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Thanks Jack
Thank you for publishing “The Peace Sign on the Mountain [Re: The peace sign on the mountain, Dec. 25];” it’s a great piece of Boulder history that the Weekly is keeping alive. Mr. Jack Olsen, thank you for your service to our country. Welcome home.
This story, told in a very personal way, resonated with me. Having had the dubious privilege of receiving a draft card in 1973, and although there were no call-ups that year and the war soon ended, I was horrified by the tragedy being inflicted on the children and families of Vietnam and Cambodia. I protested the war,
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Highroad A curse, a blessing, and a good food movement by Jim Hightower
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n 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the U.S. Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture. A coalition of grassroots farmers, consumers, and public interest organizations teamed up with progressive senators to undertake the almost impossible challenge of defeating the cabinet nominee. The 51 to 44 Senate vote was so close because we were able to expose
Butz as... well, as butt-ugly. We brought the abusive power of corporate agribusiness into the public consciousness for the first time. We had won a moral victory, but it turned out to be a curse and a blessing. First, the curse. Butz had risen to prominence in the world of agriculture by devoting himself to the corporate takeover of the global food economy. He openly promoted the preeminence of middleman food manufacturers over family farmers. “Agriculture is no longer a way of life,” he barked, “it’s a business.” He instructed farmers to “Get big or get out” and proceeded to shove tens of thousands of them out by promoting an export-based, corporate-run food economy. “Adapt,” he warned, “or die.” The ruination of farms and rural communities, Butz added, “releases people to do something useful in our society.”
argued as much as dared with my father about it, spoke with and honored those who returned to my hometown in Sherburne, NY and mourned the fallen. I have twice visited “The Wall” in Washington, DC, read names of men I knew in high see LETTERS Page 8
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The curse of Butz, however, spun off a blessing. Small farmers and food artisans practically threw up at the resulting Twinkieization of America’s food. They were sickened that nature’s own contribution to human culture was being turned into another plasticized product of corporate profiteers. They threw themselves into creating and sustaining a viable alternative. Linking locally with consumers, environmentalists, community activists, marketers, and others, the Good Food rebellion has since sprouted, spread, and blossomed from coast to coast. To find farmers’ markets and other expressions of this movement right where you live, go to www.LocalHarvest.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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am puzzled by Rep. Jared Polis. and debate on the floor. He has concerns about the The TPP is being secretly negoti“transparency” of the Trans ated by the United States and 11 other Pacific Partnership (TPP ) negonations. They are “harmonizing” regutiating prolations of corporacess and the tions which were agreement’s designed to protect impact on Internet workers, the envifreedom. But he ronment, consumcan’t decide ers and the econowhether he is for my. It would be or against fast great if they hartrack authorizaNEEDS TO STOP BEING monized by tion. This is sort strengthening regCOY AND TELL US WHAT ulations to the of strange. Let me explain. highest standards SIDE OF THE GLOBAL Fast track is a everywhere. rarely-used parliaHowever, leaked CLASS WAR HE’S ON. mentary maneuver TPP documents which requires an and previous “free up-or-down vote trade” agreements within 90 days indicate the opposite, that this is a with a maximum race to the bottom of 20 hours of driven by bogus debate and no trickle-down economic theories. amendments allowed. Last January, President Obama How can Polis get his questions asked Congress for fast track authority. answered about the TPP within the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid time frame of fast track? The TPP is lengthy and complex. With fast track, (D-Nevada) turned him down. But you don’t have time to read and reflect. see COMMENTARY Page 9 You can’t have full public discussion
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school, including my hockey coach, and just can’t shake the immensity and sadness of it all. I miss them, so young, vibrant and full of dreams, then taken away. I applaud Jack, Lorel and Lois for their courage of convictions, persistence, determination to spread peace and the playful way in which they went about the work. I laughed, cried as the story unfolded, and many of the images portrayed will linger a long time. To our civilian leaders who have authority to deploy our service men and women into harm’s way: I advise you to tread very carefully in your decisions, for they have profound impact on lives far beyond those who serve. It is incumbent on you to exhaust every diplomatic avenue before embarking on inherently crazy military adventures. Peace, tolerance and understanding are the way. I extend a hearty ‘thank you’ to our men and women in military service. Peace to all in 2015. Robert Carrier/Boulder
Obama has it right on Cuba
I am one American (born here)/ West Indian (grew up there... Jamaica/Barbados) that is extremely happy to see this U.S. Administration sending such positive political and economic signals to the Cuban regime and its people. Make no mistake about it, Cuba is one of the largest and most resource/people/talentrich Caribbean islands that there is. People forget that. And its young deserve a chance to integrate with the rest of the world to contribute and learn simultaneously. Having lived for some time in Coral Gables in South Florida I also remember the very old stubborn, even bullying ‘we escaped Cuba’ Cuban guard that then and up until today has dominated the political scenario. However, I have little to no sympathy for these refugees and the corrupt Batiste Cuban government that they were a part of and represent. I know whereof I speak as well in that rumor has always had it that the same mob/ exploiting American businesses that Castro threw out were influential in derailing the ‘Federation’ or ‘United States of the Caribbean’ movement of the 1950s. My late father, along with the late Sir Grantley Adams of Barbados, Sir Norman Manley of Jamaica, Sir Eric Williams of
Trinidad and Tobago and Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana had meticulously put this all together. When Jamaica jumped out of the agreement at the last minute, having been talked out of it by these same Cuban-like interests, the whole idea fell apart. So I suppose there is a somewhat personal ulterior emotional motive on my part here. But be that as it may, there is still no reason that this same obstinate and closed state of mind in Miami should hinder the vibrant, promising young Cuban communities in Cuba and in the U.S. And absolutely no reason they should be separated any longer as the other Caribbean islands have been, in my opinion. Congratulations to President Obama and his team as well as the Pope himself on this important, essential and historic move. Thanks. Grant D. Cyrus/Boulder
A part of Cuban history
On November 11, 1941, a ship, the “Colonial” pulled away from the docks of Lisbon Portugal, its destination: Havana, Cuba. On board were many Jewish refugees, desperate to flee the horrors of Nazi occupied Europe. Cuba was one of the few countries allowing refugees in at that time. This part of the island’s history is essential to my life. My mother and her family were on that ship and Cuba’s willingness to take them in is why I am here writing this letter. Castro’s Cuba, as we have known it, is also becoming a part of history. President Obama, President Raul Castro, Pope Francis (and of course others) have begun to pave the way to a new future with Cuba. The recent talks about restoring full diplomatic relations and opening up travel between our two countries have, in my opinion, brought energy and hope to the daily news. We are neighbors that share a long history. I hope the upcoming years will be a time of peace and friendship between Cuba and the United States. Judy Kreith/Boulder
He remembered us
Friends, Perry and I wanted to take a moment to wish you a Merry Christmas and wonderful holiday season! We hope that you enjoy this time spent with loved ones, and we wish you the very best in 2015! Merry Christmas and God bless you, Ken Buck/somewhere in Weld County Boulder Weekly
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after the November elections, the Republicans retook the Senate and the new Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, announced that he is eager to work with Obama to pass the TPP and similar agreements. The TPP has been under negotiation for six years. Members of Congress were denied access to the text for years but now can read it under strict conditions. When they go into a room to look at it, they can’t take pen or paper or take notes. They are sworn to secrecy. Since the document is still being negotiated, the text could change the next day. Rep. Polis has read some of the pact but declines to say anything. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida) has examined the text and has had plenty to say. “Having seen what I’ve seen, I would characterize this as a gross abrogation of American sovereignty,” Grayson said. “And I would further characterize it as a punch in the face to the middle class of America... But I’m not allowed to tell you why!” Grayson said that the agreement would be very favorable to multinational corporations, but has extremely detrimental implications for the public interest in many respects. “It’s all about tying the hands of democratically elected governments, and shunting authority over to the non-elected for the benefit of multinational corporations,” Grayson said. “It’s an assault on democratic government.” U.S. trade policy changed with the rise of corporate globalization. It used to involve rivalries between different industrial sectors but now involves a stealthy slow-motion corporate coup against hard-won progressive advances. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was the game changer. NAFTA and the later agreements were supported by the leadership of the Republicans and the Democrats. They were opposed by a majority of Democrats in Congress as well as many grassroots Democrats (particularly in the labor and environmental movements). A smaller number of Republicans opposed these agreements. Colorado’s former Republican Senator Hank Brown is a curious case. When the Clintonite/Republican coalition asked Congress to approve a huge worldwide expansion of NAFTA called the World Trade Organization (WTO), Brown was inclined to support the legislation. Boulder Weekly
Then Ralph Nader challenged any member of Congress to read the 25,000 page agreement and answer 10 questions posed by an independent journalist. He offered to give $10,000 to the member’s favorite charity if he answered the questions correctly. Hank Brown was the only one to take up the challenge. He scored 100 on the test
and voted against the agreement. “Anyone who thinks this agreement expands free trade,” he said, “has not read it.” That’s a problem with these deals. How many people read them? A survey of economists who supported NAFTA revealed that only one in nine actually had read the treaty itself. That’s why
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he day after Oscar Juarez publicly the U.S., and to educate voters in the U.S. about the announced his immigration status — current immigrant experience. They’ve gone to town undocumented, brought to the U.S. at age 7 halls and community forums and spoken to the media. by parents desperate to escape their impovThis year, they added a new method of reaching erished lives in Mexico and eager to prompeople. The three brothers, Oscar, Juan and Hugo ise their children more and better Juarez, alongside Victor Galvan and Michael Ensminger opportunities — he walked into the Ana Christina Temu and Motus student union at Metropolitan State Theater’s Director Kirsten Wilson, University of Denver to a banner bearhave undertaken the task of using theater to coax people into a conversation ing his image and the words, “Wanted. about the state of immigration in the If seen, call Immigration.” U.S. They’re using their personal sto“I didn’t feel scared, the reason ries, their hopes, fears, aspirations and being, I knew my community was struggles, to add a sense of human lives behind me,” he says. Of his three at stake to the labels, from the ugly brothers, all of whom are here by the “illegals” to the hopeful “Dreamers.” temporary grace of Deferred Action Or, as Oscar Juarez says, “It’s giving for Childhood Arrivals, he says, “We a face to the statistics.” felt protected, especially, knowing our Those statistics for Colorado are rights, as undocumented, because even stunning. Estimates for just the porbeing undocumented, you have, autoAna Christina Temu tion of the undocumented immigrant matically, your rights and we knew them. That’s the thing that we try to population to be affected by the Obama executive order permitting do with other people, with the rest of temporary legal status to those related to U.S. citizens our community, to educate them to know that they in Colorado run as high as 54,000. have rights. … I think coming out as undocumented, Galvan, and Juan, Oscar and Hugo Juarez were all we didn’t feel any fear and that’s the same thing we brought to the U.S. as children. Galvan was just 8 want everybody to have, to feel that security.” The Juarez brothers came out publicly in an ongo- months old when he arrived. Temu’s parents are undocumented immigrants from Guatemala and she’s ing effort to educate immigrants about their rights in 10 January 1, 2015
the only one of them with U.S. citizenship. The five of them each wrote a monologue about their experiences growing up in the U.S., and Wilson has crafted a script based on what they wrote and Brian Mullins contributed original music. The play, Do You Know Who I Am?, has since been performed around Colorado roughly 30 times. “All the things that we’ve been through, our families, the struggles we’ve faced on a daily basis, at one point you just get tired of it and one of the biggest things for me was, coming up in this work, I was always trained to tell my story in the third person, so I wouldn’t be telling my story as Victor Galvan, I’d be telling my friend’s story, and I felt like that always took something away from what I was saying. It never felt quite authentic,” says Galvan. People told him not to go public with his status out of concerns for his safety. He did so anyway. “The first time I said it, it felt so empowering,” he says. “I was telling people who I really was and what my real experiences were, and people really wanted to hear that because all they’d ever heard was allies defending undocumented people and here I was, undocumented and telling my story.” Legislators needed the stories, he says. They needed more than numbers and labels to make changes to legislation. He credits those who have come forward publicly as undocumented immigrants with passing the bill that allowed undocumented immigrants inBoulder Weekly
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state tuition at colleges and with repealing Colorado’s equivalent of the “Show me your papers” law in Arizona, and even with President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. “That’s exactly what telling our stories as undocumented people did, it moved law,” Galvan says. “Being undocumented and out of the shadows is the biggest and strongest tool we have, and that’s why I In Do You Know Who I think our story, our play, Am?, undocumented rings so loudly not only immigrants describe their aspirations and with the community in struggles. Boulder but all across Colorado. … I think we give that human face to the struggle.” When Wilson began on behalf of someone else and never withdrawing the workshop that led to Do You Know Who I Am?, 20 from it. They just don’t have many alternatives — undocumented immigrants showed up to write mono- Hugo Juarez, who arrived in the U.S. as a 12-year-old, logues about their story. She warned them about the recalls deciding he wanted to get a job to buy a guitar road ahead, the rigors of writing this sort of confesand help support his family, and then found out he’d sional content. have to get a fake Social Security card to do so. “When you have to survive a lot of emotional and “There’s other ways of getting around it [as an personal obstacles as a family and there’s lot of really adult], but as a young person, that’s not an option, so terrifying things that happen because you could be you get told, ‘OK, this is your channel and the chanseparated from your families, all the things that hapnel is illegal,’” Wilson says. pen, in order to perform that story emotionally you Then there’s the question: Why don’t you just go have to stop and feel not just your pain but your parback home? ents’ pain and your community’s pain and that takes a In some ways, there is no home. They’re often lot of courage and is really stressful,” Wilson says. “So made to feel unwelcome and unwanted here, but in when I said to this group of 20 people, what it might Mexico, they’d be seen as Americans — rich, privibe like, I was aware that I would lose most of them.” leged bait for the drug cartels. The next session, only five showed up. “When I talk to my cousins, they refer to me as “The first classes, it was just a roller coaster of American,” Juan Juarez says. emotions, bringing back memories of when we came “The gringo,” Oscar Juarez interjects. over here to the States, our childhood, it was just “But here, I’m referred as undocumented or like amazing,” Juan Juarez says. “At the time that we were I’m not from here, I’m from Mexico, so in reality, who writing, we couldn’t contain the tears or emotions.” am I?” Juan says. “I would say I would feel lost [in From a group energy level, it wouldn’t have Mexico]. Even though I have family there, I don’t feel worked if one more of them dropped out after that it’s my home anymore. I feel like this is my home.” point. No one did. They’ve heard of deportees killed as soon as they “These guys were just relentless,” Wilson says. cross the border, and point to recent incidents, like The title comes from Hugo Juarez’s experience the story of three American-born siblings who with a high school literature teacher, who was also an crossed into Mexico to visit the village their family immigrant but was able to get legal status by marrying was from, and never made it back home to Texas. a U.S. citizen and made a hate-filled speech to his Friends with deferred action registrations who class about undocumented immigrants. Later, she gave participated in a welcome-back trip to Mexico, Hugo an award for his achievements as a literature Galvan says, described seeing where they’d grown up student; she had no idea her star pupil was an undocu- and “feeling so at home, but also a stranger, like mented immigrant. She didn’t know who he was. almost the same feeling of being undocumented here. After a year and 30 performances, all of which It was almost the same thing, like they didn’t feel like have included talk-backs, they’ve heard and have they were from there, they didn’t feel like they were ready answers for the repeated questions. accepted, but they felt a sense of belonging and want“There is no line. If there was a line, I would be ing to belong. … there,” Juan Juarez says. “We all want to go back, too. We want to see our “I’m not a criminal,” says his brother Hugo Juarez. family. We want to experience our culture, be able to Using someone else’s Social Security number may talk with people in our own language and just feel like not be legal, but it means they’re paying into a system you’re not hiding anything, but then you go and it’s Boulder Weekly
