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DHS considers continued use of private facilities, even as immigration detention in Colorado nearly doubles by Angela K. Evans
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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government? 6 DANISH PLAN: Some facts about GMO crops Jones and Gardner tried to hide 6 GUEST COLUMN: Modernizing the canvass process for citizen initiatives 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 20 LAB NOTES: The thundering launch of GOES-R 35 ARTS & CULTURE: It will be ukuleles and a Broadway witch for the holidays; The power of Hedwig 39 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 45 POETRY: by Marilyn L. Taylor 46 SCREEN: ‘Allied’ is a stale cautionary tale 47 FILM: ‘Manchester By The Sea’ and living with a lifetime of grief 49 DEEP DISH: Tandoori Grill and the science of spice 56 DRINK: Tour de brew: 300 Suns Brewing 61 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 63 S AVAGE LOVE: How to get the gay groove back 65 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Lessons from prohibition 67 CANNABIS CORNER: Boulder County’s war on pot 69 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: An irreverent view of the world
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Highroad How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government? by Jim Hightower
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ctor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son of a bitch.” So let us consider Donnie Trump, who campaigned as the populist champion of the working class, promising that — by gollies — he was gonna take on Wall Street and the corporate elites. But the bit-
ter irony for the working class is that they now see what the SOB meant — he’s literally “taking on” the moneyed powers by taking them on-board his administration. For example, he’s brought in Wall Street billionaires to fill the three top economic policy positions in his cabinet! Then there’s Betsy DeVos, the billionaire heiress to the scandal-plagued Amway fortune. Her life’s work has been trying to defund and privatize the public schools that working-class people count on, and to eliminate the working-class jobs of teachers and support staff. Her new job with Trump? Secretary of Education, where she’ll now use our public money to try killing off our public education system. And here comes Myron Ebell, honcho of the Competitive Enterprise Institute — a corporate front group funded by fossil fuel profiteers like Exxon and the Koch brothers — where he pushed relentlessly to gut the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Where’s he now? Heading Trump’s EPA transition team. Also, more than half of The Donald’s Department of Defense transition team have been executives or lobbyists for such military contractors as Boeing corporation. Overall, according to watchdog group Public Citizen, three-fourths of Trump’s transition teams — which are organizing, staffing and shaping our new government — come from CorporateWorld. Not a single workingclass populist has been allowed a seat at his power table. As America’s working stiffs know, if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. Trump’s no populist, he’s a fulltime corporatist. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. December 8, 2016 5
danish plan Some facts about GMO crops Jones and Gardner tried to hide by Paul Danish
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he County Commissioners’ March 17 decision to ban GMOs from Boulder County open space was rigged. Commissioners Elise Jones and Deb Gardner had their minds made up months before the actual decision. If there is any doubt on this point, consider their attempt to suppress a county-sponsored study of comparative agricultural practices in Boulder County when it didn’t come out to their liking. The study, titled “Economic, Environmental, and Social implications of cropping systems in Boulder County,” was prepared by Boulder County’s Parks and Open Space Department and the CSU Extension. Farmers fighting the GMO ban call it the White Paper. The study ended up showing that agricultural practices based on GMO crops: 1) Used fewer and less toxic pesticides than conventionally grown crops, 2) Used less diesel fuel than either conventionally grown or organic crops, 3) Saved a substantial amount of water compared to either conventional or organically grown crops, 4) Were much less disruptive of the soil than either conventionally or organically grown crops, and 5) Had a much lower carbon footprint than conventional or organic farming. Faced with these findings, Jones and Gardner attempted to suppress the study, claiming it was just a working draft. That prompted the farmers who were targeted by the GMO ban to file a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) action, which eventually resulted in the study becoming public. Some background: Corn and sugar beets, the main crops that will be banished from Boulder County Open Space if Jones and Gardner get their way, have been genetically engineered to have three traits: resistance to the herbicide Glyphosate (aka Roundup), inclusion of a trait from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that kills corn rootworms and other insect pests, and, more recently, inclusion of a trait from the ubiquitous bacterium Bacillus subtilis that imparts drought resistance. Together, the Roundup Ready and 6 December 8, 2016
Bt traits have resulted in an enormous drop in the use of pesticides globally; the original motive for producing genetically engineered varieties was pesticide reduction. And the Roundup Ready trait has made possible the use of strip-till farming practices, which are having a revolutionary impact on farming. Farmers plough fields primarily for weed control. Both conventional and organic farming practices require ploughing, which consumes large amounts of diesel fuel and allows substantial amounts of both water and carbon dioxide to escape from the soil. Strip till practices involve leaving the residue from the previous year’s crop in place and ploughing just narrow strips in which the seeds are planted and immediately sprayed with Roundup (one quart per acre). The Roundup and the crop residue left in place keep the weeds down until the crop has emerged and formed a canopy. With this in mind, here are some of the findings Jones and Gardner didn’t want made public before they voted to screw the farmers last March, and chances are still prefer to ignore: •The diesel fuel burned in conventional corn farming in Boulder County produces 180-316 pounds of CO2 per acre. Organic corn farming produces 134-290 pounds CO2 per acre. The figures for strip tillage with Roundup Ready corn are 51-181 pounds CO2 per acre — up to two-thirds less. •The water loss from conventional and organic tillage practices comes to 2.25 inches per acre for conventional and 2.59 inches for organic. The water loss from Roundup Ready enabled strip tillage is 0.24 inch per acre — less than a tenth as much as organic. •The act of ploughing up a field releases much more CO2 from the soil than is released from the tractor. Conventional and organic practices release 3,021 and 3,151 pounds per acre respectively. The figure for Roundup enabled strip tillage is 474 pounds per acre — or less than a sixth as much. • Using a measure of aggregate pesticide toxicity called the Environmental Index Quotient developed by Cornell University, the study found that the see DANISH PLAN Page 8
guest column Modernizing the canvass process for citizen initiatives by Fred Smith
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olorado Amendment 71, Raise the Bar, passed in the November election. It will now take a 55 percent supermajority to amend the state constitution. Amendment 71 was designed to stop the young, poor and powerless from having any say in the political arena. Current Governor John Hickenlooper and ex-Governor Wellington Webb tag teamed with Republican football legend John Elway, funded by millions of oil and gas dollars. Amendment 71’s requirement of 2 percent petition signatures from each of Colorado’s 35 senate districts is a death knell for initiatives by people of ordinary means; but anyone with a million dollars to spare can just hire a canvassing firm to get their initiative on the ballot. Colorado elected officials, Democrats and Republicans alike, have fought people’s right to make law for over 100 years. In protecting oil and gas operations, they also stop many progressive causes from making the ballot. In their minds, only legislation that gets out comes from the state capitol. Since the new law requires signatures from voters in all corners of the state, let’s at least have a state-wide petition signing system. The current system, paper packets, hand-written
entries, manual (and randomly-sampled) signature verification is 20th century at best. In an age when I can register to vote and change my party affiliation online at the Secretary of State’s site, I ought to be able to sign a petition for a ballot measure. There would be benefits: I would not have to find a canvasser for a particular initiative on some street corner. I could research an initiative and make an informed decision about signing, instead of having to decide on the spot, on the street, under the gaze of a solicitor who will get paid if I sign. The cost and time needed to gather signatures would plummet, making the citizen initiative process available to citizens of ordinary means. Finally, the integrity of electronically collected and verified signatures would be vastly improved; voters’ registration information would be validated as part of the process of signing online. Duplicate signatures (which often happens inadvertently) would be detected in real time and would not be permitted. Finally, I believe this a generational thing the older generation doesn’t want to change for the most part while the younger generation does want change. Amendment 71 sure throws a rock in the gears for progressive change. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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alternative stew of pesticides that farmers will have to use if they can’t plant genetically engineered corn is over 500 percent more toxic than if they use Roundup Ready/Bt varieties. For sugar beets, the other crop hit by the ban, the figure is 1,100 percent more toxic. This finding is particularly damning since Commissioner Gardner said her vote against GMO crops was not a vote again GMOs per se, but a vote against the use of Glyphosate, which is much less toxic than the alternatives that will have to be used instead. Similar advantages were found for genetically engineered sugar beets over beets grown with conventional practices. (No one grows organic sugar beets.) Jones and Gardner claim they want to ban GMOs in the name of making
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rotesters in North Dakota claimed victory in their fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on Sunday, following the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ refusal to issue an easement to drill under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe. But the issue is far from over as Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the controlling partner to Dakota Access, LLC, appealed to a federal judge on Dec. 5 to grant the company a permit to drill despite the Corps’ decision. The Standing Rock Sioux, whose reservation lies just south of the drill site, and other protesters have vowed to remain in their protest camps throughout the winter. The 1,172-mile crude oil pipeline is mostly complete along its four-state route, and Dakota Access wants to start transporting up to 570,000 barrels of oil a day from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota to refineries and terminals in Illinois by January. While it still remains to be seen how the scene will play out in North Dakota, farther down the pipeline a group of landowners in Iowa are fighting the use of eminent domain to bury the controversial pipeline diagonally across that state and through private property. Additionally, law enforcement has made several hundred arrests over the last several months in Iowa as landowners, environ-
