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nequality is not a condition. It’s a creation. Inequality is produced by thousands of decisions deliberately made by bosses, bankers and big shots to siphon money and power from the many to the few. We see Wall Street and Washington doing this to us, but the widening and deepening chasm of inequality in America is also the product of decisions
that local elites are making every day. Take Grand Rapids, Michigan, a city largely run by a few billionaire families sharing an entrenched laissez-faire ideology. They want no heavy-handed government policies — unless you’re poor or working class. Thus, the city powers who find it unconscionable to hike taxes on the rich, recently socked low-income bus riders with a 17 percent jump in fares. For the 27 percent of people in Grand Rapids who live below the poverty line, that’s a serious chunk of change siphoned right out of their pockets. Then, the board of directors of the city’s transit agency slipped a siphon tube into the wallets of their own drivers and mechanics, arbitrarily terminating their pensions. Adding a crude insult to injury, the board simultaneously gave a pay raise to the transit boss — literally stealing from workers to lift the CEO’s salary above $200,000 a year.
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When the workers, who’re members of the Amalgamated Transit Union, began leafleting bus riders to oppose the fare hike and pension theft, the arrogant boss and autocratic board threatened to arrest and fire them! Luckily, even in Grand Rapids, it’s still legal to exercise your First Amendment rights, so the union won an injunction against this repression. Better yet, the attempted siphoning of money and power has rallied community groups, students, bus riders and others into a grassroots movement to stop widening the inequality gap and start bridging it. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. October 15, 2015 7
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en Carson spent last week — to paraphrase Kipling — hearing his words twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools. This time it was over guns. Here’s how the deal went down: On October 6, Carson appeared on the Fox News morning show Fox and Friends. Most of the segment was devoted to a discussion of gun control and the massacre at Umpqua Community College near Rosenberg, Oregon — where nine students were shot to death by a gunman who first asked each of the victims to state their religion and then shot the ones who said they were Christians. At about four-and-a-half minutes into the interview one of the Fox and Friends hostesses put up a picture showing Carson holding a hand-lettered sign reading “I AM A CHRISTIAN” and bearing the Christian fish symbol, which she said had gone viral. She then asked Carson to “explain that.” “Well you know the poor families of those individuals had to be hurting so badly — and the fact that I believe that this nation has Judeo-Christian roots,” he said. “Why are we so busy trying to give
those away for the sake of political correctness?” he continued. “When you give away your identity, you give away your soul. And you know, in the book of Proverbs it says, ‘Without a vision, the people perish.’ (Prov 29:18) We can’t give away who we are, and what we stand for, and what our vision is.” At this point host Brian Kilmede broke in and said, “Dr. Carson, if a gunman walks up and puts (sic) a gun at you and says, ‘What religion are you?’ That is the ultimate test of your faith?” Carson responded, “I’m glad you asked that question, because not only would I probably not cooperate with him, I would not just stand there and let him shoot me. I would say, ‘Hey guys, everybody attack him. He may shoot me, but he can’t get us all.’” Carson’s detractors in the media, the gun control movement and the Democratic Party instantly began the knavery. They accused him of blaming the victims for not doing more to protect themselves and of being “insensitive” to the feelings of the victims’ families and the surviving victims. Ladd Everitt, a spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, described by the Guardian newspaper’s website as a network of anti-gun groups, offered a particularly vivid (and Boulder Weekly
shrill) example of the knavery, which the Guardian gleefully printed. “I’ve been doing this for 15 years now, and those were some of the ugliest comments that I’ve ever heard,” he told the Guardian, adding that Carson “basically blamed the victims for their own deaths” and added to the pain of the victims’ families. “His suggesting that if he had been there, he could have taken the shooter down through the power of Christ or somehow, it’s just unbelievable,” Everitt told the Guardian. “You begin to question this man’s mental health, doing this with a smile on his face and thinking it’s acceptable.” Just my opinion, but when you compare what Carson actually said with how Everitt characterized it, it’s Brother Everitt who needs a mental health check. And a hearing check. Carson was asked two direct questions, and he answered both directly. The first was to explain why he was holding up a sign reading “I am a Christian.” His answer was he did it in order to show solidarity with and give comfort to the families of the victims and to affirm his support for the JudeoChristian values on which the country was founded — accompanied by a warning of the dangers of abandoning them in the name of political correctness. The answer to this question selfevidently is not that of a man who is either indifferent or insensitive to the feelings of the victims’ families. It’s quite the opposite. Unsurprisingly, few if any of Carson’s leftist media critics included the question about the sign and Carson’s answer to it in their reports, probably because it blows up their “insensitivity” narrative. The second question Carson was asked was how would he respond if someone aimed a gun at him and demanded to know his religion (by implication as a prelude to killing him if he answered Christian). The question was about how would he — Carson — respond. It was not about how the victims in the Roseburg massacre, or any similar massacre, should have responded, although the media knaves spun it that way. Carson’s response to the question — that he would not cooperate with the gunman and would urge the potential victims to fight back — isn’t blaming the victims. Saying you choose not to be a victim is not the same thing as blaming the victims, and the knaves know it. Just my opinion, but I think the reporters and commentators who characterized Carson’s response as blaming the victims are guilty of journalistic Boulder Weekly
malpractice and fraud. Or more plainly, they’re lying about what he said for partisan political purposes. I suspect Carson’s answer of how to respond to a gunman intent on mass murder — fight back by attacking the gunman and urging the others to do so — reflects the views of most Americans. Which is why I have a question for all of the media scolds who have been upbraiding Carson and presume to offer moral instruction to both him and the American people.
It’s a variant of the question Carson was asked: If a gunman walks into the press club, pulls out a gun and shoots a couple of your pals to show that he is serious, and then asks, ‘What religion are you?’ with the intent of killing you if you give the wrong answer, what would you do? Would you answer truthfully and die a martyr? Would you lie to save your life — and feel dirty for the rest of it? Would you fight back? Would you urge your companions to join you in
swarming the gunman, knowing that you might die for leading by example? Or would you just stand there, paralyzed by fear waiting to die, because you never thought through how you would respond if you came face to face with evil? And finally, do you have the professional integrity and personal character even to attempt a serious answer to the question? Enquiring minds want to know. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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I see that the teachers’ union (Boulder Valley Education Association) is not endorsing Shelly Benford for reelection this November. I have heard that voting for Shelly was a “problem” because she was one of two school board members who voted not to renew the Superintendent’s contract. The better question would be “Why didn’t they vote to renew his contract? Quite frankly I was shocked to hear that the Union would not be supporting her because I know that Shelly has been a strong advocate for teachers, supporting both cost of living adjustments and lower class sizes. I also know that she was instrumental in pushing for air-quality testing at Casey Middle School when teachers complained, and that she strongly agrees with teachers who oppose the amount of time we are devoting to testing at the expense of class time. I was even more surprised to hear that conversations on this topic have taken place at school, because campaigning for OR against a candidate on school property, during school hours, is a violation of Colorado’s Fair Campaign Practices Act. It does not benefit the teachers or the district to reject a questioning or dissenting voice on the Board. In fact, it makes voters nervous when boards rubber-stamp the actions of administrators. As well it should. Voters should be paying attention to their school board and how they vote. It might be better to look more closely at board members who rubber-stamp everything the Superintendent proposes or does without asking questions. We expect our students to ask questions in order to learn and to become critical thinkers. Should we expect less of our elected board members? Shelly is an excellent advocate for teachers, tax payers and, most importantly, our children! I urge the district teachers, and all voters, to look at Shelly’s record for themselves. Carol Rechel/Boulder
Support Maloney
We strongly support Dennis Maloney for Ward 3 City Councilman in Louisville. Dennis has strong business leadership skills from his professional career. As a board member of Coal Creek Ranch Homeowners Master Association for several years and President of The Springs HOA he has his demonstrated his analytical
ability, teamwork, knowledge and capability to solve complex issues. Dennis also served on the Louisville Golf Course Advisory Board and helped lead the effort to recover the golf course after the major flood of September 2013. Dennis understands the issues facing Louisville and Ward 3 and will be a great representative for our community. Louisville needs Dennis Maloney to help our City going forward! Ken and Marie Gambon/Louisville
Lafayette endorsements
I am shocked at your endorsements for the Lafayette City Council. I don’t know what you are basing these endorsements upon, other than your interview with each candidate. The only positive was the fact that Cliff Wilimeg’s mother, Merrily Mazza, already is a council member and should not be a candidate at this time. When his mother is no longer a sitting member of the Lafayette Council, then he might want to consider running for a seat. Cliff Smedley, Cliff Wilimeg, Merrily Mazza, and Tom Dowling ran on a single issue last election - fracking, which in turn cost the city of Lafayette $85,000 in legal fees, monies that could have been used for much needed renovation of Public Road and to attract more desirable businesses to our community. If you had attended the first forum, you might have come to a much more educated decision. Aside from your endorsements based on interviews only, the Lafayette City Council in all their wisdom has chosen to give themselves a raise of 65 percent. Their reasoning for this is that they have not had a raise in 14 years. Well, they haven’t been on city council for 14 years. This will cost the taxpayers $20,000 and would be taken from an already approved project. I think you should take a more comprehensive approach to your endorsements in the future. Joyce Fischer/Lafayette
‘Daily Camera’ wrong on 300
The Daily Camera’s editorial page editor poured himself a generous helping of words while arguing against propositions 300 and 301. His 1,476 words are approximately twice what the paper allows for guest opinions and five times what is allowed for letters to the editor, so obviously Mr. Krieger values the paper’s opinion highly. I will try to be more succinct. Krieger writes that if Boulder Weekly
letters Prop 300 is rejected and Boulder “grows at the rates projected, it will change.” If the proposition is approved and the city grows “more slowly or not at all, it will change, and perhaps more profoundly,” which he deems “the more ominous possibility.” Krieger is a professional writer, so we know that by using the word “ominous” he means that approving Prop 300 “forebodes evil.” Of what would this evil consist? Briefly, Krieger suggests it will be a “disincentive to growth” that will “exacerbate the rapidly-escalating cost of housing in Boulder” and thereby fail to preserve “human diversity.” Consequently, he urges his readers to oppose 300, to densify Boulder more rapidly, and thereby to decrease the rate at which we become “whiter and wealthier.” His tenet is that restricting growth with Prop 300 is evil, and presumably, because “Boulder’s growth is restricted horizontally by open space” and “is restricted vertically by a...height limit,” those constraints must be evil too. Following Krieger’s argument to its logical conclusion, I have to assume that he would also support eliminating open space and height restrictions. But it is precisely our city’s ability to preserve open areas and views that makes Boulder a sought-after location for residents, tourists, and businesses. Open space provides a space for rest and relaxation, height restrictions help preserve our views of the mountains, and Prop 300 will help preserve our neighborhoods. Is that evil? Loren Pahlke/Boulder
Flatirons, open space, municipalization
As we approach the election I’ve been wondering what Boulder would be like today if our past City Councils had not held firm on forward-thinking projects. What if they had given up halfway through the struggle to protect our mountain backdrop or to create the greenbelt? Our view of the Flatirons today might be obstructed by condos and McMansions. Without the open spaces around us, where would we go for hiking, biking, bird-watching, being with our friends in nature? Boulder municipalization is a legacy effort similar to these past legacy efforts. It is a long, difficult struggle that our community has supported over the years because it promises to cut our carbon pollution while maintaining competitive rates and increasing reliability and also making Boulder a hub for clean energy entrepreneurship for years to come. Some of the candidates for City Council support following through Boulder Weekly
with municipalization as long as it continues to make economic sense. Others though would have us give up, throw in the towel, and squander the opportunity we have worked so hard to create. They would condemn us to another half-century of coal dependence and lack of liberty in our energy decisions. Some of the candidates who question municipalization raise concerns that have already been addressed long ago. Some even make claims about municipalization that are flatly untrue, as they clearly could have found out for themselves from the publicly available data. We don’t need council members who are uninformed or misleading on a crucial city issue. When you make your ballot decision, please remember that, though obviously more dire than municipalization, the American revolution was a long hard struggle, too. What if George Washington had given up during that hard winter at Valley Forge and gone home to Mount Vernon? Chris Hoffman/Boulder
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As a longtime resident of Boulder, I urge you to vote no on ballot dssues 300 and 301. These measures undermine our sense of community and prevent residents from making collective, sound decisions about the future of the community in which we live. Ballot issue 300 gives 10 percent of any one of 66 different Boulder neighborhoods the ability to force a vote on proposed development. Such elections would be very expensive and divisive. Allowing a small minority to make decisions for the majority is bad public policy. We don’t want the tail to wag the dog. Decisions about what kind of city we want, whether we wish to provide additional affordable housing to residents, how to deal with traffic and other infrastructure issues should be decided by the city as a whole. While it can be challenging to bring people with different opinions together, this should not be a reason to treat the city as unrelated small units. The whole should be greater than the sum of its parts. Together we should arrive at sound decisions about our future. Ballot issue 301 asks develops to “pay their way.” But, the method for calculating these payments is not defined. It is clear that the intent of the measure is to impede future development. But, adding unclear language into our city charter is not a productive way to make important decisions about see LETTERS Page 12
