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Sex trafficking
(Re: “Tracking down the trafficked,” News, July 25.) Thank you for publishing this piece about this very real and very disturbing societal issue. I find all aspects of it to be appalling, from the demand for sex with children to the damage it does to their lives. One aspect of this trade that was not raised in the article is the use of chemical addiction to enslave these
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Highroad Finding the money to fund higher education for all by Jim Hightower
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uestion: Is making higher education available to every American more important to our national interest than letting Wall Street profiteers make a few more billions of dollars each year? Answer: Of course. Yet, our political leaders — pushed by Wall Street lobbyists — have been making the opposite
young women. Through volunteer work, I have learned that the pimps not only hang out in locations where vulnerable kids can frequently be found, but that they use alcohol and street drugs to entice them to cooperate. If they can get them hooked on these substances, it becomes easier to manipulate them, as drugs or alcohol rise to the top of the person’s survival priority list. When these children are “recovered,” breaking
choice for years. As a result, banksters have loaded students down with a mountain of high-interest loans, rising from just over $2 billion a decade ago to nearly a trillion last year. Worse, the financiers — either banks or government lenders — have become the gatekeepers of advanced education, shutting out thousands of young people wanting to get ahead, but not able to hurdle the formidable financial barrier. This is enormously costly to America — and completely unnecessary. The smart choice — as we learned from the GI Bill after World War II — would be to make college and professional training free. Universal access to higher education — i.e., free access — produces a very high return on the public’s investment, while also producing widely shared prosperity and a broadly educated citizenry. Of course, an up-front investment in a smarter, more productive, more
the addiction has to be added to the vast list of other forms of treatment and therapy they receive. Dena McClung/via Internet
Privatize this
Capitalism’s privatization vultures are hovering over the U.S. 36 and I-25 highway corridors. Dave Anderson’s see LETTERS Page 7
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democratic civilization is pricey. So where do we get the money to do what America needs? Get it from where it went. Wall Street’s super-rich speculators are now making millions of superfast, robotic financial transactions per second, generating trillions of dollars a year for them — but producing nothing of real value for us, while distorting and endangering markets. Put a tiny tax on each of those automated gambles by speculators, and more than enough money will come into the public coffers to free up higher ed for all. For information, check out United States Students Association: www. usstudents.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
danish plan What should we do with Edward Snowden?
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’m of two minds as to what we should do with Edward Snowden. Mind 1: Pursue the little traitor to the ends of the earth, drag him back to Washington in chains, and hang him from a 100-foot gallows on the mall (after a fair trial before the FISA court, of course). Mind 2: After the local buzzards have had their way with him (the ones with wings, not wing-tips), cut him down and give him a posthumous Presidential pardon, a state funeral, burial at Arlington and the Medal of Freedom. Fortunately, we can do both. Snowden needs to be punished as a traitor not just to deter future traitor wannabes, but because his treason has done incalculable damage to the country’s security. Gen. Michael Hayden, former head of the CIA and the NSA before that, says the information Snowden stole informs the country’s adversaries “of American intelligence’s tactics, techniques and procedures.” Glenn Greenwald, the reporter for Britain’s Guardian newspaper who is Snowden’s journalistic enabler, agrees. He says Snowden has documents that are “basically the instruction manual for how the NSA is built … very sensitive, detailed blueprints of how the NSA does what they do.” And “there are already reports of counterterrorism targets changing their communications patterns,” Hayden says. “And I would lose all respect for China’s Ministry of State Security and Russia’s FSB [formerly the KGB] if they have not already fully harvested Snowden’s digital data trove,” he adds. Some leftist and libertarian apologists for Snowden argue that these national security concerns are grotesquely overblown, that the supposed foreign threats are largely a product of neoconservative fever swamps, and that the path to true national security is to stop provoking other nations, peoples or religions. It is a narrative that seems plausible to a lot of people, and is likely to remain plausible to them — right up to the next time some excitable boys fly an airliner into a skyscraper, or a nuclear power plant, or a football sta-
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dium on game day, or blow up a van full of explosives in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge at rush hour, or merely shoot up the Pearl Street Mall on a Saturday night. Or until someone sets off a nuke in lower Manhattan. Then they’ll start howling about intelligence failures. Leftists and libertarians may be loath to admit it, but the United States and the American people have real enemies. There are actually people out there who want to kill Americans and destroy the United States — and who, given the opportunity, would launch attacks that would make the 9/11 attack look like a walk in the park. Snowden has made the job of protecting the American homeland and the American people orders of magnitude harder, by essentially handing over the complete order of battle of the lead agency in detecting threats to America’s adversaries. For that he should hang. But at the same time, Snowden has performed a service of incalculable value for the American people — by exposing the existence of a dagger pointed at the heart of American liberty. What Snowden has revealed is that the government’s counter-terrorism programs, which have had undeniable success in keeping people safe, are based on the government seeing and knowing — everything. Snowden’s disclosures, and the subsequent congressional hearings and press investigations of government surveillance, have made it clear that the answer to today’s version of the Watergate question, “What did the government know, and when did it know it?” is: “It knows everything that it is possible to know, and it has known it since it became possible to know it.” In other words, it has become the government that knows too much. In the interest of defending the American people against the threats of asymmetrical warfare in the nuclear age, the United States government has transformed itself into a surveillance state, which, if allowed to evolve unchecked, will transmogrify into a see SNOWDEN Page 9
working. Hmmmm...
LETTERS from Page 6
article (“The impacts of privatizing the turnpike,” July 18) lays out the framework by which the plug-uglies from investment banker Goldman Sachs and a consortium of capitalist soulmates are planning to rip off the Colorado taxpayer to additionally line their own greedy, filthy rich pockets. The concept of the privatization of public resources and services is simplicity itself: Let the public, through direct or indirect taxation, assume all the monetary risk and let the largely unregulated capitalist theft system reap all the profits. Anyone who puts the least credibility in Goldman Sachs and friends to manage and/or potentially own longstanding public services is either a congenital idiot or a cynical investor whose social philosophy is the public be damned. Anderson’s article has pried open the lid to the Pandora’s Box of allowing casino capitalism to venture into the public sector. It also raises questions that BW might answer in future articles, such as: • Did the General Assembly authorize the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to conduct negotiations to privatize services associated with U.S. 36 and Interstate 25? If so, who introduced the enabling legislation? And who ultimately signed off on the contract? Was Gov. Frackenlooper the signee, or was he otherwise involved with the contracting process? • Were conflicts of interest ever considered during contract negotiations? • Was the consortium awarded a single-source contract, or was there an open bidding process authorized by
letters CDOT? Did any sort of bribery or actionable influence peddling accompany the contract process? • Will public employees be fired or otherwise replaced by private sector workers? Will labor unions or the right to organize be discouraged or forbidden by the private corporations? • Why should a private organization be allowed to set toll fees on a publicly owned asset? That should solely be the prerogative of the public entity. • Why should a private consortium be allowed to prohibit any public road improvements near “their” toll road in order to maximize its profits through the forced deterioration of alternative publicly owned transportation routes and facilities? • Why has the contract been allocated for 50 years? Due to peak oil and its global ramifications, the taxpayer may be held ransom to agreements not socially nor economically valid even five years from now, much less 50 years. And there are many other questions that need answering. What needs to be done is to cancel the (CDOT) contract without compensation, refer the entire matter to the General Assembly and affected regional governments, and, if necessary, put the whole question of whether to privatize any state-owned public resource or service on a statewide referendum no sooner than 2018. It is also time to deprivatize — without compensation — all public resources and services privatized at all levels of government during the past 50 years. Dave Morton/Longmont see LETTERS Page 9
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Hippie haven As you may have heard, some real estate website called Estately recently ranked Boulder fourth on its list of the 17 best cities in the country for hippies. But they didn’t really do their homework. Apparently one of the driving factors in the high ranking was the 4/20 pot smokefest on the University of Colorado campus, which CU officials have done their best to snuff out the past two years. Estately.com acknowledges that the gathering happens “almost every year,” an apparent nod to the campus closures in recent years, but it says the event features between 8,000 and 15,000 people. Not any more it don’t, thanks to the heavy-handed gestapos running CU. The Estately blurb on Boulder declares that while the city has “reinvented itself as an affluent outdoorsy town,” it is “still very rooted in its hippie traditions,” like public nudity. Well, there’s another strike, folks, since things like naked pumpkin runs and bike rides have fizzled. Our favorite line from their description of our weed-infested city? “The local bread may be gluten-free, but practically the whole damn town is baked.” We wish more of our hippie roots had survived our reinvention as an “affluent outdoorsy town.” Keep Boulder weird, people. Time for tolls So there has been much ballyhooing this week about the idea of toll lanes on I-70. Better get over it, folks, it’s coming, and it’s long overdue. If you’re like us, the constipation of I-70 has sometimes been a real deterrent to weekend trips to the mountains, or has at least prompted more back-road adventures to avoid the mess. The mountain communities and power brokers in Denver like the Colorado Department of Transportation have been hemming and hawing and wringing their hands about what to do with the parking lot on I-70 for literally decades. Countless committees, task forces, boards, commissions and working groups have studied the issue to death. In the mid-1990s, there was talk of building a high-tech, spaceage monorail that would have traveled over Loveland Pass, having already earned its extreme-weather stripes in the Alps. Speculation has been that the long-debated plans for a high-speed train of some sort was opposed by those who benefit financially from the current arrangement built on the shoulders of the asphalt, oil and gas industries. Enough talk already. Let’s get on with uncorking that stoppage, and the only feasible way in the current corporate/political environment seems to be building reversible toll lanes that can be westbound on Saturday mornings and eastbound on Sunday afternoons. And it just makes sense to have those who use the highway pay for the improvements. Unfortunately, it seems the best we can do in the alternative transportation department is throw in some buses. Sad. But let’s get on with it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Savage response
(Re: “A dose of erotica and call me in the morning,” Savage Love, July 4.) Dear Dad, oh, excuse me, Dan. Please. I don’t need one more man telling me he knows better my sexuality than I do, much less a gay man like you, quoting another man (gay or straight, it really doesn’t matter, except that a gay man proclaims sexual disinterest in women altogether — except in some cases such as ... trying to be straight, marrying a woman for children etc.). It’s about the same as a men’s group in Boulder sporting some ferocious animal totem being led by a woman who’s never had children but makes it her profession to regress people into infantilism on every level. — Really Roaring Rageful Ranter Ruby Rain/via Internet
Twain and the ‘N’ word
(Re: “Really Bad Ideas,” June 27.) As most Americans find the hypocritical foolishness of the scandal built around something Paula Deen said over two decades ago, I am reminded of one of the “classic” examples of the same kind of politically correct hogwash. Only a few days ago, I was talking to a recent high school graduate and asked her what she knew about Mark Twain. Basically she had heard the name but that was it. Several years ago, the books of one of America’s greatest writers, Mark Twain, were removed from many school libraries because in his books, he used the “N” word. No one bothered to mention that Twain was a lifelong abolitionist who actively spoke out for the rights
letters of the black man and fought against slavery. This first came to my knowledge when I watched a movie about one of Twain’s lesser-known books by the name of Pudd’nhead Wilson. The evil of slavery was clearly revealed in this work. In Twain’s better-known works, he was more subtle. He wrote stories that both the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery folks would enjoy. In Huckleberry Finn, one of the main characters was “N***** Jim.” Jim was a slave and Huck’s close friend. When Jim sought to escape to freedom, Huck assisted him. The readers on both sides of the slavery issue found themselves hoping that Jim would succeed in his quest for freedom. This was Mark Twain’s intention. He was generating sympathy for the slave. In visiting Twain’s Connecticut home, I was surprised to learn that Twain’s next-door neighbor was none other than Harriett Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Twain and Stowe worked together in their efforts against slavery. The books of both authors contained the “N” word. But whereas Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a blatant attack against slavery, Twain’s works were more subtle, trying to open the eyes of readers who weren’t thinking about slavery one way or the other. Stowe’s works are honored in our schools. Twain’s are not. What asinine foolishness. This is only one of many examples of how politically correct insanity has robbed the younger generation of a good education in favor of political extremism. God have mercy on us! Steve Casey/Stonewall, La.
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totalitarian state. The problem is that once the government has the capability of collecting information that reveals potential terrorism and crime, it must collect it. And once it has collected the information, it must act on it. It can’t help itself. To do otherwise would be dereliction of duty — and would actually be immoral. The way to prevent the emergence of a totalitarian state that will inevitably evolve from the surveillance state that is now in place is to dismantle the surveillance state and not collect the information in the first place — and to explicitly agree to live dangerously in the interest of living free. Boulder Weekly
Whether a country that is crawling with nanny statists and neurotics who are afraid of everything from guns to fracking to Big Gulps to their own shadows has the guts to abandon the surveillance state remains to be seen. I doubt it. At any rate, for alerting the American people to the existence of the surveillance state, and for doing so in a way that is forcing us to confront its reality and its implications, Snowden deserves to be recognized as a hero. Posthumously, of course. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 8, 2013 9
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DISINFORMATION Were the facts given to city council about contamination twisted to push through the Dushanbe Teahouse project in 1997? by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
Courtesy of Dushanbe Teahouse
In 1987, the people of Boulder’s sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, gave Boulder a traditional Tajik teahouse as a gift. In 1990, then-Mayor Leslie Durgin appointed a citizen task force to determine an appropriate site for the teahouse. The task force examined several viable near-downtown locations and then chose the 13th Street site in 1991. Between 1991 and 1994, the city approved the 13th Street site location over a second location at 11th and Arapahoe, created a master plan for the development of the area, incorporated the Teahouse Trust and signed a 20-year lease with the trust to manage the teahouse, including its construction and future restaurant operations.