mental activists and Native Americans have continually sought to halt the pipeline’s construction throughout the state. According to Iowa law, hazardous liquid pipelines must be issued a permit by the Iowa Utilities Board (IUB). Dakota Access first filed its application with the Board in October 2014. Entering the state from South Dakota at its northwest corner and eventually crossing into Illinois from its southeast corner, the pipeline stretches 348 miles and runs through 18 Iowa counties. In its application to the IUB, Dakota Access promised to parallel roads and existing right-ofways when possible, and the company also estimated it would pay landowners up to $189 million for easements across private property. IUB began holding informational meetings in December 2014, which is when property owner Shirley Gerjets of Calhoun County first heard of the project. “It started out wrong in the first place,” she says, as citizens weren’t allowed to ask questions and the group was told that surveyors would be coming to individual properties without any recourse to stop them. See IOWA Page 12
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“I chased them off two or three times,” says the 81-year-old Gerjets. “And then after they got that surveying done we kept getting letters and letters and letters about this offer and that offer.” In the end, Gerjets says the company offered her $64,000 to run the pipeline through her 65 acres, an offer she refused. “My dad worked hard to own this little piece of property,” she says. “He always worked because that was his goal to own his own piece of property and he finally did it [in the early 1970s]. I helped farm the thing so he could pay for it.” Today, her son helps her farm corn and soybeans on the property. Cyndy Coppola, another family farmer in Calhoun County, says she was offered $98,000 for an easement to run the pipeline through a corner of her property. The parcel in question has been part of her family farm operation for more than 20 years. Her mother’s ancestors began farming in Iowa in 1848 and her dad started farming after World War II. The family corporation has approximately 1,400 acres under plow rotating between soybeans and corn. Dakota Access was able to secure voluntary easements for 96.7 percent of 1,295 private properties
along the Iowa route, and 100 percent of private lands along the route in the other three states, according to company spokesperson Lisa Dillinger. Ninety-nine percent of the four-state DAPL route runs through private land. As a result of its inability to secure all the easements needed to cross Iowa, the company appealed to the IUB as part of the permitting process and asked the Board’s three members to exercise the power of eminent domain, which allows the government to take private property for public use or benefit. Claiming public safety, energy independence and economic benefit to the state, Dakota Access asked the IUB to grant land easements on private property despite landowners objections. The Board eventually agreed. The IUB received thousands of objection letters to the project from concerned citizens, environmental activists, landowners and tribal members. In 2015, the Meskwaki Nation, also known as the Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa, wrote the IUB in opposition to the pipeline with environmental concerns about drinking water and wildlife habitat, according to the Des Moines Register. The Iowa Tribe, which was moved from the state in the 1830s to reservations in Kansas and Nebraska, also wrote the IUB in opposition to the Shirley Gerjets, far left, protests DAPL construction on her own property.
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pipeline, stating concerns over unmarked cultural and sacred sites throughout the state. In addition, the Board received thousands of letters in support of the pipeline. On March 10, 2016, after weeks of public hearings, the IUB granted Dakota Access the permit for its route through Iowa, including the use of eminent domain. “This sets a precedent that eminent domain can be used for anything,” says Ed Fallon, a former state representative, now representing Bold Iowa, a group opposing the pipeline. “If they can come in and take your land for a private oil company’s pipeline, what can’t they take it for? What rights do you have anymore to your own property?” The IUB decision was particularly frustrating for Fallon who, as part of the state legislature, helped Iowa tighten its eminent domain statutes in 2006 in response to a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court Case (Kelo v. New London) that ruled in favor of a Connecticut city claiming eminent domain for economic development. “We thought that this pipeline was a no-go because of that,” Fallon says. Coppola, Gerjets and the other landowners who refused voluntary easements were taken to condemnation hearings for Courtesy Shirley Gerjets/Bold Iowa compensation. While Gerjets received $25,000, Coppola was awarded $8,500, both well below the initial Dakota Access offers, sending a chilling message to those who might consider fighting this pipeline or some other project in the future. Coppola joined other farmers throughout six Iowa counties organizing an appeal to the IUB’s decision regarding eminent domain. “When you boil down to it, you get this question of whether an interstate crude oil pipeline is for public use or a private use?” says the group’s lawyer, Bill Hanigan. “In order for there to be a public purpose or a public use there’s got to be a measurable public benefit. Here we think that the majority of the benefit goes to the nine contract shippers on Dakota Access [Pipeline]. And that those shippers are not the public, for no other reason than it’s permissible now to export the crude oil.” At the end of 2015, Congress lifted a 40-year old ban on unlicensed crude oil exports after intense lobbying by the oil and gas industry. Approximately 500,000 barrels of oil are currently being exported each day, while the country still imports roughly 8 million barrels of oil per day. Although Dakota Access has appealed to Americans by claiming the pipeline project will help provide energy independence, Energy Transfer Partners is “exceptionally well positioned” to export crude oil, a September investigation in The Intercept shows. “You, Dakota Access, don’t control the shippers, and the shippers can and will export,” Hannigan argues. “There’s got to be a more substantive and measurable benefit to the public. ... Our Constitution requires more.”
But while the group developed their eminent domain case, Dakota Access prepared to start construction. Gerjets, who is not part of the lawsuit, did everything she could think of to stop the pipeline from running through her property. She made calls and wrote letters to legislators, the governor and even the White House. “One day I was really disgusted with the whole thing, and I thought I’m just going to write to the president and I explained the whole thing and I said we could certainly use your help,” she says. A few weeks later she received a form letter back, but “it didn’t give us any hope at all.” In response to the fast-paced nature of pipeline construction, the 14 landowners involved in the eminent domain appeal asked the judge to grant a stay on construction until the case was resolved. However, the stay was denied in late August of this year and Dakota Access immediately began construction. In the southeast corner of the state, a group of roughly 20 activists, calling themselves water protectors in solidarity with the protesters in North Dakota, set up camp outside a DAPL worksite in Lee County, Iowa, in late August. The group, known as Mississippi Stand, camped for roughly six weeks in an effort to stop Dakota Access from drilling and placing pipeline beneath the Mississippi River, which supplies drinking water to several downstream municipalities. Although the group delayed construction several times and more than 100 people were arrested, construction at the site was completed in mid-October. Back up in Calhoun County, Coppola began attending nonviolent training hosted by activists also protesting the pipeline. So when her nephew called the morning of Sept. 1 and said the company had begun work on the family land, she grabbed some fellow protesting friends and went to stop the digging. Recovering from a recent hip surgery, Coppola stood in front of digging equipment for a few hours, cane in hand. Eventually law enforcement arrived but “they talked me out of being arrested,” Coppola says. “They couldn’t have been nicer.” She was later arrested on Oct. 15 on her own property with Fallon, while attempting to prevent construction vehicles from accessing the next parcel of land over. The two say they were never handcuffed and were processed through the jail in a few hours, much different experience than the treatment of the pipeline protesters in North Dakota. While Coppola continued to monitor the construction on her property, she simultaneously protested the pipeline in other areas of the state. On Sept. 10, she was arrested with 19 others in Boone, where the pipeline runs beneath the Des Moines River, which supplies drinking water to the 500,000 residents of Des Moines farther downstream. Later, on Nov. 10, three members of Mississippi Stand halted construction at the site for 17 hours after crawling into the pipeline. By Sept. 12, the work was mostly complete on her property, Coppola says, however debris was still littered throughout the work zone and the work crews continued to use her property as an access point. Both Gerjets and Coppola claim the crews worked around the clock and in wet, rainy conditions, which further destroyed their land and goes against the IUB permit. “You just feel like [the land] is a part of you,” See IOWA Page 14
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Gerjets says. “And you just feel like a part of you has been raped, in other words. That’s just the way it feels. They took it away from you and did whatever the hell they wanted to.” “The farm is not going to be the same for a long long time,” Coppola says. She’s worried about compacted soil, damaged topsoil, turned up rocks, metal and other debris left behind by the pipeline. And most importantly, she’s worried about potential oil leaks in her soil. “To me it’s only a matter of time until these pipelines leak because it’s corrosive, crude shale [oil] that’s going through these pipes,” Coppola says. “It just makes sense that sooner or later there will be a leak.” After construction was complete, Courtesy of Cyndy Coppola Gerjets’ son sought advice from a soil scientist. “He just sort of grinned, and he said, ‘You just well forget it. You’ll never get that soil back to its production in your lifetime,’” Gerjets says. Iowa’s rich and fertile loam soil depends on the annual process of Courtesy of Cyndy Coppola freezing and thawing to break up the dirt and replenish nutrients, she says. Not only is the earth so compacted around the work site, but she’s also been told the pipeline will be hot, never dropping below 40 degrees. “Right through that 150-foot-wide stretch is never going to raise much [again],” she says. According to Coppola, Dakota Access is only required to pay for three years of crop damage to the farmers with pipeline running under their land. Now that construction of DAPL is Top: Cyndy Coppola attempts to stop construction of DAPL on nearly complete throughout the state, oppoher property. Below: Ed Fallon nents in Iowa are relying on a successful and other activists block construction vehicles on eminent domain appeal to halt oil from Coppola’s land on Oct. 15, ever flowing from North Dakota to Illinois. 