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Highroad Corporate weasels trying to escape paying for workers’ injuries by Jim Hightower
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hen you come across a corporate lobbying group claiming to be pushing “Responsible Alternatives to Such-and-Such,” you can rightly assume that it’s really pushing something totally irresponsible, as well as malicious, self-serving and even disgusting. That’s the case of the Association
for Responsible Alternatives to Workers’ Compensation (ARAWC). Mother Jones magazine reports that this is a front group funded by hugely-profitable retail chains and other corporate behemoths that want to weasel out of compensating employees who suffer injuries at work. By law, corporations in nearly every state must carry workers’ comp insurance, but the ARAWC lobbying combine is pressuring legislators to allow the giants to opt-out of the state benefit plans and instead substitute their own, highly-restricted set of benefits. What a deal! But it’s a raw deal for injured workers. In Texas, which already has this write-it-yourself loophole, more than half of the corporate plans — get this — pay nothing to the families of workers who’re killed in job accidents! Similarly, under an ARAWCwritten opt-out provision that a Tennessee senator sponsored this year, employers wouldn’t have to cover artifi-
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cial limbs, home care or even funeral expenses of on-the-job accident victims. Also, the Tennessee bill lets a company simply walk away from maimed workers after just three years, or after paying only $300,000 in expenses. Corporations always claim to “value” their employees — and this tells us exactly how little that value is. By the way, the CEO of ARAWC also happens to be the head of “risk management” at the mingiest of workplaces: Walmart. And that’s what this opt-out scam amounts to — corporate profiteers hoping they can manage to escape paying for risking the lives of America’s workforce. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 16, 2015 5
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he Boulder City Council’s latest mantra seems to have been taken directly from the Vietnam War: It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it. How else can you explain all the crap it has allowed to be built in the 28th and 30th street corridors — and in a lot of other parts of town as well? The council’s land use and development decisions, motivated by a mindless, delusional obsession with affordable housing (whatever that is) and sustainability (whatever that means) has led to an explosion of dense, ugly development that is destroying the character of Boulder, is degrading its quality of life, and is, to paraphrase former CU President George Norlin, an affront to the Flatirons. While densification in the name of sustainability is being inflicted on any number of Boulder neighborhoods (in order to save them from the heartbreak of unsustainability), the most egregious examples are found along 28th and 30th streets (and oozing several blocks to the east in some places) from Iris to Baseline. For simplicity’s sake call the area 28th/30th Street corridor. This new development is not doing what it was supposed to do. It is not making Boulder a less autodependent and more pedestrian-friendly city. The 28th and 30th street corridor is choked with traffic, and each new multi-
unit housing, office and commercial complex adds more. There is so much traffic in the area that it is threatening to exceed the carrying capacity of the roads. Driving in the corridor sucks. The people who live in the housing complexes are not getting a higher quality of life in exchange for higher density. They’re getting a degraded one. They are getting more congestion, more noise, more pollution, more crowding and (paradoxically) more isolation from the rest of the city. The 28th/30th Street corridor is hands down the single least livable part of the city — yet that is the area that City Council has chosen for some of its most intensive residential development. Why? If you ask a council member or a planner or a developer, chances are you will get a song and dance about the virtues of “primary mixed use” development — development in which housing, shopping, restaurants and entertainment exist cheek by jowl with residential housing. This is supposed to reduce the need for cars (and the impact of an auto-dependent civilization on the environment) and make for a more pedestrian-friendly, social and humane community. It’s a beautiful theory, and there are places where it has worked, but in Boulder the theory is getting mugged by a gang of ugly little facts. see DANISH PLAN Page 8
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[District Attorney] Stan Garnett was quoted on Feb. 22, 2014, “Philosophically I have a real belief that the grand jury process is valuable.” If that statement is still true and correct, the question must be raised as to, 1. Why the grand jury did not conduct an investigation? According to the Fifth and Seventh amendments, a grand jury must be empaneled “... at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed 20 dollars....” 2. Why would the district attorney state that he is bringing forth counts on “pregnancy statutes” when statutes are not law? Additionally, a map of state fetal (baby) homicide (statutes, not) laws was removed to avoid confusion. Suppose the people within Boulder County, our society, truly had a grand jury “…over whose functioning the courts do not preside…” Justice Scalia, is it possible that a true bill, an indictment would be handed down for a prosecution of murder? Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant (as Michelle) when her and her unborn son Conner were murdered by Scott Peterson, who was sentenced to death in 2002, and remains on death row. 3. Does deceased baby Aurora have a value less than 20 dollars? Or does a district attorney have authority to decide to prosecute under statute rather than law? Charlie von Schlesien/Boulder
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Arabia, the Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. We should continue to conduct air strikes, training and covert operations in Iraq and Syria to counter ISIS. The Kurds, who are reliable Arab allies, should be well armed. Other Arabs, including so called moderates, should be sold used equipment without spare parts. With the decrease in our depen-
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The new residential housing is not gracefully connected to the nearby commercial areas by pedestrian-friendly streets with wide sidewalks lined with shops and restaurants. ( Jane Jacobs, arguably the greatest urban planner of the 20th century, called such streets “seams” between neighborhoods.) Twenty-Eighth and 30th Streets are not seams. They function as barriers, that cut off the residents of the new dense housing from the commercial areas. The commercial development along the streets is for the most part not adjacent to sidewalks, but set back from the street by parking lots, some of them hundreds of feet wide. They are auto-friendly, not pedestrian friendly. The people who live in the corridor will find it more convenient — and more pleasant — to drive to Whole Foods or to the Twenty-Ninth Street mall than to walk there. The new housing projects show little sense of proportion and less sense of place. They are not inviting. Aesthetically they run the gamut from indifferent to irritating. And collectively they are making Boulder feel more claustrophobic. Judging by outer appearances, there isn’t a mobile home park in the Boulder Valley that isn’t a more attractive housing option. Speaking of mobile home parks, if the city council is serious about providing affordable housing options, it should approve some new ones — ones in which the residents can buy the pads their homes occupy instead of having to rent them. When you don’t own the land under your house, and when your
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house can be evicted at the whim of the landlord, you can’t make long-term investments in maintaining and improving it. Your home is a depreciating asset, like a car. But when you do own the land under your house, you can invest in your home, maintain it and improve it. And then it becomes an appreciating asset. Mobile homes are the private sector’s great affordable housing success story. Boulder has a long history of treating them and their owners shabbily and giving them short shrift, which is as stupid as it is rude. Boulder’s problem is that it is trying to stuff too much stuff into the town. It isn’t that it can’t be done. It’s that it can’t be done without doing real violence to the town’s environment, character and quality of life. The City Council does not have a political mandate to densify Boulder. Quite the opposite. Projects that remotely smell of increasing the density in existing neighborhoods routinely draw ferocious opposition from the neighbors — mixed use, affordable housing and sustainability be damned. It’s been that way for more than 30 years. I can’t recall a single public hearing — and I’ve sat through two or three dozen — at which a neighborhood welcomed densification or mixed-use development. The political mandate is for less development, not more — even if it has been green-washed in the name of sustainability or white-washed in the name of affordability. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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101-WORD FICTION WINNERS See photo credits at the end of the section
ABOUT Top entries for Laird Hunt Laird Hunt is the author of Neverhome, Office at Night, Kind One, The Impossibly, The Paris Stories, Ray of the Star, The THE Exquisite and Indiana, Indiana. His novel Kind One was a finalist for the 2013 Pen/Faulkner award and the 2013 Pen USA Literary award Fiction and winner of the 2013 Ainisfield-World Book Award for Fiction. He lives in Boulder and teaches for JUDGE the University ofinDenver’s creative writing program. 1. The Gunslinger’s Daughter
In the ravine behind their second or third home, where it flattened out and some trees had keeled over and died, he taught her how to shoot at the debatable age of six. She’d run around collecting bottles, which they’d set in a row along some mossy log or use to ornament the branches of an unlucky pine. He had started a beard and it rested on her shoulder: “Make it, and you, a line to your target. Hold your breath like in the lake.” Later, the memory would appear as a stain in her whiskey glass, straight rye two fingers. — Griffin Suber
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The disease came first for our first kiss. One morning, hands against the counter and eyes on the coffee maker, I realized that kiss was gone. I asked you to remind me. I’m sure you did, but it didn’t stick. The mind goes strange places in search of bricks to fill in windows where there should be walls. I imagine mermaid kisses, mountaintop swoons, horses striding toward the sunset. It didn’t go that way and is unlikely to change course now. But my hands remember how to pour your coffee, stir in your cream and hand you the cup to hold. — Caroline Sweetman
3. Untitled I have no experience living in a railcar. I ended up there after I lost my career. Not my fault. “Downsizing.” It wasn’t long until my wife left for another guy. Today I woke up seeing only red violet. I stay coherent, moving and floating slowly in that color. Drugs? Not at all. It isn’t easy to focus on what needs healing next. My spiritual health should probably come first. For now I’d like to stay in this tranquil place by a lake. A bucolic stop in my head. Maybe I can leave this boxcar soon. After the sun breaks through. — Gregory Iwan
HONORABLE MENTIONS When We Moved to the Moon
Things were a lot different when we moved to the moon. The Apollo Dome was still enclosed then; just a tiny speck of alien greenery clinging to the side of a dead space rock, all craters and endless fields of dust. At night Old Earth climbed the horizon and looked down on us as we lay sleeping, with the terraforming equipment rumbling deep below. We packed in everything we could to make it feel like home: grass, trees, 10 April 16, 2015
beautiful things to protect us from the emptiness outside. But the songbirds never lasted. They kept flying into the sides of the dome. — Sam Larson
Oral Histories, Elephant Grass (see facing page) Boulder Weekly
101-WORD FICTION FINALISTS entries for Daniel Grandbois ABOUT Top Daniel Grandbois is the author of the novel The Hermaphrodite: An Hallucinated Memoir, the poetry and flash fiction collecUnlucky Lucky Days and its follow-up prose poetry collection, Unlucky Lucky Tales. His writing has also appeared in THE tion Conjunctions, Boulevard, Mississippi Review and Fiction. He received a master’s in fine arts in poetry from Bennington College JUDGE and now lives in Colorado, where he plays bass in the Denver-based band Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. 1. Elephant Grass
The last elephant put the circus behind her, leaving no forwarding address. They’d offered her sanctuary, but it seemed a poor choice to gain your freedom and then so soon give it away. She’d simply packed her trunk and said goodbye. She headed west, leaving footprints like platters in the asphalt, kicking up dust on dirt roads, until the coolness of grass told her she was home. There were pumpkins and sweet water — a fine place to be. Then a man spotted her and stood, gawk-eyed, waiting. She knew how to dance, but she chose not to. — Jane Imber
