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contents DYERTIMES: Don’t trade pennies for your planet by Joel Dyer
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Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Advertising Director, Jeff Cole Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn Editorial Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Steve Weishampel Interns, Camilla Sterne, Zak Weinberg Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jim Lillie, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Adam Perry, Leland Rucker, Dan Savage, Alan Sculley, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner Sales Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, Daniel Lessner Digital Portfolio Sales Manager, Kirk Koskey Account Executives, Julian Bourke, Andrea Craven, David Hasson, Chelsea Mack Production Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Office Manager/Advertising Assistant Andrea Neville Circulation Team Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 13-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo August 22, 2013 Volume XXI, Number 3 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper. 690 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, CO, 80305 p 303.494.5511 f 303.494.2585 editorial@boulderweekly.com www.boulderweekly.com Cover photo courtesy of Linda ArroyoHolmstrom Printed on 100% recycled paper with soy-based ink. Boulder Weekly is published every Thursday. No portion may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. © 2013 Boulder Weekly, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Correction: In the Aug. 1 news story “Ban on booze,” The Rib House was incorrectly cited as the restaurant that had applied for late hours and been denied by city council. Council member Ken Wilson said only that a barbecue restaurant on the Hill had applied and been denied.
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eadlines for economic news stories tend to conflict and confuse. So let’s play [game show theme]: “Connect-TheHeadlines!” We’ll try to find meaning in three competing headlines from recent news reports. “Back-to-school revenue lousy,” grumped the first one, noting that parents were being all fussbudgety this year about purchasing clothes, backpacks
Teahouse site and Monsanto’s chemical poisoning has been great. Ditto your cultural coverage (the Family Learning Center, the Folks Festival). You’ve enriched our political life. Keep up the good work! George A. Johnson/Boulder
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and such for their kids. The August start-of-school season usually is a giant profit-generator for the likes of Walmart and Macy’s, but shoppers (damn them) have been so reluctant to buy that chains are resorting to deep discounts in a desperate effort just to get some customers in the stores. Headline number two was more upbeat: “Jobless claims at 6-year low.” It seems that fewer people are being fired these days, down by half from the dog days of the Great Recession. Still, that’s more than 300,000 workers per week having to go on the unemployment rolls. Read down below the headline, though, and reality begins to come into focus: Less firing, you see, doesn’t mean more hiring. America’s self-proclaimed “job-creators” aren’t. So the millions of unemployed workers still are. Then, the third headline brings us full circle: “Many new jobs either lowpaying or part-time.” Actually, the
deportations and broken families is despicable. Rather reminiscent of the greedy “independent contractors” in the Iraq War and the swarms who surround Washington. Humans have migrated across continents and over land bridges for thousands of years. Locking them up, breaking families, preying on the vulnerable isn’t new either. It’s just still cruel and inhuman. see LETTERS Page 8
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proper adjective is not “many,” but “most.” So far this year, 61 percent of those lucky enough to be new hires had to take low-paying jobs, and 77 percent of the new jobs provide only part-time employment. In other words, today’s corporate powers are not creating near enough jobs to meet America’s need, and the jobs they do create are piss poor, leaving people with paychecks that can’t even keep up with today’s historically low inflation. So, connecting the dots, few jobs and poor pay for America’s workaday majority equals lousy revenue for big retailers. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 22, 2013 7
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as something other than our enemy. Leftists understand some want to kill us, but believe in the discipline and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. Walking the streets of Boulder and elsewhere, some Americans said they want kill me because I’m black, but I’m not declaring war against America or groups that believe such nonsense. Then, Danish praises Snowden for “exposing the existence of a dagger pointed at the heart of American liberty.” He points out, “the United States government has transformed itself into a surveillance state, which ... will transmogrify into a totalitarian state.” And he concludes, “Snowden deserves to be recognized as a hero. Posthumously, of course.” Leftists often pursue Danish’s key to totalitarian prevention: “explicitly agree to live dangerously in the interest of living free.” But Danish uses nanny statistics, neurotic language and fear to alienate millions and glorify totalitarianism’s greatest tool — state-run murder. I think Snowden should face jail and/or other amends for the damage he’s caused. That way in the future, people are more likely to act heroically. Not posthumously, of course. Curtis Griffin/Boulder This is impossible. I tend to approve of much of what Paul Danish said Aug. 8 about Edward Snowden. It points up how difficult it may be to choose whether to be secure or free. My guess is we’re going to find out, and will be called upon to make that choice. Again. Gregory Iwan/Longmont Boulder Weekly
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here is an old political joke in my business in which a reporter who doesn’t much care for a particular candidate shouts out at a press conference, “Do you still beat your wife?” The candidate, who of course has never done such a despicable thing, quickly responds that the whole thing is a vicious lie. The next day, all the headlines read, “Candidate denies accusations of spousal abuse.” Of course, he goes on to lose the election. I suspect that this old story is wellknown over at Xcel. For months now, the company has been shouting out one accusation after another about the city’s inability to effectively run its own electric utility. And, proving that all humor is based in reality, each accusation or claim of city incompetence is duly followed by a daily newspaper headline and story consisting of the city refuting Xcel’s most recent accusation, regardless of how baseless or insignificant it may have been. While this he said/she said reporting may seem like a fair approach by the media, who are, after all, just reporting what is being said by both sides, it isn’t. In fact, it is exactly what Xcel needs to hang on to its Boulder customers. I wish I could say it isn’t so, but we live in a world where most of what the majority of voters understand about important issues has been derived from 30-second sound bites and 80-point headlines. And don’t kid yourself; this is just as true in Boulder. Xcel knows what it’s doing. The truth is, in my opinion, the company isn’t trying to persuade everyone in Boulder that it’s the good guy, the right choice. It might sound like that, but Xcel knows what it needs to keep hold of its Boulder customers, and it isn’t much. Remember, the last time around, municipalization passed by an eyelash, less than 100 votes. Xcel is doing exactly what any good trial lawyer would do in a high-profile criminal case. It is trying municipalization in the court of public opinion before the voters’ pencils ever make a mark. The company understands that it doesn’t have to prove that it is the best choice for the Boulder Weekly
environment or that it can sell its electricity for less than a city utility could. It simply has to make that claim in the media as often as possible in order to generate the slightest reasonable doubt in the public’s mind with regard to the city’s ability to provide cheap, green electricity. Unfortunately, many who will be voting soon on the Xcel-backed, Xcel polltested ballot initiative simply view this daily debate as proof that there must be something to the arguments being made by both sides. Bingo, Xcel wins, because a few hundred people change their minds because they’re afraid their electric bill might go up a buck or two a month. You may recall that Boulder Weekly endorsed municipalization before the original vote. You may also recall that we wrote a very long, and I believe very thorough, piece on municipalization a few months back that some folks interpreted as our having taken a different position. We haven’t. In that article we raised questions about the city’s plan to start an electric utility. Our biggest complaint with the city was that we found it to be too cavalier about its upcoming battle with Xcel. Our questions about Xcel’s legal presuppositions regarding what should and could be taken by the city were dismissed as irrelevant. City attorneys spoke with confidence in how their interpretation of the law was flawless and how the giant utility company with virtually unlimited resources didn’t have a prayer. I think we can all agree now that the city was naive when it came to how easily it thought this battle would be won. While the city was working on its business model and dreaming of wind turbines, Xcel was poll-testing ballot language that, while sounding like an innocent exercise in democracy, is nothing more than tricky language to kill municipalization in Boulder once and for all. You don’t have to be right to win in this world, and we need to acknowledge that and respond accordingly. Boulder can’t afford to be the guy who gets killed by a car while crossing the street legally in the crosswalk, and who then spends eternity shouting about how he had been in see XCEL Page 11
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A fracking petition We recently caught wind of a petition on MoveOn.org that was right up our alley, calling on President Barack Obama to ban hydraulic fracturing on public lands. And the deadline for taking action is imminent, since comments to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on new draft rules for fracking on 600 million acres of public and Indian lands are due Aug. 23. The word on the street is that these rules are straight out of the oil and gas industry’s playbook, but don’t take it from us, check out http://bit.ly/12nDiE0. There’s a separate petition to ban fracking in the state of Colorado at http://petitions. moveon.org/sign/banhydaulic-fracturing. Both petitions were created by Coloradan Mary Russell, and on the federal petition she says she recently sold her Glenwood Springs home because it was threatened by possible fracking and her property values have plummeted due to oil and gas development in the area in the past decade. She says she has developed asthma since moving into her home five years ago. It’s a story we’ve heard more than once. And it’s also a story that oil and gas companies can easily refute. They simply say, “Prove it’s our actions that caused your (insert malady or pollution here).” The problem is, as the companies well know, it’s hard to track their chemicals to the cause of a particular illness or pollutant. And God forbid they use the tracers that are surely in their fracking fluids already to keep tabs on where it ends up, and make that public. It’s time to turn up the heat on these frackers. Sign the petition, write to your elected representatives. Power to the people. Change is possible when the voices are numerous and loud enough. Packing up the homeless We got a note about a pretty cool event related to our ongoing coverage on the homeless population. Apparently, an outfit called the CITYPAK Project will be distributing 1,000 backpacks to Boulder-area homeless people at 10 a.m. on Aug. 30 at the Bridge House Resource Center, at 1603 Walnut St. This Chicago-based organization, founded by Ron Kaplan, the dude who was co-creator of adventure gear company High Sierra and music booking agency Monterey International, has designed this special pack to help homeless people organize and transport their belongings. It has distributed 2,000 of them over the past year. The intent is to provide a high-quality pack that empowers the homeless and meets their changing needs instead of calling attention to their condition. Among other features, the packs feature a hide-away poncho for those nights on the street when the weather is inclement. The project is being done in partnership with the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless, and apparently Kaplan was inspired to expand his outreach to Boulder after traveling to our fair city for business. So if you see some fancy backpacks on some homeless folks, don’t jump to the conclusion that they’ve made a killing flying signs at the corner of Canyon and Broadway. They’ve just been the beneficiary of a new way to protect what’s left of their belongings. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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the right. Being right isn’t worth jack if you’re dead. Xcel knows how to win, and it doesn’t intend to play by the city’s rules. It’s time to move beyond the daily headlines that do nothing but benefit Xcel’s ability to create reasonable doubt about city municipalization. Can the city run an electric utility company? Of course it can. It just has to hire people who know what they are doing and things will go fine. Can the city create a utility that is more effective at combating global warming? Yes it can, and it will. Out of fear of losing its Boulder customers, Xcel now claims it can be greener faster than the city. Intent matters. If Xcel says it can be better for the planet than the city, then it should’ve been doing it a long time ago. I remember back in 1998 when BW first broke the story about how Public Service Company’s (now Xcel) gas storage unit in an old mine south of Rocky Flats was leaking gas into shallow geologic formations and even nearby water wells. It was pretty obvious what was happening, and yet the company denied that its gas storage unit was the problem, even while it was buying up the contaminated lands. This went on for another five years, until the building boom encroached so close that it became clear that closing the storage unit was a cheaper option than dealing with potential lawsuits from homeowners. Five years after our first report, the company suddenly admitted that the unit was leaking and gas was migrating. The lakes around Xcel’s Valmont Station coal-fired plant on the east side of town occasionally discharge into the local watershed. They are also in contact with the groundwater aquifer to the east. We know that lead and other heavy metals from the historic Valmont Butte milling operations on the land now owned by the city were intentionally discharged into the lakes for decades. We know that coalfired plants create their own toxins, as does the fly ash from burning coal, which is now being dumped directly above the lakes to the north. What we don’t know is what contaminants are in the water. We only know that Xcel claims that it tests the water itself and everything is just fine. Why can’t we get the water contamination information BW has asked for from an independent source? Just because the government isn’t requiring the company to test for all toxins in the lakes and make the results public doesn’t mean that Xcel, now that it is a huge supporter of all things green, couldn’t voluntarily do so. Is this really the company that Boulder should be putting its trust in to combat global warming? I doubt it. If the ballot measure backed by Xcel passes and the Boulder Weekly
city can’t municipalize, there will no longer be any leverage to push the company to be greener, faster, and without leverage, Xcel’s history says it likes to take its time to do the right thing. The city may not be perfect, but its intent to be better environmental stewards is real, and will still be real even after the election. I’m not sure the same can be said for Xcel. A recent report by the world’s scientific community claims that global warming is much worse than we thought.
