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Don’t assume people love those cars just because they have to drive them Paul Danish, in his article last week, “Driving to Ban Drilling,” accuses 150 Boulder County residents of being hypocritical for driving to a meeting where they advocated for an end to drilling the very resources they do indeed rely upon. But Mr. Danish takes it a step further, and accuses those who support a ban on oil and gas drilling in Boulder
County of acting immorally. His argument is so long as we rely on oil and gas to survive, it is unethical to advocate for an end to drilling. This strikes me as a simplistic assertion which fails to address the most salient points. Not once does Mr. Danish mention climate change, a primary factor motivating those who support a ban on gas and oil drilling. Many people believe that the continued use of fossil fuels threatens human existence on Earth, so
it becomes difficult to argue someone’s actions are immoral if they are advocating an end to oil and gas drilling. The best Danish can hope to do is argue against climate change, and accuse those 150 citizens of being misguided, perhaps ignorant. But he attempts no such line of argumentation. Colorado already receives a significant portion of energy from alternative see LETTERS Page 10
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Highroad Let workers vote on CEO’s pay by Jim Hightower
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ne difference between top executives and worker bees is that those at the top can lower the pay of those down below, while simultaneously raising their own pay. If you wonder what’s causing America’s rapidly-widening income gap, there it is. Technically, CEOs do not set their own pay levels, supposedly leaving that to the board of directors. The typical board, however, is a CEO pushover,
largely made up of other highly-paid CEOs and brothers-in-law of the corporate boss. But in response to public disgust at the grotesque excess in the platinum paychecks of top bosses, corporations have added a new level of “pay police” to oversee the process — “compensation consultants,” they’re called. These specialists are hired to analyze industry-wide data to advise corporate boards on the going rate for top dogs, thus assuring an impartial assessment on pay that can calm public furor. Really? Ha! Surely you joke. Guess who hires the consultant? Astonishingly, the board often delegates that delicate assignment to the CEO! But even when the board runs the process, the chief ’s pay keeps going up, up and away. One reason is that board members like to brag to their countryclub peers that they have the hottest of hotshot CEOs, and you don’t prove that
For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.
by paying chump change. CorporateWorld measures everything by money, so its cultural ethic dictates that a top-notch top dog is defined by a spectacular level of pay, and the “best” is the one who commands the most. The contrived, self-serving corporate dogma that multimillion-dollar executive compensation is determined by the invisible hand of the mysterious marketplace is pure P.T. Barnum-Elmer GantryWizard of Oz hokum. A truer system of establishing a CEO’s worth would be the old pirate system — let every worker on the corporate ship vote on it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 20, 2014 7
DyerTimes The rise of the green-talking climate change deniers
Really BAD Ideas What do you call a pro-choice, climate-change denier?
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e hear it all the time: “climate denier.” We spit the term like a swear word at the Koch brothers or countless Republican politicians. It’s a label we attach to oil and gas industry executives, coal barons and those who run our power generation plants. But what does it really mean to be a climate denier? It seems simple enough to answer that question. Ninety-eight percent of climate scientists believe that the Earth is getting warmer as a result of human activity. We call it global warming and if it goes unchecked, the human race is up a creek without a paddle… or a boat for that matter. Climate deniers are people who either don’t believe that the Earth is getting warmer; don’t think that human activity has anything to do with the Earth getting warmer; don’t think it matters that the Earth is getting warmer; or think that the 2 percent of scientists who don’t believe in global warming are smarter than the other 98 percent. So how many real climate deniers are out there? It’s hard to say. Sadly, I think there are quite a few in the general population thanks to lousy media coverage of the issue, oil and gas industry propaganda and a general lack of education on the subject in some corners. That said, I don’t believe that the vast majority of “I’m not a scientist” Republicans or fossil fuel industry execs are really climate deniers. They are educated people, so I think they are mostly just dishonest, self-serving jerks more concerned with filling their campaign coffers and expanding their bank accounts than they are with your kid’s future or even their own kid’s future. And that raises a couple of pretty important questions. Who are the real “climate deniers” and should our answer to that question be based on what a person says about climate change or on what they do about it? To try to answer those questions, I barrowed, twisted and secularized the apologetics of author Josh McDowell. I’ll start with Colorado’s poster child for disfunctional climate-change policy, Gov. John Hickenlooper, who says he cares about the environment and is concerned about climate change. But this same Hickenlooper fellow also tells us that oil and gas extraction is good for us. He says it creates jobs and 8 November 20, 2014
tax revenues, is safe for the environment and human health and is a great way to power our cars, our homes and our lives. He even says fracking fluid is safe to drink. But since 98 percent of climate scientists tell us that the continued use of oil and gas to power the world will ultimately lead to the environmental destruction of our planet, how do we square Hickenlooper’s two seemingly opposite policy positions? There are really only three possible theories to explain this seeming discrepancy. The first theory is that the Governor truly believes what he is saying. He believes that increasing the amount of oil and gas available for the world to burn will somehow not impact global warming. But an actual belief in such a nonsensical thing would suggest that Hickenlooper would have to be a little touched, as in nuts. That’s right, certifiably crazy and delusional. After all, even children know that burning fossil fuels will not help to solve global warming. This “he’s nuts” scenario is really the best hope for Hick. In this option at least he’s an honest broker who simply has lost his ability to reason or comprehend what the world’s scientific community is saying about the causes and consequences of global warming. Theory two is worse for the Governor, at least from the standpoint of character. In this potential explanation, Hickenlooper’s opposite positions can only coexist because he is a self-interested liar. This option assumes he’s intelligent and able to understand the issue of global warming and its consequences should we fail to turn away from energy sources that are dumping millions of tons of green house gases (GHG), primarily carbon dioxide and methane, into our atmosphere every year. In this second scenario, Hick is telling the truth about how much he loves oil and gas extraction and fracking, but he is lying about his being concerned about global warming even though he knows it’s real. I’ll call this the “liar” scenario, an appropriate description for people who would kill off the human race knowingly in exchange for a few extra years of personal political power or a few extra bucks in their pocket. The third and final possible explasee DYERTIMES Page 11
commentary A history of atrocities against American Indians by Dave Anderson
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hen Christopher Columbus and his men landed in the New World, he described in his log how the friendly Arawak Indians ran to greet them and offered food, water and gifts: “They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance... They would make fine servants... With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” He was looking for gold and he enslaved, mutilated and murdered countless Indians in his quest. He was once honored as a heroic explorer but increasingly has become a symbol of genocide and colonialism. This year, the cities of Minneapolis and Seattle changed Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. Sixteen states didn’t celebrate Columbus Day. Colorado was the first state to make it an official holiday in 1907. Italian Americans lobbied for this in reaction to discrimination against them by the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) elite who were supposedly 100 percent Americans. The WASPs looked down on people of southern and eastern European descent who were Catholics and Jews. They feared those swarthy troublemaking immigrant workers who
were joining unions. Middle-class Italians felt they could gain respect by celebrating Columbus. Over the years, Columbus Day became a minor event. Meanwhile, many Indians migrated to Denver. In the 1950s, the federal government created the largest movement of Indians in American history with a program to relocate them from reservations into nine cities including Denver. In 1940, 8 percent of Indians lived in cities. By 2000, their urban population had risen to 64 percent. In the 1960s, urban Indians started a militant civil rights movement. In the 1990s, some Denver Italian Americans revived the celebration of Columbus Day. For two decades, there were fierce confrontations between them and Indian protesters. While the controversy over Columbus Day has died down in Colorado for the time being, our state has been reviving the memory of the Sand Creek Massacre, which occurred 150 years ago. The massacre was unprovoked. On November 29, 1864, more than 200 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho villagers (mostly elderly men, women and children) were gathered at Fort Lyon seeking a peace treaty with the U.S. government. They were living there see COMMENTARY Page 10
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mize it every way they can. There is plenty of immorality to be found in the issue of gas and oil drilling. People who drive one block to purchase twenty ounces of sugar-water on a sunny day could potentially be construed as immoral. Why not ask citizens to cut their wasteful resource use? Most Americans could cut their oil and gas use by 10-20 percent without feeling much of a pinch, other than at their waists, which would shrink accordingly. Why not ask our federal and state governments to stop subsidizing dirty fossil fuels and pour that money into alternative energy R&D? One could take a moral stance with that angle as well. Paul Danish wants to argue people working to reduce the county’s carbon footprint are acting immorally, but he never mentions climate change, their primary motivating factor. Until he can refute the climate science and convince us the globe is not warming due to our dirty fuels, he’s not going to win any argument on moral grounds. He’s best served with the low-hanging fruit represented by the hypocrisy card, where he can keep hating the player, and ignoring the game. Paul, I bet you didn’t see any Hummers in that parking lot. Adam Jacobs/Westminster
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under the protection of the U.S. Army when they were attacked by a volunteer federalized regiment of the U.S. Army. Babies were smashed onto the rocks, scalps were taken and then heads and other body parts were paraded as battle trophies to cheering Denverites. Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle had just returned from Washington, D.C. where President Lincoln gave him a gigantic American flag. As the butchery commenced, he waved that flag and a white flag of peace. Arapaho Chief Left Hand (Niwot) told the soldiers — in English — that he was their friend before they killed him. For years, he advocated reconciliation with the white settlers and was well known in Boulder. In 1865, two Congressional committees and one military commission condemned the massacre. That year, President Andrew Johnson forced John Evans, Governor of Colorado Territory, to resign because he attempted to cover up the massacre. A member of Denver’s monied elite, Evans helped found the University of Denver and Northwestern University in
Illinois. Two cities, a street, a mountain and a World War II battle ship were named after him. This year, Northwestern and DU released devastating reports on John Evans’ culpability for the massacre. They concluded that he created the conditions that led to the massacre. He even invited all white settlers to kill any “hostile” Indians they came across and steal their property. In 1884, Evans reminisced about the “great benefit to the people of Colorado of the so-called Massacre” which “rid us of the roaming Plains Indians.” DU historian Alan Gilbert played a crucial role in his university’s investigation. He is the “John Evans professor,” which is the highest honor bestowed on scholars at both DU and Northwestern. Gilbert told me he feels like “the Heinrich Himmler professor.” It’s dangerous to only remember the positive events of the past. As James Baldwin put it, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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nation for Hickenlooper’s schizophrenic positions is that he is, in reality, a climate change denier. In this scenario, he may think that the world is getting warmer and he may even believe that humans have something to do with it, but at the end of the day he doesn’t believe that anything bad is really going to happen if we keep using oil and gas for the next hundred years or so. He likely thinks that new technologies will come along to solve the climate problem in the nick of time or maybe that it won’t really be that big of a deal because we’ll just adjust what crops we grow where thanks to a new round of Monsanto patents. Call this third option what you will; the Pollyanna theory or ostrich scenario, whatever, but make no mistake about it. While it may be a slightly nuanced position compared to the troglodytes who just grunt out their lack of belief in science, it is still climate denial to be sure. Hickenlooper’s irreconcilable climate positions can only be explained by door number one, two or three. So which is it; nut, liar or climate denier? I don’t think that Hickenlooper is a nut job and I don’t think he’s a liar ... well, at least not to the degree that he would flush the planet in exchange for another four years in office. So if he isn’t either of those, then the only remaining explanation for his fanatical commitment to increasing the world’s use of fossil fuels is that he is a climate denier. So what happens to the political debate around climate change if we begin to properly label those who claim to champion the cause of global warming while simultaneously pushing policies that increase fossil fuel use? I think the first thing that would happen is we would quickly realize that a lot of Democrats are actually climate deniers just as surely as their Republican counterparts. And once we recognize and acknowledge that, change could begin to occur via the ballot box. The days of using the word environmentalist to describe politicians who protect wilderness with one hand while pushing for increased drilling and fracking with the other are over, or must be if we are to survive. If a senator gets a 96-percent rating from some environmental group then turns around and votes to build the Keystone XL pipeline for purely political reasons, he or she is either a climate denier or a lying A-hole. Neither explanation should get you reelected. If a congressman claims to accept the science on global warming but still personBoulder Weekly
ally invests millions of dollars in oil and gas extraction, they are a climate denier or a… well, you get the point by now. Sadly, I think I just described Colorado’s entire Democratic contingent to Congress. It’s not that complicated folks. It’s actions, not words, that define real climate denial. It’s not which political party you’re in that makes you an environmentalist or a climate denier.
