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Highroad What do chickens and our constitutional rights have in common? by Jim Hightower

magine the outcry by tea party Republicans if state legislators were passing laws banning the use of video cameras in banks to capture images of robbers. Yet, those very same tea partiers have been passing laws in various states to ban the use of videos to capture images of such giant, factory-farm operators as Tyson that are engaged in inhumane, immoral and disgusting abuses of tur-

keys, hogs and other animals. The only reason the public knows about chickens being stomped to death and pregnant sows being driven insane because they’re caged so tightly they can’t even turn around is because courageous whistleblowers have secretly taped videos of the intolerable violence inside these animal concentration camps. In response to the videoed exposés, however, eight states run by shameless, corporate-hugging Republicans have rushed to protect the worst abusers, making it illegal to release such tapes to the media or the public. North Carolina’s corrupt legislature, for example, has decreed that videoers who cause bad publicity for corporate animal torturers can be sued by the corporation and fined $5,000 for each day abuses are recorded. To add to the Kafkaesque absurdity of this “ag gag law,” the state legislature’s corporate buttkiss-

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ers mandated that releasing videos of abuses in nursing home chains, day care centers and veterans’ facilities is now also banned. In their eagerness to please corporate lobbyists and get campaign donations from these grossly-abusive profiteers, tea party Republicans across the country are stomping on our constitutional rights to free speech and freedom of the press, just as mindlessly as the animal abusers stomp chickens to death. For information and action tips on stopping this disgraceful industry-legislative cabal, go to www.aspca.org/OpenTheBarns. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

dyertimes We need GE backbones by Joel Dyer

n Tuesday, March 16, the Open Space Advisory Committee voted 5-3 to recommend that certain GMOs be allowed to continue growing on Boulder County’s open space for another five years. This same panel made sure to stress they want to see far more data collected by the County over this new five-year period — data related to how GMOs and the tons of probable human carcinogens that will get sprayed on them over that time are impacting people. Really? This is a perfect example of the problem in Boulder County with the whole GMO debate. The majority of folks in a position — elected, appointed or hired — to make a decision about GMOs on open space don’t have the backbone to act when the time comes. Many, and quite likely the majority of Boulder County residents, oppose growing GMO crops on the land that has been purchased with their tax dollars supposedly for their benefit. This explains why two — and purportedly all three — of our current County Commissioners have at some point during the last five-year GMO experiment period claimed they oppose the continued presence of GMOs and the pesticides and herbicides that go along with them on open space. Such promises are key to how people get elected to the Commissioner jobs in this county. If you doubt that, try running on a pro GMO/fracking platform and see how far you get. I understand the motive behind these promises; I just don’t understand the apparent difficultly in keeping them. What are we going to learn in the next five years by kicking this nearly kicked-to-death can further down the road? Will we discover the World Health Organization research that pronounced glyphosate — the active ingredient in the Roundup herbicide most often used on GMOs — to be a likely human carcinogen meant to say that only Europeans are likely to get cancer from it, not people in Boulder County? Will we discover Boulder County air is incapable of moving over fences, making chemical trespass via drift impossible, despite the fact that it has already occurred on organic farms in our county? Will the fact that glysophate overuse Boulder Weekly

has been proven to create super-weeds, which now require the increased use of known carcinogens to kill them, suddenly be unproven? Will the research showing GMOs require more, not less, chemicals than conventional crops suddenly vanish? Over the next five years will glysophate suddenly stop being found in groundwater throughout the world where it is used? And finally, over the next five years will Monsanto suddenly have a crisis of conscience and be moved to start allowing scientists who aren’t on its payroll or working for universities dependent on its funding to research the effects of GMOs on human beings without the fear of being sued? The answer to all of the above is “no.” Nothing over the next five years will miraculously make glyphosate or other chemicals used on GMOs, like 2,4-D, any less dangerous, and there is no reason to believe that Monsanto will suddenly allow research of its patented products in the U.S. by third-party entities not beholden to the company’s economic support. The only reason for pushing a decision on GMOs on open space five years further down the road is a lack of guts. If the Commissioners believe the Boulder County voters and taxpayers who own this open space are wrong in their opposition to GMOs, then it’s time to step up and say so. No more, “We need to wean off GMOs slowly,” or, “We need more data,” or we need “blah blah blah.” You have had the time, Commissioners, and you have the data. You are not obligated legally to keep your campaign promises. You are morally obligated to do what you believe is right and to say what you really believe to the people you represent. “I oppose GMOs, but... ” won’t cut it anymore. Oppose them or don’t. It’s time to put an end to fabricated delays that offer cover until you reach your next taxpayer-funded job. If you think GMOs are the best thing for the people of Boulder County, then cast your vote accordingly. I think most of us can handle the truth, and we know how to use the ballot box if we disagree. What we can’t take anymore of is this never-ending process that implies backbones will be grown if we’ll just wait a few more years.

danish plan Rules for Radicals and The Donald by Paul Danish

ou’ve probably heard about Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Ever wonder what they were? Alinsky, who died in 1972, is sometimes seen as the father of modern urban community organizing, a calling that provided President Obama with his first job (in Alinsky’s hometown of Chicago at that). Hillary Clinton wrote her undergraduate thesis about him. (It’s currently kept under lock and key at Wellesley at her request). Alinsky’s rules are frequently credited as being the core operating principles of radical leftist organizations like Occupy Wall Street, MoveOn.Org, and Black Lives Matter. But what are they? Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” are found in his 1971 book of the same title — in the chapter on tactics, to be precise. The chapter contains 13 numbered, italicized rules, as well as several other pieces of advice. Here are the rules, along with some of Alinsky’s elaborating comments on them: 1. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. 2. Never go outside the experience of your people. “When an action or tactic is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat. It also means a collapse of communication...” 3. Whenever possible, go outside the

experience of the enemy. “Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.” Alinsky gives General William T. Sherman’s march through Georgia and the German Army’s panzer tactics during World War II as examples of going outside the experience of the enemy. 4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.” Alinsky adds, “The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule:” 5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. “It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. It also infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.” 6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. “If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.” 7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. “Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment, like going to church on Sunday mornings... ” 8. Keep the pressure on, “with different tactics and actions, and utilize all see DANISH PLAN Page 8

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letters Profanity

One of the many depressing aspects of the recent presidential debates is the low level to which the Republican Party has fallen — culminating (I hope) in a CNN headline: ‘Trump defends the size of his penis’. With rare exceptions, these debates have been coarse, demeaning and vulgar. Well, they’re Republican — but does Boulder Weekly also have to sink so low? In last week’s icumi column, you wrote that pollsters in Michigan had “shit themselves” because they had called the primary there wrong. I hope I’m not turning into my dad, but could you not have said the pollsters were “dismayed”, “disconsolate” or even “discombobulated”? Some of your readers probably think that, if anything, the level of public discourse needs to be raised, rather than lowered; and as part of the media, you could, if you wished, nudge the conversation in the right direction. As any writer will tell you, profanity has its place — it’s often a valid (and entertaining) expression of emotion — but as a rule it is effective only if it’s sparingly used, and then only when it’s absolutely fucking necessary. Richard Starks/Boulder

Let’s personally communicate with Donald Trump

Several days ago, I sent the following message to Donald Trump via both his campaign website and a letter to The Trump Organization: “Donald Trump, I’m talking to you. I’m speaking directly to you, and I’m doing so in front of whomever else chooses to read or listen. I’m posting this widely to share with the world, but because I want to increase the chance of you seeing it, I’m also sending it and all future ‘Donald, I’m talking to you’ messages directly to your campaign. I will state right up front that I believe the combination of your personal qualities, your extreme lack of knowledge and experience in government and outside of the world of business and the wealthy elite, and your record of activity in the world make you wholly unqualified to be president of the United States. Furthermore, your so-far successful run for the nomination of your party, if it is indeed your party, has been a divisive, destructive force within our country, an embarrassment here and abroad, and a genuine threat to U.S. national security and world peace. It is my fervent hope, Donald, that you make the choice to end your candidacy for president, and as soon as possi-

ble. Even though it is highly unlikely that you would be able to beat either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton in November, you becoming the Republican nominee would in and of itself be a defeat, a dangerous defeat for our nation, and would create damage to our society that would require years to repair. It will be best if you either find an excuse, or a set of excuses, to leave the race or are defeated by one of your Republican opponents. Donald, due to the weaknesses of America’s political system, with its ridiculously long two-year presidential campaign period, and its mainstream news media, which is straightjacketed by corporate- and government-induced self-censorship, you have been able to take advantage of the system to promote and grow your campaign far beyond the exposure it deserves. And because so many Americans are so deeply disaffected with the state of the nation, and so uneducated about all the ways they can help transform society for the better, you’ve been able to take advantage of voters and convince them that you and you alone are the only one who can solve all of our problems. But there are millions of us, Donald, tens of millions of us out here, across the land, who are on to you, who

understand the megalomaniacal game you’re playing and its disastrous results, and we’re going to be doing more and more, in myriad and continuous efforts through our personal networks, wider social media networks and connections to mass media, to show America how utterly ridiculous and terrible it would be to have you come any closer than the primaries to the Oval Office. Myself, I’m going to continue speaking directly to you, to help keep you aware that a vast and growing number of us know exactly what you’re about and are rapidly spreading the word and organizing for your electoral demise. And since you don’t appear to understand, or admit, just how hurtful your behaviors are to the country you claim to love so much, and to the rest of Earth’s people, species and environments, I’m going to try, through this direct, repeated personal communication, to help you see the many and huge errors of your ways. And I’m going to encourage other likeminded individuals to do the same, and to encourage other likeminded individuals to do the same, and… You get the point. Donald, the time has long since come for the people of America and our see LETTERS Page 9

