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Editor’s note: It came to our attention that when our Vote Guide endorsements were transferred to our website, every candidate was listed with an asterisk next to their name, designating an endorsement given to a candidate who we believe does not support an energy policy that adequately addresses climate change.

The two candidates who should have received asterisks were Rep. Jared Polis for U.S. House District 2 and Sen. Mark Udall for U.S. Senate.

Geography homework help wanted in Rhode Island

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Global warming not a fact

First off, I really like reading the Boulder Weekly and think you guys make a lot of great points.

I just finished reading an article on see LETTERS Page 8

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Highroad The real Halloween scaries of 2014

by Jim Hightower

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f you want a real Halloween fright, don’t look for it among the trick-ortreaters coming to your door — just check out the Republican spooks tying to peddle panic in this political year.

Early in the summer, their big scary was a few thousand Central American children crossing into the U.S. This sent such excitables as Gov. Rick “Oops” Perry skittering from one Fox News

show to another, warning darkly that the children were agents of death who should be packed on buses pronto and shipped back to the rapes, gang warfare, and intractable poverty they were fleeing.

But — oops — the kids turned out to be… well, kids. No threat at all. So the fraidy cats found a new fear to stoke: Terrorists! Yes, squealed panicky GOP congress critter Duncan Hunter in early October, no less than 10 of the murderous Islamic terrorists from Syria and Iraq have been caught sneaking into the U.S. across our Mexican border. Duncan was implying that Islamic devils were coming to behead your entire family.

Wow, that’s scary — only it wasn’t true, no terrorists were crossing.

But truth is no deterrent to determined fearmongers. So next came tea party frightmaster, Rep. Joe Wilson, trying to score a trifecta of fear by warning that (1) foreign terrorists who’re (2) infected

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with Ebola are (3) likely to sneak across the Mexican border to spread Ebola across America. “I’m very concerned,” Fraidy Cat Joe recently said about “the creed of Hamas.” The wide-eyed tea partier told his audience that Hamas terrorists “value death more than you value your life.” Then he hit the Code Red Panic Button, offering this conclusion from the depths of his ignorance: “Part of their creed would be to bring persons who have Ebola into our country.”

What’s truly scary is that these screwballs actually hold positions of public authority in America.

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danish plan Dad’s insecticides and Proposition 105

Really BAD Ideas The Denver Post is endorsing Cory Gardner, Ken Buck and John Hickenlooper?

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ou don’t hear much about Chlordane, Heptachlor, Aldrin and Dieldrin anymore, and that is as it should be.

Chlordane, Heptachlor, Aldrin and Dieldrin are four of the nastiest insecticides ever produced. All four have been linked to a variety of cancers and other diseases, and all four have either been banned outright or severely restricted in their use by most countries for at least 20 years.

I always thought of them as my dad’s insecticides.

My parents moved to Denver in 1947, when I was four. Al Danish, my father, had landed a job with Julius Hyman and Co., a start-up insecticide company that located its labs and production facilities at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.

The company was founded by Julius Hyman, a chemist who had run the research lab for Velsicol, a Chicago chemical company he had co-founded with a businessman named Joseph Regenstein in 1931.

At Velsicol, Hyman and the chemists under him discovered and patented ways of producing a new class of insecticides called organochlorides, of which Chlordane, Heptachlor, Aldrin and Dieldrin are examples.

Hyman and Regenstein eventually had a falling out over patent rights, and in 1946 Hyman resigned and invited the Velsicol chemists and lab techs to join him in starting a new company, whose purpose was to commercialize the new insecticides. About two dozen of them did — including Al Danish.

Al was a research and analytical chemist. His responsibilities at Hyman and Company included research to determine how much of the insecticides or their residues accumulated in crops or remained in the soil and for how long. He also was involved in writing the applications to the Food and Drug Administration for their approval.

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Hyman’s insecticides were approved for use in 1948, and they were wildly successful all over the world.

Al told me that the Iranian government used one of them — Aldrin, if memory serves — to combat a locust plague that was devastating the country’s crops and threatening to cause mass starvation. The insecticide stopped the plague in its tracks. When company reps inspected some of the fields that had been sprayed they found them blanketed with dead locusts to a depth of several inches.

I asked him how many people would have died if the plague hadn’t been stopped. Maybe 200,000, he said.

In those days the best tests for insecticide residues in soils couldn’t detect concentrations below 0.1 part per million. As a result, the FDA had set 0.1 ppm as the safe allowed limit for Aldrin and Dieldrin in soil.

It wasn’t until later, when much more sensitive tests for the presence of residues in soils and food were developed, that the link between organochloride insecticides and cancer and other chronic diseases emerged. But it was known from the get-go that the insecticides were dangerous if mishandled.

How dangerous? Al told me that one day a company lab tech spilled a quart of concentrated Aldrin on herself.

Al told her to take a shower and change her clothes. She didn’t. Four hours later she was dead.

In 1951 Hyman sold the company to Shell Oil. About the time the company was changing hands, a new and more sensitive test for insecticide residues was developed — and it became clear that detectable residues accumulated in food and remained in the soil for years after spraying.

Al wrote a report to Shell management warning them of the new findings and recommending some steps that could be taken to minimize the risks.

Not long after he submitted it, he was fired.

The report made it abundantly clear that the four insecticides were fraught with both known and unknown risks, and strongly urged Shell to investigate them aggressively, report them candidly, see DANISH PLAN Page 10

What does that say about the Denver Post?

Forget that, what does it say about Hickenlooper?

by Paul Danish

Editors note: Paul Danish’s views are his own and do not represent the views of Boulder Weekly, which is endorsing a yes vote on Proposition 105.

Paul Danish would like to state that the Boulder Weekly’s views are its own and do not represent the views of Paul Danish.

by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby

I think it says they’ve all lost their minds.

letters LETTERS from Page 7

Colorado’s political candidates and who to vote for and why [Re: Vote Guide, Oct. 9]. The why being closely associated with global warming. Has it occurred to the writer that global warming is not a fact? There’s plenty of scientist that remain neutral and about one-third that support it.

I appreciate reading the Boulder Weekly, but it would be nice to read factual information on both sides of a topic, especially one like climate change.

Samuel Sudhoff/Longmont

Please mention cases with judge endorsements

Thank you for your 2014 Vote Guide issue. I appreciated many of the points you brought up regarding the candidates and issues. However, I do think you dropped the ball slightly in printing the blue book guide information on the judges with only minimal commentary. Many voters (me included) have short memories and it might help to mention news/noteworthy cases they presided on. For myself, I looked up the elk shooting by a police officer case and I did not vote to retain that judge, as I feel that he should have received some jail time.

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Across the state I see those abominable fracking wells on the horizon like red and white middle fingers on brown tarped knuckles, and it makes

me furious. Such short-sighted greed in the name of masturbatory excess, such cavalier acceptance of the devaluation and ruin of the country I love; these things make my blood boil, and it damn-near boiled over when I read your recent election guide issue. This line in particular has haunted me since: “...the thought of endorsing people who so rabidly support the oil and gas industry in this day and age... and whom if elected would be in power for as much as 20 percent of the time we have left before the global warming point of no return seems irresponsible and, frankly, repugnant.”

After reading that I threw the paper down and swore that I was done putting up with this. I tried volunteering for the various big anti-fracking campaigns but nobody ever even wrote me back — they all know they’ve been beaten this year. If the electorate is broken (as we all suspected even before the jack-boot crimes that got oil issues off the ballot this year) then I cannot simply accept that there is no recourse left. I must look for another, and another, and another if need be.

But I need help.

Please, could you publish another guide, one that outlines what options do still exist for concerned Coloradans who want to combat the oil and gas interests blighting our countryside with their childish avarice? Where there’s a will there’s a way, and I have enough will in me to bury those traisee LETTERS Page 10

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You say BW is a Boulder County newspaper, so why not think more inclusively? When you compare city and rural Internet speeds, it’s ridiculous [Re: “2C or not 2C isn’t the question,” Cover story, Oct. 16]. We’re scarcely three miles outside Longmont, and fiber is unthinkable. We don’t even have DSL! The article quotes a Centennial official, “Comcast and CenturyLink — that’s it right now.” Just imagine if Comcast wouldn’t serve you at all, and CenturyLink provided nothing better than voice-grade analog lines so decrepit that they quit working in a heavy rain. That’s what we’ve got. If we weren’t fortunate enough to have line-of-sight for SkyBeam wireless, we would be still stuck in last-century modem land.

The economic health of the county depends on the rural areas as well as the cities. 2C is a start for Boulder, but remember the rest of the county. How about an effort to bring the whole county “up to speed”?

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Why I spent my summer collecting signatures for the

GMO Labeling Initiative

While you were out enjoying our beautiful state this summer, I spent a good part of it standing in front of Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage and tabling a booth at the Louisville Farmers Market. Why? Because we have a right to know what is in our food and how it was produced. The FDA already requires food manufacturers to label ingredients and other nutritional information. One has to wonder why they don’t label a product made from GMO’s. If you “follow the money” you will notice corporations such as Monsanto’s have patented the seeds, making our farmers slave to buying seed from them every year along with the toxic chemicals that go along with them. Then you’ll discover former executives of such companies have a revolving door into our government making the laws. Now you begin to see the game being played not only on consumers but the farmers themselves.

I have talked with friends in the farming business. Most of them don’t really like all the chemicals used on their crops, but they’ve been slowly manipulated into an ever-growing net of dependency on such corporations.

They have bought into the lie that they are helping to “feed the world,” who could blame them. However, when I learned that a large portion of GMO corn was overproduced thus being made into corn syrup, a now

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and start a robust program of harm reduction.

As a result of all this, I grew up learning the dangers of pesticides and developing a decent respect for those dangers. And for the benefits — like preventing mass starvation.

So when Monsanto introduced genetically modified crops that contained a gene from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria that produces a protein that is deadly to a number of insect pests but is harmless to people, I considered it an unalloyed good.

And then, to my utter amazement, environmentalists and so-called peace and justice activists launched a sweeping attack on GMO crops, claiming they were a danger to human health and the environment.

The claims are without scientific merit. Despite more than a decade of trying, anti-GMO activists have yet to produce any victims (even though more than 90 percent of the corn, cotton, soybeans and sugar beets grown in the U.S. are GMO varieties), and the

impact of genetically modified crops on the environment is orders of magnitude less than the impact of the insecticides they replaced.

The reason I’m bringing all this up is that Coloradans are currently voting on an initiative — Proposition 105 — to require foods containing GMOs to be labeled as such.

Sponsors of the initiative argue they are just fighting for the people’s right to know what they’re getting. Maybe so, but about a month ago one anti-GMO activist with a national organization let slip another agenda. If foods containing GMOs are labeled, he said, we can organize against them.

There is no nice way to say this.

Proposition 105 is intellectually dishonest, politically and morally evil, and if it results in a resurrection of conventional pesticide use, a threat to public health, the environment and the food supply. A “no” vote is an unqualified good.

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letters common filler with no nutritional value, that is when I really started seeing the lies.

If you are having doubts because the ads are trying to fool you that it will hurt farmers, raise food costs, etc. just look at who is paying for these ads.

Monsanto, PepsiCo and Kraft have dumped $10.3 million into the GMO labeling fight. But it was moms and people like me who have gotten this initiative on our ballot. Grassroots, everyday people who care to know what is in the food we feed our families and sacrificed our time and hard earned money.

Labeling doesn’t ban GMO’s, it only serves to inform consumers. Please vote yes on 105, if you haven’t already.

Rajni Ourobors/Louisville

of diligent politicians seeking to do the right thing. Hell no — they’re too fearful to ever challenge the status quo simply because that might jeopardize their chances for re-election. The frontier always has to be made safe by energetic activists first, before our professional politicians can safely tread there. When the people lead, politicians will follow.

Activists such as gubernatorial Green Party candidate Harry Hempy worked hard so that Colorado voters could weigh in on the issue of fracking.

But your current “Democratic” governor didn’t want the people to have their say, so they won’t, at least not directly.

Isn’t it time that we debunk the myth of the two party system, and declare our independence from both party leaderships? If not now, then when? How much longer can we wait before we demand wider participation, and a more meaningful political discourse? Where else to begin to effect positive social change other than to just say no to the status quo?

Check out www.hempy4governor. org. If you like what you see, then tell your friends and co-workers. But whatever you do, please don’t waste your vote on the maintenance of a corrupt political system. Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem. Be a leader, not a follower. Vote for a governor who will value the welfare of our citizenry over the unchecked right of capital to accumulate. Vote for Hempy for governor.

Philip R. Gordon/Boulder

Vote Yes on 105

(Edited for Length) Voting yes on Proposition 105 supports transparency in the food industry. Mandating the labeling of GMOs would be easy, cheap and helpful to those who wish to abstain from genetically modified foods. As consumers, we have a right to know what goes in our food, and the labeling of GMOs reflects this right.

Andrew Bryson/Boulder

Vote your way out of the political system status quo

America, the “greatest” nation on Earth, the home of the free and the brave, yet each election, for one reason or another, many of those eligible to vote decide not to. Why is that? While some are lazy, or just don’t care, the lion’s share of these apathetic voters feel that their vote just doesn’t matter. Just think about the number of times you’ve unenthusiastically cast your vote for the lesser of two evils.

Take the upcoming Colorado gubernatorial race for example. The leadership of both major parties, Republican and Democrat, have offered up extremist candidates of the same sort. Either one will allow the oil and gas industry, like no other industry, to absolutely trample the right of Colorado citizens to selfdetermine the future of their communities. Corporate hegemony is assured whether the Republican or Democrat is elected, for one can be expected to unconditionally collaborate, while the other can be counted on to do the same, albeit with superficial compromise, by which the delusion of a choice between “different” political parties can thereby be maintained. Nevertheless, it doesn’t really matter because the results are essentially the same. And you once again get to vote for the lesser of two evils.

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news n United States Senator: Mark Udall* n Representative to the 114th U.S. Congress – District 2: Jared Polis* n Representative to the 114th U.S. Congress – District 4: Vic Meyers n Governor/Lieutenant Governor: Harry Hempy/Scott Olson n Secretary of State: Joe Neguse n State Treasurer: Walker Stapleton n Attorney General: Don Quick n Regent of the University of Colorado – Congressional District 2: Linda Shoemaker n State Senate – District 16: Jeanne Nicholson n State Representative District 10: Dickey Lee Hullinghorst n State Representative District 11: Jonathan Singer n State Representative District 12: Mike Foote n State Representative District 13: KC Becker n State Representative District 33: Dianne Primavera n District O Regional Transportation District Director: Chuck Sisk n County Commissioner – District 3: Cindy Domenico n County Clerk & Recorder: Ralph Shnelvar n County Assessor: Jerry Roberts n County Treasurer: Paul Weissmann n County Sherriff: Joseph K. Pelle n County Surveyor: Lee Stadele n County Coroner: Emma Hall n City of Louisville City Council Person Ward I: Chris Leh n Town of Superior – Mayor: Clint Folsom n Town of Superior – Trustee: Sandy Pennington, Rita Dozal, Chris Hanson n State Supreme Court Justice Brian D. Boatright: Retain n State Supreme Court Justice Monica M. Márquez: Retain n Court of Appeals Judge Terry Fox: Retain n Court of Appeals Judge Alan M. Loeb: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Ingrid S. Bakke: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Maria E. Berkenkotter: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Patrick Butler: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Judith L. LaBuda: Retain n 20th Judicial District Judge Andrew Ross Macdonald: Retain n Boulder County Judge David Archuleta: Retain n Boulder County Judge Noel E. Blum: Do not retain n Boulder County Judge Karolyn Moore: Retain n Boulder County Judge Norma A. Sierra: Retain n Colorado State Amendment 67: No n Colorado State Amendment 68: No n Colorado Proposition 104: Yes n Colorado Proposition 105: Yes n Boulder County Ballot Issue 1A – County-wide Flood Recovery Sales and Use Tax: Yes n Boulder County Ballot Issue 1B – Human Services Safety Net Mill Levy Extension: Yes n City of Boulder Ballot Issue No. 2A – Temporary Tax Increase for Community, Culture, and Safety: Yes n City of Boulder Ballot Question 2B – City Council Executive Session Related to Boulder’s Electric Utility: No n City of Boulder Ballot Question 2C – Affirming the City’s Right to Provide Telecommunication Services: Yes n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2A – Public Safety Mill Levy: Yes n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2B – Recreation Bond and Mill Levy: No n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2C – Retail Marijuana and Retail Marijuana Products Excise Tax: Yes n City of Lafayette Ballot Issue No. 2D – Excise Tax to Fund Clean Energy Initiative: Yes n City of Longmont Ballot Issue 2A (street system maintenance): Yes n Town of Lyons Ballot Issue 2A (applying city sales taxes to recreational marijuana sales): Yes n Boulder Valley School District RE-2 Ballot Issue 3A: Yes n North Metro Fire District Ballot Issue 4A: Yes n Coal Creek Canyon Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 4B: Yes n Lyons Regional Library District Ballot Issue 4C (allowing Lyons to raise taxes for a new library): Yes n Sunshine Fire Protection District Ballot Issue 2A: Yes Boulder Weekly

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news The problem with pavement

Ballot Issue 1A versus skyrocketing asphalt prices

by Josh Gross

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allot Issue 1A will ask voters whether they want to raise sales taxes “18.5 hundredths of 1 percent for the purpose of paying for the recovery from the 2013 flood.”

The biggest part of repairs is rebuilding washed-out roads, something that is estimated by the county to take five years and cost more than half of the $217 million in total estimated recovery costs. Even with federal disaster funds, there would still be an estimated funding gap of $56 million.

But here’s the tricky part: that’s just if costs don’t go up.

County Commissioner Cindy Domenico told Boulder Weekly that an improving economy that’s driving construction has made asphalt costs go up 10 percent to 15 percent in the last six months alone.

“Any estimate that we had at the beginning of the process is understated because the costs have continued to rise,” Domenico says.

Those last six months are just the tip of the iceberg. Since 2003, asphalt prices have increased more than 200 percent.

That’s more than inflation, more than labor, more than concrete, and even more than bacon, which has gone up 41 percent in price since 2012.

“The Federal Highway Administration found that highway construction and maintenance costs nationwide grew approximately three times faster from 2003 through 2006 than their fastest rate during any three-year period between 1990 and 2003, substantially reducing the purchasing power of highway funds,” the Portland Cement Association wrote in its 2012 Market Intelligence Report, The New Paving Realities: The Impact of Asphalt Cost Escalator Clauses on State Finances.

“Since that report, the rate of increase has accelerated, with highway maintenance costs rising at an 8.4 percent average annual rate during 2007-2010, compared to 6.3 percent during 2003-2006.

These increases are largely the result of escalation in the costs of materials used in highway projects, such as steel and asphalt, and reflect structural, not transitory, economic changes.”

