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Kids safer in home countries You write, “These are real kids with real names and real families and real hopes and dreams and fears who are literally dying for a chance at a better life in this country.” [Re: “In the real world, playing politics on immigration is a lot like murder,” DyerTimes, July 10.] Really? Toddlers and very small children have “real hopes and dreams”

... for a better life in this country? These wee ones have a greater chance of survival staying where they are with their families than being unaccompanied atop a moving train traveling day and night. Joan A. Campbell/Boulder

Rate hike for ‘Camera’ subscription not well received

Having read the Weekly over the years, I look forward to each issue and even recommend it to both tourists and Boulderinos — my own phrase, which has yet to replace “Boulderites” which sounds so Biblical. Several months back, your lead article explored Prairie Mountain, the owner of the Camera, see LETTERS Page 7

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Highroad Cargill’s GMO hypocrisy by Jim Hightower

an you have your hypocrisy and eat it, too? I don’t think so, but Cargill Inc. is doing its damndest to get away with its version of the old admonition that eating your cake today means not having it tomorrow. Cargill, the $2.3 billion-a-year food conglomerate, is a huge producer and user of food ingredients that contain genetically manipulated organisms. But it has a

marketing problem — by huge margins, consumers here and around the world do not want to put those GMO Frankenfoods on their families’ tables. Thus, Cargill has been a ferocious, deep-pocket opponent of every state law and ballot initiative that would mandate the labeling of any product containing GMOs. Better that families be kept in the dark about what they’re buying and eating, says Cargill — better for its profits, that is. Indeed, the chairman of the conglomerate’s board is also on the executive committee of the industry lobbying front that goes all out to kill every right-to-know provision for consumers. Any such label, he scolds, would be “misleading.” But — whoa, what’s this? It’s a press release from Fortress Cargill, proclaiming that the diehard giant is now marketing a non-GMO soybean oil that — voila! — announces on its label that the product is GMO-free. Has the

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diehard had a change of heart? Excuse me, but corporations don’t have hearts. They have bottom lines, period. And the bottom line is that Cargill’s terminally-hypocritical honchos see dollars laying on the ground that they’re not getting. So, weasels a company man with the cumbersome title of Food Ingredients Commercial Manager, “Despite the many merits of biotechnology, consumer interest in non-GMO ingredients is growing, creating opportunities... for food manufacturers.” That is the clearest expression you’ll ever get of corporate integrity. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

letters and many local papers as well [Re: “What’s next?: Analysts predict Digital First Media is preparing to sell its newspapers. What this could mean for Boulder County and Beyond.” Cover story, April 10]. You predicted a dimmer future for the Camera than was the popular view, speculating on staff reductions, rate hikes, falling demand, even a sale, or the dissolution, of the Camera. My recent renewal invoice, which I have included, seems a vindication of your judgment. I have subscribed to the Camera, formerly the Daily Camera — since 2005 or so, when it cost ten dollars per month, delivered, which seemed a good deal, and my current rate, thirteen dollars, is manageable for a senior owning my own condo. My new rate, eighteen a month, I feel is excessive, and, like many readers, may surprise Prairie Mountain by calling their bluff — canceling, or allowing to lapse, my subscription. Like many locally, I finally got fed up with Comcast, paying more each month for less and less. The Journal estimates Comcast loses 199,000 accounts annually, explaining the frantic war of cable and dish companies to sign up new accounts. Similar to cable, the demand for a paper is elastic, not inelastic, and consumers will reach a point when we cancel. I feel the Camera is both arrogant, as a local monopoly, as well as both provincial and overstaffed. The sale of their building — now being dramatically razed — the bidding out of former printing, the demise of TV booklets, and moving to a smaller office would all reduce costs, not increase them. Moving to Boulder nearly 40 years ago, I recall the Camera and Post as evening papers, the Daily as independent, the Rocky — a better paper — still in print. I feel Prairie Mountain — note the Denver, not Boulder, address — may have taken monopoly for granted, and may be surprised how many readers, like myself, will reject a 50 percent hike, cancel the Camera for the Post, or simply see a daily paper as no longer necessary. I feel I am not the only Camera reader to feel I am asked to pay more and more for less and less, and feel the Camera may have made a poor, if not fatal error in boosting rates so much so rapidly, and sense that Boulder Weekly may have accurately forecast the future. Mike Reade/Boulder

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DEET-containing insect repellents designed for direct application to the skin of adults and children are safe and effective when used according to label instructions (EPA 2014 Interim Review Boulder Weekly

- EPA.gov) [Re: “Mosquito control,” Boulderganic, July 10]. These products might ensure an additional measure of safety against disease where there are gaps in city control. Joan A. Campbell/Boulder

Help needed behind bars

OK, so I wanted to write the forum the last time I was here (in jail) and [ask] when you also can [write] an article on the overcrowded conditions of Boulder

County Jail. I wanted to share with you why [the jail is crowded], from trumped up charges to petty offenses. Petty offenses trumped up to felonies to get more time out of each person. Now I would like to talk with you about the aftermath. This is what happens when the jail is overcrowded. Let me just say the last time I was in jail I wrote my Public Defender numerous times. My point was always the same stating “I need help.” I voluntarily wanted to take a fairly new drug called

“Vivatrol.” This is for alcoholics or problem drinkers. It blocks the receptors similar to suboxone for opiate withdrawal or addition. I also pointed out that I have untreated C.P.T.S.D. on P.T.S.D. and need help. This comes with other mental health issues such as depression, anxiety etc. In every letter and phone call I stressed this matter. It was never brought up. I was staying with my mother, helping see LETTERS Page 8

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her out and relapsed. The courts sought fit that I should not be allowed to go there. This despite many talks my mother had with the D.A., victims advocate, and directly to the judge. Everything I own is there. So in that moment I was made homeless. No treatment, no home, no help, just two years probation. Every word or plea asking for help went unnoticed. So another reason for the overcrowding is the fact they plan on you failing. It keeps things moving and money coming in. Hopefully this with bring some awareness to the public on what’s really going on. Thank you sincerely, Untreated Kenneth Paul Cline/Boulder County Jail

Boulder’s dying treecover

Boulder is losing 10 percent of its tree cover this year, both from tree death and branch death. Through a broad range of species, many trees are dying branch by branch from the top down. Conifer (pine) species are being hard hit perhaps because they have a lack of resources because they make the soil acid and impoverished, and because they do not lose their leaves. Last year I noticed the Thuja’s going first, now many species of conifers are in their death throws. Juniper is still holding out because its leaves are fatter and more waxy. The deciduous trees are fairing better because they get new leaves each year with a fresh resistance to radiation. Even leguminous nitrogen fixing trees are suffering from branch dieback and truncated yellowing leaf growth. The loss of atmospheric ozone and the radiation from Fukushima is killing the trees in Boulder and indeed in much of the USA exposed to rainfall/ snowfall, high altitude, high UV and drought. The trees most vulnerable are those whose roots are covered with concrete, those with little soil organic matter or humus, demineralized soil, with little mycorrhizae and soil biota and exposed to vehicle exhaust. There is a sense that the trees immune systems are collapsing from a broad range of environmental stressors including drought, loss of water table, pollution, EMF pollution, radiation, excess solar radiation, demineralization, loss of soil organic matter and compromised soil biota. With the tree branch die off, I assume it is a dieback of the root mass, forcing the tree to do a self-pruning of the upper branches. This tree dieoff is definitely caused by a radiation reduction in the ozone layer, combined with radiation in precipitation destroying the microbial foundations of the tree roots starving certain more vulnerable trees. 8 July 17, 2014

Certain trees not in idea conditions or compromised by human structural interference such as concrete are dying first. I estimate that within 10 years only the radiation resistant genres and those in ideal growing conditions will be alive. The city could save the trees by mulching with compost, inoculating with mycorrhizae and soil biota and remineralizing, compost tea and green cropping under trees with legume groundcovers. And reworking surface runoff into sinks to build up the water table throughout the city. Jana Dixon/via Internet

Ballot initiatives give the people a veto over corporate polluters

Who suffers from the consequences of fracking — the polluted water, air, and land? Who gets sick and dies? Who should make the decisions about whether the oil and gas industry fracks in our towns, cities and counties? In the last couple of years, the people of Longmont, Broomfield, Lafayette, Fort Collins and Boulder have voted to ban or place a moratorium on fracking in their communities. They have sent a clear message that they have the inalienable right to stop corporate activities that will harm them. The state and the oil and gas industry claim they have state preemption. They tell local communities that they can drill for oil and gas 350 feet from school yards, playgrounds and the tender lungs of 3-year-olds. The notion of our inalienable rights not to be poisoned by corporate pollution is at the heart of two ballot initiatives headed for the ballot. Ballot Initiative 75 is a statewide ballot initiative that says that “all political power is vested in and derived from the people” and that the people have “without limitation the power to enact local laws protecting health, safety, and welfare” (http://www.cocrn.org/colorado-community-rights-amendment-2/). The second ballot initiative asks “Shall Boulder County establish a Home Rule Charter Commission?” This petition is the first step to create a home rule county. The voters will also select twenty-one charter commission members, who will write and propose a charter. The proposed charter will be voted on in a future election. Both of these initiatives will give “we the people” more power over fracking, the growing of GMOs and corporate polluters. see LETTERS Page 10

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recent Pew survey states that 50 percent of conservative voters and 35 percent of progressives say that it’s important to live where most people share their political views. In Colorado, this political self-segregation is seen in the stark differences between Boulder and Colorado Springs. This translates into nasty fights, particularly in a swing state such as ours. There is another division. Among progressives, people hyperventilate about whether to vote for the Democrat or some third party candidate. People on both sides should know that political power doesn’t come from the voting booth, but from grassroots social movements that can hold politicians accountable. In the long run, the Keystone XL fight and the growing labor rebellions might be more important than this year’s election. However, the people who are in office can matter a lot. This is crucial since progressive social movements aren’t strong enough to move the state or the country to the left at the moment. Remember the 2010 elections when batshit crazy Republicans with anti-environment and anti-worker agendas won big victories in the U.S.

Congress and captured the state legislatures and governorships of many states. The Democrats are predicted to do badly in the November elections both in Colorado and around the country. Obama is currently unpopular for various reasons which dampens enthusiasm for the party. Many who vote for Democrats only pay attention to presidential races and ignore mid-term elections. As a result, the Republicans might win control of the Colorado state legislature and the U.S. Senate. There are differing polls on Gov. Hickenlooper’s chances for re-election. Hickenlooper’s love of fracking has enraged many fellow Democrats. For some reason, people dislike a polluting industry next to their homes and schools. At the Executive Committee meeting of the Boulder County Democratic Party (BCDP) meeting in Longmont on July 9, Cliff Smedley — longtime party activist — introduced a motion to withhold candidate assistance to Hickenlooper for not “reflecting Democratic Party values” (a BCDP rule) due to his profracking stance and several other issues (such as how a firefighters’ collective bargaining bill was “watered see COMMENTARY Page 10

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down to the point of being worthless” as a result of his threat to veto the original bill). He was supported by several party veterans as well as Kenny Wilson, a 16-year-old Sierra Club member and Niwot High School student, who spoke about the urgency of stopping the looming climate doomsday. The motion was rejected by a vote of 25 to 10. The meeting was nevertheless upbeat. A resolution to praise Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall for issuing same-sex marriage licenses passed unanimously. Boulder County state legislators talked about many progressive bills that were passed because the Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature and the governorship. The BCDP is important to the state party. Boulder County voters frequently provide the winning edge for Democrats in state races. Both the House Majority Leader, Dickie Lee Hullinghorst, and the Senate Majority Leader, Rollie Heath, are from Boulder County. The BCDP issue platform is left-leaning and comprehensive. Rebecca Browning, the head of the Platform Committee, has encouraged rank and file members to help write the platform by using online issues surveys, House District and precinct “Walk the Plank” issues discus-

sions and surveys, a Friday night at the movies (with progressive documentaries) and other special events. Nevertheless, Smedley is concerned about a growing number of disillusioned BCDP activists. One of them is Harry Hempy, who has become the Green Party candidate for governor. He says many Democrats have quietly told him they will vote for him. Check out www.hempy4governor.org for his thoughtful policy proposals. Hempy was a lifelong Democrat who became a full-time activist when he retired from a 40-year career at IBM in 2008. He was involved with the BCDP’s Grassroots Action Team which played a leading role in passing a Boulder ballot measure in 2011 calling for a constitutional amendment stating that corporations are not people and money is not speech. Greens and progressive Democrats need to work together. We need a prodemocracy movement to defeat the plutocrats who dominate both major parties. But our rigid two-party system keeps third parties off to the margins. Any significant social change will require a strong insurgency inside the Democratic Party. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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You are needed to help gather signatures or donate money. To help, go towww.cocrn.org or www.bccrn.org. Carolyn Bninski/Louisville Editor’s note: See page 11 for a story on the latest news about Ballot Initiative 75 being withdrawn.

