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Ballot initiatives protect communities from fracking
So much has been in the news lately about oil and gas development issues. Aside from its impact on water, air, wildlife, health, danger of earthquakes, etc., we sometimes forget the nuisance factor. Oil and gas development used to be confined to
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ties and farmlands into major industrial areas due to all this activity. New wells are being established constantly. In the July 17 issue of the Daily Camera, an article states that 13 new fracking wells were unanimously approved by Erie’s Planning
the American economy is back, baby — all of the lost jobs have been recovered! What? You say you don’t feel “recovered”? Well, it’s true that the U.S. population has kept growing since the crash, so about 15 million more working-age people have entered the job market, meaning America still has millions more people looking for work than it has jobs. And it’s true that long-term unemployment is a growing crisis, especially for middle-aged job seekers who’ve gone one, two, or more years without even getting an interview, much less an offer — so they’ve dropped out of the market and are not counted as unemployed. Also, millions of young people are squeezed out of this so-called recovery — the effective unemployment rate for 18-29 year olds is above 15 percent, more than double the national rate of 6.3 percent. But take heart, people, for economists are telling us that full employment may be right around the corner. Is that
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remote, sparsely populated areas. Now it is cropping up everywhere. Because of horizontal drilling and fracking operations, shale formations can be reached almost anywhere. Do we really want this ongoing, never-ending activity in our own back yards? What about the lights, noise, vibrations and odors? We are turning our communi-
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xcellent news, people. Let me put it to you as a number: 8.7 million. That’s how many new jobs the American economy has generated since the “Great Recession” officially ended in 2009 — and it also happens to be the number of jobs that were lost because of that recession. Don’t you see? You can break out the champagne, for
because Congress is finally going to pass a national jobs program to get America working again? Or, could it be that corporate chieftains are going to bring home some of the trillions of dollars they’ve stashed in offshore tax havens to invest in new products and other jobcreating initiatives here in the USA? No, no — don’t be silly. Economists are upbeat because they’ve decided to redefine “full” employment by — hocus pocus! — simply declaring that having 6 percent of our people out of work is acceptable as the new normal. Wow — and you thought American ingenuity was dead. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. July 24, 2014 7
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“underground Gaza.” How is it then that that there aren’t any civilian bomb shelters in Gaza? Hamas clearly has both the resources and the engineering expertise to build civilian bomb shelters, but it hasn’t. Apart from the military bunkers used by Hamas fighters and notables, there are no bomb shelters in Gaza. You would think that if Hamas was going to pick a fight with the Israelis by shooting rockets into Israel — more than 8,000 since 2006 and counting — that it would provide Gaza’s civilians (43 percent of whom are children aged 14 or younger) with the minimum measure of safety a bomb shelter affords from the inevitable retaliation. Especially in a community like Shejaiya (the community that was the scene of a bloody battle between the Israeli Army and Hamas fighters on Sunday). Hamas had turned it into a latter day fire-base by embedding its rocket-launching sites and military infrastructure warp and woof through its neighborhoods. And especially if Hamas is going to demand that the civilian population hangs around to serve as human shields when the shooting starts — as it did when Israel warned the residents of Shejaiya and other Gaza communities to evacuate ahead of its ground attack. It would be wrong to say Hamas didn’t build shelters for Gaza’s civilians see DANISH PLAN Page 12
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gives me goose bumps the way that only good fiction can. For some reason, Bartels forgot to mention the secret tattoos that fracktivists use to recognize one another or their blood-drinking ceremonies where they swear an oath to destroy all democrats who oppose their views. If I didn’t know better I’d swear this transparent hit job on people who oppose fracking was the work of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, but how could that be? It’s not like COGA can get their spin printed as news in a major metro newspaper owned by a hedge fund just because their industry is giving that paper a bunch of money. If those opposed to drilling and fracking in their neighborhoods are the Tea Party of the Left as the industry… I mean Denver Post would have you believe, then where were the rabid primary candidates knocking poor Governor Hickenlooper and Senator Udall out of the race leaving the door wide open for Republicans? Where are the ads being run by the Tea Party of the Left trying to get Hick and Udall and Polis beaten in November? You don’t see them because they don’t exist. There’s a big difference between being the Tea Party of the Left and being pissed off because your choice for governor seems to boil down to two major party candidates fighting for the privilege of being the oil and gas industry’s chief lap dog. And that’s true for Democrats and Republicans. That’s right Denver Post, breaking news: A good many people who support local control over where the oil and gas industry gets to drill and frack in their towns are Republicans and therefore, a kind of poor fit for your new made-up title of Tea Party of the Left. Do you really think that a fringe left group could have won bans and moritoriums on fracking in towns like Broomfield, Lafayette and Longmont without more than a few Republican votes? Let’s be honest, if Hickenlooper were actually to lose to Bob Beauprez, which isn’t likely to happen, it would be because he has been a lousy governor with the exception of a few of his positions on certain social issues. A trained cockatoo could have run the state better, assuming Beauprez didn’t train the cockatoo. See, that’s sort of an endorsement. A Hickenlooper loss will be on his head alone, not because activists who want more local control over where drilling and fracking occur are imploding the Democratic party. Same goes for Udall. The guy takes Boulder Weekly
dyertimes a ton of money from the oil and gas industry, including the gas pipeline sector, and then he pushes a bill to allow exports of natural gas that all but insures that 40 states, including Colorado, will get the living hell drilled and fracked out of them over the next few years. People who actually examine the research instead of watching TV commercials understand that the exporting of gas may well be the fuse that ignites the most destructive bomb to ever hit our environment. Such exports will cause our own gas prices to soar as well as increasing the prices of our consumer goods. The only beneficiaries of this short-sighted export madness are the oil and gas companies and the politicians who take their money. So it only makes sense that Udall is struggling to regain the support of some of his better-educated constituents. But like Hick, Udall has done some good things that will be remembered this fall. Will Democrats who oppose fracking vote for Cory Gardner because Udall was lame on their issue? Of course not, Gardner has the same corporate overseers in the oil and gas industry, pushed the same gas export bill and would add to his list of dumbassness a desire to push women’s rights back into the dark ages. Like Hickenlooper, if Udall comes up short he has only his own record to blame. What the Denver Post and apparently the oil and gas industry don’t seem to understand is that the antifracking movement stopped being solely about a dangerous chemical process for extracting hydrocarbons from shale at least 18 months ago. It has evolved into a widespread movement that, at its core, believes that people have the right to protect themselves and their loved ones and their communities from corporations who would risk their health, their quality of life, their home values and the environment for nothing more important than a little more profit. These people are not stupid or the one-dimensional zealots the Post story would lead you to believe. They have not “sworn to principles” that require them to sink politicians of this party or that. They are simply people looking for elected leaders who can pull the corporate influence out of their ears long enough to listen and do the right thing. There is a seed change taking place Boulder Weekly
