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Highroad GOP lets corporate lobbyists take over Congress by Jim Hightower

eing a congress critter is not as cushy a job as many assume. After all, they have to write legislation, organize hearings, write speeches, round up votes and do all sorts of other legislative-y things to pass laws. Oh, wait… my mistake. Members now have staffs to do all that, including telling the esteemed legislators how to vote. Few people are aware that con-

gressional staffs have mushroomed and gained far-reaching control over legislation. While the mass media has ignored this power shift, which further removes the people from the making of our laws, corporate lobbyists have long understood it and assiduously wooed staff members with flattery and gifts. But then it dawned on lobbyists that instead of wooing staff — they should simply become the staff. So, when Republicans took charge of the Senate in January, K Street moved right into the Capitol Hill offices of the new corporate-hugging majority. What a sight to see Tom Chapman, top lobbyist for US Airways, now sitting atop the legal staff of the Senate Aviation panel that oversees — guess who? — US Air. And there’s Joel Leftwich, senior lobbyist for PepsiCo, where he has pushed furiously to water down the Ag Department’s nutrition standards for school lunches. Now he can do much more for the peddler of

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Pepsi-Cola and Cheetos, for he’s the new staff director for the Senate Ag Committee, which will re-write the school lunch funding law this year. What a coincidence! How about megalobbyist Mark Isakowitz, whose specialty is punching loopholes in the Wall Street reform law. As new chief of staff for Sen. Rob Portman, Mark is now punching from the inside, and he’s already slipped a special regulatory exemption into law on behalf of big derivative traders like GE and the Koch brothers. If you voted Republican last fall, is this the change you wanted? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 5, 2015 5

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Since he heard Chicago Bears fans were in control of Grateful Dead ticket prices!

Ladies and gentlemen, not the Grateful Dead by Stewart Sallo

t has been almost 20 years since as a source of joy and inspiration in legendary Grateful Dead lead gui- their lives. tarist Jerry Garcia transitioned to The capacity of Soldier Field for the big acid test in the sky. And these shows is 210,000. According to since Jerry left us the debate has Grateful Dead Ticket Sales, some raged over whether the remaining 60,000 mail order envelopes were members of the band — Bob Weir, Phil received representing 300,000 ticket Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey requests, more than the capacity of the Hart — could call themselves the venue. However, based upon those Grateful Dead. That question was numbers, odds were favorable, as about answered definitively with a resounding two-thirds of the requests could have “NO” this past weekend as some been fulfilled. But rather than announce 500,000 fans logged on to the that the on-sale date to purchase tickets Ticketmaster website in an attempt to through Ticketmaster had been canpurchase tickets to the “Fare Thee celled, due to the shows selling out Well” shows, scheduled for July 3-5 at through the mail order, the on-sale date Soldier Field in Chicago. You heard it was postponed to Feb. 28. The explanation on the dead50.net website read: “In here first: Even if these shows go order to give the good folks at GDTS down as the greatest in the history of (Grateful Dead Ticket Sales) TOO time rock and roll, this is not the Grateful to sort through Dead. the 60,000+ (!) Many of the envelopes 500,000 hopefuls received so far had already the new public engaged in the A PITY — IT’S AN OUTon sale is Feb ultimately futile RIGHT TRAGEDY — THAT 28th @ 10 a.m. exercise of parPERHAPS THE MOST CST via ticipating in the Ticketmaster.” mail order preBELOVED BAND IN HISTOsale, thinking Huh? You’ve RY HAS PUT ITSELF IN A they were particreceived payPOSITION TO BE REMEMipating in a ment in the revival of the form of money BERED FOR PARTICIPATbeloved tradiorders from ING IN WHAT MAY GO tion that marked true, envelopeDOWN AS THE BIGGEST the band’s comdecorating, tramitment to its dition-following MONEY GRAB IN MUSIC fans by selling fans for 300,000 HISTORY. tickets directly, tickets, have rather than only 210,000 to through third-parsell, and you’re ty agencies. Unbeknownst to still going to be selling tickets online the true Deadheads who put through Ticketmaster? In other words, their hearts and souls into decorating you’re going to sell some of the tickets their envelopes and sending off large that have already been purchased by sums of money on Jan. 20, back-room true Deadheads so that Ticketmaster deals had already been made with big can receive its cut. Nope, this is not the music industry players, such as Grateful Dead. Ticketmaster and a Philadelphia-based But it gets worse when you examine V.I.P. package provider called CID just how many tickets were held for Entertainment (with options ranging Ticketmaster and other middleman from $519 to $2,198, plus “service partners to sell. It was announced fees”), to cash in on the genuine love through multiple sources last and appreciation that is still alive and Wednesday, including the Chicago well among those who have never Tribune and Billboard Magazine, that been able to replace the Grateful Dead only 10 percent of the mail orders are

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being filled out of deference to the need to save tickets for sale through Ticketmaster, et al. Let’s do the math: 300,000 tickets were purchased through the mail order, but they’re only going to sell 30,000 of those tickets so they can sell 180,000 tickets through other avenues that more generously line the pockets of big music industry players. Most suspicious of all is the way tickets mysteriously became available on eBay-owned StubHub immediately after the Ticketmaster sweepstakes ended. As of press time, literally thousands of tickets are available through StubHub in virtually every section of the venue for prices ranging from $600 (behind the stage with no view) to $3,500. Where did StubHub get all these tickets? They certainly didn’t get in line with 500,000 people to buy them from Ticketmaster! And if the inflated ticket prices on StubHub are unaffordable, you can purchase a parking pass for the modest price of $180 and enjoy the show from the parking lot at Soldier Field. Once again, where did StubHub get parking passes to sell? One answer may lie in the inexplicable choice of Chicago as the site of this quickly souring last stand. Despite having developed loyal followings across the country and even internationally, the Grateful Dead were first and foremost a West Coast band. The band members lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, as did the most longstanding fans of the band. Against that backdrop, why Chicago? That question becomes amplified when considering the fact that the Chicago Park District’s agreement with Chicago Bears season ticket holders entitles them to purchase their seats to all events that take place at Soldier Field. This may explain the sudden appearance of thousands of tickets on StubHub. The massive hype behind

these shows had reached the radar screens of Bears fans, most of whom couldn’t care less about the Grateful Dead, but who saw an opportunity to make bank by turning a $199.50 purchase into a $3,500 trip to Puerto Vallarta. The party line that Soldier Field was chosen because it was the site of the last Grateful Dead concert on July 9, 1995 rings more hollow with every passing scalped ticket purchase. And then there is the perplexing choice of Phish lead guitarist Trey Anastasio to join the band. Since Jerry Garcia’s death, several notable guitarists have performed as a substitute for Garcia in various post-Grateful Dead bands, such as the Other Ones, The Dead, Dark Star Orchestra, Phil Lesh and Friends and, most recently, Furthur. These include Widespread Panic lead guitarist Jimmy Herring, who was a founding member of the group Jazz is Dead, and who played in The Dead and Phil Lesh and Friends; John Kadlecik, the founding lead guitarist of the Dark Star Orchestra who has been playing in the band Furthur; and Warren Haynes, who has played in the bands Gov’t Mule and the Allman Brothers Band, and who has been a part of The Dead and Phil Lesh and Friends. In many ways Haynes was the sentimental favorite, due to his creation of the Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration concerts, in which a large portion of Garcia’s musical compositions were committed to score and performed nationwide with a rock band, featuring Haynes on lead guitar, and backed by local symphony orchestras. All three of these fine musicians have studied Jerry Garcia’s music in a way that qualifies them to fill his enormous empty shoes. Not so with Anastasio, who has made appearances see STEW’S VIEWS Page 7

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with Phil Lesh and Friends but was quoted last month in Rolling Stone as saying, “I never really sat and studied what Jerry actually played, until now.” It now appears that the choices of Chicago and of Anastasio were not made in the spirit of providing the truest Grateful Dead experience for the fans but, rather, to fulfill the highest possible financial gain for the promoter, Peter Shapiro in association with Madison House, and their corporate cronies. Centrally located, Chicago offers the best combination of logistical convenience and the big-city trappings that are needed to attract an audience who can afford “secondary market” ticket prices. And the addition of Anastasio piles on the interest of an auxiliary audience of “Phish-heads” to the mix, thereby increasing the available pool of wealthy spectacle-loving (as opposed to music- or Grateful Dead-loving) ticket buyers who can chunk down $600 to $3,500 for tickets that were originally priced from $59.50 to $199.50. All of this reveals a brilliant, even diabolical, marketing strategy. Choose a central location and a musical line-up that attracts the widest, wealthiest possible audience; create huge buzz through the Grateful Dead mail-order process to establish unfulfillable demand; and then let our friends at Ticketmaster, StubHub and other players in the “secondary market” (talk about euphemisms; we used to call it scalping) have at it. And here’s the kicker: Now Shapiro and Madison House are planning to create an entire industry around this weekend, including after-show concerts, audio and video recordings, and even a “pay per view” cable TV event. In short, get hundreds of thousands of people excited about an event they can’t get tickets for, sell their tickets to people who can pay aftermarket prices, and then charge the “losers” to watch it on TV. One of the most fundamental truisms of life is that we are remembered for the most recent thing we did. It’s worse than a pity — it’s an outright tragedy — that perhaps the most beloved band in history has put itself in a position to be remembered for participating in what may go down as the biggest money grab in music history. On June 7-9, 1977 the Grateful Dead played three shows at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco to close out their legendary Spring 1977 tour, a period many Deadheads believe was the best in the band’s history. On June 7, having already purchased tickets for Boulder Weekly

Pizzeria the closing night but with the thought in the back of my mind that there was a show that evening, I suggested to my sister, Janet, that we drive up to San Francisco from Santa Cruz to see if we could get in. About five minutes prior to the 8 p.m. showtime, we arrived at Winterland, walked up to the box office, purchased two tickets for $5 each and entered just as the band was playing the opening to “Bertha.” That was the Grateful Dead. And that’s the Grateful Dead I want to remember, not a cover band that happens to have some of the original members, and certainly not a musical spectacle that serves big-moneyed interests, such as Ticketmaster, StubHub, eBay, the City of Chicago and whatever other corporate entities are in on this colossal rip off. The Grateful Dead built their brand on their commitment to the quality of their music and to their fans. They became famous and enormously successful for innovations such as their focus on touring and live performances, rather than selling records; building their fan base by allowing fans to tape and freely share their performances; and by creating their own ticket agency, rather than allowing corporate middleman entities to control their scene, as has happened with these “Fare Thee Well” shows. In a 1967 interview with the Grateful Dead, conducted by CBS’s Harry Reasoner, Jerry Garcia said, “What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else. We’re not thinking about any kind of power; we’re not thinking about any of those kinds of struggles; we’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt; nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life, you know. And, like, think about moving the whole human race ahead a step or a few steps, or half a step, or anything.” With each passing day since these shows were announced, it has become clearer that the “Fare The Well” concept bears no resemblance to the Grateful Dead. There is nothing peaceful or forward-thinking about misleading people with hope in their hearts, and thousands of loyal fans have been hurt in the process. As difficult as it is to articulate the Grateful Dead philosophy, it’s not difficult for anyone who loved the band to come to the conclusion that this is not the Grateful Dead. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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their fuel — which the Clinton negotiators assumed the North Koreans couldn’t produce. They assumed the North Koreans would be dependent on the West for reactor fuel and wouldn’t be able to divert spent fuel rods and extract the plutonium from them, because the West would cut them off if they tried it. But North Korea’s clandestine enrichment program changed the rules of the game. Not only did it give North Korea the capacity to build a uranium bomb, it offered a way to clandestinely boost its plutonium production as well. North Korea wouldn’t have to enrich uranium to bomb grade (85 percent to 92 percent U-235) to leverage its uranium enrichment program into a nuclear arsenal. Instead they could enrich uranium to reactor grade (3.5 percent to 5 percent U-235), and fabricate its own fuel rods for the light water reactors it was due to get from the U.S. and South Korea — and then extract the plutonium from its spent domestically produced fuel rods. Presto! The Hermit Kingdom’s nuclear genie is out of the bottle — and the Great Satan doesn’t even get three wishes. Not long after the clandestine enrichment program came to light, the

danish plan Agreed Framework imploded. The U.S. and South Korea cancelled construction of the light water reactors and North Korea resumed using its old reactor to make plutonium. It also continued enriching uranium. Today, North Korea is an announced nuclear power. Obama’s putative peace-in-our-time nuclear deal with Iran has the smell of the North Korean nuclear deal. This time the emphasis is being put on limiting, not even dismantling, Iran’s enrichment program; virtually nothing is being said about the possibility of Iran having a clandestine plutonium bomb program. Could Obama’s negotiators really fail to miss this possibility? Yes they could, because when the boss is as hot to get a deal as Obama is you tend to overlook stuff that could queer it. Like the possibility that the guys you’re negotiating with don’t really want the deal and intend to cheat if they have to sign it. And like the possibility that the reason the guys you’re signing the deal with have been chanting Death to America since 1979 is that they mean it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

Rep. Jared Polis called for stronger worker protections in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) than in the United States’ earlier free trade agreements in a telephone town hall on Feb. 24. Deputy Secretary of Labor Christopher Lu said the Obama administration is committed to strong labor standards in the TPP. Skeptic that I am, and knowing the world’s largest corporations are negotiating the TPP in secret, I asked Sec. Lu if he could name a labor organization or two in the TPP negotiations representing workers interests. He couldn’t. Harry Hempy/Jamestown

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Over 60 percent of Americans support the Keystone XL Pipeline. Congress passed a bill approving the pipeline and he vetoed it. This is a pipeline that creates jobs for Americans, is safe for our environment and strengthens energy independence. What is he thinking? I’m here to fight for the people of Colorado and against the dictates of King Barack. This pipeline is a good move for America. Ken Buck/somewhere in Weld County

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The Boulder Weekly [Feb. 19] has a “This Modern World” commentary by Tom Tomorrow on Brian Williams of NBC News. The key story is that he has been suspended without pay for six months for telling a lie during his news broadcast about a personal experience he thought he had or hoped he had in 2003 in Iraq. If he outright lied about it that is certainly reprehensible and he apologized for it on the air. The commentary on Williams makes it worse by implying he lies about many personal matters. But what he actually said that was not the truth was not a news item but rather a personal experience having nothing to do with the general news of the real world. Far more important is what we hear as news on the radio and the TV on a daily basis from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and other radio spokespeople and particularly from FOX News. These lies tell us about what is presumably going on in the real world or what they think should go on and they involve falsehoods that already or will affect our daily lives. They involve beliefs or intentional misinformation rather than factual/evidential information about real news involving science, technology, education, unions, needed infrastructural repairs, religion, air/ water/food/immigration requirements and controls, and so much more. Unlike Brian Williams these “news” folks (and the many politicians who do the same) are not suspended without pay or even castigated widely as he was. Nor are they made fun of in cartoons such as the one shown in the Boulder Weekly. How about we play fair and look out for reality and where our real interests lie. Joel Selbin/Boulder

