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departments 6 T HE HIGHROAD: Death of the lush, green lawn 7 STEW’S VIEWS: Can a business do well and do good?

8 COMMENTARY: It was no ‘Charlie Hebdo’ but Boulder’s Clancy’s Bookstore did its share to fight censorship 8 L ETTERS: Municipalization won’t help fight global warming; No matter the outcome, Lyons is divided 12 NEWS BRIEFS: Is ‘Westword’ going up for sale?; Private equity firm in talks to buy area newspapers; Recovery not reaching 99 percent of Colorado; Wyoming increases fracking transparency; ‘Death with Dignity Act’ proposed 47 ARTS & CULTURE: ‘Appoggiatura’ washes over one family’s grief 49 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 55 POETRY: by Ted Garrison 56 FILM: 2015’s Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts 59 CUISINE REVIEW: Exciting flavor, old cuisine at Volta 61 TIDBITES: Food happenings around Boulder County 65 DRINK: Sights and sounds from the second annual Bourbon and Bacon Fest 71 ASTROLOGY: By Rob Brezsny 73 SAVAGE LOVE: Multi-purposing your toys 75 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Wyoming keeps cannabis possession criminal 77 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Gun theme parks, renegade droids and hoodie rules gone wrong Boulder Weekly

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January 29, 2015 Volume XXII, Number 26 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Highroad Death of the lush, green lawn

by Jim Hightower

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y father was an early member of a group now known disparagingly as “ultra-lawn people.”

“High,” as everyone called him, was dedicated, body and soul, to the Sisyphean task of trying to maintain a lawn full of lush St. Augustine grass in hot, dry Texas. He planted, watered, fertilized, watered, mowed, watered, fought bugs and brown patch, watered,

re-planted, watered… ad nauseum.

Some years he won, in other years, nature rolled him.

High departed his lawn and this Earth well before climate change turned Texas from merely hot and dry into scorched and parched. I know he would’ve denied it at first, but I think even he would’ve finally given in to today’s new reality: In our drought-ravaged Southwest, the lush lawn is dead.

Literally and ethically.

From Texas to Southern California, city after city is adapting to nature.

They’re policing neighborhoods to impose big fines on excessive lawn watering, paying homeowners and businesses to rip out grass and replace it with desertscapes and even outlawing grass yards in new developments. And, it’s working. A pioneering 2003 turfremoval rebate program in Las Vegas, for example, has now pulled 168 million feet of thirsty lawn grass out of the area, saved more than 9 billion gallons

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

of water, and cut water use by a third, even as the population has mushroomed.

Such an effort would’ve been treated as heresy only a decade ago, but now it’s simply considered the right thing to do. This is not merely an environmental adjustment, but a fundamental ethical shift, especially among younger people.

The idea that green lawns are exercises in ecological narcissism has taken root in this arid and politically conservative region — demonstrating that conservatism really can be about conserving.

Mother Nature and future generations will be grateful.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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stew’s views Can a business do well and do good? (or even because it does good)

by Stewart Sallo

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s we pass another milestone in the Boulder Weekly journey ­— this one with a big 21 prominently displayed — I have a confession to make about this newspaper that has never been shared with our readers: Boulder Weekly is a corporation.

You read that right: a corporation.

And I’m not talking about a nonprofit corporation (although, believe me, there have been times in the not-too-distant past where the term “nonprofit” would have been hitting the nail squarely on the head). In terms of corporate status, Boulder Weekly, Inc. is viewed by the Colorado Secretary of State as being identical to any other corporation doing business in the Centennial State. Ball Corporation, for example, has the same corporate status as Boulder Weekly; Coors Brewing Company is a fellow corporation; Big O Tires, Frontier Airlines, King Soopers, Quizno’s, The Sports Authority, Vail Resorts and Ultimate Electronics are all viewed by the State of Colorado as having the same rights and responsibilities as Boulder Weekly.

The “Great Recession,” which began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, generated widespread international disdain for corporations, particularly within the banking industry largely blamed for the “Subprime Mortgage Crisis,” which coincided chronologically with what has been generally described as the worst global recession since World War II. More recently, the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Trade Commission case, in which the Supreme Court ruled lthat corporations may not be limited in their contributions to political campaigns, opened the door for even greater influence on the part of these wealthy and powerful entities, thereby weakening the democratic process by drowning out the voices of common citizens.

We live in a world that is increasingly controlled by corporations and the negative consequences of this trend are becoming clear to most of us. We have every reason to be cynical and mistrustful Boulder Weekly

of corporations, as we have seen overwhelming evidence that instructs us as to the true intentions that many corporations hold, and their willingness to engage in unethical practices to achieve them.

But all corporations are not created equally. For example, despite having the same legal corporate definition as Coors Brewing Company International, Inc., Boulder Weekly, Inc. is fundamentally different in ways that set our organization apart from the type of corporate entities that have (rightly) generated such enormous public mistrust.

Out of deference to the limitations of space I will focus on what I consider to be the most salient difference: ownership.

It’s probably a safe assumption that if you’re reading this week’s Boulder Weekly you also have a smartphone. If you have a smartphone you are doing business with a network provider, such as Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile. Let’s use Verizon for the purposes of a little foray into the way corporations work. When you deal with Verizon, who creates the policies under which your relationship is structured? The answer is: Verizon does. You have little power in participating in the way your relationship with Verizon is structured, short of choosing from the plans they offer. You are not at liberty to negotiate an agreement that suits your individual needs. Rather, you will either accept one of the limited plans offered by Verizon or you can look at another service provider (and you will not find the offerings of any of Verizon’s competitors to be substantially different).

Now, who owns Verizon? The answer ranges from nobody to anybody.

All one needs to do to be a part of Verizon’s ownership group is to buy a share of stock. The current price: about $46 (and changing by the minute). If you’re unhappy with the service Verizon is providing, can you contact any of the owners to express your dissatisfaction and negotiate a new agreement that will better meet your needs? Of course not.

The “owners” of Verizon are not accountable to the customers of the company they own. Therefore, if you are a Verizon customer you are doing

business with a corporation that is owned by individuals with no accountability or concern for the satisfaction of their customers. In that sense nobody owns Verizon.

What does concern the owners of Verizon? One thing: that the price of Verizon stock continues to rise. If the price rises, investors will keep their money in Verizon stock (and perhaps even purchase more); if the price falls, investors may sell their stock and invest it elsewhere. What this means is that there is an inherent conflict of interest between the needs of Verizon’s owners and its customers.

Publically traded corporations have a board of directors and a team of managers. These are the people who make the policies that govern the way the company is run. Because of the dynamics that exist in such corporations, the suits in the board room and the corporate office will make decisions with one objective in mind: pleasing stockholders. This means that you, as a customer, are nothing more than a footnote in the equation of what drives the company’s policies.

This is true of virtually every publically traded corporation you can name.

The question has often been posed: Can a businesses do good and do well?

Or, put another way: Can corporations operate with high ethical standards and still succeed? Lawrence Summers says the answer is no. Summers is an American economist with a resume that establishes him as one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, including professor of economics at Harvard University, chief economist of the World Bank, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, president of Harvard University and director of the National Economic Council. Summers answered the question like this: “It is hard in this world to do well.

It is hard to do good. When I hear a claim that an institution is going to do both, I reach for my wallet. You should too.”

I am prepared to contest Summers’ answer to this important question. To do so, let’s look at the ownership of Boulder Weekly, Inc. For those who missed the interview I did with myself in our 20th Anniversary Edition (http:// bit.ly/1wBvXvo), I am the sole owner of Boulder Weekly, Inc. As the owner I am concerned with two things: that my

business does good and that it does well. And in all honesty, it is more important to me that Boulder Weekly does good than well, which is why you will see us tackling stories that our friends in the corporate media won’t.

For example, when we learned of potentially hazardous pollution in the ground beneath the city-owned Boulder Dushanbe Tea House, we investigated the issue thoroughly and reported our findings to our readers, knowing that not everyone who buys advertising would be pleased with our reporting.

And we have done countless other stories over the years that told the truth our readers need and deserve to hear, despite the very real financial consequences of doing so.

The Tea House story was published in 2013, and for our journalistic work that year we received 36 Rocky Mountain Region SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists) awards — more than any other newspaper in our fourstate region. But here’s where I get to make my point: 2013 happened to be Boulder Weekly’s second most successful year, financially speaking. And we followed that trend in 2014 by continuing to “do good” and had our most financially successful year in our 21-year history.

Independent ownership alone does not account for Boulder Weekly’s status as a “corporation” that does good and does well, but it is my contention that this factor is paramount. Regardless of the reasons, it is possible for a business to do good and do well. More importantly, it is possible for a business to do well because it does good.

I believe you have chosen to read Boulder Weekly for this reason, and we are grateful to you for enabling us to put out a brand of journalism that truly makes a difference. To whatever extent is possible, I would suggest that you employ this same method in choosing what restaurants to patronize; where to buy groceries, clothes, books, cosmetics, shoes and furniture; even where to get a pedicure, a mocha latte, a bottle of wine or a gift. Boulder County is blessed with wonderful independent businesses that are just as concerned with doing good as they are with doing well.

Reward them with your patronage and be a part of their commitment to doing good in the world. By doing so you, too, are doing good.

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commentary It was no ‘Charlie Hebdo’ but Boulder’s Clancy’s Bookstore did its share to fight censorship

Really BAD Ideas I think the decision to retro-fit the cit y’s height restrictions wasn’t such a good idea af ter all.

by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby

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he killings at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have provoked much discussion about the freedom of expression. Ed Wasserman, the dean of University of California Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism — who has lived in Paris and read the magazine — says it was “targeted because it promotes a very rude brand of satire that is integral to French culture, a brand that emphasizes derision.”

Wasserman says American satire is pretty mild by comparison. This wasn’t always so. In the 1960s, he notes that there was a satirical U.S. magazine similar to Charlie Hebdo called The Realist, which ran outrageous pieces on religion, sex, racism, LSD, pot, abortion, Vietnam and nuclear war.

I regularly bought The Realist at Clancy’s Bookstore on Boulder’s University Hill. The magazine was so popular that the store ordered 200 copies of each issue. The proprietor was a sprightly, witty, loquacious, 4-foot-1-inch man named Clancy Sheehy. I was introduced to him when I was a junior high student by a CU student teacher who liked an anti-war essay I had written.

From 1961 to 1967, the store was a great place to hang out, particularly for University of Colorado students and faculty members. Clancy told the Daily Camera, “This is my miniature stage on which are played 150 dramas daily.

People get together here to sing, discuss politics and philosophy, have poetry readings. Students come here with little problems and big questions.”

In January 1965, Len Barron — a CU student in his 30s — found out that Clancy was in financial trouble. He helped organize a testimonial program to honor Clancy and raise money for the store. Tickets were $5 each. The event included music, drama and poetry reading. It filled the University Memorial Center’s Main Ballroom.

English professor James Sandoe read the poetry of Kipling. The university Jazz Band performed. Charles Nilon, CU’s first black professor, gave a moving tribute to Clancy. Drama students did Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood.

Anthropology professor John Greenway performed folk songs. Sociology professor Howard Higman imitated Eleanor

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Roosevelt. About $3,000 was raised.

Dave Morton, a friend of Clancy’s who helped run the store, says Clancy wanted his store to be like City Lights in San Francisco, the bookstore and publisher founded by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti which was a voice of the Beat Generation of the 1950s.

Morton says, “Clancy worked his ass off. He put in 11 to 12 hours a day.”

The two huge plate glass windows of the store (which was on the second floor) were shattered by bricks at least twice, Morton says. No one was caught but Morton assumes the perpetrators were probably rightwingers who disliked the store.

In November 1966, Clancy, who was then 39 years old, was arrested for selling an indecent item. He was charged with committing an “indecent or filthy act” and “with possessing or exhibiting to sell or offering for sale an indecent or lewd book, picture or other thing whatever of an immoral or scandalous nature.”

Goodness gracious, what disgusting thing did he do? According to the Daily Camera back in 1966, he sold a button (on consignment for a CU student) “using a four-letter-word in which the single vowel has been replaced by an asterisk.” The button said “F*CK CENSORSHIP.” CU students were planning a protest when Clancy went to Municipal Court but he asked them not to.

On January 6, 1967, Judge Hansen dismissed the charges and ruled that the two ordinances were unconstitutional, abridging the rights of free speech.

The conflict over Clancy’s button might seem silly today, but Judge Hansen’s decision represented a larger legally sanctioned shift in attitudes over the notion of civility which was happening in the ’60s, according to historian Kenneth Cmiel. Traditional social etiquette was challenged by polite blacks sitting in at segregated restaurants, by counterculturists desiring more authentic social relations and by student radicals strategically disrupting things for political reasons. There were excesses, but America would become a more relaxed and informal society.

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letters Municipalization won’t help fight global warming

Mr. Dyer, your editorial [Re: “End municipalization secrecy,” DyerTimes, Jan. 15] makes an important point that I support but inaccurately states the reasons for municipalization. You write, “Why is municipalization a good idea?

There is only one reason: because it could, if done properly, help to curb global warming in ways that getting our electricity from Xcel’s profit-motivated system never will.”

And later; “It’s not the fear of spending a few more cents per kilowatt.”

If the city of Boulder completely stopped consuming electricity the resulting reduction in greenhouse gasses would be unmeasurable on a global scale and thus would not “help curb global warming” as you state, unless by “help” you mean, make us feel good.

We simply do not use enough electricity to make a difference. Much more greenhouse gasses are produced by driving, flying and heating our homes.

Your assumption that municipalization will only add “a few more cents per kilowatt” (actually kilowatt-hour) is an optimistic guess. After we pay off all the legal fees, inflated salaries and service, the probable $300 to $600 million bond debt, my guess is that we will be paying several dollars per kilowatt-hour.

I agree that we need to do something about climate change, I am not a denier, but let’s not do the wrong thing.

Implementing an expensive solution that does not solve the problem is the

wrong thing.

— Ford Magden/Boulder

No matter the outcome, Lyons is now divided

This in response to Matt Cortina’s recent Boulder Weekly article about the upcoming special election in Lyons, Colorado [Re: “Out like a lamb,” News, Jan. 15]. As reported, the ballot will ask consent for the sale of a large parcel of the town’s Bohn Park to a housing authority.

The all-or-nothing plan residents will vote on is 50 to 70 rental units in the crown jewel of our park land. Most of those displaced were homeowners.

When surveyed, they have indicated that they do not want to return to a rental subdivision.

As a general principle, taking park land for subsidized affordable housing makes little sense. How can a housing authority advertise the amenities its housing will include, how will it be a “good neighbor” while building on, not next to, a town’s park?

The September 2013 flood displaced all town residents for several months. Perhaps Cortina could have talked to more residents of this traumatized community who care as much as the mayor and trustees do about low income, displaced residents. Many of us are against taking the park land. We don’t believe this is the only choice to help displaced residents. We feel let down by both our local government and see LETTERS Page 10

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the local housing authority, which already owns three affordable housing projects in town. BCHA [Boulder County Housing Authority] could instead be helping the town with one or more of the ~10 other private, safe, forsale options that the Trestle Group consulting study identified.

The article describes inaccurately what are actually dispersed fragments of “replacement parkland” that may be added to the town’s park holdings through the 404 federal buyouts. Many of the possible 404 parcels are not connected to the present park and will require a lot of work, time and funding to place into public use. They are more distant from the hundreds of residents who walk to the park. Just as housing was damaged by the flood, so too will these river-side park lands (much such park in town has yet to be repaired). To sum acreages and call the plan “no loss of parkland” is one way to sell the project, but it is not responsible or accurate.

The sad thing is that, whichever side prevails, the town has been divided by being asked to choose between “parks and people.” Attention has been diverted from the actual needs of the displaced. A “yes” vote now means that the town as a whole suffers twice: first from the damaging flood, then by the effective loss of Bohn Park. Not mentioned in the article is that there are already plans to convert another portion of the park to municipal storage yards. Bohn Park is used intensively year-round by residents (a five-minute walk for nearly 500 of us), and, in the summer, by many others in the region; it will be fragmented, divided by roads and lost forever as open space. So that more housing can be crammed in to a part of the town that was unsafe during the flood, isolated, cut-off entirely, no overland evacuation possible, for 460 residents for over two days. My “no” vote will be against a bad plan; not against the need for replacement housing.

In the case of a “no” vote, I think we will see, at last, relatively rapid progress towards use of the disaster recovery funding for its intended purpose. The town and housing authority will take advantage of the other opportunities to build new housing in the town, options that do not require taking its park land.

There is still time for this to occur.

— Robert Brakenridge/Lyons

Danish has readers in Alaska?

Your suggested solutions [Re: “Real tax reform means everybody pays something,” DanishPlan, Jan. 22] to me sounds like the FairTax (fairtax.org/).

But, we don’t want a VAT. It’s the most insidious tax ever concocted and requires 10 January 29, 2015

a vast bureaucracy to administer.

—Wiley Brooks, Alaska State Director Americans for Fair Taxation/Alaska

Care for fries with that 3D-printed burger?

I enjoyed your Jan. 22 [Re: “Where’d that place go?” News, Jan. 22] piece about the disappearing Boulder businesses. Sadly, this is nothing new and far from unique to Boulder.