And if we want to have any chance of stopping global warming we better start ridding ourselves of elected climate deniers sooner rather than later. I was reading OPEC’s most recent report on future global oil use this week and its message was shocking in its unapologetic clarity. The report said the global consumption of oil and other hydrocarbons will increase by 60 percent by 2040.
That OPEC prediction is exactly the opposite of what the scientific community is telling us must happen by 2040 if the planet is to survive. Clearly this report reflects the oil and gas industry’s optimism that its money and political clout will be enough to keep the growing plague of green-talking climate deniers in power. It’s our job to prove them wrong. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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philosophy that University of Colorado research associate E. Michael Thurman applies to scientific research, he says, is: “You can sort the error from the truth if you work hard enough.” This week, that task became far more difficult as Thurman and his research associates came under fire for apparently declaring the fluid used in hydraulic fracturing operations to be harmless. But it wasn’t true. The researchers never said anything like that, nor did they intend to. Like the children’s game of telephone, as word spread from one mouth to the next, the truth got so mired in errors it was nearly invisible by the end. So how did a study designed to analyze traceable components of fracking fluid so potential contamination in groundwater could be identified get transformed into a headline that declared fracking fluid safe? The answer is poor communication and bad journalism. It started with an unclear press release from the University of Colorado with a title that declared “Major class of fracking chemicals no more toxic than common household substances.” That choice seems to have bred confusion. “There were quite a few news outlets that missed the distinction that we were trying to make about it being one class of chemicals — it’s an important class of chemicals, but it’s not all the chemicals, and basically [headlines] left the impression that all chemicals in fracking fluid were safe,” says Laura Snider, University of Colorado media relations staff member and author of the original press release. “Ultimately, I feel like the news release is accurate. I feel like if I had to write again, I probably would make some things more clear or make some things that were down lower up higher, I guess. But I feel like it’s Boulder Weekly
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Thurman’s research could allow fracking fluid found in groundwater to be traced back to a specific well, which was one of the primary reasons for doing the study in the first place.
all in there.” She admits her choice to place information about the toxicity of the chemicals the researchers had identified as a portion of the fracking fluid at the top of the release stemmed from an interest in making the science more compelling to readers far outside that field of research. “The challenge that we always have writing about science is how can we make this something that people can understand or that they think is valuable or sort of has an impact,” she says. In the days following the press release, and amid a deluge of phone calls Thurman and his research partner Imma Ferrer received about the study, Snider received one from the Society of Environmental Journalists questioning her approach. “I think some professors at different universities were like, ‘We’re going to use this as an example for our class of what not to do, in the sense of — here’s the study, here’s the press release, here’s the actual coverage. Now where is the breakdown?’” Snider says. She gave them a copy of the news release and says they told her they, like she, thought it was clear, but that there was a communication gap somewhere. Nearly a week after CU’s press release, Colorado State University’s news website, Source, worked with the researchers at that university who had also been involved in Thurman’s study, to put out a story on the research. CSU’s reporting on the research puts at Boulder Weekly
the forefront the statement that the purpose of the research was to provide a technique and database to use to determine if chemical compounds found in groundwater might have come from fracking fluid operations. It’s a stark contrast, and one with an obvious symmetry to the findings in the paper. Unfortunately, the media buzz had already run away with CU’s very different story. The Daily Camera’s front page headline the day following the CU press release declared, “CU study: Fracking fluid toxicity minimal: Researchers say liquid no more dangerous than household products.” This headline and the first paragraphs of the story omit the fact that the researchers studied only about onefifth of the chemicals in the fracking fluid samples they examined. The Camera story concluded under a subhead “‘Facts aren’t so scary,’” with a declaration that the research shows that hydraulic fracturing is a fundamentally safe technology. That declaration came from the Independent Petroleum Association of America’s research, education and public outreach campaign tool, the website Energy in Depth. The Colorado Oil and Gas Association also seized on the Camera’s misleading headline when it tweeted that the research adds evidence to COGA’s previous statements that fracking fluid toxicity is “minimal,” and “no more toxic than common household products.”
The official statement on Thurman’s research from Doug Flanders, director of policy and external affairs for the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, was: “We welcome and embrace sound science, thorough studies, and continued transparency. For Colorado families, this should again give comfort that oil and gas development is being conducted responsibly. It’s critical to note that in Colorado any concerned resident can already learn exactly what’s in fracking fluid, thanks to the state’s first-of-itskind disclosure rules. This is another example of how Colorado’s tough regulations on oil and gas development are working.” Such reponses make one wonder how many of these people even read the study, which was published in the academic journal Analytical Chemistry in August and is freely available online.
What the research really said The paper, “Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Flowback and Produced Waters Using Accurate Mass” was the first of several papers Thurman says he hopes to release on the subject of fracking fluid. Thurman works in the Center for Environmental Mass Spectrometry at the University of Colorado’s Department of Environmental Engineering as does his fellow researcher, Ferrer. They aren’t toxicologists, he stresses, they’re environmental chemists.
“We weren’t out to find whether the [chemicals] were toxic or not,” he says. “In the press release, [Snider] wrote the word toxic in there, but that wasn’t our goal and we didn’t do any tests to determine toxicity. ... What she wrote was not incorrect, but that wasn’t the purpose of the study.” During their research Thurman and Ferrer ran the fluid through a mass spectrometer to examine its chemical composition, and identified the use of two surfactants — chemical lubricants used in household products including detergents, shampoos and soaps that reduce the tension between water and oil — used in fracking fluid. It’s a rare precision in an industry often shrouded with proprietary secrets. Thurman’s focus was on identifying what percentage of the chemicals in flowback water from fracking operations are surfactants and to identify what type of surfactants were being used and produce what is essentially a fingerprint of those chemicals that can be traced. Surfactants are known ingredients for hydraulic fracturing jobs, and are listed on FracFocus’s Chemical Disclosure Registry website. Thurman and Ferrer had previously researched surfactants, and had the instruments necessary to study them. “We thought, this is a class of compounds that we can analyze, so let’s find out what percentage of the organic See FACT Page 14
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materials that they add to the well are coming out of the surfactants. So that was goal one,” he says. “And goal two was could any of these surfactants be used to fingerprint the individual wells themselves.” The results provide a tool other labs can use to determine if groundwater has been contaminated by fracking operations nearby and, if there are multiple companies operating in the area, possibly identify which company’s frack fluid had entered the groundwater. “We’d have to have a sample of what went down [the fracked well], but if you had that, I would guarantee you we could distinguish [between them],” he says. If someone wants to know if their well has been contaminated, they could answer that question. “That, to me, is the valuable component [of the research],” Thurman says. “The toxicity question revolves around a lot of other compounds that are in there. There’s biocides added and there’s other compounds that maybe we haven’t figured out yet, and who knows about how toxic they might be.” Biocides are known toxins that can be fatal at certain exposure levels. And numerous other ingredients in fracking fluid are suspected carcinogens. Focusing on the toxicity of the chemicals, as both the CU press release and the Camera story did, both mischaracterizes the goals of the study and fails to acknowledge the limitation its lead researcher has openly pointed out. The study is based on a sample size of eight, wasn’t focused on toxicity and did not look at 80 percent of the ingredients found in fracking fluid. Since the paper was completed roughly six months ago, Thurman has been able to run an additional eight samples. That’s still not much, he says. “When you’ve only run less than 20 samples and there’s 7,000 wells just in Colorado alone — we don’t have a clue as to what’s really out there,” he says. “That would be like guessing who’s going to be president by asking eight people. I mean it’s not a very good sample set.” The samples he obtained, including the eight in the study, were collected from five states (including Colorado) by way of colleagues. He also was given a standards sample and two of the flowback water samples by Multi-Chem, a Halliburton Service. Some came from colleagues at Colorado State University. In exchange for the samples, MultiChem asked to read the paper before it was published. Their only objection was
to the inclusion of a name of a specific surfactant mixture that included both types of surfactants, which they said was proprietary and asked that the name be removed. The surfactants Thurman and his fellow researchers were studying make up only 20 percent of the fracking fluid — 80 percent of it is other stuff, perhaps largely water and sand, but other chemical components as well. Numerous sources claim that 350 to 700 chemicals are generally used in most fracking fluids. “The other 80 percent, we don’t know yet. Some of it could be natural, harmless compounds, for example, acetic acid, which is vinegar, has been reported to be a major component coming back from the wells,” he says. “There are trace levels of other compounds that are known toxins, things called biocides that are added to kill bacteria so they don’t plug the wells, there’s some of that being put in the well. We’ve not worked on those, but that’s the next topic, probably, we will take a look for those. In fact we’ve already found some, but that’s the topic of a new paper.” The surfactants Thurman found in the fracking fluid samples he obtained are, indeed, used in common household items — dish soap and hand lotion among them. One even has medical uses as a laxative and is a food additive approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The compounds he studied, polyethylene glycols and linear alkyl ethoxylates, are so well known that when he approached Analytical Chemistry with the paper, they nearly turned it down. “Analytical Chemistry is the premiere journal in the world on this topic and they only do new and interesting things, so if your work has been done somewhere else, they’ll reject you without reading the paper,’” Thurman says. “So you have to make a really strong case that what you’ve done is something new and exciting, and I had a little bit of a struggle initially because the two classes of compounds are well known ... but no one’s measured them in groundwater, and especially for fracking water, so that’s what was new and exciting.” Thurman and Ferrer did check for and failed to find a compound that is known to be an endocrine disruptor that has been listed in previous literature as used in fracking fluid in the samples they were given. Part of that could come down to the sample size — he started with just eight samples, and has since done eight more. Boulder Weekly
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“It’s possible that had we done 100 samples, maybe there would have been some detections,” he says. Contributions to the paper also came from Colorado State University’s Jens Bloetevogel and Thomas Borch. “Now that we can identify these complex surfactant mixtures, we can better understand how these compounds move and under what conditions they may change into something else and how that may affect our environment,” says Borch, a CSU professor of environmental soil chemistry, according to Source. He and Blotevogel, an environmental engineering research professor, said the technique is a move toward better understanding the effect hydraulic fracturing may have on groundwater, as well as what happens to surfactants when they’re injected into the ground in fracking operations. They suggested the fingerprinting technique developed with this research could be used to help with monitoring water quality and perhaps remediation. A small portion of the little financial support that went into this research came through Colorado State University and the Borch-Hoppess Fund for Environmental Contaminant Research. Thurman says that organization may have received grants from Halliburton, but if any of that money came to Thurman, it was indirect. He received no direct funding from oil and gas companies, he says. We still don’t know exactly what’s in frack fluid — companies publish only a generic list of ingredients on the FracFocus website despite the claims to the contrary by COGA. “It would be like if you were baking bread and you had a nice recipe, and you’d say ‘Well, I have wheat and I have sugar,’” says Thurman. “But you’re not telling us how much so we can’t reproduce your recipe, and also you’re using general terms. Maybe you use a special kind of flour. Well that’s what everyBoulder Weekly
body does with these wells,” he says. With surfactants, the information made publicly available based on what environmental legislation requires is often generic enough that it could apply to a hundred compounds. Companies can always change the formula, too. Among the compounds used in fracking fluid, according to data publicly released, are compounds that are known to be hazardous. How much is being used, and what happens to them when they’re mixed into that recipe, the amounts in flowback or the way they mix in the heat and pressure at 10,000 feet underground, where fracking operations take place, or what happens as they may encounter or pick up radioactive material or brine on the way back to the surface are still unknown. Using Thurman’s technique to identify everything in fracking fluid would take years and cost a fortune, he says. But Thurman’s work does identify chemicals that can be used as tracers — and provides information that could be used by private labs to identify fracking fluid. And that could be useful in instances of groundwater contamination. “A lot of people are concerned that their water wells could be impacted. ... Let’s say there’s some oil in their water and they think it’s coming from fracking. Could we detect the fracking fluid itself that went down the well? The answer to that is, we think we can now with this class of compounds and the reason is the levels are high enough that we can detect them,” he says. “They’re transported in groundwater. They’re not removed easily. They don’t degrade easily.” All of that means, their chemistry endures in a way that makes them possible to trace and identify. They won’t change or absorb into the surfaces around them.
