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“Does it really make sense that a place that was named Colorado by the Spanish, a place once claimed by Spanish kings and Mexican governors and Mexican land barons, a place fought over by Mexico and the United States for years, would
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Highroad Snuggling with an oil pipeline by Jim Hightower
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oth the old and new media agree on this: If you need a story that’s guaranteed to be popular — go with animals. Kute kittens, for example, or the P-group of puppies, porpoises, penguins and polar bears. Now, corporations are all over this animal ploy as a way to push some of their ugliest profiteering schemes. For example, the Keystone XL pipeline. A
not have a rich Latino history?” [From “Eracism,” cover story, Aug. 22.] I feel it is sad that they stopped history with this being Spanish/ Mexican land. They neglected to mention how those same Spanish tried to kill off all of the Pueblo tribes of Native American and
cabal of TransCanada Corporation and such oil giants as Exxon Mobil wants to shove this massively polluting, ozonedepleting, wildlife-threatening pipeline from Alberta, Canada, right through the center of America, carrying tar sands oil all the way to the Gulf Coast. It’s not exactly a popular idea in our country, and it was made less popular by a couple of recent, very nasty spills of toxic tar from existing pipelines — one in Michigan and the other in Arkansas. So, cue the animals! Larry Kudlow, a shameless, corporate-hugging host of a TV show on CNBC, proclaimed in an August episode that — by gollies — the Keystone pipeline would be terrific for wildlife. Why? Because, explained this noted expert on beastly habits, the loveable bears, deer and such would “like to snuggle under the pipeline [for] warmth.” An economist at the American Petroleum Institute — the
other that were living in the area in their search for gold. Funny how you can stop history at the place it best suits your arguments. Wish the area had a rich Native American history. Rhonda K. Chesnutt/Boulder see LETTERS Page 11
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chief lobbying group for Big Oil — immediately agreed with Kudlow, asserting that “animals like the Alaskan crude oil pipeline quite a bit.” How darling! And how wrong. What we have here are a couple of shills mouthing a right-wing myth that’s been promoted on the political circuit for a while. Actual animal experts, however, note that Canadian caribou are now “listed as threatened,” largely because of the tar sands rush. And independent scientists studying the Keystone project say it will “wreak havoc” on animals all along its nature-destroying path. How cute is that? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. September 19, 2013 7
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CU closed. When my office closed. When we couldn’t deliver the new edition of Boulder Weekly on time. And when the phone rang, telling me that we were under a mandatory evacuation, I was numb, not quite believing what I was hearing. It was something I had considered before, during the wildfires that have ravaged our state over the past several years. What would you take from your house if you had an hour or less to get out? But I didn’t want to panic, even though my wife was in a state of lowboil crisis. We took the time to move photo albums and other items with sentimental value upstairs, we filled up coolers of water, packed food and clothes for a few days, loaded up the pets and assured our distressed 9-yearold daughter that it was just a precaution to be extra-safe, that we’d be back home soon. And then, trapped in a triangle formed by the two overflowing waterways that had wiped out bridges connecting virtually every north-south route through town, we headed for the house of some friends who lived west of us, in the opposite direction of the clogged eastbound lanes caused by the closure of Highway 119 towards I-25. Driving away, I wondered whether it would be the last time I’d see all of our belongings in our lower level. The last time I’d see my house intact. But then I remembered that the only things that really mattered were the people in the car. Material things can be replaced. My kids can’t. •••• As it turned out, the water never reached my house, and we returned the next day. I didn’t think about the creekside floodwater “improvements,” the treeclearing along the banks and the relocation of the faces in the trees, until later. And then it hit me. As much as we hated that project, it may well have saved our house, and the houses of many neighbors. If those trees had been left intact, they may well have fallen into the floodwaters, creating dams that could have caused the creek to back up and widen, inundating our neighborhood streets and homes. As sad as it was to lose some of those faces in the trees, I’m much happier that I still have the faces in the house. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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ment policies and emergency response schemes — is the rate of stream flow at the height of the flood, measured in cubic feet per second (cfs). And by that standard last week’s flood was not a 100-year one, not even close. The definition of a 100-year flood on Boulder Creek that is used by the City of Boulder and assorted federal and state agencies is a flow of roughly 11,000-13,000 cubic feet per second at a flood’s height, depending on where on the creek the flow is calculated. This figure has been determined by multiple studies of the creek’s hydrology over the last 36 years, the most recent of which was done by Anderson Consulting Engineers, Inc. of Fort Collins, and completed July 31. (The Anderson study calculated the stream flow during a 100-year flood event at 18 locations on Boulder Creek. They ranged from 11,650 cfs at the mouth of Boulder Canyon to 13,300 cfs at the point where Boulder Creek crosses 61st Street.) Boulder Creek’s maximum flows during last week’s flood were reported to be around 5,000 cfs, both early Thurday after a wall of water entered the creek from Fourmile Canyon and again Thursday evening when a 5,300 cfs flow was measured at 75th street. The stream flow during last week’s flood was less than half the flow the city has historically calculated would occur during a 100-year flood. According to the Anderson study, a 5,300 cfs flow last Thursday fell a little short of the estimated minimum flow during a 25-year flood (a flood that has a 4 percent chance of happening in any given year) on Boulder Creek. If you think last week’s damage was bad, think what might have happened if Boulder Creek was running at 11,500 cfs instead of 5,300 cfs. This matters, because if public officials and the public at large start thinking that the damage inflicted during last week’s storms is what can be expected to occur during a true 100-year storm, the chances of making bad land use decisions, like allowing major new construction in flood hazard areas, or bad emergency management decisions, like failing to order evacuations of low-lying areas in a timely manner, become much greater. It also matters because Boulder has a long history of allowing major public and private construction along the creek — even though the risks of doing so have been known since 1894,
when Boulder experienced a true 100year flood (with an estimated peak flow of 13,000 cfs). Boulder’s library and city hall, Boulder Community Hospital’s Foothills campus, Boulder High School, CU married student housing, the CU research campus, the city-county court complex, Ball Research and Corden Pharma are all built in flood hazard areas. Some of these were approved after their builders agreed to take steps like putting up berms or raising the elevation of their sites with fill to get them out of the floodplain to mitigate the flood hazard — which may or may not prove adequate when a real 100-year flood (or larger flood) comes along. In the case of some of the older ones, like Boulder High School and CU’s Newton Court married student housing, the builders chose to blow off the risk. Actually, compared to what could have happened last week, Boulder was incredibly lucky. The 12.2 inches of rain that fell from Monday to Thursday last week was almost identical to the amount of rain that fell in Big Thompson Canyon during the 1976 flood that killed 144 people. The difference is that Boulder’s 12 inches were spread out over four days, whereas the Big Thompson storm dumped 12 inches into the canyon in a single night — including 7.5 inches that fell in an hour. The single-hour downpour produced a flood that was running at 31,200 cubic feet per second at its height; it’s considered to have been a 500-year flood if memory serves. There’s no hydrological or metrological reason why a similar downpour couldn’t have occurred in Boulder Canyon or couldn’t occur there in the future — it’s just the luck of the draw. If Boulder had gotten two-thirds of last week’s precipitation in an 8-inch-an-hour-long gully washer, the resulting flood on Boulder Creek might have exceeded a 500-year flood on Boulder Creek. Anderson Consulting’s study calculated that a 500-year flood on Boulder Creek would produce a peak flow of 21,000 to 27,200 cubic feet per second. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to predict the sort of havoc that sort of a flood would cause. That in turn suggests a simple, common sense approach for future floodplain management in Boulder: Don’t build in it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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City’s muni pamphlet is illegal
Notwithstanding Boulder spokeswoman Sarah Huntley’s gratuitous remarks defending it, the city’s recent distribution of a so-called community guide on the municipalization battle clearly violates Colorado’s law forbidding cities from engaging in advocacy on ballot questions. Huntley made several blatantly misleading remarks trying to justify the city’s illegal act. She (and city attorney Tom Carr in an email response to a complaint about the electioneering) maintained the pamphlet’s purpose was to inform citizens about work done to date on municipalization and carbon reduction. Unfortunately, the document is full of assertions that things were done, but does not actually describe what or how nor provide any factual results, only the happy conclusions. Sorry, but that is not information, it is attempted persuasion, which is illegal when supported by public money. If, as Huntley claims, the city felt a “special obligation to explain” what was done, the pamphlet should have done so. Instead, it misrepresents both the citizen initiative requiring more transparency on debt issues and the city council’s competing measure to forestall it. Her claim about disseminating information is a red herring. Huntley also said the city was careful to expend all money and print the pamphlets before the August 20 final vote on ballot language. That may be true, but the booklet was delivered after the ballot measure was approved. Does not the action count more than the date it was paid for? And was there any doubt the city’s ballot question would be approved? Clearly not, because the pamphlet unequivocally states the city’s question will be on the ballot. If the pamphlet was not advocacy, why did the city feel the need to pay for it before election rules kicked in? Oh, says Huntley, because the city wanted to honor the intent of the rules. By so saying, she admits the city recognized the booklet crossed the line into electioneering. She also justified the pamphlet’s content by asking whether Xcel Energy would include pro-municipalization views in pieces it produces. That sounds a lot like a kindergartner saying, “If Susie doesn’t have to be balanced in her campaign literature, we don’t either.” State law says Boulder Weekly
otherwise. And the defense tacitly acknowledges the imbalance in the purportedly even-handed, informational document. Huntley’s final surprise was her supposition that, as a home rule city, Boulder may not be subject to state election law on spending and advocacy. What part of C.R.S. 1-45-117 does the city not understand? The statute applies, in plain English, to “any political subdivision of the
state.” Has the city seceded from Colorado? How can the city now unring the bell? Obviously, it will not make a balancing contribution to the Voter Approval of Debt Limits committee for $68,455. That is how much the city says it spent on its illegal pamphlet. Nor will it take action against employees responsible for the infraction, who were enthusiastically doing city
council’s will. The unfortunate truth is, after our government tilted the election field in its direction at taxpayer expense and tried to rationalize the misdeed with verbal sleight of hand, there is nothing anyone can or will do to offset the damage. Whatever we think about a municipal electric utility, all citizens should be outraged when our officials break the law. David D. Wagner/Boulder
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What’s in the water?
A look at potential flood-related impacts on human health and the environment by Joel Dyer
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he first dangers posed by to occur. the recent flooding were She said at that time, “The interobvious: loss of life and esting thing about the Fourmile property due to swift-movCreek watershed is historically it was ing water. a major mining area, so there are But now that the waters are slowquite a number of mine tailings piles ing and the levels are in decline, it’s and waste rock in the watershed that, time to begin the difficult task of without the trees around and grass assessing the potential damage that and shrubs to protect those piles, the flooding has caused — and may there’s a concern that if there was a yet cause — to human health and the really big rainstorm or something it environment, and what we can do to could wash a lot of metals that are protect ourselves. typically in higher amounts in tailings First and foremost, the Centers pilings into the creek, which would for Disease Control (CDC), Federal also be a problem for drinking water Emergency Management Agency issues and for aquatic life in the (FEMA) and health departments at stream.” the local and state level are strongly This was a really big rainstorm. encouraging people to stay out of Within the cities and towns of the floodwater if at all possible. If conFront Range, a variety of contamitact is unavoidable, wearing the The COGCC estimates that thousands of oil and gas wells were flooded, like these in eastern nants have been released into the proper protective clothing is encour- Boulder County. floodwaters. Gasoline and oils conaged, and there is good reason for taining benzene and other carcinosuch precaution. genic chemicals have, without quesAccording to the Occupational Safety & Health utes, typically triggered by minor occurrences, such as tion due to the size and scope of this event, escaped Administration (OSHA), “Floodwater often contains a draft, loud noise, physical touch or light. Other their confines from flooded gas stations, vehicle cominfectious organisms, including intestinal bacteria such signs and symptoms may include: fever, sweating, elepounds and stranded vehicles themselves. We won’t be as E. coli, Salmonella and Shigella; Hepatitis A Virus; able to assess the quantities of such releases for days vated blood pressure and rapid heart rate.” and agents of typhoid, paratyphoid and tetanus.” These are the usual, naturally occurring contamior even weeks. If persons in flood-affected nants found in floodwaters and Storm runoff itself is also a potent contaminant, Joel Dyer areas experience symptoms such soils, but they are hardly the only full of things like benzene and oil as it washes such as fever, nausea, muscle aches, dangers now lurking in Boulder pollution from our roadways, driveways and garage vomiting, abdominal cramps and County’s flooded areas. The flood floors. diarrhea, they should seek immethat has washed over the Front Sewage in the water, the mud and even dried dirt diate medical attention. Range and Northeastern plains of left behind after a few days in the sun also poses a Most flood-related illnesses Colorado has also carried with it health risk. According to reports and aerial photos, are the result of ingesting water or unknown quantities of chemical wastewater treatment facilities in Boulder, Lyons, food that has been contaminated and industrial wastes that can also Longmont, Hygiene and Evans were flooded, and with bacteria, viruses or microbes. pose health hazards. neighborhoods all along the Front Range, including This most often occurs because Starting in the mountains west Boulder, have reported broken lines and sewage backhands that have touched contamiof town, it is probable that the ups in homes hit by the floods. nated water or soil are not propdays of continuous rain leading up Areas known to have carcinogenic contamination erly washed before eating. to the flood washed a good deal of in groundwater, such as the Dushanbe Teahouse propTetanus, which may be the most heavy metals, such as lead and erty, the Syntex plume and the old Beech aircraft site serious of the flood-related illarsenic, out of the many former on Highway 36 will also be getting flushed out by this nesses, is the exception. Tetanus mining operations, particularly event, since groundwater levels are close to or at the most often enters the body those affected previously by the surface. through an open wound or Fourmile Fire. Other areas where toxins are being or have been scratch that has been exposed to In 2011, Sheila Murphy, a stored will no doubt be adding to the danger posed by flood waters, mud or soil. The hydrologist with the U.S. this toxic flood soup. symptoms of tetanus, in order of occurrence, accordGeological Survey (USGS) who has been studying A passerby told BW that he saw bluish-gray water ing to the Mayo clinic website, are, “Spasms and stiff- Fourmile Creek since the first rainfall following the coming over the top of the large dam near 75th and ness in your jaw muscles, stiffness of your neck musFourmile Fire, told Boulder Weekly that one of her pri- Valmont that holds the lakes associated with Xcel’s cles, difficulty swallowing, stiffness of your abdominal mary concerns for water quality was heavy metals Valmont Station power plant. BW contacted Xcel on muscles, painful body spasms lasting for several minfrom the mining operations if a substantial rain were Sept. 17 to confirm the report and was told that the 12 September 19, 2013
