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Editor’s note: A photograph used in “Fringe central: Boulder International Fringe Festival to take over the Dairy Center for the Arts” that was credited to Gemma Wilcox should be credited to Alive Studios, and is from her performance “Shadows in Bloom,” which will be included in this year’s Fringe Festival.

Thanks for being game

This is one of the most moving and provocative pieces I’ve read in a while

[Re: “A unifying field of dreams,” Cover story, Sept. 11]. We are right there with Stewart as he gets ready psychically to play ball at the Q with hardened criminals inside the walls of San Quentin and then as he is transformed by the total experience. I too was tearing up as he describes tearing up behind his glasses lining up for team photos after the game. Yes, we all should find opportunities to “escape from the prison of judgment that we all live in.”

This was so well written — thank you Stewart Sallo for pushing back our judgment boundaries. Sue Butcher/Boulder

Don’t put a civic center in the flood plain

What sort of event is anticipated in the “St Julien annex”? [Re: “Center of controversy: Civic use pad in downtown see LETTERS Page 8

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Highroad Help wash formaldehyde out of baby’s hair by Jim Hightower

ho says we’re not making progress in battling the senseless greed of corporate profiteers? Look at the big change won earlier this year when the labels on Johnson’s Baby Shampoo announced: “Improved Formula.” This popular Johnson & Johnson baby product has long been advertised with the comforting slogan, “No More Tears,” for the shampoo’s ingredients don’t sting a tiny tot’s eyes. That’s nice,

but many mommies and daddies have become more concerned about another ingredient the corporation has not advertised: formaldehyde. This toxic industrial chemical, which can cause several cancers and leukemia, is contained in thousands of consumer items, including carpets, nail polish, and, yes, soaps, lotions, wipes and dozens of other baby products. But Johnson’s “improved” baby shampoo qualifies for a new advertising slogan: “Now With No Formaldehyde!” You’ll see no such bragging, however, for even though this is a big, beneficial step for babies’ health, the corporation continues to assert that the amount of poison in a bottle of shampoo is harmless. But, as the head of the Environmental Working Group put it: “Why is there a carcinogen in their shampoo? When in doubt, take it out.” Bingo! And let’s note that J&J is not taking formaldehyde out as an act of cor-

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porate benevolence, but because a tenacious grassroots coalition called Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has rallied consumers, scientists and family advocates to demand it. As Johnson’s head of consumer product development conceded, “This [health concern] lands right at the heart and soul of what Johnson & Johnson is all about, so we had to take this very seriously.” Such other giants as Revlon and L’Oreal, however, are not removing formaldehyde, so we must keep pushing. To help, go to Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, www.SafeCosmetics.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. September 18, 2014 7

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Obama’s clueless view of ISIL by Paul Danish

would feel a lot better about misread both the true nature of the Obama’s prospects for kicking the enemy and the current state of Islam. Islamic State’s ass if it weren’t for No religion condones the killing of what he said in the fourth parainnocents. Even a cursory reading of graph of his speech to the nation both the Koran and the Bible suggest last week. otherwise. The history of most reliThe fourth paragraph of the speech gions on this planet is written, in part read in its entirety as follows: at least, in the blood of innocents (who Now let’s make two things clear: ISIL are usually rebranded as heretics, aposis not “Islamic.” No religion condones the tates and enemies of God prior to killing of innocents. And the vast majority being killed, of course). ISIL has had of ISIL’s victims have been Muslim. And no problem finding Koranic justificaISIL is certainly not tion for the killing a state. It was forof otherwise innomerly al Qaeda’s cent unbelievers. affiliate in Iraq, Nor has it had a and has taken problem obtaining OF EXAMPLES OF advantage of sectarfatwas from supian strife and portive mullahs to LEADERS OF POWERFUL Syria’s civil war to justify such killNATIONS WHO LOSE WARS gain territory on ings. By asserting both sides of the that “No religion BECAUSE THEY MISREAD Iraq-Syrian border. condones the killIt is recognized by ing of innocents,” OR DON’T BOTHER TO READ no government, nor Obama is giving OR DELIBERATELY MISREAD by the people it subIslam a pass for its jugates. ISIL is a justification of THE NATURE AND INTENterrorist organizaJihadist violence. tion, pure and simAnd the vast TIONS OF THE ENEMY. ple. And it has no majority of ISIL’s vision other than the victims have been slaughter of all who Muslim. Well, yes. stand in its way. That’s because ISIL is trying to recast With the exception of the sentence Islam in its own image. But as far as referring to ISIL’s former affiliation the United States is concerned, what is with al Qaeda and its exploitation of important is that ISIL wants to recast sectarian strife and Syria’s civil war, the U.S. and the rest of the world in its every statement in this paragraph is image and that it believes that it is on a either untrue or beside the point. mission from God to do so. Taken in its entirety it suggests Obama And ISIL is certainly not a state… It has a delusional view of what he is up is recognized by no government, nor by the against. people it subjugates. It’s true ISIL is not Consider the text point by point: a state, but so what? It has the power ISIL is not “Islamic.” Hogwash. Of to make its writ run in the areas it concourse ISIL is Islamic. That’s the real trols and it is the sovereign power problem. ISIL is a particularly extreme within those areas. It doesn’t care example of militant Islamic fundamen- whether or not the world considers it a talism, which is attracting legions of nation-state, because it doesn’t believe adherents throughout the Moslem in the concept of nation-states, the fact world — an increasing number of that it has renamed itself the Islamic whom choose to go on Jihad. ISIL is State not withstanding. It wants to not outside of Islam. It is inside Islam erase national boundaries and create a and, along with its fellow militant global caliphate. ISIL would consider organizations, represents a movement the fact that it is not a nation-state a that is probably the most vital force feature, not a bug. It doesn’t give a rip within Islam today. Militant Islamic as to whether the nations-states of the fundamentalism is increasingly coming world recognize it as a legitimate govto define the religion. To assert that see DANISH PLAN Page 10 “ISIL is not Islamic” is to spectacularly

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Boulder nears development while straying from original vision,” News, Sept. 11] How about the next 1,000-year flood? No, I didn’t say, “another.” Next. Even a cursory examination of topographical maps and recent history should give the City pause. It does me. The Boulder Creek flood plain widens significantly about 400 feet west of the proposed “event center.” Mr. Bernoulli would clap his hands, saying, “Oh, boy. Slower flow.” I say watch out for wider flow. Care to take that bet? Apparently the City intends to do so. The next “1,000-year” flood event need not and probably won’t, wait that long. Park in that underground garage? Not if you gave me Boulder. Greg Iwan/Longmont

Don’t wait for dead bodies on GMOs

I’m glad that the Boulder Weekly publishes Paul Danish’s column. It is often refreshingly iconoclastic. But his rant on GMO’s “First show us the victims” [Re: “Ban GMOs? First show us the victims,” Danish Plan, Sept. 4] revealed that his thinking on this issue is stuck in the 19th or 20th century. It is curious that Paul needs to see a smoking gun and somebody dead at his feet to recognize a victim. How can he be so unaware that the greatest dangers in the 21st century are invisible and that the greatest number of victims are walking around with weakened health because of environmental and food and water-containing toxins? What does Paul gain by defending Monsanto, who cares nothing about

the collateral damage to human health in their quest for profits. Their claim that Roundup herbicide is completely biodegradable and safe was proven false and the courts made them remove that claim. Monsanto has also claimed that the Bt toxin that is spliced genetically into corn to kill the corn ear worm breaks down in the digestive system and therefore is harmless. A 2011 Canadian study showed that the Bt toxin was found in 93 percent of the blood of pregnant women and that 80 percent of umbilical blood contained that toxin. This proved that Bt does not break down in the digestive system. Monsanto claimed that GMOs would reduce pesticide use. The opposite has been clearly proved. And Roundup works by tying up nutrients so the weeds are weakened and die of diseases while at the same time reducing the nutrition of the crops, requiring more fertilizer. It also reduces the development of the root systems of crops making them require more water. The claim that GMOs will make crops more drought tolerant has never been proven. And the claim that we need GMOs to feed the world has also not been proven. Much of the evidence that more crops are produced with industrial agriculture depends on the fact that ever more land is being farmed. Farms in India have shown open-pollinated seed, regionally selected, out-produce crops from GMO seeds. And studies see LETTERS Page 10

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have shown that organic farms sequester more carbon that chemically managed farms. And importantly, nutrition does not come from bulk, it comes from the nutritional value of what is in the food, so if it takes twice as much volume to produce the same amount of nutrition, that is not a benefit to the planet. Industrial farming has been killing our soils for long enough that Peak-Soil is getting to be as threatening as PeakOil. Paul Danish doesn’t know about the life of the soil and its importance to our health, because he can’t see it. Since we can’t see the GMOs in our food, let’s label them. We have a right to know what we are eating. Mikl Brawner/Longmont

GMOs in perspective

Thanks for having the balls to print this article [Re: “Ban GMOs? First show us the victims,” Danish Plan, Sept. 4]. I agree with every word of it. The mass hysteria over GMOs is ridiculous and ill-informed. If people think all GMOs are bad, they should Google Norman Borlaug. Joe Zigmond/Bala Cynwyd, Penn.

Amazing what’s accomplished without American influence

I was in Nicaragua six months ago and can attest that I have never seen a poor country with so many clean villages and freshly pressed people [Re: “Why Nicaraguan kids aren’t fleeing,”

Commentary, Sept. 4]. Apparently after an earthquake some years ago, aid clothing poured in and has never stopped, so an abundance of new garments are available cheaply. People were clean, polite and self-contained as a whole. Old Bluebird school buses are converted for public routes. They run on time and the transference of luggage at each stop by rugged handlers was like a smooth ballet. The roads have been improved in the last 10 years and I was told education has improved for all as well. It’s a “green” minded country with an ecological outlook and ecotourism available in the cloud forests. As two women who have travelled the world, my friend and I marveled at the low “hassle factor” or sense of unsafety. The drug running from Colombia skirts most of Nicaragua. We loved the land of volcanoes, fresh juices and rocking chairs in the streets. Isn’t it amazing how countries can flourish without interference from the U.S.? Sue Boorman/Niwot

Cannabis needs reclassification so studies can continue

In your article [“Opioids, cannabis, scientists and money, lots of it,” Weed between the lines, Sept. 11] you touch on one of the most confounding and frustrating aspects of medical cannabis: the lack of and obvious need for more research. There is a political issue that needs to be resolved before the scientifsee LETTERS Page 11

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ernment, because it believes God recognizes it as a legitimate government. As for the assertion that ISIL isn’t recognized as a state by the people it subjugates, they may not recognize it as a legitimate government, but most of them have the wit to recognize ISIL as the guys with the guns and the long knives who will kill them in a heartbeat if they don’t submit. That’s recognition enough for revolutionaries who have just shot their way into power. More formal recognition and willing submission comes with time. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way. ISIL is a terrorist organization all right, but there is a lot more to it than terror for terror’s sake. Obama’s assertion that “it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way” is flatly wrong. ISIL has a highly coherent vision of what it wants to do

and a pretty coherent idea of how to go about doing it. It wants to establish a global Islamic caliphate, and it wants to establish an Islamic governing entity of some sort on captured territory in Syria and Iraq that it can use as a springboard from which to do it. Slaughtering “all who stand in its way” is a means to an end, not an end to itself, as Obama intimates. History is full of examples of leaders of powerful nations who lose wars because they misread or don’t bother to read or deliberately misread the nature and intentions of the enemy. If Obama goes to war thinking that the fourth paragraph of his speech contains an accurate characterization of the enemy he’s going up against, he is setting both himself and the country up for a nasty fall. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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ic community in this country will be able to conduct this research in an open and fruitful way. The first issue is the federal government’s classification of cannabis as a Schedule 1 drug. According to the feds, this classification means cannabis has no medical use and a high potential for abuse. While this designation is obviously debatable, especially in light of the number of states that currently accept cannabis as a valid medical treatment for specific conditions, it has a tremendous consequence for the scientific and research communities. Namely it impedes scientific research. Researchers studying cannabis can only expect to find financial and academic support for their research if they are exploring the possibility that cannabis causes harm. In essence, the Federal government’s classification prohibits the study of the medical benefit or efficacy of cannabis. Take for example Dr. Sue Sisley, who was recently fired from her position as clinical assistant professor at the University of Arizona. She was studying the efficacy and safety of using cannabis to treat treatment resistant PTSD in veterans. When the psychiatrist who has worked with patients suffering with PTSD for 15 years was asked why she was fired, she told CNN, “They won’t give us a reason and they certainly don’t want to admit it’s political. ... Job performance is not the issue here. It’s about the university being fearful of the word ‘marijuana’ and not wanting their brand aligned with this research.” As a healthcare professional, I am distressed over how politics can prevent the scientific community from doing its duty to humanity, but it’s nothing new. Eventually, the research will be done, and eventually the greater community will come to accept the findings, regardless of how challenging the results are to the entrenched world view. Just look at what happened to Galileo and Einstein. Amy Silverman/Gunbarrel

The solution is for Congress to pass the Preventative Antibiotic Resistance Act (PARA), which would stop the misuse of antibiotics in our agriculture system and instead save these life saving antibiotics for people. I attended a screening of the new documentary Resistance, with a discussion with Food & Water Watch staff afterwards. We were informed that Boulder City Council had the option to pass a reso-

lution to stop the misuse of antibiotics in factory farms. They have been leaders to protect our food in the past and I hope they do so this time as well by joining the nearly 20 other cities across the country that have passed resolutions. I also urge Senator Bennett to be a public health champion and do the same by co-sponsoring this important legislation. Nathan McIntosh/Boulder

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Medically important antibiotics should be for people, not factory farms. Currently, 80 percent of antibiotics sold in the United States are given to livestock. Why? Because our industrial farming system keeps cattle, pigs, and chickens in horribly unsanitary conditions and for unknown reasons, feeding livestock antibiotics helps with growth promotion. This causes it so every year thousands of people have antibiotics no longer work for themselves or their loved ones. Boulder Weekly

