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contents DYERTIMES:
Oil industry says it’s being bullied by you folks by Joel Dyer
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CU study links wastewater injections to earthquakes despite lack of cooperation from oil and gas industry by Eliza Radeka
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DHS terminates protective status for Haitians. Who’s next? by Angela K. Evans
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Thousands of low-income Boulder County families face losing health insurance as Congress stalls by Matt Cortina
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Chris Wood shares some thoughts on the awful wages of certainty and the allure of ambiguity by Dave Kirby
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Highroad Why won’t Trump stand up to Putin? by Jim Hightower
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s Donald Trump said: “Strange things happen in life.” Yes — like him! Take that strange bromance he’s got going with his presidential counterpart, Vladimir Putin. The two recently had a private tête-á-tête, after which our president said that Russia’s president had vehemently denied U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings that Putin’s hackers and tricksters ran a slew of fake news ads in our media outlets last year to help defeat Hillary Clinton. Trump said that Putin said “he absolutely did not meddle in our election.” Well, gosh, I guess Putin would deny that, wouldn’t he? But Trump really, really wants to believe that his bro wouldn’t fib to him. “We seem to have a very good feeling for each
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other,” Donald said sweetly. “I believe that when [Putin] tells me that, he means it. I believe that he feels he and Russia did not meddle in the election.” “Feels?” Putin is a former KGB espionage agent, a practiced liar and a conniving authoritarian who rules with an iron fist. He doesn’t govern by his feelings, but his “feelers” — loyal operatives who make sure he knows everything that’s going on. And he certainly knows that Russia did indeed mess with America’s most sacred democratic principle: free and fair elections. Moreover, he knows that by duping Donald, he’s free to keep messing with our internal affairs. Trump has zero knowledge, experience or skills in foreign policy, and he’s in way over his head when dealing with someone like Putin. Why wouldn’t our president at least challenge this dangerous foreign threat to our people’s democracy? “Well, look,” Trump meekly replied when asked this question, “I can’t stand there and argue with him.” Really? Well since you’re not up to the job, please get out of the way so we can find a president who can stand there and argue with the Putins of the world. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 30 , 2017 5
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Oil industry says it’s being bullied by you folks by Joel Dyer
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ecently, while perusing the Frankly, this speech was about the Denver Business Journal, I deepest pile of BS I’ve ever had to wade stumbled over the headline: through. Bullied? Are you kidding me? “We are under attack.” Let’s do a quick reality check for Haley I know, in 2017 those and his fellow oil patch execs. words could mean lots of things, but There are only a handful of men this was a story about the oil and gas and women in our state’s legislature industry so it caught my eye. It seems, these days who are not in the oil and according to the article, that the good gas industry’s pocket. And these same citizens of Colorado have been picking elected officials are the first to tell you on the oil and gas industry as of late. that nothing makes it past the legislaNo, I’m being serious, that’s what it ture and gets signed by our frack-happy said. The article was chock full of some governor in this state unless the oil and of the most sanctimonious whining I’ve gas industry wants it to pass. ever read. I wasn’t sure whether to Let me also remind Mr. Haley that laugh or get mad. his industry is “regulated” (emphasis on In the piece, Dan Haley, president the quote marks) by the same group of and CEO of the Colorado Oil & Gas industry insiders — the Colorado Oil Association and Gas (COGA) was Conservation speaking in front Commission of 600 of his fel(COGCC) — who low industry leadare charged with CONSIDERED, YOU ers at COGA’s promoting oil and SHOULD BE SCARED annual meeting. gas extraction in There, in the Colorado. What a FOR YOUR INDUSTRY, comfort of concept. MR. HALEY. THE FREE Denver’s Marriott As a result of City Center, this mostly pretend RIDE IS OVER. Haley proclaimed oversight, his poor, to his wealthy, picked-on industry politically powerful can stick its induspeers, “We will not be bullied.” trial drilling sites, wells and production And he didn’t stop there. platforms with their dozens of tanks — Haley went on to tell his congregaeach spewing approximately 2,000 tion of oil executives that their poor lit- pounds of dangerous Volatile Organic tle industry is being picked on. He Compounds into the air we breath every actually used the words “we are under year — right next to our homes. This attack.” industry is legally, albeit immorally, And that still wasn’t the end of his allowed to destroy our property values Bizarro World view. and not be held accountable. It can make “We’ve seen a rise in activism this our children sick and simply turn its back year and we’ve seen the public discourse on the carnage without consequence. in Colorado take a nasty turn as the And when the people of Colorado and rhetoric is more inflamed,” proclaimed elsewhere do try to fight back, it uses its Haley. “They’ve disrupted public meetincredible wealth and political power to ings, shouted down public speakers and sue them into submission. Mr. Haley and shut down rec centers.” his industry cronies even spent millions No, Dan, not the rec centers. Is to make it nearly impossible for citizens nothing sacred? of this state to amend their own constitu“I see the work that you do,” he told tion, because they knew if the public were the crowd. “We are an industry that allowed to vote on larger setbacks and cares, we care about the work we do, other safety and health issues, their dirty providing energy to the world, the peo- industry would lose at the ballot box. ple we work with, our amazing state In short, the oil and gas executives and its environment. We care about the wining and dining at the Marriott that communities where we live and work.” day treat their rights of ingress and The people in that room may egress as if they are God-given instead indeed care about the gated communiof what they are: something bribed via a corrupt political system. ties where they live, but the communi“We will not be bullied... ” Really? ties where their industry works? I’d What a tone deaf crock of manure. have to say not so much to that one.
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Apparently the oil industry has become like the really big kid who demands the little kid’s lunch money every day “or else.” And when the little kid finally says “no,” the bully runs off crying and tells the teacher he got picked on. I still find it hard to believe Haley had the audacity to say, “We’ve seen a rise in activism this year and we’ve seen the public discourse in Colorado take a nasty turn as the rhetoric is more inflamed.” You want to know what a “nasty turn” in public discourse is? It’s being subjected to a thousand dishonest “fracking is good for you” commercials on TV and the internet every time we go to the polls. It makes me sick every time I have to watch former governors Roy Romer and Bill Owens walk down the street telling each other how good and safe fracking is for the environment and how all that natural gas it’s producing is clean energy. Did you ever notice that commercial never mentions oil, only natural gas? Why is that, Mr. Haley? Why is it that your industry and its spin doctors at Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development (CRED) only talk about natural gas? Strangely, despite the impression conveyed by these deceptive commercials, no one in this state seems to be drilling for natural gas. In fact, a headline in the Nov. 3 issue of the Denver Post read, “Drilling may never boom again.” The article was reporting about natural gas extraction on the Western slope and described how it pretty much went away a decade ago because of low prices and lack of markets and how it may never return. The only thing the industry is drilling for these days in Colorado is oil. You remember oil don’t you, Mr. Haley? That not-so-clean fuel that is the real focus of your polluting industry. Pretending that fracking is about natural gas and clean energy in 2017 is just another bald-faced industry lie. So don’t pretend to give lessons in proper public discourse to activists fighting for their and their communities’ health and safety. And by the way, your industry hasn’t been fracking for 60 years like the commercials claim. It’s been fracking wells for 110 years. The first fracking device was called the “time bomb” and was patented by a guy from
Boulder, Colorado, who has a CU building named after him. Try doing some homework on your own industry for a change. You’d at least think you could get your propaganda right. But maybe you guys say fracking is only 60 years old because the process changed so radically at that time and new technologies were employed and patented. But if that’s the case, then what the industry calls fracking today is, once again, a new and completely different process. Today’s hydraulic fracturing isn’t remotely the same process that you were using 60 or 110 years ago. Want proof? If it was the same process the industry was using 60 years ago then explain the recent patents covering the new process. You can’t patent something unless it never existed before. Why does the oil and gas industry feel so compelled to lie about so many things? And speaking of doing research, Mr. Haley, if you and your pals at the Marriott would bother to read the current scientific literature instead of holding fast to the now-debunked research of the “beyond coal” era, you’d know that methane (natural gas) is 80 times as potent a green house gas as carbon dioxide and is now understood to be potentially a greater threat to global warming than coal because of your industry’s lousy leak rates. So even the thing you are lying to try to make us believe — namely that fracking is all about the natural gas — isn’t even a good thing. You guys really do need help with your messaging. Oh yeah, and while I’m at it, do you really think Bill Owens is the best pitchman for your dirty industry? You have enough image problems without putting him front and center. You do know he sits on the board of a Russian bank (Credit Bank of Moscow) that’s helping Russian state oil companies like Rosneft drill for oil and gas. Owens’ bank is needed by Rosneft because the other Russian banks that used to provide money to drill for Putin’s oil and gas (Gazprombank and VTB) have been sanctioned by our country to impair exactly such activities. Thanks, Bill. Owens also thinks we should be buddies with the government of South Sudan, where he lobbies on its behalf when he’s not selling his fracking snake oil to Coloradans. You remember South Sudan, the country with one of the worst Boulder Weekly
human rights records on the planet according to the U.N. It’s the place where its government has killed and raped hundreds of thousands of its own people and caused 5 million others to flea their homes only to starve in refugee camps. Rumor has it there’s oil and gas under South Sudan and that some of the same oil and gas companies working in Colorado (and likely sitting in that room at the Marriott) want to drill there. Gee, I wonder if oil has any connection to Owens’ love affair with the barbaric, murderous government of South Sudan. You can put somebody in a suit, Mr. Haley, and make sure they don’t use profanity as the lies roll off their tongue, but that doesn’t make it proper public discourse. And finally, let’s talk about those communities you say the industry cares so much about, the communities where you work. I absolutely know you care about those communities, Mr. Haley. Your industry cares so much about them it will do and spend almost any amount of time and money to take political control of them so you can drill the crap out of them. You do remember the recording from your industry’s Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission conference we reported on last year. You know, the one where CRED’s Director of Operations and Coalitions, Mark Truax, told a room full of oil industry execs along with the head of Colorado’s COGCC how the oil and gas industry was taking over city councils along the Front Range in an effort to make sure that communities couldn’t stop the industry from drilling in the middle of their neighborhoods. Let’s see... He bragged you oil guys had gotten control of Denver and Fort Collins and had actually managed to “keep municipal ballots and municipal ballot measures [regarding oil and gas extraction] off every city and county in Colorado... ” Since then, you took over Thornton. Wow, you guys really do care about the communities you contaminate... I mean work in. But a funny thing happened this past November, didn’t it, Mr. Haley? You got picked on and bullied by all those mean moms and dads with their nasty public discourse. After having had your way for decades, after forcing your will onto one community after another without consequence, after letting you take their lunch money time after time out of fear, the people of Colorado have started to say, “No more.” On Nov. 7, voters overwhelmingly passed Question 301 in Broomfield, a ballot issue that gives that city more control over oil and gas extraction in its jurisdiction. Lafayette elected a council committed to fighting drilling in that community. Longmont now has a solid majority on council who were put there to, among Boulder Weekly
other things, protect that community from the coming oil and gas industry invasion. The City of Boulder elected a green council and stayed on course for a municipal electric utility that will allow it to unshackle from the oil and gas industry. Hell, you oilies almost lost control of Greeley after spending as much as $150,000 on individual council races in that historically oil-friendly town. When Greeley is saying “no more,” you are in serious trouble. Is this the bullying you speak of, Mr. Haley? Are free speech and democracy
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picking on your poor little industry? Well I’ve got news for you and everyone who heard your whining speech at the Marriott: When your pals start rolling in the rigs to drill the hundreds of new wells in East Boulder County that you have already announced, wells that more than 300,000 residents of this beautiful place have made clear that they don’t want in their communities, near rural homes, next to their schools or on their open space, I suspect the public discourse will not be to your liking. Buckle up. The oil and gas industry believes it is
being attacked and bullied because people are finally saying enough is enough. For too long this industry has forced its contamination into our lives, has destroyed our property values, our health and our quality of life. It literally is our brown cloud. It has placed us in harm’s way for decades and its insistence on drilling in populated areas for no reason other than greed has even resulted in people being blown up in their own homes. All things considered, you should be scared for your industry, Mr. Haley. The free ride is over. You can’t buy outcomes anymore.