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company was not able to shutting in the wells has preconfirm or deny the report vented flooded wells from at that time. However, comreleasing contaminants. pany spokesman Gabriel While it’s a good step to Romero did confirm that the have taken, it’s still unclear company had been releasing how effective shutting in the large amounts of water from wells will be at preventing the its lakes into the surroundescape of contaminants. That’s ing watershed due to the because many of the wells flooding. Exactly what conhave been damaged, which taminants are in the water of means that pipelines may have these lakes has never been been broken and tanks lost. made public, despite the fact At this point it is simply that the water from the lakes too early to even estimate the is released into the surenvironmental damage from rounding rivers and ditches flooded oil and gas operations. every year. The COGCC is actively colWe know that water lecting information from procontaining lead, arsenic and FEMA says water, mud and dried dust can all carry contamination and should be avoided. If residents come ducers and has stated that it into contact with mud, they should wash their hands thoroughly with soap. low-level radiation was will eventually release that intentionally dumped into information to the public. So the lakes for decades by According to FEMA, just two feet of water will at best, we will only be told by Allied Chemical’s former milling operation at typically cause damage amounting to 80 percent of a the state what the industry wants us to know. Valmont Butte. In addition, Xcel had a permit for mobile home’s full value. In deeper water, such as what For now, we do know from the photos being postreleasing water that contained higher-than-allowed hit our area trailer parks, the home is a total loss. Just ed by citizens online and those taken by news organiquantities of selenium. And the area on the north side disposing of a ruined mobile home containing asbestos zations that many wells and production platforms of the lakes has been used as a fly-ash dump for years. can cost upwards of $6,000. This amount is generally have been damaged, some severely. In addition, large tanks that once contained oil, gas condensate and proFly ash is a waste product of coal-fired plants and more than what those living in mobile homes get in duced water containing fracking fluids have broken contains low levels of mercury and other contamirelief from FEMA, meaning that many owners of loose from their platforms and have floated away on nants. Any run-off from the fly-ash areas would likely damaged mobile homes will have to choose between the floodwaters, spilling their toxic contents as they go into the lakes or escape the Xcel property as runoff using their relief money to establish a new home for go. How many tanks? We just don’t know and can’t in other directions. their family and disposing of their old home. estimate at this time. The Valmont Butte property owned by the city If past floods around the country are any indicaWe will also never know all of the potential hazcontains soil with high levels of lead. The contaminat- tion, then many, if not most, of the damaged mobile ards from such a flood as this. A quick look at the ed soil on the north side of the butte on the slopes homes containing asbestos will ultimately wind up FEMA floodplain maps shows that all kinds of waste above Valmont Road was left in place rather than abandoned, allowing the asbestos to become airborne, dumps, oil and gas pits, power-generating stations, being cleaned up during the property’s remediation. which can create a potential health hazard for those The city claimed that the lead-tainted soil would be living nearby. areas of contaminated groundwater and even a held in place by plants growing on the steep sides of Flooded oil and gas operations are also of great Department of Energy (DOE) facility that stores the butte. But when BW examined this area during concern to county residents. With more than 20,000 spent nuclear fuel from the old Fort St.Vrain reactor the flooding, it was clear that the lead-laced soil was producing wells in Weld and Boulder counties, the near Platteville are, in many instances, now sitting being washed into the drainage ditches and then carultimate impact from toxins escaping from these under water. flooded industrial operations may never be accurately ried into the watershed. BW asked the DOE about its spent nuclear fuel quantified. Part of the remediation at Valmont Butte was to site and was told that the facility had experienced no At this point, the Colorado Oil and Gas create holding ponds that could capture runoff from the issues as a result of the flooding. Conservation Commission (COGCC), which regumassive disposal pit that holds as much as an estimated What we do know is that the floodwaters, the million tons of radioactive and heavy metal contaminat- lates the industry in our state, can only say that thoumud and even the dried soil now contain a wide varisands of wells have been affected by the flood and will ety of contaminants that can make us sick. As cleanup ed soils. The city failed to provide information about if need to be inspected to determine what may have those retention ponds overflowed by press time. operations continue, be aware that the dust from those In surrounding communities such as Commerce been, or is still being, leaked into the floodwaters. operations on roads and in homes is a potential hazCity, aerial views of the flooding revealed that numerSuch inspection will likely be left to self-reporting ard containing contaminants as well. Adequate face ous berms around large chemical and petroleum tanks by the industry, however, due to a severe lack of state masks are recommended to be worn during cleanup. had been washed away, along with whatever toxins inspectors. You may recall that Gov. John The FEMA website has more information on which they had been holding. It is unknown at this time Hickenlooper’s administration recently helped to masks are best suited to the task. what contaminants were released into the floodwaters. defeat a proposed bill that would have added enough Water wells and even groundwater aquifers may A dam broke at a lake on the Rocky Mountain also have become contaminated due to the flood, and state inspectors to actually inspect the state’s 47,000Arsenal, sending waters flooding across that property, it’s best to get them checked out and boil water until plus oil and gas wells on a somewhat regular basis. a large parcel of land that at one time was considered you know they’re clean. As reported on page 25, we Historically, self-inspection programs run by any polto be one of the most contaminated places in the luting industry, including petroleum, have badly failed need to avoid eating anything from a garden that may world due to having been a dump for such contamihave been in contact with floodwaters. And finally, both public health and the environment. nants as nerve gas and other military waste from facilsoap is our friend right now — use it often, particuTwo of the area’s largest oil and gas operators, ities like Rocky Flats. larly before eating. Encana and Anadarko, claim to have shut in approxiYet another post-flood environmental issue that In the weeks ahead, as more information mately 1,000 wells between them as a result of the communities in the affected areas will be forced to becomes available, we will be reporting in much flood, and other companies report shutting in hundeal with is mobile home disposal. Many of the older dreds of wells as well. Shut-in means that the compa- more detail about the environmental hazards resultmanufactured homes that have been devastated by the nies intentionally stopped producing from those wells. ing from this tragic event. For now, be cautious and flood contain asbestos. For that reason, disposing of stay healthy. In various media reports, the Colorado Oil and Gas mobile homes can be difficult and expensive. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Association (COGA) and the companies claim that Boulder Weekly
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late CU geography professor and “father of floodplain management” Gilbert White — that shows the height of water levels during various floods. Philipsborn, who was integral in getting the memorial funded and built, says the photos he’s seen of the water level during last week’s flooding shows that Boulder Creek was not quite to the 50-year flood mark. “It’s not as bad as it could have been,” he says, adding that it wasn’t a surprise, either. “It was expected, it was just a question of when. We haven’t had a really good gully-washer since 1894.” Each waterway has a different profile for meaBoulder Creek Structures Affected by suring the 100- and 500Revised 100-Yr Floodplain year thresholds, and each Compared to FEMA Effective experienced different conditions during the flooding, Philipsborn associated with a 100-year flood. After explains, so a 418-year flood on the St. all, the “100-year” label refers to the Vrain River may only have been a characteristics of a specific flood that has 48-year flood on Boulder Creek, for a 1 percent chance of occurring every example. year. Most floods are not going to match up with that particular profile, so the Ditch problems maps are only marginally accurate. According to Gochis, one of the “Every model is wrong, but some are most important lessons he expects to useful,” Gochis explains. come out of the recent storms and Philipsborn says that while some floods may well be the need for better media outlets keep labeling the floods as ditch maintenance and management. “100-year” or “500-year,” the reality — Driving around the area on Saturday, he in the case of Boulder Creek, anyway — says, he saw lots of standing water and is that it was probably about a 50-year debris in areas outside of the floodplain flood. He explains that the water along and far from any creeks or significant the creek was traveling at around 6,000 waterways. cubic feet per second (cfs) at the most, Some local ditches are old, in need and the figure typically used for modelof upkeep and are not managed properly ing 100-year floods along the main stem during heavy rains, Gochis explains, and of Boulder Creek is about 12,000 cfs. In as the water levels rose, many overaddition, he refers to the “flood stick” — flowed or failed. He says that with the a downtown creekside memorial to the exception of major ditches, for the most Andrus Rd
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local scientist says the conditions that led to days of constant rain and devastating floods in Boulder County last week were not directly caused by climate change, but the amount of precipitation is a symptom of warmer atmospheric temperatures. Dave Gochis, a hydrometeorologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, says that any single weather event is a combination of very specific features interacting at a particular time, and the question to ask regarding climate change is whether global warming is conducive to such events. “It’s really difficult to say, at this point,” he says, adding that while climate change is not going to increase the likelihood of those exact conditions reoccurring, “in general, a warmer
atmosphere holds more moisture, so that when we get the right combination of events, there is a greater likelihood that more moisture will be involved.” So he says the bottom line is that while global warming may Left Hand Canyon Drive has been destroyed between Ward not set up the rainclouds to do and the exit to Jamestown. what they did, when that situation does reoccur, those clouds are this storm had happened in the winter it would likely to have more water in them than if the have generated as many feet of snow as it did atmosphere were cooler. “This atmosphere was really juicy, and when inches of rain, that is false because a cold atmoyou push it up over the mountains, it gets rung sphere carries much less moisture. “Would we have gotten 16 feet of snow out out,” Gochis says. of this?” Gochis asks. “The answer is no. It’s Water content in the atmosphere varies widely depending on the temperature, he impossible.” explains, so while some have speculated that if Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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part the local ditch network is ignored when flood modeling is conducted. “That stuff ’s not really in the floodplain mapping exercise,” Gochis says. “So a key lesson is to incorporate ditches into the projections. How well are those ditches documented and operated and accounted for in flood scenarios? I hate to say it, but I’m guessing there is going to be a fair amount of litigation over ditch operation as an outcome of this because property was damaged.” Philipsborn says the new information gained from water flow patterns last week, gleaned from aerial photos and satellite images, will be used to adjust maps and models, likely affecting the definition of the floodplain and the types of development allowed in the area. He says the University’s controversial 1996 purchase of the Flatiron/ Gateway property, later labeled “CU-Boulder South,” is an example of the effect of constantly evolving floodplain maps. Philipsborn recalls that a flood study conducted subsequent to the purchase showed that a larger portion of the 308-acre property was in the floodplain than previously believed, making development on the parcel expensive. He explains that to make sure residences have access to flood insurance, most major municipalities in the area have ordinances regulating development in floodplains. Boulder residents enjoy Boulder Weekly
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lower rates than many, Philipsborn says, because the city has been so proactive about flood safety, like installing warning systems, for instance. Philipsborn’s own house on Pennsylvania Avenue between 55th Street and Eisenhower Drive suffered damage during the floods; he had 14 inches of water in his crawlspace, caused not by overland flooding but a rising groundwater table. “In my neighborhood, everybody’s got their stuff out on the street,” Philipsborn says. “You can tell who had
a finished basement.” As residents pick up the pieces and begin repairs to their damaged homes, his advice is to determine exactly how the water got in. Whether it was through a sewer backup, a window well or groundwater seepage, in many cases “that’s something you can fix.” When asked whether the county could have been better prepared for the flooding, Philipsborn says, “Probably, but it’s too early to say. Hindsight’s easy. From what I was watching, I thought the emergency services worked well, the
public information worked well, public works worked well, sheltering worked well. I got all the information I needed to know.” “I think we did a good job,” he concludes. “We’ve learned a lot from the past.” Gochis is using the lessons from the past to create a new model for predicting such events. His NCAR team has developed a system for using atmospheric conditions to predict hydrologic patterns on the ground, and while the model is still in its early stages, Gochis says it was up and running during that recent week of rain and showed positive signs, just not much detail on the intensity and locations of the rain. “It wasn’t ready for prime time,” Gochis says. “But I think there are encouraging results there.” He says he is still in the process of entering data to see how accurate his model would have predicted what happened to the rivers based on the storms. “We don’t have that story done yet,” Gochis explains, adding that the ultimate goal is to have a better, more accurate warning system to notify officials when atmospheric conditions are setting up to deliver a serious flooding event. “Our goal as scientists is to give the maximum amount of lead time possible,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com September 19, 2013 15
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t this point, how many miles of road need replacing and bridges need rebuilding is still being tallied. Lingering floodwaters delayed the inspections by Colorado Department of Transportation staff and Xcel Energy that would be the first step in establishing a firm timeline and dollar amount for the infrastructure recovery facing Colorado after massive floods. “We haven’t really been able to get in to get a good look at a lot of these canyons, and that’s where we feel the most significant damage is,” says Mindy Crane, deputy communications director for the department. “We know the major reconstruction of U.S. 36, for instance, we know that’s going to take months and will probably go well into next year,” Crane says. Roads that have been undermined by water washing the soil out from underneath can’t really be repaired. “You’re basically starting almost like you’re building a new road,” Crane says. “You’re starting from scratch and having to build everything from the base to the pavement.” Bridges are now designed to withstand a 500-year flood event — had every bridge in the state been built with modern standards and if states had seen their budgets for transportation increase in the past 10 years, the number of losses might be lower. But many of the bridges in Boulder County were built decades ago, to different standards, and are in need of updates, according to reports from the American Society of Civil Engineers. “There would have still been damage, there would have still been structures that wouldn’t have stood up, but we would have been in a much better situation,” says Colin Haggerty, former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and water resource engineer for the transportation firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. But replacing a bridge is expensive, and the state has been facing a limited budget for most of the last decade. Very rough estimates peg the costs of replacing the highways and bridges damaged at $1 million per lane mile of 16 September 19, 2013
road, and $150 per square foot of bridge — or about $1 million for a 100-footlong, 65-foot-wide bridge. When two bridges were replaced in Big Thompson Canyon in 2009-10, the cost was $3.8 million. Now, the department is facing the destruction of at least 30 state highway bridges and serious damage to another 20. The American Society of Civil Engineers released a report this year estimating that $3.6 trillion needs to be spent to get nationwide infrastructure to meet modern standards. “The amount of money is staggering, and that was before you even account for an emergency like this,” Haggerty says. Federal assistance will cover some of the costs of repairs — 75 percent, according to the presidential declaration. State funding for the rest of repairs may take away from other projects. As repairs move forward, reconnecting communities that now have limited access or have been entirely cut off — Nederland, Jamestown, Lyons and Estes Park — will be priorities. The department may look at temporary solutions, such as single lanes or roads that alternate the flow of traffic, or aren’t quite to standards in terms of shoulder widths, to do whatever is necessary to reestablish roads to those areas before freezing temperatures make it impossible to continue construction. Known damage on Highway 119 up Boulder Canyon to Nederland includes rockslides and slopes that need scaling to prevent further slides, and bridges and canyon walls will be inspected for rockslide potential. So far, it seems mostly passable, but that was an area inspectors had to pull out of on Sunday Sept. 15 when rain began to fall again. It may take a couple months to reopen the highway, Crane says, or it may be complete in less than a month. For the thousands of Xcel customers around the Front Range without natural gas or electricity, repair times are variable — natural gas is definitely expected the biggest issue, says Gabriel Romero, spokesperson for Xcel. But for now, it’s tough to tell how big an issue. They’ve used a helicopter to take pho-
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tos and get a general idea, and they know that anywhere there’s water needs to be inspected, and that all the natural gas meters that have been underwater will likely need to be replaced, but the results are still preliminary. “We just can’t get in there, for the most part, we can’t get to where we need to go, so we do not even have a full assessment of the damage our system has received,” Romero said on Monday afternoon Sept. 16. “We usually start with the biggest areas first and then work our way down, in this case we’re just doing what we can when we can.” As of that Monday, there were 7,000 Xcel customers without natural gas and 500 without electricity in Boulder. There were about 30 electrical
poles down in the flooded areas, but once replaced, the electricity can simply be switched back on. But the natural gas lines are all underground — or, at least, they were, until they were hit with floodwaters for days in a row. “What we’re seeing out there in the field, and this is very preliminary, is pipes that were at one time buried six feet in the ground are now 20 feet in the air with cars below them,” Romero says. “This kind of damage to our system is a whole different type of thing.” Xcel staff will have to reassess the entire system, inch by inch, and then go door to door to relight each home — and can only be done after residents have returned to their homes. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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cult than we imagine.” A disaster mental health study from the Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System found that 11 percent to 38 percent of people who arrive at shelters and family assistance centers have stress-related and adjustment disorders. Just lingering uncertainty can take its toll. “When we have a situation where we’re uncertain about what’s going on, and uncertain about when we’ll be able to go back, what our lives will be like, what our long-term future is, what the future of our community is, it’s an inherently stressful situation and kind of anxiety-provoking situation just by our nature,” Houston says. “A lot of these situations, there may not be an answer right now about when exactly can we go back, or will the road or the town or the area be rebuilt the way it was — or will the authorities decide we can no longer live there. That lack of being able to visualize what your future is is unsettling for the best of us.” Obviously, people who were at lifethreatening risk or sustained an injury or lost their homes through the disaster are at highest risk, and the people who know them become likely candiBoulder Weekly
