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A saccharine Danish

In response to Paul Danish [“Dad’s insecticides and Proposition 105,” Danish Plan, Oct. 30], you once again contradict your own point of view. On one hand you point out the dangers of developing technologies (organochlorides), the limitations of assuring safety (0.1ppm test capability by the FDAlater to be deemed inadequate), the discovery of these organochlorides causing cancer and other diseases, and then you follow with how the Shell Corp. sup-

pressed findings on organochlorides that endangered farmers and consumers; then you say labeling GMO’s (prop 105) is intellectually dishonest, politically and morally evil? The Danish Plan rarely makes sense anymore. Gibberish. I don’t think GMOs are inherently dangerous, but it is important that a precedent is set on future uses. Jim Fricker/Boulder

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Thanks to Matt Cortina for revealing facts about the Colorado Union of Taxpayers (CUT) [Re: “Why a rating from one small group means more to some legislators than you do,” News, Oct. 23]. One statement is puzzling... “CUT receives funding mostly through private donations.” What does that mean? Do they receive some public (taxpayer) funding?

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Highroad State legislatures are helping rich lenders rip-off the poor by Jim Hightower

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oan sharks and their lobbyists really know how to put the “ick” in eth-icks. Though they’ve tried to buffup their public image by calling themselves “consumer lenders,” their game remains the same ethical mess it’s always been. They target poor and financially struggling people, entice them to borrow with come-ons touting “quick and easy” money, then hook

them to installment loans with interest rates up to 36 percent. At such rates, it’s hard for these hard-hit people to repay the bank on time, so most are forced to keep borrowing more money just to pay down the previous loans. To make this even ickier, the sharks are especially fond of setting up their loan offices around Army bases so they can prey on America’s low-paid, financially stressed soldiers. The good news is that several state legislatures are taking action to provide relief. The bad news is that their relief is not for the borrowers, but the banks! With an army of lobbyists and a multimillion-dollar arsenal of campaign cash, the industry has already induced legislators to lift interest rate caps in eight states — most of which have a large number of military bases. The cynical claim of the loan sharks (believe it or not) is that they are suffering financial hardships. These poormouthing

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bankers say that to make “an acceptable profit,” they must be allowed to charge borrowers more than 36 percent interest. Acceptable to whom? One of the largest purveyors of these loans, a subsidiary of Wall Street megabank Citigroup, reported a hefty 31 percent profit increase last year under the old rate structure. What we have here is a brazen purchase of legislative favoritism by some of the richest financial interests in America — allowing them to increase their exploitation of some of America’s poorest people. What’s “acceptable” about that? The whole scheme is a shameful hustle. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. November 6, 2014 7

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Friendship City Project builds peace one piece at a time by Dave Anderson

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he threat of “isolationism” tionist views.” looms over America, Many Americans engage in peopleaccording to prominent to-people outreach to foreign counpoliticians and pundits. tries. A prime example is the “Sister Supposedly Americans Cities International” program introdon’t want to have anything to do with duced in 1956 by President Dwight the rest of the world. Eisenhower at a White House conferCarl Conetta disputes this in a ence. recent lengthy study of current and The idea, according to the Sister historical U.S. public opinion polls on Cities website, was for “individual sisglobal engagement, military interventer cities, counties and states across the tion and defense United States” to spending. He is link up with the the director of the citizens of other Project for countries in an Defense effort to bring Alternatives of the about “citizen Center for diplomacy.” COOPERATIVE International Boulder didn’t DIPLOMATIC Policy. get a Sister City He concludes until 1984 when a APPROACHES TO that while there Friendship City RESOLVING CONFLICT has been a decline Project (FCP) was in support for milcreated with the AND TEND TO FAVOR itary intervention, Nicaraguan city of A ‘LAST RESORT’ “polls continue to Jalapa. This hapshow majority pened shortly after PRINCIPLE ON GOING TO public support for the people of WAR.” — CARL CONETTA U.S. global Boulder passed a engagement and ballot initiative for a U.S. global calling for an end role comparable to to U.S. military that of other major powers. Public dis- intervention in Central America. President Ronald Reagan portrayed sent has focused narrowly on America’s Central America’s wars between recent wars and on the notion that the United States should assume a unique- impoverished peasants and wealthy oligarchs as Manichean clashes ly assertive or ‘top’ global role. between Soviet puppets and freedom “Americans favor cooperative, dipfighters. But international human lomatic approaches to resolving conflict and they tend toward a ‘last resort’ rights groups released reports showing that Reagan’s freedom fighters were principle on going to war. However, dictators and paramilitaries guilty of the U.S. public will rally to support a large-scale mass murder and torture. forceful response to violent attacks on Jim Adams, a Boulderite who was a perceived vital interests. Americans draftsman for the University of also support forceful action to stem Colorado Boulder and Commerce genocide — at least in prospect.” Department labs, went to Jalapa a He notes that over many years, “polls show a chronic gap between elite number of times. He says, “I traveled to Nicaragua in and public views on military intervention and America’s global role. Foreign the 1980s for two reasons — to help build a school in Jalapa and to observe policy elites express a stronger preferthe effect of my government’s lowence for military activism and a domiintensity conflict [the Contra War] on nant U.S. role. More common among the general public are selective engagement, cooperative leadership and isola- see PEACE Page 10

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Protect the Internet from the TPP

The Internet, developed with funding from the U.S. government, is an amazing research and learning tool. Many of us see it as a public utility because it is so essential to life in the 21st century. Unfortunately mega corporations have tried to take control of the Internet in order to increase their profits. Since 1990, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a public interest group, has sought to protect our civil liberties in the digital world. On October 16, EFF commented on a new draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) intellectual property chapter which had just been released by WikiLeaks According to EFF, this chapter will increase Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies, which attempt to control what you can and can’t do with the media and hardware you’ve purchased. Under TPP, protection from liability for an Internet Service Provider (ISP) may be conditioned on the ISPs participating in a regime under which content could be arbitrarily removed from the Internet without a court order. The TPP would criminalize the access or disclosure of a trade secret using a computer system; there is no public interest exception (i.e. journalists). There goes WikiLeaks and valuable whistleblowers. The U.S. Trade Representative is also pushing severe interpretations of U.S. copyright law. As EFF puts it: “Backroom trade

negotiations are the epitome of a defective, undemocratic rulemaking system.” If the TPP goes forward, our Internet use will be severely infringed upon. Congress needs to make the necessary amendments to prevent this. Obama has asked for Fast Track trade authority which prevents Congress from changing the TPP. You can do two things to protect your internet. Call or email Congressman Jared Polis and ask him to oppose Fast Track (303-484-9596 or http://polis.house.gov/contact/. Come to a rally at his office on Friday Nov. 7 at noon at 4770 Baseline, Boulder. For more info, www.exposethetpp.org, or call 303-444-6981 ext. 2. Carolyn Bninski/Boulder

Open space feels more closed than open

On Thursday, October 9, I went to one of my favorite spots around, Rabbit Mountain Open Space. A friend and I meet once or twice a week and frequently choose Rabbit Mountain as our destination. This morning was particularly beautiful, with the setting full moon and the first rays of dawn casting an exquisite light over the landscape. When we arrived back at the parking lot, I was surprised and dismayed to find a $60 parking ticket on my car. I learned (the hard way) that parking at Boulder County Parks and Open Space is restricted to the hours between sunrise and sunset. This may not be a problem for most of the year, but for at least a few weeks, see LETTERS Page 10

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it seems as though these restrictions punish people who want to get in a run, hike or ride before they go to work. Because even though the time of sunrise and sunset may change, school and work hours do not. For weeks, it will be impossible for me to go to Rabbit Mountain (or any other Open Space park), before 7 a.m., because even though it is light, the sun doesn’t officially rise until after 7 a.m. This is one of the most restrictive parking policies for open space in the area. Our neighboring national park has no restrictions on parking or hiking — users may access trails and parking areas around the clock. Douglas and Jefferson counties have more reasonable hours than Boulder — parking is allowed from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. I would suggest that Boulder County Commissioners change this policy to allow parking from one hour before sunrise to one hour after sunset. This change would allow the active citizens of Boulder County more time to enjoy the natural resources that make Boulder such a desirable place to live, and which are supported by our tax dollars. Lori Hewitt/via Internet

Observations of tree death in Boulder

As of autumn 2014 over 50 percent of the trees in Boulder are in their last death throes due to radiation oxidizing the phloem, and considering the speed of their decline it will be 80 percent

next year, and virtually 100 percent in 2016. This is easily observable from the bark-splitting that is occurring on tree trunks around town. Next spring there will be some slight growth on many of these trees, but they will be bare, dead sticks by the fall. I have worked out the main mechanism is the death of the phloem via Fukushima radiation in accumulated precipitation, combined with increased solar radiation due to loss of ozone layer... radically reduced as a consequence of Fukushima. Observation says that it is oxidation of the phloem in the entire tree which was noticable in 2013 and now is off the charts. It is not just the insides that are undergoing oxidation, the leaves and bark are also showing extreme oxidation and rapid aging (senescence). All vegetation is rusting and burning up, even pond scum. The trunks are cracking because the phloem is dead, leaves are dying on the tree, along with branches and roots. There is only one thing that could do this... radiation accumulation in soil water... and increased solar radiation. The oxidation from ionizing radiation means that oxidizing agents are on the rise, creating oxides that plants can’t use, leading to lower yields and higher susceptibility to disease. If you are in Colorado all you need do is go outside and observe to see that I am correct. See that the leaves are just as readily dying on the tree as turning autumn colors, oxidized rusted leaves, see LETTERS Page 11

PEACE from Page 8

Nicaraguans. I was pleased to help build a school in Jalapa that directly benefited many kids. I generally supported the Sandinista program of providing nutrition, health care and education to poor people. The revolutionary goal was to raise a healthy, welleducated generation of Nicaraguans to run the country for the benefit of the poor majority, instead of for U.S. corporate interests and elite local collaborators.” Francoise Poinsatte, a former Boulder city councilwoman, has been involved with FCP from the beginning and has been a member of the group’s board since 2006. She has seen the constructive impacts of FCP firsthand: “Impoverished families who had only contaminated filthy water from wells now have taps with clean potable water. Students who wouldn’t have been able to continue their education, 10 November 6, 2014

now successfully graduated and entering universities. Families growing their own nutritious vegetables that otherwise were too expensive to buy.” FCP is practical, humanitarian and non-political. Every month, people in Jalapa meet to discuss what FCP should do and they volunteer their labor on the projects. It isn’t a bunch of gringos bossing people around. On Saturday Nov. 8, FCP is having a 30th anniversary celebration from 3–6 p.m. at the home of Carolyn Young and David Cook at 3003 Fifth St. in Boulder. The event is also a fundraiser for a new water project. FCP is an all-volunteer organization. The City of Boulder doesn’t provide them with any money Join in the fun. Help build world peace one piece at a time. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily Boulder Weekly

letters sap oozing, oxidized, split and peeling bark, dead branches, dead trees, blighted leaves, burnt edges of leaves, leaf stalks disorientated and twisted with oxidation, leaves rolling due to oxidation in the leaf stalk. The smell is not the normal sweet smell of a healthy fall... the vegetation smells like death. The city, county and state will have to undergo an intensive investigation of the amount and type of radiation in the soil/soil water, and how much is continuing to fall in the rain and the snow. Factors and strategies the governmental bodies will have to consider include: The type of public announcement through the media, public education program, social and psychological services for ecoshock, how to fell trees on an industrial scale and make the most of the wood, replanting with species that can survive high radiation, growing of large scale acreage of hemp to prevent soil erosion and provide the fiber for ground matting, city run-off mediation in preparation for excess silting of the water systems. The response to Systemic Environmental Collapse should be immediate, comprehensive and incorporate the entire societal organization structure. The main focus for city planners and engineers should be extracting wood to prevent fires and windfall, drainage silt mediation, river bank fortification, soil erosion prevention, studying Chernobyl for the types of vegetation to replant if any; replanting with species from earlier in the earth’s evolution, Australian and African species and various soil and water adjustments. Soil rebuilding with zeolite, humalite/leonardite, humus, compost tea for soil microbe enhancement, mycorrhiza and mushroom innoculation to speed land readiness for replanting by increasing decomposition of underground root systems of dead trees etc... For social healing I suggest that specific trees be reserved for sculptures... and to employ a troop of expert wood carvers, to turn the devastation into a celebration of the human spirit. Turn a loss into a gain wherever possible. Jana Dixon/Boulder

sonable community — that understood property rights — would be considered an obvious, no-brainer decision. But on the other hand, can we really be surprised at such an event? Can we really be surprised that a City Council and a Preservation Board, to whom we’ve given more and more power, have now exercised it? Are we to be surprised that Historic Boulder, whose 1971 origin in response to the demolition of Central School (located at 14th & Walnut streets), was to pre-

vent historic buildings from being demolished, but now, having successfully identified all buildings of any significance, is now moving onto new frontiers, seeking to designate more and more everyday buildings as historic? If we empower little tyrants with authoritarian say over trivial aspects of our everyday lives, are we then surprised when they “send a message” to make clear their power? Has anyone asked themselves what fury would be unleashed on the

Hornings if they dare refuse the Council’s order to rebuild the shed? Fines? Liens placed on the house? Forfeiture of the property? No, this coal/chicken shed issue is not a fluke. It’s not a random event. It was perfectly predictable, as are more in the future. These types of conflicts became inevitable as soon as the City was empowered to decide what determines the “character” of a neighborhood and how it will be “preserved.” Charlie Danaher/Boulder

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his fall, Stephanie Rudy decided it was time to hand the microphone over, to see what veterans would say given the opportunity to speak. She spent months reaching out to local veterans and military organizations and visiting nursing homes, asking if veterans there might come forward to tell the stories that have long gone untold. The idea for a community-wide event in Boulder germinated six years ago when Rudy spent a week at the Army War College in Pennsylvania at a program that invites civilians to learn a little of what service members are taught about war and the military. Her role was to tell the military what U.S. civilians and people in the Boulder community thought about the war and the military today. But she realized there didn’t seem to be an opportunity in Boulder for people to listen to veterans, or acknowledge their service. “This town doesn’t do anything to thank the military. There’s no community thing that supports the military,” Rudy says. She created two weeks of programming at the Dairy Center for the Arts to do just that. The Dairy Center, from the Boedecker movie theater to its art galleries to its performance space, will spend two weeks with programming focused on veterans from Nov. 7–21.