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I opened today’s Daily Camera to find that two of the four articles on the front page contained information from corporations and the government they control, telling people how to ignore the disastrous results of their destructive profit-making practices. One was how to deal with the earthquakes caused by blowing 10,000 gallons of water into the ground at high speeds in order to fracture rock structures so that crude oil can be extracted. The other told us why we should ignore the toxic bright yellow overflow from a mine disaster that polluted streams throughout Colorado and New Mexico. Thanks, profitminded corporations and the government they control for your advice. I’d like to see a headline from the public. It would be much simpler. It would read “Stop doing things that destroy the planet.” Sally Terwilliger/Boulder
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I am writing to express my severe concern on the topic of antibiotic use in the farming industry. As a student in the Environmental Studies department, I have been learning about the means by which meat and animal byproducts are produced and becoming more and more appalled at the lack of federal legislation governing antibiotic use. Personally, it came as a shock to learn that approximately 80 percent of all antibiotics in the U.S. are fed to farm animals. Bacteria breeding in the
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What should you look for in a Louisville City Council candidate? If you believe the person should be hard working, open and responsive, experienced in community service, supportive of small businesses, fiscally responsible, and committed to maintaining Louisville’s family friendly atmosphere and small town feel, Dennis Maloney is the right candidate in Ward 3. Dennis has been active with the Habitat for Humanity, Community Food Share, 9Health Fair, Community Table, and the Louisville Golf Course Advisory Board. Dennis believes that Louisville’s unique charm comes from its distinctive appearance and welcoming culture. We strongly endorse Dennis Maloney for Louisville City Council. Pete and Gayla Lindquist/Louisville
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We’ll be in big trouble if we don’t take steps now to reduce the present national debt within 10 years. We can do so if we add our signatures to the more than 373,000 at fixthedebt.org/ citizens-petition. (It has a link to the Simpson-Bowles plan, which accomplishes this without hurting the poor.) Alex Sokolow/Santa Monica, CA
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The ups and downs of Ballot Question 301 by Angela K. Evans
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ne of the most controversial issues facing Boulder voters as the Nov. 3 election approaches is Ballot Question 301: “New Development Shall Pay Its Own Way.” While opponents of the issue criticize the citizens’ initiative for vague language, supporters argue every aspect of the wording is intentional to accommodate several possible strategies for execution. By law City staff is unable to speculate or comment about the implications of the initiative if it passes, and while they have presented an initial work plan, they are delaying most of the necessary research to determine these implications until after the election. The City is currently working with two different consulting firms to update the development-related impact fees and excise taxes, which is the City’s current attempt to ensure development pays its way. And Boulder charges the highest rates in the area according to a comparative analysis presented to City Council at the Oct. 13 study session. But what this current fee structure doesn’t address, but the initiative seeks to, is the full impact development has on City services, not just facilities. “The key thing to keep in mind with this is that it doesn’t differ substantially in terms of methodology,” says Leonard May, a member of the planning board and one of the three City Council candidates who supports 301. “The issue is with the impact fees and other fees that we charge — there’s no doubt that they contribute to the City’s bottom line. That’s not the issue. The issue is whether they pay their full way or whether there is essentially a public subsidy because they don’t pay for all their own impacts.” However, while the proponents say implementing the initiative would be easy, and critics say it is all but impossible, City staff has outlined a list of tasks they would need to accomplish if 301 passes. And at the Sept. 1 City Council meeting, Deputy City Attorney David Gehr explained transitional issues that might arise in order for the City government to come into Boulder Weekly
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compliance with the initiative. For example, the City would most likely stop accepting building permit applications, although already permitted projects would be allowed to continue development, until all the details are worked out. Such details include developing general service standards for all City departments so that they can then calculate a proposed new development’s impact on said services. They would also have to calculate the potential direct and indirect revenue generated by new development, such as additional sales tax and property tax, in order to calculate where the budget falls short so they can charge developers the difference. “That’s some complicated math that hopefully an economist or some type of expert can help us work
through,” Gehr told City Council. Carson Biser, president of TischlerBise, Inc., one of the consultant firms currently working with the City of Boulder to update the impact fee structure, explains several different methodologies that could be used to pay for additional service impacts that aren’t covered by the current structure, such as special assessment districts, road impact fees or development agreements where the developers agree to pay a certain amount into an operation fund for certain services over time. Although Bise has seen such agreements, he says they are “few and far between.” And these agreements aren’t part of a jurisdiction’s regulatory structure, he says. Another option for the City to consider would be to conduct a full fiscal impact analysis, which looks at the
financial impacts of land use and development regulation by analyzing the City’s tax supported funds, then projecting the potential revenue generated by both residential and commercial development. If the normal modes of generating revenue (i.e., sales tax, property tax, etc.) numbers come up short, then developers would have to pay the difference in one form or another. Such a study would take three to six months, Bise says. “There are a number of ways to get at mitigating the impacts. One way is for the impacter to come up with the creative solution to mitigate it themselves and the other way is for the City do it, but have [the developer] pay for it,” May says. He describes Google’s private shuttle service for employees at its Palo Alto headquarters as one such example. “It’s a cost, somebody is going to pay it. It’s just a matter of whether the impacter is going to pay it or you and I pay it.” Steve Pomerance, spokesperson for Livable Boulder, the citizens’ action group that gathered petition signatures to place initiative 301 on the ballot, says the calculations are easy — simply ask how much the City needs to serve a specific facility, and then charge the developer accordingly. “They’re going to have to do some work, but it’s not impossible and it’s not even that hard,” Pomerance says, “like libraries for example. They generally use two standards — square feet or number of volumes. How hard is this? You go and ask them how many square feet and number of volumes and divide it by the number of people and there’s your standard. Everybody thinks this is complicated and it’s not.” The City would also need to develop, draft and implement legislation, most likely in the form of City Council ordinances, to accomplish the requirements laid out by the initiative. This would require additional research to ensure the City is within federal and state law by charging development for these costs. For example, at the Sept. 1 meeting, Gehr also referred to regulaSee 301 Page 16
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tory takings, or a situation in which government regulation limits the use of private property to such an extent that the property’s value or utility diminishes. Pomerance argues the initiative language prevents the City from implementing any policies that are illegal. “If they do what’s reasonable to achieve the extent allowed by federal and state law then you’d have a hell of a time challenging them,” he says. But opponents of the initiative disagree. Andy Schultheiss, executive director of Open Boulder, a non-partisan grassroots organization seeking to make Boulder “open to new ideas, new people and new ways of living, working and playing in Boulder,” outlines several scenarios in which legal action against the City could be taken. “They (the city and its consultants) will all have to make legally defensible calculations that specifically are a result of an individual development and to me, you can make up some numbers and they may even have some substance behind them, but development companies have good lawyers,” says Schultheiss. The initiative would also allow the City to consider multiple developments at a time so as not to calculate the cost of development on City services on a project-by-project basis. However, Schultheiss argues that looking at the development of an area in aggregate, as the initiative suggests, is not feasible. “What if a building is LEED-certified, energy efficient and carefully designed to lessen impacts? Are they going to pay the same amount as a developer who did the opposite? I think that’s just ripe for a lawsuit as well.” Schultheiss refers to the initiative as a “backdoor moratorium” on development, by threatening to drive development prices so high, and make the regulation so complicated that developers leave. “That’s just going to go on and on forever until the developers just give up and stop building in Boulder and I think that’s the goal.” But Pomerance denies this. “The goal is to charge [developers] for what their impacts are,” he says. “If it turns out that people say it’s not worth building in Boulder… If it turns out that for development to pay its own way and not degrade City facilities and services it’s too expensive to build, then we know exactly where we are, which is that it is no longer economically worth it to the citizens in Boulder to have more development.” He says large areas of development impacts not addressed by the current structure are affordable housing and traffic congestion. However, Boulder Housing Partners’ Board of Commissioners has also come out against initiative 301, stating the disruption and delays implementing the initiative could drive prices up, even if only in the short-term. Schultheiss argues that although he understands where the sentiment behind 301 comes from, he, like many other opponents, doesn’t believe it’s the right tool to generate more revenue from development to pay for City services. In his estimation, the right approach is to elect City officials who can implement policy, rather than creating a charter amendment that leaves so many questions left unanswered. “There’s an enormous amount of avoidance in this but the truth is, it’s really not that complicated,” Pomerance says. “They’re going to have to do the work, and when they’re done, we’ll have something that works in this city and we won’t be trashing the place. It’s pretty much that easy.” Boulder Weekly
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The third annual Americas Latino Eco-Festival supports a new, integrated era in environmental conservation by Boulder Weekly Staff
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n September, Pope Francis became the fourth pope to visit the United States, delivering a message before Congress in which he asked Americans to support undocumented immigrants and join in a global movement to combat climate change and poverty. It feels — for lack of a better word — rather serendipitous that the progressive, South American-born pope’s visit came just a month before the third annual Americas Latino Eco-Festival (ALEF). The pope’s message of inclusion and justice, his belief that the Earth’s health is analogous to our own survival as a species, embodies the festival’s mission to “promote environmental awareness and create a platform for dialogue and mobilization for a just society to ensure that everyone has access to a healthy environment.” ALEF was born in 2013 out of a lack of diversity in this important discussion about the health of our planet and society. While survey after survey shows that Latinos are far more likely than Anglos to view global warming as a problem and, consequently, support policies aimed at curbing it, Latinos have been largely left out of the environmental movement in the U.S. In 2014, Dorceta Taylor, of the University of Michigan, released a report called Green 2.0, examining why, despite decades of promises to diversify, mainstream environmental organizations are still white. “People of color are 36 percent of the U.S. population, and comprise 29 percent of the science and engineering workforce,” Taylor writes in the report, “but they do not exceed 16 percent of the staff in any of the organizations surveyed.” Based on confidential interviews with 21 environmental leaders, this so-called “green ceiling” arises from unconscious bias, discrimination and insular recruiting, as well as a general disinterest in diversifying their organizations. “The result,” according to Taylor, is “an overwhelmingly white “Green Insiders’ Club.” That’s a problem when we consider Latinos make up the largest minority group in the U.S. — roughly 55 million people strong, and growing. And their exclusion from the environmental con18 October 15, 2015
The Amazon rainforest is critical to global climate. Sarah Dupont will be speaking about her efforts to prevent deforestation of this precious resource at the Americas Latino Eco-Festival.
versation becomes an even more evident problem when confronted with how minorities (Latinos and African Americans in particular) are disproportionately affected by climate change related issues. Take a moment to let the following numbers sink in: Of the 10 most polluted cities in the nation, six have populations that are 40 percent or more Latino; 72 percent of Latinos in Colorado live in areas that fall below the Environmental Protection Agency’s air quality safety standards; Latino children are 60 percent more likely to have asthma than non-Latino whites, and to compound that problem, one in five Latino adults are unable to pay for asthma medicines. All of this despite the fact that 54 percent of Latinos see climate change as something that is extremely important to them personally (only 37 percent of whites answered the same), and 63 percent of Latinos support broad federal action to slow climate change (compared with less than half of whites). The conversation around environmental justice has been whitewashed, to say the least. And this, quite simply, must end. So we can’t overstate the importance of a conference like ALEF, where celebrities, artists, scientists, religious figures and community and public policy leaders join together to inspire this nation’s diverse Latino communities to take an active role in “browning” the conservation movement. We encourage you, no matter the color of your skin, to support a new, integrated era in environmental conservation by attending some of the amazing panels, exhibits and training sessions that the dedicated ALEF
team has put together this year. We have taken the time to highlight just a tiny fraction of the events at this year’s festival, but we can assure you: there’s nothing you want to miss.
