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(Re: “Nationwide sting recovers more than 100 trafficked children, 9 in Denver,” News, Aug. 1.) Great news! The FBI task force may recover a record number of juvenile victims of sex trafficking this year. Women and girls (and sometimes boys and men) are stolen, kidnapped, tortured and enslaved in the sex trade all over the world. In some countries, even babies
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Highroad Monsanto’s Wizard-of-Oz website by Jim Hightower
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xcellent news, consumers: Biotech giants that’ve been secretly inserting genetically engineered organisms into thousands of food products you buy have just announced that they’re coming clean! Wow, you mean no more GMO Frankenfood ingredients will be slipped into our diets? Oh, come on — these are food profiteers, so they’re not about
are trafficked. Thailand specializes in sex tours, and most of the trade is in underage girls. The situation is getting worse, not better. Turn two pages in the same issue with this article and there is an ad for cars with a teenage girl wearing provocative underwear and a look of sexual ecstasy on her young face. She is not selling sex. She is selling cars. As long as the media accepts and
to come that clean. So maybe they’re agreeing at last (and at least) to label any products that contain ingredients with tampered DNA. No, no — rightto-know labeling is what food tamperers fear most, for they know we won’t buy those items if we know what’s in them. OK then, what do they actually intend to do? They’re giving us a website. Say what? Yes, the entirety of their grand gesture of “corporate transparency” is to put a mess of PR and useless gobbledygook on a slick site called GMOAnswers.com. They say we can ask “virtually any question,” and their “experts” will be happy to tell us why GMOs are good for us. In other words, “come clean” is an industry euphemism for “whitewash.” The website will be controlled by — and its “answers” written by — agents of Monsanto and a handful of other corporations that control the dangerous and
promotes advertising of this nature, men with money will want to buy a car and maybe get a teenage girl in with the deal. This ad insults women. Your newspaper should be more sensitive to this shameful global problem. Connect the dots. Advertising that uses sex to sell refrigerators, cars, cigarettes, alcohol and just about everything else will consee LETTERS Page 8
For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.
deceitful genetic manipulation industry. “We want to get into the conversation” with those opposed to GMOs, stated a biotech exec — ignoring the fact that these same industry schemers did not allow any opponents into “the conversation” they had in back rooms with our government officials when they conspired to foist these nasties on our families without our knowledge. Monsanto and Gang are notorious liars, political manipulators and thugs. They can put all the propaganda they want on their Wizard-of-Oz website, but — like putting earrings on a hog — it can’t hide their ugliness. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 15, 2013 7
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utside a 300,000-squarefoot building in a run-down Aurora neighborhood on Aug. 5, a lively, ethnically diverse crowd of some 80 people marched, sang and chanted. They carried signs about keeping families together and resisting deportation. About 20 of them were little kids, many wearing big butterfly wings. They stopped at a sign euphemistically saying “GEO Aurora ICE Processing Center.” It is a prison run for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by GEO Group, Inc., which is a for-profit private correctional and detention management firm based in Boca Raton, Fla., that has faced increasing charges of negligence and civil rights violations. On the first Monday of every month, a vigil and rally for immigrant rights is held there and organized by American Friends Service Committee (Quakers), the Interfaith Alliance of Colorado and the Council of Churches. A detainee facing deportation to Mexico, Jeanette Vizguerra, spoke from the prison via cell phone at this month’s bilingual rally. She has lived in Colorado for more than 15 years without documents. In 2009, she was pulled over by local police and arrested for driving with expired license plate tags. Vizguerra has three small children who are U.S. citizens, started a moving and cleaning business with her husband, and has been a community activist (Service Employees International Union labor organizer and volunteer with her children’s schools and the Aurora Neighborhood Watch Program). A few days after the rally, ICE released her — after an avalanche of petitions, phone calls, letters, rallies and a hunger strike. But this is just a stay of deportation until January. State Sen. Morgan Carroll (D-Aurora) supports closing the prison and others like it around the country, which she said lay “beyond the reach of accountability, transparency — every part of due process that we normally assume is present when you detain someone — like a trial, legal representation, access rights, you know, a finite sentence. Those things just aren’t present here.” Carroll said the Aurora facility runs a “complete cattle call” for the detainees, in which people are herded into group cells. She said they are essentially “serving [indeterminate] sentences in rooms with 40 to 50 other people.” 8 August 15, 2013
After touring the facility, Rep. Jared Polis wrote a piece for Huffington Post advocating the reform of U.S. immigration detention facilities, “which hold tens of thousands of immigrants who were mostly picked up for trivial offenses like speeding or loitering and are now in detention at taxpayer expense for months or even years.” He said “stories of abuse, malnutrition and lack of basic health care are altogether too common in detention facilities.” He said, “Prisons should be for criminals, not honest, productive people caught up in the byzantine morass of our broken immigration system.” There is a big push for immigration reform after the U.S. Senate passed S.744 — the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 — which provides a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers. Most of the labor movement, immigrant rights groups and Latino advocacy community are critical supporters with apprehensions. Laurel Herndon is one of them. She is a long-time Boulder immigration attorney and the executive director of the nonprofit Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County. “I am not sure about the bill,” she said, “but a lot of people would qualify and benefit from it.” She said the bill furnishes a formidable 13-year path to citizenship. There are high fees. There is a requirement you cannot go more than 60 days without employment at any time. She said “this will increase the level of exploitation. The employee knows he or she is dependent on the employer to stay continuously employed.” Conservative Republicans amended the bill to add a massive $46.3 billion expansion of border enforcement. Herndon said, “The bill instructs the government to purchase specific weapons from specific companies. This is a lot of pork.” This further militarization of the border is a bonanza to military contractors and the private prison industry. This is a lousy, repressive bill and likely to get worse. But, as AFL-CIO president Rich Trumka says, “it allows people who are American in every way except on paper to come out of the shadows.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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tinue to help the sex trade flourish. Seemanta/Boulder
Nice teahouse investigation
(Re: “Disinformation,” News, Aug. 8.) There’s a “book” in this one! Kudos to the Boulder Weekly and its astute and dogged environmental journalism! These small-newspaper journalists have exposed a string of events, and decisions, and interfaces that, together, mirror thousands upon thousands of varied scenarios, worldwide, in which derelict gasworks have been folded into, or rolled into, regrettable situations of potential health-risk exposure to the public, and done so with public funds. Clearly, EPA Region VIII is clean on this one, and Ms. Smith’s description of the circumstantial fall-out of Superfund NPL “Nifrapping” should be strongly heeded. Now ... where’s the gasworks dump? Try looking northwest, directly across 13th Street, some fifty yards away, below the lawn, in City (Central) Park, likely another “gift horse” with rotten teeth. Allen Hatheway/Rolla, Mo.
Walmart piece inaccurate
(Re: “How dare D.C. demand fair wages from Walmart?” The Highroad, Aug. 1.) Mr. Hightower’s letter does not accurately describe D.C.’s Large Retailer Accountability Act and misinforms readers about the wages and opportunities available at Walmart. The LRAA creates an unlevel playing field by imposing arbitrary costs on a handful of businesses while exempting
most others. This is an opinion echoed by editorial boards at The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Washington Times, The Financial Times, The Economist and the Washington Business Journal, just to name a few. Our associates are 1.3 million strong and they achieve incredible things every single day — for our customers and in their own lives. We provide a range of jobs — from people starting out stocking shelves to Ph.D.s in engineering and finance. We provide education assistance and skill training and, most of all, a chance to move up in the ranks. We promoted 160,000 people last year to positions with more responsibility and higher pay. At Walmart, we’re confident in the competitive nature of our wages. In fact, our compensation meets or exceeds what is offered by most competitors, including unionized grocers. Most of our workforce is full-time, and in the nearby state of Virginia, our average, hourly full-time wage is $12.39/hour. About 75 percent of our store management teams started as hourly associates, and they earn between $50,000 and $170,000 a year. We are proud of what our workers achieve and the opportunities we provide. And we urge Mayor [Vincent] Gray to veto the LRAA, as it runs counter to every economic development platform his administration has identified as a priority for Washington D.C. Steven Restivo, senior director of communications at Walmart/Bentonville, Ark. see LETTERS Page 11
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More fracking nonsense Wow. Just when you thought that the “oversight” provided by the state agency charged with policing the oil and gas industry couldn’t get any more lax, along comes this gem. The Denver Post (and, in true form, at least one of its corporate sister papers around these parts) reported this week that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission — you remember, the agency that is somehow supposed to both promote and police oil and gas companies — has been giving slaps on the hand to violators. Instead of levying fines, as it is supposed to when there is a spill or other mishap, the COGCC has apparently been allowing companies to perform service projects to make up for their mistakes. And the commission has already approved 16 of these sweetheart deals this year, compared to only 12 in all of 2012, the Post reports. Adding insult to injury is that some of these service projects are things that should already be required of oil and gas companies! For instance, after a spill near Windsor, one company had to train local emergency responders on how to deal with oil spills. What? Do we really want the fox showing the farmer how to guard the henhouse? We can hear the company trainers now: “Oh, you probably just need to remove an inch or so of that there topsoil, it doesn’t seep down very far.” Another company was punished for its spill by having to install a monitoring system that detects hydrocarbons. Hello? Shouldn’t the state mandate that all companies do this, at every well? And on top of all this, the state is trying to claim that the pricetag on the service projects themselves are higher than the fines would be. Yeah, right. Keep an eye out for those write-offs, IRS. They done wrote it Speaking of dim-witted moves, those northeastern Colorado counties considering seceding and forming their own state have come up with some wording for the ballot initiative this fall. And it only took nine weeks. Um, no comment. We just wonder where they imported the brainpower to write, edit and otherwise fine-tune this language, because it’s a real masterpiece. The version that Cheyenne County is sharing with its sister counties reads: “Shall the board of county commissioners of Cheyenne County, in concert with the county commissioners of other Colorado counties, pursue becoming the 51st state of the United States of America?” (This, again, from the Post, not the local corporate sister paper that reran it.) Of course, this new state, which we have Ken Buck already lovingly dubbed North Colorado, or NoColor, will need a state flower, a state bird, a state song, etc. Oh, wait. It probably won’t have much in the way of flowers or birds once the oil and gas industry gets done with it. As for a song, we were thinking about Woody Guthrie’s “Keep That Oil A-Rollin’.” And $20 says Ken Buck is NoColor’s first governor. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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The central issue of the case regarding recent recall elections in Center, currently before the Colorado Supreme Court, boils down to the meaning of “secret ballot” and a specific section of the state’s Constitution. The words of Article VII, Section 8 of the Colorado Constitution could not be any plainer — “no ballots shall be marked in any way whereby the ballot can be identified as the ballot of the person casting it.” This language contains no exceptions. No exception that election officials may mark ballots with unique identifiers for convenience or any other reason. It is plain to anyone who is not trying to get around the law or the will of the people: No ballot may be marked, by anyone, in a fashion that would allow anyone to identify the voter who cast the ballot. From our perspective, Mr. Maurice Jones and Citizen Center, the lawsuit’s plaintiffs, side with us voters, while the opponents and their allies generally are out for themselves. Opponents contend that Mr. Jones and Citizen Center are offering an extreme interpretation of our state’s Constitution to prohibit election workers from learning of a voter’s identity, even inadvertently. Not true. Election officials and political party insiders, who could directly benefit from knowing how people vote, are the ones promoting an extreme and contrived interpretation of the Colorado Constitution. Based upon their court filings, those with a potentially vested interest in identifying voters’ ballots and using the information obtained claim the wording above should be re-interpreted to mean the Constitution only prohibits public access to ballots marked in identifiable fashion. In other words, it’s OK for them to know how you voted as long as they don’t disclose it to the public. This re-interpretation is obviously contrary to the Constitution’s plain meaning. Yet many government officials and insiders are trying to persuade the Colorado Supreme Court to change the meaning of “secret” ballot to “confidential” ballot. Election officials’ marking ballots with unique identifiers (such as serial numbers and barcodes) left in place during the processing and counting of votes are intentional acts violating our constitutional right to a secret ballot. If you do not want government officials and election workers learning how you vote, please tell them what “secret ballot” means to you right away. Locate the contact information for your county clerk at http://bit.ly/cncZF2. You can Boulder Weekly
reach the Secretary of State’s office via phone: 303-894-2200 or email: elections@sos.state.co.us. Send a note of support and thanks to Mr. Jones and Citizen Center via email: Marilyn@ TheCitizenCenter.org. Lu Busse and Richard Rosenbaum/ Larkspur
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asmine Johnson sees what’s at stake for her future every time she goes to downtown Denver to see her sister’s theater productions. She says it clicked when she was in seventh grade, and they were passing by homeless people out on the street in the cold. “I didn’t want to be like that when I got older, so I decided from then on I needed to work a little harder,” Jasmine says. She had started going to classes at the Family Learning Center just a year before, and in a class there, a teacher had explained the options available to someone with a high school education or lower, compared to someone with a college degree. Elizabeth Miller “I finally got it that an education was the only way for me to be successful, and so I started working really hard and going home and working for long hours,” Jasmine says. She’s on the honor roll at Summit Middle School and is starting at Arapahoe Ridge High School this fall with a full schedule of advanced classes and hopes to move on to college at Boston University, Harvard or Stanford to become a lawyer. “I’ve wanted to be a lawyer since I was a little kid because I wanted justice for everyone and I want it for all races,” Jasmine says. “Sometimes in Boulder, stuff is unjust because we’re African American, and I want to be a lawyer to get justice for everyone, no matter of their skin color.” Her mother, Raynita Johnson, says Jasmine stays up late at night finishing her homework. She’s confident in Jasmine’s success because she believes she’s enrolled in good schools — and getting her children into good schools was part of her motivation for moving the family to Boulder when they relocated from California in 2007 — but also because the programs at the Family Learning Center have given them tools to succeed both socially and academically. “It’s empowered them to be who they are and be proud of who they are,” Johnson says. “The program makes kids understand that you’ve got to work just a little bit harder and do just a little bit more because then they have so much more opportunities.” When they moved from San Diego to Boulder, Raynita Johnson says, her older daughter, Autumn, in particular, struggled to fit in what was suddenly a predominantly Caucasian environment, and her grades suffered. She hadn’t seen much of town before she started at school, so that’s where it hit her that her surBoulder Weekly