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Hope — if we are committed by Dave Anderson
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n the last several years, a new conventional wisdom has emerged in the West about conflict in the Middle East. World leaders, public intellectuals, policy analysts and media commentators have been claiming the region’s instability is primarily the result of unchanging ancient blood feuds arising out of deeply rooted hatreds and rivalries between Sunni and Shia Muslims. Barack Obama and Ted Cruz have both offered this explanation. So have many others such as New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, Sarah Palin and comedian Jon Stewart. Former Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly said, “The Sunnis and Shiites want to kill each other... They have fun ... they like this. This is what Allah tells them to do, and that’s what they do.” This simplistic thesis is challenged in a new book entitled Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of The Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2017) edited by Nader Hashemi, associate professor and director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver, and Danny Postel, assistant director of the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern University. Instead of using the word “sectarianism,” Hashemi and Postel coined the term “sectarianization” which refers to “political actors operating within specific contexts, pursuing political goals that involve popular mobilization around particular (religious) identity markers. Class dynamics, fragile states, and geopolitical rivalries also shape the sectarianization process.” The “political actors” are authoritarian rulers: monarchs, military generals, supreme leaders and politicians who continually win elections with 99 percent of the votes. They deliberately manipulate sectarian identities as a strategy for deflecting demands for political change. Hashemi and Postel say the authoritarian regimes “suffer from multiple political, economic, environmental and demographic crises that have become steadily worse with each passing decade.” They are “weak states,” a concept developed by Joel Migdal, professor of international studies at the University of Washington. These governments have limited power and capacity to exercise social
control. They have to deal with highly complex societies composed of a heterogeneous mixture of social organizations such as ethnic and religious groups, villages, clans, landlords and various economic interest groups. Hashemi and Postel observe that in the 1960s and 1970s, political opposition to rulers in several Muslim countries was led by various socialist, communist and left-wing movements. To combat these currents of dissent, “Islamic political groups were allowed greater freedom of movement and association in the hope that they would challenge the popularity of these secular opposition groups, thus deflecting criticism from the state itself (and the ruling elites who controlled it).” Hashemi and Postel argue that the Middle East’s sharp turn toward sectarian warfare began in 1979 when the Shah of Iran was overthrown by a popular revolution. Saudi Arabia and other Sunni authoritarian regimes portrayed the revolution as a distinctly Shiite and Persian phenomenon that was a perversion of the Islamic tradition. They began a propaganda war which would deeply impact Sunni-Shia relations. There always has been conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, but there also have been lengthy periods of peaceful co-existence. Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, 20 out of 50 between Sunnis and Shiites. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been described by a BBC commentator as a “Sunni strongman who fought Shia Iran.” But Saddam also collaborated with the Shah’s Iran and invaded Sunni Kuwait. He killed any Iraqis who challenged his rule, which included quite a few Sunni Kurds and Arabs. In 2011, there was a peaceful nonsectarian revolt in Syria which emphasized universal social and economic grievances with slogans advocating human dignity, social justice and democratic rights. Demonstrators came from a broad cross-section of society: Sunnis, Shiites, Alawis, Druze, Christians and atheists. Immediately, Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad responded with horrendous violence and portrayed all of the protesters as Sunni terrorists like al Qaeda. If you want to better understand what see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 9
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is going on in the Middle East today, Hashemi and Postel’s book is crucial. It features the work of historians, anthropologists, political scientists, scholars of religion and international relations theorists. The first section provides big-picture historical, theoretical and geopolitical perspectives on the sectarianization process. The second section provides detailed case studies, showing how the sectarianization process has played out in Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Bahrain and Kuwait. The concluding chapter is by Timothy D. Sisk, professor of interna-
tional and comparative politics at the University of Denver. He consults the growing library of research into ethnic and religious violence and post-conflict peace-building to find lessons for desecularization. Two of the most important comparative cases for peaceful transformation are in Northern Ireland and Bosnia where seemingly intractable violent sectarian conflicts were ended. It took a lot of work in those countries but there is hope if we are committed to peace. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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As I was driving home from a gig last Friday night in Denver, I got a real hankering for frozen yogurt. Then I remembered the Boulder Chill is no longer open! Oh, how I miss the best frozen yogurt I’ve ever had in my life. But also miss seeing its owner, Douglass Gunn. I feel that Doug was one of the most impressive local business owners in Boulder, running Boulder Chill for over 25 years! And a super nice guy! It just breaks my heart that the main reason for closing his doors was the rent increase. For a small space of 1,200 square feet, he had been paying $5,000 a month. Then this year it went up almost 40 percent to $8,000 a month! This is just one other indication of the greed that has taken over this town. I’ve lived here since 1974 and have never seen anything like it. Hopefully the new and awesome Boulder Weekly
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Leadership needed
The recent compassion shown by Elon Musk in his supplying, delivery, setup and operation of a complete solar system to power the Hospital del Niño (children’s hospital) in San Juan is the action of a true leader. One could look at the hurricanes as an opportunity for acquisition and demolition of the existing overhead grid system and the chance to instate clean, renewable energy sources. It’s an example to the rest of the world that a new paradigm is possible given that fossil fuels have seen better days and new technology is here, getting better everyday. Taking advantage of that opportunity would be leadership the world could respect. Tommy Holeman/Superior
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CU study links wastewater injections to earthquakes despite lack of cooperation from the oil and gas industry by Eliza Radeka
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Researchers at CU expanded upon earlier research to explain why the Raton Basin along the Colorado-New Mexico border has become a prime location for geologic phenomena.
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n 2011, the town of Trinidad quivered from the seismic waves of a 5.3-magnitude earthquake. Located just 15 miles north of the quake’s epicenter in the Raton Basin, Trinidad sustained minor damage to buildings and structures. Though historically rare in Colorado, this earthquake was just one in an ongoing series of earthquakes scientists say are being caused by injecting wastewater into underground formations in the area. The wastewater is produced during coal-bed methane extraction. While scientists have studied the oil and gas industry’s role in causing such earthquakes for years — the earlist quake/injection well studies began in the 1960s — new research from the University of Colorado Boulder provides more specific information about how injecting fluids actually triggers the earthquakes, and raises concerns about the future of this long-held industry practice. The Raton Basin stretches across the Colorado-New Mexico border and has long yielded resources like coal and coal-bed methane. It is home to 28 wastewater injection wells. Although reports on the Basin show a history of seismicity, the rate of earthquakes dramatically increased 10 November 30, 2017
starting in 2001. From 2008-2010, the Basin experienced the highest number of earthquakes in both states: 1,881 overall. Wastewater injections — which began in the area in 1994 — also increased during this period, leading scientists to conclude that faster water buildup triggers more earthquakes. Since the first injection, oil and gas companies have pumped at least 200 million barrels of wastewater into underground formations in the area. While a 2014 paper by the Geological Service charged injection wells with causing the area’s earthquakes, the recent CU study explains exactly why the Basin has become a prime location for this geological phe-
nomenon. Hydrogeologic modeling allowed researchers to find elevated pore pressure in the Raton Basin’s “basement rock” — a layer of rock miles deeper than the surface-level sedimentary layers where fracking occurs. Pore pressure is the fluid pressure between rock fractures and pores, and builds up over time as more and more wastewater enters the area. Since basement rock is typically more fragile and brittle than other rock layers, it should come as no surprise that a buildup of pore pressure could cause earthquakes in this vulnerable rock. The study also uncovered the existence of two major faults in the Basin — the Vermejo Park fault and the Tercio fault. According to Shemin Ge, Geological Sciences department chair at CU, the 2008-2010 earthquakes observed in the study helped scientists locate the faults. “We didn’t know about them before, but the earthquakes [lit] them up and brought them to life,” she says. Knowledge of such faults contributes to a better understanding of the area and the nature of induced earthquakes. But when it comes to learning
more about the Raton Basin and wastewater injection practices, scientists find themselves on the outside of an arena dominated by oil and gas companies. Although the oil and gas industry has been monitoring seismic activity and subterranean faults in the Raton Basin for years, it will not make its data available to researchers or the public. Jenny Nakai, CU doctoral student and lead author of the study, wishes the industry would be more willing to cooperate with researchers. “If they had a map of basement faults, researchers would really love that because it would make our work so much easier,” she says. Another complication stems from doubt and scrutiny centered on studies like this one. According to Ge, oil and gas industry members, as well as the general public, are often slow to accept the results of such studies. Although the Raton Basin saw an increase in seismic activity in 2001 — just a few years after the inception of wastewater wells in the area — the concept of induced seismicity was highly contentious until the 2014 Geological Service’s study. “Even five years ago, not everyone was on board [with induced seismicity]. It was quite debated,” Ge says. “But now, because of these studies, there is a general consensus.” Still, doubts remain. The Colorado Oil and Gas Association (COGA) is still reviewing the CU study and points Boulder Weekly
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to U.S. Geological Survey data that indicates the majority of injection wells — 98.8 percent — operate without seismicity. Operators are required “to submit detailed documentation on the geology where they plan to drill or inject water prior to receiving a permit,” COGA CEO Dan Haley says in a statement to Boulder Weekly. COGA is not alone in its opposition. Energy In Depth, an online publication founded by the Independent Petroleum Association of America, called the study “old news” and questioned the existence of any real scientific breakthroughs. “Is this a groundbreaking study? No, not really,” the article reads. The CU Boulder researchers disagree, but they aren’t surprised by such comments. “This is a complex issue. There’s economy, natural resources and hazards, social responsibility and the environment,” Ge says. “We think it’s important to understand the science behind it, but everyone in the industry needs to have an understanding.” As for the future of the Raton Basin, more earthquakes are certainly possible. Unfortunately, it’s impossible, to fully predict when the next one will strike, an uncertainty that Nakai says knocks on the industry’s door. She believes the industry has a responsibility Boulder Weekly
to work Although the oil more closeand gas industry ly with the has long monitored seismic academic activity, it refuses community to make its data available to in order to researchers. educate people who live in the area. “It’s pretty reasonable to assume that a fault in that basin is capable of producing another 5.3,” she says. “If people are going to have earthquakes nearby, they should know something about earthquake preparedness.” But mere preparedness might not be enough. Ge believes that oil and gas companies should decrease the amount of wastewater being injected into the Earth. But given our demand for energy and an unwillingness to embrace alternatives, she does not anticipate that the practice will end anytime soon. Scientists may struggle to uncover the full scope of environmental impacts unless the oil and gas industry decides to cooperate. “Ideally the companies should minimize any negative impact, but completely stopping energy development is probably not a practical approach,” Ge says. “How we can do it responsibly — and that’s protecting the environment, minimizing any harmful impacts and hazards — that’s something we’d like to contribute to.”
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n Nov. 20, the Department issues. And the decision is supposed to give the of Homeland Security idea that the disaster is passed and there’s no (DHS) announced it’s ter- need for temporary exemption because things minating Temporary have improved significantly and there’s not the Protected Status (TPS) for need that there was after the earthquake. It’s approximately 50,000 Haitian immigrants, just not the reality for most Haitian families.” effective July 2019. Haitians living in the U.S. Prior to the decision, Haitian ambassador were granted TPS following the 2010 earthPaul Altidor called for the re-designation of quake that displaced more than 1.5 million TPS due to prevailing hardships in the country, people and killed roughly 300,000. According or at least the maximum extension — 18 to the announcement, the decision was made months — to allow “the Haitian Government with input from Haitian officials, community more time to implement its ongoing recovery meetings and interviews with TPS holders, and redevelopment plan.” among others. However, many immigration While DHS chose to terminate the proadvocacy organizations, Democratic legislators gram for Haitians, it did grant Haitian TPS and folks in Haitian communities across Master Sgt. Jeremy Lock, USAF/Wikimedia Commons the country are dismayed by the decision. “People are scared and worried because they don’t know what’s going to happen,” says Emmanuel Jean, co-founder of the Colorado Haiti Society. “Some people lost everything, family, everything. When they came here, somebody embraced them and they started a new life. To send them back over there is going to have a psychological impact.” In her announcement, Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke said the “extraordinary but temporary conditions caused by the 2010 earthquake no longer exist” in Haiti, and therefore the country is prepared to handle “the return of their nationals.” But since the earthquake, Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has struggled to recover. An ongoing cholera outbreak has killed thousands, affected hundreds of thousands more, and continues to pose health risks for the country’s approximately 11 million citi- holders until July 2019 to prepare for departure zens. In 2016, Hurricane Matthew struck the or “seek another lawful immigration status, if country, destroying 200,000 homes and trigeligible.” gering a food crisis and an economic loss of But while TPS comes with work authoriza$2.8 billion. Hurricanes this year have caused tion, it has always been temporary without a additional damage, flooding and crop loss. pathway to residency or citizenship. “If the decision is to give the impression Congress created TPS in 1990 to provide that there are other options for those folks, temporary relief for immigrants from specifithat’s not the reality,” says Wynn Walent, exec- cally designated countries experiencing ongoutive director of the Colorado Haiti Project ing armed conflict, environmental disaster or based in Louisville. The Project works with other extraordinary but temporary conditions. rural Haitian community leaders on issues There are currently about 300,000 people from from job creation to education to community 10 different countries with TPS in the U.S. health. Walent spent more than two years in Salvadorans are by far the largest beneficiaries, Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and confollowed by Hondurans and Haitians. tinues to go back several times each year. According to the Center for American “Things are still extraordinarily difficult in Progress, there are 1,400 TPS holders in Haiti,” he says. “There’s huge problems of Colorado from these three countries, who conunemployment and lack of access to health tributed an estimated $78.2 million to the care. There’s sanitation and infrastructure annual state GDP.