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events of the period for your purpose.” 9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. 10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. “It is this unceasing pressure that results in the reactions from the opposition that are essential to the success of the campaign... The pressure produces the reaction, and constant pressure sustains action.” 11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; “this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative. We have already seen the conversion of the negative into the positive, in Mahatma Gandhi’s development of the tactic of passive resistance... “In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt... ” 12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. “You cannot risk being trapped by 8 March 17, 2016

the enemy in his sudden agreement with your demand and saying, ‘You’re right — we don’t know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us.” 13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. “ ... a target ... must be a personification, not something general and abstract such a community’s segregated practices or a major corporation or City Hall... “ ...the C.I.O. never attacked General Motors, they always attacked its president, Alfred ‘Icewater-In-HisVeins’ Sloan... ” Alinsky’s rules were intended for left-wing radicals who wanted to transfer wealth and power from the world’s haves to its have-nots. But the rules weren’t means tested. Anyone — have or have-not, poor or rich — can use them. Including multi-billionaires running for president. Here are a few examples, in no particular order, of Trump playing by Alinsky’s rules: Never go outside the experience of your people. Trump never does. He not only stays

within his supporters’ experience — on immigration, on trade, on national security, on foreign policy — he has a genius for giving voice to those experiences in ways they haven’t thought of before, like his four-word refrain, “America doesn’t win anymore.” For millions of his supporters, it is the common denominator that ties together the major public and private grievances that define life as they experience it. Whenever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy. Has Trump done anything in the last seven months that is inside the experience of his adversaries? A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. Trump rallies are a hoot. They are hands down the most entertaining political theater to come along in decades. People come from hundreds of miles around because they are so much fun. And now Trump found a way to make them even more fun — by making the Eighty-Sixing of MoveOn.Org and Black Lives Matter protesters part

of the show. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Trump’s mastery of this rule should be self-evident. The obvious title for his forthcoming campaign memoir is The Art of the Insult. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. Alinsky was probably thinking of the ability to convince an adversary that you’re stronger than you actually are, but the ability to convince an enemy that you are weaker than you actually are can be just as important. For the first three months of the campaign, Trump’s enemies were dismissive of him while his support emerged, jelled and grew. More the fools they. If they had recognized the nature and potential of his challenge from the outset, they might have been able to stop it. If the ghost of Saul Alinsky were to appear at a Trump rally, Trump would have some choice words for him: You’re hired! This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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brothers and sisters around the globe to stop getting your daily doses of selfaggrandizing inanity and hate-filled contempt for all who don’t bend to your will or fit the twisted, prejudiced mold you’ve offered down our throats for these many years. Yes, you’ll be a loser in resigning the race, and I know you can’t stand the thought of that, but think of it this way: You’ll be avoiding a total exposure of your full self which would shatter us all. The rest of us would like to avoid such shattering. Matt Nicodemus/Boulder

Porter Canyon

The cover story and its dramatic headline this week make a feeble attempt to draw a link between Colorado and the well failure at Porter Canyon. This is what happens when reporters develop a thesis and then use a fly-by Google search level education to try and support that thesis. Natural gas is fungible once it is in the pipeline grid. Thus, natural gas production in Colorado has the same level of relevancy to Porter Canyon as wheat grown in Colorado has to celiac disease. A few of the particularly glaring errors in the article include the statement that natural gas is moved by rail and that the Porter Canyon facility is in part an oil storage facility which are both commercial nonsense, the placement of TransColorado Pipeline in Eastern Colorado, which is geographic nonsense and the use of that at least ten year old and wildly out of date graphic of pipelines and gas flows patterns from the Energy Information Administration. The date the graphic is available on the EIA website from where it was lifted so the inclusion thereof in the article is basic fact-checking nonsense. Such easily checked and corrected errors bespeak to the quality of the entire article. Brian Jeffries/Longmont Editor’s note: Matt Cortina’s response to above letter: • It’s not Porter Canyon — the city is Porter Ranch, the facility is Aliso Canyon. • Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is transported by rail. • Aliso Canyon sits atop what was once one of the largest oil fields in California. It now mainly holds natural gas, but also maintains 32 active oil wells that produce 566 barrels per day. • The TransColorado Pipeline is indeed not in Eastern Colorado, it is in Western Colorado. • The map was the most recently available pipeline map from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Boulder Weekly

Don’t fall for it

Super PACs are gross. Everyone agrees they corrupt our system regardless of your knowledge of Citizens United. But what about a 501c4? Now granted, wealthy individuals and corporations are funneling millions of dollars into campaigns, but I was alarmed to discover that 501c4s and

Super PACs have the same reporting standards with unlimited donations and sources. These non-profits have the same freedom with campaign financing as the corporations and wealthy. As long as the non-profit doesn’t actively promote any candidate, they can spend any and all money it wants on political advocacy.

So friends, thank you for getting up in arms about Super PACs, but remember they’re not the only threat. While you’re busy fighting the man and Wall Street on campaign financing, nonprofits are creeping up on you. Let me know if you have questions. Have a great night! Lauren Yehle/Denver

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THE FOILIES 2016

Some government agencies are so bad at handling public records requests, they deserve an award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation

ast spring, Shoshana Walter with the Center for Investigative Reporting filed a routine public records request with the Sacramento County Sheriff ’s Department for a story on a rogue firearms instructor. The request was unceremoniously denied, so Walter did exactly what reporters do in that situation: she pushed back. Moments later she received an email that she was never meant to see. “Okay, now what? She is being a pain. Do we ask Peter what to do with her?” wrote the public servant handling the request. The official immediately tried to recall the message. Within an hour, the Sheriff ’s Department had a sudden change of heart and agreed to release the information. Meanwhile, all Walter could do was

commiserate with other transparency advocates on the #FOIAFriday thread on Twitter. Scroll through #FOIAFriday tweets, and you’ll find that Walter’s story is far from uncommon. In fact, the only thing unique is that, for once, Walter caught a glimpse of the cavalier attitude many government agencies take toward transparency. March 13-19 is Sunshine Week, the season in which open government activists around the country make as much noise as possible about the need to reform laws on access to information, whether that’s the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or state-level laws, such as California’s Public Records Act (CPRA), New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) and Colorado’s Open Records Act (CORA).

Journalists, government watchdogs and regular citizens around the country encounter weak excuses, flagrant stonewalling and retaliation from government officials on a daily basis. That’s why, to celebrate Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) created “The Foilies,” our name-and-shame awards for agencies and officials who stand in the way of transparency and accountability. Join us on this journey as we examine some of the most ridiculous experiences members of the public have faced while pursuing James Madison’s 1822 advice: “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

they are stymieing the public’s ability to understand operation of their elected government and to hold those officials accountable for their actions. Clinton deserves this award, but so does every official who seeks to hide his or her actions from the public by using private communications systems.

The Self-Server Award Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

he homebrewed email server former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used during her time in office was lighter on complying with the spirit of FOIA than that watered-down lager brewed in your cousin’s closet. And just like your cousin deciding which buddies get to share in the homemade suds, Clinton herself decided which of her emails to share with the public and then deleted 30,000 of them. Transparency advocates and journalists are right to criticize Clinton for using an insecure private email server, but it is important to remember that her story is merely the highest profile example of a public official misusing technology to stifle public oversight. For years, officials at the local, state and federal levels have been using private communications to shield their work from public scrutiny — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has communicated exclusively with Blackberry PIN messaging to avoid creating any records and high-level White House officials used their private email to conduct government business. There are, sadly, dozens of other instances of governors, city council members and county commissioners doing the same thing. When officials use private communications for work, they are not just potentially violating open records laws,

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The “Old School” Award Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis

im Davis, the Rowan County Clerk in Kentucky, ignited a national controversy last year when she was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. MuckRock News’ Shawn Musgrave filed two requests for emails from that period, including emails covering the time when she supposedly scheduled a meeting with Pope Francis. It turned out that marriage wasn’t the only issue where Davis took a “traditional position.” Rather than provide the 6,000 or so communications to MuckRock in a digital format, she insisted she was “old school on this email stuff,” and instead asked for $1,200 for print-outs, despite the Kentucky Open Records Act requirement that electronic records be available in an electronic format. After a lengthy back-and-forth, Davis finally complied with the law and began forwarding the records.

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ransparency advocate Carl Malamud’s Public. Resource.Org has been on a quest to make sure people have access to the laws that govern them. A righteous and benign endeavor, right? Well, not according to the state of Georgia, which is suing the organization for publishing a searchable and downloadable scan of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Georgia claims to hold the copyright to the laws, and by publishing them, Public.Resource. Org is not only engaged in piracy, but employing “a strategy of terrorism.” Just to be clear: Reading a state’s annotated statutes might bore some people to death, but publishing the laws of the land has never killed anyone. Full disclosure: EFF represents Malamud and Public.Resource.Org in similar lawsuits around the country, but not the Georgia case.

Special Prize for Drunk Dialing for Public Records New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez

ew Mexico media outlets have been battling against Gov. Susana Martinez’s stalling tactics with records requests basically since she was elected to office in 2010. Yet, when it comes to her own requests for public information, Martinez is a little impatient. Last year, Martinez was partying in a room at a downtown Santa Fe hotel when the police responded to complaints of noise and bottles being tossed off the balcony. While still at the hotel, a furious Martinez called 9-1-1 and demanded to know the name of the person who filed the complaint. As the released dispatcher recording revealed, Martinez demanded: “It’s a public record — give it to me.” We’re a little sympathetic: the world would be a better place if we could all get public records on demand with a simple phone call. Unfortunately, that’s not the case yet, apparently not even for governors. Martinez claims she’d only had one cocktail, but witnesses told police she was visibly “inebriated.” She later claimed, “nothing that I said or did was as a result of any alcohol.” That’s almost worse, isn’t it?

he U.S. Army wasn’t happy with New York Times reporter Dave Philipps’ investigation into concussions at West Point. As documents show, Army officials came up with a plan to undercut his story by stalling the release of FOIA documents until they could publish their own report. What’s worse is that this wasn’t the first time they’d pulled this trick. As Army surgeon general Lt. Gen. Patricia D. Horoho said, according to a meeting summary, “Timing is everything with this stuff. We were able to do something similar ... when the Colorado Springs Gazette attacked them with treatment of wounded warriors last year — killed any scrutiny from the media and killed their story.”

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Most Expensive FOIA Fee Estimate ast year we issued this award to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for asking for $1.46 million in fees to process a FOIA request related to the capture of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman (and that’s even before he escaped, was interviewed by Sean Penn and then recaptured). This year, the Pentagon makes the DEA’s assessment look like pocket change. When MuckRock user Martin Peck asked for the number of “HotPlug” devices (a tool used to preserve data on seized computers), the agency came back with a whopping $660 million fee estimate to “perform the necessary redactions of proprietary data.” The Secretary of Defense claimed it has no way to do a text search of its document system, so it would take 15 million labor hours to do the search and redact the documents. By MuckRock’s calculations: “15 million labor hours breaks down into 625,000 days, or a little over 1,712 years. So assuming one DOD employee started working on this nonstop tomorrow, they’d finish somewhere in the summer of 3728.”

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he United Kingdom also has a Freedom of Information Act, and last year a new body was formed to review the state of play (read: investigate whether transparency is too expensive and invasive). But at its first meeting in 2015, the Independent Commission on Freedom of Information announced a ludicrously ironic set of ground rules for reporters. As The Guardian reported, the meeting would be “offthe-record” and journalists could not quote anyone. Transcripts weren’t published either.

ocal governments hate gadflies, those tenacious citizens who troll public meetings at every opportunity. The city of Inglewood in California thought it would use copyright law as a swatter, suing local resident Joseph Teixeira. Teixeira had been posting video clips from city council meetings (which are public records) to YouTube with his own DVDbonus-feature-style commentary, accusing officials of lying and betraying their constituents. Teixeira won the case in federal court in August, proving that trying to use copyright law to silence critics is a waste of everyone’s time and tax dollars.

