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What Dave Krieger’s firing means for all of us by Joel Dyer
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Protect the children: the disobedient spirit of democracy by Rico Moore
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The cannabis industry’s first reliably sustainable packaging alternative, potentially by Emma Murray
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‘History of the Future’ questions technology as today’s religion by Amanda Moutinho
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departments 5 THE HIGHROAD: Trump’s tax-cut scam worked perfectly 6 GUEST COLUMN: On the Kreiger firing 7 THE ANDERSON FILES: We can’t deny the similarities 8 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 22 ARTS & CULTURE: Megan Falley, spoken-word poet, speaks from the heart 27 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 34 WORDS: ‘When Hurricane Hearts Discuss Retrogrades’ by Simone Liggins 35 FILM: Between love and hate in ‘The Night of the Hunter’ 37 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County 44 DRINK: New in brew: Bridge beers 47 ASTROLOGY: by Rob Brezsny 49 SAVAGE LOVE: Crushed 51 WEED BETWEEN THE LINES: Make the green go green 53 CANNABIS CORNER: The three dot journo rides again... ICUMI edition
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emember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their yuuuuuge tax cut for corporations would spark a yuuuuuge corporate spending spree to create new jobs and higher wages? Well, just as they promised, we’re now seeing corporate chieftains spending wildly! Only... they’re spending their tax-cut windfall on themselves, not on boosting America’s economy.
Mainly, they’re pouring billions into a self-serving scheme called “buybacks” — literally buying-up shares of their own corporations’ stock. Why? Because reducing the total number of shares on the market increases the value of each remaining share, giving those lucky shareholders a bigger piece of the company’s profit pie. Yes, less magically means more! But it’s not magic, it’s manipulation. And the top executives doing the manipulating are primary beneficiaries, since most of their pay comes in the form of millions of dollars worth of their corporation’s stock. Google executives, for example, are spending $8.6 billion from their taxpayer bonanza on buybacks, PepsiCo is in for $15 billion, and Apple for $30 billion. If Trump and the GOP Congress
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had really intended that their trilliondollar giveaway of the people’s tax revenue be spent for the benefit of all, they would’ve required the corporate recipients to plow the bulk of the money into our nation’s grassroots economy. Instead, once again, our corrupt political officials duped taxpayers into giving away public funds in the name of workers, but they actually stiffed workers, enriched CEOs, increased inequality, diverted tax dollars from urgent national needs — and enabled corporate powers to donate even more corrupting campaign cash to the politicians and party doing this to us. In other words, the Trump tax scam worked just as the GOP intended. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. May 3 , 2018 5
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n Boulder, Colorado, we are learneditorial page “reported” on the firing ing to read the words that are not through omission and erasure. there. Krieger’s name was missing from the I recently read Anthony Marra’s masthead. Mine was missing from the brilliant volume of linked stories, Advisory Board roster. Whereas there The Tsar of Love and Techno. It chroniare customarily five Advisory Board cles three generations of Chechnya over contributions, last Saturday only three the past half-century. It’s a world of appeared, the blank space filled with ordinary censorship, of hinterland larger headlines and alternative copy. bureaucrats, obliged to erase things that One had to “read” the story by underexist and insert things that do not, standing what was not there. This is spending their lives obliterating the how one develops the literacy of cenlives of others in patient expectation of sorship. the day when their own lives will be in Saturday afternoon, a dear friend in turn obliterated. Along the way they her 80s came to visit me. Her family make daily compromises to feed their left Germany in 1933. Her father was families, commit private acts of rebelworking for a literary newspaper during lion, perform small mercies and even his postdoctoral year — it was the first make secret works outlet that Hitler of art. closed. She arrived We in springat my door, her like Boulder are face haunted. miles away from “This is how it THAT FOR WEEKS RAN Chechnya’s ruined begins,” she said. I dystopia. But our gave her a cup of LETTERS TO THE EDITOR local paper, the tea and reassured Boulder Daily her that we are not COMPLAINING OF THE Camera, is owned there, and we are CANCELLATION OF by hedge fund not going there — Alden Global on my genera‘BLONDIE’ AND ‘PEANUTS’ not Capital, which tion’s watch. But I owns over 70 couldn’t calm the HAS NOT RUN ONE newspapers from look in her eyes. In LETTER TOUCHING ON the morning paper the Boston Herald she had seen to the San Jose THE KRIEGER MATTER. ghosts. Mercury News. In the face of Last week, the this public pressure Camera’s local pubthe Camera could lisher fired its editonot render visible, our Boulder City rial page editor for publishing a Council passed a resolution condemncommentary — not in the paper itself, but on his own online blog — that crit- ing Alden’s suppression of free speech and Krieger’s firing, and declaring the icized Alden’s practice of looting its importance of independent media for newspaper holdings for cash. Our Editorial Advisory Board — of the community. As a result, the which I’m a newly resigned member — Camera’s city staff writer, whose beat it is to cover the Council’s agenda, was sought to comment on Dave Krieger’s able to run a small news item on the firing and were told we could not. The back page that covered the Krieger newspaper, that for weeks ran letters to story — not for itself, but for Council’s the editor complaining of the cancellation of Blondie and Peanuts, has not run proposed action addressing it. Such are the small acts of provincial one letter touching on the Krieger matrebellion against central authority that ter. This silence joins a disturbing patmight have featured in Marra’s stories. tern — in Kingston, New York, the Indeed, given this unfolding drama, Daily Freeman’s editor has told its staff Marra could not have invented a more to erase from all news coverage any deliciously ironic name for our paper mention of parent company Alden’s than the “Daily Camera.” We will see management practices. how the tale turns out. Instead, last Saturday, the Camera’s
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t is dismaying how much Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are alike. That was the main theme at the 10th anniversary conference of J Street — the progressive U.S. Jewish Middle East lobby — according to Ron Kampeas, a correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a news service for Jewish community newspapers. He said there were “repeated and unflattering comparisons of the two leaders” by conference speakers. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, was the keynote speaker. She said, “We are here to call out — and to change — a right-wing, populist government, with a leader who thrives on hatred and division, who mocks and attacks the press, and who sees the strangers among us as a danger to be feared and mistreated, not as fellow humans.” She paused. “Hmm… about which country am I speaking?” she asked as the audience laughed. “The truth is that Israel beat us to it, with a right-wing leadership years before we had Donald Trump, before right-wing populists captured leadership in Europe, but here we are — the similarities are abundant.” In my research, I found unnerving similarities. Like Trump, Netanyahu is enmeshed in a number of scandals. He responds by saying that he is completely innocent and he attacks individual reporters who write stories about the scandals. He claims that virtually all of Israeli mainstream print and broadcast media are “fake news” and “liars.” He communicates with his followers via Facebook. Meanwhile, U.S. casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson publishes two popular free newspapers in Israel, which are mouthpieces for Netanyahu. Adelson is a major Trump supporter and GOP megadonor. In Israel, he bankrolls Netanyahu and the far right. Like Trump, Netanyahu claims he is the victim of a plot by his nation’s “deep state” after members of the national security elite have criticized him from the left. In his case, the “deep state” criticizes him for opposing the Iran nuclear deal and for subverting a two-state solution. Writing in Politico in July 2016, Amir Tibon noted: “The Jewish state’s top generals, spymasters and intelligence chiefs have been the fiercest and most outspoken critics of Netanyahu’s policies over the years; unlike in most Western democracies, where the military is usually considered more hawkish than the civilian leadership, in Netanyahu’s Israel, it’s usually been the other way around. Out of the 17 most senior security and intelligence chiefs who have worked directly with Netanyahu during his time in office,
Elementary School in Connecticut was a “false flag” intelligence hoax designed to promote gun control legislation. The kids were supposedly child actors and are still alive. Recently Michael Oren, Israel’s deputy minister for diplomacy, admitted that he had opened a formal government investigation of a family of Palestinian activists because he believes they aren’t a real family but a company of actors. This
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no fewer than 13 have strongly criticized his flagship policies or the direction in which he is leading the country (of the four that haven’t, two are currently still in office).” Then there’s bizarre conspiracy-mongering in Israel, which is worthy of Trump’s friend and Infowars radio host, Alex Jones, who claimed that the 2012 mass shooting of 20 little kids and six adult staff members at the Sandy Hook
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I am very glad that the Boulder Weekly is a locally owned paper not owned by the New York-based hedge fund Alden Global Capital, which owns controlling interest in both the Denver Post and the Camera. Alden recently fired one-third of the Denver newspaper’s staff to save money for the hedge fund. This will strip the paper of in-depth local reporting. Dave Krieger was fired after he was denied permission to criticize Alden in an editorial in the Boulder Camera and did so in a recent private blog. He was then fired last week. No mention has been made of his firing in the Camera nor have any letters appeared protesting his firing. see LETTERS Page 9
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According to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the dangers of nuclear war are at their highest since 1953. Russia and the U.S., the two nuclear superpowers, are on opposite sides of a potential nuclear escalation triggered by events in Syria, Ukraine and Iran. The U.S. attack on the Syrian government installations on April 14 had a lot of experts and citizens wondering if our luck in preventing nuclear war was running out. Before the strike, Russia had repeatedly said that if any Russian soldiers or personnel were killed, they would retaliate. Russia and the U.S./NATO are also on the opposite sides of the deadly war in the Ukraine. Ukraine is on Russia’s border. First-strike policies and uncertainty about what the other side will do increase the dangers of escalation. Russia/U.S. diplomacy is at an all-time low, lower than during any time during the Cold War. Diplomacy is needed to prevent war. The president and the Pentagon make their plans with very little input from the American public. We cannot sit aside and be silent. We must press Congress, who are supposed to represent us, to play their constitutional role to stop endless war and prevent nuclear war.
their home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. Oren thinks it’s suspicious that Ahed is fair-skinned and has long blonde hair. He said the Tamimi family is “not genuine, and was specially put together for propaganda” purposes. He said, “The Tamimi family and those claiming to be part of the Tamimi family have been provoking Israeli soldiers for many, many years now. The children were chosen on the basis of their external look, to look Western, freckled and blond-haired.” He called their jeans and T-shirts “a real costume. American dress in every respect, not Palestinian, with backward baseball caps. Even Europeans don’t wear backward baseball caps.” Oren, who was born and raised in the United States, said he and his staff called the Tamimis the “Brady Bunch” after the 1970s situation comedy because “that wasn’t a real family; they were actors.” No one asked Oren if he thought that Ahed’s 15-year-old cousin Muhammad was performing in a play when he was shot in the face with a rubber bullet by an Israeli soldier during an anti-occupation protest. Ahed had just heard about the shooting when she slapped the soldier.
