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Denver man dies fighting ISIS in search of something more by Joel Dyer
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Panel to discuss County diversity in Boulder by Angela K. Evans
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Ashley Byrne strips down in Brazil to raise awareness for animal rights by Caitlin Rockett
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Harvest Bucks program doubles SNAP dollars at Boulder County Farmers Market by Sarah Haas
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Pennsylvania native sets out to hike 100 miles, summit her first 14er and raise $500 by Mollie Putzig
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Better get that Rocky Mountain Folks Fest streak going by Boulder Weekly Staff
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Folks flocking to Boulder for the mountains, craft beer, pot and groceries by John Lehndorff
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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Why the Bernie revolution will continue 6 THE ANDERSON FILES: Putin’s got a friend in Trump 7 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 8 GUEST COLUMN: Stand strong to win against TPP 13 NEWS: In for the count 30 FOLKS FEST: Andrew Bird’s world is changing and so is he 33 FOLKS FEST: Passenger is more than a clever moniker for Mike Rosenberg 37 FOLKS FEST: Americana newcomer Parker Millsap gets apocalyptic 39 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 45 POETRY: by Dorianne Laux 46 SCREEN: ‘Suicide Squad’ is messy... but fun 47 FILM: The past and present collide in ‘Hell or High Water’ 49 DEEP DISH: Hashing it out at the Merc 56 DRINK: Tour de brew: Upslope Brewery 61 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 63 S AVAGE LOVE: Dan Savage fills in for Dan Savage 65 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: One in eight adults say they consume cannabis 67 CANNABIS CORNER: The awesome potency of today’s pot 69 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: An irreverent view of the world Boulder Weekly
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Highroad Why the Bernie revolution will continue by Jim Hightower
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he reason that I believe Bernie Sanders’ political rebellion will persevere is that it’s organic. Rather than being an artificial marketing creation sprouted in some D.C. hothouse by national groups and moneyed interests, this is a wildflower movement that sprang up spontaneously, took root and spread its seeds across thousands of zip codes. Contrary to the conventional wis-
dom of most political pundits, his supporters are not giving up on politics. Why would they? After all, this talented corps of pro-democracy activists seemingly came from nowhere, won 22 states, virtually tied in five others and revolutionized the Democrats’ message, policy agenda and method of campaigning, so they’re eager to push forward. I’ve been out there among them for months — from Great Falls to Cedar Falls, Carson City to New York City, and most recently at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia. No way they’ll “Bern out” and fold, for they are battling the gross inequality and corporate rapaciousness that has a stranglehold on our democracy and on their own well-being. They don’t see their involvement as part of the usual political game, but as the REAL politics of America: The ongoing, historic struggle by everyday people to democratize our country’s wealth and power to ben-
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efit all and serve the common good. Bernie’s success emerged like a grito — a long suppressed shout of rebellion — from the battered soul of working-class America. It sprang in part from people’s anger at being run over, then ignored by the corporate and political elites. But as Bernie’s message spread through mass rallies and social media, it became obvious that the rebellion is also motivated by hope — a deep belief in and a yearning for Egalitarian America, a society dedicated to Democracy’s fundamental principle: We’re all in this together. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 11, 2016 5
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the anderson files Putin’s got a friend in Trump by Dave Anderson
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he Trump-Putin controversies have stirred memories of the Cold War. But the world has changed. The Soviet Union was a peculiar animal. The regime emerged from a popular revolution in 1917 against a gigantic autocratic, semi-feudal Czarist empire. It claimed to be socialist and it definitely had social protections associated with socialism. But economic and political backwardness produced a regime that had old Czarist bureaucrats and commissars running things and a Communist Party pushing the brutal process of rapid industrialization rather than a capitalist class such as happened in the West. The Soviet Union would become a superpower but after its fall, it would disintegrate into several nation states. Many Republicans have been pumping up their chests and hyperventilating about Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation. A few years ago, Barack Obama was calmer. He said that “Russia is a regional power that is threatening some of its immediate neighbors — not out of strength but weakness ... I continue to be much more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in Manhattan.” However, recent events have increased Russia’s tensions with NATO and the
U.S. Ironically, quite a few rightwingers in the United States and Europe consider Putin to be a heroic figure. In 2013, paleoconservative intellectual Pat Buchanan authored a piece entitled “Is Putin One of Us?” in which he noted that while a “de-Christianized” United States has been embracing “homosexual marriage, pornography, promiscuity, and the whole panoply of Hollywood values,” the Russian president has stood up for traditional values. He praised Putin’s disparaging of homosexuals, feminists and immigrants. “Putin may be seeing the future with more clarity than Americans still caught up in a Cold War paradigm,” Buchanan said. He reassured his readers that “Putin says his mother had him secretly baptized as a baby and professes to be a Christian.” Buchanan is a political commentator and politician who was a senior advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. Over the years, he has gotten in trouble over anti-Semitic and racist remarks. He said the Russian president “is seeking to redefine the ‘Us vs. Them’ world conflict of the future as one in which conservatives, traditionalists and nationalists of all continents and countries stand up against the cultural and ideological imperialism of what he sees as a decadent West.” see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7
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Now I know not to vote for Danish
You do your readers a great service by informing them that Paul Danish is a candidate for Boulder County Commissioner. His recent piece opposing a tax on sugary drinks provides all the information any thinking voter needs in order to know how silly it would be to vote for this man. If you limit yourself to the facts, the argument is very simple: 1) Sugar, especially in the highly processed forms of it found in soft drinks, is bad for you. Lots of sugar is very bad for you. All scientific research supports this fact. No study shows that processed sugar is beneficial in the human diet. 2) Sugary drinks have no nutritive
value. You only have to read the nutritional label to find this out. They consist only of calories in the form of sugar. 3) Reduced sugar in the human diet leads to better health outcomes — again, a fact supported by research, where it has been found that excessive consumption of sugar is a risk factor for obesity, heart disease and diabetes. 4) A sugary-drinks tax has the general effect of reducing the consumption of sugary drinks, and as a sequel, of encouraging better health outcomes. For a list of the studies that support this, see the Wikipedia article entitled “Sugary drinks tax.” If Mr. Danish were concerned with facts he would perhaps study them and get on board with the proposed tax. Instead he uses the forum of his column, generously provided by Boulder Weekly, to upchuck a long and colorful rant in which he targets many bugaboos see LETTERS Page 9
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In a rather startling observation for a conservative, Buchanan said: “President Reagan once called the old Soviet Empire ‘the focus of evil in the modern world.’ President Putin is implying that Barack Obama’s America may deserve the title in the 21st century.” Fast forward to 2016. Buchanan is supporting Trump. Putin is saying that Trump is “brilliant and very talented” while Trump says, “I’ve always felt fine with Putin” who is a “strong” and “powerful” leader unlike that weakling Obama. When told that several journalists critical of the Putin regime were murdered, Trump casually shrugged it off. The Trump-Putin bromance is not unique. Putin has warm alliances with far-right parties in Europe which have politics similar to Trump — from Britain’s UKIP party to Jobbik in Hungary, The National Front in France, Golden Dawn in Greece, the National Democratic Party in Germany and Bulgaria’s Ataka party. The most conspicuous example is Marine Le Pen’s National Front in France which, according to the New York Times, “confirmed taking an $11.7 million loan from the First Czech-Russian Bank in Moscow, which has been tied to the Kremlin. She has denied a news report that the money was just the first installBoulder Weekly
ment of an eventual $50 million in loans to help her party through a presidential election in 2017.” Le Pen has endorsed Trump. So has her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder and former leader of the party. He is notorious for outrageous statements such as his claim that the Nazi occupation of France wasn’t “particularly inhumane”and for suggesting that Ebola might solve Europe’s “immigration problem.” American and European officials have claimed that Russia is fighting economic sanctions over its annexation of Crimea by spreading disinformation and funding both right-wing and leftwing parties throughout Europe. “Russian influence in the affairs of the far right is a phenomenon seen all over Europe,” said a study by the Political Capital Institute, a Hungarian research group. It predicted that farright parties, “spearheaded by the French National Front,” could form a pro-Russian bloc in the European Parliament. It said 15 far-right European parties are “committed” to Russia. If Trump is elected, perhaps Putin will also have a friend in the White House. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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guest column Stand strong and united to win against TPP
by Jim Alexee, director of the Sierra Club Rocky Mountain Chapter, and Brenda Roberts, vice president of Communication Workers of America District 7
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hen it comes to some of the world’s biggest trade deals, Coloradans are often left in the dark until it’s too late. That’s exactly what happened with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade deal between the United States and 11 other governments that, if approved by Congress, would ship jobs overseas and increase threats to our air, water and climate. We’ve already seen how trade deals hurt our jobs and our wages. Over 20 years ago, the U.S. was promised economic prosperity from the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. Instead, the deal has led to job displacement in all 50 states, including a net loss of 11,300 jobs in Colorado — a net loss that has hurt our economy and wages. The TPP only stands to exacerbate the problem — we’ll be competing with corporations relocating to countries like Vietnam, where the average minimum wage is a meager 70 cents per hour. At a time when we’re fighting for fair, livable wages, this is beyond unacceptable. It’s not just jobs that are at stake — the health of our environment hangs in the balance too. The TPP tilts the playing field in favor of multinational fossil fuel corporations, with an “investor-state dispute settlement” provision that allows corporations to sue governments in private trade tribunals, where they can demand our taxpayer dollars for environmental protections meant to keep us safe. We saw this threat laid bare just recently when TransCanada, the company behind the destructive and unnecessary Keystone XL pipeline, announced its plans to use investor-state provisions in NAFTA to sue the U.S. government for $15 billion in so-called “expected revenues” for the Administration’s rejection of the toxic pipeline. For us in Colorado, that’s the equivalent of about $100 from each individual income tax return. Colorado’s taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay multinational corporations for
American laws that we voted for to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food on our dinner tables. And yet, corporations have launched hundreds of these lawsuits under similar trade deals, increasingly focusing their attacks on fossil fuel restrictions. The TPP also includes provisions that would give a lifeline to fracking across Colorado and the United States at a time when many of us Coloradans are pushing to restrict fracking so as to protect our air, water and health. By requiring the U.S. Department of Energy to automatically approve all exports of natural gas to countries in the trade deal, the TPP would facilitate increased dangerous fracking and climate-disrupting emissions. In addition, the TPP would nearly double the number of foreign fracking firms that could challenge our protections against fracking in private, unaccountable investorstate tribunals. In 2015, hundreds of thousands of activists in the climate movement fought against a bill in Congress to fast-track this deal. Ultimately, it squeaked by, and Congress lost its ability to have meaningful input in trade deals like the TPP. Instead, if TPP comes to Congress, our representatives will only be able to vote yes or no. Last year, Congressman Ed Perlmutter and Congresswoman Diana DeGette voted in the interests of Colorado’s workers, families and environment when they voted no to fasttrack authority for the TPP. We need them to stand with our families, our jobs, and our access to clean water and clean air once again by saying no to the toxic TPP. As workers and environmentalists, we’ve stood up to big polluters before — and won. As we face off against this polluter-friendly trade deal, we must stand strong and united to win again. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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of the popular imagination: big government, over-regulation, well-meaning liberals, the nanny state, food police. His freewheeling and folksy style is no doubt a balm for people like himself who take greater comfort in reacting and emoting than in thinking and analyzing. But if you are inclined to analyze Mr. Danish’s writing in this piece you will find that there is really nothing there — he simply has a knee-jerk reaction and begins shooting wildly from the hip to defend it without regard for logic, reasoning or evidence. Indeed, I am tempted to use Mr. Danish’s column in my classes at CU as a case study of the various forms of fallacious logic and specious rhetoric. A broader question that his column raises, and one that I hope your editors might address at some point, is this: why are readers of your paper subjected to this fooforaw? Doesn’t Boulder County have one of the highest rates of education in the country? Surely we deserve better than this. Orin Hargraves/Niwot
Nurses for ColoradoCare: Count me in
While receiving my nursing degree many years ago, I recited the Florence Nightingale pledge to “devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.” To this day, I take my pledge very seriously. In my job as a public health nurse, “those committed to my care” included the entire community. I am proud to be member of the most trusted profession in the country (Gallup poll) and believe that our state’s 72,000 nurses have the power to transform the course of health care by supporting the one plan that covers everyone. ColoradoCare, Amendment 69, will simplify access to health care, cover everybody with no deductibles, and make excellent care affordable. I hope my fellow nursing colleagues will join me in supporting ColoradoCare. To learn more, go to www.ColoradoCare.org. Marilyn Bouldin, RN/Salida, Colorado
Predictable Danish
Paul Danish’s commentary on Boulder’s sugar tax ballot initiative was entertaining, yet amply slanted with his dislike of government regulations and taxes. He claims the proposed 2 cent per ounce tax on sugary drinks is counter-productive and too aggravating. He omitted a cogent example of a Boulder Weekly
beneficial health-related tax, the tobacco taxes, with its clear associated decrease in smoking rates. The percent U.S. smokers has fallen from 30 percent in 1990 down to 17 percent in 2011. With approximately 1/2 million deaths annually attributable to smoking, the decreased smoking rate is well worth the aggravation of supposed “Nanny-statism” taxes. Sugary beverages surprisingly are nearly as damaging as smoking. Excess sugar, especially fructose, causes “fatty liver” (hepatic lipogenesis), which activates proteins that block insulin signaling, thereby causing insulin resistance, type II diabetes. It comprises 90 percent to 95 percent of all diabetes. In 2010, diabetes contributed to over 234,000 deaths. It leads to heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, amputations, blindness, deafness and 6-year-shorter lifespan. We can become behaviorally addicted to high sugar content, especially for youth. At current growth rates, 1/3 of U.S. population will have diabetes by 2050. Excess sugar also causes obesity and cavities. If that is not enough, consider our nation’s $322 billion annual cost of diabetes. The diseases incited by excess sugar can be greatly reduced by a higher price on sugary drinks, plus related health education and support. Boulder’s ballot initiative dedicates all its tax for these purposes. Thus, it may be even more effective than the tobacco tax, which averages only 2 percent of its tax for related health education and support. I respect Danish’s vast experience, yet find him inappropriate for our County Commissioner today. Our people want our County to proactively protect our public health and environmental sustainability much more strongly, than Paul Danish has demonstrated. John C. Bollinger, PE/Lafayette
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Denver man dies fighting ISIS in search of something more By Joel Dyer Jordan MacTaggart, far right, was killed while fighting with the YPG against ISIS in Syria.
