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ere was no expectation in this fishing trip; I was prepared to be disappointed. But the day was wa

sometimes it’s enough to stand in the river’s cool current and go through the motions. Trout wer

on the

med, out of the question but there was a part of me that thought just maybe something had survi

St. Vrain

monster flood of 2013.  It had been ten months since the St. Vrain River had turned into a bro

Gregripped Lowellout– bridges and roads and turned a clear, s thing monster that tore apart homes and–lives,

rout stream into a combination strip mine and junkyard. For those of us who fished the river dow

ugh Lyons, the flood had turned a dream stream into a desolate stretch of piscine tragedy.

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odwater had deposited piles of debris and untold tons of silt and sand alongside a riverbed scour

an of all the necessities a trout needs to thrive. Streamside willows and grass that cooled the wa

d provided insect food now lay flat and buried.  And as if the flood’s destruction wasn’t enou

winter excavators and dump trucks ran up and down the river, removing the debris and preparing

ver for the uncertainties of the spring run.  The river flowed brown and silty for months as t

ork churned the waters. Then, to add insult, the ditch company jumped in to replace their destroy

A Lyons-based angler returns to a favorite fishing hole

ersion dam and in so doing sent the entire river down the ditch for three months while they work

aving only a trickle of dirty water in a dusty riverbed.  Whatever trout that survived the floo

machines and the diversion were surely gone now. But all winter and early spring I walked what

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Attitude toward Israel antiSemitic

Hamas has realized that world opinion, as well as putting innocents in harm’s way, is automatically going to go against Jews. So terribly interesting that Syria has blatantly, purposely killed tens of thousands of its own, as has Iraq, that Iran has brutalized and

killed those who protested for democracy, that Egypt, whether Morsi or the guys now in charge, killed thousands, that Saudi Arabia sponsors those who bombed the Twin Towers, that Jordan, under King Hussein’s father, killed 100,000 Palestinians — and yet, Israel, which has been attacked by thousands of missiles aimed indiscriminately by a

faction that has impoverished and killed its own who speak against it, Israel, which provides more religious and personal liberty and prosperity for its Arab population, is portrayed as the worst of the worst. Welcome to antiSemitism, God’s little joke on the Jews.

hedge-fund huckstering! Those guys (and they’re nearly all guys) never get a callus and do nothing of social value, yet they make the biggest haul of anyone. Last year, the 25 highest paid hedge funders raked in a collective $21 billion in personal pay, with half of that grabbed by the top four guys. Their billions are what’s called “unearned income” — money made from money, not from one’s labor. And it’s not even their money! Other rich people, big pension funds, endowments, etc. entrust them with big piles of their money, which the soft hand guys then bet on such screwy “financial products” as packages of subprimemortgage derivatives (yes, that’s the one that crashed our economy in 2008). But even when they bet poorly, the hucksters get richer, for they charge what’s called “2 and 20” to get into their casino game — that’s 2 percent off the top of the millions of dollars a

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Highroad Boney fingers v. soft hands work by Jim Hightower

n old cliché says: “Hard work always pays off.” Really? Ask a farm worker about that, or talk to a McDonald’s fry cook working three shifts to piece together an income that still leaves them in poverty. “Work your fingers to the bone,” goes the old song, “and what do you get? Boney fingers.” If it’s a big payoff you want from a job, go for what my Uncle Emmett called “soft hands work.” I recommend

person or group turns over to the hedge fund, plus 20 percent of any profits made from the bets. So a guy like Ray Dalio, who runs the world’s biggest hedge game, made a lousy showing for his backers last year, yet he still walked away with $600 million in personal pay. Also, to further rig the unearned income game, the hedge-crew is lobbying furiously in Washington to let them get away with paying only half the income tax rate that you working stiffs are assessed. Why do we even allow these worthless scoundrels to exist? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. July 31, 2014 7

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commentary U.S. at fault for circumstances feeding immigration by Dave Anderson

he current media hysteria entry” have risen by 130 percent since about Central American 2007. kids was sparked by photos There are 700 miles of walls at the of the appalling conditions Mexican border backed by sophisticatin the detention facilities. ed surveillance towers, cameras and Those photos were leaked by members more than 12,000 motion sensors. The of the Border Patrol to Tea Party activ- agents have drones, Blackhawk heliists who wanted to copters and armed pressure the personnel carriers. Obama adminisThe once-thin ARE tration to impleborder around the ESCAPING SITUATIONS ment harsher country and both U.S. POLICIES HELPED immigration coasts has been enforcement extended 100 miles CREATE. THE RURAL mechanisms. inland and now AREAS WERE They have covers places where DEVASTATED BY been quite suctwo-thirds of the cessful. Obama U.S. population “FREE TRADE.” responded by (197.4 million peoannouncing plans ple) live. The for increased American Civil enforcement along the U.S. borLiberties Union (ACLU) calls it a der. “constitution-free zone.” President Obama has been accused “Border Patrol checkpoints and of just opening up the border. Actually, roving patrols are the physical world his administration has deported equivalent of the National Security approximately 400,000 people a year. Agency,” says attorney James Lyall of He is spending $18 billion on border ACLU Arizona. “They involve a masenforcement. We now have more than sive dragnet and stopping and moni21,000 Border Patrol agents. That’s toring of innocent Americans without double the number of agents since any suspicion of wrongdoing by 2005. That’s more than all the other increasingly abusive and unaccountable federal law enforcement agencies comsee ANDERSON Page 10 bined. The prosecutions for “illegal

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Oh, and somehow the world manages to ignore that the Arab states forced out about 800,000 Jews since WWII (including my brother in law’s family) none of whom were given just compensation for their land or valuables and never considered for right of return, while about 600,000 Arabs left Israel (many by choice or because their Arab neighbors told them to leave, though, in honesty, some were forced out) — and the world now insists that Israel give them compensation and Hamas wants right to return. People ask me why Jews are so paranoid. How can we ever be any other way? How can we not think and feel “not if, but when” will we be persecuted, attacked, driven out and/or killed because we are Jews? Don Koplen/via Internet

Danish out of touch on Gaza

This comment by Paul Danish [Re: “Gaza and ‘game changers,’” News, July 17] on Gaza is so cynical and ruthless that one wonders if he is an embedded Israeli disinformation agent working at BW: “It [Israel] also warned tens of thousands residents of northern Gaza and eastern Gaza City to leave their neighborhoods by 8 a.m. Wednesday ahead of further attacks, air or ground not specified. As of noon Wednesday, Israel time, most of them hadn’t left, possibly because they thought Israel was bluffing or possibly because Hamas was threatening retaliation against those that did, (which is probably a war crime).” The reason Gaza residents didn’t leave their neighborhoods is because they have nowhere to go. Gaza is sealed off on either end and its impoverished citizens cannot just pack a suitcase and fly off to Club Med somewhere. Danish either is stupid or thinks BW’s readers have boulders for brains. The efficacy of these Israeli warnings could be compared to American prison authorities, desiring to root out gang violence, issuing a “warning” to all prisoners to abandon their cells and flee by a certain time before poison gas is injected throughout the ventilation system. Would anyone be impressed by the “humanity” of such an idea? Thank God BW slightly redeemed itself with the article by Haley Gray [Re: “Drumbeat of war grows louder,” News, July 17]. Please send Danish packing. Boulder residents deserve far better Boulder Weekly

than his cynical propaganda. Offer him a one-way plane ticket to his Zionist dream land that many are calling IsNOTreal or Israhell. Like most American Jews, who prefer to live out their wild west fantasies vicariously by ogling the IDF and the Israeli propaganda machine, he probably won’t take it. Shalom baShem Yeshua — Peace in the Name of Jesus! Michael P. Korn/Lakewood

The Canvass Board explains its actions

What can fracking tell us about elections? Most Boulder County voters thought the Primary Election was over on June 24. They were surprised when newspapers reported that the Canvass Board had not certified the election and later that the Secretary of State and the Clerk overrode the Canvass Board’s decision. What’s going on? Some Boulder County voters offered an opinion. It was those crazy American Constitution Party representatives who have been on the Canvass Board for the past three partisan elections. Watch out, Boulder County, because the same election-integrity pair will be back to check up on the Clerk and her staff in November. The American Constitution Party (ACN) became a major Colorado party when Tom Tancredo’s 2010 ACN gubernatorial run received over 10 percent of the statewide votes. Major parties field up to two Canvass Board members. Under Colorado statute (C.R.S. 1-10-101.5(1)), the board must try to reconcile the election results to guard against ballot-box stuffing, ballots never being counted, and other such mischief and mistakes. Specifically, the duties include reconciling the total ballots cast (and the ballots cast in each precinct) to confirm that the number of ballots counted does not exceed the number of ballots cast or the number of registered electors in a precinct (SOS Rule 10.2.2(a) (3) states this as “the number of voters who voted”). If this looks like details to you, then you will expect the devil lurks among them. Problem 1: Many voters cast their ballot by mail. “Cast” means that the voter releases the marked ballot, as into a mailbox or ballot box. How can anybody know how many ballots were mailed (cast) by voters, as the statute see LETTERS Page 10

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his hands cut off. This was quite effective. The popular movements for social change were crushed. Many went into the hills and became guerrillas. The dictatorships responded with ferocious mass murders of civilians (200,000 in Guatemala and 75,000 in El Salvador) enthusiastically supported by President Reagan. Years later, President Clinton would release secret CIA documents revealing U.S. complicity in genocide in Guatemala. He would travel to Guatemala to publicly apologize. Honduras was the base of U.S. operations in our 1980s dirty wars. Recently in 2009, the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya who had raised the minimum wage, given subsidies to small farmers, and initiated free education. Obama criticized the coup at first, but ended up backing the regime. The Honduran state security forces have engaged in a bloody campaign of political and social persecution. Opposition politicians, journalists, gays, campesinos, indigenous protesters and human rights activists seem to be the victims of quite a few targeted killings. In May, 108 members of the U.S. Congress signed a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging him to pressure Honduras to protect human rights, ensure the rule of law and not give any more money to the security forces. If we examine this perverse history, you can’t avoid concluding that we have a special moral responsibility to help those kids. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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requires? We can’t. So we recommended that temporarily, instead of ballots cast, we certify on the basis of how many ballots were received by the Clerk’s office. She agreed. Sounds reasonable under the circumstances. Problem 2: Merely taking the Clerk’s word on how many ballots were received is just rubber-stamping and doesn’t meet the standard of reconciling. We talked with experts who agreed that the Legislature would not have placed a burden on five or seven citizens “to reconcile” if just a rubber stamp was intended. The statute would have less robust wording. So we requested data from the Clerk needed to verify the totals she was proposing

that we certify. We said, “Please show us the chain-of-custody of all the ballots during the processes that happen at your office so that we will know the election’s input. Without this data, it is impossible to certify that all eligible ballots were counted.” She said she wasn’t required to give us that data. She said, in effect, “Trust me.” Thus we could not reconcile the ballot data, and we could not certify. Fracking is a subject many Boulder County citizens want to know more about. How much fracking fluid is injected into strata versus how much wastewater is recovered? If someone see LETTERS Page 11

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told you that X gallons were recovered (the output) but didn’t reveal the amount injected (the input), you would not know how much remained underground. As in this example, incomplete election data prevents reconciliation. Input (ballots cast or received) and output (ballots counted) cannot be balanced. The Clerk prefers to minimize transparency — to operate election processes as a black box. By hiding input, mistakes and/or mischief cannot be detected. The Canvass Board must have transparency to faithfully perform its duties. The SOS and Clerk have “certified” without independently checking the chain-of-custody so cannot know how many ballots were received. Please encourage the Clerk to be forthcoming with chain-of-custody data so that November’s election can be transparent and verifiable and the Canvass Board can certify the abstract of votes. Mary Eberle, Boulder County ACN Chair and election-integrity activist since 2000/Boulder

are sincere and decent people. In disagreeing with them, it’s not necessary to make them out to be monsters. Yes, they may very well be bent on saving the world, and in the process, creating their own monopoly. Yes, they’ve likely bought into the idea that CO2 is destroying the world and the answer is to force people to change their living habits. But that doesn’t make them bad people.