2. New, clear warfare Dream: He was a pilot and a bomber, dropping the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen: love-bombs. Over the enemy’s capital, he unleashed a barrage of winks, crushes, temptations, and first kisses, packed into twenty iron eggs. They fall slowly, almost drifting, but explode on impact, hatching sunsets, candle-lit dinners, heart-shaped mushroom clouds, and emotional bliss. Back at the base, the commander: “Take a break, gents. We invade in 10 months.” But then, an infant’s scream. The bomber rolls over. His wife: “Your turn, dear.” He gets out of bed, realizing he’s already lost the war. — Russell Matney
3. Oral Histories He sits his little girl on a knee and exaggerates his father’s accent to make her throw her head back in fits. She wants a story. Which princess or mermaid is it this time? He wonders when it will be time to tell of the war this country, the country where she was born, waged in his homeland. Or to press into her imagination the taste of fresh goat’s milk from his grandfather’s farm and the lard his mother added to her famous bread. And sunlight on lime trees, and the way salt would dry on his lips in the summertime. — Sarah Zhang
HONORABLE MENTIONS Echoes The rumpled collar of Zhang Wei’s Mao jacket flutters against his neck as he picks his way around pave stones scattered by a decade of unchecked weeds. This lot used to fill every weekend. Bureaucrats with fat wives poured in from the suburbs of Guangzhou to eat jackfruit and steamed buns while their squealing children braved the roller coaster. They stopped coming after the accident. But Wei still hobbles from his empty home, past the rusting gates, and into the booth every morning. He rocks the control lever to the left and grins. He can still hear them scream. — Jeffrey Stutsman
Cyril’s Puzzles
Along the clinically white hallway of the active seniors’ home hang dozens of Cyril’s puzzles, framed simply. The Meals on Wheels volunteer decides after delivering to the tall, lank gentleman that she will purchase him a puzzle to do. Clearly he enjoys them. Cyril accepts his hot meal, milk, bread, apple, and new 500-piece puzzle the next week with a look of dread in his eyes. Two weeks later, he gifts it to the young woman in a plain black frame like the rest. “Please don’t bring me anymore puzzles,” he says. She hands him his meal; he closes the door. — Ashley Teatum See FICTION Page 12
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1992 As vacant hours ran through our hair, sunlight slid between the whitewashed boards of the fence, laying lazy lines against the green that guards your childhood home. Another tumultuous time pulled clean by the reach and pull of the shore — a roar in the distance — and the hazy way you would laugh then, eyes squinting at the sun. This is how I choose to remember you: All scabbed knees and escape plans. Still sheltered. — Courtney Clarkson Farrell
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We saw Annie at the concert last night. I recalled our first meeting. Joseph brought her by and introduced her as his daughter, though she was a foster child. She didn’t speak, just hid behind him and peeked out avoiding eye contact. She never spoke. Born addicted and alcoholic, the first thirty days of her life were in withdrawal. For seven years she never spoke. A tiny girl, hidden behind the cellos, only the white top of her bassoon and her music proved her existence there. During applause we caught a glimpse of her smile. The music was exquisite. We spoke. — T. Cotter Stephenson
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The conditions were much less than perfect as we approached the summit. Being too late to turn back we honed in on all of the experiences that brought us to this moment. The sky opened up and let loose as thunder clapped, startling us. With the earth shaking beneath us, we made eye contact and subtly nodded, this was it. “Climbing,” I shouted, above the clouds, as I heard static electricity transmit between the ropes and ’biners. Wiping my face dry, I dug in for the final push. High step to mantel, my foot slipped and I launched into the abyss. — Andrew Zimmerman
Pringle’s just a part of the family, you know? There was no question of doing everything possible, like the $100s every week in medications, the wheeled cart for his paralyzed back legs, or carrying him up and down the stairs. So maybe he can’t lift a leg to pee on other dogs at the park anymore, but it’s about quality of life. On his wheels, he can still snap at delivery folks, can still roll into a room just to fart bomb everyone, but no, don’t pet him. He still bites, too. See? Same old asshole. Good dog, Pringle. Good dog. — Kate Jonuska
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I’d been feeling very lost, so I went out into the world to find myself. It became clear very quickly that it was no small feat. How do you find yourself without knowing where to look? In panic, I poured over the places I’d been many times before. Searching endlessly. Days, weeks, years. It was a blur. Until at last I found the truth. I’d never find myself in the places I’d been before — that was my past. To see my future, I had to go where I’d never been before. And that is where I found myself at last. — Jessi Dazzo
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soldier eats, sleeps and environment,” Ruprecht says. “Or works all day surrounded by domestic violence issues. They come companions who have home to their spouse, and the anger promised to protect him, and the PTSD and the moral injury people that soldier would create a lot of injury between the die for, and who he has promised to spouses because the husband, typically protect at a moment’s notice. the husband, will not interact, be quiet, “Especially being deployed and and when he does interact it will be in being with this core group of people angry outbursts, and that causes folks that you’re in a hostile situation with, to call 911.” doing everything with them Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force from sleeping, eating, fighting, using the bathroom — everything — your entire day is based upon that kind of community you build with the folks you’re serving with and then you come back, you get off active duty and as you know, it’s not that,” says Greg Ruprecht, an Army infantry veteran who served in Desert Storm and is now a law enforcement officer and veterans liaison with the Longmont Police Department. “You don’t have the 20 people you do everything with, so it’s a shock to the system of the veteran and the veteran tends to feel isolated.” Veterans may also return with a sense of moral injury — a new term for the sense some soldiers experience of having had their morals constantly torn down by their experiences during combat. That paired with the isolation or flashbacks or blackouts brought on by post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can all Law enforcement has been working land a veteran in a place that has easy to bring about solutions to those issues access to the wrong side of the law. from all angles, he says, and they’re “All those factors, they tend to cre- making veterans awareness programs a ate a lot of contacts with the police, part of in-service meetings and yearly whether it’s through issues surroundtraining so officers better understand ing PTSD, where they’re inside their why a veteran might be acting that apartment screaming, pounding on the way and how to deal with them. walls and alerting neighbors, to hey, “[Veterans are] coming from a something terrible is happening in that world of guns and uniforms and when Boulder Weekly
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an officer may come up and be too authoritative, or be a little too aggressive in their interaction with the veteran, it can cause the veteran to regress,” he says. Community awareness also needs to step up — and that’s where the Veterans Awareness Series forums from Veterans Helping Veterans Now and sponsored by the City of Boulder Community Event Fund comes in. Soldiers have also been trained to spot a threat and respond to it without taking an extra second to assess whether the threat is real or perceived when those seconds might cost a life. “You’re not going to take the time to see, you’re going to react,” Ruprecht says. “We train these guys — they trained me, they train us to be that way, but they don’t de-train you when they let you go.” That can lead to fights in bars and incidences of domestic violence, cops called and criminal charges. None of it helps guys coming home, or the families and friends that surround them. When Jenn Calaway came home from the Marine Corps, where she worked as a broadcast journalist in Japan covering coalition forces exercises and completed a tour in Afghanistan, making the right decisions after years of not having to make decisions for herself was part of a tough transition. “We were told how to do everything for so long that all these choices were really overwhelming,” she says. “Shopping at the grocery store, it was so hard, there are so many choices and so many colors and I didn’t even really know how to take care of myself. It
was really hard. I remember one day just sitting on my floor, and it was going back to basics from boot camp, like, tie my left shoe, tie my right shoe. … It was really hard, and it was made twice as hard by the amount of alcohol I was drinking.” Even after she’d started college at the University of Colorado, where she is still a student working toward a degree in public relations, drinking like she had when she was in the Marines continued to be a problem. “Sometimes when I would be under the influence and be kind of roaming around town, I would feel like I was above the law, I had moments where I was kind of cocky: ‘I’ve deployed, I’ve done my service, I’ve done my time, and these rules don’t apply to me,’” Calaway says. Eventually, she landed an alcoholrelated charge. “The judge gave me a talking to, and I heard it, for the first time in my life,” Calaway says. “[He said,] ‘You’re a marine, you should be contributing to your community rather than being a nuisance to it.’” Her sentencing called for the kind of oversight and guidance she wasn’t given as she left the military, like alcohol classes and check-ins with a guidance counselor. She joined AA and is still sober and in the program. “I think that especially when there’s substances involved, veterans can get really misguided and just get astray, so I think it’s important to note that they’re often just astray and there’s so much potential to turn this person around into a contributing member of community,” Calaway says. At least one district court in Colorado has a veterans court specifically to handle those cases, and the subsidiary issues surrounding veterans, like a drug court takes into account that sending an addict to jail isn’t likely to solve the problem without incorSee VETERANS Page 18
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porating methods like drug counseling times tied to that population — alcoor community-based programs. holism, homelessness, drug abuse and Boulder County is not one of those, trespassing among them, as well as but Deputy District Attorney J.P. mental health issues broadly tied to Martin, himself an Air Force veteran, PTSD, traumatic brain injuries and says they do what they can to include depression. a person’s veteran status into the “Those issues present a real dilem360-degree review done of every case ma, a moral dilemma, as far as how and particularly to make that a part of culpable is that person,” Martin says. the discussion when it comes time for When veterans are willing to take sentencing. responsibility for The goal is to their actions, try to solve the they might be problem and help given a plea the person, and a offer that called court can order a for mental veteran to pursue health treatment, SITTING IN A JAIL CELL the services many PTSD treatment THINKING, ‘I SERVED veterans will not or alcohol treatMY COUNTRY, I SAW seek out on their ment to tackle own, Ruprecht the problem at TERRIBLE THINGS, I DID says. its source. When TERRIBLE THINGS AND “It’s very simthose plea deals THIS IS WHAT I GET.’” ilar to restorative aren’t taken and justice,” he says. the case goes to — GREG RUPRECHT, “It shows the perjury trial, he VETERAN AND LAW son, you did a says, he sees ENFORCEMENT OFFICER wrong, we don’t Boulder County want to punish juries being very you, we want to sympathetic to help you to not do those who have that.” served. Charging someone labels Sentencing isn’t their purview, of them as a criminal, both in their own course, but jurors will often send eyes and in the eyes of the community, emails or letters after the verdict statand that can lead to that person coning that the jury would like to see tinuing to behave as they’ve been seen this individual get treatment, not just and see themselves — as a criminal. jail time. “That veteran is going to be sitting “Jurors in the same sentence will in a jail cell thinking, ‘I served my say, ‘That’s absolutely horrible, I’m so country, I saw terrible things, I did ter- sorry for what you’ve experienced, but rible things and this is what I get,’” you can’t do that to your girlfriend,’” Ruprecht says. Martin says. “Being a veteran and While it’s tough to name specific transitioning from years in the military patterns in Boulder County because into a civilian world, it’s not easy and there aren’t huge numbers of veterans you don’t even have to be a PTSD sufin the area, Martin says, there are ferer to realize that it’s a big, dramatic some general low-level crimes sometransition.”