roundings had changed. “It was much more diverse in California than here. That took some getting used to,” she says. Johnson, a single mother, was laid off three times in 19 years of working in the airline industry before going back to school to study to become a mortician four years ago. “In our society, we really don’t care about poverty, but you always will have the unfortunate people, and unfortunate people, they don’t wake up in the morning and say, ‘Ooh, I can’t wait to be poor.’ No one does that,” Johnson says. “Nineteen years ago, when I started my career in the airline business, … I would never have fathomed that I’d be in the situation that I am today.” Because she’s still a full-time student, things are tough, she says, in ways she just doesn’t talk to her kids about. “You just try to make things happy for kids and do right each and every day,” she says. “And pray and reinforce that their lives can be so much better if they go to school and do well.” She can’t say enough Joshua Efe good things about the Family Learning Center or its founder, Brenda Ingram-Lyle. “I think what makes it such a wonderful program is that Brenda has a real core dedication in wanting to see every kid excel,” Johnson says. “She has a fiery desire for everyone to go to college and have equal opportunity in education and so that they will be successful.” Jasmine says this summer’s program, the Ignite Your Potential class, a free summer program for the first 50 students who apply, “really opened my mind to what I really wanted to be when I grow up and I have to think about that soon.” The class this summer focused on coaching students on how to prepare their college applications. At 14, Jasmine is a ways off from that now, but her sister, Autumn, who is 17, actually wrote her application essay this summer for the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She’s been coached in choosing back-up schools and putting together her resume and portfolio. She knows her dream to be an actress is a lofty one, but, she says, “I’m just going to follow my dreams. It’ll work out.” And the message she and the other students at Ignite have been getting this summer comes back to the same refrain: Why not apply to Harvard, to Julliard, to Pratt? You won’t know if you can get in unless you apply. That line of thought is the motif behind the coaching given every day at the Ignite Your Potential
class — don’t underestimate yourself. “This is our subtle way of trying to interrupt, disrupt, that sense of, ‘I’m from fewer means than others and I shouldn’t even think of being able to go any further than I am or than my family has gone,’” says Alphonse Keasley, assistant vice chancellor in CU’s Office of Diversity, Equality and Community Engagement. Keasley worked with Ingram-Lyle to create the Ignite Your Potential program, which is run by the Family Learning Center in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder. The program was designed to provide low income, minority high school students, many of whom are the first in their families to apply for college, with college preparation in everything from mastering the basic academic skills they’ll be expected to demonstrate in math, reading and writing to coaching on finances and the opportunity to investigate their own family history. This year’s program had the specific focus of preparing rising high school seniors for applying for college by actually coaching them through the process of searching out the application requirements for colleges of their choice and writing application essays. Students attended sessions with financial aid staff to discuss personal budgets and affording higher education. They were coached by admissions counselors and given one-on-one support with their writing. It’s great preparation for any high school student. But multicultural, low socioeconomic background students who are the first generation in their families ever to apply for college face a litany of issues, from logistical questions on completing the applications, knowing how and where to apply for financial aid, to simply the belief that higher education — even in the face of rising tuition costs — is still an option. **** According to U.S. Census data, 7.8 percent of Hispanic and 9.2 percent of African American people over the age of 25 have completed a bachelor’s degree, compared to 14.3 percent of white Americans. Getting to goals like the one President Barack Obama announced for America, having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020, will require boosting the graduation rate among minority students. “Everyone is grappling with these issues of, how do we close the achievement gap, how do we increase graduation rates for poor and minority children,” says Lyle. “It all sounds really good, but when you really, kind of like the skin of an onion, when you peel it back, it’s really, basically, mastery of skills.” She describes working with high school students who read a paragraph and understand a handful of the words in it — which makes it impossible to complete the homework for a higher level science class. All too often, parents and kids build their high See IGNITE Page 14
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Vanessa Schatz school coursework like a house without a blueAudrey Hepburn and how she wants to go on to Students from the summer 2013 print, Lyle says. “Too many kids and parents design her own advertisements. She mentions the Ignite Your Potential class are saying, ‘My kid’s going to college,’ but you lotus flower, a symbol of new beginnings. Her parlook at the transcripts and say, ‘No, because ents never went to college, she says, and neither you’re not taking the right classes to go where did her grandparents, who are now her legal guardyou think you want to go.’” ians. Before they adopted her, she was raising her Remedial kids end up in classes that split younger brother. In her essay, she recalls feeding freshman-level math and science classes over and dressing him since before he could walk. two years — and they may think they’ve done “When they found out about this program, the four years of math or science required by they knew it would be a good opportunity for me universities, but haven’t progressed to the to understand what I could do,” she says. She’ll be required level of coursework. moving from Nederland to Los Angeles if she gets “What we’re trying to do is teach kids and into UCLA. families, know where you’re going,” Lyle says. “It’s a big change, but I’m ready for it,” she The Family Learning Center tracked 100 says. “I want a new perspective about myself and kids who joined their preschool program in the my world.” ’80s over almost all of the 33 years Lyle has **** worked at the center. She calls the results of Ignite Your Potential emerged in response to their program “phenomenal”: 98 percent had two incidents of racial hazing at Boulder high moved out of low income housing, many into their own reminders on thesis statements, claims and evidence schools in a single week, each including death threats, homes, and 98 percent of the students had graduated and persuasive summaries. The sound of typing ebbs one directed at black students, and one at Hispanic stufrom high school, 68 percent from college. One had a and flows. dents. Ph.D. Several had master’s degrees. One student writes about a truancy problem that In the wake of those events, as community mem“We know what we do works,” Ingram-Lyle says. plagued her for three years of high school — the same bers rushed forward to offer support, Keasley and So does the federal government. Nationwide, the amount of time she describes caring for a baby she Ingram-Lyle looked at the situation, Keasley says, and Federal Talent Search program, created by the Higher started babysitting when it was a month old, which is realized they were both in positions to do something Education Act of 1965 and run by the U.S. how she’s decided she wants to go to nursing school. about it. Department of Education, shares a similar goal to the One wants to be a zoologist. One wants to write for “Brenda and I come from two different parts of the Ignite Your Potential class of increasing the presence of ESPN. One wants to become a translator. United States, she from California and me from New students from disadvantaged backgrounds in postsecThe aspiring zoologist, Joshua Efe, who wrote Orleans, but we grew up in black communities where ondary education. That program sends competitive about his powers of observation in the animal world there was tremendous care for us, and great hope for grants to projects that provide tutorial services, aptitude and how that world makes sense when people don’t, us,” Keasley says. “Again, two different experiences in assessments, mentoring programs, alternative education, says getting ahead in his application process has been life, but within communities where there truly was a career or educational guidance or work with groups tra- the big benefit from the class. strong desire for us to have a tremendous future. And ditionally underrepresented in postsecondary education, “I learned how to write my application essay. I had when we started comparing notes, we recognized that no idea how to do that, so that was really helpful,” he including homeless youth or foster care. A 2006 report our children in Boulder weren’t necessarily — children says. Efe’s parents did go to college, but came as interon the effectiveness of the program in Florida, Indiana of color in particular — weren’t getting that same kind and Texas found that participants were 6 to 18 percent national students from Nigeria. of ‘We believe in you no matter what.’ So we started more likely to enroll in a public college or university “My college process is radically different, and high this program called Ignite Your Potential.” than nonparticipants from similar backgrounds, and 14 school process is radically different from theirs because Keasley, Ingram-Lyle and Justina Boyd, coordinator they didn’t have to take any ACTs, SATs or subject to 28 percentage points more likely to be first-time for the First Generation Program at CU’s Center for tests,” he says. He’s studying to take those exams this applicants for financial aid. Multicultural Affairs, worked with the university to fall. “When I’m talking to my mother about all these Despite that success, Talent Search has seen draft the curriculum for the program based on their standardized tests, she’s thinking, ‘This is just going decreases in funding over the last seven years, and coranswers to what they needed to see from graduating over my head. I don’t know what any of these are.’ And high school students. responding cuts in the number of participants. I’m the first so it’s just I’m teaching everyone how to do **** It also meant drawing from their own experiences, this basically, so when my sister and brother come Being the first in their families to apply for higher Ingram-Lyle says. education programs means there’s not a lot of advice along they’ll go, ‘Oh this is how we do this.’” “It’s our lives. We grew up with a lack of privilege coming from their parents. A CU admissions counselor has gone over his tran- and poverty and so we knew what we had to do that “They have emotional support, but not structured scripts to talk about what he needs to achieve academi- worked to get us to individually have upward mobility,” support,” says Vanessa Schatz, who’s teaching the writcally in his senior year, which he starts this fall. A team she says. ing component of the course. The skill levels she meets leader with the Family Learning Center coached him At their first graduation ceremony in 2011 for a vary, she says, but the majority of students are very program, which was a sports-based awareness program in looking at schools outside the country, and he has tuned in, and very grateful. The narratives she encoundesigned to simply get kids to come on campus and plans to apply to universities in the United Kingdom ters evaluating their essays, she says, are sometimes a realize it was open to them, the difference the class had and Canada. And he’s been shown some scholarship surprise. They describe raising their own siblings. They made reverberated through the room. websites he hadn’t heard of before. mention gun violence. “We were able to see that there really was a differ“I think learning how to find scholarships and “They’re definitely an absent history of this comlearning what grants I would qualify for and how to fill ence, that the students did now come to believe more munity,” Schatz says. out a FAFSA was really helpful because there is no way in their family, in the value of their family, culturally Schatz joins them for class the week before their speaking, and why it was important to continue on this planet I can do this on my own,” he says. graduation from the program in a computer lab that towards their aspirations of wanting to do more for “Through the end of high school junior year, I was once a gymnasium, one fan aimed at the first few themselves in life,” Keasley says. didn’t really understand what I wanted to do. I didn’t rows. Roughly half the seats are occupied by students In addition to skills, a portion of the class covers really have big ambitions like other people did,” says already at computers — most of them don’t have comChelsea Kessler-Bauersfeld, a rising senior readying her race, class and power structures in America. Students puters at home, so this is their only chance to type their application for UCLA. “I wanted to take the class were asked to study their own genealogy. essays. “The research is really clear on that — kids who because it helped me go into full gear of the desire, the Schatz reminds them they’re in crunch time, and to potential I had.” focus on memorable writing. A whiteboard offers Her essay describes the inspiration she’s drawn from See IGNITE Page 16
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feel good about their cultural heritage, whatever that may be, kids who understand that their ancestors contributed to this country, do better in school, they do better in life, so that is critical,” IngramLyle says. “We all have to have that sense of culture and belonging. We have to be proud of who we are and be proud of our families.” At the closing ceremonies, she says, she’s heard students admit that learning about where their families come from, whether Hispanic, African American or Native American — and history for each is also part of the curriculum — and their contributions and struggles changed their perspective on their own families. “A lot of the kids actually stood up and said, ‘Before I learned these things about culture and not only my own particular culture but other people, I thought that as a Mexican I was just nothing, that my parents hadn’t contributed anything and I wasn’t really that proud,’” Ingram-Lyle says. “They really realized that they really did belong here and that their parents had these incredible stories of contribution and value that they never took the time to find out, which in turn created in them a greater sense of belonging and connectedness to their communities and gave them a greater sense of they could do anything.” The experiences connect students both to their communities and their parents, she says, and give them a greater appreciation of the sacrifices their parents and grandparents made so they could grow up in Boulder. “You’ve got to know where you come from,” Ingram-Lyle says. “That’s especially true in a community like Boulder.” The students, some of whom have multiple years of high school still ahead and are just mapping out a long-term educational plan to get them to their goals, still have the same potential hazards facing other high school kids, like alcohol, drugs and teen pregnancy. In Boulder, Ingram-Lyle says, they’ll feel the particular pressure of being poor keenly compared to other privileged children, whose parents’ higher level salaries and higher education may make their kids appear smarter in class. That it’s just been a difference of opportunity isn’t readily visible to the kids, she says. What they see is that they don’t have the clothes, the shoes, the cars their classmates do, and that they don’t always have the preparation. It’s easier to be poor in Boulder than it is in south central L.A., where she grew up, Ingram-Lyle says. There’s less violence, for one thing. “But it is very hard to be poor in Boulder in a community that is so
affluent, because you have so many kids that have so much privilege,” she says. And not just privilege with a dollar sign — privilege like growing up in a home with a parent who has a Ph.D. augmenting their student’s classroom learning with educational experiences outside of that. The result is that underprivileged students, still sitting next to the same kids they’ve been in class with since kindergarten, watch those privileged students surge ahead with knowledge and skills, Lyle says, and draw the conclusion that they’re just not as smart. “Poverty and the effects of poverty are huge,” Ingram-Lyle says. “Families are barely keeping it together. I think kids are feeling the stress of that. I have kids whose parents, at the end of the month, don’t have food, or enough food.” The subsidized housing in Boulder is nearly indistinguishable, she says, but that has a flip side. “People don’t really think there are so many people here who are hungry, so many people here who are struggling, because you really don’t see it,” Lyle says. The kids see it though — that they have to work, that they don’t always have clothes or cars their counterparts do. “The idea of privilege is really hard for many people who have privilege to really see,” Keasley says. “But those who are outside of privilege recognize it on a moment to moment basis.” “If you have to look at the magnitude of the problem of poverty in this community, of all the issues that kids and families are facing, it becomes so overwhelmingly daunting that you’re just too depressed to do anything,” Lyle says. “But if you just can say, OK, this is kind of like that old saying, how do you eat an elephant? It’s like, one piece at a time. So how do you change the world to make a difference? It’s one child, one family at a time.” The coaching they provide is about finding the pathway to your goals that fits for you — through college, community college, whatever it takes, and Lyle says she just tries to stay focused on reaching each child and family in the program individually. “We may not be able to impact all of these systems — we may not be able to change things in Boulder Valley School District, we may not be able to change a lot of things,” she says. “But what we could do is take as many kids as we could grab a hold of who want to have this opportunity and we could change the world literally one child, one family at a time.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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alarm. Illegal hunters had slashed Kenya’s elephant population from 167,000 to just 19,000 to feed a demand for ivory, mostly among Western countries. Activists’ work resulted in a shoot-on-sight policy against poachers in Kenya, a global ban on the ivory trade and an international campaign against buying ivory. “You really felt like it was a war,”
Moss says. “Now it’s all raising its head again.” Recent changes to the ivory ban, known as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), have allowed southern African nations, where elephants are more abundant, to resume selling ivory. That opens the door for poachers elsewhere in Africa to sell tusks to buyers who keep questions to a minimum.