Muhammad’s skull was shattered and he required emergency surgery in which part of his skull was temporarily removed. The Israeli military interrogated Mohammad and coerced him into saying he got his head injury after falling off of a bicycle. Major General Yoav Mordecai posted Mohammad’s “confession” on his Facebook page. However, the Tamimi family quickly released X-rays, footage and hospital records that showed that Mohammad was shot, forcing the military to retract. Ahed is now serving eight months in prison for the slapping incident. Amnesty International has said: “In detention, she endured aggressive interrogations, sometimes at night, and threats made against her family. There is nothing Ahed Tamimi has done that can justify the continuing detention of a 16-year-old child.” At the very least, Ahed should be freed immediately. But Netanyahu and Trump must also be confronted over their attempts to destroy the Iran nuclear deal and to sabotage a twostate solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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Recent revelations from The Intercept prove the Democratic Party is anything but democratic. In an April 26, 2018 article by Lee Fang, Minority Whip Steny Hoyer is on tape unequivocally admitting the national party is intervening in primary races here in Colorado and trying to squash true “progressive” candidates. This is the same Steny Hoyer contributing thousands to Joe Neguse here in Colorado’s second congressional district race. His super PAC, AMERIPAC, has also contributed generously to Neguse, along with the DCCC. The DCCC, in fact, held a fundraiser for Neguse in Williamsburg, Virginia, in early March. Why are the DCCC and Democratic leadership unfairly influencing a decision we as voters should be making on June 26? Voters deserve to know these facts. This district is one of the most progressive, safe blue districts in the country — if not the most — and we Boulder Weekly
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he firing of Daily Camera editorial page editor Dave Krieger sucks for him and is equally bad for you. The fact that a lot of people in local government and pseudo-regulatory organizations around town are glad to see him go should be a warning. I remember Krieger’s arrival to the Camera well. I was talking to a city employee who asked me if I knew that new Krieger guy at the Camera. She went on to tell me how mad everyone was about the way he was picking on Boulder’s City Council and other esteemed organizations like Boulder’s Landmarks Board and the Mapleton Historic District. All I could do was laugh. After years of using its editorial pages to cheerlead all things Boulder, no matter how absurd, the paper had finally hired an opinionated, experienced journalist to keep an eye out for governmental and regulatory stupidity. Krieger did exactly what any good editorial page editor should do; he viewed the town he worked in through a lens of common sense and made sure the paper’s readers were informed and aware of all sides of any debate that mattered to the health of the community. It’s safe to say Krieger made sure his readers never got stuck in the “Boulder is Beautiful” feedback loop. I disagreed with his positions fairly often, but I always respected his take on things and tended to learn something every time I read one of his pieces. Love him or hate him, you had to admire his willingness to ruffle a few feathers, no matter the bird. Unfortunately, it was that willingness that got him fired on April 25 when the bird in his journalistic crosshairs was the hedge fund that owns the Daily Camera along with the Times Call, Denver Post, Broomfield Enterprise, Colorado Hometown Weekly and other newspapers around Colorado and the country. That owner, Alden Global Capital, has a welldeserved reputation for buying distressed properties and milking them for all they’re worth by gutting them — all the while making ridiculously high profit margins, often at the expense of its newly acquired employees. It’s a fairly evil business model when applied to any industry, but especially so when applied to something like newspapers that play a critical role in our communities and democracy. News is not a widget. Krieger believed the Camera’s ownership was threatening its newspapers’ ability to do their job and serve their communities. So he decided to share his concerns with the Camera’s readers in the form of a column on the editorial page. That’s what journalists do. Long story short: Camera publisher Al Manzi Boulder Weekly
decided to kill Krieger’s piece. Not being a fan of such censorship, Krieger went ahead and posted the piece on his own blog. A few days later he was fired for having done so. (For the whole story in Krieger’s words go to tinyurl.com/y7hmplng.) The threat to newsgathering, about which Krieger felt the need to warn all of us, pertains to Alden’s willingness to suck exorbitant profits out of its papers even if it means slashing budgets and reducing staffs in a draconian manner to do so. And that’s exactly what the hedge fund has done, enabled by its managers, publishers and editors who have maintained their high-paying jobs only through their willingness to eliminate the livelihoods of those below their own pay grade. I think there’s a name for people like that. Just insert the one you think fits best here: $#@&*. At a time when the daily newspaper industry is struggling, Alden demanded and got a $36 million profit from its Colorado newspapers in 2017 according to industry analyst Ken Doctor writing for NiemanLab. That is an incredible, industry-high 19 percent profit margin basically extracted from an industry with already shrinking revenues. The hedge fund’s owners didn’t make this money through clever management and innovation. They made it by laying off journalists, copy editors, production staff and others while offering ever-diminishing news products. It’s a shortsighted business model that only hastens the decline in subscribers, which ultimately weakens our local communities and their institutions by eliminating the resources necessary for effective journalistic oversight. Alden’s ironically named “Digital First” newspapers in Colorado are mere shells of their former selves at this point. The Denver Post’s newsroom staff has been cut from 200 to 70. The Longmont Times Call that once occupied a three-story, blocklong building in downtown Longmont now consists of a handful of employees you can count on your fingers and they work out of the Camera’s Boulder office. All of Alden’s papers have become a cheaper-to-produce amalgamation of repurposed content from other Alden-owned papers across the region intertwined with wire service copy of yesterday’s national news. But they could be so much more, and once were. For those of you who don’t know me, let me assure you that I am not disparaging the journalists at Alden-owned newspapers. They are excellent, they are made to work way too hard, and they spend their days serving their communities in an infuriating and scary world without job security or light at the end of the tunnel. I know they do it for you because none of us do this for the money. I am writing about this subject because I’ve been
a journalist for more than three decades and I know just how important it is to have a healthy local daily newspaper. All of us need these newspapers, but only if we can trust them. And that is the larger tragedy resulting from what Camera publisher Al Manzi and his Alden Global Capital overseers have done by first censoring then firing Dave Krieger. How can we trust the Camera so long as Manzi is in charge and willing to carry out Alden’s anti-journalistic business practices, which appear to have now added censorship of anything that could harm its profits into the mix? We can’t. Think about it. It is now impossible for any actual journalist to take Krieger’s old job as editorial page editor. No actual journalist can accept such a position knowing that he or she is not allowed to tell the truth on any subjects the publisher and/or his hedge-fund bosses choose to censor. Anyone accepting the editorial page job under such preconditions can call themselves a writer or a secretary or anything else they want, except a journalist. The damage is done. When it comes to journalism’s code of ethics, the appearance of impropriety is to be avoided with the same vigor as impropriety itself. From where I sit, Krieger’s firing is the former, and the paper’s silence on his termination thus far is at best the latter. When I say we can no longer trust the Camera, I’m not talking about the stories on its pages. We don’t have to wonder if what the Camera’s reporters write is true — it is. What we have to wonder about in light of Krieger’s firing is what the Camera is hiding from us byway of omission in an effort to boost its bottom line. It has been said, “no one has to tell a good reporter where not to look.” And that is the destructive power of the damnable message that Manzi sent into Alden’s newsrooms everywhere when he fired Krieger. This is the sad legacy left in the wake of Krieger’s undeserved termination, and in my view, it can’t be undone until the paper’s management and ownership have changed. I hope all of you will support the Camera’s employees as they continue their struggle to keep their important and irreplaceable institution in place until a more suitable owner can be found. We all need a healthy daily newspaper. Here’s to you, Dave Krieger, feather-ruffler and lifelong, committed journalist. May your next gig be bigger, better, free of hedge funds and without fear of censorship. You’ve earned it. P.S. Maybe now we can finally grab that cup of coffee we keep putting off. May 3, 2018 11
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CSU student Cullen Lobe is currently being sued by Extraction Oil and Gas for this peaceful act of civil disobedience designed to help the children at Greeley’s Bella Romero Academy.
Protect the Children The Disobedient Spirit of Democracy
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the morning of March 8, accompanied by a small group of activists, 23-year old Cullen Lobe, a journalism and environmental affairs student at Colorado State University, walked up to a bulldozer as it was excavating a well pad and oil and gas production facility site owned by Extraction Oil and Gas. The driver turned off the machine as Lobe stood in its path. Lobe spoke with the driver, explaining he held nothing against him personally but rather was protesting the massive oil and gas extraction location where he was working because of its close proximity to an elementary school. “I’m here to protect the children,” Lobe told the worker. The two talked briefly until the worker walked away to make a phone call. Lobe then locked himself to the hydraulic shaft of the bulldozer’s lift in peaceful protest of the project where numerous wells will be drilled and fracked just over 500 feet from the southern property line of Bella Romero Academy, a 4-8 grade school. The Weld County Commissioners approved Extraction’s well pad and facility site, known as Vetting 15-H, near Bella Romero in June 2016. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) gave its approval in March 2017. When completed, the site will consist of 24 oil and gas wells along with a separate nearby location for dozens of wastewater tanks, separators and vapor recovery units. By most measures, and in the now-common vernacular, it will be a massive fracking operation. Extraction’s rationale — according to its COGCC location permit — for sit12 May 3, 2018
ing this industrial facility next to the elementary school includes its close proximity to irrigation ditches and the South Platte River, which it plans to utilize during the drilling process via a temporary water pipeline. Extraction didn’t respond to numerous requests for comment on this story. Soon after the COGCC’s approval — on behalf of the groups NAACP of Colorado, Sierra Club, Wall of Women, and Weld Air and Water — attorneys Tim Estep and Kevin Lynch of the Environmental Law Clinic at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law sued the COGCC for permitting Extraction’s well pad and facility site. The suit asks that the COGCC’s permitting of Extraction’s Vetting site be invalidated and reconsidered under the guidance of the lawsuit. According to Lynch, the COGCC has a number of regulations in place governing oil and gas extraction that it likes to tout as the strongest in the country, even though other states like New York have banned fracking outright. Historically, the COGCC has viewed its oversight of the industry as only a responsibility to ensure that its regulations have been met, not to ensure public health or deny a permit on that basis, Lynch says. Lynch adds the COGCC’s setback requirements were explicitly not set with the intention of addressing human health impacts associated with air emissions related to oil and gas development. The lawsuit further alleges the COGCC approved the location because it, and oil and gas operators, generally experience the least amount of pushback when siting major oil and gas development in predominantly minority communities since these communities do not have the same resources as more affluent communities,
which in turn sets a precedent for siting oil and gas extraction developments in similar communities in the future. Citing the Colorado Department of Education, the lawsuit states Bella Romero’s student population is 90 percent Latino or Hispanic, African American or other persons of color, while 87 percent of Bella Romero’s students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. The lawsuit states the site was previously proposed at a different location near a charter school called Frontier Academy, but that this was “not ideal” because of its proximity to that school and playground even though the playground at Frontier is actually further away from the proposed oil and gas site than are the playground and ball fields at Bella Romero from the new Vetting site location. Nearly 75 percent of the population at Frontier Academy is Caucasian and only 20 percent are eligible for free- or reduced-price lunches, according to the lawsuit. Lynch says the position they’ve been advancing is that the COGCC has an independent duty to ensure, on a case-by-case basis, that any oil and gas development is consistent with the protection of public health, safety and welfare at that location. But on April 10, the judge hearing the suit rejected a temporary restraining order that would have halted Extraction’s construction of its site near Bella Romero. The judge indicated he planned to rule in favor of the COGCC. Despite this order, the groups represented in the suit vowed to continue fighting the court’s decision to allow Extraction’s industrial operation to move forward next to Bella Romero. Even without the new Vetting site, Extraction already operates well pads near Bella Romero, one being within 500 feet of the school’s northern property Boulder Weekly
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line where children walk to and from school and are picked up and dropped off by their parents each morning and afternoon. The COGCC’s online mapping system shows a directional wellbore from this existing site extending directly beneath the school. And approximately three-quarters of a mile east of the school, Extraction also operates another large extraction operation, with additional wells running beneath the Bella Romero property. Extraction operates another large well pad and facility approximately 2,200 feet further north of this latter site. But Cullen Lobe and the aforementioned litigants aren’t the only ones protesting Extraction’s Vetting site in an attempt to protect the children of Bella Romero. In midFebruary, nearly 40 people protested against Extraction outside the school, and another well-attended protest occurred there in late March. Greeley-native Megan Meyer, a former student in environmental studies at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC), has been part of some of the protests against the proposed Bella Romero operation. Meyer became aware of the project and its potential health impacts because her young cousin attended the school and she has family living in the area. Meyer’s involvement led to her founding UNC Earth Guardians and becoming the Frontline Fracking Coordinator for the group. She grew up in Greeley and says she’s been getting more and more frustrated with the oil and gas industry over time and wonders where they’re going to draw the line. Many oil and gas industry workers don’t want Extraction’s fracking project by the school, Meyers says. “It’s not the workers’ fault,” she adds, “I get it, my husband worked in the industry too.” But she believes it’s at the risk of the worker’s health, adding many employed by the industry are only there because there aren’t other good paying jobs available for them. Dr. Shirley Smithson, a Sierra Club member who is part of the suit against the COGCC and who has lived for 30 years in a house right next door to Bella Romero, originally moved to the countryside so she could spend more time riding her horse, which she did until Extraction closed off and leveled the field where she used to ride. Smithson says when the drilling and production facility north of the school was going in she felt it under her house at night. “My bed would shake,” she says, adding, “You can hear it, bah-boom, bah-boom, bah-boom, constantly throughout the day.” Smithson adds that while the wells were being fracked she could see things spewing out of the site and her eyes burned. “I was coughing all the time,” she says. And it’s not just activists voicing their opposition to the Bella Romero site. In early January, the GreeleyEvans School District 6 Board of Education, who are charged with protecting the students of Bella Romero, passed a resolution against Extraction’s fracking project near the school, proclaiming among other things that oil and gas wells have the potential to create health and safety hazards, including but not limited to fires, explosions and releases of potentially hazardous materials. The resolution requests that the approval of Extraction’s Vetting site be reconsidered by Weld County and the State of Colorado agencies involved in the permitting process. It also asks Extraction to relocate its fracking operations to a site greater than 2,000 Boulder Weekly
