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Highroad Reclaim Chicago challenges ‘Mayor 1-Percent’ by Jim Hightower

he people of Chicago are presently grappling with a big question that nearly every urban place faces: Can anyone really govern such a sprawling, brawling city? Reclaim Chicago — an upstart populist coalition that has become a major force in the city — says the answer is a great big “NO.” Moreover, asserts this grassroots group, no one

should. Rather, the many should, and if they’re organized through a democratic network, the people can be their own government, producing egalitarian policies that improve the lives of everyone, advancing the whole city. Indeed, the problem in Chicago has been that “one” has been in charge, imposing corporate rule that further enriches the rich, while holding down everyone else. At present, the city’s Numero Uno is Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Wall Street Democrat who uses everything from privatization schemes and tax favoritism to harsh budget cuts and arbitrary police action to shift money and power away from the people and the common good, into the coffers of the moneyed elites. Plutocratic ruthlessness aside, however, “Mayor 1-Percent,” as the people have dubbed him, thinks he’s untouchable. Reclaim Chicago, however, is about to test that. This independent coalition is backing a top-notch slate of 14 peo-

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ple’s candidates to challenge incumbent city council members who’ve been tailwagging lapdogs for Emanuel’s corporate rule. And Mayor 1-Percent himself has drawn two opponents for the Feb. 24 election. Of course, Emanuel is floating on a boatload of special interest cash, but Reclaim Chicago has hundreds of its seasoned and trained members holding personal, door-to-door conversations with Chicagoans. Win or lose in this go-round, Reclaim Chicago will keep moving onward and upward — and that’s what it takes to build a winning people’s movement. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. February 19, 2015 5

danish plan Boulder needs a municipal oil company

Really BAD Ideas

by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby

or S o u n d ad v ic e f i l le v s i u o L & e t t e Er ie , L af ay

by Paul Danish

any Boulder residents chafe under the tyranny of Big Oil, which supplies the gasoline, natural gas and asphalt in the Whole Foods parking lot on which their survival depends. But fortunately, there is a way to rescue the city from the talons of Big Oil. ( Just as all babies are beautiful, all dogs are good and all bicyclists are Little Lord Fauntleroys, all oil companies are Big.) Anyway, if you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. Boulder should start its own oil company. You know, like Exxon, Shell, or BP — with its own wells, refineries, pipelines and filling stations — all publicly owned and operated. Just like Boulder’s putative municipal utility. Call it Peoples Republic Organic Petroleum and Natural Natural Gas. Hey, how hard could it be? Just lease a couple of rigs, pick out some drill sites, and have at it. And in just a few short months everyone in town will be singing “My God, How the Money Rolls In.” How much money? Well, over in Weld County they’re drilling wells that will produce 750,000 barrels each over their lifetimes. Even at today’s depressed oil prices of about $50 a barrel that works out to an ultimate payoff of around $37.5 million a well, most of it coming in the first two or three years. What’s more, in Weld they’re drilling 24 wells per square mile. This works out to $900 million per square mile (or $1.8 billion per square mile if the price of oil returns to $100 a barrel in a couple of years, as a lot of analysts think it will). Only taking the 58 square miles in the Boulder Valley into account, Boulder could be sitting on a $50 to $100 billion bonanza. And the city owns thousands of additional acres of open space outside the Boulder Valley. Boulder could solve all its problems, bang dead, if it just cowgirled-up and got in touch with its inner oilman. Within a few months, the City Council would have the wealth of Croesus at its disposal. Or at least the wealth of Michael Bloomberg. Just imagine what a bunch of nanny-statist busybodies can do with money like that? There’s virtually nothing they couldn’t 6 February 19, 2015

improve. Starting with you. Taxes? Histoire, baby! Open space? Boulder would have enough dough to buy Louisville, Lafayette, Lyons and Longmont — along with the mineral rights — and relocate them to the Nebraska Panhandle. Parks? Boulder could have parks that would rival the hanging gardens of Babylon. Diversity? There would be an influx of people from groups that Boulder has had a hard time attracting despite decades of trying. Roughnecks, for instance. Affordable housing? Who needs it? A lot of roughnecks make $100K a year. They’d feel right at home in Boulder. Especially after they see all the “new urbanist” housing the council approved east of 30th Street. It looks just like a man camp in North Dakota. And so on. But are there really accumulations of oil and natural gas under Boulder, sufficient to turn the city into the Kuwait of the West (or at least the North Slope of the South)? Well, Boulder has already had one oil boom. It started in 1902, on Feb. 5, 1902 to be exact, when an oilman named Isaah Canfield found oil in a 2,200 foot deep well named the McKenzie No. 1. (You can still see its pump jack and holding tank in the median strip at the Boulder end of the Longmont Diagonal.) That Boulder boom quickly played out, but the McKenzie No. 1 kept on producing for more than 100 years. When it was finally plugged in 2006 it was still producing half a barrel a day. The oil in shallow deposits like those tapped in 1902 usually didn’t originate where it was found. It was formed in deeper rock formations, called source rock, and then migrated upward. Around here, the source rock is the same shale formations that are producing the oil and gas bonanza in Weld County, including the Niobrara Shale, which is about 7,000 feet below the surface. It is not universally drenched with oil, but there are a number of “sweet spots” throughout it. Just guessing, but given the presence of the shallower see DANISH PLAN Page 8

Maybe they shouldn’t drill on top of all those That’s an old coal mines. understatement!

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In “Pearl and 30th (Proposed Google Campus),” which ran Jan. 22, we incorrectly reported that “Google plans to bring in around 1,500 more” employees. Because Google already has more than 300 employees at its Boulder campus, the article should have said “around 1,200 more.”

Stop the bad bills on mineral rights

I want to thank you for the DyerTimes column you wrote [Re: “The collapse of compassion,” Feb. 5]. It brings me to tears and then I realize oh no, this is my life. Of course it is many others lives also, that is the main dilemma, those who feel others pain and those who don’t. This last week I went to the capitol twice. The first time to testify against HB 15-1119. I did this speech extemporaneously but then went the next day to testify against SB15-093. These are the mineral rights above everyone else’s rights bills, tragic inane bills. I was asked to testify against both. I failed at the senate hearing but they are letting me send the written speech to them. I am sending this speech to state senators, representatives, Mr. Lepore (COGCC), Mr. Polis... Please read it and pass it along if you think it has merit. Thank you again. Anne Harper/Weld County

Party fear mongers

Thank you for your DyerTimes column on the party fear mongers [Re: “Deception, the shared value of both

parties,” Feb. 12]. It reminded me of the work of P.D. Scott, who does not get much coverage (he gets attention/suppression). Below is [a link to] one of many excerpts from his latest book. The perspective helps me understand the maddening (and murderous) betrayal of politicians who say one thing and do another. It does not excuse them. I just did a search with “Peter Dale Scott Democratic Party” and found a YouTube discussion with former senator Dan Hamburg. I find the deepstate-shadow-government-corporatecontrol research chilling and overwhelming. Much appreciation. The Fates of American Presidents Who Challenged the Deep State (1963-1980). http://tinyurl.com/mqoaypa Closer to your article: “The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats.” CounterPunch tells the facts, names the names. http://tinyurl.com/c678sse Addi Jyurovat/Boulder

Tell Polis to oppose TPP Fast Track At the Seattle protests in 1999, workers and environmentalists marched together against the World Trade Organization (WTO). They were called the “blue and green alliance,” and they were united in standing up to corporate-driven trade policies that were off-shoring American jobs and destroying environments and wildlife around the world. Now the blue and green alliance is teaming up to stop see LETTERS Page 7

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Congress from approving the TransPacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed pact among 12 countries in the Pacific Rim, including the U.S. Workers and other knowledgeable folks are concerned that the TPP, like NAFTA, will off-shore middle-class jobs to countries where workers are paid a small fraction of U.S. wages. Environmentalists, including the Sierra Club, are opposing the TPP for a whole litany of persuasive reasons, including that: its environmental standards are weak and unenforceable; corporations can challenge environmental laws in secret trade tribunals and collect unlimited cash compensation; the TPP lacks prohibitions on illegal trade in timber, wildlife and fish; and the TPP will facilitate increased exports of fracked gas, a major source of climate change (www.exposethetpp.org). In spite of these serious flaws, President Obama is working with House Republicans to gain Fast Track trade authority so that he can push the 1,200-page TPP through Congress with almost no debate and no amendments. Most House Democrats oppose Fast Track. Unfortunately, Rep. Jared Polis hasn’t taken a position. It’s time for Rep. Polis to pledge to oppose Fast Track, an undemocratic usurpation of Congress’ constitutional authority over trade. You can help by urging Congressman Polis to oppose Fast Track for the TPP. Telephone 303-4849596 or polis.house.gov. Judy Lubow/Longmont

Giant corporate wet dream

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is called a trade agreement, but it is really a wet dream for Giant Corporations. Corporate lawyers have been working on the details for years. We have been locked out of knowing anything about it. So have almost all of our Representatives and Senators. Not true? Ask if they have been able to take the text back to their offices to discuss with staff or any of the people they are supposed to represent. Ask how we can see the details. The Boulder Democrats have a platform plank challenging much of what will come out of this secret deal. But there will be some sweeteners! The idea is that we will be asked to think about how nice it is to be able to export more cattle. At the same time the deal will be exporting jobs to countries where wages are low, working conditions stink and there are environmental protections in name Boulder Weekly

only. We won’t be able to challenge it in our courts. Promises will be made that there will be “fixes” for all the little details. But the “fixes” will be in name only as they were in NAFTA. Soon there will be a bill called Fast Track or perhaps Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). It is designed to rush this rotten agreement through without corrections. None of our Reps have said “NO” to this. Jared Polis has been asked in citizen meetings for the past year to reject the idea of Fast Track. The question has been avoided. Both Senators Bennet and Gardner think trade is good so this bill will have their votes, while they look the other way on the darker issues. Why aren’t they representing us? Why are they standing up for Giant Corporations? Why haven’t environmental groups been in on this deal? Why not people who represent workers? Need more details go to http:// www.citizen.org/trade/ Call Rep. Polis and Sen. Michael Bennet at 866-334-1015 Tom Moore/Boulder

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he coal mines that lie under portions of downtown Lafayette and Louisville, outskirts of Erie and most of Frederick, Firestone and Dacono were built to collapse. Coal mines on the Front Range from the 1860s when coal mining began in Colorado until roughly 30 years ago used the technique of “room and pillar” mining — tunneling into a coal seam and digging rooms off the side between pillars of coal. Miners began at the far end of the tunnel, shaving coal off the pillars until the shaft’s roof timbers cracked, the roof caved or pillars began squeezing into the opened space and the room was deemed unsafe and abandoned to cave in. Some caved immediately. Some are just doing so now, an event geologists refer to as a subsidence. They can take the shape of a bell-shaped pit, hole, trough or sag, and tension cracks can form around the perimeter of subsided ground. The sinkhole that opened in a Lafayette road in January, nearly swallowing an SUV, was one such event — a mine shaft that accessed the Simpson Mine’s workings 200 to 250 feet underground opened up to the surface. Where coal has been mined, voids have been left under ground. Mines at any depth, mined at any time, can collapse. See SUBSIDENCE Page 12

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“The shallower the mine workings are, the higher the risk of subsidence, but there’s a risk when you live over any coal mine” says Rachael Nickless, project manager with the Colorado Division of Mining, Reclamation and Safety. Underneath swaths of Lafayette, Louisville, Erie, Frederick and Firestone, U.S. Geological Survey maps show abandoned coal mine workings at 50 to 150 feet deep. But few residents have enrolled in a state protection program to pay for damage to homes from coal mine subsidence, and oil and gas development is raising questions of increased concern as geologists have documented subsidence events tied to resource extraction. An estimated 7,500 houses and 25,000 people in Colorado live in homes that are at risk. A subsidence can cause foundations and basements to pull away from the home structure, asphalt to buckle, brick and stone walls to crack, sag or tilt, roofs to sag, drywall, windows and doorframes to crack and fireplaces to separate from a building according to the state’s guidebook

for homeowners. When a sudden pit or sag appears, a house can be heard popping and cracking. Water, sewer, phone and gas lines may be damaged, break and leak, and gravity flow systems may not drain properly. Work to safeguard an area after a subsidence can take days or weeks to complete, Nickless says. Often, grout is used to mitigate a collapse under a house, and that work can take up to three weeks to finish. Home foundations can also be reconnected to bedrock with helical piers that could take up to four weeks to install, she says. Many homeowners aren’t aware that their homes are over sites where subsidence may occur, and conventional homeowners insurance doesn’t cover the damage. The federal government gave Colorado $3 million to establish the mine subsidence protection program, which pays for damage to homes that results from coal mine subsidence. That money is kept in a trust fund designed to be self-sustaining. Though thousands of people stand to be affected by mine subsidence, Boulder Weekly