“Asphalt binder prices fluctuate greatly and are somewhat correlated to petroleum prices,” the Colorado Boulder Weekly

Department of Transportation wrote in “Overall pavement conditions on the sorts of ills. ASCE’s report card estimatits 2014 Transportation Deficit Report. ed that driving on roads in need of repair system have been deteriorating since And as we all know, the price of oil cost Coloradans $1.034 billion in repair peaking in 2005, and that trend is has climbed from around $20 per barrel and operating costs for their vehicles, expected to continue in the short term,” in 2000, to more than $80 per barrel approximately $287 per motorist. AAA CDOT wrote in its 2014 Transportation today, an increase of more than 400 perestimates that potholes alone do around Deficit Report. cent. The price had gone as high as $130 $5 million in damage to Americans’ cars The reason why is that Colorado has per barrel a few years ago. a lot of roads projected to pass their lifes- each year.

While the price of both oil and Poor roads even contribute to climate pan in the next couple of years, and that asphalt have stabilized somewhat in the change by decreasing fuel efficiency. means a lot of repair costs all at once. last two years, it was only after “[The State of Florida] studElizabeth Miller spending the last decade blowing ied vehicles traveling on I-95 and up state and county budgets found that riding on rigid pavenationwide. ments [cement] consumes 3.2 A 2012 report from percent less fuel than riding on Engineering News Record found flexible pavements [asphalt] for $70 million in price overruns for passenger vehicles and 4.5 per2011 alone. cent less fuel for loaded tractor“We spend approximately 50 trailers,” Portland Cement percent more today to get the Association wrote on its blog in equal amount of work performed February of this year. in 2001,” Jerry Wray, Ohio’s Applied nationwide, 3 percent Department of Transportation translates to 273 million barrels Director told ENR, adding that of crude oil per year.

Repaving roads washed out in the flood could be more taxes were unable to keep up with expensive than planned because of the rising cost of It should be mentioned that asphalt. the rise in materials costs. much of the information the Boulder County Commissioner Portland Cement Association Elise Jones says a big part of that puts out is intended to sway conprice increase locally is that the county is “Against the projected revenue alloca- struction away from asphalt and towards competing with itself. concrete, which is a smoother, more rigid tion for the Surface Treatment program “There’s so much rebuilding happen- for the next 10 years, there is an anticimaterial. But their motives aside, a ing and the economy’s recovering, so rougher road does real harm and leaving pated deficit of about $9 million, with construction is just taking off,” Jones them in their current condition only the entire deficit accumulating in fiscal says. “So there’s only so many contracmakes them harder to fix later on. years 2015 and 2016,” CDOT wrote.

The issue is further complicated by tors out there and they can charge much But don’t worry. CDOT predicts the fact that federal repair funds come in more than they could a year ago.” that it should be able to get Colorado’s the form of reimbursements, meaning It’s not just the cost of materials roads back to their current condition by the county will have to put out the repair that’s impacting road costs.

2027. costs up front.

“Population statewide is expected to Only problem there? Even without “We’ve spent over $40 million grow to 6.4 million by 2025, when it flood damage, the roads currently suck. already and gotten back less than $4 would be about 24 percent higher than A 2013 report from the Reason million from state and federal coffers,” in 2012,” CDOT wrote in its 2014 Foundation, a Libertarian think tank, says Jones. “That’s an illustration of the Transportation Deficit Report. “The found that Colorado’s roads ranked in great lag that exists.”

Department expects total Vehicles Miles the bottom 10 of the nation, both for That’s why County Commissioner Travelled to grow at about the same rate, performance and efficiency, something Deb Gardner bluntly says even the $56 because the number of Vehicle Miles the report credited primarily to the poor million that would be raised by Ballot Travelled per capita is expected to upkeep of rural arterials.

Issue 1A won’t be enough to recover. remain flat.”

The American Society of Civil “We haven’t built a single permanent Increased population means Engineers wasn’t as kind. It found in its increased traffic which means increased 2013 Infrastructure Report Card that 70 road yet, and when you get in that design phase and engineering phase and wear and tear, especially from trucks, percent of Colorado’s roads are “in poor which require thicker pavement. The or mediocre condition,” giving the state’s the reality on the ground of, oh well no, the creek needs to move here and the increased population could also bring roads a D. with it increased gross tax revenues that ASCE also noted that Colorado’s gas road needs to move here and that means we need to blast into the mountain over could address the needs of roads, but not tax has not been raised since 1992, there,” Gardner says. “I think at our best enough to keep up with the rising cost which happens to be the year that guess the costs will more than likely go of materials to maintain them, and not TABOR was voted in. before Colorado’s roads get a whole lot More than just a rougher ride, poorly up than go down.”

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Colorado is only one of six states that provides voters with information about judges standing for retention, but some worry that implicit bias may exist within the state’s judicial evaluation process

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by Caitlin Rockett n the onslaught of campaign ads, one thing Coloradans don’t see are campaigns for judges; however, voters do see judges who are standing for retention on the bal-

a letter sent to Boulder Weekly and published in the Daily Camera, Garnett wrote that of the 112 lawyers anonymously surveyed about Moore’s performance, not a single survey was sent to lot. a prosecuting attorney. However, the While judges do campaign in some surveys received claimed Moore was states, Colorado attempts to minimize “biased in favor of the prosecution.” the political influence that occurs “To be absolutely clear,” Garnett through campaigning by appointing writes, “Judge Moore’s criticisms arise judges via a merit system. Judges then from one stakeholder group — crimistand in yes/no retention elections after nal defense attorneys — with a particusitting on the lar view in only Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Brian Turner bench for a period one area of the of time. Colorado’s law. But the Commissions on failure of the Judicial evaluation system and the Performance proCommission’s vide voters with, as recommendathe State Ballot tion, in her Information case, is that Booklet says, “fair, they provide responsible and little context constructive evaluations of judges and Gender fairness in the courts became such for the voting a nationwide concern in the early 1980s citizen to recjustices seeking that 45 states and eight federal circuits ognize that her retention.” created task forces to examine the issue, but the question of gender bias in judicial judicial rulings Colorado has one performance evaluations still persists. state commission taken as a that evaluates judgwhole — across es on the state Supreme Court and multiple areas of law — have been Colorado Court of Appeals, and 22 even-handed, fair and within the disdistrict commissions that evaluate trial cretion granted to judges.” judges. State and district commissions In a phone call with BW, Garnett publish their evaluations in Colorado’s discussed the possibility of gender bias ballot information book, providing a coming into play in the attorney surrecommendation on retention, a vote veys. Garnett says the 20th District count, biographical information about Commission has expressed concerns the judge, survey results from those about Judge Noel Blum’s courtroom who have interacted with the judge and demeanor in three performance evaluadescriptions of a judge’s performance tions, including this years. strengths and weaknesses.

“It’s a really interesting issue More than 20 states use retention because if you look at what the conelections. And while Colorado is one of cerns are about Judge Blum, which I only six states that provide evaluation think obviously aren’t severe enough information to voters, there are some that he should be removed from the who question how “fair, responsible and bench, but you have to wonder if this constructive” the evaluation process is was a women exhibiting these charac— particularly when the judge standteristics, how would that come across,” ing for retention is a woman or minori- Garnett says. ty.

Garnett also says he wonders if the Boulder County District Attorney commission would have made similar Stan Garnett openly expressed concern recommendations had they taken into about the process after the 20th account evaluations by his office and District Commission on Judicial other prosecuting attorneys.

Performance recommended no retenGarnett’s concern that gender bias tion for Boulder County Judge Karolyn may negatively affect the evaluation of Moore in this election’s evaluations. In female judges is backed by numerous Boulder Weekly

peer-reviewed studies. In fact, gender fairness in the courts became such a nationwide concern in the early 1980s that 45 states and eight federal circuits created task forces to examine the issue, Colorado among them.

“Gender bias encompasses society’s perception of the value of work assigned to each sex, the myths and misconceptions about the social and economic realities of people’s lives, and the stereotypes that society has assigned to the behavior of men and women,” wrote the Utah Task Force on Gender and Justice in 1990. In other words, bias in this context is neither good nor bad, simply a lens through which people make sense of the world, often unconsciously.

Later, in a 2000 paper by Utah Supreme Court Justice Christine M. Durham, Durham looked at the aggregate reports of various task forces examining gender and justice.

“In 1990, about one-third of the women judges surveyed by the Colorado Supreme Court Task Force on Gender Bias in the Courts reported receiving less respect than male judges from lawyer and/or other judges,” Durham wrote. She goes on to express her belief that such bias affects the judicial performance evaluations conducted for female judges.

More recently, in 2013, Rebecca Gill and Kenneth Retzl of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas published a paper called “Implicit Gender Bias in State-Sponsored Judicial Performance Evaluations: A Preliminary Analysis of Colorado’s JPE [ Judicial Performance Evaluation] System, 2002-2012.”

“The Colorado system of judicial performance evaluations is the Cadillac of JPEs,” the authors write. “They spend more money on their system than other states, and their system has been designed by experts. Even still, disparities in the scores of female and male judges persist. These disparities cannot be explained away using objective measures of judicial performance.

The gap appears in the attorney survey stage. The commission’s recommendations are based largely on the recommendations from these problematic attorney surveys. What’s more, the commission adds another layer of gen-

der bias on top of that included in the attorney surveys.”

Peg Perl, staff counsel for Colorado Ethics Watch, says she believes that Colorado’s system of merit selection/ retention is light years ahead of the campaign system, but she acknowledges that commissions must be vigilant in refining their evaluation criteria to avoid bias.

“I think that any time you’re looking at possible gender disparity in evaluations — be that the wage gap in corporate America, be that the latest stories about women CEOs who seem to be getting forced out for things male CEOs wouldn’t be forced out for — you need to look at what is the criteria for the evaluation system, what things are valued,” Perl says. “Are those [criteria] skewing the evaluation, and is it the personality traits or things that you’re looking for [that] somehow skew towards one gender or another in terms of what you’re viewing as positive and what you’re viewing as negative.”

Kent Wagner, executive director of the Colorado Commissions on Judicial Performance, says he doesn’t see evidence of gender bias in Colorado’s performance evaluation system, but he says he is aware of the concern.

“We know there’s a presumption, and at the last State Commission meeting we started looking at the issue,” Wagner says. “We want to find out what it is. I don’t think it’s in our survey instrument at all. We’ll make changes as we can. It may be that we have to change the training [we conduct for] our commissioners.”

Wagner says that recent research about implicit bias suggests that those surveyed for evaluations might exhibit less gender and minority bias if questions are placed at the beginning of surveys to put the respondent back in the moment they were before a judge.

The State Commission on Judicial Performance Evaluation meets throughout the year, and Wagner says they are constantly seeking input to improve the system. He says that while some accuse the commissions of overusing surveys, those are merely one piece of the evaluation process.

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news American exile

One Colorado man hides in a church basement to avoid deportation from the U.S. and his family

by Matt Cortina

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rturo Hernández García is ties and also understand best what the support a sanctuary for illegal immipreter. “I had a problem at work with on the run in order to stay solutions are,” says Piper. “And our role grants facing deportation who met crianother guy. He accused me of somein the U.S. as faith communities is to support their teria including having a family in the thing I didn’t do and I was arrested.”

On the day he was voice and leadership in looking for a country and a clean criminal record.

The altercation involved a man who scheduled for deportation, solution that’s best for all of us.”

That first person has since won an approached García after a brief verbal Oct. 21, García moved into the basePiper says the church network fully extension on his case, and when García disagreement that looked like it might ment of the First Unitarian Society of recognizes that it is supporting a person came to the Coalition in September, come to blows, he says. García pushed Denver. He cannot leave for Matt Cortina the man away, he says, and fear that U.S. immigration that was enough for police. agents will arrest him and “After I was arrested by deport him to Mexico, away the police, then they passed from his wife and daughme to Immigration and I ters. was detained by García, 41, is one of Immigration. At that point seven immigrants currently Immigration didn’t know if claiming sanctuary across I was innocent or not — the country. Sanctuary has my case hadn’t moved forno legal bearing or definiward yet, it was still in the tion, and in this case it courts. I had to pay first a means García will seek $10,000 bond to get out of physical refuge in the jail and then a $7,000 bond church in hopes that it will to get out of Immigration,” protect him from governGarcía says. ment persecution. To that After paying the end, U.S. Immigration and $17,000 in bonds, and Customs Enforcement much more in lawyer fees, (ICE) policy states that García was ultimately “enforcement actions do not acquitted of all charges. occur at nor are focused on Innocent. But ICE still sensitive locations such as wanted him out of the schools and churches,” country. unless the person in ques“On the immigration Arturo Hernandez García sits in his one-bedroom living space in the basement of the First Unitarian Society of tion is particularly dangerside it’s been almost five Denver. He cannot leave the building for fear he will be apprehended by immigration authorities. ous. years now that I’ve been A network of area fighting my case and all of churches, the Metro Denver that time I’ve had a lawyer Sanctuary Coalition, is providing who is wanted for arrest and deportathe framework for providing him sancbut Immigration hasn’t wanted to stop García with food, legal help and finantion by the U.S. government, but that tuary was already in place. my deportation … despite the fact I cial assistance while his case gets they are one of the few, if not the only, García came to the U.S. from meet all the requirements for discretion resolved. The hope is that while García in the Morton memo: I’ve been here for options for people who they believe Chihuahua, Mexico in 1999 with his is in sanctuary, he will be granted an have been unfairly targeted by the govwife, Ana, and his 3-month-old daugh- 10 years, I have a citizen child, I have a extension on his case so he can return clean record, I pay taxes,” García says. ernment. ter, Mariana. They soon had a second to what remains of his normal life while “The whole idea is that the church daughter, Andrea. García started a con- “And my wife’s parents, her dad is a citofficials determine his future status. enters into a little bit of the risk with struction company in 2008, specializing izen and her mom is a permanent resiJennifer Piper, a member of the dent. We’ve been waiting on an applicathe person who is facing deportation in subflooring and ceramic tiles, which American Friends Service Committee, tion they put in for both of us since but also extends sort of the protection employed about 10 people every year. is working closely with García and says 2005 in order to be able to get [citizen] of the church to the person who is But an altercation at a job site one sanctuary not only provides individuals status but the application is backseeking sanctuary, which has really long day in 2010 pushed García and his a safe space, but a much bigger platlogged.” roots in Judeo-Christian-Muslim tradi- family into what you’d call by default form to call for change to immigration The “Morton memo” is a 2011 tion,” Piper says. “It’s not just a buildthe American Nightmare — an arrest, policy. ing; it’s this whole idea of accompaniracial profiling, lengthy litigation, major memo from ICE Director John Morton “[Sanctuary] is a faith-based to department heads that outlines 19 ment.” financial losses and ultimately deportaresponse to immigrant leadership — factors designed to help authorities The Denver coalition began about a tion. that immigrants are the ones who determine which immigrants in the sysyear ago when another immigrant to “All the years that I lived in understand best how our policies damtem require priority action. In addition the U.S. was facing deportation. Six Colorado, I never had any problems age families and damage our communi- local church communities agreed to to the factors García mentioned, offiuntil 2010,” García says via an inter18 October 30, 2014

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cials will also consider the person’s military service or that of his relatives, “ties and contributions to the community,” whether the person poses a national security threat, and the person’s pursuit of education in the U.S. The more positive outcomes on the 19 points, the more likely the person is to avoid prosecution.

“Even though I meet all of these requirements and everyone thinks I have a really good case, Immigration continues to insist that it’s not sufficient and that the suffering of my family is not extreme enough for them to cancel my order of deportation, and I’ve used all of the legal resources available to me at this point,” García says.

The financial toll the situation has taken on García and his family has been brutal, having to sell their house and one of their cars. He says his credit rating has tanked because he’s the only wage earner in the home, and they’ve had to use every means possible to pay legal fees.

“I’m the main support, the only breadwinner for our family so me being here [in sanctuary] means my brother is having to help trying to support my family,” García says. “Even before I entered sanctuary it had a huge impact on us because my wife has always worked at home [as a homemaker] and I always went out to work.”

But the impact felt by the Garcías is not just in the bank account, of course.

His current living arrangements in the basement aren’t too shabby: a bed with a zebra print comforter, bright yellow and white horizontal striped wallpaper, a small TV mounted near the ceiling, a place to charge his iPad, food donated by the church coalition. But being away from Ana, Mariana and Andrea, though they visit after school on weekdays and stay over on weekends, has been a burden.

“It’s affected many aspects of our lives, especially now that the case is public and everyone knows what’s going on. It’s a lot of pressure on my wife and my daughters. It’s also affected our morale,” García says.

García’s friendly, tired face unwrinkles when he talks about his daughters.

“My oldest when she was in middle school, she received invitations to participate in a program through the University of Colorado because she had such great grades,” García says. “It’s a program that is supposed to motivate youth to attend college and she was really a part in that. I think that this process has affected her grades a little bit. She’s still doing well but not as well Boulder Weekly

as she was before now that she’s in high school and I worry about that.”

Before entering sanctuary, García says he liked to take his family out to dinner and the movies, let his daughters shop in the mall. He believes they understand why he needs to live in the church basement, unable, for certain, to take his family out on the weekend, but isn’t sure if they get why going back to

Mexico just isn’t an option for them.

“I think they understand the situation I’m in and why I’m here because they’re really smart girls,” García says, “but I don’t know if they fully understand the situation in Mexico, how unstable it is right now and how violent. Maybe we haven’t explained that to them as much.”

García says that the American per-

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García’s case has gained a lot of media attention since he entered sanctuary on his scheduled deportation date of Oct. 21.

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starting all over from zero again which we already did 15 years ago. Fifteen years of living here, building a life here.

It’s true we still have some friends and family in Mexico, but we’d have to look for work and find a new place to live.

My daughters would have to adapt to a culture they are not familiar with, an education system that works completely different. It would be really difficult to start over again,” García says.

And that’s the wrenching, answerless dilemma that faces millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. every year. And unfortunately, the situation is getting worse for immigrant families despite Washington rhetoric and fits and starts of immigration reform movements.

“I know Obama and the administration has said that they’re only deporting people who have very serious criminal records, but I don’t have any record at all,” García says. “And I think to Immigration it just doesn’t matter, they’re separating families every day. It’s more than 2 million deportations now since Obama became president and it just seems like Immigration doesn’t care. Their target is everyone.”

Through the end of 2013, the Obama administration has overseen the removal of 1.8 million people on immigration violations, and is on pace to deport more immigrants by the end of 2014 than George W. Bush deported in two full presidential terms.

ICE indicates that nearly two out of every three deportations is because the person has criminal charges, while the vast majority of the remaining deportations occurred within 100 miles of the Mexico border.

But department data also indicates that deportations of people with U.S.born children is rapidly on the rise: 72,000 such people were deported in 2012, and about 200,000 were deported between 2010 and 2012. By comparison, only 100,000 parents of U.S.born children were deported between 1997 and 2007.

García believes the average American just doesn’t realize how serious the issue has become for the immigrant community.

“If I hadn’t entered sanctuary, who would know that I was deported?”

García asks. “They are deporting a lot of people in the dark of night and most people think, if they do see a story, they think ‘Oh, that’s because they have a record’ or they think ‘Oh, they’re not doing the right thing here,’ but that’s not the case in my case and that’s not the case in a lot of people’s cases.”