according to the Sergeant Holmen’s narrative. There are other ways in which money has also passed from Extraction to District 6. According to records provided by the school district via an open records request, since November 2014, Extraction has paid the district $1.24 million in the form of royalties on oil and gas production from leases covering mineral interests owned by the district beneath Bella Romero Academy itself. According to Myers, this money has gone into the district’s general fund. If Extraction’s Vetting site is built, Myers says, the district will receive additional royalties on its mineral leases. Extraction also gave the district $5,000 in 2016 and 2017, for a combined $10,000 for two annual school year kickoff events. But according to Myers, Extraction has yet to commit their support for the 2018 event, which provides backpacks and school supplies to schoolchildren. Undeterred by the school board’s resolution, Extraction appears to be moving forward feet away from any District 6 school with its Vetting fracking operation and proshould the COGCC and Weld duction facility. In response in early March, Greeley youth protest County fail to respond. the district began preparing an “enhanced the building of a new, massive 24-well pad Deirdre Pilch, Superintendent of evacuation plan” for Bella Romero in the and industrial Schools, who endorsed the resolution, event of a gas leak, fire or explosion, accordproduction facility just 500 feet from their remarked before its unanimous pasing to The Greeley Tribune. And according to school grounds. sage that although the school district Myers, as part of this enhanced evacuation enjoys a “tremendous relationship” plan, children would evacuate the school out with Extraction, “It’s just not OK to the north side, which is opposite the Vetting put a significant industrial site this close to a school.” site. Myers says the plan is in its draft stages and And although Pilch didn’t specify what she meant declined to provide a copy, adding it also accounts for by a “tremendous relationship,” emails obtained via an evacuating Bella Romero Academy grades K-3, a open records request indicate some possibilities. Soon school separate from the Bella Romero 4-8 location after the school board passed its resolution, Pilch wrote and a half mile away. Myers said the district hadn’t an email to Brian Cain, Extraction’s director of public considered the possibility that the Extraction site just affairs, and Blane Thingelstad, Extraction’s northern north of the school could also have an incident or even development manager, in which she states, “I certainly contribute to an incident related to the Vetting site, understand your frustration and even anger with the potentially adding complexity to the safe evacuation of decision that our district Board of Education made last the children. week regarding the opposition to the Vetting Wells.” Myers says the school has no current plans for Pilch continues that she appreciates all the support action beyond the resolution as the district is waiting to Extraction has given District 6, including their finansee what happens with some of the outstanding issues, cial support for the district’s campaign committee for a including the aforementioned lawsuit against the Mill Levy increase. In September 2017, Extraction COGCC. contributed $10,000 to the political committee camThe school district’s concern for safety is hardly paigning for the increase, which is meant to benefit without reason. In late December 2017, an explosion District 6. and fire occurred at an Extraction fracking pad and According to Theresa Myers, Greeley-Evans facility site in nearby Windsor, sending a worker to the School District communications director, Cain “voiced hospital and billowing a plume of smoke into the night concern” that Extraction didn’t know the resolution sky. This site appears to have less than 20 wells and is would be on the board’s agenda. But voicing concern 1,700 feet from an occupied structure compared to and anger appear to be different things. Extraction’s Vetting site, which has 24 wells planned Extraction has made its displeasure known to others and is sited approximately 1,300 feet from the classaside from those within the school district. According rooms of Bella Romero elementary school and just over 500 feet from the school’s southern property line. to the Weld County Sheriff ’s Office arrest report for According to Extraction’s incident report, the explosion Lobe and others, when Sergeant Scott Holmen of the at its site in Windsor occurred during flowback operaWeld County Sheriff ’s Department arrived on scene, tions, which are a byproduct of fracking. his deputy handed over his phone and informed And earlier last year in April, a severed gas line Sergeant Holmen he needed to speak to a responsible associated with an Anadarko Petroleum Corporation party with the oil and gas company. “I spoke to Eric, well in Firestone leaked into the nearby basement of a general counsel for Extraction Oil and Gas, who residential home, causing that home to explode, killing informed me that they own all the property we were two men and seriously injuring a woman. And just currently standing on. He continued to inform me that months later, another Anadarko well exploded, killing all parties were trespassing and needed to be arrested immediately. He continued to yell his demands of my deputies until such time I ended the phone call,” See FRACKING Page 14 May 3, 2018 13
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one and injuring three others. As shown on this And as for a different kind of health impact, a study map, the young children of Bella published at the end of March and conducted by the Romero Academy Colorado School of Public Health at the University of will soon be spending their days Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus found the lifetime surrounded by cancer risk of those living within 500 feet of a well was industrial oil and gas operations and their eight times higher than the EPA’s upper level risk threshassociated pollution. old. The researchers’ findings indicate state and federal regulatory policies may not be protective of health for populations living near oil and gas facilities. And with regard to children, a study published in February led by the same researcher found that children aged 5–24 years diagnosed with the hematological cancer known as acute lymphocytic leukemia were three to four times as likely to live in areas with active oil and gas wells as were children diagnosed with non-hematologic cancers. It is at the nexus of health concerns, racial discrimination and Extraction’s fullspeed-ahead approach to its Vetting site that Cullen Lobe and his protest emerge. As a result of his act of peaceful civil disobedience, Lobe was cited with seconddegree trespassing and second-degree tampering with equipment associated with oil or gas gathering operations charges, both misdemeanors, for which he’ll appear in Weld County Court on May 8. Others who were in the area were also cited, including activists, a lawyer who was acting as a legal observer, and an independent journalist. But the criminal charges are just the beginning of Lobe’s legal ordeal, for soon after his action Extraction filed a civil lawsuit against him and others for “nominal damages,” further requesting a judge grant a temporary restraining order barring Lobe and others from trespassing on Extraction’s Vetting site, “or any property owned by or in possession of Extraction, 7N, or their oil and gas industry affiliates.” 7N LLC is a subsidiary of Extraction. Other plaintiffs cited by the Weld County Sheriff ’s Department at Lobe’s protest and consequently sued by Extraction include Brian Hedden, John Lamb, Jeremy Mack, Mary Elise Delffs, and John and Jane Does 1-8. In the lawsuit, Extraction states it does not seek to impact Lobe’s or others’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech, but rather to prevent them from trespassing or interfering with its operations. But in an amended version of the complaint, a subtler aspect of Extraction’s argument appears. After asserting Lobe and others “style” themselves as environmental activists engaging in civil disobedience to oppose oil Boulder Weekly
and gas extraction, Extraction again states it’s not attempting to impact their right to free speech, but in a footnote dropped from this point, Extraction notes that “even free speech rights are not absolute — speech can be curtailed or enjoined when it interferes with other’s exercise of their rights.” Implicit in this statement is perhaps the crux of the issue: the distinction and supremacy of certain rights. Lobe and other community members considered it imperative to utilize their First Amendment right in order to give voice to underprivileged and under-served communities because nothing else appeared to be working. As a result, they have brought attention to what appears to be an act of environmental injustice. On the other hand, Extraction’s rights appear to be those of mineral rights, and therefore, corporate profits. According to Lobe’s attorney, Jason Flores-Williams, Extraction’s suit against Lobe appears to be an intimidation tactic. And because Extraction has also named other individuals in the lawsuit, Flores-Williams says it appears Extraction is going after anyone who has tried to stand up and raise their voice against this massive industrial operation going in next to an elementary school, and that the real intent seems to be Extraction sending a message to the community, that “if you stand up against us or resist this or challenge this in any way then you too can be the subject of a lawsuit, and you too will have to defend yourself against a multi-billion dollar oil and gas corporation.” Flores-Williams adds that in the mere act of filing the lawsuits against several individuals, Extraction is impinging upon the First Amendment rights of Lobe and of the community. Flores-Williams filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on April 11, and the case is set to be heard on May 18. Understanding the significance of Lobe’s action at Bella Romero relative to American democracy suggests a look at his experience at Standing Rock. There, Lobe joined a massive protest event and camp comprised of diverse groups of people unified under the title of Water Protectors. Standing Rock was led by First Nations People, including representation from indigenous tribes from around the world who have been experiencing forms of genocide and injustice since Europeans began immigrating to the continent over 500 years ago. And although the pipeline the people were protesting was ultimately constructed, Standing Rock appears to have been successful in other ways. At Standing Rock, protest, or the protection of water in the sense that water is life, was practiced as a spiritual act, but not in the sense some might think. Being a Water Protector at Standing Rock was to engage in a spiritual act of protest, spiritual in the sense that it was done for the sake of other, voiceless and vulnerable communities, including the air, earth, people and water. And so Lobe’s protest alongside First Nations People became a peaceful and spiritual act on behalf of people different from him, which is akin to his action protecting the children of Bella Romero by protesting Extraction’s Vetting site. These peaceful and spiritual protests on behalf of those who have no voice or are otherwise vulnerable appear kindred with the First Amendment of the Constitution. And as Lobe was locked to the bulldozer, alone and surrounded by police, he says his spirit sank, but then the children of Bella Romero started pouring out of the school for recess, lining the fence, and witnessing. “That was a very beautiful moment,” he says, “that made everything OK.” Flores-Williams says such an expression of the First Amendment exists within the most Constitution-protected zone in America. “It is the sacred space of our democracy,” he says. And when the ability to raise your voice around issues of concern dies, Flores-Williams adds, democracy dies. Flores-Williams also states that when people such as Lobe engage in peaceful civil disobedience where there are laws involved, they’re going to have to face some kind of culpability, but where that changes is where massive corporations decide to enter into the First Amendment arena to try to silence a community and intimidate people and shut down resistance. “That is the place where we stop and say, ‘This far — no further,’” Flores-Williams says. “We are not going to live in an America where corporations believe that they can violate the First Amendment rights of a community with impunity,” the attorney asserts, which is why he says the case ties into the larger context of American democracy. If Extraction is allowed to go through with its lawsuit, Flores-Williams says, other fossil fuel corporations may see suing people engaging in peaceful protest as an effective way of neutralizing or suppressing opposition to their future fracking projects, such as the hundreds of wells and massive production facilities now proposed for Boulder County. Flores-Williams asserts this must not be the emerging trend in our country. “They own enough already,” he says, “They’re not going to own the First Amendment.” A version of this story originally appeared in the Fort Collins Courier last week.
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cannabis industry “will be generating well over one billion units of single-use plastic packaging waste per year.” The duo quickly realized the opportunity to make sustainable packing the norm in the cannabis industry. Though recyclable and some compostable packaging already exists, as Searchinger is quick to point out, Basak-Smith isn’t convinced they are the best or final solutions. “The elephant in the room is the corn-based Courtesy of Sana Packaging
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o those can be pretty bad,” Ben Searchinger says, talking about the Russian-doll-like packaging system that encloses a box of edible gummies at Drift dispensary, where he’s inventory manager. One company, he says, “has individual boxes, inside those boxes are the childproof dram bottles ... and inside those are plastic bags with the gummies in them. And then we have to put it in a paper, opaque exit bag.” All together, that’s four layers of packaging between the consumer and the product — three more than most food or medicine bought at a store. “The reason there is so much [packaging] is state regs,” Searchinger explains. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division have designed an elaborate cannabis packaging system to ensure marijuana products stay out of the reach of children. All dispensaries must adhere to these rules. Even though Searchinger believes the majority of the packaging could potentially be recycled, “It’s all incredibly wasteful.” He shrugs, “But what are you going to do? Your hands are kind of tied by the state.” Ron Basak-Smith first noticed this waste problem a few years ago, while a graduate student at University of Colorado Boulder. “I’m a cannabis user myself,” he says, and was familiar with the Colorado regulation specifics, including stipulations like odor-resistant, child-resistant and opaque packaging, as well as special labels. During a sustainable venturing class one semester, Basak-Smith approached James Eichner with an idea: a sustainable, regenerative packaging system for cannabis products as an eco-friendly alternative to the petroleum- and corn-based plastics already on the market. Basak-Smith says the investment in developing a good-for-the-planet packaging system is a no-brainer. As a March 2018 IBISWorld report indicates, cannabis consumption continues to grow with a nation-wide projection that revenue for both medical and recreational marijuana will rise more than 30 percent in the next five years. Add that to estimations that Eichner cites in an article he wrote for Cannabis Packaging News: By 2020, the
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plastics that have been vastly adopted by anyone doing compostable products,” he says. “I think they’ve made great strides in bringing awareness to compostability and plant-based materials, but really it’s a starting point. We need to keep pushing the envelope.” Hemp is where Basak-Smith and Eichner turned, and where they found a world of sustainable potential. One of the earliest domesticated plants, hemp has over 25,000 uses, according to a 2017 report commissioned by the Congressional Research Service. The Declaration of Independence was drafted on hemp paper, for example. Henry Ford used hemp in a biocomposite car prototype. Today, The Body Shop incorporates hemp into many of its lotions, Patagonia weaves the fibers into bestselling clothes, and it’s a superfood sold regularly at grocery stores. Forbes has reported that with more research and development, “renewable, fast-growing hemp is a substitute for many unsustainable products like nonorganic cotton ... and many plastic products.”