I was a Certified General Colorado Real Estate Appraiser and for a few years the nationwide market analyst for institutional real estate in a division of U.S. West (predecessor of Qwest).

Buyers of commercial property always look at legacy leases currently “below market” the way Wile E. Coyote eyes the Roadrunner. And where development is restricted in any way, landlords tend to have a free hand.

But what about in places where market rents are going nowhere, and local microeconomics justify neither development nor rent increases? In Longmont, landlords think down is up, and the sky is green. There is no perceptible wage growth; hence, no enduser benefit to speak of.

I know of four Longmont tenant businesses who have moved when confronted by escalated rent demands upon lease renewal. Three are or were restaurants, and only one was a local “momand-pop.” Indeed, one was a wellknown regional name headquartered in Denver. Two of the four are gone from Longmont entirely.

Most rational landlords should value a “warm body” over an empty space, but in Longmont some perverse logic prevails. My own observations, which are well-honed, would reveal that the lead commercial tenant around town has but one name: “Available.”

There’s rent, market rent, sustainable rent and dream rent. Once homegrown businesses disappear, a place is subject to all the vicissitudes of economic forces from without and differentiation disappears. Care for fries with that 3D-printed burger?

— Gregory Iwan/Longmont

I love you Rennie

I just had a chance to read [“Inspiring social change through hiphop,” Buzz, Jan. 8] on Rennie Harris and his new dance company Grass Roots Project, and I said to myself, where have I been all this time?

Rennie Harris has been here in Boulder this whole time I have been here, four whole years and I’m just now stumbling upon this glorious and reviving news.

When I was attending College at the University of Texas in Austin back Boulder Weekly

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in 2000-03 I had the chance to see his company, Pure Movement, perform an amazing show and was blown away by the message. The dancers and the genuine satisfaction of soulful movement that I had been missing in my training (dancing since the age of 3) and still ] the classes I take today at age 34; spanning from modern to hip-hop around here Boulder.

When I saw this performance years ago, it struck me, helped me feel alive and I’ve always wondered how awesome it would be to just be able to take a class from him again. Maybe even perform.

Your article says that he is currently adding more dancers to the group and is planning to present at the dance conferences in the fall... I would love to get any information from you about any classes or auditions he may be holding for this project as I am extremely interested in being a part of this historical dance and societal movement.

I would be ever so grateful if you could please point me in the right direction so that I can make my dream come true.

At the very least I hope that this email may reach his eyes to let him know that his work thus far has had an impact yet again on another white girl from Louisiana who believes too that “it’s about breaking down ignorant stereotypes,” and that we are here to “learn each other’s cultures,” not just in society but within the dance community to help dancers and viewers learn what hip-hop technique really is and that it edoes, in fact, have different levels of intensity which help define the culture and give it the voice it deserves.

— Jillian Ardoin/via Internet

working as a live TV producer for the local ABC affiliate, where he won two Emmy awards. He then moved to Los Angeles and developed Real People for NBC, a forerunner of primetime reality shows. After a subsequent stint at Fox, Howard founded Lighthearted Entertainment, where he executive produced a wide range of non-scripted television shows.

As reported in The New York Times, the New York Post, ABC, MSN, Variety and other news outlets, Howard passed

away suddenly while in Hawaii celebrating his 28th wedding anniversary.

He was 61 years of age. Howard is survived by his wife Tana, his children Jacob and Adam Schultz and Jeffrey ( Joslynn) Spangler, his grandchildren Xanthe and Maryn, and his sisters Eilene Isaacs and Bonnie Schultz.

The family will host a memorial service in Los Angeles at a later date. Plans will be posted as they are developed. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to cufund.org.

University of Colorado Foundation Pathways to Excellence Program, Acct 0125215 College of Media, Communication and Information Dean’s Fund 10901 W. 120th Ave., #200, Broomfield, CO 80021.

The entire CWA family grieves the loss of one of its own, extends its heartfelt condolences to Howard’s family, and pledges to carry on in his spirit to produce a conference that speaks not just to the head but to the heart.

— John Griffin/CU Boulder

A loss for the Conference on World Affairs

On Dec. 29, the Conference on World Affairs lost a beloved member of the Conference family, Howard Schultz. Howard participated as a guest speaker for the 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Conferences on World Affairs, and his panel sessions were always eagerly anticipated. Recently, Howard moved to Boulder and generously offered to continue to share his expertise to further the goals of the Conference. At a recent gathering at Jane Butcher’s house, for instance, Howard spoke insightfully and movingly about the magic that can occur when you “put people together,” whether it is on a CWA panel or one of Howard’s reality television shows. In short, the Conference was better with Howard in it, and he will be sorely missed.

A graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder (’75), Howard Schultz began his career in Chicago, Boulder Weekly

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IS ‘WESTWORD’ GOING UP FOR SALE?

Voice Media Group, parent company for Denverbased alt weekly Westword, has hired merger-andacquisition firm Dirks, Van Essen & Murray for what appears to be a possible sale of some or all of its newspapers.

Voice Media Group papers total a nationwide print distribution of 3 million, and their holdings include New York City’s The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Miami New Times, the Houston Press, Phoenix New Times, City Pages in Minneapolis, the Dallas Observer, the Riverfront Times in St. Louis, New Times BrowardPalm Beach and Denver’s Westword.

According to a report at Poynter.org titled “Village Voice parent company will explore sale of papers,” Dirks, Van Essen & Murray has been tasked with exploring “new strategies for its publishing assets.” The Poynter piece also notes this “is the typical language used when companies put their papers up for sale.”

“We continue to evaluate all of our properties while at the same time looking at new opportunities,” Scott Tobias, Voice Media Group chief executive officer, said in a release. “We will be making moves that fit our business plan and that set our business up for the most success today and in the future.”

Voice Media Group is working to “fine-tune its portfolio,” and diversify its holdings.

OC Weekly will be first in line for considering options for sale of the paper or opportunities for a local partnership. OC Weekly editor and writer of the syndicated column “Ask a Mexican” Gustavo Arellano posted word about the sale in his news blog “Navel Gazing.”

“On my end, anyone interested in buying this rag gets a motivated band of misfits, almost all of us OC natives loving to tell the best and worst of a land with 3 million souls,” he wrote. “We’ve been comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable for nearly 20 years, and we plan to do so no matter who may be our eventual papi or mami.”

PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS IN TALKS TO BUY DENVER POST, DAILY CAMERA, TIMES CALL AND OTHER DIGITAL FIRST MEDIA NEWSPAPERS Digital First Media, the parent company of the Denver Post and majority owner in several Boulder County newspapers including the Daily Camera, Longmont Times-Call and Colorado Hometown Weekly 12 January 29, 2015

is reportedly closing in on the sale of all 280 of its daily and weekly newspapers.

As reported in Boulder Weekly in April 2014, Digital First Media’s owner, Alden Global Capital — a venture capital firm specializing in the purchase of distressed businesses — had decided to unload all of its Digital First properties. Analysts at the time noted that even though Alden preferred to sell its entire Digital First holdings to a single buyer, it was unlikely that such a buyer would emerge considering the sorry state of the current daily newspaper market. Many observers therefore expected that the company would be sold off in regional blocks.

It now appears that the analyst may have been wrong. Bloomberg and other media sources are now reporting that two private equity firms, Cerberus Capital Management LP and Apollo Global Management, are currently in talks with Alden in separate attempts to purchase the entire Digital First portfolio, which includes Prairie Mountain Publishing the owner of the Daily Camera, Colorado Daily, Longmont Times-Call, Broomfield Enterprise, Loveland Reporter Herald, Fort Morgan Times, Journal-Advocate in Sterling, Lamar Daily News, Akron News-Reporter, Brush News-Tribune, The Burlington Record, Julesburg Advocate and the Estes Park TrailGazette.

Bloomberg reports that Alden is seeking somewhere between $480 and $625 million for its Digital First properties but notes that getting such a price is unlikely.

Respected media analyst Ken Doctor notes that generally, when private equity firms buy a distressed property, it is with the intent to slash expenses to improve profits in order to increase the resell value quickly.

Doctor adds that Digital First had already cut its newspapers’ expenses to the bone, and it’s unclear where else the bidding companies could cut, aside from possibly cutting the number of issues per week that are produced.

As evidence of the mass consolidation that has already taken place under Digital First’s ownership, layoffs have been sizable and frequent since it purchased its papers out of bankruptcy a few years ago.

Content from once competing newspapers in the region is now shared by all the papers and in recent weeks, reporter bylines no longer designate which newspaper the writer works for. Reporters from all the Digital First papers in Boulder County are now simply listed as “staff.” The lone exception are Denver Post writers who still maintain a Post byline on stories run-

ning in the Camera, Times-Call, etc.

The private equity bids for the whole company appear to be a blow for Philip Anschutz, owner of Clarity Media Group, who has made clear his desire to own the Denver Post and DF’s other Colorado newspapers. Anschutz currently owns several rightleaning newspapers including The Oklahoman and the Colorado Springs Gazette.

It’s still possible that the two bids for all the properties may be too low and Alden could reject them, choosing instead to sell off the regional clusters.

Whatever happens, it appears that sooner rather than later, all of Boulder County’s newspapers — with the exception of Boulder Weekly — will be owned by either an expense-slashing private equity fund or by one of the most politically conservative newspaper owners in America.

Joel Dyer

WYOMING INCREASES TRANSPARENCY IN FRACKING FLUID

A settlement reached in a case filed by environmental organizations against the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and Halliburton Energy Wyoming residents have Services may make it struggled to get details from the state as to what’s in frack- more difficult for ing fluid. energy companies to maintain confidentiality about the chemicals used in fracking.

In 2010, Wyoming issued requirements to oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals used for fracking, but the Oil and Gas Commission granted exemptions from that requirement as the industry claimed those chemicals were trade secrets.

This settlement requires the Wyoming Oil and Gas Commission to provide more factual support for those claims.

“The reforms required by today’s settlement will ensure that oil and gas companies don’t get a free pass from public disclosure laws in Wyoming,” Earthjustice attorney Katherine O’Brien said in a press release.

Earthjustice represented the Powder River Basin Resource Council, Wyoming Outdoor Council, Earthworks and the Center for Effective Government in the suit.

“We believe the public has a right to know which chemicals are being injected underground during fracking,” said Wyoming Outdoor Council’s chief legal counsel Bruce Pendery in a release, and he called the agreement “another good step in that direction.”

DEMS PROPOSE A ‘DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT’ FOR COLORADO Colorado House Democrats proposed a ‘Death Boulder Weekly

with Dignity Act’ to allow terminally ill patients the right to make end-of-life decisions in cases of terminal illness. To qualify, an individual must be a Colorado resident with a terminal illness who is able to make and communicate health care decisions and voluntarily request medication that can be self-administered by ingestion. That request will have to be made twice orally as well as in writing on separate occasions — with 15 days between first and second oral requests as well as a mandatory waiting period before a physician can prescribe life-ending medication. The bill is sponsored in the state House by Reps. Lois Court (D-Denver) and Joann Ginal (D-Fort Collins) and in the state Senate by Sens. Lucía Guzmán (D-Denver) and Michael Merrifield (D-Colorado Springs).

RECESSION RECOVERY NOT REACHING 99 PERCENT OF COLORADANS Nearly half of Colorado’s income growth between 2009 and 2012 went to the wealthiest 1 percent of the state’s residents, according to a recently released report from the Economic Policy Institute. Numbers from the institute show that in 2012, that wealthiest 1 percent took home 27 times more than the other 99 percent, and the gap between average income and the top 1 percent in Colorado is 11th largest in the country. The average income for the top 1 percent is 27 times greater than the average — of $50,000 — for the bottom 99 percent.

The report, “The Increasingly Unequal States of America,” shows that after incomes at all levels decreased during the recession, since recovery began in 2009, the top 1 percent has been “capturing an alarming share of economic growth” — by some numbers, Economic Policy Institute as much as 95 percent of that growth.

In Colorado, the numbers show the top 1 percent’s change in income between 2009 to 2012 is an increase of 48.4 percent, while the other 99 percent has seen income decrease by 1 percent.

“This study provides further confirmation that the state’s economic recovery has been lopsided at best,” Claire Levy, executive director of the Colorado Center on Law & Policy, said in a press release. “As the economy improved, only the very wealthiest Coloradans enjoyed substantial income gains while the vast majority of Colorado workers and their families — those who fuel economic growth across the state — saw little, if any, gains.”

The Colorado Center on Law & Policy, an economic security issues-focused nonprofit, found in its 2014 report “The State of Working Colorado,” that trend in income disparity has continued and that working families have seen little, if any, income growth over recent decades.

“Colorado’s economy has become something of a paradox: More people are working and, in that sense, the economy appears to be recovering from the recession,” Levy writes in the report. “But more working families are struggling to make ends meet as wages have failed to keep pace with increases in production and inflation.”

The New York Times also reported that since the late 1960s, more than half of U.S. households were in the middle income levels and were earning, in today’s dollars, $35,000 to $100,000. Until 2000, changes in the size were attributed to people moving up the income brackets, but since then, the American middle class has continued to shrink to now 43 percent of U.S. households — as more people fall off the bottom.

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was speaking to a classroom full of journalism students a few years back when one of them asked, “How do you decide whom to interview?”

At first, I just thought this question was another example of how far our J-schools have fallen in recent years as instructors have moved students away from serious long-form journalism in favor of navel-gazing blogs and 200-word pieces of content (not to be confused with news) suitable only for website chum.

But then I thought about it. It was actually a really good question that struck right at the heart of what I was hoping to covey to that room full of young journalists that day.

There was, of course, the obvious answer: It depends on what you are writing about, what information you’re seeking and who has that information.

But there is another, better, answer as well: You should interview people who have a story that needs to be told.

I have a long-held personal tenet that has guided my creative life for better than 30 years. I believe it’s impossible to walk into any truck stop in America and find a waitress, cook or dish washer whose life story would not make a noteworthy novel.

The world does not lack in interesting people. The world lacks inquisitive listeners who can coax out the importance of a life no matter the shell that holds it.

Every place has its share of interesting stories and worthy subjects, but I suspect that Boulder County might just have more than its share. Here at Boulder Weekly we’re pretty sure that’s true because we get to meet and listen to and interview hundreds of interesting characters from these parts every year. And we’ve been doing that for 21 years — happy birthday us — and we haven’t even scratched the surface. So we decided to do something about it. We decided to go out and interview some of the interesting people who live here.

You’ll recognize the names of some of these people, others you won’t. You’ll like some of them, some of them... maybe not so much. Either way, we think you will find them to be interesting subjects and agree with us that each of them has a story worth telling.

—Joel Dyer, editor

Susan France

I

n a moment of hesitation before signing a second mortgage on their house to fund a startup brewery, Upslope Brewing founder Matt Cutter’s wife, Lara, told him, “You better make this thing fly.”

That was in 2008.

Seven years after that unsettling day at the bank, “fly” has come to grossly understate the Matt Cutter, founder of Upslope Brewing success of Upslope Brewing. After expanding to a second taproom in the East Boulder Flatiron Park in 2013, Upslope has soared.

Taking a brewery beyond the beer From its humble and back to the community Boulder beginnings, Upslope beer can now

by Taylor Winchell be purchased in Colorado, Texas, Arizona and Wyoming. promoting environmental stewardship.

In the competitive world of craft In 2013 Upslope surpassed the triumIn 2007, Cutter went down to his brewing, however, existence is not the phant mark of producing 15,000 annual cellar and literally dusted off a craft only necessary ingredient for success. barrels, a seven-year goal that was beer business plan that he wrote in The next few years proved to be an achieved in six. Upslope stickers are 1996 for an entrepreneurship class at upslope battle. commonplace among car windows, Front Range Community College.

Upslope was founded in early 2008 water bottles and ski lifts.

After a few tweaks to the plan and a — sandwiched between a worldwide And to supplement its delicately serendipitous connection with Dany hops shortage in 2007 and the economcrafted beer, Upslope has successfully Pages, who was leaving behind his ic recession in late 2008. Distribution brewed a philanthropic business model South American brewery for a officially began just before through organizing community fundColorado girl, Upslope Brewing was Thanksgiving 2008 with only one style raisers, partnering with non-profits and born. of beer: Upslope Pale Ale. The small

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Lee Hill taproom in North Boulder was producing only five cans per minute — not even enough to fill a six-pack.

In February 2009, Cutter was looking at only $3,000 left in the Upslope bank account.

Any check that came back to him was immediately deposited to ensure that the account didn’t dip below zero.

Cutter made loan pitches to banks and each time came out emptyhanded. Still feeling the weight of the recession, banks were not ready to loan money to a small Boulder brewery that was barely afloat in the already volatile craftbeer industry.

Just to keep Upslope alive, Cutter and his wife had to take more money out of their original mortgage.

And on top of everything, Cutter was still working full time as a project manager for a technology company and raising two kids ages 10 and 11.

“There are a thousand reasons at any given moment in the first three years that somebody can go out of business,” says Cutter. But at every new see CUTTER Page 16

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mountain to climb and after every night of lost sleep, Cutter’s choice to push forward was always a simple one; he says, “Failure was not an option.”

In September 2009, the momentum began to shift when for the first time a bank approached Cutter. Finally with some money to work with, Cutter purchased additional fermenting tanks and a new canning assembly unit.

Production increased and the community began to take notice.