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iami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg has been covering Guantanamo Bay for more than a decade, and that’s how long its taken the Department of Defense to release information on the costs of running the offshore detention facility for enemy combatants in the “War on Terror.” In 2004, a DOD official started compiling answers to her questions, but later informed her he was under orders not to release the information. So, Rosenberg filed a formal FOIA request in February 2005, received a rejection and then appealed. In 2015, almost 4,000 days later, she received an apology for the delay and a decision that the secrecy was unwarranted. She received three pages of information that showed the tens of millions spent to maintain the controversial facility in its first years.

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he Houston Chronicle was researching a reported spike in crime along the Mexican border by filing Open Records Act requests for crime data with sheriffs across south Texas. None of the sheriffs asked the Chronicle to pay records fees, except for one: the Willacy County Sheriff provided Brian M. Rosenthal with an itemized invoice for $339.60 that

his year, we received three separate nominations in which FOIA officials were absurdly mindful of the privacy of animals. Reporter Elizabeth Dinan found on at least two occasions that the Portsmouth Police Department in New Hampshire were redacting the names of lost and loose dogs from its blotters. Meanwhile, MuckRock contributor Carly Sitrin found that New Jersey initially refused to release the necropsy results for a dolphin that died in the South River, citing the dolphin’s “medical privacy.” N.J. later reversed course. The prize, though, goes to the Oregon State Legislature, which renewed a law exempting the names of people who sell laboratory animals to Oregon Health & Sciences University, ostensibly to protect vendors from overzealous animal rights activists. InvestigateWest reporter Lee Van Der Boulder Weekly

news Voo obtained records (released seemingly by accident by the Oregon Department of Agriculture) that illustrated the pitfalls of shielding an industry from scrutiny. As it turns out, one of the primary primate dealers to the University had previously served time for illegally smuggling orangutans as part of the infamous “Bangkok Six” case.

A lower level court ruled in the newspapers’ favor and ordered the agency to pay $1 million in penalties and fees. Rather than let it go at that, the cabinet appealed, only to dig itself deeper into the hole. After the oral argument in October 2015, the appeals court sided with the media and issued this juicy condemnation: “The Cabinet’s conduct in this case was indeed egregious. The face of the record reveals the ‘culture of secrecy’ of which the trial court spoke; and it evinces an obvious and misguided belief that the Open Records Act is merely an ideal — a suggestion to be taken when it is convenient and flagrantly disregarded when it is not.”

Sue the Messenger Award Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson

he Sacramento News & Review filed a public records request with the city of Sacramento for communications from Mayor Kevin Johnson’s office regarding how the former basketball star and his staff allegedly engineered the collapse of the National Conference of Black Mayors. The City Attorney agreed the emails were public, but then Johnson’s legal team threatened to file a lawsuit against SNR unless they abandoned their quest for transparency. SNR refused, Johnson sued and now the story has been stalled as the case plays out through a protracted legal process. It remains to be seen whether the case will wrap up before Johnson leaves office next year.

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ack in 2010 and 2011, the Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader filed Open Records Act requests with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services for information related to child fatalities. The agency balked at providing many of the records, forcing the newspapers to sue. Boulder Weekly

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edactions are a way of life in FOIA, but a response the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) received from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in September takes this year’s award for most ridiculous misuse of the black marks. For years, the ACLU has been demanding access to records documenting the government’s “targeted killing” program. In ODNI’s response to ACLU, it claimed to be releasing an eight-page letter the ODNI Director James Clapper sent to ranking senators on the Intelligence Committee. That statement was belied by the fact that ODNI withheld nearly every word of the letter, save for the page numbers, names and addresses of the senators it was sent to and a final concluding paragraph from Clapper. The redactions are so all-encompassing, there is no way to know what the subject of the letter is and whether it actually discusses the targeted killing program. The kicker? The unredacted paragraph at the end of the letter begins “We hope this information has been helpful.” Yeah, real helpful. Keep up the FOIA trolling, ODNI. See FOILIES Page 15

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he Department of Justice (DOJ) believes that exhibits it used in open court when prosecuting a doctor convicted of illegally distributing prescription drugs are not, in fact, public records. The DOJ staked out this curious position in a long-running FOIA dispute with Rhode Island-based reporter Phil Eil after he filed a request for copies of the exhibits prosecutors used during the 2011 trial of the doctor, Paul Volkman. After stalling for several years and requiring Eil to sue for the records, the DOJ proposed to release the records in heavily redacted form. Of course, anyone who attended the trial would have been able to see the records without the DOJ’s redactions, which the DOJ claims are in part necessary to protect law enforcement concerns, despite airing those records in open court.

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ike the airport security line on a busy travel day, the TSA’s backlog of FOIA responses just seems to keep growing. That’s according to a compliance review by the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), one in a series of reports on various agency-components of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). OGIS found a nearly 70 percent year-over-year rise in the backlog of unfilled request — up to 924 in 2014 — despite a small drop in the number of incoming requests. How does TSA get through those old requests? Unfortunately, it turned to the dreaded “still-interested letter,” checking to see if requesters still care enough to want an answer. TSA sends those out after a case has gone unclosed for four years — and, contrary to DOJ guidance, allows only 10 days for requesters to respond. A bright spot in this sad story: since OGIS compiled its report, TSA has updated its procedures on still-interested letters to bring them into line with DOJ and the rest of DHS.

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n October, Wilmington Mayor Dennis Williams had to clarify he had not endorsed Secretary Hillary Clinton for president after the campaign had listed his name on her website. The next day, America Rising, a conservative opposition research organization, filed a records request that asked for all communications to and from the mayor’s public relations team for that single, tumultuous day. Here’s where the timeline gets bizarre: America Rising filed the request on October 21, asking for communications that were exchanged on October 20. Instead, the city said that America Rising had demanded the request be fulfilled by October 20, one day before the request was actually filed. The city denied the request, essentially claiming they lacked the time travel capabilities to respond. Since then, America Rising has clarified its request twice, and it’s still pending. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit organization that defends free speech, privacy, innovation, and transparency in the digital world. The Foilies were compiled by Dave Maass, Aaron Mackey and Parker Higgins of EFF, with assistance from Michael Morisy and JPat Brown of MuckRock News.

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But the deferred action programs are shrouded in myths as well, Motomura says. First of all, the federal programs don’t provide any path to citizenship or legal status and are therefore a temporary fix to a problem that begs for long-term solutions. Secondly, the programs are less of a fight between Congress and the executive office and more about internal policies at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). “The real reason for DACA is that the president really tried to get all the rank and file immigration officers to respect central office guidelines about who was a low priority for enforcement and who was high priority,” Motomura says. “I think it’s less of a struggle between Congress and the president and more of a struggle between the president and the DHS central office in Washington D.C., and field agents who were disregarding what they were supposed to be doing.” In his estimation, the president implemented these programs legally, given the discretion the executive office has regarding immigration policies. However, Hiroshi Motomura weighs in on DACA, DAPA and the Supreme Court. the state of Texas challenged the executive authority to implement DACA and DAPA in court. District judges sided with Texas so the Department of Justice appealed to the Supreme Court, which is expected to issue a decision this year. The arguments on both sides of the case as well as the possible outcomes will be the topic of Motomura’s public lecture in Denver on March 24, hosted by the Rocky Mountain Immigration Advocacy Network t wasn’t that long ago that George W. Bush was why there are 11 million people in the United States (RMIAN), of which the professor is a founding board a champion for the legalization of undocumentwho are undocumented,” Motomura says. “I think a member. ed workers and Senators John McCain lot of people don’t understand that. A lot of people But while DACA and DAPA are at the forefront (R-Arizona) and Ted Kennedy think they just all of a sudden broke the law and of the current immigration discussion, in reality these (D-Massachusetts) worked together on bipartiinvaded this country.” programs are simply the first step — or half of a step san immigration reform. Fast-forward to today’s politOn the contrary, Motomura says the economic — toward meaningful solutions, Motomura says. And, ical landscape and immigration has become a major system in the U.S. relies on a flexible, disposable he believes, there are solutions that don’t require mass division between Republicans and Democrats, a cenworkforce, while at the same time creating governdeportation or closing our borders. tral issue in the upcoming presidential election and ment policies that make it increasingly difficult for “I think the economic studies are pretty clear, it’s the topic of a pending Supreme Court case. immigrants to legally obtain permission to work. not that immigrants displace American workers,” he But understanding the history of the U.S. immi“So the system the United says. “Actually, they allow businesses gration system, argues law professor Hiroshi States has is to restrict the legal to grow and more Americans to get hired on the whole. But to the Motomura, allows people to view the current political avenues to come, but, in fact, [it ON THE BILL: The Future of a Dream Deferred: What’s Next for extent that people get displaced, I polarization in context, as well as dispel myths surhas] a system that tolerates them DACA and the Fight for DAPA think the solution is not to cut off rounding the subject. coming anyway,” Motomura says. by Hiroshi Motomura. 12 p.m. immigration but to provide them “One big myth is people don’t understand how we “We count on their labor but we Thursday, March 24, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, 410 with opportunities through the got 11 million people who are undocumented,” don’t want to give them the dignity 17th St., Suite 2200, Denver. educational system too.” Motomura says. “The other big myth is people don’t of making them legal. ... I think But again, any discussion of understand how hard it is to come to the country even they’ve come here at the invitation solutions boils down to dispelling if the economy has jobs for you.” of employers with the acquiescence the myths surrounding immigration From an immigrant family who moved to San of the federal government.” so the conversations about how to move forward can be This system creates a gap between immigration law Francisco from Japan when he was 3 years old, had; so the needs of the U.S. economy and the immiin theory and immigration law in practice, which results Motomura is deeply rooted in the American immigragration system work together to create lasting solutions. in both legal and political controversy. The most current tion story. He also has a long career practicing and In his conversations, Motomura says even the peoexample of which is President Obama’s Deferred Action teaching immigration law for more than 30 years, first ple who appear most hard-lined against legalization for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action with his own practice in Washington D.C., then as a still know immigrants who are in the country illegally, for Parents of Americans (DAPA) programs. professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, the calling them good people and ideal neighbors. And DACA, first announced in 2012, already functions University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and curthis bodes well moving forward. rently at UCLA. He has authored two books, around the country, giving immigrant youth permis“My pessimistic side sees that there is a lot of Americans in Waiting and Immigration Outside the sion to be in the U.S. for two years at a time without polarization,” Motomura says. “But my optimistic side Law, which explain the history, issues and possible fear of deportation. When President Obama expanded feels like there’s always room for those who oppose solutions surrounding modern immigration in the the program in 2014 to three years and opened it up legalization to understand that there are some people U.S. from the early 20th century until the present. to 4 million adults with U.S. children through DAPA, who deserve it.” “The most important thing is to try and figure out both political and legal challenges ensued.