within the Colorado electorate and in other places around the country where the oil and gas industry and other polluters have gone too far. It’s similar to what occurred in the early 1970s, a time of environmental activism that culminated in the formation of the EPA, and the bipartisan creation of much of the legislation that now protects our environment including the Clean Air and
Clean Water acts, laws that the oil industry now, at least partially, gets around thanks to decades of lobbying with checkbook in hand. It’s important for people to see the Denver Post’s made-up scenario — wherein Republicans will conquer the political world unless concerned Colorado citizens back off and give the oil and gas industry everything it wants
— for what it is; just the latest scare tactic brought to you by the oil and gas industry and designed to cause divisions among the Democrats, Republicans and independents who want more local control of the industry’s ability to drill, frack and otherwise contaminate and destroy the property values of their communities. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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attach much value to the lives of individual Muslims living under its control or to individual human life generally. It does not view the lives of ordinary Gazans as valuable human capital with which it can build a nation state or a caliphate for that matter. It views them as an expendable and endlessly replenishable resource, useful as a source of human shields and human bombs — and of macabre photo-ops for a voyeuristic press — but not worth protecting. Hamas is a hell of a problem for Israel, but at the end of the day I suspect it will be a far larger and far more dangerous problem for Islam. That is because Hamas — and Islamic Jihad, and ISIS, and al Qaida, and the rest — are turning Islam into a death cult, much as Japanese militants turned Shinto into a death cult prior to World War II. Japan was nearly incinerated as a result. But the larger danger Hamas poses for Islam is more subtle. Unlike Shinto, Islam is a proselytizing religion. It wants to spread the faith throughout the world. Which is why the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims might want to ask themselves this question: Does the conduct of Hamas and other groups that have turned Islam into a death cult make the world’s 5.6 billion non-believers more likely or less likely to want to become Muslims? Just asking. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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Commission. It is time to make our voices heard if we think enough is enough. Now that Governor Hickenlooper has abandoned efforts to get bipartisan legislation on local control passed by a special session, we can support ballot initiatives 88 and 89. Initiative 88 mandates drillings rigs to be set back 2000 feet from homes as opposed to the current setback of only 500 feet. Initiative 89 would add an environmental bill of rights to the state constitution, allowing communities to pass laws that are more protective when compared to state laws. Both initiatives need many more signatures to make it on the ballot. Both initiates will need all our support if we want what is best for our communities. Please do your part by signing the petition to get these initiatives on the November ballot and please pass the word on to your friends. Ilse Bleck/Boulder
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I was so encouraged to read that negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have been extended for another four months. This will help us continue to move further away from a nuclear-armed Iran and the risk of another U.S. war in the Middle East. I hope that Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet and Representative Jared Polis will now speak out publicly in support of diplomacy. New sanctions or other saber-rattling measures could undermine the progress our diplomats have made toward a multi-year agreement with Iran. The Friends Committee on National Legislation has more information on how Congress can support a peaceful resolution of the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program at: fcnl.org/iran. Sara Avery/Lafayette Boulder Weekly
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In Boulder, Longmont, Louisville and Lafayette, oil trains are running directly through or adjacent to densely populated neighborhoods that are now at risk as a result. This photo shows the tracks in Old Town Longmont.
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he library and the post office. A dozen schools. Hundreds of homes. Parks. Every brewery (oh god). Ten gas stations. The wastewater treatment facility. It can all go up in flames at any minute — and that’s just in Longmont. All you’ll hear is a whistle and a boom. The number of trains carrying crude oil and other volatile materials through Boulder County is increasing, and with it comes the increased risk of a catastrophic explosion — from derailments, from outdated storage tanks and from increased rail traffic. Perhaps the most startling fact is this: The amount of crude oil on U.S. railways has increased 3,500 percent in the last five years — from 325 million gallons in 2009 to 12 billion gallons in 2013. This is because there is more crude oil to ship out of the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota and — more relevant to Boulder County — the Niobrara shale formation in northern Colorado and Wyoming. In order to meet this demand, railroads and oil distributors are using outdated tank cars (at least more than half of all oil is shipped in these cars) that are not built to carry the more volatile oil that is found in the region and that can explode — and have exploded — from simply overheating. 14 July 24, 2014
And yet railroad companies are not required to tell citizens, local or state governments the contents of their cars. It is proclaimed both a matter of national security and industry competitive secrets. “Railroads are certainly a private industry,” says Greg Stasinos, of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “That’s something
that they can keep within their rights” — even though those same trains are now affecting a much greater area than the rails they ride on. In the last 12 months alone, nine trains carrying crude oil derailed or exploded in the U.S. and Canada, including a May 10 derailment outside of Greeley that spilled 65,000 gallons of oil. The worst incident by far was the
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July 6, 2013 derailment in LacMégantic, Quebec. An unattended 72-car freight train carrying Bakken oil ran loose and exploded in the small town’s center. Forty-two people were killed and half the town’s buildings were destroyed. In the U.S., a 90-car train derailed in western Alabama last November, shooting flames 300 feet into the sky and emptying nearly all of its 2.9 million gallons of crude oil into a swamp. The area is still being cleaned. Fortunately, most of those crashes occurred in unpopulated areas — the vast majority of track is located outside of city centers. However, increased output from the nearby Niobrara shale formation will send more oil trains through Boulder County in coming years — the Oil and Gas Journal (an industry magazine) says the Niobrara is emerging and “companies have been busy leasing land for future drilling. It has been compared by some to the Bakken shale formation farther to the north.” Two rail companies operate the majority of railroads in Colorado: Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF). Union Pacific does not own rail in Boulder County; instead, they have track heading north out of Denver that bends east through Boulder Weekly
