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A convenient truth on weed

As Mr. Rucker notes [Re: “Crunching numbers in the cannabis debate,” Weed between the lines, Aug. 14], the lies, the dodges and the laughable research are coming on strong in the waning years of cannabis prohibition. No matter; prohibition is finished. It was over when the Epilepsy Foundation declared that an end to sei-

zures should not be determined by one’s zip code. Same goes for migraines, and many other ailments. Legalization isn’t sweeping back to the nation (and the world) because Americans have suddenly decided to tolerate stoners and trippy downtown festivals. Freedom is unfolding at an increasing rate because patients are discovering a most

convenient truth; cannabis is a nontoxic medicinal flower that works. Carl Hedberg/Lafayette

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Highroad The militarization of ‘Officer Friendly’

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et’s check our weaponry: 93,000 machine guns, 533 planes and helicopters, 180,000 magazine cartridges and 432 mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles. OK, let’s roll! Only, this is not the U.S. military. It’s your and my local police departments patrolling our cities. Remember “Officer Friendly,” the beat cops who were known as “peace officers”? The

friendlies have largely been transformed into militarized forces, literally armed with and garbed in war gear and indoctrinated in military psychology, rather than the ethic of community policing. Twenty years ago, Congress created the military transfer program, providing federal grants so chiefs of police and sheriffs could buy surplus firepower from the Pentagon. In a stunningly short time, our local police forces have become macho-military units, possessing an armory of Pentagon freebies ranging from 30-ton tanks to rifle silencers. They’ve gone from peacekeeping beats to over-the-top SWAT team aggression, unleashed on the citizenry tens of thousands of times a year, mainly for ordinary police work. For example, a gung-ho Florida SWAT team raided area barbershops in 2010 to stop the horror of “barbering without a license.” And masked police in Louisiana launched a military raid on a

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nightclub in order to perform a liquor law inspection. Militarization is a dangerous and ultimately deadly perversion of the honorable purpose of policing — and it is literally out of control. The New York Times notes that 38 states have received silencers to use in surreptitious raids. A sheriff in a North Dakota rural county with only 11,000 people told a Times reporter that he saw no need for silencers. When it was pointed out that his department had received 40 of them from the Pentagon, he was baffled, saying: “I don’t recall approving them.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 21, 2014 7

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day in 2008 to 8.4 million barrels a day The Middle East is and counting this year.) These two on fire from Tripoli to technologies have made it possible to Mesopotamia and no produce hundreds of billions of barrels one in Boulder is of crude found in shale, which can’t be chanting “no blood for oil.” extracted with conventional technology. Not even the folks at the Rocky In addition, natural gas production has Mountain Peace and Justice Center. skyrocketed, along with production of Especially not the folks at the other hydrocarbon liquids like condenRocky Mountain Peace and Justice sate (ethane) that are often found in Center. Nary a peep about blood for oil association with natural gas. Production out of them. of natural gas liquids, which can be “No blood for oil” was a cynical lie used instead of crude by the petrocoined by the Marxist left, which main- chemical industry, is also up by nearly a tained the United States went to war billion barrels a year. with Iraq in 2003 in order to rip off It wasn’t the peace and justice folks Iraq’s oil. Chanting “no blood for oil” who turned the phrase “no blood for was all the rage at the time. oil” into a historical artifact. It was the (For the record, American oil and there were a numgas industry that ber of reasons why has freed the counthe U.S. invaded try from depenIS NO LONGER A CYNICAL LIE. IT Iraq in 2003, but dence on oil IS A LUDICROUS LIE. ... grabbing Iraq’s oil imports from the wasn’t one of hostile and THE UNITED STATES ISN’T them. If there is untrustworthy supGOING TO SHED AMERICAN any lingering pliers — despite BLOOD FOR OIL IN IRAQ, LIBYA doubt on this the best efforts of OR ANYWHERE ELSE ANYTIME point, consult the the peace and jusSOON, AND THE REASON IT list of oil compatice gang to stop WON’T CAN BE GIVEN IN ONE nies which have them. gotten concessions A big part of WORD: FRACKING. from the Iraqi govthe reason why peace and justice ernment. American and occupy Wall oil companies barely Streeters aren’t chanting “no blood for show up on it.) oil” anymore is that for the last two Still, lie or no, the “no blood for oil” years they have been doing their trope was passionately embraced and damndest to destroy America’s domestic loudly repeated by “peace and justice” oil and gas production by attempting to lefties at the time, including the local ban fracking. ones. If you had attached them to a This point cannot be made too polygraph and asked them if they often. The left’s war on fracking is realbelieved the U.S. had gone to war with ly a war on domestic oil and gas proIraq in order to grab Iraq’s oil, the needuction. Fracking has been around for dle wouldn’t have moved. half a century, and the technology is Today, “No blood for oil” is no lonroutinely used in the completion of 95 ger a cynical lie. It is a ludicrous lie — percent of the oil and gas wells drilled so ludicrous that even the local peace in the U.S. If fracking is banned, and justice crowd has gagged on it. domestic oil and gas production will The United States isn’t going to collapse as quickly as it boomed six shed American blood for oil in Iraq, years ago — and the United States will Libya or anywhere else anytime soon, be back to importing three-quarters of and the reason it won’t can be given in the crude it uses, quite possibly at douone word: Fracking. ble the price. And the prospect of an Since 2008, American crude oil American blood sacrifice for oil will be production has increased by more than neither ludicrous nor discretionary. a billion barrels a year thanks to horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydrausee DANISH PLAN Page 11 lic fracturing (from 5 million barrels a

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Buzzlead, Aug. 7] included this statement: “But in the age of the Internet, when everyone can easily have home access to the sorts of resources libraries offer, the library’s purpose is less clear.” This is the sort of article that librarians endure on a regular basis. In truth, the library’s purpose is only “less clear” to people who never have used libraries — and to cub reporters who get assigned to write stories about libraries. Usually, these articles portray libraries and librarians in the same light that The Front Page portrayed reporters. Libraries operate with a clear sense of purpose and reporters, generally, are not always drunk. Larry Schwartz, librarian/Moorhead, Minn.

Post-flood road woes continue

I have been driving Left Hand Canyon for 40 years. The September flood seriously damaged the road. There are 12 places, west of where Lee Hill joins the canyon, where the pavement is totally gone from both lanes, and we are driving over dirt, with bumps and washboard common. This past week [in July] I see where new pavement is being put down on Iris, east of 47th., and stopping before it joins the Diagonal. What!!!??? They don’t need new pavement nearly as much as we do in Left Hand Canyon ( James Canyon is in poor shape, too) Who’s in charge here, and what kind of warped priorities do they have? Rumor has it that Left Hand is not going to be fully repaired until next Boulder Weekly

year! This is unacceptable. Stephen Ruddock/Gold Lake Road

An army of refugee children

This is an invasion! If the children crossing our border were true refugees they would have found refuge at the American Consulates in their home country. There are millions of children south of the border suffering neglect, abuse or abandonment. However, we only encourage more human trafficking, sexual abuse and gang recruiting when we allow people to enter and move freely in our country. Our government relief agencies and church social services are already overwhelmed and are on the verge of collapse. We have to act now! Hold these people at military bases in this country where special immigration services and courts can process and adjudicate their cases. The vast majority of them are social or economic immigrants who need to be relocated first to camps at military bases in their native countries and, then, to foster care facilities, education programs and adoption services in their native countries (funded through our Foreign Aid). Totalitarian regimes and terrorist groups around the world are persecuting political and religious minorities. The few political and religious refugees seeking refuge need to abandon ties and be adopted into American homes and society (through church and non-profit placement agencies). see LETTERS Page 10

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Life sure is funny. In all my years in Boulder and Colorado, I’ve always, on some level, been interested in and working (formally, through the embassies and informally through friends and associates) on a strong relationship or at least a genuinely productive rapport between Colorado and the West Indies-Jamaica in particular, but Barbados as well. And although there are some, few, organizations I’ve found, it looks like marijuana of all things may well be one of the overall unifying cultural and business factors. Whew! The Colorado Daily reported some weeks ago that there was a group of Jamaican interests that were organizing a campaign to legalize marijuana (or ganja) for recreational and medical purposes. And presumably export. I’m fairly certain that if in fact this does come to pass then I foresee Colorado, which has and will probably continue to have the most advanced and technologically sophisticated markets in the world, it seems inevitable that consultants, advisors and just the Colorado populace will boom... just have a whole new and rather unique relationship based on this newfound mutual endeavor. There is one question that I haven’t yet heard discussed though and that is, will the general population be able to overcome that deeply, fiercely ingrained British West Indian (read British) residual Puritan ethic and allow/accept this? I think these Jamaican ganja interests may find a lot more resistance than they may anticipate. Some may argue that we’re way past the Puritan point given the Negril to nude, hedonistic beaches phenomena in Jamaica, but I’m not so sure that that jet-set freedom of spirit necessarily translate to the average cat’s reality that easily. If in fact the movement is successful and Jamaica legalizes whenever’s clever in the future, you can bet your bottom dollar that Colorado will be represented there in full force. And good for them. Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder

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Israel-Hamas, who is justified?

According to a recent poll by CNN, approximately 57 percent of the American public support the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip. However, this number might change if the root cause of the issue were to be found, which is not the convenient answer of Hamas rocket fire into Israel. Rather, a better question is, why is Hamas firing rockets into Israel? Israel has a blockade/siege for the entire Gaza Strip and has since 2007. What is a siege, you may ask, great question. Answer, Israel strictly limits travel in and out of the Gaza Strip, controls the supplies that come in (including a ban on most construction materials for fear that it will be used for tunnel construction), and prohibits virtually all exports, thus crippling the economy and triggering one of the highest poverty and unemployment rates in the Arab world, currently sitting at approximately 40 percent. Imagine if you did not have the freedom to move in or out of your state, or that your state could not import or export supplies and goods or that your state was not allowed access to its seaport. This is what life is currently like in Palestine. Just under 800 Palestinians have been killed to date and according to the UN, 75 percent are civilians with

just under 200 being children. Hamas is currently demanding that the siege be lifted in order to end this bloody conflict. I am not here to justify Hamas actions, which is why the UN is currently investigating both sides for war crimes, and rightly so. What I am saying is that if we can begin to understand where the anger originates, then we can get to the root of the issue and potentially change American sentiment as well as the calculus in this conflict. Brian Litwin/Longmont

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I suppose it is natural for a nation founded on an armed insurrection to endow guns with a level of sanctity, and there is truth, albeit a simplistic one, in saying, “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.” It is also true that under stress and anxiety, as well as in ambition and exuberance, armed people can become massively murderous. It is also true that there will always be those eager to profit from both anxiety and ambition. The French were keen backers of our Revolution. At the same time, murder is a criminal act punishable in some states with execution and there is an international court to prosecute genocide and “crimes of war.” Trying to find coherent reasoning in all this is a fool’s errand, but consistently and intentionally ignored are those supplying and profiting from the armaments of insurrection and warfare. Is there not some responsibility there for the endless stream of senseless deaths we witness every day? Robert Porath/via Internet

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tion in Iraq.) Most Americans intuitively recognize both the economic and national security threats posed by dependence on oil imports from countries that want to see us dead. Too bad America’s “peace and justice” activists aren’t among them. They self-evidently don’t give a rip about the danger dependence on energy imports from hostile suppliers poses to the country and are cheerfully prepared to defame, delegitimize and politically sabotage those who have broken that dangerous dependence. No blood for oil? No thanks to people like them. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 21, 2014 11