“Breweries, historically, have always been intertwined within the community that they’re located in. I think it was that way 100, 120 years ago,” says Cutter, adding that somewhere along the way things “got away from that a little bit.”

Cutter is seeking to re-inspire the union between brewery and community — what he refers to as a “healing.” That task began with assembling a staff that shares the same vision. After spending more than 10 years as a project manager, Cutter treasures the power of unified and dedicated coworkers. The only picture that hangs in Cutter’s office is a group picture of the entire Upslope staff smiling in the golden light of a Colorado sunrise.

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“Not only does [Cutter] make awesome beer, but he actually cares,” says Upslope bartender Laura Greaney. And it soon becomes clear that Cutter’s care extends far beyond the taproom walls and deep into the community that Upslope calls home.

After the floods of 2013, Upslope organized a fundraiser at their Lee Hill taproom for the devastated North Boulder Crest View Elementary.

Upslope donated more than $8,000 to Crest View, an amount that just a few years before would have maxed out the company bank account. On the first Wednesday of every month, the Flatiron Park taproom hosts a “Pints for the People” night, donating one dollar of every pint to a local organization.

The February “Pints for the People” event will donate each dollar to Community Cycles.

Even during the unstable early days, Cutter ensured that Upslope stuck to its philanthropic principles. After the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Upslope donated half of all Friday night taproom sales to the Red Cross. Upslope has also partnered with “There With Care,” a non-profit that assists families with children facing critical illness, as well as Trout

Unlimited.

“It’s intrinsic to who we are,” says a reflective Cutter.

The partnership with Trout Unlimited is perhaps Upslope’s most mutually beneficial. By donating 1 percent of all craft-lager sales to the organization, Upslope is working to ensure the protection of the very rivers that are the source of the water in its beer.

The Trout Unlimited partnership also adds to Upslope’s appeal as a beer for an outdoor lifestyle. From the start, Upslope beer has been sold in cans instead of bottles. After some initial skepticism resulting from the canned beer quality stereotype, adventuregoers have since discovered the ease in which cans of Upslope beer can be lugged around in backpacks, coolers, fishing vests and even suitcases. The restroom of the Lee Hill taproom is filled with pictures of Upslope beer being enjoyed among backcountry trails and the backstreets of foreign countries.

“Colorado gets it,” says Cutter, referring to the portability of the can.

As for the years ahead, Cutter — a member of an entrepreneurs’ group referred to as the Insomniacs, which

hosts monthly 7 a.m. meetings to discuss challenges entrepreneurs are facing — has no plans of slowing production.

Three new fermenters will soon arrive at the Flatiron Park facility and will increase production capacity to 35,000 annual barrels. The Flatiron Park facility has the space available to brew 50,000 barrels — space that Cutter will surely not let go to waste.

Early on, when Cutter was just beginning to tweak that 11-year-old business plan, his 10-year-old son, Gabe, asked him what he was working on. Cutter explained that it was a business plan for a brewery, but that he wasn’t sure if anything would ever come of it. To which Gabe replied, “But you have to do it… It’s your dream!”

Cutter’s wife has hung up a plaque that reads, “What would you do if you knew that you couldn’t fail?”

Upslope has been an answer to that question, he says, and he couldn’t be happier that he chose to pursue his dream in the very place that he calls home — Boulder, adding, “There couldn’t have been a better place anywhere on the planet.”

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’m wearing a t-shirt mother crazy.” that says ‘Don’t trust Having gotten comfortcorporate media,’ but able with the narrative form, actually you can trust interviews and radio technology the corporate media at KGNU, Barsamian launched and you should — to lie, to fabAlternative Radio in 1986, a Countering the mass distraction ricate, to invent, to distort, to platform, he says, for “dissidents of corporate media completely mislead you,” says and dissonance.”

David Barsamian. He’s the “I’m using dissonance in a

by Cassie Moore sitar-playing, Urdu-speaking musical sense,” he explains. founder of Alternative Radio, a “We’re given this harmonic Boulder-based independent construction [by the media]: program syndicated on more than 175 radio stations The world is good; America is great. I want to trouwas in the right place at the right time, and I felt I worldwide. Best known as a writer for his interviews ble that harmonic construction with some dissonant had found my métier.” with Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and Howard notes. … Obama has said repeatedly, just like every He has the qualities of an investigative journalist, Zinn, Barsamian first came to radio as a volunteer at president before him, that we are unique among the to be sure. Inquisitiveness had him doing his first KGNU in the late 1970s as a total novice. nations, we are indispensible, America’s values are informal interviews in the ’60s — the most difficult “This used to be a dentist’s office,” Barsamian singular, we have a burden to bear because of these interview he says he ever did was with his mother, a says, looking humored during a tour of the values, history has placed us in this position. You’re refugee and survivor of the Armenian Genocide.

Alternative Radio office off of Folsom Avenue in getting into mysticism when politicians start talking Rebelliousness saw him drop out of college and lie Boulder, stopping to point out a few dental hook-ups his way onto a Norwegian freighter to work as a prep about abstract things like providence and destiny to still hanging from the dead-white wall of a back cook until he landed in Japan and began an Asian justify what they’re doing. I think we’re in pretty room. The tiny, messy office where Alternative Radio odyssey. Curiosity kept him in Asia for five years, deep doo-doo at that point because they’re lying. is produced by Barsamian and two others gives the hitchhiking across borders and studying the sitar and Politicians present policies wrapped in benign impression that its inhabitants are too busy to decoRaga music with a master musician in India. intent. ‘We want to help the world,’ they say. ‘We rate and that the chaos is organized: books and newsGiven that he hangs with the most intellectual want to liberate women in Afghanistan or some papers are scattered, stacks of printer paper glow crowd there is, it’s surprising and refreshing that other country. We want to spread freedom and under fluorescent lights, a Canadian newspaper is Barsamian comes uncredentialed. democracy.’ These are all terms of propaganda that spread open to a profile on Barsamian. conceal real intentions of people in power, which is “I have no degrees to speak of,” he says. “Which to acquire resources, which is to extend U.S. hegeIt was total serendipity, Barsamian says, that he in this work actually proves to be an advantage mony over the rest of the world. The U.S. has 735 became a radioman: “When I arrived at the old because I didn’t have to unlearn the propaganda that Stapleton airport in Denver [in 1978] the second is primarily a lot of what ‘lower education,’ as I call it, military bases around the world, it has thousands of bases inside the country, it spends more on the milithing the person meeting me said was, ‘Hey, a new provides. So I came to things pretty fresh, pretty raw. community radio station went on the air and they’re I’ve always been a rebel, even as a kid. I was asking see BARSAMIAN Page 17 looking for volunteers.’ It was pure random chance, I lots of questions. Why? Why? I used to drive my 16 January 29, 2015

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Barsamian’s clearest critique of American media is precisely this: It’s a package of innocuous noise, a “mass distraction,” he says, and turning citizens into consumers is their primary purpose. So the average American is virtually ignorant of the system of power in our own country.

“They get glimpses here and there, if there’s some enormous crisis,” Barsamian says. “But then it’s completely buried under the Kardashian sisters or the latest Madonna adoption.”

A world event snuffed out of popular media is the ongoing Indian occupation of Kashmir, a story of gross human rights violations — unmarked mass graves, thousands of Kashmiris having disappeared, all in the most densely militarized zone on the face of the planet.

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you talk to most people here and mention India, what comes up? Great food, the Taj Mahal, sitar music, yoga, meditation, ashrams. India has been very skillful at selling itself to the West as this kind of Eden where people are meditating and are dwelling on the meaning of life. There’s a very good example of effective propaganda. Most Americans, when I tell them this, their answer is uniform: ‘I had no idea!’”

Barsamian’s work on the crisis in Kashmir, and his interviews with Indian dissidents like Arundhati Roy, got him kicked out of India, a country where he lived for years and says he feels “at home.”

In 2011 he went to India to follow up on an earlier story about unmarked graves that had been uncovered in Kashmir. He was detained at the airport and eventually deported, security officials citing an invalid passport although he had a valid visa.

Yet like the intellectuals and dissidents he broadcasts, Barsamian is tireless, despite obstacles.

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ince taking the helm at Out Boulder in October 2013, Mardi Moore has made Boulder’s LGBT-uniting organization more… well, inclusive. She’s placed great focus on the transgender community, ensuring it has the programming, resources and organizational support it needs, and she’s endeavored to make Out Boulder an organization that serves all of Boulder County, not just the city of Boulder.

But growing up in the rural ranching community of Las Animas, Colo., her parents both veterinarians with their own practice, Moore never envisioned a career as an advocate for the LGBT community — in fact, she didn’t know she was a lesbian.

“At that time, Las Animas was about 25,000 people. I had never met a lesbian, never met a gay Mardi Moore, executive director of Out Boulder person,” Moore says. “I thought there was something different about me, but I ascribed it to a problem and not to being a lesbian. I had some concerns about myself. I knew I was different. I knew I didn’t really Living in Houston, “of all places,” Moore says, made her like boys that much, but you’re supposed to date boys. It was a the activist she is today. It was 1985 when she got there, and very binary existence growing up.”

Louie Welch was once again running for mayor — Louie She emphasizes that it was a good existence. Moore Welch who gained national notoriety by candidly suggesting thrived socially (“I was homecoming queen — I have the pic- that one way to slow the spread of HIV would be to “shoot tures to prove it.”) and says she thought she had decided on a the queers.” career path.

“It was very clear that being a lesbian put me at risk of “My father started a racetrack practice [when I was a physical harm,” Moore says. “In addition to that, it was the child], and I spent most of my summers around Colorado at onset of the AIDS epidemic and I lost many friends. I spent racetracks,” Moore says. “My real love is horses. I thought I many a day in clinics or the general hospital, where you was going to be a racehorse trainer but my mother said, ‘No didn’t have to have insurance, with friends dying — nurses way. You’re going to college.’ That was quite a fight.” were afraid to change their sheets or take their Ensure cans A fight Moore was soon thankful she lost. away.”

Begrudgingly, Moore headed to the University of Denver Still, Moore didn’t see her career moving toward activism to study political science in 1980. She had no idea how much — in fact, she was barely just getting by. The oil industry had her world was about to change. taken a tumble, and along with it went Moore’s job selling “At DU, within the first couple months, I met lesbians gasoline to businesses over the phone. Moore worked for and the light came on: This is what’s different about me,” she Coca-Cola selling cases of soda over the phone, and then says.

American Express, setting up a national system for their This was just the first step in a long process of self-disfinancial planners. covery and revelation. Moore says she spent six or seven years But eventually, an ill-fated romance would take Moore to lying to her parents about whom she was dating, making up Seattle where her real work began. stories — leading something of a double life.

“I got this harebrained idea to start my own business,” So when Moore was offered a job in Houston, Texas, Moore says. Her idea came after a couple of years working after graduating, she jumped at the opportunity. for the University of Washington’s alumni fundraising pro“After being gone for a couple of years and becoming gram and Pike Place Market, gaining experience in fundraishonest with myself, and mentors working with me on how to ing, grant writing, newsletter writing and corporate in-giving. tell my parents, on one of [my parents’] visits I told them I “I’ve got enough drive, I’ve got enough vision — I’ve got was a lesbian,” Moore says. “It didn’t go that smoothly — it to figure out what this is,” Moore said of developing her own didn’t go as badly as some people’s stories, but it didn’t go business. “And because the world works in mysterious ways, that well. And we didn’t talk about it for a long time, but I somebody reached out to me and said, ‘We have this gig raisfelt better because I was being honest.” ing money for the children’s museum and we don’t want to Boulder Weekly

do it — would you do it?’”

So Moore rounded up some former colleagues with experience in fundraising, and they got to work.

“We did a great job at that and they referred us to Intiman Theatre, which is probably the best theatre group in Seattle still. And we did that job and it went pretty well and we got another one, and so I quit my job without having another [job],” Moore says.

The result was MJM & Associates, a nonprofit telefunding firm that operated from 1992 to 2008, raising funds for AIDS service organizations, cancer research organizations, food banks, work programs and more.

“I employed people who others wouldn’t want to employ necessarily because they were older or because they were artists without a certain set of ‘skills,’ or because they were selfdescribed gutter punks,” Moore says.

The Island of Misfit Toys, they called themselves.

During this time Moore also raised two kids with her ex-partner, and in Oregon, Moore was able to adopt them.

Moore says when her daughter was around 11 years old, she told her parents she wanted them to get married “so our family is like everybody’s else’s.”

The stars were well aligned — San Franciscan mayor Gavin Newsom had just directed the city’s county clerk to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, and Multnomah County, Ore., was soon to follow suit. So in the spring of 2004, Moore and her partner drove from Seattle to Portland and waited in line with droves of others seeking marriage equality for the first time.

“There were people lined up around the block, this huge city block, and we were standing in line with people who’d been together 30 years and people who’d been together for six months,” Moore says. “People were driving by in cars and honking and waving and so excited it was happening.

“It was a great day. We had friends who stood up with us. But about two months later the state sent us our $60 back and said, ‘Your license is nullified.’

And that radicalized me further. … I have tears in my eyes as I tell you I can still see [my daughter’s] face the day her moms came home married. It was a big deal, and then to have that taken away from your family… ” The nullification of Moore’s marriage was trying on multiple levels.

When she and her partner decided to separate a few years down the road, there were no rules in place to help guide them through the troubled terrain many divorcing couples travel, such as dividing assets and handling custody of their children.

“We need marriage protection for a variety of reasons,” Moore says.

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The dissolution of her relationship took Moore down new paths as she left Seattle, first back home to Las Animas, then to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in New York City, and finally to the foothills of Boulder.

In her year back in Colorado, Moore’s made sure that Boulder County’s transgender community has Out Boulder’s full support, adequate funding and a forum to address their needs.

“I think that the organizations that serve [LGBT] communities have been a little late in the game in embracing and programming for the gender piece,”

Moore says. “So we’re trying to make up that ground and get resources assigned to all the alphabet.”

Out Boulder’s headquarters on 14th Street in Boulder has expanded its hours with an influx of volunteers.

There’s a new program for trans and gender nonconforming youth in the works, the county’s first coming-out group, a writing group for 18 to 25-year-olds, and self-defense and yoga classes in the pipeline.

Moore notes that in January, LGBT news source The Advocate named Boulder the 10th queerest city in America.

“There are pockets of great queerness going on here,” Moore says. “And how do you take those pockets of queerness and make it OK to walk down the street holding your lovers’ hand? And how do you make it OK walking into a place and the bathrooms are gender neutral? And how do you really queer it up? And I think that’s what Out Boulder is doing, based on input from the community. We’re making some changes like that. I’m hopeful that we’ll continue to stay on that list and we’ll improve on that list.”

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yeing the Rocky Mountains out his office window on the University of Colorado’s East Campus in Boulder, geochemist, climatologist and director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Jim White describes his youth in East Tennessee. Then, the Smoky Mountains were his big backyard.

“They shaped my thinking,” he says of the ancient yet vibrant range. “From the first time my friends and I could drive, we went camping in the Smokies.”

The beauty of the Smokies stoked his passion for nature; that passion brought with it a zeal for understanding how the planet works. Over time, he channeled both into an expertise as a “stable isotope geochemist,” and CU Boulder was one of few places seeking just such an expert back in 1989. Since then, White has made the Front Range of the Rockies his adopted home.

But his path from the Smokies to the Rockies nearly took a different course. Researching a high school assignment on what he wanted to be in life, he discovered an oceanography book at the library. Fascinated, he later applied to universities where he thought he could study oceans. He was dismayed when he learned undergrads couldn’t major in oceanography, so he took relevant courses instead, eagerly

attending intro chemistry at eight o’clock every morning as a freshman at Florida State University.

“And I’m not a morning person,” White says. “Ask my wife.”

But in those early morning classes, he learned he was drawn to chemistry — and physics too — because “they are at the heart of how things function,” not simply because he aimed to understand the oceans.

So White wasn’t heartbroken when in his first days of graduate school at Columbia University, his advisor diverted his professional course. Wally Broecker, an early climatologist, lined his students up in the hallway and assigned projects to each in alphabetical order. White got the last assignment — a stable isotopes project looking at tree rings in the forests of the eastern U.S. To this day, the student who stood just in front of him is an oceanographer.

Smiling, White says, “I got that close.”

The tree ring study marked his first foray into climatology. Tree rings are used as proxies to help reconstruct climate history. They helped him learn how to measure stable isotopes in just about anything — how isotopes of elements like hydrogen, carbon and oxygen break down over time, and move through a system, he explains, shedding light on climate history.

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matologists Jim Hansen and Stephen Schneider — who taught his climatology course — early pioneers of using stable isotopes to understand the climate.

And he crossed paths with French climatologist Jean Jouzel — “one of the gods of science,” White says — on sabbatical at the nearby Goddard Institute for Space Studies, doing groundbreaking work with stable isotopes in climate models.

“He introduced me to French wine, and I introduced him to cheap American beer,” he says, and they bonded over isotopes.

Jouzel invited White to France to work under him at the French Atomic Energy Lab in Saclay, analyzing a new ice core from a place called Vostok, Antarctica, drilled by the Russians and being studied by the French.

“Clearly I’ve established that I had no filter when it comes to what I was going to do next,” White says; so he left for France.

