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Two decades of BW employees

Editorial

Editor Joel Dyer, Pamela White, Wayne Laugesen, Joe Miller, Richard Fleming, Greg Campbell, Joel Dyer, Alan Farb, Leland Rucker Senior Editor Kathy Kaiser Managing Editor Jefferson Dodge, Dana Logan, Grace Hood, Vince Darcangelo, Sara A. Krumwiede, Amy H. Taylor, Joel Warner Associate Managing Editor Oakland Childers News Editor Nick Rosen, Tricia Brick, Ryan Morgan Senior Writer Ben Corbett Associate Editor Elizabeth Miller, Thomas Delapa, Charley Cropley, Scott Weiser, Tucker Teutsch III, Margo Preston, Joshua Green, Kathe A. Conti Arts and Entertainment Editor David Accomazzo, Dale Bridges, Pete Miller, Dave Flomberg, Betsy Abbott, Dave Serchuk, Jay Hauser, Jeff Stratton, Teresa Younger Cuisine and Calendar Editor Erica Grossman Online Editor Josh Gross, Steve Weishampel, Quibian Salazar-Moreno, Ryan Casey Special Editions Editor Katherine Creel Special Editions Editor/Marketing Assistant Marissa Hermanson Listings Editor Orya Hyde-Keller, Laura Coleman, Terrence C. Miltner Calendar Editor Leroy Statz Copy Editor Robin Troy, Jethro McClellan Staff Writer Daniel Boniface, Tyler Wilcox, Contributing Writers Dave Anderson, Michael Krumholtz, Dylan Owens, Christine Vazquez, Dan Savage, Ruth Tobias, Jim Lillie, Julian Bourke, Jessie Lucier, Tate Zandstra, Chris Parker, Theo Romeo, P.J. Nutting, Krystal Baugher, Brian Palmer, Peter Alexander, Ana Arias, Tom Winter, Marisa Aragón Ware, April Charmaine, Charmaine Ortega-Getz, Margaret Grondorf, Adam Trask, Danette Randall, Christian Arcand, Dan Hinkel, Adam Perry, Elliott Johnston, Dylan Otto Krider, Michael de Yoanna, Dave Kirby, Andy Stonehouse, Isaac Woods Stokes, James Dziezynski, Christina Eisert, Gene Ira Katz, Paul Danish, David Miller, Laurel Miller, Molly Pindell, Gigi Ragland, Lynne Elmo, Clay Fong, John Freeman, R.S. Milanski, Doug Baughman, Alan Sculley, Todd Michael Shaffer, Anne Vickman, John Freeman, Rob Brezny, Jessica Hersh, Robert Sheely, Gary Zeidner, John Peabody, Cat Altman, Kristie Betts, Kurt Brighton, Martin Demian Belcher, Chris Callaway, Aaron Johnson, Bryan Mahler, Jindati Doelter, Meagan Boltwood, Jean Harrison, Jim Hightower, Owen Perkins, Allen Best, Jeremy Breningstall, Rob Coppolillo, Stephanie Nicholson, John Dicker, Lauren Hammer, Ryan Thompson, Sibine Kortals, Rob Smoke, Rolf Hauge, Hans Bjordahl, Daniel Burton-Rose, Alisa Hall, Patrick Crawford, Don Knapp, A. Lin Newman, Rhonda Reeves, Gregg Eisenberg, Claudia Hibbert-BeDan, Robert Perkinson, Jessica Peterson, Chris Bell, Wil Annett, Matt Groening, Elizabeth Mundwiller, Wendy Underhill, Richard Camp, Janine Gastineau, Cornelia Read, Eric L. Reiner, Wendy DuBow, Carla Price, Louis A. Landa, Michael Vernier, Darrin Straff, Brian Andreja, Steve Boland, Lisa Finnegan, Lisa Metzger, Kristin Swenson, Erin Collins, Bob Donchez, Chari Greenberg, Stephen Hlawaty, Dave Metzler, Brian Metzler, Brenda J. Robinson, Francelia Sevin, Laura Caruso, Lori Martin, Steve Pomerance, Jennifer Thomas, Liz Torke, Chris Wolf, Tom deMers, Emily Esterson, Ed Hyatt, Jennifer A. Lane, Danielle Turner, Dennis Bloomquist, Doug Claussen, Chip Denny, Louise Morrison Miller, Sylvia Pettem, Steven Schwanker, Jennifer Woodhall, Rob Fair, Ryan Hurtig, Maura Cleary, Jean Dobbs, Karon Schwartz Ellis, Matthew Hawkins, Joyce Benson, Jim Ringel, Christine Storkan, Park Teter, Chris Pawling, Ari Armstrong, Conan Bliss, Andy

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What 20 years of Boulder Weekly has meant to me

by Joel Dyer

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can’t believe that it has been more than 20 years since I sat down over a beer with Leland Rucker, Boulder Weekly’s founding editor, and let him convince me that I should work at this paper.

I remember Leland selling me on the idea by explaining that we’d have some good fun before the whole thing went out of business, which we both suspected would only be a matter of months, tops. We were right about the fun. But boy were we wrong about the longevity.

I had no idea back then that working with BW founder and publisher Stewart Sallo and the rest of that original band of misfit journos would mark the most significant turning point in my career, and life, for that matter. I owe a lot to the Boulder Weekly.

My first stint at BW lasted four years. I was the editor when I left after writing my first book. Many things transpired in those first four years that speak volumes to why the paper has been so successful for the past two decades, and also to why I returned to the Weekly as editor in 2011 after a 15-year hiatus.

Since its inception, the Weekly has focused on journalism, the kind of long-form journalism that most folks in this industry only dream about doing.

If you will indulge me for an admittedly prideful moment of name-dropping, I’ll try to put that last statement into context.

I was a journalist when I came to BW, but I had never done the kind of in-depth investigative and explanatory work for which the Weekly became known. see DYER Page 16

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Letters, looking back Below are some of the letters to the editor we have received over the past two decades.

Oct. 21, 1993

Intellectual elitism?

I am writing to applaud you on your success in filling a void in the Boulder and Denver metro areas for a high-quality weekly publication. It’s refreshing to finally see a publication that clearly is striving for journalistic excellence in its writing, advertisements and editorial focus. While I respect and embrace your commitment to avoiding the sensationalistic, aggressive, obtrusive journalism practiced by another regional weekly publication, I am concerned that you are headed toward the opposite end of the spectrum. Many of your articles tend to lack a sense of significance/relevance and, in my opinion, over-represent Boulder’s “granola” community (i.e., the articles on the “grunge violist” and the Nederland woman who talks to animals). …

You have a quality publication that is on the verge of taking off and becoming a strong regional influence — in terms of readership as well as journalistic integrity.

You’re definitely on the right track. I wish you well, and I will enjoy watching as the future of the Weekly takes shape.

Jackie Robb/Boulder June 16, 1994

Pomerance missed the point Who was it that said, “Those who don’t learn from history are bound to repeat it”? It obviously wasn’t your columnist and past City Council member

Steve Pomerance.

Mr. Pomerance proposes a number of methods designed to slow growth in Boulder. Not the least of his concerns is the “in-commuting” he attributes to the lack of work force within the city. The fact is, these people live outside Boulder because of the last concerted effort to slow growth in this community.

In the late 1970s, former City Council member Paul Danish managed to push through a limitation of the number of building permits issued within the city, rationalizing that this would clamp down growth via management of development. …

Look at Boulder’s post-Paul Danish years before messing with the natural progression of things again, and give Steve Pomerance a lesson on basic supply-and-demand!

Doug Anderson/Fort Collins May 17, 1995

Kidnapped to Venus

The recent profusion of articles in your publication detailing the rise of the Patriot movement, militias and all the terrible things our government is doing to we the people finally gives me the courage to speak out about something odious that I saw with my own eyes.

About a year ago, while genuflecting near Folsom Stadium, I was apprehended by what at first appeared to be a Black Helicopter, but was in fact a 1983 Chrysler K Car with rotors. The occupants blindfolded me, changed my socks and whisked me (after stopping for a

tank of gas and what sounded like a bag of Doritos) to Venus. Imagine my surprise to find thousands of good Christian Americans like myself enslaved in a vast underground cavern, captives of a Liberal Democrat Multicultural Vegetarian International Gay Banking Coterie that really needed a shower. Their diabolical task? They were building replica WalMarts out of used pizza boxes and toothpicks, with an attention to detail so precise that the deodorant on aisle 18 was still cheapest to be found anywhere.

These ersatz Wal-Marts are to be flown back to the United States, where unsuspecting shoppers will buy Chinese products, thereby bankrolling a communist takeover of the solar system, Boulder included.

Well, I wasted no time in blasting my way out (thanks to the concealed firearm in my hat — kudos to Bob Glass!), climbed to the surface, and took the 7:06 train back to Earth. Please alert your readers to this awful government conspiracy.

Glenn Arndt/ Boulder May 16, 1996

Drop that tooter

What’s it been now? A little over two years since the Weekly made its appearance on the local scene? Long enough, one might say, for it to have begun to settle down somewhat. Undeniably, Boulder (particularly Boulder County) has long been in need of a paper which had the courage to probe into matters see LETTERS Page 10

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which, for whatever reasons, the other print media would not or could not tackle. And admittedly, the new kid on the block had to establish a place for itself, which the Weekly began to do almost at the outset. What could be disregarded even a year ago, namely, a carelessness with detail often coupled with shock-value judgments, is really no longer tolerable. The Weekly has a niche. It need no longer flog the “look ma, I’m dancin’” shtick. …

The point I wish to stress is that the Weekly readership, absent a tightening of standards of accuracy and thoroughness on the part of the editors, will continue to be ill-served at precisely the time when, if both Boulder city and county are not left in a shambles in the wake of the flood of colonization across the entire Front Range, hard-eyed, careful investigative journalism is sorely needed. Guys and gals, you’ve arrived. Now put away party hats, the tooters, the shock-buzzers and get to work.

John Sherman/via Internet May 29, 1997

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LETTERS from Page 9

Jan. 29, 1998

Zero population woes

(Re “Debunking the saints,” Wayne’s Word, Feb. 11) Thank you for having the cojones to employ a columnist who is willing to bust sacred cows.

I have four children. While some people may see our family as too large, they are missing the joy and responsibility that they are too myopic to understand. It’s interesting that most population freaks are childless, white, upperclass professionals or trustfunders.

As the former chair of the Sierra Club’s national environmental justice task force, I have studied international population issues. Wayne’s Word hit the nail on the head. Greed and distribution of resources are the problem, not children.

Again, thank you Boulder Weekly and Wayne Laugesen.

Brian Andreja/Boulder July 15, 1999

Check out our spiked collars

Caramba! The Rabid Chihuahua of Boulder’s newspaper biz is really yappin’ and pissin’ on pants legs this week ( July 8-14)! Father Wayne’s sermon is even more hysterical than usual. Government handouts just make him see red, unless they’re in aid of his preferred brand of institutionalized superstition, of course.

Also, BW makes a ferocious, if tiny, leap for the distant jugular of [Daily Camera columnist] Clint Talbott, this time around showing no mercy and actually spelling his name right. That musta’ hurt.

BW helps fill the dreary hours between issues of The Onion, keep it up! But watch out someone doesn’t take a rolledup newspaper to you.

Peter Aretin/via email June 15, 2000

Weenies, not weapons

I had to fight the urge to call Boulder High School myself when I read your article about BHS student Erin Fraser being suspended from school for simply wearing a T-shirt (Wayne’s Word, June 1-7). I am disgusted that my tax dollars are going to teachers who are more concerned with what a student is wearing than his safety or education. …

I think that Boulder High School owes this kid an apology. His suspension should be wiped off his record and Chris King should be properly reprimanded for his obviously hasty decision. And to the parents and students who are so easily offended by the word “weenie,” I say lighten up! It’s just a word. If you still want to complain, stuff your hole with an Oscar Meyer wiener and choke on it.

Kristin Black/via e-mail Jan. 25, 2001

Life in Hell

Let us dispense with the ass-kissing first. I have read your paper religiously for years now, and I really dig it, and never had a reason to go so far as to complain in writing. I don’t even like to write, and perhaps my anger stems from the fact that you are forcing me to write in order to correct a most disturbing situation that has appeared in your rag recently.

The disappearance of “Life in Hell” — no not mine, you morons — the beautifully sculpted, subtly hilarious and insightful comic by Matt Groening.

Now, instead of laughing at the small incongruities of life so artfully rendered in said comic, I’m stuck crying at the tripe you chose to replace it. Please, before you ruin another fragile day, put it Boulder Weekly

letters back in, you soulless jerks, and perhaps we can all be friends again. Those are all the big words I know and now I’m all upset at having to trot out these nasty insults. Thanks a lot, Boulder Weekly.

Concerned reader/via e-mail

voice of our community, when it could and should be much more. Stewart Sallo, are you even reading your own paper?

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May 30, 2002

Thank you so much for the Cemex article. You really did your homework and researched this topic from every angle. I am very grateful to you and the Watchdogs, as I am a Cemex neighbor who has been impacted by the Cemex

Wayne’s right, idiots

The reason I read Boulder Weekly is the refreshment I find in non-mainstream media — a paper unafraid to publish an un-coated pill of reality or opinions that are entirely unpopular. Actually, I shouldn’t say that I read the Weekly, since most weeks I skip to straight to Wayne’s Word and then glance at Panorama for what’s going on that weekend.

In the two years that I’ve been reading Wayne’s column, I have disagreed with him twice. He challenges everything that Boulderites hold dear and gives them reasons to actually think — not that they do. I have never in my life encountered such hypocrisy as I’ve found living amongst the population of Boulder — yes, Boulder, where our shit doesn’t stink and the trash receptacles in the park overflow with little plastic bags of biodegradable material because someone doesn’t want to see it until the next time it precipitates. Or worse yet, get some on the rubber outsole of his shoe! Nowhere else have I seen such a pastime of sniveling! The bleeding hearts failed to see the message in Wayne’s Word: We took the habitat of the prairie dog for our own. …

Jamie Black/Boulder

Dec. 4, 2003

Cemex dust clouds

dust clouds for seven years. The kiln dust corroded and ruined the paint job on my Saturn sedan. I can only imagine what it is doing to my lungs and to those who are even more vulnerable than I. Thank you, Pamela, for your incredible commitment to serving the residents of Boulder County.

Kristin Powell/via Internet Dec. 2, 2004

Sanctimonious hypocrite

Hey, Wayne, glad to see you’re back,

you sanctimonious hypocrite. I agree with Pamela too often, never get excited enough to write. But your little diatribe about people who consider Republicans idiots misses the point about why smart people really detest you. Do a search on your handy computer for pictures and information about the casualties in Iraq, if you have the courage. See the picture of the little girl with her legs blown off? The little boy with his brain blown out? On and on, ad nauseum it goes. Let’s get see LETTERS Page 12

Aug. 1, 2002

Fire Wayne

Why does Boulder Weekly insist on printing “Speaking Out” columns from Libertarian loonies like Duncan Philp?

Philp ranted on about his arrest for carrying a gun in Denver, even though he had no permit to carry one (“Suck a donut, pig,” Speaking Out, July 18). ...

Can’t Boulder Weekly actually pay good writers and not rely on hogwash from misfits like Philp? Next to Philp’s column was another dumb right-wing manifesto

by Wayne Laugesen, about Rollie Heath’s reasonable proposal to raise cigarette taxes to help fund a health-insurance plan for Coloradoans. Laugesen quotes David Kopel, an Independence Institute hack, to decry Heath’s proposal.

When is Boulder Weekly going to get a real editor, one who’s not a right-wing, ex-Soldier of Fortune flunky like Laugesen? Laugesen writes his drivel week after week, promoting his reactionary agenda that supports conservative Catholicism, while ridiculing everything from family planning to recycling. You’re so out of touch with mainstream Boulder, Wayne, you’re pathetic. Meanwhile, Boulder Weekly grinds on as an erratic Boulder Weekly

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LETTERS from Page 11

clear on this, Wayne. There was no legitimate reason to attack Iraq; Shrub did it in order to sell himself as a “great president.”

If abortion is murder, then so is bombing civilians, particularly the citizens of a country that has not attacked us.

Why is it so hard for you jingoist slobs to understand this? Is it really legitimate to consider abortion as the only issue worth your concern? Is it OK to kill Iraqi children because they’re already born? And dark-haired and Muslim? I imagine if those kids were Catholics you’d be singing a different tune, wouldn’t you, you morally superior thug? Anyway, hugs and kisses to you and your hypocritical friends. And be sure to write. It confirms my opinion of people like you.

Joe Huggins/Boulder March 31, 2005

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(Re: “Putting the kind in kindbud,” News, March 24.) I had to take a minute to write to thank you for the article you wrote about the cannabis club. I lost my mother just months ago, and I, too, now see the awful mistake this country has made in its continuation of the so-called “War on Drugs.” I firmly believe she would have had a better end to her life if she had been given the option to use cannabis as an alternative to the morphine she was given to suppress her pain.

The morphine left her in a total stupor, which kept her from communicating with her loved ones and even her caregivers.

You are a true saint among men for seeing well beyond the “fog of war” in this “Drug War,” in that there truly is a benefit to cannabis use for some people. …

Thank you again for your most excellent work in this area and for your courage to publish the truth about one of the most useful plants known to humanity.

David Jones/via Internet Sept. 21, 2006

Prairie rats

I think the group of rat-kissing wingnuts who call themselves “Keep Boulder Wild” could more accurately be called “Keep Boulder Infested.” An obnoxious, disease-carrying pest with a population three or four times the carrying capacity of the land it overruns doesn’t have much to do with wildness. I recently found that they’ve dug under the fence surrounding the Superior Cemetery; after all, what’s a fence to a prairie rat? Not many people know where the Superior Cemetery is, but for those of us who do, the idea of prairie rats digging into Grandpa’s grave is one more reason to kill as many of the nasty little bleepers as possible.

Anthony Lee/Lafayette Feb. 1, 2007

Remembering AIDS

(Re: “AIDS: 25 years in Boulder County,” cover story, Nov. 30.) President Bush mentioned the worldwide AIDS epidemic last night in his speech, in particular the United States’ contributions to fight it in Africa. I was pleased to hear him speak of it and hope more effort will be put forth by all wealthy countries to fight AIDS. Pamela White’s series of articles on AIDS brought back to me the memories of my early involvement in fighting this then-new and very feared epidemic. As an infection control nurse at a rural comBoulder Weekly

letters munity hospital, it fell on me to educate the hospital staff and the schools in smaller outlying communities. …

I traveled to mountain communities with a box of condoms, a banana, a video and educational handouts to teach the older children. Of course, there was the expected snickering and blushing, but it seemed to me that the kids were interested, and I can only hope I made a difference.

Pamela’s articles, which were so sensitively and thoughtfully written, brought this all back to me. She has a gift for finding the humanity of mankind. The Boulder community is to be congratulated, as well, for its continued work on AIDS. Thank you, Pamela, and keep up the good journalism.

Mary Roderick/via Internet

I hope the law is changed. It should be written in such a way as to require shackling a woman in labor only if she’s violent and poses a risk to the medical staff. Thank you, Ms. White, for another of your interesting and informative articles.

Karen Graffenberger/Boulder Dec. 22, 2011

GMO shenanigans

[“Behind the GMO curtain,” Cover story, Dec. 15.] Thank you, thank you, thank you, Boulder Weekly, for the bang-

up job of cracking this vastly important story, and bringing it into the light of public scrutiny. …

After reading this story, I’m afraid the Farm Bureau’s support of GM crops is sadly misplaced, by putting their own short-term economic gain above the long-term health of the larger ecology; and thus putting them at odds with the citizens of Boulder County, who are quite willing to take them on in political battle.

As stewards of the land, these farm-

ers need to take their responsibility to the land more seriously, instead of acting like loyal lapdogs to the big ag corporations that are pulling at their emotional and economical heartstrings.

For if they were to closely examine the scientific data, and the evidence from the experience of their agricultural brethren, the organic farming community, I think they would be forced to admit their position on GM crops is wrong. see LETTERS Page 14

Feb. 14, 2008

The spirit of organic

(Re: “The spirit of organic,” cover story, Feb. 7.) I would like to thank Jake Whitney and the Boulder Weekly for the piece about organic milk. It was wellwritten, researched and informative. My thanks is broader than for just this one article, but for the reminder of what journalism can look like in these dark days of corporate infomercial-style non-news that is both insulting and anti-democratic (in that democracy can only survive if the populace is informed). After reading the article, I felt I had learned something that affects me and anyone trying to be a conscious consumer. Isn’t that the point of journalism, whether it is milk or a shrink-wrapped politician? Thanks again.

John Martini/via Internet

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Sept. 17, 2009

Thoughtful coverage

(Re: “Dying to be thin,” cover story, Sept. 3.) Thanks for the thoughtful coverage of eating disorders. Dana Logan did a great job of addressing this terrible problem. So many girls and women waste years punishing their bodies rather than addressing their emotional and physical needs. And many thanks to Paige Doughty for being courageous enough to share her journey to health with the public. One day, perhaps, our culture will focus on nourishment and health both mental and physical rather than weight and appearance.

Michelle Brown/via Internet March 4, 2010

Shackling is inhumane

Pamela White’s article “Pregnant in Prison” moved me to tears (cover story, Feb. 18). Having a wrist or ankle of a woman in labor shackled is shocking and inhumane.

Only people who have never given birth would think such a thing is OK. …

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I’ve worked on issues related to Valmont Butte going on a decade now. Boulder Weekly — its staff — has been a beacon of journalistic light and illumination on a topic for which local governments and the local “mainstream” media have had no real intellectual curiosity or, for that matter, integrity. The prevailing sentiment has seemed to be — if it takes more than the attention span of a TV commercial, we really are not interested in it, or willing to do anything about it. Not so with the Weekly staff. Congratulations on your 20th anniversary, and here’s to many more decades of principled journalism.