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percent of those wells located in six counties. Weld County alone has more than 21,500 wells. The next most heavily drilled county is Garfield, with just under 11,000 wells. Doug Flanders, a spokesperson for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said in an email that he had “not reviewed the Pennsylvania study to be able to comment,” but referred Boulder Weekly to a blog piece by Katie Brown, a spokesperson for Energy In Depth. Energy In Depth is a program of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, which represents natural gas and oil producers. In her blog, Brown says the Yale study “misses the mark” and criticizes the study as being funded by “anti-fracking” groups The Heinz Endowments and the Claneil Foundation. “The Yale researchers say that health impacts must be due to water or air contamination from fracking but the Pennsylvania [Department of Environmental Protection] just released a list of instances where wells could have been impacted, and there wasn’t a single instance in Washington County where the study was conducted,” Brown wrote in an email to BW. Indeed, in the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection listing of contamination cases released on Aug. 23, Washington County was not one of the 22 counties where Department of Environmental Protection determined that a private water supply was affected by oil and gas activities. However, according to an Aug. 6 article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, leaks from fracking waste water from three storage impoundments in Washington County contaminated soil and groundwater and prompted the state to issue a violation notice at one site and order additional testing and monitoring at another site. Donald Gennuso, township manager for Washington County, told the Post-Gazette that at no time were the township board or its residents notified of the potential contamination. Approximately 50 residents, most of whom use private wells, were sent letters when the township did learn of the contamination, urging citizens to have their water tested immediately and inform the Department of Environmental Protection if their well water developed a bad taste. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has been criticized for failing to provide state residents with adequate information on fracking-related contamination. In April, documents were filed in a Pennsylvania Superior Court case chal-

lenging the constitutionality of the state’s oil and gas law. The documents cited the Department of Environmental Protection’s practice of shunning violation notices, fines or formal determinations of contamination when a shale gas company was able to reach a private settlement with a well owner. Colorado state oil and gas regulators have similarly been criticized, notably in a 2011 investigation by The Denver Post, for failing to impose fines for spills. The Yale research adds to a growing body of similarly “hypothesis generating” work suggesting fracking may have serious implications for human health. In January, University of Missouri researchers published data showing greater levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals in water located near fracking sites than in areas without drilling. The researchers collected samples from several sites in Garfield County, Colo. where fracking fluids had been spilled. Again, this work highlighted a correlation, but could not definitively say that it was fracking fluid that caused the higher levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals. Rabinowitz says that this lack of research definitively linking fracking to human health risks is due, at least in part, to the complexity of the research. “First of all I think the exact nature of which contaminants to worry about the most and the roots of the exposure, from how they get from the fracking activities to people, is still not totally clear,” Rabinowitz says. “When you’ve got those ideas you can really do more definitive studies. For instance, I would say our finding that there are increased upper respiratory symptoms in people living very close to gas wells indicates to me that there could be something airborne going on, and it just makes you want to focus somewhat more on air contaminants and which ones could be causing that, and then you can have a much more focused study looking at that particular question.” Rabinowitz says that these irritant symptoms — a cough or a rash — are reasonable findings. “We feel it’s a plausible result that needs to be followed up with more objective studies, with things that rely on physician or healthcare worker diagnosis, or measurement of substances in the blood or other measurements that go beyond what a self report is,” says Rabinowitz. “We feel that it indicates that we need to keep investigating this issue. It’s hard to just dismiss when people, without being prompted, are complaining more of their health close to natural gas wells.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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his year, hundreds of thousands of Coloradans signed petitions to create ballot initiatives that asked for more local control over the oil and gas development happening near their homes, schools and businesses as well as increased setbacks. Then came the now infamous offer of support followed by the grand compromise aka the “let’s use my anti-fracking ballot measures instead of your already existing ones” from Rep. Jared Polis, who authored and funded his own initiatives so he had the power to rescind them at the last hour, supposedly in exchange for a task force on oil and gas appointed by Governor John Hickenlooper, along with a few other nearly meaningless concessions. Instead of letting the people have a voice with the initiatives at the ballot box, the “compromise” — made between one known supporter of the oil and gas industry and one who seems increasingly to lean that way — called for the creation of a task force that would draw from every side of the fracking issue in an effort to find common ground and in theory create legislative suggestions. “This is one of the most important issues I’ve ever worked on,” Hickenlooper said during the news conference announcing the task force. “We have two self-interests in conflict, and I think most of us would say both of them have good arguments on their side, so then the challenge becomes how do we sit down and work through to mitigate the conflict as much as possible?” Hickenlooper has described how there was a “communal sigh of relief, when we negotiated this commission.” “We certainly don’t want it on a ballot initiative where no matter what happens the state loses tremendously,” Hickenlooper told the audience during a debate with his gubernatorial challenger, Bob Beauprez, in Grand Junction. “Look at the level of risk on that.” On Aug. 4, Hickenlooper announced the members of his task force intended to step in and be the voice of the people and industry when oil and gas development occurs near Boulder Weekly

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homes, schools, businesses and recreational areas. Yes, that was a “when,” not an “if.” As for Polis, on Aug. 4 he reacted to the creation of the task force by saying, “Today’s announcement is a victory for the people of Colorado and the movement to enact sensible fracking regulations. For the first time, citizens will be on equal footing to the oil and gas industry, and able to negotiate directly for regulations that protect property rights, home values, clean water and air quality. I am pleased that we were able to come together, and today’s agreement is meaningful progress toward sensible fracking regulations.” That would be great if it were true. It appears that now that the taskforce members have been announced, Polis’ optimism is as misplaced as the trust of the citizens in his ballot measures. A quick look at Hickenlooper’s task force participants should dispel any notion that this latest compromise is anything more than just the latest political attempt to allow the oil and gas industry to carry on its business as usual in Colorado. The group is stacked with people whose stances range from “our communities deserve a little protection from the wells in their back yards, so let’s do a better job of capturing methane from oil and gas wells” to an oil and gas executive who has used a glass of fracking fluid to toast the process as the greatest invention of all time. And the

majority of the task force, 12 appointees, are financial contributors to the Democratic Party. Not one of the members of the task force, based on Boulder Weekly’s research, is an advocate for a ban or moratorium on fracking — even though that’s exactly what citizens in communities up and down the Front Range have been asking for by way of their votes and what a coalition of almost 300 organizations from across the country, Americans Against Fracking, is calling for. “Anyone who has ever negotiated, whether it’s for a used car or something as important as this, knows if your position isn’t represented at the table, you can be certain that it’s not going to be a possibility in one of the outcomes,” says Sam Schabacker, Western Region director for Food and Water Watch, which organized the coalition.

he work of this task force will provide an alternative to ballot initiatives that, if successful, would have regulated the oil and gas industry through the rigidity of Constitutional amendments and posed a significant threat to Colorado’s economy,” Hickenlooper said in the Aug. 4 press release. “This approach will put the matter in the hands of a balanced group of thoughtful community leaders, business representatives and citizens who can advise the legislature and the executive branch on the best path for-

ward.” “People ask me, ‘Who’s gonna pick ’em?’ I am. … The buck stops here and I guarantee you we’re going to have everybody pissed off again,” Hickenlooper said at an Aug. 8 roundtable on fracking with South Metro Denver Chamber of Commerce in Centennial, according to Colorado Community Media. “The one criteria is that everyone who is going to be on that list is someone who believes we can get to a yes [on a compromise].” In other words, not one person opposed to oil and gas drilling or fracking in their communities will be on the taskforce. Barring some surprises, it is a taskforce built to reaffirm the status quo. Let’s start with the industry representatives on the panel. • Task force co-chair Randy Cleveland is a former ExxonMobil executive who is now president of XTO Energy, Inc. At the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce Meeting and Business Summit in August, Cleveland called New York and Pennsylvania’s controversial Marcellus Shale a treasure “with generational implications for decades to come.” “Shale gas is transforming the global energy landscape,” he said. Cleveland has not made any contributions to Colorado races. He’s joined by five additional representatives from the industry, many of whom have a different story when it comes to their campaign contributions. • Peter Dea, president and CEO of Cirque Resources LP, once raised a glass with a cocktail of Halliburton’s “CleanStim” fracking fluid to “one of the greatest technology advancements of all times, and that’s the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing combined with the noble cause that all of you pursue each and every day to bring energy independence, security and real jobs to America while providing an unprecedented high quality of life for all Americans, so please join me in a toast to the freedom that all of you in hydraulic fracturing See TASK FORCE Page 21

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bring to America.” In addition to being head of his own company, Dea is on the board of Encana. Cirque Resources, a private oil and gas company, focuses on “unconventional resource plays, primarily in the Rocky Mountain region,” according to the Independent Petroleum Association of the Mountain States, and has leased more than 600,000 acres in “emerging exploration plays.” “Peter stirs the imagination of thought leaders across the political spectrum with compelling reasons to see natural gas as national treasure, capable of helping our nation meet its most pressing economic, environmental and energy security priorities,” said Marc W. Smith, executive director of Independent Petroleum Association of the Mountain States, in a news release. He’s also a member of the Democratic pro-business organization Colorado Forum, which supports a “balanced energy policy” that includes continuing to pursue drilling and production opportunities in oil and gas, while safeguarding the environment and communities, and says that the rules and regulations developed to date will “allow the industry to move forward in a safe and economically viable way.” Dea is a big time financial supporter of the Democratic Party and maxed out his donations to Hickenlooper for Colorado for 2010 and 2012. • Also representing industry stakeholders are Brad Holly, vice president of operations for the Rocky Mountain Region for Anadarko. Anadarko has invested in wells, processing plants and ownership stakes in pipelines in the Denver-Julesberg Basin of northeast Colorado and portions of Wyoming and Nebraska. Holly told the Denver Business Journal in 2013 that Anadarko had plans to invest about $1.7 billion in the basin, which gets almost half of the company’s capital investments and delivers almost half of its production. He also said that voters in a handful of cities in the area that were voting to delay or ban fracking were “a big area of concern for us.” The company still has more than 4,000 wells to drill in the DenverJulesburg, at a pace of 300 a year. “We’re still in the first quarter of the game,” Holly told the Denver Business Journal. • Dan Kelly, vice president of the Wattenberg Business Unit for Noble Energy told The Denver Post that Noble plans to spend $10 billion in the Boulder Weekly

The task force Hickenlooper formed includes members of the oil and gas industry and environmental activists ready to compromise with that industry.

Denver-Julesburg Basin in the coming years, expecting decades of activity. Noble has identified 9,500 locations where it wants to drill, according to the Denver Business Journal report on comments made during the Platts Rockies Oil and Gas Conference in Denver in 2013. By 2016 or 2017, Kelly said at the conference, Noble hopes to be drilling 500 wells a year. “The Niobrara is really beginning to show and compare with some of the top resource plays in the nation and we’re excited to have a premier position in the play,” he said at the conference. Anadarko and Noble have plans that would see them drilling for almost two decades. To protect those plans, Anadarko and Noble together launched Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED), a bi-partisan group with an “outreach mission of building awareness regarding the importance of fracking and its continued role in responsible oil and natural gas development in Colorado.” CRED pays for the advertising supplement labeled as the energy and environment section in The Denver Post and for many of the pro-fracking commercials that now constantly inundate our living rooms. • Also on the task force is Scot Woodall, president and CEO of Bill Barrett Corporation, a Denver-based oil and gas company. Bill Barrett Corp. is also heartily committed to developing northeastern Colorado’s mineral resources. The Denver Business Journal reported on Sept. 16 that Woodall’s company sold $757 million in assets in the Piceance Basin in western Colorado

and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming for a land-swap that “boosted the company’s position” in the Denver-Julesburg Basin. The result will be that 70 percent of the company’s production will comes from the Denver-Julesburg Basin and Utah’s Uinta Basin, which has been reported to leak as much as 10 percent of the field’s total gas production. Colorado is, as one board member put it, their “core position.” • Perry Pearce, manager of government affairs for the Rocky Mountain Region for ConocoPhillips, was also named to the task force. Pearce, Holly and Woodall have all donated to Colorado Concern, and Pearce is a member of that organization. Colorado Concern’s top five issues are focused on job growth strategies, protecting tax credits and sales tax exemptions, addressing issues in current construction that limits “for sale” multi-family building, ensuring regulation and enforcement of Amendment 64, and transparency and fiscal solvency in the Public Employees’ Retirment Association. Eighty-two percent of Colorado Concern members do not support local government’s efforts to add additional regulations to industry.

s for taskforce appointees who would appear to be less enthusiastic about oil and gas production than the industry insiders, it appears that the willingness to compromise is their main area in common. • Take Sara Barwinski, a member of Weld Air and Water, a community

group in the county with the most wells in the state that was organized around opposition to oil and gas development. She testified at a Greeley planning commission meeting that the proposal to add more wells at a site near a residential neighborhood, within 500 feet from her own home, in fact, and adjacent to a high school — putting 32 wells in a half-mile radius — was just too much. “This isn’t about being for or against oil and gas,” she told The Independent. “There’s already drilling going on here. There are six vertical wells on the site… But there’s also a school, a running track, houses, apartments. It’s a beautiful area. There’s a wetlands adjacent, a marsh that’s a bird habitat. There’s a hawk’s nest. I’m just asking for balance.” Barwinski, a long time policy analyst in Missouri with a master’s in social work who had taught courses on legislative and regulatory processes and community development, planning and organizing at universities, remains hopeful. “I believe that dialogue can happen, that there are good people in oil and gas who are trying to make the industry better and that most public elected officials serve because they believe in the common good,” she wrote in a Greeley Tribune op-ed. “Both the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) admit that we don’t know what is safe or not and we need further study about the health impacts of oil and gas toxic emissions.” She got that dialogue when Weld Air and Water requested that the state health department and Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission send in a third party consultant to meet with them and with Synergy, the oil company proposing the expansion. The Greeley Tribune reported that everyone walked away happy, having discussed monthly infrared testing, water sampling and retrofitting existing wells, even getting industry funds for studies on the health effects of living near drilling activity. • Rancher and former Fort Lewis College sociology professor, Jim Fitzgerald is also on the task force. He’s donated to and endorsed the campaign of Gwen Lachelt, the La Plata County Commissioner who is also coSee TASK FORCE Page 22

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chair of the task force. The resident of Bayfield may be one of the appointees most concerned about the impacts of drilling and fracking. He has a video testimonial on the website for Earthworks, a nonprofit organization that works to protect communities and the environment from the negative affects of mineral and energy development. Earthworks was founded by Lachelt. In the video, he describes nearby residents whose homes had to be evacuated, a home that blew up from methane, destroyed trees and vegetation, tap water running at 160 degrees because fracking had pushed a hot springs into a drinking well. “The energy companies still don’t even admit that they cause these problems. Even though they bought the people out, took the houses down, paid them everything, got them out as fast as they could, they made agreements with people where they’re not allowed to say how much money they got for the destruction they’ve caused, so people don’t really notice what the drilling has caused just the normal life of people,” Fitzgerald says in the video. But his willingness to believe that oil and gas can be regulated into acceptability may have been on display in an op-ed published in The Durango Herald April 3, 2011, bylined to both him and his wife, Terry. The piece describes how they’d welcomed the overhaul of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission in 2007 so that it came closer to representing the areas affected by drilling, including public health, the environment, surface owners and the industry. Fitzgerald was writing to object to a bill that proposed increasing oil and gas industry representation on the COGCC from three to five members. “It hasn’t been a perfect agency, and we’ve disagreed with some decisions. But it’s a far cry from the old days, when the public distrust of the thenbiased commission fueled constant conflict,” the Fitzgeralds write. While the old commission members were reluctant to come to La Plata County, the new commission invites public participation on new rules. “The new rules require the industry to consider threats to human health and wildlife when applying for a drilling permit. The regulations establish protection zones around streams in watersheds that provide drinking water, require companies to tell state and emergency responders what chemicals they use and allow state health and wildlife officials to formally consult on 22 September 18, 2014

oil and gas development applications,” they write. “These are rules that should have been in place when the drilling boom hit southwest Colorado in the late 1980s. They represent critical steps toward identifying threats to our public health from nearby gas activity.” He’s also spoken in favor of reinstating a rule in La Plata County that would prohibit oil and gas wells in subdivisions with lots smaller than 10 acres. Presumably this means that drilling in subdivisions where lots have

made its position on fracking and oil and gas development clear. The Rocky Mountain Farmers Union Policy 2014 states that “Whereas, we recognize that our national energy needs cannot be met without fossil fuels, and we support sensible, proven development of fossil fuels, including natural gas, as part of our energy portfolio for the immediate future. Fracking will help us reach energy independence. Rural areas will prosper when the labor needs generate local jobs and new wages impact the local