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Nickless estimates there are 950 people long. When the rooms and pillars were currently enrolled in the state’s mine first established, the pillars that could subsidence protection program. be 20 to 30 feet wide and the rooms 10 The program includes houses built to 12 feet wide but would become before 1989, when the Surface Mining twice that width as coal in the pillars Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 was mined away. The outline of those took effect. Before then, there was no workings have become visible in aerial oversight on the question of building photos taken after a subsidence occurs. over old mines. Mine shafts were often closed off with “None,” Nickless says. “And there dumped mine debris and waste that could still be more [oversight].” was poorly compacted. Regulation is Natural caving left to counties. and flooding have Some do well made accessing with making sure these underground builders and workings now to developers go map them imposHAVE MADE ACCESSING through the geosible, and so preTHESE UNDERGROUND logic hazard prodicting future cess, she says, but subsidence events WORKINGS NOW TO MAP not all counties is “extremely diffiTHEM IMPOSSIBLE, AND are the same and cult,” according to the guidebook for they show differSO PREDICTING FUTURE homeowners from ent levels of cauSUBSIDENCE EVENTS IS the Department tion. of Natural “I just think “EXTREMELY DIFFICULT,” Resources, that more mitiACCORDING TO THE Colorado Division gation measures of Reclamation, could be taken STATE’S GUIDEBOOK FOR before building Mining and HOMEOWNERS. over undermined Safety and areas than are Colorado now,” Nickless Geological Survey. says. Most mines collapse shortly after Those mitigation measures could they’re abandoned, which begins the include filling in mines, blasting and subsidence process, but subsidence can making sure the mines are subsided occur 100 years or more after mining before building proceeds. stopped. How long the subsidence proThere was little uniformity in how cess continues and how it progresses mining was done, making it difficult to depends how long the pillars and timevaluate the severity or timing of a bers left in place support the roof — room’s collapse. Entries were roughly the thinner the mined seam, the longer 15 feet wide and led to a grid of pillars and rooms that could be 80 to 90 feet See SUBSIDENCE Page 14

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water extraction has led to meters of subsidence over the course of decades. “We certainly see it in oil and gas fields, simply because as you remove material, the ground surface settles and you can have subsidence due to that,” he says. “The amount of subsidence really depends on two things, one is how much fluid is being withdrawn and then what is the local geology. So if you live on hard bedrock you won’t have that much subsidence necessarily but if say you live in a region where there’s a lot of sedimentary rock that has a lot of fluid in it, then you can get a lot of subsidence.” The Front Range is thick with sedimentary rock, and coal is often bookended with layers of sandstone, claystone and conglomerate. Given that information, he says, “You could see a fairly large amount of subsidence.” “Colorado does not have the best soil in any area for construction for houses,” Nickless says. “We have swollen soils and collapsible soils, which all can tie into subsidence, too, and exasperate the issues with subsidence.” Concentrated areas of oil and gas activity could lead toward greater sub-

sidence, whereas spreading the activity over a few square miles may reduce the effects. Though there have been a couple instances of earthquakes that are suspected of having been induced by fracking — wastewater injection is the more frequent source — most of the seismic activity tied to fracking is on the lower end of the scale, magnitude three or magnitude four, so small that it may not trigger a ground deformation, he says, and “any earthquake-specific subsidence would come from larger events of magnitude, say four and a half or greater.” As Front Range communities see increased pressure to permit oil and gas extraction in the midst of neighborhoods, how much these two issues of subsidence and resource extraction interlock may call for additional research. The Colorado Mine Subsidence Information Center is a repository for all known existing maps of inactive or abandoned coal mines in the state and can be reviewed by appointment with a Colorado Geological Survey staff geologist. For an appointment, call 303866-2611. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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rowing up in Pueblo, spending time with Mike, Talbert was pendent consultant for nonprofit orgaColo., with a single mothworking full-time and going to night nizations in New York. It was this work er, Eric Talbert never school. He eventually left Colorado to that gave Talbert his first immersion in thought he’d go to college, attend the University of Las Vegas, philanthropic work and nonprofit manlet alone direct a nonprofit where he studied cognitive psychology agement. organization providing medical care to and cultural anthropology. “The fact that EMERGENCY was civilian victims of war. From Las Vegas, Talbert traveled to building and running high-standard But, as Talbert says, life had other Brooklyn where he got a job at the hospitals in war zones and all the serplans for him. State University of New York vices were free of charge blew me away,” “It’s been a wild ride, as they say,” Downstate Medical Center, working in Talbert says. “I found by hearing Talbert says. The Colorado native is the a research lab building databases on [Strada] speak, reading his book and executive director for EMERGENCY brain waves. It was in New York in learning more about his organization, I USA, the American component of a 2004 when Talbert met Gino Strada, really wanted to help out.” global network of NGOs that bring founder of the original EMERGENCY He started by organizing a grasshigh-quality, free medical and surgical organization in Milan, Italy. Strada was roots fundraiser for EMERGENCY in assistance to war victims in on tour for his latest book, Green New York City. Across the country, Courtesy of EmergencyUSA.org Afghanistan, Iraq, other folks were Sierra Leone, Central doing the same thing African Republic and — in Boston, Sudan. In the wake of Atlanta, Los the Ebola crisis — in Angeles, DC and which Sierra Leone has Denver. suffered the worst of By 2008, any country — EMERGENCY EMERGENCY USA USA was formed as has opened two clinics a separate 501(c)(3). in Sierra Leone dediTalbert had contincated to treating ued to volunteer, patients with Ebola, helping to organize many who have surfundraisers and build vived the virus. a volunteer base of But 20-some years medical workers who ago, Talbert was studycould travel to waring electronics at torn countries and Eric Talbert meets kids at the Mayo Pediatric Center in Khartoum, Sudan. Redstone College in help educate locals Broomfield, Colo. and create permanent “I grew up doing health care facilities construction work. I had and workforce. a paper route — technical school was Parrots: A War Surgeon’s Diary. In 2011, when the organization had kind of the furthest I thought I would “As far as I know, [being a war surenough money to hire someone full go,” Talbert says. geon] was never part of his plan,” time as an executive director, Talbert “I would say the major change for Talbert says. “His training was in cardi- applied for the job and got it. me was my best friend from high ac surgery and lung transplant, but it “On a very pragmatic level he had school, Mike, was in a bad motorcycle was one of those things — after school demonstrated, for years, full commitaccident and ended up with a traumatic he signed up for six months with the ment,” says Anna Gilmore, former board brain injury, and I was there and experi- Red Cross and then spent eight years president of EMERGENCY USA. “He enced that with him — the recovery working in all of these areas of conflict, has a fantastic heart, but he’s also very and all of that,” he says. “And that treating civilians, everyday people like sound in his judgment and in his choicexperience, on many different levels, you and I who were trying to get by, es. In looking back, after the years of profoundly changed my life and direcwho were injured by land mines, who working with the organization to build tion.” were injured by bullets, by bombs, by it, it was so solid and that was tied to his Talbert spent a year devoting his the structural violence that war creates technique. He knew really well the timfree time to supporting Mike through for everybody. We don’t often hear ing for when we would have the capacity the first steps of his recovery — the about this. We always hear about the to approach an opportunity.” accident left Mike blind and dealing two sides that are fighting. We don’t While EMERGENCY’s focus in with a number of other physical and hear about this third section that is us, Sierra Leone had been on providing social issues, which Talbert says led to the civilians it has an impact on.” trauma surgery and orthopedic care at an interest in learning about how brain By the time he met Strada, Talbert their surgical facility in Goderich, the injuries affect people. When he wasn’t was working as an assistant for an inde- outbreak of Ebola virus in 2014 created Boulder Weekly

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ALEC, an association of state committee is currently considlegislators that crafts boilerering a bill that would allow plate legislation to be shipped for a $100,000 study on the around the country and martransfer of federal lands to keted as serving local interests. state control. (Lambert was named “We haven’t really been American Legislative taking it seriously because it’s Exchange Council “Legislator such an outlandish idea, but of the Year” in 2013.) it’s become clear that the folks Legislation to increase or behind it are well-funded and study state control often dies they’re organized,” says Joel in committee, but in 2012, Webster with the Theodore Utah’s governor signed into Roosevelt Conservation law the Utah Transfer of Partnership. Public Lands Act, which A national coalition of 25 asked the federal government sportsmen’s organizations and to cede the title to federal companies are using www. lands it owns in Utah — some sportsmensaccess.org to gath31 million acres or about half er 50,000 signatures to petiof the state — except wildertion U.S. legislators to fight ness areas, national parks and back against state bills that The Blanca Wetlands in central Colorado is curland used by the military, by seek to reclaim federal lands. rently being managed by the Bureau of Land Dec. 31. The Utah governor Management as an area of critical environmental Backcountry Hunters and told the Deseret News in 2013 concern. Anglers, Trout Unlimited, he expected to see at least five Theodore Roosevelt other states with similar laws on their books by the end Conservation Partnership and Colorado Wildlife of the 2015 legislative session. However, the deadline Federation are also holding a rally for public lands at for the federal government to cede control came and noon on Wednesday, Feb. 25 at the State Capitol went quietly without any such land transfer taking building in Denver in an effort to show legislators this place. isn’t an issue Colorado voters will ignore. “I don’t think you can force the government to do “Management of our federal lands is not perfect, it’s something and I don’t think it’s going to happen,” not easy, and it can be challenging, but the thing about Ingram says. “All the court cases so far have supported the whole idea of a state managing these lands is funfederal control over state wishes to have those lands damentally flawed because the state doesn’t have the resources,” Webster says. “Also, state lands are managed transferred. … I’m not sure what Utah does [next]. to maximize revenue. They’re not managed for multiple They kind of drew a line in the sand and nothing hapuse. So what would happen if states were to take over pened, so it kind of shows that their bill doesn’t make sense.” See PUBLIC LANDS Page 20 Still, the efforts continue. A Wyoming legislative