People who live and work within close proximity to immigrant families might have a better understanding of the issues they face, García says. In Colorado, immigrants and their U.S.born children account for 12 percent of the population. About 33 percent of Colorado immigrants are in the country illegally, according to a 2012 Center for Immigration Studies report.

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Economics are a factor, but Piper, who also served as García’s interpreter, says providing sanctuary is first and foremost a moral issue. And it is one with substantial precedent.

There have been three major sanctuary movements, Piper says: the first in the 1970’s to protect conscientious objectors from getting drafted into the Vietnam War, the second in the ’70s and ’80s wherein an “underground railroad” was established to get Central American refugees of civil wars through Mexico and the United States to Canada, whose government (unlike the U.S. and Mexico) was not allied with the Central American regimes that were creating refugees.

The third sanctuary movement is now, Piper says, and it started in 2007 with Elvira Arellano, a Chicago woman who lived for a year in a church before being apprehended on a trip to Los Angeles and deported to Mexico, where she still lives. When she was deported, the movement had to take a step back and rethink their methods. This latest new effort is being matched throughout the country, Piper says, with more cities and groups hopefully joining in the future.

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his future. He acknowledges that “technically it’s possible they come in the church and detain me,” but hopes that ICE wouldn’t set a precedent by raiding the church to apprehend him. His petition to cancel his deportation — the one that his father-in-law submitted — could take up to another 15 years to be heard.

In the near term, it seems the best outcome might be that the government postpones his deportation date and provides a stay of removal.

In a statement to BW, ICE states, “Mr. Hernandez García has exhausted multiple avenues seeking relief from deportation and is currently an immigration fugitive with an outstanding deportation order. ICE remains focused on smart and effective immigration enforcement that prioritizes the removal of convicted criminals and egregious immigration law violators.”

“My belief is that I’m here for a reason and it all depends on Immigration,” García says. “I hope this gives them the opportunity to look at my case and to cancel my order for deportation and to stay with my family where I belong.”

“When Arturo says it’s up to Immigration, that’s the truth,” says Piper. “There have been cases when it’s the next day they granted relief, there have been cases when it’s been three months, and there have been cases when it’s been three years.”

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ur oceans are acidifying — even if the Project Censored 2015. But with most mass media nightly news hasn’t told you yet. owned by narrow corporate interests, “the general As humanity continues to fill the public remains uninformed.” atmosphere with harmful gases, the Whereas the mainstream media poke and peck at planet is becoming less hospitable to life noteworthy events at single points in time, often devoid of historical context or analysis, Project as we know it. The vast oceans absorb much of the Censored seeks to clarify understanding of real world carbon dioxide we have produced, from the industrial issues and focus on what’s important. Context is key, revolution through the rise of global capitalism. and many of its “top censored” stories highlight deepEarth’s self-sacrifice spared the atmosphere nearly 25 ly entrenched policy issues that require more explanapercent of humanity’s CO2 emissions, slowing the tion than a simple sound bite can provide. onslaught of many severe weather consequences.

Although the news media have increasingly covCampus and faculty from more than two dozen ered the climate weirding of global warming — hurri- colleges and universities join in this ongoing effort, cane superstorms, fierce tornado clusters, overWikipedia Commons whelming snowstorms, and record-setting global high temperatures — our ocean’s peril has largely stayed submerged below the biggest news stories.

The rising carbon dioxide in our oceans burns up and deforms the smallest, most abundant food at the bottom of the deep blue food chain. One vulnerable population is the tiny shelled swimmers known as the sea butterfly. In only a few short decades, the death and deformation of this fragile and translucent species could endanger predators all along the oceanic food web, scientists warn.

This “butterfly effect,” once unleashed, potentially threatens fisheries that feed more than 1 billion people worldwide. headquartered at Sonoma State University. Some 260 Since ancient times, humans fished the oceans for students and 49 faculty vet thousands of news stories food. Now, we’re frying ocean life before we even on select criteria: importance, timeliness, quality of catch it, starving future generations in the process. sources and the level of corporate news coverage.

Largely left out of national news coverage, this dire The top 25 finalists are sent to Project Censored’s report was brought to light by a handful of indepenpanel of judges, who then rank the entries, with ocean dent-minded journalists: Craig Welch from the Seattle acidification topping this year’s list.

Times, Julia Whitty of Mother Jones and Eli Kintisch “There are outlets, regular daily papers, who are of ScienceNOW. independent and they’re out there,” Andy Lee Roth, It is also the top story of Project Censored, an associate director of Project Censored, told us. Too annual book and reporting project that features the many news outlets are beholden to corporate interests, year’s most underreported news stories, striving to but Welch of the Seattle Times bucked the trend, Roth unmask censorship, self-censorship and propaganda in said, by writing some of the deepest coverage yet on corporate-controlled media outlets. The book was ocean acidification. recently released.

“Information is the currency of democracy,” Ralph “There are reporters doing the highest quality of Nader, the prominent consumer advocate and manywork, as evidenced by being included in our list,” time presidential candidate, wrote in his foreword to – Roth said. “But the challenge is reaching as big an Boulder Weekly

audience as [the story] should.”

Indeed, though Welch’s story was reported in the Seattle Times, a mid-sized daily newspaper, this warning is relevant to the entire world. To understand the impact of ocean acidification, Welch asks readers to “imagine every person on earth tossing a hunk of CO2 as heavy as a bowling ball into the sea. That’s what we do to the oceans every day.”

Computer modeler Isaac Kaplan, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration office in Seattle, told Welch that his early work predicts significant declines in sharks, skates and rays, some types of flounder and sole, and Pacific whiting, the most frequently caught commercial fish off the coast of Washington, Oregon and California.

Acidification may also harm fisheries in the farthest corners of the earth: A study by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme outlines acidification’s threat to the arctic food chain.

“Decreases in seawater pH of about 0.02 per decade have been observed since the late 1960s in the Iceland and Barents Seas,” the study’s authors wrote in the executive summary. And destroying fisheries means wiping out the livelihoods of the native peoples of the Antarctic.

Acidification can even rewire the brains of fish, Welch’s story demonstrated. Studies found rising CO2 levels cause clown fish to gain athleticism, but have their sense of smell redirected. This transforms them into “dumb jocks,” scientists said, swimming faster and more vigorously straight into the mouths of their predators.

These Frankenstein fish were found to be five times more likely to die in the natural world. What a fitting metaphor for humanity, as our outsized consumption propels us towards an equally dangerous fate.

“It’s not as dramatic as say, an asteroid is hitting us from outer space,” Roth said of this slowly unfolding disaster, which is likely why such a looming threat to our food chain escapes much mainstream news coverage.

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sees. A recently top-featured story on CNN focused on President Barack Obama’s “awkward coffee cup salute” to a Marine, which ranks only slightly below around-the-clock coverage of the president’s ugly tan suit as a low point in mainstream media’s focus on the trivial.

As Nader noted, “‘important stories’ are often viewed as dull by reporters and therefore unworthy of coverage.”

But mainstream media do cover some serious topics with weight, as it did in the wake of the police officer shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. So what’s the deciding factor?

As Roth tells it, corporate news focuses on “drama, and the most dramatic action is of course violence.”

But the changes caused by ocean acidification are gradual. Sea butterflies are among the most abundant creatures in our oceans, and are increasingly born with shells that look like cauliflower or sandpaper, making this and similar species more susceptible to infection and predators.

“Ocean acidification is changing the chemistry of the world’s water faster than ever before, and faster than the world’s leading scientists predicted,” Welch said, but it’s not getting the attention it deserves. “Combined nationwide spending on acidification research for eight federal agencies, including grants to university scientists by the National Science Foundation, totals about $30 million a year — less than the annual budget for the coastal Washington city of Hoquiam, population 10,000.”

Our oceans may slowly cook our food chain into new forms with potentially catastrophic consequences.

Certainly 20 years from now, when communities around the world lose their main source of sustenance, the news will catch on. But will the problem make the front page tomorrow, while there’s still time to act?

Probably not, and that’s why we have Project Censored and its annual list.

2. TOP 10 U.S. AID RECIPIENTS PRACTICE TORTURE Sexual abuse, children kept in cages, extra-judicial murder. While these sound like horrors the United States would stand against, the reverse is true: This country is funding these practices.

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U.S. foreign assistance in 2014 all practice torture, according to human rights groups, as reported by Daniel Wickham of online outlet Left Foot Forward.

Israel received over $3 billion in U.S. aid for fiscal year 2013-14, according to a Congressional Research Service report. Israel was criticized by the country’s own Public Defender’s Office for torturing children suspected of minor crimes.

“During our visit, held during a fierce storm that hit the state, attorneys met detainees who described to them a shocking picture: in the middle of the night dozens of detainees were transferred to the external iron cages built outside the IPS transition facility in Ramla,” the PDO wrote, according to The Independent.

The next top recipients of U.S. foreign aid were Afghanistan, Egypt, Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, Iraq, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. All countries were accused of torture by human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Kenyan police in Nairobi tortured, raped, or otherwise abused more than 1,000 refugees from 2012 to 2013, Human Rights Watch found. The Kenyan government received $564 million from the United States in 2013-14.

When the U.S. funds a highway or other project that it’s proud of, it plants a huge sign proclaiming “your tax dollars at work.” When the U.S. funds torturers, the corporate media bury the story, or worse, don’t report it at all.

3. TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP, A SECRET DEAL TO HELP CORPORATIONS The Trans-Pacific Partnership is like the Stop Online Piracy Act on steroids, yet few have heard of it, let alone enough people to start an Internet campaign to topple it. Despite details revealed by Wikileaks, the nascent agreement has been largely ignored by the corporate media.

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loop: Only three officials in each of the 12 signatory countries have access to this developing trade agreement that potentially impacts over 800 million people.

The agreement touches on intellectual property rights and the regulation of private enterprise between nations, and is open to negotiation and viewing by 600 “corporate advisors” from big oil, pharmaceutical, to entertainment companies.

Meanwhile, more than 150 House Democrats signed a letter urging President Obama to halt his efforts to fast-track negotiations, and to allow Congress the ability to weigh in now on an agreement only the White House has seen.

Many criticized the secrecy surrounding the TPP, arguing the real world consequences may be grave.

Doctors Without Borders wrote, “If harmful provisions in the U.S. proposals for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement are not removed before it is finalized, this trade deal will have a real cost in human lives.”

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4. CORPORATE INTERNET PROVIDERS THREATEN NET NEUTRALITY This entry demonstrates the nuance in Project Censored’s media critique.

Verizon v. FCC may weaken Internet regulation, which Electronic Frontier Foundation and other digital freedom advocates allege would create a twotiered Internet system. Under the

FCC’s proposed new rules, corporate behemoths such as Comcast or Verizon could charge entities to use faster bandwidth, which advocates say would create financial barriers to free speech and encourage censorship.

Project Censored alleges corporate outlets such as The New York Times and Forbes “tend to highlight the business aspects of the case, skimming over vital particulars affecting the public and the Internet’s future.”

Yet this is a case where corporate media were circumvented by power of the viral web. John Oliver, comedian and host of Last Week Tonight on HBO, recently gave a stirring 13-minute treatise on the importance of stopping the FCC’s new rules, resulting in a flood of comments to the FCC defending a more open Internet. The particulars of net neutrality have since been thoroughly reported in the corporate media.

But, as Project Censored notes, mass media coverage only came after the FCC’s rule change was proposed, giving activists little time to right any wrongs.

It’s a subtle but important distinction.

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5. BANKERS REMAIN ON WALL STREET DESPITE CRIMES Bankers responsible for rigging municipal bonds and bilking billions of dollars from American cities have largely escaped criminal charges. Every day in the U.S., low-level drug dealers get more prison time than these scheming bankers who, while working for GE Capital, allegedly skimmed money from public schools, hospitals, libraries and nursing homes, according to Rolling Stone.

Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg and Peter Grimm were dubbed a part of the “modern American mafia,” by the magazine’s Matt Taibbi, one of the few journalists to consistently cover their trial. Meanwhile, disturbingly uninformed cable media “journalists” defended the bankers, saying they shouldn’t be prosecuted for “failure,” as if cheating vulnerable Americans were a See CENSORED Page 26

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6. THE “DEEP STATE” OF PLUTOCRATIC CONTROL What’s frightening about the puppeteers who pull the strings of our national government is not how hidden they are, but how hidden they are not.

From defense contractors to multinational corporations, a wealthy elite using an estimated $32 trillion in taxexempt offshore havens are the masters of our publicly elected officials. In an essay written for Moyer and Company by Mike Lofgren, a congressional staffer of 28 years focused on national security, this cabal of wealthy interests comprise our nation’s “Deep State.”

As Lofgren writes for Moyer, “The Deep State is the big story of our time.

It is the red thread that runs through the war on terrorism, the financialization and deindustrialization of the American economy, the rise of a plutocratic social structure and political dysfunction.”

This is a story that truly challenges the mass media, which do report on the power of wealth, in bits and pieces. But although the cabal’s disparate threads are occasionally pulled, the spider’s web of corruption largely escapes corporate media’s larger narrative.

The myopic view censors the full story as surely as outright silence would.

The problem deepens every year.

“There are now 854,000 contract personnel with top-secret clearances — a number greater than that of topsecret-cleared civilian employees of the

Nationally, law enforcement worked in the background to monitor and suppress the Occupy Wall Street movement, a story the mainstream press has shown little interest in covering.

A document obtained in a FOIA request by David Lindorff of Who, What, WHY from the FBI office in Houston, Texas revealed an alleged assassination plot targeting an Occupy group, which the FBI allegedly did not warn the movement about.

From the redacted document: “An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors [sic] in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. An identified [DELETED] had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas.

[DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles.”

Lindorff confirmed the document’s veracity with the FBI. When contacted

by Lindorff, Houston Police were uninterested, and seemingly (according to Lindorff ), uninformed.

In Arizona, law enforcement exchanged information of possible Occupy efforts with JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, according to a report by the Center for Media and Democracy titled Dissent on Terror. The CEO meant to evade possible protests, and local law enforcement was happy to help.

Law enforcement’s all-seeing eyes broadened through the national rise of “fusion centers” over the past decade, hubs through which state agencies exchange tracking data on groups exercising free speech. And as we share, Boulder Weekly

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As Project Censored notes, a study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found extreme weather events in 2013 spurred 450 broadcast news segments, only 16 of which even mentioned climate change. National news outlets have fallen on the job as well, as The New York Times recently shuttered its environmental desk and its Green blog, reducing the number of reporters exclusively chasing down climate change stories.

Unlike many journalists, ordinary people often recognize the threat of our warming planet. Just as this story on Project Censored went to press, more than 400,000 people protested in the People’s Climate March in New York City alone, while simultaneous protests erupted across the globe, calling for government, corporate and media leaders to address the problem.

“There is a huge mismatch between the magnitude of the challenge and the response we heard here today,” Graca Machel, the widow of former South African President Nelson Mandela, told the United Nations conference on climate change. “The scale is much more than we have achieved.”

9. U.S. MEDIA HYPOCRISY IN COVERING UKRAINE CRISIS The U.S. battle with Russia over Ukraine’s independence is actually an energy pipeline squabble, a narrative lost by mainstream media coverage, Project Censored alleges.

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tyrant, without complex analyses of his country’s socio-economic interests, according to Project Censored. As the media often do, they have turned the conflict into a cult of personality, talking up Putin’s shirtless horseback riding and his hard-line style with deftness missing from their political analysis.

As The Guardian UK’s Nafeez Ahmed reported, a recent U.S. State Department-sponsored report noted “Ukraine’s strategic location between the main energy producers [Russia and the Caspian Sea area] and consumers in the Eurasian region, its large transit network and its available underground gas storage capacities,” highlighting its economic importance to the U.S. and its allies.

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10. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SUPPRESSES REPORT ON IRAQ IMPACTS The United States’ legacy in Iraq possibly goes beyond death to a living nightmare of cancer and birth defects, due to the military’s use of depleted uranium weapons, a World Health Organization study found. Iraq is poisoned.

Much of the report’s contents were leaked to the BBC during its creation.

But the release of the report, completed in 2012 by WHO, has stalled. Critics allege the U.S. is deliberately blocking its release, masking a damning Middle East legacy rivaling the horrors of Agent Orange in Vietnam.

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boulderganic All’s fair in love and war (and industrial agriculture)

Big Ag spends millions of dollars to fight grassroots GMO labeling measures

by Caitlin Rockett

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Courtesy of Right to Know Colorado

n Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes wrote, “Love and war are all one … It is lawful to use sleights and stratagems to … attain the wished end.” Simply put, all is fair in love and war. In America, for more than a decade, a war has been waged on the public’s right to know how their food is produced, with Big Ag — biotechnology companies like Monsanto, Dow and DuPont — adhering to de Cervantes’ maxim, pouring millions of dollars into campaigns to prevent mandates that would label foods containing genetically engineered crops.

The war began at the federal level in 2002 when former U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich introduced five bills addressing the need to regulate genetically engineered crops — this included legislation to label consumer goods containing GMOs, as well as safety bills to require testing for things like allergenicity and toxicity of genetically engineered crops. The bills fell to the wayside and none came to a floor vote.

“When I first introduced the bill, Monsanto followed up with a huge ad campaign where men in white coats were working with Petri dishes talking about how they were going to feed the world,” says Dennis Kucinich. “That was fraudulent because the problem with world hunger has nothing to do with genetic engineering. It has everything to do with the misdistribution of resources.”

Former U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich and Larry Cooper, co-chair for Right to Know Colorado

Now, 12 years later, the war continues with equally epic (and expensive) battles being fought by individual states. This year alone, 26 states have considered a labeling measure of some form or another. Colorado and Oregon are presenting voters with GMO labeling measures on this November’s ballots, Proposition 105 and Measure 92, respectively. Dennis Kucinich and his wife Elizabeth, who is the director of policy for the nonprofit Center for Food Safety, spent time in both states over recent weeks supporting the measures, while Monsanto and other key players in the Big Ag game continue to sink millions of dollars into advertising

campaigns (and, in Vermont, litigation) against such state measures. “[Monsanto has] hopped from argument to argument, from state to state, in whatever way they can to kill the public’s right to know,” Dennis Kucinich says. “This is a simple proposition, which is why any national polls taken have shown consistently over 90 percent of Americans feel they have a right to know whether food is genetically engineered or not. Once you get into legislature or state-by-state campaigning, the distortion that takes place has people spinning and wondering what’s true. The industry is very skillful at putting forth arguments that on their

face can’t stand, but when you’re working with millions of dollars and TV ads, how’s the public to know?”

In Colorado, Monsanto has dropped nearly $4.8 million on fighting 105, according to the Colorado Secretary of State’s campaign finance disclosure website. The next top contributor to the “No on 105 Coalition” is PepsiCo, with a contribution of almost $1.7 million. Kraft Foods has contributed just more than $1 million, while Coca-Cola has donated more than $800,000. Larry Cooper, director of Colorado’s Right to Know campaign, says that DuPont just contributed $3 million as of Oct. 23 — a figure that doesn’t show up on the Secretary of State’s website yet. The total, according to the Secretary of State website, comes to $16.7 million in total contributions as of Oct. 27. And that’s just in Colorado. Campaign finance reports from Oregon indicate that Monsanto and other food giants have spent similar amounts against Measure 92.