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ew would argue with the idea that the Dushanbe Teahouse, with its ornate designs, bold colors and intricate details, is one of the most beautiful and significant architectural achievements in Boulder County, or even the state, for that matter. But we now know that this cultural gem is sitting on top of a soup of contamination left behind by the old Federal Gas Company plant that manufactured gas from coal and oil at this same location on 13th Street during the first half of the last century. In the two earlier installments of this series, which are available at www.boulderweekly.com, BW has done extensive reporting on the history of the teahouse as well as the contamination at its current location, including what levels of contamination are present in the soil and groundwater at the site — as well as the potential dangers these carcinogenic toxins may pose now and in the future. In this, the third part of our series, we are examining how the current contaminated location of the teahouse came to be chosen from among the dozens of potential sites that were available to the project at the time of its construction in 1997. Reexamining the teahouse site selection process is important for several reasons. Primary among them is it appears that there has long been an inadequate process for getting accurate information concerning contamination from experts to city staff — and eventually to the decision-makers on city council. As a result of this often-flawed information chain, the city has on numerous occasions made costly, misinformed land-acquisition and land-use decisions, such as those surrounding the Valmont Butte, Beech Aircraft and now the Dushanbe Teahouse properties. Each of these parcels was known by city staff to be heavily contaminated either before the city purchased the land or, at a minimum, before the city chose to develop the property. Yet in each case, the city council was either not informed of this fact or the contamination problems were downplayed as insignifi-
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The 1996 Boulder City Council. In the back row, from left, are Spense Havlick, Gary Myre, Bob Greenlee and Steve Pomerance. (Myre later resigned and was replaced by Tom Eldridge in February 1997.) In the front row, from left, are Allyn Feinberg, Leslie Durgin, B. J. Miller, Don Mock and Lisa Morzel. At far left is former Boulder City Manager Tim Honey. At bottom, an undated photo of the Federal Gas Company plant shows one of the holding tanks in the background.
cant, only to come back and haunt the city’s budget at a later date. As a result of our elected representatives not being given all of the information needed to make informed decisions, the public has had to pick up the tab — several Boulder Historical Society Collection of the Carnegie Branch Library for Local History million dollars to date — for very costly environmental remediation, remediation that could and should have been shifted to the actual historic polluters of the property. But even among these examples, locating the teahouse on top of the old Federal Gas facility stands out. It appears that the city council charged with making the decision at that time on where to put the teahouse, on behalf of the rest of us, was either intentionally misled about the contamination at the site, or gross incompetence engulfed the highest levels of city government, including the city manager at the time, Tim Honey, and several of his department managers. Based on an examination of public records kept Former City Manager Tim Honey says the inquiby the City of Boulder, the Environmental Protection ry into possible sites was exhaustive. Agency and other sources, it appears that city staff “Every issue, pro and con, was raised,” he rememmay have withheld critical information or even probers. “It was one of those Boulder process things vided false information to council regarding the conwhere no stone was left unturned.” tamination at the 13th Street site in an effort to push Stones may well have been turned, but what through construction of the teahouse in 1997. remains unclear is who exactly was privy to what lay Had accurate and complete information been beneath them. Those most closely involved in bringconveyed to council, it is likely that the site would ing the teahouse to the 13th Street Plaza in the 1990s either have been properly remediated before the have varying recollections about which city leaders teahouse was built — doing pre-construction cleanup knew what about the contamination at the time. in 1997 would have cost taxpayers a fraction of the Vern Seieroe, the architect who oversaw the cost that the city is now facing post-construction in teahouse project, recalls that prominent local business 2013 — or perhaps the council would have chosen an owner Frank Day and a teahouse task force had alternate, uncontaminated location near downtown assembled a group of banks to provide the financial for the structure. Unfortunately, we’ll never know. backing for him to run a restaurant in the teahouse, but after it came to light that the property inconsid•••• eration had been a gasification plant and was a possible Superfund site, the banks got cold feet because it After Leslie Durgin became mayor in 1989, the was too much risk. task force she formed to develop recommendations If the contamination was making banks jumpy, on where to put the teahouse examined more than 30 perhaps it should have made the city more cautious as well. None of the council members serving at the possible locations. time who were contacted for this story recalled being Durgin recalls initially thinking Chautauqua told about the banks backing out because of contamiwould be a good spot. nation concerns. It certainly seems like the kind of “None of us had seen this thing,” Durgin told information that the final decision-makers on such BW. “We had no idea how big it was. I thought it an expensive, high-profile, publicly funded project was a little pagoda, a little kiosk. I thought it was going to be like a pavilion.” should have had. Boulder Weekly
“The environmental conditions stopped the money, which stopped the project,” Seieroe recalls, adding that the future of the teahouse, which had been sitting in boxes in the city’s wastewater treatment plant for years, was up in the air. “Do you send it back?” he asks. “Sell it? You go through all options. It wasn’t like we had a right to sell it.” In a July 4, 1996, memo to city officials, including City Manager Tim Honey, Teahouse Project Manager Angela McCormick and Will Fleissig of the Department of Community Design, Planning and Development, Seieroe requested an extension for obtaining a building permit. He wrote, “The existence of this condition prevents all development until it is determined that the contamination does not pose a hazard to public health or that the hazard is mitigated. Further, given that fact, the project cannot secure
financing.” At wit’s end, Seieroe says, he and other teahouse proponents turned to Honey, who, along with thenMayor Durgin, helped shepherd a financing plan through City Council that relied on $700,000 from the sale of water rights to Broomfield, which, by the way, “turned around and built a mall that killed ours.” He called it a last-minute addition to the budget, and says “there was some heartburn with that I don’t want to go into.” Honey has a different version of why Day’s proposal for the teahouse didn’t come to fruition, and it doesn’t involve contamination. He says Day was the only bidder, and he planned to run a pizza parlor out of the teahouse, which everyone agreed wasn’t a suitable use for a teahouse from Tajikistan. “My recollection is that was the only proposal that came in, and it was just not considered an appropriate use, a pizza parlor for the teahouse,” Honey told BW. “I have a recollection of a conversation with Frank which was, if you want to have a different type of use there, if you want to have something that is reflective of the cultural asset that the teahouse is, then you’re going to have to think about different financing than just commercial financing.” Honey says it was then that city officials turned to the idea of public financing for the project. See TEAHOUSE Page 12
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But Mary Axe, president contaminated ground water, of the board of directors for which is not uncommon in the Boulder-Dushanbe urban areas. Coal tars, Sister Cities Committee and including PAHs, are almost chair of the Teahouse Trust black to brown, thick liquid told BW this week that or semi-solid, and viscous.” indeed it was the banks’ The document ends with reluctance to finance a conthis request, “Please notify taminated property that me if you encounter coal tar caused the Frank Day proresidues during your activiposal to fall apart, not the ties.” idea of a pizza parlor. “My understanding was it • 1/12/95 — the EPA was because the banks would sends a complete copy of its not loan to start construction Preliminary Assessment on a site that was contami(PA) of the teahouse site to nated, that they would lose the Boulder City Attorney’s financially,” she says. office and the city’s Day didn’t return calls Department of before press time. Transportation. The PA Durgin, like Honey, says includes a map showing that she has no recollection of the old gas plant sat directly banks getting cold feet about on the property where the investing in a business locat- This is the electromagnetic survey mentioned in the March 12, 1997, memo to city council. city was already constructing ed on contaminated land, a pedestrian mall and despite Seieroe’s claim that intended to build the it was she and Honey who had pushed through the ning in December 1994. A handwritten note at the Dushanbe Teahouse. It also states that as much as 2 $700,000 public financing plan because the banks bottom of the fax says that City of Boulder million gallons of contamination may have been dishad pulled out. Durgin may not remember the banks Construction Project Manager Stephanie Westhusin posed of at the site. balking at the site’s contamination, but she does was called at 11:30 am. It also says a follow-up letter acknowledge pushing the project through after years was being sent to the city. • 3/15/95 — A 39-page report by Huntingdon of frustration. Engineering & Environmental, Inc. is sent to the “The whole thing just felt like it was start and • 11/22/94 — The EPA officially notifies the City City of Boulder Transportation Department. stop, one step forward and two steps back,” she says. of Boulder that it has identified the 13th Street site Huntingdon had been contracted by the city to clean “I went to Tim Honey, who was city manager, and I as the former Federal Gas facility location, and states up a toxic liquid spill at the 13th Street site and have said, let’s get this thing done, it’s taken forever. … I that the agency is aware that the city is preparing to it tested. This report informed the city that “a ‘coal was not going to run for re-election, and I said I just begin construction at the property. The document tar’-like substance was encountered during trenching want to get this thing done. Did we acceleractivities performed at the site related to ate the discussion and decision-making? placement of underground utilities in the Yes. We did. We did, no question.” outdoor pedestrian plaza that was under construction.” The report also states that it •••• was Stephanie Westhusin, an employee at What city staff knew about contaminathe city’s Department of Transportation, who tion at the teahouse location prior to coninformed Huntingdon that the site “is in the struction is critical to assessing how the site vicinity of an historic coal gasification plant.” was eventually chosen. The following is a description and timeline of what the paper • 4/5/95 — The City of Boulder trail confirms that city staff actually knew — Department of Public Works sent a cover and when they knew it — as opposed to letter and a copy of Huntingdon’s 39-page what they now claim to remember. report to the EPA, attn: Pat Smith. Sue Ellen Harrison of the Boulder City • 11/4/94 — EPA files a Potential Attorney’s office is also copied on the correHazardous Waste Site Identification form. It spondence. states, “Potential contamination from gas production further informs the City of Boulder — both the utilizing coke and oil with byproducts of tar coke and Transportation Department and the City Attorney’s • 3/12/96 — A 67-page environmental report ammonia” may have affected the 13th Street site’s titled “Phase II Environmental Subsurface Soil office — that the site “is undergoing routine screen“local groundwater, surface water and on-site soils.” It ing as a potential hazardous waste site under Investigation Dushanbe Teahouse site, 13th and lists the contact for the property as Bill Hudson of Superfund. This site will be entered in the Superfund Canyon Street” is prepared by Maxim Technologies the City of Boulder’s Facilities Management database, CERCLIS, as the Federal Gas Company. A and given to the city. Maxim was hired as a consulDepartment. preliminary assessment (PA) is in progress and should tant by the City of Boulder to assess the soil contamination at the teahouse site. The final report states be complete within 12 weeks. Wastes associated with • 11/15/94 — A fax from Katy Larson of URS that it was prepared for “City of Boulder, Department former town gas, or coal gasification, sites include Consultants, the environmental assessment company of Community Design, Planning and Development, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phthalcontracted by the EPA to work on the former Federal ates, and inorganics. The most mobile component in attn: Ms. Angela McCormick.” Maxim’s subsurface investigation at the teahouse Gas site that had been listed as a potential Superfund groundwater might be naphthalene. Naphthalene site found substantial amounts of contamination in site, was sent to Pat Smith at the EPA. The fax smells like moth balls and can be smelled at a low describes the 13th Street site and states that the city concentration. PAHs are generally immobile in the See TEAHOUSE Page 14 intended to build a teahouse on the location beginsubsurface, but they can be very mobile in gasoline-
If the city intends to proceed with site development at this time, Maxim recommends a groundwater investigation be performed prior to construction. — Maxim Technologies
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the soils. Maxim also reported that the groundwater it encountered had a gray sheen on the surface and was likely contaminated from the Federal Gas plant toxins found in the soil. Perhaps most importantly, the report stated the following: “Based upon the subsurface investigation, volatile and semi-volatile compounds are widely distributed across the site. The presence of these compounds is consistent with historic onsite activities at the FGS [Federal Gas] facility. Since several of the compounds detected are carcinogenic, their presence in subsurface soils represents a potential concern to human health and the environment. “Since the EPA has recently performed a preliminary assessment of the site and an investigation is pending, the client should submit the findings of this report to the EPA to assist in their evaluation. “It is possible that the groundwater beneath the site may be impacted because of the contaminated soils. If the city intends to proceed with site development at this time, Maxim recommends a groundwater investigation be performed prior to construction. The purpose of the investigation is to evaluate the groundwater impacts and whether the site is likely to require cleanup.” •••• As evidenced by the documents above and others not listed, the City of Boulder staff had been fully aware of the Dushanbe Teahouse location’s former use as a town gas manufacturing plant by the Federal Gas Company since at least 1994. As further evidenced by the documents above, the city had also been aware for at least three years prior to the beginning of construction on the teahouse that the 13th Street site was substantially contaminated. During this three-year window, several other possible locations for the teahouse were being actively discussed. The question is, why would city council push to put the teahouse on the only contaminated site of those being considered? There is a likely explanation. Despite what appears to be clear knowledge to the contrary, a very different message regarding contamination at 13th Street was being presented to city council. In a March 12, 1997, memo to city council from Tim Honey, Angela McCormick and Will Fleissig regarding the proposal to issue a $700,000 loan from Windy Gap funds for the construction of the teahouse — a loan that, according to several sources, was desper-
ately needed to save the teahouse project following the loss of support from the banks — the following statements concerning contamination were made: “It is unlikely that a primary source for any of the soil contaminants exists on the Teahouse site. It is likely that the source of the contamination is emanating from an off-site location near the Teahouse parcel.” BW has been investigating the teahouse contamination for more than 10 months. During that time, we have made an exhaustive search of the public records concerning this site, from 1902 to the present. Yet we have been unable to locate any documentation in the City of Boulder’s records, those at the EPA or other sources that could be construed to support these statements made in 1997 to city council members at a critical time in the siting process. In fact, all evidence points to city staff, including those authoring the memo, as having been fully aware that the teahouse site had been a former gas manufacturing facility, and that as a result, contamination was widely spread throughout the site. Staff had also been made aware — many times over several years — that the 13th Street site was the source of all of the contamination that had been discovered. All of this was known prior to these two statements to council, which were inaccurate at best. Who actually made the decision to tell council members that the site was not the source of the contamination and that the contamination had come to the property from some other location is not necessarily clear. We only know whose names are on the March 12, 1997, memo. When asked what off-site property the memo was referring to as the source of contamination, Honey replied via email: “I have a vague recollection that the site we were looking at was the Open Space building across the street. I can categorically state that there was no intention to deceive or cover up.” He later clarified that the facility he was referring to was not, in fact, across the street. It is the Atrium Building, located next door to the teahouse on the north side, at the corner of 13th and Canyon, but there is no evidence that that property was ever part of a gas manufacturing operation. If the purpose of presenting this misleading information to council was to hurry the loan process and get the teahouse built at 13th Street, it clearly worked. Also contained in the same March 12, 1997, memo was a description of an upcoming electromagnetic imaging Boulder Weekly
news of the site that had been scheduled to be performed later that same week. The memo’s authors pledged to report back to council if there were any pipes and tanks still located on the teahouse site that the subsurface imaging might discover. Sure enough, recordings of the March 18, 1997, city council meeting reveal that Honey did give a brief report on the contamination and some pipes that were discovered by way of the imaging. This report was also accompanied by reassurances that the substances encountered posed no real threat. Honey told council members that one of the issues with the project was “our concern that there might be some environmental issues associated with the site, because when we constructed the plaza, we did come across some, um, material and some substances that gave us some concern. And so we have done an extensive environmental analysis of the site, including doing what I call an ultrasound imaging of what is below the surface. “And if any of you were over there on the site today, you would see some pipes that we have uncovered,” Honey continued. “And we now, I think, fully understand what was going on on that site, approximately 100 years ago, and we are satisfied that we do not have any significant environmental problems, and that there is no need to do any further work with the [Community and Environmental Assessment Process.]” Strangely, Honey never mentioned to council members that the imaging had also detected buried tanks and the subsurface remains of the old gas holders, the very items that we now know represent the highest levels of contamination on the property and most likely the costliest remediation problems the city faces in 2013. At the same time that Honey was assuring council that the contamination was not a problem and that the environmental assessment process had been closed, there was still debate among council members about whether to choose the 13th Street site, the civic use pad at Ninth Street and Canyon Boulevard or a late-arriving offer of a site at Celestial Seasonings. Staff ’s misinformation to council regarding the 13th Street site’s contamination likely played a major role in the majority of council’s willingness to move forward with building the teahouse at its current location. Contamination wasn’t even a substantive issue at the meeting once Honey had offered his assurances of its Boulder Weekly