Again, the decision to forego the plan to steal the county customers is fabulous progress, and should be celebrated as such. Even if it seems like a no-brainer. Now if we could only convince the council of two more things: 1) that carbon dioxide just might not be the poison that it’s been made out to be, and 2) that true choice means not being forced to do business with a monopoly.

Small miracles make one think that larger ones are possible. Charlie Danaher/Boulder

CDOT woes

Thanks to Boulder County State Reps. Jones and Foote for trying to get at what the U.S. 36 toll will be soon. I tried also at the podium of CDOT. Stand by for a big shock. Kevin Sampson/Denver

County resident glad to be left out of condemnation of Xcel property

It came as a welcomed surprise, that in moving forward to condemn Xcel property, the City of Boulder will not seek the certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) so they can take county residents as customers. In times of chaos, it can be a delight when something obvious happens. On this issue, I had very pleasant meetings with both Mayor Matt Appelbaum and Energy Director Heather Bailey, regarding the City’s plans to serve county residents — people who never had a chance to vote on it. In those meetings, I pleaded with them, forwarding three ideas: 1) That it’s extremely hypocritical to claim that they were interested in choice, without county residents having any input, not to mention choice; 2) It was insensitive and outrageous to reply to such complaints with “you didn’t get to choose Xcel as your provider, either, did you?”; and 3) If they really believed in choice, instead of starting their own monopoly, they would convince the state (PUC, legislature) that we should get rid of utility monopolies all together. Of course there’s always the chance that they fooled me, but I will say with confidence that both Matt and Heather Boulder Weekly

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National attention drawn to Colorado’s oil and gas preemption laws by Elizabeth Miller

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he lawsuit to defend The court precedent from Longmont’s voter1992 has been used to overturn approved fracking ban local government attempts is moving on from the including an effort from Summit district court, where a County to ban the use of toxic or judge issued a summary judgment acidic chemicals, such as cyanide against it, but a stay against frackin mineral processing and an ing in Longmont while the case effort from Black Hawk to ban is appealed to a higher court. It bicycles. may become increasingly clear as But a lot has changed since the case advances that the ques1992, including both the tion at stake pits the oil and gas Colorado Oil and Gas resources under the town against Conservation Act, which was the basic constitutional rights of revised in 2011, and oil and gas those who live in the town to development in the state. determine their exposure to a risk “We believe it’s time for a to human health and environment fresh look at those dated rulings, more than half of the town’s votand those rulings have been used ers have said they don’t want in politically by the oil and gas their back yards. The environindustry as if it gives carte mental organizations that have blanche to them, and those rulLongmont voters approved a fracking ban for their city charter in 2012. A summary judgment from a district court judge moves handling the state response to higher court. signed on as intervenors aren’t ings do not actually say that,” going to be shy about framing the Fissinger says. debate in terms of whether the state ban fracking is “disappointed.” of oil and gas in a manner consistent Mallard’s written order acknowlwill really choose profits over people. Disappointed that they didn’t get an with the stated goals of the Oil and edges that while fracking has been used “I would welcome a knock-down evidentiary hearing where their eviGas Conservation Act.” in Colorado since the 1970s, it has drag-out fight in the courts that pits dence of the threat to human health “Colorado is a bit of an outlier changed dramatically over the decades. constitutional rights, mineral rights, and the environment by fracking, and because of that decision, and I think Now, instead of a single vertically along with the rights of the people,” the ability of oil and gas companies, one of the points we were making in drilled well that was common in the says Kaye Fissinger, president of Our including Top, to access those resources defending Longmont’s voter ban on 1990s, well pads have many wells Health, Our Future, Our Longmont. “I through other methods than fracking, hydraulic fracturing was that times drilled horizontally into different forwould welcome that battle because the could be presented in full and that the really have changed significantly since mations and have moved closer to popanswer to that question is going to tell judge’s decision referred to a pair of the Supreme Court ruled 20 years ago. ulated areas. Coloradans and probably to some 20-year-old Colorado Supreme Court Courts do change their minds some“There was nothing like these large, extent the rest of the nation where our decisions that hinge on a law that’s times when the times change, the law long horizontal well bores that they’re government really is on this, and if since been revised by the state legislahas to adapt, so I think we’re hopeful doing now, when the Supreme Court they come down against the people, ture. that the Supreme Court will see that handled their case in the early ’90s, faith in government will tank. It’s close But even in the face of a court deci- larger landscape where Colorado’s actu- they were all vertical wells, so you had to that already, but that’ll be like a nail sion that overturned their ban, they’ve ally a little bit out of step with other to have your drill rig right over where in the coffin.” found a few seeds of hope to fuel the states,” says Bruce Baizel, energy proyou wanted to reach the targeted oil or The lung cancer survivor living ongoing fight: that the judge essentially gram director for Earthworks, one of gas, and now that’s no longer neceswith COPD, who has three greathanded the decision over to the appeals the environmental organizations signed sary,” Baizel says. “So the whole basis grandbabies for whom she’d like to court to decide, and issued a stay on on as an intervenor for the lawsuit, for the court’s decision technically no leave the world a better place, insists, fracking while the case moves through meaning they can continue the court longer exists. There are some two-mile “We matter.” that appeals court, a process that is battle even if the City of Longmont horizontal laterals that are functioning expected to take more than a year. After 60 percent of Longmont votwere to decide not to appeal. now, and that was never possible Judge D.D. Mallard issued her ers approved a ban on fracking as an “Even Texas cities have more ability before, so part of it is, yeah, technology decision based on two Colorado addition to the city charter in to enact stricter ordinances in a state, and the industry’s ability to get to these Supreme Court cases decided in 1992, November 2012, the Colorado Oil and particularly home rule cities in Texas,” difficult places has increased tremenincluding an attempt by the City of Gas Association and Colorado Oil and Baizel says. “[In New York] the statute dously since the court weighed in, so Greeley to ban oil and gas development wasn’t all that different than the Gas Conservation Commission, with we think it would make sense that the and one from La Plata County that Top Operating Co. as an intervenor, Colorado statute, but there just wasn’t law would reflect that change.” filed a lawsuit against the city and required oil and gas operators to comthat single decision saying you can’t The case from La Plata County motioned for a summary judgment in ply with an application process. The ban it. California you have a lot of had also found that oil and gas producthe matter. The word Fissinger and Court found, with the Greeley ban, authority for local municipalities and tion was “closely tied to well location,” others use to describe the Boulder that there could be local control of oil but that’s no longer the case. counties to make land use type ordiCounty District Court judge’s summary and gas operations “if such regulations “I always have to chuckle when nances that may affect whether or not judgment issued July 24 that found do not frustrate and can be harmonized oil and gas, which is an industrial state law trumps the local initiative to with the development and production activity, can happen.” See FRACKING BAN Page 14 Boulder Weekly

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people say fracking has been going on since 1949 — that’s the equivalent of saying we’ve been driving the same car since the Model T came out in 1905. It’s a ridiculous comparison,” says Sam Schabacker, Food & Water Watch western region director, another intervener for the lawsuit. “We’re talking about slick water horizontal fracking, multiple wells per pad. … It’s completely different, and we’re hopeful that in the higher court we’re going to have the opportunity to have that discussion and that the judges will be willing to engage in a conversation around how fracking is fundamentally different now and why it is essential to examine those differences and the impacts that those differences have on health, safety and property, how it’s so much more detrimental now and why this ban is perfectly consistent with the state’s interest.” Colorado’s legislation, including the act cited in those decisions, has also been revised to add allowances for public health, safety and the environment, says Kevin Lynch, Environmental Law Clinic professor at the University of Denver. Courts interpret what the legislature has said — and if that’s changed, so should the court ruling. “We feel like Judge Mallard got the law wrong. The law has changed since 1992. … We’re not just stuck in the ’90s,” he says. “Now [oil and gas development] has to be done, according to the state legislature, in a way that protects public health safety and welfare, and that’s why all we introduced in the evidence about the health effects, the property value effects, the safety effects of fracking — why that is all relevant and why it’s particularly concerning that Judge Mallard was particularly dismissive of all that evidence.” For constitutional rights to health, happiness and personal property to have any meaning, he adds, “states can’t preempt local governments from sensible restrictions on harmful industrial practices in their communities.” Mallard wrote that she wasn’t in a position to disagree with any of the exhibits supporting the position that fracking causes serious health, safety and environmental risks, but that overturning the court precedent was above her paygrade. “The Court recognizes that some of the case law described here may have been developed at a time when public policy strongly favored the development of mineral resources,” her judgment reads. “Longmont and the environmental groups, the DefendantIntervenors, are essentially asking this Court to establish a public policy that 14 July 31, 2014

A drill rig near County Line Road and Highway 66 on the edge of Longmont. An increasing number of communities are exploring how to implement bans like the one that keeps oil and gas development just outside Longmont.

favors protection from health, safety and environmental risks over the development of mineral resources. Whether public policy should be changed in that matter is a question for the legislature or a different court.” The concerns about risks to health and safety, in other words, were not sufficient to “devalue the State’s interest” in the mineral resources in Longmont. “The Oil and Gas Conservation Act used to say the state’s interest to promote efficient production of oil and gas resources and now it says responsible, balanced production that protects health safety and welfare, and we’ve argued already to Judge Mallard and think it has a sound basis in existing law that the state’s interest does put public health safety and welfare ahead of production, and that if production can’t be done in a way that protects health, safety and welfare that it should not be allowed,” Lynch says. “We’ll continue to make that argument to the appellate courts and perhaps they won’t feel as constrained by the findings in 1992 from the Colorado Supreme Court with what the state’s interest was then.” He adds that Judge Mallard’s misapplied the summary judgment standard, giving more credence to the evidence brought forward by the industry and the state and being dismissive of the evidence from the City of Longmont and the environmental groups signed to the case as intervenors, which includes the Sierra Club, Our Longmont, Earthworks and Food and Water Watch. The summary judgment decision means the case moves to

appellate courts without a fully developed evidentiary record — and loaded with concerns, Lynch adds, that the precedental cases referenced should have applied because they related to full bans of oil and gas development, and Longmont’s ban is only on fracking. Lynch, who has undertaken the case pro bono, provided expert testimony that showed oil and gas could be developed without fracking, and the plaintiffs shifted their case to discontinue arguing for that point. “She’s supposed to resolve all benefits of doubt as to whether there are any disputes of fact in favor of the nonmoving party, which was the city and us,” Lynch says. “It really was rather surprising that she took [the state’s] assertions at face value, even though we’d introduced depostition testimony showing that they didn’t have anything to back up their conclusory statements and she utterly ignored the evidence that our side submitted regarding alternatives to fracking.” The Colorado Oil and Gas Association celebrated the decision of the judge to uphold their motion for summary judgment as reaffirming that local governments cannot ban fracking, and that oil and gas development is a matter of statewide, rather than local, interest. “[The Colorado Oil and Gas Association] values the important role of local governments in oil and gas oversight, and will continue to work with our communities to ensure that our 150-year history of co-existence continues harmoniously,” Tisha Schuller, president and CEO of the

Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said in a statement. “The ruling today is not just a win for the energy industry but for the people of Colorado. The more than two dozen communities that have invested in legal regulations, memoranda of understanding, and ongoing stakeholder dialogues to create responsible energy development also get a win. The decision demonstrates that the rule of law will prevail in how Colorado oversees one of the most important industries in this state.” Not all the people see Judge Mallard’s decision to overturn the Longmont ban based in part on the 1992 Greeley decision as the “win” for the people of Colorado that Schuller claims it to be. On Monday, July 28, more than 100 people packed the hearing room of the COGCC meeting being held in Greeley. For nearly three hours, one Greeley resident after another described how their quality of life, property values and health are being destroyed by the oil and gas drilling in their community. The owner of three low income apartment buildings showed his frustration claiming that he wasn’t even notified that a giant multi-well industrial platform was being constructed a mere 360 feet from his buildings. He worried for the safety of his tenants. One parent after another complained that the plans to drill numerous wells next to the playground for elementary students at Greeley’s Frontier Academy are absolutely dangerous to their children and still completely inappropriate even though the original plan for 67 wells has recently been scaled back to 19. Still others described how the industry had destroyed the charm of downtown Greeley by sticking a massive 32-well site only a few feet away from the city center. The horror stories went on and on for hours. And it is estimated that the number of wells drilled in Greeley neighborhoods will triple in the next few years. This is the precedent that the 1992 cases have set. Defendants of the Longmont fracking ban have 49 days from the judgment’s issue to make an appeal to a higher court. “This whole battle has been actually horrendous because not only do we have to battle the wealthiest industry probably on earth, we have to battle our state, our governor, our legislature,” Fissinger says. “It shouldn’t have to be that way.” The message, she says, is one that challenges the faith in government to protect its people. “We need to ask our higher courts, Boulder Weekly