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ver the past several years, TED talks have become a staple of everyday life. A coworker or family member emails you a bite-sized piece of wisdom or novel idea that could be the solution to a global problem — or at least a solution to your problem, whatever it may be. Many of the presentations showcase the latest in technology to a crowd of hungry viewers, anxious for the latest developments. It was watching a TED talk that helped inspire artist Nathan Abels’ latest exhibit. “This guy had an LED drone in his hand. He brings it out on stage and the lights dim to create really dramatic lighting,” Abels says. “I thought it looked like a sermon. Like a religious leader holding a candle in his hand, this little LED light lit Boulder Weekly
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‘History of the Future’ questions technology as today’s religion
“The Light of the Setting Sun”
by Amanda Moutinho up his face in the same way.” When the drone left the speaker’s hands, Abels noticed ecstatic faces in the crowd. “They looked completely blown away as this little light flew around the room,” he says. “It looked like the imagery I’d see in cathedrals or churches where people would be very wide eyed looking at this very mystical thing happening in front of them.” Abels depicted the scene in his painting “The Light of the Setting Sun,” part of his exhibit History of the Future, now on display at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art through May 28. The painting shows a silhouetted figure on stage, cradling a light with the utmost attention, as if its power is divine in nature. In History of the Future, Abels juxtaposes technology and religion, comparing and contrasting the two, presenting the ques-
tion of whether technology has become a modern-day religion. In his paintings and ceramics, Abels blends the two elements together. In “Adoration” a man crouches in the grass in astonishment while gazing at a screen, almost as if it’s a religious text. In “Rejoice” a crowd surrounds a mysterious light in the sky with their hands raised — it’s a painting Abels created by pairing images from a Christian rock concert and a SpaceX launch. Apart from the TED-talk inspiration, Abels says he’s been interested in the themes of the show for quite a while. He consistently questions the role technology plays in his life, and he’s noticed more people doing the same. Through research on
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the topic, Abels has become interested establishes a clear timeline. He blends in how society defines progress, wonhistorical techniques, like medieval dering if mechanization is actually painting or Neolithic pottery, with making our lives easier or better. modern imagery. By blending time “It’s something that a lot of people periods in the show, Abels brings hisare asking themselves. Even technology tory to the forefront while examining itself has responded. We have apps to how the future will archive present day. limit our use of apps,” he says. “There Some of the artworks in the exhibit is some skepticism in a broad sense, but depict the more ominous side of the I think my degree of skepticism is a lit- tech race. In “Drone Hunters,” two tle farther out than some of my peers.” armed men stand over a drone they Like most, Abels has noticed techshot out of the sky. The piece, Abel nology’s takeover of day-to-day life, says, alludes to the people who push citing examples of being in a room back against these intrusive developwhere everyone’s on their ments. In “Coverage,” a phone or being at a concert snow-covered scene shows ON THE BILL: where fans watch the show a man crawling toward a A History of the Future. through a screen. He says cell phone tower. Through May 28. it’s an accumulation of “I was thinking about Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. those small moments that how far people might go 1750 13th St. build up to create the frusto stay connected and how bmoca.org tration he feels. disappointing that would The History of the be, to find a cell tower at Future dissects what Abels calls the the top of Mount Everest,” he says. religion of technology. Through his Viewers might also recognize a analysis, Abels saw the common famous face in History of the Future. threads between the two. Like faith, Abels paints Elon Musk as a saint in Abels sees society putting an emphasis “Sic Itur Ad Astra (thus you shall go to on technology as holding all-mighty the stars)” and “Omne Ignotum Pro solutions for mankind’s problems. Magnifico (every unknown thing “People put the same kinds of appears magnificent).” hopes in technological progress as peo“Are these figures like Elon Musk ple have put in religious contexts,” he worthy of our praise or adoration? ... says. “We’re sold this idea that the When these newer things come around, or new versions, everybody more of these things we adopt — seems to react in that way that it must Wi-Fi light bulbs and electric this or be magnificent, and I’m not sure that that — the more technology we have, just because it’s new or unknown it is the easier our life will be. If that were the case then everybody I know should indeed magnificent or has as much relevance to my life,” Abels says. “What relhave a lot of free time and be stress evance does sending a car to outer space free and leisurely, and that’s not what have to the average person? I don’t really I’m seeing.” think that these new gadgets are going Throughout the show, Abels never Boulder Weekly
to do much for people’s qualities of life. And therefore, I think there will be a lot of disappointment in the future.” Abels says he sees shallow connections replacing deep relationships and quantity trumping quality. As a teacher, Abels also sees a loss of “our ability to think.” “When I’ve talked to some of my students about their ideas for art or for their next piece, I’ll ask them what their idea is and then almost immediately they’ll grab their phone and start scrolling.” With the show, Abels isn’t calling for the end of all technological innovation. His overall goal is to challenge the viewer. He wants the audience to think about technology’s function and whether it’s saving time or fulfilling any of its many promises. In the bigger picture, what does progress really mean, and if we put our faith in machines, what does that bring us? This idea of questioning progress is nothing new. Abels says he was inspired by an early 20th century quote from German art historian and theorist Aby Warburg who said, “Myth and symbols strive to form spiritual bonds between man and the world around him... creating the space for devotion and reflection: a space destroyed by instantaneous electrical connection.” Abels says Warburg understood how some developments could affect people, and that Warburg and other writers were wary of even early advancements like basic electricity or the telegram. By filling life with technology, there would be no space for quiet and contemplation. A problem
that has only become more exacerbated. “To me that goes back to the noise that these gadgets have in our lives and not having any time to think,” he says. “That also applies to not having any time to reflect, to consider, to ponder. We fill those gaps with scrolling and noise, music and Netflix. It erases time for reflection or, in [Warburg’s] context, devotion.” And as Abels suggests in the exhibit, this devotion has potentially become warped by these machines we pour so much of ourselves into. Plus, with the constant bombardment of notifications
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with a wide sweep. It’s nearly been two years since Falley left Brooklyn and bee-lined it to Colorado in her maroon Nissan Altima. “I’m actually not a very fast person,” she says. “So, I don’t think very fast. I guess I write fast, but that’s about it.” The 2,000-mile move across the country was supposed to take four days, she explains. But she did it in two. It was love, after all, that brought her here like a magnet. Falley knew where she wanted to be: with her partner, Andrea, who is also a spoken-word poet. “In a way, I feel I’ve laid down more roots in the two years I’ve lived here than anywhere else. ... The most simple things are gorgeous.” Which is saying something, considering she’s called New York home her entire life and makes a living by translating into words how her surroundings make her feel. Falley, who will be hosting a spoken-word performance at the Boulder Center for Conscious Community (BC3) May 10, figures she’s best known for her poem “Fat Girl.” In a YouTube video of her performance at the 2014 National Poetry Slam semifinals, she ratchets up the power of her voice with each line: “Fat girl don’t
Megan Falley’s fourth book of poetry, Drive Here and Devastate Me, comes out in September.
touch her stomach. Fat girl turn the lights off. Fat girl keep her T-shirt on. Fat girl not pregnant, fat girl food baby.” Her hands run down her stomach with dramatic pause. “Fat girl love her skinny mirror,” her hand waterfalls down the air. “Fat girl bad bulimic, fat girl binge and no purge,” she throws her arms open, shaking her head, “Fat girl can’t even throw up right.” As she enunciates the “t,” her eyes light on fire. She moves on stage like it’s her living room, like the audience is comprised of thousands of younger sisters in need of conviction. They clap, cheer, roar in response. Falley continues, “Fat girl’s friends come over to stare at her brother’s chiseled abdominals and ignore fat girl don’t hate her body. Fat girl hate the world.” She closes the performance: “Fat girl thick skin, fat girl dance anyway. Fat girl shirt off, fat girl lights on,” and she repeats, throwing her hands up, “Fat girl, lights on.” Falley is electric. Unapologetic. Scrolling through dozens of videos of her live performances captured online, it’s clear her spoken-word poetry is heart-pounding advice for anyone looking to live an unabashed, Boulder Weekly
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unashamed, unrepentant life. “I want people to undo their shame,” she says. And that’s why she writes. To be clear, ON THE BILL: the full effect of Megan Falley’s Open Falley’s message Mic. 6 p.m. Thursday, May 10, Boulder translates best Center for Conscious when seen live or Community, 1637 28th at least heard, not St., Boulder, www.consciousboulder.com read. “I work really hard for things to be beautiful to read and be a great experience as a book,” she says, noting her fourth book, Drive Here and Devastate Me, will be published in September. “But I think it’s an art form that really comes alive out loud.” Slam poetry is the perfect blend of writing and performance, Falley just try to let it come through with the believes — her two favorite modes of emotions, and see what happens.” creativity. But she didn’t know it even At another National Poetry Slam existed until she saw her school’s slam event, Falley took the stage with fellow team perform during her freshman year poet Olivia Gatwood. The duo perof college. “I saw them and thought, formed “Say No,” a tribute to the ‘Oh, I get it! That’s for me!’ That was woman who “argues for a higher salary 2006, and I have not really stopped and her co-workers call her a bitch in since then.” the break room”; to the woman who “is Falley has turned her personal experi- told to get naked at a frat party. She ences into public prose, exposing her refuses, a boy with a kind smile puts queerness and the raw chasm between his arm around her, offers her a beer, self-confidence and self-doubt. She’s disfilled with the magic that erases No sected moments in her own life that’ve from her vocabulary”; and to the helped her and her listeners comprehend woman who “is told that if she doesn’t a woman’s existence on Earth. want to hear the song about rape, don’t “I feel like I got my education in listen to it, but it follows her in the the field in New York, going to open supermarket, the gym, the girl’s clothmics and slams a couple times a week,” ing aisle, and now she knows all the Falley says. Now she teaches poetry, words.” too, in workshops around Boulder and Again the crowd roars in response with students online, some based in to each line, like waves of #metoo slapping the concert hall walls. “That’s other countries like Australia and where my real passion is,” Falley says, South Africa. Her event at the BC3 will showcase “to be witness to the sharing of it and the reaction and have it be more of a student work from her most recent conversation rather than, I put this out workshop, “Poems That Don’t Suck.” [in book form] and don’t see somebody “My hosting is very involved,” she says. experience it. I love the conversation “I’ll read probably three or four poems, and I’ll tell lots of stories. ... It’s very element of it.” queer. Very healing. Very beautiful.” She tends to have conversations When Falley sits down to write, she with herself, too, in her poetry. To keep says, “I want my poems to be written herself honest, she revisits her own and done in an hour. ... I like immediwork, sometimes changing it, someate gratification with writing.” And times removing it from the public, when that happens, “Those are the sometimes responding to it herself. In moments I really cherish, where I’m her second poetry book, Red Head and like a vessel for something,” she says. the Slaughter King, she includes a “But probably the moments I learn retraction at the end of each chapter. more are when that’s not happening “It’s another piece that explores anothand I really have to fight to figure out er angle,” she says. “That sort of thing what I’m trying to say.” has always been important to me.” When Falley prepares for a show, A few years after “Fat Girl” she records herself reciting the poems. debuted, Falley wrote a follow-up Then she listens to them again and poem after she’d learned more about again, memorizing the words. “Then I body privilege and weathered critiques Boulder Weekly
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or a band that’s spent the last decade writing about the pitfalls of technology, the recent revelations about data harvesting aren’t all that shocking to the duo behind MGMT. Since their 2008 breakout album Oracle Spectacular, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser have always used their music to explore what VanWyngarden calls, “the themes of death and paranoia about technology” with a little bit of dark humor thrown in. “There’s always been this skepticism of technology or at least a skepticism of the notion that technology is going to bring us together in this doesn’t have to be this thing that takes raised-consciousness sort of way,” he over our life.” says. “It’s being shown more and more In some ways, technology may have that it does the opposite, and it isolates even saved the band from its own people, and it represses certain parts of demise. the human brain.” Coming off the varied reviews of As children of the 1980s, the two 2013’s experimental project MGMT, grew up without the pervasive technol- VanWyngarden and Goldwasser took ogy that exists today, and their playful some time off from music and each synth-pop sound is reminiscent of the other. Goldwasser moved to sunny Los decade’s best pop music. But as most Angeles while VanWyngarden stayed people who straddle the technological behind in Queens. As their personal divide, they’ve had to wrestle with it, lives diverged on some levels, adapt to it and come to terms with VanWyngarden says, he wasn’t sure they how it affects our everyday lives. would be able to “recover creatively.” VanWyngarden can easily walk By the end of 2015, “I was thinkus through the band’s ing maybe MGMT had relationship with techrun its course in some ON THE BILL: MGMT. nology, from the apocaways,” he says. 6:30 p.m. Monday, May 7, Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 lyptic world void of But then came a N. Clarkson St., Denver. computers new year and the two Tickets are $45. VanWyngarden sings spent 2016 working on Little Dark Age across about on their first three time zones, mostly album, to angrily via email. From the first song, screaming “stab your Facebook” on the VanWyngarden says the “creative follow-up LP Congratulations. Then bond” the two share was apparent, and despair sets in on 2013’s self-titled it became obvious the two still had album, as the duo explores “being something to say. hopelessly addicted to technology” despite all the warnings, including their “Our newest album, even though it own. Which brings us to the latest was created in the darker times of my release, Little Dark Age, with its catchy life probably, in terms of the world ode to cell phones, “Tslamp.” totally collapsing, I think Ben and I “I’m wondering where the hours reacted to that by wanting to be even went/As I’m losing consciousness/My more playful with the music and sullen face is all aglow/Time spent encourage dancing and fun in these looking at my phone,” VanWyngarden times that could easily give rise to sings, with the slightest hint of irony in hopeless feelings,” VanWyngarden says. his voice. It’s not dissimilar to some of the “I think we got through the jungle band’s earliest songs, written in the and saw that there is hope,” months following the attacks on 9/11. VanWyngarden says. “That we can The two met as freshmen in college in exist with technology and use it but it Connecticut just a month before the
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twin towers fell, and wrote some of their earliest hits like “Kids” and “Electric Feel” in their dorm rooms. “Soon after [9/11], we were writing these songs that became the foundation for our entire career and still sustain us,” VanWyngarden says. “There’s a parallel there of reacting to worldwide shocking events with wanting to make fun, poppy music.” It doesn’t take long for us to get into the Cambridge Analytica controversy, how Facebook and other social networks profit from data harvesting and Adam Curtis’s three-hour 2016 documentary HyperNormalisation, which VanWyngarden admits he can’t help but recommend to almost everyone he talks to. The film pulls together archival footage to document how the Western world ended up in a state of mass delusion, as the social and political world crumbled around them. “He said it was very clear Donald Trump would be president because these sort of echo chambers and mirrors that were existing, and there’s this illusion that you’re communicating on a mass level when you’re really not,” VanWyngarden says, trailing off, realizing he isn’t saying anything we haven’t heard before. “Everyone is talking about this a lot, but I think it’s good to keep talking about it.” And that’s exactly what MGMT plans to do. As the duo heads out on tour with the latest album, they’ll play songs from across their catalogue, and VanWyngarden says, “I think our live show is the best it’s ever been.” There’s only one request: Turn off your phone and dance.