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prepare for the derailment of an Greeley and up to Cheyenne. oil train is something called a BNSF, however, has track that commodity flow study. These runs northwest from Denver studies are provided by the railthrough downtown Louisville road quarterly or annually upon and Longmont (and east request of local emergency Boulder) before heading through response teams and list all the Fort Collins on its way to The “blast zone,” an area that encompasses a mile on either side of the railroad, runs directly through the heart of Longmont. materials that have been transCheyenne. ported by the company through If a drilling company cona specific area in the last year. tracts with BNSF, that cargo — Thus, emergency teams can prepare if it’s headed through the Front Range transport. portation of hazardous materials. It’s a generally for the types of hazardous — can only use BNSF rail; that is, it Williams says that BNSF does not recent emergency order from the U.S. materials they might encounter in a can only come through Boulder make information available to the pubDepartment of Transportation that calls spill or derailment, but they can’t know County. lic about what trains are carrying and for railroads to notify state emergency beforehand when a train carrying those Between four and 10 trains carrying where they are going. They do, on occa- response commissions when they are materials is coming through town. Niobrara crude oil will pass through sion, notify local emergency responders transporting more than one million gal“We make sure our hazmat teams Colorado every week, says Andy like Calderazzo, the Boulder Fire lons of Bakken crude oil. When other monitor those so they know generally Williams of BNSF. Many of those oil Department and local hazardous matecrude oil or hazardous materials are what comes through,” Danzl says. “So trains will pass along the track in rials teams when very large shipments transported — as is mostly the case in it’s not a day-to-day, here’s what’s comBoulder County, according to Boulder of volatile materials are being transport- Boulder County — emergency officials ing through the county, but it is, here’s Deputy Fire Chief Mike Calderazzo. ed through the county. Often these need not be told. And if they are told, what happened over the last 12 months (A map of Colorado track rights shows notifications come days or weeks after that information is confidential and and that allows us to analyze that and that the only full BNSF track in and an oil train has passed through the area, cannot be shared with the public. plan accordingly so we can make sure out of the state runs north and south, or not at all. “It is sensitive, confidential informaour response capabilities are adequate.” tion,” says Amy Danzl, an emergency including the stretch through Boulder “Railroads are very good at mainThose commodity flow studies have County.) Routes vary greatly, Williams taining manifests so they know exactly management specialist with the Boulder indicated to Boulder and Longmont says, depending on where the shipper what’s in each car, but I can’t say we Office of Emergency Management. emergency response personnel that “We get them straight from BNSF or directs BNSF to deliver materials. receive any information letting us know crude oil and the cars they’re transportUP. They consider it trade secret stuff.” Trains that carry crude oil, however, are what goes through each week,” says ed in, although not from the Bakken The Colorado Department of likely coming from a Niobrara drilling Mike Selan, Longmont Hazardous region, are still major concerns. Public Health and Environment, not site to a refinery on the Gulf Coast Materials Inspector. “The worst thing that could happen the state emergency management office, (Colorado is home to only one crude oil “A lot of it is protected for national is a crude oil leak and a fire in a derailsecurity reasons,” Calderazzo says. manages those notifications. Stasinos, refinery, in Commerce City). ment,” Calderazzo says. “Then we have “They’re pretty powerful folks and they who serves as deputy director of the It should be noted that railroads, as to figure out what we do with the can withhold information from regular emergency response division at the state common carriers, are required under smoke, people would have real probcallers, but they do notify us that there health department, says both Union federal law to ship hazardous materials lems with that, then we need to worry are substantial amounts of crude oil Pacific and BNSF have sent notificalike crude oil. They do not own many tions to the state saying they do not about where the leak is going. coming through the county.” of the tank cars (less than 1 percent, ship Bakken crude oil in Colorado yet. “We look at the county and we look In fact, railroads have only one according to the Association of So the main, and often only, American Railroads), or their contents, requirement when it comes to notifying See TRAINS Page 16 but they are responsible for its safe state and local government of the trans- resource that first responders have to Boulder Weekly
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at sensitive environmental areas and etc. Crude oil and other hazardous sensitive population areas. We haven’t materials are shipped in a big pressurhad any incidents in the county [so far] ized black cylinder that dips slightly in and I don’t really believe we’re under the middle, on the top, where the any additional risk other than if it’s true release valve is. that crude is flowing in greater quantiNewer models of this tank are built ties.” to carry crude oil, specifically oil from If the 3,500 percent increase in oil the Bakken and emerging regions like shipments nationally since 2009 and our Niobrara crude, which has been the industry said to be more volquotes of gold atile than oil that rush-like Niobrara was transported in output aren’t the past. The probOF ALL THIS DOES enough, Union lem is, the majority NOT LAY SOLELY IN THE Pacific’s Mark of tanks used are Davis says of the the old models FACT THAT THE GREATEST possibility of (called the DOTEVER QUANTITY OF CRUDE increase in north111), and many OIL IS NOW BEING ern Colorado oil people (even the SHIPPED. PERHAPS THE transportation: railroad companies) GREATEST REASON FOR “Oh, definitely.” are not confident it CONCERN IS WHAT THIS (Then, less sucis safe to transport cinctly, “We have this newer breed of OIL IS BEING SHIPPED IN. Niobrara crude crude oil in them. moving on us. “The older There’s a couple crude oil tanks were plants or production designed for crude oil facilities that are looking to that did not have a lot of pressure — a come online in your neck of the lot of vapor dissolved in it,” Calderazzo woods.”) says. “And I’m told the newer crude, the The dangerous part of all of this stuff that’s coming out from fracking, does not lay solely in the fact that the has dissolved gas in it, so the real probgreatest ever quantity of crude oil is lem is over-pressurization of tanks. now being shipped throughout the They go down the tracks and overheat.” And then explode. country. Instead, perhaps the greatest Eddie Scher, communications direcreason for concern is what this oil is tor for nonprofit group Forest Ethics, being shipped in. When you see a train come through says communities ultimately bear the risk for rail and oil companies who town, you’re likely to see one of several make money sending crude oil in car types: crates used to ship commerunsafe tanks through population zones. cial goods, racks used to transport cars “If the practice is too dangerous to and big industrial parts, empty beds,
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One year ago, an oil train carrying crude oil from the Bakken derailed and exploded in the town of Lac Megantic in Quebec. 42 people were confirmed killed with five others never found. These satellite photos show that the oil fire was so intense as to be easily seen from space.