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dangerous drug with thetic marijuana is people on an innocuous name parole for drug-related offenses is making the who must submit to a drug test rounds right here in regularly. Boulder County. Parolees are not allowed to Because it cannot be detected smoke marijuana while on in many drug screens, it is often parole, even after legalization, the only recourse for drug users and because the drug tests on parole that crave marijuana. required by the state do not And because of its availability, detect the majority of cannabiit is sometimes the first noid agents found in synthetic recourse for county kids. marijuana, these people are Synthetic marijuana, comturning to a more dangerous, monly referred to as spice, is a illegal drug. combination of herbs and A study released last year by chemicals that are supposed to the White House Office of mimic the effects of marijuana. National Drug Control Policy It is marketed as fake weed or found that more than one-third incense and labeled as “not for of parolees for drug-related human consumption.” offenses used synthetic marijuana Synthetic Marijuana, or spice, often comes in foil packages with names like “Legal Weed” or “K2.” Each package has different chemicals in it so it’s hard to know what users are ingesting. Typically it is sold in foil even though it did not show up packages with names like on a standard drug screen. In “Black Mamba,” “Legal fact, the study found that current Weed,” “K2,” or “Scooby testing policies can only detect Snax.” It is sold illegally on the synthetic marijuana chemicals street or often in head shops to less than five percent of the time. people who have a connection In Colorado, only general or know where to buy it. mandates govern the legality of When smoked, spice can synthetic marijuana — that is, have serious consequences that possession or distribution of any in no way mimic the effects of synthetic cannabinoid is considmarijuana. These include severe psyered illegal, but specific ingredients are chological episodes like panic attacks, not listed. Therefore, spice makers skirt delirium and hallucinations, as well as rules by amending the recipe to fit legal THAT organ damage, heart attacks and death, structures. OFTEN HAPPENS IS THEY DON’T MAKE THE according to research from the Drug “They’re constantly altering the Enforcement Administration. chemical composition to stay outside CHEMICAL COMBINATION RIGHT. THEY SPRAY IT Every batch of spice is unique and the frame of what’s illegal,” says so it’s hard to pinpoint where the prodMontez, and because of this, the drug BEFORE THEY PACKAGE IT. PEOPLE ARE SMOKucts are coming from and the specific continues to become more and more ING STUFF THAT’S NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN combination of chemicals they contain, dangerous for those who consume it. says Sgt. Vinnie Montez of the Boulder “One of the problems that often CONSUMPTION. IT’S A CRAPSHOOT IS WHAT County Drug Task Force. happens is they don’t make the chemi“I can’t really say what every single cal combination right,” says Montez. YOU’RE GETTING.” — SGT. VINNIE SANCHEZ, cannabinoid product is. It all really “They spray it before they package it. BOULDER COUNTY DRUG TASK FORCE depends on who’s making it, frankly, People are smoking stuff that’s not because every group or individual that intended for human consumption. It’s a is making this makes it differently,” says crapshoot is what you’re getting.” Montez. “People take a gamble with it Another target group for synthetic because they don’t know what’s on the marijuana is kids who have not reached substance.” legal age to purchase marijuana and who can finagle their way through the Boulder County has seen it’s share tipped to be supplying the product the people that intend to distribute it proper channels to acquire spice. About of spice and several investigations are under the counter, though local drug are businesses similar to head shops. currently underway. One head shop officials said they could not comment They do this on the down-low. There four percent of eighth graders have used owner in Longmont was convicted in on the veracity of these tips due to are places you could still get it if you spice, while almost eight percent of June for possessing and selling spice in ongoing investigations. looked hard enough or had the right high school seniors have used the drug, 2012. The 27-year-old Tobacco King Though it can be homemade, spice person with the right connection.” according to a 2013 University of owner, Sang Leaming, was arrested doesn’t typically originate from the disMontez says the use of spice is not Michigan study. after a concerned mother bought the tributors of the product. Producers in on the rise in Boulder County and that Montez says that spice is on the product from the shop when she found Arizona, Nevada and other parts of the legalization of marijuana has acturadar of county drug officials and that out her son was purchasing spice there. Colorado have been known to ship ally helped curb use of the synthetic cases currently under way must remain Leaming now faces up to three years in spice into the region. stuff. Those in the drug enforcement confidential. The penalty for spice posjail for the felony offense. “A lot of it is imported form out of task force are now seeing other harder session is a misdemeanor charge while In researching this story, several state,” says Montez. “There may be drugs, like heroin, making a resurgence. distribution carries a felony charge. head shops on the Hill in Boulder were people who are making it here. A lot of However, one big market for synRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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oulder Rights Watch has submitted recommendations to Boulder City Council that it believes will greatly help the city’s homeless community. The group, which formed in response to Boulder’s decision to reinstate jail time for minor, municipal offenses committed by homeless people in certain parts of town where such underprivileged residents are considered less desirable, provided council with a 42-page action plan to be considered at its upcoming August 26 planning session. In a written statement that accompanied the release of the plan, Boulder Rights Watch spokesperson Joy Redstone noted, “Boulder Rights Watch is excited about the upcoming council meeting at which the Council will finally have the opportunity to fully discuss these ideas. With the Action Plan, we have tried to provide substantial detail and background information so that Council can have a meaningful discussion and make the critical move from talk to action.” The action plan presented to council contains the following seven suggestions (the description of each action item has been provided by the organization). 1. Establish a daytime storage center for use of homeless community members. This is important because the need to constantly carry heavy backpacks containing all their possessions sets homeless people apart from other members of the community and severely limits their ability to improve their life circumstances. 2. Create a year-round day center. Homeless people struggle to find appropriate places to be during the day and the Bridge House has extremely limited space. A larger day center will allow more of the un-housed to access services and put their lives on a productive path. Other sectors of the community will benefit when public places, like the library, no longer have to serve as de facto day shelters. 3. Address housing for homeless people as part of the City’s comprehensive housing strategy. Fundamentally, homeless issues are not about law enforcement, the business cli-

mate or aesthetics. They are, at base, about supplying housing options for our poorest neighbors. Two specific suggestions are presented for consideration, including one for the use of “tiny houses.” 4. Create year-round homeless sheltering capacity. The absence of adequate summer shelter has tragic implications for those without housing and is ultimately very expensive for the general community. 5. Implement public education to assist the general public to better understand their homeless neighbors. There is much inaccurate information circulating within the community about homeless people. A good public education program could change existing inaccurate stereotypes about people experiencing homelessness. 6. Utilize two approaches to address the relationships between police officers and the homeless. One approach would add a new Community Response Team resource to attempt to resolve conflict situations in the community. The other would increase the use of community policing so that unnecessary antagonism between homeless residents and the police can be avoided. 7. Revise the police department professional standards review panel. With the recent increased emphasis on criminal enforcement with regard to homeless community members, new stresses have arisen between the police and our poorest residents. This suggestion would increase the transparency and accountability of police officers through the use of a more robust police review panel. The full 42-page plan goes on to explain the recommendations in some detail, provide specific examples of the negative consequences of Boulder’s current policy and to point to programs in other cities that are working. On August 15, a memorial was held in downtown Boulder for the nine members of the homeless community who have died in the city so far this year. Five of nine who died were living outside on the streets where camping, which in Boulder is defined as even being covered by a blanket, is now punishable by jailtime. Respond: letters@boulderweekly. Boulder Weekly

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Local author charts a course toward a life without the modern era’s most ubiquitous material

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hen Michael SanClements set out on an ecodare to create no plastic waste for two weeks, he says it changed the way he saw the world by opening his eyes to just how prevalent plastics are. In his book, Plastic Purge: How to Use Less Plastic, Eat Better, Keep Toxins Out of Your Body, and Help Save the Sea Turtles, he documents a day in the life of a modern plastic consumer. 6:15 a.m. — Alarm goes off on my plastic cell phone, which is plugged into a plastic wall outlet. 6:18 a.m. — Flip plastic light switch to bathroom. 6:20 a.m. — Brush teeth with plastic toothbrush using toothpaste from a partly plastic toothpaste tube. 6:23 a.m. — Push aside plastic shower curtain. Turn on water, Michael SanClements tried to live without plastic. His discovery: not possible. But worth trying for. which flows through plastic pipes. 6:25 a.m. — Wash my hair with shampoo from plastic bottle. 6:45 a.m. — Eat cereal poured from the seat and the grips), and bike to in kitchen room. Screw plastic lid on plastic-lined bag and add milk from work. top of reusable coffee cup. The coffee plastic milk jug. (Not to mention that 7:15 a.m. — Use plastic key card to itself came from a plastic package. my refrigerator has a lot of plastic com- access building, walk across carpeting 10 a.m. — Print some papers with ponents.) that contains plastic fibers. (Oh, by the plastic printer. Staple them with plastic 6:55 a.m. — Pack lunch into Pyrex way, your shoes likely contain some stapler. container with plastic lid. plastic.) 10:40 a.m. — Recycle a piece of 7 a.m. — Place laptop into nylon 7:20 a.m. — Turn on computer and scrap paper I have been sketching an work bag. Nylon is plastic. sit on chair containing plastic foam. outline on by tossing it in a recycling 7:05 a.m. — Hop on my bike, 7:30 a.m. — Fill stainless steel reus- bin made of plastic. which contains many plastic parts (like able coffee cup from plastic coffeemaker 12 p.m. — Lunch with friends. In

the lunchroom I see other people microwaving throwaway plastic containers in the plastic microwave, then sitting in plastic chairs at the tables to eat. Is microwaving plastic bad? I wonder. I add salad dressing to my salad. The bottle is glass but the cap is plastic. 5:50 p.m. — Put on my fleece jacket (made from recycled plastic — thanks, Patagonia!), headlamp, running shoes, and running pants (which are aso partially plastic! Nylon is the culprit here) and head out for a trail run with my dog, Hank. At some point on my run I have to pick up Hank’s poop. This requires a plastic bag. 7 p.m. — Feed Hank. His food bag, while looking very papery, is actually lined with plastic. 7:45 p.m. — Grab a quick bite to eat. I get tacos that are sitting in a reusable plastic basket lined with wax paper, and the cup I was given for fountain soda was lined with plastic, not wax as most people usually think. 8:30 p.m. — At my favorite coffee shop, using my laptop to prepare for a talk I’m giving the next day, I order a tea. The tea bag is wrapped in plastic. There is a band playing live jazz at the coffee shop. I notice their instruments and speakers contain plastic. I am sitSee PLASTICS Page 19

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ARCTIC WARMING BLAMED FOR DANGEROUS HEAT WAVES

The Arctic is warming more rapidly, causing heat waves that are a threat to human health and economies. Damage from heat waves has doubled in frequency in this century. The 2012 record heat wave in the U.S. that destroyed cornfields and fed wildfires isn’t the only incident. From 1980 to 2003, an average of two heat wave events occurred every four years. While climate change is breakfast talk these days, few people know how big a role something called Rossby waves have in the increasing prevalence of heat waves. In 1939, Rossby waves were discovered in jet streams and were linked to high and low pressure systems at ground level, which form Earth’s daily weather. The weather on Earth’s surface is controlled by jet streams, which are high winds in the atmosphere. A jet stream travels 124 miles an hour, and wanders north and south. As a Rossby wave develops in a jet stream flying north to Europe or the U.S., it brings warm air from the tropics with it. As a jet stream with Rossby waves heads south, it does the opposite, dragging colder Arctic air along. These waves morph shape continuously, making rapid variations in weather patterns. New research reports a tendency for Rossby waves in jet streams to grow and stick, however, particularly in July and August. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, explains why heat waves last for weeks, not just a few days, and reports on the resultant health and economic threat. The new data suggests a link between Rossby waves and the warming of the Arctic. The Arctic has been heating up twice as fast as the rest of the Earth since 2000, due not to Rossby waves at all but to greenhouse gases, the melting of the ice in the Arctic causes a warmer Arctic — with less ice, less sunlight gets reflected back into space and leaves more dark, open ocean, which is warmer and absorbs more warmth. Rossby waves that used to suck cold Arctic air into a jet stream and pull it to Europe are now bringing warmer Arctic air. Temperature differences are decreasing and everywhere is warming as the Arctic warms, further evidence of the interconnectedness of Earth’s systems. — Cassie Moore