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CINCO DE MAYO FIESTA FLAMENCO — WITH MAESTRO RENÉ HEREDIA AND HIS FLAMENCO FANTASY DANCE THEATRE. 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday, May 5, Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder. René Heredia grew up in Granada, Spain, and is a direct descendant of the gitano flamenco puro tradition that was passed down to him by generations of his family. As a performer, teacher, choreographer, mentor and recording artist, Heredia has received numerous awards, including the Governor’s and Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Heredia will perform two concerts at Caffè Sole on Cinco de Mayo, one beginning at 6 p.m. and the next at 9 p.m. Seating will begin half an hour prior to show time. Door admission is $15 per concert. Make dinner at reservations@ caffesole.com.
‘UNDOMESTICATED’ — A FILM BY AMIE KNOX. 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. Monday, May 7, Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut, St., Boulder. RSVP to kiah@bmoca.org
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Argentine-born, Boulder-based artist Ana María Hernando lives a life inhabited by color, textiles, flowers and a deep regard for women’s traditional crafts. Undomesticated attempts to capture her essence and intuitive process as she creates one of her memorable installations. Incorporating hand-crocheted petticoats of Andean villagers and delicate fabrics embroidered by a group of nuns in Buenos Aires, Hernando creates a wondrous work, which is both a testament to traditional women’s crafts as well as an exuberant piece of art. Other showings: 6 p.m. Thursday, May 3, Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, RSVP to amieknox@ mac.com; 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 9, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/yb6dztxm.
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Thursday, May 3 Music Celebrate Press Freedom — with Africa Agenda. 6 p.m. Posner Center for International Development, 1031 33rd St., Denver, 720-382-7631.
Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location THURSDAY MAY 3 8PM
KYLE DONOVAN BAND W/ OPENER HARPER POWELL FRIDAY MAY 4 8PM
RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS SATURDAY MAY 5 8PM
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COPPER LEAF, J.W. SCHULLER, & NICK LEA MONDAY MAY 7
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Desert Daze Caravan II featuring Ariel Pink, DIIV, Nick Hakim and more. 7 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Grant Sabin. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Quinlan Cafe, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Jam Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Kyle Donovan Band — with Harper Powell. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Leeway. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111. Movie at the Symphony: Jurassic Park In Concert. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern and Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective. 7:30 p.m. Newman Center for the Performing Arts, 2344 E. Iliff Ave., Denver, 303-871-7720. Thomas Lafond Trio. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914. Trio con Brio Tango. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Youth Pop A Capella (Ages 7 to 12). 4 p.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444. Events Immigration Swearing-In Ceremony. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Josh Wolf. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637. Madaleine Sorkin: Perfecting the Push. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. May Day Festival. 9 a.m. Harlequin’s Gardens, 4795 N. 26th St., Boulder, 303-939-9403. RFMA’s Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Celebration. 5 p.m. Lola Coastal Mexican, 1575 Boulder St., Denver. Rocky Flats Living Library. 1:15 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Friday, May 4 Music AC Slater. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Billy Shaddox Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Cantabile Sings Venetian Masters: Antonio Vivaldi & Antonio Caldara. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 720-204-8806. Dixie Leadfoot. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
The Boulder Chamber Orchestra performs ‘The Music of Star Wars: May the Fourth (Be With You) at Macky Auditorium on Friday, May 4.
THURSDAY, MAY 3 Science and Society — Welcome to the Second Digital Age! 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Can you even imagine what it will be like to live in the 2040s? Join in this speculative adventure to imagine the possibilities together.
Joanna Ruocco Reading: Creative Writing Reading Series. 7:30 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.
Attend a memorial service celebrating the life of Alan Cass, who passed away April 18 at the age of 77. He was known to many as the creator and longtime steward of the Glenn Miller Archive, as well as a sports announcer for Colorado Buffalo football games and other sports.
Even the Earth is Bipolar II: Curved Space Comedy. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder. Gregg Eisenberg explores the paradoxical nature of scientific knowledge and human psychology in a show will take you from the “comforts of cliche” to the “chasms of contradiction.”
Joanna Ruocco is an assistant professor of creative writing in the English department at Wake Forest University. She has published several books, including Another Governess / The Least Blacksmith: A Diptych, which won the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.
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GBYO wraps up the 2017-2018 season with Brahms, Baroque and a world premiere. Concerto Competition winners Lucy Rissman, violin, and Kaidan Larson, violin, perform their works with their respective orchestras.
The Show. 6:30 p.m. Roser ATLAS Center, Black Box, 1125 18th St., Boulder. The Show is a variety dance performance that tells the story of how we shape and mold others (and vice versa) through our relationships. The Show uses wirelessly connected costumes with embedded sensors and lights to extend the emotive qualities of dance and tell the story. The Show mixes seven different dance styles — house, hiphop, swing, blues, aerial trapeze and salsa — to demonstrate similarities and differences between the styles as well as to expose people to new kinds of dance.
The Music of Star Wars: May the Fourth (Be With You). 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Join the Boulder Chamber Orchestra in celebrating international “Star Wars Day” with John Williams’ greatest soundtracks — music from the Star Wars film franchise.
SATURDAY, MAY 5
Greater Boulder Youth Orchestras. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.
David Sedaris. 8 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Humorist and best-selling author David Sedaris comes to Boulder for one night only. An evening of never-before-heard stories, Q&A and book signing.
TUESDAY, MAY 8 Hacking for Defense Capstone Pitches. 6:30 p.m. Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder. Help celebrate the final night of MD5’s Hacking for Defense course, in which graduate student teams from engineering and business address real national security issues as defined by Department of Defense and Intelligence Community partners such as the NSA and the U.S. Navy. Please register online at: www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-fordefense-capstone-pitches-tickets-45046307719
Memorial Service for Alan Cass. 1:30 p.m. Folsom Field & Stadium, Byron White Club Level, 2095 University Ave., Boulder.
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Always... Patsy Cline. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through May 20.
Welcome to Priseaux, France, c. 1250 A.D.: The river flooded again last week. The chandler’s shop just burned to the ground. Nobody’s heard of the wheelbarrow yet. And Saint Foy, the patron of the local monastery, hasn’t worked a miracle in 13 years. Incorruptible is a fun, gentle ribbing at how humans twist their convictions to rationalize bad behavior. Catch the Coal Creek Theatre of Louisville production of Incorruptible at Louisville Center for the Arts May 4-19.
Anastasia. 3 p.m. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through May 5. Annie. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Opens April 13. Through July 8. The Audience. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through May 13. Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora. Through May 27. The Electric Baby. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 4. Going to a Place Where You Already Are — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through May 6. Gypsy — presented by Longmont Theatre Company. Longmont Performing Arts Center, 513 Main St., Longmont. Opens May 4. Through May 20. Incorruptible — presented by Coal Creek Theater of Louisville. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville. Opens May 4. Through May 19.
Macbeth. 7:30 p.m. Denver’s Dangerous Theatre, 2620 W. Second Ave., Suite 1, Denver. Through May 27.
Sense and Sensibility. Arvada Center for Performing Arts, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 6.
Man of La Mancha. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse,4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown. Through June 17.
Sleeping Beauty — presented by Denver Children’s Theatre. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, Elaine Wolf Theatre, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver. Through May 4.
Native Gardens. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Space Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 6.
The Who’s Tommy. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Stage Theatre, 1101 13th St., Denver. Opens April 20. Through May 27.
Remembering a Knight to Remember. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver. Through May 19.
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Flute Choir and Handbell Concert. 7:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-7760399.
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Spilled Ink, an Open Mic for Youth invites younger poets, storytellers, musicians and comedians to take the stage at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe. Organized by participants of StoryCraft’s Spilled Ink workshop in creative writing for the ’zine and open mic, this event features poetry, flash fiction, true tales of derringdo (or don’t), music and standup. Got ’zines? Bring them! Kids, tweens and teens only!
From Juba to Jive: First Annual Freedom Fund Gala, NAACP Boulder County. 6 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 207-479-2938. John Nemeth. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Last Men On Earth: May the Fourth Be With You. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Maynard Mills Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.
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Sara Lefsyk and Mary Cisper and Travis Cebula and Michele Battiste. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Papa Juke: May the Fourth Be With You! 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186. Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Martin Hakubai Mosko and Alxe Noden — The Sound of Cherry Blossoms. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Todd Adelman & The Country Mile. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Saturday, May 5 Spilled Ink — Open Mic for Youth. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.
Women Rock Boulder — with Tracksuit Wedding, Erica Brown, Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.
Monday, May 7 Brandilyn Tebo — The Achievement Trap. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Events 2018 Fiesta Hispánica. 6 p.m. Denver Language School — West Campus, 200 S. University Blvd., Denver, 303-777-0544. Art War! A Star Wars Party on May the Fourth. 6:30 p.m. The Curtis Hotel, 1405 Curtis St., Denver, 720-500-3409. Colorado Educational Theater Program. 11:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. No Man’s Land Film Festival (Night 2). 6 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway St., Unit A, Boulder, 303-499-8866. 30 May 3 , 2018
So, You’re a Poet. 9 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder. Tuesday, May 8
Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. David Haskell — The Songs of Trees. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder. Wednesday, May 9 Centennial Middle School Poetry. 6:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder. Terrenda White — Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.
Spanish Modern Literature Club. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Brian Allison & Brittany Devens. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Saturday, May 5
Cinco de Mayo Cacao & Kirtan. 7 p.m. Soul Tree Yoga, 1280 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette, 720-352-2516.
Music Alice Glass — with Zola Jesus, Pictureplane. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Flamenco. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-722-0054. Cinco de Mayo on the Rooftop — with Funk Knuf. 6 p.m. Element Bistro Boulder, 6315 Lookout Road, Boulder, 303-530-5400. Boulder Weekly
events Deep Peace Concert: StarHouse. 8 p.m. The Starhouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-245-8452.
Wildflower Hike. 1 p.m. Legion Park Open Space, Boulder.
Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 720-204-8806.
Once & Future Band. 7 p.m. Ogden Theater, 935 E. Colfax, Denver, 303-832-1874.
Eddie Turner and Trouble. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Sunday, May 6 Music
Copper Leaf, J.W. Schuller, Nick Lea. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.
Peanut Butter Players Benefit Concert. 7 p.m. Harlequin Center for the Performing Arts, 1376 Miners Drive, Suite 106, Lafayette, 303-786-8727.
Flamenco Denver presents Récital De Primavera. 7:30 p.m. El Centro Su Téatro, 721 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 303-832-4846. The Ginny Mules. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Green Buddha. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-881-0762.
Seventeenth Annual Longmong Handbell Festival. 3:30 p.m. First Evangelical Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2800. Boulder Friends of Jazz. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-449-1888. Cantabile Sings Venetian Masters — Antonio Vivaldi & Antonio Caldara. 2 p.m. First
Flamenco Denver presents Récital De Primavera. 2 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-832-4846.
Events Doris’ Sunday Matinee: Day at the Races. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Half Waif, Hovvdy. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007. Harmony+Hops. 4 p.m. Congregation Har HaShem, 3950 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-499-7077.
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Griffin House. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Idlewhile Band. 6 p.m. Brewmented, 900 S. Hover St., Unit C, Longmont, 720-699-0214. Old’s Cool Rock, Cinco De Mayo. 5 p.m. Lunada Eatery and Cantina, 2770 Arapahoe Road, Suite 124, Lafayette, 720-612-7315. Songwriters in the Round. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.
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TheBigWonderful Denver. 12 p.m. TheBigWonderful, 4400 Fox St., Denver. The Von Hodads — with Taylor Sims. 4:30 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Wood & Wire. 9:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003. Events 2018 Longmont Celebrates Cinco De Mayo. 11 a.m. City of Longmont Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont. Aerial Intersections. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-245-8272. Art Stop. 10 a.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Back to the ’80s Prom Dance Party. 7 p.m. Gunbarrel Brewing Company, 7088 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 800-803-5732.