Many days begin with a “Coffee and Conversation” session — an informal gathering to hear or share the stories of veterans — and go on to include lectures, panels, films, theater and dance performances and even a book club. Programming will cover history and share ongoing work to assist with veterans reintegrating to civilian life, with panelists addressing issues from veteran homelessness to women’s history and experiences in the military, to resources available for veterans from yoga to mindfulness training to horse therapy. Veterans have been invited to participate in the morning conversations, sit on panels and participate in readings of prose and poetry and submit artwork inspired by their time in the military. Veterans organizations including the Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum, Women Marines Association, Veterans Helping Veterans and the University of Colorado student veterans center are involved in the event. “When you think about the amazing sacrifice that not only the individuals make but their families, it’s really obvious to us that they’re not getting enough recognition. That’s a really awful way to say thank you,” says Bill Obermeier, executive director of the Dairy Center. “This is really a chance to let them tell their stories.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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No war worth winning

An Iwo Jima veteran shares his story after 70 years by Elizabeth Miller

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he first waves landed at 9 a.m., we landed in the Marines only because the Navy recruitment Iwo Jima was his first and only battle. He’d done at 9:20, and by the time we were coming office was closed the day he went to sign up. He’d practice landings off the coast of Maui before boardinto the beach, the Japanese had their expected he’d get drafted and thought he might as ing a troop ship and approaching the black sand artillery on Suribachi and on the cliffs to well enlist and have some choice in the matter. beaches of Iwo Jima in an amphibious tractor. He was our right and they had every inch of the “I had no idea what it was, what I was getting an intelligence scout in a company responsible for beach marked, so when we hit the beach, it was in the into, never understood what the Marines were about,” mapping the front lines and gathering intelligence for midst of huge fire from both sides, and it was devashe says. “The Marines have an extraordinary history higher-ranking officers. On the first day on Iwo, he tating. People were being killed right and left. So the of… I guess it just has to be called bravery because I was hit with a piece of spent shrapnel, was fixed up landing was, for me, the baptism of fire, and I remem- didn’t know what I was getting into when I left the and then sent back to battle. He carries his Purple ber our tractor could not get up the beach, the sand ship that morning and was in the amphibious tractor Heart in a box with his honorable discharge pen and a turned and was so unstable that the tractors just were going to the island, but a lot of the guys who were laminated card that says when he was promoted to stuck at the edge of the beach and there we corporal. Courtesy of Richard Jessor were, under fire, and so we all jumped out the A few days into the battle, his division was back and ran around and I ran up and hit the pulled back from the front lines for a day to rest, beach and looked over and there was a guy with and he and the soldiers he was with were given a big bubble of blood… so it was a moment of a chance to write one letter. seeing what war was about and what combat “So I wrote to my parents and said goodwas about.” bye,” he says. “I thanked them for everything Richard Jessor was among the first U.S. they had done and said there was no chance that Marines to land on Iwo Jima during World War I was going to get off alive because everybody II for the battle that was then the bloodiest in around me was killed one day after another.” the history of the Marine Corps. Jessor landed On day four on the island, he looked back on Blue Beach One, with Mount Suribachi and over his shoulder as they were reaching high the Marine division that would head for that ground and saw the American flag on Mount summit to his left while his division went to the Suribachi. right to secure the high cliffs that overlooked “I started screaming and all of the other the airport landing strips. Suribachi, the island’s Marines, we were in the front line, ‘Suribachi is high point, was the site of that iconic photocaptured,’ and it meant that our rear is protectgraph of the Marines raising the flag, which is ed, that we had everything from where we were now one of the most reproduced photographs in to the top of Suribachi, so it was a very imporhistory and the model for the Marine Corps tant achievement, but the real battle was the War Memorial. The battle has been memorialbattle in front of us,” Jessor recounts. “That Richard Jessor, shown holding the Japanese flag, during the invasion ized in the film Sands of Iwo Jima, starring John of Iwo Jima. photograph made it an iconic moment and it Wayne, and two films directed by Clint was very important for morale, because that was Eastwood, Flags of our Fathers and Letters from a big issue. We were really so often unable to see Iwo Jima. with me had done that before and they knew what the enemy because they were all in caves, and so we Japanese forces were installed underneath the they were getting into and they knew what it meant were getting fired up and everybody around me was rocks of the volcanic island, the site of airfields that to face fire, and that took a lot of bravery. … getting killed and yet you couldn’t see the enemy.” had been used to launch operations against American “It turned out I made, in some ways, I made the He stood at the mouth of a lot of those caves — outposts in Saipan. American forces were sent to never going in because it was never certain that there wrong choice … But of course, as I look back on it claim the roughly four-by-two-mile island and its air- now, I have to say that I’m grateful for that experiwas no one alive inside. American soldiers stood at the openings, threw charges into the tunnels and folfields to use as a launch strip for aerial missions over ence. It has had a shaping impact on my life.” lowed them with bursts of fire from flame throwers. Tokyo and a landing strip for damaged bombers He didn’t become the kind of Marine who paints “Once we reached the high ground on the right, it returning from Japan. Semper Fi on his garage door or attends annual was then every day a sort of a war of attrition,” Jessor American bombers had bombarded the island for reunions for his company as the highlight of each 70 days before Marines were sent in. The bombing recalls. “There were hills that were taken and then had year. Jessor found a very different life, far from his had little effect on the 21,000 Japanese on the island. to be fallen back from, so it just became an endless history in the war. He went back to Yale, finished his Jessor recalls that the send-off the night before the Bachelor’s degree and came to Boulder with his wife, experience of each day moving ahead and sometimes invasion from the colonel was, “‘I want you to know holding the ground, sometimes retreating a bit until expecting to “slum around” for a few years before that tomorrow night at this time, a lot of you are we got to the north end of the island. And throughreturning to “civilization” on one of the coasts. But going to be dead, and just remember when you get out, again, it was this constant frustration because the then he fell in love with climbing mountains, found a shot, fall forward. We need that extra six feet,’ [then enemy was almost always hidden.” way to pursue the scholarly research he wanted to do the colonel] turned on his heel, and left. That’s how Soldiers ran from one bomb crater to the next — at the University of Colorado and became a psycholothe Marine Corps was in those days.” making slow progress across the island. gy professor and the founder of the Institute of By the end of battle, which continued for more Most of the Japanese soldiers they found were Behavioral Science, where he still works. than a month, nearly 7,000 U.S. and 20,000 Japanese dead (the Japanese commander’s strategy was one that He didn’t talk about the war for more than 40 soldiers were killed. called for no Japanese survivors) and on one such solyears. Jessor hadn’t grown up thinking he’d join the milidier, Jessor found a Japanese flag. He recounts the experience now in his soft-spotary. He was a Yale University student who’d enlisted “There’s a picture” he says, turning to the Veterans ken, slow cadence, emotionally overwhelmed at times. 14 November 6, 2014

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news Speak program to point to a photograph of a group of it was totally a matter of luck. It was just fortuitous. needed to be stopped — people didn’t know, at the soldiers around a Japanese flag, and says, “This is me, Who got killed and who survived was just a matter of time, the extent of the Nazi operations to exterminate holding this Japanese flag. … I had taken this flag off chance.” Jews. a Japanese corpse, and I still remember, when I took Before he left the island, he saw a plane that had “I felt that when I was in the war, what I really that flag, I saw there were letters in the pocket of this been damaged while flying a mission over Japan land- was aware of was what was going on in Europe with Japanese soldier, and I had already… I had letters in ing on the Iwo Jima airstrip. the Nazi threat and I felt that, and in many ways still my pocket and I’m looking at this Japanese and I’m “We saw then the importance of what we had feel, that that was a good war, and it’s so hard to justithinking that he writes to his parents, and I write, and been through. We were saving these planes that fy any war, but especially now, learning what went on why are we doing this to each other? And the sensecouldn’t make it all the way back to [American outthere and I was invited to give a talk in Germany and lessness of the slaughter, it just posts on] Saipan or Tinian,” he I visited Dachau, the concentration camp and saw Courtesy of Richard Jessor overwhelmed me, and I made a says. “Then once we reached what… So I felt when I was fighting that I was fightdecision in that very moment the north end of the island, we ing for a just cause, but after being on Iwo, as I said that I would never fight again, if turned around and were march- earlier, I determined that I would never go to war I happened to survive, and that I ing back to board ships that again,” Jessor says. would never go to war again. were just off the island, but I He’s been careful in the years that followed never That it just, it had no meaning. still remember getting back to to participate in an event he saw as glorifying war. He had never done anything to the beach, “Part of what patriotism is me, I’d never done anything to and seeing about that worries me is that it ON THE BILL: Richard (Dick) Jessor will be speaking after a him, except we killed him, so all these does celebrate our wars and our screening of Flags of Our Fathers. there was that moment, which temporary successes in war, and we have a 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, The Dairy was kind of an epiphany for crosses pretty miserable history for a Center for the Arts Performance Space, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, because all me.” long time from what we’ve done 303-440-7826. the bodies Once, they did take a to the Native American populahad been Japanese soldier alive and Jessor tion here and then so many of taken back was asked to take him back to our wars have been just for to the beach and buried in the the beach to meet with interexploitative purposes,” Jessor says. sand with marked graves and preters who might be able to He agreed to participate in Veterans Speak you just got a visual sense of gather some information from because it had a very different mission, one of honorhow many people had died.” him. The task meant walking ing those who have sacrificed their lives or been disthe prisoner through Marines Jessor’s division had been abled in service of their country, and he thinks, particterritory. scheduled to go on to Japan after ularly in the face of our ongoing foreign policy, it’s Richard Jessor shortly after his return to the “They all wanted to kill this U.S. in uniform with his corporal stripes and Iwo Jima, but it was, as Jessor important to tell these stories, to remember what war Purple Heart. guy. And so I had to say, ‘If you says, so destroyed that they were is and what it does to people. touch him, I’ll have to kill you,’” instead sent back to Maui where “I didn’t talk about it very much until recent years, Jessor says. “I had to protect this they reopened a rest base. Five but it’s important to remember and talk about what really valuable asset because he would know things, veterans of Iwo were in a tent, and one replacement sol- war is about, and I’m not sure it does any good, but the hope was. ... There was this enormous frustration dier who was training for a landing in Japan. Every we have people in Congress that can say nothing and wanting to do something, so I mean, if there were night, the five veterans would go to the PX — the mili- except ‘Let’s get the troops out there,’ and they’ve corpses around the Marines would ­— you probably tary base convenience store — he says, buy a case of never been there. They don’t have kids there, and shouldn’t publicize this — but I mean they would uri- beer and bring it back to the tent. they’re happily sending others to… So.” nate on the corpses and they would cut off parts of “We would drink beer and would review essentialHe looks now at his 19-year-old grandson — at the body as souvenirs, I mean we’ve all heard about ly minute-by-minute the invasion of Iwo Jima, and so that age, Jessor was training to go into battle — and this, but you could see it, and these are some farm somebody would say, ‘Remember on the third day we says, “When I think now what it is to take 20-yearkids from Iowa who would never do things like this, were in this bomb crater and the bomb hit on the rim olds and 19-year-olds and have them do it, it just but in that situation the brutalization that took place and so-and-so’s intestines flew across and hit so-anddoesn’t make any sense.” was pretty pervasive.” so, remember that?’ and we’d say ‘Yeah,’ and we were “I think veterans are not fully appreciated and War seems designed for making people hard, for doing that every night. And as I look back on it, it we saw that particularly in the Vietnam War, which toughening them up to the death and destruction of probably was a cathartic experience for us, but after a we all hated the Vietnam War but the veterans other human beings, for requiring an immunization to while, this replacement, this new guy, finally blew up didn’t merit that hatred, and separating that was difempathy. And though he saw the frustration and at us and said he was sick to death of hearing over ficult and so they had a particularly bad time. And I anger around him bringing out a brutality that likely and over the same stories and he didn’t want to hear it just think that when you think of everyday citizens would never have emerged had these people not been anymore,” Jessor says. who have no knowledge of what combat is about, confronted with the horrors of war, that’s not what Decades later, a phone call from a fourth division and then of course the politicians who speak so easJessor found in himself. corporal — a close friend of Jessor’s during the war ily about we need to fight this, or fight that, there “I’ve sort of always felt that if you are really, really who had gone on to become a high school history isn’t that appreciation of what is really entailed, and tested and pushed to your limits and come out of it, so my hope is that some better appreciation will teacher and told this story to his students when he you’ve learned something and been a better person for taught them about World War II — reminded Jessor come out of this.” it, so for me, I think I was a compassionate person Of the effort Veterans Speak organizer what he’d said in response: “Red said to me on the before then, but it certainly deepened the sense of Stephanie Rudy has put into gathering and prephone, he said, ‘You may not remember, but you stood compassion for others and the loss of the people I had up and you lectured him about why we were fighting senting these stories, Jessor says, it’s a good thing trained with, and we had eaten together and trained to do for the community, and adds, “It just makes — for freedom of speech — and nobody was going to together and so on, and to see them killed was someme feel that there are people out there who do have tell us that we couldn’t talk.” thing you just had to assimilate in a way that obvioussome understanding or who are seeking some underJessor, who is Jewish, went into the war thinking ly reverberated through my subsequent life. … standing.” that it was for a good cause, that the Nazi expansion “So I feel privileged to have survived, but I know Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com of power and the scapegoating of Jews in Europe Boulder Weekly

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Writing the war

Dramatic readings of war correspondents writing on the front lines by Matt Cortina

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took a walk lished in newspapers has along the historic slowly grown less impactcoast of ful over the decades Normandy in the because of the ability to country of show film of the front France. It was a lovely lines. Today, Repetto says, day for strolling along war coverage is “day-tothe seashore. Men were day, instant reporting,” sleeping on the sand, which doesn’t lend itself some of them sleeping to the type of writing forever. Men were Pyle and others perfected. floating in the water, Not surprisingly then, but they didn’t know the performance also they were in the water, prompts the viewer to for they were dead. wonder what was so “The water was full appealing about war to so of squishy little jellyfish many writers — particuabout the size of your larly in World War II — hand. Millions of them. who later became fixtures In the center each of of American literature. them had a green “It’s fairly clear what A war correspondent sits under a tree in Italy during World War II. “This Is design exactly like a draws them to it,” How It Was” highlights several war correspondences from World War II and Vietnam, giving new life to a media with a storied and important past. four-leaf clover. The Repetto says. “It’s the big good-luck emblem. thing that’s happening, Sure. Hell yes.” but I think what draws life.” In 1944, two days after D-Day, them to it as a writer is that it’s hard to The performance will feature five Ernie Pyle led “Omaha Beach: The make sense of. A lot of stuff is going on cast members from the Boulder Wreckage Was Vast and Startling” with with a lot of background and a lot of Ensemble Theatre Company — some those two paragraphs. After the Allied complexity and it provides a writer an stories are recited as monologues, and front had stalled several hundred yards some feature multiple cast members act- opportunity to see beyond the surface inland, Pyle trekked away from the and find what’s really happening here ing and reciting lines as people in the troops and back to the beach to record and what’s really happening to these articles. the loss of human life and wreckage of people and how are they reacting to it.” Repetto says it was important to The performance is important machines. It was a scene without gunfire find articles that didn’t focus just on the because it breathes new life into a perior explosions, but it resonated louder gory details of war, but the widespread od of history and a type of media that is than any report from impacts it has on solOmaha Beach filed diers, families and com- quickly being lost, Repetto says. ON THE BILL: “This Is How It Was: Reports “I thought the writings from World that historic week. munities. From The Front.” 7:30 p.m. The sound of that “It shouldn’t be lim- War II and Vietnam and what hapWednesday, Nov. 19, The report and dozens ited to just the shooting pened is sort of fading because the peoDairy Center for the Arts, 303-444-7328. ple involved with them are getting pretmore is what Paul part of war because so ty old,” Repetto says. Repetto is trying to much else is actually And Repetto says this format probring new life to in going on and happenvides the opportunity for these excepThis Is How It Was: Reports From The ing to people,” Repetto says. “The best tional correspondences to be heard by a Front, a one-time only performance of of the writing sort of captures the fear new audience in a new way. war correspondence and reports from of people that were involved, the emo“I thought that it should be strucWorld War II and the Vietnam War. tions of the people who were involved, tured as a dramatic performance Repetto selected work from famous the friendships and what’s lost at home because it was the best way to bring writers like Pyle, John Steinbeck, James and abroad in wars.” Agee and more that portrayed the myriThe performance also highlights the these words to life,” Repetto says. “They’re already on paper and people ad aspects of war. change in how wars are covered — and can read them but the best of them, “The first thing I was looking for thus how the public perceives war — which we’ve tried to include here, was writing that truly got to the heart of from World War II to Vietnam to Iraq almost cry out for someone to bring the matter and reported it with excepdue to cultural changes and technology, them off the page in a dramatic way. It tional writing, exceptional description Repetto says. Vietnam marked a big was a way to deal with really superb and exceptional understanding,” Repetto change in war reporting because much writing and give that writing another says. “Secondly, it had to be performof the correspondence was shown on able. It had to be a story that had drama television. The written color provided by dimension.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com to it and that an actor could bring to World War II correspondents and pub16 November 6, 2014

