of Blair Crimmins and The Hookers, whose peppy toe-tappers come courtesy of what is not technically “a big band,” but certainly will fill the Laughing Goat stage. The band is touring in support of its latest album, Sing-a-Longs.

Wednesday, July 9: Pearl Street Mile in Downtown Boulder. 6:30 p.m. 1942 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. Courtesy of The Pearl Street Mile Hey Boulder, you like community events with athletic themes doncha? Sure you do. So bring your family and friends on downtown to compete in a good ol’ fashioned footrace: The Pearl Street Mile. The annual event will include The Downtown Business Wave, which is reserved for employees of downtown Boulder businesses competing in teams of three for bragging rights as the fastest company in downtown Boulder. Immediately following the race, Bands on the Bricks will be hosting live music and a beer garden for competitors to enjoy.

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MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 13. Project for a Park Library — Artist Jorge Mendez Blake. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through July 13.

Young Artists at Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122.Through Aug. 16.

Unbound: Altered Environments — Artists ChrisOpenings will be on display at The Dairy tina Battle, Justin Center for the Arts through through Beard, Christine July 9th. Buchsbaum, Sonja Hinrichsen, Patrick Loehr, Loretta Young-Gautier. Theater Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Eggshell Mosaics — Artist Dorette Carlson. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Through Aug. 31. Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Aug. 1. Unbound: Digital Creations — Artists Chris Coleman, Michael Salter, Milton Croissant III, Photography — Artist Richard Wagner. ComBryan Leister, Alex McLeod. Upper Gallery, munity Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Aug. 1. Through Aug. 31. Photography and Vision. Denver Art Museum, Unbound: Five Installations — Artists Nicole 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865Banowetz, Katie Caron, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Rian 5000. Through Jan. 25, 2015. Kerrane, Laleh Mehran. Main Gallery, Arvada First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 WadDenver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art sworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, Aug. 31. 720-865-5000. Through March 22, 2015. Unbound: Sculpture in the Fields — Various The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 artists. Outdoor Gallery, Arvada Center for the — by various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., ArW. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. vada, 720-898-7255. Through Sept. 30, 2015. Through Aug. 31. Science, Myth and Lore of Monarch ButDrawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Deterflies — Stephanie Hilvitz. McMahon Gallery, sign Archives — by various artists. Denver Art Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Parkway, Denver, Boulder, 303-440-7286. Through July 9. 720-865-5000. Through January 18, 2015. Openings — Artist Helen Brader. In-Focus GalBubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. lery, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303Boulder, 303-440-7286. Through July 9. 298-7554. Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through July 13.

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Thunder the Radar. 6 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131. Timber. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Friday, July 4 Music Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209. Captain Quirk and The Cosmic Rangers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Chris Ramey. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Springdale Quartet. 3 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4427771. Trio Soled de Mexico. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Twang-Fest and Barbeque. 12 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Watersong. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Weston Smith & Von Stomper. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

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David Williams & the Gypsy Jazz Tricksters. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303.

Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

First Friday Contact Improvisation Jam. 7:30 p.m. Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St., Boulder, 303440-YOGA.

Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614. Mike Finders. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Smack Thompson. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303Bela Fleck & Brooklyn Rider String Quartet. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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Eric Scott Sutherland. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303. Saturday, July 5 Jay Alm. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Keith Martin Smith & Jun Po Dennis Kelly Roshi will be signing and talking about their book The Heart of Zen at the Boulder Book Store on Tuesday, July 8th.

Sunday, July 6 Tattered Cover Film Series: WR Mysteries of the Organism. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Tuesday, July 8 Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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Wednesday, July 9 The Belief in Angels — by J. Dylan Yates. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Active Minds Lecture: Wildfires. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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The Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Jaka. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Fourth of July happenings Parades America is like Right Said Fred: too sexy for its shirt. And the Fourth is when it does its little turn on the catwalk. Here’s where you can park your tookus and catch the action. From 10 a.m. to noon, the chitlins and their beleagured pet adults can take part in decorating and then executing a bike parade at The Municipal Building lawn in Boulder. There will also be crafts, vendors and music. Niwot will get the action going early at 7:30 a.m. with breakfast-time celebrations at Cottonwood Square, but the

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parade won’t get going until 11 a.m., when it will move along Niwot Road along Second Avenue.

Lafayette will also be hosting a festival at Waneka Lake Park from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Attendees can enjoy a variety of food and beverages in addition to a number of kid’s activities, free concert by Deja Blue dance band and a free shuttle service from Flatirons Community Church to the east park entrance.

Boulder will be hosting Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast at 8 p.m. on Folsom Field. In addition to the boom-booms, the Independence Day Blast will include performances from The Mighty Twisters, The Mad Hops jump-rope team and the ever-infamous Ralphie the Buffalo. Fireworks will be set off at approximately 9:40 p.m.

Firestone is having a parade at 10 a.m., which will be followed by performances throughout the day at Miners Park. Fort Collins is parading up and down Mountain Avenue starting at 10 a.m. Broomfield will be doing an evening bike parade at Broomfield County Commons Park at 9:30 p.m. There will also be pony rides, and there is alleged to be free cupcakes, an offer so good that it seems like a lie.