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a compliment..... the “but” or “however”........ I was given chills of embarrassment when I came across a sentence towards the end of the review. “Project Almanac feels like a cautionary tale of what happens when creators make literally every wrong decision.” Does Boulder Weekly think that their readers believe in some figurative interpretation of the word “every” that needs clarification? Recently, I unfortunately, expect to be exposed to the overuse of the word “literally” in a typical day. I hear it more often from younger than older people. Sometimes the word is used with exactly the opposite meaning. Example: I got home and literally ate 50 hamburgers. Or.... It was literally raining cats and dogs. Other times, people just seem to feel misunderstood and are hoping “literally” emphasizes their point. Maybe the word is a trend. Maybe the word “literally” is filler similar to the bad habit of saying “like” too much. In which case, your writer sounds like a bimbo. I could rack my brain (and obviously have) all day to understand the origin of why people are using this word more, but then I would LITERALLY explode! In a last ditch empathic and masochistic hope, I sarcastically use the word, but still fail to appreciate. The one venue I hope to not see this literary demon is Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly.... Do you know that we, the readers, become excited when we see a new issue on the shelf in a restaurant? We appreciate all the information you give us (for free!) and feel sad as the pages on the right side become fewer. So I ask myself why?!?! Did your editor call in sick to go skiing that day? Maybe your writer was hungover from too many stouts and had mush-brain. Or maybe the writer is going through some sort of personal crisis and just wants to feel understood. Perhaps the writer uses social media a lot and frequently sees the word. Or possibly the person who wrote the article included that terrible word in an act of defiance and is just embracing a trend to help popularize Boulder Weekly. Mmmm..... It’s OK, though. I remember the day I found out my Dad was not actually a superhero. After much reflection, I decided to still love him. So I still love you, Boulder Weekly. Just don’t let it happen again. Bad Dog. A devoted reader. Andy Mir/Boulder Boulder Weekly

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I just read your article about hobby distilling [Re: “Out of the Backwoods,” Cuisine, Feb. 19] and although it was quite informative and well written, I felt like an important piece was missing from it: Mentioning the Hobby Distiller’s Association (HDA). The HDA was formed in March 2014 to try and change current federal legislation so that hobby distilling can be given the same legal standing as hobby brewing and wine making. Since formed, the HDA has made great strides in the fight for legalization, and I was wondering if you could update the public on this perhaps by adding an addendum to your article or even considering writing a follow-up article. The Chair of the HDA, Rick Morris, has been traveling back and forth to Washington, D.C., to join the HDA’s lobbyist for meetings with senators, representatives, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), the Department of the Treasury and the Senate Finance Committee since September. I can confirm that there is a draft of a bill that the HDA has been sharing with congressmen in order to receive their input so any concerns they may have can be addressed. Things have been moving in a positive direction, but it seems the HDA is still not catching the public’s attention, which is what we need to have happen in order to get enough public support to push this through. If you’re interested in doing a more in-depth article about the legalities of hobby distilling and where we are at in the legalization process, feel free to email me or call me at 817-750-2739. You can also contact the head of the HDA, Rick, directly at 817-271-8041. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks so much! Mary Polakovic, Hobby Distillers Association

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There is much talk about acrossthe-board wage increases at Wal-Mart and Aetna Insurance, among others. First I would say IADT (three of those words are “it’s about time”). Some economists, including some who work for the Federal Reserve, are referring obliquely to these moves as they attempt to understand future labor productivity trends. It is well not to become lost in the numbers here, except for this: productivity is measured the way it is only in the USA — output per hour worked. The data crunchers apparently do not follow people enslaved by their Boulder Weekly

Blackberry and iPad devices 70 and more hours per week. Every other country in the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) measures productivity as “Output per worker.” There’s a huge distinction. The sole number having any meaning for ordinary folks is the clear indication that for at least two decades everyone who has a job in the USA is working for at least two. This helps explain a true unemployment and underemployment rate totaling north of 20 percent. If business ever “gets it,” and begins hiring and training, they may find that for the long haul their labor force will be what it should be — a valuable asset, not a throwaway commodity. Economists have also been chattering about a possible ending of a “third industrial revolution” and “factor productivity.” The former may have to do with wishing for even more hackable, frail technology that depreciates faster than you can say “keyboard;” the latter is a parameter generally fading as the entrepreneurial factor of production becomes even better paid and demands that it incur ever-shrinking risk. That violates all the old econ theories, so no wonder nobody listens to these people any longer. People — “factors” — are or were supposed to be paid more for assuming higher risk. All the risks lately seem to fall on workers and those who wish they could be workers. There are other “factors,” such as capital (made cheaper since 2008 than a Corvair’s muffler by the Fed) and land. If people are not hired and paid fairly, what they can and will pay for all that “production” must fall, and with it commercial real estate rents, so dependent on sales. What this could mean for local governments in places like California and Colorado, burdened by so-called “taxpayer [Doug Bruce?] revolts,” should temper economic-development enthusiasm. Boosters need to recognize that real money is needed to limit or vanquish certain “frictions” in local economies or throughout the state. Think poor infrastructure, especially highways. But just try to separate the uberwealthy from a little more of their gold. If labor continues to make gains I believe those golden goons may choose a proven medicine that has never failed to put greedy labor in its place. It’s called a depression. Can another be far away? Gregory Iwan/Longmont

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Task force recommendations and near misses The right to vote on setbacks and local control was traded for this task force. So what did we get? by Elizabeth Miller

hen Governor John and gas, agriculture and home-building What they accomplished Hickenlooper handindustry interests were represented by The task force approved nine recompicked his task force to Brad Holly of Anadarko, Daniel Kelly of mendations for various state agencies and examine state and local Noble Energy, Peter Dea of Cirque governing bodies. Specifically, they recregulations concerning Resources, Winton Pearce of Conoco ommended that the Colorado Oil and oil and gas operations, his stated intent Phillips, Kent Peppler of the Rocky Gas Conservation Commission was to resolve those issues involving Mountain Farmers Union and Scot (COGCC): competing regulatory entities and multiWoodall of Bill Barrett Corporation. - “define and adopt a process for ple jurisdictions including state and local Five employees of oil and gas industry enhancing local government participagovernments, surface and mineral owncompanies, in short, and one agricultural tion” during the review of applications for ers, oil and gas operators and local comindustry advocate. To represent the local drilling permits, define “large scale oil munity members concerned about the government and conservation communiand gas facilities” and address the effects of drilling and COGCC director’s Joel Dyer fracking. The task force authority and procedures itself was crafted as a for reducing impacts and compromise to pull initiaconflicts for local commutives from last nities by adjusting siting November’s ballot that or engaging in other mitigations to decrease drillwould have allowed ing’s effects on local comColorado voters to weigh munities. This recomin on the rights of local mendation received 21 communities to defend votes. their environment and - require oil and gas citizens, and on establishoperators to submit inforing a 2,000-foot setback mation, including an estifrom occupied buildings. mation of number of In his executive order for wells and a map of existthe task force, the govering well sites and producnor charged its members with addressing those tion facilities, for local The task force came within a single vote of approving several substantial issues, as well as drilling- proposed changes to the state’s oversight of oil and gas. governments’ planning related concerns over departments to use and noise, air quality and dust respond to with a map in a state valued as much by the people ties, the governor chose Sara Barwinski outlining potential areas for conflicts. who choose to make Colorado their of Weld Air and Water, Boulder-based This recommendation received 21 votes. home as by the corporations invested in attorney Matt Sura, Durango-based - ensure the local government desigextracting the state’s oil and gas. attorney Jeffrey Robbins, Jon Goldinnee and local government liaison posiThe buzz surrounding the oil and gas Dubois of Western Resources Advocates, tions be fully utilized as a conduit for task force’s final report, released Feb. 27, Durango-area rancher Jim Fitzgerald communication between local governhas centered largely on whether they did and Will Toor, former Boulder County ments and the COGCC by reviewing or didn’t accomplish anything. Was this commissioner, currently of Southwest existing barriers to and ways to enhance task force and the public meetings it held Energy Efficiency Project. Members education and outreach in communities, in locations around the state useful? “representing a variety of interests” were expanding the comment period, offering When the oil and gas task force Bruce Rau of the Colorado Association financial or other support for training members finally voted, they considered of Home Builders, Elbra Wedgeworth of and using Energy and Mineral Impact 50 recommendations. Nine were sent on Denver Health, Russell George of Assistance Funds to support local govto the governor to disperse to the state Colorado Northwestern Community ernments in creating these positions. legislature and to regulatory agencies. College (and former director of the This recommendation received 18 votes. None are guaranteed to become law. state’s departments for transportation and The three votes against came from We asked the question of not just for natural resources), Rebecca Love Fitzgerald, Lachelt and Robbins. what did they accomplish, but what Kourlis of the Institute for Advancement - authorize hiring an additional 12 could they have accomplished? What of the American Legal System, former full-time employees to assist with extremes did they consider? What proSecretary of State Bernie Buescher and inspecting wells (Colorado currently has posals narrowly missed the two-thirds former Broomfield mayor Patrick Quinn. 2,000 wells per inspector, which means margin required to pass? The task force was co-chaired by Gwen years can pass between inspections of a The composition of the panel made Lachelt, a La Plata County well. The task force suggested adding that level of agreement difficult. 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ly the COGCC does not have a staff position for processing citizen complaints; the task force recommended having one staff member and one hearing officer for taking and processing complaints), processing permits and performing data analysis and responding to requests from the legislature, media, public, industry and other stakeholders. This recommendation received 21 votes. - “implement and emphasize a compliance assistance program to help operators comply with complicated and everchanging operating rules and policies.” This recommendation received 21 votes. For the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the taskforce recommended converting five temporary full-time positions to permanent full-time to continue air monitoring and leak detection activities; establishing a health complaint and information line prepared to provide current regulation information and links to public health studies and able to relay complaint information on to operators and regulatory agencies for evaluation; asking the General Assembly to fund the acquisition of a mobile air quality monitoring unit that could be used to respond to some complaints; and asking the General Assembly for funding to conduct a human health risk assessment that would draw from research currently being conducted by Colorado State University. This recommendation received 21 votes. For the governor’s office, the members recommended creating an oil and gas information clearinghouse to distribute “accurate, unbiased information to foster an improved understanding of oil and gas industry activities, practices and the federal, state and local regulatory regime.” This recommendation received 21 votes. The taskforce also agreed on the general principle that large truck and trailer traffic on roads, highways, roads and public streets is “one of the most serious impacts of oil and gas activity” and the COGCC and Colorado Department of Transportation should work to reduce truck traffic. This recommendation received 21 votes. Additionally, it recommended that the state bill allowing for the indefinite continuation of rules established in the Boulder Weekly

previous year be passed. This year’s bill includes regulations on hydrocarbon emissions, including methane, adopted in February 2014 by the Air Quality Control Commission. This measure received 20 votes, the one vote against coming from Cleveland.

What else they considered The final report from the task force includes a “minority report” that details the other proposals that were considered and voted on by the members but did not receive the two-thirds of the votes necessary to become recommendations. Of those, several received 13 votes, just one shy of passing. Task force members who work for oil and gas companies — again, six in total sat on the task force panel — were in favor of the following recommendations for the COGCC. - That the state permits for oil and gas drilling or production be coordinated with applicable local government planning and permitting processes and that those permits that fall within the boundaries of an existing memorandum of understanding between the local government and the permit applicant see expedited approval. Votes against came from the conservation and local government interests, primarily, with Barwinski, Fitzgerald, Goldin-Dubois, Kourlis, Lachelt, Robbins, Sura and Toor opposing this recommendation. - That wells and production facilities would be allowed to increase in size so oil and gas operators could establish drilling and spacing units from which operations such as remote fracking could be run and truck trips might be replaced with pipes. The recommendation included language to draft a bill for an act that clarified this consideration for “surface impacts,” larger developments presumably reducing surface impacts elsewhere. Again, Barwinski, Fitzgerald, GoldinDubois, Kourlis, Lachelt, Robbins, Sura and Toor opposed this recommendation. - That the state collaborate with local governments and operators on locations for large-scale multi-well oil and gas production facilities in “Urban Mitigation Areas” and that the COGCC would define “large-scale multi-well oil and gas production facilities” based on their size, proximity and intensity criteria. Barwinski, Fitzgerald, Goldin-Dubois, Kourlis, Lachelt, Robbins, Sura and Toor opposed this recommendation. Those on the more environmentally conscious end of regulating oil and gas voted in favor of the following recommendations, which missed inclusion by a single vote: - That the General Assembly create an oil and gas dispute resolution panel to Boulder Weekly

handle disagreements over operations siting and surface owner damages. Opposing votes came from Cleveland, Dea, Holly, Kelly, Moreno, Pearce, Quinn and Woodall. - That the General Assembly revise Colorado Statutes to state that the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is charged not with fostering, but with administering the responsible, balanced development, production and utilization of oil and gas, and that public interests are to be “harmonized, to the extent possible, with local government land use regulations over oil and gas development.” The rationale was to clarify that the commission is charged with oversight of oil and gas, amending any potential confusion over that state agency’s role as partial to promoting development. Opposing votes came from Cleveland, Dea, Holly, Kelly, Moreno, Pearce, Rau and Woodall. (It’s perhaps not a surprise that this measure failed given the language in the governor’s executive order for the creation of the task force, which lists, as one of their objectives, “fostering a climate that encourages responsible oil and gas development.”) - That the General Assembly and Department of Local Affairs create an independent, impartial and neutral ombudsman housed in the state Department of Local Affairs to address citizen concerns and be prepared to answer questions on property law, oil and gas activities, land use law and rights of the people involved in those activities. Opposing votes came from Cleveland, Dea, Holly, Kelly, Moreno, Pearce, Rau and Woodall. Other proposed recommendations that failed to garner support from twothirds of the task force called for a review of existing studies on possible negative health effects from oil and gas development, compensation for surface owners when their land is used for natural resource extraction, improved disclosure of hydraulic fracturing processes including the chemicals used in the process, allowing counties to regulate noise associated with oil and gas activity and requiring ongoing monitoring of groundwater and soil near oil and gas processing facilities. One recommendation would have asked the COGCC and Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to delay any additional rulemaking in areas where new rules have recently been adopted or existing rules amended. The Keystone Center, the organization charged with helping to facilitate the task force meetings, blames Colorado’s open meetings law for the group’s stalemate on so many proposals. Colorado’s attorney general had visited the task force to lay out the boundaries of the state’s