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ust outside Leadville, The Lake County waste tire legislation in June 2014, requiring the Landfill lies somewhat hidden along the shutdown of tire landfills by 2024, the state had a Mineral Belt Trail by a border of Aspen problem — what to do with 600,000 tons of tires. trees. The dump showcases a growing probSimilarly, landfills are housing tons of solid waste. lem in Colorado, and the world for that With tire stockpile owners scrambling to meet the matter — our trash just isn’t going away. requirements of Colorado’s new law and plenty of With the costs and difficulties often associated municipal waste lying idle, pyrolysis could be the with recycling, especial- WikiCommons/Gary Miller light at the end ly in Colorado’s rural of the trash tuncommunities, our state’s nel. 72 solid waste landfills Coloradoare filling up and based companies expanding. A new proCreative Energy cess in development Systems (CES) known as pyrolysis is and CH2E are being touted as a soluboth seeking to tion to this growning create pyrolysis problem, but according markets in Colorado. to several reports, it Looking at sites may actually create in Morgan and more problems than it Otero counties, solves. CES is looking Pyrolysis, according Boulder County alone produces 250,000 tons of garbage a year. to potentially to the Center for Public build two plants Environmental focused on turnOversight, chemically ing solid waste from Colorado’s landfills into energy. decomposes organic materials using an oxygen-free CH2E signed a letter of intent with German compaprocess. While there are numerous types of pyrolysis, waste is typically transformed into various gases, ny Pyrolyx AG to build a plant geared toward repursmall quantities of liquid and a residue containing posing the 60 million tires housed in CH2E’s carbon and ash. What makes pyrolysis such an attrac- Hudson, Colo. facility. Despite the applicability of tive alternative to typical landfill and stockpiling pyrolysis technologies in numerous industries, the practices is that minimal fossil fuels are needed to energy produced through the treatment process may jumpstart the process. After a quick kick from connot be enough for commercial production facilities. ventional fuels, the technology powers itself while With larger plants like the three proposed in creating additional energy or fuel. Colorado, the process may require more energy than With no direct flame, many of the issues associat- it produces, creating problems for the communities ed with incineration technologies, such as harmful air that build them. emissions, are avoided. “Scaling up has been one of the downfalls for a After Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Colorado’s lot of [pyrolysis] projects,” says John Persichetti, an
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associate professor researching bio-fuels and wasteto-energy (WTE) technologies at the Colorado School of Mines. “This is a relatively new problem, and we’re still learning how to scale up some of these reactors. [But] it’s not insurmountable.” Other research supports Persichetti’s position. “It is a research challenge to optimize the [pyrolysis] process by maximizing product quality and quantity while paying proper attention to minimizing costs and environmental concerns,” a Central Queensland University study of pyrolysis processes states. “Although a lot of studies have been conducted on pyrolysis economy, most of those were limited in small or pilot scale production. Detail[ed] economical assessment of industrial scale pyrolysis plant[s] may be required to establish this technology as a competitor with conventional energy and other alternative energy sources.” Using information provided by CES, a Colorado Department of Public Health and Education report concludes that the two proposed operations in Otero and Morgan counties would be “the largest pyrolysisfor-energy production facilities in the world.” And with solid waste from landfills required to fuel the plants, a steady stream of waste will be required to keep the plants running — even after existing landfills have been depleted. In the past, WTE companies have instituted “put-or-pay” contracts that “require municipalities to pay a predetermined monthly fee … regardless of whether it makes economic or ecological sense to do so in the future,” according to a report by the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives. “As a result, these contracts destroy the financial incentives for a city to reduce and separate its waste at the source, and reuse, recycle and compost.” Highlighting a common obstacle in the pyrolysis treatment process, Persichetti agreed with the GAIA See WASTE Page 22
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“I think that further research is definitely needed to make determinations about what will give us the best outcome in the long term,” Griek says. “I know that the tire monofills are under pressure to close within a certain number of years and therefore would look at something like pyrolysis as a great way for dealing with those tires. But I don’t know that they’re looking at the big picture.” Monofills are required to stop adding to their stockpiles in 2018 and focus on depleting their remaining supply. Brian Gaboriau, waste tires grant administrator at the CDPHE, says pyrolysis could be a powerful tool in creating a new market for existing waste tires, as well as repurpose Colorado’s tires in the future. “With the changes last year with House Bill 14-1352, we’re trying to do some changes and we’re trying to make them positive,” Gaboriau says. “Because at the end of the day, we all know that 2018 will be here before we know it, so we want to make sure that we have a good program and that we have sustainable markets out there for the tires. … When those tires have value, then they have a place to go.” Due to the difficulties behind characterizing more rubbery materials, Persichetti advises steering clear of tire pyrolysis. But he says he still sees the process as an extremely promising prospect. “In general, [pyrolysis] is on a pretty good track,” Persichetti says. “But it, in some cases, could still be a decade away. In other cases, we’re at a point of demonstrating some better application of some newer technologies to improve the efficiency.” Boulder Weekly
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hen world-renowned ocean explorer Robert Ballard undertook a mission to find the wreckage of RMS Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in April 1912, that story was actually a cover operation. In truth, Ballard says, he was on a series of highly classified military missions to find U.S. submarines that had been lost during the Cold War. Ballard’s team had a relative idea as to where the submarines went off the grid, which meant the main objective of the mission wasn’t to discover their location. Instead, Ballard says, he and his team were sent to collect nuclear weapons that had been inside one of the sunken watercrafts. The mission had to be executed without drawing the attention of the Soviets, and a cover operOcean explorer Robert Ballard has been a part of more than 120 ocean expeditions — locating ation to find RMS Titanic could the RMS Titanic and discovering hydrothermal vents off the Galapagos Islands, to name a few. deflect attention. “It worked,” Ballard says with a chuckle. By 1985, after Ballard and his team succeeded in securing the nuclear weapons from the sunken submarine, they went on to discover the wreck of the luxury liner that collided with an iceberg a century ago. The submarines and RMS Titanic aren’t the only historically significant sites Ballard has had a hand in discovering. He has also on Earth. There is more history in the views them as a product of his ocean tracked down the German battleship deep sea than all of the museums in the exploration at large, and that exploraKMS Bismarck, the lost fleet of world,” Ballard says. “And we’re only tion can provide a window to the future Guadalcanal and the U.S. aircraft carri- now learning that history.” of our planet. er USS Yorktown, just to name a few. While Ballard is widely known for Prior to his discovery of RMS “The deep sea is the largest museum his historical shipwreck discoveries, he Titanic, Ballard took part in an expedi-
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tion he considers his most significant. In 1977, he acted as the cochief scientist of an expedition that led to the discovery of hydrothermal vents at the Galapagos Rift, which lies about 250 miles from the Galapagos Islands. Ballard says this discovery rewrote the origin of life on this planet. “We found, in a world of total darkness, a complete ecosystem that was living not off the sun, but off the energy of the earth through a process we call chemosynthesis,” Ballard says. “It is in these hydrothermal vents where we believe life started on planet Earth.” Ballard’s curiosity for the ocean, and what lies beneath the waves, came about at a young age. Growing up in San Diego, Ballard lived not only near the ocean, but also in close proximity to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “So basically, I am a product of my environment,” Ballard says. He went on to read Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which fueled his interest in oceans. Ballard started walking around looking at tidal pools and eventually learned to snorkel and scuba dive, but it wasn’t until his junior year of high school that his future career path was set in motion. Ballard wrote to Scripps and asked what a young man like himself might be able to do to get involved in the field. The response from the research institution included information on a scholarship program they had for high school students; a scholarship see EXPLORING Page 26
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for which Ballard applied and subsequently received. Ballard went to sea in the summer of 1959 and says he fell in love with the whole process. After years of working in the field of ocean exploration and making both historical and scientific discoveries that work to provide a better understanding of the planet as it is and as it could ultimately be, Ballard founded the Ocean Exploration Trust in 2008. In addition to exploring the ocean and conducting research, much of which is done from the 64-meter Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus, the Ocean Exploration Trust also offers their expedition experiences to explorers on shore through a technology known as telepresence. “If we find something that’s of interest, then we simply network people to the bottom of the ocean so that they don’t have to physically be there anymore,” Ballard says. “It’s all electronic travel.” The Ocean of Exploration Trust calls their team aboard the Nautilus the Corps of Exploration, similar to Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, Ballard says. Together, they hold three main objectives. First, they work to be the leader in the development of exploratory technology. Second, they take that technology to explore where no one has explored before, and finally, they use their technology and the discoveries they’ve made to spark an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education within the minds of the next generation of explorers. “Our mantra is to go where no one has gone before on planet Earth,” Ballard says. Ballard has been a part of more than 120 dives in a career that spans more than 50 years to explore the history and the science of the ocean. He is on a quest to better understand the planet as it is now, and as it may be in
the future. And whether that quest is composed of research in the field of archeology, biology, geology or the like, Ballard says it’s all done to better understand the planet we live on. “The Earth is reacting to us, and I think we need to understand that it might ultimately be able to kill us,” Ballard says. “So we need to figure out how to sort of strike a peaceful relationship with it, and the only way we can do that is to understand the creature itself and what makes it tick.” The Corps of Exploration recently embarked on a six-month field expedition that will explore sites ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to British Columbia. One leg of the expedition will take the team to the location of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to look into the ecosystem responses and effects of the spill. Ballard says dispersants used in response to oil spills pose a particular set of problems for oceanic ecosystems due to their toxicity, so this leg of the expedition will focus largely on figuring out how to best respond to the next oil spill and give guidance to others on how to do the right thing. Other legs of the expedition will take the team to Panama, through the Panama Canal and on to the Galapagos Islands, the area in which Ballard discovered hydrothermal vents years ago. Here, they will explore the biological diversity and geological structures of the foundation of the Galapagos Islands and the surrounding area to the north. At 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, Robert Ballard will be speaking at the UMC Glenn Miller Ballroom on the University of Colorado Boulder campus as a guest of the Distinguished Speakers Board. He will deliver a lecture on his most recent work and share findings from expeditions that resulted in his discovery of sites of historical significance.
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Hiking in the Greek Islands. 7 p.m. 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-786-8406. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 Signs of a Living Planet: Seeing Earth Through Lafayette Open Spaces. 6 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 West Baseline Road, Lafayette. Earth Day Wildflower Walk. 5:30 p.m. Foothills Trailhead, just north of Boulder on Highway 36. Heil Valley Ranch 2 Open House. 6 p.m. Parks & Open Space Building, 5201 St. Vrain Road, Longmont, 303-678-6271. To list your event, send information to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. attn: “Adventure.”