Races Earn Your Independence in a 5K race to be held at the Boulder Reservoir. But it’s a heckuva lot more. There will also be volleyball tournaments, food vendors, a live performance from ‘80s cover band The Goonies, and water sports throughout

Boulder will also be hosting a special fireworks hike on Flagstaff Mountain starting at 7 p.m. It will hike west on the Boulder Creek Path and View Point Trail in order to get a bird’s eye view of the show.

the course of the day. Four On the Fourth will be a 4K hosted by Avery Brewing Company. Participants will be running on a flat, fast course in the Flatiron Business Park with a breakfast by Front Range Catering and Avery beer, for those of age, to follow. Louisville will be hosting their Let Freedom Run 5K, 10K and Kids Run, which will be beginning at 6:30 p.m. Participants receive a free t-shirt and a chance to win from a variety of great prizes. Get more details and registration information for all these races on www. runnningintheusa.com.

EVENTS from Page 43 Stacey Joy. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Weekend Medicine. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. WhoDo’s. 7:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Wild Road band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Yawpers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events Geology and Landforms of Hall Ranch. 6:30 p.m. Hall Ranch Open Space. Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460.

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Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Wildflowers of Caribou Ranch. 9 a.m. Caribou Ranch Open Space.

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Antonio Lopez. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

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Billy From Philly: Sunday Funday. 2 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

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Andrew Duhon. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Billy Shaddox. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues & BBQ with Cary Morin. 2 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Britten, Sibelius and Ravel. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282. Chris Smith. 3 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Dukes of Winter. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jack Hadley duo. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Jeff and Paige. 4:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Jeff Brinkman. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

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New Spell. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Bluegrass Pick with Timber. 5 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Penny & Sparrow. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

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Picnic on the Plaza with CMA Jazz. 12 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1225.

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French Speaking Table. 6:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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Geeks Who Drink Trivia. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Introduction to DSLR Video. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Jess’s Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Teen Film Nexus: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition,

Andrew Wynne. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Chinese Puzzle. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826,.

Army 101st Dixieland Band. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Let’s Talk Chickens. 1 p.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway 66, Longmont.

Bands on the Bricks with JV3. 5:30 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Billy From Philly. 5 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Silent Film: It. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Ed Breazeale Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Wild Animal Sanctuary. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, July 7 Music The Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Scott Carpenter Park, 30th & Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-517-1323. The Budos Band. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Prospect Eats: The Saints. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. Thurston Group. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Events Arabic Literature Discussion Group-in translation to English. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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film Inside the hearts and minds of Restrepo ‘Korengal’ returns to the Valley of Death by Michael J. Casey

rom May 2007 to July 2008, directors Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington were embedded in the Korengal Valley to document U.S. troops stationed at the base, Restrepo. Their 2010 documentary, Restrepo, was a breathtaking portrayal of what war feels like, and it earned Junger and Hetherington an Oscar nomination for their efforts. Now, without any studio or broadcast backing, Junger — Hetherington died covering the conflict in Libya in 2011 — returns to Restrepo’s unused footage and crafts a worthy companion piece, Korengal, which opens at the Chez Artiste in Denver on July 4. As an added bonus, a member of Battle Company, Jason Mace, will host a Q&A on Saturday, July 5, following the 7 p.m. showing. Restrepo is located in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, home to two major trafficking routes used by the Taliban.

Captain Dan Kearney explains in the film’s promo materials that, “You’re not in the Korengal to go hunt the bad guys, you’re in the Korengal so the bad guys

come to you and you kill them.” And come they do. The soldiers of Restrepo take fire every single day of the year. Forty-two American servicemen, as well as many Afghan soldiers, have died in that valley, earning it the nickname “The Valley of Death.” Fittingly, the base Restrepo was named after one of the fallen, Juan Restrepo. While Restrepo was a documentary about a war, Korengal is the oral history

CHINESE PUZZLE A 40-year-old father’s life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can’t bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well, and also fathers a child for his lesbian friends, marries a Chinese woman for a green card and falls back in love with an old flame. Starring Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater CITIZEN KOCH This crowdfunded documentary, which follows the money behind the rise of the Tea Party, almost didn’t get made when public television officials pulled $150,000 in funds they had committed. They were afraid to lose the financial backing of major PBS donor David Koch. It became its own example of the issue it covered: how difficult it can be to stand up to political money in American “democracy.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater 46 July 3, 2014

of those who fought that war. There is Specialist Kyle Steiner, who survived a bullet striking his helmet, and then recognized and celebrated his brush with death with tattoos of bullets carried by angel wings on his chest. Another soldier, Sergeant Brendan O’Byrne, is far too somber to celebrate. He knows that his actions have condemned him to Hell, and the agony he feels is the knowledge that he did this to himself. People tell him, “You did what you had to do,” but O’Byrne bristles at the implication. “I didn’t have to go in the Army. I didn’t have to become airborne infantry, I didn’t have to do any of that. But I did. [...] Is that what God’s gonna say? ‘You did what you had to do.’ Punch you on the shoulder and say, ‘Welcome to Heaven’? I don’t think so.” The French filmmaker and critic François Truffaut famously stated that it was impossible to make an anti-war film, “for to show something is to ennoble it.” Junger and his editor, Michael