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open meetings, open records and conflict of interest law and policies and their application to the task force. Any discussions between two or more task force members had to be open to the public and the media, who also needed to be notified of those meetings and minutes had to be taken, and all correspondence among task force members was subject to the Colorado Open Records Act. The Keystone Center agreed that formal actions and recommendations should be open to public debate, but said in their final report that the constraints of meeting the guidelines for open records impeded the process. Task force members were not allowed to converse outside meetings “to understand each other’s positions or negotiate possible options and resolutions” without public notice; could not coordinate travel, meals and field trips unless those events were open and recorded; could not share written information or exchange email unless those documents were also sent to the meetings facilitator and co-chairs could not jointly participate in weekly conference calls to plan meeting agendas and discuss procedures. “There was little to no opportunity for task force members to get to know one another as individuals, which would have allowed for a different level of rapport and candor in discussions,” The Keystone Center writes in the final report. “These impediments challenged the task force’s ability to negotiate. While it was theoretically possible for these challenges to be met by having all activities be open, noticed and recorded, neither The Keystone Center staff nor the task force members were comfortable or able to do so.” Task force member and Western Resource Advocates President Jon Goldin-Dubois has been vocal in his critique of the group’s accomplishments. In a press release, he described the progress as small strides that failed to address the central task of providing tools for communities interested to protect their homes, health and environment. “While a handful of modest recommendations were adopted addressing health studies and regulatory staffing, the task force didn’t give residents and local governments the tools they need to manage the industrial oil and gas development that we are seeing in Colorado today,” he said. “The majority of members of the task force saw resolving the conflict between local government and oil and gas development as the central issue. Unfortunately, the oil and gas industry blocked the most meaningful recommendations on local government’s role in protecting its citizens. “There is much more work to be done.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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erry Allen wants to sell his home. All he has to do is move it out of Boulder. Allen, 62, and his wife own a manufactured (or mobile) home in the Boulder mobile home park Vista Village. The Allens recently finished building their dream lodge in Estes Park and went to the Vista Village management office to tell them they were planning to sell their home. Allen, like every other manufactured home owner, owns the domicile but rents the land on which the home sits. Allen pays $600 a month to Vista Village, owned by Harvey Miller, a California-based property manager. Allen bought the home for $24,500 eight years ago. Based on nearby property sales, Allen thinks he can get close to $50,000 for it. That $30,000 nest egg is what Allen was relying on to make the move to Estes Park. But when he went to the management office, Allen was told he would have to move his home if he wanted to sell it. Or he could destroy it. This rendered any sale virtually profitless. Vista Village claimed that because the home was built prior to June 15, 1976, it did not meet HUD codes of safety and therefore could not remain in the park. This is despite the fact that Allen had bought the home previously in the park, and that dozens of other sales of pre1976 homes had been approved. Allen wrote the out-of-state property owner, Harvey Miller, twice seeking resolution. He did not hear back. Instead, he went back to the local Vista Village property manager with his issue, who he claims then changed their story and said they simply had the “absolute, unqualified right to deny any sale.” And indeed they do. In referring to Allen’s contract, he says they pointed to a clause titled, “Rental homes not permitted,” that says, “Lessee agrees that if he should sell a mobile home located on the leased premises, the sales agreement will provide for delivery of the mobile home to the buyer at some location outside of and not within the Vista Village boundary.” But Allen wondered: Doesn’t that mean every mobile home has to be moved from Vista Village upon sale? And why are some people forced to 16 March 5, 2015

move their homes and others aren’t? Neither Vista Village nor Harvey Miller returned calls for this story. Looking at past issues with Vista Village, which date back decades, this is not atypical. “We own our own home and what they’re doing is they’re just devastating people by forcing them to leave the park with their trailer,” Allen says. “There’s $10,000 to $20,000 worth of value in the trailer just because it sits in Boulder. To have to pull it out, you can’t

tions about the origins of the Mobile Home Park Act. “It was written by lobbyists for the industry,” Allen says. “Basically there’s no teeth in it. There’s no penalty to these guys to what they’re doing, and they know their customers, us, are on the lower rung of the economic ladder, in Boulder for certain, and that they don’t have the time and resources to fight them.” The mobile park owner industry is fairly influential in Denver, sending

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The living room in Allen’s home, which was at first deemed too old and dilapidated to be sold and remain on the lot in Vista Village by the park owners.

find another park probably in the state to put it.” Allen’s case highlights a bigger issue with the regulation of mobile parks in Boulder County and elsewhere in the state. Mobile home owners, Boulder City Council and state legislators have tried for decades and continue to try to rein in mobile park owners who are often slow to respond to tenant complaints and inconsistent in enforcing regulations, like those related to the sale of Allen’s home. Reforming mobile park oversight starts with reforming the state’s Mobile Home Park Act. There’s nothing in the act that prohibits mobile park owners from forcing tenants to move their manufactured homes at the point of sale. Allen says in researching the act for his own case (he and others filed a grievance with the Boulder District Attorney), he’s only gained more ques-

lobbyists that have helped craft and block legislation relating to mobile park regulations. For instance, a bill proposed in 2015 by State Sen. John Kefalas (D-Fort Collins) would’ve changed the act’s language from “Mobile Home Park” to “Manufactured Home Community,” and set up a fund to help manufactured home owners. It was defeated in the finance committee. In 2010, when the impetus came from Boulder, Sen. Rollie Heath cosponsored a bill that provided a few modest improvements in the rights of mobile home owners. That legislation gave mobile home owners 60 days to move once evicted, required mobile home park owners to provide reliable sewage and waste, and specified that homeowners in mobile home parks have the right to peacefully assemble in the streets or commons areas of a park to establish a homeowners association.

And even that modest legislation was a long time coming. Boulder Weekly first reported in 1994 that residents in the mobile park Boulder Meadows were “reporting a high level of intimidation,” from management, and that people were being evicted on “trumped up charges,” like dented bed skirts and having too much “junk” in the yard. In 2010, Vista Village management put up a fence that blocked public access to the Boulder Creek path, which allowed residents to access numerous recreational facilities. (At the time, the Daily Camera reported that Harvey Miller didn’t respond to inquiries either.) Allen says he was “instrumental” in removing that fence and says that could factor into why he’s being forced to move his home and others aren’t. “[Sellers] are not required to pump [their homes] out of here, unless management doesn’t like the person,” Allen says. “Now I was quite vocal in that effort to remove the fence ... and then they talked about my skirting. They at one time said, ‘You have to fix your skirting within five days or you’re going to face eviction.’ “You have to figure, the way the laws are set up, people feel like they’re living under a Gestapo. If you voice anything, you’re going to get notices about all these nitpicky things. If you don’t fix this, you’ll be evicted in five days.” Boulder City Councilwoman Mary Young points again to Boulder Meadows as an example of a mobile park blocking access to the greater community with arbitrary constructions and regulations that only “make sense for their bottom line.” The park closed off an access point on the western edge of the park that allowed residents to walk past new development at 13th Street and access the bus. She says the fence creates a big issue in the community. “We have the goal in our community to make it a walkable city and if you have to walk a half mile extra just to get out of your mobile home park, that’s not very walkable,” Young says. Glenn Couch, a regional director for Uniprop, a Michigan company that runs Boulder Meadows, says the fence Boulder Weekly

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The rules regarding how mobile home park owners enforce regulations are in need of change, say many tenants and legislators.

was put up for safety reasons. “There has been an instance where [community members] wanted access to a bus stop but we were unable to provide a safe access point where they were requesting it, but the busses run throughout community,” Couch says. “Bus stops are readily available in a number of locations within our community.” On the issue of resale, Couch says Uniprop would “not preclude sales for pre-1976 homes,” or any other homes for that matter. It enforces cleanliness and safety regulations and only makes judgments on community tenants, Couch says. Young says there is very little the city can do to prevent park owners from putting up fences or to block sales of tenant housing. Young says she and another council member have already approached City Attorney Tom Carr to find solutions. “A solution would have to probably entail money,” Young says. “Helping the mobile home owner to be able to get a new mobile home, a new manufactured home, because a lot of the time if they’re put into a new situation, they can’t get money out of their current home, so how are they going to get another one? That’s the one solution we might be able to have some control over.” Young says the ultimate solution rests with state legislators. To that end, Allen says he’s written to state legisla-

tors asking to amend the Mobile Home Park Act. His recommendations include preventing mobile park owners from forcing the removal of any home based on its uninhabitability unless approved by the city and the Colorado Division of Housing; prohibiting park owners from making “absolute and unqualified” judgments on things that affect tenants (like home sales and fence building); and preventing park owners from removing tenants based on “just cause,” unless that cause is verified by the city. Allen says he’s cautiously hopeful that legislation will change to protect mobile park tenants. But he also adds that the issue is only going to get bigger in the coming years. “I just feel like the lobbyists for the industry have got the legislature bamboozled in their pocket,” Allen says. “But then also, in America, I’m 62 years old, there’s the stigma of living in mobile homes, trailer trash, etc., but we’re talking about Boulder, Colo. There’s a physicist across the street from me, there’s an attorney, there’s a guy who’s a life skills instructor. There’s a higher clientele in these parks right now, and the economy the way it’s going and with corporate America coming over, mobile homes are going to be a part of the middle class, so we have to fix these rules.” Young agrees that change will come through legislation. “Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right,” she says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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A Nederland teacher helps students make a big difference in a small country by Caitlin Rockett

n 1986, a 26-year-old woman With the help of donations I could get a group of people to help Kinczel toured a number of schools in from Colorado made her way to through fundraisers and individuals, put walls up to separate each one of small villages in northern Belize. Los Angeles to march to Doroteia currently provides scholarthese classes so there’s some ability to Kinczel recalls one school bathroom Washington, D.C., to raise ships to 12 high school students and learn better. So I started there. It could the likes of which few American stuawareness about the mounting five college students in Belize. have been Guatemala, Costa Rica, dents have ever had to endure. danger of nuclear proliferation — the Trausch’s dedication to Belize Ethiopia, but it was Belize. You just “It was four stalls with just a portaGreat Peace March took nine months, started 18 years ago when he traveled get attached to one spot. potty sort of hole, but the ground 3,700 miles and a lot of dedication. to the southern region of the tiny “The reality for me — I actually do around them was oozing and the girls As one might imagine, the were all getting infections from Courtesy of Explore Belize via Facebook experience made an indelible going to the bathroom there,” impression on young Lori Graff Kinczel says. “There were like (now Lori Kinczel), from the 500 kids that were using those message she was spreading to four bathrooms.” the mental and physical endurLooking beyond the detestance it took to get to able conditions, her American Washington D.C. But the companions told her that she march was fated to do more could help by sending school than simply stir Kinczel’s politsupplies back to Belize from the ical ideologies and try her fortistates because even simple tude — she made a friend that things like pens, pencils and would, nearly 30 years later, paper are costly. help Kinczel show her students “But [they] said, ‘We could at Nederland Middle/Senior really use a work group to come High School how they could down,’” Kinczel says. make a big difference in the She wanted to help, but she lives of children in the small was unsure of how large a group Central American country of she could drum up in the small Belize. community of Nederland, where “So I met [Kinczel] many, she teaches, and Rollinsville, many, many years ago, almost where she lives. 30 years ago. She was a young “I don’t live in a wealthy woman then, I was kind of community. I live up in the older — I’m in my 70s now,” mountains. We have a lot of Robert Trausch, co-founder of economic diversity but mostly students pose with students from Faith Nazarene School in San Ignacio, Belize in 2013. Kinczel Doroteia Pathways Foundation Colorado people who don’t have a lot,” partners with Robert Trausch of the Doroteia Pathways Foundation to lead groups of students in twoweek service projects at impoverished Belizean schools. Kinczel is taking the third group of students to in Chico, Cali., says with a Kinczel says. “But I said, ‘I’m Belize this summer. laugh. “Through that relationgoing to go back [to Belize] ship we just stayed friends over because we have more than the years. I don’t remember when I Central American country to do some this when I do a fundraiser — I’ll take what’s there.’” mentioned what I do, but she said, work for a nonprofit organization, a map of the world, and I’ll say, ‘Put a Kinczel and Trausch both knew ‘That would be cool [to do].’” knowing nothing, he says, about the blindfold on and stick a pin in it, and that a service-oriented trip to Belize What Trausch does is help people country. there’s a place you could help.’ I just could be eye-opening for a young in developing countries — namely “I went down there with my son, happen to be doing it now, mostly, in American student, so Kinczel started Belize, Guatemala and Haiti — actually. I wanted to get him involved Belize because I stuck that pin, so to by talking to her high school students. improve their living conditions and caring about other people. I can’t speak, in there. And that’s where I’m Holden Reecer was a junior at through medical assistance, education- tell you how [Belize] became a part of helping.” Nederland Middle/Senior High al opportunities and service projects. my heart — I met some kids down But let’s not forget the young School in 2013. He says Kinczel, who Doroteia Pathways Foundation was there and got attached to them,” Coloradan, Lori Kinczel. After the taught him Spanish, was already his created in 2005 with the humble Trausch says. “I went to a school and Peace March, Kinczel headed back to favorite teacher — then she brought objective of raising enough funds to saw students walking to school in the Colorado and her professional life as a the trip to Belize to the table. send two gifted students from St. mud to get to class. Some classrooms teacher with the Boulder Valley School “When she said she was coming up Margaret village in Belize to high just had screens, and there are tropical District. 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Reecer. Reecer says that putting the trip together that first year was a struggle, but he and Kinczel agreed they were going to make it happen. Interested students were given a number of fundraising ideas, including the opportunity to work in the concessions stands at a number of Broncos games to collect a percentage of profits to go toward paying for the roughly $2,500 trip, which covered food, lodging, recreational outings, insurance and the supplies needed for the chosen service project. And of course, Reecer says, the tight-knit community of Nederland pitched in the help. After a few months of planning and fundraising, in June of 2013 the first group of students traveled to Belize to do service projects at Faith Nazarene School in San Ignacio. Over the course of 15 days, they painted the 6,000-square-foot school, built gardens and a lunch pavilion, put up rain gutters and cleaned the school. They also sang, read and played games with the school’s more than 400 students. They also got to explore many of the natural wonders of Belize. Caye Caulker is home to the second-largest barrier reef in the world, and students get to spend their final few days in Belize relaxing on beautiful beaches, snorkeling around the reef, fishing or exploring caves. In 2014, Kinczel, Trausch and the second group of Colorado students removed the rotting floor from a temporary school trailer at Santa Elena Primary School and built lasting floors by shoveling eight truckloads of dirt and pouring nearly 4 inches of concrete. Reecer, then a senior, went on that trip as well. He says the work was exhausting — the physical labor combined with the heat, the humidity and the bugs — but it’s all a small price to pay for what they gave the local students.