insignificance. Council members kicked around the merits of the sites — and a few questioned the use of taxpayer money for the construction of the teahouse. But only one member raised a single concern about the contamination at the 13th Street site. Lisa Morzel noted that the Bureau of Conferences and Cultural Affairs had been willing to underwrite a percentage of the cost of the project, “but they could not do so because of the contamination issues on 13th Street. “I think the issue is to get it off of 13th Street,” she continued, “and put it on Ninth and Canyon, and that way we don’t have to deal with the contaminated land.” Council member Bob Greenlee offered a substitute motion to form another committee to perform a final 10-week evaluation of each scenario for the teahouse. Spense Havlick seconded the motion, but it failed in a 3-6 vote. Morzel joined the two in voting for it. The majority spoke in favor of the 13th Street site, and the original motion passed 6-3, giving a green light to the plan for financing construction of the teahouse at the 13th Street Plaza. Only Morzel, Greenlee and Havlick voted against it. “I think it’s time to get this issue behind us,” council member Don Mock said, according to the recording of that meeting. “It’s maybe not the best outcome, but at least, for me, it’s an acceptable one.” “I think the site happens to be the right site,” added council member Steve Pomerance. “I am strongly in favor of this site,” Durgin said, “and strongly in favor of using public funding, although I know it is different than we believed would be necessary in 1989, to put up this community treasure and to celebrate it, and not regret it, celebrate it.” Council member Tom Eldridge commented, “I think this is the best site that we have now, I think we ought to go ahead with this.” And former council member Allyn Feinberg said, “I’ve supported this project strongly for a long time, and have thought that the 13th Street site was really, really a good site for a public building.” •••• The final report on the Community and Environmental Assessment Process for the teahouse states that the “amount of contaminated soil on the site does not mandate a clean-up under any current state or federal program. See TEAHOUSE Page 17
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The soils on site will be ment at this time, Maxim excavated during the course recommends a groundwater of the foundation work, and investigation be performed the soils will be properly prior to construction.” disposed of.” The report No groundwater inveslater refers to that soil as tigation was ever conducted “approximately 3,000 cubic at the site prior to building yards of dirt which is the teahouse. And inexpliknown to have low levels of cably, it appears, based on petroleum-based contamirecords provided to BW by nant in it.” the EPA, city staff may This final assessment have failed to turn over a makes it sound as if the copy of that Maxim Phase contamination problem on II soils report to the EPA, 13th Street was remediated as its consultant had recduring the construction of ommended. the teahouse, but as we now We say inexplicably know, this was hardly the because a subsequent case. In fact, the depth of Maxim report, created just the teahouse excavation for two months later for tests the foundation was lessened of surface water and sedibecause the old gas plant ment in the area was, in pipes were a problem, due fact, turned over to the to their potential for leaking EPA. That report, unlike contamination during their the phase II report, found removal. So it was eventual- This aerial photo taken between 1939 and 1943 clearly shows that the gas plant occupied the parcel now that the contamination in ly decided that the pipes containing the Dushanbe Teahouse and 13th Street Plaza, not the northwest corner of the block where the Atrium the surface water/sediBuilding now stands. should be left in place and ment, while present, was simply encased in the either untraceable to the teahouse’s cement foundaadministration, based on the consultant’s report, that teahouse site or not high tion, where they still reside, along with any liquid contamination was not a problem, not an issue.” enough to warrant remediation. The answer to why contaminants still within them. She adds that council was told that “the stuff is the positive report made it to the EPA while the City staff actually told those constructing the there, but it’s buried deep, it isn’t moving, it’s all around more critical one seems not to have, based on a teahouse, and the city’s own environmental consultant the pipes. You’re going to build up, so you’re not going search of EPA records, like many unanswered queswho was monitoring the construction process, to to really disturb a lot of the soil, not to worry.” tions regarding contamination beneath the teahouse, leave all contamination in place unless it had to be But, as reported earlier, that isn’t actually what the likely rests with the actions of city staff. disturbed to accomplish the erection of the teahouse. consultants said, at least it isn’t what they put in writDurgin now acknowledges that she would have Despite the discrepancies previously scrutinized the 13th Street site more closely described, Durgin says she is confident that had she been aware of what is currently being Honey did not downplay the significance of uncovered there. the contamination to ensure passage of the “Frankly, knowing what I know now, having teahouse plan. done a site in Denver that used to be a gas sta“Knowing Tim as I do, and knowing the tion, I’d ask a whole lot more questions now kind of work he did as a city manager, I am than I knew to ask then,” she says. “Knowing confident he did not hide or bury or give short what I know now, would I ask for a couple of shrift to information,” she says. “I really am.” environmental assessments and really look at “Nothing was suppressed in this process,” the results? You bet. I honestly don’t think peoHoney adds. “Absolutely nothing was supple would have shortchanged the environmenpressed. Everything was out there in the open. tal concerns if they had been as heightened as … I wouldn’t try to second-guess whether we they sound like in your articles.” made the right decision or not. We made the But she says the suggestion by Allen best possible decision, based on the informaHatheway, a national expert on contamination tion that we were required to gather regarding the and remediation of historic manufactured gas siting of the teahouse. Everything was above-board ing and signed their names to, although it does sound plant sites, that the teahouse should be dismantled and done out in the public.” a lot like what staff was telling council. In the only and the site thoroughly remediated before reassemDurgin says everyone genuinely believed that the substantial subsurface investigation done prior to conbling the teahouse in its old spot, is taking things a contamination was not a big issue after consultants struction, Maxim, the city’s consultant, told the city, bit too far. performed an environmental assessment. “Based upon the subsurface investigation, volatile and “Take it down?” Durgin says incredulously. “Geez “They basically said, ‘Yes, it was used years ago as semi-volatile compounds are widely distributed across Louise! Holy camoly! I’d get a couple more opinions a site that probably generated some contaminants, but the site. … Several of the compounds detected are car- on that one.” that that is not a worry, they are not moving, they are cinogenic, their presence in subsurface soils represents buried deep in the soil, you can go ahead,’” she recalls. a potential concern to human health and the environ•••• Honey claims that he doesn’t remember interact“And we knew we were going to have to create a ment. … The client [the city] should submit the finding with the EPA over those four years, or the probfoundation for this thing, and they said, ‘You can do it ings of this report to the EPA to assist in their evaluawithout concern.’ … It just seemed like a lovely place tion. … It is possible that the groundwater beneath the lems with securing bank financing due to the site’s to make it contiguous to the farmers’ market. I think site may be impacted because of the contaminated See TEAHOUSE Page 18 it’s a great site, actually. We were told by the city soils. If the city intends to proceed with site develop-
‘nothing was suppressed in this process. Absolutely nothing was suppressed. Everything was out there in the open.’ — former City Manager Tim Honey
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contamination, but he says he does recall there being tremendous pressure to bring the teahouse project to fruition after it sat in storage for so many years, including opinion pieces in the Daily Camera that were “relentless” in saying the city needed to make up its mind: Either build the thing or send it back. “They editorialized on that constantly,” he says. “The pressure was the embarrassment of this sitting at the wastewater treatment plant for almost a decade.” The former city manager doesn’t recall working with the EPA, or whether the groundwater was ever tested, but he insists that the environmental assessment of the property didn’t raise any significant red flags. “I would imagine if the EPA said that’s a requirement they had to get to the bottom of it, we would have tested for groundwater,” he says. “If it hadn’t gotten the green light, we wouldn’t have put the teahouse there,” Honey explains. “We were following the regulations that were in place, in terms of how you deal with this kind of issue, and if something else has turned up since then, then maybe there’s a problem there, I don’t know.” When asked why the 13th Street property was chosen over non-contaminated sites, he replies, “It was just going to make it a very exciting, dynamic, desirable place, and as it turned out, that’s what happened.” “We struggled with where we were going to put the damn thing for years,” recalls former council member Greenlee. “And then, when it came about that there might be this location, you know, I think everybody was pretty enthusiastic about it. I don’t think there was much, if any, discussion about the issue or issues you’ve raised. I just don’t recall that.” He adds that the city’s approach has always seemed to be let such sleeping dogs lie if regulatory agencies give the green light. “Generally, the city’s response or reaction to such things is, if there’s some kind of problem environmentally, as long as we get clearance from the various state and local agencies that if we don’t disturb what may be under the ground, we’re clear and we can do whatever we want,” he says. Similarly, former city council member Havlick doesn’t remember anything about contamination at the site. “If there was any discussion about it, it didn’t bubble to the surface, no pun intended,” he jokes. “I don’t remember any concerns about that being a contaminated site.” Havlick says he favored placing the
teahouse at one of the other final sites that made the cut, either Ninth and Canyon or at the Boulder Public Library parking lot on the south side of Boulder Creek. He says his opposition to the 13th Street location was based on flood concerns, not contamination. “I feel badly that I don’t recollect Tim Honey’s memo or remember hearing about it at a council meeting,” Havlick told BW. “I’m deeply concerned that there is contamination beginning to seep away from that site.” He does agree, however, that this may have been one of the many instances that city staff, who control the information that council receives, guided council members to their preferred outcome. Havlick notes that staff “outlive any elected official, in terms of their job,” because city positions are generally good jobs that see very little turnover. “The elected officials very seldom have their ideas implemented,” he says. “It seems the staff drive many of these issues. I was naïve enough to think our good ideas would find traction.” •••• Morzel, the sole city council member to mention the contamination during that fateful 1997 meeting, has served on council since 1995, with a brief hiatus between 2003 and 2007. She recalls finding out about alternatives to the 13th Street site only by chance in January 1997, not because the alternative sites were presented to council by staff. She found out when St Julien co-owner Bruce Porcelli told her that he had approached Honey about his interest in having the teahouse at Ninth and Canyon a year earlier. Morzel says she raised the issue at a council meeting and found out about two other possible locations that had been offered: Celestial Seasonings and the now-defunct Crossroads Mall. She recalls gaining council support to direct Honey to present them with the full matrix of options, including what each would cost. “I was concerned [about the 13th Street site] because I was aware that the Public Service Company had its coal gasification plant there back in the ’50s, and there was potential for identifying contamination, and we’d be stuck with the remediation of that,” Morzel says, adding that the city ended up spending “a lot of money” to do the limited remediation it did do under the teahouse during construction. “I know we were informed about it, and a lot of work had to be done,” she told BW. “I think the contamination [during construction] was more extenBoulder Weekly
news sive than we anticipated.” When informed that no groundwater testing was ever done, Morzel replied, “I would’ve assumed they would have done more thorough testing of the entire situation … That’s surprising and disappointing.” And as a current council member, Morzel says, she hopes the city gets it right this time. “I certainly would hope that the city would do a thorough job in properly remediating that site, so that we don’t have to do it again,” she says. “To do something over and over again and get the same result, isn’t that called insanity? “If the EPA recommended our doing a more thorough remediation and we didn’t, that is unfortunate. The thing is, you pay for that. And it’s not us who are paying for it. It’s the taxpayers.” But the EPA didn’t tell the city to do more testing in the 1990s. The EPA didn’t tell the city to test the groundwater. Nor did the EPA tell the city it was a good idea to build a teahouse on the site. BW asked Pat Smith, the EPA official who handled the case in the 1990s, why the groundwater wasn’t checked. Her initial reply? “Nobody asked me to test the groundwater.” Sounds a bit like the city’s response — the EPA didn’t require it, so it wasn’t done. Obviously, a bad combination. What the EPA did do in the 1990s was to look at the site just enough to make the determination that the 13th Street site did not rise to the level of a Superfund site, which would have required quick, decisive action on the part of the federal government to clean it up to protect human health and the environment. Instead, the EPA relied on the city’s testing, and the site was listed as NFRAPed, which stands for No Further Remedial Action Planned. Smith says today that even if she had had the Maxim report that appears to have been withheld, it probably wouldn’t have changed her NFRAP designation because there weren’t many drinking water wells nearby in the direction of the groundwater flow. But the NFRAP designation doesn’t mean that the site is just fine the way it is. Smith concurs that just because a site receives that label from the EPA shouldn’t be construed as meaning it isn’t contaminated or is well-suited for any use. “I have to tell you, there are a lot of sites with NFRAP designations that have contamination,” she says. “It’s really a signal that you still have due Boulder Weekly
diligence to go find out what’s there. … You [the city] become the steward of that contamination. It’s not a problem for you if you continue to use it in a way that’s safe, protective, but things can change, like if chlorinated hydrocarbons or gas moved into the area and it wasn’t there before, that would be a changed condition.” And it appears that this is exactly what is happening at the teahouse site, because the EPA reengaged at the site in 2009, sending the city and the site’s former owner, Xcel, into investigation and remediation mode. Earlier in this series, BW reported that the groundwater monitoring wells put in place to monitor contamination reportedly caused by a spill from a former dry cleaning business just 300 feet away from the 13th Street site had shown contamination consistent with that found on the former Federal Gas site, indicating that the teahouse site contaminants were likely migrating in groundwater. But more significantly, if the contamination from the 13th Street site is making it to the dry cleaner’s spill site, then the chlorinated hydrocarbons at that site would likely act as a “mobilizer” for the former gas plant’s otherwise slower moving contaminants. And according to Smith, that could be a game-changer for the EPA. Interestingly, had the city or the EPA bothered to test the groundwater at the teahouse site in the 1990s, they would have discovered that there were already high levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons on site that Smith says could be acting as a mobilizer for the manufactured gas contaminants. But we’ll save the full groundwater story for another part in our teahouse series. It is important that the current city council — and future councils — be fully and accurately informed regarding the contamination at the teahouse site this time around. As the city plans its future by way of the Civic Area Master Plan, it would be a tragedy to put even more taxpayer money on top of the 13th Street site, only to see it someday wasted as a result of never having fully remediated the site. As the EPA is quick to point out, what we know about the contamination today can change tomorrow. This is why building on top of contamination without fully remediating a site first is never a good idea. But it’s hard to make that right decision if you’re never told the truth about the contamination to start with. And that is the lesson of the Dushanbe Teahouse. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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et in the boat. That’s where the advice starts. Get on board with the reality of global climate change and grab a friend to help row the boat. And then keep believing that with a little progress every day, you can cross any ocean. Even if the sharks swimming around the boat carry all the power and teeth of the oil and gas industry. Mary Pipher, author and therapist, doesn’t often indulge in metaphors, but that’s the message that comes through in the research and anecdotes compiled in The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves in Our Capsized Culture, her ninth book. In it, Pipher, also the author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, once again takes the therapist’s solutions-focused and observation-based approach to an emotional element of the modern age. She frames global climate change in terms of trauma, and approaches it with the language used to discuss how people try to emotionally evade engaging in any traumatic event — denying it ever happened, minimizing it through humor, claiming not to have any power to change the situation, casting the messenger as an alarmist or pretending not to care. Then, using her own experience working with a small group of activists from her Nebraska town did to stop Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried tar sands sludge across the fields and rivers, she talks about how to get past that stage of grief and denial and using action to overtake those emotions. “My belief is if, all over the world, people will mobilize to take things very, very seriously in their little corner of the planet and take very good care of it, that will heal the world and that will change the world and that will be enough,” Pipher says. “I really think that it’s important to work locally on issues and to really focus on the issues that are nearby because, first of all, that’s where people have passion. … That’s also where we have influence is in our own communities where we know people and we have resources.” On Aug. 15, before she and her husband make their
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… All power really involves is saying, “I’m going to be a player in this issue.” … As soon as you move from “Ain’t it awful” to “What’s our plan?” you move from being a victim to being an actor, and that transformation is absolutely critical.