Levine, smartly omit any major battle footage but include snippets from skirmishes. These moments, and how the soldiers react during battle, play in direct contrast to the interview footage that was taken post-deployment. With guns in their hands, they laugh, swear and taunt fate. In the interviews, they show remorse, guilt, shame and bafflement. Korengal is neither pro-war nor anti-war. If Junger has a political opinion about this war, he has kept it to himself. Instead, Korengal shows the tortuous connection between the warrior and the war they fight. “I’m not doing this for recognition from my country,” Specialist Sterling Jones says. “I’m not doing this so that somebody goes, ‘Wow. Those guys are really patriotic. Those guys are really brave.’ Truthfully, I could give a shit what anybody thinks, except for those guys to my left and my right. ’Cause that’s what it’s about. Those guys are what it’s about.” Those guys are what Korengal is about. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Silent film starring Clara Bow and featuring live musical accompaniment by Hank Troy, piano. Clara Bow plays a shop girl named Betty Lou who has designs on Cyrus Waltham, the handsome owner of the department store where she works. Waltham, though, doesn’t even know Betty Lou is around. In hopes of attracting Waltham’s attention, she accepts a date with his best friend under the condition that they dine at the Ritz, where Waltham also has a dinner date. Her plan works. In no time she and Waltham contemplate marriage. The romance cools when a newspaper reporter mistakenly writes a story depicting Betty Lou as an unwed mother. It (1925) turned Clara Bow from a movie star into a legend. The term “it girl” has since entered the cultural lexicon. The picture was considered lost for many years, but a nitrate-copy was found in Prague in the 1960s. In 2001, It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. It broke box office records and critics praised its star as “a joy to behold.”

Follow six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet and pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from more than 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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WE ARE THE BEST In this adaptation of the graphic novel, three young misfits growing up in early ’80s Stockholm decide to form a punk band — despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead. This fun movie will reach audiences of all ages and persuasions. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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do not have a uterus. If I understand biology, I never will. So the issue of abortion has remained at arm’s length from me. This isn’t to say I have no empathy or opinion regarding America’s hottest of hot button issues, only that I realize it’s located under the heading “women’s health” for a reason. As Roger Ebert famously said, “Movies are like a machine that generates empathy.” If Rog were still here, he’d have applied that quotation himself to Obvious Child. Writer/director Gillian Robespierre’s first film is billed as a comedy. It isn’t. It’s a thoughtful, genuine drama that features a very funny woman. That woman is Jenny Slate, whose brief stints on SNL and Parks and Recreation merely flashed talent that is mined for gold here. Slate’s character, Donna, is perhaps the most fully realized female character in memory. She’s a stand-up comedienne who opens the film by talking about vaginal residue on her underpants. It’s a warning shot as if to say “we’re not doing the sanitized version of this shit.” Donna is a woman without artifice, comfortable telling rooms full of strangers about her flatulence. When her boyfriend, Ryan (Paul Briganti), dumps her, Donna goes on a bender that includes the most uncomfortable stand-up routine not performed by a former Seinfeld cast member. Then she meets Max ( Jake Lacy), a wide-grinning, genuinely nice guy. In one of the more adorable cinematic one-night stands, the pair does as much silly dancing as fornicating. Unfortunately, before they can settle in to anything real, Donna is able to Boulder Weekly

legally wear a “baby on board” necklace. What’s amazing about Obvious Child is there’s never a question about Donna’s choice. She makes her decision to terminate the pregnancy, and her friends and family unanimously support her. The question Donna struggles with isn’t whether or not to let Max weigh in, it’s whether or not to tell him what she has decided she is doing. Seeing a woman on screen as an independent agent of action is so rare we make up “bare-minimum” feminist tests to see if a movie is at least non-misogynistic. To say that Obvious Child is in rarified air is a Bechtel-ian understatement. Slate is ridiculous. Bouncing from genuine torment to quippy witticisms, she is as real a fake woman as has ever been filmed. Sadly, the film kinda wobbles around her. The supporting cast, including Gabby Hoffman as her friend Nellie, is fairly useless. Weirder still is a bizarre sequence with David Cross that holds no plot or character value. But Robespierre gains control about halfway through, and once she does, she doesn’t let go. Those complaints take a backseat to Slate’s work and Robespierre’s brazen, much needed commentary. I’ve seen online ads boasting Obvious Child as the “funniest abortion comedy” ever made, they stress the humor as if to soften the blow. But this content shouldn’t be undersold. So let me say it: Obvious Child is one of the most empathyinducing, genuine films featuring a cast of women tackling a women’s issue ever made. Period. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen the Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy opened in 1989, no one was really making cheese in Colorado, according to John Scaggs, the dairy’s director of sales and marketing. “Specialty food was in the prenatal stages in Colorado,” Scaggs says. What started out as one simple, fresh chevre sold at farmers’ markets, developed into cheeses being herbcoated, marinated and smoked, winning national attention by snagging awards with the American Cheese Society. Queso de Mano, “A Cheese Named Sue,” Red Cloud and Green Chile Jack are some of the recent winners. Haystack Mountain went on to form a partnership with Colorado Correctional Industries. The inmates run the dairy farm that produces the milk for Haystack’s cheeses. With the program, all of the money stays in the state, plus it equips released inmates with a plethora of job skills, including engineering and animal care. The mastermind behind the cheese itself is Jackie Chang. Amongst others, she’s responsible for Alpine Wall Street Gold (named after the mining area just west of Boulder), which has a deep

Got a craving for chevre? A hankering for havarti? A longing for limburger? You can make your cheese and eat it too by taking a cheese-making class at one of Boulder’s local farms.