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On the question of this ability to research is whether surfactants — trace well contamination sources, which, again, are lubricants — being COGA’s Flanders said via email, “With pumped into the ground in the area of the Colorado water pre- and post-base- old geologic faults might be contributline testing rules and strict testing proing to the earthquakes recently reported tocols, we already know hydraulic fracnear injection wells that take flowback turing is not impacting drinking water.” water from fracking. Knowing that the Yet public concern about groundwa- flowback water is likely to contain surter contamination persists. factants that were used to lubricate the “Sometimes, the general public is rock to allow for the extraction of oil aware of probraises some queslems before the tions of its own. science is there,” “So you’re Thurman says. pumping this IF YOU’RE A DEMOCRAT OR “This is one of down into old A REPUBLICAN, YOU CAN’T the first papers faults that haven’t published on the moved, and you’re IGNORE THE FACT THAT flowback water helping to lubriTHERE’S THAT MUCH OIL … but people cate them a little THAT’S AVAILABLE WITH have been worbit — that may ried about it for not be a good THESE NEW TECHNIQUES, years.” idea,” Thurman BUT IT HAS TO BE DONE With the says. RESPONSIBLY. THAT’S WHAT constant presHis next step ence of fracking will be to look at WE’RE TRYING TO DO IS on the news, the these compounds CONTRIBUTE JUST A LITTLE barrage of they’ve now anaBIT TO THAT RESPONSIBLE advertisements lyzed in the environment, investifrom oil and gas RECOVERY.” — MICHAEL gating questions companies THURMAN, UNIVERSITY like what happens declaring it safe, OF COLORADO RESEARCH to them in the the communities heat and the presacross the counASSOCIATE sure found 10,000 try voting on feet under ground whether to allow during fracking it in their commuoperations. He’ll also begin studying nities, Thurman says, it the biocides used to kill off microbial looked like a topic worth studylife that might clog the pipes for oil and ing. gas — some of the toxins that do exist “It’s probably the most important political environmental topic in the U.S. in fracking fluid. Science, he says, works a little bit right now,” he says. “So it seemed like a like a set of puzzle pieces that come really important environmental topic with pieces that don’t fit in the puzzle for us to be involved in. … It doesn’t mixed in among them, and no image to matter if you’re a Democrat or a clarify what you’re building. There are a Republican, you can’t ignore the fact lot of pieces still to place when it comes that there’s that much oil that’s availto fracking. able with these new techniques, but it “That’s what science often does. has to be done responsibly. What we’re trying to do is contribute just a little bit The data is coming at you, the information, some of it is relevant, and to that responsible recovery.” some of it has nothing to do with it at As his research continues, he’ll be all, and your job is to figure it out,” looking for additional samples of Thurman says. “So I walk along and I flowback water. For a fee, the lab say, ‘What is the one thread of truth could conceivably test well samples if that’s out there?’ And you start pulling people want to see if these surfactants on that thread and then pretty soon, are appearing in their well water near boom, there it is. There’s the story. fracking operations. Running individThat’s research. ual samples is tough, though, and a “There’s a lot of similarity to good group or community-wide effort journalism, investigative journalism, would be easier to navigate, were and research. It’s really the same thing, someone interested to pursue that and you’re searching for the truth, tryoption. Private labs equipped to test ing to dig it out, and the subtleties of for these compounds could also now truth.” answer that question. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Among the areas in need of more
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he U.S. Food and Drug they don’t have to disclose that envicountries, resulting in many nations Administration is no ronmental review to the public until refusing to import American meat stranger to allegations of after they’ve approved the drug,” says from animals fed ractopamine. Among under-regulation, but Tomaselli. “That takes away the pubthose who prohibit the drug are China among recent criticisms is lic’s ability to be able to respond and and the European Union, who together the agency’s repeated approval of a provide additional data they have, be produce and consume the majority of series of veterinary drugs based on rac- that public studies or otherwise. So the the world’s pork. topamine, a growth-producing suppleFDA is only looking at the pharmaceuIn July 2012, the Codex ment that has U.S. nonprofits filing tical industry’s data.” Alimentarius Commission, the foodlawsuits against the agency. For eight of the 11 drugs targeted standards body for the United Nations, Ractopamine isn’t narrowly voted to adopt People for the Humane Treatment of Animals new to livestock farma limit for ractopamine ing in the U.S. The residues found in meat FDA first approved the products — the vote drug for commercially was 69 to 67. The vote raised pigs in 1999, and marks a huge trade viclater permitted its use tory for meat-exporting for cattle and turkeys. countries that use ractoThe drug mimics stress pamine, such as the hormones, causing aniU.S. With a global mals to gain lean musstandard set by the cle weight rather than U.N., the World Health fat in the final weeks Organization is now before slaughter. poised to rule against However, a handful countries with zero tolof consumer advocacy, erance policies. animal health and enviD.C.-based food ronmental groups say safety reporter Helena Ractopamine has been linked to “downed” animals that are too sick to the FDA has never Bottemiller wrote that stand, as well as muscular tremors, broken limbs, cardiovascular dysfunction and increased aggressive behavior in animals. FDA documents such a close vote is rare proven that ractopashow the drug is responsible for more reports of adverse effects in swine mine is safe for the for the Codex and that than any other animal drug on the market. environment, animals the contentious vote on or humans. As a result, the minimum residue limit had been stalled since 2008. a pair of lawsuits against the FDA — in the lawsuit, Tomaselli says the FDA Consumers International, which both filed in the U.S. District Court conducted no environmental analysis. represents 220 consumer organizations for Northern District of California in For the last three drugs, the agency in 110 countries, has observer status at early November — seek to reverse used a shallow environmental assessCodex meetings. CI representative approval for 11 ractopamine-based ment developed by the pharmaceutical Michael Hansen told Bottlemiller that drugs approved since 2008 and force company that developed the drug, with this vote, some international orgathe FDA to conduct the appropriate Elanco, but never looked at public nizations worry that the Codex is environmental review required by law. health and environmental effects. The Center for Food Safety, the Elanco admits in their environmen- becoming “another politicized global body, rather than the science-based Center for Biological Diversity and tal analysis of ractopamine that it is consensus body it has managed to be so Sierra Club joined forces and filed “slightly toxic to aquatic invertebrates far.” their lawsuit on Nov. 6. Paige and moderately toxic to plants,” but “In the past, Codex has avoided Tomaselli, senior attorney for the also that there was no measurable data adopting standards where scientists Center for Food Safety, says that the submitted to address chronic exposure. disagree, or where the scientific data is FDA is required, like all other federal “Estimates made using acute expolacking or insufficient,” Hansen said in agencies, to comply with the sure and toxicity data indicate that a statement to Bottemiller. “We now Environmental Protection Agency’s chronic toxicity is not expected but see a situation where trade concerns are National Environmental Policy Act, suggest a possible chronic exposure risk trumping science. This does not bode which requires agencies to prepare a from incremental increases in ractopawell for the credibility of Codex standetailed Environmental Impact mine hydrochloride from multiple site dards in the future.” Statement considering the environuses in cattle and swine feed,” the As for ractopamine residue in mental effects of any proposed action statement reads. “There is a high American meats, a January 2013 invesor product, as well as reasonable alteramount of uncertainty associated with tigation by Consumer Reports found natives. this observation.” about 20 percent of pork products test“[But the FDA has] regulations Despite widespread use of the drug that say because of confidential busiin U.S. livestock, ractopamine has been ed in the United States had traces of ractopamine, but quantities fell well ness information on pharmaceuticals banned or restricted in more than 150 Boulder Weekly
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nitely sore, didn’t want to walk, wouldn’t get up. And they act like the floor’s red hot,” Grandin adds. “They’ll stand in the pen and shift back and forth, one foot to another. Coming down a truck ramp they’ll act like the ramp’s redhot —They don’t want to put their feet down. They’ll tip toe down the ramp in a really odd way because their feet are hurting.” Grandin explains that in some very extreme instances cattle lost feet due to overdoses of the drug. She says that in
addition to the drug creating health issues for animals, it degrades the quality of the meat by toughening it. The Humane Society of the United States and the United Farm Workers filed the second lawsuit against the FDA. In a press release about the lawsuit, the nonprofit organizations cite concerns with the fact that ractopamine-based drugs remain active in animal waste. “The dispute over ractopamine speaks to a broader illness in the
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Traversing the Tent Arête on the Cassin Ridge of Mount McKinley, Alaska, 1982.