Breaking through the deforestation din by Matt Cortina
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s a kid, Sarah Dupont loved getting lost in the woods with her dogs. That connection to the forest stayed with her in adulthood, buoyed by a trip in 1999 to the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. With tropical ecologists, she pinpointed the area of Madre de Dios in the southeastern part of the country as a particularly rich and diverse area under imminent threat of destruction. Motivated by that first trip, Dupont returned time and again, eventually founding the Amazon Aid Foundation. The nonprofit works to protect and reforest the Madre de Dios region through education and multimedia awareness and advocacy projects intended to motivate and galvanize youth and activist populations to fight back against deforestation. “We feel that if people in general don’t know what’s going on [or] what is the value of the Amazon, then they can’t take action,” Dupont says. Dupont worked with Sissy Spacek and Herbie Boulder Weekly
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Hancock to release the documentary Amazon Gold in 2012, which investigated how the mining industry destroyed the Peruvian rainforest, and its communities, in the pursuit of gold. The mining industry has caused 76 percent of people in towns near the mines to test positive for having “three times above toxic levels of mercury,” in their system. Anthem for the Amazon, which Dupont will screen at ALEF, is a short project that brought together 500 children from 50 countries to sing a song in support of protecting the Amazonian rainforest. Dupont will follow-up that screening with a question and answer session. The Amazon Aid Foundation, Dupont says, marries these artistic “transmedia” outlets with deeply researched science from some of the world’s best ecologists. The research done by these scientists has found the Madre de Dios region to be one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, with thousands of plant and animal species. Nestled against the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains, the region is constantly losing species from deforestation and contamination caused by animal agriculture and mining. Dupont says it’s crucial to share the message of the Amazon’s importance in new, engaging ways especially because research, now more than ever, has shown how important the rainforest is to global climates. Dupont says deforestation in the Amazon is now being directly linked to droughts in California and Texas, as the removal of dense forest limits transpiration (the process by which moisture is taken from the rainforest and transported across climates) and the reduced capacity for rainforests to draw in moisture from the nearby ocean. Scientists, according to Dupont, say the rainforest needs to remain at 80 percent capacity for these water cycles to continue. Dupont says the Amazon is already at 81 percent. The message Dupont hopes to get across in her work, her documentaries and another ALEF panel “Why Climate Change, Why Us,” is that it’s not too late to prevent deforestation and begin reforesting the Amazon. For us, that includes being a smarter consumer (of agriculture and other products that come from the region) and pressing for better policy from our elected leaders.
A river runs through it by Amanda Moutinho
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he Santiago River was once a thriving piece of the community in El Salto, a town on the edge of Guadalajara, Mexico. But in recent decades, it has become a wasteland. Due to major industrialization of the area, the river has served as a dumping ground for companies — 80 percent of which are American and Japanese. Tests on the river found more than 1,000 known chemicals in the water, including high levels of arsenic, chromium, lead and phosphorus, which gives the river its unnaturally foamy appearance. Boulder Weekly
The polluted Santiago River in Mexico contains high levels of arsenic, chromium, lead and phosphorus, which makes the river unnaturally foamy.
The residents of the town suffer from increased health risks of respiratory disease, kidney failure and higher chances of cancer. In 2008, after falling in a canal near the junction with the Santiago River, a 6-year-old boy died of arsenic poisoning. The film Silent River, showing at ALEF, focuses on 24-year-old Atawalpa Sofia as she and her community fight to clean up the Santiago River in the face of inactive law enforcement and pressure to quit — including death threats and being chased out of town. Filmmakers Jason Jaacks and Steve Fisher have shown their film on both sides of the border, hoping to raise awareness for this cause. “I remember one particular moment when I was on the bridge right over the waterfalls. I stood there, and I saw this foam. It just really struck me that this river was the dystopia of U.S. consumption. This is where it all ended up,” Fisher says. “This was the drain of the United States in so many ways. Of course this is one river of many. But really, this is one of the most contaminated, and primarily by international industries. It was heart wrenching. … It really motivated me to come back to the U.S. and say, ‘Look, this is happening. We are also responsible and something must be done.’” Silent River shows the impact that the outside world can have on Latin America, pointing to the consequences of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Regions like El Salto are particularly vulnerable because companies can exploit natural resources, cheap labor and lack of laws. And Fisher says even with documentation of lawbreaking, the government still fails to enforce any penalties on the corporations. The memory of what the river once was remains strong in the minds of the people who knew it then. But there are some young activists, like Sofia, who never knew the clean river. This lost consciousness raises a red flag — an unpolluted world should be standard, not fantasy. “Sometimes when I sleep, I dream of a clean river, and I dream that I go there, and I can swim in the river,” Sofia says in the opening lines of the film. “I
don’t like to wake up when I dream like that.”
A type of prayer by Caitlin Rockett
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itting on a couch at a home in North Boulder, clad in jeans, a white shirt and a light jacket, Ernesto Cardenal doesn’t look like a Catholic priest. Then again, “priest” is only one of Cardenal’s titles. He holds a red paperback book in his hands, a pen clipped to the cover to mark his place. He stops reading to greet me, and says, in Spanish, that I should take a seat. I follow his direction and take a seat across from him, but he goes back to his book for a moment once the pleasantries are out of the way. Far from offended, I’m grateful — we have exhausted my “comfortable” Spanish and would now have to venture into uncharted linguistic territory. The Nicaraguan celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this year, and it seems that nearly a century of life has rendered three men within a single body: a religious iconoclast, a political revolutionary and a poet whose words can inspire a kind of Sagan-like wonder in the universe. These seemingly disparate personalities are inextricable in Cardenal. Born to a wealthy family in the colonial city of Granada, Cardenal left home at 18 to study literature, first in Mexico and then at Columbia University in New York. He returned to Nicaragua after his studies and opened a bookstore, but the despotic political climate in his native land would pull the young man away from such a mild-mannered professional endeavor. In 1954, Cardenal joined the April Revolution, an uprising against the brutal regime of Anastasio Somoza Garcia — but shortly thereafter, the leaders of See ECO-FESTIVAL Page 20
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the uprising were captured than another “conservaand killed. tive and reactionary” In an abrupt change of pope in 2013. Instead, course, Cardenal entered the church elected the Trappist Monastery of Argentine-born Jorge Gethsemani in New Mario Bergoglio, who Haven, Kentucky, where took the non-traditional he studied under famed papal name Francis, and American Catholic writer quickly eschewed many and mystic Thomas of the ornate trappings Merton. Merton’s writof papal life. ings, much like Cardenal’s, “We are seeing a true took up controversial revolution in the issues like race relations, Vatican,” Cardenal economic injustice and wrote. “Pope Francis violence, and the Christian does not want to live like responsibility in alleviating a pope. He has refused Father Ernesto Cardenal, a theologian, activist and poet, will speak these problems. to occupy the pontiff ’s Cardenal transferred to about Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on the environment. palace, with its 14 a Benedictine monastery rooms. He has rejected in Mexico, and then studied theology at environment, which is what has brought the popemobile. He talks directly to a seminary in Colombia before finally people on the telephone. He uses simme to the home in North Boulder. traveling back to Nicaragua where he ple and clear language. He does not A translator — whose home we are was ordained as a Catholic priest in his want to be called pope, but simply in — makes me a cup of green tea and hometown of Granada in 1965. bishop (the Bishop of Rome).” takes a seat between Cardenal and me, And since then it seems Cardenal I ask Cardenal if the popularity of and I ask how he reconciles religion and has found satisfaction in nothing less this progressive pope can create real science when so many see the two purthan changing the world — he founded change in the face of a slow-moving, suits as mutually exclusive. an artist’s community and relentlessly existential threat like global warming. “For me it’s all one thing: Science championed Marxism and denounced “I don’t know, but I hope it can,” he that studies the cosmos and the cosmos American imperialism in Central says. “If we follow what the encyclical that studies mysticism,” Cardenal says. America. He joined the Sandinista “I conceive of God as the creator of this says, we can save the world.” National Liberation Front, which ultiDespite uncertainty, Cardenal sees world and science as the study of this mately overthrew Anastasio Somoza hope in “miracles” happening around creation. For me, reading science books the world: the election of a black presiGarcia in 1979. Within the resulting is a type of prayer.” new government, Cardenal took a posiHe passes the red paperback book to dent in the U.S., and an Indian presition as Minister of Culture, in which he me via the translator. The book is called dent in Bolivia. Perhaps these are signs hosted workshops in poetry and theater El Viaje al Amor: Las nuevas claves cienti- that humans can see past superficial difand further promulgated Sandinista ficas (The Journey to Love: The new scien- ferences and take action to save our shared home. political views. tific keys) by Spanish lawyer, economist And this, Cardenal says, cannot His political involvement was a and scientific communicator Eduardo happen without evolution, without revodirect defiance of the conservative views Punset. The book examines love from a lution. It cannot happen without God. of the Catholic Church at the time, and scientific perspective, from the chemisThese things are not mutually exclusive, consequently drew the ire of Pope John try that occurs when we “feel” love, to but symbiotic. Paul II (a moment immortalized in a the psychology of mate choice, to the “Mahatma Ghandi said the Gospel tense picture of the Pope’s visit to evolutionary reasons we marry. is political or it’s not anything,” Nicaragua in 1983). “There’s an English biologist who Cardenal says. “That’s what I believe. And all the while Cardenal was says that science is a more sure path The message of the Gospel is that the writing, creating a vast collection of the- toward God,” Cardenal continues as I world must be changed and that’s a ology-infused poems and books. examine the book. “And I agree with political message.” Ultimately, his life’s work has aimed that.” Much the same way we entered our to upend any establishment that creates It seems, finally, that the Vatican’s conversation, Cardenal gently exits the vast chasms between humans. He has, vision of Christianity is beginning to conversation after 45 minutes or so by for decades, traveled the globe, reading skew closer to Cardenal’s. While Pope from his collective works and continuing Francis maintains some of the tradition- saying he thinks that’s enough for now. But I take a chance and ask if he’ll tell me to spread the message of liberation theal views of the Church, he shares if he has hope that humanity can overology, an interpretation of the Bible Cardenal’s appreciation for science, a come the climate crisis we’ve created. through the eyes of poverty. fact made clear in his second encyclical, True to form, he calls on science — His time in Colorado will be spent Laudato si’, in which the Pope calls for doing more of the same. Cardenal will international action against the threat of man’s study of God’s work — for his answer. speak at the third annual Americas global warming. “My hope is in evolution, that it can Latino Eco-Festival, specifically about Earlier this year, Cardenal wrote he solve the problem.” Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on the expected the election of nothing more Boulder Weekly
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Breakfast with Bianca Jagger. 8:30 a.m. Spring Hill Suites Denver, 1190 Auraria Parkway, Denver. Climate of Hope Youth Leadership Training. 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. History Colorado Center, 1200 Broadway St., Denver. Welcome. Why Climate Change? Why Us? 9 a.m. Panel discussion. Small Group 1: Personal Space: Storytelling through Personal Contact. 10:10 a.m. Small Group 2: Public Space: Communication. 11:10 p.m. Reporting and Wrap Up. 12:45 p.m. ALEF Climate of Hope Rally Concert. 1:50 p.m. #DiscoverMiTierra Family Day. 10 a.m Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway. Film Forum. 10:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Denver Art Museum, Sharp Auditorium, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway. • Song of the Sea. 10:30 a.m. • Silent River — welcome. 12:15 p.m. • Silent River. 12:25 p.m. • Yo Soy Rojo El Rio Colorado. 1 p.m. • Silent River and Yo Soy Rojo Q&A. 1:05 p.m. • Mercury Uprising. 1:50 p.m. • Anthem for the Amazon. 2:05 p.m. • Mercury Uprising and Anthem for the Amazon Q&A — with Sara Dupont. 2:10 p.m. • Estamos Aqui. 2:30 p.m. • An American Ascent — welcome from Mindy Aponte. 3:15 p.m. • An American Ascent. 3:20 p.m. • An American Ascent Q&A. 4:30pm ALEF Best Books and Storytelling. 10 a.m. Denver Art Museum, Level 4 North, PreColumbian Study Gallery, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. • Maria Ramirez. 11 a.m. • Mateo de Valenzuela. 12:30 p.m. • Luis J. Rodriguez. 1:30 p.m. • Edna Iturralde. 3 p.m. Arturo Garcia: Migrations. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Denver Art Museum, Duncan Pavillion, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Live Performances and Mural Artist at Work. 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Denver Art Museum, Ponti Hall, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. David Garcia: Mural Artist “Marcha por el Agua.” 10:30-4 p.m. El Sistema & Rocky Ridge Music
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ON THE BILL: Front Range Bioneers Conference. Eaton Humanities Building. Oct. 23-25. A full schedule and registration details can be found at colorado.edu/ecenter/ bioneers. General Public Rate: Advance: $20 / single day; $55 / all 3 days. Discounted Student/ Educator/ Activist/ Senior Rate: Advance: $12/ single day; $33/ all 3 days. Fulltime CU-Boulder and Naropa University Students: FREE with valid ID. Child Rate: $40/ day or $70/ both days.