a culture. So that’s really important to me that we find ways, we find vehicles that allow us to speak to each other about this honestly and openly. When activists come up against some of these big industries, like oil and gas, and what feels perhaps like insurmountable obstacles, what’s your advice for staying motivated? We stayed motivated for each other. We celebrated our victories. We did do a lot of talking about defeats … and we’re always focusing on what we can do next. One of our members, John Hansen of the [Nebraska] Farmer’s Union said, “Activism isn’t like planting corn where you throw a seed in a field and walk away. It’s like milking cows: It’s something you do every day, over and over again.”
You reference the term “solastalgia” — can you explain what feelings that word represents? Solastalgia is really an interesting term to me, it’s part of what I’m calling new language. One of the reasons we’re in so much trouble is we have very dated language and very dated concepts that we’re trying to use to describe and fix the problems we’re in, and I really believe that for us to move forward we need to have new ways of languaging these issues that will give us more insight into how to proceed into the future and also label what it is we’re feeling because we don’t Do you think there’s still time to actually even have words for what we’re save the planet? feeling. Solastalgia is a really good examNobody knows what time it is, is the ple of a word that labels what I think way I say it in the book. … It could be the almost everyone feels. end of Western civilization and life as we For example, I feel know it. Or we could solastalgia when I’m be at the beginning of near Boulder because just a grand and gloriOn the Bill: Mary Pipher I remember driving ous new way of living will be speaking about The Green Boat: Reviving Ourselves into Boulder 15, 20 on this planet. I know in Our Capsized Culture at 7:30 years ago when there we’re in a time of great p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Boulder Book Store. were a lot of little transition and that the decisions people make farms between the about how to be in the interstate and Boulder, next 10 years are of and now everything critical importance. that used to be little farms is housing developments and apartment complexes I remember when Reviving Ophelia and big-box malls, and that is kind of blew up, basically, it changed the dissolastalgia, that is a yearning for somecourse for what I understood about thing that was very beautiful and comteenage girls and growing up in forting that has been wiped away by America. Are you hoping kind of the change. same result comes out of The Green Boat And you think having that language — that you can really change the discourse? is a key component to acknowledging Yes I am. … [With] Reviving and engaging in climate change in a real Ophelia, I wanted to start a new converway? sation, the things that were being said I think it’s very, very hard to solve a about families and teenage girls did not problem that you cannot describe and fit what I was coming to understand articulate. about my own experience and that’s If you actually wanted to do an exactly how I feel about the way America experiment … go around to your various deals with global climate change. What I friends and bring up global climate understand does not fit the national dischange. You will get a host of responses course at all. The national discourse is from “Don’t bring me down” or “Yeah, still mired in a crazy debate about who God, it’s awful but let’s change the subbelieves and who doesn’t believe in global ject” or “Yeah the world is doomed,” but climate change, and I want to change the what you won’t get is an honest discustopic. I want to change the topic to, how sion of how profoundly that impacts all do we, literally, all over the world, in the of us in the way we see the world and how many implications it would have for next 10 years reach the level of consciousness that allows us to create a susour daily lives. … The way we work to tainable world for our grandchildren and avoid that topic, it’s not a passive kind of the great grandchildren of the fox and denial. It takes an enormous amount of the frog and the turtle. work and energy to deny something this Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com urgent and important this thoroughly in Boulder Weekly
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or 11 years, an attitude of refusing to let setbacks and disabilities sit him down on the couch once and for all means that Craig DeMartino is doing more — climbing harder, faster, stronger and smarter — than most people do with twice as many feet as he has. After a miscommunication with a partner led to a 100-foot fall while he was climbing in Rocky Mountain National Park, he waded through the pain and frustration of recovering from injuries to his neck, his lower back and his ribs, as well as shattered bones in his feet and ankles. More than a year after his fall, he decided the best way to improve his mobility and get back to the quality of life he wanted was to cut off his right foot. Craig DeMartino climbing in Eldorado Canyon State Park. Three years later, he was using his prosthetic foot to climb his way to medals at the Extremity Games, the X-Games for DeMartino wrote with Bill Romanelli. disabled athletes, and to become the first amputee to Between training schedules for upcoming 24-hour climb Yosemite’s El Capitan in a day. He’s now a spon- climbing competitions and having already qualified to sored athlete, spending his time bouncing from Canada compete in the World Championships next June, what to France, scoping out climbs and visiting outdoor prompts DeMartino to consider “Wow, you could die sports events and competitions, championing the cause doing this” comes in moments like coaching his of working past everything you thought might have 15-year-old daughter to get behind the wheel of his held you back. The story of his decade-long comeback truck for the first time. (She gets a lot of credit for getfrom being told he might live out the rest of his days in ting him back on the rock, too. It was her beguiling a wheelchair to climbing big walls in Yosemite is told “Are you going to climb next, Daddy?” that got him to in the recently released After the Fall: A Climber’s True rope in a couple years after his accident.) Story of Facing Death and Finding Life, which The 24-hour climbing competition in Arkansas he’s
doing in September? That’s just a chance to get worked. Like, brutalized. It’s all part of the ongoing journey — further exploring the answers to the curiosity that propelled him out of a wheelchair and back to the climbing wall. Now, he says, he’s actually a better climber than he was before he fell. Not just in terms of grades (he was sending tough 5.11s and easy 5.12s before the fall, and now is habitually on 5.12s), but in terms of his technique and efficiency. “I used to be able to kind of muscle myself up stuff … Instead of thinking about stuff, I would just kind of bull myself through problems or routes,” he says. “When I got hurt, all of sudden I couldn’t do that anymore. … So that whole first year was me learning to climb again and learning to climb smarter than I did before.” Despite certain moves being off the menu (heel hooks won’t work), like the fact that in cracks perfectly sized for his hands his prosthetic foot has a tendency to get so stuck he has to take it off to wriggle it out, and the prohibitive cost of his prosthetic leg ($2,000 each), meaning he can’t, unfortunately, get one leg built for trad climbing and one for sport, he’s crushing harder than ever before. “It’s still funny to me,” he says. “I’ve climbed routes that are harder, I’ve climbed walls that are harder, and it’s because I’m more thoughtful, I think. I’ll look at a
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route now and think, ‘OK, now how am I going to do asked if he wanted to do it. With minimal fuss, he tied this?’ instead of, ‘I’m just going to get on it and bull my that familiar figure eight knot and started up a 5.8 way through it.’ That gets you so far, but brute strength route. It was not, he reports, his most graceful climbreally doesn’t do much in climbing. You need power ing, nor did he come down feeling the sparks had been every now and again, but it’s more technique.” flared into a fire. He used to move his feet by feel, and if they didn’t “Had I planned it, I don’t know how that would feel their way to something solid, well, fine, he says, have went, honestly, because it terrified me,” He says. which wasn’t a very efficient system. Now, he’s watch“As I’ve gone further down the road, looking back to it, ing his feet all the time and mapping out multiple I would see my friends and my wife doing these things moves on a route instead of reaching for one at a time. and that part of me was still very much alive and sayIt’s opened doors, like when he became the first ing, ‘Gosh, that does look rad and I want to do that,’ disabled person to climb El Cap in a day (in 14 hours and my kids are great at just asking the obvious queson Lurking Fear with noted tion: Why wouldn’t you just go speed-climber Hans Florine) do it then?” and climbed Zodiac (5.9 C3+) The book that chronicles on El Cap in the first all-dishis whole journey, After the Fall, abled team to complete El Cap. has been a long time coming — Pete Davis and Jarem Frye were two years writing, and a decade the other two members. Davis, in the making. DeMartino says who lives in Ridgway, was born he’s glad he waited, in part to without a right arm below the connect with Romanelli, but elbow, and Frye, a Salt Lake also because, at this point, the City resident, lost a leg to bone story to tell is so much more cancer. Their climb was capthan the accident and the hostured in the short film Gimp pital stay. Monkeys. In addition to giving him a “It’s weird to me, I never chance to talk about his support went into any of this thinking, network, After the Fall also gives ‘Oh, I want to represent disthe lead figure in that group, his abled people,’” he says. “I just wife, Cyndy, a chance to tell her DeMartino climbing in Ten Sleep, Wyoming. went into it thinking, ‘I’m a side of the story — how scared climber, this is fun and I think she was to get the news, her this would be fun for me.’ So it sounds really selfish, struggle with managing the logistics and health insurbut that was my motivation. It was just, I think this ance battles associated with a spouse spending months would be cool, I’ve been healing and feeling better and in a hospital and rehabilitation center, how she came to I want to see what my body can do. It’s curiosity more terms with not being angry about the mistake and, than anything.” through it all, her constant hope that he would come The all-disabled team on El Cap didn’t start with a back to climb with her. The two met in a climbing message about working through disability, he says, add- gym and forged their relationship with ropes between ing, “It was like, hey, I think we can do this, I don’t them, climbing both rock and ice. know why no one’s done it so let’s just do that.” “A lot of people might be surprised at my wanting When they came down from the climb, he says, him to climb again instead of absolutely forbidding it,” they were startled to find that people already knew who Cyndy writes in After the Fall. But climbing taught they were and the route they’d just completed. them trust and cooperation. “He told me once that no “People get super-excited and it’s kind of weird, you matter what happened between the two of us, we could have to get your head around it because you forget, oh, always return to climbing and be on the same page. … yeah, right, we’re all disabled,” DeMartino says. “I just I really questioned what we were going to do as a couthink of us as three guys who climbed Zodiac.” ple if we couldn’t climb together anymore.” His return to rock after his amputation started “She came to me, this was probably three months from a similar point of simplicity. His daughter, after the accident and I was still in the hospital, and Mayah, then about 5, came down from a climb and she said, just very calmly, ‘What do you think about
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climbing?’ And I was like, man, I don’t know,” he says. “And this was really empowering for me, she said, ‘Look, if you never climb again, I understand that. If you climb again, I understand that as well, but you have to make that decision and I want you to make that based on your heart. Don’t do it because you think someone else wants you to, don’t do it because you think I want you to.’” They’ve come full circle now. Going to the climbing gym together and grabbing burritos afterwards is, as it’s always been, their idea of a date night. “She’s my favorite partner,” he says. The entire family climbs together now — their kids, Mayah and Will, who are 15 and 13, rope up with Craig and Cyndy to tackle sport and multi-pitch trad routes. DeMartino, as well as the two kids, competed in the American Bouldering Series this year. The days with his family, he says, have been the very best. The difference in hearing about DeMartino’s recovery from just about any other outlet — the Climbing magazine profile, The Gimp Monkeys short film, other clips on YouTube and articles by various news outlets — and hearing it in his own words comes down to one invisible component of his recovery: his faith. The narrative of his recovery as told in his book is never without the story of where he was in his relationship with God at the time. But in person, he says, that’s a conversation he typically waits for someone else to initiate. “I don’t want people to just go, ‘Oh, well, he’s this person who shoves it down your throat and that turns me off and makes my skin crawl,’ because if somebody did that to me, that’s what it would do,” DeMartino says. “People will come up to me and talk to me about it, and ask me questions about it and I’m more than happy to answer questions about, yeah, this is how my faith works in my life, but again I’m not going to sit there and say you need to do this. … I try to just — look, this is me, this is what I do, if you want me to talk with you about that, I will gladly talk with you about that. But I’m not going to shove it down your throat.” Frye has described DeMartino as “the one-legged Gandhi” and that comes through in a light, amiable air and an easy gait, neither of which bely the constant pain he lives in. He seems like a man with all the time in the world, not someone for whom the clock is ticking, as nerve damage has led to Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, meaning his leg fires off the pain its nerves remember from his fall at random intervals, a condition see DEMARTINO Page 26
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that is expected to spread through his body and often leaves its victims in a wheelchair. In the book, the tone is firm, declarative, perhaps at times almost rushed to get everything out. Above all, it is clearly the story of a man who has grit his teeth and hissed through the pain. “Craig is an amazing guy,” Malcolm Daly, a disabled athlete who visited DeMartino when the possibility of losing his leg first came into view, told Boulder Weekly via email. “When I met him he was lying on his back in rehab and didn’t know if he would ever stand, walk or have sex again, let alone climb. He pulled it together and now is probably the best amputee climber in the world. He regularly places in the top three in his age class in the X Games competition and has won every Extremity Games competition he has entered. “To do that, maintain his career as a photographer, stay married and raise a pair of great kids is a phenomenal accomplishment. We (in the gimp world) are in awe of him.” It’s all in mindset, DeMartino says. “It’s one thing to say ‘I’m going to try to do this,’ but it’s a whole different frame of mind to say, ‘We’re going to go do this. We’re just going to do this, period,’” DeMartino says. “I think that was what I took into my recovery as well. It’s like, well, you just tell me what I need to do to get better.” In pursuit of new boundaries, he