“If I’m about to die, I just want to say ... I don’t know. If this is it, I don’t regret it. I did what I had to do. I believe in this… Don’t let it be in vain ... Don’t let the revolution die.” —Jordan MacTaggart, from a recording he made while lying wounded and under fire from ISIS snipers in Syria in 2015.
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ordan MacTaggart’s life was a self-fulfilled prophecy. To see his future, all you had to do was look at his hands where the words “born dead” had been carved into his knuckles and inked. The tattoo proved apropos, its fatalistic message outlasting the young man who wore it. In December of 2015, Nicole McNulty profiled MacTaggart for Boulder Weekly in a story titled “Born Dead: From the boredom of Denver to the sheer terror of Syria.” MacTaggert was 21 at the time and living in Denver as he prepared to return to the Middle East for a second time to fight against ISIS as a volunteer in the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). He wasn’t Kurdish. In fact, he had absolutely no ties to the people or the region. He had merely watched the news reports of the conflict and made the decision to go and fight, and it wasn’t out of some sense of justice. The truth is, MacTaggart simply found his life in
Denver to be too boring and unfulfilling to bear. He described his life in Denver to BW. “Every other day I woke up and I had to go to work, but it wasn’t a purpose. I woke up and didn’t want to get out of bed. [But in Syria] I woke up and was like, ‘I can’t wait to be bored and suffer because at least I’m doing something.’ Even though it was as bad as it was, it felt right. I liked it. I love being out there. It’s such a break from all this ... I could live like that (war) forever. If you provide me housing, food and water and all I have to do is not get shot and kill those guys, I’ll do that for the rest of my life. I’m totally OK with this. It’s so much better.” Until it wasn’t. Jordan MacTaggart died a few days ago fighting alongside his companions in the YPG. His unit was part of the well-publicized assault against ISIS-held territory in areas around Aleppo that is still underway at the time of this writing. The details of his death are sketchy at best. All we know is that he was killed during an effort to free villages from ISIS control in proximity to the city of Manbij. Was MacTaggart a hero, a freedom fighter? I wish I could say yes for the sake of his family and friends. But I think he was just a sad and confused
young man in search of something more than what he saw filling the lives of the people he knew in Colorado. I don’t know what he was ultimately looking for and I am haunted by the fear he never found it. In 2015, when he believed his death was eminent, he recorded the words “Don’t let it be in vain.” When I went online to verify that he had been killed this past Sunday, the first website I came to announcing his death had 90 comments under the story. As I began to read them one after another, a dozen after another dozen, it became clear that they were all angry messages of hate being traded between Kurds, Turks and Syrians. None of them even mentioned MacTaggart except occasionally to say they were glad he had been killed. It all seemed in vain. And then I found this lone comment buried amidst all the hate, the centuries worth of hate: “RIP hero! You defended the freedom of Kurds and humanity.” Let’s hold on to that one and hope that it’s true — that somehow peace and rest and the need for fulfillment that drove him, have finally come for Jordan MacTaggart, a kid from Denver who just wanted something more.
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whether it was Latino, black, Muslim, Asian, it made me want to be an ally and want to help and make those situations better,” he says. In 2015, Mankekar was appointed to the City of Boulder’s Human Relations Commission, where he has been working to foster a more inclusive, safe and welcoming community with the other four commissioners. “Diversity makes communities better because the quality of life is better when you have many different kinds of people, many different cultures and they are all being respected and embraced,” he says. “When you have a community where everyone has the same income level and has the same hobbies it’s just not a really satisfying community to live in for everyone, including the majority population.” Laura Soto, for one, sees diversity in “the face of
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he majestic views of the Flatirons. The buskers on Pearl Street. Organic food companies and winding bike paths. This is what Boulder is known for and why many of us love it. Boulder is not, however, known for its diversity. According to the 2015 U.S. Census, 90 percent of Boulder County residents are white, up 3 percent from 2010 and 13 percent more than the national average. The median income is more than $15,000 above the national average at roughly $69,400. This can create endless issues from affordable housing to biased policing and more. But there are some who are working to reverse these trends and Courtesy of mtu.edu make the County measure up to many of the values its citizens hold dear. “In Boulder, I think people have always wanted to have a self-image of a liberal city that’s really welcoming and open to diversity. But when you talk to underrepresented people, the flipside to that, is that may not necessarily be what’s happening and that may not be the experience of minorities in the city,” says Nikhil Mankekar from the City of Boulder’s Human Relations Commission. “You have this dichotomy between what the self-image of the City is and what’s actually happening. ... So my goal has been to be as honest about that as Boulder County,” she says. “The face I see is a beautiful multi-cultural face of all colors and all languagpossible so we can come up with solutions.” es. It is a beautiful thing to uplift.” Mankekar will be joined by Syrian refugee and But she advocates for more integration while University of Colorado Boulder graduate student Salam Hindawi, community and immigration activbringing awareness to both the minority populations ist Laura Soto, Ghanian drummer and dancer and the organizations they serve. Maputo Manesh and Ray Ramirez from the Native “It’s much more than just diversity, it’s real American Rights Fund in Boulder for a panel disactions that we can take on a daily basis to support cussion on diversity in Boulder County as part of this integration in our community,” Soto says. “We the One Action: Arts + Immigration Project. do have these awesome organizations that are Born and raised in Boulder, Mankekar’s parents already doing great work to integrate the communimoved to Colorado after his dad got a job with ty. So if you attend the events they are putting on, IBM. Both from India, they met while studying in it’s a great opportunity to support integration, to Chicago and Mankekar identifies both as Indian support leadership in minorities and to get to know and Sikh-American. the people they serve.” Growing up, Mankekar understood the differNow a paralegal and community rights activist, ences between himself and the majority population, Soto immigrated to Colorado when she was 10 but it is something he’s always appreciated and cele- years old. brated, while also making him more aware of what “I have grown up as an undocumented immiit was like for other minorities. grant and I’ve suffered greatly the racism, the dis“It made me conscious of noticing other people’s crimination, the lack of opportunity and the ignoexperience and if something negative was happening rance that makes it hard for those of us who don’t to people from all different kinds of backgrounds, have the same opportunities,” Soto says. 12 August 11, 2016
One such opportunity is the eligibility to vote, which Soto, despite her civic activism, lacks. “This time of year is very important, I believe people are very distracted by the presidential candidates,” she says. “I would like to bring it back home and say we have some local positions that are up for reelection and we want to make sure that our elected representatives do in fact care about our community issues.” Salam Hindawi is also concerned with the upcoming elections, more specifically how the political rhetoric has changed since he moved here in 2014, and the effect that rhetoric is having on society. “This is not what I expected,” says Hindawi who is a Syrian refugee studying human geography at CU Boulder. “I’m not saying that there is a lot of hatred but I’m afraid that the political scene will affect the reality.” With an undergraduate degree in ArabicEnglish translation from Syria, Hindawi was conscripted into the Syrian Army after graduation. With no hope of ever being released, he defected in 2012. “Not only because at one point I imagined I would be choosing between killing or getting killed, but because I was wasting my life,” he says. “And in my political view, I was against the Assad regime because they were using brutal force against the Syrian people.” Encouraged to apply for the program at CU by a professor from Princeton Hindawi met in Aleppo in 2004, he was accepted and came to the U.S. on a student visa in December 2014. Since moving to Colorado, he hasn’t experienced overt discrimination or stereotyping but, “I can’t be inside someone’s brain when I tell them I’m from Syria,” he says. “What I’m afraid of is the effect of the political rhetoric on the reality that someday maybe this is what people will think.” His two sisters live in Turkey and his youngest brother in Germany, while his parents remain in Aleppo. “Sometimes they have no water for a month, sometimes no electricity for a month or two, I’m not kidding at all. The prices are very high,” he says. “The Syrian people are losing. We hope for the war to be over and the political process to start but unfortunately that’s not in our hands.” For now, Hindawi is applying for asylum in the U.S. while he has temporary protective status that allows him to work in addition to going to school. Having grown up with an awareness of America, he says diversity is “the true spirit of this country.” He adds, “This country was established on the idea that you can come over here and start a good life. In that way, Boulder could be representative of the true spirit of the United States, the true spirit of America, the land of the free.” Boulder Weekly
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or anyone who worked at gathering signatures in 2014 to put local control over energy extraction and/or setbacks for drilling and production operations on the ballot that year, it’s been a really long 24 months with heartbreak and joy for bookends. As all who’ve been involved in this David verses Goliath struggle will recall, in 2014, political slight of hand led to more than a quarter million voter signatures being tossed into the trash at the last minute. But that was then and this is now. On Monday, Aug. 8, with approximately 15 minutes to spare before the 3 p.m. deadline, more than 200,000 signatures were turned over to the Colorado Secretary of State to be counted and authenticated. The grassroots coalition calling itself “Yes for Health and Safety Over Fracking” submitted the signatures which represent more than enough Colorado voters to place two initiatives on this year’s November ballot. Initiative #75 is titled “Local Governmental Control of Oil and Gas Development.” And according to a statement released by the coalition, “Using state rules as a foundation, the measure would give local governments a wide range of options to protect their communities and neighborhoods from the harms associated with oil and gas development, including hydraulic fracturing.” The second initiative, #78, is titled “Mandatory Setbacks from Oil and Gas Development.” Those turning in the signatures claim it “establishes a buffer zone of 2,500’ (less than 1/2 mile) between new oil and gas development, including fracking, and homes, hospitals, schools, and sensitive areas like playgrounds and drinking water sources. ... It also takes into account the perimeters of real-life explosion, evacuation, and burn zones.” Boulder Weekly
The number of valid signatures from registered Colorado voters needed to place an initiative on this year’s November ballot is just under 99,000. More than that number of signatures were turned in for both initiatives #75 and #78. The exact number turned in for each is still unknown because the signature gathering process actually picked up steam over the final weekend and continued right up until the deadline, making an exact final count impossible. The Secretary of State now has 30 days to count and authenticate the signatures. If the final number of approved signatures stays above the minimum threshold, both measures will appear on the November ballot and voters will finally, after more than three years of effort, have the right to vote to protect their families, homes and communities from the welldocumented harms of fracking and oil and gas extraction in close proximity to where people live. To date, the oil and gas industry has spent tens of millions of dollars to stop the anti-fracking movement’s momentum. It has exerted massive political pressure including (by its own admission) the takeover of some city councils. It continues to pump millions into the largest advertising spend in state history on TV and in newspapers in its attempt to influence news coverage of the industry. And finally, the industry has created and funded multiple oil and gas front groups run by the most powerful political operatives in the state, including Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED), Vital for Colorado, Protect Colorado and the Common Sense Policy Roundtable in its effort to keep Initiatives #75 and #78 off the ballot. But as of Monday, Aug. 8, it appears that informed and motivated voters are still the most powerful force in Colorado democracy.