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boulderganic management of federal lands is they would retain the lands that can generate the most profit and then sell the rest, and the result is the public would lose out.” So would the U.S. economy. Outdoor recreation supports $646 billion in revenue and 6.1 million jobs nationwide, according to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, and in Colorado alone, there are 919,000 hunters and anglers in the state and they are estimated to spend $1.3 billion each year on outdoor activities. The Outdoor Industry Association estimates that outdoor recreation creates twice as many jobs as oil and gas and timber combined. The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres or 28 percent of land in the United States, and that land is overseen by the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service, according to a 2012 analysis by the Congressional Research Service. In a November 2014 report, Our Public Lands: Not For Sale, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers reiterates that states cannot afford the management costs of these lands, meaning those lands are likely to be sold, presenting a one-time boost to the budget but compromising the ongoing revenue streams from outdoor recreation. The likelihood of that course of action is evinced by the fact that the 11 western states that were given land grants from the federal government upon statehood have all sold off a portion of those original lands. Colorado retains 2.9 million acres of the 4.5 million originally granted. “We have access to 18 percent of state trust lands,” Brass says. “The other 80 percent are leased out privately, so you can’t bike, you can’t hunt, you can’t fish.” Colorado’s 23 million acres of federal lands are part of what makes Colorado iconic, and changing and challenging the ways they’re managed may incur more problems than it solves, Ingram says. “If you took away public lands what do you have, you just have nice scenery that you can’t touch without hefty sums of cash,” he says. His recurrent joke is, “This isn’t Texas,” — and he means, this isn’t a state where a hunter has to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to access land open to hunting. More than two-thirds of hunters in western states depend on public lands for all or part of their hunting, according to Backcountry Hunters and Anglers. When bills come up that challenge federal jurisdiction and push for increased state control, Ingram asks

about the unintended consequences. Their concerns with a previous bill that would have required the federal government to work with counties and cities on wildfire matters included financial ramifications of the bill — that it might hit an already cash-strapped state parks system with the variable costs of fighting wildfires. “Wildfires cost $1.7 billion in 2013 — that’s a huge amount of money that the federal government currently pays, and if that responsibility were to be transferred to the state along with jurisdiction of these public lands, they’d go broke, and they’d have to sell lands in order to cover those costs,” Webster says. The lands the state could keep, he argues, would be managed with profits, not public access, in mind. Federal land management also allows for public input and interest in ways state lands management doesn’t, he adds. “So what you have are a narrower group of interests making decisions and oftentimes the more local you get, the more opportunity there is for special interest to influence decisions,” Webster says. “If you’ve got local folks making decisions, they have friends and relatives that are involved in certain industries that use public lands and it’s easier for those types of relationships to carry more weight on decisions in a way that’s not necessarily in the best interest of the public.” Federal agencies make an effort to ensure that land managers are not hired to oversee federal lands in the places where they grew up precisely to avoid the requests and pressure for special treatment that familiarity can breed, he adds. “The idea of transferring to the states is an unworkable idea and it’s destined to fail, and what we really need to focus on is how do we engage in the democratic process of trying to fix the shortfalls of our federal land management by getting engaged and working together to identify and then resolve those conflicts,” Webster says. Those include conflicts over resource management and concerns over maintenance, restoration and fire mitigation projects. He suggests paying attention to measures like the federal Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, which would treat wildfires as national disasters and add sources of revenue for fighting those fires, freeing up portions of the Forest Service budget. Webster adds, “This whole idea of transferring lands is really just a distraction to take us away from the real issues that we need to be talking about, which is management of these lands as they are.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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‘Drawn’ to create new lines

How an artist and climber created an epic journey for himself and monumental tribute to a friend and mentor by Elizabeth Miller

hat would you do, if you were a 30-something parent with a career and a

mortgage, and still felt the call of the wilderness, not just for weekend camping trips and days at the local crag sport climbing, but to venture into the unknown, to climb lines to summits no one had completed before, to chase myths and legends into the far reaches of jungles, to peer down on a world from a vantage no human had ever taken?

Jeremy Collins heard just that call, and he went to his friend and climbing mentor Jonny Copp — who wasn’t just a dreamer, but a planner, and Copp’s response was to ask when they got started. Copp, Boulder Weekly

Jeremy Collins

founder of Boulder’s revealed themselves expediAdventure Film Festival, tion-by-expedition as we subscribed to a practice of went.” In contemplating his living life as a daily adventure northern route, he sat down and preached a game of with repeat climbing partner tricking yourself into risky Pat Goodman. undertakings until the fear “I told him I really wantbecame habituated as part of ed to do a spectacular north the fun. He seemed the best trip and I wanted to go to guide for the journey. Then, Baffin Island, and I had this tragically, Copp, along with great peak that I knew was Micah Dash and Wade unclimbed,” Collins says. Johnson, were killed in an avalanche while climbing in “And he looked at the picture China in 2009. and said, ‘That’s pretty cool, Collins wanted to underbut have you heard of the take the project anyway, to Phoenix?’ And he proceeded Collins’ illustrations have appeared in climb for the sake of his own Jeremy to tell me about the last Rock and Ice, Alpinist and National Geographic. life, and in the memory of unclimbed big wall in North Copp’s, and began on a jourAmerica.” ney to take Copp’s ashes to summits in the four carIn 2012, on Goodman’s fifth trip to the Vampire dinal directions — west to Yosemite, south to Spires, they estabished “The Phreenix,” VI 5.11, an Venezuela, north to Canada and east to China. 18-pitch route up an 800-meter wall. “It was just an inspired idea, just like a piece of Over the course of the four years it took him to art. Maybe sometimes I have a reason for making a make these various trips, coming home for births and piece of art, sometimes I don’t, it was just something birthdays of his children, he also painted a schoolthat came to me intuitively,” Collins says. “It wasn’t a house in Venezuela and built a staircase in the Yukon simple, orchestrated plot. Each trip came organically to pay off the bill for a helicopter ride deep into through friendships and ideas that I would collaborate with my climbing partners on. They kind of see DRAWN Page 24 February 19 , 2015 23

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northwestern Canada. He climbed in were putting into the climb.” China with Tommy Caldwell, who Whatever the motivation, the recently completed the first free ascent attempt to complete a previously of the Dawn Wall in Yosemite. In unclimbed route requires a certain Venezuela, he and Goodman teamed amount of risk — and, like so many up with a local climber who had climbing undertakings, mandates a approached Collins at a festival screen- level of personal discomfort that only ing of his film Border Country to climb looks funny in retrospect (see: black the Tepuis — the so-called “houses of flies, truck break-downs, rainstorms the gods.” without rainCourtesy of Jeremy Collins His journey is coats). documented in “There’s a lot the 40-minute of failure film “Drawn,” involved in all of which screens in these advenBoulder as part tures,” Collins of the Banff says. Mountain Film But he sees Festival World the risk as worth Tour’s stop in the potential town on Feb. 24 gains — and and 25. A comfinds parallels as panion book for a creator and a the film will be climber. published in May “An innate by Mountaineers response for most Jeremy Collins Books. climbers is that Collins, who they want to is known as a push their limits, climbing artist and then multiINFO BOX The Banff Mountain Film and has contribply that by just Festival World Tour stops at Boulder Theater on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25. uted illustrative being someone Tickets are sold out. who kind of revart and maps to Film lineup for Tuesday, Feb. 24: els in a blank every issue of “Touch 14c.” canvas and has to Rock and Ice and “Delta Dawn” “Caleb” do something Alpinist for the “Tashi & The Monk” about it,” he says. last 15 years as “African Fusion” “Sculpted In Time: The Wise” “As an artist, it’s well as forming “And Then We Swam” just my nature to ThreeHouse stu“Sun Dog” want to create, so dio and designFilm lineup for Wednesday, Feb. 25: when I’m doing a ing graphics for “Danny MacAskill – The Ridge” “Mending the Line” first ascent, it has Meridian Line “Tumwater Solitude” that sense of creclothing, filled “DRAWN” “Happy Winter” ation.” five sketchbooks “Into the Empty Quarter” The task of with artwork “Love in the Tetons” “Sufferfest 2: Desert Alpine” creating the film from the journey. “Afterglow” and the book — Those illustraessentially a tions come to life graphic novelin the film, illutype telling of a minating moments when no camera was running mountaineering story — also or a camera lens couldn’t have captured. required venturing into some uncharted territory. He was working on the route that “It took me quite a bit of explorabecame the west cardinal route, the one tions and discussions to figure out, is in Yosemite, when Copp, Dash and this project worth it to me? Am I Johnson were killed in China. passionate about it? Because it was a “Because of that, there was an impetus to finish the route, to celebrate lot of work and maybe 50 percent their lives,” Collins says. “It was a lot of through the project, I started to understand what it was myself,” he pressure, and I struggled with wondersays. “I would thoroughly sympathize ing if it was the right kind of approach with someone who said they didn’t to finishing the climb, if that was the get it, because I didn’t get it for the right kind of motivation to bring up longest time.” this 2,000-foot wall, and of course I For them, he suggests picking up the want to finish it and I want to finish it book and flipping through a bit. in good style, and that [gave] maybe a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com little more gravity to the effort that we Boulder Weekly

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Duke Of Abruzzi’s K2 expedition. “While their summit attempt hangs in the balance, the film also examines the history and geography of the Karakoram mountains while contemIt kills one climber for every four plating the risks, rewards and deepwho summit, is steeper and has less ly personal nature of exploration in predictable weather than Everest an age when there are few blank and is nicknamed the “Savage spots left on the map,” the film Mountain.” In 2009, two world-class press release reads. alpinists, two veteran climbers and As they retraced the Abruzzi a director documented their route taken in 1909, the five climbattempt to summit it — “it” being ers sought to capture an expediK2. The peak is the tion to conquer the second highest mountain often lost mountain in the in the shadow of ON THE BILL: K2: Siren of world and has the the Himalayas will be Everest. screened at 7:30 p.m. on second-highest The documentaFriday, Feb. 20 at the fatality rate among ry provides an intiChautauqua Community the “eight-thoumate glimpse into House, 900 Baseline Road, sanders.” Boulder. Alpinist Fabrizio the world of highZangrilli will lead a postIn the film K2: altitude mountainscreening discussion. Tickets Siren of the eering and includes are available on Himalayas, director rare footage of the Chautauqua’s website and Dave Ohlson cost $15. Duke’s expedition chronicles the from a century climbs of Fabrizio before. Zangrilli, Gerlinde Rock and Ice Kaltenbrunner, Jake Meyer and magazine describes the film as “a Chris Szymiec, as the group stunning collection of scenic vistas attempts to summit K2 without and a sobering gut-check on the using supplemental oxygen or the reality of climbing K2.” help of high-altitude porters on Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com the 100-year anniversary of the Boulder Weekly

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Boulder has a new face, CU has a new professor and a filmmaker has a new lease on life by Michael J. Casey

he artist’s life is one of constant searching. Theirs is a restless journey, one constantly straining to see over the next horizon — and filmmaker Tom Shadyac’s journey has taken some unexpected turns that have finally brought him to Boulder. The journey began decades ago when Shadyac left his home of Falls Church, Va., to pursue a career in entertainment in Los Angeles. There, Shadyac began writing jokes for Bob Hope at the age of 24, an early start, but by no means an overnight success, and Shadyac wandered the wasteland that is the entertainment business for 11 years until his directorial debut 1994, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, catapulted him to success. Shadyac followed Ace with seven feature films and one TV movie, but an unlikely plot shift placed Shadyac on another path, one that would lead him to make a documentary, write a book and enter the world of higher education. Shadyac made a name for himself as a comedic filmmaker to the very lucrative tune of $2 billion in box office grosses with movies like Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), The Nutty Professor (1996), Liar Liar (1997) and Bruce Almighty (2003). Shadyac reaped the financial benefits of those hit films, but as many will attest, you can’t buy happiness, no matter how much you have to spend. In

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2007, Shadyac sold his 17,000-square-foot mansion, moved into a mobile home park and divested his material wealth in search of a higher truth. But transitions like this don’t happen over night, and they certainly don’t happen simply. That same year, Shadyac was involved Boulder Weekly

in a traumatic bicycle crash, one that left him with broken bones, a concussion and Post Concussion Syndrome, a nasty bit of business that forced Shadyac to look at the world with a new perspective. “It’s not like I hit my head and saw God,” Shadyac says. “I hit my head and saw a doctor. And life became very precious at that point because I did believe I was going to die. I saw through my fear and decided to make a movie about things that were very important to me, so I did I Am.” I Am, which will screen for free on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at the International Film Series, is Shadyac’s only documentary to date. In it, Shadyac asks two questions: “What is wrong with the world?” and “How can I fix it?” Employing a crew of four, Shadyac self financed I Am and traveled the globe interviewing spiritual leaders, teachers, academics and scientists trying to find the answer to his two questions. The answer that Shadyac eventually comes to is a simple and universal one, but Shadyac sees more than the answer in the movie, and to him, it’s not the obvious break from his previous work that it might seem. “In some way, the movies that I’ve made have all been I Am,” Shadyac says. “There are elements of I Am in every movie in the narrative form. So, when I woke up to the mental illness [of excessive material wealth] that you saw in the movie I Am, I talk about that mental illness in a narrative story like Patch Adams or Liar Liar, where it becomes about winning, not about what’s true or right.” Shadyac’s travels have left him now situated at the base of the Flatirons and teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder this spring. “There is a certain ethos here that I find expansive,” Shadyac told Boulder Weekly between sips of tea at a crowded Trident Booksellers and Café. “I spoke at CU three or four years ago [at the Conference on World Affairs], I looked around this town and I thought, ‘There is something here. There is something really cool here.’” Boulder Weekly