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n Colorado, climbing is a year-round sport. When the heat of the summer dies down and the shadows grow longer each day, active seekers of elevation don’t hibernate for the winter — they pull on some layers and take the cold season by storm, tackling some of the nation’s harshest climates to enjoy the outdoors on their terms. When winter comes, spillways and waterfalls in the mountains freeze into climbable routes. Using ice screws to anchor their ropes to the route, ice axes in their hands and spiked crampons attached to their boots, ice climbers haul their way up frozen faces. These alpinists are arguably some of winter’s toughest sportsmen. Bitter wind, frozen extremities and full gravitational reliance on an easily compromised ice wall are some common challenges that these adventurers face. But climate change is giving ice climbers a new and far less obvious difficulty to contend with. According to data compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2015, winter snow cover for the continental U.S. was 62,000 square miles under the average recorded between 1981 and 2010. Spring snow cover was the lowest ever recorded. Independent analyses by both NOAA and NASA show that 2015 was the hottest year on record. “It’s definitely frightening in its own way,” says Ben Crawford, co-president of the Alpine Club at University of Colorado at Boulder. see COLD SHOULDER Page 26

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Warmer climates and the depletion of snow and ice have potentially dangerous consequences for ice climbers. Solid ice is required for a safe ascent; it has to support both the weight of the climber and the punishment of being repeatedly punctured by ice axes and screws. Warming conditions create myriad changes for ice routes and the environments in which they are found. Crawford, who led the Alpine Club’s trip to Ouray Ice Park at the beginning of March, has some comforting words — at least for this winter’s climbers. He says as long as temperatures are dipping below freezing long enough to allow for a continuous freeze-thaw cycle, the routes should stay protected. “Ice climbing is most dangerous when it’s too cold or too warm,” he says. “If it’s too cold, the ice gets brittle and cracks easily. If it’s too warm, obviously the ice would be weakened as well. If you saw an excess of warmer temperatures, the ice would definitely be weaker.” Since the invention of the ice axe — popularly attributed to the owner of Patagonia outdoor gear company Yvon Chouinard — in the mid-1960s, Colorado’s winters have actually stayed consistently cold. For some, this serves to dispel some fears of losing the state’s coveted winter sports access. But taking a look at the bigger picture of average heat fluctuation, the image becomes more sinister. While winters have stayed frosty, extending temperature measurements to the entire calendar year shows Colorado has warmed three degrees Fahrenheit since Chouinard’s invention. Even with winter’s chilly reliability, rising temperatures during the rest of the year mean heavy losses to snow, ice and permafrost reserves. While glacial ice and permafrost are different from the ice on the routes that alpinists seek to climb, their depletion in the Rocky Mountains will have negative consequences for the climbing community. Research published in a special issue of the journal Plant Ecology and Diversity in January 2016 shows an alarming rate of recession for ice reserves in the Rockies. Hydrologist Mark Williams, co-author of the research, says that while the findings are distressing as a whole, they are a mixed bag of news for Colorado ice climbers — for now. While rising seasonal temperatures have been affecting outdoor recreation in the Midwest and on both coasts of the U.S., Colorado enjoys some unique climatic privileges. But, Williams warns, these privileges won’t last forever. “The deal with Colorado, which is a good deal, is that we’re at both high elevation and mostly a continental climate,” Williams says. “You raise the temperature a couple of degrees and it’s not gonna have a particularly large effect during the main snow season. Where it’s going to have effect is on the shoulders.” The “shoulders” that Williams refers to are the fall and spring seasons, when rising temperatures delay the onset of freezing and facilitate earlier melting when the cold season ends. Williams asserts that this trend is still Boulder Weekly

ADVENTURE cause for some concern. Although the winters themselves have not been significantly warmer, the research shows that ice reserves are being depleted on both ends of the season. This change weakens the integrity of permafrost that actually holds the rock together in deep mountain terrain. “It’s permafrost on these deep mountain environments that glue the rock together,” Williams says. “When you start melting that, you have bad rock, weak rock, you have more rock falls, it gets really much more dangerous.” The deterioration of permafrost has already begun to have a startling impact on the mountaineering community worldwide. In 2003, a devastating heat wave rocked Europe. During this time, more than 50 climbers had to be evacuated from the world-famous Matterhorn climbing area when a rock face collapsed due to deterioration of permafrost. In Phil Konstantin via Wikimedia Commons 2012, a Swiss research team published a report in the Journal of Geophysical Research that displayed an increased rate of rock collapse on the Matterhorn over the previous decade. Stateside, Williams says that although lower elevations are experiencing the changes more rapidly in the continental U.S., the same deterioration is already occurring in the Rockies. Winter 2015-16 hasn’t seen such catastrophic change as to force route closure in Colorado. But Williams contends that existing trends are positioned to affect the security of the rock. Unchecked, rising global temperatures will Many ice climbers emphasize personal accountmean that the depletion of ability in mitigating the effects of climate change, like recycling, composting and carpooling. permafrost will only accelerate in the high elevations of the Rockies. “It will be worse at lower latitudes and areas that have less of a continental climate,” Williams says, adding that some such areas include the southwestern region of Colorado, home of the famous Ouray Ice Park. The Ice Park hosts the annual Ouray Ice Festival, a yearly fundraiser and ice climbing competition that draws winter adventurers from all over the nation. The ice park itself boasts the advantage of having a water pipeline that its employees tap nightly during the winter months in order to build and bolster their routes. But the natural climbing routes in the region will eventually suffer from diminution of ice and permafrost if current trends continue. Permafrost depletion is additionally concerning because permafrost stores massive amounts of carbon. Melting of these permafrost reserves releases that carbon, which has a supplementary warming effect on the atmosphere of the Earth. Efforts to study and mitigate climate change are underway in Colorado. But for Williams and the University of Colorado, researchers have to look to financiers outside of the state government, such as the National Science Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development, in order to fund their work. With larger institutions facing these kinds of obstacles, conscious climbers like Crawford advocate for personal accountability. “Being a climber and having outdoor recreation being our main source of entertainment, I think we have kind of a responsibility to look after the environments that we interact with,” he says. Simple things like recycling, composting and carpooling to the climbing area are easy ways for climbers to mitigate their personal impact on their outdoor playground. Consciously interacting with the environment keeps it clean and enjoyable for everyone, Crawford says. “Within our community I think we should really emphasize doing these little things since the outdoor environment is the one we interact with the most.” Boulder Weekly

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fter meticulously carving out the perfect design, it is time to put the first round of ink onto the stamp and press it onto fine art paper. Excitement and anxiety build as the stamp is gently separated from the paper. The moment of truth comes when the image appears on the page. This is the art of printmaking. In Denver and its surrounding cities, the art community alternates between recognizing March as the month of photography or the month of printmaking. In celebration of this year’s printmaking March, the Firehouse Art Center is displaying the work of printmakers from the West through April 4. Curator for the exhibit is Melanie Yazzie, a contemporary Native American printmaker, jewelry designer, sculptor and printmaking professor at the University of Colorado. “They’re really amazing artists that aren’t all together at the same time,” Yazzie says. “They’re printmakers that people should know about, and often people don’t know of these [artists]. And so the title being Encounters, so people can encounter these artists.” Yazzie’s own artwork is also in the Encounters 2016 exhibition alongside the work of 12 other artists. Her prints in the show are a series of abstract monotype pieces. Monotype is a printmaking process that involves carving a desired design into a flat glass, copper or acrylic surface and then transferring that design onto paper. Other than showing printmaking from artists and art educators from the West, there is no specific theme that unifies the pieces in the exhibition. The content of the prints varies with each artist — a few pieces are abstract, while others are detailed and realistic; some of the artworks are about nature and some are about society. see PRINTMAKERS Page 30

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So there’s a cess of building and creating a printed wide range of things.” image becomes as invigorating as the “Super Hombre” Tony Ortega Printmaking can be original sketch was in the hard to define because it beginning.” can include several differBeing raised in New ent types of art processes Mexico, Loughridge’s and mark making. One of woodblock prints are often the key elements of printinfluenced by the landmaking is the process of scape of the western U.S. duplication. “The two prints in the “We’re in the age exhibit were developed where we have 3-D printfrom onsite watercolor ers, and the whole idea of sketches that captured the duplicating something is essence of the scene, the what making is about,” atmospheric drama that Yazzie says. “And it’s not inspired me,” Loughridge just on paper anymore. It’s says. “The challenge of on glass, stone, wood. interpreting or translating There’s all different types a spontaneous quick “Untitled” Jennifer Ghromley “Quarry” Ashley Nason of things that have been sketch into a block print inspired by printmaking is to capture the energy of that have led into engraving the original in print, not to merely duplicate the image.” images onto gigantic signs Loughridge’s printmaking that advertise things. So it’s process begins with drawings of anything and almost everywhat he wants the piece to look thing.” like. Then, he uses what is Printmaking is a complicalled a reduction process, which cated art form because it can means he carves a design into a have broad definitions while woodblock and then imprints simultaneously having strict that design onto paper using constraints. Yazzie says a “Divergence” Theresa Haberkorn ink. Then he carves out more common misunderstanding details and prints it again and the about printmaking is the differGhormley says. “The two prints are process repeats until he is done. ence between a poster and a fine art stitched together where finger tips Loughridge says this method gives him print. Yazzie considers series that have overlap. To me, these pieces are about a combination of the freedom of draw100 or fewer prints and that are on fine the relationship with the self, and how art paper to be fine art prints. we create our own lives. So it is impera- ing through the medium of printmaking. “I tend more towards representaThe month of printmaking is tive that we are close to ourselves as tional imagery but am intrigued by important for both the public who that relationship informs everything abstraction,” Loughridge says. “I do feel views the art and for the printmakers else in our lives.” that each piece should have a core who share the excitement of having a While artists often choose to title abstraction to be effective. I am greatly month dedicated to their artwork. their work, Ghormley chose not to for influenced by my environment and love “The month of printmaking is a her series in Encounters 2016. to portray the mountain scenery that is really great way for the public to learn “I did not title this series, as words so inspiring to me in my work.” what printmaking is and all the iteracan be so declarative,” Ghormley says. As printmaking grows in popularity, tions it can take,” says Denver-based “And I like the viewer to draw their own Yazzie hopes more people experiment fulltime artist and art educator Jennifer conclusions, based on their own experiwith the art form and its many variaGhormley, whose art is featured in the ences, as to what the work is about.” tions. One way to do so is to stop by Firehouse exhibit. “It is also like an Another artist on display in the Firehouse for a printmaking class extended family reunion, where printEncounters 2016 is Denver-based artist led by Chris Blume from Flatiron Press makers come out of their studio hiberLeon Loughridge. As a fulltime artist, nation and interact with one another to he has several tasks in addition to creat- on March 17. “People should just take a printmakcelebrate through their artwork.” ing art. ing class or learn how to make a print and Ghormley’s pieces in Encounters “Managing a studio means that I become part of this art-making move2016 are monotypes that were waxed have multiple job descriptions, from ment,” Yazzie says. “It’s very empowering and then sewn together. accounting to shipping,” Loughridge and can help you get your voice into the “The imagery is of two hands, actu- says. “But mainly, I get those chores world in a beautiful way.” ally the same hand gesture mirrored,” done quickly so that I can move onto Boulder Weekly