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Wells going into neighborhoods like this are among the reasons communities up and down the Front Range wanted to ban fracking instead of further regulating it.

more acres should be allowable. Fitgerald lives in a 380-acre ranch and has also been outspoken regarding water issues tied to drilling. • Also coming down on the side of environmental regulations in the face of inevitable oil and gas development is the Western Resource Advocates and their president, Jon Goldin-Dubois. A statement from Western Resource Advocates announcing Goldin-Dubois’ appointment to the task force says, “As oil and gas drilling, including fracking, continues to expand across the state, the need to address the health and safety concerns of citizens has also expanded. Work of the Task Force will include helping local governments and communities find solutions to outstanding conflicts and greater protections while allowing for development of oil and natural gas, a key fuel in moving the state away from coal pollution and toward a cleaner energy future.” It appears that Goldin-Dubois’ has adopted the Democratic Party line on natural gas, which is that it is a bridge fuel that will stop the use of coal. • Like Goldin-Dubois, Kent Peppler, a farmer and president of the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, comes from an organization that has

economy.” Individually, Peppler has called for weaning off fossil fuels and increasing renewable alternative fuels, mentioning ethanol and fuels made from biomass, algae and trash in an op-ed published in The Denver Post. He has also discussed leaving some of his corn fields fallow because he couldn’t afford to irrigate them — oil and gas companies having driven the price of water too high. In a 2013 story, the Associated Press reported Peppler saying he used to pay $9 to $100 for an acre-foot of water, but city water auctions wer seeing prices as high was $1,200 to $2,900 per acre foot. The City of Greeley sold 1,575 acre-feet of water in 2012 to companies that supply fracking, making about $4.1 million, compared to the $396,000 made in sales of 100 times that much water to farmers. Though it supports fracking as a necessary measure for energy independence, the Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, which represents 22,000 family farmers and ranchers in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico, has expressed concern over the water used in oil shale development, saying it is perhaps the biggest threat to families

and communities from oil shale development. Peppler has given more than $6,000 to Democratic candidates and causes over the years, and gave the maximum allowed donation to Hickenlooper in 2013. • The other co-chair of the task force is La Plata County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt, who sounds more ready to compromise than one would expect from “a fire-breathing, anti-fracking activist” as she has been called by a right-wing blog. At Earthworks, which she founded, she worked on La Plata’s oil and gas regulations, built a statewide coalition to pass legislation that offers new protections for public health, water and air quality, worked on New Mexico Surface Owner’s Protection Act, saw the Valle Vidal in New Mexico protected from mineral extraction by legislation signed by President Bush in 2006, and hosted an oil and gas development tour with 11 Canadian First Nation Chiefs and members of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and ranchers from Wyoming and Montana. Her campaign for county commissioner was endorsed by Jim Fitzgerald and his wife, Terry. Their endorsement of Lachelt declares, “She is thoughtful, perceptive, and passionate about justice and fairness. … She is capable of leading us out of the dark icy polar night in which this county is currently enshrouded.” Lachelt’s platform for county commissioner includes talk about gas wells — focused on methane seepage, and that 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in La Plata County come from gas wells, facilities and methane seepage from a coal formation outcrop. She cites a Cornell University study that cautions that “the emissions caused during drilling, fracking and through faulty valves and leaking pipelines may be worse for the climate than coal — and call for rigorous monitoring and oversight by the responsible government agencies.” The industry has technology to capture that methane — money in the bank for them, and a win for public health. Earthworks is also currently running a campaign to stop drillers in the oil and gas industry from flaring and venting methane, or simply allowing it to leak. It appears that her activism, like others on the task force, is aimed at improving regulatory oversight and leak capture rather than preventing drilling activity in communities. Boulder Weekly

news • Appointee Bruce Rau falls some where in the middle. The organization for which he is vice president and chair, the Colorado Association of Home Builders, has opposed fracking as antibusiness. When the Colorado Association of Home Builders moved to support the governor in giving cities and counties more control over oil and gas drilling, six of the association’s board members and its lobbying team quit, saying the measures would impede development. Those measures would have increased regulations on noise and setbacks, but not allowed a ban. Rau also served on the advisory committee for Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development, which endorses natural gas as a bridge fuel.

and toward updating oil and gas policies and finding ways to increase safety. Quinn told the Daily Camera that he hoped any new standards would help the city and county foster relationships with oil and gas operators willing to follow best practices and meet those high standards. While citizens were campaigning for that ban, the Broomfield City Council approved 21 new wells in Broomfield County. Quinn then told Fox TV that they had no grounds not

The task force eventually settled on a compromise — most of the 4.4 million acres would remain protected, with exceptions made for ski areas and wildfire-prevention projects. When leases were issued while the task force was still underway, George was asked to push the governor for interim protections, but said the task force did not have the authority. “We got it as good as we could,” George told The Denver Post in 2006. “It’s all about balance.”

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he next batch of appointees come from the territory of the local and state government leaders and elected officials selected for the task force. They fall somewhere in between the centrist views of those activists who would like to collaborate with industry to craft regulations to offer their communities some modicum of protection, and the frack-fluid toasting extremism of industry appointees. • Current Weld County Clerk and Recorder Steve Moreno has told The Coloradoan he’s a “strong supporter of the oil and gas industry.” Moreno is running for county commissioner, now that he’s been term-limited out of the Clerk and Recorder’s office. In a candidate Q&A run by The Greeley Tribune in June, he was asked, “In your opinion, what must be done to ensure development is safe and does not affect quality of life for Weld residents?” and replied, “it will be important to partner not only with the oil and gas industry, but municipalities within Weld to ensure a high quality of life, especially as the county grows.” Water and traffic will continue to be “hot-button” issues, he said, but reiterated, “I will always be an advocate for the industry, as long as we have the promise that they will be doing things in a responsible way.” • Pat Quinn, former mayor of Broomfield and now task force appointee, was in office during the election season that saw Broomfield’s ban come from citizens rather than City Council. While members of the Broomfield City Council were crafting a new set of oil and gas rules, the voters took up the issue and narrowly approved a five-year ban on fracking. Council members had leaned away from pursing a moratorium Boulder Weekly

Critics of the task force believe that its makeup will at best be business as usual for the oil and gas industry.

to approve the applications. “The concerns of air quality, water quality, you know, the location of the rigs. In each one of those cases, we have a standard greater than what Colorado requires. So we couldn’t deny the application,” he said. • The next Hickenlooper choice, former state Representative and Speaker of the House Russ George, might be called the man who gave the Roan Plateau away. He was executive director for the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, one of a string of governor appointments by former governors and now pro-fracking spokesmen Bill Owens and Bill Ritter that has included the Colorado Department of Transportation, and served as the chairman of the Colorado’s Roadless Area Review Task Force. That task force was created by a bill sponsored by state Sen. Josh Penry (R-Grand Junction) (who helped author the pronatural-gas Clean Air, Clean Jobs Bill) and State Sen. Jim Isgar (D-Hesperus), which was created to help decide how to manage areas of land designated by Clinton for protections under a roadless rule that was immediately suspended by the Bush administration, such as western Colorado’s Roan Plateau.

George’s background gives him experience that may inform what he brings to the task force. But there are also members who appear to simply have been deeply ensconced in the Democratic Party. • Bernie Buescher, former Colorado Secretary of State, is a timetested loyal to the Democratic party in Colorado, having donated thousands to Democratic campaigns over the years, including Hickenlooper’s campaigns in 2010 and the current one. He’s also taken donations from Colorado Democratic Party big spenders Polis and Pat Stryker, who contributed to his campaigns when he was running for the seat he held in the Colorado State House of Representatives from 2004 to 2008, and then for Secretary of State in 2010, a position he had been appointed to by former Governor Bill Ritter. He lost that race to Scott Gessler. • The only task force representative speaking up for the interest of public health is Elbra Wedgeworth, chief government and community relations officer for Denver Health. Wedgeworth isn’t a doctor of any kind, she’s more a Democratic darling of the local scene, a former president of the Denver City

Council and credited as instrumental in bringing the Democratic National Convention to Denver. She served as president/chair of the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee. Hickenlooper also served on that committee. She is one of 100 business community members who signed on to support the governor’s reelection bid as Hickenlooper seeks to use the state’s economic recovery to fuel his campaign. She’s already maxed out her donations to Hickenlooper for this campaign cycle. Wedgeworth is also co-chairing the group “Women for Udall,” founded to keep women’s issues at the forefront of this year’s senate race, with Sen. Mark Udall’s wife, Maggie Fox, and former state Sen. Paula Sandoval. Udall is one of the leading proponents of natural gas exports in the senate and has touted his desire to export Colorado natural gas overseas as an economic windfall for the state. • Another appointee is Rebecca Love Kourlis, a retired justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. It’s unclear what she knows about oil and gas, but she is well versed in water. She served as a water judge, and advocates for more flexibility in water law as a way to preserve irrigated agriculture in Colorado. “One of the challenges is to find a way to integrate the state engineer and water court into a framework that permits flexibility,” Kourlis said during a 2013 workshop on agricultural water hosted by Colorado Ag Water Alliance and the Arkansas Basin Roundtable, according to The Pueblo Chieftain. Kourlis has also described the challenges of keeping water on farms when selling to cities (or, and this went unsaid, the oil and gas industry) may look so appealing. She has also co-chaired an advisory panel that recommends federal judicial candidates to Udall and Sen. Michael Bennet. The former judge has never given to any political candidate, and her only political tie seems to be a familial one: Her father is former Republican Colorado Gov. John A. Love.

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coalition that included Western Colorado Congress (of which he was previously the director), Western Slope Conservation Center, Citizens for Clean Air, Weld Air and Water and Community Alliance of the Yampa Valley in pushing for the air quality rules adopted by the Air Quality Control Commission in February. “This is a victory for everyone, for the people in the room — the industry representatives and the environmentalists — but also for the activists in the communities across the state,” he told The Colorado Independent following adoption of the new rules. “I think this demonstrates that there’s a real role for the grassroots in these kinds of proceedings, which affect everyday life.” In response to complaints that any benefits to air quality gained by reducing the leaks at a well will be offset by the increased number of wells companies can drill, Sura told The Colorado Independent, “We’ll look at the implementation plan for the rules and in two years we’ll be talking about it again. We’ll see how we’ve done.” As with others in this category, the groups that Sura has worked with have stated goals to try to get stronger regulations on oil and gas, such as 1,000foot setbacks and more inspections, rather than stopping its extraction in some instances outright. • Jeff Robbins, an attorney with Goldman Robbins and Nicholson, has worked as outside council on oil and gas issues for Boulder County. He told county commissioners in June 2013 that Colorado law wouldn’t allow Boulder County voters to put a ban on oil and gas drilling on the ballot, and nor could county commissioner’s propose that issue for the ballot. The commissioners then asked staff to help in crafting a plan to allow for phased oil and gas development in Boulder County once the moratorium expired in June of that year. Then, citing a changing regulatory environment and the need for additional health and safety studies on air and water quality, while also mentioning the more than 1,100 comments received just in the previous week, all but a dozen or so of which were against lifting the moratorium, commissioners voted to extend the temporary moratorium for 18 months, until Jan. 1, 2015. The proposal for a phased plan was tabled indefinitely andstaff were instructed to work on developing an inspection and implementation plan for oil and gas applications. Robbins’ law firm also represents

surface owners in conflicts with oil and gas companies. His position seems to indicate that preventing drilling is something that only the state has jurisdiction over, placing him among those who see drilling as inevitable and citizens should work only to regulate it. • Former Boulder Mayor and County Commissioner Will Toor was also appointed to the task force. In December 2012, Toor wrote to Boulder Weekly columnist Dave Anderson to share his perspective on the oil and gas drilling issue (this was amid a series of bumps in the countywide fracking moratorium). “Why doesn’t the county just ban fracking? Under Colorado law, counties have only the legal authority that has been delegated to them by the state legislature,” Toor wrote. “Under current state law, Boulder County simply does not have the legal ability to ban fracking. However much we may sometimes want to, we can’t simply wish state law away. If we were to enact a ban, the courts would almost certainly overturn the ban — and we would then be obligated to process drilling applications under the existing 20-year-old county oil and gas regulations, with none of the additional protection that new regulations could provide.” He goes on to say that he supports authority for local governments, signed the letter to Hickenlooper asking him to drop the lawsuit against Longmont for its fracking ban, and approached the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to push for statewide rules on setbacks and water quality that, for local governments, would serve as “a floor, not a ceiling.” It’s not that the county’s position hinged on a fear of being sued, he said, as much as the county wanted to be in a position of having a hope of winning if sued. The county was crafting new regulations to protect air and water quality, set a maximum distance from other land users, and take baseline data on air quality before drilling was allowed to advance over the county. “It does no one in Boulder County any good to draft legally indefensible regulations and hand another legal win to industry over local government,” he wrote. That statement probably summarizes the view he’ll bring to the task force.