Steve Moore, Native American Rights Fund/Boulder

LETTERS from Page 13

I applaud the community service that Boulder Weekly has done by allowing an open public debate on this critical issue.

Rick Casey/via Internet Aug. 9, 2012

Danish on another planet

I fail to understand how you can allow and possibly even pay someone like Paul Danish to state opinions as if they are facts.

I am not sure what planet he is on, but it is certainly different than the rest of us. …

I will not accept turning over a world to my grandchildren that is a desert due to billions of gallons of water permanently removed from the hydrologic cycle permanently by fracking. Put the fracking money into solar and wind energy, and I guarantee there will be plenty of jobs. And they will be jobs that will still exist in 25 years, unlike those that will be gone as soon as we run out of oil.

But then, in Mr. Danish’s universe, maybe gas and oil are as infinite as his ignorance. In my universe those things are finite. Give me a fracking break here.

Mr. Danish has about as much intelligence as his namesake pastry.

Jim Wilson/Boulder Aug. 9, 2012

Thanks for Longmont piece

I am writing in response to your article “State of Colorado bullies Longmont ...” (commentary, Aug. 2).

I literally shed tears reading this article. I could not possibly, no matter how I tried, more accurately summarize my thoughts and feelings about what is happening in Longmont. …

If I have to hear about how Colorado has the most transparent and rigorous guidelines for drilling in the country, I will scream. And I’m sure that all of the out-of-work software engineers in town can’t wait to snatch up all the jobs provided by O&G out on the oil rigs.

Sorry, I digress, and I’m preaching to the choir. But your voice and ability to call out the bullshit publicly has made me feel ready to take on the next level of the fight that we’ve found ourselves in.

It’s so worth it.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Lindsay Gahn/via Internet 14 January 30, 2014

Joel [Dyer], if I had you right here with me, I would give you the biggest kiss and hug of your life. (Excuse me if you have a wife!)

The Longmont community owes you a debt of gratitude for the article. And Gore Vidal is smiling on you right now, saying, “Pretty good job, kiddo”!

I thank you for the clarity you bring to the issues, and together “we can/will change the outcome.”

Gerri Bradford/Longmont Oct. 25, 2012

Useful vote guide

(Re: “Vote 2012,” cover story, Oct. 4.)

You have finally made yourself useful by publishing your Vote Guide 2012. Now I know to vote the exact opposite way on every issue and candidate you socialists have endorsed.

Thanks!

John Wilson/Boulder March 15, 2012

Valmont series is great

(Re: “The Ghosts of Valmont Butte” series.) That is the best local reporting on any topic that I’ve seen in years. I hope you’re submitting the series to the Pulitzer judges because it’s that good. Thank you for your service to the community.

I can’t fathom why the Camera and Post haven’t picked up on your story!

Thank you.

Gail Promboin/via Internet Dec. 12, 2013

Greenwashing, revisited

[Re: “Hickenlooper’s new oil and gas regulations: Real substance or fracking greenwash?” Cover story, Nov. 28.] Thanks for the great article on Hickenlooper’s new fracking regs. You put it all together. In my limited time, I did similar but far less extensive research as you, reading the regs, thinking about enforcement, examining the process by which the draft was developed and looking at EDF’s money trail.

I came up with similar though far less detailed observations. Unfortunately, your article was very helpful in confirming what I suspected. You and Jeff do a fabulous job bringing the facts to bear on important issues — a thousand times better job than the Post and 10 thousand times better than the Camera.

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letters The BW shows why traditional investigative local journalism is necessary and relevant. Their articles are well researched, quotes are provocative and even the letters to the editor add robust insight into the pulse of the activist community. Savvy residents know this is the paper to read.

Dan Powers, interim executive director, Boulder Tomorrow The Boulder Weekly has never forgotten about giving a voice to the voiceless. With the Weekly’s advocacy on homelessness and disability issues, I am even more fired up to fight for the people without powerful lobbies at the Capitol.

Your “Penny wise” article [cover story, March 29, 2012] helped me better articulate the moral and economic imperative to do the right thing for our homeless residents with disabilities. Mr. Celias got his housing not long after the article was published, and the state wait list for serving people with disabilities is now rapidly shrinking. Keep reporting and I’ll keep fighting.

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or years, barely a week goes by that we don’t get a letter lambasting long-time columnist Paul Danish. While a lot of people want to rip Danish a new one, we’re sensitive to the fact that not everyone is a great letter writer, and that there are readers out there who take issue with Danish’s views, but struggle to put their objections down clearly.

To that end, we took a general cross-section of letters we have received regarding Danish over the years and boiled them down to a general structure that non-writers can easily use to voice their disapproval with whatever Danish may say. Just fill in the blank fields with the relevant information and you, too, can rip Danish a new one in just a matter of minutes.

Readers, meet the Paul Danish letter Mad Lib. Dear Boulder Weekly, The latest column by ADJECTIVE Paul Danish about STORY SUBJECT could not be more STATUS. It truly establishes Danish as a first-rate ANIMAL BODY PART. If I wanted to hear from CABLE NEWS TALK SHOW HOST, I’d watch their show instead of reading it in your FISH wrapper from a thirdrate MOVIE VILLAIN. Anyone with FRACTION a INTERNAL ORGAN knows that ELITE EAST COAST LIBERAL MAGAZINE just last month published a study from ELITE EAST COAST LIBERAL UNIVERSITY showing the position Danish was arguing for is false, and is just being pushed by RIGHT WING BOOGIEMAN to protect the interBoulder Weekly

ests of GIANT EVIL CORPORATION A and GIANT EVIL CORPORATION B, as part of their collective war on BUREAUCRATIC PROCESS. Of course it’s possible that the TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY views espoused in this literary MEDICAL PROCEDURE were not legitimate, but simply Danish’s attempt to rile up the ADJECTIVE citizens of Boulder, as he’s been doing since HISTORICAL EVENT. But if history is any guide, his LUNCH MEAT-fisted approach to serious and sensitive issues like RECENT TRAGIC EVENT is all too sincere. If he had his way, Danish would probably have all the PLURAL NOUNS VERB and do away with JOB TITLE altogether like a true NAUTICALLY THEMED SOCIAL SLUR. I actually pick up the paper every week hoping Danish will have come to his senses, but I now realize that will happen around the same time that CONFEDERATE TERRITORY freezes over. Until then, his column will continue to serve its role lining the cage for my EXOTIC PET, Cuddles, who seems to delight in leaving his WASTE PRODUCT on Danish’s words, as much as Danish seems to enjoy using those words to CHEMICAL PROCESS on Boulder’s SOCIAL GROUP. Sincerely, YOUR NAME, GRANDIOSE TERM FOR YOUR JOB OR THE FACT THAT YOU PAID TAXES LAST YEAR — by Josh Gross Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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I am grateful for the in-depth approach that the Boulder Weekly takes in presenting issues that are important to our community. They begin with a fresh set of questions, which can result in surprising conclusions. Independent media, like the Weekly, is important in expanding the often narrow breadth of opinion that is presented in conventional media. And the BW digital version is clear and easy to use. It’s like having the paper in your hands.

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In those first four years, we broke environmental stories that caused major corporations to spend millions to clean up the contamination they had released into the environment. We were the first paper to print the contents of the previously secret Scientology papers. We beat the New York Times and Washington Post by nearly a week.

In addition, within 24 hours of the Oklahoma City bombing, BW became the first news source in the country to link the terrorist attack to the anti-government movement while also explaining that the bombing had been done in response to the federal government’s handling of its earlier standoff with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.

That story resulted in the national media and the FBI descending on our offices. It wouldn’t be the last time that would happen.

In those first years, we sent then-BW news editor Greg Campbell to Bosnia to cover the war because we knew that it was something that our readers were deeply concerned about. We also ran a series of exclusive interviews with fugitive Richard Keyes while he was on the lam and on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.

That was the first story to land BW on the morning shows, Good Morning America and Today. It wouldn’t be the last.

We wrote a six-part series that led to the permanent shutdown of a private prison in Texas that was holding Colorado inmates. There were many other stories during those early days that made a real difference locally and sometimes nationally.

Eventually I wrote a BW article titled “Harvest of rage.” It was the result of having spent months researching and living among anti-government activists around the country. It was that article that ultimately became my first book of the same name.

In my first four years here, we broke stories that put the Weekly on 60 Minutes, 48 Hours, Nightline, Today, Good Morning America, Fox News and the ABC, NBC and CBS nightly newscasts. Not bad for a small weekly paper in Boulder, Colo.

Where else could any of us at the Weekly, at that time, done such work? I suspect the answer is “nowhere else.”

I have lived a charmed journalistic

life, call it grace. After I left the Weekly I had the privilege of writing more nonfiction books. My work has appeared in many national publications, such as New York Times Sunday Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Mother Jones, Vanity Fair and others.

I’ve been subpoenaed to testify as an expert before a Senate subcommittee on domestic terrorism. I’ve been brought to New York to work on solutions to our broken criminal justice system by George Soros. For four years I was the head writer for and frequent talking head on the Editors, Canada’s version of Meet the Press hosted by Dateline’s NBC’s Keith Morrison. I’ve written a screenplay with actor/activist/author Peter Coyote, and I’ve had the privilege to work with Gore Vidal on several projects over the years. I published my own paper in Fort Collins and sold it at the right time. I’ve been fortunate, to say the least.

But I truly believe that my career would not have been possible had I not accepted Leland’s invitation to join the Weekly 20 years ago. Which is to say that I owe a good deal to the Weekly’s founder and publisher Stewart Sallo, who has always, for some unexplained reason, supported me in whatever journalistic venture I cooked up. And not once has he ever failed to stand behind one of BW’s stories, even when it would have been easier for him personally not to do so.

In my world, that’s as good as it gets.

And I think that explains the success of this newspaper.

I became BW’s editor for the second time in 2011 because I wanted to get back to doing long-form journalism where I lived and because I was excited by the opportunity of working with journalists Jeff Dodge, Elizabeth Miller and David Accomazzo.

Leland’s original promise of having fun still holds true, even after 20 years.

But more importantly, where else can I do this kind of local journalism?

So I’d like to humbly say thanks to Boulder Weekly and to all my friends and current and former BW colleagues who helped shape my work and my life so many years ago: Leland Rucker, Kathy Kaiser, Greg Campbell, Wayne Laugesen and Stewart Sallo.

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BW’s first editor reflects on past two decades

by Leland Rucker

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t was a little more than 20 years ago that I accepted the position as first editor of Boulder Weekly.

Sometimes that feels like a long time ago. Other times, like yes-

terday.

We set up shop on the Pearl Street Mall, and I hired Kathy Kaiser as managing editor almost immediately. We had each worked at the daily papers and knew there were plenty of local stories beyond what they were offering, and the chance to do in-depth features and lots of entertainment coverage that focused exclusively on Boulder was really exciting.

Our next hire was a staff photographer, and it would be our most significant; Joel Dyer is, of course, the graying curmudgeon who serves as editor today, and I’m proud to have had a part in that.

About two months later, in August of 1993, we published the first issue with a comprehensive cover story about real estate prices.

The newspaper landscape here was already in flux. When I arrived in Boulder in 1983, there was only the Daily Camera, the Colorado Daily and its weekly adjunct, Audience. I worked first at Audience, then moved to the Daily after Audience folded in 1986. The Onion came to town in the early ’90s, the first publication seeking the same college advertising market as the Daily. When the Weekly moved in, there was already plenty of competition for ad dollars. For awhile, there was the Boulder Courant, another weekly paper.

After I left the Weekly in 1994 to become managing editor of Blues Access, I followed the paper regularly through its ups and downs as it went through a

series of editors, all with their own ideas about what an alternative weekly should offer. Joel’s first stint as editor was one of the most interesting, as he and Greg Campbell covered the fringe-right element in the Midwest, which led to Dyer’s fine Harvest of Rage book.

I followed sporadically in the early 2000s, as Pamela White brought the paper back to its roots. After Dyer returned, with Jeff Dodge serving as managing editor, I really began paying attention again, as new stories came to light — inquiries into city council transparency rules, the lengthy series on the history of the city and the tortured Valmont Butte property, and another about city staff attempts to hide contamination known to be beneath the Dushanbe Teahouse from council, which is now costing the city money to rehabilitate.

In December 2012, after Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Amendment 64 into law, I decided to cover the first state roll-out of legal cannabis in the world, a topic of particular fascination to me.

Several people suggested I contact the Denver Post, but it was an easy decision to go to Joel and Jeff and Stewart with the idea, and I’m glad I did. I’m now a proud contributor to a paper that, quite honestly, I never thought would last this long.

I had coffee with Kathy recently, and we concluded that the Weekly today is much as we had imagined it back when it began. Given the enormous changes the newspaper business has endured over the last 20 years, that’s a hell of an accomplishment.

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In other words, when making predictions for what’s going to happen 20 years in the future, it doesn’t hurt to swing for the bleachers from time to time.

So here goes: The biggest and most noticeable change in Boulder in 2034 will be that most of the cars and trucks on the streets will drive themselves.

The advent of self-driving vehicles will change life as profoundly as the arrival of the automobile itself did 120 years ago — and it will do it a lot faster.

Self-driving cars and trucks will allow Boulder streets to accommodate twice as many cars than they do now.

Cars will be able to talk to each other and get real-time traffic information from the Internet, so there will be a lot less congestion even if the number of cars in the city increases. Traffic will move so efficiently that road widening will be replaced by road narrowing.

Streets in residential neighborhoods will be able to dispense with stop signs, because the vehicles will be able to let each other know where they are; alert each other to road hazards like bikes, raccoons, prairie dogs and children; and synchronize their moves accordingly.

Traffic lights will be removed from all but the busiest intersections.

Neighborhood associations and NIMBYs will be horrified by the prospect of driverless cars roaming their streets, of course, and Boulder Weekly will be full of anguished letters-to-the-editor. The paper will investigate and discover that Big Auto (Big Oil’s evil twin) was making money selling self-driving cars to people.

Attempts will be made to ban “franken-cars,” but these will be thrown under the bus — assuming anybody can still find one — because the early adapters of self-driving cars will be geezers who will see them as a way of preserving their autonomy and independence.

In this, they will be joined by their adult children, who will see self-driving cars as a way of preserving their parents’ autonomy and independence and not having to drive them everywhere.

The Soccer Car will replace the Soccer Mom. Drunks will see self-driving cars as a way of getting home without a detour through the criminal justice system.

There will be less demand for parking. After a self-driving car owner has been driven to work, he or she can send the car home until quitting time.

People dashing into coffee shops, drug stores, liquor stores, pot shops or banks will tell their cars to drive around the block until they’re done.

Restaurants’ take-out business will

explode.

There will be a lot fewer healthy lifestyle accidents between cars and bicyclists and joggers. There will also be a lot fewer flattened prairie dogs, leading to a further population explosion.

There will be calls to cull the colonies by re-programming the cars.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of driverless taxis will appear on Boulder streets. People will be able to hail a cab and get one within seconds. Some car owners will let cab companies use their cars as “reserve cabs” during peak traffic periods for a fee. Getting around Boulder without owning a car (or wearing Spandex) will become a real option.

Auto-makers could finally add television and computers to in-car entertainment systems. The digital edition of Boulder Weekly will be available free on screen.

Commuting will cease to be a burden and will become a source of valuable personal (and private) time. The porn business will prick up its ears.

Many CU students will abandon dorm life for commutes from Denver or even Colorado Springs because the daily commute will give them extra time to play the educational computer games that are rapidly replacing college textbooks, (like the introductory biology game “Call of Duty: Biowar,” where players learn the fundamentals of genetics, molecular biology and epidemiology by designing and militarizing their own pathogens and antidotes.)

Boulder traffic will make a lot less noise than it does now, because most of the cars and light trucks on the streets will be electrics. This will not be because of any government program or subsidy, but because multiple advances in battery performance, some dating back 20 years, will have been commercialized and will make it possible for electric vehicles to compete with gasoline-powered ones on the basis of performance and price.

Related advances in battery performance will make it possible to rely on wind and solar energy for base-load electricity. Boulder Weekly will be covering the ongoing debate over whether wind turbines and solar arrays should be deployed on city and county open space.

The city council will be anguishing over whether windmills and solar panels can co-exist with prairie dogs, eagles, jumping mice and NIMBYs, or whether the city utility, which has been making out like a bandit by selling electricity to electric car owners, should add additional gas turbine generating capacity, fueled by natural gas from horizontal, fracked wells drilled under Boulder open space.

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Killing Amendment 2

by Dave Anderson

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n 1993, the year of Boulder Weekly’s birth, an uproar began over Colorado voters’ passage of Amendment 2, which banned any laws protecting gays from discrimination. The cities of Boulder, Denver and Aspen had passed such laws.

Within days, Colorado would be the “Hate State,” and a national boycott followed. Many thousands of protesters marched in the Denver streets and held candlelight vigils at the state Capitol as well as city halls across the state. Gov. Roy Romer and Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, both opponents of the amendment, joined the protest.

In February, Colorado for Family Values (CFV) — the organization that led the campaign to pass Amendment 2 — held a rally in Boulder at the Bethany Baptist Church celebrating the amendment’s passage.

According to the Colorado Daily, it drew a crowd of about 500 people who were evenly divided between supporters and opponents of the amendment. They “hurled jeers and accusations at each other.”

University of Colorado football coach Bill McCartney supported CFV and was the founder of Promise Keepers, which was a national group of Christian men who were reasserting their “rightful” roles as family leaders. In the summer, more than 50,000 Promise Keepers gathered in the CU football stadium.

CFV was based in Colorado Springs, which had become a mecca for the religious right. Matt Smith wrote in a 1992 National Catholic Reporter article: “Since 1980, 30 parachurch groups — evangelical groups not tied to established churches — have set up headquarters here and together generate an estimated annual income of more than $300 million with a 2,200-employee payroll.”

The leader of this new evangelical wave was psychologist James Dobson, who was the founder of Focus on the Family, the city’s largest parachurch group. It has a four-building, 47-acre complex with its own ZIP code.

Today, the Christian right is still around, but gays have become a “normal” interest group. In 1996, Amendment 2 was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court. Jim Daly, the current head of Focus on the Family, has said that “we’ve lost” on gay marriage. Indeed, polls since 2010 show that a majority of Americans support the legal recognition Boulder Weekly

of gay marriage.

It has been a long and strange trip. In Boulder, gay rights helped establish the city’s reputation as the “People’s Republic.” It all started in 1971, when 18- to 20-year-olds got the vote. A Denver Post article about the November election was entitled, “Youth Scores Major Upset in Boulder”: “The kids of the university and the street turned Boulder politics upside down in an unprecendented city election Tuesday.

Swarming to the polls by the thousands in precincts around the University of Colorado, young voters elected two of their own to the Boulder City Council — a 28-year-old bookshop owner (Tim Fuller) and a 26-year-old CU doctoral candidate (Karen Paget). Their votes pretty clearly pushed a black attorney and human relations specialist (Pen Tate) … to the top of the list.”

Tate would become the first black mayor in state history. He’d introduce a measure prohibiting employers from firing or refusing to hire gays.

A raging four-month debate ensued.

The Camera editorialized that the law was immoral and might encourage childmolesting in city recreation programs.

At the final public hearings, 400 people attended. The specters of Satan and pornography were invoked, and one woman claimed that the law would transform Boulder into “LesbianHomoville.” The council voted 5-4 for the law, but under pressure they decided to put the measure on the ballot. It lost, 13,107 votes to 7,438.

The right-wing activists weren’t finished. They decided to recall Tate and Fuller. Tate survived by 567 votes, but Fuller was recalled. However, Tate lost a re-election bid in the following year.

In 1987, the gay rights measure was on the ballot again (with an added prohibition against discrimination in accomodations) and it won by a 3-to-1 margin.

Fuller left Boulder. He was gay, but only his closest friends knew. He would continue as a progressive activist, heading up the Missouri Democratic Party, the National Campaign to End Hunger and Homelessness and the Gray Panthers.

The successes of the gay movement should cheer up all progressives.

Just keep fighting.

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Boulder Weekly is a good combination of community connections and independent reporting. The commitment you bring to every story, including those frequently not covered elsewhere, is very necessary to Boulder.

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tion? t sounds trite to say, SS: During that visit I but it’s astonishing how fast 20 years can spent hours and hours poring fly by. And while over the newspaper archives we’re issuing platiin the Carnegie Branch tudes, never has it been truer Library for Local History on for me that time flies while Pine Street. They literally had you’re having fun. The last 20 a copy of every periodical years have been a gas, gas, gas, that had ever been published with no two days even in Boulder. I was suspicious remotely resembling each as to why there wasn’t a other, overflowing with more weekly in Boulder, and I was rich experiences than I could curious about the other have possibly imagined on the efforts to start one and why day I packed everything that they had failed. What I disdidn’t fit on the moving truck, covered was that not one of along with my two dogs, into This photo of the Pacific Garden Mall was taken two minutes after the Loma Prieta earthquake, which prompted BW them was modeled after the founder Stewart Sallo to consider leaving Santa Cruz, Calif., to start a newspaper elsewhere. He chose Boulder. my silver Honda Accord and “alternative weekly” concept set sail for my soon-to-be new that began with the New home in Boulder, Colo.