Under the Trump administration, the entire TPS program has come under threat and many immigrants, allies and advocacy organizations are calling for a more permanent solution. On Nov. 6, Acting Secretary Duke delayed a decision for Honduras, citing inadequate information about the country’s conditions and postponing a determination for another six months. At the same time, DHS terminated TPS for Nicaraguans, giving people until Jan. 5, 2019 “to allow for an orderly transition before the designation terminates.” TPS for roughly 195,000 Salvadorans expires in March, and DHS is expected to make a decision whether to extend or terminate in January. “TPS is part of our communities here in Colorado,” says Gabriela Flora, program director for the Colorado Chapter of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a national immigrant-rights organization. “Rather than ripping away their status, we should be finding ways for them to have access to a pathway to citizenship.” AFSC is supporting legislation both in the U.S. House and Senate that would do just that. In November, Democratic representatives introduced the American Promise Act of 2017 in the House with 36 co-sponsors, and Democratic senators introduced the Safe Environment from Countries Under Repression and in Emergency, or SECURE Act. Both bills would allow TPS holders to pursue legal permanent residency. “We call on the full Colorado delegation to support these bills and create a long-term solution,” Flora says. “Taking away their status rather than providing them a pathway to citizenship is contrary to our community, our state and our country.” As Congress considers legislation, Haitian TPS holders, their families and the entire Haitian community in the U.S. faces uncertainty. In the last year, there has been a surge of Haitian immigrants arriving at the U.S. southern border, many seeking to reunite with family members with TPS. If forced to return, thousands of Haitian TPS holders would be separated from their children born in the U.S. who now have citizenship. Countless others are crossing the northern border into Canada, hoping to find a stable and secure home there. “The best thing to do is to let people stay here,” Jean from the Colorado Haiti Society says. “There’s no way they can go back to Haiti right now.” November 30, 2017 13
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f Congress does nothing, which it very well might, 3,500 low-income children and pregnant women in Boulder County will lose their health insurance on Jan. 31. The something Congress needs to do to keep that from happening to those 3,500 people (and 75,000 more kids in Colorado) is restore funding to the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers insurance for low-income children and pregnant women across the country who make too much to qualify for Medicaid, but still fall within 260 percent of the federal poverty level. In Colorado, those federal funds cover up to 88 percent of the state’s Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) program, the state’s mechanism for insuring qualified children and pregnant women. Though it’s been widely reported that the program has received bipartisan support since its inception in 1997, Congress already missed their deadline to reinstate funding to the program. And this week, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) began sending out letters to enrollees of the program telling them to start preparing for a loss in coverage (full disclosure: my family received one of these letters). The inaction has befuddled advocates of lowincome families as the program reduced the rate of uninsured kids from 7.9 percent in 2009 to 2.5 percent in 2015. “Numerous people, organizations and providers have expressed concern over the fate of the CHP+ program,” says Marc Williams, public information officer for the state HCPF. “Any time there’s a threat to a popular program like CHP+, we hear those concerns and this is no different. There is no upside in allowing the CHP+ program to discontinue its coverages.” Susan Wortman, development director at Clinica, a local clinic that servs about 500 CHP+ patients in Boulder County, says the type of care CHP+ enrollees will lose coverage for is basic and critical. “Anything from diagnosing a women when she becomes pregnant, to all the prenatal care, to all the deliveries, immunizations. [We help] people manage chronic disease like hypertension, diabetes. Kids who come to us are generally getting all their well child sports physicals, immunization flu shots, and we manage all the other things that might come up — if they need behavioral health counseling, making sure they have access to meds they might need,” Wortman says.
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Thousands of low-income Boulder County families face losing health insurance as Congress stalls by Matt Cortina If CHP+ loses funding, enrolling families will have few options to replace that insurance: They can either reapply for Medicaid and see if they qualify (Williams says the state is unlikely to broaden its Medicaid standards to envelop those who would lose CHP+ coverage); or they can sign up for a plan on the marketplace and hope for federal subsidies. But that might create a significant financial burden for families. For instance, it’s free for most pregnant women to enroll in the program, and children’s care costs a one-time fee between $25 and $105. Compare that to a standard health insurance plan, where, even with federal subsidies, premiums can cost hundreds of dollars per person, which is on top of paying for procedures before deductibles of several thousand dollars are met — deductibles a woman delivering a child would certainly meet. Those are costs many low-income families just can’t meet, and certainly they would have to be more judicious about when to visit the doctor. “If the CHP+ program were to end and a pregnant woman or child didn’t have other insurance to pick up where CHP+ left off, they would be uninsured,” Williams says. “Naturally we hope it doesn’t come to that.” Still, given that every family would be eligible for different subsidies if CHP+ does not receive funding, families are now left in the dark as to how much they might have to pay next year. “It would be impossible to really estimate,” says Jim Williams, Boulder County Housing and Human Services spokesperson. “The financial assistance that is available through Connect for Health Colorado
(the state insurance marketplace) can be significant. It can greatly reduce the amount you spend on premiums; [it] might be similar to what you would spend on CHP+.” “CHP+ families should be eligible for tax subsidies to help bring those costs down,” says the state’s Marc Williams, emphasizing the word “should.” Outside of congressional action, there’s not a lot of hope for families who rely on CHP+. Kristina Iodice is the public information officer in El Paso County, which has the highest concentration of CHP+ enrollees in the state. Though the County is preparing residents for the change, there’s only so much they can do. “Of course this is a concern because it will impact a lot of families, but there’s not a lot that can be done at the county level,” she says. Marc Williams says it would take $159 million for Colorado to fund CHP+ on its own. The HCPF hasn’t requested funding, Williams says, but he adds “any member of the legislature could introduce a bill on their own requesting the state pay for CHP+ if the feds do not renew funding.” On the federal level, there are currently two bills, one in the House, one in the Senate, that would restore funding, but there is disagreement about from where to draw the money to fund the program, and progress on passing those bills has stalled. Senators Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet cosponsored the proposed Senate bill. Until then, families are advised that coverage will not change in Colorado until Jan. 31, 2018. In the meantime, families were advised this week to seek alternatives, as sparse as they may be. Boulder Weekly
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gases into the atmosphere. The desired effect: global temperatures will be contained because the pollutants in the upper atmosphere will dim the sun’s light and counteract the greenhouse effect of all the carbon dioxide pumped from power stations, vehicle exhausts, factory chimneys and burning forests. It won’t be the perfect answer. The oceans will go on becoming more acidic, and the skies will become subtly darker. Rainfall patterns could be affected. Repairs to the ozone layer — an invisible shield against dangerous ultraviolet radiation — would be slowed. The volumes of sulphate aerosols that would need to be flown to stratospheric heights and released each year would continue to grow as humans went on burning ever more fossil fuels. The technical and energy demands of such an operation would be colossal. There could be serious geopo-
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limate scientists now know that geoengineering — in principle at least — would halt global warming and keep the world at the temperatures it will reach by 2020. It is simple: inject millions of tons of sulphate aerosols into the stratosphere at carefully chosen locations, and keep on doing so for as long as humans continue to burn fossil fuels and release greenhouse
litical problems about the impacts and responsibility for An eruption of such decisions. But, at least in Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines principle, researchers now believe in 1991 cooled geo-engineering could be made the planet by dumping 20 to work. million tons of “For decision-makers to sulphur dioxide in the stratoaccurately weigh the pros and sphere. cons of geo-engineering against those of human-caused climate change, they need more information,” said Ben Kravitz, of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and one of a consortium which has published a succession of five studies in the Journal of Geophysical Research — Atmospheres. “Our goal is to better understand what geo-engineering can do — and what it cannot.”
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Natural model Famously, an eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991 cooled the planet by dumping 20 million tons of sulphur dioxide in the stratosphere. The researchers used computer simulations to test the effect of what might be called artificial eruptions: how would stratospheric winds spread these sulphate aerosols, and how would this diffuse global dust cloud cool the planet, and for how long, and to what extent? They played with the idea of injecting sulphates at 14 different sites at seven latitudes and two altitudes, to find that the idea worked best if injections happened at 30 degrees latitude, north and south. They experimented with varying levels of sulphur dioxide: up to 12 million metric tons at a time. They found out how to contain overall global temperature rise to the predicted 2020 average: some regions, however, became — in their computer models — hotter or cooler than the citizens might appreciate. But the challenge of keeping the world cool became more and more demanding. By the end of the century, if humans went on burning fossil fuels in the notorious business-as-usual scenario, their model demanded the equivalent of almost five Mt. Pinatubo eruptions a year. The research goes on.
Deployment delay The Carnegie Climate Geoengineering Governance Initiative aims “to encourage the development of governance for research on climate geo-engineering that is balanced between enabling and regulatory aspects.” One of its priorities is to put solar geo-engineering deployment on hold until the risks and potential benefits are better known and governance frameworks are agreed. ”We are still a long way from understanding all the interactions in the climate system that could be triggered by geo-engineering, which means we don’t yet understand the full range of possible side effects,” said scientist Simone Tilmes, of NCAR. “But climate change also poses risks. Continuing research into geo-engineering is critical to assess benefits and side effects and to inform decision-makers and society.” This story originally ran on Climate News Network. 18 November 30 , 2017
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well-drawn lyrics, we thought it’d made a for a nice Easter egg somewhere in the bowels of mid-program. “This Is It,” with its buoyant slide guitar flourishes and gimme-some-love ’70s reveries, would have started the proceedings on a “shoot, let’s have some fun” kinda vibe. “Yep,” Chris says, “we thought about that. Considered it. “I dunno, there’s something about... the last record we made, Paradise, started with a very rocking tune. Electric bass, big sound, more of a rock ’n’ roll song. We kind of felt like it would be nice to start this record with, at least the beginning of the song, sounding like origins of The Wood Brothers. Just guitar, bass, Oliver’s voice. And we just loved that song, and we loved that it’s tied in, in some ways, with the imagery of the cover, the record, the title. “And, like, what’s been happening in current events. Crazy hurricanes. Pertinent to the times. The imagery that nothing’s for certain, until levee breaks down and the water takes the town. That’s a powerful image of, when anytime in life you don’t really know what’s going to happen, when things do happen and really go wrong, the ambiguity goes away. And it’s, ‘uh-oh.’” Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood, raised in Boulder but musically schooled in vastly different geographies and cultural disciplines, have been collaborating on one of the most vibrant and consistently engaging Americana projects for just about a decade now. Expect to hear plenty of plaudits about this record, arguably their most relaxed and, paradoxically, most seamless and confident offering. Recorded in a variety of studios in and around Nashville, the group took its time with the songs, letting them grow up, mature, ferment, become what they needed to be without the pressure of watching a single studio’s clock time. And in keeping with recent tradition, the presence of the third guy, multiinstrumentalist Jano Rix, provides the mortar between Oliver’s guitar and vocals, and Chris’s gnarled and searching basslines. Rix has been the utility infielder for these guys for several years, dropping in on keyboards and drums, texturizing here, propelling there, and Wood says that his presence has become central to the group’s sound and aesthetic freedom. That’s Rix, for example, bouncing away on the honky-tonk clavinet burbling beneath “Sparkling Wine,” Oliver’s shuffling paean to finding relief and release through sparkling bubbly. Woods says Rix pulls off something slightly remarkable on the tune. “What you have to know about that [song], is that not only is it a clavinet on ‘Sparkling Wine,’ but it’s not an overdub. Jano played the drum track and that entire clavinet part, just as is, in one take.” Keys and drums, simultaneously. One take. How do you do that? “Well, you have to be Jano Rix. You have to be a great drummer, and a very Boulder Weekly