2016. Both Coppola and Fallon were later arrested. While Mississippi Stand founder Jessica Reznicek and a few others have been on hunger strike in front of the IUB building in Des Moines since Nov. 21, asking the agency to revoke Dakota Access’ permit, Coppola and the other landowners await their Dec. 15 court date. Coppola and her family have already spent $30,000 in legal fees and others have spent even more, she says. If they are successful, Hannigan promises they will sue Dakota Access for trespassing, both for the pipeline and for every barrel of oil that flows through. If they aren’t, they will appeal further, he says. Seperatley, Gerjets is appealing her condemnation hearing, hoping to get more compensation for her land. But ultimately she hopes the pipeline never becomes active, both through the efforts of the Standing Rock Sioux and their supporters as well as a successful outcome to the eminent domain lawsuit. “I hope we can keep them from ever getting oil through it,” Gerjets says. “I’m glad the Indians got what they got up there [at Standing Rock]. I’m very proud of them for their stand. I just wish he (President Obama) would stop the whole thing instead of just that section up there.” But whatever Obama has already done or may do in the last six weeks of his administration, it may not be enough to stop Dakota Access. If the company loses the eminent domain dispute in Iowa, Hanigan fully expects them to appeal that decision. Additionally, it seems evident from his statements on the issue that President-elect Donald Trump he will give his full approval of the pipeline after he takes office Jan. 20. He has also invested $500,000 in the pipeline, although a Trump spokesperson recently claimed he sold off his shares. Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman Dave Archambault II has said he’s willing to open dialogue with the President-elect, hoping to convince him the recent Army Corps decision is necessary. Although he hasn’t addressed the issue in Iowa, Trump has a long history of attempting to use eminent domain claims to secure properties for his own development aspirations When it comes to the Dakota Access Pipeline, much remains unclear. But one thing is certain — both the Standing Rock Sioux and the landowners in Iowa aren’t backing down. Boulder Weekly
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announced that an attempt to possibly reroute the pipeline was also in the works. It would be wrong to call these results anything short of a victory for the tribes and their environmental activist supporters. But the battle for Standing Rock is far from over. Many observers — including most folks in the protest camps who say they won’t be leaving despite the government’s announcement and winter storms dumping snow by the foot along with 50 mph winds and a minus-25-degree windchill — believe this “victory” is little more than a 45-day “timeout” designed to protect Obama’s legacy, not the protesters or their causes. On Jan. 20, President Donald Trump takes office and he will have the power to reverse the Corps’ recent decision in its entirety. Trump, should he choose to do so, can declare that the full environmental impact study — that could take years to complete — is unnecessary and that the original route under Lake Oahe is acceptable. It’s that simple. Trump is a shareholder in Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) and Phillips 66, two of the company’s responsible for building the DAPL — at least he was the last time he had to report his holdings. And Kelcy Warren, the CEO of ETP was responsible for six-figure contributions to Trump’s presidential campaign. Then there is the fact that Trump has publicly promised to free the oil and gas industry from much of what the president-elect describes as burdensome environmental regulation in order to create a massive boom in oil and gas drilling. Trump has also touted infrastructure projects as being one of his top priorities. It would seem the “water protectors” are prudent to stay right where they are. After all, that is what the pipeline company is doing. Warren has repeatedly said the Corps’ announcement to stop his pipeline’s construction is simply a shorttermed politically motivated act and that he fully expects DAPL to not only be completed in short order, but also in the exact same location as currently planned. He obviously thinks he knows something. But so do the protesters who have hunkered down for the long winter and the fight ahead.
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an Reid arrives late for his interview. He’s hard to recognize at first, with a full-face helmet and motorcycle leathers giving him an urban invisibility during the late afternoon rush hour. He’s full of energy and stoke and stress: a Baja trip just around the corner, bags to pack, work to do and life a full-on screaming rush not unlike going full throttle down the crowded city street on the motorbike he’s riding. Reid is on a roll. Over the past two years this Boulder resident has made a full-time career change to photography. And, while he’s a master at landscapes, light and motion, his focus and passion is on dirt and adrenaline, shooting motorcycle racing, all of its dirt-driven variants and the cultural mayhem of that loud, fast world. In a sense, this work is a return to Reid’s younger days, when he was a kid in the California desert and there wasn’t much to do except mess around with bikes. But it’s too easy to look at his current calling as a “return to the future” act, because his work with the camera and the images he captures aren’t the stuff of youthful experimentation. Rather, they’re artful compositions that owe a great deal to a maturing vision that turns motion into art. Reid picked up a camera because he felt he had to. “I spent a career skiing and traveling on expeditions,” he recalls. “I was spending time with some of the greatest photographers in skiing, guys like Mark Shapiro and Ace Kvale. These were people who were creating the standards for skiing photography in the 1980s. They were the best.” But while Reid was skiing with some of the best photographers in the world, when it
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came to action sports and mountain visuals, one thing was missing. “I couldn’t get them to get on a Ian Reid hung around with some of the best motorcycle,” he says with a laugh. “So if I wanted ski photographers in the to capture those experiences, I had to craft my game, but when it came to shooting motocross, own skillsets.” Reid had to learn on his Reid, who grew up skiing, was also no stranger own. to motorcycles. He started riding as a raw kid of 13, on a bike that some neighbors lent him. It was an expertise that came quickly and easily, due to youthful skills honed as a BMX cyclist. In fact, it’s not unusual for the pre-teens who grow up riding BMX to graduate to motor-powered fun, as the elements of balance, speed and catching air of BMX translate well to making the leap to larger, faster gasoline-powered machines. This is especially true in the communities in California’s desert, where open landscapes provide opportunities for endless adventure. “My neighbor allowed me to ride a spare motorcycle they had,” recalls Reid. “And I was really into it; it was so much better than BMX, you could go a lot faster. So then I got a paper route and started saving money to get my own bike. My dad saw how hard I was working, so he sat me down and we worked out a deal where he helped get me a bike, and I kept working to pay it off.” It was an auspicious start, and Reid quickly moved up the food chain to bigger and faster machines. “At 18 I didn’t want a car,” he says. “I wanted a motorcycle, a Kawasaki GPZ 550. I was at that period in my life addicted to speed. In the desert where I was a kid, you did one of two things: take drugs or ride motorcycles. I rode motorcycles.” While Reid says that his habit of twisting the throttle did come with some issues: He admits to speeding tickets and a “lost license,” although he still won’t divulge exactly how much he ended up paying in fines for his transgressions. But along with the tickets came opportunities, including the realization that you could go as fast as you wanted if you were racing, and that the controlled environment of dirt tracks and everything associated with those race events offered amazing opportunities to take photos of a sport he was enamored with. “There was a motocross event at Mammoth [Lakes, California], and that’s Boulder Weekly
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t’s 5 a.m., and the city is still. Under the Sun doesn’t open until the afternoon, but among the empty chairs sits artist Bryce Widom. With a cup of coffee in hand, he stares at a blank chalkboard. Widom has spent the past 19 years creating chalkboard designs for the Mountain Sun brew pubs. As the seasons change, he creates new artwork to complement the shifting environment. He comes in during the late night or early morning hours to focus. “I can feel how quiet it is. The cars aren’t going by and most people are Boulder Weekly
sleeping,” he says. “There’s this deep space, where I feel like I’m not rushed. Time drops out of the equation. I go deeper into that intimate space of creativity.” A blank canvas can be intimidating for artists, but Widom embraces the void and the charged unpredictability of its potential. He came in this morning with no plan for what the chalk drawing will be, but he’s already spent a half hour meditating to find the answer. Meditation brings Widom’s focus to the present. “Most of us, we just track the things
from moment to moment without noticing or bringing awareness to the space in between thoughts, the emotions and that emptiness,” he says. “So for me, this right now is that moment, in which anything can happen.” As the early morning sun begins to pour through the windows, Widom unpacks his chalk pastels. He meticulously lays them out on the window sill, separating the colors he’ll be using most. Then he grabs his sketchbook and draws a small blueprint of the final product. “There’s the yin and yang symbol stuff. And I think that what’s gonna happen is there’s gonna be a woman holding these two swans, one black and one white,” he says. “So she is holding the entirety of emptiness to fullness.” For Widom, an empty chalkboard is just as meaningful as one with art. And
one is no more important than the other. “The whole process itself is of working with that fundamental duality of emptiness and fullness and that awareness that they are one in the same” he says. “They’re two sides of the same coin.” He picks up a red pastel and gets to work drawing the outline of the overall piece. As the time passes, he slowly fills in the painting, starting with the face and working outward. Several hours later, Widom stands in front of a completed drawing: A regal black woman holding two swans. She blooms out of a flower as hummingbirds fly around her and drink from trumpeter vines. The sky is a warm blue and peacock feathers sprout from the background. He later titles the piece “Hold Everything.” see CREATION Page 32