York Village Voice and that was sweeping the nation, Reflecting back on the including such notable titles Californian who rolled into as LA Weekly, Chicago Reader, town on Arapahoe Avenue on a wintry November day in the Phoenix New Times, San year 1992 as 18 inches of Francisco Bay Guardian and, snow fell, it feels like there are of course, Denver’s Westword. literally two of me: the crazy After visiting Boulder I guy who walked away from was possessed. I knew in three acres of mountaintop every bone in my body that I summer monthly that reached the large num- had to go to Boulder and start the Boulder property in the Redwood forests of Santa Earthquake,” because it occurred right before ber of tourists that visited Santa Cruz during Cruz and risked everything to start the Weekly, and I spent the ensuing two-and-aGame 3 of the World Series between the San the summer months. I also started an adverBoulder Weekly, and the seasoned veteran of half years getting to Boulder — which Francisco Giants and the Oakland A’s, but tising agency and had a number of good clithe epicenter was in the Santa Cruz more than a thousand editions who runs a required selling my business and my house in ents. The operation was then called Santa Mountains at the Forest of Nisene Marks professional media organization that has a market that was depressed, due to the earthState Park, which is very close to Loma Prieta Cruz Advertising & Design. become a fundamental component of the quake — and another nine months creating a Then the earthquake hit. The entire Peak, the highest point in the Santa Cruz Boulder community over the course of two business plan, hiring staff, renting office space, downtown — the Pacific Garden Mall — Mountains. decades. lining up financing and preparing to publish was devastated. Just imagine what would hap- the premiere edition on Aug. 19, 1993.

After graduating from University of In a true “Back to the Future” moment, pen to the local economy if an earthquake hit California, Santa Cruz with a degree in sociBW: You said there were two “main and on the occasion of Boulder Weekly’s 20th Boulder and 80 percent of the Pearl Street ology, I got my first job in advertising at a events” that led to the existence of Boulder anniversary, I’ve journeyed back in time to Mall was destroyed.

Business was down, and now-defunct weekly paper called the Santa Weekly, and that both were “calamities.” The come face to face with myself 20 years ago my first wife, Susan, and I started thinking Cruz Express, selling ad space. (Laughs). The first was the earthquake. What was the secand ask that guy from Santa Cruz, Calif., about the possibility of relocating. We made a first ad I sold was for $20, which netted me a ond? what the hell he was thinking when he startlist of places we would like to live and, having commission of $4.

That was in May of 1981.

SS: Right. Well, the second was my ed the Boulder Weekly and how he feels about visited and loved Boulder in 1979 and 1980, I Just a few months later I was met with the divorce.

My marriage did not survive the the way the whole thing turned out. added Boulder to the list, and we sent away opportunity to purchase a quarterly publicamove to Boulder, and despite my wife and I for more information from the chambers of tion called Student Guide that was still in its having shared the intention of moving to Boulder Weekly: The first and most commerce in these various places.

When the infancy, and although I had no clue about Boulder to start Boulder Weekly together, we obvious question is: How did the Boulder package from Boulder arrived, Susan was running a business, let alone newspapering, I wound up divorcing shortly after moving Weekly come to exist? reading through it and noticed a list of local scraped together $10,000 — most of which I here, and I was faced with the prospect of Stewart Sallo: Well, that’s a really big media.

“How weird,” she commented, “they had received in a settlement from a car acciabandoning the project or going it alone. question. There were so many things that led don’t have their weekly listed here.

Maybe dent the previous winter (so, now that I think Obviously, I chose the latter. to the birth of Boulder Weekly, but there are they don’t have a weekly.” of it, Boulder Weekly was the result of three really two main events from my life — both Experiences like earthquakes and divorces “No, they must have a weekly,” I replied. calamities) — and bought this tiny business calamities that were completely independent, serve to define us and direct us toward our “A cool, progressive town with a university called Santa Cruz Advertising. yet inexorably connected — that created the destinies. The earthquake led me to Boulder, must have a weekly.” It turned out there was Over the course of the next seven-and-aperfect storm through which Boulder Weekly and my divorce supplied the added drive and no weekly paper in Boulder, Colo.! So, in the half years I worked tirelessly building the was born. determination that was needed to succeed business. Student Guide grew enormously — it spring of 1990 we visited Boulder to decide if The first was the Loma Prieta earthagainst long odds with the Boulder Weekly. So, we wanted to move here and start a weekly was 20 pages when I took over and reached quake, which occurred on Oct. 17, 1989. The in a very real sense Boulder Weekly was the paper.

100 pages by 1988 — and in 1984 I started earthquake is commonly referred to and Phoenix that rose from the ashes of the Loma BW: How did you make that determinaanother publication, Summer Santa Cruz, a remembered as the “World Series Prieta earthquake and my divorce.

Traveling back in time to talk to myself

An interview with Boulder Weekly founder Stewart Sallo

by Stewart Sallo

20 January 30, 2014

Boulder Weekly

BW: What was the start-up like and how long did it take before the paper was profitable?

SS: When I think back on all the challenges I have faced over the course of Boulder Weekly’s 20 years, there is nothing that even comes close to the start-up period. As confident as I was in the Boulder Weekly concept and as well-positioned as I was with 10 years of success under my belt as a publisher, there is nothing that can prepare you for the marathon of starting a business as ambitious as a weekly paper. Nothing.

From an economic perspective, I can’t even fathom how we survived it. We were spending $10,000 or more a week and bringing in revenue of as little as $2,000. Having just gone through a divorce — which, it turns out, isn’t the best way to establish financial security — it didn’t take long before I had run out of money. There wasn’t one bank that would even talk to me, so I wound up borrowing money from my family and a private investor to keep the Boulder Weekly ship afloat long enough to reach profitability. My parents, Jerry and Jane Sallo, were enormously supportive and demonstrated an unwavering belief in me that ignored the very risky nature of the project. They supplied a good portion of the “seed money” for Boulder Weekly and were not paid back until many years later.

Perhaps more importantly, my dad, who has had a very successful career in the business world himself, was tremendously helpful to me as I was crafting and continually revising my business plans. Boulder Weekly probably would not have survived without the support and encouragement I received from my family.

While all of that was going on, the Boulder business community was very slow to warm up to Boulder Weekly. One thing I miscalculated was how conservative the local business community is. Or, put another way, how reluctant to try something new local business owners would be. Santa Cruz and Boulder have a long list of similarities, but this isn’t one of them. My experience in Santa Cruz was that local business owners were anxious to have a new way to promote their business. I figured Boulder would be the same, but that wasn’t the case. There was a very stubborn “show me” mentality. In fact, one business owner literally said to me, “This has been tried before and it has never worked.

Come back and see me in a year if you’re still in business.”

BW: That must have been discouraging.

SS: Yes, the first year or two were pretty tough. We had to keep expenses as low as possible, so we had a small staff of very dedicated people. In fact, they were so dedicated that they all brought their own computers to the office so that the company didn’t have to spend as much money on computers. And, of course, they all worked for a pittance, because they believed so much in the Boulder Weekly mission. That’s one thing that has never changed: The Boulder Weekly is about changing the world, not about making money, and it attracts people who share that priority.

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To answer your question about profitability, on May 10 of 1994 we published our first profitable edition. We partnered with Fey Productions, which was the area’s leading concert promoter at that time, and published a “Summer of Stars” special section inside the paper that generated enough advertising revenue to earn a small profit. Of course, the next week we were back to writing “red ink,” but that one week was glorious, and it served to buoy our spirits by demonstrating that it was possible for the Boulder Weekly to make money.

BW: Where was your office at the time of the start-up?

SS: That’s a good question and it brings up one of the best stories of Boulder Weekly’s early years. In the spring of 1993 I began looking for office space after spending the first six months or so working out of my home. I felt it was important to be located downtown, and found a space right on the Pearl Street Mall at 1320. It was great being downtown but the rent was expensive and parking was an issue, of course. But we had a multi-year lease — I believe it was for five years — so we were stuck. In the fall of 1994, about 18 months into our lease, the landlord called and said that another tenant in the building was growing and wanted to expand into our space. Would we be willing to break our lease and move out early? I said, “I’m listening.” After consulting with the tenant, I was told that they would give us $5,000 to move. I sensed that there was more money than that in play, so I prepared a worst-case scenario of how much it was going to cost Boulder Weekly to relocate, and the figure was $35,000, which I presented as the minimum we could accept, and we got it!

That money was a godsend at a time when we were barely scraping by, and we began searching for a new office space. On Nov. 1, 1994 we moved into our current office building at 690 South Lashley, and we have been there ever since. Going “back to the future” for a minute, after being a tenant on Lashley for 14 years we were able to purchase the property in the spring of 2008 and plan to own the property free and clear within a few years. I would add that this event was doubly significant at the time, as it coincided with the Daily Camera’s well-publicized sale of their property in downtown Boulder. Here we were growing, prospering and buying real estate, while our competitor was downsizing, struggling and selling off their property. It was a clear juxtaposition of two businesses that were moving in opposite directions and added plenty of wind to our sails in a way that could be observed by the entire community.

BW: Was the Daily Camera always your main competition?

SS: You know, it was kind of like a video game where we had to get through the first few levels before taking on the Daily Camera.

The first level was the Colorado Daily, which, at the time we arrived, was the alternative to the Camera. But the Daily was not “alternative” by the definition that the alternative

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The original staff of Boulder Weekly in 1993, on the roof the newspaper’s first office at 1320 Pearl.

weekly industry, papers such as the Village Voice and Westword, had established, and that Boulder Weekly aspired to be a part of. It was simply a second choice, mostly for businesses that wanted to reach a very young, college-age audience.

There were a couple of things that happened at that particular time in the Weekly’s evolution that firmly cemented our identity as an alternative weekly and that differentiated us from the Colorado Daily. The first was Joel

Dyer’s emergence as an environmental journalist. Joel was Boulder Weekly’s founding photographer during the Weekly’s start-up and worked during the editorship of Leland Rucker, who left his position as the entertainment editor of the Colorado Daily to become the Weekly’s first editor. After a few months, Joel began writing deeply investigative pieces that exposed corporate polluters, such as see SALLO Page 22

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An earlier iteration of the Boulder Weekly staff poses in front of the newspaper’s current office at 690 Lashley Lane.

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Syntex and Beech. These groundbreaking stories gave the Weekly a direction as a muckraking paper doing investigative journalism that was permanently determinative in our direction. Joel soon became the Weekly’s editor and has had an impressive, award-winning career as a journalist/activist, including writing two nationally acclaimed books, starting and selling the Fort Collins Weekly and returning as Boulder Weekly’s editor a little more than two years ago. (And it is also worth mentioning that Leland has also recently returned to the Weekly as a columnist.)

BW: What was the other thing that happened at that time?

SS: Thanks. I do have a tendency to get off track. The second thing that happened at that time was the Weekly’s acceptance, during our first year of application in 1995, into the AAN (Association of Alternative Newsmedia), a prestigious organization with rigorous standards for membership, headlined by journalistic excellence and commitment to the highest journalistic standards.

BW: You alluded to multiple competitors. Who was next after the Colorado Daily?

SS: Having made it through the start up, Boulder Weekly had emerged as Boulder’s alternative to the Camera by both definitions and had really begun to hit our stride as we approached our third anniversary in 1996. At that point possibly the greatest threat to Boulder Weekly’s survival arrived in the form of the Boulder Planet, a weekly paper founded by

a very wealthy local businessman who appeared to be willing to sink enormous sums of money into the business, including hiring Boulder Weekly’s managing editor, Wayne Laugesen (who later returned to Boulder Weekly to serve as editor), and several Daily Camera staffers — all at salaries that far exceeded what they were currently earning.

After struggling for more than three years to navigate the Boulder Weekly ship in a forward direction, we braced ourselves for our biggest challenge yet as the first edition of Boulder Planet hit the streets on July 11, 1996.

It was quite impressive: 80 pages, multi-section, full color and filled with ads. My heart sank as I looked through it, and I remember having to close the door to my office to gather myself as I considered the possibility that everything I had worked so hard for was about to be wiped out.

We had a staff meeting a few days later, and as the leader of the organization I was called upon to deliver some sort of confidence-building statement to my employees, and this is what spontaneously came to me: “Our success or failure will not be determined by what the Boulder Planet does. Rather, it will be determined by what we do. We are doing something good and right with Boulder Weekly, and I believe in what we are doing.

Let’s not make the mistake of focusing on what the Boulder Planet is doing; just focus on what we’re doing and do it really well. If we do that, everything will work out.”

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What I came to recognize about the Boulder Planet is that it was exactly like all of the failed weekly papers I had pored over in the Boulder Public Library archives in 1990 when I was assessing the viability of the Boulder Weekly project. They were all weekly versions of an old-school daily newspaper model that failed to recognize the trends that were afoot in the media, trends that gave birth to the alternative weekly industry that was taking hold in virtually every city and town across the country.

Further — and I think this is the most interesting thing of all — the Boulder Planet proved that money alone is not enough to sustain the wrong business model. Sure, being well-financed is helpful, but at a certain point along the way the wealthy businessman who started Boulder Planet got tired of losing money and issued a mandate that expenses be brought into line with revenue, and at that point the business began to fail. Whereas Boulder Weekly had started small and gained the confidence of the community as it grew, Boulder Planet started big — buoyed by its wealthy owner — and lost the confidence of the community as it began to shrink, once the mandate was issued. Consequently, the last edition of Boulder Planet was published on Feb. 16, 2000.

And one footnote to the Boulder Planet chapter in Boulder Weekly’s history: In their efforts to compete for advertising budgets that had been previously awarded to Boulder Weekly, Boulder Planet sales representatives told customers that they should invest their money in Boulder Planet because the paper was better funded and more likely to emerge as the victor. While there is a certain logic to that, the opposite is actually true. Picking the guy whose entire life is wrapped up in the success of his business — the guy who put his whole future on the line, borrowed money from his family and sacrificed enormously for his business — is a better bet because that guy will do what it takes to succeed, whereas the guy with millions to fall back on will have an easier time pulling the plug and moving on. And that’s exactly what happened.

BW: Who were your most important community partners during those early years?

SS: There are two that immediately come to mind: Planet Bluegrass and the Boulder Theater, et al. The 1993 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival was the first event that Boulder Weekly ever sponsored, and the Boulder Weekly banner has been proudly hanging on the silo at Planet Bluegrass in Lyons ever since. I just can’t say enough good things about the Planet Bluegrass organization — particularly Steve Szymanski, Craig Ferguson and Brian Eyster.

They are truly fine people running a great organization that has done so much for so many musicians, and delivered so many good times to our community. My heart broke when I learned of the devastation of the Planet Bluegrass property during last September’s flood, and I encourage the entire community to rally around Planet Bluegrass — as well as the entire town of Lyons — as they rebuild. As we discussed earlier, Boulder Boulder Weekly

Weekly is, in part, the result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, and I am confident that Planet Bluegrass will come back stronger than ever in the wake of the flood of 2013.

Back in 1993, when we were first getting around to the community to create relationships in anticipation of the premiere edition of the Weekly, Cheryl Liguori and Don Strasburg of the Fox Theatre were enormously supportive. The Boulder Theater was closed at that time and did not reopen until 1995, but when Cheryl became general manager of the Boulder Theater her support of Boulder Weekly continued. In 1998 the Weekly celebrated its fifth anniversary with a huge

Congratulations on your 20th anniversary! I would just like to express my gratitude for your in-depth interviews with all 11 of the city council candidates last fall. To spend that kind of time with so many people is commendable. I was impressed with the breadth of questions. Thank you all at the Boulder Weekly for your commitment to good journalism and for following the local political process. Keep up the good work!

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party at the Fox that was attended by hundreds of people. It was so successful that we decided to make it an annual event, holding our sixth anniversary at the Fox before switching over to the Boulder Theater in 2000. We also began holding a Best of

Boulder Awards Party at the Boulder Theater in 2012 and plan to continue that as an annual tradition for many years to come. Don is now the vice president and senior talent buyer for AEG Live and has continued his support see SALLO Page 24

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Several meetings were held with the of Boulder Weekly through the years. Boulder Weekly’s management staff in which this very Weekly has sponsored hundreds of shows at complex issue was debated, and at the end of the Boulder Theater, Fox Theatre, Red Rocks the day I decided to eliminate the section and and numerous locations in the Denver metro area in partnership with Cheryl and Don, and allow only line ads that did not include picwe couldn’t be more grateful for their support. tures of women in various stages of undress.

BW: What was the response to that deciBW: Boulder Weekly received a lot of sion? attention toward the end of 2001 for your SS: It was overwhelmingly positive. In controversial decision to eliminate the sofact, it was picked up nationally and covered called sex ad section from your paper that in various national news sources, probably the appears in most alternative weeklies, such as most notable of which was an interview that Westword. How was that decision made?

Editor & Publisher magazine did with me SS: That was a tough decision, as it shortly thereafter. Although it was a cominvolved the loss of more than $100,000 in pletely unintended consequence, I was made annual revenue, but on every level it turned out to be a hero for being a businessman who out to be the right thing to do. As you menplaced ethical considerations ahead of profit, tion, most alternative weeklies have large secwhich I suppose was true. But ultimately I tions that promote various “adult services.” just wanted to do the right thing, and I Shortly after our launch we began to receive believe I did. inquiries from various marketers wanting to BW: Speaking promote adult ser- Benjamin Buren of doing the right vices in the Weekly, thing, or, rather, and given our need not doing the right for revenue we thing, you have had were, of course, a reputation for welcoming of any having, shall we ads they wanted to say, a mercurial send our way. One personality, and for day a guy walked having anger maninto the office and agement issues. Do asked to speak to you care to comme. He told me ment on that? that he had conSS: One thing tacts in the adult about Boulder services industry Weekly that I am and that he could most proud of is bring in several Sallo hams it up at Boulder Weekly’s 19th the way that our thousands of dolanniversary party at the Rembrandt Yard. organization honlars of advertising ors individuality, every week if I tolerates unique would allow him to personalities, and provides a unique environcreate a “sex ad” section in the Weekly. I had a ment for personal and professional growth. “hell, yeah” attitude toward this initially, and Numerous employees have found in Boulder he and I reached an agreement which ultiWeekly a place where they can be authentic mately resulted in a two- to three-page secand be supported in becoming their highest tion in the back of the paper that was bringselves, and I am one of those employees. ing in as much as $3,000 a week.

There are certain things that are unique However, within a short period of time about me that have represented significant the nature of these ads — specifically the way assets and liabilities to the organization. You in which they objectified women — began to used the word “mercurial” and, while I trouble me. And on top of that we began to wouldn’t reject the accuracy of that word — receive some criticism from the community and have used it many times to describe regarding this part of the paper. It was a real myself — I prefer the word “fiery.” I have a dilemma because we had become dependent on the revenue and were following what other fiery personality. Or, put another way, I am a passionate individual, and there is nothing I altweeklies were doing in other markets, but on the other hand the presence of such a large feel more passionately about than the work we do at Boulder Weekly and the success of the number of these ads was creating an identity for Boulder Weekly that was increasingly unde- operation.

However, I am very quick to acknowledge sirable and, ultimately, inconsistent with our — and anyone who really knows me can opposition to the objectification of women. attest to this — that my passionate nature has And yet, to censor — and there really is no been an ongoing issue at Boulder Weekly and other work for it — those ads would be a has, at times, been as much of a liability to breach of the First Amendment, the upholding of which is another fundamental principle the organization as an asset. Consequently, I have been engaged on a very serious level in a of the BW mission.

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Boulder Weekly has helped to provide important news stories that otherwise might not be reported on, helping to “afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.”

For me a highlight was Pamela White’s coverage of women giving birth in jails and prisons, which very directly led to positive change.

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deep interpersonal struggle to master the art of channeling my passionate nature in a positive way, while limiting — and even eliminating — its negative potential.

My journey at Boulder Weekly has been one of intense struggle within myself to become a better leader and a better person.

My failures to live up to my own standards have been unspeakably painful for me, and I have plenty of regrets. But I am also extremely proud of the growth I have accomplished over the years, and while the reputation I have among those who have witnessed my darker moments is probably deserved, I am pleased to say that in the present tense I have succeeded in putting my “anger management” issues in the past, and I believe the current staff at Boulder Weekly would back me up on that claim.

And I would add that my success in this area has provided Boulder Weekly with a better leader than it has ever had before, which has, not surprisingly, coincided with a period of greater accomplishment and prosperity than the organization has ever experienced.

BW: What are some of Boulder Weekly’s proudest accomplishments?

SS: As a media organization dedicated to doing real journalism in a world where most of the media has fallen under corporate ownership and, consequently, abandoned a journalistic business model in favor of one that prioritizes profitability, I am proud of the way Boulder Weekly has stayed true to the highest journalistic principles. Our last three editors, Wayne Laugesen, Pamela White and, particularly, Joel Dyer are award-winning journalists that do amazing work that literally changes lives and, in some cases, saves them. Most recently, Boulder Weekly won 28 state SPJ (Society of Professional Journalists) awards and two national AAN (Association of Alternative Newsmedia) awards — by far the most journalism awards we have ever received in one year. As a media organization, Boulder Weekly has really hit its stride and we have a “nothing can stop us now” swagger of confidence.

BW: You mentioned that Boulder Weekly has enjoyed a period of prosperity most recently. What do you attribute that to?

SS: In mid 2006 I made one of the biggest blunders of my career when I hired a CEO who promised to take Boulder Weekly to the next level — a level that he convinced me the company would never reach as long as the founder continued to serve as CEO. By the beginning of 2007 the company was out of money, carrying a maximum amount of debt and in crisis. Plus, the Weekly’s editor at that time, Pamela White, had submitted her resignation, citing her unwilling-

ness to compromise the organization’s editorial integrity to accommodate a corporate-like business model. It was at that point when I took back the reigns of the company, reassured Pamela that Boulder Weekly would continue to maintain high journalistic standards, rolled up my sleeves and committed myself to turning the company around. As I took on this challenge, I was very fortunate to have Benecia Beyer as my accountant/controller, and she continues to be Boulder Weekly’s accountant/controller to this day. Benecia and I created agreements with vendors, implemented strict budgetary policies and developed a plan to eliminate the debt that had accrued. At the same time I resumed a leading role in our advertising sales department that helped to increase revenues. Thus began a dramatic turnaround that resulted in the company’s rapid return to profitability. By the middle of 2008 we had paid off all of the excess debt that had accrued and generated sufficient cash to purchase the property we had been a tenant at for 14 years.