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ting in a wooden chair, but it has a thin cushion with a plastic cover. I get water and pour it from a pitcher into the reusable plastic cups they have set out. 10:30 p.m. — I walk home from the coffee shop. The talk I give tomorrow will be projected via a plastic projector, via a plastic computer, powered by all sorts of plastic-coated wires. Boulder-based author and scientist SanClements was blogging for Grist at the time and his blogs about the epic attempts to reduce his plastic waste were so popular, he was approached for a book deal. The book turns first to where his mind went as he tried to unravel the presence of plastic in modern life: How did this happen? The answer: With a billiard company that offered $10,000 to someone who could invent a replacement for ivory in billiard balls. Then World War II hit, and the use of plastics spread there, particularly with nylon products. “People didn’t like plastic products then, they thought they were really crappy and cheap,” he says. The industry that had been profiting from plastic sales during the war to military decided to try to turn their image around, and launched a campaign to re-brand plastic that included, among its early forays, a “house of the future” made entirely of plastic by none other than the well-known big-ag business Monsanto. Then, Plastic Purge moves to down building life without plastic into bitesized chunks — think, a recipe for homemade toothpaste and suggestions on alternatives for some of those other items in that diary of daily plastic use. “You can’t live without plastic,” he says. Literally, so much modern medical equipment utilizes plastic that avoiding plastic altogether could be fatal. His goal, he says, was to help people be realistic and smart about their plastic use. “We have this world now where we have so many people and so few resources, so how do we allocate our

resources the most wisely?” he says. “We want to be able to use plastic, so we want to be able to shift our consumption away from those worthless, easy-to-avoid plastics that cause problems, whether it be human health or environmental health problems, and focus those resources on places where we really need to use plastic and it greatly improves or betters our lives.” That means prioritizing the use of plastic as good, bad and ugly. Good uses are those where the use of plastic can actually increase the life or functionality of a product — phones, computers, tents, medical equipment, ski bindings. Ugly are those at the opposite end where eliminating the use of this plastic product, like single-use plastic bags, takes minimal effort. Bad are those products in the middle that, while useful, are loaded with chemicals that transfer from plastic into the skin — BPA on receipt paper, for example, easily transfers into the bloodstream. “I feel like the environmental effects are sort of easier to see and we do know a little bit more about those,” he says, pointing to the issues of single use plastic bags in trees, a visible problem, and the public awareness of sea turtles dying from plastic bags in the ocean, which people also seem to be familiar with. “But researching the book really made me think a little bit more about the invisible chemical landscape that’s around us all the time,” he says. He used his background in science — SanClements has a Ph.D. in ecology and works as a staff scientist at the National Ecological Observatory Network — to wade through the research and try to bring more clarity to the conversation on the health effects of plastic. Part of that inquiry was fueled by the pending arrival of his first daughter. For her, he worked to keep everything she comes in contact with non-plastic, detailing off the steps — cloth diapers, wooden rattles and glass bottles, and says, “It was not as hard as I thought it would be.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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t the end of the cycling season a year after Timmy Duggan rode on the U.S. Olympic cycling team, he chose to retire. He was just 31 years old and on the edge of what could have been his best cycling years. But there weren’t enough teams, enough options, enough reasons to continue, he says, when he’d already achieved so many of his goals and looked at the balance of existing injuries and the risk of additional ones. “You look at your paycheck and you look at what other goals you have in the sport and maybe at that point it’s like this point of diminishing returns in terms of the sacrifice and what you get from it and what you’ve already gotten, that was kind of the equation that was in my head at that point,” he says. He’d won a national championship and the 2011 Most Aggressive Rider overall title in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. He had also suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2011 and a broken tibia in 2013.

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scandal, corporate sponsors pulled their support for teams, and many of those teams shut down. And while doping was pervasive in the sport of cycling, James Peterman joined it left many young, Team Rio Grande Cycling with hopes of advancing potentially great riders his cycling career to the who opted not to dope next level. left in the dust of those who did. Fewer teams and less funding left a lot of them weighing the same options as Duggan, and coming down on the side of pursuing something else. Off the top of his head, Duggan can rattle off the names of five or six other cyclists about his age who retired last year, too. They’re a generation that started just after the introduction of the biological passport, which made it much harder to dope, a generation committed to cycling clean but bumping up against the riders ahead of them who’d used doping to make a name, a salary and a life for themselves. Just entering their 30s, these cyclists are nearing the prime for their careers, and are instead walking away from those professional cycling. Instead of disappointment, Duggan says, what he

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“The hardest thing that I have, that I try not to think about is, without a doubt, I’m walking away from potentially the best years of my career, but to me, it just wasn’t worth it anymore,” he says. “I miss the 10 percent of it that’s truly awesome, but the truth is that it’s a really hard sport and it’s a lot of sacrifice and I was just ready to move on, but yeah, let me tell you that 10 percent that’s awesome, it’s really freaking awesome.” In the wake of the Lance Armstrong dope-ring

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wants to focus on is optimism, the hope for the “All the big names in the sport are leaving next generation of cyclists who will have more and because there are fewer opportunities, there’s less better opportunities to guide them up the ranks as money, there’s not a lot of teams, and we go in the sport reforms and hopefully enters a growth cycles,” Connor says. “My belief is, in a couple period to follow the contraction that came in the years, when all of this is behind us, sponsors will wake of the reports on widespread doping released come back, you’ll start to see more big teams pop by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. up, you’ll start seeing the races come back, and at that point, there’s going to be far fewer big names “We’ve already seen a lot of sponsors bail and in the sport and these pro teams are going to be right now it’s kind of a lean time in the sport, looking for the next generation and hopefully especially in North America,” says Trevor Connor, that’s going to be the guys in Rio. So what I’ve director of Team Rio Grande. “Around 2006, 2007, been telling them is they just need to get through there were probably 13, 14 big pro teams in North the next couple years, and that’s part of what America, now there’s really four. And there are cerwe’re here for, and then hopefully there will be a tainly fewer races, so it’s a leaner time right now.” lot of opportunity for them.” At the end of 2012, Pat McGaughran, founder Team Rio focuses on riders at the edge of of Team Rio Grande Cycling and co-founder of Timmy Duggan retired from cycling after a decade of career highs professional level cycling — no one under 21, Rio Grande Restaurant chain, was looking to that included riding on the national team and competing in the Olympics. He’s continuing to work with aspiring cyclists and skiers. because Jose Cuervo is a team sponsor (had to relaunch the cycling team after a hiatus. Then know there was a margarita joke in here somenews of the doping ring started to break. where, right?). But Connor says that’s a nice space “Pat’s first response was he was going to fold to occupy and feel like you’re doing some good. There the team, he didn’t want to be part of all this — and had great form and all the top riders were there, and I are a lot of under-23 teams out there, but if a cyclist understandably, especially because when all those revended up coming in 17th, which, out of 220 of the hasn’t gone pro by the age of 24, it’s tough to find a elations come out, it struck close to home. These are top riders in North America, I was pretty happy with. spot on a team. people that live in the area and people that a lot of us “But I’ve looked back at the results since, and 11 Riders in the mid-20s range struggle the most, he know. And that really bothered Pat,” Connor says. of the guys who finished above me have been busted, says. They’re too old for the under-23 development “Then he gave it some thought and realized, this is a so you just have this ‘What if?’ And that’s unfortuteams, but haven’t started seeing their peak perfordevelopment squad and we have this tremendous nately a reality to me. If all the cyclists had been mance yet, which, particularly for stage-racing cycling opportunity to change attitudes, potentially change clean, would I have gone to the Tour de France? No, I men, may not hit until their 30s. That leaves them to the sport. So he went from saying ‘I’m tired of this was never that good. Would I have stood on more get lost in the middle without support in accessing a and I’m going to pull out’ to saying ‘Let’s actually podiums? Probably. But either way, we’re hoping to racing calendar that would have them traveling all come back stronger and come back with that focus on change that for these guys so they never have to ask over the country and trying to make a living while promoting clean sport,’ so that’s a big part of the mis- that question.” working a training schedule that requires almost as sion of the team, getting these riders to the pro level Duggan says he’d started to see the change by the many hours as a full-time job, spending 12 to 25 with the attitude and belief that doping is wrong and time his career had started, and that he wouldn’t have hours a week on the bike, plus a weight program, it’s not something they’re going to consider.” pursued cycling if he’d thought he couldn’t be successstretching and core work that can bring the total time Team members are coached on an anti-doping ful at it clean. But he concurs with what Connor saw. demand up to 35 or 40 hours a week. commitment as part of their management, a flip from “There’s plenty of people from an older generation Determined to develop a better pipeline for develthan me that made that choice [not to dope], and they the past. He’s heard stories of managers telling riders oping riders, Team Rio has opened up a slot on their “Dope or you’re done in this sport.” His team is told were mediocre cyclists in that era because they chose roster for a rider from Sonic Boom, a lower-level that honest results come before top results. not to dope, or maybe they chose not to cycle at all development team, who wants to take a crack at bigConnor had all too much personal experience with and you never heard from them at all,” Duggan says. ger races on the national race calendar. doping in cycling and how it can cut into a career. He’s Now, he says, he sees the sport having a lot more “It just provides us what we’re calling this chain, integrity than a lot of other sports. But it’s up to just months older than Armstrong, who’s now 43, and this opportunity for riders to go through what we’d sponsors and the public to believe that change has was racing in that generation where doping was pervalike to believe are good programs and not be left with happened for real growth to begin. sive. Does he think his career would have gone differno opportunities,” Connor says. “And we’re trying to “A question I got asked last year by a lot of the ently if there hadn’t been that kind of culture? develop the same thing on the other end. We want to guys on the team: Should we be in this sport, is there “You know,” he says, and takes a deep breath. get some partnerships with some pro teams so once a chance for us?” Connor says. “That’s, unfortunately for me, the big question that He told them to look at the contractions in sponwill drive me nuts the rest of my life. One of the examples I look back at is one race in 2007 where I sorships, races and teams a different way. see CYCLING Page 22

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we say, ‘You’ve successfully gone through the Rio program, you’re ready to go to a pro team,’ we can then talk to that team and say ‘You guys should ride this guy.’” The system allows riders to focus on improving their level of riding and getting results, learning what it means to be a professional, all while knowing that opportunities for advancement will be there, instead of worrying that all that work and talent is riding a road to nowhere. It’s something of an extension to an existing channel for developing riders — four riders from Sonic Boom have already moved up to Rio. James Peterman is one of those cyclists. “As I’ve tried to move up in levels, it’s kind of gone along with the whole Lance Armstrong thing, there’s been a lot less teams, which makes it quite a bit rougher to dream big,” Peterman says. “But I’m hoping that it’s turning around here.” He’s been racing for 10 years, but has started showing head-turning results in recent years, particularly in time trials. This year alone, he placed in the top 10 in time trial events during at the Tucson Bicycle Classic, Silver City’s Tour of the Gila and Best on Hess, as well as taking second in the Colorado State Time Trial Championships and sixth in the 2014 USA Cycling Amateur and Para Road Nationals time trial. He was recently injured in a training ride coming down Sunshine Canyon, and spent a week in the hospital. At 29, he says, he feels like the old guy on the team. He’s also not giving up a backup plan, and is working on a Ph.D. in exercise physiology, where he’s been researching a modified exercise bike built into a desk. “I’ve heard that some of the riders on Sonic Boom have extra motivation now,” Peterman says. “They can see a pathway to a higher level of racing, whereas before you kind of maybe had to know someone or have phenomenal results.” Even though from the cyclists’ perspective, times may be looking tight, the fan base in North America appears to be expanding, stoked by events like the USA Pro Cycling Challenge. That race has drawn international cyclists to Colorado for a week of stage racing at altitude. “In my opinion, it’s an exciting time for cycling,” says Nicholas Greef, who relocated to Colorado from South Africa to participate in the competitive cycling scene in the U.S. He rides for Team Rio. “The results are getting better and better now for clean riders.” 22 August 21, 2014