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ences, and some of the winding routes that led him to, as he says, paint lines up unclimbed peaks. Blanchard now has more than 40 years of mountain climbing experience, including 35 overseas expeditions and a generous stack of first ascents. His mountaineering career began in the Canadian Rockies before expanding to Alaska and the French Alps, and eventually to Mt. Everest and challenging peaks in Peru and Pakistan. While for many other climbers, the pursuit of Mt. Everest and the other tallest peaks in the world bred a military siege-style of climbing that means many of the people who climb Everest today do so on fixed ropes, in staged camps hauled up the face by sherpas, Blanchard has spent a lifetime playing that game by very different rules. “A rope, a rack and a pack — so what you can physically carry is all you get, and you commit to the mountain with that amount of equipment, which is very minimalist and simple, really, and you rely most-
How punk music and poor neighborhoods fed Barry Blanchard’s life in the mountains by Elizabeth Miller
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arry Blanchard has spent more than 6,000 days of his life rock climbing, ski touring, mountaineering, alpine climbing and ice climbing. At this point, he says, he’s very intimate with those environments, and can recall the textures in the snow, the ice and the rock he’s encountered along the way. Combine that familiarity with his long memory, the notes, journals and dozens of articles he’s written for various magazines and 10,000 slides he’s taken throughout the decades of his climbing career, and the end result is The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains. From the opening line, the harrowing declaration, “I saw the avalanche coming,” Blanchard recounts in gripping detail a lifetime of mountaineering experiBoulder Weekly
ly on your skill base, the skills that you fought hard to achieve or accumulate and develop and nurture through all your days in the mountains, and hopefully you’re up to the experience,” he says. He calls its alternative a bastardization of mountain climbing. “It’s a large, cumbersome, guaranteed outcome — you’re pretty much going to succeed — and lacks the commitment and poetic grace, in my opinion, of classic alpinism,” says Blanchard, who is one of few climbers to finish the West Ridge route on Mt. Everest, a challenging route with a low rate of success, or even survival. His memoir begins with an avalanche that swept over him and his climbing partners, Kevin Doyle, Mark Twight and Ward Robinson during their attempt at the Rupal Face of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. The Rupal rises 15,000 feet from its base to its summit at 26,500 feet — as Blanchard writes in the calling, “No other mountain wall presents more relief. For mountain climbers, it is the biggest face in the world.” The book then moves back to his childhood in a aging, poor, industrial corner of Calgary, touching on formative experiences with the Scouts and Horse Army Cadets, which saw him clipping in for his first see BLANCHARD Page 26
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The northeast face of Mount Chepren. Barry Blanchard spent 15 days on five different attempts to finally put up the Wild Thing. BLANCHARD from Page 25 Kevin Doyle
rappel off a tower built for military use, and becoming so immersed in reading rock climbing books he was summoned to the library to return them more than 40 days past due. What he hopes, he says, is that The Calling will transport people to places few have ventured — clawing up mountain faces where the rock is shielded in ice and snow, traversing under séracs and shoveling tent platforms at 22,000 feet. But he also hopes the memoir will let them understand how the more relatable experiences, like growing up with a greatgrandfather whose military experience inspired him and rappelling off an abandoned building as a teenager, made him into the kind of man who would venture into those peaks. “It sounds egocentric to me, but when people look at the climbs that I’ve done, I think they’re curious about what makes me tick, and I think all of that, a 360-degree view is really what makes a human being tick,” Blanchard says. “Going for it on the side of a high, icy, cold, snowy mountain and risking falling isn’t really common to most people, but a lot of the other experiences are very common to everyone, or to a lot of people. There’s commonality there, so I think what makes a human being is what we share in common with other people, and then we specialize — often a lot of us specialize in something — but I think the commonness is really what will get people to know me through the written page and perhaps understand some of my motivations and desires and my calling.” The story, particularly that of the Nanga Parbat attempt, plays out over a soundtrack of rock and punk music — The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Pogues, The Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Joy 26 November 20, 2014
Blanchard leading the crux pitch of the Wild Thing on the northeast face of Mount Chepren. Twenty feet higher, Wally took over the belay from James Blench, and Blanchard took a 30-foot leader fall coming to rest just opposite them.
Division, Trisomie 21, SNFU, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. He’d grown up a diehard country western fan (“Jerry Jeff Walker was my man,” he declares), the climbing partners he was roping up with were also handing him a Walkman and commanding, “Listen to this.” They brought a new back-
drop to his life as it became that of a career mountaineer and mountain guide and instructor. “A lot of my world view was influenced by the music, and the rebelliousness and iconoclastic irreverence of punk really set us up well to try as hard as we could on these mountains,” Blanchard says. “A lot of what we listened to were theme songs for us while we were up on the mountain and soundtracks that would play through our head and keep us going up, as amazingly as that sounds for a musical genre that has a lot of negativity in it, but also has a lot of kind of courageous rebellion. … Not only in the punk genre, but I hear that very much in the music of Bruce Springsteen, and wider.” Climbing was kind of counterculture back then, too. In Calgary, where he lived in the late ’70s when he started climbing, of the 700,000 people in town, maybe 1,000 climbed. “There’s a rich history of mountaineering clubs in North America, a lot of very prominent citizens and leaders of community participating in mountain climbing, but into the ’60s there starts to be kind of an undercurrent of counter culture, definitely in Calgary,” he says. “The first mountaineering club I joined was Calgary Mountain Club, often described as a drinking club with a climbing problem, but kind of alternative to society, being able to get into our backyard, the Canadian Rockies and get wild and get free.” Now, he sees climbing in high school curriculums, and estimates more like 100,000 of the million people in Calgary have climbed in the local gyms. When and who he’s chosen to climb with has see BLANCHARD Page 28
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Top: Necklace worn by Elizabeth Taylor, Cartier Paris, 1951. Bottom row: (from left) Necklace owned by Merle Oberon, Cartier London, 1938. Necklace created for Sir Bhupindra Singh, Maharaja of Patiala, Cartier Paris, special order, 1928. Necklace worn by Countess of Granard, Cartier London, special order, 1932. Stomacher brooch, Cartier Paris, special order, 1907.
Denver Art Museum exhibition tells the story of the 20th century through jewelry By Elizabeth Miller
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he story of Cartier jewelry is one that’s less about objects and opulence than it is one about wearers and workers — the jewelry makers, that is, and the people who went on to adorn themselves with the pieces made. As much as the Denver Art Museum’s Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century is a showcase of stunning and elegant jewelry, it is also a tour of the history and influences of the time. The survey begins at 1900 with three savvy brothers, Louis, Pierre and Jacques Cartier, who vowed to become the greatest in the profession they inherited from their grandfather, Cartier founder Louis-François Cartier, and ends in the 1970s. Along the way, Brilliant also illuminates a century of a greatly changing world. Women’s liberation showed in their fashions, their choices to smoke — and subsequently, in the necklaces made to better match flappers’ dropped-waist dresses and women’s cigarette holders. Early threads of globalization Boulder Weekly
that now enable us to speak with someone in Tokyo as easily as someone across town are apparent in jewelry and vanity cases and clocks that draw from art and artifacts from India, Egypt and Japan. Historical notes are marked — didn’t quite lose all your cash in 1929? You’ll spend the 1930s attending parties meant to craft a sense of exotic foreign places and fairy tale forgetfulness, like the playful indulgence of the “tutti-fruitti” designs from Cartier. Coronations of kings are noted in the lingering presence of tiaras, a required accessory for female attendees. A decade of economic depression eventually shows in an increased presence in other, more affordable gemstones — aquamarine, peridot and citrine, though they’re often the size of silver dollars. “As soon as you deal with objects like jewels, particularly see CARTIER Page 32
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Margaret Young-Sánchez, curator of the exhibit and of Pre-Columbian art for the Denver Art Museum, divided the exhibition into sections that group by history with thematic flourishes to draw themes out, like the influence of Asian art, the presence of smoking and the accoutrement that accompanies it and the often-overlooked niche of men’s items, including clocks, wrist and pocket watches, cufflinks and even tokens of aviation and space achievements, such as a gold model of the lunar excursion module. “It’s not just beautiful objects, but how cultural norms changed,” YoungSánchez says. The finale is spent with female icons of style — five women known for wearing the jewelry. But don’t overlook the mention to the so-called “panther,” the thoroughly modern woman Jeanne Toussaint, who became a Cartier designer in the 1920s and director of fine jewelry for Cartier in 1933, where her influence carried until 1970. She was noted for a confident, feminine approach to fine jewelry that was groundbreaking at the time, according to Rainero, and is credited with familiar motifs, including the floral and animal themes, and a humor and whimsy that was particularly called upon during challenging economic times. When Cartier bent with the changing gender roles, it was Toussaint, a modern woman herself, who’s hand applied the pressure to adapt. Those five icons were heiress and fashion icon Daisy Fellowes, Duchess of Windsor (American socialite Wallis Simpson for whom King Edward VIII
abdicated the British throne), Princess Grace of Monaco, Elizabeth Taylor and Mexican movie star María Felix, each known for their beauty, fashion sense, and for leading trends. “There is no doubt in our mind that Cartier’s style would not have been the same without the personality and the aura of these great customers,” Rainero says. In addition to illuminating the jeweler and its wearers, Brilliant spends a portion of time with the jewelry makers, showing step by step the laborious craftsmanship required to complete delicate, ethereal pieces. In addition to showcasing the hardware that goes into jewelry-making, they unravel the design process, drawing from the Cartier heritage collection, which was started in 1983 to document how Cartier style has evolved and now totals more than 1,500 works, to showcase archived documents, photographs and plaster casts used to record pieces. Each showcase of pieces from the heritage collection, Rainero says, offers an “insight into a glittering age.” The hope is that visitors will emerge knowing more about the 20th century than they did going in. Brilliant was tailor-made for Denver. It’s not a touring show. Want to see these items, many of which were gathered from private collections and are only on loan, rarely seen before and not likely to be seen much after this exhibition? This is your only chance to stare at them and hope to catch a glimpse of history and humans now half forgotten. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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t wasn’t really planned that way, the original version for 13 instruments. you have a smaller orchestra.” but the Boulder Symphony’s next The score was written in 1944 as a Performing in the style of chamber concert arrives just in the nick of dance piece for choreographer/dancer music, there is less for the conductor to time. Martha Graham. After the successful do than with the full orchestra. In Only days after Boulder premiere of the ballet, Copland was smaller groups, the players are able to descended from record highs to record asked to rescore the music for full interact directly with one another and lows, into what feels like the depth of orchestra, and it is that version that is may not need a conductor. winter, the orchestra and conductor “These [chamber] concerts are really better known. But Hughes believes that Devin Patrick Hughes are offering to always enlightening to me, because they the original chamber version captures bring listeners “Out of the Darkness” make me re-imagine what my role is,” the essential spirit of the piece better. Saturday evening (7 p.m. Nov. 22 in Hughes says. “Less of a time beating is “Copland wanted a simple elegance Boulder’s First Presbyterian Church: necessary. Here it’s more an idea of OK, that I think the work just begs for,” http://bouldersymphony. we’re all making music. You Don Hajicek org/category/tickets.html). don’t really need a conducThe program features tor to keep the group two particularly sunny and together.” affirming works that are Chamber performances ideal antidotes to winter also help to build ensemshock: Beethoven’s bles. They give the individSymphony No. 4, and ual players performance Aaron Copland’s opportunities that they Appalachian Spring, perdon’t have in the full formed in its original verorchestra and give them a sion for 13 instruments. more independent role in The concert’s title the interpretation. Hughes refers specifically to is clear that this is part of Beethoven’s symphony, the reason the Boulder written in 1806. At the Symphony has a chamber time, Beethoven was copmusic series and that he ing with the onset of his programs works for smaller deafness and facing the orchestra. isolation from society that “We conductors don’t resulted. Considered one want the players to feel like Boulder Symphony’s upcoming concert promises to bring a little warmth to audiences. they’re relying on us,” he of the darkest periods in says. “If all conductors tried Beethoven’s personal life, to get orchestras to play he nevertheless produced a without them, maybe our profession cheerful and uplifting symphony. Hughes says. “That comes way easier would disappear — but that is actually “The Fourth Symphony shows that [with the chamber ensemble], as kind of the goal.” although he’s going through all the opposed to when you have all of this The point is not to put himself out health and the social problems and anxi- brass and all of these extra percussive of a job, but to make the players in the eties that he was having because of his things that kind of jam it down your Boulder Symphony, most of whom are deafness, he’s showing what his heart throat.” reflects,” Hughes says. “Even though If overcoming darkness is one theme amateurs, more self-reliant. But is it working? people are calling him a misanthrope, of the program, the character of cham“’In the first rehearsal, I would say he’s showing what he has to share, and ber music is the other. The original vereverybody was 70 percent more prehow he feels about everything. sion of Appalachian Spring is literally pared than they normally are at the first “He really kind of stepped aside chamber music — only one player on rehearsal,” Hughes says, smiling. “I looking toward a simpler time, and each part with no larger sections to fill Haydn is even evoked in the last moveout the sound — but the Beethoven will think people know that it’s a smaller group, [and] we have less rehearsals to ment, which is this really fast, upbeat be performed by a reduced ensemble get it together. The smaller the group, dance movement like Haydn would that is close to chamber music as well. the more demanding it is and the more have written.” “In many ways, this is a chamber responsibility there is on each individual Copland’s Appalachian Spring simiconcert that we’re doing,” Hughes says. player. So it’s a really good exercise for larly serves to lift us out of the gloom. “I think that’s way more effective [for the orchestra.” “It has this essential American puri- the Beethoven symphony] than a big All that, and a little musical sunlight ty, sort of a longing for a simpler past,” romantic sound. There’s just a great Hughes says. purity and elegance, and connection that to pierce the gloom. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com That is particularly true, he says, of you can bring with the audience when Boulder Weekly
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ot so long ago, in a land called Toronto, two young men met at a Sonic Youth show (or maybe it was in prison, or on a pirate ship, or perhaps on ChristianMingle.com — this part of the story is murky). The lads bonded over a mutual affinity for punk rock and a general lack of employment, and soon they did the only sensible thing two such men could do: They started a band. In five years, those boys signed a record deal, amassed a global following, sold 100,000 copies of their debut album and opened 20 dates for rock gods Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age. Then they quietly, unceremoniously broke up. It seemed the magic was spent for Canadian punk-rock duo Death From Above 1979, who disbanded in 2006 after releasing only one record, 2004’s much-loved You’re a Women, I’m a Machine. Bassist Jesse Keeler and lead singer/drummer Sebastien Grainger parted ways on ice-cold terms, leaving fans with little hope for more of the band’s raw, bone-rattling, sweatdrenched dance punk. DFA had played nearly 550 shows between 2001 and 2005. “Before, when we were just perpetBoulder Weekly
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ually on tour, there was no other life other than the band,” Keeler told Boulder Weekly in a phone interview. “I mean I tried. We both tried. I couldn’t keep my shit together. Neither could Sebastien.” Despite the breakup, musical machines they remained. Keeler went on to form electronica project MSTRKRFT with fellow Canuck Alex Puodziukas, while Grainger went on to produce his own solo work — but the ghost of DFA haunted them. But one fateful day in October 2010, Grainger got a phone call from a former manager offering up the chance to resurrect DFA — a gig at Coachella, the California music festival that has given second life to Bauhaus, Pixies and Pavement. And so it began: Death From Above 1979 rose from the grave, playing festivals and dank dive clubs in Canada, Europe and the U.S., finding time somewhere along the way to lay down a new album. On Saturday, Nov. 22, DFA will bring the classics and new material from their long-awaited second release, The Physical World, to Boulder’s Fox Theatre. In 11 tracks, The Physical World brings the same bare-bones punk that DFA fans have craved in the years since the breakup, but with a polished
style that comes with age, experience and perspective on their previous work. “I think that we made more attempt than is apparent to progress,” Grainger says. “I think when we were working on the [new] record we quickly realized the form of the band was so specific that no matter what we do inside that form or through that form, it’s gong to end up sounding like the band. No matter how we may progress as songwriters or artists, or even if we did change, it’s harder to tell because it’s always going to sound like the band because of the way we set up, because of the instruments and the way we play them.” Beneath the surface, however, The Physical World reveals thoughtful nuances in both Grainger’s songwriting and Keeler’s bass playing. The track “White is Red” may be the clearest example of the band’s expansion since YAW, IAM. A true ballad, the song tells a dark story of teenage love, mistakes and consequences. “We didn’t sit down and say, ‘OK, let’s write a ballad,’ but we were open to that idea,” Grainger says. “The whole thing started with Jesse writing the intro, the main bass part, and I just thought it was incredible, and I don’t
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Left to right: Jessica Eden, Esmeralda Rodriguez and Pam Beisner from 95th Street Salon & Spa; Wellington Bullings from Devoted to the Standard; Jason Malmberg from Swing Je T’aime; Azadeh Walsh, Patrick Walsh, Erin Milliken and Todd Stevenson from Bittersweet Café; Erik Schnackenberg from Full Circle Yoga; Smatta Phairatphiboon from Busaba; Melissa Chua and Stewart Sallo from Boulder Weekly.
Left to right: Cathy Gitlin from Tapestry Salon and Day Spa; Cassie Newman from Aspen Meadow Vet; Jovial party-goers dressed for the roaring ’20s theme; An attentive crowd filled the Dickens Opera House; Stewart Sallo with a Best of Boulder East County in hand.
AliveStudios.Com To see all of the images from the party (and acquire them if you like), visit this link: http://tinyurl. com/bestofboulder and use code “best”.
Left to right: Sarah Ingraham and Siobhan Kennedy from Post Brewing Company; Nickolas Reckinger and Matt Alexander from Georgia Boys BBQ; Corey Christiansen and Mia Sallo; Clockwise from top: Z Robison, Georgia Van Gunten, Mary Ann Robison, and Nicole Jackson from Curating the Cool; Stewart and Julia Sallo, publisher and heiress, and the evening’s emcees; Aaron Walker, Josie Toney, Luke Smith and Jason Malmberg from Swing Je T’aime
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think 10 years ago he would have physically. It takes a huge amount of played bass chords, and for whatever energy. It’s almost like this revelation: reason he felt comfortable doing that It’s never been easy and it’s not ever and it inspired me to write these lyrics going to be easy. So accepting that has that were a real ballad, a real tale, a been really awesome. It fills you with journey. It started with his openness to pride because if we pull it off I go, writing something beautiful that per‘Fuck. We did it.’ But it’s not easy. mitted me to answer back with some“All of the challenges that we create thing a little bit more profound than for ourselves in this band are seemingly maybe I’ve done on other Death From insurmountable,” Grainger says with a laugh. “So I don’t know what the future Above records.” holds because it’s excruciatingly diffiKeeler acknowledges that not cult every single day.” everyone will pick up the new material The boys know there’s something the boys have laid down. enchanting about “Going into Death From Above making [the new 1979, but Grainger album] my thought ON THE BILL: Death From Above 1979. 8:30 p.m. Saturday, says its difficult for was that we’ll probNov. 22, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th him to say what ably lose a lot of St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. $30 in black magic drives fans and make a advance, $32.50 at the door. throngs of people to bunch of other adore two dudes, a ones,” Keeler says. bass guitar, a syn“I can’t imagine thesizer and a drum set because he’s so somehow being able to do something enmeshed in the experience. But he has everyone would just like. Once you’ve a hypothesis. accepted that as reality, that you’re “My theory is because it’s a twogonna lose people no matter what you piece band, the audience can put a lot of do… If you make a record that sounds their own stuff on it because it resemtoo much like the one they already like, bles so many different social dynamics if you make one that sounds different, in their own lives: your best friend, your they’re like, ‘What happened to this brother, your mom and dad, your wife, band?’ For us it was more like accepting your boyfriend. The duo is the perfect a bit of a personal challenge.” Indeed, the entire reunion has been relationship, or at least the template for so many relationships in life,” says a personal challenge for Keeler and Grainger. “Also, especially with the Grainger, with both musicians concedbreakup and the reunion, people can ing they have no idea what the future easily relate to that — it’s like the time holds for Death From Above 1979. they went to camp and made a best “I don’t think we remembered how friend then went home and never talked difficult [touring] is, and I’m not comto them again. It’s the sort of romance plaining, it’s just a reality of playing in and tragedy of the whole thing.” a rock band,” Grainger says. “I’m not Or maybe it’s just the magic of just talking about logistical stuff like getting around, but playing in the band damn good rock ‘n’ roll. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com is really demanding for both of us Boulder Weekly
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The Handweavers Guild of Boulder celebrates 50 years by building Boulder an electric loom by Josh Gross
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t may have been 20 invitational exhibit and a years ago today that Sgt. historical timeline of the Pepper taught the band development of artisan texto play, but it was 50 tile process and outcome. years ago that the While the exhibit Handweavers Guild of doesn’t officially open for Boulder first met up to comtwo more weeks, this week bine their handweaving powsaw the grand unveiling of ers. And back then, it was for something special that the handweavers only, leaving Handweavers Guild of Boulder’s needlepoint comBoulder created just for the munity out in the cold. exhibition: “Luminescence,” But as goes technology, a massive installation that so goes handweaving; times anyone wishing to enter have changed. The Dairy will have to “As the guild grew, walk through. we’ve been more and more “We wanted to have a open to the textile arts,” celebratory entrance,” says says Guild President Shoeman. Elizabeth Shoeman. “Luminescence” defiThe guild now supports nitely fits the bill. Members and incorporates knitting, of the Handweavers Guild weaving, embroidery, neeof Boulder spent six weeks dlework, jewelry-making, installing and the better beading, sewing, quilting, part of a year planning the pleating, rug-making and piece. The goal? “Weaving loads more, with more than Local weavers spent six weeks on “Luminescene,” an with light,” says Shoeman. 300 members taking part in installation in front of The Dairy. “Luminescence” began seminars, sales and groupwith the somewhat chainprojects. That rich and varied history is what will be on link-looking metal latticework guarding The Dairy’s display at The Dairy Center for the Arts from Friday, front door, and then did what they do best: weave. Dec. 5 to Friday, Jan. 16 in an exhibit called The Art of That’s where the piece’s name comes from. Fiber: 50 Years of the Handweavers Guild of Boulder. “We saw the entranceway and said, ‘Those looked “The show will give a history not just of our guild, really drab,’” says Shoeman. “And it looked like a loom. but of the fiber arts,” says Shoeman. “Macrame was so We wanted to spell it ‘loominessence,’ because it’s a popular in the ’60s, and it’s kind of making a come‘loom in essence,’ but we got voted down. ” back.” But for this piece, instead of snaking textiles “Some of us still remember the giant macrame through the makeshift loom, they wove in thinly sliced coats,” says Becky Vanderslice, another member of the strips of sheet metal and copper mesh, brushed and guild. treated aluminum and other irridescent metals. “Some of us are trying to forget,” cracks Shoeman. “It looks like ribbon,” says Vanderslice, who is servThe Art of Fiber will include a juried exhibit, an ing as project manager for the installation.