The changes also allow certain countries to buy ivory, including China, where a booming middle class has fostered a seemingly bottomless demand for luxury items like ivory that had long been out of reach. New rules and new markets have set the stage for an unprecedented raid on elephants. The situation is worst in central Africa, where elephants are killed for meat as well as ivory, and governments are less interested in protecting them. Only about 400,000 elephants still roam the continent, less than a third of their numbers in 1979. In 2010, poaching deaths reached their highest numbers in eight years. In Kenya, 2011 proved even worse. Elephant supporters like Moss fear that, with their reduced numbers, elephants won’t be able to rebound the way they did in the past. Three decades ago, ivory fetched $300 a kilo. Now, the value has tripled. The hunter on the ground might make $2,500 or more from a single big bull elephant. In a country where most people earn less than a dollar a day, Moss says, “that would be several salaries for somebody.” But most poachers aren’t locals looking for a windfall. They’re international criminal cartels, well-armed and ready to fight. “It’s ramping up,” Moss says, “and the stakes are getting higher.” Last year two rangers in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park were shot to death by poachers. See ELEPHANTS Page 22
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unknown health risks facing consumers of GMO foods, the accompanying chemical use and the federal government’s relationship with seed producer Monsanto. According to Seifert’s research, there are 420 million acres of GMO crops grown worldwide. The film will be preceded by mingling and refreshments at 6 p.m.; the screening starts at 7 p.m., and a 90-minute Q&A will follow the film. — Elizabeth Miller
The search for food that’s not genetically modified — and answers to why and how genetically altered foods may affect the people who consume them and live near where those crops are grown — drove writer, director and producer Jeremy Seifert to create the feature-length documentary GMO OMG. His inquiry began after hearing that Haitian farmers burned 475 tons of hybrid corn and potential hydrogen fuel production vegetable seeds gifted to them after the January 2010 earthquake. system developed at CU “I wanted to make Courtesy of GMO OMG A University of a film to say to my Colorado Boulder friends and neighbors team from the chemiout there, my famcal and biological ily, my community, engineering departmy endlessly diverse ment has devised a fellow Americans: solar-thermal system Chemical companies to split water into hyare feeding you and drogen and oxygen, your family. They don’t a step that may pave care if it’s good for the way toward using you or bad for you,” hydrogen as fuel. Seifert said, according “We have deto the film’s press masigned something A scene from the documentary GMO OMG terials. “If they have here that is very their way, everything different from other will be genetically modified, so they can methods and, frankly, something that patent and own food, controlling every nobody thought was possible before,” said aspect of it, and eliminating your choice.” Alan Weimer, a CU professor and research group leader. “Splitting water with sunlight The film, which will screen at eTown Hall is the Holy Grail of a sustainable hydrogen on Aug. 21, looks at loss of seed diversity,
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Elephant defenders fear the higher bounties will doom the elephants. “The numbers that we’re seeing getting killed now are just way, way higher” than they were in the ’80s, says Richard Bonham, a safari guide turned conservationist who runs Maasailand Preservation Trust and Big Life Foundation, two organizations that put unarmed anti-poaching units on the ground to complement armed govern-
ment squads. They employ about 230 game scouts, giving jobs to local Maasai, like Saiko, in a region where work is scarce, and setting up health clinics, schools and scholarships so that wildlife can bring benefits to local people who often perceive it as more of a threat. When it comes to Uhuru, it’s not clear what motivated his killers. Local youths had severed his tusks and
stashed them nearby — a clear sign they intended to sell them. But the job was sloppy, the scouts say, not the work of expert poachers. Rumors hinted a nearby farmer had poisoned Uhuru to protect his crops, pointing to another threat facing elephants. Habitat, too, is disappearing as Kenya’s booming population expands farther and farther into wild country. Saiko, who has committed himself
to preserving wildlife, is caught in the middle. Like growing numbers of modern Maasai, he has broken with traditional herding. He built a home and planted a farm on a piece of land that was recently elephant habitat. “I don’t know what to do about it,” he says. This story first appeared in E/The Environmental Magazine. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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or 128 of the world’s best cyclists, the time has come once more to turn their wheels toward Colorado with one intention in mind: to suffer. Three years ago, cyclists first lined up for a week of tackling the peaks and valleys of the newest stage race in the nation. Despite the cloud of a doping scandal still looming over the sport and fallout fluctuations in team numbers and sponsorships, they’ll line up once more on Aug. 19 in Aspen for 599 miles of fight. “To be a professional cyclist you have to be pretty tough, and anyone on the start line and getting to get to the finish of these races — whether they’re really featuring in the results or not — they have to have an amazing amount of mental fortitude,” says Benjamin Day, who’s riding in his second Pro
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blindly, you might be caught off guard, you might not realize you have to push yourself just an extra two minutes and you’re there, you might just give up and then your day’s over,” Lewis says. “You can see how the race is playing out and then pair that with knowing what’s ahead and gauge your effort a little better. ... You can’t really put a price on that knowledge.” To great dismay, the race organizers decided not to repeat the stage in Boulder this year. “The talk is to maybe do it every other year, very similar to how the Tour de France treats Alpe d’Huez, which is their famous stage — they don’t do that every year,” Hunter says. “It keeps it exciting and fresh.” Instead, this year’s Stage Six tours the northern Front Range highways, starting in Loveland and heading west to climb Big Thompson Canyon and the race’s final King of the Mountains competition at Devils Gulch before looping near Estes Park and rolling past Horsetooth Reservoir to finish in Fort Collins. “They have promoted extremely well, they have been very easy to work with and there are so many riders up there,” Hunter says. “I think that will be a monstrous day from a crowd standpoint.” While Boulder-based cyclists say, yeah, it’s a bit of a bummer to skip Boulder, it’ll help keep that stage a fresh, and prestigious, one (and perhaps
Duggan’s teammate Rory Sutherland, who launched a solo attack up Flagstaff that saw him winning the stage, is a bit grateful to give his legs a year off from that particular project). “There’s a few of us who are living here in Boulder, so we’re definitely a little bit extra motivated to perform,” Day says. “But it is a super hard race and unique in the fact that the stages are so high.” The stage into Beaver Creek, which starts in Steamboat Springs, rolls to State Bridge, then sends riders off on a relentless climb up Bachelor Gulch, with inclines of up to 18 percent, followed by a technical descent and then two more kilometers of climbing to the finish line in Beaver Creek (totals are 102.9 miles and 11,627 feet of climbing), may be the toughest ever for the Pro Challenge. “I think a really cool aspect about the route this year is there’s no real guarantees. The routes are pretty lumpy the whole way, and there’s no stage that’s a guaranteed field sprint or a guaranteed summit finish climb where it all blows apart. It’s kind of anything can happen,” says Duggan, who’s just getting back into competitive gear after breaking a leg in his first race of the season. “If it’s anything like last year, where the riding is super-aggressive from start to finish every day, I think we’re going to see some exciting racing. So I’ll certainly be keeping my eye out for a breakaway opportunity.” Boulder Weekly
Earlier this month, Boulder’s Tom Danielson surged ahead of Chris Horner to finish the final stage of the Tour of Utah just a minute and a half ahead of Horner — the two cyclists had been tied going into the stage — and took the overall win. While Horner heads off to Spain for the Vuelta a España, Danielson, who lives in Boulder, will be lining his wheels up for the Pro Cycling Challenge. Lucas Euser was just off the back wheels of Horner and Danielson during the Tour of Utah, and finished fourth. “I’m definitely going to carry that form into Colorado,” Euser says. “The Pro Challenge has a lot to offer this year. It’s a better course for someone like myself who likes going uphill.” Euser, who rides for UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team, has his eye on stages two and four — stages other riders have been looking at and calling brutal. “The finishes in Breckenridge and Beaver Creek are probably two of the hardest finishes we’ve seen in the race,” he says. “So it’s going to be exciting.” The sport itself is still facing the fallout of cyclists taking the desire to produce the best possible results to the point of using illegal methods to get ahead. “U.S. racing — cycling in general — has definitely taken a hit with everything that’s come to light in the last year and a half, and it makes it tough on everybody,” says Michael Friedman, a multiple time U.S. champion and 2008 Olympian riding for Optum in the Pro Challenge. Race officials do everything they can to test for doping, Hunter says, and while the announcements in January may feel recent, they were about activities that were eight to 10 years old. “It’s certainly a new generation,” Duggan says. “I wouldn’t be racing if I didn’t think I could be successful clean and I know I share that view with everybody in my generation. I’m lucky to be coming up in the sport at this time, and a lot of us, we never had to make those difficult decisions. … I hope the fans and the public have faith in us because it’s certainly a different generation.” Teams are now faced with sorting out the best diets and aerodynamics for indiriders, their training plans yvidual to you athoning exceptional savings. and building up teamwork. The results of that mean it’s not just a good day for clean cyclists to be competing, it’s a great day for spectators, who get to watch competitors jostle for their position in far more competitive fields — fields where it’s anyone’s game. “You can see everybody’s level is so close these days,” Lewis says. “I think everybody’s level is just stepped up, and especially in the U.S. everybody is just getting that much stronger. Before European races were where everything Boulder Weekly
was at and the difficulty level was a lot higher, but I think the U.S. has really caught up to that.” “We think this is the absolute best time to be in the sport,” Hunter says. With the doping scandals hopefully behind the sport, cyclists are looking to rebuild — and renew their image as the kind of athletes sponsors want representing their brands. Races like the Pro Challenge bring the necessary attention to those athletes for their sponsors to keep supporting the teams. “We feel that we’ve got the best field
that we’ve ever had, in terms of both the international athletes and the Americans, we feel blessed to have the field that we do, and I think the credit goes back to Colorado,” Hunter says. “The only race in the world that has bigger crowds than this one is the Tour de France. … There’s not a better place in America to do something like this.” And while the towns ready their banners and prep their streets for the crowds and temporary closures, it’s in the quiet that the riders themselves will rest and ready for a week’s worth of nothing ven-
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tured, nothing gained. “If you’re not out there risking everything, then you’re not going to accomplish anything. That’s the beauty of the sport,” Lewis says. “Everybody literally has a chance to win. It just depends on the risk they’re willing to take and what they’re willing to put in.” A list of Boulder riders and updates throughout the week will be posted to www. boulderweekly.com. Race details, including spectator guides, are available at www.usaprocyclingchallenge.com.
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“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” —Leonard Cohen
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t’s hard to describe, even though we’ve all experienced it, that sliver of time, the mental quiver between hearing the words and the emergence of a tear that you hope nobody sees. It’s more than just a flash of unexpected emotion triggered by something buried long ago. It is a powerful thing that can throw off the weight of the world in an instant, by vanquishing our fear that we are alone, or by reminding us of the things that truly matter. It may be sparked by nothing more than words and a tune, but when delivered by an artist who has traveled the hard road and embraced the journey, it is a moment that can better us for a lifetime. It is the pain that heals, a gift that connects us all. Art affects us. It’s powerful. It can knock us down like a hammer or keep us afloat even after we stop treading water. And despite our diversity, it seems to work its magic on each of us by way of a common thread. All of us, no matter our station in life, have suffered. We have failed. We have all found ourselves misunderstood, lost, alone, or helpless. We have all walked a ways down the hard road. And even if we have been fortunate enough to get off that path, and stay off for the most part, our miles there have left wounds in places that others can’t see and that are often invisible even to ourselves. For whatever reason, call it grace, some artists who have experienced more than their share of difficult times seem to have an ability to illuminate our previous sorrows and, by doing so, help them fade. It is a healing of sorts. They do this by first examining their own painful experiences under a magnifying glass so powerful that most of us would never use it even if God had given us one. And then they share what they’ve learned with the rest of us in such a way that it feels as though they are speaking to our lives instead of describing their own. How exactly all this works, I can’t pretend to know. Bottom line, it’s a gift. There are a number of artists who have walked the hard road and are willing to share their experienc-
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es with the rest of us this weekend in Lyons. I couldn’t talk to all of them, but I sure enjoyed my time with these three.