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affect an unknown amount of people with an unknown amount of state or rail support cannot be easy. Boulder County, City of Boulder and City of Longmont officials all say they have been trained on how to deal with a variety of hazmat situations, but that they can’t prepare for everything. In fact, many local officials were still unclear about who would notify them in the case of a crude oil disaster and if crude oil was even being transported in the area. “We can’t plan for every single [situation],” Calderazzo says. “One tank car, depending on the product, can be a pretty big deal. Take chlorine. Chlorine, if it’s the anhydrous kind, can take just one tank car [to create major damage]. So we look at what are the most cars coming through — we only need [that information] on an annual basis. We try to go with, well, if crude oil is the big commodity then what would we do in terms of a risk assessment of crude oil?” There are regulations on what can and cannot be transported via rail and how rail companies must mark cars that contain hazardous materials. For instance, train cars carrying crude oil will have the number 1267, called a UN number (based on UN standards) on all four sides of the car and a diamond shaped warning label. Cars containing chlorine will have the number 1017, while those with liquefied petroleum gas will have the number 1075. Other hazardous materials that are transported in the area like molten sulfur, ethanol, propionic acid and diesel also have corresponding numbers available on the Department of Transportation website. (Williams says BNSF “typically [does] not operate ethanol trains in Colorado.”) Stasinos says that, at the state emergency level, training for spills with Bakken or Niobrara crude oil is the same as it is for other types of oil spills, even though it is likely more volatile than other crude oil. This training has been in place for more than two decades, he says. That training includes a hazmat certification program run by the state that all local emergency personnel in Boulder County are required to take. Emergency personnel are drilled on how to treat all types of rail cars, learning what to do if there’s a leak, how to contain it, what to do if there’s a fire, projection modeling and how to protect people in the “blast zone.” Oil train safety is also on the mind of state and national officials — the U.S. Fire Administration sent out a one-sheet “Coffee Break Training” entitled “Bakken Crude in Transportation” last month, while the EPA’s latest newsletter outlines the rise and risk of transporting crude oil. The newsletter heralds the recent Department of Transportation notification requirement as a step to improved community safety and encourages rail carriers to test all crude oil to determine its volatility class before shipping it. Even BNSF is now offering three-day classes to local emergency responders on how to deal with crude oil disasters. BNSF runs free railroad hazmat response training to about 4,000 local emergency responders every year in communities across their network. Still, advocates seeking to bring attention to the danger of oil trains say communities shouldn’t have to deal with the risk of catastrophe from a derailment. Scher says the choice of transporting oil via train or via pipeline — of which both have significant safety issues — or via any other method is a “false choice.” “The idea that the oil has to be moved and so somebody needs to be forced to take the risk is wrongheaded,” Scher says. “It’s not something we should have to accept. We should not be accepting this massive rise of dangerous trains through our population centers. There are regulations under review at the White House; we want those to be strong. And one thing we believe is communities should have the right to say no to these trains.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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ancy Jordan, a staff member at Boulder’s Outreach for Homeless Overflow, parks her purple mountain bike in front of Flatirons Coffee at the corner of Arapahoe and 29th. She walks in from the oppressive heat of a late afternoon in July, flashes an endearing smile, sits down and fishes three some food, and then say the warming center is out pieces of paper from her backpack. Each is a different on Baseline and 37th, that means they gotta get testimonial from homeless women living in the city. from downtown or wherever they were during the On top of the short stack is a long poem written in day all the way over there. They may not have bus looping cursive: fare. They may have to walk with a backpack. I The sun will dry away the chill would hardly call that lazy.” & I can bask in the warmth of the day Jordan’s thoughts come from an empathetic place. I am the nation’s homeless She was one of Boulder’s homeThe ones you don’t seem to see less for a short period of time in I sleep in the alleys & woods the late ’90s. She admits it’s been hidden away from the harassa long time since those wayward THERE’S A VERY ment days that left her dispossessed — that comes from fear & misunshe didn’t endure any of the DEHUMANIZED WAY derstanding bone-chilling nights that strike OF LOOKING AT THE The author didn’t sign her Boulder at least a few times each name. In fact, only one of the winter. She had couches to surf HOMELESS. I DON’T KNOW three women gave her name on for awhile. She says that’s why WHAT PEOPLE THINK WHEN she brought the testimonials her testimonial. It’s understandable. from the homeless women, each THEY SEE THEM.” “I’m just guessing there’s a of whom are utilizing BOHO’s — NANCY JORDAN, very dehumanized way of looknew women-only shelter. ing at the homeless,” Jordan According to Bill Sweeney, BOULDER OUTREACH FOR BOHO’s treasurer, the organizasays. “They’re very visible — HOMELESS OVERFLOW tion’s main focus has traditionally they’re out flying a sign or been to provide a safety net for whatever they’re doing. I don’t the surplus of people who can’t know what people think when find housing during the winter due to other shelters they see them. [Maybe] they see like, ‘Oh being full. But he says that BOHO has also been there’s a homeless person,’ and they move on looking for smaller groups who might not be receivto the next thought. Or they say, ‘Oh, what a nuisance’ or ‘Oh, those people are lazy.’ But I can tell ing services for other reasons. you, these people walk a fair distance or have to take “Turns out there are some women who are not busses and stuff. This town is great for resources but able, because of trauma for example, to take advantage a lot of those resources are sprinkled all over of services offered by the Boulder Shelter primarily Boulder, so they have to go way down town and get because the men in their community are using the
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As Boulder sees an uptick in violence against homeless women, Boulder’s Outreach for Homeless Overflow provides a new women-only shelter by Caitlin Rockett
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same community area in that building and that may be the primary source of [a woman’s] trauma and they simple aren’t comfortable with being served there,” Sweeney says. According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, domestic violence is the primary cause of homelessness among women, with between 22 percent and 57 percent of homeless women reporting that domestic or sexual violence was the immediate cause of their homelessness, depending on the region and type of study. The Center also reports that up to 100 percent of homeless women have experienced domestic or sexual violence at some point in their lives. The Metro Denver Homeless Initiative’s 2013 Point-in-Time Survey found that of respondents who said violence was responsible for their homelessness, 29 percent were in transitional housing. Nearly 5 percent of all persons who reported experiencing homelessness due to domestic violence were unsheltered. The idea for a women-only shelter in Boulder arose from weekly meetings of the Boulder Homeless Women’s Initiative. These gatherings bring together homeless advocate organizations, faith groups and female members of the homeless community. Katharina Booth, chief deputy of the Boulder District Attorney’s office and lead of the DA’s sexual assault and domestic violence unit, says that she and other prosecutors from the DA’s office began attending the meetings this past winter after noticing a “rash” of cases involving homeless women as victims of serious violent offenses. “Unfortunately, there’s not a way for us to track specifically how many cases of violence are occurring among homeless women,” Booth admits. “There’s fear of retaliation for coming forward and speaking. This is true for all victims of sexual assault, but especially with the homeless, they are left out there without any protection.” Booth says that approximately 16 percent of housed people who are sexually assaulted actually Boulder Weekly
come forward, but when they do, access to resources is much easier: phones, transportation, solid support systems — a permanent home. “Our homeless survivors just don’t have that,” she says. With help from the Boulder Women’s Homeless Initiative, BOHO launched a pilot women’s shelter program for a total of 30 nights in February, March and April. The program officially launched on June 1 with all female staff and volunteers. Unhoused women wanting to participate must complete an application, meet a few basic requirements (such as having an ID and a history of homelessness in Boulder for at least six months) and sign a behavioral contract. The program has a limit of 18 guests per night, with a different faith-based congregation hosting the shelter each night. Jordan says the combination of rotating the location of the shelter and not revealing which organizations are providing accommodations provides women with even more comfort. Sweeney says that the program has grown faster than expected and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. “The women are sending out some really good comments. They’re saying, ‘I feel safe. This is what we want. I was able to get a good night’s sleep.’ That’s really good news,” Sweeney says. “We seem to have correctly measured an unserved group that needed to be addressed.” In the testimonials that Jordan has collected, one woman writes, “It is mentally and physically exhausting not to have a place to go to, especially at night. Many of the women who have lived on the streets have suffered in terrible ways. “I am entirely grateful to all who have had a part in the implementation of the program. It has made a tremendous difference and may all blessing return to those involved.” Booth says listening to the homeless women who come to the Women’s Initiative meetings has been “eye opening.” “I think it’s good for people like myself and others to see the wide spectrum of people who are homeless. Everyone can be one paycheck away. There are certainly folks who choose to be homeless, but there are plenty of others that don’t,” she says. The poem at the top of the stack echoes these thoughts: It can happen so suddenly Striking like a disease In the prime of your life Boulder Weekly
Or moving in slowly with age Weakening your grasp on all you hold dear Until there is nothing to warm you And all that is familiar is gone Pray for me and for yourself That it doesn’t happen to you Treat as though you might walk in my shoes Jordon sees it every day, working with
the “front line” of the homeless population. She’s seen the brink in her own life. “I know for a fact that I’ve lived sorted of peripherally in that I don’t make lots of money. Even now I have a job and I live in an apartment but I don’t make lots and lots of money. So if I were to lose my job it might be only a matter of time before I was out on the street, too,” she says.