Mixed up with the metal are layers of LEDs and electronics so that the installation will move and react in waves as people pass through the arch. The movements are designed to move in motions known as “warp and weft,” the essential motions of weaving. “An entire new [lighting control] program has been coded from scratch,” says Vanderslice. “That’s thousands of dollars of time from the digital lighting community.” All the materials and labor for the installation were donated, time and cash value approaching $50,000. “Luminescence” might seem like a bit of a departure from the exhibit it so grandly introduces, but Shoeman and Vanderslice don’t think so. “There’s a real movement in the textile world, to go modern and use more radical materials,” says Shoeman. One example she cites is the development of socalled “smart textiles,” which incorporate anything from circuits to solar panels into their construction. As part of the kickoff for The Art of Fiber, Barbara Layen, a researcher in electronic textile arts at Concordia University in Montreal, will give a lecture on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m., that will cover her work finding ways to weave materials together with microcomputers, creating touchpads, biometric sensors and wireless transmitters. “Ms. Layne will discuss the use of textiles to address the social dynamic of fabric and human interaction in both wearable systems and site installations,” reads a press release from The Dairy. In a similar vein, Shoeman says that students at Nederland’s middle and high school STEM programs were invited to work on a project to go with the installation, designing e-textile clothes that will interact with the light patterns. “We’re learning a ton about how all of these things work,” says Shoeman. After the close of The Art of Fiber, “Luminescence” will remain up as a donation to The Dairy. Terms of the donation included that it must stay up for two years. Shoeman says that anything past that initial two years has yet to be decided. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Searching the globe to bring YOU
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Music Celtic Sessions Hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. The Clarks. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Ed Breazeale’s Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Jazz Jam. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-6844728. Jeff Brinkman. 5:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Kitchen Dwellers. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillers, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696. The Retrosonics. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Sherefe Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Steve Mullins & Doug Walter. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. see EVENTS Page 43
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String Attached — Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. University Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Events Access Art: Tours for Individuals with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. 1:30 p.m. BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Amazing Artists. 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Movember Party. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Nature Hike for Seniors — Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat. 10 a.m. Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat Area, 75th & Jay Road, Boulder. Open Access: Painters & Potters. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. The Saint John’s Bible Exhibition and Workshops. All Day. First Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Transgender Day of Remembrance March and Vigil. 6:30 p.m. The Pridehouse, 2132 14th St., Boulder. Zumba GoldToning at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Friday, November 21 Music Ali Grayson. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Banshee Tree. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Beatles Tribute, Doctor Robert! Live. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Blues on the Lamb. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
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Oil Paintings by Steven Homsher. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29.
ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/ Nature’s Creative Potential— Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through Dec. 20.
Photography by Fernando Boza. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29.
Art Collectors — Various artists. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Nov. 23.
Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25.
Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.
The 2014 MFA Fall Thesis ExhibiMatisse and Friends Cabinets of Curiostion will be on display at the CU — by Henri Matisse ity — by Clayton Blair Art Museum through Nov. 20. and friends. Denver Art Dougherty, various artMuseum, 100 W. 14th ists. Longmont Center Ave. Parkway, Denver, for The Arts Muse Gal720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25. lery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Dec. 23 Memory: Loss and Found — by Laurie Beth Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler. The Dairy Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303303-440-7826. 443-2122. Through Jan. 8. Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 15.
Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12.
Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18.
MFA 2014 Fall Thesis Exhibition — Various artists. CU Art Museum,1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. 303-298-7554. Through Nov. 20.
First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 22.
Recent Aquisitions — Oliver Herring. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 18, 2015.
Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017.
A Table (Somewhat): Conversations Between Objects — by Various artists. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through Dec. 20.
Caribou Mountain Collective. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Dechen Hawk, Colin Robison & Danit. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Joe Johnson. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Women on Top. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Dr. Robert, The Strange Parade. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
The Last Waltz Revisited. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Wonderlic. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Dustbowl Revival. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Laurie D jazz. 7 p.m. Volta Mediterranean Restaurant, 2480 Canyon Blvd., Boulder.
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Longest Day of the Year. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.
Eric and Monica of Monocle Band. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472.
Megan Burtt. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
Friday Afternoon Concerts & Art Shows: Boulder Bassoon Quartet. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-678-7869.
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Art Night IN. 4:30 p.m. pARTiculars Art Gallery and Teaching Studio, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette. Austrian Connection. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Boulder Bookies Book Discussion Group. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
The Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
Pocket Change. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.
The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Quemando. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
CFOOTMAD — Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Hannah Isom & Co. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Rogue 2. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.
Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Strangebyrds. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Jeff Scroggins & Colorado. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-7444.
Sunsquabi & Dyhohunter. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Doug Elliot, Appalachian Storyteller & Herbalist. 7 p.m. Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, Suite F-1, 2900 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-406-8609. see EVENTS Page 46
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Saturday, November 22 Music Americana Highway. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Beatles Tribute, Doctor Robert! Live. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Farm, Fork, Food — by Erik Skokan. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
The Art of Asking — by Amanda Palmer. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
Super Broncos — by Woody Page. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074
Monday, Nov. 24 Poetry Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
Friday, Nov. 21
Tuesday, Nov. 25
Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Trapline & Dark Night of the Soul — by Mark Stevens and Mike Keefe. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St. Mall, Denver, 303-436-1070. Saturday, Nov. 22
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303. Pete Ritzer will discuss and sign his new book Seven Ox Seven at the Boulder Book Store on Nov. 22.
Sevon Ox Seven: Escondido Bound — by Pete Ritzer. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074.
Blue Canyon Boys. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
Bonnie Lowdermilk. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
TAARKA and Monocle. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Dancing Awake Your Indigenous Soul. 8 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-499-6363.
Ultralowfi. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.
Electric Red. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-5300642.
Watersong. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
Emily Clark’s Makeshift Band. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355.
Women on Top. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Esther Sparks. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.
Young Ancients. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 415-290-9242.
Events
Groove Hill concert. 8 p.m. Miller’s Bar & Grille, 103 S. Public Road, Lafayette. Jeff Scroggins & Colorado. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-7444. Laurie D Bistrot des Artistes. 6 p.m. Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-9599. Live music with Maddog and Johnny Johnson. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Mokomba Ensemble. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Multiple Piano Festival. 7 p.m. Vance Brand Auditorium at Skyline High School, Longmont, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont. The Nom de Guerres. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. The Reverie. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. The Southern Soul Assembly. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. The Strange Parade ‘A Tribute To The Doors.’ 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757. Strangebyrds. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600
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Whiskey Autumn. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
“What Can I Do?” Spaceship Earth. 2:30 p.m. Golden West Retirement, 1055 Adams Circle, Boulder. Adobe Illustrator Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647.
Active Minds Lecture: Iraq. 5 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727. Wednesday, Nov. 26
PAX 360. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303.
Free Fly Tying Classes. 10 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400. Learn to Draw Like Mo Willems — Storytime and Activity. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236. Marcus Lucas Game Show. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Rocks Karma Arrows. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Saint John’s Bible Exhibition and Workshops. All Day. First Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Tango Technique Class with G&G. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.
WOW — Women of Wisdom. 2:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.
Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Zumba plus Zumba Toning 90 Minute Class. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Sunday, November 23
Boulder Folders. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303. Dancing Awake Your Indigenous Soul. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Flamenco Technique. 12:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Bluegrass Explosion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. David & Enion Tiller. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. see EVENTS Page 48
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The Adventures of Dracula. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 29.
Songs for a New World. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washing Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Dec. 21.
Fiddler on the Roof. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 28.
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Juno and the Paycock. The Upstart Crow. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303442-1415. Through Dec. 6.
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The Miracle Worker. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Nov. 23. Seussical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Nov. 30.
Sherlock’s Holmes & The Masters of Crime. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 22.
Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. 720-865-4239. Through March 1. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: The Musical. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 303-447-5977. Through Nov. 29.
and find out what else we know about cannabis! EVENTS from Page 46 Honeytree. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.
Sunday morning Zumba. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Johnny O. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Martin Gilmore & Justin Hoffenberg. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. MSTRKRFT. 12:30 a.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. The Prairie Scholars Happy Hour. 5 p.m. East Moon Bistro, 2144 Main St., #1, Longmont, 303-684-8383.
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Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Sunday Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.
Traditional Irish Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Open Stage. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Arte Bella Painting Colorado. 6 p.m. Foolish Craig’s Cafe, 1611 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-335-3852.
Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Clay & Sculpt. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
Interactive Play for Mindful Living. 2 p.m. Creative Life Center at St Ambrose, 7520 S. Boulder Road, Boulder.
Meadows Teen Advisory Council. 2 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
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Boulder Guitar Society Meeting. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church (Youth Room 2nd Floor), 1421 Spruce St., Boulder. Mark Diamond and Johnny O Blues Duo. 7:30 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-477-4164.
Ladies Fly Tying Classes. 11 a.m. Rocky Mountain Anglers, 1904 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-447-2400.
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Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.
Rnsoli-Camacho. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Jess Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
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Sand Creek in Historical Context followed by a screening of Little Big Man. 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826 x110. Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Monday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Scandinavian Dance Basics & Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. School Day Off & Holiday Camps. 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Wheel Throwing. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Zumba plus Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Tuesday, November 25 Music Blues Jam. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
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events Daryl Gott Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Free Improvisation Workshop. 6:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway, Boulder, 303-444-7444. Mark Diamond presents: The Heavy Cats. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
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No One Cares String Band. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Boulder Folders. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Craft Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Wednesday Night Zumba Gold. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Peregrine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Robin Lewis. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
School Day Off & Holiday Camps. 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185
Wheel Throwing Adults. 7:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902. Zumba plus Zumba Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Events Beginner class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Creekwalk Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Holiday Bazaar and Wildlife Program. 5:30 p.m. Unitarian-Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. School Day Off & Holiday Camps. 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Storytimes for Children. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250. Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wheel Throwing 1. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Wheel Throwing 2. 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Young Artists at Work: Boxes of Stars. 9 a.m. BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Zumba Gold at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.
