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People of the Year

(Re: “People of the Year: Our Health, Our Future, Our Longmont,” cover story, Dec. 27.) The People of the Year award brought tears to my eyes, because this was truly a community effort, led by, but transcending, those mentioned in the article. I am overjoyed that such an effort by a group of people is recognized and appreciated.

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My efforts continue to be for my 2-year-old and 3-month-old grandchildren. To quote Dickens: “It is not a slight thing when they who are so fresh from God love us!” We just can’t accept

that love and condemn them to a painful future.

I must also mention my deep appreciation to Jefferson Dodge, Joel Dyer and the Boulder Weekly for their journalism and courageous reporting on fracking and its impact on Boulder County.

They have done this respectfully, courteously and truthfully. As Gandhi’s Satygraha (truthforce) led India out of

under an official seal featuring a bright star beaming onto an open book, with a banner proclaiming: “Let there be light.”

Straightforward and rather elegant! But it’s so old school, cried the rebranders, so out of sync with today’s market-oriented world — especially now that universities are multibillion-dollar, conglomeratized enterprises run, not by academicians, but by highly paid executives whose chief role is to charm money out of wealthy individuals and corporate benefactors. Forget light, “Let there be money,” is the new academic aspiration.

Thus, the UC system was rebranded with an abstract, U-shaped logo with the letter “C” subtly burned into it. It looks very much like a logo for a bank — and that’s the point, for it’s meant to impress money people. As explained by the C.M.O. of UC, “The university

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new fad is sweeping across America’s university campuses — and it’s seriously goofy.

This latest craze is not led by students making a cultural statement, but by top administrators trying to make a corporate statement. It’s called “rebranding,” an attempt to modernize the image of venerable institutions by adopting corporate-styled logos, slogans and other marketing fluff.

For example, for 144 years, the University of California has thrived

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needed to ... do a more proactive job” in expressing “where the university was headed.”

Yes, and what better way to do that than by resorting to PR artifice and corporate gobbledygook, right? All you need to know about where universities are “headed” is that their latest administrative fad is to hire a C.M.O. A what?

A chief marketing officer.

The good news is that students overwhelmingly prefer light to marketing. More than 50,000 outraged students signed an online petition protesting UC’s corporatized logo, forcing officials there to withdraw it.

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’ve been exchanging emails on gun control with an old friend who also happens to be a gun-fearing, treehugging, knee-jerking, banners-snapping-in-the-breeze progressive.

Like Andrew O’Connor (my apologies for misspelling his name in the previous column), he appears to believe the Second Amendment is an anachronism that should be largely dispensed with if not outright repealed, and supports most of the liberal ideas for regulating private gun ownership in America out of existence. No surprises there. What did surprise me was when he unburdened himself of the following thoughts: “On the other hand, I don’t think America’s deeper problem with guns can be solved by regulating guns,” he wrote. “Our deeper problem is that many of our immigrant traditions — especially the Scotch-Irish tradition — brought with them cultures of vengeance.

“Americans kill Americans with guns because in many parts of the nation, our culture celebrates vengeance. What’s interesting is that the murder rate is three times higher in Texas than in New England, according to Albion’s Seed, a 900+ page study of the different immigrant groups that shaped America. Why? The immigrant sources of Texas culture were from herding backgrounds (think Scottish highlands), in which one’s willingness to get even was the only way one prevented thieves from stealing the livestock. The immigrant sources of New England culture were more agrarian and didn’t celebrate vengeance as a virtue…”

If you are a standard-issue Boulder progressive nodding in agreement with this line of thought, I would like to point out one problem: It reeks of racism.

The racism in this case is directed against white Scots-Irish Americans, who are singled out for introducing vengeance into American culture.

If you don’t think the foregoing sentiments are racist, consider the following paraphrase I worked up, which is equally plausible, equally intellectually corrupt, and equally racist: The reason there is so much gun violence in the black community is that its tribal-based culture celebrates vengeance. Gangs and gang violence are just a modern expression of tribal warfare based on score-settling and on avenging real and imagined grievances in huntergatherer societies. Blacks are into guns and gangs because they never got over being tribal hunter-gatherers in Africa.

It’s worth noting that the murder rate in Texas is three times higher than the murder rate in New England. This can be explained

by the fact that Texas has almost twice as many blacks as New England, as well as disproportionately more Hispanics, another ethnic group whose culture, based on Spanish feudalism and Levantine tribalism, also contains deeply rooted traditions of vengeance.

See what I mean?

Cast as an “explanation” of gun violence in the black and Hispanic communities, most progressives would consider this thinking racist on its face. Cast as an “explanation” of gun violence in America that blames it on the Scots-Irish whites, progressives like my friend can buy into it, oblivious to the underlying racism.

How can this be? I suspect it is because the progressive embrace of “identity politics” is implicitly racist and only a short step removed from overt racism, and it is easy for progressives to slip over the line and start talking racist trash about white Americans, especially white male Americans — as a number of Democrats and progressives have done while taking victory laps after Obama’s re-election.

I suspect most American progressives don’t realize how deeply they’ve strayed into racism, but the fact that a racist explanation of gun violence which they would find appalling if applied to blacks seems plausible to them when applied to whites means that they are knee deep into it whether they know it or not.

And it stinks. The truth is Americans don’t buy guns because America is a vengeance-based society. They buy them for self-defense. Self-defense is not just a macho fantasy rationalization for buying a gun, much as some would like to believe.

Americans use guns to protect themselves about 1 million times a year. In all but a few thousand of these cases no shots are fired. Just the fact that the person is armed is sufficient to deter attacks.

And the people who use guns for selfdefense are not just white males, as much as gun control advocates would like you to believe they are. They include blacks and Hispanics who live in high-crime neighborhoods, women, gays, seniors living alone, abused spouses, victims of harassment, and otheres whose day-to-day safety can’t be guaranteed by the police.

Self-defense is not the same thing as vengeance, and not all violence is the product of vengeance. Sometimes, most of the time, violence is the product of evil.

Disarming the innocent and the lawabiding doesn’t prevent violence. It enables it.

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n his op-ed “Repeal the 2nd Amendment. This will certainly make Amendment? How about the the USA safer for our children, police First?” (Dec. 27), Paul Danish erro- and everyone else. But the NRA refuses neously tries to equate my call to to act in a reasonable manner, and it and repeal the Second Amendment people like Mr. Danish would rather arm with censorship and then disingenuously teachers and turn our schools into armed suggests that if the Second Amendment camps, violate the privacy rights of menis repealed then the First Amendment tally ill Americans, attack video games might as well be repealed. LOL. Mr. and “liberal” Hollywood than reasonable Danish, you and everyone else know that gun regulation; anything but restricting words don’t kill people, guns kill people. gun sales. The NRA’s answer to the Paul Danish and the NRA keep getting atrocity in Connecticut of having teachit wrong; however, Bob Dylan got it ers carry guns with armed security in right back in every school in 1963, in his epic the USA is dansong “Masters of gerous, ludicrous, would War,” when he prohibitively sang: expensive and just rather arm teachers You that never impractical. By and turn our schools making obtuse done nothin’ arguments, the But build to into armed camps, NRA and gun destroy violate the privacy proponents like You play with my rights of mentally ill Paul Danish have world demonstratLike it’s your little Americans and attack toy ed that they are video games.

You put a gun in unreasonable, my hand refuse to comproAnd you hide from mise and that my eyes they cannot be And you turn and reasoned with nor run farther trusted to work in good faith toward a When the fast bullets fly. viable solution to tragedies like the The military industrial complex that slaughter of innocents in Connecticut.

Dylan so artfully protested against and All the NRA cares about is selling more today’s gun manufacturers and the guns, it simply does not care about the NRA are one in the same. They all lives of Americans and puts profits before profit from selling fear and weapons as people; consequently, the rest of America they merchandise death. Why should and the Obama administration must the United States continue to allow understand that the NRA is the enemy such easy access to semi-automatic and that it is counterproductive to and rifles and handguns so that gun manudiametrically opposed to a safer, saner facturers can make a profit off death America and any form of reasonable and and cite the Second Amendment as jus- necessary gun control. It is all or nothing tification to perpetuate this slaughter? with the NRA and pro-gun advocates Shamefully, gun sales went up after the like Mr. Danish, who will not stand for Connecticut elementary school shootany gun regulation, versus the Obama administration and the rest of America, ing atrocity because the NRA treated who realize that we must implement gun this latest shooting tragedy as just regulation to save lives. another gun marketing opportunity.

They have had their way for too long The U.S. is ranked #1 in the world in and too many Americans have died private gun ownership with over because the NRA made it so easy for 270,000,000 guns. The gun manufacsomeone to pull a trigger, but we, the turers, the NRA and pro-gun advocates like Mr. Danish allow the NRA to rely people, have to say enough and no more upon the Second Amendment in order Sandy Hook atrocities and support the to justify and continue to profit off the repeal of the Second Amendment. needless and tragic deaths of so many Lafayette resident O’Connor is a former Americans. public defender in Florida and New It is past time to repeal the Second Mexico.

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SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE, AKA CIA APPPOINTMENT I guess it’s impossible for Hillary Clinton to fill every position in the Obama administration, but it sure would be nice considering the alternative choices. We all know what happened to Obama’s last CIA head, David Petraeus — let’s just say he got caught with his pants down. That’s what makes Obama’s selection of current White House homeland security adviser John Brennan to replace Petraeus so infuriating. John Brennan is a proven liar perfectly willing to deceive the American people for political purposes.

You may remember Brennan as the guy at the microphone for the Obama administration following the killing of Osama bin Laden by a Navy SEAL team.

With a straight face, Brennan told all White House photo by Pete Souza of America that he had personally witnessed the raid live as bin Laden put up a fierce fire fight, eventually grabbing a defenseless woman as a human shield just before he died a coward’s death, only hours after he had been watching porn while stroking his newly dyed beard with great vanity.

Great story or, as it turns out, screenplay, but unfortunately, Brennan was lying through his teeth because he knew the truth: namely, that we had found bin Laden in the middle of the night and shot him dead plus a few more times for good measure even though he never picked up a gun or hid behind anyone. We could have captured him but that would have created its own problems with where to hold him and his trial, not to mention there was that coming election for Brennan’s boss as well.

Granted, Brennan would have made an excellent choice for propaganda minister on Joseph McCarthy’s staff, but not a CIA director in a time of warrantless wiretaps and other significant assaults on our freedoms. As a bonus, Brennan’s critics have also accused him of being supportive of using torture as a means to extract information from suspected, though untried, political prisoners with ties to terrorism, ties such as maybe living in the same village as a suspected terrorist or having a similar sounding last name when pronounced by a white guy from Alabama.

Bottom line, paying back Brennan with an appointment for his willingness to lie to advance Obama’s political career is bad enough, but giving this manipulative propaganda practitioner the full power and backing of the CIA to play with is wrong and dangerous.

THE SHORT VERSION The elk is still dead. The cops are still bumbling.

COMMISSIONERS’ TOUGH TALK We’ve given the county commissioners a healthy ration of criticism over the years, most recently when it came to their approach to regulating oil and gas operations in the county, so when they do something good, especially in that realm, we feel like we should throw them a bone.

Jefferson Dodge The commissioners wasted no time lambasting the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) for its Jan. 7 decision to adopt a pansy-ass rule for groundwater testing. In a press release sent out that same day, our county leaders not only gave credence to environmentalists’ claims that the rule is one of the weakest in the nation, they ripped the COGCC for deciding “against putting in place a science-based groundwater protection plan.”