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iest square. Byrne is a former University of Colorado Boulder graduate. She studied creative writing and political science, but for the last nine years, Byrne has worked coordinating campaigns for PETA, the animals rights organization known around the world for their undercover work exposing factory farms and laboratories for animal cruelty. PETA actually stormed onto the international scene in 1980 with what became known as the Silver Spring monkeys case, when the organization revealed that 17 macaque monkeys were being experimented on inside the Institute of Behaviorial Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. The case lasted a decade and led to the only police raid on an animal laboratory in the U.S., as well as an amendment to the Animal Welfare Act. But PETA has also taken criticism over the years for campaigns that some consider shocking — even offensive. Some of these campaigns involve wrapping PETA employees in fake blood and plastic, some involve graphic photography of laboratories and factory farms, but many employ nudity — or near nudity — to spread the message. See PETA Page 16
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Cue Ashley Byrne in Brazil. Along with other colleagues from PETA, Byrne stripped down to nearly nothing to “bathe” on the streets of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. “We’re trying to illustrate that the meat industry and animal product industry is a nightmare for the environment,” Byrne explains on a Skype call from Rio on Aug. 2. She’s preparing to head into one of São Paulo’s busiest thoroughfares, Paulista Avenue, to kick the campaign off with a demonstration. With all eyes on Brazil for the world’s biggest athletic event, Byrne says, it’s the perfect place to deliver the message. The medium for the message was a bathtub of pretty women in two of the world’s busiest streets. The women, all working with PETA, held signs that explain it takes as much water to produce a pound of beef as it does for the average person to take showers for six months. “According to United Nations, the meat industry is responsible for more greenhouse gases than all transportation combined: cars, planes, trains, everything,” she says. “The meat industry is responsible for every environmental problem: soil erosion, water contamination, climate change, wasted resources ... The bathtub is a way to illustrate that for people. Facts and figures don’t always work well, so we do something unusual to sum things up in a surprising visual.” It’s no surprise to Byrne that some people find this ridiculous, even exploitative of the female body. But PETA’s co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk, has consistently maintained that no one working on the organization’s cam-
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paigns is forced to take part in anything they don’t feel comfortable about. Newkirk has also stated that sexual attraction is a fact of human life, and a tactic employed by nearly every commercial industry on the planet — if it can work to advance animal welfare, it’s the right thing to do. Byrne likewise dismisses the notion that these campaigns are anti-feministic in nature. “These campaigns are largely run by women. I’m a feminist, my colleague [participating in the demonstrations in Brazil] is a feminist. My boss is a woman, her boss is a woman and so on,” she explains. “For us, I think one of the most important aspects of feminism is you respect a woman’s decisions, so if women want to stand up for an issue they believe in, whether that is by taking off their clothes and taking a shower on the sidewalk or standing fully clothed and handing out leaflets, that’s to be respected. I think we should all respect the decisions of other adults to do what they are comfortable doing.” For Byrne, doing demos that involve nudity or sexuality is about making a choice. Animals, she says, never get to make a choice about what happens to their bodies. “Female animals in particular in the dairy and egg industry suffer immensely because of the fact they are female. And so I feel that I’m making a choice. ... I can choose and they can’t. As a feminist, that absolutely feels like the right decision for me to be making.” Byrne is, perhaps predictably, a vegan, but that wasn’t always the case. The Los Angeles native grew up eating steaks and McDonald’s into high
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school. Her family moved to Colorado during her senior year of high school, and it was actually a night of mischievousness that would become the turning point in her life. “My boyfriend and I snuck into a showing of Faces of Death and we saw a lot of slaughterhouse footage of animals being killed,” Byrne says of the 1978 exploitation pseudo-documentary. “There were a lot of things in that documentary that seemed to be fake, but we knew the slaughterhouse footage of animals being tortured was real. There was a segment where people were skinning alive and boiling dogs in another country and I was devastated. I had grown up with dogs and cats and they were members of the family and I loved them and knew they felt pain and fear and had emotions.” The narrator of the movie, Michael Carr, explains that while such an act may be shocking to those from cultures where it’s not common to eat dogs, it was no different than eating cow, pig or chicken. Since there was “no scientific difference” between these animals, Carr has dinner with a family that slaughtered a dog. “I couldn’t agree with that,” Byrne says. “There was nothing that made it better to eat a chicken than a dog. I couldn’t accept it could possibly be OK to skin a dog and eat it. I realized if I could never be OK with the idea of eating a dog or a cat that it was time for me to stop eating chickens and pigs and cows and fish.” Byrne immediately began a vegetarian diet and went vegan a year later. She says the demonstrations PETA puts on aren’t meant to simply shock
and expose problems, but to deliver solutions as well. “We never do something like this without being armed with a solution,” she says. “By eating vegan, or by even choosing to cut down on the meat and dairy you are eating, you can make a difference. This is an easy, accessible way to help the environment. Not everyone can buy a hybrid car or go out and put solar panels on their home, but by just eating a vegan diet, that’s a really empowering way to make a change in the face of these environmental problems that can be really frightening.” The demonstrations in São Paulo and Rio went well, Byrne says a few days later. People asked lots of questions, mainly if it was true that it took that much water to produce livestock. Byrne says she sees this change occurring all over the world — people no longer see animals as separate from humans. They see humans as, quite rightfully, a type of animal. “I’ve been a PETA member for 20 years,” she says. “I think there has been an enormous shift in the way the public sees issues surrounding animals and being vegan. When I started PETA, the first campaign I worked on was exposing cruelty to chickens that KFC worked with. … In those early years people would ask, ‘Can chickens even feel pain?’ That has shifted so dramatically. I feel like I rarely hear that now. People just have more information and realize these animals are intelligent and sensitive and have close family bonds and care about their offspring. It makes people much more receptive about not eating them and not wearing them.”
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shoppers. BCFM measures volume of low-income shoppers by County Commishow many Supplemental sioners giving out SNAP and Harvest Nutrition Assistance Program Bucks at the (SNAP) dollars are redeemed at Boulder County Farmers Market. the market. SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the U.S. From 2008 to 2013 the number of SNAP dollars redeemed at BCFM was stagnant, hovering around $10,000 a season. To try and increase that number, BCFM partnered with Boulder County Public Health to match SNAP dollars with Harvest Bucks, a farmers’-market specific benefit for both SNAP and Women, Infant and Children program recipients. The partnership essentially doubles the amount of money available to participants of the federal program. Over 2015, in the course of just one season, the number See FARMERS’ MARKETS Page 22
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of SNAP dollars redeemed at BCFM “In the United States we spend six to increased by 289 percent to $38,930. eight percent of our income on food,” he Including the matched Harvest Bucks, says. “That is the lowest percentage in the $76,184 of food was purchased by SNAP entire world. And that includes countries program participants at BCFM with the like Sweden that pay 12 to 15 percent revenue going straight to the farmers. and they have much higher incomes than The increase is substantial enough to we do on average. So it isn’t that food attract federal funding for the program in costs too much, but rather that we are not 2016 and to expand the program to the willing to spend money on food. What I BCFM-operated Union Station market in like about the Harvest Bucks program is Denver. With the federal funding the name that it starts to address the poverty from of the program will be transitioning to that side.” Double Up Food Bucks Colorado over the Some people can adjust their spendcourse of the next ing to reflect Courtesy of Boulder County Farmers Market several months. these values, but As the profor low-income gram continues to shoppers, food is grow, administrasomething that tors are also seekneeds to be puring local sources chased at the of funding. lowest possible Boulder County price point. The voters will weigh Harvest Bucks in on the extenprogram removes SNAP redemption increased 289 percent at sion of the .25 that restriction Boulder County Farmers Markets, including percent sales and and opens up the the Longmont market pictured here, in one season due to the Harvest Bucks incentive. use tax, half of personal and which would be community bendirected toward supporting sustainability efits of local agriculture to broad swaths programs, including the Harvest Bucks of the community. program. Rachel Arndt, who administers the As a percentage of overall revenue the program for Boulder County Public Health, is enthused by the increase of SNAP number is still very small, in the SNAP dollar redemption at markets since single digits, Coppom says, but it is very the introduction of Harvest Bucks. From meaningful and provides many synergies. It directly increases sales for local farmers, a public health standpoint, she is glad that program participants have improved increases access to nutritious fruits and access to the most nutritional fruits and vegetables for low-income residents and vegetables. benefits the community. She also celebrates the ways Harvest Coppom warns of being overly simBucks is overcoming cultural and financial plistic though, and says that the underlybarriers to the farmers’ market. According ing value of the program is in the ways it to a survey of program participants, 83 peraddresses what he considers to be an cent said that they would not come to the impoverished food culture in the United farmers’ market without the program, a States, which he explains in two parts. number Arndt attributes to barriers like The first is that the price of food does lack of transportation, time and money. not reflect its true cost. We tend to want Harvest Bucks counteracts those obstacles to compare the price of food between by incentivizing the purchase of high qualimarkets and groceries, but in that comty food, but she also suspects more subtle, parison we forget hidden costs of importcultural elements at play. ed food that is coming from places where “One of the benefits that we didn’t farm workers tend to get paid less, enviforesee or see as much is that the farmers ronmental standards tend to be lower and the varieties of vegetables and fruits grown market is a community venue,” Arndt says. “It is an event to attend and a social are bred specifically for efficient transporactivity for families to go to and SNAP tation, often yielding a very low quality participants report that as a very high product from a nutritional standpoint. value to them. One woman told me that “As a culture we often overlook those the market, because of finances, was an other factors when we consider price comparison,” Coppom says. “The price of off-limit community benefit. But now that she has the extra bucks, she feel that food available at the farmers’ market the market is for her, too. reflects the true cost of growing. The “Local food shouldn’t be a luxury,” she farmers there make very low profit marcontinues. “Healthy eating shouldn’t be a gins on their food, it’s just that that is luxury. It should be something that everywhat it costs to grow food in reality.” body in our community regardless of The second part of food poverty, income, can afford and that is really the Coppom says, is that our culture tends to public health goal.” undervalue food. Boulder Weekly
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Fresh from Pennsylvania, Emily Beehler (above) came to Colorado to intern with the Colorado Mountain Club. She’s hiking through the MountainUp initiative to raise money for the CMC’s Youth Education Program.