“When we had all the classrooms done and were putting the desks back in, the kids were so psyched. They were so appreciative,” Reecer says. Kinczel and Trausch don’t have a service project picked out for this year’s trip to Belize as they wait to see how many students will be joining the trip and what skills those students have before embarking on a project. But in the end, the project will be something that leaves every student feeling accomplished. Kinczel doesn’t just take students from Nederland — of the 10 students signed up for this year’s trip, one attends New Vista High School in Boulder, and another is the child of a former Peace March member who lives in Utah. “I’m open to taking anyone who’s interested, who’s committed to working hard, who wants an experience that will open their eyes and change their lives. It’s not a schoolsponsored trip — it’s just Bob and me,” Kinczel says. She and Trausch agree that this kind of trip isn’t for every student, but for those who are up to the challenge, the rewards are bountiful. “Bob and I couldn’t create something that was just a tour [of Belize]. That meaningfulness where your day is expanded so big that you feel like, ‘God, that was only yesterday — I feel like that was five days’ worth,’” that’s how it feels and that’s how the Peace March felt too, like each day was elongated and I love that.” And coming back from that kind of experience can be tough, leaving many students, like Reecer, looking for more. “Oh my Gosh, I’ve been trying to find a sponsor to get back and do some work with Bob,” he says. “I really want to go back.” For those interested in joining the Third Annual Belize Adventure, contact Lori Kinczel at lori.kinczel@igc.org or call at 303-589-1899 by March 15. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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s the planet’s oceans become “Diatoms fulfill an important role in most water layer to the layers below, and more acidic, the diatoms — the Earth’s climate system,” Hoppe then back to the surface, which means a major group of alga — in says. “They can absorb large quantities that, in the course of a day, the diatoms the Antarctic Ocean could of carbon dioxide, which they bind experience alternating phases with more grow more slowly. before ultimately transporting part of it and with less light.” And since tiny, single-celled algae to the depths of the ocean. Her co-author, marine biogeochemare a primary food source for an entire “Once there, the greenhouse gas ist Björn Rost, from the Alfred Wegener ocean ecosystem, the discovery seems remains naturally sequestered for centuries.” Institute, says, “Our findings show for ominous. the first time that our old assumpBioscientist Clara Hoppe and Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons tions most likely fall short of the colleagues from the Alfred mark. We now know that when the Wegener Institute at the light intensity constantly changes, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and the effect of ocean acidification Marine Research in Bremerhaven, reverses. Germany, report in the journal “All of a sudden, lower pH values New Phytologist that they tested don’t increase growth, like studies the growth of the Antarctic diausing constant light show. Instead, tom Chaetoceros debilis under labothey have the opposite effect.” ratory conditions. The implication is that, at certain They used two levels of pH — intensities, the photosynthesis chain which is an indicator of acidity — breaks down. The point at which and they exposed their tiny volunlight becomes too much light is Diatoms are a single-celled type of algae that teers to constant light and to more quickly reached in waters that provide food for marine life. Research shows that as oceans grow more acidic, this important food source are more acidic. changing light, providing both will grow more slowly. standard laboratory conditions and Like all such research, the findlighting levels that approximated ing has limitations. It applies to one to the real world. Previous research into the steady species of single-celled creature in the In the unblinking glare of light, the acidification of the oceans has tended to waters of one ocean, and the tests were in diatoms responded well. Their growth concentrate on the consequences for coral a laboratory on a small scale, and not in a levels were consistent with an assumpreefs, fisheries and tourism, but not on turbulent ocean rich in life. The Alfred tion that more dissolved carbon dioxide the impact on plant life in the seas. Wegener team will continue their studies. — which makes the waters more acidic Since carbon dioxide acts as a fertilBut in the real world, coastal com— would in effect fertilize plant growth. izer, higher levels dissolved in the water munities in 15 U.S. states could be at Under conditions of changing light, might stimulate more growth. long-term economic risk, as ocean acidhowever, it was a different story. The But growth depends not just on ification starts to take its toll on the algae grew more slowly, which suggests more carbon dioxide but also on reliable commercial oyster fisheries. that the oceans could become less effisunlight. In the stormy southern seas, Julia Ekstrom, then of the Natural cient at removing carbon from the this is not steadily supplied. Resources Defense Council and now atmosphere, and perhaps less valuable Hoppe says, “Several times a day, director of the Climate Adaptation as a primary food source for the creawinds and currents transport diatoms in Program at the University of California, tures that teem in the Antarctic waters. the Southern Ocean from the upperDavis, and George Waldbusser, assis-

tant professor of ocean ecology and biogeochemistry at Oregon State University report with colleagues, in Nature Climate Change, on an unholy mix in the oceans. They say that a combination of rising greenhouse gas levels, more acid waters, polluted rivers and upwelling currents put at risk mollusc fisheries from the Pacific Northwest, New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the Gulf of Mexico — affecting the shellfish industry that is worth at least $1 billion to the U.S. Oyster larvae are sensitive to changes in ocean water, and more likely to die as pH levels shift towards the acidic. But acidification is not the only source of stress, as nitrogen-rich nutrients and chemical pollutants cascade from the land into the rivers, and wash through estuaries and fish hatcheries on the coast. Scientists have been looking at ways in which the industry might be able to adapt to change. But how well the oyster stock can adapt in the long term remains problematic. “Ocean acidification has already cost the oyster industry in the Pacific Northwest nearly $110 million and has jeopardised about 3,200 jobs,” Ekstrom says. Dr. Waldbusser adds, “Without curbing carbon emissions, we will eventually run out of tools to address the short term, and we will be stuck with a much longer-term problem.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This article originally ran on Climate News Network.

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orie Kizaki’s origin story is atypical for a Boulderbased skiing and rock climbing guide. She was raised in a rural Japanese Buddhist monastery — and if you’re picturing an idyllic gabled temple tucked in amongst rocks and gardens, Google “Nata-dera” and you won’t be disappointed. Yet her family had little money. Three generations would sleep in one room. Winters definitely provided plenty of snow, but she and her brother plus the neighborhood kids would have to hike to the top of the mountain to ski down — and not because they were into telemarking. Kizaki relays these stories without the “back in my day” exaggerations of old folks and sprayers. In fact, Kizaki offers no contrast between herself and her fellow American guides or clients. “I don’t have anything else to compare it to; that was my life. For me, it was normal,” she says. Kizaki’s parents encouraged her to learn English, and they even hosted American exchange students. “I was very young and then I think that really influenced me... to come to America,” Kizaki, now 40, says. She specifically remembers an American girl talking about her plans to become a medical doctor. “I remember telling her, ‘You can’t do that, you’re a girl,’” Kizaki recalls, “She was like, ‘In the U.S., you can become whatever you want to be.’” Years later, Kizaki fulfilled her dream to go to the United States and then quickly followed that with a quest

Raised in a rural Japanese Buddhist monastery, Norie Kizaki eventually came to the United States to fulfill her dream of becoming a professional rock climbing and skiing guide.

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One mountain guide on how the mountains have become her country of origin by Mary Reed to become what she wanted to be — a professional rock climbing and skiing guide. After college in Japan, Kizaki landed in America for graduate school at the University of Denver where she studied international and intercultural communication. She was already a skier, so Colorado was a good fit. It was at this time that she began rock climbing, quickly showing both enthusiasm and talent for the sport.

“I just fell in love with it and I decided to follow my passion,” Kizaki says, adding that her husband, David Wolf, also encouraged her to go for it and become a guide. While training for certification, Kizaki and Wolf took a trip to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison to do some climbing. Kizaki was leading a pitch and a hold broke. She fell and broke her heel. Problem was, they had rappelled to the climb and the only way

out was up. “We had two pitches to go; each pitch took maybe two hours or so,” Kizaki says. “It was definitely dark by the time we were back at the camp.” She didn’t go to the hospital until the next day. But she did go on to become certified — Kizaki is now an American Mountain Guide Association (AMGA) certified rock guide and rock instructor. She is also certified by the American Avalanche Institute and teaches avalanche fundamentals courses. She started her current career working for Outward Bound and now works as a guide for Boulder-based Colorado Mountain School. In 2005, Kizaki joined the 50th Anniversary Women’s Himalayan Expedition, an all-female mountaineering expedition with a goal to repeat summiting 20,000-foot-plus Gyalgen Peak, as the first all-women Himalayan Expedition did in 1955. The international team included an American as well as Scots, as the 1955 team was Scottish. The team did not reach the summit, however. “Unfortunately, the glacier has receded after 50 years. It was treacherous to get to the summit, so we turned around,” Kizaki says. How did she train for a Himalayan peak? “I was out climbing or hiking every day,” Kizaki says. “I’m not sure if I did particular training for it.” But hard core bona fides don’t necessarily translate into being a good guide. see OUT OF DOORS Page 26

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“She’s very personable. She’s able to ents because I’m female and because connect with people pretty quickly, and they’re female.” that allows her to gain trust from her But Kizaki does fit the right perclients,” says fellow guide Russell sonality profile for guiding. She enjoys Hunter, who is also sales and marketit, and it shows. ing manager for Colorado Mountain “Guiding is climbing with and School. “In this profession, it’s very climbing for the clients,” she says, critical to gain that trust from your cli- “Helping them achieve what they want ents.” to do and just being part of their expeAnd while Hunter, a former Boy rience is just amazing.” Scout and college football player, is the She says her goal is to give a client kind of person the best day of Courtesy of Norie Kizaki most clients rock climbing expect to have as in their lives, a guide, some are or to help surprised when them ski the they find it’s a best line of 5-foot-3.5-inch, their life. 110-pound “You have Japanese woman to be a people assigned to haul person,” she says, “and you their considerhave to be able ably-more-thanto kind of read 110-pound ass up the person, the rock. figure out “She doesn’t what he or she let that bother wants from the her,” Hunter says. day.” And what about the fact that Early Kizaki is the only spring through woman among early winter, Colorado Kizaki guides Mountain clients rock For Norie Kizaki, neither America nor Japan is School’s staff of climbing or home — she says, “My temple is the outside.” some two dozen skiing in guides? Colorado and “I don’t think she really sees herself in mid-winter, she guides clients skiing as different when she’s hanging out in Japan. She is now working toward with all the male guides,” Hunter says. her international guiding certification. “She just kind of just jumps right in “In Japan, I guide people from all over and is one of us.” the world. I really like that. I like getIndeed, Kizaki seems nonplussed by ting to know different cultures and difher outsider status. ferent types of people,” she says, “I “Well, I have gotten used to it,” she think it’s amazing.” says. “It’s not good or bad, it’s just, you The key to cross-cultural communiknow, it’s something. It’s different. I try cation doesn’t require a master’s degree. to focus on the positive side of it … I Kizaki says the main thing is to be do have [requests to be guided by] cliopen-minded.

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“I mean, for me too,” she points out. Kizaki regularly crosses cultures, but now she is not quite home in either the United States or in Japan. “Now I’m actually a U.S. citizen. I feel very Japanese; I don’t feel American at all in the U.S. But when I come to Japan, I feel very, very

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myth.” At that time, Heintz says, the perfect performance. I’m no different demand to start her own family had than anyone else. We all fall victim to been building, and it was about to boil the same story.” over. Since art school, Heintz continued “I was telling my mom about my doing the project as a hobby and for latest boyfriend and how he wasn’t the amusement of her friends. She right, and she said, ‘Nobody’s perfect. always had a day job, working as a teleYou’re just going to vision art director have to pick somefor Starz, and says body if you want to she never pursued ON THE BILL: Life Once Removed. Firehouse Art Center, 667 settle down.’ She being a full-time Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651didn’t mean it in artist. 2787. Through March 29. the way that I Over the years, Film Screening. 7 p.m. Friday, March 6. heard it,” Heintz Heintz’s camera Reception and Meet the Artist. 6 says. “But I got has snapped many p.m. Friday, March 13. angry and said, major family mile‘Mother, what do stones. She’s also you expect me to hit the road in do? I can’t just walk out the door and search of those Americana destinations, go buy a family.’” such as Carhenge in Nebraska and But that’s exactly what Heintz did. Yellowstone National Park. And she’s The ideas started to percolate, and soci- even gone international — taking her ety’s requirement to get married plastic family to see the Eiffel Tower. emerged as her own personal myth. So And in case you’re wondering if Heintz went to a retail liquidation cen- Heintz ever gets too swept up in her ter and picked herself up a husband and project, you’d be wrong. She says she’s a kid. Chauncey and Mary Margaret not emotionally attached to her manneHeintz — naturally, they took her last quins and has never felt compelled to name. talk to them. The title Life Once Removed refers “People expect me to personify to the blueprint the previous generation them, but they’re just plastic,” she says. passed down as the standard of living. “I don’t feel at all like there’s a person Heintz says our life image is rooted in in there.” what the previous generation taught us. As the project evolved, Heintz and With her photos, she says, she satirical- friends noticed that setting up the pholy comments on this idea of “perfect,” a tos was just as, if not more, funny than word that she takes issue with. the photos themselves. She then started “Perfect is unattainable,” she says. shooting short films and video greeting “Yet, it’s one thing we’re chronically cards, including a family ice skating outing and a romantic Valentine’s night full chasing. Perfect also has judgment of “dancing.” Heintz is also in the proattached to it and that anything less cess of shooting a three-part short film than perfect is a failure. We all know series titled “Playing House.” The first life isn’t perfect, and that we’re conchapter is “Postcard from Paris,” showstantly facing failure. But at the same ing Heintz and Chauncey taking loveytime, we all really want to pull off the Boulder Weekly

buzz dovey photos around the City of Love, and also shots of Heintz lugging her mannequin husband around the streets of Paris. She’s currently finishing up the next chapter, “The Vows,” detailing her recommitment ceremony to Chauncey. Despite working on the project since 2000, it wasn’t until late 2012 that the media started to take notice. She slowly got more publicity from photography magazines, and in 2013 she and her mannequins went viral. “I realized the potential for this thing,” she says. “I didn’t think any of this success was possible. I sold myself short. But, then I got calls from BBC, Forbes, Time Magazine and all these magazines around the world. … Once I realized how it resonated with everybody around the world, I saw the potential in it. Maybe this isn’t just a stupid little side project, maybe it is something significant.” Even after her project took off, Heintz was still faced with the societal question of what was next. That focus on “the next step” is a fundamental flaw that Heintz addresses in her work. “Everybody gets this kind of pressure that you are never enough, that you’re never done,” she says. “Even with all the success I’ve had with this project, I still get met with ‘Congratulations! Now what are you going to do?’ Can I not just sit down for a second and enjoy the accomplishment that I just had? … “We’re chronically putting the heat on each other in a way that is more than keeping up with the Joneses. It’s constantly like, ‘How are you good enough?’ And I don’t think that’s the best way to relate to people. You internalize what other people question about you. It’s this sort of this built-in undercurrent that no matter what choice you made it wasn’t the right one and [this question] of all the other things you haven’t done.” The cultural standard to “have it all” messes with your head, she says. There’s a delicate balance that everyone is expected to achieve, and Heintz wants to rock that boat. Particularly women, she says, have this pressure to be defined by their relationships — wife, mother, best friend, sister, etc. “When you stand on your own, people don’t know how to relate to you; it makes you feel like you did something wrong,” she says. “We’re constantly second-guessing. If you choose the kid path, you think you screwed up your career, and if you choose your career, you think you screwed up your kids. We’re always feeling like no matter what we’re doing it’s wrong. … It’s Boulder Weekly