Community rights initiatives to give local control over fracking

You really have to wonder why a national organization is sticking their noses in Jared Polis’ business in a Boulder publication. A full-page ad appeared in the June 30, 2014 Daily Camera that insults Polis by insinuating he is a whining cry baby, and then it shows a photo of a tiny fracking “Christmas Tree” (a natural gas piping apparatus), but, it does not show photos of the giant fortresses and fracking towers with their 24/7 lights, and noxious vapors that are more typical of a heavy industrial fracking operation. Where are the photos of the tanks used for the produced water? The VOC burners? (aka Volatile Organic Compounds — “poisonous”). Where are the photos of hundreds of large

semi trucks toting water and fracking chemicals and the destruction of the roadbeds? Is it true Erie’s air has more propane and ethane than Houston or Pasadena? (Yes.) The real issue is the degradation of the quality of our lives including: poisoning of the air we breath; the waste and “destruction” of water necessary for all life; the devastating impacts to our health, especially to the young and the elderly; and turning our beautiful Colorado into a sacrifice zone. Did you know that Wunderkind, Congressman Cory Gardner voted to allow the natural gas floodgates to open to Asia and beyond? (By the way, he is running for Udall’s seat.) Get ready, Coloradans, to be fracked to hell. But you do have a choice! You can sign petitions for two Community Rights Initiatives that will give us the power over our own destiny: #75 at the state level (Colorado Community Rights Network — www.cocrn.org); and Home Rule for Boulder County (www.bccrn.org — Boulder County Community Rights Network). Let’s bring the power back to the people. Teresa Foster/Longmont Boulder Weekly

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COLORADO COMMUNITY RIGHTS AMENDMENT PULLED After assessing the odds of obtaining their target of 125,000 signatures on the petition for Ballot Initiative 75 by the Aug. 4 deadline, the Colorado Community Rights Network has called off its efforts to get the initiative known as the Colorado Community rights Amendment on this November’s ballot. The amendment, if it had passed, would have given Colorado communities the right to local self-government that would have extended to enacting laws to protect the fundamental rights of individuals, communities and nature, regardless of the rights and powers of corporations or business entities and without being pre-empted by federal, state or international law. After the initiative was filed in January, it boomeranged in and out of legislative review before a court challenge and appeal by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce, among others.Such legal ploys prevented organizers from collecting signatures for the amendment until after the May 23 ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that the initiative was a singleissue amendment, as required in the state of Colorado. Only at that point could proponents begin gathering the required 86,105 valid signatures. The Colorado Community Rights Network was using an all-volunteer team to try to collect 125,000 signatures — a target that would allow some leeway for signatures that might be invalidated during the verification process — during the nine-week period between the May ruling and the August deadline. Generally, initiatives have six months to collect signatures. Efforts to collect signatures also lagged, according to Cliff Willmeng of the Colorado Community Rights Network, after the Protect our Colorado Coalition formed and drew in many of the anti-fracking groups statewide and tried to start its own initiative. “There was a whole lot of distraction in that that also factored into the component of getting enough volunteers,” Willmeng says. The Denver Post editorial board called the measure “easily the most extreme of possible ballot measures that targeted the oil and gas industry” in its efforts to circumvent international, federal and state laws in the name of preserving the “fundamental rights” of nature. “We don’t really feel that democracy Boulder Weekly

and the protection of fundamental rights can be overreaching. Those concepts aren’t something that can be negotiated away,” says Willmeng. “The typical criticism of 75, saying that it’s overreaching, really what they’re saying is that democratic rights go too far. The Mayor of Greeley called it a tyranny of the majority — that’s versus a tyranny of the minority, which is what we nor-

mally have.” “Money talks, and it’s telling us that the industry is very afraid,” the CCRN board said in their announcement that they’d be putting an end to their effort to collect signatures, after citing a figure that the oil and gas industry has spent $9.2 million to oppose local control initiatives and support their own. The Colorado Community Rights

Network is now focusing on assisting local communities in passing local control initiatives, Willmeng says, and will plan to resubmit the Colorado Community Rights Amendment for an upcoming election when they would expect to be able to avoid holdups in the court system and have a full six months to collect signatures. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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by Paul Danish Editor’s Note: Long-time Boulder Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Monday, July 7. Weekly columnist Paul Danish has made Israel accepted it and discontinued its That is because Hamas’ success at numerous trips to Israel during times of airstrikes for several hours Tuesday. firing salvos of rockets from one end of conflict. So we ask him for his opinion of Hamas rejected it and kept firing rockIsrael to the other and at targeting all of what is happening in the region at this ets at Israel, which resumed airstrikes its main population centers — despite time. Tuesday evening, along with an the on-going attacks from the Israeli air hat started with the announcement that it intended to inten- force — seems to have convinced the kidnapping and murder sify its attacks. Israeli government, military and public of three Israeli teenagIt also warned tens of thousands res- that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are luxuers last month — which idents of northern Gaza and eastern ries they can no longer afford. Israel blames on Hamas Gaza City to leave their neighborhoods Wednesday saw a groundswell of (and Hamas denies) — has morphed by 8 a.m. Wednesday ahead of further public opinion in Israel for a ground into a war, which probably will not end attacks, air or ground not specified. operation in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’ quickly and could get much larger. As of noon Wednesday, Israel time, deliberate targeting of the cities and As a result of the kidnappings, Israel most of them hadn’t left, possibly Israel’s civilian population. But if anyarrested Hamas operatives all thing prompts Israel to go for Amir Farshad Ebrahimi over the West Bank. Hamas Hamas’ throat, it will be the used this, and the revenge killrealization that if Hamas can ing of an Arab teenager by target all of Israel’s cities, it can Jewish extremists, as a pretext also target all of Israel’s air to begin firing rockets at Israel bases. And if it can target all of from Gaza. Israel’s air bases, Hamas graduNeither the Israeli governates from being an ongoing ment, nor the Israeli public, pain in the ass to an existential which had been transfixed by threat. kidnap drama for a month, was An off-hand observation by in a mood to be trifled with and the late Israel diplomat and polresponded to the rocket salvos itician Abba Eban a couple with airstrikes on Hamas rocket years after the Six Day War is as launching and production sites Palestinian militants with homemade rockets outside Gaza true today as it was then: Israel’s and other military infrastructure City, Jan. 2, 2009 survival depends on a small throughout the Gaza strip. number of aircraft. If an enemy During the first week of the conflict, because they thought Israel was bluffing or combination of enemies can take out Israeli aircraft attacked roughly 200 tar- or possibly because Hamas was threatIsrael’s air force with a barrage of rockgets a day in the 141-square-mile Gaza ening retaliation against those that did, ets and ballistic missiles, the country’s strip, a very intensive level of attacks in (which is probably a war crime). qualitative edge over its enemies goes a small area. (By way of comparison, So where do things go from here? away, and there is a real chance it can be during the 1991 Gulf War, U.S. and When the fighting began (on defeated. allied airstrikes in Kuwait, which is Tuesday, July 8) Israel said its war aim According to the Israeli military/ about 50 times the size of Gaza, averwas “calm for calm,” to get Hamas to security website www.Debka.com, some aged 900 and 1,000 a day.) quit firing rockets. of Hamas’ rocket barrages have been Despite the mauling, Hamas has After the collapse of the Egyptianintended to challenge the Iron Dome succeeded in firing more than 1,400 proposed cease-fire, Israeli Prime system and probe it for weaknesses. rockets into Israel. These caused relaMinister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the Others have targeted the air bases to test tively few casualties (one dead and bar. He called for the “demilitarization of their preparedness and what sort of a about 60 wounded as of Wednesday) Gaza” by the removal of Hamas’ remain- response an attack on them would elicit. and relatively little property damage, ing rockets and the dismantling of its The fact that the Iron Dome system largely because Israel’s Iron Dome antirocket production infrastructure under has shot down most of the rockets that missile defense system shot down most international supervision. Although he otherwise would have landed in built-up of those headed for built-up areas. didn’t say it, Gaza could also be demiliareas is almost beside the point. If The Israeli air-strikes on the other tarized by the expulsion of Hamas, and Hamas survives this round, it will come hand killed 220 Palestinians and its evil twin Islamic Jihad (which is an to the next round with more rockets and wounded about 1,500 more as of press Iranian client these days) from Gaza. more accurate rockets than this time, time Wednesday. Israel claims that 70 Such events are not unprecedented. and with a much deeper understanding percent of the casualties were terrorists. The PLO was forcibly expelled from of how to defeat the Iron Dome. A UN organization in Gaza claims up Jordan in 1970 by King Hussein and One of the narratives to come out of to 85 percent were civilian. The differfrom Lebanon in 1982 by Israel. 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Editor’s Note: When regular Boulder Weekly freelancer Haley Gray — who speaks fluent Arabic — told us she was going to be spending a few months in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, we made arrangements for her to write a few stories on subjects that we felt our readers would enjoy. We had no idea that tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the region would escalate to the extraordinary levels we are now seeing. As a result of what is unfolding on the ground, we changed directions and asked Gray to report on the conflict as it is unfolds. We believe that with her being positioned in the Palestinian Territories and speaking the native tongue, we have the opportunity to provide a unique perspective on this important news story. The following is Gray’s report on all that has happened since three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered.

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An examination of the escalating violence in Gaza from inside the Palestinian territories by Haley Gray

n Sunday, July 6, Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip killed nine people and injured at least 20 more. It was the single bloodiest day for Gaza since Operation Pillar of Defense, an eight-day campaign carried out by Israeli forces in 2012 in which 180 Palestinians and four Israelis were killed. News of the attack spread through the Strip the following day, as did the expectant whispers of another war on the horizon. “They’re waiting for the war,” said Gaza local Muhammed Rajab that day. “And on another side, they do their normal life, they go out, they drink coffee, it’s Ramadan. ... But they’re sure there is a war coming for Gaza.” Eleven days have passed since Israel began its offensive on the Gaza Strip. Dubbed “Operation Protective Edge,” the stated purpose of the campaign is to dismantle the military capability of Hamas, the political party and Islamist movement governing the besieged Strip and which has been firing rockets into Israeli communities. As of press time Wednesday, July 16, 214 Palestinians have been killed — approximately 80 percent of whom were civilians, according to a United Nations report — and Boulder Weekly

1,489 have been injured, many severely. Ten Israelis have been injured and one Israeli was killed when a rocket hit the Erez Gaza border crossing. The current offensive has been nervously anticipated for the last three weeks. Tensions in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have been festering under mounting Israeli actions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Gaza has endured nightly air strikes since three settler teens, Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah, went missing in mid-June, while the occupied West Bank saw a brutal crackdown associated with Israel’s two-week manhunt for the missing teens and campaign against Hamas, whom Israel blamed for the kidnapping. Unlike the last two bloody conflicts, Pillar of Defense in 2012 and Operation Cast Lead in 2009, the West Bank and Palestinian citizens in Israel were on edge even before the bloodletting began and observers believe that they may be prepared to show solidarity with Gazans under siege this time around.

Growing Frustrations When the three teens went missing June 12, Israeli officials placed blame

swiftly and squarely on Hamas. No evidence has been presented to the public connecting Hamas to the kidnapping at this time, although Israeli officials have vehemently insisted they have definitive proof. Hamas denies responsibility for the three teens, dismissing the accusations of its involvement as “stupid.” Israeli forces carried out a massive ground campaign in the occupied West Bank, calling their efforts “Operation Brother’s Keeper.” The Israeli military raided more than a thousand homes, demolished 17 homes, arrested 628 individuals and fatally shot five Palestinians, two of whom were children, in the ensuing clashes. The express purpose of the operation was to punish Hamas, in addition to finding the teens, who were abducted while hitch-hiking near a settlement in the West Bank. Six more Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes on Gaza in the week after the teens went missing. “We’re turning Hamas membership into a one-way ticket to hell,” Israeli Economic Minister Naftali Bennett told Israeli Army Radio in the first week of the crackdown. The teens had gone missing near a settlement outside of the Palestinian

city Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank. Brother’s Keeper began with the shutting down of entry and exit to Hebron and heavy raids of the city. Raiding spread to Nablus, Ramallah and other cities in the West Bank, and even as far north as Jenin, 65 miles away. “What happened, and it’s still ongoing in Halil [Hebron] specifically, I can highly define it as a collective punishment on the whole city there,” said Amany Khalifa of Grass Roots Jerusalem. “People were not able to leave Hebron, people could not come in, clashes took place. ... We know Hamas by now. If they’re going to do anything, they would declare a statement and announce it clearly and they would not hide. So all of this accusing Hamas and punishing all of the people and arrests and closing different organizations that they claim belong to Hamas, it does not make sense.” The boy’s bodies were eventually found in Haloul, a village just south of Hebron on June 30. All three had apparently been murdered shortly after they were abducted. After arresting 628 people in the weeks prior, Israeli officials finally identified two suspected kidnappers, Marwan Kawasmeh and Amar Abu-Eisha, and demolished their homes. The two still have not been apprehended. “Hamas will pay,” vowed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his statement concerning the murder of the boys. That night, racial tensions in Jerusalem skyrocketed. Israeli extremists marched through the streets chanting “death to Arabs.” An oncoming wave of Jewish extremist violence gathered momentum. Two days later, 16 year-old Palistinian Muhammad Abu Khdeir was abducted in the Shu’fat neighborhood of East Jerusalem. He was burned alive by adolescent Israeli extremists. An autopsy carried out by Israeli officials and confirmed by Palestinian personnel found gasoline had been poured down his throat. His charred body was found in a nearby forest. Jewish extremists made several other See ARAB Page 16