like, you are someone else. You’re not someone who belongs here.” It’s any immigrant’s story, Wilson says, “You really are between cultures and there’s no ‘going back’ so there is only going forward.” What she sees now is the five of them creating community, creating home, in each other. Their wants are the same as any young person’s — to go to college, to visit their families, to build careers and lives for themselves. But so often, when they’ve gone to pursue those dreams, they’re faced with one obstacle after another. Galvan excelled in school, had geared up to go to college by accumulating a stack of awards for his participation in school programs and was given a scholarship for overcoming adversity. Then he lost that scholarship because of his immigration status. Juan Juarez came to the U.S. as a 14-year-old, initially unable to understand anything his teachers or other (90 percent white) students said to him in high school. He advanced to the point he was taking community college classes before he graduated. One look at the price of college, he says, and he knew it would be impossible for his family to afford. His father wanted him to focus on school, but he insisted on working full time on top of finishing high school. “Looking back at it, I’m like, did I really start working when I was 14? Did I really do that?” echoes Oscar Juarez. The Juarez family relocated from Arizona to Colorado because of Arizona’s law allowing officers to ask anyone for proof of immigration status. “Having to look back through what our family went through, it’s like, I don’t even know how we all did it, to be honest. … Just living in Arizona where you know that if you get pulled over, you’re pretty much going to get deported. That’s the daily fear that we went through, and it’s like, how did we get away from that? We see family after family getting separated.” Temu would like to go back to Guatemala to learn from her grandmother, who lives in the mountains and makes pots she takes down into the city to sell for a bag of corn to make tortillas. Her mother says no, it’s too dangerous. As if to prove her point, this time last year, Temu’s cousin was kidnapped when he went along with their grandmother last year to help sell the pots. He escaped only because, having grown up in the mountains, he knew how to disappear and survive finding his way home, Temu says, and if he hadn’t escaped, he’d either be killed or forced to work in drug trafficking. “That’s what he was running away from and that’s See IMMIGRANTS Page 12
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Juarez, Oscar Juarez, Victor Galvan, what we’re running away from,” Juan Juarez and Jose Beteta. she says. “We’re escaping war zones and we’re escaping real genocide and people in this country are just so blind to it.” They still worry for their families here. “What I’m doing right now, it’s for them, because it’s time for me to give them a little bit of relief of what they had to do in order for us to be here with a better future,” says Juan Juarez. He watched the news of the president’s new program for immigrants with his father, and saw the tears in his father’s eyes as he realized this program would make no difference for him. “My parents did not qualify for administrative relief, but that’s also the motivation that disbelief, but the more I do it, it’s not so much that the fight is not over,” he says. there’s a willing suspension of disbelief, but there is the “We like doing the performance because it’s a big exercise of letting yourself live what’s actually happenchange that the community gets every time they see ing on stage,” he says. “It’s not that you suspend your it. Either they’re crying or they’re just completely disbelief. It’s that you give yourself to believing and to changed on their aspect of seeing the whole immigra- living that this is occurring before your eyes, that this tion system, how it really works,” Oscar Juarez says. is actually happening, and you open your senses and “Something that we see every performance is the you open your heart in a different way that affects you. change that we’re needing and the performance is That’s what theater does, it just confronts us with our what helps us recover as well. And I think for me, own humanity by seeing the humanity of others.” every performance that we do, there’s not a single one In the 30 years he’s been involved in theater, he where I don’t feel or there’s sometimes where, even 30 says, he’s never seen such a high rate of audience parperformances later, I still sometimes cry, or sometimes ticipation in talk-backs — not for Shakespeare, not for I hold my tears, because it hits me every time, but I new plays. Almost all of Do You Know Who I Am? audiknow that that impact is what the people are feeling ences stay “and they’re glued to their seats and they as well.” want to know more and they want to talk more,” “It’s through stories and through language that we Gonzales says. “The start of a conversation is enough get new dimensions of ourselves. It is the way in to start looking for a solution rather than reducing it or which we pass on ideas and possibilities. It is the way just condensing it to, ‘Oh, they should be thrown out.’” in which we grow. It is the way we forge forward into He coached the cast — none of whom had profesthe future,” says Lorenzo Gonzales, chair of the BFA sional theater experience prior to this production — in some of the basics of performing like articulation in performance at Naropa Univeristy. He saw Do You and gestures, and in that regard, they’ve grown a lot, Know Who I Am? when it was still just a series of he says. But they have another quality on their side monologues, and suggested that, while those were that other actors might be missing. powerful, weaving in interactions from the other per“I think what makes great performers is their formers could create a sense of community on stage. It commitment, and that’s what these guys have. They’re would let the audience meet the mothers, the teachers, committed. They’re committed to getting their stories the people who hurl the word “criminal” and the families proudly watching their children graduate from across,” Gonzales says. “Some of the other performers high school. were very much caught in the ego in terms of, ‘Oh am “It doesn’t become just an individual story, but it I going to be good? Are they going to like me?’ becomes the story of a group of people, which it is,” They’re not concerned with whether people are going says Gonzales, who is also an immigrant, and says to like them or not. They’re just concerned about when he became a naturalized citizen, the process whether they’re getting through.” involved far fewer hurdles than what he sees these It’s not about spectacle or embellishment. It’s just young people facing. about starting a conversation. “So I wove them together into a unified script and “As an artist myself I learned a lot from them. It you can really see how each of their voices amplifies has made me really look at, what are the types of work the other and emphasize the story,” Wilson says. that I lend my voice to,” he adds. People who talk about terms like “the Dream Act Because people know Galvan and know his story, kids” or “unaccompanied migrant minors” often don’t both through Do You Know Who I Am? and his ongoget the whole story behind those terms, Gonzales ing work throughout the community, when Wilson says, but through theatre, they’re invited to live those posted a photo of him being arrested during a protest stories for a few hours. against Sen. Michael Bennet’s push to delay adminis“The cliché is that there’s a willing suspension of trative relief until after the elections — allowing
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another estimated 60,000 deportations to take place over the months that followed — there was an emotional response. “It’s not just some theoretical moment of, ‘Oh yeah, that’s too bad,’” Wilson says of the community outpouring. “It’s someone I’ve seen, I’ve seen their hearts desire, I know what they think about their mothers, I relate to these people and their striving for college. That person being undocumented, that’s unfair, that’s unjust.” Galvan risked deportation and loss of his DACA status to join in civil disobedience that blocked traffic on Broadway near the Capitol in Denver. But risk is nothing new. “Our lives had been full of risk, so we always have seen the light at the end of the tunnel and we’re reaching towards it,” says Juan Juarez, who was old enough to remember life in Mexico, and the ongoing worry about whether there would be food on the table and shoes on the kids’ feet. Life in America has definitely provided better opportunities, and they make the risks worth taking. “Looking at my parents and looking at the life that we have, which was not as much as what my parents thought it would be, but it’s definitely better, and my fear is to lose it. My fear is to lose it by losing my parents,” Oscar Juarez says. “Deferred action has opened a lot of doors and it definitely has helped out our family and yeah, just losing that, it’s one of the fears that many of us live.” To be clear, they’re looking for opportunities, not freebies. “It’s a better place to be to have those opportunities, to have something and not starve to death or scrape a wall for food every single day,” Oscar Juarez says. “We’re not asking for giveaways. We’re asking for the opportunity to develop those things to have a better life. We’re not here to take advantage of anything.” So many of those opportunities we take for granted, like a K-12 education, are far from readily available in Mexico. “People have been waiting for a really long time to be able to get work authorization because what they want more than anything is to be able to support their families,” says Laurel Herndon, founder, executive director and managing attorney of The Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County. “I have talked to many, many people since the new program was announced, and they feel that they take a risk every day, and if they can step forward and prove to the government that they are good people, that they don’t have criminal records, it’s something they’re anxious to do.” Wilson connected with this group of young immigrants through Herndon, who saw Wilson’s previous piece, Rocks Karma Arrows, and attended a follow-up conversation about that production where Wilson See IMMIGRANTS Page 14
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people of the year members do at the end of the play — include how to overcome the obstacles his name, and that he’s undocumented. that prevent immigrants’ rights activists “I just saw the courage these kids from uniting with other movements for had to come out and be vocal about this black or LGBT Americans. very important issue that we’re living Even the conversation of what it right now, and I just wanted to be part means to be an American is shifting. of it,” he says. He’s now seen the play at “I think this movement is showing least three times. “The play was a catapeople how to be a citizen, because we lyst for me to come out and try to do fight for it every day,” Juan Juarez says. something. Even though I’ve been While Boulder County often proundocumented for over 20 years, it was vides a welcoming audience for Do You the right moment for me to do someKnow Who I Am? — and the cast at thing, so that’s why I go back and see it times deliberately pursues performance and be a part of it, because I want to opportunities in communities like see who else it impacts and see if there’s Greeley or Colorado Springs, where the something there that I can do.” reception may be less warm, but where But undocumented immigrants there’s still a lot of room for growth. coming forward publicly about their Wilson points to how rarely a group of status has to happen people of color have hand-in-hand with the stage in front of ON THE BILL: There is a pubcities supporting a majority white lic presentation at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 15 jointly conthose efforts as well, audience as a probvened by the City of Boulder lem, and says that and making it clear Office of Human Rights and the achievement gap what people’s rights Community Relations and The Immigrant Legal Center of between white and are — that they Boulder County at Boulder High Latino youth in shouldn’t be afraid to School. Speakers include Rep. Boulder County is call the police, and, Jared Polis, Javier Moupomé from the Mexican Consulate, among the biggest in as a recent trend, a and District Attorney Stan the state. Social Security numGarnett and a representative But Boulder ber isn’t required to from the U.S. Attorney’s office. They will be discussing what the rent an apartment. County is positioned new executive order from At the Latino well to lead the diaPresident Obama is and how to Chamber, he’s helplogue for immigraapply for it. ing undocumented tion reform. Motus immigrants who Theater is leading might want to start the way for the new their own businesses — it’s legal to creOne Action Project for 2016: The ate an LLC or become sole proprietor Creative Community Conversation on of a business regardless of immigration Immigration, a year-long, county-wide status. program to involve 20 arts, cultural and As the programs resulting from immigration-focused organizations in Obama’s executive order go into effect crafting artworks that will increase in 2015, Herndon says, it’s particularly awareness and engagement in immigraa concern for the estimated 54,000 tion issues. undocumented immigrants in While the theater performance has Colorado to be able to get good advice been great at stimulating conversation, and good information on what the the momentum can’t stop here, Wilson program is, when it starts and how to says. Do You Know Who I Am? should avoid the scams that will inevitably have a national tour. There should be a appear. Will & Grace that’s Victor & Ana — two The deferred action program has undocumented immigrants. People have helped to build trust in that program, to stop seeing these people as somebut neither should be seen as a resting thing other than people. place. For the Juarez brothers, Galvan and “The bigger program really is what Temu, they’re sure of one thing. It’s happens when this program ends, and safer out of the shadows and standing that’s where community support can in the light. come in as far as putting pressure on For all that they have done and Congress to pass a real reform and not risked this past year, Boulder Weekly is just leave us with these administrative proud to name Juan, Hugo and Oscar temporary fixes,” Herndon says. Juarez, Victor Galvan, Ana Christina Galvan, Temu and Juan Juarez were Temu and Kirsten Wilson as 2014’s recently in Washington, D.C., for a people of the year. Congratulations and national convention on immigration, thank you. and the conversation there is shifting to Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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A cry for help A family hopes the new executive action on immigration will keep a loving husband and father in the U.S. by Matt Cortina
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hey know he is home when they hear his whistle. Whittle-WEE! Whether Jose Luis Guerrero’s wife and children will hear his call again, from the doorway of their small Aurora home, will be determined by the U.S. government. Jose Luis has been in jail for five months. He was detained after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials came to his home looking for someone else. When they ran his ID, they found he had a prior deportation and re-entry on his record. ICE came back a week later and, with a gun to his head, arrested him and brought him to jail. He now awaits deportation, and like many other families under similar circumstances, the Guerreros hoped that the Obama administration’s recent executive action on immigra-
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tion would offer relief. With all indications from ICE that it won’t apply to him, the Guerreros will wait to hear if Jose Luis qualifies for a stay of removal, which would allow him to stay in the country, at home, for a year, and continue to file stay of removal requests annually in the future. ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok says Jose Luis will not qualify for the executive action deferral, and “falls within the new enforcement guidelines” because he has a final order of removal dated after Jan. 1, 2014. This is despite the fact that Jose Luis has four U.S. citizen children, has lived in the country for more than five continuous years, has no criminal record, owns a small business and pays his taxes. Jose Luis’ story is seen as a trial case for the executive order, according to his lawyer and the advocacy group Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition. At least, it provides an opportunity to look at who the executive order is benefitting, and who is still slipping through the cracks. ••••
“It’s been a really hard couple months.”