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•••• Widom has been a staple in the Boulder art scene for the past two decades. He happened upon a job at Mountain Sun in 1997 as a waiter/ cook and soon after drew his first chalkboard. The tradition continues as Widom changes the boards at the local chain’s five locations every season. He appreciates the chance to showcase his work, especially in this particular space, calling it his own version of public art. Unlike a gallery, which can feel elite and intimidating, Bryce Widom/”There Is No Other” a restaurant atmosphere allows for a relaxed appreciation of art and an opportunity to reach those who might not normally visit an art museum. “And they’re actually in a more permeable space to take in something like artwork,” he says. Widom has been an artist since he was a kid. Though he was born in Colorado, he grew up in Alaska, where he developed a deep love of nature. His mother was a painter, and he followed suit at a young age. Demonstrating his talents early, Widom began winning awards for his work. But as he got older, he noticed a desire for perfectionism taking hold. “I just felt tighter and tighter inside, instead of feeling more and more free as an artist,” he says. “It was driving me crazy because my perfectionism was so intense that what was once fun had become unbearable. view of space, filled with planets, but So I just stopped totally.” instead of planets they were burgers, He abandoned art and pursued and pints of beer, floating through other interests. A few years later, he space,” he says with a laugh. returned to Colorado and attended “Technically, it was so horrific.” Colorado School of Mines for astroWith a little encouragement he physics, later transferring to the tried again. The second effort came University of Colorado Boulder to closer to Widom’s aesthetic, with a graduate with degrees in psychology scene of a tree and a swordfish splashand creative writing. ing out of water. Then Widom cycled through a “There was some breakthrough, a variety of jobs — school bus driver, ice little bit more of my soul coming cream scooper, telephone psychic. through the artwork that felt really satWhen deciding his next step, he stumisfying,” he says. “Creating that artwork bled across Mountain Sun. felt so good, and I wanted to do it The day he walked in to apply, he again and again.” noticed someone working on one of the Since then, Widom has become a chalkboards and he says he thought to full-time artist specializing in chalk himself, “Oh, that looks cool.” pastel and oil paintings. His work carThe managers found out he could ries his characteristic style, a kind of draw and Widom was invited to try his nature-inspired surrealism. In one work hand at a chalkboard. While his boards a woman rides a tiger as her hair flows nowadays are filled with symbolism, the in the wind; in another, tree branches first inspiration came from his pub sur- grow from a woman’s head as deer and roundings. Even 20 years later, Widom dragons leap out from behind her. seems mildly mortified remembering The subject matter arises from his the drawing. meditations, and the end result is typi“There was still a little bit of the cally representative of his personal life. astrophysicist in me. So I painted a “When I’m creating art as a micro32 December 8, 2016
cosm or a moment in my life, it’s also a way to work with the meat of my life,” Widom says. “The way that I am with my art is ultimately and ideally a reflection of who I am with my wife and children and my business. Allowing what is here to be here and engage with it deeply.” And usually everything he puts on the board is symbolic. He uses one of his latest works, “Burn Furnace: II,” as an example. In the painting a woman sits at the center meditating, as various animals gather around her. “Every aspect of this, I’m relating to,” he says. “Like this totally calm, but also predatory piercing gaze of the panther, to the little cat, who’s like, ‘I just want to be held here in the lap of the mother.’ Or these skulls ... I’m feeling directly, death, under the flesh, under the skin, beyond the life span.” And while Widom never knows what he’ll be drawing beforehand, sometimes the realities of the world come out in his work. Before the 2016 presidential election, Widom created a piece for Southern Sun depicting Martin Luther King Jr. Reflecting back on that choice post-elec-
tion, he says all of his impressions of election coverage seeped into his consciousness and this was his response — a peaceful message to the world. Widom trusts his intuition throughout his process. He knows when things aren’t clicking, and he’s not afraid to start over. He recalls one night of pouring four hours of work into a piece until he realized something didn’t feel right. “It was already sketched in and ready for me to start bringing in color and details, and I sat back and I was looking at it,” he says. “This is rare, but I just wasn’t into what was happening.” He weighed the options in his head: Would it be better to slog through the next eight hours creating an empty piece or to lose the time he put in and begin again? “So I erased it and started over, and it was an excellent experience,” he says. “Because of course those original four hours weren’t wasted, there was something there working too. And it was like rocket fuel to the next image.” Widom is committed to doing what the piece needs, and he doesn’t limit himself to a strict timetable. His finish line depends on when he feels like a piece is done. “If I’m in my 17th hour and I thought it would take 12? It doesn’t matter. I’m here through the end of it,” he says. “Until I feel a sense of fullness when I look at the work. Then there’s a relaxing in my body, and then I know I’m done. Until that point, I won’t give up, and I cannot give up.” His practices have evolved over time, and one of the most significant changes is giving up control and succumbing to the process. Early on, he tried to think his way through it. “For like a week ahead of time I used to be like, ‘OK, what am I gonna do? OK, it’s gotta be good. It’s gotta be perfect,’” he says. Brainstorming a list of ideas, Widom would come in prepared. But when time came for execution, they would all fall away. “I would never do what I thought I was gonna do. When I tried to hold onto something, it would turn stale and old,” he says. “It would crumble in my hands and be the ghost of something rather than something that feels really alive and immediate. I feel like I’ve learned to trust a greater perfection. Whatever comes, this is what I need to do.” Boulder Weekly
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n advance of three sold out shows in Colorado this month, there are a couple of things you need to know about Joe Russo’s Almost Dead ( JRAD). The first is, as drummer Joe Russo puts it, “We are a god damn Grateful Dead cover band.” “Well then,” he continues, “I am going to fucking prove to you that this is cool. We are going to go out there and work our asses off to make it not seem like a Grateful Dead cover band as much as guys playing a collection of songs and just going ape shit on the improv. We aren’t so pensive about what the source material is as much as inspired by it to go new places that no one has really gone before.” It all started in 2009 when Russo joined Furthur, featuring Bob Weir and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. It was under their tutelage that he was introduced to the music of the Dead, adding more than 100 “traditional versions from the Grateful Dead songbook” to his repertoire during the band’s four-year stint. When it was over, Russo didn’t expect to play the music again. “People would ask if I planned on continuing with it and I would always say, ‘Absolutely not. Why the hell would I keep doing this? This band is done. This was my moment to do this and that was great and now I am going to do whatever.’” But in the months that followed, Russo realized the music had seeped its way into his psyche and become a part of his musical and personal identity in
unexpected ways. “None of us were really looking to do it, but this crazy opportunity just opened up,” Russo says. “There was always something more that I wanted to hear with the music back in the Furthur days — I wanted to have a bit more of an adventurous spirit and I wanted to see what would happen if I played that music with the guys I am playing it with now, with Marco [Benevento] and Scott [Metzger], these guys who are my musical family. I wanted to take some liberties and not have to worry about upsetting a standard or not living up to the way things have been done, not playing the aesthetic that Furthur was after.” When JRAD first started up, a lot of Russo’s hard-core musician friends would look down their noses at the whole project. But, when they actually saw what JRAD was doing, they realized it wasn’t a cover band offering up a classic interpretation of someone else’s material but the discovery of something totally new, something that transcends genres and brings lifelong skeptics into the land of the Dead. For JRAD to pull that off, to turn the Grateful Dead into a musical experience that welcomes newcomers into a long established clique, you have to understand another thing about Joe Russo: He’s a helluva great drummer. Critics have long hailed him as the “Grand Master of Drumming.” He was “knighted” by Peter Shapiro, foremost
benefactor of jam bands, as rock royalty. Fans lovingly refer to him as “OctoRusso.” Laudations aside, Russo’s skills have earned him a permanent place in the center stage for some of rock’s greatest musicians: as an avant garde musician’s musician in the Benevento Russo Duo, or teaming up with jam band gurus Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon from Phish for GRAB, or with the forefathers of the jamming tradition, Weir and Lesh themselves. No matter whom Russo plays with, he is able to speak to musicians in their own language, on their own terms, and bring out the best in what they do in a way that is exciting for the guys on stage and for the people in the crowd. Russo thinks of this as a collective or communal experience, something shared between the band and the audience (“a rare and increasingly important experience in this day and age”) but listening to the way he talks about his music, his family and his friends, it could easily be labeled as good old-fashioned love. Which brings us to the third thing you need to know about Russo: He’s a really nice guy. “For me, recent events have been an awakening,” he says. “Let’s spread our wings a little, get outside of our immediate family and really start digging in to get to know each other, to see how we can help each other. “For me, that starts with trying to see the little beauties around me, in life and in music. Playing music is a cathartic thing and it makes me feel great, so if that can add to anybody’s day, especially right about now, I am honored to share that experience.” Boulder Weekly
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h, the holiday season. That singing and strumming “orchestra.” wonderful time for your Playing instruments known more for favorite carols, colored lights, their association with Tiny Tim and egg nog and — ukuleles? Hawaiian ballads than whatever you Sure enough, it’s all part might consider “serious music,” the of the eclectic mix of holiday music on UOGB has become popular embracing the Boulder classical scene, featuring not the ukulele’s light-hearted image. They only the Ukulele Orchestra of Great mug gleefully in their publicity photos Britain, but also Elphaba from the — no glamour shots for them — and Broadway hit Wicked, alongCourtesy of Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain side other events that have become part of the annual December concert schedule. The perennial best-sellers — the Nutcrackers and the CU Holiday Festival — are already behind us, but there is still plenty of music to look forward to. The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (UOGB) will be at Macky Auditorium Thursday (7:30 p.m. Dec. 8) even invite Boulderites to bring their as part of the CU Presents series. Known own ukuleles to the concert for a singfor their iconoclastic, not to say wacky, along, play-along session during the programming, the group promises to concert. perform their usual combination of rock Sheet music for this portion of the and pop covers, including music from program can be found by visiting the CU Joni Mitchell and Pharrell Williams, Presents Web page at www.cupresents. some jazz and country songs, and classic org/events/ukulele-orchestra-great-britChristmas carols. ain-0 and you can find tickets to the The group’s origin is almost mythoUOGB show by calling the Macky box logical. When he was child, founder office at 303-492-8008. George Hinchcliffe was given the choice The Wicked Witch of the West of a model train or a ukulele. sneaks into the Christmas schedule with Unexpectedly, he chose the uke, and the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, eventually banded together with other who are presenting A Wicked Good aficionados to form the eight-member Christmas Saturday in Macky (7:30 p.m.