“Some of these women [using the shelter] have jobs,” Jordan adds. “I think that’s commendable and respectable. That’s them advocating for themselves in a difficult situation. They may not have their own beds, their own shower or their own car. One gal bought herself a bike. That’s fortitude. The human spirit is strong.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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boulderganic The boy and the buffalo
After chaining himself to a Yellowstone gate to stop bison slaughter, Comfrey Jacobs faces three years without access to the buffalo herds by Elizabeth Miller
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hortly before dawn on Comfrey Jacobs a rainy morning in handcuffed himself to a barrel at the early March, 20-yeargates of a bison trap old Comfrey Jacobs, to call attention to born near Gold Hill objections to bison management. and a recent official resident of Montana, handcuffed himself to a bright orange barrel filled with cement and scrap metal at the center of the gates in Yellowstone National Park that led to the Stephens Creek bison trap. The hillsides behind him were still dusted in snow. Somewhere beyond them, in the lush grasslands of the valley that drains into Montana’s Gardiner Basin, where hungry bison eating for both themselves and their soon-to-arrive calves come to graze, lay a capture facility for the buffalo. Each year, a varying number of bison are removed from the Yellowstone area as part of ongoing management in the name of protecting Montana’s $2 billion cattle industry. Jacobs had recently begun volunteering with the Buffalo Field Campaign, a volunteer organization that runs daily patrols to document the government’s controversial management activities for buffalo, which includes hunting; hazing with helicopters, horseback riders and ATVs to push buffalo and their newborn calves 15 or 20 miles back into the park; baiting capture facilities with hay to lure the buffalo in and loading livestock trailers with buffalo to be hauled away for slaughter. Jacobs had watched, helpless, for months. And then he had enough. The hours he sat waiting for park service staff to arrive, he spent thinking about the buffalo, he says, “and just trying to think about how, yes, this really sucks, I’m cold, I’m wet, I’m about to go to jail as soon as they get me out of this barrel. But it was a really incredible experience because a group of buffalo was wandering around hours before in that area, so on my car ride to jail, I got to see this beautiful group of buffalo playing around right next to where I’d been arrested.” When the interagency group arrived at the Stephens Creek trap that morning, they found Jacobs with his arm threaded through a hole in the barrel. Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers were also at the site. “It was just an individual choice he made, but obviously we support that kind of thing,” says Mike Mease, co-founder of the Buffalo Field Campaign. “He said he wanted to do something and he was tired of just documenting it and wanted to risk his own self, and Boulder Weekly
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for their portion of the management activities that go into the Interagency Bison Management Plan, created by that department along with the National Parks Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture, trying to keep the bison and cattle from mixing. The lack of hard proof that buffalo are a threat to cattle when they leave the park is one of the reasons that the Buffalo Field Campaign find the hazing and capture to manage bison so offensive. And that was among the motivations that inspired Jacobs to take action.
kind of gave me a heads up that something was going to happen that day.” Jacobs was repeatedly given the option to unlock himself and refused, stalling the park service’s operations for more than two hours. Eventually, they brought in a front-end loader, picked him and his barrel up together, and moved them to the side of the road. Livestock trailers could then get through to the bison trap, while the park service called in a welding truck to cut Jacobs out of the barrel. The activist was still there when three trailers loaded with bison left. “Seeing those animals crammed into little tiny livestock trailers and actually being able to smell them and smell pure fear was something that made my situation a lot easier for me to go through,” he says. It only strengthened his commitments. The reason for managing the Yellowstone bison herd is to prevent brucellosis from possibly being transmitted from the buffalo to cattle that graze on the public lands outside the park. An estimated 50 percent of bison test positive for the diesease, which can lead to miscarried or stillborn calves. With Montana’s cattle industry being worth more than $2 billion, the threat is taken seriously, even though such a bison-to-cattle transfer has never been documented outside of a laboratory setting. In 2008, when two cattle herds tested positive for brucellosis, the estimated cost to the livestock industry in Montana was $30 million. U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service required all cattle leaving the state to be tested 30 days before traveling. It was later determined that that outbreak had been spread by elk, not buffalo, but the price tag keeps the Montana Department of Livestock willing to spend $500,000
Jacobs was born on Gold Hill, and split his time growing up between the Boulder area and Grand Junction, which he
claims as home. “One of the terms I like to refer to, growing up in Grand Junction, is ‘Places with great repression often form the best resistance,’ and that’s one of the experiences I’ve had,” Jacobs says. “Because of the amount of social and overall repression in the Grand Junction area and being very strict and conservative, that when there was a very rebellious force, it was probably some of the most rebellious stuff I’d ever done because of the amount of repression we were faced by the overall community and the different groups we were trying to influence.” He started reading Henry David Thoreau and Edward Abbey, following the work of Karl Marx and Martin Luther King, Jr., and general leftist theory. He fell in love with the Monkey Wrench Gang and started learning about Earth First! at a very young age, and has been active with Earth First! since he was 16. He was involved with the anti-war movement as a teenager, and met people doing independent media work in the Grand Junction area, and moved toward advocacy work for the homeless and environmental justice issues. He was kicked out of school his sophomore year for inciting a riot after assembling a walkout in protest of identification badge policies he found to be a violation of student privacy, according to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel report at the time. More than 100 students walked out, and 30 were suspended. He was also involved in a blockade of Sarah Palin’s motorcade when she was coming through Grand Junction in the final days of her vice presidential campaign. Video See BUFFALO Page 26