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ach week, Carmen Sandim “I think it is an interesting situavoluntarily forgoes sleep for tion being a jazz musician,” Sandim two nights. Not back to says. “I know one vocal jazz musician back, of course, because that that does not teach, he only plays — would be crazy. Still, two and he’s very young,” Sandim says with nights a week she slips off to her home a laugh. “Teaching is a large part of studio after her two children — still our lives. Making a living as a musiwee ones, just two and four — have cian, as a jazz musician, is not a very gone to bed, sits at her Courtesy of Carmen Sandim piano and works. It’s taken a few years after the birth of her children to get back into the swing of writing and performing and, though she knows some might think she’s nuts, the sleepless nights were critical to her rebound. Of course it’s got to do with the lifechanging, schedulerearranging work it takes to raise two children, but there’s also something (scientific, actually) about the wee hours of the night that sparks creative flames; Prince and Bob Dylan were proud realistic goal. At the same time you night owls. can only teach if you are a working “I feel like the inner critic goes to jazz musician. It’s a bit of a catch-22. sleep around 3 a.m. and it’s just me [W]here I teach, I feel like I’m not left,” Sandim says. “I think we just do relevant to my students if I’m not what we have to do. To me, right now, engaged in pushing jazz into the next it feels vital. That’s the thing, an active particisolution I’m willing pant in what the conON THE BILL: Carmen to do with.” text of contemporary Sandim Septet. Sunday, The work has jazz is.” Dec. 17, Grace Lutheran paid off: Sandim is And that’s exactly Church, 1001 13th St., Boulder. Tickets are $15 at set to head to the what she wrote in eventbrite.com/d/co--boulstudio in midher proposal to der/carmen-sandim December to record Pathways to Jazz. an album with the The grant money Carmen Sandim helped her secure not Septet, made possible with a grant only studio time (the band will be from Pathways to Jazz, the Boulderrecording at Mighty Fine based program that has provided local Productions in Denver), but also jazz musicians with grants to further covers the travel expenses necessary their artistic vision since 2014. to bring in three other musicians to Sandim is a jazz composer, pianist, turn her regular quartet into a septet. vocalist and professor at Naropa, Joining Sandim on the album are Metropolitan State University and CU her quartet members — Khabu Doug Denver. That’s the way it is for jazz Young on guitar, Bill McCrossen on musicians; wearing many hats is the bass and Dru Heller on drums — as only way to stay afloat. well as Shane Endsley on trumpet, Boulder Weekly
Bruce Williamson on reeds and Alex Heitlinger on trombone. (Sandim, always one to laugh, admits she hasn’t sent the arrangements yet: “I am planning to start sending the arrangements tomorrow. I’ve been saying tomorrow for two months, but now it really has to be tomorrow.”) Rather than having a theme, Sandim sees the new album shaping up to be a collection of portraits: songs inspired by bandmates, jazz heroes and of course, her children. “One of the toughest things about being a musician parent is that kids like to repeat the same song, like, 70 times. They came up with this little melody: ‘Play-doh... ‘Playdoh,’” she sing-songs in a childlike voice, “and they repeat it for, like, 40 minutes.” Ultimately, the kids wrote a song for her. “They wrote the song and I just arranged it. I think that’s the one right now I’m enjoying playing the most, the only song I’ve been able to compose in the living room when I’m ‘supposedly’ taking care of them. I was able to write that song in one afternoon and they were playing Legos. Every time I play it I get the image of them there.” Play-doh inspiration aside, this is real jazz music, no collection of easily digested standards. “My first album was so simple. The music was so simple and now that I’m so much busier, the material for this... I don’t know how this came to be really complicated.” But complicated in a good way, in a way that reflects the many hats Sandim wears each day as a mother, musician and educator. The Carmen Sandim Septet will be providing a sneak peak of their new work on Dec. 17 at Grace Lutheran Church in Boulder. Sandim expects the album will be released in February. November 30 , 2017 25
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CURIOUS GEORGE made his debut in 1941, brought to life by the husband-and-wife team Hans and Margret Rey. The premise of the book is terrifically simple: George is a monkey and his characteristic curiosity is always getting him into trouble. His ingenuity, though, always gets him out. Now, more than 75 later, George is an international icon, selling over 75 million books in more than 20 languages, starring in feature-length films and a PBS cartoon, as well as making appearances in homes across the country as a take-home toy, plush and plastic alike. Yes, George the curious monkey is also a cash cow, but his lucrativeness is not superficial. In the mod-
ern world, he’s atypical in that he’s not a product of the time, but rather, quite simply, a very special and enduring little monkey. Perhaps George’s longevity owes to the seductive psychology of the American dream — that you can overcome adversity, even in the face of a seemingly chaotic mix of events that straddle the line between coinci-
dence and fate. But over the decades George has proved endearing beyond ideations of our own possibilities. He’s an archetypal character that people all across the world hold and treasure. He is a child in an adult’s world, retaining a gusto for life that endures despite very real hardships. That is George’s nature, one that he will never outgrow. And that is why we love him. His illustrator, Hans Rey, once said about the laborious process of creating each of the eight original Curious George books that the sweat and tears never showed. In that instance he was referring to the yearlong work that went into each story, replete with consultants, publishers and the innumerable drafts that led to the final copy. But surely he also meant to nod to Boulder Weekly
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the story of how the monkey came to with her rebellious nature and Hans, be, the story of the Reys themselves, of the daydreamer, somehow floating the very real hardships they went through the drudgery of the real through on their way to claiming the world, by way of a 10-year stay in American dream and the whimsical, Brazil. childlike optimism with which they In 1933 the two found each other understood and told their tale. again (a result of Margret’s blunt It’s a story told in tenacity) and married, splendorous detail in not out of love but the new, feature-length because, as Margret documentary Monkey said, they were good for ON THE BILL: Monkey Business: the Business: The Adventures each other. So, quite Adventures of Curious of Curious George’s practically, they started George’s Creators. 7 Creators, by director an advertising firm and p.m. Friday, Dec. 1, Chautauqua Ema Ryan Yamazaki. in 1937, they became Community House, The film explores the accidental children’s 900 Baseline Road, extraordinary lives of book authors when a Boulder. Hans and Margret Rey, French publisher sugwhose creative spirits gested they try expandand resilient attitudes ing one of Hans’s carproduced a monkey beloved by the toons into its own story. But just as world. their family business was taking off, so was the Third Reich, and the antiThe Reys first met in their homeSemitism of the late-1930s threatened town of Hamburg, Germany, in 1922 at Margret’s 16th birthday party, but it to bring it all down. In June of 1940, the couple was livwould be more than 10 years until the ing in Paris as Hitler’s troops two would marry. They were young, after all, and the post WWI years were approached the city. From the big window in their apartment they could see tumultuous. As the world struggled to recollect itself, the two young German tanks rumbling at the edges of the Jews were struggling to find themtown and hear rifle shots. With the selves, too — Margret always wrestling trains down and automobiles lying Boulder Weekly
empty on the sides of the roads, the Reys built two bicycles from spare parts and, just 48 hours before the Nazis invaded Paris, they pedaled out of town, two among thousands of refugees fleeing south toward the neutral state of Portugal. “To hear their surviving friends tell of how the Reys told the story of their great escape you wouldn’t realize the Reys were in the throes of war,” says director Ema Ryan Yamazaki. “They talked about sleeping in barns and eating on the kindness of strangers as if they were on a fantastical vacation, telling their own story with the same curious optimism they imbued in George. What we might call a harrowing journey, they call an adventure — it was a challenge to straddle that line in the film.” One can try to strip the story of romanticism and say, plainly, that the Reys were two anonymous German Jews carrying Brazilian passports during the Battle of Paris and that the odds were stacked against them. But, like their little monkey, you can’t separate the whimsy from their true experience. Take, for instance, the see GEORGE Page 28
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WASN’T A MOVIE ALREADY. ... I REALLY DIDN’T EXPECT THAT I’D BE THE ONE TO MAKE IT.” — EMA RYAN YAMAZAKI, DIRECTOR
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time when border officials became suspicious of their German accents but when the Reys showed them pages from the Curious George manuscript, the guards were so taken with the story they allowed the Reys to continue on. Saved by their own creation — a carefree, irresistibly cute monkey — the Reys eventually made it out of Europe just as the horrors of the Holocaust were beginning to unfold. A few months later, they sailed into the New York harbor and started life anew as sea after sea parted to allow Curious
George to spring out of the stuff of their lives. Until recently, the story of George’s conception was relegated to tales passed down through friends and a few niche reports by scholars of children’s literature. That’s how Yamazaki heard about it, accidentally, by bumping into their longtime housekeeper, Lay Lee One, at a retirement home. But, as soon as Yamazaki, then a 24-year-old filmmaker looking for to make her first feature-length documentary, stumbled upon the story, she recognized its narrative prowess. Boulder Weekly
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“Honestly, I couldn’t believe it wasn’t a movie already,” she says. “For weeks I just looked around the internet trying to find the film that someone else had already made. I really didn’t expect that I’d be the one to make it.” Yamazaki says she fell in love with the Rey’s story for all of the obvious reasons. Like so many others around the world, she grew up reading Curious George in Japan. And, when she came to America to attend film school at New York University, it was one of the few icons relatable across cultures. (It turns out that, lots of times, children’s characters are actually very culturally specific, she says.) So, when she realized George was just as international as she was, her connection with the little monkey amplified. “As a filmmaker, I’ve always been interested in what lies between cultures,” she says. “I was really attracted to this story and the more research I did, the more I could relate to what the Reys went through. Somewhere along the line I realized not that I wanted to be like them, but that I was already kind of like them — on my way to becoming a great storyteller, despite the odds, unafraid as I traveled through the world.” But as excited as she was, deep down Yamazaki wondered if she was Boulder Weekly
Hans Rey drawing George with Margret standing by, 1960s.
really the right one to tell the Rey’s story. Shouldn’t a more experienced director take on such an iconic tale? “But you know what I realized?” she asks, rhetorically. “If I had waited to start until I knew what I was doing, or until I knew I was the right person to do it, I still wouldn’t have started.” Monkey Business is a movie that, like Curious George, came to be despite the odds. It relied on borrowed equipment, young filmmakers and a behemoth Kickstarter campaign to pull it off, eking out on stollen time and IOUs. But the result is simply wonderful and it’s impossible to see the sweat and tears that made it so. A menagerie of archival footage, historic stills and original animation, the documentary brings the Reys’ story to life, in precisely the way one would imagine the Reys would have told their own story. And as the movie fades away, you can almost hear the man in the yellow hat telling the Reys he is proud of them and their very curious little monkey.
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Start December off right by heading to BMoCA with your dancing shoes and cell phone to help support the DREAM Act. Dance the night away to DJ Javi’s beats while contacting Colorado senators to demand protection for DACA recipients. The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition worked with Motus to put on this event and both organizations push for immigration reform. Motus takes a unique approach by putting these issues center-stage to encourage meaningful dialogue and share impactful stories and perspectives. Tickets can be found online at motusdreamactdanceparty.brownpapertickets.com/. —Sarah Farley
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Courtesy of DeadPhish Orchestra As the name suggests, this four-person band likes to jam. These close friends from Colorado have been playing music together for many years and share an appreciation for the Grateful Dead and Phish, managing to merge the sounds of these beloved jam bands. DeadPhish has performed with renowned musicians such as John Kadlecik from Furthur and Michael Kang from the String Cheese Incident. Enjoy dinner at the Caribou Room before this funky, folky band gets jamming. —Sarah Farley
GUNBARREL POP-UP COMIC-CON 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder. This event is free. You don’t have to wait until next year to enjoy Comic-Con. For the first time, Gunbarrel Brewing Company will host a “pop-up” comic convention to bring together fans of fantasy and superheroes. Enjoy a drink from the brewery while you chat with fellow enthusiasts. Local artists will be there to share some original comics and art. It’s the perfect opportunity to add to your collection. Farm and Smoke food truck will be catering the all-ages event. —Sarah Farley
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Thursday, November 30 Music Angel Vivaldi & Scale The Summit — with Andy Jones. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.
Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30 8PM
PAPER MOONSHINE
FRIDAY DECEMBER 1 8PM
RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS SATURDAY DECEMBER 2
SHANNA IN A DRESS 8PM TIM OSTDIEK TRIO 9PM SUNDAY DECEMBER 3
ZOE BERMAN 8PM ALLIE CHIPKIN 9PM LIZ BERUBE 10PM TUESDAY DECEMBER 5 8PM
THE MATT HUMAN TRIO WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6 8PM
Ben Miller Band. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver. Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. CU Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
3rd Law Dance/Theater: Lost in Place
Heather Gray
7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1 and Saturday, Dec. 2; 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, Gordon Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. $18-$30.
Denver Gay Men’s Chorus “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Holiday Concert. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.
DSM-73: Queer Rock Night. 8 p.m. Moon Room, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Early Bird Show Special. 6:30 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver. Elephant Revival. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Lark & CU Denver Voices. 7:30 p.m. King Center Recital Hall, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver. Ookay “Wow! Cool!” Tour. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Open Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder. Taco Thursday and Bingo. 7 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. To Be Astronauts. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Events Comedy Night at Vision Quest. 8:30 p.m. Vision Quest Brewing, 2510 47th St., Boulder.
Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Step: A Real Life Story Documentary Film. 7:30 p.m. Regal Cinemas Village at the Peaks 12 & RPX, 1230 S. Hover Road, Longmont.
Music The Absolutes. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. All Beethoven Conducted by Brett Mitchell. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. Cam’ron. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Captain Quirk. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland. Cary Morin. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Cellar West Friday Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Cellar West Artisan Ales, 1001 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 10, Boulder.