hard to stand apart from that and say that I’m fine the way I am.” Heintz says she wants people to understand that her project isn’t just about marriage. She’s using herself as an example of greater cultural ideas of what women “should do” or “should be.” She makes sure not to romanticize the idea of perfection; she wants the photos to look “over perfect” to cause people to stop and think. “I’m not against marriage, it’s just that I ought to be just as valid with just

skin on my finger instead of a ring,” Heintz says. “There’s nothing wrong with being married, I just don’t think you have to be [married] to be OK. And I’m tired of people thinking you have to go along with tradition in order to live a successful life. … You have to find a path in your own time. There’s no being on schedule or behind schedule.” But, Heintz does see glimmers of hope for the future. She points out that her mother’s generation didn’t have interracial marriage or any notion of

gay rights. In a world with much more social flexibility than it used to have, she says, society is starting to create its own standards. “I hope the next generation learns to trust its own instincts instead of centuries-old stories,” she says. “We need to let the definition of women expand beyond looks, sexual value and their relationships. We need to start driving our own boats and stop responding to the way women used to be defined.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ometimes I forget I’m heavily tattooed,” singer Lola Black says. “Every now and then I’ll walk by a mirror and think, ‘Oh wow, that’s quite a bit.’ I don’t realize I have that many.” As lead vocalist of the Denverbased hard rock/metal band also named Lola Black, her presence can be intimidating. On stage, her black hair is piled high on top of her head while she belts out her lyrics in high heels and a black ensemble. The seemingly endless colorful tattoos make her appearance even louder. Simply put, Black commands attention. Comprised of Black, guitarist Paige O’Meara, guitarist/husband Chris Dellinger, guitarist Scott Kennedy, bassist Yosh (no last name) and drummer Ryan Oakes, Lola Black is the union of a few different prominent Denver bands like Blister 66, Misunderstood and The 8 Bucks Experiment. It’s definitely a boy’s club, but Black doesn’t seem to mind. “I’ve always been one of the guys,” she says. “I’ve been a tomboy my whole life. It’s second nature for me. I feel like I have a sense of humor like a boy. I’m kind of a rough-and-tumble kind of person.” The song “Boraccho” illustrates her penchant for debauchery. It revolves around a night Black will clearly never forget — one that resulted in a few bumps and bruises, but thankfully no jail time. “Chris’s old band was playing at this little Irish bar one night,” she explains. “It got a little out of control. I was throwing beer bottles behind me and I nailed some girl in the head. She was

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pretty angry and knocked me on my ass. Chris got mad and punched the first guy he saw. Next thing you know, the entire bar was fighting. It was the most epic bar fight. We all got punched. That was definitely some inspiration for the song.” Another unforgettable moment came on Jan. 16 when the band was scheduled to open for a sold-out Puddle of Mudd show at Cassleman’s Bar & Venue in Denver. However, Puddle of Mudd lead singer Wes Scantlin was arrested before he even made it out of Denver International Airport. “We were sound checking early and I wasn’t feeling very well,” Black recalls. “We got a call that we didn’t have to rush because Wes got arrested. It was like a waiting game. They wanted us to

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do a longer set to kill time, but my voice was almost gone by then. We didn’t want to disappoint anyone so we kept going. Eventually, he got out of jail at 1 a.m. He got arrested for riding the baggage carousel into a restricted area. I can’t risk getting put in jail. I don’t want to pull a Wes,” she adds and laughs. Black makes a conscious effort to stay out of trouble. After all, Lola Black is steadily on the rise as one of Denver’s most prolific bands and life is likely only going to get better from here. The band is currently recording in Los Angeles with producer Bob Marlette (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper) and hoping to release their first full-length album this summer. As a wife, mother of two, bartender and singer, it’s a crazy balancing act she is

just beginning to master. “It’s actually really exciting, but also really stressful,” she admits. “We’ve been doing so much work, and we’re climbing to a new level. We hold ourselves to a higher standard these days. We’re going from just being a bar band to being a professional arena band.” With shows at 1stBank Center, Pepsi Center and Fiddler’s Green, Lola Black is growing beyond their wildest dreams. It happened almost by accident. Lola Black’s inaugural gig at the Gothic Theatre was also the first time Black actually sang with Lola Black in front of a crowd. “I was thrown to the wolves,” she says. “It was our first show and it was close to sold-out. We had put all this hype out there so people knew about us. Chris was like, ‘Let’s see if you can do this.’ I was pushed out there with a lot of anxiety at first, but I blew Chris away. He was really proud of me. I’ve always wanted to be a singer. I knew I could do it.” Being the frontwoman is a huge test for not only Black, but also her nineyear marriage to Dellinger. He’s used to being the frontman, so handing the reins to his wife has been stressful at times. “He still has that frontman personality,” she says. “We do our best not to let our personal problems bleed into the band or our band problems bleed into the marriage. It’s extremely tough. The guys are really good about it though, because they’ve known us for so long. They know when to back away,” she laughs. “It’s a challenge, but we’re learning how to find a balance.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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ometimes it just doesn’t work ties with the label. As they continued to do The Takeover Tour and he would out. Relationships are funny meticulously carve out their own path, choose solo shows over Zion I shows. like that. Things can always go Zion I came to life in 1996. From When that started happening, it started south, even when it’s been 2000’s critically acclaimed debut Mind to be uncomfortable for me because we going well for years. In the Over Matter to 2012’s Shadowboxing, were supposed to be a group. We talked case of Oakland-based hip-hop duo Zion I’s body of work is extensive. It about it and without going into too Zion I, emcee Zumbi and producer includes nine studio albums, eight com- much detail, we just decided it would Amp Live have been through the pilation albums, eight EPs and countbe better for him to just do his thing, gamut. There’s an undeniable and I would do Zion I. Courtesy of Zumbi Zoom brotherhood that goes back to Honestly, I think we waited the early ’90s when they met in a little too Atlanta as students at long, but it is ON THE BILL: Zion I with Los Rakas and Locksmith, 9 Morehouse College. The two what it is. p.m. Friday, March 6 at Fox quickly realized they shared an Everything Theatre, 1135 S. 13th St., 720intense love of music, more happens for a 645-2467. Tickets are $18 in advance, and $20 day of specifically, hip-hop. Their first reason.” show. www.foxtheatre.com group as The Roots (not the As the Roots) manifested in 1992. For tension obvious reasons, they had to between the change their name to two mounted, Zumbi tried to Metaphors once they signed to maintain his positive outlook Tommy Boy Records, which and figure out a solution. After was just the beginning of a all, they were extremely close at bumpy road with the reputable one point: Zumbi spoke at his label. wedding, they knew each oth“We signed a contract that er’s families and had been we didn’t understand,” Zumbi friends for more than two explains. “We neglected to have decades. Much like a break-up, a lawyer look at it for us. It Zumbi was admittedly conZion I may have lost one of its founders, but its emcee stated we were supposed to cerned about what people doesn’t see that as cause to back down. work with a producer named would think once they heard Spearhead X. We had no idea, the news. but when we started recording it, all less guest appearances. Despite their “Bottom line is, that’s my brother,” came out. We made some good music expansive history, it may come as a he says. “He’s family. At the same time, in the first round, but they wanted shock that Amp Live has left the group we’re not tight in this moment, but he’s more. As we started chasing singles, the to pursue his solo career, leaving Zumbi still my brother. I pray that going forsound started becoming whack. We at the helm. For many fans, a gaping ward we can be cool like we used to be. would send them music and they would hole in their story remains and the only I’ve been doing everything by myself respond with lukewarm energy. It start- question on their minds is, why? anyway so I’m pretty much used to the ed to erode our confidence. Tommy Boy “It’s been a long process, something energy. Initially, I was concerned if wanted another De La Soul or Naughty that’s been happening over the past four there would be backlash when people By Nature. We wanted to make as years or so,” Zumbi explains. “Slowly, found out. At this point, I feel it’s betmuch music as possible and all they Amp started focusing his attention on ter to be honest and clarify who I am as wanted was a hit.” other things. There would be evidence opposed to what Zion I was. Now it’s Needless to say, they eventually cut of this by not coming on tour. He didn’t just me holding it down. I’m trying to

find positive ways to reinvigorate the brand and push myself forward more. “When I got out of [the situation], it was like a crazy weight was lifted off my shoulders,” he adds. “It had been stressful for a couple of years.” Fortunately, as Zumbi jumps in the driver’s seat, he has extremely talented individuals along for the ride. Emcee, DJ and pianist Kev Choice has been part of the Zion I family for years. In fact, the first tour he did with Zion I was The Takeover Tour in 2009. The Oakland-based artist has suited up to support Zumbi on the current Rapture World Tour, but doesn’t necessarily feel like he’s stepping into Amp Live’s role. “Sometimes in life people need to go do different things,” Choice says. “I don’t feel like I have to fill Amp’s shoes. It’s just a different approach to the music, and it’s something Zumbi has wanted to do for a long time; to bring more live elements to the show. It’s a cool vibe. We’re doing completely avant-garde jazz stuff now and sticking to the Zion I aesthetic; heavy beats and high energy. I’m never trying to replace Amp.” Zion I has finished a new live album, which drops in April. Titled The Rapture: Live From Oaklandia, the album is an audible history of Zion I’s journey and re-envisions many Zion I classics by incorporating elements of jazz and acoustic instrumentation. There’s a sense Zumbi is looking forward to what lies ahead. “I don’t feel like my lyrics have ever taken a turn content wise, but maybe the spiritual or emotional content will be different,” Zumbi says. “I just want to get back to that pure form. I’ve been heading there lately and it feels good.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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ON THE BILL: Takacs String Quartet. 4 p.m. Sunday, March 8. 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 9, Grusin Music Hall. Music of Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert. Tickets: 303-492-8008. Note: Takacs Quartet concerts are often sold out, but because there is a wait list for tickets that are turned back, it is worthwhile to contact the box office. www. tickets.cupresents.org

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t’s not often you can hear a piece by important to play it, to reclaim that beautiful Beethoven that almost no one else has music from the horrendous later associations. ever heard. But at the same time, it must have a melanBut thanks to the University of choly tinge to it — how could it not?” Colorado’s Takacs String Quartet, you Like Haydn’s “Emperor,” Schubert’s have just that opportunity on Sunday, March “Death and the Maiden” Quartet takes its 8 and Monday, March 9. The piece in quesname from a set of variations on a song. tion is the Elegischer Gesang (Elegiac song) Based on the theme representing Death in for string quartet and four voices, which the song, the movement gives a heavy mood Beethoven composed in 1814 for his friend to the whole quartet. It was written in 1824, Baron Johann Baptist von Pasqualati, whose as Schubert himself became aware of his wife had died three years earlier. fatal illness. Because it is an elegy, the Beethoven “The whole piece is a very convincing score works well with the final piece on the whole and a very emotional statement,” program, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” Dusinberre says. “In the first movement you Quartet, an intense and somber piece that hear fear and dread, and a sort of imminent takes its mood and the theme of its slow catastrophe. So I think the drama evolves in movement from Schubert’s song of the same Takacs String Quartet performs an often-overlooked elegy and a quartet with an integrated way from the first to the seca troubling history. name. Also on the program is Haydn’s String ond movement.” Quartet in C major, op. 76 no. 3, known as The other movements are both contrast“The Emperor” Quartet. ing and integrated into the mood. The third movetexture and constant dialogue among the instruments. Joining the members of Takacs for Beethoven’s ment has great energy and rhythmic drive, while the “This is quite a big, dramatic piece,” Dusinberre elegy will be CU faculty members Jennifer Birdfinale is a tarantella — a dance associated with taransays. “Our approach to Haydn is very vivid, and we Arvidsson, soprano, and Matthew Chellis, tenor; and tula bites — that is sometimes called a “dance of don’t shy away from making a big sound if the occagraduate voice students Rebecca Robinson, alto, and death.” sion requires. And we think how you characterize the Luke Williams, bass. Recently, Takacs has given special, limited perfordialogue is the most critical thing about playing The Elegischer Gesang is rarely more than a footnote Haydn quartets — to give those conversations the mances of the “Death and the Maiden” Quartet that in even the most thorough books on Beethoven. In give insight into how they approach the piece. They right character. Sometimes it’s polite and civilized, have paired the music with readings from novelist fact, it is so obscure that it cannot even be found in the and other times it’s more showy and dramatic. This index of the major books on Beethoven’s quartets. piece has a brilliant combination of those things in it.” Philip Roth’s Everyman, a meditation on the approach “We’re always looking for pieces that give us a of death. In two performances of this special project, But history has also left a shadow on the quartet. chance to showcase some of our wonderful faculty,” the readers have been Philip Seymour Hoffman and The slow movement is a set of variations on Haydn’s Takacs’ first violinist Ed Dusinberre says. “The chance hymn for the Austrian emperor, Gott erhalte Franz den Meryl Streep. The Boulder performance will not include readto work with several singers at once seemed great. Kaiser (God save Emperor Francis). This tune gives There’s a nice mixture [of the quartet and the singthe quartet its title, but also conjures unhappy associa- ings, but even without Streep it is easy to think of the quartet, and Takacs’ performance of it, as an invitation ers], so I think it’s a very effective piece.” tions from having been used as the German national to ponder deeper questions about existence and eterHaydn’s “Emperor” Quartet is one of the great anthem by the Nazis. nity. And in that endeavor, who better than Schubert, works for string quartet. It was composed in the “Because of its history, for me, it’s impossible to himself close to eternity when he wrote the quartet, to 1790s after Haydn’s celebrated visits to London and play it with the celebratory character that it might while he was working on his oratorio The Creation. It have had in Haydn’s day,” Dusinberre says. “I think it’s guide our thoughts? Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com has all the hallmarks of Haydn’s mastery, with a fluid an absolutely beautiful piece, and I think it’s very

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EVENTS AND MUSIC FOR FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 11am-8:30pm BrainFreezer Tent

First Street • $5 suggested donation • Craft beer from Epic, Grimm Brothers and Grossen Bart breweries • St. Grampy’s Day Bar serving festive, fun spirited drinks • Free Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and food vendors Sponsored by Epic, Grimm Brothers and Grossen Bart

11am- 8:30pm Grandpa’s Mall Crawl

First Street Nederland’s First Street, east of the Visitor Center, is transformed into a pedestrian mall for revelers to enjoy the BrainFreezer Tent, street performers, participate in contests and more.