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GRABBING THE PIE IN THE SKY THE OFFICE OF ARTS AND CULTURE DETAILS PLAN FOR CULTURAL IMPROVEMENT BY AMANDA MOUTINHO
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hile revitalizing a city’s art scene seems like a daunting task, there are people in Boulder working to make it a reality. Think: more venues, more art districts, more festivals and more resources for artists and the community. “We want to make sure it’s a realistic plan, not just some pie in the sky,” Martin Cohen said in the Taste Test, a series of meetings held April 9 and 10 to discuss the future of Boulder’s cultural scene. Cohen is one of the consultants from the Cultural Planning Group that is working alongside the Office of Arts and Culture to assess the cultural needs of Boulder and how to address them. In the fall, they took to the streets to find out what Boulderites wanted with a series of community outreach events called the Culture Kitchen. Through these events, they learned Boulderites want more outlets for the arts. They also found that Boulder is composed of a lot of artists who want more venues to showcase and cultivate their work. With this response, the team has outlined a blueprint for the future and is working toward a plan that will unfold over the next nine years, focusing on three-year increments. Partners and staff of the Office of Arts and Culture held the Taste Test so members of the community could hear a presentation of their findings and engage in a dialogue about the future, all in an effort to draft a cultural plan for Boulder. The meetings drew 10 to 20 community
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members, both artists and non, and the voices were loud and passionate. “The conversation has been really robust and sophisticated,” says Matt Chasansky, manager of the Office of Arts and Culture. “We’ve been challenged on a lot of great things, which is exactly what we needed. It was our worst fear that the room would be absolutely silent or that there would just be consent.” The missions they’ve identified are to grow Boulder’s creative vitality, make arts and culture a civic priority, elevate Boulder’s cultural identity, and to enhance the visual and experimental environment. To achieve those goals, they’ve divided the strategies into six parts: building resources for cultural organizations and for artists; fostering environment for artists and creatives; building awareness in the community; providing access, inclusion and equity; making a public art plan and increasing cultural facilities and spaces. Some examples include supporting art districts, throwing neighborhood-focused festivals, developing cultural spaces in the community and providing resources for artists. The next step is finalizing a draft of the plan. Chasansky says they will gather everything they heard through the Taste Test and wrap up some ongoing research projects including a benchmark study, a creative vitality index study, cultural asset mapping and a study of foundational documents. He plans to also attend city board and commission meetings, which will be another chance for the public to weigh in. All of this inforsee PIE IN THE SKY Page 30
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mation, including dates and times of meetings, will be available on their website (boulderarts.org). He says they will present a final draft to City Council at their July 14 meeting and will hopefully begin right away with implementation. While the plan seems thoroughly thought through, it all boils down to implementation, and there was some skepticism at the meetings. “One of the things I find a lot in Boulder is an idea is presented and everyone gets excited, but then the follow-through doesn’t seem to happen — the actual making-it-real part,” said artist Sally Eckert. To answer this question, Jerry Allen, of the Cultural Planning Group, said that each step of the process will be met with an identification of resources, strategies, timelines and searching for commitment in the community from organizations or citizens to provide further support. They anticipate problems will arise, but Allen reassured meeting attendees that they’re focused on action-oriented plan-making. The strength of those strategies will be assessed as the plan continues to evolve. One big concern rose to the top during the meeting: “We all know,” Eckhart said, “it’s all about the money.” The plan calls for an increase of the Office of Arts and Culture’s grants program, meaning doubling the current budget of $250,000 to $500,000. That money will then be repurposed to create tools and resources for cultural organizations, including building capacity, creating innovation funds and sponsoring different projects in the community. With the new plan, Chasansky says he hopes the city staff will see the value in the arts and will repurpose funds. “It’s about priorities for the community,” Chasansky says. “This [plan] should demonstrate to City Council and to city staff that the community’s priorities for art are at a new level. There have been priorities about open space, social service and municipalization of the electrical system. If the arts are elevated to that level — and [the plan] should be the proof of that — it should back up any decision making for the budget.” As the project expands, he says, he hopes the funding options will continue to grow. He knows the key for the future is continuous cash flow so that organizations can count on funding even in times of change. “The fact of the matter is that when there’s an economic downturn or different initiatives come up, the arts are the first to be scrutinized for reduction,” he says. “In order to create a type of pro30 April 16, 2015
gram that the community is demanding, we need that sustainable funding.” As ambitious as this plan is, it begs the question of executable manpower. Right now the Office of Arts and Culture only has two full-time employees, Chasansky says. The office also receives substantial help from library employees, volunteers, different departments within the city and from various cultural organizations around Boulder, but he sees an obvious need for more people to help execute the plan, which will hopefully come after City Council approval. “We need to grow,” he says. “We need to have the help and the partnerships and more volunteers in the future. We do need to be honest about the fact that this is going to require a large amount of people that we don’t have yet. We need to staff up.” One place they’ll be looking for help, Chasansky says, is the community. Part of their plan is to integrate more artists into positions of power on boards and committees. City councilwoman Mary Young attended the April 10 meeting to show her support of the project. She said that it all starts with making connections “The process is very open — open to anyone,” Young said. “The only constraint on an applicant is if they live in the city. ... [Being on a council] is a really good way to influence policy. That’s how you begin to infiltrate.” But several members of the crowd insisted there needs to be trickle-down effect from the top to pull in key people. Some meeting attendees insisted that artists can be introverted and don’t usually partake in these roles. Artist Nii Armah Sowah said that there’s an intimidation factor that stops people from joining boards and committees. Originally from Ghana, Sowah also pointed out a need for diversity in these conversations. “A lot of minority groups and artists do not push themselves into higher positions because they don’t want to be dismissed,” Sowah said. “So how do we get invitations? [It’s about] identifying key people and reaching out.” Diversity, or lack thereof, is an issue that surfaced frequently in the meetings. Out of the estimated 2,000 people surveyed, only about 4 percent were self-identified as Latino, 3 percent African American and 1 percent Asian. There’s a consensus that these numbers need to increase to include diversity among ethnicities, generations and economic class. Chasansky says he plans to reach out to diverse communities and identify organizations to work with. He says he
wants to work to properly represent these voices in the community and have authentic conversations about what those communities want. “[The survey number] doesn’t meet our very high expectations of this plan,” he says. “We’d like to overcorrect for those groups and understand their needs fully. We want to do more work to build some trust, build some bridges and continue to make sure these programs are the right fit for everyone involved.” Apart from diversity issues, the attendants of the meeting were antsy to get projects rolling and concerned about the nine-year timeline. One specific element they’d love to see is a proposed website that will aggregate all the cultural events happening around town. The immediate goals, what Chasansky calls the “low-hanging fruits,” include public art and the grants program. Not everything will take nine years, but he also begs for some patience. At the conclusion of the meetings, it was clear that much more work needs to be done. While some questions went unanswered, that’s not surprising in this stage of the plan. The mission of the Taste Test was to present the findings, gather feedback and identify weak spots. Now, Chasansky says, they can look to the future with a clearer vision. Accountability for future success ultimately falls with the public. The Office of Arts and Culture will be a commited to being transparent and setting deadlines, Chasansky says, but now the community has to get involved. “If this plan’s going to be successful, people need to come forward. I’m not worried about it, honestly. The response to these events have shown that there are passionate people in the community,” Chasansky says. “There aren’t a million people showing up, but the people who are showing up are convening on their own to have discussions. We want to erase all barriers. … If this really is a civic priority, then they’ll show up. And it is. And they will.” Eckert says she felt better after attending the meeting. She sees a clear structure and plan for the future, and she also acknowledges the vital role of the community. As an artist, she says, she’s learned to speak up because no one is going to do it for her. “We need everyone to get up, stand up, write letters saying, ‘Yes. This is important,’” she says. “You want to keep Boulder, Boulder? Keep the artists here. Bottom line. … They have a good structure, but now it’s up to the public to implement it. I see this as a good step, but now it’s up to us to do the work.” Boulder Weekly
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overtones Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ inspires CU production of a Baroque masterpiece
ON THE BILL: The Coronation of Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, CU Eklund Opera Program, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, April 23 to 25 and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 26. Music Theater, Imig Music Building, 18th St. Boulder, 303-492-8008, www.cupresents.org.
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oppea wants to be “There is a lot of violence,” empress, and the Holman says. “We have plenty of emperor wants killings, we have a suicide, and there is a lot of [implied] sex. I Poppea. would not recommend that chilNero and Poppea dren come to see it unless their were the amoral power couple of parents see that it’s OK for them.” 60s A.D. imperial Rome, and The ending is one of the they didn’t care who got in their most beautiful and breathtakingly way. They are the subjects of ambivalent scenes in opera. After Claudio Monteverdi’s final operall rivals have been killed or atic masterpiece, The Coronation exiled, Nero and Poppea are marof Poppea, based on Roman hisried with great rejoicing. Having tory and written in 1653 for the triumphed through brutality and carnival season in Venice. treachery, they sing a rapturous The University of Colorado love duet. And here you have two Boulder Eklund Opera Program of the most detestable characters production of The Coronation of in opera, singing utterly beautiful Poppea will be presented music. Thursday through Sunday, April As uncomfortable as that 23 to 26, in the Music Theater of ending might be today, in the Imig Music Building. Leigh Monteverdi’s time the impact Holman will direct, and the may have been even greater and music director will be Nicholas A ruthless, power-hungry couple from two millennia ago shows not much has changed since ancient Rome. more ironic. Venetian audiences Carthy. of 1653 probably knew Roman The similarity between Nero history, and they would have and Poppea and the characters on Netflix advertising image of the known that the marriage lasted only a certain popular television series gave Lincoln Memorial, are incorporated three years. In a fit of rage, Nero kicked Holman an idea how to make the opera into the production. Poppea to death in 65 A.D. more vivid. On the other hand, Holman The disquieting ending is only one “Coronation of Poppea is all about sex respects the dramatic integrity of the of the things that makes The Coronation and politics and power, and if you’ve opera. of Poppea unusual. Another is the fact seen House of Cards, it’s the exact same “The Netflix series inspired this that the original copies have been lost thing,” she says. “It’s about a powerproduction, but it’s not the House of and the opera has to be reconstructed hungry, vicious man and his powerCards,” she says. from incomplete and conflicting later hungry, vicious girlfriend.” For one thing, Nero has already versions. The inspiration takes several forms. ascended to power when the opera Long passages of the opera only For one, the opera production is set in opens. Nero and Poppea are married to exist as a voice part with a bass line. Washington, D.C., in a fictitious future others, but Poppea is determined to Among the various sources, the number close in time to House of Cards. become empress, and Nero is infatuated and order of scenes varies considerably. Costumes and settings recall the TV with the beautiful and ruthless Poppea. It is not even certain how much and series. Scenic elements, including How they dispose of the obstacles to what parts of the opera were composed Georgetown architecture and the iconic their desires forms the plot of the opera.
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by Monteverdi. Over the past 50 years there have been many versions, some for lush orchestras of modern instruments, others using only instruments and performance techniques that would have been available in 1653. “The reconstruction of such a score amounts to more of an act of composition than anything else,” is the way Carthy puts it. Lacking specialized resources, he is preparing a version for CU that will be scored simply for a string quintet with harpsichord. And “it matters not at all” how much of the music is actually Monteverdi’s. “We perform the opera we have,” he says. One complication is casting the role of Nero, which was written for a castrato — a voice type happily not available in 2015. With two casts, CU will use both possible solutions: a male tenor, singing the role down an octave, and a mezzo-soprano singing the role at written pitch. After the musical problems have been solved, The Coronation of Poppea is a beautiful piece of music that presents one of the basic dilemmas of human existence. Tolstoy once remarked on “the illusion that beauty is goodness,” and that is the illusion that stands at the heart of the opera. We are startled to see so much beauty lavished on such evil characters. And rather than tie it up neatly at the end, Monteverdi leaves the question open. “There’s a lot of beauty, but there’s a lot of evil up there,” Holman says. “They marry and there’s a big celebration, and then what happens? It leaves it to us.”
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Zappa on Zappa
ON THE BILL: Zappa Plays Zappa at 7:30 p.m. on April 2 at Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, www.coloradosymphony.org. Dweezil Zappa will also teach a guitar master class at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 23. More information is at www.coloradosymphony.org.