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Cinco de Mayo Street Party. 11 a.m. Verde, 640 Main St., Louisville, 303-909-1243. Cinco de Mayo Tequila Tasting. 6 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 720-666-1386. Cinco de Mayo — with Soul Sacrifice, A Tribute To Santana. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. First Saturday Yoga: Boats and Bridges. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Free Comic Book Day. 10 a.m. Mile High Comics — Jason Street Mega Store, 4600 Jason St., Denver, 303-477-0042. Fundraiser for Colorado Women’s Education Foundation. 5:30 p.m. BonacQuisti Wine, 4640 Pecos St., Denver, 303-477-9463.
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arts Act On It: Exhibit on CU Student Activism. Norlin Library, STEAM Gallery, 1157 18th St., Boulder. Through Aug. 15. Arthur Jafa: Love Is The Message, The Message Is Death. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May. 13.
History of the Future by Nathan Abels, now showing at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art through May 28, embeds contemporary technologies and icons into scenes from a perspective of faith, ritual and religion. Read more about the exhibit on page 19.
Cleon Peterson: Shadow Of Men. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 27. Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 20. Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Honestly Lying. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 13. Drawn To Glamour: Fashion Illustrations by Jim Howard. Denver Art Museum. 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 22.
Nathan Abels, “Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico” (Every Unknown Thing Appears Magnificent).
Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018. Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through July 8.
Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.
Ganesha: The Playful Protector. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through October.
Past the Tangled Present. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Oct. 28.
Kimberlee Sullivan: Weather Pattern. Macky Auditorium (foyer), 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Through May 6.
Stampede: Animals in Art. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through May 19.
WWI: Longmont & the Great War. Longmont Museum and Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Through May 13.
A Vulnerable Paradigm of Wonder. Vision West Contemporary, 2605 Walnut St., Denver. Through May 5.
Millie Chen: Four Recollections. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through July 21.
Wopo Holup: Endless Places, Present. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St. Through May 28.
Nathan Abels: History of the Future. Boulder Museum of Contemporary
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The Night of the Hunter. 4 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
TESS: Searching for the Next Earth. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.
Tiny Tots Inside the Orchestra. 9:30 a.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder, 303-998-1900.
Purl Jam. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Tricky. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.
Sensory Friendly Playtime. 8 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.
The Fratellis. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
A Woman of No Importance. 1 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Monday, May 7 Music 3 Story Limit presents A Cappella Night 2018. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0419. Carl Banks. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Joseph Cutshall. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. Live Music — with Green Buddha. 10 a.m. Southern Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-881-0762. No Water No Beer — Drinking Water Week Celebration. 3 p.m. American Water Works Association, 6666 W. Quincy Ave., Denver, 303-347-6187. Events Arabic Literature. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Healing Power of Pets: Companions for Mental Health & Wellness. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8469. Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. 32 May 3 , 2018
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Pink. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver. Sonny Landreth. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver, 303-830-9214. Events Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100. Citizen Jane Battle for the City — Saving NYC for People Not Development. 7 p.m. Academy — The Chapel, 970 Aurora Ave., Boulder, 720-660-9999. Conscious Dance. 7 p.m. Alchemy of Movement, 2436 30th St., Boulder, 303-931-1500. Wednesday, May 9 Music Behind the Curtain: Happy Hour + Immersive Backstage Experience. 5:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-468-2030.
Wednesday is Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Wednesday Night Square Dance. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Events BeeChicas: Plan a Pollinator Garden. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. The Brewery Comedy Tour. 8 p.m. FATE Brewing Company, 1600 38th St., Boulder, 303-4493283. Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Foxtrot. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. John Noltner: A Peace of my Mind. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666. Lives Well Lived. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Brazilian Girls. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.
Midday Music Meditation. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.
Wobblers & Walkers. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
The Nicolas Killeen Quintet. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
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Roguish Mercury went on a wicked mission this round, squared up with Pluto to shine racism in the limelight— Black boy shot at for needing school directions; Black men arrested for waiting in Starbucks— but a big joke was sending a Libra to tell stale stories while the Pisces’s whispers long to smother her in her drunken sleep. Show your internalized prejudice wrapped in cowardice, never striving to be a true reflection of perpetually needed Alien love. Passing as a tan French Canadian while denying your other color, you dare to Google how to love Blackness— bet you didn’t Google how to be with that new blonde. Think the other Aquarius would stay, Aries, if he knew how much you actually miss diving between smooth, svelte legs, wishing they led to ebony rainbows? Dream of it more, Fetishize stereotypes galore— it’s all you’re trying to know. Run to the people of power with your complaints about a power you can’t possibly comprehend, the experience that’s yet to slice flesh & mind from being— don’t worry. Saturn’s coming to show you, too. That Hazel-eyed red head looked me in the eyes and with boozy breath whispered “all lives matter” then proceeded to show
how much one actually didn’t by ruthlessly laughing at its sadness, gleefully abandoning it and blatantly ignoring its presence every chance they got. Go ahead and declare this the ways of your people, show yourself a shining example, because when complacency is Boulder’s bread & butter, I guess sometimes the civilized just can’t help themselves. Claim colorblindness to excuse your willingness for conditioned separation in color & class, to not see POCs, not see Goddess, but use lyrics of Blackness to hate and discriminate against other Blackness then call yourself loving to Blacks, listening to the tracks that support stereotypes but too afraid to face Django Jane or actually watch a Black Boy Fly. Of course you won’t be spared when the power is finally printed on paper from blood & tears morphed into ink for all the world to learn. Little White lies fill up a big White bubble as obsidian Flatirons reflect tears from the ghosts of true Natives. Just sip more whiskey, more Chai, your conscience down the drain, feel no pain in happily choosing to say words you know are wrong out of lack-of-Black privilege. It’s simply the American Way.
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It’s a hard world for a little thing Between love and hate in ‘The Night of the Hunter’ by Michael J. Casey Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would ON THE BILL: The you like me to tell you the little story of right-hand/ Night of the Hunter. 4 p.m. left-hand? Sunday, May 6, Dairy Arts 1930s West Virginia: A condemned man Center, Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., brags to his bunkmate that he hid $10,000 in his Boulder, thedairy.org. house before his arrest. Then the bunkmate is paroled and tracks down the man’s widow and her two children like a heat-seeking missile. He is a conman; a snake-oil salesman masquerading as a “reverend” and only the mother falls for his lies, eagerly trusting in the kindness of strangers. He kills her, and he’d kill the children (or “Chilll...dren!” as he intones) too if they hadn’t slipped through his fingers and into the hands of a tough-asnails, god-fearing matriarch. Sure, the story is good, but it’s the performances that make The Night of the Hunter memorable. He is Reverend Harry Powell, played with exquisite perfection by Robert Mitchum — Hollywood’s sleepiest and most unlikely leading man. He’s tall, towering over the children (Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce) and their mother (Shelly Winters, an actress who made a career falling for the wrong man) like a bogeyman. He is, in a way. And with the words “L-O-V-E” and “H-A-T-E” tattooed on his knuckles, he’s one with conviction. At first, you might think the reverend act is a scam, but once Powell starts conversing with the Lord, you wonder how deep the act goes. Released in 1955, Night of the Hunter wasn’t an instant success, but it has persisted, remaining in circulation thanks to a generation of filmmakers who fell under its gothic spell. None more so than Spike Lee, who lifted Powell’s oftrepeated tale of love and hate, and transformed it from menace to exaltation when he placed it in the hands of Radio Raheem for Do the Right Thing. In the history of cinema, Night of the Hunter is an aberration. It was the first, last and only film directed by Charles Laughton, better known as an actor who specialized in larger-than-life performances. Film critic James Agee, working from David Grubb’s novel of the same name, penned the script, but Agee was an alcoholic at the end of his rope (he died from a heart attack on May 16, 1955, three months before the film’s release). Then the movie flopped at the box office and Laughton — who hated working with the children — walked away from the experience a bitter man. Yet, Laughton’s mark on cinema is iconic. Even audiences seeing it for the first time feel like they’re on familiar ground. Maybe it’s because Mitchum’s performance has weaseled its way into our collective consciousness, and not just his tale of right-hand/left-hand, but also his whole relentless demeanor. Or maybe it’s the hero, the real believer of the movie, Rachel Cooper (played perfectly by Lillian Gish), who reminds us, “It’s a hard world for little things.” It’s been over 60 years since Night of the Hunter was first dismissed, and the world has only gotten harder. The Harry Powells are among us; what’s a little thing to do? Boulder Weekly
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y transcendental fromage moment occurred in 2004 during an epic lunch with my family at L’Espadon restaurant in the Paris Ritz hotel. I was duly impressed by the crisply coated, softboiled egg with black truffle, the seared cod with lobster sauce and a singular chocolate soufflé emerging from the kitchen that chef Escoffier made famous. Then, the cheese cart rolled up to our table with 20 perfectly ripe French cheeses displayed as if they were precious gems. I already was excessively fond of cheese but this was a higher level of dairy bliss. All I remember is the Epoisses, a pungent, super-creamy cow’s milk cheese from Burgundy with a compelling salty, nutty and custard-y flavor. Resistance was futile. A few years back there was a report by some groups suggesting that cheese is as addictive as crack and heroin. In truth it was misreporting one small study, but the fact that so many people believed it tells you something. Flash forward to 2018 and brie is not welcome in my home. Neither is Emmenthaler nor Camembert and certainly not Gorgonzola or Epoisses. If they are within the premises, I will eat them at the door. I will eat them on the floor. I’ll eat them by themselves, with crackers, pasta and berries. I’m not addicted, but in pursuit of health, I know my weaknesses.
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When I feel the need for cheese, I eschew the store-brand Swiss and save my fat grams and calories for the best, most memorable moments of curds and whey. Here are some of the local cheeses, menu items, shops and schools where people of our ilk are known to feed.
Where to feed your need for cheeses
Spring cheese incident Slow Food Boulder County hosts a spring cheese tasting class on May 6 at Cure Organic Farm with Jessica Beer, focusing on the first local goat and sheep’s milk cheeses of the season. slowfoodboulder.com
The truffle table More melted cheese please! Two key words capture my attention at this Denver establishment: “Allyou-can-eat” and “cheese.” In this case it is the everyWednesday all-you-can-eat raclette: broiled melting Swiss cheese atop baguettes, salumi and veggies. The eatery is also one of the best places in the state to sit and taste cheeses from across the globe. Great mac and cheese, too. truffletable.com
Eastern cheese oasis For those of us living on Boulder County’s eastern side, Atlas Valley Purveyors is an unexpected culinary find, with a well-curated roster of great cheeses. Packed in the shop in northern Lafayette are charcuterie, breads, grocery items, a real butcher’s counter, a wine
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West meets East fondue Denver’s Fusion Fondue is a wonderful Asianaccented mashup of international fondue styles. There are a half-dozen cheese fondue variations including cheddar artichoke and curried cheese, served with dippable bread, mushrooms, carrots, pea pods and grilled chicken. The other side of the menu features Asian hot pots — steaming broth fondue — with an array of broths and proteins. fusionfondue.com
A cheesehead’s paradise Springside Cheese operates only one store outside its Wisconsin factory, curiously located in Pueblo. The full fromage roster ranges from asiago and smoked provolone to parmesan and blue cheese cheddar. My faves are the semi-hard Bandaged Cheddar, the Pueblo Jack infused with Pueblo chilies, and the Krakow, a semi-soft, slightly sweet and thoroughly buttery German-style cheese. springsidecheese.com
The 4:45 to Cacio Pacora The best place to access (via light rail) the wonderful sheep’s milk cheeses from Larkspur’s Fruition Farm and Dairy is at chef Alex Seidel’s Mercantile Dining & Provisions inside Denver’s Union Station. The market stocks Fruition’s creamy Shepherd’s Halo, the even richer ricotta, plus the highly awarded see NIBBLES Page 40
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Be the cheese Walk in a curd novice and emerge a cheese-crafter at one of the hands-on workshops at The Art of Cheese in Longmont taught by Kate Johnson. Classes run from fun mozzarella and ricotta sessions to the more rigorous Cheesemaking Boot Camp June 29-30. The school is located in the same facility producing Haystack Cheeses, so there are ample tasting opportunities. theartofcheese.com
The best grilled cheese Cured is one of the state’s best places to taste and source global cheeses, but it is also worth stopping by the Pearl Street shop just for a grilled cheese sandwich. This is not your grandfather’s grilled American cheese with Campbell’s — not that there’s anything wrong with that. Cured boasts multiple variations on a grilled cheese using great breads and different condiments and cheeses. One features prosciutto cotto, caramelized onions, mustard and lots of fontina melted between slices of heavily buttered bread inside a hot press. curedboulder.com
My new cheese passion The new-on-my-radar Moon Hill Dairy near Steamboat Springs produces some extraordinary cow’s milk cheeses. I love the two I’ve tasted: A melty Camembert-style Alpenbert and a fine feta. I really have to try the River Runs Blue, a cheese with the “blue” on the outside, not the inside. Look for them at two Denver cheesemongers: St. Kilian’s Cheese Shop and the Truffle Cheese Shop. moonhilldairy.com
Finding Colorado cheeses The state’s best place to find the widest selection of Colorado cheese remains the huge walk-in cooler at Cheese Importers Warehouse in
Kristen Cohagen, co-owner of Atlas Valley Purveyors, displays some of its large inventory of cheese.