Gettin’ Weird for the Holidays: A Burlesque Showcase. 8 p.m. Bierstadt Lagerhaus, 2875 Blake St., Denver.
Denver Gay Men’s Chorus “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Holiday Concert. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.
Kyle Kinane. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.
Live Band. 8:30 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.
Momma’s Forking Leftovers. 9 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.
Espresso! Swing & Gypsy Jazz. 5 p.m. Cheese Importers, 103 Main St., Longmont.
NaNoWriMo Open Mic Celebration. 7 p.m. BookBar, 4280 Tennyson St., Denver.
Flatirons Jazz Orchestra. 6:30 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.
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The Simba Claus: King of the Jingle — A Holiday Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m.
Return of the Light: Psychology of Holidays. 7 p.m. Boulder Center of Conscious Community, 1637 28th St., Boulder. Ryan Montbleau. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.
Trout Steak Revival — Album Release Show. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 7
ROB’s Annual Holiday Trunk Show. 4 p.m. Re/Max of Boulder, 2425 Canyon Blvd., Suite 110, Boulder.
Nice Work Jazz Combo. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder.
Friday, December 1
The Colorado Choir: Sing We Now of Christmas. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.
Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Extravaganza. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.
Lori’s Cuisine. 3:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
SPELLS + Colfax Speed Queen. 9 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.
Friday Night Bazaar: Holiday Edition. 4 p.m. Denver Rock Drill, 1717 E. 39th Ave., Denver.
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Live Music. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 20, Boulder.
Trivia at Tandoori’s Bar. 6 p.m. Tandori’s Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.
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Kacy & Clayton. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.
Expect “quirky interludes featuring shoes, suitcases, trunks, typewriters, birdcages and juggling balls” in this thought-provoking dance project by artistic co-directors Katie Elliot and Jim LaVita. Enjoy a theatrical exploration of the theme “sense of place,” or perhaps more accurately, losing a sense of place, either geographically or internally. What is the meaning within “place”? What does it mean to lose that connection? Since 2001, 3rd Law Dance/Theater has been creating original productions featuring modern and contemporary dance. The award-wining dance company has created more than 20 shows in its time. Each addresses a wide variety of social and philosophical issues. Using the powerful medium of organic movement, the dance performances are designed to move the audience to think outside of their own beliefs. This evening of expressive dance promises to be an enthralling experience for audience members. —Sarah Farley
Daybreaker BLDR: Furries & Onesies Early morning dance party. 5:55 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.
CARATROM 8PM THE JAKE LEVENTHAL QUARTET 9PM
The Highway Finds Tour featuring High Valley, Adam Doleac. 8 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.
Greyhounds. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Harmony and Brad. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. The Heartstring Hunters. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.
The Wooden Spoons. 6 p.m. Chuburger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont. Events 3rd Law Dance/Theater Presents Lost In Place. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Argentine Tango GroundSchool Classes. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Barley-Har-Har Comedy Open Mic Night. 9 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. ComedySportz. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Educate the Children of Nepal. 4 p.m. Boulder ChopHouse and Tavern, 921 Walnut St., Boulder. Fate of The Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. First Friday Film Night. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Friday Night Bazaar — Holiday Edition. 4 p.m. Denver Rock Drill, 1717 E. 39th Ave., Denver. Hit and Run: Musical Improv. 9 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Holiday Ceramics Sale. 4 p.m. prAna, 1147 Pearl St., Boulder. Holiday Mountain Market. 10 a.m. Nederland Community Center, 200 Colorado 72, Nederland. Kyle Kinane. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. see EVENTS Page 34
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Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8, 2018. Faculty Exhibition: 2017. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Dec. 23. Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October 2018. Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 14. Legacy — presented by Gallery 1261 and Denver Public Library. Denver Central Library, Level 7, Vida Ellison Gallery, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Dec. 31.
Spiritual Dimensions is a group exhibition focused on diverse Latin American cultures and traditions, centered around aspects of spirituality and belief. Works examine topics such as Shaman practices in the Guatemalan highlands, Día de los Muertos celebrations, ghost lights or orbs, and more. See the exhibit at the Dairy Arts Center through Dec. 3.
Revealing A Mexican Masterpiece: The Virgin of Valvanera. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feburary 2018. Lined Out — Ted Larsen. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Jan. 21.
Sinner in Gingham. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.. Through Jan. 21.
Neo-Cubism: A New Perspective — by Roger Reutimann & William Stoehr. Dairy Arts Center, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Dec. 3.
Spiritual Dimensions. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, MacMillan Family Lobby, and Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Dec. 3.
Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28, 2018.
Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through February 2018.
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Monkey Business: The Adventures of Curious George’s Creators. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder.
Who Killed Santa? 8 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver.
NoBo Art District First Friday Artwalk. 7 p.m. Mandala Infusion, 4479 Broadway, Boulder.
Working Together: An Improvised Sitcom. 10 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.
On The Spot: Improv in the Style of Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.
Saturday, December 2
Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. The Simba Claus: King of the Jingle — A Holiday Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.
Music Alex Lahey. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. All Beethoven Conducted by Brett Mitchell. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.
Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder. Brass Under Glass. 1 p.m. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1400 Curtis St., Denver. Christmas with the Children’s Chorale. 1 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. The Colorado Choir: Sing We Now of Christmas. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Colorado Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver. The Complete Unknowns. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.
Bhakti Shakti Kirtan. 7 p.m. Full Circle Yoga, 519 Main St., Longmont. Bonnie and the Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues
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Thursday, November 30 The Loyalist Team. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Catch a night of performances celebrating LGBTQ talent and creativity at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore on Wednesday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m.
Norse Poetry Night. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Monday, December 4 The Nobel Lecture Series Fall 2017 December Lecture. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Tuesday, December 5
7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Dominique Christina. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Wednesday, December 6
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Jayson Gaddis — The Smart Couple Quote Book.
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Deb Perelman — Smitten Kitchen Everyday. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Under Pressure: Performances of Pride. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
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DeadPhish Orchestra — with Peak2Peak. 7:30 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.
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Denver Gay Men’s Chorus “Do You Hear What I Hear?” Holiday Concert. 7:30 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.
Annie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Feb. 24.
Body Of An American. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through Dec. 9.
Evan Cantor and Steve Ellis. 1 p.m. Nederland Community Center, 200 Colorado 72, Nederland.
Beau Jest — presented by Cherry Creek Theatre Company. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through Dec. 10.
A Christmas Carol. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Dec. 23.
Full Moon Crystal Bowl Sound Bath. 7 p.m. Rocky Mountain Miracle Center, 1939 S. Monroe St., Denver.
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Eurydice — presented by CU Performing Arts. University of Colorado Boulder Theatre, 261 UCB, Boulder. Begins Dec. 6. Through Dec. 10.
Girls on Top. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Arvada Center Main Stage Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 23.
Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder.
The Marriage of Bette and Boo. University of Colorado Boulder Theatre, 261 UCB, Boulder. Begins Nov. 29. Through Dec. 3.
Hoppy Holidays 2017: Yonder Mountain String Band and Kyle Hollingsworth Band. 5:30 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver. The Hustle Kings. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. THURSDAY NOVEMBER 30 7:00 PM
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LASER FLOYD: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON SATURDAY DECEMBER 2 1:00 PM
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Invisible Audience Presents: Bella Betts & Friends. 7 p.m. Center for Musical Arts, 200 E. Baseline Road, Lafayette. The Jet Set. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. KISSm & Denver Dream Police. 7 p.m. The Dickens Opera House and Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont. Paper Moonshine. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder. My Body Sings Electric: 10 Year Anniversary Show. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Nick Colionne. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. The Nutcracker. 1 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Organ Tour. 9:30 a.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver.
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Outsiders: Song Cycles from the FringeWash Park. 2 p.m. Wash Park Center for Music & Arts, 400 S. Williams St., Denver.
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Papa Juke. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland.
FISKEDM: PORTER ROBINSON & ODESZA LASER: ZEPPELIN SUNDAY DECEMBER 3 12:00 PM
DOUBLE FEATURE: WE ARE STARS / PERSEUS & ANDROMEDA 1:30 PM
SEASON OF LIGHT 3:00 PM
SUPERVOLCANOES 4:30 PM
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Peace on Earth. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver. Pop Night. 10 p.m. The Pop-Up, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder. Vista Kicks. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Whitechapel — with Carnifex, Rings Of Saturn, Entheos. 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. The Wood Brothers. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Xxyyxx — The Fall Tour. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.
DISASTER! — presented by Equinox Theatre Company. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through Dec. 2.
Red. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through Jan. 7. CU Performing Arts delivers a poetic rendition of the classic Greek myth Eurydice, in which Orpheus’ bride is the protagonist. In her journey to the Underworld, Eurydice reunites with the father she loves and struggles to remember the soulmate she left on Earth. Playing at CU Boulder’s Loft Theatre from Dec. 6-10.
Beauty and the Beast. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. 747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through Feb. 14.
Events 3MCS Stand-Up, Sketch, and Live Comedy. 9 p.m. Blackbird Pub, 305 S. Downing St., Denver. 3rd Law Dance/Theater Presents Lost In Place. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 8th Annual 1940s White Christmas Ball. 5 p.m. Hyatt Regency Downtown Denver Convention Center, 650 15th St., Denver. 11th Annual Winter Market. 9 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. AAUW Holiday and Fundraiser Celebration. 2 p.m. View of the World Gallery, 1930 Central Ave., Suite A, Boulder. Alternative Gift Market. 10 a.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. The Big Fat Dirty Game Show. 7 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver. Christmas Market. 11 a.m. St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church, 3300 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder. Colorado School of Clinical Annual Herbalism Holiday Faire. 10 a.m. Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, 2900 Valmont Road, Suite F-1, Boulder. ComedySportz. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.
Resolutions. The Edge Theater Company, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Begins Dec. 1. Through Dec. 31. The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Center Theatre Company, 950 13th St., Denver. Through Dec. 24 Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 14, 2018. A Year with Frog and Toad. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 19.
The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. 6 p.m. Embassy Suites by Hilton Denver Downtown Convention Center, 1420 Stout St., Denver. Fab Feb Comedy Kickoff! 8 p.m. Jakes Sports & Spirits, 3800 Walnut St., Denver. Friday Night Bazaar: Holiday Edition. 4 p.m. Denver Rock Drill, 1717 E. 39th Ave., Denver. Gunbarrel Pop-Up Comic Con. 11 a.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Co., 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder. Holiday Artisan Market 2017. 9 a.m. Scheitler Recreation Center, 5031 W. 46th Ave., Denver. Holiday Ceramics Sale. 10 a.m. prAna, 1147 Pearl St., Boulder. Holiday Craft Faire. 9 a.m. United Methodist Church, 741 Jefferson Ave., Louisville. Holiday Mountain Market. 10 a.m. Nederland Community Center, 200 Colorado Highway 72, Nederland. Kyle Kinane. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. Lott Of Laughs Drag Show. 8 p.m. Mile High Hamburger Mary’s, 1336 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Making Spirits Bright: A Cocktail Tasting. 6 p.m. EXDO Event Center, 1399 35th St., Denver. The Nutcracker Ballet. 4 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont. Boulder Weekly
events Playback Theatre West. 8 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Santa’s Big Red Sack. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 6 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. The Simba Claus: King of the Jingle: A Holiday Sketch Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Tiny House Tour: Wee Winter Fest. 11 a.m. WeeCasa Tiny House Resort, 501 W. Main St., Lyons. Who Killed Santa? 7 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver.
Colorado School of Clinical Annual Herbalism Holiday Faire. 10 a.m. Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism, 2900 Valmont Road, Suite F-1, Boulder.
The Nutcracker Ballet. 2 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont. The Nutcracker. 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver. Santa’s Big Red Sack. 4 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver. Scrooge: Bah Humbug! 12:30 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont.
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2017 World AIDS Day Concert. 2 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder.
Bluegrass Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. King Center Recital Hall, 855 Lawrence Way, Denver.
Boulder Children’s Chorale: Songs of the Season. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder. Children’s Christmas Program. 10 a.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont. CO Blues Society Members Choice Awards — with Mojomama and Jack Hadley. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. The Dear Landlords. 3 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Derek Luh, Sammy Wilk. 5 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver. Eythl and the Regualators. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons. Glad Tidings! 3 p.m. LifeBridge Christian Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont. Grizzly Bear. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Longmont All Stars: “Merry Christmas Baby.” 5 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Taylor Shae. 4 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 350 Terry St., Suite 130, Longmont. Ukulele Jam. 2 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Events 3rd Law Dance/Theater Presents Lost In Place. 4 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 11th Annual Winter Market. 9 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont. Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder. Boulder Weekly
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Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.