says, he’s talking with Davis about attempting the first all-disabled free ascent of Half Dome and repeating an aid route in Rocky Mountain National Park he was the first to free climb. The big push now? He’s building up endurance for the 24 Hours of Horseshoe Hell, where he’ll be the first disabled person to compete. “We’re gonna get worked. It’ll be great. It’ll be funny,” he says. “It goes back to that curiosity thing. I just am always wondering, ‘Oh, I wonder if I can do that?’ And sometimes you get shut down and other times you’re successful, just like with any objective.” In the spring, he’ll start training for the 2014 paraclimbing nationals in Atlanta. Closer to home, there’s an ongoing challenge: Staying a move or two ahead of his kids, who are becoming strong climbers. Is climbing different now? Sure. “I think I appreciate being out more now, whereas before I kind of took it for granted and that was more of a selfish pursuit for me,” he says. “It was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going to do this, it’s who I am.’ And when I got hurt, ... I realized, you know what, it’s a part of who I am, it’s a big part of who I am, but I have so much more in my life that’s important to me, so when I’m doing it, I’m more appreciative of it. I think it’s a great, amazing pursuit, I love doing it, but I also understand that it’s a gift.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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“Many of our team have worked on ARISE Music Festival has collabofestivals all over the country,” Bassis rated with Ozo Coffee to create the says. ARISE Blend. The coffee will be sold The theater will also feature films at the festival and its proceeds will benand workshops. ARISE will be split efit the Earth Guardians. into theme camps including the Hemp Martinez, who will speak about the Village, Kids Village and Organic Food negative effects of fracking and GMOs, and Beverage Village. More than 100 hopes that his influence will encourage bands, DJs, presenters, artists, activists action, but he will settle for awareness. and filmmakers will come together “I want my kids to walk in the with, Bassis explains, the mountains and swim in purpose of entertaining the ocean, the way I On the Bill: The and empowering. did,” he says. ARISE Music Festival “I think that the But Martinez is runs from Wednesday, Aug. 14, through intention behind this not the only youth Sunday, Aug. 18, at might go even a little bit voice that will be Sunrise Ranch. Visit deeper than transformaheard at ARISE. http://arisefestival.com for a complete schedtional,” Bassis says. “If I Boulderite Jaden ule. 100 Sunrise Ranch really think about what Carlson, a 12-year-old Road, Loveland, 970that means, and we have, guitarist and singer, 679-4200. if you come away from will take the stage with an experience transthe Jaden Carlson formed, the real questions Band. is how does that manifest itself “I was at a Michael Franti and beyond the festival.” Spearhead show with my mom and her Bassis expects that the speakers and friend and I looked up at the stage and documentaries will inspire people, not I said, ‘That’s what I want to do,’” she just at the festival, but beyond it. says. “I got a guitar the next week and One of said speakers is 13-year-old started lessons.” Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, the youth voice Another Boulder resident, Jamie for environmental non-profit Earth Janover of Janover & reSunator will Guardians. Martinez will speak about speak about the Unified Field Theory his dedication to the future of the envi- of physics and the ways it connects peoronment as well as his deep connection ple and cultures to their universe, as to the earth, which stems from his well as performing his eclectic mix of upbringing in the Aztec tradition. acoustic hammer dulcimer and elec“I’ve really educated myself about tronic music. He is a devout festivalgoer the environmental issues that are going and has performed with popular festival on today, but with all of this knowledge, bands like Phish, Bela Fleck, The I find it very hard not to act,” says String Cheese Incident and G. Love & Martinez. “People all over the world Special Sauce. live their jolly lives while the Earth is “I think that festivals are actually falling apart.” very important mechanism for society Boulder Weekly
and for our culture to exchange information and evolve,” Janover says. “I like to imagine that we’re pushing our culture toward a festival earth where the whole idea is to have fun and to make everything beautiful.” University of Colorado Boulder graduate Christopher Caligaris of live instrumental electronic bass project Godlazer is also no stranger to the collaborative phenomenon. “These festivals are moving toward this immersive kind of experience where it’s also about [the attendee’s] own journey, their own soul, their own evolution as a person,” Caligaris says. “It’s the only way we can create subculture — when do we really come together as a society and hang out? The only times that we do are these big gatherings.” Caligaris has some qualms with the excessive and dangerous drug use often associated with these festivals, especially electronic ones, but is somewhat optimistic that ARISE will move away from that. “I don’t know how we can work together to create safer and more enriching festivals but I think that’s what ARISE is trying to do,” Caligaris says. And perhaps, if ARISE lives up to the hopes of its collaborators, the festival will create a safer and more enriching world by educating, empowering and inspiring action in its attendees. “Action is the antidote to despair,” Bassis says. ”The ARISE Festival perhaps could provide some of that antidote to the poison of despair.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ne day, back when she was Kristy festival has grown in Kristin Kuster Peterson, composer Kristin Kuster got breadth and stature under bored. his leadership, and has preThe Boulder native was supposed to sented musical events that will always be cherished by be practicing the piano, but like a lot of Boulder audiences. kids she got tired of the pieces she had been assigned. Speaking of her commission, Kuster says, “I’ve been So she went into her father’s study, took out the sciswaiting for years to use ‘Devil’s Thumb’ as a title. I sors, and cut Mozart into tiny one-measure fragments. grew up in South Boulder. I could walk into my street Then she re-arranged the pieces into the order she and see Devil’s Thumb, boom, right there. I love the wanted to play them. rock so much, and it was ever present in my life grow“My poor piano teacher was so patient with me, but ing up.” now I can see that was me wanting to organize music Also ever present was the dramatic weather in in my own way,” Kuster says. Boulder. “With the mountains right Today Kuster doesn’t have to cut there we get to see the weather better On the Bill: The up Mozart to organize music her [in Boulder],” she says. “In January, Colorado Music Festival’s finale concert takes place on own way. A highly respected comwhen you wake up and the Flatirons Thursday, Aug. 8, and Friday, are all frosted and sparkly. Or a sumposer who teaches at the University Aug. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at mer evening sunset, when they’re of Michigan, she writes it that way to Chautauqua Auditorium. Tickets start at $10. Visit starting to slowly blacken, or the begin with. http://bit.ly/CMFTickets for morning sunrise and they’re all pink On Thursday, Aug. 8, and Friday, tickets and more information. and orange. They’re this canvas for Aug. 9, you can hear some music just 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. the weather.” the way she wants it when the Her father was a meteorologist at Colorado Music Festival (CMF) the National Center for Atmospheric Orchestra and conductor Michael Research, so Kuster grew up watching the weather. Christie premiere “Devil’s Thumb,” one of her newest “Watching the storms come from over the mounpieces. The 10-minute composition is the winner of the tains into the plains, it’s one of the most stunning 2013 “Click” commission from the CMF, chosen by things we can see,” she says. members of the public who vote for the composer of their choice by making online contributions. Kuster explains the relationship between Devil’s Other works on the program will be Pied Piper Thumb the rock and Devil’s Thumb the composition: Fantasy for flute and orchestra by John Corigliano, with “It’s a severe thing, this rock jutting out of the top of flutist Alexa Still; and the Fifth Symphony of Russian the Flatirons. The piece tries to encapsulate that kind composer Dmitri Shostakovich. of natural severity, and yet also the soaring beauty of This will be the finale concert, not only for the these rocks. The piece opens with a lot of brass, a very 2013 CMF, but also for Michael Christie’s 13 remarksevere opening. The opening comes back midway able years as music director. There is not enough space through the piece, and then things start to change. You here to pay tribute to his tenure, except to say that the know, like the weather.”
Corigliano’s Pied Piper Fantasy tells the familiar tale of The Pied Piper of Hamelin. The piece opens just before dawn and portrays the rising sun and the arrival of the piper, playing a distinctive tune. Succeeding movements describe the rats and the piper’s eventual victory over them. When the pompous townspeople — portrayed in “The Burgher’s Chorale” — ignore the piper, he lures children from the town and out of the concert hall. The score ends with the piper’s song receding into the distance, and the return of a melancholy darkness. Boulder audiences may know flutist Alexa Still from her years as a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder (1998–2006). A native of New Zealand, she is currently on the faculty at Oberlin. She has made more than a dozen recordings, including the Pied Piper Fantasy, one of her specialties. The concert, and 2013’s festival, will close with one of the most powerful, and controversial, pieces of the 20th century. Like much of the art produced in the Soviet Union, Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is shrouded in several layers of potential meaning that often appear impenetrable. The symphony’s rapturous reception in 1937 marked the composer’s return to official favor after a time as a non-person in Stalin’s Soviet Union. But it remains unclear if the rousing conclusion represents the triumph of Soviet communism, or was meant as an ironic comment on the vulgar taste of Soviet officials. Either way, it is an impressive ending for a concert, for a festival, and for Christie’s 13 years with the CMF. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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his summer, if you were on the prowl in Boulder looking for something to do, there’s a good chance you could have stumbled onto a standup comedy performance. After all, after years of inconsistency, four venues — Bohemian Biergarten (2017 13th St., Boulder), The Dairy Center for the Arts (2590 Walnut St., Boulder), Johnny’s Cigar Bar (1801 13th St., Boulder), and Amante Coffee Denver comedian Chuck Roy hosts a comedy showcase (1035 Walnut St., Boulder) — now every Sunday at Bohemian regularly host comedy nights or open Biergarten. mics. Local comics and hosts say that the explosion of comedy in Boulder is partially due to the robust Denver standup scene, which has developed into a national presence in the past five years. Boulder’s proximity to Denver allows comics from both cities to perform in both places fairly easily, but it’s only in recent months that Denver comedians could count on some consistency from Boulder’s comedy scene, says capitalopen mic night happening at Amante. based comedian Chuck Roy. So he started looking for a venue to “We Denver guys, we’ve always host a comedy night, and he landed at been going to Boulder and coming up The Dairy. empty,” says Roy, who, since June, has “Comedy-wise in Boulder there was hosted a weekly comedy show at really nothing,” Gold says. “The big Bohemian Biergarten with Brent Gill. explosion that has been happening “There hasn’t been a long-running recently has been extremely recently. … comedy club up in Boulder. Completely “’[The Amante open mic] was just the surprising.” only thing that was going on. So if you There have been attempts in recent were a comedian, your only choice was years to start comedy nights in to go to an open mic and be the assBoulder — the hole who interrupted Boulder Comedy all the acoustic guiThe next comedy night at Club at the Lazy Dog tarists.” Bohemian Biergarten will be on Sunday, Aug. 11, and the open mics at And just this past www.facebook.com/ The Bitter Bar and June, Tobias BohemianBiergarten Shine come to mind Livingston started Amante Coffee’s next comedy open mic happens on Friday, — but none of those booking a weekly Aug. 16, have stuck. When comedy open mic at www.facebook.com/ Brendon Lemon, who Johnny’s Cigar Bar. Amantewalnut. The next open mic at Johnny’s Boulder comedy performed comedy in Cigar Bar will happen on scene went from zero Detroit for more than Tuesday, Aug. 13, to bustling in less than a decade before movwww.johnnyscigars.com. The Dairy Center for the Arts a year, and people ing to Boulder in will host a comedy night on involved in the scene 2010, decided last Thursday, Sept. 12, say it’s about time. year to start performwww.thedairy.org. “I think Boulder ing again, there weren’t many options. has just been waiting So he decided to start his own night, for people to stand up and have a sense and he broached the topic with many of humor in the town,” Lemon says. venues around town. Amante was one “For a town that’s so super about raisof the last places he approached, and ing consciousness, it’s amazing that no management was amenable. The event, one has done this. What can raise your which Lemon says occurs once a consciousness better than intelligent month, began last October. humor? Humor holds up a mirror, and When James Gold started looking I think that’s interesting and fun.” for a place to perform comedy in John “Hippieman” Novosad is one of November, there was only the weekly the few Boulder comedians who has
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Thursday, August 8 music Ark Life and Natalie Tate. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
eTown Live Taping with Lord Huron and Joseph Arthur. 5:45 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4438696.
Broke Bridge. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Frank Turner and Haerts. 8 p.m. Outdoor Stage on the Hill, 8 p.m., 303-443-3399.
Corb Lund — With Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill L2 Arts and Culture Center, 1477 Columbine St., Denver, 303-321-3291.
Gifts or Creatures — With Longest Day Of The Year, Ben Hanna. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.
Dead Set. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Dechen Hawk. 9 p.m. Centro, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303442-7771.
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Thursday, Aug. 8: Phoenix, The Head and the Heart, Little Green Cars and Shannon Labrie, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 7 p.m.
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Saturday, Aug. 10: Fighting Fire With Music, Beer and BBQ, Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, Lyons, 2 p.m. Firefighter Appreciation Week kicks off on Aug. 10 with an all-day celebration featuring food, beer and live music at Oskar Blues Grill & Brew in Lyons. All proceeds from the event will benefit local firefighters. There will be a cruiser ride in Denver on Aug. 14, a 5k in Denver on Aug. 17, and a beer festival in Boulder on Aug. 17.
