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staff Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer Advertising Director, Jeff Cole Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn

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EDITORIAL Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Associate Editor/Special Editions, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Steve Weishampel Interns, Lexi Schwartz, Ali Tadayon, Zak Weinberg Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Dave Anderson, Cayte Bosler, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Michael Krumholtz, Jessie Lucier, Blair Madole, Dylan Owens, Brian Palmer, Adam Perry, Stephanie Riesco, Leland Rucker, Dan Savage, Alan Sculley, Camilla Sterne, Ruth Tobias, Christine Vazquez, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner SALES Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Digital Portfolio Sales Manager, Kirk Koskey Account Executives, Julian Bourke, Andrea Craven, David Hasson PRODUCTION Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo Marketing Assistant, Maria Scully Office Manager/Advertising Assistant Andrea Neville CIRCULATION TEAM Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe, Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama 13-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo November 28, 2013 Volume XXI, Number 17 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holdsbarred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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More on CU’s integrity

(Re: “Grappling with preserving the past, for the future,” Dodge’s Bullets, Nov. 21.) Like you, personal feelings and a possible conflict of interest influence my words, but this appears to be an opportunity to share the truth. I hope your Boulder readers are interested in CU beyond the limits

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Highroad Punishing poverty, subsidizing billionaires

by Jim Hightower

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n this season of the fall harvest, Congress is proving once again that it is a very poor gardener — it keeps watering the weeds and pulling the flowers. A conference committee is presently meeting to hash out a new, five-year farm bill, and what a hash they’re making of it!

For some 40 years, one of the best flowers in the farm-bill garden has been the food stamp program, a symbiotic

of the Boulder campus.

After the demise of the Silver & Gold Record, University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) Chancellor Pamela Shockley-Zalabak hired me to write stories for the UCCS newsletter Communiqué. I served in much the same capacity as I had for 20 years at the S&GR: I kept people informed

about activities on the Colorado Springs campus.

Much to my surprise, some of the early Communiqué stories I wrote were subsequently reprinted in CU President Bruce Benson’s weekly newsletters. But they were printed

benefit for poor people and farmers alike. Since the crash of 2008, that flower has been especially worthy, keeping millions of knocked-down families from plunging into full-tilt poverty. Yet with joblessness unabated and poverty increasing, $5 billion was cut from food stamp benefits on Nov. 1, and the House now wants to yank $4 billion a year more from it — and subject recipients to drug testing and other gratuitous intrusions.

Meanwhile, the same gardeners are watering the farm program’s noxious weeds. Specifically, they’re growing a $14 billion-a-year crop insurance subsidy that amounts to a guaranteed farm income for the largest, most-profitable agribusiness operations. Indeed, while the House wants to force food stamp recipients to prove that their incomes are low enough to qualify for benefits, the crop insurance handout requires no means testing and has no limits on how

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

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much recipients can get. This means that billionaires who’re only incidental “farmers” will be among the biggest beneficiaries.

And those billionaires are to be given one more little bennie — the farm bill would let them get their subsidies in secret, preventing taxpayers from knowing who gets how much.

You shouldn’t be punished for being poor, and you shouldn’t be subsidized if you’re a billionaire. To help plant some seeds of common sense in American farm policy, contact the Environmental Working Group: www. ewg.org.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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without my byline, as if they were the product of spontaneous generation.

Granted, my stories were the property of CU, to use, quote or reprint as CU administrators saw fit. Obviously they saw fit to use the skills of a former S&GR reporter after earlier determining the S&GR and the skills of its staff were expendable.

But the fact remains that my name was intentionally removed. In all fairness, I have to say my byline appeared in later reprinted articles, at the insistence of UCCS University Relations Director Tom Hutton. Yet I find it curious that the earlier omissions were made at all.

I share a suspicion that there is selective re-writing of CU’s future history. And it impacts the role of the university.

To dismiss my words, the CU PR spinners may respond by calling me “a disgruntled former employee.” And maybe the description fits. All I know is that deception speaks volumes to the integrity of an institution.

Ronald Fitz, former S&GR UCCS reporter/Colorado Springs

The sequester and CU

(Re: “Sequester may shutter CU faculty research, labs,” cover story, Nov. 21.) I was pleased to discover that the importance of academic research and their subsequent shortcomings due to the federal sequester made the cover this week. Your illustration of how the decrease in funding will affect the scientific community, the lives of research faculty and staff, and the general public was spot on.

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Not enough recognition is given to basic scientists for the good they do in their communities. The effects are not immediate. No money is being generated; no lives are being directly saved in the lab. The benefits of academic research aren’t seen for decades down the road, but the research being conducted in university laboratories helps inspire the inventions that improve our quality of life and lead to a cleaner, more sustainable future.

Despite a very well-written article, I have to disagree with a statement made by Dr. Robert Spencer. There has definitely been a decrease in funding available to graduate students. I agree with that. The Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department lost their NIH training grant this past spring. I think that might have been the training grant that was referred to in the article, unless other departments lost training grants as well. Dr. Spencer stated that observed difficulty to secure grant funding might deter grad students and post-docs from pursuing careers in science. While that is probably true, I don’t agree that “we may have lost a great cohort of future scientists” through their discouragement.

This actually came up during a discussion I had this morning with my PI about the availability of grant funding to new faculty (Rule #1 in science: always give credit where credit is due). I’ve been working as a technician in the lab of a new faculty member in the MCDB department, and see LETTERS Page 8

have a modest proposal to resolve the fractious issue of fracking in Colorado. It’s a win-win amendment to the Colorado Constitution that will pass in a landslide.

First, let’s review. A number of Colorado cities — including Longmont, Boulder, Lafayette and Fort Collins — are appalled by the prospect of oil and gas drilling in their communities and have attempted to either ban it outright or to delay it for years by the imposition of long moratoriums. The bans and moratoriums are imposed either on oil and gas production directly, or on hydraulic fracturing (fracking), the well stimulation process used on 95 percent of the oil and gas wells drilled in the U.S. While such measures are wildly popular in the towns that passed them, they are also a direct violation of Colorado law, which makes regulation of oil and gas production the exclusive province of state government. So the anti-frackers are expected to propose an amendment to the state constitution next year that would give local governments the power to ban oil and gas production or fracking, or both, within their jurisdictions.

The fight over the putative amendment is likely to be nasty, brutish and crude. And breath-takingly expensive.

But both enviros and roughnecks could enthusiastically support the amendment, if it were worded like this: “Colorado cities and counties shall have the power to regulate or prohibit the production of oil and natural gas and to regulate or prohibit the practice of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) within their borders.

“Upon the adoption of a permanent or temporary prohibition on oil or gas production or fracking by any recognized Colorado city or county, the sale of gasoline, diesel fuel and natural gas within that city or county shall be prohibited for the duration of the ban.”

A city like Boulder, for example, would be constitutionally empowered to ban drilling and fracking within its city limits, or to impose moratoriums on them lasting until the end of the next ice age. This would remove the legal cloud hanging over Boulder’s recent voter-approved five-year moratorium

on oil and gas production. But if Boulder kept its moratorium, residents would have to drive to, say, Weld County to buy gasoline. (They couldn’t drive to a gas station outside city limits in unincorporated Boulder County, because Boulder County has its own anti-oil and gas production moratorium in place.)

By the same token, Boulder residents would have to quit heating their homes with natural gas; all-electric heat is the obvious alternative, although wood, old newspapers and dried dung are also possibilities.

The amendment will appeal to antifrackers and petro-prohibitionists because it gives them everything they’ve asked for and more.

The real agenda of anti-fracking activists is to ban all oil and gas drilling for environmental reasons. Attacking fracking is just a means to the broader end.

But if it makes sense to reduce the use of oil and natural gas by directly restricting production, it makes just as much sense to reduce the use of oil and natural gas by directly restricting consumption.

Banning the sale of oil and natural gas in Boulder would lead to obvious reductions in demand.

Granted, having to drive to Weld County to get gassed up would require Boulderites to use slightly more gasoline (maybe a gallon or so per refueling), but the hassle, inconvenience and aggravation of having to do so would cause Boulderites to reduce their discretionary driving and to plan their local trips more efficiently to stretch out the time between refueling runs, which would reduce Boulder’s overall gasoline consumption.

Still, the aggregate saving in gasoline use would probably amount to little more than a symbolic gesture, but hey, Boulder has never been bashful about practicing symbolic gesture environmentalism.

On the other hand, cutting off the sale of natural gas in Boulder would result in immediate, big-time reduction in natural gas use — a couple billion cubic feet a year, or the combined see BANS Page 8

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through my experience I have witnessed how difficult it has been, especially for younger professors, to secure funding. Somehow this article came up, and I mentioned how it suggests that grad students are being discouraged and deciding not to pursue careers in academia. “Good!” he said, “there are too many scientists anyway.”

He makes a very good point. The life of a basic scientist is not glamorous.

The hours are awful. The pay is lousy.

It can be extremely frustrating at times, especially when experiments don’t work or equipment fails (it often does). Academic research is definitely not for the faint of heart.

The point is, a student who is discouraged because finding money is difficult these days might not be cut out to be a basic scientist anyway. The students who are passionate and willing to endure hardships to be successful as a researcher, those will become the great scientists of the future.

There might be silver lining here.

Times might be tough for already established investigators, but the upand-coming scientists will be smarter, more resourceful and more persistent.

They will have to be. Then, when more federal funding for basic science becomes available, whenever that may

be, the scientists who made it will have the resources available to conduct their research in a manner that is far superior to their predecessors.

I don’t mean to sound preachy, just forcing myself to be optimistic. Thank you guys for supporting the scientific community.

Joshua Marcus/via Internet

TPP, a corporate bill of rights

Soon there will be a flash in Congress when the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) comes up for quick passage. Six hundred trans-national corporate negotiators and the U.S. trade representative have been working very hard and in secret to put together the TPP. They brand it as a trade agreement even though only five of the 29 chapters are about traditional trade issues.

The other completed chapters confer new privileges to trans-national corporations — privileges such as being able to sue nations in trade courts, for what corporations claim are potential lost profits resulting from laws and regulations in a county in which they operate. Foreign corporasee LETTERS Page 11

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annual output of dozens of (fracked) Weld County gas wells.

And if Boulder’s putative municipal electric company gets its electricity from renewables, then the savings will not be cancelled out by having to generate electricity for heating with natural gas. Which means the amendment would allow Boulder (and likeminded communities) to give a green finger to both global warming and Big Oil. So the amendment should be wildly popular with anti-frackers and environmentalists generally, who would vote for it in droves.

But would anyone else in Colorado vote for it?

Is T. Boone Pickens an oilman?

Let’s face it, when one drives over the top of Davidson Mesa and back into the world of real things, where gasoline is still considered a feature, not a bug, one quickly notices that there are hundreds of thousands of folks in Colorado who see things differently than Boulderites do.

These folks may or may not be

impressed by pro-fracking talking points about jobs, energy independence, national security, or the fact that alternative energy still isn’t much of an alternative.

But they are most definitely not impressed by “do as I say, not as I do” environmentalists who want to ban oil and gas production while living an oil and gas dependent lifestyle — like the folks in Boulder who own 58,000 cars and trucks and heat 99 percent of their homes and businesses with natural gas.

And they’ll vote in a heartbeat for an amendment that requires such greenwashed NIMBYs to walk their talk or shut up — because they resent ecobusybodies as much as eco-busybodies resent oil companies.

Resentment — that’s the key. At a time when the country is wallowing in the politics of resentment, the amendment allows both sides to vote their resentments by voting “yes.”

It can’t lose.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Lichtenstein A group called TROUBLES ON says the Walmart the Coalition for AMERICAN WORKERS. model of employSocial and ment, based on Environmental WAGES AND BENEFITS Responsibility in low wages, low WERE TOO HIGH. Boulder (CSERB) skills, low benefits wants to build and rapid job such a consumers’ turnover, is movement. What if becoming the temprogressive Boulderites started plate for American firms to follow. going around to businesses asking Of course, General Motors didn’t questions such as “Do you pay a living provide good pay and benefits because wage? How about adequate health it was beneficent and charitable but insurance? Paid sick leave? Vacation because the workers formed a union time?” and fought fierce battles with the Economic justice activism isn’t company in the 1930s. easy in Colorado. Unions are rather Walmart became the template firm weak. We can’t mandate a living wage in the 1970s after the U.S. experienced in Boulder because the state legislacompetition from Europe and Japan. ture passed a law prohibiting cities Unionized companies like General from doing that (in response to a Motors moved their plants to the Denver campaign). We can’t have rent southern U.S. and poor Third World control because a state law prohibits nations where they could get a cheapthat (in response to a 1970s Boulder er and more docile workforce. The campaign I was involved in). corporate elite began a decades-long At the moment, CSERB is focuspropaganda campaign to blame the ing on Walmart. It held an economy’s troubles on American “Unwelcome Party” at the new workers. Wages and benefits were too Walmart Neighborhood Market in high. “Some people will have to do October and urged a boycott of the with less,” Business Week editorialized store. They are planning a protest on in the 1970s. “Yet it will be a hard pill Black Friday, Nov. 29, to coincide with for many Americans to swallow — the a wave of strikes. see WAGES Page 11 There are many reasons to focus

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BLACK FRIDAY AT WALMART In case you’ve already got all your holiday shopping done and you are looking for something to do on Black Friday, Boulder activists have you covered.

Especially if you are not a big fan of one of the newest additions to Boulder’s big-box retail market.

The Coalition for Social and Environmental Responsibility in Boulder (CSERB) is hosting a protest at the new blood-sucker of local businesses from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. that day at the Walmart Neighborhood Market at the Diagonal Plaza mall at 28th and Iris, as part of a nationwide wave of demonstrations.

The event will feature the launch of a local online boycott petition (yes, you can also sign the petition in person at the store), picketing, leafleting and featured speakers.

It’s sure to be a good time for the whole family. Just check out the CSERB boycott pledge: “From Boulder to Bangladesh, Walmart exploits people and the planet. I will boycott the Neighborhood Market and all Walmarts.”

In this season of giving — and buying — we encourage you to do your shopping at local businesses, to keep our dollars within the community. Not only does it benefit local employers, it benefits local employees and makes Boulder County more self-sufficient. Let’s not rely on international corporate chains to provide our goods. Let’s grow our own.

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR You may not have noticed the recent dip in temperatures as much as those who live outdoors, but there is a group we are big fans of that recently opened its doors to those who are less fortunate than most of us.

Boulder Outreach for Homeless Overflow (BOHO), the group that organizes massive sleepovers at local churches so that those without roofs over their heads have a warm, sheltered place to stay at night, Ryan Cutler launched its four-month season on Nov. 15. The service is especially important in a community like Boulder, where city officials, in their infinite wisdom, have created an anti-camping ordinance that prohibits the homeless from sleeping with as much as a blanket or tarp over themselves.

Attempting to cover oneself for warmth or shelter invites a ticket. Awesome.

BOHO has already proven its worth this season. The night of Nov. 21, when the low temperature was 19 degrees, the organization hosted a record-breaking 172 guests at Pine Street Church and an overflow site, the First Congregational Church.

As the organization said in its press release, lives were saved.

We are lucky to have a group like BOHO looking out for those who are less fortunate. During this holiday season, as most of us are spending cozy time with family and friends in heated houses with plenty of food, keep in mind those who don’t have those luxuries.