The Vostok became the first ice core in which scientists co-measured temperature from stable isotopes and CO2 — “the canonical ice core,” White says, showing a fundamental relationship between CO2 and temperature. “It’s still one of the best paleoclimate records we’ve ever produced.”

As an American in Cold War times, White chuckles, his name was buried in the acknowledgments of the Vostok paper.

On weekends in Jouzel’s lab, White analyzed a Greenland ice core for Danish scientist Willi Dansgaard, another emerging paleoclimate goliath.

Dansgaard would make his mark as the first to show that trace isotopes oxygen-18 and deuterium could be an indicator of past climate in glacier ice.

“That was the first time we had taken ice samples and chopped them up into year-by-year bits,” White says, to measure abrupt climate change as far as 13,000 years back. And that was the first time White knew he wanted to stick to paleoclimate study — at least for a while.

“I remember consciously making a decision that I was going to work on two problems in my career, initially,” he says. First: unlocking paleoclimate, using ice cores to understand climate dynamics. And second: understanding the carbon cycle, how carbon is exchanged (or “cycled”) through Earth’s ecosystem, oceans, atmosphere and geosphere, affecting climate.

He was certain he’d have to find nnew problems to work on by midcareer.

“As we have improved our understanding of how the climate functions, -the evidence of human interaction in the climate system has just been getting stronger and stronger,” he says; but alas, Boulder Weekly

it hasn’t led to actions to stem climate change that White had expected as a young scientist — like an effective global carbon reduction agreement, or wide-scale use of renewable energy.

Instead, humans have now helped put 400 parts per million of CO2 into the atmosphere, something the planet hasn’t seen in three million years.

“It’s a fundamentally different climate,” he says.

And yet, he laments, policymakers and politicians think they can ignore physics, or portray climate change as a matter of “belief.” This has been the biggest surprise of his scientific career, but also a catalyst to stay his course.

“Why do we find ourselves in this ridiculous situation where politics determines whether or not people believe physics is real? How do we apply the word ‘belief ’ to something as fundamental as the absorption of energy by greenhouse gases? It’s like saying you don’t believe in gravity,” he says. “You can’t just push a political button and say global warming exists or doesn’t exist.

“It’s physics,” he continues. “You can’t do a damn thing about the fact that CO2 is going to absorb the earth’s radiation — so will methane, so will water vapor — and we’re going to accumulate energy in the atmosphere. After that it becomes, OK, now what’s going to happen? What are the adult questions we’re going to ask?”

Such it is that more than 40 years later, White’s career still hinges on those same two problems. He’s now a renowned expert in paleoclimatology himself, a professor and a tireless advocate. His packed schedule of teaching and outreach — White is hard-pressed to share stories of his “free time” pursuits — focuses on helping the public understand humans as a major agent of climate change, and the implications of our major meddling with basic physics.

“We’ve spent 100,000 years trying to dominate the planet, and we can do it now,” he says. “We’ve not spent enough time figuring out how the planet works in order to do it rationally, in order to do that in a way that is sustainable.”

With a young granddaughter he calls “a vector of love and viruses,” and thousands of students passing in and out of his CU Boulder classrooms, White sees a reason to be hopeful, but also to assume responsibility for a warming world.

“My rhetoric in public has gotten harsher over the years,” he says. “Now I’ll say, ‘You say you love your kids, but do you show it? If you can’t deal with the issue of climate change, the issue of sustainability, then you’re handing off to your kids an uncertain world. And that’s not fair.’”

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Tom Strickland in 1996 as volThere’s snow outside, but unteer coordinator,” Moseley inside it’s warm and cozy and says. “It was a shit job but I Moseley is getting up to found something that I absospeed, laughing and gesturing lutely loved and then I worked and then, suddenly, grabbing a on the G7 summit in Denver, bullwhip and snapping it with where I was a deputy press seca loud crack. Moseley laughs, retary. That was an amazing Matthew L. Moseley, Principal for Intermountain Public Affairs, LLC “my son got me this,” he experience. I had heard about exclaims and then cracks the some opening in Rock the Vote whip again twice in quick sucin Los Angeles and went out cession, the loud snap a fitting there to interview with Vickie punctuation to his energy.

Rockin’ out, saving the environment and taking Sideman.” He laughs, “She took Moseley cackles and you get me to Santa Monica Boulevard Boulder to task over municipalization the sense that he may have and we were standing, and she picked up a trick or two from said, ‘Stand up on the bench

by Tom Winter his old friend Hunter S. and pretend you are in front of Thompson, who features in 3,000 kids telling them why Moseley’s first book, Dear Dr. to the very first municipalization task they should vote.’” He laughs again, “So I lawsuit to get the City to release inforThompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. force that the city convened. It’s been mation regarding this modeling, and was had to stand up on the bench.”

Thompson and the Last Gonzo Campaign. very divisive in Boulder, but I am very For Moseley, who is also a musician involved in this before local news media Moseley came to Colorado to ski proud of my work with Xcel. I think it even considered a public information who gigs with City Councilman Telluride and ended up in Boulder as a is some of best environmental work that request.

Andrew Shoemaker in a band called graduate student at the University of I’m doing. They are the top wind ener“It’s easy to point a finger at a big Sassafras, Rock the Vote was amazing.

Colorado, where he obtained a master’s gy company in the country, yet Boulder company and get people to emotionally “Rock the Vote married music and degree in public policy. One half of a has spent nearly $13 million with noth- respond that the company is evil,” politics in a way that was extremely Lower Chautauqua power duo (his ing to show for the money; we have not Moseley says. “But I only am concerned effective to get kids to vote,” he says. wife, Kristen, was just named as one of a single kilowatt. If Boulder could come with what is best for the environment Adding that increased participation by Denver’s best water attorneys by 5280 up with a plan and say, ‘We want to be and what is right, and I do not take on all ages in politics is a goal for him, as Magazine), he’s held a series of impres50 percent renewable energy today’ we projects that I do not believe in.” participation is the only way to ensure sive public relations positions including could get there. But that’s not through Moseley’s record supports this. that the system is truly democratic. the communications director at the owning poles and wires. That’s a misAmerican Rivers is a major client and From music to swimming to poliColorado State Capitol for the Senate guided approach. There have been very he has played a key role in preventing a tics and activism, Moseley rarely slows Democrats under President Joan Fitzfew people who have watched this from hydroelectric project and accompanying down. And that’s by design. While he’s Gerald, acting as a press officer for the the very first day and that the fact that dam supported by the Aspen Skiing one of the main players behind the bigU.S. Olympic Committee at the 2004 gest political issue in years in Boulder, city has spent $13 million and that Company from being built on Olympic games in Athens, an assistant his approach to life is one that inspires, money could have delivered actual Colorado’s Castle Creek. press secretary for the White House for results if they’d done it right is a huge “That was the strangest coalition we regardless of your political affiliations. the G7 Summit in Denver in 1998, and waste and a missed opportunity.”

“Dream your life and live your dreams,” put together,” recalls Moseley. “We had the national field director at Rock the advises Moseley. “That’s a cliché, but Regardless of where you stand on the Sierra Club teaming up with Trout Vote in Los Angeles in 1997. Currently this issue, it’s hard not to concede that for me it works. I had been swimming Unlimited and Bill Koch.” he’s a senior associate at Denver public for along time, I’ve always been Moseley has a point. Given the recent The effort to keep Castle Creek affairs firm GBSM and the principal of court decisions against the city in regards free-flowing was successful and led, involved in politics, and I love music InterMountain Public Affairs. and it seems in the last five years all to municipalization along with the city’s according to Moseley, to the Aspen It’s in this latter role that Moseley is these things are converging into one lack of transparency surrounding the Provision, which says that an entity shaping the debate around one of thing, one career and one lifestyle. The internal processes by which the city’s can’t start buying materials for a hydro Boulder’s most contentious issues in years, staff is modeling the actual financial project before permits have been issued. things I love most are music, family, the city’s efforts to municipalize its energy costs of municipalization, his work sports, friends and career. You put all That Moseley’s activism has an supply. Where, according to some, he’s on behind the scenes is essential. He’s been these ingredients into in a crawfish pot environmental bent should come as no the wrong side of history. and what comes out is greater than the involved in showing that the city may be surprise. The holder of several records “I have been working with Xcel sum of its parts.” misleading the taxpayers via a Colorado for long-distance swims (one of which, since 2006,” admits Moseley. “I went Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Open Records Act filing and subsequent a solo effort across New Orleans’ Lake

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Mexico But McGaughey didn’t with eight siblings, Rosa just stop at tortillas. In McGaughey was always Mexico, she says she was lending a hand. Whether it used to cooking everything was helping in the house or fresh, so that’s what she did. around town, she grew up Over the years, McGaughey with the mentality of what aggregated her neighbors’ comes around goes around. backyards into one big “If you don’t contribute space where she could grow to the community, how can potatoes, onions, tomatoes, you expect the community to peppers and chilies. She help you when you need it?” also raises chickens and McGaughey says. “You have bees, and she makes her to be involved so your voice own wine. In exchange for can be heard.” less backyard space, She’s been getting McGaughey’s neighbors get involved throughout fresh eggs, honey and tomaRosa McGaughey, volunteer at El Comité and the YMCA Longmont for the past 20 toes — anything they need, years. She spreads her time she says. between the schools of her “I keep my neighbors three daughters and the happy,” she says with a YMCA, doing various things laugh. “It’s important to like this past holiday season know your neighbors.” collecting toys for underprivAnother benefit is that now the neighborhood chilileged kids and even playing dren play together. Despite Mrs. Claus. McGaughey also Giving back to the community what’s been being far from Mexico, spends time volunteering at given, whether it’s food or a listening ear McGaughey is able to offer El Comité de Longmont, a her kids similar aspects she non-profit aiding the Latino by Amanda Moutinho grew up with. But she’s not community in Boulder stopping at her just kids.

County. She uses her skills McGaughey is also spreadin anyway she can, whether town doctor, where she learned several A lot of what McGaughey’s voluning her gardening knowledge. At the it’s answering phones, making copies, handy skills including how to suture, teer work is giving people emotional YMCA she oversees a garden and cooking, doing paperwork or sitting give injections and put in an IV. The support. She spent 14 years taking care teaches kids how to grow vegetables. with a family during an emotional time. doctor worked for free and depended of her mother-in-law, and now she “I want the kids to have connection She grew up in a small town outside on the generosity from the patrons who helps out with her mother-in-law’s of Jalisco, Mexico, the seventh child out made small donations and brought to their food,” she says. “The food is elderly friends. She drives them to not from the store; that’s what kids of nine — lucky number seven she says. food. That’s how it worked, appointments and assists anywhere she think. Everybody’s so busy with things She spent her childhood playing with McGaughey says. Townspeople couldn’t can, even if it’s just to lend an ear. like computers, they don’t have a conher siblings and the neighborhood kids, pay, so they helped where they could.

Anything to give a little relief, she says. climbing trees and playing marbles. On McGaughey met her husband when Sometimes people just need someone to nection to the dirt.”

And it’s that connection that their land, her family grew their own he came to visit her small town. He was listen. It gives her perspective on her McGaughey strives for throughout the food and raised animals like goats and a handsome gringo boy with blue eyes, attitude. community. And helping out is an chickens. Due to low funds, she says. The two married in 1992, “You have to feel positive most of McGaughey was only able to go to important piece of the puzzle. While despite neither knowing the other’s lan- the time to get things done,” she says. others may disagree with her, school until sixth grade. But despite her guage, and she came to Longmont a “A negative response is not going to McGaughey says she’s probably selfish. lack of formal education, McGaughey year later. help anyone. You have to have a good She calls the appreciation she gets vitasays she learned from doing.

It was El Comité that helped disposition and good motivation, and mins for her soul.

“The experience I have and the McGaughey with the immigration pro- from there, just see what comes.”

“I have to be good to others to knowledge I learned from other people cess and provided her the tools to accliThe desire to give back is ingrained make myself feel good. I guess that’s is more valuable now to me than going mate to her new home. So now, in the Latino community, she says. just my nature,” she says. “When you to school,” she says. “When you look McGaughey says she wants to return Since coming to Longmont, she’s seen back you realize the amount of things do something good for somebody else the favor. the Latino population boom with sevand make them feel good, that’s the you learned. It’s amazing. ... Books give “I want to help other people because eral new businesses and a tight-knit satisfaction you get. It’s a reward to you knowledge but they don’t give you when I got here someone gave me a group that gets together to celebrate yourself. It doesn’t matter if they pay experience.” hand to guide me to where to go and events like Cinco de Mayo. This is a As she grew up, she did odd jobs what I had to do,” she says. “I want stark contrast to what she saw when she you or don’t pay you. If you feel appreciated, that’s the most rewarding around her town including working in people to come here and feel the same first got here. There was not a lot of thing.” kitchens and cleaning hotel pools. She comfort that I had when I needed people or a lot of resources. was also the medical assistant for the help.”

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John Lehndorff, an East Coast native who transplanted to Boulder in 1976, was working at Potter’s restaurant on Pearl Street, now Woody Creek Bakery & Café.

“The storage room was in the basement,” he says.

“It was a summer day. I had to go down into the basement and carry 100pound sacks of onions up the stairs, into the kitchen. I had to peel 100 pounds of onions, slice 100 pounds of onions. My knees were sore, my back was sore.”

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Forty-plus years later, he still has onions in his life, but instead of carrying them up stairs, he’s writing about them.

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story for a national produce publication,” he says. “On onions. I know a lot about onions now. A lot.”

These days, Lehndorff is a food writer and lover, but he’s written about every type of news he can think of, including local breaking news, natural disasters, obituaries and for a time he was the editor of the wedding section of the Daily Camera. He broke into the food writing business as the first male food editor of the Camera. He and the staff reinvented what was once the “women’s pages” with a new, modern food column, called “Nibbles,” in 1985.

“What I liked about being the food editor at the Daily Camera was the interface with the people,” he says. “I would ask people to send me recipes, or write in with questions about the food. And I’d like to think that I contributed at least a little to bring that food community together.”

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The only problem is that the National Pie Museum doesn’t exist.

“There is a Baked Bean Museum in Port Talbot, Wales,” he wrote in the blog post.

“There’s a potato museum in Bruges. You can visit a currywurst museum in Berlin, a ham museum in Madrid, and a museum devoted to mustard in Doesburg and a chocolate museum in Köln. Le Musée de Foie Gras is not in California. There is no National Pie Museum, no place in the U.S. dedicated to celebrating the dessert that defines how American something is.”

Lehndorff, who considers himself a pie expert, says Boulder has a special history with pie, making it possibly the perfect place for a National Pie Museum. And National Pie Day was founded in Boulder by Charlie Papazian. Before Papazian became the father of homebrewing in America, he was a teacher in Boulder.

“January 23 was his birthday,” Lehndorff says. “He told the kids in his class that he didn’t want a birthday cake, he wanted a birthday pie. He told the class he was going to declare his birthday to be National Pie Day.” January 23 is indeed National Pie Day, and for a time Lehndorff took over running the American Pie Council from Papazian, whom he had met working in the kitchens of Boulder restaurants. Lehndorff didn’t grow up making pie, but when he got to Boulder, it stuck.

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door with a pie, people smile. And they’re very happy,” he says.

Boulder’s food scene has changed tremendously in the past 40 years, of course, and it has helped propel foodcentric movements across the country beyond the pie crusade. Some of the pioneers of the natural foods movement were in Boulder, Lehndorff says.

“It was happening everywhere, the natural food movement was happening across the country,” he says.

“I used to see Steve Demos, who started White Wave tofu, delivering tofu in a bucket to the two or three restaurants that served tofu at the time.”

The food scene in Boulder is still diverse, he says, with restaurants, distilleries, brewpubs, coffee houses and bakeries found across the county.

“There’s so much going on now,” Lehndorff says. “It strikes me weird that there’s not a food publication about Colorado food.”

The other thing that has happened in the Boulder area over the past few decades is that the local food movement has grown.

“There are still people trying to grow food here and deliver it to market,” Lehndorff says. “When I got here there weren’t any farmers’ markets. Nobody knew what a farmers’ market was. Farmers had stands, I think it started with one farmer at the corner of the courthouse lawn with some apples and pumpkins.”

Food isn’t Lehndorff ’s only love, though. As a young man, his dream was to be a music critic, talking to his musical heroes and being paid to go to concerts. Now, a certain summer 2015 reunion tour is calling his name.

“I’d like to get paid to cover the Grateful Dead reunion in Chicago,” he says.

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So in January of last year, the county rolled out a program called Wildfire Partners, a group of specialists tasked with helping these residents assess vulnerabilities in their property and do work — from large jobs like cutting trees and replacing combustible siding, to small-scale jobs like installing Jefferson Dodge metal flashing at the base of the home, enclosing open space under decks and replacing roof vents — to better protect their homes against wildfire.

But by summertime, after completing some 450 onsite assessments of at-risk homes, the staff at Wildfire Partners began to field calls from program participants saying they couldn’t find contractors willing to do the small-scale work necessary to earn the homeowner a certification from the Wildfire Partners program — certifications that can sometimes keep residents from losing their homeowners’ insurance.

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In an attempt to fill this void in the market place, Wildfire Partners hosted a wildfire mitigation home retrofit workshop on Jan. 22 for handymen, contractors and homeowners. Bonine says in previous work with Boulder County’s Energy Smart program, a similar situation arose in which homeowners needed small work done to qualify for the Energy Smart certification, but couldn’t find contractors willing to do it.