Cities like New York and states like Florida could literally be under water in 90 years if we don’t act radically right now, and it could already be too late. So please, can we stop arguing over whether it’s Xcel or the city that will be able to provide a kilowatt of electricity for two cents less than its rival? I really don’t give a damn about those pennies and neither should anyone else. They are as inconsequential as all of the arguments being made both for and
against municipalization that are not centered on global warming. We need to municipalize our electric utility because the city and the people of Boulder are always going to be more committed to saving our planet and our children’s future than a giant, publicly traded utility company. The choice is really that simple. Everything else is a distraction that serves Xcel’s purposes. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ack then, the signs in the storefronts read, “No dogs or Mexicans allowed.” Today, unless you’re old enough to have had such images seared into your memory, it’s hard to believe that such hurtful idiocy could ever have existed so openly in our world, but it did. What is surprising to some folks is that these words weren’t posted in the downtown windows of some backwater town in the deep South or somewhere along our country’s war zone that we call the southern border. No, these ignorant, hate-filled messages were taped to the windows right around here. Welcome to Boulder County in the 1950s. But this is not a story about racism, although that certainly plays into it, and perhaps on a certain level, is even the underlying reason for why we feel compelled to write it. We want to stop being racists. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t be telling this story at all, because all of us would already know it. We should, This photo, taken in Lafayette in 1930, shows Eloisa Martinez, head bowed, the mother of Latino History Project board member Linda Arroyo-Holmstrom. Martinez is pictured with her but we don’t, and that’s not entirely sisters, Paulina, right, and Dulcenea, center. our fault. We can’t know what a song sounds like until we’ve heard it. We can’t describe or be moved by a painting until we’ve seen it. And in that same sense, we can’t appreciate the contributions and sacrifices made by a people if they have never been taught to us, written down or at least spoken into our collective conscience. How did we get here? How did Boulder County come to be what it is today? If our history books and photographs and libraries and school curricula are to be believed, Native Americans were here first, for thouclaimed by Spanish kings and Mexican here. There is almost no place to go to sands of years, and then white settlers governors and Mexican land barons, a find out what contributions Latino moved in, built a university, and we’ve place fought over by Mexico and the families have made to our communities all been happily climbing the Flatirons United States for years, would not have over the last 150 years. It isn’t that there ever since. Granted, we have been a rich Latino history? haven’t been any. In fact, the opposite is taught a richer history than that, but it Even today, with nearly one out of true. There have been many contribuis mostly just a longer version of the seven Boulder County residents being tions and sacrifices made by the Latino same story, a story just as white … Latino — it’s one out of 11 in the city community that have helped create and washed. of Boulder — and approximately 25 shape this county. The problem is that We should have been more skeptical percent of the county’s residents under they have been made invisible. all along, more curious. Does it really the age of 18 being Latino, there is virIt is a complex issue. The simple make sense that a place that was named tually no written history of when, how explanation is that the contributions Colorado by the Spanish, a place once and why the Latino community came and sacrifices made by Boulder County
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Latinos have been ignored for decades because those who write the history tend to write their own story. Since the act of compiling historical achievements is primarily reserved for the dominant culture of the day, in Boulder County, where whites make up more than 80 percent of the overall population, and have for a long time, it is the white story that gets told. Is this missing Latino history the result of racism, systemic or otherwise? Is it just a fluke that it got lost along the way? Could cultural differences and language barriers have played a role in the erasing of Boulder County’s Latino history from our modern-day understanding of our past and our children’s textbooks? The answer is probably yes to all of these questions. But that isn’t what is important now. What is important at this point is that we defeat our ignorance of the rich Latino history of our county. We all stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us, no matter their color, the language they spoke or their country of origin. We are who we are as a community, 300,000 strong, because of the contributions and sacrifices of many different cultures over the last 150 years, none more significant than that of Latinos. Is it fair to say that we all have an obligation to know the full and accurate history of our county and our communities? We think it is. Such knowledge makes us closer and more tolerant of one another. It enriches our lives on many levels. But there is another reason, an even more important reason why this story must be told. It is unfair and damaging to Boulder County’s young Latinos to not know or be taught the important contributions that their families and culture have made in our communities. The research has shown as much. When children are taught a false history in which their people’s positive contributions and sacrifices have been disSee LATINO Page 14
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sected from the story of the place some books, some written history. they live, they cannot help but feel She found very few accounts. So disconnected and therefore less she set out to rectify that situation. committed to the community as a To tell the stories that hadn’t been whole, and nothing good can come told. from that. McIntosh is reluctant to take We all need roots. Without much credit for the project that has them the wind can blow us wherensued. ever it wants. Without roots to our “We’re building on the work culture and history, we are leaving that’s already been done,” she says. it to others to define who we are. And to some extent, that’s true. If our Latino youth are unable The project McIntosh launched is to define themselves because we relying in part on some recorded have not given them the tools to do audio interviews from the 1970s so, including an accurate historical that became two films, Los account of their culture’s positive Imigrantes and The Boulder Chicano and significant influence and Community: Where is it? There are accomplishments within our comphotos taken by local Latino famimunities, then the mainstream lies decades ago. She lists as a premedia and politicians and those decessor the Boulder Hispanic who would still put such signs in Families Project, an exhibit at the storefronts will define them in one Latino History Project intern Ana Gonzalez Dorta, left, films Eleanor Montour in front of Montour’s Boulder Public Library last year, aunt’s house during a Latino history tour of Lafayette on July 29. crime photo, one 30-second news and the oral history project comspot, one whoring border-security piled by Oli Duncan of Longmont speech, one racial slur at a time. it wrong anymore. in 1988, which became a book They deserve more recognition than called We, Too, Came to Stay. In part, it They will be portrayed as “illegals” tryFor these reasons, we believe that of the stereotypes we allow to persist. was a response to the predominantly ing to game our economic system, as all the untold stories in Boulder They have earned more recognition gang members, as job stealers, as anyCounty, perhaps the most important is than that over the last 150 years as vital Anglo-centric history of Longmont titled They Came to Stay. thing less than what they are, our that of the contributions made by members of our community. But for the most part, it seems neighbors. Latinos in our community for more This is a story that needs to be told, McIntosh is being modest, because by The powers that be will label these than century. It is important because we has to be told, and we feel that Boulder all accounts, there has never been much young men and women as outsiders now understand that not telling it Weekly is in a unique position to do so. using 100 different names for it, each causes great harm. documentation of the history of Latinos We are the only paper that distributes designed with the misguided belief that A century and a half ago, it was in Boulder County, and she and her throughout the entire county, and we’re political correctness is somehow a subSpanish speakers from New Mexico community partners have taken on the just idealistic enough to tackle a story stitute for equality. who first discovered gold in the Denver that will take many months, not days, task of preserving that culture. The research also tells us something area near Cherry Creek. Their discovery to tell, and may wind up being meaThe goals of the project are ambielse, something worse. The less that opened up the white migration to the tious, and what they have already sured in years before it is finished. young Latinos know about their own Front Range, including Boulder accomplished is impressive. Eleven When we realized that that the positive history and influence within County. It was Latino migrants who interns and about 30 adult volunteers Latino history of our county was misstheir community and country, the more arrived decades ago to work in the coal have been working this summer to ing, we had a journalistic obligation to likely they are to become the caricature mines of Lafayette, Erie, Louisville and help rediscover it for the benefit of our record interviews with a variety of they see themselves being portrayed as. south Boulder. Latinos labored at the Latino community members and comreaders. We also wanted to help return It is as historian Howard Zinn once sugar beet operations in Longmont and something important to our Latino pile existing historical materials. In said: “History is important. If you don’t other parts of East County. They addition to videotaping 60- to 90-minneighbors, something that had been worked and lived in Boulder as well. know history, it is as if you were born ute conversations with more than two taken from them. They helped build the local economy yesterday. And if you were born yesterdozen subjects, the interns themselves Fortunately, we have been given the that became our foundation for growth day, anybody up there in a position of were interviewed about their experiopportunity to do just that, thanks to and future prosperity. power can tell you anything, and you ences, in an effort to compare and conthe Boulder County Latino History And they sacrificed mightily along have no way of checking up on it.” trast the younger and older generations. Project recently launched by a local the way, at the hands of company thugs retired professor, some interns, a group The project is focusing primarily on willing to kill them to keep them from •••• Boulder, Longmont and Lafayette, and of volunteers and several community Sometimes we have a journalistic organizing unions and racist Ku Klux an intern videographer has filmed walkgroups. obligation to do a particular story. And Klan members who just needed someNot to mention the Latino men and ing tours of each community in which long-time Latino residents visited sites sometimes, though rarely, that reason one to hate. And when they weren’t women of Boulder County, some with of historical significance. can rise to something even higher, a being physically harmed, they had to lengthy family histories in our commuBy the end of 2014, the ultimate moral imperative. We believe that help- tolerate the signs in store windows and nity, who are eager to finally tell their goals include writing a book and creating to rediscover and disseminate the glares of the unenlightened. stories. ing an extensive website to preserve the Boulder County’s missing Latino histoToday, Boulder County is predomioral histories, as well as an effort to ry rises to such a level. We don’t want nantly white. And affluent. •••• incorporate more local Latino history people who have paid the price, who Yet even so, there are still those When Marjorie McIntosh, a profeshave earned their place in our commuamong us who view Latinos in our sor emeritus of history at the University into curricula in the county’s school disnity history, to be left out anymore. We county as the people in the background, of Colorado Boulder, became interested tricts. In addition, participants are don’t want a fourth of our children to scouring old community directories and harvesting or preparing our food, busin the role that the Latino community feel discarded and disconnected from ing our tables, cleaning our houses, had played over the years in Boulder See LATINO Page 16 the place they live. We don’t want to do washing our dishes, mowing our lawns. County, naturally, she went looking for 14 August 22, 2013
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McIntosh says. And in a more recent example, in 1980 Longmont police shot two Latino youths to death with questionable motivation and were accused of opening fire without justification. The high-profile case resulted in the formation of El Comité to work with local leaders on how to interact with the Latino community. Carmen Ramirez, president of the Latino Task Force of Boulder County, the nonprofit group that helped McIntosh secure grant funding for the project and connect to key members of that community, agrees that while racism is less extreme than it used to be, it is still alive and well in Boulder County. “You don’t have the signs in the windows that say no Mexicans or dogs allowed, but you sure can feel it when you’re ignored by a clerk, or followed by a clerk throughout the store, or when you have a teacher that says, ‘You people don’t value education,’” she says. Elvira Ramos, director of programs for The Community Foundation, the group that provided $6,500 to the Latino History Project so that the interns could receive stipends, concurs. And not just because there are very few Latinos in leadership positions. She says her own son was stopped by police in Lafayette for no reason while walking down the street. “While there may not be signs in the windows, the lack of people in leadership positions … and these stories of these profiling things that are still going on — I’d like to think things have changed, but nonetheless, there are still elements of that bias going on,” Ramos says.