HIKING A HUNDRED MILES FOR KIDS
Pennsylvania native sets out to hike 100 miles, summit her first 14er and raise $500 by Mollie Putzig
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hree bracelets on her wrist remind her what she’s hiking for; one has the coordinates of her Pennsylvania home, the other two are from her younger sisters. She musters her strength to fight through the end of a kidney infection on her way to see the stark contrast of jagged gray peaks diving down into the blue green water of Emerald Lake. Emily’s Miles for Smiles is Emily Beehler’s mission to hike one hundred miles while raising money for the Colorado Mountain Club’s (CMC) Youth Education Program. “Everybody wants to do good and everybody wants to give back somehow,” Beehler says. “A lot of people can’t, either physically, time-wise, something. So they’re more than happy to give money because that’s how they are able to do good. “I’ll do the hiking and the work if you just support me and help support the kids,” she says. Beehler is raising money through CMC’s MountainUp campaign, where individuals set goals for themselves and create personal fundraisers. Campaigners donate money to CMC overall or choose a specific program, like the Youth Education Program or Conservation Program. “[CMC] is one of Colorado’s oldest organizations promoting outdoor recreation and education to get out into the mountains
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safely and sustainably,” says Leslie Woollenweber, development director for the club. “We’re here for everybody that wants to learn about and enjoy the mountains,” she says. “All ages, all skill levels, we welcome everyone.” Other campaigners have set goals of climbing seven 14ers, running the Pikes Peak marathon and hiking 10,000 feet of elevation gain, Woollenweber says. So far they’ve raised $3,000 of the $10,000 goal. Beehler was the second person to sign up for MountainUp, putting all her money toward the 7,000 kids served each year by the Youth Education Program. Her funds will go to education programs and getting kids into the mountains. “The first weekend in July, when I signed up for MountainUp, I actually was sick, I had a kidney infection so I couldn’t really get hiking,” Beehler says. “Really my body needed to rest.” But she didn’t stay down long. “I’m not good at just relaxing,” she says. “I want to be out doing stuff and I especially was so excited about doing MountainUp so I went up to Estes and just strung together a few small hikes.” see HIKING Page 26
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The short trail to Emerald Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park is a popular tourist destination. The path from Bear Lake trailhead gains 650 feet of elevation over 1.8 miles. The welltraveled trail glimpses Nymph Lake, borders Dream Lake and offers views of Longs Peak, Hallett Peak and the craggy spires of Flattop Mountain, all while water melting from the nearby Tyndall Glacier burbles down the gorge. Determined to get her fundraising started, on July 4, despite her troublesome kidney, Beehler made it to five lakes. In front of glittering Emerald Lake, nestled beneath Hallett Peak, she pulled out a handmade MountainUp sign and asked a nearby family to snap a picture. Next thing she knew a crowd gathered and began asking about MountainUp. “I started explaining it to them and explaining the Youth Education Program and what I was doing, that I wanted to hike at least a hundred miles to get as much support as I can and funding for our youth program,” Beehler says. “It was so cool, everybody then was cheering me on when I left Emerald Lake to keep going to Lake Haiyaha ... it was like I had a whole fan squad right there with me.” Beehler’s support goes far beyond the people she’s met on the trail. She set a goal of $500, expecting to get a hundred or two. But she’s already raised $565. Distant friends have reached out, sending messages and donations, including a boy she hasn’t been close with since middle school. “He donated $20 to me and left the sweetest note [saying], ‘I see what you’re doing on Facebook and I’m so proud of you and what you’re doing and it’s inspiring,’” she says. “Oh my gosh I just cried when I read it.” A rookie to the Rockies, Beehler moved to Colorado from Pennsylvania, in January as an intern for the CMC. She’s since become a teacher for the Youth Education Program. Beehler works toward her hundred miles on weekends and spends her weeks with kids. “I learn each week, from every kid,” she says. “Sometimes I think I learn more than they do.” One of her most memorable trips was her first time out as group leader. She described the group as brave, confident and possibly the happiest she’s ever worked with. They also happen to be blind. “I had no clue what to expect ’cause they were gonna go climbing and they were meeting us at a trailhead and we
were gonna go hike and then climb and the trail was crazy rocky,” Beehler says. “But these kids, right off the bat they were trusting me and just... they were so incredible, they were so positive,” she says. “Through climbing they cheered each other on in an amazing way and I was really surprised the way that they were able to remember features in the route,” she says. “There was one part that had a really hard overhang and this one boy who tried it first and did get to the top, I told him when another girl was climbing it, I was like, ‘Oh, she’s at the hard part,’ and he was able to tell her exactly what to do. He remembered each hold in each part of the rock almost more so than other groups that I’ve seen. “These kids can’t see what’s in front of them and they just trust it and they go with it and their trust in people that they just met is incredible,” Beehler says. “So I really took away a lot from them.” Not all days on the trail are quite so inspiring. But for Beehler, the people she meets along the way bring back the magic. One particularly hard day she struck out for Bear Peak in Boulder and took a wrong turn. She wasn’t feeling well and was dejected about not reaching the summit. But on the way down she came across two women, smiled and asked them how they were. They stopped her to thank her for being so friendly. “I had my Colorado Mountain Club hat on and they were asking me about it,” Beehler says. “They were new to the area and they were like, ‘Wow, we need that, we need to find people to go out and hike with. We want to learn. We want to learn how to ice climb, we want to learn how to cross-country ski ... we want to be outside and engaged, but we just don’t know all that’s available and accessible.’ And they felt really empowered by the possibility that Colorado Mountain Club could offer them.” They turned the day around for Beehler. Whenever she is struggling, she looks down at her bracelets to remind herself why she’s out there. “My youngest sister Carly is the reason that I want to work with kids,” Beehler says. “I want to empower kids. I want people to feel smart and strong and capable of doing whatever they want to do. And I want them to know that possibilities are out there, you just need to push for it and hiking for me is that push.” Boulder Weekly
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Better get that Rocky Mountain Folks Festival streak going
by Joel Dyer
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e all have ways of measuring Then there’s Dougie MacLean, the environmenthe passage of time. We tally astute Irish singer/songwriter who will not let watch our kids grow up — you remain seated or quiet. I love his shows. their way-too-fast and amazI’m still not sure what to expect when the critically ing transformation into adults acclaimed Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha hits their reminding us that our ride is first note. We were going to interview them but it’s short, so we better make the really hard to get your hands on a Ukrainian translator most of it. Ellen Ramsey We break our lives into chapters based on things like what job we were at, who we were living with or dating, or what state we were in. And if you are really lucky, like me, you get to measure your years with the musical yardstick that is the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival; “Wasn’t that the year Arlo Guthrie closed it out or was that the year Nanci Griffith reunited with Lucy Kaplanski for that great set?” You get the drift. No kidding, after making it to more than 20 of these things, which my family and friends from all over the country use as an Measuring life one Rocky excuse for an annual reunion of sorts, I really Mountain Folks Fest at a time. do think of it as a marker just like those ascending height marks on the closet door frame that tell me where the top of my kid’s head use to be. in Boulder County these days. Every year I’m reminded how fortunate all of us With this year’s lineup you can catch genuine are to have such a world-class event in our backyard. music legends along with amazing relative newcomers As I was scanning this year’s lineup, it struck me who will blow away whatever expectations you may what a diverse festival this really is. have. It’s hard to imagine that a single stage in Lyons, Newcomer Mavis Staples hits the stage Saturday Colorado, is going to be playing host to the likes of night for what will no doubt be a memorable perforinternational superstars Passenger (see interview page mance. OK, I’m kidding about the newcomer part, 33), Conor Oberst, The Decemberists, and Andrew but this honest to goodness music legend is actually Bird (see interview page 30). playing in Lyons and you’d have to be Donald-
Trump-kinda crazy to even consider missing it. On Friday, Lucinda Williams will be performing. If you don’t know her music, all I can say is grab a beer, sit down and get ready to have your life changed for the better, forever. Unless you’d rather dance, in which case do that. She’s a writer’s writer. Every time I hear her I want to head out on a cross-country road trip all alone in the middle of an empty landscape. I have no higher compliment than that. As for real up and comers, you’ll be remembering the name Parker Millsap (see interview page 37). Not only does he have a great voice, he’ll be one of the only people in Lyons I can sit down with and talk about the view out over the Canadian River off the backside of Red Hill in Purcell, Oklahoma. That’s because both of us were born there. And I can personally attest that view stays with you for life and has a way of making it into your writing when you least expect it. The list and the talent goes on and on, Kathy Matea, Cheryl Wheeler, the incredible energy and vocal work of The Lone Bellow and much more. We hope you enjoy this special Folks Festival section we’ve put together this year. We spoke with a number of the interesting people who will be performing. This is truly one of the best top-to-bottom lineups I’ve seen at this or any other festival. So if you’ve been waiting to start your own streak of Folks Fest attendance, this is definitely the year to get it going. Life’s too short to miss out. Those lines on the door frame never come back down.
Folks Festival Schedule SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2016
SUNDAY, AUGUST 21, 2016
• 10:00 a.m. — Gates Open
• 10:00 a.m. — Gates Open
• 10:00 a.m. — Gates Open
• 10:30 - 12:30 p.m. — Songwriter Showcase
• 11:00 - Noon — Ben Shannon
• 11:00 - Noon — My Bubba
• 12:45 - 1:45 p.m. — Quiles & Cloud
• 12:15 - 1:30 p.m. — Freddy & Francine
• 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. — The Accidentals
• 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. — Cheryl Wheeler
• 2:00 - 3:15 p.m. — Parker Millsap
• 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. — Darlingside
• 3:45 - 5:00 p.m. — David Wax Museum
• 3:45 - 5:00 p.m. — Kathy Mattea
• 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. — DakhaBrakha
• 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. — Passenger
• 5:30 - 6:45 p.m. — Darrel Scott
• 5:00 - 6:15 p.m. — The Lone Bellow
• 7:15 - 8:30 p.m. — Lucinda Williams
• 7:15 - 8:30 p.m. — Mavis Staples
• 6:45 - 8:00pm — Dougie MacLean
• 9:00 - 10:30 p.m. — Andrew Bird
• 9:00 - 10:30 p.m. — Conor Oberst
• 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. — The Decemberists
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album. “With this record I’ve been getting into personal territory and that was driving me nuts so [“Live from the Great Room”] helps bring it back to the music,” he says. Before getting into the more intimate background of the new songs, I have to ask him what inspired the name of the new album, wondering if it’s intended as a rhetorical question, some sort of social or perhaps even spiritual commentary. Personally, I tell him, the phrase feels like a reoccurring and versatile reaction of mine these days. Bird explains it has actually been the working title he’s given every previous record; an inside joke with his managers for years — “This is what you spent the last two years on?” Bird says. “Really?” But this time around, “are you serious” fit with the completed project as well. “This one seemed apropos because when I started out making records I never saw myself as the kind of songwriter that was bearing their soul in a very matter of fact way or their personal travails via song,” he says. “My personal things are in every song but there’s an art to encoding or masking it. But now all of that stuff is close to the surface, less encoded.” Are You Serious is Bird’s most personal record yet, mostly written at his family’s Illinois farm in about the course of a week during his recent relocation from New York to Los Angeles. The album chronicles previous break-ups, Bird’s marriage to a fashion designer, the birth of their son and his wife’s battle with cancer. Despite skipping out on touring the festival scene this summer, Andrew Bird will be at Rocky Mountain Folks Festival.