“Her passion and integrity really resonated with me.” But the concept of being passionate about farming and cheesemaking wasn’t isolated to Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy. Kate Johnson’s long-time passion and dream of living on a farm lead to the leap of moving her family from the suburbs to a five-acre farm in Boulder County, known as Briar Gate Farm. Her first dairy goat, a Nubian doe named Skittles, is what inspired her to start making cheese six years ago. She entered cheeses at the Boulder County Fair and won a champion ribbon with for a chevre with kalamata olives. After one of the judges asked Johnson to teach her how make the Connect with usgroup to the cheese, she invited a small house. “Word got out and pretty soon others were asking me to teach, and it just sort of took off,” Johnson says. She took a more advanced cheese Connect with us making course with Vermont cheesemakers and continues to teach cheese is evident in Bufala Soldier, a making classes at the Boulder County Camembert style cheese with water Fairgrounds, The Cheese Importers in buffalo cream, milk from Aurora Longmont, Mary’s Market & Deli in Organic Dairy and goat milk. “She’s one of the main reasons why see CHEESY Page 50 I wanted to work here,” Scaggs says.

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meaty flavor after being aged for one year. Scaggs says with Chang’s talent, Haystack Mountain Dairy will continue to expand, “break the mold” and diversify what they are offering, a desire that

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Hygiene, for the City of Longmont at the Rec Center and Izaak Walton Clubhouse, and private classes in homes. She makes all types of soft cheeses including mozzarella, ricotta, burrata, brie, camembert and gorgonzola. Teaching classes on making hard cheeses is one of Johnson’s favorites, since people assume it’s very difficult, she says. Students learn how to wax a wheel of cheese and to make a “no-cost” cheese press. They also learn which milks work best for which cheeses, where to get good milks locally and how to make great cheese with little equipment. “Making cheese is one of those things that is sort of mysterious, and people get so excited when they learn how easy and accessible it can actually be,” Johnson says. Moving forward, she is currently raising money for The Art of Cheese, a brick-and-mortar location for all of this cheese-making goodness. In addition to the classes, there will be cheese-making kits, artistic cheeserelated items made by Johnson or local artists such as cheese plates, trays, knives, goat milk soaps and possibly other Colorado-made cheeses. She’ll also be producing specialty in-house

cheeses for the upcoming Modena Wine Café in Longmont. Johnson was not the only one who discovered people didn’t only want to eat cheese, but they also wanted to learn how to make it. The Lyons Farmette came to be when Betsy Burton and her husband Mike bought the four-acre farm that is now a Boulder County gem for farm dinners and beautiful outdoor events. When Burton realized that people wanted to learn how to keep bees, maintain a garden and other farm-life tasks, a variety of classes developed, including classes on how to make cheese. Since the goats were already there, it only seemed natural to her. “I thought it would be cool to milk the goats and start making cheese,” Burton says. Burton turned to Hilary Van Dusen, an “amazing cheese instructor” by Burton’s regards. Van Dusen teaches the cheese making classes from early spring until fall a few times per year. The beginner class usually draws home cooks and those simply interested in the “farm” lifestyle. Burton says that the classes are well-received, and everyone seems to have a great time making cheeses, including ricotta and mozzarella. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Fact: The World Cup is better with snacks. Second fact: The snacks at your weird cousin’s house that has cable are a little lackluster. Here are some restaurants in Boulder that can help you out. Aji Latin American Restaurant: It’s Happy Hour all day if you’re wearing your team’s colors! Food and drink specials are available during matches, like the Aji Famous Tacos (duck, tilapia, carne, or veggie for $2), Pao de Queijo (gluten-free Brazilian cheese In the same way the Super Bowl is actually about nachos, bread & adobo agave glaze the World Cup is actually more about tacos than it is socfor $2), and the national cockcer. tail of Brazil, Caipirinha most likely to hear someone curse a goalie in (Cachaca, Lime, sugar for $5). fluent Portuguese. Pica’s Mexican Taqueria: Mexican beers Conor O’Neill’s: The official Colorado (Dos Equis, Negra Modelo, Corona, etc.) are Rapids bar and home pub of the American all $2 during matches and Pica’s Margaritas Outlaws — the official U.S. men’s soccer supare $4. For morning matches, breakfast tacos, port club — will serve breakfast for early mornburritos and chilaquiles will be served. A raffle ing matches, with happy hour specials availto win the 2014 World Cup Brazuca Ball during able for afternoon games starting at 3 p.m. every match will benefit Longmont’s Look out for free giveaways sponsored by Intercambio. Budweiser and FIFA and the chance to win World Famous Dark Horse Bar & Grill: Enjoy World Famous Dark Horse’s world famous burg- tickets on July 13 for the Manchester United vs. ers with $2.75 pints of Budweiser or Bud Light for AS Roma game at Sports Authority Field. — Maalikah Hartley every soccer match. Fate Brewing Company: Brazilian beers ST JULIEN CHANNELS ST. LAWRENCE FOR Xingu (black lager, $7/10 oz.) and Palma Louca (pale ale $5/12 oz.) from brewery INDEPENDENCE DAY FEMSA Cerveja Brasil, are now on draft in The St Julien Hotel will host a BBQ buffet on honor of the World Cup! Fate will open at 10 their backyard terrace for America’s b-day. a.m. for early morning matches with its full The “Flatiron BBQ” is $24.95/person (not includmenu and daily food specials. ing tax, tip or beverage) and will go from Bohemian Biergarten: The Biergarten is 6-8:30 p.m. Funk band Honeycomb will perequipped with lots of big screen TVs and is sellform from 6-9 p.m. Check out the tantalizing ing liter beers for happy hour prices during menu at www.stjulien.com. Tickets will be sold matches. It’s also the place in Boulder you’re

