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he uber-rich like to collect trophies as proof of their unsurpassed uberness.

These are not like the tacky brass trophy you won in a bowling tournament. No, no — global ultrabillionaires compete ferociously with each other in X-treme Wealth Games to have the most dazzlingly-gorgeous trophy wife, the most humongous and elaborate trophy yacht on the seven seas, etc. And now comes the most

ostentatious game of one-upsmanship yet: The trophy mansion.

Forget those $10 million show houses perched pretentiously atop a peak in Aspen for all to see — we’re talking $100 million, $200… $500 million, mine-is-bigger-than-yours monuments to mammon. For example, a gold rush of developers are constructing monstrous trophy mansions in Los Angeles. How big? My entire house is 1,500 square feet, but these things have 8,000-square-foot master bedrooms, closets so vast they include catwalks, full-size IMAX movie theaters, and even “Champagne rooms.”

One of these bungalows in the luxe zip code of Bel Air is listed for sale at half-a-billion dollars. It encompasses 110,000 square feet of indoor space (the size of a shopping mall), plus a bowling alley, a nightclub, a casino, and — get this — four swimming pools! “Who in their right mind needs four swimming

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pools?” asks a neighbor who paid a mere 10 million bucks or so for his luxurious Bel Air home. Well, sniffed the developer, one can work up quite a sweat going around this maxi-mansion, so: “Why would you not need four swimming pools?” Adding to the narcissistic self-indulgence of these trophy hunters, note that this $500-million Taj Mahal is not even meant to be the owner’s main home, but a place for occasional getaways — “nobody buys a 100,000-square foot home to use every day,” explains the developer.

Such excess in not just an embarrassment of riches, it’s obscene.

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danish plan Obama’s silly Keystone Pipeline veto

by Paul Danish

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he main beneficiary of President Obama’s decision to veto construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline is neither the climate, nor the environment, nor even the knee-jerk Greens who have been conducting their delusional vendetta against it.

It’s the Burlington Northern Railroad.

The railroad, presumably along with some smaller lines, will transport the 850,000 barrels per day of Canadian oil sands synthetic crude that otherwise would have been moved by the pipeline from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast.

The cancellation will neither stop nor slow the growth of Canadian oil sands production, according to Kevin Birn, the director of IHS Energy, a Houston-based consultancy that follows the Canadian oil sands industry.

“IHS research has consistently shown that oil sands production does not hinge on any one infrastructure project and alternative projects and rail exist,” he told Oil & Gas Journal, an industry publication. “IHS continues to expect over 800,000 barrels per day of new supply to come online by 2020 from existing projects relative to 2014.

This will raise total oil sands production to 3 million b/d in 2020,” Birn said.

As a result, cancelation of the pipe-

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line “will have no material impact on greenhouse gas emissions,” he added.

Notice that the IHS estimate of 2020 oil sands production is based on new supply “from existing projects” — projects that are on-going despite the plunge in global oil prices. In other words, low oil prices aren’t going to stop the growth in oil sands output, any more than cancelling Keystone XL is.

Nor is demand for oil apt to do anything but go up between now and 2020.

By the end of 2020 the world’s population will have grown by roughly 400 million — with most of the growth coming in countries like China, India and Brazil, which are industrializing as fast as they can pour concrete and buying cars as fast as they can write checks.

And when it comes to adding the capacity to haul the added crude, the railroads can do it while barely breaking a sweat. The entire 850,000 barrels a day can be hauled out of Alberta by only about a dozen additional 100-car unit trains a day.

Shipping oil by rail costs about $10 a barrel (compared to about $5 a barrel for shipping it by pipeline). So the railroads stand to gross roughly $8.5 million a day in transport fees, or about $3 billion a year, from moving the oil that would have otherwise been shipped via see DANISH PLAN Page 10

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roadway, no matter what (it’s the rule!); and never, ever ride elbow to elbow; tandem or single file is also the rule.

Look them up.” I did, and you can too: http://colobikelaw.com/coloradolaw. html. The first “rule” is a figment of the author’s imagination. The second requires only that riding abreast does not impede traffic. Local rules and signage can override this, such as “single file through curves.”

Another popular myth, usually

trotted out to justify any and all menace to cyclists, is that cars and gas taxes pay for roadways, and bicycles can have some rights when they pay their share. It is easy to confirm that state and local roads are only 35 percent funded by gas and use taxes, the rest coming from general funds.

Cycling laws didn’t exist until recently, and most states took the easy way out — bicycles have wheels, so they should be treated like cars. But

why aren’t bicycles treated like fast pedestrians? With some notable exceptions like Idaho, bicycle law is lazy and outdated. I submit that the law SHOULD be based on the sensible rationale that equal danger incurs equal restriction. Simply tallying up police reports, it is clear that bicycles pose zero threat to vehicles and minimal threat to anyone else, whereas vehicles are an omnipresent danger to practically see LETTERS Page 10

That’ll teach ya, Chris Barge.

Many, many signs for Chris Barge were placed illegally on the public right-of-way and on private property without permission. It is with great delight that I see that Chris lost by 500 votes. Of those, some are from me and those I asked not to vote for a candidate who shows so little respect for the rules and for private property. I hope this can be a lesson not only to Chris, but to other candidates: your illegally placed sign can cost you votes.

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An imagined conversation before the next Democratic debate

“Hello, Hillary, this is Bernie. I thought I would give you a heads up since I caught you by surprise at the first debate by defending you against the media obsession with your damn emails. I’m thinking of proposing expanded educational subsidies starting at the pre-school level as an enhancement of my plan for free tuition at state colleges. Since you have liked some of my other stands on issues such as the TPP and the XL Pipeline, I’m giving you this before our next debate in case you want to incorporate it into your campaign. Does that give you enough time?”

“I have to refer this to my campaign committee and let them review it.

They have given me good advice so far.”

“Yes, and I’m sure they will let your super delegates know too. By the way, my campaign is working on new ideas that you will be interested in, so stay tuned. See you on Saturday.”

Sharon Rouse/Boulder

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Keystone XL. So who, besides the railroad, benefits from cancelling the Keystone XL? The Quasi People’s Republic of Venezuela maybe.

Canadian oil sands synthetic crude is considered “heavy” oil — oil that is composed of proportionately more carbon and less hydrogen than the “light” crudes extracted from U.S. shale deposits, which have proportionately less carbon and more hydrogen in their composition. The Keystone XL would have delivered Canadian syncrude to refineries in Texas and Louisiana that are currently getting a similar grade of oil from Venezuela, whose reserves of heavy oil in the Orinoco oil belt nearly match Canada’s. Those refineries were optimized to handle heavy oil at a time when no one expected a glut of light oil to be produced from shale in the U.S. “The Keystone XL decision does not mean less oil sands overall, but it may complicate oil sands access to the U.S. Gulf Coast where there is substantial refining capacity for heavy types of crude,” Jim Burkhard, IHS Energy vice president said. “The number one beneficiary of all this will be Venezuela and other suppliers of heavy oil that ship to the Gulf Coast by tanker (which is cheaper than either rail or pipeline transport). Venezuela heavy crude is similar to oil sands in both quality and greenhouse gas intensity and will continue to be consumed by U.S. refineries in the absence of access to Canadian crude oil.”

Opponents of the Keystone XL argue that the process of producing synthetic crude from the Canadian oil sands produces about 17 percent more CO2 than conventional oil extraction.

So does the process of producing synthetic crude from Venezuelan heavy oil.

The only difference between importing syncrude from Canada and syncrude from Venezuela is that when we buy oil from Canada billions of dollars a month are sent to an American friend and ally, whereas when we buy crude from Venezuela billions of dollars a month are sent to a malignantly antiAmerican Marxist regime.

In rejecting the pipeline, Obama said “America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change. And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership.”

No it wouldn’t have.

America is a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change alright — but it’s not because of any action on the part of the eco-poseurs in Obama’s administration and the U.S. environmental movement.

It’s because the American oil and natural gas industry, through the use of horizontal drilling and multi-stage fracking unlocked an ocean of natural gas which is displacing coal in the generation of electricity in the U.S. Substituting natural gas for coal in U.S. power plants has slashed the amount of CO2 produced annually by the production of electricity by 372 million tons since 2007.

Rejecting the pipeline is not a signal to world leaders the U.S. is serious about acting on climate change. It is a signal that Obama will take actions damaging to U.S. economic and national security interests for the sake of meaningless environmental symbolism.

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everyone. By that reason alone we should exempt cyclists from most traffic laws, requiring only that cyclists ride in such a manner so as not to impede traffic unless there is no other option, and to not pose a danger to anyone else.

People who are driven crazy by the thought of a cyclist running a red light typically say something like “if we are going to refrain from menacing them, the least they can do is follow the law!” But that is nothing more than spite. A cyclist who rolls to a red light, looks around, and proceeds, does no harm and poses no

risk. Conversely, cyclists are put at risk every day by careless or raging drivers. This letter is already too long to list the variety of malicious and reckless moves that cyclists are exposed to. Suffice it to say that, if traffic law effectively protected cyclists, we might take it more seriously. This is not a knock against Boulder County’s efforts to make cycling safer — our roadways are as good as it gets. This is about reasonable laws, equal protection, and equal responsibility.

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TILE ($25) If you’re one of those people or know one of those people who are always losing keys or the remote or pretty much anything else, help is on the way. Tile is a small device that you can hang on a key chain or stick to pretty much anything else. Tile has a range up to 150 feet and sets off a 90-decibel blast that will let you find the lost item, even if it’s under a pile of dirty clothes.

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news DACA provides lifeline for young immigrants even as Republicans threaten to overturn it

by Angela K. Evans

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idency or citizenship. “They don’t enancio Noya moved to have any kind of lawful, legal status, Colorado from Veracruz, they just have permission to be in Mexico when he was 5 the U.S.,” says Erica Tarango, years old with his parents DACA program director at the and only younger brother YMCA of Boulder Valley. “They at that time. Born with Spina Bifida, have legal presence but not legal staor an incomplete closure of the spitus.” nal column, Noya and his family The Boulder Valley YMCA came to the U.S. to seek better medirecently took over administration of cal treatment and a better quality of the Colorado DACA Project, which life. seeks to educate, inform and provide “I came here to get more help financial assistance to families with with medication and this and that,” youth eligible for DACA. The Noya says. “Over there (in Mexico) I YMCA program provides orientacouldn’t get help.” tion classes, followed by resource Having used a wheelchair from a workshops to help applicants gather young age, Noya, now 24, changed the necessary paperwork before they schools frequently but graduated are connected with immigration from Skyline High School in attorneys, at little to no cost, to help Longmont in 2010. “For two years I them submit the application and fincouldn’t do anything. I couldn’t go to ish the DACA process. The YMCA school. I couldn’t get a job,” he says. also offers scholarships for the $465 Although the U.S. is the only home application fee depending on finanNoya can remember, he remained cial need. undocumented, with few options of Longmont resident Venancio Noya came to the U.S. for a better quality of life. As Obama’s immigration reforms are threatened, so is the life the Noya family has worked so hard to build.

“Through this program the Y establishing an adult life. wants to nurture the potential of the So he involved himself at the immigrant teens by helping their YMCA in Longmont, coaching and American dream become a reality,” refereeing youth soccer and basketball.

3-weeks- to 14-years-old as part of the was struggling with school just because Tarango says.

“The Y wants these kids But then he learned about Deferred childcare program. my dad was with immigration,” Noya to grow and feel that they can become Action for Childhood Arrivals “For me, DACA changed a lot. I says. “My other little brother [15] didn’t contributing members of our society.

(DACA), a federal program that allows have a chance to get a job, probably want to go to school. We were just young people to remain in the U.S. another job after that. And with colstruggling, trying to tell them they They can set these goals and meet them without fear of deportation for two lege, I can apply for college,” he says. didn’t have to be sad all day.” and be successful people.” years at a time while legally obtaining “Just right now, I haven’t applied for Noya’s remaining brother who was The largest barriers young people work authorization. President Obama college because I want to help my fami- also born in Mexico, now 21, is not eli- face applying for DACA are the finanfirst initiated DACA through an execu- ly with a job and paying bills.” gible for DACA because he didn’t fincial burden the process requires and a tive order in June of 2012. Since then, Noya’s father is currently in immiish high school, a requirement of the lack of information and education U.S. Citizenship and Immigration gration proceedings following a DUI program. Noya says he’s “struggling” to about the DACA program, Tarango Services (USCIS) has approved more arrest in 2010. The constant uncertainty find work and provide for his family. says. But the biggest risk is submitting than 770,000 first-time DACA applica- of his father’s status has been extremely The brother was married in July to a personal information, such as birth certions and almost 500,000 renewals. In difficult for the family, Noya says. “He U.S. citizen, and the family hopes he tificates and school records that list parColorado, approximately 26,000 total has court after court [dates] with immi- has permanent residency options ents without legal status as well, which applications have been approved, almost gration. Right now, I just feel like he’s through marriage. The couple has a puts immigrants on the government’s 17,000 of which are initial applicants not going to be with us anymore,” he child together. radar. “Essentially you’re giving all your Helping to pay bills includes Noya’s and 9,000 are renewals. says. “At the end they’re going to see if information to the government, and if With the help of a local lawyer in he can stay or they’re going to take him own medical expenses. He last had sur- you’re application is denied for one reagery three years ago, which cost his Longmont, Noya successfully applied away from us.” son or another, the government now family $24,000 out of pocket. Although has you’re information and you may be for DACA first in 2013, and then he It has been especially difficult for DACA offers the opportunity to obtain put into removal proceedings,” Tarango renewed his certification this year. Noya two of Noya’s younger brothers, age 15 and 11, who were both born after the a social security card, driver’s license and his family paid the $465 applicasays. family’s arrival in the U.S. They have and work permit, it does not necessarily tion fee both times.

“Our participants are connected struggled to stay motivated with school, guarantee access to health insurance Since receiving his first DACA cerwith attorneys and these attorneys are Noya says, with their father often gone benefits. tification, Noya has worked at going to sit with them and go through for weeks at a time.