We hope you find a way to give back to those who are less fortunate at this time of year, whether it’s by giving money, donating goods or volunteering.

The BOHO emergency warming centers will be open seven days a week until March 15: Sundays: Cornerstone Church, 1190 S. Lashley Lane Mondays: St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 2425 Colorado Blvd.

Tuesdays: Congregation Har HaShem, 3901 Pinon Drive Wednesdays: St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 3700 Baseline Road Thursdays: Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine St. Fridays: Crestview Church, 3665 Madison Ave. Saturdays: Seventh Day Baptist, 6710 Arapahoe Ave. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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tions involved in fracking will be able to sue the U.S. for profits lost to fracking regulations. Safety concerns will not be considered in the special courts.

Unlike ordinary courts, their deliberations are secret and the judges are trade lawyers who have no other interest than trade. Their decisions are binding, and there is no appeal to U.S. courts. Any nation that does not abide

by TPP court decisions may have to pay damages to the offended corporation every year for the indefinite future.

Labels like “Buy American” and “Dolphin Free Tuna” are forbidden.

Questions of labor conditions in overseas factories may not be used in restricting imports. This agreement will lower standards for human rights, workers, environment and consumers, worldwide. There will be no courts to hear complaints from us. Only the big trans-nationals have standing in these courts.

What to do: Urge Congress members to vote no on “Fast Track” (FT), otherwise known as “Trade Promotion Authority” (TPA). Demand that there be time for the public to read and digest the full implications of the TPP. If FT and TPA pass, the whole thing will be rushed through Congress in an up or down vote with no corrections or amendments.

Read more at www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/30-3.

Contact Jared Polis at polis.house. gov, Mark Udall at markudall.senate. gov and Michael Bennet at bennet. senate.gov or through the Congressional switchboard, 866-3381015.

Tom Moore/Boulder

Train horns bad

Boulderites are fond of preaching “It’s all good!” but the phrase lacks the punch required to deal with what’s not “all good.” Fact: Nothing gets a redesigned upgrade if the starting point is “It’s all good.”

Issue? Let’s start with sleep, because without it both our critical and creative mind is not operating well enough to solve anything. Many trust the climate science and open windows in Boulder rather than rely on AC, and so each night we are haunted by a violent aggressor as it kicks the shit out of “It’s all good” and then laughs in its happy, little innocent smiley face.

It’s the blasting horn of the trains … a relentless piercing, painful, unbreakable, super-sized alarm clock screaming …

FFUUCCKKYYOOUU every night for four minutes about 4 a.m. This is see LETTERS Page 12

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idea of doing with less so that big business can have more.”

Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker bluntly stated, “The standard of living of the average American has to decline.” That happened. The living standard of a majority of Americans has steadily declined since 1974.

Walmart was perfectly positioned to benefit, coming out of the antiunion rural South where even a minimum-wage job was considered a step up from poverty by people leaving the farms. Now the company is everywhere.

When a Walmart arrives in a community, it either drives out the higher-wage employers or compels them to lower their pay. A study by economist David Neumark shows that eight years after Walmart comes into Boulder Weekly

a county, it drives down wages for all (not just retail) workers until they are 2.5 percent to 4.8 percent below wages in equivalent counties with no Walmarts.

The protests continue. As a result, Walmart has illegally disciplined nearly 80 workers, including firing 20 worker-leaders.

More than 100 Unfair Labor Practice charges have been filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against Walmart.

It is inspiring that Walmart workers are standing up for their rights and trying to transform their daily lives.

Let’s stand with them. It’s our fight too.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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not just a Boulder issue, of course, so I’m not blaming Boulder, but we do have a reputation for innovation, so yes, it’s up to us to change the horn blowing madness of trains and then pass on this enlightenment to the rest of the world.

The justification of the “horning” is that people’s lives are at stake, but because we know that roads are much more plentiful and dangerous and we don’t drive with constant and neverending horn blowing at crossings, we all know the logic doesn’t follow.

Shall we blame the insurance companies… trying to cover their ass, as a “hit” might mean the family of the deceased is hungry to sue a big fat train company for not “warning” their loved one?

Stats show that people are not accidently getting hit by quiet trains … people use trains to commit suicide worldwide. Trains, like guns and high bridges, are the effective methods people seek when ready to leave the “party.” Note there is no screeching siren on the Golden Gate Bridge because people would still jump and the millions crossing will be so aggravated they’d want to jump.

The creative solution to people jumping in front of trains (or jumping off bridges … or buying guns to kill themselves) is to give them a better option. In the meantime, disturbing the REM sleep of thousands night after night just means we sacrifice the sleep required to solve such a pressing issue.

It’s madness to cater to a law that robs us of peaceful nights as it wrongly insists that horn blowing is the only way to protect … not us, but insurance companies.

Cynthia Clayton Parent/Boulder

Boycott Walmart

Well, we never thought it would happen in Boulder, but Walmart just opened their store. I was there to protest (peaceful protest), but after a while we were asked to leave from the side of their store and from the side of 24 Hour Fitness (their neighbor).

We were the democratic process in process, but they and many like them have no idea why we were protesting.

1. They treat their employees like slaves with wages under $8 (I was told) per hour 2. No health benefits or benefits of any kind 3. They buy from low-wage work-

ers in Asian countries 4. They move in where they are not wanted, pushing their fat asses even though they’ve been told we don’t want them 5. They kill small businesses who sell the same things as they do (my goodness that makes them socialists?)

6. And in Boulder’s case, they blocked east/west driving in front and in back of their store for a year; we have always used those roadways to travel to 28th Street from 30th or vice versa, but those fat-headed, arrogant people who run Walmart deliberately blocked those roadways so they could build their store.

Yes, people who are indigent, who don’t understand English or who don’t understand unions or the way our country was built will shop there because they don’t know any better.

Please, those of you who read this letter (if it gets printed) please do not shop there; let their profits fall and just maybe they will go away! It would be wonderful if all the rest of the markets in Boulder organized a protest against them as well!

Miriam Paisner/Boulder

Stop killing orcas

(Re: “SeaWorld can suck it,” Screen, Sept. 19.) Thanks for the great review of Blackfish — the must-see film of 2013. This important documentary, coupled with award-winning author David Kirby’s Death at SeaWorld, should be the final nails in any belief that keeping intelligent and social animals jammed in concrete tanks is acceptable. The meticulous research uncovered in both the film and the book provide irrefutable proof that captive orcas live in misery and die young in marine theme parks.

Orcas at SeaWorld aren’t retired; they work until they die. More than three dozen orcas have died at SeaWorld facilities from causes ranging from severe trauma, intestinal gangrene, acute hemorrhagic pneumonia, pulmonary abscesses, chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular failure to septicemia, influenza and brain necrosis.

Most are dying far short of even their average lifespan in the wild.

More and more families are refusing to buy tickets to marine abusement parks. The days of enslaving social ocean dwellers in concrete bathtubs are coming to an end.

Jennifer O’Connor, PETA Foundation/Norfolk, Va. Boulder Weekly

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A remembrance: Gary Thomas Mueller Dr. Gary Thomas Mueller transitioned on Friday, Nov. 15. He loved the Colorado outdoors, laughing, learning, music, fine wine, creating gourmet meals and best of all — sharing his life with Suzanne, his wife, their fourlegged children and his closely held friends.

Gary was raised in the suburbs of Detroit in the Catholic tradition, which always stayed with him. His thirst for understanding a deeper connection with the Divine drew him to learn from many masters of other traditions and practices — and masters were drawn to him as a student.

Among his direct teachers were Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt therapy, and Alexander Lowen and John Pierrakos, MD, founders of the bioenergetics movement. While serving in Vietnam, amidst the craziness of war, Gary met and spent time with a Buddhist monk and his family, which ultimately laid the groundwork to transform his life. This is where Gary first learned to mediate. When Gary returned to Michigan, he continued his Buddhist meditation practice and ultimately became a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in Boulder.

Gary was also deeply connected to Native American traditions, practiced with Lakota leaders and was given the high honor of becoming a Pipe Carrier.

Gary also studied with Claudio Naranjo, a Chilean psychiatrist who developed the Enneagram and was considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions.

Following in the lineage of Naranjo, Gary developed a psychotherapy practice in Boulder that incorporated all the teachings of his masters and his own innate wisdom. For more than 30 years Gary followed his greatest passion — helping many hundreds of people overcome their life’s challenges and find their path forward.

At Naropa University, Gary worked as an adjunct professor of Gestalt therapy for 17 years. One of his most treasured honors was being voted by the students as “Professor of the Year” in 2001. In addition, Gary generously shared his passion by mentoring many newer therapists.

During the last five years of Gary’s Boulder Weekly

life, his exposure to Agent Orange and other deadly toxins while serving in Vietnam slowly took hold throughout his body in the form of Lewy Dementia and Parkinson’s disease. Gary ultimately demonstrated the true meaning of “warriorship” as he boldly navigated the

mental and physical challenges he faced every day by anchoring himself through his rich training and spiritual practices.

Gary is deeply missed by his wife, Suzanne Isaacs, who cared for him at home during his illness; his four-legged children Meera, Sheba and Kittie; and the many other people who loved him dearly. A memorial service to celebrate and honor Gary is being held at 2:30 p.m. Dec. 9 in the Chautauqua Community House in Boulder.

Donations can be given in Gary’s memory to the Mountain View Fire Protection District in Longmont, which cheerfully came to Gary’s aid numerous times for “lift assist,” or to the Lewy Body Dementia Association, which provided the awareness and knowledge to successfully navigate through Gary’s disease process with compassion and understanding. Visit www.ahlbergfuneralchapel.com to share condolences.

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news Terminally homeless

Man struggles with kidney failure while living on the streets

by Jefferson Dodge

J

ason Balousek suffers from kidney failure and has been told he only has a matter of weeks to live.

When he heard that news, it made him happy, much to his doctor’s surprise.

At this point, he says, death is preferable to the life he’s been leading.

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“So I kind of freaked out and hopped a bus to Colorado,” says Jason, who as a kid had once seen the Rocky Mountains in Montana.

“I wanted to be close to the mountains when I die.”

The couple was in Manitou Springs when Jason had a seizure and ended up breaking two fistulas that had been implanted.

“Being homeless is not conducive to recovering from surgery,” Shannon says.

Jason adds, “They expect me to walk around homeless with a tube hanging out of my chest.”

Since he could not seem to keep the fistulas clean and intact, he was forced to have emergency dialysis at the hospital every three to four months. But now he’s all but given up on treating his condition.

“I’m really frustrated these days,” Jason says. “I’m not sure what to do. I’m done with dialysis, that’s for sure. I’m done. I’d rather have quality of life instead of quantity at this point.”

**** Jason is homeless. He wanders downtown Boulder streets with his wife, Shannon, who suffers from mental illness. People see his four broken dialysis ports, the damaged veins on his arms, and think he’s hooked on drugs. One time at a 7-Eleven a worker told him, “You people keep clogging the toilets with your needles.”

People have associated symptoms of his polycystic kidney condition, hypertension and pancreatitis with being drunk. They see the Shannon Balousek shows off the sign she flies at the McDonald’s on Baseline Road. Her husband, 42-year-old’s tattoos and assume he Jason, didn’t want to have his picture taken. got those while he was in prison.

He gets hassled by authority figures Jason was working two jobs, at a motel more when he wears short-sleeved did they expect me to rest? I would get **** and restaurant, seven days a week in shirts that expose his ink. a ticket for sleeping.”

The couple has two sons, age 9 and Madison, Wis. His condition, in which But he says he never does drugs, Now he’s sitting outside a coffee 7, who live with Shannon’s aunt and the kidneys stop filtering out toxins, doesn’t drink and has never been to shop near the Pearl Street Mall where uncle in Wisconsin.

Jason says he worsened, to the point where the only prison. the tables and chairs are chained to a doesn’t like his kids seeing him in the thing he could consume without throwHe emphasizes that the kidney fail- pole to keep them from being stolen. hospital. ing up was milk. ure was not caused by alcohol abuse. It Shannon stands behind him, puts her “The kids don’t know how sick I “I drank a gallon of milk a day for is a genetic condition he inherited from arms around his shoulders and laments am,” he whispers, as if they are nearby. six months,” he says. his mother. the city’s anti-camping ordinance, He has older kids, too, from previHe put off going to the doctor “I’m so sick of being treated like a which has made it against the law to ous relationships: a 20-year-old son, a because he couldn’t afford it.

But one criminal, like I’ve done something sleep under any kind of shelter, even a 22-year-old daughter and a 17-year-old day he was so sick he had to go to the wrong,” Jason says. “Not everyone out blanket or tarp. daughter.

He recently returned to hospital, where he was told he’d need here is a drunk. Not everyone out here “It’s illegal to sleep,” she says. “You’ll Wisconsin to visit one of them and dialysis the rest of his life — or a transdoes drugs. … Stuff like that drives me get a camping ticket.” ended up in the emergency room for plant. insane.”

“I have no place to lay down,” Jason dialysis, during which he vomited, A surgical procedure to place a The dialysis ports, or “fistulas,” that adds. messing up the needles and causing his catheter in his chest for dialysis treatdoctors have tried to implant keep arm to swell up. ments created a clot in his heart.

The breaking and are impossible to keep **** In Boulder, the two regularly eat motel closed, and Jason lost the other clean because of his homeless lifestyle.

“We just fell through the cracks,” meals at the Bridge House, and job because the kidney failure and asso“They don’t understand that carryShannon says of what happened to the Shannon “flies a sign” at the ciated medications made him too dizzy ing a backpack all day, sleeping on the couple during the past three years.

McDonald’s on Baseline. Her sign to work — or, as Shannon describes it, concrete at night, it’s just not possible,” “I just got sick,” Jason explains, reads, “McHungry!

McThank You! I “He was a zombie.” recounting the path that led him to this he wrote on the Boulder Outreach for Love Nuggets!”

She mentions The medical complications continplace.

The Chicago native says his parHomeless Overflow Facebook page.

“McHippies,” one of her favorite ued, even worsened, in part because he ents split when he was a baby, and he “Part of why I quit going to dialysis could no longer work and didn’t have spent a lot of time in foster homes completely was because after a treatthe money for proper treatment. growing up. Up until a few years ago, ment I would be so exhausted. Where See HOMELESS Page 16 Boulder Weekly

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Facebook groups. hasn’t given up on the idea that he still Shannon says the couple can’t make has some rewarding moments left with it back to their usual campsite near the his wife. west end of Arapahoe Avenue anymore “I guess we’re just waiting for fate because Jason can’t walk that far. together, and trying to have as many He gets only about $280 of his good days as we can,” he says as $750 disability check because of deduc- Shannon returns to the table. tions for child support and Medicare. **** Jason figures he’s “I wanted to been in the hospishare my story SHARE MY STORY tal 18 times in the more than anylast two years. thing because I am MORE THAN “I can’t seem to so tired of this ANYTHING BECAUSE stay out of the attitude that I AM SO TIRED OF place,” he says. “I because someone can’t do it anyis homeless they THIS ATTITUDE THAT more. It’s an must have ‘done BECAUSE SOMEONE impossible scenarsomething IS HOMELESS THEY io, is what it is.” wrong,’” Jason Shannon walks concludes in his MUST HAVE ‘DONE down the sidewalk Facebook post.