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From civilian to soldier and back again

Local veterans who have dedicated their careers to helping returning vets integrate into civilian society discuss the many challenges vets face when they come home by Caitlin Rockett

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ransitions are rarely up their individuality when they go easy — starting a new into the military,” says Pantaleo. job, moving to a new “That giving up occurs when these city or dealing with a individuals are just learning to medical condition are become adult civilians. So what serchallenging endeavors for most vice people learn in the 18-25 year humans, but for veterans, these range is how to be in a team. You’ve challenges are multiplied as they heard the expression ‘There’s no “I” work to transition back into a in team.’ Well, that’s kind of what civilian realm that is unlike the veterans are dealing with. They are military world they’ve trained and going from being a member of a worked in for years. And for many team to being an individual. Rather veterans, devastating wounds and than thinking about how to save post-traumatic stress make civilian the life next to me, how do I save life seem like an alternate reality. my own life? While all of my peers But in a nation with more than were figuring out to be an adult 23 million veterans, returning sercivilian, I was figuring out how to vice members aren’t alone. On be an adult soldier or an airman or Nov. 15, Veterans Speak will host a Marine.” a panel of veterans who have dediPantaleo says there are also issues with how married veterans cated their post-military careers to reintegrate back into their own helping returning vets deal with families, and beyond that, how the physical, psychological and families must learn to live with social challenges they encounter A disabled veteran, circa 1943. From finding a job to going to college to interacting with family members, their returning veteran. when rejoining civilian life. adjusting to life in the civilian realm can be daunting “[Veterans] are separated from Barry Baer, a retired full colo- for returning vets. their family, and not just ‘I went to nel from the U.S. Army, will South Dakota to work in the oils moderate the panel. He works field,’ but ‘I went to a place where peowith veterans to help them find jobs tary today, we use very high-evolved ple actively tried to kill me,’” says and build careers in the civilian sector. information technology. Our veterans Pantaleo. “It creates a different kind of Baer says that flawed perceptions in coming home really have a skill set so mindset. That acquiring and losing of both the civilian and military mindsets they don’t have to start from scratch identity can be difficult. It’s particularly often make getting a job difficult for when starting a job.” difficult for men because when people returning veterans. But Baer adds that returning veterask us who we are we associate that “It started in ans must also learn to with what we do. We are not encourVietnam, but today translate the skills they ON THE BILL: aged by the military to talk about ourmore than ever, learned in the military. “When Veterans Return…” selves, only how we fit into this team. because a lot of the “You are a veteran. Noon, Saturday, Nov. 15, East Theatre at the Dairy Center So people come back and they are trycivilian population You’ll always be a vetfor the Arts, 303-444-7328. ing to figure out why their families didn’t serve [in the eran, but you don’t don’t understand them.” military], there’s not a make it your raison But despite the many issues facing true understanding of d’être,” says Baer. “You returning veterans, Pantaleo says that what it’s like to serve, have to make sure peoservices for returning vets are better now and then because of that there’s less ple know you’re a person, and when than ever, and civilians have more appreunderstanding of what the training was you go to an interview, you have to sell ciation and compassion for veterans. and the capacity that a veteran today yourself and your skills, not your mili“One of the things we did learn has to be able to operate in the civilian tary service.” after Vietnam is there’s a difference environment,” says Baer. “And so on Panelist Michael Pantaleo served in between the warrior and the war,” he the civilian side, there’s a perception Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. Since says. “The military are the hands of the 1985, Pantaleo has worked as a clinical that all a solider or sailor or Marine or U.S. State Department. The military psychologist and team leader at the airman have are their war fighting enforces the rules and standards or relaBoulder Vet Center. He says he considskills. They don’t truly understand that tionships that the State Department ers his own experiences with reintegraour service people coming back now decides are the way we need to go. I tion in his ongoing search to help vetreally have some tremendous civilian think that has sunk into people that it’s erans make a healthy transition back skills they could put to use today — not the military that starts these wars, into civilian life. there’s discipline, there’s a willingness it’s elected officials.” to work very hard, the very traits that “The military is so different from Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com you want in an employee. 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fter enjoying decades of Speak, titled “Global Conflict and the Davidson says. “It’s sort of a taking a unmatched technological Limits of U.S. Military Power,” she pause at lessons learned from the past capabilities, the U.S. now plans to begin from the familiar points and then looking to the future, because faces adversaries for whom of recent conflicts, including the setwe’re not the only ones who have been the number of tanks and backs Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, learning lessons. Our adversaries and their strength isn’t significant. The way for a discussion on the way the U.S. our allies have also been learning leswe go to war has to change to match military, like other western militaries, sons and that changes that way that we these new ways of warfare, says Janine has been structured and has operated in operate and engage around the world.” Davidson, a senior fellow for defense the past and may need to operate in the Basically, the world has learned not policy at the Council on Foreign future. to try to take the U.S. on in a tank-onCourtesy of the Council on Foreign Relations Relations. Now is the time to tank battle, she says, citing a pause, examine the effects of U.S. comment from U.S. Army military actions in Iraq and Lieutenant General H.R. Afghanistan and glean lessons McMaster, who says there are that can be carried forward into two ways to fight the U.S. milihow we go to war, and when and tary: asymmetric, and stupid. how to choose to engage in con“So what does asymmetric flicts around the world. mean? It means other things that “I think it’s a big question are a lot harder for our convenabout the degree to which our tionally oriented military to deal nearly a decade endeavor to stop with,” she says. violent extremism around the Look, for example, to the world, whether it’s working or streets of Baghdad, she says. not,” Davidson says. “I think we “The American military was need to take stock and see incredibly bogged down by very whether or not every time rudimentary roadside bomb America decides to use force explosive devices. They call them abroad, whether and how we’re IEDs, improvised explosive going to make the situation betdevices — garage-made bombs ter and whether or how we’re — and all the technological supegoing to make the situation riority we had was not very useful worse.” for that kind of a fight,” Davidson, a University of Davidson says. “And if you look Colorado Boulder alumna, startat the global trends from demoed her career as a U.S. Air Force graphic shifts to megacities, it’s aircraft commander and senior increasingly likely that conflict is pilot, flying combat support and going to happen in places like humanitarian aid mobility misthat where’s it’s a lot harder to Janine Davidson, senior fellow for defense policy at the sions. She also served in the have like a tank-on-tank battle, Council on Foreign Relations, will discuss what Obama administration as the so that’s a challenge.” Americans can learn from recent conflicts overseas about how to decide when and how to engage in deputy assistant secretary of Davidson, who frequently military action. defense for plans from 2009 to writes for the national security2012 and is author of the book focused publication Defense One, Lifting the Fog of Peace: How Americans “I wanted to, with that sort of conwrote earlier this year about analyzing Learned to Fight Modern War. text, think through and talk about letters The New York Times obtained “There’s a great debate among what’s happening in the world — what that were written from one Al Qaeda counter-terrorism experts about wheth- have potential adversaries learned about leader to another, offering some coacher targeted killings are going to have a the American military and the way we ing and advice. She distilled their leslong-term positive effect on the threat operate, and what kinds of challenges sons into four points: “It’s okay to of terrorism or whether it could potenwe might face in the future, and then retreat and regroup; The larger battle is tially have a blowback effect,” Davidson what that means for the American mili- about competent governance to win says. “That’s an instance where there tary. How we might adapt or change over the population; Never underestimay be cases where the military isn’t and, even more broadly, what that mate the power of the media; No war going to help solve the problem.” might mean for America’s role in the — not even Al Qaeda’s — can be For her keynote speech for Veterans world and how we engage abroad,” fought without money.” 18 November 6, 2014

Davidson notes that they’re clearly well-versed in “classic” counterinsurgency theory that would be familiar to Vietnam People’s Army General Võ Nguyên Giáp and Communist Chairman Mao Zedong. But they’ve also adapted those classic themes to modern times by incorporating the use of media and kidnappings — an easy fuel for needed income. Knowing what terrorists say to one another also exposes just how much they know what the American military’s strengths are and the methods they’re developing to get around them. Oddly, both terrorists and American military strategists are putting the same principles into practice. “Counterinsurgency doctrine at its best — and it’s controversial — was about protecting the people, making the people feel safe, and then engaging the people to take responsibility for their security,” she says. In the latest Iraq war, when General David Petraeus led the surge in 2006, the effort was to turn some of the violence that had been occuring in Iraq around. “That was a big era where the American military rediscovered and relearned and rethought through what they call counterinsurgency doctrine, and a big element of Petraeus’ approach to counterinsurgency doctrine is to put the people first, to protect the people where they sleep. It’s population-centered warfare,” Davidson says. “If you kill more civilians or make more enemies than you are taking off the battlefield, then you’re actually not making the situation better. … “So what’s interesting when you see Al Qaeda saying the same thing. They say, ‘If we want to have a caliphate some day, we can’t go around alienating all of our people. We need to demonstrate to them that we can govern, that we can keep them safe.’ So they’re saying the same thing. And you see ISIS doing this, they’re going village to village, slowly, they’re running schools, collecting taxes, trying to govern and you see their Al Qaeda compatriots to the extent that they are connected, sayBoulder Weekly

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ing, ‘Listen, you could really screw up tive behavior in the global environment your gains if you over-reach here and that our high-tech military, along with you don’t treat the population well,’ our allies’, is not necessarily the bestwhich is one of the lessons that I think made tool for,” Davidson says. they took from their experience in Iraq. For the American public, she advisWhen Al Qaeda in Iraq came through, es patience and an effort to understand they were making a lot of gains in this changing shape of war and what 2004, 2005, but then their sort of brutal engaging in conflicts overseas means for rule in these villages turned the popula- that small percentage of the population tion against them. So ISIS is sort of who serve in the military. trying, well, they’re being advised to try “I think that what’s important for not to do that.” civilians to know is It’s tough to that there are no know really what’s perfect answers to ON THE BILL: Janine Davidson’s keynote speech “Global Conflict going on with the these kinds of conand the Limits of U.S. Military ongoing efforts of flicts,” Davidson Power” is at 2 p.m. on Sunday, ISIS (also called says. “Like what’s Nov. 9 at the Dairy Center for the Arts Performance Space. ISIL and IS) happening in the because journalists Middle East right aren’t on the now, to the extent ground there that America can reporting on the even make a posiconflict. Many of tive difference in the reports are that conflict, it THAT AMERICA DOES from ISIS through won’t be a shortsocial media — term affair and it GET INVOLVED IN which they’re also won’t be a purely THESE [CONFLICTS], WE using as a tool in military affair. conflict. “We got very HAVE TO HAVE MORE “They launch used to the sort of PATIENCE. IT’S NOT JUST like a wave of realshock and awe GOING TO BE ‘WHAT CAN ly scary social mentality that … if media saying that we defeat the eneYOU BOMB TO MAKE THIS they’re coming, my’s military on PROBLEM GO AWAY?’ IN and people lay the battlefield, then down their weapthe political pieces FACT, WE DON’T WANT ons and flee. That’s will follow, but that TO DO THAT.” what happened isn’t really how the — JANINE DAVIDSON when they came nature of conflict screaming through works. And so to all those villages the extent that and towns in Iraq America does get in the summer and involved in these the Iraqi military there lay down things, we have to have more patience. their weapons,” Davidson says. “Some of It’s not just going to be ‘What can you the Iraqi military might have been sym- bomb to make this problem go away?’ pathetic to ISIS, but a lot of them felt In fact, we don’t want to do that. In like the fight was not going to go their order to do things where you protect way and part of it was this incredibly civilians’ lives and do things that align scary messaging that was coming out, with our values as Americans with like we’re coming, we’re coming. They respect to things like human rights, you used that very well as almost like the have to be a lot more careful about the first round of ammunition.” way you use force. And that means Of course, ISIS isn’t alone on the sometimes that it takes longer, or somelist of conflicts Americans have felt times it means you don’t do it at all. pressure to involve the military in. And I think Americans can understand Russian President Vladimir Putin’s that, and that politicians can and should annexation of Crimea this year, which be having a more open conversation failed to create a level of animosity and about that kind of thing, instead of sayconflict that would have triggered a ing, ‘Don’t worry about it, there’s less conventional response from NATO, than 1 percent of Americans serving in shows a similar evolving approach to the military. We’ll go kick some butt warfare that, simply in the nature of its and we’ll come home and you’ll be safe.’ conflict, puts limits on how the U.S. can It doesn’t work like that. It’s messier respond. than that.” “Putin is exhibiting a lot of disrupRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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helma Robinson — Thelma veterans for a panel discussion called Morey back then — was 16 “Women in the Military” at the Dairy years old when the Imperial Center for the Arts’ Boedecker Theater. Japanese Navy attacked the Prior to the panel, at 11 a.m., attendees U.S. naval base at Pearl will have the opportunity to view Harbor in Hawaii in 1942. The attack Women Warriors: A Vision of Valor, a pulled the U.S. out of more than a decade locally produced documentary featuring of isolationism and into World War II. 10 Colorado-based women veterans “It was a time when everyone said, who served in the wars between WWII ‘What can I do to help win the war?” and the contemporary wars in Iraq and says Robinson, now 89 years old. “I had Afghanistan. The film explores the histhought of different things I could do. I tory and progression of women’s roles thought maybe I’d be a reporter because in the U.S. military. I’d always liked to write, but in the end For Robinson and many other teenI felt the best place I could serve was to aged women at the time, aiding in the be a nurse.” war effort meant staying stateside, where Nursing has long been a point of a shortage of nurses was creating a difentry for women in the U.S. military, ferent kind of battle on the home front. dating back to the Courtesy of Thelma Robinson Once Robinson American finished high Revolution, when school, the Kansas women also served native applied to as water bearers, the U.S. Cadet cooks and launNurse Corps, the dresses. World country’s first War II gave educational prowomen broader gram for women. opportunities for The program was jobs, from service also desegregated. pilots to mechanRobinson has ics, but it wasn’t dedicated her until 1948 that retirement years to Congress passed educating the legislation permitpublic about the ting women to forgotten history become regular, of the U.S. Cadet permanent memNurse Corps, bers of the armed writing three forces. Even then, Thelma Robinson in her U.S. Cadet Nurse books on the subobstacles remained uniform ject and traveling — until 1967 no to Tokyo to talk more than 2 perabout her third ON THE BILL: Women Warriors: A Vision of Valor, and “Women in the cent of the armed book, Nisei Cadet Military,” 11 a.m., Wednesday, Nov. 19, forces could be Nurse of World The Dairy Center for the Arts Boedecker women and it War II: Patriotism Theater, 303-444-7328. wasn’t until 2013 in Spite of that the Pentagon Prejudice. The lifted the ban on book tells the women serving in combat roles, a policy story of how more than 350 Japanese that won’t see full implementation until American women found release from 2016. Japanese internment camps by joining There’s still work to be done as the Cadet Nurse Corps. women continue to secure equal “It’s interesting, the name of the employment and fair treatment in the panel, because when you think of armed forces, but there’s little question women warriors — and certainly the that female roles in the U.S. military two other women [on the panel] who have evolved. At noon on Nov. 19, served in [Iraq] and Afghanistan, they Robinson will join two other women were certainly warriors — but what

about me?” says Robinson. “Not a lot of people understand that during World War II we did have a war on the home front — poliomyelitis. Cadet nurses were exposed to communicable diseases and at that time we didn’t have the immunization that we have today. We didn’t have the treatments; it was just taken for granted that when you graduated, because you were a nurse, you would have a positive tuberculosis test. With polio [and tuberculosis] we were on the frontlines fighting and we were at risk.” Fellow panelist Traci Kroupa served in the Navy for 22 years, first as a parachute rigger then as a hospital corpsman. Her work as a corpsman attached her to a Marine unit of 20 to 25 men. Kroupa was responsible for providing the unit with combat medical care — chest tubes, tracheostomies, carrying patients on her back and being able to do some of these tasks while firing a weapon. Kroupa notes that medicine has always been a woman’s “foot in the door” to military service, but she says that women have always been in the thick of the battle with men, despite laws that have dictated otherwise. “They talk about women in combat and how they finally opened the door for us to serve with the men. I thought, ‘I’ve been serving with men on the front lines since we went through Baghdad [during the Gulf War],’” says Kroupa. “It’s frustrating for [women] when some policy-writing congressman in Washington, D.C., is saying we need to lower the standards for females in combat roles — well, why don’t you serve two months in boot camp with us and see what we can do first? “I think [women] bring a level of maturity and a whole different level of thinking [to the military],” Kroupa says. “It’s so hard sometimes to watch leadership in the military pick men over women to be leaders just because that’s the way it’s always been.” But on the ground, says Kroupa, the view of women is progressive. “The younger generation’s like, the woman next to me is just a solider, she’s just a Marine and she’s here to do a job. It’s the higher echelon that’s making it a problem, not us on the ground.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