“And there was this one guy who stepped up and went to one of these [types of ] workshops and he ended up creating this incredibly successful business.

We’re hoping the same thing will happen [with wildfire home retrofits],” Bonine says.

Yet at least some of the recent workshop participants admit they are hesitant to take on the kind of work Wildfire Partners is telling homeowners they need.

“I’ve had a few calls for this kind of work and I’ve looked at their places and said, ‘You could do this yourself — I charge too much,’” says Stephen Strand, who has operated Stephen Strand Handyman in Jamestown for more than 20 years. “I’d rather do more creative work instead of crawling around on my hands and knees with roofing tar.”

Still, Strand says Wildfire Partners’ suggested retrofits are “sound ideas” and he hopes that residents living in fire-prone areas will get the work done, because at the end of the day, these folks risk losing their homeowners’ insurance.

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Bonine says. “But in 2014 we saw a big Wildfire Partner certificates, and State increase of letters to homeowners Farm and Farmers are currently “having threatening dropping insurance.” conversations” about accepting certifiEdmund Budde and his wife partic- cates. ipated in the Wildfire Partners program “I tell everyone who has a certificate last year after Allstate threatened to to send it and see what happens, [no drop their homeowners’ insurance. matter what insurance company they “Last summer I was sitting on my use],” Bonine says. deck and this guy was walking through By making Wildfire Partners a my yard taking long-term prophotos. I said, gram, Bonine says ‘Who are you? she hopes the What are you foothills commudoing here?’” nity will begin to from last Budde says. “He think about more said … ‘I take phothan just cutting year who are ready to tos and send them trees when it go and are waiting for back to Allstate comes to protectcontractors [and] we’re and they decide ing homes from whether you can wildfire. about to generate 500 keep your insur“It’ll get or more people who are ance or not,’ and ingrained in the looking for contracabout a month foothills commulater I got a letter nity living, like, tors.” — Holly Muree from Allstate say‘OK I live in the Bonine, Wildfire Parting they were foothills, I have to ners project manager going to cancel my not just think insurance. And I about my trees but my roof and called [Allstate] up my gutters and right after that and said, ‘Tell me what my fencing,’” she I have to do to not says. lose my insurance.’”

As for finding contractors to do the work, Bonine says that she hopes the Budde says Allstate told him to “do workshop will create movement in the whatever you can to mitigate the forest fire.” stalled certification process for homeowners who’ve used the Wildfire “There’s very little rhyme or reason Partners program. to it,” Bonine says. “[Insurance compa“We have people from last year who nies] don’t have a clear answer about how homeowners can get out of the sit- are ready to go and are waiting for contractors,” she says. “We’re about to genuation. They don’t give them a clear erate 500 or more people who are lookprocess a lot of times and homeowners ing for contractors.” are very confused about what to do.”

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Vasu Sojitra takes on some of the steepest slopes, and he never forgets his crutches

by Steven Grossman

Vasu Sojitra watches the sun set on the saddle of the Grant Teton. In September 2014, Sojitra became the first adaptive athlete on crutches to ascend and descend the Grand Teton.

Will Strathmann Photography

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M

ost everyone who’s snapped on a pair of skis has, at one point or another, found themselves staring down some steep, snow-laden hill, wondering how the hell they’re going to get down it. Now, imagine being at the top of that same hill, only you don’t have a pair of skis, you only have one. For Vasu Sojitra, that’s just the start of a great day in the mountains.

Sojitra at Mad River Glen, Vt.

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At 9 months old, Sojitra was diagnosed with septicemia, a blood disease that resulted in the amputation of his right leg — a setback that, if anything, has propelled him forward.

Twenty-three years later, “Out on a Limb,” the production starring Sojitra

by T-Bar Films, has premiered at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and is making its way around the country (and world) as a selection in the Winter Wildlands Alliance’s Backcountry Film Festival. The festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, focuses on raising funds in local communities to promote avalanche safety and awareness, and human-powered recreation and Boulder Weekly

Will Strathmann Photography

ON THE BILL: The 2015 Backcountry Film Festival will take place at Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, on Feb. 5. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the screening starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers. You can register for tickets online at www. cmc.org. For a full list of the festival’s tour dates, visit the festival’s website at https:// winterwildlands.org/what-wedo/backcountry-film-festival/.

Vasu Sojitra on the approach to the Grand Teton in Wyoming.

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conservation. With the was great to have him inclusion of Sojitra’s film, there to just push me they’ve essentially added through, because he an awareness on the would go down black diaemerging advances in monds I was probably not adaptive sports in this good enough to go down, year’s lineup. and I’d follow him down For Sojitra, being an and be like, ‘Oh, this is a adaptive athlete is more terrible idea, horrible art than science. idea.’ Still made it down “First time I went in one piece, hating life, of [skiing], it pretty much course.” sucked, just ’cause I was in In the beginning, a ski school, a class, and adapting his body to the they didn’t really know mountain and skis was how to teach me,” Sojitra very much a process of says. “I’m a visual, auditotrial and error, a process ry, kind of aesthetic learnnot without its hits and er … so having that kind near misses. of mindset really helped “I made a couple other out with learning how to friends that were into — basically ski on my own. I well, started to get into — would just see other peobackcountry skiing, so I ple’s body movements and Sojitra skiing some bumps at Sugarbush, Vt. Soji- started to figure out how I tra credits his brother, an avid snowboarder, with try and see how I could could get involved in pushing him to stick with skiing. adapt that to my own that,” he says. “I just tried body, just because it’s a to research a couple little different.” things, found one idea using Plexiglas kind of Sojitra credits his brother with pushing him to material to make snowshoes — that didn’t work so stick with skiing. well on the first try.”

“My brother was really in to snowboarding and Early attempts broke, left him on so little surI just wanted to hang out with my brother, just face area that he sank into the snow, got so wet ’cause we are good friends…[and] ’cause he they stopped sticking to his outriggers. He continwouldn’t look down on me at all,” he says. “So it ued to search for gear modifications that would Boulder Weekly

keep him moving in the backcountry until a solution presented itself.

“We found these little snowshoe extenders from MSR, and we were like, ‘Oh, we could totally tinker a bit and make it fit on the bottom of the outrigger,’” he says. “So with that I could ski in deeper powder without postholing all the way through to my shoulder, basically.”

The idea to shoot a film first came to Sojitra when a roommate brought up the Columbia Sportswear Ski Bum Scholarship during the 201314 ski season. The winner would be awarded with a three-month, all expenses covered ski vacation to Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia.

“We got second place and got a decent amount of publicity from that, so we decided, ‘Well, we might as well make another one then,’” he says.

“By then, Columbia had already talked to us, talked to me at least, and I pitched them the idea of making this film and they helped us out with gear, and money, and funding it in general and backing us up. It just blew up from there. It was kind of a small, snowball affect of awesome, for me at least.”

Filming in the Chic-Choc Mountains in Canada, the short, 90-second entry turned into the nearly seven-minute film now being showcased in the Backcountry Film Festival.

“They reached out before we even made the film, which was really cool,” Sojitra says. “So I didn’t really expect any of this to happen beforehand. Even being a part of Winter Wildlands, that’s pretty sweet. … I definitely feel accomplished.” see ADAPTING Page 34

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The film not only got Sojitra’s foot in the door of the ski industry, but a crutch in the door of adaptive sports advocacy. In addition to now being an ambassador for DPS Skis, Darn Tough Socks and Health Warrior, in September 2014, Sojitra became the first adaptive athlete on crutches to ascend and descend the Grand Teton in Wyoming.

Indecision had plagued him after graduating college, Sojitra says, and “Out on a Limb” gave him new direction when he realized the impact the film had on another adaptive athletes.

“I’ve noticed it from all of the adaptive organizations that have contacted me, saying, ‘Hey, we’d love to show this film to our volunteers and participants, and to be a great motivator to get them out there,’” Sojitra says. “People are like, ‘Hey, I want to get in the backcountry. I ski on one leg just like you, and I want to see how you made your rig.’ And I share that idea out there with everyone.

So [the film] definitely helped build a little stronger community based around adaptive sports.”

The 10th annual Backcountry Film Festival, which will take place at Neptune Mountaineering on Feb. 5, will not only showcase Sojitra’s story, but also eight 34 January 29, 2015

other films that possess the same spirit that makes “Out on a Limb” such an empowering visual narrative. “[The films] are 100 percent human-powered, take place in the wintertime, hopefully tell a story about the entertaining and educational,” says Shelley Pursell, the events and outreach coordinator for the Winter Wildlands Alliance.

Colorado has seven network groups associated with the WWA, including the Colorado Mountain Club and the Crested Butte Nordic Council. This year, the Colorado Mountain Club will host the Boulder screening.

The festival, produced by Boisebased nonprofit Winter Wildlands Alliance and hosted by local grassroots organizations, was created to raise funds in local communities to “support likeminded, human-powered recreation and conservation efforts,” according to the Winter Wildlands Alliance website.

Annually, the festival raises more than $110,000 for hosting organizations and attracts more than 20,000 festival-goers.

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Sojitra now works in Bozeman, Mont., as the assistant director for the Bridger Bowl Ski Program for Eagle Mount, a non-profit that provides recreational opportunities for people with disabilities and young people living with cancer. He continues to challenge not only himself, but also other adaptive athletes confronted with the same obstacles.

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“There are other athletes just like myself that would not consider themselves disabled, probably just a little different of a challenge. My family, my friends, they don’t think I’m disabled at all. I do it all myself. I know that everyone has challenges, no matter what. Mine is physical, someone might have emotional, someone might have both or cognitive [challenges]…I know there’s a ton of people out there who have overcome their challenges, so that’s what I take out of it at least.”

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he International Film Series provides a little something for everyone — from unknown art house flicks to ’70s blockbusters. If there’s one word to describe each season, says IFS director Pablo Kjolseth, it’s eclectic.

“Our goal is to provide a range of titles that honor the past as well as the present,” Kjolseth says. “Making sure to sprinkle in enough gems that might have been overlooked, or that otherwise wouldn’t be seen, along with titles that people really want to see.”

This season kicks off with two free shows. The first is the haunting European film The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears on Feb. 2. On the following day the IFS will feature a visit from director Ramin Bahrani, who Roger Ebert hailed as director of the last decade, and a showcase of his short films and his second feature-length film Chop Shop.

Over the years Kjolseth has aimed to create some stability in the program with Tuesday night documentaries, Wednesday art house staples, Thursday 35mm revivals and weekend premieres. thebabadook.com And for over a decade, IFS has devoted the first few weekends in February to screening the Oscar shorts — liveaction, animated and documentary.

Throughout the whole season you’ll also find other award show contenders such as Nightcrawler, Force Majeure, Inherent Vice and Leviathan.

An exciting aspect of this season, Kjolseth says, is the amount of films made by women directors. This is especially poignant due to the recent controversy surrounding the general lack of diversity in this year’s Oscar nominees. Some of these movies playing in the IFS include Iranian vampire flick A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour and BP oil spill documentary The Great Invisible by Margaret Brown, who will be visiting the IFS to talk about her film.

Another female-headed film showing is The Babadook directed by Jennifer Kent.

The film has gotten rave reviews, and Kjolseth says it was one of his favorites of 2014. The movie follows a widow and her son being haunted by a terrifying character out of a mysterious children’s book. Along with the screening, IFS will be giving away three replica Babadook pop-up books.

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people who have seen it theatrically screen, and it’s thanks to the fact that which he screens in his class. Retired because it has a contagious fear if you we still have our film projectors. I’m CU film studies professor Jim Palmer see it in a theater,” Kjolseth says. “It’s glad we didn’t throw away our 35mm will introduce Lonely are the Brave, a an absolutely amazing film by a female projectors the way a lot of other people movie that he has written extensively Australian director. This is her directodid.” about, Kjolseth says. rial debut, and she just hits it out of the In keeping with Kjolseth’s dedicaAnother highly anticipated event is park.” tion to film, this year he’s selecting the first 3D movie IFS has ever Losing the West, another femalefrom the Universal Film Archive, which screened. But no, it’s not Avatar or a directed film, is one that Rotten Tomatos Pixar film, it’s Goodbye to Kjolseth says will bring a Language by acclaimed packed house. The film French new wave director follows Colorado cowJean Luc Goddard. The boy Howard Linscott, movie, as all of Goddard’s using his story to frame movies do, serves as a funthe ranch and farming house mirror to the film crises in the West. industry. Instead of the Filmmaker Alex Warren usual Muenzinger location, will visit to talk, along IFS will be switching over with Patty Limerick to CHEM 140, which has from the Center of the capabilities to do 3D. American West.

The IFS is known for Frequenters of the choosing films that can be IFS know that they’re perceived as very heavy guaranteed 35mm films. and obscure, but Kjolseth And in a world of consays they try to strike a stantly updating technolbalance. ogy, movies on film are “I do try to have a mix becoming more of a rariof things, sometimes ty. Kjolseth says they there’s some stuff that is dragged their feet, but pretty challenging, severe, with the current state of depressing and gritty. But I the movie business, they like to mix it up with things that are going to be had no choice to keep up. In 2013 they bought Mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows follows a gang of vampires fun or entertaining,” navigating the modern world.

Kjolseth says. a digital cinema projecThis variety of choices tor (DCP). On the plus is evident on both ends of the spectrum. side, now it’s the best of both worlds. he says takes really good care of its For the heavy end there’s the documen“With the film versus DCP debate, prints. The films will be screened in tary Vessels, which follows a woman who you get into this whole people who lischronological order starting with All uses international sea law’s loopholes to ten to MP3 versus people who listen to Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and vinyl argument,” Kjolseth says. “We’re ending with Do the Right Thing (1989). perform abortions for women who can’t just happy to have both formats so as to And instead of choosing from the huge get them in their home countries. Or there’s Italian neo-realistic Rome, Open be able to accommodate and give us list of movies himself, Kjolseth handed City, set in Nazi-occupied Rome. more options.” over the list to the film studies faculty Documentary The The two systems have Hunting Ground goes in come in handy. During this depth about the continuseason, Kjolseth says he A MIX OF THINGS, ally worsening problem wanted to screen the last of rape happening on installment in Hal SOMETIMES THERE’S SOME STUFF THAT IS college campuses. And if Heartley’s film trilogy Ned that’s not enough, there’s Rifle, about a son intent on PRETTY CHALLENGING ... BUT I LIKE TO MIX the near three-hour murdering his father. To IT UP WITH THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO BE Russian film Hard to be a drum up excitement, IFS FUN OR ENTERTAINING.” God, a sci-fi futuristic will be showing the two movie about a planet predecessors, Henry Fool ­— PABLO KJOLSETH, IFS DIRECTOR that hasn’t progressed and Fay Grim, and there past the middle ages. were few screening options On the lighter side, for both films. Kjolseth says expect charming old neither was available in films like The Bride of digital or Blu-ray formats.

Frankenstein and The Incredible Shrinking The only options were DVD, which at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Man, one of Kjolseth’s all-time favorite Kjolseth says would look terrible proThe professors chose the movies that films. If you need a laugh, there’s the jected, or in 35mm film. they wanted to see, including several vampire mockumentary What We Do in “I’m able to properly screen all three titles that they teach in their classes the Shadows, described by critics as, “The films in a way that will complement such as Jaws and The Birds. Kjolseth is Spinal Tap of vampire movies.” There’s them to their utmost, even though one also using the staff ’s expertise to introalso David Cross’s directorial debut Hits, is on DCP and the others are on film,” duce the films. Film professor Alex he says. “They’re all going to look as Cox, director of Sid and Nancy and good as they possibly can on the big Repo Man, will introduce The Beguiled, see BUZZLEAD Page 40

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For tickets and also see some of their more information visit favorites. After internationalfilmseries. com receiving several emails begging for another screening, Kjolseth says, IFS will be showing Boulder. ... So I’m an Awake: The Life of indiscriminate cineYoganda, chronicling phile. I love it all — Goodbye to Language is the latest from French new wave director Jean Luc the life of the Hindu Goddard and will be the IFS’ first 3D film screening. the obscure stuff, the Swami who introart stuff, the big duced yoga and meditation to the West which is not the same goal for big movie Hollywood films,” he says. “But the almost a century ago. Also, documenta- theater chains. Ultimately, Kjosleth’s changes in the multiplex lately have been desire is to have a unique cinema-going ry I Am is returning, along with the horrific, because they really accentuate experience for those who really enjoy filmmaker Tony Shadyac, who is also how much of their philosophy is about films. That means no commercials, no serving as a professor at CU. just having butts in the seats. ... The IFS As the IFS heads into its newest sea- concessions and very few trailers, so all is a place where you can quietly watch a the attention can be on the film. son, Kjolseth says it continues to keep movie. All the focus is on the movie.”