When she and her son moved back to Boulder after five years in Brownsville, Texas, the 13-year-old boy asked, “Mom, why are the only Latinos I see in Boulder the busboys?” The interns themselves also share contemporary tales of how discrimination has evolved. Ana Gonzalez Dorta, the intern videographer, says a family friend who is Latino married an Anglo man, and their child is white. Once, police officers began questioning the woman because they suspected her of kidnapping the boy. And Dorta, a Venezuelan, recalls being searched by authorities on her way back from a Mexican vacation, presumably because of her skin color and where she flew in from. She says they pored over her belongings for an hour looking for drugs. Dorta says she’s still frustrated about the 1980 shooting death of the two young Latinos in Longmont, especially when there is an effort to put up a statue for an elk shot by local police officers, but opposition to erecting a memorial to those young men. Intern Deisy de Luna shares a story from a fellow Latino intern who drives a low-rider pickup and was pulled over by Boulder police for no apparent reason. A black friend was in the passenger seat. Four squad cars responded. The cops reportedly kept asking the young Latino why he was so nervous. Veronica Lamas, a first-generation college student who just graduated from the University of Colorado with honors, says that after listening to and tranSee LATINO Page 18
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•••• The interns say the importance of the project lies in reminding non-Latinos — and their own community — of the formative role Latinos played over the past century in Boulder County. “We are here, we are part of America, we are part of history,” Dorta says, praising the effort to incorporate more Latino culture into local curricula. “The only difference is the skin color. Inside, we’re all people, we’re not dogs.” She repeats a line used by a colleague, the fellow Latino intern who
was pulled over while driving his lowrider truck. He’s from New Mexico, and he likes to point out that his home state used to be part of Mexico, so his family members “didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them.” Ramos says she’s proud that the interns say the project has “inspired them to take action and become leaders themselves.” And there is a dearth of Latino leaders. She points to figures compiled by The Community Foundation indicating that, based on surnames, only two of the 105 elected officials in Boulder County are people of color. Studies also show that only 51 of the county’s 770 volunteer members of official governmental advisory boards and commissions — 7 percent — are people of color. Ramirez says she hopes the Latino history project does for young Latinos what it did for the interns, helping them realize the importance of their cultural heritage. “It’s not for kids to see themselves, but to see themselves as contributors, because it really does a lot for selfesteem when you feel like you have pride in your culture, you have pride in what your community contributes to this community, and that’s not spoken of,” she says. “I hope this shines a light on how much of an asset Latinos are to Boulder County.” Boulder native and retired teacher Linda Arroyo-Holmstrom, who serves on the advisory board for the project and was one of the adult volunteers, got to mentor one of her former students, intern Irle Hernandez, and was also interviewed about her family’s long hisBoulder Weekly
news tory in the area. She helped organize the Boulder Public Library exhibit last year, but that effort did not have the lasting impact that the current project does. “That’s why I wanted to get involved, because it’s going to be archived,” she says. “I want future generations to know about our history and contributions and accomplishments.” When McIntosh is asked why she felt obligated to take on this project, she replies, “Latinos, themselves, need to know about and honor their own heritage and contributions to this county over the past century. Especially for young people, to have a positive sense about their own culture and what Latinos have done for this community over multiple generations.” She adds that “the members of the wider community need to recognize that Latinos have been important contributors to Boulder County for a century. Latinos have been almost invisible in our historical understanding of the county. We need to recognize that the economy of Boulder County depended on the labor of Latinos.” And once again, McIntosh downplays her role. “The power of this project is that it’s being done by Latinos themselves, with wide participation from many individuals and community groups,” she says. “I couldn’t do it, but I could help others do it.” •••• It’s July 29, and McIntosh and Dorta are on their last of three community tours, following prominent local Latina Eleanor Montour as she visits some of the historic downtown Lafayette buildings that played a role in the community and her life. Montour’s mother, Alicia Sanchez, founded Clinica Campesina, and a local elementary school is named after her. As Dorta’s video camera rolls, Montour visits Cannon Mine Coffee, which is housed in a building that used to be a grocery store where Latino miners like her grandfather and uncles shopped because they could get credit until payday. She pauses and leans over the large heat grate in the center of the floor at the counter, recalling how she and others would stop in just to warm up. At the site of the original Clinica Campesina, Montour recalls how her mother offered free physical exams to kids on the local sports teams if their families couldn’t afford health care. Then it’s on to the city’s first two Catholic churches, where Montour says Boulder Weekly
Latinos sat in the back. There weren’t signs indicating the requirement, like at the churches in Longmont, she says, “but we knew where we could go and couldn’t go. There was safety in numbers. There was safety in being among your own. I never stayed with a babysitter that wasn’t family.” Walking farther down the street, they pass a beautiful garden, and Montour notes that Latino families employed sustainable practices before it was in style, because they were so poor. “Recycling, organic gardening, that’s nothing new,” she says. “We just never publicized it.” The group passes the empty lot where the original Sister Carmen Community Center once stood, as well as Joe’s Market, where young Latinos learned to count by figuring out how many pieces of penny candy they could buy. At one 125-year-old house, Montour stops and greets a cousin whose family has lived in the home for 66 years, and recounts a story about her midwife aunt once curing Montour’s one-month-old son’s stomach ailment with a mysterious black liquid, despite her husband’s protests about listening to that “witch doctor.” Just down the street is the house where Montour grew up. She recalls one person in the neighborhood being particularly racist. “We couldn’t step on their grass,” she says. The last stop on the tour is the school named after her mother, Sanchez Elementary, where a digital sign provides information in Spanish about obtaining health care for children. And then Montour recalls something that her mother used to tell her when she was a little girl. “My mom would get so mad when I’d say, ‘I can’t,’” she remembers, a big smile spreading across her face. “She’d say, ‘Of course you can!’” Editor’s note: This marks the first installment of an ongoing series of articles about the rich Latino heritage of Boulder County. We don’t plan to duplicate the work of the Latino History Project or regurgitate it, but conduct our own interviews with some of the Latino community members who participated in the project — and retell some of the compelling stories in the history of that community. We’re not sure yet how many parts this series will have, but shining a light on this local hertiage is long overdue, and we believe raising awareness about it will only make our larger community stronger and healthier. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com August 22, 2013 19
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Scenes from the 1979 protest. Ellsburg is pictured above, and at right, Allen Ginsberg was among the protesters.
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hen the 23-year-old Joe Daniel was assigned to cover the Rocky Flats protests in 1978 as a reporter and photojournalist for the Colorado Daily, he didn’t realize the story he was sitting on. He couldn’t foresee that a one-day protest would turn into an anti-nuclear-weapons movement, and that it would result in him publishing not one book, but two. In Daniel’s re-release of his 1979 book, the newly focused A Year of Disobedience and a Criticality of Conscience not only sheds light on the history of the Rocky Flats protests and the plant’s closure, but compiles the more recent history of the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge while citing the value of civil disobedience as an agent for change. So why, some may ask, is a protest that happened 35 years ago still relevant, especially after the halt of weapons production at the plant in 1989? “I started thinking, God, I wonder if there is even an anti-nuclear-weapons movement out there?” Daniel says, recalling the active anti-nuclear-weapons movement that was in part catalyzed by the protests at Rocky Flats. Daniel contacted Daniel Ellsberg, famous releaser of the Pentagon Papers as well as a leader and celebrity voice in the Rocky Flats protests. Ellsberg recently resurfaced in the media in discussions of
then that this plant represented all three of the foremost threats to the human race. “I felt like humans faced the threat of nuclear holocaust, environmental threat or authoritarian government,” says Moore, who contributed to the book’s newest edition. “I haven’t let go of it. … I guess I’m like a doctor that focuses on care of patients: I’m an activist that focuses on concern for other beings.” Moore says he hopes awareness will be an antidote to public ignorance and indifference. “My primary concern is public education and creating a record that will endure and inform people in the future,” he says. “We have a responsibility to future generations that I don’t think we’ve responded to well.” Daniel says he’s worried about the “half-life of awareness,” a term Ellsberg used to refer to the shortlived effectiveness of consciousness as a change agent. “We tend to have a very short awareness period as humans,” Daniel says. “This happened in ’88 and ’89 when the FBI raid [which ultimately closed Rocky Flats] happened, the reporters covering that made no mention of the demonstrations 10 years earlier.” Daniel says what draws him back to the subject is the idea of the persistence and courage among people
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Book re-release chronicles new developments at Rocky Flats and the history and value of civil disobedience by Camilla Sterne Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden as whistleblowers like Ellsberg. “We should reissue this book just to tell the story again, because it’s a remarkable story that 500 people got arrested trying to stop the making of nuclear bomb triggers,” Daniel told Ellsberg, who wrote the initial book preface for the 1979 version. Ellsberg quickly agreed, hoping to bring renewed light to the lingering issues at Rocky Flats. Daniel also reconnected with LeRoy Moore, a longtime activist who has stayed dedicated to protecting the public from exposure to the contamination at Rocky Flats, now the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge. Like many others, at the time Moore had no idea there was a nuclear bomb plant on the outskirts of Denver. He learned about it through the 1978 occupation of the railroad tracks, and says he realized
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who participate in civil disobedience actions. “I was fascinated by this idea of civil disobedience, these people that are willing to go out there and put their lives on the line and certainly their possible freedoms,” he says. The 82-year-old Ellsberg, recently arrested for the 86th time, says he hopes movements like the one at Rocky Flats are not a thing of the past. “Younger people who have grown up since the Cold War are under the impression that there’s no nuclear problem,” Ellsberg says. “If the situation is going to change, it’s going to have to be this genera-
tion that does it. The older generations have succumbed to the belief that the problem has gone away, or they’re just tired.” With the recent groundbreaking of the Candelas commercial and residential development on the southern border of the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge, as well as ongoing talk of the Jefferson Parkway’s construction on the eastern side — a project that would, according to Daniel and Moore, release dangerous plutonium into the air — what role civil disobedience will play in ongoing objections to those projects remains to be seen.
“The establishment is against that change,” Ellsberg says. “Will there be people in Congress who show comparable civil courage to Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden? Unlikely, but possible. And is that enough to stake your life on? Well, for some of us, yes. Even a chance to have some effect in changing the odds and bringing about a better world is worth our individual lives. Without more civil courage we will not survive as a species and, really, young people are the place to look for physical courage and civil courage.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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But it’s subject to exceptions — about 40. Certain circumstances make those statements reliable — no man wants to meet his maker with a lie on his lips, as the Victorian saying goes, and so deathbed confessions are admissible in court. As are written business records or outbursts delivered without a chance for premeditation. So a hearsay exception that allows for intention — what you say you plan to do — that stems from an 1892 Supreme Court decision caught the attention of Marianne Wesson, a University of Colorado law professor. “It’s quite easy to lie about your intentions,” says Wesson, which is why she says she kept wondering why the exception existed at all. “Every time I taught this case I was puzzled by it. … It took me 25
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The dispute went something like this. John Hillmon was a Civil War veteran, a poor man, recently wed to a seamstress named Sallie. He left his home with a traveling companion. The two men traveled through desolate areas and ended up, one late winter night in 1879, at a campsite near Crooked Creek in Kansas. Not long after, Hillmon’s traveling companion knocked on a stranger’s door. He said his gun had misfired and he’d accidentally shot his friend in the head. A body was found, crumpled over, dressed in Hillmon’s clothes and boots, a bullet in the head. But was it Hillmon? The news reached Sallie, the new, young widow, and may have ended as nothing more than a tragic accident, except for one crucial part. “[Hillmon] did something very interesting before setting out,” Wesson says. “He took out a life insurance policy for $25,000, roughly $600,000 today, and borrowed money for the premium from Sallie’s cousin.”
The insurance companies claimed the dead man was not Hillmon at all and refused to pay his bereaved wife. A private investigation paid for by the insurance company began. Enter a missing cigarmaker, who apparently crossed paths with Hillmon shortly before his death. Their meeting is mentioned in a love letter that the cigarmaker, Frederick Adolph Walters, wrote to his fiancée, which was introduced into evidence as the 86th of 88 trial court errors the insurance companies listed when plying the Supreme Court to hear the case. In the letter to his fiancée, Walters states that he has been offered a job on a sheep ranch by a man named Hillmon who will pay him better wages than he can hope to make selling cigars. The insurance company contended that Hillmon was not the victim of a shooting, but a crafty criminal, responsible for staging his own murder at the see DEATH Page 26
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peril of the cigarmaker — whose fiancée and her family testify that they have never seen him again. They insist that the body later buried as Hillmon’s was Walters. The competing stories see the inside of a courtroom for the next 25 years. All the while, Sallie does not see a penny. Sallie Hillmon’s lawyers’ called the letter hearsay and thus inadmissible in court. But the Supreme Court justices ruled to admit the letter as evidence. That exception changed the role of the grapevine in law. Wesson writes that the justices must have made the exception believing that the insurance companies were right — and they invented a new way to admit this form of hearsay simply to make sure Hillmon didn’t get away with it. But the question came back to one point. “The only issue in the trial was who the dead guy was,” Wesson says. DNA technology did not exist at the time, she points out, and police had only the inklings of crude forensic science.
“I decided I was going to find who the dead guy was,” she says. This moment of realization would lead her on a hunt through old, forgotten records and her own tangles with laws regulating historic gravesites. “I’m going through a dusty stack of archives in Kansas City — mostly handwritten papers — nothing is in order, 1892 is next to 1895, it was a mess. I open an envelope and these photographs fall out,” Wesson says. “I took them to a friend in the anthropology department, Dennis Van Gerven, and asked if he could tell me which photo belonged to the photograph of the corpse. He looked at them and he pointed to a particular feature, the schnozz, and said, ‘Look at that!’” “Are you sure?” she asked Van Gerven. “Hell no,” he replied. “What would it take for you to be sure?” she countered. “We’d have to dig up the remains,” he said. “If I didn’t follow through, then people would ask me for the rest of my life why I didn’t use DNA analysis,” Boulder Weekly
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year after Michigan Mike’s tie-dye-in-thedust music fest proved it can go on without him, with a little help from his friends, NedFest still swings a pretty mean hula hoop. When NedFest founder Michigan Mike Torpie shed this mortal coil about a year and a half ago, word went out early from his friends that they intended to see that his yearly enterprise would carry on. There was little question that keeping NedFest was probably what Torpie would have wanted; beyond that, though, NedFest had matured into a genuine community event, a kind of multi-hued sandBoulder Weekly
lot block party sewing together jam and grass and funk vibes with threads of Nederland’s genial weirdness. And it wasn’t necessarily the easiest thing for the festival committee, loosely consolidated as the Peak to Peak Music Education Association, to pull off. Although the committee was formed with friends and periodic NedFest collaborators of Torpie’s, the guy himself was fondly recalled as a terrible delegator, keeping much of the artist relations,
On the Bill: Tickets to NedFest (www.nedfest.com) are $25 for Friday, Aug. 23, and $55 each for Saturday, Aug. 24, and Sunday. Aug. 25. A three-day pass costs $130, and a pass for Saturday and Sunday costs $105. Camping for Friday and Saturday nights is available for $20.