Dweezil Zappa channels his father’s legacy through the guitar strings by Kyle Eustice
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here’s a common misconcep- five years in that we started to add the lined the musical epicenter. Naturally, tion that Frank Zappa’s comedic stuff into it. So many people the young Dweezil was heavily influmusic was closer to Weird Al think when you’re playing someone else’s enced by his parents’ lifestyle and posiYankovic’s than Beethoven’s, music that you have to modify it, and in tion in the community. but those really in the know the case of my father’s music, I couldn’t “When you grow up in your own understand there’s more sophistication in disagree more. We treat it more like house, whatever is around you is norZappa’s body of work than one might classical music and this is like a repertory mal,” he says. “There was nothing that imagine. Granted, with album titles like ensemble.” was different that I could judge it by. My Burnt Weeny Sandwich and Weasels Dweezil was born in 1969 to Frank dad was gone a lot when I was little, Ripped My Flesh, there was a because he was on tour. Dave Weissman at Dweezil Zappa World comedic element, but that When he had the studio at wasn’t what Frank was home, he was there almost all entirely about. The late rock the time. By the time I was icon released more than 80 12 or 13, both of my parents albums during his 54 years were home pretty much all of on Earth, each one written the time. That was unusual with the intricacies of an because other people’s parents orchestral composition. were working away from Beginning with his work home. The kids at school with Mothers of Invention really didn’t know my dad’s and culminating with 1993’s music, because it was a differThe Yellow Shark, Zappa left ent generation. It wasn’t like a lasting imprint on the there were kids asking me for world of rock ’n’ roll. Since tickets.” 2006, Frank’s son, Dweezil While many children of Zappa, has carried the torch Zappa Plays Zappa stays true to Frank Zappa’s original work — famous rock legends want to with the Zappa Plays Zappa which connects Frank’s son, Dweezil, to his late father. avoid any direct comparisons project by playing nothing to his or her parents, Dweezil but material from Frank’s has a different outlook. catalog. and Gail Zappa outside of Laurel “I’m a fan of what he did, so I like to “The one thing about my father’s Canyon, a place his father lived when embrace and celebrate the stuff,” he music that I think has been a bit of a Mothers of Invention was beginning to explains. “As far as playing the music hindrance, in terms of getting across to blossom. In 1968, Zappa moved into a goes, there’s nobody out there that’s more people, is it’s really misunderlog cabin on the corner of Laurel going to care about the details more stood,” Dweezil says from his home in Canyon Boulevard and Lookout than me. If you’re going to uphold a Los Angeles. “When I started doing his Mountain. Routine visitors included standard, you might as well be deeply stuff, I made a point to not focus on any Mick Jagger, the Animals, Alice Cooper, rooted and connected to it. For me, I of the comedic stuff. I wanted people to Roger McGuinn, John Mayall and the never got caught up in thinking about actually be able to hear a whole other Cowsills. Harry Houdini’s house was what other people might think. To play perspective of his music, so I focused on across the street and residences of rock Frank’s music is very, very hard. To play what I consider to be his strongest com’n’ roll royalty such as Joni Mitchell, the it well, it doesn’t matter who it is, you’re positions. It wasn’t until about four or Byrds, the Monkees and Mama Cass going to be able to tell the person has a
lot of dedication and proficiency on their instrument.” Dweezil sometimes takes months to hone two-seconds of one of Frank’s song, especially with more difficult ones like “Black Page,” “Inca Rose,” “G-Spot Tornado” or “Dog Meat.” “Learning his music is quite the undertaking,” he admits. “Early on, it was much, much more difficult to get it all together because there were all these unknowns. You sort of find a way to create your best learning process. What I had to do early on is completely overhaul my approach to guitar and even more difficult was to overhaul the mental approach. My father’s playing is so unorthodox. You have to have at least some of the same tools he was using to be able to play his music. That was a couple of years of work before I even started doing the band.” The fact Zappa Plays Zappa stays true to Frank’s music is a testament to his skill level, as well as his love for his father, who passed away when Dweezil was in his early 20s. He still has many unanswered questions, but on stage playing his music gets him as close to his father as possible. “There’s times where I will play something that will be so reminiscent of something he would do, even though I’m improvising,” he says. “Sometimes I’ll play something, and I don’t know if that was me that played that. The more I dig into the details, the more amazed I am at what he was able to do in such a short amount of time. He not only had all the quality, but he worked at an amazing, proficient speed. Unless people really know, they can’t understand.”
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Virtuosity abounds as we conclude our season in grand style. Nature and myth intermingle in Liadov’s misty painting of The Enchanted Lake. Then, dashing cellist Zuill Bailey shares his moving interpretation of Dvořák’s well-loved Cello Concerto. Finally, we revel in the talents of our Phil musicians as they step to the fore in Bartók’s tour de force, the Concerto for Orchestra. Wednesday, April 22, 7:30 PM—Free Café Phil Open Rehearsal at the Dairy Saturday, April 25, 6:30 PM—Free 2015-16 Season Preview Talk at Macky Photo: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
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‘One Night in Miami’ invokes a heavyweight conversation on race relations by Elizabeth Miller
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ow best do we whittle and find a way to reemerge from ourselves into instruthat setback swinging. ments for change? Is One Night in Miami... is not it by sharpening our the story of Cassius Clay becomtongues, hardening ing Muhammad Ali as much as it is the story is of Malcolm X our fists or sweetening our songs? being Malcolm X, and Sam That’s the question at the heart of Cooke being Sam Cooke. The One Night in Miami..., which postwo spar over one anothers roles, its the conversations that might responsibilities and weapons of have unfolded while boxer choice in confronting a deeply Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali, segregated and uncomfortable activist Malcolm X, singer Sam American landscape. Whether to Cooke and football player Jim fight or to charm, to integrate or Brown spent the evening of Feb. extricate and even whether they 25, 1964 together in a hotel room prefer their racism overt or not debating the merits of how, or if, makes for heady conversation. the others addressed the issues at Are athletes Brown and Clay hand in the simmering civil rights gladiators sent to slaughter for movement. the amusement of the crowd, or That night, having won the agents of change in their own world heavyweight championship right as they break barriers to title from Sonny Liston, Clay and Jason Delane and Colby Lewis as Malcolm X and Cassius Clay in One Night in Miami... access? And is Malcolm X, with the others holed up in the his furious speeches and his Hampton House Motel in suit-wearing body guards from the Nation of Islam, Miami’s segregated Overtown neighborhood for mation — but Colby Lewis carries the load with aiding the enemy? Cooke cautions him, “All that something of a celebration. The next morning, Clay ease. His Clay tempers the boasting with the earnestanger can keep people from seeing how righteous would announce his conversion to Islam and his ness of a 22-year-old who has full confidence in his you are.” name change to Muhammad Ali. He drops that own skills and choices, and who cannot possibly Cooke, played marvelously by Nik Walker, gets news, to mixed reviews, early in the evening and it’s imagine the ways in which those decisions will mocked for making nice to white audiences, but he a revisited point that laces through the conversations shade the decades to follow. sees a chance for equality to come through music — that follow in a to-the-minute kind of storytelling. The bait laid in the early minutes of the play is one chart for one people, not one chart for R&B For One Night in Miami..., finishing its world that of Clay’s pending conversion, but it’s not the (black) musicians and one for pop (white) — and has premiere run at the Denver Center for the central conversation or argument of the night. How founded his own record label to pursue that end. Not Performing Arts on April 19, playwright Kemp and why Clay was converted, and how the battle just a slice of the pie, indeed. He may not be ready to Powers has saddled Clay with a heavy dose of bravabetween Cooke and Malcom X affects any lingering sing an anthem for change, but change might come do — think early generation renditions of that doubts he might have, is unclear, though we know anyway. famous “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” proclathe outcome. He’ll convert, and be ostracised for it,
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Clusterpuck. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720328-8328.
Music Amoramora. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Andrew Wynne. 7:30 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Big Jilm (Ween Tribute). 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Boogie Night’s Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Boulder Swing Collective. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Brazil Night. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.
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Enchanted Lakes: Music and Pond Ecology.
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5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18, Sawhill Ponds, Boulder, 303-4137200. When in nature, if you listen very closely, you can hear the sounds of music arise from the picturesque view. The Boulder Philharmonic and City of Boulder Open Space is taking that a step further by pairing the two. On April 25, the Boulder Philharmonic will play a concert inspired by the imagery of lakes and ponds at Macky Auditorium. In the mean time, head over to Sawhill Ponds on April 18 for a hike exploring the neighboring ecology around water, including fish, turtles, dragonflies and various birds, while listening to classical music selections.
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The Complete Unknowns. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Dave Honig’s Latin Quarter. 6 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-2260. Decker. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Digeometric. 8 p.m. Paradime, 4919 N. Broadway St., Unit 20, Boulder. DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Ed Breazeale Jazz Trio. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit see EVENTS Page 38
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Wendy Woo CD Release Party. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Get ready to be wooed. Join singer/songwriter Wendy Woo and her band at the Dickens Opera House on Saturday, April 18 for a CD release party. The new album, Tipping Point, was released by Woo’s independent record label Woo Music, and the independence has allowed her music to grow. With great stage presence and killer musical chops, Woo is bringing her national act to Longmont. With shows from Red Rocks in Colorado to the Bitter End in New York, Woo’s music has steadily gained a major following. Tickets are $11 and available at www.dickensoperahouse.com.
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Opening for The Art of Students and Teachers. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. While most kids spend high school algebra class doodling in their notebooks, some have bigger aspirations for their art than just the margin of their notebook. On April 17, The Dairy is holding its opening ceremony for this year’s exhibit of high school students and art teachers throughout Boulder Valley School District. Come hear from the artists themselves and hear about the fine art programs in the BVSD. The exhibit will be on display through May 1 and features arts across disciplines. Stop in and get a chance to see the future of art, before these students hit the big time.
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Friday, April 17 Music Acoustic Harmony. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Atomga. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Augustus’. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Ben Hanna. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Burns Twice. 8:30 p.m. Dillingers, 1202 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, 303-666-6979.
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Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20. The Book’s Undoing: Dieter Roth’s Artist’s Books. Special Collections Reading Room, Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303492-6144. Through May 15. Calling all Photgraphers for 2015 Land Through the Lens Exhibit. The Great Frame Up, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-7293. Submission deadline June 19.
Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787. Through April 19. Kairos. Particulars Art Gallery, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 720-890-7888. Through May 1. Margaret Neumann: Inscapes. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through June 7. Means of Approach Jeffco Alumni Exhibition — Lui Ferreyra. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987200. Through May 10.
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Myopia — by Mark Mothersbaugh. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 26.
EcoCreations 6. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through April 25.
Passion for Glass: Art Glass from Colorado Collecitons. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through May 31.
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. 44th Annual Jeffco Schools Foundation High School Exhibition — Lui Ferreyra. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 10.
Substrate. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through May 3.
Dieter Roth was a German poet, artist and master printmaker. In The Book’s Undoing, check out his original book artistry, now on display at CU.
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 28.
Trespassing — by William Matthews. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 17.
Unseen Structure Jeffco Tearcher Solo — Joe Fretz. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 10.
Juried High School Art Show. Firehouse Art
Captain Quirk and the Cosmic Rangers. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Craig Cornett and The Phast & Wreckless. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Damien Rice. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Jon Pickett. 9:30 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472. Laura Meyer. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Third Friday Contact Improvisation Jam. 7:30 p.m. Radiance Power Yoga, 2704 28th St., Boulder, 303-440YOGA. Tyler T. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.
Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys. 8 p.m. Wildflower Pavilion at Planet Bluegrass, 500 W. Main, Lyons, 303823-0848.
Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Living Easy. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993.
Boulder Bookies Book Discussion Group. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Ethyl & The Regulars. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
MaryLynn Gillaspie. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.
Family Fishing Frenzy. 9 a.m. Warembourg Open Space, W. Cherry St., Louisville, 303-335-4742.
The Fab 4. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
An Honest Liar. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Foxfeather. 9 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
The Nacho Men. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Friday Afternoon Concert and Art Show: Colcannon in Concert. 2:30 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-678-7869.
Paakow’s By All Means Band. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Italian Film Festival USA: Boulder 2015. All Day. University of Colorado Boulder campus, Humanities Building, Room 150, Boulder.
The Giving Tree Band, The Cerny Brothers. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.
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GrooveSession. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Paul Cataldo. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill tap room), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Paul Sullivan’s Folk-a-rama. 6 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Janine Gastineau. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Ronnie Shellist Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Jeff Finlin. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
Technicolor Tone Factory. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
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Like Sunday, Like Rain. 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Movie Night, Follow Me. 7 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 720-565-6019. Spring Skies and Jupiter. 7:30 p.m. Beech Open Space Shelter, Neva Road and Highway 36, Boulder, 303-678-6222. Teen Poetry Cafe. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. see EVENTS Page 40
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Music Amelie Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Antonio Lopez. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
Big Hibiscus. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Boa & the Constrictors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Dead Horses. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
George Nelson Band. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Goat Baby Shower. 10:30 a.m. Mountain Flower Goat Dairy at Long’s Gardens, 3240 Broadway St., Boulder, 773-230-8791.