Saying they are “extremely disappointed” in the rule, the commissioners note that the Greater Wattenberg Area, which stretches into eastern Boulder County, is “exempted wholesale” from the rule that applies to the rest of the state, “making this significant expanse of land subject only to a cursory testing requirement despite having some of the most intensive drilling activity in the state. This type of rulemaking at the state level is a prime example of why local governments should be able to respond directly to their citizens’ concerns and provide for their community’s request for more protection.”

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Don’t get chippy

people kill people. Can you imagine the jobs a decision like that would create?

Both in building the armaments that every red-blooded American male would want in his armory and in replacing all those red-blooded American males killed by their neighbors’ flame throwers, tanks, bombs and thermo-nuclear weapons? Economic problems solved. (Mr. Danish, you are free to use this idea.)

The only part of the First Amendment that is truly bothersome

and has proven to be quite deadly over the years is the freedom of religion but not from religion, but to each his own.

Just for Mr. Danish’s information, because evidently he wasn’t aware of this fact, the First Amendment does have restrictions. … You know, “yelling fire in a crowded theater,” threatening various public officials, uttering “fighting words,” hate speech and slander. To be fair, I don’t think it is legal to own a thermonuclear weapon, except maybe in Texas (not sure what Perry and Gohmert have

been up to over the holidays).

Finally, while not particularly proud of the fact, I’ve used harsh “words” with my children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren from time to time. They are all alive.

Congratulations once again to Mr. Danish on his victory, and best wishes for a repeat win in 2013. The competition is stiff, but I’m sure he can prevail.

James C. Bailey, Jr./Boulder Editor’s note: Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment.

(Re: “Greetings and guesses from Tel Aviv,” Danish Plan, Dec. 13) “Things got chippy in Gaza last month.”

Interesting way to describe the Palestinian victims of Israeli violence.

Bet you wouldn’t say things got chippy in Auschwitz. Bet you wouldn’t say things got chippy if one of your family members was murdered. Since I consider all life to be precious, I don’t see a big difference between trivializ-100010001000 100010001000 100010001000 100010001000 100010001000 100010001000 100010001 ing the deaths of Palestinians or Jews.

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(Re: “Repeal the Second Amendment? How about the First?”

Danish Plan, Dec. 27) Danish won! It seems there is an unannounced contest among the right wing to see who can say the most batshit crazy thing.

Danish, while having several entries for the year, in my opinion, has beat out the likes of Rick Perry, Louie Gohmert, Alan West, Todd Akin and Michele Bachmann, just to name a few, with his last post of 2012, attempting to conflate the dangers of the Second Amendment with the “dangers” of the First.

First, using the Second Amendment to justify individual “gun” ownership is nuts to anyone who has thoughtfully examined the Second Amendment and is not being paid by the NRA or the gun manufacturers.

“Gun” is not mentioned anywhere in the clause, but “a well-regulated militia” is; we have over 350 million guns and only 51 well-regulated militias, the state’s national guards and the federal military, of which few of the gun owners are members.

When faced with the logic of the situation the gun enthusiasts/sellers/ spokesmen for the industry always raise the canard, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” As I mentioned, guns are not mentioned in the amendment, only “arms,” which, by definition, include a plethora of lethal weaponry.

Of course, if we were to take a strict constructionist view of the Second Amendment (like the right-wing Supreme Court justices would probably do if they weren’t in thrall to the gun industry and their supporters) we would say flame throwers, tanks, bombs, thermo-nuclear weapons don’t kill people, Boulder Weekly

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news Local lawmakers take aim at fracking

by Jefferson Dodge

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racking will be squarely in the crosshairs of several Boulder County lawmakers during the legislative session that started this week, due in part to frustration with the way a state commission recently chose to regulate oil and gas operations.

On Jan. 7, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) adopted a new rule for groundwater testing that environmental activists called one of the weakest in the nation, regulations that some say requires only a modicum of testing in the heavily drilled Wattenberg Field, which extends into eastern Boulder County.

The decision seems to have only fueled Democratic lawmakers’ desire to take matters into their own hands when it comes to setting policy for oil and gas operations in Colorado. And they say they intend to not only augment health and safety measures surrounding drilling and extraction processes, but wrest some power away from the COGCC and turn it over to local governments.

“I had hoped the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission would do something responsible and robust, and I don’t even think they got to responsible,” State Sen. Matt Jones, D-Louisville, told Boulder Weekly, adding that the commission’s new rule only requires the drilling of one groundwater monitoring well per square mile, which makes it likely that the spread of any contamination won’t be detected until it’s out of hand.

“Even if you found something with that, it would be so late that you couldn’t ever fix it, 5,000 or 8,000 feet down,” he says. “People are watching the rulemaking and are very disappointed in it.”

Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, adds that the state’s new setback of 500 feet from homes and schools — it has historically been 350 feet — is “just not acceptable to most Boulder County residents. …

I’m not sure any number is necessarily acceptable, but

certainly something more than 500 feet has got to be in order.”

“We were hoping the recommendations of the Department of Natural Resources and the COGCC would be robust and adequate enough to satisfy a lot of the concerns we have and our constituents have,” says House Majority Leader Dickey Lee Hullinghorst, D-Longmont. “We’re finding that’s probably not the case at this point.”

Jones and Foote say they intend to sponsor legislation related to fracking, although they are loath to get into details since they want to see what the COGCC does and more conversations and negotiations are needed before bills are introduced. They say other legislators from other areas around the state that have been affected by oil and gas drilling are interested in sponsoring legislation as well. State Sen. Morgan Carroll. D-Aurora, recently announced that she is introducing a bill that would require water testing before and after drilling as well as priority permit processing for companies using “green” completion standards. It establishes a 2,000-foot setback from homes, schools, hospitals, radioactive sources, explosives and Superfund sites — unless approved by the relevant local government.

More local control appears to be high on several lawmakers’ agendas, in fact.

“We need to give local governments the tools and ability to regulate this appropriately,” Hullinghorst says. “They’re the ones that can do it best on a caseby-case basis.”

Hullinghorst doubts an outright statewide ban on fracking would stand up in court, but there are other measures available to lawmakers, from stiffer fines for violations to better bonding so that taxpayers aren’t left holding the bag when problems arise.

When asked about the battle cry from the other side — that impinging on oil and gas development will have a negative effect on jobs and the economy

Doubts still plague election results despite state ruling

by Jefferson Dodge

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uestions continue to swirl around activists’ complaints regarding irregularities in the Boulder County election process, and while the secretary of state has largely brushed aside the concerns, a local elections official says the clerk and recorder’s office will take them seriously.

Boulder Weekly reported in early 12 January 10, 2013

September that there was evidence that ballots could be traced back to individual voters, and election concerns have snowballed ever since.

But in a Dec. 31 letter accepting the county’s vote totals, Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert dismissed most of the allegations outlined in a Nov. 26 report written by the majority of the local canvass board, which declined to certify the results of

— Boulder County’s Democratic lawmakers point to the economic damage done by not regulating the practice sufficiently.

Hullinghorst points to decreasing property values and declines in tourism and recreation opportunities.

“Oil and gas revenue is important, and we recognize that,” she says. “It just needs to be balanced, and balanced appropriately with the other needs of the state, with public health, which has to be top priority, and with other economic concerns. It’s a balancing act.”

Jones says clean air and clean water are a crucial part of Colorado’s “brand” that attracts employers and their jobs.

“In our area, that’s why high-tech companies come here, or biotech, or the beer industry,” he says.

“Industry tends to talk about jobs all the time and leave out the part that they have the responsibility of proving that this thing is safe, and others shouldn’t bear any kind of problems based on their activities.”

Jones also rips the oil and gas industry for its recent effort to suppress testimony from its critics at hearings before the COGCC. “I thought it was atrocious to not let regular people voice their concerns about something that directly affects them, and is directly affecting their families, and directly affects their quality of life and their jobs,” he says.

Foote agrees.

“I found the recent request by the industry to limit or eliminate testimony at the recent COGCC hearings to be pretty outrageous,” he told BW. “I think history shows that when one side starts trying to limit speech from another side, then that side knows they’re losing, and any attempt to try to stop public testimony should be fought at every step of the way.

“Right now, what we have is the industry saying, See FRACKING Page 13

the election. That majority, namely two Republicans and two American Constitution Party members, has been at odds with Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall ever since the four began meeting without her blessing in late September and started questioning processes that Hall, a Democrat, said was outside their purview.

Their complaints include not being provided with detailed ballot information required by the secretary of state’s rules, observations that signatures were being verified by election workers in as little as 2.5 seconds each, watchers’ reports about an unreliable sorting machine and being denied access to certain election activities.

For the most part, Staiert said in

her Dec. 31 letter, the complaints fell outside the scope of her office’s investigation and were not addressed because they would not have affected the outcome of the election. But she pledged to work with Hall’s office “to ensure compliance” with election rules.

Canvass board members still question whether their complaints will merit attention, even if they didn’t affect the outcome of the results.

“Why would you write rules if they’re not to be obeyed?” Canvass Board Chair Russ Boehm, a Republican, told BW. “I don’t care whether it changes the outcome of the election or not. I probably violate traffic See ELECTIONS Page 13

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rules every day, and even though it doesn’t change the outcome of the world, if I get stopped, I’ll probably get a ticket. … If a violation of these rules doesn’t cause the outcome of an election to change, then the rules essentially don’t count.”

He also questioned whether the reports of election watchers would prompt any follow-up.

“Why bother to have watchers when you’re going to run them through the shredder?” Boehm asks, adding that local election processes should be more transparent. “The loser should walk away knowing that the process wasn’t the reason for the loss. … It’s supposed to be our election. It can’t be the election that belongs to the elected officials.”

The response from the clerk and recorder’s office has been defensive instead of responsive, according to Boehm.

“Hillary Hall doesn’t want any help,” he says. “She knows answers to questions we haven’t even asked yet.”

But Deputy Clerk Molly Tayer told BW that the canvass board was provided with all of the election data required in the official abstract, including details the board claims were left out, like the number of provisional ballots by rejection code and the number of spoiled/ damaged ballots. Still, she says, all feedback — including areas outside the canvass board’s jurisdiction that members called into question — will be considered as the clerk and recorder’s office tweaks its processes for the next election, as it does every year.

Tayer says watchers’ reports will be archived, and that the complaint about election workers providing the wrong ballot style in six precincts — the concern that Staiert appears to have taken most seriously in her Dec. 31 letter, and which resulted in having more ballots counted than cast — was accounted for in final election results and is “pretty common in any polling place election.”

When asked whether her office would look into any legitimate concern raised by the canvass board, regardless of whether it affected the outcome of the election, Tayer replied, “Of course we will. Like I said, we learn in every election, and we make every election better as a result of the learning we do, so if that’s something we need to get a little more focused on, or learn a little bit more about how these processes perform, we want to do it. We want to do it well. It’s certainly information I will look at and I will consider, again, as we make improvements. I don’t know that there is anything there.”

The secretary of state’s office did not respond to a request for comment before press time.

Tayer stopped short of acknowledging that Boehm and other canvass board members identified violations.

“I don’t think that Russ has demonstrated we have not followed the rules,” she told BW. “We followed the rules the way we were asked to, and the way we have performed across many elections.”

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‘Hey, this is safe, trust us,’” he continues. “And then you have the COGCC meetings where real people stand up and say, ‘Hey, this is how this has been affecting me or my neighbors.’ I guess the industry doesn’t want people to hear that. But it seems like at this point it’s really the only counterbalance we have to what the industry is saying.”

When asked what happens if the COGCC tries to delay some of its decisions until after it’s too late for legislators to step in and strengthen its new regulations, Hullinghorst says, “Then we will act anyway. There’s the expectation that we do something. So I think we’re going to do it, one way or another.”

COGCC Director Matt Lepore did not respond to a request for comment by press time.