Contrary to the changes afoot in the “newspaper” business — where mainstream newspapers were descending into bankruptcy (as happened with the owner of the Denver Post and Daily Camera) — Boulder Weekly entered its period of greatest prosperity and had the two best years in our history in 2010 and 2013.

So, in reality what I just described as “one of the biggest blunders of my career” turned out to be the best thing that could have ever happened to Boulder Weekly in that I became fully reengaged with a fresh, renewed commitment and something to prove. This turned out to be a powerful prescription for success.

BW: Were there any other primary factors that contributed to this rapid turnaround?

SS: There were a number, but one in particular is worth mentioning. During the summer of 2007 Cal Winn was hired as Boulder Weekly’s circulation manager and ushered in a new era of professionalism in the way Boulder Weekly was distributed. Up until that time, Boulder Weekly was distributed primarily indoors at high-traffic locations. Cal recognized the untapped potential for circulation through outdoor boxes and has increased our presence in the community exponentially by strategically acquiring and placing boxes throughout the county. This has made the publication, as well as all of our special editions — Kids Camp, Boulderganic, Best of Boulder, Summer Scene, Winter Scene, Gifts — more widely available and has served to increase readership tremendously. Cal is a stickler for details, and every single copy of see SALLO Page 26

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The Boulder Weekly investigates how public institutions are managed and run to protect our human rights and thus makes the Boulder and surrounding areas a better place to live by providing timely news and information we can’t get anywhere else.

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which we have Boulder Weekly that never done. They goes out is tracked think their customand meticulously ers are their advercounted. We know exactly how many tisers; we think our papers are read customers are our each week and, as readers. And more a result, are able to specifically, our provide reliable, readers are people trustworthy inforwho live and/or mation to our work in Boulder advertisers. This County. We prokind of data is vide content that simply not possiour readers can’t ble with “paid cirget anywhere else, culation” papers, and they know which can only they can trust us report how many because we don’t papers were choose content that deposited in driveis designed to sell ways, and it ceradvertising but, tainly isn’t possible rather, to build Publisher Stewart Sallo at the Boulder Weekly with free papers readership, which office that are wrapped in the end winds up and thrown at up providing the the doorsteps of businesses before they open. greatest value to our advertisers.

So, under Cal Winn’s leadership Boulder Independent businesses like Boulder Weekly’s distribution and readership data is the Weekly work harder to provide value and earn most reliable of any publication in town, and the money we receive from our advertisers. I this added level of confidence among our personally maintain relationships with as advertisers has served to contribute mightily many of our advertisers as possible, and I to our success. never take them for granted.

The other thing about Cal — and this is BW: I understand your daughter, Julia, true of Benecia, as well — is that these two has been working at Boulder Weekly. Will she individuals have professionalized the operabe taking over the business someday? tion in ways that go well beyond their specific SS: Julia is an amazing person and has areas of expertise. For example, Benecia has done an incredible job for Boulder Weekly. She also served as the company’s IT specialist, began writing a column for the paper when having built and implemented a proprietary she was still a Fairview High School student, I CRM (customer relationship management) believe it was called “Next Gen,” and she system; and Cal has built a terrific relationbecame my personal assistant during the sumship with Boulder Weekly’s printers, as well as mer of 2007 after graduating. After her freshengineering an organic vegetable garden on man year at Sarah Lawrence College, Julia our property and serving as the de facto prop- returned to her job at Boulder Weekly and erty manager. I can’t say enough about the decided to enroll at the University of positive effect the arrival of these two fine Colorado, where she got her undergraduate individuals has had on the business. degree, holding down a full-time job at BW: How do you account for the fact Boulder Weekly the entire time she was in colthat so many newspapers are struggling these lege. days, yet Boulder Weekly is prospering at Most recently she began working toward unprecedented levels? her teaching credential and is currently stuSS: That’s a big question and one that I dent teaching at South High School in addressed in my 2009 trilogy, “Newspaper of Denver during the spring semester. the Future” (http://boulderweekly.com/ Consequently, she has had to cut back on her archives/20090101/stewsviews.html). The hours at Boulder Weekly. It looks like Julia will overarching answer is that Boulder Weekly is be moving on to full-time teaching, rather not a “newspaper.” You see, daily newspapers than staying with the Boulder Weekly, but you have lost sight of who their customers are, never know what the future might bring.

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In many ways the six years that Julia has been on staff represent my happiest time at Boulder Weekly. Not only has she played an enormously beneficial role at the company — ultimately ascending into the organization’s management ranks — but her presence has had a very positive effect in my efforts to become a better leader. A parent must be mindful of how his behavior is setting an example, and knowing that Julia was a witness to my every move at Boulder Weekly really caused my to step up my game.

BW: How has the budding (pun intended) marijuana industry in Colorado benefitted Boulder Weekly?

SS: There’s no question that we have benefitted from the advertising we have received from MMJ (medical marijuana) dispensaries, but we have had to proceed very carefully to make sure that particular source of revenue did not wind up defining Boulder Weekly, like it has other publications, like the Rooster. MMJ operations realize that Boulder Weekly’s audience is a weed-friendly audience, but our audience is also music-friendly, automobile-friendly, furniture-friendly, restaurant-friendly, outdoor adventure-friendly, etc. We couldn’t allow our friends in the MMJ industry to take over the paper and squeeze out our other advertising partners, so we developed some very strict guidelines under which we would accept pot ads. This served to weed out (two can play at this pun game) the fly-by-night elements of the MMJ industry and maintained our identity as a media organization serving the entire Boulder County community. I think we’ve achieved a good balance.

BW: After 20 years at Boulder Weekly and 32 years as a self-employed publisher, how much longer do you plan to continue at the helm of Boulder Weekly? Do you ever think about moving on?

SS: I will admit that the stress of my position causes me to wonder how much longer I can keep it up. There are days when I Boulder Weekly

swear I’ve had enough. But at the same time, there really isn’t anything else I could imagine doing that would provide me with the same sense of purpose that Boulder Weekly has. I was having lunch with my friend Len Barron recently — Len is a bit of a Boulder icon who is recognizable for being an Albert Einstein look-alike and who has been doing a series of theater arts pieces that focus on the wisdom of Einstein and Niels Bohr — and we were getting into some heavy philosophizing, as we always do. Len commented that everyone wants to feel, at the end of the day, that they lived a life that mattered, that made a difference. “And you’ve got that covered,” he said, in connection to my life as the founder/leader/owner/publisher of Boulder Weekly. That’s what I’m most grateful for, and it is at moments like that, moments of deep gratitude, when I feel like I could keep Boulder Weekly going forever.

My greatest source of inspiration at Boulder Weekly is our art director, Susan France. Sue has been with Boulder Weekly for all of our 20 years, with the exception of the very first edition. She has taken maternity leave twice to create a family and faithfully returned to her post each time. Sue is without question the most dedicated, hard-working individual I have ever known, and she is as humble and kind as she is talented as an artist and photographer. During the early years there were plenty of times when the paper didn’t go to press until the wee hours of the morning, and Sue always did what was necessary to get the job done, and never once complained.

When I think about leaving Boulder Weekly I think about Sue France and the tremendous dedication she has shown for 20 years, and I ask myself how I could ever leave while she is still here. So, I guess the best answer I can give you is that I plan to stay at Boulder Weekly as long as Sue is still here.

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s far as I know, it’s been two decades since anyone pulled the newsprint archive of Boulder Weekly’s first year and looked back through every page of all 52 issues. I recently completed that task, or journey, as I prefer to call it, and I’m a little surprised by what I found.

Many of the issues that we were reporting on 20 years ago are still hot topics today. I’m not sure exactly what this means other than to say that we are apparently better at talking about and studying problems than we are at actually fixing them.

Even more surprising, I found that a fair number of the personalities, restaurants and other businesses that were the subjects of BW stories back in 1993 have coincidentally reappeared, for good or bad, in articles that we have written just this past year.

But the most pleasant part of my exploration of that first year was just seeing the familiar faces and places looking back at me from the photos on those yellowing pages, and to read one name after another that pulled up a memory that I had long ago forgotten, or at least thought I had.

So I’ve decided to share a few of my discoveries from my journey through BW’s first year. I hope you find them as thought-provoking, surprising and enjoyable as I did.

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couldn’t help but chuckle when I started reading the first cover story in Boulder Weekly’s history. It seemed almost too appropriate that the very first person ever quoted in the paper was then Boulder City Council member Steve Pomerance, and he was talking about the need to curb Boulder’s growth rate.

See what I mean? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

As most Boulderites know, Steve Pomerance is still an incredibly passionate advocate for planning all things Boulder for the benefit of the city’s residents and the environment. This Boulder Weekly

doesn’t mean that we all always agree with him, but it does mean that we all owe him our gratitude for working so hard for so many years to make a difference.

This, of course, is true of many of the people whose names appeared in those early editions. The second issue of BW featured an interview with a North Boulder community activist fighting against a proposed Safeway store in the neighborhood. That activist was none other than current and perpetual city council member Lisa Morzel.

Talk about irony. Just last week it was announced that the city is going to conduct a survey of workers who commute into town each day to find out why they don’t just live in Boulder. The title of our first cover story two decades ago was “Is the middle class being squeezed out of Boulder?” The answer back then was “yes,” and it’s still true today.

But the circumstances around the county have changed dramatically.

While some commuters taking the new survey will, no doubt, say they live to the east because of Boulder’s excessively high rents and housing prices, many folks nowadays will also explain that they prefer the towns to the east because they are both more affordable and offer a comparable quality of life without all the traffic, congestion and rudeness.

So you read it here first. I suppose the city could now save the money it’s going to spend on the commuter survey, but after 20 years of reporting on things that could save the City of Boulder money if it would only listen, we won’t be holding our breath.

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ep. Vince and the boys were the subject of a Dave Kirby BW story all the way back in 1993. The band holds the distinction of having been written about by BW more times than any other music act. And why not? I can’t think of anyone more deserving to hold that unique place in Boulder Weekly’s history.

But you should know it’s a chal-

at BW. Over the last two decades we have had to write our goodbyes to far too many musicians, artists and writers.

lenge to write about these guys. You try coming up with dozens of headlines that play off the name Leftover Salmon. That said, if they’ll keep playing for another 20 years, we’ll keep the Salmon puns coming. Thanks, Leftover Salmon, for putting so much joy into so many lives for so long.

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mong the things I was looking for when I went through the firstyear archives were stories that marked the beginning of a trend for BW. This photo of a young woman struggling to get her wheelchair into Bean’s Coffee on the Pearl Street Mall marked the first time the paper took the plunge into social reporting. I’m proud to say that this type of journalism has been a mainstay at BW ever since.

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long those same lines, it was soon after the paper had launched that we found ourselves faced with the task of writing our first obituary. The task fell to Boulder Weekly’s living encyclopedia of all things music, Leland Rucker, who, as the paper’s first editor, penned a heartfelt obituary for music legend Frank Zappa.

Sadly, this too was the start of a trend

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have to admit that I had forgotten all about this 20-year-old story when I came across it. As our readers know, for the last few years we have dedicated a good deal of BW’s resources to doing the state’s most comprehensive, indepth reporting on fracking and other misguided practices of an oil and gas industry hell-bent on turning our county into a contaminated pin cushion.

So you can imagine my surprise when I came across this 1993 story reporting on the environmental dangers of having producing oil and gas wells in the middle of neighborhoods, in this case, Lafayette.

Back then, BW couldn’t have imagined the hazards posed by the modern version of hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells in shale formations, or that our region would find itself on the front lines of an oil and gas war that will ultimately determine the future quality of life in our region, and possibly even the nation.

When we wrote this first story, we never dreamed that just two decades later, a trade agreement like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) would be poised to cause the drilling and fracking of hundreds of thousands of new wells in the U.S. because it will allow the unrestricted exporting of natural gas, which could eventually account for more than half of all the natural gas produced in this country being shipped overseas.

The TPP drilling boom that has already begun is a calamity that will leave the U.S. with millions of tons of air pollution each year from production platforms, increase global warming due to escaping methane and potentially cause catastrophic contamination of our groundwater aquifers, all so that a see CHANGE Page 32

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handful of oil and gas corporations can gain billions in profits in a short period of time. We get all the contamination.

Other countries get the gas. The oil and gas industry gets all the money.

No, we didn’t know how bad it was going to get back when we first started covering this issue 20 years ago, but we sure know it now.

tal reporting 20 years ago. It is a legacy we promise to continue for the next 20.

We just hope there are fewer such stories to report.

Susan France

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he name sounds like it belongs to the latest Batman villain, but the reality of Ras Kassa’s is much less nefarious.

That is, unless you have an aversion to getting a little messy.

Their motto is “Eat like you’ve never heard of silverware,” and they aren’t kidding.

Everything from farmer’s cheese to lentil stew is served with spongy Ethiopian bread called injera to be used for scooping, and nothing else. Forget forks, spoons and knives and get ready to become best friends with this spongy, sourdough-like concocby Blair Madole tion.

The tangy injera is ideal for soaking up juices and complements every dish without with the other flavors.

Red lentils are another robustly flavored dish overpowering the delicate flavors. Simply tear off a included in the spicy combination. With a 20-spice chunk, stick it between your fingers and dive in like a berbere sauce, the lentils have the perfect balance of toddler facing a bowl of spaghetti. The injera goes heat that adds a kick of flavor without leading to particularly well with the sweet potato stew, featured steam rushing out of your ears. The lentils are cooked as an entrée and in the spicy vegetarian combination. perfectly with just the right amount of crunch to let The best way to experience Ras Kassa’s is through you know you aren’t eating baby food, though they do their combination plates. With a variety of meat and look similarly mushy. vegetarian combos, these make it easy to try as many The combination plate also features mild and things on the menu as possible, and since they range from $13 to $16 apiece they’re easily the best bang for slightly sweet butternut squash stew, tangy collard greens, traditional injera salad with onion and tomato your buck. For the veggie lovers out there, the spicy vegetarian combo is a must-have. Sweet potatoes, len- in vinegar, and delightfully buttery yellow split peas. tils and yellow split peas all make an appearance.

Each acts as the perfect complement to the more The spicy sweet potato stew is a complex combiboldly flavored sweet potatoes and red lentils and nation of sugary sweet potato, buttery onion, crunchy manages to maintain its own flavor without being overshadowed. pepper and a zap of spice for the tingly effect spiceFor the carnivores out there, have no fear — Ras lovers crave. When scooped with a piece of injera, the stew gains a citrus-like vibrancy that mingles perfectly Kassa’s does a great job for the vegetarians, but by

no means ignores the meat lovers. Though the vegetable selections at Ras Kassa’s are tough to beat, the lamb stew ($16.95) manages to stand out in the sea of lentils, squash and greens.

Slow-cooked, the meat practically melts in your mouth as you savor the deep flavors of turmeric and other mild spices. Alone with injera, the lamb is something special, but mixed with either the spicy red lentils or the mild yellow split peas, the flavors become drool-worthy.

Though it’s a lot to fit on one plate, everything is placed carefully in a circle with each dish granted its own space. This perfect symmetry doesn’t last though: As you dive in with your injera scoops and fingers the dishes blend together into a harmonious, though messy, combination of flavors and textures.

Warm, sweet and spicy at the same time, the house tea is the perfect way to wash down the flavorful dishes. Even better, the mug is kept full throughout the night, so you’ll never find yourself parched.

As if the opportunity to act like a kid again and eat with your fingers hasn’t made the experience surreal enough, the subtle incense fumes, bright and traditional decor and soft background music in Ras Kassa’s make you want to tell Toto you aren’t in Boulder anymore.

If you’re looking for an inexpensive excursion away from the Americanized Boulder scenes or a good way to test someone’s sense of adventure on a second or third date, Ras Kassa’s is the place to go. You may want to bring a few wet wipes though.

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Holy cow, talk about coming full circle. As many of you know, longtime KGNU station manager Sam Fuqua finally called it quits this year after dedicating more than 20 years of remarkable service to community radio and KGNU’s legion of listeners. I had to smile when I saw this old photo of Sam when he was only a knee-high news director at the station. I remember taking this photo. It was the first time I met Sam, which means it was a good day for me. What a privilege to know and cover someone from start to finish for 20 years.

Wait, what’s that, Sam? You say your life’s work isn’t over just because you left KGNU? Stay tuned, folks. I have a feeling that Sam Fuqua might just reappear in the pages of BW one of these days.

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The results of our annual reader poll, plus our irreverent take on what’s best about living in Boulder County

couldn’t help but notice as I went through my pile of old papers that some of the first restaurants we ever reviewed are still going strong. And I also noticed that the restaurants we praised 20 years ago are the ones still around, and the ones that received mediocre or poor reviews are the ones that have disappeared. Location may be important, but great food is a necessity in this foody county.

By coincidence, we gave a great review to Ethiopian restaurant Ras Kassa’s just last week. I had to grin when I noticed we also gave it an equally stellar review in its old location south of Boulder. It was the second restaurant BW ever reviewed.

Similarly, our readers have voted Sushi Zanmai the Best of Boulder award for Japanese restaurant the last couple years. So I wasn’t too surprised to find that it had gotten a glowing review in our food section two decades ago.

And the moral of the story is this: quality stands the test of time when it comes to restaurants and weekly newspapers.

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ver the years, Boulder Weekly has uncovered and reported on many of the area’s most important environmental stories. It’s one of the things that we committed to early on because we understand that taking care of the planet is perhaps the single most shared trait among our readers throughout the county.

It was this story of toxic spills, groundwater contamination and cover up at the Syntex manufacturing facility in East Boulder that launched the paper’s legacy of in-depth environmen-

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ut some things that deserved to last, didn’t. I confess that I loved hanging out at Penny Lane. It was one of those great Boulder coffee shops where you’d have to wait in line for 20 minutes to order a cup of coffee even though the line was only two deep.

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Coffee was important at Penny Lane, but not as important as everybody in line catching up with everybody behind the counter. It was cosmically slow and appropriately so.

The good news is that shortly after we wrote this piece about the impending closure of the coffee shop owned by Isadore Million (in photo), Penny Lane got a temporary reprieve by moving to the other side of Pearl Street.

But like so many Pearl Street classics that existed when we first launched the paper in our tiny downtown offices above Falafel King, Penny Lane eventually succumbed to Boulder’s ever-rising rents. I suspect it would have required less conversation to make the business model work, and that was just too high a price to pay.

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t’s been a long, hard road to marijuana legalization. That point was driven home as I reread BW’s first story about the early, organized efforts to make pot legal. Many of the names associated with the legalization effort have changed over the decades, some have not.

The first quote in this story is from Laura Kriho, as she explains that the hemp initiative is about far more than just making pot legal. She explained the environmental benefits of making everything from clothes to paper out of hemp.

Ken Gorman was interviewed for the piece. He was running for governor on a marijuana legalization platform because he was angry. His father had died in great pain from cancer because he was unable to get and use marijuana for medical purposes.

BW could not have imagined back when we were doing this story that 20 years later marijuana would be legal and sold to the public like alcohol in stores.

We could not have imagined that our original editor, Leland Rucker, would have returned to the Weekly fold as our first-ever dedicated marijuana writer.

One thing this old article makes clear: A lot of people worked very hard for a very long time to end marijuana prohibition. Our current laws were anything but an overnight success.

al orientation has been an ongoing struggle for even longer.

When BW first began publishing, it was shortly after voters

Boulder Weekly always dares to cover the real stories that truly affect the people of Boulder County and beyond. They do a stellar job of taking the bread and mayo off the shit sandwich that corporate media is always feeding us! Thanks for keeping it true and Clear Channel- and Koch-free!

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Boulder Weekly has been on the cutting edge of investigating, explaining and exposing the dirty underbelly of Gov. Hickenlooper and the oil and gas industry’s agenda to frack our great state. They ask the toughest questions and dig deeper. It is in part thanks to their tireless efforts that we are seeing an historic surge of citizen participation and victories to ban fracking in Colorado.

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had approved Amendment 2, a controversial constitutional amendment that prohibited any community or county from passing laws that would make gays and lesbians a “protected class.”

The Amendment led to millions of people boycotting Colorado, which had a crippling economic impact on the state.

Eventually the high courts ruled that Amendment 2 denied gays and lesbians equal protection under the law, and the Amendment was tossed into history’s trashcan once and for all.

Other BW coverage from the day concerned Hawaii’s efforts to legalize gay marriage. We were a bit optimistic in our analysis back then. We surmised that gay marriage would become legal in Hawaii in 1994 and, as a result, the other 49 states would be forced to recognize those marriages, which would quickly lead to the passage of legalized gay marriage in every state in the Union. We could not imagine back then that it would take more than 20 more years to achieve such rights.

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hile it may be hard to believe today, we came very close to tearing down the Boulder Theater in the early 1990s in order to put in more office space downtown. Crazy, right?

When BW first started reporting on the issue, that’s the way it was looking to go. But then some creative people started trying to figure out how to save one of the city’s most important landmarks.

Eventually, a relatively new radio program called eTown moved into the theater and a few additional shows were booked. That reopening of the Boulder Theater saved the day. It kept the developers at bay until the property could be sold to someone with the money and desire to restore and protect the venue for future generations. It was a close call.

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program, no one, I suspect even them, could have imagined that the show would have become such a wild success.

Like many of the people who live here, I’ve had the experience of listening to the radio while driving down the road in some faraway place, when suddenly I hear those familiar Forster voices coming through my speaker. It reminds me of home. And I can’t think of any better ambassadors for Boulder County and its brand than eTown and its founders.

Keep it going for another 20 years.

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s I noted in the lead, some stories from two decades ago are still with us, and in this instance, that’s too bad.

Back in 1993, the City of Boulder was determined to relocate the homeless/transient population away from the Pearl Street Mall. The story was predictable. Local merchants didn’t want them around because they claimed the homeless scared off customers, and local parents were afraid that their kids were in danger when they walked the mall.

Boulder’s response? Arrest and harass until the poorest among us get out of sight.

When that didn’t work, we targeted them with new laws about sitting on the mall and panhandling. Eventually the city and its police force drove away the large gatherings of the homeless.