In contrast, Colorado Right to Know, the coalition that’s been working to get a GMO labeling measure on this November’s statewide ballot since 2012, has raised a little more than $895,000.

“At this point in time we barely have enough money to run a campaign against these giants,” says Cooper.

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about what’s in this language [in Elizabeth Kucinich says the two Proposition 105]. And we’re having to main traits that crops are genetically spend so much time just dispelling the engineered to exhibit — pesticide prolies that are in their TV ads.” ducing, where a plant actually produces The TV ads Cooper speaks of are pesticides, and herbicide resistant, virtually identical for both Oregon and where plants are engineered to withColorado. The ads consist of farmers stand heavy herbicide treatments — discussing how such labeling measures have lead to pesticides showing up in will label some foods incorrectly as conhuman blood samples and have pitted taining GMOs while failing to label farmers against nature in an unwinnable most foods that actually do contain game. genetically engineered crops. Cooper “What we’ve seen and what farmers says neither of these assertions hold true. across the country see after about three “We’ve done our own research and or four years, you start to see herbicide75 percent of the food that moms buy resistant weeds developing,” she says. in a grocery store “After a few years, Courtesy of Right to Know Colorado will be labeled,” he the glyphosate [hersays. “[Opponents] bicide, which is say [labeling isn’t] found in going to have any Monsanto’s effect — it will RoundUp Ready have a huge effect. crops] stops being That’s why they effective on the are spending so weeds. Then you much money to see farmers introtry to eliminate us, ducing new chemibecause they know cals such as atrozine that we care about and 2,4-D, which is this and they know half of Agent once things are Orange.” labeled, people will Indeed, the have to make an Environmental Protection Agency informed decision “This is a grassroots campaign and has been since day one,” says Larry Cooper. just regulated about whether “This is Coloradans on the ground, talking to their neighbors.”

Dow’s EnlistDuo they want to buy system, where genetically engicrops will be grown to be resistant to neered foods.”

The ads also claim that labeling will glyphosate as well as 2,4-D. “Now we have 2,4-D — how hurt farmers. many years is it going to take for “There’s nothing further from the truth,” says Cooper. “Their requirement weeds to become resistant to 2,4-D and what is the next solution when [in Proposition 105] is that they get a you have that kind of mindset?” certificate saying that we grew our Elizabeth Kucinich asks. “2,4-D being crops with GM seeds or non-GM half of Agent Orange … we know seeds. That’s their only obligation. what it did to our veterans in There is nothing else in our language.”

Vietnam. We know this is no good, so Proponents also claim that labeling why on Earth would we be propowill increase costs for consumers, but nents of increasing the chemical the men behind ice cream company treadmill in food production, which Ben & Jerry’s have taken to Capitol needs to be as good and pure as possiHill to lobby for labeling, saying that it ble when we’re ingesting it, when won’t increase their costs to add lanwe’re taking it straight into our bodguage about GMOs on their products’ ies?” labels. Elizabeth Kucinich has lobbied However, Elizabeth Kucinich with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield believes that state initiatives to label for labeling measures. products containing GMOS are begin“The idea that labeling will increase ning to change the tide. prices is absolutely ludicrous. We have “This is a growing movement. The labeling in 64 countries around the more money the industry seems to world,” she says. “Many American throw against this, the bigger the movemanufacturers have to label their prodment for labeling as people start to realucts with ‘May Contain GMOs’ ize what is it they are really trying to because they are selling in these counhide?” she says. “Because if they weren’t tries. Why are they fighting so hard to trying to hide, why fight so hard?” keep consumers here in the dark? It’s crazy.”

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DEPTH OF ANATOMY

An exploration into a rare community cadaver lab

by Cayte Bosler

T

he cadaver is far smaller than I expected. It rests wrapped in green towels, face up on a silver table in a small, uncluttered space. Small incisions separate the skin from the subcutaneous tissue, exposing a yellowish, fatty layer protecting the muscle wall.

George — the name given to the cadaver by Beverly Boyer, cofounder of Peak Research Institute — is a direct donor: someone who consciously chose for his body to be dissected for the purpose of instruction. He is 5 feet

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Dr. Peter Schmid, medical director of the Peak Research Institute, performs the initial dissection incisions by removing the skin to expose muscles for study.

and 3 inches, 130 pounds, in excellent physical shape save for an arthritic shoulder and a brain marked by dementia, which claimed him at age 89. To date, Peak Research Institute, based in Longmont, has accepted nine donors.

“I became professionally involved with the Peak Research Institute after meeting instructor Beverly Boyer, and understanding the great need for a research teaching environment to provide access to didactics and medical training in structural human anatomy

for health care professionals, affiliates and students from diverse health and fitness specialties,” Dr. Peter Schmid, who leads classes, explains via email.

“Beverly was instrumental in bringing this invaluable training to the Longmont and Boulder communities, and inspired me to act and become involved as the medical director.”

Schmid, along with cofounders Boyer and Bonnie Thompson and nurse Deb White, all say they believe the institute provides an unparalleled level of engagement for the communi-

ty. The program has been approved through the Colorado Department of Education to offer off-site continuing education classes. The goal this year is to generate enough income to create a stand-alone facility. Currently, the lab resides in the bottom of a funeral home.

“The most rewarding part is teaching students who are sincerely and emotionally committed to learning the mysteries of the human body found in anatomy,” says Schmid. “Observing their reactions and enthusiasm in the

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“Have you seen the discovery and learning backside of the Soleus process from human nature is worth any time Dr. Beverly Boyer is cofounder of the Peak Research Institute, which has been approved by the Colorado Department muscle?” Boyer asks us. of Education as offering continuing education classes.

“It’s named for a fish. It’s invested into this teachbeautiful.” ing program.”

The Soleus, an female students: two physical theraIf you’re acquainted and word got back to Boyer about it, pists from Inspired Athletic Movement endurance muscle, is the most powerwith Stiff: The Curious Life of Human who then met with the potential ful muscle in the lower backside of the in Boulder and an acupuncturist. Of Cadavers by Mary Roach, then you donor. leg. the four of us, only one student has don’t need an outline of the history of “It’s a whole other thing when you Some moments remain poetic. A worked with a cadaver before. There is cadaver dissection. f the twisted cirreceive the body. When I saw the student describes the underneath layers palpable anticipation on the porch of cumstances, up until a hundred years twinkle in her eye and heard from her of skin as appearing like the color and the funeral home as we gather to preor so ago, used to deliver the recently that this is what she wanted to do — texture of an orange peel — we are pare. deceased from their burial plots to the and asked her, ‘What do you want us nature, so we recognize nature. Veins “We keep him in a cooler out in clean, hard surface of a lab table for to learn from you?’ And she said, ‘The drape like fallen vines from a trellis. the garage where he has his own spot study. Even today, although almost all effects of radiation on the brain,’” Other moments beg a sobering and when I’m not here, I’m like, medical doctors learn anatomy intiBoyer recounts. “She chose to have attitude.

‘George is chillin’,” jokes Boyer, permately through working with cadavers, radiation to live another six months.

“Oh, god, the fingernails are a little She wanted to get her affairs in order.” haps sensing our uneasiness with how many health professionals obsess over too real,” a student says as she recoils to approach the subject matter.

Later, the daughter reaffirmed that anatomic function without ever experifrom touching a hand. Boyer explains Unpracticed laughter arises. this is what her mother truly wanted encing a glimpse past our superficial that this is a common reaction, and “The people here in the funeral and Boyer says it made her tear up to layer of flesh. Thankfully, avenues for typically the hands, feet and face stay service have lightened me up. They’ve fulfill someone’s wishes. obtaining a body for dissection today covered. been in the industry for a long time,” are far less precarious — or illegal.

Other times, the process is The process of donation of one of Boyer says. “I’m not used to being so Most of the time, we retreat to the removed and informal. A body comes the recent subjects was overseen by the from another organization with a refuge of medical vernacular, a firm lighthearted about it and I’m glad I’m daughter of the direct donor, with barrier of discovery between us and not so serious all the time anymore. I medical history outline and cursory whom Boyer maintains a close relaour personal revelations. background information. The cadavers appreciate life outside the lab all the tionship. The woman whose body was It is with the respectful rapture of a more for my time in lab. I think that are typically kept for a year, then donated had been diagnosed with curious child carving a caught fish for you’ll take your own appreciation for divided into tissue samples, made into brain cancer, and a group of people the first time that I look over the comlife today.” skeletal models or cremated and gathered around her to help her plicated circuitry of the petite body. We Throughout the class, a bond of returned to the family for ritualistic through that process. Somewhere huddle around sections, craning closer, cooperation and intrigue forms among scattering. along the line, she mentioned that she us as we trade off asking questions The day I visit the Peak Research wanted to donate her body to science, based on our particular areas of interest. see ANATOMY Page 34 Institute’s class, I am with three other

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politely pinching muscles, arteries and veins. My chest only swells once with something like tenderness as I notice a tuft of gray hair against the base of the neck. My brain stops compartmentalizing. And from the same place of curiosity that lends itself to poking dead fish eyes, comes this tearful, unnamable clump, which finally settles into a slightly bowed head and implacable humility.

These smaller moments of keen observation offer pockets for comprehending death. In its totality, it becomes overwhelming and abstract.

As a life story finally resting in a basement for one more act of service, it becomes a doorway into thanks, in which a new understanding may come.

“What I am trying to establish here is a true community lab,” Boyer says after class as we talk through the

experience. “It’s not about what I have to teach — the cadaver is teaching. We can look at a structure and see how it relates to our own lives.”

The student who flinched at the hand tells me that it was a lot less scary than she anticipated. She plans to return to go deeper into the body for lessons on the organs.

“It stays in your mind, for sure,” she says. “ I’ve tried to learn the anatomy and the 3D piece of it is lost when using books.”

Another student reflects as the rest of the group nods: “The body is such a miracle. It’s crazy how we form life — compared to a plant, which is complicated in a way, but pales compared to how complicated the human body is.

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WHERE TO GET YOUR HALLOWEEN ON

BY JOSH GROSS Boulder Weekly

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act: Halloween is the greatest holiday ever. There are costume parties, free license to be a weirdo and all the candy you can shake a wizard staff at.

And in an all-too-rare event, Halloween is on a weekend this year, meaning there’s no shortage of Halloweeny things to be done. That makes it sort of a double-holiday.

To help you get the most out of your H-day, BW has compiled a list of fun to be had. Go have it.

PARTIES

Getcho flap on at License No. 1 9 p.m., Friday Oct. 31 and Saturday, Nov. 1, License No. 1 Bar at the Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344 see HALLOWEEN Page 38

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FOOTBALL Saturday, November 1 11 AM vs. Washington Folsom Field

SOCCER Friday, October 31 3:00 PM vs. Arizona State

Sunday, November 2 NOON vs. Arizona

Prentup Field FREE Admission & Parking!

VOLLEYBALL Thursday, November 6 6:30 PM vs. UCLA

Sunday, November 9 Noon vs. USC

Coors Events Center Adult Tickets: $5 • Kids 12 & Under are FREE

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The former Catacombs Bar beneath the Hotel Boulderado was recently remodeled and swankified into the loungetastic License No. 1, which is going old school for Halloween with its two-day 1920s Reincarnation Celebration. Come in your best roaring ’20s garb on Friday, Oct. 31 or Saturday, Nov. 1, mingle, “flap,” and potentially win all kinds of prizes in costume contests held at 9 p.m. and midnight on both nights.

Bonus points to anyone who goes as Zombie Gatsby.

Studio Boulder, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-356-4232 The Studio Boulder at 3550 Frontier Ave., is hosting a costume dance party. The $30 ticket gets you entry and all the “truth serum” you can drink at the open bar.

The dead shall ARISE 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, Apex Movement, 3850 Frontier Ave., Suite 250, Boulder, 720-432-0279 The folks behind the ARISE Music Festival are teaming up with StarWater for the Faeries and Phantoms Masquerade Ball on Saturday, Nov. 1 at the Apex Movement Boulder. The 6,000-square-foot warehouse will be packed with music, performers and haunted fun.

Tickets are $22 in advance and $33 at the door. The winner of the costume contest will win tickets to ARISE 2015.

CONCERTS

Monster Bash Dance Party at the Boulderado 8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 31, Hotel Boulderado Event Center, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344 All you want to do this Halloween is wear a costume and dance? Well, there are a lot of options for that, but if you’re going to pay a cover, might as well have it be just $10 to party at the Hotel Boulderado — and have your money go to a good cause. The Bouderado’s benefit for There With Care features a live DJ, costume contest and raffle for those 21 and over. Tickets are available at the door. Two dollars from each ticket and all raffle proceeds will go directly to There With Care.

Upslope wants you have a happy firkin Halloween 9 p.m., Friday, Oct. 31, Lee Hill Tap Room at Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Boulder, 303-4492911 Upslope Brewing’s North Boulder location on Lee Hill Drive will be hosting its free Swills and Chills Halloween Costume Party on Friday, Oct. 31 at 9 p.m. There will be tunes from DJ Old Man Winters, prizes every hour, a costume contest at 11 p.m. for tap room gift cards and a specially-tapped “Halloween-themed firkin.” What’s a Halloween-themed firkin? Clearly, it’s beer brewed in a hollowed out Jack-o-

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Lantern or the skull of a wooly mammoth. Yum!

Haunted happy hour 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 30, McCarthy’s Pub, 30 Main St., Longmont Got a killer costume that makes you look just like Albert Einstein or Marie Antoinette? Put it to the test at this happy hour, which includes a famous dead person focus on the costume contest. Ready to chat it up with the person you’re impersonating? Dori Spence of the Haunted History Tours in Longmont will also giving a presentation on ghost encounters.

Halloween with oomlats 10 p.m., Friday, Oct. 31, Bohemian Biergarten, 3420 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-328-8328 Downtown staple Bohemian Biergarten is hosting a costume dance party with tunes from DJs Gangsterish Sassfactory and Hip Czech, lasers, fog, projections, zombies, ghouls, goblins and maybe, if you’re lucky, the ghost of Van Gogh’s ear. It’s bohemian and macabre as it comes. Things start at 10 p.m. and admission is $5 at the door.

Web of Lies 10 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 30, The

9:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 30 and Friday Oct. 31, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030 Colorado’s funkiest bunch, The Motet, are doing a two-night stand (Thursday, Oct. 30 and Friday, Oct. 31) at The Boulder Theater on the theme of Mixtape 1975. Start squeezing into your flared cordory trousers now.

Devotchka 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030 Colorado faves Devotchka are infamous for the elaborate costumes and set pieces of their Halloween shows. And this year’s performance at the Boulder Theater on Saturday, Nov. 1 will include aerial dancers, but shhhh…

We’ve already said too much.

Hazel Miller 5:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 31, Boulder National Guard Armory, 4750 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-6550 The fine folks at Boulder Art Matrix are hosting Hazel Miller and her band for a big ol’ 21-and-over steampunk par-tay at Boulder National Guard Armory. There will be art, music, food from Comida food truck, drinks and a full-on danceapoclaypse.

Tickets are available for $25 on BrownPaperTickets.com, and include see HALLOWEEN Page 43

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NOV 7-9

A BIONEERS RESILIENT COMMUNITIES NETWORK EVENT

WHAT IS BIONEERS? Bioneers is inspiring a shift

Bioneers is a non-profit organization that highlights breakthrough solutions restoring people and the planet. Since 1990, Bioneers has served as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with natureinspired approaches to the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. Bioneers connects people with solutions through the acclaimed annual National Bioneers Conference, the Bioneers Resilient Communities Network Events, and award winning multimedia products.

On the Front Range

The CU Environmental Center, Local Food Shift, Naropa University, Restorative Leadership Institute, Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, Boulder County Farmers’ Market, Earth Guardians, and Woodbine Ecology Center with the support of sponsors and partner groups are proud to bring Bioneers to Boulder for the twelfth year.

Front Range Bioneers, A Bioneers Resilient Communitites Network Event, creates community opportunities for sharing, learning and action, and brings together the action, and brings together the region’s progressive ideas, people, and organizations. The event features a broadcast of the national Bioneers plenaries and is locally enriched with music and arts, networking, children’s eco-activities, field trips, sessions, workshops, and keynote speakers addressing topics of regional importance and community solutions.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Advance registration is available through November 4 On-site registration will be available starting on Friday, November 7 at 12:00pm in the lobby of the Humanities Building.

Registration Fees:

• GENERAL PUBLIC RATE: • Advance: $20 / single day; $55 / all 3 days • On-site: $25/ single day; $65/ all 3 days • Discounted Student/ Educator/ Activist/ Senior Rate: • Advance: $12/ single day; $33/ all 3 days • On-site: $15/ single day; $40/ all 3 days • FULL-TIME CU-BOULDER AND NAROPA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: FREE WITH VALID ID • CHILD RATE: $10/ DAY • Children’s activities (appropriate for ages 4-12) are offered on Saturday 9am-5:30pm and Sunday 9am-5pm • FRIDAY FIELD TRIPS AND WORKSHOP INTENSIVES: • Advance registration required. Limited availability. First-come basis. Included with Friday pass or 3-day pass.

Registration Fees do not include lunch meals. Lunch (super-nutritious, organic, vegan, gluten-free) is available for purchase for $12 on Saturday or Sunday in advance with registration, limited availability on-site purchase, or BYO. Registration fees cover the licensing fee to rebroadcast the national plenaries. Registration fees apply to all events (broadcast plenaries and local plenaries) in the main auditorium. Admission is free and open to the public for individual sessions and workshops. Seating priority in the session rooms will be granted to those with a full event pass.

Full-time students at University of Colorado Boulder and Naropa University do not need to pay registration fees for the plenaries, sessions/ workshops as their admission is covered through the generous sponsorship of the CU Environmental Center and Naropa University.

TRANSPORTATION & PARKING INSTRUCTIONS ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN EATON HUMANITIES BUILDING AT CU-BOULDER UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. http://www.colorado.edu/campusmap/ We encourage sustainable transportation to and from Bioneers. Please bus, bike, carpool, walk if possible.

FRIDAY: SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Parking is somewhat limited on Friday since classes are in session. If All Bioneers participants can park at Euclid Autopark or in Lot 380 you need to arrive by personal vehicle there are residential areas near for $3. Parking on the north side of University Avenue in the Grandcampus, street meters on University Ave., and visitor pay lots (Euclid view Zone is free.

Autopark near the UMC) on campus.

Please note that all campus meters are monitored and enforced seven days a week. We don’t want you to get a ticket!

THIS EVENT WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT FROM THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: CU Environmental Center Staff: Sarah Dawn Haynes Hayley Dixon Marianne Martin Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish Dana Kelly Austen Bernier Jamie Woodworth

Collaborators:

Robin Eden, Earth Guardians Lynette Marie Hanthorn, Local Food Shift Group Robert Chanate, Woodbine Ecology Center Elle Rich and Chelsey McCaw, Restorative Leadership Institute Erin Smith, Center for Integrative Botanical Studies Sherry Ellms, Naropa University Katie Lazor, Boulder County Farmers Market

A BIONEERS RESILIENT COMMUNITIES NETWORK EVENT

NOV 7-9

SUMMARY PROGRAM Friday, November 7

9:00am-1:00pm Field Trips and Workshop Intensives Advance registration required for field trips.