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In response to a question about whether the battle over fracking will become as partisan as it was in the previous legislative session, Foote says, “I hope not, but having said that, it certainly could be, particularly if it divides up into the debate lines that it did last time, which is, is it about jobs or is it not about jobs? Really, it should be about health and safety, and I don’t see how that’s a partisan issue.”

He adds that since there is an estimated $500 million in oil and gas resources sitting under the city of Longmont alone, the cost incurred by more regulation is going to be a drop in the bucket.

“Any kind of additional protections are going to be chicken feed compared to the amount of money these companies are going to make,” Foote says.

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Activists warn of plutonium under proposed Jefferson Parkway

by Elizabeth Miller

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hen remediation efforts reached the eastern edge of the former site of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, called the Wind Blow Area Exposure Unit, the Environmental Protection Agency determined that while contaminants of concern were found at the site, the levels were low enough that soil removal remediation efforts didn’t merit a 750 percent increase in cost — or the “high short-term risks” to workers through the mobilization of contaminants. Rather than expose those workers and people living downwind by moving dirt, the EPA opted to leave the contaminants — arsenic and plutonium — in place in the hopes that the occasional windstorm and the activity of as many as 18 burrowing species of animals and insects in the area would present less risk than moving tons of dirt.

But that same area is now included in the 300-foot-wide and threemile-long stretch of dirt the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently swapped with a 617-acre piece of land in the southwestern corner of the Rocky Flats Arsenal site to the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority, the agency overseeing the private toll road development meant to encircle the Denver metro area, with the exception of a stretch through downtown Golden. The 10-mile segment between state highways 128 and 93 is the last unbuilt segment of the Denver metro beltSee PLUTONIUM Page 16

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Plutonium distribution in soil in 1970. Testing in 2011 found plutonium at similar levels in this area.

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by WildEarth Guardians, Rocky Cleanup Agreement doesn’t even call for Mountain Wild and the town of removing all the contaminated top soil, Superior and was subjected to some flip- instead allowing for 50 picocuries of pluflopping court decisions at the end of tonium per gram of soil in the top three December that included issuing an feet after the cleanup, and much larger emergency injunction that was later quantities below three feet. The average reversed. naturally occurring background level for The groups’ plutonium is .04 concerns were picocuries per gram multifold — for of soil, according to one, that the the cleanup plan, or Front Range is less than 1/1250 of population are generally already strapped the level allowed at slow to realize the danger to supply key the site. resources like The cleanup was of plutonium and that it’s a water to its resicompleted in 2005, danger forever.” — LeRoy dents. and much of the area “We’re not has since been desigMoore, Rocky Mountain able to go after nated a wildlife refPeace and Justice Center them for like, uge closed to public well, this is a access. The EPA very dumb planconcedes that the ning decision and we think cleanup did not eliminate all the contamination at the central area and that residyou should overturn this, your honor,” Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians ual contamination in the form of low-level radioactive materials, chemical solvents told Boulder Weekly in an August interand heavy metal contaminants still exists view. “They’d be like, I don’t care, it’s in the core production areas, settling local land use planning. But we can use ponds and two landfills. They contend these other environmental laws and that the contamination no longer poses a maybe get the parties to agree maybe risk to human health or the environment, there’s a better path forward here.” and that five-year reviews are monitoring “The people that want it are interwhether the cleanup is working and conested in development and sprawl, urban tinuing to protect human health and the sprawl, and it seems a little late in the environment. human game for us to be doing things But members of the Rocky that encourage sprawl, and there are a Mountain Peace and Justice Center, lot of reasons not to encourage it,” says including Moore, have argued that the LeRoy Moore of the Rocky Mountain EPA’s monitoring and testing of the Peace and Justice Center. But the other level of plutonium is insufficient and issue is, of course, that plutonium that that they need to do an Environmental no one wanted to stir up during the Impact Statement on the effect of buildremediation of Rocky Flats. ing a road in an area known to be conMoore has been making the argutaminated with plutonium. ment for years that the cleanup left Plutonium, a radioactive material unknown quantities of plutonium in the used in the creation of the triggers for soil and that any activity there is unsafe. nuclear weapons that were manufactured When a proposed highway in that same at Rocky Flats for nearly 40 years, was area was on the ballot in the 1980s, it called by the chemist who discovered it was voted down primarly, he says, because of the plutonium contamination in 1941 “fiendishly toxic.” And with a half-life of 24,110 years, it remains danin the area. gerous virtually forever; in terms of The EPA classified Rocky Flats as a human development, 24,000 years ago, Superfund Site in 1989 after determining that nuclear weapons manufacturing the use of a bone needle to make clothing was innovative. activities as well as accidental fires and “We as a human population are genspills and waste management had conerally slow to realize the danger of plutaminated the facilities at the 385-acre tonium, and that it’s a danger forever,” industrialized center of the property, as

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In 2011, the Rocky Mountain Peace - and Justice Center contracted with an environmental investigator from Boston Chemical Data Corp. to do its own testing of the area for the proposed Jefferson Parkway. Samples collected along Indiana Street, just outside the fence marking the edge of the refuge and the edge of the land that’s just been traded to the Jefferson Parkway highway authority, showed traces of plutonium and americium in the soil and, in one case, in the bark of a tree. The plutonium had persisted in roughly the same concentrations as was found in testing done by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1970.

The concentrations are minute, but even a small amount of plutonium can be harmful to human health, particularly if inhaled. An image taken over 48 hours of a single particle of plutonium in the lung of an ape show that particle emitting alpha rays into the surrounding cells in a shape like a sea urchin. When inhaled, one particle can penetrate more than 10,000 cells and cause cancer.

“It’s not dangerous, it’s not harmful if you don’t take it in the body,” Moore says. “If you don’t breathe, it won’t bother you.”

And the first to get exposed to it would be the workers spending almost three years constructing that segment of the highway in the spot where the EPA opted to not try to remediate the soil so they could prevent the risk of exposing those workers to plutonium in the soil.

“They would be certainly endangered by it, because they’d be right in the midst with bulldozers and heavy moving equipment; they’d be stirring up a lot of dust,” Moore says. “But people living in the area, people driving through the area, people walking there, whatever, could take the particles into their body even after the construction is finished.

Because there’s plutonium knowingly left in the environment after the cleanup of Rocky Flats, some of that stuff is going to be brought to the surface by burrowing animals or other activity, and it’ll be picked up by the wind and distributed here and there, and you could, if you’re in the area, you could certainly inhale it and get cancer 20, 30 years later and you’d never know what hit you.”

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Which calls into question the response of federal and state government officials who have heralded the land swap as an opportunity to expand recreational trails in the area.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar celebrated the addition of 1,200 acres of wildlife habitat to the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, an increase to the refuge’s size by nearly one-third and progress toward the Rocky Mountain Greenway, the planned uninterrupted trail and open space network for the Denver metro area.

“Today’s action will significantly expand one of the cornerstones of Colorado’s open space and trails network and will protect the Front Range’s mountain backdrop as one of the state’s crown jewels,” Salazar said in a press release issued the date the land swap deal was finalized. “I applaud all the partners who have come together with the state and local communities to connect people to the great outdoors and to take this key step toward realizing the Rocky Mountain Greenway as America’s next great urban park.”

The goal for the deals was to eliminate development threats to the western edge of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. But it’s the eastern edge that’s actually downwind of the contamination. A map from testing in the 1970s (see page 15) shows a swath of land east of the refuge stretching to the Great Western Reservoir and south toward Standley Lake that was contaminated with as much as 18,500 bq/m2, a measure of radioactivity, of plutonium.

Gov. John Hickenlooper also lauded the move, according to the Department of the Interior press release, focusing on adding more “quality open space and wildlife habitat.”

Wildlife habitat, sure, but again, the refuge is closed to public access out of concerns for public health.

The land the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received in the swap includes xeric tallgrass prairie, which exists only in limited places in Colorado, and the stretches on Rocky Flats and on the neighboring City of Boulder Open Space are believed to be the largest remaining tracts of xeric tallgrass prairie in North America, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.

The next step for the parkway’s development is securing the private investments, rather than state or federal dollars, to build the road, and planners are still looking for partners to buy into the project, which was projected in 2010 to cost $204 million initially and $6 million to maintain each year.

Steve Weishampel contributed to the reporting for this story.

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In late October, she stood in the family’s yard, watching the bull eat nuts from the dirt in front of the family home, three of the family’s 25 children gathered around petting him and yes, she conceded she would buy a donkey.

Because that bull is one of the biggest in the village and she’s asked its owner to talk to his neighbors about caring for a bull and not throwing rocks at animals; the hope is that it’s spreading the message she’s been taking to Africa for 15 years — take better care of your animals, and they’re better able to help provide for your family.

The bull she bought was surrounded by pigs, goats, chickens, ducks and dogs, all comfortable with strangers, relaxed at the touch of humans — calm, she says, as if they’re used to loving human hands.

The bull is named “Wene-etebe,” meaning, “God is doing wonderful things.”

It might be God’s doing, but Mitchell has a hand in the delivery.

“I just started doing what needed to be done,” she says. “It’s usually the way I do stuff. If there’s a need and I can fill it, then I’m usually the one doing it.”

Her work in Africa began in 1997 when she was personally invited to Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, to photograph the work of the International League for the Protection of Horses, a non-governmental organization. They were taking buckets of clean water to horses on the streets, teaching people to let the horses stop for a drink, to coax instead of whipping them and to clean their sores with something other than gasoline, which had been in use to cauterize wounds.

“We were working with horses because they use horses like cars, so horses carry passengers, horses carry cargo, horses do everything and the horses were in horrible shape,” Mitchell says. “They had sores all over their bodies and the veterinary school — I ran out of the veterinary school crying it was so unbelievable. I ran out because they stuck a cow catheter up a cat. And I was screaming and I ran out and this guy [with the NGO] said, ‘Look you better get your act together or you need to leave.’ So I thought about it, I thought about leaving, and I said I didn’t know if I was cut out for this.”

Mitchell traveled around Africa for a while, thinking she would enjoy it on her only trip there.

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go back. I want to work,” she says. She went back to Ethiopia only to find that the NGO she had been working with had quit.

She kept going anyway. “I just went out and did what we started, which was selling water to horse owners in the streets. And as long as they bought water, we fixed the horses’ wounds.”

Together with her high school friend Mindy Sterling Houser, she founded The Animal Assistance & Education League, which had 501(c)3 status for a while. An early brainstorming session saw them in a Boulder café writing their plans out with the only writing utensil on hand: a crayon.

“We didn’t want this to get too fancy because we used to call ourselves ‘Two girls and a crayon’ because — seriously, we would laugh — because that’s really what we were doing,” Sterling says. “We were all heart and no results.”

But the program did go on to show results, including increasing revenue for taxi drivers and horse owners changing from asking why they’d want water for their horses when drinking would only slow the horse down to actually paying for the water.

“One of the mistakes that we found for nonprofits was that they would facilitate programs that were not self-sustaining,” Sterling says. “Throwing money at remote villages is not going to solve the problem long term. So incorporating local solutions, one of them being teaching a select group of Ethiopian villagers how to give injections, how to do better wound management, how to build a better garry, was empowering to them and really exciting for us.”

Word of their work in Ethiopia traveled to Dr. Anthony Akunzule, who invited her to his village in Ghana in 2000. As violence escalated in Ethiopia, her work transitioned to focus on Ghana. She has traveled to Ghana 10 times in 12 years, undertaking an evolving string of projects and work there. She now takes condoms and sex-ed videos to show in schools, coaches teachers on different teaching methods and promotes veterinary care and compas-

sionate management of animals.