Longmont. I look for Colorado cheeses from Ugly Goat Milk Co., Broken Shovels Farm, Mouco Cheese Co., James Ranch, Jumpin’ Goat Dairy and others. cheeseimporters.com
Local food news The Boulder County Farmers Market has opened its mid-week market 4-8 p.m. Wednesdays in Boulder. ... The Gold Hill Inn opens for dining for the 56th consecutive season on May 4. ... Meanwhile, the placid slopes of Steamboat Ski Area will be disrupted starting this summer by the Taco Beast, a snowcat providing trailside service, offering breakfast burritos, al pastor street tacos and beer.
Culinary correspondence A Nibbles reader commented on my praise in the April 26 column of the ribs at Westminster’s GQue BBQ: “As a born-in-southern VA/North Carolina BBQ lover and, I think, connoisseur, I disagree with your casting aspersion on ribs where the meat falls off the bone. To me, that is the perfect rib. You hardly have to even chew it. It is how I measure greatness. Different strokes (tastes) for different folks.” Comments: nibbles@boulderweekly. com
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very week in this space, I share just a little bit of the long and interesting conversations I have with Boulder County’s chefs, restaurateurs, farmers, brewers and other food professionals. And while what often makes it into the paper takes the shape of portraits — glimpses of personal histories that shed light on how that person got to wherever he or she is — our conversations often delve into bigger issues about the local food scene. Looking back on the dozens of these discussions with the county’s top food minds over the last year, several common threads emerged. Susan France This is despite the fact that although they all share the unofficial title of Boulder County food producer, they come from all corners of the globe, with all types of personal backgrounds. But combined, their thoughts provide a de facto status report for Boulder County’s food scene. Although not every trend or big idea is covered in this article, here are the three big things Boulder County’s food leaders are talking about now.
1. Shifting chef culture
Numerous chefs had at least one example of a time in their careers when they had to work for a demanding chef. Now there were some folks, like Jed Breakell of Emmerson and Brett Zimmerman of Boulder Wine Merchant, who said that seeing the attention to detail in a kitchen expertly run by say, Thomas Keller or Charlie Trotter, was enough to motivate them to set their goals higher in the culinary world. But Boulder County is also at the forefront of a changing chef culture, where a sense of community is being put on a higher pedestal than authoritarianism. Daniel Asher (River 42 May 3 , 2018
and Woods, Acreage) said that sense of community extends Bradford Heap, owner, of Salt, outside the kitchen, to the proColterra and Wild ducers who supply the food to Standard, prepares a meal in his kitchen. his restaurants, and to the diners Heap has been at consuming it. the forefront of the sustainability move“It sounds hilarious but the ment. beauty of it is there’s so many things to share in a plate of food and all those people should share in the joy of what that final dish is about,” Asher said. “There’s no ego in it. I think that’s slowly being removed from kitchens as well, which is great. People are using more words like ‘we’ and ‘us’ and less, ‘I am the chef, this is my thing.’ It’s becoming more collaborative. People want to be more engaged ... and it’s not fun to just have one person telling the tale.” Though Asher said the end product will be better as chef culture changes, Frasca’s Bobby Stuckey told me it’s an imperative if the lives of the people who make up the service industry are to improve. “Historically, people didn’t take care of themselves. I try to lead by example. Like Anthony Bourdain, they wanted to glamorize the bad boy chef 20 years ago, stay out late drinking and ... that’s not really sustainable, but it read really well,” Stuckey said. “But it was really damaging. I think the industry is tough but we make it uber, uber tough because people don’t take care of themselves.” A toxic kitchen also prevents people from entering the industry, or from getting experience that would help advance their culinary skills. Christiana Scott, a personal chef, said she Boulder Weekly
decided to work outside of kitchens because of her brief, negative experience in them. She said that even though diners talk about the sustainability of the food they’re eating, they don’t see how sustainability plays into keeping a kitchen staff healthy. “It’s not something I hear brought up a lot,” Scott said. “You hear, ‘Is this restaurant organic,’ or, ‘Where are they getting their ingredients,’ but not a whole lot about the people behind the curtain, so it’ll be interesting if that starts to change; it’s just kind of the status quo.”
2. Walking the talk with sustainability
Speaking of sustainability, it’s hard to get through a conversation with a Boulder County food producer without talking about it. On one hand, diners demand it, but on the other, there are plenty of gaps in the local food system which are often in the blind spots of those same scrupulous diners. Chef Bradford Heap (Salt, Colterra, Wild Standard) has put several plantbased options on his menus, and aggressively pursues ways to educate the people who walk through the doors of his restaurants. “The only way forward is plantbased. It’s got to sequester the carbon. It’s got to be organic, not because the hippies love it, but because the natural system that I honor, that I’m not smarter than, that I revere, is fucking amazing,” Heap said. “Everything. The way mushrooms come up and the roots, the symbiotic nature of it. Everything is in this giant symbiosis, and then we get in there with our chemicals and our shit, and we just totally screw it up.” Of course there are several biodynamic and regenerative farmers in the county doing work that honors the natural process of growing food. Mark Guttridge at Ollin Farms is a leader in the field, but like others — including the folks at Aspen Moon Farm — he had to supplement the farm with another job for years. In Boulder County, there’s a lot of cost that goes into producing the food Heap said we need to be eating. “It’s just an incredible amount of labor,” Guttridge said. “High cost of living. High infrastructure costs, and even though we have that captive audience here with the farmers markets, It’s just margins are really narrow. We’re up against a global food system that’s really pushed cheap, low-value food.” Guttridge said the investment in local, responsibly grown food goes farther, too, in that it supports the people who work on that farm — his crew is up from “eight, nine bucks an hour ... to $12 or $13.” Boulder Weekly
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3. Food is struggling to keep up with County’s wealth
There are two bits of bad news for what has seemed like an unstoppable food scene over the past few years: One, the continued pricing-out of local shops in the City of Boulder, and a recent report from the Brewers Association that said the craft beer industry may be plateauing. With a couple good breweries biting the dust, one has to wonder if we’re on the precipice of an exodus of the food establishments that have helped put us on the map. Lenny Martinelli, of Three Leaf Concepts (The Huckleberry, Dushanbe Teahouse and more), said he’s seeing it already on Pearl Street. “I think it’s already starting,” he said. “This is a tough one because the kinds of groups that can really afford [rent on Pearl] are national groups, chains. And I am a bit fearful that Boulder could lose a lot of its identity to that, which is kind of a bummer. But the real estate has gotten... it’s outrageous. ... It’s not sustainable for rents to be going the way they are going right now; to keep the kind of restaurant culture, the kind of working culture that we want here.” One work-around is the food truck. Despite its national emergence a decade or so ago, Boulder County has been slow to embrace it. The addition of the Rayback Collective has been a huge boon, and Roy Brown of Passport said his truck’s stints at the establishment are the most lucrative. But finding room elsewhere can be a challenge. “The City itself is still a little averse to it,” Brown said. “There are not many spots; aside from breweries or Rayback, there are not many places. You can’t pull up on the side of the road and start selling food in Boulder. Breweries are pretty easy, but unfortunately how much you sell is a question.” But it’s not all doom and gloom. With the increase in wealth, more opportunities present themselves. Will Frischkorn told me his wine and cheese shop, Cured, is a prime example of an establishment benefiting from the boom. “We have access in Colorado to pretty remarkable wine now,” he said. “Ten years ago, it was just starting. We get winemakers from California who hop in and say, ‘How do you have that here?’ And it’s $15 cheaper, and they clean us out. And it wasn’t that way not too long ago.” Too, the opening of a baconfocused restaurant in Lafayette (William Oliver’s) and a snack house in Longmont (TREAT), expanded farmers markets in those cities, and migration from priced-out Boulderites into East County, indicates that although the geography of the food scene may be in flux, the future of it is likely to remain curious and bright.
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New in brew: Bridge beers City Star, Gravity and Left Hand releases pair well with spring’s capricious weather by Michael J. Casey
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t’s springtime along the Front Range, and that can only mean one thing: 70 degrees and sunny one day, 30 and snowy the next. And the wind, oh the wind. Even the trees are hesitant to bud; they know just as well as we do there’s at least a couple more snow showers waiting in the wings, one more frost destined to wipe out all those blossoming flowers, maybe even a hail storm or two bracketed by uncomfortably warm days. Trying to find the appropriate beer for such wild weather can be frustrating; too warm for imperial stouts and barleywines, too chilly for Mexican lagers and gose. India pale ales sort of bridge the gap, but don’t they always? It’s a new month, after all; why not look for something new, something a little on the fruity side? There’s no better place to start than City Star Brewing with its latest: Palomino, a Belgian saison aged for 11 months in Chardonnay oak barrels and finished with soursop and tangerine. As the name suggests, Palomino pours out of the bottle cloudy gold with a full pillow of white head (Palomino horses have gold coats and white manes; think Roy Rogers’ Trigger). This Palomino’s mane dissipates quickly, signaling that sour and fruit will dominate the drinking experience. The nose confirms: juicy citrus from the tangerine mingles with tangy, slightly acidic, notes from the soursop. The fruit remains the highlight to the last sip, each one complemented
nicely by subdued carbonation — more fizzy than bubbly — and a delightfully creamy mouthfeel, most likely from time in the barrel. Unlike most barrel-aged beers, Palomino doesn’t punch you in the throat with heavy booze and smoky oak. Here, the wood rounds off sharp corners, smooths out the saison and highlights the fruit. It’s a beautiful brew, one worth seeking out. The same goes for Gravity Brewing’s lovely Belgian-style dubbel: Coal Kriek. The label describes this 2016 World Beer Cup Silver Medal beauty as “cherry pie in the glass,” and a more apt description there is not. Rich and full-bodied, yeasty (like a pie crust) and with delicious tart cherries that pack a punch, the Coal Kriek (Flemish for cherry) is an ideal bridge beer for those who drink heavier stuff in the colder months, and bright and fresh offerings during the summer. Left Hand Brewing also looks to bridge that gap with its latest yearround release, a dry-hopped golden ale it calls Juicy Goodness. The brew is dry-hopped with Mosiac, making tropical the name of the game. Just cracking the can fills the nose with stone fruit, fresh mangos and warm beaches. And like most golden ales, the bitterness is far from over-bearing, while the body is full without being weighty. It’s a pretty beer to boot, one that pops and sparkles in the sunlight; which we should have plenty of, one of these days. Boulder Weekly
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ARIES
MARCH 21-APRIL 19: I hate rampant consumerism
almost as much as I hate hatred, so I don’t offer the following advice lightly: Buy an experience that could help liberate you from the suffering you’ve had trouble outgrowing. Or buy a toy that can thaw the frozen joy that’s trapped within your out-of-date sadness. Or buy a connection that might inspire you to express a desire you need help in expressing. Or buy an influence that will motivate you to shed a belief or theory that has been cramping your lust for life. Or all of the above! (And if buying these things isn’t possible, consider renting.)
TAURUS
APRIL 20-MAY 20: These days you have an enhanced
ability to arouse the appreciation and generosity of your allies, friends and loved ones. The magnetic influence you’re emanating could even start to evoke the interest and inquiries of mere acquaintances and random strangers. Be discerning about how you wield that potent stuff! On the other hand, don’t be shy about using it to attract all the benefits it can bring you. It’s OK to be a bit greedier for goodies than usual as long as you’re also a bit more compassionate than usual.
GEMINI
MAY 21-JUNE 20: I bet that a healing influence will arrive from an unexpected direction and begin to work its subtle but intense magic before anyone realizes what’s happening. I predict that the bridge you’re building will lead to a place that’s less flashy but more useful than you imagined. And I’m guessing that although you may initially feel jumbled by unforeseen outcomes, those outcomes will ultimately be redemptive. Hooray for lucky flukes and weird switcheroos!
CANCER
JUNE 21-JULY 22: Born under the astrological sign
of Cancer, Franz Kafka is regarded as one of the 20th century’s major literary talents. Alas, he made little money from his writing. Among the day jobs he did to earn a living were stints as a bureaucrat at insurance companies. His superiors there praised his efforts. “Superb administrative talent,” they said about him. Let’s use this as a take-off point to meditate on your destiny, Cancerian. Are you good at skills you’re not passionate about? Are you admired and acknowledged for having qualities that aren’t of central importance to you? If so, the coming weeks and months will be a favorable time to explore this apparent discrepancy. I believe you will have the power to get closer to doing more of what you love to do.