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Delta Sonics. 12 a.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Friday Night Bazaar: Holiday Edition. 4 p.m. Denver Rock Drill, 1717 E. 39th Ave., Denver. Julien Baker — with Half Waif, Adam Torres at Fox Theatre. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Open Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont. Open Mic — with Jam and Jiggatones! 6:30 p.m. KCP Art Bar, 364 Main St., Longmont. The Strange Parade & Nibumbu. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Events Black & Blu: Comedy/Variety Show. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver. Holiday Roast. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver. The Improv Hootenanny. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder. Movie Night: Star Wars VI — Return of the Jedi. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway Suite 65, Boulder. Video Production Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder. Tuesday, December 5 Music Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 142 Pratt St., Longmont. Francis And The Wolf At The Lounge. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Friday Night Bazaar: Holiday Edition. 4 p.m. Denver Rock Drill, 1717 E. 39th Ave., Denver. Kurt Elling. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. see EVENTS Page 38
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6:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, Sandstone Park, Lyons. The Town of Lyons will be hosting its 43rd annual Holiday Parade of Lights to ring in the holiday season. The tradition brightens the long winter nights by lighting up the streets with colorful floats, which will be displaying this year’s theme of “Peace on Earth.” The parade will run down Main Street, Highway 7 and Third Avenue. Following the parade, head to the Raul Vasquez Community Stage at Sandstone Park to enjoy live music and singing from the Lyons High School and Elementary School show choirs. The fireworks show begins around 7:40 p.m. followed by the results for the most exceptional parade participants. The festivities also include a two-day “Holiday Bazaar” on Dec. 2 and 3 during daylight hours. More than 60 artisans will have their handmade crafts for sale. It’s the perfect place to grab quality, unique holiday gifts. Holiday cheer will not be hard to find here. More information on the parade route, parking and traffic information can be found on The City of Lyons’ website. —Sarah Farley
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Mitchell Evan and the Mangrove. 12 a.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Nutcracker Suite by Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn presented by CU’s Thompson Jazz Ensemble. 7 p.m. Dazzle jazz, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Overcoats. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver. Signor Benedick The Moor & Randal Bravery with CURTA, The Milk Blossoms. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver. Supersuckers. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver. Tuesday Tapping and Live Music at Upslope. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 South Flatiron Court, Boulder. Events Broadway Cabaret Dance. 4 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder. Geeks Who Drink Live Trivia. 9 p.m. The Intrepid Sojourner Beer Project, 925 W. Eighth Ave., Denver.
1800 Pike Road, Longmont. Dairy Arts Center Soundscape Series Presents: World Beat. 2 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. David Coile & Jason Allen. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont. Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Suite C, Longmont. Face Vocal Band Holiday Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. Houston Person. 8:30 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver. Kurt Elling. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Rabblefish. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. Events 9th Annual PeaceJam Celebration. 5:30 p.m. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver.
Kids Yoga. 4:15 a.m. Strength in Motion, 5277 Manhattan Circle, Suite 250, Boulder.
Business After Hours/Bolder Young Pros Happy Hour. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Chamber, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder.
Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder.
Joe Larson. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.
Questions in a World of Blue: An Improvised Show Based on the Works of David Lynch. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.
Mmmwhah’s Mmm: Music and Movement Meditation. 7 p.m. Alive Studio, 4593 Broadway, Boulder.
Spicy Lounge Music and Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder. Video Production Certificate Program. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder.
Mmmwhah’s NoBo Art District Mixer & Pop-up Gallery. 5:30 p.m. Alive Studio, 4593 Broadway, Boulder. Tap Dance Lessons. 7:15 p.m. Viriditas Studio, 4939 N. Broadway, Suite 65, Boulder. Trivia in Longmont — with Quizmaster Entertainment. 7 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.
Wednesday, December 6 Music Arthur Leeland. 12 a.m. The Tasty Weasel, Boulder Weekly
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dragon Smoke Feat robert mercurio & Stanton moore (galactic), ivan neville (dumPStaPhunk) & eric lindell w/ green iS beautiFul – tribute to blue note guitariSt grant green Feat eddie robertS (new maSterSoundS) & alan evanS (Soulive)
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Thanks for stoplights, to notice pink waves of dawn, reflected from sandstone foothills, that drift across my windshield Thanks for hold buttons, for forced moments to focus on my heartbeat Thanks for long lines, for the squares of pattern marching across the grocery store floor Thanks for diminishing green digits on microwave clocks, for the awareness of specific seconds passing
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JameS brown dance Party Feat memberS oF JameS brown’S band, big gigantic, the daP kingS, talib kweli, John legend, lauryn hill, odeSza, Pretty lightS, bootSy collinS, Snarky PuPPy & denver’S michael JackSon all StarS
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Thanks for insomnia and the dark hollow of my house, the soft gift of three children calmly breathing
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the Funk hunterS Saturday march 10
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Director Taika Waititi takes control over Thor (Chris Hemsworth) to gleefully strange effect. Jammed with far more comedy, insane visuals and Jeff Goldblum performing peak Goldbluming, this is the most entertaining film of the year so far.
hether or not we’ve reached the zenith of comic book movies, we have officially achieved “peak Goldblum.” Dressed as the coolest dad at the rave, Jeffy G’s deliriously goofy — presumably autobiographical — turn as the Grandmaster is but one small, perfect facet of a full-blown fantasy fandango that comprises the most entertaining film of 2017 (thus far). Director Taika Waititi has brought to life a sword-n-sorcery scene airbrushed on the side of a creeper’s van and infused it with rich characters, copious laughter and Cate Blanchett assuming her expected final form as Queen God of the Universe. It is such stuff as (very specific) dreams are made of.
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Severed from the rest of the film, the first 10 minutes would still be the best Thor movie ever, but Ragnarok keeps spewing glee. Like everyone alive in 2017, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has been having dreams about the end of the world. His have less to do with a megalomaniacal presidential pumpkin and more to do with Hela (Blanchett), the secret daughter of Odin (Anthony Hopkins). Adorned with a demonic antler rack that would make Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal outfits look quaint, Hela aims to use an undead Asgardian army to dominate all reality. Hela thwacks Thor and Loki (Tom Hiddleston) onto another planet, Sakaar, a place where the Grandmaster (Goldblum) forces gladiatorial combat to kill time between orgies. While Heimdall (Idris Elba) tries to protect the innocents on Asgard from Hela, Thor joins forces with Loki and other ragtag misfits on Sakaar — including the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) and Korg (Waititi) — in order to escape the planet via “The Devil’s Anus.” Side note: This is the most fun that can ever be had synopsizing a film. The most surprising thing about Ragnarok is not the relentless humor but how Waititi’s small-film sensibilities blissfully translated to a swagger-laden sci-fi spectacle. Not to demystify his process, but the magic seems to simply come from encouraging actors to explore the full range of their characters while constantly embracing everyone’s suggestions that start, “Wouldn’t it be cool if... ?” As he did with What We Do in the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Waititi again demonstrates a singular ability to empower his cast, composing a creative collective that transcends the sum of the parts. While the visuals are full of the expected show-stopping extravagance that only Disney money can buy, the score finally seizes the long-empty throne atop Marvel movie music. It is tonal perfection that Mark Mothersbaugh, who rose to fame with Devo, chose to siphon ’80s synth silliness for these shenanigans; the score is the spiritual yin to the smooth, spooky yang of the Stranger Things score. Stuffy critics and purists can fingerwag and poo-poo all of this as mainstream nonsense, but in doing so they miss the palpable euphoria that comes from such a deliberately joyous demonstration of cinema’s capacity for play. Dismissing this is like shaming roller coaster enthusiasts; when it comes to Ragnarok, just throw your hands up, yell “Whee!” and get back in line to do it again. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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utside Sweden’s X-Royal museum of modern and contemporary art, a ON THE BILL: The worker replaces the bricks in the Square. 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6-9, Muenzinger cobblestone courtyard just so and Auditorium, 1905 lies down a luminous string of Colorado Ave., University lights in the shape of a perfectly constructed square. of Colorado Boulder. internationalfilmseries. This is the museum’s latest exhibit, one envisioned com by Argentinian artist and sociologist, Lola Arias: “The Square is a sanctuary of trust and caring. Within it, we all share equal rights and obligations.” It’s a fine sentiment, one supposed to encourage compassion and humanity but, much like everything else in 2017, what begins as benign quickly becomes divisive and polarizing. Particularly when X-Royal’s curator, Christian (Claes Bang), realizes The Square itself isn’t enough to push the envelope and enlists an ad agency, one run by out-of-touch millennials who are more interested in clicks than understanding the work they promote. And when their viral campaign shows a homeless blond girl being blown-up, everything goes haywire. But The Square isn’t Christian’s only problem: he’s sleeping with a journalist without bothering to remember her name (played quite well by Elisabeth Moss), trying to extract some kind of vigilante justice in an indifferent world and raise two daughters in a world run by shmucks like him. The Square is He’s stuck in an M.C. Escher painting of his own yet another 2017 film crafted by creation and desperately wants out. a middle-aged But Christian’s observations are not his own, they are white man questioning the world the product of Ruben Östlund, The Square’s writer and he helped create. director. There is an apocalyptic sense to Östlund’s observations, one that fixates on the disparity of wealth, the constant presence of isolating technology and the often-confusing world of artistic expression — with the movie’s square standing in for the frame of the movie screen. Östlund is not alone in these observations. Curiously enough, The Square’s head-scratching befuddlement with the modern world shares space with a handful of other films released this year, namely those made by middle-aged white men: mother! from Darren Aronofsky (age 48), Downsizing from Alexander Payne (age 56) and even parts of Justice League from Zack Snyder (age 51). All four movies revolve around technology, yet are terrified by it; are concerned that the world is run by madmen, yet do nothing to change it; and eschew financial wealth, yet require it to bring their visions to fruition. There are other points of connection — an infatuation with homelessness is the most curious — and all four contain plenty of ambition, not to mention some repugnant solutions. But what is most evident is that they are crafted by middleaged men who no longer seem to understand the world they helped build and shape. In this regard, we could easily dismiss them as mid-life crisis movies, but maybe we can’t, or shouldn’t. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, The Square took home the top prize, an award that can be read as validation but can also signify relevance. And few films encapsulate 2017 quite like The Square. Boulder Weekly
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orth Boulder’s Mandala Infusion does a lot of things right. Its happy hour, with $3 momo platters and cheap, local beer is one thing to like, as is their cozy and warm dining room. We, though, would like to highlight the soups, namely the bone broth thukpa. The classic Tibetan noodle soup is put on a pedestal here, and it all starts with the house-made bone broth. It’s not too salty, and not too thick, but has a deep savory flavor that carries the whole dish. Mixed in are grilled red onions (a preparation more places should do), zucchini that comes off as sweet, punchy daikon radish, and bell peppers as ripe as strawberries. All that would be enough, but then the lily is gilded with two honking slabs of pork belly. They have a little crisp on the outside, but fall apart in the soup, and the fat row on the pork belly is heaven. If, for whatever reason, pork belly isn’t your thing, you can choose to mix in tofu, chicken, sirloin steak or salmon instead. $18.
t’s hard to pick just one thing at Boulder and Longmont’s Panaderia Sabor a Mexico. That’s why they give you a tray and some tongs and let you go to town. Classic Mexican cookies, pastries, breads, doughnuts and more fill bakery trays, and our favorite are the orejas. Named for their striking resemblance to ears, they’re about as big an elephant’s but our guess is they taste a little sweeter. Puff pastry dough is rolled with sugar and then baked until crispy. What you get is a hard-shelled wafer that’s light and airy once you take a bite. Think of a sweet croissant turned into a cookie. The outside is sticky sweet and the inside provides a delicate crunch. $1.
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t used to be the case that eating at airports posed a moral quandary: You know you’re going to be charged an arm and a leg to eat subpar food because you have to, so do you lower your expectations and be happy, or do you grumpily muddle through a cold chicken cordon bleu? Luckily, airport food has gotten much better, and DIA is leading the charge. But if you’re still pessimistic about airport food, then Aviator’s is going to blow your mind. Take, for instance, its sunrise burger, which goes above and beyond expectations. A hearty piece of Texas toast is topped with a fat beef patty, cheddar cheese, a fried egg, green chili, avocado and pico de gallo. It’s a pleasant mess. The egg and chili make sure that each bite is rich, tangy and savory, and the charred beef patty and Texas toast sop it all up. It’s a bit of an aggressive preflight choice, but you know what they say: go big or go home. At the airport, those are literally your options. $15.