Sofia Guerrero sits at the end of a baggy brown couch with her children. She is tired. They are all tired. She is softspoken and speaks carefully, recounting in Spanish the week her husband was arrested. “We had agents come to our house one day,” Sofia says through an interpreter. “They knocked on the door and we had two doors so I opened the inner door and I left the glass door closed. They came looking for another person, they asked for another person. I kept on telling them that the person they were looking for wasn’t here, he didn’t live here, and I kept reiterating that to them. My husband was bathing, getting ready for work. I insisted and insisted and, really for wanting to cooperate with them, I went and got my husband. He spoke to them and they asked him for an ID and he gave them his ID at that time. They didn’t have any arrest warrant; I had asked them if they had a warrant. They Boulder Weekly
went and then they returned a week fully” after Jan. 1, 2014. later and they detained him before he The third priority for enforcement got to the house, at the stoplight out is people who are non-criminals but there. I was able to find out because I who have failed to abide by a formal had happened to come home by chance order of removal dated after Jan. 1, at that time and I saw that there were 2014. This is a priority under which agents everywhere and they had picked Jose Luis falls. That’s because when him up. I didn’t have a chance to speak ICE found out he had previously been with him, I just had some agents who sent out of the country, called “a prior told me that, ‘We left a paper in your deportation,” after they came to his truck explaining what happened’ and I home looking for someone else earlier didn’t get a chance to talk to him.” this year, he was given a final order of The paper ICE left didn’t have removal — thus causing him to fall into much information, Sofia says, but she the third priority category. learned more when Jose Luis called her The executive order also mentions from a detention center in Centennial. that, “Under this revised policy, those Jose Luis was given a case number, and who entered illegally prior to Jan. 1, he was going to be 2014, who never deported. He also disobeyed a prior told his wife that order of removal, ICE officials had and were never convicted of a seriwaited for him to HAVE TO SEE THEM HAVE ous offense, will drop his youngest TO GO TO A JAIL TO TALK not be priorities for daughter, Lucy, off removal.” at the babysitter, TO THEIR FATHER BEHIND ICE confirmed and for Sofia to go GLASS. SOMETIMES THEY that Jose Luis is a to work before they COME HOME HAPPY TO SEE “new enforcement “took him out of priority,” but the his truck with a HIM AND OTHER TIMES pistol pointed at Guerreros filed yet THEY COME HOME CRYING his head.” another petition BECAUSE THEY’RE UNABLE Jose Luis was after the guidelines transferred to were announced, TO TOUCH HIM. I’VE HAD GEO Aurora asking for discreFIVE MONTHS SINCE I’VE Detention Facility tion under the new SEEN HIM.” after three months, executive order. in August, and he’s That’s because — SOFIA GUERRERO been there since. the Guerreros and The Guerreros their lawyer, James received no response Sarpong, noticed to their petitions in that in the executive those early months and Sofia order, there was an exception to the prisays, “It just feels like the case is movority system that would seem to apply ing really slow.” Jose Luis. Then came a bit of hope. In The clause reads: “Aliens in Priority November, President Obama 3 should generally be removed … announced new executive action that unless, in the judgment of our immigrawould offer relief to millions of immition officer, the alien is not a threat to grant families without documentation the integrity of the immigration system in the U.S. The executive order laid out or there are other factors suggesting the guidelines for immigration enforcement alien should not be an enforcement priand offered hope, it seemed, for families ority.” like the Guerreros who met certain Those other factors include having qualifications. young children, severity of crimes comAmong other tenets of the executive mitted, length of time since the offense, action like strengthening border securi- or compelling humanitarian factors. It’s ty, making naturalization easier and worth noting here, then, that Jose Luis more cost efficient, and supporting for- is, as mentioned before, a small business eign-born workers, it also laid out owner as well as a Eucharistic minister guidelines and enforcement priorities in his local church. “Decisions should for undocumented immigrants. be based on the totality of the circumFirst, the new executive action listed stances,” the clause reads. three groups who would be prioritized But the Guerreros received a letter for removal. The top priority is national from Immigration shortly after filing security threats, gang members and that petition and submitting birth cerconvicted felons. The next priority is tificates, tax returns and proof of five those who have been convicted of sigyears’ residency. The letter said Jose nificant or multiple misdemeanors, and Luis did not qualify for the program those who entered the country “unlawSee EXECUTIVE ACTION Page 18
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and that his case was closed. “At that moment we just felt like there wasn’t going to be any hope or opportunity for us anymore,” Sofia says. But with the help of Sarpong and the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, the Guerreros filed for a stay of removal that would allow Jose Luis to return home from jail and stay in the country at least for the next year. They are awaiting the verdict on that request. Brendan Greene, a Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition campaign director who is working with the Guerreros, says a stay of removal is “not ideal,” and that they will continue to work to try to include Jose Luis in the executive action program. Either that, or work to change the program to include families like the Guerreros. “The bad part about the way the program is written now is that it’s all up to discretion at the local level and it’s going to be a case-by-case basis to see how our local office is following through on that mandate to give this discretion proactively,” Greene says. “The place they give the most room for discretion is public safety issues and we think that a thorough review of this case will really make it clear that he has done nothing that would put him into that category other than the prior deportation and the re-entry that was around noncriminal immigration issues. There’s nothing on his record and there’s a lot of positive contributions to the community.” The agency that is in charge at the local level varies throughout the country. In Colorado, the local ICE field office handles such cases, but elsewhere, it could be the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service Field Director or Service Center Director; Customs and Border Protection Sector Chief or Director of Field Operations; or the Department of Homeland Security. So, to be clear, the executive order lays out priorities but it gives the power to local officials to exercise judgment and discretion on a case-by-case basis. The local official in Jose Luis’ case, the Denver Field Office of ICE, says he falls under the new enforcement guidelines. So unless he is granted a temporary stay of removal, Jose Luis will be deported away from his family. ••••
“It’s only for people that qualify for that freedom.”