How to end the crisis of veteran homelessness by Matt Cortina

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bout 50,000 veterans in Colorado representative; and Dennis tary occupations and training are not the U.S. are homeless. Let Fee, a U.S. Navy veteran who overcame always transferable to the civilian that sink in. homelessness by working with Bridge workforce, placing some veterans at a Then look around. In House and finding work. disadvantage when competing for Boulder County, veterans McDevitt will talk about the home- employment.” make up anywhere from 10 to 20 perless veteran problem in Boulder But McDevitt says the more that cent of the homeless population. These County and some of those initiatives people understand why veterans are men and women who served in that have worked so far. Apgar will become homeless — and, too, why Korea and Vietnam, all the way up to speak about the V.A.’s efforts to prohomelessness occurs in the general young veterans population — the more progress who served in Iraq Courtesy of VA.gov is made to alleviate the crisis. and Afghanistan. Panels like “Ending Veteran Ending veteran Homelessness” are a good start to homelessness educating the public about how requires a multithey can help. pronged approach, “I think one of the reasons why says Isabel the community has really gotten McDevitt, execubehind additional resources to helptive director of ing homeless veterans … is because Boulder’s Bridge people are pretty appalled that those House, an organiwho have served our country are zation that helps homeless and are not able to access homeless people in housing and support services they Boulder find work, need. I think there is a different housing and perception and different desire to healthcare. help homeless veterans than [to McDevitt will help] someone who may not have There are about 50,000 homeless veterans nationwide, but providing lead a panel at healthcare, jobs, counseling and more has helped curb the epidemic. been a veteran,” McDevitt says. noon on Friday, She added that homeless vetNov. 14, “Ending erans can be helped in Boulder Veteran Homelessness,” to discuss the vide healthcare for veterans, specifically County by volunteering at Bridge unique challenges that homeless veterhomeless veterans, and Fee will talk House or other homeless facilities in ans face, and how organizations and about his experience coming back from the county, donating supplies, supportcommunities can best work to support war and what lead to his homelessness ing broader health initiatives for veterstruggling veterans. before he worked with Bridge House ans and promoting employment oppor“I think understanding just the to pull himself up. tunities for veterans. context of homelessness in Boulder The group will also touch on Indeed, some of those initiatives County is important but then from broader topics of veteran homelessness, that have helped curb the homeless there talk about what’s really necessary including why veterans seem more veteran population include those that to be successful around tackling veteran prone to homelessness than the general reward business owners for hiring vethomelessness specifically,” McDevitt public in the first place. erans. Though it’s a common complaint says. “We clearly have a national probamong those who have served that U.S. McDevitt says the federal governlem around homelessness due to the employers don’t value their skills, those ment and U.S. Department of Housing economy factor and the lack of afford- willing to train vets for job-specific and Urban Development has put in able housing, and people who are skills can really make an impact. some “unusual” but effective resources homeless have higher rates of mental “We do see a higher rate of veteran in recent years that have contributed to illness and substance abuse compared participation in our ‘ready to work’ proa significant drop of homeless veterans to the general population. The rates gram,” McDevitt says. Panelist Fee was in the U.S. and in Boulder. around post-traumatic stress disorder, a graduate of the program. “The skill “Here in Boulder County, because family breakup, substance abuse, are set people may have had by being in of these initiatives, we’ve the seen the definitely very prevalent in the veteran the military is sort of leveraged in the number of homeless veterans drop homeless community,” McDevitt says. employment arena.” from 20 percent to 8 percent [of the The nonprofit organization The panel is free to all attendees homeless population at Bridge House]. National Coalition for Homeless and free lunch will be served to the It’s pretty significant the impact some Veterans says those coming back from first 40 people who arrive. For more of these programs are having,” war also face a lack of healthcare access information on Bridge House and endMcDevitt says. and adequate support networks, which ing veteran homelessness, visit boulderThe panel will consist of McDevitt; contributes to veteran homelessness, as bridgehouse.org. Mike Apgar, a Veterans Affairs Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com well as the fact that, surprisingly, “mili-

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he year was 1942 and the because if they were shot down the the life expectancy of a fighter pilot first American forces had enemy could use any maps or notes to was,” says Arnold. “They said 17 mislanded in Europe. The U.S. their advantage.” sions. In the beginning, we were was desperate to get men While not meant to represent speexpected to do 25.” trained and deployed. At cific individuals, the 12 figures display Though he did not talk openly of Luke Field in Arizona, hundreds of characteristics and attitudes that were the war until 45 years after he returned young men went through rushed flight common to all the fighter pilots Arnold home, Arnold says his experience as a training, and 14 from the entering class knew. Figure one, titled “Teenager,” is fighter pilot has influenced his art all of new recruits called 42J were selected the first completed sculpture and it will along. From the book he wrote, to the to become fighter pilots and were be on display at The Dairy Center for illustrations he drew, to this colossal deployed overseas. Within six months, the Arts when Arnold delivers a lecture sculpture project, Arnold says art has 12 of the 14 were dead. Courtesy of Marc Arnold Today, Fredric Arnold is the last man alive of that original group, and at 92 years old, the Boulder resident and artist is undertaking a monumental sculpture project in memory of not just the 12 in his group who died in combat or in training, but all 88,000 U.S. Airmen who were killed in WWII. The sculpture will consist of 12 life-size bronze figures, and Arnold says the scene depicted will be unfamiliar to most people. It is a moment Hollywood hasn’t paid attention to. “I don’t go for Hollywood,” says Arnold. “What they did to the image [of war] is glorification. The glorification of the war and of the men who serve, that’s bologna. It’s a job to be done. It’s like taking out the trash. It smells. It’s dirty. But Fredric Arnold in his P-38 fighter plane in North Africa in 1942. somebody has to do it, and that’s exactly what we were doing. Killing, killing, killing everyday, and getting killed everyday, losing guys to the point there in conjunction with Veterans helped him deal with post-traumatic that in the end, I didn’t have a single Speak on Nov. 17. stress disorder and allowed him to give guy left.” “Teenager” represents how young recognition to the men who died before The sculpture portrays a briefing, some pilots were, often 18 and fresh out him. the time spent before a mission familof high school. The teenager’s face is “I didn’t survive due to more skill iarizing the young fighter pilots with anxious and intensely focused, reprethan the others,” says Arnold. “It was what they have to do, senting the uncertainty, luck. Those who died were teaching where they have to go the terror and inability others, through their mistakes, how to ON THE BILL: “Lest and who they have to to really understand survive.” We Forget: The Mission.” kill. Arnold says the what the briefings were Trained as a sketch artist, Arnold 2 p.m., Monday, Nov. 17. The Dairy Center for the quiet bravery of that meant to teach. had worked in courtrooms prior to the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., moment is more power“There were things war. Drawing was not allowed while Boulder, 303-440-7826. ful than Hollywood’s like, ‘Fire your guns, court was in session, so Arnold would glorification. drop your tanks,’” says sit through court cases, then go outside “Each morning, the Arnold. “But these and “they would give me twenty minsquadron leader would stand in front of were only words. They didn’t mean any- utes to recreate everything I had seen,” these maps,” says Arnold. “He would thing until you get into it.” he says. say, ‘Today we are going to bomb Sicily,’ Like the 11 other figures, Over time, he built up the skill of or wherever, and he would go through “Teenager” represents a fighter pilot memory. He couldn’t forget images. Of whatever the specifics of the mission who would die. the war, he says, “I know every single were. The men couldn’t write this down “I remember someone asking what image. I can’t get rid of the pictures.” Boulder Weekly

Using this same skill, Arnold would often sit in the cockpit of his P-38 fighter plane after one of his missions and he would draw the scenes he remembered from the sky. On sketch pads he had brought from New York City, he illustrated what had happened, paying particular attention to mistakes that had been made — mistakes that cost his fellow U.S. fighter pilots their lives. “He was illustrating the errors,” says Arnold’s son, Marc Arnold. “One after the other, he was illustrating these lessons that he had learned that they had no way of teaching [the pilots] at the time.” Among his illustrations were depictions of unsuccessful attacks, dive-bombing missions that were approached from the wrong angle and other missions that often left one or more of his comrades dead. “Early in the war, the U.S. had a desperate need to get pilots trained and deployed,” says Marc Arnold. “The training methods were primitive by today’s standards. Fighter pilots today typically have more than 1,000 flight hours and far more ground training before seeing combat.” In WWII, pilots were sent into combat with as little as 90 hours of flight-time training and were expected to “learn the job on the job.” Arnold’s sketches may have saved his life. While pinning Arnold with a Distinguished Flying Award in 1943, a general took note of Arnold’s sketches. “General [Carl] Spaatz pins this medal on me,” says Arnold. “Then he picks up my sketch book and he flips through it and says, ‘You did these sketches? What the hell is this guy doing in combat? He shouldn’t be in combat, he’s going to die in combat! We need this guy back in the office in the states.’” For the last two years of the war, Arnold was reassigned to the Office of Flying Safety and worked to create the first Pilot Training Manual that would be given to new P-38 fighter pilots. “Then,” he says, “I was able to save lives instead of killing.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com November 6, 2014 23

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limate change threatens to become “severe, pervasive and irreversible,” according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Without drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, the report says, global average temperatures will probably increase by another 2 degrees Celsius by mid-century over their 1986-2005 levels. This implies temperatures nearly 4 degrees Celsius higher by 2100. The warnings come in the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC’s Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report, itself a distillation of the three distinct volumes of the Panel’s Fifth Assessment Report (on climate science, impacts and mitigation). The first volume published in September 2013. The IPCC chair, R.K. Pachauri, said at the Summary’s launch in Copenhagen: “We have the means to limit climate change. The solutions are many, and allow for continued economic and human development. All we need is the will to change…” The Panel insists that adapting to climate change will not be enough, and that the world must make “substantial and sustained reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.” Pachauri said, “To keep a good chance of staying below 2 degrees Celsius [the international threshold for temperature rise], and at manageable

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costs, our emissions should drop by 40 percent to 70 percent globally between 2010 and 2050, falling to zero or below by 2100.” The Summary, spelling out in careful terms what this means, says: “A large fraction of anthropogenic climate change resulting from CO2 emissions is irreversible on a multicentury to millennial timescale, except in the case of a large net removal of CO2 from the atmosphere over a sustained period.” Put more simply, this means that without an effective way to clean up the main greenhouse gas, the world will

face permanent changes. Unfortunately, the method proposed for cleaning the atmosphere — carbon capture and storage — has not yet proved itself at scale. So Pachauri’s plea that the world finds “the will to change“ is fine, so far as it goes. The problem is that there are also several technological hurdles still to surmount. And that’s not the only problem with this report. As with previous major IPCC reports, it unavoidably trails a ways behind the current known facts. The authors of the three volumes on which the Summary is based, and which were published over the last 14

months, were able to consider only climate science published before March 15, 2013. But among research published since then — and too late to be considered by the IPCC teams — was a NASA report suggesting that the melting glaciers of West Antarctica may have passed the point of no return, with serious consequences for global sea levels. Yet the IPCC Summary says simply: “Abrupt and irreversible ice loss from the Antarctic ice sheet is possible, but current evidence and understanding is insufficient to make a quantitative assessment.” Other recent advances in climate science that were published too late for the Panel to consider relate to the Greenland ice sheet and to the Amazon. This is not to blame the IPCC for producing a report that has serious gaps. Its assessment reports appear only once every six or seven years, and are written by unpaid volunteers, supported by a permanent staff of around 12 people. But if you hear the IPCC being accused — as it often is — of alarmism, consider how truly alarming the Summary would have been if the authors had been able to digest all we now know about the effects of climate change. — Climate News Network Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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They’re back. The Bioneers are returning to Boulder for a 12th year. According to the event release, this organization exists to “create community opportunities for sharing, learning and action, and bringing together the region’s progressive ideas, people and organizations.” The University of Colorado Environmental Center, Local Food Shift, Naropa University, Center for Integrative Botanical Studies, Restorative Leadership Institute, Earth Guardians, Boulder County Farmers’ Market and the Woodbine Ecology Center, with the support of sponsors and partner groups, are proud to bring the “Bioneers” to Boulder for an event at CU that will run from Nov. 7 to Nov. 9. According to the organizers, the purpose of the event is to “inspire a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations.” The event will feature “a broadcast of the national Bioneers plenaries and is locally enriched with: music and arts; networking, children’s eco-activities; field trips, and sessions, workshops and keynotes addressing topics of regional importance and community solutions.” —Joel Dyer

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Colorado Teardrops trailers are built in a garage near Pearl Street by a family operation.