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“I was living in California working for a wine company and driving for Uber when Juan called. He was making Green Belly Hot Sauce at home and everybody loved it. He wanted to know how to turn it into a meaningful business,” Charlie says. He moved back to Boulder and initially the duo made the sauces between midnight and 6 a.m. in the kitchen of Illegal Pete’s. They make, bottle and label the sauces, and sell them online and at farmers’ markets by sampling them with corn chips and their scratch-made super-smooth black bean dip. That said, I was still a little terrified to taste the sauces cooked up by these millennial entrepreneurs. I initially just pressed a finger to the Green Belly Hot Sauce bottle taking the tiniest possible sample to taste. What a relief. Instead of a beast, a one-note blast of heat or the typical Tabasco-type taste, this sauce has an appealing herbal taste that comes from large amounts of puréed organic cilantro and garlic. The sauce has some tartness from apple cider vinegar with a pleasant mouthfeel from extra virgin olive oil. Yes, there’s some heat but it’s not hurtful despite the addition of puréed habanero chilies grown in part by Charlie’s dad, Carl, at his home and more than 600
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Stem Ciders’ new 200-seat Acreage restaurant is set to open in January at 1380 Horizon Ave. in Lafayette, overseen by Boulder chefs Daniel Asher of River and Woods and Kelly Whitaker of Basta. The facility includes a 5,000-square-foot cidery and an apple orchard. ... Louisville-based Door to Door Organics has ceased delivering organic and natural produce and groceries. The pioneering 20-year-old company was known for supporting local farmers, strong environmental responsibility and fighting hunger by donating to food banks, including about 600,000 pounds of organic and natural food in 2017. ... It’s always good news when a new pie place opens nearby. Ginger and Baker is open in a
pie wedge-shaped renovated grain mill at 359 Linden St. in Fort Collins that includes a market, bakery, coffee bar and teaching kitchen. ... Instead of gathering at the Village Coffee Shop, old friends can now meet for intravenous fluids at Onus iV, opening at 1827 Pearl, above Cured and Boxcar Coffee. The menu ranges from a simply seasoned hydrating saline drip to the specialty John Myers’ Cocktail, a zesty blend of B vitamins, vitamin C, calcium and magnesium. ... The Museum of Boulder is hosting a conversation Dec. 6 at 2000 21st St. in Boulder with the extraordinary Gerry Leary, owner of The Unseen Bean Cafe. Blind from birth, Leary was a car mechanic for decades before learning to roast coffee by the aroma and sound of roasting beans. museumofboulder.org. ... Plan ahead: After a successful inaugural event this summer, Slow Food Nations returns to Denver July 13-15, 2018.
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Take a karak break during the holiday hubbub to visit Amira Sweets, tucked away in a South Denver strip mall just off I-25 at 4101 E. Evans Ave. The comfortable new coffee shop specializes in authentic Middle Eastern sweets including a roster of baklavas made with thin, buttery filo sheets and flavored honey in cashew, walnut and pistachio variations. The star is kanafe, a pastry with a creamy sweet layer topped loosely with toasted ultra-thin vermicelli noodles glazed with honey. They go nicely with a chai-like karak tea infused with cardamom and cinnamon. The shop is a few doors down from Amira Grill, a Lebanese eatery known for fresh, hot and pillow-y pita.
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matta Phairatphiboon is explaining what makes Thai food exceptional. The truth is, the steaming bowl of bua loy in front of her says enough on its own. There’s just nothing like it. Purple, orange and white balls float in a bowl of hot coconut milk. The balls are made of steamed purple yam, pumpkin and taro, which are rolled in tapioca and rice flour and boiled. Their colors are vibrant, and so is the taste — salty sweet with myriad flavors that keep you guessing after the bowl is empty. The rice balls are chewy like braised grapes or marinated Quaker oat squares. “It is a very sophisticated piece of work when you really do Thai food correctly,” says Phairatphiboon, who owns Louisville’s Busaba with her family. “It has a level of sophistication that you can taste and see. That’s a strong point that made our cuisine worldwide famous.” Phairatphiboon would know. She grew up in Bangkok in a family that coalesced around food. Thai-centric Michelin-style restaurant guides charted the course for many road trips, and Phairatphiboon’s family would also leave the country, to Hong Kong for instance, just to eat. Conversation would often include trying to figure out what was in each dish. “We always discussed that during the meal, ‘What’s in the sauce?’... It’s a funny conversation we had over and over,” Phairatphiboon says. That appetite for food exploration is ubiquitous amongst Thais, Phairatphiboon says. And the average American pad-thai-eater might not realize there are Boulder Weekly
evolve unbothered for 800 years. “Back then, we were very wealthy because we [did] a lot of trades to China and European countries, so they [had] a lot of money plus time,” Phairatphiboon says, adding that dishes like curry, which took up to 20 people and hard work before technology made it easier, could only be perfected in such ideal situations. “And I feel like because we didn’t have our world war back then, they had time to create something spectacular that would carry on to the next generation, and to me, that’s food.” In part because of its cuisine’s worldwide popularity, Thailand has become a favorite destination for ex-pats. So you could make the argument that although Thailand evaded formal Western colonization, its more recent inundation by five distinct cuisine regions in the country: Americans, Europeans and Japanese Above, Phairatcentral, which is what you’ll typically find may yet have a significant impact on the phiboon prepares in American Thai restaurants; northern, culture and cuisine that Thailand has a dish in her kitchen at Busaba. which builds around sticky rice and vegespent centuries perfecting and preservtables; northeastern, which is Laosing. inspired dishes like larb, fried papaya salad “Thai people generally look very nice and crying tiger; eastern, which is coastal from the outside, but they are strong on fare; and southern, which also features seathe inside,” Phairatphiboon retorts. “So, food but has a spice level too high for the tastes of ‘Hey, if you cross my line, I’m going to be a different much of the rest of the country (and the world). person.’ They learn to protect themselves.” But it isn’t just diversity of flavor that makes But as strong an advocate for Thailand as Thai food exceptional, Phairatphiboon says. Phairatphiboon is, she notes that since coming to the Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country to U.S. almost two decades ago, she’s found parts of avoid Western colonization, and so without those Western culture have changed her personality for the forces, and the subsequent violence that ensued in see BUSABA Page 50 surrounding countries, Thai cuisine has been able to November 30 , 2017 49
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better. Growing up, she was always the head of the class, outspoken and well-respected by her peers. “But when I came here, I was pretty quiet and almost shy compared to Americans in the way they act and speak about themselves and whatnot,” she says. “Along the way I picked that up and have been able to say more than I used to. I still use that brain a lot, like what should I say and not, still filtering, but I’ve been able to express more than I used to. “I feel like I have a good mix. ... it’s not good to be shy like some Thai girls, and it’s not good to be aggressive like some Americans.” Phairatphiboon is inclined to say what makes Thai cuisine exceptional is its complexity — that it takes someone like her mom with a special palate to apportion ingredients; that it takes centuries-old processes to create perfect dishes; and that with proper care, flavor begets more flavor and the experience of eating a well-made Thai dish is like having a spirograph on your tongue. But what makes complexity work is balance; you can have a fresh, rare Holy Basil leaf perfectly macerated and blended into curry, but out of balance, the effort is lost. And balance is a quality consistent in Phairatphiboon’s life. She earned a degree in architecture while still in Thailand. When her family was given a window to accept green cards to the U.S., they took the opportunity. Her father, a builder who, notably, created Bangkok’s first convention center, worked in restaurants in the U.S. and sold buildings over the years back in Thailand to help pay bills after their move. Phairatphiboon, meanwhile, enrolled in a master’s program in Lausanne, Switzerland, and she soon found herself working on international, luxury hotel design projects. But when the restaurant at which her parents were working went bankrupt, the family decided to open up their own place. Phairatphiboon’s father sold the remainder of his buildings, and the family purchased the shop in Louisville that would become Busaba. Phairatphiboon flew back and forth to help design the space, which is remarkable for its balance of light and wood, of comfort and energy. Soon, though, Busaba required more work than just
Phairatphiboon’s parents and siblings could take on. “I was about to sign a contract in Hong Kong, which was going to be two [years long], so I decided, hey, if my family needs help and if this restaurant is going to grow, we want to make it right. So I ended my career and came back,” she says. Phairatphiboon, for the record, says she can re-enter what is a very niche field of hotel design when the time is appropriate. But her life changed when she came to work in the restaurant. “It was very tough,” she says. “When you work in the huge company [I did], you’re going for international meetings in London and New York. It’s pretty glamorous. And then you come back and you’re washing dishes and picking plates and taking orders. A lot of people say when you’re in the restaurant industry people look down on you and think of you as no one, so it’s a huge adjustment.” But amid all this change, Phairatphiboon and her family have been able to rely on food as a source of stability and love. They learned on the go about how to make their home recipes work on a restaurant scale, and how to serve American customers — “I don’t really know who started that thing like you can make [dishes] mild, medium, hot, Thai hot; I’m like, who does that?” Phairatphiboon says. And regardless of the long, winding road that got them here, Phairatphiboon says the family is happy to share their deep-seated love and unique knowledge of food with the community. “Luckily I find joy in everything I do,” Phairatphiboon says, “because whatever I do I try to make the best out of it.” Boulder Weekly
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t began in late October when former NBA off by the league’s wild antics. But, save for rookies, Commissioner David Stern said in an interview drug testing wasn’t mandatory, and punishments were that he is “convinced that cannabis does have typically only dealt when players ran into trouble with medicinal qualities and should be taken off the the law; i.e., when their private lives became public. league’s list of banned substances.” During these years the NBA’s drug policy mim“I’m now at the point where, personally, I think it icked federal prohibition and so there was little room probably should be removed from the banned list. I for argument against its rules, sympathetic as they think we have to change the Collective Bargaining were with the law. But times are changing and Stern Agreement and let [playrecognized it on two levpixabay.com ers] do what’s legal in els, conceding not only [their respective] states. the medical efficacy of You’ve persuaded me,” marijuana, but the right Stern told former NBA of the players to engage player and Denver in the freedoms they are Nugget Al Harrington on legally afforded, state-bythe now infamous joint state. That Stern was interview on willing to talk about both Uninterrupted. is significant. The change of heart Albeit subtle, there is was a bit of a shock for a difference between a narrow consideration of anyone familiar with marijuana’s medical effiStern, who implemented cacy and a broader ethical strict drug rules during one. To relegate it to pain his tenure as commissionreduction admits the er. Back in his days (from The question isn’t just if professional athletes should be able to use marijuana for their pain, but if they should be drugs’ merits within an 1984 to 2014), marijuana allowed to use it in a state in which it is legally available without fear of punishment. existing moral framework, was commonly considone that is legally ered a dangerous gateway imposed upon players like it is on the rest of us; one drug and, even for the most progressive sports league in the country, its rumored widespread use was consid- that says marijuana is bad unless you use it if and ered a deterrent to public perception of the sport. when we say so. The fears were born in the “lost years” of the NBA, But that sort of dictatorial management of players from about 1978 to 1980, when the league was still as assets is not in vogue in the NBA and even when it congealing from the merger of the ABA into the NBA was, in the heart of Stern’s tenure, it wasn’t the reason in 1976. The players were hungry for contracts and fans came back to basketball. money and so sacrificed team play for spectacle of Sure, after implementing the anti-drug agreement their individual athleticism. On the court, players were viewership numbers increased steadily to reach all-time gruff, their antics unpolished. Off the court, there were highs in the late 1990s. But there were a lot of factors reports of widespread cocaine use. Public support of at play, like an improvement in the quality of the the league was at an all-time low. league’s television broadcasts (hard to watch a game So in 1983, Stern implemented an anti-drug agree- when the basketball is indiscernible from the court) ment as part of an effort to win back audiences turned and an overall increase in the number of games aired.
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And now, with the same ’80s drug policies in place, the league’s viewership numbers are back in decline, not far above where they were during those fabled “lost years.” So what brought the league back wasn’t a polished game or the league’s conservative reign over its players, it was the sport finding a balance between team play and the freedom of its players to be great, spectacular even. It was guys like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson playing linchpin roles that brought their teams titles, but also the epic three-point runs and slam dunks that bring fans to their feet. That kind of team-endorsed freedom became a trademark of the NBA, but these days it extends beyond the court. NBA players enjoy an off-the-court independence atypical of professional athletes — follow any player on social media and you’re guaranteed back-door access to locker rooms and living rooms alike. Once upon a time you could see a guy like Magic slam dunk and believe he was a real live superhero. But these days you see Lebron James slam dunk and then see him go ice his ankle after the game. Which is to say that the time of godliness in sports might be coming to an end. These are not superheroes who live above pain, or above pot for that matter. The question isn’t just if professional athletes should be able to use marijuana for their pain, but if they should be allowed to use it in a state in which it is legally available to them without fear of punishment from the league. Should NBA players have the same rights as you and me? Stern’s change of heart on marijuana is progressive in the world of professional sports. (By contrast, the NFL is currently — seemingly begrudgingly — developing a way to study the medical potentials of marijuana for its players, as a way to placate the players’ union, which has urged the league to remove marijuana from the banned substances list.) But it is a rather cold take in the culture of the NBA where many players, including Harrington, have offered anecdotal estimates that around 70 percent are regular users.