This leg of the journey began in 2003 at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., when a teacher invited him to co-teach a screenwriting class. “About halfway through the semester, I noticed that the students were stressed,” Shadyac recounts. “The energy shifted radically from the beginning of the semester to the midpoint. A director knows how to read an audience, so I had a dialogue with them. ... And out of that conversation with those students, and the next semester with those students, came a class I now teach called Storytelling and Life.” Shadyac taught Storytelling and Life for eight years at Pepperdine until the class size became too large — 400 students — and creative differences caused Shadyac to split from the institution. Pepperdine’s loss is CU’s gain, as Shadyac joined the film studies faculty for the 2015 spring semester. He is elated to have a smaller classroom to engage with. “I love it right now,” Shadyac says. “They top a class at 16, and then I got nine wait-listed, but they’re all in. I’m happy to have them.” Smaller classes with a hands-on approach are crucial to Shadyac’s style. He isn’t a film professor concerned with lectures and rigid programming; Shadyac zeroes his focus in on the students. For his first class, Shadyac screened the viral video, “KONY 2012” ( Jason Russell, 2012) in hopes of opening up a dialogue on the viewer’s perspective, a perspective that can often be cynical. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are. So every comment was a comment not about the film [‘KONY 2012’] but about the person who saw the film. And that’s what we don’t see,” Shadyac says. “When somebody says, ‘Hey, those guys [making that film] haven’t done enough work. They’re too simplistic in their approach.’ — that was one of the comments you heard over and over — that’s actually a comment about that guy, or that girl. ... But because [ Jason Russell] hasn’t dealt with his own hero’s journey, if you will, the first thing we always do

is point out. So there was a lot of finger pointing out. ... I love that conversation, because that’s where we’re going. We’re gonna get to a place where the finger gets pointed in, we start to heal and then we really do come together and things change.” For Shadyac, pointing the finger in is just the beginning of his teaching style. “My students teach me,” Shadyac says. “Education is upside down, we come to our students and we say, ‘Here’s what you need to know.’ And I try to flip it and say, ‘Who are you? And now how can I meet who you are with what I am?’ So, I have a bunch of movies I can show, short films, Internet clips, narratives, documentaries, long forms, and I get in a dialogue with my students. So, I don’t show my Memphis class the same films I’m showing my CU class, or the same films I might show my Pepperdine class or my Santa Monica College class.” If art is a mirror that we hold up to society, then Shadyac is working to be the mirror reflecting the students back at themselves. “Anything I say that has any power at all already exists inside of the students,” Shadyac says. “I am simply blowing the dust off of things they already know. They know they’ve been given a bill of goods that isn’t necessarily the whole truth, nothing but the truth. They know that they’ve been put into a system that only has one way to do things; they just don’t know how to get out. The second you give them the context and the freedom, and the safety to say, ‘Tell me what you think?’, they tell me.” And with only four classes under his belt, Shadyac already can tell who the students of CU are. “They are very intelligent,” Shadyac says with a smile. “They are artists. Most of the students in my class are artists of some sort, and they’re still finding out who they are. They’re young, of course, it’s appropriate, but they’re leaving the idea of what they’ve been taught and they’re discovering the courage to embrace who they are.” Storytelling and Life may not sound like a typical film studies course, but then, Shadyac is not a typical professor. His experience has led him to some very strong opinions, and those are the opinions that have driven not just his movies, but his teaching style as well. “There is no question that I have no problem saying, ‘This is what I am seeing.’ The difference for me, [is that] I don’t think anyone is wrong,” he says. “I want to listen to that and respect that. That doesn’t keep me from saying, ‘Wanna hear what I’m seeing? Because it’s pretty cool for me.’ Then we have a dialogue.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Wood Brothers may not have a shelf of Grammys, but they’ve got a different take on success by Dave Kirby

o be completely candid, we one of the assistants — will come up and love it. If you can do that, you’ve missed most of the Grammy and say, ‘Wow, it’s so cool, you guys just made it… you’ve definitely made it, as Awards a couple of weeks come in and play music.’ Y’know no much as Kanye’s made it.” ago, except for the segment cliques, nothing like that. We don’t Wood’s decade-long partnership where the ever camera-shy have an entourage. with bassist-brother Chris started as an Madonna seemed to be commanding a “But, y’know, it’s all creative, it’s all impromptu gig at a family gathering in Southern Reel legion of worshipping Boulder, and a couple of satyrs, a spectacle made subsequent sit-in gigs led only more surreal with the the two of them toward a sound off at our local gym folk/Americana duo act, before expressionless, lycraimprobable as it may have clad Boulderites pumping seemed given their disparate away on their ellipticals. musical histories as profesBut we couldn’t escape sionals. Oliver played guitar the post-event buzz about for Tinsley Ellis and then Kanye stopping himself went on to form and tour in from his second I’m-a-letthe country/R&B outfit ya-finish moment while King Johnson down in the Beck was accepting his Atlanta area, while younger award for album of the year brother Chris studied at the and later castigating someNew England Conservatory one (the Academy, presumof Music and formed the ably) for failing to appreci- The Wood Brothers don’t lust after an entourage. They’re just glad to highly esteemed avant-jazz ate Beyonce’s “artistry.” (For make a living playing music. trio Medeski Martin & the record, Beck has five Wood in New York in the Grammy’s to his name, including the early 1990s. artistic. We certainly like to see sometwo he nabbed this year.) But growing up in Boulder, sons of one like Beck get credit, for a change. It is worth pointing out, as many That’s a guy who’s been doing this for a a now-retired molecular biologist, the did the morning after, that Beyonce’s brothers Wood absorbed from a young long time, and he’s so talented. He’s artistry was aided by more than 60 peo- such an amazing composer and lyricist. age the folk, gospel and blues stuff that ple in the making of her record — play- Gotta honor that once in a while.” had obsessed their music fanatic dad. It ers, writers, producers — while the wasn’t so much fighting over who Is there a little bit of pop-star elitlamentably undeserving Beck produced ism happening here? Even if Beck has a scratched whose Mott The Hoople album — it was more a shared exploraand wrote every song and played every growing Grammy shelf of his own, is tion into roots and contemporary forms instrument on his there a lingering perthat eventually led them into playing record himself. ception of an alt-rock themselves. Artistry is a comunderclass getting a ON THE BILL: The Wood Brothers, with Kristina Train, “We first gravitated to the blues plicated virtue. slap down when they play the Boulder Theater on stuff, people like Jimmy Reed and As it turns out, we dare to actually earn Friday, Feb. 20. Doors open had an interview with some of the spotlight? Lightnin’ Hopkins and Josh White… at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Show is all ages and is sold We thought we could play that — it Oliver Wood, one half “So many of these out. was accessible and not that complicated. of the Boulder-native things are relative,” I’m four years older, so I really taught Americana brother act Wood observed. (though, technically, “I have this young, Chris how to play, and we got a lot of mileage out of 12-bar blues, which I one-third of the group, as it includes up-and-coming friend of mine who’s went on to play for years.” multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix) schedsort of frustrated and disillusioned, had Wood still sees the enduring resouled for the next day. We couldn’t resist a lot of doubts about what he was the urge to get a little perspective on doing: ‘Am I doing the right thing? My nance of classicism as a source of inspiration for young musical minds. this nonsense from a working musician, parents want me to be a lawyer…’ Of “I’ve got a 12-year-old, and you can a guy who probably doesn’t have a suit course, there’s the financial side of the put on a classic rock station and he in his closet that would gain him entry music business, and of course like anyknows all those songs,” he says. “He’ll to the Grammys, much less Beyonce’s thing else, the money sort of rules listen to Billy Joel right next to after-party. things. Metallica, and all the stuff in between. “Yeah,” he reflected, “we’ve been “But on the creative side of things, And the Beatles, obviously. That just working in this big studio [in Nashville, those of us who are just making any seems to go from generation to generaon a new record due this summer], and kind of a living playing music are so I guess there’s some pop stuff that goes lucky and blessed. … It’s a real privilege tion, but there’s a lot of other stuff that’s still big with the kids.” on at this place. It’s funny when one of to be able to do it on any kind of level, Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com the engineers — the house engineer or where, wow, you can eke out a living 28 February 19, 2015

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overtones Throw down your preconceived notions Jake Schepps challenges the banjo’s place in music by Caitlin Rockett

f the banjo was an actor in today’s Inspiration came from folks like — it happens all the time, thousands of movie industry, it would be sufferMark Vann, banjoist and founding mem- times a year,” Schepps says. “What’s speing from a severe case of typecastber of Boulder-based jam-grass pioneers cial about it is that it’s a string band.” ing, relentlessly placed in the role Leftover Salmon. Schepps took lessons The four works that make up of Appalachian hillbilly instrufrom Vann and immersed himself in the Entwined began to take shape back in ment, a medium suited only for bluenew bluegrass jamming culture that 2011 after Schepps had just released an grass, country and folk music. It’s nothbands like Leftover Salmon and Béla album honoring the music of Béla ing new — in the 1830s, the banjo was Fleck and the Flecktones were creating. Bartok, a Hungarian composer and piacast as a derisive representation of “As I became a recording artist, as I nist known for his collection and study American slaves, as white artists took to studied music, my ear led me to all sorts of Eastern European folk music. the stage in blackface, plucking the of places and different styles of music. I “There were several things that instrument they’d learned from African- was early to recognize that I was learnwent into the idea for the Bartok projAmericans on plantations. ing music and being put in situations to ect, but it was really to see what does a “Is there an instrument classical composer bring to Michael Pierce that comes with more culfolk music that I can maybe tural baggage than the learn and bring to the music banjo?” asks writer Erik I like to play,” Schepps says. Spangler in a late 2014 arti“What would Béla Bartok cle for NewMusicBox. bring to ‘Foggy Mountain Perhaps not. Breakdown’ to make it his But there are those who own? And how can I learn see past the instrument’s stefrom that and bring it into reotypes, who love it in spite my own musicality? The of its baggage, like Bouldersame idea with this [album]: based banjo virtuoso Jake things that are fairly pedesSchepps, who’s made a trian in modern jazz and career of pushing through modern classical music don’t false genre boundaries and cross over into the string redefining where the banjo band world very much at all. “fits” in music. And so that was my idea: For Jake Schepps Quintet’s newest album, Entwined, contempo“In around 1900, the what compositions that rary classical composers created works for the traditional fivebanjo was this high society piece string band — perhaps the first time this has ever been done. these people are working instrument. It was big in with day to day, having Britain,” Schepps says. studied fugues and all sort “People would pose for photos holding a play music there was no banjo version of of stuff, could I bring into the string banjo — [just] like they would put fancy those tunes, of this style of music,” band lexicon and my own musicianbooks on a shelf behind them, they Schepps says. “It made me realize both ship?” would hold a banjo to look more literthe string band and the banjo in particSchepps certainly isn’t the first banary. People played all ular — while banjo has joist to undertake the harrowing job of this light classical parbeen in a lot of differreshaping society’s narrow vision of the ON THE BILL: Jake lor music and ragtime. ent settings and has banjo — it’s a battle Béla Fleck has Schepps Quintet, 7:30 p.m. People made sophistibeen around for centu- been fighting since the late 1980s. Friday, Feb. 27 Chautauqua Community House, 900 cated music, but [the ries if you take it back “He worked hard in the early ’90s Baseline Road, Boulder, 303banjo eventually] went to Africa — it’s really to keep the Flecktones records out of 442-3282. Tickets are $14 for out of style until Earl new and really has not the bluegrass bins — it’s been an uphill members, $17 for nonmembers. Scruggs picked it back been that explored, all battle for sure,” Schepps says. “I conup [in the 1940s]. things considered. So I tinually encounter that as well as I [The banjo] has taken can take a short lateral apply for grants and people listen to this incredible path that’s dark and step into some terrain and it’s complete- the music and say, ‘These guys can’t get exciting and interesting and quirky. It’s a ly new and uncharted.” past their bluegrass roots.’ I say we’re deep well for sure.” Schepps ain’t just whistling Dixie playing a Béla Bartok piano number Born in Texas and raised in Maine, when he says “uncharted” — along with note for note. I would not consider this Schepps didn’t drink from that well as the four other gentlemen who make up anything remotely like bluegrass and he grew up — then he headed to the the Jake Schepps Quintet, Schepps may it’s that the listener can’t get past the University of Colorado Boulder. have created the first collection of longbluegrass connotations of the instru“At 20 years old I went to the form works written by contemporary ment. I think that’s part of the youth Telluride Bluegrass Festival and saw classical composers for the traditional of the instrument and the strong steBéla Fleck and the Flecktones and five-piece bluegrass string band with the reotypes with Hee-Haw and things like Strength in Numbers and it totally quintet’s newest album, Entwined. that.” changed my world,” Schepps says. “The “The concept for this record, of comHe adds with a laugh, “It will go banjo scene here in Boulder was certain- missioning contemporary classical comaway 100 years from now, 200 years ly not traditional, so I had all of these posers to write a piece for an ensemble, from now, I don’t know.” inspirations from all sorts of [places].” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com there’s nothing new or special about that Boulder Weekly

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ON THE BILL: Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art, CU Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1705. Through May 9.