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arco Benevento lives in Woodstock, New York, with his wife and kids, some farm animals, and Fred Short. Well, to be precise, Fred isn’t exactly living there anymore. In a semi-rural area whose very name bears the weight of a cultural milestone and has been the mailing addresses of artists and musicians for decades, Fred Short was actually a local legend. A Native American originally from California, a shaman it is said, Short settled in the Woodstock area in the middle of the last century and worked the land there, bringing with him his customs and religious ceremonies, unleashing a bit of pre-Columbian mysticism on the suspenders-and-pickups community. Benevento’s studio sits on a portion of what was once Short’s land. He tells us — and it’s not really a feel-a-presence type thing — that the whole legend of Fred Short, had been chewing at him ever since he moved there. Don’t bother looking on the interwebs about Fred; there isn’t really anything out there about him “Yeah,” Benevento says, “I couldn’t really find out anything about him either, so I just started talking to my neighbors and the locals around here. Boulder Weekly

“Actually, I collect pianos. Even if they’re clunkers or free pianos, I’ll just go out to Craigslist and look for them. I went to go get one from this older guy, and he asked me where I lived. I said I was on Fred Short Way, and he said that the piano I was getting from him was actually in Fred’s family ... his sister owned it, or something. “Fred played all sorts of instruments. ... He used to have like Ayahuasca ceremonies on his properties, shamanistic vision quests. That kind of thing.” A man left alone in his studio in front of a keyboard can sometimes produce remarkable things. And Benevento’s curiosity about Fred Short eventually resulted in a late-night, leave-the-tape rolling stream of consciousness solo jam that was, in part, a kind of prayer to the late Woodstock legend. “I’ve been living on this road for a while, and it just has a funny ring to it,” he says. “And I always wondered what the hell was going on with that, so I just decided to sort of look into it. And one night, I was just improvising music, a total improvisation... purposely not stopping for an hour and a half. And afterward, I thought, what if I just make this The Story of Fred Short? I lived on the road named after him, I had a piano that belonged to his family, and the whole thing had just been on my mind anyway. “I told my drummer about it, and he got real excited by the idea. He was saying, ‘You gotta do it. Put it all together and polish it and rehearse it and do it.’ It took about a year and a half, but we got it done.” see MARCO Page 34

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ON THE BILL: Venice on Fire, Boulder Bach Festival. 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 18, the Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 19, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

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achary Carrettin talks rock ‘n’ roll, but you won’t recognize most of the composers. The artistic director of the Boulder Bach Festival, Carrettin has put together a program he calls “Venice on Fire,” featuring both acoustic and electronic string instruments playing music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Boulder (March 18, Dairy Center) and Saturday in Longmont (March 19, Longmont Museum Stewart Auditorium). “There’s some great music on the program,” he says, describing pieces by Tarquinio Merula, Marco Uccellini, Giovanni Legrenzi, Barbara Strozzi, Tomasso Albinoni and — the one very familiar name — Antonio Vivaldi. “Some of this program is aggressive and dynamic — it’s really the rock ‘n’ roll of the Baroque,” he says. “I think [Vivaldi’s] two-cello concerto is the kind of music you would hear at a rave or a rock concert. It is so rhythmically driven, so viscerally exciting that I want to get up and dance.” The concert’s title, Carrettin says, celebrates a time when Venice was not underwater or even sinking, but was the place to be if you were a musician. It was a hotbed of creativity and musical experimentation — or in other words, Venice was “on fire.” Carrettin says the program will contrast pieces with “vast, spacious, meditative and vocal melodic lines, with pieces that are rhythmically driven, full of imitation, and wild embellishment.” But more noticeably, the performances will contrast an electric trio — Carrettin on electric violin, Gal Faganel on electric cello and Keith Barnhart on a Fender electric guitar — alternating with an acoustic chamber orchestra of traditional stringed instruments. For example, the program opens with the

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Chaconne for two violins and continuo by Merula, played on acoustic string instruments. It will be followed by a violin Sonata by Uccellini, played by the electric trio. Other works will include, in turn: a Trio Sonata by Legrenzi, played by acoustic instruments; an aria by Strozzi, played by the electric trio; an acoustic performance of Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos; and a Sonata for violin and continuo by Vivaldi, played by the electric trio. The program will end with a Sinfonia by Albinoni, which will bring all the performers together on acoustic instruments. If playing Baroque music on electric instruments seems outlandish or wildly inauthentic, Carrettin explains his reasoning. “I would ask us to consider what authenticity means to each of us,” he says. “‘Historically informed’ has a much larger definition for me than it does for some. “I think ‘historically informed’ would be to consider this music as new and fresh, to embellish it, to come up with new relationships to the acoustic space, because these are all the practices these composers

were involved in during their lifetimes. They were ornamenting, embellishing, they were playing multiple instruments — these were the authentic practices of the composers.” Carrettin singles out a few pieces on the program for particular attention. “I have to point out the Uccellini sonata,” he says. “It’s a really extraordinary one-movement piece, a free-form fantasia type of work. “The tempos change on a dime, it’s almost operatic in that the form is constantly changing based on the character of the violin line. It’s a violinist’s dream.” The Strozzi piece is worth paying attention to, because it will probably stray furthest from the original performance practice. It was written for soprano as an aria about perfidious love, but a cancellation by the planned soloist caused it to be taken up by the instruments. In this form, each of the players — electric violin, cello and guitar — will provide variations on the melody, much like a series of jazz solos. Nor will the soloists necessarily stick to Baroque improvisation styles. “You will undoubtedly hear the various musical influences on our artists,” Carrettin says. He will not rule out blues or rock entering the picture, saying, “I’ve been waiting years to find musicians like Barnhart and Faganel, who are extremely fluent in the Baroque language, and yet have the ability to improvise in a variety of musical styles outside of the classical genre. “We will be authentic to ourselves and what we want to say as artists.” Add in the final Sinfonia by Albinoni, which Carrettin describes as “wild, virtuoso string writing,” and it all makes for quite a musical adventure — or a rockin’ night of Baroque, if you will. But beyond the sense of adventure the concert offers, Carrettin wants the audience to hear and appreciate the guest artists he has assembled for the concert. “They’re all thinking, inquisitive, dynamic personalities, charismatic and delightful to work with,” he says. “I’m sure you’ll see all of them again on our programs, because I benefit so much from being around them and working with them.”

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Celtic Session Hosted by the Gael. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. The Complete Unknowns. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685. Corey Rezner. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. DJ Done. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Eric Wiggs Trio. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1,

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Miles Wilder, Dylan Johnson, Ben Weirich, Sean Dandurand. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Moon Taxi, The Congress. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Moonlight Breakdown. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Mumbouli. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Sherefe — Arabic Mediterranean Fusion. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. St. Patricks Party with Hazel O’Miller. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. St. Pat’s With JD Simo. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Tenth Mountain Division. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Events Art Workshop with Botany Collection of Pressed Seaweeds. 1 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 1030 Broadway, Boulder, 303-492-6892.

A Place in the Sun. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24. Above the Fold: New Expression in Origami. The Longmont Museum, 350 Kimbark Street, Longmont, 303-776-6050. Through May 1. Art of the State 2016. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 27. Be Here Now: Conversations Between Objects. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through March 19.

Tony Ortega

Critical Focus: Lanny DeVuono — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5.

Encounters 2016. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through April 4.

Deli Man. 6:45 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Holdfast: Seaweeds in a Time of Oceanic Change — Jill Powers. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 8.

Free Inky Fun Evening. 6 p.m. Book Arts League at Ewing Farm, 1915 N. 95th St., Lafayette.

Make Your Own Friends — by Brian Bress. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. The Neighbors — by Arne Svenson. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 5. Pastel Paintings by Diane Wood. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1.

Celebrate the month of printmaking at the Firehouse’s new exhibit Encounters 2016. Read more about the exhibit on page 29.

The Engaged Object. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through March 26.

An Evening with Jennifer Egan. 7 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Life and Afterlife: Selections from the King Collection of Ancient Chinese Art. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. 303-492-8300. Through June 25.

Case Work. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 17.

The Auspicious Adventures of an Improbable Princess. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Distinguished Research Lecture. 4 p.m. CU Campus, UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

303-665-2757. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

Plein Air Pastel Painting by Sandra Haberkorn. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through April 1.

Phantom Touch — by Laura Shill. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through July 3. Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 1. Robert Therrien. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 7. Samurai. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 5.

The Radio Band. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Rhythm Allstars. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

Late Night At The Museum. 6 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Dechen Hawk, Colin Robison, Jarrad Menard and Sophie Nevil. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Printmaking Workshop. 4 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Feralheart. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

Scupanon. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Rabin in His Own Words. 3 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Steepland Stringband. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Friday, March 18

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

Music Aaron Walker Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Boulder Bach Festival — Venice on Fire. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Brazillian Collaborative. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Brothers Warde. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. A Celtic Celebration with Beth Gadbaw. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Citizen Dan: A Steely Dan Tribute. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 40 March 17, 2016

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Jami Lunde and Eben Grace. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Robin Davis Duo. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Strange Byrds. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Tallgrass. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

JC and The Deadly Sins. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Todd Adelman and the Country Mile. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Marco Benevento, Mama Magnolia. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.

Wilson Harwood, Nick O’Connor. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Maya Bennett. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Events

Michael Morrow, Johnny Got Rox, Remus Tucker Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Prairie Scholars. 7 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.

Monster Hunt (Dubbed). 7:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. see EVENTS Page 42

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Monster Hunt (Subtitled). 9:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Morgenthau. 2 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. RNDZVS Glam Rock Party. 9 p.m. 1420 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Saturday, March 19 Music Autumn Marie. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Barrel Of Blues. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Benny Phitz. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.

The Blue Canyon Boys. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Bonnie & Taylor Sims. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Bonnie and the Clydes. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Boulder Bach Festival — Venice on Fire. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374. Brad Murphey and Sam Parks. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Contraband. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

“Pop / Rock / Soul”

David Coile. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

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Wednesday March 23

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Ideation — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Boulder Chamber of Commerce, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-351-2382. Through March 20. Newsies. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through April 9. Peter and the Starcatcher. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through May 14. Sherlock Holmes Assassins at Sea. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 26.

Blackdog, Sally Van Meter. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Sunday March 20

CODY QUALLS & THE BRAND NEW ANCIENTS

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Dead Floyd. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. DJ Big Spade. 9 p.m. Breaker’s Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-3839. Dr Phil Goods Full Time Life. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Gogol Bordello. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. HERmonious “Women United In Music.” 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Kevin Dooley. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Lindsey Saunders. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. The Long Run: An Eagles Tribute. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Michael Bellmont Duo. 8:30 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-3279318. Nick Willis Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Rogue. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.