11am-8:30pm ReAnimate Yourself Tent

Chipeta Park • $5 suggested donation • Microbrew beer from Oskar Blues • St. Grampy’s Day Bar serving festive, fun spirited drinks • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop • Food Vendors Sponsored by Oskar Blues

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 5-10pm

Blue Ball • $10

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent (Chipeta Park) Annual Blue Ball with a “Superstition” theme featuring live music by Dead Floyd, Gasoline Lollipops and The Pine Dwellers. Ice Queen and Grandpa look-alike contest at 8 p.m. Prizes include: • “Carhartt tuxedo” from Mountain Man Outdoor. • Microbrew beer from Oskar Blues • Distilled Spirits Bar with specialty Corpse Reviver & Grandpa’s Spirit drinks • Grandpa’s Gift Shop • Food Vendors Sponsored by Oskar Blues

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Various Locations Live bands perform in several area restaurants and bars throughout Nederland and Rollinsville (which can be reached by free shuttle).

SATURDAY, MARCH 14 8am-11am FDGD Pancake Breakfast

Community Center (Half-mile North on Hwy. 72, or take the path up Jefferson St.) Pancakes and more! Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes. • $7 Adult, $5 Senior, $4 Under 12 Sponsored by and supporting Nederland Area Seniors

9am-11am Event Day Registration, Waiver Wristband Pick Up, Parade Line Up

Teen Center (East end of First Street) ALL event participants MUST sign a waiver and get a waiver wristband. If participating in any event, this is the best place to get everything in advance. • Register for Polar Plunge, Coffin Races, Parade Contest • Lineup for the parade

10:30am-5pm Open House with Turkey Vultures

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (Caribou Shopping Center) • free Enjoy an open house featuring Rocky Mountain Raptor Program (formal presentation at 3:30 p.m.) with vultures, spiders, scorpions and cockroaches.

11am-4pm • ‘Grandpa’s in the TUFF SHED’ Film • ‘Iceman’ Bo Shaffer Book Signing • Poetry From Beyond

Black Forest Restaurant • free • View “Grandpa’s in the TUFF SHED” documentary (approx. every 30 minutes) • Learn Dead Guy history from “Iceman” Bo Shaffer who kept Grandpa on ice 17 years • Channel a loved one through a poem or get an intuitive personal one with Louise Moriarty

Noon Parade of Hearses

First Street • free The parade begins at the Teen Center and goes west. Line the sides of the street for the best viewing. • Parade participants must check in and lineup at the Teen Center.

NOON-4pm Old Fashioned Ring Toss

Carousel of Happiness • $3 for three rings • Prizes for one, two or three rings

3-6pm Tiny Disco

TUFF SHED off 2nd Street • free Put a little boogie in your butt at the Tiny Disco.

1-2pm Costume Polar Plunge

Chipeta Park • $20/each plunge Freeze the Day & Take the Plunge! Jump

into the icy-cold pond waters of Chipeta Park. A portion of the proceeds go to the Nederland Fireworks Fund.

1-3pm Ice Carving with Bongo Love

Chipeta Park • free Bongo Love has been sculpting using stone, clay and wood since he was a child in Africa.

2-3:30pm Famous Coffi n Races

Chipeta Park • $70 per team Teams race with a coffin and ‘corpse’ through a course full of obstacles, mud, snow, other racers. • CASH PRIZE for best costumed team • Trophies (and more) for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place

3-5pm Icy Turkey Bowling

Across from BrainFreezer Tent • $5 entry fee Test your poultry bowling skills in this unusual event. You can also BYOFF (bring your own frozen fowl).

3pm-4pm Brain Freeze Contest

In front of the BrainFreezer Tent • $5 entry fee Contestants race against each other downing ice-cold treats for fabulous prizes.

3pm and 5pm Pioneer Inn Frozen T-shirt Contest

In front of the Pioneer Inn • $10 entry fee Try and slip into something frozen, faster than everyone else.

5-6pm Frozen Dead Poet Society Open Readings

On soap box on First Street across from BrainFreezer Tent • free Bring poems, musings and Odes to Grandpa for open readings on the soap box on First Street.

6:30pm-1am Grandpa’s Pub Crawl

Various Locations Live bands perform in several area restaurants and bars throughout Nederland and Rollinsville (which can be reached by free shuttle).

SUNDAY, MARCH 15 8am-11am FDGD Pancake Breakfast

Community Center (Half-mile North on Hwy. 72, or take the path up Jefferson St.) Pancakes and more! Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes. Warm your belly for your day outdoors! • $7 Adult, $5 Senior, $4 Under 12 Sponsored by and supporting Nederland Area Seniors

9:30am-4pm Open House with Turkey Vultures

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center • free Enjoy an open house featuring Rocky Mountain Raptor Program (formal presentation at 11 a.m.) with vultures, spiders, scorpions and cockroaches.

11am-2pm Salmon Toss & Sunday Brunch

Sundance Café (1 mile south of town) $5 entry fee –Come by anytime! • Farthest flung fish wins the prize • Brunch and drink specials

11am-7pm BrainFreezer Tent

First Street • $5 suggested donation • Microbrew beer from Epic, Grimm Brothers and Grossen Bart breweries • St. Grampy’s Day Bar serving festive, fun spirited drinks • Free Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and Food Vendors Sponsored by Epic Brewing, Grimm Brothers Brewhouse and Grossen Bart Brewing

11am-6pm Grandpa’s Mall Crawl

First Street Nederland’s First Street, east of the Visitor Center, is transformed into a pedestrian mall for revelers to enjoy music in the BrainFreezer Tent, street performers and participate in Brain Freezer, Frozen T-shirt and Icy Turkey Bowling contests and more.

11am-7pm ReAnimate Yourself Tent

11am-3pm Snowy Human Foosball

Off First Street by Community Garden • $30 per team Like foosball, but with real people. Entry Fees to be donated to Nederland Fireworks and Many Arms Around Miles. • Spectacular prizes for winning teams

11am-4pm ‘Grandpa’s in the TUFF SHED’ Film ‘Iceman’ Bo Shaffer Book Signing Poetry From Beyond

Black Forest Restaurant • free • View “Grandpa’s in the TUFF SHED” documentary (shown approximately every 30 minutes) • Learn Dead Guy history from “Iceman” Bo Shaffer who kept Grandpa on ice 17 years • Channel a loved one through a poem or get an intuitive personal one with Louise Moriarty

1pm Pioneer Inn Frozen T-shirt Contest

2pm Frozen Remote Control Vehicle Exhibition

1pm Beard & Mustache Competition

2-3pm Brain Freeze Contest

In front of the Pioneer Inn • $10 entry fee Slip into something frozen, faster than everyone else.

Brain Freezer Tent • free Strut your frosty facial hair for fabulous prizes.

1-3pm Snow Sculpting with Bongo Love

Chipeta Park • free Bongo Love has been sculpting using stone, clay and wood since he was a child in Africa.

1-3pm Icy Turkey Bowling

Across from BrainFreezer Tent • $5 entry fee Test your poultry bowling skills. You can also BYOFF (bring your own frozen fowl).

Chipeta Park • free See an exciting demo of all-terrain, RC vehicles outside the ReAnimate Yourself Tent In front of the BrainFreezer Tent on First Street • $5 entry fee Contestants race against each other downing ice cold treats for fabulous prizes

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3pm Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest First Street Pub & Grill (35 E. First St.) • $5 entry fee Race to eat as many Rocky Mountain oysters as you can.

5-6PM The Pine Dwellers 6:30-8PM Gasoline Lollipops 8:30-10pm Dead Floyd

3-4PM Frozen Dead Poet Slam

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On soap box on First Street across from BrainFreezer Tent • free Entrants slam their fondest dead poet for whiskey and prizes.

4pm Remote Control Jumping Contest

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arts & culture What happens when a son sets out to profile his father? Documentary reveals the history of far more than a record store by Elizabeth Miller

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he documentary film Old Man is as much a story of a troubled, perhaps marginally dysfunctional family as it is the story of a troubled record store — and, in many ways, a dysfunctional town. The portrait of Boulder is not graceful. It’s a critique of the town’s ability to win both for greatest number of advanced degrees per capita and for high incidence of teen suicide and drug use. That’s the context the film’s director Dan Schneidkraut leans on to make a far more personal story make sense — one that’s about his father, Andy, owner of the Boulder institution Albums on the Hill. Dan says he initially thought to make a film about the record store, a dying breed in an online-driven music industry. Then he realized someone else had made a similar film, so he shifted gears to the ready subject of his father — possessor of an encyclopedic knowledge of music, as is well known, but also a poet, a law school drop out and a former restaurant owner. “He isn’t a flawless human being, but that’s what makes him so incredible,” Dan says. “Despite consequences to himself, he’s always had good character, no matter what, and he’s always been a kind person, and he’s always been a generous person even though it didn’t always benefit him in business.” Old Man does make a record of the store, the highs and lows of it as a retail operation among what was once a generous number of square footage devoted to the sale of music within Boulder’s city limits. But more than that, it’s a record of Andy himself, of Dan and his family, built with deep admiration for his father, whatever the plagues deliv-

Albums on the Hill owner Andy Schneidkraut celebrates his win at a trivia bowl.

ered upon them both during Dan’s teenage years. The film makes for a bracingly candid potrait that feels, predominantly, like spending an afternoon wandering around Boulder with the Schneidkrauts. Albums on the Hill, Dan notes early and openly, is so far behind in rent that not even a going out of business sale could salvage it. The shop stocked with vinyl and CDs, and with bottles of alcohol and boxes of unsorted CDs hidden behind the storage closet doors, exists only by the grace of its landlord. “I don’t know whether it’s an institution or I should be institutionalized,” Andy says during the film. “I’m hanging in, somehow,” he tells Boulder Weekly. “Believe me, it’s a challenge and many factors knock it down, the biggest probably being just the change in the music business.” He talks down now the damage sus-

tained to his business, and his home, during the September 2013 flood. “Other people lost so much more in the flood,” he says, pointing to the resilient rebuilders in Lyons and Jamestown. “We lost the basement of our house and I lost a lot of online merchandise, inventory and a lot of my own personal collection of records. … Loads of people lost things, and weren’t able to rescue everything. And though I have a much nicer basement than we had before, we’re not… No matter what you do, you’re not made whole.” After kicking off the film with the best and worst of the city in which he grew up, Dan turns to himself and makes a candid accounting of those darker parts of his past. The retelling of the crimes themselves is carefully measured because, he says, he’s not sure of the statute of limitations. In doing so, Dan says, he hopes to

give context for some of the grimmer interactions between father and son so that people see, as Dan says, “Any bad things that happened between him and I certainly had a lot to do with me being pretty horrible.” Andy, though, sees his son painting these histories with a little darker cast than what he recalls. He cites the Rashomon effect — “we all bring our own vision of what transpired to examining our past, and all we can bring is our own sense of what this story is, but our own sense of what this story is, isn’t necessarily the story, but it’s got elements of it.” It’s clear that Andy is indispensible to Dan, the filmmaker who stays behind the camera and narrates in near monotone through everything from his arrests to his acknowledgement that what he fears most in life is his father’s death. “He’s not going to live forever, and it was important for me to get to know him and making a film was secondary, but that just happened to be the best way I know how to deal with the world or people,” Dan says. Because Dan knew the stories, he could artfully steer the conversation into the level of candidness he wanted — as in, didn’t you break that guy’s arm? And yes, that fight did take a turn, and an arm did get broken, Andy concedes. “He totally bullied me in the film,” Andy jokes. But seriously, he says, “I’m supportive of any film he wants to make, so I’m sure I had misgivings, but I just support his efforts.” Dan was very candid, he says, and required that his father be as well. That part wasn’t tough, Andy says, as much as letting everyone else watch it now may be. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com

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Larry KeeL’s string Mountain revivaL Feat adaM aijaLa & Ben KauFMann oF yonder Mountain string Band, drew eMMitt & andy thorn oF LeFtover saLMon & Bridget Law oF eLephant revivaL w/ gipsy Moon

saturday March 7

Zion i

w/ Los raKas, LocKsMith, proxiMity, jacK FLash & BaBah FLy

thursday March 12

taLiB KweLi & iMMortaL technique w/ niKo is, cF & hasan saLaaM

Friday & saturday March 13-14

drKwav

Feat john MedesKi, sKeriK & adaM deitch w/ joey porter’s shady Business 3/13: ayron jones & the way 3/14: joey porter’s shady Business

tuesday March 17

pete rocK & sLuM viLLage w/ Fresh Breath coMMittee, evergLades, dj gatsBy & indigenous peopLes

thursday March 19

terravita

w/ Bear griLLZ & said the sKy

Friday & saturday March 20-21

the payBacK

Feat eddie roBerts (new Mastersounds), oteiL BurBridge (aLLMan Brothers), ZigaBoo ModeListe (the Meters), roBert waLter, gaBe Mervine & Matt pitts (the Motet)

wednesday March 25

herMitude Friday March 27

turBo suit (ForMerLy cosBy sweater) Feat the shady horns oF Lettuce

saturday March 28

desert dweLLers & KayLa scintiLLa

Feat eve oLution w/ dixon’s vioLin

every thursday @ the other side

grass For that ass

Free BeFore 9pM or BeFore 10pM For text Message suBscriBers!

3/5: whaLe water raMBLe perForMs picKin’ on pauL siMon w/ chain station & LiL sKoops Feat MeMBers oF the congress & Fox street 3/12: chain station w/ evergreen grass Band, FLatLand harMony experiMent & BottoM doLLar string Band

wednesday March 4

yung gLeesh

w/ ransteeZ, str8 Money ent & qhaos/deeZy

thursday March 5 suMMer caMp on the road FestivaL

Feat jj evanoFF, tnertLe, hog Magundy, vine street viBes, & rastasaurus saturday March 7

Larry KeeL’s string Mountain revivaL

Feat adaM aijaLa & Ben KauFMann oF yonder Mountain string Band, drew eMMitt & andy thorn oF LeFtover saLMon & Bridget Law oF eLephant revivaL w/ cariBou Mountain coLLective

tuesday March 10 suB.Mission presents

eLectronic tuesday Feat great dane w/ dr. derg & curLyone

wednesday March 11

tauK

w/ the arturo coMpLex & sKydyed

Friday March 13

shwayZe

w/ piZZie, Matty jaMes & cLydesdaLe

saturday March 14

Big soMething & the dyrty Byrds Monday March 16

reason the citiZen

w/ dj aLMightyiZ, input & BroKen, roLphy & ch@ng3

tuesday March 17 suB.Mission presents

eLectronic tuesday

Feat nu.tone, MetriK & etherwood hosted By dyaMite Mc

wednesday March 18

egi

thursday apriL 2

w/ BoruK (Feat MeMBers oF dead FLoyd & prisM) & givers gain

Feat esta, iaMinoBodi, jay prince & joe Kay (the sound oFtoMorrow)

BLocKhead

souLection tour

Friday March 20

Friday apriL 3

w/ BoruK (Feat MeMBers oF dead FLoyd & prisM) & givers gain

w/ the MaLah & vine street viBes

sKiZZy Mars

the werKs saturday apriL 4

randoM raB w/ saqi

wednesday apriL 8

Love and Light w/ Mr. BiLL & sixis

Friday apriL 10

xxyyxx & Late night radio w/ the geeK x vrv & KrooKed drivers

saturday apriL 11

iaMsu!

w/ roMe Fortune x dave steeZy (eyes on Me spring tour 2015)

Friday apriL 17

MicKey avaLon & dirt nasty w/ LiL deBBie & coBraconda

Monday apriL 20

aLtitude the dispensary presents

420 in the streets

Feat Method Man & redMan, cypress hiLL, coLLie BuddZ, FLatBush ZoMBies, diZZy wright, the underachievers & More tBa!