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things, are quite good at imagining explanations which might actually be worse than the reality in some situations,” Houston says. Boulder Valley School District has been working to communicate with parents about the disaster, providing articles on how to talk to kids and readying crisis management teams of school psychologists, social workers and staff from Boulder County’s Mental Health Partners. “You can plan all you want for crises, and then something as widespread as this happens, and everybody has to get on board and work to support students,” says Andrew Tucker, director of counseling services and student engagement for Boulder Valley School District. “We need our teachers to understand what to do, everybody on the staff needs to understand what to do. We want to make sure everybody is ready.” All Boulder Valley school buildings will have trained staff at the ready for students — and Tucker says they’re well prepared to deal with the emotional needs of kids, including trying to be prepared to anticipate which students — and schools — may have concentrations of students who lost their homes or have been displaced. “We’ve taken the time to go through our list of students and pull ZIP codes we know were heavily affected and get a good sense of who might really be affected, and we are going to reach out to those students specifically and check in on them,” Tucker says. As schools prepared to re-open for classes on Thursday — 49 of the 51 buildings re-filling with students — the emphasis was on returning children to a sense of routine. “When it comes to school and young people, it’s really best if at all possible to get back to business as usual,” Tucker says. “Normalcy and giving students some stability in school is really what research shows is the best way to handle it — as much as possible.” He reiterated that honesty is the best policy with children. “Humans have sort of a natural capacity for resilience that I think we under-appreciate often when were doing this research and working in this area,” Houston says. “None of us are immune from the possibility of experiencing a situation that would overwhelm us, so no one is completely immune from this, but no one is completely susceptible and powerless either.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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any homeless people slept outdoors in Boulder during the flood — even though the American Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter nearby at the YMCA. And according to members of the homeless community, several persons are still unaccounted for. “They turned us away at the YMCA,” says John Morrow, who normally camps in the foothills. “There were about 40 of us.” Tim Kosick and Black Wolf say they were turned away, too. Although the Red Cross shelter’s decision to not admit the homeless was eventually reversed, tensions linger in a city whose homeless population already feels embattled. “The cops were harassing us at 8 a.m. on Thursday morning,” Collin Vanderharr says. He had been sleeping under the library with a few dozen others. “They said they’d ticket us if we kept staying out of the rain there,” he says. Another group of homeless people, including Ron Chase and “Dwarf,” had slept on the covered patio at Alfalfa’s. “But the cops came and ran everybody off,” says Chris Mitchell, a former homeless man who checked on the community daily during the flood. “Told ’em to go to the shelter at the YMCA.” They tried. “They wouldn’t let us in because we didn’t have houses that got flooded,” Morrow says. “We were told we were the evacuation center for people with addresses,” says Andra Coberly, spokesperson for the YMCA. Tim Kosick’s shoes and backpack were soaked through. But he was told that other people had more pressing needs, he says. “They looked at us and said, ‘You’re not welcome here,’” Black Wolf says. Many went to the Bridge House, a local organization that serves the homeless. Its official capacity is only 25 people, says Executive Director Isabel McDevitt. Boulder County had told her 20 September 19, 2013
that, in a disaster, homeless people would be treated like everyone else. “We called the Y, and they said no, homeless people are not allowed,” she says. “The Red Cross wasn’t following the policy.” So McDevitt called city and county officials. City officials responded that they encourage relief organizations to provide services for all, says Karen Hahn, director of the City of Boulder’s Human Services Department. With city and county support, McDevitt called the Red Cross back. “It was a miscommunication,” says Chip Frye, public information officer with the Red Cross. “The city realized that they needed to make some corrections in terms of accommodating all their clients at shelters, and they may have dropped the ball on that.” (The city is not involved with decisions about shelters, says Hahn.) “We’re the Red Cross, we’ll help anyone,” Frye says. “I think that’s the message to get out, rather than that a couple homeless people were turned away.” Some were turned away twice. “When the Red Cross said we could come back, we went back,” Morrow says. “We got turned away again. We told her we’d been walking all day. She said, ‘Well, you can have a police escort if you like.’” Korey Bourg, a veteran, believes he was denied entry a second time because of his appearance. “I got turned away again,” he says, “because the Red Cross was still picking and choosing. If you look even a little scary, they won’t let you in. I’m a big guy.” By Friday morning, several homeless people had been admitted. “We live on the street,” says Lori Hopkins, as she looked through Red Cross clothing donations with her husband Larry Davis and friend Tony Taylor. Sue, Gigi and Laurie (who chose not to provide last names) live at the homeless shelter on North Broadway,
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which closes during the day. They found daytime shelter with the Red Cross. Red Cross Shelter Manager Suzanne Ackley said that rumors of people being turned away were “totally untrue.” “We want the word out that we’re taking everyone,” YMCA spokesperson Coberly said on Friday. But many homeless didn’t get the message. “Word had travelled,” McDevitt says. “People said, ‘OK, I’m on my own,’ and they hunkered down.” Others were still angry. “After I was turned away twice, after showing a military ID, I was so enraged,” Kosick says. A warming shelter opened in Louisville, but buses weren’t running, Ron Chase explains. People were desperate until they heard they could camp in the parking garage above the bus station, Morrow says. The top two floors were full, Chase says.
“It was cold,” says teenager Bailey Beers. Early Monday morning, people were told to leave — or face trespassing tickets. “The cops said the state isn’t in an emergency anymore,” Beers said. Chase, Mitchell and “Dwarf ” gathered in the covered lot next to Mustard’s Last Stand to discuss the situation. Minutes later, a police officer appeared. “Time to move on,” he said. “I’m getting complaints.” On Tuesday morning, Mitchell reported that homeless people were digging through the trash for makeshift blankets. “These people were in danger,” he says, “because nobody gives a shit.” McDevitt hopes this disaster will help homelessness be seen in a larger context. “This wouldn’t have been such an issue,” she says, “if there weren’t so many people whose only option is camping.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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gency shelters and the homes of friends, family and strangers, some were unable to take their pets with them. (Some shelters didn’t allow animals.) So they turned to Longmont Humane, which normally has a capacity of 368 animals. Since the flooding, the number housed has spiked to around 450 — some 133 of them evacuees — forcing staff to become creative with where they put animals. Some shelter dogs were moved to offices, and a goose named Crackers was put into a room adjacent to the dog kennels. They plan on turning a conference room into a cat kennel. Two geckos and a python were shipped off to a reptile rescue agency. There is no way of knowing how long owners will need housing for their animals, and Director of Operations Boulder Weekly
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Sarah Clusman says the shelter did not impose any time limits. “We really don’t know how long this will be asked of us,” Clusman said on Sept. 16, after much of the flooding had subsided. “I expect many owners will be able to take their animals back this week, but we think many will not.” She is referring partially to pets that are coming in from areas that were hit hardest by the flood, such as Lyons, Jamestown and other mountain towns. For now, they are making do with the limited space that they have, but they are encouraging pet owners to seek out other options before coming to the shelter. As the flooding began, the shelter put out word that it needed donations of supplies, such as wet dog food and cat food, toys and kitty litter. In seemingly no time, the community had donated so much that the shelter was somewhat overwhelmed, a large room in the shelter suddenly so stocked that it looked like a storeroom at a pet store. “The community has been incredible and has brought us oodles of food donations, so we’re not concerned about that,” Smokowski said. “It’s more the stress and the levels of workload on our staff continuing at this level. [But] we’ve also had incredible Boulder Weekly
volunteers come in to help.” However, not all is good. A major risk to animals during flooding is giardia, which animals contract by lapping up contaminated floodwater. (Smokowski cautions pet owners/ guardians to not let them drink from puddles.) The shelter has isolated at least one dog that has already contracted it, but Smokowski says once the disease gets into a shelter it can spread quickly. More than anything, she says, the shelter needs financial donations to help fund medical care for the animals. Compounding the shelter’s taxed resources is the fact that the Longmont Humane Society was already in financial trouble before the flood. The shelter needs to come up with $772,227 by Nov. 30 to avoid foreclosure. They have already raised $440,000 of that, but the remaining shortfall is still daunting. Beyond that, the shelter still needs to come up with $3 million to get into the black. Smokowski says that she hopes people will see the shelter’s efforts at serving the community during its time of need and donate. “We couldn’t fathom if this had happened and we weren’t here,” she says. “So we’re hoping that with all this mud, there’s a silver lining.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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boulderganic Washing away a harvest
Floodwater-exposed crops may be total loss by Steve Weishampel and Zak Weinberg
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he Martinellis’ field is in surprisingly good shape. As Lenny Martinelli, co-owner with his wife Sara of Three Leaf Concepts and Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette, walks through his field after the flood, he expresses relief at the number of squash, peppers, pumpkins and even tomatoes that survived floodwaters that reached several feet Sept. 12 and 13. Rows of plants look more or less untouched. It’s too early for Martinelli to estimate what fraction of crops can be saved, but he is at least slightly optimistic. “Now the hard work is making sure everything is good to eat,” he says. Due to potential pathogens and contamination in the floodwater, many farmers with flooded property are still uncertain if their fall harvest can safely be consumed. Farmers are waiting for word from a government agency to help make that decision. Ron Carleton, the deputy commissioner for the Colorado Department of Agriculture, says the agency won’t be able to say right away. “Making any assessments or any recommendations is going to have to wait until the floodwaters have receded and there’s been an opportunity to really assess what damage has occurred and what problems might exist,” he says. “And I think it’s going to take a few weeks to get to that point.” He suggests the decision about whether crops are salvageable could be left up to the farmer. “That’s probably going to have to be a case-bycase assessment by each producer, working with their [Farm Service Agency] office and [National Resource Defense Council] office in terms of, what do we have and is it salvageable?” he says. But research forecasts bad news for farms across the county: There’s no saving crops exposed directly to floodwater. A 2012 fact sheet from Ohio State University predicts the exact scenario that most
Boulder County farms Kelly Bevilacqua face: It has a whole heading for “When edible portions of crops come into direct contact with floodwater.” Under that heading are some discouraging bullet points: “The crop is adulterated and should not enter the human or animal food chains. “There is no known or accepted method to recondition the edible crop to assure human food safety. “Crop must be disposed of and kept separate from crops that will enter the food chain. “This applies to ALL crops (grown above or below ground, with durable rind, grains and nuts).” On the north side of Flatirons Farm, Gregory Creek flows over all the crops. The fact sheet goes on to warn against using the contaminated crops in any way, even in compost. It warns that “floodwacooking of all vegetables, but I don’t even know if ters contain contaminants such as chemicals, heavy that’s safe,” says Amy Scott. “Everybody’s working metals, molds, bacteria, sewage, human pathogens and hard — the USDA is working with the extension fungi.” offices and the health department right now, to figure If food cannot be eaten directly from the farm, out what solutions there might be. So that’s the big Amy Scott, owner of 63rd Street Farm with her husquestion right now.” band Brian Scott, wonders if they can require customThe OSU document says food that made direct ers to cook the potentially harmful food, which might contact with floodwater “must be disposed of.” A dockill off any pathogens. See CROPS Page 26 “We could finish our CSA with a mandatory
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At Three Leaf Farm, Lenny Martinelli surveys the new edge of his property, where Coal Creek has covered over and carved into his land.
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ument from the University of Minnesota offers the option of cooking food, but warns, “The most conservative course of action would be to discard all produce that has been potentially contaminated by flood waters.” The Minnesota document says produce must be washed thoroughly and cooked to 165 F. But while cooking kills bacteria, it will not remove chemicals. Amy Scott estimates that 63rd Street Farms, which as of last Monday still sat under about a foot of water, lost about $25,000 worth of produce. For the Scotts, most of the loss gets pushed onto the members of their CSA, who will receive less food for the remainder of the season. Lenny Martinelli estimates that Three Leaf Farms lost $12,000 to $15,000. Scott Hoffenberg, manager of Flatirons Farm on 7th Street and University Avenue, is less fortunate. His farm was completely inundated by swift overflow from Gregory Creek. Soil from the farm is mixed into the mud from the runoff in the middle of 7th Street. Water poured from the back of the property over the front retaining wall like a small waterfall. His business depends almost entirely on direct sales through a farm stand, so the farm’s loss rests solely on him and his family unless a government entity provides crop insurance. “I think I’m still in a state of shock,” Hoffenberg says. “The last three days, I think I’ve had combined about four hours of horizontal time, maybe two of shut-eye. Once I get a good night’s sleep I think I’ll be able to collect my thoughts a little better. If there’s any soil left, it’s under a foot of sediment that came down the canyon. I dug down
about eight inches last night and found a turnip below it. At this point, all of those crops are pretty much wasted.” Nobody is really certain what was in the floodwater, especially considering that several creeks flooded. Neither the St. Vrain and Left Hand Water Conservancy District nor the Boulder County Public Health office could say what farmers should do, and the CSU Extension office did not respond to requests for interviews. “We could speculate on a lot of things, but at this point, I’m trying to ensure that what I’m telling folks is based in fact,” says Sean Cronin, executive director of the water conservancy district. “And not feeding the rumor mills that are going around.” He points out that if water treatment plants were compromised, chlorine and other disinfectants are likely to be in the water, but the concentration of any contaminants is unknown. He says he’s hoping measurements will be taken of the floodwater to determine what chemicals it contains. For the Martinellis, saving crops is important, but secondary. Lenny Martinelli describes the trying experience evacuating his family’s livestock, including temporarily housing nine goats in the family’s garage in Old Town Lafayette. They took their nine horses to a farm to the north, only to retrieve them when that farm flooded and go searching, door to door, for a stranger willing to take in the horses. And they’re looking ahead, ready to relocate the farm’s next farm-to-table dinner — if, that is, they have anything they can serve. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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skier or not, this message will hit you and it will kind of speak to your heart.” To that end, they’ve delved into narrative — a man and his heroic journey through interior British Columbia and on to the wilds of Alaska, for a fabled, powdery paradise, for a place so beautiful, and with such beautifully untracked lines, that it inspired the reverence of a child. part of the crash landing pad. “We bring people back to the sim“These guys would launch over rivers plicity of when they were a kid — when and trees and rocks and land on a landyou’re a child, everything is beautiful and ing no bigger than a couch,” Waggoner everything is fresh and new and stunsays. “If they landed six inches to the ning and exciting,” Waggoner says. “As right, they would annihilate themselves. people get a bit older, I think that they It’s a pretty wild thing to do but I think kind of get disillusioned and they lose it serves the purpose of the movie, which sight of the beauty around them and is kind of seeing skiing and seeing life they kind of don’t see life as so much of with new eyes.” an adventure any more and there’s no What Waggoner says he hopes reason for that. So I think that this is shines through for viewers is the heart really like a spark for and soul that went us and a spark for our into making the film, audience to see that whether it was hauling On the Bill: Valhalla screens at 7:30 p.m. on life is really this beausnow or boot-packing Thursday, Sept. 26, at the tiful, amazing thing 2,000 vertical feet Boulder Theater. Tickets are $14 in advance, $17 at the door. and that’s the journey with a 140-pound Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Visit that our character is generator in temperawww.sweetgrassproductions. com for more information. kind of undergoing. tures 20 below zero to Those are the quescapture those night tions he’s asking himshots. self — where did the Sweetgrass is still beauty of my youth go, what happened 95 percent human-powered. In two to that simple joy when I was a kid and years of filming, they’ve done five to 10 was deep in the woods and saw the days of filming from a helicopter. The wonder and awe in every snowflake.” result is a more down-to-earth product. OK, and there’s some really awesome “It’s a lot of hiking up mountains, skiing in there, too — some of their it’s a lot of early mornings, cold tents highest quality skiing yet, he says. and frozen feet,” Waggoner says. “It’s a Shoots include a night scene and a scene really wild life and I think what I love that required hauling truckloads of snow about it is, you can’t imagine the things into the Canadian rainforest near Mt. that you will see doing this kind of Baker and building a ramp for skiers to work. You can’t forecast it or plan ahead huck with glistening, emerald green trees for the things that you will see, from as the backdrop — and a mattress as landscapes to the people you meet.”