“I wanted her to work in my community, Yua,” Akunzule said in an email interview. “Yua people use animals for work, but do not treat them very well.

They needed some one to teach them on how to be kind to the animals so that the animals can work for them, but without stress.”

Mitchell has bought oxen to work on farms, donkeys for hauling carts and carrying water, hospital equipment, bicycles and school materials including a computer, Akunzule reports. She’s taught people how to handle bulls without nose rings, or how see MITCHELL Page 20

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to cradle a chicken like a baby while it’s being vaccinated.

“Every year something else happened, and three years ago somebody handed me 1,000 condoms and he said, ‘I bought these from Planned Parenthood, just take them and see what happens, just give them away,’” she says. “I said, ‘I’m not bringing condoms without teaching how to use them,’ so I made a DVD with a couple of friends and a banana. It took us like two hours for a five-minute video because we’re laughing so hard. So I took the DVD and I asked how many teenage pregnancies there had been in the last year and they said, ‘Too many.’ That’s their number. … When I came back the following year after the DVD and I brought more condoms, they said there were none, so it had gone from too many to zero.”

She’s since upgraded the DVD, using a wooden penis provided by someone in Ghana, and that DVD has been handed all over the country. It’s not the first project she’s worked on that’s taken off on its own. The water stations she helped create in Debre Zeit, Ethiopia, have caught on in other towns and even been the subject of a graduate student’s thesis. The vaccinations Mitchell brings to Ghana draw people from as far away as neighboring Burkina Faso, and they’re now vaccinating thousands of animals each year.

She’s not a trained veterinarian, so she works closely with one in Ghana. Ayamdooh Evans Nsoh went once as her proxy to Ethiopia — despite having a wife who was about to deliver — and the two become a mobile vet clinic for the three weeks she’s in Ghana, teaching about gentle handling as they treat animals. Though he’d studied animal welfare in school, Nsoh said he never really practiced it until he was sent to Ethiopia in Mitchell’s place.

“It was at that moment that everything changed,” Nsoh said in an email interview. “I saw the watering stations for the donkeys and horses established by Jan and Mindy in Ethiopia and many more things for the poor animal owners. I learned the practical aspects of animal welfare and it gave me a different picture all together.”

The first time he worked with Mitchell, he says, she was trying to tame a bull that had never been petted before.

“She did it wonderfully and in a simple manner by talking to them and showing them love,” he wrote. “It was heart touching and I told myself this is somebody I can learn a lot from. Since then I have never looked back.”

Though animals are still her priority, Nsoh convinced her that teaching gentle handling begins with educating children in schools, and that created yet another list of things that she realized needed to be done and so decided to do.

“I started teaching gentle handling in the schools and I realized there was such an incredible lack of understanding by the students of all subjects that I just took it upon myself to say OK, I can do basics,” she says.

This year, the head teacher at the Yua school signed off on teachers taking her suggestions for revising curriculum. In previous trips, Mitchell taught the students.

In her October trip, she taught the teachers.

Mitchell wrote about teaching the teachers in her blog: I was watching NuHu tell the students he would teach them Internet next week. He says, “Do you understand?”

“Yes, Sir, we understand.”

He says, “Good, then you will learn to use a mouse. Do you understand?.”

“Yes, Sir, we understand.”

I said, “Excuse me, may I speak?”

“Yes, Madame.”

“Someone please tell me what you just understood.” No one raised their hand. “You all said you understood, please tell us what he said.”

Again…silence.

NuHu’s face was dropping and he clicked his teeth in disbelief.

“How many of you know what a file is?” No hands.

“How many of you know what a Word document is?”

No hands.

“How many of you know how to type?” Only three hands went up, and they were students who were in my class two years ago when they drew keyboards on paper.

More clicking.

After some more questions, I asked, “What did you understand?”

“We understood that when Madame is here, we must not say we understand if we don’t understand.”

NuHu stood with his jaw dropped. I said, “Don’t be disappointed, otherwise, you will be disappointed every day here.” We stood outside the classroom when he said the students should have learned all of this in Primary 3.

I said, “Well, they didn’t. This is where they are and this is where you must begin.” …

I informed them that it is clear that the Primary School teachers are not even teaching the students English, let alone the other subjects. The students are, “Yes sirring and We

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Understanding” all day long and the teachers are accepting it.

The struggle is to get a student from Yua to score high enough on Ghana’s standardized tests to qualify for senior high. One student from Yua is currently enrolled in senior high only because Akunzule fought for her to get a place in the school, but it’s not a very good one and the hope is her scores will improve and she’ll move to a better school.

The goal for the Yua school is to improve students’ test performance so more students from Yua can go on to senior high.

Students have to score a 75 or higher to go on to senior high and study a subject of their choice. Most students from Yua score 50 or below.

“My theory and the way I taught them is that if they change the way they teach, the children will be able to figure out some of the answers. As it is the way they teach now, if you don’t teach them the right answer, they don’t know how to do it on the test, they can’t figure it out because they didn’t memorize it. So I’m trying to teach them to teach the students how to think,” Mitchell says. “Conceptual thinking is not even taught because how do you teach conceptual thinking?

By example. You ask questions. You get them to think.

You can’t just talk about conceptual thinking and then expect they’re going to be able to do it. But it’s not taught that way. It’s very rote. It’s very this is this and this is this and this is this, do you understand? Yes, we understand.”

The deal she struck with the schools is that she’ll teach the basics if they make sure gentle handling and sex education are also taught, though she’s still helping to teach some of the sex ed classes, and, this year, brought “funeral pockets.” Unwanted pregnancies often start at funerals because boys and girls sneak away to have sex while their parents’ attention is occupied elsewhere. The “funeral pockets,” which are made to hold condoms, pin under the girls’ dresses.

She’s also helped to start reading programs where older students mentor younger students, and encouraged students to make use of the one solar-powered street light in the town to study after dark. Currently, she’s collecting educational DVDs to add to the library.

And there will always be other projects appearing on the horizon.

For updates, visit Jan Mitchell’s blog at http:// kindness-international.org/blog for additional information.

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Documentary retells history of women’s marathon record-setter

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fter the 50-year-old Joan Benoit Samuelson ran a sub-2:50 marathon in the 2008 Olympic Trials, she announced that she was “retiring.” However, a former Olympic champion still logging more than 50 miles each week does not simply stop running.

Still in “retirement,” she arrived at the start of the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 10, 2010. The line was that she entered to only commemorate the 25th anniversary of her performance at the 1985 Chicago Marathon, when she set an American-record time of 2:21:21. She ran through the first 10 kilometers in 37:32, 13.1 miles in 1:21.09 and finished in 2:47.50 — taking 43rd place and setting a marathon record for women 51 years and older. For the runner who fourtime Boston Marathon champion and former world-record holder Bill Rodgers calls in an upcoming documentary on Samuelson “a Jedi master,” the finish line doesn’t always signal the end.

This new documentary, titled There Is No Finish Line, catches up with Samuelson decades after she was one of the most prominent female distance runners in the world. The film catalogues the historic moments of Samuelson’s improbable 1984 Olympic gold medal, and her record-setting performances in Chicago and Boston during the late 1970s and early 1980s. A Tune to KGNU KGNU Community Radio Tune into Tunein into KGNU Community Community Radio Radio atat 88.5 FM&&1390 1390AM AM 88.5FM Boulder Boulder//Denver Denver

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competitive runner before Title IX, the film also talks about her role in changing the perception of female running potential — breaking barriers and inspiring both women and men.

But those involved in the filming say that the heart of this project follows Samuelson well after the achievements that made her synonymous with women’s competitive running. It shows Samuelson as she is today, tending to her organic garden, advocating for environmental conservation, spending time with family and still setting records in the marathon.

“This exceptionally crafted documentary is more than just a gold medal running saga,” says two-time Olympian and women’s running pioneer Doris BrownHeritage. “Joanie’s life is a continuing expression of how one person’s passion can change the world.”

Erich Lyttle, director of running documentaries on Steve Prefontaine and Bill Bowerman, is this film’s director. The film runs for 48 minutes, and Lyttle says he wishes he could have stretched it to 75 minutes. An aspect of Samuelson that he wishes he could have delved into more was her influence among African runners.

“Her name is worldwide famous, and there are some African runners who looked up to her. We did one interview with one of the African female legends in our movie, but we just wanted to get over there and find the young girls who were working to

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There Is No Finish Line is also produced by Lyttle with fellow filmmaker Sarah Henderson and Geoff Hollister, who was one of the first employees at Nike and who passed away in 2012.

“Geoff Hollister, our producer and longtime friend of Joanie’s, brought us this project because he knew it was a story that needed to be told, ” Lyttle said. “Joanie’s mantra is that there is no finish line — you are never done doing your best no matter what it is you set out to accomplish.”

The film concludes with Samuelson breaking her age-group record at the 2010 Chicago Marathon, but she has not stopped running since then. Lyttle says that only a few weeks ago, he met with Samuelson in Portland and discussed trying to add more of what she has been currently doing to the film.

In 2011, she entered the Boston Marathon, her first time since 1993, to pace her daughter, Abby, during her first run at Boston. Abby finished at 3:30:36, and her mother clocked in at 2:51:29.

When asked about future races by reporters after the race, Samuelson coyly responded, “Well maybe a marathon in the fall. I said no more competitive marathons. I never said what constitutes competitive.”

There Is No Finish Line is screening at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St. Visit www.thedairy.org for tickets or www.thereisnofinishline.net for more information on the film.

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ver get the feeling you just can’t concentrate like you used to? Feel like your brain is stuck on overload and you can’t put together a coherent thought? Never fear, the Internet is here for you to self-diagnose and treat whatever ails you. Yet, according to author Nicholas Carr, the one thing the World Wide Web will not tell you is the cause of your distractions. The Internet.

Carr, author and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, will

be speaking at the Chautauqua Community House on Thursday, Jan. 10, for an event titled “Caught in the Net: How Computers Shape Our Talents and Lives.” In addition to discussing the arguments that went into his Pulitzer Prizenominated book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Carr will update trends that have occurred in the two years since it was published. A Q&A will follow for the audience to try to confirm or refute Carr’s notion that we are actually altering the circuitry of our brains Author NIcholas Carr believes the Internet might be helping to create a society with fewer deep, critical thinkers.

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to crave distraction and superficiality at the expense of powerful, introspective learning.

In The Shallows, Carr does not quibble with the notion that the Internet is here to stay. Instead, he posits the same skepticism that has arisen during such epochal cultural shifts in the past. In his research, Carr finds that as humans fashioned new technologies to tackle a specific goal, often these technologies not only changed the way we see ourselves, but changed the way we think.

Before there were maps, people could only draw from their natural surroundings. Yet with the introduction of measuring devices and exploration, maps soon became sophisticated models that helped substitute reality with artificial and intellectual conceptions. This sort of abstract thinking continued to evolve in the late Middle Ages, when Christian monks began to assemble the first mechanical clocks to keep time for the rigorous prayer rituals espoused by their leaders. The desire for accurate time-keeping redefined the way people regimented their lives, and led society out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance with the development of the scientific mind.

Carr calls maps, clocks and the other tools we fashion to extend or support our mental powers “intellectual technologies.” These technologies are created to find and classify information, take measurements and perform calculations, and to expand the capacity of our memory. Yet with recent understanding of the brain — including the realm of neuroplasticity, which studies the brain’s ability to “rewire” itself in the face of new stimuli — when it comes to re-shaping our minds, the Internet is shaping up to be the granddaddy of all inventions.