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hen international FRB conference include: “Engaging in visionaries and leading the Anti-Nuclear Movement,” put on by innovators come Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship; together to discuss the “Creating Supportive Re-entry planet’s most pressing Ecologies for Criminalized Persons,” by environmental, health and social justice local keynote speaker Lisa Calderon of issues, nothing but positivity can come Community Reentry Project; and out of it — that or at least thought“Stories from the Front Lines of the provoking conversation and some lively Local Food Revolution,” with a panel of debate. expert journalists, business owners, In its 13th year, Boulder’s Front Ph.D.s and city workers of Colorado Range Bioneers (FRB) — a Bioneers who will weigh in on the power of food Resilient Communities Network event localization. The conference’s opening — will host a weekend with over 35 keynote address by biologist and author sessions, workshops and field trips that Jon Young, who wrote What the Robin focus on topics of regional importance Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of from Oct. 23-25. Organized by the CU the Natural World, will be open to the Boulder Environmental Center, the public free of charge on Thursday night. events will take place at different locaOver the course of the conference’s Participants of the 2014 Front Range Bioneers Conference convene at an outdoor session. tions on campus with check-in at the 13 years, the approach to climate, food Eaton Humanities Building. With security and indigenous knowledge has nearly 100 local presenters and special you’ve never heard of.” become more complex, connected and activities for teens and kids, the FRB conference will “Bioneers is a movement that looks to link soluinnovative, according to Martin. And because the also re-air sessions and keynote addresses from the tions and find common ground toward restoring the FRB conference invokes “inspiration and an urgency National Bioneers Conference, taking place in San planet in this critical time. As climate change and to act,” many people who go will chart a new course Rafael, California, Oct. 16-18. population growth propel natural and human systems in their career, or for those who are already active, it The National Bioneers Conference was dreamt up toward their tipping points of crisis, the growing trend will strengthen their work, she says. in 1990 by filmmaker and journalist Kenny Ausubel toward decentralization and greater localization is an One such example is Eliot Kersgaard, co-chair of who founded former seed company, Seeds of Change, ecological, economic and political imperative,” says the CU Biomimicry Club, which focuses on natureand who authored Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Marianne Martin, associate director of the inspired innovation. Kersgaard and his group had Crime. The term bioneer refers to a “biological pioEnvironmental Center at CU Boulder and lead proattended a previous FRB conference where they met neer,” or “social and scientific innovators who are ducer of the FRB event. “Building from the bottom presenters and their future mentors, Marie Bourgeois mimicking nature’s operating instructions to serve up through communities, cities, counties, states and and Martin Ogle, a retired civil engineer for the human ends,” according to the Bioneers’ website. In regions is among the most productive and realistic Environmental Protection Agency and founder of the past the conference has hosted speakers such as pathways to substantively advance resilience.” See BIONEERS Page 24 Naomi Klein, Jane Goodall and “the greatest people Just a few of the topics to be discussed at this year’s
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he air is still this Sunday According to Campbell, there morning. It’s fall and the are approximately 12,000-15,000 hint of yellows and reds glider pilots in the United States; are starting to dot not a huge number, but nothing Boulder’s lush landscape to sneeze at either. The commu— but it’s still warm. In fact, it’s nity is small enough that fast already warm out on the plains friendships can easily be formed east of the city on this particular Gliders like Gary Campbell’s Alexander Schleicher ASW-1913 use only Mother Nature to fly from point despite the solitary nature of flyA to point B and back again, sometimes flying distances in excess of 500 miles. Sunday morning, and with no ing. Annual meets, like the Soar clouds in the sky it’s obvious it’ll Nephi Camps held in Nephi, get a lot warmer. The heat Utah, bring the community doesn’t seem to bother Gary together and offer the chance for Campbell, though. He’s not worcompetition, including “tasks” ried about the time; he has all that challenge pilots to fly preday. It’s a good day to be outside determined routes past “checkand, with miles and miles of visipoints” before returning to base. bility, an even better day to be Pilots gain points based on how flying. And it won’t be nearly so fast they accomplish the “task,” hot up at 10,000 feet. but there are other challenges, Gary is one of a handful of including time aloft and distance members of the Soaring Society Faris ranked fourth nationally, all flights considered. flown. And some of the distances of Boulder (SSB) messing about with their gliders on With world-class results and pilots, the group features are jaw-dropping, including an 809-kilometer (just this perfect morning. The society’s modest facilities a low-key, supportive environment that’s welcoming over 503 miles) flight at a Nephi event in 2013. are located on the north side of Boulder Municipal to newcomers regardless of whether you’ve piloted a Campbell admits that while he enjoys these events Airport. There’s a small building with walls covered glider or flown before. and participating in the “tasks” at gatherings like by charts, weather information and other notices. It “It’s a small community but a friendly one,” Nephi, he’s not competitive and the personal appeal can hold about four people comfortably, which is why Campbell says, a retired engineer who got his start for him is how flying gliders combines tranquility and most of the folks here on this calm day sit outside at flying gliders after his wife gave him a seat in a tanbeauty with the mental challenge of figuring out how some adjacent picnic tables in the shade and talk flydem flight as a birthday gift. to get the most out of Mother Nature. It’s a dance ing. “Gliders are different,” adds Campbell. “Powered with the elements that rewards savvy pilots with specFormed in 1959, the society is ground zero for all flights are great for getting from point A to point B, tacular flights that traverse the Front Range or travel things gliders and soaring in Boulder County. The for example, if you want to go have breakfast in across the Continental Divide, born only on the wind. non-profit organization owns a couple of gliders and Aspen. But what we do is take off and see what we “We have guys who like to fly down to Taos and some tow planes, and features a membership of more can accomplish with Mother Nature. It’s a challenge back,” Campbell says. “Or over to Steamboat and than 170 people, including experienced instructors. to see how far you can go or how high you can get or back. I’m a bit more conservative, though.” The SSB was second in the U.S. in the Gold League, how high you can stay up. It’s like a chess match, and Campbell’s conservatism comes from knowing second in the U.S. in overall flights, and placed seven that’s what’s fascinating about it and why you get a lot that if things don’t work out, it can be a real headache. pilots in the top 100 nationally (when considering of scientists and engineers and similar types of people see FLYING HIGH Page 28 each pilot’s top six flights), with SSB member Bob doing this — it’s challenging.”
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“We have GPS and a lot of other distances easily and usually have a disinstrumentation, so we have a lot of tance-to-drop ratio of more than 55 information on what should happen feet of horizontal travel to every loss of with the weather and flight conditions,” one foot of elevation. Campbell’s glider, Campbell says. “We also know how far an Alexander Schleicher ASW-1913, we can fly and what landing sites or isn’t quite that impressive, but still airports we can reach at any given time. returns a 38-to-one ratio, meaning that You don’t want to fly over to Steamboat for every foot of elevation he loses, he and then have to land there because can travel 38 feet forward, allowing that’s going to be ample flight time a long way for a to return to base TAKE A FLIGHT: The Soaring pick-up.” provided he’s Society of Boulder is a member-funded non-profit that is run out of This, of remained inside Boulder Municipal Airport. Dedicated course, is the big the flight parameto supporting soaring, the organization has a variety of membership levrisk for glider ters that he’s set els and provides basic facilities pilots. With no up for himself. including five sailplanes, two tow planes, auxiliary equipment, training, power, they have “Usually we fly and mutual assistance in assembling, to be savvy and between 14,000 launching and cross-country retrieves. You can learn more at soaraware and conand 18,000 feet as boulder.org. stantly ready to our altitude band,” abort a flight if Campbell says of Mother Nature the majority of the conspires against pilots that launch them. For Campbell this means that out of Boulder Municipal Airport. every time he closes the canopy on his “Above 18,000 feet we come under the plane, he has a detailed plan. It’s a twocontrol of the [Federal Aviation part plan: the flying and soaring part, and Administration] where you are in comthen the moment when, if due to loss of mercial aircraft airspace — you have to altitude or other weather issues, he file a flight plan and you are under switches from flying mode to landing direct control of [Denver International mode. Airport].” “When I switch to landing mode,” “We’re looking for lift, so we fly he says, “I am landing. I’m not hoping along the Front Range north to south. It’s a six or seven hour flight down to or thinking that I’ll fly some more and Taos and back, but I’m usually going up hope things work out, I am now in the to Wyoming or above Estes Park. mental state of looking for where I will Wyoming and back is not a difficult land, and I will land. There’s no, ‘Well, flight, I enjoy the scenery, and I always I’ll keep on flying and see if it works want to come back,” he says with a out.’ I am heading down.” laugh. “You always leave your keys in This may sound risky or scary, but your car just in case you have to call with soaring technology and the onsomeone to come and get you!” board instrumentation used by glider While pick-up calls are rare, they do pilots, it’s rare that an airport or approhappen. Hence the fact that gliders are priate landing site is ever out of reach. modular, with removable wings that High-performance gliders can fly vast Boulder Weekly
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Still, it’s hard to argue with the simplicity and beauty that the experience offers. Today Campbell will get a “tug” (the term pilots use for a powerassisted glider launch) up to 8,000 feet and then will soar in an altitude band of 14,000-17,000 feet past Estes Park, back down to Idaho Springs and back to Carter Lake before returning to base. He’ll log a bit more than three hours of flight time and be home in plenty of time for dinner. “Aspen [trees] are turning in the high country. Great view from up high,” he’ll report. October 15, 2015 29
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the world as a comic. Saget is a busy man with no plans of slowing down. Just recently he shot scenes for the Full House reboot, Fuller House, and did an episode for the new show Grandfathered, starring John Stamos, who Saget affectionately refers to as his sister. Saget is also on his way back to Broadway to play Pastor Greg in the Tony-nominated play Hand to God. But before heading to New York City, Saget is stopping by Denver to play Comedy Works on Oct. 16 and 17. He calls the gig his last hurrah as he plans to put touring on the back burner for a few months. It’s a tight fit in his schedule, but Saget says he’s happy to make the time because Comedy Works is one of his favorite clubs in the country. It’s easy to label Saget’s stand-up as vulgar or adult-oriented, but he isn’t interested in putting himself in a box. His only goal is to entertain. His sets contain a little bit of everything, with anecdotes, crowd work and some comedy songs, and he also plans on releasing a new special next year. “It’s so funny. People always go, ‘You’re so blue.’ Not really. I’m just doing what I find funny. … I’m a personal comedian,” Saget says. “The newer stuff I’m working on is about the things about us that are universal: birth and death... I lost my mom a year and a half ago. And it’s about relationships. I’m a guy who is not in one at the moment.” Saget also draws on his past roles, frequently poking fun at costars John Stamos and Dave Coulier, and also himself with songs like “Danny Tanner Was Not Gay.” He says he’s grateful for an outlet to let loose. “It’s a really wonderful thing to be able to go up on stage and see SAGET Page 32
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get some of your thoughts and your devils out,” he says. Surely Saget will get a plethora of new material for his set as he reprises the role of the goofy, neat, hug-obsessed Danny Tanner in Netflix’s Fuller House, a reboot of the ’90s sitcom, premiering in 2016. Creator Jeff Franklin and the entire cast is back — minus the evermysterious Olsen twins — to once again be the light waiting to carry us home. It was easy to come back, Saget says, but it was also slightly shocking. “I never thought I’d be walking through the door again,” he says. “I never thought I’d be in that house again — that’s the truth.” A reboot shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to Saget since Full House fans have hungrily latched on to every reunion in recent years. The cast stirred up attention when they reunited for the 25th anniversary back in 2012. Then in 2014, Saget and his buds Stamos and Coulier reprised Danny, Jesse and Joey for a sketch with Jimmy Fallon that garnered more than 14 million views on YouTube. Soon after, they reunited again in Stamos’ Super Bowl commercial for Oikos Greek Yogurt. Rumors then began percolating of a spinoff in the works, and it was finally confirmed back in April, prompting fans to exclaim their favorite Full House catchphrase (“Have mercy!” “Cut it out!” “Woah baby!” “How rude [that it took this long]!” etc.). Fuller House centers on D.J. (Candace Cameron Bure) who is recently widowed, raising two sons and pregnant with a third child. She gets help from sister Stephanie ( Jodie Sweetin) and best friend Kimmy Gibbler (Andrea Barber), who move in with her. There’s no need to point out the obvious parallels between the shows’ plotlines, but fans are curious to know if some Full House staples will return to the reboot — the opening credits, the sappy music, Comet, Mr. Woodchuck, the Beach Boys? But don’t bother asking Saget — he’s sworn to secrecy. He does say the show is very similar to the original, with the necessary added updates. “It is more adult and has more references that are contemporary. I mean, no one’s talking like they did in the ’80s, and none of us have bouffants. There’s no mullets in the show.” he says with a laugh. “And John [Stamos] still does look incredibly good. But I’m getting very sick of it. I’ve really had enough of how good he looks.” Even though it’s been 20 years since the original show ended, the cast has