For the next generation, nipping at the heels of those ahead of them, the future looks bright. “I think it’s a great time to be 22 and a bike racer, for sure, there’s more depth of talent and what USA cycling is doing with the under-23 program now compared to what they were doing 10 years ago when I was in it,” Duggan says. “There’s every opportunity for a 22-year-old to succeed now, and the current generation, you don’t have to make that choice whether to dope or not dope to keep your job because that’s not the way that the vibe is right now.” It’s a welcome change for a sport whose funders have to consider the money spent as an investment in advertising. “Ultimately the sport is kind of a billboard sport,” Duggan says. Images of places that host these races read like postcards luring travelers, and the cyclists, riding on teams named after companies that pay for them, function like billboards. And nobody wants a billboard hung on a crack house. “It’s like the one sport that kind of comes to the people just like a parade, and it’s hard to monetize that in some ways,” Duggan says. “But it’s an opportunity too because it’s so far-reaching and it’s so accessible to everybody. You don’t have to pay $150 to go to the stadium and watch it.” The clean-up of the sport, Duggan insists, has been effective. They’ve taken responsibility to clean up after a dirty past, and like cleaning road rash, the process stings a bit. At the highest level, testing is becoming so effective that the top tier of cyclists has really cleaned up, Connor says, and if there are any lingering dopers, it’s in the middle tiers, where racing matters enough to count, but not so much that the highest level of antidoping technology is there. At one race his riders competed in last year, other competitors were inviting people over to show off their EPO (erythropoietin, a chemical that helps artificially boost the body’s red blood cell count). “What I said to the guys on our team is, the people who aren’t changing are my generation, and while some of us are honest, some of us aren’t honest, one thing that’s true of all of us is, we’re old and we’re on our way out,” Connor says. “You really see with all the young riders I talk to, doping is not a consideration. I think as my generation leaves, as the Lance Armstrong generation leaves, the sport is going to take a big step up in terms of honest, ethical riding.” “Even within my career from being a pro at 2005 or so to now, I’ve defiBoulder Weekly

nitely seen what I think is a cleaning of the peloton,” Duggan says. “It’s never 100 percent clean, but our sport, we do more about it and we do more testing than any other sport, and I think that kind of creates a bad image for it initially because people are getting caught and it seems like it’s dirty, but it’s cleaner because people are getting caught.” The pressure in the peloton now, he says, is not to dope, and that’s not the way it was 10, 15 years ago, when he was first gearing up to begin a career in cycling. “I think the biggest trick that Lance Armstrong and his group pulled was to convince the clean cyclists that something was wrong with them,” Connor says. “Ten years ago, there was really this belief that if you were clean, you’re weird, and keep it to yourself. And really the clean cyclists need to stand up and say ‘No, this is wrong. We’re the honest ones. You’re cheating us, you’re stealing our results, we’re not going to tolerate you.’” In the meantime, there’s a bit of a transition period. There are still riders in the peloton who are allowed by the rules to be there, but have a history with doping. “It’s a necessary time and I think it’s great that the sport’s making this transition, but it’s just this awkward reality that you have so many former dopers in the sport still in a variety of roles, whether they’re in management of a team or in politics of the sport or still competing themselves,” Duggan says. “There’s no other way to make that transition. You can’t just like get rid of everybody who has any doping past because then everybody who has any experience with the sport is out of it. … You can’t ever wipe the slate totally clean because then there’s nobody left in the sport who has valuable experience as a rider, as an organizer, as management. … It’s like we all have to associate with people who have maybe a shady history, but some of them are doing more for the sport now and moving it forward than others, but it’s just hard to quantify that. … It’s awkward because you have all these dopers, right, so they’re all former liars, cheaters and stealers, on some level, but then now you’re depending on these same people or trusting these same people, getting advice from these same people, learning from these same people.” Since retiring, Duggan’s spent a lot more time on his mountain bike and his skis than a road bike. But he’s far from giving up his participation in the sport or work to advance it for the next generation. He was recently at a meetBoulder Weekly

ing to talk about the possibility of forming some kind of riders’ union to give them a voice in terms of their contracts, from salaries to job security to safety concerns over race conditions. “It can just be horrendous conditions out there and the riders have no say on the conditions in which they race,” Duggan says. “If cyclists had a voice, when it was 34 degrees and raining, and we have multiple climbs and descents to do, we can say ‘No, this is ridiculous, we’re not racing in these conditions.’” At the starting line for one stage race, it was snowing, he recalls, and there was talk of “Are we racing? This is impossible.” But there was no plan. The gun went off, and the riders made a lap on the street and then stopped. That’s the only time in a career that dates back to college he can remember a race stage being canceled because of weather. “If it were all laid out, OK, we don’t hold bike races if there’s precipitation and it’s less than 40 degrees, then it’s not anybody’s decision on the day of the race, that’s just policy,” Duggan says. “That’s just having a basic need met, which is safety, and that’s not being met a lot of times at the expense of riders, just so that the race can go on or the organizers can create a spectacle or something. And yeah, of course, the racing in that kind of weather and those extreme conditions and the crashes, it’s certainly great TV, but you know, for the same reason that gladiators in Roman times was great for spectators, but it didn’t work out well for very many gladiators.” Duggan, now a realtor for Re/Max, is also the co-founder of the Just Go Harder Foundation, which works to cover fees to competitive cycling and skiing programs for kids with an interest in those sports. “Cycling and skiing are both really expensive sports, and if you could never get that door open in the first place, you wouldn’t know just how much you like it and how much it means to you,” Duggan says. He’s turning to cycling itself to help pay for some of those barriers to entry. Just Go Harder Foundation is in intial planning stages a multi-day bike race, proposed for the Nederland area for next fall, that could include a gravel grinder and an endurance or 100-mile mountain biking event to fundraise for that youngest generation. “It’s a great time to be a young cyclist going out to race right now,” Duggan says. “I think the public should trust us and believe in us.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ow big is the project that Boulder’s Office hegemony. But what Chasansky and company are of Arts and Cultural Services is about to gunning for isn’t a few more statues or concerts in the launch? park. There is a growing belief in the city-planning “There’s going to be people who are class that just as businesses need roads and sewer systelling their kids about when they were tems to do business, they also need business districts, kids contributing to this plan,” says Matt Chasansky, physical spaces and cultural environments that appeal manager of the Office of Arts and Cultural Services to consumers and to new entrepreneurs looking to with the City of Boulder. locate their startups. And that just like it is the role of He’s not exaggerating the timeline. This week, government to ensure there is physical infrastructure Chasansky and company will begin a nine-year effort to create the conditions for economic success, it can to remake Boulder as a magnet for the creative class: also be the role of government to create the conditions the city’s Creative Cultural Plan. for culture and the arts to thrive, thereby increasing “We’re going to ask the community what their economic vitality on the whole. Though, Chasansky vision for culture is over a nine- Courtesy of Peter Kageyama says, sometimes it is stuff best year horizon,” says Chasansky. left to the market. “So what does Boulder culture “Nashville did this little look like in 2023, and then how thing of letting people sell does the city provide programs food directly onto the street,” and tools to meet that?” says Chasansky, of another The city will begin by surcity’s cultural plan. “And I’m veying the public about arts and not saying that’s right for culture with a series of public Boulder, but that was just a little policy change that didn’t discussions and web-surveys at cost a thing. But what hapwww.BoulderArts.org and pened is that people start to www.InspireBoulder.com gather and the streets become through the end of the year, full of activity. And that comthen hit the books to do pliments the buskers.” research on the issues raised Peter Kageyama, author of For the Love of And the buskers make through March of 2015, and it Cities, will speak in Boulder to kick off the Community Cultural Plan. will then begin testing and prepeople more interested in senting ideas in the second shopping on that street, which quarter of next year. generates more revenue for If all this talk of public policy proposals for comthose businesses, who can hire more people, and so on munity art programs sounds as abstract as a public and so on and so on as the theory goes. mural by Jackson Pollock, that’s because it is. And it The goal of the Community Cultural Plan is to isn’t just that the plan doesn’t yet exist — just a plan identify as many of those policy shifts as possible, and to make and execute some sort of plan — it’s that the implement them along with whatever government strategies, tactics and even the end-goals of a commu- programs are required, anything from public facilities nity cultural plan are not always clearly tangible or to rezoning to grant programs to installations. universally accepted as valuable, especially not in a city “We’re hoping to get a series of strategies and like Boulder (which many would argue has plenty of make it be very pointed,” says Chasansky. “Things culture already) and in a state like Colorado (which that are achievable, but also visionary. And we’re also often feels the government that governs best is that trying to set it up in a way that it’s iterative, so that which governs least). Public art is a popular target for that there’s three-year benchmarks and one-year groups opposed to “wasteful spending,” and governworkplans. We don’t want this thing to get shelved. ment attempts to influence or foster culture are often We don’t want it to get watered down. It needs to be painted as indoctrination, control or just plain old focused and achievable.” Boulder Weekly

The first step in the nine-year process will be a series of public launch events on Monday, Aug. 25 and Tuesday, Aug. 26, that will have heavy focus on explaining the concept and value of a cultural plan, as well as extending the tentacles for the initial public input phase, a thorny process in its own rite. Even more so considering the class disparities that often go hand in hand with government engagement. “When we say we’re going to put this out to the community, it doesn’t mean that we’re going to go over to Salt and have a community forum and call it a day,” says Chasansky. “It’s definitely strategic. So we’re looking at what are the diverse populations here. How are they represented? How do we overcorrect for certain aspects of the population that don’t participate in these conversations? And then what’s the spread over nine years, how do we anticipate Boulder changing over that time? What are the challenges to that? What are the people who are going to be most effective communicating that? And while there’s a certain sort of vocal and prominent demographic that we want to engage with for sure, I think every one of them would agree, there’s a future for Boulder that lies outside of that, and that it can’t just be the same forever.” Chasansky says that the Office of Arts and Cultural Services is planning to seek out people where they are, including online, presentations in churches, HOA clubhouses and on the streets, as well as Spanish language programming, and traditional Town Hall-style events, all of which will lead up to “The Festival of Ideas,” a big-tent event that will happen in mid-October. “Let’s make sure that when we say we’re going to cover the community, let’s not let that be lip-service,” says Chasansky. A major feature of the launch event will be a presentation from Peter Kageyama, author of For the Love of Cities, which has become something of the new bible of city planning. He will speak and then be interviewed onstage by Colorado Public Radio’s Chloe Veltman in the Canyon Theater at the downtown library Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. “I talk about emotional engagement with places, why it’s a good thing for more people to fall in love see CULTURE PLAN Page 26

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with where they live,” says Kageyama. “Arts and culture plays a really critical role with that emotional engagement with places. Arts and culture are what make a city fall in love with itself.” It might sound a bit fluffy, but that emotional resonance was something that was given a lot of weight in the Knight: Soul of the Community Survey, which Chasansky cites as a major influence in Boulder’s current efforts. “What they found was the higher level of attachment in the city, the more resilient the economy,” he says. “And Boulder was one of those places they studied, and they said the reason Boulder survived the recession so well compared to other communities was because of this economic resiliency, the main driver of er u ld that economic resilBo , oe iency is the fact that people are so attached to Boulder.” “The study provides empirical evidence that the drivers that create emotional bonds between people and their community are consistent in virtually every city and can be reduced to just a few categories,” reads the introduction. “Interestingly, the usual suspects — jobs, the economy, and safety — are not among the top drivers. Rather, people consistently give higher ratings for elements that relate directly to their daily quality of life: an area’s physical beauty, opportunities for socializing, and a community’s openness to all people. Remarkably, the study also showed that the communities with the highest levels of attachment had the highest rates of gross domestic product growth. Discoveries like these open numerous possibilities for leaders from all sectors to inform their decisions and policies with concrete data about what generates community and economic benefits.” But the Knight study states clearly that it is not prescriptive; it just provides data to show what counts. That’s where Kageyama comes in. “What I’m going to try to to do is try to show people a few different approaches to engagement, maybe a different way of thinking about it,” says Kageyama. “Most people think that city building is something that someone else does. What I do is try to change that perspective so that people realize there’s