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“I’ve never had any problem talking about what my songs are about ever. ... There are a lot of lyrics in my songs and I don’t feel like I’m ever going to demystify them for you by talking about them,” Bird says, comparing that to many artists who decline to talk about the personal stories behind their work. “But now I get it because when you do write a song that is very close to the bone or is actually about something that happened that was rough, then when you talk about it, it’s tricky. It’s kind of a minefield.” While Bird admits he’s perfectly comfortable singing the new songs, talking about them is a different story. “There’s a sacred pact between you and the audience. The concert hall is a safe place, the people will have your back,” he says. “But then you step out of the concert hall and you start talking about it in journalistic forms and that’s a different game.” And so our conversation skirts around specifics, perhaps out of some obligation I feel to respect the aforementioned pact. Instead, I ask him if he thinks he’ll keep writing personal songs or go back to the more abstract lyrics of previous albums. “I like to go in whatever direction feels like I’m learning something or challenging myself,” he says. “The real frontier for me over the years is distilling things and writing things that are more simple without being boring.” And then we fall into an easier rhythm of conversation, talking about politics and the never-ending news cycle of gun violence. It’s a more comfortable place — important, but not too intimate. And that brings us back to the protest songs from the “Live from the Great Room” episode with James. “I bristle a little bit when it’s suggested that songwriters or artists have a duty,” Bird says. “The only duty we really have is to our art and ourselves ultimately. So I always say I’m observing and looking at how people behave in my songs and therefore they can be political. But I rarely tackle it head on. It’s really hard to write a populist protest song in this day and age.” But Bird doesn’t exactly shy away from writing his political beliefs into lyrics altogether. On the recording with James, he sings a new version of his song “Sic of Elephants,” which he updated particularly for this year’s Republican National Convention. The original song reflects Bird’s disbelief the day after George W. Bush Boulder Weekly
was re-elected, his attempt to try and understand how it could have happened. “And it seems almost more apropos at this moment with everything that’s going on,” Bird says in the episode, before launching in: “You were right, now we got good reason to worry...Can’t you see how dangerous the one that you chose is?”
“I have some other songs I’ve started doing again because it brings up the warrior culture we’re in,” Bird tells me. But there’s also, “really great material that’s already been written that really fits the moment.” Like some old Woody Guthrie lyrics that James recently put to melody as part of the tribute album New Multitudes that he sings with Bird during the live episode. “Change the pen and change the
ink/ change the way you talk and think/ change the tubes and change the tires/ change the things your heart desires/ change your make up and change your curls/ change the ways of this changing world.” As Bird’s world has changed, perhaps it is something akin to this mentality that has allowed his music to change along with it. See Folks Fest schedule for more details on Andrew Bird’s performance, page 29.
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Passenger is more than a clever moniker for Mike Rosenberg
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ike Rosenberg is in a New York coffee shop when we get connected to chat. Maybe it’s the British accent, but he’s terribly charming. “Whot culd be bet-tah,” he asks me, effortlessly posh, “than being in a cawfee shop in New York?” In the moment I cahn’t really disagree — but maybe the accent is swaying my opinion. The 32-year-old singer/ guiarist is better known by his stage name Passenger. Rosenberg wasn’t always on his oddy knocky — in 2003, Passenger was a five-piece band founded by Rosenberg and his songwriting partner Andrew Phillips. The band released just one album before breaking up in 2007, and Rosenberg decided to continue on as a solo artist under the moniker. He already had a fan base, and hell, Passenger was a pretty cool name. But he admits it was unsettling. “I guess there are so many male sing“Up until that point I had been very in control of Passenger fills his er/songwriter names people need to how Passenger was going, then all of a sudden this indie-folk ballads remember. Passenger felt more ambigusong is doing its own thing.” with just enough melancholy to ous and mysterious in a way,” he says Rosenberg’s airy tenor voice no doubt stuck in peoremind us he’s with a laugh. “What’s nice is at the time ple’s minds, an amalgamation of James Blunt’s lovesick British. when we called the band Passenger it was throaty warble and Cat Steven’s soothing storyteller just because it sounded cool... there wasn’t croon. The result is warm and calming, even as any story behind it, it was just like, yeah, Rosenberg sings about love lost or souls passing. that’ll do. Delving deeper into Rosenberg’s catalog, past the smash “Since I went solo and started traveling and busking, the hit, I begin to recall a recent episode of This American Life in name started to fit better and better. It’s really funny the way which British author Alain de Botton tells Ira Glass that if it’s worked — the way I write and the style that I make my there’s one thing the British do well, it’s melancholy. (“The music, I think passenger is a perfect word to sum it up. It weather helps,” he added — dryly.) really, really works.” And Rosenberg’s music is certainly filled with melanA passenger is someone along for the ride, someone who choly. isn’t in charge of navigating the trip. Maybe Rosenberg is just But in the context of music, it seems the reason the a passenger in life. British do melancholy well is by infusing it with other emoIf so, life took faithful passenger Rosenberg to internations, or, at the very least, wrapping it up in pleasant melotional stardom in 2012. If you think back, you may remember dies. Think of Morrissey singing “Girlfriend in a Coma,” or sobbing in your parked car or blinking back tears in a depart- Amy Winehouse’s dance-able refusal in “Rehab.” Many of ment store when his song “Let Her Go” was in heavy rotaDamon Albarn’s lyrical musings on Blur’s iconic album Modern Life is Rubbish are poignantly humorous looks at the tion on U.S. radio stations: bleakness of... well, modern life. “Well, you only need the light when it’s burning low/ No question: Rosenberg represents his countrymen well Only miss the sun when it starts to snow/Only know you and creates music in the British way with his nuanced melanlove her when you let her go ... ” cholic refrains. On the third Passenger album, All the Little The ride to the top was fast, and slightly unexpected. Lights (from which “Let Her Go” was born), there are songs Shows went from intimate gigs on the streets of the U.K. and like the jovial sounding “Staring at the Stars,” which is ultiAustralia to massive festivals of 40,000 people. Rosenberg didn’t even have a record label at the time. mately about unattained childhood dreams. But it’s hard to “Obviously there’s a five-year-old in me that’s wanted it feel sad in the face of a playfully plucked banjo while the whole time and was super excited about everything,” he Rosenberg sings, “And all our girlfriends are long gone/We says. “It was phenomenal for it to start snowballing in the watch too much internet porn/Who needs love when you’ve way that it did.” got silicone and strap-ons?” Boulder Weekly
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A career built on busking has made Rosenberg personable, even at huge live shows, where he tells jokes You may know Mike Rosenberg easily and sometimes performs with no shoes on. He by his stage sings playful crowd pleasers like “I Hate,” which name, Passenger. bemoans everything from Facebook statuses to plastic surgery to assholes at live shows. “Well I hate them fussy eaters/You cook them fajitas/They only eat pizza and chips/And I hate stepping outside for a smoke/And some guy coughs/like your lungs are his/And I hate queuing up/For festival toilets/Especially when you need to shit.” “I think with my music I try and be as honest as possible and try and sort of talk about everything I see and I feel,” Rosenberg says. “I think involved in that there are a ton of different feelings, melancholy, cheeky moments and silliness. I think there’s a level of hope to it as well. I try and convey all of those things, all of those things within my personality and within every day life. With indie folk, Rosenberg adds, “It’s not fair to write just sad music.” However, “Let Her Go,” in its indie-folk simplicity, can leave you sad — and angry. It’s a song that shamelessly explains how one partner didn’t see the value of their mate until they ended the relationship. Whether you are the cavalier dumper or the stunned dumpee, “Let Her Go” rends the heart and makes you wonder how, exactly, things got so messed up. But despite being an emotionally moving song, if you really dive into the lyrics, Rosenberg’s first smash hit comes across, quite frankly, like a narrow introspection of one person’s screw up. And Rosenberg knows that. His upcoming album, Young as the Morning Old as the Sea, incorporates those same melancholic musings on love and the passage of time, but it also expands into an adult’s desire to find inner peace. In a nutshell, Rosenberg has grown up a little bit. Gotten older. That old chestnut. “You know, taking a step back and seeing the bigger picture and not being so obsessed with my feelings and what’s going on in my head and my heart, looking at what’s in the broader picture,” he says. The title track takes listeners on Rosenberg’s mental journey across the globe in search of what seems like a Maslowian state of self-actualization. He sings, “I wanna feel the Russian winter/I wanna go to my Polish grandmother’s home/I wanna see Hungarian lanterns/I wanna walk on a road that leads to Rome/I wanna be free as the winds that blow past me/Free as the air that I breathe/Young as the morning and old as the sea.” Back home in Brighton and Hove, Rosenberg runs a little coffee shop — perhaps why he’s so happy at the coffee shop in New York. Maybe if things quiet down one day, Rosenberg says he’d like to focus on bringing the American-stylecoffee-shop music scene to Britain. One way or another, music is what he does. It’s who he is. If life is a trip, Rosenberg’s been a lucky passenger. See Folks Fest schedule for more details on Passenger’s performance, page 29. Boulder Weekly
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The end of the world Americana newcomer Parker Millsap gets apocolyptic on his new album
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n upbeat love song might be a strange choice for the lead single from an album about the apocalypse. But not if you’re Parker Millsap. The 23-year-old’s 2016 album The Very Last Day is full of these apparent contradictions — singing in the face of death and welcoming suffering with open arms. I noticed a similar dissonance when we spoke in preparation for this story. For someone so interested in the end of the world, Millsap was unexpectedly cheerful and funny. But these paradoxical qualities began to make sense when he explained the album’s origin. After moving to Guthrie, Oklahoma, a new and unfamiliar town, Millsap wrote the majority of the album’s music under what some would consider and so I perceived the end of Parker Millsap took dismal conditions. times as a real threat,” Millsap a lonely time in his “I was living alone. I didn’t says. “I’ve had those kinds of life and created an album that tackles really know anybody, but I got a things on my mind for a long a tough subject — good deal on a house,” Millsap time. And they’ve found their the end of the world — with optimism. says. “It was the depth of winter home on this record a little bit.” time, I wasn’t touring, and I hapAt home, his parents pened to read a bunch of apocaexposed him to genres that lyptic books right in a row.” would influence his musical It’s not surprising that an album set in a styling — blues from his dad and classic rock post-apocalyptic wasteland originated this from his mom. way, but why the accompanying optimism? “It was pretty interesting listening to Millsap was able to create something church music first and then such a wide variworthwhile out of a less-than-ideal situation. ety at home,” Millsap says. And he did it by accepting his circumstances. Millsap first played in bands in high school, This idea became one of the central motifs of initially sticking to guitar. Eventually starting The Very Last Day, illustrated prominently in his own band and taking on vocal duties, the title track’s chorus: “You know there ain’t Millsap honed his skills by performing incesno reason being so afraid/You can try to hide santly in the extended Oklahoma City area. but it’s gonna get you anyway/When I see “I played a lot of shows. I never wanted to that cloud, gonna sing out loud/Lift my have a real job, so I just played a lot to make hands and say, ‘Praise the Lord — it’s the money,” he says. “And with that comes a lot of very, very, very last day.” practice.” Millsap’s apocalypse connection goes In the past few months, his hard work has deeper than just that Oklahoma winter. He paid off. Not only has turnout been more conalso owes his Judgement Day fascination to sistent, but he’s recently made several televihis church-going days. sion appearances with his band, including per“I was raised in a church environment, formances on Conan and the Grand Ole Opry. Boulder Weekly
“Up until about six months ago it was kind of a crapshoot whether anybody was going to show up or not. We played a lot of strange places, a lot of house concerts, played a lot of coffee houses,” Millsap says. “The last two or three tours people have been showing up. That’s the most rewarding thing to me.” Part of Millsap’s widespread appeal likely comes from his ability to make accessible a wide range of sounds from a distant past. And despite its weighty subject matter, The Very Last Day doesn’t come off as morbid or overly serious. Of the album’s 11 songs, nearly half are up-tempo. On several songs, Millsap takes a note from classic bluegrass, using fiddles and banjos to deliver what some might consider dire subject matter over a toetapping melody. These tracks contribute a free-wheeling quality to Millsap’s already energetic performance. On The Very Last Day, Millsap doesn’t just polish up the historic sounds of the delta blues or update them to a more modern, Americana style (although he does do both of these things). He transforms them completely, in the same way Dick Dale borrowed traditional Middle Eastern sounds to create surf music in the early ’60s. The lonely, desolate sounds of the early 20th century Mississippi Delta are repurposed to evoke an apocalyptic Oklahoma wasteland. And it works. While Millsap could have milked the apocalyptic-country-blues theme for all it was worth, he uses it instead as a backdrop on which to tell stories. Millsap’s characters and their mythological struggles are the heart of the album. His characters deal not with unfamiliar, apocalyptic issues but with real-life ones — loneliness, yearning, death and grief. The stories aren’t of overcoming but of enduring. In nearly every song Millsap’s message comes across loud and clear: Even the end of the world isn’t the end of the world. See Folks Fest schedule for more details on Parker Millsap’s performance, page 29. August 11, 2016 37
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Thursday, August 11 Music Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. West Flanders Brewing Company, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Digg w/ Shanty Man and The Speakeasies. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. DJ Goodie. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Euro Dance Party. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
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Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. The Kominas. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder. Lee Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Mayhem. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Moon Taxi, Foy Vance. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Outdoor Stage, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Norah Jones, Graham Nash. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Open Mic hosted by Brian Rezac. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Open Stage. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. see EVENTS Page 40
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8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 13, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.