he willingness to compromise, to regulate and continue to use a supposed “bridge fuel” that even some task force members admit is responsible for 80 percent of the emissions in their county and may be as Boulder Weekly

news destructive to the planet as burning coal runs insidiously high in our government at all levels. President Obama has touted domestic gas production as “safe, cheap power” that can help reduce carbon emissions. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has “close industry ties” and claims he has “not seen any evidence of fracking per se contaminating groundwater” and “the issues in terms of the environmental footprint of hydraulic fracturing are manageable.” His predecessor, Steven Chu, told the crowd at a conference put on by America’s Natural Gas Alliance that choosing between natural gas and the environment is a “false choice,” according to The Columbus Dispatch, adding “This is something you can do in a safe way.” He attributed the problems with fracking to fixable errors. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, has fracked wells herself. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy has said, “There’s nothing inherently dangerous in fracking that sound engineering practices can’t accomplish.” On Sept. 16, Americans Against Fracking, a national coalition organized by Food and Water Watch, released the report “The Urgent Case for a Ban on Fracking.” It’s a follow-up on a previous report that also called for a ban on fracking to include 150 additional studies conducted since that 2011 report that add to the case that fracking leads to water and air pollution, earthquakes and climate change. The report stacks together studies that show fracking leads to forest fragmentation; competition over water resources; massive amounts of toxic and radioactive waste; waste disposal practices that can trigger earthquakes; spills, accidents and leaks that put waterways at risk; pollutants that compromise air quality; explosive hazards in homes; increased potential for contaminants to reach aquifers; climate change; and health issues, damaged roads and decreased property values fpr communities. Just a few highlights: a report by Ceres that found 39 percent of gas wells, which can require about 5 million gallons of water to drill and frack, were in regions with high water stress and 9 percent in regions with extremely high water stress, meaning most, or almost all, of the water resources were being withdrawn. Industry construction projects increase sediment in rivers. Water quality is threatened by the use of oil and gas industry wastes, which often contain salts, to de-ice roads. Underground blowouts may happen at a much greater frequency Boulder Weekly

than we can know — because their effects are hidden underground. Sediment near water treatment plants that accept oil and gas industry wastes was found to contain radiation 200 times background level. When water utilities disinfect river water contaminated with oil and gas, the chloride and bromide used can have chemical reactions with fracking wastewater that form byproducts linked to cancer and birth defects. A significant fraction of spills in Colorado have contaminated shallow aquifers. “There’s no way to effectively and safely regulate this dangerous practice,” says Sam Schabacker, with Food and Water Watch. “It’s too dangerous and the impacts are so egregious that we believe the only advisable, practical and reasonable thing to do is to call for a ban on fracking. ... We don’t believe fracking has any place in our energy future.” The governor’s task force doesn’t represent that view, though many Coloradans have expressed the view that fracking is unsafe and local communities should have an ability to control it. “That’s a huge voice and constituency that’s essentially being disenfranchised with this process, so I think we should really question the credibility of this taskforce and whether it’s really representative,” Schabacker says. “The outcome is a foregone conclusion. There’s not going to be anyone there fighting for true protections to safeguard our health, safety and property from fracking. There are only going to be discussions around how and to what extent fracking should go forward in Colorado.” The Coloradans in who have been involved in the efforts to regulate fracking can’t be ignored, and won’t just go away. “I really believe we’re just beginning to see the power of the anti-fracking movement,” Schabacker says. “Folks that feel very much betrayed by the deal that was cut between Congressman Polis and Governor Hickenlooper that created this task force see right through the task force and the appointments and realize that their interests are not represented here, and that they’re going to have to seek recourse in other ways.” In the end, Coloradans’ right to vote on this critical issue was traded for nothing. That may not be true. It is more likely that Colorado’s right to vote on fracking was traded for no better reason than party politics in exchange for not offending major funders. Stay tuned. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hey can be kind of disgusting,” Wildlife Ecologist at City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Heather Swanson says with a laugh, before admitting, “I like them. They are cool.” They are cool, but they’re also gross, intriguing and a key piece of the puzzle that is Boulder’s ecology. People don’t know a lot about turkey vultures. They’re amazing flyers, and they hang out in packs, roosting in colonies and migrating together. They’re ugly and they even have a sense of smell. Vultures, particularly the turkey vultures that Black vultures, like those pictured above and right, fly in packs, roost have claimed a local west in colonies and migrate together. end neighborhood as their turf, are the misunderstood scattered across the Americas. The subcousins of the avian world. According sudden they’re here.” species is often confused with other to Swanson, not a lot is known about “They come back the first week of them. April,” adds another neighborhood resi- vultures, including black vultures, a notorious bird that has been known to “It’s pretty interesting for how com- dent, Lynn Morgan. “The same week attack in packs, killing newborn cattle. mon they are that there hasn’t been a every year.” In the big picture, vultures are lot of study,” she says. Morgan laughs and adds, “We have everywhere. They are comprised of two But, like some sort of freak sidesnowy weather in April and I still see show at a circus of ill repute, they’ve them. They huddle up there.” groups, Old World vultures and New drawn the attention of some biologists The sudden arrival as well as the World vultures. You can watch them fly and we do know a few things. equally sudden departure is typical of almost anyplace except the colds of the First of all, vultures like to hang out migratory species. Antarctic and, surprisingly, Australia, a together. This is clearly evident to their “They travel widely across the continent that would seem well-suited neighbors. Americas,” says Swanson. “We have for the birds. Both groups evolved sepa“They’ve been here at least 20 them during the summer and they go rately but at the same time, a converyears,” says long-time local Bob to central and south America in our gent process that gave birth to Boulder’s Lundeen of a colony that roosts in the winter.” turkey vultures as well as other New shadows of Flagstaff mountain. Boulder’s colony — or “committee” World vulture species such as condors The vultures “show up all at the of vultures — is part of a five-subspeand king vultures. New World vultures same time, each year,” he says. “All of a cies subgrouping of turkey vultures are widespread, ranging from the

Falklands to Kansas to Costa Rica, while Old World vultures are found in Europe and Africa and include the Rüppell’s vulture, a species that holds the record for the highest flight in the world, having been documented soaring 36,000 feet above sea level. Boulder’s turkey vultures are graceful fliers, but they don’t go quite that high. Weighing up to four pounds, their size comes from their wings. With wingspans up to six feet across, the birds are able to surf thermals with a minimum of effort. Regardless of where turkey vultures fly or the trees that they call home, they all eat the same thing: dead meat. Turkey vultures have an acute sense of smell, a trait that comes in handy when your favorite meal consists of rotting flesh. Turkey vultures are some of a handful of birds with this sense, and that, along with highly developed olfactory lobes in their brains, allow them to home in on the sent of ethyl mercaptan, a gas produced by the beginning of decay in dead animals. This sense of smell is so precise that other vulture species, which don’t have such refined nostrils, such as American

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vultures or king Swanson. “This is vultures, will folan important low turkey vultures thing. When you to find food. have larger aniThe ick factor mals die, those of turkey vultures larger scavengers is enhanced by are important. other traits. The And if there are primary form of not healthy popudefense for a turlations of wildlife key vulture is to nearby, there won’t vomit semibe things to scavdigested meat at enge on. GET YOUR VULTURE ON: You any threat — it’s a “Roadkill don’t have to live across from a comform of chemical adds to the food mittee of turkey vultures to enjoy Boulder’s rich bird life. The Boulder Bird warfare that base,” Swanson Club (www.BoulderBirdClub.org) ensures there are adds. “But vulcharges a mere $10 a year for memberships, which include a quarterly few predators that tures will move in newsletter, tons of local birding trips, eat the birds. on kills after the seminars and more. Boulder’s Department of Parks (www. In Boulder’s large predator is bouldercolorado.gov) offers hikes and open space, turkey done, or they’ll other nature tours, which include the opportunity to bird watch as well as vultures act as the eat small carrion, speak to naturalists about the local de facto garbage rabbits, prairie flora and fauna. The Boulder Audubon Society (www. men, cleaning up dogs and mice.” boulderaudubon.org) has a variety of the landscape. Because of hikes, field trips and other resources to learn about, watch and enjoy birds. “We don’t see this diet, they’ve The $20 annual membership includes a a lot of dead got some pretty newsletter, the opportunity to participate in field trips and more. things,” says interesting habits. Swanson. “As “They urinate scavengers go, on their legs to they’re pretty sterilize the skin,” effective.” Swanson says and The birds aren’t too picky, according laughs. “And the naked head, the purpose is to keep from getting rotting to Swanson. Roadkill or a mountain meat stuck in the feathers. They are lion kill after the large predator is done work fine, she says. As does the carnage kind of stinky.” “They are kinda creepy,” says after a farmer mows a hay field, when Morgan. “But they are very interestsmall rodents such as mice and prairie ing to observe first thing in the dogs don’t get out of the way in time. morning, stretch their wings out and While their ability to take advanwatch the air wake up.” tage of human activity, scavenging on “They are fascinating,” adds road kill or cleaning up a freshly Lundeen, who admits that he likes mowed field, makes turkey vultures watching them come home every evehighly adaptable to humans, their presning the best. ence also is an indicator of the overall “They spiral down into the trees health of the ecosystem, says Swanson. without even flapping,” he says. “It is “Turkey vultures are a key in nutrithe most impressive thing.” ent cycling. They are part of the whole Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com fabric of how things work,” says Boulder Weekly

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Michael Heim inspects the one and only chanterelle found while foraging (left) and holds a mushroom he identifies as a Leccinum species. He identifies it in part by studying the texture beneath the cap. Cassie Moore

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Wild foraging is a growing pastime but it should be done carefully by Cassie Moore

Fairy mushrooms often grow in lawns, especially during the rainy season in Colorado, and they can grow in naturally occurring rings. English folklore says fairies dance at night in circles and the mushrooms pop up behind them.

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e are in a mixed pine and aspen forest at about 8,000 feet. We walk slowly, scanning the ground for signs of the golden fungus we intend to pile high in our wicker basket. We have seen everything we don’t want — russulas, puffballs and trash. When we do finally find a chanterelle trumpeting out of the ground, my mush-

room guide scoops it up, examines the underside ridges through a magnifying glass and drops it into the basket beside the other objects he’s collected: a dusty pink lighter, a beer can and broken amber glass. “This is a wild lighter, a rare breed,” says Michael Heim, my guide who was once briefly a stand-up comedian and is now the owner of a mushroom operation on the site of

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the 63rd Street Farm. “And this is beercansius adendus, very rare… Sometimes you’re just a trash collector,” he continues. “But that’s OK.” The chanterelle we harvest smells sweet like apricot, and though Heim says they are difficult to find in Colorado, this time last week he picked three to four pounds in this spot. He says multiple things could account for the lack of chanterelles today — dry heat, over-foraging, bad luck. “You can get disheartened, not finding mushrooms,” he says. “But look around, we are so lucky that we live in this beautiful place and are able to come out here and do this. I mean we could be in Syria right now, or some war-torn place.” I realize I haven’t looked up at the horizon once — which is expansive, green and fades into hazy hills and valleys miles away from us. My eyes have been stuck to the ground, scanning for the iconic orange of chanterelles while we have been marching. The hunt is on, and my focus is singular. That’s why Heim is out here, for the hunt and for the singular focus. It’s what drives him. He calls it “compulsive,” and says, “I think there is a relationship between my tendency to be compulsive at a bar and my tendency to be compulsive when mushroom foraging, always thinking that I can go one step further, find one more mushroom. It’s such a thrill.” It started when he was a kid. Over Christmas break he would go out with his Dad in the Nebraskan prairie and hunt coyotes. As an adult, the hunt

Heim holds out a Russula species.

manifests in different ways — mushroom foraging, thrift storing, for a while it was drinking, maybe all in an attempt to quell thinking too much about the world’s problems. Heim studied political science in college and he says he thinks too much about the state of the world, the chaos, the madness. Today, unlike normal life, he has one thing on his mind: chanterelles. We have been marching over miles and miles of mycelium, which most people don’t realize is the body, stomach, and nervous system of fungus. Mushrooms themselves are the fruit, like an apple, and mycelium is the “tree,” a fuzzy white web that runs underground that, in old growth forests, can be so dense that there are 300 miles of it in one footstep. It is a constant traveler, growing up to several inches per day. Mycelia, Heim says, are “magical.” The web-like structures release acids and enzymes that break down rocks and decompose material, leaching min-

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erals and nutrients that not only nourish mycelium’s own mushroom babies, but are made available to other plant species as well. Mycelia are the gatekeepers of life: Without them, ecosystems would fail. So it’s important, Heim says, that when people forage the fruit of mycelium, they do it carefully so as not to damage the mother web beneath. There’s a whole movement, a whole history in fact, of harvesting sustainably. These days it’s called “wildcrafting,” but it used to be the standard way of foraging and still is in indigenous societies, says ethnobotanist Erin Smith, Heim’s friend and former mentor. People who grew up harvesting wild edibles knew that if they wanted them to come back, they had to do it a certain way, says Smith. Today, the ethical and sustainable harvesting of wild food is threatened by the commodification of wild edibles like mushrooms. Those who harvest mushrooms by raking the earth, for example (often searching for mush-

rooms that hide under the soil), degrade the mycelium, exposing it to dryness and light, which kills it. Those who are looking to harvest mushrooms for a profit might use rakes because it’s quicker and so their profits are bigger. That’s just bad karma, says Heim. “Know what your intentions are,” he says. “I even say to myself sometimes, ‘Wait Michael, what are your intentions here? Do you really need to take that many? Do you really need to pick the little one?’” Alongside the slow-food movement, wildcrafting is a growing trend, and Heim wants to empower people with the knowledge to go out in the woods and take only what is necessary. Much of what he learned about giving thanks and gratitude for a harvest, he learned from Smith as an intern at her school. Smith is the founder of the Center for Integrated Botanical Studies, and has dedicated her life to studying how humans have evolved with plants. She has lived and studied with indigenous societies in Peru, Ethiopia and Morocco, among others, and she finds huge life lessons in wildcrafting. “Wildcrafting is a sacred act,” she says. “It puts you in a different place, it brings into question that sense of entitlement that we have as a culture. Alongside that, there is something we innately crave in being in nature and being able to find our food and support ourselves on that. It is so much a part of who we are. It taps into something see MUSHROOMS Page 32