Dec. 10). Scott O’Neil will conduct the performance, which will feature vocalist Dee Roscioli, who played the role of Elphaba in the Broadway and national touring productions of Wicked, and the Fairview High School Festival Choir. Roscioli made her Broadway debut as Elphaba in 2009, after playing the role in Chicago and San Francisco. While that is her most famous role, she has been active in musical theater for many years. Her other credits include Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, her own cabaret show Decidedly Dee at the jazz club Birdland, and most recently the 2015 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. O’Neil was resident conductor of the Colorado Symphony from 2005 through 2015, and can currently be heard discussing the relevance and meaning of classical music on Colorado Public Radio. The program will include music from Wicked, and more seasonally, Frozen. The Christmas selections will range from the sacred “O Holy Night” to the secular “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” and “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” Tickets are available by calling 303449-1343, or at the Boulder Phil Web page, boulderphil.org/concerts/201617-season-overview/a-wicked-goodchristmas.
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Other holiday events in Boulder and the surrounding communities include: A THOUSAND BEAUTIFUL THINGS Under the direction of Vicki Burrichter, the 200-voice Boulder Chorale and the Boulder Chorale Children’s Chorus celebrate the holiday season with songs honoring things to be grateful for this time of year. The program includes traditional carols and music from Annie Lennox. 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder Tickets: 303-554-7692 boulderchorale.org/concerts/purchase-tickets/ CHRISTMAS WITH ARS NOVA Boulder’s Ars Nova Singers and conductor Boulder Weekly
Thomas Edward Morgan will present less familiar Christmas music from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and modern times. The program also includes their own arrangements of traditional carols performed with harpist Kathryn Harris. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11 St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 Bethany Lutheran Church, 4500 E. Hampden Ave., Cherry Hills Village Tickets: 303-499-3165 arsnovasingers.org EIN KIND GEBORN ZU BETHLEHEM: CHRISTMAS MUSIC OF PRAETORIUS The Seicento Baroque Ensemble will perform music by the Renaissance composer Michael Praetorius, best known for Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming), and his contemporaries.
Seicento and conductor Evanne Browne will be joined by the early brass instruments of the Dark Horse Consort. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 10 First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce, St., Boulder Tickets: 720-302-7747 seicentobaroque.org/tickets-donate. html CANDLELIGHT CONCERT Longmont Symphony Orchestra will present its annual holiday concert with conductor David Rutherford, who is widely known to Colorado audiences as a string bassist and an-air personality with Colorado Public Radio. David Rutherford, conductor 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 15 Westview Presbyterian Church, 1500 Hover St., Longmont Tickets: 303-772-5796 longmontsymphony.org/tickets/
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Celebrate the holidays with the Boulder Phil and Broadway star Dee Roscioli at this festive concert featuring songs from Wicked and Frozen, favorite Christmas classics, carols and medleys. Dee rose to fame for her portrayal of Elphaba in the smash Broadway hit Wicked.
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n Nov. 18, Vice-President tions with her blonde wig, makeup, elect Mike Pence went out glitter and, most importantly, her biting on the town for a night of wit. theater, choosing Rock ‘n’ roll has graced the Broadway’s hottest ticket: Broadway stage numerous times, from Hamilton. After the show ended, Hair to Rent to Spring Awakening and Brandon Victor Dixon, the actor who more, but Hedwig rocks like nothing plays America’s second VP, Aaron Burr, else. Accompanied by a band on stage thanked Pence for coming and delivand a killer light show, Hedwig might ered a hopeful plea. as well play a concert venue instead of a “We, sir — we are the diverse theater. It explodes off the stage with America who are alarmed and anxious overflowing, infectious energy. that your new administration will not Theoretically, every theater show protect us, our planet, our children, our should feel as if it’s a one-night-only parents or defend us and uphold our performance just for that crowd, but inalienable rights, Courtesy of DCPA/Joan Marcus sir,” he said. “But we truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.” If Pence had chosen Hedwig and the Angry Inch instead of Hamilton, Hedwig’s cast might have had a more direct message — a crotch grab and the middle finger. Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be delicately described as a boundary-pushing, gender-bending ruckus packed with scorching rock numbers. It can also be less-delicately described as a hilariously poignant punch in the face. Hedwig achieves this effect with more The show, now playing at the Buell gusto than the typical musical. Theater through Dec. 11, is based off The show opens with Hedwig literof the 1998 off-Broadway production ally busting onto the stage, belting the of the same name, later released as a dynamic “Tear Me Down,” soon folfilm in 2001. The most recent rendition lowed by a breathtaking performance of of Hedwig headed to Broadway in “The Origin of Love,” and then one of 2014, winning four out of the eight the show’s most popular and punchy Tony Awards it was nominated for, songs “Sugar Daddy.” It’s easy to think including best revival of a musical. the musical has quickly exercised its In reality though, Hedwig isn’t really biggest and best numbers, but somehow a musical. It is a rock show lead by the each song manages to top the former. underappreciated Hedwig Robinson That is the talent of Hedwig; she’s here and her band The Angry Inch. to put on a show and it’s going to be Throughout the show, Hedwig tells the one hell of a good time. audience the story of her life: Born But even with its gravitas, the show Hansel Schmidt, she grew up as a boy is just as, if not more, powerful in its in East Berlin. After marrying an quiet moments. This duality is mirrored American soldier and surviving a in the show’s two main characters botched sex change operation, Hedwig Hedwig (Euon Morton) and her husband Yitzhak (Hannah Corneau), an ends up in America where her life conex-drag queen who’s relegated to the tinues with its fair share of highs and background as to not upstage his wife. lows. She gets through those tribula-
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In a show this strong, it’s almost impossible to pick a standout performance, and there’s no need. The character of Hedwig is a master class in character development. She’s a dream role for any actor willing to surpass the limits of humor and tragedy, of strength and vulnerability. Morton plays her beautifully and delivers an impressive performance — how he can do that every night of the week without retiring from exhaustion is a mystery. As multidimensional as Hedwig is, her counterpart Yitzhak is just as complex. Yet instead of demanding attention, Yitzhak’s desires are quieter. With a single look or head tilt, his stoic presence can easily outshine the glitz of his wife. Corneau is outstanding in the role, and any time Yitzhak is able to nab the spotlight, Corneau leaves the audience desperate for more. Together with Morton, the actors infuse the show with the high level of chutzpah needed to achieve its purpose. Hedwig is an exploration in gender, sexuality, rock music and moral ambiguity. But underneath Hedwig’s makeup and wig, she shows us we’re all the same: Human beings craving love, no matter the labels society thrusts on us. It serves as an important reminder of the current American landscape. As Hedwig waxes poetic, she and the audience both know it’s 2016. Throughout the show, she delivers some pointed advice for the next four years that is met with laughs undercut with knowing groans of the precarious future. But she sums it up in the opening number, “Enemies and adversaries/ They try and tear me down/You want me baby, I dare you/Try and tear me down.” It serves as a threat to those who plot her demise, and in the audience is an army of disciples ready to fight with her. You hear that Mike Pence?