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attempts at abducting children in the bers had been killed in a collapsed tun“He’s one of the extreme voices, occupied West Bank, according to local nel at the Gaza-Egypt border town refusing peace between Palestinians and media. Attackers attempted to drag Rafah, which the Israeli military Israelis based on a two state solution,” 9-year-old Mousa Zalooma into a car claimed as a successful attack on Hamas said Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, a promiin Shu’fat, but were stopped by the on their blog. An additional three nent Palestinian doctor and politician. child’s family members. In the Beit Palestinians were killed by air strikes on “This is not a war with Hamas, it’s an Hanina neighborhood of East the Gaza Strip the previous night. attack on Palestinians,” Barghouti Jerusalem 7-year-old insisted to Boulder UN Photo/Shareef Sarhan Muhammad Ali alWeekly. Kiswani was nearly Israeli forces abducted, again saved called 1,500 by intervening family reservist troops to members. the Gaza border In Osarin, a small that day and Palestinian village dubbed their near Nablus, 22-yearoffensive old Tariq Ziad Zuhdi “Operation Adeli was taken by Protective Edge,” settlers from the side confirming a of a road, attacked ground invasion with a hatchet and may be on the left to bleed to death horizon amidst in a nearby field. continued air Adeli survived the strikes. attack and was able to Netanyahu call his father who asserted Israel’s found him and rushed right to wage war him to hospital. on the besieged “People were very strip. “In recent afraid,” said East days, Hamas terJerusalem local rorists have fired Ratibeh Alladin. “You hundreds of rockcould not see any ets at Israel’s civilchildren walking ians. No other around in the streets country lives under because their parents such a threat, and are really afraid.” no country would Amidst the outaccept such a The United Nations estimates that 80 percent of the more than 200 casualties in pouring of grief in threat,” he said in a Gaza have been civilians. Israel for Fraenkel, statement released Shaer and Yifrah, July 8. Palestinians were mourning Abu Hamas politician Moshir Almasry Reservist numbers swelled to 40,000 Khdeir and the 11 others killed during wrote on his Facebook page that the the following day. The death toll hit the last week’s raids of the occupied nine deaths would “fuel the intifada and 100, an estimated 60 of whom were West Bank and air strikes on Gaza. All resistance.” Rocket fire by Palestinian civilians, and hundreds more were feared further hate crimes. militants into southern Israel increased, injured. On July 10, forces struck “Fun Palestinian protests against the though it did not cause any serious Time Cafe,” a beach-front coffee shop occupation increased in the West Bank injuries or fatalities at that time. The in Khan Younis, a populous Gazan and “the Triangle,” an area within Israel most destructive attack set fire to a fac- town, where locals were gathered to that is home to predominantly tory in Sderot, an Israeli town nestled watch the Germany-Argentina World Palestinian citizens. Shu’fat became a against the Gaza border. Three civilians Cup match. The air strike killed nine battleground for Palestinian youths were slightly injured. and injured at least 28 others, according armed with stones and Israeli forces Following that attack, Israeli to local reports. with tear gas and rubber bullets. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman The air raids continued and death Rocket fire into Israel from called for a large-scale operation in the toll grew. Early Sunday morning the Palestinian militants in Gaza increased Strip, saying “We should not bury our Israeli military dropped leaflets over concurrently in a display of belligerent heads in the sand, and should realize Beit Lahia, a town in the north of the defiance. The indiscriminately aimed that there is a connection between the Strip, urging residents to evacuate the rockets were fired into Israel by a mixmurder of the youths and the increasing area immediately. Despite some calls ture of groups, including Hamas and rocket attacks on the South.” from Hamas and other locals to ignore Islamic Jihad. Lieberman asserted the recent unity the warning, dismissing it as “psychodeal between the Palestinian Authority, logical warfare,” the move created an A new ‘war’ blossoms the Palestinian government in the West exodus to the already cramped south. On July 7 Palestinians and Israelis Bank, indicates an intention on the part According to Israeli military Lieutenant woke up to headlines warning of of Hamas to “take over” Judea and Libby Weiss, the Beit Lahia area is impending warfare. Six Hamas memSumaria (the occupied West Bank). used by Hamas to launch rockets into 16 July 17, 2014

Israel, some making it as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. “It’s like a ghost city, you can’t see anything,” said Rajab, who went to inspect what came of the warning. “We drove back to Gaza City and the streets were filled with cars, donkeys, horses, everybody with everything they could take with them.” Casualties continue to grow as the bombing campaign, mostly carried out late at night, progresses. An estimated 80 per cent of casualties in Gaza are civilians, according to a United Nations report. Mosques, hospitals and parks have reportedly been targeted. Israeli officials claim the reason for this is Hamas’ use of these facilities for weapons storage or other operational purposes. “They have rocket storage facilities in homes, training grounds next to mosques, infrastructure near hospitals,” Weiss told Boulder Weekly, noting the Israeli military has an obligation to minimize civilian casualties as much as possible. At press time on Wednesday, a proposed Egyptian-brokered ceasefire had been agreed to by Israel and rejected by Hamas, who claimed they were not consulted in the process. Hamas has continued to fire rockets into Israel, which has returned fire with numerous air strikes on the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military reportedly contacted residents in East Gaza City via telephone Monday night, instructing them to leave. “It was like a voice recording [telling people to leave], ‘for your safety, for your home, for your family, don’t support Hamas,’” said Rajab. That night Israeli forces struck 12 homes of Hamas members in East Gaza city and targeted the previously evacuated Beit Lahiya. No injuries or fatalities have been reported from these attacks. While it remains unclear how much longer the military offensive will continue, the end will not likely be anytime soon. “We will continue with [Operation Protective Edge] as long as we feel like we are carrying out the mission and acheiving the goals that we have set,” Weiss told Boulder Weekly. Weiss noted that a ground invasion of the impoverished coastal strip is still “on the table,” though the decision is ultimately up to the Israeli cabinet. Hamas has shown no intention to stop their nearly futile rocket fire at Israel. “Our battle with the enemy continBoulder Weekly

news ues and will increase in ferocity and intensity,” said a statement from leaders of the Al-Qassem Brigades, the Hamas military wing.

Growing unity Unlike in 2009 and 2012, when the bloodshed in Gaza failed to inspire significant protests in the West Bank and Israel, Palestinians are acting out in solidarity this time around. There are protests around the West Bank and the Triangle every night. “People were killed in 2012 and 2008 in Gaza but we really did not have a powerful resistance movement reacting in different ways. Now people are going out to the streets, people are demanding an end to this whole thing, an end to the occupation,” said Khalifa. After weeks of clashing with Israeli forces in protest of the crackdown on the West Bank and surging anti-Arab racism in Israel, emotions are running high. “I can link it to the rage we saw in Jerusalem streets, I can link it to the rage we saw in occupied areas in 48 [the Triangle] and the West Bank,” said Khalifa. The fire is being further stoked by the speedy access to news of the carnage in Gaza. Social media-based news agencies like Shehab News and Al-Quds Network are providing up-tothe-second news on the latest strikes, casualties and fatalities. “In 2012 we had to really dig hard in order to know how many people fell in Gaza. Now the moment a raid strikes we know how many people died,” said youth activist Mohammad Abu Toameh. Abu Toameh says he believes the shocking gruesomeness of the news, in particular, is galvanizing the protests. Images and videos of strikes, gutted buildings and bloody bodies are updated an average of every two minutes. Enormous protests broke out throughout Hebron and surrounding villages and Bethlehem Sunday night. Munir Ahmad Badarain, 22, died after bring shot by live fire by Israeli soldiers in clashes south of Hebron. Two more protesters sustained bullet wounds. The protests, and ensuing clashes with Israeli soldiers, are continuing nightly throughout the West Bank. News of the failure to reach a ceasefire has had virutally no effect on the solidarity demonstartions, according to local activist Issa Amro of Youth Against Settlements. “The ceasefire was not discussed by the Palestinian people because it’s not official, it was just a media initiative,” Boulder Weekly

said Amro. Widespread solidarity demonstrations have been called for Friday afternoon, after the mid-day call to prayer, according to Amro. “We are not watching Israel killing us, we have a resistance movement reacting to all of the Israeli violations and oppression over Palestinian residents in all occupied Palestine,” said

Khalifa. Update: As Boulder Weekly went to press on July 17, news of yet another tragedy in the Gaza Strip was breaking. According to Gray and other media sources, it appears that an Israeli Naval ship shelled a beach near the port area of Gaza City. Four Palestinian boys from a single family who were playing football at the time were killed. At least three other chil-

dren were injured, with one of those being in critical condition. Following the beach shelling which was witnessed by several foreign journalists who attempted to save some of the injured children by administering CPR, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman renewed his call for a ground offensive against Gaza. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen talking about Planet Bluegrass, it’s hard to separate the company from its founder and festival director Craig Ferguson. It’s as if each is the heart of the other, their fates twisted together in pretty much everything … including floods. It’s what happens when your life, your family, your job and your home are all located smack in the middle of a festival venue that’s half surrounded by a river. Such is Ferguson’s circumstance at the Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons. On September 12, 2013, the historic 500-year flood that hit the town of Lyons along with most of the rest of Boulder County also devastated the Planet Bluegrass Ranch, which plays host each year to RockyGrass, the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and any number of other events. On the day of the flood, Ferguson and his family watched helplessly from the red- and yellow-

streaked sandstone cliffs that rise above the ranch and the St. Vrain. They looked on as the swollen river swept through the festival grounds, leaving every structure on the property at least partially submerged. At the height of the flood, the river extended from the cliffs on the north side of the property to the wall at the base of Highway 36 on the south. Water covered everything known as Planet Bluegrass, including Ferguson’s home, which had four feet of water flowing through the ground floor. “I was just in shock,” says Ferguson. “I thought, ‘Oh my God, how do we fix this?’ Not do we fix it, but how.” Within days of being hit by the flood, despite all the carnage he had witnessed, Ferguson announced to the world that his Planet Bluegrass Ranch would be ready for festivalgoers by the time RockyGrass See PLANET Page 20

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arrived a short 10 months later on July 25, 2014. Was it a promise born of confidence or merely a gesture of hope and faith? At the time, it seemed more likely a product of shock, something akin to denial. But the inspiration for Ferguson’s bold proclamation doesn’t really matter now. Whatever sparked that promise, it was clear from the very beginning that Ferguson and the rest of the Planet Bluegrass staff believed it was possible and they committed themselves to making it a reality at all costs … of which there would be plenty. When the water finally receded, it became clear that restoring the festival grounds in such a short time frame would be a tall order. There was no time to waste. With so much of the property buried under tens of thousands of tons of sand, gravel, mud and debris, the first order of business was to buy a backhoe and a dump truck and to start rearranging the flood’s handiwork one shovelfull at a time. It was the first bite of the elephant. The purchase of the truck and backhoe turned out to be only the first in a long line of expenditures that would eventually top out somewhere north of $1.2 million to date. And that price tag to restore Planet Bluegrass Ranch seems even bigger when you consider that only about $100,000 came in by way of insurance reimbursements. Despite the herculean nature of the task, the resurrecting of the festival grounds in time for the summer music events proved the easier part of the

ordeal for Ferguson, at least emotionally. “Inside my house I had two feet of mud,” he says. “I just took an X-Acto knife and cut away all the drywall and insulation below four feet. That’s not the most expensive part. Everything that touches the ground, every piece of furniture, some guitars, kitchen cabinets, the whole inside of my house four feet and down had to be redone. “But my biggest loss has been three or four crates of kids’ artwork that I had under the stairs, that was the hardest thing. That was the hardest moment by far going through those pictures. They were all stuck together. I spent two days trying to unpeel them. That was the worst emotional part.” Ten months later, the pain can still be heard in his voice. But Ferguson is an optimist, albeit a tired one these days, and he quickly shifts to a more upbeat recollection. “I remember thinking that as long as we didn’t lose the stage, we’d be able to keep it all going. And it’s still there.” It was touch and go for a while after the flood. Ferguson’s beloved main stage was being threatened by a new branch of the St. Vrain, one that ran in front of the stage instead of behind it where the water had always been, and it was beginning to erode the ground at the stage’s edge. A reroute of the water saved the day and when a structural engineer declared the stage solid as a rock, all eyes returned to the July 25 deadline. While the stage was soggy but salvageable, not every structure on the property was so lucky. The Wildflower Boulder Weekly

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which had been through so much. Telluride’s 10,000 tickets sold out in just 16 minutes. It was a great reminder of just how important the relationship is between Planet Bluegrass and its loyal base of festavarians. Work crews were also able to help Ferguson meet another of his shorterterm goals just three months after the flood. This one concerned Christmas. “It was my daughter’s last year at home, so my big priority was to try to be home for Christmas in at least some sense,” says Ferguson. “It went pretty well; family stayed the night, Santa still came, the governor showed up and wished me well. “The [Wildflower] pavilion has housed a Christmas Eve service for years now. So we went and rented a tent and put it out there and most of those people who had been coming for years came and John Hickenlooper came out and joined us.” But that was then. With the promised deadline for reopening looming only a week away as this article goes to press, there is still a blur of construction activity at the Ranch. The new stage lights need hanging and more importantly the stage still needs power. The IT folks are still trying to get the grounds into the Internet age. Dirt is still being pushed around backstage. A fence or two are missing. Tons of specially ordered (it’s really soft) mulch is still sitting in small mountains waiting to be spread backstage and over a bit of the main campground where the grass seed has been slow to take. See PLANET Page 22

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property during the cleanup, some of that material was used to reshape the seating area. It now has a gentle downward slope from the silo to the stage. It’s an improvement that should benefit both line of sight and sound for the audience. Another change is that the beach has been moved from its location on the north side of the property near the stage, back to the rear of the Wildflower Pavillion. The old beach is now a twotiered retaining wall set up that still offers easy access to the water. The new beach is sand and has been positioned closer to the family area. Speaking of the Wildflower Pavillion, its 2.0 version has the original roof but its sides are new and have been bolted onto a bombproof concrete foundation that now composes the bottom three feet of the walls. Ferguson says if there is another 500-year flood, the safest place in the county will be on top of the pavilion. “It’s not going anywhere,” he assures. Those familiar with the venue will also notice the grounds have a more open feel. This is due to a couple of missing trees and also the lack of vegetation along the riverbank. Aside from that, it’s pretty much just as it has always been. The grass is even lusher than in past years thanks to seven acres of sod purchased after Yonder Mountain String Band donated $60,000 from a Planet Bluegrass benefit concert to pay for it. Which brings up another point. The festivals that Planet Bluegrass puts on every year in Lyons and Telluride are important to everyone Boulder Weekly

involved, including the musicians who have rallied around Ferguson and his company in their time of need. “There’s a sense of responsibility to make the festivals special this year to help get past this disaster,” says Ferguson. “Hornsby, Bela Fleck, Noam Pikelny and a lot of others wanted to make sure they were going to be here. It’s a homecoming for a lot of bluegrass artists.” Ferguson says that he looks forward to some point in the future when he can slow down and reflect on all the amazing acts of kindness, encouragement and support that he and Planet Bluegrass have received since the flood. But for now he says, “I’m just worn out.” For today anyway, there is nothing he can do but make another trip to the electrical supplier, grab a hammer and finish making his promise to rebuild Planet Bluegrass Ranch better than ever a reality. Well, that’s not all he can do, he does occasionally trade his hammer for his festival director’s hat so he, too, can make this summer’s events at the Ranch special. Best example? He added superstar Alison Krauss to the RockyGrass lineup after the festival was already sold out. Who does that kind of thing? Craig Ferguson. Editor’s note: While RockyGrass is sold out, for those wanting to support Planet Bluegrass in its recovery and see the new improved version of the Ranch for themselves, there are still tickets available for the 24th Annual Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, August 15-17. So grab some friends and have a great time. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The recently opened Corner Boxing Club, run by Kirsten and Carrie Barry (photo on left) touts Barry as Colorado’s only level three USA Boxing coach and a fellow of Applied Functional Science. Their business include community outreach to work with youth like those from the Family Learning Center (directly above).