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really primal that I think we miss and utes to panic.” He has gotten lost long for, so it’s empowering.” enough times that he carries a pack Smith has three rules for wildcraftwith a flashlight, a raincoat, some first ing, and Heim follows them. One, take aid and a compass “which I barely only what you need. Two, get permisknow how to use,” he says. In the end, sion, whether that is in “an esoteric it’s the “wait five minutes to panic” that way” or means getting a permit requiralways helps him the most. He thinks ing first that you understand what susthat practicing calmness in the woods tainable harvesting means. And three, can help with practicing calmness in give thanks and gratitude. everyday life. “Going out there and looking for “I have a lot of debt,” he says. He [wild food] is part of the whole experi- has anxiety about paying it off and is ence,” says Smith. “What an amazing potentially moving into a remodeled gift to find it. Your gratitude builds as bus on the farm to save money, pay off you do it, his debt and because it’s not then open his a given that mushroom you will find business. What INFO BOX: Medicinal mushroom workshop with Robert anything. You the business Rogers (author of The Fungal Pharmacy) at 7 can spend the looks like is p.m. Friday, Sept. 26 at the 63rd Street Farm, followed by a medicinal mushroom foray whole day hard to say. with Rogers and Michael Heim at 9 a.m. looking, and There are Saturday, Sept. 27. 3796 N 63rd St., Longmont, 720-938-3059 not find anymany facets: thing, that’s taking clients Hands-on breakout session, “Mushroom Foraging in the Rocky Mountains” with normal. It’s mushroom forMichael Heim at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29 at like going fishaging, teaching the Sustainable Food Summit. Limited space, 209-800-2433 ing. You hope classes on you catch medicinal something, but mushrooms, it’s not a given. We’ve forgotten that making mushroom bitters and cultivatnature is that way because we are so ing edibles and medicinals in the used to going into the store and find400-square-foot mushroom garage on the 63rd Street Farm. ing whatever we want whenever we “I am at a disadvantage because I want it.” am not a businessperson,” he says. When we find our first — and what will be our only — chanterelle for “And I have no money.” Ultimately, Heim knows he wants the day, Heim takes a moment to say to unlock the magic of foraging for thank you to the natural world. Then people, and help them uncover the we continue our search with renewed rare quiet and respite of the forest. vigor. I think I find a chanterelle and reach down to touch its surface, but it’s He uses foraging like he uses meditation, as a practice for a quieter, more an eggshell. conscious existence. “I’ve picked up dog shit before “I grew up being afraid of mushthinking it was a mushroom,” he says. rooms,” he says. “My mom would say, When we feel discouraged about ‘Don’t touch that!’ But there is nothing not “scoring the motherload,” as Heim more gourmet or choice than going out puts it, we talk about hunting for the into nature and finding food for yourhunt itself and tempering expectations self. Organic is great, but what is even from the get-go. Heim says he warns more exciting is going in and finding it foraging clients from the outset that as it was intended. You can go into “Hey, we might find mushrooms, but nature and you don’t have to be afraid 99 percent of what we find, I won’t be of it if you have the knowledge. able to identify.” Connection with your food sounds like He tells them, “Don’t expect too much, it’s nature,” and that, like in life, the most basic thing ever, but we are disconnected. Our food comes in a bag, high expectations lead to disappointwe take it out of the bag, and we’re ment. always on the go. We don’t even sit If there is one thing I have learned down to eat. Foraging makes you slow today it is that mushroom foraging down and provides you with singular provides ample aphorisms, the cheesy focus. I don’t have to think about the kind that Heim and I agree are sentimental like the ones in self-help books. world’s problems, or about ‘Gee, why did that person say that to me?’ It’s Yet we ultimately keep coming back to good for me to actively not think. So, I them as we walk. feel like everyone deserves to know this We get lost, though not for long. stuff.” Heim tells me that in these situations Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com he practices a mantra, “Wait five minBoulder Weekly

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ONCE AN ACTIVITY relegated to nightclubs and strip joints, pole dancing is now on the verge of going mainstream. “Studios are popping up all over the country,” says Nina Reed, director of the upcoming Colorado Pole Championships. Reed isn’t exaggerating. Pole dancing became a fitness option about 10 years ago, and its combination of gymnastic-style strength exercises, grace and sheer spectacle made it take off in the fitness world just as fast as crazes like yoga, pilates and CrossFit. It’s even a nationally recognized sport with Olympic ambitions. The International Pole Sports Federation, the HQ for pole dancers worldwide, has expressed its belief that their sport should be the next addition to the world’s greatest global sporting event. On their website, the International Pole Sports Federation posted, “Pole sport athletes across the world are ready to get their sport recognized by the greatest sporting event in the world, the Olympic Games.” Timothy Trautman of the International Pole Sports Federation supported the statement, while acknowledging the difficulties that the sport faces. “[Pole athletes] have such grace and elegance and they absolutely belong in the Olympics. But we do fight the stereotype that it’s for strippers,” he said in an interview with BuzzFeed. And while it’s not quite the Olympics, locals will have a

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chance to see the staggering grace and athleticism of competitive pole dancing up close this week, when the Boulder Theater hosts the Colorado Pole Championships on Saturday, Sept. 20. The championship will feature performances from regional competitors as well as guest performances from pole champions from around the country. Phoenix Kazree, who has been dancing professionally for more than 20 years, will be judging and guest-performing at the competition. Kazree is trained in ballet and modern jazz dance, but four years ago she shimmied up a pole for the first time — and has never stopped since. “I was immediately obsessed,” Kazree tells BW. “Now, it’s my career, it’s something that I love — it’s my sanity. It’s also what I do to keep fit.” Kazree found the sport in Salt Lake City while working as a dancer in a travelling Broadway show. “I saw an advertisement in their weekly newspaper for pole dancing fitness,” she says. “That was it, that one class completely changed everything for me. It was different, more athletic than any other type of dance I had done before.” Due to her background in dance and dedication to her new fixation, Kazree progressed quickly in her new artistry. Spectators can expect to be wowed by the poise, fluidity and power in her guest performance this weekend. see POLE DANCING Page 36

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“I always strive to create something that is appealing to the eye, brings across some type of emotion — something that is memorable,” she says. As a judge, she holds competitors to the highest of standards. “I like to see a well-rounded dancer/athlete,” Kazree explains. “I want to see someone who has a ON THE BILL: Colorado Pole Championships. Doors 7 p.m., good deal of flexishow 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. bility, strength, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., some form of acroBoulder, 303-786-7030. Balcony $25, Reserved $35, Gold $50. All batic movements, ages. big, powerful spins on the static pole, as well as able to be fluid and captivate their audience. There’s a lot to it. Our sport is 2013 Colorado Pole Championships also an art form — and it is about more than just technical skill.” Unlike in strip clubs, the goal in of four pole fitness studios across competitive pole dancing is not about Colorado, pole can be whatever you sex appeal. The performers are judged want it to be. Piek will be competing on technical difficulty, technicality, this weekend in the Masters Division, strength, musicality and stage presence. for competitors over 40. There is no explicit music allowed for “[Pole] provides an opportunity to the routines, and there is a dress code. express yourself that is not present in In competitive pole sports, there is to be other sports. My favorite part about it is no nudity or excessive exposure, and any how it makes me feel, and how it makes violations lead to point reductions. me feel about other women,” she says. “Sometimes, people like to bring the “It has allowed me to develop this great sensual element out in competitions,” sense of confidence, and the community says Kazree. “People like to be sexy with is so amazing and supportive.” their movements, or more sensual, wear Piek says pole dancing is for anythe heels, have a sexier costume — but one, and she offers classes at Vertical they still pull out the big tricks, strength Fusion Studios to men and children as and flexibility, with clean execution and well as women. In response to the form.” scepticism of opening up the tradiAccording to Melanie Piek, owner tionally promiscuous sport to children, 36 September 18, 2014

she says, “It’s very easy to take the sensual part out. In our youth workshops, we teach no sensual movements.” The Colorado Pole Championship is part of the Pole Championship Series, an elite competitive series for professional pole athletes. The performer who is crowned winner of the Championship Division at the Boulder Theater on Saturday night will be sent to compete at the Pole Championship Series National Championships against fellow winners from all over the U.S., Canada and Mexico. “People who have pre-conceived notions about pole dancing need to come in and see a show,” says Reed. Kazree agrees: “I think our sport can become a lot bigger than what it is, and I’m hoping that it does. I think it really just depends on how quickly people want to open up to the idea that it can be more than what we assume based on the stigma of its history.” Set in a performance theater with lights and sound-boarded music, guests at the Colorado Pole Championships this weekend will get to see how much of an artistic performance professionallevel pole dancing can really be. “We’ve had people come to the competition that had never seen pole before, and they were very impressed,” says Reed. “I think it’s really cool to blow people’s minds like that.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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overtones Some unexpected charisma

Classical Requiem not by Mozart opens BCO season by Peter Alexander

he Boulder Chamber Also on the program will be two short- and so we have the Requiem,” Saless Orchestra (BCO) will er pieces, a church sonata for strings by says. Similarly, “Glamour” is a program launch its 11th season with Mozart, and a sonata for strings by Rossini. of chic French and Spanish music, a somber, almost mystical In recent years, Saless has enjoyed “Allure” is a program of great pieces for classical-era Requiem. giving the BCO seasons and concerts winds that you might want to know betNo, it’s not the Requiem you are one-word titles. With “Mystique” and ter, and so forth. thinking about; it’s by Haydn, not “Charisma” — and later this year, An interesting feature of the season is Mozart. And no, it’s not the Haydn “Glamour,” “Allure” and “Charm” — that two of the soloists Saless has invited to you’re thinking about, either; it’s by the titles are getting ever more enigBoulder will also present solo recitals while Michael Haydn, not his older brother matic. they are here. Spanish pianist Victoria Aja Joseph. will be the soloist for Keith Bobo Before I confuse you the Oct. 3 and 4 any further, some simple “Glamour” concert, facts: Conductor Bahman playing both de Saless and the BCO open Falla’s Nights in the this season, titled Gardens of Spain and “Mystique,” with a perforCésar Franck’s mance at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Symphonic Variations Sept. 19, at First United and she will also Methodist Church in present a solo recital Boulder. They will repeat of Spanish piano the program at 7:30 p.m. music Oct. 10. the next evening, Saturday, “She is coming Sept. 20, in the all the way from Broomfield Auditorium. Spain and I really The concert program wanted to expose itself is titled her to the Boulder Boulder Chamber Orchestra begins its “Mystique” season with a surprising “Charisma.” The princi- Requiem from neither the famous Haydn nor Mozart. audiences,” Saless pal work on the program explains. “I decided is the Requiem in C we will host her the minor by Michael Haydn, a friend and “By intention,” Saless says, adding, entire week, and have her do a Spanish colleague of the Mozarts in Salzburg as “I was trying to come up with a good music recital.” well as the younger brother of Joseph name for an orchestra that’s been A month later, cellist Inbal Segev will Haydn. Performing with the BCO will around for 10 years and is going into its be the soloist in the Concerto for Cello be St. Martin’s Chamber Choir of second decade. I thought we have now and Winds by Friedrich Gulda on the Denver, under director Timothy J. developed some mystique.” “Allure” Concert Nov. 7 and 8. She too Krueger, and vocal soloists Sylvia The concert titles, it turns out, are all will play a solo recital in Boulder, giving a Schranz, soprano; Marjorie Bundy, alto; synonyms for “mystique.” CD pre-release performance of J.S. Todd Teske, tenor; and Luke Williams, “One of the definitions of charisma Bach’s suites for solo cello on Nov. 9. baritone. is the ability to bring belief in people, But it is the opening concert that

ON THE BILL: “Charisma” Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents Michael Haydn’s “Requiem.” Bahman Saless, conductor, with St. Martin’s Chamber Choir and soloists, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept 19, First United Methodist Church, Boulder, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, Broomfield Auditorium. http://www.boulderchamberorchestra.org/concerts/201501.html

has Saless excited at the moment. “I personally think Haydn’s Requiem is a more sophisticated structure than Mozart’s,” he says. “The whole thing is much more varied. The orchestration is fabulous, it has a lot of color and it has a very beautiful arch.” Apart from relative quality of the two works, Michael Haydn’s Requiem likely did have an influence on Mozart. Wolfgang and his father attended the first performances of Haydn’s Requiem in Salzburg, and Wolfgang is known to have heard other performances. And it is clear that Haydn’s music was in Mozart’s memory when he wrote his own Requiem. “It’s impossible not to hear the connection,” Saless says. “The beginning is very much like Mozart’s “Requiem.” It starts with this walking tempo in the basses, and then the choir comes in and the entrances are very similar. You can almost hear the more famous one immediately.” Saless is happy to be bringing attention to the younger Haydn. “I want people to recognize him as a great composer,” he says. “A lot of people got overshadowed by the big guys. Michael Haydn has an older brother who’s writing 104 symphonies, and then he’s got Mozart on this side, and Beethoven on the other side. “But even [ Joseph] Haydn, the older brother, wrote that ‘My younger brother is a much better choral writer than I am!’ So even the older brother knew that.” And Saless hopes you will know it too, after hearing the BCO performance of the “Requiem.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Spooking the horses

Despite its forced relocation, Riot Fest endures by Josh Gross

name like Riot Fest isn’t subtle. And back in July, neither were the residents of Byers, Colo. “Last year we were subjected to 20 hours of abuse by the extreme nonstop noise,” one resident told the Arapahoe County Board of Commissioners as part of his objection to 2014’s Riot Fest. “If approved this year, it will mean more than 30 hours of the same.” While “abuse” is a pretty strong word, it’s not hard to understand how the tiny town of 1,100 might take issue with being overrun by 15,000 attendees, at least 2,000 of whom were expected to camp. And so the sonically abused town got its way, and Riot Fest’s permits were denied in July. The festival, which had already sold a lot of tickets, scrambled. “I am utterly incensed,” festival organizer Mike Petryshyn (Riot Mike) wrote in a blog post. “Elementary ideological forces and manipulation veiled in contradictory legal jargon prevented us from coming back to May Farms [the Byers location] this year. Simply, we were duped. Certain groups, residents and so forth did not want you or us in their town, and there is something morally dishonest and unforgiveable with their actions.” Petryshyn’s blog post included a call to the local youth not to take it too personally, to remember that community is based on divergent opinions and to remember that music can help guide you through existential strife. “The fact of the matter is that even in this day and age, ignorance resides and the words ‘Riot Fest’ unfoundedly scares people,” he wrote. “Punk rock still scares people. Intelligence and wit scares people. And we all know if we were

ON THE BILL: Riot Fest Denver, Sept. 19-21, Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium, 1701 Bryant St., Denver. Tickets range from $64.98-$279.98.

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Local band The Epilogues will be warming up the stage at Riot Fest for legendary acts like Sublime with Rome and Wu-Tang Clan.

named Good Ole Country Riot Fest, we would have never been in this situation.” Petryshyn also wrote that though the festival always knew it could sell more tickets in Denver, Byers had been chosen because the organizers deliberately sought out depressed and rural neighborhoods and areas for events to give them an economic boost, a model that had worked well in Riot Fest’s other incarnations in cities like Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas. But with the carpet yanked from beneath their feet, they went back to the big city and booked the festival into Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver, where it will continue as scheduled — the bands, the carnival games, mini-golf course, pieeating contest and more. The merits of the headlining acts — The Cure, Wu-Tang Clan and The Descendents, to name a few — are

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largely self-evident. And further extolling them here isn’t much in the way of news. But there are more than 70 acts on the bill, and for some of them, it’s as much a shot at the big time as it is a day at the office for those with top billing. One of those bands is The Epilogues, Denver favorites that despite flirting with a deal with Sony Records, haven’t yet broken onto the national scene. “That was our first legit, we’re-notjust-playing-for-shits-and-giggles-anymore festival,” Nathanial Hammond, the band’s resident synth wizard and t-shirt designer, says of playing at the Mile High Music Festival in 2010. “I remember we were on the same stage as Weezer, Teen and Fenix, and looking stage right and seeing Rivers Cuomo and the singer for Fenix was standing stage right and I was like, ‘Holy shit.’” And Hammond isn’t shy about being a little starstruck about Riot Fest

as well. The Epilogues are playing the Byers Country Feed stage Sunday, Sept. 21 at 1:45 p.m. Later in the day, that stage will host hip hop icons Wu-Tang Clan. “I made a t-shirt with Peyton Manning and it says, ‘Peyton Manning knows you protect your neck,’” he says. “My only goal is to meet the RZA and hopefully give him a t-shirt.” And then there’s The Cure. “As a synth player, and kind of growing up in that era, they take the cake,” he says. “When’s the last time The Cure even legitimately went out on tour?” But that said, Hammond and company aren’t just riding coat-tails. The band has played SXSW seven years in a row and played the CMJ industry showcase in New York City. They may be at the bottom of the bill, but they’re not an also-played. “It’s here in Denver, but we’re not being treated that way,” he says. “It’s our home market, and we still get that top billing. I think that’s a measure that we have a bit of a draw.” Hammond says that sort of exposure also helps keep the band on people’s minds as it retreats from the touring circuit to work on a new album. “People can forget about you real quick,” Hammond says. There are too many moving parts to pin anything down, but the band is hoping to get the new record out next spring. “I feel like the record is really good, personally,” Hammond says. “We’re putting down some of the stuff that we really weren’t good enough to do a couple of years ago.” Those not willing to wait until 2015 for that new material can get a taste at Riot Fest. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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arts & culture The church basement ladies are back ‘A Second Helping’ proves worth a taste or two by Gary Zeidner

ON THE BILL: Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second Helping, through Nov. 8, Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.bouldersdinnertheatre. com, $37 and up.