Cultural tensions on display

Contemporary Tibetan art exhibit explores changing attitudes by Devin Blomquist

massive painting on melted bubble wrap images to express abstract concepts of spiritual states depicts American rock legend, Gene of being. Much of the art of the Tibetan diaspora uses Simmons of Kiss, complete with proverbial a kind of visual code to portray a variety of deities, white and black face paint and his signature protectors, guardians of the four cardinal points and facial expression. The painting hangs to the other supernatural beings. right of another painting on bubble wrap, this one Often, private patrons commissioned artists to credepicting the manifestation of one of Tibet’s protector ate these images for the transmission of Buddhism, deities, Dorge Drakkten. The commonality between and the artists themselves largely remained anonySimmons and Dorge Drakkten? A long, bright red mous and rarely signed their work. The exhibit is tongue projecting from each of their mouths. titled Anonymous to pay homage to that tradition. But In the Buddhist in an effort to reach Shelley and Donald Rubin Private Collection faith, the oracle toward a new and difDorge Drakkten will ferent future for hiss, spit and stick out Tibetan art, most of his tongue to transmit the pieces within the knowledge. Simmons exhibit include a is also recognized by name card identifying that iconic crude the artist. facial expression. “To have this Kesang Lamdark’s show here where the artists are named, for “Dorge Drakkten and the most part, it’s Kiss” explores quesenabling the artist to tions of cultural contake agency and say, text, as both use their ‘You know these are tongue as a means of the concerns that I recognition but in “Mr. XXX,” from 2010, by Jhamsang, explores questions of contemporary Tibetan identity. have, and I am an artcompletely different ist, and I am engaged contexts, says Ariana in the contemporary Maki, religious studies world,’” Maki says. and art history lecturer for the University of Colorado and local curator for Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan The artworks included in Anonymous reflect on the Art at the CU Art Museum. artists’ realities inside Tibet proper, as well as outside Juxtaposing elements of traditional Tibetan of Tibet, Maki says. Buddhist art with contemporary ideas surrounding One of the Tibetan realities addressed in the culture, identity, self expression, place and the roles of exhibit are the invasions of Tibet by China and the tradition in a society faced with rapid globalization is departure of many Tibetans — laypeople and higha theme among some contemporary Tibetan artists. ranking traditional masters alike — beginning in the That theme is particularly visible in the artists’ work early ’50s and increasing in 1959, Maki says. In currently on display in Anonymous. Nortse’s “Zen Meditation,” the installation incorpoYet, Tibetan Buddhist art has not always incorporates six empty red robes as a reference to the lack of rated such forward-thinking practices. Some of the traditional Buddhist teachers left in Tibet. more traditional Tibetan art uses representational Another piece of work in the exhibit that explores

the contemporary issue of identity is Jhamsang’s “Mr. XXX,” a painting of a Tibetan passport. The identification photo has been replaced with the image of a robot and the last name is simply listed as “XXX.” With these details, Jhamsang explores the ways in which Chinese-issued identification conjures up a sense of disconnect between an individual’s passport and a sense of self, Maki says. This is not the first time CU Boulder has been given the opportunity to put contemporary Tibetan artwork on display, Maki says. In 2006, the CU Art Museum hosted an exhibit called Waves on the Turquoise Lake, which may have been the first museum exhibition of contemporary expressions of Tibetan art in the United States. “People flew in from all over the country to come in and just see it,” Maki says. “I hope that people who have seen contemporary Tibetan art before will be excited in the developments that have taken place since 2006. … I also hope that people who have never experienced it will be able to have, perhaps, their assumptions challenged, and their ideas broadened about what’s happening in Tibet and the diaspora.” But most importantly, Maki says, she hopes people from the Himalayas, or at least those who have Himalayan family ancestry are able to see how larger questions of identity, place and meaning are being addressed by those familiar with the history of this ancient culture. Many expatriates from the region actually reside here in Boulder because the typography is very similar, Maki says, but, a vast interest in the Tibetan culture here also stems from Naropa University. The Anonymous exhibit will be accompanied by a handful of free events that work to further an interest in Tibetan culture. One of which will feature contemporary Tibetan artist, Tsherin Sherpa, whose work is displayed in the Anonymous exhibit. Sherpa began his studies in Nepal and was an artist in residence with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. His paintings specifically address cultural and economic changes as well as the identity and meanings of Buddhism. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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SISTER SPARROW & THE DIRTY BIRDS

8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095

Thursday, February 19 Music The Assad Brothers with Romero Lubambo. 7:30 p.m. Macky Audi-

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Policulture. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St.,

Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Sherefe: Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m.

Taylor Radio. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303499-2985.

torium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Ben Hanna and Friends. 7:30 p.m.

Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Steve Glotzer and Friends. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675

Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Tyler Grant. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Ed Breazeale’s Jazz Trio. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing,

Brazil Night. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Evan Cantor’s Compleat Grateful Dead. 6 p.m. Buchanan’s Coffee Pub, 1301Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-440-0222.

garten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Celtic Session Hosted by The Gael. 6 p.m. Very

Michael Belmont. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508

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

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Chali 2na MC (of Jurassic 5) & The Funk Hunters.

Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

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‘Unacceptable Risk: Firefighters on the Front Lines of Climate Change’

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6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Climate change has been rippling through our world for the past few decades. Colorado is suffering from summer-like temperatures in winter to a severe fire season that’s destroying its forests. Firefighters are on the front line of this problem seeing the lasting damages and devastation. On Feb. 24, The Dairy is premiering Unacceptable Risk: Firefighters on the Front Lines of Climate Change, a short film showing local firefighters combating some of the harshest fires of the last decade. Stick around after the show for a discussion with firefighters, climate scientists and the filmmakers about climate change and how to help fight against the threat of wildfires.

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Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s

12 a.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Solomon Cook. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile

String Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian BierThe Sunset Series with DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering

Out of This World: A Choral Odyssey

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The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Events

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Hannibal Buress

Multiple times, Saturday to Sunday, Feb. 21 to 22, Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-516-1004.

8 p.m and 10:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

With the recent popularity of a cappella, try delving into its more historic roots with the Ars Nova Singers. The Boulder-based group sings the a cappella music of the Renaissance and the 20th and 21st centuries. The vocal combination of the 36 choral musicians offers a soothing, hauntingly-beautiful sound. Out of this World, which will be at the Fiske Planetarium, will feature a sky show of different sights and constellations. Together, the singers and the planetarium will uniquely blend the a cappella harmonies from centuries past with the far-reaching final frontier of space.

Hannibal Buress has been rising through the comedy scene recently. After having brief writing stints on Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, Buress has been popping up everywhere, from co-hosting The Eric André Show to landing a gig on Broad City to rocking all the major late-night talk shows. Buress has a commanding stage presence and biting wit that perfectly complements his in-your-face jokes. He’s released three records in the last few years, and now he’s hitting Boulder with his latest show. Tickets are $29.50.

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Barley Har Har Comedy Night. 7 p.m. 300 Suns

Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-4428292.

Daryl Hall & John Oates: Recorded Live From Dublin. 7 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St.,

Boulder, 303-444-0583.

Volunteer to Help a Child. 1:30 p.m. Voices For

Children CASA, 2305 Canyon Blvd., Suite 101, Boulder, 303-440-7059.

“Whatever Happened to the Protest Song” Lecture.

5:30 p.m. Old Main Chapel University of Colorado, 2055 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-6111. Friday, February 20 Music Banshee Tree. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Bonnie & the Clydes. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Coyote Junction. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing

Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036.

Danny Shafer. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. David Williams and Friends. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328. Dead Set Benefit for Emergency Family Assistance Association. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant

Beyond Words: Contemporary Book Art. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303279-3922. Through March 22.

Phil Bender

Oil Paintings by Shari Farabaugh. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through March 28.

Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 15.

Phil Bender. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. rePOPulated: Contemporary Perspectives on Pop Art. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7200. Through March 29.

Call for Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Deadline April 1.

Sean O’Meallie: Freeplay. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through March 29.

Echoes. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303651-2787. Through Feb 22.

Electric Red. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St.,

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The Guardians of the Spirit. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Feb. 27.

Fullbelly. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish

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

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DJ Wushu. 10 p.m. Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600.

Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303678-7869. Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Ginga. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900

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Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 12.

Textile Art by Annette Kennedy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through March 28. Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17. Vessels: Environmental Parables. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Feb. 27.

Hey Lady! A Tribute to The B-52s and Banned In Japan. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive,

Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons. 9 p.m. Fox

Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Jim Jamm Jimmy. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing

Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Randall Dubis. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main

St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Robert Clyne Jr. with Brian Pounds. 7:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Live eTown Show Taping with Jorma Kaukonen and Joe Purdy. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce

Robert Louis Cole. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St.,

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Creek High School Auditorium, 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-772-1335.

Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

NIA Dance JAM “For a Cause.” 5:45 p.m. Joy in

Tiger Party. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St.,

Motion, 4800 Baseline, Unit D206, Boulder, 720428-8612.

Nick Johnson and Erin Isom. 6:30 p.m. Still Cel-

lars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-2046064.

Pat Willis. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108

Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Paul Sullivan’s Folk-a-Rama. 6 p.m. Cannon Mine

Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625.

The Prairie Scholars. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

3303. Saturday, February 21 Music Almighty I.Z. 10 p.m. Tahona Tequila Bistro, 1035 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-938-9600. Balancing with Gentle Waves of Sound. 1 p.m. Creative Life Center at St. Ambrose, 7520 S. Boulder Road, Boulder, 303-499-3041. Bear. 6 p.m. Club Ned, 154 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981. Boa and Jodie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS,

600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub,

Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Bonnie Lowdermilk Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R

Tyto Alba and Asalott. 9 p.m. Illegal Pete’s, 1447

Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3955.

600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Boulder Concert Band: East Meets West. 7 p.m.

Wellington Bullings. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S.

Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-561-5536.

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The CBDs. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Coffee Cupping. 11 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Book-

store & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-

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Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Ethyl & the Regulars. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Joy in Motion, 4800 Baseline, Unit D206, Boulder, 720-428-8612.

St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

OpenArts pARTy featuring Jock Bartley of Firefall.

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

5:30 p.m. Rembrandt Yard, 1301 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-301-2972.

First Anniversary at 300 Suns Brewing. 12 p.m.

Oscar Shorts: Animation. 1 p.m., 4:30 p.m., and

300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Danny Shafer. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Hobo Nephews of Uncle Frank. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Kids for Bach Concert. 2 p.m. Main Branch Boul-

Strangebyrds. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing

Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303772-0258.

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

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Flash Mountain Flood. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main

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der Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

AK Bridal Show. 1 p.m. 17th Avenue Event Center,

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Odesza. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St.,

Full Concert with Jorma Kaukonen and Joe Purdy.

Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty

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

St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

George Nelson Trio. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty

Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Intergalactic Radio. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E.

First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Jalbatross. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St.,

Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Jeff Brinkman. 1:30 p.m. Ski Eldora (Corona Bar),

2861 Eldora Ski Road, Suite 140, Eldora Mountain Resort, Nederland, 303-440-8700. Laurie D. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St.,

Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Booster. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl

Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Singer-Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303665-0625.

478 17th Ave., Longmont, 720-684-6581.

Joseph Campbell: Stories, Myths, and Meaning.