maybe people out there thought they were tears of joy, but it was heartbreaking because I had hoped it was me,” says Barry glancing around the walls of Boulder’s newest training facility, The Corner Boxing Club, owned by Carrie Barry and Kirsten Barry, her wife and an aspiring competitive boxer. “I look around at the posters here and think, ‘That should be me.’ Then I come back to the thought, I wouldn’t have those posters up in my gym if that was me. I wouldn’t be here, doing what I’m doing,” Barry says. “London would have been one Olympics and then five years later, it fades out. This way, I’ll get to touch more lives

and have more of an impact.” The fade out Barry refers to is coined “athletes’ death.” It encapsulates the sudden shock and confusion after bringing an end to years of physical routine that have become an identity. When injury occurs or physical prime passes, many elite athletes find themselves at a loss for meaning with no clear transitions in mind after a life aimed solely at competition. Barry didn’t fall victim to this mental slump. She immediately redefined her purpose to supporting Underwood and, soon afterwards, toward pursuing another ambition she had tucked away all this time. “Carrie has talked about opening a gym since

the day that I met her,” says Pauline Macias, a USA Judo National Team Member, who first encountered Barry at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs in 2006. “At that time, she had already carried this vision for a long time. To see the support she has now is fantastic — I don’t think I’ve been to a gym where, when it first opens, so many people are coming in.” “I believe the first preliminary talks of the idea of the gym were back in January of 2013,” says Kirsten Barry. “It wasn’t until the fall of 2013 that, through saving and back pay from the Army that Carrie received, was more serious planning see BOXING Page 26

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t the most recent University of Colorado open Board of Regents meeting, Katie Raitz took the opportunity during open comments to talk fossil fuels, fossil fuel companies and why the University of Colorado should divest from them. “After demonstrated student support, will you divest CU’s endowment from fossil fuels?” Ritz asked the Regents. While several regents did ask followup questions, there was no definitive answer given as it was asked during an open comment session. The University of Colorado Foundation, as of their June 30, 2013 report, has more than $26 million invested in gas and oil companies, down more than a million dollars in value from the year before. Raitz says the focus of the current campaign by Fossil Free CU is to show how the divestment would benefit the campus by bringing in talented leadership and students in the environmental and social entrepreneurial fields. It could also improve the university’s public image, says Raitz, something that CU has been working hard at in the past several years. “We really want to be looking at it as a positive,” says Raitz, who has been

working with the school’s treasurer about the logistics of moving investments out of the fossil fuel industry. Speaking with the Board of Regents came after a two-year attempt by Fossil Free CU to get the measure supported on the Boulder campus by CU’s leadership. In the spring of 2013, Fossil Free CU got more than 1,000 student signatures to get a referendum question on that spring’s student government elections. The question asked students: “Do you support a decision by CU and the CU Foundation to remove all university endowment investments from the fossil fuel industry?” 65 percent of voting students said yes. The success of the ballot question led to a resolution being passed in April 2013 by the CU Student Government urging the University of Colorado and University of Colorado Foundation to reinvest their fossil fuel holdings. One week later the student body and student leadership indirectly got a response from the administration. CU President Bruce Benson was asked at a town hall meeting if he would support divesting from fossil fuels. “I’m not going to do that,” replied Benson, who notably got his career started in the gas and oil industry and is

the founder and owner of Benson Mineral Group. “When the leadership said ‘no,’ we had to further our tactics,” says Raitz. The goal of talking to the Board of Regents during the open comment session is to put the issue on the regents’ radar, says Fossil Free CU member P.D. Gantert. The group intends to bring it back up to the regents until it becomes an agenda issue. “The next step is to make it a public hot topic thing,” says Gantert. Simón Mostafa, a member of Fossil Free CU, says the group has found latent and passive support of divestment within the student population, but it’s not an issue that is in the front of students’ minds. Many students the group talked with were surprised that CU was invested in fossil fuels due to its environmentally friendly values. Mostafa says the administration is not yet feeling the pressure for divestment, so the pressure needs to be increased to the point it cannot be ignored. In the upcoming semester, the group plans to work to increase visibility and recruitment of students, faculty and alumni. The group also plans to work with fossil fuel divestment groups from the other CU campuses to bring more peo-

ple to the table with the regents. Raitz says that CU should divest from fossil fuels as the chancellors of the three CU campuses are signatories on the 2007 American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, calling for institutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strive toward becoming climate neutral. The CU administration has become hypocritical in their actions, signing the Climate Commitment but ignore their investments, Mostafa says. He argues that the university is no longer reflecting the values that they themselves promote. The Fossil Free CU movement is not just about the divestment from fossil fuels, says Raitz, it is also about environmental impacts, social justice and having the administration represent their students. “It’s reminding the administration that they do have accountability to the students,” says Gantert. That component was what originally sparked his interest in the issue. Though there has been no definitive response to the student body and leadership’s disapproval of CU’s investments in fossil fuels, as for the Board of Regents, Gantert says, “At least they were paying attention.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Despite the scope of its impacts, the great flood has been overshadowed in American conciousness by more recent hurricanes.

he great Mississippi River flood of 1927 began when more than 100 levees broke early in the year. It resulted in more than 27,000 square miles of land being flooded, lasted for almost eight months, and is the most destructive flood in the history of the United States. More than $400 million in damages occurred, and at least 600,000 people were displaced. The subsequent exodus spread black culture and music away from the flood-ravaged South and into the country at large, a movement which reshaped America’s geographic, economic and cultural landscapes. And yet, the flood is relatively undiscussed in the history books, and its impacts never reached the level of the public awareness of natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina or Sandy, or the San Francisco earthquakes of 1906 or 1989. But New York-based filmmaker Bill Morrison and Seattle jazz guitarist Bill Frisell are trying to change that with Morrison’s latest film, The Great Flood, which will screen at the Boulder Theater this Saturday with a live score from Frisell and his band. The wordless documentary is something to behold. It unfolds as a series of vignettes that look at everything from the people who were impacted by the flood to the crushing footage of the flood itself and its aftermath, and makes for compelling viewing. The old Boulder Weekly

adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is incredibly apt here, as the images play across the screen with profound power and gravitas. Morrison was actually working on another film when he first came into contact with some of the footage that would eventually make it into Flood. “I was involved in a project around 2005 called Shelter, and I was looking for aerials of flooded landscapes,” Morrison says. “There was some incredible footage. I came across a number of aerials of flooded

landscapes from 1926 and 1927, and most of them were from the Mississippi River Valley.” After this, the seeds of an idea began to form. When Shelter premiered in late 2005, audiences were struck by the flood footage, especially in the wake of Katrina, and Morrison felt how transcendent a flood’s power is. And then he was introduced, roughly a year later, to a John Barry book called Rising Tide, which talks about the dramatic impact the flood had on American culture. At this point, Morrison decided to bring this event into the consciousness of 21st century America, in part because he was one of the few who could actually do so. “The lion’s share of the footage comes from the Fox Movietone newsreel outtakes at the University of South Carolina, and I knew I could probably recreate as much newsreel footage to create a record of the flood as anyone else,” he says. “As far as I knew, no one had used those outtakes from 1927 that were in the Fox Movietone collection, so I knew where the bodies were buried, if you will.” But it was not enough for Morrison to unearth these reels and string them together into a cohesive narrative. He wanted to make sure the music that would accompany the story would be fitting. And that is where Frisell comes in. see DELTA BLUES Page 32

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Frisell and Morrison have known each to find as many ways to bring the power other for more than two decades and are of music and film together as possible, fans of each other’s work, but had never and are willing to do anything for the been able to truly collaborate on a project sake of making their art stronger. For before this one. (Morrison had been able to example, Morrison traveled with Frisell use existing music from Frisell’s catalog in a and his band on a tour in early 2011 couple of his works, but that was all.) The while the film and its score were still Flood experience was unique for Frisell. being worked on, and the experience “The most amazing thing about this had a marked effect on both of them. process, was how it evolved as we went “They played gigs in Memphis, along,” he says. “Most of the time there’s Texas, New Orleans, Oxford, St. Louis, some music ready and then someone Iowa and Chicago,” Morrison says, “and will do a film, or [vice versa], but it the idea was to follow the path of the doesn’t happen that often — that I river and get a feel for what that landknow of — where there’s a back-andscape has to offer. It was a moving resiforth thing going on.” dency if you will.” Morrison and Frisell engaged in the Touring the route of the diaspora was process of bringing this chilling because it allowed stirring film to life symbieveryone involved to walk in otically. Morrison’s organithe footsteps of those who ON THE BILL: The Great Flood 8 zation of the film impacted lived through the tragedy. But p.m. Saturday, July Frisell’s approach to the there was an unexpected 19, Boulder Theater, music at times, and some aspect of the trip that made it 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030 $20-$33 of Frisell’s compositions resonate even more deeply. helped inform the way “What we were unable Morrison subsequently to anticipate was that the edited the film to create the river would be at heights it finished product. But there is another had not been at since 1927,” Morrison intriguing layer to their relationship and explains, “so we all had that very unique to the relationship between the film and experience of seeing a levee in Vicksburg its music: combining live showings of the and wondering whether it was going to film with live performances from Frisell hold the next day. It was an insidious, and the band. uneasy feeling.” “I’ve always been envious that musi“I never really felt in danger,” Frisell cians could invite an audience into a adds, “but you got a real sense of how concert hall without the expectation powerful this thing was, and is.” that people were going to be told a And this is what Morrison and story, and yet they were going to have a Frisell hope to convey through this meaningful experience anyway,” magnetic film: the idea that this flood Morrison says. “With a film, it’s the was so powerful that its ripple effect can opposite. You’re supposed to be told still be felt even today. something you didn’t know already, and “My hypothesis here is that the 1927 you’re supposed to experience it intellec- Mississippi River flood was part of the tually, not temporally. I thought using a great migration and led to the spread of uniquely musical soundtrack would African-American music throughout appeal to audiences coming to see Bill’s the world,” says Morrison. play, and would attract a certain type of Which brings us back to Frisell. He is musical audience that would be recepproof of how far African-American music tive to experiencing a story that’s being has spread because, while the legendary told in a more musical than lyrical way.” guitarist is often associated with the jazz The creative relationship Morrison genre, his compositions span a wide range and Frisell have is such that they want of genres, including rock and roll,

Americana, country and blues. Ironically, it took a natural disaster for AfricanAmerican music to come alive outside of the Southern United States, and Frisell is one of today’s most vivid examples of how that initial diaspora has continued throughout the country. But when it came time to make music for the film, Frisell didn’t want to recreate what the music of the time would have sounded like because it did not feel right to him. “The flood caused all these people to migrate north to the cities, and — this is way oversimplifying it — the music changed from some guy sitting on his porch or in a field playing an acoustic guitar, to getting up to the city and being confronted by all the noise, the density, the electricity,” says Frisell. “It’s a reflection of how the music changed, how it turned into rock and roll. But I didn’t want to try to mimic that because there’s no way I could ever come close to the power of what Robert Johnson was playing, or Muddy Waters, or the people who were affected by all this.” But this is not to say that people today cannot be moved by this event, even if they were not alive to experience it. When you watch the film and see the footage of despondent people trapped on rooftops or rowing boats down streets whose buildings are almost completely underwater, you feel for them. And despite how light and airy segments like the cheeky “Politicians” and the especially clever “The 1927 Sears Roebuck Catalog” look and sound, they paint a subversive portrait of the disconnect between the elite and poorer classes, which only augments the sense of loss that these people felt. This is a tragic event which has shaped countless millions of lives over the decades, and its weight is not lost on Morrison. “Hurricane Sandy introduced 12 feet of water into my own home,” he says. “My life was upended, and to a certain degree our neighborhood is still putting things back together. So I guess I chose a topic that eventually became a reality in my life.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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saw Man or Astroman? perform in 2001, and am still recovering from the experience. There were strobe lights, video projections, costumes and blisteringly loud surf-punk riffs by the score. The band miked a dot matrix printer to create a percussion loop, and covered ZZ Top’s “La Grange,” with vocals from a Stephen Hawking-style voice generator. The drummer, “Birdstuff,” frequently abandoned his kit midsong to hurl obscenities at the audience, then demand they hug. Also, there was lightning. So. Much. Lightning. The band’s finale included an 8-foot tall Tesla coil shootAfter a decade in cryogenic storage, the gents from Man or Astro-man? say they’re feeling ing lightning over the audi- rejuvinated. Since the band is currently thawed and ready to play, they’ll be gracing the stage of the Larimer Lounge in Denver on Saturday, July 19. ence’s heads as the band played a wild, noisy, reverbdrenched cacophony that show, last tour, breaking up things. Man or Astro-man? isn’t just due to used the sound of the electricity slicing With us, the future is always open to DelBueno’s involvement. the air as a downbeat. possibility.” “It’s always been part of how thinkFive years later, the soundman Luckily for audiences, that possibil- ing about how gadgetry could define would tell me the performance blew all ity includes strings of new tour dates, us,” says Teasley. “We were always a the transformers. At the time, all I including a stop at Denver’s Larimer band that was more interested in what knew was my hair stood on end and Lounge on Saturday, July 19. people thought the future would be everything I’d ever read about The In its time off, band members buslike than what it actually became.” Acid Tests in the 1960s began to make ied themselves with a variety of projThat made surf music, a style that sense. ects stretching from playing in side originated in the height of 1960s And then, shortly afterwards, the projects like The Causey Way, St. Jetsons-era futurism and ended up band called it quits. Ish. Vincent and The Polyphonic Spree, to focusing as much on solar wind as it “We had to rejuvenate ourselves starting record labels and venues, to did on ocean waves, a natural fit. and be in cryogenic storage for 10 dabbling in engineering. “We never thought about anything years,” Birdstuff told BW in a phone “Coco [the band’s bass player, other than playing a few shows in our interview. “We play for a decade then Robert DelBueno, aka “Coco the hometown and having fun, playing Electronic Monkey Wizard”] has a something that we didn’t hate,” says store ourselves for a decade.” Teasley. “We were surrounded by cover That’s the story the band tells to go biodiesel company and has all kinds of crazy redneck entrepreneurial venbands and knew we didn’t want to play with its fake background: that they are tures,” says Teasley. that.” a gang of aliens that crash-landed on DelBueno’s skills as a maker played Man or Astro-man?’s early material Earth and passed the time by playing on albums like Is It ... Man or Astroin a rock band, a mythology that began a heavy role in the band as well as his professional life, building and hacking man?, Project Infinity and Intravenous as a way of expressing the band’s feelprops and instruments core to the Television Continuum was largely based ings about growing up in rural band’s sonic and visual identity, somearound the dizzying guitar playing of Alabama. thing immediately evident to anyone Brian “Starcrunch” Causey, and soundThe truth is simpler: “We toured who sees his electric bass/iPad combo. ed like a turbocharged version of The more than any band in the 1990s “It’s like a Hondo longhorn, and he Ventures. But its genuine weirdness — [more than 2,000 shows in more than doubled the body up and put a slot in especially in Alabama — paired with 30 countries], and it was the point the band’s ferocious work ethic quickly where having a good exit strategy made so he could run the sampler,” says Teasley. “And he’s such a small guy. It earned it a rabid following. The band sense,” says Brian Teasley, Birdstuff ’s looks like a 7-foot bass.” human alter-ego. “But we were smart But the role of technology within enough to not to do one of those last see MAN OR ASTRO-MAN? Page 34 Boulder Weekly