“You are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
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hings got tough in a hurry for Mary Gauthier. She was dropped off at St. Vincent’s Women and Infants Asylum in New Orleans right out of the gate. She never got the chance to know her mom or dad. She was later adopted and carted off to a place called Thibodaux, La. It was a bad fit for a million reasons that only a teenage girl struggling with abandonment issues and her own sexuality could understand. So at age 15, Gauthier ran away from home, trading the pain of the frying pan
for the fire. For the next few years she practiced the addictions she would perfect later on, only taking time out from her drinking and drugs to complete the occasional rehab program. Her teenage years were bad, but her 20s were worse. She left Louisiana and wound up in a cooking school in Boston. But her addictions weren’t fooled, they just followed her north. And while she owned a guitar and thought about writing, it was only a passing thought that couldn’t find anything to grab onto. She told me her mind was a “mud puddle” back then. “I always had a guitar,” she says, “but I mixed drugs and alcohol with it and it never got anywhere.” Eventually Gauthier, at age 29, opened a Cajun restaurant called Dixie Kitchen (also the name of her first album) in Boston’s Back Bay area. On the way to the restaurant’s opening night she got arrested for drunk driving. It must have been some kind of a long-overdue wake up call because Gauthier, now 51, has been sober since that night. Even so, the songwriting was still a ways off. Owning a restaurant and finally being sober was an important step, but Gauthier heard another voice telling her that it wasn’t enough. “I knew I was called to do it [songwriting], and I was terrified. I thought I was being put at risk. The voices said, ‘You need to walk away from the restaurant and write songs full time.’ I really thought I was going to end up homeless and poor and screwed up. I didn’t know if I had the talent or could make a living. But I knew if I was going to continue my recovery I had to answer the call.” She did, but it was a process that found her still holding on to the restaurant five years after she wrote her first song at the age of 35. “For me, my whole journey as a writer is connected to my recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. That’s why I got started so late, because I didn’t get sober until so late,” she says. When asked about the music she turned to herself to get through hard times, Gauthier tosses out the name of another songwriter making his way to Lyons this year, John Prine. “I played ‘Sam Stone’ over and over again. I’d play it at this little bar, and the bikers there had all been to see HARD ROAD Page 30
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Vietnam, and they’d cry and say play it again. And I knew then that was my goal. If I was going to become a songwriter, I had to write something as good as ‘Sam Stone.’” She understood why Prine’s song about PSTD and addiction resonated. “They were living it,” she says, “their families were living it and so were hundreds of thousands of others, and Mary Gauthier [‘Sam Stone’] plugged them into that. I watched what that song did to those guys and I knew it was important. And I knew they needed that song to let them know that they were OK, that it wasn’t just them, that they weren’t alone.” Gauthier now knows her own music connects to others. People share stories with her about how this song or that one helped them out, got them through a tough time. Even so, she says she never sits down to write a song based on trying to make that connection. Her process is all about self-reflection. She says her writing is her therapy. “I write songs to make sense of things that just don’t make sense to me. I use songs to create some kind of order and to turn the chaos into something I can understand. It’s a life raft for myself, and then I float it out there. I want it to help other people, but the motivation fundamentally is to save myself.” We may all have shared experiences of one kind or another, but not many of us have ever so radically changed course so late in life, as Gauthier has done. At nearly 40 years old, to walk away from a successful restaurant business that she had built to pursue something as uncertain as a career in songwriting is beyond risky. So what gave her the strength or freedom to throw it all away and make that jump? Again, it came back to the hard road. “I knew in my soul and my head that I should be dead. I never should have survived my 20s. But I did, and I was sober, so I felt like I was in the gravy boat with biscuit wheels. I got this second chance and I’m not going to waste it doing something that I don’t love and that I’m not called to do. What was the worst that could happen?” Whatever that “worst” thing might
have been, it didn’t happen. Gauthier’s transformation from restaurateur to songwriter has been a success, and those who know her music are the better for it. As for how she connects to her audience, Gauthier says, “We can never fully understand what our songs can do in the world, because we don’t know all the people that we impact. So often I’ve seen myself in songs and heard my truth in songs, and that’s given me something I’ve desperately needed, which is to know that I’m not the only one feeling this way.”
“We’ll only find equality in our number of tears.” —Grandma Koyczan
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hane Koyczan was born in a cold place … on many levels. He made his appearance in Yellowknife, a Canadian town less than 250 miles from the Arctic Circle, just before his parents made their disappearance from the same place. They weren’t willing or able (it doesn’t much matter which to a kid) to raise him, so they left him with his grandparents and that was that. It was the self-described “accidental” poet’s first step on the hard road. His second was being an overweight kid who stood out. He quickly realized he was in a place where having any quality that differentiated a person came with a guarantee of cruelty. Unfortunately, the young Koyczan had been amply blessed with differentiation. You can’t read Koyczan’s poetry or books without becoming profoundly aware of just how much pain he was in back then. I asked him if he was being literal during a talk he gave at a TED conference when he said, “When I was 10, I was told that my parents left because they didn’t want me. When I was 11, I wanted to be left alone. When I was 12, I wanted to die. When I was 13, I wanted to kill a kid.” “Oh, definitely,” he says. “I don’t think it takes that much to start fantasizing about revenge. It’s a sweet guilty wish that some people grab for. I’m fortunate to have been raised by a grandma who made sure I didn’t, but I cerBoulder Weekly
buzz tainly got close on some days. I see as a “slam poet,” which irks him a bit. things like Columbine and Sandy He points out that “slam” is in reference Hook, and as much as it is like, oh to the competition, not the style of God, how awful, I can remember kind poetry or the poets themselves. He says of being there in that place. It’s just one he left slam because it was too limiting, switch that I didn’t flip, the one thing with too many rules, like no music and that I didn’t grab for. As much as it’s a no props, and there were time limits. truly terrible thing, what happened to “I wanted to grow and do someall those families, I can kind of underthing more,” he says. stand the other side of it because I’ve So he left the poetry circuit for a been there. I’ve had those fantasies. It’s real job that could at least support him a very awful place to be.” financially. Koyczan never flipped that switch, “It was a very dark time in my life,” but he did lose it once when he was 15. he says, “because I thought, here it is, He had a “violent episode” in class after that trap that everyone falls into. They a kid made fun of him. School officials cash in thinking they are going to be told Koyczan’s grandparents he was a able to buy the time to do the things bully. It was such a wrongheaded they want to do later in life.” notion that Koyczan just remembers But then something strange haplaughing when he heard the words. But pened. then it hit him, at least the “bully” repThe places where Koyczan had perutation made people steer clear of him, formed at slam competitions kept calland he found isolation to be better than ing and asking him to come back. the abuse. So he When he said did what he had Courtesy Shane Koyczan & the Short Story Long he couldn’t to do to keep because he had the bully image to make a living, alive. they offered “I turned on something new. all those people They offered to in school and it give him the was indiscrimistage for an hour nate. I was a all by himself, 24-hour diner. I along with the was open to anymoney from one,” he says. ticket sales. It The isolation was an interestwas nothing new ing proposition, to him. To some but it flew in the degree he had face of everyalways felt alone, thing he had Shane Koyczan which fostered ever been told his early connecabout making a tion to books living from and poetry. poetry — namely, it can’t be done. “Words were just friends,” he says. “There came a point when I said, “Books weren’t there to judge you based I’ll give myself a year, just a year to see on what you looked like or what kind if I could make it on poetry. I thought of clothes you wore. So I liked that at least then I could say I tried.” escapist element of books and poetry.” By the end of that year, he was Another turning point in Koyczan’s doing more than making a living at life came when he was inadvertently poetry. He was making a difference. transferred into a drama class. Koyczan’s 10-minute TED speech He recalls, “They just wanted to on YouTube, titled “To This Day … for stick me somewhere because I was a the bullied and beautiful” has been troubled kid. They didn’t care where. In viewed nearly 10 million times. that one little twist of fate, it sort of I asked him why he thought his turned my life around. They ended up work was making such a connection putting me in the one place I actually with so many people. needed, because I needed to know how He told me it’s because “we live in a to express myself.” world that tells us we need to turn that In college it was creative writing part of ourselves off. We live in a place that caught Koyczan’s attention, but he where we’re not allowed to feel our found himself always starting things feelings anymore. So art is really that and never finishing them. His teacher release for a lot of people, whether told him he had to complete somethat’s music or theater or poetry or thing, and that’s when he turned to whatever. writing poems. He could finish those. see HARD ROAD Page 32 Today, Koyczan is often described Boulder Weekly
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“My grandma says, ‘We’ll only find equality in our number of tears.’ And she’s right. I don’t see it happening any other way. There’s all these things, all these differences that keep us apart. But it’s mostly all these physical things, packaging. You don’t buy food for the packaging it comes in. You buy food for the food. I think people forget that there is sustenance in their emotions, and your honest connection with other people.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
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ow do you know what time it is on the hard road? For singer/songwriter Ellis, whose last name disappeared way back because no one could pronounce it anyway, it’s when your mom decides to buy 20 or so watches at the same time for no good reason. At least that’s the oversimplified version. It’s far more complicated to describe the life of a little girl growing up as an outcast in Liberty, Texas, because her mom was bipolar, didn’t know it, didn’t treat it and didn’t act like everybody else’s mom in town. When it came to cruelty, Liberty, Texas, was just Yellowknife, only hotter. Ellis’ mom and dad divorced very early on in her life. Her dad moved to Houston and remarried. Ellis would sometimes stay with her father and his family, but that was hardly an escape from the difficulties of her life in Liberty. That’s because in one of those examples of life kicking you when you’re down, her new stepmom was also bipolar. It’s hard for a little girl to understand what’s going on in the world when the adults she’s looking to for guidance are having their own difficulties getting a handle on things. “It’s tough on a kid trying to figure out highs and lows by watching adults who don’t know how their behavior is affecting people around them,” she told me last week. “It’s hard to learn. There were times as a kid when I was invisible. Mental illness can be very big and take up a lot of space. But there was a lot of love, too.” For Ellis, like Koyczan, it was her
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grandmother that created her early stability. “It was my granny. She was able to bring me to light. She came to my aid at times when I was left because I wasn’t seen.” Under such circumstances, it’s no wonder that music took on an important role in Ellis’ life as a child. She used it in many ways, as an escape, a companion and even her spiritual connection. “Music to me is freedom,” she says. “It was a world outside of the world I was living in that cared about me. It was really a spiritual connection with something greater than myself. It was so connected to spirit, to something greater, to that God that I felt like was really saying, ‘I’m there for you.’ Basically God was the parent that I didn’t have at the time.” Ellis remembers as a kid thinking that the singers on the radio were her friends. She says, “I thought that if they knew I was alive, they would take me home with them.” Being raised in a home with mental illness can create questions later on that most of us never have to ask ourselves. Because she learned much of her behaviors from her mom, Ellis eventually began to question if some of her own behaviors that were outside of the norm were the result of her own mental illness. “There is a real worry,” she says, “when you grow up in some of those circumstances, that the behaviors that you have because you learned watching them, that those are actual mental illness. Now that I have clarified and reclarified with therapists over the years that I’m not crazy, I’ve been able to change some of those behaviors and have clarity and discernment.” As an adult, it is clear that that clarity and discernment are reaching others through her music. She has an uncanny way of telling her own stories in such a way as to create an intense emotional connection with her audience. “I love the idea that in the universe, we are all made of the same elements,” she says. “We all yearn to be more connected because there are times when we feel so alone. There is a power in everyone participating in the same musical event. I think it can be comforting. It can be transformational. It can heal us in ways we may not have even known we needed.” As an example, she references one of her songs in particular. “I’ve had so many people tell me that my song ‘Right on Time’ has touched them and really helped them through difficult Boulder Weekly
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Would she feel left out, being a kid on a different track? I wondered if my kid will be happy, will she get to enjoy experiences in life? I had to think that maybe there are some really great things about this particular disability. And then, as I was writing it, it sort of transformed, as songs often do, into this idea of gosh, I feel this way. It’s also speaking to me, it’s speaking to us, as parents of a potentially differently abled person. And I wondered, can we be kind amidst the process of not knowing right now? That’s how the song unfolded, but now I can look at it as applying to lots of things, like my music career, or now I worry because my daughter is pretty darn smart, I think what if she’s too smart for me? “We can all get the feeling that we’re running behind. It’s not just my song anymore. It’s cool how that happens, that songs belong to other people too.” Yes it is. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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On the Bill: @ntigone plays at The Dairy Center for the Arts Thursday, Aug. 15, through Saturday, Aug. 17, at 7:30 p.m., and on Sunday, Aug. 18, at 2:30 p.m. Tickets start at $12. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.