Jump forward 20 years, and here we go again. Now the city wants to redevelop the municipal campus, including the area east of the Boulder Public Library, and those darn homeless people are in the way again. Our current response? Arrest and harass until the poorest among us get out of sight … again. Pass laws against camping, smoking and create curfews to make them get out of sight.

The question is, where will the homeless reappear this time, and how

long will it take the city to figure out that moving around the homeless population is not a solution to the problem?

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y, oh my, what a difference 20 years can make. I was actually shocked when I stumbled across this little piece of history I had forgotten.

I can’t imagine in today’s world of school and theater and workplace shootings that a business in Boulder could actually stay in business by boasting that it was giving away more than 11,000 guns to its customers as a promotion. But that’s exactly what Bank of Boulder did back in BW’s first year. Bank customers could choose a rifle in lieu of interest.

The funny part is that there were actually 11,000 people living in Boulder back then who chose a gun over money.

What were you people thinking?

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adly, we lost beloved film critic Roger Ebert in 2013. Ebert was a favorite at the Conference on World Affairs every year, where he would dissect a film, allowing the audience to participate by stopping the action and asking questions at any point. It was a magical experience for everyone fortunate enough to attend.

Not only were we plugging Ebert’s program at the CWA in that first year, we were also reporting that 1994 was likely the last year that CWA would take place at CU due to budget problems.

I’m glad to report that a budget fix was found two decades ago and that the 2014 Conference on World Affairs should be a great success, albeit with Roger Ebert serving only as a fond memory of days gone by.

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’ll make this short and sweet. Two decades ago, people were puzzled by the fact that most of Boulder’s trails were closed to mountain bikers. Back then the sport was reasonably new, and no one was exactly sure what should or shouldn’t be open.

This 1994 story described how most trails had actually been open to mountain bikes for a couple of years in the mid 1980s but that there had been many complaints by hikers, so the trails were closed.

Dear city council and open space department, it has been nearly a quarter of a century since that lone experiment that allowed mountain bikes on our trails.

Mountain bikes have changed.

Mountain bikers have changed.

Today, tens of thousands of people enjoy mountain biking. These people are our leading environmental stewards. They are the ones who volunteer to help repair erosion and other trail damage. They understand that hikers and horses have the right of way.

It’s time to try another experiment.

It’s long past time to open up at least some of our older trails to mountain biking. Hundreds of other cities have made it work. At this point Boulder is just showing its age. It’s not just those young whippersnappers who like to ride those newfangled trail bike contraptions.

We shouldn’t still be writing about this issue two decades later.

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What makes this funny is that some folks in Boulder still have this long-ago outdated vision of their neighbor city to the northeast because they have never see CHANGE Page 36

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LeRoy Moore, Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center/Boulder If the truth will set you free, then the Boulder Weekly is the embodiment of a free press. Read it, post it, tweet it, share it, recycle it — and tag Gov. Hickenlooper and the Colorado Oil and Gas Association in every post.

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often feel a disconnect from their communities because they have never been taught the important roles that the previous generations of their families played in the early development of our communities.

If all goes well, the results of the Latino History Project will become part of the school curriculum taught throughout the area.

And that may help to finally solve the high drop-out-rate problem we first reported on 20 years ago.

1,000-year-event comes.

And I think that he would once again explain, as he did to BW readers 20-years-ago, that every year there is a one in a thousand chance of a 1,000-year flood. The name doesn’t mean that such floods can only occur once every thousand years.

It may not happen tomorrow, next year or the next decade, but the really big one is coming, and we should plan for it now.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Until I was contacted in 2013 by Jeff Dodge of Boulder Weekly regarding my involvement in raising an alarm in 2009 about the environmental hazards at the Dushanbe Teahouse, I had not given BW a first, much less a second, glance. The fact that Mr. Dodge had discovered my name in EPA records while, according to one City of Boulder representative, reporters of other news organizations had sought my name without success, impressed me enough to grant him an interview. Beginning with that initial interview and continuing through the four-part series about the teahouse site, I have been impressed with the thorough investigative skills, attention to factual detail, quality of reporting and integrity evidenced by Messrs. Dodge and Dyer and BW. Other articles in BW have not been too bad either. So, happy 20th anniversary, Boulder Weekly, and may you have many, many more years of success. Boulder needs you.

Attorney Dennis R. Frohlich/Boulder

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wenty years ago BW ran three different stories warning that a catastrophic flood was likely in the not-toodistant future.

It wasn’t that we were so smart. It was because our primary source for the stories was so smart. Professor Gilbert White was considered one of the world’s greatest experts on floods, and he was very concerned that Boulder had built its way into dangerous territory when it came to our floodplain planning.

Twenty years ago, White told BW that it might not be tomorrow or next year or even the next decade, but sooner rather than later, a 100-year, 500year or even a 1,000-year flood was coming, and it would devastate the city and county.

Gilbert White is no longer with us, and he is truly missed by all who knew him. But I can’t help wondering what he would say about the horrific flood that ravaged our county last September. I suspect he would be very concerned that the media continues to refer to the event as a 100year and, in some exaggerated coverage, even a 1,000-year flood. I think he would agree with his peers in the scientific community who have tried to persuade the media that what we experienced was closer to a 30- to 50-year flood event, at least in Boulder.

I believe, based on the conversations I have had with him in the past, that White would want us to know this so that we understand that just because certain buildings in the floodplain survived this event doesn’t mean that they will be safe when a real 100-, 500- or Boulder Weekly

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boulderganic Twenty years of environmental reporting

Congratulations, Boulder Weekly, on 20 years. Only one more year and you’ll be old enough to buy alcohol and marijuana.

Seriously, you have become an integral part of the network that residents of Boulder County — and even this Broomfield resident — rely on to stay informed about local issues.

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s early as 1994, it became clear that environmental reporting would be a priority for Boulder Weekly, and it was environmental stories that set the tone for the paper as one that would strive to protect our local environment. Editorial staff members of the Weekly have worked with whistleblowers to confirm contamination of groundwater and air quality violations, dug into difficult issues, such as hydraulic fracturing and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and undertaken lengthy investigations to identify risks to public health and the environment. Below are the details from a few of the stories that have set the bar for the environmental investigative work that the Weekly has done throughout its two decades in Boulder.

Cover up: Whistleblower claims Syntex Chemicals delayed reporting groundwater contamination

by Joel Dyer, May 26, 1994

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he Boulder-based pharmaceutical plant Syntex Chemicals ranked among the worst polluters in the state in 1994. The company confessed to the Environmental Protection Agency in 1988 that it had discovered groundwater contamination below the plant in 1986.

Because the company volunteered the disclosure, it wasn’t likely to be fined for the spill.

A letter from a former Syntex employee to the EPA claimed Syntex knew about the groundwater contamination as early as 1982, and that the company had tried to cover it up. The whistleblower, Richard Hughes, an environmental chemist, claimed he’d seen several leaks at the plant and subsequent groundwater tests had revealed the presence of toxic chemicals. He had recorded his findings in a laboratory notebook allegedly signed by his superiors — but that notebook had later vanished, along with documents that would have pinpointed when Syntex officials knew about the contamination.

Boulder Weekly’s story, written by current editor Joel Dyer, confirmed the source’s belief that the groundwater contamination was reaching Boulder Creek and that the spills leading to that contamination had not been properly reported to the EPA. Deadly ground: Beech Aircraft toxins poison open space

by Joel Dyer, Sept. 15, 1994

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Beech Aircraft. Buying the 1,200.5-acre chunk of land two miles north of Boulder on Highway 36 at $1.5 million was considered a bargain, according to city records, but the groundwater beneath the land had been contaminated with potentially cancercausing chemicals.

That water had spilled into Left Hand Reservoir, an occasional drinking water source for homes in North Boulder, Longmont and Erie.

An investigation revealed that Beech officials were aware of the contamination before the sale, but, according to city of Boulder staff, the contamination was not disclosed to the city and county during the sales negotiation, though such disclosures are required by law.

An investigation by current editor Joel Dyer located a memo from 1976 that confirmed Beech was aware of the contamination, forcing the companies to pay for the cleanup. Dyer’s reporting also unearthed the ongoing national defense activities happening in Boulder — Beech had been fueling missiles for the U.S. Navy at that Highway 36 location for decades, and the volatile and carcinogenic compound hydrazine, used

in rocket fuel, found at the location confirmed that the company was continuing those activities, despite the apparent closure of the Beech plant.

The story led to the installation of a groundwater-recovery system that captures contaminated water and a cleanup of the property.

Concrete evidence: Cement plant north of Boulder faces state penalties, federal inspectors and the wrath of a whistleblower

by Pamela White, Nov. 20, 2003

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n 2003, an employee of the Cemex plant near Lyons installed a video camera into a Thermos to record evidence of health and safety violations: piles of dust blocking walkways, including one waist-high that blocked a door; a dump truck dashboard with the gauges missing; a nearby ditch filled with green, oily water surrounded by oil filters; and oil buckets and rags tied around dripping oil leaks.

After passing the videos off to former Boulder Weekly editor Pamela White, she set up a tour of the facility that showed none of those same problems see ENVIRONMENT Page 40

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— and a plant manager admitted that, with the use of the code phrase “There are donuts in the front office,” plant workers were tipped off to clean up the plant because an important visitor had arrived.

Meanwhile, neighbors reported cement kiln dust blowing off the site regularly, an air quality violation. The dust aggravates asthma and other lung issues, and had even been linked to premature aging of the lungs. Cement dust in high enough concentrations can even cause chemical burns.

White assembled a list of the past violations at the plant based on county and state records, and the videos, given to the Mine Safety and Health Administration, spurred an unannounced inspection that uncovered several violations. The state health inspector was also conducting an inquiry, and the results were one of the largest fines that had been assessed to date.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) coverage Ongoing by BW staff since 2001

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enetically modified seeds and foods, the movement to label genetically engineered food products, and the monopolies in the food industry run by companies like Monsanto and DuPont have been on the Boulder Weekly radar since 2001.

For years, the story was a debate on whether genetically engineered sugar beets should be grown on county open space. Former Boulder Weekly editor Pamela White broke a story in 2009 on paid consultants from the biotech industry attending public meetings to make misleading statements about the

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safety and value of GMO crops. Then, in 2011, current editors Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer uncovered a similar effort by Monsanto, the Farm Bureau, Corn Growers Association and Syngenta to plant proGMO people from all over the state at a final county commissioners’ meeting on considering GMOs on Boulder County open space.

The Weekly has also explored how the consolidation of the seed industry means that even if farmers want to plan non-GMO crops, they struggle to find traditional seeds available, since those seeds have been phased out by big-ag companies as they purchase smaller seed companies and eliminate non-GE seeds. Mainstay crops such as corn, soy and sugar beets are now dangerously homogenous.

Ghosts of Valmont Butte: A 10-part series on a contaminated property bought by the city of Boulder

by Joel Dyer, Jefferson Dodge and Elizabeth Miller, January to June 2012

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he announcement of a cleanup settlement between the Department of Justice on behalf of the EPA and the City of Boulder, Honeywell International and Tusco Inc. raised more questions than it answered for Weekly staff, and they started on an investigation that would unearth potential mismanagement and an ongoing

Over the last 20 years, the Weekly has become a valuable watchdog in Boulder County. While the paper does not treat local institutions with much deference (and often with outright scorn), this gives its journalists the critical distance they need to investigate local issues that might otherwise glide by quietly. Recent examples include the contamination of the Boulder teahouse site by a former Public Service Company fuel facility and the emergent dangers of fracking near local communities. Best wishes to the Weekly for another 20 years of digging for the truth in local issues.

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risk to public health at the now cityowned property of Valmont Butte.

Unable to stomach the costs of cleaning up the property to meet the requirements to use it as a site for training fire fighters, the stated reason for purchasing it in the first place, the city elected to split costs with the one-time owner of the property, Honeywell, to install a cap and leave the site as open space — and a permanent home to tons of toxic and radioactive waste. A problematic classification and handling of the site by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Boulder led to the site narrowly missing qualification for Superfund status and federal funding for the cleanup.

The cleanup plan focused on preventing burrowing animals from unearthing toxic waste, but included virtually no provisions for preventing groundwater contamination and migration. City officials insisted there was no groundwater on the site, though neighboring homes have reported contaminated wells for decades.

City staff overseeing the cleanup were also apparently unsure of the location of 150 truckloads of radium-con-

taminated soil dumped at the property in the 1970s. After reviewing records from the city of Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Environmental Protection Agency; examining dozens of photographs and maps; interviewing people whose families lived in the area and relatives were buried in the adjacent cemetery, the Weekly identified the likely spot where the contamination was buried.

The ongoing cleanup is past deadline and over budget. This story isn’t finished yet.

Fracking in Boulder County Ongoing coverage since October 2011

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I hope I don’t get anyone fired by submitting this. I’ve learned that you have quite a fan club and readership among a large group of Denver and Boulder Republicans who have admired your articles and editorials advocating for more open government, affordable hassle-free access to public records and transparent elections. Boulder Weekly was willing to break the uncomfortable story that yes, in the best of NSA-style citizen monitoring, Boulder County and 40-plus sister counties issued barcoded traceable ballots to unsuspecting voters. Boulder Weekly helped curb the long-standing practice of Big Brother knowing how we vote. Keep up the good work!

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The damage the invasive CU STUDY SHOWS SIZE, ACTIVIpopulation of lionfish in the TY AFFECT MAMMALS’ Atlantic Ocean is doing to native species can be RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE reduced if lionfish are elimiLarger mammals and nated in isolated, small areas, those active only during the according to a new study day or only at night are the from most affectLad Akins, courtesy of Reef Environmental Education Oregon ed by cliFoundation State mate University, change, Simon Fraser according University, to a study Reef published Environment Jan. 22 in Education the journal Foundation Global and other Change institutions.

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The findings may translate — Mallane Dressel

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Boulder Weekly is my go-to periodical for the best, most in-depth reporting on environmental and other issues affecting Boulder County, the Front Range, the state and the nation. Boulder Weekly reporters don’t use talking points; they do their homework. Thanks for your straightforward reporting and analysis.

Lafayette City Council member Merrily Mazza/Lafayette Compliments on 20 years of covering arts, entertainment and opinions on the community we love. What a great means the Boulder Weekly has been to progressively cultivate the community through journalism.

Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall

I always turn to the Boulder Weekly for in-depth analysis of topics important to Boulder County residents. It is good journalism that benefits the public. We need more of that!

Rep. Mike Foote/Lafayette Congratulations on two decades!

Your attentive pursuit of the truth involving the environmental “situation” at the 1902-1960 Boulder Gasworks site shows great value to the community, as the watch dog that has sensed, seen and smelled enough irregularities to openly “sniff” and “woof” properly in the best interests of his master, the highly regarded environmental sensitivities of the Boulder community.

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officials interested in accessing the Wattenberg oil field next to and under Union Reservoir — and environmentalists were concerned that the chemicals used in the process could contaminate groundwater or the reservoir itself.

In other stories on fracking, BW published satellite photos that show what some activists say are patterns formed by the dumping of fracking waste, and covered the David-versusGoliath battle of Longmont environmentalists campaigning to pass a fracking ban for the city, as well as covering the ongoing lawsuit that followed passage of the ban.

The Weekly has reported on the historic origins of fracking here in Boulder, the pressure academics face when they publish anti-fracking findings and the ways the debate has split communities like the one in Pavillion, Wyo. Boulder Weekly editor Joel Dyer has reported that the method of disposing of toxic waste, including fracking fluid laden with 500 chemicals, in deep wells has been shown to have negative side effects, including earthquakes and groundwater contamination, but because fracking is exempt from the Clean Water Act, the wells those fluids are disposed in are infrequently checked.

Recently, Dyer has reported that many of the 15.3 Americans living within a mile of a hydraulically fractured well drilled since 2000 may see the value of their homes drop by more than 15 percent. He’s also looked into the loopholes that lie ahead for oil and gas companies because of international trade agreements, which means those companies may be able to force their way into local communities, whether they have a fracking ban or not.

BW has consistently brought stories about fracking from around the world back to Boulder County with the cautionary note that this could happen here.

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Joanne Muse Gallery For Lafayette, the second city in Colorado to ban fracking, the Boulder Weekly has been the greatest source of real investigative journalism and opinion on the topic in our state. From those of us on the front lines in the fight for both environmental sustainability and community rights, we hope that the Boulder Weekly can continue its leadership on these issues for another 20 years.

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onstruction on Hwy. 36 still won’t be finished.

• The Danish Plan 2.0 will encase Boulder in a giant dome.

• Rents will be so high that students will have to pay in kidneys instead of dollars.

• NORAD will build a satellite office inside the Flatirons.

• Ward Churchill and Patti Adler will form a presidential ticket.

• Every business in Boulder will be either a microbrewery or a Whole Foods.

• The University of Colorado will turn into a dry campus just before closing up shop completely.

• Yoga pants and Birkenstocks will be required for entry into fine dining establishments.

• A teleporter to Denver will be installed on Pearl Street so that RTD won’t have to pony up the dough for the train it never built.

• Naropa University will have lost and regained its accreditation 76 times.

• Rising seas from climate change will turn Colorado into a giant refugee camp.

• Boulder Weekly will still be using the same logo.

• Gas will cost $6 a gallon in Longmont, and $2,800 a gallon in

Boulder.

• Pearl Street will be turned into one giant community garden, complete with livestock you can milk, replacing water fountains.

• The Colorado River will dry up completely, but be replenished using water piped in from melting polar ice caps.

• Computer spell-checkers will finally learn the word “fracking,” just before the process is abandoned completely in favor of something even worse for the environment.

• Boulder will secede for a hot minute, but agree to rejoin America after finding that a barter economy based on second-hand Crocs, good vibes and NOAA research doesn’t prove viable.

• Virtual reality research done at CU will allow Boulder to get around its growth boundaries by physically housing residents in Longmont, and having them telecommute into Boulder through the use of hologram avatars.

• Green chile will be delivered by drones.

• Another, larger flood will wash away the city surface completely and reveal that Boulder was built on a dinosaur graveyard.

• There still won’t be justice for Big Boy the Elk. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Over the last 20 years I have seen the Boulder Weekly go through changes. At first any publication is questionable. It seemed to take a while to get up to the task of local relevance. Over time the Boulder Weekly has grown stronger and stronger as a go-to place to see what is going on locally not only in music but other equally important issues. The music section is always what I open up to first. Every week keeping up to date on what is going in the local music scene is very important to me. It has been a great place to see who is working on having their music heard. The Boulder Weekly has been fairly even with supporting new bands, touring bands and local favorites. They have taken chances that others wouldn’t have taken. I appreciate those chances.

Honestly, I don’t always agree with everything they have written politically, still, the Boulder Weekly has gained my trust and respect.

Regarding issues in our very complicated and changing Front Range the Boulder Weekly has impressed me with putting itself out in front to help raise discussions. As a free, locally written weekly we are lucky to have such an unusual source of news.

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ou know that feeling you get when you look at your haircut from the ’80s? Then the even worse feeling as your eyes drift downwards towards your outfit? It’s not that far off from the sinking feeling we here at BW got when we took a trip down the Internet’s memory lane and checked out early versions of our website by using The Wayback Machine on archive.org.

Did we really think that font looked good? Those bare text hyperlinks? And the ads for telepersonals?

If we didn’t know better, we’d say those bright neon buttons are wearing shoulder pads and a George Boulder Weekly 2007 Boulder Weekly 2008 Boulder Weekly 2014 Michael t-shirt. Yikes.

It was all the more surprising because a significant chunk of an Atari 2600 game was the icing on the cake.

BW’s online archive was lost and/or misplaced in launched saw the original site. They had thought Check out the screenshots above, or take a look the process of changing servers and platforms sevheadlines from 20 years ago were hilarious enough for yourself at http://archive.org/web/. eral times. So this was the first time that many of on their own, but to then see them all dolled up our staff who haven’t been at the paper since it like they were going to a red carpet premiere for Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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An entertaining 20 years: Looking back at Boulder’s music history

by David Accomazzo

T

wenty years ago, Boulder was a very different place.

Commercially, that is.

Geographically, the basics remained the same. The nightlife, for the most part, centered around Pearl Street and the Hill (though recently, the Puritans on city council have done their best to quash late-night fun on the latter). People who lived here were often outdoor sports enthusiasts or, almost as often, involved in tech of some sort (little known fact: Pretty Good Privacy, one of the most important encryption softwares ever written, was created by Phil Zimmermann in Boulder in 1991). But the businesses and the bars and clubs of Boulder had a very different feel.

You could smoke in bars; the Sundown Saloon was, by all accounts, an actual dive, not just the closest thing to one Boulder has today.

Pearl Street was not the fine dining Mecca that it is today. Parades of weirdos dotted the mall, and back then the townsfolk tolerated and even celebrated their oddness.

There were still a smattering of clubs and bars that hosted live music around town. There are a few that are still around — the Fox Theatre, Boulder Theater (which actually closed for a time in the ’90s), The Sink, The Boulder Weekly

Outback Saloon and Chautauqua Auditorium, to name a few, not to mention the creation of the Dairy Center for the Arts and the Boedecker Theater — but the vast majority are gone, having closed doors to be replaced by other music-hosting bars and businesses or, in some cases, demolished and replaced with something less romantic, like office buildings and apartments.

Pearl’s, at 1125 Pearl St., is now West Flanders Brewery. Two Jerks Tavern, at 2850 29th St., became Oscar’s Pub before being demolished to make way for affordable housing this past summer.

The Pearl Street Cellar, 921 Pearl St., is now Bacaro Venetian Taverna. Atlantic Pearl, 1795 Pearl St., was at one point Penny Lane coffee shop, and now it’s a Full Cycle bike store. Caffe Mars, 1425 Pearl St., is now Pedestrian Shops.