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moved up the tourlowed through,” ing ladder, selling says Teasley. out marquis venues Like the time like The Fillmore in Man or AstroSan Francisco and man? thought it performing on would be funny to Saturday Night Live. franchise the band Over time, Man or like Kentucky Fried Astro-man?’s take on Chicken, hired two surf began to include bands to cover their more synthesizers material, and and found instrubooked a tour for ments, especially in all three acts conthe studio. currently in which “A lot of it comes no one at the venue from our start with or in the audience what we call budget knew which band rock, where we just would be onstage collect weird shit until they actually from thrift stores,” were: the clone says Teasley. “We’re tours. always looking for “Getting that new, stupid things approved through our ON THE BILL: Man or Astroman? with Sallie Ford and Wray. that make new, stubooking agent was 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 19, pid sounds.” weird,” says Teasley. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer And Teasley says “At the time people St., Denver, $20 that instead of forcfelt ripped off, like it ing a square peg into was a cover band. a round hole, you Now it’s become such have to let the sound of the instrument a crazy legendary thing, that people decide how it should be played. That wished they’d seen it.” lead the surf-punk band to experiment Then there are the band’s plans to use its Tesla coil to pair a Man or with more electronic and psych-rock Astro-man? show with something scithemes as it blasted through the ’90s encey in the vein of Mr. Wizard. with albums like Made From “It is almost like prodding yourself, Technetium, EEVIAC and A Spectrum of like you’d made a bar bet,” says Infinite Scale. Teasley. That sound continued once the And about that Tesla coil: “That band was resurrected on the 2011 release Your Weight on the Moon and the thing is a giant question mark thunderbolt when it starts emitting electricity 2013 album Defcon 5…4…3…2…1. through the air,” says Teasley. “And it “In a way, I wish we’d matured,” says Teasley. “But we’re kind of stuck in really has the potential to screw with digital consoles. And we did blow one time, since we created this thing when up in Ashville, N.C.” we were 19.” Teasley says one venue was so For Teasley, whose drumming was in high demand post-Man or Astro-man?, peeved about a raucous Man or Astroman? show in the ’90s, that it locked and who kind of hates reunions, — “I jokingly call reunions ‘reenactment rock,’ the band’s Tesla coil in an equipment closet to ensure it wouldn’t potentially like Civil War reunions; If you liked us Great White the joint. young and virile, then you’ll love us old The band broke the coil out, drug it and uninspired,” he says — that situainto the parking lot and plugged it into tion is not without its perils. an ATM’s power source, leading the But it’s not just the band of brothaudience outside at the conclusion of ers element that makes Man or Astrothe performance to fire it up. man? worth doing for him again. It’s “That’s the kind of insanity we that the way Man or Astro-man? works started this band for,” Teasley says. keeps it creatively vibrant in a way And it’s the kind of insanity rock most bands aren’t. was sorely missing in the decade Man “The only thing that sets us apart or Astro-man? took off from the road, from other ’90s bands like Superchunk or, put itself in cryogenic storage if you or whoever, is that everyone gets prefer. together and talks about those crazy Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com ideas in the van, but we actually fol-

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arlos Miguel Prieto and reduced the percussion. [The brings two very different 1911 version] uses three keyboard programs to the Colorado players; 1947 uses one. For me the Music Festival. ‘Petrushka’ 1911 is just an incredible The Mexican conducexperience.” tor, the second of three candidates If the Spanish “Three Cornered for the position of music director of Hat” and the colorful 1911 the festival, will lead the full Festival “Petrushka” represent some of Prieto’s Orchestra in a program of early favorites, so does the programming of 20th-century ballets on July 17 and a rarely heard Haydn symphony. 18, and the Chamber Orchestra in a “I’m a complete Haydn fan,” he program of 18th/19th-century classays. “I used to have a festival in sics on July 20. Mexico City around Haydn, so I’ve Soloist with the Festival done about 65 or 66 Haydn symphoOrchestra will be mezzo-soprano nies up to now. Abigail Nims from the University of “What I used to do to program Colorado music faculty, in a perforsymphonies that I didn’t know is roll mance of the complete “Threedice! Whatever number would come Cornered Hat” ballet by Spanish up is the symphony that I procomposer Manuel de Falla. Other grammed. And I think there is no works on the program are the colorful bad Haydn symphony.” “Suite” from the ballet “Estancia” by Symphony No. 49, known as “La Carlos Miguel Prieto, a candidate for music director Argentine composer Alberto Passione,” was written in 1768, durof the Colorado Music Festival, will lead the Festival Ginastera, and the original 1911 ver- and Chamber orchestras in some of his favorite ing what is sometimes known as pieces July 17, 18 and 20. sion of “Petrushka” by Stravinsky. Haydn’s “Sturm und Drang” (storm For the Chamber Orchestra conand stress) period. The title was not cert, the Swiss-born American piagiven by Haydn, and may or may not nist Gilles Vonsattel will play Mozart’s “Petrushka,” on the other hand, is trage- refer to performance during Holy Week. Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major with dy, ending with a carnival puppet Curiously, one early copy carries the the orchestra. Other works on that prohacked apart over his love for a ballerina counterintuitive title “The goodgram are the “Symphony No. 49 in F humored Quaker,” which is equally and then returning to haunt the puppet minor,” by Joseph Haydn, and inauthentic. master. Beethoven’s cheerful Fourth Symphony. The rest of the program for the Prieto has the style of de Falla in his “I wanted to do two very contrasting blood, since his family came from Spain Chamber Orchestra concert is what Prieto calls “a classical origin-of-orchesprograms,” Prieto says, “one with a very and both grandfathers were close to the tra, Haydn-Mozart-Beethoven program.” colorful orchestra of early 20th-cencomposer. Falla’s pieces are “things I Mozart’s C-major concerto is one of tury dimensions, love and have the composer’s most popular pieces, havand [one] with a been close to all ON THE BILL: Colorado Music ing been recorded by dozens of pianists completely classimy life,” he says. Festival Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto, from Rudolf Serkin to Keith Jarrett. It cal-period pro“They repreconductor / Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano, Thursday & Friday, July 17 & 18. was made famous in the late ’60s by its gram. sent challenges Colorado Music Festival Chamber use in the Swedish film Elvira Madigan. “I could think that are unsusOrchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto, conBeethoven’s Fourth, on the other of no better reppected, because ductor / Gilles Vonsattel, piano, Sunday, July 20. Performances at 7:30 p.m. in hand, is one of the composer’s less familertoire to show there is so much the Chautauqua Auditorium. Tickets: iar symphonies. As one of his lighter and off the orchestra behind the notes tickets.chautauqua.com more classical works it is a good fit for than the ballets that rehearsals the rest of the “completely classical-peri[commissioned become a lot of od program” Prieto has chosen. by Russian fun. One of the As a pair, the two concerts will impresario Serge] challenges is the clearly show off the orchestra’s, and the Diaghilev. ‘Petrushka’ is one of the most character and color, and understanding conductor’s, versatility. But Prieto says, successful commissions, but less wellthe humor behind the music. This has “That’s not what’s in my mind. What’s known is Falla’s ‘Three-Cornered Hat,’ to do with a very old tradition in in my mind is to present the best possiwhich is also a Diaghilev commission Spanish theater, which is the parody of ble concerts. that included Pablo Picasso as the set the ridiculous.” “The most important thing is that designer.” “Petrushka” is better known, but the concerts are attractive to the audiThe two ballets tell essentially the most orchestras perform the 1947 revience and propose something interesting.” same story: A young woman is pursued sion that reduced a large orchestra to For anyone intrigued by new musical by two men, one who is “good” and one more normal proportions. discoveries and stunning contrasts: miswho is “bad.” In “Three-Cornered Hat” “This is the original version, which sion accomplished. the outcome is comic, as a lecherous has quadruple winds,” Prieto explains. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com magistrate is hoodwinked by a miller. Later, Stravinsky “reduced the winds,

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arts & culture Come to this maybe amazing show and hear some things that are only partly true

ON THE BILL: Hard Working Americans & Jason Isbell at the Boulder Theater, Tuesday, July 22. Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Tickets $32.50 in advance, $35 day of show.

Todd Snider on his book and his new band by Elizabeth Miller

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ear suburbs: Todd Snider and his new band, the Hard Working Americans, are coming after you and any other self-proclaimed “hard working American” who’s stood behind the safety of a picket fence to look down on other people. Of the — generally speaking, as is sometimes necessary — suburban, right wing-minded, antigay, Tea Party-esque person, Snider says, “I like to poke that person.” There is, he says, “a prototype of an American person that I’m hoping to really get under the skin of and annoy, and hope that if they’re a parent that they, when they hear one of our songs, they Todd Snider: a name-dropper, a weed-stealer and a master of storytelling and self-deprecating humor. stay awake at night hoping that their kids didn’t end up on tour following us around.” that ever texted a picture of their penis called that Nashville-based number looking to talk about I Never Met a The Hard Working Americans are and anybody else that America needed less about blue collar and more about to just have for lunch so that it Story I Didn’t Like: Mostly True Tall tie-dyed collared workers, he says. They wouldn’t have to have itself for lunch. Tales, the book published earlier this appropriated the standard-issue defini“I would like to stand up next to year by Todd Snider. Naturally, I got tion of the words they’ve used to name those people and wave a flag with the singer Blind Lemon Pledge on the their band to serve their own ends. them, if only, for one, to feel good and phone, who informs me that the author “I like to take that word, and those another to annoy people that so easily died about a week ago. OK, sure. We’ll people generally just apply it to themdismiss other people and are so excited go with that. selves, and apply it to us, and we smoke about writing down rules and things of “Supposedly, there is a Todd Snider more dope before 9 a.m. than most that nature.” that is doing some shows right now, people do all day, and we still get as But, I digress — it’s Todd Snider, but I don’t know if that’s real,” Pledge much done as anyone else, if not more of course, so there’s no real surprise says, suggesting it’s something Snider’s on some days,” Snider says. “And I that the conversation has taken a few managers have trumped up. He goes on to throw the kind of would say the same about Tonya unexpected turns, not the least of Harding and Mike Tyson and anybody which comes with our introduction. I criticisms after Snider and his artistic “Lesa” by Lisa filius

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choices that could earn you a sucker punch in a bar, calling him a namedropper and a weed-stealer and a string of other words the FCC would require bleeping out. “I read that book and I was here when he wrote it, and I thought it was funny. But I know he did it for money,” Pledge says of I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like. He calls Snider’s notorious 20-minute song intros a “grift” but says he was there when those stories caught the attention of a “book person, you know like a person who makes books like a record company makes records,” who then asked Snider if he could write them down. “He couldn’t, but his neighbor, Peter Cooper, who was the music writer for The Tennessean and they were both two drunks and they sat around and fucking never shut up anyway,” Pledge recounts. “So that guy Snider sat and talked about himself for about four days, which wasn’t very much different than just living with him.” In the dedication, Snider thanks Cooper for listening to him and typing up all 90,000 words he said, which only took him an hour or so. Metaphors of that nature thread through his storytelling — the kind of metaphors with a truth at their core that makes them more crystalline than the facts would be. If you’ve heard him speak, say on the live recording The Storyteller, it’s see TODD SNIDER Page 40

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Asked about his summer tour, off he goes into talking about a recent Hard Working Americans show at the High Sierra Music Festival. “The other night, I’m telling you, when we got done, as soon as the last downbeat of the last song ended, I opened my eyes and noticed two separate people that were crying and I thought, ‘I’m not the only one. I knew this was special,’” he says. “I would rather sing with the Hard Working Americans than anything, really.” Turns out, he gets to for a while. The bulk of Snider’s summer tour dates are with the Hard Working Americans, a band Snider says in an open letter that he formed of friends because he “wanted to be in a band that wanted to be great, whatever that meant.” The group draws together Snider on vocals, Dave Schools of Widespread Panic, Neal Casal of the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, and Chad Staehly and Duane Trucks of Great American Taxi. Pledge (Snider) downplays his own participation, particularly in this recent transcendent performance, in which the jam took off and, he says, he stepped to the side. “I don’t do anything but memorize words,” Pledge says. “Sometimes I just sit and watch, because we jam for a while. … I don’t know enough about the jam thing to know what it really is that’s happening, but that day was the first day that I felt like, ‘Wow, the crowd is doing this.’ I don’t know how to describe it, but it’s like this audience is doing this somehow.” Schools and Casal, he says, “really understand what it means to flip that switch. I’m like a guy they just throw in a car and I’m like ‘What the fuck is happening?!’ But by the end of the summer, I’m hoping that I’ll understand what’s happening so I can do it more readily instead of having to wait for it. Well, I feel like there’s a thing I can do that helps, which is sort of to disappear or get out of the way. I think I stayed out of the gig on the other night well.” The band’s self-titled debut album was released in January to critical acclaim and a top spot on the Americana radio chart. “I would say that our group for real will really play our hearts out, you know. That’s all we do. I don’t even know if we’re good,” Pledge says. “But I say that and tomorrow night, maybe we won’t do that, so I don’t know if I can really predict what’s going to happen with our group, but I hope people come to see whatever happens.” Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Ginastera, Falla and Stravinsky. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. John McKay. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Monte Selbe and Larry Clyman. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 300 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

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Thursday-Sunday, July 17-27: The Amazing Acro-Cats Boogie in Boulder!!! The Nomad Theater. 8 p.m. 1410 Quince Ave. Humans can’t resist watching adorable kitties doing goofy things on the Internet, so, why not see it live? Feline behavioral expert and trainer Samantha Martin puts on a live show of trained cats (all orphans or rescues) walking tight-ropes, riding skateboards, traversing an agility course and performing in a “cat band,” all while being adorable. Martin also shows the importance of “clicker training” and how it can improve your cat’s life and aid in an emergency situation. Even if your cats don’t follow the program and immedietly jump on a unicycle, it’s still a super-cute lesson. Visit www.circuscats.com for more info.