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The Symbols. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Wallpaper House Band. 11 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-864-6460. Whiskey Autumn. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Music Arlen Andrews. 10 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Drive-By Truckers. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Escape From the Zoo, Chatterbox & LDS. 7 p.m. Paradime, 4919 N. Broadway, Unit 20, Boulder. Felonius Smith. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
12th Annual Wine Tasting. 6 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
Javi. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Authors Open House. 1 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8470.
Johnny O Solo. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.
Joe Stevens Live. 7 p.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3163. Kevin Dooley Trio. 9 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Live Music and Brews. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
Dyeing Fabric ‘n’ Eggs. 11 a.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, 8999 Flagstaff Mountain Road, Boulder, 303-678-6200.
Keith Summers. 8 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 West Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066.
Longmont Jammers. 1 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.
Eric West’s Music For Kids. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120.
Organ Dedication Service of Easter Carols & Scripture Readings. 6:30 p.m. Messiah Lutheran Church, 1335 Francis St., Longmont, 303-776-2573.
Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Eric West’s Music For Kids. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Matoma. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
An Honest Liar. 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
The Prairie Scholars: Songwriter Series Sharon Glassman Night. 5 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Missy Rancho. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
In Search of Synergy. 3 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill Drive, Suiite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.
Party with a Purpose. 12 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Ponder the Albatross. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Jaspar Lepak. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Wild Road Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
North Boulder Underground. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
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Poets Michael Morse and David J. Daniels. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Tai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-3133.
Eldo Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Eldorado Mountain Yoga Ashram, 2875 County Road 67, Boulder, 303-249-1671.
Saturday, April 18
Poet Bruce Kawin. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
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Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-9086036.
Denny Driscoll. 7:30 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578.
Thursday, April 16
The Lost World of the Old Ones — David Roberts. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Boulder Concert Band Concert: The American Experience. 7 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Road, Boulder, 720-561-5536.
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Band of Life. 6 p.m. The Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe, Boulder, 303-449-3066.
Mountain Sprout. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458.
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Let’s Talk Chickens. 1 p.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway 66, Longmont, 303-776-8848. Like Sunday, Like Rain. 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Thunder the Radar. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Tupelo Honey. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.
Rocky Mountain Brew Runs. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 1800 Pikes Road, Unit B, Longmont.
Events
Running for Hope. 9:30 a.m. McIntosh Lake at Dawson Park, Lakeshore Drive, Longmont, 720-494-4673. Song of the Sea. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Third Saturday Swing Dance. 7 p.m. Avalon Ballroom Boulder, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
RunniKine. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Vinnie Montez’s The Comedy Crew. 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.
Sphere Ensemble Spring Concert. 7:30 p.m. Rocky
Solas Fire & Water Celtic Music Festival. 6 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303442-5246.
Renee’s Garden Seed Demo. 11 a.m. McGuckin Hardware, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Unit D-1, Boulder, 303-443-1822.
Ragged Union. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Sea Change. 7 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-623-7876.
Purple Squirrel. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.
Sunday, April 19
Anime Club at Longmont Library. 3 p.m. Longmont Public Library, 409 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6518470. Boulder Road Runners Sunday Social Run. 9 a.m. First National Bank Annex, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, 303905-2415. Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance presents Star Sailors. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Truth Be Told Bi-Monthly Story Slam. 7 p.m. Shine see EVENTS Page 42
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Monday, April 20 Music 420 Party with The Grass is Dead & Barrel House String Band. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. The Infamous Stringdusters. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Mark Diamond and Friends. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
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Wednesday, April 22 Music Cafe Phil. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Middle Eastern Drum Class. 6:30 p.m. New Vista High School, 700 20th St., Boulder, 720-561-5250.
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Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Von Disco. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Introduction to Xeriscape. 6 p.m. Center for ReSource Conservation, 2639 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-999-3820.
April Happy Hour at Alpen. 5 p.m. Alpen, 6268 Monarch Park Place, Longmont.
Paint and Sip with Julie Clement. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Beneath the Helmet: From High School to Home Front. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Science on Screen: Nickelson,Teaching Robotics and Robot & Frank. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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Experimental to Parental: Film Screenings. 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
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So if, God help us, we are ever tempted to ditch our marriage when it’s lost its glow, let’s give the thing our finest spit and polish— and, having learned our lesson, not let go. Here’s a fine poem about two generations of husbands, by Pauletta Hansel of Ohio. Husbands My mother likes a man who works. She likes my husband’s muddy knees, grass stains on the cuffs. She loved my father, though when weekends came he’d sleep till nine and would not lift his eyes up from the page to move the feet she’d vacuum under. On Saturdays my husband digs the holes for her new roses, softening the clay with peat and compost. He changes bulbs she can no longer reach and understands the inside of her toaster. My father’s feet would carry him from chair to bookshelf, back again till Monday came. My mother likes to tell my husband sit down in this chair and put your feet up. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2014 by Melissa Balmain, “Love Poem,” from Walking in on People, (Able Muse Press, 2014). Poem reprinted by permission of Melissa Balmain and Able Muse Press. Poem copyright ©2011 by Pauletta Hansel from her most recent book of poems, The Lives We Live in Houses, (Wind Publications, 2011). Poem reprinted by permission of Pauletta Hansel and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2015 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts. Send poetry submissions of 250 words or fewer to Boulder Weekly at poetry@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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ands down, my favorite Now, for some reason, despite the discussion in the wake of fact that literally everywhere the gang Furious 7 doing to the box goes they run into Shaw, they must go office what Vin Diesel on a bizarre side quest to steal some does to elocution (which MacGuffin computer device that is to say, stomping it to oblivion): “Do would let them find Shaw. You’re not we really need another Fast and reading that wrong. There are multiple Furious movie?” No. No, we do not. scenes where they are fighting against We also didn’t need to land on the the bad guy while attempting to steal a moon. Nor did we device that will let need to create the them find the bad 1967 Ford guy they are curMustang. We did rently fighting. It’s it because it was some batshit M.C. awesome, and we Escher, paradoxicould, dammit. cal logic. Hail Fast and Who cares! Furious, a franThe gang soon chise that has finds themselves somehow become skydiving inside of a champion of cars, battling transnational, against drones multicultural bad (thanks, Obama!) assery. Its diverse and destroying a cast has now very large portion spent two full of a major city. If movies kicking you remember last the shit out of time out, there British people, as was a scene in if stomping on which Toretto Jason Statham’s appeared to gain Furious 7 is the seventh installment in the face was a comethe power of gloriously unnecessary Fast and the Furiuppance for colo- ous franchise. flight. This time, nialism. Whereas the concussive the blockbusters power of him of the 2000s mostly whined and stomping flattens an entire parking moped about governmental indecency garage. He hath become Zeus! Thor! and global terrorism nightmares, the Superman! The destroyer of worlds! Fast and Furious series has become The first half of Furious 7 is a bit impossibly optimistic, championing plodding. There’s too much clever postmodern concepts of family and business trying to tie up the continuspinning a simplistic tale of American ity of the franchise, as if any of us redemption. Oh, and each installment are breaking out flow charts to map is progressively more beautifully and the chronology. But the second half gloriously dumb. is as good as it gets for pure, unadulThe “plot” this time out, as if we terated, guilt-free escapism. Movies need bother with such crap when used to do that. Before films were there are cars to drive fast and people “events” burdened with glorious purto punch, sees Deckard Shaw ( Jason pose, they were frivolous and gossaStatham) looking to murder Dominic mer adventures designed to free one Toretto (Diesel) and his crew, includfrom the unspectacular confines of ing Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Brian reality. We don’t need more Fast and (Paul Walker), Roman (Tyrese Furious movies. But my goodness, do Gibson), Tej (Ludacris) and Hobbs I hope they keep making them. (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson). He’s out for revenge because the gang curb This review first appeared in The stomped his brother last time. That’s Reader of Omaha, Neb. it. That’s the whole point. Boulder Weekly
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he history of cinema is litphotography wrapped, Meyerhoff and tered with career defining her cinematographer, Jarin Blaschke, debuts. From Orson Welles’ received a grant from Tribeca, which seismic Citizen Kane to they used to film experimental and François Truffaut’s autobiotime-lapse shots of nature, shots that graphical The 400 Blows; from Terrence are sprinkled throughout the movie. Malick’s poetic Badlands to Martin Finally, Meyerhoff cannibalized the Scorsese’s raw Whose That Knocking On actor’s costumes (notably Sterling’s My Door? They don’t come often, but leather jacket) to make small dolls, when they do, it is a cause for celebrawhich she used to create stop-motion tion, and here to join that chorus is animation, beautifully dramatizing Leah Meyerhoff ’s Davina’s inner unicornsthemovie.com intimate and prostruggle. All three found I Believe in forms meld Unicorns. together beautiI Believe in fully, adding even Unicorns follows more personality Davina (Natalia to a movie that is Dyer), a sixteenalready steeped in year-old girl who handmade care. is single handedly For I Believe in taking care of her Unicorns, mother, Toni Meyerhoff draws I Believe in Unicorns captures the raw vulnerability of coming of age through its (played by the both from personmain character Davina. director’s mother, al experience, as Toni Meyerhoff ) well as personal who is bound to a desires. When the wheelchair due to film played at the ON THE BILL: I Believe in Unicorns. 7:30 p.m. April 22, IFS Muenzinger multiple sclerosis. Starz Denver Film Auditorium, 1905 Colorado Ave., But as earthFestival, Meyerhoff Boulder, 303-492-8662. Tickets $7 for stubound as Toni is, said in a Q&A dents and seniors, $8 for general admission www.internationalfilmseries.com Davina is not, that the film not often taken by only expresses her imaginative dayown experience, dreams and flights of fancy. Flights that but it also functions as the kind of manifest physically with the appearance movie she wished she could have seen as of Sterling (Peter Vack), an older boy young girl. This embrace of the alternawho is pure punk rock and palatable tive experience makes I Believe in sexuality, yet he isn’t any less troubled Unicorns not simply a reflective movie, than Davina. but an inspirational one as well. I Believe in Unicorns is unabashedly a You only get one first impression, coming-of-age tale, intertwining and directors only get one debut. For Davina’s fantasies with her burgeoning many, this debut comes and goes withsexual desires. It is in these moments out much fanfare. Their mastery of aesthat Meyerhoff ’s knack for emotion thetic, personality and technique develexcels. Rather than paint these nubile ops and deepens as they grind out movmoments in a golden hue of nostalgia ies one after the other. Yet, there are a and forced profundity, Meyerhoff wraps few who come to the camera fully her protagonist in desire and uncertainty, formed and ready to take the medium in the next logical direction. Meyerhoff unleashing both carnally and violently. is that direction. With fingers firmly Meyerhoff achieves these moments crossed, I Believe in Unicorns will break by visualizing her story in three differthrough and connect with as wide an ent forms, the first involving the cinematography and direction of the actors, audience as possible, if for no other reawhich was shot over the course of three son than to give Meyerhoff another crack behind the camera. weeks on Super 16mm. Once principal Boulder Weekly
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here is no shame smells, which is a stupid in the occasional thing to say if you’ve Sweet Cow indulgence. As never lived by or visited 2628 Broadway St., long as your a chocolate factory, but Boulder, 303-447-3269 actions don’t pretty evocative if you hurt anybody and you don’t have (if I do say so cross the invisible line of no myself ). The peanut butter was return, joy becomes you tasty and expertly proportioned. during the indulgence of The only complaint here was the booze, pizza, burritos, fried pretzel — it was soggy. food and ice cream. I encountered the soggy filling Especially ice cream. And again with a Cap’n Crunch flaespecially the ice cream at vored ice cream. As an avid conSweet Cow. sumer of Cap’n Crunch, this was Sweet Cow is indulgent. one of my favorite ice creams of all It is so creamy, so flavorful. time. The creamy vanilla base was It tastes like homemade ice like whole milk to the sugars and cream, but it comes in crunchies of the cereal within. But unique flavors that finally I just feel like Sweet Cow missed elevate ice cream to somean opportunity to see an adult thing exciting. Changing fla- Sweet Cow Ice Cream employees, left to right, Katie Pemberton and Bonnie Ficara man’s head spontaneously explode vors every two weeks, there by not figuring out a way to make is genuine excitement about the crunch berries crunch. what new flavor Sweet Cow The last cup was a mix (the will produce next. suggestion of our friendly scooper) And so I recently did of nutella and banana chocolate something at Sweet Cow chip ice creams. The combination that I’m not sure should was fantastic, no doubt, but the exist because of the level of flavor in the banana ice cream was indulgence. I had an unoffimost impressive. It tasted like a Moving to the center of the flight, I perfectly ripe banana, and the whole cial ice cream flight at Sweet Cow. cookie dough. The former had a brightfound oatmeal cookie and chocolate Unsure if it was my zenith or my rock er mint than you’ll find in other mint setup was a fun take on a sundae. peanut butter pretzel. The most Same goes for the flavor of the cofbottom, the only other time I’ve felt so chip ice creams, and it was not oversimultaneously bipolar about my station done by any excessive use of extracts. remarkable note about these two variet- fee ice cream in the ice cream sandwich in life was when I looked up halfway The chips were crunchy flakes of dark ies was the stunning flavor found in — made with grounds from Ozo cofthrough a three-course meal at a chocolate. each. The oatmeal cookie ice cream was fee, it was like eating the scent of freshFriendly’s in New Jersey and caught my The cookie dough in the second cup a perfect representation of its cookie ly ground beans. Not surprisingly, Sweet Cow is pudgy reflection in the mirror. was really well done. It wasn’t grainy or cousin, with sweet cinnamon, brown expanding. Already with two shops in But with six flavors of ice cream and overpowering. It wasn’t too chewy or sugar and oatmeal covering the palate Louisville and Denver, the Boulder a homemade ice cream sandwich, it was doughy. It was a perfect, moist bite that on each bite. The high density of Sweet location recently opened and a fourth is easier to see the variety and the depth had just enough resistance and whose Cream’s ice cream was also a perfect of flavor in each of those varieties that integrity was not compromised by the texture for the oatmeal cookie flavor. set to open in the Table Mesa Shopping Sweet Cow coaxes out. wetness or coldness of the cream The chocolate peanut butter pretzel, Center. Right across from the Boulder likewise, was masterfully flavored. The On the far left were two classics: around it. The base vanilla ice cream Weekly office. This could be interesting mint chocolate chip and chocolate chip was understated and delicious. chocolate tasted like a chocolate factory for me.