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vendor coordinating and other key aspects of the festival under his tight and chaotically documented control. As an enterprise, NedFest largely existed in the nano-realms between Torpie’s head and his famously battered clipboard. But last year, as if keeping the festival going without Torpie wasn’t struggle enough, the PPMEA had at least a couple of other complications to manage. The U.S. Pro Cycling Challenge, Colorado’s shiny new bike race, was scheduled to burn its way up Boulder Canyon on the festival’s Saturday, threatening a Roland Emmerichworthy traffic event; bikes and cops and barricades and 20-year-old Subarus all competing for their share of Boulder Canyon’s notoriously meager real estate. They managed to finesse that, for the most part. But a bit more worrying was the parallel scheduling of Yonder Mountain String Band’s two-day Kinfolk Celebration down at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons, coinciding with Nedfest’s Friday and Saturday shows. That one raised some eyebrows, but PPMEA Secretary Kristen McFarland largely shrugs it off as an unfortunate scheduling oversight, not, as some suggested, a brazen exercise in audience poaching, especially by a big-draw act that made its early bones in part playing Torpie’s fledgling NedFest shows a decade earlier. “You know,” explains McFarland, “in the end, I found out from Yonder’s agent that that was totally inaccurate, totally unintentional. It hurt them and it hurt us, it hurt everybody. … They didn’t get as much audience as they would have, and we didn’t as much audience as we would have. It hurt us, though. I definitely moved away from booking the bluegrass [acts] that Saturday, but either way, I still think we would have had 400 more people.” Still, even though last year’s show didn’t break even, they managed to squeeze out a small grant for an afterschool music teacher for Nederland’s Teen Center, and all is good in the Yonder/NedFest world, as Yonder mando player Jeff Austin is playing this year’s Sunday bill. In fact, Austin’s Sunday set lines up just before the festival’s closer, Dr. Ralph Stanley, who appears with his Clinch Mountain Boys. Now in his 87th year and beyond question one of bluegrass music’s most fundamental artists, Stanley is a fitting headliner for a festival that consistently draws deep for both acoustic and (Torpie’s obsession) funk acts. (The Funky Meters play Saturday night.) Filling out the mar30 August 22, 2013
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NedFest 2013 Lineup Dave Kirby
Friday, Aug. 23 5:30 p.m. — Gates open 6 p.m. — Whitewater Ramble 7:30 p.m. — Tweener by Caribou Mountain Collective 8 p.m. — Mountain Standard Time 10 p.m. — Late night with Magic Beans Saturday, Aug. 24 11:30 a.m. — Gates open 12 p.m. — Danny Shafer and the 21st Century 1:30 p.m. — Tweener by Teen Center Teens 2 p.m. — The Congress 3:30 p.m. — Tweener by Jaden Carlson 4 p.m. — Euforquestra 5:30 p.m. — Tweener TBA 6 p.m. — Tea Leaf Green 8 p.m. — Funky Meters 10:30 p.m. — Late night with Smooth Money Gesture Sunday, Aug. 25 10:30 a.m. — Gates open 11 a.m. — Gipsy Moon with special guest Vince Herman of Leftover Salmon
quee, though, isn’t always as easy as it looks. NedFest has always provided a good stage for local artists, but picking and choosing carefully between local acts in their ascendency (who haven’t already been over-exposed through regular club gigs) and bigger acts that the small festival can actually afford is a delicate and usually thankless exercise. McFarland is taking it in stride. “It is such a matter of perspective,” McFarland laughs. “I am really learning to let stuff roll off me. Last year, depending on their taste, some would say, ‘Oh, I don’t like who you have booked’, and this year, again depending on their preference, people would say, ‘Oh I don’t like who you have booked...’ It just all depends on your taste, you know? I had one lady at the grocery store say to me, ‘What? Nobody’s headlining this year?’”
12:30 p.m. — Tweener by No Go Gillbillies 1 p.m. — Ridnell Van Meter featuring Grammy winner Sally Van Meter 2:30 p.m. — Tweener by Monocle 3 p.m. — Drew Emmitt Band (of Leftover Salmon) 4:30 p.m. — Tweener by Birds of Chicago 5 p.m. — Jeff Austin (of Yonder Mountain String Band) and Friends, featuring Danny Barnes 7 p.m. — Dr. Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys 9:30 p.m. — Late night with Birds of Chicago
Mike Torpie’s parents made the trip last year to show their support and appreciation for the PPMEA and NedFest’s continued success. McFarland says Torpie’s dad Russ had back surgery recently, and they won’t be able to make the trip this year. “I think they had a good time last year. Mike’s mom was a little up and down I think, but his dad definitely had a ball. We were so glad that they came, to see what their son had given all of us.” And according to McFarland, it’s probably beyond the point whether NedFest’s continued existence is even a question. “The event kind of had its own inertia even before Mike passed. I’d say it’s safe to say it will be around in the future.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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eagan Chandler’s body is her instrument. Well, technically her voice is her instrument, but the vivacious singer draws her lyrics and one-ofa-kind music from bodily inspiration. Her voice, she says, “just happens to make noise.” The 33-year-old self-proclaimed wanderer will release her first full-length album, Sensual, at a release party at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 24 at Shine Restaurant in Boulder, and she hopes it will be a party for the senses. “When you come into the world of the body, it takes things into a really sweet but sometimes dark place,” Chandler says. “And our bodies are something that all of us have in common. All across the world, it doesn’t matter where you’re from, we all have this similar terrain. We feel similar things, we need similar things.” The cultural eclecticism of the native Boulderite’s past is evident in the album, which is freckled with jazz, dub, flamenco, hip-hop, pop, country and even Mediterranean sounds. “I’ve been wandering for a good 15 years now, and I actually feel like it was like a critical stage of my development,” she says. “In every single place I found another piece of myself, and every piece was critical.” Chandler’s infatuation with the body’s wisdom and the music of other cultures began when she was 14 and began studying flamenco dance, which later brought her to Spain, where she studied the fiery musical form. This lasting interest-turned-career is what has sustained her for the last 12 years, as a singer and teacher of flamenco music. The album’s opening track, “Eve’s Song,” makes apparent the singer’s Spanish influences, with its fusion of ethereal religious lore and the later integra-
She watched the songs take on lives of their own, which lent to the non-linear genre progression of the album. “It was a choice that I had to make,” Chandler says. “Do I want to narrow this down and fit it into what our culture says that an album is supposed to do, or do I want to let these little song babies have their own lives? And in the end I was like, OK, who am I to tell my children what they’re gonna be when they grow up?” And they have grown up, into a full-length collection that is as varied emotionally as it is musically. From the playful “Lost Boys” to the tender “Morning Rain,” from the fantastical “Merciless Flowers” to, of course, the sultry “Sensual,” the album is united by a strong sense of the feminine, which is symbolically depicted on the cover by a pomegranate. The symbol, according to Chandler, refers to the Greek mythological figure Persephone, recalling the pomegranate seeds she ate in the underworld. But beyond that, she views it as representative of femininity and mystery. “We’ve been in such a masculine-dominant scenario for many thousands of years that there’s something especially mysterious about things feminine,” she says. “The wisdom of the body is often something that’s attributed to feminine things.” And at this point in her life, Chandler is on the brink of her own mystery. “I had to wander as far and as long as possible and have huge adventures and experiences,” she says. “But now, as I’m turning 33, I am for the first time starting to feel a longing to put down roots. How do I want to take all that wandering and actually plant a garden somewhere?” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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On the Bill: Cut and Paste runs at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art through Sept. 15. Jeff Raphael (whose works are on display at the exhibit) and Clay Hawkley will discuss collage at an event called “Collage and Cosmos,” at the museum on Thursday, Aug. 22, at 6:30 p.m. 1750 13th Street, Boulder, 303-443-2122.
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ollage as an art technique and craft might be ubiquitous today, but when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque first began experimenting with incorporating found materials into their paintings in the early 1900s, it was a radical innovation. Art has never been the same since. Take for example, Picasso’s 1912 “Still Life With Chair Caning,” one of the first works to employ collage. The painting is shaped in an oval framed by a piece of rope, and the bottom-left part of the painting is covered by an oil cloth, a cheap, patterned precursor to contact paper. By placing a commonly found object into the elitist, high-culture world of oil painting, Picasso essentially threw a wrench into the definition of art, prompting debate over whether technical skill was necessary for something to be considered art, and so forth.
These days, you see many artists using cheap materials, repurposing found and discarded objects. What was a radical practice in the days of the Cubists and, shortly after, the Dadaists, is now common practice. The current exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Cut and Paste, showcases how far collage has come, a century after the format entered into the modern art conversation. The work of Jesse Ash, Tyler Beard, Alicia Ordal, Stas Orlovski, Adam Parker Smith, Judy Pfaff, Jeff Raphael and Mario Zoots adorn the walls of the museum, and each use the technique in a radically different way. Orlovski’s work merges collages with video, presenting a new approach to collage, says BMoCA Executive Director and Chief Curator David Dadone. The Moldova-born, California-based artist uses pages from centuries-old children’s books, and both hand-
drawn and transferred images to create complex, beautiful works, onto which he projects video. The effect is that his work feels alive, a departure from the static images associated with collage. In the same room of the museum are two works by New York City artist Adam Parker Smith. One work is a giant, multi-panel collage of Superman, constructed with cutouts of the character from the comic books themselves. The vivid, busy work shows Superman in various poses, ranging from the majestic to the distraught. Parker Smith places the cutouts so that the character is engaged in an epic fight with himself, and in the bottom-right corner of the bottom-right panel, far from the tornado of Supermans fighting themselves, a single Superman cradles another Superman in his arms, trying to resuscitate him. Another of Parker Smith’s works is in the same gallery, but it is vastly difsee COLLAGE Page 38
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who drummed for San Francisco punk band The Nuns — is immediately visible. His work looks more like a traditional collage, with disparate images juxtaposed next to one another in order to create meaning. Standing across from his work is the simple, subtle work of Jesse Ash, who finds photos in newspapers and then reconstructs them using other images of the same hue from newspapers. In one piece, Ash takes a picture of a beach and glues photos of wooden beams onto it, creating the appearance of an actual photo rather than a collage. The exhibition shows off the wide possibility of collage, highlighting artists both from Colorado and beyond. Dadone points out that because it is a simple medium — the materials and technique often don’t go beyond the title of the exhibition, Cut and Paste — many artists at some point in their career will turn to it. It is a technique rife with potential and history, and BMoCA’s sampling represents the many destinations collage has traveled to during the past century. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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dubskin & slanted jack
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heRbeRt GRoneMeyeR katey LauReL
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tues. sept 10 8:30 pm
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pure x
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washed out haerts
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thurs. sept 12 8:30 pm
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john brown’s body stick figure
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jerome lol sept 21................................................................................................. juno what?! sept 26......................................................... nicki bluhm & the gramblers oct 3 .................................................................................... radical something oct 4 ............................................................... the magic beans & the malah oct 5 ....................................................................................... head for the hills oct 10 ............................................................. les claypool’s duo de twang oct 16 ......... pickin’ on phish ft. andy thorn (of leftover salmon) oct 17 .......................................................... march fourth marching band oct 18 - oct 20 .......................................................... dark star orchestra oct 24 & oct 25 .......................................................... greensky bluegrass oct 26 ................................................................... blockhead & little people oct 31 .................................................................................................... paper bird nov 1 ........................................................................... cherub & con bro chill
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the WateRboys fri. oct 18 8:00 PM 97.3 kBco, channel 93.3, tWist & shout & illegal Pete’s Present
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Looking for the Light A new exhibition at the Dairy Center for the Arts opens on Friday, Aug. 23, and will showcase 156 works by 68 area artists. An artist talk will happen from 4-5 p.m. and a free reception will go from 5-7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The exhibition runs through Sept. 6.
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Diana Trip, “Sunset Dance” See full EVENT listings online, INCLUDING HAPPY HOURS. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@ boulderweekly.com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.