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SUMMER TIKI ROAST AT OAK AT FOURTEENTH An island-inspired five course meal paired with refreshing rum cocktails will cure your coastal nostalgia blues. On July 7 starting at 6 p.m., OAK at fourteenth on 1400 Pearl St. will serve up jerk chicken, roasted plantains, and a luau style pork roast accompanied with Jamaican lagers and some rum daiquiris. Coconut sorbet with mango gelee will top off the community style dinner. Price is $75 not including tax or gratuity. To make reservations call 303-4443622. — Maalikah Hartley

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Sad there isn’t an Alfalfa’s in East Boulder where you can pick up your organic groceries or get a tasty lunch? Fret no more; the Colorado grocery store opened its second location — with hot and cold food bars and a slightly smaller grocery selection — on June 27 at 785 E. South Boulder Road. Hours are 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. — Maalikah Hartley

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When the International House of Pancakes opened its first restaurant back in 1958 in a suburb of Los Angeles, the price of a short-stack was $0.60. Today it is $5.39. But on Tuesday, July 8 you can get the famous original buttermilk pancakes for $0.56 to celebrate the franchise’s 56th birthday. Celebrate the Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity and Summer Signature Pancake restaurant other than when you are making a pit stop on the road. — Maalikah Hartley Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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t would be a lie to call Le Peep “Boulder’s bestkept secret.” For one, the diner is a chain with dozens of locations, and it’s been in Boulder for 30 years or so. The chain has been around even longer. Then there’s the fact that it’s got a reasonable level of bustle in a central location. But the secret elements come in that the Boulder outlet reportedly operates independently (it even has its own website), thereby elevating the quality of its chow from Denny’s to delightful, and that its location, while central, isn’t exactly on a parade route, so much as the disguised interior of the fortress-like shopping center that sits between Arapahoe and Canyon streets at Folsom, and is anchored by McGuckin’s. Le Peep If you’re not looking for 2525 Arapahoe Ave., it, or a parking place, Boulder, 303-444-5119 you’re not likely to happen upon Le Peep. And that’s a shame, as what it lacks in visibility it makes up for across the board, including its blatant and pervasive affordability. The highest priced items on the menu require the knavely sum of $10.99 and the lunch menu tops out at $9.99. And while low prices in central Boulder is certainly a golden opportunity to slum it up a bit, Le Peep ain’t having it. My Jack Beni had a tiny mountain of shaved ham atop an English muffin crusted with parmesan and

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covered up with poached eggs, mozzarella, tomato, arugula and a fine hollandaise. On the side was a sizeable helping of nicely roasted potatoes. It took only a single bite of my brunching companion’s “spinach power” omelet ($9.39, with spinach, mushrooms, bacon, shredded parmesan and hollandaise) before she turned and said outright: “Can this be our new favorite place?” A cheese blintz we ordered came with fresh blueberries as well as blueberry compote. The other breakfast offerings included varieties of crepes, waffles and pancakes, as well as skillets and the requisite Colorado “south of the border” section. What innovation the menu contained was more in the area of small prep details like the parmesan crusted bread than it was in selections as a whole. The most unusual item on the menu was a pan-fried rainbow