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Upslope Brewing Company will be hosting its second annual music festival, Upslope Get Down on Saturday, May 16 at Flatiron Park in Boulder. The free event will feature local Boulder County food trucks and eight bands playing on two stages continuously from 1-11 p.m. “As the temperatures begin to rise, so does our excitement for the annual Upslope Get Down music festival,” said Upslope Marketing Manager Katie Hill in a press release. “Year one was a huge success and we’re looking forward to making the second annual event bigger and better.” Participating bands include Taylor Frederick’s Funk Circus, Rowdy Shadehouse, The Yawpers, A. Tom Collins, Technicolor Tone Factory and more.
DRINK PINK WINE When flowers pop out of the ground seemingly overnight and the foothills turn mint green (and then quickly burn) we put away the skis and jackets and bust out the flip-flops and sunscreen. It’s also a signal that it’s time to lighten up our drinks — from smoky whiskeys to zippy margaritas, from stouts to pilsners and from super Tuscans to sweet rosé. Thus the timing couldn’t be better for the first ever Drink Pink International Rosé Wine Festival, which will be held on June 11 at Omni Interlocken Resort’s outdoor pavilion in Broomfield.
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Long’s Gardens in Boulder. The all-ages event will feature local music, food, wine and cheese as well as goat milking demonstrations, farm tours, a goat-to-garment station, goat races, bottle feeding goat babies and more. Admission is $5. Then at 1 p.m., Jessica Brunecky, a volunteer with the Agriculture Heritage Center in Longmont, will talk about her experience raising chickens. Anyone who has interest in raising chickens in their backyard, at any level of experience with the practice, is encouraged to attend, share stories and ask questions.
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The first Drink Pink International Rosé Wine Festival is coming to the Front Range in June.
Wine producers from around the globe will be on hand to pour more than 60 different brands to patrons. Chefs and restaurateurs will also be at the festival to serve food and chat with guests. There will be an auction and 100 percent of its proceeds will benefit There With Care, a nonprofit that supports children and families facing medical issues. Tickets are $65 for general admission, and $95 for VIPs. Visit www.drinkpinkvino. com to purchase tickets or for more information.
CHICKENS AND GOATS Two otherwise unrelated events that highlight urban farming and raising livestock will take place on Saturday, April 18 in Longmont and Boulder. First, attend a “goat baby shower” at 10:30 a.m. at Mountain Flower Goat Dairy at
The Callahan House in Longmont will host a wine tasting on Saturday, May 2 from 6-8 p.m. The event will benefit Boulder Preparatory High School, a free college preparatory school in Boulder County. Attendees will be able to taste eight different wines along with appetizers. There will also be live music, a silent auction and a professional photography booth.
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olorado’s culinary world will collide with the craft beer scene at the second annual BruFrou, a celebration of beer and food pairings. On Saturday, April 25, 80 Colorado brewers and chefs, including many from Boulder County, will team up to create 50 unique pairings to elevate the experience of both the dish and the accompanying brew. When creating the chef and brewer partnerships for the three-hour event, pairs with existing relationships naturally emerged, like Boulder’s Basta and Wild Woods Brewing. “Their beer definitely creates a story with every sip,” says Chad Luman, beer coordinator at Basta, of their partner brewery. Luman says that the herbs and spices used in Wild Woods’ beers make pairing a dish with them even better. Luman feels with so many different styles of beer, the possibilities when pairing food are endless. He says the complexities of the beer, in his opinion, lend a little better than wine, which most people think of as the traditional choice. “The reason we do the dinners and events is to raise awareness of how special the marriage of craft beer and food can be,” he says. That excitement and admiration to work together is mutual. Jake and Erin
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Patrons at last year’s BruFrou enjoyed dynamic craft beer and culinary combinations.
Evans, owners of Wild Woods Brewing, have been going to Basta since it opened and have become both neighbors and friends. “We really respect and admire Chef Kelly [Whitaker]’s simple, beautiful approach to food that lets the ingredients and cooking method speak for themselves,” says Erin Evans. She says last year they sat down and thought about the food and beer side by side. But this year, they’ve decided to make a beer specifically for the event, after which the Basta crew will make a dish to pair it with. Basta’s love of wine was
their inspiration, so they opted for Nelson Sauvin hops from New Zealand, which have a similar flavor to sauvignon blanc grapes. “We chose a light, refreshing blonde ale style to really let these beautiful, fruity, white grape-flavored hops shine, and decided to round out the beer with a hint of tartness from a touch of fresh kiwi fruit,” Evans says. Another duo with a previous relationship is Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar with Denver Beer Co. Adam Reed, director of operations at Jax Fish House, says they’re happy to be involved in an
event that reaches so many people. He describes last year’s event as loud, boisterous, fun and vibrant. “We love working with BruFrou because of the enormous opportunity to connect with beer makers at the top of the craft game in town and also the chance to reach a huge base of guests who are as passionate about craft beer and great food as we are,” Reed says. They’ll be serving a seared duck andouille with English mustard, duck gelee and brioche toast with Denver Beer Co.’s Employee of the Month Sour. They’re also preparing a Jaz Emersum Oyster Shooter with strawberries, cucumber, Banyuls Gastrique and Denver Brewing Co.’s Raspberry Princess Yum Yum paired with the same beer. “I would say that the creative process started in the kitchen, but ideas were solidified once we tasted the beers,” Reed says. Another process for pairing the teams is when someone has a request to work with a specific chef or brewer that they may not have had an opportunity to work with in the past. “We love this because we feel we act as a community builder, which is key to this Colorado-only event,” says John Heins, creative director and co-founder see BRUFROU Page 54
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of Idea Trading Company and BruFrou. If no requests are made for a collaboration, the BruFrou team considers beer styles compared with food styles, clientele, brand alignment and the concept of both the eateries and breweries. “We paired Finkel & Garf with Glazed and Infused Donuts. Both have super light-hearted brands that focus on the fun of creating taste sensations, without taking themselves too seriously,” Heins explains. Finkel & Garf (of
Boulder) will be bringing their Rye Saison and says once they met the team at Glazed and Infused, they knew they had a “stellar combination.” A chefs’ motivation for what dish they’d pair with a brew is quite eclectic. Dakota Soifer, chef and owner of Café Aion, says he will generally pair hoppy beers with something “a little fatty,” such as pork. This is particularly important in this case since they are eagerly looking forward to teaming up with
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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:
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The California Gold Rush hit its peak between 1849 and 1855. Three hundred thousand adventurers flocked to America’s West Coast in search of gold. In the early days, gold nuggets were lying around on the ground in plain sight, or relatively easy to find in gravel beds at the bottom of streams. But later prospectors had to work harder, developing methods to extract the gold from rocks that contained it. One way to detect the presence of the precious metal was through the use of nitric acid, which corroded any substance that wasn’t gold. The term “acid test” refers to that process. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because it’s a good time for you to use the metaphorical version of an acid test as you ascertain whether what you have discovered is truly golden.
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20:
The time between now and your birthday will provide you with excellent opportunities to resolve lingering problems, bring drawn-out melodramas to a conclusion, and clean up old messes — even the supposedly interesting ones. You want to know what else this upcoming period will be good for? I’ll tell you: 1. Surrendering controlfreak fantasies. 2. Relieving your backlog of tension. 3. Expelling delusional fears that you cling to out of habit. 4. Laughing long and hard at the cosmic jokes that have tweaked your attitude.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
In the mid-19th century, the entrance exam for the British Royal Navy was quite odd. Some candidates were required to write down the Lord’s Prayer, recite the multiplication table for the number three, get naked and jump over a chair, and drink a glass of sherry. I’m guessing that your own initiation or rite of passage may, at least initially, seem as puzzling or nonsensical as that one. You might be hard-pressed to understand how it is pertinent to the next chapter of your life story. And yet I suspect that you will ultimately come to the conclusion — although it may take some time — that this transition was an excellent lead-in and preparation for what’s to come.