SOMETHING WRONG.’ for a smoke, and “Not all of us are — JASON BALOUSEK Jason confides that here because of he’s gotten into decisions we have some fights because made. Not all of other homeless guys us are here because hit on her. He says predators see of poor life choices. I was given no a woman on the street as prey. choice in this.

“To be honest, I can’t really call this “At this point I feel more sorry for living anymore,” he wrote on the all of you,” he writes. “I will be dead BOHO Facebook page. “I’m looking soon and won’t have to deal with all of forward to getting off such a cruel this hate and indifference anymore. I planet. This is the only light at the end just hope my story might help someone of this tunnel.” else in the future.”

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by Joel Dyer and Jefferson Dodge

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he oil and gas industry and Gov. John Hickenlooper’s “plan A” was easy enough to spot when it came to their shared desire to increase oil and gas development in Colorado. For its part, the industry spent millions of dollars on advertising to convince the public that fracking is as American as apple pie. As for our oil and gas geologist-turned-governor, his mission was to use the power of the state to provide the threat of filing economically devastating lawsuits against municipalities that dared to try to stop fracking within their communities. But as we saw in 2012 and again during this November’s elections, “plan A” is failing badly.

Longmont passed a fracking ban last year and is currently being sued by the state and the oil and gas industry. But in the most recent elections, despite Longmont’s travails, Lafayette passed a fracking ban and Boulder and Fort Collins each passed five-year moratoriums on the controversial extraction practice that uses a mixture of water, sand and more than 500 chemicals, many of which are known or suspected carcinogens, to extract oil and gas from shale formations.

Broomfield also voted on a five-year fracking ban, which for now appears to have passed by 17 votes. However, the margin of victory was so close that it triggered an automatic recount that will not begin until Dec. 2.

So after millions of dollars spent by the industry and an endless stream of threats from the governor, the antifracking momentum has done nothing but continue to grow as one community after another votes to restrict the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells within city limits. But it’s far too soon for the citizens of those towns and others around the state who are desirous of similar protections to think victory is at hand. That’s why they call it “plan A.” Within days of the industry’s recent defeat at the ballot box, “plan B” was rolled out in the form of a new set of air quality regulations proposed by the governor and agreed to by the largest oil and gas producers in the state, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Encana Corporation and Noble Energy.

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Gov. John Hickenlooper has proposed new regulations on the oil and gas industry designed to curb emissions including methane. But critics claim the new regulations are simply an attempt to downplay the dangers of fracking by way of greenwashing.

direction. They revise the current Colorado Air Quality Control Commission regulations that were themselves put in place last year after the Environmental Protection Agency created new, stricter standards for air pollution stemming from the oil and gas industry and then required states to enforce the new standards.

Colorado determined in 2012 that it would only enforce some of the EPA’s new standards at that time, but would revisit the EPA’s air quality requirements in 2013, at which time the state would consider adopting all of the federal guidelines as well as any revisions deemed necessary.

The new regulations that Hickenlooper is currently proposing would create air quality rules in Colorado that are, on paper, even stricter than those now required by the federal government by way of the EPA. The main difference between the state regulations and the EPA standards is that Hickenlooper’s new rules would apply to emissions of methane, and that would be a first for any state when it comes to oil and gas industry regulation.

Methane regulation is deemed important because it has been found to be one of the most potent greenhouse gases when it comes to global warming.

In addition, the governor’s proposed regulations would require oil and gas

producers to find and repair gas leaks in their equipment used for drilling and production purposes. The regs would also require better industry record-keeping regarding leaks.

Companies would be required to quickly install high-efficiency burners, as opposed to simply venting gas into the air when there is no pipeline available for transport or market in which to sell the gas. But perhaps most importantly, a number of the governor’s proposed provisions would apply to existing wells — not just new wells being drilled. This is important because there are already more than 52,000 existing wells in Colorado, so not retrofitting the air quality standards would render the new regs nearly impotent when it comes to improving the state’s air quality. (See sidebar on page 21 for more analysis on the pros and cons of the new regs.)

Yet despite what sounds like a major step forward for Colorado’s environment and the public’s health, it appears that the new regulations may not be the environmental windfall that oil and gas industry critics were hoping for.

In fact, the new regs may turn out to be little more than the latest ploy by the industry to fulfill its goal of rapidly drilling up Colorado’s remaining gas reserves before the lucrative natural gas export market dries up. Experts predict there is only a five- to 10-year export window

before most countries begin to produce their own supplies of shale gas. That short time horizon, coupled with the fact that there is virtually no market for gas in the U.S and that other countries are currently willing to pay as much as eight times the going rate in the U.S., explains the industry’s rush to drill and export.

But what has been lost in the discussion of Hickenlooper’s new stricter regulations is how the enforcement of these new rules will actually be accomplished.

A quick look back at what happened in 2012 when the EPA first passed its new, stronger federal regulations on oil and gas industry air pollution may shed some light on why the oil and gas industry seems so willing to go along with the governor and his new regulations this time around.

The reason given by the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission (CAQCC) for not implementing all of the EPA’s new rules in 2012 was that it could potentially “trigger unduly burdensome permitting requirements for companies.” Based on its explanation for not enforcing the EPA rules, it seems the CAQCC sees its first priority as watching out for the good of the oil and gas industry, not the public’s health.

The CAQCC also pointed out that it only had a paltry eight inspectors, and that with such a small enforcement capacity it was not realistic to adopt all of the new EPA standards, even though most of the EPA’s new regulations applied primarily to new wells being drilled.

As you may recall, earlier this year the Hickenlooper administration worked the back rooms to defeat proposed legislation that would have greatly increased the number of inspectors at agencies regulating the oil and gas industry. The additional 60-plus inspectors proposed by the legislation would have made it at least possible to inspect most wells once every few years. Not exactly a formula for rigorous regulatory monitoring, but still a vast improvement over the current virtual lack of enforcement.

Both Hickenlooper and the oil and gas companies that helped shape the new regulations obviously understand that there are no new inspectors and what that means when it comes to the See OIL AND GAS Page 20

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reality of enforcement. allowed, But If the eight existing inspectors at the provided where could CAQCC can’t even enforce the EPA’s that strict the oil and air quality rules at just a few new well rules and gas industry sites being drilled at any given time, then regulations hope to find how can eight inspectors enforce all of are in place such an the EPA rules plus Hickenlooper’s new that would organizarules at more than 52,000 existing wells, appear to tion with along thousands of miles of pipelines, as guarantee its which to well as thousands of production platsafety,” then partner? forms and gas plants? the industry Where The answer is that they can’t. In fact, wins and it could it find even if by some miracle a CAQCC knows it. environinspector were to stumble onto a methane The mentalists leak in violation of one of Hickenlooper’s industry who could new rules, Colorado has such meaningunderstands be counted lessly small fines — some of the lowest in that if you on to supEnvironmental Defense Fund Executive Director Fred Krupp speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United States — that the guilty com- spend port frackSwitzerland, during a session titled “The Global Energy pany might well choose to ignore fixing enough ing in Context.” the leak indefinitely, finding it more cost- money, you Colorado effective to simply pay the fine down the can find and elseroad. This has happened on more than friends and allies in unusual places to where? They seem to have found their certify that you are fracking responsibly one occasion. answer in the form of the Environmental Often in Colorado the initial fines of — even unusual places within the enviDefense Fund (EDF). ronmental movement itself. $1,000 a day are later reduced or even When the governor announced his The industry’s “plan B” is a far crafti- new regulations, he stated that the reguforgiven entirely by the state bureaucracy er approach than its relatively straightthat issued the fine. Just as with the lations were the result of the efforts of forward “plan A.” It’s designed to make additional inspector legislation, the both the oil and gas industry and the it appear as though the industry and the Hickenlooper administration helped to Environmental Defense Fund. governor have finally seen the light and defeat a bill last year that would have For many observers, the EDF’s parraised the minimum fine for oil and gas that they now understand what the cititicipation gave credibility to the new polluters in violation of state and federal zens of Colorado have been saying all regulations. But for others more familiar laws to a still quite low $15,000 per day. along, namely, that the environment and with the organization, just the opposite What all this means is that the oil the public’s health must come before was true. and gas companies are likely willing to corporate profits and donations to camIt appears that in recent years the embrace the governor’s new “stricter” paign coffers.

EDF has become a key player in the regulations because To make “plan B” work, promotion of drilling and fracking shale they understand that the industry needs buy-in gas across the U.S., and a good deal of there is no mechanism from those who consider the its annual budget is being supplied by for enforcing those regenvironment to be an impor- those who support or actually profit ulations. Without tant quality of life issue. That from fracking shale gas. When it comes ample inspectors and just happens to describe the to the court of public opinion on frackmeaningful fines, the vast majority of people living ing, EDF may be the best thing that’s governor’s new regulain Colorado. To get that kind ever happened to the gas industry. tions are rendered nearof buy-in, to literally change Such a revelation sheds light on the ly meaningless. the debate from how to stop governor’s new regs and raises a new Despite all the fracking to allowing seemquestion: Are the regulations that the praise for EDF helped to craft in Colorado really ingly safe fracking, the Hickenlooper’s seemgoing to protect the environment, or are industry and the governor Howarth of Cornell ingly bold stand against Robert they just another example of industry understand that they need to University co-authored the an industry he has pre- first study that confirmed greenwashing? There are those who make the new oil and gas emissions of greenviously blindly support- high believe the latter to be true. regulations appear to be house gases from wellsites. ed to the point of When it comes to controversy some kind of grand comproseverely injuring his regarding fracking within the environmise with anti-fracking own political career, the oil and gas mental movement, no single example has activists and the environmental moveindustry is still basically in charge of reg- ment as a whole. They needed an envistood out more than EDF’s Methane ulating itself, a dangerous game to play Emissions Study. ronmental Judas goat. with an industry with a nearly unparalAs a matter of context, in April The governor and industry needed a leled track record for environmental 2011, scientists from Cornell University, representative from the environmental impropriety. including Robert Howarth, Ph.D. and movement at the negotiating table, an But more important than the state’s the David R. Atkinson Professor of organization that could be involved inability to actually enforce the new reg- throughout the process and then claim Ecology and Environmental Biology, ulations, these new standards could be that it had significantly helped shape the along with colleagues Renee Santoro used as a powerful PR tool designed to and Tony Ingraffea, published the firstnew oil and gas regs. And they needed help the industry increase its drilling and to be able to tell the world that as a ever peer-reviewed assessment of shale fracking in Colorado. gas’s greenhouse footprint, including result of that participation and negotiaIf the oil and gas industry can methane. tion, those same environmentalists are change the current fracking debate from The Cornell study found that shale now endorsing drilling and fracking as a “should it be banned” to “should it be gas wells emitted in the range of 2.2 pergood thing.

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cent to 4.3 percent of a well’s lifetime production into the atmosphere, and that another 1.4 percent to 3.6 percent of a well’s lifetime gas production escaped into the atmosphere while being transported and processed downstream from the well site.

What this study ultimately meant for the gas industry was that if the Cornell study was correct, then according to Howarth, “gas in general and shale gas in particular is a disastrous fuel since methane is a greenhouse gas with far greater potency than carbon dioxide.”

In other words, the idea that we could use natural gas as an environmentally friendly bridge fuel as we wean ourselves from oil and coal was incorrect. The study caused quite a stir in the boardrooms of the oil and gas industry.

As time passed, many other similar studies were conducted by various academic institutions, as well as by organizations such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Boulder. Some used regional monitoring gear placed near gas fields, while others used airplanes to directly measure releases from specific wells and gas fields.

All of these additional studies, many of which were presented at national scientific meetings and/or published, confirmed the findings of the Cornell study, with many actually detecting much higher rates of emissions than Howarth and his co-authors had reported.

A consensus was growing across the country — at least it was growing until the EDF joined with the oil and gas industry to fund its own emissions study. The steering committee for the EDF study consisted of the study’s author, University of Texas professor David Allen, nine representatives from the oil and gas industry — including lobbyist and public relations personnel from Shell, Southwestern Energy, ExxonMobil and others — along with two EDF employees.

The EDF emissions study found that emissions from shale gas well sites was only about 1/20 of what had been reported in the Cornell study and the others that had previously been conducted. So how could that be?

Earlier this week, Howarth told Boulder Weekly that while he hasn’t read Colorado’s draft air quality regulations yet, he is familiar with the Environmental Defense Fund.

In fact, he worked there from 2000 to 2002.

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Attorney: Draft air quality regs a mixed bag

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att Sura, an attorney representing the groups Weld Air and Water and Grand Valley Citizens Alliance, says he views the proposed air quality rules announced by Gov. John Hickenlooper last week as a vast improvement over an earlier draft, although more needs to be done.

“It’s so much better,” Sura says. “It’s a different approach altogether.”

He says it is unfortunate that downstream compressor stations, where the most methane emissions occur, are still exempted from the Leak Detection and Repair program under the new draft rules. On the other hand, Sura says, the previous allowance for only auditory-visual-olfactory (AVO, or hearing, sight and smell) tests for well sites emitting between six and 10 tons of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) per year has been eliminated, and this category of wells would be subjected to annual instrument-based tests instead. (Wells emitting under six tons of VOCs would be subject to one-time instrument-based testing, with only monthly AVO tests thereafter.)

Another example of the new draft regulations being strengthened, he says, is that a previous version gave companies 15 to 30 days to repair leaks once they were detected. The new draft requires such repairs to be made within five days (or within 15 days of receiving a part if it is not within stock).

As for venting — the practice of flaring off natural gas because it is so plentiful and cheap, in favor of capturing more lucrative oil — the draft proposal “kind of kicks the can down the road a little bit,” Sura says, because it calls for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to make rules on how quickly a company must hook its natural gas into a pipeline.

He says his biggest beef with the draft is that it still fails to implement special rules for oil and gas operations located within a quarter-mile of schools, homes and other occupied structures, and the groups he represents are proposing stricter regulations for those wells.

Sura says the passage of the bans and moratoria related to fracking along the Front Range probably played a significant role leveraging the gains that the Environmental Defense Fund was able to make in the draft regulations.

“I believe that had to have some impact,” he says.

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“Industry gives them a list of sites that are acceptable for them to go to, over a particular timeframe, they go to those sites, they make those measurements,” Howarth explains. “Are those the average conditions? Is industry going to invite them to look at where things are not going so well, or where companies aren’t being as careful? Clearly not.”

He called the low methane emissions outlined in the findings a “best-case scenario, if you did everything perfectly,” but the real average, which can be better measured from the air without the need for industry cooperation, is much higher.

“I think they’ve gotten some good scientists involved, but there’s an inherent bias in how they’ve gone about it, because of the money and the way they set up their review teams,” Howarth says.

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He remains skeptical of those who reviewed the research, for instance.

“They say they had a peer review team of scientists,” Howarth says. “Well, yes and no. Most of those peer reviewers come from an industry background, or still work for industry, or have some sort of connection to industry. It’s not a balanced effort.”

He says the results seem to have been pre-ordained from the beginning.

“Even before they started, the folks at Environmental Defense Fund headquarters were putting out press releases and statements saying this is the way to go, it’s probably going to show that shale is OK,” he says. “They sort of predetermined the result.”