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or most of Joe Hill’s life the United States has been embroiled in a constant, neverending, oft-forgotten war. Hill is 18 years old, and he and his fellow collaborators with The Unexpected Laboratory (TUL), where he’s the executive director, are producing a show at the Dairy Center for the Arts about what happens when you can no longer look away from unpleasant truths, based on Sophocles’ Antigone and set in postwar Thebes. Every Danny Gross, generation’s art is shaped by the dramatic left, plays events of history, Hill believes, and he Theon, and Tommy thinks that the War on Terror might be his Plunkett plays generation’s Hiroshima. Eteocles in The Unexpected “The one thing I like to think of in Laboratory’s terms of art is that the artists I look up @ntigone. to the most, they were never there when there was a nuclear bomb,” Hill says. “I work in an elementary school periodically, and now I meet these kids who have never really lived in a world pre-9/11. And so I think about the way that your foundation is made a human being when you’re growing up, a nuclear bomb has always been something that I’ve known about. … Because of new things that are happening and how they affect me, every generation of Hill and Coe met while at boarding school, the art will have these [new inspirations] in actual life.” Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, after Hill saw The story of the original Antigone is set in postwar one of Coe’s film pieces and decided the two needed Thebes, after Antigone’s brother, Polyneices, died to collaborate. After settling on an idea, they realized mounting a rebellion against his brother, Eteocles. The they needed money, and one failed crowdfunding new ruler, Creon, denies Polyneices the right to a proper attempt later, the two hit up the Boulder County Arts burial as punishment, and Antigone defies him in order Alliance, created an LLC, and launched their theater to perform the proper burial rites. The rest of the play company. They raised $6,000 in two weeks, and Hill deals with the ethical and legal (and tragic) fallout of her couldn’t be more excited about his company’s debut decision. performance. @ntigone is “young theater kids making theater,” Boulder Weekly: Tell me about the play. Hill says. He and TUL’s artistic director, Travis Coe, Joe Hill: Our show is about what happens when have revamped Antigone and set it in a drug-addled, you can no longer look the other way. We started off post-war Thebes in the year 2018. Flat-screen TVs fill thinking about escapism, ways of escape like drug culthe stage, and they dumped 39 cubic feet of peat moss ture, and we thought about technology, and how peoon the stage to make the actors interact with a dirty, ple use their phones as an escape. gritty environment. Polyneices’ body hangs from the We started with all these negative things about rafters, his silhouette looming over the entire show. escapism. And then we found that not only are there
Revamping a tragedy
negative things with trying to escape from what’s in front of you, but there are positive things with looking right at it. For example, when you look at the dirt, it’s filthy. The actors are rolling around, it’s getting tossed in their faces, it’s falling out of their hair; it’s filth. Then there are a few moments before Antigone gets arrested, her and Ismene have a small recap of their sisterhood growing up together, and at the end they dig through the dirt and find a Ziploc bag, just some trash in the wreckage, and in it there’s a flower. Somewhere buried deep down there, there’s something beautiful, there’s something worth saving and holding onto. Our show, though it might not sound like it, is a lot about family and the essence about what relationships are and what really matters in your life. And going hand in hand with that, it’s about what makes a significant moment. What’s the scope? How many people are involved in the production? There are nine actors, and there are seven people on our production team. Basically everyone has put in ten thousand times more than they needed to. … After going to a conservatory where people think that you’re only an artist if you’re making money off your art … it’s exciting to know that we’re all willing to put the time in. We didn’t have to put any money in for the show, we fundraised the show independently and created the show in a basement. I didn’t know how to start a business, I didn’t know how to get fiscally sponsored, I didn’t know how to get a theater space. … The truth is, it should be a disaster. But the amount of passion we put into it, and the amount of drive we put into it ... it’s exciting. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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On the Bill: Lyle Lovett and his Large Band/Kris Kristofferson play Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday, Aug. 19. Doors at 6 p.m. Tickets start at $50.25. 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Lyle Lovett, always the maverick, is looking forward to being a musical free agent by Alan Sculley
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yle Lovett doesn’t let himself get tied down to a set list with his concerts. Yes, he has one, but it’s hardly set in stone. To script a show so tightly would rob Lovett of one of his main joys of performing, the flexibility to respond to the audience and play requests or to alter the selection of songs to fit the mood of the evening. “No two shows are the same in that way,” Lovett says. “I mean, if you’re open to the possibility of interacting with the audience, and that really is the fun part for me, that’s what makes the shows different from one another, even if you played a similar set. But I always like to allow for requests. The set list really isn’t a set deal. It’s really just sort of a guide for us, from which we can sort of jump off.” That Lovett would take that approach to his concerts makes sense for a guy whose career hasn’t followed the standard script for success as a music artist. Lovett was originally promoted to the mainstream country market alongside artists like Steve Earle, k.d. lang and Nanci Griffith — as something of a maverick artist who was still rooted in traditional country music. That was accurate to a point, and certainly his first two CDs, a 1986 self-titled release and 1988’s Pontiac, were strongly influenced by traditional country. But Lovett showed early on he
wasn’t going to be fenced in stylistically. And with his third CD, 1989’s Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, he broke any mold that might have been solidifying around his music. Featuring a backing group that included fiddle, cello, a full horn section and backup singers (his now-familiar Large Band), Lovett added big-band-styled jazz, soul, blues and rock and roll to his arsenal, without losing country as a foundation of his music. His albums since then have cut a similarly wide swath stylistically, establishing Lovett as one of the most versatile artists in all of contemporary music. Clearly, he hasn’t followed the usual script for hit-making success, which usually means establishing a clearly defined style and sticking closely to that formula from that point forward. “If I had a strategy my career might have been different,” Lovett says, a summation that shows both humor and truth. “To be able to go out and play live with people you enjoy playing with, that really is the joy of being in this sort of business and doing it. It’s not what comes of it. It’s the getting to do it. That really is its own reward.” Lovett’s latest CD, Release Me, continues a thread he started with his 1998 two-CD set, Step Inside This House,
which featured his versions of songs by writers who had most influenced his music and his songwriting, including Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Walter Hyatt and Steven Fromholz. He returned to that concept on the 2009 CD Natural Forces, which included covers of songs by many of the same writers featured on Step Inside This House. Now with Release Me, Lovett continues the concept of Step Inside This House and Natural Forces, but with a different slant. Where Step Inside This House and Natural Forces were focused mainly on country, Release Me falls more in the eclectic tradition of an album like Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. It has jazzy Western swing (“Garfield’s Blackberry Blossom”),
punchy blues (“White Boy Lost In The Blues”), hornfueled R&B (“Isn’t That So”), pure country (the title song), spare acoustic balladry (“Understand You”) and even a Martin Luther hymn (“Keep Us Steadfast”). Release Me marks an end of an era for Lovett. He has been with Curb Records (which has been affiliated with several different Universal-owned labels over the past two and a half decades) since the outset of his recording career. Release Me, though, completes his contract, and while Lovett says Curb and Universal have been very good to him, he is looking forward to being a free agent, particularly now that the traditional major label models for selling CDs have been undermined by downloading and Internet marketing. “Just the idea that I can sort of do whatever occurs to me is really exciting,” Lovett says. “So if I wanted to give a song to people that subscribe to my mailing list, for example, I’d be able to do that. “I imagine going forward that I’ll produce my own records and either look for some sort of distribution or figure out a way to get them out there for folks,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Does the term “sequential arts” mean anything to you? How about “comic book”? The former describes the latter, and at the Muse Gallery WESTend in Longmont, artists Samantha (Sam) Reveley and David Balan show the process of creating a graphic novel, including images drawn directly on the gallery walls. The displays will be up until Aug. 24. 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.
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Halden Wofford & The Hi*Beams. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
The 100 Percent. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Branden Sipes. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Cash’d Out — With The Atomic Drifters. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Cassie Taylor. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Coolers. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Thursday, Aug. 15: Project Together: A Night of Music to Raise Foster Adoption Awareness. Shine, Boulder, 8 p.m. Project Together hosts a night of music to help raise money and awareness about foster programs and the children who grew up in their care. On the bill for the evening are the Fatima Lily Band, Tim Yunker and the Sound Junkies, and DJ Xenosonic. Proceeds for the night will go to Chafee, a program to help those 16-21 years old who grew up in foster care, were never adopted and who need help transitioning into life as an adult. The $20 cover goes to a good cause.
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Diana Castro Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th
Jean Rohe & Ilusha Tsinadze — With Joe Kaplow. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Laurie Dameron. 4 p.m. Pete’s Coffee and Tea, 1695 29th St., Suite 1260, Boulder, 303-544-1234. Moonshiner. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. see EVENTS Page 40
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Saturday, Aug. 17: South of France, Bohemian Biergarten, Boulder, 10 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 21: Evan Cantor: Grateful Dead Album Night. Minglewood, Boulder, 5 p.m.
Slowly but surely, Boulder bands are emerging outside the bluegrass/jam band/ singer-songwriter scene that tends to dominate in town. Among those outliers is indie-pop band South of France, a group that blends cheery, reverb-soaked vocals with bright guitars and keyboards. Jeff Cormack (guitars/vocals) and Kelly Lueke (vocals) don’t play Boulder often, so don’t miss the opportunity to check them out.
Evan Cantor has been playing music in Boulder for years, and he’s currently on a Jerry Garcia kick, as evidenced by his solo gig at Minglewood restaurant, where he plays three sets of Grateful Dead tunes just by his lonesome (perhaps with a special guest). His nimble guitar playing and lively harmonica will satiate your Dead fix faster than you can say “Speedway Boogie.”
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BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Oct. 27. Bunny Rosenthal Rubin. Boulder Public Library Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 28. Cheryl Carter Pierce, Norman Singer. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Sept. 28.
Latitude=45 Longtitude=122 — with Liz Obert. The Dairy Center for the Arts, Polly Addison Exhibition Space, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through Aug. 16. Metamorphose: Maggie Evans. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Aug. 18. Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22. Perception: Color | Line | Power. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 25.
Cut and Paste. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 15.
Sequentially Speaking: The Art of Comic Books — Graphic art by Samantha Reveley and David Balan. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Aug. 24.
Erotic Nature — Photography by Kate Zari Roberts. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430. Through Sept. 3.
Spun: Adventures in Textiles. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 22.
F32 Commemorative Photo Show. Susan France and Dona Laureita Gallery, 820 Main St., Louisville, 303-818-1616. Through Aug. 31.
This Is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Through Sept. 8.
Historic Photographic Exhibit: Revealing Our Routes: Women of Boulder County. Carnegie Branch for Local History, 1125 Pine St., Boulder,
Transitions — by Anne Gifford. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Through Sept. 8.
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Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Aug. 18. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Project Together: A Night of Music to Raise Foster Adoption Awareness. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Wild Gourmet: Late Summer with Wendy Petty — Registration required. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329.
Queens of the Stone Age — With Gogol Bordello. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
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Terra Gatos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
The Backline. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
The Yawpers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Chain Station. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
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Chica Latin salsa band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-668-7355. CSArt Summer Distribution. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Getting Started With Adobe Premiere Pro. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. History Mystery Challenge: “Downtown Beer” Edition. 5:30 p.m. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, 303-449-3464. Museum Hours, talkback with Deborah Haynes. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Sunset Hike at Walker Ranch. 6:30 p.m. Walker Ranch Open Space, call Larry Colbenson, 303-678-6214, for more info.
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Honeycomb. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Jeff Brinkman Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jeff Thompson, Ramaya & Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Joey Porter’s Funk Throwdown — With Kabir. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. Left Foot Green. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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events Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Mad King & Aarian Yves Wheeler — With music by Papyrus, MDemeranville, Tongue & Groove, and AY. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Politiculture — With P-Nuckle and Branded Bandits. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303443-3399. Pretty Lights. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Private Gripweed with Rescue Atlantis. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Retrosonics. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Rick Gibbons. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Shawn Phillips. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. South of France. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Wadirum. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
events Art Night Out — With music by Sambadende. 5 p.m. Festival Plaza, 309 S. Public Road, Lafayette, visit http:// bit.ly/ANOLfy for more info. Boulder International Folk Dancers. 7 p.m., Pearl St. Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-692-8213. Hands-On Digital Photography Introduction. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.
Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400. Danny Shafer. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Rd. Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313. DJ Michael Jones. 11 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Eye & the Arrow with Ark Life. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Gang Forward — Ben Cosgrove. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Grandpa’s Cough Medicine. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Hog MaGundy with special guests Hot Licks and Free Range Pickers. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Howl Moonshine Howl. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Howling Moon Travelers. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Intuit. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Jazz on 2nd Ave. 11 a.m. Niwot Road and Second Avenue, Niwot, www.jazzon2ndave.com. JoBro. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186. Julie Monley Quintet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Kit Holmes house concert — With Lisa Bell. 6 p.m. 95 S. 35th St., Boulder, 303-579-8111.
History & Mystery Late Night “Ghost” Back Alley Tours. 6:30 p.m. Call 303-775-7137 for reservations.
Lee Avenue. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003.
How To Tame the West (of Boulder) forum — Hosted by PLAN Boulder County. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.