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This year, as they filmed frequently in Canada, it was also a lot of dealing with immigrations and customs, building sets in the middle of the snow and hiking a peak for three and a half hours only to watch the clouds roll in, obscuring the lighting for a shot — and then do that four days in a row. “Making ski films is kind of like a good lesson for life in teaching you, no matter what comes your way, you have the ability to overcome,” he says. “I don’t think I’ve ever turned back once an idea is set in motion, and I feel the same for my crew.” They organized 35 people for the one day in the week they could all be there, planned the shoot for three weeks in advance, and then the day it was supposed to happen, it started to rain. “You just shoot the rain falling in the snow, and ultimately that footage somehow finds a way to weave itself into the story,” he says. “Those real feelings, weaving them into the story, gives it a sense of realism.” Of the soundtrack, a mix of The Beatles, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Waggoner says, “That’s all I listened to for about a year and a half, to keep myself in the mindset of the film, keep myself in the rhythm and enjoy the music.” And that is the hope for audiences, who can catch Valhalla at the Boulder Theater on Sept. 26 — that they’ll sit back, enjoy the music and get psyched on life, Waggoner says. “I can’t imagine anyone leaving the movie and not having some idea of how they’re going to make their life in the next day, week, month or year more fun, and that’s pretty cool.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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This American Life host Ira Glass speaks at Chautauqua Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 21.
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he most noticeable thing about Ira Glass, when Boulder Weekly reached him for an interview, is his voice — the nasally, soft-spoken, atypical radio voice that has broadcast stories on the public radio program This American Life since 1995. He says hi and introduces himself, but he doesn’t have to. His voice is instantly recognizable. He’s courteous, too. Glass is famous for the mile-a-minute pace at which he works, but he first asks if he should speak slowly to make it easier to take Boulder Weekly
notes. Glass is on the phone to promote his upcoming appearance in Boulder on Saturday, Sept. 21. In “Reinventing Radio: An Evening With Ira Glass,” Glass will discuss the history of his radio program and play outtakes and clips from the cutting room floor that never made it onto the show. He does this sort of thing once a month in a different city to promote the show, since, as he says, “We don’t have money to take out ads.” It’s an unconventional promotional effort, something he’s been doing for years. “We wanted stations to make more money off our show than it cost,” Glass once told The New York Times while discussing his marketing efforts. “The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.”
This American Life began taking stories about everyday life — tales of vacations gone bad, stories of people who decided to drastically change their lives, a look at the minds of undecided voters — and airing them in thoughtful, carefully considered ways. It wasn’t traditional news radio. But the format struck a chord with audiences and has since become a public radio institution, now broadcast on more than 500 stations to roughly 1.8 million listeners. Since its inception, the radio program has evolved to tackle contemporary news, filtered through intriguing stories of individual people. Take, for example, murder rates in Chicago. This American Life recently broadcast at two-part, two-hour show on Harper High School, located in inner-city Chicago, where just last year, 21 current and recent students were wounded by gun violence, and eight more killed. Glass sent three producers down to the school for five months, where they sat as flies on the wall as the see GLASS Page 34
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school navigated another traumatic school year. They came back with incredibly intimate and revealing stories from the high school. The program humanized the administrators, students and parents in a part of Chicago unfamiliar to the rest of the country. Boulder Weekly spoke with Glass about his radio program, his reporting philosophy, the unique intimacy radio can convey, and more.
and I feel that in this light of this very likable, smart guy, you could sort of see where the whole country was at, because you could see all the people who still disbelieved, and what is someone like Doesken, who feels like there is evidence that something is changing, what is he supposed to say or do? It spoke in a general way to a lot of where the country is, through him and through his dilemma about what he is going to say in this speech that he is Boulder Weekly: How did This about to give, as he traveled around the American Life start? state talking to people. Ira Glass: On the radio, the radio Did you ever think that This show started as this journalistic project American Life would have the legs where we were taking the tools of jourthat it does, that it would be as popular nalism and applying it to stories that as it has become? are much more small and personal than No. No. I mean, I thought that things reporters traditionally looked at. what it was going to be was a nice show And the stories that some people were stories in the Nancy Updike would like and so old-fashioned, the level of popuclassic sense. larity that it’s had There’s somebody has been a pleasin some situation, ant surprise. and something What do you happens to them, think is the thing and that person is about the show relatable, and you that attracts so want to find out many people? what happens, I think people have the same and things haprelationship to it pen to them and that I and the they change or staff do. A really learn something. great story is fun There are funny to listen to. I feel moments and like it doesn’t emotional happen that often moments. That’s on the radio, and what the radio we work really show is built out hard to find good of. ones. It’s super Over the Ira Glass says This American Life is focused simple. We’re years, as time has more on stories than news coverage. looking for stuff passed, we’ve that’s fun and more and more entertaining, and it’s like, I feel like the become interested as a staff at applying audience’s relationship to it is really the that kind of storytelling to things that same as mine and the producers’. are in the news. So when we tackle something that’s in the news, we’ll look I’m kind of interested in how the for a person, some emotional way in. story behind this piece on Harper Kind of a hook that will help tell High School came together. That’s something I often talk about the story, if the story is about statistics in my speech. Harper High School or politics. came about because last year, there were We did a story about the Colorado over 500 murders in Chicago. And as a state climatologist, a guy named Nolan staff we’re trying to figure out a way to Doesken. At the time that we did it, he cover that. We talked about different was really debating about whether he should come out about the fact that the things, and we thought, “Oh, we cracked it.” Over Memorial Day, over climate is changing, since so many of 50 people were shot in one weekend, in the people he is talking to, who are one holiday weekend. So let’s just do ranchers and farmers around the state, these 50 people. don’t believe in climate change. He When we got into that, we [realworried that he was basically getting ized], “Oh, these cases are in court. into a fight with people who wouldn’t Nobody is going to talk about it.” Once believe him anyway. He was trying to we dug into it and tried to do that, it decide what he wanted to say about it, Boulder Weekly
buzz turned out to be un-reportable in any In a sense it’s kind of a dumb job, you sort of timely way. just want to hang out, people say stuff, We heard about this high school, you try to tape it, and then you try to from a local story that somebody did pick the most interesting parts and put it that touched on one of the shootings in order. In the case of that, radio is so there, one of the kids who was killed intimate, that you can, you’re just right there. We thought, this would solve the there with them when they’re trying to problems that made the Memorial Day talk about it. When the counselor is tryversion of the story unproduceable. ing to get the kid to talk about his grief Basically with the Memorial Day thing over his little brother shooting himself, we couldn’t get people to talk, whereas or rather his little brother being shot in here, if the school participated in the this gun accident, where the two of story, when the next kid was murdered, them had this gun, and talking about we found this high school where 29 how mad his mom is at him, and how kids had been shot in the previous year. hard it’s been at home, how it’s affected We just thought, well, when stuff haphim, just all those things, radio, because pens, we’ll be able to figure out what you just hear the person’s voice, because happened. We won’t be in the situation you don’t see them, it’s just so easy to where we were in with Memorial Day, make an emotional connection with the where people were just shutting up people in the story. about it. Do you think that would even be Was it a difficult process to get able to transfer over in print? them to agree to share these really I mean, I’m not a print person. I traumatic moments with you guys? think it would be hard to let a quote I think the staff had the same sense run quite as long as print. Truthfully, I that we did, that these things don’t get think a really skilled print reporter covered enough, that you would be able to figure don’t hear about these out how to get that On the Bill: Ira parts of the country same scene across in Glass speaks at where you have large that story. But it’s much Chautauqua parts of the country harder. The thing about Auditorium on Saturday, Sept. 21, at who are dealing with radio, we send out the 7:30 p.m. Tickets start this trauma, who are intern and the tape is at $40. 900 Baseline witnessing so much viojust as intimate as if a Road, Boulder, 303440-7666. lence. So the [school] super-experienced perstaff, I think, was glad son goes out. That’s for the story to be out what radio does when there. So no. it’s not trying to do anything in parI thought parts of that piece really ticular as it gives you that kind of intishowcased the real potential of how macy. Whereas I think print, you have radio can be used in storytelling. I to be a very skillful person, or if you remember hearing some of the interac- wanted to do this as TV, you would just tions between the counselor and the have to shoot it in a way where it student who shot his brother accidenwould just look like a film for it to have tally. the same power as it would have in Oh my god, I know. What a sad radio. You’d have to really light it beaustory. tifully and frame it beautifully, you Then you guys made the decision know, where the level of craft you’d to just let that go on for maybe two have to bring to it would be very minutes. That seems like a very extreme. For radio, that’s the thing that unconventional decision, but it was radio does. also very telling as to what radio can I heard you once say that you guys do. Can you maybe go into how you toss out maybe half the ideas that you guys make those kinds of decisions on come up with. Is that still part of the how to tell the story, how you make process? the decisions about how to best use Yeah. It’s documentary work. In radio in order to do that? that way it’s different from when I Well, you know, that story, that kid worked on a daily news show. In more was much longer than two minutes, it of a news journalism context, generally was eight or 10 minutes. There were when you get assigned something, it certain pieces of tape that were just two gets on the radio or in the paper. This, minutes. I mean, in a way, it’s dumb to because it’s documentary work, we just say, but it’s sort of the kind of reporting kind of run at a bunch of stuff and then where you go and hang out and you wait and see what stuff works out the record everything, and then when things best and kill the rest. And that’s really unfold on tape that seem especially com- one of the most important things that pelling and revealing, you try to put it makes the show work, I think. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com order where it will make the most sense. Boulder Weekly
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overtones New take on classical composer Boulder Bach Festival’s new director aims for diverse offerings by Peter Alexander
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achary Carrettin is not a strictly-by-the-book kind of guy. The new director of Boulder Bach Festival prefers to sample it all. “As a festival that honors Bach, we need to look at his uncles, his cousins, his sons, we need to look at his Italian influences, his French influences, his organ teachers, other organists from Germany and other parts of Europe, Flemish and Dutch,” he says. Hardly pausing for breath, he forges ahead, “also Venetian composers. And I think that vision can expand into Brahms looking backward to Bach, Mendelssohn looking backward to Bach … maybe some day we’ll be talking about Bartók! “I believe that a festival that honors Bach is really honoring the entire tradition that came before and came after. If you ask me, the Boulder Bach Festival is a perfect platform for presenting Portuguese fado music as well as north German organ music.” His concept of diversity doesn’t end with repertoire. “We also want to look at diversity of the instruments, whether it’s saxophone or Baroque violin, for example,” Carrettin says. “I believe that the conversation needs to include Bach on electric violin.” There’s no fado or electric violin this year, but there is music performed on instruments both historical and modern, and music by J.S. Bach’s North German and Venetian contemporaries, including a concert of Vivaldi concertos in February. (See the full festival schedule at www.boulderbachfestival.org.) The festival gets under way at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boulder with a chamber concert of preludes and trio sonatas by J.S. Bach and Georg Philip Telemann (the program is repeated Saturday at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Longmont). The program will be performed by the Boulder Bach Festival Time Travelers — Paul Miller, violin and viola d’amore; Ismael Reyes, flute; Anna Marsh, bassoon; and Charlotte Mattax Moersch, harpsichord. Although he will not be present, Carrettin is excited to see the festival get underway. “I’m thrilled about the first program,” he says. “It’s a little bit heartbreaking for me [not to be there] because Boulder Weekly
On the Bill: Boulder Bach Festival gets underway with a concert at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Boulder at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20. The same concert happens on Saturday, Sept. 21, at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Longmont. Visit www. boulderbachfestival.org for more information.
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Zachary Carrettin aims to honor the musical tradition of J.S. Bach.
that night I’m conducting in Texas. “The personnel involved are more important than the choice of music. Paul Miller is a Boulder favorite — he’s perhaps the best period instrument stand partner I’ve ever played with. But he’s also one of the great American scholars of the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. That’s such an interesting combination. “Anna Marsh is one of the country’s finest Baroque bassoonists. She plays in Europe and Canada and across the U.S. Ismael Reyes is a very fine flutist who played with the festival two years ago on modern flute. He had lessons with some of American’s leading Baroque flute players on Skype, and in the course of less than a year taught himself to play the Baroque flute as well. “Charlotte Mattax Moersch is the head of harpsichord and organ at the University of Illinois. She is one of our really great harpsichordists. This is a meeting of some of the great scholars of the 18th-century repertoire all playing together.” Carrettin was the festival’s concertmaster for the past two years. He took over as director in July after his predecessor, Rick Erickson, found it more and more difficult to come to Boulder because of other musical commitments. Carrettin will be the first director who is an orchestral player, but his career includes choral singing and conducting as well. “For about 20 years the Bach cantatas have been highly influential in my
work as a musician,” he says. “Working on motets and cantatas and large masterworks is the most compelling offering that we have. The reason I’m here is to do those works.” While he was trained on Baroque violin, Carrettin is far from dogmatic about historical instruments and performance practice. “Rather than consider historically informed performance, or HIP, I came up with my own acronym, RAP, which is ‘real, authentic practice,’” he explains. “For me, there are three elements of 18th-century practice: that the composers played more than one instrument, they improvised and they wrote music. “I’m very interested in the conversation about 18th-century music on modern instruments, on period instruments, with large chorus, with small vocal ensembles, with soloists playing 9-foot grand pianos, with harpsichordists and lutenists. I feel that it’s our duty to present that conversation to our public.” For the upcoming season, Carrettin has one overriding message: “Beyond everything else I hope the audience takes home a profound emotional and artistic experience that is transforming. This is the reason that we look at sculpture, watch dance and go to concerts. “That’s what we’re here to do: to engage in an aesthetic, intellectual, spiritual and emotional conversation [with the audience]. That’s why we have the festival.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com September 19, 2013 37
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arts & culture The vanishing figure
Denver Art Museum charts Rothko’s decade-long move from surrealist to modernist master
On the Bill: Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade is on view until Sept. 29. The Friday evening lecture, reception and piano performance begins at 5:30 p.m., Sept. 20. Shows of Red are at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 21, and 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22. All events are at the Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy in Denver. Tickets can be purchased at www.denverartmuseum.org.