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Dansko, Teva, Chaco, Merrell... the appellate court and the Supreme Court, if it’s necessary to go that far, do we matter at all? Does our health, safety and welfare matter at all? Or are we always going to be considered an alsoran?” Fissinger says. “There’s just something very seriously wrong with that picture, and I would hope that the higher courts decide to take a fresh look and genuinely consider the welfare of the people. That’s never really been litigated before.” Colorado communities aren’t alone in working to ban fracking. But recent victories in other state’s for fracking bans, including the June 30 decision from New York to allow towns to effectively ban fracking by using zoning laws to ban that kind of industrial activity, are, at best, political victories for the campaigns here. What sets Colorado apart is the preemptive doctrine that’s already in place — preemptive doctrine that says that the state law trumps local law, particularly in oil and gas development. Longmont’s lawsuit is an attempt to test that doctrine and potentially overturn it, Schabacker says. “Colorado is being watched so closely by the nation, and the industry here in Colorado has already said in print that this will be a domino effect across the nation if the ballot measures and our lawsuits were to succeed,” Fissinger says. Helen Slottje, a New York lawyer who came up with the legal theory of using zoning laws to ban fracking that New York’s highest court recently approved, says landing on that loophole in laws that said local governments could simply ban an industry they weren’t allowed to regulate was really an “emperor has no clothes moment.” The efficacy of her idea of using zoning laws varies state to state, she says, but “the general concept that this particular industry, the oil and gas industry, should not be entitled to a wholesale exemption from zoning laws really should be the case everywhere. … Every other industry has siting requirements. You don’t put a nuclear power plant in the middle of a residential neighborhood, you don’t put a Walmart in the middle of residential neighborhood.” The conversation about fracking really gets at the fundamental constitutional principles that apply in all states, says Slottje, whose legal work was recognized with a 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental advocacy work. The questions that will be central to this debate are ones of right to due process and equal protection. “People talk about property rights Boulder Weekly

as a bundle of sticks, that’s one of the main metaphors for property rights,” Slottje says. “Well, you don’t have the right to take one of the sticks out of your bundle and whack your neighbor over the head. You just don’t have the right to hurt people. So on those grounds, I think that people in all states have or should have the right to not be subject to having this next door to their houses.” “More than anything, I think what distresses me about this, even though [the judge] made reference to I believe as she put it ‘sincerely held beliefs’ about health safety and welfare — these are more than just ‘beliefs,’ as in faith,” Fissinger says. “The evidence is there and it’s mounting daily that there are downsides to this.” “It’s a real problem with our legal system that these requirements for sort of scientific proof above and beyond,” Slottje says. It’s like arguing the case that smoking causes cancer — it makes sense that inhaling tobacco covered in chemicals could make you sick, but proving that in court was difficult. “There’s things that we know that happen but we don’t know how they happen, we just know that they happen, and that really seems to be the case with fracking,” she says. “You see sick people, you see things that occur that weren’t occurring before fracking that are occurring after fracking, sort of a common sense understanding would tell you yeah, those two things are connected, but they’re very difficult because the science isn’t there and so many people who are harmed are forced to sign nondisclosure agreements so that doesn’t become part of the body of information that’s out there for society to know.” It’s clear that this court decision is simply a battle lost in an ongoing war — if it can even truly be called a loss, given the judge’s decision to issue a stay on oil and gas development while the case is appealed to higher courts where judges might feel less bound to the precedents Judge Mallard saw as above her pay grade to overturn. “The wave of local ordinances either banning or restricting has not peaked yet, and doesn’t show any signs of peaking. I’m getting calls from Arizona, Louisiana, a bunch in California, there’s starting to be stuff in Nevada,” says Baizel, of Earthworks. “I think this debate about who can best control, or what’s the mix of controls, is going to get a lot bigger before it actually gets resolved, so in that sense, Colorado is sort of leading the way on the debate. It’s a very real debate in this election cycle.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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How and why railroads keep oil train information from communities by Matt Cortina

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ast week’s Boulder Weekly cover story “Oil Boom” covered the proliferation of trains carrying volatile crude oil in outdated oil tanks through the hearts of Longmont, Boulder and Louisville. With industry estimates of an oil boom in the nearby Niobrara shale formation, Boulder County residents can expect that the risk of a potential explosion from an oil train will increase over the next decade. On the day that story was published, documents were leaked from the state of Washington’s Military Department that showed the U.S. Department of Asked to disclose to states the contents of their trains, railroad companies responded by Transportation and U.S. railroad asking states to sign confidentiality agreements to keep that information out of the hands of the public. companies like Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) and Union Pacific pressured states to keep New Jersey and Virginia signed the vant for Boulder County. Crude oil information about oil trains concealed agreement. Colorado did not sign the shipped through the county comes from the public. agreement, but did ultimately decide to from the Niobrara in Northern And so this brief part II to “Oil keep the information confidential. Colorado. Transporting this crude, like Boom” will take a look at why railroads Conversely, some states, such as everything that’s not one million galare not required to tell citizens about Washington, North Dakota and lons of Bakken crude, does not require oil trains, why this information needs Wisconsin, decided to make the infornotification even though it can still to be a secret at all and how railroads mation public. This was not without overheat and explode and it is still are now working to enact soft oil trans- contention from the rail companies. shipped in outdated, dangerous tanks. portation standards in order to save When Montana said it would do the What is relevant is that the billions in revenue. same, BNSF promptly wrote to the Niobrara shale region has been deemed •••• state that it would consider legal action by the oil and gas industry as the “next Railroad companies have never to keep the information hidden. Bakken” region, so legislation and precbeen required to tell citizens, municiAnd in Washington, one state offiedent for that region will affect how palities or states the contents of their cial wrote in an email (obtained by crude oil is transported through train cars. Then, in May, the U.S. DeSmogBlog), “looks like UP is trying Boulder County in the future. Department of Transportation ordered to put the burden on us vis-à-vis inforNow, railroads can keep the majorirailroad companies to disclose to state mation transfer on oil trains,” noting ty of oil train information hidden from emergency responders how many trains that Union Pacific’s confidentiality the public because they have help from carrying one million gallons or more of request claimed states were requesting federal and state officials. crude oil from the Bakken shale region information about Bakken crude oil For instance, in ordering railroads in North Dakota were coming through shipments, instead of that railroads are to share Bakken crude oil train inforthat state. This came after nine oil now required to share that information. mation with local emergency respondtrains, many carrying Bakken crude oil, All this fuss from railroad compaers, the U.S. Department of exploded or derailed in the last 12 nies concerns just one mandate on one Transportation also encouraged states months in the U.S. and Canada. very large amount of oil from one of to keep that information from the pubIn response, railroad companies several drilling areas nationwide. And lic in a FAQ that accompanied the asked states to sign a confidentiality that information doesn’t need to be emergency order. request form that would keep that sent until 30 days after trains pass Mark Davis, Union Pacific regional media director, says the issue is that information from being passed on to through the state. railroads could face “security” issues if the public. Some states like California, This mandate is effectively irreleBoulder Weekly

conservative monthly data about crude oil transportation is made public. “A lot of that is the historic security concerns that were started following 9/11,” says Davis. “I know that is something that on the security side, that from a federal standpoint, they’re taking a look at and reviewing that process.” Davis added that he was “not sure” if any actual threats to Union Pacific oil trains have been recorded, but that the security detail on crude oil transport via rail is “massive” and involves national, state and local authorities. According to Dave Hard, director of the Colorado Division of Emergency Management, the state of Colorado is keeping what little oil train information it does receive hidden from the public not because of security concerns but because it is “business confidential.” “The original guidance we received from the Department of Transportation […] made it clear that at the time, the federal D.O.T. considered it security sensitive and business confidential,” Hard says. Hard says his department and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Department of Public Safety then reviewed the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) standards and agreed that crude oil shipments were still “not subject to public disclosure.” “They still maintain business confidentiality viewpoints. The state is still honoring that [all oil train information] is not for public disclosure, it is for the purposes of preparing [emergency response personnel],” Hard says. Railroads are also subject to the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, which requires them to report the transport of hazardous materials to local and state emergency responders. But, for some reason, petroleum products including crude oil are exempt from this mandate. The bottom line is that railroads are privately owned and not required to notify anyone of the contents of their trains. They are, at least, required to make their transport of volatile materials safe. The Department of Transportation recently issued safety recommendations for railroads carrying crude oil. These recommendations included updated tank cars, new routing systems and reducing the speed of oil tank cars. But railroads like BNSF, Union Pacific and CSX said implementing these safety measures would be too costly. In a presentation to the White Boulder Weekly

House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which will amend and codify the safety standards introduced by the Department of Transportation, presenters for the railroads laid out the costs of implementing moderate safety measures. First, railroads would pay $2.8 billion for capital improvements to railways across the country. Reducing the speed of trains would call for oil companies to build more tankers to the tune of $1.5 billion in order to main-

tain supply quotas. Reducing train speed would also cost the railroads themselves about $630 million per year because they’d have to pay for additional crew, fuel costs and “lost productivity of track maintenance workers.” Train speed and outdated tank cars are by far the most common cause of derailments and explosions. Tank cars are not built for modern crude oil and train speed has many times caused modern volatile crude oil to overheat and explode.

BNSF went on to say that implementing these safety measures would take about four years and would result in “the immediate loss of existing business” and growth would be stifled. Railroad officials and lobbyists are currently working beside federal lawmakers to carve out the new safety and notification rules for crude oil by rail transport. Initial regulations could come as soon as this year. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.