In some of his latest research, Howarth points out that methane emissions vary depending on what the natural gas is used for. He says EDF likes to

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use figures associated with elecEven the EPA under tric power generated by natural Obama has suddenly gas because it is a more effistopped its research and cient process and generates pulled out of the places fewer emissions than when where it had previously natural gas is used for heating. stated it believed that When asked whether he fracking had contaminatever felt pressure to come up ed groundwater. Clearly with desired research results very powerful forces are at when he worked for EDF, play politically in this Howarth replies, “I guess I’d country when it comes to rather not say. Let’s put it this fracking and shale gas From left to right: former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson; way: I like being an academic production. This appears former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin; former Secretary of State George Shultz. All four men are working, at times together, in an effort to increase the global use of natural gas. scientist. Even at academic to be the case in Colorado institutions we feel political as well. pressures when you’re up given to EDF to help make sure that Sam Schabacker, since he invests money into the gas against the oil and gas industry. But a fracking shale gas was being done as well industry, it’s likely he’s all for it. mountain west director for Food and [non-governmental organization] that as it could be in the 14 states where Water Watch, describes EDF as “a More specifically, Robertson is a has no serious endowment and is depen- most shale gas is being produced, which smokescreen” that has a history of being senior advisor to Tiger Infrastructure dent on continuous cash flow to keep includes Colorado. And Bloomberg is “an apologist for the industry” when it Partners, a hedge fund focused on you going feels strong pressures from hardly the biggest donor using the EDF investing in energy assets. The managing comes to oil and gas companies in those who give money. There’s just no to push a pro-fracking agenda.

Colorado. partner of Tiger is Emil Henry, who getting around it. It’s human nature.”

Another key funder of the controver- served as assistant secretary of the treaHe says that the group has been So is funding really a factor that sial EDF emissions study was Tom allied with industry in other states, sury under Henry Paulson. could explain why the EDF conducted Steyer, a former hedge fund manager including partnering with corporate fishTiger created a partnership with such an industry-friendly who has formed a pro-natu- Kiewit Corporation called TKT ing interests during an effort to privatize study and is now using ral gas consortium of fisheries on the West Coast and working Midstream Partners. According to the Rubenstein/Wikimedia Commons the results of that study to sorts that includes the on an effort in Pennsylvania to form the Wall Street Journal, TKT plans to spend try to convince people likes of Bloomberg, forCenter for Sustainable Shale up to a half-billion dollars in seed money everywhere, including mer treasury secretaries Development, which he refers to as an that’s being provided by Robertson and here in Colorado, that Henry Paulson and initiative to “sell the public on the whole the Ziff family, whose fortune is derived fracking shale gas is good Robert Rubin, and from Ziff Davis Media, to build pipelines idea that fracking can be made safe and George Shultz, who and safe? sustainable. It’s pretty misleading.” and processing plants for natural gas. served as secretary of Like so many other He also says EDF was involved in It should be noted that Kiewit has been state under former questions involving the oil negotiating the state’s 2011 regulations a major player in building downstream President Ronald Reagan. shale gas assets, including large gas export and gas industry, the requiring oil and gas companies to disThese individuals answer can likely be found close the chemicals they use in hydraulic terminals in Maryland and Oregon, the have been outspoken in by following the money fracturing, regulations that Schabacker giant Bakken Shale Gas plant in North their belief that natural trail.

Dakota, major gas plants in Texas, three gas says are “riddled with loopholes, like the Michael Bloomberg, who gas, including unconvenThere is no question trade secret exemption” that allows plants in Wyoming and even the supports fracking, gave $6 million to the EDF to push tional shale gas, is the that EDF gets a good industry to conceal chemicals that they Melbourne gas plant here in Colorado. fracking’s best practices. answer to the world’s deal of its funding from classify as confidential trade secrets.

These are just some of the EDF’s energy needs. people and organizations Robertson Family Foundation Inc. “They fight for strong regulations,” individual funders with ties to the gas Perhaps the heaviest who either want to see Schabacker says of the EDF. “We’re industry. And on the corporate donor gas used as a bridge fuel hitter of all when it comes list, a quick look at the sponsors page of going to fight for a ban.” or who actually profit to the EDF’s bottom line He adds that some environmental the EDF’s emissions study shows the from fracking shale gas. is famed hedge fund man- names of Anadarko Petroleum, Encana, groups are hesitant to criticize EDF if In August 2012, New they get funding from the same sources, ager Julian Robertson, BG Group, Chevron, Talisman, XTO York City Mayor Michael because funders don’t want to see infightwho also sits on EDF’s Energy and ExxonMobil.

Bloomberg penned an ing within the environmental movement.

Board of Trustees.

If Kiewit and the other companies opinion piece titled, “You’re probably going to get a call During the last listed above are confident enough in “Fracking is too imporfrom your funder, asking why you are decade, there were years fracking’s future to invest billions of doltant to foul up” wherein rocking the boat,” Schabacker says. when it was reported that lars building natural gas plants and export he stated, “The producCalls to Dan Grossman, regional nearly one-third of the terminals, it must have something to do tion of shale gas through director of the EDF’s Rocky Mountain EDF’s entire budget that with their close ties to major campaign Julian Robertson gave EDF fracking is the most sigoffice, went unanswered. the organization spent on donors and elite political players who more than $40 million. He invests in natural gas infranificant development in So where does this leave us when it climate change was happen to be former high-ranking govstructure such as pipelines. the U.S. energy sector in comes to what we should think about donated by Robertson or ernment officials like former secretaries of generations.”

Hickenlooper’s new regulations forged his foundation. the treasury or secretaries of state with The next day, Bloomberg gave the with the help of the oil and gas industry According to Mathew Nisbet writing backgrounds at Goldman Sachs.

EDF $6 million so that the organization for Big Think, Robertson gave the EDF and the Environmental Defense Fund?

These are the kind of ties that can could pursue a strategy designed to The words skeptical and fearful come more than $40 million between 2005 smooth the path and possibly even secure strong rules and help the industry and 2009. to mind.

For now, fracking bans and remove all regulatory barriers to fracking develop best practices for extracting moratoriums seem to be the only way to So obviously Robertson, who also and the highly controversial practice of unconventional gas reserves through guarantee that fracking is safe. happened to be the single largest donor exporting our natural gas resources. It is fracking. In other words, Bloomberg’s Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com to Mitt Romney’s Restore our Future hard to believe that the Obama adminismoney wasn’t given to EDF to study — Jefferson Dodge contributed to this super PAC, has some influence over tration’s new found love for fracking whether fracking should be done. It was report what EDF thinks about fracking. And shale gas isn’t connected.

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than Green is a busy man. Boulder Weekly tracks him down on a cool November morning. He’s got a day full of meetings, a major fundraising bash has just wrapped up, there’s a storm coming to the high country — plus he wants to go skiing and check out Colorado’s high country, and avalanche season is in full swing. All in all, it’s just another day for the Boulder High graduate who currently heads the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), the statewide snow and avalanche forecasting and educational service that is based in Boulder.

Back in 1988, when Green graduated from Boulder High, he didn’t know much about avalanches. He didn’t even really have a long-term plan for his life. An enthusiastic skier and climber, he gravitated to Telluride and the wild remote peaks of the San Juan Mountains rather than heading off to college like most of his peers.

It was a decision that would change his life.

“I was very much into skiing and climbing and the mountains,” Green recalls. “I only had a little avalanche knowledge. My uncle was a climber, he had some experience with avalanches, and he taught me a few things.”

Green’s learning curve accelerated quickly after he headed south.

“I moved directly from Boulder to Telluride, and in Telluride I quickly figured out that I needed to learn a lot more about avalanches,” says Green. “I started spending time with mountaineers and other people who spent a lot of time in risky terrain, and I started to get very interested in the science of avalanches.”

Green’s curiosity led him to depart Telluride after two years for Montana State University, where he enrolled as an undergraduate. At first it was a disappointment.

“I wanted to learn more about avalanches, but there wasn’t much you could do as an undergrad,” says Green. But one moment changed everything.

“One of the courses I took was an introductory course on weather, and they brought in a grad student to talk about his work,” Green says of what would be a defining moment of his career.

That grad student happened to be another Boulder High graduate by the name of Karl Birkeland. At the time, Birkeland was on his way to becoming one of North America’s most respected avalanche and snow scientists. He was also launching the newly founded Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center. Green smelled an opportunity and quickly buttonholed Birkeland after the lecture.

“I gave a lecture about the weather and climate and their relationship with avalanches, and this kid came up and said, ‘I want to do that,’” recalls Birkeland. “I had just started the center, so he became an intern. Ethan was super-motivated to learn.”

Meanwhile, to complement his internship at the newly founded avalanche center in Montana, Green scored a position with the ski patrol at Big Sky, a ski area that features some of the steepest and most avalanche-prone terrain in Montana.

Green’s hands-on experience at Big Sky complements his academic background, ivory tower qualifications that might seem surprising given his predilection for skiing, climbing and the outdoors. However, Green is an individual who has spent plenty of time hitting the books along with hitting the slopes. With a degree in meteorology from the University of Utah (obtained as a transfer student from Montana State), he also holds an M.A. in atmospheric science from Colorado State University as well as a Ph.D. from the same school.

“Understanding avalanches requires a lot of different sciences,” says Birkeland. “Geography, the earth sciences, how to relate to the landscape spatially, see

Ethan Green

different patterns, and yet you also need to understand physics and math behind how avalanches happen, what happens when snow crystals change, what happens when snow fractures.”

A lot of this doesn’t apply to the average backcountry enthusiast, says Birkeland. “The level that Ethan is operating on to create the kind of tools that he is trying to create for his forecasting crew at the CAIC is exceptional. His M.A. in atmospheric science, his Ph.D. and his practical background as a ski patroller is why he is so effective.”

Green also seems to have a knack for being in the right place at the right time, from the classroom where Birkeland was giving his presentation to being tagged as the next director of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center.

“Knox Williams, the former director of the CAIC, was retiring after more than 30 years on the job,” says Green. “And he asked me if I wanted to have the position. I thought, ‘Well, if he’s been there 30 years, that means that job openings like this don’t come around see AVALANCHES Page 26

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very often,’ so I decided that I better take it.”

It’s a position that seems to be a custom fit for Green. Colorado has a complex winter environment, with multiple mountain ranges and weather patterns, making it a paradise for snow science geeks like Green, who thrives on the complexity of the state’s terrain, weather and snowfall patterns. Then there’s the human factor. Colorado historically leads the country in avalanche deaths, and the Denver metro area is full of winter sports enthusiasts, from skiers to snowmobilers, all of whom enjoy some of the easiest access to steep, avalanche prone terrain in the nation, an environment where Green’s background as a ski patroller is invaluable.

“Colorado has a history of avalanche involvement that starts in the 1800s,” says Green. “If you look at avalanche history, there are spikes in deaths that correlate with the boom and bust of mining periods, where most of the incidents are industrial related. But in 1950, the modern period starts, and then most of the deaths are recreational.”

“Colorado leads the United States in the greatest number of people getting killed by avalanches on average and also the most getting killed in total,” adds Green. “Avalanches kill more people than any other natural hazard in Colorado, that’s an average of 5.5 people [per year] in the last 10 years, but in the last five years that average has climbed to seven people a year.”

These are sobering statistics, especially when you consider that, according to Green, most of these deaths could be avoided.

“Changes in equipment make it easier to get into the backcountry to go skiing or snowboarding,” says Green.

“It’s easier to get into the terrain, these sports have become much more popular, and if you look at magazines, it’s all about going into the backcountry and into bigger terrain, where avalanches

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are more likely.”

Because of easier access, says Green, people are making decisions that could kill them. “If we are looking at avalanches,” says Green, “90 percent of the time, the victim or the party triggers the avalanche that kills them. These are not people walking in the woods, these are people going into natural avalanche terrain and tipping the scale. That’s troubling, and tells us the problem is us.”

The human factor means that the work that Green and his team at the CAIC do is a combination of science and education.

“We are doing more and more education,” say Green. “It’s how to avoid these accidents. Most of them have some sort of human factor, with lots of signs to show people that it was a dangerous period. We look at that as a challenge: How can we deliver the information better to avoid accidents?”

“We try to get three points across to people,” adds Green. “Get current info, get educated and carry the proper equipment.

“The most important thing you can do is check the avalanche forecast,” he says. “Go to the CAIC website, and just paying attention to if an area is tagged green or red can be enough to save your life. The next thing is to take an avalanche course. You can go online and find good tutorials, then if you are spending a lot of time in the backcountry, take a multi-day course. A level one avalanche course will give you strategies for making good decisions, and put what you are seeing into context and practice.

“Finally,” says Green, “carry proper equipment. That means everyone in your group should have a beacon, shovel and probe at minimum.”

Preparation means that you’ll be able to take advantage of the fantastic winter sports opportunities that are available in Colorado, the same opportunities that motivated Green to head to Telluride after he wrapped up his

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Their avalanche hotline provides a fast and easy way to keep informed.

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until that moment. It was just really Classically trained and hailing origigreat to see that. … It’s been great, nally from Marshall, Texas, Robinson the whole tour, we’re just lovin’ it.” has gigged locally with Ron Miles and Salmon has been clocking miles at Megan Burtt. an almost mid-’90s pace this past “I think Jose had been worn out year, following up on their renaisfor a while,” observes Emmitt. “He sance release Aquatic Hitchhiker from was great and he was with us for a about a year and a half ago. “High long time, but he just wasn’t a fan of Country” is one of four new tunes the the road. … Y ’know, it’s always band has unleashed this year in a tough when you have to replace a release project with Breckenridge member like that, but we’re lovin’ Brewery (they are also available now our new drummer, Alwyn. He’s on iTunes), including the rousing young, he’s got great energy, he’s got Vince Herman number “Get Up and great chops.”

Go,” the furious banjo number From what we’ve seen, Robinson “Thornpipe” and Emmitt’s polished, has a great feel for the bluegrass stuff. expansive “Two Highways.” The four Drumming against a bluegrass canvas new bits are likely the precursor to a (which, unlike rock music, was never new Salmon CD due for release meant to have drums in the first sometime next year. place) can be a fiendishly delicate The band called in Hitchhiker promatter. Salmon has long blurred the ducer (and longtime Los Lobos keylines between the idioms, but slamboardist) Steve grass isn’t the kind Berlin to work the of discipline they new material — teach in percussion ON THE BILL: Leftover Salmon well and good, but school. (with special guest Bill Payne of Little Feat) plays the Boulder where in the world “Absolutely,” Theater on Friday, Nov. 29, and did they find the Emmitt says. “And Saturday, Nov. 30. Doors at 8:30 time to crank the other great p.m. Tickets are $29.50. 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. these out? thing is that he “We played doesn’t play too three nights at the loud. So it’s really Bluebird last kind of created a spring,” explains Emmitt, “kind of an lot more space in the music and more intimate thing, so we ended up doing dynamics, instead of just balls-to-thethat, and we booked a week of studio wall, all the time. So it feels like a time around those shows. And you really solid unit. And especially after know, that studio time was booked all this touring, we’ve really worked and we had no freakin’ idea what we him in and now he just about knows were going to do with it.” all our songs, which is quite an underIsn’t that the way Berlin likes to taking. So it’s good, we have our work? whole repertoire back and we can play “It is. That’s pretty much the same some of our old stuff, and mix it up.” way we did Aquatic Hitchhiker as well,” “He’s got all the skills you’d ever Emmitt says. “But somehow we manwant to have as a drummer,” Salmon aged to scare up 10 original tunes. It guitarist Vince Herman says. “Picks up on grooves really quick, just really all just kind of came out of the ether. locks in. Makes for a really good … We’re actually going to do a little rhythm section, we’re really enjoying more recording. We have some studio playing with him.” time booked in Aspen in February, at Flashing back again, we had to [Great Divide Studios], which is a ask Herman about “Get Up and Go.” really nice facility. So we’re going to It seemed like not so long ago, when head up for a little late-season skiSalmon was exhausted from the road town playin’ and get in and do two or and still trying to heal from the loss three more tunes then.” of Mark Vann, we chatted with And count the new guy in. After Herman about hanging the fish up 12 years holding down the drum seat, and diving into Great American Taxi, Jose Martinez finally packed it in a spending a little more time on songfew months ago to play locally near writing and a little less watching the his home in Seattle, and Salmon miles slip by from a window on the recruited Texas native Alwyn bus. It seemed back then that Robinson to replace him (banjoist Andy Thorn can now grin confidently Herman, at least as much, if not more than, the rest of the band, just that he’s not the new guy anymore).

wanted some home time. Hearing him belting out “It’s a good day to do a little travelin’ / It’ a good time to get up and gone” almost sounded as if Herman had squared his widely arcing circle with the road life.