Lyle Lovett and his Large Band / Kris Kristofferson. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
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Maria Vazquez. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
music 42nd Anniversary Party. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Bluezhouse. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive,
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Monocle Stache — With Champagne Charlie and Maynard & The Walnuts. World Famous Dark Horse Bar & Grill, see EVENTS Page 42
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Front Range author Kayann Short will discuss her book A Bushel’s Worth on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 15 The Green Boat — by Mary Pipher. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. The Dark Eagle’s First Flight — by David R. Smith. 5 p.m. Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-444-0349. Friday, Aug. 16
Yoga Wisdom at Work— by Maren & Jamie Showkeir. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Saturday, Aug. 17 Amy Berkowitz, Kendall Grady, Cassandra Smith & Brett Zehner. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303579-1644. Sunday, Aug. 20
“Boulder Zodiac” — Poetry reading by Anne Waldman for Boulder Tattoo Project. 11:30 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Tuesday, Aug. 20 A Bushel’s Worth — by Kayann Short. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Compound Fractures — by Stephen White. 7 p.m., Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, Aug. 21 Giant Pandas: Born Survivors — by Sarah Bexell. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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A . . . My name will always be Alice — Obscene/Courageous Theatre. Mary Miller Theatre, 300 E. Simpson, Lafayette, 720209-2154.
Bentathlon — Obscene/ Courageous Theatre. Time Warp Comics, 3105 28th St., Boulder, 276-356-8393. Through Sept. 7. Cabaret. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 6. Peter and the Starcatcher — Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Through Sept. 1.
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Otis Taylor Blues Jam. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Doug MacLeod. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Robert Walter’s 20th Congress — With Fox Street Allstars. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
George Nelson Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.
Sentimental Sounds Swing Big Band. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Gypsy Lumberjacks. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
The Tripping Griswolds. 7 p.m. 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.
Jazz Jam with Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Trout Steak Revival. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Nick Vegas — With Jaspar Lepak and Janelle Loes. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Adobe Dreamweaver Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.
The Workshops on Female Orgasm: Nicole Daedone. 10 a.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-449-4410.
All That Glistens Is NOT Gold — Try your hand at gold panning. Registration required, call Sheryl Kippen at 303-776-8848.
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Hill Flea Market. 10 a.m. 13th Street and Pennslyvania Avenue, Boulder, 720-722-2314. Irish Saturday Evenings with The McTeggart Irish Dancers. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Matthew Fox Lecture — Exploring the mystic in ourselves and our ancestors. 7 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.
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Metamorphose: Maggie Evans — Public reception. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. S. Boulder Rd.
The Wizard of Oz. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 31.
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Romeo & Juliet — Longmont Theatre Company, various locations, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Aug. 18.
A Place at the Table — Screening, part of End Hunger Now Boulder! campaign. 5 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4423770 x137. Comedy Night and Movie Night. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. Truth Be Told — Storytelling series. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Monday, August 19 music Eddie and the Haskels. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
The Workshops on Female Orgasm: Nicole Daedone. 10 a.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-449-4410.
Metal Monday Featuring Midnight Ghost Train. 11:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Yoga on the Rocks. 6 a.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Rd. Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313.
Sunday, August 18 music Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-
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events Tuesday, August 20 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. BB King and Peter Frampton feat. David Hidalgo from Los Lobos. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
The Big Blues Jam. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bonzo Terks. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. DeltaSonics Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Evan Cantor: Grateful Dead Album Night. 5 p.m. Minglewood, 1606 Conestoga Ste. #3, Boulder, 303442-0585.
Goodrattle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Fun. and Tegan and Sara. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Hannah & Maggie Benefit Show. Out Boulder Pridehouse, 2132 14th St., Boulder, 303-499-5777.
Jenn Cleary Duo. 5 p.m. Haystack Mountain Golf Course, 5877 Niwot Road, Niwot, 303-530-1400.
Mathais and the Crooked Streets. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
The JV3. 5:30 p.m. Bands on the Bricks, 1300 Block of Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-1582.
Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Tribute to Gillian Welsh & David Rawlings. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.
Tuesday Night Swing featuring The Stilettos. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Comedy Open Mic Night. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Farm Bus Tour. 5:15 p.m. Buses depart from Boulder County Fairgrounds. Call 303-678-6181 for more information. Mountain Mines and Beer in the 19th Century. 12 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., 303449-3464. Twofold Popup Shop at BMoCA — Through Aug. 25. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
Wednesday, August 21 music Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Wolcott Jazz & Blues Duo. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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Producing the Documentary. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. South Boulder Loop — Ride hosted by Community Cycles. 6 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019. Taste of the Broomfield Chamber. 5 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-4100700.
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Thursday, Aug. 15 Queens of the Stone Age. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Queens of the Stone Age (QOTSA) was one of the few bands carrying the torch of rock ’n’ roll during the wasteland years of the early aughts, and their new album, …Like Clockwork, is easily one of the band’s strongest, perhaps the most even, effort to date. Queens has always taken their time between albums (among other projects, frontman Josh Homme formed and recorded an album with supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, formed a record label, collaborated as performer and producer with many artists and re-released the first two QOTSA albums during the six years between albums), but during this last break, Homme experienced complications during a routine surgery that nearly took his life and left him bedridden for months. The experience made it onto …Like Clockwork, evidenced in songs like “Vampyre Of Time And Memories” and “Keep Your Eyes Peeled,” which both feature eerie darkness absent from the Queens repertoire since at least the days of the 2005 album Era Vulgaris. But the album isn’t all about mortality. “I Sat By The Ocean” is about as classic a QOTSA song as you can get, “Fairweather Friends” features a guest appearance and influence of one Elton John (after hearing Them Crooked Vultures, John apparently contacted Homme and said “the only thing missing from your band is an actual queen”) and “Smooth Sailing” dips deep into swampy, gritty grooves only before touched by the band. Queens of the Stone Age is living proof that rock music isn’t dead, and the band’s show at Red Rocks should be one for the ages. —David Accomazzo
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Yes, the actor who’s playing a technology genius played a guy who could not locate a car.
20 Feet From Stardom Director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of backup singers. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington and Bill Paxton star in this saga of drugs and money. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
In this sequel, Percy teams up with his other-wordly friends to go after the Golden Fleece. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
The Act of Killing
RED 2
When approached to make a film about their role in an Indonesian genocide, Anwar Congo and his friends eagerly comply — but their idea of being in a movie is not to provide reflective testimony, but to dance their way through musical numbers, twist arms in film noir gangster scenes and gallop across the prairies as yodeling cowboys. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
While trying to clear his name, Frank must defuse a Cold War project involving an activated nuclear weapon in Russia. At Century.
Rifftrax Live: Starship Troopers Fascist soldiers battle massive insects in an over-dramatic sci-fi film. It’s familiar turf for the film mockers who made Mystery Science Theater 3000. At Century.
The Attack Israeli Palestinian surgeon Amin Jaafari’s picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves 19 dead. At Chez Artiste and SIE FilmCenter.— Landmark Theatres
Silent Voice Three stories of love, treachery and redemption come together in the visitors’ center of a prison in this drama from France. Part of the J’adoré Cine Club series. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Blackfish
Blue Jasmine After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres
The Canyons Unbeknownst to either film producer Christian or his assistant Gina, their significant others, Tara and Ryan, were a couple three years ago. When Ryan comes back into Tara’s life during the auditions for a movie, they reignite their affair. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Conjuring When disturbing things start happening at the Perron family’s farmhouse, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine must step in to help the family. At Twin Peaks and Century.
The Smurfs 2 you a death sentence. Timmy Choi has manufactured tons, and after a violent lab accident, he has only one chance to avoid execution: Turn informant and help police take down the powerful cartel he’s been cooking for. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Elysium In the future, two classes of people exist: the very rich who live a beautiful life on a space station called Elysium, and the very poor who carry on a dreadful existence down on Earth. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
help from friendly imitators. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
The Smurfs turn to their human friends for help rescuing Smurfette from an evil wizard. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
The Spectacular Now
Forest Whitaker stars as a White House butler whose 34-year tenure sees incredible social change. Based on the life of Eugene Allen. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, The Spectacular Now creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Lone Ranger The Lone Ranger and Tonto take to the Western landscape. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
Europa Report
Monsters University
A unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, Europa Report follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa to investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar system. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
This prequel to Monsters, Inc. follows Mike and Sulley through their scare training. Rated G. At Colony Square.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
The Day After Tomorrow
See full review, page 48. At Mayan and Century.
A teen girl discovers she’s the descendant of a line of half-human, half-angel warriors who prevent demons from destroying the world. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
For the Science on Screen series. Julienne Strove and Ted Scambos, scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, will discuss the reality of climate change before the big-budget, special-effects-laden (hysterically implausible) weather disaster movie starring Dennis Quaid. Rated PG-13. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Grown Ups 2
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This sequel to Grown Ups features Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade learning lessons from their kids on the last day of school. At Twin Peaks.
Dazed and Confused
A foul-mouthed, dirty methods cop (played by Melissa McCarthy) is forced to team up with a suit-wearing, micro-managing FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) to go after a drug lord. Rated R. At Colony Square.
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a crossroads that sparks explorations of their lives, the city and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world. At SIE FilmCenter and Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
This American Graffiti for the marijuana set looks at the comic exploits of jocks, stoners and whiz kids from the class of ‘76, who can’t get enough of bell-bottoms, doobies and Led Zeppelin. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Dealin’ With Idiots
Fruitvale Station
The Heat
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
Off Label Off Label examines our runaway pharma-culture by weaving together the stories of drug-testing subjects, Big Pharma representatives and others touched by the use of pharmaceuticals. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of his son’s baseball team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
A shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is an insider’s guide to the violent but extremely lucrative drug industry. At Boedecker.— Boedecker Theater
Desperately Seeking Susan
The Hunt
Pacific Rim
Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) seeks vicarious thrills through other people’s personal ads. But via a jacket, amnesia and mistaken identity, Roberta comes to believe she’s Susan (Madonna), a wild Soho vamp wanted by the mob. Part of the Watching Hour film series. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
This film is a disturbing depiction of how a lie becomes the truth when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish. At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
When giant monsters rise from the Pacific Ocean, mankind turns to massive robots piloted by soldiers to defeat them. At Century.
Despicable Me 2 It’s time for more Minion madness in this animated sequel. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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Planes Kids will love this Disney spinoff of the company’s animated classic Cars. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
2 Guns
The documentary Blackfish unravels the complexities of our relationship with orca whales, employing the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong? At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
think of all this? At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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Only God Forgives Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling reunite for this intense crime drama set in Thailand. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Paranoia
This biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs follows Jobs’ power struggles in Silicon Valley. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Liam Hemsworth, younger brother of action star Chris, is an entry-level corporate employee told to spy on his boss’s mentor. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
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Star Trek Into Darkness When the crew of the Enterprise returns to Earth they find the whole place in chaos. Captain Kirk takes his merry band of space pals to a forbidding prison planet to restore order and exact revenge. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
Still Mine In his first lead role after decades of playing supporting characters, James Cromwell (The Artist, L.A. Confidential) gives a tour de force performance in Still Mine, an exquisitely crafted and deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Touch of Evil A car-bomb murder blows the lid off police corruption in a pestilent border town. Rated PG-13. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Turbo Theo the garden snail’s racing dreams come true when an accident with nitrous oxide gives him the power of incredible speed. At Century and Twin Peaks.
Wasteland After being released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Harvey Miller has revenge on his mind. He recruits his three best friends to help him rob the local drug kingpin. At At SIE FilmCenter. — Boedecker Theater
The Way, Way Back A lonely and awkward yet intelligent teenage boy begins his transition into adulthood. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
We’re the Millers Everything that can go wrong does in this comedy when a small-time pot dealer to the soccer mom world decides to help out some local kids. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
The Wolverine Logan must travel to Japan to battle an old acquaintance while stripped of his immortality. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
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believe it’s a lack of context, not empathy. Because if it’s a lack of empathy, we’re screwed — doomed as a country, culture, maybe even species. The dismissal of the poor as bottom-feeding, systemexploiting moochers comes from not having a full perspective of their actual lives. The racial bigotry inherent in our judicial system would cause outrage if average citizens truly understood the human beings caught up in the criminal courts. I have to believe these things. I have to believe that if we had a true understanding of each other, we would help and not judge, we would comfort and not criticize, because the alternative hurts too damn much to even consider. Fruitvale Station is tangible context in fictional form. It’s a film about a real-life incident that’s not about a reallife incident; it’s about a real-life person. That person is Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan). Oscar is a kindhearted, wide-grinning young father; he’s the kind of guy who makes small talk with a sweet, confused white girl in the deli and then calls his grandmother on his cell to give her the family fish fry recipe. But there’s fire there; there is legitimate anger releasing itself in illegitimate ways. He is a man who genuinely loves his girlfriend, Sophina (Melonie Diaz), but cheats on her. He is a man who genuinely loves his mother (Octavia Spencer) but knowingly disappoints her. He is a man who wants to reform but keeps making the same mistakes over and over. And those mistakes catch up with him on a train in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve 2008. But
it’s not just his mistakes that find him; it’s a tidal wave of errors this country is loath to confess, systemic flaws that manifest in the physical form of two police officers, Caruso (Kevin Durand) and Ingram (Chad Michael Murray). It is a story America knows by heart. Writer/director Ryan Coogler and his lead actor, Jordan, demonstrate the unique ability of film to offer perspective. I have never not known privilege. Born to middle class white folks, still surrounded by middle class white folks, not only have I not known circumstances like Oscar’s, I haven’t even known that many people like Oscar. But thanks to Coogler and Jordan, I kinda do now. At the very least, I have more context. Most of that is Jordan’s doing. His emotionally naked, spectacularly sophisticated performance shifts from likeable to dangerous, admirable to shady. It requires him to be as real as fake can be. There was much talk of Fruitvale Station in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict. Understand: Oscar is not Trayvon. Oscar was not gunned down by a vigilante. Trayvon was not a felon. Those things matter. Context matters. And the context of Fruitvale Station helps explain why people tried to make Trayvon’s weed smoking an issue. It helps show how our system is broken on the front end and the back end. Most of all, it is a sobering reminder of our need to seek out stories of lives different from our own. — This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Ron Yovich of Ella J Farms in Longmont shows off some hops.