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shows a cluster of fewer than a dozen activists rushing cate my time to them. But not just the incredible expeinto the street between the slow-moving cars of her riences but some of the atrocities I’ve watched against motorcade, and police officers rushing after them to them in management practice just strengthened my shove and drag them aside. commitments to being out here.” “I just fell in love with this idea of actively influThe core of the work he’s been doing with the encing democracy, direct action and civil disobedience, field campaign was documenting migration patterns and never really felt like voting had much of a differand hunting activities in the winter, and helping proence because I was usually a minor through all of this, tect road crossings and documenting management so I couldn’t vote to begin with, yet everything around me is influenced by the political system so I wanted to be a part of that political system as much as I could,” Jacobs says. “There’s more to politics than just casting a ballot every once in a while. I feel you actively have to be a part of the politics you want to influence, and that’s where I fell in love with the tactics of civil disobedience and direct action.” The school district un-enrolled him shortly after he turned 16. He worked for a youth corps that partnered with the Forest Service, which paid for his GED, and trained in wildland fire and wildlife management courses. Each year, helicopters, ATVs, trucks and riders Before his visit to Montana, on horseback are used to push buffalo back which he’s recently changed to his into Yellowstone National Park. official residence, he’d planned to stay in Colorado for the rest of his life, he says, “but there’s no buffalo.” actions in the spring. He’d been told for years by activist friends about That has also meant skiing out in negative 50 the Buffalo Field Campaign, and headed for the camdegree temperatures first thing in the morning to get paign offices planning to stay for three months. an exact count of 118 buffalo walking out of the park, “I ended up staying for the entire season and abso- or falling asleep while on patrol and waking up to find lutely falling in love with the buffalo and the work a herd of 50 buffalo grazing on the grass surrounding BFC does, through my limited experience here and at him, feet away from where he slept. He’s had 2,000that time, and decided this was an environmental juspound bull buffalo walk up to him and look him in the tice campaign that I wanted to commit myself to more eye before walking away, as if knowing he doesn’t fully, so I ended up dedicating myself here and I’ve mean them any harm, he says. been out here this season since the beginning of the It’s also led to some experiences that make his year and will be here until September, and it’s just an voice tighten with anger. He’s witnessed buffalo capabsolutely incredible experience, it’s an amazing landtured for experimentation and quarantine by the scape that I get to live on, the people out here are Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, asked absolutely fantastic,” Jacobs says. “But more than anyagents what they’re doing and had them respond that thing, it was just having incredible and beautiful expethey’re watching buffalo give induced abortions. He’s riences with the buffalo that made me want to dediwatched herds of buffalo be hazed with helicopters,
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horseback riders and ATVs, and seen buffalo break legs, calves get swept downriver or become separated from their mothers and left alone, an almost certain death sentence, and cow buffalo dropping their calves in the middle of a hazing operation with 12 horseback riders in pursuit. “At that point, there’s nothing we can really do besides document and try to spread the word of what’s Stephany Seay actually happening through our video work, but things like that are definitely what influenced me to take individual action this spring,” Jacobs says. This year, the situation became particularly tight. Hunting operations meant nearly every buffalo that walked outside the park was being gunned down as soon as it stepped outside the invisible boundary of Yellowstone National Park. And the park service management was implementing capture and slaughter with a baited trap that was situated on the migration path for buffalo leaving the park. “So if they even made it past these piles of hay during this really rough winter, they were getting gunned down, so there wasn’t really a choice,” Jacobs says. “On one side of the line, you had a firing line, and on the other side of the line you had a baited trap for slaughter, and that was something incredibly hard to watch.” The list of demands he tied to his civil disobedience included the immediate halt of all current and future capture and slaughter management actions by for Yellowstone National Park, release of currently captive buffalo, Yellowstone National Park’s withdrawal from the Interagency Bison Management Plan for ineffectively maintaining a wild, free-roaming bison population and not meeting the best interests of the public or the bison, and public oversight and media access to Stephens Creek as long as capture and shipping to slaughter continues. The Interagency Bison Management Plan, established in 2000, is set to expire in 2015. Management partners include the Montana Department of Livestock, the National Park Service,
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Animal Health and Inspection Service, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and, since 2009, tribal entities. They’re just starting to develop the environmental impact statement for the plan, according to Christian Mackay, executive officer for Montana’s Department of Livestock. He says it’s too soon to tell if the next version of the plan will include significant changes to the way bison are managed. The Buffalo Field Campaign hasn’t been invited to the table for those discussions. “I feel like I was effective this year, though I do not feel it’s a permanent victory whatsoever,” Jacobs says. “Bison management is still going to continue and buffalo are still going to be sent to slaughter in the years to come, so it’s a very temporary victory, and that’s only a victory raised through public awareness. None of the demands I went into this action with were personally met, so I personally cannot claim victory. ... Unless folks are actively putting pressure on them and vocally showing that they support free roaming buffalo and don’t support capture and slaughter in bison management, this is going to continue to happen.” Jacobs’ work with the Buffalo Field Campaign transitioned from that of a volunteer to paid staff at the beginning of June. He’s working as summer coordinator, helping volunteers and running outreach programs. He hopes next year he’ll be working as volunteer coordinator, training and taking care of volunteer life at the campaign. “So many people never heard about this, but then all the sudden someone is arrested in Yellowstone all the sudden all this news media is calling up from all around the globe, and it’s amazing what one man’s actions can do to educate a lot of people about an issue,” Mease says. “The one thing I think a lot of people forget, and they like to look at people that take those kinds of actions as extremists or radicals, but this country was founded on non-violent civil disobedience and that’s how we create change in this world.” Jacobs’ act of civil disobedience earned him charges of disorderly conduct and interfering with a government operation. The Yellowstone district court judge — Yellowstone has it’s own jail, courthouse and judge, who more frequently sees cases that deal with poaching and the jail cell more often serves as a holding cell or drunk tank — sentenced Jacobs to pay fines and fees of $3,390 and banned him from Yellowstone
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National Park for a three-year probation. “It feels more of a ban from buffalo than Yellowstone, especially after hazing operations for the last month,” he says. “It breaks down this way: I’m not allowed in the park and buffalo aren’t allowed out of the park. So that’s something incredibly hard to deal with. I don’t get to see any buffalo until they start migrating out in the winter.” In the plea agreement with a district attorney, for which he’d changed his plea to guilty for the misdemeanor charge of interfering with an agency operation, he was going to pay restitution for the cost of the park hiring a welding truck to cut him loose, about $355 — or a tenth of what he’s since been fined, serve seven days in jail and have one year of unsupervised probation with a ban from the park. The judge, upon reviewing the plea agreement, said he wouldn’t be inclined to accept that sentence. Jail was too harsh (and, for the state, expensive) a punishment, but the fines and park ban not sufficient to discourage this kind of activisim. Of the fines and fees, $2,500 was a “forced community service restitution donation” to the Yellowstone Foundation, a fee his lawyer, Summer Nelson, filed a motion to correct on the basis that unharmed third parties shouldn’t receive restitution payments. The judge denied the challenge on July 22. If Jacobs appeals now, his case will move on to a different court. The increase in fines and fees was because, Jacobs says, he’d received donations to a legal fund and the court wanted to make sure he wasn’t profiting from his civil disobedience. Paying the fines and fees took everything he had left in the legal fund. He’d used a little more than $1,000 of it to cover travel costs and the purchase of clothes he could wear to court. The rest was going to go to his lawyer, Nelson, a former Buffalo Field Campaign volunteer who took his case pro bono. There aren’t many similar cases to compare to, but Jacobs’ sentencing looks notably harsher than what two protestors who locked themselves down together at the Yellowstone National Park visitor’s center in Mammoth received, Nelson says. They were fined just over $100 and sentenced to one year of unsupervised probation with a ban from the park. Her impressions of the prosecution, she says, were that “they felt like they wanted to send a mes-