trout with eggs. Lunch is primarily simple sandwiches and salads. But those details count. A lot. And they add up. Like how the menu also features a number of highlighted gluten-free items, and when I asked my dining companion which fruit she was allergic to so we could narrow our choice of compote, the server then took the added step of reporting that conversation back to the kitchen to be sure that her plate was free of all possible throat-irritants as a whole. That’s the sort of attention to detail that pays off. In a town full of foodie delights, I’m not going to say Le Peep is the best brunch in Boulder. But it’s certainly one of the best that you can afford to go to regularly without being a member of the 6 to 13 percent. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ast year, thirsty Americans enjoyed almost 9.5 million barrels of beer. That’s a lot of beer! Every time one of them cracked a can or popped the top on their favorite brewski, they unknowingly paid homage to the side effects of Humulus lupulus. The amount of bitterness, aroma, and, believe it or not, antibacterial properties in most beers is directly linked to this hardy plant. Wondering what this magic botanical is? It’s hops. Anyone that has visited the beer aisle of a liquor store in the last five years won’t be surprised that Colorado is a leader in beer production. With Coors, Budweiser, and over 200 craft breweries located here, the demand for hops is high, and hop farms are multiplying like bunnies across the state to help meet this demand. “What we are growing on our farm is a tiny fraction of the amount of hops we use each year at Oscar Blues,” says Geoff Hess, manager at the five-yearold Oscar Blues Hops and Heifers farm. “Last year we produced about 2,000 pounds of hops on our two-acre plot; we use over 100,000 pounds a year. Like most brewing operations, we use commercial hop pellets. The fresh hops we produce allow our brewers to experiment, to have fun. Will we ever produce enough hops to fill all of our needs? No, we do this to create something unique.” Growing hops is a labor-intensive venture that requires hours of labor in the spring, long days in the summer, and large picking parties at harvest. Andrew Voss, owner of Voss Hop

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Would you like your savings account to grow? Then deposit money into in it on a consistent basis. Would you like to feel good and have a lot of physical energy? Eat healthy food, sleep as much as you need to and exercise regularly. Do you want people to see the best in you and give you the benefit of the doubt? See the best in them and give them the benefit of the doubt. Would you love to accomplish your most important goal? Decide what you want more than anything else and focus on it with relaxed intensity. Yes, Aries, life really is that simple — or at least it is right now. If you want to attain interesting success, be a master of the obvious.

In the last two decades, seven Academy Award winners have given thanks to God while accepting their Oscars. By contrast, 30 winners have expressed their gratitude to film studio executive Harvey Weinstein. Who would you acknowledge as essential to your success, Libra? What generous souls, loving animals, departed helpers and spiritual beings have contributed to your ability to thrive? Now is an excellent time to make a big deal out of expressing your appreciation. For mysterious reasons, doing so will enhance your luck and increase your chances for future success.

TAURUS

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Your urge to merge is heating up. Your curiosity about combinations is intensifying. I think it’s time to conduct jaunty experiments in mixing and blending. Here’s what I propose: Let your imagination run half-wild. Be unpredictable as you play around with medleys and hodgepodges and sweet unions. But don’t be attached to the outcomes. Some of your research may lead to permanent arrangements, and some won’t. Either result is fine. Your task is to enjoy the amusing bustle, and learn all you can from it.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

The American painter Ivan Albright (1897-1983) was a meticulous creator. He spent as much time as necessary to get every detail right. An entire day might go by as he worked to perfect one square inch of a painting, and some of his pieces took years to finish. When the task at hand demanded intricate precision, he used a brush composed of a single hair. That’s the kind of attention to minutia I recommend for you — not forever, but for the next few weeks. Be careful and conscientious as you build the foundation that will allow you maximum freedom of movement later this year.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

The Venus de Milo is a famous Greek statue that’s over 2,100 years old. Bigger than life size, it depicts the goddess of love, beauty and pleasure. Its current home is the Louvre Museum in Paris, but for hundreds of years it was lost — buried underground on the Greek island of Milos. In 1820, a farmer found it while he was out digging on his land. I foresee a comparable discovery by you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. You will uncover a source of beauty, love, or pleasure — or perhaps all three — that has been missing or forgotten for a long time.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

According to an ancient Greek myth, Sisyphus keeps pushing a boulder up a steep hill only to lose control of it just before he reaches the top, watching in dismay as it tumbles to the bottom. After each failure, he lumbers back down to where he started and makes another effort to roll it up again — only to fail again. The myth says he continues his futile attempts for all eternity. I’m happy to report, Leo, that there is an important difference between your story and that of Sisyphus. Whereas you have tried and tried and tried again to complete a certain uphill task, you will not be forever frustrated. In fact, I believe a breakthrough will come soon, and success will finally be yours. Will it be due to your gutsy determination or your neurotic compulsion or both? It doesn’t matter.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Many of America’s founding fathers believed slavery was immoral, but they owned slaves themselves and ordained the institution of slavery in the U.S. Constitution. They didn’t invent hypocrisy, of course, but theirs was an especially tragic version. In comparison, the hypocrisy that you express is mild. Nevertheless, working to minimize it is a worthy task. And here’s the good news: You are now in a position to become the zodiac’s leader in minimizing your hypocrisy. Of all the signs, you can come closest to walking your talk and practicing what you preach. So do it! Aim to be a master of translating your ideals into practical action.