Sofia, bleary-eyed already, starts to choke on her words when she talks about the impact Jose Luis’ absence has had on the family. “It’s like we’re a chair and they just took one of the legs away from the chair,” Sofia says. “We’re trying to bal-
ance ourselves. It’s hard. It’s been really heavy for us. “To see day to day that, the kids, they need their father and they need his attention. I’ve been forced to now take on two jobs. I come home from my day job, I finish work, I come home, I give them food, and then I have to leave to go to my second job. We’ve always tried to be there for them to help them with everything, to help them with their homework and now it’s hard.” The eldest, Andy, 16, has had to take on more responsibility, helping get his brother and sisters ready for school and helping make meals while his mother works two cleaning jobs. His mother says his schoolwork has suffered and this event might be jeopardizing his future. “[Andy] has a scholarship and one of the requirements is that he stay after school,” Sofia says. “He’s had to miss a couple different sessions just for the need of being able to support and being at the home. And same thing if I get home late or early in the morning, he helps get everyone ready for school. This hurts me because he shouldn’t have to be dealing with this, he should be able to focus on his school and only on his school. It’s causing us to have to stop or put a bump in his future to have to deal with all of this. We want him to be a professional and that to be the only thing he has to worry about: school and getting ahead.” But the biggest issue, the family says, is the truth that it’s just tough to see their father in jail. “It’s ugly to have to see them have to go to a jail to talk to their father behind glass,” Sofia says. “Sometimes they come home happy to see him and other times they come home crying because they’re unable to touch him. I’ve had five months since I’ve seen him.” “I feel mad and angry that we can’t hug him or touch him because there’s a glass there and we can’t do nothing about it,” Kenneth, 11, says. “My sisters go one week and we don’t go,” says Andy. “And the next week we go and they don’t go. The thing is to try to cheer him up. Tell him jokes so he’s glad that we’re there and make him happy. But it’s not the same.” Sofia says that when her kids do get to see him, it sometimes does more harm than good. “It’s also hard because sometimes they’re treated well and sometimes they’re not treated well. [Prison officials] waste their time or cut off their time. They see how they yell at him and tell him that his time’s up and that’s when they come home sad,” Sofia says. Even as they fight for their husband
and father to be able to come home, the Guerreros realize that their fight is one of thousands across the country. “It’s like a horror movie,” says Jennifer, 13, “because I just can’t imagine, like I’m living it right now, but what about those kids that actually got their parents deported and they have to be in foster homes? It’s just scary. You never know if they take him and they come for my mom… it’s going to be the same thing. We’re going to have to be living with other people that we don’t even know.” Sofia says by making their struggle public, they can help other families in similar situations by rallying public support. “When we make it public and we fight for what is just, people are going to see that it’s not just us, there’s thousands of people in this situation,” Sofia says. “For people like us who sometimes get sent back home without knowing there were other options available to them and they probably have the same needs we have. We’re asking for discretion not just for us but for so many other people who are in this situation.” But the way the Guerrero’s feel they’ve been treated isn’t without consequence. Andy, not yet out of high school, says he’s had to seriously question the notion of fairness and equality in America. “The motto here is everybody is equal and it’s a place for freedom. But it’s only for people that qualify for that freedom. There’s people that work everyday, try to sustain a family, pay bills, pay taxes, but they don’t qualify for that freedom,” Andy says. “It’s not so much the injustice but seeing that [ Jose Luis] doesn’t have a chance to express himself and explain that he is here for his kids, out of necessity,” Sofia says of her view of the situation. For now, the family takes solace in little reminders of Jose Luis, and they pray for the best. Each has their own story, their own favorite memory of their father and husband. But each are eager to start living their life again with him there. “Inside there, the prison, he gave me this rosary that reminds me every morning or whenever I put it on, of him, telling me to keep on going, to not give up,” Kenneth says. That rosary and a lone framed picture of Jose Luis on the living room table will have to do for now. They all remember his smile and take turns trying to mimic his whistle, Whittle-WEE. They smile. But it’s a sad smile, each of them, because it’s not the same. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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rayless dining in university dining halls: a simple idea, but one with few case studies and fewer reliable metrics. “It’s supposed to save water and save energy, and people also take less food when they don’t have a tray, because they can’t stack it up as much. So you don’t have as much food waste,” says Courtlyn Carpenter, a sophomore who researched trayless dining during her freshman year at the University of Colorado Boulder. All of CU’s dining halls currently offer trays. Carpenter says the only way to know if trayless dining would Trayless dining halls are purported to save water, energy and cut down on food waste, but successfully improve the school’s sus- there is scant information that proves this to be true. One CU Boulder student is pushing for a tainability record is if the school just pilot project that will better determine the outcome of trayless dining. gives it a try. The University of Colorado dining] implemented in some of the makes it difficult to implement,” says Boulder opened its LEEDS-platinumdining halls at CU, and [dining servicAmy Beckstrom, director of auxiliary status residence hall, Williams Village es] had approved the program,” and dining services at CU. “Trayless North, in 2011. The dorm is home to Carpenter says. dining can work in smaller operations, two academic programs that focus stuBut then her project hit a roadblock. but in larger dining centers like we dents on sustainability issues. One proCarpenter didn’t have enough beneficial have, trayless dining can be messy, gram, the Sustainability & Social evidence to support the school moving inconvenient and recent research has Innovation Residential Academic forward with trayless dining, and the shown that it might even promote poor Program, or SSI RAP, helped project was halted by the administranutrition.” Carpenter get her trayless dining initia- tion. Some universities report that stutive off the ground. “The most significant barrier is the dents are more likely to choose an “We were trying to get [trayless layout of our dining centers, which entrée and a dessert, and skip a salad or
healthy side option if they don’t have enough hands to carry another item. Others say that with less room, diners are forced to consciously choose when and why to get back in line for another serving. That’s why Carpenter supports a test program at CU. “It’s really, really hard to tell, from university to university, if [trayless dining] is going to be successful or not,” Carpenter says. CU holds a “Scrape Your Plate Day” at least once every semester in all of the campus dining halls, where diners are asked to scrape their unwanted leftovers into special bins for weighing. This project was initiated in 2008, and the fall 2014 Scrape Your Plate Day showed that CU Boulder diners each produced about 3.8 ounces of food waste each meal, on average. Beckstrom says that this number is a 32 percent decrease from six years ago, and that the perdiner waste is comparable to other universities that have trayless dining. Carpenter found that Colorado State University adopted trayless dining in 2008, and in 2014 reported that it had reduced food waste by 40 percent — to See TRAYLESS DINING Page 22
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Carpenter says. “So they’re having me work on trayless dining again. It’s still a possibility, and I’m hopeful that maybe we can get somewhere this time.” Beckstrom says that the school is considering trayless dining in Libby Dining Hall, located in the same building as a residence hall and laundry rooms in the center of campus. “This location may be able to support trayless dining with its existing layout,” Beckstrom says. “It’s not as large as other dining operations. I’m not sure if we will be able to measure our energy and/or water usage, as this data is not separated from the rest of the building.” Beckstrom says that dining services may consider asking students what their goals are if the program moves forward, whether that be food waste, convenience, portion size options, nutrition, cleanliness, energy use or water use. “I’d like to pose that question to our students to see what they would consider priorities,” Beckstrom says. “I’m certain that food waste would likely be a leader in the response, as this is an issue that we receive consistent feedback from our guests, our students.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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he trail starts at the edge of Frisco and immediately begins to go up. It is cold, but not as cold as it was when I pulled in front of a coffee shop an hour earlier to rendezvous with guidebook author Fritz Sperry. The sun has seen to that, pushing a growing warmth down onto the slopes of Royal Mountain. As Sperry climbs easily up the trail in front of me, I’m thankful for the late start and mellow pace. I had expected a hard run of it. But Sperry is in no hurry. He knows that there’s always good snow to be found in Colorado and that there’s plenty to go around. Why rush? Fritz Sperry moved to Colorado in 1992 from New York, ending up in Summit County. A skier since the age of 4 and already veteran of the Eastern backcountry with trips to Tuckerman’s Ravine and other descents, he almost immediately started fooling around in Colorado’s wilder terrain, nailing his first out-of-bounds Colorado day on Gore Range landmark Red
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Peak. A desire to ski steeper and more intense took him to Crested Butte in 1995. He might have stayed in that legendary Colorado ski town forever, but a serious injury forced his return to New York City in 1998. He made it back to Colorado a year later after healing up, but then life took him to St. Louis. “I spent four painful years there,” Sperry says and laughs, while also admitting that one bright spot in his Midwestern hiatus from the Centennial State was a renewed appreciation for baseball. The other bright spot was that St. Louis was where Sperry got the inspiration for his guidebooks, Making Turns in Colorado’s Front Range: Volume 1 — South of I-70 and Making Turns in the Tenmile + Mosquito Range. “When I was in St. Louis in 2001, I came up with the idea of doing a guidebook,” says Sperry. “I started work on it then and used it as inspiration to return. “There’s nothing like dreaming of ski lines to make life in
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Fritz Sperry is the author of two backcountry guide books with goals to complete more, but says his other main goal is still to “ski powder all the time.”
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risks, because the conditions will always improve and the big peaks and huge lines will always be there. “Some of the peaks took multiple tries to get done,” says Sperry of the process of gathering beta and photographs of the terrain he covers in his books, multiple trips that were a result of being hyper aware of avalanche and weather hazards in Colorado’s harsh winter environment and making the choices that would let him come home each day alive. Still, Sperry wants you to go skiing, and he wants you to explore Colorado’s mountains in winter. “The goal of the books is to highlight the great options in each of the zones that I know best,” he says. “The more choices people have the better. Places like Berthoud and Loveland Pass will always be crowded but there are better places to ski. Thinning out the crowds by giving people fun choices is the point.” And when it comes to choice, Sperry wants you to have more. A lot more. “I’ve always got plans for the mountains,” he laughs. “This spring my focus will be on the Indian Peaks and the skiing portion of Volume 2 of the Front Range books. I’m shooting for a 2016 release for this project. My company Giterdun Publishing will be publishing Eli Helmuth’s Select Ice Climbs of Rocky Mountain National Park, we’re hoping to hit the shelves with this around August 1. Then, hopefully, there will be good weather in the fall and we can go for some objectives down in South America. Volume 3 of the Front Range series will cover from Southwest RMNP to the Snowies in Wyoming, this will include the Never Summers and Cameron Pass. I’m hoping to have that in stores in fall 2017. There are a few other projects in the works but those are just discussions at this point. The other big goal is to ski powder all the time and just have a ton of fun, but isn’t that what life’s all about?” At least for today it is. We finish our ascent on a ridge high
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above Frisco, the town attractive in the late December light and the descent below us even more so as it’s a blanket of untouched white, with stable conditions and a green light to descend. People have skied up here, but the tracks are way over to the left — it’s good to be with the guy who wrote the book on skiing these parts — and so one by one, we drop in, having a ton of fun and living life, at least for the moment, just like Fritz.
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rmahgerd! Jam packed with long-awaited sequels, promising indie fare and Quentin Tarantino’s Hate, 2015 promises to blow the lid off the box office while blowing our lids. What follows are my 15 most anticipated films of 2015. It’s completely fair for you to be excited about other movies because there’s no law against being wrong.
that tells the story of a child soldier fighting in a civil war in Africa. So, let’s say I’m “intrigued” and “interested” to see what Fukunaga can do with this content, as his beautiful style seems at odds with the brutal subject.
11 – Ant Man Director: Peyton Reed Release date: July 17 Had the original director, Edgar Wright, survived the preproduction Ascending gives us an alien wolfman trying to rescue the queen of the universe 15 – Jupiter Ascending Jupiter process, this would have been higher on while fighting lizard people. Yes, please. Directors: The my list. That said, how can you not be Wachowskis Robot, District 9 bought Blomkamp decades of my revved to see Paul Rudd play a superRelease date: Feb. 6 trust. Spend wisely, friend. hero and see Evangeline Lilly do literally anything? Channing Tatum plays an alien wolfman trying to Described as more of a “heist” movie than a superhero rescue the queen of the universe (Mila Kunis) while 13 – Silence outing, Marvel is hotter than Hansel, and there’s no fighting lizard people. I’m in. It’s not an encouraging Director: Martin Scorsese reason to doubt this will break that streak. sign that the studio moved this wacky space opera Release date: November from July 2014 to February, but Edge of Tomorrow One day, Martin Scorsese is going to direct his last 10 – I Walk with the Dead proved studios have no idea how to appropriately film. On that day, cinema will lose one of (if not the) Director: Nicolas Winding Refn market sci-fi that doesn’t have a Trek or Wars in it. all-time greats. If he’s making a movie, that movie Release date: 2015 Although they’ve been maligned, I am and always will goes on my anticipated list. Even if it has a plot that I’m one of the five people in the world who really be Team Wachowski. sounds like something I’d hate… liked Refn’s Only God Forgives. If I loved that, there’s and this one does. An adaptation of little doubt I’m on board for this, even if it is in my 14 – Chappie a novel, this will feature two Jesuit second least favorite genre. Refn doing a horror movie Director: Neill priests in Japan trying to spread sounds… well, dangerous, quite frankly. The fact that Blomkamp Christianity. The cast is interesting, he’s committed to making an all-female horror film Release date: with Adam Driver, Andrew ups the stakes and promises to increase the scrutiny March 6 Garfield and the Liam Neeson, but on the brilliant weirdo. If you think about it, why the real appeal is from the Marty wouldn’t sci-fi auteur Blomkamp man himself. 9 – Spectre write a movie about a sentient robot Director: Sam Mendes taken in by a pair of criminals 12 – Beasts of No Release date: Nov. 6 played by the members of the realNation Skyfall was the best Bond movie, even if you’re a life art rap band Die Antwoord? Director: Cary Sean Connery apologist. Heck, it was the best Bond Free advice: If you Google Die Fukunaga movie, even if you’re Sean Connery. The title indicates Antwoord and see their music vidRelease date: 2015 007 is finally going to tackle a global menace for the eos, make sure you’re in a happy, Fukunaga directed HBO’s True first time in Daniel Craig’s tenure. Christoph Waltz is well-medicated place before watchDetective. Ergo, I want to watch the big baddie, and rumor has it he may be stroking a ing. Although the trailer didn’t whatever Fukunaga does next. cat before it’s all said and done. That’s not a euphemism. He may play Blofeld. Get your mind out of the instill overwhelming confidence, True Detective director Cary Fukunaga “Excited” and “anticipated” aren’t takes the helm of Beasts of No Nation gutter. looking like an indie version of I, easy words to use about a movie 28 January 1, 2015
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think about chomping on Sam Jackson.
Rian Johnson’s Looper has us intrigued about his untitled, plotless 2015 project.
4 – Avengers: Age of Ultron Director: Joss Whedon Release date: May 1 Have you heard about this small independent film? A sequel to one of the top-grossing films of all time, this action orgy of comic book goodness features my favorite Avengers’ bad guy. After all these years, part of me still feels like this wave of Marvel movies was the result of a wish I made on birthday candles at some point.