Monday apriL 20

joey Badass 4/20 aFter party

saturday March 21

w/ swiZZyMacK (dj set)

tuesday March 24 suB.Mission presents

eLectronic tuesday Feat theLeM w/ MaZe & diLLard

wednesday March 25

the jauntee

w/ seLasee & the FaFa FaMiLy, digg, the southern BeLLes & gasLight street

Friday & saturday March 27-28

new orLeans suspects w/ down north & gen ed (Feat MeMBers oF euForquestra)

sunday March 29

athena arts project FestivaL/Music showcase wednesday apriL 1

LiMe Light Media production showcase

Feat Morpheous, hyperion, true schooL x r-dooLeon, ooMah, naturoBi & FractaL Factory

Friday apriL 3

quantic dj set w/ dj vadiM

Monday apriL 20

Lee scratch perry aFter party

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SEE FULL EVENT LISTINGS ONLINE. To have an event considered for the calendar, send information to calendar@ boulderweekly.com. Please be sure to include address, date, time and phone number associated with each event. The deadline for consideration is Thursday at noon the week prior to publication. Boulder Weekly does not guarantee the publication of any event.

JOSHUA RADIN 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5, Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Thursday, March 5

Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Music Andy Frasco and The UN. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St.,

Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Anna Shoemaker, The Rabbit’s Atom. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat,

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

Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont,

720-442-8292.

Just Sayin. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th

St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St.,

Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Pat Carbone. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont,

720-340-4169.

Events 11th Annual Boulder International Film Festival. All day. Various

locations, Boulder, 303-449-2289.

Antarctica: A Year on Ice. 3:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

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

Boulder International Film Festival. 4 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032

14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Feature Film Project: Patrick’s Day. 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater,

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

Dukes of Winter. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and

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

Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St.,

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

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

String Attached Bluegrass. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th

Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-8423.

Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Free Range Marmot. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive,

Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Wailin’ Jennys

St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Wail

Month of Photography Expert Talk with Conor King. 6:30 a.m. Macky

see EVENTS Page 42

Courtesy of the Boulder Theater

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030. In 2002, three solo musicians were thrown together for what was supposed to be a one-time performance. As fate had it, the chemistry was too ample to ignore, and the ladies went on to form The Wailin’ Jennys. The band started in Canada, but since has expanded their audience throughout the world. Their music falls under the folk umbrella but has picked up influences from country, Celtic and pop among other music genres. Every member plays multiple instruments, sings and writes songs — with each member’s individual musical approach lending itself to an overall ethereal sound unique to The Jennys.

Boulder Weekly

Foxcatcher. 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

Celebrate

Listen Courtesy of Foxfeather

International Women’s Day

Nomad Theater Gala with Joan Van Ark

8 p.m. Sunday March 8. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Friday to Saturday, March 6 to 8. Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510.

In honor of International Women’s Day, the Laughing Goat is stacking their line up with local girl-powered music in a variety of different styles to please any palate. Start off with Dandelion Seeds, a collaboration of local musicians whose delicate sound is full of soul. Up next is Foxfeather, which fits comfortably in the folk genre but with a hint of bluegrass and jazz thrown in. And to finish off the night, Bonnie Sims and Lauren Stovall’s duo The Vixens will captivate with their guitar/mandolin combo and stunning vocals.

Jonathan Exley

Big changes are coming to the Nomad Theater. Thanks to a $200,000 grant from the State Historical Fund, the Nomad is two-thirds done with their fundraising efforts to benefit and upgrade the theater. March 6 through 8, the Tara Performing Arts High School is putting on a gala to celebrate and edge closer to their final goal of $750,000. The weekend will feature a melting pot of different musical groups, film, dance, theater and include performances from Mystery Sonata and Pete and Joan Wenick. The theater is also bringing in Tony- and Emmy-nominated performer Joan van Ark, whose career began at the Nomad, for My Life in Songs and ‘Logues – Memories from Boulder, Broadway and Beyond.

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arts

Friday, March 6 Music Americana Highway. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics

• Gifts for any cook • Fun and colorful kitchenware • Specialty foods, local and imported • Gadgets, cookware, and kitchen essentials • Louisville’s one-of-a-kind kitchen shop

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

Aulternate Reality Jazz Trio. 3 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe,

379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Billy the Mountain. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile

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

Bonnie and Joy Rockin’ the Show Tunes. 6:30

p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Boosterfunk. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl

728 Main Street • Louisville, CO 720.484.6825 www.SingingCookStore.com

St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.

The Brody Buster Band. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60

Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

Charm. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 7 p.m.

Roundhouse Spirits, 5311 Western Ave., Suite 180, Boulder, 303-997-6134.

Denny Driscoll. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company

(Lee Hill tap room), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. DJ Drumkit. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709

THURSDAY MARCH 5 7:00 PM COLORADO SKIES 9:00 PM LASER: BEATLES

FRIDAY MARCH 6

7:00 PM WHAT IS RELATIVITY? 9:00 PM LASER: DAFT PUNK 10:30 PM LIQUID SKY MUSIC SHOW 11:59 PM LASER PINK FLOYD: THE WALL

SATURDAY MARCH 7

10:00 AM PERSEUS AND ANDROMEDA 11:30 AM ZULA PATROL: DOWN TO EARTH 1:00 PM LIFE OF TREES 2:30 PM PLANETS AND LASERS 5:00 PM ARS NOVA SINGERS - OUT OF THIS WORLD 7:00 PM ARS NOVA SINGERS - OUT OF THIS WORLD 9:00 PM BLACK HOLES: THE OTHER SIDE OF INFINITY 10:30 PM LASER: SUBLIME 11:59 PM LASER: RADIOHEAD

SUNDAY MARCH 8

1:00 PM STARS AND LASERS 2:30 PM LIFE OF TREES 4:00 PM

BACK TO THE MOON FOR

GOOD

6:00 PM ARS NOVA SINGERS - OUT OF THIS WORLD 8:00 PM ARS NOVA SINGERS - OUT OF THIS WORLD

Fiske Planetarium - Regent Drive

(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder)

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

Eric Adrian. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225

Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

First Friday. 6 p.m. Bookcliff Vineyards, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 17, Boulder, 303-449-9463. First Friday Funk. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten,

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

Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

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

Honeytree. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.

Craig Cleveland

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

Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through March 28. Phil Bender. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29.

The Book’s Undoing: Dieter Roth’s Artist’s Books. Special Collections Reading Room Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-6144. Through May 15. Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 15.

In rePOPulated, artists such as Craig Cleveland share their take on modernday culture through a pop art lens at the Arvada Center.

Call for Artists. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Deadline April 1. First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 19. Graceful Appearance Passion, Perception and Expression. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Legacy: The Photojournalism of Edward (Ted) Rozumalski. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10.

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

rePOPulated: Contemporary Perspectives on Pop Art. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. Sean O’Meallie: Freeplay. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through March 29. Seeing, as I am — by Conor King. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through March 29. Still Life: Three Perspectives. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 10. Substrate. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through April 5.

Life Once Removed — Suzanne Heintz. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through March 29.

Textile Art by Annette Kennedy. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through March 28.

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

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

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

Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.

Kevin Lufkin. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing

Oil Paintings by Shari Farabaugh. Community

Idlewhile. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louis-

ville, 303-993-2094.

Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-8903993.

Lionel Young. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Lola Black, SmackFactor and Scarlight. 8 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Makeshift Funk Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home-

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

Mark Diamond Trio. 8 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S.

Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.

Mindbender. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Monte & Larry. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Soul School. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Whitewater Ramble. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel and

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

Events 11th Annual Boulder International Film Festival. All

the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

day. Various locations, Boulder, 303-449-2289.

Saturday, March 7

Bluebird. 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

Music

Family Game Night. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch

Adam Redder and Friends. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

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

Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

The Frame. 4 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

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

Gamers Guild. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001

Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

NoBo Art District First Friday. 6 p.m. Settembre

Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.

Opening for Month of Photography at The Dairy. 5

p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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

Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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

Zion I. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Something Different — A Conscious Comedy Show with Katie Rubin. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for

The Alcapones. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile

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

Andy Sydow. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs

Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.

Antonio Lopez. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar,

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

The Aristocats. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee,

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

Bleachers. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Danny Shafer and Chris Ramey. 7:30 p.m. Oskar

Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. see EVENTS Page 44

Boulder Weekly

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BLACKOUT NIGHT FRIDAY, MARCH 6 AT 7:00PM VS. TORONTO ROCK PRESENTED BY

NUGGETS VS ROCKETS Saturday, March 7 7:00 pm

NUGGETS KNICKS

Monday, March 9 7:00 pm

NUGGETS VS HAWKS Wednesday, March 11 7:00 pm YOUTH NIGHT Fans 14 and under get in free with purchase of a regular priced ticket

AVALANCHE VS KINGS Tuesday, March 10 7:00 pm

KYGO PUCK PACK $139 2 Lower or Club Level Tickets, 2 Beers or Pepsis and a $10 Altitude Authentics Gift Card

ALL TICKETS AT 303.893.TIXS TICKET FEES MAY APPLY

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A gathering place for great food, drinks & entertainment Buy Tickets: www.nissis.com

Upcoming Events & Entertainment Thursday March 5

FREE RANGE MARMOT

Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-4443133.

Dukes of Winter. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303908-6036.

The Bookseller — by Cynthia Swanson. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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

Friday, March 6

Grown Ass Man. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First

St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Journal Twenty Twenty Launch and Readings. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Irish Ceili. 5:30 p.m. Moose Lodge, 2210 Pratt

Monday, March 9

The King Stan Band Live. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675

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

St., Longmont, 303-776-4911.

Free Admission

Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Kort McCumber. 8 p.m. Ski Eldora (Corona Bar),

“Classic Dance from yesterday to today”

Saturday March 7

THE KING STAN BAND “Rhythm & Blues with Soul”

Wednesday March 11 WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUES FEATURING

JOHNNY O BAND Free Admission

Thursday March 12

VAIN BRAINS FAMILY BAND Free Admission

Friday March 13

CHRIS DANIELS & THE KINGS FEATURING

FREDDI GOWDY

FORMERLY OF THE FREDDI–HENCHI BAND

Saturday March 14

OFF THE RECORD “Variety Dance”

Sunday March 15

ST. PATRICK’S PARTY WITH BIG PADDY Tuesday March 17

FACE

“All Vocal Rock”

Wednesday March 18 WEDNESDAY NIGHT BLUES FEATURING

NIGHT SUN Free Admission

Thursday March 19

IDLEWHILE “Americana” Free Admission

Thursday, March 5

Eric Lane. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co.,

Friday March 6

SOUL SCHOOL

words

Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Tai

Tuesday, March 10 Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

2861 Eldora Ski Road, Suite140, Eldora Mountain Resort, Nederland, 303-440-8700.

MaryLynn Gillaspie. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe &

Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-3175522.

Rust: The Longest War — by Jonathan Waldman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Mayhem Gulch. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Wednesday, March 11 Descent — by Tim Johnston. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Mindbender and Flash Mountain Flood. 8 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

New Family Dog with Sally Van Meter. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. North Boulder Underground. 5:30 p.m. Vindication

Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester, Circle Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

Out of This World: A Choral Odyssey. 5 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU Boulder Campus, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-516-1004. Rocktin Grove. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade

Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Scott Hall. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simp-

son St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Shamwari Tamba, Vana Vedu. 8 p.m. The Laughing

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

Stanleytones Bluegrass Band. 6 p.m. Altona

Grange Hall, 9386 N. 39th St., Boulder, 720-3597685.

Timber. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub,

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

Wellington Bullings. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and

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

11th Annual Boulder International Film Festival. All

day. Various locations, Boulder, 303-449-2289.

Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. International Women’s Day Celebration. 7 p.m.

Out Youth Film Project. 1 p.m. Shine Restaurant

Events

Queen Christina: Gender Variant in the 1600s. 6:45

day. Various locations, Boulder, 303-449-2289.

p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 720-301-7747. Special Olympics Polar Plunge. 11 a.m. City of

Boulder Reservoir, 5565 N. 51st St., Boulder, 720-359-3100.

2675 NORTH PARK DRIVE (SE Corner of 95th & Arapahoe)

LAFAYETTE, CO 303.665.2757 44 March 5, 2015

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

ness and Medical Careers Building, 2315 N. Main St., Longmont, 720-231-6133. Hal Gould and Month of Photography Celebration. 3 p.m. Dona Laurita Gallery, 820 Main St.,

Louisville, 303-818-1616.

Andrea Chénier: Royal Opera House. 1 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Colorado-Made Fantastic Shorts. 5 p.m. The

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

Sunday, March 8

Fitness Room Open House. 12 p.m. Bob L. Burger Recreation Center, 111 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

Music

Old Man. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590

Center, 950 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-4925316.

Boulder Chorale: ‘Master Composers of the Past.’

4 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Colorado-Made Fantastic Shorts. 4 p.m. The

From Nest to Wings. 7:45 a.m. Institute of Busi-

11th Annual Boulder International Film Festival. All

Winter Craft Beer Festival. 1 p.m. Coors Event

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Exposed: Women Poets Bare Their Souls. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Out of This World: A Choral Odyssey. 6 p.m. Fiske

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Les Miserables. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through April 26. Proof. The Spark Theatre, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-3467396. Through March 28.

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Victor/Victoria. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 28.

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Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Blackberries in a Jar. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St.,

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A Celebration of Colorado Wilderness. 7 p.m. University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-6161.