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To be blunt: The lineup for this concert is simply phenomenal. This is one of the most exciting shows hosted at the Fox Theatre in recent memory. Phoenix, a band capable of headlining Red Rocks (which it was scheduled to do Aug. 7 before weather forced a move to the 1stBank Center) is playing the 600-person Fox Theatre, and this is an extremely rare chance to see the arena darlings up close and personal. Of course, tickets to this sold out almost immediately. Those lucky enough to get one, though, are in for a treat.
Dexter Payne Quartet +1. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Saturday, Aug. 10, and Sunday, Aug. 11: Boulder Asian Festival. 1300 Block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 11 a.m. The Boulder Asian Festival, in its 19th year, will take over the Pearl Street Mall in the block in front of the courthouse Aug. 10-11. When you’re on the mall this weekend, pop into the tents to experience arts, crafts, food, music and performances from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Culinary offerings include those from Vietnam, Japan, Nepal and China, and the traditional Lion dance will be performed both days of the festival. And never fear, the festival is also zero-waste.
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In Latitude=45 Longtitude=122, at the Dairy Center, artist Liz Obert carefully documents the trash that blows into her yard.
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BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Oct. 27. Bunny Rosenthal Rubin. Boulder Public Library Arapahoe Ramp, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Aug. 28. Cheryl Carter Pierce, Norman Singer. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1000. Through Sept. 28. Coleigma Epitera — With Chad Colby. The Dairy Center for the Arts, Polly Addison Exhibition Space, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Aug. 11. Cut and Paste. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 15.
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Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 22. Perception: Color | Line | Power. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 25. 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. Spun: Adventures in Textiles. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Sept. 22. 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. Transitions — by Anne Gifford. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Through Sept. 8.
EVENTS from Page 39 303-485-9400. Jimmy Thackery. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. The Littlest Birds — With Aaron Blyth. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
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Narrow Gauge. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
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Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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Open Mic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
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Manic Botanic — With botanic art by Julie Clement and Mary McCauley. The Dairy Center for the Arts, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Aug. 11.
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Routes: Women of Boulder County. Carnegie Branch for Local History, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-441-3110. Through Aug. 17.
Phoenix, The Head and the Heart, Little Green Cars and Shannon Labrie. 7 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. LGBT Parent Group Meeting. 5:30 p.m. Parenting Place, 1235 Pine St., Boulder, 303-449-0177, ext. 201. Waking the Dreamer Within Festival — Through Aug. 11. SpringHill Suites, 1470 Dry Creek Drive, Longmont, 303-929-6122.
Friday, August 9 music Airborne Toxic Event, City and Colour and Saints of Valory. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Bill McKay. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6 p.m. The Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
Ron LeGault Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Brad Upton Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Steely Dan. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
DeltaSonics. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Don’t Stop Please. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
After Hours at the Museum — With Boulder Beer Company and Gravity Brewery. 5:30 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464.
Electric Red — With Thomas LaFond. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
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events Highwater. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jwall. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
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The Lone Bellow and Grace and Tony. 8 p.m. Outdoor Stage on the Hill, 8 p.m., 303-443-3399. Meniskus. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Mono Verde. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Pete Kartsounes Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Rhythm Razors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Sympathy for the Devil. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Todo Mundo. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
events Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performances. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder County Fair — Through Aug. 11. Visit http:// bouldercountyfair.org for a complete schedule. 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. Boulder International Folk Dancers. 7 p.m., Pearl St. Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-692-8213.
Thursday, Aug. 8 Boulder County Fair — Through Aug. 11. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235. The Boulder County Fair continues through Aug. 11 with everything from live music to bull riding to a demolition derby. There will be a pedal tractor pull on Aug. 8, Pro Tour bull riding on Aug. 9, the derby and a brew fest on Aug. 10 and Hispanic Heritage Day on Aug. 11. Visit http://bouldercountyfair.org for a complete schedule.
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Big Sid and the Wiggle, Dum Spiro Spero — With Matt Haslett and Jackson Emmer. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Discussion with Eduardo Strauch — With a performance by Los Bohemios. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Blue Sol. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
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MAKING YOU SAFE Thursday, Aug. 8 Gossamurmur — by Anne Waldman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living — by Wendy Jehanara Tremayne. 7:30 p.m. Historic Lodo Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-4361070. Friday, Aug. 9
Kind of Cruel — by Sophie Hannah. 7:30 p.m. Colfax Avenue Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Saturday, Aug. 10 The Immortality Complex — by Jerome Schulte. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.
Monday, Aug. 12 Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness — by Susannah Cahalan.7:30 p.m. Colfax Avenue Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Tuesday, Aug. 13 Everyday Oracles — by Ann Bolinger-McQuade. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644. Wednesday, Aug. 14 Maddie on Things — by Theron Humphrey. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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listen up Friday, Aug. 9 Electric Red — With Thomas LaFond. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. If a song is a canvas, then David Dovo, the “Executive Brain Entropy” behind Electric Red, has an eclectic palette. At his disposal are heavily distorted electric guitar, jazz-infused drums, polyrhythms, dialogue samples from vintage films and a bevy of electronic techniques culled from his experience as a sound engineer. The results defy categorization, a murky, funky, jazzy mixture that the band dubs “BassmentSpace” — “groove for the heady set.” Dovo’s driving, funky bass lines anchor the sonic play of guitarist Harvey Valdez and drummer Eran Asias, and saxophonist Josh Quinian and “sound design” guy Mark Koch provide the setting. Dovo also composes, having scored “Art and Apathy,” an official selection of both the Cannes and Tribeca film festivals, and has collaborated with The Last Poets and Public Enemy, among a long list of others. —David Accomazzo
EVENTS from Page 41 Dale Watson Gasoline. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Dana Kyle Stokes. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914 ext. 313. DJ Gangsterish. 11 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Dotsero. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Eye of the Heart Music Festival. 1 p.m. 1744 Lumpgulch Road, Black Hawk, www.EyeoftheHeartWildlifeRefuge.com. Hafla. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Hot Soup/SVT. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. G’Jai’s. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Gravity A and Milma. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Magnolia Row. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. National Songwriter’s Showcase — Hosted by Jenn Cleary. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Farmers’ Market, 13th Street, Boulder, www.boulderfarmers.org. Over the Rhine. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Raising Cain. 7 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Roots & Rhythm. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Sammy Dee. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Third Stream Duo. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Toad the Wet Sprocket. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Tom Weiser Jazz Trio. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Yonder Mountain String Band. 5 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
events 2013 Millennium Harvest House Bluegrass Festival. 12 p.m. 1345 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3850. Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performances. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590
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Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Boulder Asian Festival — Through Aug. 11. 11 a.m. 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-449-0108. Calico and Boots — Square dancing. 7 p.m. Glenn’s Den. 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-424-3472. Erie Air Fair. 10 a.m. Erie Municipal Airport, 395 Airport Road, 303-664-0633. Farm to Table Fundraiser Dinner — Benefitting the WOW! Children’s Museum. 6 p.m. Ollin Farms, 8627 N. 95th St,, Longmont, 303-604-2424. Fighting Fire With Music, Beer and BBQ. 2 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. GoPro Adventure Video Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Irish Saturday Evenings with The McTeggart Irish Dancers. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Left Handers Day — Events all day celebrating left-handedness and Niwot. 8 a.m. Visit http://bit.ly/ NiwotLeft for more info. Magical Mystery Detour. 8 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934. Michele Hale Trunk Show. 12 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Vines: An earth-conscious collaborative of fashion and music. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Women of the West group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099. The Wonder of Walden. 9:30 a.m. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, contact Larry Colbenson, lcolbenson@bouldercounty.org or 303-678-6214 for more info. Yoga on the Rocks. 6 a.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-8652494.
Sunday, August 11 music Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400. Blues and BBQ with Pete Kartsounes. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720297-6397. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Grandpa’s Cough Medicine. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Johnny Long. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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events Millican — With The Symbols. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Sarah Clanton Schaffer with Sam Rae. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Cee Cee James. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Sublime with Rome — with Descendents, Iration. 6 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
events Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performances. 2 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Comedy Night and Movie Night. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Fire making with Ian Sanderson — Registration required. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-202-9329. Nurturing Touch for Living in the Present. 2 p.m. Bodywork Bistro Living Arts Center, 3825 Iris Ave. #300, Boulder, 510-428-0937. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900. Salon Avalon Milonga. 6:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-668-7355. Tour des Farms. Call 303-807-6634 for more information. Volunteer Opportunity — Spend a morning picking the noxious oxeye daisy. 8:30 a.m. Nederland, visit http://bouldercountywildwork.eventbrite.com for more info.
Monday, August 12 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Open Mic. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Open Stage with Pete Kartsounes. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Rd. Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 ext. 313. Words in Flight. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
events Boulder Folders — Learn origami. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3099. Popular Fiction Book Club. 11:30 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.
Tuesday, August 13 music
Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. The Thurston Group. 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, 303-4636683.
events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Comedy Open Mic Night. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.
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Erie Writer’s Group. 6:30 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Fundamentals of Web Design. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Hearing to consider ballot titles for November 2013 election. 11:30 a.m. Commissioners’ Hearing Room, Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-441-3930. Mood Enhancing Herbs — Rachel Farinelli. 5:30 p.m. Registration required. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, www.integrativebotanical.com, 877202-9329. Night Hike at Bald Mountain. 8:30 p.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, Boulder, 303-678-6214. Rocky Horror Picture Show. 7 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
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Saturday, Aug. 10 Yonder Mountain String Band. 5 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. It’s safe to say Yonder Mountain String Band is Boulder musical royalty. The four-piece neo-bluegrass band sells out venues in ways lesser bands could only dream of, and the band hosts its own festivals and boasts legions of fans all across the country. The magic of Yonder has always been the band’s ability to get crowds of thousands dancing despite not having a drummer, and if previous shows are any indication, the upcoming gig at Red Rocks Amphitheatre should be no exception. And there’s more good news for Yonder fans: The band is finally talking about releasing a new album sometime in 2013, four years after their previous one. The Red Rocks show will provide a sneak peek of the new material. —David Accomazzo
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Amphitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554.Through Aug. 11. Richard II — Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Mary Rippon Amphitheatre, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0554. Through Aug. 11. Romeo & Juliet — Longmont Theatre Company, various locations, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Aug. 18. Triumph of Love — Centerstage Theatre Company, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 720-3206692. Through Aug. 11. 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 round. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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DeltaSonics Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Evan Cantor: Grateful Dead Album Night. 5 p.m. Minglewood, 1606 Conestoga, Ste. #3, Boulder, 303442-0585.
Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.
Jesse Garland Show. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Kevin Dooley. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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Sangha — With Laura Meyer. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Erie Lego Club for ages 6-13. 10 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.
Zen Mustache. 5:30 p.m. Bands on the Bricks, 1300 Block of Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-1582.
Junior Ranger Adventures — Leave No Trace hike. 11 a.m. Caribou Ranch, Nederland, 720-352-7041.
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Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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Hand Sewn with Maggie Evans — Artist reception. 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Introduction to Aromatherapy — Mindy Green. Registration required. Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, www.integrativebotanical.com, 877-2029329.
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Wednesday, August 14 Middle School Book Club. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200. Wednesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3099.
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Director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
When the crew of the Enterprise returns to Earth they find the whole place in chaos. Captain Kirk takes his merry band of space pals to a forbidding prison planet to restore order and exact revenge. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.
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It has the acting. Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington and Bill Paxton star in this “dirty cops out to screw each other” saga of drugs and money. Many a plot twist and lots of action in this one. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
In this inspired, genre-twisting new film, Oscar-nominated writer/director Sarah Polley discovers that the truth depends on who’s telling it. Polley is both filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by a family of storytellers. She playfully interviews and interrogates a cast of characters of varying reliability, eliciting refreshingly candid, yet mostly contradictory, answers to the same questions. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Attack Israeli Palestinian surgeon Amin Jaafari’s picture-perfect life is turned upside down when a suicide bombing in a restaurant leaves 19 dead, and the Israeli police inform him that his wife Sihem, who also died in the explosion, was responsible. At Chez Artiste.— Landmark Theatres
Still Mine In his first lead role after decades of playing supporting characters, James Cromwell (The Artist, L.A. Confidential) gives a tour de force performance in Still Mine, an exquisitely crafted and deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. Based on true events and laced with wry humor, Still Mine tells the heartfelt tale of independent farmer Craig Morrison (Cromwell), who sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife Irene (Geneviève Bujold). Rated PG-13 At Esquire and Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres
Before Midnight Jesse and Celine first met in their 20s in Before Sunrise, reunited in their 30s in Before Sunset and now, in director/ co-writer Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight, they face the past, present and future. Rated R. At Century, Mayan, Esquire and Boedecker.
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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a feature-length documentary about legendary Memphis band Big Star. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
band’s single most requested release. NR. At Century.
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After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, 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
This sequel to Grown Ups features Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade learning lessons from their kids on the last day of school. At Twin Peaks.
Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and star Ryan Gosling reunite for this intense crime drama set in Thailand, following a powerful crime boss seeking bitter vengeance for the murder of her son. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Conjuring When disturbing things start happening at the Perron family’s farmhouse, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine must step in to help the famiy. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
DCI 2013: Big Loud & Live 10 If you like marching bands and drum corps, then don’t miss this film that celebrates the world’s most elite marching music ensembles. At Century.
Dealin’ With Idiots Faced with the absurd competitiveness surrounding his son’s youth league baseball team, Max Morris, a famous comedian, decides to get to know the colorful parents and coaches of the team better in an attempt to find the inspiration for his next movie. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Despicable Me 2 It’s time for more Minion madness as this animated sequel starring the voices of Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Russell Brand and others is sure to be a family favorite. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Elysium In the future, only 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. This is one man’s quest to get from here to there and make things right. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Fruitvale Station Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, 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. At Esquire and Century. — Landmark Theatres
Grabbers At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Greatful Dead Meet Up: Sunshine Daydream This Deadhead meet up features Sunshine Daydream, the
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The Heat A foul-mouthed, dirty methods cop (played by Melissa McCarthy) is forced to team up with a suit-wearing, micro-managing FBI agent (Sandra Bullock) to go after a drug lord. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The Hunt This film is a disturbing depiction of how a lie becomes the truth when gossip, doubt and malice are allowed to flourish. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
I’m So Excited Passengers are put in a precarious situation aboard a plane flying from Spain to Mexico City when a landing gear failure endangers their lives. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Lone Ranger There is much action and killing as the Lone Ranger (Armie Hammer) and Tonto (Johnny Depp) take to the Western landscape in this TV-to-cinema redo. Rated PG13. A Colony Square.