He was last held in And while DACA guarantees young their entire immigration history,” she Marshall’s, temp jobs at IBM and most immigrants life without the threat of immigration for six weeks in March recently the YMCA in Longmont says, “and really figure out if DACA is deportation for two years, it does not and his next court date isn’t until where he helps with after-school prothe correct thing to do or if it is far too provide any path toward permanent res- risky.” grams and watches kids anywhere from February. “My third brother [11], he 14 November 12, 2015

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news There’s no question that the availability of DACA has changed Noya’s life in Colorado. The only question is for how long?

Most of the 2016 Republican presidential candidates have vowed to overturn DACA. Plus, an appeals court ruled against the Obama administration’s more recent immigration policies on Monday, Nov. 19.

In November 2014, President Obama announced DACA 2, which would extend DACA benefits for three years at a time, and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), which would allow immigrant parents of U.S. born or permanent resident children to receive the same benefits as DACA youth.

However, after the White House announced the expanded program, Texas challenged the executive authority to grant deferred action to approximately 4 million undocumented adults.

A district court judge ruled in favor of Texas in January 2015, delaying the implementation of the expanded DACA 2 program and DAPA. On Nov. 9, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the earlier injunction in a 124-page ruling that took five months. The Justice Department plans to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court officials announced the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Although the court ruling further delays the benefits of DACA 2 and DAPA, the ruling has no impact on the current DACA 1 program or Noya’s DACA status.

“DACA 1 remains in effect and all the [ruling] does is really make it clear that for a very long time it will be the only form of immigration relief for undocumented people who meet the eligibility criteria,” says Christina Fiflis, an immigration lawyer with offices in Boulder and Denver.

“The [appellate court’s] opinion in any way does not diminish the opportunity for DACA 1 or enjoin continuing to pursue DACA 1,” she says. “But it just pretty clearly sets forth the path that if you want immigration relief and benefits this is all you have right now.”

Fiflis maintains President Obama has the prosecutorial discretion to grant DACA and DAPA status. Deferred action has always been an option for undocumented immigrants, she says, and DACA has only streamlined the process and made it easier to obtain work authorization. And although some have voiced concern that the recent court ruling doesn’t give much time for the case to be heard in the Supreme Court before the end of Obama’s presidential term, Fiflis says “there is time, everybody is optimistic that will happen.”

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If nothing else the ruling gives greater urgency to the DACA 1 process, and both Fiflis and Tarango say now is the time for eligible applicants to start the process. “The way I see it is if we get as many kids who are DACA eligible to apply and be granted DACA and push for more immigration reform it makes it harder for this next president coming in to reverse it or take it out completely,” Tarango says. “They’ve been here for so long, they’ve gone through our edu-

cational system. Why not let them contribute to our nation? Why not let them get these degrees? Why not let them be part of the workforce and grow our economies?”

Noya says the three-year extension possible with DACA 2, as well as the DAPA program, could bring much needed stability to his family. “My mom, she has nothing bad on her record. It would be quick,” he says.

“For my dad, it would be harder for him because of his immigration status.”

Like Noya and his family, numerous other families are experiencing the uncertainties and challenges that come with the current immigration reform and discussion in the U.S. And Noya, for one, wants to help. He explains listening to families tell their struggles with immigration status. “It kinda breaks my heart,” he says. “I want to help a lot of families — to tell them not to be afraid to speak about their status. … We need DACA. We need DAPA.”

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news Censored: Ten big stories the news media ignored Even in the social-media era, when a small news outlet can create a viral story, some of the biggest news of the past year never got to most of the public

By Tim Redmond

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n 1976, when Carl Jensen, a professor at California’s Sonoma State University, started looking into news-media self-censorship, nobody had ever dreamed of the Internet. Most computers were still big mainframes with whirling tape reels; Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak had just figured out how to make a personal computer, but sales were in the low hundreds.

Back then, the vast majority of Americans got their news — all of their news — from one daily newspaper and one of the three big TV networks. If a story wasn’t on ABC, NBC or CBS, it might as well not have happened.

Almost 40 years later, the media world has radically changed. Now we’re more likely to read our news on Facebook than watch the CBS Evening News; daily newspapers all over the country are struggling, in some cases dying. A story that appears on one obscure outlet can suddenly be a viral sensation reaching millions of readers at the speed of light.

And yet, as the group Jensen founded, Project Censored, has found, there are still numerous big, important news stories that receive very little exposure.

As Project staffers Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth note, 90 percent of U.S. news media — the traditional outlets that employ full-time reporters — are controlled by six corporations. “The corporate media,” they write in this year’s project intro, “hardly represent the mainstream.

“By contrast, the independent journalists that Project Censored has celebrated since its inception are now understood as vital components of what experts have identified as the newly developing ‘networked fourth estate.’”

Jensen set out to frame a new definition of censorship. He put out an annual list of the 10 biggest stories that the mainstream media had ignored, arguing that it was a failure of the corporate press to pursue and promote these stories that represented censorship — not by the government, but by the media itself.

“My definition starts with the other end, with the failure of information to reach people,” he wrote. “For the purposes of this project, censorship is defined as the suppression of information, whether purposeful or not, by any method — including bias, omission, underreporting or self-censorship, which prevents the public from fully knowing what is happening in the world.”

Jensen died in April 2015, but his project lives on.

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The people who inherited the mantle, Peter Phillips, a sociology professor at Sonoma State, and Huff, who teaches social science and history at Diablo Valley College, have veered at times into the world of conspiracies and 9/11 “truther” folks. A handful of past stories were, to be kind, difficult to verify. That’s caused a lot of folks in the alternative press to question the validity of the annual list.

But Huff, who is now project director, and Roth, associate director, have expanded and tightened up the process of selecting stories; project staffers and volunteers first fact-check nomination that come in to make sure they are “valid” news reports. Then a panel of 28 judges, mostly academics with a few journalists and media critics, finalize the top 10 and the 15 runnersup.

The results are published in a book that will be released Oct. 16 by Seven Stories Press.

I’ve been writing about Project Censored for 25 years, and I think it’s safe to say that the stories on this year’s list are credible, valid — and critically important.

And even in an era when most of us are drunk with information, overloaded by buzzing social media telling us things we didn’t think we needed to know, these stories haven’t gotten anywhere near the attention they deserve.

1.) Half of global wealth owned by the 1 percent We hear plenty of talk about the wealth and power of the top 1 percent of people in the United States, but the global wealth gap is, if anything, even worse. And it has profound human consequences.

Oxfam international, which has been working for decades to fight global poverty, released a report in January 2015 showing that, if current trends continue, by the end of this year the wealthiest 1 percent will own more than everyone else in the world put together.

According to Project Censored, “The Oxfam report provided evidence that extreme inequality is not inevi-

table, but is, in fact, the result of political choices and economic policies established and maintained by the power elite, wealthy individuals whose strong influence keeps the status quo rigged in their own favor.”

Another stunning fact: The 85 richest people in the world now have the same wealth as half the world’s poor.

“The mainstream news media coverage of the report and the associated issues was spotty at best,” Project Censored notes. “A few corporate television networks, including CNN, CBS, MSNBC, ABC, FOX and C-SPAN covered Oxfam’s January report, according to the TV News Archive. CNN had the most coverage with approximately seven broadcast segments from January 19 to 25, 2015. However, these stories aired between 2 and 3 a.m., far from primetime.”

Sources: Larry Elliott and Ed Pilkington, “New Oxfam Report Says Half of Global Wealth Held by the 1%,” Guardian, January 19, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/ mqt84tg.

Sarah Dransfield, “Number of Billionaires Doubled Since Financial Crisis as Inequality Spirals Out of Control–Oxfam,” Oxfam, October 29, 2014, http:// tinyurl.com/m75a9od.

Samantha Cowan, “Every Kid on Earth Could Go to School If the World’s 1,646 Richest People Gave 1.5 Percent,” TakePart, November 3, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/ p4sdz2f.

2.) Oil industry illegally dumps fracking wastewater Fracking, which involves pumping high-pressure water and chemicals into rock formations to free up oil and natural gas, has been a huge issue nationwide. But there’s been little discussion of one of the side effects: The contamination of aquifers.

The Center for Biological Diversity reported in 2014 that oil companies had dumped almost 3 billion gallons of fracking wastewater into California’s underBoulder Weekly

news ground water supply. Since the companies refuse to say what chemicals they use in the process, nobody knows exactly what the level of contamination is.

But wells that supply drinking water near where the fracking waste was dumped tested high in arsenic, thallium and nitrates.

According to Project Censored, “Although corporate media have covered debate over fracking regulations, the Center for Biological Diversity study regarding the dumping of wastewater into California’s aquifers went all but ignored at first. There appears to have been a lag of more than three months between the initial independent news coverage of the Center for Biological Diversity revelations and corporate coverage. In May 2015, the Los Angeles Times ran a front-page feature on Central Valley crops irrigated with treated oil field water; however, the Los Angeles Times report made no mention of the Center for Biological Diversity’s findings regarding fracking wastewater contamination.”

Sources: Dan Bacher, “Massive Dumping of Wastewater into Aquifers Shows Big Oil’s Power in California,” IndyBay, October 11, 2014, http://tinyurl. com/pvjvagl.

“California Aquifers Contaminated with Billions of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater,” Russia Today, October 11, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/p97e87j.

Donny Shaw, “CA Senators Voting NO on Fracking Moratorium Received 14x More from Oil & Gas Industry,” MapLight, June 3, 2014,http://tinyurl. com/nn2c2qh.

Dan Bacher, “Senators Opposing Fracking Moratorium Received 14x More Money from Big Oil,” IndyBay, June 7, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/orvg7e2.

3.) 89 percent of Pakistani drone victims not identifiable as militants The United States sends drone aircraft into combat on a regular basis, particularly in Pakistan. The Obama Administration says the drones fire missiles only when there is clear evidence that the targets are Al Qaeda bases; Secretary of State John Kerry insists that “the only people we fire a drone at are confirmed terrorist targets Boulder Weekly

at the highest levels.”

But the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which keeps track of all the strikes, reported that only 4 percent of those killed by drones were Al Qaeda members and only 11 percent were confirmed militants of any sort.

That means 89 percent of the 2,464 people killed by U.S. drones could not be identified as terrorists.

In fact, 30 percent of the dead could not be identified at all.

The New York Times has covered the fact that, as one story noted, “most individuals killed are not on a kill list, and the government does not know their names.” But overall, the mainstream news media ignored the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reporting.

firms “are purchasing water rights from around the world at an unprecedented pace.”

However, over the past 15 years, more than 180 communities have fought back and re-municipalized their water systems. “From Spain to Buenos Aires, Cochabamba to Kazakhstan, Berlin to Malaysia, water privatization is being aggressively rejected,” Victoria Collier reported in CounterPunch.

Meanwhile, in the United States, some cities — in what may be a move toward privatization — are radically raising water rates and cutting off service to low-income communities.

The mainstream media response to the privatization of water has been largely silence.

Sources: Jack Serle, “Almost 2,500 Now Killed by Covert US Drone Strikes Since Obama Inauguration Six Years Ago,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, February 2, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/ lgd89oj.

Jack Serle, “Get the Data: A List of US Air and Drone Strikes, Afghanistan 2015,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, February 12, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/ lgd89oj.

Steve Coll, “The Unblinking Stare: The Drone War in Pakistan,” New Yorker, November 24, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/ o4q2e3t.

Abigail Fielding-Smith, “John Kerry Says All those Fired at by Drones in Pakistan are ‘Confirmed Terrorist Targets’—But with 1,675 Unnamed Dead How Do We Know?” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, October 23, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/p638h6o.

Jack Serle, “Only 4% of Drone Victims in Pakistan Named as al Qaeda Members,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, October 16, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/ ob5nzrd.

Jeremy Scahill, “Germany is the TellTale Heart of America’s Drone War,” Intercept, April 17, 2015, http://tinyurl. com/ppo4ra6.

Sources: Ellen Brown, “California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?,” Nation of Change, March 25, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/nj3mhe7.

Victoria Collier, “Citizens Mobilize Against Corporate Water Grabs,” CounterPunch, February 11, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/kzou5wl.

Larry Gabriel, “When the City Turned Off Their Water, Detroit Residents and Groups Delivered Help,” YES! Magazine, November 24, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/ pm446rh.

Madeline Ostrander, “LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain?,” YES! Magazine, January 5, 2015, http:// tinyurl.com/nzfh32x.

4.) Popular resistance to corporate water grabbing For decades, private companies have been trying to take over and control water supplies, particularly in the developing world. Now, as journalist Ellen Brown reported in March 2015, corporate water barons, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, the Carlyle Group and other investment

5.) Fukushima nuclear disaster deepens More than four years after a tsunami caused one of the worst nuclear accidents in human history, the releases of harmful radiation have not.

But the story has largely disappeared from the news.

As Project Censored notes, “The continued dumping of extremely radioactive cooling water into the Pacific Ocean from the destroyed nuclear plant, already being detected along the Japanese coastline, has the potential to impact entire portions of the Pacific Ocean and North America’s western shoreline. Aside from the potential release of plutonium into the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) recently admitted that the

facility is releasing large quantities of water contaminated with tritium, cesium, and strontium into the ocean every day.”

We’re talking large amounts of highly contaminated water getting dumped into the ocean. The plant “admitted that the facility is releasing a whopping 150 billion becquerels of tritium and seven billion becquerels of cesium- and strontium-contaminated water into the ocean every day.” The potential for long-term problems all over the world is huge — and the situation hasn’t been contained.

Sources: crowd sourced, “TEPCO Drops Bombshell About Sea Releases; 8 Billion Bq Per Day,” Simply Info: The Fukushima Project, August 26, 2014, http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=13700.

Sarah Lazare, “Fukushima Meltdown Worse Than Previous Estimates: TEPCO,” Common Dreams, August 7, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/q9hwkhg.

Michel Chossudovsky, “The Fukushima Endgame: The Radioactive Contamination of the Pacific Ocean,” Global Research, December 17, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/ lmeh9pq.

6.) Methane and arctic warming’s global impacts We all know that carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are a huge threat to the stability of the climate. But there’s another giant threat out there that hasn’t made much news.

The arctic ice sheets, which are rapidly melting in some areas, contain massive amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas that’s way worse than carbon dioxide. And as the ice recedes, that methane is getting released into the atmosphere.

Dahr Jamail, writing in Truthout, notes that all of our predictions about the pace of global warming and its impacts might have to be re-evaluated in the wake of revelations about methane releases: “A 2013 study, published in Nature, reported that a 50-gigaton ‘burp’ of methane is ‘highly possible at any time.’