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more involved in making more lovable cities.” Some of Kageyama’s favorite examples are already big in Boulder, things like increasing the amount of areas for bikes and dogs, things that get people out and associating with their community. But others are still lagging a bit, like public art, which — while acknowledging the skill required to make the Pearl Street Mall’s bronze collection — can be a bit dry. He offered up the example of Candy Change, a New Orleans artist that took a series of blackboards destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, and stuck them on the side of a building with the words “Before I die,” on them as prompt for people to write down their bucket list, something he says isn’t exactly what most people think of when they think of public art, largely because it has a different sort of outcome. “It’s not high concept public art, but it’s highly engaging public art,” he says. “It spurs dialog and is the kind of thing that brings communities together, as opposed to beautiful public pieces that just sit on a pedestal.” That sort of example is hardly revolutionary, and has even made appearances in Boulder before, like the mural at 13th and Arapahoe that asks “Who inspires you?” But Kageyama cautions communities not to rest on their laurels. “The people and the city have a good relationship, but sometimes we can end up taking relationships for granted,” he says. Some of Kageyama’s all-purpose strategies are to increase opportunities to people-watch, realize that fun is a legitimate objective and for cities and designers to constantly be asking themselves “where’s the fun?” and to embrace the temporary, pop-up stuff that only lasts a summer or a weekend. “Those kinds of projects are cheaper, experimental,” he says. “Embracing temporary allows us to find that fun thing.” Anyone who attended Washington D.C.’s Alley of Doom art exhibit, in which they were offered a fedora and a chance to flee a giant inflatable boulder rolling at them like in the start of the Indiana Jones film, or “Oh Heck Yeah,” which turned a Denver street into an

interactive building-sized video game, is likely to agree that temporary is where you find the fun. But one of the challenges Boulder faces when creating a Community Cultural Plan is that in many ways it knows all of the above, and is filled with an educated populace that wouldn’t dare dispute the value of the arts, even those in public places. Boulder’s challenges to fostering a creative class may be less abstract. As former New York City mayoral candidate Jimmy McMillan famously said in his campaign: “the rent is too damn high.” A nationwide study published by the The Washington Post of housing prices found that Boulder County is the 94th most expensive in the nation, and that the wage required to afford a onebedroom apartment here is $18.31, more than double Colorado’s minimum wage of $8 an hour. For comparison, the same study found that Seattle, where minimum wage was just hiked to $15 an hour to compensate for the high cost of living, ranked lower than Boulder County with a required hourly wage of $17.56 to afford a one-bedroom apartment. And that disparity is only getting worse. Data released from Boulder Housing Partners as part of a City Council study session packet on Aug. 12, shows that if left to the market, Boulder is on track to have absolutely no housing that is considered affordable by 2021, two years before the Community Cultural Plan is even complete. And for the young and hungry, those most often in the business of creating the culture the city is seeking to cultivate, even “affordable housing” (typically defined as requiring less than 30 percent of overall income) can be a struggle. Cities or neighborhoods known for their bohemian creative upswells are also often those that are dirt-cheap to live in. That makes the housing issue a serious challenge indeed. Talking Heads frontman and noted visual artist David Byrne got to the heart of the issue in an op-ed he wrote for Creative Time Reports in October 2013 about how he moved to New York City in the 1970s because while it might not have been a comfortable living, it was an affordable one, and now rampant inequality driven by the financial sector is squeezing the creative class out, something which is making him consider moving away. “Middle-class people can barely afford to live here anymore, so forget about emerging artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers, journalists and small business people. Bit by bit, the resources that keep the city vibrant are being eliminated,” he wrote. “If Boulder Weekly

young, emerging talent of all types can’t find a foothold in this city, then it will be a city closer to Hong Kong or Abu Dhabi than to the rich fertile place it has historically been. Those places might have museums, but they don’t have culture.” Patti Smith, another icon of New York City culture, one that was also attracted there by the cheap rents, put it even more bluntly in a staged conversation with writer Jonathan Letham in 2010. She was asked if young artists could still make it in the big apple and said, “New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie ... New York City has been taken away from you ... So my advice is: Find a new city.” But those creatives fleeing the high rents and close quarters in NYC, exactly the kind that a Community Cultural Plan is designed to attract, aren’t likely to choose open-space-rich Boulder when its rents are headed the same direction. “Affordable housing and affordable studio space for all arts disciplines is a big deal,” says Chasansky. “It’s bigger than my office. It needs to be taken on by economic development and different agencies. But the community has already expressed that there’s not affordable places to open a studio or even perform. There’s not a lot of affordable places to rent a hall and do a performance. So that’s going to be an important part of it, but it’s wrapped up in the cultural facilities aspect of [the plan].” To Boulder’s credit, it is an issue that is on the City Council’s radar, with recent study sessions addressing affordable housing and a potential increase in the minimum wage. Cost of living is a challenge Denver is also facing in the implementation of its Imagine 2020 cultural development plan, which is currently in its first year. “One of the major goals of the cultural plan is we need to not only nurture our talent, but we need to keep people here. We want creative people to understand that they don’t need to go to Chicago or New York or San Francisco or Los Angeles to have a career in the arts,” says Dan Rowland, assistant director of marketing and communications at the City and County of Denver Arts and Venues. “Giving them infrastructure helps. Giving them places to live and work. It opens new markets.” That’s why a big part of Denver’s plan is a series of live/work spaces in the Riverfront North district. “It’s great if you have all these creative people making stuff, but if you don’t have a way for them to make money off it, it’s not going to last,” he Boulder Weekly

Affordable housing in Boulder, seen by many as necessary to a thriving arts scene, could be all but gone by 2021, according to research by Boulder Housing Partners.

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sound have impacted the venue’s ability to function. “We can’t go as late. We can’t advertise as much. I feel like I can’t even focus on the acts as much because I’m worried about whether the cops will come,” he says. “It’s just being more cautious, which in general means curbing fun.” Doing fewer events out of concerns about noise has also made it more difficult to make rent. But Dietrich doesn’t blame the city for that, or the police even. He knows they have to come when they’re called. He puts the onus on people who live in the area, knowing full well that they moved into an industrial district, but then making a stink about it. In an entertainment district like the Hill, noise might be more accepted, but besides their even more outrageous rents, Boulder has taken a series of steps in recent years to limit those districts as well, including forcing many bars to shut down at 11 p.m. “If you don’t just look at it as silence as the norm, and noise being a violation of that, but as the clash of two competing lifestyles, then you can see that one is always winning because it can call the police on the other,” he says. City regulations are specific to “amplified sound,” meaning that to some degree, noise regulations exclusively target electric music, which can be read as a form of censorship. Dietrich says that he has joked about staging a performance art piece using power tools, since they aren’t technically “amplified sound.” But actually pushing through with that sort of prank also risks shutting down the venue, something no one wants. The noise issue might be solved by moving to a more expensive location in a different part of town, but Dietrich says those locations aren’t on transit lines, and without accessibility, the ability to make noise doesn’t really matter. “Not everyone has a car and the buses stop running at 11:45,” he says. “It’s not very conducive to setting up a nightlife if you can’t get anywhere in town after 11:45.” Dietrich says that if the city is serious about its plan, then it needs to take steps to ensure not just that there are affordable places to create venues, but that they are accessible, and that they are given the legal lattitude to create whatever their form of culture is without the constant threat of being closed for doing so. Another thing he thinks would be helpful is if the city eased the costs and restrictions with getting a catering permit or temporary liquor license so that there could be more legal pop-up venues. “Liquor makes money,” he says. Boulder Weekly

“And in a place that is expensive, you need something that makes money.” Unfortunately, Boulder’s alcohol regulatory agency is openly hostile to the sorts of businesses that cater to the young, and outsiders, and the loud — the creatives. That closed-off nature in terms of process is a big part of why Dietrich is a bit skeptical of the city’s plans. “There’s a lot of kids who are 17 or 18, who are weird in Boulder, who are into weird experimental shit, not afraid — but they feel estranged,” he says. “They feel like there’s not a place for them. And I can’t imagine Boulder wanting to tell people who complain about them, ‘Too bad.’” As the Knight study put it: “For attachment to continue to grow and for people to want to come and stay in Boulder, all residents must feel welcomed there.” “I don’t want to be cynical about it, but I can’t imagine the city having this planning process and having anyone that’s an interesting creative person A., knowing, or B. Giving a shit,” he says. But Chasansky is used to naysaying. It’s part and parcel when working in both art and government. “There’s a conversation around the role that public art plays,” he says. “That’s not always one that has an immediate answer. And it’s something that’s a bit more emotionally charged. Those are things we’re going to have work through and make sure the outcomes are real assets.” And to get there, Chasansky says, they are looking at the broadest possible umbrella, taking as much interest in demographics as culture. “Not only are we including the sort of subgroups of what a Boulder resident might mean, but we’re also looking at what is our tourist population,” he says. “We want this to be an amazing place for people to live and visit. We want this to be a place where people can sustain a business. Where people can transition from CU to entrepreneurs to a long-term resident, or come in for a few years and do something amazing. It is as broad as possible.” And though the fact that it may play out over the course of nine years may make some of it hard to track, Chasansky says, that will make it no less robust. Some of the scheduling details are still being rolled out, with online surveys expected in October and a rolling series of events. But Chasansky says that people can stay up to date at www. BoulderArts.org, or by signing up for the newsletter at that site. And it all starts with Kagayama’s presentation on Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 7 p.m. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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edFest is set to launch for the 16th year in a row this weekend with new acts, good beer and old mountain hospitality. The music and arts festival is known for its relaxed atmosphere, says NedFest organizer Kristen McFarland, and is entertaining for both kids and adults. “It’s very chill, we’re very kid friendly,” says McFarland. “Kids are free 12 and under. There’s a special kid’s tent with kid’s activities and on Sunday morning there’s a new special kid’s show.” McFarland added that there are “lots of young families, kind of hippie kid families” and that everyone is “very, Robert Randolph and the Family Band will headline Saturday night’s lineup at NedFest very laid back.” this weekend. Doors open Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the fairgrounds in Nederland. Saturday and Sunday festivities begin at 11:30 In between sets, smaller acoustic designated for nearby Chipeta Park, a.m. acts will take the stage for “tweener” space is limited and both RVs and trailMcFarland says the appeal of sets to keep the crunch going. ers are allowed. Camping is allowed NedFest is that festival-goers are able There will also be late night perfor- Friday and Saturday night and you to see live acts in a unique setting. mances down the road at the Black must buy a pass for both nights even if “It’s kind of an intimate festival in Forest Restaurant from 10:30 p.m. to 1 you intend only to stay one night. that you’re never more than a couple a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Grant The festival is also “zero waste,” hundred feet from the stage,” Farm plays on Friday and Galaxy Agent meaning there will be recycling and McFarland says, adding that many of plays Saturday. compost stations through the fairthe acts are “fan favorites.” Acts vary Three local breweries — Left Hand grounds and attendees are asked to bring from bluegrass to jam Brewing Company, any trash they accumulate over their band rock to jazz. Very Nice Brewing time at NedFest back home for disposal. ON THE BILL: Friday, Aug. The festival starts Company and “We’ve had recycling and compost22: Jeff Austin Band, 8 p.m. with Bill Nershi’s (of Boulder Beer — as ing for maybe half the years [NedFest Saturday, Aug. 23: Kyle the String Cheese well as Boulder’s has occurred] and we just keep working Hollingsworth Band, 6 p.m.; Robert Randolph and the Incident) Blue Planet Redstone Meadery toward getting more and more people Family Band, 8 p.m. Sunday, featuring fellow are sponsoring the really aware,” says McFarland. Aug. 24: Drew Emmitt Band, Cheeser Keith Moseley event and their brews “Unfortunately, even people that con4 p.m.; New Orleans Suspects, 7 p.m. and several other musiwill be available sider themselves environmentalists will cians. They’re followed throughout the festibe brain-dead and will put a recycling by the Jeff Austin val. thing in the garbage, so we have a Band, headed by the former mandolinArtist booths will be set up whole recycling team that corrects peoist and singer of the Yonder Mountain throughout the festival grounds with ple — not to their face, but they go in String Band. work from local painters, sculptors, jew- and sort everything.” Making their first appearance at the elry makers and more. McFarland says tickets, which start festival is Robert Randolph and the Attendees are allowed to camp at $50 for a one-day pass and go up to Family Band, who will headline overnight at the festival, though $135 for a three-day pass, are still availSaturday night’s lineup. On Sunday, McFarland says many people who enjoy able. Camping tickets are $30 for guitarists Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett the festival are locals Nederlanders. Friday and Saturday night combined. of the band Little Feat will join “New “We have a lot of people from right “NedFest is never sold out but it Orleans Funk” band the New Orleans in the native area,” says McFarland. does come close,” McFarland says. Suspects to close out the festival. “Really a very small percentage of the It’s important to note that NedFest “[We looked for] somebody that crowd, maybe 10 percent, camps. We is closed to dogs, so leave lil’ Namaste would fit for our crowd and that we have people from out of state but I at home if you plan to attend. could afford,” says McFarland. “I want- would say it’s mostly a Colorado For more information on NedFest or ed to get Little Feat but couldn’t get crowd.” to buy tickets, visit www.nedfest.org. ‘em all so I got part of them.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com If you do choose to camp, which is Boulder Weekly