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ederal environment officials have failed to adequately oversee hundreds of thousands of wells used to inject toxic oil and gas drilling waste deep underground, according to a new congressional report. The report, released Monday, July 28, by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, is critical of the Environmental Protection Agency’s inconsistent handling of safety inspections, poor record keeping and failure to adjust its guidelines to adapt to new risks brought by the recent boom in domestic drilling, including the understanding that injection wells are causing earthquakes. The EPA generally agreed with the GAO’s findings and characterization of the challenges the agency is currently facing. Concerns have mounted recently about potential water contamination from injection wells. California officials have ordered an emergency shut-down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review of more than 100 others, out of fears that fracking fluids and other toxic waste are reaching drinking water aquifers there. Earthquakes from Ohio to Oklahoma to Texas have also been blamed on injection wells governed by the EPA’s program. The GAO’s findings echo those in a 2012 ProPublica investigation which found that the nation’s injection wells were often poorly regulated and experienced high rates of failure, likely leading to pollution of underground water supplies. ProPublica’s investigation found that the EPA did not know exactly how many wells existed in the United States or what volume of waste was being injected into them, and that it did not possess complete records required to be collected under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Oversight of injection wells is currently delegated by the EPA to a number of state agencies. Part of the problem, the GAO found, is that the EPA has not consistently inspected those state programs to ensure that state regulators comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act and EPA guidelines. The EPA also has failed to incorporate requirements it has placed on some of Boulder Weekly

UIC Disposal Wells in Colorado The Government Accountability Office has found that the EPA is not maintaining records required by the Safe Drinking Water Act for injection wells like these found across the state of Colorado.

its state programs into federal regulations, making it difficult for the agency to take legal action against violators. The EPA oversees more than 700,000 injection wells of various types in the United States, including about 172,000 that pump waste or other materials from the oil and gas industry underground. These wastes, often euphemistically referred to as “saltwater,” commonly contain a mixture of water, hazardous chemicals and radioactive minerals. This subset of wells, called Class 2 wells, were the focus of the GAO report. When waste material is injected thousands of feet underground, rock formations are supposed to prevent it from migrating into nearby drinking water sources. But this is not an exact science and regulators have been finding that fracturing natural rock formations and injecting liquids into them at high pressures can have real and trou-

bling consequences. ProPublica’s investigation found numerous instances in which waste had strayed from its target underground or spurted back to the surface, sometimes in residential areas. Scientists interviewed by ProPublica said the wells were often located adjacent to fault lines which break the seal of rock layers, or old oil wells which also allow a pathway for contaminants to spread. The class 2 waste wells in question are not subject to the same rigorous geologic study, safety reviews and regular monitoring that the EPA requires of other toxic waste injection wells from other industries, making it difficult for the EPA to enforce protections of underground drinking water supplies, ProPublica found. According to the new GAO report, the EPA and state programs are also being hindered by budget constraints. Between 2003 and 2012, funding for

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Conservation Board would take all nine BIPs and stitch them together into a single comprehensive state plan for how to use and manage our most precious resource, water. The process has been controversial n May of last year, Governor John since the beginning. For the past four Hickenlooper issued an executive years, environmental groups, including order to creSave the Poudre, ate the have been calling Colorado attention to the Water Plan. As a makeup of the METRO BIP ACTUALLY part of the process South Platte established by the Roundtable and SAYS THAT DAMS AND governor’s order, others. Save the RESERVOIRS IMPROVE nine regional Poudre claims that RIVER HEALTH AND THAT roundtables were the governor’s entire water planempowered to creRETURNING RIVERS TO A ning process has ate water plans for MORE NATURAL STATE IS been hijacked, the river basins in UNDESIRABLE. claiming in various their particular press releases that areas. These “the very same regional plans are actors that benefit referred to as from draining and Basin destroying Implementation Colorado’s rivers were appointed to Plans or BIPs. The idea being that, in the end, the Colorado Water write the South Platte BIP” and that

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The St. Vrain offered paradisaical fly fishing before the rush of water in September. After the flood (inset), the river looked as though it might never offer the same level of trout fishing.

Hope on the St. Vrain

here was no expectation in this fishing trip; I was prepared to be disappointed. But the day was warm and sometimes it’s enough to stand in the river’s cool current and go through the motions. Trout were, it seemed, out of the question but there was a part of me that thought just maybe something had survived the monster flood of 2013. It had been 10 months since the St. Vrain River had turned into a brown, seething monster that tore apart homes and lives, ripped out bridges and roads and turned a clear, swift trout stream into a combination strip mine and junkyard. For those of us who fished the river down through Lyons, the flood had turned a dream stream into a desolate stretch of piscine tragedy. The floodwater had deposited piles of debris and

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untold tons of silt and sand alongside a riverbed scoured clean of all the necessities a trout needs to thrive. Streamside willows and grass that cooled the water and provided insect food now lay flat and buried. And as if the flood’s destruction wasn’t enough, all winter excavators and dump trucks ran up and down the river, removing the debris and preparing the river for the uncertainties of the spring run. The river flowed brown and silty for months as the work churned the waters.

Then, to add insult, the ditch company jumped in to replace their destroyed diversion dam and in so doing sent the entire river down the ditch for three months while they worked, leaving only a trickle of dirty water in a dusty riverbed. Whatever trout that survived the flood, the machines and the diversion were surely gone now. But all winter and early spring I walked what remained of my favorite stretch of the once-river, hoping to see something in the small pools fed by groundwater seeps, but there was nothing. I was buoyed by the beaver who constructed a tiny dam to hold a kid’s pool-size pond and the chattering kingfishers who must be finding something to eat. But nothing stirred in the shallow pools for months. Then, one early spring day I stood on an undercut bank at dusk and saw dimples on a small pool halfburied by a mound of flood debris. The water was dark and filled with green algae, but something was in there. Then, in quick succession, two little trout jumped clear of the water. Here was the hope I had been looking for. But within a week the ditch company closed their head gate just as the run-off started, sending water into the river for the first time in three months. The beaver’s dam washed away and the river turned muddy see FISHING Page 24

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The two-week Aerial Dance Festival lets you sit back and watch the professionals or sign up for a class to learn the art of dancing on air.

dancing and diving high in the spent my childON THE BILL: 16th annual Aerial Dance Festival, air on long flowing fabric hood climbing Sunday, Aug. 3-Saturday, Aug. 16. Showcase Performances Aug. 8-10 @ The Dairy, $20-$25. Cabaret (among other bizarre apparatrees and swinging Performance Aug. 15, 8:30 p.m. with “Schmoozefest” tuses), acrobatic spinning in big on swings and 7:30 p.m. @ The Dairy, $12. “Intimate Encounters” Aug. Cyr wheels (think giant hula spinning ‘til I got 5, 8 p.m. @ CU Theater and Dance Building, $7. Student Repertory Showcase Aug. 16, 2 p.m. @ The Dairy, $12. hoop), bungee cord dancing, dizzy and fell down. For more information on ADF workshops, movies, classcontortionists and even aerial And then I discovered es, or to purchase tickets or discount packages, visit burlesque. dance,” says Nancy www.frequentflyers.org One performance Smith is Smith. “And then many, especially looking forward to many years later I saw seeing that combines all of people combining climbthose things is the Showcase on by Boulder’s Frequent Flyer ing, hanging, spinning, Performance with Frequent Flyer’s Productions (FFP), the organization with dance. And that was the beginprofessional company and their Smith founded and heads. ning. It was 1986.” world-renowned international faculty. The two-week festival runs from Smith says the feeling of freedom, Taking place Friday, Aug. 8 to Sunday, Aug. 3 to Saturday, Aug. 16 flight, a moment of weightlessness in Sunday, Aug. 10 at the Dairy Center and features showcase performances, the swinging and exhilaration is what for the Arts for $20-$25, the one-ofintimate encounters with the dancers, attracts her to aerial dancing. a-kind show will feature Montreal’s student classes, workshops and more Those unacquainted with that Ana Prada on fabric, New York’s at The Dairy Center for the Arts, particular thrill are in luck, as this Karen Fuhrman on bungee, and elite CU’s theater building and the FFP week will mark the beginning of the gymnast Sam Tribble on the Cyr 16th annual Aerial Dance Festival put studio. Attendees can expect to see

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wheel — among others — against a “fabulous lighting” set, according to Smith. Two FFP members, Lynda White and Kim Townsend, normally teach aerial burlesque, but will instead feature a “silly, character-driven” duet at the performance, according to Townsend. “We try to keep it PG-13 and really fun,” White said as she sat on the hardwood floor at the FFP studio, taking a break from her slings during rehearsal. “We don’t do anything inappropriate so we think comedy is a great solution for that. It’s more of a variety show with us.” The two are also looking forward to watching the brand new Cabaret Performance this year, taking place Friday, Aug. 15 at 8:30 see AERIAL DANCE Page 28

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Townsend (left) and White (right) practice aerial acrobatics ahead of the Aerial Dance Festival.

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p.m. at The Dairy. There, high-caliber dancers and “Naughty Pierre” from Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret in Denver will perform. Tickets for this show are $12 and it features a preceding cocktail hour starting at 7:30 p.m., or the “schmoozfest” as it’s called, where people can mingle with the aerialists. And if you’re looking to get even more up-close-and-personal with the dancers from the festival, the “Intimate Encounters” session, taking place Tuesday, Aug. 5 at CU’s Theater and Dance Building at 8 p.m., will have them demonstrating their techniques and artistic processes as they field questions from a surrounding audience. But not only does the Aerial Dance Festival put on high-flying shows from professionals, it also provides two weeks of classes for students wanting to learn, culminating in the final Student Repertory Showcase at The Dairy, Saturday, Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. Students can sign up a day before classes start and either train every day during week A, starting Monday, Aug. 4, or week B, starting Monday, Aug. 11. The three classes include fabric, low-flying trapeze duets, or invented apparatus. Some of 28 July 31, 2014

the apparatuses Smith has used in the past are steel umbrellas, flying beds and tubes. “It’s a great opportunity to get a lot of skills really fast,” Smith says. “We’d like for anyone who comes in to study with us to feel successful at whatever level they’re able to be successful. We work with many different kinds of body types … Just having some basic level of fitness is generally enough to have a great experience.” And finally, it’s not really a festival until you bring in some workshops. Theatrical makeup, aerial costuming and getting work in the aerial biz are some topics to be covered, while films like “World Circus,” will be premiered at The Dairy, Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 7 and 9 p.m. For a complete schedule or to purchase tickets, visit www.frequentflyers.org. “Other shows just use the horizontal space of a theater — we all use the vertical space,” Townsend said. “You get that visceral feeling of flying when you see someone else fly. So, it like connects you back to that sort of innate, tribal, earthy, insane view to just get up and spin around and get upside down. There’s a joy that connects you.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Final week at CMF features aspects of love by Peter Alexander

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ON THE BILL: Sunday, Aug. 3,

7:30 p.m., Chautauqua Auditorium, CMF Chamber Orchestra, JeanMarie Zeitouni conducts with Jennifer Koh on violin. Thursday & Friday, Aug. 6 & 7, Zeitouni conducts the festival finale. Tickets: https://tickets.chautauqua.com/online/defaults.asp

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t’s all about love. That’s how conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni describes the concert he will lead with the Colorado Music Festival Chamber Orchestra Sunday evening, Aug. 3. One of three official candidates to succeed Michael Christie as music director of the festival, Zeitouni will conduct just two works on the program: the Carmen Suite by Rodion Shchedrin; and Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato’s Symposium) for solo violin, strings, harp and percussion, with the young American violinist Jennifer Koh. Zeitouni is currently artistic director of the distinguished chamber ensemble I Musici de Montréal, a position he combines with a schedule of guest appearances. A Tchaikovsky Competition Violinist Jennifer Koh (right) will join conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni (left) for a CMF Chamber Orchestra presentation of Bernstein’s Serenade. medalist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, Koh performs with major orchestras and festivals around the The festival finale program for Aug. crashes the party. world. 7 and 8 adds yet one more twist on “When the piece is at probably its Like the other candidates who have love. The story of Don Juan — admithighest philosophical point, it’s intervisited CMF this summer, Zeitouni will rupted by party music,” Zeitouni says. tedly an extreme and degraded form of also conduct a pair of concerts with the erotic love — is represented in two “It all ends as a big party, so the end is full orchestra. He will lead this year’s works, Mozart’s overture to Don very jazzy, very cool, and very finale concerts Thursday and Friday, Giovanni and Strauss’ Don Juan. And it Bernstein-like.” Aug. 7 and 8. The program will be Zeitouni specifies that it is not neces- could even be suggested that the final anchored by Don Juan and Ein sary to read Plato before the concert. The work — Strauss’ Heldenleben, in which the composer casts himself as Heldenleben (A hero’s life), two tone music stands on its own, and besides, he the hero, at one point fighting off the poems by Richard Strauss, whose 150th says, “I might take some time at the assaults of petty critics — is an birthday is being celebrated this year. break to do a small summary, to possibly expression of self love. The concert will open with the overture enhance the listening experience.” “Strauss turning 150 this year to the opera Don Giovanni by Mozart. The music from Bizet’s Carmen is allows musicians and orchestra to “Both pieces are for strings and per- better known by far than Bernstein’s indulge a little bit more in his music,” cussion only,” he says. “It’s very rare to Serenade, but Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite he says. “He’s a favorite of mine, and have that combination, and to have is not the version you might recognize. such a big percussion section with a In spite of its name, Carmen Suite is not it’s always a treat for musicians to play this music because it’s really, really chalsmall orchestra. a suite of music from the opera; it’s a “And there is a strong love connecballet that Shchedrin wrote for his wife, lenging, but really rewarding for an orchestra. tion, because of course Carmen is the the Bolshoi dancer Maya Plisetskaya. “Strauss has a reputation to be story we all know about the fatality of In Shchedrin’s score, the rhythms heavy, but actually there’s a lot of counthe love and the passion. But and dances from the opera have been terpoint, a lot of tender passages, and Bernstein’s Serenade is based on Plato’s distilled and concentrated. As Zeitouni Symposium, which is a discourse on love, explains it, “When you condense it into it’s very sensitive music. He’s a good composer to honor because he gave so from many different aspects. The whole a 45-minute ballet, then suddenly the program is driven by different ideas landscape is more compact and you just much to orchestral music and to the modern orchestra.” about loving, fraternal and passionate feel the dance energy all the time.” And dare we say it? Audiences love it. and philosophical.” For the ballet, music from the opera Peter Alexander’s interviews with all Lest you think Bernstein’s Serenade has been re-imagined for strings and perthree candidates for musical director of the is all deep, philosophical music, you cussion, so the familiar orchestral colors Colorado Music Festival can be seen at should know that in ancient Greece a are missing. And Shchedrin has added symposium was more of a drinking some original harmonic and contrapuntal http://sharpsandflatirons.com/category/ cmf-director-candidates/. party than a seminar. And at the end of touches in what he described as “a creRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com Plato’s Symposium, a drunken group ative meeting of the minds” with Bizet. Boulder Weekly