As Jamail clarified, ‘That would be the equivalent of at least 1,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide,’ noting that, since 1850, humans have released a total of approximately 1,475 gigatons in carbon dioxide.

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increases of 4 to 6 degrees Celsius in just one or two decades — a rapid rate of climate change to which human agriculture, and ecosystems more generally, could not readily adapt.”

Jamail quoted Paul Beckwith, a professor of climatology and meteorology at the University of Ottawa: “Our climate system is in early stages of abrupt climate change that, unchecked, will lead to a temperature rise of 5 to 6 degrees Celsius within a decade or two.”

Such changes would have “unprecedented effects” for life on Earth.

A huge story? Apparently not: The major news media have written at length about the geo-politics of the arctic region, but there’s been very little mention of the methane monster.

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Source: Dahr Jamail, “The Methane Monster Roars,” Truthout, January 13, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/nfzvao8.

7.) Fear of government spying is chilling writers’ freedom of expression Writers in Western liberal democracies may not face the type of censorship seen in some parts of the world — but their fear of government surveillance is still causing many to think twice about what they can say.

Lauren McCauley, writing in Common Dreams, quoted one of the conclusions from a report by the writers’ group PEN America: “If writers avoid exploring topics for fear of possible retribution, the material available to readers — particularly those seeking to understand the most controversial and challenging issues facing the world today — may be greatly impoverished.”

According to Project Censored, a PEN America survey showed that “34 percent of writers in liberal democracies reported some degree of self-censorship (compared with 61 percent of writers living in authoritarian countries, and 44 percent in semi-democratic countries). Nearly 60 percent of the writers from Western Europe, the U.S. … indicated that U.S. credibility ‘has been significantly damaged for the long term’ by revelations of the U.S. government surveillance programs.

Other than Common Dreams, the PEN report attracted almost no major

news media attention.

Sources: Lauren McCauley, “Fear of Government Spying ‘Chilling’ Writers’ Speech Worldwide,” Common Dreams, January 5, 2015,http://tinyurl.com/nj9jlmo.

Lauren McCauley, “Government Surveillance Threatens Journalism, Law and Thus Democracy: Report,” Common Dreams, July 28, 2014, http://tinyurl. com/q6agfn9.

8.) Who dies at the hands of police — and how often High-profile police killings, particularly of African American men, have made big news over the past few years.

But there’s been much less attention to the overall numbers — and to the difference between how many people are shot by cops in the U.S. and in other countries.

In the January 2015 edition of Liberation, Richard Becker, relying on public records, concluded that the rate of U.S. police killing was 100 times that of England, 40 times that of Germany, and 20 times the rate in Canada.

In June 2015, a team of reporters from the Guardian concluded that 102 unarmed people were killed by U.S. police in the first five months of 2015 — and that’s twice the rate reported by the government.

Furthermore, the Guardian wrote, “black Americans are more than twice as likely to be unarmed when killed during encounters with police as white people.” The paper concluded that “32 percent of black people killed by police in 2015 were unarmed, as were 25 percent of Hispanic and Latino people, compared with 15 percent of white people killed.”

And as far as accountability goes, the Washington Post noted that in 385 cases of police killings, only three officers faced charges.

Sources: Richard Becker, “U.S. Cops Kill at 100 Times Rate of Other Capitalist Countries,” Liberation, January 4, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/kp27go8.

Jon Swaine, Oliver Laughland, and Jamiles Lartey, “Black Americans Killed by Police Twice as Likely to be Unarmed as White People,” Guardian, June 1, 2015,http://tinyurl.com/pa5u44g.

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9.) Millions in poverty get less media coverage than billionaires do The news media in the United States don’t like to talk about poverty — but they love to report on the lives and glory of the super-rich.

The advocacy group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting analyzed the three major TV news networks, and found that the 482 billionaires got more attention than the 50 million people who live in poverty.

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who follows the mainstream media — or pays much attention to the world of social media and the blogosphere. The top rung of society gets vast amounts of attention, for good and for ill — but the huge numbers of people who are homeless, hungry and often lacking in hope just aren’t news.

“The notion that the wealthiest nation on Earth has one in every six of its citizens living at or below the poverty threshold reflects not a lack of resources, but a lack of policy focus and attention — and this is due to a lack of public awareness to the issue,” Frederick Reese of MintPress News wrote.

From Project Censored: “The FAIR study showed that between January 2013 and February 2014, an average of only 2.7 seconds per every 22-minute episode discussed poverty in some format. During the 14-month study, FAIR found just 23 three news segments that addressed poverty.”

Sources: Steve Rendall, Emily Kaufmann, and Sara Qureshi, “Even GOP Attention Can’t Make Media Care about Poor,” Extra!, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, June 1, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/m45ot3r.

“Millions in Poverty Get Less Coverage Than 482 Billionaires,” Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, June 26, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/ndw9cyv.

Frederick Reese, “Billionaires Get More Media Attention Than The Poor,” MintPress News, June 30, 2014, http://tinyurl.com/nazz4tj.

Tavis Smiley, “Poverty Less Than .02 Percent of Lead Media Coverage,” Huffington Post, March 7, 2014, http:// tinyurl.com/l2p64s6.

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10.) Costa Rica is setting the standard on renewable energy Is it possible to meet a modern nation’s energy needs without any fossilfuel consumption? Yes — and Costa Rica has been doing it.

To be fair, that country’s main industries –— tourism and agriculture — are not energy-intensive, and heavy rainfall in the first part of the year made it possible for the country to rely heavily on its hydropower resources.

But even in normal years, Costa Rica generates 90 percent of its energy without burning any fossil fuels.

Iceland also produces the vast majority of its energy from renewable sources.

The transition to 100 percent renewables will be harder for larger countries — but as the limited reporting on Costa Rica notes, it’s possible to take large steps in that direction.

Sources: Myles Gough, “Costa Rica Powered with 100% Renewable Energy for 75 Straight Days,” Science Alert, March 20, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/nhl26e3.

Adam Epstein, “Costa Rica is Now Running Completely on Renewable Energy,” Quartz, March 23, 2015, http://tinyurl.com/ q8albph.

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n the 1960s, the Apollo missions hours to reach the moon, New to the moon inspired a generation Horizons whipped past it in just nine of scientists and engineers to purhours. Like previous missions to the sue careers in space exploration. outer solar system, the spacecraft then On the heels of those successes, headed to Jupiter, making a slingshot the Voyager missions to the outer solar maneuver around the giant planet to system inspired my generation. I vividly gain additional speed. Earlier probes remember the anticipation of waiting took about five years to reach Jupiter, for the next set of full-color images to but New Horizons got there in just 13 appear in National Geographic magazine: months. Picking up speed to an impresJupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981, Uranus sive 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) per secin 1986 and Neptune in 1989. Around ond, the encounter with Jupiter shaved the time of this final encounter, scienthree years off its long journey — but it tists began push- Wikimedia Commons would still take ing NASA for a eight more years dedicated mission for New Horizons to Pluto. Last to arrive at Pluto.

July, the New Yes, even the fastHorizons mission est spacecraft ever finally reached its launched took destination. nearly a decade to By now you reach the edge of have probably the solar system. seen the stunning Space is big. If new images of New Horizons Pluto and its continued at its largest moon present speed Charon. What toward the nearest you may not realstar system, it ize is that the would take more New Horizons than 75,000 years mission has many to reach Alpha connections to Centauri.

The New Horizons mission has many conShortly after Colorado. “There nections to Boulder: Lockhead Martin built the rocket, Ball Aerospace built the main New Horizons was a studentcamera and CU students and local bussinesses were involved. was launched, the built instrument International from CU,” says Astronomical Union (IAU) infamously Alan Stern, principal investigator for adopted a new definition for planets the mission and planetary scientist at that excluded poor Pluto. Why did this Southwest Research Institute in happen? Starting in 1992, astronomers Boulder. “Lockheed Martin built the began to discover many small objects rocket, Ball Aerospace built the main outside the orbit of Neptune that camera system, and many local small appeared similar to comets, but which businesses were involved.” Stern came never came close enough to the sun to to Boulder in 1983 to work at the evaporate and develop tails. As time Center for Astrophysics and Space went by and the technologies for Astronomy before earning a doctorate detecting these objects improved, surin astrophysics and planetary science veys began to turn up some that were from CU in 1989. In 1994 he established the Boulder branch of Southwest comparable in size to Pluto. Theories Research Institute, and in 2001 he led a suggested that there were likely to be hundreds or thousands of such objects successful proposal to NASA for the in the outer solar system, so classifying mission to Pluto.

Blasting off from Cape Canaveral in them all as new planets could create real problems for school children trying 2006, New Horizons is widely known to remember them all. So the IAU as the fastest spacecraft ever launched. decided that Pluto should now be called While the Apollo missions spent 90 Boulder Weekly

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Whether you tional wisdom. consider Pluto a One of the planet or a “dwarf most significant planet,” the images achievements of from New New Horizons has Horizons are once been its ability to again redefining inspire the public. the way astronoIt has been 25 mers think about years since the these icy objects.

Voyager encounter “Pluto is comwith Neptune, and SIGNIFICANT plex beyond anythis is the first time body’s expectathat NASA has ACHIEVEMENTS OF tion,” Stern says. visited a new large “There’s a place we object in the solar NEW HORIZONS HAS informally call system during the ‘Sputnik Planum’ lifetimes of most BEEN ITS ABILITY TO college students. that is the size of Stern has been the state of Texas, INSPIRE THE PUBLIC.” giving presentaand it was born tions around the yesterday, geologicountry, almost cally speaking.” once a week since Stern explains July, and he hears that planetary scientists use craters to determine the the same thing from young people at ages of surface features. Areas with nearly every venue. many craters must have formed a long “New Horizons is the best thing time ago, while pristine surfaces must that’s happened in our lifetimes,” they say. be relatively young.

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oger W. Toll stands tall in dirt-crusted conserve the scenery, the natural and historic objects work boots. He places his large, weathered and the wildlife in order to leave them unimpaired hand on the brim of his forehead to shade and provide enjoyment for future generations. from the sun, setting his gaze on the Toll established the early ethos of Rocky expanse before him: a broad formation of Mountain National Park (RMNP): accessibility for as earth that gradually rises to sheer stone, guarding the many people as possible, while leaving some land alpine jewel of Longs Peak. It’s been a while, but he’s untouched by development. His main goal was to find finally back home. He smiles. a balance between recreation Courtesy of NPS It’s 1923, his third year as and conservation in RMNP. Rocky Mountain National Park’s Though what this meant withsuperintendant. He ponders the in the larger context of other paradoxical scene that lies before parks across the country was him. By awarding the beautiful, another mission that stumped natural landscape the status of him entirely.

National Park, it could attract a “There is no sharp line compromising amount of traffic between necessary, proper that could endanger that beauty. development and harmful His gaze shifts south, falling over-development. The best over some more obscure peaks in judgment and active work of the distance. all concerned must be focused A NPS Ranger gives a wilderness talk to a group of visitors at Rocky Mountain In 1941, five years after his together in order to secure the National Park. tragic death, the crest behind and best results,” he wrote to the U.S. Interior Secretary in 1922. to the left of Longs Peak would be Since the early 1900s, the fine line has not gotten christened Mount Toll in his honor. Before he died, any sharper.

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RMNP, for instance, has faced a dramatic increase in annual visitors over the past six years. As these numbers rise, the impacts also increase on the wilderness that NPS vows to protect.

“Balancing conservation efforts with increased visitation is kind of an uphill battle,” says Elizabeth Howard, a RMNP ranger. “It’s something that I don’t think we’ve mastered yet.”

Howard says that education efforts have been the primary contributor to maintaining a healthy balance throughout RMNP’s visitation hike. This allows management to spend fewer resources on cleaning up after patrons and can curtail many harmful, and easily preventable interactions with the ecosystem.

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Howard says that the shuttle bus has been a crucial step toward ameliorating the effects of increased visitation.

She says the bus system has not only lessened traffic and parking struggles, but has also helped curb the negative impact car emissions have on the air quality in the park.

However, despite the efforts of the shuttle, DeGregorio says there are still more cars in the park than would be ideal, “and that’s a function of the fact that we’re still a car-based society.”

In popular areas around RMNP, like Bear Lake Trailhead, the parking lots can fill up before 8:30 a.m., DeGregorio says. Once the lots are full, private vehicles have the option to drive farther to larger lots, where they can use the shuttle to access the trailheads.

“In the old days,” DeGregorio says, “if they couldn’t park [at the trailhead], they’d go somewhere else and disperse the use of the park. Nowadays, with the shuttle more people can come in at once, and that possibly leaves [the environment] more impacted.”

This further embodies the catch-22 of national parks: lessening the amount of private vehicles throughout the park can actually increase the amount of total visitors.

Yellowstone National Park has also watched this manifest after management’s reaction to a 2006 report provoking concern that snowmobile traffic caused noise and air pollution that negatively impacted wildlife.

Policy changes reduced snowmobile numbers, but also increased the passenger-to-mobile ratio, ultimately resulting in more foot traffic. Scaling down the amount of snowmobiles was an important step in reducing direct stress on animals, yet whether or not the enlarged tourist presence negated the reduction has yet to be studied.

Howard looks to Zion National Park as a model for the possible future of RMNP’s transportation infrastructure. Some roads in Zion are open solely to the shuttle, which is free and collects people from nearby towns and hotels, immensely reducing the number of private vehicles entering and circulating the park.

Successful shuttle use is not the case elsewhere. Earlier this year, Arches National Park, which does not have a cohesive shuttle program, was forced to temporarily close on Memorial Day weekend due to “a chaotic and dangerous traffic mess,” as cars lined up for miles along the two-lane highway leading from Moab, Utah, into the park.

The mass of visitors at Arches, which jumped 20 percent in 2014, leaves parking lots jammed and overflowing with illegally parked cars. Kate Cannon, the park’s superintendent, has pushed for new, albeit controversial, tactics to hopefully resolve these conditions. She’s suggested a two-fold approach: increasing entrance fees and implementing a reservation system. The first order was executed when Arches raised its prices, as did RMNP, earlier this month. Considering a reservation system, however, has sparked considerable controversy within the local community and the wider NPS. Some worry that reservations will be discouraging to tourists who don’t plan ahead, likening it to hanging a “Not Welcome” sign on the gate. Nevertheless, Cannon maintains it would actually create more certainty and a more pleasurable experience to tourists because they would be assured entry without waiting in an obnoxious traffic line.