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But before the big finale, there will clubs, membership is down but not be songs from the individual groups, as out. well as barbershop’s equivalent of a “We have more members now than suicide improv. we had in the ’40s and the ’50s, but we “We have a pickup quardon’t have as many members as we had Timberliners isn’t sure Courtesy of the Boulder Timberliners tet contest,” he says. “You go in the ’70s and ’80s,” he says. who the longest-runand sign up and tell ’em your He says as an art form, barbershop ning participant in the part, and then they draw is struggling a bit, but its raw simpliciBarbershop Harmony cards and you randomly wind ty, as well as its multi-continental presFestival at Chautauqua ence, means it is likely to endure. up in a quartet. You have 20 is. His pitch for peominutes to “I couldn’t say. The ple to give it a shot? sneak off average age is pretty “People say, ‘Well, uh, and pracON THE BILL: Barbershop high. Memory is the I sing in the shower.’ tice someHarmony Festival 6 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 24 first thing to go,” he I say, ‘I started out where.” Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 says. “Or the second. I there too. It’s safe. Yikes. Baseline Road, Boulder $10-$15, tickets and informadon’t remember the But the group that I But tion at www.harmonize.com first.” sing with now, they Barker says and www.chautauqua.com The festival is now give you voice lessons, it’s not as in its 66th year, and is they have learning fear-inducall set to say hello any tapes so you can learn ing as it The Barbershop Harmony Festival at Chautauqua is 66 years old and and all to babies, daryour part without having to read might seem to an outsider. going strong. lings and ragtime gals Besides the shared vocabulary music.’” at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Those who are appreciative but of the polecat songs, he says, Aug. 24 at Chautauqua slightly more timid can also hire membarbershop is a really good Auditorium. can’t, but in person you can. It raises bers of the Timberliners to perform way to make a group sound good in a the hair up on your arm. It’s kind of a And according to Barker, it’s one singing Valentines dressed in tuxedos hurry. nice feeling,” says Barker. helluva hello. — not red stripes. “The basic premise behind barber“Chautauqua is to barbershop what And there will be plenty of arm “The fashion changes, but the shop is it takes four average to medioCheyenne is to rodeo,” he says. “It’s hair to be raised at the Barbershop music style doesn’t,” he says. cre singers and it makes them sound the big daddy of them all.” Harmony Festival. The finale will be Or, for more immediate gratificareally good,” says Barker. “Whereas Five full choruses and eight quarseveral songs from the 250 or so partion, just go to the Barbershop individually, they’re not so good, the tets will be coming from all over Harmony Festival or its afterparty at ticipants. total is greater than the sum of the Colorado to croon something epic and The Broker. “It’s quite spectacular,” he says. “It’s parts.” celebrate the simple beauty of the “It gives the quartets a chance to a wooden auditorium. You get that Anyone looking to test his thesis is sing some of the songs they didn’t get human voice with harmonized stanmany people up on stage and you can welcome to attend open weekly meetto sing,” he says. dards, pop reboots and medleys. really rattle the rafters.” ings of the Boulder Timberliners “It’s kind of hard to explain, but And how long will the afterparty go? Barker says barbershop groups can Tuesdays at 7 p.m., at the Mount Zion when you got four guys that are pretty “We’ll sing until all the quartets pull together a giant presentation like Lutheran Church at Balsam and equally matched, when you sing a disappear,” he says, offering the barthat because there’s a short catalog of Broadway, where they run vocal exerchord that’s nice and equally balanced, “polecat songs,” every barbershop sing- cises, sing polecat songs and generally bershop equivalent of it being on until the frequencies of the harmonies folthe break of dawn. er learns, so that when travelling they harmonize. low four squiggly paths and where they can find a chorus and join right in. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Barker says that like so many civic

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saturday sePteMBer 13

the Magic Beans saturday sEPtEmbEr 20 • dual VEnuE rootdoWn Fest

Feat dilated PeoPles & souls oF MischieF

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Developing Hand Benefit. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Brazil Night. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Chris Sheldon and Friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Cornmeal. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800

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Sunday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Pkwy, MorRotten Tomatoes rison, $55-$65. Though there isn’t technically any sort of official contest to determine the funniest man alive, but if there were, Dave Chapelle would be on the short list. His standup performances, movie roles and sketch show, Chapelle’s Show, are all comedic powerhouses, infusing the mannerisms of a genuine oddball into wholly relatable everyman sensibilities. Chapelle’s comedic verve comes less from setup and punchline jokes than it does from the cadences of his long, rolling narratives, in which he waxes philosophic daily life, cultural differences and, yes, pot. Which he’ll probably have a thing or two to say about here in Colorado.

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James and The Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Johnny Long. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Live Jazz Jam. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. see EVENTS Page 36

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DJ Hana. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

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Saturday, Aug. 23, 8:30 p.m., Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399, $12-$15. San Francisco-based Blue Sky Black Death took its name from a skydiving term referencing how beautiful everything looks before you splat into the ground. If you tone down the black death a notch, it’s a good metaphor for the band’s sound as well. BSBD starts with simple drum loops and slowly layers in keys, strings and breathy pads, for a chill, hip-hop sound as light and clear as air, but with a beat that steadily chugs onward.

Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous! Saturday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m., The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, $20-$25 The Boulder County AIDS Project is working towards a future in which HIV transmission is rare, and stigmatization is eliminated. And what better way to get there than with unmitigated fabulousness? Aug. 23 will be the ninth annual Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous! drag show to promote HIV awareness and prevention. Expect feathers, divas on tap and no shortage of Streisand-worship. All for a good cause.

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EVENTS from Page 35

Upcoming Events at eTown Hall Sat Aug 23 - Concert Series Mantis Made and The Crown Collection present:

Crystalline Frequencies with kaminanda & special guests Fri Sep 5 - Concert Series

Sphere Ensemble

Low Flying Knobs. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Monte Selbe and Larry Clyman. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. New Vintage Jam Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Nick Berry. 5 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Sherefe - Arabic Mediterranean fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Steve and Drea’s Blues. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Strange Byrds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Tapestry Revisited. 8 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. There’s Nothing ____ than LOVE: A Cabaret. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Tiffany Christopher. 7:30 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Fri Sep 12 - Concert Series Spinning Disc presents:

cloud cult with

ryan d white

and the spins

Events Expert Talk with Shark’s Ink: Enrique Chagoya. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum Local singers Jesof Contemporary Art, 1750 sica Hayoun and 13th St., Boulder, 303-443Chanel Karimkhani 2122. will perform Broadway hits to Friday, August 22 prepare for a seMusic ries of showcases in Paris. Annalise Emerick. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Big ’Ol HighBiscuits. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Billy Shaddox. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Blue Canyon Boys. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Casey James Prestwood & The Burning Angels. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Sat Sep 20 - Seminar

The CBDs. 7 p.m. Kathmandu Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-442-7771.

Spiritual Women Leaders Equinox Talks 2014:

Dan Hubbard & The Humadors. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

edgewalkers

Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Wed Oct 1 - Seminar

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

FearLess Revolution presents: At the Epicenter's 2nd Annual Women Leading Green

Fri Oct 3 - Concert Series Mantis Made presents:

RAndom Rab & lux moderna eTown Hall - 1535 Spruce St Boulder Most shows start - 6pm doors / 7pm show

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Fredi & The Soul Shakers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

arts Courtesy of Firehouse Arts Center

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

Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Sept. 14. Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel Sprick. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 2.

The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Aug. 31.

Summer in 3D — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 21. Tierra, Cosecha y Arte — Various artists. Firehouse Arts Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787. Through Aug. 31.

Tierra, Cosecha y Arte will be on display at The Firehouse Art Center through Aug. 31.

Beyond Pop Art — Tom W, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Sept. 14. Raw Emotion — Kari Knapp.Muse Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 14. The 21st Century Madonna — by Various Artists. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Fall. Still Memories — by David Brackett. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Fall. Elegant Simplicity — by Michael Gabridge. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Fall. Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through January 25, 2015. At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. The Fresh A.I.R. Series — Various artists. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Sep. 20.

of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Johnny Long. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Mondegreens. 4 p.m. Trident Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder.

Gora Gora Orkestra. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

On The Rocks. 3 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4427771.

Highway 50, Rogue Sound. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

The Hillbenders. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

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

Intuit. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Jeremiah and the Red Eyes. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. Joe Moss Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home

Scott Martin & Wellington Bullings. 9 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472.

Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through January 18, 2015.

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. Films and Works — by Paul Sietsema. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Oct. 12. Unbound: Altered Environments — Artists Christina Battle, Justin Beard, Christine Buchsbaum, Sonja Hinrichsen, Patrick Loehr, Loretta Young-Gautier. Theater Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Digital Creations — Artists Chris Coleman, Michael Salter, Milton Croissant III, Bryan Leister, Alex McLeod. Upper Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Five Installations — Artists Nicole Banowetz, Katie Caron, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Rian Kerrane, Laleh Mehran. Main Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Sculpture in the Fields — Various artists. Outdoor Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Sept. 30, 2015.

(Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303449-2911. William Topley. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Wonderlic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Events Boulder County Sunset Hike. 6:30 p.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, Boulder. Festival on Main. 6 p.m. Main St., Longmont, 303651-8484. Nedfest 2014. 11:30 p.m. Jeff Guercio Memorial Baseball Park, Boulder Canyon Drive and East Street, Nederland. (see Overtones)

Saturday, August 23 Music

Seth Phillips. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Suite C, Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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

Tyler T. Thompson. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company

Americana Highway. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

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Andy Hackbarth - Boulder Craft Beer Festival. 12:30 p.m. Central Park Boulder, 13th Street, Boulder. Andy Sydow. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. The Bear on Guitar. 6 p.m. ClubNed, 154 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981. Blue Krewe. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. Chicha. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Dr. Doctor. 7:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Dreamboat Annie. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Eef Guitar — with Blues Express. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Felonius Smith Trio. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Fish Out of Water. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Funkiphino. 7 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Hawkeye Herman And Friends. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Hillbenders - Boulder Craft Beer Festival. 3 p.m. Central Park Boulder, 13th Street, Boulder. The Hippie Buckaroos. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Hog Magundy. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Jack Hadley Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Jim Herlihy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. John Wesley Satterfield. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Jon Weiss. 8 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

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Tuesday, August 26

Green Fuse Poetic Arts Ensemble Reading. 7-8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub Meeting — The Silver Star. 7 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

In the Kingdom of Ice — by Hampton Sides. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050.

The University of Denver: a History — by Steve Fisher. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver. 303-436-1070.

The Streets of San Francisco — by Chritopher Agee. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Active Minds Lecture: World War II: D-Day. 5 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Friday, August 22 The 6th Extinction — by James Rollins. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050.

Daniel Levitin will read from his book The Organized Mind at the Boulder Bookstore on Monday, Aug. 25.