Thursday, August 22
mont, 720-297-6397.
music
Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Blue Ribbon Healers. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. FUN. and Tegan and Sara. 8 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. James and the Devil. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Ken Stevens & Josh Kearns — With Jeri Parks. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mojo Medicine Show. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Long-
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Shawn Colvin — With Patrick Dethlefs. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Soul Quatro. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Steve Manshel. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. see EVENTS Page 42
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Aug. 22: Stop Making Sense, Boulder Theater, 8 p.m If anything cemented the Talking Heads as one of the best and most beloved bands of the 1980s, it was Stop Making Sense, a live performance filmed over three days and directed by Jonathan Demme. Released in 1984, the movie captured the quirks and eccentricities of the group and its frontman, David Byrne. The concert film starts with possibly the most understated lines ever spoken to open a concert (“Hi. I’ve got a tape I want to play you”) then continues into one of the most fascinating rock performances ever captured on film. There’s a reason this film is considered a classic. It’s showing at the Boulder Theater to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the concert itself (not the film’s release). Go check it out on the big screen while you have the chance.
Roots & Rhythm. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
Aug. 24: Boulder County AIDS Project: Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous!, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 7:30 p.m. Fifteen local drag queens will take the stage at the Boulder County AIDS Project’s eighth annual drag show, which aims to promote HIV awareness and prevention. The acts taking the stage will incorporate comedy, live singing, aerial dance and more. Diverse types of drag will be represented.
Aug. 28: Rocky Mountain High and Dry: Colorado in the Prohibition Era, Boulder History Museum, 7 p.m. The era of prohibition and speakeasies has gotten its fair share of historical and romantic attention over the past few decades, but how the repeal of alcohol played out in our fair state isn’t quite as clear. The Boulder History Museum will examine how Colorado dealt with prohibition, and how the movement was tied to the women’s suffrage movement and the progressive era of reform, featuring guest lecturer Tom Thomas, a historian.
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Perception: Color | Line | Power wraps up its run at the Arvada Center on Sunday, Aug. 25.
LANCE HERBSTRONG FEAT DJ KAMAL SOLIMAN, BILL SARVER & GUITARIST PETER DISTEFANO (PORNO FOR PYROS) & J.WAIL W/ SPACE CAPONE FREE BEFORE 9PM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY AUGUST 23-24
THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS
EVERY THURSDAY @ THE OTHER SIDE
GRASS FOR THAT ASS
FREE BEFORE 9PM OR BEFORE 10PM FOR TEXT MESSAGE SUBSCRIBERS!
8/22 CORAL CREEK STRING BAND, WOOD & WIRE 8/29 PACKWAY HANDLE BAND & THE GIVING TREE BAND 9/12 PICKIN’ ON THE DEAD 9/19 WHITEWATER RAMBLE
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21
BEN MILLER BAND W/ TALLGRASS
FRIDAY AUGUST 23
BLACKALICIOUS
8/23: LIEBERMONSTER 8/24: ANALOG SON FEAT MEMBERS OF KINETIX
W/ SPOSE, WHEELCHAIR SPORTS CAMP & J.O.B. FEAT FOLKLORIST
THURSDAY AUGUST 29
SATURDAY AUGUST 24 • CD RELEASE
PHISH PRE PARTY!
THIS MUST BE THE BAND
BLACK PEGASUS
W/ RARE REVOLUTION, MICKY MONDAY, SYNTRYX, LYRICAL LORDS, 12 BLOXX, PHOREMETA & UNITE
(TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE) W/ SHEL
TUESDAY AUGUST 27 • FREE SHOW!
FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY AUG 30-SEPT 1
CLERKS & SUBLIMINAL W/ ACTUAL, DR. BENT, BEAN & SUBCIDE
RIDE THE BUS TO PHISH THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5
OPIUO
W/ ANDREILIEN (FORMERLY HEYOKA), PROJECT ASPECT, CAUSTIK & TEMPLO
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7
SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
ELECTRONIC TUESDAY FRIDAY AUGUST 30
IAMSU
W/ KOOL JOHN, JAY ANT, FUTURE HEROES & BMBC
FRIDAY AUGUST 30
UNLIMITED GRAVITY ALBUM RELEASE PARTY
& BASS SCIENCE
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W/ CLOUD-D, KRUZA KID & SATORU & DAMNESIA VU
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12
SATURDAY & SUNDAY AUGUST 31-SEPTEMBER 1 PHISH POST PARTY
W/ AFK, MUST DIE!, AU5, AND MIZER & GOETZ
REBIRTH BRASS BAND W/ SPECIAL GUESTS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 13
THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS
W/ SHOCKENAW MOUNTAIN BOYS FEAT TIM CARBONE, JOHN SKEHAN, ANDY GOESSLING OF RAILROAD EARTH & JOHNNY GRUBB OF EMMIT NERSHI BAND
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 14
YAMN & ARCHNEMESIS W/ DYNOHUNTER
THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 19-21
RIDE THE BUS TO FURTHUR FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20
RALLY ROUND THE FAMILY PERFORMSRAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 1992 SELF TITLED DEBUT ALBUM IN ITS ENTIRETY & MTHDS PERFORM THE BEASTIE BOYS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20
JOHN BROWN’S BODY W/ STICK FIGURE & RASTASAURUS
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27
THE DANCE PARTY TIME MACHINE
FEAT DAVID MURPHY OF STS9 & MEMBERS OF THE MOTET, EUFORQUESTRA, ROSE HILL DRIVE, YAMN, FOX STREET ALLSTARS, THE CONGRESS, KINETIX, OCTOPUS NEBULA, THE WHALES, TIGER PARTY, MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, FILTHY CHILDREN & MORE!
TUESDAY OCTOBER 1
THE SKATALITES FRIDAY OCTOBER 4
IRON HORSE
PERFORMS PICKIN’ ON ZEPPELIN & BEST OF PICKIN’ ON W/ VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
MONDAY OCTOBER 14
SCREAM IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT TOUR
PIMPS OF JOYTIME MONDAY SEPTEMBER 2
MELT YOUR FACE MONDAY
FEAT RED ROOM RENDEZVOUS & NOISE MONKEY
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 3 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
SPECIAL ELECTRONIC TUESDAY FEAT SOUND REMEDY W/ ARTISTRY & AUGUST WINNER’S SHOWCASE
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4
THE STEPPAS W/ PAPAGOYA
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6
TORI PATER’S BIG BAD BAND W/ THE DRUNKEN HEARTS
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7
BRIAN JORDAN BAND
Sara Hughes, “Data Crash 4”
Cut and Paste. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 15. Erotic Nature — Photography by Kate Zari Roberts. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430. Through Sept. 3.
Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 25.
F32 Commemorative Photo Show. Susan France and Dona Laureita Gallery, 820 Main St., Louisville, 303-818-1616. Through Aug. 31.
Sequentially Speaking: The Art of Comic Books — Graphic art by Samantha Reveley and David Balan. The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Aug. 24.
It’s Electric — Artist Jen Lewin. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Oct. 26.
Spun: Adventures in Textiles. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22.
Looking for the Light — 156 works by 68 local artists. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826 Through Sept. 6.
This Is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Through Sept. 8.
Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22.
Transitions — by Anne Gifford. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Through Sept. 8.
Perception: Color | Line | Power. Arvada
JET LIFE TOUR
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10 • FREE SHOW! SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
ELECTRONIC TUESDAY CREW BATTLE
FEAT WHOMP TRUCK VS SURREL STUDIOS, MISS JAEDHA, NOXII, D.CO.DUB., TETSU & BOTS
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11
The Stringtones. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
FEAT SEAN PRICE, SKYZOO, SHAE MONEY, APORIA & THE FLYING DOCTORS W/ SPECIAL GUESTS DECA & ROBB PEEZY
TEDxBoulder BETA Preview. 5:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
DENVER SHOWCASE #4
SATURDAY & SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14-15
SNARKY PUPPY
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17 • FREE SHOW SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
Teresa Lynne and The Dreamboats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.
FEAT WRKD VS DECADON, ATRI, KRILL, MOSTRO & FASTLIFE
Troubadors. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
9/15: JOEY PORTER’S VITAL ORGAN
ELECTRONIC TUESDAY PRODUCER BATTLE WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18
RAKIM
W/ SOPHISTAFUNK
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23
MELT YOUR FACE MONDAY FEAT CASCADE KINKY
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 24 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
ELECTRONIC TUESDAY
FEAT CLOUD-D, DUBWOL, REMERGE, TRIPMENDOUS & DJ APORIA
Wendy Woo Band. 6:45 p.m. Whistle Stop Park, corner of 1st and Murray, Niwot, www.niwot.com.
events Be Your Own STROBIST: Using your Flash Creatively. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Felonius Smith & Dan Ault. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Fredi and the Soul Shakers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Global Soul House Party 2.0. 7 p.m. SouLove Landing, 763 10th St., Boulder, 916-873-4856. Issovee. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Jeff Brinkman — With special guest M Squared. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Knight and Woodward. 4:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25
Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.
Mama Lenny & the Remedy. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
W/ EMILIO ROJAS & FUTURISTIC
Cosmos & Collage. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
Matt Nasi Band — With Whim Grace. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Friends With Benefits Happy Hour. 7 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
The Mighty Twisters. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
DIZZY WRIGHT: THE GOLDEN AGE TOUR
FRIDAY OCTOBER 18
W/ SAM LACHOW & BFA (BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER)
W/ GINGER PERRY
AEROPLANE & GIGAMESH
JARED & THE MILL WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 2
SOL
FRIDAY OCTOBER 4
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16
SATURDAY OCTOBER 5
FALL SHREDDED BEATS YASIIN BEY (AKA MOS DEF)
CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF PHISH W/ PRIVATE GRIPWEED PLAYING THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES
THE PHIX
TUESDAY OCTOBER 15
ALICE RUSSELL
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Cheryl Carter Pierce, Norman Singer. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through Sept. 28.
FEAT YOUNG RODDY, CORNER BOY P & FIEND W/ DELASEAN & RUSSELL GRANDE
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 30 • FREE SHOW!
W/ JUSTIN BUA (LECTURING & LIVE PAINTING) & THE REMINDERS
Bunny Rosenthal Rubin. Boulder Public Library Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 28.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 10
FEAT STORY OF THE YEAR W/ LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS, CAPTURE THE CROWN, SET IT OFF & I AM KING
SALT N PEPA
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THURSDAY AUGUST 22
CERVANTES’ SUMMER CELEBRATION
BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Oct. 27.
Stop Making Sense. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers and Michelle McAfee. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
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Pat Mahoney (DJ set) of LCD Soundsystem — With Mike Moses and Mantaray. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
1964 The Tribute. 6:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Cowboy Dave Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &
Rachel and the Ruckus. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S.
Friday, August 23
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events Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322.
Sambadende. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Casey James Prestwood and the Burning Angels — With special guests The Prairie Scholars. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Special Consensus — With Blue Canyon Boys. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Springdale Quartet. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Technicolor Tone Factory. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. WATT? Amplified & Super-Charged Music Expression. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Wendy Colonna. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. The Zydecoasters. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
events Boulder International Folk Dancers. 7 p.m., Pearl St. Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-692-8213. Fresh Produce Fresh For Fall — Through Aug. 24. Fresh Produce, 1218 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4427507. Sunset Hike at Bald Mountain. 6:30 p.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, call Larry Colbenson, 303-678-6214, for more info.
Cold River City. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Funkiphino. 7 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Gipsy Moon — with Vince Herman. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Gumbo Le Funque. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Jaden Carlson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Lipgloss Boulder. 10:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Mathias Olson and the Crooked Streets. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
My Romance. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Birds of Chicago — With Esme Patterson (of Paper Bird). 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Rob Rio. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Blue Canyon Boys. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Reggae On The Rocks. 1 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Blue Ribbon Healers. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914, ext. 313.
Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Brian Ashley Jones. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
Satellite Official Skylab Launch Party featuring Dirty Monkey and Vinnie Maniscalo — With Proper Motion, Vibration Sequence, Geodesic and Deville. 9
Cameron Powers Project — Ecstatic “Egyptian” Trance Dance Party. 7:30 p.m. Agora Event Center,
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Terri Cook and Lon Abbott will discuss Geology Underfoot Along Colorado’s Front Range on Tuesday, Aug. 27 at the Boulder Book Store.
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson — by Jeff Guinn. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070. Monday, Aug. 26
Between the Covers: An Evening for Bookclubs. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Girls I Know — by Douglas Trevor. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., 303-322-7727. Tuesday, Aug. 27 Geology Underfoot Along Colorado’s Front Range — by Terri Cook and Lon Abbott. 7:30
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Intuit. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
AdrienneO and Roniit. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Elhabib and Wellington Bullings. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
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Interstate Express. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
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Thursday, Aug. 22
Birkenstock, Dansko, Keen, Merrell, Teva, Reef, Pikolinos ... HURRY! ENDS SUNDAY AUG. 25TH!
The CBDs. 6 p.m. Minglewood, 1606 Conestoga, Ste. #3, Boulder, 303-442-0585.