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You have permission to compose an all-purpose excuse note for yourself. If you’d like, you may also forge my signature on it so you can tell everyone that your astrologer sanctified it. This document will be ironclad and inviolable. It will serve as a poetic license that abolishes your guilt and remorse. It will authorize you to slough off senseless duties, evade deadening requirements, escape small-minded influences, and expunge numbing habits. Even better, your extra-strength excuse note will free you to seek out adventures you have been denying yourself for no good reason.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In the Inuktitut language spoken in northern Canada, the term iminngernaveersaartunngortussaavunga means “I should try not to become an alcoholic.” I encourage you to have fun saying that a lot in the coming days. Why? Now is an excellent time to be playful and light-hearted as you wage war against any addictive tendencies you might have. Whether it’s booze or gambling or abusive relationships or anything else that tempts you to act like an obsessive self-saboteur, you have more power than usual to break its hold on you — especially if you don’t take yourself too seriously.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was an influential astronomer who launched the exploration that led to the discovery of Pluto. He also made some big mistakes. Here’s one: Gazing at Venus through his telescope, he swore he saw spokes emanating from a central hub on the planet’s surface. But we now know that Venus is shrouded with such thick cloud cover that no surface features are visible. So what did Lowell see? Due to an anomaly in his apparatus, the telescope projected shadows from inside his eyes onto the image of Venus. The “spokes” were actually the blood vessels in his retinas. Let this example serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Don’t confuse what’s within you with what’s outside you. If you can clearly discern the difference, your closest relationships will experience healing breakthroughs. Pictured: University Bicycles Photo by Susan France

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.” So said British writer G. K. Chesterton. Now I’m passing his advice on to you just in time for the Purge and Purify Phase of your astrological cycle. In the coming weeks, you will generate good fortune for yourself whenever you wash your own brain and absolve your own heart and flush the shame out of your healthy sexual feelings. As you proceed with this work, it may expedite matters if you make a conscious choice to undergo a trial by fire.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“I awake in a land where the lovers have seized power,” writes Danish poet Morten Sondergaard in his fanciful poem “The Lovers.” “They have introduced laws decreeing that orgasms need never come to an end. Roses function as currency. . . The words ‘you’ and ‘I’ are now synonymous.” A world like the one he describes is a fantasy, of course. It’s impossible. But I predict that in the coming weeks you could create conditions that have resemblances to that utopia. So be audacious in your quest for amorous bliss and convivial romance. Dare to put love at the top of your priority list. And be inventive!

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Dear Dan: I am a single woman, 31, in LA, and on OkCupid. (We all are.) I’ve gotten a number of unicorn requests. (Maybe because I mention being a subscriber to the Savage Lovecast magnum version in my profile?) I’ve never responded — until the other day. One unicorn request stood out. I wrote back. They seem like cool, smart, interesting people (a 40-year-old liberal married couple). Their profile is funny, and they’re quite attractive! And here I am, not doing anything else or anyone else… and I’m thinking… this could be cool. It could be an awesome experience. Why not play around while everything is still slim and perky? But! I have some concerns! 1. Uh… what now? I gave them my number, but I can’t say that I’m definitely a YES on this. I’m also not a NO. What happens now? We meet for drinks? Then what? 2. I’ve never even had a one-night stand. I’ve pretty much always had boyfriends. I don’t know what my question is here, it’s just something I’ve been turning over in my head. I just don’t want to feel like a hooker! (Not that there’s anything wrong with being a sex worker!) 3. I’m not bi. I don’t say that I’m bi on my OkCupid profile. I cannot imagine a scenario in which I would want to put my face in someone’s twat. (I know you understand the feeling.) But I don’t think I have any issue with being on the receiving end. (Maybe? I’ve never been a unicorn!) I’ve done the college playing-around-withgirls thing — topless make-outs for a boyfriend’s viewing pleasure — but nothing crazy. What should I do or say? Future Unicorn Nervously Guessing At Logistics Dear FUNGAL: 1. Meet, have drinks, and talk, FUNGAL — and be sure to tell that nice, funny, attractive couple everything you’ve told us. And then do what any sane person would do: Fuck ’em if it feels right, don’t if it doesn’t. 2. Refuse to accept money in exchange for sex — don’t let the nice couple pay you — and you won’t be a sex worker. (Not that there’s anything wrong with being a sex worker.) And if you’ve only ever had sex in the context of a relationship, and if you want it to stay that way, then make that clear to the nice couple. Developing a relationship with you is a requirement before you can all jump into bed together. And they’ll probably be up for it, FUNGAL, as most couples who are out there looking for unicorns — which is hard work — are seeking a regular, Boulder Weekly