3 – Mad Max: Fury Road Director: George Miller Release date: May 15 When Tarantino’s script for The Hateful Eight leaked, he threw a tantrum and said he wouldn’t make it. Then he came to his senses. 7 – Untitled Rian How did they give the s Johnson sci-fi director of Happy Feet a huge budget to make an installment project of a franchise that has been dormant Director: Rian Johnson for three decades? That’s not me comRelease date: 2015 plaining. Featuring Tom Hardy, You know you’ve made an impresCharlize Theron and all of the explosion if you don’t have a plot or title for sions and car chases, the trailer alone your movie and it cracks my top 10. I for this one had my heart doing the was way, way too hard on Looper when I Red Bull dance. first watched it. Subsequent rewatches lead me to conclude that Johnson’s voice 2 – Star Wars Episode nis one we need in my favorite genre. VII: The Force Awakens Moreover, since we’re losing him to Star Wars in the next few years, it’s more Director: JJ Abrams important than ever we get one final go Release date: Dec. 18 o with an original idea beforehand. After the prequels, Star Wars fans went through the five stages of grief. 6 – Pitch Perfect 2 Just as we arrived at acceptance, Director: Elizabeth Episode VII was announced. Having Avengers gives us Joss Whedon directing Banks Robert Downy Jr. — what more do you want? been hurt before, we pretended not to Release date: May 15 be excited. Then the first trailer hit and I do not and will not apologize for we collectively nerdgasmed, screaming, my love of the first Pitch Perfect. From “Star Wars is back!” If Abrams sticks the funky a capella breakdowns to a the landing, he’ll be the most beloved soft-spoken Asian girl making snow thing to geeks since Internet pornograangels in vomit, I loved every single phy. thing about it (I’m looking at you, Anna Kendrick). With Banks sliding into the 1 – Untitled Benh Zeitlin director’s chair, I have full faith that this project will leave me in aca-awe. Director: Benh Zeitlin Release date: 2015 5 – The Hateful Eight You may be thinking “Who?” Director: Quentin Zeitlin did Beasts of the Southern Wild, Tarantino which is my favorite movie of all time. Release date: 2015 There isn’t a frame of film or bit of When Tarantino’s script for this score that I don’t love with all my heart. leaked, he threw a tantrum and said he I’ve been waiting to hear how he’d fols wouldn’t make it. Then he did a live low up a film that came out of nowhere reading. Then he came to his senses. to snag a Best Picture nomination. I Now we all get to see this Western tale still don’t know much, but I know that of bounty hunters trapped in a blizzard. something is coming. And I. Can’t. Benh Zeitlin directed Beasts of the Southern Some advice for those hunters: if you Wait. Wild. His new project is untitled as of yet. have to resort to cannibalism, don’t even Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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After 16 years with the original members, Yonder Mountain String Band has morphed from a quartet to a quintet, adding fidder Allie Kral and mandolinist Jacob Jolliff to their lineup. The beloved bluegrass band will occupy the Boulder Theater for a fourth consecutive, multinight New Year’s Eve shindig.
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omeone once said that managing your brand isn’t always easy, but it’s always easier than managing your customer. Banjoist Dave Johnston knows a little about this, as Yonder Mountain String Band found themselves in the position this year of morphing the structure of their much beloved four piece with the departure of mando player and co-founder Jeff Austin in April. While the split may not have come as a shock to some Yonder observers, it still left the band with a seat to fill and some nuts and bolts decisions about how to mature and re-fit the band’s lengthy and welltraveled repertoire. Austin’s seat was actually filled by two players — mando player Jacob Jolliff and fiddler Allie Kral — and Johnston says that the process of arranging the band’s material, which happened more or less in real time as the band played out during the summer festival season, was both a matter of sitting down and working through parts, as well as just kind of letting the new thing grow its own legs. “Well, yeah, you’re right about that,” noted Johnston, when Boulder Weekly caught up to him before the band’s departure to Mexico for Strings & Sol a few weeks back. “There were a few things, particularly with vocal harmonies, where we were like, here are the parts we’d like you to sing. But, counter to that, we kind of decided we’d just tackle it day by day, and setlist by setlist
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even, tour by tour, and we’ll continue building it in that fashion. Kind of eating the elephant one bite at a time, if you will.” Yonder’s 16-year run as one of the progressive bluegrass scene’s most vital franchises has engendered a deep sense of ownership amongst their fanbase, the kind of loyalty and support that most bands would envy. And of course, a lineup change will predictably prompt any number of skeptics in the pitiless, free-fire zone of Internet chat rooms. A little ironic, in a sense, that a band long heralded for liberating bluegrass from the limitations of its historical conven-
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tions should find itself, even marginally, faced with skepticism during its own transformation. “I lurk here and there, and check it out,” Johnston says of the Internet buzz surrounding the band’s lineup change. “I think there’s a few out there that are saying that it’s not Yonder Mountain String Band, but mostly the response has been really positive and very open-minded. …What Jake and Alli bring to the table is being accepted really well, almost across the board, and crowds and promoters and everyone is very happy with it.” So do the New Year’s Eve gigs in
Boulder feel like… what? Reaffirmation, if that’s not too precious a term for it? “It feels sort of like it used to feel when we were just starting out,” Johnston says. “It’s kind of this nervy and anticipatory feeling, mixed with… I don’t know if gratitude is the right word, but it’s that kind of feeling mixed with the familiarity of Boulder and what the scene is like in Boulder, and how awesome it is. It’s kind of two things that on the surface seem apparently contradictory but are actually very complementary of each other. ... It’s reassuring, but also brand new at the same time.” We couldn’t help but remind Johnston that, when we talked with him and his ex-mando player back in 2011, they both insisted that Yonder was close to recording and releasing a follow-up album to 2009’s The Show, the band’s last proper LP. You kinda stop waiting after a while, and let’s be honest here, Yonder hardly needs to prove anything to anyone by making a new album. But still, we had to ask: will there be a new album in 2015? “For real,” Johnston says, “it’s done. Like, seriously, everything’s pretty much done. We’re just mixing. We’re really excited by the way it sounds, and there’s a lot of new material on it, and a couple we’ve been playing out this year that people will recognize.” Back in 2011, Boulder Weekly also see YMSB Page 33
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In addition to their original compositions, Time for Three blends staples of pop and classical music — it’s part Bela Fleck, part Beethoven, a place where hip-hop can meet Haydn.
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espite their impossibly booked schedule, the gentlemen of Time For Three always make time for Boulder — this time they’ll drop by the Boulder Theater on Jan. 8 for a fundraiser concert for the Colorado Music Festival & Center for Musical Arts. “[Boulder is] a second home for us for sure,” says Ranaan Meyer, double bassist for the Indiana-based string trio. “The Colorado Music Festival we consider family. We’ve been there four summers, so this will be our fifth appearance that they are presenting us at — there’s history there,” says Meyer. There’s so much history, in fact, that the trio — which also includes violinists Zach De Pue and Nick Kendall, who met Meyer in 2001 while students at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music — regularly stays in the homes of CMF board members while in town. “Whenever there’s a community and an environment supsee TIME FOR THREE Page 33
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porting music in the way Colorado Music Festival patrons are, it’s something to get behind as an artist because it’s the way that we live in our world, in the musical community: by people who get involved and support it,” says Meyer. The community at CMF includes Steve Hackman, known for his fluency in both classical and popular repertoire. It is this fluency that recently placed Hackman at the helm of CMF’s “Mash-Up” Series, where Radiohead meets Brahms and Coldplay mingles effortlessly with Beethoven. Hackman is a longtime friend and collaborator of Time for Three — Tf3 for short — and it’s no wonder considering their shared fascination with blending the worlds of pop and classical music. “We’ll take an arrangement [of a pop song], say, “Firework” by Katy Perry, and you’ll find the “Firebird Suite” by Stravinsky in there,” Meyers explains. “I like to compare it to fusion cuisine.” Their music is part Bela Fleck, part Beethoven, a place where hip-hop can meet Haydn. It was Hackman who co-arranged the trio’s classical take on the Kanye West song “Stronger.” The video, with its anti-bullying message, became a YouTube sensation that catapulted Tf3 to another level of fame in 2012. But Tf3’s success wasn’t something the band themselves, let alone the classical music industry, saw coming. “When Time for Three was created, we weren’t really told by the industry that we were going to be successful,” Meyer says with a chuckle. “[They told us] ‘Hold on to your day jobs because two violins and a bass, that’s so hard to market — no one really knows what you do. Keep at it, but don’t bet on it,’” Meyer says of the group’s genre-busting
musical stylings. Despite the classical music industry’s confusion and hesitation, Meyer says he never felt like he and his band mates had any other choice but to play together. “We were attracted to each other because of our personalities and this ambition of wanting to get together and jam after orchestra rehearsal, and it wasn’t more profound than that.” They played then as they do now, Meyer says: for the love of music and the deep appreciation they’ve always felt from audiences. “So we hung in there. Now we have this really big career and get to travel the world and play music.” Nearly 15 years later, Time for Three has four albums, a substantial catalog of original music and a Rolodex full of prominent orchestral composers (such as Hackman) ready to create commissioned pieces for whatever occasions the trio might have. The boys have performed at Carnegie Hall (in casual attire, as always), famed San Francisco jazz club Yoshi’s, NFL games and on Dancing with the Stars, not to mention their five-years-and-running residency with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Meyer says he thinks the type of genre bending that Tf3 practices is what propels the art of classical music. “I think the way that this art form is going to continue to go is by really keeping it so you’re having new, innovative minds within the industry, people willing to push the envelope,” Meyer explains. “The reason classical music has been around for hundreds of years is because the developers, advocators [and] composers are all people who wanted to push things forward.” Andrew Bradford, executive director of the Colorado Music Festival &
Center for Musical Arts, says this attitude about “pushing the envelope” is what makes Tf3 such a favorite of CMF patrons. “They know how to put on a good show but they also have a unique way of breaking down the barrier between stage and audiences, which is something that as a classical music organization we’re constantly striving to archive,” Bradford says. “With Time for Three, they make classical music cool, they make it accessible. … I think that might be the greatest contribution they make in the way of education, is making it accessible to all, to experience it, to fall in love with it,” Bradford adds. For Meyer, Kendell and De Pue, it’s really just as simple as having a love of music. “We just happened to find our way through classical music. The world is such a small-slash-vast musical place — there’s so much to sample from,” Meyer says. “It’s really just been about using our imaginations and dreaming about music and styles that could go together and not wanting to categorize and get in the way of something that’s in our heads. Our approach to music is wonderfully childish. It’s like getting in the sand box and playing with each other and making up games as we go along. It happens after years and tens of thousands of hours of practice married with that childish mindset, but it’s phenomenal because we keep that spirit going as we mature.” For those who want to spend a little more time with Time for Three and further support the CMF, diamond and gold circle VIP packages allow patrons to attend a three-course, pre concert dinner at the Rembrandt Yard and then attend a special meet and greet at License No. 1 after the concert. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Nissi’s Gift Cards available @ nissis.com asked Austin and Johnston that year what their New Year’s resolutions were. Austin embarked on a lengthy dissertation about redefining self, maintaining physical strength and mental patience — almost a metaphysical statement of purpose — and Johnston merely committed to riding his bike more. Johnston laughed when we brought that up, and asked what his New Year’s Boulder Weekly
resolutions were for 2015. “I guess my goal for next year is to be more organized about my work… I read this fantastic quote by Kurt Vonnegut: ‘It’s not hard for evil to triumph over good; all it takes for anything to beat another thing is for it to be more organized.” [The actual quote is “There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of orga-
nization.”] “For me, it’s like encountering a problem with a lyric you’re writing, encountering a problem with a lick you’re playing or a musical passage you’re trying to understand. … You’re directing your focus toward your weak points. I want to be organized about my faults and the things I need to work on.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Fiddler on the Roof returns to BDT Stage through February.
The tradition lives on at BDT Stage
New name. Same great theatre. by Gary Zeidner ( Jessica Hindsley), Hodel (Rebekah Ortiz), Chava (Sarah Grover), Bielke (Darrow Klein or Rachel Perez) and Shprintze (Tricia Moreland or Katlin Miller). Being a poor family, they are unable to offer any significant dowry for any of their daughters, so they rely on the local matchmaker, Yente (Barb Reeves), to find them suitable husbands. As successful a matchmaker as Yente is reputed to be, her efforts are thwarted by Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava. In a time when matches were made by parents and matchmakers, all three girls presume to choose their own husbands. Each episode is accompanied by Tevye wrestling with his conscience via a humorous internal dialogue about whether the man is good enough for his daughter. Against the microcosmic background of Tevye and Golde working to marry off their three eldest daughters, some broader social and political issues
rear their sometimes ugly heads. Tevye is a fairly progressive man for being an early 20th century peasant Jew, but even he cannot abide interfaith marriage. The local constable (Scott Severtson) bears Tevye and the other Jews no particular ill will, but he is powerless to prevent the occasional pogrom or forced relocation. These real-world troubles lend Fiddler on the Roof a gravitas not shared by many other musicals and ensure that though it is an often-buoyant production, Fiddler is not a traditional feelgood piece of theatre. Speaking of traditions, the music of Fiddler on the Roof is some of the most well-known and well-regarded in Broadway history. The first act is lush with memorable, sing-along staples like “Tradition,” which jauntily and efficiently lays out the structure of Anatevkan society. Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava go from schoolgirl anticipation
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of matrimony to wary circumspection about it during the course of “Matchmaker, Matchmaker.” Tevye daydreams good-naturedly about an easier life with “If I Were A Rich Man.” The bittersweet “Sunrise, Sunset” artfully expresses a parent’s joy and pain at seeing a child grow up and leave the nest. Wayne Kennedy is not a 20-something-year-old Adonis. He is, in fact, a middle-aged, follicularly challenged, lessthan-svelte everyman. Put in theatrical terms, he is a “character actor” rather than a lead. The thing is, Kennedy is also one of the best performers you’ll ever have the pleasure to see strut his stuff live on stage. So it is always with great happiness that I welcome the news that he has been given the lead in one of BDT Stage’s productions. Tevye is the very soul of Fiddler on the Roof, and Kennedy plays him flawlessly. With his Einstein-reminiscent, tongue-sticking-out laugh and his shoulder-shimmying dance moves, he is the funniest Tevye you’ll ever see, which makes it that much more impressive when he also excellently communicates Tevye’s emotional conflicts and out-andout agony later in the show. Director Michael J. Duran’s choice to build Fiddler around Kennedy was an outstanding one. Shelly Cox-Robie (obviously under the weather the night I saw Fiddler but still spot on — what a trouper) matches Kennedy scene for scene. Her and Kennedy’s duet, “Do You Love Me?” is an emotional highlight. And as usual, the BDT orchestra plays the heck out of every number Fiddler on the Roof has to offer. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com
ON THE BILL: Fiddler on the Roof, BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.bdtstage.com, $38 and up. Through Feb. 28.