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by Paul Danish
How to rid Boulder of the ghastly smell of pot
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he headlines thundered across the front page of the Daily Camera like a North Korean ballistic missile, exploding on thousands of Boulder lawns with a sickening thud: “Pot odor conSusan France tinues to seep,” screamed the banner. “Residents complain of grow centers’ persistent smelling,” howled the subhead. “Marijuana: Menace or Threat!,” it added brightly. OK, I made up the last one for effect, but the first two are real, (if a bit over-wrought). The story under the headlines reported that a couple of Boulder medical marijuana dispensaries, Boulder Botanics and the Dandelion, have grows located in an old building at 4727 Broadway. The Boulder Botanics grow was recently fined $2,000 by the city for “failure to remedy odor violations.” The same thing happened to the Dandelion’s grow last September. After the City of Boulder received a number of citizen complaints about the smell, it levied fines totaling $14,000 on the facility. At the time, City officials told the Camera that the building housing the
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two grows was old and lacked good air control. Fines or not, the smell of marijuana in full flower is still wafting through the up-scale neighborhood (is there any other kind in Boulder these days?)
directly west of the grows. According to Heidi Davis, who is described as an organizer of the olfactorily distraught neighbors, “the smell is now flooding the neighborhood again.” “It’s just a really skunky, sour odor that goes all over the neighborhood,” she said. I ran into a resident of the neighborhood last Monday, and she tells it differently. She lives at the end of the neighborhood closest to the grows, and says the smell is there alright, but
that it is intermittent and that she doesn’t find it particularly offensive. She also says she finds the noise from the building’s beater of a ventilation system more annoying than the odor. The Camera also said it’s not clear what the businesses have done or can do to stop the odors. Hogwash. The most obvious thing the grows could do to end the odor problem would be to move their growing operations out of their present, leaky building in Boulder and onto a farm in Boulder County well away from complaining neighbors, where growing could be conducted either 1) outdoors in a fenced area as allowed by state law, 2) in a pole barn or other agricultural building, or 3) in a greenhouse. Slam, bam, problem solved. Unfortunately, there’s a snag with this otherwise self-evident solution — three snags, actually. Their names are Elise Jones, Deb Gardner and Cindy Domenico, Boulder’s current County Commissioners. Shortly after voters in Boulder County voted for legalizing recre-
ational marijuana by a margin of 2-to-1, the Commissioners priggishly and insanely voted to ban marijuana production in Boulder County’s agricultural and forestry zoning districts. The ban covers both outdoor and indoor grows, as well as greenhouses, which are already banned if they have electricity or water systems. It also covers hemp. The upshot of this ban has been to force marijuana grows into warehouses and industrial buildings, most of which are in cities or built-up areas. And to create a shortage of warehouse and business space in the county. And to turn pot growing into a voracious consumer of fossil fuel-generated electricity and natural gas. And set up inevitable conflicts with neighbors. The Board of County Commissioners is the governing body in the County’s unincorporated areas. However, the Commissioners are elected by all the voters who live in the County, including voters who live in its cities. City voters usually pay little attention to what activities the Commissioners choose to allow or ban in the unincorporated areas, because it rarely affects them. But in the case of the County’s ban on marijuana grows, it does affect them — as evidenced by the ongoing odor issue in North Boulder. If the neighbors want to get government to “do something” about the smell, they should forget about complaining to the City of Boulder and start raising hell with Boulder County about its ban on growing marijuana on farms.
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ARIES
MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In alignment with the current astrological omens, I have prepared your horoscope using five hand-plucked aphorisms by Aries poet Charles Bernstein. 1. “You never know what invention will look like or else it wouldn’t be invention.” 2. “So much depends on what you are expecting.” 3. “What’s missing from the bird’s eye view is plain to see on the ground.” 4. “The questioning of the beautiful is always at least as important as the establishment of the beautiful.” 5. “Show me a man with two feet planted firmly on the ground and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants on.”
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: It may seem absurd for a dreamy oracle
like me to give economic advice to Tauruses, who are renowned as being among the zodiac’s top cash attractors. Is there anything I can reveal to you that you don’t already know? Well, maybe you’re not aware that the next four weeks will be prime time to revise and refine your long-term financial plans. It’s possible you haven’t guessed the time is right to plant seeds that will produce lucrative yields by 2019. And maybe you don’t realize that you can now lay the foundation for bringing more wealth
into your life by raising your generosity levels.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: I used
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situation in your own life, Gemini, now would be a perfect time to heed my tip. Give up your attachment to the negative emotions that arose in response to past frustrations and failures. Focus on the future.
to have a girlfriend whose mother hated Christmas. The poor woman had been Go to RealAstrology.com to check out raised in a fanatical fundaRob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO CANCER mentalist Christian sect, and HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE she drew profound solace JUNE 21-JULY 22: HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes and pleasure from rebelling So begins the “I Love To are also available by phone at against that religion’s main Worry” season for you 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. holiday. One of her annual Cancerians. Even now, traditions was to buy a small bewildering self-doubts are Christmas tree and hang it working their way up toward upside-down from the ceiling. She decorated it with ornamenyour conscious awareness from your unconscious depths. You tal dildos she had made out of clay. While I understood her may already be overreacting in anticipation of the anxiety-prodrive for revenge and appreciated the entertaining way she did voking fantasies that are coalescing. But wait! It doesn’t have to it, I felt pity for the enduring ferocity of her rage. Rather than be that way. I’m here to tell you that the bewildering self-doubts mocking the old ways, wouldn’t her energy have been much and anxiety-provoking fantasies are at most ten percent accurate. better spent inventing new ways? If there is any comparable They’re not even close to being half-true! Here’s my advice: Do
NOT go with the flow, because the flow will drag you down into ignominious habit. Resist all tendencies towards superstition, moodiness, and melodramatic descents into hell. One thing you can do to help accomplish this brave uprising is to sing beloved songs with maximum feeling.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: Your lucky numbers are 55 and 88. By
tapping into the uncanny powers of 55 and 88, you can escape the temptation of a hexed fiction and break the spell of a mediocre addiction. These catalytic codes could wake you up to a useful secret you’ve been blind to. They might help you catch the attention of familiar strangers or shrink one of your dangerous angers. When you call on 55 or 88 for inspiration, you may be motivated to seek a more dynamic accomplishment beyond your comfortable success. You could reactivate an important desire that has been dormant.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: What exactly is the epic, overarch-
ing goal that you live for? What is the higher purpose that lies beneath every one of your daily activities? What is the heroic identity you were born to create but have not yet fully embodied? You may not be close to knowing the answers to those questions right now, Virgo. In fact, I’m guessing your fear of meaninglessness might be at a peak. Luckily, a big bolt of meaningfulness is right around the corner. Be alert for it. In a metaphorical sense, it will arrive from the depths. It will strengthen your center of gravity as it reveals lucid answers to the questions I posed in the beginning of this horoscope.
LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: We all need teachers. We all need guides
and instructors and sources of inspiration from the day we’re born until the day we die. In a perfect world, each of us would always have a personal mentor who’d help us fill the gaps in our learning and keep us focused on the potentials that are crying out to be nurtured in us. But since most of us don’t have that personal mentor, we have to fend for ourselves. We’ve got to be proactive as we push on to the next educational frontier. The next four weeks will be an excellent time for you to do just that, Libra.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: This is your last warning! If you don’t
stop fending off the happiness and freedom that are trying to worm their way into your life, I’m going to lose my cool. Damn it! Why can’t you just accept good luck and sweet strokes of fate at face value?! Why do you have to be so suspicious and mistrustful?! Listen to me: The abundance that’s lurking in your vicinity is not the set-up for a cruel cosmic joke. It’s not some wicked game designed to raise your expectations and then dash them to pieces. Please, Scorpio, give in and let the good times wash over you.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: Journalist James A. Fussell defined
“thrashing” as “the act of tapping helter-skelter over a computer keyboard in an attempt to find ‘hidden’ keys that trigger previously undiscovered actions in a computer program.” I suggest we use this as a metaphor for your life in the next two weeks. Without becoming rude or irresponsible, thrash around to see what interesting surprises you can drum up. Play with various possibilities in a lighthearted effort to stimulate options you have not been able to discover through logic and reason.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Let’s observe a moment of silence for
the illusion that is in the process of disintegrating. It has been a pretty illusion, hasn’t it? Filled with hope and gusto, it has fueled you with motivation. But then again — on second thought — its prettiness was more the result of clever packaging than inner beauty. The hope was somewhat misleading, the gusto contained more than a little bluster, and the fuel was an inefficient source of motivation. Still, let’s observe a moment of silence anyway. Even dysfunctional mirages deserve to be mourned. Besides, its demise will fertilize a truer and healthier and prettier dream that will contain a far smaller portion of illusion.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Judging from the astrological omens, I
conclude that the upcoming weeks will be a favorable time for you to engage in experiments befitting a mad scientist. You can achieve interesting results as you commune with powerful forces that are usually beyond your ability to command. You could have fun and maybe also attract good luck as you dream and scheme to override the rules. What pleasures have you considered to be beyond your capacity to enjoy? It wouldn’t be crazy for you to flirt with them. You have license to be saucy, sassy, and extra sly.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
A snail can slowly crawl over the edge of a razor blade without hurting itself. A few highly trained experts, specialists in the art of mind over matter, are able to walk barefoot over beds of hot coals without getting burned. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Pisces, you now have the metaphorical equivalent of powers like these. To ensure they’ll operate at peak efficiency, you must believe in yourself more than you ever have before. Luckily, life is now conspiring to help you do just that.
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Dear Dan: I’m a straight man in a live-in relationship with a beautiful woman. There are no sparks in bed, and it’s been more than a year since we’ve had sex. She says, “I’m sorry, but I’m just not interested.” Sometimes she asks me if I’m disappointed, and I say something like “I miss sex.” And she says: “Maybe someday. But the important thing is we love each other, right?” Before my last birthday, she asked me what I wanted as a gift. I replied, “A soapy handjob.” That would’ve been the most action I’d had all year. But when my birthday rolled around, all I got was a speech about how she loved me but was not in love with me. My question: In the year 2017, how does a straight man make it clear to the woman he’s with that sex is important to him without coming across as threatening? If I told her I’d leave her unless our sex life improved—and I have certainly thought about this—she’d probably “put out” to save our relationship. She has abandonment issues, and I fear she would be devastated if I left her. I only want to have sex with someone who wants to have sex with me, not someone I’ve coerced. What do I do? I love her, but a sexless relationship isn’t what I want or signed up for. — Sexless Over A Perplexing Year
ble of being in a loving and fully sexual relationship), maybe it’s you (you never turned her on or you did something that murdered her libido) — but you’re not obligated to stay in an unsatisfactory relationship indefinitely because your girlfriend will be devastated if you leave. Also, devastation is a two-way street. If you dump her, SOAPY, her
devastation will be immediate, like the impact of an earthquake or a hurricane. But if you stay, you’ll be the one devastated — but your devastation will be gradual, taking years, like the erosion of coastline or the destruction of our democracy. The destruction of your self-esteem and sense of sexual selfworth could take a decade or more,
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Dear SOAPY: There’s being sensitive to coming across as threatening and wanting to avoid even unintentional coercion and being cognizant of the ways women are socialized to defer to men and the ways men are socialized to feel enti© Rachel Robinson tled to women’s bodies, SOAPY, and then there’s being a fucking doormat. She isn’t in love with you — she told you so herself—and she’s never gonna fuck you or soap you up to get you off. If you don’t want her putting out to keep you — if you don’t want her to fuck you under duress — then don’t give her the option. That means ending the relationship, SOAPY, not entering into negotiations about the terms for remaining in the relationship. (“1. Tell me you’re in love with me, even if it’s a lie. 2. A sad, soapy handjob once a year on my birthday...”) There’s nothing unreasonable about wanting a romantic relationship that’s both loving and fully sexual, SOAPY, and a man can put his wants on the table without pounding said table with his dick. Your girlfriend’s issue may be a mystery — maybe it’s her (she’s incapa-
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SOAPY, but it is already under way. She’s a lot likelier to get over the devastation she’ll feel if you leave — being dumped is a common experience that most people bounce back from — than you are to get over the devastation you’ll experience if you stay. Your gonads/self-respect/preservation instinct are in that apartment somewhere. Get ’em and go. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Google powerhouse Blaise Agüera y Arcas: savagelovecast.com. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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