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The Ghost Wolves are not The White Stripes by Josh Gross

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t’s not quite the worst thing ever, but if you’re thinking of going to see The Ghost Wolves perform at Madelife in Boulder on Wednesday, Aug. 6, know that they are pretty sick of getting compared to The White Stripes. “I’m not offended by it,” says Jonathan Wolf, the Austinbased band’s drummer. “They’re incredible. And if you’re going to draw comparisons, it’s better than Backstreet Boys. It’s just lazy for writers. It’s a way to put us in a box.” Wolf says he thinks it is because people look at the band’s picture instead of listening to its record, Man, Woman, Awooooooooo! Ghost Wolves of Austin. Awooooooo! Beast. And what that picture shows is a monochromaticallydressed husband and wife lo-fi grunge blues duo, hence the something as a generation, sonically. Hopefully, we’re not the write-from-the-hip comparison. But, the roles are backwards, generation that succumbs to the laptop.” the sound is different and about those colors... Laptops might seem like an odd thing for a member of a “I’m messy, so I wear black all the time,” says Wolf. “And two-piece to oppose, as a major component of the laptop’s rise then Carley wears white, so it looks different.” in contemporary music was the ability to fill in the sound That’s the whole story and Jonathan is sticking to it. with a smaller band; to make two people sound like 20. But But to look past the press photo and hear Carley Wolf ’s the Wolfs are fine without those 18 avatars. vicious slide-licks and the mischievous tone of her vocals as “We like the sound,” says Jonathan Wolf. “I like just havshe coos out lyrics like “grandma’s a rebel, raised by the devil,” ing one person to concentrate on. As a drummer, you’re it’s pretty clear The Ghost Wolves are too wild to live in any always trying to fill in the sound and make things sound betsort of box anyhow. ter. It’s easier for me to get my musical ideas across with just The band got one person.” its start when the A lot of the sound is filled out by Carley’s focus on the Americana band lower end of the guitar’s register, but also through the warmth ON THE BILL: The Ghost Wolves Jonathan Wolf was provided by the slide. 8 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 6 drumming in start“She also just happens to be kick-ass at what she does,” Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, $8 ed to crumble says Jonathan. “Makes it easy to work with.” about the same He says the two-piece format is also easier to work within. time his wife, “If we get into a fight, it’s over pretty quick,” he says. “In a Carley, sold her acoustic guitar for an electric. The two began larger band, it can last three months.” loose jamming in their living room, playing old blues and And Wolf says that’s the case, even when the band memrockabilly covers just for the helluvit. ber you’re fighting with is also your partner. “It works great,” he says. “I think people might have the “We just kind of wanted to rock out,” says Wolf. “That wrong idea that working with your lover is a bad thing. To was the brunt of it. Just wanting to be loud and not be too me it’s the greatest thing. We have a nice level of trust. serious.” When you’re in bands with people you’re not as close with, But it didn’t take long before the already-existing chemisit’s harder to communicate. For us, it’s easier to find creative try and focus on fun over commercial appeal made the band a things to do without having to worry about hurting one hit in the Austin underground. The Ghost Wolves, who took another’s feelings.” their name from a vision the pair had one night at Carley’s family ranch in Texas, packed their gear and their wolf-hybrid And who says wolves are vicious. dog, Winter, in the car and began to hit the touring circuit The performance at Madelife is one of three dates that hard, with hundreds of stateside performances since 2011. comprise the band’s first time through Colorado, and it may Their self-proclaimed “stomp and roll” resonated with the be a while before they’re back as the band has a series of burgeoning lo-fi and psych-rock renaissance, a mildly luddite European dates coming in fall. scene centered in Austin, but with tentacles in garages and If you’re looking for an easy comparison to convince a basements the country wide. friend to go to the show with you, good luck. Wolf is forward about the connection. “Hopefully we just sound like ourselves,” says Wolf. “Psych music is all people playing for real,” he says. “That’s the goal.” “They’re on the edge with their sound. We want to own Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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arts & culture Life is a melancholic matter

‘Mood Indigo’ visualizes joy and loss

by Michael J. Casey

ood Indigo, opening this Friday at the Landmark Chez Artiste in Denver, is the latest from French writer/director Michel Gondry, a crafter of handmade fairy tales and whimsical nightmares best known for his 2004 sci-fi break-up drama, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Mood Indigo is a simple story of a boy and a girl. The boy is Colin (Romain Duris), 30-something, single and independently wealthy. He lives in a fantastic apartment, practically pulsating with life. He lives with Nicholas (Omar Sy), his confidant and cook — who concocts nothing but elaborate and intricate meals — and a mouse that stays busy keeping the place clean. While Nicholas and the mouse handle the day-to-day, Colin spends his time and money inventing a

“pianocktail” which manufactures elaborate cocktails based on the music the player chooses to play. The girl is Chloé (Audrey Tautou), a Duke Ellington tune brought to life. Colin is smitten, but he doesn’t know what to do. Chloé is as innocent as they come and finds Colin’s bumbling adorable. They fall madly in love and marry, but while on their honeymoon, a water lily begins to grow in Chloé’s lung and she becomes ill. Desperate to heal her, Colin sacrifices his wealth, his friends and his lifestyle. Gondry’s signature approach blends stop-motion animation, miniatures and in-camera special effects to create a cinematic world that exists adjacent to the real, reflecting the emotions of this world as the moon reflects the light of the sun. This created world feels livedin and meticulous, but not precious.

Unlike his contemporary, Wes Anderson, Gondry approaches his handmade world with reckless abandon, often delighting in the destruction of something that was lovingly created whole cloth. A reminder that life is serious business and even the quaintest moments can damage and scar. But in Mood Indigo, it’s not simply a sadistic streak on Gondry’s part, but the cinematic expression of the subject matter. When Colin and Chloé begin to fall in love, a cloud car appears and “lifts them up where they belong” high above the city of Paris while a saccharine pop song plays. Conversely, when Chloé falls ill, the walls around Colin literally close in on him. The cost of caring for Chloé drains Colin’s bank account and the color from the movie. Gondry isn’t one to let his characters off easy. If they are allowed to float upon the clouds of

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Friday, Aug. 1, Boulder Theater, 8 p.m., 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Saturday, Aug. 2, Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, 6:30 p.m. 18300 W Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 720-865-2494

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Thursday, July 31 Music Andrew Grams and William Wolfram. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Augustus. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Brian Parton. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303396-1898.

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

Drive X. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Pete Kartsounes. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.

Henhouse Prowlers & Chicago Farmer. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

The Boulder Swing Collective. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Holly and the Husbands. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Randall Dubis. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Ransoli Camacho. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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Thursday, July 31-Sunday, Aug. 3: Colorado Brazil Festival, multiple venues, Boulder, 303443-8696

Music. Culture. Those skimpy outfits made from feathers and sequins. It will all be on display in Boulder this week when Boulder Samba School hosts its third annual Colorado Brazil Fest. The event will take place in multiple theaters and venues from Thursday, July 31-Sunday, Aug. 3. Lineups include an ensemble of acclaimed Brazilian musicians, dancers and teachers along with a number of vendors offering a diverse showcase of Brazilian music, culture and traditional cuisine. Get more info and a full schedule of events at www. coloradobrazilfest.org/.

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Thursday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Events Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & WCS. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Brewers Saturday, August 2: Avery Brewing Company’s 21st Anniversary Party, 12 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303440-4342

Tapestry Revisited. 7 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

T’was 21 years ago that Adam Avery (blessed be his name), smiled upon Boulder and the world at large by opening Avery Brewing, which begat White Rascal Ale, which begat Out of Bounds Stout, which begat Ellie’s Brown Ale, which begat whatever crockpot mad science they’re pouring at the taproom this week. This week, the brew-lads at Avery will be celebrating their 21st anniversary. There will be food and drink and merriment to make, and Mr. Avery will be digging deep into his brew-vault to pour some rare vintage beers long-thought to be extinct. This will also be the last anniversary Avery has in its original location. At 21, our little brewery is all grown up and will be moving out to its own place in Gunbarrel once construction is finished.

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Saturday, August 2: Lighthouse Writers Workshop hosts Boulder Story Builder, Boulder Center for Conscious Community, 1637 28th St., Boulder, 303-2971185

Lighthouse Writers Workshop will spend the weekend presenting an array of seminars, craft-talks and literary performances to help Boulder’s aspiring scribes class up their game. Writers Erika Krouse and Brad Wetzler, who contribute to A-list magazines like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, GQ and Wired, will lead workshops focusing on scenes and how to bring them to life through vibrant description. Eleanor Brown will share the tips for creating unique narrators that made her novel, The Weird Sisters, a bestseller. Laura Pritchett will focus on the perfect opening sentence. Feel free to skip using “Laura” and just call her Ishmael. There will also be a performance from Stories on Stage actors and a series of panel discussions. Get more info and a full schedule at www.lighthousewriters.org.

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Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 14.

Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through Aug. 1. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through March 22, 2015.

Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel Sprick. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Nov. 2.

The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31.

Summer in 3D — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 21. Beyond Pop Art — Tom Wesselmann. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 14. The 21st Century Madonna — by Various Artists. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through fall.

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Still Memories — by David Brackett. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through fall.

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Elegant Simplicity — by Michael Gabridge. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through fall. Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through January 25, 2015. At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. Eggshell Mosaics — Artist Dorette Carlson. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Aug. 1. The Fresh A.I.R. Series — Various artists. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Sep. 20. Photography — Artist Richard Warner. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table

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Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through January 18, 2015. Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-

Films and Works — by Paul Sietsema. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Oct. 12. Unbound: Altered Environments — Artists Christina Battle, Justin Beard, Christine Buchsbaum, Sonja Hinrichsen, Patrick Loehr, Loretta Young-Gautier. Theater Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Digital Creations — Artists Chris Coleman, Michael Salter, Milton Croissant III, Bryan Leister, Alex McLeod. Upper Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Five Installations — Artists Nicole Banowetz, Katie Caron, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Rian Kerrane, Laleh Mehran. Main Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Sculpture in the Fields — Various artists. Outdoor Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Sept. 30, 2015.

EVENTS from Page 35 Malai Llama. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Missing Parts. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Numi Native. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Outer Banks. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Railroad Earth. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Romeo Delight ‘A Tribute To Van Halen’. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Terri Jo Jenkins. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Tyler T. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303. CFOOTMAD — Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Club de literatura en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. First Friday Contact Improvisation Jam. 7:30 p.m. Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St., Boulder, 303-440YOGA.