sage because the campaign had continued to have volunteers individually take actions of civil disobedience.” The ban means Jacobs can’t take his mother on a tour through the park he’d planned this summer, and his work with the Buffalo Field Campaign is limited — the majority of his work had been documenting buffalo migration and management actions, which often led him into the park. “Living on the boundary of Yellowstone National Park, it’s kind of hard not to just wander through and enjoy it,” he says. “So I’ve done everything from swimming in the Madison River to skiing around the geysers in the middle of winter and going on incredible hikes through the Gallatins.” The herd of bison that Jacobs and the Buffalo Field Campaign are trying to protect are like no other on earth. At the very end of the 19th century, some 23 wild bison survived the routine slaughter befalling the rest of the 20 million to 30 million wild bison that once lived on America’s Great Plains by retreating into the remote backcountry of what is now Yellowstone National Park. The 4,200 that exist in and around Yellowstone today are descended from those two dozen bison, and unlike the roughly 200,000 bison in ranches around the U.S., their genes have not been mingled with cattle genes, making them the only behaviorally wild and genetically pure buffalo herd left in the U.S. And Yellowstone is the only place bison have continuously lived since prehistoric times. The animal considered an icon of the American West and put forward for recognition by Congress as the national mammal has been all but gone, so that little herd ought to be a national treasure, Buffalo Field Campaign volunteers argue. This spring, 600 members of that herd’s members were removed, more than 250 to hunters, some to slaughterhouses and some to research facilities. A day after Jacobs’ arrest, a Yellowstone press release announced they’d met their target of 600 bison for removal this year, and were shutting down operations at the Stephens Creek bison trap near Gardiner. A week later, they announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest or conviction of those See BUFFALO Page 26
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responsible for shooting and killing three bison inside the park, clarifying that taking animals or any animal part, including shed antlers, from inside the park is prohibited. “Basically any buffalo that come into Montana are subjected to either harassment or killing and this is the world’s most significant bison population. … It’s the only wild population left,” says Stephany Seay, media coordinator for the Buffalo Field Campaign who’s been with the organization for seven years. “We are documenting all the negative things that are happening to them so we can show people what’s going on with these animals that millions of people come to Yellowstone to see every year.” Since the winter of 1996-97, when nearly 1,100 buffalo were slaughtered when they crossed the Montana state line, the Buffalo Field Campaign have patrolled the Yellowstone boundary, monitoring buffalo movements and documenting with videos and photography the Montana Department of Livestock and National Park Service bison management. The numbers killed go as low as none in 1999/2000, six and seven in 2000/2001 and 2009/2010 respectively, and as high as 1,631 in 2007/08. It was that winter in 1997 when Daniel Brister, who’d recently moved to Montana to pursue a graduate degree, was watching the count of dead buffalo go up on a bulletin board on the University of Montana campus in Missoula. That next winter, having heard about the Buffalo Field Campaign, he went out to spend a week volunteering with the campaign. He spent nights working the midnight to sunrise shift, his time divided between hunkering down over a fire and skiing out to check on bison where they’d bedded down, helped move a herd of buffalo away from a ranch where they would surely have been killed the next morning, got arrested for it, and got hooked on direct actions that could make a real and immediate difference. “I could defend the buffalo on their habitat in a direct way, and that really spoke to me,” Brister says. “That just felt much more like a real connection than I had ever been able to find.” He came for a week, and stayed for the whole winter. Fifteen years later, he’s the Buffalo Field Campaign’s executive director and the author of In the Presence of Buffalo: Working to Stop the Yellowstone Slaughter. It’s important to clarify, he says, that the Field Campaign doesn’t organize these direct actions like
the one that got him or Jacobs arrested — or the one in 1999 that blockaded a Forest Service road for two months with a tripod-like structure that had a volunteer at its peak for 24 hours a day, sometimes through minus 40 degree weather. They just document those efforts, and try to draw more attention to the cause.
“This department has had to deal with public protests of one kind or another and they have — some of them have been very creative, but they have never stopped any action that was planned to take place that day. We’ve always managed to go around them or remove them when necessary,” says Mackay, with the Department of Livestock. “It’s kind of just become part of the landscape, it’s something else that we just deal with, like the terrain or the weather.” Over years of activism and organizing, Buffalo Field Campaign has rallied 16,000 subscribers to their weekly updates from the field, seen volunteers trained as highway flaggers to warn motorists on highways near Yellowstone when bison are crossing to prevent accidents that can injure motorists and kill buffalo, and distributed signs to private landowners who’d prefer to see bison left alone on their lands, rather than hazed back into Yellowstone National Park by helicopters, ATVs and agents on horseback. In May, Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed an official declaration that, unless there is an imminent threat of disease transmission from bison to livestock or people, bison management operations now have to stay off private property unless they have permission. Brister says what he keeps coming back to as the answer for why Yellowstone’s bison are so carefully managed, if the threat of brucellosis transmission is truly an empty one, is the livestock industry. “I really think that it’s a range war and the livestock industry is used to controlling our public lands,” Brister says. “You can have tremendous subsidies to graze cattle on public lands for way less than market value if you compare to comparable private lands and I think that the livestock industry fears more people asking that question — why aren’t buffalo allowed on our public lands? Why are they kept in Yellowstone National Park? And people wanting buffalo back on our public lands and that resulting in a decrease in the amount of grass available for domestic livestock.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Ana Soler’s “Starting Point: Causa-Efecto” draws viewers in to the fun and games of Game Changer.
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Game Changer is on view at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., through Sept. 14. Summer Games, a series of free outdoor events with artists, games, food trucks and local breweries, takes place at 6 p.m. on Thursdays from June 24 to August 7 on 13th Street in front of the museum. Summer Games I features trivia and street ping pong, Summer Games II is yoga in the park, and Summer Games III includes volleyball, dodgeball and bocci ball. Additional information and museum hours are at www. bmoca.org.