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Strings Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.
Events
Dechen Hawk. 5 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 West Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.
Boulder International Folk Dancers New Year’s Day Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Foxfeather. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Kort McCumber. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Music Tunes Jam. 7 p.m. 230 S. Cleveland Ave., Louisville, 720-8907568.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.
New Year’s Day Tango at the Avalon. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition,
Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons,
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John A. DíazCortés and the Folklorika Arkestra 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Influenced by eclectic and infamous artists such as Duke Ellington, Philip Glass, Charles Mingus, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Strayhorn, Claude Debussy and Bjork, John A. Díaz-Cortés creates an equally eclectic sound with his own music. Born in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 1987, this young virtuoso spent the early part of his life immersed in the sounds of the Latin American church. Shortly after receiving his first saxophone, Díaz-Cortés began playing in local salsa bands and learning the popular repertoire of the Caribbean and Latin America. He formed the Folklorika Arkestra in 2009, an ensemble dedicated to presenting American roots and art music — storytellers of the community.
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Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
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24 Hour Theatre 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 720431-5355. Each year, the Nomad Theater gives five writers a lyric from a song and actors’ headshots early one morning. The writers return just 14 hours later with original scripts written for those actors and based around the song lyric. The next morning the scripts are distributed to crew, directors, choreographers and actors. Rehearsals begin and 10 hours later, the plays are performed. A talk-back follows each performance of these unique, one-off shows . Tickets are $10.
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4 p.m. Monday, Jan. 5, Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Help support the Longmont ArtWalk and cheer on local musicians at this community celebration — or even get on the mic and share your own music. Songwriting duo The Prairie Scholars will be there to showcase their musical stylings and simultaneously celebrate band member Jessica Eppler’s birthday. The Tasty Weasel will donate 10 percent of all tap brew sales between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. to the ArtWalk — Oskar Blues CAN’d Aid Foundation has agreed to match that. Bodacious Eats, a Longmont-based food truck, will be set up for the event and has also agreed to donate 10 percent of sales. Ten percent of all merch purchased from The Prairie Scholars will also be donated to the ArtWalk.
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Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through Jan. 30. Photography for a Change group exhibit. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30.
Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Jan. 8. *Late Hours for Recreational Store Only. Medical Store closes at 6:50pm daily.
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NCAR’s community art gallery is featuring an exhibition by Photography for a Change, which recruits photographers to show and sell their photographs and donate all profits to Boulder nonprofits.
Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 15. Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 22. Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017. Reflections: The Mick Fleetwood Collection — by Mick Fleetwood. Fascination St. Fine Art, 315 Detroit St., Denver, 303-333-1566.
Through Jan. 25.
Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.
Matisse and Friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000.Through Jan. 25. The Art of Fiber: 50 Years of the Boulder Handweaver’s Guild — Various artists. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 18. Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12. Recent Aquisitions. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18. Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.
Acrylic Paintings by Cynthia Marsh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850
EVENTS from Page 37 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Preparing For Divorce: What You Need To Know. 7 p.m. Iris Office Park, 3775 Iris Ave., Suite 5, Boulder. Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Zumba GoldToning at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Friday, January 2 Music Acoustic Harmony. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Bear. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 Colorado 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981. Captain Quirk and the Cosmic Rangers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Citizen Dan. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
The First Law and Miette Hope. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Kelly Mickwee Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Mike Coats. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Monte & Larry. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. The Prairie Scholars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Rico Wallenda. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-4492911. Rogue Sound, Highway 50. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355.
Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Steve Manshel. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.
First Friday Funk. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Tacos, Tequila & Tunes. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
First Friday Jam. 6 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Thunder and Rain. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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The Vinyl Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Events Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. CFOOTMAD - Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
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Fiddler on the Roof. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28. Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Mar. 1.
Chief Niwot - Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.
Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! roasts Broadway as we know and love it. Here, actors spoof on The Book of Mormon. The show runs at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through March 1.
Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Conversations in English-for Beginners. 12:45 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Tango Ground School Class. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Winter Chill Out Camp. 7:30 a.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469. Zumba® plus Zumba Toning® with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Saturday, January 3 Music A.J. Fullerton Live. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Aristocats. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Clarks. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Dan Treanor & Afrosippi. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Full Frequency Modulators. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. George Nelson Trio. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Intergalactic Radio. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. KC Groves and Greg Black. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Kort McCumber. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. One On One. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Psych Rock Show. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. The Seers. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Silverplume. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Stuttering Ducks. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Whale Tales. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Yonder Mountain String Band. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Zak Shaffer. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303449-8623.
Events 24 Hour Theatre. 7 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 720-431-5355. All Ages Art Class. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Unit B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. see EVENTS Page 40
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EVENTS from Page 39 Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
The Jet Set. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
John A. Díaz-Cortés and the Folklorika Arkestra. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Boulder Track Club Youth Group. 9 a.m. Viele Lake Park, Boulder. Chief Niwot - Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Flamenco Technique. 12:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400. Front Range Anglers Signature Fly Tying Saturday Series. 10 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375. Marcus Lucas Game Show. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tango Technique Class with G&G. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Zumba® plus Zumba Toning® 90 Minute Class. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Sunday, January 4 Music
Keb’ Mo’ Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Kort McCumber Duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Matt Flaherty. 5 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 West Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. The Prairie Scholars Happy Hour. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., Unit 1, Longmont, 303-6848383. Steve Manshel. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400. Sunday Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Tyler T. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Friday, Jan. 2 Club de literatura en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Saturday, Jan. 3 Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime/Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-4414250. Monday, Jan. 5
This week, the Boulder Library is where it’s at for world literature, with Club de literature en español and Arabic literature open meetings available to the public.
Arabic Literature. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Tuesday, Jan. 6 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chief Niwot - Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.
Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Fiori Riserva - Wine Release. 1 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Unit 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.
Boulder Friends of Jazz - Ragtime and Big Band Jam and Dance. 1 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder.
Jess’ Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
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Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
I & The Many Jazz. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
Sunday morning Zumba. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Monday, January 5
Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic & ArtWalk Longmont Fundraiser. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road,
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events Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
brary, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Open Stage. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Library Commission. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Strum & Blow. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Wednesday Night Blues featuring Jack Hadley. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Events The Art of the Video Interview. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp and PowerFit Yoga Camp Begins Today. 6 a.m. Scott Carpenter Park, 30th St., Boulder. Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Events
Flatirons Running/Under the Sun Fun Run. 6 p.m. Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway Street, Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837.
All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Entrepreneur Lunch & Learn — Free. 12 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
BSD Rehearsals OR Intermediate Intensive Class. 7:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Chief Niwot - Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Library,
Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Lego Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Li-
Picnic in the Meadows. 11:40 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Socrates Cafe. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Toddler Lego Story Club. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179. Wednesday Night Zumba Gold. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303.
Zumba® plus Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Tuesday, January 6 Music Funk Jam with Technicolor Tone Factory. 7 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Innisfree Open Mic. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Ology Ensemble. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Open Mic at the Pioneer Inn. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 5:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Quinntet. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164.
Events Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
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Birds of Prey Slide Show. 7 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spring St., Louisville, 303-335-4849. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Chief Niwot - Legend & Legacy. All Day. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Tuesday Hikers. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, Ninth St., Boulder. Video Camera Basics. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range Street, Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Zumba Gold at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Wednesday, January 7 Music Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S.
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Love in all the wrong places ‘Copenhagen’ just a diversion by Michael J. Casey
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illiam (Gethin in William and his quest, which he abanAnthony) is 28, loud, dons in favor of more Freudian interests abrasive and generally — that quickly sour when William finds unpleasant to be out that Effy is 14 years old. around. He yells, Though they are separated by 14 swears, leers, drinks too much and thinks years, Effy is mature beyond her years, too little. He is your typical obnoxious while William has the social skills of a American abroad, both to the fine peoteenager. Indeed, if she were his age ple of Demark and to his two traveling (28), he would be 42 and their age gap companions. Yet, maybe this isn’t would seem less so. In fact, for a mainWilliam’s fault. Assholes are not born in stream Hollywood rom-com, that age a vacuum, and it doesn’t take a lot to see difference would be par for the course. that William is a lost boy without a hint Jon Hamm could play William and of a role model to grasp Anna Kendrick could on to. don an accent and ON THE BILL: William’s father play the cute and Copenhagen Jan. 7-10 The Boedecker Theater at skipped out on him effervescent Effy, and The Dairy Center for the Arts when he was a child, no one would be the 2590 Walnut St., Boulder and it left behind a wiser. However, as Check show times & purchase tickets at thedairy.org sizeable hole. After Effy’s lawyers would dear old Dad died, no doubt attest, they William discovered a are not 42 and 28 and letter — written in Danish — with this is not a typical Hollywood fare. an address. William can’t read the letter, Effy is 14 and William is in some seribut he has deduced that it is addressed ous trouble. to his grandfather, who might still be But, Copenhagen isn’t about a living in Copenhagen. With nothing to Lolita-type relationship either. The lose, William sets out to find his only movie comes back around to touch on the idea of William’s absent father figremaining family member. ures in an unfortunate attempt to find With help from a hotel waitress, resolution and profundity, leaving the Effy (Frederikke Dahl Hansen), William tracks down the address, which audience with a conclusion — includturns out to belong to a distant relative. ing a completely unearned final shot — that is decidedly false. There, William finds out that Gramps Copenhagen is a troubled project with was a Danish Nazi, incarcerated for his many problems, but therein lie its merinvolvement in World War II, which its. A lot can be learned from decipherforced him to send his son to America. ing a bad movie, and that is precisely Things aren’t looking up. what we can do at The Boedecker However, none of this amounts to a Theater on Jan. 8 when this reporter hill of beans because Copenhagen will host a talkback discussion following becomes derailed with the appearance, the 7 p.m. screening. and subsequent infatuation, of Effy. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Young and pretty, Effy takes an interest Boulder Weekly
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our tolerance for writer/ director Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard hinges on your appreciation (or lack thereof ) for campy content. If you were weaned on John Waters, you’ll gobble up every cheese-tastic second, from a horny housewife lusting towards her daughter’s boyfriend to Christopher Meloni’s Yosemite Sam mustache. If you’re intolerant of goofy tomfoolery, you won’t survive dialogue like, “In the blink of an eye, my virginity was gone. Just like my mother.” Based on a 1999 novel by Laura Kasischke, White Bird is simultaneously a coming-of-age tale and a missing person mystery, a nonsensical combination if ever there was one. Kat (Shailene Woodley) is a high schooler stumbling into sexuality right at the point when her mother, Eve (Eva Green), disappears. Her father (Meloni) is a Willy Loman-esque sad sack who greets his wife’s disappearance with a sniveling, “She never loved me.” Through flashbacks, we see that Eve was more Mommy Dearest than “mother of the year.” Green vamps and camps it up, skewering the daughter she envies with statements like, “You look just like I did when I was you.” The film may be set in 1988, but Eve is all exploding 1950s suburban housewife, drunkenly yelling things like “I will not be dismissed by the likes of you!” Kat could care less that her mother vanishes, as she’s too busy relishing her bellyflop into sexual activity, which includes the seduction of a 40-something-year-old cop (Thomas Jane). As the movie Boulder Weekly
lurches along, the only constant is sultry and sexual silliness. For campy content to work it has to be presented with the utmost sincerity, and oh holy crap is Araki sincere. Surreal dream sequences and faux profound symbolic moments relentlessly pound viewers. You can tell Araki thought he would blow minds with moments like when Kat dreams of her mom’s hands dissolving while she does the dishes. No one, neither the people who made the film nor the characters who appear in it, have ever even heard of the word subtle. Love it or hate it, this is all by design. In 2014, Green declared herself the unquestioned Queen of Cheese, following up her smoldering kitsch in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For and 300: Rise of an Empire with this epically borked performance. However prepared you may feel for the final dream sequence that reveals the meaning of the title, I promise that you aren’t. Judging a film like this is tough because traditional rules don’t apply; performances aren’t gauged on depth or sincerity and the dialogue was specifically engineered to induce groans. It’s all a matter of taste, specifically a taste for tastelessness. White Bird in a Blizzard is technically awful, intentionally tacky and, for me, pretty dang fun. More amusing than most comedies and more entertaining than many dramas, this pitch perfect example of an infrequently used genre did it for me, but I make no promises about what it will do for you.