How to Run a Successful E-Mail Marketing Campaign. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Tango Practica at BTS. 8 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Saturday, August 2

Events

Music

Boulder County Fair. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

All Chiefs No Indians. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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

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

Amos Lee. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Bad Cactus Brass. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Bear on Guitar. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981. Ben Hanna Band. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Dead Set. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Diana Castro. 8 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Carmen Suite and Bernstein. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Country Dog. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Daniel and The Lion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Feeding Frenzy. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Felonius Smith CD Release Party. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Greensky Bluegrass. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th

St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Jeff and Paige. 4:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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

Events

Lost Dog Street Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Boulder County Fair. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460.

Open Bluegrass Pick with Timber!. 5 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303786-9270.

Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Psychodillo. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Shook Twins, Taarka. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Butterflies and Other Flying Creatures. 9:30 a.m. Meyers Homestead Trail at Walker Ranch, Boulder. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Skanson & Hansen. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

IRONMAN Boulder. 7 a.m. Boulder High School — Boulder County School District, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2200.

Sunday Brunch w/ Steve Itterly. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Eric Stone & Thomas Webster. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270. FoxFeather. 7 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130. III. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. KC Turner & Thunderegg. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Laurie Morvan Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Leftapalooza. 12 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Monte Selby. 2:30 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Noveau- Expo. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Second Acts. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Stephen Thurston Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Sweet Lillies. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Tripping Griswolds. 7 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Twice As Nice. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Vintage Highway. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Events BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder County Fair. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Boulder Story Builder Weekend. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, East Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-494-0523. Boulder Swing Dance — Saturday Stomp. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Conversations in English. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460.

Sunday, August 3 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Al Chesis & Bob Pellegrino. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Arthur Lee Land. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. see EVENTS Page 38

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Monday, August 4

Ira Liss. 7-8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Chronicles of Douglas County, Colorado — by the Castle Rock Writers. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050.

Wolf — by Jim Ringel. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Last Night at the Blue Angel — by Rebeca Rotert. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. 303-436-1070.

Friday, August 1 Get Pop-Cultured: Frozen Friday. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-0349 Saturday, August 2 Boulder Next Culture Writers. 9-11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Tuesday, August 5

Jim Ringel will be signing and talking about his book Wolf at The Boulder Bookstore on Thursday, July 31st.

The Best Front Range Hikes for Children — by Tony Parker. 2 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. Get Pop-Cultured: Marvel Day. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349 Sunday, August 3 Get Pop-Cultured: James Patterson Day. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-0349 Tattered Cover Film Series: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs — 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

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A Paris Apartment — by Michelle Gabrielle. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7-8:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-

The Trauma of Everyday Life — by Mark Epstein. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Wednesday, August 6 Nightingale’s Nest — by Nikki Loftin. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. The Home Place — by Carrie La Seur. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

EVENTS from Page 37 LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

German speaking table. All Day. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Rocky Mountain Tea Festival. 9 a.m. The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424993.

Mining Unrest Nearby: The Hecla Mine Conflict of 1914. 12 p.m. Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-8848.

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

Musical Storytime with Alice and Melanie. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Monday, August 4

Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Meadow Music. 5:30 p.m. Ranger Cottage, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Monday Night Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. The Prairie Scholars: Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Tuesday, August 5 Music The Alphabet Club: A Weekly Queer Hosted Dance Party. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. AZTeC. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Bands on the Bricks. 8 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Prospect Eats: M Squared. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont.

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

Events

Blake Aaron Russell. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Boulder County Fair. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Citizen Science Hike: Understanding Our Air Quality. 1:30 p.m. Walter Orr Roberts Nature Trail, Boulder. Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Trivia. 8 p.m. Pizza Bar 66, 430 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6262.

Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bluegrass Tuesdays. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Boulder Jam. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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Shrek the Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Sept. 6. The Tempest. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-4928008. Through Aug. 10. Henry IV: Part 1. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-4928008. Through Aug. 10.

492-8008. Through Aug. 9. I Hate Hamlet. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-4928008. Through Aug. 9.

Stories on Stage is putting on An evening of Stories from the Lighthouse writers through August 2nd.

Henry IV: Part 2. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Aug. 3 only. Stories on Stage: An Evening of Stories from the LIghthouse Writers. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, 303-440-7826. Aug. 2 only. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-

Boulder Timberliners Barbershop Chorus. 7 p.m. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1680 Balsam Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4151. Jeff Brinkman. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Mark Diamond presents: The Heavy Cats. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4151300. Tuesday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Events Boulder County Fair. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

The Producers. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 5.

The Odd Couple. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241. Through Aug. 24. A Streetcar Named Desire. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through Sept. 7.

Josh Quinlan Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Kid Brother. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

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Ray LaMontagne. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Boulder County Fair. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Boulder County Sunset Hike. 6:30 p.m. Betasso Preserve, Boulder. Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303. Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Bands on the Bricks with The Goonies. 5:30 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774.

Palmer Park Run. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

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Boulder County Bombers Roller Derby Recruit Nights 8/ 11 7pm Bootstrap Brewery (21+) 6778 N. 79th St, Niwot, CO 80503 8/ 13 7pm 300 Suns Brewery (18+) 335 1st Ave, Longmont, CO 80501

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Augustus. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Cassie Taylor. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

September 25

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

August 22

Open Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Music

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

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Nicole Atkins & Bear’s Den. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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

Teen Film Nexus: Coraline. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Shakespeare to the Death. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Aug. 16.

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‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ needs no humans

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ime has whittled mainstream memory of the original late 1960s/early 1970s Planet of the Apes franchise down to an image of Charlton Heston’s clenched fist and the Statue of Liberty tanning her torchy top half on the beach. However, the original series was actually quite subversive and fascinating. It was compelling science fiction that occasionally skinny dipped in psychedelic waters. With Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, this reboot of the series (or re-reboot if you’re Tim Burton) is now flexing blockbustery swagger. Gone are the time-traveling subplots and near-mute, buxom beauties of the original series. Now, we’ve got armies of CGI chimps riding horses and firing machine guns. Are you not entertained?! The most important thing is this: although these Apes films have ditched some of the trippier elements, they have retained the social awareness and have infused summer spectacle with humanistic moralizing. Dawn begins in 2026, with humanity on the wrong end of a supervirus beatdown. Only small pockets of people remain in a post-apocalyptic land better

But Caesar and Malcolm ( Jason Clarke), a cautious father and second-incommand at the human camp, both want peace. They negotiate a Dawn of the Planet of the Apes deconstructs the American “guns for self-pres- delicate ervation” myth while offering CGI chimps riding horses with machine guns. alliance that is befitting the animals. Caesar (Andy threatened by the human leader, Serkis) and his ape family are thriving Dreyfus (Gary Oldman), and the warin what looks to be the Ewok village. mongering Koba. An act of betrayal They hunt, have children and teach les- leads to an epic fallout worthy of sumsons in sign language and spotty spoken mer fare, as explosions, graphic ape-onwords. A small band of humans looking ape action and tons of symbolism comto restart a generator stumbles into bine in a furry, bloody climax. their territory, and one of them, Carver Man, oh man — or should that be (Kirk Acevedo), shoots an ape child. “ape, oh ape” — does this movie look This enrages the animal clan, especially good. Director Matt Reeves hungrily Koba (Toby Kebbell), who demands exploits the best kind of computer war. effects: the kind you’re not sure is fake.

KID BROTHER (1927)

Silent film starring Harold Lloyd and featuring live musical accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Harold Lloyd’s comic masterpiece Kid Brother is a masterful blend of great comedy and sentiments. Harold Hickory (Lloyd) is smitten by Mary Powers travelling with her late father’s medicine show. When the show burns down, Harold invites her to stay at his house with his father and brothers. When the town’s money is stolen by thugs, Harold’s father is accused, and with encouragement from Mary, Harold sets out to find the real crooks. No matter how many times you watch this film you can always find something you did not notice previously. The film is so beautifully shot that it has an idyllic quality and its structure is something to be marveled at. It is so delicately built that every frame, even every prop serves a purpose for either characterization or as link between gags, or both. At Chautauqua. — Chautauqua

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discovery is packed tight with raw, energetic comedy and moments of poignant human honesty. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater TEENAGE The concept of “teenagers” was invented during the last century. With a changing tide the world over and a struggle erupting between generations, the new culture of youth took shape. Whether in America, England or Germany; whether Flappers or Swing Kids, zealous Nazi Youth or frenzied Sub-Debs, they were all a new idea of youth. They were all ‘Teenagers.’ This living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th century diary entries forms an immersive history. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater VENUS IN FUR This film is based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway play by David Ives, which itself was based on Leopold von SacherMasoch’s groundbreaking

A brave decision was made to center the film around the ape family, which is to say that the humans take on a supporting role, mostly plot-centric, while the simians are the ones who demonstrate character growth. From the sublimely villainous Koba to the complex Caesar, shifting away from human actors is a clever choice and not an accident. The thematic morality lessons are also no accident. The film deconstructs the American “guns for self-preservation” myth while offering critical communicative advice about how heroes listen and villains bark orders. The only thing hobbling the flick from hitting full stride is a reliance on broadly painted characters, like Carver, and cliched plot points, like humans helping Caesar’s sick wife. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is gorgeous, thoughtful and thrilling. What it lacks in original plot, it tries to assuage by uniquely focusing on nonhumans as the leads. If, perchance, the next film is War for the Planet of the Apes, as is suspected, let’s hope it’s not a battle for diminishing returns.

novella. An actress attempts to convince a director how she’s perfect for a role in his upcoming production. Smart, funny and ferocious twist of sex and power. (Roman Polanski, 2013, France, 1:36, NR). At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater WORLD CIRCUS Following five circus acts from around the world to the “Academy Awards” of circus competitions, the Monte Carlo Circus Festival, this family-friendly film reveals the spectacular life, history and culture inside a world that we usually just see on the surface. Get a behind-the-curtain look at clowns, acrobats, and animal trainers who train to compete for the top prize. (Angela Snow, 2013, USA, 1:03, NR) At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater Respond: letters@boulderweekly.

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t doesn’t work this way with people, but there’s a level of confident stupidity a movie can display that makes it endearing. Lucy is that kind of stupid. Cocksure and confidently, it swaggers around, daring you to question any of the unimaginable number of scientific inaccuracies it hurls. You can practically hear writer/ director Luc Besson just off screen whispering, “What are you gonna do, doubt our scientific mumbo jumbo when we’ve got Morgan friggin’ Freeman delivering exposition? He’s the voice of God. You must respect.” The special kind of stupid that Lucy displays requires a simplistic framework upon which unrealistic and overreaching themes are placed. Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) is an American college student in China studying something or other. Her loser boyfriend of one week handcuffs a briefcase to her wrist and makes her deliver it to Mr. Jang (Minsik Choi). Mr. Jang is an unpleasant fellow. He orders Lucy to be cut open and stuffed with a new illegal drug. When the container ruptures, the contents flood Lucy’s system. But here’s the thing: it’s the most awesome drug ever. If you take enough of it, you become God. Or, as the pseudoscience in the movie incorrectly explains, “you use 100 percent of your brain’s cerebral capacity.” For some reason, this allows you to move stuff with your mind and sometimes dissolve into a weird human cloud thing. Oh, and as far as overreaching on themes, Lucy tries to explain the origins of all known reality. How is that for bravado? Again, it must be restated, none of this gobbledygook makes even the softBoulder Weekly

est lick of sense. Lucy’s powers, evolution and motivations are abject nonsense by even the lowest standard. But Besson is so confident at the helm that he’s like a grand symphony conductor commanding musicians who are playing arm farts. He uses weird nonsensical flashes to metaphorical symbols, action that blatantly rips off The Matrix and a performance by Morgan Freeman that can only be described as “partly conscious.” Science fiction is supposed to be ambitious. So Besson can be legitimately forgiven for hubris when it comes to the more fantastic elements. Johansson helps matters by delivering a surprisingly controlled and genuine performance. Besson has always encouraged great delivery from his female leads. Once again the “tortured but eventually strengthened” woman motif emerges in his work, as it did with Natalie Portman in The Professional and Anne Parillaud in La Femme Nikita. But as far as themes go, women moving from passive players in cruel, male-dominated worlds to unstoppable badasses isn’t exactly an overused theme in the patriarchal realm of cinema. Look, Lucy is fun. Try to say it isn’t when Johansson is sending mercenaries flying through the air with a flick of her wrist. It’s not “good,” which is to say it isn’t an exemplary film, but it’s fun. It is confidently dumb, defiantly moronic and a fine way to spend 90 minutes of time before doing something of value. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Fifteenth annual Rocky Mountain Tea Festival aims to explain all the tea in China by Maalikah Hartley Susan France