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here Hollywood can’t get kitchen in an island-style grass skirt and feathenough of reboots, reimaginered headdress while still sporting black dress ings and sequels — why else socks and, in a bit of costuming masterwork, Jaws: The Revenge or The sock garters. Expendables 3? — in live theSpeaking of the pastor, Wayne Kennedy atre, sequels are the exception rather than the has been knocking audiences dead at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre for many, many years. His rule. Perhaps in recognition of the law of relaxed acting style combined with his impecdiminishing returns, even when a play or musicable comic timing results in some of the best cal earns rave reviews, its world is seldom revisited. work you’ll see on stage anywhere. Though the Playwright Greta Grosch bucked the trend women are the focus of A Second Helping, when she penned Church Basement Ladies 2: A Kennedy makes the absolute most out of what Second Helping, a follow-up to the hilarious is essentially a supporting role. and well-received Church Basement Ladies, While Reeves, Warren and Grover all written by Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehlke. acquit themselves well, it is Burron who chalBoulder’s Dinner Theatre scored a hit with the lenges Kennedy for the CBL2 Best Actor The laugh-a-long sequel at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre may be even funnier award. I was overjoyed when I learned that original production last year, and with the than the first serving of the Church Basement Ladies’ story. sequel they have an even bigger hit on their Burron, a former BDT regular who ended her hands. long absence when she returned for Church Set in rural Minnesota as the 1960s are giving way her husband in tow and a bun in the oven. Soon, she Basement Ladies, was reprising her role in A Second to the 1970s, Church Basement Ladies 2: A Second is toiling tirelessly alongside her mother, Vivian and Helping. Though the plot, such as it is, revolves Helping picks up right where Church Basement Ladies Mavis (Bren. Eyestone Burron), the most outlandish around the relationship between Karin and Beverly, left off. In the basement of the local Lutheran church, of the group, as they assist Pastor Gunderson (Wayne Burron’s Mavis is really the center of the show. With dedicated, resilient and quirky women work tirelessly Kennedy) with the tending of the flock. every line she delivers and every expression she behind the scenes to ensure that the church and its Anyone who has ever spent time in a church or employs, she will have you laughing until your sides congregation are well looked after. They cook and synagogue will appreciate the care that has gone into literally ache. What makes A Second Helping such an amazing clean and do just about anything else needed to help crafting these characters. But as well-written as they the pastor keep things humming along for baptisms, are, they couldn’t come to such vivid life without some piece of theatre is that, in addition to how screamingly funerals and every event in between. help, and BDT’s crew works their magic once again. funny it is, it also manages to touch the audience on a Vivian (Barb Reeves) represents the old guard. The Returning for the sequel, Scenic Designer Amy deeply emotional level. Among all the silliness, sight most old-fashioned of the group, she fears the iniquities Campion recreates and improves upon the basement gags and double entendres are sprinkled moments of of “The Cities” — the hotbeds of sin that are itself. Everywhere you look, from the Enstrom to the genuine tenderness that will make many viewers Minneapolis and St. Paul. She’s so uptight it’s a wonder egg beaters, the details dazzle. misty-eyed if not downright teary. she gets any sleep at night. Some years earlier, Vivian Costume Designer Linda Morken is back as well, Given the successes of both the original and A Second ceded her role as leader of the church basement ladies and her efforts are equally evident. The women’s outHelping, Boulder’s Dinner Theatre may need to consider to Karin (Tracy Warren). Karin shares Vivian’s devotion fits — particularly their signature aprons — help making visits with the church basement ladies an ongoto service, but is young enough not to fear miniskirts, cement the period as well as demark the various pering tradition. After all, there are three more sequels in interfaith marriage and the like. sonalities. Mavis’ Vikings booster Super Bowl dress is the series, and judging by the first two shows, these Not long after A Second Helping gets going, Karin’s by far the most memorable highlight. Morken also has ladies have a lot more humor and heart to share. daughter, Beverly (Sara Grover), returns to town with fun with the pastor. At one point, he struts around the Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Sure, the University of Colorado Boulder has a collection of samurai weapons, but they’re for “educational purposes.” Since 1977, more than 850 Asian artifacts have been donated to the CU Museum of Natural History. At one time, this rich collection sparked interest in building an Asian history museum on the CU campus, but due to a lack of space and funding, it never came to fruition. Instead, these artifacts have allowed for numerous exhibitions on Asian topics at the Natural History Museum on campus. The current exhibition features samurai relics, focusing on “Japanese blades.” Dr. Robert Pontsioen of the Smithsonian Institution and University of Aberdeen will be lecturing on the history and significance of samurai culture at the Paleontology Hall.

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STRING BAND Kinfolk Celebration at Planet Bluegrass, Friday, Sept. 19 - Saturday, Sept. 20, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W. Main St., Lyons, 303-823-0848. Twelve years ago, Yonder Mountain String Band put on their first Kinfolk Celebration at Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons. This year, the festival will be triumphantly returning to its inaugural setting after much of the town was damaged by the 2013 flood. Kinfolk will be revitalizing the lands with some good old fashioned bluegrass. They invite attendees to enjoy nature by day, and to dance and sleep under the stars by night. Food and drink from local vendors, beer from New Belgium Brewing Company and musical performances by Yonder Mountain String Band along with many special guests will make for a memorable weekend to close out the summer and welcome fall. Courtesy of Planet Bluegrass

Craig Cornett and the Phast and Wreckless. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Dancelympics. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. DJ Thursdays. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. see EVENTS Page 44

SUBVERSIVE Bill Ayers, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Bill Ayers is one of the founding members of the 1960’s radical revolutionary group the Weather Underground. The group acted to show their opposition to the Vietnam War using violent demonstrations, including deadly bombings and riots. Today, Ayers continues to face vilification from conservative groups. John McCain once called him a “domestic terrorist.” You can hear all about Ayers’ life of controversy and rebellion from the man himself at the Boulder Book Store on Thursday, Sept. 18 when he comes to discuss his autobiography, Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident.

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At The Mirror — Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Sept. 21. Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Discovering & Interpreting the West: 21st Century Landscapes will be on display at the Arvada Center for the Arts through Nov. 16.

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Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25. Summer in 3D — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 21. The Language of Water — by Buff Elting. Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 10. A Table (Somewhat): Conversations Between Objects — Various artists. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20. ART/TEKNE: Part 3 “Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Potential” — by Todd Siler. University of Colorado Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through Dec. 20. Unbound: Sculpture in the Fields — Various artists. Outdoor Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Sept. 30, 2015.

EVENTS from Page 43 Esther Sparks. 7:30 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. The Gael. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Gideon’s Rifle. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Greg Blake K.C. Groves. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Groove Session. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. OperaWorks. 3 p.m. The Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 818-898-9597. Sherefe. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Wake Up and Live. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Wind Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

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

Cold Water Diving Social. 6:30 p.m. Ocean First Divers, 3015 Bluff St., Boulder, 303-444-7234.

The Jam Knights. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Conscious Burlesque Show. 8:30 p.m. The Dairy Center For The Arts, 26th and Walnut streets, Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Live Jazz Jam. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Mojo Medicine Show. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535

GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hoarded Stuff Presents KITSCH. 9 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020 B 21st St, Boulder. Increasing Your Profitability. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647.

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Sound Transformations. 7 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton. 7 p.m. Madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-927-0802.

Tap Me on the Shoulder. 8 p.m. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Toddler Time. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tim Hill Combo. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Tycho. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Ultralowfi. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-9086036.

U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Zumba GoldToning at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Friday, September 19 Music

Under a Blood Red Sky. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Vine Street All-Stars. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Yonder Mountain’s Kinfolk Celebration. All Day. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W Main St., Lyons, 800624-2422.

Banshee Tree. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Events

Big Medicine Gang. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Art Night Finale Party. 6 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Books Are Fun Book Fair. 7 a.m. Picasso/Ruben/Chagall Rooms, Longmont United Hospital, 1950 Mountain View Ave., Longmont.

Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents “Charisma.” 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-583-1278.

Boulder Bookies Book Discussion Group. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Brian Parton. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-4492911.

Boulder Fringe “What Can I Do?” 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Champagne Charlie. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

CFOOTMAD: Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Downtown Boulder Fall Fest. 5 p.m. Downtown Boulder, 1300 Block, Boulder. Funky Tonk Heroes. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Geoff & Pat H. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Glostik Willy. 9:30 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. The Goonies. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. I Miss My MTV. 7:30 p.m. The BoT Cave (located behind Trident Booksellers and Centro Latin Kitchen), 944 Pearl St., Boulder. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Jockamo. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Lori Flynn. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Oh Whitney. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Drop-In Scientific Illustration Workshop. 2 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, BioLounge, 1030 N. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4926892. Getting Started with Adobe InDesign, Part 1. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

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Saturday, September 20 Music Andrew Wynne. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. The Bear on Guitar. 6 p.m. ClubNed, 154 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Connolly-Ramey Duo. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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DeadSet Colorado Angels in Flight Tour. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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OperaWorks. 7 p.m. The Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 818-898-9597.

The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

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Blake & Groves. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472.

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Beth Preston. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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at Dairy Center for the Arts 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Sept. 28. Naughty Bits. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver, 720-946-1388. Through Oct. 4.

Bug. The Bug Theatre, 3564 Navajo St., Denver, 720-984-0781. Through Sept. 29. Death By Design. The Longmont Theatre Company is putting on Driving Miss Daisy through Oct. 4. Spark Theater, 3190 Wadsworth Blvd., Denver, 303-58-6761. Through Sept. 27. Through Oct. 5. Dylan Went Electric. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241. Through Oct. 19. Grounded. Boulder Ensemble Theater Company

The Producers. Jester’s Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.

A Second Helping: The Church Basement Ladies Sequel. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 8.

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behind Trident Booksellers and Centro Latin Kitchen), 944 Pearl St., Boulder. Los Funbags. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. My Blue Sky. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. OperaWorks. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 818-898-9597. Potcheen. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Savant. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Shogun Mojo. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Sixty Minute Men. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Stone Soup. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. The Sweet Lillies. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Yonder Mountain’s Kinfolk Celebration. All Day. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 W Main St., Lyons, 800624-2422.

National Drive Electric Week Event. 12 p.m. TinkerMill, 1840 Delaware Place, Longmont. “Three Tales of Poe” Presented by Theatre-Hikes Colorado. 1 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. Vintage Baseball Clinic. 5 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mtn. Road, Boulder, 303678-6207.

Sunday, September 21 Music The Anatomy of Frank. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Big Paddy. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Co., 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Bobby Walker. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Buckwheat Zydeco. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Jack Hadley Duo. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Katie Glassman & Greg Schochet. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Lionel Young. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Nouveau Honkies. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

OperaWorks. 7 p.m. The Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 818-898-9597.

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The Prairie Scholars Happy Hour. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St. #1, Longmont, 303-684-8383.

ArtWalk. 4 p.m. Main St., Longmont, 303-678-8417. BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-8303. Conscious Burlesque Show. 9 p.m. Dairy Center For The Arts, 26th and Walnut streets, Boulder, 303-4407826. Family Dance Planet. 9:30 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Hoarded Stuff Presents KITSCH. 8 p.m. Community

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Shane Tully. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Takcs Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events 5K Peace Run. 9 a.m. Twin Lakes, Boulder, 303-545-

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

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Boulder Fringe “What Can I Do?” Spaceship Earth. 4 p.m. YMCA of Boulder Valley, 2800 Dagny Way, Lafayette.

Boulder Fringe “What Can I Do?” Spaceship Earth. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

A Celtic Event: Sacred Music and Communion. 6 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Getting Started with Adobe Lightroom. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Intermediate Classes at BTS. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Zumba Gold at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Wednesday, September 24

Fitness For Living Yoga Demo Day. 6 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. A Place to Be, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-5503491.

Storytimes for Children. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Blake & Groves. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tango class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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

GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe

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Hoarded Stuff Presents KITSCH. 9:30 p.m. Community Dance Collective, 2020B 21st St., Boulder. Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303440-8303. Survivor Island. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Watercolor Basics. 12:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Monday, September 22 Music Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623. Crowboy. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. I Miss My MTV. 7:30 p.m. The BoT Cave (located behind Trident Booksellers and Centro Latin Kitchen), 944 Pearl St., Boulder. Monday Night Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164. Open Javan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Shabazz Palaces. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Takcs Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303492-1411.

Events Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conscious Burlesque Show. 9 p.m. The Dairy Center For The Arts, 26th and Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Google: Creating a Culture of Innovation. 4 p.m. Atlas Building, Room 100, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder.

Tuesday, September 23 Music Alejandro Cremaschi. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. The Alphabet Club: A Weekly Queer Hosted Dance Party. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Boulder Jam. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Boulder Timberliners Barbershop Chorus. 7 p.m. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1680 Balsam Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4151. Daryl Gott Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Deva Premal & Miten. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Live Jazz Music Duos on the Patio. 6 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-4774164.

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Claudia Van Gerven. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303.

Active Minds Lecture: Putin’s Russia. 5 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Public Enemy — by Bill Ayers. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Misdiagnosed — by Jody Berger. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Primus, Over the Electric Grapevine — by Les Claypool and Larry Lalond. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727.