6:30 p.m. Dona Laurita Gallery, 820 Main St., see EVENTS Page 36

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Longest Day of the Year. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s

Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Mad Haggis Cancer Benefit Show. 7 p.m. Waterloo,

809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

MaryLynn Gillaspie. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe &

Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-3175522. Mokomba Ensemble. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Moonlight Breakdown. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel

and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. North Boulder Underground. 8 p.m. Liquid Me-

chanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Odesza. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St.,

Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Odesza (DJ Set) No. Sleep After Party. 12 a.m. Fox

Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Praire Scholars. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar,

2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578.

Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Res-

taurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Raising Cain. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark

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Zach Deputy Special Night with One Man Band.

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St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Events

Chinese New Year Gala 2015. 7 a.m. Macky

Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1595 Pleasant Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Little Feet. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The

Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Live Congolese Drum and Dance Class. 6:30 p.m.

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Truth Be Told: Grand Slam. 6:30 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Monday, February 23 Music Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home-

made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Foxfeather. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. I & The Many Jazz. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301

Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.

Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe,

108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Open Stage. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish

Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Courtesy of the Boulder Bookstore

Thursday, Feb. 19

“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Poet Megan Falley. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Tuesday, Feb. 24 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Sunday, Feb. 22 The Ruby Circle — by Richelle Mead. 12 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Authors Mike Befeler and Rex Burns. 1 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-0349.

Vampire Academy author Richelle Mead brings her new book The Ruby Circle to the Boulder Bookstore on Feb. 18.

Monday, Feb. 23 Week to Strong: Thought Shifting Mental Shape-Up Plan — by Kat Cowley. 5:30 p.m. madelife, 2000 21st St., Boulder, 303-9270802.

Wednesday, Feb. 25

Innisfree: CU Body Project Open Mic. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

All the Wrong Places — by Phillip Connors. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Sixty Minute Men. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub &

Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886.

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Art Lande. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway

Cinema Program Free Screening of PlayTime.

Battle of the Bands. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Women of the West Monday Group. 11:30 a.m.

Dechen Hawk. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa,

Films from Tragedy to Hope. 7 p.m. Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-800-0601.

Honeytree. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Mar-

Oscar Shorts: Live Action. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Tuesday, February 24 Music Daryl Gott Quartet: Fresh Jazz with Roots. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Funk Jam with Technicolor Tone Factory. 7 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4403355. Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Robert Johnson Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-4774164.

Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m.

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

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. NY Film Critics Series: Bluebird. 7 p.m. The

Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Open Free Form Weekly Dance. 7:30 a.m. Solstice

Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-800-0601.

Rembrandt from the National Gallery London and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. 7 p.m. Century Boulder,

1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583.

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Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar,

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Stone Soup. 7 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Trivia Night. 6:30 p.m. Crystal Springs Brewing Company, 657 S. Taylor Ave, Unit E, Louisville, 303-665-8888.

900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

ket, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.

Mojo Medicine Show. 7 p.m. Boulder Distillery, 2500 47th St., Unit 10, Boulder, 303-444-6121. Moses Walker. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210

Still Life. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

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24 Hour Theater — presented by Bolder Acts. 7 p.m. The Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303443-7510. Feb. 21.

house, 1224 Washington Ave., Denver, 303-9353044. Through March 8. Fiddler on the Roof. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Feb. 28.

Twelfth Night, Shakespeare’s comedy about a The Aliens crossdressing twin, plays at The Dairy through Feb. — presented 28. by Boulder Ensemble Forbidden Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Broadway: Alive & Kicking! Denver PerformArts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. ing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, Through Feb. 22. 720-865-4239. Through March 1. Appoggiatura. Denver Performing Arts ComLes Miserables. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 plex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Through Feb. 22. April 26. Benediction. Denver Performing Arts Complex, Twelfth Night — presented by The Upstart 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Crow. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut Through March 1. St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Feb. 28. The Cripple of Inishmaan. Miners Alley Play-

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hey called them “B-Movies,” Arnold was with a camera and cinegenre films (westerns, noir, matic trickery: forced perspective, overhorror, sci-fi, etc.) made on sized sets, depth of field are all used to shoestring budgets with diminish Carey into the suburban leads played Rotten Tomatoes background, but it isn’t by actors, not stars, and until the third act, when directors who were jourCarey is roughly an neymen, not auteurs. inch-and-a-half tall, The 1950s were their that the movie truly heyday and they played exploits its premise. great on a rainy Saturday Trapped in his own afternoon. basement, Carey has to They looked disposfind food, survive a able then, but watching leaky water heater and them now, these movies battle a large spider. are historical and culturWith every action, every successful step forward, al artifacts of a time Carey becomes more passed. Depicting not and more confident that just how people talked, no matter how small in dressed and decorated stature he becomes, he their homes, but how The Incredible Shrinking Man will never vanish, he will they felt and what they perfectly captures the sci-fi B-movie genre of the 1950s. never disappear and he feared. They are winwill always matter. dows into the past, an The 1950s was a education of a generadifficult time for tion. ON THE BILL: The American filmmakers. Of the movies from Incredible Shrinking Man at Both HUAC (the this era, few are as IFS presented on 35mm. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, House of entertaining and Visual Arts Complex Un-American impressive as Jack Basement, 1085 18th St., Activities Committee) Arnold’s 1957, The Boulder, 303-492-1531. Tickets start at $7. and the Hayes Code Incredible Shrinking shackled Hollywood Man. Adapted from from saying what they Richard Matheson’s really wanted to, but those limitations novel by the same name, The Incredible led to some creative explorations of Shrinking Man follows Scott Carey the forbidden topics. Here, Carey (Grant Williams), an average 1950s Los describes his impending battle with Angeles husband, who abruptly and the spider: tragically begins to shrink — both in “My enemy seemed immortal. It was weight and height — into baggier every unknown terror in the world. clothes and an uncertain future. Every fear, fused into one hideous The doctors assumed that the cause of Carey’s shrinking is due to exposure night-black horror.” to radioactivity — from an unusual Could Carey be describing cloud that passed by Carey while he was Communism and the Red Scare? sunbathing — and the doctors aren’t Possibly. Could he be describing the sure if the effects are reversible. They try fear of complacency and sameness bore a radical treatment, but to no avail, and from the rise of the suburbs? Yes, that Carey continues to shrink. Carey loses too. But what makes The Incredible his job, and has to exploit his predicaShrinking Man endure is not the jourment for money, further emasculating ney through Carey’s fears, but the transhimself in front of his wife, growing formative quality that journey provides. smaller before her very eyes. The knowledge that no matter how The Incredible Shrinking Man is a small something is, it never disappears, marvel of cinematic technique and per- it never diminishes, it never ceases to spective. Visualizing Carey growing exist. smaller and smaller shows how adept Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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t was the store that launched a thousand fashion blogs. Seemed that way, at least. Anthropologie. A women’s clothing store that taps into the area between fashion school and art school, selling unique clothing and lifestyle doo-dads. In fact, the real appeal of Anthropologie is that it sells a lifestyle. From clothes to curtains to garden equipment, Anthropologie has cultivated the image of, or at least catered to, a fashionable, resourceful and reasonably wealthy woman. Their style has appealed to many. Including, even if indirectly, the creators of Pôr Wine House in Louisville. Put it this way: If Anthropologie were a restaurant, it would be Pôr. Let’s start with the most superficial reasons why and then work toward something substantial. (And I’ll bury away the most superficial reason right now, which is that if 70 people came in the Thursday night we were at Pôr, 67 were women.) Off the bat, the décor could be pulled straight out of the Anthropologie catalog. From the ground up, it’s red bricks cracked with green life, a line of stools that look like typewriter buttons, the wall of a carefully restored barn, a rusty freestanding fireplace, manicured shrubbery abundant, wine bottles refashioned as wall fixtures and affixed with ancient metal clasps, stable wood slats on the walls, and hanging circular lights across the ceiling. The food, too, feels like an Anthropologie accessory. We start with a trio of stuffed mushrooms, marinated olives and bacon wrapped dates. For $5 apiece, the food comes pretty; colorful and textured on thin

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and glossy white plates. They are small but tasty — three crimini mushrooms stuffed with goat cheese on a red pepper spread; two medjool dates stuffed with goat cheese, wrapped in bacon and glazed heavenly in crisp honey goo. Next is an arty take on pizza: bacon and bleu cheese on naan. It doesn’t quite come off as pizza, more like something inspired by pizza, but it’s delightful to munch on while having a conversation. That’s the strength of Pôr’s food offerings. The smaller they are, the better. It works within the parameters of the restaurant — that is, you’re not coming here for a big meal out, you’re coming to chat with friends over wine and appetizers. In the summer, they open up the walls and you can listen to live music, too.

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The bigger meals, in fact, weren’t great. Pork meatballs came in a thin broth with zucchini noodles — the meatballs were overcooked and chewy, the Pôr Wine House 836 1/2 Main St., broth tasted like nothing Louisville, but parsley and the 720-666-1386 squash was really boring to eat after a few bites. The samosas were encrusted in what was an awful lot like pie dough and then seared as if they were momos. Though the flavor inside the pockets was good, the failed crust was hard to get around. Unsurprisingly, the dessert was fantastic. Picking between Pôr’s dessert choices was tough, but the recommendation from the staff was a peanut butter mousse tower — gluten-free peanut butter mousse topped with chocolate ganache and served in a chilled mold. Excellent. Even more like Anthropologie, though, were the prices. Glasses of wine start at $8, but most offerings are $9 to $12, while the cheapest bottle is $42. Cocktails (I had a French 836 (variation of the 75) that came in a miniature vase and tasted like an apple core in a really good way) run between $9 and $12. I’m told the service, slow but friendly, is also an apt parallel. But like clothes, at restaurants you pay for the way you feel. Dining out is expression, just as fashion is. And just as some stores are remarkable for successfully and consistently selling a lifestyle, Pôr has clearly worked hard to offer the same. If that’s you, and you didn’t give up on this schlub’s undereducated and tiresome Anthropologie metaphor… Cheers! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The Blind Café, is returning to Boulder at The Integral Center (2805 Broadway) from Feb. 19-21. It is bound to stimulate your senses. The Blind Café is teaming up with local blind organizations to raise awareness and benefit the local blind community, while also providing a unique dining experience for those who attend. The night includes a vegetarian meal, prepared by a local chef, and live music… all executed in pitch darkness. “The Blind Café does not try to perfectly recreate blindness. Instead it allows people to interact, trust each other, and experience community in an entirely new way,” said a quote from The Boulderado on the event’s site. “In the dark, there are no uncomfortable glances, no selfconsciousness about what you’re wearing or what you weigh, no distinction between the sighted and blind.” Tickets are available for purchase online at www.theblindcafe.com/boulder/, and profits will go toward local charities that support the blind community. —Wyatt Carlson

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f one were asked to describe what they think of as a moonshiner, the image that comes to mind is typically of a toothless, overall-wearing hillbilly, with a hard, southern drawl often accompanied with subtitles on the Discovery Channel and a middle-finger attitude when it comes to the law. A different picture emerges when looking at the modern community of moonshiners in Colorado. The ’shiners here are more indicative of the Coloradolandscape, made up of engineers, hobby homebrewers and amateur craftsmen. None of the people I spoke to recently sell their wares, and those who do are lambasted in online forums. They all asked that their identities remain anonymous due to the illegal nature of distilling one’s own spirits, and so names Owning a still is legal, yet distilling one’s own spirits still falls outside of the law. have been changed. It is, however, legal to own a still, as most homebrew stores have parts and manuals available for purchase, and the penalty for distilling in Colorado is considered a misdemeanor. The binding threads among those who were willing to answer my questions were that they aren’t against regulation of the hobby, and that the media has blown the danwhere moonshining was and is still very family in the south.” gers out of proportion and even led to much a part of the culture. It was a nov“In those days I would make a few the exacerbation of some of those danelty to him as a kid, and when he got gallons a year and honestly, it wasn’t that gers. older he started making it himself in the good. I would mostly keep it around as a Greg Lawrie, a veteran home distill’90s and “had to rely on second-hand novelty,” Lawrie says. “I have to say that er, says his father lived in Tennessee information from some of my extended in the last five to seven years the