Fun fact: from one plant, Camellia sinensis, you can create white, green, black, oolong and other teas. Learn more about tea — from ceremonies to cooking — at the Rocky Mountain Tea Festival.

or some, having a quick places in the United States and cup of tea means stimu- South America but really 99.9 lating or consoling the percent of tea comes from Asia senses by breathing in and Africa.” the tea fumes before The first tea fest put on 15 slowly sipping it down. For othyears ago by Martinelli and his ers, tea is a wife Sara was Susan France lifestyle. But meant to bring at the 15th a higher awareannual Rocky ness of interMountain Tea national tea Festival hapculture to pening this Boulder. weekend at Industry leadthe Boulder ers came out to Dushanbe teach workTeahouse, shops and hold everyone can tea tastings for get together customers to celebrate interested in the Camellia premium, loose sinensis plant. leaf tea, and “From that the event had plant you get such a gratifywhite tea, ing outcome green tea, that it expandConnect with ed usinto an black tea, oolong tea, annual tradiand then from The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse hosts the tion. those teas you Rocky Mountain Tea Festival, Aug. 2 & 3. A full can actually schedule of flavor them with different oils or events can be seen at www.rockConnect with us different herbs, or a combination ymtnteafestival.com, but of both, to create a different flaMartinelli says the gist of the fesvor tea,” says Lenny Martinelli, tival is to provide a place to get a owner of Three Leaf Concepts, “basic understanding of tea.” which runs the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse. “There’s some boutique see TEA FESTIVAL Page 44

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Martinelli will host Saturday’s “Cooking with Tea” workshop at 10 a.m. where he will prepare dishes using different tea ingredients in front of an audience he also likes to feed. “When I use tea as an ingredient I use it really as just another ingredient versus … trying to get a strong tea

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Martinelli will also cook the $38, four-course “Tea Dinner” taking place Saturday at 5 p.m. where all dishes will be prepared with tea and produce from the Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette will be used. Last year’s items included Tung Ting Oolong Poached Chicken, Tres Cambric Tea Cake and Kyoto Cherry Rose Tea Cookies. For passers-by, Saturday’s free Tea Bazaar going on from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. will include tea vendors like Boulder’s Ku Cha House of Tea and the “Silver Speakers” of the tea fest who will set up booths offering samples and selling Taiwanese oolong teas, Korean green tea, Indian and Chinese teas, and traditional and modern tea ware among other things. The eight tea workshops that are set to run at different times throughout the weekend are $15 to register and will fly in international tea experts covering a plethora of hands-on tea topics. A few include “The Japanese Tea Ceremony, Cyanoyo,” “The Art of Tea Blending with Sara Martinelli,” “Traveling through India with Devan Shah,” and even “Tea Leaf Reading with Caroline Dow.” Martinelli is particularly excited for David Lee Hoffman’s seminar, “Rare Teas of China.” “He’ll be the most well-attended of all of them because he was one of the first people to actually be able to go into China, probably 34 years ago, and actually bring tea out of China without going to the Chinese government,” Martinelli says. “His knowledge and understanding of tea is superb.” For kids, Sunday’s “Children’s Teddy Bear Tea Party” held at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. will spark imaginations as kid’s dress up in their finest tea wear and bring along a stuffed friend or doll to indulge in tea, scones, sandwiches and sweets. Games, activities and a photo area will also be available. If nothing else the tea festival will aid you in finding a tea that you weren’t aware you would connect with so well. “Oolong is actually my favorite tea to drink. So I’ll always drink oolong at anytime, but in the afternoon I like to drink white tea,” Martinelli says. “Your body naturally gets tired at that point. [White tea] enlivens your brain, it doesn’t jack you up like coffee would. It really is a nice refreshing, stimulative beverage.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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National Farmers’ Market Week is Aug. 3-9 and Boulder County Farmers’ Market is setting up special occasions for people to get to know their produce and farmers a little better. Events like Monday’s $10 “Yoga and Wine in the Gardens” hosts an evening yoga session at Oxford Gardens in Niwot followed by a glass of wine and tour of the farm, while the Farmers’ Market Dinner at the Black Cat Restaurant (really taking place at Bramble & Hare) will focus on local Black Cat-raised pork and vegetables served by owners and farmers, Eric and Jill Skokan, on Tuesday night. Friday’s cheese-making workshops and goat tours will take place at Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy in Longmont for $20, and veggie harvesting at the Red Wagon and Cure farms (including some fresh-farm gelato) will be free on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. For more information and to RSVP for any of the events, visit www.boulderfarmers.org. And if you need a bigger farm fixing, BCFM farmers are pairing up with chefs and restaurants to put on “Farm-to-Neighborhood Dinners.” The first held on July 27 took place in Longmont, where Oxford Gardens and Ollin Farms (both BCFM vendors) paired up with Blooming Beets Kitchen of Boulder to provide a large meal for about 30-plus people outdoors. For more information on upcoming dinners and locations, visit www. boulderfarmers.org. — Maalikah Hartley

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search for tacos like Ahab searched for the great white whale; with a manic obsession few understand. “Why do you need tacos,” my friends wonder as we drive on into the stormy night, eyes peeled and hands lashed to the steering wheel. “Why don’t you?” I fire back. That was about the fervor required to find Oskar Blues CyclHOPS Bike CANtina, a combination restaurant and bike shop whose spelling-based puns make Googling the address annoying. But my dining companion and I managed to find the place on the outskirts of Longmont before turning to Donner party tacos to deal. While CyclHOPS vending tacos and bikes from one shop fronted with bike tools to aid Oskar Blues commuters is an CyclHOPS Bike idea that CANtina deserves some 600 S. Airport sort of Nobel Road, Longmont, Prize, it also 303-779-2453 seemed slightly ironic that the location was on the sort of semi-rural drag strip of a street cyclists tend to avoid for fear of losing one of their three dimensions. But as long as there are tacos, there is hope. And what CyclHOPS lacks in grammar or convenience, it makes up for in tacos. There are six regular varieties and a rotating series of fancy daily specials including portobello mushroom on Mondays and lobster with sweet corn and arugula on Saturdays. Tacos are $3 apiece or three for $8. There are extra charges for the seafood tacos available on Fridays and Saturdays.

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Searching for tortilla-shod greatness at CyclHOPS Bike CANtina by Josh Gross My tacos arrived swiftly, despite a fairly packed house, and were served with a selection of chopped onions, pico, lime and radishes to dress them up: a taco mini-bar — something all aspiring tacopreneurs should take note of. The best of the bunch was sweet potato and green chili, made with cubed bits of tuber as firm as protein, and tasty from being dressed up with pickled red onion and a serrano verde hot sauce. A bowl of posole ($4) on the side had a nice rich flavor from the housemade tinga, and firm balls of hominy.

My dining companion’s Cesar Millan ($5 for small, $9 for large) was a huge step up from the average Caesar, in no small part from the addition of corn nuts — who would have thought? Drinkwise, I’ll admit an existing bias against Oskar Blues beer. The company’s fonts look, as my dining companion said, like those of “a bad cover band made up of people that own a Confederate flag.” No matter how many awards Ten Fidy has won, sipping a can of it is still endorsing bad design. Luckily, that problem was avoided with special Oskar

Blues brews on tap, like the yet-to-becanned Death by Coconut Porter. It only took a single sip to realize that Hal David and Burt Bacharach were wrong: What the world needs now is not “love sweet love,” but more coconut porter. Rivers of the stuff should pour from the mountains like some sort of 21-andup version of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory; waterfalls that TLC can advise us not to to chase, to which we can say, “Who’s chasing? We’re drinking this, suckah!” It wasn’t a porter with hints of coconut; it was a beer Mounds Bar, all sweet, dark and gritty. No matter the fonts, it will still pass muster. Similarly, the “Caballo Blanco,” (a Caucasian made with horchata instead of milk) ordered by my dining companion was so good the Coen Brothers should revisit The Big Lebowski and write it in as the title character’s drink of choice. We closed with a chocolate truffle dusted with mole and habanero. “Holy weight gain, Fatman!,” is what you’d likely say to anyone left alone in a room full of those truffles. Certainly to me anyhow. The rich chocolate and mole were a perfect pair and it was chased by a wicked burn of pepper. Delish. While I’m a staunch advocate for more taco and truffle utopias irrigated by coconut porter, truth is, by the end of the visit, this little whaler was stuffed so full I nearly had to be strapped to the roof, a situation wherein on sharp turns my arm would flop back and forth gesturing to those on the sidewalk as if to say, “Ahab beckons. Eat these tacos. FYI: It’s probably not safe to ride your bike on this road.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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olorado is blazing the trail as the state works to set the standards for legal marijuana use in America. As the first state to roll out legal pot, Colorado is now under a magnifying glass as we create laws to deal with recreational use of what was once an illegal drug. But the legal availability of potent strains of weed in numerous forms for Boulderites of legal age is also creating new burdens for bar and restaurant owners, who are now legally accountable for stoned patrons wanting a drink. How are they dealing with it? With a great deal of confusion. The biggest issue bars are now facing is a lack of clear direction from the city and state. The standard officials offer is if a patron shows “visible intoxication” then don’t serve them. But what does visible intoxication mean? Slurring words, bloodshot eyes, and stumbling around? These classic signs of impairment are part of the warning signs from the Colorado state website defining alcohol intoxication; and those are the standards Boulder police are using when visiting establishments that serve alcohol. Boulder business owners complain that this leaves a lot of gray area, allowing what they describe as overzealous city attorney, Tom Carr, and a stricter Beverage Licensing Authority to continue their assault upon overconsumption, as reported in Boulder Weekly’s March 27 cover story “The new moral crusade.” One bar owner who asked not to be identified summed it up: “They are holding us even more accountable, but refuse to offer help. The last [BLA] Boulder Weekly

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Dear Dan: I’m a 30-year-old straight woman, and I’ve been with my male partner for four years. Here’s the thing that’s been bugging me: After four years, the sex has gotten predictable. But it’s also gotten better in the sense that I orgasm a much greater percentage of the time, now that he knows my body and what I like. More orgasms for me are great, but in the service of that, we’ve fallen into a “tried-and-true” rut, which I don’t think is good. I try to switch it up sometimes, and I surprised him with some sexy lingerie last night… and I got self-conscious, started to worry about whether I’d get off, and then didn’t come. I know he really likes it when I get off, but I don’t want for us to have such a limited repertoire. My feeling is that I should not worry about my orgasms and focus on spice and variety, but I think that if we go too many times without me coming, it might be a downer for his boner, too. So which do we give preference to: variety or orgasms? Rutting Or Undertaking Totally Interesting New Experiences? Dear ROUTINE: Your “tried-andtrue” repertoire may feel like a bit of a rut, ROUTINE, but it’s a successful rut. You have two competing and conflicting interests: You want to come regularly (because of course you do) and you get off consistently when you stick to your routine, but you also want to shake up your routine and try new things. But trying new things — even something as low-stakes as fucking in frillier underpants — makes it difficult for you to come. My advice would be to relax and give yourself permission to not come when you’re trying something new. To stave off frustration and/or selfconsciousness, ROUTINE, constantly remind yourself that new things you both enjoy will be incorporated into your routine. And when things that work for you both join the ranks of the tried-and-true, you’ll be able to come while you’re doing them. This problem solves itself. And remember: You don’t have to stop doing the shit that works now. Let’s say you try something new on Wednesday night — new kink, new locale, new hole — and you enjoy yourself but you don’t come. So the next time you have sex, ROUTINE, stick to the already “tried-and-true” stuff that gets you there consistently. Dear Dan: My best friend has a girlfriend of two years. They break up a lot, and he has slept with plenty of other girls over the last two years. I’ve had a crush on Boulder Weekly