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Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Strange Birds. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
The Vipers. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Open Stage. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Events Acrylics 2. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Papa Juke. 6 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.
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Wildlight boasts itself as “the space between the notes, the earth’s undulating pulse, the modern echoes of ancient rhythms,” because of its unique sound and inspiration drawn from several musical genres. With a non-traditional partnering of a folk songwriter and an electronic music composer, Wildlight makes music that is calm enough to be insightful, yet wild enough to start a party. Through the combination of vocalist Ayla Nereo’s delicate harmonies and composer David Sugalski’s heavy beats and deep bass, Wildlight creates a different tune that can get anyone dancing along to the music. — Zach Evens
Founded on the idea that stories shape our lives, Playback Theatre West is a professional theater company that specializes in using the art of stories to inspire, enliven and educate their audience. The troupe of actors listen to an audience member’s personal story and then re-enact them, aiming to capture the experience. The company has been around for nearly 30 years, becoming a staple in Colorado theater over their long history and using their storytelling ability to inspire all who attend their shows. — Zach Evens
Kirsten Cohen Photography Earning their place in the bluegrass scene in the mountain states, Trout Steak Revival combines well-composed instrumentals, moving stories, sincere lyrics and harmonies that have developed over years of friendships. Playing banjos, fiddles, standing basses and guitars, the members of Trout Steak Revival are pioneers in the bluegrass genre, drawing on traditional conventions of American roots music while also innovating the genre. The five bandmates have played in front of sold out audiences, and won the 2014 Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Competition. — Zach Evens
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Colorado Lowriders. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Through May 31.
Ladies and Gentlemen Meet the Dramastics — Nathan Carter. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.
Glory of Venice. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Feb. 12. HOVAB: Evolving Visions of Land and Landscape. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Jan. 5.
Friday, December 9 Aesop Rock, Rob Sonic, Dj Zone. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
Ben Hanna. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Of Earth: Boulder Potters’ Guild. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 8. Olga Karpeisky. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Jan. 31.
Pioneers: Women Artists in Boulder, 18981950. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Feb. 4.
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Ben Gallagher. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Mysterium Tremendum: collecting curiosity. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 17.
On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8.
Uncommon Clay. The Arts Longmont Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through Dec. 23. Shockwave. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 28. BMoCA explores the changing perspective of landscape art in their exhibit Evolving Visions of Land and Landscape, through Jan. 5.
Billy Shaddox. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Bonnie & The Clydes. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
HOVAB @ The Dairy Arts Center; Criss-Cross Collective; Front Range Women in the Visual Arts Founders. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Nov. 27.
Star Wars and the Power of Costume. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 2. States of Men — George Strasburger. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Jan. 15. Words are Leaves — Kim Dickey. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.
Broke Down Shack. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. The Corporation. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Dan and Yoshi. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847. Danny Shafer Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Delta Sonics. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dusty Stray. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Funkiphino. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Gabrielle. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
Hunter Stone. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
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Bodacioussss. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 29.
Jababa and Cosmopolitics. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jami Lunde Duo. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Judo Chop, SL/SH. 8 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Katie Glassman and Snaphot. 8:30 p.m. Oskar
Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Kyle Donovan. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Local Rhythm. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Private Gripweed. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Scott Nice & Ryan Herr. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Sherefe. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Homeschool Art: Full Spectrum (Ages 5-8). 9 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Longmont Lights. 5 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8404. Masterpiece Makers (Ages 3-5). 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Zaida’s Jouney - Fundrasing Party. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Saturday, December 10 Music
The Travelin’ McCourys. 7 p.m. The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland, 303-258-3637.
Amberly Chalberg, Joe Mazza. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Antonio Lopez. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
Universal Sigh. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Events Annual Holiday Warehouse Sale. 10 a.m. Icelandic Design, 473 Main St., Suite 100, Longmont, 303-651-3334. Exploring 2D Art: Painting, Printing, Collaging, And More! (Ages 5-8). 3:45 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
Beauty of My Land. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Ben Gallager. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Boulder Chamber Orchestra presents “The Reformation.” 7:30 p.m. Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522. see EVENTS Page 42
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DEC 31
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Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony: Reunion
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A Night of Pops: Tribute to Leroy Anderson
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Boulder Phil: A Wicked Good Christmas. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Charlie Brown Goes to the Nutcracker. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Danny Bastos Collective. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Deadset. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.
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Ein Kind Geborn zu Bethlehem: Christmas Music of Praetorius. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Elijah Moore, HYD, Dough Boy, and Paul Anthony. 8 p.m. Boulder House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-997-4108. Envy Alo With Universal Sigh. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Flash Mountain Flood. 4 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Foxfeather. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Thursday, Dec. 8 Valerie Hsiung, Elisa Gabbert, A. Minetta Gould, Eleni Sikelianos. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Friday, Dec. 9 Post-Election Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303. Saturday, Dec. 10 Making Merry — presented by Stories on Stage. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Just in time for the holidays, Stories on Stage stops by Chautauqua for some seasonal cheer.
Monday, Dec. 12 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Tuesday, Dec. 13 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Funkiphino. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Holly and Ivy United States Air Force Academy Band. 7 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-651-0401. Interstate Stash Express. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Jet Set. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Johnny & The Mongrels. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Jubilingo. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Kevin Patrick. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234. Los Cheesies. 7 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Makeshift Funk Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Matt Rouch & The Noise Upstairs. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. McCrossen/Gershevich Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Light Up The Night. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Longmont Lights. 5 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8404.
The Alcapones. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Making Merry. 2 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-4423282.
Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Saturday Children’s Art Workshop: Playing with Clay. 10:30 a.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328.
Eric Stone. 5 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-2583770.
Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Felonious Smith Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Wildlife and Winter Hike. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch, Boulder.
Flynn & The Electric Company. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Long-
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A Christmas Carol. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Dec. 24.
Onda. 9 p.m. Rocky Mountain Oyster Bar, 35 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-1100.
A Christmas Carol. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-9353044. Through Dec. 23.
Paper Moonshine. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE.
An Act of God. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239. Through March 12.
Thomas Gronberg. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Conviction — presented by Dairy Arts Center and Maya Productions. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through Dec. 4.
Tilia Americana. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Tim Ostdiek. 3 p.m. St. Vrain Cidery, 3525 State Hwy. 119, Longmont, 303-678-9402. Trout Steak Revival. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Events Annual Holiday Warehouse Sale. 10 a.m. Icelandic Design, 473 Main St., Suite 100, Longmont, 303-651-3334. Firefly Handmade Holiday Market. 10 a.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder,
Every Christmas Story Ever Told — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Dec. 24. Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Dec. 11. The SantaLand Diaries. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Dec. 24.
The bombastic German rockstar heads to Denver in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, through Dec. 11. Read BW’s review on page 37. Thoroughly Modern Millie. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Feb. 25.
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The Goodins. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
Josh Garrels, The Brilliance & A Boy and his Kite. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Heartland Quartet. 2 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8477. A Holiday Tribute to John Denver. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Hotfoot Duo. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. New Wizard Oil Combination. 5 p.m. The Academy, 970 Aurora Ave., Boulder, 303-938-1920. Open Jam. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Thomas Cassell & Colin Hotz. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
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Open Mic. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303339-0767. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-6844728. Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Creating WordPress Image Galleries. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts Studio, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Life Drawing. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Lowriders: Cars & Culture — Curator Conversations. 12 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
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I & The Many. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
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Portrait Photography. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts Studio, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Open Bluegrass Pick hosted by Kyle Ussery. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
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Bluegrass Jam. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 1800 Pikes Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-823-6685.
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Acrylic & Mixed Media Painting (Ages 9-13). 5 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.
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Intro to Acrylics. 6:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-5031902.