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very screw Dean Wiltshire drives into the frame of one of his Colorado Teardrop campers has had a secondary effect — it’s closing the divide between himself and his 30-yearold son, David Wiltshire. As an avid outdoorsman, Dean Wiltshire had found that increasing age and the wants of the women in his life were causing him to rethink how he wanted to spend a night outdoors. “I found that I was not looking forward to cold nights under the stars. My bones creak a bit more these days. But I did not want to stop camping,” Dean Wiltshire says. “So I decided to buy a custom teardrop trailer.” The small camp trailers include a sleeping area, full camp kitchen and organized storage space. “Problem was, it was a minimum six-month wait and no one rented them,” Dean Wiltshire says. “So I decided to try and build one myself.” Having purchased a set of plans, he rented a cramped, dingy storeroom off Pearl Street and set about fabricating his own trailer, but he quickly found he needed an extra set of hands. His thoughts turned to David. Their relationship had soured over the years to the point that they rarely saw each other, and when they did see each other, it was uncomfortable at best. Despite their history, Dean Wiltshire decided to Boulder Weekly

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invite his son to work with him. David Wiltshire was also at an interesting junction in his life when his father called. The father of three young children had recently left the restaurant industry and was looking for something that would allow him more time and freedom to spend with his family. “My father has always been pretty successful and his vision for the company was ambitious, I figured to give it a try and see if we could make it work,” David Wiltshire says. The elder Wiltshire had grown up using his

hands creating things — as a child he helped his father build 38-foot cabin cruiser boats, as a teen he rebuilt cars, he even helped build his house. But the question was, could he build campers to sell and rent to the public. Wiltshire understood that while it was easy to fix mistakes when you are building for yourself, customers expect perfection. As the first camper slowly took shape, the father and son started to realize something: They liked working together. The arguments that in the past would have darkened their time together did not materialize. As they overcame obstacles, like redesigning an in-cabin heater that threatened to melt the walls, they both found they enjoyed brainstorming together on tasks such as how to make a skylight that does not leak yet allows nighttime views. “He has so much to teach me about fabrication and we are co-workers,” David Wiltshire says of his father. “The dynamic has changed. We smile and laugh instead of argue.” From that first camper they have expanded their rentals to four of their Basecamp model trailers, each hand-crafted by father and son with interior design tips from daughter Sarah Wiltshire, who also works for the company as the office manager. They use their rentals as a test fleet to try out new designs and layouts and to find out what consumers are asking for. That approach also has allowed them to see where they needed to make changes; they redesigned a smaller and lighter tailgate after a camper came back from Burning Man with the tailgate hydraulics broken. Dean Wiltshire’s technology background has enabled them to use cutting edge design and manufacturing techniques to build simple, functional campers. Using water jet-cut wood for the frames is their newest idea; frames fit together like a giant 3-D puzzle with minimal screws. Once the frame is wrapped in aluminum, the sleek design looks more Apple than Coleman. see TEARDRROP TRAILERS Page 30

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Newcomers’ Hike to a Flatiron. 11 a.m. Meet at Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 Boulder Light Packers. 6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866. Wheel Building Workshop 1 of 2. 6:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Suite 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019. Registration required. Winter Camping Basics. 6:30 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., Boulder, 303-583-9970. Winter in Iceland. 7 p.m. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303786-8406. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Avalanche and Beacon Clinic. 6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-4998866. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Adventure.”

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n an email exchange between cocurators of the art exhibit for Veterans Speak, Army veteran Adam Nilson explains his photography this way: “I have discovered that art is a therapeutic outlet and another way for me to communicate difficult situations and feelings that I do not care to vocalize. I have also noticed that art can be used as a tool to bridge the gap in understanding between veterans and civilians.” During the two weeks of Veterans Speak, the galleries at the Dairy Center will be filled with relics of military service — one gallery will house artifacts from the Women Marines Association and Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum and two adjacent will feature artwork made by veterans that directly addresses their time in the service. The show is diverse both in the media and in the wars represented, beginning with a sculpture made by World War II veteran Fredric Arnold (see story on page 23) and continuing to a collage made by a soldier who was in Desert Storm and a bridal veil of hand-knit lace made by a woman veteran who recently married a man she met in the military. “One way an exhibition can be successful is by arresting your attention and giving you pause to want to investigate further. Why did these people take these photographs? Why did they make this painting?” says Mary Horrocks, co-curator of the exhibit and curator of visual art and education for The Dairy Center for the Arts. “The immediate effect with the life-size sculpture, the worn boots that belong to an unknown soldier, is to be struck by — I’d use the word awe of really what that commitment is when someone signs up and says they’ll fight no matter what. … I want members of the public to really stop and have an experience of awe and respect.” Many of the pieces are photographs taken by military service members that offer a glimpse at the kind of lives they lead. “These were the kinds of things that we never saw in magazines or television,” says Sally Elliott, the third co-curator of Contemporary Visual Expressions. “People will be able to get a better point of view of people who were there.” Nilson, who was an Army infantryman and worked with a small team of advisors to the Afghan National Army, has a number of

U.S. Army infantryman Adam Nilson’s photographs document time he spent working with a team of U.S. advisors to the Afghan National Army.

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Nilson took this shot while at an outpost serving as part of a “Quick Reaction Force” — on standby in case a need arose for his teammates to provide assistance.

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photographs included. His images from New Orleans to New Mexico to show a machine gun from the greet Vietnam veterans. Englemann’s shooter’s end, an isolated image of statement says that for years, he saw his boots and, in another, boots on older veterans shun the younger genhis feet as they rest on the door of a eration because they “lost” the war in truck with the snarl of barb wire visi- Vietnam, and this was the first time ble just beyond the door, a boy he saw older veterans welcoming being carried away from a fight younger ones. scene in a wheelbarrow his father His photos from Afghanistan and pushes. Iraq have tough subtexts. One shows a A veteran might not want to say group of eight soldiers at a much about time in Afghanistan, or be Thanksgiving dinner in Baghdad. able to find words that recreate the feel- Within a few weeks after the photo was ing of an experience like watching chiltaken, one would die by suicide, one dren grow up in a war-torn country, try- would be discharged for PTSD and one ing to find a way between American would be deployed to Afghanistan forces and Taliban where he was killed. influences just to get Another shows a pair to school each day. of hands passing a ON THE BILL: But Nilson’s photoZippo lighter that Contemporary Visual graph of two boys in reads “Viet Nam Expressions is on view at the Dairy Center for the Arts galthe window of their 71-72 You have never leries through Nov. 21. school shows that he lived til you’ve almost did pause, somewhere died.” on patrol, to think Englemann notes about the children that the lighter growing up amid this ongoing conflict. belonged to a Humvee turret-gunner Likewise, a photograph taken by whose father was a Vietnam veteran. Vietnam veteran Ted Engelmann in They’d never talked about the war, and 1968 shows brown strips of the so the young soldier asked Englemann Vietnamese jungle dying off where what he should expect his emotional life Agent Orange had been sprayed. In his to be like when he goes home. statement, Engelmann clarifies, “The “There’s a lot of contemplation with every piece,” Horrocks says. fleshy color in the lower right is my The goal is a little bit of education. knuckle. We were taking ground fire, I The result is a lot of empathy. was scared, and held my rangefinder For those who feel the need to say camera in a death grip.” something in response, one wall of the Englemann has continued to take gallery will be dedicated to an art photos in conflict zones and of solpiece called “Reflect/Respond/Record” diers. His work to be exhibited that gives visitors a space to write includes a photograph taken at the down their reflections to be hung up Vietnam Veterans Memorial State each day for other visitors to view. Park in Angel Fire, N.M., of two Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com World War II veterans who drove 34 November 6, 2014

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overtones Experience music, and glimpse culture from a world away World music concert invites rethinking the meaning of music by Peter Alexander

ON THE BILL: World Music Concert. Japanese Traditional Music Ensemble, Jay Keister and Mami Itasaka-Keister, directors; and Balinese Gamelan, I Made Lasmawan, director 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 Grusin Music Hall, CU Imig Music Building. Free and open to the public

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he University of Colorado Hokkaido. The ensemble will also perpart of spiritual practice in Bali, each College of Music won’t form a sequence of pieces for taiko gamelan is considered sacred. quite take you around the drum and flute ensemble. This World Music concerts provide the world in 80 minutes, but “Masquerade Medley” will be presented audiences with a fascinating glimpse in one concert of that as a mini-play by Itasaka-Keister with into unfamiliar musical cultures, but length, they can take you into musical masked groups of animals and demons. Keister is clear that the purpose is cultures from the other side of the The gamelan is a traditional more than offering an exotic entertainglobe. orchestra common in villages on the ment. The real focus is on the educaThe occasion is the World Music islands of Bali and Java. It consists of tion of CU students. Concert presented by CU’s Japanese hanging gongs and instruments that “What’s really interesting about the Traditional Music ensembles is the sort of Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado Ensemble and Balinese cultural differences that Gamelan, at 2 p.m. students encounter,” he Saturday, Nov. 8 in Grusin says. “That’s really imporMusic Hall. tant [because] the kids are The College of Music here to get a broad educaoffers several world music tion about the world, and ensembles, giving students the world music ensembles the opportunity to learn a are one great way for them different musical culture to do it, without sitting in from the inside. In addiclass and taking notes but tion to the Japanese and experiencing it through Balinese ensembles, there activities.” is West African Highlife Keister is also aware of ensemble, which will perthe danger of dabbling in form Saturday at 7:30 another culture without p.m., also in Grusin Hall; Japanese and Balinese Music and dance peformance as part of the appreciating its essence. and in the spring semester World Music Festival at the College of Music at Grusin Hall on April 11, “You have to avoid play2010. there will be a Mexican ing too lightly with another Mariachi band. culture,” he says. “Students The Japanese Traditional Music are something like xylophones, with who only know certain ways of being musiEnsemble will perform what co-direcresonant metal chimes for the individcal are suddenly exposed to something tor Jay Keister identifies as “a combina- ual notes. The group is led by a drumtotally, totally different. And it’s not so tion of folk music and theater music.” mer, which in this case will be I Made much that they’re appropriating the culture, While he was trained in Japan in clasLasmawan, a Balinese master musician but that culture is appropriating them. ... sical Japanese music, his wife and cowho lives in Colorado and teaches the “The student has to completely director of the ensemble, Mami gamelan at CU and other schools on rethink their approach to music.” Itasaka-Keister, was trained in Japanese the Front Range. Keister points to the Japanese ensemfolk music. Together they cover a variWhile the instruments are someble as an example of this rethinking. ety of Japanese musical styles. what standardized, each gamelan is “Students think that music is about “Japanese music is all based on sung unique in other ways. expression, and that is not at all what poetry,” Keister explains. “That’s really “No two gamelans are tuned exactly it’s about from a Japanese perspective,” the essence of it, whether it’s vocal the same,” Keister explains. “There’s he says. “It’s about perfect form, and music or [instrumental] classical regional differences, and when you go making harmony among people, and music.” The 14 CU students in the from one village to another, the tuning the way you create that harmony by ensemble will sing and perform on the might be different.” being a good neighbor. That exposes shamisen, a three-stringed lute; the CU started the gamelan classes the students to something new.” shinobue, a side-blown flute; Japanese around 1998 when the instruments By all means, come to the concert. taiko drums; and other drums. were purchased for the university with Hear some intriguing and unfamiliar The program will feature folk and funds from the chancellor’s office and music. But you should also be mindful work songs from several areas of Japan, the College of Music. The CU of the deeper culture that lies beyond including “Bamboo stick song” from gamelan, which has the name “Gamelan the sounds, and the ways the students central Japan, a 19th-century dance Angklung Genta Kencana” (Holy gold- on stage are broadening their experisong titled “Silk Maiden” and “Soran en sound), was created specifically for ence of the world. Song” from the northern island of Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com the university. Because music making is Boulder Weekly

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Elephant Revival plays a rare Boulder show by Josh Gross

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ight up there with Leftover ger stages, away from the natural ambitours. Salmon and Big Head Todd, ance of the instruments their sound is “I think it helps us write more,” says Elephant Revival is one of based on, but Law says a big part of that Rose. “We all come in fresh with new those handful of Boulder sound’s appeal is the ability to be dynamic, material and build that personal autonobands iconic to the city, but to jump from 60 to 110 decibels if need my. On the road, where does one person also widely known beyond the People’s be, and that with the sort of subtle nuance begin, where does the other end? Most Republic. But that status also comes found in Elephant Revival’s songs, you people live autonomous lives. People in with the price of not being able to play kind of have to play loud in order to play bands, it gets a bit convoluted at times.” its hometown very often. soft. Law agrees. “It becomes rarer and rarer as the “You’re amplified so you have a spec“Now when we come together, the crowds get larger potency of our Anne Staveley and larger,” says time together is Bridget Law, the stronger because band’s fiddle player. we have more The band hasn’t space when we’re played here since its apart,” she says. September 2013 free “It’s a balance album release perwe’ve been seeking formance at the to achieve. Having Central Park the flexibility to Bandshell, a perforlive elsewhere is mance that drew something we like nearly 1,200 audia lot. We’re about ence members and to start another moved enough wave of music and albums to catapult I think you’ll feel it the band onto the in the music, there Billboard charts. will be more of an But for local out and in breath.” Though its members are now scattered across the plains, as a band, Elephant Revival still claims Nederland as its home. music-starved eleThe band phantine disciples, scheduled a fourthat rarity is this weekend, when trum and that makes those subtleties day rehearsal to work on new material Elephant Revival will do a two-night more available,” says Law. “Our vocals are while on break from tour in Los stand at the Boulder Theater on Friday, so quiet. Being on a street-corner, you Angeles, and says that, armed with some Nov. 7 and Saturday, Nov. 8, with special really miss out on a lot of the sound.” of that new electricity, it finds itself facguest sets from Horse Feathers on As for the stage dancers… ing slightly diverging sonic paths best Friday night, and fellow local heroes “We gravitate towards super-quirky summarized as Colorado and Nashville. Paper Bird on Saturday. people,” says Law. “And I’ve found acro“I don’t think we’re intentionally In addition to the music, there will batics a really good balance for playing part of the neo-acoustic revival,” says be acrobatic dancing fiddle.” Law. “When it started, we just liked to from members of Once, while en be outside, to go camping and go to fesON THE BILL: Elephant Fractal Tribe, and route to the High tivals. So I think naturally we were more Revival. 9 p.m., Friday, Nov. 7 the band is encourSierra Music drawn to the acoustic instruments and Saturday, Nov. 8, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, aging attendees to Festival, Elephant because of their portability.” 303-786-7030, $25 advance, dress in feathers Revival pulled over But now? $27 door because both nights to the side of the “It’s a choice of where we want to go,” will be filmed. road to pick up a says Law. “We could go this Americana “We’re hoping hitchhiking stiltroute. My choice would be to dive into this to be able to release this as an onwalker, who turned out to be a member indefinable genre we’re exploring.” demand or live DVD package,” says Law. of March Fourth Marching Band also Law for her part says she likes the “The live music is such a part of us. It’s going to High Sierra. idea of partially ditching albums and exciting, capturing this night as a time “We were like, I don’t know if you can recording one-off singles with different capsule. It’s so beautiful. The energy in fit,” says Dango Rose, Elephant Revival’s producers to try lots of different sounds. that room is amazing. I think it’s time for bassist. But no matter what the band does, a live release.” But sometimes those quirky people Law and Rose say it will maintain the That sort of bombast might seem they’re drawn to are elsewhere. Though core of what fans expect. unusual for a band like Elephant Revival, Elephant Revival claims Nederland as its “It’ll be soothing,” Rose says. “Bring whose particular brand of folk sits home, its members are a little less conyour grandchildren. Bring your mom. It’s between gentle and delicate, and for the fined with members now scattered across open to everyone.” band to be stepping up to bigger and bigRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com the plains, reuniting for recording and Boulder Weekly

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arts & culture The other 1 percent

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Reason explores the challenges soldiers and their families face coming back from war.