“We create technologies for particular reasons or to achieve particular goals, but often the deepest effects aren’t things that we’ve planned,” Carr says, adding, “the people who create the technologies are not focused on the Boulder Weekly

potential ramifications of their products, they’re focused on immediate goals. And we the people who use the tools are not very good at thinking about how it’s actually going to affect our lives over the long term. We tend to be in love with new stuff, new gadgets and new technologies. We immediately see the benefits, yet it seems to take longer before we realize there are some negatives involved too.”

He cites studies that show reading comprehension may be diminished when we choose a website riddled with hyperlinks, ads and videos over a dis-

traction-free printed page. And this isn’t just affecting our day-to-day lives.

Gradually, Carr posits, we are actually changing our brains due to the Internet without us really even knowing.

“This isn’t just a matter of personal choice and personal discipline, as important as those things are,” Carr says. “This is a technology reshaping social norms and social expectations. It becomes harder and harder to sort of back away and choose a different course after it’s already been incorporated into our social, employment and educational processes.”

Carr says the danger in rewiring our brains to crave multi-tasking is that we may shrink the population of people who are the deep thinkers — ones who can focus while tuning out distractions and stimulation. With touch screens, smart phones and social interfacing, the next generation will be even more immersed in technology than even

those young enough to remember having the Internet their entire lives.

Instead of hesitation for the potential consequences, there is more and more societal pressure building to hop on board with new technology, wherever the tracks may lead.

“We’re happy to sacrifice the contemplative literary mind, and unless we change in some fundamental way how we think about technology and our lives, then I don’t see any impetus for getting off the path we’re on,” Carr says.

In his book and in person Carr readily accepts and embraces the comforts of technology. So rather than shake his fist at the wired generation or lament against the computer, Carr is attempting to be a canary in the coal mine — trying to give ample warning that we should think about the consequences of our choices rather than leaping unknowingly into an unsure future.

As for finding a balance between human needs and technology, Carr says, “I hope we can, but I think if you look at recent trends … we seem to choose distraction and information overload and divided attention over concentration, contemplation, introspection and all the ways of thinking that require attentiveness.”

“If we accept passive acceptance of any new technology, I think in the long run we’re going to realize we lose something important to ourselves and to society,” the author states.

Can our minds adapt and fashion this new technology for our benefit before it’s too late? Possibly, but like the shift from agrarian cues to mechanical time-keeping, or the loss of oral traditions to the Gutenberg printing press, it will be at the expense of previous ways of thinking and problem-solving.

We live in a world with all the information at our fingertips, but we may also be outsourcing our mental capacity to computers while replacing the critical thinking areas of our brains with synapses hungry for anything but.

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overtones Animal instincts

Floyd album inspires tribute band

by Dave Kirby

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ost iconic rock bands from the 1970s, is mesmerized by it.

“We did at least those that lasted long enough to “For some reason,” he told two shows in still cast a visible shadow 30 or 40 years us last week, “I don’t know 2009, one in downstream, can usually be defined by what it was, it struck a chord Atlanta and neatly circumscribed periods, whether with me. When I was a kid, the other one as a result of personnel changes, commercial ascenplaying with my stereo, I’d play at the Georgia dency or artistic evolution.

‘Shine On You Crazy Theater in But Pink Floyd, one of the era’s most consistently Diamond’ or put on songs Athens. And compelling franchises, arguably confounds this model. from The Wall¸ but it would we did it with Pink Floyd’s 1977 oft-forgotten album Animals was released between the earth-shattering successes of Dark Side of the Roiled by internal conflict and still reeling from the never be that record for some the idea that Moon and The Wall, and Pigs on a Wing used it as the basis of orgiastic twin successes of Dark Side of the Moon and reason. That was the record I we were only a cover band. the glumly existential Wish You Were Here, the British put on when I wanted to listen going to do psych-blues quartet released Animals in the winter of to something.” those two 1977. Loosely inspired by Orwell’s Animal Farm, the Weiss, who played for years in the now-defunct shows and that would be it. … And here we are in long player snarled and smirked at 1970s British soci- Atlanta-based band Collective Efforts and now does 2013, getting ready to do it again for a bunch of ety across a menacing swath of moody synth beds session work, eventually came to use Animals as the shows in Colorado.” laced with absurdly aggro guitar basis for a Floyd tribute side projThe beauty of projects like this, it seems, is that lines by an unleashed David ect, now called Pigs On The the musical content was a step removed from its playGilmour, who, it is said, was proWing, manned by a group of play- ers — no one guy in the group could claim ownership, ON THE BILL: Pigs on the voked by the band’s perception in no one player in the group was any more marginalized ers (including bassist and childWing perform at the Fox Theatre on Saturday, Jan. 12. the growing British punk underfrom the material than any other one player, everyone hood friend David Murphy from Doors at 8:30 p.m. Sunsquabi ground that Floyd was an overplaying into a commonly held purpose.

Sound Tribe Sector 9, as well as opens. Tickets are $15.50 in mannered relic band, lamely rehash“Without a doubt,” Weiss agrees. “This isn’t a Coley Dennis from Maserati and advance, $17 day of show; add $2 for under-21 tickets. ing its psychedelic and dissociative career choice for any of us, everybody has their own Mike Albanese from indulgences for corporate riches. projects, and everybody is successful at being able to Cinemechanica) with collective Animals may not have done put their own art out there and survive on it as it is. personal history. But the thing is much to silence the contempt of the This is just a reason for us to get together and play really more of a punctuated serial punk-club insurgency, and given the shattering success project, rather than a full-time Floyd tribute band music. And, we just so happen to play kickass versions of The Wall a couple of years later they certainly of Pink Floyd songs. (not that there’s anything wrong with that). They’ll weren’t finished with theatrics or their own (or more “There are no delusions of grandeur here, like this be staging the show Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Fox precisely, Roger Waters’) brand of indulgent flourishis something that’s going to go out on the road and Theatre, following up on a gig they did there back es. From a distance, in fact, Animals looks and sounds we’re going to become a tribute band and play that in November 2009. like the band’s redheaded stepchild, flanked by two circuit. We’re taking a vacation out to Colorado and “It got together by accident,” Weiss says. “It was inexhaustibly popular releases. we’re going to play some music. That’s our motivation sort of an idea that Dave Murphy and I had and was Atlanta-based guitarist Matt Weiss, who grew up also an excuse for us to actually play in a band togeth- for it.” in the decade after Animals was released, was and still Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com er. And it just sort of happened.

Back where it all started

Former child prodigy Sarah Chang first performed with Boulder Philharmonic at age 8

by Peter Alexander 24 January 10, 2013

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arah Chang is happy to be back in Boulder.

The violinist appears Saturday, Jan. 12, with the Boulder Philharmonic and conductor Michael Butterman, performing the warmly lyrical violin concerto of American composer Samuel Barber.

The Boulder Philharmonic holds special meaning for Chang because it was the first professional orchestra she performed with, shortly before her career-making debut with the New York Philharmonic at the age of 8.

“I have such a fond place in my heart for

Boulder,” she says. “The orchestra and the audience gave me an opportunity when I was ridiculously young and before I had made my name in the music industry. It’s easy to book an artist when she’s already established, has made recordings, and has performed with the world’s top orchestras. Boulder gave me a chance before all that other stuff happened for me, so I am eternally grateful to the city.”

After that Boulder concert and her New York Philharmonic debut, Chang seems to have sailed smoothly into a professional career.

“It’s been seamless,” Butterman observes. “Her

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overtones presence on the scene has not waned at played Bruckner was probably in the all.” late ’80s,” he says, adding with a chuckIn that respect, Chang is very difle, “so it comes along a little more often ferent from the child prodigies who get than Halley’s comet. an early start but stumble on the way to “I’m hopeful that there will be a fair a grownup career. “I feel very fortunate bit of curiosity — not that Bruckner’s that I made that child-prodigy-toan unknown composer — just because adult-professional transition as painone doesn’t hear it played all that lessly as I could often.” have hoped,” she Butterman says. has some point“I have ers for anyone always loved who has not being a musician, heard a Bruckner and I love that symphony since the classical the ’80s — more music industry is recent than a very honest and Halley’s comet, fair profession. for sure, but still You don’t lip quite a while. For sync, you don’t one thing, have smoke Bruckner’s music machines or does not move at lighting effects. what he calls the There’s only so “rapid, shortmuch that great attention span marketing can do pace that marks for a classical so much of modmusician, you ern culture.” can try to fluff it Instead “it ON THE BILL: The Boulder up and do prounfolds as it Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist Sarah Chang perform Samuel vocative photo unfolds, which is Barber’s Violin Concerto and Anton shoots, but it all to say, somewhat Bruckner’s Symphony No 4 comes down to slowly, somewhat (“Romantic”) at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, in Macky whether or not hesitatingly.

Auditorium on the CU campus. you can deliver “People have www.boulderphil.org/concerts/janwhen you’re on to suspend their 12-sarah-chang stage.” frantic brainOn Saturday, wave patterns Chang will aim that we get tuned to deliver one of the more unusual con- into, and kind of go into a different certos in the violinist’s repertoire. rhythm for an hour or so.”

“I think the Barber Concerto comes The second point is that Bruckner off as two pieces,” Butterman says. “It was an organist by training, and he comes off as the first two movements, wrote for the orchestra like a large which are rather lyrical, harmonically organ — with sudden and distinct pretty lush and basically neo-Romantic. changes from one group of sounds to And then you’ve got the last moveanother, like changing stops on the ment, which is almost like an appendix. organ.

“It’s just relentless. Right from the “You really hear the instrumental start it goes, and it keeps the same families segregated, the reeds and the brasses and the strings operating indetempo, boom, all the way to the end.” pendently,” Butterman explains.

One piece or two, Chang has no “Another thing is the abrupt dynamic reservations. “It’s such a beautiful conchanges, as if you have the whole certo. It’s fairly new for me; I’m abso[organ sounding], and then you lift up lutely in love with the concerto.” off the pedal and you’re just on [the The rest of the program is taken by softer stops of the organ].” a single piece, Anton Bruckner’s Butterman expects the audience will Symphony No. 4. A late Romantic be happy to welcome Bruckner back to composer about a generation ahead of Boulder. “All of his music is approachMahler, Bruckner was a disciple of Wagner, who wrote symphonies known able,” he says. “There’s a lot of things to hang your hat on.” for long melodic lines, powerful rhythAnd even though he’s not here to mic drive and a big orchestral sound. tell us, I’m guessing that Bruckner — Butterman says he has long wanted just like Sarah Chang — is equally to perform a Bruckner symphony, but they don’t always fit into the orchestra’s happy to be back in Boulder.

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BARBER Violin Concerto BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, “Romantic” SARAH CHANG, one of the most acclaimed violin soloists in the world, makes her return to the Boulder Phil, the orchestra that helped launch her career before her debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 8.

“Her gifts are at a level so removed from the rest of us that all we can do is feel the appropriate awe and then wonder on the mysteries of nature.” ~The New York Times

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edigree. It’s not just a dog food. It’s heritage, tradition and history. It’s the icing on the cherry. It’s the sherry on the Sheri. It’s the ever-sotenuous thread connecting Bing Crosby to My Chemical Romance. It’s a badge of honor and a goal toward which to strive. And when it comes to theatre, pedigree is the cat’s knees and the bee’s meow all rolled into one.

Few shows can claim the ON THE BILL: type of pedi42nd Street plays gree that 42nd through Feb. 16 at Street enjoys.

Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Before Cats, Arapahoe Ave. The Tickets start at $35.

Phantom of For tickets or information, call (303) the Opera or 449-6000 or visit Les Miserables, www.bouldersdin42nd Street nertheatre.com. owned the Great White Way, lock, stock and barrel. It was the swan song of director Gower Champion, who had already directed such all-time greats as Bye Bye Birdie, Carnival! and Hello Dolly! After its debut in 1980, 42nd Street ran for more than 3,400 performances and earned numerous nominations and awards, including a Tony Award for Best Musical in 1981 and for Best Revival of a Musical 20 years later.