Others claim that Arches should focus its efforts on expanding the infrastructure within the park to accommodate more parking lots, better access roads and picnic areas that will encourage visitors to evenly spread throughout the park. This month, the Arches management opened a forum for public input on alternative plans for traffic congestion, through which they hope to accurately capture visitors’ opinions and concerns.

But capturing the public’s opinion is only one half of NPS’s conversations about the future. As with the case in Yellowstone, it’s important to use science to translate nature’s concerns into a language easily digestible by park management. With the inevitable upward-trending visitor numbers, more national parks across the country will be faced with similar dilemmas. Simply designating an area as a National Park is no longer enough to ensure its preservation.

But at the end of the day, Howard considers NPS a success. “If we didn’t exist, what would this land be like?” she asks. “It would be privately owned and chopped up and developed. It wouldn’t be half as good as it is now.”

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ark Williams looks just like any other Boulderite on this cool fall evening. Fit and athletic, he’s sipping a microbrew and talking about breathing. About how to breathe, about calming your inner self.

About clarity of mind. Nothing really out of the ordinary, particularly when you consider that he’s a graduate of Naropa University and currently a partner in a company called Dynamic Human Solutions, which offers coaching and seminars “that improve the capacity of the individual and their contribution to the team.”

But then he starts talking about other things.

About fighter jets and tough camaraderie, about dancing with death at Mach 3 high in desert skies. And that’s when you realize that Mark Williams is not your ordinary Boulderite and certainly not what you’d expect at all from a Naropa University grad.

Williams’ interest in Naropa, mediation and mind training stems directly from his experiences as a combat fighter pilot in the first Gulf War. A thoughtful and intense individual, Williams was a member of the 58th Tactical Fighter Squadron, the most decorated air-to-air combat unit of that war, responsible for 16 kills, half the tally of the war.

As a F-15C pilot, Williams was the best of the best. An elite warrior who devoted countless hours to training, honing “situational awareness” until his reactions became unconscious and plane and man merged into one, without conscious thought, into a threedimensional dance in the sky.

“In combat it is going down, and you can’t fixate on coulda shoulda” says Williams. “It is a dynamic environment and you need to have a mind that can float freely and which isn’t fixated.

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to fly, and if you are not paying attention you will kill yourself. The faster you go it is more likely. If you go into combat it adds the right touch of vermouth to the martini, the stakes go up and the mind is more present.”

For Williams, this combat experience launched a process where he became interested in how his brain worked. When you come back from combat, he says, “you hunger for that sense of clarity.”

The process in finding and understanding that clarity, and training his mind to reach it, started to evolve with martial arts after his combat flying days ended.

“I was training Aikido and some guys were Zen practitioners,” Williams recalls. “And they were like, ‘You have to come and practice Zen.’ The first time I sat at a Zendo and I started staring at the wall, I clicked into that same state as flying.”

For Williams, Zen was a revelation. “I didn’t think you could get this or train for this or gain some capacity to have his level of mastery,” Williams says of the way Zen and meditation worked on his brain. “I thought, ‘If I can take this and don’t need to be in combat, gain this clarity of mind and take it to my martial arts, take it to my relationship with my wife and bring it to everything I can do, my life will be so much richer and so much fuller.’”

And thus combat and Zen led to Boulder: “When I connected those dots, and saw that was the way, I wanted to learn it with the guys who have really been down the rabbit hole, and the Tibetans have mapped it out the most,” Williams says of his decision to pursue a master’s degree in religious studies at Naropa.

With his degree in hand, Williams then turned to sharing the lessons he’d gleaned from his diverse experiences, working with top level executives and elite athletes on how to train their own minds to improve

performance. And the results are impressive.

“When you take the top five guys in a peloton, for example,” Williams says, “they’re all elite athletes. They have the same level of physical conditioning and physical ability. What separates the top guy from the other four guys is his brain. If his girlfriend dumps him or something happens with his family, then all of a sudden he’s a mess and he’s out of the top five. That’s where the mental training comes in.”

“Performance is a hook for type A people,” Williams adds. “What we see with the kind of folks we train is that they are super performance oriented.

But it is not just about performing in a professional role. That inner sensibility starts translating into our personal world.”

Williams adds with a laugh, “the cheap hook is dangling performance, but the transformation is not just in terms of ‘I can do this better than other people,’ people start discovering that they are transforming as human beings, not just as an athlete. The mind training you use to push through the pain on a marathon allows you to turn the lens inward. And more and more that same sensibility flows into everything in your life. Now there is the possibility of something different instead of the shit you always do.”

Does it work? Well, given the fact that Williams’ clients include some very big names, including UFC fighter Brendan Schaub and Olympic hopeful slopestyle skier Colby Ward, Williams has a track record of success.

But it’s not just elite athletes who benefit from training their minds, Williams says. According to him, everyone can benefit, especially weekend warriors.

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aline,” he says. “If you are completely looking to compete at the highest level adrenalized then your game plane is out or trying to set a new personal best in a the door. You want the ability to be able marathon or even tackeling an expert to manage that stress on the spot.” ski run for the first time, training your “For people who are not world class mind will allow you to reach and exceed athletes, you are in the middle of a those goals and is equally as important training regime and maybe at your 8 to as training your body. Here are three 7 job, the stress level is high. If you are steps in getting the process started. not managing that stress, you will not be 1. Learn How to Breathe able to take your body to where it needs “Breath from your belly and just to be,” Williams adds. focus on your belly rising and falling,” “When someone is training, their Williams says. “If you can’t figure it out, Tom Winter mind needs to take watch an 8-monththem to the next old sleep.” level as well as their 2. Turn your body. When I go shit off! run I’m not just run“That means get ning for the physioff the media junk, cal, I am also dialing the mobile device, in my concentration the TV, the comlevel so I am workputer,” Williams ing my mind as well says. “Turn it off as my body. As you and find silence. reach your max, your The constant barmind wants to check rage of information Zen meditation is a reminder that trainout and not deal non-stop, all it does your mind is equally as important as with the pain. When ing is keep you jacked training your body. you learn the basic on adrenaline. If meditation point you stay jacked on awareness of where your mind is and adrenaline, no matter how you want to make that second nature, then I gain the perform from the office to athletics, all capacity to make [my body] take me you are doing is draining your resources. where I want to be.”

Pro athletes don’t train 24-7 and those of us who aren’t pro athletes think we Sure, that’s easy for a guy with comcan burn the candle 24-7.” bat experience and a background in Zen 3. Find Silence meditation to say, but, according to “It doesn’t matter where you are,” Williams, the process is surprisingly simWilliams says. “You can stop for a ple. “This is not hard,” Williams says.

“It’s simple with the techniques we have.” moment. So stop for a moment and practice that. If you want to be hardThe end result? Better performance core, I set the beeper on my watch and for athletes and a richer and fuller life, every hour, on the hour, I stop. Take a all due to a state of mind. couple of breaths, find the silence for 15 Three First Steps to 30 seconds. That’s good self care and you will be a better person to everyone Training your mind is a lot like around you.” training your body, Williams says.

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buzz In the presence of flames ‘FIRED: Iron, Ceramics and Glass’ exhibits the role of fire in art

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Phillip Mann; “The 88”; Cast iron, wood and brass; 29x24x10; 2015

ON THE BILL: FIRED: Iron, Ceramics and Glass. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. 720-8987200. Through Nov. 15. Glass exhibition through Dec. 20. Free admission.

is a vast and vivid symbol in the storyline of human history. The Stone Age discovery of fire ignited our innovative spirit, lit our journey as a technological species and fueled our more destructive tendencies. Fire is transformation itself — linking distinct forms, both physical and spiritual, as it destroys one to create another.

This element is the essence of the work in the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities’ exhibit FIRED: Iron, Ceramics and Glass. The show is designed to infuse process into the perspective of gallery-goers with a hammered dedication that exhibits the methods responsible for the art on display. Each exhibit is fronted with presentations of process, priming the viewer to see the history of each piece, while standing before its finished form. The iron show, exhibited in the main gallery space, does so the most prominently and poignantly.

“As you enter, there is a cupola furnace (the melting device used to melt cast iron) that looks like a beautiful sculpture or work of art. Actually, it is what creates the work that you are about to see,” says Collin Parson, the gallery exhibition manager. “That’s a really important setting of the stage for the show. It’s not just about the final outcomes, it’s about the processes, what it takes to make the work you are now standing in front of. … We are trying to demonstrate that there is a lot of technique and experience that goes into working with fire and creating these pieces.”

IRON

The central positioning of the cupola in the foyer of the iron gallery conjures visions of iron’s industrial past. A material commonly associated with its use in the infrastructure of the built world and commercial production, iron is the fiery face of blue collar work that our nation was built on: dirty, dangerous and covsee FIRED Page 34

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ered in soot. only to a certain extent.

Over time, the iron In a way, in the literal industry evolved due to definition of the word, the mechanization of prothey are using the techcess. In the name of good nology of fire to make business and increased their art. It’s become this efficiency, the human elenew popular thing in ment is diminishing as ceramics and the curator fire is increasingly chanwas eager to tap into neled through electric that.” wires. Iron, once at the Advantages of the core of a physical and technique are its cautious industrial society, is now regard for limited envipart of automated manuronmental and fiscal facturing. There is a bit of resources — adding a sadness in this realization, potentially political as one can’t help but wonaspect to artistic process. der what is lost in sacriUsually the art itself is David Bogus; one of four suitcases in the installation “Optimist Luggage”; ficing the connection to what is politically comslip cast ceramic; 2015 human hands. pelling, not the process Once inside the galthat creates it. When lery, the iron art seems hyper-aware of exhibiting artist David Bogus talks thetic that has been refined by use. its moment-in-time. Although the artabout his work, it becomes obvious that They are not meant to be actual or recwork in the show is diverse, it is all sitthe slip cast aesthetic is both a result of ognizable tools, but I think you can uated between the industrial and the the taming of fire over time and also a come close enough that someone could mechanized, raising questions of what viable vision for the future of art that is look at it and tell that it is a handle it means to be a maker in a post-indus- meant for picking up the tool. Other less about controlling nature and more trial society. Central to this query is the than that, it is a mystery.” about taming ourselves. evolution of fire through the ages. But “I am using as little energy as possiBorn out of his appreciation for the ble to make my work,” Bogus says. “I the iron works sit in stark contrast to tools that he used as a furniture maker, like to be very minimal with my footthe process that created them, appearMann’s creations aren’t meant to be print, which is not a very popular opining cold, dense and grave. used, nor can they be. As his own proion in the ceramic world. Nor is my Denver-based artist Phillip Mann cesses are evolving to favor computer other motivation for working with slip addresses evolving notions of human modeling over handiwork, he is begincast, low-fire techniques: because it is utility in both of his two pieces in the ning to realize the repercussions of cheap and cost effective.

I teach right show: “Iron Tool” and “The 88.” Both removing hands from the process. now on the Mexican border, and I want present tools that would be on display Mann’s unusable tools show the absurat a natural history museum, except dity of technology that forgets the con- to use a process that isn’t expensive so that my low income students can do it that they are devoid of context. text of its user. within their means. There is a kind of Without knowing where they come accessibility in my process that is very from or what they are for, the viewer important to me.” must infer the utility of the tools, withIn a ceramics show with the theme Trained as a wood-fired potter, out the advantage of tactile experimenof fire, the curatorial decision to feature Bogus also reminisces about the physitation. only slip cast, versus other ceramic cal and spiritual qualities of those more Using only the eyes, “The 88” methods, might seem like an odd fiery and traditional ceramic methods. appears reminiscent of a chisel, hoe or choice. In the grand scheme of the In wood-fire processes, artists don’t get pick-axe. But it also looks heavier, too artistic genre, slip casting is a comparato control the way their art comes out heavy to be useful. Grounded by its tively tempered approach to fire, usually — fire does. Instead, they learn how to 90-pound, black, cast iron base, the employing low-fire clays that can often have persuasion over the whims of fire object seems permanent and sedentary. by creating areas for oxidation and In defiance of that weight, rises a hand- be heated in small electric kilns. The process itself is rather mechanical — reduction inside of kilns that are literalcarved wooden handle, sweeping eleplaster molds are constructed off of an ly fueled by tons of wood. The process gantly upwards as if it was meant to original form and replicas are created by is hot and exhaustive as artists continuconnect the dense object to soft and pouring liquid clay, setting the form ally feed the kiln for 48 hours to keep nimble human hands. The designs, although built in the human dimension, inside, removing the exoskeleton, bisqu- the temperature hot and steady enough ing, glazing and then firing to bring it to melt the glassy glazes on the pieces would require Herculean strength to to completion. This process echoes inside. In the context of a changing cliwield.

“Hand tools are inherently connect- those of industrial fabrication and offers mate, Bogus is one of many artists interested in producing work that’s not similarly predictable and controlled ed with the human body,” Mann says. only beautifully designed and produced results.

“In my research in studying traditional but also environmentally and socially “Slip casting is meant for mass prohand tools I realized that if the tool friendly. duction,” says Kristen Bueb, gallery balances well and fits comfortably in coordinator for the Arvada Center for Bogus’ three pieces in the show your hand, then it will have the aesthetthe Arts.

“However, artists today have each rely on the replicative quality of ic that I am after. I want a little bit of slip cast works to create installations figured out a way to make that work for disconnect between my narrative and them, embracing mass production, but that comment on the social characterreality, but just a little bit — the aes-

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istics of mass production and consumption. In his installation “Optimist Luggage,” Bogus presents what he calls a “Bogus brand” — a statement on the culture of consumerism and a critique on the greed that drives it.

The four suitcases in the installation are life-sized replications, identical in form with only slight variations in the gaudy colors stamped and stenciled all over the pieces. Shiny and bright, the material almost translates like plastic, a significant confusion when considered in the theme of clay’s relationship with fire.

manipulate the qualities of glass — I don’t want it to get shiny, I don’t want it to look like glass. I want it to stick to itself and become a solid thing that captures the essential qualities of erosion,” Vetter says.

“I still experience change — that metamorphosis of glass, that bit of chance, that thing that you can’t always completely control. I am giving my piece over to the flame, and it is making some decisions for me. Anyone who practices with fire starts to understand its wildness, but still it is exciting, every time I open the kiln.”