New play tackles the social isolation of a shrinking military population by Josh Gross

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February 2013 report from the Department of Veteran’s Affairs found that at least 22 veterans commit suicide daily. Most are older, further removed from service, but the number is still shockingly high, and climbing. Rates increased 44 percent just since 2009. According to playwright Ami Dayan a lot of that may have to do with the shrinking percentage of Americans who serve. “The military is 1 percent of the [American] population,” says Dayan. “I come from Israel, but one thing that is very fundamentally different in Israel is that everyone goes into the military, so it’s one nation, one military. So if there’s an attack on the street, everyone is connected. But here, you’re in Boulder, and the likelihood that you’re impacted is pretty low. Soldiers come back and they have all these traumas, and all these experiences, and they go back to the shadows and they’re unseen.” Dayan says that makes it hard for veterans to trust. “Trust is fundamental,” he says. “It goes beyond. “The vets, when we invited them [to be interviewed for Reason, Dayan’s new play], they didn’t trust us. Who were we to tell their story?” That’s why for Reason, which premiered at the Boulder International

Fringe Festival and was revised and revived to show as part of Veterans Speak, Dayan created a way that could bridge that divide and built trust: an imaginary, experimental treatment program that puts struggling vets together with members of the civilian population — many being members of military families — who are facing similar issues. “If instead of looking for the same brotherhood that they had back in war, if you can allow them to have that camaraderie with the families, then you’re bringing them back to society,” he says. Reason brings together a suspended drone pilot, an ex-Marine, the wife of an infantry officer, and the mother of a wounded soldier on life support, forcing them to confront their issues together. “It’s about the impact of war and how to treat it,” says Dayan. Dayan is careful to draw distinctions between post traumatic stress disorder and other forms of mental residue from war, issues like depression, insomnia and suicidal impulses, some of which can be connected to PTSD, but can also exist on their own. “The whole thing of diagnosing PTSD has been a very difficult thing, because they’re trying to prevent people from getting the benefits that come with it,” he says. To research the play, Dayan did a lot of reading, as well as interviewing mem-

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bers of the military, often with a friend — a former member of the Air Force — alongside him to help build trust. “Before you start writing something, you don’t get the code,” he says. “And a lot of the codes have to do with the word ‘trust.’ So much of it has to do with trust. Originally, you’re thinking that two people that have the same information might align with one another. But then you put in that one is a Marine and one is in the Air Force and you have a problem.” Though the list of compelling issues that Reason broaches is lengthy, one that stands out is the character of the suspended drone pilot. “Until 2004, drone pilots were always pilots,” says Dayan. “After a while, they found that these guys had such egos that keeping them in a small room in Las Vegas, it was very hard to control them. So they tried using younger people, especially with video game backgrounds. So this is a young kid who signed up to go to college because he couldn’t afford it and within a few months, he’s part of this elite group being taught to fly drones in the

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sky. And everything was great until they got overexposed. And then milion dollar equipment started dropping from the sky.” Dayan says those after effects can be very difficult to address, in large part because they can be so abstract. “You’re not even there, you’re outside of Las Vegas and you’re bombing Yemen, which you couldn’t even find on a map a month ago,” he says. “You’re talking about shooting at anyone 16-24, because they’re considered a militant. Was that something that attracted me to it? Absolutely. The other thing that attracted me to it was that it was a position of extreme power and zero risk. Nothing can happen to the drone pilot.” Nothing physical any way. And that’s what Dayan seeks to address in Reason. “It’s a little complicated if you’re doing a play that also teaches something,” he says. “There are different realms.” And Dayan says a big part of the reason that he was able to pull it off was because of a strong cast that was willing to spend months researching their roles. “It went beyond anything I’ve experienced before,” he says. “I think it’s because of the subject matter, which people really care about and want to make a difference. For me that’s when you know that things are going right. “ Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Danny Shafer. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Dead Set ‘A Tribute to the Grateful Dead’. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ed Breazeale’s Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-5440746. Greg Schochet & Katie Glassman. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Jazzebel Jazz Duo. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Mountain Meadow String Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

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

An update on MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile EvolutioN), the CU-Boulder-led mission to Mars, from Dr. Dave Brain. 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696, FREE

Songs for a New World. 7:30 p.m. Acting Studio, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder. Stephen Thurston Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Treena McCurdy. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. We’s Us, Moontang. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Events Amazing Artists. 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave.,, Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Anything Goes. 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100. Best of Boulder East County Party. 5:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & Swing. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Chris Campbell and Claire McArdle. 5:30 p.m. Fine Art Associates Boulder, 1949 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-413-1000. Create an Online Portfolio Using Wordpress. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. see EVENTS Page 44

National Novel Writing Month

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Write a book

“Write-in” meetup times and locations can be found at: http:// nanowrimo.org/en/regions/usacolorado-boulder November can be dreary. What better time to lock yourself inside to write a novel? This month is National Novel Writing Month, or “NaNoWriMo,” and now that you’ve recovered from Halloween, there’s still time to get on board. NaNoWriMo started in 1999 and dares aspiring writers to complete a draft of a novel, at least 50,000 words, in 30 days. The project aims to inspire and encourage anyone to write a novel — first-timers and seasoned authors alike. It started with 21 participants in 1999. In 2014, more than 400,000 people nationwide joined in on the writing frenzy. Water for Elephants is one of the success stories of NaNoWriMo. A New York Times best seller and now a major motion-picture, the historical novel was published following author Sara Gruen’s participation in the project. If you’re looking for fellowship, Boulder County has a regional group that hosts daily “write-ins.” More information on these meetups can be found online.

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Love modern Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins on drums. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282.

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In the 1970s, Jonathan Richman helped change music forever with his band The Modern Lovers. Since leaving garage-rock behind, Richman continues to tour as a solo act, strumming soft ballads and innovative pop songs like those that were so influential once upon a time. For his upcoming Boulder performance, Richman will be accompanied just by his guitar and percussion man Tommy Larkins. Richman’s solo music is eclectic — he is known for love songs that are rooted in rock but full of childlike energy and oddball playfulness. Partnered up with Larkins on the drums, Richman’s shows are well regarded as engaging and light-hearted.

Parent up Courtesy of Chronicle Books

This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. There’s a lot about parenting that your parents don’t teach you. Especially if you are the parent of LGBTQ youth. This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids is a book for parents, youth and supporters to guide them on how to better communicate with and parent LGBTQ youth. Authors Kristin Russo and Dannielle Owens-Reid have been praised for their compassionate website Everyone is Gay, which they launched four years ago. Everyone is Gay works to improve the lives of LGBTQ adolescents and This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids is co-written by the founders as a part of their organization’s “The Parents Project.”

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Enlightened Feminine Leadership. 9:30 a.m. MatrixWorks, 403 Juniper Ave., Boulder, 303-819-5289. GED classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

NUGGETS VS CAVALIERS Friday, November 7 8:30 pm

NUGGETS VS TRAIL BLAZERS Wednesday, November 12 7:00 pm

Maintaining Your Wordpress Website to Prevent Hacking and Data Loss. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Margaret Coel Book Talk and Signing. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100. Open Access: Painters & Potters. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Tango Intermediate Drop in Class. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Friday, November 7 Music Acoustic Stew. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Blues on the Lamb Ft. Mark Kaczorowski. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Bonnie and Taylor Sims. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472.

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Chain Station. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Crooked Streets. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Denny Driscoll and the Left Hand Market Boys. 6:30 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Fox Feather. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Funky Tonk Heros. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Greg Schocet Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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HomeSlice Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Honeytree. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

ART/TEKNE: Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/ Nature’s Creative Potential — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303492-8300. Through Dec. 20.

Vivian Gegewo, Papua New Guinea, Tapa Painting, 2004. Bark and paint. Purchased with funds donated in memory of George G. Anderman, 2004.134.

Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25.

Buy — Sharon Feder. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 16. Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Defaced — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 8.

Photography by Fernando Boza. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29.

Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth will be on display at the Denver Art Museum through Aug. 27, 2017.

Discovering & Interpreting the West — 21st Century Landscapes. Main Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Nov. 16. Drawings — by Carroll Dunham. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Feb. 15. Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through Jan. 18. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720865-5000. Through March 22.

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

Printed and Painted: The Art of Bark Cloth — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 27, 2017.

Johnny O Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Oil Paintings by Steven Homsher. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Nov. 29

Political Contemporary Realism — by Alan Manuel. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Nov. 9.

Present Box Durty Raw, Passion, Love Seduction — by Todd Reed. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Nov. 9. Matisse and Friends — by Henri Matisse and friends. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through Jan. 25. Memory: Loss and Found — by Laurie Beth Zuckerman and Susan Wechsler. The Dairy Center for The Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12. A Table (Somewhat): Conversations Between Objects — by Various artists. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20. ART/TEKNE: Part 3 “Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Potential” — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20.

Longest Day of the Year. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6 p.m. Salto Coffee Works, 112 E. Second St., Nederland, 303-258-3537.

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

North Boulder Underground. 5 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

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

Ojo: The Threshold. 8 p.m. Atlas Black Box Theatre at CU Boulder, 1201 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-1336. Policulture. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Ron LeGault. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Events Anything Goes. 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100. Be Your Own STROBIST: Using your Flash Creatively. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

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

CFOOTMAD — Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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

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

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

Enlightened Feminine Leadership. 9:30 a.m. MatrixWorks, 403 Juniper Ave., Boulder, 303-819-5289.

Songs for a New World. 7:30 p.m. Acting Studio, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder.

Family Game Night. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Freaky Fridays — for Teens — Solar Cockroaches! 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Free Resume and Job Search Advice. 12 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Front Range Bioneers Conference. All Day. Eaton Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Lyons Weekly Film Festival. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236. Masterpiece Makers: All About Animals. 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. MFA Fall Thesis Exhibition. 5 p.m. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Minecrafternoons* at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. NoBo Art District First Friday. 6 p.m. Settembre see EVENTS Page 46

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Cellars, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 16, Boulder, 303532-1892. Paint & Print. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Salsa Night. 9:30 p.m. Boulder Agora, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-477-4164. Snovember Yoga for Skiers. 8 a.m. Outdoor DIVAS, 2317 30th St., Boulder, 303-449-DIVA. Tango Ground School Class. 6:45 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Saturday, November 8 Music African Highlife and African Vocal Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8008. Al Chesis & Bob Pellegrino. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Alcapones. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Arthur Lee Land: Art of Looping. 7 p.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Boulder, 303-827-3163. Atomga. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Thursday, Nov. 6

Ellen Bates, Jillian Stuart and Amy and Michael Shonstrom. 2 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074

St. Mary’s Academy: 150 years — by Regina Drew & Deirdre V. Cryor. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727. Factory Town — by Jon Bassoff. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303447-2074 Friday, Nov. 7

Monday, Nov. 10

5280 Magazine food editor Amanda Faison will discuss and sign 5280: The Cookbook, along with local chefs Dana Rodriguez and Hosea Rosenberg at the Tattered Cover on Colfax on Wednesday, Nov. 12.

Innisfree: Coffee Cupping. 1 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

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

Carry Home — by Gary Ferguson. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents “Allure” and Special Recital with Guest Artist Inbal Segev. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-583-1278.

This is a Book for Parents of Gay Kids — by Danielle Owens-Reid & Kristin Russo. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-4472074

Cosmic Mesa. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Saturday, Nov. 8

An Evening with Poor Man’s Whiskey. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Fall Equinox Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 415-290-9242. Fiona Joy & Trysette — Two Grand I’m Yours. 7 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-449-3177. George Nelson. 8 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578. The Good Kind, Rocktin Grove & Technicolor Tone Factory. 2 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-3961898. HomeSlice Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Indigent Row. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Wolf in Winter — by John Connolly. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. My Love for You Is the Sun — by Julie Hedlund & Susan Eaddy. 11 a.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074 The Yellow Birds — Book club discussion. 3 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303447-2074 Innisfree: Writing Group. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Cowboys, Yogis, and One-Legged Ski Bums: The Extraordinary Lives of Ordinary Coloradans — by Don Morreale. 11 a.m. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-444-0349. Sunday, Nov. 9 An Afternoon with Local Authors. With Mary

Five Points and Beyond: The Heart of Historic East Denver — by Phil Goodstein. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Tuesday, Nov. 11

Active Minds Lecture: Scotland. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Where I Belong — by Alan Doyle. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-4472074 Contemplative Psychotherapy Essentials — by Karen Kissel Wegela. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-447-2074 Innisfree: RR. 5 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-4953303. Timeless Infinite Light. 5:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, Nov. 12 5280: The Cookbook — by Amanda Faison. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. Rewilding Our Hearts — by Marc Bekoff. p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., 303-4472074 7:30

Japanese and Balinese Ensembles. 2 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. John Moreland and Kierston White. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s Boulder, 1447 Pearl St., Boulder. Johnny O Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. JV3 Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Ojo: The Threshold. 8 p.m. Atlas Black Box Theatre at CU Boulder, 1201 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-1336. Otis Taylor Trance Blues Jam Festival. All Day. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Piano Legends: The Music of Billy Joel and Elton John. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Punch Drunk Munky Funk. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614. The Ragged Union. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Rastasaurus. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Reggae Lou. 7 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292. Songs for a New World. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Acting Studio, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder.

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Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

Center for the Performing Arts, 990 Public Road, Lafayette, 303-786-8727.

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

Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Ultralowfi. 7 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suit 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. The Velvet Elvis. 2 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914. WadiRum. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Weston Smith. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Whiskey Treats Benefit for FosterShip. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Events Boulder IPA Fest. 12 p.m. Avery Brewing Company, 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324. Anything Goes. 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100. Auditions for The Littlest Angel. 1 p.m. Harlequin

Big Apple Circus: METAMORPHOSIS. 10:30 a.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder. Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime Hora de Cuentos Bilingües. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder Mountain Handmade Art Craft Bake Sale. 10 a.m. Watershed School, 1661 Alpine Ave., Boulder. Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303. Dance is for Every Body Showcase. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Draw on the Creative Edge. 4 p.m. Out Boulder, 2132 14th St., Boulder, 303-916-5711. Enlightened Feminine Leadership. 12 p.m. Matrixsee EVENTS Page 48

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A Second Helping: The Church Basement Ladies Sequel. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Nov. 8

The Adventures of Dracula. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through Nov. 29. Burning Cities. Boulder Ensemble Theater Company reading. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-351-BETC. Nov. 8 only.

Kinky Boots will be playing at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts through through Nov. 9.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-335-4581. Through Nov. 8. Wanderer. by 3rd Law Dance Theater. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 8.

Seussical. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through Nov. 30.

Sherlock’s Holmes & The Masters of Crime. Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through Nov. 22. Kinky Boots. Buell Theater, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239. Through Nov. 9.

EVENTS from Page 46 Works, 403 Juniper Ave., Boulder, 303-819-5289. Front Range Bioneers Conference. All Day. Eaton Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Scandinavian Monthly Dance. 8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

No Bird Ever Flew. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Storytimes en Español for Children at NoBo Branch. 11:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303-441-4250.

Sara & Katie Farmer. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Tango Technique Class with G&G. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Wildlife and Winter Hike. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, Boulder. Women of the West Saturday Group. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100. WordPress Theme Customization Hands-On Class. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Zumba Plus Zumba Toning. 8:30 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303.

Sunday, November 9 Music American Nomad. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Boulder Chamber Orchestra Presents “Allure” and Special Recital with Guest Artist Inbal Segev. 1 p.m. Grace Lutheran Church, 1001 13th St., Boulder, 303-583-1278. Brandon Hagen. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Cary Morin. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Dakota Blonde. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Early Music Ensemble. 4:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Sangiovese Vertical. 1 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.

Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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Denny Driscoll. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Songs for a New World. 2 p.m. Acting Studio, College Avenue and Broadway, Boulder. Swing Chicks. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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

Events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Boulder Mountain Handmade Art Craft Bake Sale. 10 a.m. Watershed School, 1661 Alpine Ave., Boulder. Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Dance is for Every Body Showcase. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Enlightened Feminine Leadership. 9 a.m. MatrixWorks, 403 Juniper Ave., Boulder, 303-819-5289. Front Range Bioneers Conference. All Day. Eaton Humanities, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder. Tango Lesson. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Mahler Symphony No. 3. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Reynolds Teen Advisory Group (TAG). 2:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Sangiovese Vertical. 1 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.