The original Broadway production furthered the career of one Jerry Orbach, who would go on to such memorable roles as the cantankerous father in the film Dirty Dancing and the wily veteran Boulder Weekly

detective on the television show Law & Order (the original one prior to its mitotic subdivision into a seemingly endless string of follow-on versions). In a bit of almost-too-good-to-be-true lifeimitating-art kismet, the 1984 London production would see not only its female lead but her understudy unable to perform, opening the door for a thenunknown Catherine Zeta-Jones to step into the spotlight. This fortuitous circumstance is credited by many as the beginning of Zeta-Jones’ stardom.

With so much theatrical magic woven into its very DNA, it takes a truly professional theatre company to make this bird sing. Boulder’s own Broadway institution, Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, is more than up to the task.

In fact, BDT’s 42nd Street may be one of its best, most exciting and most entertaining productions in years. Where BDT is usually an A student, this time around there are not enough plusses to follow that A. In the midst of the Great Depression, struggling Broadway producer Julian Marsh ( John Scott Clough) plans to rebuild his fortune with a new, blockbuster show, Pretty Lady. Every chorus girl, stage manager, actor, writer and musician is relying on Marsh to succeed so that they can all avoid the bread lines.

Pretty Lady is to star aging diva Dorothy Brock (Ali Dunfee), who brings along with her the lion’s share of the show’s funding courtesy of her rich admirer, Abner Dillon (Brian Norber).

But when Ms. Brock finds herself unable to perform, the unknown diamond in the rough Peggy Sawyer (Katie Ulrich) gets her shot at the big time.

42nd Street offers not only numerous astounding tap dancing numbers, some truly hilarious exchanges (mostly courtesy of Wayne Kennedy and Brian Norber) and a tried-and-true tale of a starry-eyed dreamer catching her big break; it also features a handful of the most recognizable show tunes in Broadway’s history.

Try not to tap your toes when Joanie Brousseau and Tracy Warren kick off “We’re in the Money.” If you have any love of old Broadway at all, the eponymous song, “42nd Street,” will give you chills. And the rolling, building “Lullaby of Broadway” will likely make you either cheer or tear.

Director Michael J. Duran has done it again with 42nd Street. Aided by Amy Campion’s scenic design, opulent costuming by Linda Morken, tight musical direction by Neal Dunfee and even tighter choreography thanks to Tracy Warren, Duran and crew have outdone themselves this time around. Add to the behind-the-scenes work the excellent performances all around, highlighted by Clough’s harsh yet human director, Ulrich’s innocent aspirer and Dunfee’s jaded doyen, and you’ve got a theatre treat that can’t be beat.

The winter doldrums are undeniably here, and I can’t think of a better way to keep them at bay than a few hours with 42nd Street.

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Bonnie & The Beard. 9 p.m. Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-3050 Brave Julius and Luke Redfield. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

David Hidalgo and Marc Ribot: Border Music. 8 p.m.

L2 Arts & Culture Center, 1477 Columbine, Denver, 303777-1003.

Dexter Payne Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Fox Street Allstars. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

International Blues Challenge Competition — Dan Treanor’s Afrosippi Band featuring Erica Brown and Jack Yoder. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Judge Roughneck. 10:30 p.m. The Walrus, 1911 11th St., Boulder, 303-443-9902.

Lucky Me. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Naive Melodies Performs Talking Heads. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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events Chasing Ice. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Caught in the Net: How Computers Shape our Talents and Lives — With author Nicholas Carr. 7 p.m., Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Friday, January 11 music

Open Mic. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Sound Rabbit — With HalleyAnna. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bluzinators. 7 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder, 303-442-5003.

Tyler Grant. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Brad Upton Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. see EVENTS Page 32

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events Matt Smith’s “Guardians of Ediza” is among the paintings on the American West on view at Gallery 1261.

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Abandoned — Photography by Mark Ivins. The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through Feb. 17.

Becoming Van Gogh. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan 20.

Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4493464. Through Feb. 10.

Cover Story — Works by Daniel Pitín. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27.

Dana Schutz: If the Face had Wheels. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-8655000. Through Feb 13.

Histories from Eight Rectilinear Boundaries — Annaday Hiser. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Jan. 11.

Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration — With Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee. Norlin Library East Lobby and West Lobby, CU campus, Boulder, www.ucblibraries.colorado.edu. Through March 8.

Out West: Photographs by Loretta Young-

Gautier. The Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-4933. Through Feb. 23.

Random Walk with Drift — Works by Marius Lehene. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 27.

Resonance — Solo exhibition by Greeley sculptor Hee-Hun Cho. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, Opening reception 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11.

Rethinking Western — Contemporary artists on the American West. Gallery 1261, 1261 Delaware St., Denver, 888-626-1261. Through Feb. 23.

Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11.

Reunion: What Made You Start Again? — By Jessica Knapp, Mary Pat LaMair, Christopher Lavery, Katie Queen, Polly Gates Simmons and Lori Warren. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Jan. 11.

Sky Black — Surrealist paintings. Trident Cafe and Bookstore, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4433133.

Soma — Works in felt. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Through Jan. 11.

EVENTS from Page 31 Cowgirl Radio — With Jim Herlihy. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Danny Bastos. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Eef & The Blues Express. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Foot with Gription. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Gipsy Moon. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Grant Gordy. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Johnny O Band. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Leftapalooza Tribute Night — Featuring Hey Lady!, Rush Archives & Zeppephilia. 7:30 p.m. Boul-

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Michael DeLalla. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Reel Big Fish. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Ricardo Peña Band. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.

Selasee and the Fafa Family. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Three Shots. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

events The Clairvoyant Revolution — Bringing Forth a New American Dream. 7 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Friday Night Yoga Club — Kickoff with David Sye. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

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Paula Nelson Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Saturday, January 12 music The Alcapones. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Blackwater. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Boulder Philharmonic — Triumphant Returns with Sarah Chang, violin. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-449-1343 x2.

Chain Station, Kristina Murray & Two-Hearted Jones. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Chuck Pyle. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Kort McCumber solo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

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

Johnny O. 8 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Lisa Bell Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Meniskus — Album Release Party. 6:30 p.m.

Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303443-7510.

Pigs on the Wing — Featuring David Murphy from STS9 performing the music of Pink Floyd. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Year’s Eve performance. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through Jan. 27.

Mame. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through Jan. 13.

Newark Violenta — World premiere by Colorado playwright/musician Jonson Kuhn. The Edge Theater Company, 9797 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood, 303-2320363. Through Jan. 26.

Quemando. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Sunday: 10:00AM - 2:00PM

Rachel and the Ruckus. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Robert Cline Jr. Band — With Lisa Morales. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Ruined Nation Boys. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Tom Paxton — With Grubstake. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003 x2.

WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

events The Freeze Response and The Spectrum of Trauma — With Robert Scaer, MD. 9 a.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Medical Durable Power of Attorney: Legal and Practical Considerations — With Rick Romeo, attorney at law. 10 a.m. Boulder West Senior Centre, 909 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-545-0273.

Playback Theatre West: A Night of Improvisational Theatre. 8 p.m. Dairy Center For the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Sunday, January 13 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. see EVENTS Page 34

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Thursday, January 10 The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains — By Nicholas Carr. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Friday, January 11 Jon Sands — Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303579-1644.

Saturday, January 12 Stories on Stage — New Realities. 1:30 & 7:30 p.m. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Dr., Denver, 303-494-0523.

Sunday, January 13 Local Authors Afternoon — With Diane Bucci, Scott Gibson, Philip Bralich and Mary Yungeberg. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Monday, January 14 So, You’re a Poet? — Open poetry reading. 7 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

BreakThrough Arts Creative Writing for Teens — YMCA creative writing & slam poetry class. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry

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Tuesday, January 15 The Conscious Cleanse: Lose Weight, Heal Your Body, and Transform Your Life in 14 Days — By Jo Schallman, Julie Peláez. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting — Diamond Dog, by Diane Wakoski. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Nicholas Hranilovich — Poetry Reading.

7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-5791644.

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7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Family Concert Series — African: Kutandara. 4 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Open Mic. 5 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Jami Lunde duo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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My Evil Twin — With Chaos Assassin. 7 p.m.

The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384.

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Ryan Dart & Grandpa’s Gun — With Jeoff Harris.

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Salsa Dancing — With Conjuntos Colores. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

The Stanleytones. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Igniting the Web of Connectivi-CHI — A dance/ theater/ritual performance. 6:30 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, www.brownpapertickets.com.

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Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

events Naturally Boulder Networking Night. 5:30 p.m.

Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

“So, You’re a Poet” 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, January 15 music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Bob’s Big Band. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Craig Corona. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Femi Kuti & The Positive Force. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Jon Stewart Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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events Open Mic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

p.m. Shanahan Ridge, 1903 Lehigh St., Boulder, www.naturehikes.org.

Open Stage. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Story Sharing Circle. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Monday, January 14

Tactile Tuesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Boulder Conversations with Extraordinary People — With Fred McLaren. 7 p.m., Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Rise and Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Wednesday, January 16

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Cruisers and Crawlers. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

Lean Engagement — Colorado Inaugural Meeting. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Lighting Technology for the New Year ­— With Boulder Green Building Guild. 12 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, www.coloradogreenbuildingguild.org.

WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

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

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Boulder Blues Trio. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Tribute to the Beatles. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Avery Brewing Dictators Unite — All three of Avery’s dictator ales available on tap: The Maharaja, The Czar and The Kaiser. 7 p.m. Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4324.

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A Course in Miracles — Free introduction with screening of The Forgotten Song: The Story of A Course in Miracles. 2 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-3066.

Hoopy Hour. 4:30 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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NPR Foreign Correspondent Deborah Amos — The Arab Spring and Islamism: Stories from the Syrian Frontline. 5 p.m. Eaton Humanities Building, Room 250, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-0460.

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J

ack Reacher, the hero of Jack Reacher (in case you were confused), is a drifter with nothing to lose. We know this because that is exactly what Tom Cruise says he is while yelling at a bad guy on the phone, Taken-style. Reacher is novelist Lee Child’s 6-foot, 5-inch fictional meal ticket beloved by millions who were outraged at the casting of the Lilliputian Cruise. Honestly, Cruise’s well-honed action hero swagger compensates for just about everything, other than a line of dialogue that suggests he’s capable of killing with just one punch. Um, maybe if the victim is a comatose, anorexic hemophiliac.

As depicted in the movie, Reacher is a butch, heterosexual male’s dream version of himself: brilliant to Batman-detective levels, rugged as dollar-store toilet paper and beholden to no one, living off the grid and rambling wherever he wishes. When a suspect in a mass shooting asks for him by name when interrogated by a top cop (David Oyelowo) and the district attorney (Richard Jenkins), Reacher finds himself reluctantly aiding defense attorney Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike), daughter of the DA and pouty-lipped, helpless hottie.

Of course, nothing is as it would seem in this twisty-turny tale that involves a one-fingered, oneeyed villain played by brilliant German director Werner Herzog. But with Sherlockian investigatory

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military origins pull him a slight bit away from the prototypical “private dick” in classic noir, the antihero intent remains present as can be. Only instead of a femme fatale, we get a “femme heaving bosom” in Helen, a character so woefully underwritten one has a hard time believing she’d be capable of signing her name, let alone passing the bar exam.