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The sound of a true American voice Shorts, ‘Chop Shop’ and Ramin Bahrani at IFS

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Film Festival, a new voice in Then in college, Bahrani says he was American cinema was announced. guided by many key movies that helped The voice was not loud, but it was shape the way he looked through the lens clear, and it belonged to the and into the world. Stanley Kubrick’s films 29-year-old Ramin Bahrani. taught him “imagination and intellect”; Bahrani’s feature debut, Man Push Cart, is Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Decalogue, “to be a calm and contemplative study of a Pakistani philosophical”; Michelangelo Antonioni’s immigrant making his way in New York City L’Avventura, to be “inner and social”; Abbas as a pushcart vendor. The movie wasn’t a Kiarostami’s Where is the Friend’s Home? “to smash hit, but it attracted enough attention be simple”; and Martin Scorsese’s Mean for Bahrani to continue making his own Streets, “to make personal films.” unique brand of movies: Chop Shop (2007), These few examples serve as a bibliogGoodbye Solo (2009), At Any Price (2012) and raphy to Bahrani’s work, and place his the soon-to-be-released 99 Homes, which movies in context. Referencing Kubrick played this year’s Sundance. and Antonioni immediately brings to mind Bahrani is more than just a filmmaker, he Bahrani’s use of meticulous composition.

Ramin Bahrani visits the also teaches film directing at Columbia His movies have style, but not the kind International Film Series on Feb. University’s graduate program in New York that suffocates moments of spontaneity or 3 along with his short films and Man Push Cart.

City. And he will be on hand Feb. 3 at the performance, which are where his movies International Film Series, his visit sponare the most moving. Bahrani works sored by Conference on World Affairs closely with his actors (often times Athenaeum and Roser Visiting Artist non-professionals) in real locations ON THE BILL: Ramin Bahrani Program. He’ll be here to share his knowlmodeled after real situations, drawing at IFS. 7:30 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., edge in conjunction with a screening of out qualities that are intrinsically Boulder. Attendance is free, but his short films and Chop Shop. If you have human.

RSVPs are recommended at interany interest in movies or a desire to make “Location adds life and forces nationalfilmseries.com them yourself, then this is not an event to improvisation. It also adds specificity miss. and detail. But only if you open yourself Bahrani’s career in movies began like to location and its mysteries,” Bahrani most do, in that impressionable age between high school says. “It’s one of the keys for me. I don’t like to shoot a senior and a college freshman. scene if the location doesn’t speak to me and I spend a lot “I decided to try and become a filmmaker instead of a novof time searching for locations and rewriting the script elist,” Bahrani says. “I think the decision was made after makaccordingly.”

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overtones Eminence Ensemble works hard for the music Band does DIY tour-booking and festival creation

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e had made the mistaken assumption that our inability to get Eminence Ensemble drummer Tanner Bardin by phone last Tuesday, bouncing off a full-and-not-accepting voicemail box, was a ski-hooky thing. Bardin is a Summit County-bred skier — the fast board kind — and the weather gods had deposited a sumptuous shroud of freshies on the high country the night before. If he had been in ditch-the-world-I’m-going-skiing mode, he’d not have been the only one.

The reality was a shade less zesty — Bardin had been working the phones and the net trying to finalize the Boulderbased prog-funk quintet’s upcoming West Coast swing, starting just a few days after their Fox Theatre stand on Jan. 31.

The quintet may well be poised for “I wish I was up there doing that. I their close-up. Starting their sixth year, was in the rehearsal room,” Bardin said. the band has a tight and keenly concocted “I’m juggling booking, management, album under their belts called Mouse writing arrangements and staying up to Hunt. Released last spring, the platter bang on the drums.” serves up sunny, offbeat groove grinners, Apart from the drumming, all of this hellbound instrumental breaks (check out is what managers are for, reminded the guitarist Justin Neely’s fusion-y shredding generously unhelpful local writer. on the title track) and a healthy wash of “Yes,” Bardin sighed. “I’m doing this Hai-Karate-scented makeout anthems. myself. We do need a manager; we just Well, scented by something. And gotta find the right one.

“Swimsuit,” which has been picked off “This will actually be our third swing here and there as a crowd favorite, with through the West Coast, it’ll just be the the memorable line, “In the winter or the longest. In the past it’s spring/there’s just one just been southern thing you need to ON THE BILL: Eminence Ensemble with The Coop and California, but this bring/I want to see you special set featuring the Jaden time we’re also headin a swimsuit.”

Carlson Band. Doors: 8:30 p.m. ing up to Arcata, then We had to listen to Show: 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31 The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Seattle and Portland. this one a couple of Boulder, 720-645-2467. $10, plus Some new rooms, times. $2 under 21. All ages. including a new room The groove is a in L.A.” low-calorie confection, And Texas. Two a slightly stoned-out nights in Houston. Houston? soft-funk arrangement you might have “Yeah, that’s our biggest market, for heard on some L.A.-based WAVE radio whatever reason. Houston, Austin and just station 20 years ago, an outtake from Texas in general, we do well,” he said.

Gaucho, perhaps; the whole thing being Maybe we don’t get out enough, but about a guy spying a beautiful stranger on it seems like a stretch for us. Austin… the street one day and wishing he could OK. College town, culturally a little less see her in a bathing suit. It first struck us tight-fitting than the state overall, but we as a kind of anachronistic, almost a Beach had to wonder what a prog-funk quintet Boy-ish play on innocence and youthful from The People’s Republic was doing longing. And then, somewhere around scoring in Houston. halfway through the second spin, maybe “Me too. We have some friends down it was the third, it conjured this vaguely there that really plug us, and the first gig sinister undertone, the poised and pleadwe did there we got about 300 at the ing howl of some deranged misfit, like club,” Bardin said. “They like that heavy some twisted shut-in villain on Criminal rock ’n’ roll, guitar thing.”

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singing voice.

Bardin was clearly pleased at our befuddlement.

“That song was originally written as a joke,” Bardin said, laughing. “I was just singing it over some hip hop/funkish chords, and it was really just a joke. We were in college and someone heard it, and they said, ‘Hey, that’s catchy. You guys should really play that.’ And then we just played it out, and everyone seemed kind of stoked on it.

“If we play it at the right moment, it works. Wrong moment, it’s bad.”

Almost all the band hails from Summit County, where they still have friends and family, and the death by avalanche a year ago of Tony Seibert was one of those life-altering experiences for Bardin, who arranged PardeePalooza last summer at State Bridge to raise funds for Seibert’s family. (Pardee was Seibert’s middle name.)

“I was really good friends with Tony and his family, ’cause I grew up in the ski racing world, and then went to college with him,” Bardin said. “It was the most shocking news I had heard in my life, to be honest, just to have someone so close all of a sudden be gone due to a ski accident. … It hit a lot of people in Colorado really deep as well.

“And Guy Oldaker over at Madison House was also good friends with Tony … and he was like, ‘If there’s anything I can do to help,’ and I suggested doing this festival. So he helped me lock down the venue and get the festival going. And we’re going to do it again next year.”

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overtones BCO’s ‘Romance’: An adventure with unfamiliar yet comfortable music

by Peter Alexander

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omance,” the next like Mr. Arensky sat down at the concert by the piano and thought, ‘How can I Boulder Chamber expound on this theme?’ And Orchestra (BCO), where it may lie easily on the will offer music that is piano, it doesn’t do so well on unfamiliar, yet comfortable for the violin.” the audience.

Once Saless and Sords had “I would say it’s an adventure, settled on the Arensky Concerto, but it’s all about beautiful melothe rest of the program fell easily dies,” conductor Bahman Saless into place. One thing that fit says of the program, which will perfectly alongside the relatively include lesser known works by short Arensky Concerto is the Brahms and Dvorák, and two Dvorák Romance for violin and major works by the little known orchestra, which gave its title to Russian composer Anton the concert as a whole.

Arensky.

Saless recalls a performance The performances in Boulder of the Romance he heard when Friday (7:30 p.m. Jan. 30, First visiting the composer’s house in United Methodist Church) and Prague. He thought, “Why aren’t in Broomfield Saturday (7:30 we playing this more often? It’s p.m. Jan. 31, Broomfield such an incredibly gorgeous piece Auditorium) will feature violinist of music!”

Andrew Sords playing Arensky’s When he turned to the rest Violin Concerto and Dvorák’s of the orchestra program, Saless “Romance” will feaRomance for violin and orchestra. thought it made sense to include ture violinist Andrew Other works on the program will another piece by Arensky, Sords playing Anton Arenky’s Violin be Arensky’s Variations on a Variations on a Theme by Concerto.

Theme by Tchaikovsky for strings, Tchaikovsky, written as an homand Brahms’ Variations on a age to the older composer the Theme by Haydn for full orchestra. year after his death. a piece that he heard as a teenager and “The music is very approachable,” “It’s as if it literally is a good-bye always wanted to play. “I remember lisSaless says. “I think ‘Romance’ is the song to Tchaikovsky,” Saless says. “It tening to it,” he recalls. “I thought, perfect name I could give it. It immedi- ‘This is a beautiful piece of music!’” He ends very sadly. He uses harmonics and pizzicato to bring the melody ately tells you it’s a friendly concert, never got to perform it as a violinist, back at the very end, and it’s very poiright?” but when he and Sords started talking gnant.”

Although not a familiar name today, about the program, it didn’t take them With one set of variations in the Arensky was once considered one of long to discover their shared love for program, Saless then thought of Russia’s most promising composers. He the concerto.

Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn studied with Rimsky-Korsakov at the Sords enjoys presenting pieces that St. Petersburg Conservatory 1879are not well known, but they do offer as a compliment. Brahms wrote this lesser known score early in his career, 82, where he gradutheir own challenges. not long before he completed the first ated with a gold For one thing, he ON THE BILL: “Romance” by of his four symphonies. medal, and later was says, “when you’re the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. Bahman Saless, conThe two variation sets are very difdirector of the working on a piece ductor; Andrew Sords, violin. ferent, Brahms being more academic Imperial Choir until that’s not mainMusic of Anton Arensky, and classical in approach, Arensky his premature death stream, and you didn’t Antonin Dvorák and Johannes Brahms, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Jan. being more emotional and, Saless says, in 1906. listen to it from the 30, First United Methodist “very Russian” in style.

But either way, His violin conage of six onwards, Church, 1421 Spruce St., Saless relishes presenting them with the certo, which Sords it’s very difficult to Boulder. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, Broomfield Auditorium, BCO. characterizes as memorize. The Broomfield. http://boulder“I love variations!” he says “It’s one “Tchaikovsky light,” Arensky is very hard chamberorchestra.com/conof my favorite things to do [because] it is rarely played, but to commit to memocerts/201508.html Tickets $25. 303-583-1278 gives me a chance to talk to [the audiSords and Saless ry [so] I will be playence]. I can tell people, ‘This is what he think it should be ing it from music.” is doing and this is how you should lisbetter known. For The violin part is Sords, it is one of several unfamiliar difficult in other ways, too. Arensky was ten to it.’”

So if you are attracted to the BCO’s works that he has recently added to his not a violinist, so he did not always “Romance,” you can expect some lovely repertoire. “I’m very glad that I’m takknow the best way to write for the but unfamiliar music — and a little ing it on and giving people this chance instrument. help from the conductor. to listen to it,” he says.

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arts & culture Lessons in loss

World premiere of ‘Appoggiatura’ washes over one family’s grief

by Gregory Thorson

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ppoggiatura begins in a Venice hotel where three people have come to mourn the death of Gordon — a husband, lover and grandfather. Grandmother Helen seeks to remember the beauty of an early trip to Italy with Gordon, who has since left her for the pessimistic Aunt Chuck. Nicknamed because of his close relationship with Helen’s granddaughter, Sylvie, Aunt Chuck is Gordon’s long time homosexual partner, and he struggles to overcome his broken heart. Sylvie has

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Lenne Klingaman and Darrie Lawrence in Appoggiatura.

recently graduated from college and is searching for her place in the world. Their trip is led by the flashy but incompetent tour guide Marco.

The play is an emotionally touching and insightful look at an untraditional family dealing with love and loss while vacationing in Venice — the word appoggiatura, pronounced “uh-poj-uh-too-ruh” refers to a

musical note that temporarily displaces and then resolves into a main note. A temporary dissonance, in other words, followed by resolution and harmony.

However unconventional, the members of this family appear to care deeply about one another — Helen and Aunt Chuck have a tender relationship, despite their shared intimacy with Gordon at different parts of their lives.

Denver Center Theater Company commissioned playwright James Still to write Appoggiatura, which was developed at the Colorado New Play Summit in 2014 and presented by the Denver Center Theater Company as a world premiere.

Throughout the play, a trio of street musicians play multiple characters and instruments, adding a sense of Venice. Played by triple-threat actors, singers and musicians Julian Remulla, Paul Bentzen and Mehry Eslaminia, these three welcome the audience and build a sense of warmth.

The playwright uses another interesting convention in bringing the character of Gordon as a young man into the play. Flashbacks are often separate from the rest of the play’s plot, but in Appoggiatura, Still has Gordon interact with characters in the present. The actor who plays Gordon, Nick Mills, also plays Marco the tour guide, even dexterously changing between the two in a single scene.

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Mills displays terrific virtuosity in alternating roles of Gordon and Marco, bringing good comedic sense to his role of the underprepared tour guide. Denver Center Theater veteran Darrie Lawrence plays the role of Helen with a sense of sweetness and caring.

Lenne Klingaman shows strong acting range in the dual roles of Sylvie and Young Helen. As Aunt Chuck, Rob Nagle portrays the suffering of the recent loss of his partner of nearly 25 years with refreshing underpinnings of well-timed caustic wit.

If there’s a flaw, it’s that the complicated relationships among these characters are not always aptly translated for audiences.

Yet director Risa Brainin has successfully integrated the play’s challenging conventions. The street musicians blend into the production and help to move the play’s action from scene to scene. The play has a melancholy air, but Brainin brings a light-hearted and heart-warming tone to the production — a nice counterbalance. David M. Barber’s gorgeous set is simple and intricate, easy in its transition from one to the next of the numerous locations in which the action takes place. Projections used to signify the different locations bring color and texture to the production.

Meghan Anderson Doyle and Charles R. MacLeod’s costume and lighting design support without distracting attention from the play.

As a world premiere and a play that was commissioned by Denver Center Theater Company, Appoggiatura’s artists have been uniquely focused on the playwright’s vision. The Denver Center provided financial resources for Still to complete the play, and it has been shepherded through the center’s process of revisions and rehearsals via the well-respected Colorado New Play Summit. For audiences, there is a special connection that occurs in watching that process and seeing a premiere. Appoggiatura proves an original and interesting partner.

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Thursday, January 29 Music Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Upslope

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Brother Gow, Digg. 10 p.m. The Lazy

Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Candy Lee, Lacey Cruse. 8 p.m. The Laughing

Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Dave Gerard. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Slow Magic. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Strings Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa,

900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Lo 5. 11 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub,

1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events

Ed Breazeale’s Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing,

1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Geopolitics. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapa-

Heatherlyn in Concert. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers,

Nature Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Carolyn Holmberg

1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Hogback Blues Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N.

Doug Brightwood. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing

Kaleidoscope Music. 4:15 p.m. JCC Boulder,

Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Jeremy Scott

Candy Lee Various dates and locations around Boulder.

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Kort McCumber. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Ky Burt and Justin Thompson. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.

Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 303396-1898.

With the name Candy Lee, you expect a sweet Southern woman serving you a slice of cherry pie, and indeed singer Candy Lee has that aura around her. But don’t be fooled by her angelic voice and sweet appearance, the girl’s music packs a punch. Her sound is a blend of folk and jazz with a slight twang, probably acquired from growing up in Arkansas. It all blends together to deliver whimsical, yet haunting music that sticks with you.

8 p.m. Jan 29., The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

9 p.m. Jan 30., Illegal Pete’s, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

7 p.m. Jan. 31, Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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3800 Kalmia Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900.

4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

Reggae on the Mountain. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

hoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Preserve, Rock Creek Farm, Boulder, 303-6786214. see EVENTS Page 50

Drink

Premiere Robbie Rowlands

‘Substrate’ Opening Reception 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

In the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s newest exhibit, Substrate, artists focus on shifting the perspective. While you’d usually expect for the art to be on the walls of the museum, Substrate focuses on the floors. This concept forces the viewers to interact and engage with the museum itself. There’s a lot to be learned from the floors — a scrapbook of days passed.

Now BMoCA is inviting artists to add their own stories, by cutting, scrapping, scratching and transforming the floors. Come explore the past, present and future of the museum, and watch where you step.

Ullr Grass Music & Beer Festival Friday-Sunday, Jan. 30-Feb. 1, Various locations around Golden. For more information visit ullrgrass.com/location.

Celebrate the Norse God of snow with a weekend full of beer and music at the first Ullr Grass Festival. The lineup of breweries is extensive and diverse, including Mountain Toad Brewing, Dude’s Brews and a few options for cider lovers, too, including Colorado Cider Company.

There will be a lengthy lineup of bluegrass artists all weekend such as Head for the Hills, Coral Creek and The Drunken Hearts. The headliner will be Peter Rowan and the Ullr Grass All-Stars, which includes members of Leftover Salmon and The Infamous Stringdusters. Tickets are $10-$325.

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Friday, January 30 Music Americana Highway. 7:30 p.m. Liquid Mechan-

ics Brewing Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623.

Anthony Ruptak and Luke Redfield. 6 p.m. James-

town Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Asalott. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303449-2911.

The Bakersfield Band. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379

Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Bear. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 Highway 72, Neder-

land, 303-258-7981.

Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents “Romance.”

7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-623-7876.

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

Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through March 15.

Through Jan. 30.

Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Feb. 4.

Beyond Words: Contempoary Book Art features a collection of artists drawing inspiration from the written word at Foothills Art Center.