Monsters University This prequel to Monsters, Inc. follows Mike and Sulley through their scare training and their attempts to join the best fraternity. Rated G. At Colony Square.
Museum Hours Jem Cohen’s quietly amazing, sneakily sublime new film is rigorously and intensely lifelike, which is to say that it’s also a strange and moving work of art. When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks explorations of their lives, the city and the ways artworks reflect and shape the world. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Off Label Doctors today are liberally writing prescriptions for psychotropic drugs such as Adderall, Ambien, Zoloft and Prozac (to name but a very few). In Off Label, Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher (October Country) examine our runaway pharma-culture by weaving together the stories of drugtesting subjects, Big Pharma representatives and many others touched by the rampant use of pharmaceuticals. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Opera de Paris: Falstaff Verdi’s final opera is a raucous comedy about the penniless, portly old knight Falstaff who gets tricked — time and again — by the young ladies who rebuff his romantic overtures. Starring Ambrogio Maestri, Artur Rucinski and Paolo Fanale. Daniel Oren conducts. Sung in Italian with English subtitles. 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. The robots aren’t enough, however, and an unlikely team must find a way to save mankind. At Twin Peaks and Century.
Planes Kids will love this Disney spinoff of the company’s animated classic, Cars. Just add wings and you know what to expect. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
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.
RED 2 While trying to clear his name, Frank must defuse a Cold War project involving an activated nuclear weapon in Russia. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
R.I.PD. Detective Nick Walker is recruited into the Rest in Peace Department, which is tasked with protecting the living from evil spirits, after a fatal accident. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
The Room
Determined to lose her virginity before starting college, Brandy makes a summer to do list of all the things she missed out on in high school. At Century.
Turbo Theo the garden snail’s racing dreams come true when an accident with nitrous oxide gives him the power of incredible speed. His newfound talent inspires him to try to win the Indianapolis 500. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Unfinished Song Unfinished Song is a funny and inspiring comedic drama about curmudgeonly pensioner Arthur, who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local seniors choir. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Wasteland After being released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Harvey Miller (Attack The Block’s Luke Treadaway) has revenge on his mind. He recruits his three best friends to help him rob the local drug kingpin whose betrayal put him away in the first place. At At SIE FilmCenter and Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Way, Way Back A lonely and awkward yet intelligent teenage boy begins his transition into adulthood during one transformative summer. At Century 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. He ends up in debt to his dealer and it all goes to pot from there. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
When Comedy Went to School Why are there so many Jewish comedians? When Comedy Went to School answers this question with an entertaining portrait of this country’s greatest generation of comics — the generation that includes Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, Jackie Mason, Mort Sahl and Jerry Stiller, all of whom make appearances in the film, delivering jokes and telling their personal stories. Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
This film centers on Johnny, a man who has it all: great friends, a good job and a gorgeous fiancée named Lisa. But Lisa’s innocent act masks the fact that she’s looking to bring Johnny down, and her manipulations are tearing Johnny apart. At Esquire — Landmark Theatres
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The Smurfs 2
World War Z
The Smurfs turn to their human friends for help rescuing Smurfette from an evil wizard. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
As the zombie apocalypse hits, a retired UN worker must find a way to stop the pandemic and save the world. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Logan must travel to Japan to battle an old acquaintance while stripped of his immortality. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
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t home or at a restaurant, people don’t settle for boring food. And when they pack up the family and head out to a campsite, Robin Donovan says, that shouldn’t change. “I think a lot of people rely on the obvious, like a grilled piece of meat or a hot dog, and it’s just boring,” Donovan says. The San Francisco-based author runs the food blog Two Lazy Gourmets and recently released a new edition of her book Campfire Cuisine, a gourmet camping cookbook intended for car camping. “Yeah, I mean, I think if you’re backpacking that’s one thing, if you have to carry all your food in,” she says. “But if you’re car camping, I don’t know why you’d resort to that stuff.” Donovan’s not the only one opposed to bad camp food. And other cookbook authors say even long-distance backpackers can set their culinary sights higher. “I mean people routinely, on long-distance hikes, they’re eating instant mashed potatoes,” says California author Linda Frederick Yaffe. “You can do better than that.” In the last few years, cookbooks and other products have sprung up to elevate the dining experience under the stars, as gourmet camping food gradually gains traction among outdoorspeople. Donovan says she knows there may be some resistance among traditionalists, but she says it’s time for a change. “There probably is tradition and people stick to
food in the pot. No cooking in the field.” Author Christine Conners is on board with drying food for backpacking as well. “We call for drying a lot,” she says. “Once you’ve broken into the world of drying your food, you can recreate it on the trail. People are a little intimidated by that, but you can do it in bulk and make mass quantities of food that way.” Tim and Christine Conners with their For Conners, who along dog, Roxy with her husband Tim wrote the Scout’s Cookbook series and the Lipsmackin’ cookbook series, which includes installments on backpacking, vegetarian backpacking and car camping, the big reason to go gourmet is to look forward to eating on the trail. “I think a lot of people don’t take into account necessarily the psychological component of looking forward to food,” she says. And she says people underestimate their hunger — and their need for calories — on the trail. “Premade items that are available often lack a lot of calories,” Conners says. “If you look at the packages, they’ll say, ‘Serves 2.’ But then each serving is only 200 calories. That’s not enough for a backpacker.” “Many people, they’re so hungry because they’re burning so many calories, they’re just craving food in a way we can’t really fathom from our homes,” she adds. Meanwhile, Donovan says she’s more familiar with the car-camping foodie set.
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their cheeseburger ramen soup,” she says. “Maybe they just need to make new traditions.” Yaffe, who has written High Trail Cookery and Backpack Gourmet, has a basic rule of thumb — a “mantra,” she says — for backpackers: “Cook at home, not in the field.” “I love to cook at home,” she says. “I’ve got a beautiful kitchen, I’ve got a deluxe food processor, I have nice hot water coming out of the tap — all those things I don’t have when I’m in the field.” Yaffe swears by a dehydrator to help her keep her options open while she’s outdoors. “It takes almost no fuel to reconstitute the meal,” she says. “You just bring the water level just over the
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Two big beers birthed
A rare Boulder-made lager will be released soon, in an annual sign that summer is relatively near its end. Avery Brewing Company has announced the release of the 10.2 percent ABV Kaiser Imperial Oktoberfest, which will be available in 22-ounce bomber bottles in liquor stores. Avery Director of Operations Steve Breezley says this year’s version of the Kaiser is maltier than past Kaisers. The Kaiser release party is 5 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Avery taproom. Also hitting shelves this week from Avery is one of its biggest beers, The Beast. The Belgian Grand Cru has cracked 18 percent ABV for the first time since 2004, and it ranks as “one of the biggest beers the brewery has ever made,” an Avery press release says. The unfiltered ale is made with six malts, six hops and six sugars. Avery owner Adam Avery says in the press release he “wanted something that bordered on liqueur, something rummy or maybe like Cognac.” Available in 12-ounce bottles, The Beast will be released this week to certain liquor stores. More information is available at Avery’s website.
Carrot IPA is back
Twisted Pine Brewing Company has announced the return of its popular carrot IPA, Roots Revival, available as a summer seasonal. Part of Twisted Pine’s Farm to Foam series, the beer uses hops from Montrose and Paonia, barley and wheat from Alamosa and organic carrots grown at Longmont’s Ollin
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Farms. The Roots Revival was released Aug. 1, in time for National IPA Day. It’s 7 percent ABV and 47 IBU, and will be available starting this week at Twisted Pine’s taphouse, “select bars and restaurants” and on liquor store shelves in 750-mL bottles. Twisted Pine’s Justin Tillotta says the beer will last “at least a month, maybe two.” He says the next seasonal from Twisted Pine will be Big Sticke double altbier, due out in the taproom in “a couple weeks.” More information about Twisted Pine’s beers is available at twistedpinebrewing.com.
The three varieties to get the aluminum treatment are Black Raspberry Nectar, apricot-flavored Sunshine Nectar and Nectar of the Hops. As nectars, all three are carbonated and are 8 percent ABV. Redstone has planned to can its mead for “a few years,” a press release says. But since mead is classified as a wine product, Redstone faced tighter restrictions on package sizes and styles. It eventually tracked down appropriate 500-mL (16.9-ounce) cans from the U.K. Redstone, which distills its mead and has a taproom at 4700 Pearl St., Unit 2A, in Boulder, is the largest craft mead maker in the country. Its website is redstonemeadery.com.
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Boulder honey wine maker Redstone Meadery, which already distributes its mead to liquor stores in 750-mL bottles, has announced that it will begin canning some of its meads in 500-mL cans, to be available nationally.
Chipotle debuting new concepts at Denver festival
At the Chipotle Cultivate Festival, previewed in a previous installment of Tidbites, the Denver-based restaurant chain will bring out a new type of taco and burrito filling that it’s been serving in the Pacific Northwest. Chipotle’s Sofritas tofu tacos will be available at the free festival, taking place Aug. 17 in Denver’s City Park. Chipotle will also be serving ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen rice bowls; ShopHouse is a Chipotle concept currently being tested in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, Denver’s Great Divide Brewing Company will debut a new farmhouse ale, called Cultivate, made in collaboration with Chipotle. The Cultivate Festival will also include a tent full of artisan food vendors, including Boulder bakers Absurdly Good Stuffin’ Muffins and Longmont’s Hops and Heifers Farm. Information about the free festival can be found at Chipotle’s website.
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ack in the ’80s, before microbreweries and tap rooms had entered the public consciousness, my parents and underage self took a tour of Washington’s now-defunct Olympia brewery. While I recollect that the bar at the end of the tour was an ornate carved wood affair, there was no food to accompany the beer. I suspect the desperate could have purchased beer cookies in the gift shop. Nowadays, many self-respecting breweries offer something to sink one’s teeth into, and Boulder’s awardwinning Twisted Pine Brewing Company is no exception. Located near 30th Street, Twisted Pine features a menu of comforting tavern fare that pairs well with the brewery’s signature ales. Appetizers here include grilled cheese bites, spinach dip and nachos. There are also pizza rolls accompanied by sauces like homemade ranch and pesto, soups and chicken chili, salads, sandwiches and pizza. Friend Keith and I started lunch off with a $3.50 plate of Chips and Salsa de Guillermo. This appetizer’s name presumably stemmed from the fact that this dip featured reclaimed peppers from the popular Billy’s Chilies, the somewhat incendiary wheat beer. For another two bucks, we added a portion of salsa’s comrade-in-arms, guacamole, although here the avocado spread comes augmented with, wait for it, a beer infusion. At first bite, I noted the salsa carried a note of fermentation, which probably shouldn’t have been surprising. However, it took me a moment to become accustomed to this unexpected tang. The repur-
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posed chiles packed real Twisted Pine heat, which Brewing was a pleasCompany ant contrast 3201 Walnut to the insipSt., Boulder id qualities 303-786-9270 of less aggressive salsas. As for the guacamole, it successfully melded the chunky and creamy, and the subtle addition of beer rounded out, but did not overrious hile perusing Twisted whelm, the word Pine’s menu, I noticed an smooth flavor. until I unfamiliar term embedded in East Coaster stumbled the following sentence, “Please that Keith is, he across the tell your zymerista if you have ordered the $8 term any allergies.” My curiosity piqued, zymology, which, in turn, relates to the study of I performed a Web search of the word “zymerisandwich known zymurgy. Unsurprisingly, these words have a Greek sta” and each hit contained a reference to Twisted as Some Dude origin, and zymurgy essentially refers to the hows Pine — not much help there. Fancying myself a Named Phil. and whys of none other than fermentation science. verbal gumshoe, I sought out variants of this mysteWhile the name’s a bit of a mouthful, this choice was nothing more cheese for a more than satisfying nosh. it compensated for this small shortcomthan a straightforward Philly For $9, I enjoyed the Flame Feathers ing via its rustic hand-tossed appearance and full-bodied yeasty flavor. Cheesesteak. In this instance, Phil was pizza, and happily, each of its literal Twisted Pine goes several steps smart not to stray too far from tradition, namesake elements was conspicuously as the sandwich consisted of a pleasantly absent from this pie. Instead it contained beyond breweries of yore by serving pillowy hoagie roll encasing chopped chicken infused with Billy’s Chilies beer, beer-infused offerings that are a pleasure steak, mushrooms, onion and bell pepper giving it a peppery profile similar to buf- to eat, even if they aren’t accompanied by an ale. Additionally, generous portions from Platteville’s 2R Farm. The kitchen falo wings, but without the off-putting that won’t break the bank make for an here understands that the cheesesteak is bite of vinegar. A slathering of tangy excellent value in a convivial setting permore than a light repast; it’s really a BBQ sauce counterbalanced the heat, fect for a casual lunch or after-work comforting indulgence. On this score, and plenty of mozzarella and cheddar decompression session. Twisted Pine’s Phil succeeded by piling added smooth dairy richness. While I Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com on moist beef with plenty of gooey found the crust a mite soft for my taste,
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“If you want to put on your backpack and hike miles and miles out, it’s not the book for you,” she says of Campfire Cuisine. At the same time, she recognizes that the point of camping is not hovering around the camp kitchen all day. “Nobody wants to spend the whole day cooking when they’re camping, so it has to be easy,” she says. “I didn’t want it to be food that was only good for camping,” she adds. Evidently, she succeeded. “Somebody just posted on my Facebook page for the book that they’ve been using the book all summer, they really like the recipes — and they haven’t been camping yet this summer,” she says. For car camping, Conners advocates for the Dutch oven for its simplicity. “Unlike a grill or something with propane, all you need is coal,” she says. “You can put it by your fire or use traditional coals, and you can control the temperature of your oven. … We don’t take it backpacking but we love it. If you have a favorite cake, you can bake it, because there’s a specific coal count that nails it.” The authors all have horror stories of bad camp food they’ve suffered through or seen others choking down. Yaffe says instant mashed potatoes are the “number one” bad dining decision on the trail. “They’re not getting protein, vitamins, minerals, any of that stuff,” she says. “They’re not even getting the potato skins, it’s terrible.” Conners says on the Appalachian Trail, near her current home in Georgia, hikers often start down the trail with a few bad ideas in their pack, and evidence piles up at huts on the trail. “We started noticing they were