remained in touch, so Saget says coming back together felt natural. Behind the scenes, the co-stars seem to be having a blast as evidenced by their frequent social media updates, sharing photos from hanging on-set at table reads or stealing golf carts, and off-set by celebrating Stamos’ birthday with a pool party. “We’ve never stopped being friends. We’ve never stopped seeing each other,” Saget says. “So it wasn’t like, ‘Oh my God! It’s so amazing to see you.’ It was like, ‘Hey, what happened to that thing we talked about last week?’” The same chemistry was felt on the original show and added to its charm, as every character seemed genuinely bonded to the others. “There was a lot of love, and you could see it in between. And they always say it’s the stuff between the lines that people can feel,” Saget says. There is a legacy that has stayed with the show. Because of consistent reruns airing throughout the television world, several generations have grown up with the Tanners. And Saget still gets recognized even though he’s packed on a few years — and pounds. “Little kids are watching it like they’ve never seen it before,” he says. “The biggest compliment for me is, which I never ever agree with, is when a 3-year-old goes, ‘You’re Danny Tanner!’ And I’m like, ‘How do you even recognize me, kid?’ I don’t look the same. I got glasses. I got a little more girth. I mean, come on.” As Netflix gears up to reintroduction the Tanner family to television, it faces the common challenges of other franchise spinoffs. The passing of time adds a candy coating of nostalgia on the source material, but modern-day audiences have different palates. It’s a delicate balance of pleasing old fans but also letting the show find its own flavor and new fans. Airing on Netflix might help the reboot’s success, as other Netflix original shows such as Orange is the New Black, House of Cards and the fourth season of Arrested Development have garnered critical and viewer acclaim. Or it also could be harmful for the show to not be sandwiched by other family programs on network pre-packaged sitcom nights, as it was way back when. Only time will tell. But Saget is confident that fans old and new will approve. “It’s really going to satisfy a lot of people,” he says. “I’m very happy with what they’ve done with it, and I think a lot of people are going to be happy with it too.” Boulder Weekly
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hat is it about shows as a tribute to the power of colson’s performances along with help Republican presidential lective bargaining. But the irony doesn’t from some of the industry’s best-known candidates and their stop there. vocal instructors. The level of talent inability to choose a When I called Davis a few days ago among the show’s contestants is stagproper campaign song? at his home in Traverse City, Michigan, gering and getting to the final episode It’s as if conservative ears have a special he didn’t know that Bush was using his of the season — contestant’s are elimifilter that only allows the words of an song. After a good laugh, I said, “I bet nated as the show progresses — is an ironic chorus to make it into the candi- you weren’t thinking about Bush when impressive feat that pretty much guardate’s head while stripping out a song’s you wrote that song.” His response, antees a successful career will follow. Or true meaning along the way. We’ve seen “Well, actually… I was.” in the case of someone like Joshua the result and it isn’t pretty — think Davis wrote the song toward the Davis, an already successful career will Ronald Reagan kissing babies while end of Jeb’s brother’s second term as become an even more successful career. Bruce Springsteen’s anti-war, anti-mili- president, so the song’s admonishment Davis has been a respected singer/ tary-industrial-com- Main photo: courtesy Joshua Davis songwriter for years. Inset photo: courtesy The Voice plex, anti-the-wayHe was a member of our-governmentthe Lansing, treats-our-soldiers, Michigan-based band, anti-everythingSteppin’ In It, which Reaganplayed the Telluride stood-for Bluegrass Festival back “Born in the in 2004, and has USA” blasts recorded and played away in the around Boulder and background. the Front Range from The infatime to time. But for mous music his entire career until thieving The Voice, he thought McCainof himself as a songPalin team was even writer who played guiworse. They got hit tar pretty well and with cease and could sing when needdesist orders from ed. Foo Fighters, John But that changed Mellencamp, Van when The Voice called Halen, Jon Bon Jovi him to be on the show. Joshua Davis was a well respected musician long before he and Heart for using Singer/songwriter “I’d never seen the made it to the finals of The Voice, but the show has catapulted his career. Davis their music without will bring his sizable talents to the Wildflower Pavilion in Lyons on Friday, Oct. 16. show before they permission, which, called,” Davis says. So of course, the artists refused to give. to “turn it around” is at least in part the first thing he did before accepting Heck, even Mitt Romney had to deal talking about the policies of the George the invitation to the blind auditions was with pissed off Somali-Canadian poet/ W. Bush presidency. You can’t make to sit down with his family and watch a rapper K’naan after his campaign cothis stuff up. few episodes. “A lot of these shows are opted his song “Waving Flag.” By the So how did the Jeb Bush folks about tearing people down and embarway, the definition of trying too hard is stumble onto Davis’ “Workingman’s rassing them,” he says. “I didn’t want Mitt Romney and Rap. Awkward. Hymn” in the first place? Chances are any part of that. But The Voice really Well it’s happened again here in someone was watching The Voice last seemed positive. It really built people 2015. According to the Washington Post, year. up so I agreed to do it. I thought I’d be Jeb Bush has been using Joshua Davis’ The Voice is NBC’s wildly popular out after the blind auditions.” He was song “Workingman’s Hymn” at his show wherein celebrity judges such as wrong. campaign stops. The song’s upbeat and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, Davis brought his polished roots optimistic chorus declares, “I know we country star Blake Shelton, producer/ folk/rock style to whatever song he was can turn it around.” singer Pharrell Williams and popstar singing and surprisingly, at least to him, But remember that filter? Had the Gwen Stefani listen to contestants sing week after week he was still standing. Bush team done a little research they without being able to see them and He says he enjoyed getting to sing a would have realized that singer/songthen choose their season’s team by turn- duet with Sheryl Crow, as well as workwriter Joshua Davis is a self-declared ing their chairs around during a live ing with his coach Adam Levine, who “liberal guy” who grew up in a union performance. They refer to this process he now considers a friend. “He was household in Michigan. Even a quick as the “blind auditions.” great,” Davis says. “We connected. I can glance at YouTube and Jeb would have The judges then “coach” their team seen Davis introducing the song at his members through each week of the sea- see DAVIS Page 36 Boulder Weekly
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still call him if I have questions about Palestinian Territories for an organizamy career or things like that.” tion called On the Ground, whose But perhaps the most important Project Palestine works to raise awarething the show did for Davis — it ness about the difficulty facing 1,700 helped him find his voice, literally. Not small Palestinian fair-trade olive farmhis voice as an artist or a songwriter, ers in the West Bank who are losing Davis has long had that well in hand. access to their lands due to the politics But he says that working with the of the region. amazing voice coach at the show for Davis is Jewish and admits to hours a day throughout being apprehensive an entire season helped when first approached him learn to sing in a about the Project. “I ON THE BILL: Joshua Davis. 7 p.m. doors/8 way he hadn’t done wasn’t sure about it, p.m. show. Friday, Oct. 16, before and gave him a but I’ve always used indoors at Wildflower new confidence. “She my music to try and Pavilion, Planet Bluegrass Ranch, Lyons. With special helped me see my voice bring people together,” guest Danny Shafer. $20 as an instrument I had he says. “It turned out advance. Tickets available to learn to play like any to be a really positive at shop.bluegrass.com or 800-624-2422. other. I became a better time.” singer and it’s changed Davis says that he my career.” understands the politiWhen it was finally cal situation is very over, Davis made the finals and came complicated and difficult and that’s in third on the show. Along the way why he would never try to create an he also added a first to The Voice. album that would attempt to tell peoDavis fought hard to perform one of ple what to think about the ongoing his original songs on the program, conflict. He says A Miracle of Birds is something that had never been more of a portrait of his emotional, allowed before. It took weeks of lobpersonal journey through a troubled bying the producers and the network land where he found good and kind before they finally gave in. Davis perpeople at every turn. formed “Workingman’s Hymn” and Whether you’ve been a fan for years, the song charted on iTunes, apparent- or like Jeb Bush, only recently discovered Joshua Davis on The Voice, his ly with the help of at least one downupcoming appearance at the Wildflower load by Jeb Bush. Pavilion at the Planet Bluegrass Ranch Davis has recorded three solo in Lyons is sure to be a great show. And albums to go along with the five he’s you’ll be able to get a first-hand update made with Steppin’ In It. His most on what Jeb had to say this week when recent solo effort, 2013’s A Miracle of confronted with stealing a song that Birds, is a perfect example of the songwas really about unions and banding writing skill that Davis can bring to together to get past his brother’s crazy bear when the subject inspires. The time as President. Can’t wait to hear album sprang from the songwriter’s that one. experiences while traveling in the Boulder Weekly
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appear, the gods look comic because they’re here will be ancient chants. sacred clowns. They are sort of reminding There will be jazz and contemus of our human-ness.” porary compositions. There will Another piece Keister and his ensemble be Taiko drumming and masked will perform deals with common Buddhist dancers. principles. “This piece refers to three “All of this and more!” as the ads might worlds of Buddhism: A world of desires, say, are on the program for that’s the world we live in; a world free “Contemplation,” an evening of music from desires; and a world beyond our exisinspired by, or related to, Buddhism, pretence, which would be a Buddhist parasented by Music at the Dairy and Naropa dise.” University on Monday, Oct. 19, at the Also in the show is music written by Dairy Center for the Arts. long-time Boulder resident and Naropa The program is intentionally something faculty member Bill Douglas, who conof a potpourri. Music producer for the verted to Buddhism 46 years ago. “Paul Dairy, James Bailey says the event was Fowler will be singing songs of mine, and planned to be “a broad look at music and I’ll be accompanying him on piano and how it has been influenced by Buddhism, as singing a little bit of harmony with him,” opposed to a particular style of music, or a Performers wear masks representing gods and goddesses from Japan as part of the Lion Dance. he says. particular country, or a particular sect of Some of the songs have texts by the Buddhism.” Buddha, revered teachers from Buddhist If the program seems bewilderingly the only Buddhist ceremonial music on the program. eclectic, that’s OK. “It’s designed to be music that “This is a Japanese Buddhist chant from the Sotohistory, and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, current head keeps the audience off balance, which is one of my Zen school,” Brown says. “It’s the longest melodic of Shambhala Buddhist lineage. favorite things to do,” Bailey says. “Like a lot of prochant that we have, so it’s very rarely used, for very “In addition, we’ll do a couple of songs that use ductions I do, you’ll never hear anything like this special ceremonies. classic English [language] poems that resonate with again.” “It takes about 10 minutes to do. It’s just a long the Buddhist teachings,” Douglas adds. “We’ll also do Very likely not. The program features, a variety of melisma (an ornamental phrase of music sung on a my most performed choral piece, ‘Deep Peace.’ It uses acts, all of which will come together to provide a single syllable of text) on the character ‘Myo,’ which an ancient Gaelic blessing as its text, which definitely unique look at various aspects of Buddhism and means wondrous and is the first word in the title of has a Buddhist quality to it.” music. the Lotus Sutra. So basically it is invoking that sutra There is of course much more, music by composAlthough it sounds very different, music in just by chanting the first word of the title.” ers and performers who have been touched and Buddhist ceremonies often has a function similar to Although not ceremonial in character, other music shaped in various ways by Buddhism. the role of music in Christian traditions. “It functions on the program comes from Buddhist cultures. The “I think it will be interesting for people to hear as an offering in any ceremony,” explains Buddhist Jay and Mami Keister Ensemble and Boulder Taiko how different styles of music have been influenced by Priest Mason Brown. He will be performing, Hibiki drummers will perform music that originates Buddhists, from the most profound to something “Bombai,” an ancient chant, along with another in the Chinese and Japanese Lion Dance, which is that’s maybe more superficial,” Bailey concludes. Buddhist Priest Martin Mosko. “It also functions to done today at Shinto and Buddhist festivals. Jay “There’s music for Buddhist services, there’s music for create karmic merit that is dedicated to all beings, Keister, explains that this performance will feature jazz clubs, there’s music for concert halls. and it serves to inspire people with religious feelings.” masked characters representing gods and goddesses “There’s not a button you can push anywhere to Brown and Mosko, who were ordained Buddhist from Japan. hear this music, especially in it’s entirety as a conpriests at the same Zen Temple in Japan, will perform “They look really silly,” Keister says. “When they cert.”
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Thursday, October 15 Music Austin Tuley and Denny Driscoll. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass, BBQ & Bourbon. 8:30 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Celtic Session Hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
La Fiesta World Party
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7:30 p.m. Oct. 17, Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder, 303-996-0275. Take a trip around the world, without leaving the County, by celebrating Intercambio Uniting Communities’ 14th annual La Fiesta World Party. Prepare to dance some salsa and merengue and then boogie down to the sound of West African drumming. All palates will be satisfied with food trucks serving up dishes including wood-fired pizza, Mexican tacos, Salvadorian pupusas, Czechoslovakian sausages and Columbian arepas. Also enjoy a silent auction where you can bid on a weekend in Beverly Hills. It all goes to a good cause as Intercambio is hoping to raise $60,000 to continue providing English education and multicultural celebrations. For tickets head to intercambioweb.org.
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Dark Star Orchestra. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. DJ Royal Swan. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Greener Grounds. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. John Paul Hodge. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Lil Dicky. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. see EVENTS Page 42
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Friday, Oct. 16 through Sunday, Oct. 18, Charlotte York Irey Dance Theatre, Boulder.