Where Chalet Suisse once sat, 24 Big Springs Drive in Nederland, now sits Black Forest restaurant. Round Midnight, 1005 Pearl St. in Boulder, is now the arcade bar Press Play. The building housing the legendary J.J. McCabes, which hosted a Phish show in 1990 and where Leftover Salmon regularly played before they got big, was demolished. In its place are a few businesses, including The Attic. Where Jose Muldoon’s once stood is now FATE Brewing Company. The Marquee, which brought in bigger local acts as well as touring national ones, is now the Absinthe House.

These are just a few of the businesses to turn over since Boulder Weekly published its first issue in 1993. Perhaps most sorely missed is Tulagi’s, the small venue on the Hill that in its heyday hosted acts like ZZ Top, The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, the Flying Burrito Brothers, John Lee Hooker and Miles Davis. Just last week we published an article interviewing Boulder musicians bemoaning the lack of a venue like Tulagi’s where they can

get the exposure they crave without the pressure of playing three hours of material (mostly covers) at a bar. The once-venerable music hall is now a sandwich shop.

These days, the health of the Boulder music scene is the subject of a lively, spirited debate. There seem to be two sides to it. You either think Boulder’s scene is stagnating, played out, predictable, homogenous and dull, or you like jam bands.

Regardless of which side you fall on, one thing’s for sure. The debate isn’t ending anytime soon. We know this because even in the first year of Boulder Weekly’s history, there were three articles examining the scene, reflecting a discussion that was at times very similar to the one taking place today, and at times very different.

On Oct. 21, 1993, in BW’s ninth issue, then-Entertainment Editor Teresa Younger interviewed Christian Dicharry of the local band Love Lies in a column titled “Boulder, music mecca?”

Younger noted that a few bands had recently moved to Boulder from the East Coast in hopes of making it big in the music world, perhaps a sign of the vibrancy of Boulder’s music scene.

Dicharry wasn’t so optimistic.

“I’m not positive about the Boulder scene lately,” he told Younger. “It’s losing its venues. Also, Boulder seems somewhat sedentary in its tastes. I guess I should try to be more politically correct, but Boulder is getting older.

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“I look to the Boulder Weekly to keep up with what’s going on in my community, to see what musicians are coming through, and to get an unbiased, dual perspective come voting time. Throughout my music career and the music careers of my friends and peers, the Boulder Weekly has been there supporting us by listing our shows, featuring us as picks of the week, and writing full articles on what we’re up to, whether it be our business practices or important shows and CD releases. This kind of support is invaluable and much appreciated. I consider the Boulder Weekly to be a valuable part of the community.”

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“It’s not as supported as it could be,” he continued. “But actually we’re experiencing a resurgence. We hit bottom. Ground Zero closing and J.J. McCabes stopping live music also hurt it. And we’re not a Taylor’s band. We physically can’t fit in that space. The only places we can play are the Marquee and the Fox Theatre.”

Yes, that was 20 years ago, and the complaints about the Boulder music scene were practically the same. Venues are closing; musicals acts aren’t diverse enough. Some things never change.

In the Jan. 13, 1994, issue, Younger wrote another column, this time interviewing Paul Trunko from Denver band The Keepers. Apparently, it was hard for Denver bands to break into the Boulder music scene, suggesting that Boulder gigs were desirable for musicians from the other side of the turnpike.

“It’s hard to get a gig there,” Trunko lamented. “I guess the Boulder scene comes and goes. And now the Boulder bands have a base following, so bars know that by booking a Boulder band that they will get people in the door.

“We’re a pro band, not just a group of kids.”

The March 24, 1994, edition brought up the issue again with a cover story titled, “Where has all the music gone?” Freelance reporter Bob Donchez posited that bars and other venues around town were phasing out live music and putting in pool tables. Places that once hosted bands were turning into sports bars, Donchez wrote.

“Boulder, not exactly known for its normality, has seen a uniform theme sweep through its eating and drinking establishments,” Donchez reported.

“The growth in pool halls and sports bar themes has rivaled growth in automobiles about town. Dining tables have been replaced by pool tables, chopsticks by pool sticks. Only the prairie dog population has multiplied as quickly.”

The article later quoted Tulagi owner John Fenton, who noted that Boulder bands just weren’t as popular — and therefore as profitable — as they used to be.

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“For many clubs, live music just wasn’t making enough money to support their operations,” Fenton told BW. “The best bands don’t necessarily draw the largest crowds. It’s the group who has the most friends attending their show that is most financially successful for both the bar and the group.”

(In a fun example of how Boulder has changed, the article quotes a woman identified only as “Nancy,” who played pool with her husband every Friday at the Sundown Saloon. “This is the only true bar in Boulder. There are no college kids, no fancy motif. ... It’s a regular crowd with regular people, brought together for some camaraderie over beer and pool.” No college kids?

At the Downer? That must have been in the pre-$6-pitchers-of-PBR days.)

•••• For as many venues that have come and gone in Boulder in the past 20 years, thousands more musicians have done the same. Many who graced the pages of the first 52 BW issues have since evaporated from the public eye.

But even the ones who are now famous had to start somewhere. You might recognize a few of the then-unknown bands mentioned in or interviewed by Boulder Weekly in 1993 and 1994. Ani DiFranco, Dave Matthews Band and Radiohead come to mind.

Yes, Radiohead, the notoriously media-shy British musical legends. The band was playing the Glenn Miller Ballroom, and Boulder Weekly scored an interview with guitarist Phil Selway and printed it in the Oct. 14, 1993, issue.

The band was opening for Belly, a sort of alternative pop band that flirted with

popularity in the early ’90s. Of course, Belly broke up in 1996, while Radiohead has since carved a place for itself in rock history, but everyone’s got to start somewhere. At at the time of the Glenn Miller show, Radiohead had only released its first album, Pablo Honey, a good album that hinted at the band’s soon-to-come greatness. The group was basically riding the success of “Creep,” which to this day remains one the band’s most traditional, poppy and popular songs. Most of Pablo Honey contains songs in a similar vein — the band had yet to venture into the unexplored sonic caves it would spelunk in 1997 with OK Computer, and many critics and fans alike had pegged them as simply an alternative rock band.

Last May, singer Thom Yorke described that part of the band’s career to Marc Maron on the comedian’s WTF podcast.

“When we signed to EMI, we just said to them, ‘We haven’t got a clue what we’re doing. It’s very nice you like our songs and everything and you think we’re going to be famous, but we haven’t got a clue what we’re doing,’” Yorke said. “We just left college. Give us some money for a van, and maybe some money for a hotel so we don’t have to sleep in the van, and just leave us alone for, like, a year-and-a-half so we can figure it out. Unfortunately, about a year into that we get this meeting with our manager saying, um, ‘Creep’ is a massive hit, in Israel first and then in KROQ here [in Los Angeles], and in New York, and you’ve gotta go. You’ve gotta go.’ I was still trying to figure this out ... and suddenly we’re flown over here and everyone‘s

sort of expecting us to be rock stars.”

That said, the band wasn’t immediately a top-billed headliner.

“We booked into these small gigs and it was fun because people were turning up,” Yorke told Maron. “It was pretty wicked actually. We were still learning what the hell was going on at that time.”

So in order to promote the Glenn Miller show, guitarist Phil Selway talked business with BW, telling Teresa Younger how quickly Radiohead became popular, explaining how the band’s cachet grew in other foreign lands before it did in their home country. “[In the U.K.,] magazines like Melody Maker and Mayhem can make or break a band,” Selway told Boulder Weekly. “The U.K. is a small place. And across a day, a band can be broken down on the wings of the music press.”

Selway said the press in Britain didn’t know what to make of Radiohead, at first.

“We signed on a major label right away, so people thought we were just an attempt by the major labels to get in on the indie-alternative scene,” he said.

“They thought we weren’t a genuine band. But by now we’ve proven we are a genuine band. We had a very variable press reaction. But the English position changed when ‘Creep’ caught on here.

It had to. We were the first new British band to have real success in the U.S. They had to pick up on us.”

As for “Creep,” Selway said it was just simply a good song.

“Everybody says it strikes a chord with disaffected youth in the U.S. and across the world,” he said, which was actually a pretty cliched way to talk about alternative music in the early ’90s.

“But I’ll tell you why ‘Creep’ caught on.

Now I’m speaking immodestly. It was because it has all the elements of a great song; a great melody, a good arrangement, good lyrics and universal feeling.”

Let this next tale be a lesson for aspiring singer-songwriters: Never give up. When Boulder Weekly interviewed Ani DiFranco for the Dec. 2, 1993, issue, the first line of the article was, “Many people haven’t yet heard of the frank Ani DiFranco or heard her gutsy see MUSIC Page 54

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mixture of folk and rock.” The article went on to describe a DiFranco song about menstruation. These days, DiFranco can charge whatever she wants, sing about whatever she wants, and sell out the Boulder Theater without much effort. In December 1993, she was playing the September School Arts Building at 1902 Walnut Ave. So take note, creative types: stay true to yourself, never turn down a gig, and you never know what might happen.

Back in 2010, AEG Live Rocky Mountains President and CEO Chuck Morris told Boulder Weekly about the relationship between Dave Matthews Band (DMB) and Colorado.

“We’ve had a history going back to ... God, Don [Strasburg] played them at the Fox [Theatre] when they were barely known, and I put them on [with] Big Head Todd/Los Lobos; Dave Matthews was the opening act at Red Rocks, and I’ll never forget that. We gave them barely enough money to fly from Charlottesville [Va.,], the band and crew and manager, mostly because Don told me how great they were … and that was before he was even working here, for me. “[Dave Matthews Band] just had their independent records out there. I’ll never forget, sitting on the side of the stage, they were introduced and went up there. ... [The crowd] was there to see Big Head Todd, Los Lobos was second and Dave Matthews Band was third, the opening act. And I saw 700, 800, 900 people singing along to every song from their independent record,

which really says something about the future of an act.”

Well, before DMB became the torch-carriers of bro-rock and headlined festivals and sold millions of albums, they were playing the Fox Theatre in Boulder (as Morris said), hoping they could sell out two nights at the 600-person venue. That show Morris mentioned, where DMB opened for Big Head Todd and the Monsters and Los Lobos? That was happening in May 1994 at Red Rocks. In December 1993, Dave Kirby (going by David Kirby back then) interviewed Matthews as he prepared his band to play a string of Colorado dates, including two nights at the Fox. Apparently, a major storm had just dumped a load of powdery, white goodness on Colorado.

“I’m not a great skier, but I love it,” Matthews enthused. “I’m incredibly psyched to be here at this particular time. The gigs will be great, but I wanna GO SKIING!!!” (Emphasis taken from the article) “It’s almost as if no one has gotten around to telling this South Africanborn Virginian that he’s fronting probably the hottest club act in America,” Kirby went on to write.

It’s probably been almost 20 years since DMB could have even remotely be considered a club act. Life’s good as a festival headliner.

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The singles “The Day I Tried To Live,” “Fell on Black Days,” “Spoonman” and “Black Hole Sun” were not yet classic grunge songs but freshly released burners. Tad was a Seattle grunge band that had a little sharper bite than Nirvana, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, yet never became as popular, and Eleven was the band of future Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Alain Johannes and keyboardist Natasha Shneider (Shneider would eventually support QOTSA on tour). Funny enough, Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron ended up playing on four tracks of Eleven’s 1995 album, Thunk. Perhaps that show was when Cameron and Johannes first realized that good things would come if they combined their powers.

In the sixth issue of Boulder Weekly, Leftover Salmon made its first appearance. The band was fresh; it was about to load into an old yellow school bus

and go on tour. Even back then, the band was proudly wearing the “polyethnic cajun slamgrass” label.

Kirby posited that Leftover Salmon just might be the next Boulder band to go national.

“I think we’re just sort of realizing that now,” the late Mark Vann, Salmon’s original banjo player, explained. “Sort of like the band is starting to think that something like that can actually happen. You have to understand, we’ve always been a little shy about this band.”

Vann went on to say that the band had sold out shows at the Fox for almost a year. He said the band was considering getting an agent and had just hired a full-time sound guy, which was making a hugely positive difference in the band’s sound. It was just the beginning of the band’s success. To this day, Boulder Weekly has likely written about Leftover Salmon more than any other band.

There aren’t many newspapers that last to document 20 years of music history. Here’s to 20 more years of vibrant art, music and creativity in Boulder County.

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he Chautauqua Summer Series program director used to host a little gathering of Boulder music media types in the wintertime, an informal punch-anddoughnuts thing where we’d vote on acts we’d like to see at Chautauqua that summer. It was fun — it gave local writers and radio personalities and players a chance for some schmoozing and trading of war stories, good shows we’d seen, new CDs, industry gossip.

On the way out after one of these sessions one year, I distinctly remember our host commenting to one of the other writers, after hearing about a colleague who had flamed out somehow, “Yeah, writing about music is really a young man’s game.”

That statement, delivered offhandedly as I recall, has always stuck with me.

This was a few years before Leland Rucker, who now writes a weekly column about developments in weed legalization in these very pages, asked me to contribute to this new weekly publication called Boulder Weekly. Rucker and I had some history. I had written for him at a couple of other locally published periodicals in the ’80s and early ’90s; he had accustomed himself to the Excedrin-sized perils of editing my copy (no trivial exercise in those days), but I think he also trusted me to get him properly sized stories on time. A good section editor can fix quarrelsome copy; he can’t fix mortally late copy.

And so one of the first stories that Rucker assigned me was a shoe leather report on the local retail commerce in used CDs. Hard to imagine now, but the Boulder Weekly

music industry was pretty freaked out by the growing phenomenon of people buying CDs, taping them and then selling the original media. Ripping a CD in those days meant copying it onto a cassette.

It was a fun story to do (all the stores agreed that the most off-loaded CD, the one that they wouldn’t take anymore, was Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction), but even then I’d been around long enough to remember the last iteration of music-copying panic, the civilization-threatening Blank Cassette Scare of the 1970s.

They had Congressional hearings on that one.

Stevie Wonder proposed that every blank cassette sold have an artist’s album on one side, so you were at least filling some label’s till while you plotted to clandestinely copy someone else’s copy of Get The Knack to your Nakamichi.

In the intervening years, of course, the music industry has survived the used CD, survived Napster (well, they killed that), survived BitTorrent, survived Kim Dotcom. The Weekly has survived as well, while the newspaper business around it resists an achingly long march to possible obsolescence, defying the odds, it seemed, by sheer force of will.

So while I wasn’t new to the weekly music column game, the ride at the Weekly, Boulder’s upstart arts and news weekly publication, proved to be a great one. Les Claypool telling us in 2001 how he hates to be bored. McCoy Tyner reflecting in 2002 on John Coltrane’s fear of flying and Bud Powell’s sad demise. John Paul Jones recalling how See RECORDING Page 58

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I’d like to offer my congratulations to the Boulder Weekly on its 20th anniversary, and my best wishes for its continued success. I deeply appreciate the role a free press must play if we are to have a society that functions on higher levels. In short, knowledge comes before action, or at least it ought to, and incomplete knowledge can lead to incorrect actions.

The Boulder Weekly has long given its readers perspectives that they might not be able to get elsewhere, and for that alone I find it to be valuable. Also, some of its extended features on local environmental issues have been fine examples of top-notch investigative journalism. Thanks for all you do!

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The Boulder Weekly ran an article about the Boulder Tattoo Project on Aug. 1, 2013. As project manager, I can say that after the article ran, I had a huge rush of support from the community. It brought the exposure we needed to take the project to the next level.

It also perfectly coincided with the release date of the poem we commissioned by Anne Waldman, and I appreciated the Boulder Weekly’s willingness and excitement about including the poem in the article. The interview with David Accomazzo was a pleasure, and the photographer was professional and punctual. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with the Boulder Weekly and am very thankful to them for helping to boost my project to the next level.

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much he hated touring with Led Zeppelin. Al DiMeola wondering why he couldn’t get the same radio play that Kenny G did. Leo Kottke being mad, years after the fact, that Michael Hedges died so young. Herbie Hancock enthusing, in between bites of his lunch, about an impromptu duet with Max Roach at a European jazz festival. Interviewing Los Lobos for the Weekly’s second edition, and five times since.

And countless stories on Boulder’s own success stories. Leftover Salmon, String Cheese, Trace Bundy, The Motet, West Water Outlaws, the subdudes, Sean Kelly, Big Head Todd, Newcomer’s Home, Elephant Revival, Paper Bird, Big Gigantic, Danny Shafer, Otis Taylor, Yonder Mountain String Band. And even a few Boulder ex-pats, like Jerry Joseph, who, years

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after moving to Portland, felt like he was being stalked by ghosts whenever he was back in town, and Steve Conn recalling Monday Night Madness gigs with Gris Gris at Jose Muldoon’s back in the day, vying with Sonny Landreth’s band on alternate weeks to break the bar record.

For me, the work has always been about the players: dealing with the tidal convulsions of the industry, the grind of endless tours in cramped and rickety buses, navigating the fickle tastes of club or theater audiences, the balance between craft and logistics. Years ago, I used to write much more opinionated columns — this is great, this sucks — the kind of stuff that music critics write to call attention to themselves and their self-anointed roles as tastemakers. But the players are doing the heavy lifting,

not me. Most of the time, their stories are a lot more interesting than what I happen to think about them.

Still, I’ve taken my share of lumps along the way. After being publicly (and comically) accused of being a Deadhead by another local writer in the early ’90s, a decidedly criminal offense for a real music critic, I found myself ironically targeted by scorching hate-emails after a skeptical column I did on a Phil and Friends gig at Red Rocks in 2001. I vowed never to write about the Dead or Deadheads again, nominally breaking that pledge a few years ago by interviewing Mickey Hart.

Neither of us really wanted to talk about the Dead, though, and for that I was grateful … er, thankful.

And the time when a local club operator threatened to sue me over an

inartfully constructed sentence suggesting that his venue had gone out of business. And the time I misidentified Wammo as Asylum Street Spankers’ Christine Marrs’ husband — I heard from her real husband on that one. On Facebook. They broke up not long after that little mistake (the band, not the marriage), and ever since I have felt vaguely and irrationally responsible.

So the tread has a few miles on it, but it’s all good. It may sound trite to say that the Weekly is a survivor and so am I, even if it’s a little true. Instead, we’ll just say that it’s easy to keep going after 20 years for this upstart little newspaper.

Why? Because after 20 years, we’re both still young.

Hey, this is Boulder, and in Boulder, everybody is young.

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Musicals, hormones and more abound at International Film Series

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have always thought of the movie theater as my church,” says Pablo Kjolseth, executive director of the International Film Series (IFS). “It has a meditative quality. To be able to actually sit down in a dark theater where you can’t have all of your electronics and stuff, it fractures your psyche. We want to provide a sacred space where you can concentrate and be swept away.”

The IFS is Boulder’s oldest art house movie series, offering cinema devotees independent, foreign and classic films.

“We exhibit [archival] and rare prints from private collections where the actual quality of these films is unparalleled to other digital reproductions,” Kjolseth says.

However, the International Film Series wants to provide viewers with more than just carefully selected and sought-after films. At the IFS the focus is always on the film itself. The screenings never show ads, there are no concessions for profit, and the ushers police the area, discouraging the use of cell phones and other distractions.

“I want the IFS to represent the legacy of cinema, past and present,” Kjolseth says. The IFS was established in Boulder in 1941, and film screenings are held on the University of Colorado Boulder campus in Muenzinger Auditorium and in the Visual Arts Complex.

Starting Feb. 4 and running through April, the IFS will screen more than 100 films, from debut premieres to restored classics, including West Side Story and Dirty Dancing. This spring, the film series will feature documentaries on Tuesdays, and switch off between romantic musicals and “libidinal madness” — which Kjolseth defines as “serious dramas with very hormonal passions” — on Wednesdays. They will alternate between the colorful spectacle of kung fu films and the aesthetic counterpoint of black-and-white film-noir screen-

ings on Thursdays.

“All of the kung fu movies are from a private collector who rescued the prints.” Kjolseth explains.

“With film noirs you get beautiful black-and-white cinematography, which is the quality that is the hardest for new digital projection to replicate. That’s where the film format still really shines, in black and white.”

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The last three weekends in February, the IFS will screen the short films nominated for Oscars in 2014, showing each short in the live action, animation and documentary category.

Fans of the Beatles are also in luck, as a whole weekend in April will be dedicated to films about the band. The series will include producer and composer Scott Freiman presenting an in-depth look at the album Revolver, the song “Strawberry Fields Forever” and some of the Beatles’ most memorable achievements. Beatles scholar and author of three books on the band, Ken Womak, will screen a Beatles film of his choice and speak afterwards.

The film series will be hosting several visiting filmmakers to present at the screenings, and Kjolseth recommends his personal favorite, Blast of Silence, on April 17.

“An absolute powerhouse of a film, shot on the streets of NYC on 16 mm cameras. To be able to see it on 35 mm film is going to be incredible; I’ve never seen it on that format,” he says. “Also, A Field in England is great. A nutty film, probably the only time I have been able to describe a film as psychedelic black-and-white.”

A Field in England will screen on Friday, April 18, and Saturday, April 19.

All films will be shown in the Muenzinger Auditorium on the CU campus except for films shown in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, which will be shown on Thursdays in the Visual Arts Complex basement auditorium, also on campus. Tickets go on sale 30 minutes before the show, and general admission is $7. Admission for CU students and senior citizens is $6. For more information, visit www.internationalfilmseries.com or call the IFS office at 303-492-1531.

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ometimes the best choices you can make are the ones that seem completely unplanned.

Local singer-songwriter Liz Berube can attest to this fact when talking about what led to her moving to Boulder in 2010.

“I had just graduated from Ithaca College in New York, my older sister was moving out to Boulder for work, and I was kind of under the mindset of ‘I don’t know what to do with my life, so why don’t I move to Colorado?’” she laughs. “So we packed up the car and moved out here.”