Meagan Chandler’s Soulful Acoustic Rock CD Release show. 7:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Saturday, August 24
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p.m., Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. Soul Food — by Adrian Miller. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., 303-3227727. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, Aug. 28 A Death at Crooked Creek — by Marianne Wesson. 7:30 p.m., Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub Meeting — Discussing Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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Peter and the Starcatcher plays in Denver through Sept. 1 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
50 Shades Of Loud. Heritage Square Music Hall,18301 W. Colfax Ave., Golden, 303-279-7800. Through Sept. 8.
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A . . . My name will always be Alice — Obscene/Courageous Theatre. Mary Miller Theatre, 300 E. Simpson, Lafayette, 720209-2154.
Bentathlon — Obscene/ Courageous Theatre. Time Warp Comics, 3105 28th St., Boulder, 276-356-8393. Through Sept. 7. Cabaret. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 6. Peter and the Starcatcher — Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1101 13th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Through Sept. 1.
RFK: A Portrait of Robert F. Kennedy. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through Aug. 25. The Wizard of Oz. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Aug. 31. Wonder of the World. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington St., Golden, 303935-3044. Through Sept. 1.
EVENTS from Page 43 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399. The Symbols — With Dan and Yoshi. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Smarter than a 5th grader?
TRIVIA NIGHT at The Lazy Dog
Wednesdays at 10pm
Technicolor Tone Factory. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355. Watersong. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.
events Art of the Art Tarot. 3 p.m. Spruce Street House Gallery, 1913 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-2572. August Comic Con Event — Geared for children and families. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Boulder County AIDS Project: Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous! 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Folders — Learn origami. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413099.
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Denver Roller Dolls. 7 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. Grand Opening Party. 10 a.m. Flip Flop Shop, 1110 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-997-7051. Herbal Tea Party with Lori Roop. 10 a.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, registration required, www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329.
WOW: Women of Wisdom at Meadows. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Sunday, August 25 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Barbershop Harmony Festival. 6 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4407666. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bluegrass Explosion with Patrick Latella. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Blues and BBQ featuring T. Moody. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Low Flying Knobs — Marimba band. 5:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Maria Quiles and Rory Cloud. 4 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Oh, Jeremiah — With Psycho Adorable. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Irish Saturday Evenings with The McTeggart Irish Dancers. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Pete Kartsounes. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313.
Krewella — CU students only. 5:30 p.m. Farrand Field, CU campus, http://programcouncil.com.
Tegan and Sara — eTown live radio taping. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Kundalini Yoga Workshops with Ana Brett and Ravi Singh. 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Adi Shakti Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962.
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Living in Lion and Bear Country. 6:30 p.m. Walker Ranch Open Space, call Larry Colbenson, 303-6786214, for more info. Mushroom Foraging with Jared Urchek and Michael Heim. 10 a.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, registration required, www.integrativebotanical. com, 877-202-9329. Tools for Activism on Oil and Gas Development. 10 a.m. Erie Community Center Mitchell Room, 450 Powers St., RSVP to andrea@erierising.com.
Comedy Night and Movie Night. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720328-8328. Kundalini Yoga Workshop with Ana Brett and Ravi Singh. 10 a.m. Adi Shakti Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. RAW: natural born artists. 6 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.
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Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Foraging with Wendy Petty and Erin Smith. 10 a.m. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, registration required, www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329.
Selasse and the Fafa Family. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
Grand Reopening and Welcome Back Bash. 5 p.m. The Spot Bouldering Gym, 240 Prairie Ave., Boulder, 303-379-8806.
Zing the Big Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
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Production And Lighting Techniques for Video. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Web Design Transitions Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Rocky Mountain High and Dry: Colorado in the Prohibition Era. Boulder History Museum, 7 p.m. 2205 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-3464.
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WATT? Amplified & Super-Charged Music Expression. 8 p.m. Aug. 23, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Electronic music takes various shapes and forms, from circuit bending to dubstep to the 8-bit video game soundtracks of yore. A group of Boulder musicians have gotten together to highlight the possibilities of electronic music for a concert at the Dairy Center called “WATT? Amplified & SuperCharged Music Expression.” Darren Kramer, Victoria Lundy, Mark Mosher and Gannon Kashiwa will collaborate in a performance that will feature theremins, computers, infrared audiocubes, and a trombone plugged into guitar foot pedals.
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Tuesday, August 27 music Beerasana. 6 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Janiva Magness. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Jon Weiss. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Katey Laurel. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Soul Explosion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday Night Swing featuring The Stilettos. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
events Comedy Open Mic Night. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Erie Writer’s Group. 6:30 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 888-861-7323. Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. WordPress - Creating Image Galleries. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.
Wednesday, August 28 music AZTeC. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Big Blues Jam. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Blues Jam hosted by The Firebreathers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Evan Cantor: Bob Dylan Album Night. 5 p.m. Minglewood, 1606 Conestoga, Ste. #3, Boulder, 303442-0585.
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Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Seth Phillips. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
events Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road,
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moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycling Team in their six-year journey to compete in the Olympic Games in London. Setting out against impossible odds, both Jock and the team find new purpose as they rise from the ashes of their past. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of backup singers. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
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Seven Samurai (1954)
Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington and Bill Paxton star in this saga of drugs and money. Rated R. At Twin Peaks.
Roger Ebert said Seven Samurai “is not only a great film in its own right, but the source of a genre that would flow through the rest of the century… this was the first film in which a team is assembled to carry out a mission — an idea which gave birth to its direct Hollywood remake, The Magnificent Seven, as well as The Guns of Navarone, The Dirty Dozen and countless later war, heist and caper movies.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Act of Killing When approached to make a film about their role in an Indonesian genocide, Anwar Congo and his friends eagerly comply — but their idea of being in a movie is not to provide reflective testimony, but to dance their way through musical numbers, twist arms in film noir gangster scenes and gallop across the prairies as yodeling cowboys. At Denver Film Society and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Sinbad: Make Me Wanna Holla A night of comedy and funk. Aug. 22 only. Not Rated. At Century.
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
The Smurfs 2
The gritty landscape of 1970s Texas Hill Country is the backdrop for this mood-drenched collision of love and crime. After his pregnant wife makes one false move during a bloody shootout, a bank robber faces a 25-year sentence that destroys his dreams of a family life. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Smurfs turn to their human friends for help rescuing Smurfette from an evil wizard. At Century.
The Spectacular Now With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, The Spectacular Now creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Blackfish
Edgar Wright’s Cornetto Trilogy
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The documentary Blackfish unravels the complexities of our relationship with orca whales, employing the story of notorious performing whale Tilikum, who has taken the lives of several people while in captivity. So what exactly went wrong? At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
A six-hour sci-fi comedy trilogy in which each film — Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End — features the Cornetto ice-cream treat. Rated R. At Century.
This biopic starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs follows Jobs’ power struggles in Silicon Valley. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Elysium
Kick-Ass 2
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In the future, two classes of people exist: the very rich who live a beautiful life on a space station called Elysium, and the very poor who carry on a dreadful existence down on Earth. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Homemade superheroes return to the screen as Red Mist plots his revenge against Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl, who get help from friendly imitators. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
In his first lead role after decades of playing supporting characters, James Cromwell (The Artist, L.A. Confidential) gives a tour de force performance in Still Mine, an exquisitely crafted and deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Spark: A Burning Man Story
Forest Whitaker stars as a White House butler whose 34-year tenure sees incredible social change. Based on the life of Eugene Allen. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Each year, 60,000 people from around the globe gather in a dusty windswept Nevada desert to build a temporary city, collaborating on large-scale art and partying for a week before burning a giant effigy in a ritual frenzy. Rooted in principles of self-expression, self-reliance and community effort, Burning Man has grown famous for stirring ordinary people to shed their 9-to-5 existence and act on their dreams. Spark takes us behind the curtain with Burning Man organizers and participants, revealing a year of unprecedented challenges and growth. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres
Crystal Fairy In this freewheeling comedy from the director of The Maid, Michael Cera (Arrested Development, Superbad) stars as Jamie, a shaggy, boorish young American traveling through Chile. While searching for a rare hallucinogen — the famed San Pedro cactus — with a trio of Chilean brothers, Jamie invites a mysterious hippie (Gaby Hoffmann) along for the ride, but her free-spirited personality quickly clashes with his selfabsorption. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Cutie and the Boxer A reflection on love, sacrifice and the creative spirit, this candid New York story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife, Noriko. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Despicable Me 2 It’s time for more Minion madness in this animated sequel. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Duel Driving down a deserted Southern California highway at a safe and sane 55 miles per hour, David Mann (Dennis Weaver) steps on the pedal to pass a large gas trailer truck. Moments later, the truck is back, dangerously tailgating Mann before abruptly cutting him off. For the next 90 minutes, Mann and the never-seen truck driver are pitted against one another in a motorized duel to the death. Writer Richard Matheson conceived Duel after a similar experience with a reckless trucker. Directed by the 23-year-old Steven Spielberg. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
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Fruitvale Station Fruitvale Station follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of Dec. 31, 2008, and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son, a better partner to his girlfriend and a better father. At Denver Film Society and Mayan.
Monsters University This prequel to Monsters, Inc. follows Mike and Sulley through their scare training. Rated G. At Colony Square.
Harold’s Going Stiff
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Harold is suffering from a new disease that is slowly turning him into a zombie. A young nurse, Penny, is sent to help ease the symptoms of Harold’s illness, and they quickly become very close. After an experimental new treatment fails, Harold’s condition deteriorates quickly and they end up on the run from a group of violent vigilantes. Part of The Watching Hour. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
A teen girl discovers she’s the descendant of a line of half-human, half-angel warriors who prevent demons from destroying the world. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks
How to Make Money Selling Drugs A shockingly candid examination of how a street dealer can rise to cartel lord with relative ease, How to Make Money Selling Drugs is an insider’s guide to the violent but extremely lucrative drug industry. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Pacific Rim When giant monsters rise from the Pacific Ocean, mankind turns to massive robots piloted by soldiers to defeat them. At Century.
Paranoia Liam Hemsworth, younger brother of action star Chris, is an entry-level corporate employee told to spy on his boss’s mentor. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
The Hunt
Planes
This film is a disturbing depiction of how a lie becomes the truth when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish. At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Kids will love this Disney spinoff of the company’s animated classic Cars. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
In a World... Carol, a struggling vocal coach, strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry’s reigning king — her father. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters In this sequel, Percy teams up with his other-wordly friends to go after the Golden Fleece. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Rising from Ashes Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jock Boyer
Still Mine
The Way, Way Back A lonely and awkward yet intelligent teenage boy begins his transition into adulthood. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
We’re the Millers Everything that can go wrong does in this comedy when a small-time pot dealer to the soccer mom world decides to help out some local kids. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
The Wolverine Logan must travel to Japan to battle an old acquaintance while stripped of his immortality. Rated PG-13. At Century.
The World’s End A pub crawl aiming for a long-awaited pint at the World’s End pub draws a group of middle-aged friends into a battle to save the world. Rated R. At Century.
You’re Next A family trying to make it through another reunion becomes the target of a massacre. Not Rated. At Twin Peaks and Century.