Teeny’s Tour of Pie — by Teeny Lamothe. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Saturday, August 23 Dominique Townsend. 3-4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, August 25 Cross Worlds — by Anne Waldman. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. The Organized Mind — by Daniel Levitin. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

The Great Glass Sea, and In the Course of Human Events — by Josh Weil and Mike Harvkey. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Escape to Anywhere Else— by Robert Rippberger. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7-8:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, August 27

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LafayEPIC Festival. 5 p.m. Centaurus High School, 10300 S. Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-561-7500. Liebermonster. 9 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Lightly Toasted. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Marcus Lucas Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Meryl Romer Jazz Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

It’s a Girl Thing: Mother-Daughter Bookclub. 3 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

The Blue Ribbon Healers. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-4852482.

Living in Lion and Bear Country. 9 a.m. Hall Ranch Open Space, Lyons.

Bluegrass Explosion: Blackberry Bushes. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-5460886.

Nedfest 2014. 11:30 p.m. Jeff Guercio Memorial Baseball Park, Boulder Canyon Drive and East Street, Nederland.

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

Spice, Casks, and Song. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303-4492911.

The Prairie Scholars: Dinner Music. 6 p.m. Fresh Thymes Eatery, 2500 30th St. #101, Boulder, 303-9557988.

Stained Glass Mosaic Flower Workshop. 10 a.m. Kasia Mosaics Art Studio, 6231 Fourmile Canyon Drive, Boulder, 347-579-3351.

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

Venus de Miles. 6 a.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467.

Rocktin Grove. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

WOW - Women of Wisdom. 2:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Scott Hall. 7 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130. Shameless GetDown. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Sisters of Rock. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Whiskey Autumn. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Events BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder Craft Beer Festival. 12 p.m. Municipal Campus Park, 1050 Canyon Blvd., Boulder. (see Beer Tour) Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303. Dancing with Dahlias. 7 a.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.

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Sunday, August 24 Music 65th Annual Barbershop Harmony Festival. 6 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-952-1645. (see Arts & Culture) Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Br’er Fox’s One Man Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Brian Parton. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Honeytree. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Johnny Long. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Kristen Ford. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mayhem Gulch. 4 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Singer/Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Singer/Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Antonio A. Lopez. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

There’s Nothing ______ than LOVE: A Cabaret. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ash Ganley. 2 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

THUNK Acoustic Duo. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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

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

Blue Ribbon Healers. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Sleeping Beauty. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Sept. 6. Boulder International Fringe Festival: Five 5ths of The Wizard of Oz: A Fringe Benefit!. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St.,

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Events Choral Compline service. 9 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

Dancing with Dahlias. 7 a.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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The Odd Couple. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-9317241. Through Aug. 24.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 800838-3006. Through Sept. 7. Return to Shangri-La. Bug Theatre, 3564 Navajo St., Denver, 303-477-5977. Aug. 23 only.

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Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Monday Night Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Open Jovie. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. ProspeCourt Eats: Brian Newman Band. 5:30 p.m. ProspeCourt Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont. Salem. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Tuesday, August 26 Music Bands on the Bricks. 8 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Blake Aaron Russell. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

The Prairie Scholars: Dinner Music. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Soul Explosion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Events BWA August Social & Networking Event. 5:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. “For the Love of Boulder” Town Hall with Peter Kageyama. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Search Engine Optimization Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Wednesday, August 27 Music Billy From Philly. 5 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. The Lysergian Sound Diplomats. 10 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176. Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Peregrine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Sing Yourself Happy $5 Taster Class. 6:30 p.m. Nevei Kodesh classrooms, 1925 Glenwood Drive, Boulder, 720-975-4514.

Boulder Timberliners Barbershop Chorus. 7 p.m. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1680 Balsam Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4151.

Summer Social at Flatirons Terrace. 4 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th St., Boulder, 303-939-0898.

Faculty Tuesday: Paul McKee. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder. Feed Me (With Teeth). 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Events Open Studio - All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Palmer Park Run. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th Street and Pearl Street, Boulder, 800-8076179.

Live Jazz Music Duos on the Patio. 6 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164.

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ll it took was Lance he passed would give him the Armstrong and a strength to push past his own very successful “Bike physical agony. It quickly to Work” campaign became his trademark. and cycling became Pantani’s ability to overmore popular than ever. come physical agony not only Especially in Boulder where the worked in his favor during cycling community is posiraces, but also served him tioned to overthrow every last during his greatest challenge: automobile on Broadway. On a horrific head-on collision in Sunday, August 24, Stage 7 of the 1995 Milano-Torino race. the USA Pro Cycling The police had failed to shut Challenge will own the streets down the roads properly and of downtown Boulder, and the Pantani rode full-tilt into a Dairy Center is here to prepare car while descending. The you with a documentary on the crash left his body broken fast life and tragic end of famed and bruised and shortened one of his legs permanently. Italian cyclist, Marco Pantani: Pantani promised to return, Pantani: The Accidental Death of and he did, one year later. He a Cyclist, which will play placed third at the ’97 Tour August 20 to 23. Michael Pantani died just years after achieving Despite the fact that de France and in 1998 he unprecedented feats as a cyclist. won the Giro d’Italia and the Pantani perpetually looked like Tour of France, a feat no one has accomplished a scrawny 40-year-old who went bald over a decade since, and something Lance Armstrong never ago, he was one of the strongest riders there ever was. attempted. He could go from last to first in a matter of 200 However, as the title alludes, Pantani’s life did not meters, beat everyone on the climb, risk everything on end on a high note. the descent and end up smiling at the finish line. A “Today, I don’t associate cycling with winning,” Seabiscuit-like rider, Pantani preferred the back so that as he attacked, the suffering in the faces of those Pantani said in an archived interview. “I associate it

with terrible, terrible things that have happened to me and people close to me.” In 1999, while Pantani was leading the Giro d’Italia, he tested positive for blood doping and was ejected. Pantani pleaded his innocence, but the black mark never washed out. On February 14, 2004, Marco Pantani was found dead of acute cocaine poisoning. He was 34. Director James Erskine constructed his documentary primarily from interviews with family, friends, trainers and competitors and supports these stories with archival footage. Erskine also attempts to compliment Pantani with a fair amount of additional photography and staged re-enactments, an effort to add visual stimulation to the stories being told that doesn’t quite work. The abstract images of tires, gears, roads and terrain add a nice touch, but the dramatized moments of Pantani’s life are overly melodramatic and unnecessary. Pantani works best when it keeps its focus on Pantani, but — as one might expect — the second half of Pantani gives way to the constant issues of drug use and doping that permeate cycling. Pantani also invokes the dark cloud of conspiracy that may be there, or may have been fueled by Pantani’s paranoid cocaine binges. One thing is certain, when Pantani had to drop out of the 2000 Tour de France due to stomach cramps, he handed over the yellow jersey, and the mantel of the sport, to Lance Armstrong, and we all know how that story played out. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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At first this film seems to be a comedy about a red-haired man trying to find love, but through revealing moments, whimsical animation and real interviews, a universal story arises. Through captivating storytelling, we journey with the filmmaker as he lets the viewer into his thoughts, experiences, and internal processing of how his red hair has defined him. Finding oneself through finding love and being able to accept it can be experienced by all. While the film’s title highlights red hair, it is about much, much more. Everyone should watch this film and reflect on what makes them ‘ginger’ in their own life. And, of course, give a ginger some love. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

The small harbor of Tickle Cove is in dire need of a doctor so that the town can land a contract to secure a factory which will save the town from financial ruin. Village resident Murray French (Brendan Gleeson) leads the search, and when he finds Dr. Paul Lewis (Taylor Kitsch) he employs — along with the whole town — tactics to seduce the doctor to stay permanently. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

CARMEN: TEATRO REAL BALLET Antonio Gades choreographed this stage version of the flamenco ballet of Carmen while working on the Carlos Saura film in 1983. This recent production features Vanesa Vento and Angel Gil. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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HISTORY ON SCREEN: G. BROWN, BEATLES AT RED ROCKS, AND A HARD DAY’S NIGHT G. Brown, musicologist and author of Forty Years of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, will discuss the Beatles’ appearance at Red Rocks in August of 1964, followed by a screening of their first film, A Hard Day’s Night. The Beatles play themselves in this tongue-in-cheek fantasy of a day-in-the-life of the band. Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the birth of the rock movie. At Boedecker on Sunday, Aug. 24. — Boedecker Theater

Ivan Locke has worked diligently to craft the life he has envisioned, dedicating himself to the job that he loves and the family he adores. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job and soul. All taking place over the course of one absolutely riveting car ride, this is a tense marvel of storytelling on film. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

PANTANI: THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF A CYCLIST See full review above. At Boedecker.

THE ROLLING STONES: SWEET SUMMER SUN — CONCERT IN HYDE PARK In the summer of 2013, the Stones delivered a five-star performance in their hometown that had both fans and critics singing their praises. The set packed in hit after hit and saw the band joined by former guitarist Mick Taylor for a special guest appearance on two songs. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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Receiver, which turns the current owner of that title into “The Giver” ( Jeff Bridges). As expected, the emotions and memories awaken Jonas, so he tries to bring down the whole society by going sledding with a baby. For serious, that’s the climax. I hope for the sake of the three young leads (Thwaites, Odeya Rush and Cameron Monaghan) their wretched, tone-deaf, leaden performances were a result of poor direction from Noyce. If not, they should begin rehearsing for “extra” roles on Dog with a Blog. Streep and Bridges are great, in the 10 to 15 minutes they get to spend with each other. You almost see the fire in their eyes the minute they realize they are finally standing in a room with someone else capable of “acting.” Potentially more irritating is the way the film violates its own rules with such reckless abandon. Nobody can feel anything, until the plot needs them to. Nobody can remember anything, until it makes for a nice dramatic exchange of dialogue. It would be positively maddening if the movie were worth caring about in any way, shape and or form. The Giver is blasé filmmaking at its finest. The underlying promise of the original work isn’t shat upon, it’s just ignored. This could have been an actual “young adult” film, letting preteens know that the conflicting waves of emotion they’re about to receive are worth it. Instead, it’s a movie where a holographic cameo by Taylor Swift isn’t the worst part. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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ome things I’ll never fully understand, like string theory, the jokes in Lolita or why people pay Michael Bay to make movies. Sitting just below advanced calculus, and just above pickles on that list, is why otherwise nice restaurants insist on installing ambiance-sucking big-screen TVs on their walls. Sports bars make sense — watching the game there is kind of the point — but when the menu is not exclusively fried, the wine list contains titles beyond “red” and “white” and the tables are covered with cloths instead of carved inscriptions detailing where to find a good time, it is hard to understand why the TVs were included in the design, as those are the sorts of restaurants people go to with the intention of paying attention to one another, instead of having it absorbed by a plasma screen. It was a line of thought that was hard to ignore at Carelli’s, a generally pleasant sit-down on the corner of 30th and Baseline in Boulder, where the ambiance included a jazz band playing in the corner, soft lights rotating colors above the bar and a faceful of the Little League World Series making error after error after error. But you know, classy.