The intention of FIRED was to place process front and center, to make

people aware of the intensity of the transitions fostered by artists and inherited in the artwork. While the romanticized intensity of fire is present in the show, the interpretation of the theme is more subtle. We may be tempted in by the ostentatious nature of man fighting fire, but what keeps us in the gallery is the intricacy of how fire has evolved, how it has been harnessed and controlled. FIRED is an important reminder that human history is united with and dependent on fire, and that no matter how we wield it, flame is indelibly tied to the human spirit.

Carmen Vetter; “Sublunary”; Kiln formed glass; 42.5x42.5; 2015

GLASS

One is rarely more aware of their destructive nature than when walking around a gallery full of glass art — it is easy to imagine breaking a piece with little more than a forceful exhale.

The fragility of glass comes from its hardness — a characteristic that causes it to shatter under pressure. But it is this same durability, bestowed by its rigid molecular structure, that gives glass its sense of movement and life.

There are many ways to work with glass and draw or subtract from the qualities of the medium. The works in the show come from several different processes including glass blowing, lampworking, slabbing and kiln firing. The most famous works in the show, on loan from museums, are all pieces made in glass furnaces by the likes of Dale Chihuly, Richard Royal and Lino Tagliapietra. If you have never seen the work of six sweaty artists around a furnace as they form molten glass, you can watch the video at the front of the exhibition, which brings that fiery process into the gallery.

Despite the wide array of techniques employed in the show, it is cohesive in its presentation. The works are colorful and shiny with an air of delicacy that bestows a luminous quality on the room. Until you get to the work of Carmen Vetter, that is.

Hanging on the wall toward the back of the gallery is “Sublunary” — four tiles of kiln-formed glass in earthy shades of brown, forming what looks like an aerial view of a moonscape or a microbial magnification. Her work confuses the line between the macro and the micro with a detached curiosity on what the very big and the very small share in common.

In order to do so, Vetter masterfully freezes time, capturing a moment of erosion in a material often defined by its permanence. Vetter relies on the physical qualities of glass to preserve the temporal, but also pushes against the medium’s core characteristics as she describes her process more like painting with glass and fire.

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overtones Mind over matter

Young The Giant returns to the alt-rock scene with second album

by Alan Sculley

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Lauren Dukoff

he title song (and recent top 20 alternative rock single) from Young The Giant’s latest album, Mind Over Matter, is perhaps the song that differs most from the expansive guitar pop/rock sound fans grew accustomed to hearing on the band’s 2010 self-titled debut album.

ON THE BILL: Young The Giant. 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. Interestingly 17, Boulder Theater, 2032 enough, it took a 14th St., Boulder, 303-786song like that, which 7030. Tickets are $26 in advance, $30 day of the took the group out show. of its musical comfort zone, to get an album project that had stalled back on track. chart-topping success with their self-titled debut album in 2010, Young The Giant As guitarist Eric Cannata explains After returns with their sophomore effort, Mind Over Matter. in a recent phone interview, the group had become bogged down in the challenge of trying to follow up a shoulders. gentle song, “Firelight,” which features debut album that made Young The “We realized we should just have little more than Ghadia’s vocals and Giant a major new name on the rock fun with it and not think too much guitar, are both unlike anything on the scene. about it and get out of our comfort first album. The group, meanwhile, uses The self-titled album produced two zone, for example try to write a song on synthesizers and keyboards to add new alternative rock hits, “My Body” and a synthesizer rather than how we usual- levels of texture and fresh dimensions “Cough Syrup.” The former song went ly were doing it, starting with a guitar to songs like “Camera,” “Eros” and top five and was the fifth most played lick or a vocal melody or something,” “Crystallized.” alternative rock track in 2011. The latCannata says.

“I think if we had made a record ter song did even better, reaching num“And after we wrote the song that was very, very similar to the first ber two on the alternative rock charts.

‘Mind Over Matter,’ that’s when we record, then I feel like we would feel That kind of success, obviously, creates realized, hey look, we can just go into stagnant and feel like we didn’t evolve significant anticipation for what the the studio and have a great time and grow up in the way that we grew as band will do next with its music, and together and get back to where we people,” he says.

Young the Giant felt the pressure as it started from, which was in a garage, Young The Giant has definitely convened to write for the second just playing music together for fun,” done some growing since 2009, when album. he says. the group, which had started out in “We got to a point where we felt That anything-goes attitude toward 2004 as the Jakes, evolved into its curstagnant,” Cannata says. “For about a songwriting carries over to several other rent lineup and renamed itself Young month or month and a half, we felt songs on the new album, resulting in a The Giant. And their self-titled album like sitting ducks, [thinking] where do richer and more diverse compilation marked the first time the band recorded we go from here? I think that had to than their self-titled release. in a professional studio (Sunset Sound That doesn’t mean Young The do with ourselves putting on this kind in Los Angeles).

Giant avoided the kinds of songs that of... this expectation, this pressure on “The first album was a little bit defined the first album. “Anagram” may daunting, going into a major studio and our heads of reconnecting with the strike listeners as a friskier counterpart people that came out for the shows being 18 or 19 years old,” Cannata says. to “Apartment,” the lead track on their from our first album and bought our “We were definitely a little bit nervous first album. “It’s About Time” (the first first album and grew to love that on that one.” single from the new album) and “In My album.”

Now the growth of the band is conIt wasn’t until the five members of Home” are crunchy tunes that pack a tinuing on tour. As Cannata says, Young The Giant ­— Cannata, singer similar guitar-based punch to the Young The Giant has stepped up the Sameer Ghadia, guitarist Jacob Tilley, rocked up sections of “Cough Syrup” visual production of its show and drummer Francois Comtois and bassist and “My Body.” expanded its set list.

Payam Doostzadeh — allowed themBut the group made it a goal to “I do think that we’ve been playing selves to remember the spirit that first produce a second album that would the best shows we’ve ever played drove them to make music as a band, hold some musical surprises — an because of the new songs,” Cannata that the song “Mind Over Matter” objective they achieved. The song says. “I really do think the new record emerged. Then, the weight of expecta“Mind Over Matter,” a silken ballad has a lot more depth to it and a lot tions came off the group’s collective bathed in washes of synthesizer, and the more versatility in the songs.”

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arts & culture Listen, hear this, and start talking about it CU students challenge social norms in ‘uncovering | me’

by Amanda Moutinho

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hen Samantha Salters began working on her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) dance project, a few key topics stuck out in her head: Miley Cyrus and police brutality. “[There is] this overwhelming saturation of blackness/whiteness on the Internet. Starting with these issues of police brutality was leading me down this rabbit hole,” Salters says.

She began to question why the black body is so dispensible and came to understand that public consumption of the black body is problematic.

“Even before that, you have Miley Cyrus twerking at the VMAs, and it’s a big deal. People have been twerking for years and years. Why is it all of a sudden a big deal? Because No 1., she’s appropriating. No 2., it’s now this fun and flirtatious dance because it’s on a white, thin body. What does it mean when whiteness and blackness start to [collide]?”

Salters explores that question in her dance piece “eat me,” which takes a look at the black female role and how it is misrepresented and perceived.

Joining Salters on stage is Amanda Benzin with her piece “re-membering me,” which also dismantles the culturally created idea of the female. Their show, uncovering | me, plays at the University of Colorado Nov. 13-15. While the two shows have separate approaches, their juxtaposition creates an intriguing mixture ripe for a deeper analysis of these themes.

“There have been MFA shows in the past where the pieces are so different,” Benzin says. “As an audience member, it’s really hard to go from one world and then have a short break and go into a completely different world. And we do have different worlds going on, but thematically we’re dealing with issues around identity.”

Benzin’s inspiration for her piece is her own upbringing and limitations she saw in female representation.

“I was raised as a Catholic, and understanding

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Samantha Salters and Amanda Benzin question socially constructed female ideals in their dance piece uncovering | me.

what does that mean to be a woman and what images do you see in the church of a woman? You’re either the whore or the saint that’s a virgin,” she says.

“Growing up with that and reflecting back on that in my adulthood, and what did that actually do to me?

How did I perform that? How am I starting to disentangle myself from that and many other roles?”

Through movement, both dancers push against these socially constructed norms. Salters is using a blend of twerking, step, Afro-Cuban and hip hop to present her viewpoint. She says she’s reclaiming these dance forms and putting them back in context — using black dance to address black issues. In Benzin’s portion, she’ll be mixing contemporary, modern and tap in an effort to use the body as a vehicle for change.

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ment of it,” Benzin says. “Using the embodiment as another modality of teaching and experimenting — it’s not just theorizing about it. It’s practice and theory combined in the physical expression of the body.”

After choreographing this show and delving into these topics, Salters says she’s seen the greater complexities of people and herself. We are a product of what surrounds us, and the product is never simple. “[I learned] how we embody so many things at once. ...” she says. “I started to realize how much I was affected by the external world. I too have biases, and even in those acts of resistance there are contradictions.”

In uncovering | me, both dancers work to expose the intricacies of self. They challenge preconceived notions and social scripts in an attempt to tell their own stories.

“Identity is such a word of categories,” Benzin says. “What does it mean to have more multiplicity in your life, and can you exist in that? My show is exploring that all these things are connected. But it also seems in society that all these things should be separate, and you should be able to state what you are in a sentence.”

The ultimate goal of both performances is to spark conversation and reflection. Salters says she hopes people start questioning the way they consume the black female body and begin to remove the predetermined societal lens, to go beyond face value and see things for what they actually are.

“We’re both going against these identities that are part of this white, male linear structure. So we’ve chosen to challenge the boundaries,” Salters says. “We’ve decided to take on white patriarchy. I mean, we didn’t literally write that down as our goal: defeat white patriarchy in 30 minutes.”

“Nor will we do that,” Benzin adds with a laugh.

“But we are very ambitious about defeating something,” Salters continues. “It’s like, ‘Listen, hear this, and start talking about it.’”

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Thursday, November 12 Music Best of Boulder East County Awards Celebration. 5:30 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

David Potter. 6 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131.

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

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

Genetics with Lady and the Gentleman & Vine Street Vibes. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

The Jeff Brinkman Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Josh Quinlan Q’tet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Karaoke featuring DJ BeatLove. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Nick Willis Band. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.

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

Selby Clyman Duo. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. see EVENTS Page 42

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Are we free to forge our own destinies in life? Are the paths to our lives already decided?

When it comes down to it, is there really a difference? These are the questions posed by Robert de Long’s new album, which he will be probing in different ways in his performance at the Fox Theatre. In the Cards, de Long’s second album, fearlessly combines electronic influences like house, techno and trip-hop with rock composition and emotion.

Following the 2013 success of his “Global Concepts” single, the Washington native is touring the country trying to answer these questions through music. Through his one-man-band set up and high-intensity performances, Robert de Long’s show will combine pointed lyrics concerning jealous lovers, duplicitous politicians and religious hypocrites to get the audience both thinking and grooving.

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The Auspicious Adventures of an Improbable Princess 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., 303-441-3100.

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Inspired by traditional Indonesian shadow puppets and the otherworldly characters of the Hindu epic the Mahabharata, comes the premiere of an original shadow puppet performance.

Designed, created and directed by Betsy Tobin, the performance tells the story of a woman’s transformation through everyday events and adventures that thrust her into an unknown metaphysical realm featuring animals, demons and spirits.

The vivid imagery and multi-layered storytelling is sure to appeal to a wide audience. Tobin is assisted in the show by Kathryn Moller and in recent years, the two have studied traditional Indonesian shadow puppetry, wayang kulit, in Bali where the story took root. Featuring an original Balinese musical score composed and performed live by Jesse Manno, these auspicious adventures will enchant and intrigue viewers.

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Transgender Awareness Week: Three to Infinity Film Screening 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

This week, celebrate the T in LGBTQ with Trans* Awareness Week from Nov. 15 to 21. There will be various events around Boulder including a 101 Workshop, healthcare panel and Transgender Day of Remembrance. Head to The Dairy on Wednesday, Nov. 18 for a screening of Three to Infinity: Beyond Two Genders. The documentary explores the people and the world that exists outside of the gender binary, i.e. agender, gender neutral, gender queer, fluid, etc. Show your support and stop by for some education and community.

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Shadow Of Jaguar. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Shantyman & The Speakeasies with Natural Motives. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Tim Ostdiek. 7 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318.

Events Business 1.0. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Champagne Blowout. 4:30 p.m. 1313 A Salon, 1313 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-402-1313.

Ecstatic Dance. 7 p.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452.

Free Home Buyer Workshop. 6:30 p.m. Impact Hub, 1877 Broadway, Suite 100, Boulder, 303-6292899.

Growing a Small Business. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

The Great Indian Novel. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Speaker Series: Rainbow Rowell. 7 p.m.

Betoulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, November 13 Music Andrew Sturtz. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Bill Smith. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Brassaholics. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770.

Carry Me Ohio. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303- 823-6685.

The Country Music Project. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Craig Cornett & The Phasy and Wreckless. 6 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

David Sheingold. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Dustin Divine & The Real Deal. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

The Feats of Strength. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE. Foxfeather. 7 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Francesca Rubin Project. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Friday Afternoon Club. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

The Heartstring Hunters. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.

How Can I Keep From Singing. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

The Jack Hadley Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Johanna Winkel. 6:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

John McKay. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 31.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Jan. 10.

Firehouse Artisan Market. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Nov. 29.

Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics.

Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through Dec. 20.

The Arvada Center explores the world of fire in its latest Fired exhibit. Read more about the exhibit on page 33.

Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.

Holiday Art Market. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Dec. 31.

Painted Paper Movements Through Collage.

BMoCA at Macky, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 15.

Pastel Paintings by Xenia J. Sease. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 28.

Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art,

Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

MiTiS. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Olivia Quillio, Gang Forward. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

The Road West. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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

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

Yamn, The Mantras. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

You Knew Me When. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720550-7813.

Events The Gathering Comedy Night. 6 p.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway (Highway 66), Longmont, 720-443-1605.

Harry Potter Potions Class. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Memory Cafe. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

UCAR/NCAR Annual Holiday Craft Market. 10 a.m. UCAR Center Green Facility, 3080 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-2525.

Saturday, November 14 Music

Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Jan. 3.

Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967-1980. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Jan. 17.

Susan Wick: Wild Women Never Get the Blues. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 3.

Uncommon Clay: Functional to Fantastic.

Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-6787869. Through Dec. 23 Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in the Studio.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 7.

Andra Taylor & Nate Dodge. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Barrel of Blues Band. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Big Thompson Flood. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Boulder Philharmonic presents: Portraits in Season. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Buttah. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Cosmic Mesa. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Craig Cornett & Craig Naylon. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-3279318.

Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133.

Ethyl and the Regulars. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303- 823-6685.

Girls on Top. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.

The Heartstring Hunters. 7 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Henscratch. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1124 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-3055.

Holly and the Husbands. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill — Southside Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

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James Faulk. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

JD McPherson with Parker Millsap. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Jim Scott in Concert. 7 p.m. Unitarian-Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195.

Kattelgard, Jason and Gina Dilg, and Breakfast for Dinner. 5 p.m. Altona Grange, Suite 127, 9386 N. 39th St., Longmont, 303-709-0334.

Longmont Symphony Concert. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-651-0401.

Miley Wide & Samsonic. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Native Station. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Rastasaurus. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Resonance Women’s Chorus of Boulder. 7 p.m.

Heart of Longmont Methodist Church, 350 11th Ave., Longmont, 303-776-3523.

Something Underground. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Stellar J. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Technicolor Tone Factory. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL

Courtesy of BETC

A Tuna Christmas. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 20.

A Trimpin Kinetic Sound Sculpture at ATLAS. 7:30 p.m. Atlas Black Box Theater, 1125 18th Street (off Colorado) University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, 303-735-4577.

Ultralofi. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

Upslope’s Seventh Anniversary Party. 2 p.m.

Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

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

Wake Up And Live. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Events 10k Turkey Trot. 9 a.m. Altona Middle School, 4600 Clover Basin Drive, Longmont.

Best of NYICFF: Party Mix. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Hands of Spirit’s 18th Annual Holiday Mineral and Jewelry Open House. 11 a.m. Hands of Spirit’s Crystalline Temple, 65 Betasso Road, Boulder, 303-541-9727.

Hands on Healings. 3 p.m. Boulder Psychic Institute, 1332 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-530-0920.

Lafayette Comedy Show. 7:30 p.m. Miller’s Bar & Grille, 103 S. Public Road, Lafayette 720-746-9649.

The Little Clinic Exhibit Grand Opening Celebration. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Nitro Fest. 6 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

This Is Happening. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Welcome to Leith. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Sunday, November 15

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CanopyBoulder Demo Day 5-9pm

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Concert Series: A solo evening of beautiful classical & flamenco guitar music

Cult Following. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 23.

The Few — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 15.

Lion King. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 29.

Catch the final weekend for BETC’s production of The Few, now playing at The Dairy.

Murder for Two. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Feb. 21.

Tribes. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Nov. 15.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200.

Through Nov. 22.

Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Bluegrass Pick with Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Danny Shafer. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.

Felonius Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Finnders & Youngberg. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Flash Mountain Flood. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Greg Schochet & Katie Glassman. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Maya Bennett. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

MoJazz Trio. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Notes & Noodles. 2 p.m. First Lutheran Evangelical Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-772-9312.

Porch Song. 4:30 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

Psychodillo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303- 823-6685.

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

Sean Campbell with Jack Guth, Roma Randsom. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Sundays at Vic’s. 12 p.m. Vic’s Espresso & News, 2680 Broadway, Boulder, 303-440-8209.

The Symbols and Tony Saccomanno. 4:30 p.m.

Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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Ottmar Liebert

Nov

Concert Series: An Evening of Extraordinary Music with

The Twilight Zone: A Parody. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 14.

Them Raggedy Bones. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Workshop

Nov

BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story.

BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 14.

Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

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Concert Series:

& Barry Ollman

Wallpaper House Band. 10 a.m. Barn A, Boulder County Fair Grounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.

Events Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys. 4 p.m.

The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

NaNoWriMo Special: Tools for Writers. 1 p.m.

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

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Cowboy Christmas

Paint with Me! 2:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Transgender Day of Remembrance Faith Gathering and Service. 10 a.m. Cairn Christian Church, 1700 Stonehenge Drive, Lafayette, 303- 499-5777.

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga. 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Third Annual Boulder County Horse Association Horse Fair. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.

Concert Series:

Dec THE GATHERING

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Will Ackerman, Louis Colaiannia, Kathryn Kaye & Todd Boston

Monday, November 16 Music Blues Jam with Boa & The Constrictors. 7 p.m.

Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508873-9185.

Patrick Latella and Acoustic Fusion. 9:30 p.m.

Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Dec

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Dec 6 Dec 11

Radio Show Taping

Bob Schneider & Joan Shelley

Concert Series: Music of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann Radio Taping: Noah Gunderson & more

Robert Delong with Coleman Hell. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

WHERE: eTOWN Hall 1535 Spruce Street Boulder, CO 80302

Westin Smith Jukejoint Jubilee. 9:30 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

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

Molly Brown — Learning to Walk in India . 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Saturday, Nov. 14 Spirits and The Art of Sculpting a Story. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720204-6064.

Sunday, Nov. 15

Head Injury and Creativity: How one Artist Found Her Way with Clay. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

Tuesday, Nov. 17 Caroline Douglas visits the Boulder Book Store to talk about sustaining a head injury and how she healed through art.

Melanie Crowder and Laura Resau. 4 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Adriana Lisboa. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Monday, Nov. 16

Dr. Joe Bassi — A Scientific Peak: How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 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. 18 Alex Honnold — Alone on the Wall. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

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w/ huNdreTh & CaPsize

FeaT suNsquabi w/ sigNal PaTh & vibe sTreeT

Brooke McNamara. 7 p.m.

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

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Courtesy of the Boulder Book Store

Events Cinema Program Free Screening San Souci Festival. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Notorious. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Tuesday, November 17

Transgender 101: A Community Training. 5:30 p.m. Voices For Children CASA, 2305 Canyon Blvd., Suite 101, Boulder, 303-499-5777.

Wednesday, November 18 Music Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

David Booker. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

Music

Davy Allard. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

50 Shades of Blue. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Eef and The Blues Express. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

III. 8:05 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

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

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Open Jam. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Eric Wiggs. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

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

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

Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Skinny Puppy. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Open Mic Night with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m.

Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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

The Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series Presents: MIX Acapella. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Events James White. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

New Directions and Treatments for Memory and Alzheimer’s. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Events Artist Displacement: Where do we go from here? 5:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Making Monsters Masks with the Boulder Fringe! 4:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Protecting Colorado’s Continental Divide. 5 p.m.

Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Theeb. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Boulder Weekly

The Upstart Crow Theatre Company presents

Deirdre of the Sorrows

I’ve seen many poems about the atomic bomb drills that school children were put through during the Cold War, but this one reaches beyond that experience. John Philip Johnson lives and writes in Nebraska, and has an illustrated book of poems, Stairs Appear in a Hole Outside of Town. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

Directed by Joan Kuder Bell

Performed at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Live Irish Folk Music 20 minutes before curtain Tickets: $25 General Admission $21 Students/Seniors Thursdays: Name-Your-Price Nights!

American Life in Poetry: Column 547

by John Philip Johnson

Nov. 20 - Dec. 5, 2015

by John Millington Synge

Tickets available at www.thedairy.org or call (303) 444.7328 Performances may sell out - we strongly recommend reservations for all performances

There Have Come Soft Rains In kindergarten during the Cold War, mid-day late bells jolted us, sending us single file into the hallway, where we sat, pressing our heads between our knees, waiting.

During one of the bomb drills, Annette was standing.

My mother said I would talk on and on about her, about how pretty she was.

I still remember her that day, curly hair and pretty dress, looking perturbed the way little children do.

Why Annette? There’s nothing to be upset about — The bombs won’t get us, I’ve seen what’s to come — it is the days, the steady pounding of days, like gentle rain, that will be our undoing.

We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Poem copyright ©2014 by John Philip Johnson, “There Have Come Soft Rains,” from Rattle, (No. 45, Fall 2014). Poem reprinted by permission of John Philip Johnson and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

Send poetry submissions of 250 words or fewer to poetry@boulderweekly.com.

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VOTED BEST OF BOULDER 2013

by Ryan Syrek

O

ne time, in a James Bond movie, Denise Richards played a nuclear scientist named Dr. Christmas Jones. It’s just important for everybody freaking out about how Spectre isn’t that great to remember how far away we are from the franchise’s event horizon of bullshit. Not to say that the latest from director Sam Mendes didn’t inch the doomsday clock forward, but we’re still miles away from Defcon Denise, so calm down.

Spectre’s entire problem harkens back to that long-grieved desire about both having and eating cake. A film can be gritty and brutal or campy and silly. If a movie is all of those things, it leaves you shaken and not stirred.

After maybe the best Bond film of all time, Skyfall, set an unrealistic standard, Mendes (perhaps against his better judgment) returned to oversee Daniel “Craggyface” Craig’s fourth outing as 007.

Almost immediately, the careful-crafted nuance of the previous film gives way to goofy Bond clichés. In fact, let’s not even waste much time on it: Bond is chasing a villain (Christoph Waltz) who claims to be responsible for every crappy thing that happened to 007 since Casino Royale. Mind you, he Bond (Daniel Craig) is back, and nobody should get too never says what the excited about that. bigger plan was or why he did it, so much as he just pops up and yells “Neener neener, I was mean to you!” You think I’m kidding, but he comes darn close to literally doing exactly that.

Sure, there are trappings of plot. The “Double O” spy program is going to be canceled, and something about a massive network of information someone is trying to hijack or whatever. But really, this is about action sequences that feel oddly flat, Bond squaring off against his “nemesis” in name only and 007 gettin’ it on. It’s that last part that really doesn’t work. The reboot grounded itself on Bond’s reaction to the death of his lady love in the first film (Casino Royale). So it feels just a tad tacky when this incarnation of Bond bangs a woman the night of her husband’s funeral… a husband he killed with his bare hands. I mean, there’s 007 inherently being “a bit barbaric and misogynistic” and then there’s “killing a man and porking his wife.” Poor form, Jim. From ridiculous things like Léa Seydoux’s character spending all of a day and a half with 007 before the two are deeply in love to Waltz torturing Craig with a device that apparently doesn’t do what Waltz’s character thinks it does, the whole thing is a collision of cheese and grit. And while cheesy grits are delicious, this contrast is downright unpalatable. Actually, kudos to all involved for somehow making this Frankenstein’s monster of a concept/script into something quasiwatchable.

Without spoiling it, the end could work very well as the expiration date on Craig’s license to kill. Let’s do that. Because if this is an indication of what this Bond has left in the tank, his Aston Martin ain’t gonna outrun anything.

This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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In the midst of cynically recycled nostalgia, bombastic franchises, reboots and sequels aplenON THE BILL: The ty, it’s surprising that two of the best family Peanuts Movie, Century movies to come out in 2015 were based on Boulder, 1700 29th St, Boulder, 303-444-0583. material first published in the 1950s. First was Tickets start at $7.65, www. the wonderfully gentle and English, Paddington, cinemark.com. from the books by Michael Bond, and now comes its American counterpart, the simple and serene Peanuts Movie.

Based on Charles M. Schulz’s successful daily cartoon strip and incorporating elements from the TV specials, The Peanuts Movie captures the simplicity and wonder of childhood anxiety, neurosis and imagination. Broken into chapters, the movie follows Charlie Brown as he tries to fly a kite, kick Lucy’s football, get through a day without making a blockhead of himself and, hopefully, someday, say hello to the Little Red-Haired Girl across the street. Along the way Chuck is accompanied by his friends (Linus, Peppermint Patty, Sally), his foes (the great and powerful Lucy van Pelt) and his every trusty dog, Snoopy — who always manages to steal the show.

Anyone who has read a Peanuts comic strip, watched A Charlie Brown Christmas or purchased a Red Barron frozen pizza while dreaming of the World War I Flying Ace will recognize every moment in The Peanuts Movie.

This is a labor of love, not subversion, from screenwriters Cornelius Uliano and Craig and Brian Schulz (the creator’s son and grandson). There is money to be made with Peanuts mateEveryone’s favorite lovable blockhead is back, along with his sidekick Snoopy and rial and merchandising, but these his gang of friends, in The Peanuts Movie. writers, along with director Steve Martino, know that the success of Peanuts comes not from exploitation, but from the care Schulz gave his characters.

For Schulz, life is the threads of pessimism wrapped inside a beating heart of kindness. That sensibility imbues every frame, every image and every line in the film.

Using computer-generated graphics, The Peanuts Movie uses the familiar flat, almost two-dimensional design for the characters — which actually looks quite good in 3-D — with images from Schulz’s strips incorporated into the character’s thought bubbles. But the scene-stealers belong to Snoopy’s fantasies as the World War I Flying Ace rescuing a captured pilot, Fifi, from the dreaded Red Barron. In these spectacular scenes of chase, the backgrounds are lush with a painterly quality, making the image of a cartoon dog flying a red doghouse all the more enjoyable.

The end result is a symphony of pleasantries. The Peanuts Movie eschews conflict, antagonism and despair; choosing instead to wrap its audience in the warmth of Linus’ security blanket. It’s a welcome feeling, and it’s just the sort of movie that Inside Out’s Joy would love to put on repeat for Riley. Of course, Inside Out was a not-so-gentle reminder that life does not rely on joy alone, but sadness, anger, fear and disgust as well. However, we don’t need to be sad all the time. We can allow ourselves a little bit of that saccharine joy every now and then. For those moments, we have Charlie Brown and his gang, along with the music of the Vince Guaraldi Trio. We have The Peanuts Movie.

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W

hen you order at El Fogon in Longmont, you’re supposed to look up at the old Spanish-only menu with pictures and relay your choice to the cashier. But in practice it’s hard not to look at the giant rotisserie of bright red meat behind the counter and point and say, “That.”

It looks like a peel-able, edible model of Mars, and orbiting around it is one cook dicing and flipping on the open skillet and one cashier patiently explaining to me all the vehicles through which I could explore it. It, a basketballsized rotisserie of pork al pastor, tender pork butt meat marinated and rubbed in a mixture of chilies, spices and pineapple.