When Jack Reacher works, it is largely because McQuarrie gives in to a formula Cruise knows by heart. Lost in the shuffle of his off-screen shenanigans is the fact that Mr. Cruise is a “grade A,” class-one friggin’ movie star. Not an actor, per se, but a fullfledged iconic figure that hearkens back to a bygone era before “indie movies” and “street cred.” It is entirely possible that this film marks the start of yet another successful franchise. But it is equally likely this is a one-off bit of inconsequential action fluff.

Either way, in a month that sports nothing but Oscar hopefuls, family-targeted entertainment and Russell Crowe singing, Jack Reacher represents a choice for some adult fun. Sure, it’s clichéd, unoriginal, kinda-dumb adult fun, but if you can’t indulge on things that aren’t exactly good for you at holiday time, when can you?

— This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

‘Jack Reacher’ is one smart drifter

by Ryan Syrek work, copious thug punching and the aid of a kindly shooting range owner (Robert Duvall) with septuagenerian sniper skills, the case is broken easier than aforementioned thug noses.

Writer/director Christopher McQuarrie delivers solid entertainment. Well, solid entertainment whenever there isn’t monologuing going on. For some reason, dialogue that is spoken in conversation crackles with wit and fun, and tough guy diatribes sound like they were written by a fifth-grade bully. Although Reacher’s

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iven that France is America’s go-to national punching bag for milquetoast xenophobic jokes, it is a testimony to her towering talent that Marion Cotillard is an Oscar-winning box office draw. Even reducing her physical presence by a third in her latest, Rust and Bone, does nothing to stunt her on-screen magnetism, or what the French call “Le, daaaamn!”

Writer/director Jacques Audiard and screenwriter Thomas Bidegain have taken two short stories by Craig Davidson and woven them together in one morose romance between two broken souls. Honestly, the elements that are unique to this tale are the sorts of gimmicky schtick that would normally lend itself more to an Ashton Kutcher rom-com than an Oscar-bait drama.

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dreams of becoming a boxing icon. If you just take out the disfiguring injury and soul-crushing emotional nihilism.

Stéphanie (Cotillard), the aforementioned aquatic theme park worker, meets Alain (Matthias Schoenaerts) under ignoble circumstances. He’s a bouncer at a bar in which she got roughed up; so, ever the gentleman, he takes her home and tells her she’s dressed like a whore (which is apparently an insult, even in France).

Proving that pop music results in terrible disfigurement, Stéphanie loses her legs beneath the knees in a killer whale accident during a performance of “Firework.” And for some reason, Stéphanie reaches out to Alain.

It could be that one encounter with the rough-and-tumble, emotionally stunted Alain is enough to know she’d have a kinship with him. If she is now handicapped by injury, he has been held

back by his clearly unwanted son and inability to make his passion for boxing translate into a real life. When Stéphanie comes back into his life, it is just as he has discovered a lucrative street-boxing ring, which is always the best way to put food on a family’s table. The intricate dance between the two characters has some pretty genuine ups and downs … and one or two hot-and-heavy up-anddown-and-up-and-downs.

What makes this film work is what always makes subdued quasi-cinema verite films of this nature work: the acting is pretty great. Cotillard shows once again that she can do with a sideways grimace and batting of her smoky eyes what most American actresses do with hair pulling and yelping. And

Schoenaerts is no slouch either, quickly flipping between “bad boy with a heart of gold” and downright dangerous. It is easy to see these two being drawn to one another, which isn’t to say this is a feel-good experience.

And really, that’s Rust and Bone’s major shortcoming: It’s really just a rom-com without the “com.” It’s a downer littered with the trappings of talented actors and nuanced characters that we’ve seen countless times.

Cotillard could make a PSA on reducing muffler noise appealing, but she can’t make it meaningful or valuable.

Audiard and his cinematographer definitely cue up some gorgeous shots, specifically the first street boxing sequence.

But while rust sticks to cars and muscle sticks to bone, Rust and Bone won’t stick to your memory.

— This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel of love and infidelity comes to life thanks to director Joe Wright. A unique narrative device illuminates the theatrical behavior of the randy Russian nobles who can’t seem to help trying to sleep with each other’s spouses.

Rated R. At Esquire. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

The classic 19th century tale about the survival of the human spirit features outlaw Jean Valjean and the factory worker’s daughter he agrees to watch over, Cosette. This version features Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway and Sacha Baron Cohen. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Ben Affleck’s latest directing project (in which he also stars) is based on true events from the Iranian revolution in 1979.

Militants storm the U.S. embassy and take 52 Americans hostage. Rated R. At Esquire.

A storm ravages a boat carrying a zookeeper’s family and menagerie, and the only survivors are the family’s son, Pi, and a Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Shot in 3-D, the film is a visual feast and is almost certain to receive a Best Picture nomination.

Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square.

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This noir-esque film may fumble over its tropes a bit.

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BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a 6-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE Based on Sarah Burns’ riveting book and co-directed by her renowned father, this incendiary film tells of innocent young men scapegoated for a heinous crime, and serves as a mirror for our times. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater CHASING ICE Acclaimed National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino does to slave owners what he did to Nazis in Inglourious Basterds, taking therapeutic cinematic revenge upon them with Django, a freed slave turned bounty hunter. He and his partner, Dr. King Schultz, attempt to rescue Django’s wife from the watchful eye of Calvin Candie and his head slave. Things do not end peacefully. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. FILM/STILL: LUST FOR LIFE Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 biopic Lust for Life is arguably the best of several films about the painter Vincent Van Gogh. The film is based on Irving Stone’s romanticized biography of the artist published in 1934. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society 38 January 10, 2013

LINCOLN GANGSTER SQUAD In the violent underground of 1940s Los Angeles, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) calls the shots with the police firmly in his pocket. But some cops can’t be controlled, and John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) form a group of tough, civic-minded police determined to protect their city from crime. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS An acclaimed photographer, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulously composed, large-scale images are stunning narratives of small-town American life. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 3D Peter Jackson goes back for an Unexpected Journey that produces expected results, as this adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s original tale of hobbits and wizards is every bit as good as the Lord of the Rings series (and is, in some ways, even better). Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. HOLY MOTORS Over the course of a day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine “appointments,” transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. At Boedecker and SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

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Before setting off on one of the biggest trips of his life, Andy Brewster makes a quick stop at his mom’s house and unexpectedly picks her up to join on his personal adventure. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

In June 1939 the King and Queen of England stay overnight at President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s country estate Hyde Park in upstate New York.

This was the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

A HAUNTED HOUSE In the vein of the Scary Movie series he helped create, Marlon Wayans stars in this parody of found-footage haunted house films like Paranormal Activity and The Devil Inside. Rated R. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

HITCHCOCK Lurking behind Alfred Hitchcock — cinema’s “master of suspense” — was a hidden side: his creatively explosive romance with his steadfast wife and filmmaking collaborator, Alma Reville. At Mayan. –– Landmark Theatres

THE IMPOSSIBLE Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But as the family relaxes around the pool, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds. At Century and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres JACK REACHER See full review page 37. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

This is all about the creation of the penny.

OK, kidding. This is Daniel Day-Lewis proving he’s the best there is (maybe ever) at embodying the emancipatory president as he works to get the 13th Amendment through a divided Congress in the midst of war. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. MONSTERS, INC. 3D This Pixar feature returns to the silver screen in 3D. Sully and Mike have to figure out what to do with a little girl named Boo who has followed them back into the world of monsters. Rated G. At Twin Peaks.

NOT FADE AWAY This rock ’n’ roll drama is a deeply felt love letter to the music of the 1960s. It’s a film about dreams that come true — and the ones that never do. At Chez Artiste.

— Landmark Theatres PARENTAL GUIDANCE A grandfather and his wife face new challenges when they babysit their three grandchildren while the parents are away, and they find they must adjust their methods when faced with the problems of a younger generation. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

PROMISED LAND Matt Damon plays a slick corporate salesman sure he can snag the drilling rights from a small town in economic decline, but meets surprising resistance from a grassroots campaign. Rated R. At Century.

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reel to reel tract with a strange being called a Kyubey.

The Kyubey will also grant her one wish, but in exchange she must fight witches. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

black comedy written by and starring Chris Colfer (Glee) and directed by Brian Dannelly (Saved!, Weeds). At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

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Childhood legends such as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny team up with Jack Frost to protect the imagination and beliefs of children. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

This documentary is a sensory trip through the bustling streets of New Orleans. Three young brothers wander for a night through the cacophonous, rhythmic city. At SIE FilmCenter.

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Mid-level banker Johnny pours his heart and soul into his relationship with Lisa, but Lisa’s beginning to have eyes for Johnny’s best friend. Oh, hi, Mark, indeed. At Esquire.

This film takes up the narrative from the earlier Texas Chainsaw tales. A young woman inherits a house that once housed a vicious killer. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

A ROYAL AFFAIR The true story of an ordinary man who wins the queen’s heart and starts a revolution. Based on the love triangle among the insane Danish King Christian VII, the royal physician, and the young but strong Queen Caroline Mathilda. At Boedecker.

— Boedecker Theater RUST AND BONE See full review page 37. Rated R. At Mayan.

SAMSARA “Samsara” is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and it is the point of departure for filmmakers Ron Fricke and Mark Magidson as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE SESSIONS Based on the autobiographical writings of journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, The Sessions tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined — at age 38 — to lose his virginity. At Esquire.

— Landmark Theatres SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Bradley Cooper plays a man who loses everything and has to move in with his parents while he puts the pieces back together, aided by a mysterious girl. Rated R. At Century.

SKYFALL Skyfall is a return to form for 007. Action, beautiful dames, interesting gadgets and snappy one-liners abound in this thriller.

No surprises there. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— The Reader of Omaha, Neb. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY The Royal Ballet’s signature work is a perfect marriage of Pepita’s choreography and Tchaikovsky’s music, and a challenge for every dancer onstage. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater STRUCK BY LIGHTNING What if you were struck by lightning and died before you even finished high school?

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That was the mantra as I more or less fled the Boulder Weekly office for Asher Brewing Company in Gunbarrel the afternoon of Jan. 3.

It’s not the healthiest mentality for heading to a brewery, maybe, but it is what it is, as pro athletes say.

First, though, I had to track down Asher’s taproom.

I was going to the all-organic brewery, at the top of Boulder County’s brewery alphabet, for a very low-key kickoff. Boulder Weekly’s editorial staff has set a goal to visit every one of the 24 breweries operating taprooms in Boulder County — including three that are expected to start serving by the time it’s their turn alphabetically. (And that’s assuming, rather naively, that no new

taprooms will pop up as we go. When they do, they’ll be tacked onto the list.)

Once a week, we’re jetting up to Very Nice in Ned, across the county to Longmont’s Pumphouse or up to the Lyons home of Oskar Blues. And once a week we’ll tell you about the people, the atmosphere and, of course, the beer that makes Boulder County’s microbrewery scene the greatest that has ever existed anywhere. Call it the Boulder County Beer Tour.

Asher occupies an industrial park spot somewhere along the Diagonal — I still couldn’t tell you where — with all the twisting streets and reused names you could ever want.

But once inside, it feels like happy hour at some downtown Denver bar, not a small town’s only brewery. Three guys in baseball caps joke with the bar-

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Two sips of Green Monstah Strong Ale later, it’s not feeling like just any bar. The beer is liquid gold, and it turns out the dudes in baseball caps just happen to run the place. Along with Jules Masters behind the bar, they comprise four-fifths of Asher’s crew, “which is really nice, because we’re quite the family,” says brewstributor Andrew Ferguson.