Chris Dismuke and Candy Lee. 9 p.m. Illegal

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen.

MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554.

The Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 15.

Grupo Chegando Lá. 5:30 p.m. Highland City Club, 885 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4430.

Echoes. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb 22.

Jesse Holt and the Cult. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E.

Fire and Rain. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Johnny O. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel

First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 22.

Pete’s, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Leibermonster. 11 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional

Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Na’an Stop. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Paul Shinn Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broad-

way St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Porcelain City at the Laughing Goat. 9 p.m. The

Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Scarlet Canary, Astreya. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera

Matisse and Friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Feb. 8.

Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12.

Phil Bender. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. rePOPulated: Contemporary Perspectives on Pop Art. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29.

Sean O’Meallie: Freeplay. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through March 29.

The Guardians of the Spirit. The Dairy Cen-

Seeing, as I am — by Conor King. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through March 29.

Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Aug. 27, 2017.

Substrate. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Through April 5.

ter for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Acrylic Paintings by Cynthia Marsh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 30.

Photography for a Change group exhibit.

Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174.

Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.

Vessels: Environmental Parables. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Music

Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Shane Tully and The Rain. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar,

Barrel of Blues. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

The Jet Set. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600

Steve Manshel. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Bluez House. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liq-

Kutandara Kombi. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.

Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Tune. 7 p.m. Boulder Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

uids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Champions. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park

Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Events

Dan and Yoshi. 5:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258.

2015 New Year’s Health Bash. 6:30 p.m. Inspired

Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa,

Athletic Movement, 5485 Conestoga Court, Suite 110B, Boulder, 720-675-8348.

CFOOTMAD - Boulder Waltz Night. 8 p.m. Boulder

Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Coffee Cupping. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Book-

store & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-4953303.

Intention Setting Art Series. 11 a.m. Boulder Art Therapy Collective, 1400 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 7, Boulder, 303-593-0277.

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Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-2793922. Through March 22.

900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Eminence Ensemble. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128

S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St.,

Boulder, 303-444-3133.

LC’s Latin Groove. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301

Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Lionel Young. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel

Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Nice Work Jazz Combo with Janine Gastineau. 7

13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Eric Lane. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing

Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600

Company, 297 N. U.S. Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623.

Ethyl & the Regulators. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill

& Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E.

First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Jababa. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish

Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Sara Jane Farmer and Friends. 8 p.m. Jamestown

Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303442-5847.

Selasee and the Fa Fa Family. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, see EVENTS Page 52

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303-440-3355.

Candy Lee. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tune. 7 p.m. Boulder Absinthe House, 1109

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600.

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Wash Park. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300

Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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Events Five Secrets to Long-Term Care Planning. 10 a.m.

Gateway Centre, 1325 Dry Creek Drive, Suite 202, Longmont, 303-678-5227.

Boulder Track Club Youth Group. 9 a.m. Viele Lake

Park, Boulder, 909-528-8708.

DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant &

Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4472400.

Front Range Anglers Youth Fly Tying Day. 10 a.m.

Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375.

Third and Fifth Saturday Swing with Live Music.

7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

UFC 183: SILVA vs. DIAZ. 8 p.m. Century Boulder,

1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583.

Sunday, February 1 Music

Boulder Friends of Jazz: Ragtime and Big Band Jam and Dance. 1 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975

28th St., Boulder, 303-442-5003.

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David Booker. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

John A. Daz-Corts and the Folklorika Arkestra. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Mike Finders. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303

Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Events

Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergar-

ten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

G&G The Embrace Distance and Posture Seminar.

1 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center

for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772.

Intimate Glimpses ­— Photography Opening. 2

p.m. Frasier Meadows Retirement Community Gallery, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-499-4888.

Superbowl Party. 4:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House,

300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Tibetan Cranial Public Clinic. 7 p.m. Solstice Cen-

ter, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-800-0601.

Monday, February 2 Music

Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home-

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made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

I & The Many Jazz. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301

Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe,

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Expect some Boulder-specific sketches when Second City takes the stage on Jan. 30.

The Second City hits Boulder Chicago-based improv company to bring laughs to the stage at Boulder Theater

The Second City Touring Company, which just so happens to be the home of legendary comedic alumni like John Belushi, Steve Carell and Tina Fey, is rolling into town on Friday, Jan. 30, and it’s about to get personal. In their most recent tour installment, “Second City Hits Home,” the comedy troupe, made up of Lisa Barber, Jo Feldman, Julie Marchiano, Chucho Perez, Nick Rees and Adam Schreck, pokes fun at the laughable side of local headlines and hot topics.

“I don’t want to give anything away,” Barber says, “but there’s going to be a Boulder City Council scene.”

Seeing as the Boulder City Council has received some interestingly humorous press in the past, the possible issues up for discussion by the impromptu Second City council members are endless.

The “Hits Home” show will also include audience-suggested improv and archived sketches dating back to the company’s very first shows, some of which were written or previously performed by their notorious alumni.

“We have some material that is a little darker and more challenging, so it challenges the way you see things and the way you think,” Barber says.

Between Second City’s star-studded past and unique acts like “Second City Hits Home,” it’s no wonder The New York Times has dubbed them a “comedy empire.”

— Devin Blomquist

108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel

Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Open Stage. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish

Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events

Cinema Program free screening of Groundhog Day.

6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Fleet Feet Boulder Fun Run/Walk. 6 p.m. Fleet Feet Sports Boulder, 2624 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-939-8000.

Joy Circle. 6:30 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual

Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-4421411.

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

Open Jam. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar &

Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional

Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-4774164.

Events

German Speaking Table. 6:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328.

6:30 p.m. Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-499-4888.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303449-2911.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Tuesday, February 3

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Music The Aristocats. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee,

210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Funk Jam with Technicolor Tone Factory. 7 p.m.

The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

The Green. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Boulder Genealogical Society Educational Session.

Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows

Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, see EVENTS Page 54

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Washington Ave., Denver, 303935-3044. Through March 8.

Harvey. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Feb. 7.

Appoggiatura. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239.

Through Feb. 22.

Benediction. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 1.

Cinderella. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Feb. 15.

The Cripple of Inishmaan.

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Fiddler on the Roof. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28.

A small island off the coast of Ireland gets rocked when a Hollywood director comes to film his documentary in The Cripple of Inishmaan at Miners Alley Playhouse.

Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through March 1.

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Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

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Thunder the Radar. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St.,

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Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Events

The Delta Sonics. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park

Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126

Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Ginny and the Bridgeburners. 7 p.m. Boulder

Distilery, 2500 47th St., Unit 10, Boulder, 303442-1244.

Horse Feathers. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

The New Mastersounds. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Flatirons Running/Under the Sun Fun Run. 6 p.m.

Flatirons Running Inc., 629 S. Broadway St., Unit E, Boulder, 303-554-7837.

Frasca Dinner and Wine Pairing. 6 p.m. Frasca Food and Wine, 1738 Pearl St., Boulder, 303442-6966.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder

Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Socrates Cafe. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

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Thursday, Jan. 29 Tony Jones; or, The Expanded Autobiography — by Paul Echeverria. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Colorado’s Hot Springs ­— by Deborah Frazier. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Monday, Feb. 2 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, Feb. 3 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

The Genius Files #5: License to Thrill — by Dan Gutman. 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Wednesday, Feb. 4 The View from Who I Was — by Heather Sappenfield.

6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Innovative, weird and just the right kind of morbid, this mixed-medium “The Bigger Picture” work focuses on two brothers dealing with an aging mother and deserves attention. Like a deliciously morose Yeats poem, this may not be what you think of when you hear “animated short,” but gosh darn it, it should be.

‘THE DAM KEEPER,’ DIRECTORS: ROBERT KONDO AND DAISUKE TSUTSUMI If you see one film with a talking pig who wears a gas mask and is bullied by an alligator and a hippo, you will have seen “The Dam Keeper.” The beautiful, fuzzy watercolor style adds a storybook feel to this fable of friendship and trust, as the pig who runs the windmill that keeps his town safe from pollution is woefully mistreated. Chilling and fresh, I promise you won’t soon forget the image of a breathing apparatus designed for someone with a snout.

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‘ME AND MY MOULTON,’ DIRECTOR: TORILL KOVE Every year, one short is included that leaves me wondering if it was nepotism or bribery that resulted in its nomination. Meet “Me and My Moulton,” which looks like a worse version of Doug, the old TV show from Nickelodeon. Its script is essentially from the single most boring teenage diary. Set in Norway, a middle Boulder Weekly

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LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILMS ‘AYA,’ DIRECTORS: ODED BINNUN, MIHAL BREZIS Have you ever listened to a song that seems to be all crescendo and no climax?

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he best food transports you. Where Volta transports you is to a long, green lawn on the side of a lake for a reunion of friends and family on a late spring day. You can smell it — in the drink and in the food, and in that place in your mind where the senses create memories, there are herbs and wine and warm air.

It’s possible I’m just thinking of the Lake Tahoe party in the beginning of Godfather, Part II. But no, it’s there. You can start with something Volta doesn’t make in house, but that you’ll be hard-pressed to find on any menu elsewhere: retsina. It’s an ancient, dry white wine that’s been made in Greece since before the common era and that has a distinct flavor of pine that you either love or hate. It’s a drink born out of necessity, like the IPA, as wine barrels were sealed with pine tar to keep oxygen out and the wine from spoiling. Even though technology soon rendered the practice moot, the flavor was popular enough to continue the story of retsina.

No wonder, retsina is a perfect olfactory opener for the herby, gamey and grassy nature of Greek fare — at least the dishes I recently had.

Spanakopita, a flaky pastry loaded with spinach, feta cheese and herbs, came in two lunchbox-style triangles next to pickled red onion and a simple salad dressed in olive oil and lemon. The mint hit the nose but not the tongue,

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The layered dish starts on the bottom with grilled eggplant, on which ground lamb is placed, on which a béchamel of goat cheese, butter and egg yolks are placed, and then the whole thing is given some high heat to set and topped with capers and tomato sauce. It was a fine thing. The brightness of the capers and a subdued gaminess breathed life into a dish that I just imagine botching the heck out of at home.

The food is well-executed, the service is great and the interior is smartly designed, though it does look like there should be a go-go dancer behind a big, blue-tinted window into the wine cellar that immediately draws the eye. Or at least some fish.

But the real power of Volta, again, is in its flavors. I end the dish with another recommendation — a French anisette that tastes like Scandinavian-grade salty black licorice. I drink it with loukoumades (Greek donuts), which are giant, fried dough balls. It brings me right back to last year’s Boulder Greek Festival where jovial Greek men and women came by with endless retsina and anise liquor, plates of lamb and donuts and seafood scattered around, folk dancing and string music abundant. The big green lawn, the late spring day. It lives in the mind, and Volta brings it to your plate.

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by Matt Cortina the filling was savory and the whole thing was textured perfectly.

Sometimes you just get the right dish with the right wine at the right time. On the recommendation of our waitress — and the service at Volta was exceptional — I paired a big Nero D’Avola with the braised rabbit pasta.

It worked. The rabbit had been slowcooked on the bone, and shreds of its light and dark meat formed the base of a hearty and balanced ragout. The ragout — carrot, green onion, crushed red pepper, olive oil — topped with

sharp cheese was set atop bucatini, the long, thick noodle with a hole in it. In fact, it felt like a spin on the homey and classic Italian dish bucatini all’amatriciana.

But dear God did this dish pan out.

Slight heat, incredibly tender meat; savory and bright at once. The dark fruit and bold pepper in the wine rounded out one of the best bites I’ve ever had in Boulder.

Which made it hard to find room in the stomach for the lamb moussaka, but that too went down without a fight.

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On Friday, Feb. 17, Shine will host “The Dating Game Matchmaking Event” where ladies and gents will compete for dates. Matchmaker Laura Menze will share dating secrets after the event.

Doors at 7 p.m. and tickets are $30.

Then on Saturday, a Sushi Tora in Boulder was voted one of the 21 best sushi joints in dance party and burlesque America by Thrillest.com show will break out with DJ THE CHEF SENDS YOU A GIFT BASKET achieves exceptional quality because Sushi Mr. Gettdowne and the Pearl’s Treat Tora has an array of fresh fish flown in from Burlesque Troupe. The burlesque show is $15, The Fare Trade is working with renowned Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Market. and the show starts at 8 p.m. The DJ’s tunes, chefs across the country to put together bas“All that mild smoked white tuna and however, are free. kets that get home chefs cooking gourmet bold unagi are still loaded with enough flavor meals.

Then on Sunday, Shine will host a “Rise that you might forget for a second that the and Shine Afterglow DJ Brunch and Partner Each month, a new, award-winning chef ski slopes are nearby,” wrote Thrillist.com of Yoga.” The event will feature down tempo will arrange six items from around the counSushi Tora’s cuisine. tunes and farm-to-table cuisine. The free try, and Fare Trade will deliver the items to Sushi Tora is open Tuesday-Sunday at partner yoga class starts at 10 a.m. anyone who signs up ($52 a month). Those varying hours. Their menu, specials and other — Wyatt Carlson ingredients are then paired with instructional details can be found by calling 303-444-2280, videos from that chef that can be used to or visiting their website, sushitoraboulder.com. prepare meals.

— Wyatt Carlson For instance, January’s basket included BOULDER SUSHI TAKES HONORS salsa from Williamsburg, N.Y., seasoning and mole from Los Angeles, a coffee and chocoWithout an ocean in sight for about 1,000 ALCOHOL TO YOUR FRONT DOOR late sauce from Texas, and mango habanemiles, one would not expect Boulder County ro jam from Humboldt, Calif. The basket was to possess one of the best sushi hubs in the We’ve all had those moments when we arranged by Fabian Gallardo, chef de cuicountry. But Sushi Tora, at 2014 10 St. in are scrambling to get plans together with sine at Petty Cash Taqueria in Los Angeles.

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Kennedy. “I don’t ever want Kennedy remembers sitting in to be overtly sexual about it, a culinary class at Boulder High, but there’s not much we put in having just read Anthony our body. Like we put in food and Bourdain’s memoir Kitchen water, and some people put in a Confidential, when he thought he penis. It’s pretty intimate. Like a could explore a career in food. At partner, you want to understand 14, he got a job “illegally,” he where your food comes from. If it says, at Di Napoli’s Restaurant in doesn’t turn you on, don’t put it in Boulder, which was started by a your mouth. friend’s dad. He then worked at “I always crack up when I say Chautauqua Dining Hall before that.” moving on to Hapa Sushi. There, For the many people in Kennedy says, he was able to Boulder who watched Kennedy move up from making rice to grow up, it’s not a shock to hear working the pantry and frying him say something entertaining. tempura, to manning the sushi He says people have been telling bar and interacting with customhim he’s a performer his whole ers. life, and this year, Kennedy got “That was a big lesson the chance to bring together two because all of a sudden I was Raised in Boulder, Chef Gabe Kennedy recently won the ABC cooking reality compeition The Taste, of his passions in life: cooking making beautiful sushi, which is a and now has plans to release a cookbook and open pop-up restaurants across the country. and entertaining. really sacred food, and as a Late last year, Kennedy was 16-year-old white kid from off the grid for two weeks in Boulder, one wouldn’t really Europe before flying back to the expect it,” Kennedy says, adding U.S. and seeing he had missed that he had to continually ask several calls from a number he himself, “Are you going through didn’t recognize. Two months the motions or are you paying later, Kennedy was selected to attention to it?” appear on ABC’s cooking compeHe then went on to graduate tition reality show The Taste, first in his class from the wherein celebrity judges including Culinary Institute of America, Anthony Bourdain and Marcus his two jobs as an organic food consulcompletely honest,” Kennedy says. earning four awards there, and then Samuelsson challenge competing chefs tant and private chef in the Hamptons “Growing up in Boulder, and being so earned a degree from Cornell to produce the best bite possible out of to be on the show, and says the expoconnected to the outdoors and healthy University in hospitality in order to certain ingredients and guidelines. sure now gives him an opportunity to foods — both my parents are in alterlearn the business aspect of the indusWhen the show wrapped up on Jan. pursue his larger goals. native medicine — having that try. Kennedy speaks eagerly — like a 22, Kennedy, only 24 years old, was “It was never really my goal to be on ingrained in my being from such a see KENNEDY Page 64 declared the winner. Kennedy had quit a reality cooking competition to be young age, I just want to make a differ-

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young man who just won a contest on national television judged by some of the best people in his industry — but he says there is a lot of hard work and focus that accompanies his passion and natural ability in the kitchen.

That mindfulness and focus on the singular task is what Kennedy says has sustained him as a chef and sustained him through the competition show.

“It was a really intense process, as you would imagine,” Kennedy says.

“The way I managed is I just committed 150 percent. The hours are brutal. I would wake up at 4 a.m. everyday. I would meditate, exercise, have a cup of coffee, jump in the shower and we’d be on set by 5:15. I’d probably get home anywhere from 6:30 to 8 [p.m.]. I would get home, do a little exercise if I didn’t get to it in the morning, study, eat, maybe study a little more and go to sleep. I’d do that seven days a week.

“It was a really big exercise in what I can accomplish if I put everything into something, and that’s not something I’ve ever done before. It was a really beautiful transformative experience.”

Kennedy is an artist, that’s clear; not only in the food he prepares, but in the music he creates, the graphic art collages he assembles and the writing he publishes on his website. For Kennedy, it’s about self-expression and though food is one way to share his story and what he wants to say, he says he revels in the risk associated with sharing something intimate with the world.