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f it is true, as Mark Rothko has said, that art Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. lives in the eye of its viewers, then what comes to life in the Denver Art Museum exhibition of his work is the most formative decade of his life. A decade in which the nearly mature artist uses the anguish and angst of the 1940s as a tool to transform his work from that of part of a chorus of surrealist painters to one that carves a place for itself in modern art. It is not the story of a man questioning whether he could still call himself a true artist while painting murals on commission. It’s the story of someone who, knowing that he was already at the top level, already producing great and brilliant work, pushed a little further, into the unknown. The touring exhibition, put together in partnership with the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., which is home to the Rothkos, provides an opportunity to see the paintings, and the evolution of the painter, like never before. “Even the National Gallery can’t show all of these works together at one time. Many remain in storage,” says Gwen Chanzit, curator of the exhibition. “It’s the first time this development has been traced in an exhibition.” Rothko weathered emotional tumult through the 1940s, living through a second World War in a single lifetime — and this one finely pointed for a Russian Jewish immigrant whose family moved to America when he was about 10 — while also surviving a divorce from a woman who discouraged him from painting, riding the ecstatic creative energy of meeting his second wife, and dipping into depression after his mother’s death in 1949. How he “Untitled” from 1941-42 shows the prevalence of imagery from Greek myths in Rothko’s work from the early 1940s. and his work changed through it all is palpable in exhibition. It would be physically tangible, were we able to touch the canvas and paper his works are on, legs together on the left of the canvas, a single elonand feel his relationship with materials evolve from the gated torso on the other. thick oil paints of customary use to the lighter, thinner, Rothko, a scholar of Friedrich Nietzsche, turned to more luminescent watercolors, and finally to his discov- myths as representative of the universal components of ery that if he dilutes his pigments, they gain some of life people encountered in any era. the luminescence of watercolors. He adopts that, a sigHere, he is a stranger to the casual observer, nature material, for the rest of his career. unschooled in his history and familiar only with the “This is not an exhibition that needs to justify its Rothko paintings as they were commissioned for the existence,” the painter’s son, Christopher, writes in the Four Seasons restaurant at the Seagram Building in catalog. “On the contrary, the only thing that needs to New York City — vast color field paintings where be explained is its tardiness, because within the realm color becomes both subject and commentary on the of Rothko’s oeuvre, the works in this exhibition are the subject. keys to everything.” He’s a surrealist focused on representing those His father was searching for something, he writes, myths — and then, he’s not. His attention turns and viewers of Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade get to toward a more experiential approach to paintings. accompany him on that chase. First, his own, using surrealist automatism style, a very The exhibition opens with the mythic paintings of fast, free-form approach that was meant to let art tap Rothko’s surrealist days — triple-headed renditions of into the subconsciousness by untethering the artist’s Antigone and a surreal eagle that stands in for the hand from planned structure. He drew impulsively, and U.S. and Germany at the same time (both countries chaotic jumbles of balloon-like, musical instrumentcarried the eagle on their crest into WWII). A treatinspired figures emerge, similar to the paintings of Joan Miró and André Masson, practitioners of the ment of Jesus that sees the body parts of Christ and same artistic method. the two thieves crucified next to him disjointed and Then, the journey visits the work of Rothko’s condisplayed out of order and adjacent — three pairs of Boulder Weekly
temporaries who were laboring through the same struggles: Max Weber, Clyfford Still, Jackson Pollock, Adolph Gottlieb. “The middle gallery is where I’ve chosen to put work by Rothko’s contemporaries, because at this point, these artists are all traveling the same path. By the end of the decade, they go in separate, individual directions,” Chanzit says. “It seemed to me that instead of placing these works early, or as a tagon at the end of the exhibition, it made some sense to show their interrelationships right there.” A quote on the wall explains where Rothko heads to on his own and why, shedding ever more structure from his paintings, so that figures dissolve and the horizon lines themselves become the features of the paintings. “He says there was a time when none of us could do it without destroying the image,” Chanzit paraphrases. It reached a point where the figure could no longer represent the feelings of the age. By the end of the exhibition, viewers half stumble into a room of his mature, color field works, which look like his work as we know it, only more colorful. As he progresses through the ’50s, he will carry a leaner palette, paintings focused on single, generally darker, colors. The word that appears in conjunction with his later canvases, like “Untitled,” from 1949, with bands of purple, red, near-black and green framed in yellow, is meditative. They induce a trance. As the Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade approaches its closing weekend, the museum assembled a full sensory banquet celebration of the artist and his work. Friday, Sept. 20, begins with a talk from Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., before showcasing the piano piece, “The Rothko Room,” written and performed by pianist Haskell Small. “This is an extraordinary opportunity to experience all the different senses,” Chanzit says. “A lot of people are really moved emotionally by the paintings, particularly by these late paintings, so to have a musician who composes based on these experiences gives you just another dimension of how people can respond, how they do respond, to Rothko’s work.” Saturday, Sept. 21, and Sunday, Sept. 22, will see reprised performances of Curious Theater’s 2012 production of the Tony award-winning Red, John Logan’s play coverting Rothko’s struggle to reconcile himself to painting commissioned artwork for the Four Seasons restaurant — a commission, incidentally, the artist later canceled. “Red gives you a sense of what may go through the mind of a brilliant artist,” Chanzit says. “The audience sees him constantly pushing and asking the tough questions. We see him thinking about his paintings almost like his children, going out of the studio, into the world.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com September 19, 2013 39
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‘Night Film’ creates a vivid world that is, sadly, fictional by David Accomazzo
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o extract Shelley Duvall’s traumatized, haggard performance in The Shining, director Stanley Kubrick made her life a living hell for the duration of shooting. “From May until October, I was really in and out of good health, because the stress of the film was so great,” Duvall tells Kubrick’s daughter, Vivian, in a documentary called Making The Shining. The next scene shows Duvall sprawled in a chair, lips on a cigarette like a scuba diver on a regulator. “Look at this,” she says, pinching strands from her head to show Stanley Kubrick as he walks by. “I’ve pulled hunks of hair out.” Kubrick takes the hair from Duvall and holds it up to the camera, bemusedly muttering, “hunks of hair. OK,” as a wry smile crawls onto his face. He doesn’t appear to give it a second thought as he walks through the door behind Duvall. “Come on Shelley,” he says, seemingly unmoved by her stress. “Get the dummy,” he calls harshly, and he almost sounds like he’s talking about Duvall until he says, “Oh right, she’s not carrying it in that scene.” He starts to leave the room again and then turns back, telling his daughter, “Don’t sympathize with Shelley. ... It doesn’t help her.” And yet, after the film, Duvall is grateful for the abuse. “I resented Stanley at times because he pushed me, and it hurt,” Duvall says, but then she adds, “He’s taught me more than I’ve learned in all the other pictures I’ve done, within one year’s time, on one picture.” Stanley Kubrick was the main inspiration for the shadowy antagonist Stanislas Cordova in Marisha Pessl’s second novel, Night Film, which came out Aug. 20. Cordova is a filmmaker whose work evokes either revulsion or fascination in the novel’s world, and he comes off as an auteur with Kubrick’s craftsmanship, Alfred Hitchcock’s imagination and David Lynch’s fascination with humanity’s dark side. Cordova, much like Kubrick, is a recluse. Surrounded by devotees in his own private estate he rarely leaves, a dark shroud of mystery surrounds the fictional filmmaker. She says that the seductive genius of real-life masters, like Kubrick or Picasso, whose personalities dominated the spaces around them, fascinated her. “I would say Kubrick [inspired the character] for the most
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Marisha Pessl’s Night Film presents a world in which a reclusive, shadowy filmmaker exercises his power when an investigative journalist starts asking too many questions.
part, the way his myth intersected with what was his reality,” Pessl tells Boulder Weekly. “How when he was creating a film, how deeply that infused his personal life. … Just the idea of an auteur-slash-genius that people willingly went out of their way to work with, and really gave their lives over to a person in order to create art. I think that is an interesting conceit.” The novel follows investigative journalist Scott McGrath, who decides one day to try to peer behind the curtain of Cordova’s mystique. The attempt backfires when he wrecklessly slanders the director on national television, costing McGrath his marriage, his career and his sense of self-worth. The novel begins with McGrath years later, still trying to piece together his life. A mysterious woman in a red coat unnerves him during a routine jog through a New York City park. He soon finds out that Cordova’s daughter, Ashley, has died, apparently by suicide, and as he delves deeper into the facts of the case, he becomes drawn once again towards the reclusive filmmaker, setting him down a dark path that threatens to change his life forever. Boulder Weekly
Cordova doesn’t actually appear but instead looms over the novel, which follows McGrath’s attempts to determine if Ashley’s death was suicide or murder. He gathers two sidekicks on the way, and during the investigation encounters a mental hospital, an underground sex club and an occult store. It makes for an engrossing, quick read — 600 pages fly by in no time. There’s something seductive about the fictional, idealized genius of Cordova. Readers, of course, only experience his films second-hand, through breathless descriptions of the work. By not having to actually create a legendary oeuvre herself, Pessl is able to convey the legend of her character’s films through inference and description. Speaking to McGrath, an actress describes her Duvall-like, Stockholm Syndrome experience of working with Cordova: “Naturally, there was the glory that came with appearing in a Cordova picture. You were made. You would get the best roles after working with him. Even when he went underground. It gave you cachet. You were a warrior. Yet the true value of working with Stanny was not money or acclaim, it was the afterward. All of us actors spoke of it. When you finally returned to your real life after working with Cordova, it was as if all the colors had been turned way up in your eyes. The reds were redder. Blacks blacker. You felt things profoundly, as if your very heart had grown giant and tender and swollen. You dreamed. And what dreams. Working with that irascible man was the most grueling time of my life. I accessed the deepest, most tormented parts of myself, parts I was petrified of opening because I doubted I’d ever get them closed again. Perhaps I never have. But I’d do it again in a heartbeat. You were making a film. Something that would outlast you. Something wild. A powerful piece of art that wasn’t a commercial concoction, but something to slice into people, make them bleed.” Pessl intersperses various illustrations to aid her storytelling, and there’s an app to go along with the book release. We first hear about Ashley’s death from what appears to be a screenshot of the New York Times website, and then we get an 18-image slideshow from Time magazine explaining the films and legend of Cordova. Police reports and photographs pepper the book as well. Pessl says this was to allow the reader to build an image of Cordova similar to how one would form an opinion of such a person in the real world, and it was part of her vision for the book from the beginning. Boulder Weekly
“Night Film, when I started to conceive it, when I started to talk to my agent about the book that I wanted to write, it always had an archival quality,” Pessl says. “I arranged it and began piecing together stories from newspaper clippings, and just different voices coming together to discuss this prominent figure. So really, from the beginning it had that quality, and I wanted to give
readers an immediate sense of what Cordova’s visual world was, what major publications have written about him, but simultaneously what anonymous people posting in the comment section of obscure websites say as well, because that’s very much how we piece together artists in our world. We come at it from a lot of different perspectives and then really draw our own conclusions. I cer-
tainly wanted readers to have that same experience.” The effect is unsettling. Night Film leaves the reader wanting more, wanting to dive face-first into the world of Cordova and his diehard fans. It is an illusory and seductive world, which, tragically, dissolves after the last page. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Featuring Grateful Dead players Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Furthur comes to Red Rocks for four nights, Sept. 19 through Sept. 22. 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. See full EVENT listings online, INCLUDING HAPPY HOURS. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@ boulderweekly.com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.
Thursday, September 19 music Antonio Lopez. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Flip and Fly. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Forest Kelly and the Bob Schlesinger Trio. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Saturday, Sept. 21: Desciples, D Note, Arvada, 10 p.m.
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art has provided visual arts education to the at-risk students of Justice High School since 2011, offering a creative outlet to boost selfesteem and keep students focused on a positive future. Support the program, as well as other museum offerings, by attending Artmix, the museum’s annual fundraising auction offering live music, refreshments and travel packages alongside art for purchase.
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Friday, Sept. 20: Artmix, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, 6:30 p.m.
Chilli Moreno originated the term “DreadRock” when there were no other words for his band’s sound, and they live up to this manifesto of a new genre. Desciples, local mainstays, are taking on the D Note in Arvada this weekend with a blend of funk, blues, rock and reggae, plus a guitar solo played by tongue that is guaranteed to get those dreads swinging.
Furthur. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Ginga. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Hindershot. 8:30 p.m. the hi-dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. John Brown’s Body — With Stick Figure. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Johnny Rawls. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., see EVENTS Page 44
dance Sunday Sept. 22: Boulder Israeli Dance, Pearl Street Studio, Boulder, 7 p.m. For those who want to do more than tap their feet but haven’t gotten to it in a while, the Boulder Israeli Dance offers an all-ages, all-experiences lesson at 7 p.m. to get everyone warmed up for the festivities at 8 p.m. All are welcome, in all formations — line, circle and partner dances are fair game.
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The art of Bobby Vischi and others is on display at the Boulder Public Library’s main branch.
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Beauty Does — Artist John McEnroe. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 29. BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464. Through Oct. 27.
CARBON: Elemental Experiences. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Oct. 6. Char Campbell — Nature photography and abstract watercolors. Aqua Fleur Day Spa, 4688 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-1040. Through Sept. 30. Cheryl Carter Pierce, Norman Singer. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Sept. 28. Electrical Room — Artist Tatiana Blass. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 29. Figure to Field: Mark Rothko in the 1940s. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 29. Heart Lines: Expressions of Native North American Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 21. It’s Electric — Artist Jen Lewin. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-
Bobby Vischi’s “Sunrise Holding Woodlands,” kiln-formed and flame-worked glass 8300. Through Oct. 26. Julie Puma: The Immortal Jellyfish. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Jan. 12. Longmont Studio Tour Preview Exhibition. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303678-7869. Through Sept. 29. Nick Cave: Sojourn. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Sept. 22. Open Studios Fall Artist Tour. Boulder Public Library Main Branch. 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Through Oct. 13. PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through June 21.
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Boulder, 303-443-3322. Lee Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Leon Russell. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
McCumber and Moors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Friday, September 20
Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Rick Borger & The Average German Band. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Smack Thompson. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Wind Symphony and Symphonic Band Concert. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.
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Adventure Film: Reel Rock 8. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282. Boulder Salsa Social. 8:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Charity Handwork. 5 p.m. Longmont Yarn Shoppe, 454 Main St., 303-678-8242. Free Heart Exams for Dogs. 3 p.m. Foothills Community Park, 800 Cherry Ave., Boulder, www. YourDogsHeart.com. Introduction to DSLR Video. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
music Banned in Japan. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Baths — With Jerome LOL and Time Wharp. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399. Best of Open Stage. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Cahalen Morrison & Eli West and the Casey Driessen Singularity. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003. Chris Daniels and The Kings. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Congress + The Grant Farm. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397. Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Duke Street Kings. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Epilogues. 8:30 p.m. the hi-dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230. Fox Street. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St.,
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Theatre, 71 E. Yale Avenue, Denver, 303-777-1003.
Furthur. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
Blackdog with Sally van Meter. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.
Gary Loffler. 4:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Indulgers.10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Janine Gastineau & Her Rhythm. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Lionel Young Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Lisa Morales. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Sophistafunk. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Weeknd — With Banks. 7 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. The Zimmermans. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. events 10th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-717-6619. Artmix: BMoCA’s Annual Art Auction. Music by Ian Cooke. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4427689. Fireball Run — A weekend of events. Through Sept. 22. Visit www.fireballrun.com for more info. Making WAVES 2013 — Through Sept. 22. Symposium on how the ocean affects us all. Visit www. coloradoocean.org for more information.