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events Scottish Country Dancers of Colorado. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Snovember Yoga for Skiers. 8 a.m. Outdoor DIVAS, 2317 30th St., Boulder, 303-449-DIVA. Sunday Morning Zumba. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Tea Dance with Live Music. 1 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Watercolor Basics (Adults). 12:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902.

Monday, November 10 Music Augustus. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. The Henhouse Prowlers. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-546-0886. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. The Toure-Raichel Collective. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Events Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Clay & Sculpt. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. How to Generate a Renewable Energy Revolution. 5:30 p.m. Impact HUB Boulder, 1877 Broadway, Suite 100, Boulder. 303-629-2899 Pudding Pictionary at Meadows. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Scandinavian Dance Basics & Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Search Engine Optimization Hands-On. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Wheel Throwing. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Zumba Plus Toning with Mary Kay. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Tuesday, November 11 Music

Wind Symphony. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Events Beginner Class at Boulder Tango Studio. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Introduction to HTML 5. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Tango Intermediate Drop In Class. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wheel Throwing 1. 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Wheel Throwing 2. 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Zumba Gold at the Avalon Ballroom. 9 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Wednesday, November 12 Music

Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Dave Tamkin. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Ekstrand Competition Finals. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008. JD McPherson. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Nick O’Connor. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Wednesday Night Blues featuring Johnny O Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Events

Mark Diamond presents: The Heavy Cats. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4151300.

Midday Music. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Mic Night. 5:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. SoMo. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Architecture and Assemblage at the Site of PolisChrysochous on Cyprus. 7 p.m. Paleontology Hall, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 N. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-492-6892.

Craft Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Open Mic every Tuesday. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

Blues Jam. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

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

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

The Art of the Video Interview. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

S P R I N G WAT E R

Acoustic Open Mic. 7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

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

Muzoetry: Conscious Musical Poetry. 8 a.m. Tonic Herban Lounge, 2011 10th St., Boulder, 303-544-0202.

INDIAN PEAKS

The Naturalist: Honoring the Life and Work of William A. Weber. 4:30 p.m. Fifth Floor, Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-7521. Open Art | Drop In Art Class for Children Under 5. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902. Opera: Il Trovatore. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th Street and Pearl Street, Boulder, 800807-6179.

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Three came back

‘The Best Years of Our Lives’ and the returning soldier

by Michael J. Casey

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ollywood Producer Samuel Goldwyn said it straight: “I don’t care if the film doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it.” He was referring to 1946’s The Best Years of Our Lives, screening at The Boedecker Theatre on Nov. 11; Veteran’s Day. The scheduling isn’t coincidence. The Best Years of Our Lives is the story of three vets returning home from World War II: Al (Fredric March), an infantry platoon sergeant; Fred (Dana Andrews), a decorated Army Air Force Captain; and Homer (Harold Russell), who served on an aircraft carrier that sunk and cost him both of his hands, now replaced by prosthetic hooks. While they return home conquering heroes, it gets them little more than a pat on the back. Al returns to the bank and Fred takes up his old position at the soda shop. It does not go well for either. Al starts hitting the bottle and Fred is fired when he gets into a fistfight with a customer who casually remarks that the soldiers fought the wrong war. Don’t they know the Communists were the real

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When it was released, The Best Years of Our Lives became the highest grossing American film since Gone With the Wind.

enemy, not the Nazis? Welcome home, soldier. By the time The Best Years of Our Lives hit theaters, America had been out of the war for 15 months and was just starting to grapple with the issues faced for returning soldiers. The Best Years of Our Lives tackled the subject in a way that no other Hollywood movie did, or has done since. It is a quiet movie free from showy performances

ART AND CRAFT

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

BALLET: MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 3

This production from the Paris Opera Ballet uses Mahler’s “great hymn to the glory of all creation” as inspiration for John Neumeier’s powerful choreography. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

A lecture precedes this film screening as part of Veterans Speak at The Dairy. See full review above. At Boedecker.

COMEDY WARRIORS: HEALING THROUGH HUMOR

See full review on page 51. At Boedecker.

FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

This Veterans Speak film and lecture will happen in the Performance Space. Clint Eastwood directs this telling of the life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in World War II. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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and overtly melodramatic scenes. Shot by the incomparable cinematographer Gregg Toland, The Best Years of Our Lives is full of visually poetic scenes that speak louder than words ever could. Consider the scene where Fred — waiting at the military airport for a plane to leave Boone City — stumbles across an aircraft graveyard. The planes are grounded and quickly falling apart, completely useless in peacetime.

LISTEN UP PHILIP

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

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT

Set in the 1920s on the opulent Riviera in the south of France, Woody Allen’s latest film is a romantic comedy about a master magician (Colin Firth) trying to expose a psychic medium (Emma Stone) as a fake. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

A MERRY FRIGGIN’ CHRISTMAS

This film follows Boyd Mitchler (Joel McHale) and his wife (Lauren Graham), as they spend a dreaded Christmas with Boyd’s father (Robin Williams) and his family of misfits. Upon realizing that he has left all of his son’s gifts at home, Boyd hits the road with his father and younger brother in an attempt to make the eight-­hour round trip before sunrise. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

ON APPROVAL

Just like the pilots that flew them. Based on a script by Robert E. Sherwood and directed by William Wyler — who served in the Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945 — The Best Years of Our Lives is an incredibly personal film with pitch-perfect performances. The standout was the nonactor Harold Russell for his portrayal of Homer and it earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at that year’s Academy Awards. Fearing that he might not take home the statue, the Academy awarded Russell a special recognition “for bringing hope and courage to his fellow veterans through his appearance.” Later that night, Russell won the Best Supporting Actor award as well, making him the only actor to win two Oscars for the same performance. Best Years went on to run the table at the Oscars. Nominated for eight and winning seven, plus Russell’s honorary and a memorial award for producer Samuel Goldwyn, who got his wish. The Best Years of Our Lives sold 55 million tickets. Looks like darn near every man, woman and child did see it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Brothers done in deadpan style.” This English film has clever dialogue that will leave you laughing. Nov. 6, 7:30 only, VAC Basement Auditorium (1B20)

OPERA: II TROVATORE This musical feast from the Berlin Staatsoper stars Anna Netrebko and Plácido Domingo in debut roles at the head of an impressive ensemble directed by Daniel Barenboim. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT This film is Ramon Zürcher’s debut and it is truly one of the most interesting and unusual initial offerings ever. The film takes place on one afternoon in a Berlin apartment and contains everything from comedy to suspense to exceptionally creative cinematography. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9 only, Muenzinger Auditorium

THE TRIP TO ITALY Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon team up for a thoughtful and sometimes outragesly funny roadtrip through the Italian countryside. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 7 and Nov. 8, Muenzinger Auditorium Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

This 1944 film was controversial in its day for its bawdiness and use of the word “hell,” but now it’s just a classic comedy. It has been called “the Marx

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t’s said the formula for comedy is In the beginning of Comedy tragedy plus time. But sometimes, Warriors, the audience meets the five when the tragedy is big enough, vets, learns about their lives pre- and time moves too slowly and comepost-injury, and witnesses how they use dy must be found sooner. humor first to aid their own lives, and In essence, that’s what the doculater translate it to the standup stage. mentary Comedy Warriors, which will “They’re trying to figure out a way show at The Dairy Center as part of to not only just get their life back, but Veterans Speak, is all about. make the people around them feel more The film’s director, John Wager, had comfortable,” says Wager. “A lot of burn been doing film work with the victims use comedy to make the people Wounded Warrior Project. Most of it they’re with more comfortable. Then was focused on adaptive sports for they can stop seeing them as this person injured vets. But on the who has been blown up.” Courtesy of Comedy Warriors way home from a shoot in And that’s a big part upstate New York, he of what they do. “You should see the other guy,” stopped to have lunch cracks Bobby Henline, with a friend who worked who has burns scars across as a business manager for 38 percent of his body. comedians, and together Like the best comedic they cooked up a whopper routines, Comedy Warriors of an idea: take injured goes to some of the darkest veterans and pair them places in the human psyche, with professional comediissues of pain, depression, ans who would help them anxiety and potential suicide, craft a standup act about and turns those issues on their life and struggle. their head, giving the vets “As soon as you can laugh at something, it’s meaning and a renewed the first step in moving on sense of hope. It is both ON THE BILL: and feeling better,” says heartbreaking and hilariComedy Warriors. Various times, Wager. “And these guys ous. The film concludes Wednesday, Nov. deserve to feel better.” with the participants per12-Saturday, Nov. 15 Wager says he immeforming to a packed The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., diately called the Hollywood comedy club, Boulder, 303-440-7826 Wounded Warrior Project. despite having only been “They said ‘Yeah, on stage a handful of cool,’ probably thinking I times, a situation in which would go away,” he says. “We didn’t go the possibility of bombing, in a less serious away. We kept with it.” sense, is quite real. Eventually, the Wounded Warrior Comedy Warriors won grand prizes Project came on board to help with at all five film festivals it screened at, as funding and outreach, and before long, well as receiving a special award from Wager and his partners, Ray Reo and The Television Academy for programBernadette Luckett, had dozens of ming with a social conscience. applications in front of them from vets “They’re so impressive to me,” says across the country. Wager. “It makes me think twice about They selected five vets with injuries how fortunate we are. I’m not going to ranging from chronic pain, to amputacomplain about stubbing my toe or my tion, to burn scars, and recruited come- Internet speed isn’t fast enough. These dians Bob Saget, Louis Black, B.J. guys are going through real stuff.” Novak, Zach Galifianakis and others to But more than just going through it, coach them, filming the entire process. they’re coming out on top. “We didn’t know if any of it was As Darisse Smith, one of the comedy going to work,” Wager says. “We startwarriors, says in the film: “I can now laugh ed doing it and we’re like, ‘We think at things that used to make me cry.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com they’re funny, but will anyone else?’” Boulder Weekly

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oulder’s sunshine is legendary. Which makes its cloudy days hit that much harder. And when they do, Boulder’s wide variety of salads and smoothies just won’t cut it. Grey skies and plunging barometers demand comfort food. That urge was what lead this reporter into Ella Fine Diner just off Broadway in North-ish Boulder for a warm-up lunch on a recent cloudy day. However, on that visit, Ella was only marginally less chilly than the great outdoors. Perhaps my dining companion and I were just seated in a drafty corner, or the heat was just down. Heck, maybe they figured they live in sunny Boulder and disconnected the thermostat altogether, preferring to live free and unencumbered, but whatever the case, it can’t be denied that it was every bit as much sweater weather inside as it was on the patio. The large picture windows at the restaurant’s storefront also created an odd ambiance, as they let in loads of lovely natural light, or loads of natural gray if that’s what the sun has to offer. The decor was a pairing of modern industrial with a lot of greenery in the windows, and felt comfortable and zen, especially thanks to a series of

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soundtraps mounted to the wall to absorb ambient sonic clutter, but the overcast day ensured everything inside was lit for an intimate dinner rather than a high noon lunch. That said: it is thoroughly lovely on a brighter day. But what physical comfort was lacking that chilly day at Ella was available on the menu. Breakfasts covered American standards like omelettes, benedicts and chicken fried steak using ingredients largely sourced from local and sustainable vendors. The lunch and dinner

menu went the comfort food route, with hot sandwiches, burgers, pizzas and American meat and potatoes style plates. My dining companion and I decided to split a bowl of Matzoh Ball soup, which was dressed up with chunks of carrot and chicken in a rich broth. Only one thing: Lance Armstrong-like, there was only one ball. While I can appreciate the aesthetics of the single ball, when it’s gone, suddenly it’s not matzoh ball soup anymore, and that is a sad, sad moment.

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For the main course, I went for the wild lasagna, ($9.75 lunch, $10.75 dinner), made with ground buffalo, beef, wild boar and spinach layered with tomato sauce and lasagna noodles, and served with a side of sauteed kale. The square of heaven that came back was just the thing for a cold day, with chunks of tomato big enough that it could have easily been mistaken for ratatouille. My dining companion ordered a slab of Fun Guy Meatloaf ($9.50 lunch, $10.50 dinner), which came with a side of incredibly buttery mashed potatoes and chicken gravy, and the same side of sauteed kale. T’was just right, featuring beef loaded up with portobello and crimini mushrooms for a rich flavor that was surprisingly light for meatloaf. With a dollop of potatoes on top, one could almost forget the Never Ending Story-like dreariness that lurked outside. Ella’s food definitely delivered the warm-up I needed to survive the cloudpocalypse, and it did so without much of the heavy feeling that often comes with American cuisine. But about that thermostat... Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Since winning Bravo’s Top Chef Season Five, Hosea Rosenberg has kept busy. From manning his food truck Darth Tater, serving as executive chef of Jax Fish House Boulder for six years, to running Blackbelly Catering, Rosenberg has gained foodie fans who are anticipating the grand opening of his new Boulder restaurant, Blackbelly Market, on Tuesday, Nov. 11. The new restaurant will include a dining room for full-service lunch and dinner, a bar with a cocktail menu designed by award-winning mixologist Michael Cerretani, a full butcher shop for fine meats and an allday grab-and-go market for food on the go. Most products are sourced locally and/or prepared in-house, but Rosenberg is willing to go out of state for specialties like artisan grits. “The most important thing for us is the flavor,” Rosenberg says. That’s why he’s shipping in genuine New Mexico hatch chilis for Blackbelly’s green chili, not using their local faux counterparts. “The hatch chili is the champagne of peppers,” Hosenberg says. Rosenberg also says the deli can get you almost anything in the exotic meat department within 72 hours. Blackbelly Market will be located in East Boulder at 1606 Conestoga St., a bit farther from Boulder’s foodie central, but part of a cluster of eateries like Pica’s Mexican Taqueria, BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats and Fate Brewing Co., helping shape up a new culinary center in the east part of town. — Nadia Mishkin

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advance. What’s the point of Serendipity III’s Since New York is already strugextraordinary gling with inequality issues ranging plates and from police issues, to a housing unfathomably crunch, to proposed separate priced menu entrances to apartment buildings for items? Owner “the poors,” one restaurant decided Chef Hosea Rosenberg of Blackbelly Stephen Bruce to take things to the next level with a Market simply has a $214 grilled cheese sandwich. taste for the The restaurant, Serendipity III, was astonishing, but he also donates many of the already known for its outrageously expensive profits of his outrageously priced expensive plates, and holds several Guinness World menu items to local charities. Records; one for the most expensive dessert, —Nadia Mishkin “The Golden Opulence Sundae,” which is priced at $1,000 dollars, and the other for the TASTE OF ARVADA most expensive hamburger, “Le Burger Eaten everywhere in Boulder twice Extravagant,” which costs $295. already? Well then hit the old, dusty trail on So in context, a $214 grilled cheese almost down to Arvada. seems like a bargain. Thursday, Nov. 13 will be the city’s annual What makes this sandwich so special? “Taste of Arvada” event, where attendees Let’s start with the cheese. In the south of can sample local restaurants and get a Italy there is a breed of cow called the “taste” of local businesses. Podolica cow. There are only about 25,000 of More than 50 restaurants will be providing these special cows in the world. They are menu items to the public for testers of their best raised on free-range farms and graze on the food and drink for your taste buds’ delight. finest grasses; fennel, licorice, juniper, laurel Some of the participating locales include: Fire bay and wild strawberries. This diet is said to & Ice Bistro, which serves unique concept cusinfuse their milk with a delectable taste, maktom designed cocktails, nitro-frozen cocktails ing the cheese they produce one of the rarand “adult milkshakes;” Yak & Yeti Restaurant est gourmet cheese in the world. and Brewpub, serving Indian food and handThis rare cheese is encased by French crafted beers; La Patisserie Bakery, serving Pullman Champagne Bread, made with Dom scratch-made pastries; and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, Perignon champagne and smothered with which serves everything from traditional tacos white truffle butter. After being toasted crisp to the bacon and egg-filled “pancake taco.” in a panini maker, the edges of the sandwich The APEX Center is located at 13150 W. 72nd are painted with 24k edible gold. Ave., in Arvada. General admission is from 6-8 The deluxe grilled cheese is accompanied p.m., and there will be an exclusive VIP experiby a dipping bowl of South African Lobster ence from 5-6 p.m. There are various ticket Tomato Bisque — made with the lobster tails options including advance, adult, children 6-12 and tomatoes shipped in from Italy. It is years old, family pack and VIP, which can all topped off with crème fraîche and truffle oil. be purchased at www.arvadachamber.org or The sandwich was created by chef Joe by calling 303-424-0313. Calderone, and must be ordered 48 hours in — Nadia Mishkin