Saturday, July 19-Sunday, July 20: Open Arts Fest, Pearl Street Mall, Boulder If there’s one thing Boulder likes to do with its warm summer afternoons, it’s to get creative out on the town, and that’s what Open Arts Fest is there to celebrate. The fourth annual Open Arts Fest will draw in more than 100 artists and performers from across the country to show off their goods. Expect to see everything from oil painting to photography to sculpture and more. There will also be a children’s activity area hosted by Clementine Studio, who will offer the chance for kids to create as well.

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EVENTS from Page 43 Terry Quiett. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Thursday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Upslope’s Lee Hill Series Release Party. 5 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Events Arts and Ales. 5 p.m. Longmont Council for the Arts, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & WCS. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Dancelympcs 5: Electroswing Party. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Opening Reception & Trophies by Helmut Smits. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Tango class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. U.N. and International Affairs. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Friday, July 18 Music Acoustic Stew. 7 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209. Bonnie and Clydes. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Boulder Swing Collective. 3 p.m. Centro Latin Kitchen and Refreshment Palace, 950 Pearl St., Boulder, 303442-7771. Christian Glover. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. David & Enion Tiller. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Dechen Hawk. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Dirty Bourbon River Show. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Dwight Black Cat Carrier Zydeco band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303823-6685.

Young Artists at Work. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Aug. 16.

Shiko Munkata: “Female Deity.” Courtesy of the Denver Art Museum

Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through January 18, 2015.

Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel Sprick. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 2. Summer in 3D — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Sept. 21.

— Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Aug. 31.

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554. At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Print will be on display at the Denver Art Museum through Aug. 31.

Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through January 25, 2015. At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. Eggshell Mosaics — Artist Dorette Carlson. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Aug. 1.

Films and Works — by Paul Sietsema. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Oct. 12.

Unbound: Altered Environments — Artists Christina Battle, Justin Beard, Christine Buchsbaum, Sonja Hinrichsen, Patrick Loehr, Loretta YoungGautier. Theater Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Digital Creations — Artists Chris Coleman, Michael Salter, Milton Croissant III, Bryan Leister, Alex McLeod. Upper Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31.

Photography — Artist Richard Warner. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Aug. 1.

Unbound: Five Installations — Artists Nicole Banowetz, Katie Caron, Sophia Dixon Dillo, Rian Kerrane, Laleh Mehran. Main Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31.

First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 22, 2015.

Unbound: Sculpture in the Fields — Various artists. Outdoor Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Sept. 30, 2015.

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Ginastera, Falla and Stravinsky. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Shelvis & The Roustabouts. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Sergey Cherep Presents New Work. 1 p.m. SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

The Goonies. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Steel Pennies. 9 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

STARLAB. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Gumbo Le Funque. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Steele & Colfax. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Saturday, July 19

Highway 50. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Hip Richies. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Johnny O Band. 9 a.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614. The New LP’s. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Outliers. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Rogue 2. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Sammy Dread & DJ BloodPreshah. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Talmadge Clay. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Terry Kishiyama. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482. Them Raggedy Bones. 6 p.m. The 28th Street Tavern, 2690 28th Street , Boulder, 303-444-1562. Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Events Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303. CFOOTMAD — Boulder Community Contra Dance. 8 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Conversaciones en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Irreverent Eclectic’ Hosted by Madelife. 7 p.m. Madelife, 2000 21St., Boulder, 303-927-0802. Jump, Wiggle & Spin. 10 a.m. WOW Childrens’ Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Music All Chiefs No Indians. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Alphabetz. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Boa & Jodie. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Bonnie Lowdermilk. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Cowgirl’s Train Set. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Danny Shafer Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Dean Peer and Bret Mann. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Filthy Children. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. The George Nelson Band. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. see EVENTS Page 46

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The Great Flood. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Indigent Row. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Interstate Stash Express. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Jeri Parks. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. John Bunzli. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

New Year•New You•Get Rolfing!

Los Funbags. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

for new clients only. Expires 7/25/14 New North boulder Location!

Loudon Wainwright III, Iris Dement. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

50% OFF Initial Session Across from Proto’s Pizza. 1275 yellow Pine Ave.

Call 720.878.2888 for appointment www.GetRolfing.com

Many Mountains. 7:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522. Marcus Lucas Show. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Off The Record. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Orgone. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

IRIS DEMENT w/Greg Trooper Fri 07.18 $31 advance

BRUCE ROBISON & KELLY WILLIS Sat 07.19 $20 advance

MARCIA BALL Fri 07.25 $29 advance

Rogue Sound. 7 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Strangebyrds. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162. Thumpin’. 7 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Whiskey Autumn. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Zimmermans. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

Events The 13th Annual Soul Rebel Festival. 1:30 p.m. Sunshine Acres, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder. ArtWalk. 4 p.m. Main St., Longmont, 303-678-8417. JUL-IPA Beer Benefit. 1 p.m. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder. Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460. Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

JOHNNYSWIM Fri 08.08 $20 advance

Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Saturday Swing with Live Music. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Summer Ecstatic Dance Outdoor. 5 p.m. Annette Brand’s Park, 961 Azure Way, Louisville, 415-290-9242. Summer Heritage Evening. 5 p.m. Walker Ranch Homestead, Boulder, 303-776-8848. Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Sunday, July 20 Music

CARRIE NEWCOMER Fri 08.22 $20 advance

Most concerts are at Swallow Hill Music and most start at 8pm. Special event venues and times vary. Check ticket or online for time and venue confirmation!

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Global Soul Experience. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

4th annual Honky-tonk festival with 4 bands. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Al Chesis & Bob Pelligrino. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Billy From Philly: Sunday Funday. 2 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues & BBQ w/ Danny Shafer. 2 p.m. The Dickens

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Monday, July 21

Dennis Etzel Jr. 7-8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Cartboy Goes to Camp — by L.A. Campbell. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

All Four Stars — by Tara Dairman. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tuesday, July 22 Active Minds Lecture: Sudan. 5:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

The New Art of Capturing Love — by Kathryn Hamm. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

The Fracking King — by James Browning. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Saturday, July 19 William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return — by Ian Doescher. 5 p.m. Boulder Bookstore. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Ian Doescher will be signing and talking about his book William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return at The Boulder Bookstore on Saturday, July 19.

William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return — by Ian Doescher. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch. 303-4707050.

Boulder Next Culture Writers. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Junk Tank Reading Series. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Lookaway, Lookaway — by Wilton Barnhardt. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 1628 16th St., Denver. 303-436-1070.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7-8:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. The Lowland — From Our Shelves Fiction Bookclub meeting. 7 p.m. Boulder Bookstore. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Stilwater — by Rafael de Grenade. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Wednesday, July 23 Sustainable travel around the world-— A discussion with travel writer Greg Benchwick. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Stilwater — Rocky Mountain Land Series with Rafael de Grenade. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch. 303-470-7050.

Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Brunch with David & Enion Tiller. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Longmont LGBTQA Pool Party. 7 p.m. Sunset Pool, 1900 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-684-0744.

David & Enion Tiller. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Monty Python Live (mostly). 12:30 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583.

David Williams. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Paint with Me!. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. #B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Fire In The Pines. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Rise and Shine Sunday Brunch. 10 a.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven’s 8th. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Monday, July 21

Jenn Minor. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Bluegrass Jam. 7:30 p.m. Twelve Degree Brewing, 820 Main St., Louisville, 720-638-1623.

Niya. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. Foothills Community Park, 800 Cherry Ave., Boulder.

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

Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Shawn James & The ShapeShifters. 3 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events Adobe Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Music

Prospect Eats: Big Thompson Flood. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont.

Events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. German Speaking Table. All Day. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303.

Tuesday, July 22

Boulder Market. All Day. Central Park, Boulder.

Music

LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185

Bands on the Bricks. 8 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900

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Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Boulder Timberliners Chorus. 7:30 p.m. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1680 Balsam Ave., Boulder, 303443-4151. Dustin Pittsley. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Gasoline Lollipops. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Hard Working Americans. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Kristen Andreassen & friends. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. The Prairie Scholars: Dinner Music. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-8349384.

theater Shrek the Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 6. The Tempest. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 10. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jester’s Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through July 26. Peter Pan. 11 a.m. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse,

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4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown, 970-7443747 Through Aug. 24 Shakespeare to the Death. Spark Theater, 985 Santa Fe Drive, Denver, 720-346-7396. Through Aug. 16. Gruesome Playground Injuries. Triptych Theatre, Carsen Theatre in the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through July 20. Ruby Hors-

ethief,1224 ColoThe Odd Couple. Miners Alley Playhouse, Washington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241. Through Aug. 24.

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is putting on The Merry Wives of Windsor through Aug. 9.

Soul Explosion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Events The Alphabet Club: A Weekly Queer Hosted Dance Party. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group at Meadows. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. French Speaking Table. 6:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Geeks Who Drink Trivia. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303441-4390. Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Wednesday, July 23 Music Bands on the Bricks with Fort Frances. 5:30 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder. Billy From Philly. 5 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Chicha. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Nunchuck. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Peregrine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Picnic on the Plaza with Mile High Brass Quintet. 12 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-661-1225. Something Underground. 7 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-5588. Southern Exposure. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-6518374. Trout Steak Revival. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Events Boulder Folders- Learn Origami. 1 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. July Happy Hour. 5 p.m. Sustainable Smart Home Living Learning Center, Superior. Palmer Park Run. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

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sanitas fest 2014 saturday, July 26 – 2pm

sanitas Brewing Co. – 3550 frontier ave., Boulder $8 advance/$10 day of • includes first beer and performances by West Water Outlaws and Mountain standard time CaLL nOW to book the band! • 303-819-8182 • www.hindsightclassicrock.com July 17, 2014 47

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A boy’s best friend is his cow

‘Go West’ with the timeless appeal of Buster Keaton

by Michael J. Casey

he 1925 Buster Keaton classic Go West opens, “Some people travel through life making friends wherever they go, while others — just travel through life.” When Keaton traveled, he sauntered, adorned by his flattened pork-pie hat and too-short tie. Dubbed “The Great Stone Face,” Keaton played his expressions close to the chest and let his magnificently rubber body carry the work. His aloof nature sometimes works for him, sometimes against him, but Keaton, for better or for worse, never changes. He keeps chugging along, and eventually things work out. Then he takes another header into the dirt. Sometimes he goes down hard, sometimes he falls in sections. Sometimes he falls like rubber, other times, stiff as a board. No matter how, always that same stone face. Go West, screening Wednesday, July 23 as part of The Chautauqua Silent Film Series, is a magnificent display of

Keaton and his acrobatic qualities. Seeking money and work, Keaton’s character, Friendless, sells off all his earthly possessions and heads west to a ranch in Arizona. Unfortunately, Friendless makes for a pretty lousy cowboy. He doesn’t know how to milk a cow, can’t secure a saddle to a horse and uses a lady’s garter gun as his weapon of choice. His only friend is “Brown Eyes,” a cow that loyally follows him around after he removes a rock from her hoof. The cowboys are tasked with moving the cattle from the ranch to the stockyards of Los Angeles. While in

transit, the train is hijacked, but buster!” after baby Keaton fell down a set of stairs without a peep. The tale by luck of the draw (or fluke), was likely invented by Keaton, but the Friendless — and only Friendless fact remains, Keaton really could take a — escapes with the cattle in tow. buster. He survived the abuse of vaudeThis leads to an excellent set ville and once motion pictures came piece where Keaton leads 1,000 into popularity, he found a new home cows through downtown L.A. To to fall down in and started a career in say it causes a disruption is an Hollywood. IMDB understatement. lists him with 147 This gives acting credits Keaton all the ON THE BILL: Go West, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, between the years set-up he needs Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 for endless 1917 and 1966, with Baseline Road, Boulder, amounts of a large portion of 303-442-3282. Tickets are $5 for members and children under 10, jokes, all culthem being directed all others pay $10. Go West will minating into a cre(either credited or be preceded by a Keaton short, scendo of mayhem not) by Keaton as “The Scarecrow” (1920), and both will feature musical accomas the fire departwell. Keaton was paniment from Hank Troy. ment hoses down quick to exploit the the police departsheer size of the ment (and onlookmovie screen and ers) while Friendless — dressed as kept his facial expressions to a the devil — rides Brown Eyes through minimum, no matter how dramatic the the street. You have to see it, words fall, and it made him one of the greats. simply can’t do it justice. These subtle expressions do not show Joseph Keaton was born Oct. 4, well on the small screen, but lucky for 1895 and made his vaudeville stage you, Chautauqua Auditorium is just debut three years later. He claimed that the place to experience the majesty that Harry Houdini gave him the nickname was Buster Keaton. when he exclaimed, “That was a real Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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GO WEST (1925)

Winner of Six German Film Awards, this tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. Shot in black and white, and with a jazz soundtrack, it’s a look at a city and the zeitgeist of a generation. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

In 1930s burlesque, a headliner called “the nance” was a stereotypically camp homosexual and master of comic double entendre — usually played by a straight man. Tony Award winner Nathan Lane was nominated for a Tony for his portrayal of Chauncey Miles, a homosexual “nance” at a time when it was easy to play gay and dangerous to be gay. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater

Silent film starring Buster Keaton and featuring live musical accompaniment by Hank Troy, piano. See full review above.