The Night Guest — by Fiona McFarlane. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Friday, Sept 19 Being Single, With Cancer — by Tracy Maxwell. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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Sunday, Sept 21 Next Culture Writers. 2 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Monday, Sept 22 Sanity in Acting — by Margaret Norwood & Galina boulgakova. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. What Would Mary Ann Do? — by Dawn Wells. 6 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Little People & Fort Knox 5. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Nelson Rangell. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Nikka Garcia. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Events Boulder Folders-Learn Origami. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Cinema Program free screening of Beauty is Embarrassing. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Craft Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

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From the Page to the Stage: The Unsinkable Molly Brown. 12 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303. Wednesday, Sept 24 Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727. Yes, There Will Be Singing — by Marilyn Krysl. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Cultured Warriors: The Enduring Legacy of the Samurai in Japanese Society. 6:30 p.m. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 1030 N. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-492-6892. In-Depth Training: Passive House Case Studies at Specialty Appliance. 2 p.m. Specialty Appliance, 6205 Lookout Road, Suite A, Boulder, 303-516-4015. Lapsit Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Open Art: Drop In Art Class for Children Under 5. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Palmer Park Run. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179. Preschool Storytime. 11 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. September Happy Hour at Specialty Appliance. 5 p.m. Specialty Appliance, 6205 Lookout Rd., Suite A, Boulder. Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th and Pearl streets, Boulder, 800-807-6179.

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One for something and all for nothing

‘The Zero Theorem’ and divinity

by Michael J. Casey

erry Gilliam’s outlook of the future is bleak. It always has been. The director of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, 12 Monkeys and The Fisher King made a name for himself as a director par excellence with 1986’s dystopian and paranoid Brazil, a movie that many count as one of the best around. Now, Gilliam is back with a Brazil-ian companion piece of sorts, another entry into that bizarre and surreal future cluttered with endless information and purposeless existence, The Zero Theorem. Set in a non-descript country in the near future, Zero Theorem focuses on Qohen Leth (Christoph Waltz), a man lacking both hair and individuality. Leth refers to himself in the plural — always “we,” never “I” — and “they” like to be left alone. Leth is an Entity Cruncher — he works with esoteric data — for ManCom, an all-seeing overlord company that either does everything or nothing. Leth is one of their top crunchers and is given the special assignment: prove the zero theorem. The zero theorem is a formula where zero must equal 100 percent, or as his wunderkind assistant, Bob (Lucas

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Hedges) jokes, his ments that pursue customers job is to prove that as they walk down the everything adds up streets, the constant cacophto nothing. ony of noise that accompaMaking Leth the nies every aspect of our man responsible for lives, the obsession of multithis task is one of tasking and how that drives several cosmic jokes us further away from people in Zero Theorem. and common experience. Leth is a man of Those three in particular get faith, possibly the right at the heart of where only one left. He our culture is headed, and lives a monastic life maybe Gilliam takes that in an abandoned for granted. Instead, Zero church where he Theorem — like most artistic waits endlessly for a The Zero Theorem is a return to the dystopian future landscape for director endeavors — is about man’s phone call. The obsessive search for the conTerry Gilliam. omniscient caller cept of design. Leth will not called once before apocalyptic checklist: lack of human rest until the second calling, and promised to reveal the purpose of interaction, constant surveillance from but his desire to know the purpose of his life, but in his excitement, Leth dropped Big Brother, disconnection between the life has caused him to miss out on the the receiver and the connection was lost. personal, the accessibility of Internet experience. Now, Leth waits day and night for the pornography, virtual reality and so on. The Zero Theorem will screen at The caller to return and illuminate his purHerein lies the problem with Zero Boedecker Theatre Sept. 19 to 21 and at pose. Theorem: it is too rambunctious to sit CU’s International Film Series on But Leth’s wait for meaning while still and focus on any one thing. Zero Friday, Sept. 19. A talkback, hosted by being forced to disprove it is not the Theorem is full of ideas, but most remain this reporter, will follow The Boe’s only thing Zero Theorem is about, not by undigested by the end of the run time. A screening of the movie on Sunday, Sept. a long shot. Gilliam chocks his movie shame considering that a vast majority of 21. Tickets and information is available full of ideas and dystopian eventualities, the really interesting ones are left by the can be found at thedairy.org. each one acting like a tick off the postwayside. Ideas like relentless advertiseRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

BOULDER COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY: BOULDER RIGHTS OF NATURE FILM FESTIVAL

journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage west. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

This Festival celebrates our place within nature by showcasing films that honor the inalienable rights of ecosystems, native wildlife and traditional cultures to exist and flourish. The rights of nature movement gained momentum when hundreds of thousands of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples marched on the capital requesting that natural beings be given the same rights as corporations. With the enactment of a 2008 constitutional amendment, Ecuador became the first country in the world to codify the rights of nature. Bolivia, Nepal and several dozen municipalities in the United States including Lafayette, also have adopted specific laws. This first annual festival will honor acclaimed filmmaker Les Blank, whose timeless documentaries poetically portrayed authentic beings in their natural surroundings. Films include: Puamana; Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth; The Condor’s Shadow; Horn; Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change; DamNation; Cry Rock; Micronesia Sanctuary; The Legend of Pale Male; Green; Burden of Dreams. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch (Oscar and Emmy nominated Griffin Dunne) takes his begrudging teenage kids — Zoe (Madeleine Martin, Californication) and Jack (Devon Graye, American Horror Story) — on a road trip to a conference in hopes of putting his career back on track. But when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley (Emmy Award-winning Stuart Margolin) goes AWOL on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour. The Birch family members find themselves on a

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See full review on page 51. At Boedecker.

GOD HELP THE GIRL Set in Glasgow, Scotland, this pop-musical is about a girl called Eve who deals with her emotional problems through songwriting. She finds herself in the city, where she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own. What follows is a story of renaissance over the course of a long, dream-like summer. Written, directed and scored by the lead singer/ songwriter of Belle and Sebastian. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

K2: SIREN OF THE HIMALAYAS This film follows world-class alpinists Fabrizio Zangrilli and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner with veteran climbers Jake Meyer and Chris Szymiec in a breathtaking high-altitude mountaineering experience. Director Dave Ohlson joins this group’s epic K2 journey on the 100-year anniversary of the Duke of Abruzzi’s landmark expedition in 1909. The documentary also examines the history and geography of the Karakoram mountains while contemplating the risks, rewards and personal nature of exploration in an age when there are few blank spots left on the map. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

SANS SOUCI FESTIVAL OF DANCE CINEMA The Dairy Center is pleased to once again host the Sans Souci festival col-

lections, dance within a cinematic aesthetic — an integration of the forms. In this, their 11th year, they offer a rich program of short art films from North America and Europe. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

SCIENCE ON SCREEN: THE SOCIAL NETWORK Public social data conveyed on social networks has changed how society interacts with itself, and it has also changed the computing landscape. We will pick apart some of the more fascinating technical implications of “Big Data” via social networks and connect them to The Social Network, the movie. We’ll explore some of the computing infrastructure necessary to handle the astounding amount of human expression that transpires every second on social networks. The Social Network tells the story of Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg who created the site that would become known as Facebook, but was later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

THE ZERO THEOREM See full review above. At Boedecker and at IFS Munzinger Auditorium.

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The following films are showing at CU’s International Film Festival this week: please go to https://internationalfilmseries.com for full descriptions, times and locations: Mood Indigo; All About Eve; The Zero Theorem; Life Itself; The Last Day of Summer; Je T’aime Je T’aime. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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o the whole time, Michael Fassbender wears this giant, papier-mache-style head and mumble-sings gibberish lyrics about things like snags in the carpet while other people play instruments they created out of things like toothbrushes. Welcome to Frank, a movie that is somehow nowhere near as pandemonium-inducingly insane as it sounds. In fact, it’s surprisingly sincere and legitimately sweet for a film that centers on music as an outlet for the mentally unwell. The movie is called Frank, but we start with Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who is very bad at writing songs. He tries to draw from the world around him, but it turns out “Girl in blue, do you know the girl in red” is not an anthem-inspiring question. As luck would have it, Jon stumbles upon a band that has just lost their keyboard player to a mental institution. They ask him to play in their gig that night, which he does for all of two minutes before the temperamental Clara (Maggie Gyllenhaal) goes full Johnny Rotten and starts knocking over equipment, ending the show. Jon is enamored with this charismatic lead singer with the giant fake head. When they offer him another chance to join them, he does, no questions asked. Only to discover he should have asked questions. The band semiabducts him to a cabin so creepy and secluded, Jason Voorhees Realty must have rented it out. Then they stay there for nearly a year, recording an album that makes Arcade Fire sound like Katy Perry. Jon tweets and blogs the whole Boulder Weekly

experience, which gets the band invited to South by Southwest. But when you have a head as big as Frank’s, you don’t have the luxury of having any more success or anxiety crammed in there. Things begin to fall apart, as the movie pivots from an exploration of the artistic process to a symposium on the use of art as therapy. Gleeson is great as the “straight man,” the audience’s surrogate, asking things like “How does he eat?” As the only seemingly sane character, he does a magnificent job showing there’s no difference in the humanity of the “well” and “unwell.” Gyllenhaal is luminous and powerful as Clara, a tempestuous thundercloud shaped as a rocker grrl. But this is Fassbender’s show. Jon Ronson and Peter Straughn’s script is clever, and Lenny Abrahamson’s direction is lithe and appropriately pithy. But Fassbender, stripped of facial expressions (unless he dictates them from beneath his headgear) and kept to a minimal amount of dialogue, uses body language and hand gestures to deliver a complex, nuanced character. By the end, you know Frank. You love Frank. You root for Frank. But most importantly, as a character with authentic mental illness, you understand him. Frank is genuinely odd, not some premeditated indie quirk. Its uniqueness is why it will no doubt struggle to find an audience (hence why it’s in theaters at the same time it is On Demand). But however you find Frank, find him. He’ll be the best weird friend you’ve met in a while.

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ne thing every diner needs in their toolkit is good, simple Asian food. Not simple in the sense that it’s of poor quality, but simple in the sense that it isn’t decorated to death, to the point of terminal tackiness. Just something approachably tasteful, and tasty. That’s the line May Wah, in the Baseline Shopping Center in Boulder, is taking. The decor is simple. Not harsh and fluorescent simple, but clean, with a green and white theme, bits of bamboo, and nary a tablecloth in the joint. As Wayne and Garth might say when clearing a pool, “dive on.” The restaurant is uncommonly narrow, but if anything, it highlights the dive vibe. Another key element is found on the lunch menu: the lunch special. An essential ingredient of the Asian dive is that lunch shouldn’t be a la carte, but served with a cup of soup and an egg roll like the founders intended. May Wah makes with the lunch specials, and adds a nice pan-Asian twist with entrees from Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese cuisine. There aren’t a lot of surprises, with the Vietnamese menu centering on noodle bowls, the Thai on various curries and popular noodle dishes

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On a recent trip, I went with an old standard: Mongolian Beef ($7.45). It was heavy on the onions, and not quite as spicy as the little May Wah warning on the Restaurant menu would lead 2500 Baseline one to believe, Road, Boulder, 303-499-8225 but the beef was tender and well seasoned, and it wasn’t overly sweet, as Chinese food occasionally can be. The hot and sour soup and egg roll served on the side wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, but that’s what I want out of a lunch special. True to form, prices on the dinner menu jump a few bucks, but the offerings remain pretty similar — minus the soup, tragically. There are more things on the dinner menu, but nothing that will turn your head in shock; just a continuation of the standards. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Service was efficient, and not overly in my face. There are times that a diner wants to discuss the historical roots of parsnips with their server, but not all the time. Some days you just want to put your head down and chow down. On chow mein. And May Wah is a good place for that. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The new age of food delivery has dawned in Boulder. The onehour grocery delivery service, Instacart, has chosen to grace Boulder with its presence as the city’s first home grocery delivery service. As of Sept. 4, Instacart will bring wares from Whole Foods Market, King Soopers or Costco to your door in as little as one hour for a $5.99 charge. Founded in San Francisco, Instacart has since expanded to 15 cities and relies on crowdsourcing for its labor, allowing independent “personal shoppers” to shop for and deliver groceries with their own personal transportation. Instacart says they are likely to charge less than other similar delivery companies — if they were to come to Boulder — because they don’t need to rely on “expensive infrastructure such as warehouses, trucks and full-time drivers.” No membership is required for deliveries from Costco, and Instacart says more stores will be added in just a few weeks. “Giving Boulder residents an option to receive their groceries within one hour ensures they don’t have to slow down — or change their lifestyle in any way,” said Apoorva Mehta, Instacart founder and CEO, in a press release. Mehta said students especially might find the service useful during heavy study times, like around finals. Customers can order via a mobile application or online at www.instacart.com.

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On Sept. 26 and 27 Longmont aims to cook a 200-foot bratwurst and host six local breweries to celebrate its biggest Oktoberfest yet. Presented by Left Hand Brewing Company, the festival will be held at Roosevelt Park and, while not mandatory, attendees are encouraged to sport Deutschland duds. There will be a bestdressed contest as well as a bratwurst-eating contest. At 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 26, sausagestuffing will commence as Oktoberfest attendees attempt to make the world’s longest bratwurst, beating Longmont’s own 2013 record, which was achieved using the world’s longest grill constructed from continuous sections of steel gutter and a custom-made grill top. This year’s bratwurst will be 200-feet long and will be made on-site by Boulder Sausage. German-themed music and activities will Longmont Oktoberfest attendees helping prepare the 170-foot bratwurst that broke the world record in 2013. accompany the flow of beer from the six breweries, including Left Hand Brewing The 2014 goal is to break Longmont’s own record with a 200-foot bratwurst. Company, Oskar Blues, Pumphouse, 300 Suns, Grossen Bart and Long’s Peak. Personal shoppers receive the order via their A bike parade from the local breweries smartphone and deliver in the timeframe to Roosevelt Park will welcome crowds to the selected by the customer, with options from inaugural keg tapping, to be done Friday one-hour for a charge of $5.99 or two-hours evening by Longmont Mayor Dennis for $3.99. The minimum order is $10. Coombs. Customers who open an account get a Attendees should bring blankets and free delivery on their first order. Instacart’s chairs for various musical performances, coverage area includes the Boulder metroincluding Last Men on Earth and THUNK. politan area but also extends to Louisville and There is a suggested $5 donation. For Lafayette. A full coverage map is available more information visit http://lefthandbrewing. at http://www.instacart.com/locations/boulcom/longmont-oktoberfest-3/. der. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Food truck pod moves measurably closer toward becoming a reality by Josh Gross

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t was a trip to the Bay Area that finally did Matt Patrick in. He and his friend Hank Grant went to attend a wedding in Sonoma, but took a trip into the city and found themselves having a beer in a formerly vacant lot filled with food carts made from converted shipping containers. “That was it,” he says. “I just couldn’t wait anymore.” He pulled Grant aside on the trip and pitched him on starting a similar food park in Boulder. Grant, who had been working in app development for the last several years saw the potential and came on board, bringing his business partner, Justin Riley, on as well. The triangle of undeveloped land that will be transformed into the Boulder Food Park. “It’s just like most things in the startup world,” says Patrick. “You have a notebook full of ing total of nearly $5,000 over the trio’s look like much, just an anonymous ideas, and then you wait for the right goal of $40,000. While just a few weeks wedge of overgrowth at the edge of an motivations or partners.” ago the Boulder Food Park was an idea industrial park. But it’s a somewhat The trio got to work on the project with some interest and energy, it is now unique spot. For starters, it’s undevelin March of this year, and officially a practical reality in the process of hap- oped — a rare enough sight in Boulder signed a lease this week, right after pening. — with a canopy of large trees and their Kickstarter campaign to help fund Currently, the space that will one scenery courtesy of a waterway and the the project wrapped up with a fundrais- day be the Boulder Food Park doesn’t occasional passing train. But the big