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cuisine review Susan France
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here’s something about the term “international” that makes it a sort of red flag when judging a restaurant by its menu cover. It’s understandable prejudice on one hand — jack-ofall-trades, master of none, bringing to mind half-assed buffets and ubiquitous houses of pancakes. But on the other hand, it shouldn’t preclude restaurants from making it their signature. There are, to start, infinite examples of cross-culture culinary adaptations: vodka sauce, meatball grinders, sushi burritos, quesadilla burgers, not to mention the magical journey Chinese food has taken in the U.S. Too, given the globalization of food culture (let alone, culture), rarer is the American chef that specializes in one cuisine, it seems, than the chef who takes from all and creates his or her own international, for all intents and purposes, style. No drop in quality, and unique creations are made. Such is the case with Bistro 503 in Lafayette. Hidden in the small indoor mall next to Jax Mercantile, the caliber of cooking and ambiance inside the restaurant is a wild surprise. At brunch one recent Saturday, we reviewed a varied menu over a powerful bloody mary and a mimosa. On that menu, you’ll find a prime rib sandwich, chicken marsala, pad thai, pupusas, and salmon with eggs benedict. Let the voyage begin.
nothing in this country, the chayote is like a crisp, 400 W. South Boulder mild squash used in Road, Lafayette, 720-583-2596 Central American and Southeast Asian cuisine. It’s not easy to cook, and here it was “stuffed” with pepper jack cheese, lightly breaded and fried and served over parmesan risotto and tomato sauce. Balance here was found in feel — the chayote was crisp outside, juicy and soft inside, like a lesstart jicama, and the risotto was again a solid base for the moving parts in the dish. What wasn’t a home run, maybe a double, were the breakfast pupusas. Buttery and crisp, the flatbreads were sparsely packed with bacon, ham and sausage, with two fried eggs, jack cheese and avocado slices on top. The flavors didn’t fully blend with the chicharron salsa, and the pupusas (gluten-free) disintegrated with each forking. The flavors were there individually, but they needed some help to meld. moist, and proved a good vessel for the It is also worth noting that regular pesto, zucchini and balsamic vinegar. breakfast and lunch menu items generalThere were so many moving parts in ly don’t exceed $10, which is remarkable that dish that were executed so perfectly given the quality of the dishes offered. that I started to rue how hidden Bistro Bistro 503 takes chances and suc503 is, and how the only other diners ceeds more often than not. It is an seemed to be regulars given the friendly example in how to do international fare banter between chef and guest. This is a well — rein in the menu scope, focus on dish that would take time to learn to fresh ingredients, and it also doesn’t hurt recreate, and even longer to think of. to be an innovative, confident and Shameless marveling continued with skilled chef. the stuffed chayote. Typically used for Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Bistro 503
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Tucked away Bistro 503 does the word ‘international’ proud by Matt Cortina When three plates came, I couldn’t resist the prettiest one. Three charred jumbo scallops topped with thin, crispy onion, sitting on risotto with julienned zucchini in a balsamic and pesto base. Swiping down with the fork put it all in one bite, and delivered balance in both flavor and feel. The scallops, each large but with varying shape, were cooked to perfection — tender, juicy and just at the edge of opaque with a crispy, bitter char. The risotto was firm but
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Odell Brewing is rolling out the second edition of its much ballyhooed Fernet Aged Porter in January. It starts with a rich imperial porter from Odell, which is then aged in Fernet barrels from Leopold Bros. distillery. “Fernet is a dark minty liqueur made with herbs and spices and aged in oak barrels. Leopold Bros. has crafted its own unique recipe which includes lavender, honeysuckle, ginger root, bitter aloe, dandelion root, rose petals, chamomile and peppermint,” Odell said in a press release. The brew is offered in 750 mL corked bottles throughout Colorado. Supplies are limited and getting your hands on one could be difficult seeing as the Fernet Aged Porter is a rare breed. “Our Fernet is the most bitter type of Amaro (Italian word for bitter) that is prepared by steeping various botanicals, with a large proportion of bitter roots, in spirit,” said distiller Todd Leopold in a press release. “So far as we are aware, it is the first of its kind produced in America since
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Settembre Cellars uses 100 percent Colorado grapes and ages their “high-terroir” fruits in new French oak barrels at their Lee Hill winery. The Fiori Reserva joins a long list of regular and reserve offerings at Settembre and tastings at the winery’s outpost will allow you to try the new wine and the company’s classics.
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Curing meats at home provides a world of culinary options you otherwise won’t find by Matt Cortina
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here’s a bit of magic in curing meat. Letting a fresh cut muscle or sausage hang just below room temperature while a salt cure slowly marbleizes and condenses the flavor of the meat over the course of months until you take it down, slice a few pieces and share it with friends and family. You can count the number of national artisan meat producers that supply a wide range of charcuterie and salumi on just about two hands. Too, it’s difficult for restaurants and stores in many states, including Colorado, to receive permits that will allow them to serve their homecured meats — as time-honored as the recipe and method may be — to the public. And so now a new movement, a home curing movement, is beginning to swell. Home producers are working with butchers and specialty retailers to safely cure a variety of old world cured meat in their refrigerators, basements and wine cellars. To figure out how to get started, Boulder R Weekly I C K S asked T E R Boulder S chefs and home curers Alberto Sabbadini (Meadowlark Farm Dinners, The Kitchen) and Dakota Soifer (Café Aion) to walk through Twhere R I C Ka Sbeginner T E R S can start their cure. First a note about safety: Unhealthy bacterial growth may appear on raw meat during the curing process, including the bacteria that causes botulism. It is important to be extremely careful, attentive and proactive about eradicating bad mold (more on this below), and deciding when to eat home cured meat. Both Soifer and Sabbadini say unequivocally that
curing meat at home is safe, and Soifer says part of successfully curing meat is recognizing where to begin and knowing your limits. “It’s raw meat so you want to be careful and I think sort of starting with things that you cook — sausages, bacon, pancetta — is a great place to start just to start to kind of understand meat and meat handling,” Soifer says. “The next step is the whole muscle salamis, like coppa, lomo, bresaola, and then you get into the ground cure: Genoa salamis, Toscanos, anything that gets ground and then cured, because that sort of has the highest risks, the air pockets, you’re handling the most, you’re introducing and manipulating the most. Those are the three categories that if you read up on it and feel comfortable about category one, move on to category two and
then if you feel comfortable, move on to three.” Sabaddini agrees, “Curing whole muscle is simple and doesn’t require casings or a stuffer. A good place to start is with the [pork] belly, which is easy and more common. Then you can move on to sausage and salame with a better idea of how the process works.” So if we start in category one, with pork belly, we can start to see how the curing process works. You can pick up a portion of pork belly from a butcher. Blackbelly Market does custom cuts, as does Whole Foods and Your Butcher Frank in Longmont. Many local farms will also have quality, freshly cut meat depending on the time of year, and Sabbadini also runs a butchery guild at Cure Farm, where you can learn to cut your own pork belly. However you get it, Soifer says a good rule of thumb is “to use stuff that you would want to cook up and eat.” You’ll want to get a cut of pork belly that can fit inside a gallon-sized Ziploc bag, Soifer says. Then, you want to rub the meat with a spice blend according to your tastes, however, you’ll want to use at least a quarter cup of kosher salt per five pounds of meat, according to noted salumi master Michael Ruhlman on his cure blog. For the spices, Soifer says he uses kosher salt, freshly ground black pepper, thyme, cloves (optional), and a splash of maple syrup after the meat is in the see CURE Page 50
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bag. Sabbadini says he’ll use salt, pepper, bay leaf, juniper berries and chili flakes on pork belly. “I’m usually conservative in the beginning,” Sabbadini says of spices. “If the first batch is light, add more until you find the right taste for you.” Make sure that the cure is “really well caked on” the meat, and then put the meat in the bag and the bag in the refrigerator for about 10-14 days. Turn the meat over every couple of days to ensure that the curing spices are working with the meat. Soifer says knowing when your bacon is done takes a bit of trial and error, and suggests keeping track for future endeavors. “It’s going to feel significantly firmer than a raw slab of pork belly,” Soifer says. “The biggest thing that I’ve found in curing is get yourself a curing diary and start with your raw ingredients, your cut of meat, how long it cured for… That’s huge.” As alluded to earlier, cooking the bacon will help ensure the safety of your newly cured meat. When curing takes on more difficulty, and more art, is what Soifer called category two and three meats — whole muscles and ground salami. Take coppa for instance. Coppa is a muscle that runs along the head, neck and upper back of the pig. You can harvest it from buying a whole pork shoulder/Boston butt from the butcher. “If I was making a coppa,” Soifer says, “I would pretty much follow the same steps [as the pork belly]. I have a measured recipe, rub it all in there, stick it in the refrigerator, wash it off, case it and then it goes into the curing cellar.” To unpack that: use whatever salt and spice rub you want, amply apply it to the meat, put it in the refrigerator for about two weeks (or until firm), rinse off the cure with wine or water, and prepare it for hanging. Soifer says he cases his muscles like coppa in sausage casings (you can use anything that breathes, like cheesecloth, intestine or artificial casings) to help keep moisture in, but says it isn’t necessary. Then the cut can be hung in the curing chamber. The curing chamber can be a number of different things, but it can’t really be your standard refrigerator anymore. That’s because there’s too little humidity in the refrigerator and the outside of the muscle will dry too quickly. To successfully cure meat, you’ll need to take time to set up a clean curing environment. “A proper curing environment doesn’t exist; you have to create it,” Sabbadini says. “To start, you can buy a
used fridge or wine cellar, a small basement could be an option, preferably north-facing with a window and a stable temperature between 40 and 50 degrees. It has to have some air flow but not too much.” Of the whole muscles, Soifer says, “You’re going to want them to age in a nice environment. I think it’s around 55 degrees and 60 percent humidity. What a damp cave would be.” Sabbadini says he wouldn’t cure meat in a chamber over 50 degrees, which highlights the variety in curing methods. Once hanging, you’ll start to see one of two kinds of mold grow on that coppa or other curing specimen. The good kind (white), or the bad kind (brown, green and fuzzy). The good kind of mold protects the meat and keeps the bad mold at bay. If you do see bad mold growing on the meat, “You can get rid of it with a towel soaked in warm water and red wine vinegar,” says Sabbadini. Soifer says he will sometimes introduce bacteria to the cure in order to promote the growth of good mold. You can buy something like Bactoferm F-RM-52 and spritz it on the meat occasionally, Soifer says, to “offensively go after” the bad mold. Soifer says additions like the Bactoferm help people who can’t create a perfect curing environment. One final way to mitigate risk when preparing cured meats is to add nitrates, or pink salt, to the cure. Soifer says if you plan on serving any home cured meat to anyone, adding a quarter or an eighth of a teaspoon to the original salt cure “is a huge insurance policy.” “There’s very valid arguments against using preservatives and I totally respect those, but I feel like at home you can really control the amount you’re using and you probably shouldn’t be eating pounds and pounds of salamis and cured meats anyways. You don’t want to kill anyone. That sucks,” Soifer says. Soifer says you’ll know when your cut of meat is done when it reduces by about 30 percent in size. For prosciutto — a whole leg of ham — that could take a year; for coppa, it could take two months. Salami and ground cures vary on size, but Sabbadini offered this final tip: “The thicker it is, the longer it takes. Start tasting it after a month to make sure it’s not too soft or too hard. If it’s too hard it means it dried too fast. This process takes time, and can’t be rushed,” Sabaddini says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Dear Dan: What is your stance on maintenance sex? I’d never thought about the issue until reading Amy Poehler’s new memoir. I didn’t find anything she said controversial, and was surprised when this quote blew up in the feminist blogosphere: “ You have to have sex with your husband occasionally, even though you’re exhausted. Sorry.” I’d never realized many people firmly believe one should have sex with their partner only when they are in the mood! Some articles even made it sound like maintenance sex is a form of nonconsensual sex. I have sex with my husband pretty often when I’m not in the mood. He would prefer sex every day, and I’m more of an every-other-day or twice-a-week girl. I’d say about 25 percent of the time we are having sex, I am doing it for maintenance purposes. I always enjoy it and I get off the majority of the time, but I don’t always go in wanting it or needing it. Is this wrong? Am I not the feminist I thought I was? — Maintenance Sex Supporter Dear MSS: I’m pro maintenance sex, MSS. Sometimes I sex my husband when I’m not feeling it; sometimes he sexes me when he’s not feeling it. We take care of each other. But maintenance sex is not the same thing as enthusiastic sex. The person asking for maintenance sex — the horny partner who’s being indulged/ milked/sexed by the non-horny partner — shouldn’t expect mind-blowing, toecurling, sheet-shredding sex. Maintenance sex is mellow sex, it’s lowimpact and low-stress, it’s sex that requires minimal effort, and it’s likely to be non-penetrative sex — and gratitude is the only appropriate response. Another important note: Being pro maintenance sex doesn’t obligate a person to have sex whenever their partner wants it. Proponents and practitioners of maintenance sex still get to say no. There’s a difference between indulging your partner when you’re not feeling it — when you could take it or leave it — and forcing yourself to have sex (or being guilted/ pressured/forced) when you’re too exhausted, too sick, or too angry for sex. And as you’ve discovered, MSS, and I can also attest, sometimes you go into sex “not wanting or needing it” and then you start to enjoy it, too, i.e., not in the mood when you started but defiBoulder Weekly