Wednesday, November 26 Music Benefit Concert for Miles & Nick w/Vince Herman & more. 4 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Eric Hutchinson. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Jonah Wisneski. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Karaoke hosted by Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Nelson Rangell’s Annual Thanksgiving Eve. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-
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work is his students. Alan Hicks, the director of the doc, was himself a student of Terry’s (Hicks is a drummer from Australia) and he claims responsibility for introducing Terry to Kauflin. Kauflin is a gifted pianist, but due to a rare degenerative disorder, Kauflin lost his sight at age 11. Although blessed on the ivories, Kauflin suffers from stage fright, which has held him back during crucial performances. Thankfully, he’s got Terry in his corner, and with Terry in your corner, everything is
This documentary shows the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic unique style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. Based on Ari Seth Cohen’s famed blog of the same name, this film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent, stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging and Western culture’s increasing obsession with youth, all the while being thrust into new found fame. — Boedecker Theater
LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM
During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon as the South Vietnamese resistance crumbles. A number of heroic Americans engage in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible. At
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fine. Keep On Keepin’ On is the first film from Hicks, and to make this labor of love, Hicks followed Terry and Kauflin around for five years. Compiling archive footage from Terry’s prolific career and adding animation to accompany Terry’s background adds to the film, but the most impressive footage comes from the intimate access Terry and Kauflin grant Hicks. Hicks describes jazz as “improvisation within form,” and that is pre-
Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
LITTLE BIG MAN
Tom Thomas, project manager for the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, will discuss some of the difficulties of how to memorialize this brutal event, which happened 150 years ago on November 29. The talk will be followed by a screening of Little Big Man in which Dustin Hoffman plays a fictitious character, raised by Cheyenne, friend of Wild Bill Hickock and survivor of both Sand Creek Massacre and Little Big Horn. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
LOVE IS STRANGE
After nearly four decades together, Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony in lower Manhattan. But when George loses his job soon after, the couple must sell their apartment and temporarily live apart. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
cisely what Hicks and his editor, Denver native Davis Coombe, come up with. Keep On Keepin’ On could have been a dull-as-dust story of two musicians, one on the way up and one on the way down, both meeting in the middle. Instead, Hicks and Coombe craft a documentary that tells the story of parallel lives, never mind the 70-year difference in their age. Keep On Keepin’ On is a delight. It is a joyous, uplifting, tribute to one of the great American art forms, and it is filled to the brim with some of the best that music has to offer (Kauflin worked on the score with none other than jazz great and University of Colorado Boulder’s own, Dave Grusin). No one should miss it. After watching Keep On Keepin’ On, viewers will go to sleep knowing that somewhere in Arkansas, Terry and his students continue to run scales, late after midnight. As usual, SDFF is pulling out all the stops, and Nov. 22’s screening of Keep On Keepin’ On will close with a performance from Kauflin himself. Tickets and information can be found at denverfilm.org. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Veterans Speak presents this 1941 Gary Cooper film about a hillbilly sharpshooter who gets drafted into World War I. Despite claiming to be a pacifist, our protaganist becomes a war hero. Noon, Nov. 21 only. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
THE TALE OF KAGUYA
Legendary Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, Pom Poko) revisits Japan’s most famous folktale in this gorgeous, handdrawn masterwork, decades in the making. Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter (James Caan) and his wife (Mary Steenburgen), a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady (Chloë Grace Moretz). The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her — but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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know two things for sure: (1) Birdman aims to relentlessly drive home one singular point, one thoroughly expressed thesis about life and art. (2) It does not succeed. You would think that would make the work of writers Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo New Regency Pictures and writer/ director Alejandro González Iñárritu a total misfire. Not so fast, my finefeathered friends. Despite its lack of clarity, conflicting thematic messages and indecipherable tone, the film is the rarest of oddities: accidental genius. Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, the washed-up former star of “Birdman,” a blatant Batman analog. After years spent squandering his celebrity, Riggan is a fame junkie trying to get his fix of public adoration and respect. So he sets out to write, direct and star in a Broadway version of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” a classic Raymond Carver tale that should never find its way into a theatrical adaptation. In search of another actor to anchor the production, Riggan is forced to turn to Mike (Ed Norton), an acclaimed thespian and lover of the female lead in the play, Lesley (Naomi Watts). As Riggan’s rehabbed daughter, Sam (Emma Stone), looks on and his lawyer/best friend, Jake (Zach Galifianakis), gets progressively worked up, the show spins from chaos to promising to disaster and then to something uniquely bizarre. Iñárritu’s film grafts Emmanuel Lubezki’s cinematography to look like one continuous shot. Some have derided the choice as too “showy” and unnecessary, but the smoothness and fluidity of the strategy gives a consistency that stands delightfully in oppoBoulder Weekly
sition to the herky-jerky performances. Keaton is brilliant, flitting between Willy Lowman-like self-loathing and kinetic comedic beats. Norton steals the show, riffing on his real-life reputation for being “difficult” in service of his craft. Both Watts and Stone don’t get enough to do, but each lands a nice moment: Watts when she’s emotionally naked in Riggan’s dressing room, and Stone when she mentally pantses Norton. But about that “accidental genius” stuff… It’s clear that Iñárritu and company set out to do something brilliant. They did. It’s just not the brilliance they intended. They clearly wanted to make a statement about the blurred line between “actor as celebrity” and “actor as artist,” along with jabs about cultural critics and modern definitions of fame. None of that stuff lands. Instead, Birdman works as an unintentional satiric condemnation of artistic pretension. From Keaton’s meta-performance to Iñárritu’s use of surreal content, such as Riggan’s potential actual superpowers, art-based pseudointellectualism is hilariously impeached. Consider that Norton delivers monologue after monologue about the need for “honesty” in performances in a movie that features no honest performances, while Keaton indicts and spits on the audience he asks for love. Even the choice to use Carver, English undergraduate students’ go-to for intellectual posturing, is revealing. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Iñárritu and pals intentionally mocked themselves and other pretentious “artists,” “critics” and consumers. I can’t be sure. What I am sure of is that Birdman is one hell of a riot.
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egardless of whether you’re on Team Offal, Team Slow Food or Team Molecular Gastronomy, a consistent theme in modern culinary thought is the idea of rejecting an industrialized food system, either to maximize the variety of experience, source effectively, or have an intimate knowledge of what you are eating in order to better hack your metabolism. That’s what makes Lyfe Kitchen, which opened at 1600 Pearl St. in Boulder in October, something of a question to food reformers about what the restaurant is really about. The California-based chain specializes in meals that top out at 600 calories, with salads as the default side instead of fries and a definite health focus in everything from the kale on the menu to the greenery used to give the decor a soothing vibe. There are separate menus for various dietary restrictions. From the health standpoint, this sort of menu, especially as a chain, is a giant win. But what sets Lyfe Kitchen apart from other members of the rapid-service-but-good-food movement is that Lyfe Kitchen founder Mike Roberts built the business model around what he learned in the more than 20 years he was a top executive at McDonald’s, a decidedly industrial food system (even with Roberts’ attempt at a vegan McNugget in his time there). And even with the upgrade in the quality of the chow, those McStrategies
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The culinary conundrum of Lyfe Kitchen by Josh Gross still show around the edges. The servers may be able to find your table to deliver the food you ordered at the counter through a fancy GPS platter, but their commitment and knowledge of what you ordered is fast-food lackie level, not the dedicated field of study one finds in a small farm-to-table restaurant — which probably has a lot to do with why the Hibiscus Beet Lyfe Water this reporter ordered never arrived. The burger may be from tasty grass-fed beef, but it is still fed through the same automated oven used by Burger King, and was most definitely not butchered in the back room, as artisan chefs are wont to do. And that’s why the food at Lyfe Kitchen is also available as pre-prepared dinners sold by major grocers. You know, “fresh.”
The end result is a restaurant that looks, Lyfe Kitchen tastes and costs very 1600 Pearl St., much like a foodie cafe, Boulder, 303-245-0950 but maintains the sterile and disconnected feeling of fast food. That’s not judgement, however, just questions of personal value worth considering. There are a great many things to like about Lyfe Kitchen, especially on the menu. The buffalo chicken wrap had a nice shot of spice that made up for the fairly blah flavor of the whole wheat tortilla, and it had a nice contrast of textures between the warm and tender chicken, and the cold and crisp vegetables. A bowl of sweet corn chowder with chunks of potato and pepper was just the thing to cut through Boulder’s sudden cold snap. And one of the best items on the menu, the roasted brussels and squash served with dried cranberries and a dijon vinaigrette, is a tangy and surprisingly filling delight. But no matter what you order, if you’re the sort of person who seeks out a carefully-curated and health-focused restaurant like Lyfe Kitchen, it’s a bit tricky to eat there and not find yourself at least wondering about some of the issues above, and wondering how much difference it makes without addressing the single biggest issue people face in eating healthy: price. Lyfe Kitchen forces us to ask ourselves if the growing cultural consciousness of food issues is just about its health merits, or is it about something more? Or perhaps Roberts has just found a way to profit off the back end of making people fat for the last two decades. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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About the only thing more full of holiday cheer than that one uncle everyone tries not to talk about, is doing all the dishes after the big meal. Fun times. Between that and the fact that turkeys are hard to cook, more and more people are choosing to eat out for their Thanksgiving meals, allowing them to leave the cooking and preparation to the professionals so they can Susan France enjoy quality food and quality time with loved ones, instead of just checking in with the fam inbetween bastings. Here are some Boulder eateries that will be dishing the goods on Turkey Day.
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Tired of a papier-mâché centerpiece and a Hungry Man dinner? Flip the script with a candlelit dinner buffet featuring Alaskan king crab legs, poached tiger Jill’s Restaurant shrimp and beef Wellington along with the traditional Thanksgiving options of turkey, potatoes and green beans. Jill’s specializes in French-inspired cuisine and the French gave us the Statue of Liberty, so it’s about time we give them a crack at Thanksgiving. Call the St Julien for more information or reservations. 720-406-9696.
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need a full-body holiday. And for those Clark Griswolds out there, the Thanksgiving retreat at C Lazy U Ranch is the place to be. You will get to celebrate the American holiday at a true American Western ranch, soaking up all of the American-ness you can. The event entails a fullweekend of accommodations at the guest ranch as well as indoor and outdoor activities in the “hearty Western atmoMichael Drazsnzak, executive chef, Colterra Food and Wine, Niwot sphere,” and a gourmet meal on Thanksgiving TED’S MONTANA GRILL day. Plymouth Rock? On the East Coast? Get more info at www. Snore. That’s so 1621. Thanksgiving is all about clazyu.com/events. Montana now. So get in the spirit by celebrating Thanksgiving with Ted’s Montana Grill, who will be offering its regular menu as well as a COLTERRA special roast turkey feast, which includes If you’re like us here at whole-roasted turkey with gravy, garlic Boulder Weekly, then every mashed potatoes, herb dressing, buttered year you swear this will be carrots, squash casserole, cranberry sauce, a the one that you farm-raise side salad or cup of soup, and apple pecan your Thanksgiving dinner crisp. Thanks, Ted. from seed to centerpiece, Call 303-449-5546 to make reservations. and then promptly, you know, “do something else.” Don’t worry. Niwot’s MURPHY’S swankiest eatery, Colterra, With two locations in Boulder, Murphy’s is is on the case. on the case no matter which end of town Colterra is doing a three-course prix fixe you’re on. The classic American-style restaudinner for $65 a person from 2-7 p.m., with rant will be doing up turkey roasted in sage choices ranging from the traditional slow butter with apple cider gravy, yams with roasted turkey dinner, to the less traditional marshmallow and maple syrup and all the holiday meal of pan roasted mahi-mahi with rest of the goods to go with ‘em. Dinner is $26 prawns. per person. Call ahead for reservations. See the full menu at www.Colterra.com, and call 303-652-0777 for reservations.
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Laura Newcomb carries a tray full of mussels just pulled from cultivation ropes in Penn Cove, Wash. Carbon from greenhouse gas emissions has steadily turned seawater more acidic, disrupting organisms accustomed to slightly alkaline waters of the past 20 million years.