At the head of that family is Chris Asher, the founder, owner and brewer of Asher Brewing. The metaphor works because Asher is about as soft-spoken

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World Wars, notaJeff ordered a $10 Sicilian turkey bly the bloody fighting around Ypres on focaccia bread. It’s tough to make and the Dunkirk evacuation. It also a distinctive turkey sandwich, and has a reputation for the peculiar pracWest Flanders makes a good go of it. tice of cat flinging. Lastly, and perItalian-inspired additions of haps most relevantly, it has a longgrilled salami, provolone and West Flanders standing tradition of brewing highherb vinaigrette give it more Brewing Company quality beers. character than the usual 1125 Pearl St., It comes as no surprise, then, that poultry creation. Perhaps Boulder this locale is the namesake for Pearl more importantly, every303-447-BREW Street’s West Flanders Brewing thing about this sandwich Company. The folks behind it exuded freshness, from the include, among others, Mark and lemon and tomato to the exceptionChris Heinritz, who own The Sink, ally clean flavor. and Barry Wolfman, manager of that Both our hostess and server Hill institution. Beer duties fall to enthusiastically recommended the brewmaster Brian Lutz, who helped burgers. But even I thought the sugdevelop Dale’s Pale Ale, a beverage gestion of the Smokestack sandwich that had a cameo in the film SEAL would be a little extreme given its Team 6: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden. heavy freight of grass-fed beef patty, bacon and pulled and two pleasingly crunchy croutons enhanced eye At first glance, the menu reflects that of a appeal. Texture is key to successful cheese soup. Make pork. straightforward brewpub, and it’s easy to see a familial it too thick and diners think they’re spooning straight Instead, I went for a special, the $12 bleu pepperresemblance to The Sink. There are the requisite cheese sauce; make it too thin and it seems the restau- corn burger, featuring blue cheese, cheddar, fried burgers, salads and pizza. But friend Jeff and I noticed rant went cheap and watered it down. As Goldilocks onion and bacon. This was a well-rounded burger; during a recent lunch that some items each flavor balanced the other out.

Additionally, the flavorful adornments are decidedly outside the brewpub box. didn’t obscure the clean taste of Examples of this ambition include grass-fed meat. On the side was pumpkin risotto and such meatless items a generous pile of house-made as arugula and quinoa salad. potato chips that were crisp, This microbrewery counts several warm, perfectly salted and Belgian-inspired brews of its own crehe Kattenstoet takes place every three absolutely addictive. ation among the liquid offerings. These years in the West Flanders city of Ypres — My conjecture is West include the Daisy Cutter, which is a the last one was in 2012 — and it is a celeFlanders’ aspirations are strong ale, the Trippel Lutz and the dark bration of the cat. The centerpiece event is the flinging of the cats, in which a jester figure tosses beyond those of a typical brewred St. Mark’s Dubbel. Besides other stuffed toy felines off the belfry of the Cloth Hall.

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Patxi’s also offers a gluten-free thin crust and Lisnatti SoyStation Dairy Free Cheese for those with dietary restrictions. All of its crusts are vegan.

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as Don Vito Corleone, though way less intimidating. With a little prying, he opens up about the company as I get a taste of the perfectly smooth and slightly tart Funbarrel Cherry, Asher’s Green Bullet IPA oak-aged with cherries.

Asher, a Boston native, proudly notes that his brewery is still the only all-organic operation in Colorado.

“Everything we use has to be certified,” he says. “That includes cleaning and everything.”

That also now includes hops, a product previously exempted from organic regulations. The federal government recently decided that for products to bear the “organic” label, hops had to be grown organically. Asher’s made the shift to all-organic hops easily, Ferguson says.

Asher, Masters and I chat about the ecological footprint of the little cones, which occupy a lot of the brewer’s time.

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the hunt for hops often dictates what beers he can produce, as some hops are better suited to IPAs and others to darker beers. He drops two claims on me that I can’t confirm: He says Coors discovered that organic hops make beer last longer than conventional hops treated with pesticides, and he says New Belgium found that the carbon footprint of hops from the Northwest was greater than those coming from New Zealand, because overseas shipping is more efficient than trucking.

Speaking of driving long, flat, boring distances: Why Gunbarrel?

“I like the low rent here,” Asher says. “There’s not much else going on in Gunbarrel.”

Ferguson also tells BW’s staff that Asher is the only brewery in town and draws in lots of locals.

So, I decide to check out what — besides the beer — keeps the Gunbarrelites coming. Amber ale in hand, I meet the rest of the BW staff in the back room of Asher.

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with every game that distracted you barrels that clocked in at — well, who from Keystone Light back in college: knows? Eleven percent alcohol was cornhole, darts, foosball, pinball Masters’ best guess. At any rate, that machines and a video arcade game.

Monstah knocked me off my feet; the There’s a small bar in the corner and a standard 10 percent strong ale merely flat screen TV. knocks my socks off.

“It’s like being in the garage of Complex and massive-yet-drinksomeone who has able, it’s not easy a lot of good to pin down beers,” David Green Monstah.

I stop Asher to ask, says.

Joel’s review — A small por“That taste, where do they go from table shelter going down, is here? It’s an easy quescovers the foosprobably about ball table, pinwhat it would tion for a brewery with ball machines taste like comorganic cred. and arcade ing back up” — game, promptmight say more ing Joel to quip, about him than “It is a warethe beer. Andy house, but there skips description he tells me. is a place to go and starts plotif it rains.” Yes, ting to include it’s a tent, the beer in a indoors. pork chop recipe. I embark on a battle So the staff gets wrapped up with myself, trying to resist getting in a fairly competitive game of darts, another. and I get reviews of Asher’s other And I stop Asher to ask, where do brews. they go from here? It’s an easy question w David says the Greenade Double for a brewery with organic cred.

IPA is hoppy and spicy but not too over“Whole Foods wants us bad,” powering. His friend Andy calls it Asher tells me. He says the brewery “crisp,” adding, “It’s a light-tasting, dry 9 plans to start canning, not bottling, percent that doesn’t overwhelm the beer by spring or summer. It’s a logical stomach with a sugary feeling.” next step for the three-year-old comThe SuperFly Oatmeal Stout is pany, and one anticipated by anyone “portery,” Joel says, and not particularly who, like me, is hooked on the heavy. Andy offers a similar review for Monstah. n a very different beer, calling the Green Up next on the tour is a Boulder Bullet IPA “light” as well as floral. standby, Avery Brewing Company, Lastly, Asher’s Green Lantern which has tapped its Liebenweizen, a Kolsch has a very slight floral taste, malty, chewy, banana-toned which Joel says he likes, even though Dunkelweizen brewed for an Avery he usually doesn’t like floral tones. brewer’s wedding.

But the center of the Asher uniAnd if they’re out of that very limverse, for me at least, is Green ited release, well, Boulder County’s Monstah. Boulder Weekly staff had earli- next badass beer is always just around er gotten a sample of the beer, a version the corner.

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Among the clues are the following: 1. “How often does someone comes up to you on the street, point at you, gibber something inarticulate, and run away?” 2. “How many robot/clone duplicates of yourself have you come across?” 3. “Is there a blurry black-andwhite photo or drawing from history that sort of looks like you?” 4. “Have you achieved weird feats that nobody could explain, but which nobody else witnessed?” Now would be a good time for you to take this test, Aries. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when your dormant superpowers may finally be awakening — a time when you might need to finally claim a role you’ve previously been unready for. (Read Anders’ article here: http:tinyurl.com/AreYouChosen.)

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

“Dear Rob the Astrologer: I have a big question for you.

If I could get access to a time machine, where would you suggest I should go? Is there a way to calculate the time and place where I could enjoy favorable astrological connections that would bring out the best in me? -Curious Taurus.” Dear Curious: Here are some locations that might be a good fit for you Tauruses right now: Athens, Greece in 459 B.C.; Constantinople in 1179; Florence, Italy in 1489; New York in 2037. In general, you would thrive wherever there are lots of bright people co-creating a lively culture that offers maximum stimulation. You need to have your certainties challenged and your mind expanded and your sense of wonder piqued.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Will archaeologists find definitive evidence of the magical lost continent of Atlantis in 2013? Probably not. How about Shambhala, the mythical kingdom in Central Asia where the planet’s greatest spiritual masters are said to live? Any chance it will be discovered by Indiana Jones-style fortune hunters? Again, not likely. But I do think there’s a decent chance that sometime in the next seven months, many of you Geminis will discover places, situations, and circumstances that will be, for all intents and purposes, magical and mythical.

a perfect storm is headed your way.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

Artists who painted images in caves 30,000 years ago did a pretty good job of depicting the movements of four-legged animals like horses. In fact, they were more skilled than today’s artists. Even the modern experts who illustrate animal anatomy textbooks don’t match the accuracy of the people who decorated cave walls millennia ago.

So says a study reported in Livescience.com (http://tinyurl. com/CaveArtMagic). I’d like to suggest this is a useful metaphor for you to consider, Libra. There’s some important task that the old you did better than the new you does. Now would be an excellent time to recapture the lost magic.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

After evaluating your astrological omens for the coming months, I’ve decided to name you Scorpios the “Top Sinners of the Year” for 2013. What that means is that I suspect your vices will be more inventive and more charming than those of all the other signs. Your so-called violations may have the effect of healing some debilitating habit. In fact, your “sins” may not be immoral or wicked at all. They might actually be beautiful transgressions that creatively transcend the status quo; they might be imaginative improvements on the half-assed way that things have always been done. To ensure you’re always being ethical in your outlaw behavior, be committed to serving the greater good at least as much as your own selfish interests.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Here’s the horoscope I hope to be able to write for you a year from now: “Your mind just kept opening further and further during these past 12 months, Sagittarius — way beyond what I ever imagined possible. Congrats! Even as you made yourself more innocent and receptive than you’ve been in a long time, you were constantly getting smarter and sharpening your ability to see the raw truth of what was unfolding. Illusions and misleading fantasies did not appeal to you. Again, kudos!”

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

There’s a spot in the country of Panama where you can watch the sun rise in the east over the Pacific Ocean. In another Panamanian location, you can see the sun set in the west over the Atlantic Ocean. Nothing weird is involved.

Nothing twisted or unearthly. It’s simply a quirk of geography. I suspect that a similar situation will be at work in your life sometime soon. Things may seem out of place.

Your sense of direction might be off-kilter, and even your intuition could seem to be playing tricks on you. But don’t worry. Have no fear. Life is simply asking you to expand your understanding of what “natural” and “normal” are.

What does it mean when the dwarf planet Pluto impacts a key point in your horoscope? For Capricorn gymnast Gabby Douglas, it seemed to be profoundly empowering. During the time Pluto was close to her natal sun during last year’s Summer Olympics, she won two gold medals, one with her team and one by herself. Luck had very little to do with her triumph. Hard work, self-discipline, and persistence were key factors. I’m predicting that Pluto’s long cruise through the sign of Capricorn will give you an opportunity to earn a Gabby Douglas-like achievement in your own sphere — if, that is, you can summon the same level of willpower and determination that she did. Now would be an excellent time to formally commit yourself to the glorious cause that excites you the most.

LEO

AQUARIUS

Metaphorically speaking, a pebble was in your shoe the whole past week. You kept thinking, “Pretty soon I’ve got to take a minute to get rid of that thing,” and yet you never did. Why is that? While it wasn’t enormously painful, it distracted you just enough to keep you from giving your undivided attention to the important tasks at hand. Now here’s a news flash: The damn pebble is still in your shoe.

Can I persuade you to remove it? Please?

“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ until you can find a rock,” said humorist Will Rogers. I hope you’ve been taking care of the “nice doggie” part, Aquarius — holding the adversarial forces and questionable influences at bay. As for the rock: I predict you will find it any minute now, perhaps even within an hour of reading this horoscope. Please keep in mind that you won’t necessarily have to throw the rock for it to serve its purpose. Merely brandishing it should be enough.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

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