Theater Company of Lafayette tackles Sherlock Holmes in their new mystery Assassins at Sea, through March 26.

Ron LeGault Jazz. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Super Collider. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. VooDoo Julia Band. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Wayne Wilkinson. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Whiskey Autumn. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Monster Hunt (Dubbed). 11:30 a.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monster Hunt (Subtitled). 3:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Sunday, March 20 Music

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Andy Matteo. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.

Animation Show of Shows. 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Bluegrass Jam. 2 p.m. Black Canyon Distillery, 13710 Deere Court, Unit B, Longmont, 720-209-9701.

Bentinho’s Birthday Retreat. All day. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Bluegrass Pick. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Book Arts League Linoleum Carving and Letterpress Printing Class. 10 a.m. Book Arts League at Ewing Farm, 1915 N. 95th St., Lafayette.

Brian Rezac. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 1st Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.

East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem. 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Britt Margit EP Exclusive Preview. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. see EVENTS Page 44

Courtesy of Boulder Book Store

Monday, March 21 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, March 22 Carol A. Wilson — Because We Wanted To! 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, March 23 Jerome Osentowski — The Forest Garden Greenhouse. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

In her new book, Because We Wanted To!, Carol A. Wilson talks about her and a friend’s adventure of buying a Colorado ranch and raising horses.

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Bruce Lish & George Stone. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Cody Qualls & The Brand New Ancients. 6:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Free Easter Cantata Musical Concert! 10:15 a.m. United Church of Christ, 1500 Ninth Ave., Longmont, 303-776-4940. Frogleg. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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Honeytree. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. The Jet Set. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Open Bluegrass Pick with Pat Fiddle and New Grass. 1 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.

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Here’s a poem of loss by Jo McDougall, from her collected poems, In the Home of the Famous Dead, from The University of Arkansas Press. Like many deeply moving poems, it doesn’t tell us everything; it tells us just enough. Ms. McDougall lives and writes in Little Rock. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate

This Morning As I drove into town the driver in front of me runs a stop sign. A pedestrian pulls down his cap. A man comes out of his house to sweep the steps. Ordinariness bright as raspberries. I turn on the radio. Somebody tells me the day is sunny and warm. A woman laughs and my daughter steps out of the radio. Grief spreads in my throat like strep. I had forgotten, I was happy, I maybe was humming “You Are My Lucky Star,” a song I may have invented. Sometimes a red geranium, a dog, a stone will carry me away. But not for long. Some memory or another of her catches up with me and stands like an old nun behind a desk, ruler in hand. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Jo McDougall,“This Morning,” from In the Home of the Famous Dead: Collected Poems, (The University of Arkansas Press, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Jo McDougall and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.

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ou can keep your Jason Voorhies and Freddy Kreuger. To me, nothing is more terrifying than an overweight, middle-aged, gun-loving, white man obsessed with the “impending apocalypse.” Whether it’s barfy nonsense about chemtrails or proof of a Martian invasion, AM-radiostyle conspiracies have given us a booming “doomsday bunker” industry and now 10 Cloverfield Lane, a tautly claustrophobic gem seemingly broadcast from inside The Twilight Zone. Held steady on the backs of two deeply committed performances, this sorta-kinda-not-really sequel to the POV monster movie Cloverfield delivers satisfying thrills for those willing to suspend the living hell out of their disbelief. The briefest of prologues shows us Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) as she skips out on her fiancée and promptly gets into a wicked flippy car accident. She awakens in an underground dungeon guarded by Howard ( John Goodman). As a general rule, waking up in your underpants chained to a wall sucks, so Michelle flips her shit and tries to stab her way out. Only, as Howard tells her, there is no “out.” That is to say, he’s positive that there has been a chemical or extraterrestrial attack; the air is now poison, and they have to just “VHS and chill” for a year or two until it’s safe to leave again. Soon, Michelle discovers she’s got another roommate: the kindly hillbilly 10 Cloverfield Lane is the real kind of spooky. Emmett ( John Gallagher Jr). The two begin discussing rather pressing issues like, “Is this really the end of days or are we Howard’s fleshy playthings?” The tension gets ratcheted up every 15 minutes or so, as their captor/savior flickers between psychotic, odd-but-well-intended and “something else entirely.” Director Dan Trachtenberg not only elicits killer turns from his two leads but manages to avoid boring audiences despite only using three rooms for much of the runtime. That is, right up until... well, we can’t talk about that, but suffice it to say the ending will be hit or miss for folks. For me, as Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds would say, “It’s a bingo!” That’s thanks in no small part to the expressive anime eyes of Winstead, who uses sparse dialogue but ample physical expression to communicate a fully formed character arc, from scared and directionless to a badass determined to survive. She’s equally met by Goodman, who effortlessly vacillates between earning our sympathy and our terror. Scenes with the two of them finding the edges of each other are as captivating as whatever it is that does or doesn’t lurk outside the bunker doors. Spoiler-free is the way to be, but that means the critical final sequence can’t really be mentioned, which is really only unfortunate because the reaction to that is going to be the litmus test for whether folks love the flick or just really like it. And those do seem to be the only two choices. Much like Ex Machina did in the spring of last year, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a fresh, well-acted, sci-fi-influenced little nugget of goodness more than capable of nourishing those of us who long for the dulcet tones of Rod Serling welcoming us to a dimension of sound, sight and mind. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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mbition comes in all shapes and ON THE BILL: Arabian Nights: sizes, but when it comes to the Volume 1, The Restless One Friday, March 18, 7:30 p.m. movies, ambition tends to come Volume 2, The Desolate One big. So big that one night is not Saturday, March 19, 7:30 p.m. enough. That is why CU’s Volume 3, The Enchanted One Sunday, March 20, 7:30 p.m. International Film Series is devoting an Muenzinger Auditorium, 1905 entire weekend to Miguel Gomes’ Colorado Ave, Boulder, 303-492Portuguese opus, Arabian Nights, a six-and1531. internationalfilmseries.com a-half hour triptych that is unlike anything you’ve ever seen. Drawing on the structure from One Thousand and One Nights — where a reluctant bride, Scheherazade, enchants her murderous husband, the Sasanian King, with tales to stay her execution — Gomes provides commentary on current cultural and political crises in Portugal. Dealing with the financial collapse head on, Gomes weaves magical realism and absurdity throughout this impressive construct of political consciousness and achieves a result that is both of a time and timeless. Here, the mythical past invades a conflicted present as a magical Shaman swindles billions from politicians, a genie appears at a court hearing and a Grand Vizier and his daughter ride a Ferris wheel, discussing the nature of narrative. “The stories, characters and places that Scheherazade will tell us about acquired a fictional form from facts that occurred in Portugal between August 2013 and July 2014,” a title card introducing each installment tells us. “During this period the country was held hostage to a program of economic austerity executed by a government apparently devoid of social justice.” That stage is set with the first of many absurd tales: The Men With Hard-Ons. In it, a group of politicians travel to a seaside villa to discuss business. Along the way, they cross paths with an African Shaman with a magical spray that offers the men a fantastic and enormous erection. How could they say no? But alas, the erections don’t subside and no matter of time, or sexual satisfaction, will make them subside. The Shaman offers an antidote, but it will cost. The politicians agree, but the money comes not from their pockets, but from the pockets of the people. Once again, a nation pays dearly for bourgeois boners. But Gomes isn’t content to simply rely on absurdism, and imbues his trilogy with journalistic quotidian. Prior to shooting, Gomes sent out a team of reporters to capture the stories of everyday Portuguese; what they brought back is the meat and potatoes of Arabian Nights. Gomes then marries that reality with flights of fancy to undercut the dismal situation. He does not do this flippantly, but with great urgency and importance. This is Portugal, Gomes offers his audience. This is our country, our culture. Though spilt into three parts, Arabian Nights is best viewed in close succession, making IFS’s weekend-long presentation all the more enjoyable. Six-plus hours is a lot of material to work through, and though the movie may seem bloated at first, it quickly becomes an enchantment itself. Audience eyes are glued to the screen to see what wonders Gomes will concoct next. Be it an exploding whale, a fantastical trail, or an apartment block full of eclectic characters seen through the eyes of Dixie, a dog that is, “a love machine as much as it is a forgetting machine.” The same could be said of a nation. Boulder Weekly

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hen I moved to Boulder several years ago, I asked the Comcast guy installing our cable for restaurant recommendations in town. Better to ask a local than Buddha Thai Cuisine rely on Yelp 2719 Iris Ave., Boulder, reviews and the 720-565-0506 like, I thought. So the cable guy gave us a list of about four or five restaurants, but he said none were more his favorite than Buddha Thai. And since then, Buddha Thai’s become a personal favorite of mine, too. Buddha Thai is comfort food. You may find other Thai or Southeast Asian restaurants serve food with more flair or fuse in cuisines from other regions. But Buddha Thai has a steady stable of fresh, well-made favorites at an affordable price, all served in a low-key, relaxed shop. Having worn into a Buddha Thai ordering groove, I branched out and ordered a whole bunch of menu items I’ve never gotten from them before: steamed dumplings, chicken satay, jungle curry, larb and garlic pepper dish. Let’s start with the starters, which were the larb and the steamed dumplings. The larb was a salad with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and cucumbers, topped with protein (I chose ground pork) and chili powder. The whole plate was doused in lime juice. It’s a deceptively involved dish — you won’t think much of it when it comes on the plate, but it’s hard to keep from heaping forkfuls into your face. The pork was tender and seasoned lightly but well. The vegetables were fresh and cut into well-apportioned sizes. The lime juice and

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ered and then cooked to an almost glossy shell. They were a bit of time bomb, in that the longer they sat on the table, the harder the skin got. But piping hot and fresh, they peeled right off the stick, were close to tender and, most importantly, served as a good base for the peanut dipping sauce. The sauce was pretty close to opening a jar of natural peanut butter and throwing in a bit of spice — some may like it, some may not, but I did. My favorite dish was the jungle curry. Like most, I imagine, I’m partial to creamy coconut milk curries, and Buddha Thai does them very well (particularly their yellow curry). But I was impressed with the depth of flavor and the pleasant consistency of the thinner jungle curry. I also used the jungle curry as an opportunity to get the hottest spicing Buddha Thai offers, and yes, it was super hot. Poured over steamed white rice, the curry dish included tofu chunks, roasted vegetables like green and red pepper, onion, broccoli, baby corn and mushrooms all in a thin chili, fish sauce and herb curry. It was a slow process to eat — stuffing a bunch in before the spice gets unbearable, then waiting, then going back in — but well worth it. The garlic pepper dish was, by comparison, a little blander, but that may just be the context. Plump shrimp where mixed into a thin garlic sauce, and it was fine. Buddha Thai was recommended to me, and it’s clear it wasn’t the first recommendation the restaurant has received. If you’re hearing about it for the first time now, I’m happy to pass along the good word.