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riter/director Jeff Wadlow’s Kick-Ass 2 is “morning radio shock jock” offensive, which is a thematic departure from the source material written by Mark Millar. But is it better to flinch from the vile, reprobate, misogynistic glee of Millar’s comic miniseries or to be a limp, confused juvenile offender, flipping off passing cars and then running away when they stop? There is something truly horrifying and offensive buried at the movie’s core, but we’ll get there in a bit. Since we last left Dave Lizewski, aka Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), the world’s first “real” superhero, the idea has spread like herpes at the resorts where they film those MTV competition shows. The streets are just filthy with powerless, lame superheroes using spandex and stun batons to plug the sports car-shaped hole in their midlife crisis. But the sociopathic son of the last film’s big bad guy, Chris D’Amico (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), aims to be the world’s first “real” supervillain. To that end, he recruits an army of mercenaries, gives them racist supervillain names like Genghis Carnage and swears revenge on Kick-Ass. That’s the “A-plot” if you will, the one that sees Kick-Ass join a team called “Justice Forever,” which could have been a sick and hilarious skewering of the recent Marvel movie craze that culminated in The Avengers. Instead, Jim Carrey just has his dog bite mafia guys on the scrotum. Still, points to Justice Forever for having two female members, as opposed to the Avengers’ one. Sadly, those points are deducted because one of them is Night Bitch (Amy Anzel) and she fights crime in her bra. Testicle biting and sexism aside, it’s not the
A-plot that brings the offensive trouble. In the first film, the hubbub was over Mindy Macready aka Hit Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), an 11-year-old vigilante who was quite murder-proficient. But say this much: the first installment did not sexualize her. Apparently, since she’s all of 15 in this one, she’s fair game for a “grass on the field” joke and multiple references to her having “strange sensations” in the presence of hot young male flesh. Guess what? Still not the worst problem. The problem isn’t even the treatment of her “plastic” high-school nemeses, wherein she one-ups Mean Girls’ burn book catfight by causing projectile vomiting and projectile diarrhea (it’s why God invented CGI). The problem is the lesson Mindy learns. A 16-yearold actress playing a 15-year-old girl explains in the end that it’s a good thing she skipped her childhood and became an adult, kisses a dude and then rides off into the sunset. “Girls will be girls” has apparently become “you should grow up as fast as you can.” Kick-Ass 2 packs some cool visual swag and is never boring. Hell, even its insanely cartoonish violence is easily dismissed, unless assaults with lawnmowers and sharks suddenly spikes. But the “this is the real world, not a comic book” dialogue repeated ad nauseam combined with bizarre attempts to deliver some kind of sincere moments tank a franchise nobody was asking for. Kick-Ass was a clever sneer at “grim and gritty” superhero movies; Kick-Ass 2 really isn’t much of anything. —This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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s one of the largest low-wage sectors know that once they get to know the stories and in the country, restaurant work is data of what’s happening really behind the kitchmore than a tough gig — it’s an en door, it will change their dining experience industrial pressure cooker. Even at the too.” toniest restaurant, the typical server Unlike other low-wage sectors, like factory or or cook’s shift may be exhausting, thankless, farm work, restaurant labor is uniquely situated exploitative, unhealthy (many have to work when for a consumer-driven reform. Not only is servsick) or even coercive (when the boss threatens to ers’ work in the public spotlight, but customers call immigration authorities if they complain interact far more with their server than they do about unpaid wages). with service providers in similar professions, like The restaurant industry rests on a base wage retail sales. In our increasingly atomized popular that starves workers. Unlike other workplaces, resculture, the sumptuous meal remains that rare taurants can pay tipped workers such as servers as gut experience linking all of us to our primal little as $2.13 an hour on the assumption that sensual core. From the dazzle of five-star ambithey will earn something comparable to the reguance to the warm memories of your favorite panlar federal minimum wage of $7.25 through tips. cake joint, we cultivate a deep appreciation of The system has gender and racial biases built into our meals, even if we fail to appreciate those who it, as many women and workers of color are disfeed us. proportionately relegated to precarious tip work, To bridge the consumer and labor compolike server jobs. Poverty wages and limited oppornents of food activism, ROC has partnered with tunities for promotion keep them mired in the foodie initiatives such as the Slow Food moveindustry’s lowest tiers. Meanwhile the federal ment — an international lifestyle campaign centipped minimum wage has been flat, without even tered on naturalistic and globally conscious gasinflation adjustment, for more than two decades. tronomy — in an effort to improve the food and For more than a decade, the Restaurant agricultural system holistically. Opportunities Center (ROC) has been developTaking a page from popular books aimed at ing a new recipe for labor mobilization that bringing food wisdom to everyday life, like infuses grassroots worker empowerment with Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma, Jayaraman policy advocacy, adds a dash of media-savvy marhas realized that merging the messages of fair keting, and — to generate enduring consciousfood and good food requires “popular mass eduness in a high-turnover industry — stirs in streetcation on these issues.” To raise consumer awarelevel direct action and a global economic justice ness, Jayaraman says, “we looked at what made vision. people care about organic and local in the first In a recent interview, ROC co-founder Saru place, and it was books and films that very Restaurant workers are often paid low wages and lack the opportunities for promotion seen in other fields. Jayaraman (now director of the Food Labor recently drove millions of people who didn’t Research Center at the University of California, know about those issues, either.” Berkeley) reflected on her experience organizing Twin Towers after 9/11, starts her outreach small — Though not all natural-foods connoisseurs in a sector that has long remained marginal to the with the diner who pauses between bites to think consider the implications of their epicurean choices American labor movement. Her recently released about who prepared her meal and how. for farm workers or restaurant staffers, many of the book, Behind the Kitchen Door, encapsulates ROC’s “Ten years ago, before we started ROC, before leading voices in the foodie universe have been incorjourney from a hardscrabble worker center in Lower 9/11, I ate out a lot and never thought about the peo- porating a labor analysis into their political commenManhattan to a national network of activists taking ple who touched my food,” says Jayaraman. “After 10 taries. Food writer Barry Estabrook, for example, on a massively profitable industry. years of meeting literally thousands of workers in this brought the plight of Florida’s exploited tomato harJayaraman, who built the organization from the industry, my own dining experience has changed and see WAGES Page 54 ground up with a group of displaced workers from the we, as an organization, would like to let consumers
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Denver’s Civic Center Park. The food available in the park ranges from tacos to hot dogs to Greek to Indian, with gelato, cupcakes and coffee thrown in as well. Music, arts and crafts and kids’ entertainment rounds out the four-day festival. Admission to the festival is free; sadly, the food is not. More information is available at www. atasteofcolorado.com.
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Colorado’s restaurants and caterers. MC Hammer, whose 1990 album Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em was the first album in hip-hop to be certified diamond by selling more than 10 million copies, will take the stage at A Taste of Colorado at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1. Hammer recently appeared onstage with Korean pop artist PSY to perform a mashup of “Gangnam Style” and “Too Legit to Quit” that featured Hammer’s trademark dancing. Denver’s annual Labor Day festival will again occupy the first weekend in September, Aug. 30 through Sept. 2, in
Boulder’s Steelyards on 30th Street will soon be home to a new restaurant concept from longtime culinary instructor Christine Ruch. Fresh Thymes Eatery, at 2500 30th St., will be Boulder’s first community-supported restaurant, or CSR. Similar to the community-supported agriculture model, the CSR offers customers the opportunity to pay for a membership up front in exchange for money off at the restaurant every month and member specials throughout the year. Fresh Thymes will offer five levels of membership from $250 for a year, which in return gets members $12 to spend twice a month for at $288 value, to $5,000, which lasts three years and provides members benefits like two free family meals per season and an exclusive activity with Ruch once a year. Fresh Thyme has not yet published a menu, but its website emphasizes chef-prepared cuisine that’s convenient and locally sourced. The restaurant will be open 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday and closed Sunday. Its grand opening event will be at 4:30 p.m. Sept. 13.
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urgers are a thing nowadays, tizing complexity and depth of flavor and a new spot, Boulder’s that truly elevated this burger’s taste in Drakes Haus, has jumped the same way Burgundy lifts simple firmly into the fray, identify- chicken stew into Coq au Vin. ing itself as the “Home of For those accustomed to fast food the Merlot Burger.” Drakes also sports monstrosities, the burgers here may a logo spotlighting what one presumes appear on the small side, falling someis its namesake’s visage, a bespectacled where between a slider and a chain resand distinctively bearded fellow. For taurant single. However, pairing a sinreference’s sake, the logo’s facial hair gle burger with a side, like fries, makes falls somewhere on the scale between a for a more than adequate lunch. certain former San Francisco Giants Speaking of fries, there’s much to pitcher and ZZ Top’s recommend Drake’s Billy Gibbons. take. A $2 side of Med Drakes Haus A full bar, inviting fries doesn’t refer to 2850 Baseline Road, deck and unique menu portion size, but rather Boulder choices, including porto the Mediterranean 303-473-9000 tobello, chicken and adornments of fresh falafel sandwiches, as basil, feta and lemon well as sausage skewers juice. These garnishes and caprese salads, differentiate this contributed a bright contrast to the modernist venue from other burger earthier virtues of these potatoes, joints. Besides beer and cocktails, which had a perfectly crisp and golden espresso drinks and milkshakes are also exterior winningly accented by bits of on tap. skin. From the $4.25 burger menu, I My friend opted for a weightier ordered a South American, garnished side, a $5.95 bowl of macaroni and with peppery chorizo slices, the perfect cheese, updated with prosciutto. The choice when ground beef simply isn’t pasta retained the endearing creamy enough. Arugula and a compelling and tangy qualities of this classic withcherry fennel goat cheese rounded out out being too heavy, although adding this appealing sandwich. Friend Fred cured meat may have been unnecessary. opted for the Oregon, an upscale I also felt this was the one item of our cheeseburger featuring toppings like lunch that didn’t offer as much value as bacon, caramelized onion and the our other selections. Beaver State’s Tillamook cheddar. We concluded with a $3 bread While burgers sans merlot are also pudding drizzled with bourbon sauce. available, we opted to try the signature Some versions of this dessert can be vino-infused patties, and I quickly con- off-puttingly leaden, and in this case, cluded adding wine is no mere gimthe pleasing texture approximated a mick. The ingredient created an appericher take on French toast. The sauce’s
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ack when I was a kid, comic books were somewhat sparing in featuring real-life people, such as that one time Superman fought Muhammed Ali. But now the latest real-life character to join forces with a superhero is none other than Top Chef Masters winner Chris Cosentino. Cosentino helms San Francisco’s Incanto, and locally, he has been a guest chef at Frasca. Apparently, he’s also found time to join forces with Marvel hero Wolverine. They work together to solve a series of Bay Area serial murders in an issue released last month and co-penned by the chef himself.