If you’re watching the Olympics, and you figure, “Hey, I could do that, sorta,” then head over to 300 Suns Brewing for the Hoplmypics. Compete in a bevy of games, from life-sized Hungry Hungry Hippos to group Pictionary to water balloon tosses, plus enjoy some beer while you do so. The event benefits a good cause — proceeds go to the Reyes family who is working to build a home with Habitat for Humanity. They’ll be prizes, most of which include beer, for the best of the best. If USA can win a gold medal, so can you.
If you can’t get enough of those cutaways of gorgeous Rio de Janerio during your eighth hour of binge watching the Olympics, then you’re in luck. The next best thing to actually being on the sandy white beaches of Rio is being in the Boulder Theater for Moyseis Marques and Ginga. As part of the Colorado Brazil Fest, running through Aug. 14, Marques will bring samba and forró to the Front Range. He’ll be joined on stage with the Boulder Samba School’s percussion group Bateria Alegria. For more information and a full schedule head to coloradobrazilfest.org.
Courtesy of The Dairy The Dairy Arts Center has been pumping comedy into Boulder for the past few months, and Stand Up and Get Down, is their newest offering — with a twist. Katie Rubin, who’s been in the comedy game for over a decade, will be headlining the night. The night doesn’t just end after the laughs; stick around for a dance party DJed by Lolo Gervais. Dance the night away to jazz, rock and ’80s classics. Stop by for a good night filled with giggles and boogies.
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The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
41st Annual Exhibition Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 28.
Woody & Sunshine Live. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Events Colorado Brazil Fest 2016. 5 p.m. Downtown Boulder. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. Elements of the Feminine. 10:30 a.m. Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328. Life, Animated. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Maggie’s Plan. 2:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Summer Camp: The Independent Artists Camp. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Oct. 22. Becoming Imperceptible — Adam Pendleton. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 11. Crossing Borders. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, 303-665-5200. Through Aug. 25. Finishing School: BLISS. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through September 11. Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Sept. 10. Imagine! Into the Future. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Aug. 21.
Friday, August 12
International Artists Residency: Tomoko Sauvage. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Aug. 31.
Music
Mestizaje, Hubridity. Boulder Public Library,
Aural Elixir. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Barns Courtney, Band of Horses. 7:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Botsoul. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Clark Andrew Libbey, Shanna in a Dress. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Colorado Brazil Fest Presents Choro Das 3. 8 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Broken Land. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
“So, You’re a Poet,” presents
Carry Me Ohio. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.
David Grisman Sextet. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Chris Smith. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
Francis and the Wolf. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.
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Setup — Guido Ignatti. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 25. Why We Dance. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 14. Women of Abstract Expressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 25.
Funkadelic. 6 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. The Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Groovalicious. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Intuit Band. 9:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. JC & The Deadly Sins. 8 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594. Jeff Finlin. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
Led Zeppelin Tribute. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Defending the Caveman. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Aug. 28 Footloose. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Sept. 3.
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The Resilience Project. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 24.
Kiel Grove. 7 p.m. World Of Beer, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.
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On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8, 2017.
Kendall James Music. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
theater
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1001 Arapaho Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 24.
AJ Fullerton. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
MONDAY AUGUST 15 8PM
OPEN POETRY READING
Bliss, at BMoCA, delves into the semiotics of power and surveillance, like this piece entitled “Travel Slowly And Deliberately Stay Flexible” by Finishing School and Dave Waite.
Little Shop of Horrors. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Aug. 21.
Makeshift Funk Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Many Mountains. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Marah in the Mainsail & The Heartstring Hunters. 8 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Mayhem Gulch. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Melody Pond. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
If you can’t get enough of singing plants and whacky dentists, then head to Miners Alley Playhouse for Little Shop of Horrors, through Aug. 21.
The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Ravin’ Wolf. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First see EVENTS Page 42
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EVENTS
TRAUMA AND ADDICTION:
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The Record Company, Tom Odell. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Outdoor Stage, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
Thursday, Aug. 11
Ryan Hutchens. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont.
Allie Chipkin. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Tiffany Christopher. 6 p.m. Salto Coffeeworks, 112 E. Second St., Nederland, 303-258-3537.
Monday, Aug. 15
Tilia Americana with Ten Dollar Pony. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. William & The Romantics. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Events Anomalisa. 8:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Exhibition Reception for Imagine! Into the Future. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Integral Steps Presents Music & Movement. 1 p.m. WoW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
Saturday, August 27 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Naropa University Nalanda Events Center 6287 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder,CO
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Poetry Writing Circle. 10 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, Aug. 16 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Allie Chipkin stops by Innisfree with her folksy sound and gritty lyrics on Aug. 11.
Colorado Brazil Fest 2016. 5 p.m. Downtown Boulder. Elements of the Feminine. 10:30 a.m. Bricolage Gallery at Art Parts Creative Reuse Center, 2870 Bluff St., Boulder, 720-379-5328.
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.
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Richard Smith. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder. The Heartstring Hunters. 10 a.m. Longmont Farmers’ Market, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Henscratch. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder.
ColoradoCare (Amendment 69) Information Session. 10:30 a.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Life, Animated. 4 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Maggie’s Plan. 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Life, Animated. 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Jam Key Jam-Live in Concert. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Living Beyond Hope and Fear. 9 a.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder.
Jen Korte. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
Maggie’s Plan. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Jill & Stew. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-3798299.
Second Friday Events. 6 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Main Street and Fourth Ave., Longmont.
Jubilingo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Summer Camp: The Independent Artists Camp. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Kronen. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
When Elephants Were Young. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.
When Elephants Were Young. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday, August 13
Left Hand Market Boys. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Los Cheesies. 10 a.m. Boulder Farmers’ Market, 1301 Canyon, Boulder.
Music
Melody Pond. 12:30 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
9 lb. Hammer featuring Erik the Viking. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
Melody Pond, Monocle. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.
Barrel Of Blues. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Ben Barron of The Infamous Flapjack Affair. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Ben Knighten. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bill Mckay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Caribou Mountain Collective. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Carly and The Universe. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Colorado Brazil Fest: A Night In Rio With Moyseis Marques & Ginga. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. DJ Jon Krunk. 9 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.
Nick Willis. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Sean Flynn Trio with Don Cleason and Tony Saccomanno. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Tyler T. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Whiskey Autumn. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Zen Mustache. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Events
George Nelson Trio. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
The Auspicious Adventures of an Improbable Princess. 7:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
The Goonies. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017
Colorado Brazil Fest 2016. 9:30 a.m. Downtown Boulder.
Saturday Afternoon Art Experience: 3-D printing demo, ages 5-8 and ages 9-12. 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.
Sunday, August 14 Music 300 Days. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Antonio Lopez Duo. 12 p.m. Mac’s Place, 1640 Pace St., Suite 400, Longmont, 303-678-8929. David Hakan. 5 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209. DeFunkt Railroad. 2 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Erik the Viking and Carter. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Foxfeather. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Franny & The Jets. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Melody Pond. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Melody Pond, Monocle. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Ravin’Wolf. 9 a.m. Unity Church of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-746-7648. Sarah Cole. 12 p.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. The Snowbound Hounds. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. see EVENTS Page 44
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South to Ceders. 1 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 West Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.
Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.
Strangebyrds. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
Lion Babe. 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Melissa Etheridge. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Events
Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Adult Coloring. 1 p.m. Settembre Cellars, 1501 Lee Hill Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892. Boulder Market. 11 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. Colorado Brazil Fest 2016. 1 p.m. Downtown Boulder. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. Living Beyond Hope and Fear: Social Confidence in Climate Change. 9 a.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder. Open Mic Hosted by Silent Bear. 7 p.m. Sancho’s Boulder Arrow, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 720-849-8458. The Three Stars in Munich. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday, August 15 Music Band Shell Boogie! Summer Dance Series. 7 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, Broadway and Canyon, Boulder, 303-413-7200. Erik the Viking and Carter. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. The Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Hot Tomatoes. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Open Stage. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery Call for Entries. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Discovery Days Science Program. 10 a.m. WoW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4993. Graphic Design One-On-One Consulting. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Night Hike at Mud Lake. 8 p.m. Mud Lake Open Space, Boulder. Summer Camp. 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Wednesday, August 17 Music Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Evan Taylor Jones. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder.
Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Hip Hop Night. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Potluck Bluegrass. 7 p.m. La Vita Bella Coffeehouse, 475 Main St., Longmont.
Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Tunisia Band. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont.
Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Events Boulder Mountainbike Alliance Beginner MTB Ride. 6 p.m. Various Locations, Boulder. Creating WordPress Image Galleries. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Meadow Music. 5:30 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Summer Camp. 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Tuesday, August 16 Music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Boo Ray. 11 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Boureas. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-8739185. Fluxus. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. R. Carlos Nakai Quartet. 7:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Rustic Jug Jazz Band. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Songwriter in the Round. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Story of Two. 4 p.m. Boulder Farmers’ Market, 1301 Canyon Road, Boulder. Events 2016 Boulder International Fringe Festival. 6:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Discovery Days Science Program. 10 a.m. WoW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. The Three Stars in Munich. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Tickled. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Viktoria. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Jalbatross (Ryan Jalbert Of The Motet). 8 p.m.