Well, maybe.

“Ironically, I wrote that for a friend of mine who had been in a really nasty car crash and was taking a long time to recover,” Herman says. “So we went and captured her for the weekend.

Took her out to the shore, gave her a little break from her kids and kind of let her reinvent herself. I grabbed an hour while we were out there and wrote that one.”

To much deserved fanfare (“Bye bye, Mr. Nederland Pie,” as announced by a local newspaper), Herman packed up last year and moved to Oregon, satisfying a longtime desire to own some land and do a little homesteading on his off time.

“Well, the lettuce is kind of on hold right now,” laughs Herman.

“We’re trying to figure out a greenhouse to put up for the winter right now. … It’s so different, living at 1,000 feet instead of over 9,000 feet, y’know? I’m so learning so much, but it’s really been great.”

We wondered if it reminded him of his native western Pennsylvania/ Allegheny Mountain region.

“Yeah, a little bit. The culture is really different, but the hills kind of remind me of that,” Herman says. “I’m in the heart of the Siskiyou Mountains, not real tall, kind of West Virginia-ish. We’re really lovin’ getting’ to know the place. I used to read a lot of Thoreau, y’know? I read Wendell Berry and people like that, talking about a place, and really getting to know it.”

But it’s not all gentleman-farming for Herman.

“Yeah, I’m kind of out in the sticks, but there also happens to be a world-class recording studio a couple of miles from my house [The Studio at Pacifica]. … It was a studio that Steve Miller built for the Fly Like An Eagle record back in the 1970s. It sat empty for a long time, and a friend of mine has revived it. … So the plan is to spend some time there producing records; I’m doing the first one in February. It’s really a dream come true, this amazing studio in the middle of all this farmland.”

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overtones Mapping the sun

Pretty Lights aims for the stars

by Alan Sculley

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ight now, electronic music is more than a trend. It’s a tidal wave. Stars like Tiesto, Skrillex and David Guetta are filling arenas, and according to multiple media reports, cashing checks totaling tens of millions

each year.

Derek Vincent Smith (better known by his stage name Pretty Lights) has been riding the electronic wave right along with such stars. His fall “Analog Future” tour takes Smith, who started his career in Fort Collins, to a mix of arenas and large theater/club venues.

But he thinks it may not be long before the electronic music wave crashes and a lot of big-name DJs and producers will be left high and dry. And Smith is doing something to get ahead of the curve and ON THE BILL: stay relevant no matter Pretty Lights plays the what happens with elecOgden Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 5. tronic music — beginDoors at 8 p.m. Mikey ning with his live show.

Thunder opens. Must “I’ll tell you, I’ve seen be 16 to enter. Tickets are sold out. 935 E. it several times in the last Colfax Ave., Denver, 10 years with genres that 303-830-2525. come and they explode, and they’re so popular and everyone’s doing it, and everyone’s making money off of it and being successful,” Smith says. “And then all of a sudden, it almost happens overnight. No one’s selling tickets anymore.

“So I just wanted to deviate as quickly as possible,” he says. “I mean, I think that I definitely did some paving the way as far as my genre and what not, but as far as performance, the show and the massive lights and video productions and things like that, I don’t think it’s going to be enough for the audience very much longer. So I wanted to step ahead and do as much as I could.”

Exactly what Smith is doing on the Analog Future tour is bringing out a full band to perform along with

the pre-recorded tracks quick process.

Smith will play and manipuEventually, late on stage.

Smith amassed It’s a meeting of humans hours and hours and machines that’s not of music that he often explored in the elecfirst pressed tronic genre, where artists onto vinyl. often do little more on stage Then, working than dance and cheerlead as with his own they play pre-recorded songs set-up of com(and sometimes remix tracks puters, analog in real time). In Smith’s case, synthesizers and he’ll be able to play bass other studio with the band, play tracks equipment, he and be able to manipulate reshaped the both the live instruments raw music into and recorded tracks to shape finished songs what audiences hear. that are pre“I run sequences, I dominantly arrange tracks, I conduct the electronicmusicians. I play bass. I’m sounding, but also on my table in front of with vocal parts me,” Smith says. “That’s Colorado electronic artist Pretty Lights will incorporate live music and lots of into his show at the Ogden Theatre. really why I’m so excited sounds that [about the show] because it’s were very obvilike there’s so much to do on ously played on stage, so much to concentrate on.” real instruments. This gives a human character to This melding of live musicians and synthetic music that is also heavily processed. sounds makes sense because it’s an extension of what Now comes the new phase, with A Color Map of Smith did on his latest studio album, A Color Map of The Sun and the Analog Future tour. And for all the The Sun. talk of what’s new about Smith’s live show, he also said Smith spent nearly three years on the project — a he’s keeping some ties to his past. function of how complex the album was to make.

“It’s not going to be crazy different,” Smith says.

The process began with a long series of recording “I’m also designing with the live band my hits and my tracks, where I’ll be able to have the band play and sessions with various groupings of musicians and then I’ll bring in the actual track that they play on top vocalists — more than 40 in all participated. of, because I don’t want to like totally change my But it wasn’t like he had everything mapped out whole show where people are like ‘Whoa, this is nothahead of the many recordings sessions. Instead, music got written in segments — or as breaks or jams — that ing like it was.’ I have to maintain some of it and then bring in the new ideas at the proper pace.” the musicians would play, often with Smith chasing a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com specific tone or feel in the part. It wasn’t a simple or

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ften we are so bomBolderLife sees its mission as barded with media enlightening the next generation and messaging that of leaders. it can become easy “Kids, they are trying to figto distance ourselves ure out where they stand on from the harsh realities of the these particular topics,” says world. At precisely the time our Theater Program and Student civilization should be taking a Outreach Program Director hard look into what makes us a Dawn Bower. “I think it’s imporcommunal society, we are retreattant to offer them a wide variety ing en masse to the comfortable of perspectives so they can Feng Shui Fever, written by Nicolette Vajtay and directed by Erich Toll, is one of the plays making up confines of our own making — choose on their own, and they the theater component of the BolderLife Festival, happening Dec. 2-8 in Denver. The festival previously safe from the nastiness of a world ran in Boulder venues. don’t have to believe what their where different is often seen as parents or peer group believe. threatening.

The more informed you are, the The BolderLife Festival better choices you can make for aims to penetrate the walls of our your community in the future.” self-imposed bubble and force From battling against public thinking or conversation about stigma towards disability in the topics society has deemed taboo film Sweetheart, following the life or too difficult to talk about. By of homeless individuals in Seattle illuminating individual stories in Real Change or riding shotgun Photoshop animation piece on the resonating effects with a young autistic man thrust through the use of the arts, and of the 9/11 terrorist attack to a full-length feature fol- into the cold reality of a dispassionate society in The following up with ways to make a difference on these lowing a schizophrenic bachelor trying to make sense Story of Luke, festival goers will probably find a theme tough issues, BolderLife seeks to empower people to of his place in the world. change paradigms and accelerate social justice and or topic to which they can relate.

In addition to the 36 films and six original theater acceptance.

“Often in films you’re seeing something similar to “From the very beginning my passion has been for pieces, this year’s festival will also feature an original your own life circumstances. That’s what makes audidance show, local musicians and artists, as well as ences engage in a film … When you watch somebody growth and getting more topics out there that have panel discussions, director Q&As, in the past been uncomfortable or in a film do something you’ve been afraid to do your and 10 separate educational offerings. whole life, it may suddenly give you some room to closeted or shied away from in a ON THE BILL: The The synergy between entertainment way where people can just talk breathe and maybe take your own bold step into that BolderLife Festival runs from and awareness is presented in a nonabout it,” says Artistic Director and conversation,” Kelly says.

Dec. 2-8, with film screenings threatening yet edgy environment Founding Member Erin Kelly. “The Audience members can use their newfound activtaking place at the SIE meant to provoke thought and action very seed of [BolderLife] was, we ism to make a change on the spot. Local and national FilmCenter at 2510 E. Colfax Ave. and theater offerings rather than indifference or ignorance. representatives will be on hand to inform and chalwere going to screen a film, maybe held at Denver Crossroads “Anger, shock and other emotions lenge audiences during and after the shows. two, on end-of-life care and then Theater at 2590 Washington from a screen or stage can definitely have facilitators come in and talk Call2ACTion tables will disseminate information folSt. For more information and evoke feelings to help push you to do lowing performances, and provide an avenue to follow ticketing, go to www.bolderabout it. It quickly ballooned to lifefestival.com. something that you might not have, other topics evident in life but rarely up thinking with action. Despite the pleas to get like getting involved in an organizaor uncomfortably discussed.” involved, BolderLife attendees are free to bite off as tion or finding a way to help make a Born three years ago as the Life big or as little a piece as they can handle, with the difference. [BolderLife] is a great outlet to push those only pressure from organizers being to have an open and Death Matters Festival, the name has changed to emotions and get you to do something you may not reflect the growing list of issues being covered, from or willing mind. have done before,” says Filmmaker Liaison Jobi bullying and sexual identity themes to mental illness “The huge picture doesn’t always have to be your Berger. and relationships. This year’s festival, running Dec. goal,” Berger says. “BolderLife is that outlet where BolderLife also partners with Denver Public 2-8, moves from the Nomad Theater in Boulder to you can focus on small pieces and then hopefully it Schools on a student outreach program to teach the larger confines of the SIE FilmCenter in Denver. will keep growing. The small steps make the biggest young adults alternative ways of thinking and behavThe offerings encompass a range of thought-provokimpact sometimes.” ing. With workshops and thought exercises, ing entertainment options, from a three-minute Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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BolderLife Festival opens eyes and minds

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Boulder Tattoo Project director Chelsea Pohl closes her eyes as her husband, Vincent Bachert, tattoos a word from Anne Waldman’s poem onto her arm.

Boulder Tattoo Project finishes up first phase

by David Accomazzo

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t Claw and Talon Tattoo in Boulder, Boulder County resident Joel sits in the waiting room, flanked by colorful posters as the pounding riffs of stoner-metal legends Kyuss fill the room.

He’s there to participate in the Boulder Tattoo Project, the brainchild of Chelsea Pohl, who owns the parlor with her husband, Vincent Bachert.

The project has enlisted more than 200 Boulderites to tattoo themselves with parts of a poem about the city, written by famed local poet Anne Waldman.

Joel is part of the final wave of people to get tattooed, marking the end of the first step of the project.

He had never received a tattoo before he came across the project. After hearing about the project through friends, Joel, a poet himself, thought it might be time to get his first.

“The project sounded pretty cool, and I had a bunch of friends and coworkers doing it,” he says. “It seemed like a good reason to get involved. It would be part of a bigger project.”

His tattoo comes from the 11th stanza of the poem: “tip the scales and you go down, Libra, stay / wise, proactive, run the marathon, save the planet.”

It was quite easy for him to select his phrase, he says. A marathon runner currently sidelined by injuries, he chose the phrase “run the marathon” to get emblazoned onto the front of his right thigh.

After the September floods, Pohl says interest in the project spiked, and all the remaining tattoo slots filled extremely quickly. When combined, the tattoos — just a few words each, surrounded by stars, all done in black

ink — form a secret composite image, to be revealed at an event sometime in fall 2014.

Joel sits on the padded tattoo table and rolls up his grey pant leg, clearing the way for Bachert to apply a purpleinked “transfer stencil” that will serve as the guide for the tattoo. Bachert is fresh off a marathon weekend session in which he tattooed more than 70 participants, and he remarks, “I’m starting to dream stars at this point.”

He picks up his tattoo gun and turns it on, applying the needle to Joel’s skin.

Pohl has closely tracked demographics about the project. Out of 205 respondents, 76 percent are women.

Just 14 percent of project participants were getting their first tattoo, and 54 percent are under the age of 30.

Almost 90 percent have some college education or have completed college degrees, and racially, the participants closely mirror census data from the city of Boulder as a whole. Most involved say a love of Boulder motivated them to donate their skin to the project.

After Joel leaves, Bachert has one more tattoo — his wife’s. Pohl already has three or four tattoos, all done by Bachert, and they go back and forth about the design for a minute and make some last-minute tweaks. She lies on the table and extends her left arm and closes her eyes. In just a few minutes, the job is done. She holds up her arm in front of the mirror and smiles. It’s a fitting selection, given all that work she’s done to bring people in the community together, and all the moving stories participants have shared over the past few weeks.

“Inspiring,” the tattoo reads.

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Friday, November 29 music The Angle. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Black Lamb — With Crash Endings, Malamadre and Randall Conrad Olinger. 8:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Bonnie Lowdermilk Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303499-2985.

Caribou Mountain Collective. 10 p.m.

The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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

Eric Boa & The Constrictors. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

A.K.A. Doc Pomus A documentary exploring the legacy of Doc Pomus, a polio victim who went on to write songs for Ray Charles, The Drifters and more. Showing at the Boedecker Theater Nov. 29 at 8:30 p.m. and Nov. 30 at 5:30 p.m. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Friday, November 29: YAMN & Eminence Ensemble with Technicolor Tone Factory, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 8:30 p.m.

It’s been two years since YAMN last played the Fox Theatre. Still true to their blend of electronic dance music and rock ’n’ roll, bassist and vocalist David “Dewey” Duart says the band’s 2012 hiatus was dedicated to “writing new material and improving as musicians.” With a new record in the works, fans can check out what the band has been up to as they return to Boulder this weekend.

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Friday, November 29: Full Belly, Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 9:30 p.m.

Full Belly, a local group once featured on MTV’s Real World Denver, is at the Waterloo this week with ear-catching funk, rock and reggae jams. Fans of Sublime and Steely Dan can look forward to the band’s familiar vibe and musical arrangements. Between layered vocal harmonies, smooth bass lines, an easy saxophone and the occasional electric guitar, a Full Belly show can promise an upbeat rhythm and groove to move to.