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thing is that it’s a unicorn of a location, centrally-ish located on the east end of Pearl Street, in a business-heavy area with a lot of employees — potential diners — and yet far enough away from brick and mortar restaurants so as not to clash with Boulder’s ban on food truck operation within 150 feet of restaurants and residential districts. Patrick and his partners found the spot by beginning with a map of Boulder to find areas that weren’t in the forbidden zone. The team behind the Boulder Food Park doesn’t really see the park as a shot across the bow at the city regarding those regulations, simply a good opportunity with a side-effect of potentially relieving some of the tension surrounding them. “We’re not setting out to be the savior of anything,” Patrick says. “We just want to be a creative option. This isn’t the big social movement I’m looking to rally against my city with.” But based on their studies of other food truck rich cities like Austin, San see FOOD PARK Page 58

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Francisco and Portland, the trio all feel that once the food park is in place and its effects can be observed as positive, the city will likely soften its stance on food trucks. One of those positive effects Patrick, Grant and Riley are excited about is bringing food to an underserved neighborhood. “What we’re doing by building this

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is providing food to the more than 1,000 employees that work in walking distance,” says Patrick. Those employees won’t all fit in the park at once, though. It’s more likely to have a capacity in the neighborhood of 200. But the final numbers won’t be known until the park is completed. As for when that will be, Patrick predicts a late-fall soft opening with a grand opening in late spring, though there are obviously a lot of moving parts. The finished park will feature a rotating cast of food trucks, with five to seven there on any given day, as well as a covered outdoor seating area and a beer garden made from a shipping container, both of which should make the park an all-weather affair. Patrick says that the scheduling of the trucks will also ensure a variety of price points, in addition to a rotating menu, to be sure that no one is priced out of the park. “I know with my kids I’m not going to buy them a tasty $12 pork belly sandwich,” Patrick says. “They prefer hot dogs.” The beer will be another rotating localpalooza, with an estimated 15 to 20 taps, of which eight to 10 will be from a rotating monthly featured brewery. The finished Boulder Food Park will also include some outdoor park games and feature a small stage for live, primarily acoustic, music. “We’re not going to have any KISS cover bands or anything,” says Riley. The facility will also be available for rental for private functions. The trio’s long-range plans include hopes that the Boulder Food Park will become a hub and potential meeting space for community activities, and that its business model might prove to be exportable so that the team can potentially set up other similar food parks in Boulder’s neighboring cities. “We’re not reinventing the wheel,” says Grant. “There’s a lot of existing food parks.” “If we can become an advocate for food trucks to have a home, that’d be the goal,” says Patrick. But according to Patrick, the wide network of support the Boulder Food Park has already received, everything from local press to contributions to the Kickstarter campaign to his neighbors chatting him up about it, is indicative that there are big things to come. “I think the city is ready for something like this,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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oulder is known for its treingredients were organic and brewers mendous supply of both beer proved that the remaining 5 percent and organic food. But the were unavailable organic. Plus, any of combination of the two, the non-organic ingredients need to be organic beer, is not as easy to included in the U.S. Department of find as Boulder’s reputation would lead Agriculture’s National List of Allowed you to believe. and Prohibited Substances. For one thing, organic beer costs sigDespite the challenge, Asher isn’t the nificantly more to produce. The first all- only Boulder brewery making organic organic brewery in Colorado, Boulder’s beer. While not marketed as organic, Asher Brewing, says it costs them 30 Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery has propercent more for duced beers with Susan France ingredients alone. only organic ingreBut company dients. However, founder Chris Brewmaster John Asher feels it’s Fiorilli says they worth it for sustaindon’t use the term “organic” for labelability, environmening since becoming tal well-being and Certified Organic is the beer drinker’s a “considerable prohealth. cess.” Besides specific “We encourage cleaning products the use of not only and extra paperwork organic but more for tracking all of importantly, local their raw materials, ingredients,” Fiorilli the brewing process says. is the same for Asher has to organic beer, says Jules Masters, Asher ship some of the Brewing Company’s organic ingredients “master of mischief in from Oregon and Asher Brewing Company employee, and organizer of Washington, but Julia Masters. others.” uses local organic “We can prohops from nearby duce bright, flavorful beer without filtra- Niwot Farm for their Fresh Hop Pale Ale tion,” says Masters. whenever possible. Mountain Sun also “As a result, you get to keep all the B has gotten organic hops from local vitamins and minerals that come natuColorado farms and organic grains rally.” from Colorado Malting Company. In addition to the health and enviWhile maltsters offer certified ronmental concerns — and what some organic grain, there is nowhere near the claim is a better taste — organic ingredi- variety available as non-organic grains, ents allow for a longer shelf life and a according to Fiorilli. healthier life cycle for the yeast in beer. “Last year we made 93 unique beers, So besides cost, why aren’t more and maybe only 10 percent of these recibreweries going organic? pes could be made using 100 percent For one, organic hops are a someorganic grains, as there just is not what new presence in the organic beer enough variety,” he says. scene. It wasn’t until January 2013 that Despite the lack of a variety and limthe National Organic Standards Board ited ingredients coupled with a higher required organic beer to have organic cost that some beer consumers might hops, since the product wasn’t readily hesitate to pay, the organic beer maravailable. Now, if you see a beer labeled ket isn’t souring. With more and more “100 Percent Organic,” it only contains organic breweries and organic beers organically produced ingredients with no popping up, there is definite room for chemicals or pesticides used. A beer label growth. with “Organic” means 95 percent of Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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These horoscopes I write for you aren’t primarily meant to predict the future. They are more about uncovering hidden potentials and desirable possibilities that are stirring below the surface right now. When I’m doing my job well, I help you identify those seeds so you can cultivate them proactively. Bearing that in mind, I’ll pose three pertinent questions. 1. What experiments might stir up more intimacy in the relationships you want to deepen? 2. What could you change about yourself to attract more of the love and care you want? 3. Is there anything you can do to diminish the sting of bad memories about past romantic encounters, thereby freeing you to love with more abandon?

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

The old Latin motto Gradu diverso, via una can be translated as either “Continuing on the same road, but with a different stride” or “Going the same way, but changing your pace.” I think this is excellent advice for you, Taurus. By my reckoning, you are on the correct path. You are headed in the right direction. But you need to shift your approach a bit — not a lot, just a little. You’ve got to make some minor adjustments in the way you flow.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

For years, Donna and George Lewis used a 33-pound, ovalshaped rock as a doorstop in their Tennessee home. Later they moved it to their garden. Then one day George analyzed it with his metal detector and realized it had unusual properties. He took it to scientists who informed him it was a rare and valuable four-and-a-half-billion-year-old meteorite. With this as our subtext, Gemini, I’m asking you if there might be some aspect of your life that is more precious than you imagine. Now is a favorable time to find out, and make appropriate adjustments in your behavior.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

I’ve got a radical proposal, Cancerian. It might offend you. You may think I’m so far off the mark that you will stop reading my horoscopes. But I’m willing to take that risk, and I’m prepared to admit that I could be wrong. But I don’t think I am wrong. So here’s what I have to say: There is a sense in which the source of your wound is potentially also the source of the “medicine” that will heal the wound. What hurt you could fix you. But you must be careful not to interpret this masochistically. You can’t afford to be too literal. I’m not saying that the source of your pain is trustworthy or has good intentions. Be cagey as you learn how to get the cure you need.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study with a conclusion we might expect to see in a tabloid newspaper or satirical website. It reported that there is a correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes. Those countries whose citizens eat more chocolate have also produced an inordinate number of Nobel laureates. So does this mean that chocolate makes you smarter, as some other studies have also suggested? Maybe, the report concluded. Since it is especially important for you to be at the height of your mental powers in the coming weeks, Leo, why not experiment with this possibility?

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

I rarely waste my time trying to convert the “skeptics” who attack astrology with a hostile zeal that belies their supposed scientific objectivity. They’re often as dogmatic and closedminded as any fundamentalist religious nut. When I’m in a tricky mood, though, I might tell them about the “Crawford Perspectives,” a highly-rated Wall Street investment publication that relies extensively on astrological analysis. Or I might quote the wealthy financier J. P. Morgan, who testified that “Millionaires don’t use astrology; billionaires do.” That brings us to my main point, Virgo: The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to put in motion plans to get richer quicker. Take advantage!

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

When Libra-born Mohandas Gandhi was 19, he moved to London from his native India to study law. Soon he got caught up in the effort to become an English gentleman. He took elocution lessons and learned to dance. He bought fine clothes and a gold watch-chain. Each morning he stood before a giant mirror and fussed with his hair and necktie until they were perfect. In retrospect, this phase of his life seems irrelevant. Years later, he was a barefoot rebel leader using nonviolent civil disobedience to help end the British rule of India, often wearing a loincloth and shawl made of fabric he wove himself. With this as your inspiration, Libra, identify aspects of your current life that contribute little to the soul you must eventually become.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

This might be controversial, but I suspect that for now your emphasis shouldn’t be on sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Instead, your specialties should be hard-earned intimacy, altered states that are solely the result of deep introspection, and music that arouses reverence and other sacred emotions. You are entering a phase when crafty power is less important than vigorous receptivity; when success is not nearly as interesting as meaningfulness; when what you already understand is less valuable than what you can imagine and create.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

You are entering a phase when you will reap rich rewards by nurturing the health of your favorite posse, ensemble or organization. How is the group’s collective mental health? Are there any festering rifts? Any apathetic attitudes or weakening resolves? I choose you to be the leader who builds solidarity and cultivates consensus. I ask you to think creatively about how to make sure everyone’s individual goals synergize with the greater good. Are you familiar with the Arabic word taarradhin? It means a compromise that allows everyone to win — a reconciliation in which no one loses face.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

The good news is that America has more trees than it did a hundred years ago. Aggressive efforts to replace the decimated old-growth forests have paid off. The bad news is that the new forests have a far less diverse selection of tree species than the originals. The fresh batches are often crowded into smaller spaces, so wildfires are more massive and devastating. And because so many of the forests are young, they host a reduced diversity of plant and animal life. All in all, the increased quantity is wonderful; the lower quality not so wonderful. Is there a lesson here for you? I think so. In your upcoming decisions, favor established quality over novel quantity.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

If Pope Francis isn’t traveling, he comes out to meet the public in St. Peter’s Square every Wednesday. During one such event last January, he took a few moments to bestow tender attention on a talking parrot that belonged to a male stripper. I foresee a comparable anomaly happening for you in the coming days. A part of you that is wild or outré will be blessed by contact with what’s holy or sublime. Or maybe a beastly aspect of your nature that doesn’t normally get much respect will receive a divine favor.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“My definition of a devil is a god who has not been recognized,” said mythologist Joseph Campbell. “It is a power in you to which you have not given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds up and becomes dangerous to the position you’re trying to hold.” Do you agree, Pisces? I hope so, because you will soon be entering the Get Better Acquainted with Your Devil Phase of your astrological cycle, to be immediately followed by the Transform Your Devil into a God Phase. To get the party started, ask yourself this question: What is the power in you to which you have not given expression?

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Dear Dan: I’m the bisexual everyone loves to hate because I want to be in a poly relationship with both a man and a woman. I am a woman who is into commitment, loyalty, love, trust and honesty. I am not looking to cheat on anyone.  But I discovered after one failed marriage to a man and one long-term relationship with a woman that I want to be in a romantic, sexually committed relationship with a man and a woman at the same time. This could possibly involve three-way sex, but probably not. It is more about sharing my life intimately with both a man and a woman. Unfortunately, I don’t know if I will ever find that perfect balance because so far all my potential serious partners have been turned off by the idea that I want to be with two people and believed that I should “get over it” and just be in a monogamous relationship with them — straight or gay. Should I keep searching? Is what I want as valid as what other people want? If so, how do I broach the subject without turning people off? — Love Them Both Dear LTB: You are not the bisexual everyone loves to hate, LTB. You’re the bisexual everyone is looking for. Tons of MF couples are out there desperately hunting for “unicorns,” aka bisexual women who are open to dating couples. Bisexual women open to three-way sex in the context of a committed poly triad are in particularly high demand. Anyone who reads my column knows this, LTB, and presumably you’re a reader. (You wouldn’t be writing to me for advice if you hadn’t been reading the column, right?) So either you have lousy retention skills or you’re pretending not to know how in demand you are because — consciously or subconsciously — complaining about evil monosexuals and boring monogamists is more appealing to you than actually finding what you want. You might wanna pray on that. Moving right along: Your wants are just as valid as anyone else’s, LTB, but we don’t all get what we want. You’ll have a better chance of finding what you want if you’re open about your wants and if you refrain from dating people who don’t want the same things you want. Seek out those couples lookBoulder Weekly

ing for unicorns, seek out poly-identified singles, and be up-front about your wants with anyone who seeks you out. Some people will be turned off when you broach the subject, LTB, but so what? Those people are wrong for you. Why would you want to waste one moment of your time and romantic energy on people who are turned off by the idea of openness and/or committed poly triads? It’s not exactly rocket science: Don’t date people who don’t want what you want and you’re likelier to wind up in relationships with people who want what you want — or, more likely, you’ll wind up in relationships with people whose wants are different but come close enough to yours that you can hammer out a workable compromise. Because there is no settling down without settling for, LTB, and that applies to bisexual and monosexuals, monogamists and polyamorists. Good luck. Dear Dan: Is it weird to find cochlear implants (a device for people with profound hearing loss that looks like a plastic circle implanted in their skull) attractive on 20-something guys? I don’t know if it’s because I work in a field related to audiology or because it makes them look kind of vulnerable but cool at the same time. I saw two guys in a row this week with them, and I was like, damn. Is this weird? If not, how do I pick these boys up? — Love Implant Boys Dear LIB: It is weird, LIB, but that shouldn’t stop you from pursuing attractive boys with cochlear implants. And you pick those boys up the same way you pick up boys who don’t have cochlear implants: You smile at them, you talk to them, you flirt with them. If you establish that the attraction is mutual, you hang out, you make out, you fuck ’em silly. You don’t necessarily have to disclose that their cochlear implants were what initially drew your eye, LIB, but be sure to tell them that isn’t the only thing you find attractive about them if you do disclose. Send questions to Dan Savage at mail@savagelove.net and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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