8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18, The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467
CU Theatre & Dance presents The Otherland, a MFA dance concert created and performed by Bailey Anderson and Rosely Conz. Courtesy of Otherland The evening-length show will use contemporary dance to delve into what it means to be a stranger in one’s every day world. Anderson draws her inspiration for this intimate performance from the struggle of making sense out of language, disability and the intersections of academia and dance. Conz uses her Brazilian background and her research about how marginalized populations can change systems of oppression. Both foreignness and disability live in the land of the other, and now is a vital time in history to confront the feeling of belonging when people are dying in search of better lives. Tickets are available at: http://www.colorado.edu/ theatredance. —Nicole McNulty
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Matisyahu returns to the Fox Theatre in celebration of the 10th anniversary of his breakout album Live at Stubb’s. The artist’s newest album, Live at Stubb’s III: A 10-Year Journey, looks back on the evolution of his music with stripped-down and re-done versions of fan favorites from over the years including, “King Without A Crown.” This personal show demonstrates Matisyahu’s versatility from hip-hop to straight up reggae and also highlights talents that first garnered him fame, now backed up with 10 years of experience. As this tour connects Matisyahu with artists he collaborated with early in his career, it is one not to be missed. —Nicole McNulty
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Miles Wide. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Oisin’s Minstrels. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
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Open Jam: Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Sherefe — Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Whiskey Autumn. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Events Conscious Loving Ever After. 7 p.m. Boulder Center for Conscious Community, 1637 28th St., Boulder, 303-999-0442. Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. Green Day: Heart Like a Hand-Grenade. 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. How Will Youth Change the Future of Climate Change? 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Peace Officer. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Pecha Kucha Night. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Wildlike. 6:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Friday, October 16 Music All Chiefs. 6 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303530-0642.
Celebrating Dia de los Muertos. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Nov. 9. Dia de los Muertos. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303678-7869. Through Oct. 31.
Soon Warren
Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 31.
See the multiple possiblities of art and water in Foothills Art Center’s latest exhibit Rocky Mountain National 2015 Watermedia.
Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.
Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 19671980. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 17.
In Bloom. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 11. Painted Paper Movements Through Collage. BMoCA at Macky, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 15. Pastel Paintings by Xenia J. Sease. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 28.
Augustus. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.
Joshua Davis. 8 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main, Lyons, 303-8230848.
Dechen Hawk and Colin Robison. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Grossenbart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Eric Adrian. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Eric Stone. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303258-3770. Fox Street. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Foxfeather. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
Rocky Mountain National Watermedia. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Oct. 25. Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.
Josh Maxey. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Boulder Bach Festival — Italian Roots. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Jan. 10.
Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through Dec. 20.
Andreas Kapsalis. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Beats Antique’s Creature Carnival. 9 p.m. The Boulder Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.
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Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29.
Kim Stone Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Kyle and Ryan. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Lorenzo Casey. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Lorna’s Swingset. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Murs with Red Pill and King Fantastic. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4470095. Old Town Pickers. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Sean Sweeney. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
JC and the Deadly Sins. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Stuart Davis. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.
Jeff Brinkman. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
The Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Tony Rosario. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder,
Susan Wick: Wild Women Never Get the Blues. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 3. The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 11.
508-873-9185. The Whale Tales. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Events Art Rising! 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Boulder High School Visual Art Show. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2200. Green Day: Heart Like a Hand-Grenade. 10:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Mountain Murder Mystery Dinner Theater. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303443-6461. Password: Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Peace Officer. 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Wildlike. 3:45 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. WordPress One-On-One Consulting. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Saturday, October 17 Music Andrew Wynne, Dean Himes, and Lonesome Rolan. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boulder Weekly
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Aural Elixir. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Beats Antique’s Creature Carnival. 9 p.m. The Boulder Theatre, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Blake & Groves. 9 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Boulder Bach Festival — Italian Roots. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246. The Brothers Comatose. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Catfish Cray Blues Band. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. CD Release and Folk Variety Show. 7:30 p.m. Friends Meeting Center Boulder, 1825 Upland Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2168. The Clearwings and Porcelain City. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Cleason. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Colin Harris Jr. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Coral Creek. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. David Boylan. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Electric Red. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Flynn and Co. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. G’Jai. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400. Holly and the Husbands. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill (Southside Bar), 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. HomeSlice Band. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Jazzebel. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. John McKay. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. The Legendary Rex Peoples Blues Showcase. 8 p.m. Boulder Distillery, 2500 47th St., Unit 10, Boulder, 303-444-6121. Magpie Zero. 9 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Michael McPherson. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Mr. Gettdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. The Prairie Scholars. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Rogue Sound. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Sandflower. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Strangebyrds. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-5507813. Tauk. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Trigger and Slips. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE. Boulder Weekly
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As You Like It. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 1. BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 14. Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 23. If/Then. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Oct. 25.
Broadway stars Idina Menzel and Anthony Rapp take the DCPA stage in If/Then playing through Oct. 25.
Lookingglass Alice. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Oct. 11. My Name is Asher Lev. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Oct 18. Spirts to Enforce — presented by The Catamounts. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 17. Tribes. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 15.
The Zimmermans. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Events 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. 3 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Beginnings of Eternity: Ancient Egypt s Old Kingdom. 9:45 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder High School Visual Art Show. 7 p.m. Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2200. Campfire Tales. 6 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Cinema Program Home Movie Day. All day. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave.,
Boulder, 303-441-3100. Colorado Yoga Magazine Launch Party. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Fifty Shades of Stories on Stage. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Free Fly Tying Classes. 11 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4472400. Geology of Rabbit Mountain. 9:30 a.m. Rabbit Mountain Open Space Park, 14950 N. 55th St., Longmont, 303-678-6200. see EVENTS Page 44
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$8 Admission 6 pm Doors, lounge with pre-show & bar 7:15 pm Films in our new theatre 6 – 8 pm Museum galleries open
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS Thurs. Sept. 24, Rated PG
THE SHINING
Thurs. Oct. 1, Rated R
28 DAYS LATER
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN Thurs. Oct. 15, Rated PG
Courtesy of Boulder Book Store
“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Thursday, Oct. 15 Literary & Arts Festival. 4 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Tuesday, Oct. 20
Sara Avant Stover — The Book of She. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Steve McIntosh — The Presence of the Infinite. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Saturday, Oct. 17
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Fifty Shades of Stories on Stage — presented by Stories on Stage. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-4407666. Monday, Oct. 19
Sara Avant Stover brings her latest, The Book of She, to the Boulder Book Store on Oct. 15.
Carol Pearson — Persephone Rising. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
DONNIE DARKO
Thurs. Oct. 22, Rated PG-13
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW
Thurs. Oct. 29, Rated R
V FOR VENDETTA
Thurs. Nov. 5, Rated R
Wednesday, Oct. 21 Robyn Griggs Lawrence — The Cannabis Kitchen Cookbook. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
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Nov 4
Gondolier Italian Eatery, 4800 Baseline, Boulder Snooze An A.M. Eatery, 1617 Pearl, Boulder
Nov 11
A Lego Brickumentary. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.
Ethyl and the Regulars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Lyons Classic Movie Night. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High Street, Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236.
ORVIS Fly Fishing 101 with Front Range Anglers. 10 a.m. Front Range Anglers, 2344 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-494-1375. Peace Officer. 5 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Responsive Website Development with Bootstrap Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647. Wildlike. 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Gondolier Italian Eatery, 4800 Baseline, Boulder Gordon Biersch, Flatiron Crossing, Broomfield
Zombie Apocalypse with Renaissance Adventures. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Nov 18
Sunday, October 18
Gondolier Italian Eatery, 4800 Baseline, Boulder Avery Brewing Co, 4910 Nautilus Ct., Boulder Tengu, 3053 Brighton, Denver
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Attacca Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.
Gondolier Italian Eatery, 4800 Baseline, Boulder Proto’s Pizza, 489 US-287, Lafayette Proto’s Pizza, 8001 Arista, Broomfield
Shout Out Tues, Nov 3, 6pm
Live performance art of forgotten youth stories at the Dairy Center for the Arts, educating and bringing awareness of at-risk & homeless youth to the public.
Green Light Project
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Craig Cornett. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258.
Mother Daughter Book Club. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Sleep Out Thurs, Nov 12
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Lafayette Quest Scavenger Hunt. 11 a.m. Bob L Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469.
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Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Benyaro, FoxFeather. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. Billy Shaddox. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Cameron Sutphin, Sean Campbell. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Flash Mountain Flood. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Holly Bowling Plays Phish. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720849-8458. House of Joy. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Jason Daniels Band. 9 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Johnny O Band. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Lewis & Church Expeditions. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Matisyahu. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Ostevetto. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Strangebyrds. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Tupelo Honey. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Events 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. 3 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Beginnings of Eternity: Ancient Egypt s Old Kingdom. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder County CROP Walk. 1:30 a.m. St. Mary Magdalene Episcopal Church, 4775 Cambridge
listen up! Emerge: Colorado Latino Business Conference 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, October 15. Plaza Event Center, 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont The Boulder County Latino Chamber of Commerce is hosting this year’s business conference, which will feature Lt. Governor Joe Garcia as the keynote speaker during the luncheon portion of the program. One of the most innovative additions to this year’s conference is the “Young Rebels Competition,” which allows teams of Boulder County high school students to compete for nearly $9,000 in prize money. According to the Latino Chamber, The Young Rebels Competition gives students “a chance to create an innovative solution to a problem facing their school, youth, their community, a particular industry or the world.” Student teams create a business plan to support their idea for an original product or service that will solve such a problem. Prize money will go to help make the solution a reality. Prize money includes $5,000 for first place, $2,500 for second place and $1,250 for third place. Emerge features dozens of workshops on everything from starting a restaurant to entrepreneurship, social media to leadership training and life skills. For more information go to www.thelatinoconference.com.
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Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772.
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obody show Donald Trump Sicario! Already willing to xenophobically cast ignorant shade on entire groups of people, director Denis Villeneuve and writer Taylor Sheridan’s film reads like Captain Floppy-head’s personal vision of what all of Mexico is like. If his campaign platform is a trucker hat, it’s conceivable his foreign policy could be based on a fictional movie. So he’s not allowed to watch. For the rest of us, Sicario is a grim, joyless descent into the unspeakable evil it takes to stop unspeakable evil. Emily Blunt plays Kate Macer, an FBI agent who opens the film still possessed of her soul and the belief good exists in the world. When Department of Defense “consultants” Matt Graver ( Josh Brolin) and Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) take Kate on their anti-drug cartel team, she quickly realizes that Juarez is so horrifyingly grotesque, denizens of hell would respond “No thanks. We’ll stay here.” The team’s objective is to flush one of the cartel’s American bosses back to a meeting with the head honcho in Mexico, thereby gaining his location. They do this through a little bit of torture, a tiny bit of police work and a whole lot of lying. Kate grows increasingly more concerned at the naked illegality of it all, but is forced at FBI agent, Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) battles druglords and her own morality in Sicario. every turn to admit the alternative is to let the druglords do whatever they want. Sicario is a film with scores of mutilated bodies, one physical rape, one mental rape and absolutely nothing happy. It was surprising to find out the word “sicario” translates to “hitman” and not “abandon all hope ye who enter here.” It’s almost certain that part of Villeneuve’s intent was to shove the scope of what’s actually going on to our south down audiences’ throats like so much waterboarding. It doesn’t make for a pleasant experience per se, but the point gets driven home. I can’t remember another movie that contains a scene of at least a half dozen law enforcement agents simultaneously retching over human remains. What makes Sicario is the work of its leads. Blunt’s Kate isn’t some doe-eyed optimist or sultry neophyte. She’s a battle-hardened quick study who isn’t confused by what unfolds so much as she is horrified by what’s being asked of her. In a way, the entire film is a torturous beating of her morality, decency and belief in the virtue of her profession. Meanwhile, Del Toro’s Alejandro is the rarest of all movie tropes: the bad guy fighting on the good side who actually is very, very bad. Most often, these figures are “hitmen with a heart of gold.” Alejandro does not have a heart. Not anymore. And his willingness to repeatedly “go there” makes every scene palpably tense. Sicario is often a hard watch and intentionally uncomfortable in a way that is forgivable thanks to the reality of its subject matter. It is not a “taut action thriller” as has been touted, so much as it is a “bleak tragic thriller” worth crossing borders for. This review previously appeared in The Reader in Omaha, Nebraska.