Pre-register by November 4th. First-come, first-serve. Limited capacity.

• Field Trip and Workshop: Seeing with Indigenous Eyes, 9am-1pm • Field Trip and Workshop: Urban Community Living Tour, 9am-1pm • Field Trip: Sacred Shelter Tour, 10am-1pm • Workshop: Making the Invisible Visible: Race, Environment and Embodied Knowledge, 11am-1pm • Workshop: Facing the Mess We Are In Without Going Crazy, 11am-1pm

be performing to kick off the weekend of 2014 Front Range Bioneers.

Here’s the line-up: • Ramon & Michelle • Lady Speech • Bianca Mikahn • Earth Guardians • DJ Edi Flowerz • Ietef aka DJ Cavem • Mike Wird of the Soul Pros • Hosted by Deskryptic, Little Bird and Yasmin Sweets

Saturday, November 8

All events take place in Eaton Humanities Building

12:00pm R egistration Opens, Humanities Lobby

8:00am R egistration opens, Humanities Lobby

1:30-3:45pm National Bioneers Broadcast, Old Main • Welcome and Opening Remarks • PAUL STAMETS- How Mushrooms Can Help Us Survive “Extinction 6x” • EVE ENSLER- One Billion Rising for Justice: The Future’s in the Body • XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ and ITZCUAUHTL ROSKE-MARITINEZ- Youth Activist Rap Duo Front Range Bioneers Welcome, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

8:10-8:50am M ogaDao Qigong: An Archetype for Change

4:00-5:15pm Concurrent Sessions and Workshops- Set A • What Lies Beneath: Fantastic Fungi • Shaping a People’s Future • Biomimicry Solutions for Excess Stormwater • Don’t Call the Experts: Food Rescue Alliance’s DIY Guide to Taking Local Action • Urban Evolution- How does Natural Building Fit into City Living?

9:00-11:10am National Bioneers Broadcast • Opening Remarks by KENNY AUSUBEL and NINA SIMONS • NAOMI KLEIN- This Changes Everything: Capitalism v. the Climate • CLAYTON THOMAS-MULLER- The Rise of the Canadian Native Rights-Based Movement to Protect Our Commons • CHLOE MAXMIN- Youth Leadership: Lessons from the Grassroots Climate Movement • Performance by Climbing PoeTree | Alixa Garcia and Naima Penniman • JOHN WARNER- Green Chemistry: Biomimicry and Molecular Psychology

Local Plenary: Jason Gerhardt, Permaculture Design for Drought and Flood

5:15-6:00pm Refreshments Break, Humanities Lobby 6:00-7:20pm National Bioneers Broadcast, Old Main • XIUHTEZCATL MARTINEZ- Youth Leadership: Our Generation Was Born To Change The World • SEVERINE v T FLEMING- Millions of Acres: Young Agrarians Needed • CECIL WILLIAMS & JANICE MIRIKITANI- Who Will Take Care of My People?

7:30-10:00pm Front Range Bioneers Hip Hop Showcase, Old Main Free and open to the public Music in general and hip-hop specifically is a liberatory art form that observes things as they are while challenging us to think deeper and dream bigger. Join us for an evening of uplifting hip-hop that dares us to look at the way we eat and grow food, design our cities, envision ourselves in the cosmos and MOVE! Famous local hip-hop artists and poets will

9:00am-4:30pm Children’s Activities Bioneers Children’s Program provides exciting and interactive activities for kids to learn about the natural world! Activities appropriate for ages 4-12. Advance registration is requested and space is limited. Activities will take place indoors and outdoors. Bring proper attire and a sack lunch. Check in is at the main registration booth in the morning.

11:30am-12:40pm C oncurrent Sessions and WorkshopsSet B • Women in Sustainability: Restorative Leadership Responses to the Climate Crisis • Uniting Science and Spirit into a New Story of Creation • Food is Medicine—Healing Self, Healing Communities • Reclaiming Traditional Ecological Knowledge through Indigenous Permaculture • TeenSpace Discussion Session: Imagining the Future • “You are not your ____.” Dialogue (continues through lunch break) 12:40-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-2:50pm C oncurrent Sessions and Workshops- Set C • Water- Unseen Abundance in our Cities and Beyond • Eco-Digital Storytelling: Stories From and For the Web of Life • Climate Action Workshop: Grassroots Strategies that Make the Difference • Coming Home, Making Peace: Personal Resilience as Foundation for Planetary Resilience • Gaia Theory: Blending Science, Culture and Activism • TeenSpace Movement Session: Discovery from Within 3:10-4:30pm C oncurrent Sessions and Workshops- Set D • Patterns for Peoplecare • Practical Skills for Resilience • Building Streets for People | Creative Placemaking & Walkability • Youth Inspiring Healthy Life Ways Through Indigenous Permaculture Gardening • Honoring Our Sustainable Traditions 4:30-5:30pm Refreshments Interactives • Postcards to the Earth • The Bumble Beast Hive • Ceres Greenhouse Solutions • Body Flow 5:30-7:10pm National Bioneers Broadcast • ROBIN KIMMERER- Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass • DESTINY ARTS Youth Performance • JEFFREY BRONFMAN- The Botanical Dimension of Our Human Evolutionary Next Steps • TIM MERRY Local Plenary: Micah Parkin, A Call to Climate Action Dinner Break O n Your Own; Sign up in lobby for group discussion dinners at local restaurants 9:00pm-12:00am B ioneers After Hours at Free Motion Center for Dance & Community 2126 Pearl Street (West of 23rd Street behind Snarf’s Sandwich Shop). Drop in for a few minutes or stay a while and get down!

Complimentary admission for Bioneers participants and their guests

Sunday, November 9

All events take place in Eaton Humanities Building

9:00-10:55am N ational Bioneers Broadcast • Welcome by NINA SIMONS and KENNY AUSUBEL • Opening by RACHEL BAGBY •A LISA GRAVITZ- Reinventing Economics that Work for All of Life •P ATRICIA GUALINGA- Message from the Amazon • Indigenous Honoring of Bioneers • J OHN A. POWELL- Beloved Community: Interbeing, Race, Class and Person ‘Hood’ •A RIELLE KLAGSBRUN- Youth Leadership: Why People Need to Get Arrested: The climate crisis requires bold action Local Plenary: Jeanine Canty- Spaces of Self 11:10am-12:30pm C oncurrent Sessions and Workshops-Set E • Compost: Process, Practice and People • Rocky Flats: A Case Study in Nuclear Guardianship • Everything Social Enterprise: Scaling across the Necessary B-Corp Revolution • Visionary Artistry, Education, and the Environment • Engaging Urban Communities in Local Food 12:30-1:30pm Lunch 1:30-2:45pm C oncurrent Sessions and Workshops- Set F • Radical Joy for Hard Times • Community Engagement in Authoring Boulder’s Plan for Resilience • Modern Family Farming in Colorado • Remembering our Place Past, Finding It for the Future • TeenSpace Discussion Session: Canaries in the Coalmine?

3:00-5:40pm L ocal Plenary: Isabel Sanchez- Urban Permaculture National Bioneers Broadcast •M ANUEL PASTOR- Transactions, Transformations, Translations: Movement-Building for the Next America • Performance by Alixa Garcia • T ERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS- A Love That Is Wild: Why Wilderness Matters in the 21st Century •W ALLACE “J.” NICHOLS- I Wish You Water • Closing with KENNY AUSUBEL and NINA SIMONS • Closing Performance Front Range Bioneers Closing

8:30am R egistration opens, Humanities Lobby 9:00am-5:30pm Children’s Activities Bioneers Children’s Program provides exciting and interactive activities for kids to learn about the natural world! Activities appropriate for ages 4-12. Advance registration is requested and space is limited. Activities will take place indoors and outdoors. Bring proper attire and a sack lunch. Check in is at the main registration booth in the morning.

FOR MORE DETAILS: WWW.COLORADO.EDU/ECENTER/BIONEERS

2014 NATIONAL PRESENTERS All national presentations are shown via broadcast from the main Bioneers conference in California.

Kenny Ausubel, Co-CEO and founder (in 1990) of Bioneers, is an award-winning social entrepreneur, journalist, author and filmmaker. Co-founder and first CEO of the organic seed company, Seeds of Change, his film (and companion book) Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes a Crime helped influence national alternative medicine policy. He has edited several books and written four, including, most recently, Dreaming the Future: Reimagining Civilization in the Age of Nature. (www.bioneers.org) Jeffrey Bronfman, an educator, philanthropist, and environmentalist, became the first Mestre (teacher/guide) of the União do Vegetal (UDV) religion outside of Brazil in 1994. Subsequently he served as the lead plaintiff in the UDV’s decade-long case against the U.S. government, which, in 2010, secured legal acceptance of the UDV’s religious practice, including its use of the Amazonian plant decoction “hoasca” as a sacrament.

Eve Ensler, Tony Award winning playwright, performer, and activist, is the author of The Vagina Monologues (translated into 48+ languages, performed in 140+ countries), and the founder of V-Day, the vast global movement to end violence against women and girls. Eve also co-founded, in 2011, The City of Joy, a transformational leadership community for women survivors of violence in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo. (www.vday.org) Severine v T Fleming is: Director of The Greenhorns, producing media and events for new farmers; co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition and of Farm Hack, an open-source platform for farmer-to-farmer appropriate technology exchange; a board member of the Schumacher Center for New Economics; and recent co-founder of Agrarian Trust, focusing on land access for beginning farmers. (www.agrariantrust.org, www.thegreenhorns.net, www.farmhack.net, www.ourland.tv) Patricia Gualinga, a Kichwa from Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon, is a leader in the struggle to prevent oil drilling on tribal land. She has become an iconic figure in the movement of Amazonian Indigenous resistance to the ravages of extractive industries in the rainforest, and was a key protagonist in the recent historic indigenous rights victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. www.amazonwatch.org

Robin Kimmerer (an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation) is a professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) where she teaches courses on Land and Culture, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), Ethnobotany, the Ecology of Mosses, Disturbance Ecology, and General Botany. She is also the Director of the newly established Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY-ESF. Arielle Klagsbrun is an organizer with Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, based out of St. Louis, MO. She is also on the collective of Rising Tide North America. Arielle is the 2013 recipient of the Brower Youth Award for a campaign to confront Peabody Coal, the world’s largest private-sector coal corporation headquartered in St. Louis. www.organizemo.org Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist, international social justice activist, board member of 350.org, and best-selling author of such seminal classics as No Logo and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Her most recent project is a groundbreaking new book about climate change and an accompanying film, The Message, that she is working on with her husband, filmmaker Avi Lewis. (www.naomiklein.org) Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a 13-year old Boulder, Coloradobased Indigenous environmental activist (since age 6!) and rapper, is the Youth Director of Earth Guardians, a non-profit organization committed to protecting the water, air, earth, and atmosphere. He has organized many rallies, actions, demonstrations and events, and has traveled widely internationally to speak about environmental and Indigenous issues. (www.earthguardians.org) Chloe Maxmin, a senior at Harvard College, became an activist when she was 12 and started a Climate Action Club in her high school, galvanizing a movement in her school and community. She then founded “First Here, Then Everywhere” to empower youth environmentalists, and then co-founded Divest Harvard, receiving national and international recognition for her activism. (www.firstheretheneverywhere.org, www.divestharvard.com) Janice Mirikitani, the Founding President of renowned Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco, is a visionary community activist, leader, editor, and award-winning poet (the second Poet Laureate of San Francisco). During 43 years at Glide she has helped build 87 comprehensive programs to provide education, recovery support, primary and mental health care, job-

training, housing and human services to the most disenfranchised communities in the city. (www.glide.org) Wallace “J.” Nichols, an award-winning scientist, eco activist and author, is a research associate at California Academy of Sciences, and co-founder of: OceanRevolution.org, an international network of young ocean advocates; SEEtheWILD.org, a conservation travel network; GrupoTortuguero.org, an international sea turtle conservation network; and LiVBLUE.org, a global oceans campaign. He’s the author or co-author of more than 50 scientific papers as well as several books including Blue Mind. (www.wallacejnichols.org) Dr. Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC, also directs USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and codirects its Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration.

Pastor is one of the nation’s leading researchers on the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities, and the social movements seeking to change those realities. (www.usc.edu) john a. powell, an internationally recognized scholar in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, race, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy, is a professor of Law, African American Studies, and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and serves as the Director of its Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society. He has founded several institutes, taught at numerous law schools, including Harvard and Columbia, and has authored several books, including, most recently: Racing to Justice. (diversity.berkeley.edu/haas-institute) Kristen Sheeran, Ph.D., Vice President of Knowledge Systems at Eco-Trust, is an economist focused on conservation, economic development, and social equity who has published numerous articles and books, many dealing with climate change, and is a co-founder and the Director of the Economics for Equity and Environment Network (E3), a national network of leading-edge applied economists developing new and better arguments for protecting people and the planet. (www.ecotrust.org) Nina Simons, President/co-founder of Bioneers, is an award-winning social entrepreneur who previously served as President of Seeds of Change and Director of Strategic Marketing for Odwalla. Nina directs Bioneers’ Every Woman’s Leadership program, a whole systems approach to women’s leadership that includes “Cultivating Women’s Leadership” intensive retreats. She is co-editor of the anthology, Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart. (www.bioneers.org/programs/womens-leadership)

Paul Stamets, D.Sc (Hon.), founder of Fungi Perfecti and Host Defense Organic Mushrooms, a dedicated, awardwinning mycologist and mycological researcher for 30+ years, conservationist and explorer, has discovered new species of mushrooms, written six seminal books and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible, functional, and medicinal mushroom cultivation. His latest book is Mycelium Running, How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World. (www.fungi.com) Clayton Thomas-Muller is an Ottawa-based Indigenous rights activist and a member of Mathias Colomb Cree Nation. He is an organizer for the Defenders of the Land & Idle No More, and Co-Director of the Indigenous Tar Sands (ITS) Campaign of the Polaris Institute. He has campaigned across Canada, Alaska and the lower 48 in hundreds of Indigenous communities to organize against the encroachments of the fossil fuel industry and the banks that finance them. (www.idlenomore.com) John C. Warner, President and Chief Technology Officer of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and co-founder of The Beyond Benign Foundation, is one of the key founders and drivers of the field of Green Chemistry, co-authoring the defining text, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice, with Paul Anastas. He has published over 200 patents, papers and books and has won countless prestigious awards, including the 2014 Perkin Medal. (www.warnerbabcock.com) Cecil Williams has, for 45+ years, expanded the limits of spirituality, compassion and diversity as founder and Minister of Liberation of the world-renowned Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Francisco.

As minister, author, social activist, lecturer, community leader and spokesperson for the poor and marginalized, Reverend Williams is recognized as a national leader on the forefront of change in the struggle for civil and human rights. (www.glide.org) Terry Tempest Williams, one of our nation’s most beloved writers, is a naturalist, conservationist, and passionate free speech advocate. She has testified before Congress about women’s health, camped in remote wildernesses, worked as “a barefoot artist” in Rwanda, and been arrested in anti-war civil disobedience actions. Currently a scholar at the University of Utah, her many great classics include: Refuge and Finding Beauty in a Broken World. (www.coyoteclan.com)

2014 FRONT RANGE BIONEER LOCAL PRESENTERS Doug Beall- Simple Shelter, Ltd. Alisha Black-Mallon- Natural Genius Marie Zanowick Bourgeois- US EPA Region 8 Adam Brock- The GrowHaus, Denver Permaculture Guild Sarah Byrden- Free Motion Dance Center Jeanine M. Canty- Naropa University Robert Chanate- Woodbine Ecology Center David Christopher- The Holy Universe Brian Coppom- Boulder County Farmers’ Markets Kim Coupounas- Director of B Lab Colorado Hana Dansky- Boulder Food Rescue Thomas Denkenberger- Citizens’ Climate Lobby Teri Dillon- Waking Heart Therapy, LLC Jamirah DuHamel– Dancer, Earth Guardians Jimmy Dula- Colorado Soil Systems Robin Eden- Regenerative Lifestyles, Earth Guardians Laura Ekua-Chrysalis Cooperative Avery Ellis- Colorado Greywater, Backyard Revolutions, Integrated Aquaponics Sherry Ellms- Work that Reconnects/Radical Joy for Hard Times Vanessa Espionza- Youth Uprising Lisa Fasullo- Free Motion Dance Center Edgar Flores (Edi Flowerz)- Producer, Deejay Shannon Francis- Traditional Ecological Knowledge Brian Fuentes- fuentesdesign Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish- University of Colorado Environmental Center Ramon Gabrieloff-Parish- Naropa University P.D. Gantert- Fossil Free CU Boulder Jason Gerhardt- Permaculture Institute USA/Real Earth Design/Naropa University

Beverly Grant- Mo’ Betta Green Belinda Griswold- Work That Reconnects Mark Guttridge- Ollin Farms Saira Hamidi- Mirror Image Arts Kevin Hammond- Thorne Nature Experience Sopa Harmann- Divestment at Naropa Michael Heim- Boulder High County Mushrooms Ryan Henry- Backyard Revolution Christopher Hormel- Rocky Flats Nuclear Guardianship Project Ietef Hotep Vita aka DJ Cavem Motivation- Going Green, Living Bling Kyle Huelsman- Boulder Food Rescue Javier Izquierdo- Natural City Builders Tara Rae Kent- Ecologist, Rockies Edge Permaculture Design Eric ‘Gurmukh’ Klema- Eternal Sun Yoga Kendra Krueger- Vesica Pi Labs, LLC Ashley Kulik- Food for Thought, Inc. Neambe Leadon- Museum of Nature and Science Amy Mandlowitz- Access to Achieve Jordan Mann- Make Boulder Home Xiuhtezcatl Martinez- Earth Guardians Russell Mendell- Earth Guardians Katherine Millers- Regenerative Lifestyles, Earth Guardians Judith Mohling- Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center LeRoy Moore- Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center Michael M. Moore- tres birds Heather Morton-Burtness- Morton’s Organic Orchards Martin Ogle- Entrepreneurial Earth, LLC

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Boulder High School 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, Boulder High School, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2200 Based on some of the frights they’ve created at Boulder High School, the kids clearly aren’t all right. They got some serious demons in them, and the hard-working members of the theater department are bringing those out. The Boulder High School haunted house runs 7-10 p.m. on Halloween night and is $5 for students and $10 for adults.

Zombie Shoot Noon-4 p.m., 5 p.m.- 9 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1 and 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 2, Longmont Firing Range and Training Center, 10916 Weld County Road 5, Longmont. 303-774-4589, $50 single player, $75 team.

Make all your zombie movie and haunted house fantasies become a reality at the Zombie Shoot in Longmont where participants will be transported to a zombie apocalypse and have to fight off the living dead themselves.