Saturday, September 21 music The Acoustic Mining Company. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Austin Lounge Lizards. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft
Birch Street. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
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Caribou Mountain Collective. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-4448448.
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Desciples. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Furthur. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
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The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Hobo Swagger. 6:40 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Jababa Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Jeff Strahan. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Juno What — With Malai Llama. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Method Man and Redman — With The Foodchain. 9 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874. My Blue Sky & Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Oktoberfestbier Release Party and SoulaBillySwampBoogieBand. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 6778 79th St., Niwot, 303-547-6152. Patrick Dethlef’s 7th Release Show. 8:30 p.m. the hi-dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
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Reinventing Radio with Ira Glass. 7:30 p.m. Colorado Chautauqua, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, see EVENTS Page 46
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Claudia Mills will sign copies of her new book, Zero Tolerance, on Thursday, Sept. 19, at the Boulder Book Store.
Thursday, Sept. 19 Zero Tolerance and Kelsey Green, Reading Queen — by Claudia Mills. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Monday, Sept. 23 Night Film — by Marisha Pessl. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Friday, Sept. 20
Tuesday, Sept. 24
Kate Greenstreet, Phil Cordelli, Stephanie Anderson and Sarah Boyer. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
From Our Shelves Fiction Book Club Meeting — The Casual Vacancy. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Saturday, Sept. 21 Curiosity Day With Curious George — by William Martino. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Sunday, Sept. 22 Voices Open Mic: Intergenerational Story Telling. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.
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Boulder International Fringe Festival continues at various theaters and venues through Sept. 29.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18 • FREE SHOW!
GYPSY SOUL: TRIBUTE TO JIMI HENDRIX & THE BAND OF GYPSIES FEAT BERNIE WORRELL W/ THE CUTTHROAT DRIFTERS
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 18
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 21 FREE BEFORE 10PM
W/ STAY TUNED (MANE ROK & DEEJAY TENSE), SOPHISTAFUNK & CAVEM
W/ STICK FIGURE & RASTASAURUS
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27
THE DANCE PARTY TIME MACHINE
FEAT DAVID MURPHY OF STS9 & MEMBERS OF THE MOTET, EUFORQUESTRA, ROSE HILL DRIVE, YAMN, FOX STREET ALLSTARS, THE CONGRESS, KINETIX, OCTOPUS NEBULA, THE WHALES, TIGER PARTY, MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, FILTHY CHILDREN & MORE!
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MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23
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WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 25
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W/ SNUBLUCK, COULT45 & DIGITAL CONNECTION
DIZZY WRIGHT: THE GOLDEN AGE TOUR W/ EMILIO ROJAS, BLACK PEGASUS, FUTURISTIC, A.V.I.U.S. & DJ E’S NINE OF PRIME ELEMENT
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27
POOLSIDE (DJ SET)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 4
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PERFORMS PICKIN’ ON ZEPPELIN & BEST OF PICKIN’ ON W/ PICKIN’ AT YOUR MAMA’S HOUSE (BLUEGRASS TRIBUTE TO WSP)
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 28
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SATURDAY OCTOBER 5
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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9
TUESDAY OCTOBER 1 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
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FEAT VISUAL ART BY ANDROID JONES, RANDOM RAB LIVE, THE WERKS, KAMINANDA, KALYA SCINTILLA, DESERT DWELLERS, BIRD OF PREY, JANOVER & RESUNATOR, LATE NIGHT RADIO, MARVEL YEARS, SKYTREE, MATERIALIZED & MORE!
MONDAY OCTOBER 14
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FRIDAY OCTOBER 4
AEROPLANE & GIGAMESH W/ FUN FACTORY & PRUITT
SATURDAY OCTOBER 5
THE PHIX
CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF PHISH W/ PRIVATE GRIPWEED PLAYING THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9
FREE SHOW!
FRIDAY OCTOBER 18
ATOMIC REACTOR W/ KLL SMTH, CHEMDAWGZ & WALKA
W/ GINGER PERRY
TUESDAY OCTOBER 15
SALT N PEPA SATURDAY OCTOBER 19
EXTRACT ARTIST HARVEST FEST
FEAT KRS ONE W/ MANY OTHER ARTISTS TBA
THURSDAY OCTOBER 24
PETE ROCK & CL SMOOTH W/ CAMP LO & UNIT(E)
FRIDAY OCTOBER 25
ORGONE & LATRYX
(LYRICS BORN & LATEEF THE TRUTH SPEAKER) W/ AFROLICIOUS
SATURDAY OCTOBER 26
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FALL SHREDDED BEATS YASIIN BEY (AKA MOS DEF) W/ JUSTIN BUA (LECTURING & LIVE PAINTING) & THE REMINDERS
ALICE RUSSELL W/ DEVAN BLAKE JONES & MIGHT OWL
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YOUNGBLOOD BRASS BAND FRIDAY OCTOBER 18
TATANKA & JON WAYNE & THE PAIN W/ RUDIE CLASH
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FLATBUSH ZOMBIES
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23
CAPLETON SATURDAY OCTOBER 26
ORGONE WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30
SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS
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Cabaret. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 6. Fox on the Fairway. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Sept. 6 through Sept. 21.
The Full Monty. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 9. Much Ado About Nothing. Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396.
Through Oct. 5. Sister Act. Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Sept. 24 through Oct. 6.
FEAT GANJA WHITE NIGHT
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 3
Boulder International Fringe Festival. Various theaters and venues in Boulder. www.boulderfringe.com. Through Sept. 29.
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Tanner Walle and Holiday Blue. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
events 10th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-717-6619. Annual Book Lover’s Sale. 10 a.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-6611173.
Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Brett Dennen. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Furthur. 5 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.
American Vernacular Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.
The Granias. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Beekeeping. 11 a.m. The Flower Bin, 1805 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-3454.
Kelli Foerster and Melissa Cox Band. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.
Bolder Acts — 24-hour theater. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 720-431-5355. Creating Composite Images with Your iPhone. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Farm & Garden Harvest Dinner. 6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4880. Grassland to Glacier Hike. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, 2 miles north of Nederland on County Road 126, 303-678-6214 Greenscreen Video Techniques. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.
Kitty Crimes — With Werkout Palace, Harpoontag. 8:30 p.m. the hi-dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303733-0230. Open Mic. 9 p.m. 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-9399900. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Stealth Hippo. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Jax Farm to Fish Dinner at Isabelle Farm — To benefit the Growe Foundation. 6 p.m. Isabelle Farm Stand, 1640 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-6650947.
Wichita Run. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
The Magic Within: A Performance Exploring Telepathy, Intention and the Unimaginable. 7:30 p.m. Adi Shakti Center, 6717 Valmont Road, 720883-6132.
Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689.
Swing Dance Monthly with Live Music. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-6687355. Vintage Baseball Clinic. 5 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 7701 Flagstaff Rd, 303-678-6216.
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Comedy and Movie Night. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720328-8328. Rattlesnake Hike. 1.5 miles. 10 a.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space, NE of Lyons on north 55th Street, 303-678-6214. Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Visit the Assay Office Museum. 10 a.m. 6352 Fourmile Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-776-8848.
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Eddie and the Haskels. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bluegrass Delta Force. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535
Electric Blues Jam. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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watch this Friday, Sept. 20, and Saturday, Sept. 21 10th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-717-6619. The Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema was created 10 years ago in a Boulder trailer park by Michelle Ellsworth and Brandi Mathis. It has since spread this combination of dance and film across the globe. With the added direction of Ana Baer and Hamel Bloom, this year’s festival will showcase film and video installations and dance on film from the Netherlands and New York City back to Colorado. All performances and screenings happen at the ATLAS building on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. The Sans Souci Festival, with support from the University of Colorado and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, will be showing these short films and more for those seeking adventure, escape or simply something out of the ordinary. ]
The short film Dorian C., directed by Rebecca Arndt and featuring choreography by Nu Dance Theater, will screen as part of the Sans Souci Festival on Friday, Sept. 20.
Jake Bugg — With honeyhoney. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Open Mic. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Worth. 10 p.m. Southern Sun, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Zing the Great Big Band. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. events Foursquare for Business. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.
Wednesday, September 25 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Adam Goldstein. Performing Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks. 8 p.m. the hi-dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.
Geologic History of Boulder County. 7 p.m. Longmont Public Library, Meeting Rooms A & B, 409 4th Ave, Longmont, 303-651-8470.
Big Blues Jam with Los Terificos. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689.
Boulder Blues Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Herbert Gronemeyer — With Katey Laurel. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.
Cold Fronts. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
My Romance. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Cold War Kids — With Papa. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.
Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Hsing-ay Hsu. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, IMIG Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Jon Weiss. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Pendulum New Music. 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, IMIG Music Building, 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-6352.
Jump Swing Blues with The Stilettos. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Soul Explosion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Zedd — With Oliver, Alex Metric. 9 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.
events The Art of Video Compression. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery Call For Entries. New work reviewed second Tuesday of each month. Call 303-443-3683 for more information. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m.
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events Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Folders. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Niwot Now & Then. 6:30 p.m. The Left Hand Grange, 2nd Avenue and Franklin St., Niwot, 303-444-4640. Wednesday Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355. Wordpress: Security and Backup. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.
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as film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen. Rated PG-13. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
Rachel (Kathryn Hahn) is a quick-witted and lovable, yet tightly coiled, 30-something steeped in the creative class of Los Angeles’ bohemian, affluent Silver Lake neighborhood. Everything looks just right — chic modernist home, successful husband, adorable child, hipster wardrobe. So why is she going out of her gourd with ennui? At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
The Shining Roger Ebert gave it four stars, whereas Stephen King has said that it is the only adaptation of his novels that he “remembers hating.” Rated R. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Short Term 12
After his pregnant wife makes one false move during a bloody shootout, a bank robber faces a 25-year sentence that destroys his dreams of a family life. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Austenland
Director Destin Daniel Cretton has turned his 2008 short film of the same name into a feature. A compassionate 20-something who works with troubled kids runs into her own troubles when her life starts spinning out of control. Rated R. At Mayan and Century.
Prisoners
Thirty-something, single Jane Hayes (Keri Russell, Waitress) is a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her unhealthy obsession with all things Jane Austen. Desperately seeking her own Mr. Darcy, Jane sinks her life savings into a trip to England to stay at an Austen-themed manor ruled by Mrs. Wattlesbrook (Jane Seymour) where everything is Austen, including the actors who court the lady visitors with decorous dalliance. Rated PG-13. At Century, Mayan and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
The Spectacular Now
Jake Gyllenhaal shows Hugh Jackman it’s still possible to go for the throat, even without metal talons.
A Teacher A high school teacher in Austin, Texas, has an affair with one of her students. Her life begins to unravel as the relationship comes to an end. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Battle of the Year Drama unfolds as a wealthy hip-hop mogul is determined to put the U.S. back on top when it comes to an international dance crew competition. Rated PG-13. At Century.
Blackfish See full review on page 49. At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Landmark Theatres
Blue Jasmine After everything in her life falls to pieces, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger’s modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again. Rated PG. At Esquire, Colony Square and Century. — Landmark Theatres
Carmen Starring Rinat Shaham, Dmytro Popov and Andrew Jones. Conducted by Brian Castles-Onion. Directed by Gale Edwards. Choreographed by Kelley Abbey (in French). At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Clean Guys of Comedy This film features stand-up routines appropriate for the whole family from comedians that include Jamie Kennedy and Dave Coulier. Not Rated. Century.
Closed Circuit After a busy London market is decimated by an explosion, only one member of the suspected terrorist cell survives: Farroukh Erdogan (Denis Moschitto), who is arrested and jailed. Preparations begin for what promises to be the trial of the century. But there’s a hitch: The government will use classified evidence to prosecute Erdogan — evidence so secret that neither he nor his lawyers can be allowed to see it. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
tion program and revert to their old ways when they are moved to France and find themselves threatened. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
The Future Two orphans scheme to rob an aging, blind movie star. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
The Garbage Pail Kids Movie In the late ’80s, a new kind of bubblegum card, the Garbage Pail kids, featuring caricature paintings of ugly, unclean moppets with yukky names such as Greaser Greg, Valerie Vomit, Windy Winston and Foul Phil, each with an offensive habit, found popularity. This live-action film — billing itself as a children’s comedy — was hastily assembled to capitalize on that popularity. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
The Grandmaster Stunning cinematography accompanies this Kung Fu classic by director Wong Kar Wai. Rated PG-13. At Century.
In a World... Carol, a struggling vocal coach, strikes it big in the cutthroat world of movie-trailer voiceovers, only to find herself in direct competition with the industry’s reigning king: her father. At Chez Artiste and Century. — Landmark Theatres
Insidious: Chapter 2 Director James Wan gives us a terrifying sequel to his original horror film. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Despicable Me 2
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
It’s time for more Minion madness in this animated sequel. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
Forest Whitaker stars as a White House butler whose 34-year tenure sees incredible social change. Based on the life of Eugene Allen. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Drinking Buddies Kate and Luke are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They’re perfect for each other, except that they’re both in relationships with other people. SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Elysium In the future, two classes of people exist: the very rich who live a beautiful life on a space station called Elysium, and the very poor who carry on a dreadful existence down on Earth. Rated R. At Colony Square and Century.
The Family An offbeat action comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert DeNiro, who play mobsters in the witness protec-
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With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, The Spectacular Now creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
One Direction: This is Us This is one of those films that takes you on the road with the band so you get to see them as real people with real emotions, problems and personalities. If that’s not enough, you can watch it in 3-D. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Paradise: Faith Ulrich Seidl explores what it means to bear the cross. For Anna Maria, an X-ray technician, paradise lies with Jesus. She devotes her vacation to missionary work, so that Austria may be brought back to the path of virtue. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Patience Stone
Terms and Conditions May Apply
In an unnamed, war-torn, Middle Eastern country, a soft-spoken woman whose husband lies in a coma is forced to send their two children to live with her aunt as she struggles to keep her husband alive. After falling into a relationship with a young soldier, she begins a secret dialogue with her ailing husband as a means of freeing herself. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
So what happens when you click “I Agree” on the your favorite service’s Terms of Service agreement? Now that the NSA and Edward Snowden are trendy talking points, online privacy is again a subject of interest. Of course, the federal government is not the only entity Web users have to worry about when they are pursuing their favorite online hubs. People may think they know what they give up when they click ‘I Agree’ on companies like Facebook and Google. They’re wrong. Some are saying it should be required viewing before you use the Internet. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters In this sequel, Percy teams up with his other-wordly friends to go after the Golden Fleece. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.
Planes Kids will love this Disney spinoff of the company’s animated classic Cars. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Populaire Spring, 1958: 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father, who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that’s not the life Rose longs for. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Prince Avalanche Prince Avalanche is an offbeat comedy about two men painting traffic lines on a desolate country highway that’s been ravaged by wildfire. Against this dramatic setting, the men bicker and joke with each other, eventually developing an unlikely friendship. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Prisoners
Thanks for Sharing At first it’s hard to imagine what an environmental consultant, a small-business owner and a doctor have in common, but as this film unfolds we learn it is addiction and that it is taking a toll on all of their lives and relationships. Rated R. At Century.