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reliable third, i.e., someone they see again and again, someone they can get to know better and come to trust and rely on. A couple with a regular third that they’re emotionally invested in may not be what comes to mind when people hear the word “relationship,” but it is a relationship, and it can be a fun and rewarding one. 3. Again, tell this couple everything you’ve told us. The only reason you hesitate, FUNGAL, is that you fear rejection. Your fear is thoroughly common, completely understandable, and totally irrational. I mean, think about it: The reason you’re hesitating to tell them that you’re not bisexual — that you have no interest in putting your face in a twat (but you’re up for having her face in yours if she’s cool with no-recip oral) — is that you worry you’ll be rejected. What if you’re not what they want? But if they have their hearts set on a unicorn that wants to go facedown in twat, then you’re the wrong unicorn for them. More importantly, FUNGAL, they’re the wrong couple for you. Better to have a nice, clean, honest rejection over cocktails — a mutual recognition that you’re not a match — than to find yourself in bed being pressured to do something you don’t wanna do. DEAR READERS: There was a miscommunication in last week’s column. The fault was entirely mine. Elder-sex expert Joan Price advised Old But Alive, a reader hoping to arrange a threesome with a female cousin, to hang out in lesbian bars to find a third. I advised OBA to ignore that advice, since lesbians hate opposite-sex couples trolling dyke bars. But Price didn’t think she was advising an opposite-sex couple. She thought OBA and the cousin were both women. I knew that OBA was a man because I saw OBA’s e-mail address and his name. I don’t pass along names and e-mail addresses when I share questions with guest experts, so Price didn’t have that information in front of her. I should’ve made it clear to Price that OBA was a man — at the very least, I should’ve checked in with Price before rapping her knuckles for appearing to advise an opposite-sex couple to cruise a lesbian bar. My apologies to Price! On the Lovecast, Dan “Asks Amy” for a Second Opinion: savagelovecast. com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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e are just past the six-month point in sion arrests per year through 2010, that should already the state’s roll-out of commercial sales be providing substantial savings, freeing law enforceof cannabis, and from all indications, ment to do something else besides arrest cannabis it’s been an unspectacular but success- users and saving endless hours of paperwork involved ful half a year, especially for a state in processing those arrests. whose social experiment has been under local and Besides paying taxes to the state, cities and couninternational media scrutiny since Amendment 64 ties, industry businesses currently employ about passed in November of 2012. 10,000 people, with more retail shops, testing and Leland Rucker Half a year is hardly enough grow facilities opening around for a serious analysis, but as the state every month. Department of Revenue Director Businesses that provide everyRon Kammerzell told Vox: “I thing from hardware for grow would say that the rollout was operations to software for retail extremely smooth, the sky hasn’t stores continue to proliferate and fallen like some had predicted, thrive. and we’re moving forward and There are no hard numbers trying to fine tune this regulatory here, either, but Gov. John model.” Hickenlooper, who opposed A report issued last week by Amendment 64, admits that the the Drug Policy Alliance, entitled industry has helped keep the Marijuana Regulation in state more economically viable in tough economic times and that Colorado After Six Months of his worries about Colorado Retail Sales and 18 Months of becoming known as the “stoner Decriminalization, backs up that Looking for work? More than 10,000 state” have so far been unwarcontention. Coloradans are employed in the cannabis ranted. The state collected $10.8 industry. The report also indicates that million in tax revenues through FBI statistics show a 10.1 perApril, a number that will contincent decrease in overall crime from 2013 and a 5.2 ue to climb as more shops open and people get comfortable with legal cannabis. And that’s not counting percent drop in violent crime over the same period city and county excise and sales taxes collected and last year. Dispensary robberies are down in Denver not yet reported. from this time last year. In a possibly related development, the Colorado I’m still on the fence when it comes to saying that Department of Public Health and Environment legal cannabis sales have anything to do with overall reports that the number of people enrolled in the crime numbers, but one encouraging figure came Marijuana Registry Program has risen to its highest when the state also released information about its number in three years. At the end of April there were efforts to keep retail cannabis stores from selling or 116,180 patients on the registry. That may indicate marketing to underage kids. The state conducted 16 that people are obtaining medical cards to keep away sting operations in which it tried to get minors to from retail taxes, but there is no way of knowing if purchase cannabis at retail stores in Denver and that is true or not. Pueblo. None succeeded. The DPA report notes that since legalization, Which brings up an interesting point. At a recent police haven’t been arresting anyone for criminal posDenver Post forum, a panelist said that among the session. Since the state averaged about 10,000 possesunwanted effects of Amendment 64 is that it makes

parenting more difficult. I can sympathize with that; parenting has never been easy. But young people aren’t getting cannabis or edibles from retail shops. Neither are companion animals. They’re getting it in their own from friends’ homes or the black market. Shouldn’t the money the state will be spending on education be aimed as much at adults and parents as young people and children? News headlines have focused on tragedy, especially two distressing events, one in which a young man who came from out of state apparently consumed too much of an edible and wound up leaping from a hotel balcony to his death, the other a man who apparently had eaten a cannabis edible and taken prescription drugs before shooting and killing his wife. The full stories, especially about the second case, haven’t come out yet. But another story, this one of a young man police said was too stoned and plowed into two police cars whose lights were flashing. We didn’t find out until sentencing that the man was seriously intoxicated, which probably better explains his actions that night. There has also been an uptick of adults and children reported in emergency rooms due to accidental “overdose” of edibles. “Overdose” is really not the correct term, since nobody can die from cannabis ingestion, and an “overdose” is more just waiting for the drug to leave your system. What is often lost is that edibles are extremely popular among consumers and that millions of dollars worth have been eaten by people of all ages over the last six months without requiring hospitalization or any other problems. The legislature followed up last year’s first round of rules and regs with more complete ones about edibles packaging and consistency. But no matter how much information is on the label, some people are not going to read or heed it. Given that this is a product whose businesses for the most part are not allowed access to banking or tax benefits and is still considered by more than half the states and the federal government as illegal and whose every move is being scrutinized, it’s been a pretty solid rollout. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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