The move would prove to be good for her creative streak as she began writing songs with increasing frequency after getting settled in. Most of the songs from her debut EP, 2013’s Mountain Road, are based on her life in Colorado or at least were created here. But the closing song on the EP, “When I feel more at ease in her new environWas Young,” hearkens back to her days ment. growing up in Vermont. Having ele“I was living close to downtown, but ments of her present, I was living alone for recent past and disthe most part, and for ON THE BILL: Liz Berube tant past on the EP some reason, even plays The Laughing Goat on makes for a wellthough it was this Thursday, Feb. 6, at 8 p.m.

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“The last song is leave a lot of the about my roots and time,” Berube says. my growing up, so it “So I spent a lot of my really kind of fit together nicely for time writing songs in that apartment, me,” Berube says. “When I moved out and the experience was really cathartic here, that’s when I really started to for me.” explore music more and began writing Among the Colorado-centric tracks more songs, but there’s always that part are acoustic numbers like “Home,” of home that’s a huge part of me.” which extols the virtues of that place Writing for this EP was an interest- you can always go back to — but only ing experience for Berube. Not only was when you are ready to go — and the she striving to learn more about her ballad “600 Miles,” which speaks poeticraft and improve as both a singer and a cally about the obstacles we will oversongwriter, but in some sense, the expe- come to be with the ones we love. But rience of writing these songs helped her the Americana-tinged strummer Boulder Weekly

“James” is one of the EP’s best.

“I wrote that one about a homeless guy in Boulder who I would see almost every day on my drive home from work,” Berube says.

“He was at a traffic light, so I’d be driving home and I’d see him every day and we’d have some brief little conversations.”

And despite the serious, reflective tone that a number of her songs take, “A Man Like You” proves that she is not afraid to think outside the box. While the majority of Mountain Road is classic, laid-back singer-songwriter material, this track goes in a completely different direction. It has a bluesy tone, features heavy doses of electric guitar and harmonica, and showcases Berube’s vocal chops as she alternates between soulful crooning and belting out powerhouse notes. And what’s more, it’s the only song on the EP that isn’t based on her life.

“It’s funny because everyone wants to know ‘Who is that one about?’”

Berube laughs. “It was a fun way to experiment and get that bluesy feel going, and for a song that I don’t have a lot of emotional attachment to, it was really easy to let go of any expectations.

I think the songs that are more personal to me I’m a little more protective of, but with that one I was really able to let go and have a lot of fun with it.”

And while that track demonstrates that Berube is not above having a little fun and creating fictional material, music is still something she takes very seriously.

“For me, music has always been a pretty personal thing,” she says. “The songs that I write are in no way shy, so it allows me to express myself in a way that is safe and artistic, and that’s something that’s really important to me.”

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ot far out of the gates of the “Central Iowa Rock Road Endurance Metric” (or CIRREM, as it’s known in gravel circles), riders started going down on the dirt road in the middle of Iowa. A big guy on my left spilled hard and almost took me out. Another one up front went over and slammed his helmet into the ground. I slipped on the ice a few times, but managed to stay upright. In the lead pack, a rider broke away and the others started to chase him. Nearly all of them went over, too.

We were just a few miles into the late-February, 63.5mile bike race that brings out the hardest of the hardcore groadies (gravel roadies). Gravel riding, or “gravel grinding” as it’s known, is a different sort of race than the ones that came before. These are epic rides on forgotten, unpaved roads covered in crushed rock.

They’re more relaxed, more low-brow, and more hardcore than your average road crit.

Not only that, but they open up a vast new territory for cycling. At last count, there were 1.3 million miles of unpaved roads throughout the United States.

Cyclists are just beginning to discover these as a new frontier where there are no rules, no governing bodies, and where you can just announce a race and people will show up to ride 60, 100, 200 miles or more.

“Ever since 2005, it’s been on the upswing,” says

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Kansas filled its 450 slots in two-and-a-half hours. Getting into the Trans Iowa these days has almost become as hard as the ride itself.

In Europe, too, new gravel races have popped up and taken off, like the Strade Bianche in Italy, the Dengie Marshes Tour in England, and the Gran Premio Canal de Castilla in Spain.

“They’ve been catching on everywhere,” says Ed Pickering, who covers European cycling for the U.K.-based Cycle Sport Magazine. “I think it’s because Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders are held in such high esteem.”

The Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders are two of the Spring Classics held in Europe early in the year.

They’re grueling and glorious, going through mud and over old cobblestone roads; they seem closer to the sport’s prepaved roots than other major road races, retaining all the romance of old-world cycling.

“The appeal is retro,” says Pickering. Now, with the fall of Lance Armstrong, and the pall he cast on the Tour de France, that appeal seems likely to grow.

“Everyone wants to be in Paris-Roubaix,” says Drew Wilson, who went on to finish third at CIRREM. “That’s what you dream about. But the USA Cycling-sanctioned road races have too many set-up costs and rules to stage a race on this same scale. So these gravel rides are as close as we can get to having classics-style courses.”

Bike racing on gravel roads is gaining traction

by Frank Bures Mark “Guitar Ted” Stevenson, who runs the 320-plusmile Trans Iowa gravel race, as well as the Gravel Grinder News website. “It’s been astounding to see the growth of it.”

Stevenson says the number of gravel races was up by 50 percent last season, and the number of racers has exploded. Last year, for example, CIRREM made no opening announcement but filled up in 24 hours. The Almanzo, a 100/160-miler in Minnesota had 350 people in 2011 (only 170 finished), they registered 800 in 2012, and this year they’ve added the 400-mile “Nellie.” Even the brutal, 200-mile Dirty Kanza in

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Complaints about red tape and overadministrating are common refrains in gravel circles, and those issues help explain why gravel riding attracts the cycling misfits who don’t fit into any neat cycling box.

“Regular racing is extremely cost prohibitive,” says Jeff Frane, a gravel racer who also works for All City Cycles. “But with gravel races you don’t have to worry about getting your money’s worth, because getting your money’s worth is just about having fun. And if

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you had fun, you clearly got your money’s worth. There’s something about removing all the red tape and restrictions and regulations that brings cycling back to its roots in another way.”

Most gravel rides are free, or close to it, which is part of the gravel scene’s everyman ethos. Just get on your bike and ride: At CIRREM, I saw mountain bikes, cyclocross, fat bikes and even tandems rolling through the Iowa hills. But with the scene growing so fast, companies have started coming out with gravel-

specific bikes, like Salsa’s Warbird, which has a longer wheel base, a lower bottom bracket, a taller head tube and sealed cables to keep dust out. It also comes with three water bottle cages in case you get thirsty out around mile 150 or so.

As the sport gains in popularity and gravel-specific products become the norm, it would seem like the signs point to gravel going mainstream. But for now the camaraderie of the nascent scene remains part of the appeal — a camaraderie that stems from finishing some-

thing that’s more adventure than race.

Out on the gravel, it’s up to you to get over the bumps, through the mud, and back to the finish line.

“If you have a mechanical problem, ain’t nobody coming to pick your ass up,” says Frane. “And there’s something to be said for a person surviving by their wits, even if it’s only for a couple of hours during a bike race.”

That is no doubt the deeper allure of gravel racing: It’s open to anyone who thinks they can ride 100 miles on whatever kind of bike they want. It gives every rider a chance to dig down and push past their everyday limits.

“Grown men cry like babies at the finish line at Dirty Kanza,” says Jim Cummings. “And it’s easy to assume the reason they’re crying is because they’ve been suffering and the pain is over. But I don’t think that’s it. I think they cry because it gives them a chance to go inside themselves, to a place where they don’t normally get to go, and they like what they find there.”

CIRREM was on the short side of the gravel spectrum, but it was still, as one of the organizers put it, “a solid kick in the junk.” At about mile 45, I looked down at my chain to find it completely encased in frozen mud — the morning snow had melted and the afternoon roads were a cold, dirty swamp. Dead tired, and with only one gear working, I stopped to chip my cables loose. A few other riders passed me. A pickup pulled up, and the driver stuck his head out.

“You want a ride?’ he yelled.

“No thanks,” I said.

“You headed to town?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s a long ways.”

“I know,” I said, looking down the road to see just how long it was. “I’ll make it.”

After waving him past, I managed to free up two more gears and got back on.

Another 20 miles down the road, my bike creaked to a halt in front of a local bar in a tiny town just south of Des Moines. I walked across the finish line (the bar’s front door), and a guy at a table asked for my race number and shouted out my time.

The bar was packed with dirty, happy cyclists, laughing, talking and, this being a bar, drinking. I wandered around and found a few of the people I’d ridden with. I asked some of them how they did, but no one seemed all that concerned. Most of the riders just shrugged. After all, it didn’t really matter how fast anyone went. What mattered, in the end, was just the ride.

Frank Bures is a contributing editor at World Hum, where his stories have won several awards.

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ITCHY-O The sinister marching band from hell (Denver, actually) makes a stop down in Boulder on Saturday, Feb. 1. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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Thursday, January 30 music Birth of the Dead-Evan Cantor. 6 p.m. J. Wells Brewery, 2516 49th St., #5, Boulder, 303-499-1829.

Blue City West. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Brazil Night. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130.

Daniel Amedee. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat at Norlin Library CU Campus, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

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

Durand Robinson. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

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

Dukes of Winter. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Thursday Night Live Music. 9 p.m. Bitter Bar, 835 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4423050.

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

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Juicy J. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Acoustic Meditation & New Year DeStress Workshop 7 p.m., Boulder Sol Chiropractic, 2503 Walnut St. Suite 100, Boulder, 303-449-7226.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-2976397.

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Thursday, January 30: RetroSonics. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.

It’s all about the ’80s. You can expect this quartet to throw down any danceable tune from ’80s popular music, and a party that calls for ’80s fashion. Whether it be ’80s new wave, alternative, punk or pop, their groove-inducing synths and head-bopping beats will make you want to shake your side-ponytail and spandex-clad booty. As it says on the band’s website,“If a person can’t dance to ’80s music, they don’t know how to make love.”

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Friday, January 31: Catfish Kray Blues Band.

8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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Since its debut in 1997 this Colorado blues ensemble has thrilled almost every venue in Denver, and its 2009 CD Splash has garnered international airplay. Influences include Albert Collins, Robert Jr. Lockwood and Joe Walsh.

Live shows remain the group’s specialty. Twangy slide guitar and some added soulfulness with the recent addition of gospel singer Larea Edwards challenge the audience to resist dancing once they start!

Thursday, January 30: Left Hand Running Club 12 p.m., 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Was your New Year’s resolution to exercise more? Do you love local craft brews?

Why not kill two birds with one stone, and join Left Hand Brewing Company’s running club. The run is for one hour and whether you walk, jog or sprint, each participant gets a free pint when they get back to the brewery. They meet on Saturdays at 12 p.m., weather permitting, and the forecast says it should be clearing up this weekend. Meet at the Tasting Room at Left Hand.

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Boulder Stories of Romance and Courtships. Boulder Public Library Carnegie Branch, 1125 Pine St., Boulder, 303-4413110. Through Feb. 28.

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Stories in Print, an exhibit at the Dairy Center for the Arts, runs through March 7.

Through March 1.

PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through June 21.

The Circle Limit Passport to Paris.

Cynthia Brinich-Langlois’ 2012 etching Design Series — Denver Art Museum, “World,” part of a series called “Anu Artist Ben Van Dusen.

100 W. 14th Ave. and the Whale.”

National Center for Parkway, Denver, Atmospheric Research, 720-865-5000.

1850 Table Mesa Through Feb. 9.

Drive, Boulder, 303Pattern: Follow the 497-1000. Through Jan. 31.

Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Collect — Arvada Center for the Arts and 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Boulder, Through Feb. 9.

720-898-7200. Through March 30.

Pin-up Photography — Exhibition in conjuncEpic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art tion with screening of Bettie Page documentary.

Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., 720-865-5000. Through July 13.

Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 31.

Front Range Contemporary Quilters — The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 7.

Humanity, Earth, Intention and Consequences — Features the work of Tania Dibbs.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 7.

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Studio Spotlight — Features the work of Rick Stoner, Dwayne Wolf and Martha Williams.

Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Feb. 2.

Narrative Forms at the WESTend — Features the paintings and sculpture of Damon Mohl and the small metal work of Jessica Mohl. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Stories in Print — Features the work of Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, Ann Johnston-Schuster.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 7.

EVENTS from Page 69 Boulder Rights of Nature Winter Meeting. 6 p.m. George Reynolds Branch - Boulder Public Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4413120.

Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

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

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Three Sisters. 7:30 p.m. Loft Theatre at CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303492-8008.

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DJ Rock Star Aaron. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Doug Cook. 5:45 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303530-0642.

Dr. Ralph Stanley. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Hamilton Loomis. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main Street, Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

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

Matt Skinner Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Michael Kirkpatrick. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-3175522.

Aural Elixir Makes Everything Better. 6 p.m.

Sun Rose Café, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-6513533.

MM Recital. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th Street, Boulder, 303-492-1411.

Billy Shaddox and Kara Tauchman. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Nadas Acoustic Duo. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Café, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Friday, January 31

303.494.5000

Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24.

Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through March 30.

Town Hall Meeting with Reps. Mike Foote and Jonathan Singer and Sen. Matt Jones. 6 p.m.

Front Range Community College, 2190 Miller Drive, Longmont, 303-519-2183.

More information: 303-494-5000 location: West Side of Table Mesa Shopping center

Plein Air Landscape Design — Artist Lamya Deeb. National Center for Atmospheric Research, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000.

Through Jan. 31.

Catfish Kray Blues Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

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

Jan. 31-Feb. 16.

The Legend of Georgia McBride. The Ricketson Theatre, 1101 13th St.,PMS 4625 Denver, 303-893-4100.

Through Feb. 23.

Black Odyssey. The Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303893-4100. Through Feb. 16.

MAMMA MIA! Buell Theatre, 950 13th St., Denver. 303-893-4100.

Through Feb. 2.

Dial “M” For Murder.

Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-7725200. Through Feb. 1.

Annapurna will play at The Dairy Center for the Arts, at 7:30 p.m. from Jan. 31. through Feb. 16.

Girls Only: The Secret Comedy of Women.

The Garner Galleria Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. 303-893-4100. Through March 9.

Pre-Super Bowl Gig with the RTH Band. 8 p.m.

Dillinger’s Bar and Grill, 1202 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, 303-666-6979.

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

Signel-Z. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Small Potatoes. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Someone’s In For An Explosion. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Sound Tribe Sector 9. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

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

Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through March 1.

The Whipping Man. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524. Through Feb. 15.

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

Ave Honig’s New Standards Project. 4 p.m.

Kettle and Stone Brewing Co., 6880 Winchester Circle, Gunbarrel, 303-530-0642.

Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303339-0767.

David Booker. 4:30 p.m.Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

DeadPhish Orchestra. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

The Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

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

DJ Ish. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300

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

Felonius Smith Live at Twisted Pine Brewing Company. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

events Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 Thirteenth Street, Boulder, 303-442-4344.

MM Recital. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

One Act. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.

Paul Kimbiris & Beat Hymn. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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7 p.m. Math 100, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-443-8383 Three Sisters. 7:30 p.m. Loft Theatre at CU Boulder, College Ave and Broadway, Boulder, 303492-8008..

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

Joe Crookston. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Kevin Mermel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat at Norlin Library CU Campus, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Mountain Sun Funky Good Times Benefit. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

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Rebecca Folsom Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Rocktin Grove. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. see EVENTS Page 72

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Tattered Cover Film Series - Coup de Grâce 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-4361070.

Ryan Bartelmay — Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward. 7:30 p.m.

The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-4361070.

Monday, February 4 An Evening with Isabel Allende - Ripper 7:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-436-1070.

Vicki Robbin- Blessing the Hands that Feed Us. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, February 5

Friday, January 31 Meet the Author Family Friday Night with Kitty Migaki.

6:30 p.m. The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-436-1070.

Steven Johnson. 7-8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry.

1203 13th Street Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Ryan Bartelmay will read from and sign his novel Onward Toward What We’re Going Toward at The Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver on Jan. 30.

Deni Bechard Empty Hands, Open Arms. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Nancy Sharp - Both Sides Now 7:30 p.m.

The Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th Street Mall, Denver, 303-436-1070.

EVENTS from Page 71 Second Acts. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Ben Marshal. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Sound Tribe Sector 9. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

VanDuzApalooZa Part TwoZa! 35th Birthday party at Upslope to benefit Community Cycles.

4 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Boulder, 303-350-7701.

events Dave Potter. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303339-0767.

Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Mayama Movement Studio, 625 1/2 4th Ave, Lyons, 303-8230816.

Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2690 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Movement Mass ~ Align with the Divine With Melissa Michaels and Friends. 10:45 a.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4996363.

Playback Theatre West. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

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Prairie winter hike. 1 p.m. Carolyn Holmberg Preserve at Rock Creek Farm, Stearns lake trailhead, South 104th St, ½ mile south of Dillon road, Louisville, 303-678-6214.

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

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

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Running Club. 12 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1 Boulder Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-449-0884.

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

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Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270.

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Lichen Diversity Decline and its Consequences to the Terrestrial Biome. 7 p.m. Henderson Building 218 UCB, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, 303-492-3396

Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1 Boulder Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-449-0884.

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

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Stand-up comedian Jeff Ross, who is known for his celebrity roasts once said, “Roasts can be therapeutic; they bring people together.” Ross has appeared on the television programs Weeds, The Sarah Silverman Program, and Six Feet Under. He also competed on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars, where he and professional ballroom dancer Edyta Sliwinska were the first to be eliminated. Now he’s back on tour bringing his bold material to the big stage. You might remember Ross, who has been dubbed “The Roastmaster General,” as showing up to Comedy Central’s roast of James Franco with corn rows styled by Snoop Lion’s hair-dresser and calling Franco a “Ph.D. pretentious hipster douche bag.” Think you can take that kind of heat? Ross is bringing his “insult comic” entertainment to the Boulder this week for those of you who want to get roasted, too. —Nadia Mishkin

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Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Boulder Blues Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

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

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

Jonathan Wilson. 9 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 Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Papa Juke. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Open Mic. 7:30 sign-up. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300

Euchre. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.

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

Tuesday Trivia. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

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Ash Ganley. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

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Sweet stakes

Nebraska is a ‘feel nice’ trip

by Ryan Syrek

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like Alexander Payne. I really do.

His ability as a director to mine for subtle laughs others would leave buried is as pleasant as his now-signature genre of “middleaged-and-older men having muted epiphanies.” I guess I just miss the Citizen Ruth/Election-era Payne, the one who found a way to wedge his unique and deft style into an issue as big as abortion or as out-of-place as high-school politics. Those first two films smacked of an ambition he hasn’t displayed since, opting instead for the comfort of subtle relationships and modest personal revelations. And that’s nice, it really is, but if a film is doggedly determined to be subtle, how can one have an extreme reaction to it?

Nebraska is Payne’s fourth consecutive “reflections on an average white male life while on the road” film. When Woody (Bruce Dern), a crotchety wisp of an elderly man, gets a magazine sweepstakes letter telling him he “won” a million dollars, his increasingly addled mind becomes obsessed with it. After escaping the watchful eye of his wife, Kate ( June Squibb), he tries walking from Montana to Lincoln, Neb., to claim a prize that only he believes is real. Eventually, he wears down his son, David (Will Forte), who agrees to drive him on this fool’s errand.

The pair winds up stopping in Woody’s old Nebraska hometown, a place most of his family never left.

There, Woody confronts old rival Ed Pegram (Stacy Keach) while David gets a better look at the people his parents were. Between the haunting tour of Woody’s now-abandoned childhood home and the way his family goes from Boulder Weekly

docile losers to bloodthirsty vultures at the prospect of Woody’s completely fictional million dollars, Nebraska acts as shorthand to understanding a way of life to which those outside the Midwest are probably oblivious.

And that’s sweet. And nice. It’s all quite nice. The humanity David is able to finally see in a father he thought had none is nice. The wry, sparse performance of Dern is nice. The chucklefunny situations and giggle-funny dialogue are nice. The black and white shots of rolling fields (aka “corn porn”) are nice. But I am stunned at the lively reactions others have had to a film that makes a conscious effort to resist any semblance of similar liveliness.

Writer Bob Nelson clearly understands the psyche of a small town as well as Payne knows how to shoot one.

But Nebraska isn’t a defense or a condemnation of that fading way of life.

Neither is it an indictment or pardon of alcoholic fathers and shrewish mothers.

It just takes a black and white snapshot, a cinematic selfie, and leaves it there.

There’s little to provoke any measurable reaction, save for Nelson’s weird inclusion of a lame sexual assault/rape joke that gets repeated.

Nebraska is a good film. Sometimes, it’s quite good. But it isn’t ever great, and I’m beginning to consider if that will remain the pattern. Payne appears incapable of ever making a bad movie; but I have to wonder if he has a great one still in him.

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

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Juices aren’t just for cleanses anymore

by Christine Vazquez

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our years ago, Boulder resident Jo Schaalman was in chronic pain after a sports accident.

She made the decision to treat the pain by changing her diet to one based on whole foods and juice.

Amazingly, she says it went from a nine to a five on the pain scale. She also lost 30 pounds. It was such a dramatic turn for the better, she couldn’t ignore the impact, and others couldn’t either.

Schaalman then partnered with fellow Boulder resident Jules Pelaez, who she met when both were yoga teachers more than a decade ago in Boulder.

Pelaez was also juicing at the time, and they quickly realized they shared a deep interest in healthy living, eating whole foods and juicing.

The Conscious Cleanse was born out of a desire to design a program based on their own great personal results, a program accessible to everyone.

Unlike most other cleanses, theirs is a whole foods-based program that incorporates juices and smoothies.

“The beauty of it is it’s not all or nothing. There’s no wagon to fall off of. This is about sustainability,” Schaalman says. “The goal is first learning how to eat whole foods — and we focus on the nutrient density of food — then learning how to add juices into what you’re eating every day. Juice is a good way of adding things in, instead of a focus on what you can’t have.”