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ast year’s late spring frost and punishing fall floods certainly had one upside: it’s been a hell of a year for apples. On every street there seems to be at least one tree laden with branches bowed down with ripening fruit. Sauces, cider, pies and cobblers — it’s been hard for homeowners to use them all and many, overwhelmed with the volume, simply haven’t been able to organize their harvest. Riding to their rescue with bushels attached to bikes comes the Boulder Fruit Rescue. Rather than see the food go to waste rolling into lawns and gutters, the newly formed organization has developed a scheme to help both homeowners and the hungry benefit from this years’ bountiful harvest with the help of volunteer harvesters. “Boulder used to be an orchard,” explains Micah Parkin, executive director of 350 Colorado, an organization working toward creative local solutions to combat climate change that helped form the Boulder Fruit Rescue. Street names like Orchard Creek, Cherryvale and Apple Way are a reminder of Boulder’s fruited past. “There are liter-

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ally hundreds of fruit trees and many homeowners have already eaten their fill.” Her organization, along with Falling Fruit, a nonprofit based in Boulder around urban harvesting, had been meeting as part of the county’s new Edible Landscapes Workgroup to discuss ways to increase the amount of local food available in urban environments. Faced with this year’s bumper crop and supplied with connections to Boulder Food Rescue, which donates food otherwise wasted to organizations such as the Boulder Fruit Rescue helps homeowners with a plentiful fruit tree harvest by picking their trees and dispursing fruits throughout the community. Emergency Family Assistance Association and Harvest of Hope, the group founded the Boulder Fruit Rescue to help connect homeharvests were set up for Sunday afterwinter. There were several active memowners and volunteer harvesters. noons, with volunteers meeting at regis- bers of the Boulder Bear Coalition as Much like the quantity of fruit this tered trees where they picked. The well, who helped out to discourage year, the response was overwhelming. unique model the group developed had bears from coming onto properties to “Hundreds of people registered and one-third of the harvest going to the feast on the fallen fruit, putting them at the very first event, we realized we homeowners, one-third to the harvest(and homeowners) in danger. would be overwhelmed,” explained ers themselves, and the remaining third “A lot of folks who came to harvest Parkin, whose solution was to create a to Boulder Food Rescue or Boulder didn’t really take much fruit. They were toolkit and designate neighborhood Valley School District. Some of the vol- more interested in the community organizers based on zip codes. With unteers included folks interested in cansee FRUIT Page 58 over 50 volunteer organizers, the fruit ning and putting away fruit for the

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codling moth, a common pest of apples, and a nice warm fall for allowing apples plenty of time to ripen. When asked if we were likely to see this level of harvest again soon, Reich explained that with appropriate management (including irrigation and fertilizer) and cultivar selection, people in the lower elevation portions of Boulder County should be able to get very good apple crops in 4 out of 5 years. “The big difference this year was that, even for folks who have ‘inappropriate’ cultivars or who do not irrigate regularly, Mother Nature made up for their shortcomings with some really favorable conditions.” While it may be hard to predict when Boulder will have another windfall fruit year, the Boulder Fruit Rescue is spending this month debriefing on ways to make next year just as bountiful. Finding a commercial kitchen to preserve more of the fruit and finding funds to support a staff member to help coordinate all the harvests and donations will keep the volunteers busy through the winter. “We have more applesauce, dried apples and preserves than I could have ever imaged,” laughs Parkin. “And that’s just great!” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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t’s just like some fake mom referenced on a sitcom used to say: “If you make that face too much, it will stick that way.” And if you’re here in Boulder, that face might be a smile from all this sunshine. Boo! No one wants Susan France to look like The Joker. Sounds like you need to pucker-up buttercup. And the best way to do that is to beeriphrase Shakespeare: “The IPA is the thing.” Saturday, April 8 is Avery Brewing’s 3rd annual IPA Fest. “Be they dank or piney or floral or tart, spiced or fruited or dryhopped or wet, Double or Imperial, a little of some or all those together, we celebrate India Pale Ale in all of its iterations and strengths!,” Avery wrote on its website. There will be more than 100 rare, special, small-batch, and unusual IPAs from Avery’s brew library along with a rogue’s gallery of other breweries, and the $45 ticket will get you 16 fourounce pours, all packed with as much hops as Space Jam era Jordan. Baller. Try everything from Strange Craft Beer Co.’s “Breakfast Grapefruit IPA,” to The Brew on Broadways’ “Cinderella’s Evil Wet Twin Sister IPA,” to Vindication Brewing’s “Bishops Hammer.” See the complete list at Avery’s website. But as Avery warns: “Beer is ethereal, thus this list is subject to change.” Whoa. Mind. Blown. Boulder Weekly

Avery will be donating the profits from the festival to Emergency Family Assistance Association, a local aid agency that helps families in need with food, shelter and other basic necessities. IPA Fest runs from noon to 5 p.m. Tickets and more info are available at http://averybrewing.com. But if bitter beer face ain’t yo thang, then you can still beerfest it up this weekend. The upstanding slopers at Upslope are celebrating their sixth year in the brew game, also on Saturday, Nov. 8. From 2–8 p.m., Upslope will be partying down at their Flatiron Court location with 40-plus beers on tap, including new, special and vintage releases, like the six-years-in-the-making, 6th Anniversary Ale. Why six years in the making? Can you think how awkward it would have been to release that on their first anniversary? Exactly. To get your beer-soaked toes a tapping, there will be live music from Technicolor Tone Factory, Rocktin Grove and The Good Kind, and to soak up the beer in those toes, there will also be food on hand from Big Daddy’s BBQ, Shopery’s Sandwiches and Tacos Del Norte. Best part is that the party is free. Just show up and get down. But the hangover, that’ll cost ya. Get more info at www.upslopebrewing.com. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Shape-shifting is a common theme in fairy tales, says cultural historian Marina Warner in her book From the Beast to the Blonde. “A rusty lamp turns into an all-powerful talisman,” for example. “A humble pestle and mortar become the winged vehicle of the fairy enchantress,” or a slovenly beggar wearing a dirty donkeyskin transforms into a radiant princess. I foresee metaphorically similar events happening in your life sometime soon, Aries. Maybe they are already underway. Don’t underestimate the magic that is possible.

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APRIL 20-MAY 20:

The technical scientific term for what happens when you get a headache from eating too much ice cream too fast is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. I urge you to be on guard against such an occurrence in the coming week. You should also watch out for other phenomena that fit the description of being too-much-and-too-fast-of-a-good-thing. On the other hand, you shouldn’t worry at all about slowly getting just the right amount of a good thing. If you enjoy your pleasures with grace and moderation, you’ll be fine.

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MAY 21-JUNE 20:

“Pregreening” is a term for what impatient drivers do as they are waiting at a red light. They partly take their foot off the brake, allowing their car to creep forward, in the hope of establishing some momentum before the light changes to green. I advise you to avoid this type of behavior in the coming week, Gemini -- both the literal and the metaphorical variety. Pregreening might make sense by, say, November 15 or 16. But for now, relax and abide.

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JUNE 21-JULY 22:

German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was one of the greats. His influence on the evolution of Western music has been titanic, and many of his best compositions are still played today. He was prodigious, too, producing over 350 works. One of the secrets to his high level of energy seems to have been his relationship with coffee. It was an indispensable part of his diet. He was fastidious in its preparation, counting out exactly 60 coffee beans for each cup. I recommend that you summon a similar attention to detail in the coming days. It will be an excellent time to marshal your creative energy and cultivate your lust for life. You will get the best results if you are precise and consistent and focused in your approach.

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By the time we have become young adults, most of us don’t remember much about our lives from before the age of five. As we grow into middle age, more and more childhood memories drop away. Vague impressions and hazy feelings may remain. A few special moments keep burning brightly. But the early events that shaped us are mostly gone. Having said that, I want to alert you to the fact that you are in a phase when you could recover whole swaths of lost memories, both from your formative years and later. Take advantage of this rare window of opportunity to reconnect with your past.

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AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Photographer Joel Leindecker can kick himself in the head 127 times in one minute. Guinness World Records affirms that his achievement is unmatched. I’m begging you not to try to top his mark any time soon. In fact, I’m pleading with you not to commit any act of mayhem, chaos, or unkindness against yourself — even if it it’s done for entertainment purposes. In my view, it’s crucial for you to concentrate on caressing yourself, treating yourself nicely, and caring for yourself with ingenious tenderness in the coming weeks.

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us tend to emit and absorb short bursts of information at frequent intervals. But I invite you to rebel against this trend in the coming weeks. Judging from the astrological omens, I believe you would stir up some quietly revolutionary developments by slowing down and deepening the way you communicate with those you care about. You may be amazed by how much richer your experience of intimacy will become.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

Near the end of the 19th century, an American named Annie Londonderry became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world. It was a brave and brazen act for an era when women still couldn’t vote and paved roads were rare. Her 15-month journey took her through countries that would be risky for a single woman on a bike to travel through today, like Egypt and Yemen. What made her adventure even more remarkable was that she didn’t know how to ride a bike until two days before she departed. I’d love to see you plan a daring exploit like that, Scorpio — even if you do not yet have a certain skill you will need to succeed.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

P. G. Wodehouse wrote more than 90 books, as well as numerous plays, musical comedies, and film scripts. When he died at age 93, he was working on another novel. He did not suffer from writer’s block. And yet his process was far from effortless. He rarely churned out perfection on his first attempt. “I have never written a novel,” he testified, “without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again.” The way I see your immediate future, Sagittarius, is that you will be creating your own version of those 40,000 wrong words. And that’s OK. It’s not a problem. You can’t get to the really good stuff without slogging through this practice run.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

It’s a favorable time for you to meditate intensely on the subject of friendship. I urge you to take inventory of all the relevant issues. Here are a few questions to ask yourself. How good of a friend are you to the people you want to have as your friends? What capacities do you cultivate in your effort to build and maintain vigorous alliances? Do you have a clear sense of what qualities you seek in your cohorts and colleagues? Are you discerning in the way you choose your compatriots, or do you sometimes end up in associations with people you don’t truly enjoy and don’t have much in common with? If you discover any laziness or ignorance in your approach to the art of friendship, make the necessary fixes.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Before the invention of the printing press, books in Europe were handmade. Medieval monks spent long hours copying these texts, often adding illustrations in the margins. There’s an odd scene that persistently appears in these illuminated manuscripts: knights fighting snails. Scholars don’t agree on why this theme is so popular or what it means. One theory is that the snail symbolizes the “slowmoving tedium of daily life,” which can be destructive to our hopes and dreams — similar to the way that literal snails may devour garden plants. In accordance with the cosmic omens, I am bestowing a knighthood on you, Aquarius, so you will be inspired to rise up and defeat your own metaphorical version of the snail.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

To be in righteous alignment with cosmic forces, keep the Halloween spirit alive for another week. You have a license to play with your image and experiment with your identity. Interesting changes will unfold as you expand your notion of who you are and rebel cheerfully against your own status quo. To get started, try this exercise. Imagine that your gangsta name is Butt-Jugglin Smuggla. Your pirate name is Scallywagger Hornslasher. Your sex-worker name is Saucy Loaf. Your Mexican wrestler name is Ojo Último (Ultimate Eye). Your rock star-from-the-future name is Cashmere Hammer. Or make up your own variations.

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Dear Dan: We have a new shorthand term for BDSM doms who are abusive assholes: Ghomeshi doms. Good guys into BDSM should stick this in their online profiles: “I’m a nice, non-Ghomeshi dom looking for a lady who is into…” —Banish Abusive Doms

Is this a terrible idea? Is it creepy and/or incestuous to watch your brother fuck his wife? Does this sound like a setup for the messiest breakup ever, or does something like this ever work out long-term? —Brothers Respectfully Aroused Humping Spouses

Dear BAD: Jian Ghomeshi is the CBC radio host who was fired last week after three women leveled accusations of sexual assault against him. Eight women have now spoken to the press; two have allowed themselves to be named. Ghomeshi claims that he is into BDSM and that all of these encounters were consensual, BAD, but I don’t believe that Ghomeshi is a consensual kinkster. I believe he’s a serial abuser who leveraged his fame against the women he assaulted and who is now hiding behind the culture of consent that characterizes responsible BDSM communities and practitioners. So I think it would be a mistake for BDSMers to work his name — even in a negative sense — into their lingo/slang/shorthand, BAD. He’s not one of you. He never was. (I wrote two long posts about Ghomeshi on my blog — google my name and his and they pop right up.)

Dear BRAHS: The exact same things that make this arrangement feel so safe and so logical — your wives were friends before you and your brother married them, the four of you were tight before your wives started fucking each other — will turn this into a screaming nightmare should things go south. If things get messy — if there’s one or more conflicts that require taking sides — you and your brother are going to find yourself in positions that make Reverse Cowgirl Bleached Anal Handstand look easy. Because you’re all so close. But the train has already left the station, BRAHS: Your wives are doing each other, and they’d like to date each other, and you and your brother want to keep watching your wives fuck and then fucking your respective wives in front of each other. I would advise you all to get together for nonalcoholic beverages and for everyone to promise that you will be mature, reasonable, and forgiving adults if/when this — the wives dating, the semiincestuous (but maritally binary) quad-ways — comes to an end. Agreeing to an amicable breakup in advance of a breakup is no guarantee that things will end amicably, of course, but it improves the odds. As for the incest and long-term angles: Watching your brother fuck someone strikes me as creepy, BRAHS, but it doesn’t meet the legal definition of incest. So Yahtzee for you. And while I haven’t heard of an arrangement like this working out over the long-term, BRAHS, I’ve also never heard of an arrangement like this. Some things you expect to work out don’t, and some things you don’t expect to work out do. Good luck, gang. Send questions to Dan Savage at mail@savagelove.net and follow him on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Dear Dan: My brother and I married two incredible women. Our wives were good friends before we started dating them. My brother has always been my best friend, so the four of us spend a lot of time together. Recently, a couple of drinks turned into a bunch, and then my wife and sister-in-law started making out. Then they fucked. It was the hottest thing I’ve ever seen. We ended up pairing off with our respective partners and having sex in the same room. The next morning, the same thing happened again — wives fucked each other, we watched, then we fucked our wives in front of each other — and now my wife tells me that she and her friend would like to date each other. The group sessions would continue. (But no wife-swapping: MW sex between husband and wife only!) Everyone seems on board. I knew my wife was bi before we married, and we’ve talked before about her having a girlfriend, so I’m fine with that part. It’s hot and it feels safe since we all trust each other. I guess my question is: Boulder Weekly

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