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It was breakfast time on a recent Saturday morning. In Boulder, Lucky’s Café was four parties deep on the clipboard; Walnut Café was so flooded we got back in the car as soon as we got out; and the Village Coffee Shop had a line so long we just scoffed and drove right past it. Not wanting to hit up Parkway Cafe for the seventh weekend in a row, nor fuss with popular spots in Louisville like The Huckleberry, or in Lafayette like Morning Glory Cafe, we just kept on driving down South Boulder Road. When we got to the Northwest Parkway, a micro city of hospitals to the left, that’s where we found Off Campus Cafe — a little breakfast and lunch joint hidden in an office complex. Location influences food in myriad ways and Off Campus Cafe is no exception, even if the rule’s enforcement is not so apparent. Dishes here are clean and healthy, no doubt the result of being located next to the medical campus, where health-conscious doctors, recovering patients and guilty people returning from annual check-ups make up what must be a sizeable portion of

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Good beer comes from good beer makers. What makes great beer? One way is to put two good beer makers in a room together and see what happens. In that spirit operates Collaboration Fest. On Saturday, March 21 from 3-7 p.m. at Sports Authority Field, more than 70 collaborative beer projects from across the country will be on display. Tickets start at $50. Collaborations include those from Boulder County locals The Post, Twisted Pine, Upslope, Boulder Beer, West Flanders, Powder Keg and many more. Left Hand Brewing and Frisco’s Backcountry Brewery, for instance, have collaborated to make a chocolate rye weizenbock that will be available at the fest. There’s more weekend festivities, though, as there will also be an immersion course on Thursday, March 19 from 6-8 p.m. hosted by Imbibe Events, the Colorado Brewers Guild and Metro State University in Denver. Scott Kerkmans, a brewer with Alaskan Brewing Co., will lead the class and the subject will focus on the beer making industry and how to foster connections. The class will be held at MSU Denver’s Hospitality Learning Center, Demonstration Theater Room 208. Tickets are $35. Visit collaborationfest.com for more

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The High West Oyster Fest returns to Boulder on Tuesday, March 10 at eTown Hall from 6-9 p.m. The event, hosted by Jax, A class about beer collaborations is one of many cuisine-related events at local festivals in March. will include the 15th annual oyster eating competition and Harman’s Eat & Drink, Christopher the third annual oyster shucking Thompson of The Nickel and Rich Byers of competition. Food and drink will be providthe Corner Office. ed by Jax, including oysters (of course), The showdown will take place at the shrimp, chicken and crawfish gumbo, jambalaya, spicy tuna poke and cured salmon. Ritz-Carlton in Denver, and begins at 5 p.m. Tickets are $125. Tickets are $50 and available at jaxfishouse.com. All proceeds benefit There With Care, which provides support to children HOPS + HANDRAILS BEER FEST & RAIL JAM and families facing serious illness, and an On Saturday, March 28 from noon-5 anonymous donor has agreed to match p.m. at Roosevelt Park in Longmont, Left total donations and proceeds. Hand Brewing is hosting a beer fest and snowboard competition. PIG CITY The event features five hours of unlimitCochon 555 is a three-day competition ed beer tasters from more than 50 brewerfestival where the best chefs from the area ies that came in from across the country, as prepare pig-based dishes to celebrate well as a 40-foot-high snowboard ramp and local farms, heritage-bred pigs and support rail jam competition. local industry. Tickets are $30 for the festival and rail The event starts Friday, March 6 with a jam, or just $10 for the rail jam. For more three-hour, five-course chef’s dinner at The information and to buy tickets, visit Nickel in Denver, with guest chefs preparing lefthandbrewing.com. the food and Cochon 555 founder Brady Lowe on hand. WINTER WARMERS Saturday brings a four-course meal at The Winter Craft Beer Festival, brought to Colt & Gray in Denver-themed “Big Beef vs. you by the folks at Hazel’s, will feature 17 Heritage Pig,” which sounds like a fight in Colorado breweries from 2-6 p.m. at the which everybody wins. Coors Events Center in Boulder on March 7. The main event is Sunday, where five Participating breweries include Sanitas, chefs each cook a pig, aiming to prepare Breckenridge Brewery, Tivoli, Fate and the tastiest dishes and use the entirety of more. Tickets are $40 online at wintercraftthe animal. Participating chefs include Kelly beerfestival.com, and $45 at the door. Whitaker of Basta, Matt Vawter of Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Mercantile Dining & Provision, John Little of

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chemical and physical properties.” Haffenden emailed me the chemical structure of Red #2, which has been banned from use as a food additive since 1976, as a suspected carcinogen. Synthesized from petroleum products, Red #2 consists largely of circular carbon chains called benzene rings, with some protruding groups of sodium sulfate. Haffenden also sent the structures of several other artificial colors that are currently approved for

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TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Whenever I close my eyes and seek psychic visions of your near future, I see heroic biblical scenes. Moses is parting the Red Sea. Joseph is interpreting Pharaoh’s dream. Jesus is feeding 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish. What’s the meaning of my reveries? Well, this psychic stuff is tricky, and I hesitate to draw definitive conclusions. But if I had to guess, I’d speculate that you are ripe to provide a major blessing or perform an unprecedented service for people you care about.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In a New Yorker cartoon, Tom Gauld outlines “The Four Undramatic Plot Structures”: 1. “The hero is confronted by an antagonistic force and ignores it until it goes away.” 2. “The protagonist is accused of wrongdoing, but it’s not a big thing and soon gets sorted out.” 3. “The heroine is faced with a problem but it’s really difficult so she gives up.” 4. “A man wants something. Later, he’s not so sure. By suppertime he’s forgotten all about it.” In my astrological opinion, Gemini, you should dynamically avoid all four of those fates. Now is a time for you to take brave, forceful action as you create dramatic plot twists that serve your big dreams.

CANCER

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

Sneaking around isn’t necessary, Scorpio. There’s no useful power to be gained by hiding information or pursuing secret agendas. This is not a time when it’s essential for you to be a master of manipulation who’s ten steps ahead of everyone else. For now, you are likely to achieve maximum success and enjoy your life the most if you are curious, excitable and transparent. I invite you to embody the mindset of a creative, precocious child who has a loving mommy and daddy.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest. It took them seven weeks to climb the 29,029-foot peak. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh got into a bathyscaphe and sailed to the lowest point on the planet, the Mariana Trench at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. It took them four hours and 47 minutes to go down 36,070 feet. Based on my analysis of your astrological omens, I think the operative metaphor for you in the coming weeks should be the deep descent, not the steep ascent. It’s time to explore and hang out in the depths rather than the heights.

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

CAPRICORN

LEO

The African country of Ivory Coast has two different capital cities. Yamoussoukro is the official capital, while Abidjan is the actual capital, where the main governmental action takes place. I suspect there’s a comparable split in your personal realm, Capricorn: a case of mixed dominance. Maybe that’s a good thing; maybe it allows for a balance of power between competing interests. Or perhaps it’s a bit confusing, causing a split in your attention that hampers you from expressing a unified purpose. Now would be a favorable time to think about how well the division is working for you, and to tinker with it if necessary.

“To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright,” said heavyweight German philosopher Walter Benjamin, a fellow Cancerian. I am happy to report that there’s a good chance you will soon be blessed with an extraordinary measure of this worry-free selfawareness. And when you do — when you are basking in an expanded self-knowledge infused with self-love and self-appreciation — some of your chronic fear will drop away, and you will have at your disposal a very useful variety of happiness.

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

“As you get older, the heart sheds its leaves like a tree,” said French novelist Gustave Flaubert. “You cannot hold out against certain winds. Each day tears away a few more leaves; and then there are the storms that break off several branches at one go. And while nature’s greenery grows back again in the spring, that of the heart never grows back.” Do you agree with Flaubert, Leo? I don’t. I say that you can live with such resilient innocence that your heart’s leaves grow back after a big wind, and become ever-more lush and hardy as you age. You can send down such deep, strong roots and stretch your branches toward the sun with such vigor that your heart always has access to the replenishment it needs to flourish. The coming weeks will provide evidence that what I say is true.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

“I will not wait to love as best as I can,” says writer Dave Eggers. “We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.” That’s your keynote for the coming weeks, Virgo. That’s your wake-up call and the rose-scented note under your pillow and the message scrawled in lipstick on your bathroom mirror. If there is any part of you that believes love will be better or fuller or more perfect in the future, tell that part of you to shut up and embrace this tender command: Now is the time to love with all of your heart and all of your soul and all of your mind.

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DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

I’ve gone on three book tours and done my spoken-word show in scores of bookstores. But one of my favorite author events took place at the Avenue C Laundromat in New York City’s East Village. There I performed with two other writers as part of the “Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose” reading series. It was a boisterous event. All of us authors were extra loose and goofy, and the audience offered a lot of funny, good-nature heckling. The unusual location freed everyone up to have maximum amusement. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, might thrive by doing what you do best in seemingly out-of-context situations. If you’re not outright invited to do so, I suggest you invite yourself.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

When Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California in 2003, the state had the eighth largest economy in the world, right behind Italy and just ahead of Brazil. Schwarzenegger had never before held political office. When Cambodian doctor Haing Nor performed in the film The Killing Fields, for which he ultimately won an Oscar, he had no training as an actor. He was a novice. Will you try to follow in their footsteps, Pisces? Is it possible you could take on a role for which you have no preparation or seasoning? According to my divinations, the answer is yes. But is it a good idea? That’s a more complex issue. Trust your gut.

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Dear Dan: My boyfriend and I have been together three years. We plan to start a family, we are very happy together, we go on many adventures together — all that good stuff. For the past year or so, I feel like I’ve been losing my sex drive. Not just toward him but in general. I should mention that I’m 30 and he’s 25, but our age gap has always been a nonissue. I have a stressful job and am often too tired to have sex on weeknights, so we’ve pretty much gone down to having sex once a week. He has said this devastates him. He feels like I’m not attracted to him because he always initiates, and he is worried about our future sex life. I used to deny there was a problem and assure him, “No, we’re fine, I’m just tired,” etc. But I admit it’s a problem. I’ve had more than a few uncomfortable “maintenance sex” sessions wherein I sex him to make him happy, and then I wind up mad at myself for being a faker and feel resentful toward him for being so horny. I’ve recently been coming to the conclusion that he’s right: It will be bad for our future if our sexual needs are so different. Yet I don’t want to let him go because of this. I love him madly. I’m also a CUDDLE ADDICT. In my fantasy world, we cuddle all the time, we have amazing sex only when we’re worked up, and my vibrator takes care of me more often than his cock (this is already the case generally). But I don’t view this lack of sex as a negative thing. I just don’t make sex as much of a priority as he does. I could see looking the other way if he needs to get his sexual needs met by someone else or with a professional, but it makes me nervous, mostly because I’d be devastated if he fell in love with someone else. I’m not polyamorous, as so many Seattleites are, but I’m open-minded. — Sexual Needs Undermining Good Girl’s Loving Expectations

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occurred,” Eichem says. “It had been anticipated that it may happen due to the large number of unknowns when we made the projections, and the amount was not budgeted for use in 2014, so the city could wait to see what actually happened. Since it did not occur and it was not budgeted to be spent there was no operational impact on the city — and I am very glad we did it that way.” Continued problems with cannabis businesses unable to get access to the banking system means that many businesses still pay in cash. The city has adjusted its payment processing to adapt and has experienced no problems. “Normal safety features are in place for all cash transactions we handle,” Eichem says. Another factor to consider is that there were few enforcement problems or unanticipated costs. The city revoked no cannabis licenses, says Mishawn Cook, the city’s license and collection manager. She says there were six violations during the year, including ones for inoperative cameras, unapproved business managers and not making marijuana waste unusable and unrecognizable before disposal. Each was handled with a fine or other negotiated settlement. “We did have one failed compliance check for underage sale, and that was also handled with a fine,” she says. As a comparison, there are 253 issued liquor licenses in the city. In 2014, there were 17 violations, which went to the Beverage Licensing Authority for show cause hearings. So not much difference there. All in all, Eichem says he feels the city was pretty careful and deliberate in its approach to a new industry mandated by voters that had been illegal for decades and still considered criminal under federal law. There were no real unanticipated strains on the system. “The police added overtime for inspections, but no departments came back for additional funds,” Eichem says. “We did a good job.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http:// news.kgnu.org/weed CONDUCTO

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he Colorado Department of Revenue medical. There are no licensed testing facilities. released a comprehensive report on its first The city taxes all marijuana, medical or recreationyear of retail cannabis operations. It’s al, at the sales and use base rate of 3.56 percent. Bob probably not as compelling as the latest Eichem, the city’s chief financial officer, says that cat video, but it’s pretty fascinating if marijuana money contributed $1.9 million to general you’re interested in seeing how legal marijuana actual- city operations in 2014 destined for transportation, ly fared its first year. parks and recreation, open space, fire, police, library, The numbers are pretty human services, finance, etc. Susan France impressive: $700 million in Boulder voters added an total sales; about $76 million additional 3.5 percent city tax collected in state taxes; almost and a 5 percent excise tax on 5 million edibles and more grow facilities when shipping than 150,000 pounds of flowto dispensaries, and the city er weed sold. As of Dec. 31 gets a share of state taxes, all there were 15,992 employees of which are called “incre(up from 6,593 on Jan. 1) mental” revenue. For recreworking in 2,249 licensed ational cannabis, that businesses (up from 1,734 at amounted to an additional the beginning of the year). $618,602 from the city’s 3.5 Statewide, there were 833 percent tax, $430,243 from retail outlets and 505 medical the excise tax and $294,944 dispensaries with licenses. in shareback money from the Since Amendment 64 allows state. local control over sales, all that The city had estimated marijuana was sold in just 67 that it would receive $2 milof Colorado’s 321 local jurislion in incremental taxes. dictions. “However, we expected Prohibitionists like to use that it could fall short since it that last number as proof was the first year,” Eichem legalization isn’t wanted by says. So the city was prudent, citizens, but I think the oppoonly appropriating $513,470 site is true. Given cannabis’ (for extra police time, legal Kaytee Monson at the Herbal Wellness dispenpast, many jurisdictions are counsel, licensing clerks, etc.), sary. taking a wait-and-see attitude, $250,000 for youth education which is fine. But at this point and $400,000 for contingency they should begin looking carefully at what’s happenfunding. ing in places where retail sales are being allowed. “This total of $1,163,470 came out of the approxiTake Boulder as an example. Currently there are 79 mately $1.3 million actually received by the city,” businesses licensed to grow, make, infuse or sell medical Eichem explains, and that difference ($136,530) will and retail cannabis in town. That breaks down to 14 be appropriated by the city council at a future time. recreational dispensaries, 15 medical wellness centers, “The difference between the $2 million total pro22 recreational grows, 22 medical grows and six manujected for the incremental tax and the approximately facturers of infused products for both recreational and $1.3 (million) that was actually received never

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