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22:
In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes, a Parisian ballet company that ultimately revolutionized the art form. The collaborative efforts he catalyzed were unprecedented. He drew on the talents of visual artists Picasso and Matisse, composers Stravinsky and Debussy, designer Coco Chanel, and playwright Jean Cocteau, teaming them up with top choreographers and dancers. His main goal was not primarily to entertain, but rather to excite and inspire and inflame. That’s the spirit I think you’ll thrive on in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It’s not a time for nice diversions and comfy satisfactions. Go in quest of Ballets Russes-like bouts of arousal, awakening, and delight.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
“Don’t ever tame your demons — always keep them on a leash.” That’s a line from a song by Irish rock musician Hozier. Does it have any meaning for you? Can your personal demons somehow prove useful to you if you keep them wild but under your control? If so, how exactly might they be useful? Could they provide you with primal energy you wouldn’t otherwise possess? Might their presence be a reminder of the fact that everyone you meet has their own demons and therefore deserves your compassion? I suspect that these are topics worthy of your consideration right now. Your relationship to your demons is ripe for transformation — possibly even a significant upgrade.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
Will you be the difficult wizard, Virgo? Please say yes. Use your magic to summon elemental forces that will shatter the popular obstacles. Offer the tart medicine that tempers and tests as it heals. Bring us bracing revelations that provoke a fresher, sweeter order. I know it’s a lot to ask, but right now there’s no one more suited to the tasks. Only you can manage the stern grace that will keep us honest. Only you have the tough humility necessary to solve the riddles that no one else can even make sense of.
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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:
My message this week might be controversial to the Buddhists among you. But I’ve got to report the cosmic trends as I see them, right? It’s my sacred duty not to censor or sanitize the raw data. So here’s the truth as I understand it: More desire is the answer to your pressing questions. Passionate intensity is the remedy for all wishywashy wishes and anesthetized emotions. The stronger your longing, the smarter you’ll be. So if your libido is not already surging and throbbing under its own power, I suggest you get it teased and tantalized until it does.
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21:
Karelu is a word from the Tulu language that’s spoken in South India. It refers to the marks made on human skin by clothing that’s too tight. As you know, the effect is temporary. Once the close-fitting garment is removed, the imprint will eventually disappear as the skin restores its normal shape and texture. I see the coming days as being a time when you will experience a metaphorical version of karelu, Scorpio. You will shed some form of constriction, and it may take a while for you to regain your full flexibility and smoothness.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
Georgia is not just an American state. It’s also a country that’s at the border of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Many people who live there speak the Georgian language. They have a word, shemomedjamo, that refers to what happens when you love the taste of the food you’re eating so much that you continue to pile it in your mouth well past the time when you’re full. I’d like to use it as a metaphor for what I hope you won’t do in the coming days: get too much of a good thing. On the other hand, it’s perfectly fine to get just the right, healthy amount of a good thing.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19:
When you’re a driver in a car race, an essential rule in making a successful pit stop is to get back on the track as quickly as possible. Once the refueling is finished and your new tires are in place, you don’t want to be cleaning out your cup holder or checking the side-view mirror to see how you look. Do I really need to tell you this? Aren’t you usually the zodiac’s smartest competitor? I understand that you’re trying to become more skilled at the arts of relaxation, but can’t you postpone that until after this particular race is over? Remember that there’s a difference between the bad kind of stress and the good kind. I think you actually need some of the latter.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
Until the early 20th century, mayonnaise was considered a luxury food, a hand-made delicacy reserved for the rich. An entrepreneur named Richard Hellman changed that. He developed an efficient system to produce and distribute the condiment at a lower cost. He put together effective advertising campaigns. The increasing availability of refrigeration helped, too, making mayonnaise a more practical food. I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your own sphere, Aquarius: the transformation of a specialty item into a mainstay, or the evolution of a rare pleasure into a regular occurrence.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
Piscean author Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated over 40 books for children. Midway through his career, his publisher dared him to make a new book that used no more than 50 different words. Accepting the challenge, Seuss produced Green Eggs and Ham, which went on to become the fourth best-selling English-language children’s book in history. I invite you to learn from Seuss’s efforts, Pisces. How? Take advantage of the limitations that life has given you. Be grateful for the way those limitations compel you to be efficient and precise. Use your constraints as inspiration to create a valuable addition to your life story.
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Dear Dan: I’m 26 years old and have been dating my boyfriend for a year. In the first week of dating, he disclosed his adult-baby side. Trying to be a GGG partner, I told him I supported him and dove right in, even though I felt uncomfortable. He likes me to dress him up and let him pee while wearing diapers, and he likes to dress me up. I feel “icky” and even violated afterward — though everything has always been consensual. I want to be comfortable with it, but I’m just not there. When I’ve expressed my discomfort, it’s made him upset and embarrassed. Another confusing thing: My vagina always gets way wetter than usual when he puts a diaper on me. But I can’t seem to get to a place where I actually feel like I’m enjoying it. Is it fair that I feel resentful for not being given more understanding for my mixed feelings? Is there a way I can break through and enjoy this? (We have plenty of vanilla sex, which he is totally into as well.) — Adult Diapers Under Lover’s Terms Dear ADULT: Something about being put in a diaper turns you on. (The particular sensations it creates in your swimsuit area? The tabooness of being a non-incontinent adult in a diaper?) But that turn-on is short-circuited by your discomfort. And if your turn-on is grounded in the sensations and/or the taboo, ADULT, you may never become comfortable with your boyfriend’s kink. Quite the opposite: The more you do it, the less surprising the sensations will come to feel, the less naughty it will feel, the less of an accidental/bank-shot turn-on diapers will become. Being GGG doesn’t require a person to do whatever the hell their partner wants. Remember what GGG stands for: “Good in bed (work on those skills), giving of pleasure (without always expecting immediate reciprocation) and game for anything — within reason.” It’s unreasonable of your partner to ask you to continue engaging in diaper play when it leaves you feeling violated. You gave it a shot, it’s not working for you, and you have to be able to discuss your feelings — and your limits — without him playing Boulder Weekly
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mad and/or hurt. Right now, you’re engaging in diaper play not out of a GGG desire to meet his needs, ADULT, but because you’re afraid of upsetting him. So you’re not consenting from a place of honest desire
Love
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hile the Colorado legis- a loaded handgun in a public hotel. lature struggles with This is the third high-profile death ways to make marijuana “linked” to edible usage and violence look different from since legalization began. In March of other food products, 2014, visiting college student Levy another tragic death has been blamed on Thamba jumped or fell from the balcony edibles by the family of an Oklahoma of a Denver hotel sometime after conman who shot himself March 21 while suming a marijuana cookie. And Richard on a skiing vacation in Keystone. Kirk of Denver, who was found to have Luke Goodman, 23, apparently (tox- THC in his system, will stand trial soon icology tests haven’t been completed) ate for the murder of his wife with a handfive single doses of a cannabis cookie or gun after eating cannabis candy last some gummy bears and several hours April. later took his life with a pistol he had brought to Colorado. The rush to judgment connecting the death with edibles began immediately. Some headlines mentioned the pot but not the pistol. It’s as if anything bad happens and cannabis is in any way involved, the conclusion is that it was the marijuana’s fault. That’s what Goodman’s parents insisted during a TV interview. “It was 100 percent the drugs,” his mother said. Rushed judgments blame weed for gun-related deaths. More than three-quarters of Colorado gun deaths are suicides. Most are males. Most are white. But while those incidents are cerThe Colorado Department of Public tainly horrific, let’s not forget that more Health and Environment calls suicide “a than 5 million doses of edibles were complex public health issue.” So the fact bought and consumed legally in 2014. that he was carrying a weapon has some- There have been some visits to emergenthing to do with this young man’s death, cy rooms and some children sickened right? His mother said Luke showed no after hitting their parent’s or neighbor’s signs of depression nor had ever stash. But 5 million people, locals and expressed suicidal thoughts. Except for tourists alike, also bought and used the the family’s insistence he was normal same products without hassle or drama. and happy until he ate pot edibles, we That these three incidents were “caused” don’t know anything about Goodman or by marijuana has hardly been proven. why he was on a skiing vacation packing I admire our legislature for its efforts
to get a better handle on edibles. But how much more can it do? This case shows once again that there will be a tiny minority who, for whatever reasons, aren’t going to read labels, pay attention to what the bud tender is saying or just doesn’t give a good goddamn and is going to push the limits. So the suggestion that this is somehow the fault of the cannabis industry or the state’s regulations or legalization just doesn’t wash. The cannabis was sold to an adult, and the packaging explicitly said how much each dosage was and that the effects might be delayed. Nobody wants things like this to happen. But honestly, what more could the state or the industry or anyone else have done to stop this? Colorado retail cannabis sales continue to rise. State retail outlets sold $39.2 million worth of cannabis in February, the most in any month since legalization began in January 2014. That’s up from January sales of $36.4 million. In terms of taxes, last year $10,290,536 was raised for school construction projects, and in both January and February of this year more than $2 million has been moved to the school fund. A common misperception is that the money is going to school district operating expenses. It’s not. Funded by the 15 percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana, the money does contribute to the Building Excellent Schools Today program in the form of grants for school building repairs, construction and security updates. It provides money for proj-
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AS THE WORLD TURNS (MONSANTO’S WORLD THAT IS) OK, let’s recap a little bit. First we told you about the World Health Organization declaring that glyphosate — the main active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide — is probably carcinogenic to humans. This was a really big deal because Monsanto has been claiming for years that this stuff is completely harmless and as result, the whole world has dumped tens of millions of tons of this crap on itself. Well, the next thing to happen in this ongoing chemical soap opera was for Monsanto to demand a retraction from WHO of its conclusion that glyphosate isn’t good for you. WHO responded something like “stick it.” This week the saga continues with Jack Dykinga multiple news outlets reporting that this “probably carcinogenic” glyphosate is being found in products we use everyday including honey, baby formula and even the breast milk of new moms. That’s scary stuff. Why is this happening? According to Ken Cook, president and co-founder of Environmental Working Group, “When chemical agriculture blankets millions of acres of genetically engineered corn and soybean fields with hundreds of millions of pounds of glyphosate, it’s not a surprise babies are now consuming Monsanto’s signature chemical with breast milk and infant formula. The primary reason millions of Americans, including infants, are now exposed to this probable carcinogen is due to the explosion of genetically engineered crops that now dominate farmland across the U.S.” Wow, sucks to be us. Too bad our country won’t ban or require labeling of GMOs like all the other nations of the civilized world. So what happens next? Apparently we are getting ready to hear about a lot of additional foods that we eat being contaminated by this “probable” cancer-causer. According to Reuters, there has been a major increase in requests to have food products and people tested for glyphosate ever since the WHO report came out. Stay tuned.
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ARE HUMANS TOO STUPID TO LIVE? A funny thing has occurred over the last half-century or so: Our eyesight has gotten steadily worse when it comes to what’s known as nearsightedness. According to a report in the journal George Hodan Science, myopia — aka nearsightedness, which requires corrective lenses —is getting out of hand globally. In China, for instance, 90 percent of young adults have it today compared with only 10 percent or so 60 years ago. In the U.S. and Europe, we’re also losing our vision in the same way. Our rates of nearsightedness have doubled in the last six decades. So what’s going on? Has some strange virus infected us? Are solar flares blinding us? Is it because we now binge watch entire seasons of our favorite shows on Netflix in a single session? Nope. Well, that last one might have a little to do with it. The truth is, we are going blind as a species because we no longer are exposed to sunlight. Not kidding. Our newer generations are spending so much time indoors that the shapes of their eyes are actually being distorted causing nearsightedness. We really are too stupid to live. If we weren’t already so blind, we could probably look into the future and see our final evolutionary stage, the one where we’ve become six foot tall sightless mole people covered in loose pink skin… still watching back-to-back episodes of Breaking Bad.
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