Paintball-style handguns, live zombie actors and the house of horrors bring this nightmare to life for fans of these horror narratives and anyone who is looking for a screaming good time. The Zombie Shoot simulation game is a full four hours of mayhem.

The 13th Floor 7:30 p.m. 4120 Brighton Blvd., Denver, 303-355-3327. Through Nov. 9 The 13th Floor is the Front Range’s definitive haunted house, with multiple warehouses full of sets, actors and horror. More than just a haunted house, it’s like being inside a horror movie. Minus the part where you actually get chopped into bits.

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Colorado Fear Fest 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, Olde Town Arvada, $10-$25 Why settle for one haunted house when you can have a whole bunch? For Colorado Fear Fest, Grisly Lodge, The Dark Mine and Creepy Carnival Midway are all next to one another.

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8 p.m., Friday, Oct. 31, Mackey Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303492-8423, $15 Boulder’s Frequent Flyers dance troupe is resurrecting its award-winning show, Theatre of the Vampires, featuring aerial dancing, pop culture and fangs, as well as a specially made beer for the event from Twisted Pine Brewing. The story of a young journalist being sucked into the vampire underworld plays out to tunes by Jack White, The Rolling Stones, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and an original score from Jesse Manno.

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The annual children’s costume and trick-or-treating event is free, fun and excellent G-rated horror.

Goat-o-Ween 11 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 1, Mountain Flower Goat Dairy, 3420 Broadway St., Boulder, 518-605-8382 Why go for fake costume horns when the real thing are there, waiting to be gawked at? Mountain Flower Goat Dairy is hosting Goat-a-Ween at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 1 with live music, a costume contest for kids and animals, face-painting, gourd-decorating, food, and did we mention goats?

They’ll be goating it up all over the place for all your milking, lotion-making and photo-taking needs, being all goaty.

Kids under two get in free, but for everyone else, admission to the event is $25.

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overtones Adrian Belew’s killer app

All things considered, Adrian Belew has had a pretty weird year

by Dave Kirby

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fter amicably stepping away version of a song we did two years ago from Trent Reznor’s for a sample, so now there’s three or reformed Nine Inch Nails four versions of that one song in there. project in June 2013 and ... And they’re all cut into short segbeing politely excluded from ments, so if you hear, for example Robert Fripp’s reformed King Crimson ‘Don’t Blink,’ you might hear only the later that year, esteemed guitarist and first verse and chorus one time, then sonic disrupter Adrian Belew now later you might hear the guitar solo, finds himself currently on tour with his and then you might hear a different long-tenured Power Trio, and poised to guitar solo the next time.” unleash his experimental project called The end result, of course, would be Flux, a music and visual art app Courtesy of Adrian Belew that he’s been working on for five years.

For Adrian Belew, two highprofile band reunions that might have happened or failed to materialize are comfortably buried in the past, as bringing Flux to completion in late November represents a kind of validation in his own creative vision that neither road project was likely to accommodate.

“I’m tellin’ ya, there’s just Flux coming out of my ears these days,” he told Boulder Weekly a few weeks ago. “For me, it’s very inspiring. It just makes me think of things that I ordinarily couldn’t use.”

Flux is an app that randomizes Belew’s original songs, pieces of songs and various manner of sonic snippetry (solos, riffs, sound samples) and marries them to artwork, creating a sonic and visual experience that is never the same twice. The app uses probability rate logic to adjust and modify After a few weeks of rehearsals Adrian Belew said the rotation of the pieces, as well ‘meh,’ to being in Nine Inch Nails. as manage user-defined preferences, i.e., being able to save and summon favorite bits that the user a sort of cubist Radio Free Belew, wants to hear again. accessing portion-controlled servings of “Everything is recorded by me,” his alien-landscape guitar effects as Belew explains, “The computer doesn’t well as his unshakable pop sensibilities, actually make any music, so it’s not all jammed into close proximity, a kind what they call ‘generative’ music where of sonic ADD machine. the music changes over time. That has We wondered if Belew — whose been done before by people like Eno. solo work outside of his three-decade These are all pieces — songs, musical career fronting King Crimson has pieces, sounds, effects, common ordiranged from radio-accessible rock nary things — that I record, and that I songs to mind-warping experimental put into a content management system. excursions — felt the influence of … What happens is, over time, is that Flux’s song-sample format exerting its there are so many different versions [of pull over his composing process. the material]. Yesterday I did another “The format that you have for Boulder Weekly

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songs has been there for 60 or 70 years.

It’s been dictated by radio programming and other things. … And I’m pretty tired of that. I write a song and it may have four verses. And sometimes I’ll write something, and I’ll have a verse and a chorus, and that’s all I want.

“And I should say, that I still write things that are 12 minutes long that will never work in Flux that will need to be in a different medium, like a CD. So it’s enhanced my output greatly, I would say.”

As for the NIN reunion project that Belew signed up for in early 2013, and then left later that year, he told the press at the time simply, “It wasn’t working.”

He elaborated: “The concept that I was told by Trent was that he and I were going to … Start from scratch and redo the music of Nine Inch Nails. About two and a half weeks into the band, I had already learned about 20 songs, and we weren’t doing that at all. What we were doing was, I was playing exactly, note-for-note, precisely what was on the record; that was what I was being asked to do.

“By that point, the original guitar player that he had since 1993 [Robin Finck] had also been invited into the band, and he was also playing all those parts. He was a good guy and a good guitar player. And I thought, ‘What am I doing here?’ I had to imagine myself playing someone else’s parts over and over for a year and a half; I’m just not that kind of player.

And we both realized that.”

And as for King Crimson, who wrapped up a series of U.S. reunion dates a few weeks ago and, presumably, has gone back into cold storage for an indeterminate period of time, Belew is OK with it. (He toured the Crimson ProjeKCt band, including two players — Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto — who were part of Fripp’s revived project, last summer in Europe.)

“Y’know, I’m fine with all that. …

I’m all about the future.”

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ON THE BILL: Jon Bassoff reads from Factory Town. 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 6 Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074

Fifty shades of grey

Jon Bassoff makes reality a fluid concept in his new horror novel, ‘Factory Town’

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lot of books get sent to the BW newsroom. So many that we play the pre-Christmas game of feeling the manila envelopes and trying to guess their contents, the most popular answers being supernatural young adult romance, TV talking head’s unified theory of something or other, “stunning debut novel” and a metaphysical guide to fill-in-the-blank.

None of us saw Factory Town coming.

The newly released third novel from Longmont writer Jon Bassoff is a study in bleakness, following the doomed quest of investigator Russell Carver to find a missing girl in the industrial wasteland of Factory Town. Factory Town, which Bassoff will read from at the Boulder Bookstore on Thursday, Nov. 6, is equal parts horror, detective drama and psychedelic dream sequence — what Bassoff calls “gothic noir.” And if you’re looking for a read to get you in the Halloween mood, it’s hard to do much better than the sort of literary nightmare Bassoff packed between Factory Town’s covers.

“Someone said once that if you read a mystery book, even if it’s poorly written, you’ll keep reading because you want to find out what happened,” he says. “But for me, I stopped reading those kind of books because I got

more interested in narrators, in unreliable, crazy narrators.”

And an unreliable narrator is exactly what he created in Carver. Is Carver a private investigator or a killer? A man or a child? A sane man surrounded by an insane world, or just as batty as everyone else in Factory Town? There are times when it’s not even clear if

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“Surrealism isn’t for everybody,” says Bassoff. “I get that. I respect that people want a more linear narrative. But I feel that it’s there, if you can search for it and find it, and I hope people find it.”

One tactic Bassoff used to highlight the surrealism was the elimination of quotation marks.

“My narrator being very unreliable, I wanted to have this idea of thoughts and dialogue becoming interchangeable so in some ways it becomes difficult to know if a character is talking, or it’s just their thoughts,” he says.

Bassoff says a major influence for taking that approach was The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro.

“It has these wild, dreamlike, narrations and it really stuck with me,” he says. “It was a book a lot of people hated, but it got me on that style where things move from one place to another, or characters become other characters.”

But perhaps the most prominent character in Factory Town is the town itself, a nightmarish toxic dump of a town, populated entirely by violent lunatics escaped from an asylum.

There is more rust than steel, more rot than wood. Characters are missing limbs and covered with boils. There are no children and no one will say why.

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place to die than live. One of the many questions readers find themselves pondering is whether Factory Town is actually hell, or just hell on Earth.

“For me, and I’m sure for some people, it’s that idea of the post-industrial world,” Bassoff says. “Detroit and other places that are falling apart. I’m a teacher. And my first job was teaching in Harlem. And there’s parts of Harlem that are like that, where everything around you is crumbling and despair. The narrator is drenched in guilt. And I wanted the environment to reflect that.”

That level of decay described beneath the poison sky might be difficult to find for filmmaker Xavier Gens, who optioned the book for adaptation.

“The screenplay is not done.

Obviously, we’re going to have to change a lot,” says Bassoff. “It’s fun to see someone else’s interpretation.”

It’s a running collaboration for Bassoff, whose second book, Corrosion, was also optioned by Genf and may start shooting next year.

“It’s moving along,” says Bassoff.

“We have a director. There’s still a lot of stuff that needs to happen with financing. I’m trying not to get ahead of myself. I’ve heard enough stories of things falling apart.”

But Bassoff isn’t waiting around either way. He’s already getting his fourth book, The Incurables, ready for release in 2015.

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arts & culture The value of failing

Festival invites artists, audience to bravely face the fear of failure

by Elizabeth Miller

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arly this year, Laura Ann Samuelson, founder of the experimental dance company Hoarded Stuff, began asking fellow artists — who find themselves caught in an endless wheel of marketing and self-promotion — about the opposite end of their resumes.

Not how they’d succeeded and what they’d accomplished, but how they’d failed.

“Art can be about more than a certain kind of mastery. I think mastery is incredibly important as well, but I think missing the mark actually opens up so much for us to see,” Samuelson says. “I think we’re failing as much as we’re succeeding in every moment. … That’s how life works, and I think that when we start to focus on one element of it, we start to lose the learning that comes from everything else.”

She’d been wrestling with the idea of failure in her own work — what artist hasn’t? — and finding that exciting work came only with a generous dose of failure, or at the very least, a willingness to risk failing. Being rejected, she found, forced an artist to work in new and different directions. Failure could stimulate creativity and make room for growth.

Meanwhile, artists she knew who had seen early and enduring success seemed stalled out creatively. Having attained success, growing as an artist became a frightening prospect because, being the unwieldy thing that it is, growth might not produce work that was equally successful. So they were still creating similar artwork to what initially led them to acclaim. They weren’t growing.

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The Failure Festival has asked artists to attempt the impossible and let audiences watch.

Samuelson saw an opportunity to undertake a new project that would venture into unknown territory, that might possibly be rejected, denied funding, and garner any of the other trappings we connect with failure: She created a festival dedicated to failure.

She’s recruited artists to perform at the Failure Festival who have backgrounds in dance, theatre, video art and writing. Samuelson’s first foray into risking public rejection with this festival was applying for a grant from the Boulder Arts Commission to hold the festival. She didn’t fail.

As an experiment in disengaging from that constant need to self-promote (and part of the grant application), Samuelson asked artists to submit biographies of themselves that focus on their failures.

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University professor Bhanu Kapil wrote about being a failed British novelist: “… she has had several husbands and failed to make an acceptable lasagna for even one of them, which sounds cute but is actually the basis for the last four years, which have been spent writing a fifth book, BAN, in increments so puny a snail could have emigrated to France, not been eaten and figured out how to make cappuccino from scratch in the time it has taken to pull the absence of a plot together.”

Dancer Lauren Beale wrote about her artistic hang-ups: “Making choreography is a painful process filled with self-deprecating back talk and self-sabotaging procrastination… and so she improvises… on stage and in life, because being spontaneously present is a coping mechanism and a strategy for getting out of her own way.”

If those didn’t make you flinch, Ethan Cowan’s will. He recounts failures including not breaking the brick in his black belt Tae Kwon Do test, not getting into colleges, quitting snowboarding, quitting playing the trombone, even quitting the dance collective he helped to start, “and that’s right when the collective started taking off and doing really cool shows.” He’s now working as an administrative assistant.

The three-night festival will include dance performances improvised based on cues given from the audience — some of which will be thrown on stage — and videos that show artists attempting impossible tasks. A pair of improvisers will perform a duet they’ve rehearsed only by exchanging drawings and prose back and forth from their respective homes in Iowa and Colorado.

It’s not about attempting to fail — “You can’t actually set out to fail, because once you try to set out to fail, if you do it, you’re succeeding,” Samuelson says — but about being willing to undertake something that’s likely to fail or probably impossible to achieve.

What audiences experience will be left, at least in part, in their own hands.

“I think it’s incredibly valuable as an artist to perform something that may fail because I think you find so much more information, and I think it’s valuable for an audience because they’re receiving something that’s incredibly fresh and real because it’s happening in real time,” Samuelson says. “The goal of this is to create a situation where people are getting to engage in failure in their own way, and also if that’s not happening, that’s also fine.”

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Thursday, October 30 Music David Booker. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Giddyup Kitty. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303665-2757.

DAVID SEDARIS Saturday, Nov. 1,

Jack Hadley. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

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

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

8 p.m., Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423

Nick O’Connor. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Pasedena with Jon Mccartan Proj. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Phil Robinson Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Sherefe. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985.

Ska & Rock Steady Halloween Bash. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Whale Tales. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

World Music Pick. 7 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164.

Events Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303.

Figures in Flux: Hybrid Collages. 6 p.m. 15th Street Studio, 1708 15th St., Boulder, 303-447-2841.

Geeks Who Drink. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

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Geopolitics Series. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

It’s a MoM Wrap Party! 6 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

South Boulder Pumpkin Patch. 4 p.m. Mount Calvary Lutheran Church, 3485 Stanford Court, Boulder, 303-499-1444.

Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m.

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

Friday, October 31 Music

see EVENTS Page 52

Underwood & Underwood/ Library of Congress

Darrow

Clarence Darrow by the Miners Alley Playhouse, 7:30 p.m., Thursday Oct. 30, Saturday Nov. 1, 6 p.m. Sunday Nov. 2, Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303935-3044

Clarence Darrow was Chicago’s storied defense attorney in the roaring ’20s. In over 100 murder cases, he only lost one. Some called him evil, others called him a hero. Miners Alley Playhouse brings a special look into the lawyer’s mind with their exclusive three-day run of Clarence Darrow Thursday, Oct. 30th through Sunday, Nov. 2. The one-man play stars Sandy Brook, who is the former Chief Judge of the Indiana Court of Appeals, and has had a lifelong a passion for theater and acting. He brings Clarence Darrow to life again, reminding us of the man who bravely took on the most controversial issues and exposed injustice in society.

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Carr Nicolas Carr: The Glass Cage 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 5, Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303440-7666, $12

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The exponential technological growth our society has experienced brings leisure and efficiency, but not without consequence. In The Glass Cage, author Nicholas Carr examines this phenomenon and the cause and effect situations brought on by advances in modern technology, as well as what the future of an increasingly computer-based culture holds. Carr relates how we are affected on a personal and economic level. Finally, he studies how technology can be used to expand on the human experience ­and how we can guide this ever-growing animal to do more good than bad in this inevitable future.

Courtesy of Bloodshot Records

Wayne the Train Hancock 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 1. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-7330230, $15

Austin-songwriter Wayne Hancock’s nickname didn’t come from nowhere. It’s because his “house-rocking, hillbilly-boogie” will hit you like a train.

It’s no secret that Hancock’s music flows right out from his country heart. Hank Williams III himself said, “The only guy who has more Hank Williams in him than me is Wayne.” While staying true to country music roots, he doesn’t let any genre constrain his passion, cultivating this “reckless honky-tonk” that hits deep in the soul and will get you “up offa that thang,” so you can “dance ‘till you feel bettah.”

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UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL Concert & Fundraiser

Nov The Fire “Ball”

1

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Boulder Pottery Lab.

Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Big Hibiscus. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Craig Cornett and The Phast & Wreckless. 5 p.m.

Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

David Williams. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Halden Wofford & The Hi*Beams. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Nov

8

Concert & Workshop

Halloween Costume Dance Party with Phat Daddy.

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

Trance Blues Jam Festival

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

Otis Taylor

A Musical Event for Players of All Abilities & All Ages

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

Kevin Dooley. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

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

Nov

9

Food, Fun and Fundraiser

Mary Russell and The Implications. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Celebrate Native American Culture through

The Mighty Twisters Halloween Dance Party. 8 p.m.

Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985.

Celebrate: A Conscious Alliance Benefit

song & dance while enjoying food from Colorado’s Top Restaurants and Chefs

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

The Outliers. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

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

Thunder the Radar. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Nov

24

Live Radio Show Taping

Special Holiday Show with guests Over the Rhine & Max Gomez

Nov 10 - Talks & Forums: An Insider’s Look:

CU-BOULDER AND THE RED PLANET

Nov 11 - Film Series: Presented by Global Greengrants ARISE - Arise captures the portraits and stories of extraordinary women around the world who are coming together to heal the injustices against the earth.

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

Events Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

CFOOTMAD - Boulder Waltz Night. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Nov 14 - Fundraiser: Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center’s 20th Anniversary featuring PETER MAYER

Freaky Fridays - for Teens - Halloween Party! 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Nov 15 - Fundraiser: Institute of Taoist Education and Acupuncture Annual Gala

G&G Ganchos Seminar. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Nov 17 - Cooking Class: Scrumptious Winter Cuisine with NANCY THOMPSON Nov 20 - Concert Series: TODD ADELMAN CD Release & YOUNG ANCIENTS Nov 21 & 22 - Film & Fundraiser: THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY Dec 3 - Radio Show Taping: BRUCE COCKBURN & KAT EDMONSON

WHERE: eTOWN Hall 1535 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302 TICKETS: eTOWN.org

Halloween Costume Party. 12 a.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236.

Masterpiece Makers. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Salsa Night. 9:30 p.m. Boulder Agora, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-477-4164.

Saturday, November 1 Music 12th Planet. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

2-Bit Palomino. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Ali Grayson Band. 6:30 a.m. Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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arts Buy — Sharon Feder. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Through Nov. 16.

Mark Mothersbaugh. My Little Pony, 2013. Fiberglass, 53 x 59 x 33 in. Courtesy the artist.

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen.

MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

Oil Paintings

by Steven Homsher.

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

Through Nov. 29.

Photography

by Fernando Boza. ComMCA Denver presents the retrospective of Mark munity Art Mothersbaugh’s (DEVO) work from the 1970’s Program Gallery, Day of the to present.

NCAR, 1850 Dead. Firehouse Table Mesa Arts Center, 667 Drive, Boulder, Fourth Ave., 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29.

Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Nov. 2.

Photography and Vision: The Influence of Dia de Los Muertos/Day of the Dead. Muse Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists.

Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Through Nov. 1.

Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25.

Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Political Contemporary Realism — by Alan Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303Manuel. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 443-2122. Through Jan. 8.

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 9.

Discovering & Interpreting the West — 21st Century Landscapes. Main Gallery, Arvada Center Present Box Durty Raw, Passion, Love for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Seduction — by Tod Reed. Boulder Museum of Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Nov. 16.

Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303443-2122. Through Nov. 9.

Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, Matisse and Friends — by Henri Matisse and 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 15. friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA 25.

Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, Memory: Loss and Found — by Laurie Beth 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18.

Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler. The Dairy Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel Sprick. Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 2.

Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the 303-298-7554. Through April 12.

Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, A Table (Somewhat): Conversations 720-865-5000. Through March 22.

Between Objects — by Various Artists. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth 8300. Through Dec. 20.

— Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

ART/TEKNE: Part 3 “Metaphorming Nature: Through Aug. 27, 2017.

Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Potential” — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20.

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

George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

All Chiefs No Indians. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

The Goonies. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Chris Ramey and Chris Connelly. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Greg Blake & K.C. Groves. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Comedy for a Friend Benefit. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.

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

Groovetrotters. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Craig Cornett and The Phast & Wreckless. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Denny Driscoll. 8 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578.

Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 415-290-9242.

The Fire Ball. 6:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

The Jacob Larson Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Jamestown Halloween Band Show Curated by Chris Sheldon. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

Lunch w/The Prairie Scholars. 12 p.m. Mac’s Place, see EVENTS Page 54

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The Miner’s Ghost. 3 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Nick O’Connor. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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Robert Johnson. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Taylor Radio. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-9086036.

Them Raggedy Bones. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Tyler Grant. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Events 4th Anniversary Party. 5 p.m. Rabbit Brush Gallery, 7504 Hygiene Road, Longmont, 303-651-1106.

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words The Peripheral — by William Gibson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Thursday, Oct. 30 Boulder in the 1950s 2015 Calendar — by Sylvia Pettem and Tito Roberts.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, Nov. 4 From the Page to the Stage: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. 12 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Nixon’s Secrets — by Roger Stone. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Friday, Oct. 31 Innisfree: Coffee Cupping.

1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Saturday, Nov. 1

Local farmer and restaurant owner Eric Skokan will speak about and sign his new book Farm Fork Food on Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m.

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

The Hilltop — by Assaf Gavron. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Boulder Swing Dance - Saturday Stomp. 7:30 p.m.

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

Monday, Nov. 3

Conversations on Death Symposium. 9 a.m. Unity Columbine Spiritual Center, 8900 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, G&G Ganchos Seminar. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Jensen Guitar Company 4th Anniversary Celebration. 10 a.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3163.

Kids Create Art. 10 a.m. North Boulder Armory, 4750 Broadway (entrance off Lee Hill Road), Boulder, 303444-6550.

Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460.

Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236.

Thunder in the Mountains — by Craig Collins.

2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Choral. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

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

Old Town Swing Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Seth Philips. 4 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

303-447-2074

Innisfree: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Wednesday, Nov. 5 Farm Fork Food — by Eric Skokan. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St.,

Gratitude and Trust — by Paul Williams & Tracey Jackson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Everblaze — by Shannon Messenger. 5:30 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349 Sunday Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Takcs Quartet. 4 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

Traditional Irish Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Sunday, November 2 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Augustus. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Blake & Groves. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Cary Morin. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

David & Enion Tiller. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Evan Cantor’s Complete Grateful Dead. 6 p.m.

Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898.

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

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

Jeff and Paige. 4:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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

Night of the Living Dead.

The Bug Theatre, 3564 Navaho St., Denver, 720984-0781.

Through Nov. 1.

The Adventures of Dracula.

Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through Nov. 29.

Ambition Facing West.

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

Through Nov. 2.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical will be at the Louisville Center for the Arts through Nov. 8.

Playback Theatre West Night of Improvisational Theater, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Nov. 1 only.

Clarence Darrow. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241.

Through Nov. 2.

A Second Helping: The Church Basement Ladies Sequel. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Through Nov. 8

Dracula. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Nov. 1.

Seussical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 30.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical.

Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-335-4581. Through Nov. 8.

Sherlock’s Holmes & The Masters of Crime. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 22.

Mad Sundays. 7:30 p.m. The Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-0081.

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events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Cinema Program free screening of Holiday Inn. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

G&G Ganchos Seminar. 1 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Jess Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

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

Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Wednesday, November 5 Music Augustus. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Jazz Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Joe Johnson. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Josh Quinlan Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

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

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

Private Gripweed. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Wednesday Night Blues featuring Eef & The Blues Express. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Whiskey Blanket 10 Year Anniversary. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Danceophile Studio/Postoley Dance Ensemble/Tom Masterson. 7:45 p.m. Danceophile Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Enlightened Feminine Leadership. 6 p.m. MatrixWorks, 403 Juniper Ave., Boulder, 303-819-5289.

Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

BSD Rehearsals OR Intermediate Intensive Class.

7:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m.

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

Monday, November 3 Music Aoife O’Donovan and Noam Pikelny. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Blue Grass Picking with Sam Parks. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-4774164.

Brad Martin Duo. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Events Arabic Literature in Translation to English Discussion Group. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Clay & Sculpt. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

German Speaking Table. All Day. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Tuesday, November 4 Music Bluegrass Tuesdays feat. Ragged Union. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Faculty Tuesday: Carter Pann. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

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

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

Events Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m.

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

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m.

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

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

GED Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

How to Run a Successful E-Mail Marketing Campaign. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder

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‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ makes vampires cool again

by Michael J. Casey

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t’s amazing how popularity can change perception. When Stephanie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Twilight, cracked The New York Times bestseller list, vampires were brought back into the mainstream in a big way.

Beginning in 2008, Meyer’s series was adapted into five movies and followed closely by HBO’s True Blood (also 2008) and CW’s The Vampire Diaries (2009).

Vampires became a cash cow, but YouTube videos, TV shows and movies parodied the immortal bloodsuckers to diminishing returns.

Which is why it was such a shock when writer/director Jim Jarmusch announced that he, too, was making a vampire movie. One of the hippest directors around, Jarmusch isn’t one for the mainstream or shifts in pop culture.

Instead, Jarmusch favors personal projects.

Visually baroque movies that capture dilapidation with a quiet beauty while characters coolly muse about humanity.

Turns out, those bloodsuckers were right up his alley.

Jarmusch’s latest, Only Lovers Left Alive, playing at The Boe Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, observes the decay of culture and society not from within, but from without.

The lovers of the title, Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton) have been married for centuries but now live apart, he in Detroit, she in Tangiers.

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Adam is depressed and ready to end his eternal existence and Eve, sensing that something is amiss, heads for Detroit.

They reunite, all is well for a spell, but then Eve’s younger sister, Ava (Mia Wasikowska), arrives and disrupts their Edenic existence.

That is about as much plot as Jarmusch needs to make a movie work.

The rest is left up to Hiddleston and Swinton, and they pull it off. The two move and sway to the same silent symphony, and look good doing it.

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Director Catherine Breillat leads viewers through her personal experiences with a con man who took nearly 700,000 euros from her as she was recovering from a stroke. Only 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

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While artist Mark Landis does create his own paintings, he’s most famous for his forgeries, creating counterfeits from a wide range of painting styles and periods. But Landis has never been in it for the money. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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The biography of the Hindu swami who brought yoga and meditation to the West. Author of the million-seller spiritual classic Autobiography of a Yogi, he made ancient Vedic teachings accessible to a modern audience.

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Yet, what makes Lovers so excellent and unusual is the serious attention Jarmusch devotes to the trouble with being immortal. What would it take to survive as a 500-year-old vampire? How do you keep people from realizing that you never get old and never work? How does one travel without proper documents? How to obtain blood when humans have polluted their red blood cells with drugs, drink, prescription medication and GMOs? And then there is that little problem of never dying. What does one

Two eccentric scientists struggle to create eternal youth. Only 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

ILLUMINATION This film uses animation, experimental methods and documentary footage to show a young physics student tackling life’s universal questions. Only 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5, IFS at Muenzinger Auditorium.

LIFE AFTER BETH A young man’s recently deceased girlfriend mysteriously returns from the dead. However, he begins to realize that she is not as he remembered her. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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do while living forever? Eve reads, Adam rocks out, but mostly, they drift. Up and down the abandoned roads of Detroit and through the alleys of Tangiers, constantly burning time that for them will never end.

At first glance, Only Lovers Left Alive looks like an attempt to take back the vampire from tweens and Mormons squeamish about blood and sex. Maybe, but I don’t think that is Jarmusch’s end game. Jarmusch doesn’t seem interested in subverting the modern-day vampire genre, or trying to take it back from anyone.

Instead, Only Lovers Left Alive is the bait for all those fertile young minds obsessed with sparkling vampires. Bait designed to draw them into the theater and show them what really good filmmaking has to offer. It might even open their minds to better music, better literature and better cinema. They will wonder, who is this Nikolas Tesla that Adam idolizes? What’s all this about Christopher Marlowe claiming to have written the works of Shakespeare? They might even seek out other movies from Jarmusch’s filmography.

Maybe it’s the optimist in me, but I don’t see Only Lovers Left Alive as a giant middle finger to all those love-sickened, morose Bella and Edward wannabes. I think it’s Jarmusch’s invitation to those across the aisle: “Come on in, the water’s fine.”

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second novel. He feels pushed out of his city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his girlfriend and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip’s idol offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, Philip finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

MOVING FROM EMPTINESS: THE LIFE AND ART OF A ZEN DUDE Zen calligraphic painter Alok Hsu Kwang-han helps students explore the silent space inside us all where creativity comes from by teaching his students to get out of their own way so that “creativity happens on its own.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

NY FILM CRITICS: ELSA AND FRED The story of two people who, in the twilight of their lives, discover it’s never too late to love. Peter Travers, film critic for Rolling Stone, will moderate a live telecast with the movie’s star Shirley MacLaine. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

A couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter meet two elderly women in Venice, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.

Only 7:30 p.m. Oct. 30, IFS at VAC Basement Auditorium (1B20).

Steven Haataja arrived for a teaching position at a Nebraska college in the summer of 2006. That winter, he disappeared without a trace. Months later, his body was found tied to a tree and burned beyond recognition. Filmmaker Dave Jannetta explores the mystery through the eyes of author Poe Ballantine, who spent six years investigating the case. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

GODZILLA

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A cheesy monster movie with cheesy special effects. Also a mature cultural response to the nuclear nightmare occurring during its release. Only 7:30 p.m.

Frustrated writer Philip teems with anger as he awaits the publication of his

An opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Alexandre Dumas’ first play. Sung in Italian. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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hrill-seekers live for the rush that comes from defying death; adrenaline is the body’s chemical “thank you” for keeping it alive.

Somehow, that’s the sensation I got watching Dear White People, writer/ director Justin Simien’s declaration that he didn’t come to half-ass it. Audacious, overly ambitious, challenging and understandably flawed, Dear White People may be the most important conversation about race you’ve never seen, heard or had.

Set at Winchester University, a faux Ivy League college, the film opens with a contested election for “head of house” at a mostly black dorm. Sam (Tessa Thompson), a word warrior and aspiring filmmaker whose project is “Rebirth of a Nation,” runs against ex-boyfriend Troy (Brandon P. Bell), the son of Dean Fairbanks (Dennis Haysbert). Given Troy’s connections and airbrushed image, Sam expected to lose and was just fighting against a change that would “randomize” housing assignments, arguing that privileged white kids would pull strings and get the house they want, while the black unity provided by her house would be destroyed.

When she unexpectedly wins, tensions boil as hot as Brooklyn asphalt in a Spike Lee joint. Kurt (Kyle Gallner), the son of the University President, goes after Sam, offended by her radio program, “Dear White People.” He organizes a Halloween party with white kids in black face, aided by Coco (Teyonah Parris), a luminous black woman trying to make it onto reality television. When Lionel (Tyler James Williams), a gay aspiring journalist, catches wind of the party, it’s as if Boulder Weekly

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Dear White People sometimes pushes buttons, other times it wittily admits racial hypocrisy or just plain satirizes bullshit white arguments about race. All of it is so smart, so sophisticated you almost need footnotes. I fully anticipated Simien’s film to be clever and funny.

What I didn’t anticipate, what I couldn’t anticipate, was just how important it is.

I don’t know that I’ve seen a character like Lionel on screen. A non-effeminant black nerd stuck at the crossroads of three cultures giving him side-eye, he must navigate judgement from every angle. I don’t know that I’ve seen a character like Coco, a woman alternating between self-loathing and self-loving faster than you can take a selfie. I don’t know that I’ve seen a character like Sam, a verbally aggressive, fearless fighter who refuses to forgo her sexuality. All played to perfection by unknown actors who, by God, should get known.

Ambition on this scale should be expected to be joined by some flubs.

Simien botches Sam’s family backstory and love triangle, drops Coco’s story completely and ends too timidly from a cinematic perspective. But give me a movie that’s warts show because it is casting a floodlight on huge ideas any day of the week. Dear White People deploys a full arsenal of intellectual weaponry to talk about race and much more in a way most can’t or won’t. It is hilarious. It is brilliant.

It is vital. And it’s Simien’s first outing.

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hough the specific locale is different for everyone, we all have that place, the one you drive past nearly everywhere you go, thinking to yourself, “I should stop in some time,” but keep driving past for at least another six to eight months. You know where I’m talking about.

For this reporter, it’s Rincon Del Sol, a Mexican restaurant that sits at the corner of Folsom and Arapahoe in Boulder. Always on the way to somewhere else, and across the street from some of my favorite eateries when that ’hood was my destination, it got punted and punted again until it was so far downfield we were no longer in the stadium.

I’m sure you can relate.

Luckily, all that anticipation didn’t build things up to an unachievable idea when I finally made it in the doors.

The interior is bright and cheerful, with color schemes and decor emulating the feel of the Yucatan. Sea-foam greens and carved wooden tables with plants, all of it densely packed enough to ape the jungle vibe as well. The Yucatanthemed, sit-down Mexican restaurant is hardly a rarity amongst restaurants, but Rincon Del Sol does it well, and far better than the plain exterior hints.

The joint has changed hands since Boulder Weekly last reviewed it in 2009, but the menu has stayed pretty much the same, with offerings in the style of

That place

Finally making it into Rincon Del Sol after months of driving by

by Josh Gross its decor: enchiladas, fajitas, burritos and combo plates.

The lunch menu, served until 3 p.m., is a score, with single-item combos running only $6.99, and two-item combos only bumping things up a dollar to $7.99.

I went for an old standard: the mole enchilada/chile relleno combo. The mushiness-to-flavor ratio of enchiladas, the spice palette of mole and the style of preparing the chili relleno are all bellwethers for me of what else to

expect from the menu.

And for the most part they delivered. The chicken in my enchilada wasn’t overly soggy or bland (though I had asked for beef ), and the moledrenched tortilla it was mummified in had a nice, rich flavor of spice and cocoa.

It was better than the red sauce that covered up the chili relleno, which was fried in an egg roll wrapper instead of an egg batter and filled with melted cheddar instead of the traditional cotija.

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A theater professor I had in college used to say “that there isn’t right or wrong ways to do things, there are just choices.” I responded by saying, “Yes, but some of those choices are good and others are bad.” That’s the way I feel about cheddar rellenos. Certainly, there is someone out there who likes them, thinking that sharp, golden flavor and magma-like texture of cheddar is a good choice. But it’s not me.

To its credit, the cheddar did pair nicely with the extra mole sauce from the enchilada.

I shelled out an extra buck for a ladleful of green chili atop the rice and beans that came on the side, and it was well worth it. Not because the rice was bland and in need of green chili, but because green chili is such a subtly complex dish that everyone has a different take on it. I like to think Coloradans are to their green chili like Texans are to their barbecue recipes. And Rincon Del Sol’s was one of the better green chilis I’ve had regionally, with a bright black peppery finish that made it its own animal.

Rincon Del Sol isn’t fine dining or the best Mexican in town. But it’s got a great lunch special, some good takes on familiar favorites and it is a convenient place to hit, because months of driving by established that it is apparently on the way to everywhere.

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CITY COUNCIL MAY SOON EAT BY EXAMPLE

It is said that you should practice what you preach. That’s exactly what Boulder’s City Council is considering regarding sustainable food.

The Council is considering a motion that will authorize the city manager to sign an agreement formalizing the existence of a regional group known as Making Local Foods Work. This foundation’s goal is to create an interconnected food network in the community to make eating locally convenient and affordable. The group involves the City of Boulder, Boulder County, the Boulder County Farmers’ Market, the Boulder County School District, Naturally Boulder, the University of Colorado, and more.

In light of the idea, City Council member Andrew Shoemaker suggested that the City Council lead by example. Shoemaker would like to begin by sourcing the City Council’s meals locally — and the city clerk has agreed to look into the possibility.

“If nothing else, it sends a message,” Shoemaker tells BW. “If we purchase locally, we will also know how our food is treated.

Are they using GMOs? Are they mistreating animals? Until people start doing it, we are not going to see any change.“ — Nadia Mishkin

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SOON TO BE JUST PETE’S?

holiday itself don’t inspire you to throw together some sort of costume, you might just be one of those grinches of Halloween.

But Chipotle is throwing you one last bone to get a little creative and put on a disguise at least for your lunch hour: the annual three dollar “BOOrrito” special. The deal offers three dollar burritos, bowls, salads, tacos or kids meals on Oct. 31, provided you’re in costume.

Proceeds from the fundraiser benefit the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation, which provides funding to organizations committed to creating a sustainable, healthful and equitable food future. Chipotle says that costumed customers have helped raise more than $3 million for the group over the last three years. So whether you actually like dressing up for Halloween, or just can’t say no to a three dollar burrito, don’t miss this once-ayear deal at any Chipotle location. (Hint: there are five Chipotles in Boulder County.)

— Nadia Mishkin

Illegal Pete’s is having a rough news week.

The local burrito peddlers are about to launch a new storefront in Fort Collins, and to move their hilltop Boulder location across the street to the space that used to house Abo’s Pizza, a cherry move indeed since it’s right across from The Fox Theater.

But instead of talking about that, we vultures in the media are pouncing on the scandal: the name.

Last week, The Coloradoan reported that some Fort Collins residents said that the name Illegal Pete’s is offensive to Latino members of the community. Owner Pete Turner was taken aback, and is taking the comments into strong consideration.

“If people feel a certain way, we respect that,” he told the Times-Call. “It’s a total bummer, but it’s a business decision.”

Turner has said that Illegal Pete’s was the name of a bar in a novel he read in college, and his name is Pete. However there are several locations that feature decorative photographs of Latino’s working in the kitchen with their faces censored by a white strip that reads “Illegal Pete’s.” There’s no denying the name’s allusion to the connection between Mexican food in the U.S. and illegal Latino immigrants working in the kitchen, but Turner didn’t mean to offend anyone.

He hopes to calm the concerns of offense by letting people get to know his company that so many have come to love in the area. It has been reported that he expects to make a decision on the name in the next week.

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his is the second part of a two part series exploring what the word “local” means. Part one explored the meaning of the term for consumers, and part two will explore what local means for food producers.

For many growers, the term “local” varies by commodity.

“The things we grow are heavy,” reminds Stephen Koontz, professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics at Colorado State University. While selling locally may ease some of the burden of transport, it’s not alway possible for some items.