WORLD CIRCUS

Following five circus acts from around the world to the “Academy Awards” of circus competitions, the Monte Carlo Circus Festival, this family-friendly film reveals the spectacular life, history and culture inside a world that we usually just see on the surface. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater

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FED UP For the past 30 years, everything we thought we knew about food and exercise is dead wrong. This is the film the food industry doesn’t want you to see. From Katie Couric and Laurie David, this may change the way you eat forever. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater

Also featured: “The Scarecrow” starring Buster Keaton, a mind-boggling mechanical comedy following two roommates vying for the attention of a young lady. At Chautauqua. STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS See full review on page 49. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater Respond: letters@ boulderweekly.

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e don’t take enough time to stop and look around. That’s clear. We’re missing a lot of the good stuff — the artistic patterning in our architecture, the glint of airplanes in sunlight, the blur of a seagull’s wings against a gray sky, the flicker and shine of our own street lights. And while the situation is admittedly dire for a 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome lost on the subway, he’s catching the good stuff. He’s watching the shoes of passers-by and openly staring at the break dancers taking over the central aisle of his train instead of deliberately turning away in hopes of sparing a dollar or two. That’s just one among the many points of social commentary — among them, jabs at public education, socioeconomic splits, the American immigration system — laced into the quietly unfolding Stand Clear of the Closing Doors. The film tells the story of Ricky, a teenage boy on the autism spectrum who can’t remember to lift the toilet seat or eat without someone there to remind him, who gets lost in the bowels of New York City’s train system after his sister fails to pick him up after school. His mother, Mariana, hesitates to go to the police for help with her missing son out of concern that they’ll ask her or her husband for immigration papers they don’t have. Instead, she searches for him, mostly by herself, in his favorite places — Rockaway Beach near their apartment in Queens and the shoe store where he gets enthralled in the study of the fabric and stitching and shape of various shoes for sale. Exploring the world through the Boulder Weekly

eyes of someone on the autism spectrum lets the film’s director, Sam Fleischner, delve into those overlooked moments of artistry in our daily lives. He works with natural lighting, which colors the film in the gritty, gray palette of New York City at the tail end of autumn, and then, when it intrudes three-quarters of the way through shooting, Hurricane Sandy becomes a part of the film as well. The storm adds a layer of dread that the film would otherwise have missed. Even if Ricky doesn’t fall victim to some form of violence in his prolonged travels through New York’s boroughs and manages to remember to drink enough water and eat enough in the days he’s missing to keep himself alive, there’s worry over what might befall him if he’s not home by the time the storm hits and floods both streets and subway tunnels. Ricky, played by Jesus SanchezVelez, an untrained actor with Asperger’s, sets the artistic tone for the story. It’s a rare glimpse into worlds so many of us miss — those of a person on the autistic spectrum, of the mother of an autistic child, and of an undocumented immigrant desperate to do the best for her son. Ricky spends most of the film blankly observing the tangle of city life as seen from one of its main modes of transport, leaving his mother, Mariana, played beautifully by Andrea Suarez Paz, to put a face on the emotions that run through the film. Paz’s portrayal would be compelling among any ensemble, but against the backdrop of a sulky teenage daughter and a mostly absent husband, she’s wholly consuming. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ummer is more than here — it’s hangover. Be sure you have cash on hand kicking hard. That means it’s because they don’t take credit cards. the perfect time to enjoy the Illegal Pete’s: Open Thursday warm evenings with some extra- through Saturday until 2:30 a.m., which curricular activities. But let’s be includes not only their bar, but also the honest: Boulder isn’t exactly a late-night outside patio as a place to take a load off bumping city. However, with thousands and enjoy some tacos, salsa and tortillas. of college students and a smattering of If you’re on The Hill you can drop in bars that close at 2 their College Susan France a.m., there are Avenue location or options for late night if you’re downtown food even if we think at a bar, pop by the the supply is miniPearl and 15th mal. We’ve rounded Street location for up the best latesome late night night grub around grub that’s afforddowntown Boulder able and quick. and our only requireOld Chicago: ment was that they Yes, it’s a chain. served food until Old Chicago has midnight or later. been open on Pearl “Late night” indeed. Streetus since 1976 Connect with The Gyro Stand: At the top of Pearl and is open until 2 a.m., serving bar food Street and 11th you can’t miss the waft staples like sandwiches, salads and burgof gyros, grilled cheese and burgers from ers. They also start their late night happy this little stand on wheels that parks on hour Sunday through Thursday from 10 the Pearl Street bricks in front of Old p.m. to midnight. Connect with us Chicago. They’re open Tuesday through Pearl Street Pub: They offer food Saturday, from 10 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. until 1:30 a.m. with the likes of hamAlthough there’s almost always a line, burgers, fried mac and cheese, buffalo they move fast, the food is cheap (under chicken wings and sliders out of their $10) and they supply just the right see HANGOVER KILLERS Page 52 amount of grease to help that looming

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dark and dingy bar. If you’re lucky and Boulder’s greasiest, southern fried food it’s your 21st birthday, don’t forget to like chicken wings with nine wing sauckiss the large buffalo head on the wall es to choose from, mac and cheese by the entrance. wedges, jalapeno poppers, cheesy nachBramble & Hare: If you want os and more. They also deliver late something a little less stumble-innight if that’s more your bag. drunk-greasy-food-style, try the sister Boulder Baked: If you’re looking restaurant to the famed Black Cat for something on the sweeter side to Bistro. It is a late night favorite with round out the evening, head to Boulder farm-to-table fare being available until Baked for their fresh-out-of-the-oven, 1:30 a.m. daily. A service industry soft cookies alongside a glass of milk. favorite after shifts, you can find a seaThe local, family-owned bakery aims sonal variety of for the evening Susan France a-la-carte specialcrowd, as they only ties that are farm open at 4 p.m. and fresh like lentil fritare open until ters with spicy midnight. They aioli, farm greens serve cake, pie, with beets and walmilkshakes, cupnuts, or mac and cakes, brownies cheese with bacon. and even some Shine savory items like Restaurant & sandwiches and Gathering Place: soup. If you have Shine isn’t open an allergy, they late during the also cater their week, but Friday desserts to be through Saturday it available in vegan has a late night and gluten-free food menu that’s options. available until 1 Cosmo’s Abo’s Pizza man Tyler Porritt Pizza: There are a.m. It includes two Cosmo’s locasmall bites like tions in Boulder, sliders or their proand both are open until 2 a.m. daily. biotic, fermented slaw plate from the Their New York-style slices often warhappy hour menu. They even serve desrant a line out the door. You can choose sert late night, which means it’s probably the only guaranteed gluten-free des- from the made-to-order slices, order an entire pie, or try their calzones and sert you can find this late at night in breadsticks. Boulder. Pizza Calore: Open Thursday Mountain Sun: Yes, it’s known for through Saturday until 2:30 a.m., Pizza the beer, but Mountain Sun is open Calore serves New York-style pizza by until 1 a.m. daily and serves a full food the slice, along with calzones, sandmenu until late. You can find the likes wiches and dessert. of burgers, fries and salads to satiate Abo’s Pizza: After the city’s teetotaler your palate at this Boulder iconic resrezoning, Abo’s is the rare Hill joint that taurant and brew-pub. When “late” is still open late. It serves pizza, calzones, comes, then their housemade brews are stromboli and salads until 1 a.m. available in growlers to-go. Jalino’s Pizza: Located at Pita Pit: Across from Boulder High Arapahoe and 17th, near Boulder High School on Arapahoe and 15th, you can school, Jalino’s is open until midnight indulge in warm stuffed pita or falafel. on weeknights, and until 2 a.m. on Open until midnight Sunday through Friday and Saturday. They’ve been conThursday, they’re open even later until 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and they sistently serving their gourmet pizzas, pasta, sandwiches and homemade desalso deliver. serts since opening their doors in 1986. Snarfburger: Not far from Boulder Yellow Deli: Weekends are no good High School on Arapahoe and 20th is here, as Yellow Deli — Boulder’s resthe little shack that houses Snarfburger. It serves simple shakes, fries and burgers. taurant that most closely resembles a Hobbit-hole — is closed. But the rest The menu is all under $10 and they’re of the week it’s open 24 hours, serving open until Midnight on weeknights and sandwiches, matte and tea at Pearl and 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. 8th Street. Though there is that small South Mouth Wings: Located at Arapahoe and Broadway, this gloriously matter of it sort of being a religious cult called the Twelve Tribes ... divey little wing-joint is open daily Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. offering perhaps 52 July 17, 2014

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JUL-IPA FESTIVAL BENEFITS SAFEHOUSE WITH BREWERS AND BBQ

Summer in all its glory will be taking place at the Millennium Harvest House gardens this Saturday, July 19 from 1-5 p.m. when music, barbecue smoke in the air, and tipsy patrons converge at the second annual JulIPA Festival. Put on by the West End Tavern, 35 national breweries (mostly from Colorado) will pitch tents to serve their “best and baddest” India Pale Ales. The West End Tavern will be serving smoked chicken, pork, brisket, ribs, beans and more. There will be live music, a Wing King Challenge — featured on Man v. Food where participants try to eat 50 wings in 30 minutes — and a $5 raffle to win tickets for the Great American Beer Festival, a Phish concert and a condo stay in Utah among others. Tickets are $35 (includes a commemorative glass and samples from all breweries) and 100 percent of the proceeds go to Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, a human rights organization committed to ending interpersonal violence. To purchase tickets (there are $8 designated driver tickets as well) visit www.thewestendtavern.com. Registration ends Friday, July 18. — Maalikah Hartley

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proud of during 10 pasta dishes from around the years of business is world, has recently launched providing insura catering program. ance for the staff The catering program since year one. includes buffet-style meals Fans who sent comprised of two main in food submisentrées, including favorites sions will automatlike Penne Rosa to Indonesian ically be entered Peanut Sauté, two sides chointo a prize drawsen from a wide selection of Live music? IPAs from 35 national breweries? A ing including a salads or the cheesy garlic chance to competitively eat chicken wings? four-course dinner bread, and a dessert where West End Tavern’s Jul-IPA Festival has it all. for two at Frasca, you can either mix and a set of cookmatch or go for one single books from past guest chefs or a mixed case item, like the Snoodledoodle cookies. of Scarpetta wine. Frasca is located at 1738 Catering serves groups of 20 to 200 peoPearl Street. For more information go to ple. Price per head is $12 and at pickup www.frascafoodandwine.com. includes chafing dishes and fuel to keep the — Maalikah Hartley entrées warm, utensils, plates and napkins. To create a customized menu (including dietary preferences) call your local Noodles and PMG WINE BAR TO REPLACE BEEHIVE Company. A 24-hour notice is required and RESTAURANT delivery is available at select locations. Beehive, the farm-to-table restaurant that — Maalikah Hartley opened nearly two years ago at 2018 10th St. (behind Pasta Jays and Sushi Tora), has FRASCA FOOD AND WINE CELEBRATES 10 closed its doors. Now, the prime spot is makYEARS WITH CUSTOMER-DRIVEN MENU ing room for PMG; a wine bar and restaurant During Frasca’s 10-year-anniversary week, with a tentative opening date of Aug. 1. Aug. 4-9, the restaurant will provide a special PMG Owner and Boulder native Emily customer-curated menu of “greatest hits” to Gold says she is excited to open a restaurant be served a la carte. in the community she loves and that the The fine dining Italian restaurant that has food will be French- and Italian-inspired, a seasonal menu and gets its inspiration from made simply with fresh, local ingredients, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, asked its loyal and the wide variety of international wines patrons to submit their favorite dishes by July will be “delicious and fun” at affordable pric9. Some of the items to make the specialty es. menu (which will have three choices per “Basically, we want to take away the course) are favorites like the shaved pork intimidation factor and create a space and cherries or peaches and the peanut where everyone is invited to drink tasty botbutter cup dessert. tles, away from fine dining and regardless of Frasca Partner and Master Sommelier how much they know,” Gold says. Bobby Stuckey said the thing he is most — Maalikah Hartley

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Afternoon tea at The Huckleberry is a nice way to simmer down by Josh Gross

ust one thing I want to know: how come I have to be Mr. Pink?” my co-worker Caitlin Rockett asked on our way to The Huckleberry in old town Louisville. But we weren’t headed there to pull a Reservoir Dogs; we were going to have a tea party. Any good Boulder County bruncher should know The Huckleberry. Its small-town charm and bevy The Huckleberry of baked goods 700 Main St., are just what the Louisville heart-doctor 303-666-8020 ordered you to avoid. But for all the quaintness of its converted house location and café menu, there’s a touch of old world aristocracy mixed in. The Huckleberry offers a specially made afternoon tea course served all fancy-like, provided you give them 24-hours notice and pony up the princely sum of $18.95 per person. Discovering it on the menu is how my co-workers and I ended up skipping out of the office to have a delightful afternoon away from the bleeps and bloops of the office and the “20 Pictures of Cats Eating Donuts That Will Immediately Bring on World

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Peace” headlines of the Internet. Originally we had planned Kentucky Derby hats and white suits for a photo op, but the forces of laundry conspired against us. Things weren’t quite ready when we arrived, but after several minutes we were led to a semi-private walled off area in the middle of the restaurant, where we were quickly given a dipping tray of marmalade, lemon curd and Devonshire Cream. “That stuff is amazing,” the server said, pointing at the Devonshire Cream. For the afternoon tea, The Huckleberry prepares a three-tiered platter of delights, including cucumber sandwiches, puff pastries, chocolate-covered strawberries, mini-scones and more. Also, obviously, tea. The Huckleberry has several dozen teas to choose from, most being topshelf blends, and each coming in their own pot with a removable basket so the tea doesn’t oversteep and become bitter.