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22: If you really wanted to, you could
probably break the world’s record for most words typed per minute with the nose (103 characters in 47 seconds). I bet you could also shatter a host of other marks, as well, like eating the most hot chiles in two minutes, or weaving the biggest garland using defunct iPhones, or dancing the longest on a tabletop while listening to a continuous loop of Nirvana’s song “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” But I hope you won’t waste your soaring capacity for excellence on meaningless stunts like those. I’d rather see you break your own personal records for accomplishments like effective communications, high-quality community-building and smart career moves.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
was among history’s three most influential scientists. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) has been described as the central figure in modern philosophy. Henry James (1843-1916) is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English literature. John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a prominent art critic and social thinker. What did these four men have in common? They never had sex with anyone. They were virgins when they died. I view this fact with alarm. What does it mean that Western culture is so influenced by the ideas of men who lacked this fundamental initiation? With that as our context, I make this assertion: If you hope to make good decisions in the coming weeks, you must draw on the wisdom you have gained from being sexually entwined with other humans.
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LIBRA
SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: “Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting,” said twentieth-century abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. “Cézanne did it. Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell.” In de Kooning’s view, these “destructive” artists performed a noble service. They demolished entrenched ideas about the nature of painting, thus liberating their colleagues and descendants from stale constraints. Judging from the current astrological omens, Libra, I surmise the near future will be a good time for you to wreak creative destruction in your own field or sphere. What progress and breakthroughs might be possible when you dismantle comfortable limitations?
SCORPIO
OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Mayflies are aquatic insects with short life spans. Many species live less than 24 hours, even though the eggs they lay may take three years to hatch. I suspect this may be somewhat of an apt metaphor for your future, Scorpio. A transitory or short-duration experience could leave a legacy that will ripen for a long time before it hatches. But that’s where the metaphor breaks down. When your legacy has fully ripened — when it becomes available as a living presence — I bet it will last a long time.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV. 22-DEC. 21: When a critic at Rolling Stone
magazine reviewed the Beatles’ Abbey Road in 1969, he said some of the songs were “so heavily overproduced that they are hard to listen to.” He added, “Surely they must have enough talent and intelligence to do better than this.” Years later, however, Rolling Stone altered its opinion, naming Abbey Road the 14th best album of all time. I suspect, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase with metaphorical resemblances to the earlier assessment. But I’m reasonably sure that this will ultimately evolve into being more like the later valuation — and it won’t take years.
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: According to my analysis of the astrological omens, love should be in full bloom. You should be awash in worthy influences that animate your beautiful passion. So how about it? Are you swooning and twirling and uncoiling? Are you overflowing with a lush longing to celebrate the miracle of being alive? If your answer is yes, congratulations. May your natural intoxication levels continue to rise. But if my description doesn’t match your current experience, you may be out of sync with cosmic rhythms. And if that’s the case, please take emergency measures. Escape to a sanctuary where you can shed your worries and inhibitions and maybe even your clothes. Get drunk on undulating music as you dance yourself into a dreamy love revelry.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18: “Life never gives you anything that’s all bad or all good.” So proclaimed the smartest Aquarian six-year-old girl I know as we kicked a big orange ball around a playground. I agreed with her! “Twenty years from now,” I told her, “I’m going to remind you that you told me this heartful truth.” I didn’t tell her the corollary that I’d add to her axiom, but I’ll share it with you: If anything or anyone or seems to be all bad or all good, you’re probably not seeing the big picture. There are exceptions, however! For example, I bet you will soon experience or are already experiencing a graceful stroke of fate that’s very close to being all good.
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Dear Dan: Married from 28 to 36, single the last three years, and celibate most of the last couple years. The last two years of my marriage were sexless, and I saw professionals until I was priced out. I could probably earn twice what I’m making now if I moved away, but my current job gives me the flexibility to spend afternoons with my young kids. Last year, I had a brief relationship (that included the best sex of my life), but I ended it because I needed more me time. So I lack the willingness or the confidence to be in a relationship, and I don’t have the cash to see pros. I’m not fussed by this. Should I be concerned about my celibacy? — Absolutely Not Getting Sex Today Dear ANGST: Seeing as your celibacy is intermittent and by your own choice (you walked away from the best sex of your life for me time? What kind of mid’90s Oprah bullshit is that?), ANGST, you’re unlikely to wind up hanging out on an “incel” forum filled with angry, violent, socially maladapted men who blame the fact that they can’t get laid on women and feminism. So long as you continue to take personal responsibility for all the sex you’re not having, there’s nothing to be concerned about. Dear Dan: My boyfriend and I have been together for two years. When we first got together, we had sex every day. Then it dwindled. We had major problems along the way and separated this winter. During that time, he went to another state. We got back together long-distance, and I received many letters from him saying how much he wanted to have sex with me. He moved back two weeks ago, and we’ve had sex only twice. He used to say he wanted me to make the first move. But if he really wanted me, wouldn’t he make a move? I feel so neglected, yet he claims he loves me. Please give me some insight. — No Sex For Weeks Dear NSFW: He says he wants sex (with you), but he doesn’t make a move. You say you want sex (with him), but you don’t make a move. So how about this: The next few times you want sex, NSFW, make a move. If he fucks you two out of three times, maybe he was telling you the truth when he said he’d like you to make the first move. If he rebuffs you every time, then he doesn’t want to have sex with you — and you’ll have to make a move to end this relationship. Dear Dan: I’m a youngish man who’s been in a loving relationship with an older woman for a year. The only area where the age difference comes into play is largely unspoken between us — she wants kids. All of her friends are having kids, and she’s Boulder Weekly
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nearing the end of her childbearing years. I’m nowhere near ready, and I sometimes question whether I want to be monogamous to any one person for life. We never discuss it, but I can tell how deeply this bothers her and that in her ideal world, I’d be ready to start planning a future with her. I’m racked with guilt at the possibility that by the time I’m
Love
ready for that level of commitment (or, worse, by the time I realize I never will be), she’ll be biologically incapable of having kids, which is really important to her. This is all complicated by the fact that this is easily the most loving, trusting, respectful relationship I’ve ever been in. — Bond Afflicted By Year
Dear BABY: Speak, BABY: “Look, you want kids. I’m not ready, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be ready. Also, I’m not sure about lifelong monogamy. If we need to part ways so you can find someone who wants the same things you do and wants them now, I’ll be devastated but I’ll understand.” CONFIDENTIAL TO EVERYONE IN TORONTO: You’re in my thoughts, aka atheist prayers. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net, follow @fakedansavage on Twitter and visit ITMFA.org.
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eople rip on Boulder County residents because we’ve somehow mastered the art of being bougie while pretending it’s just our humble attempt to save the planet, which is admittedly insufferable. Oh, you have a freshwater pool in your backyard and only eat local, organic produce? No one cares that your sprinter van is powered by solar panels, Dan. Stop telling everyone you’re “just trying to do your part” and admit that you may be a little pretentious. And even though we never thought twice about throwing a makeshift water bottle bong out the passenger window in high school when we were paranoid and thought the guy with the roof rack behind us was a cop, for stoners, caring about the environment is an essential part of our personal brand. Marijuana is a gift from the earth and nature is like, so important, you know? That’s why it was a total buzzkill when the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment released new data showing the local cannabis industry’s long-term energy trends and environmental impact. Industrial grow operations now account for nearly 4 percent of Denver’s total power usage, which is up from 1 percent in 2014, a 400 percent increase in the past four years. Due to high energy costs associated with its cultivation and production indoors, marijuana is the most energy-intensive agricultural commodity in the state, which is not a good look for bringing the community in line with Denver’s 80x50 Climate Goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. While some growers are implementing more sustainable practices, the overall increasing demand is prompting facilities to expand their commercial space and the amount of plants produced. One pressing issue is that the majority of
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Colorado’s marijuana is still grown indoors, in part because of the climate, but largely due to laws surrounding the practice. Cultivating indoors became the standard during prohibition because it attracted less attention from law enforcement. Most commercial operations today still take place in warehouses, a process that requires huge amounts of lighting, ventilation, cooling and dehumidifying. While it’s costly and
unsustainable, this method allows growers complete control over the conditions, from how hot the warehouse is to how much light the plants receive, allowing a more replicable process with fewer uncontrolled variables.
Growers have been able to bear the costs of high energy bills and environmental degradation because there has been little regulation or financial incentive for them to change their methods. Eco-friendly cultivation practices are not the norm, so it’s difficult to convince farmers, who have only known indoor growing, that it’s possible to reduce their carbon footprint without a decrease in yields and quality. Other sustainability issues revolve around packaging, transportation and the continued reliance on non-organic fertilizers and pesticides to keep their plants healthy. Improved technology can help cannabis growers make more informed decisions about their techniques. Greenhouses are probably the future for cannabis cultivation because using sunshine would mitigate a lot of the energy costs. While experience and adaptation have helped the cannabis industry become much more sustainable today than it was when recreational shops first opened in 2014, there is a significant need to broaden the conversation about agricultural practices and how future marijuana policy can use both incentives and regulatory tools to prevent more environmental damage. However, because sector-wide baseline sustainability metrics are not currently available, overall industry sustainability performance remains unverified. Growers and other members of the industry must continue to put pressure on each other to incorporate sustainable practices. So if you’re a stoner who is super horny for the environment, become more selective about the weed you purchase. Ask questions about where it was sourced and how it was grown. Show dispensaries there is demand for going green. I’m not saying smoking weed can make the world a better place, but it could, in my opinion.
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cannabis corner
by Paul Danish
The three dot journo rides again... ICUMI edition
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ungry Pot... Ever wonder why you get the munchies from smoking pot? Michelle Janikian, writing at the excellent Herb website (herb. co), reports on two studies that dug into the question... Back in 2015, Yale University School of Medicine neuroscientists looked at how neurons called “pro-opiomelanocortins” in the brain’s appetite center responded to marijuana. One of the main jobs of these neurons is to tell you to quit eating when you’re full, but it turns out pot “tricks” them into doing the opposite... “It’s like pressing a car’s breaks and accelerating instead,” says Tamas Horyath, the study’s lead author. No other compounds are known to have this effect, he added... And in 2014 a team lead by Edgar Soria-Gomez at the University of Bordeaux found that stimulating cells’ CB1 receptors increased sensitivity to smells, which increases food intake... The usual caveats apply: First (altogether now) more research is needed, and second, the findings may not apply to you if you’re not a mouse... • • • • Skinny pot... Ever wonder why so many chronic marijuana users are thin, not fat? Ms.
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Janikian takes a bite out of that one too. She says marijuana varieties with the cannabinoids THCV and THCVA are being touted as “skinny weed” in California, with many people reporting “that this psychoactive compound decreases appetite instead of increasing it... However, she warns, be careful if you’re prone to anxiety.” While THCV can also be energizing, some people with anxiety disorders find THCV increases their anxiety rather than decreases it... • • • • Geezer pot... Speaking of studies, according to a study done by William Kerr, Camillia Lui and Yu Ye at the Alcohol Research Group, there’s been a big surge in marijuana use in two age groups, compared with the people in the same age groups 30 years ago — the geezer cohorts... The researchers found that the geezers of 2015 are 20 times more likely to smoke marijuana than the geezers of 1984... in 2015 more than 11 percent of Americans aged 50-59 smoked pot, compared with less than 1 percent of the same group in 1984... and in 2015 about 7 percent of Americans over 60 smoked marijuana, also compared with less than 1 percent in 1984... During the same period pot use among Americans aged 18-29 barely changed, actually falling slightly from 29.9 percent in 1984 to 29.2 percent in 2015... The surge in geezer inhalation isn’t that surprising really, because by 2015 the entire Baby Boomer generation (sometimes known as the rat moving through the python of life) was 54 years old or older... • • • • Crack pot... New Jersey State Senator Ronald Rice wants you to know that marijuana can kill you if you get too high... Rice, who is head of the New Jersey legislature’s Black
Caucus says he wants to see marijuana decriminalized as a way of ending the mass incarceration of young blacks, but he still wants to keep marijuana illegal because he wants “to deter people from doing something that’s bad for them....” “If you get too high you die from it... It kills you directly if it’s too potent...” Strangely, he didn’t give the names of anyone who had expired from over-highness… According to Gothamist, Rice also believes that legalizing weed will lead to an employment crisis — because no one will be able to pass a drug test... • • • • Well, duh... A new study from the American Academy of Pediatrics into the relationship between e-cigarette and marijuana use among adolescents found that teens who had used e-cigarettes to smoke tobacco were, wait for it, more likely to smoke marijuana... previous studies had found that teens who smoked non-e-cigarettes were more likely to smoke marijuana... • • • • Bad news... You may have heard that the worms at Alden Global Capital, the out-ofstate hedge fund that owns the Denver Post, have decided to save big bucks by reducing the size of the Post’s editorial staff, and last week they did — by getting rid of the entire dedicated staff of The Cannabist, the excellent and highly popular website owned by the Post... brilliant business decision there; the website had a larger following than High Times Magazine, which, unlike the Post, is doing pretty well these days... whether the Post will continue to operate the site from its depleted newsroom with wire service stories, press releases and fake news is unknown...
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