Boulder County hop growers contribute to craft beers by Camilla Sterne
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he female Humulus lupulus, or hop plant, is something that all beer drinkers encounter every time they indulge in a cold one. And in Colorado, which was ranked fifth in craft breweries per capita for 2012, hops are not a rarity — in beer form. The crop itself, though, seems to be few and far between, with more than 77 percent of U.S. hop production coming from Washington state, according to the 2012 National Hop Report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Within the last Camilla Sterne decade, however, farmers on the Western Slope and Front Range have seized the opportunity to cultivate this cash crop, and are slowly but surely finding their footing to produce greater yields of the unique vine. “There are all these craft breweries out here, they must need some hops, so a lot of people are jumping on it,” says Geoff Hess of the Oskar Blues Hops & Heifers farm in Longmont. “It’s an alternative agricultural crop that’s not been widely grown here in Colorado … now everybody wants to get into hops.” However, Hess says farmers face some difficulty in learning the ins and outs of cultivating such a unique crop, especially in Colorado.
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“In Colorado it’s tough to grow anything because of a variety of reasons,” says Hess. “First, the soil quality is really poor, poor drainage, high clay, not a lot of organic matter, but we can amend that to make it work because we have more mild winters, no threat of mildew, lots of sunlight and the ability to use irrigation water for a drip system.” The initial process of planting the crops is no easy task, according to hop growers, especially because they are often grown using complex trellis systems that are 12 to 18 feet high and must be established before the hop rhizomes are planted. However, once established, hop bines (similar to vines) can live for 25 to 30 years. And Michelle and Ron Yovich, the owners of Ella J Farms in Longmont, are extremely grateful that these perennials don’t require yearly planting. “We were down on our hands and knees literally planting 10,000 baby hop plants, just with the help of our family,” says Michelle Yovich. The Parker-based couple established Ella J Farms in 2011 and went into the 10-acre project with wide eyes and limited agricultural knowledge. They wanted to get into agriculture and decided on hops because of the
booming beer scene in Colorado, according to Michelle Yovich. “It’s probably a little big to start with,” says Michelle Yovich, referring to the 10-acre former sod farm in Longmont that their hops call home. “It’s a really labor-intensive crop, but we did it, and now we’re here.” Once the hops are grown, hop farmers in Colorado face additional difficulty when it comes to harvesting the hop cones and readying them for use by breweries. Harvesting requires specialized machines for picking hop cones off the vine called Wolf Pickers, and readying the hops for use requires further expensive machinery. “I think there’s a lack of understanding that, growing a hop and bringing it to ripeness and production and having it as a whole cone, then there’s a big gap to getting that into beer,” says Hess. While some breweries use wet or fresh hops in craft brews as well as dry hops, larger producers require pelletized hops. These hops are dried and
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condensed into a pellet that can be easily used in large brew batches and does not interfere with brewery machine function, according to Hess. However, the pellet can only be produced using a refrigerated pelletizer machine, and Colorado remains behind the curve in that regard. “We don’t even have a pelletizer in Colorado yet. I mean, we just started to get Wolf Pickers,” says Hess. While Oskar Blues relies on its own hops in wet hop brews, which use the fresh hop cone just as it is, Ella J Farms provides hops for Coors’ AC Golden Colorado Native brew, which requires hops in the pelletized form. “We dry [our hops] and we bale them and we deliver them to Coors,” says Ron Yovich. “They take them in the bales and ship them up to Washington and have them pelletized and then shipped back here in pellet form to use in their brewing process.” “We’re in a place right now where see HOPS Page 52
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Texas craft beer is on the way The oldest little brewhouse in Texas will soon start distributing its beer to Colorado, hoping to penetrate a market currently focused on Colorado, California and Oregon craft beers. Saint Arnold Brewing Company, located in central Houston, will begin distributing its flagship year-round beers in Colorado, including a Germanstyle Kolsch called Fancy Lawnmower, Elissa IPA and Santo, a “black Kolsch” with a “distinct dark malt flavor,” Saint Arnold’s website says. Saint Arnold, named after the French saint who is the patron saint of brewers, will also send its seasonals and special releases, including a pumpkin stout, the Divine Reserve one-off series and a barrel-aged series. At 19 years old, Saint Arnold is roughly the same age as Avery, Twisted Pine and Left Hand. The first shipment of Saint Arnold’s beers will arrive in mid-September, the press release says. Saint Arnold’s website is saintarnold.com.
Beerfest and big hits A Denver journalist recently quipped that craft beer had “jumped the shark,” or crossed over from cool to played out, because pop band Hanson had come out with a craft beer. Another possible sign: ESPN has announced it will hold the inaugural ESPN Denver Beerfest on Saturday, Aug. 17, at Infinity Park in Glendale. Yes, the big boys are on board, with a ven-
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geance. ESPN has invited more than 30 breweries to its event, from Colorado brewers like Elevation, Wynkoop, Dry Dock, Upslope, City Star and Elk Mountain to national favorites like Utah’s Epic Brewing, Kona from Hawaii, Red Hook in New Hampshire and nonindependent craft beer Shock Top from Missouri. The event is tied to the Serevi Rugbytown Sevens rugby tournament Aug. 17-18, also at the park. The tournament is named after Fijian rugby star Waisale Serevi. Tickets to the beerfest, which are $35, include entry to the tournament. More information is available at ESPNDenver.com.
brewery, Boulder Beer Company, and the brewery is planning its Anniversary Beer Rave from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sept. 7 in the Boulder Beer taproom to celebrate. The Rave will present draft beers from 34 Colorado breweries, with 12 Brewer’s Choice beers from Boulder Beer, including barrel- and cask-aged beers. The event is being held to benefit the Boulder B-Cycle Program and the Colorado Brewers Guild, both nonprofits. Jimmy John’s will donate sandwiches, and classic rock band Riff Raff will play for free. Tickets for the event are $30 and are available at boulderbeer.com or at the Boulder Beer Company’s pub at 2880 Wilderness Place.
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animal-free eating Jill’s Restaurant, the high-end restaurant in the St Julien Hotel, has announced a weekly Friday lunch buffet that is entirely vegan. The weekly buffet was announced via email by Lisa Shapiro, a vegan Boulderite who is the president of All Things Vegan, a public relations and marketing company that works to “foster the growth of vegan products.” The vegan buffet, which will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Fridays and will cost $12, was created in response to requests from the Boulder and Beyond Vegan Meetup Group, Shapiro says in an email. Without naming any specific items, she says the buffet will have “quite a bit of variety.” Ale rave It’s been 34 years for Colorado’s first craft
Superior barbecue Superior will soon be home to a smoky little slice of Texas. Wayne’s Smoke Shack will hold a grand opening starting at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 24, at its smokehouse and restaurant at 406 Center Drive in Superior. In an indication that Wayne’s serves the “true Texas BBQ” that it advertises, the restaurant’s hours start at 11 a.m. and run until the kitchen is out of food for the day. Along with the four meats any good barbecue serves — brisket, pork ribs, sausage and chicken — the smoke shack’s online menu includes maple-glazed fish, either tilapia or salmon. The restaurant also offers catering for lunch for 20 or more and dinner for 10 or more. Wayne’s is closed Sundays and Mondays. Its website is waynessmokeshack.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ver the past few years, downtown Louisville’s dining options have grown impressively, and the Empire Restaurant and Lounge is one of this burg’s top spots for fine dining in a relaxed setting. While this space can accommodate many diners, it feels smaller and more intimate than it is, enhanced by woods and an earthy color scheme. The menu highlights classic American comfort food with a few Continental twists. Starters range from guacamole to build-your-own boards of charcuterie, cheese and dips. Salads are anchored by disparate ingredients like lentils and calamari. Grilled cheese and hamburgers are among the dinner choices, but more rarefied entrees include rock shrimp risotto and flatiron steak. Dinner with friend Sara began with two standbys from the menu’s “snacks” heading. We were able to channel our inner Cool Hand Lukes with a $6 plate of deviled eggs. These were presented in a straightforward manner that would be instantly familiar to anyone who’s bitten into one of these oeufs in the past century or so. The spicing seemed to include the tried and true seasonings
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of paprika and turmeric, and Sara was particularly smitten with the pleasing give of the whites. The other starter was a $4 pile of peppery house-made potato chips, sliced nearly paper thin. You’d likely not encounter chips with this slender profile in a store-bought bag, as they’d likely crumble before you’d be able to open them up. Their thickness, or lack thereof, made for a pleasantly addictive experience, and one imagines they would have been even more compelling
served warm rather than at room temperature. The high point of both our meals was the entrees. Off the standard menu, Sara picked a $24 plate of grilled duck breast sided with goat cheese enchiladas. The ancho chile and maple sauce covering the side suggested the finer spicy sweet qualities of Mexican mole. The richness of the enchiladas themselves made them worthy of being presented as an entree on their own. But the most compelling component was the perfectly cooked fowl, rare, ruby red, slightly sweet and possessing a velvety tenderness. A more humble selection was my $27 special of grilled Colorado lamb T-bones accompanied by sautéed Oxford Farms carrots. The heirloom veggies provided visual interest — one was purple — and the fullness of flavor that separates local small farm produce from mass market carrots. Consistent with our server’s recommendation, I requested the two thick lamb steaks be prepared rare, and these arrived from the kitchen just so. Lamb fans will enjoy these slabs, and even the novice might enjoy this selection, as it wasn’t quite as gamy as meat from a less refined animal.
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raditionally, Shaker communities placed a premium on raising their own food, and their commitment to self-sufficiency included the development of local farms to supply meat and produce. Sales of healing herbs provided Shakers with revenue, and another one of their innovations was preparing seeds for sale in paper envelopes. But another key part of Shaker life was pies, and the lemon pie was an outlier. Midwestern Shakers were likely to rely on local ingredients, but citrus was typically outside of what was close at hand. Perhaps this explains why lemon pie uses the whole fruit, including thinly-sliced peel.