sweetness could be dialed back a half notch, as sugar detracted from the more delicate qualities of this condiment. On the other hand, I’ve paid much more for bread pudding that wasn’t nearly as good. Drakes successfully fills the gap between fast food burgers and their tonier, sit-down, white tablecloth cousins. For the money, you’re unlikely to find a better tasting burger, and one could easily spend two to three times as much to enjoy a sandwich with comparable flavor qualities. For a quick and reasonably priced burger with a distinctive gourmet sensibility, Drakes Haus will likely be my go-to spot. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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vesters to the pages of Gourmet magazine in 2009, exposing middle-class readers to the labor groups trying to raise migrant workers’ wages in a deeply inequitable farm production chain. For restaurant workers, ROC has gained media attention by targeting high-profile establishments with their workplace justice campaigns; it recently waged a successful workplace justice campaign against celebrity chef Mario Batali’s Italian restaurant Del Posto. Workers come to ROC with complaints about a wide range of restaurants, from small eateries to elite whitetablecloth restaurant chains. But given ROC’s limited advocacy resources, the group selects its targets carefully. “We could choose to go after small mom-and-pop restaurants, or we could choose to go against restaurants who set standards,” Jayaraman says. So the group focuses its workplace justice campaigns on larger, influential establishments, “to encourage them to set the right standards.” To that end, ROC partners strategically with what it calls “high road” restaurants, which are run by responsible employers who make a point out of paying their staff decently and ensuring high standards in their workplaces. This may involve a waltz of compromise and political pressure on brandconscious high-end restaurateurs, culminating in a public agreement on workplace standards. In a sector that is less than 1 percent unionized, the payoff of winning over a boss in a restaurant where workers are not organized can make a substantial difference. Meanwhile, ROC aims to make the high road a good value proposition by steering consumers to invest in workplace justice when they eat out. In cities where diners are showing their values through their spending habits — be it ostentatiously sipping biodynamic wines or swilling Pabst Blue Ribbon — ROC is figuring out ways to corner the market for conscious consumerism that elevates labor ethics to the level of food sourcing ethics. Last year, ROC published (as a mobile app and booklet) a diner’s guide, sort of a Zagat’s for labor-oriented foodies, identifying restaurants that score high on criteria like offering paid sick days or good promotion opportunities for staff. Alongside efforts to challenge
unscrupulous employers and encourage decent ones to aim higher, ROC is trying to change the industry culture and public perceptions of the workforce. The industry’s profit structure is entwined with the dangerous misconception that restaurant work is by nature precarious and temporary, not to be taken seriously by bosses, consumers or even workers themselves. “The industry likes to say these are workers who move on to something else, so it doesn’t really matter how they’re treated,” Jayaraman says, “but the truth is that restaurant workers move from restaurant to restaurant, but they stay within the industry because a lot of them take great pride in being restaurant workers, and they enjoy the work.” One of the reasons ROC doesn’t try to do the work of a conventional union — by organizing one shop at a time — is that veteran restaurant workers move from job to job, often because they have no choice. Jayaraman explains that membership in ROC is portable, so retaining members “hasn’t been an issue for us, primarily because contrary to what most people understand, people do stay in this industry, often for their whole lifetime.” One of ROC’s most ambitious ventures is setting a good example by essentially becoming the industry. The organization has opened two workerrun restaurants, called Colors, in New York City and Detroit, which operate as full-fledged businesses catering to gourmet tastes and embodying the concept that a good place to eat can be a good place to work. The bustle in the kitchen at Colors seems far afield from, say, a picket line outside a crooked employer’s bistro. But the labor-led enterprise perfectly complements ROC’s vision of workplace justice: “What we’re trying to do in general is create collective prosperity in the restaurant [industry], for workers, employers, and consumers,” Jayaraman says. “So in opening Colors, we are working towards building a community-owned restaurant; one that can be shared by workers, employers and consumers; one that promotes the model of joint investment in an industry that’s better for everybody.” This story first appeared in the February issue of In These Times. — Featurewell.com Boulder Weekly
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I didn’t have the requisite number of tattoos to enter TRVE, but I lingered outside and quizzed people about the beer as they left the bar. I’m kidding, actually, which is the magic of places like TRVE: It’s an all-out metal bar, but everyone is welcome. You don’t need to know Judas Priest from Pantera to take a seat at the massive community tables and grab a couple TRVE brews. As for the beer, TRVE doesn’t disappoint. I’m not sure what the metalest of beers is, but TRVE has its bases well-covered with an American stout called Stout o))), in reference to berobed metal band Sunn o))), and a style it calls “Denver666 Common,” most likely taking its name from the album by Denver metal band Speedwolf. That beer in particular, named Death Ripper, is a unique brew, with a very hoppy aroma but not nearly as much hops in the flavor. Instead, the primary taste is earthy and deep, even though Death Ripper is only 4.2 percent ABV. Another remarkable beer on tap for our visit was Prehistoric Dog, a salted wheat. Do you salt your Corona? Trick question, don’t drink Corona. But at least with TRVE’s slightly comparable beer, you can decide if you ever would salt your Corona, were it the only beer left on Earth. Yes, TRVE’s wheat is miles beyond Corona, and the salt is noticeable but certainly not dominant. As the 10-ounce pour went down, I think the salt helped make the beer smooth and drinkable. The stout, meanwhile, is coffeescented and full-bodied, while the Atma (an album by Oregon metal band YOB) Belgian golden strong is sweet and yeasty, with caramel and a little cherry. Now I know Louisville or North Boulder isn’t South Broadway, so it doesn’t have to be metal. But hopefully a few in Boulder County will jump on board with the idea that tapping your beer can be done in style. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: I recently discovered that my 14-year-old stepson, who lives with us full-time, has been stealing, wearing, soiling, and hiding his toddler sister’s pull-ups. I’ve found them after he hides them in his closet, which also serves as a general storage area. After discussions with him, I’m certain that wearing them is a pleasure thing for him. (He says “curiosity,” but this has been going on so long that he knows what it feels like.) He has even stolen some of the neighbor girl’s Baby Alive doll diapers to wear and soil. We’ve told him he has to stop stealing diapers — from our neighbor, because stealing is wrong, and from us, because these things are flippin’ expensive. We are pretty grossed out by it, despite being pretty open-minded people. I may be more grossed out by the prospect of piles of dirty diapers hidden somewhere in the house, but the thought of purposely peeing your pants isn’t pleasant, either. I believe we have a fetish growing here, and I don’t think a parent needs to be involved in it, but he’s stinking up the joint. —Parent Is Seriously Stumped Dear PISS: Is your stepson a diaper perv? Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. “This may only be a case of ‘curiosity,’ just as his stepson says,” said Jesse Bering, PhD, a research psychologist and science writer who regularly contributes to Slate, Scientific American, and other publications. “Young teenagers can’t express their overwhelming urges easily. We provide no ‘socially appropriate’ sexual outlets for 14-year-olds, masturbation aside — which, let’s face it, can get monotonous. So his stepson may simply be exploring the available materials that he, ahem, comes across.” Bering, who just finished his second book about human sexuality (Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us), remembers doing some pretty freaky stuff himself at age 14. “I recall some exciting moments involving peeing in the bathroom sink,” said Bering. “It’s hard for me to get into the head of that lascivious kid I once was. The idea of pissing in the sink with an erection while looking at myself buck naked in the mirror isn’t particularly arousing to me these days.” Since it’s share time in group: I remember stealing panty hose when I was 14 — I’ve never told anyone about this —and I enjoyed some exciting moments looking in a mirror while wearing them. Just as Bering didn’t grow up to be a pee-in-the-sink fetishist, I didn’t grow up to be a panty-hosein-the-mirror fetishist. So while it’s
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“The artist is by necessity a collector,” said graphic designer Paul Rand. “He accumulates things with the same ardor and curiosity with which a boy stuffs his pockets. He borrows from the sea and from the scrap heap; he takes snapshots, makes mental notes, and records impressions on tablecloths and newspapers. He has a taste for children’s wall scrawling as appreciative as that for prehistoric cave painting.” Whether or not you’re an artist, Gemini, this would be an excellent approach for you in the coming days. You’re in a phase when you can thrive by being a gatherer of everything that attracts and fascinates you. You don’t need to know yet why you’re assembling all these clues. That will be revealed in good time.
CANCER
June 21-July 22:
Can you remember the last time you bumped up against a limitation caused by your lack of knowledge? What did it feel like? I expect that sometime soon you will have that experience again. You may shiver with worry as you contemplate the potential consequences of your continued ignorance. But you may also feel the thrill of hungry curiosity rising up in you. If all goes well, the fear and curiosity will motivate you to get further educated. You will set to work on a practical plan to make it happen.
LEO
July 23-Aug. 22:
“My story isn’t sweet and harmonious like invented stories,” wrote novelist Herman Hesse. “It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.” As interesting as Hesse’s declaration is, let’s not take it as gospel. Let’s instead envision the possibility that when people reduce the number of lies they tell themselves, their lives may become sweeter and more harmonious as a result. I propose that exact scenario for you right now, Leo. There might be a rough adjustment period as you cut back on your self-deceptions, but eventually your folly and bewilderment will diminish as the sweet harmony grows.
VIRGO
Aug. 23-Sept. 22:
Novelist James Joyce once articulated an extreme wish that other writers have probably felt but never actually said. “The demand that I make of my reader,” said Joyce, “is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.” Was he being mischievous? Maybe. But he never apologized or issued a retraction. Your assignment, Virgo, is to conjure up your own version of that wild desire: a clear statement of exactly what you really, really want in all of its extravagant glory. I think it’ll be healthy for you to identify this pure and naked longing. (P.S. I’m not implying that you should immediately try to get it fulfilled, though. For now, the important thing is knowing what it is.)
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Oct. 23-Nov. 21:
What will you do now that you have acquired more clout and visibility? Will you mostly just pump up your self-love and bask in the increased attention? There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. But if those are the only ways you cash in on your added power, the power won’t last. I suggest you take advantage of your enhanced influence by engaging in radical acts of magnanimity. Perform good deeds and spread big ideas. The more blessings you bestow on your fellow humans, the more enduring your new perks will be.
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:
You’ve been pretty wild and uncontained lately, and that’s OK. I’ve loved seeing how much permission you’ve given yourself to ramble free, experiment with the improbable, and risk being a fool. I suspect that history will judge a majority of your recent explorations as tonic. But now, Sagittarius, the tenor of the time is shifting. To continue being in alignment with your highest good, I believe you will have to rein in your wanderlust and start attending to the care and cultivation of your power spot. Can you find a way to enjoy taking on more responsibility?
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CAPRICORN
Dec. 22-Jan. 19:
“The person who can’t visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot,” said the founder of Surrealism, writer André Breton. I wouldn’t go so far as to call such an imagination-deprived soul an “idiot,” but I do agree with the gist of his declaration. One of the essential facets of intelligence is the ability to conjure up vivid and creative images in one’s mind. When daily life has grown a bit staid or stuck or overly serious, this skill becomes even more crucial. Now is one of those times for you, Capricorn. If you have any trouble visualizing a horse galloping on a tomato, take measures to boost the fertility of your imagination.
AQUARIUS
Jan. 20-Feb. 18:
“I want to be with those who know the secret things, or else alone,” wrote the eccentric ecstatic poet Rainer Maria Rilke. That wouldn’t be a good rule for you Aquarians to live by all the time. To thrive, you need a variety of cohorts and allies, including those who know and care little about secret things. But I suspect that for the next few weeks, an affinity for those who know secret things might suit you well. More than that, they may be exactly the accomplices who will help you attend to your number one assignment: exploratory holy work in the depths.
PISCES
Feb. 19-March 20:
To launch your horoscope, I’ll steal a line from a Thomas Pynchon novel: “A revelation trembles just beyond the threshold of your understanding.” To continue your oracle, I’ll borrow a message I heard in my dream last night: “A breakthrough shivers just beyond the edge of your courage.” Next, I’ll use words I think I heard while eavesdropping on a conversation at Whole Foods: “If you want to cook up the ultimate love feast, you’re still missing one ingredient.” And to finish this oracle, Pisces, I’ll say that if you want to precipitate the trembling revelation, activate the shivering breakthrough, and acquire the missing ingredient, imitate what I’ve done in creating this horoscope. Assume the whole world is offering you useful clues, and listen closely.
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mong the many troubling findings of a security of patient records. The key word is “confireport from the Office of the State dential.” Auditor on the administration of the Until the audit came out in June, it was assumed state medical marijuana regulatory systhe registry was located in a locked room on a single tem is that confidential information computer with only one backup disc and limited about medical marijuana patients has and is being access by public health officials. It was not available shared, possibly unconstitutionally, with other state on the Internet. Law enforcement could only receive agencies, private contractors and law-enforcement information from the registry after someone who agencies. was stopped or arrested presented a Registry ID Using the report’s findings, two advocacy groups, card. All law-enforcement inquiries were handled by the Cannabis Therapy Institute and the Patient and telephone, and only “one or two requests a week” Caregiver Rights Litigation Project, filed an emerfrom law enforcement came after normal business gency rules petition to the state hours. Board of Health seeking to stop law The state auditor found out that enforcement from gaining direct state agencies and outside contractors access to the registry. The groups working for public health during the were hoping that the issue would be period since 2009, when medical taken up at a Board of Health meetmarijuana applications multiplied siging in Denver on Wednesday. The nificantly, also had access to the regisstate’s response wasn’t available at try, many apparently without even press time. requiring a confidentiality agreement. The implications are especially Hundreds of people had access, with problematic for the more than few, if any, safeguards on how the 200,000 current or past Colorado information might be used. medical marijuana patients and their The audit found 15 reported caregivers on the registry, all citizens The Cannabis Therapy Institute breach incidents during the approxiis one of two groups trying to who signed up with the expectation mately one-year time period of the stop the state from sharing conthat their information would be investigation, and that 5,400 caregiver fidential MMJ patient information with law enforcement. securely held by the Colorado names were “inappropriately provided Department of Public Health and to the State Auditor” at one point. Environment (CDPHE), the state’s Caregivers weren’t even informed that administrator of the registry. Marijuana patients can their information had been mistakenly leaked. face discrimination in many areas, including employEven more disturbing, the audit found that the ment, housing, benefits, child custody, insurance and CDPHE, beginning in April of this year, “impleespecially in interactions with law enforcement, and mented an automated interface between the security of the registry is critical to that end. Registry and the Colorado Crime Information The state constitution itself is clear about the Center (CCIC), a statewide computer system that registry, which was mandated by Amendment 20 in delivers criminal justice information to law 2001. “The state health agency shall create and enforcement agencies. Using the interface, law maintain a confidential registry of patients who have enforcement officers can query a patient’s name, applied for and are entitled to receive a registry date of birth, and red card serial number to deteridentification card.” It’s a simple idea to protect the mine if a patient’s card is valid. If the patient has
a record in the Registry, the interface generates a response that includes the patient’s red card issuance and expiration dates, as well as the number of marijuana plants and ounces of medical marijuana that a physician recommended for the patient’s medicinal use.” The report adds, “It is not clear that Public Health has constitutional authority to provide information about patient plant and ounce counts through the Registry-CCIC interface.” Law enforcement will probably argue that it needs access after hours, but since it can’t get the number of plants in a telephone query to Public Health, why should it be part of the information gathered on police computers? Wouldn’t it be easier, more secure and less expensive to just hire a person after-hours to provide the information rather than making a private database available online to anybody in law enforcement? The audit also found that the Crime Information Center records every inquiry it makes, as well as the provided response, and those queries are maintained for at least five years and can only be accessed from CBI. So registry information is being kept in a “parallel database,” with little oversight and no transparency. If any of the findings of the audit are true, CDPHE and law enforcement have some explaining to do. Who would be inclined to apply for a medical marijuana card if he or she knew that personal information was being collected by law enforcement? With the passage of Amendment 64 last year, will medical cannabis patients be pushed to retail stores once they open? Will medical operations be pushed to move to retail, even though each is governed by completely different rules and regulations? And, once cannabis becomes available as a retail product to anyone with a valid driver’s license, will the state build a database of all cannabis users to share with law enforcement? Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com.
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