Mussels don’t stick around in acidic ocean water By Miguel Llanos, The Daily Climate added, “the consequences would be major if not catastrophic.” Newcomb’s goal now is to apply in the real world what was learned in the lab. “Instead of spending a lot of time tightly controlling the temperature and pH conditions mussels grow in, I use the natural seasonal variation to try to answer the same questions,” Newcomb says. Newcomb’s field office is the rear
deck of a harvesting boat — right between the toilet and the microwave. The quarters are cramped, but the view is grand: The blue waters of Penn Cove on Washington state’s Whidbey Island are set against rolling bluffs and snowcapped mountains. The University of Washington marine biologist is there courtesy of Penn Cove Shellfish, which is also the oldest and best known mussel operation in the United
States. If you’re a mussel fan, you’ve probably had a few — they’re sold at Costco as well as upscale restaurants across the country. Placing just-harvested mussels on her tray, Newcomb samples for size, thickness and strength. The mussels are grown on 21-foot-long ropes hanging from several dozen rafts in the bay, and Newcomb takes samples from two depths: Three feet and 21 feet. She also samples water temperature and pH levels at those depths. Prior to the Industrial Revolution and the explosion of manmade carbon dioxide, ocean pH averaged 8.2. Today it’s 8.1, a 30 percent increase in acidity on the logarithmic scale. Computer models peg ocean acidity at 7.8 to 7.7 by the end of the century at the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions. Washington state is a bit ahead of that curve because ancient carbon stores in the deep ocean are periodically churned up by local currents. The surprising lab discovery was that mussel byssus weakened by 40 percent when exposed to a pH of 7.5. At Penn Cove, low pH levels are not uncommon — Newcomb has even seen 7.4 in the year that she’s been sampling. “We’re worried they’re going to see it more frequently,” says Emily Carrington, Newcomb’s graduate adviser and leader of the University of Washington team that published the earlier lab results. The Penn Cove work follows wellsee MUSSELS Page 58
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publicized research that shows oyster larvae in hatcheries along Washington’s coast are having trouble forming shells because of the acidic waters. “Mussels are the new oysters,” Carrington says. But there’s a twist: Mussels confirm that ocean acidification’s impact extends in mollusks beyond an inability to form a shell. The lab finding is “part of a growing body of evidence that ocean acidification alone and combined with other stressors
will have effects beyond shell mineralization,” says Terrie Klinger, a University of Washington marine sciences professor studying the impacts of acidification. Other research, she said, shows more acidic seas spur “changes in fish behavior and toxin production in harmful algae.” Penn Cove Shellfish and the UW researchers joined forces after company harvesters saw empty patches on some cultivation ropes that should have had mussels. Was that due to weakened byssus?
“We had a significant amount two years ago, and little bit less last year,” says Ian Jefferds, general manager at Penn Cove Shellfish. “The question arose, ‘Was there something related to that?’” Concern about what the industry calls “slough-off ” goes well beyond Penn Cove. “We know that mussel slough-off has periodically been an issue but we don’t know why,” says Margaret Barrette, director of the Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association.
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Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Someone on Reddit. com posed the question, Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO “What have you always HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE been curious to try?” In HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes reply, many people said are also available by phone at 1-877LIBRA they wanted to experi873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: ment with exotic varieties “Every saint has a bee of sex and drugs they had in his halo,” said phinever treated themselves losopher Elbert Hubbard. to before. Other favorites: Similarly, some Libras have a passive-aggressive streak eating chocolate-covered bacon; piloting a plane; shoplifthidden beneath their harmony-seeking, peace-loving pering; doing a standup comedy routine; hang-gliding and sona. Are you one of them? If so, I invite you to express deep-sea diving; exploring the Darknet and the Deep your darker feelings more forthrightly. You don’t have to Web; spontaneously taking a trip to a foreign country; be mean and insensitive. In fact, it’s best if you use tact turning away from modern society and joining a Buddhist and diplomacy. Just make sure you reveal the fact that monastery. What would your answer be, Aries? The comthere is indeed a bee in your halo. I bet you will ultimately ing weeks will be an excellent time to explore what you be pleased with the consequences you stir up through your have always been curious to try. The risks will be lower acts of courageous honesty. than usual, and the results more likely to be interesting.
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SCORPIO
Contrary to popular opinion, crime fiction author Arthur Conan Doyle never once had his character Sherlock Holmes utter the statement “Elementary, my dear Watson.” For that matter, Humphrey Bogart never actually said “Play it again, Sam” in the film Casablanca. Star Trek’s Captain Kirk never used the exact phrase “Beam me up, Scotty.” Furthermore I, Rob Brezsny, have never before issued the following prophecy: “Deep sexy darkness and deep sexy brilliance are conspiring to bring you Tauruses intriguing pleasures that will educate the naive part of your soul” — until now, that is. At this juncture in the ever-twisting plot of your life story, I am most definitely saying just that.
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APRIL 20-MAY 20:
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
Here are some thoughts from Gemini author Fernando Pessoa: “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd — the longing for impossible things; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else.” Can you relate, Gemini? Have you felt those feelings? Here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, you will be more free of them than you have been in a long time. What will instead predominate for you are yearnings for very possible things and contentment with what’s actually available to you. (Pessoa’s words are from The Book of Disquiet, translated by Alfred MacAdam.)
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
The most important thing you can do in the coming weeks is learn how to take care of yourself better. What? You say you’re too busy for that? You have too many appointments and obligations? I disagree. In my astrological opinion, there’s one task that must trump all others, and that is get smarter about how you eat, sleep, exercise, relax, heal yourself, and connect with people. I can assure you that there’s a lot you don’t know about what you really need and the best ways to get what you really need. But you are ripe to become wiser in this subtle, demanding, and glorious art.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
Naturalist Greg Munson says that many dragonflies are great acrobats. They are the “Cirque du Soleil” performers of the animal kingdom. Not only do they eat in mid-air, they also have sex. While flying, two dragonflies will hook up and bend into a roughly circular formation to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their reproductive organs, thereby forming a “mating pinwheel.” I don’t expect you to achieve quite that level of virtuosity in your own amorous escapades, Leo. But if you’re adventurous, you could very well enjoy experiences that resemble having sex while flying.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
Born under the sign of Virgo, Yuriy Norshteyn is a Russian animator who has won numerous awards. His Tale of Tales was once voted the greatest animated film of all time. But he hasn’t finished any new films for quite a while. In fact, he has been working on the same project since 1981, indulging his perfectionism to the max. In 33 years, he has only finished 25 minutes’ worth of The Overcoat, which is based on a story by Nikolai Gogol. But I predict that he will complete this labor of love
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SAGITTARIUS “Whatever returns from oblivion returns to find a voice,” writes Louise Glück in her poem “The Wild Iris.” I think that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. There’s a part of you that is returning from oblivion — making its way home from the abyss — and it will be hungry to express itself when it arrives back here in your regularly scheduled life. This dazed part of you may not yet know what exactly it wants to say. But it is fertile with the unruly wisdom it has gathered while wandering. Sooner rather than later, it will discover a way to articulate its raw truths.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness,” said American humorist Josh Billings. I propose that we make that your motto in the coming weeks. It’s an excellent time to liberate yourself from memories that still cause you pain — to garner major healing from past anguish and upheaval. And one of the best ways to do that will be to let go of as much blame and rage and hatred as you possibly can. Forgiveness can be your magic spell.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
Denmark has been a pioneer in developing the technology to supply its energy needs with wind power. By 2020, it expects to generate half of its electricity from wind turbines. Recently the Danish climate minister also announced his nation’s intention to phase out the use of coal as an energy source within ten years. I would love to see you apply this kind of enlightened long-term thinking to your own personal destiny, Aquarius. Now would be an excellent time to brainstorm about the life you want to be living in 2020 and 2025. It’s also a perfect moment to outline a master plan for the next ten years, and commit to it.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
Piscean actor Sir Michael Caine has had an illustrious career. He has won two Oscars and been nominated for the award six times in five different decades. But for his appearance in Jaws: The Revenge, he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Supporting Actor. He confessed that his work in that film was not his best, and yet he was happy with how much money he made doing it. “I have never seen the film,” he said, “but by all accounts it was terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Pisces, you have permission to engage in a comparable trade-off during the coming months.
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Dear Dan: I am a 30-year-old trans guy, on T since college, happy and comfortable with my sexuality. However, I can’t find any helpful health info on a fetish I’ve developed: I insert needles directly into my clit, maybe an inch and a half in. I’m not talking through it, like a piercing, but into it, going in at the head and moving down into the shaft. There are lots of porn/BDSM sites that discuss piercing all sorts of “female” anatomy, and many that cover the excitement of needles inserted into the glans of the penis, but few go into details about putting needles directly into the clit itself — and none that I’ve found cover safety. As a trans man, this is a particularly tempting practice because, well, my clit is huge and I have a constant legal supply of safe, sterile needles. Still, I want to know if I am potentially causing permanent nerve damage. I’d like to keep my clit healthy and happy for future use! If one of your connections in the medical world has a sense of this, I’d love to know. Sticking Things In Clit Knowledgeably P.S. Your advice is a great and positive force in my life. Thank you. Dear STICK: Yours is the kind of letter that gets me in trouble, STICK. Clit-having readers and clit-loving readers will be doubling over on the subway, in office cubicles, in the bathrooms aboard Air Force One — wherever my column is read, people will be doubling over. And I will spend the next week wading through furious e-mails from angry/clueless readers convinced that your letter’s appearance in my column will lead to a worldwide clit-sticking boom. Allow me to address their concerns first: That’s not the way this works, that’s not the way any of this works. People don’t adopt sex practices or kinks after hearing about them. If that were the way it worked — if hearing about a crazy kink inspired otherwise vanilla types to run out and try it — we would all be shoving gerbils in our asses. (We’ve all heard of gerbiling. No one has ever done it. Case closed.) Okay, STICK, I worked my medicalworld connections and found someone who wasn’t just qualified to answer your question, but also willing to do it on the record. “Piercing and needling, if practiced in a safe and sterile manner, can be stimulating,” said Dr. Brian Fitzsimmons, a gynecologist in Vancouver, BC, (obgynvancouver.ca) Boulder Weekly
and a clinical associate professor at the University of British Columbia. “But permanent damage with needling can occur to the sensory receptors that allow us to experience pleasure and stimulation.” So the short answer to your question, STICK, is this: Yes, you are risking permanent damage. “There may be immediate risks with needling, such as bleeding and infection, in addition to long-term side effects,” said Dr. Fitzsimmons. “And potential long-term side effects are especially concerning in regards to very sensitive areas such as the glans of the penis or the clitoris. Short-term stimulation and excitement with needling has the potential to cause permanent damage, chronic discomfort, and numbing of these areas. Permanent scarring and deformation can also occur. This is something that may not be correctable — even with surgery.” Some adult pleasures come with built-in risks — skydiving, snowboarding, clit-needling — and an adult does a quick risk-reward analysis before deciding if the potential reward (thrills, powder, orgasms) is worth the risk (faulty parachutes, ski-resort food, permanent damage). It’s your clit, STICK, and you’ll have to weigh the risks and rewards for yourself. But you won’t find me sticking needles in my clit. “If orgasm is mediated by the clitoris or the glans of the penis in the individual,” said Dr. Fitzsimmons, “this practice can cause loss of the ability to achieve orgasm.” In other words: Anyone who requires clit/dick-head stimulation in order to get off — and that’s pretty much everyone with a clit and/or dick head — shouldn’t be sticking needles into their clit/dick head. A final thought from Dr. Fitzsimmons: “If you’re engaging in this type of practice, it’s important not to share needles, just like with any other sex toy. The risks of transmitting infections such as HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, and other STIs need to be considered. Anyone having more questions on this or experiencing complications or problems should contact their local clinic or health-care provider.” Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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