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Dear Dan: I’m a twentysomething genetic male. I thought for a while that I might be trans, but I ended up deciding that while I hate my masculine features and like girl clothes and want to be “cute,” I have no desire to be female and don’t want to have breasts or a vagina. I also don’t identify with a particular sexual orientation, as I don’t find the concept useful. I’ve been with both boys and girls, and currently I’m with a trans girl. I’ve never been a fan of real-people pornography, but recently I’ve found myself indulging in trans-girl porn. Is it insensitive to have a predilection for trans girls? My girlfriend wants to get sex-reassignment surgery (SRS) in the future, and while I support her wholeheartedly and have never said anything to indicate otherwise, I think she knows that I’m happy with her current set of equipment and I don’t have any desire for her to go through with SRS. I believe she resents me for this. But this isn’t a relationship question. My question is more of a catchall: Is it insensitive, as a rule, to be attracted to trans (or intersex) girls? I like to think of myself as sexually progressive, and I don’t want to objectify or disrespect anybody. I just think trans girls are real cuties. Unavoidable Gender Hullabaloo Dear UGH: “Having a sexual preference — whether it’s liking guys with red hair, tall women, sports fans, blue-eyed agender individuals, men with vaginas, or women with penises — is fine,” said Parker Marie Molloy, a freelance writer and trans media activist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Advocate and on Slate. “So long as the preference is not the sole reason for the attraction, so long as UGH remembers that trans people are actually human beings with a diverse range of emotions, interests, and experiences, and aren’t solely defined by their transness, UGH should be able to avoid coming off as creepy.” Building on Molloy’s point: If the only thing you like about your current girlfriend is the fact that she’s trans, you’re probably guilty of objectifying her. But if her trans-girl cuteness is one of the things you find attractive about her — even if it’s the thing that initially drew you to her, even if it’s something you focus on during sex — you’re not objectifying. “As is the case with any sort of physical, emotional, or sexual attraction, a preference crosses over into the realm of objectification only when the person’s potential love interest is reduced to a single aspect of their life,” said Molloy. “So UGH’s preference for trans women is only insensitive and objectifying if UGH makes it insensitive and objectifying.” Molloy is right: No one wants to be Boulder Weekly

reduced to a single aspect of their life by a romantic partner or anyone else. But being objectified in short, concentrated bursts by a lover isn’t a problem for most people — quite the opposite, in fact. Being objectified by someone who doesn’t care about the rest of you? Most people don’t find that sexy. Being briefly objectified by someone who loves the particular thing/things you bring to the table/mattress/sling and the rest of you too? Most people find that fucking sexy. Finally, UGH, while I had Molloy on the line, I asked her to quickly address the issues of trans porn and SRS. “It’s no more wrong to indulge in trans porn than it is to indulge in porn starring or created by cis people,” said Molloy. “Whether UGH’s favorite trans-porn outlets are stories, pictures, or drawings — or if they’re videos of mainstream trans porn stars like Bailey Jay or independent queer-feminist performers like Chelsea Poe — UGH shouldn’t feel ashamed. As to whether his girlfriend gets SRS, that’s something that has to be up to her. Quiet resentment, guilt, and pressure to have or not have surgery should serve as signs that maybe this relationship doesn’t have much of a future. I suggest that the two of them sit down and have a long talk about genitals, preferences, and deal breakers.” Follow Parker Marie Molloy on Twitter @ParkerMolloy. Dear Dan: If a woman writes in her Craigslist hookup ad that she is a “bigger beautiful woman,” is there a polite way to press her for more specific details? How can I determine what she means by that? Or is it always inherently rude to ask a self-proclaimed BBW just how much she weighs and how big she actually is — to determine if one will be attracted to her? Befuddled Baffled Wonderer Dear BBW: If we were talking about personal ads on sites where people look for relationships — Match.com, OkCupid, Gun Lovers Passions, etc. — it would indeed be rude to ask someone precisely how big she is. In that case, I would suggest going on a low-stakes, no-expectations date instead and having a look/actual human interaction. But we’re not talking about a dating website, BBW, we’re talking NSA hookup ads on Craigslist. We’re talking about a virtual meat market. And when you’re in a meat market — literally or figuratively, physically or virtually — there’s nothing wrong with asking a polite, direct question about the meat on offer. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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An American named Kevin Shelley accomplished a feat worthy of inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. While wearing a blue satin martial arts outfit, he smashed 46 wooden toilet seats over his head in just one minute. Some observers may be inclined to dismiss his efforts as frivolous and ridiculous. But I admire how he playfully mocked his own competitiveness while fully expressing his competitiveness. He satirized his ego’s drive to be first and best even as he achieved the goal of being first and best. I recommend you try something similar. You’re entering a phase when you’ll be wise to add a bit of humility to your bold self-presentation.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

You are about to make the transition from plodding to skipping; from moping to exulting. You will no longer be bogged down by cloudy doubt, but will instead be buoyed by giddy hope. To what do we owe this imminent turnaround in your fortunes? One reason is that it’s Justifiable Narcissism Week — for Tauruses only. During this jubilee, the Free Will Astrology Council on Extreme Self-Esteem authorizes you to engage in unabashed self-worship — and to corral a host of other people who want to join in celebrating you, praising you, and helping you.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

An eagle does not catch flies. A lion won’t hunt for mice. A gourmet chef shuns recipes that call for canned soup and potato chips. And I trust that you won’t indulge a hankering for non-nutritious sweets and treats that would spoil your appetite for more robust sustenance. You understand I’m not just talking about your literal eating habits, right? Interpret this oracle metaphorically, please.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Now is an excellent time to phase out fantasies that bog you down or drag you backward. Are you up for that challenge? Can you summon the courage to leave the mediocre past behind? If so, here are your assignments: Wean yourself of longings to reconstruct bygone pleasures. Forget about trying to be like the person you used to be and to have the keys you used to have. Stop feeding the feelings that keep you affixed to obsolete goals. Break any taboo that makes you scared to change what needs to be changed.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

The artist Amedeo Modigliani lived in Paris from 1906 until his death in 1920. For most of that time, he was destitute. Proprietors of local stores and restaurants sometimes accepted his art work as payment in lieu of actual money. They didn’t necessarily appreciate it, though. One food seller used Modigliani’s drawings as wraps for the fried potatoes he sold. Another stashed the artist’s paintings in his cellar, where they turned into feasts for rodents. Too bad for these short-sighted people and their heirs: The worth of Modigliani’s works eventually increased, and some sold for millions of dollars. In the weeks ahead, Leo, don’t be like those food sellers. Know the value of what you have, even if it’s still latent.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

I’ve got three new vocabulary words for you. I need them to provide you with the proper oracle. First is the German term Schwellenangst. It refers to timidity or nervousness about crossing a threshold and heading into unknown territory. The second word is a new English term, “strikhedonia.” It means the joy that rises up when you feel the courage to say “to hell with it.” The third word is from Portuguese: desenrascanço. It means the spontaneous improvisation of haphazard but ultimately effective plans. Now let’s put them all together: To conquer your Schwellenangst, you must summon a bolt of strikhedonia and have faith in your ability to carry out desenrascanço. (Thanks to other-wordly.tumblr.com for the new words.)

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

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power that your tenderness affords you may not completely dissolve your doubt and worry, but it will quiet them down so much that they will lose their ability to paralyze you. These truths are always good to keep in mind, of course, but they are especially useful to you right now. No obstacle will faze you, no shadow will intimidate you, as long as you feed your holy longing and unshakable compassion.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

On August 2, 1830, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, was King of France for 20 minutes. (It’s a long story.) I offer this to you as a cautionary tale. A few weeks from now, I don’t want to have to be comparing you to him. If you hope to hold your new position or continue to wield your added clout for longer than just a little while, you should take all necessary steps. How? Nurture the web of support that will sustain you, for example. Don’t burn a single bridge. Cultivate real empathy, not just the showy kind. Avoid manipulative behavior, even if you think you can get away with it. Be a skillful gatherer of information.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Golda Meir was Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974. Her admirers described her as “strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people.” She had a good sense of humor, too. “Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses,” she said. “He took us 40 years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil.” I bring this up as a teaching story for you Sagittarius. If you plan to make any big moves, transitions, or journeys in the coming months, I suggest you choose destinations that will allow you to gain access to wealth-building resources.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Do you know what phase of your cycle it is? Here are a few hints. It doesn’t come around often. It’s not characterized by predictable events or boring certainties. And it may allow you, even encourage you, to take a break from being your usual self. Give up? OK. I’ll tell you. You have entered the Nicholas Cage Phase of your cycle. Cage is a Capricorn, but not a typical one. He’s eccentric and manic and certifiably batty. He refers to his acting technique as “Nouveau Shamanic,” once lived in a fake castle, and owns a Lamborghini that belonged to the legendary tyrant, the Shah of Iran. For our current purposes, he has also testified, “I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Here’s one of my goals in life, Aquarius: to show you a type of astrology that does not infringe on your free will, but rather clarifies your options. In this horoscope, for instance, I will outline your alternatives so that you will be fully informed as you determine what course of action will be most closely aligned with your high ideals. Ponder the following question, and then briskly exert your freedom of choice: Would you prefer to have love make your head spin, knock you off your feet, tickle your X-factor, kick you gently but firmly in the ass, or all of the above?

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds by using time and pressure,” says pastor Rick Warren. “He is working on you, too.” Let’s make that idea your meditation, Pisces. If the word “God” doesn’t suit you, substitute “life,” “nature” or “Wakan Tanka,” the Lakotan term for “The Great Mystery.” The essential point is that you are being worked on and shaped by forces beyond your conscious awareness. Some of them are vast and impersonal, like your culture, the media, and the entertainment industry. Others are intimate and close at hand, like your genes, your childhood imprints, and the characters you encounter daily. Now is an excellent time to contemplate all the influences that make you who you are.

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s you probably know by now, the “We don’t see human-scale rat cages as something Governor’s Office has launched a “Don’t that’s going to be seen as a positive or intelligent way Be A Lab Rat” campaign. Targeted at 12to approach young people,” explained BVSD Director to 15-year-olds, it kicked off Aug. 11 with of Communications Briggs Gamblin, adding that lots of TV coverage, as well as ads on BVSD works with a number of city, state and county YouTube and before films in movie theaters. Large groups and organizations to reduce drug abuse among human-sized cages, com- Leland Rucker its students. “We worry plete with giant plastic about some of the messagbottles to simulate laboraes and possible links to tory cages, have been schizophrenia and that placed in locations around how they are worded Denver, each with various could feed into stereomessaging about cannabis’ types, especially since that possible dangers on the is a time when peer young brain, all leading to approval is so important. the question: “Do you We do share the view that want to be a lab rat and 12- to 15-year-olds shouldn’t be using marifind out?” juana, and it’s not allowed The campaign was on school property.” created by Denver’s Sukle There aren’t any cages Advertising & Design to in Boulder yet, either, but the tune of $2 million, and that could change. Ashlee is sponsored by the City Herring, who works with and County of Denver, special events and comfunded by grants from the munications for the City State Attorney General’s of Boulder, said that the Office, the Anschutz city has been in contact Foundation and the El with the governor’s office. Pomar Foundation. Although you can find “We are in conversations the cages all around the trying to determine if it’s state, you won’t find them feasible, and if it is, what Boulder’s Shawn Coleman tries out one of the humanon Boulder Valley School sized cages placed around Denver with messages the best locations will be.” about the possible dangers of cannabis on young brains District property. BVSD The ulterior motive are part of a new campaign called “Don’t Be A Lab Rat.” Superintendent Bruce behind the campaign is Messinger announced the the belief that now that district won’t be allowing any cages to be installed on cannabis is legal, teenagers will be more likely to try it school properties over concerns about parts of the because they won’t think it’s dangerous. campaign officials feel might stigmatize some stu“From the most recent Healthy Kids Colorado dents. Survey, we know that the percentage of high school

kids who think using marijuana poses risks to their health has gone down,” Governor John Hickenlooper said in a press release, “which has raised the concern of health experts who worry the normalization of marijuana in Colorado could lead more kids to try it.” It’s the old “health experts worry” argument, despite recent statistics which indicate no real upswing in reported teen use of cannabis in states where it’s legal medically or in Colorado. According to the federal government’s own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Assessment, cannabis use by teens dropped from 24.8 percent to 22 percent between 2009 and 2011, the latest year for which figures are available. Numbers can lie, but nothing in recent research indicates an uptick in teens using cannabis. Apparently, focus groups of young people were used to help develop the strategy, in consultation with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and come up with something that won’t automatically turn off teens. That’s a tough one. “Don’t Be a Lab Rat” claims not to want to just scare kids, and this is definitely a step up from Reefer Madness or “this is your brain on drugs.” But I’m with the school district on this one. For all its sophistication, it’s still rooted in the tactics of fear. I’m all for helping steer teens away from cannabis, but I also think that teens are smarter than the “health experts” who “worry” so much about them and try to devise ways to deceive them. If I were the governor, I’d be just as worried about adults and parents who allow, directly or indirectly, teen access to pot. How about a campaign aimed at adult responsibility in helping curb teen use? You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/category/features/weedbetween-the-lines/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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