What also makes their program different is that their recipes are free of all common allergens, which are known to cause inflammation in the body, and are at the root of many ailments.

Inflammation is good when it’s the body’s natural immune response to injury. It’s

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not good when it is chronic, a result of toxicity from our lives and diets.

While commonly thought of in terms of cleanses and diet resets, juice from raw fruits, vegetables and nuts is increasingly becoming a key element to healthy, balanced meal planning.

Schaalman and Pelaez aren’t the only ones interested in helping others know the full benefits of juicing.

One local couple, Mimi and Ian Lee, decided to create Pressery to help teach people how to incorporate juice into their daily diets, balancing and optimizing them in the process. They also offer juice cleanse and reset programs.

“The ideal time for a cleanse is three to five days, or a one-day reset every couple of weeks to break daily patterns of unhealthy eating habits, which we all have,” says Mimi Lee. “Using juice as a meal replacement for one or more of your meals on a regular basis is full optimization.”

Of course, “full optimization” isn’t for everybody. And for those precious few, it’s recommended that the solid foods used to supplement the juice diet are the same as the ingredients in the juices themselves.

Formulating recipes with celebrated local chef Biju Thomas, who wrote The Feed Zone, and is chef to both the BMC Pro Cycling and Dempsey/Del Piero Race Car teams, the Lees’ intent was to create great-tasting juice, as well as goodfor-you juice.

“Fast food can be healthy for you, and healthy food doesn’t have to taste healthy,” says Lee. And they went one step further, deciding to use only organic fruits, nuts, vegetables and spices in their cold-pressed juices and nut milks, sourcing as many of their ingredients locally as possible. see JUICE Page 82

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EAT A CARROT, SAVE A SNAKE

Are you tired of just eating vegetables because they crossed you once in a game of cards? Would you prefer to eat them for a good cause?

Well then you’re in luck.

Thursday, Feb. 4, Jill’s at the St. Julien will be hosting a seven-course vegan dinner crafted

by Executive Chef Laurent Mechin to raise funds for the Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Lyons, which helps rehabilitate orphaned, injured and ill wildlife so it can be released back into the wild (where it will inevitably be caught by a hunter and served at a charity dinner to protect Susan France carrots from the gnashing maws of vegans, thereby preserving the circle of life).

The Jill’s Restaurant at the St. Julien menu includes petite vegetable amuse bouche, green lentil soup, pita panzanella salad, tempeh and winter vegetables, nishiki rice cakes, moroccan couscous and a dessert of hand-roll chocolate truffles, all of which sounds so good, you’ll probably forget it’s vegan.

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special tasty, inky series: Great Roads to goodness all month Great Chefs. long.

The 15-weekend There will be dozens series will go down in of house stouts like Estes Park at the historic Oatimus Prime Imperial Stanley Hotel, and take Oatmeal Stout, some of Colorado’s risMegatron Imperial ing stars in the food American Stout, world and drop ’em Chocolate Dip Stout, into the mountains with Korova Cream Stout, only their chef’s knives and Old School Irish and a highly trained Stout, and Mountain team working in a fully Sun will be bringing stocked kitchen to surback some favorites vive your dinner order. like Yonder Mountain The series starts Jan. Stout, Thunder Head 31, and will feature a Stout and a batch of different chef each Cherry Dip Stout (a week, with dinner and decadent chocolate stay packages starting stout with sweet cherry at $400/couple or $100 puree) as well Coconut per person for dinner Cream Stout, Dark only.

Harvest Pumpkin Stout, “[It] is not only and so so so many something good for the more. community of Estes Timothy McMurray loves a good stout More new stouts will Park, but hopefully a be rolled out each Monday and poured gateway program for these talented young until they’re gone, with the final week chefs to establish themselves for years to (Monday, Feb. 24) featuring the debut of come,” Phil Armstrong, owner of Hush the winner of Mountain Sun’s 2014 homeConcepts, said in a press release.

The complete chef lineup is available on brewing competition, now in its eighth year.

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Scout Stout, which is probably not made A portion of the proceeds will benefit with real girl scouts. flood relief efforts. Let’s hope that’s an But with all that goodness going on, we American portion, and not one of those have to ask Mountain Sun why they had to microscopic European portions that’s mostmake Stout Month the shortest month of the ly garnish. year like jerks, when January and March are both lounging around squandering their STOUT MONTH AT MOUNTAIN SUN 31 days on February’s flanks.

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ou know Tibet Kitchen. You’ve driven by its location on the corner of Arapahoe and Folsom dozens of times, seen its large sign advertising lunch specials starting at $4.95 and its nightmare of a parking lot and kept right on going, thinking “one day” to yourself. But chances are that day never came. While Tibet Kitchen is seemingly on the way to everywhere, that lot is hard as fudge to get into and across the street from the ample parking of the well-restaurantified Village Shopping Center.

That’s a crime.

Because the prices are far from the only delights contained within.

Let’s start with those boldly advertised lunch specials, which are — unscientifically speaking — probably the best in Boulder.

Most of the front room is taken up by a large fast-food-style steam table and order area laden with Tibetan delights. The oneitem combo is $4.95, with upgrades to two and three item meals available for $5.95 and $6.95, which is practically Third World prices for Boulder.

What does that knave’s ransom get you? Fans of Indian food will have a good frame of reference for the steam table, with various curries, chickpeas and vegetables served with rice. But Tibetan cuisine has its own flair, working in elements of Chinese cuisine like bok-choy, fried rice and spice palettes

Tibet Kitchen: bad parking, great prices

by Josh Gross

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that go straight to the nostrils like a fine horseradish. The Tsel Shogok (sliced potatoes with spinach and red bell pepper) is especially tasty, as is the Jhasa Shamdeh (chicken breast in curry and yogurt sauce).

There are also dinner-sized portions of these and other items available for those who prefer to skip the steam table line, including a healthy list of items for the vegetarian and vegan set.

But if you’re going to skip the steam

table, this reporter would recommend going straight to the momos, which, for the uninitiated, are steamed Himilayan dumplings that are larger and more flavorful than potstickers. Tibet Kitchen makes them from scratch and serves them eight to an order stuffed with beef, chicken or vegetables for $7.95.

The beef isn’t bad, but doesn’t much stand out. However, the chicken sings with a bite of flavor like lemongrass and a zesty tomato-based dipping sauce. If

you’re going to pick one, go for the chicken, but we here at BW recommend going for the combo platter and diversifying your dumplings. Be aware though, while they may look it, momos aren’t finger foods. They Tibet Kitchen squirt hot, 2359 Arapahoe Road burny, liquid, Boulder which is fine 303-440-0882 for your mouth, but not for your wrist. Don’t be a hero. Just use a fork.

On the whole, Tibet Kitchen’s offerings aren’t as spicy as Tibetan food is often wont to be, but it’s smooth, approachable and easy on the bank account, so let it be mild.

The space is also just right for a lunchtime visit, with a cozy, secret coffee shop vibe decked out with Buddhist decor and no shortage of chai. Just make sure that if you visit on a cold day, you score a seat in the back unless you like your tastes of the Himalayas to include the taste of genuine arctic blasts of wind from the slow-closing front door. And chances are, unless you’re training for a mountaineering trip, you don’t.

So, worst parking lot in Boulder or not, make the effort. It’s true Tibet Kitchen is a bit tricky to reach. But it’s still way easier to reach than Tibet itself. Especially in the space of a single lunch hour.

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Pressery now offers six juices and two nut milks, including flavors like beet, kale, watermelon, spinach and strawberry chia, as well as vanilla and cacao almond milks.

Cold-pressing is an important distinction, since using juicers with a blade that heats up and simultaneously heats the juice itself causes it to lose three to five times the nutrients. Employing a twostep cold pressing process, Pressery uses an industrial piece that’s essentially a huge grater, which grates the fruits and vegetables into a large cloth bag. That bag is then pressed with commercial presses, extracting a smooth juice, making it much easier to assimilate into the body.

Something else you can do is make Juice Cube cocktails. This is something Pressery owner Mimi Lee thought up after seeing similar ideas using frozen cubes of other drink-making ingredients like orange juice and champagne.

“We were trying to think of new and different ways to integrate juice into people’s lifestyles, and also have fun with it,” says Lee. One cube of frozen juice can easily be popped into a glass and topped with any number of spirits, but the most versatile is vodka. Nut milks can be mixed with traditional dessert-type spirits like Bailey’s Irish Cream, the hazelnut liqueur Frangelico, the coffee liqueur Kahlua or the chocolate liqueur Godiva. Recently, the Lees tested a whiskey sour using their habanero lemonade, and a white Russian using their almond cashew milk. Both were hits among their staff. Not only does this make for great-tasting cocktails, but you can feel good knowing there is a cube of health-supporting goodness inside your glass. Life is about balance, after all.

Zeal Restaurant in Boulder — in partnership with The Conscious Cleanse — also has a juice program to complement its health-supporting menu. Since it serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, you can have a juice along with your meal, or stop by and grab a juice to go, any time of day. They offer four juices by season — currently, you can find red, orange, yellow and green — which is how they’re listed on the menu. Red contains apple, beet and ginger. Orange has carrot, golden beet, parsley and orange. Yellow has pineapple, jicama and lemon. Green contains cucumber, kale and green apple. They’ll also let you do a juice flight — which is a double shot of all four juices, and a great way to sample all of the flavors.

Zeal and The Conscious Cleanse collaborate to help spread the gospel of healthy eating and living. On Zeal’s breakfast, lunch and dinner menus, you’ll find an icon designating which items are Conscious Cleanse-friendly. This is helpful, since so many people want to continue eating out at restaurants even during a

cuisine cleanse.

Those in Boulder County and Denver who are on the Conscious Cleanse have the option to juice during the two weekends of the two-week cleanse. This is a way of getting as many minerals, vitamins and enzymes into their diets as possible.

The greener the juice, the more nutrientdense. All of the juices are made at Zeal and delivered to the cleanser’s door. In the future, their goal is to also ship juice to their cleansers around the world.

Juicing at home can be expensive.

Especially if you’re using organic fruits and vegetables. Though I don’t own a juicer, I wanted to do an experiment to see how much juice I could yield from one medium, organic orange by hand. I got 50 mL, which equates to 1.69 fluid ounces — to be exact. That orange cost $1.25. If I wanted to yield 16 ounces of pure, organic orange juice, buying ingredients myself, it would cost close to $12.

There is usually a 10- to 20-cent difference between organic and non-organic bananas. Apples have a larger price differential — anywhere from 50 cents to $1.

And on it goes in the produce section.

Zeal offers its juice in small and large [ounces aren’t noted on menu] for $6 and $8.25 respectively. Their juice flight is $7, and premium juices, which are offered as a daily special, are $9.

Pressery sells 16-ounce juices for $8 and nut milks for $9. A one-day reset, which includes five bottles of juice and one bottle of nut milk, costs $49. A threeday cleanse will cost you $147. If you want to augment your daily diet with one juice each day — whether as a snack, preworkout ritual or meal replacement — that will cost $240 for a 30-day month.

It’s not inexpensive, but it is cost-effective compared to what you’d spend at home.

As much as the ongoing cost of ingredients has to be considered, so must the initial cost of purchasing a juicer. The only cold-pressed juicer on the market for at-home use is The Norwalk, and the stainless steel version costs $2,500 — out of reach for many households. These are just the financial costs. Those juicing at home on a regular basis also have the time and energy investment of clean-up, which may be the worst part of the whole experience.

And looking at it that way, a $9 glass of juice suddenly seems affordable.

Pressery’s juices and nut milks can be found at local farmers’ markets, and are also available for home delivery in Boulder and Denver, which makes it easy to stay on a year-round juice program.

Zeal’s/Conscious Cleanse juices are available at the Zeal space at 1710 Pearl St. in Boulder, and through home delivery via the Conscious Cleanse program.

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And yet somehow, in OB’s typical Midas touch fashion, it all works.

We hit the new Cyclhops Bike CANtina this week for dinner and drinks, curious about how the hell you combine a bicycle sales/repair shop with a microbrewery-run Mexican joint.

Cyclhops, which has been open less than a month, is located in a shopping center at Nelson and Airport roads in Longmont, in a spot that has seen its fair share of restaurant tenants cycle through over the years (remember Hunter’s?). This one should stick around for awhile, given OB’s track record of bringing stability to the old Silo sports bar location with its Homemade Liquids and Solids, which is always packed (don’t these people have jobs?).

The latest hot concept from the folks who brought you the CHUBurger is, well, hot. As in spicier than you’d expect. The salsas are going to sell some beers, let’s put it that way.

I started by ordering my old OB standby, a Deviant Dale’s ale, to provide some sense of security and comfort in this new environment, where a massive green wall sporting trippy bike-riding skeletons stretches along most of the length of the restaurant. (Check out a video of it being painted at http://eat. oskarblues.com/cyclhops.)

The tacos were yummy, especially the fish variety, and both the enchiladas and the posole rojo packed more punch than we thought they would. Other highlights were warm tortilla chips that seemed as handcrafted as the beers, the

Cyclnachos and the queso, which is one of several distinctive sides you can choose beyond old standbys like rice and beans. We’re talking pickled jalapenos with onions and chicharrones (deep-fried chicken rinds).

Cyclhops keeps as many as 20 beers on tap, about half of which are its own — and then there are the 43 premium tequilas in a dedicated tasting room, a road we didn’t have the courage to venture down … yet.

Also passed on trying the spicier versions of the salsa, like the arbol chile and orange habanero. Gotta save something for next time. Like the baconwrapped Sonoran hot dog.

After finishing my liquid deviance, however, we did wander into the cycling portion of the show, where you can check out OB’s own bike line, REEB Cycles (yes, that’s yet another clever name from Oskar Blues, featuring its main product spelled backwards).

According to the Cyclhops Facebook page, the “all-American bike company was born as a middle finger to bikes made overseas and to bike thieves, after owner Dale Katechis’ bike was stolen in 2011.”

Our favorite model features a flaskholding contraption under the seat and a bell that can be unscrewed for use as a shot glass.

We knew this was a cool company years ago, when we’d drive by the brewery in the morning and see the employees doing calisthenics in the parking lot.

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Maybe somebody will steal Dale’s car.

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Extravagant wigs became fashionable for a while in 18thcentury England. They could soar as high as four feet above a woman’s head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair, along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here’s a second-best option: Make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract more of the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic license to be shinier and more charismatic than usual.

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Dear Dan: I’m what was once quaintly called a “woman of a certain age” who started reading your column to broaden my horizons. As a result, some curiosities peeped their heads over the boundaries of my once happily repressed existence. I summoned the courage to join an online BDSM dating site.

I got a response almost immediately from a man who decided to fill me in on how things worked. He proceeded to tell me my name would henceforth be Sub, advised me that he was to be addressed as His Majesty King Something, and ordered me to phone him.

This was too much, too fast, and too weird. I gave him what I thought was a plausible excuse for my decision not to proceed to avoid hurting his feelings. He wouldn’t take no for an answer. I tried blocking him, but he seemed to have several identities on the same site. I deactivated my account. So now I’m in a bit of a quandary as to where to seek out other options — preferably options that are safer and not so ritualistically restrictive.

—Fear Of Flying Dear FOF: “When folks first decide to explore a curiosity in kink or BDSM, one of the things I let them know is that this loose band of variegated kinky types — the kink community — is NOT a utopia of ultimate sexual enlightenment,” said Mollena Williams, a kinky author, activist and blogger. “The kink community is a microcosm of the broader society, from the lowest common denominator to the crème de la crème.”

Sadly, FOF, it sounds like one of your first interactions was not with a CrèmeDe. “I wish I could say her experience is unique,” said Williams. “But it is not. The same creeps, jerks and assholes on standard dating sites are on BDSM-centric sites. And some will utilize the trappings of consensual kink to non-consensually slime people.”

What Williams means by “slime,” FOF, is “manipulate, intimidate and potentially abuse.” Creepy assholes like King Something will seek out younger and/or less experienced subs like you, because older and/or more experienced subs are more likely to recognize his behavior for the red-flag sliminess it is — and tell him to fuck off.

So what can you do? “Block the trolls,” said Williams, “and seek out the awesome folks who are also hanging out at sites like FetLife.com, ALT.com, iTaboo.com, and BDSMfriendbook.com.

A kink-friendly profile on a non-kink site is another option. I met my current dominant partner on OkCupid because my profile reveals that I happen to be a big old pervert. That caught his eye.

Kinky folks are everywhere!”

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You also have offline options, FOF. “She can find local events by checking out Caryl’s BDSM Page (drkdesyre.com) or by joining FetLife and searching events in her area,” said Williams. “She can attend munches, which are nonsexual social meet and greets, and classes are good places to meet people who are experienced.” Getting to know kinksters face-to-face doesn’t offer 100 percent protection from creeps, “but it’s a great way to get feedback, recommendations and ever-important warnings. Essentially, dating in the kink world is no different than dating in the default world. You don’t have to drop your drawers because you’re told to. You don’t have to spank someone because they’re insisting they need it. Always meet on an equal footing first. Get to know potential partners and then decide if you’ve got enough in common to proceed.”

Get a copy of Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and BDSM Communities by Mollena Williams and Lee Harrington.

Dear Dan: I’m a 30-year-old bi girl and have been with my girlfriend for nearly 10 years. We discovered a love of BDSM together and we’ve had lots of fun exploring.

Until now. I am a natural sub, but my girlfriend asked to switch and for me to dominate her. I have tried to do this half a dozen times, but afterward — or sometimes during a scene — she tells me it isn’t working. She says that it’s not about my actions but about my “tone.” Hearing this kills my ladyboner, and the scene fizzles and dies. It’s gotten to the point where I’m wondering if I should bother anymore if I can never get my “tone” right. I want to please her, and that usually keeps me trying over and over, but … I don’t know. I feel guilty and depressed because I can’t seem to return the pleasure she gave me when our roles were reversed.

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by Leland Rucker

The federal catch-22 of cannabis and banking

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ne vivid memory from my first visit to a ment and the country’s banking and credit-card gurus. which means taxes can’t properly be assessed. The situretail cannabis shop on Jan. 1 was lookOfficial response since has been mostly intermittent ation is so bad here that some credit-card companies ing over at the cash register just as an bread crumbs of hope, the most notable coming last are allowing cannabis transactions in Colorado mariemployee handed an enormous wad of week in a speech at the University of Virginia, when juana businesses, even though it’s illegal. bills to a manager, who quickly whisked Holder announced that regulations would be forthSo if it ever expects to share in cannabis taxes (and it off into another room. coming concerning banks and cannabis. you know it does, or will soon) it’s definitely in the That image was in my head while reading the “You don’t want just huge amounts of cash in best interests of the government to allow cannabis words of President Barack Obama and Justice these places. They want to be able to use the banking businesses access to the financial system.

Department Chief Eric Holder in the last couple of system,” the secretary said. “There’s a public safety Holder’s office quickly clarified the secretary’s weeks. First, the president of the United States just component to this. Huge amounts of cash — substan- remarks, issuing a statement that Justice would be said, on the record, that cannabis is less danissuing guidelines similar to those given to gerous than alcohol and that it’s important for Colorado and Washington recently on federal the Colorado and Washington legalization involvement in legalization efforts. A yellow efforts to go forward. rather than the green light Holder suggested.

To some, that might not be enough, but Obama and Holder are taking heat for to me, his words say a lot. Since cannabis is a their positions — from the right for thumbSchedule I drug, federal officials have to be ing their noses at current federal statutes and very careful what they say on the record. And from the left for not going further. And, of the president proclaiming that legalization course, the elephant in the room is Congress, efforts must go forward flies in the face of which could pass legislation that would end official policy, which states that cannabis has this drug-war/prohibition nonsense. That’s no medical applications and a high risk for unlikely with lobbyists whispering in congresabuse. This tells me that Obama has been sional ears and continuing the gravy train for studying the material, pro and con, on cannatheir law-enforcement clients. bis and, as with gay marriage, his position is That could change as public opinion conGuidance on banking for retail marijuana stores can’t come fast enough. “evolving.” tinues to shift away from prohibition, someHow many people in government posithing we’ll probably see come to a head in the tions feel the same as Obama? You can bet there are tial amounts of cash just kind of lying around with no 2014 and 2016 election cycles, as more states petition bureaucrats who use cannabis or know that by this place for it to be appropriately deposited is something or move to decriminalize or legalize. Don’t forget that point that the drug war is little more than a cash cow even Texas Gov. Rick Perry came out this weekend for that would worry me, just from a law enforcement for law-enforcement contractors. But they can’t say medical marijuana. Who could have predicted that perspective.” anything like that in public. And here is the boss sayeven a few months ago?

Well, duh. It’s not that anyone in the business, ing just that.

Some banks are saying that until it is legalized at or Justice, hasn’t known this since long before I saw Not that the Obama administration has been the federal level, they won’t accept cannabusiness the wad of bills change hands on Jan. 1. But here’s expediting the banking issue, still the biggest obstacle money. But Bank of America has agreed to hold the the catch-22: Justice’s guidance for cannabis busito making legalization work. As it stands now, because nesses in Colorado and Washington was that those excise tax fund in Washington, and you have to think cannabis is illegal at the federal level, banks and finan- that operate under the law won’t be interfered with that financial institutions, and the federal government, cial institutions are discouraged from working with are eager to get their cut of the emerging, multi-bilon a federal level. But since businesses can’t use cannabis businesses and in fear of prosecution for lion marijuana market. banks, it is that much more difficult to operate racketeering or money laundering just by taking For Colorado businesses, guidance can’t come soon legally, which makes them more susceptible to govdeposits from marijuana-related businesses. enough. ernment interference.

It’s been almost four months since governors Jay Send tips, suggestions and criticisms to weed@boulderEven crazier, until the government acts, it will be Inslee of Washington and Colorado’s John unable to watch these companies and how they operate weekly.com.

Hickenlooper asked for guidance from the governRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com (bank accounts are so much more efficient than cash),

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