loaded with food,” she says. “Giant jars of peanut butter, cans of chili, like why are people leaving all this food here? It occurred to us, people were bringing that food and realizing early on, especially with Amicalola Falls being gnarly, that that’s not going to work. Peanut butter’s great, but it has to come in a small jar. It’s just crazy.” She says even other cookbooks sometimes make suggestions she doesn’t understand. “A backpacking book calls for fresh blueberries,” she says. “I can’t even get those home from the store without them getting crushed.” Conners says she and her husband didn’t start collecting recipes only from their experience on trails. While living in California near the Pacific Crest Trail, they took advantage of an opportunity to draw from many people’s experiences. “We started taking in long-distance backpackers and started becoming fascinated with how they could go a week at a time without a resupply,” she says. As hikers stayed, she and her husband would ask them for recipes, making sure to give credit appropriately. Donovan, meanwhile, started through her own experience car camping. “I was doing a lot of camping at the time and I just found that one of my favorite parts of camping was cooking really great food,” she says. “And I just noticed that a lot of other people were eating really awful-looking food, and I started researching other books on the topic and found most of them were really horrible, mixing ground beef with cream of mushroom soup, things like that. “I just thought, somebody needs to, why not me?” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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rtisan craft brewers have wider interests than their audience. That happens with any art or craft, of course. The audience doesn’t always follow artists who push the boundaries. Katy Perry sells out more shows than Parenthetical Girls, and in this analogy, craft brewers are the band you’ve probably never heard of and Steve Weishampel beer drinkers are Katy Perry’s screaming fans. Yes, even craft beer drinkers, to some extent. Gradually, I think, the tastes of craft beer drinkers are separating from the interests of brewers. Actually, I should just say the taste of beer drinkers, because in many cases it seems they’re only after one thing: bitter, hoppy beers. IPAs are by far the most popular craft beer style. New Lafayette brewery Front Range Brewing Company ran out of its IPA weeks before head brewer Chris Dutton thought he would, and after the beer ran out, the Alt Red — Front Range’s hoppiest creation after the IPA — became the top seller. Take a look at how Dutton is spending his time, and you can see his interests are much wider than hopping up IPAs all day. He’s aging a coffee quad in rum barrels; he’s aging a peach Witte in red wine barrels; he’s finding a way to use real watermelon, not watermelon extract, in a beer. And he’s not the only one. Twisted Pine owner Bob Baile says the brewery is transitioning to a wider variety of experimental beers. Wild Woods just tapped a coffee ESB. Gravity Brewing, as always, has a wide range of unusual beers, from a bourbon-barrel-aged Belgian blonde to an orange blossom saison. Upslope’s Lee Hill bar has a barrel-aged Scotch ale. Jamie Wells of J Wells is planning the return of his bar-
leywine. Odd13 Brewing brewer Ryan Scott plans to barrel-age some of his beers. Bootstrap Brewing is aging three beers in barrels. And Avery, as always, has more beers brooding in barrels than I can count. Sure, breweries are always experimenting with IPA varieties, too. But put it this way: Brewers seem to be making IPAs at the same rate they make any other beer; beer drinkers are buying IPAs way more than they buy any other beer. And I don’t mean to suggest that breweries not making IPAs aren’t making money. But the reaction that I fear — which brewers routinely admit to at least considering, in the back of their minds — is that the almighty dollar will rule, and brewers will start to sacrifice creativity in the name of turning out another batch of the popular stuff. I hope that doesn’t become the case. Especially at FRBC, which has an exceptionally good mango wheat, sweet and smooth, which I finished without even noticing. And Dutton’s ingenuity is on full display in the ginger saison, a Frankenstein’s monster of FRBC’s farmhouse ale and a saison aged in tequila barrels with ginger added. The spice is on full display, not overpowering but quite noticeable, and the beer is delicious. And the watermelon Witte is smooth and subtle, as real watermelon contributes a less powerful flavor than extract — which, Dutton says, had all been bought up by FATE to make its watermelon kolsch. To which I say, hooray. I’ve read about hop shortages everywhere this year, although of course that doesn’t just mean lots of IPAs since almost all beers use hops. But a beer-related watermelon shortage? That sounds like one of them good problems. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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circumstances are technically unconstrained? If so, now’s the time to push for more freedom.
“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own LIBRA Go to RealAstrology.com to check out blessings,” says author Sept. 23-Oct. 22: Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO Elizabeth Gilbert. I recWhat resounding triHOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE ommend that you experiumphs and subtle transHOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes ment with this subversive formations have you idea, Aries. Just for a are also available by phone at 1-877accomplished since your week, see what happens 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. last birthday? How have if you devote yourself to you grown and changed? making yourself feel really Are there any ways good. I mean risk going you have dwindled or to extremes as you pursue drooped? The next few weeks will be an excellent time to happiness with focused zeal. Try this: Draw up a list of take inventory of these things. Your own evaluations will experiences that you know will give you intense pleasure, be most important, of course. You’ve got to be the ultimate and indulge in them all without apology. And please don’t judge of your own character. But you should also solicit the fret about the possible consequences of getting crazed with feedback of people you trust. They may be able to help you joy. Be assured that the cosmos is providing you with more see clues you’ve missed. If, after weighing all the evidence, slack than usual. you decide you’re pleased with how your life has unfolded these past 10 to 11 months, I suggest you celebrate your TAURUS success. Throw yourself a party or buy yourself a reward or April 20-May 20: climb to the top of a mountain and unleash a victory cry. “I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits,” writes Taurus author SCORPIO Annie Dillard, “but instead am wandering awed about on a Oct. 23-Nov. 21: splintered wreck I’ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees Monmouth Park in New Jersey hosts regular horse races breathe a delicate air.” I recommend you try on her perspecfrom May through November. During one such event in tive for size. For now, just forget about scrambling after 2010, a horse named Thewifenoseeverything finished first, perfection. At least temporarily, surrender any longing you just ahead of another nag named Thewifedoesntknow. I might have for smooth propriety. Be willing to live without suspect that there’ll be a comparable outcome in your life neat containment and polite decorum. Instead, be easy and sometime soon. Revelation will trump secrecy. Whoever breezy. Feel a generous acceptance for the messy beauty is hiding information will lose out to anyone who sees and you’re embedded in. Love your life exactly as it is, with all expresses the truth. I advise you to bet on the option that’s of its paradoxes and mysteries. forthcoming and communicative, not the one that’s furtive and withholding. GEMINI
May 21-June 20:
Studies show that when you’re driving a car, your safest speed is five miles per hour higher than the average rate of traffic. Faster than that, though, and the danger level rises. Traveling more slowly than everyone else on the road also increases your risk of having an accident. Applying these ideas metaphorically, I’d like to suggest you take a similar approach as you weave your way through life’s challenges in the coming week. Don’t dawdle and plod. Move a little swifter than everyone else, but don’t race along at a breakneck pace.
CANCER
June 21-July 22:
The key theme this week is relaxed intensification. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to heighten and strengthen your devotion to things that are important to you — but in ways that make you feel more serene and self-possessed. To accomplish this, you will have to ignore the conventional wisdom, which falsely asserts that going deeper and giving more of yourself require you to increase your stress levels. You do indeed have a great potential for going deeper and giving more of yourself, but only if you also become more at peace with yourself and more at home in the world.
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Dec. 22-Jan. 19:
When I was 19, a thug shot me in the butt with a shotgun at close range. To this day, my body contains the 43 pellets he pumped into me. They have caused some minor health problems, and I’m always queasy when I see a gun. But I don’t experience any routine suffering from the wound. Its original impact no longer plagues me. What’s your own personal equivalent of my trauma, Capricorn? A sickness that racked you when you were young? A difficult break-up with your first love? The death of someone you cared about? Whatever it was, I suspect you now have the power to reach a new level of freedom from that old pain.
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Jan. 20-Feb. 18:
VIRGO
PISCES
African-American jazz singer Billie Holiday was the greatgranddaughter of a slave. By the time she was born in 1915, black people in the American South were no longer “owned” by white “masters,” but their predicament was still extreme. Racism was acute and debilitating. Here’s what Billie wrote in her autobiography: “You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.” Nothing you experience is remotely as oppressive as what Billie experienced, Virgo. But I’m wondering if you might suffer from a milder version of it. Is any part of you oppressed and inhibited even though your outward
Some people put their faith in religion or science or political ideologies. English novelist J.G. Ballard placed his faith elsewhere: in the imagination. “I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world,” he wrote, “to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.” As you make your adjustments and reconfigure your plans, Pisces, I suggest you put your faith where Ballard did. Your imagination is far more potent and dynamic than you realize — especially right now.
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STRAINS WEEKLY
You have both a poetic and a cosmic license to stretch yourself further. It’s best not to go too far, of course. You should stop yourself before you obliterate all boundaries and break all taboos and smash all precedents. But you’ve certainly got the blessings of fate if you seek to disregard some boundaries and shatter some taboos and outgrow some precedents. While you’re at it, you might also want to shed a few pinched expectations and escape an irrelevant limitation or two. It’s time to get as big and brave and brazen as you dare.
Last year a young Nebraskan entrepreneur changed his name from Tyler Gold to Tyrannosaurus Rex Gold. He said it was a way of giving him greater name recognition as he worked to build his career. Do you have any interest in making a bold move like that, Leo? The coming weeks would be a good time for you to think about adding a new twist to your nickname or title or self-image. But I recommend something less sensationalistic and more in line with the qualities you’d actually like to cultivate in the future. I’m thinking of something like Laughing Tiger or Lucky Lion or Wily Wildcat.
Aug. 23-Sept. 22:
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Want to take full advantage of the sexy vibes that are swirling around in your vicinity? One thing you could do is whisper the following provocations in the ear of anyone who would respond well to a dose of boisterous magic: 1) “Corrupt me with your raw purity, baby; beguile me with your raucous honesty.” 2) “I finally figured out that one of the keys to eternal happiness is to be easily amused. Want me to show you how that works?” 3) “I dare you to quench my thirst for spiritual sensuality.” 4) “Let’s trade clothes and pretend we’re each other’s higher selves.”
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Too much medical marijuana can make you sick
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hat was a headline in the July 26 edition of the Detroit Free Press, above a story about researchers finding 93 cases of regular marijuana users, mostly males, all under 50 years old, whose symptoms included uncontrolled cyclic vomiting, nausea and severe abdominal pain. The only relief seemed to come from daily, hours-long, hot showers or by ceasing marijuana use, according to Dr. Cassius Drake, the medical director at the Henry Ford Health Center-Brownstone in Michigan. It even has a name: “cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome.” By all means, read the story yourself (http://bit. ly/13QPMR1), but for me, it seemed a bit much. I read as much as I can about cannabis, but I had never found anything, even anecdotally, like this. And even medical doctors, including some who suggest it for chemotherapy patients, know cannabis for its nausea-quelling properties. So I wondered why this particular story showed up on USA Today, FoxNews, CNN, UPI and other local outlets. It isn’t that the study itself seems particularly fraudulent, although reading it, I certainly got the feeling that the authors weren’t seeking any benevolent medical qualities of cannabis, and their “warning” of many more cases as marijuana is legalized or decriminalized seems more hopeful than scientific. The headline, “Doctors: Too much medical marijuana can make you sick,” misrepresented the number of physicians who are quoted. The second
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voice is Susan Smolinske, managing director at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Regional Poison Control Center, who calls the syndrome “the antimunchies,” whatever that means. The headline could be an honest mistake, but the reporter even went to the trouble to call Kalamazoo-based Michigan Holistic Health, which could find no cases among its 13,000 clients. I checked the Wikipedia page for the syndrome, which includes this admonition: “While there have been anecdotal testimonies to the veracity of this condition, caution should be exercised concerning this medical evidence due to small numbers of patients studied.” Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, was quoted in the original news story. I contacted Armentano, who said he suggested a number of things for the reporter to follow up on. “I made clear to her on several occasions that such a phenomenon, when documented, is so rare to be — from a practical standpoint — irrelevant. The reporter largely agreed, noting that she spoke with many physicians and as of the time of our discussion, had yet to even find one familiar with this syndrome.” Armentano asked why, if millions of Americans “abuse” cannabis, there weren’t more than these few cases. Or whether the cannabis itself might be tainted, resulting in the body becoming nauseous as it tries to rid itself of an unwanted toxin. “I also supposed that this result could be due to a dysfunctional endogenous cannabinoid system in those specific users, which is a valid scientific theory. This
discussion somehow became reported by the author as a ‘malfunction of the patient’s internal system,’ which I’m sure meant next to nothing for readers.” So why is this minimal research paper getting so much attention, while studies that suggest possible positive benefits of cannabis are mostly ignored? The National Institute on Drug Abuse, established by the federal government in 1974 and now part of the National Institutes of Health, states on its website that it “supports over 85 percent of the world’s research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction,” and that “NIDA-supported science addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse.” Well, up to a point. Here’s NIDA spokeswoman Shirley Simson talking to The New York Times in 2010: “As the National Institute on Drug Abuse, our focus is primarily on the negative consequences of marijuana use. We generally do not fund research focused on the potential beneficial medical effects of marijuana.” So NIDA, which has a virtual monopoly on drug research in the United States (and controls access to all medicinal test cannabis in this country), also has a mission of seeking out only the adverse effects of cannabis in research. “The federal government still discourages research into the medicinal uses of smoked marijuana,” reporter Gardiner Harris wrote in the Times article that quotes Simson. “That may be one reason that — even though some patients swear by it — there is no good scientific evidence that legalizing marijuana’s use provides any benefits over current therapies.” Suddenly I’m queasy, I’m feeling sharp abdominal pain and I have an uncontrollable urge for a very long, very hot shower. Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderweekly.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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