This is the End Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson and James Franco star as themselves at a house party facing the end of the world. Rated R. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
The Way, Way Back A lonely and awkward yet intelligent teenage boy begins his transition into adulthood. At Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
We’re the Millers Everything that can go wrong does in this comedy when a small-time pot dealer to the soccer mom world decides to help out some local kids. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
How far would you go to save your kid? What would you be willing to do? These are the questions that Hugh Jackman’s character Keller Dover is forced to answer when his 6-year-old daughter mysteriously disappears. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
The World’s End
Riddick
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
The latest installment in the story of escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) picks up where The Chronicles of Riddick left off — on a sun-baked planet with Riddick battling aliens and bounty-hunting mercenaries for a chance at surviving. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.
Based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh, this film opens with a who’s-who of French acting royalty being summoned to the reading of a late playwright’s last will and testament. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Salinger This film features interviews with 150 subjects, including Salinger’s friends, colleagues and members of his inner circle who have never spoken on the record before, as well
A pub crawl aiming for a long-awaited pint at the World’s End pub draws a group of middle-aged friends into a battle to save the world. Rated R. At Century.
Additional films showing at the Denver Film Society’s SIE FilmCenter include the following: American Artifact: The Rise of American Rock Poster Art; C.O.G.; A Single Shot; Art & Copy; Larks on a String; Ip Man: The Final Fight; Milton Glaser: To Inform And Delight.
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Floodplain map benefits Left Hand; Spirit Hound faces months-long closure by Steve Weishampel
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s water poured into the tasting room at Spirit Hound Distillers, Craig Engelhorn got drunk. There wasn’t much else to do. Engelhorn had worked all day Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Lyons distillery, working straight through the weather alerts on his phone. As rain poured down at the end of the day, he learned he’d left the dome light in his truck on all day. The battery was dead. The distillery’s co-founder and distiller would be making full use of the couch that evening. “It’s late at night,” he says. “I made myself a gin mule, I sat down, farted around on the Internet, hit the couch.” By early the next morning, he says, he was stranded in Lyons. “At 5:34, I woke up. That’s one of those things, you know, you look at your phone, that number’s burned in my brain. 5:34 Thursday morning, I hear this gurgling and knocking. I’m thinking, what the fuck is that?” Engelhorn walked to the edge of the second-floor balcony in the Spirit Hound tasting room. “The knocking I was hearing was chairs floating around and bumping each other,” he says. “The gurgling, obviously, was water.” Outside, the super-sized South St. Vrain rushed urgently down U.S. 36, surrounding the distillery. The water topped Engelhorn’s truck’s tires, swept
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The South St. Vrain Creek rushes past the back door of Spirit Hound and submerges its patio.
away a Spirit Hound picnic table and lodged a dark blue van against the distillery’s sign. More than a foot of water filled the Spirit Hound tasting room. In the kitchen, water lifted the rubber mats off the floor; Engelhorn — wearing knee-high rubber brewer’s boots — had to step on the mats to get access to a flooded cooler to grab the only food he felt safe eating: a jar full of pickled eggs. “We have pretzels,” he says. “The pretzels, they’re in bags still, but they’re floating everywhere. I’m like, I can’t eat those things. Blugh.”
So, pickled eggs and Avery IPA sixpack in hand, Engelhorn headed back upstairs to his couch. It wasn’t easy for the always-active distiller to have nothing to do for more than 24 hours. He spoke to his wife that morning, then his phone’s battery died. “I cried a little,” he says of watching the flood that day. “My biggest fear was what people were thinking about me.” When he finally got to charge his phone, he says, it “exploded” with texts and emails from people worried about him. Engelhorn says he’s not planning to
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salvage any full bottles of liquor that were submerged, even if they were sealed from what he calls “poo water.” A little less than a mile up U.S. 36, they’re hoping kegs are better sealed than bottles. Jason Rogers, chef at the original Oskar Blues restaurant in Lyons, says he and a few other Oskar Blues employees worked out a brief return to Lyons Monday, Sept. 16, to evacuate kegs of beer — while the town was evacuated. Crossing into the town, he says, was like entering another world. “That whole river valley floodplain is just gone,” Rogers says. “It just wiped out all those houses. The river’s got a new path. “It’s a war zone. It’s a total war zone,” he adds. “Everything from the police-copter-lookin’-thing to Blackhawks to the double-propeller deals. Every five minutes just flying over.” While employees had expected to just load kegs into their cars, they ran into some familiar faces. “The four quote-unquote regulars that sit at our bar are just living on the street,” Rogers says. “Right when we pulled up, started loading up kegs, they’re like, ‘Hey, man, can I get some beers?’” Rogers says the Oskar Blues Grill & Brew restaurant came through the flood with just minor water damage from roof leakage, although he says he see WAR ZONE Page 54
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A Rumpkin raffle
On Sunday, Sept. 22, Avery Brewing Company will host a Great Rumpkin Raffle benefitting the Foothills Flood Relief Fund, to help those in Boulder and Broomfield counties who suffered losses from the recent floods. Raffle tickets will be sold for $10 during the Rumpkin Release Party at the Avery Tap Room, and each ticket will include a free pint. The raffle’s Grand Prize will be an entire case of Rumpkin ($288 value), and other prizes include six-packs of Rumpkin, two pairs of IPA Fest tickets and some Avery gear. Raffle tickets will be sold from 2 to 5:45 p.m. Prizes will be announced at 6 p.m., and you must be present to win.
Twisted fundraising
Jill Brammer lost everything she owned when the floodwaters swept through her Jamestown home. She was lucky enough to be rescued by the National Guard with only the clothes on her back and her two dogs. On Saturday, Sept. 21, Twisted Pine Brewing Company will hold a Reverse Garage Sale benefit for Brammer. Among the items being sought are women’s clothing, pots and pans, linens and towels, canned goods and kitchen utensils.
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No large furniture is being requested at this time, since Brammer has not yet found a new home and space is limited. For its part, Twisted Pine is collecting donations on Saturday and will contribute a dollar from every beer purchased.
Left Hand lands gold abroad
Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing Co. has won a gold medal for its Left Hand Milk Stout in the European Beer Star competition. The brew took top honors in the sweet stout category. “What an amazing honor to receive our fourth European Beer Star Award for our Left Hand Milk Stout,” Eric Wallace, president of Left Hand Brewing Company, said in a press release. “We are incredibly proud to produce such a widely acclaimed sweet stout both in the United States and in the European Union. We hold the European Beer Star competition in high regard and it is very rewarding to be recognized on the international stage for our efforts.” More than 1,500 beers from 40 different countries were evaluated by 102 beer and brewery expert judges. In all, 23 American craft breweries, all members of the Brewers Association’s Export
Development Program, won 36 awards in 22 categories. The honorees were announced on Sept. 18 at “drinktec” in Munich, Germany.
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One of Europe’s most beautiful countries gets a pretty bad rap — self-imposed though it may be. Iceland, which can never quite escape its own name, is home to a rich heritage, including a unique take on Nordic cuisine. And Denver restaurant Coohills will again participate in a celebration the Icelandic palate with A Taste of Iceland Sept. 26-29. Coohills will host guest chef Thrainn Freyr Vigfusson, head chef at LAVA Restaurant in the Blue Lagoon Spa, for a fourcourse dinner “showcasing the best of Nordic cuisine,” a press release says. Coohills owner/chef Tom Coohill will join Vigfusson in presenting Icelandic Arctic char, cod and langoustine, better known around the U.S. as scampi, in the first two courses. The third course is free-range lamb, while the dessert is ice cream with peanut blueberry mousse. Each course is paired with wines from around Europe, including a Hungarian blend and a French white. The dinner is offered Sept. 26-29 and costs $65, or $95 with the wine pairings. More information is available at www.icelandnaturally.com.
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omfort food’s a tricky concept. When it entered the popular lexicon a couple of decades ago, the term applied mainly to meat loaf, tuna casserole and other suburban midcentury staples; today, reflecting shifts in the American culinary landscape, it could as easily encompass Vietnamese pho, Canadian poutine and chicken tikka masala. What’s comforting is what’s familiar, and what’s familiar varies across time and space, from person to person. If that person happens to be a food writer, the phrase can even get turned on its head: my happy place is a table covered with dishes I’ve never tried before. Take Pupusas Sabor Hispano: While the menu lists myriad Mexican favorites to make most anyone feel right at home — tacos, burritos, huevos rancheros — I gravitate straight toward the much-lesser-known Salvadoran specialties. And I’ve yet to be sorry for leaving my comfort zone upon settling into a booth at this vibrant little outlet, where its brightly painted murals, terra-cotta oozes a variety of fillings, among them chicken, zucchini, awnings, and laid-back service whisk diners far from the roasted chiles and chicharrón. Never mind the fried rinds north Boulder strip mall it’s tucked into. of Mexico; in El Salvador, chicharrón is slow-cooked Exhibit A might be the pacaya I ordered à la carte as pork that’s finely shredded and highly seasoned — you an appetizer (an entrée portion’s also available). The might say downright salty. Yet its pungency is balanced menu translates the word as “palm tassel,” a by the natural sweetness of the soft, thick decidedly easier-to-swallow description masa (corn dough) it’s encased in. The same Pupusas Sabor than the one I came across in Economic goes for the pocket containing a gooey, Hispano Botany: “the edible immature male infloresfunky mixture of Monterey cheese and little 4457 Broadway, cence of a Chamaedorea palm.” The dish coils of fiddlehead fern, whose flavor isn’t Boulder itself, meanwhile, almost defies description: unlike young asparagus. Any way you slice 303-444-1729 picture, if you can, an abnormally thickit, a well-made pupusa is the very essence of stalked rosemary sprig, but the leaves comfort food. resemble long, ultra-thin baby corns. I can’t quite say the same of the surprise Beneath the eggy breading it’s deep-fried in, pacaya even that awaited me with Angela’s Plate, centered around tastes like baby corn, crossed with heart of palm. what the menu calls “a green-bean variation on the chile The whole fascinating thing is glazed with a thin, relleno theme.” With no chile for the breading to attach tart salsa roja that — along with curtido, essentially vine- to, however, the reality is rather like a crêpe stuffed with gary coleslaw — also accompanies the restaurant’s signa- green beans and more Monterey cheese. As the salsa roja ture item, pupusas. From these griddled corn tortillas on top mixes with the drippings from the rich frijoles
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Exotic cuisine is comforting at Pupusas Sabor Hispano by Ruth Tobias
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refritos and the juice of the chopped fresh tomatoes that garnish the Spanish rice, it all grows soggy pretty quickly. While, in my book, most dishes benefit from the mingling of their components, you’d be best off asking for an extra plate with this one. Transferring the rellenos de ejotes (to use the Salvadoran term) immediately to a clean surface might allow it to retain its structural integrity a bit longer. But if you’d just as soon stick to morerecognizable territory, Sabor Hispano will guide you there. A basket of slightly stale chips is nothing special, but the self-serve salsa station is: Its quartet of options includes a dip that looks like aioli but tastes like pure fire, combining canola oil, garlic, avocado and jalapeño. The stuffed pastries known as empanadas are often made with plantain dough in El Salvador, but here they follow the wheat-based Argentine model, their shells fried to a light, bubbly crisp to encase the same choice of fillings offered for the pupusas. And while you’ll find flashier tortas all along the Front Range, you may not encounter a more satisfying simple version of the classic Mexican sandwich than you will from this kitchen. For instance, mixed with nothing but lettuce, tomatoes, avocado and a smidgen of cheese atop a toasted bolillo roll, the carne asada shines — heaping, smoky and unexpectedly tender. As for washing it all down: since Sabor Hispano’s margaritas are merely passable, go for beer or, better yet, housemade horchata. The now-trendy sweetened rice milk, touched with cinnamon and not too thick, is so much more refreshing than an imitation-vanilla shake alongside a drive-through burger. If anything less than Chotchkie’s-style treatment makes you antsy, the ultra-casual service here understandably won’t soothe your soul — it bears no trace of the perky flair parodied in Office Space. Still, that’s just as well for me, who knows no greater comfort than being left in peace to make delicious new discoveries at my own pace. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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was awake before dawn Sept. 12 to contact employees and coordinate evacuations. He says even though it stayed dry, cleanup will be difficult. Then, unprompted, he cites Spirit Hound as particularly hard-hit. “Craig and Wayne [Anderson, a cofounder], poor guys. Spirit Hound was doing some cool shit,” he says. “They’ll be back, you know.” Further down the St. Vrain, one iconic business is already back. Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing Company looked like it was in bad shape from its Facebook posts; an aerial view Sept. 13 shows water completely surrounding the brewery’s buildings. Turns out Left Hand survived — by an inch, co-founder and President Eric Wallace says. He’s bounding around the Left Hand taproom Monday, Sept. 16, the day it reopens for business. He’s showing photos on his iPhone of the high water mark, inches from the taproom’s front door and about an inch from cresting over the loading dock and flooding the production room. And he’s got quite an audience, especially for a Monday night. The crowds came out in force for Left Hand’s reopening, with many sharing flood stories and vindictively ordering Left Hand’s St. Vrain Tripel. At one point, Wallace enthusiastically takes a phone call from Dick Doore, Left Hand’s other founder, who hadn’t been heard from since the Left Hand crew parted ways Sept. 12. “Dick Doore is alive and well,” Wallace announces after the call. That Thursday, Wallace says, was not easy. As the water rose, he and Doore gradually sent home more and more staff, until it was just them and the maintenance crew. By that point, cars were sliding off Boston Avenue in front of the brewery. “I was completely freaking out,” he says. From Sept. 12 to 16, the area was evacuated, Wallace says, and information about the state of the brewery was scarce. But he had high praise for Longmont city engineers and the accuracy of the 100-year floodplain map, which he said showed the brewery as staying dry and guided construction. While mud surrounds the brewery, the beer was unaffected. Left Hand’s PR coordinator, Emily Armstrong, says the brewery’s doing its best to resume production and packaging and get back on schedule. Left Hand missed a deadline to submit samples to the Great American Beer Fest