nitely in the mood before you finished. Those are the times when mellow, lowimpact, low-stress maintenance sex turns into mind-blowing, toe-curling, sheet-shredding sex. I would hate to think of how much great sex I would’ve missed if my feminist principles didn’t allow for maintenance sex. Dear Dan: Vanilla straight guy here. As a fellow Washingtonian, I feel proud to live in a state that was among the first to legalize marriage equality by a popular majority vote of the people. I avidly follow the NFL and eat fried bologna sandwiches and do lots of other manly things. However, I have always loved musical theater. Whenever I go to New York, I have to see at least two or three big shows. My question: Is it socially acceptable for me to good-naturedly say, “I’m totally gay for musical theater”? Or is it a slur that I shouldn’t say, no matter how playful or well-intended? — The Cautious Joker Dear TCJ: When someone says, “That’s so gay,” but means, “That’s so stupid,” they’re being homophobic. Obviously. But a straight guy who says he’s gay for musicals isn’t saying he’s stupid for them, TCJ, he’s saying, “I love something that many gay men are passionate about — and I’m not talking about cock.” Not all gay men are passionate about musical theater, of course, just as not all straight men are into football. But a man with a passion for musical theater is likelier to be gay; if not, he’ll at least be comfortable around gay people. I’ve heard gay guys who avidly follow the NFL describe themselves as straight for football. Likewise, a man with a passion for football is likelier to be straight. You saying, “I’m gay for musical theater,” or a gay guy saying, “I’m straight for football,” amounts to a humorous acknowledgment that the majority of people interested in musicals or football are gay or straight, respectively. In neither case is it an insult or a put-down. But while I think you can continue to say that you’re gay for musicals, TCJ, some gay men (or some of our more annoying “allies”) may take offense. You don’t have to pay attention to those people — they’re just gay for taking offense. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow him @fakedansavage on Twitter. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Maybe you have had a dream like this: You’re wandering around a house you live in, and at the end of a long hallway you come to a door you’ve never seen before. How could you have missed it in the past? It must have been there the whole time. You turn the knob, open the door, and slip inside. Amazing! The room is full of interesting things that excite your imagination. What’s more, on the opposite wall there’s another door that leads to further rooms. In fact, you realize there’s an additional section of the house you have never known about or explored. Whether or not you have had a dream like that, Taurus, I’m betting that in 2015, you will experience a symbolically similar series of events in your waking life.
Deathwatch beetles have a peculiar approach to the mating game. Their seduction technique consists of smacking their heads against a hard object over and over again. This generates a tapping sound that is apparently sexy to potential partners. I discourage you from similar behaviors as you seek the kind of love you want in 2015. The first rule of romantic engagement is this: Sacrificing or diminishing yourself may seem to work in the short run, but it can’t possibly lead to lasting good. If you want to stir up the best results, treat yourself with tenderness and respect.
APRIL 20-MAY 20:
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
The Greek god Zeus had seven wives. Themis, Leto, Eurynome, and Hera were among them. Another was his older sister Demeter, and a sixth was his aunt Mnemosyne. Then there was the sea nymph Metis. Unfortunately, he ate Metis — literally devoured her — which effectively ended their marriage. In 2015, Gemini, I encourage you to avoid Zeus’s jumbled, complicated approach to love and intimacy. Favor quality over quantity. Deepen your focus rather than expanding your options. Most importantly, make sure your romantic adventures never lead to you feeling fragmented or divided against yourself. This is the year you learn more than ever before about what it’s like for all the different parts of you to be united.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
Here are three of my top wishes for you in 2105: You will have a clear, precise sense of what’s yours and what’s not yours ... of what’s possible to accomplish and what’s impossible ... of what will be a good influence on you and what won’t be. To help ensure that these wishes come true, refer regularly to the following advice from Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert: “You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. That’s a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
Author Robert Moss has published 27 books. When he talks about the art of launching and completing big projects, I listen attentively. There’s one piece of advice he offers that would be particularly helpful for you to keep in mind throughout the first half of 2015. “If we wait until we are fully prepared in order to do something, we may never get it done,” he says. “It’s important to do things before we think we are ready.” Can you handle that, Leo? Are you willing to give up your fantasies about being perfectly qualified and perfectly trained and perfectly primed before you dive in?
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
The fish known as the coelacanths were thought to have become extinct 66 million years ago. That was when they disappeared from the fossil record. But in 1938 a fisherman in South Africa caught a live coelacanth. Eventually, whole colonies were discovered in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa and near Indonesia. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening in your life during the coming months, Virgo. An influence you believed to have disappeared from your life will resurface. Should you welcome and embrace it? Here’s what I think: Only if you’re interested in its potential role in your future, not because of a nostalgic attachment.
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SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a German composer whose organ music is still played today. He was a major influence on a far more famous German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). When Bach was a young man, he decided it was crucial for him to experience Buxtehude’s music first-hand. He took a leave of absence from his job and walked over 250 miles to the town where Buxtehude lived. There he received the guidance and inspiration he sought. In 2015, Sagittarius, I’d love to see you summon Bach’s determination as you go in quest of the teaching you want and need.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
Even in normal times, you are a fount of regeneration. Your ever-growing hair and fingernails are visible signs of your nonstop renewal. A lot of other action happens without your conscious awareness. For example, your tastebuds replace themselves every two weeks. You produce 200 billion red blood cells and 10 billion white blood cells every day. Every month the epidermis of your skin is completely replaced, and every 12 months your lungs are composed of a fresh set of cells. In 2015, you will continue to revitalize yourself in all these ways, but will also undergo a comparable regeneration of your mind and soul. Here’s my prediction: This will be a year of renaissance, rejuvenation, and reinvention.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living,” says a character in Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. If you have ever felt that way, Aquarius, I predict that you will get some relief in 2015. Your bones won’t be straining as much as they have in the past because you will be living at least one of the lives you have wanted to live but haven’t been able to before. How you will handle all the new lightness that will be available?
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
“Erotomania” is a word for the erroneous fantasies people entertain when they imagine that a celebrity is in love with them. Laughable, right? Just because I have dreams of Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey texting me seductive notes doesn’t mean that she genuinely yearns for my companionship. And yet most of us, including you and me, harbor almost equally outlandish beliefs and misapprehensions about all kinds of things. They may not be as farfetched as those that arise from erotomania, but they are still out of sync with reality. The good news, Pisces, is that in 2015 you will have the best chance ever to become aware of and shed your delusions — even the long-running, deeply-rooted kinds.
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After a year, it appears that legalization might just work
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t’s hard to believe that it’s been one columnist Maureen Dowd, in a widely full year since retail cannabis shops distributed column, reported feeling like opened, and two full years that she was going to die after eating too cannabis has been legal in much of an edible. Colorado. So much has happened, Since edibles make up a healthy perbut the best news of all is that, all things centage of state retail sales (probably considered, the experiment seems to be 30-40 percent), the majority of people working. obviously don’t have a problem with There is no real way to tell after a edible dosages. Still, medical patients year how legalization has affected the have used higher-dosage edibles for people who live in a state Courtesy of Business Wire that dared to try something no state had ever attempted. But despite cannabis still being prohibited on a federal level (but legal in the city where the government resides), Colorado and Washington’s new laws continue to show that legalization is a viable Please, governor, no more expensive, slick “scare kids” ad campaigns that alternative to the so-called include “lab rat” cages. war on drugs. The state was a madhouse 365 days ago, with national and international media parked years, and moving those same products in front of the few dispensaries that into a market of unprepared newbies were open for legalization’s first day. produced some confusion. Accounts of long lines outside shops, The legislative solution isn’t perfect, high prices and product shortages domi- but now retail clients have access to nated the news. The media atmosphere lower-dosage edibles to better learn was intense, almost like everybody was their limits. You can’t overdose on canstaked out, waiting around for somenabis, but you could have an unpleasant, thing bad to happen. Dowd-like experience, and hopefully, But nothing did. And today many the attention to dosage will help alleviColoradans now stop by and pick up ate much of that. And as far as I can their cannabis on their way to King see, there isn’t much more the state can Soopers or the shopping center. do to protect people from themselves. There have been hiccups. Probably Finally, just a word about a couple of the biggest concerned edibles. Early things I hope we don’t repeat in 2015. news stories concentrated on an apparThe first is Gov. John Hickenlooper’s ent suicide and a domestic murder after “scare teens campaign” that included edibles ingestion, and New York Times life-sized lab rat cages in locations
around the state. Just behind that is the great Halloween “cannabis candy” scare promoted by the Denver Police Department and anti-cannabis groups. The guv’s $2 million, highly publicized, high-intensity advertising boondoggle was so badly thought out and in such poor taste that the Boulder County School District, certainly no fan of cannabis use among children, came out publicly against it. The Halloween candy scare was promoted by the Denver Police Department, which has opposed legalization without ever explaining why its own efforts to uphold prohibition have never worked, either. Media coverage reached fever pitch in the days leading up to Halloween, with television announcers suggesting to gullible parents that evil pot smokers, who are paying high prices for edibles, would not hesitate to dose innocent children. If the implications weren’t so clichéd, they would be offensive, and, of course, there were no reported lacedcandy incidents in the state, or anywhere else, for that matter. Both of these are typical of continued, failed policies promoted by those who have a stake in and want to continue the war against cannabis, much to the consternation of a majority of the country’s voters, who continue to send the opposite message to state legislators. Both outline a pervasive feeling among some officials that making cannabis legal for adults also makes more teenagers want to try it. While there is no actual evidence of that so far, they continue to insist that legalization is encouraging young people. But as the “lab rat” campaign proved, trying to scare kids into not
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using cannabis just doesn’t work. And as the last 40 years of federal policy has shown, it will never work. Last year, during a stakeholder’s meeting on edibles, Gina Carbone of SmartColorado said that legalization has made parenting harder. That’s the part that really baffles me. Does studying the issues and actually talking with your children honestly about the pros and cons of cannabis like you would about tobacco, alcohol or sex or anything else important really make parents’ jobs more difficult? Why would parenting have been any easier when cannabis was illegal and kids were getting it on the black market? The National Institute on Drug Abuse just released its annual Monitoring the Future survey of 50,000 high school students. NIDA generally funds only research that studies cannabis “abuse.” But its own survey shows a slight decline in students reporting cannabis use in the years since states have begun legalizing. “Now that the national conversation about marijuana is ‘above ground,’ parents and teachers are able to have honest conversations with teens based on sound science, health and safety,” says Marsha Rosenbaum of the Drug Policy Alliance. “The declines in use revealed in [Monitoring the Future] may well indicate that teens are listening, and choosing to make wise decisions.” I couldn’t put it any better. Happy new year, everybody. You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http:// news.kgnu.org/category/features/weedbetween-the-lines/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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