“I have a variety of ways that I like to express myself,” Kennedy says. “It’s through art, it’s through music, it’s through food. All of which are great visceral pleasures in life, all of which lead to sex eventually, right? I like to engage myself creatively and put myself out there because I think … being a little vulnerable in the process of whatever you’re doing, whether it’s music or art or acting or cooking, at the end of the day it’s all self-expression. Innately and inherently, self-expression is vulnerable.

People are truly recognizing you for who you are. You’re not pretending to be anything, you’re just simply being yourself and putting what is in your heart and soul onto a spoon or canvas or into the air.”

Kennedy says he has plans to return to Colorado, as well as New York (where he lives) and California with pop-up ventures, and he’s currently working on a cookbook. His goal through these ventures, he says, is to keep learning, share a bit of his own story and pass on the stories he’s heard in other parts of the world and in other kitchens.

“When I cook, I really try to transport myself to a place,” he says. “If I’m cooking a curry, I’m envisioning myself in a rice paddy in Indonesia. If I’m cooking a goulash, you know, I’m transporting myself to the Alps or wherever.

If I’m making fish tacos, I’m pretending that I’m sitting on a beach in Baja and grilling things up. And I think that plays into that love and intention.

One, it makes the experience way better because it’s a mini-vacation. And two, it really transforms how you approach the whole dish. Cooking from a place is really important.”

And so back to Boulder. Kennedy says the connection between farm and table that he tries to pass on through his cuisine was cultivated here in Colorado, and that’s the story that comes through in his cooking. So far, he’s been able to add on to that great story and share it with a growing number of people.

“I never want to tell someone what to eat or not to eat because food is so personal,” he says. “But what I do want to inspire is to be inquisitive and understand where your food comes from. With the food you buy you can either be supporting systems that support the planet or you can buy food that disenfranchises people along the way. If you can understand the story, you can thus consume more consciously and make the world a better place.”

He can’t help but chuckle that his philosophy on food keeps coming back to sex (and he’s certainly not the first with such a connection), but Kennedy says it’s an easy metaphor to show how food is an intimate and communal part of life.

“Let your food turn you on,” he says. “Keep it simple. But have a connection to where your food comes from, and be a little inquisitive.”

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TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

The cosmos seems to be granting you a license to be brazenly ambitious. I’m not sure how long this boost will last, so I suggest you capitalize on it while it’s surging. What achievement have you always felt insufficiently prepared or powerful to accomplish? What person or club or game have you considered to be out of your league? What issue have you feared was beyond your understanding? Rethink your assumptions. At least one of those “impossibilities” may be more possible than usual.

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AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

In 1899, the King of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just four months old. It took a while for the new King to carry out his duties with aplomb, and he needed major guidance from his grandmother and uncle.

Eventually he showed great aptitude for the job, though, and ruled until his death at age 83. I’m getting a Sobhuza-type vibe as I meditate on you, Aquarius. New power may come to you before you’re fully ready to wield it. But I have confidence you will grow into it, especially if you’re not shy about seeking help.

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FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

In the 1951 animated movie version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice says to herself, “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” I hope you won’t be like her, Pisces.

It’s an excellent time for you to heed your own good advice.

In fact, I suspect that doing so will be crucial to your ability to make smart decisions and solve a knotty problem. This is one of those turning points when you really have to practice what you preach. You’ve got to walk your talk.

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

When I attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, my smartest friend was Gemini writer Clare Cavanagh. She headed off to Harvard for her graduate studies and later became a pre-eminent translator of Polish poetry. Her work has been so skillful that Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czselaw Milosz selected her as his authorized biographer.

Interviewing Milosz was a tough job, Clare told blogger Cynthia Haven. He was demanding. He insisted that she come up with “questions no one’s asked me yet.” And she did just that, of course. Formulating evocative questions is a Gemini specialty. I invite you to exercise that talent to the hilt in the coming week. It’s prime time for you to celebrate a Curiosity Festival.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,” writes poet John Ashbery, “at incredible speed, traveling day and night, through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, recognize you when he sees you, give you the thing he has for you?” This passage might not be literally true, Cancerian. There may be no special person who is headed your way from a great distance, driven by a rapt intention to offer you a blessing. But I think Ashbery’s scenario is accurate in a metaphorical way. Life is in fact working overtime to bring you gifts and help. Make sure you cooperate! Heighten your receptivity. Have a nice long talk with yourself, explaining why you deserve such beneficence.

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In 1768, Britain’s Royal Society commissioned navigator James Cook to lead a long naval voyage west to Tahiti, where he and his team were supposed to study the planet Venus as it made a rare transit across the face of the sun. But it turned out that task was a prelude. Once the transit was done, Cook opened the sealed orders he had been given before leaving England. They revealed a second, bigger assignment, kept secret until then: to reconnoiter the rumored continent that lay west of Tahiti. In the coming months, he became the first European to visit the east coast of Australia. I foresee a comparable progression for you, Leo. The task you’ve been working on lately has been a prelude. Soon you’ll receive your “sealed orders” for the next leg of your journey.

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LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

Life has a big, tough assignment for you. Let’s hope you’re up for the challenge. There’s not much wiggle room, I’m afraid. Here it is: You must agree to experience more joy and pleasure. The quest for delight and enchantment has to rise to the top of your priority list. To be mildly entertained isn’t enough. To be satisfied with lukewarm arousal is forbidden. It’s your sacred duty to overflow with sweet fulfillment and interesting bliss. Find ways to make it happen!

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Dear Dan: I have a dildo that I loooooove, and I was wondering if it’s safe for me to use it in both my ass and my cunt. I would clean it in between uses/orifices, of course, and it has a flared base, so it’s safe for anal play. Can I do this or do I need to get separate toys for ass and cunt?

—Ass/Cunt Timeshare Dear ACT: “First off, never use a toy in the butt and then go straight into vaginal play, because that could result in a nasty bacterial infection,” says Jeneen Doumitt, co-owner of She Bop (sheboptheshop.com), an awesome sex-toy shop in Portland, Ore. But there is an option for multiple-hole-havin’ people who aren’t coordinated or organized enough to use two toys — one in the ass and another in the cunt — during a single masturbatory session. “ACT could stack multiple condoms on that beloved dildo,” Doumitt says, “and then peel off a used condom before switching orifices.”

If you don’t have a lot of money to spend on condoms, ACT, or if you’re allergic to latex, your dildo will have to be cleaned — and cleaned properly — before you move from one hole to the other. That, of course, was your plan all along: clean the dildo you loooooove between uses/orifices. But can your dildo be cleaned? That depends on what it’s made of.

“Best-case scenario, ACT’s beloved dildo is medical-grade silicone, which is nonporous and can be completely disinfected,” Doumitt says. “To clean a 100 percent silicone toy, ACT can use antibacterial soap, or a light bleach solution, or pop it on the top rack of the dishwasher. ACT can even boil it — up to 10 minutes. Worst-case scenario, the dildo is made of jelly rubber.

Jelly toys not only contain toxic phthalates, they’re also porous, which means they can never be fully disinfected. There are other materials, such as elastomer, that don’t contain phthalates, but are still bacteria breeding zones, so it’s generally a good idea to use a condom with any toy if you’re

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unsure of the material.”

Don’t know if your dildo is made from a porous or nonporous material?

Take a good whiff. “If it has an odor, especially one that lingers, that indicates a porous toy,” Doumitt says. And if the dildo you loooooove is porous, ACT, or if you’re not sure what it’s made of, your best course of action is to fall in loooooove with a brand-new dildo, i.e., throw away the one you’ve got, replace it with a 100 percent silicone dildo (also with a flared base, of course), and get to work on those holes. Follow She Bop on Twitter @SheBopTheShop.

Dear Dan: I’m a 32-year-old woman with two young kids, married five years.

My husband and I never had an overly exciting sex life, but after the last baby, sex became very, very infrequent. I’m a pretty sexual person, I masturbate regularly, and I have a good sexual imagination. I tried to spice things up by suggesting toys and a bit of light kink, but he wasn’t interested. He seems pretty asexual to me these days, and now I just fantasize about other men. Last week, a mutual friend came over to have a drink. When we stepped outside to smoke a cig — just me and the other guy — he kissed me and said, “I’m going to ask your husband if I can fuck you.” He did, and surprisingly enough, my husband said go for it! What a night! I got permission to fuck someone else. Now I’m not sure if I want to swing or just fuck other people.

Advice please.

—Horny Married Chick Dear HMC: Solicited advice first: Swinging would theoretically involve you and your husband fucking other people, HMC, and if your husband isn’t interested in sex, if he’s low-to-no-libido or actually asexual, he won’t be any more interested in swinging than he is

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in having sex with you. As for fucking other people: That “go for it” may have been a one-time thing, or it may have been a whenever-you-want thing, but you’ll have to check in with your husband to find out which. It’s possible that your husband is interested in cuckolding and knowing you’re messing around with other men will awaken his libido, and it’s possible that he’s neither interested in sex nor threatened by the prospect of his spouse getting it elsewhere. Have a conversation with your husband about what is and isn’t allowed going forward — talk about what you want, talk about what he wants, talk about safety and respect and primacy — but have that conversation when (1) you haven’t been drinking and (2) there’s not a gentleman caller with a boner waiting outside the front door.

Unsolicited advice second: Stop smoking. It’s bad for you and it’s bad for your kids — even if you’re careful not to smoke around them, HMC, carcinogens and other noxious chemicals cling to your skin, hair and clothes after you’ve smoked. You’re exposing your kids to those harmful substances whenever you hug, hold or breastfeed them. Keep fucking other people (with your husband’s okay), but quit fucking cigs.

Dear Dan: What would you say to a woman who was forcing you to choose between her and the photos of your late first wife?

—A Youngish Widower Dear AYW: “Good-bye and good riddance, you cruel and psychotic piece of shit.”

Dear Dan: I’m a straight man with a bisexual wife, married a little over two years. She got me started listening to your

podcast and opened up my mind to alternative relationships. Our arrangement at present is a semi-open kind of thing. She gets some female action on the side, and I, in theory, get a happier, lustier wife who will, if her “friend” is game, include me in threesomes. Our first threesome is happening soon. An old friend/sex buddy and my wife are mutually attracted, and plans are being made. There are some red flags: My wife, who had previously gotten off on the idea of seeing me with another woman, has decreed penetration off-limits. She really doesn’t seem all that thrilled about my having any contact with the other woman at all. Meanwhile, the friend has told my wife that she can include me if she wants, but it’s my wife that the friend wants. What do I do? I seem to be the only one who wants me to even be involved in this threesome. Do I just keep all my attention on my wife? Do I just watch or even stay out completely? I love my wife and don’t want to create conflict, but I feel like I’m getting the short end of the stick here.

—Uncertain In Canada Dear UIC: I would skip this particular threesome, UIC, if I were you — there’s no bigger boner killer than knowing you’re not wanted.

And, like HMC above, you need to have a talk with your spouse. You signed off on her being with other women on the condition that you, in the context of the occasional threesome, would get to be with other women, too. If your wife isn’t into that — if she’s too threatened by the prospect of seeing you with/ inside another woman to keep up her end of the bargain — you need to renegotiate your agreement about openness, and reverting to a closed relationship should be on the table.

That said, forgoing penetration the first time you have a three-way isn’t that monumental a sacrifice — if oral and mutual masturbation are still on the menu.

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ven if they don’t support study of the drug’s impacts on the crim- for production to resume. legalization, more and more inal justice system, public health and “The federal ban on hemp has been states are changing or consid- state revenue. a waste of taxpayer dollars that ignores ering changing marijuana On a national level, on Jan. 8, the science, suppresses innovation and subpossession laws from criminal Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015 verts the will of states that have chosen to ticket offenses. was introduced in the Senate as S. 134 to incorporate this versatile crop into But not all state legislators are ready by a coalition of bipartisan senators, their economies,” Polis said in a press to make that move. In a floor vote last including Republicans Mitch release. “I am hopeful that Congress week, the Wyoming house killed Bill McConnell and Rand Paul and will build on last year’s progress on 49. Sponsor Jim Byrd, a Cheyenne Democrats Jeff Merkley and Ron hemp research and pilot programs by Democrat, wanted the state to turn Leland Rucker passing the Industrial Hemp cannabis possession cases into civil Farming Act to allow this historical offenses: Fine anybody with up to American crop to once again thrive a half ounce $50 and anybody with on our farmlands.” a half ounce to an ounce $100.

The Industrial Hemp Farming Currently, in Wyoming, a perAct of 2015 would simply amend son caught with up to three ounces the Controlled Substances Act to of pot faces a misdemeanor convicexclude industrial hemp from marition with a penalty of up to a year huana (yes, the government still in jail and a fine of $1,000. A third officially spells it this way) and conviction can carry a five-year allow production to begin again. prison sentence and a $5,000 fine.

America imports most of its hemp Byrd reminded his colleagues from China and Canada and is the Wyoming is a beautiful place, but don’t get caught that the state is filling courtrooms with cannabis while you’re there. only industrialized nation that and jails with young people on doesn’t allow hemp production. possession offenses while wasting Currently, three states — the state’s money, he told his fellow leg- Wyden. In the House, H.R. 525 was Kentucky, Colorado and Vermont — islators. It costs $10,000 to prosecute introduced by Republican Thomas have begun planting research hemp each possession case, and even more to Massie and our own Jared Polis, who crops, and another 18 — California, incarcerate offenders. It was enough to has been working on this issue for years. Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, convince the House Judiciary It has a staggering 47 co-sponsors.

Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Committee to pass the bill 7-2 to send The bills would build on the landNebraska, New York, North Dakota, to the full house. mark legislation enacted in last year’s Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, In a floor vote last week, lawmakers farm bill. Section 7606 of that act, the Utah, Washington and West Virginia voted 38-22 to kill the bill. Another Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp — can do so. one that would have allowed medical Research, made industrial hemp disHere’s how simple the amendment marijuana for patients suffering from tinct from marijuana and allows colleg- really is. Basically, it would change a long-term pain, glaucoma or migraines es and research facilities in states where few words in the Controlled Substances was voted down at the same time. And hemp is legal to begin research and Act. “Section 102 of the Controlled lawmakers are now considering House pilot programs to develop hemp variet- Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802) is Bill 187, which would prohibit any new ies. Since hemp hasn’t been grown in amended — in paragraph 16 by adding bills or discussion of marijuana policy the U.S. for many decades, new varietat the end: ‘The term marihuana does while the state spends $15,000 on a ies and strains are desperately needed not include industrial hemp,’ and by

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“Industrial hemp determination by States Section 201 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 811) is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘If a person grows or processes Cannabis sativa L. for purposes of making industrial hemp in accordance with State law, the Cannabis sativa L. shall be deemed to meet the concentration limitation under section 102, unless the Attorney General determines that the State law is not reasonably calculated to comply with section 102.’”

That’s it. That’s all it would take to get industrial hemp, which should never have been on a list of controlled substances in the first place, back in U.S. fields, where it once was and should be.

A couple of punctuation changes and a couple of sentences. (That’s all it would really take to amend the Controlled Substances Act to take marihuana off its Schedule 1 designation, too.)

However, the first time I checked S. 134 on Govtrack.us, which allows citizens to track the progress of bills, the Senate version, which is in the Judicial Committee, was given an 11 percent chance of becoming law. When I checked again, those odds were down to 5 percent.

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OPEN MOUTH, INSERT FOOT Young people wear “hoodies” and occasionally some idiot shoots them because they think they look like criminals because they are wearing hoods. Oklahoma’s answer to this problem? Make wearing a hoodie illegal. At least that’s what has been reported about Oklahoma Republican State Sen. Don Barrington’s recently proposed law.

But after becoming a national laughing stock, Barrington is changing his tune and now claims that he never intended to ban hoodies, but his lame explanation is offering sane folks a chance for a second chuckle.

Barrington released a statement declaring that “the bill is not designed to ban hoodies, but to prevent the wearing of masks or disguises in the commission of a crime.”

According to a CNN report, the senator goes on to point out that the word “hoodie” never even appears in his bill… except for sort of in the first part where it’s talking about making it illegal to wear hoods.

And the kicker: Oklahoma already has a law on the books making it a crime to wear masks or disguises in the commission of a crime.

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He later said he was drunk when he accidentally crashed it inside the White House compound. The Secret Service response? OK, we see no reason to doubt your story. Them government fellows sure stick together.

Hello in there, Secret Service — the same Secret Service that occasionally lets people jump the White House fence and look through the first family’s underwear drawers — there are a couple of reasons for a little skepticism here.

The guy was flying this big-ass drone over the White House at 3 in the morning on a Monday night, and his day job is mapping stuff like drone targets.

His excuse? It’s a hobby, and I was drunk.

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Oh yeah, it’s real.

And why not? Just imagine that you’ve spent three hot days dragging your kids through the endless lines at Disney World, being force-fed the theme song to “It’s a Small World” over and over and over again. Now, thanks to this latest theme park, you can make the world right again simply by making a short drive over to Kissimmee and proceeding to blow the living crap out of everything in sight with a machine gun.

Machine Gun World touts itself as the nation’s “Automatic Adrenaline Attraction” where folks can hit the gun range with Uzis, AKs or even a Thompson submachine gun in case you’re feeling a little Caponey that day.

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