We were also given raw sugar cubes and honey. The sandwiches that comprised the bottom level of the tea-tower, were good, light snacks, but nothing special. The pastries and sweets were another matter altogether. A savory puff had a wonderfully flaky texture, and the scones were every

bit as fantastic dipped in the Devonshire Cream as our server had alleged. But the cake was taken by a flourless torte — dense chocolate balls of it. Rich and sweet, and oddly well balanced with the subtleties of the various teas. But as tasty as the spread was, the real bonus actually had very little to do with the food. It would have been easy enough to scarf down the chow and scribble something about “subtle blackberry notes.” But taking an afternoon casually, and enjoying the excess of the presentation was, as corny as it may sound, the rare opportunity to slow the fudge down, parlay with your team and drink some mufuggin’ tea. That alone is worth the high sticker price. And maybe even being called Mr. Pink. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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“I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on,” says satirical news commentator Jon Stewart. That’s a healthy attitude. To do his work, he needs a never-ending supply of stories about people doing crazy, corrupt, and hypocritical things. I’m sure this subject matter makes him sad and angry. But it also stimulates him to come up with funny ideas that entertain and educate his audience — and earns him a very good income. I invite you to try his approach, Aries. Have faith that the absurdity you experience can be used to your advantage.

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While at a cafe, I overheard two people at the next table talking about astrology. “I think the problem-solvers of the zodiac are Cancers and Capricorns,” said a young, moonfaced woman. “Agreed,” said her companion, an older woman with chiseled features. “And the problem-creators are Scorpios and Geminis.” I couldn’t help myself: I had to insert myself into their conversation so as to defend you. Leaning over toward their table, I said, “Speaking as a professional astrologer, I’ve got to say that right now Geminis are at least temporarily the zodiac’s best problem-solvers. Give them a chance to change your minds.” The women laughed, and moon-face said, “You must be a Gemini.” “No,” I replied. “But I’m on a crusade to help Geminis shift their reputations.”

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Mozart debuted his now-famous opera Don Giovanni in Prague on October 29, 1787. It was a major production, featuring an orchestra, a chorus, and eight main singers. Yet the composer didn’t finish writing the opera’s overture until less than 24 hours before the show. Are you cooking up a similar scenario, Cancerian? I suspect that sometime in the next two weeks you will complete a breakthrough with an inspired, last-minute effort. And the final part of your work may well be its “overture;” the first part will arrive last. (P.S.: Mozart’s Don Giovanni was well-received, and I expect your offering will be, too.)

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“We must learn to bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains,” says writer Nikki Giovanni. That will be apt advice for you to keep in mind during the coming months, Leo. You may think I’m perverse for suggesting such a thing. Compared to how demanding it was to manage the suffering you experienced in late 2013 and earlier this year, you might assume it will be simple to deal with the ease and awakening that are heading your way. But I’d like you to consider the possibility that these blessings will bring their own challenges. For example, you may need to surrender inconveniences and hardships you have gotten used to, almost comfortable with. It’s conceivable you will have to divest yourself of habits that made sense when you were struggling, but are now becoming counterproductive.

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Kris Kristofferson is in the Country Music Hall of Fame now, but it took a while for him to launch his career. One of his big breaks came at age 29 when he was sweeping floors at a recording studio in Nashville. He managed to meet superstar Johnny Cash, who was working there on an album. A few years later, Kristofferson boldly landed a helicopter in Cash’s yard to deliver his demo tape. That prompted Cash to get him a breakthrough gig performing at the Newport Folk Festival. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were able to further your goals with a similar sequence, Libra: luck that puts you in the right place at the right time, followed by some brazen yet charming acts of self-promotion.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

In her poem “Looking Back,” Sarah Brown Weitzman writes that she keeps “trying to understand / how I fell / so short of what I intended / to do with my life.” Is there a chance that 30 years from now you might say something similar, Scorpio? If so, take action to ensure that outcome doesn’t come to pass. Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the next ten months will be a favorable time to get yourself on track to fulfill your life’s most important goals. Take full advantage!

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

“There is no such thing as a failed experiment,” said author and inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s the spirit I advise you to bring to your own explorations in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Your task is to try out different possibilities to see where they might lead. Don’t be attached to one conclusion or another. Be free of the drive to be proven right. Instead, seek the truth in whatever strange shape it reveals itself. Be eager to learn what you didn’t even realize you needed to know.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

Architects in ancient Rome used concrete to create many durable structures, some of which are still standing. But the recipe for how to make concrete was forgotten for more than a thousand years after the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century. A British engineer finally rediscovered the formula in 1756, and today concrete is a prime component in many highways, dams, bridges, and buildings. I foresee a similar story unfolding in your life, Capricorn. A valuable secret that you once knew but then lost is on the verge of resurfacing. Be alert for it.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Beginning in 1798, European cartographers who drew maps of West Africa included the Mountains of Kong, a range of peaks that extended more than a thousand miles east and west. It was 90 years before the French explorer Louis Gustave Binger realized that there were no such mountains. All the maps had been wrong, based on faulty information. Binger is known to history as the man who undiscovered the Mountains of Kong. I’m appointing him to be your role model in the coming weeks, Aquarius. May he inspire you to expose long-running delusions, strip away entrenched falsehoods, and restore the simple, shining truths.

PISCES

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In the simplest, calmest of times, there are two sides to every story. On some occasions, however, the bare minimum is three or more sides. Like now. And that can generate quite a ruckus. Even people who are normally pretty harmonious may slip into conflict. Fortunately for all concerned, you are currently at the peak of your power to be a unifying force at the hub of the bubbling hubbub. You can be a weaver who takes threads from each of the tales and spins them into a narrative with which everyone can abide. I love it when that happens! For now, your emotional intelligence is the key to collaborative creativity and group solidarity.

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Dear Dan: I have two questions. 1. Recently, I went to a bar with my brother and encountered a friend from high school. My brother told me that, toward the end of the night, my friend followed him into the bathroom and made a drunken pass at him (which apparently involved a clumsy grab at his penis). My brother has no reason to lie about the incident. My inclination is to ignore the issue. If my friend is closeted or bi-curious, I feel like it isn’t my place to force the issue and I should respect his privacy. Advice? 2. My bisexual girlfriend wants to take me to a gay bar. I’m not worried about being hit on, but I feel like hanging out at a gay club would be somewhat dishonest and touristy. Is my apprehension warranted? —Basic Respect Offered Sincerely

Dear NHG: Your boyfriend has been “with” his dog for nine years, NHG, and he’s been with you for only seven months. Considering his rocky track record with other human females — married and divorced three times — it’s understandable that he might be less self-conscious about showing affection for his dependable old dog than for his brand-new girlfriend. You don’t mention what he’s doing for his dog that he doesn’t do for you (table scraps? Belly rubs? Shock collars?), NHG, but the longer you “wait around,” the more demonstrably affectionate your boyfriend is likely to become. But I can’t imagine he’ll want you around at all if you continue to waste time and energy being jealous of his dog.

Dear BROS: 1. If your drunken, closeted friend had shown some respect, BROS, and managed to make a drunken-but-respectful pass at your brother, then I could endorse respecting your friend’s privacy in turn. But your friend cornered your brother in a toilet and grabbed his cock. That’s not okay, and someone needs to make it clear to your friend that there are consequences for behaving like that — outing himself to you as gay or bi and an asshole was the consequence this time, BROS, but someone needs to tell him that he could wind up assaulted and/or facing sexual-assault charges if the drunken cock-grabbing continues. 2. Most gay men don’t mind seeing girls with their straight boyfriends in gay dance/party bars and clubs, BROS, but girls and unavailable/apprehensive straight boys ruin the vibe in darker, sleazier gay pickup joints. So stick to the party palaces (dance floors and drag shows), avoid the pickup joints (hard rock and trough urinals), and you’ll be fine.

Dear Dan: My fiancé and I recently shared some kinks and are now trying to realize each other’s fantasies, but we’re having trouble making one of his happen: He wants to see me oiled up and glistening. Do you have any idea what we ought to be using to get a glossy, oiled-up look that lasts? On a more general note, is there a name for the kink for glossy, formfitting things? He’d also like to see me in a super-shiny catsuit made of latex, leaving nothing to the imagination. —Wants To Shine P.S. A latex catsuit is out because we’re poor students and can’t afford one!

Dear Dan: I suspect my boyfriend of seven months loves his 9-year-old dog more than me. I am 54 and divorced twice. He is 57 and has been divorced three times. I am jealous of the way he treats and talks to his dog. I have even told him so. Is it worth my time and energy to wait around for my boyfriend to start treating me better? —Neglected Human Girlfriend Boulder Weekly

Dear WTS: Bodybuilders grease themselves up with baby oil — which gets all over everything and requires frequent reapplication. But there’s a less messy way to achieve the supershiny look that turns your boyfriend on: Google “shiny zentai suit” and “metallic zentai suit,” and you’ll find dozens of websites that sell catsuits made out of Lycra, not latex, which are easier to put on than latex catsuits, far easier to clean, and a hell of a lot cheaper. At Zentaizone.com, just one of many sites, you’ll find dozens of different zentai suits for less than $50, with some less than $25. Even a poor student could afford a couple of those. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Send questions for Dan to mail@ savagelove.net and follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage.

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he state of Washington started selling recreational cannabis last week, producing many of the same headlines that dominated the first few weeks of January sales here in Colorado. There are certainly similarities in the way the two states have approached legalization, but each has staked out its own direction, and it will be interesting to see how each fares as times goes by. Both states allow adults over 21 years of age to purchase and possess an ounce of cannabis for personal use subject to regulation, licensing and taxation. Washington doesn’t allow residential cultivation, while Colorado allows adults to grow up to six unlicensed plants, although medical patients can grow their own in both states. Washington, unlike Colorado, doesn’t allow adults to “gift” or transfer up to an ounce of cannabis to any other adult as long as no money changes hands. Both have adopted the same DUI law standard, that anyone with a blood limit of five nanograms of THC shall be considered impaired. Although the Colorado version allows a defense that the person wasn’t impaired at that level. Both states had medical cannabis laws in place before the 2012 elections that legalized it, and each built upon its own medical framework. Tax structures are similar. Washington levies a 25 percent excise tax on producers when they sell to retailers and another 25 percent on retail consumers, plus sales and local taxes. Colorado imposed a 15 percent excise tax and 10 percent sales tax on top of the state’s sales tax, and allows cities and counties to impose their own taxes over that. (Boulder voters, for instance, approved a 5 percent excise tax and 3.5 percent sales tax on top of state taxes.)

Retail sales in Colorado are supervised by the Marijuana Enforcement Division of the Department of Revenue. Washington’s market is overseen by the Washington State Liquor Control Board. Colorado began with a vertical integration market approach based around its medical marijuana rules, with the entire supply chain — production, processing and retail — operated by the same entity. That ended on June 30, the same day the state began accepting applications from new businesses beyond the original medical licenseholders who were allowed to apply beginning last year. Those applications will begin being processed within 90 days, and competition should become even more intense as those businesses open. Perhaps the biggest difference is that Washington is trying to control the amount of cannabis that can be grown and produced each year, the rationale being that it will help keep extra product from being moved to other states or sold on the black market. Colorado basically began its retail market by offering retail licenses to existing medical businesses, while, in essence, Washington started over. Currently, Washington’s production is capped at 80 tons of product, 40 tons for usable marijuana and 40 tons for other products like tinctures, edibles and oil. The state also limits the amount of space that can be used to grow recreational cannabis. We should see soon if that number holds for Washington’s 6.9 million residents. A new study, “Market Size and Demand for Marijuana in Colorado,” conducted by the Marijuana Policy Group for the Marijuana Enforcement Division, suggests that those numbers might fall short of Washington users. The study is a collaborative effort between the

University of Colorado Boulder Business Research Division and BBC Research & Consulting in Denver. It relied on surveys, state demographics and estimated marijuana usage patterns in order to determine the estimated market size in Colorado, so the researchers admit up front that the true size of Colorado’s market may be smaller or larger than their estimates. But they mark the potential range for total adult marijuana demand, including visitors, at between 104.2 and 157.9 metric tons this year. That’s a pretty wide gap, but even at the low end is much higher than the Washington numbers. The Marijuana Policy Group Report includes some other fascinating stats. It estimates there are about 485,000 regular adult users in Colorado, which represents 13 percent of the 2014 adult population in Colorado. Another 201,000 adults (3.8 percent of the state population) reported using marijuana within the past year. And though this report only considers adults, it notes that another 184,000 residents under 21 reported past-year use, of which 59,000 reported past-month use. The product estimates are 31 percent higher than a recent Department of Revenue assessment, 89 percent higher than a study by the Colorado Futures Center and 111 percent higher than an older study by the Colorado Center for Law and Policy. “The main difference is caused by much heavier dosage amounts consumed by the state’s ‘heavy user’ population — those who consume marijuana on a daily basis,” the report says. Those daily users drive almost 70 percent of total marijuana demand, and the prevalence of daily users in Colorado is higher than the national average. The tourist market is strong, accounting for about 20 percent of the total sales. However, most of those tourist sales are taking place in two areas. Outof-state visitors currently represent about 44 percent of Denver metro-area retail sales and, not surprisingly, about 90 percent of retail sales in mountain communities reporting, which includes Summit, San Miguel, Clear Creek and Gilpin counties. Maybe those numbers will begin to attract the tourist industry’s attention. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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