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by John Lehndorff e hold this truth to be self-evident: Americans today are wimps when it comes to dirt, especially on their vegetables and fruit. It seems we can’t stand our fashion models or our fruit without a little Photoshopping. Fruits and vegetables have gotten less and less “natural” looking. The produce now is prettier, shinier and more uniformly colored (sometimes artificially) and shaped and subjected to various processes and chemicals. Lots of folks got righteously angry recently when word spread about pre-peeled oranges being sold in plastic containers at one supermarket chain. Who hasn’t purchased processed produce at some time, including shredded cabbage, or chosen the prettier apples? Then there are the fuzz-free peaches. The price of produce perfection and other bad food habits in the United States is staggering. The nation spends about $218 billion see NIBBLES Page 52

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Just look around your favorite grocery store and you’ll likely find the ugly produce.

annually growing, processing, packaging, trucking, refrigerating and throwing away food that’s never eaten. About a quarter of it never makes it off the farms because it doesn’t meet size and shape specifications. This wastes water and resources even when it feeds pigs or becomes compost. This collective waste costs an estimated 1.3 percent of the nation’s total GDP, while food insecuri-

ty plagues a significant portion of the populace who may also live in “food deserts” lacking accessible fresh food. That has been the impetus of the so-called “ugly produce” movement, but nobody actually calls it “ugly.” A French supermarket chain sells “inglorious” produce. The British chain ASDA labels misshapen vegetables “wonky.” Canada’s Loblaw grocery stores market “Naturally Imperfect” onions and peppers. In the United States shoppers, retailers and growers have been slow to accept the idea. Whole Foods Market is teaming up with a firm called Imperfect Produce in a few Northern California stores. I’m hoping the movement will spread to Boulder County.

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My affection for using odd-looking produce and for scratch cooking is driven strongly by economics. I learned from the best: my Depression-raised mom called those vegetables “bargains.” So, I seek out the misshapen, the blemished, the bruised and the dirty, but in Boulder County you have to know where to look. Most stores hide it in the back of the store. Many of the apples and oranges pre-packed in printed bags are actually imperfect fruit, usually smaller or slightly blemished. At some local King Soopers stores you’ll find a limited number of 99 cent mesh bags of produce. I’ve found bags with decent green peppers or guacamole-ready ripe avocados. Sometimes the “bruised” pears are ripe, sweet and finally edible even if the skin is mottled. Ugly is easier to find at farmers’ markets but even there the pretty produce is on the table. The imperfects are usually under the table and farmers sell it by the case to chefs, canners and savvy cooks. Natural Grocers (sometimes known as Vitamin Cottage) does the best job that I’ve seen offering great bags of ugly organic produce for $2. Some may include one vegetable or an odd mix of one jalapeño, one lime, slightly damaged tomatoes, an avocado and wilted cilantro, all perfectly fine to eat. Twice I’ve lucked out and found $2 bags filled with two-dozen organic bananas with lots of dark brown spots. Inside the skin were perfectly ripe, white bananas. What do you do with that many bananas? I slice them in chunks, freeze them spread on cookie sheets and save them in a large freezer bag. They go in banana bread, my morning hot cereal, smoothies and the see NIBBLES Page 54

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Roast ugly broccollini with onions olive oil and fennels seeds.

occasional coconut chicken curry. If you can’t eat the produce right away you have to cook it, freeze it, pickle and store it. This life isn’t for people who don’t like to touch and peel veggies or who let ripe fruit turn into a refrigerator science experiment big enough to be declared a sentient life form.

How to handle a really ugly vegetable

Eggplant: This heirloom eggplant had some brown spots but, when peeled, revealed that the imperfection was skin deep. I sliced thick rounds, spread them on a baking sheet, doused them in olive oil, chopped garlic, black pepper and Italian herbs and roasted at 350 degrees. When soft, I spread some on a sandwich and added some to a pasta sauce. Yellow beet: After deep peeling and cutting, I wrapped the beet in foil and roasted it for an hour or so until soft. I microwaved some slices to go with pulled pork in sriracha sauce. Broccollini: This is broccoli’s more refined cousin. My bargain batch hung out in the field a little too long and was sprouting a few yellow flowers, which were also tasty. I chopped some and roasted it with onions, olive oil and a few fennel seeds. When it was soft I cracked two marked-down eggs on top to poach sprinkled with parmesan. Served with a little tomato sauce it’s damn delicious. Sweet potato: The only thing wrong with this sweet treat was its gnarled artistic shape. All I did was wash and roast it until soft and ate it, skin and all.

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ustralian wine has fallen out of fashion. In the late-1990s, Americans became obsessed with wines from the Land Down Under. For most of this millennium’s first decade, fruit bombs with quirky names and eye-catching labels flew off the shelves of U.S. retailers. But sales soon began free-falling. Between 2008 and 2013, the U.S. market for Australian wine declined by more than 20 percent. Finally, though, Australian vintners are beginning to recognize what went wrong — and working to show America that they make plenty of fine wine. Their efforts could soon pay off. The collapse is easily explained. Thanks largely to Yellow Tail, Australia became synonymous with the bargain bin. That became a liability as consumers grew interested in more serious wine. Aspirational drinkers eschewed Australia’s cheerful, Wikimedia Commons sweet offerings and instead looked to California and Europe. Plus, competition at the bottom end of the market is fierce. Conditions there are impacted by currency fluctuations, trade politics and agricultural policies. So it’s impossible to dominate the bargain bin indefinitely. Indeed, as the Australian dollar strengthened, it became harder for Yellow Tail’s many imitators to compete. Consumers spending less than $7 per bottle were easily satisfied with alternatives from Chile and Argentina. Consumers also soured on Australia’s expensive wines. Consider the wines of Amon-Ra, which retail for $95 per bottle. Robert Parker, Jr., the world’s leading wine critic, awarded the producer’s Yellow Tail is cheap wine. 2012 bottling 97+ points, describing it as “a beast… that is densely packed with black fruit.” There’s an audience for high-octane wines, to be sure. But that market has shrunk dramatically in recent years as consumers have embraced more elegant, food-friendly wines. Chester Osborn, chief winemaker at d’Arenberg, an iconic Australian winery founded in 1912, has felt Australia’s crash. And he agrees with this assessment. “There are a few wines that have been pointed out as representative of Australia, but they’re exactly the opposite of what we should be known for,” he said last week. “There are thousands of wineries here.” When we chatted about Yellow Tail and its imitators, Osborn pointed to America’s cheapest offerings. “It’s like saying that the jug wines from California’s Central Valley represent the whole of California — or the whole [of ] the United States.” A salient observation, considering Australia is about the same size as the continental United States. At the top end, according to Osborn, “the wines that got lots of reviews were often just the really ripe ones, which is unfortunate because there are so many great wines here that aren’t fat and overripe.” Osborn has no reason to be bitter. His wines, which range in price from $11 to $99, have always been praised by Parker and other critics. And unlike Australia’s most bombastic offerings, Osborn’s wines age gracefully. Fortunately, Osborn is beginning to see renewed interest in his wines — and brand Australia — from sommeliers and retailers across the United States. He believes that American consumers will soon take another look. “[Over the past few years], buyers were telling me, ‘No, Australia is not that interesting.’ But now, it’s completely different,” Osborn continued. “The gatekeepers are once again saying, ‘Yes, I’m really interested in Australia. There are some great wines there that we’ve really forgotten about.’” David White is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com. His columns are housed at GrapeCollective.com. Boulder Weekly

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

Artist Steven Spazuk works exclusively with an unusual medium: soot from candles and torches. He spreads the stuff across a blank canvas, then uses various instruments to sculpt the accidental blobs into definitive forms. I’ve seen the results, and they’re both well-done and intriguing. What would be the metaphorical equivalent, in your world, of using soot to make beautiful and interesting things? I think you’re primed to turn waste into building blocks, rot into splendor, and lead into gold. (See Spazuk’s work at spazuk.com.)

TAURUS

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Carl Sagan said that science thrives on “two seemingly contradictory attitudes: an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new.” Whether or not you are a scientist, Taurus, I recommend that you practice this approach in the coming weeks. It’s the tool that’s most likely to keep you centered and free of both rigidity and illusion. As Sagan concluded, this is “how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

“Excess on occasion is exhilarating,” said British author W. Somerset Maugham. “It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.” Now would be an excellent time to take that advice to heart, Gemini. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you not only have a license to engage in rowdy fun and extravagant pleasures; it’s your sacred duty. So get out there and treat yourself to an orgy of naughty adventures — or at least a celebration of meaningful thrills. You can return to the rigors of discipline and order once you have harvested the healthy benefits that will come from escaping them.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

At one point in Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the hero is having a conversation with himself. “You have wanted to pet every monster,” he says. “A whiff of warm breath, a little soft tuft on the paw — and at once you were ready to love and to lure it.” If I were you, Cancerian, I would regard

that type of behavior as forbidden in the coming weeks. In fact, I will ask you not to pet any monsters at all — not even the cute ones; not even the beasties and rascals and imps that have slight resemblances to monsters. It’s time for maximum discernment and caution. (P.S.: One of the monsters may ultimately become a non-monstrous ally if you are wary toward it now.)

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On a social media site, I posted the following quote from self-help teacher Byron Katie: “Our job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in our life is to push our buttons.” One commenter took issue with this. “‘Pushing buttons’ is a metaphor that’s long past its expiration date,” she wrote. “Can’t you come up with something fresher?” So I did. Here are a few potential substitutes for “push our buttons”: “tweak our manias” … “prank our obsessions” ... “glitter-bomb our biases” ... “squeeze our phobias” ... “badger our compulsions” ... “seduce our repressions” ... “prick our dogmas.” Whichever expression you prefer, Leo, find a graceful way to embrace your fate: Your current job is unconditional love. The job of everyone else in your life is to tweak your manias and prick your dogmas.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

In the coming weeks, you will have maximum power to revise and reinvigorate your approach to cultivating intimate relationships. To aid your quest, I offer this paraphrased advice from Andrew Boyd: Almost every one of us seeks a special partner who is just right. But there is no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why? Because you yourself are “wrong” in some ways — you have demons and flaws and problems. In fact, these “wrongs” are essential components of who you are. When you ripen into this understanding, you’re ready to find

and be with your special counterpart. He or she has the precise set of problems you need — is the person who is wrong for you in just the right ways. (See Boyd’s original quote: tinyurl.com/boydquote.)

an accurate horoscope. In the coming days, Sagittarius, I suspect that the experiences you love most will be those that you understand the least. Indeed, the experiences you NEED the most will be those that surprise and mystify and intrigue you. Luckily, life will be ingenious in bypassing your analytical intelligence so as to provide you with rich emotional stimuli for your soul.