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film Puttin’ on the ritz The timeless delights of ‘Young Frankenstein’ by Michael J. Casey
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orror movies are wondrous things. With a horror movie, one can ON THE BILL: Young Frankenstein. 7:15 p.m. Oct. confront their deepest darkest 15, Longmont Museum fears and survive them. The rush Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail of adrenaline at the sight of danRoad, Longmont, 303-6518374. Tickets are $8 general ger gives way to the sigh of relief and chuckle public, $5 Museum members. of amusement when that danger is revealed to be harmless. Audiences don’t go to horror movies for terror, but to laugh in its face. But not everyone can handle things that go bump in the night. For these viewers, it is better to skip the scares and dive head first into the giggles, and that was Mel Brooks’ thinking when he set James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) in his sights. Both movies are classics and gave rise to the horror genre, but Brook’s comedic send-up, Young Frankenstein, is timeless. Set in 1974, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is a young neurosurgeon trying desperately to distance himself from his infamous grandfather — the one who had a thing for bringing corpses back to life. However, Dr. Frankenstein — or as he insists it be pronounced, “Dr. Fronkensteen” — is drawn back to Transylvania when he learns that he has inherited grandfather’s castle. Coming with the castle are a hunchbacked manservant, Igor (Marty Feldman in all his bug-eyed glory), a voluptuous laboratory assistant, Inga (Teri Garr) and the demented mistress of the manor, Frau Blücher (Cloris Leachman) who lures Dr. Frankenstein to his grandfather’s lair where he discovers a stepby-step manual for re-animating a corpse. Playing God is what the Frankensteins are good at, and Frederick follows in his grandpa’s shoes. In no time at all, the good doctor has his own creature (Peter Boyle), but this is no Young Dr. Frankenstein tries to run from his family ordinary monster, as Dr. legacy, before realizing the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Frankenstein tells an eager audience of onlookers, “From what was once an inarticulate mass of lifeless tissues, may I now present a cultured, sophisticated, man about town.” Cue, “Puttin’ on the Ritz.” Young Frankenstein is one glorious set piece after another, with each one building set-ups and payoffs in just a few minutes. It helps that Brooks is working with a murder’s row of comic talent: Boyle, Feldman, Garr, Madeline Kahn (as Frankenstein’s reluctant fiancé), Leachman and Wilder, who also co-wrote the script with Brooks. They all manage to walk a fine line between overt silliness and subtlety to balance that tricky comedic equation. The talent is good, the material is ripe, but what separates Young Frankenstein from the chaff is the spot-on imagery. Even casual viewers will recognize these shadowy streets, this dungeon laboratory — the actual set from Whale’s movies — and this gothic castle, all proof that Brooks loves the material he mocks. Like Brooks’ other parodies — Spaceballs, High Anxiety, Blazing Saddles, etc. — the humor comes from appreciation of genre and style, not denigration. A trend that continues to this day with Todd Strauss-Schulson’s riff on 1980s slasher movies in The Final Girls and Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion’s take on the zombie milieu with Cooties, both released in the last month. Time will tell if we are still discussing The Final Girls or Cooties in 40 years, but funny is timeless. And Young Frankenstein is funny. Boulder Weekly
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he place with the kind of funny name had some kind of good food. Really good, actually. And it felt different inside the restaurant — somewhere between New York City hole in the wall and inoffensive Boulder chic. The restaurant is called My Ramen & Izakaya, and they serve ramen, Japanese rice bowls, seafood and a few other miscellaneous items and drinks. An izakaya is sort of like a pub; a Japanese-style bar and drinking parlor. It’s hard to pinpoint what in the decoration of My Ramen sets it apart from other restaurant designs in Boulder, but there’s a distinct urban vibe that feels unique. The space itself is set up like a city diner, about 15 feet wide and a million miles deep, allowing for only one two-person table to fit along the long side of the Susan France restaurant. There are these cool white industrial asterisk-looking light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, and the furniture inside is black and metal. As for the food, though there are some really tantalizing items on the menu (pork belly, octopus dumplings, baked mussels and a beautiful, large grilled squid), I was eager to go after the ramen. It’s in the name after all, and the ramen shop is a national trend that has recently manifested in Boulder at several places. At some point, ramen changed from the $0.10 pack that came in beef, chicken and shrimp flavor at
the store to a $10 bowl you had to wait in line to get in culinary centers on the coasts. We’ve had our pick of pho — spoiled by pho even! — but ramen is relatively new to Boulder and distinct in that it uses different broth (pork and chicken bones are simmered with vegetables for hours to make ramen broth at My Ramen), different noodles and different ingredients. My Ramen hits on a couple different styles of ramen. Their soup bases include options for miso (bean paste), shoyu (soy sauce), curry, vegetarian miso, and one with sesame paste and soy milk added in. The serving size is ample. For roughly $11, you’ll get a bowl that’s about a foot in diameter, and 6 inches high, filled to the brim with noodles, vegetables and some add-ins depending on what you order. We tried out the Tantanmen and the vegetarian ramen (forgoing the “Favorite” and the “Chilled” ramen because the
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The first annual Haunt in the ‘Mont provides the opportunity for adults in Longmont to organize, drink, eat and support a pretty good cause this Halloween season. On Oct. 30 from 6-9 p.m., attendees will crawl through some choice downtown Longmont bars and restaurants, where they’ll be able to sample some drinks and dishes selected by the participating businesses. Oh, and it’s also a costume contest with prizes being awarded to the best costumes, so get ready for that. Participating businesses include 300 Suns Brewing, Pumphouse Brewery, The Brew, Wibby Brewing, Ziggis Coffee, Samples World Bistro, the Dickens Opera House, Rosalee’s Pizzeria, The Roost, Modena Wine Café, La Vita Bella, Breaker’s, Mike O’Shay’s and many more. All proceeds from the event go to the Education Foundation for the St. Vrain Valley School District; local elementary and middle schools will benefit from your rip-roaring good time. Tickets are $20 and include all participating businesses’ pre-determined food, drinks, entertainment and prizes. For more information, visit www.hauntinthemont.com.
Ella, a restaurant at Ideal Market in old North Boulder, is closing its doors after a short run. They replaced Radda this past winter, but couldn’t make it work at the Broadway shop. Ella will be replaced by a new restaurant, Scott’s on Alpine, in the next few weeks.
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NEW DISHES AT PROTEIN BAR The Protein Bar in Boulder rolled out its new fall menu this week, marking the first menu reincarnation since the restaurant opened earlier this year. The menu features three new items. One is a bowl of all-natural chicken, roasted poblano and corn, salsa, chipotle greek yogurt and an organic quinoa blend. Another is a barbecue beef and quinoa blend burrito with Korean chili sauce and pickled veggies all wrapped in a flaxseed tortilla. And the last is a barbecue salad with beef, corn, seasoned black beans, and Greek yogurt ranch dressing.
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Failing at hunting provides more than a freezer of venison by Ari LeVaux
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ere we are in hunting season again, which means it’s time for my annual plunge into the cleansing, frozen waters at the confluence of catharsis, sustenance and hard-won flavor. It brings me to an ancient place, far from Washington D.C., where a new round of USDA dietary guidelines are currently being crafted to include moderate amounts of lean red meat. But meat hunters can be forgiven for being immoderate in their consumption. Virtually none of the studies questioning the health impacts of red meat have included wild game. Along with being organic, free-range, natural, ethical, etc., wild game has also been shown to contain more omega-3 fatty acids and DHA, (docosahexaenoic acid), than farm-raised meat. Also found in fish oil and algae, DHA appears to be integral to brain development and performance. And there is more to wild game than the nutrients it contains. The quest for meat may damn near kill you, but if it doesn’t you will probably emerge a better person, regardless of whether you end up with something to eat. Blisters turn into calluses. Sore muscles turn stronger. Hunger becomes motivation. And frustration over what got away turns, by the end of a long, cold day, into appreciation of what you
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still have. The problems back in civilization fade into triviality as you descend into a primal mindset. If you succeed, the hard-won meat you get is lean, clean and free of the karmic baggage of farm-raised meat. There is no environmental footprint to worry about with wild game, nor any added hormones or antibiotics. Just flesh and gristle with which to convert a spent hunter into something stronger, yet more humble than before. Hunting drags me outside early and
often, into an invigorating and medicinal space. For hunters more skilled and efficient than myself, their quicklyfilled freezers can translate into less time hunting, and I almost feel bad for them. Almost. I, by contrast, am seldom a victim of early success. I’m not usually the one who sits at home wondering how another hunting season came and went so quickly. More often I’m the beneficiary of my failures, my reward being an extended annual workout as I slog
through a grueling season that stretches into the wee hours of autumn. While I’m blessed with the repeated soul-carving, character-building lessons that only failed hunting can provide, each hunter takes his or her own personal journey through the season. The Loser School of Hunting in which I frequently matriculate is my story, and mine alone. But as a hunter, I’m nonetheless lumped together with everyone else who shoots at animals. Though I’m in it to fill my freezer, I’m stalking the dark timber alongside the interior decorators looking to arrange their walls with glassy-eyed monuments to their accomplishments, and with the varmint hunters who gleefully mow down coyotes or vaporize prairie dogs at long range. I don’t enjoy killing, and luckily, killing is a small part of hunting, yet I share the woods with those who derive pleasure from doling out death. While I have never grown to love the sound and shock of an explosion mere inches from my head, I’m affiliated with those for whom hunting is a natural extension of their love of guns. I shop at the same stores and buy the same bullets as those who pledge allegiance to the NRA, even though I find their fetishism and paranoia to be revolting and dangerous. Though I don’t feel an uncondisee HUNT Page 54
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tional love of guns, I do love my Ruger .270. Our shared travels have given me wonderful moments, along with freezers full of venison. Hunting partners come and go, but as long as I take good care of my rifle, it will be there for me. And while I don’t live in fear that the federal government is going to take it away, I have my own demons to face. They are projected upon the primal mandate, programmed deep in my genes — that my family is depending on me to bring home meat. The hunting gods, meanwhile, seem to delight in making me suffer first. But the silver lining to failure is the opportunity for more practice, which you obviously need. Like a meditation practice, good hunting practice means clearing your mind of distracting thoughts that would take you out of the moment. It helps build the mental strength you need to learn from your mistakes but not dwell on them, as you go back out there again, and you practice. If you bagged your beast early, then I guess you didn’t need the extra practice. Otherwise, consider yourself enrolled in the Loser School of Hunting. I often find myself still in class, late into the season, while more successful hunters have already oiled their boots and washed their long underwear. They sit by the fire drinking their cocoa and rubbing their hands with lotion while I press through the frozen drifts in search of animals that only get more skittish as
the season progresses. As the practice winds on, successful partners quit hunting and must be replenished from the dwindling pool of those who’ve yet to score. Your buddies may leave you behind during the season, but if you end up empty-handed they will be there with frozen packages of meat to help get you through the winter. Adversity, it is said, introduces a man to himself, and hunting does the same. In addition to meeting yourself, you meet your community of hunters, and the ecosystem that both sustains and challenges you in a zig-zagged journey that makes the prize all the more rewarding. As a wild meat eater, the moderation-oriented dietary guidelines don’t speak for me. Nor do warnings about the environmental impact of meat. And as a hunter, the fear-mongers at the NRA don’t speak for me either, despite the organization’s dubious claim of being the largest hunting organization in the world. But I’m hardly alone among meat eaters and hunters. I’ve got my fellow grads from the Loser School of Hunting to fall back on. And any hunter who tells you he or she has never attended that school is either a liar, or talented enough to deserve our sympathies for having missed out on some of life’s great opportunities for growth. Because there are no bad days hunting, only hard lessons learned. And the right to eat meat, from your animal or another, is truly earned. Boulder Weekly
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t a recent wine tasting in Boulder, there was a rarity being poured. We were all assured of it. The wine was made from 100 percent bobal grapes, a red varietal that is rarely seen in the U.S. on its own and is often used in blends. It’s mostly grown in Spain, where the leading red grape is tempranillo, but it’s also shown up in Southern France and
Sardinia. Anyway, just because something’s rare doesn’t mean it’s good — and there might as well be a reason why bobal is rarely sold as a single varietal — but then again there wouldn’t be much need to write this piece if it wasn’t worthwhile. But the bobal at this tasting, from Utiel-Requena in Spain, just outside of Valencia, was vibrant and spicy. It was a little hot, with flavors of leather, tobacco, dark cherry and plum. It was straight up purple in color, with medium astringency and acidity for sure. It was good, and more importantly, it was interesting. So I bought a bottle, no doubt sold by its “rarity,” and planned to investigate further. The most indicative thing about bobal’s taste is, fittingly, the environment in which its grown. Utiel-Requena, where the vast majority of bobal is cultured, has frost issues late into spring, but has extremely warm summers without much rainfall. The growing region gets as high as 3,000 feet. The grape is perfect for that climate, budding later than other varietals (thus avoiding frost and ripening late in the season for extra acidity and raisin sweetness), and thriving in the heat. What’s more is that bobal’s rarity could soon be a thing of the past. Winemakers in the region, buoyed by the globalization of wine selling and advancements in technology, are focusing on getting the most out of the bobal grape. Winemakers from the region are making more sales calls to the U.S., selling an ancient grape (Utiel-Requena has produced bobal grapes since the 14th century according to some accounts) that just hasn’t had its time in the sun yet. There are 95 wineries currently in the region, and given bobal’s history as a filler grape, prices are low for the discerning consumer. You’ll soon be able to find single varietals of bobal with pre-2010 vintages, a product that wasn’t economical or available for the U.S. market even several years ago. And best of all is the foundation from which bobal emerges. The vines being cultivated now to produce single varietal bobal wines have been planted for a century or more. Because bobal vines were more resistant to diseases that disrupted Spanish grape production in the mid-19th century, and because they were used so often to be additions to blends and used for rose, there has been a steady need to retain and care for the vines. Bobal varietals may be hard to come by in the next year or so, but the surge is coming, so be patient. In Europe and other parts of the U.S., you can already snag bottles of bobal for well less than $10. In Colorado, we’re likely to see one or two brands in a comprehensive liquor store for a little more than that for the time being.