“There are some crops that all ripen within three weeks in areas that might see seven months of frost,” explains Koontz.

These will be more of a challenge for local markets to absorb — hence the need to contract with larger buyers who might sell Colorado cantaloupe to Nebraska or Palisade peaches to Maine.

Small vegetable growers with green-

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house tomatoes and sweet corn around Boulder are seeing a rise in demand for their crops and customers happy to pay more for locally grown produce that has traveled few miles from the field to the dinner plate.

For other commodities, such as field crops and grains, the local food movement has had more marginal effects. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they can’t be What “local” means to Boulder farmers varies — some farmers consider their buyers local if they are selling within the state’s borders. Some say it’s anything grown in Boulder County. consumed locally, however. New dairies opening east of Boulder are buying local grains and silage stores. long as it stayed within a certain geofor animal feed, with the milk soon The Colorado Proud Program was graphical distance. Alvin Mascarenas, being sold on local shelves. Barley for created in 1999 by the Colorado brewing beer is being grown, processed, with the Farm Service Agency in Department of Agriculture to promote Boulder County, works with a wide guzzled and belched all in the same zip code in some counties around the state. range of growers and considers local to agricultural products within the state by be anything grown “right here in So what does “local” mean to helping to identify these items to conBoulder farmers? The answers are as Boulder County.” Some farmers consid- sumers shopping at a grocery retailer. diverse as those given by the consumers er their buyers “local” if they are selling The program began with 65 Colorado within the state’s borders and are excitof their produce. Many consider both farms, ranches, greenhouses and food food sold directly to customers and that ed to see a rising demand for their see LOCAL Page 64 products in the mainstream grocery through wholesale buyers to be local as

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“You can only bring your pumpkins home so many times,” explains David Asbury, whose Full Circle Farms and Rocky Mountain Pumpkin Ranch are planted in everything from squash to chili peppers along highway 66 in Longmont. One of the largest organic diversified vegetable growers in the state, he loves the interaction with customers he gets from direct-to-consumer retail sales at farmers’ markets, but with more than 1,000 acres of crops he is grateful that demand for locally grown produce has drawn his products through wholesale buyers to more shelves. He compares this business model to a three-legged stool with healthy relationships between the grower and local customers as well as wholesale buyers and retailers as the best way to provide quality produce at a fair price.

When he began farming locally more than 20 years ago, Asbury sold a higher percentage of crops directly to the consumer. Now, he has more of his crops going to local wholesale buyers.

Each week he can walk the aisles of large grocery chains down the street from his farm and see his produce for sale next to imported fruit and vegetables from around the world.

“In Colorado, we’re not going to be growing your oranges, avocados or bananas,” he says. “But when you can buy local — well, let’s celebrate that.”

In Boulder County, restaurants are another major outlet for many local growers, with farm fresh ingredients making their way from garnish to main course. It is becoming more common to see the name of the supplying farm from which your pork belly and zucchini came listed right next to the wine pairings. Many restaurants have taken this one step further by developing or managing their own farms.

Asbury has advice for folks moving from any industry into production farming: “Buy two pairs of double-front

Carhartt pants, because you’re going to spend most of your time on your knees either weeding or praying. ” Whether praying for rain or praying for it to stop, divine intervention has some effect on if farmers sell directly to consumers or sign a contract with wholesale buyers that includes what is known as the “act of God” clause. Local farmers bring what they have to a farmers’ market to earn retail price on goods without knowing beforehand the total volume of sales. By signing a contract with a wholesale buyer, however, they have some assurance of being able to sell everything they have grown (albeit at a wholesale price). But that comes with the risk of not being able to deliver in the case of drought, pestilence or any other horsemen of environmental apocalypse. An “act of God” clause in a contract is a legal term for situations outside of human control that make the performance or delivery of the contracted goods an impossibility. Growers with higher volumes may be more likely to sell wholesale to large buyers who retail here in the county or state who include these clauses in contracts.

How much of an impact has the local food movement had on the agricultural sector? Data is cloudy. Not all local growers are reporting on direct-toconsumer sales and without a standardized definition of “local,” it’s unclear which products to track from the fields to their final consumption. While the local food movement has been encouraging to many of Boulder’s small-acreage farms, its effects appear somewhat patchy.

“It has been a great opportunity for a small number of growers that are well located and willing to work hard,” says Koontz of the local food movement.

While Boulder is well positioned to reap some of the benefit he, like other agricultural economists, sees the local food movement as mainly affecting the margins of the agricultural sector in Colorado with, or without, a standardized definition.

After last year’s flood, Boulder farmers are hopeful for a good harvest this fall. Regardless of whether demand is high or low, “it’s all about the weather,” reminds Asbury. “Mother Nature is always the last at bat.”

When asked if he thought the local food movement would continue to grow and remain an important factor in how consumers decide on what’s for dinner, Asbury was quite frank. “I’m betting my life on it.”

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The closest KFC restaurant is 35 miles away in the Egyptian city of El-Arish. But there was a time when you could pay smugglers to bring it to you via one of the underground tunnels that linked Egypt to Gaza.

Each delivery took four hours and required the help of two taxis, a hand cart, and a motorbike. (Alas, Egypt destroyed most of the tunnels in early 2014.) I recommend, Aries, that you be as determined and resourceful to make your longed-for connections as the KFC lovers in Gaza were.

Halloween costume suggestion: smuggler, bootlegger, drugdealer, black-marketeer.

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It’s urgent that you expand your options. Your freedom of choice can’t lead you to where you need to go until you have more possibilities to choose from. In fact, you’re better off not making a decision until you have a wider selection. To playfully drive home this point to your subconscious mind, I suggest that this Halloween you consider disguising yourself as a slime mold. This unusual creature comes in more than 500 different genders, at least 13 of which must collaborate to reproduce. Here’s a photo: bit.ly/yellowslime.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In the animated sci-fi TV sitcom *Futurama,* Leela is the mutant captain of a spaceship. In one episode, she develops an odd boil on her hindquarters. It has a face and can sing.

The actor who provides the vocals for the animated boil’s outpouring of song is Gemini comedian Craig Ferguson, whose main gig is serving as host of a late-night TV talk show on CBS. Telling you this tale is my way of suggesting that you consider going outside your usual niche, as Craig Ferguson did, to offer your talents in a different context. Halloween costume suggestion: Kim Kardashian as a nurse wearing ebola protective gear; science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson as a male stripper; a cat wearing a dog costume, or vice versa.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Native American hero Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was a renowned Lakota chief and holy man. He led his people in their resistance to the U.S. occupation of their land. How did he become so strong and wise? In large part through the efforts of his doting mother, whose name was Her-HolyDoor. Let’s install her as your exemplar for now. May she inspire you to nurture beauty and power in those you love.

May she motivate you to be adroit as you perform your duties in service to the future. May the mystery of her name rouse you to find the sacred portal that ushers you to your next big gift. Halloween costume suggestion: a sacred portal, a divine gateway, an amazing door.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

This is one of those rare times when it’s OK for you to just throw out the dirty dishes that you are too lazy to wash.

It’s also permissible to hide from a difficult person, spend money on a supposedly foolish indulgence, eat a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, binge-watch a TV show that provokes six months’ worth of emotions in a few hours, and lie in bed for an extra hour fantasizing about sex with a forbidden partner. Don’t make any of these things habits, of course.

But for now, it’s probably healthy to allow them. Halloween costume suggestion: total slacker.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Our evolutionary ancestors *Homo erectus* loved to eat delicious antelope brains. The fossil evidence is all over their old stomping grounds in East Africa. Scientists say that this delicacy, so rich in nutrients, helped our forbears build bigger, stronger brains themselves. These days it’s harder but not impossible to make animal brains part of your diet. The Chinese and Koreans eat pig brains, and some European cuisines include beef brains. I’m confident, however, that your own brain will be functioning better than ever in the coming weeks, even if you don’t partake of this exotic dish.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

“The egromenious hilarity of psychadisical melarmy, whether rooted in a lissome stretch or a lusty wobble, soon defisterates into crabolious stompability. So why not be graffenbent?” So said Noah’s ex-wife Joan of Arc in her interview with *St. Crocodile* magazine. Heed Joan’s advice, please, Libra. Be proactively saximonious.

I’M KIDDING! Everything I just said was nonsense. I hope you didn’t assume it was erudite wisdom full of big words you couldn’t understand. In offering it to you, I was hoping to immunize you against the babble and hype and artifice that may soon roll your way. Halloween costume suggestion: a skeptic armed with a shock-proof bullshitdetector. (For inspiration, check out these visuals: http:// bit.ly/bsdetector.)

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

In AMC’s famous TV drama, a high school chemistry teacher responds to his awful luck by turning to a life of crime. The show’s title, “Breaking Bad,” refers to what happens when a good person cracks and veers over to the dark side. So then what does “breaking good” mean?

Urbandictionary.com defines it like this: “When a criminal, junkie, or gang-banger gets sweet and sparkly, going to church, volunteering at soup kitchens, and picking the kids up from school.” I’m concerned that you are at risk of undergoing a similar conversion, Scorpio. You seem so nice and kind and mild lately. I guess that’s fine as long as you don’t lose your edge. Halloween costume suggestion: a criminal with a halo, a sweet and sparkly gang-banger, or a Buddhist monk junkie.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

I’ve got two possible remedies for your emotional congestion. You might also want to make these two remedies part of your Halloween shtick. The first remedy is captured by the English word “lalochezia.” It refers to a catharsis that comes from uttering profane language. The second remedy is contained in the word “tarantism.” It means an urge to dance manically as a way to relieve melancholy. For your Halloween disguise, you could be a wildly dancing obscenity-spouter.

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You are at a point in your astrological cycle when you deserve to rake in the rewards that you have been working hard to earn. I expect you to be a magnet for gifts and blessings. The favors and compliments you have doled out will be returned to you. For all the strings you have pulled in behalf of others’ dreams, strings will now be pulled for you. Halloween costume suggestion: a beaming kid hauling around a red wagon full of brightly wrapped presents.

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Two physicists in Massachusetts are working on technology that will allow people to shoot laser beams out of their eyes.

For Halloween, I suggest that you pretend you have already acquired this superpower. It’s time for you to be brash and jaunty as you radiate your influence with more confidence.

I want to see you summon reserves of charismatic clout you haven’t dared to call on before. Costume suggestion: The X-Men mutant named Cyclops or the legendary Native America creature known as the thunderbird, which emits lightning from its eyes.

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The African nation of Swaziland has passed a law prohibiting witches from flying their broomsticks any higher than 150 meters above ground. That will be a big problem for Piscean witches. There is currently an astrological mandate for them to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as they want to. The same is metaphorically true for all Piscean non-witches everywhere. This is your time to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as you want to. Halloween costume suggestion: high-flying witch, a winged angel, the Silver Surfer, or a mythic bird like the Garuda.

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Dear Dan: My son is 15 going on 16, and he’s been experimenting with masturbation. At the moment, I pretty much just think fine, whatever, he’s a teenager, there’s very little I can do about it. So long as he doesn’t get porn-obsessed and start letting his grades slip, it’s fine. The issue is that, a few months ago, his younger sister found one of her tampons in the garbage, and it was covered with poop. She brought it up to me and my wife, and we didn’t think much of it — until a couple of months ago, when my wife discovered, again, a used, shitty tampon in the garbage. We had a talk with our son and told him that we understand he is maturing sexually and we don’t care how he explores his sexuality.

However, we also don’t want to find shitty tampons or whatever else in the garbage.

Then, a couple of days ago, we were going to bed and we heard a noise coming from his bathroom. We checked it out and found his toothbrush in the sink, butt-end being rinsed with the water running full blast for who knows how long (he was downstairs). We asked him why he was doing that, and he said the cat had pissed on his toothbrush. We think his story is bullshit, as although the cat does piss on the floor, the cat has never peed on a counter before.

We are fine with him exploring his sexuality, but at the same time, we don’t want to find tidbits of what he’s doing out in the open. As I’ve explained to him, he needs to do a better job of hiding it, because if a friend had come over and found a shitty tampon in the garbage can, what would they think? However, it looks like shaming him to hide it better might be the only way. What are your thoughts on this?

Are we in the wrong here?

— Perplexed Over Progeny’s Sexuality Dear POPS: You haven’t found any more shit-covered tampons in the trash since you spoke to your son about it months ago, POPS, so either he’s doing a better job of hiding those shit-covered tampons — he’s honoring his father and mother — or he’s not putting his sister’s tampons up his ass anymore.

And your concern for the delicate sensibilities of your friends is a bit of a reach. A true friend wouldn’t paw through the trash in your bathroom, and anyone who did dig through the trash in your bathroom deserves to find not just one shit-smeared tampon, but a handful.

As for the toothbrush, POPS, it wasn’t left “out in the open.” You found it in the sink in his bathroom. You discovered it because he stupidly left the Boulder Weekly

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water running full blast, it’s true, but it wasn’t out in the open in a shared communal space. If you had texted me the moment you found the toothbrush, I would’ve immediately texted you back and advised you to turn the water off and refrain from asking your son about the toothbrush. If you had to say something to him about it, POPS, I would’ve advised you to go with this: “Don’t leave the water running in your sink.”

Your son would’ve figured that you saw the toothbrush, figured that you figured it had been in his ass, and never made that mistake again. ( Just as he’s never made the tampon mistake again.)

But you made the mistake of asking your son for an explanation (“Why are you doing that?”) in a context where (1) your son isn’t going to tell you the truth (“The cat pissed on it, Pops!”), and (2) you can’t handle the truth (“I was fucking myself in the ass with it, Pops!”).

Zooming out for a second: A boy who’s almost 16 isn’t “experimenting with masturbation.” He’s perfecting his technique. And we can deduce from the tampons and toothbrushes that your son likes assplay. That’s not a problem.

Inconsideration used to be a problem (disposing of shitty tampons where his family members might find them), but he’s knocked that off, right? So the only remaining problem is that he’s putting things in his ass that aren’t designed for assplay.

If you don’t want your son abusing cucumbers or mixing spoons or Oscar statuettes that might be lying around your house — and if you don’t want to have to rush him to an emergency room in a few months to retrieve something that gets stuck in his ass — consider purchasing a few ass-appropriate toys for him, i.e., one or two small silicone butt plugs with flared bases. He’ll be mortified when you give them to him, POPS, but no more mortified than you were when you found those shitty tampons.

Buying sex toys for kids is a hurdle most parents can’t clear. If it’s not something you can do, then you’ll have to turn a blind eye to any toothbrushes you might find in sinks over the next few years.

You’ll also want to thoroughly wash cucumbers before consuming them.

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Lebahn, a father of three, doesn’t Remember when your parthink anyone will be slipping pot candy ents let you eat any to kids this Halloween. Edibles are unwrapped treat you were expensive. handed by strangers?

The alarming headlines started when If you’re under 30, probably not. the Denver Police Department (DPD) Parents have long been wary that released a video about the danger. On unpackaged treats could contain razor previous Halloweens, there was no such blades. Or shards of warning — even Cecelia Gilboy glass. Or anthrax. back when disBut this pensaries were Halloween, still selling ediColorado kids are bles in facing a new threat, unmarked plasaccording to numertic bags. But ous national headthis year, the lines: candy laced recreational with marijuana. stores have Several major made edibles news outlets (includ- Budtender Sativa Ball holds edibles and an more available, opaque “exit bag” at Helping Hands Herbals. explains DPD ing Fox and CBS) Public recently claimed that Information Colorado-based CB Officer Sonny Jackson.

Scientific designed a product for parents Days after DPD released the video, to test Halloween candy for marijuana. state health officials briefly recommended That’s not accurate, says CB banning most edibles, but they quickly Scientific co-founder Derek Lebahn. His backtracked. company actually developed these testNonprofit Smart Colorado has also kits for medical patients and plant breed“done a lot of press” on the Halloween ers. They released them in September.

Lebahn contacted a local CBS reporter, issue, says founding member Gina but he wasn’t interested.

Carbone, who previously fought against “Then I mentioned the Halloween Amendment 64’s implementation. Her scare, because I’d seen the headlines,” organization recently posted billboards in Lebahn says.

Denver showing common candy with the CBS instantly changed its tune, he slogan, “Can you spot the pot?” It also says. Fox and ABC interviewed Lebahn, says “trick or treat” in that wiggly lettered too. They never mentioned the product’s font typically reserved for haunted house original intent. They all ran similar head- ads. lines.

“It’s ironic to me that [people] are “I have a problem with the ‘to,’” talking about GMOs,” says Carbone, a Lebahn says. “It wasn’t developed ‘to’ test former lobbyist. “It’s like, we all have to Halloween candy.” know about GMOs in our food, but in

Colorado, we don’t have to know about marijuana in our food?”

The comparison is comical at best.

GMOs remain unlabeled, despite years of public outcry. Any marijuana in food, however, is mentioned about seven times on the package, thanks to rigorous labeling laws. “... community members have no way of knowing which products contain pot,” a Smart Colorado member testified in September. Her testimony is provided on their website in a post urging people to speak at a recent rule-making meeting.

But if you couldn’t make it, they said, you could contact the governor “in support of marijuana regulation like H.B. 14-1266.”

But 1266 is actually a Colorado law on value-based offenses. They meant 1366, which they sponsored, according to their press release, to protect developing brains.

“The legislators ate this thing up,” Carbone says. “It passed overwhelmingly.”

So edibles must soon be recognizable outside of their packaging, she says.

Carbone, who serves on an edibles rulemaking committee, is coming up with ideas.

“It could have little sprinkly type things in it that would indicate marijuana,” she says.

Right. Because sprinkles send a clear message: Adults only.

Pot sodas could be colored, she says.

(Kids hate colored drinks — that’s why Kool-Aid was such a flop.)

“Baked goods could use edible frosting [to add a symbol like a pot leaf ],” Carbone says. “I think a child could learn not to eat something if they see that.”

Because children commonly avoid

frosting. Especially edible frosting.

Well, it could be a tool for parents, explains Carbone, who has a teenage son.

“You might not know your kid is a daily marijuana user,” she says.

She also worries about youth playing pranks with edibles, or hearing that marijuana could help their ADHD or anxiety. She’s concerned about marijuana’s growing social acceptance.

“Its not just a small group of potheads anymore,” she says. “It’s the top students, the captains of the soccer team… They come from really good families, so kids don’t see anything wrong with it.”

Brooke Wise, owner of local edibles company The Growing Kitchen, says honest dialogue and responsible parenting are key. She isn’t too concerned about the sprinkles-and-frosting suggestions.

“The law says ‘when practicable,’” she explains.

The Growing Kitchen already uses the opaque or certified child-resistant packaging required by law. When their product is sold in stores, it gets placed in another opaque “exit bag” with childresistant locking zippers.

“The same parents who take the edible out of the opaque bag, and then out of the other opaque bag, and then leave it lying around, are the same parents who leave bleach and alcohol lying around,” Wise says.

Wise believes the two sides of this debate actually have a lot in common.

“We all want the same thing,” she says, “to keep these out of the wrong hands. But if you start with hyperbole and fear-based rhetoric, you curtail the dialogue.”

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