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Ray at 14
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Bless this boy, born with the strong face of my older brother, the one I loved most, who jumped with me from the roof of the playhouse, my hand in his hand. On Friday nights we watched Twilight Zone and he let me hold the bowl of popcorn, a blanket draped over our shoulders, saying, Don’t be afraid. I was never afraid when I was with my big brother who let me touch the baseball-size muscles living in his arms, who carried me on his back through the lonely neighborhood, held tight to the fender of my bike until I made him let go. The year he was fourteen he looked just like Ray, and when he died at twenty-two on a roadside in Germany I thought he was gone forever. But Ray runs into the kitchen: dirty T-shirt, torn jeans, pushes back his sleeve. He says, Feel my muscle, and I do.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 591: Dorianne Laux, who lives in North Carolina, is one of our country’s most distinguished poets, and here’s a poignant poem about a family resemblance. It’s from her book Smoke, from BOA Editions. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate
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aise a glass: The magic of movie making is dead. We don’t just know, “how the sausage is made.” No, no, no. Now we press nose to glass on social media, painstakingly devouring every step of the once-secret process. And then we make the sausage-stuffers dance during press junkets, singing about how it felt to cram ground pig anus into casings. To be clear, Jared Leto is the pig anus in this analogy ... Suicide Squad is grade A sausage. It is made from the finely grated leftovers of meatier movies, is unquestionably bad for you and is reluctantly delicious... so long as you don’t think about what you’re eating. Who cares whether writer/director David Ayers got steamrolled by executives into reshoots and reedits?! We shouldn’t know that. All that matters is whether we savor the flavor. And I did. That isn’t to say there wasn’t a regrettable post-sausage burp I felt immediately after. Suicide Squad spends a lot of time introducing the characters — well, the characters that matter anyway — with flashback mini-movies. We meet Deadshot (Will Smith), the assassin who can’t be all bad because he procreated; Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), a deranged former therapist who passively promotes domestic abuse through her relationship with the Joker (Leto); Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), a human effing crocodile; Diablo ( Jay Hernandez), a former-gang-bangerturned-pacifist who can shoot fire from his hands, yo; Captain Boomerang ( Jai Courtney), whose trademark needs no explanation; the Enchantress (Cara Delevingne), an archeologist possessed by a witch and Rick Flag ( Joel Kinnaman), America’s bestest soldier. Shady government A merry band of misfits assembles because they’re forced agent Amanda Waller to fight a weird witchy villain. (Viola Davis) turns these imprisoned villains into a black ops squad tasked with defending the country against super-powered shenanigans. Only, they kind of cause the super-powered shenanigans, as the Enchantress and her brother rip open a hole in the sky because... reasons? The script sizzles with its characters, sports some quippy dialogue, but shits the bed completely in terms of coherent plotting. It’s basically “you guys go fight those guys. Also, here’s the Joker.” And yet, something about watching well-cast actors smack into stuff like they were action figures played with by malevolent children is positively delightful. As expected, Robbie is the standout; her endearing-yet-manic murderess makes for a fantastic counter to Smith’s “too old for this shit” gruff mercenary. An opinion I don’t wish to have: Leto’s Joker is pretty damn great. Unlike Heath Ledger’s grounded anarchist take, Leto’s approach is obnoxious by intent; he reminds us the “Clown Prince of Crime” is a self-aggrandizing, abusive douchebag, not a “cool” merchant of chaos. On a bigger scale, it is easy to slag on Suicide Squad. The film does feel stitched together, radically jumping the tracks on tone without warning and wasting time with characters that need not have been included — cough, Killer Croc and Captain Boomerang, end cough. It’s not an exemplar of the comic book genre nor a foundation from which DC Comics can make an assault on Marvel. It’s a gussiedup, mixed bag of nonsense I found to be dumb-fun not dumb-awful. Honestly, with proper planning, I’d order a second serving of this sausage any day.
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estern saloons were created to serve certain kinds of customers: fur trappers, cowboys, lumberjacks, soldiers, miners, outlaws... folks who worked hard, even if outside the law. Those swinging doors would creak open and then came the clop, cling, clop, cling, clop, cling of boots and spurs against hardwood floors. Folks laughed and played games of chance, drank beer and liquor, and sometimes piano players would provide some entertainment.
North Dakota (pronounced like a “can-do” attitude, which is what I later discovered the town was actually named for). It looked like cornflowers painted on the cup, with gold lettering that said “Cando, N.D. 18841984.” For some reason, the mug made me ridiculously happy. I ordered up a plate of vegetable hash. It’s a simple pleasure that reminds me a lot of my childhood in Western North Carolina. Hashbrowns were always a staple breakfast food, and breakfast was always a staple meal at many a friend’s house because... well, to be honest, some of us weren’t all that wealthy. We never thought about it much, though, because who argues
Hashing it out at the Merc
by Caitlin Rockett
Maybe the Jamestown Mercantile is the closest thing Boulder County’s got to a Western saloon. It is, for the record, the “home of the somewhat feral.” That screen door creaks open and then comes the clop, clop, clop of cycling shoes against hard wood. Everybody’s there: friends sharing a late brunch, motorcyclists having a cold beer, cyclists refueling for the wild ride back down the mountain, farmers selling fresh picked vegetables. There’s music on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. It’s the heart of Jamestown, a place where folks come from far and wide to sit a spell and let the magic of this mountain town ease their worries, just for a little bit. I had no worries this weekend, to be honest. I’d gotten the chance to spend Saturday up in Loveland at the ARISE Festival and it felt like the only cure for a day of cold beer, hot sun, hula hoops and music was a hearty brunch at the Merc. The day was hot and I prayed for the body and soul of every cyclist we passed who was slowly climbing their way up Lee Hill Drive. You are a dedicated, impressive, insane group of people. I salute you all. But the day was a bit cooler up in Jamestown, where a local farmer and artist were set up in front of the Merc. I stopped to peruse the ceramics and veggies, but my need for a cup of the Merc’s Allegro coffee pulled me inside before long. The Merc’s brunch menu is pretty simple, just two pages and about a dozen different offerings ranging from traditional breakfast plates to breakfast tacos to Benedicts to yogurt parfait. I’m a fan of a small menu. Focus on quality instead of quantity. I won’t lie: what I wanted most was that piping hot cup of black coffee — and now just for the coffee. The Merc has a collection of eclectic mugs from all over, and when the server brought my coffee I saw it marked the centennial of Cando,
with breakfast for dinner? When our server brought us our food, she poured me a cup of coffee and said, “That cup just makes me so happy.” I laughed and told her I’d just been thinking the same thing. Fueled by the coffee, I launched into my meal: potatoes hashed to perfection (when you get them just crunchy enough around the edges but still soft in the center), two eggs over easy, two slices of buttered wheat toast and a mix of sautéed spinach, mushrooms and sweet peppers. Maybe it’s the surroundings — cyclists dropping in for a cool drink, friends laughing over double mimosas, locals selling goods outside, sunshine spilling on everything, hardwood floors — but it felt like I’d never had a more perfect meal on a more perfect Sunday. Hash is a simple, even modest meal, but I couldn’t have asked for anything better. Jamestown Mercantile. 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-424-5847.
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coming next in the food business. This is the Silicon Valley of the natural and organic foods industry, not to mention the epicenter of fast casual cuisine. It’s also one of the most competitive food retailing environments in the country with 17 local, Colorado and national supermarkets selling food and a lifestyle to a city of only about 105,000 residents. There are three Whole Foods Market locations including Ideal Market and two Sprouts Farmers Market stores, Susan France and one store each for Trader Joe’s, Alfalfa’s Market, Natural Grocers/ Vitamin Cottage and Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market. You can choose from three Safeways and three King Soopers locations (if you include Gunbarrel). And Boulder now has two Lucky’s Market locations with the opening of a second store this week at Table Mesa Shopping Center. That list leaves out the Boulder Hope Larsen from Alfalfa’s Market is ready to County Farmers’ Market, farm lend a hand. stands, neighborhood stores, ethnic shops like the Asian Seafood Market and India’s Grocery, specialty food markets like Cured, or the many unique grocers in surrounding towns. What does all this mean for Joe and Jane Consumer living in Martin Acres? It means you are privileged to shop and eat here and feeding your family healthy food is incredibly easy. Plus, the supermarkets are doing everything but French kissing you at the front door to make you loyal to them. Me? I shop around and walk the aisles for exercise, research and horror at what’s available in Frozen Foods. My grocery tours are often focused on natural and organic foods because even Safeway, Wal-Mart and King Soopers have substantial selections. I point out the plethora of great locally produced food products from the chilled, fermented foods see NIBBLES Page 54
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and yogurt, to kids fare and pet supplies. Among the things I’ve learned is that King Soopers is generally cheaper than Safeway. Lucky’s is less expensive than Alfalfa’s, which is cheaper than the big dog, Whole Food Market. Price isn’t everything. Alfalfa’s doubles down on “local.” Locally born Natural Grocers sells the fact that everything in the smallish stores is “safe” and they have the best supplement selection. Trader Joe’s stocks stuff nobody else has — cool foods you have to have but the quirky selection means you also have to shop at a regular grocery store. Ironically, Alfalfa’s Market, which reopened in 2011, is now the only strictly locally owned supermarket in Boulder. Locally headquartered Lucky’s Market has expanded nationally with major investment from Kroger, the owner of King Soopers. We’ve seen this evolution before. Remember when White Wave, Izze Soda, Larabar and Justin’s Nut Butter were local? Remember Wild Oats! Boulder’s food scene will only get more interesting. Other supermarkets such as ALDI will open in Boulder and environs eventually because, frankly, this is the place. P.S.: According to recent university research you are in the slowest line at the grocery store if there is only one line. Studies determined that a single line leading to multiple registers does not Kim Long speed shoppers through as quickly as separate lines. The human factor wins out. Cashiers work faster when they feel personally responsible for moving the line along.
Tomato Orgy Time
Think you know what a tomato tastes like? Prepare to be stunned by the diverse flavors, colors and aromas at two tomato-centric gatherings. You Taste tomatoes to your heart’s content Saturday in can cast a ballot in the Tomato Longmont. Taste-Off featuring various varieties at Tomato Day 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Longmont Farmers’ Market, where Boulder County farmers are also invited to enter the Heaviest Tomato Contest. The Taste of Tomato on August 27 at Gateway Park Fun Center offers dozens of homegrown tomato varieties to taste. Details: harlequinsgardens.com.
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Element Bistro featuring a rooftop dining area has opened in Gunbarrel at 6315 Lookout Road. ... Blue Canyon Distillery in Mead has released Old Blue Straight Bourbon Whiskey. ... The Louisville Homemade Pie Contest is Labor Day, Sept. 5, at Memory Square Park. To enter a pie: thehuckleberry.com
Taste of the Week
My twice-annual craving for a corned beef hash breakfast called for the real thing, not the canned variety. I found juicy, house-made corned beef with caramelized onions and potatoes at Lucky’s Cafe (near North Boulder’s Lucky’s Market). Add poached eggs, toast with jam and coffee, and I had a satisfied mouth for one morning.
Words to Chew On
“If you take a pint of rock-solid ice cream from the freezer and put it in the refrigerator, the temperature difference between the ice cream and the surrounding air will be much less than if you put it on the counter. This slows down the rate at which the ice cream gets warmer, allowing the entire pint to change temperature at a uniform rate. After an hour or so, the ice cream is at a perfect temperature throughout. Whereas, had the pint been left on the counter, the edges get melty first while the center stays solid.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU. Would you eat at a restaurant that bans cell phones? Comments to: Nibbles@BoulderWeekly.com. Boulder Weekly
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:
Using scissors, snip off a strand of your hair. As you do, sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Seal the hair in an envelope on which you have written the following: “I am attracting divine prods and unpredictable nudges that will enlighten me about a personal puzzle that I am ready to solve.” On each of the next five nights, kiss this package five times and place it beneath your pillow as you sing a beloved song with uplifting lyrics. Then observe your dreams closely. Keep a pen and notebook or audio recorder near your bed to capture any clues that might arrive. On the morning after the fifth night, go to your kitchen sink and burn the envelope and hair in the flame of a white candle. Chant the words of power: “Catalytic revelations and insights are arriving.” The magic you need will appear within 15 days.