judging, but the Boulder-based Brewers Association, which runs the GABF, says it’s making exceptions for any breweries affected by flooding. Armstrong says special releases and seasonals are “slightly behind,” but beers in holding tanks are still on schedule. Cleanup at the Oskar Blues in Lyons will be harder, Rogers says. The restaurant didn’t flood, but the rushed cleanup before evacuation left the place littered with uncleaned food containers. “My people that were still on the ground there cleaned out the coolers but now it’s just piled-up Lexans,” Rogers says, referring to the clear plastic food bins in the kitchen. “All that stuff ’s just sitting there. They dumped it in the garbage, but they couldn’t wash the containers, so it’s covered in flies and smells like shit and it’s just disgusting.” Compared to Spirit Hound, that’s a breeze, as Rogers admits. “For businesses, to be honest, I think Wayne Anderson — he owns The Lyons Fork and he’s a partner with Spirit Hound — Wayne probably got it the worst, poor guy. Both his businesses — it ran through the top of town, hit his restaurant. Came all the way through and on the way out of town, hit his distillery.” Engelhorn says he doesn’t know what the cleanup timeline is — including when they can access the distillery. He predicts a month of cleanup and another two months waiting for water, electricity and other services to be reconnected. “We have 20 cases of gin ready the day they turn the water on,” he says. Then his team can turn out about five cases a day. “The holiday season is huge for us,” he says, even though by his calculation they’ll just be resuming production by Christmas. Engelhorn’s also worried about his employees. He knows the distillery’s bartenders have to go find other jobs while the tasting room’s out of commission. He and his wife are staying with a Spirit Hound bartender in North Boulder who lost both of her bartending jobs, he says, because they were both in Lyons. “We’re gonna try to get our people as much work as they can,” he says. “My assistant in the distillery, we’re gonna try to get him busy because he’s so essential. “Your expenses go on,” he says. “That rent payment or mortgage, it’s still coming.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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umpkin ales are as highly kin pie in a beauty parlor,” Joel says. It anticipated as any seasonal spurs Elizabeth to lament, “Every beer, neck-and-neck with pumpkin beer I’ve had has been disapChristmas ales. pointing. I really want it to be like my But it’s a style fraught two favorite things in the world, pumpwith problems. Yes, fraught. First, kin pie and stout beer, and it never is.” “pumpkin beers” range from spice-heavy Ace Pumpkin Cider: She’ll find no to syrupy-sweet to super-pumpkin to help here. Ace hits the cider notes with just-a-little-of-each. Variety would be gusto: sweet, tart, sharp. It’s not terribly great, if not for the second problem: It’s different from the flagship apple cider, a seasonal style, so you can only try a as the pumpkin flavor is present but is few a year. And third: It’s almost always more or less dominated by straight tartpackaged in six-packs. Add all that up ness. “That is the best pumpkin wine and you could wind up with Steve Weishampel disappointment: You by a six-pack of a pumpkin beer you’ve never tried, only to find it’s not your style at all. You either dump five-and-ahalf craft beers, a clearly immoral and heinous act, or you force them down, losing valuable pumpkin beer time and money. Well, we’re here for you. We built our own six-pack to preview six very different The pumpkin sampler line up. pumpkin brews in a semiblind taste test. Tommyknocker Small Patch I’ve had this year,” Joel says. Elizabeth Pumpkin Harvest Ale: Our first is a makes a series of disapproving noises, pleasant introduction on the sweeter and David later asks for more. side. Molasses dominated for me. Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale: Like Saranac, Maine brewery Shipyard “If this one were a pumpkin,” Joel seems to reach Colorado only around says, “it would be one of those little pumpkin season — or at least that’s jobbers you put in a basket on the table when it’s most visible. Pumpkinhead is as opposed to a real one you might a classic, highlighting cinnamon and want to carve.” honey over the fruit itself, which makes It’s true, more or less. Pumpkin flame think of Mexican sopapillas. After vor is present, but takes a back seat. the cider, Elizabeth says, it’s “next to no Lakefront Pumpkin Lager: This pumpkin,” and she’s not high on the Milwaukee brewery brags its pumpkin spice, either: “You can kinda smell the lager is the only pumpkin lager availspice but I taste it and it’s flatlined. able in the world. It starts with a far Code Blue for the nutmeg.” stronger aroma than the Sam Adams Harvest Pumpkin Ale: Tommyknocker. Taste-wise, well, it “And the winner is,” says Joel after one draws some strange comparisons. Joel insists it’s a “pumpkin cola,” compares it sip. A fan of porters and black IPAs, he’s fond of the heavier-bodied Sam to novelty wax lips and says it tastes Adams, which in color and flavor is exactly like carbonated drinks his decidedly darker, thicker and fuller than 14-year-old son prefers. Elizabeth asks the others. Sam’s got a lot going on: if I’m “sneaking in a non-alcoholic This beer is as spiced as any in the beer.” David’s more positive: “I like it. I group, with a solid dose of pumpkin feel like the pumpkin is a much and, the big surprise, a smoky finish. smoother finish in this one.” There are dozens of pumpkin brews Saranac Pumpkin Ale: Saranac has we didn’t get to try. But — obviously — been around for 125 years. I bet the Utica, N.Y. brewery is doing all right for we encourage others to shop around and find that beer that, as Joel says, you itself, and it doesn’t exactly need us. Which is why I feel OK saying that this could make a jack-o’-lantern out of. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com beer was skunky. “It’s like eating pumpBoulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: My question is one of etiquette. My lesbian wife and I live in an apartment. The noise pollution between flats can be pretty bad. Anyone who lives in the building is aware of this, and keeping noise down after certain hours is a common courtesy. I wouldn’t play loud music after a certain hour, or let doors slam, or break out the drum kit. If any of these things happen after around 11:30 p.m. on a work night, I don’t think I’d feel any qualms about going around to whoever is being inconsiderate and asking them to keep it down. But what about noisy sex? My neighbor’s girlfriend is pretty loud during sex. If the racket were being made, say, before midnight, I could bear it. It would be gross, because I think he’s slimy and he has a terrible hipster mustache, but I wouldn’t be writing to you. I’d just cope as best I could and try to fall back asleep. But what about sex at crazy o’clock? Is it OK for us to pound on the wall and ask them to keep it down? What’s your opinion? —Sleepy Lesbians Next Door Dear SLND: I happen to agree with Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty, creators of the Tony Award–winning musical Avenue Q, on the subject of apartment living, thin walls, and noisy sex: “You can be as loud as the hell you want when you’re makin’ love.” Or, in this instance, your creepy neighbor with the hipster mustache and his girlfriend can be as loud as the hell they want when they’re makin’ love. But you and your wife — their annoyed neighbors — can be as loud as the hell you want when they’re making love. You can pound on the walls, SLND, make your displeasure known, scream and yell, etc. And even if your neighbors don’t take the fucking hint and quiet the fucking the fuck down, SLND, the noise you make may bring their annoyingly loud sex to a quicker end. The females of certain species — including our own — get loud during sex, i.e., scream and yell, because it helps the males of their species climax more quickly. (Female copulatory vocalization: It is a real thing with its very own Wikipedia page. Look it up.) If his girlfriend’s vocalizations are turning your inconsiderate mustachioed hipster neighbor on, the screams of his two lesbian neighbors
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LIBRA
Sept. 23-Oct. 22:
“If Taylor Swift is going “The most important thing to have six breakups a is to find out what the year,” observed comedian most important thing is,” Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Bill Maher, “she needs to wrote Shunryu Suzuki Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO write a new song entitled in his book Zen Mind, HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE ‘Maybe It’s Me.’” He was Beginner’s Mind. That’s HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes referring to Swift’s habit your assignment for the of using her romantic next three weeks. Do are also available by phone at 1-877misadventures to stimuwhatever it takes to find 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. out beyond any doubt what late her lyric-writing crethe most important thing ativity. With that as your is. Meditate naked an hour prompt, Aries, I’ll ask you a day. Go on long walks in to do some soul-searching the wildest places you know. Convene intense conversations about your own intimacy issues. How have you contributed about yourself with the people who know you best. Create to the problems you’ve had in getting the love and care and sign a contract with yourself in which you vow to idenyou want? What unconscious behavior or conditioned tify the experience you want more than any other experience responses have undermined your romantic satisfaction, on earth. No waffling allowed, Libra. What is the single and what could you do to transform them? The next eight most important thing? weeks will be prime time to revolutionize your approach to relationships.
TAURUS
April 20-May 20:
Philosopher Alan Watts used to talk about how the whole world is wiggling all the time. Clouds, trees, sky, water, human beings: Everything’s constantly shimmying and jiggling and waggling. One of our problems, Watts said, is that we’re “always trying to straighten things out.” We feel nagging urges to deny or cover up or eliminate the wiggling. “Be orderly,” we command reality. “Be neat and composed and predictable.” But reality never obeys. It’s forever doing what it does best: flickering and fluctuating and flowing. In accordance with astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to rebel against any natural tendencies you might have to fight the eternal wiggle. Instead, celebrate it. Rejoice in it. Align yourself with it.
GEMINI
May 21-June 20:
Author Elaine Scarry defines “the basic impulse underlying education” as follows: the “willingness to continually revise one’s own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty.” Consider making this your modus operandi in the coming weeks, Gemini. Always be on the lookout for signs that beauty is near. Do research to find out where beauty might be hiding and where beauty is ripening. Learn all you can about what kinds of conditions attract beauty, and then create those conditions. Finally, hang around people who are often surrounded by beauty. This approach will be an excellent way to further your education.
CANCER
June 21-July 22:
“Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.” So declared writer Edith Wharton. But she was an Aquarius, and more temperamentally suited to the tightrope. Many of you Cancerians, on the other hand, prefer to emphasize the feather-bed mode. I suspect that in the next nine months, however, you will be willing and even eager to spend more time on the tightrope than is customary for you. To get primed for the excitement, I suggest you revel in some intense feather-bed action in the coming weeks. Charge up your internal batteries with an extra-special deluxe regimen of sweet self-care.
LEO
July 23-Aug. 22:
Half of a truth is better than no truth at all, right? Wrong! If you latch on to the partially accurate story, you may stop looking for the rest of the story. And then you’re liable to make a premature decision based on insufficient data. The better alternative is to reject the partially accurate story and be willing to wait around in the dark until the complete revelation comes. That may be uncomfortable for a while. But when the full truth finally straggles in, you will be very glad you didn’t jump to unripe conclusions.
VIRGO
Aug. 23-Sept. 22:
A Chinese entrepreneur named Nin Nan dreamed up a unique way to generate capital: He sold dead mosquitoes online for a dollar apiece, advertising them as useful for scientific research and decoration. Within two days, he received 10,000 orders. Let’s make him your patron saint and role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. May he inspire you to come up with novel ways to stimulate your cash flow. The planetary omens suggest that your originality is more likely than usual to generate concrete rewards.
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SCORPIO
Oct. 23-Nov. 21:
Sometime in the next nine months you may feel moved to embark on an adventure that will transform the way you understand reality. Maybe you will choose to make a pilgrimage to a sacred sanctuary or wander further away from your familiar comforts than you ever have before. Right now is an excellent time to brainstorm about the possibilities. If you don’t feel ready to actually begin your quest, at least formulate a master plan for the magic moment when you will be ripe.
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:
In the indigenous culture of Hawaii, “mana” refers to a spiritual power that may abide in people, objects and natural locations. You can acquire more of it by acting with integrity and excellence, but you might lose some of it if your actions are careless or unfocused. For instance, a healer who does a mediocre job of curing her patients could lose the mana that made her a healer in the first place. I believe that similar principles hold true for non-Hawaiians. All of us have an ever-shifting relationship with the primal life force. What’s the current state of your own personal supply, Sagittarius? It’s time to make sure you’re taking full advantage of the mana you have been blessed with. Your motto: “Use it or lose it.”
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Dec. 22-Jan. 19:
Have you been getting enough? I doubt it. I think you should sneak a peek into the hiding place where your insatiable cravings are stored. If you’re brave enough, also take a look at your impossible demands and your unruly obsessions and your suppressed miracles. Please note: I’m not suggesting that you immediately unleash them all; I don’t mean you should impulsively instigate an adventure that could possibly quench your ravenous yearnings. But I do believe you will benefit from becoming better acquainted with them. You could develop a more honest relationship, which would ultimately make them more trustworthy.
AQUARIUS
Jan. 20-Feb. 18:
Don’t tape your thumbs to your hands and stalk around pretending to be a dinosaur. Don’t poke three holes in a large plastic garbage bag and wear it as a tunic while imagining that you are a feudal serf in a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi dystopia. Don’t use a felt-tip marker to draw corporate logos on your face to show everyone what brands of consumer goods you love. To be clear: I would love you to be extravagantly creative. I hope you will use your imagination in novel ways as you have fun playing with experimental scenarios. But please exercise a modicum of discernment as you wander way outside the box. Be at least 20 percent practical.
PISCES
Feb. 19-March 20:
“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic,” says the poet Marty McConnell. That’s good advice, Pisces — not just in regards to your intimate relationships, but about all your other alliances, too. If you’re seeking a friend or consultant or business partner or jogging companion or new pet, show a preference for those creatures who look at you like maybe you are magic. You always need to be appreciated for the sweet mystery and catalytic mojo you bring to your partnerships, but you especially need that acknowledgment now.
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ou didn’t see Boulder stores being looted bank accounts. on the news. Despite this fact, the robbers during the flood But at around 2 p.m. last Thursday, didn’t find any cash. Instead, the security system when flooding had forced many business- immediately alerted police to the break-in. es to close, two individuals wearing Camille was weathering the flood at home when hoodies and sunglasses broke into the North she got the call about the family business. Boulder Wellness Center, according to administra“I ran out of there practically in my pajamas,” tive manager Camille, who asked that her last name she says. “They (police) couldn’t get into the DVR not be revealed. to watch the tapes.” While the alarm blared, the suspects smashed Colorado law requires the DVR to be protected through a glass door with a by codes, she explains. Cecelia Gilboy hammer. Their frantic Police collected a dropped attempted robbery was caught lighter as evidence. They’re conon camera, because dispensaducting fingerprinting and DNA ries are required by law to analysis, Camille says, as well as have state-of-the-art surveilenhancing the images captured lance systems. by the cameras. “When I open or close the The one office door that store now, I’m nervous,” she says. didn’t legally need to be “I lock the door immediately.” locked and could have been Employees are taking extra opened with the turn of a security precautions, too. knob was still kicked in The smashed glass door to instead. But it didn’t do the the dispensary room was would-be robbers any good replaced, but Camille quickly because, by law, all the marirealized that the new door was juana was locked in a stateapproved safe because the Camille checks the safe at the North Boul- illegal. der Wellness Center where an attempted Doors to dispensary rooms in store was closed. robbery occurred during the flood. Dispensary security meaColorado cannot be transparent. sures are mandated by multiThe old door was custom glass. ple Colorado laws, which are subject to frequent The new door, to be compliant with regulations, change, and not all laws seem to make sense. For had to be sprayed to make the glass appear foggy. instance, if you want to put a fish tank in your The vast array of weed laws also caused several waiting room wall like a fancy doctor’s office? other flooded MMJ businesses to struggle with That’s allowed — provided your glass tank isn’t abiding by the laws during the recent crisis. transparent. The dispensaries in Lyons were inaccessible, if Despite the many precautions, dispensaries are not under water. still often robbery targets. Many people assume that One of these businesses knew it needed revenue. they have cash on hand because marijuana is federIt had plenty of dry product at its Boulder wareally illegal, and therefore, dispensaries can’t have house, and Colorado dispensaries are allowed to
wholesale 30 percent of their inventory to other dispensaries. But you’re only allowed to sell marijuana — even wholesale pounds of it — from your retail location. If your retail location is under water as was the case in Lyons, that isn’t possible. Also, to complete a wholesale transaction, you must fill out paperwork about the product you want to move from your warehouse, send that paperwork to the state for approval, drive the product to your store, complete paperwork indicating which roads the pounds will travel to the purchasing store, and send that paperwork to the state for approval as well. Piles of paperwork weren’t the only problem for Lyons’ marijuana businesses. David Threlfall, the owner of Trill Alternatives, is looking at $100,000 to $150,000 in damages, he says. One of his warehouses lost power — a problem for plants whose lives depend on specific light cycles. Then the water started rising, Threlfall says. The plants needed to be rescued. But any movement of marijuana plants, like the finished product, is carefully regulated by mountains of time consuming paperwork. Impending travel routes would have had to be submitted before the plants could leave the building and hundreds of different strains would have had to be accounted for individually. Luckily, Threlfall’s business is insured. He sees the flood as an opportunity to make his warehouse cleaner and more immaculate than ever before. He hopes his business will receive some of the federal aid money. “We [dispensaries] should be treated like everybody else,” he says. “We pay more than our share of taxes.” At this point, it is still unclear if dispensaries affected by the flood will be able to receive federal aid money due to its illegal federal status. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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