So I place the order for a plate of tacos, a plate of sopes and a big bowl of menudo. As I wait, I walk into the adjoining El Fogon market and peruse the ample selection of raw, marinated and stuffed meat at the butcher counter, and some really beautiful produce in the open refrigerated display.

But by the force of gravity I’m pulled back into the restaurant as the plates of food start coming out.

First is the menudo.

It’s a deep, dark red bowl filled with two large bones — typically beef feet — that had tender scraps of meat clinging on. The focus of the menudo is tripe, or beef stomach, and it’s cut into long tender strips that over the hours of cooking have become soft, salty and fatty. At the bottom of the dish are whole kernels of hominy. The base for the dish is wild and exciting

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The meat is peppery and flavorful, diced to about the size of your pinky nail. Fresh shredded lettuce and pico de gallo are piled high and cotija cheese is sprinkled on as well, in addition to the sour cream. It’s a bit like eating a taco pizza. It’s a customer favorite, and the three on the plate are more than enough for a full, easy meal.

Last comes the taco plate, and for as much as I loved the menudo, the tacos were where El Fogon shined. Finally, the pork al pastor was on my plate, beside a lengua taco and a carnitas taco. The tongue was cubed and bristly, but savory with that slight characteristic funk. Smothered in some excellent spicy and bright orange salsa, it was an ideal texture and satisfying. The carnitas were finely diced bits of marinated pork meat — not as flavorful as the lengua or the meats from the other dishes, but this was an everyday kind of taco.

And finally, the al pastor. Stripped from the rotisserie, the pork was cut so thin. Bright red from the marinade and blackened by charring, it was a terrific cut of meat. It was tender and juicy, slightly bitter from the char and sweet from the pineapple. It had a kick from the chili rub, and piled on the taco, the al pastor bits were amplified by the judicious additions of white onion and cilantro.

Put simply, El Fogon embraces flavor and texture, while also focusing on serving food designed to please.

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by Matt Cortina — it’s like chili oil reinforced with the structure and umami of bone marrow, with the savor of the offal and the essence of beef.

It’s easy to love every bit of the soup, which is available only on the weekends. The spices in the sauce are perfectly apportioned — oregano, garlic and onion. Each bite is a balance of texture with the cracking hominy and the buttery, evanescent tripe.

The next plate to arrive carries three sopes. They look like little tortilla waffles piled with meat, vegetables and topped with sour cream. They are a marked change in tone from the menudo; an unpretentious fun fest that makes for sloppy and indulgent eating.

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DRINKS AT UPSLOPE On Nov. 14 from 2-8 p.m., Boulder-based brewery Upslope Brewing will host a party in celebration of seven years in the Colorado beer business and offer beer from more than 40 taps, including the “7th Anniversary Ale.” The celebration, called 7 Years of Beer, is scheduled to occupy Upslope’s Flatiron Park brewery along with four live bands and three food carts.

The event is naturally 21-plus, although kids under the age of 12 can be accompanied by a parent. If you do decide to attend, Upslope is encouraging you to get there sooner rather than later before their taps are emptied by the masses.

CHEESEMAKING CLASS It ain’t easy being cheesy. That’s why The Art of Cheese will be hosting a “Cheesemaking Bootcamp” on Nov. 14 from 1-5 p.m. This week’s cheesemaking workshop will focus on the “gold-level” cheeses — alpines, blues and cheddars — as well as “Trappist-style” cheeses.

According to The Art of Cheese’s website, this particular class is more suited for people that have made a few cheeses but are feeling ready to move on to some more “advanced” cheesing.

For $100, participants will have four hours of intensive training in all things cheese, as well as samples of a variety of cheeses.

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SPOOKY SPIRITS If you thought spooky Halloween festivities were over, you’re dead wrong. Get back in there with the Butterfly Pavilion’s final tasting event of the season with “Spiders and Spirits,” on Nov. 13 from 6:30-9 p.m.

No doubt inspired by this week’s Friday being the 13th of November, the tasting will feature “spooky” cuisine and cocktails from local distilleries including Leopold Bros, Geek Spirits, Old Town Distilling and more.

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GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN FOR CLASSIC LOCAL BAR After enduring a particularly damaging fire earlier this year, Rocky Flats Lounge — the bar famous as a hub for Green Bay Packers fans — is trying to make a comeback with the help of local donations.

Rocky Flats Lounge, a community staple known for its Wisconsin-style fish fries, stunning views and casual atmosphere, recently launched a GoFundMe campaign to accrue funds for a potential rebuild sometime in the

near future. Funds would also go to supporting the owners as they continue to lose revenue from the loss of their business.

As of six days into the campaign, Rocky Flats Lounge has received more than $1,000, while the owners are continuing to urge friends of the bar to spread the word. To check out their GoFundMe page, visit www. gofundme.com/hu86u4j8.

BAROLO WINE DINNER Arugula Ristorante is crafting a dinner experience specifically tailored for lovers of Italian wine with the Barolo Wine Dinner on Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m. Arugula chefs will prepare a five-course meal to pair with a fresh shipment of wines from northern Italy.

Running at $99 per person, the meal will feature Barolo wines from the Italian province of Piedmont, which are described by Arugula as “some of Italy’s finest.”

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epe and Veronica Diaz’s dream “So no farming happened there,” realized is a quarter-acre plot Pepe says. “I sold the tractor, I sold of land that sits at one of the everything. We never broke ground.” busiest intersections in The odd jobs continued, and Pepe Boulder. Here, they grow vegmade another pile of cash by opening up etables and raise chickens. This was their a carpentry business, selling cabinets to first year operating the Diaz Farm at Jay feed the ravenous demand from contracRoad and 28th Street, and the harvest tors in southern California in the midwas stellar in quality and production.

2000s. When the housing bubble burst, Pepe briefly took a job at an engineering In fact, this was their first year even firm before the Diaz’s, now with four working on a farm. But Pepe says he’s children, decided to make the move to always had a basic desire to grow things.

Boulder County.

“You know since I was a kid, I liked They had visited Colorado on vacagrowing stuff, and I liked plants. I didn’t tion several times and made friends in realize what it would lead to eventually, the area.

Their first home was in but it was always in me. I enjoyed seeing Longmont in 2011, before Pepe’s brothplants grow, and I always had plants er (who followed the family out to throughout my life,” Pepe says.

Colorado) recommended a small plot of Pepe moved from Mexico to Los Angeles with his mother when he was land in Boulder zoned for both residence Veronica Diaz prepares a basket of produce at the Diaz Farm in North Boulder.

11. His parents had divorced, and his and agriculture. Last April, they moved father, a supervisor for a governmentinto that space. subsidized grocery store chain, stayed in Mexico.

“I went back, and we started talking and had “When we moved here we did have this thought, Pepe graduated from high school and hopped jobs lunch, and we fell in love,” Pepe says. you know, we gotta find a nice piece of property to do for several years, working everywhere from oil rigs to A few years later, the Diaz’s bought a 2-acre lot in some farming,” Pepe says. “We didn’t think that we construction sites. He eventually found work at a facRiverside, an urban area in the Inland Empire just would do it to actually sell to the community. We tory in Corona, California, working minimum wage. east of Orange County, California. This would be started with this little fenced area and those sheds It also happened to be the factory at which Veronica their first attempt at urban farming. were already there, so we turned one of them into a had recently gotten a job. At 21, she had just moved “My dream was to grow some vegetables but not coop, and we bought 30 chickens.” from Mexico to Los Angeles to live with her sister. to sell anything, just for our family. I bought a tractor Again, neither Pepe nor Veronica had any experiPepe hated the job, and they weren’t paying him and everything,” Pepe says. ence working on farms, but they set out to grow vegeenough so he just stopped showing up one day. It was But the permitting process in Riverside was tables on a quarter-acre of the land, in addition to the a transition period for him, and he was sure he had tedious and bureaucratic, and the housing boom in coop of chickens. Pepe says he read two books, took a opportunities elsewhere. But the factory called back a California was in full swing. With property values little bit of money from friends and family and got few days later and offered him more money. He took skyrocketing, Pepe and Veronica sold the lot and took see HARVEST Page 54 the job and soon thereafter met Veronica. home a solid chunk of cash for their dream deferred.

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In one short year, crops were growing and hens were laying eggs.

By July 2015, they had too much produce for their own good.

“We were extremely success- Veronica and Pepe harvesting onions from their farm in Boulder. ful with our cucumbers and tomatoes, so we had all these cucumkitchen they assembled on the other bers, and we hadn’t even opened our side of the farm store. The empanadas store yet. So we had too much produce, are filled with various fruits, and dusted way more than we knew what to do with sugar and cinnamon. The bread with,” Pepe says. “By the time we loaves are big, beautiful crusty round [could build a storefront], we had loaves, blackened perfectly and dense wheelbarrows full of cucumbers and a and chewy on the inside. Pepe says peobunch of kale and nobody knew about ple have been coming back specifically us. This was just producing tons of veg- for the bread, and they sell about four etables here.” loaves a day. They also sell about 40-60 At the beginning, there were someempanadas. times only one or two customers a day.

And, of course, this was the first So the Diaz’s put up colorful signs at year Pepe and Veronica learned to bake. the corner of the busy intersection, and “I went through probably 20 loaves the traffic became a blessing. People before I started to get it right,” Pepe from the neighborhood started stopping says. “A lot of the first loaves went to by as the full harvest of the Diaz farm the chickens.” came to fruition.

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By September this year, they were size next year, Pepe says. The coop of plucking kale, chard, tomatoes, cucumhens, of which the majority are still too bers, arugula, onions, peppers, zucchiyoung at the moment to produce eggs, nis, summer squash, basil, tomatillos, will likely triple in production as well. carrots and radishes. The immediate Veronica plans to make more pastries, success of the harvest wasn’t particularly and Pepe wants to bake more breads. shocking to Pepe or Veronica, but the They’ve also built tents in the yard to quality of the produce certainly was. grow salad mixes hydroponically “We were blown away,” Pepe says. throughout the winter.

“Those tomatoes, we snack on them.

When asked to quantify how much When we’re harvesting them, the ones produce the farm is capable of, Pepe that dont look too good, we’re snacking doesn’t think in dollars. He says the goal is to be able to provide enough food for on them, so by like 10 [a.m.], we’re 100 families every season. That is what already full. We are blown away with motivates him and Veronica to grow. what we are producing.”

“We truly believe that people need The produce, sold in baskets in the to have access to organic food that is farm store — a redesigned garage — is local that was harvested the same day or beautiful. Of particular note is the aruthe day before,” Pepe says. “It’s literally gula, which is bigger than your hand on your table within hours of being harand has no signs of browning or decay. vested, and we think that’s a beautiful It’s sold in small bags, and it has a flathing. We have kids that walk in here, vor and texture unlike anything sold in and we have these super sweet carrots stores. It is both peppery and buttery, with an ideal bitterness, and it’s slightly and kids try them, and it’s like candy to them. You don’t get that at the superthicker than the pre-packaged or shipped-in stuff. It is so flavorful that it market. It is clean, delicious, organic.”

The immediate and resounding sucneeds no dressing or olive oil, and on a cess was fortuitous for the Diaz Farm, sandwich or in a stir-fry, it is a force. but you get the sense from Pepe and But not resting on the success of Veronica that it wasn’t really going to their harvest, they also sell bread and turn out any other way. empanadas that they bake in a small Boulder Weekly

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Susan France s far as drinking buddies go, they don’t come much better than Tobias. He’s always at the bar at SKEYE Brewing in Longmont. As I get deeper into the flight of seven house beers and grow untidy, he’s spilling his drink all over the floor, too. And he doesn’t say a lot but he listens. Even when people at the bar are trying to think up famous people named Tobias and stopping at Wolff and Fünke, he lets it all be. Besides, his friends call him T-bone anyway, and when you do, he has these cute little brown ears that perk up, and then he starts licking your pant legs.

T-bone is the expressive brown and white French bulldog of Steve Allen, one of the owners of SKEYE. Dogs are part of the experience at this microbrewery, which was named after combining the names of Kami and Chris Malanowski’s (the other two owners of the brewery) dogs, Sierra, Kita and Yakone. Their logo is a rendering of a stoic husky wrapped in a veil of hops as if she’s ready to yoke up some beer barrels and deliver them through a driving snow to your cabin.

It was a brewing day when I stopped by at dusk on a recent Saturday. As T-bone and I sang “Piano Man” silently to each Susan France other with our eyes, the Malanowskis bounced between the tap room and the partitioned, modest-sized brewing chamber. They wore heavy-duty boots as it looked like a laborious, sloppy process that day, but occasionally they came out to say hello and pour themselves a pint of some of their previous brews from the wall of taps.

On the other walls hung a thoroughly deep collection of local art — there was photography, digital, oil, watercolor and other media of still art, juxtaposed on an adjacent wall with tapestries and woven art, spotlighted by overhead lights like it was a gallery. And still in another corner was an indoor taco stand in operation. Though I didn’t stick around for it, there’s also live music Steve Allen, one of the owners of SKEYE three nights a week at SKEYE. While it Brewing enjoys a pint. may seem like all these worlds would collide and contrast, instead, the space takes on, more than anything, the vibe T-bone exudes: that is, just roll with it.

Allen tells me all three owners still work full-time at other jobs, which makes the cultivation of such a space and atmosphere even more impressive. He says their space is prime, at the corner of Hover Street and Nelson Road, and business has been slowly picking up since their opening in June.

At the core of any success they have is their beer, which happens to be pretty good on the whole, with a few standouts, none more so than the Tobias Irish red ale, named after you know who. It’s malty and medium-bodied, with a little citrus for accent. That red ale also comes spiced — as does their porter, named after Yakita the dog. Neither are too sweet, and taste a lot like the spices in a traditional mulled wine with cinnamon and cloves commanding the most of the palate.

SKEYE also currently has two easy-drinking summer beers.

SKEYE is Longmont’s eighth brewery, and Allen says they’re excited by the amount of regulars they’ve amassed in such a short time. You can join that cadre, too, if drinking spiced or flavorful beer in a casual art gallery with some goofy dogs sounds like fun to you.

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astrology “I demand unconditional love and complete freedom,” wrote Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun.

“That is why I am terrible.” In accordance with the astrological omens, I’m offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom.

But unlike him, you must satisfy one condition: Avoid being terrible. Can you do that? I think so, although you will have to summon unprecedented amounts of emotional intelligence and collaborative ingenuity.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

You have the answers you need, but you keep sniffing around as if there were different or better answers to be had.