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Internet has made it possible to gather a great deal of information and my quality has improved dramatically.” Others started out as homebrewers, or began because of friends who distilled, or just out of plain curiosity. What they all have in common is the pursuit of a well-crafted, artisanal product, akin to that of a home cheese maker or home-brewer. A few have honed their spirits enough that they are considering opening their own legal distillery in the future. A point driven home by each was, how is one to get experience distilling and know if they want to turn their hobby into a business without trying it out first? “If you were to open a bakery, and you’d never baked before, why would you spend money on a license and equipment if you don’t even know it’s for you? Obviously it’s a farce,” says Jeff Hughes, an intermediate hobbyist who has been distilling for several years. Other proponents of the legalization of home distilling cite countries such as New Zealand where you’re free to hobby distill, as well as the innovative benefits of having a large group of amateurs enter the craft scene. Craig Engelhorn, co-founder and head distiller at Spirit Hound Distillers see MOONSHINE Page 46

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in Lyons, draws comparisons with a seemingly unrelated, yet analogous hobby: astronomy. “There are so many people with telescopes in their backyards that there’s a certain amount of research that can’t be done on that kind of scale by regular academic institutions. So, the amateur astronomer has discovered comets; they do all kinds of stuff that contributes to the science in their backyards. It’s a similar kind of thing. The amateurs come up with innovations,” says Engelhorn (whose name was not changed for this piece). Engelhorn merges the philosophical with the practical in his ideals about the industry and relates innovations to the artisan nature of craft distilling, and how amateurs in New Zealand drive the vicissitude of the industry. “When you throw in a bunch of amateurs, they ask ‘What do I have? How can I do this?’ They come up with solutions to problems that the old boys don’t even realize are problems, or other ways to do things because they’re not even thinking that way. So, I think the New Zealanders kind of advanced not just home distilling, but they advanced the art of distilling because a whole bunch of people got to use their brains on a problem,” Engelhorn says. Hughes, the intermediate distiller, additionally points out that as an amateur making very small batches for yourself and a handful of friends, you can afford to experiment and take greater risks in recipes. “You’re not bound by any financial constraint,” he says. “Ingredients are fairly cheap. The problem you have with craft distilleries is that they have such overhead they need to make as much as they can. When you’re not under pressure of production you can make stingy cuts,” he adds, referring to the amount of impurities removed from the beginning and ends of a distilling run. Despite the barriers of the law, the distillers I spoke with don’t seem to have any real qualms about continuing to make spirits at home. Bill Teller, an engineer on the Front Range, says he got into home distilling because he was “interested in knowing the process.” He has only made a handful of batches, but from the get-go hasn’t made it a large point to hide his new hobby, but also has no intention of advertising it. “From an anonymous perspective, I don’t see it as a big deal in Colorado,” Teller says. “It’s certainly not illegal to own a still, or to buy materials. I’ve gone as far as using my still in my garage, which is facing a cul-de-sac, and all my neighbors can see me do it. They think it’s cool too. I don’t think that there’s a

stigma attached to it, at least locally with the people I live around.” Other distillers echoed this sentiment. “To be honest, I don’t fear Colorado when it comes to distilling, as they classify it as a petty offense,” Lawrie, the veteran distiller, says. “However, I don’t much trust the federal government, and have made it a point to limit how much information I share online in regards to this over the last few years. I also can’t say that I know of anyone who has had problems with the authorities.” Opponents and legal officials will cite the dangers of distilling, from explosions to poisonous methanol, which is produced in the first runnings of liquor. But what the home distillers name as the real dangers are keeping it an underground hobby and its portrayal in popular media. “It’s not building a potato gun. Hobby distilling is serious,” Hughes says. “The danger with YouTube, as long as [distilling] stays illegal, [is that] people might not get correct information about it and that’s what opens it up to being a dangerous hobby.” Hughes went on to describe the amount of videos he’s seen online that depict unsafe practices, and said that if the hobby were legalized, more information would be out there for use by the public on how to home distill safely and correctly. Home distillers are willing to work within the confines of the law as well, citing the restrictions on the amount of beer that can be brewed by a household per year. “My view is that it should be legal to distill a limited quantity for personal consumption, no different than preparing food,” Lawrie says. “You can cook for yourself and your friends at your house and that is no problem, but you are not allowed to prepare and sell your food in the public market without meeting safety, [guidelines].” With the availability of new information and safer equipment, home distilling may just have its day in the near future. Home distillers say they fear its portrayal in such shows as Moonshiners on the Discovery Channel aren’t an accurate depiction of most of the people enjoying the hobby and encourage others to get better information from published books and online forums, many of which are filled with advice from legal distillers and hobbyists who preach safety. Others cite the great marijuana experiment being conducted in Colorado and Washington as a possible blueprint for legalization, especially if it roots out myths about the hobby, and makes it a more acceptable practice. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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A drink to celebrate It’s the perfect time of year to enjoy the sazerac by Matt Cortina

he lore is that the sazerac is the oldest American cocktail. The story goes that in the mid-1800s, the owner of the Merchant Exchange Coffee House in New Orleans sold the place to start importing liquor. One of his imports was a cognac called Sazerac-deForge et Fils. The new owner of the Merchant Exchange starting buying the cognac and making “Sazerac cocktails,” by adding sugar and bitters from a local druggist, Antoine Amédée Peychaud, of Peychaud’s bitters Wikimedia Commons fame. The Merchant Exchange changed its name to the Sazerac House (not obvious at all) and began slinging the cocktail day and night. At the turn of the century, though, a disease spread through France and killed much of the grapes that were used for wine, and thus cognac. Needing a substitute, the bar looked for help upriver, to the American rye and bourbon whiskey distillers in Tennessee and Kentucky. Replacing the cognac with rye was favorable to many New Orleans drinkers, and a rinse of absinthe, a liquor that had grown in popularity, was added to the drink. At some point a lemon peel was added to the sazerac (that bit wasn’t as sexy for the story), and the Sazerac House eventually moved into The Roosevelt Hotel and become the Sazerac Bar. Enough history. Suffice it to say, the drink is a classic, recognized by the International Bartenders Association as an “Unforgettable,” or, one of the 30 original cocktails. As it is Mardi Gras week, it is a great time to head out to your local bar and order the ultimate New Orleans cocktail (if you don’t include those lethal electric-green “hand grenades” they just give out like flyers on Bourbon Street.) A sample of three downtown Boulder bars reveals three slightly different sazeracs. First, The Bitter Bar serves a slightly sweet sazerac. Their cup starts with five dashes of Peychaud’s bitters, an ounce of simple syrup and two ounces of Rittenhouse Rye. The mixture is stirred Boulder Weekly

with ice cubes, to integrate water and soften the whiskey. The tumbler is chilled with large ice cubes, which are removed before spritzing the interior of the glass with absinthe. The drink is transferred into the chilled tumbler, and a lemon peel is cut and the oils are squeezed into the drink, and the peel is discarded. The result is a saccharine sazerac with low anise flavor, which is very smooth and drinkable. This is a great entry point into the cocktail, if you’re new to the drink. License No. 1 serves the cocktail in a four-ounce shot glass. Templeton Rye is mixed with a large dose of Peychaud’s bitters and a sugar cube. The lemon peel is left in the drink, and the sazerac here is bitter, a little syrupy, less sweet and a little hotter than The Bitter Bar’s. Finally, Bramble and Hare nods to the origins of the drink. A sugar cube and agave are muddled with Peychaud’s bitters. An ounce of cognac and an ounce of bourbon (Wild Turkey 101) are added and the mixture is stirred vigorously to emulsify the sugars. Clear absinthe is dripped into a toddy mug, and the liquor is added. A lemon peel is cut, squeezed into the drink and rubbed against the glass rim. The drink is nutty and smoky — from the cognac no doubt. It is light on bitter and the 101-proof bourbon is hot. One aspect I found missing in each sazerac on this foray was a strong anise flavor. I usually ask for heavy absinthe, or even anisette to finish the drink in order to get that flavor — the herbaceousness in those liquors just mixes really well with the bitters and a sweet rye. Most people, if they’re looking to amend their sazeracs, will want something either sweeter, stronger or both. If you like strong finishes, substitute the rye for a high-proof whiskey like Wild Turkey or Old Grandad 114. You can add honey, maraschino cherries or a splash of fruit juice to sweeten the drink if you’d like. For sweeter and hotter, try a high proof, wheat-heavy bourbon like Weller or Maker’s Mark. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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There are many different facets to your intelligence, and each matures at a different rate. So for example, your ability to think symbolically may evolve more slowly than your ability to think abstractly. Your wisdom about why humans act the way they do may ripen more rapidly than your insight into your own emotions. In the coming weeks, I expect one particular aspect of your intelligence to be undergoing a growth spurt: your knowledge of what your body needs and how to give it what it needs.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

What is the proper blend for you these days? Is it something like 51 percent pleasure and 49 percent business? Or would you be wiser to shoot for 49 percent pleasure and 51 percent business? I will leave that decision up to you, Taurus. Whichever way you go, I suggest that you try to interweave business and pleasure as often as possible. You are in one of those actionpacked phases when fun dovetails really well with ambition. I’m guessing that you can make productive connections at parties. I’m betting that you can spice up your social life by taking advantage of what comes to you through your work.

lawyer hires a man named CAPRICORN Bartleby to work in his DEC. 22-JAN. 19: office. At first Bartleby is “All life is an experiment. a model employee, carryThe more experiments you ing out his assignments make the better.” That’s what with dogged skill. But one American philosopher Ralph day everything begins to Waldo Emerson advised. change. Whenever his boss Even if you’re not naturally Go to RealAstrology.com to check out instructs him to do a speinclined to see the potential cific task, Bartleby says, “I Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO wisdom of that approach, would prefer not to.” As HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE I invite you to play around the days go by, he does HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes with it for the next three less and less, until finally weeks. You don’t need to do are also available by phone at 1-877he stops altogether. I’d like it forever. It doesn’t have to 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. to propose, Sagittarius, that become a permanent fixture you take inspiration from in your philosophy. Just for his slowdown. Haven’t you now, experiment with the done enough for now? possibility that trying lots of experiments will lead you not just to Haven’t you been exemplary in your commitment to the new truths, but to new truths that are fun, interesting, and useful. daily struggle? Don’t you deserve a break in the action so you can recharge your psychospiritual batteries? I say yes. Maybe AQUARIUS you will consider making this your battle cry: “I would prefer JAN. 20-FEB. 18: not to.” The art of the French Aquarian painter Armand Guillaumin

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(1841-1927) appears in prestigious museums. He isn’t as famous as his fellow Impressionists Paul Cézanne and Camille Pissarro, but he wielded a big influence on them both. His career developed slowly because he had to work a day job to earn a living. When he was 50 years old, he won a wad of free money in the national lottery, and thereafter devoted himself full-time to painting. I’m not saying you will enjoy a windfall like that anytime soon, Aquarius, but such an event is possible. At the very least, your income could rise. Your odds of experiencing financial luck will increase to the degree that you work to improve the best gifts you have to offer your fellow humans.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“It isn’t normal to know what we want,” said pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.” That’s the bad news, Pisces. The good news is that you may be on the verge of rendering that theory irrelevant. In the coming weeks, you will be better primed to discover what you really want than you have been in a long time. I suggest you do a ritual in which you vow to unmask this treasured secret. Write a formal statement in which you declare your intention to achieve full understanding of the reasons you are alive on this planet.

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In 1900, the world’s most renowned mathematicians met at a conference in Paris. There the German whiz David Hilbert introduced his master list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems. At the time, no one had done such an exhaustive inventory. His well-defined challenge set the agenda for math research throughout the 20th century. Today he’s regarded as an influential visionary. I’d love to see you come up with a list of your own top unsolved problems, Gemini. You now have extra insight about the catalytic projects you will be smart to work on and play with during the coming years.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“Spanipelagic” is an adjective scientists use to describe creatures that typically hang out in deep water but float up to the surface on rare occasions. The term is not a perfect metaphorical fit for you, since you come up for air more often than that. But you do go through phases when you’re inclined to linger for a long time in the abyss, enjoying the dark mysteries and fathomless emotions. According to my reading of the astrological omens, that’s what you’ve been doing lately. Any day now, however, I expect you’ll be rising up from the Great Down Below and headed topside for an extended stay.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

When faced with a big decision, you might say you want to “sleep on it.” In other words, you postpone your final determination until you gather more information and ripen your understanding of the pressing issues. And that could indeed involve getting a good night’s sleep. What happens in your dreams may reveal nuances you can’t pry loose with your waking consciousness alone. And even if you don’t recall your dreams, your sleeping mind is busy processing and reworking the possibilities. I recommend that you make liberal use of the “sleep on it” approach in the coming weeks, Leo. Revel in the wisdom that wells up in you as you’re lying down in the dark.