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s creative luminaries Alfred Hitchcock and Sir Mix-a-Lot have demonstrated, a great end is crucial to quality art. Allied does not have a great end. It has a dumpy, problematic back half that nobody should watch and few will enjoy, even if it belongs to Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. Director Robert Zemeckis has made a movie that feels like someone fell asleep watching Casablanca and then told everyone, in painstaking detail, about a lame dream they had that night. Pitt plays Max Vatan, a Canadian who is a perfect spy because he has no defining characteristics that call attention to him. Cotillard plays Marianne Beauséjour, a French spy who partners with Max to gun down a Nazi in the film’s modestly interesting first half. After some great sex in the middle of a sandstorm, the pair leave French Morocco, get hitched and produce offspring. Well, she produces offspring, he mostly makes a stupid face that looks like fart contemplation while she does the hard work during a German air raid. Later, he’s still working with the British against the Nazis and gets understandably bummed when he is told that the lady he thinks is Marianne may not actually be her at all: She may be a secret German spy who is leaking allied secrets. Instead of trusting his wife, talking to his wife, following the government’s plan to investigate his wife or generally doing anything respectful towards his wife, Max goes honkin’ bonkers. He steals planes and interrogates horribly injured soldiers, not because he fears he’s contributed to the greater Nazi scheme but because he may have been deceived... by a lady! Allied is a reinforcement, intentional or not, of the bullshit men’s rights activist logic that women are inherently distrustful. Were it not a vile cautionary tale about the dangers inherent in trusting a wife beyond baby-making, it would only have been boring and inert. Because it’s both things, it goes from being a waste of time to a fried slice of crap. Writer Steven Knight likely thought he was winding up a tense romantic thriller and would bristle at some of the implications mentioned. Bristle away, buddy, that’s still exactly what you wrote here. He’s not alone in the blame though. Cotillard and Pitt are famously rumored to have banged a gong in real life during the filming of this movie. Having watched it, that seems more like a lie spread in order to distract from the palpable lack of chemistry between the two on screen. Thinking more about it, the sandstorm that whips around the car as Max and Marianne engage in full Beauséjour seems more like a way to obscure the carnal recreations than to sex them up. Well played! Weak and limp as a romantic thriller, problematic as a husband/wife narrative and wholly negligible as a Nazi-era spy piece, Allied wants so badly to capture older audiences, it puts its final credits in easy-to-read, oversized print. Young, old or otherwise, Allied isn’t much for anybody, at least those with any interest in things that are, you know, good. This review previously appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.
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andoori Grill is a pretty special spot for me; it’s where I ate dinner the day I moved to Boulder, exhausted from three days of cross-country travel, anxious about starting graduate school, pissed that my checkbook was packed in the U-Haul (to make my rent payment) and unsure of the choice I’d made to leave my family and friends back East. I could smell the unmistakable aroma of Indian food as I unpacked the truck in front of my new place. The universe was clearly offering me comfort on a day marked by frustration, fear and, somewhere in there, excitement. I’ve always wondered why I love Indian food so much, as it wasn’t something I was introduced to as a kid. But it turns out there’s a scientific reason why the subcontinent’s food appeals to people around the world. In 2015, a group of Indian researchers tackled this question from a molecular level and found that Indian food, unlike Western dishes, combines ingredients that don’t share overlapping flavors. Flavor comes from precise chemical compounds that create tastes we can label as bitter, sour, sweet, floral, sulfury, etc., etc. On average there are about 50 flavor compounds in a single ingredient. In Indian dishes, disparate flavors run up against each other, allowing individual flavors to stand out. Furthermore, Indian cuisine uses nearly 200 of the roughly 380 known food ingredients in the world. So that is why I — and probably you — really dig curry, korma and masala. Going to Tandoori Grill, especially in the evening, always takes me back to that day I rolled into Boulder, sweaty, worried, my cat wailing in his carrier, my new apartment way smaller and way more expensive than the one I’d just left. The warm interior of the restaurant soothed me that day, and I find myself seeking that same comfort from time to time now, even settled into a better apartment and comfortable with my not-so-new life in Colorado. The dining room is cozy, bounded by garnet-colored walls. Sheer valances the color of white honeysuckle separate wooden tables set with linen-wrapped silverware. The menu is a smorgasbord of classic Indian dishes, and while it’s hard to choose an entrée, rest assured no choice is wrong. On a recent evening, the right choice was lamb korma.
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Korma is a dish enjoyed across South Asia. The word korma derives from the Urdu word for “braise,” which was derived from the Turkish word for “cooked meat,” and that’s what a korma dish is. Meat (or vegetables) are subjected to long, slow cooking using moist heat. It makes for tender, savory meat. Lamb has to be seared first, then cooked at a low temperature for a number of hours. This is how you get an unforgettable korma, just like the kind at Tandoori. Their version of the dish is sweet and creamy, thick and savory, with a hint of nutty flavor from ground cashews and almonds. Cardamom pods add a woody flavor, while cloves, ginger and nutmeg give the dish a spicy, sweet and pungent edge. The lamb is tender from bathing in the rich sauce for hours. The resulting dish has a gravy-like taste and feel, perfect for soothing the soul while invigorating the senses. Long gone are the days when Indian food was seen as something to poke fun at, nothing more than smelly cuisine destined to leave the diner with a bad tummy. No, those outdated ideas are long gone, and the world now embraces the joy of indulging in perhaps the most unique, delicious cuisine on the planet. What a comfort. Tandoori Grill. 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.
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If you are into food as a passion and an issue, put aside July 14-16, 2017. The nonprofit Slow Food organization will hold its big North America gathering, Slow Food Nations, in Denver with workshops, seminars, dine-around dinners, tours and a grand tasting hall. As a result, Slow Food noted, “For three days, Denver, CO will become the center of the North American food universe.” To get involved: slowfoodusa.org/ slow-food-nations
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Big Macs and General Tso’s
Two unexpected food pioneers died recently at the age of 98. Jim Delligatti, a McDonald’s franchise owner in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, invented the iconic Big Mac in 1967, basing it on a similar sandwich served at Big Boy restaurants. Remember “two Enjoy the taste all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, of Montmorency cherries with a onions on a sesame seed bun”? We still don’t know bottle of Winechick why there was an extra bun in the middle and why Colorado Cherry Wine. they needed to note that the patties were “all-beef.” There was a historical General Tso, but General Tso’s Chicken is not a traditional Chinese food. Taiwanese chef Peng Chang-kuei invented the iconic Hunanese Chinese restaurant dish in 1952 for a visiting American admiral. The sweetly sauced preparation is often served surrounded by steamed broccoli.
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “I frequently tramped 8 or 10 miles
through the deepest snow,” wrote naturalist Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.” I’d love to see you summon that level of commitment to your important rendezvous in the coming weeks, Aries. Please keep in mind, though, that your “most important rendezvous” are more likely to be with wild things, unruly wisdom, or primal breakthroughs than with pillars of stability, committee meetings, and business-as-usual.
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Accept and Love and Celebrate Myself Exactly How I Am Right Now” Month. To galvanize yourself, play around with this declaration by Oscar-winning Taurus actress Audrey Hepburn: “I’m a long way from the human being I’d like to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.” Here are other thoughts to draw on during the festivities: 1. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone.” — Barbara De Angelis. 2. “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” — E. E. Cummings. 3. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” — Sandra Bierig. 4. “We cannot change anything until we accept it.” — Carl Jung.
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MAY 21-JUNE 20: Are your collaborative projects (includ-
ing the romantic kind) evolving at a slower pace than you expected? Have they not grown as deep and strong as you’ve wished they would? If so, I hope you’re perturbed about it. Maybe that will motivate you to stop tolerating the stagnation. Here’s my recommendation: Don’t adopt a more serious and intense attitude. Instead, get loose and frisky. Inject a dose of blithe spirits into your togetherness, maybe even some high jinks and rowdy experimentation. The cosmos has authorized you to initiate ingenious surprises.