Moreover, you’ve been offered blessings that could enable you to catalyze greater intimacy, but you’re barely taking advantage of them — apparently because you underestimate their potency. Here’s what I think: As long as you neglect the gifts you have already been granted, they won’t provide you with their full value. If you give them your rapt appreciation, they will bloom.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) tried to earn a living by selling pencil sharpeners, but couldn’t make it. In frustration, he turned to writing novels. Success! Among his many popular novels, 27 of them were about a fictional character named Tarzan. The actor who played Tarzan in the movies based on Burroughs’ books was Johnny Weissmuller. As a child, he suffered from polio, and rebuilt his strength by becoming a swimmer. He eventually won five Olympic gold medals. Burroughs and Weissmuller are your role models in the coming weeks, Gemini. It’s a favorable time for you to turn defeat into victory.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

Artist Andy Warhol had an obsession with green underpants. In fact, that’s all he ever wore beneath his clothes.

It might be fun and productive for you to be inspired by his private ritual. Life is virtually conspiring to ripen your libido, stimulate your fertility, and expedite your growth.

So anything you do to encourage these cosmic tendencies could have an unusually dramatic impact. Donning green undies might be a good place to start. It would send a playful message to your subconscious mind that you are ready and eager to bloom.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

In the coming weeks, take special notice of the jokes and humorous situations that prompt you to laugh the loudest.

They will provide important clues about the parts of your life that need liberation. What outmoded or irrelevant taboos should you consider breaking? What inhibitions are dampening your well-being? How might your conscience be overstepping its bounds and making you unnecessarily constrained? Any time you roar with spontaneous amusement, you will know you have touched a congested place in your psyche that is due for a cleansing.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

For each of the last 33 years, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Los Angeles has selected a “National Hero Dog.” It’s an award given to a canine that has shown exceptional courage in helping or rescuing people. In 2015, the group departed from tradition. Its “National Hero Dog” is a female cat named Tara. Last May, she saved a four-year-old boy by scaring off a dog that had begun to attack him. I’m guessing you will soon have an experience akin to Tara’s. Maybe you’ll make a gutsy move that earns you an unexpected honor. Maybe you’ll carry out a dramatic act of compassion that’s widely appreciated.

Or maybe you’ll go outside your comfort zone to pull off a noble feat that elevates your reputation.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

According to cartoon character Homer Simpson, “Trying is the first step towards failure.” I don’t agree with that comic advice. But I do think the following variant will be applicable to you in the coming weeks: “Trying too hard is

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the first step toward failure.” So please don’t try too hard, Libra! Over-exertion should be taboo. Straining and struggling would not only be unnecessary, but counterproductive. If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, make sure that your default emotion is relaxed confidence. Have faith in the momentum generated by all the previous work you have done to arrive where you are now.

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OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

Elsie de Wolfe (1859-1950) was a pioneer in the art of interior design. She described herself as “a rebel in an ugly world.” Early in her career she vowed, “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful,” and she often did just that.

In part through her influence, the dark, cluttered decor of the Victorian Era, with its bulky draperies and overly ornate furniture, gave way to rooms with brighter light, softer colors, and more inviting textures. I’d love to see you be inspired by her mission, Scorpio. It’s a good time to add extra charm, grace, and comfort to your environments.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

At the age of 36, author Franz Kafka composed a 47-page letter to his father Herman. As he described the ways that his dad’s toxic narcissism and emotional abuse had skewed his maturation process, he refrained from lashing out with histrionic anger. Instead he focused on objectively articulating the facts, recounting events from childhood and analyzing the family dynamic. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you write a letter to your own father — even if it’s filled with praise and gratitude instead of complaint. At this juncture in your life story, I think you especially need the insights that this exercise would generate. (P.S. Write the letter for your own sake, not with the hope of changing or hurting or pleasing your dad. You don’t have to give it to him.)

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Shizo Kanakuri was one of Japan’s top athletes when he went to compete in the marathon race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Partway through the event, fatigued by sweltering heat, bad food, and the long journey he’d made to get there, Kanakuri passed out. He recovered with the help of a local farmer, but by then the contest was over.

Embarrassed by his failure, he sneaked out of Sweden and returned home. Fast forward to 1966. Producers of a TV show tracked him down and invited him to resume what he’d started. He agreed. At the age of 74, he completed the marathon, finishing with a time of 54 years, eight months.

I think it’s time to claim your own personal version of this opportunity, Capricorn. Wouldn’t you love to resolve a process that got interrupted?

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

In most sporting events, there’s never any doubt about which competitor is winning. Each step of the way, the participants and spectators know who has more points or goals or runs. But one sport isn’t like that. In a boxing match, no one is aware of the score until the contest is finished — not even the boxers themselves. I think you’re in a metaphorically comparable situation. You won’t find out the final tally or ultimate decision until the “game” is complete. Given this uncertainty, I suggest that you don’t slack off even a little. Keep giving your best until the very end.

PISCES

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One night as you lie sleeping in your bed, you will dream of flying through the sunny summer sky. The balmy air will be sweet to breathe. Now and then you will flap your arms like wings, but mostly you will glide effortlessly. The feeling that flows through your body will be a blend of exhilaration and ease. Anywhere you want to go, you will maneuver skillfully to get there. After a while, you will soar to a spot high above a scene that embodies a knotty problem in your waking life. As you hover and gaze down, you will get a clear intuition about how to untie the knots.

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SAVAGE

by Dan Savage

Dear Dan: I’m a hetero guy in need of advice. Back in college, I met this girl.

Suffice it to say she was into me but I had some shit to work through. So we ended up being a missed connection, romantically.

Despite that, we still became fast friends.

I’m less awkward now, in large part because our friendship changed my life. We each married other people, and everything worked out great. Except I still love her. I think about her often, want to share things about my life with her, find myself wanting to rely on her when things are tough. I don’t know what to do with it. On one hand, she means an awful lot to me — she is the kind of friend that comes along once in a lifetime — and I know that I mean a lot to her. So this is a relationship worth protecting, even as asymmetrical as it is.

On the other hand, these feelings are starting to seem kind of pathetic. We are barely part of each other’s lives anymore — do I even have a right to feel the way I do? I see three options, each of which is shit. (1) Keep my feelings to myself and endure/ enjoy a painful but deeply meaningful friendship. (2) Disappear, either abruptly or gradually, with no explanation. Or (3) damn the torpedoes and bare my soul, which might painfully explode the relationship. After years of option 1, I am strongly leaning toward option 3 — just blowing shit wide open and dealing with whatever happens.

— No Good At Acronyms Dear NGAA: You’re going to need a gay dude to act on the advice I’m about to give you — and not just any gay dude, NGAA, but the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals. And not just any gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals, but the kind of Broadway-musicalobsessed gay dude who has good taste.

(Look through his record collection: If Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is in there and Mame isn’t, he does not have good taste.)

Okay, here’s my advice: Listen to the original Broadway cast recordings of Company, Follies and A Little Night Music — music and lyrics, in all three cases, by Stephen Sondheim (peace be upon him [PBUH]). Yes, you can get all three recordings on iTunes, NGAA, but you need to listen to them on vinyl, and you need to discuss these shows, and three songs in particular, with someone who already knows them by heart. Hence the need for a gay dude with good taste in Broadway musicals and an extensive collection of original Broadway cast recordings — Boulder Weekly

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on vinyl. As any Broadway-musicalobsessed gay man will tell you: Epiphanies, insights and breakthroughs come most reliably in moments of silence, i.e., when you have to flip the record over.

Here are the songs you need to pay close attention to: “Sorry-Grateful” from Company, “The Road You Didn’t Take” from Follies, and “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music.

(You might be a little too fragile for “Too Many Mornings” and “Losing My Mind,” both from Follies.) Listen over and over again — until you know the lyrics of all three songs by heart.

Discuss what these songs mean with your new gay friend. Then you’ll know what to do.

Dear Dan: I was stroking my partner and went for the lube, when he informed me that he prefers to have his handjobs sans lube. He says that lube is messy. For the past three years, he has raved about my handjobs and said my skills are professional level, and never once did he complain about the lube. I attempted to follow through, but all my old techniques didn’t work. I asked him to show me how, what he likes, and he said just do the same as I’ve always done. The sliding, gliding, twisting motions that I usually use, all with a reasonable amount of squeezing, just DO NOT WORK without lube. My hand stuck to the dampish skin and would not slide. He says I am making a big deal out of nothing, but I am upset. One of the best tools in my sexual toolbox has just been rendered unusable.

— Sincerely Laments Obstructed Wanking Dear SLOW: You need to listen to the original Broadway cast recording of Wicked, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (PBUH). When Idina Menzel sings “Defying Gravity,” pretend she’s singing “defying aridity.”

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by Leland Rucker

On the pot issue, candidates should be listening to their constituents

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arijuana is all the rage these days. their own medical or recreational programs without Everybody is saying it’s going to be a interference from the DEA or anybody else above. It major campaign issue in 2016, as citistops short of legalizing it nationwide, but it would zens in many states contemplate initiasend the message that marijuana should be controlled tives and begin to collect signatures to like alcohol. legalize medical and/or recreational cannabis.

One week later Hillary Clinton proposed that Every presidential candidate is being grilled about cannabis be moved from Schedule I to Schedule II Wikimedia Commons it, and each has a differunder the pretense that ent take. On the it would make it easier Republican side Rand to do research on mediPaul supports medical cal marijuana here. It’s a marijuana, access to symbolic gesture. banking services and the Schedule II includes right for states to make drugs like cocaine, oxytheir own choices. codone and methamDonald Trump, Marco phetamine, all with a Rubio, Ben Carson and high potential for abuse, Lindsey Graham would and keeping cannabis in be open to legalizing the same league also medical but not recrekeeps Drug-War funding in place. Clinton is toneational marijuana. Jeb deaf to the idea of legalBush, John Kasich and ization but tolerant of Rick Santorum oppose states that have, so she legalization of any kind, has been forced to move while Carly Fiorina stops about half a decimal at anything beyond point to the left. decriminalization.

The thing that fasciPersonally, I’m still nates me the most is that pulling for Chris Christie Sanders continues to be to become the Republican candidate, categorized as “radical,” Why is Bernie Sanders the only presidential candidate to because I want the but this proposal, like show common sense about cannabis legalization? opportunity to witness a much of what he champresident leading federal pions, is much more in troops into four states line with what voters are and the District of Columbia to enforce cannabis seeking than “mainstream” politicians like Clinton or laws and imprison hundreds of thousands of the Republicans who go out of their way to appease Coloradans for growing, selling and partaking. their base. His cannabis plan is pretty conventional, On a more serious note, Bernie Sanders fired the especially as more Americans join the legalization first real salvo into the campaign on Oct. 30 by intro- bandwagon. It’s not that he’s radical; it’s that he’s ducing the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition more in touch with voters than the other candidates Act in the Senate. It would remove cannabis from the as well as the media that cover them. list of controlled substances and allow states to run On a hemispheric level, the U.S. is being symboli-

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cally squeezed from both directions. Up north, the new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, an admitted recreational cannabis user, won on a platform that included legalizing marijuana. His party holds a majority in the House of Commons, and polls indicate citizen support is about the same as here.

Perhaps even more incredible, Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled on Nov. 4 that individuals have a right to consume and cultivate marijuana. The decision only legally affects the plaintiffs in one case, but it sets a precedent that could lead to a country that decriminalized possession of all drugs in 2009 to now allow consumption of cannabis.

The judges sent a strong message. “The responsible decision taken to experiment with the effects of this substance — whatever personal harm it might do,” they wrote, “belongs within the autonomy of the individual, protected by their freedom to develop themselves.”

Yet here in the U.S., the War on Drugs continues.

A 68-year-old former physician faces five felonies after sheriff ’s deputies in Buncombe County, North Carolina found 30 cannabis plants in his rented garage.

Gordon Piland, who calls himself a naturopath, has a medical license but lost it in the 1980s when police found marijuana plants during a raid. He provides cannabis to cancer patients, and since he is already well-known to authorities and the plants were in his garage, this is more about politics than law enforcement.

Such a waste. What Piland is doing is against the law in North Carolina, but really, should a 68-yearold be facing the rest of his life in prison for doing something that is legal in many states and does no harm to anyone else? And should the state be spending $30,000 a year to incarcerate him? Most of us would answer no to both questions. But among all those presidential candidates, only the “radical” Bernie Sanders seems to be listening.

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Have you ever been in the grocery store and thought, “Gee, wouldn’t it be great if I could get my blood tested while I’m here?” Well, the folks at California-based supermarket chain Safeway felt the same way, so five years ago they inked a deal for roughly $350 million to build blood test clinics in more than 800 Safeway stores nationwide.

And while a medical clinic in a grocery store isn’t that bizarre a concept, Theranos, the company behind the Wikimedia Commons Safeway clinics, has been accused of struggling with and neglecting to use its proprietary blood test technology, which it claims can perform a wide range of tests with only a prick of a fingertip.

Sound too good to be true? It’s looking like it just might be.

While Safeway and Theranos used to have mad love, it looks like it’s all bad blood these days. A Nov. 10 exposé by Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou revealed that Theranos is now severing ties with Safeway. In five years the Theranos-anchored clinics never began blood testing and are currently being used for flu shots and other travel-related vaccines.

Baby, now we got problems.

This, by the way, is Carreyrou’s second exposé on Theranos’ crumbling empire.

He first reported on the company at the end of October, exposing its failure to publically use its oh-so-simple and reliable blood testing technology since the company was founded in 2003.

Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes has gone to the mattresses for her company, likening the Wall Street Journal to a “tabloid” and posting a highly scientific response to the Journal’s allegations on the company’s website.

However, Safeway executives told the Wall Street Journal they were less than impressed with the company’s blood testing technique — one executive was told his test results strongly suggested he had prostate cancer. Results by a traditional lab showed nothing abnormal.

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Sorry, folks. Despite thousands of social media pictures questioning the existence of UFOs, aliens, Superman and apocalypse-threatening asteroids over the weekend, the Navy confirmed it launched an unarmed test missile from a submarine.

A test they had to keep secret for national security purposes. Something they have done before, and something they will most likely do again. Oh wait, they did launch another one on Monday night that didn’t leave quite the same blue streak or cause quite the same ruckus.

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