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

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

Figure/Crizzly — With Vinnie Maniscalco and Satoru. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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lecture Monday, December 2: Immaculée Ilibagiza, University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 7 p.m.

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Immaculée Ilibagiza hid for 91 days in a bathroom with seven other women as the Rwandan genocide tore her country apart.

Just a young engineering student when war broke out, Ilibagiza has since become a best-selling author, international speaker and American citizen. This week, Ilibagiza will be at the University of Colorado Boulder sharing her ordeal and discussing the importance of peace and forgiveness in light of the 1994 tragedy.

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

Leftover Salmon — With Bill Payne. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

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

Moses Walker. 4:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

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

Slo Children. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Tommy Castro & The Painkillers. 8 p.m.

Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

YAMN and Eminence Ensemble — With Technicolor Tone Factory. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. events Black Friday and Beyond Protest — Protest against Walmart. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Neighborhood Market, Diagonal Plaza, 28th Street and Iris Avenue, Boulder, www.CSERB.org.

Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m.

The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.

The Nutcracker Ballet. Put on by the Boulder Ballet and Boulder Philharmonic. 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-8008.

Schlager Party with Marcus Lucas. 7 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Saturday, November 30 music The Beloved Invaders. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313.

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

Children of the Rains — Artist Nancy Rynes.

NCAR Visitor Center Gallery II, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through Nov. 29.

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

Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Through Jan. 26.

Hamster Theatre. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Heart Lines: Expressions of Native North American Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through Dec. 21.

Leftover Salmon — With Bill Payne. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Pattern: Follow The Rules is on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver through Feb. 9.

Julie Puma: The Immortal Jellyfish.

Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Through Jan. 12.

Landscape M — Artist Heimrad Bäcker (1925-2003). Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Jan. 5.

Local Showcase — 15 local artists. Firehouse Art Center, 667 4th Avenue, Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Dec. 8.

Nuestra Cultura: Our People, Our Heritage.

Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200.

Through Dec. 22.

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

Through June 21.

Flosstradamus — With Bass Crooks and WRKD. 8 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Lazerdisc — With Space Race & Chando.

8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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

Pattern: Follow the Rules, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 2013.

Photograph by Ron Pollard.

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

Pattern: Follow the Rules. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Feb. 9.

Rowdy Shadehouse. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-3355.

The Photography of Mike Berenson. NCAR Visitor Center Gallery I, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Nov. 29.

Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman.

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

Yellowstone: A Project for the Nation — Artist Thomas Moran. Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Jan. 19.

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

Steve Itterly Band. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Vin De Glo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. events Bolder Acts. 7 p.m. Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 720-431-5355.

Dude, It’s Boulder! 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Cassie Taylor & Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Confluence “Singles” Release Party — With Abandin Pictures, Rossonian and el Toro de la Muert. 7:30 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Chauncy Crandall. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Danny Shafer solo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

The Nutcracker Ballet. Put on by the Boulder Ballet and Boulder Philharmonic. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-8008.

Settembre Cellars at Oliverde. 12 p.m. see EVENTS Page 44

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The Santaland Diaries, presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, is showing through Dec. 24 at the Garner Galleria Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.

Carrie, the Musical — Presented by the Equinox Theatre Company. Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver, 720-984-0781. Through Nov. 30.

The Christmas Candle Burns. Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive Denver 80204, 720-346-7396. Nov. 29 through Dec. 14, for adult audiences.

A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex Stage Theater, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303893-4100. Nov. 29 through Dec. 29.

Jackie and Me. Space Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-

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One Act. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Fridays through May 2, 2014.

Rancho Mirage. Curious Theatre, 1080 Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524.

Through Dec. 7.

The Santaland Diaries — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Garner Galleria Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303893-4100. Nov. 29 through Dec. 24.

Spamalot. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through March 1.

The Tempest — Presented

by The Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Dec. 1.

The Velveteen Rabbit.

Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-3467396. Through Dec. 22.

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After the Fall: A Climber’s True Story of Facing Death and Finding Life — Author Craig DeMartino. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, 303-322-7727.

The Pursuit of Mary Bennet — Author Pamela Mingle. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Monday, December 2

Nativities of the World — Author Susan Topp Weber.

7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303436-1070.

“So, You’re a Poet,” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

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Craig DeMartino will sign copies of his book After the Fall Friday, Nov. 29, at Barnes and Noble on Pearl and 30th streets.

The Tibetan Yoga of Breath — Author Anyen Rinpoches. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Wednesday, December 4 Storytime With Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

The Tibetan Yoga of Breath — Author Anyen Rinpoches and translator Allison Choying Zangmo.

7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store LoDo, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Memory of Love — Author Jim Fergus. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, 303-322-7727.

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Oliverde Oil, 2027 Broadway, Boulder, 303442-2199.

Swing Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.

Sunday, December 1 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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

events Arleta Pech — Live painting demonstration.

1 p.m. SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-887-1611.

Bohn Farm Cohousing Community. 3 p.m.

330 Bross St., Longmont, 303-449-3223, ext.

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Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.

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

Dukes of Winter. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

CrAft and Crafts: Handmade Beer and Handmade Gifts. 12 p.m. Avery Brewing Co. Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder, 303440-4324.

Jesse W. Johnson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Dude, It’s Boulder! 2 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

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

Hawaiian Hula Class. 4:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

Rocky Mountain Brassworks: In the Holiday Mood— With Dance Art Studio performers. 3 p.m. Broomfield Auditorium, 3 Community Park Road, Broomfield, 720-887-2731.

Rocky Mountain High & Dry Flood Relief Fundraiser — Featuring Tommy Castro, Bob Margolin, Ron Thompson, Janiva Magness, et al. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

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Young the Giant — With Grouplove, New Politics, Bastille, Saints of Valory and My Body Sings Electric. 6 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700.

Jess Tango. 6 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-668-7355.

The Nutcracker Ballet. Put on by the Boulder Ballet and Boulder Philharmonic. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-8008.

SOLAS Celtic Winter Service — With live Celtic music. 6 p.m. St John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.

The Treasure of Sierra Madre. Free film screening. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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November 30, December 1: Dude, It’s Boulder! 2 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

The Society for Creative Aging is one of Boulder’s most unusual and inspiring theater groups. Almost all members are over 60 years young, and they’re living proof that personal growth and creative development are possible even in retirement. On Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, the group is putting on a show about Boulder’s history called Dude, It’s Boulder! Written and directed by playwright Jane Shepard, the show will explore Boulder’s history, going into bordellos on Canyon, Chief Niwot’s real name, the first black woman to graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder and other interesting tales. There will be live musical accompaniment, and 25 actors will play 70 characters, portraying everyone in the city’s history, from gold-rush miners to hippies to yogis. Tickets start at $10.

Monday, December 2 music DJ Osama Spin Laden. 9 p.m. The Hi-Dive, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Jay Z: Magna Carter World Tour. 8 p.m.

Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver, 303-405-1100.

Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Open Stage — With Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914, ext. 313. events Annual Grand Menorah Lighting. 5:30 p.m.

Boulder Courthouse lawn, 1300 block of Pearl Street, Boulder, 303-494-1638.

Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop Elements. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Immaculée Ilibagiza. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center,1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-4927143.

Movie Night — Fargo. 4 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Pearl Street Bus Community Blood Drive.

10 a.m. 1340 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-3632300.

Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m.

Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-7689.

Tuesday, December 3 music Ash Ganley. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

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

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

Charles Weatherbee. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music Building, CU campus, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-4247.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. The Attic Bar and Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

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

Open Mic for Students. 8 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.

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Wednesday, December 4, and Thursday, December 5: 3rd Law Dance/Theater, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.

3rd Law Dance/Theater’s upcoming performance Mammals That Lay Eggs will merge new media with dance.

“It’s got nothing to do with the platypus and everything to do with what the platypus represents,” choreographer Katie Elliot says of the title.

The platypus, she says, as an egg-laying mammal, is between spaces. This piece also exists between spaces. As Elliot says, “It’s about merging different art spaces with dance.”

Eight dancers will merge spaces as they move along a variety of contour drawings that combine to form a swirling 60-foot-line. The dancers will follow this line through their movement, as Elliot shifts the music they move to in accordance with how she perceives the audience’s mood and follows the progression of the dancers with light.

“We can just see how movement is generated from different sources, the different interpretations of one idea,” Elliot says of bringing in this community element.

With this performance, she says, the company is seeking to “bring all art forms into a single space.”

The multimedia performance will take place at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art for two nights, with three shows each night.

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Boulder County Comprehensive Creek Planning Initiative — North St. Vrain & Little Thompson Communities. 6 p.m. Boulder County Parks and Open Space Office, 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, 303-678-6200.

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

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Introduction to HTML 5. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276.

Wednesday, December 4 music 1st Wednesday Music Club. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

George Winston. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Groovetramps. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-2976397.

Josh Quinlan Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Living Songs: Women’s Open Mic. 7 p.m.

Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-

events 3rd Law Dance/Theater. 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122.

Boulder County Comprehensive Creek Planning Initiative — South St. Vrain Community. 6 p.m. Boulder County Parks and Open Space Office, 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, 303-678-6200 Getting Started with Google Analytics.

6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m.

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

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Main Branch, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

West Flanders + Cured = Great Night of Beer and Cheese. 7 p.m. 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2739.

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reel to reel AKA Doc Pomus Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc Pomus, then emerged as one of the most brilliant songwriters of the early rock and roll era, writing “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “This Magic Moment,” “A Teenager in Love,” “Viva Las Vegas” and dozens of other hits. For most of his life Doc was confined to crutches and a wheelchair, but he lived more during his 65 years than others could experience in several lifetimes. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater

Sixsmith (co-writer Steve Coogan), a worldweary political journalist who happened to be intrigued by her story. Together they set off for America on a journey that would not only reveal the extraordinary story of Philomena’s son, but also create an unexpectedly close bond between them. Rated PG-13. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

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Science on Screen: Chaos Theory and “Jurassic Park”

Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water. Robert Redford is superb in this film. Rated PG-13. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Professor Elizabeth Bradley will discuss the surprising world of dynamic chaotic systems, how they are described in the movie Jurassic Park, and how they can work for us, followed by a screening of the movie. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Blue Is the Warmest Color (La vie d’Adèle) This film was the sensation of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival even before it was awarded the coveted Palme d’Or. Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a young woman whose longings and ecstasies and losses are charted across a span of several years.

At 15, she is approaching adulthood and dreams of experiencing her first love. A handsome male classmate falls hard for her, but an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she encountered in the street slips into her bed and possesses her with overwhelming pleasure. That blue-haired girl is a confident older art student named Emma (Léa Seydoux), who will soon enter Adèle’s life for real, making way for an intense and complicated love story that is touchingly universal in its depiction.

Rated NC-17. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

The Book Thief This film tells the story of a spirited and courageous young girl who transforms the lives of everyone around her when she is sent to live with a new family in World War II Germany. The film is narrated by Death — at a place and time when, as the narrator notes, he was extremely busy. Young Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) embarks upon a journey marked by discovery, courage, friendship — and the power to triumph over the most daunting obstacles. Rated PG-13. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Captain Phillips This film is director Paul Greengrass’ interpretation of the real-life hijacking of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama in 2009

by Somali pirates. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square.

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 If you and the kids liked the first version, then you’ll no doubt like the second. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.

Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey stars in Dallas Buyers Club as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Rated R. At Esquire, Colony Square and Century. — Landmark Theatres

Delivery Man Loser David Wozniak (Vince Vaughn) is quietly going about his life when he finds out that the sperm he donated 20 years earlier has created 533 kids. He’s in debt to the mob and his pregnant girlfried finds no humor in his situation.

Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Direct from Broadway: Jekyll and Hyde This musical brings new life to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic story of the epic battle between good and evil. David Hasselhoff made his Broadway debut in the dual title role, bringing his performing talent off the television screen to the musical theatre stage. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Ender’s Game When aliens attack Earth, International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham and Col. Hyrum Graff turn to a young boy, Ender Wiggin, to help them save the planet. Much action

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Steven Sondheim’s Company, with the New York Philharmonic

transpires. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Enough Said Eva (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) is a divorced, single parent masseuse who meets Albert (James Gandolfini), a nice guy in the same boat. Love and laughs follow. Rated PG-13. At SIE Film Center.

Free Birds Two “odd couple” turkeys overcome their many differences to get turkey off of the Thanksgiving menu forever. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square.

Frozen When the snow queen traps a tiny kingdom in eternal winter, Anna and Kristoff, accompanied by Sven the reindeer and a comical snowman that has trouble keeping his head, set out to end the spell. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Gravity Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in this visually stunning film that strands two astronauts in space. Rated PG-13.

At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

The Great Beauty Gorgeously photographed in Rome and Tuscany, The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) is a dazzling, lyrical and at times surreal dramatic comedy, like a modern day La Dolce Vita.

The magnetic Toni Servillo (Il Divo, Gomorrah) plays dapper journalist Jep Gambardella, slick and soulful, who has been a permanent fixture in Rome’s literary and social circles since the legendary success of his one and only novel. Armed with a roguish charm, he has seduced his way through the city’s lavish night life for decades, but when his 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Homefront After losing his wife, an ex-DEA agent moves with his 10-year-old daughter to a small town to offer her a better way of life, but he picked the wrong town. Let the action begin. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

How I Live Now American teenager Daisy has attitude to burn. She’s away for the summer to live with her aunt and cousins in the English countryside. Defiant and unhappy, she refuses at first to warm to her bucolic new surroundings. Slowly, however, Daisy begins to thaw. Plus, there’s something about quiet, watchful 17-year-old Eddie that not only intrigues Daisy, but stirs something deep inside. Before she knows it, she’s falling madly in love with Eddie, and he with her. Their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a 21st century world war, leaving them isolated and forced to fend

for themselves. Rated R. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres.

Hunger Games: Catching Fire See full review on page 49. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa Johnny Knoxville as 86-year-old Irving Zisman, goes road-tripping with Billy, his 8-year-old grandson. Rated R. At Twin Peaks.

Kill Your Darlings A true story of friendship, love and murder, Kill Your Darlings recounts the pivotal year that changed Allen Ginsberg’s (Daniel Radcliffe) life forever, bringing him together with William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston) at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that would lead to their Beat Revolution. Rated R. At Mayan.

— Landmark Theatres.

Last Vegas An aging group of friends heads to Vegas to throw a party for the last of their single crew. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.

Muscle Shoals Located alongside the Tennessee River, Muscle Shoals, Ala., is the unlikely breeding ground for some of America’s most creative and defiant music. At SIE Film Center.

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The plot revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends. It’s a concept musical composed of short vignettes, presented in no particular chronological order, linked by a celebration for Bobby’s 35th birthday. Neil Patrick Harris leads a star-studded cast that includes Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, Christina Hendricks, Craig Bierko and Martha Plimpton. At Boedecker.

— Boedecker Theater

The Spectacular Now With sly humor and an intensity of feeling, this film (directed

by James Ponsoldt) creates a vivid, three-dimensional portrait of youth confronting the funny, thrilling and perilous business of modern love and adulthood. This is the tale of Sutter Keely (Miles Teller), a high school senior and effortless charmer, and of how he unexpectedly falls in love with “the good girl” Aimee Finecky (Shailene Woodley).