TAURUS
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This would be a good time to have a master craftsperson decorate your headquarters with stained glass windows that depict the creation stories of your favorite indigenous culture. You might also benefit from hiring a feng shui consultant to help you design a more harmonious home environment. Here are some cheaper but equally effective ways to promote domestic bliss: Put images of your heroes on your walls. Throw out stuff that makes you feel cramped. Add new potted plants to calm your eyes and nurture your lungs. If you’re feeling especially experimental, build a shrine devoted to the Goddess of Ecstatic Nesting.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20: You Geminis are as full of longings as any
other sign, but you have a tendency to downplay their intensity. How often do you use your charm and wit to cloak your burning, churning yearnings? Please don’t misunderstand me: I appreciate your refined expressions of deep feelings — as long as that’s not a way to hide your deep feelings from yourself. This will be an especially fun and useful issue for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. I advise you to be in very close touch with your primal urges.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
Be vulnerable and sensitive as well as insatiable and irreverent. Cultivate your rigorous skepticism, but expect the arrival of at least two freaking miracles. Be extra nurturing to allies who help you and sustain you, but also be alert for those moments when they may benefit from your rebellious provocations. Don’t take anything too personally or literally or seriously, even as you treat the world as a bountiful source of gifts and blessings. Be sure to regard love as your highest law, and laugh at fear at least three times every day.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
Let’s assume, for the sake of fun argument, that you do indeed have a guardian angel. Even if you have steadfastly ignored this divine helper in the past, I’m asking you to strike up a close alliance in the coming weeks. If you need to engage in an elaborate game of imaginative pretending to make it happen, so be it. Now let me offer a few tips about your guardian angel’s potential purposes in your life: providing sly guidance about how to take good care of yourself; quietly reminding you where your next liberation may lie; keeping you on track to consistently shed the past and head toward the future; and kicking your ass so as to steer you away from questionable influences. OK? Now go claim your sublime assistance!
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such thing as predestination. So if you prefer, you may refuse to access the rich fuel that’s available. You can keep your scary feelings tucked inside your secret hiding place, where they will continue to fester. You are not obligated to deal with them squarely, let alone find a way to use them as motivation. But if you are intrigued by the possibility that those murky worries might become a source of inspiration, dive in and investigate.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
Are you ready for your mid-term exam? Luckily I’m here to help get you into the proper frame of mind to do well. Now study the following incitements with an air of amused rebelliousness. 1. You may have to act a bit wild or unruly in order to do the right thing. 2. Loving your enemies could motivate your allies to give you more of what you need. 3. Are you sufficiently audacious to explore the quirky happiness that can come from cultivating intriguing problems? 4. If you want people to change, try this: Change yourself in the precise way you want them to change.
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: What you are most afraid of right now could become what fuels you this fall. Please note that I used the word “could.” In the style of astrology I employ, there is no
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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
Although you may not yet be fully aware of your good fortune, your “rescue” is already underway. Furthermore, the so-called hardship you’ve been lamenting will soon lead you to a trick you can use to overcome one of your limitations. Maybe best of all, Virgo, a painful memory you have coddled for a long time has so thoroughly decayed that there’s almost nothing left to cling to. Time to release it! So what comes next? Here’s what I recommend: Throw a going-away party for everything you no longer need. Give thanks to the secret intelligence within you that has guided you to this turning point.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:
Here comes a special occasion — a radical exemption that is so rare as to be almost impossible. Are you ready to explore a blessing you have perhaps never experienced? For a brief grace period, you can be free from your pressing obsessions. Your habitual attachments and unquenchable desires will leave you in peace. You will be relieved of the drive to acquire more possessions or gather further proof of your attractiveness. You may even arrive at the relaxing realization that you don’t require as many props and accessories as you imagined you needed to be happy and whole. Is enlightenment nigh? At the very least, you will learn how to derive more joy out of what you already have.
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will attempt to move you away from any influences that interfere with your ability to discern and express your soul’s code. You know what I’m talking about when I use that term “soul’s code,” right? It’s your sacred calling; the blueprint of your destiny; the mission you came to earth to fulfill. So what does it mean if higher powers and mysterious forces are clearing away obstacles that have been preventing you from a more complete embodiment of your soul’s code? Expect a breakthrough that initially resembles a breakdown.
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DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for the next three weeks — but you won’t be reading old columns while I’m away. You’ll be getting a new column every week, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Dan Savage is a sports writer and the assistant director of digital content for OrlandoMagic.com, and he will be answering your questions this week. Dan has covered six NBA finals and 10 NBA All-Star Games; he’s appeared on CBS, ESPN, NBA TV, and First Take; and his writing has been published at ESPN.com, CBS.com, NBA.com, and OrlandoMagic.com. This is Dan’s first time giving sex-and-relationship advice. “Other sports writers often tell me they enjoyed reading my latest column,” Dan Savage told me in an e-mail, “but when they show me the article, it’s one of your sex-advice columns. The joke is going to be on them this time around when it’s actually my advice!” Dear Dan: I’m a straight guy in my 40s, and I’ve been with my wife for more than 20 years. I’m incredibly attracted to my wife. Recently, I’ve been a bit frustrated with us not having sex as frequently as I’d like. So I broached the subject with her. I tried to be easygoing about it, but maybe I fucked that up. Basically, I told her that I fantasize about her daily and would like to
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have sex more often. I cited two examples of frustration. Two weeks ago, I came on to her and tried to initiate, but we had a dinner party to go to and she didn’t want to be late. One week ago, I was flirting with her but was rebuffed because we were going out to dinner and ... she wanted to go to dinner more than fuck, I guess. I made my wife cry by bringing this up. End result is that she doesn’t want to fuck more than we already do, there’s nothing I can do to make sex more appealing for her and it hurt her for me to bring the subject up at all. I dropped it, apologized and moved on. I don’t want to coerce her into anything (I want her to want me), so here we are. How can I communicate better in the future? — Using My Words Dear UMW: Communication in any relationship is key. On the basketball court, one of the first things young players are taught is to communicate effectively with their teammates. They’re required to call out plays, offensive assignments and defensive rotations in order to prevent break-
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downs and keep the system working smoothly. In relationships, the same principles hold true. You have to be able to effectively communicate with your partner in order to keep both parties happy. And just like everything else in life, timing is everything. First, I’d make sure you communicate your needs at a time other than when you’ve just been rebuffed. You’re then likely to be less emotional, think more rationally and more effectively explain your needs without applying added pressure. Second, I’d try making your next move when other plans are not on the table. In both the examples you mention, UMW, the timing of your request appears to have been an issue for her. Schedule some time for an intimate dinner at home or cap off an exciting evening out on the town with romantic advances. If she does not respond to your improved efforts, then she’s not being a good teammate. A successful relationship is when both members’ needs are met, not just one.
Dear Dan: I’ve been hooking up with a good friend for about a year. We’re both single, and he lives in another state but comes to town for work every month or two, and we usually hang out and have really great sex when he’s here. One of the things I’ve always admired about him is his eco-conscious lifestyle... which includes showering only about once a week to save water. His BO is pretty inoffensive (it’s actually a nice scent), but I find that most times we hook up, I get a raging UTI within a day or two. It’s happened enough times that I’m wondering if his infrequent washing could be allowing bacteria to live on his junk, causing my infections. Is that possible? Do I need to have a talk with him about washing more frequently/thoroughly? — Hurts To Pee Dear Dan: The simple answer is yes, HTP. It’s great to have an eco-conscious lifestyle, but not at the expense of your urinary tract. If he cares about you as much as he does about the environment, then with a quick chat, he’ll probably focus a little more on his personal hygiene. Especially if you explain to him that the overuse of antibiotics contributes to creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can cause issues for the entire planet. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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four have legislation in the works. It appears that adults residing in or near legal markets are more likely to use cannabis. According to the Gallup poll, residents in the West, where all of the legal, adult-use markets are located, are much more likely to say they consume marijuana than in other parts of the country. But just as important as the states that have been successful in passing cannabis legislation, are those that considered initiatives that ultimately failed. Whether they make it or not, these ballot initiatives introduce a new rhetoric into congressional floors and into the public dialogue. As the conversation becomes less taboo, elected officials and citizens reckon with their own attitudes and opinions of the plant and, because of prohibition, probably for the first time. The legalization chatter isn’t just relegated to the state level — four presidential candidates, Democratic, Republican, Green Party and Libertarian — have all expressed their support for federal legalization, albeit in varying degrees. International governments are also hosting their own considerations of drug law reform that represent a significant change in approach to legalization of cannabis consumption that favors decriminalization and education in an effort to foster a healthbased approach. Whether or not people use cannabis, support for legalization is increasing across the board. A Center for Public Affairs Research poll released in March finds that 61 percent of adults support
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ccording to a story in the Orange County Register, today’s marijuana “is typically four times stronger than the marijuana of just a couple of decades ago.” Reporter Brooke Edwards Staggs quotes Madeline Meier, a psychologist at Arizona State University, as saying that through the 1990s marijuana typically had about 4 percent THC, but that today’s pot commonly has 15 percent, 20 percent, even 30 percent THC. “That definitely increases the potential for addiction,” chimes in Kevin Alexander, who runs an after-school anti-drug program in Newport Beach. Like, yikes. Look. I have seen this movie before. It’s called “This Is Not Your Father’s Pot,” and it is revived by marijuana prohibitionists whenever the question of marijuana legalization starts to get some traction. I first saw it in the early 1980s when it was rolled out by William Bennett, Reagan’s first drug czar. The narrative always contains the same false premises and dodgy data. Only the dates change. Ms. Meier doesn’t bother telling us where she got her numbers, but chances are they came from a study published in the January 19 issue of the Journal of Biological Psychology. The study looked at more than 38,600 samples of illegal marijuana seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) over a 20-year period. It found that the THC in the samples had risen from about 4 percent in 1995 to about 12 percent in 2014. The study was done at the University of Mississippi, which runs an on-going marijuana Potency Monitoring Program, funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. And which from time to time puts out reports that show that the potency of marijuana seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration has gone way up over
The awesome potency of today’s pot the last 10 or 20 years. Which then prompt the DEA, pot prohibitionists and reporters to start hyper-ventilating over why today’s marijuana is so much more powerful (and by implication, dangerous) than the marijuana of the past and why, therefore, marijuana should remain illegal. The quality of these studies, especially the early ones, has sometimes risen (or sunk) to the level of junk science. For example, some of the first ones, conducted in the 1980s, analyzed samples of marijuana bales that had been seized in the 1970s and had been sitting in a hallway degrading for years before their THC content was measured. Lo and behold, the average strength of the THC from 1970s’ dope
tested in the 1980s was as low as 0.4 percent, which made the 4.0 percent THC content of samples seized in the early ’80s look like a ten-fold increase. However, the latest study differs from those in the past in one important respect. Its main premise — that today’s marijuana is a lot stronger than the marijuana of 20 years ago — is self-evidently true, regardless of the quality of the study. It was hardly necessary to analyze 38,600 samples of pot to establish this. Just guessing here, but chances are the average strength of the pot currently sold at recreational dispensaries in Boulder County is closer to 20 percent than 12 percent. (The study’s assertion that the average THC content of 1990s’ pot was 4 percent strikes me as bogus. There was always plenty of high strength marijuana available in the 1990s, and the 1980s as well. It was sometimes called Lawyers’ dope. It may be that the DEA just didn’t seize much of it, for some reason.) The real question when dealing with the “this is not your father’s pot” trope is not whether 2016 pot is stronger than 1996 pot or 1986 pot or 1976 pot or 1960s pot. The real question is “so what?” The fact that some pot has a, say, 9 percent THC content and some has a 25 percent THC content is no different than the fact that some booze has a 5 percent alcohol content (we call it “beer”), some has a 15 percent alcohol content (it’s called “wine”) and some has a 40 percent alcohol content, (aka Scotch). Most drinkers — usually as a result of a few embarrassing experiences early on — figure out that the three have to be consumed differently. It is the same with marijuana users. Indeed, the only people who seem to have trouble with the concept are newspaper reporters who keep falling for the This-Is-Not-Your-Father’s-Pot canard.
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