The meal wrapped up with a brace of $8 desserts, a chocolate budino and Shaker Lemon pie. The cocoa pudding’s flavor and consistency didn’t break much new ground, although the chocolate shell it rested atop wasn’t without some charm. The thick, soft crust of the single-serving pie overwhelmed the filling, which otherwise struck a decent balance between tart and sweet. I suspect our well-executed main courses would be even more endearing at a slightly lower price. The starters and desserts were fine, although they didn’t quite rise to the level of our entrees, which held their own against just about anything available locally. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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there are not quite enough farmers to Andrews is able to sell his hops to make [a pelletizer] cost-effective, but local breweries, including Upslope, at the same time there’s not a lot of Mountain Sun, Southern Sun, Wild farmers because there’s no pelletizer,” Mountain, Pumphouse, Estes Park says Michelle Yovich. “So it’s sort of a Brewery and others, but hasn’t achieved catch-22.” the income he had hoped. The couple has faced weeds, the “With a small acreage it’s probably challenges of practicing organic agrinot enough to make a living off of,” culture, hail and broken field poles in says Andrews. “Ten acres is probably a Camilla Sterne their trellis minimum size system, but to be a comremains posimercial hop tive and dedigrower.” cated to the But project, which Andrews, like is still in its others, early stages. expresses a They struggle great appreciwith the idea ation of the that providhop commuing local hops nity. to a local “I’ve really Michelle Yovich holds two variations of hops grown at Ella J Farms. brewery creenjoyed workates such a ing with the large carbon beer-producfootprint in the trip to Washington ing and herb-company communities in and back. They hope that as they grow, Boulder,” Andrews says. “They are a they will be able to supply their hops friendly group of people. They are colto local breweries for wet hop brews. legial; they like to help each other. They don’t view each other as cutthroat But as the Yoviches expand, anothcompetitors.” er Boulder County hops grower is And Andrews’ vision that hop phasing out his production of the crop. growers will unite as a community and Richard Andrews of the Andrews share equipment is moving toward Family Farm in Boulder has been realization with the establishment of growing hops for seven years but has the Colorado Hop Growers recently cut back the extremely laborAssociation in 2011. However, Hess intensive hop production on the farm in hopes of retiring. However, Andrews sees no hope that growing Colorado breweries will ever be entirely supplied is well aware of the problems faced by by Colorado hop growers. Colorado hops growers and continues “Do I see in the near future, to use his equipment to aid other hops enough hops being produced to suffice growers along the Front Range. “The fact is that, some small growers, the brewery demand here?” he asks. “Probably not, I mean that’s way, way, they can’t really afford to go out and buy the necessary equipment,” says Andrews. way out there.” But of course, hop growers remain “The smallest machine you can buy passionate about their distinctive crop, would cost $40,000. Cost is a real issue despite, and maybe because of, its rarity to a small grower, and if we can do this in Colorado. cooperatively and help each other out Michelle and Ron Yovich are still then everybody will be better off.” amazed that so many people who drink Andrews, who has worked on beer are unfamiliar with the climbing research with Colorado State plant that provides its character and University’s Specialty Hops program to unaware that the yellow lupulin create solar drying technology and is formally trained as an engineer, also built Michelle Yovich calls “gold powder” in his own harvester, akin to a Wolf Picker, the cone emits such a pungent and rich scent. using parts of a used apple sorter. “I think it’s a beautiful plant,” she He began growing hops with his son in hopes of making a living selling says. “I think it’s amazing that that little tiny bit of lupulin, that tiny little bit the cash crop from his one-acre plot. of yellow powder, is the whole reason “We decided to grow hops because that people grow it.” there’s such a huge and rapidly As the harvest approaches within expanding beer business,” says the next week or two, Hess says he’s Andrews. “You had a ready market for excited about the third-year yield. sure, and a market that in fact valued “First year sleeps, second year locally produced crops and ingredients. creeps, third year leaps.” They were very interested in supportRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com ing local suppliers.” Boulder Weekly
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e did it, everyone. For now. Yes, with last week’s visit to Front Range Brewing Company, Boulder Weekly staff had spent an afternoon — and in many cases, a lot more than that — in every Boulder County brewery that has a tasting room. We’ve sipped IPAs in Nederland, we’ve sampled stouts in Jefferson Dodge Longmont, we’ve downed Belgians in Louisville. But keeping up with breweries in this county is like running a race with a moving finish line. We’re only done for a while. Boulder’s Sanitas Brewing is “on pace to open around the first week of September,” co-founder Zach Nichols says by email, though like many brewers he acknowledges that things can hit unexpected snags. Crystal Springs owner Tom Horst estimates his opening in Louisville will happen around the same time. But for just a few weeks, we made it. So, with a slight change to this column’s title, we move beyond the boundaries of Boulder County to taprooms unknown. This week we started down the U.S. 36 corridor, which rapidly expanded its brewery count in recent years. We’re also considering eventual trips to Atom Brewing in Erie (and upcoming breweries Echo, Industrial Revolution and Old Mine); Grimm Brothers and Verboten Brewing in Loveland, and a trip to Fort Collins to cover breweries both big (New Belgium and Odell) and small (Coopersmith’s, Equinox, Black Bottle and more). First up this week was Big Choice Brewing Company, Broomfield’s only brewery — again, for now. Andrea Miller behind the bar tells us Broomfield’s getting a second, Wonderland Brewery, in early 2014, while Westminster Brewing Company across 36 is coming soon as well. Big Choice is tucked in the expansive industrial parks along West 120th
Avenue. At the door we’re greeted by a sleepy Bernese mountain dog and an exceptionally good deal: eight tasters — every beer on the menu — for $10, when most tasters elsewhere are $1.50 or $2 each. I grab a seat at the bar next to a girl with headphones watching something on a tablet. I estimate she is 8 years old. It’s a family affair. For the most part, Big Choice’s beers fall in the drinkable/hoppy category, particularly the summery Rail Slide Extra Pale Ale, which reminds me strongly of Deschutes’ Twilight Summer Ale. Big Choice’s Type 3 IPA is amply hoppy, while the Hemlock double IPA brings in a malt base to go with massive hops. The brewery’s flagship, Disconnected India Red Ale, similarly pairs hops and malt for a long-lasting aftertaste that’s surprisingly balanced. Big Choice also gives me a chance for a side-by-side comparison of two pretty similar styles, the French bière de garde and the Belgian saison. The French is sweeter and smoother, while the Belgian clearly has a lot more yeast, especially since Big Choice’s is yeasty compared to others. The bière de garde was a favorite of Jeff ’s, which is why his face fell when I offered a gentleman at the bar a taste and he took a swallow, then took down the rest of our taster glass. So Jeff got a full pint. Problem solved. Big Choice’s most creative beer is the poblano stout, called #42, which was just as the menu described it: “smoky with no heat.” The poblanos contribute a definite smoked flavor, and the beer’s on the yeasty side of stouts, creating a very flavorful ale. The brewery’s entry into the pro-am competition at the Great American Beer Fest, on the other hand, favors execution over unusual ingredients. The ESB is drinkable and smooth, with a classic caramel finish. We may have reached a temporary end to Boulder County’s breweries, but trust me, this is only the beginning. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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April 20-May 20:
Oct. 23-Nov. 21:
By the standards of people who don’t know you well, the triumph you achieve in the coming days might seem modest. But I think it will actually be pretty dramatic. Here’s my only concern: There’s a slight danger you will get grandiose or even a bit arrogant in the aftermath of your victory. You could also get peeved at those who don’t see it for the major achievement it is. Now that I’ve given you this warning, though, I’m hoping you will avoid that fate. Instead you will celebrate your win with humble grace, feeling gratitude for all the help you got long the way.
GEMINI
Nov. 22-Dec. 21:
May 21-June 20:
Some years back, the Greek government launched a huge anti-smoking campaign. In response, cigarette sales spiked dramatically. When my daughter was 6 years old, I initiated a crusade to ban Barbie dolls from our home forever. Soon she was ripping out pictures of the accursed anti-feminist icon from toy catalogs and leaving them on my desk. With these events in mind, I’m feeling cautious about trying to talk you into formulating a five-year master plan. Maybe instead I should encourage you to think small and obsess on transitory wishes.
CANCER
June 21-July 22:
“Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly,” the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst reminds us. That will be a good principle for you to keep in mind during your own adventures during the coming weeks. I suspect that any liberation you are able to achieve will come as the result of intense discipline. To the degree that you cultivate the very finest limitations, you will earn the right and the power to transcend inhibitions that have been holding you down.
LEO
July 23-Aug. 22:
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” When I came across that quote while surfing the Web, I felt that it jibed perfectly with the astrological omens that are currently in play for you. Every website I consulted agreed that the speaker of this wisdom was Socrates, but I thought the language sounded too contemporary to have been uttered by a Greek philosopher who died 2,400 years ago. After a bit of research, I found the real source: a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a New Age self-help book by Dan Millman. I hope this doesn’t dilute the impact of the quote for you, Leo. For now, it is crucial that you not get bogged down in quarreling and brawling. You need to devote all your energy to creating the future.
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Aug. 23-Sept. 22:
Do you know that you are a host for more than 10,000 different species of microorganisms? Many of them are bacteria that perform functions essential to your health. So the stunning fact of the matter is that a large number of life forms share your body and constantly help you in ways about which you have no conscious awareness. Might there be other examples of you collecting benefits from unknown sources? Well, do you know who is responsible for providing you with the water and electricity you use? Who sewed your clothes and made your medicine? Who built the roads and buildings you use? This is an excellent time to take inventory of all the assistance, much of it anonymous, that you
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William Turner was a 19th-century English landscape painter born under the sign of Taurus. His aim was not to capture scenes in realistic detail but rather to convey the emotional impact they made on him. He testified that on one occasion he had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a snowstorm so that he could experience its full effects firsthand. The result was “Snow Storm – SteamBoat off a Harbor’s Mouth,” a painting composed mostly of tempestuous swirls. What would be the equivalent for you, Taurus? I’m trying to think of a way you could be perfectly safe as you treated yourself to an up-close encounter with elemental energies.
SAGITTARIUS
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” So said French writer André Breton. I suspect that many of us feel the same way, which is kind of depressing. But the good news for you, Sagittarius, is that there will be times in the coming months when you will get as close to naming that mysterious thing as you have ever gotten. On more than a few occasions, you may be able to get a clear glimpse of its true nature. Now and then you might even be fully united with it. One of those moments could come soon.
CAPRICORN
Dec. 22-Jan. 19:
The Paris Review did a story on novelist William Gass. The interviewer asked him why he wrote his books. That was “a very dumb question,” he sneered. Nevertheless, he answered it, saying, “I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.” In other words, his primary motivations for expressing himself creatively were loathing, malice and hostility. I beg you not to use him as your role model, Capricorn. Not now. Not ever. But especially now. It is essential to your long-term health and wealth that you not be driven by hate in the coming weeks. Just the opposite, in fact: The more you are driven by love and generosity, the better chance you will have of launching a lucky streak that will last quite a while.
AQUARIUS
Jan. 20-Feb. 18:
“Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are,” said author Marianne Williamson. “Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” Your assignment, Aquarius, is to seek out the deepest possible understanding of these truths. To do that, you will have to identify the unripe, shadowy qualities of the people who are most important to you. And then you will have to find it in your smart heart to love them for their unripe, shadowy qualities almost as much as you do for their shiny, beautiful qualities.
PISCES
Feb. 19-March 20:
Aldous Huxley was the renowned 20th-century intellectual who wrote the book Brave New World, a dystopian vision of the future. Later in his life he came to regret one thing: how “preposterously serious” he had been when he was younger. “There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,” he ruminated, “trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling … Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.” I would love for you to put this counsel at the top of your priority list for the next 10 months, darling Pisces. Maybe even write it out on a piece of paper and tape it to your bathroom mirror.
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Dear readers: Two excellent writers stepped in to answer the Savage Love Letter of the Day while I was on vacation, and I wanted to share one of those responses in the column this week. Daniel Bergner is the award-winning author of four books of nonfiction. His newest book is What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, which Salon said “should be read by every woman on earth.” Dear Dan: I came out as gay during my marriage five years ago. (I’m a woman who doesn’t like the word “lesbian.”) I want to be in relationships with women, get married, etc., but I haven’t dated since my divorce. But I’m ready to start. I started on Craigslist in the w4w section and then moved to the m4w section, looking to fulfill a pegging fantasy. In working up the courage to respond to one guy’s ad — and then e-mailing/texting a total stranger that I was masturbating — I thought of asking for my own fantasy: intruder sex with a stranger. I asked if we could first “meet” without meeting: go to a coffee shop, sit across the room from each other, and flirt via text. If that went well, I wanted him to follow me to my place (stalk me), break in, rough me up a little, fuck me, and leave. That was too intense for him. Which is fine. There are other guys. I don’t consider this a rape fantasy. I am NOT turned on by rape. I’ve been raped, and it was the worst experience of my life. This is consensual sex. I don’t want to meet directly because I want him to remain a stranger. I want to be safe. I’ll have a safe word. I would also like to discuss this with my therapist, who I’ve been seeing for years, because I was sexually abused by my father, my cousin and my mom’s boyfriend. I feel so hung up all the time by the fear of being raped that it has restricted my ability to enjoy anything. Maybe by doing this I can face that fear and no longer be controlled by it. I’m also completely turned on by it. My questions: Can I do this safely? Is this healthy? Am I still a gay girl if I fulfill some kinky fantasies with men? —Not Wanting Rape Dear NWR: So you haven’t talked to your therapist about this but you’re reaching out for advice online, you’re declaring yourself a gay woman but you’re starting your post-divorce erotic life hunting for sex with men, you’d like that sex to commence with a “meeting” that is a nonmeeting, and you want to be stalked, roughed up a Boulder Weekly
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bit, and fucked by an intruder in a way that bears only a minimal (and constructive) relationship to your having been raped and, before that, sexually abused by an assault squad of family members. Since your letter is full of paradox, can I tell you something paradoxical? Your fantasies are utterly hot and are absolutely nothing to be ashamed of, but they scream out slow down and seek serious counsel! Do you see the pattern, NWR? Everything you want, everything you lust for, is at the same time somehow avoided or semi-denied? And it’s not that you’re unwise about yourself. You do draw connections. Father, cousin, mom’s boyfriend performed some work on the core of your psyche, where eros lives, and probably laid down some of the wiring for your current yearnings. This does not mean your fantasies are weird (rape fantasies — I’m going to call them that — are among the most common sexual scenarios women imagine while masturbating or having sex), but it does mean you’ve got some deeper thinking to do before you take real risks. Because what I’m sensing is searing heat, a swirl of confusion, and a deluded hope that you can reliably control the forces you’re about to unleash. “I have a safe word.” Not necessarily, NWR. Words aren’t always going to be heeded by total strangers you’ve only glimpsed and texted and asked to get rough with you. I am sounding like a prude and a killjoy. I’m not. I’m pretty sure you can pull off some version of what you wish — with a measure of safety — when you’re thinking a little more clearly. I’m all for seizing ecstasy in the present while exorcising the horrors of your past. I’m just saying, know thyself a tad better. When you’re thinking more clearly, you’ll be a better judge of the right not-rapist, one who will respect your script. As for your last question — “Am I still a gay girl?” — let go of categories. Our human complexity outdoes the divides. If you’re turned on by both genders — and almost every bit of research I’ve encountered over the last eight years of writing about desire suggests that women often are — count yourself lucky. Your options are enviably wide. —Daniel Bergner Send your questions for Dan to mail@ savagelove.net, and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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hen Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that there were too many people in federal prison, outlined Justice Department plans to stop charging low-level and nonviolent drug offenders (ie. cannabis users) with crimes that carry mandatory minimums and announced that many elderly prisoners may be eligible for early release, my first thought was, “It’s about time.” “The war on drugs is now 30, 40 years old. There have been a lot of unintended consequences,” Holder told NPR last week ahead of Monday’s speech. This came at the same time as an hour-long CNN special that aired Aug. 11 with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who announced that, after seriously studying the issue, he has changed his position on medical cannabis. While doing his research for the highly recommended special, called Weed, he concluded that — gasp! — the federal government has based its cannabis policies on lies for the last 70 years. Science, he found out, has had nothing to do with it, and he apologized for being part of the misinformation campaign the government is waging. Dr. Sanjay Gupta “I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a Schedule I substance because of sound scientific proof,” Gupta said. “Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have ‘no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse.’ They didn’t have the science to support that claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things are true.” That’s not especially earth-shaking to anyone who knew that Richard Nixon rejected the findings of his own government-funded commission on cannabis in 1972 — it recommended legalization even
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