What starts as an unlikely romance becomes a sharp-eyed, straight-up snapshot of the heady confusion and haunting passion of youth — one that doesn’t look for tidy truths. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Still Mine

This film is an exquisitely crafted and deeply affecting love story about a couple in their twilight years. Based on true events and laced with wry humor, Still Mine tells the heartfelt tale of Craig Morrison, who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his ailing wife, Irene. He quickly gets blindsided by local building codes and bureaucratic officials. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance against all odds in a truly inspirational story.

Rated PG-13. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways) directs Nebraska, a bittersweet dramatic comedy about a fatherand-son road trip through an emotionally and economically parched homeland. After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

Thor: The Dark World

Oldboy

20 Feet from Stardom

This Spike Lee film is a provocative thriller about a man who is suddenly kidnapped and held in isolation for 20 years.

He doesn’t know why he has been taken and then, just as mysteriously, he is released. That’s when the real mystery begins. Rated R. At Century.

Millions know their voices, but no one knows their names.

In his compelling new film 20 Feet From Stardom, awardwinning director Morgan Neville shines a spotlight on the untold true story of the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the 21st century. Triumphant and heartbreaking in equal measure, the film is both a tribute to the unsung voices who brought shape and style to popular music and a reflection on the conflicts, sacrifices and rewards of a career spent harmonizing with others. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Philomena This dramatic comedy tells the incredible true story of one mother’s search for her lost son. After becoming pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena was sent to a convent to be looked after as a “fallen woman.” When her baby was only a toddler, he was taken away by the nuns for adoption in America. Philomena (Judi Dench) spent the next 50 years searching for him in vain. Then she met Martin

Thor battles to save Earth from really bad, evil things ... again. It is a sequel after all. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Century.

Twelve Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War U.S., Solomon Northup, a free black man, is abducted and sold into slavery. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

Additional films showing at SIE Film Center include: Diana; The Motel Life; British Arrow Awards; Mile High Sci-Fi take Eagle; My Life as a Dog. The SIE Film Center will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28.

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You say you want a revolution?

‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ strikes back

by Ryan Syrek

T

he “99 percent vs. the 1 percent” analogy at work in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has all the subtlety of a funeral selfie. But it is precisely this lack of sophistication in message that may make this the most zeitgeist-capturing, intellectually resonant sci-fi series of this era. With a female protagonist, overt racial themes and a wonderfully literal “poor versus the poor while the rich look on” centerpiece, Catching Fire is the best science-fiction sequel since The Empire Strikes Back and is far more important.

Catching Fire begins with Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta ( Josh Hutcherson) on their “victor’s tour.” y Each year, the previous winner is paraded around to each of the poverty-stricken districts. But there’s a problem this year. Because Katniss forced President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and his gov.ernment to allow two winners last year, against the rules of the game, the people have begun to realize the most fundamental component necessary for revolution: disobedience is possible.

Against her own explicit intentions, Katniss keeps inadvertently inspiring uprisings. Let’s pause for a second to marvel at what a remarkable female character Katniss is. Her defiance isn’t diminished to some “feisty spiritedness” that makes her attractive to men; her fire burns so strong and bright it provokes a governmental overthrow by accident. In light of this, Snow and the new designer of the Hunger Games, Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), devise a plan that sends Katniss and Peeta back into the deadly competition.

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and astounding adventure.

What’s great about the script from Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt is how it delivers on the dual nature of Suzanne Collins’ novel: It is half-spectacle and half-introspection. Director Francis Lawrence infuses the beginning of the film with intimacy and humanity and cuts loose in the second half with a full-throated roar. And that’s really what this film is: the primal scream of the downtrodden when they finally, finally, finally have had enough.

Lawrence is once again jaw-droppingly good. Her ability to elevate melodrama to realism is getting ridiculous at this point. What’s better is that Hutcherson (thankfully) seems to have found his groove. Last time out, his Peeta was too much of a derpy yokel; this time, his selflessness and naked love for Katniss is appropriately endearing. On that note: has there been a better obligatory fictional love triangle in recent memory? Katniss is torn between a childhood romance cultivated over years with a man she likely has no future with and a boy she’d never considered who is as devoted and kind as anyone could want.

But it’s the themes of rebellion that make Catching Fire brilliant. In 1712, Willie Lynch proposed pitting slave against slave in order to keep them “underfoot.” The same mentality persists to this day, extending to the “poor against poor,” allowing the rich to thrive. The Hunger Games franchise is escapism and a wake-up call all at once, and Catching Fire rings that bell loud.

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

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King Challenge,” says istory bellows from the walls. It Caroline Johnson, the bar is told not quietly manager at West End Tavern. under some uni“We’ve had people drive from form wallpaper, Ohio saying, ‘Hey, we’re just but through a changing and here for the Wing King gaudy array of expressive cariChallenge and then we’re catures, balloon words and heading back.’” inscrutable signatures squished For years West End and folded over each other like Tavern has been a Pearl Street imprints on soil. sanctuary known for its Here at The Sink, local impressive list of bourbons and national crowds gather and its slow-smoked barwithin the recognizable walls beque. But that trademark that have sheltered everyone style was not instilled until from the once-a-week regular Chef Chris Blackwood took to the president of the United the reins, following the same States. Now celebrating its path set by The Sink in put90th year of service, food and ting a prerogative on creative drink endures in evolving ways food, thus demanding wideto keep relevant and exceed spread recognition as both near-mythological expectarestaurant and bar.

West End Tavern’s Wing King Challenge was featured on Man vs. Food, an appearance that still brings in tions.

“It’s always held the curious diners.

After high-profile food essence of being the local shows have chronicled some of watering hole,” Johnson says. the town’s bars and restaurants, “I think it used to be the place including The Sink, insistent you came in to get drinks; a crowds have descended upon little shadier atmosphere them in a flurry. The Travel maybe. Whereas now, it’s a Channel and the Food place to actually come eat.”

Network have swept camera Foolish Craig’s, the longcrews across town with poputime café that was featured on lar programs like Man vs. Food of whiskey or a Jack and Coke and a beer kind of the same episode of Diners, and Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, catalyzing business place.”

Drive-ins, and Dives as The Sink, saw an immediate and confirming belief in the long-running haunts that Evolving is certainly key to any successful restaugain in sales from the TV spot. Keeping true to the have been crucial to Boulder’s dining scene. rant’s equation, but some of Boulder’s most iconic bars Bohemian pedigree of Boulder, the 15-year-old bar During the rowdier and grungier days when The — The Sink, along with West End Tavern and has been hosting locals since day one and also relishes Sink was the go-to, late-night drinking destination, Foolish Craig’s — are fortunate enough to have the responsibility of hosting vacationers who are stopthe grandfather of Boulder bars relied on turning out gained instant notoriety from the television age. ping by after seeing the place on their televisions. standard bar food and easy drinks. Recently, the shiftAfter host Adam Richman of Man vs. Food tried “It’s great for Boulder because it brings people ing business model has demanded more complicated (and failed) to eat 50 wings in 30 minutes for the here,” says Jimmy Fay, general manager at Foolish menu items.

Wing King Challenge at West End Tavern, the bar, Craig’s. “When you have a couple locations featured “Being in the business for 20 years, you can never and the wings, have soared in popularity. A food chal- on a show like they were in DDD, it makes it more of just say you have it because the bar keeps getting lenge that was basically unknown before is now one of a destination after that.” raised,” says Chris Heinritz, who has co-owned The the draws bringing people to vacation in Boulder.

The now-famous crepes and BLT guacamole have Sink with his brother Mark since 1992. “We’re trying “Every time we have a re-run, you know, because see BARS Page 54 to be a more thoughtful bar. For years we were a shot tons of people want to come in and do the Wing

Old dogs, new tricks

National attention and a changing local scene force Boulder’s famous bars to stay on top of the game

by Michael Krumholtz

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around Boulder County DAIRY AND DRINKING

Many of us might only pair beer and cheese together late at night when the beer is abundant in our stomachs and the cheese is melted in between two pieces of grilled bread. For those interested in a more sophisticated experience, West Flanders Brewing Company and Cured Cheese Shop are teaming together for a night of beer and cheese pairing at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 4, at the West Flanders Brewery on Pearl Street.

West Flanders Brewing Company brewmaster Brian Lutz, formerly of Left Hand and Oskar Blues, and Cured co-owner and cheesemonger Will Frischkorn will explain the pairings and answer questions. The event costs $25 and has limited space. To RSVP call 303-4472739.

DRINK WHILE SHOPPING

Beer drinkers looking to get crafty this holiday season can shop for gifts and get their drink on at Avery Brewing Company’s “CrAft and CrAfts: Handmade Beers and Handmade Gifts,” taking place 12 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 1. Organized through Sisterhood of the Hop, a women’s beer group, the event features local handmade crafts available for purchase in Avery’s taproom, as well as, of course, Avery’s craft beer. Vendor applications are still being considered, according to the event’s Facebook page, and vendors can apply at www.averybrewing.com/vendorapplication.

Avery Brewing Company and Sisterhood of the Hop are also using the opportunity to tap a special keg of 10 Lb. Strawberry Wit, a Belgian-Style White Ale with 10 pounds of fresh strawberries added. Proceeds from

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every pint will go towards the Women’s Bean Project, a Denver-based social enterprise that aims to empower unemployed and impoverished women by providing resources for immediate employment, the brewery says.

DANKSGIVING AND HOLI-DANKS

Helping Hands Herbals is sharing the love this Thanksgiving with its “Danksgiving West Flanders Brewmaster Brian Lutz Food Drive,” in which patrons are encouraged to bring canned goods, non-perishTHANKSGIVING DINING ables and household items for the Boulder For those who would like to avoid the Emergency Family Assistance Association to kitchen at all costs this Thanksgiving, you’re in its drop box at 1021 B Pearl St. Helping Hands luck, as plenty of Boulder restaurants are Herbals is rewarding patrons who bring in five hosting Thanksgiving dinners. SALT Bistro will or more items with one “fat cone joint” with their next purchase. According to the dispen- offer a three-course prix fixe menu featuring items like butternut squash soup, vegetable sary’s website, in addition to needing hearty cassoulet, braised pasture-raised beef with canned goods, the food bank is looking for roasted pumpkin, chevre and desserts made basic household items like garbage bags, laundry soap, cleaning supplies and personal from pastry chef Zack Rampulla. The menu will be offered from noon to 7 p.m. and costs care items such as toothpaste, hair products $55 per adult and $20 per child. and diapers. The Thanksgiving drive ends Colterra will also be serving a threeNov. 27, but Helping Hands will then hold a course prix fixe menu for $55 per person ($15 holiday drive through most of December. for kids 12 and under) featuring Thanksgiving classics as well as mahi mahi, prime rib and a TABLES TO FARMS fall vegetable tasting.

Front Range chefs and restaurateurs have The Boulderado hotel is offering a raised more than $40,000 for Boulder County Thanksgiving buffet to a limited number of farmers whose crops were lost or severely guests. For $49 per adult, and $25 per child damaged during the September floods ages 4-10, patrons can eat chef-carved through the “Tables to Farms” campaign, a whole roast turkey, grilled molasses-and-chiliseries of benefit dinners and fundraising rubbed tenderloin medallions, pan-seared events hosted by SALT Bistro in Boulder and Scottish salmon, tri-color quinoa-stuffed sweet Colterra Food and Wine in Niwot. Proceeds peppers and more. Other restaurants that go to the Front Range Farm Relief Fund. are offering special Thanksgiving meals Restaurants participating in the program can include Bacaro Venetian Taverna, Boulder be found on opentable.com’s “Tables to ChopHouse and Tavern, The Greenbriar Inn, Farms” page. Jax Fish House, Zolo Grill, Root Harold’s and the Bayonet Room, Thyme on Down in Denver and other restaurants will the Creek and Volta Mediterranean continue to collect donations, and SALT and Restaurant.

Colterra will donate $1 for every reservation Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com made through November.

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cuisine review Brunch without the wait

by Blair Madole

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owntown Pearl Street is a sea of wait-lists on weekends between 9 a.m. and noon.

The masses of hangover-inflicted students, sleepy 20-somethings, hungry and screaming children and hostile foodies all serve as roadblocks to the end goal: brunch. Luckily, tucked in the shadow of the trendy and overly popular rests salvation in the form of a Latin American restaurant.

Aji is blessedly free of a line around 10:30 a.m. on a Saturday, likely because Latin restaurants aren’t Blair Madole

commonly thought of for brunch opportunities, especially when surrounded by more breakfast-centric bistros and diners. However, the menu boasts something for everyone and even includes the creative twists on traditional plates that have become so sought-after.

Aji also has an ample list of brunch-inspired adult beverages with a few options for caffeine seekers. A

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spiked chai sets taste buds tingling and ensures a fun beginning to the day. Even better, the coffee is strong and cups are kept full in the comfortably populated dining area. The crowd mostly consists of families or larger parties, likely spillovers from the hour-long waits at neighboring restaurants, though surprisingly the noise of children playing or loud conversations isn’t overwhelming and is successfully dispersed by the high ceilings.

Traditional Latin entrees make navigating the menu seem daunting at first. Though there are recognizable plates like huevos rancheros and chilaquiles, there are a few that aren’t commonly seen on Americanized menus, like the torrejas: A French toast sandwich with sausage, apple and cream cheese.

Luckily, once you move past the names it is easy to discern what is in a dish and understand the combination of traditional Latin American foods with popular Americanized breakfast items. The benito de carnitas is a benedict dish with hollandaise and poached eggs, though from there moves past the traditional English muffin and Canadian bacon and instead includes carnitas, peppers, corn tortillas and pico de gallo. The bistec y huevos is straightforward steak and eggs except for the inclusion of ranchero sauce and tortillas. For the less adventurous, there are pancakes and a commonly seen smothered breakfast burrito.

The tarta de papa is the perfect choice for someone seeking a spicy start to the day. The plate arrives with a mountain of chorizo and vegetables atop a surprisingly fluffy potato latke. After one bite, it’s

Aji Latin American Restaurant 1601 Pearl St. Boulder 303-442-3464 hard to stop. The chorizo, onions, peppers and ranchero sauce add a playful tingle to every bite while the hominy, avocado and potato latkes blend with the more vibrant flavors to maintain the perfect balance of heat. The layers of flavor in the dish are sophisticated in a way you don’t often find in brunch entrees.

The chilaquiles are tamer in comparison. The fresh squash and zucchini keep the dish light and refreshing, and the dichotomy of crunchy corn chips against the soft shredded chicken and eggs maintains excitement. The flavors meld well together, though I would have preferred a little more kick in the chile sauce, especially when compared to the in-your-face spice of the tarta de papa.

A crunchy pico de gallo tops the soft shell of the corn masa & lechon empanada. This Latin-inspired dish is a dumpling of sorts, with a soft corn shell and a burst of flavor from the roasted pork and black bean filling. It is the perfect starter to share, and does just what an appetizer should by whetting the appetite without being overly filling. Again, this dish is the perfect combination of crunch and softness and has a wonderful combination of tangy and mellow flavors.

It would be easy to order a few of these and nothing else, yet still feel satisfied.

Aji has an exciting and authentic menu combined with a calming atmosphere, great drinks and good service. The kick of the tarta de papa, crunch of the chilaquiles and burst of flavor from the empanada make this experience stand out from the trendy pancakes that dominate the brunch scene lately. The lack of a long wait is an added bonus.