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cize your demons. The truth Fair asked David Bowie, is, those insidious trouble“What do you consider makers exult when you abuse your greatest achieveyourself. They draw perverse ment?” Bowie didn’t name sustenance from it. In fact, any of his albums, videos their strategy is to fool you or performances. Rather, into treating yourself badly. he answered, “Discovering Go to RealAstrology.com to check out So, no. If you hope to drive morning.” I suspect that Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO away the saboteurs huddled you Libras will attract and HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE in the sacred temple of your generate marvels if you HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes psyche, your best bet is to experiment with accomare also available by phone at shower yourself with tender plishments like that in the 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. care, even luxurious blesscoming weeks. So yes, try ings. The pests won’t like to discover or rediscover that, and — if you commit to morning. Delve into the this crusade for an extended time — they will eventually flee. thrills of beginnings. Magnify your appreciation for natural wonders that you usually take for granted. Be seduced by sources that emanate light and heat. Gravitate toward what’s LEO fresh, blossoming, just-in-its-early-stages. JULY 23-AUG. 22: Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez loved SCORPIO yellow roses. He often had a fresh bloom on his writing desk as he worked, placed there every morning by his wife OCT. 23-NOV. 21: According to traditional astrology, Mercedes Barcha. In accordance with the astrological omens, you Scorpios are not prone to optimism. You’re more often I invite you to consider initiating a comparable ritual. Is there portrayed as connoisseurs of smoldering enigmas and shadowy a touch of beauty you would like to inspire you on a regular intrigue and deep questions. But one of the most creative and basis? It there a poetic gesture you could faithfully perform for successful Scorpios of the 20th century did not completely fit a person you love? this description. French artist Claude Monet was renowned for his delightful paintings of sensuous outdoor landscapes. “Every day I discover even more beautiful things,” he testified. VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: “For a year I watched as something “It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all. My head is bursting.” Monet is your patron saint in the coming weeks. entered and then left my body,” testified Jane Hirshfield in her You will have more potential to see as he did than you’ve had poem “The Envoy.” What was that mysterious something? in a long time. Terror or happiness? She didn’t know. Nor could she decipher “how it came in” or “how it went out.” It hovered “where words SAGITTARIUS could not reach it. It slept where light could not go.” Her experience led her to conclude that “There are openings in NOV. 22-DEC. 21: A journalist dared composer John Cage our lives of which we know nothing.” I bring this meditation to “summarize himself in a nutshell.” Cage said, “Get yourself to your attention, Virgo, because I suspect you are about to out of whatever cage you find yourself in.” He might have tune in to a mysterious opening. But unlike Hirshfield, I think added, “Avoid the nutshells that anyone tries to put you in.” you’ll figure out what it is. And then you will respond to it with This is always fun work to attend to, of course, but I especially verve and intelligence. recommend it to you Sagittarians right now. You’re in the time of year that’s close to the moment when you first barged out of your mom’s womb, where you had been housed for months. LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: A reporter at the magazine Vanity The coming weeks will be an excellent phase to attempt a
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DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Hundreds of years ago, the Catholic
Church’s observance of Lent imposed a heavy burden. During this six-week period, extending from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, believers were expected to cleanse their sins through acts of self-denial. For example, they weren’t supposed to eat meat on Fridays. Their menus could include fish, however. And this loophole was expanded even further in the 17th century when the Church redefined beavers as being fish. (They swim well, after all.) I’m in favor of you contemplating a new loophole in regard to your own self-limiting behaviors, Capricorn. Is there a taboo you observe that no longer makes perfect sense? Out of habit, do you deny yourself a pleasure or indulgence that might actually be good for you? Wriggle free of the constraints.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “The Pacific Ocean was overflowing
the borders of the map,” wrote Pablo Neruda in his poem “The Sea.” “There was no place to put it,” he continued. “It was so large, wild and blue that it didn’t fit anywhere. That’s why it was left in front of my window.” This passage is a lyrical approximation of what your life could be like in 2017. In other words, lavish, elemental, expansive experiences will be steadily available to you. Adventures that may have seemed impossibly big and unwieldy in the past will be just the right size. And it all begins soon.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20: “I have a deep fear of being too
much,” writes poet Michelle K. “That one day I will find my someone, and they will realize that I am a hurricane. That they will step back and be intimidated by my muchness.” Given the recent astrological omens, Pisces, I wouldn’t be shocked if you’ve been having similar feelings. But now here’s the good news: Given the astrological omens of the next nine months, I suspect the odds will be higher than usual that you’ll encounter brave souls who’ll be able to handle your muchness. They may or may not be soulmates or your one-and-only. I suggest you welcome them as they are, with all of their muchness.
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n 2012, Boulder County electors voted 2 to 1 for legalizing recreational marijuana in Colorado. Amendment 64’s margin of victory in Boulder County was 11 percentage points higher than its margin of victory state-wide. But you would never know it by the way the Boulder County Commissioners responded. Amendment 64 didn’t just legalize possession, use and sale of marijuana. It also legalized the production of marijuana — for both commercial purposes and private use. And it gave local governments the power to ban sales and commercial grows. The usual way of producing marijuana is by, you know, growing it. In other words, marijuana production is an agricultural undertaking. But Boulder County Commissioners Elise Jones, Deb Gardner and Cindy Dominico seem to have had a problem with the concept. Shortly after the passage of Amendment 64, the Commissioners said, in so many words, “OMG! Marijuana! Why people could be growing it right here in Boulder County if we don’t do something!” So they did something. They banned commercial marijuana grows in the County’s agricultural and forestry districts. The ban applied to both outdoor and indoor growing operations. This is a far more sweeping ban than the ban on growing GMO corn and sugar beets on county-owned open space, which amounts to about 25,000 acres. The pot ban applies to a couple hundred thousand acres of privately-owned land as well. The reason the commissioners gave for having imposed the ban was that marijuana production isn’t really “agricultural.” Since marijuana is grown indoors under artificial light, its production is “industrial” and therefore has no place in the county’s agricultural areas.
The rationale is ludicrously dishonest. The fact that a crop is grown indoors under electric lights does not make growing it any more of an “industrial” activity than, say, milking cows in a barn with electrically powered milking machines makes dairy farming an industrial activity. Moreover, there was a simple way to get the electric lights out of the process if that’s what troubled the commissioners: Allow marijuana to be grown outdoors in the agricultural zones, as is allowed in Colorado provided the grows are properly fenced. Such grows currently exist in Pueblo County. Prohibitionist decisions like this often produce unexpected consequences, and the Commissioners’ crack-pot pot ban is no exception. As a result of the ban, all the marijuana grown in Boulder County is grown in climate-controlled warehouses (heated or air-conditioned depending on the season) under artificial light — which makes the industry one of the largest consumers of (fossil fuelgenerated) electricity in Boulder County. Heating the warehouses in the winter also makes the industry a major natural gas consumer. The ban on marijuana grows in the agricultural zones has also created a severe shortage of warehouse space in both unincorporated Boulder County’s nonagricultural zoning districts and in Boulder County
cities as well. As a result, the industry is looking for any available space in which to set up grows, including vacant homes. NIMBY eruptions against proposed grows in Niwot and Hygiene were a direct result of the ban. The obvious place for marijuana grows in Boulder County is in the county’s agricultural zoning district. The crop could be grown outdoors in fenced fields, indoors in poll barns or, ideally, in greenhouses. Ah yes, greenhouses. The same green-washed, busy-body Commissioners who are horrified by the prospect of marijuana operations on farms are equally horrified by the prospect of greenhouses on farms. The Boulder County Land Use department won’t approve greenhouses if they have modern amenities like electricity, heat or running water. The look so (ugh) industrial. Growing pot, or for that matter any number of other crops, in greenhouses would allow for yearround operations, produce dramatic energy and water savings, reduce the use of pesticides and increase yields. In other words, it would make both marijuana production in particular and agriculture generally more sustainable — by almost any conceivable measure of sustainability. Boulder County’s Commissioners, especially Jones and Gardner, seem to think of themselves as God’s gift to sustainability. But when it comes to marijuana they’re just green-washed nanny statists stuck on stupid.
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A BIG WIN FOR THE PLATYPUS, OH AND PEOPLE WITH DIABETES Be honest. How many times a year do you think about the platypus? If you’re anything like us it’s been quite a while since the mental image of the duck-billed mammal has waddled across your brain. It’s one of those animals that is easy to make up facts about because nobody knows enough to correct you. But weirdly enough, you don’t have to make up any facts about the platypus, because it is a amalgamation of weird. The kind of animal created from the brain of a 6 year old: “Make him have the bill and webbed feet of a duck, the tail of a beaver and the body of an otter. Oh and put some stingers on their... feet! But just the ones Wikimedia Commons in the back. And yeah, the male ones are venomous, because that would be neat.” Well, it turns out, nature’s happy accident could be a key to treating a worldwide disease. Researchers in Australia have discovered evolutionary changes to the regulation of insulin in, you guessed it, the platypus. The same discovery has also been found in the echidna, a hedgehog-armadillo-looking creature, who was surely created from the same 6-yearold brain. Their findings could mean new treatments for patients with type 2 diabetes. Now while these studies are in their early stages, and there’s still more research to be done, the most important information gleaned from the research is clear: The platypus is not an entirely useless animal! It’s your typical high school situation, never discount the nerd. They might grow up to cure diabetes, and you’ll regret not inviting them to your party. And there you go. Feel free not to think about platypuses until 2018.
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So pretend you are the president of some country like the USA and you have just been tasked with hiring the person whose job it will be to make sure that all the citizens have clean air, clean water and a world free of toxic pollution aka the head of the EPA. So you start going through the resumes and the first one looks pretty good but then you see that the applicant doesn’t believe in global warming even going so far as to say the science isn’t settled even though 98 percent of the scientific community says it is. So you move to the next resume only to find that this person is actually in a lawsuit against the very agency you wanted him to run because the agency wanted to stop burning coal to make electricity because we will all be dead in a hundred years if we continue this environmentally stupid practice. So you throw that resume in the trash and grab the next one. Maybe... maybe... nope this flawed candidate also just sued the same agency because it passed laws to try and curtail methane emissions because it’s 82 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2. And then you look at the last resume and the first sentence boasts that this applicant considers himself “a leading advocate against the EPA’s activist agenda.” Bummer. So what do you do? Keep looking? Not if you are President-elect Donald Trump. If you’re Trump you hire all four. Or in Trump’s case, you hire Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt because he has all four of the flaws mentioned above on his resume. No kidding. Trump really did make this climate-denying, oil and gas industry shill, turd ball of a human the next head of the EPA. It is the new definition of batshit crazy. Boulder Weekly
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