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Here’s actor Bill Murray’s advice about relationships: “If you have someone that you think is The One, don’t just say, ‘OK, let’s pick a date. Let’s get married.’ Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if, when you come back, you’re still in love with that person, get married at the airport.” In the coming weeks, Aries, I suggest you make comparable moves to test and deepen your own closest alliances. See what it’s like to get more seriously and deliriously intimate.
Many astronomers believe that our universe began with the Big Bang. An inconceivably condensed speck of matter exploded, eventually expanding into thousands of billions of stars. It must have been a noisy event, right? Actually, no. Astronomers estimate that the roar of the primal eruption was just 120 decibels — less than the volume of a live rock concert. I suspect that you are also on the verge of your own personal Big Bang, Libra. It, too, will be relatively quiet for the amount of energy it unleashes.
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APRIL 20-MAY 20:
Some firefighters use a wetter kind of water than the rest of us. It contains a small amount of biodegradable foam that makes it ten times more effective in dousing blazes. With this as your cue, I suggest you work on making your emotions “wetter” than usual. By that I mean the following: When your feelings arise, give them your reverent attention. Marvel at how mysterious they are. Be grateful for how much life force they endow you with. Whether they are relatively “negative” or “positive,” regard them as interesting revelations that provide useful information and potential opportunities for growth.
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell is a BBC TV mini-series set in the early 19th century. It’s the fictional story of a lone wizard, Mr. Norrell, who seeks to revive the art of occult magic so as to accomplish practical works, like helping the English navy in its war against the French navy. Norrell is pleased to find an apprentice, Jonathan Strange, and draws up a course of study for him. Norrell tells Strange that the practice of magic is daunting, “but the study is a continual delight.” If you’re interested in taking on a similar challenge, Gemini, it’s available.
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JUNE 21-JULY 22:
We humans have put buttons on clothing for seven millennia. But for a long time these small knobs and disks were purely ornamental — meant to add beauty but not serve any other function. That changed in the 13th century, when our ancestors finally got around to inventing buttonholes. Buttons could then serve an additional purpose, providing a convenient way to fasten garments. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your personal life, Cancerian. You have an opening to dream up further uses for elements that have previously been one-dimensional. Brainstorm about how you might expand the value of familiar things.
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You would be wise to rediscover and revive your primal innocence. If you can figure out how to shed a few shreds of your sophistication and a few slivers of your excess dignity, you will literally boost your intelligence. That’s why I’m inviting you to explore the kingdom of childhood, where you can encounter stimuli that will freshen and sweeten your adulthood. Your upcoming schedule could include jumping in mud puddles, attending parties with imaginary friends, having uncivilized fun with wild toys and drinking boisterously from fountains of youth.
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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
While still a young man, Virgo author Leo Tolstoy wrote that “I have not met one man who is morally as good as I am.” He lived by a strict creed. “Eat moderately” was one of his “rules of life,” along with “Walk for an hour every day.” Others were equally stern: “Go to bed no later than ten o’clock,” “Only do one thing at a time,” and “Disallow flights of imagination unless necessary.” He did provide himself with wiggle room, however. One guideline allowed him to sleep two hours during the day. Another specified that he could visit a brothel twice a month. I’d love for you to be inspired by Tolstoy’s approach, Virgo. Now is a favorable time to revisit your own rules of life. As you refine and recommit yourself to these fundamental disciplines, be sure to give yourself enough slack.
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For now, you are excused from further work on the impossible tasks that have been grinding you down. You may take a break from the unsolvable riddles and cease your exhaustive efforts. And if you would also like to distance yourself from the farcical jokes the universe has been playing, go right ahead. To help enforce this transition, I hereby authorize you to enjoy a time of feasting and frolicking, which will serve as an antidote to your baffling trials. And I hereby declare that you have been as successful at weathering these trials as you could possibly be, even if the concrete proof of that is not yet entirely visible.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
One afternoon in September, I was hiking along a familiar path in the woods. As I passed my favorite grandmother oak, I spied a thick, six-foot-long snake loitering on the trail in front of me. In hundreds of previous visits, I had never before seen a creature bigger than a mouse. The serpent’s tail was hidden in the brush, but its head looked more like a harmless gopher snake’s than a dangerous rattler’s. I took the opportunity to sing it three songs. It stayed for the duration, then slipped away after I finished. What a great omen! The next day, I made a tough but liberating decision to leave behind a good part of my life so as to focus more fully on a great part. With or without a snake sighting, Sagittarius, I foresee a comparable breakthrough for you sometime soon.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
Canadian author Margaret Atwood has finished a new manuscript. It’s called Scribbler Moon. But it won’t be published as a book until the year 2114. Until then, it will be kept secret, along with the texts of many other writers who are creating work for a “Future Library.” The project’s director is conceptual artist Katie Paterson, who sees it as a response to George Orwell’s question, “How could you communicate with the future?” With this as your inspiration, Capricorn, try this exercise: Compose five messages you would you like to deliver to the person you will be in 2025.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
Every hour of your life, millions of new cells are born to replace old cells that are dying. That’s why many parts of your body are composed of an entirely different collection of cells than they were years ago. If you are 35, for example, you have replaced your skeleton three times. Congratulations! Your creativity is spectacular, as is your ability to transform yourself. Normally these instinctual talents aren’t nearly as available to you in your efforts to recreate and transform your psyche, but they are now. In the coming months, you will have extraordinary power to revamp and rejuvenate everything about yourself, not just your physical organism.
PISCES
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The coming weeks will NOT be a favorable time to seek out allies you don’t even like that much or adventures that provide thrills you have felt a thousand times before. But the near future will be an excellent time to go on a quest for your personal version of the Holy Grail, a magic carpet, the key to the kingdom or an answer to the Sphinx’s riddle. In other words, Pisces, I advise you to channel your yearning toward experiences that steep your heart with a sense of wonder. Don’t bother with anything that degrades, disappoints or desensitizes you.
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Dear Dan: I am a cis woman in my mid 20s. I get a pang or a spasm of pain in a place deep in my clit/urethra area. I can’t pinpoint which part exactly. It takes me by surprise every time it happens, so I jerk around and press my crotch for a hot second — which doesn’t help, but it’s about the only thing I can do. This obviously does not look cool in public, and regardless of when it hapLaRae Lobdell pens, the episode irritates me. Around four or five convulsions happen and then quickly it’s over. There’s no pattern — it happens at random times and anywhere from one to four times daily. It started about a week ago. It doesn’t hurt when I pee, apply pressure to the area, work out, masturbate or orgasm. I wonder if my lady spasms are associated with stress. I started a new job in September that I love, but it’s very demanding of my time, which has taken a toll on my mental and physical health (i.e., doing work things all fucking day, having no “me” time). What’s going on down there? What’s the solution? Will doing Kegels help me manage these spasms? (P.S. I’m a lesbian if that detail is helpful.) — Super Perplexed About Spasms Mostly Dear SPASM: I shared your letter with Dr. Lori Brotto, an associate professor in the Department of Gynecology at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Brotto has done exten-
sive research on vaginal/vulval pain and is a recognized expert on this subject and lot of others. Brotto shared your letter with Dr. Jonathan Huber, an Ottawa-based gynecologist with expertise in treating genital pain. “SPASM definitely needs to see a physician as soon as possible to have her vulva and vagina examined,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber wrote in their joint response. “The collection of symptoms she describes does not map perfectly onto any single diagnosis, so these ideas below are best guesses.” Before we get to those best guesses, a word of warning for the hypochondriacs in my readership: If you’re the kind of person who can’t read about mysterious symptoms and their possible causes without immediately developing those symptoms — particularly vagina-having hypochondriacs — you might want to skip the rest of this response. Okay, back to the good doctors… “Sudden onset, intermittent genital pain can be caused by a number of simple things, such as abrasions, an infection, an allergic reaction, buildup of smegma, dermatosis, etc.,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber continued. “Although these things are unlikely to be the cause of her pain, they’re easy to rule out and treat, if necessary.” (“Wait just a minute,” I hear some of you crying. “Women don’t have problems with smegma — that’s just a dudes-withforeskins* problem.” Dr. Brotto responds: “Women get smegma, too. We don’t hear about smegma in women because yeast infections get a lot more attention. But smegma in women is the same as smegma in men: a harmless buildup of skin cells and oils.”) “SPASM’s symptoms most closely
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map onto a condition called ‘interstitial cystitis’ (IC) or bladder pain syndrome,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber explained. “IC is diagnosed when there is chronic bladder or urethral pain in the absence of a known cause. It’s typically described as having the symptoms or sensations of a bladder infection, without actually having an infection. Although IC usually has a gradual onset and presents with pressure more often than pain, some women do describe a sudden onset, with pain as the most prominent symptom as opposed to pressure. Since IC often coexists with vulvodynia (vulval pain), dysmenorrhea (painful periods), and endometriosis (when endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus), if this individual has any of these other diagnoses, then IC may be more likely to account for her pain.” How can you determine if it’s IC? “IC is best assessed by a urologist, who may choose to do further urine tests, like examination of urine under a microscope, and even a cystoscopy — putting a narrow camera through the urethra into the bladder to take a look.” Another possible cause: a urethral diverticulum. “It’s like an outpouching along the tube of the urethra,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber wrote. “This is kind of like a dead-ended cave where urine and other debris can collect, which can possibly lead to infection and pain.” A gynecologist might be able to diagnose a diverticulum during a normal exam — just by feeling around — but you’ll most likely need to have a tiny camera stuffed up your urethra to diagnose this one too, SPASM. Moving on… “Some of her symptoms also sound like the beginnings of ‘persistent genital
arousal disorder’ (PGAD), a condition of unwanted genital sensations and arousal in the absence of sexual desire. PGAD can be triggered by stress and temporarily relieved with orgasms. For some women with PGAD, it is related to starting or stopping a medication (especially antidepressants).” The good news: You don’t need to cram a selfie stick up your urethra to determine whether you’ve recently stopped taking antidepressants. More good news: There are treatments for all of these conditions. “In sum, we feel she should see a gynecologist first and possibly get a referral to a urologist,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber concluded. “She also asks about whether Kegel exercises will help. Sometimes pelvic floor dysfunction can contribute to vaginal/vulval pain, and seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist to learn proper pelvic floor exercises (including but not limited to Kegels) can help. A good gynecologist will be able to test her pelvic floor strength and control, and advise whether she should be seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist.” Follow Dr. Brotto on Twitter @ DrLoriBrotto, and follow Dr. Huber @ DrJonathanHuber. (P.S. Lesbians, in my experience, are always helpful.) * For the record, quickly, before Tumblr explodes: Some women have penises! Some women with penises are uncut! A tiny percentage of uncutpenis-having women have poor personal hygiene practices and consequently have smegma under their foreskins! #TheMoreYouKnow Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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at much lower rates: Six cents per gallon of beer and 60 cents per liter of spirit alcohol. You’d have to drink a lot of beer to make alcohol more profitable than cannabis for the state. Cannabis sales in states that now allow recreational sales are doing well. Oregon got off to a healthy start, with retail sales reported at an estimated $11 million in the first week. Again, headlines blare that that’s more than double the $5 million worth of recreational marijuana sold in Colorado the first week it was legal here. But the really big difference is there ON THE AGENDA: Marijuana Forum hosted were about 40 stores open here when by Leeland Rucker, 6-9 sales began in January 2014. More than p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, 200 outlets were available in Oregon eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce Ave., Boulder. last week, almost half of those in Portland, where medical outlets are selling to adults until the state gets its retail operation online. That’s more than four times as many outlets, although customers are limited to a quarter ounce of bud and no edibles at present. Finally, I’ll be hosting a forum on Boulder’s cannabis issues from 6-9 p.m. Friday evening at eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce Ave. Council is currently taking up changes in its marijuana rules, so this will be a chance to hear what current and hopeful Council members feel be reduced to 8 percent in 2017, and I hope we’ll see about cannabis regulation in our city and meet some more reductions in coming years. Still, since this was of the people in the industry, too. the intent of Amendment 64, I’m recommending a I’m told at least 10 Council candidates will be yes vote on BB. present, so this will be a good opportunity to see the A lot of national and international headlines have current crop of Council wannabes in the flesh. No trumpeted the fact that marijuana tax revenues are matter how you feel about cannabis, growth in now significantly higher than alcohol revenues in Boulder or the current Council lineup, make your Colorado. While perhaps somewhat interesting, it’s voice heard by voting. If you’re complaining and not not really that surprising. Currently, weed taxes voting, whatever happens is your own fault. include the standard 2.9 percent state sales tax, the You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column additional 10 percent special tax and a 15 percent and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on excise tax on wholesale marijuana. Alcohol is taxed KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed
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