Next time you’re milling about in a crowd of hungry restaurant-goers, waiting for your name to be called, walk in to Aji and get ready for a pleasant surprise.

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Among the paintings at The Sink is one of Robert Redford with a broom. The actor worked as a janitor at the restaurant in 1955.

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been sought after by viewers from hundreds of miles away in an attempt to reproduce the experience seen on their TVs. No matter how well-known these restaurants and bars are in local circles, a television spot remains the most valuable tool in keeping the brand alive in diners’ minds.

“We got half a million to a million dollars in free advertising,” Heinritz says. “What’s a 12-minute spot on TV worth these days?”

The Sink’s menu sets aside those dishes featured in Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, highlighting the Buddha Basil pizza, the Texas Straw Burger, and the Cowboy Reuben. Ryan Ferrero, a regular at The Sink, says he was “not a fan” of Reuben sandwiches until he watched the episode and decided to order the Cowboy Reuben.

“I never even knew about it before.

Now I order it every time,” he says.

The celebrated fare is part of the renaissance that Heinritz and his brother first depended upon to stay relevant.

As regulations have tightened up the once-bustling Hill scene, late-night alcohol sales have dipped considerably, forcing Heinritz to adjust the bar’s niche and install a long list of sandwiches, burgers and pizzas.

“We’re still really wrestling with the conception that we’re a college bar, but the numbers tell us we’re a restaurant with a bar,” Heinritz says.

Today, roughly 35 percent of The Sink’s sales are from alcohol, and a minority of those sales occurs after 10 p.m. Ferrero, 44, has been a regular at The Sink since those crazier days when the bar was raking in much higher revenue during late nights. Since his first visit in 1990, while a student at CU, Ferrero has noticed a complete change in the culture of his go-to bar. Now, he says the party atmosphere has died down to give way to a heavier emphasis on dining.

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of DNA from the foodie town that Boulder has become,” Ferrero says. “It’s high quality food in a setting you wouldn’t normally expect it.”

Still, Heinritz and other owners who have spent a long time in the Boulder restaurant business know to take nothing for granted. They’ve seen the closures of former favorites like Juanita’s and Daddy Bruce’s. From the perspective of a longtime resident and entrepreneur like Fay, Boulder’s rising real estate prices have funneled a select group of buyers onto the streets and limited opportunities for small business and restaurants.

“When you’ve seen Boulder in the past 10 years — you notice a creep towards gentrification,” Fay says.

“You’ve got these sterile-looking, mixed-use development blocks going in. They all have their token coffee shop, their token ad agency, and the million-dollar condos.”

The pressure to stay relevant exists even among the old guard, who still keep conscious of the burgeoning competition. In the crowded marketplace of rising restaurants, the ability to stay fresh is synonymous with survival.

“That’s really been the focus, is how do we execute every time,” Heinritz says. “It’s a 90-year-old business, there’s things we do that are pretty entrenched and we don’t necessarily know why, so to reinvestigate all that and think about how can we do it better.”

Not only has this national spotlight reaffirmed residents’ taste buds, it has also permitted some of the town’s best local bars to continue growing and reinventing, while maintaining their core principles.

“We always want to stay fresh and on top of things, and that’s what makes West End successful, that we’re always going to the next level,” Johnson says from behind the long wooden bar.

“Still at a core, we’re a bourbon bar and we’re a smokehouse. Stick to who you are.”

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can’t talk about Wynkoop Brewing Company without talking about history.

But enough has been written already about Wynkoop’s history, and anyway when I think of Wynkoop and history I’m really — as I am so often — talking about myself.

Four years ago, I made my first trip to Wynkoop without knowing much at all about it. I’m pretty sure I had to memorize the intersection at home before I left.

And of course once I got there it didn’t get any easier. The most I knew about beer was Elizabeth Miller that the “Ice” version had more alcohol in it than “Light,” but no matter how much I scanned Wynkoop’s taplist neither of those words appeared.

Since I didn’t even know what IPA, ESB or black lager meant, I settled on Patty’s Chile Beer, not knowing then that the jalapeño-flavored ale was named for the founder and editor of Westword, Patty Calhoun, and also not knowing that I’d like five or six Wynkoop beers a lot more than the chile — a fact I would learn over the course of maybe a dozen more trips over the years.

One thing I did know on that trip?

There was a whole world out there I didn’t really know a single thing about.

I was sitting at Wynkoop’s large, irregularly shaped bar, my back to 18th Street, Wynkoop Street on my right, TV in front of me, the whole of a city I had lived in but hadn’t learned stretching out past the wall to my left, and I realized that I didn’t know which thing I knew less about, Denver or craft beer.

Four years and an entire lifetime later, I love Colorado’s oldest brewpub, the way you love the first poet who rewrote how you see the world or the first record that made your jaw drop.

On a trip this week, almost exactly four years after my first visit, there are doz-

ens of reminders of how much I’ve learned. I know where the place is, for instance, and how to pronounce Wynkoop (I prefer “wine” over “win”), and I know I’m not getting a Patty’s Chile, not while Cowtown Milk Stout is on tap.

But first it’s three samples, Wynkoop’s two rotating seasonals and its newest star. Perhaps catching up a little with the newer microbreweries that are all about experimentation, Wynkoop has a sour ale on, which the bartender tells me is a blend of a sour and a saison. Koop de Ville, it’s called, is mild for a sour, with tons of different flavors — fruity, citrusy, yeasty, the tiniest bit metallic at the end. There’s also a pumpkin ale, Drunkin’ Punkin’, one of the best pumpkin ales of the season, on the lighter and milder end compared to stout-based pumpkin beers.

The new star is Colorojo, a double red ale that Wynkoop has started canning. Colorojo has joined B3K Black Lager, Silverback Pale and Rail Yard Amber — and maybe even replaced some of them — as Wynkoop’s most visible, widely distributed beers.

In the vein of “double” anything, it’s complex and layered, hoppy and malty and sweet.

A Cowtown — sweeter, milkier, maybe a little less dense than Left Hand’s Milk Stout — comforts me through the pain of finding out bangers and mash aren’t on Wynkoop’s new menu. But it’s back to feeling positive when I produce a free beer token from who knows when, at least two years ago, and the bartender gladly accepts it.

On my way out, I say goodbye for now to my old friend and craft beer guide. I’ve learned a lot in those four years about both the city and the craft beer world, more than I thought there was to learn. But I know I’m not done yet.

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Dear Dan: I recently ended a relationship that lasted a year and five months. While I loved this woman, for much of the relationship she was, to varying degrees, depressed. I tried to be as helpful and patient as possible with the hope and expectation that she would get better. I got her into counseling. We went to couples counseling together. She got on medication. I encouraged her to eat well (I cooked her many healthy meals) and exercise daily (which she was never able to do). I tried to get her out into nature. I tried to listen and practice strong communication skills. I encouraged her to explore the benefits of a fulfilling and GGG relationship, but our sex life faltered because of the depression and her low libido. I kept helping and waiting, but she was simply unable to assert herself to make healthy changes (both physical and mental). I felt trapped dating someone who couldn’t take control of her life, and the patterns kept repeating. I eventually ended the relationship, which was the right decision for me, but she was crushed. I’m hoping we can be friends in the future. Do you have any advice for dating someone with depression? Can relationships and depression work? I found it to be soulcrushing.

—Serious About Depression

Delaney not only felt that you had done right by this woman, but that your actions could serve as a template for other readers dating people struggling with depression.

“SAD was kind, patient and proactive, and when that didn’t work, he ended the relationship,” said Delaney. “He didn’t assume that she would implode without him around.

He seems to have a manageable enough ego to realize that he’s not the sun and the air and the only doorway through which this woman can walk to happiness; he’s merely another human being (albeit a kind one) whose happiness has value, too. And maybe this breakup will provide the jolt she needs to recalibrate her approach to her depression and really get better. He also showed her another person taking care of himself. I sincerely hope she develops this skill herself, but as anyone who’s been around for a while and witnessed trouble and had troubles of their own knows, you cannot will that behavior into people.

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“This guy went above and beyond, motivated by his obvious love for this woman and his decency as a person,” Delaney continued. “One might ‘suck it up’ for a bit longer if there are kids involved or if you’ve been together for years and years and this depressive state is an anomaly, but this guy can’t be expected to weld himself to someone he’s been dating for less than a year and a half when there are people out there he’d truly enjoy himself with.”

Dear Dan: Setting sexually transmitted infections aside, is it safer for a woman planning to have a one-night stand to take the guy back to her place or to go to his place? Does this apply if both are staying in hotels?

—Reader Is Seeking Knowledge Dear RISK: When you’re having sex with a stranger, RISK, it’s generally considered safer — some would argue only marginally so — to go back to his place. The reason for this is kinda depressing: A stranger is less likely to murder you at his place because then he has to dispose of your body, which is apparently a real pain in the ass. But if he murders you at your place, RISK, he can jet in the morning and stick your landlord and loved ones with disposal duties.

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“I am very fond of strawberries and cream,” said author Dale Carnegie, “but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn’t bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish.” That’s a good teaching story for you, Scorpio. In order to get your desires fulfilled by the people who have the power to do that, you should give them what they actually long for — not what you long for, nor what you wish they would long for.

This is always true, of course, but it’s especially applicable to what’s going on in your life right now.

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“You will always be too much of something for someone,” she says, “too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy.” But that’s exactly as it should be, she adds. It would be a mistake to “round out your edges,” because then you would “lose your edge.” And I’m here to tell you that you need all of your edge right now, Sagittarius. It’s time to ignore people’s mediocre expectations and push past their limits. To be true to yourself, you will probably have to be too much of something for several someones.

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Going into my spiritual mentoring session with the priestess, I had the intention of discovering truths about myself I didn’t know before. That meant stirring up revelations about my ignorance as well as my potentials. I wanted assistance in facing my flaws as well as in tapping into my dormant powers. It worked. Her guidance was a potent catalyst. I was able to shed the debilitating nonsense stories I’d been telling myself about who I am. I awakened strengths that had been asleep. What I wish for you, Capricorn — indeed, what I predict for you — is a comparable experience. To expedite matters, go out in search of a person, adventure or breakthrough that can help provide you with the kind of prod I received.

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I bet people will be gossiping about you more than usual.

Is there anything you can do to ensure that it’s mostly benevolent gossip? Yes, there is. First, make sure that when you gossip about others, you are unfailingly positive in your comments. If you don’t have anything good to say about someone, don’t say it. Second, be on your best behavior.

Communicate clearly and don’t even think about taking unethical shortcuts. Finally, contribute more inspirational energy than usual to every group you’re part of. Be an effervescent team player.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

Maybe your ego isn’t big enough. I’m serious. Is it possible that you could benefit from being more proud of yourself?

Would it be healthy for you to give yourself more credit for the struggles you have weathered and the skills you have mastered and the beauty you have managed to forge out of the chaotic raw materials that life has given you? I’ve got a good feeling about this, Pisces. I can imagine you summoning the playful courage you will need to express more confidence. I can even picture you beginning to fantasize about embarking on certain stirring adventures you’ve never believed you were strong enough to try before now.

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he news was everywhere Nov. 21.

I am skeptical of the government when it comes Headlines blared that the Drug to cannabis, but the release issued by Jeff Dorschner, Enforcement Administration, the Internal spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office, couldn’t Revenue Service and local law-enforcehave been more clear. “Although we cannot at this ment agents, some in masks, were very time discuss the substance of this pending investigapublicly executing search warrants on dispensaries and tion … there are strong indications that more than grows and busting up cannabis operations in Denver, one of the eight federal prosecution priorities identiCommerce City and Boulder County. TV cameras fied in the Department of Justice’s August guidance focused on broken storefront windows and plants and memo are potentially implicated.” records being taken out of buildings and hauled off in Local news organizations filled in some details. trucks. On a day when the area got its first real snow, The Denver Post reported that the Department of Attached as part of the affidavit to the criminal complaint. some of the shots made the Justice was looking into possible heisted plants look like holiday connections to Columbian drug trees ready to be picked over at gangs and that a couple of the local King Soopers. homes, including one in And all this just short of six Englewood “a mile from the weeks ahead of the time when home of Peyton Manning,” had the state will begin selling retail also been raided. cannabis to adults. WTF? Is the At the home, agents found Department of Justice going back weapons and ammunition and on its word to not interfere with arrested and charged Hector Colorado sales? Is it sending a Diaz with a single count of posmessage as the state prepares to sessing a firearm while in the sell a product commercially that U.S. under a non-immigration is legal under state laws and illevisa. A hearing was scheduled gal under federal laws? for Nov. 27. The investigation On Aug. 29 the United seems aimed at individuals conIn this photo from a court filing, Hector Diaz States Justice Department nected to the VIP Cannabis has a little fun before his arrest last week in released a memo that indicated Denver on weapons charges. dispensary in Denver. In the the federal government wouldn’t court filing is a photo of Diaz interfere with state regulation of wearing a DEA cap and holdcannabis as long as businesses abided by a list of rules ing what appears to be two semi-automatic rifles and that included pretty obvious criminal activities: distrihandguns in his belt. bution of cannabis to minors; the use of firearms or Among those named as persons of interest were violence; growing on public lands and federal property; Laszlo Bagi, whose grow operation at the Beech being involved in criminal enterprises; preventing the Aircraft plant north of Boulder and another in diversion of cannabis to other states where it’s illegal; Commerce City were among those visited. The Daily and the trafficking of other illegal drugs.

Camera reported that Bagi had been involved in civil From what we have found out since then — and suits regarding dispensaries in the past.

I’m writing this on the morning of Nov. 25 — it Right now it’s unknown exactly how many busiappears that the raids were focused on certain individ- nesses were targeted, but it appears to be less than a uals whom the Justice Department suspects broke one dozen, which would represent less than 1 percent of the or more of the guidelines. more than 1,300 cannabis businesses in Colorado’s

medical industry. And it’s important to note that at this point, though people are under investigation, no one has been accused of anything nor charged with a crime.

With that many businesses, to imagine that each and every one would be operating totally legally would be naive in almost any industry, let alone this one. Given that a recent audit of the state’s governance of medical marijuana pointed out lax execution and enforcement, the fact that medical businesses have no access to the banking system and that cannabis remains illegal under federal law, there are still incentives for criminal enterprises to become involved.

And it’s certainly not much of a stretch to understand that some Colorado cannabis entrepreneurs, knowing how much more it might fetch in say, Florida, might be involved in distributing it in other locales.

It’s likely that innocent employees lost their jobs.

Grow facilities are legal in Colorado, but when federal agents encounter cannabis plants, they are obliged to destroy evidence. The facility at the old Beech Aircraft site, which apparently contained several medical grow operations, was raided and all plants destroyed under federal guidelines. If the warrants were intended only for one business, it’s not likely the others will be compensated for their loss.

If there are those working outside the law, this would suggest that the system is working the way it is supposed to, say people in the industry with whom I spoke. Honest entrepreneurs want proper state regulations and enforcement that works, and for the federal government to be comfortable with those rules.

While headlines like these likely will be interpreted and spun by those who oppose Amendment 64 as evidence of an industry out of control, I’m more inclined to see events like these as necessary corrections indicative of the growing pains of an uncertain industry set to change our state in ways we don’t quite understand yet.

It could be a sign of the system working, and wouldn’t that be a kick?

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