LIBRA

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

In her book The Winter Vault, Anne Michaels says, “We become ourselves when things are given to us or when things are taken away.” If she’s right, does it mean we should be grateful for those times when things are taken away? Should we regard moments of loss as therapeutic prods that compel us to understand ourselves better and to create ourselves with a fiercer determination? Meditate on these possibilities, Libra. In the meantime, I’m pleased to announce that the thingsgetting-taken-away period of your cycle is winding down. Soon you’ll begin a new phase, when you can become a deeper, stronger version of yourself because of the things that are given to you.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

“I’ll make love when the lust subsides,” sings Denitia, one-half of the electro-pop band Denitia and Sene. That would be a good motto for you to play around with in the coming days, Scorpio — in both literal and metaphorical ways. I’ll enjoy seeing how your emotional intelligence ripens as the white-hot passion of recent weeks evolves into a more manageable warmth. As fun as the intensity has been, it has blinded you to some of the possibilities for collaborative growth that have been emerging. You may now be ready to explore and appreciate sweeter, subtler pleasures.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

“The poems I have loved the most are those I have understood the least,” said T. S. Eliot. I’m going to steal and expand upon his idea for the purpose of giving you

CAPRICORN

Capricorn painter Henri Matisse made the following testimony about his creative process: “At each stage I reach a balance, a conclusion. At the next sitting, if I find that there is a weakness in the whole, I make my way back into the picture by means of the weakness — I re-enter through the breach — and I reconceive the whole. Thus everything becomes fluid again.” I recommend this approach to you in the coming days, Capricorn. You’ve been making decent progress on your key project. To keep up the good work, you should now find where the cracks are, and let them teach you how to proceed from here.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“We all lead three lives,” said Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard, “an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of.” I suspect you’ll get big glimpses of your third life in the coming weeks, Aquarius: the one you’re normally not aware of. It might freak you out a bit, maybe unleash a few blasts of laughter and surges of tears. But if you approach these revelations with reverent curiosity, I bet they will be cleansing and catalytic. They are also likely to make you less entranced by your imaginary life and better grounded in your actual life.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

“The greatest illusion is not religion,” says aphorist Michael Lipsey. “It’s waking up in the morning imagining how much you’re going to get done today.” But even if that’s often true, Pisces, I suspect that you have the power to refute it in the coming weeks. Your ability to accomplish small wonders will be at a peak. Your knack for mastering details and acting with practical acumen may be unprecedented. For the immediate future, then, I predict that you’ll largely be able to get done what you imagine you can get done.

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e are lucky to live in Colorado. Sure the mountains and recreation are great but that’s not what I’m talking about. We are lucky to live here because we have access to medical marijuana. With all the press and late-night TV show jokes aimed at Colorado’s recreational pot culture these days, it’s easy to forget about the really important role MMJ plays in the lives of thousands of people, whether it’s helping cancer patients to eat and escape the horrors of constant nausea or helping glaucoma patients ease the pain caused by constant eye pressure. And we’ve all heard about the amazing impact cannabis can have on childhood seizures. I honestly can’t imagine the anger I would feel if it were my Susan Meehan and her daughter Cyndimae. child having seizures that I knew could be helped or even eliminated by using medical marijuana only to have my state government deny me that option. By such as learning to walk. the grace of God I don’t know that anger and frustraAfter trying every known prescription medicine tion, but Susan Meehan does. to help her daughter and after every one of those Susan Meehan lives in Connecticut with her fam- drugs failed to alleviate Cyndimae’s painful seizures, ily, which includes her daughter Cyndimae. Susan found herself with nowhere to turn. And then Thirteen-year-old Cyndimae had been having she heard about the success that other families who severe seizures since she was 10-months-old. She was had children suffering with seizures were having with diagnosed with a rare and very serious form of epimedical marijuana. So she asked her state for help in lepsy known as Dravet syndrome. securing MMJ and administering it to her daughter. Because her seizures were so long and hard on her She was told no. small body, Cyndimae’s development was impacted. What would you do if you were simply told no, She was small for her age and she periodically had to you can’t have or use a substance that might take the be re-trained on how to do the most basic things pain away from your child and possibly allow her to

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live a normal life someday? Susan Meehan did what any good parent who could afford it would do. She packed up, grabbed her daughter and headed for Maine, the closest state that had the MMJ she so desperately needed. It worked, or at least it was working. Various people close to the family told news outlets that Cydimae had managed to stop using her wheelchair. She seemed to be getting stronger every day, until Sunday, March 13. That’s the day Cyndimae Meehan died. According to what her mom said on youcaring.com she went peacefully. “Sudden. She played today. She colored today. She died today. Unexplained. The switch just went off. Death. Final. Epilepsy. Caused by her 3rd vaccination set. She wasn’t seizing, just sleeping on daddy’s chest in the light of day on her couch, her favorite place in the world. SUDEP kills.” Family and friends have established a couple of funds to help with medical expenses, including MMJ, along with other expenses incurred by the family in their efforts to give their daughter a better quality of life. All of the family’s bills are now taken care of according to the Meehan’s fundraising page on the youcaring.com site. The world has lost a true warrior, or more accurately, a whole family and community of warriors. Cyndimae is gone but her fight will continue. It’s good to live in Colorado.

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An attempt to sucker-punch home growers

n Nov. 6, 2012, 55 percent of the voters in Boulder County voted for Proposition 64, an amendment to the Colorado Constitution to legalize the recreational use of marijuana and regulate its production and sale like alcohol. Susan France In Boulder County, Proposition 64 passed with 66.1 percent of the vote. The vote count on Proposition 64 in Boulder County was 111,926 in favor vs. 57,317 opposed, or nearly 2 to 1 in favor. The official name of Proposition 64 was The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012, and the text of the act explicitly states that the people of Colorado “find and declare that Marijuana should be regulated in a manner similar to alcohol.” Given those sorts of margins of approval, you would think the elected and appointed officials of Boulder County would say, “The people have spoken,” and get on with the business of regulating marijuana like, you know, alcohol. But you would be wrong, that’s for sure. Judging from some recent proposed changes in Boulder County’s regulations governing the growing

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of marijuana for personal use, the county’s busy-bodies seem to think they are supposed to regulate marijuana home growers more like hazmat site operators, than home-brewers. Yesterday the County Planning Commission was due to consider regulatory changes that would, among other things, limit home growing for personal use in the unincorporated areas of Boulder County to single family detached dwelling units. People living in duplexes, condominiums or apartment units would not be allowed to grow pot in their homes. In other words, it would be a violation of Boulder County land use regulations to grow a single pot plant under a desk lamp in an owner-occupied condo, or in an apartment even if the landlord allowed it. The regulations would also limit the number of pot plants that could be grown indoors on a single family residential parcel to six, regardless of how many adults might be living on the property. But Proposition 64 allows an adult over the age of 21 to grow six plants for his or her personal use, provided the growing takes place in an enclosed,

locked space and not in public view. As I read Prop 64, the six plant limit is the number of plants an individual can grow, not the number of plants that can be grown in a single home, although a number of jurisdictions seem to be interpreting it to apply to a single home. In other words, a married couple (i.e. two adults) living in a single-family home in unincorporated Boulder County would only be allowed to grow six plants between them instead of six each. Think of it as a marriage penalty. Think of it also as an attempt to water down an individual right supposedly protected by the Colorado constitution. Still other restrictions would specify that pot growing “must not result in noise or vibration, light, odor, dust, smoke, particulate or other air pollution noticeable at or beyond the property line.” In other words, you can stink up your neighborhood with your cooking or your dryer sheets, but for anything emanating from your pot grow, its zero tolerance. So why is the County trying to slap new restrictions on home growing of marijuana? Because of “complaints” about odors in multi-family housing and fears of electrical fires attributed to residential marijuana grows’ overloaded electrical systems, according to a story in the Camera and Times-Call. Hogwash. As far as I know there are no county land use regulations restricting the indoor home growing of tomatoes, avocados, oregano, orchids, petunias, venus fly traps or poison ivy — or any other plant except marijuana, regardless of how smelly it is or the state of a home’s electrical system. Which is why I suspect the new regulations represent a cynical attempt at incremental re-criminalization of marijuana rather than any real concern about public health, safety and welfare.

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THERE ARE 12 COUNTRIES HAPPIER THAN US. In the latest trivial-Buzzfeed-like-listicle-that-is-arbitrary-and-doesn’t-reallymean-anything news, Denmark has been deemed the happiest country in the world by the World Happiness Report (yes, apparently that’s a thing). This is the fourth year for the report, which is compiled by experts in fields like economics, national statistics, health, public policy and more. And Denmark has clenched the position for three out of the four years. (Apparently, Switzerland was way happier in 2014.) Wikimedia Commons As true patriots, I’m sure you’re wondering where our dear ol’ U. S. of A. fell on the list: Number 13. But hey, we were number 15 last year so… progress. We got beat by the likes of Iceland, Norway, Finland, Australia and Sweden. Our arch nemesis Canada outwitted us again with a position at number 5. (Damn you, with your universal health care, low gun violence and Tim Hortons.) Now, who wants to take bets on how fast Trump uses this as his next campaign platform? “In order to make America great again, as president, I would declare war on Denmark, and the rest of Europe too, just for good measure. Also, I still have a large penis, in case you haven’t heard.” The report lists 156 nations, and all the way in last place is Burundi, which is in the middle of violent political turmoil. As you get toward the bottom of the list seeing, countries like Syria, Afghanistan and Rwanda, you wonder what the point of this list is besides a way to give rich, healthy, politically peaceful countries an unnecessary pat on the back. Oy vey.

PRISON FOOD IS WORSE THAN WATERBOARDING Testifying before a Norwegian court for the first time on March 16, mass murder Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a shooting rampage and bombing attack in Oslo in 2011, compared himself to South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela. Mandela was South Africa’s first black chief executive, whose government worked to end apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation. Mandela later spent 27 years in prison for standing up to governmental human rights abuses against black South Africans. Day Donaldson via Flickr Breivik, on the other hand, claims his act of mass murder was to prevent the “Islamization” of his country. The only difference between the two men, according to Breivik, is that while Mandela “ordered action,” Breivik was the one to “carry out the action.” In other delusions, Breivik alleged that his imprisonment was a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. Let’s take a look at some of the human rights violations Breivik has been enduring in prison: He has been given plastic cutlery to eat with, and without an insulated cup, his morning joe gets cold. He is often fed microwaveable TV dinners up to four times a day, sometimes receiving the same meal two days in a row. This treatment, Breivik told the court, was “worse than waterboarding.” Breivik has been isolated while in prison, which he says had led to sleeping problems, a hypersensitivity to smell and an inability to concentrate. He informed the court it would be “more humane to shoot me than to treat me like an animal as they have done over the past five years.” Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison in 2012, the maximum possible sentence under Norwegian law. Boulder Weekly

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