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In 1962, Edward Albee published his play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It won numerous awards and is still performed by modern theater groups. Albee says the title came to him as he was having a beer at a bar in New York City. When he went to the restroom, he spied the words “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” scrawled in soap on the mirror. I urge you to be alert for that kind of inspiration in the coming days, Virgo: unexpected, provocative, and out of context. You never know when and where you may be furnished with clues about the next plot twist of your life story.

LIBRA

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Edward III, a medieval English king, had a favorite poet: Geoffrey Chaucer. In 1374, the king promised Chaucer a big gift in appreciation for his talents: a gallon of wine every day for the rest of his life. That’s not the endowment I would have wanted if I had been Chaucer. I’d never get any work done if I were quaffing 16 glasses of wine every 24 hours. Couldn’t I instead be provided with a regular stipend? Keep this story in mind, Libra, as you contemplate the benefits or rewards that might become available to you. Ask for what you really need, not necessarily what the giver initially offers.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

To make the cocktail known as sex on the beach, you mix together cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice, peach schnapps, and vodka. There is also an alternative “mocktail” called safe sex on the beach. It has the same fruit juices, but no alcohol. Given the likelihood that your inner teenager will be playing an important role in your upcoming adventures, Scorpio, I recommend that you favor the safe-sex-on-thebeach metaphor rather than the sex-on-the-beach approach. At least temporarily, it’s best to show a bit of protective restraint toward the wild and sometimes erratic juvenile energy that’s pushing to be expressed.

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Dear Dan: My father is 65 years old and has been a devoted husband to my mother who has been battling a medical condition for the past 30 years — a condition that prevents her from engaging in sexual activity of any kind. He has not had sex in all this time and is desperately frustrated. He’s not Internet savvy — quite the opposite — and has taken to calling me across the continent from Michigan to ask for my help in getting him laid. At first, I just thought it was gross. But now, a couple of years and awkward conversations later, I wish I had some good advice for him — if only so that we never have to speak of this again. Is there a way that a man (once again, not Internet savvy — it’s impossible to emphasize that point too much) can legally find someone to have sex with in Michigan? I will read your answer to him over the phone. —The Good Son Dear TGS: “It’s awesome that TGS has gotten over his initial squick and is stepping up to help his dad,” says Savannah Sly, a “professional fantasy fulfiller” and a sex workers’ rights activist with the Sex Workers Outreach Project (swopusa.org). “His dad will have the best success by hooking up with an escort. Escorting is not technically illegal, as the money paid is for time and companionship only — and anything that happens sexually is a decision made by two consenting adults.” Sly recommends finding an independent provider whose website doesn’t use sexually explicit language and specifically states that payment is for companionship only. But Dad can’t look at websites — or Dad can’t be trusted to look at websites — so Sly suggests that you do the looking for Dad. “TGS could visit these sites and print out the advertisements of escorts in his dad’s area who have phone numbers: eros.com/us/michigan/eros.htm and michigan.date-check.com/escorts. asp,” Sly says. “Dad can look at the ads and then call a provider himself to arrange an appointment. TGS should let his dad know that some escorts will

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not see gentlemen who are new to the hobby. Everyone has their own methods of screening clients, and TGS’s dad should comply with the safety-screening standards of whomever he chooses to call. This is for the safety of the provider and her clients.” Is there a way for your dad — or for you — to do a safety screening of your own? “Some escorts have reviews online,” Sly says, “and reviews are a good way to verify that someone is a provider with a history of being professional and reliable.” A final thought from Sly: “There is nothing inherently wrong or violent about escorting, but our culture is really screwed up about sexuality and intimacy, and there is a lot of misunderstanding and stigma shrouding the adult industry. If TGS or his dad has cold feet about this, I suggest googling the phrase ‘sex worker.’ Read materials written by people who actually work in the adult industry — they’ll find there are many experiences and perspectives they probably did not know about, and a little reading may allay their apprehensions.” Follow Savannah Sly on Twitter at @SavannahSly. Dear Dan: I’m a heterosexual, cisgender male in college. I’ve been in a monogamous relationship with a girl (18, cisgender, bisexual, also in college) for a little more than two months, and the sex is not frequent enough for me — we’ve had sex three times total. The core of the issue is that I’m a 20-year-old guy with a typically high libido, and her libido is low to nonexistent. When she’s drunk, she suddenly gets very horny and craves my dick. When she’s sober, she is very mellow. I suspect that she has some barriers up and alcohol disinhibits her. She has body issues, a history with a rapist, an emotionally abusive ex-boyfriend

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and depression. With the barriers down, I suspect she has a high sex drive. The alcohol, however, is obviously not a long-term solution, especially because if it doesn’t make her horny, it can make her have a depressive episode. Do you think there is anything I can do to coax the barriers down while she’s sober? I like her a lot, so I’m not willing to dump her over this. — Libido And Alcohol Problems Dear LAAP: Is your girlfriend seeing a therapist? Because if she isn’t, LAAP, she should be — and I suspect she isn’t, because you probably would’ve mentioned it. Horny, 20-year-old boyfriends are wonderful things — I remember what those were like — but a horny, 20-yearold boyfriend (and the sexual hopes, expectations and pressures that come bundled with one) may not be the best thing for a young woman struggling with body issues and the double head zap of having been both raped and in an emotionally abusive relationship. I don’t think you should dump her because she’s not putting out at the clip you’d like — don’t present it that way, LAAP, because you don’t want her fucking you under duress — but you should have a conversation about what she really wants from you. If she wants a fully intimate relationship, i.e., a romantic connection that’s both emotional and sexual, her inhibitions (her traumas) are preventing her from having that, and you’re right that booze isn’t a realistic long-term fix. And as boozing is as likely to lead to a depressive episode as it is to waken her libido, it’s not a great short-term fix either. But working with a therapist is a realistic fix — a good therapist can help her find the strength inside herself that she’s currently finding in a pitcher of margaritas. But if all she wants from you is your

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time, your attention, and your emotional support, LAAP, tell her she can have all of that without the pressure of being your “girlfriend.” The last thing you should want — and the last thing she needs — is for her to be getting strategically drunk so that she can fuck you just enough to keep you by her side. Reassure her that you’ll be at her side whether you’re her boyfriend or not — but say that only if you mean it — and encourage her to get the professional help that she needs. Dear Dan: I read last week’s column with disbelief progressing to full-on incredulity. Full marks to PANICKED — the mom whose son is looking at violent porn — for trying to be a good, understanding parent, but what the fuck was her 15-yearold son thinking when he shared his violent gang-rape fantasies with his parents? I was enjoying bondage porn at 15, but I certainly didn’t talk to my mother about it — nor did I speak with her about the many illegal drugs I was consuming or my masturbation routines. There are some things that parents don’t need to know! Transitioning to adulthood means not telling Mommy everything — and the idea of growing up into a safe, sane, sensible BDSMer under Mommy’s watchful eye seems icky to me. Some things you just gotta do by yourself. — Sane Adult Consenting Kinkster Dear SACK: Thanks for sharing, SACK, but let’s cut this kid some slack: PANICKED’s son may have opened up to Mommy because he was freaked out by his desires and wanted help. And speaking of help, here are two more recommendations from Savage Love readers: Scarleteen (scarleteen.com), a sexpositive, kink-positive, queer-inclusive sex-ed resource/oasis-of-sanity for teenagers and young adults, and the terrific book When Someone You Love Is Kinky by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.

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ne of the main cannabis prohibition memes these days is based around some recent studies that suggest that cannabis use produces physical changes in the brain. This one really caught fire after The Journal of Neuroscience published research last spring from a Harvard/Northwestern report that scanned the brains of 40 students, half who used cannabis and half who didn’t, and found volume, shape and density changes in two brain areas involved with emotion and motivation. This got an enormous amount of press in publications no one should ever trust or read again like Time and USA Today, both of which seem to have become anti-marijuana mouthpieces. Media outlets greeted the Harvard study with the usual, scare-the-shit-outof-you headlines: USA Today came up with “Casual marijuana use linked to brain changes”; Time went even farther with “Recreational Pot Use Harmful to Young People’s Brains.” Science being what it is, other researchers try to replicate results from other studies. To that end, Barbara J. Weiland, Rachel E. Thayer, Amithrupa Sabbineni, Angela D. Bryan and Kent Hutchison of the University of Colorado and Brendan E. Depue of the University of Kentucky looked at the brains of 158 individuals. They obtained high-resolution MRI scans from other studies and did their own investigations

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of differences in brain matter in the same regions. Their report, “Daily Marijuana Use Is Not Associated with Brain Morphometric Measures in Adolescents or Adults,” was published in the same Journal of Neuroscience this year. It found no statistically significant differences between daily users and nonusers on volume or shape in the brain regions of interest. “The results indicate that, when carefully controlling for alcohol use, gender, age and other variables, there is no association between marijuana use and standard volumetric or shape measurements of subcortical structures.” Whoa. Wait a minute. There are all these other studies. All those frightening headlines. “Brain studies are difficult. When you look at the studies, one will find an effect in one region. The next group doesn’t find an effect there but finds a different effect. If you take one region across all studies, there’s no consistency,” says Hutchison, a member of the research team and the CU Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. As it turns out, the brain is malleable. Stress can change it. So can depression and meditation. “Learning to play a music instrument changes the brain,” Hutchison says. “It’s possible that a person may have a slightly different brain in the first place. Ultimately, we won’t be surprised to find out marijuana causes changes in the brain.”

Hutchison says there is plenty of work yet to be done, but that so far, none of the studies have proven that cannabis causes the brain changes, especially when alcohol use is factored in. He hopes a multi-year U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse study that will examine the brains of 10,000 kids from before they begin using marijuana, tobacco and alcohol and follow them through the years will answer some of those questions. Speaking of government studies, a recent one comes up with some surprising results for one of the vexing problems of legalization: What is the correlation between using cannabis and getting behind the wheel of a car? Colorado and most states that are legalizing treat cannabis intoxication much as they do alcohol. Here if you are found to have five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood, you can be considered impaired if you’re driving. Prohibition organizations scream bloody murder about stoned carnage on the highways while advocates argue that marijuana is less predictable and works far differently than alcohol, it’s much more difficult to test and many medical and regular users would test positive for five nanograms, whether they were impaired or not. So the Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s comprehensive study of 3,000 drivers involved in accidents over a 20-month period was eagerly anticipated. It found that fewer people are drinking alcohol and driving and more people are driving under the influence of cannabis. The number of drivers with evidence of marijuana in their system grew by nearly 50 percent from 2007 to 2014.

For alcohol, the study not surprisingly found the crash risk for drivers with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 percent was twice that for sober drivers, and the danger went up dramatically from there — up to 12 times as high for a 0.15 reading. But the cannabis finding was quite different: THC-positive drivers were 25 percent more likely to be in an accident, but once the researchers adjusted for confounding variables like age, gender, race, demographics and alcohol use, they could find no more risk of a cannabis user causing an accident than someone who was completely straight. This is a pretty astounding result and admission, especially for a government agency. It’s so interesting, in fact, that the official paper buries the info in favor of reporting that marijuana use is up rather than that its use was statistically not found to be a factor in accidents. None of this is suggesting that people should be driving under the influence of marijuana — tests show it can impair driving ability. But what it does say is that perhaps the effects of cannabis are not as significant as those of alcohol, that cannabis doesn’t work in the body like alcohol and that we need better ways to study and approach the concept of cannabis impairment. As far as I can find, neither USA Today nor Time covered the CU study. I did find the headline for the USA Today government driving survey: “Study finds new driving threat from dopers, druggies.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed

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