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him for about three years, but I never made any advances. We did have a threesome with a girl in March — he was broken up with his girlfriend at the time — but it was all about the girl and nothing happened between us guys. He got back with his girlfriend after that. Then last month, he and I had sex with each other. We had been drinking, he initiated it, and neither of us came. It was awkward, and we didn’t talk for a week. Then we bumped into each other, and he came home with me and we had sex again. I came this time, but he drank too much and couldn’t. Then three weeks ago, I initiated it and we did it again. This time he came. The next day, he said that the “gay sex stuff ” had to stop. He said he felt like he was cheating on his girlfriend. I agreed. But later that same night, he started getting flirty with me and seemed to be on the verge of initiating again. The issue is, I still want to sleep with him. Do you think that he may have freaked out about liking it too much? Could he be developing feelings? I rarely see him now, due to him hanging with his girlfriend all the time. I can tell that he has had sex with a guy before — it slid in pretty easy and he kept saying how good it felt. I’m so confused on what to do! Boys Easing Sex Tension Secretly   Dear BESTS: Maybe it would help if you told your friend that you’re not having gay sex — you’re having hot, sweaty bi sex. As for what to do… You might wanna look around for some other guy — maybe even a gay one — who you can have a crush on and slide into. But I’m not going to push you to do that, because it’s clear that you’ve got feelings for this guy and at the very least he’s got Feelings While Drunk for you. And while I should probably scold you both for fucking around behind his girlfriend’s back, I have a hunch that you’re very young adults. So you’re getting a pass because this kind of bullshit is often a necessary rite of passage for kids who are still figuring out who they are, and who they can and cannot trust. But I predict that this will end badly, and you will one day look back on the way you once believed that “breaking up a lot” was evidence of a passion that could not be denied (when in actual fact it’s evidence of a couple of twats who cannot be endured) and be deeply, deeply embarrassed. But in the meantime, BESTS, enjoy sliding in. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

If a farmer plants the same crop in the same field year after year, the earth’s nutrients get exhausted. For instance, lettuce sucks up a lot of nitrogen. It’s better to plant beans or peas in that location the next season, since they add nitrogen back into the soil. Meanwhile, lettuce will do well in the field where the beans or peas grew last time. This strategy is called crop rotation. I nominate it as your operative metaphor for the next ten months, Aries. Your creative output will be abundant if you keep sowing each new “crop” in a fertile situation where it is most likely to thrive.

It’s fine if you want to turn the volume all the way up on your charisma and socialize like a party animal. I won’t protest if you gleefully blend business and pleasure as you nurture your web of human connections. But I hope you will also find time to commune with the earth and sky and rivers and winds. Why? You are scheduled to take a big, fun spiritual test in the nottoo-distant future. An excellent way to prepare for this rite of passage will be to deepen your relationship with Mother Nature.

TAURUS

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Maybe your grandparents are dead, or maybe they’re still alive. Whatever the case may be, do you have a meaningful or interesting connection with them? Is there anything about their souls or destinies that inspires you as you face your own challenges? Or is your link with them based more on sentimentality and nostalgia? In the near future, I urge you to dig deeper in search of the power they might have to offer you. Proceed on the hypothesis that you have not yet deciphered some of the useful messages you can derive from how they lived their lives. Explore the possibility that their mysteries are relevant to yours.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

The prolific American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) wrote 32 novels. In those pages, he crammed in almost 1,100 quotations from Shakespeare. What motivated such extreme homage? I suspect he regarded Shakespeare as a mentor, and wanted to blend the Bard’s intelligence with his own. I invite you to do something similar, Gemini. What heroes have moved you the most? What teachers have stirred you the deepest? It’s a perfect time to pay tribute in a way that feels self-empowering. I suspect you will benefit from revivifying their influence on you.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

SCORPIO

You are hereby excused from doing household chores and busywork, Scorpio. Feel free to cancel boring appointments. Avoid tasks that are not sufficiently epic, majestic, and fantastic to engage your heroic imagination. As I see it, this is your time to think really big. You have cosmic authorization to give your full intensity to exploring the amazing maze where the treasure is hidden. I urge you to pay attention to your dreams for clues. I encourage you to ignore all fears except the one that evokes your most brilliant courage. Abandon all trivial worries, you curious warrior, as you go in quest of your equivalent of the Holy Grail.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Broadway is one of New York City’s main streets. It runs the length of the island of Manhattan. But hundreds of years ago it was known by the indigenous Lenape people as the Wickquasgeck Trail. It was a passageway that cut through stands of chestnut, poplar, and pine trees. Strawberries grew wild in fields along the route. Is there a metaphorical equivalent in your own life, Sagittarius? I think there is: a modest, natural path that you will ultimately build into a major thoroughfare buzzing with activity. Part of you will feel sad at the loss of innocence that results. But mostly you’ll be proud of the visionary strength you will have summoned to create such an important conduit.

CAPRICORN

Was there an actual poet named Homer who wrote the ancient Greek epics the Iliad and the Odyssey? Or was “Homer” a fictitious name given to several authors who created those two master works? Whatever the case may be, we know that Homer plagiarized himself. The opening line of Book XI in the Iliad is identical to the opening line of Book V in the Odyssey: “Now Dawn arose from her couch beside the lordly Tithonos, to bear light to the immortals and to mortal men.” So should we be critical of Homer? Nah. Nor will I hold it against you if, in the coming days, you imitate some fine action or brilliant move you did in the past. It was great the first time. I’m sure it will be nearly as great this time, but in a different way.

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

LEO

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

The Earth has been around for almost 4.6 billion years. But according to scientists who study the fossil records, fire didn’t make its first appearance on our planet until 470 million years ago. Only then were there enough land-based plants and oxygen to allow the possibility of fires arising naturally. Do the math and you will see that for 90 percent of the Earth’s history, fire was absent. In evolutionary terms, it’s a newcomer. As I study your astrological omens for the next ten months, I foresee the arrival of an almost equally monumental addition to your life, Leo. You can’t imagine what it is yet, but by this time next year, you won’t fathom how you could have lived without it for so long.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

In the nights to come, I expect you will dream of creatures like fiery monsters, robot warriors, extraterrestrial ghosts, and zombie vampires. But here’s the weird twist: They will be your helpers and friends. They will protect you and fight on your behalf as you defeat your real enemies, who are smiling pretenders wearing white hats. Dreams like this will prepare you well for events in your waking life, where you will get the chance to gain an advantage over fake nice guys who have hurt you or thwarted you.

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The heavenly body known as 1986 DA is a near-Earth asteroid that’s 1.4 miles in diameter. It’s packed with 10,000 tons of gold and 100,000 tons of platinum, meaning it’s worth over five trillion dollars. Can we humans get to it and mine its riches? Not yet. That project is beyond our current technology. But one day, I’m sure we will find a way. I’m thinking there’s a smaller-scale version of this scenario in your life, Capricorn. You know about or will soon find out about a source of wealth that’s beyond your grasp. But I’m betting that in the next ten months you will figure out a way to tap into it, and begin the process.

AQUARIUS

“I just sort of drifted into it.” According to author Gore Vidal, “That’s almost always the explanation for everything.” But I hope this won’t be true for you anytime soon, Aquarius. You can’t afford to be unconscious or lazy or careless about what you’re getting yourself into. You must formulate a clear, strong intention, and stick to it. I don’t mean that you should be overly cautious or ultra-skeptical. To make the correct decisions, all you have to do is be wide awake and stay in intimate touch with what’s best for you.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Members of the industrial band Skinny Puppy are upset with the U.S. military. They discovered that an interrogation team at America’s Guantanamo Bay detention camp tortured prisoners by playing their music at deafening volumes for extended periods. That’s why they sent an invoice to the Defense Department for $666,000, and are threatening to sue. Now would be a good time for you to take comparable action, Pisces. Are others distorting your creations or misrepresenting your meaning? Could your reputation benefit from repair? Is there anything you can do to correct people’s misunderstandings about who you are and what you stand for?

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by Leland Rucker

The myth of super pot

t’s not your grandfather’s pot,” I keep hearing. much the same thing. “Toxic effects caused by this Every time I attend a forum or turn on the TV or mechanism have been either very rare or nonexistent.” the Internet, there’s somebody saying that today’s So much for the paraquat scare. marijuana is fearfully strong and therefore much The potency issue gained even more traction in more dangerous than it used to be. 2004, after a Reuters story boldly proclaimed: “Pot is “Studies reveal that marijuana potency has almost no longer the gentle weed of the 1960s and may pose a tripled over the past 20 years,” it says right on www. greater threat than cocaine or even heroin because so WhiteHouse.gov, citing studies that suggest that many more people use it.” It went on to say officials at today’s marijuana has much more THC, the cannabinoid that gives users the “high” they seek and that prohibitionists seem to dread most. High Times magazine’s annual rundown of the world’s most potent cannabis this year were all certified and lab tested at more than 23 percent THC. So is it more potent? Probably so. The cannabis people smoked back in the 1970s that came from Mexico and Columbia was strong enough — why would so many millions of people risk using it illegally if it wasn’t at least somewhat potent? But it’s not hard to understand why commercial strains today, grown under more favorable conditions and hybridized specifically to create higher THC levels, would be considered stronger. The potency-is-dangerous meme really got rolling in the early 2000s. After The New York Not your grandfather’s pot, but is that a bad thing? Times published articles warning of alarming increases in THC levels in 1980, 1986, and 1994, the government used them as part of the scare tactics that have been a trademark of the prohibi- the National Institutes of Health and at the White tionist movement. House are hoping to shift some of the focus in This followed on the heels of the governmentresearch and enforcement from “hard” drugs such as induced paraquat scare in the late 1970s. Paraquat, a cocaine and heroin to cannabis. well-known pesticide, was applied to Mexican cannaThis news story, though it includes not one smidbis fields, sponsored, of course, by the U.S. governgen of evidence that stronger strains are more dangerment. After applying it, the government told citizens ous than lesser ones, is still cited today to bolster arguthat the paraquat made the marijuana dangerous and ments that higher THC levels are extremely dangerunsafe to smoke. ous. It was a lie, of course, intended to scare Americans “I would predict that stronger pot makes the brain using pot. A 1995 study found that “no lung or other less likely to respond to endogenous cannabinoids,” Dr. injury in cannabis users has ever been attributed to Nora Volkow, then and now the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in an interview paraquat contamination,” and an EPA manual says

for the Reuters piece that year. “While the research so far is inconclusive,” the story went on, “Volkow believes that cannabinoids affect the developing brain and that stronger pot, combined with earlier use, could make children and teens anxious, unmotivated or perhaps even psychotic.” Let’s see. The “proof ” is based on Volkow’s “belief ” in how cannabinoids affect the brain, and the story admits the research is “inconclusive.” That’s the kind of “proof ” I always look for when planning a scare campaign. So is cannabis more dangerous because it’s higher in THC? That’s the trickiest part of the argument. If you believe, for instance, as does Volkow, that all cannabis use is “abuse,” and that the effects of THC are all negative, then you would probably “predict,” as she does, that higher potency would create greater abuse. Stronger strains of cannabis have always existed. Though much of the cannabis I smoked in the 1970s was probably mostly of Mexican origin, we could splurge (as in spend $40) for an ounce of “Columbian,” “sinsemilla” or some exotic strain of “Michoacán” Mexican that was obviously more “potent” than the basic $15-an-ounce weed. And there was always hashish, which was generally more potent than leaf cannabis back then. So the idea that “your grandfather’s pot” was just a bunch of hippies smoking hemp who didn’t know the difference doesn’t wash. Warnings include claims that growing numbers of teens are in treatment for cannabis abuse. Though there probably are more teens in therapy for marijuana use, they generally have little or no choice in the matter. Most were arrested and given the choice of jail or treatment. This creates a situation where the government forces teens to go into treatment and then boasts of those higher numbers as proof that cannabis is strong and addictive. Just another scare tactic from the same people who gave you paraquat pot and Reefer Madness. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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