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basketball in the middle of the artists are engaging media, so I think sports floor is a standing invitation — is kind of the resting place of the exhibipick me up and give me a toss, tion.” it says. The two selected artists in tandem, texAnd at the opening night ting images from art galleries to one another for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary as they considered various entries in the Art’s summer exhibition, Game Changer, topic. Their philosophy is of anarchistic people did. Then they turned toward the curating — discarding a specific methodolobasket, took one look and realized that a gy and the idea of curator as author in favor single shot could shatter the hoop and backof an image of curator as collaborator, and board, formed by a circular fluorescent blue including sculptures made with found lightbulb and a vintage mirror. objects, paintings, photographs, video, even “The artist really puts that out there, so an audio-only piece. at any moment, someone could pick it up Appropriately, Game Changer begins with and try to shoot it and ruin the work,” says the swing of a racket. Near the museum’s Mardee Goff, associate curator of the muse- Soler’s installation piece takes over the second floor gallery. The artist says front door, 21 tennis rackets hang in she sees the work as a metaphor for life. um. “You come to a gate and you’re sort of sequence, sketching out the hit of an invisiinvited in if you’d like to come, but I think ble player that sets off a tennis ball. From most people — we’ll have yet to see — will respect made of steel and shattered glass, and even trophies that starting line, hundreds of tennis balls ricochet what it is, and understand that contemporary art is made of trash. through the museum in the graceful arcs of one something that’s interactive … It can be something This is a game of a very different kind. bounce after another in Ana Soler’s “Starting Point: that we can engage with really immediately and then The aim of curatorial team Ruth Bruno and Causa-Efecto.” have the choice to make up our own mind for it.” Cortney Lane Stell with Game Changer was to Her creation wasn’t precisely diagrammed. That’s an invitation that pervades the exhibition explore the topic of sports in art without hammering Instead, she eye-balled her way through the museum — join the team, as it were. Step on the field to play. in a specific message, but to, as Stell says, bring “a as she installed the piece, using tape to mark off her But you’ll be provided with the useless equipment of plurality of visions to the exhibition. … It’s not about proposed trajectories. heavy bronze ping pong paddles, baseball gloves stating one thesis, it’s about really investigating how “It’s completely, 100 percent a visual, intuitive lay30 July 24, 2014
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out of the bounce,” Bruno says. “A mathematician saw a previous installation of her work with tennis balls and decided to calculate out the mathematics of the bounce and it ended up that her visual intuitive layout of the bounce was spot-on for the mathematics of it. Ana described it as a nice mash-up of art and science, that the eye can do something so naturally.” It’s an inexplicable magic drawn from the same ilk as a hitter who can point to where his home run is going to head, or a pitcher who can target just a couple inches of space. The tennis balls lead the way into a gallery that opens with Catherine Opie’s quietly observed portraits of young football players, lined up Alejandro Almanza with Pereda’s “Veinte y uno brightexquisito,” invites viewers to play... or not. eyed, unlined faces and narrow limbs dwarfed by the padding of their football uniforms. They were probably similarly dwarfed by their own ambitions, and seven years after these portraits were taken in 2007, it’s not likely any of them still plays football at any sort of competitive level. They stand in the shadow of what we know now about teenagers and tackle football — the concussions, the traumatic brain injuries — but to Opie, the portraits seem more invested in preserving a moment in time, of hope, possibility and American iconography. The same goes for her photograph of a game, which frames an idle moment in play in the classic icons of American high school football — the emerald grass, the glow of stadium lights — with the goalpost dominating the scene. Devon Dikeou looks to another moment to examine the place athletes find in the modern age, presenting a series of black and white photographs of flags at half staff the day Joe DiMaggio died. No trace of sport exists in these images. Alongside the explorations of athletes are investigations of the artifacts of sport — Denver artist Phil Bender’s grid of soccer jerseys and tennis racquets reduce both to base aesthetic consideration; David Adamo’s “Untitled” ping pong paddles, heavy, bronze and totally useless, like Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s glass basketball hoop, both encourage and render impossible the notion of play. Boulder Weekly
The ground floor gallery concludes with the more biting pieces in the exhibition, including Helmut Smits’ “Greenscreen,” in which he uses the green of the soccer field as a greenscreen and replaces it with video of commercials. Soccer players sprint over a field of ads for commercials, toothbrushes, videogames, makeup, fast food and cars, and the audio overlays a cacophony of sales pitches, sports commentary and cheering crowds. The message is clear as the players nearly get lost in the buybuy-buy, sell-sell-sell. Smits’ original trophies of plastic
packaging were unavailable, so Bruno and Stell approached him with the idea of allowing museum visitors to build trophies of their own, which now sit on shelves in the museum. They mock the idea of the rewards of competition, and yet alongside them is an artist-created instruction sheet for creating your own trophies that rates them by difficulty from “Maybe too easy” to “For winners!” Soler’s suspended balls bound their way upstairs — breaking the rules of physics once to make the leap to the second floor gallery, and finish the exhibition where it began with aesthet-
ics and intuition rather than rules and rankings. “She thinks of it as a metaphor for life — a ball hits a wall and it goes a completely other direction,” Bruno says. The second floor gallery space is filled with those lime green balls frozen mid-bounce, and they return viewers to that childlike delight, that spike of wonder at a “Look what I can do” moment, to the joy that has been, or should be, what draws us back, time and again as spectators or players, to sport. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Brothertiger’s smooth take on electronica is far from ferocious
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Miners Alley goes old school with Simon’s ‘Odd Couple’ by Gary Zeidner
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uring the mid-1960s when his soon-to-be-legendary career as a playwright was just taking off, Neil Simon decided to tweak the longstanding trope of the mismatched companions. Stretching back at least to the Mutt and Jeff comic strip in the early 1900s, this storied lineage includes Laurel and Hardy as well as Abbott and Costello of “Who’s on First?” fame. Simon’s coup was to modernize the pairing by making Oscar Madison a life-loving slob of the first order and Felix Unger a neat freak wrapped in neuroses. Thus was born The Odd Couple, a comic property so hot that it spawned a film and multiple television adaptations along its way to becoming a pop culture touchstone that endures to The Odd Couple at Miners Alley Playhouse. this day. Given the myriad ways in which other directors have put their stamp on this ageless tale — from even his poker buddies complain. turning Felix and Oscar into women to When Felix ( James O’Haganutilizing the Kabuki form — director Murphy) finally arrives, his uncharacRobert Kramer’s decision to stage this teristic tardiness is explained by the fact Miners Alley Playhouse production in that his wife is leaving him. Oscar the play’s original 1965 New York City declares that Felix should move in with setting is inspired and heightens both him while he sorts out his divorce. the many similarities and striking juxtaIt becomes apparent almost immepositions between then and now. diately that Oscar’s act of generosity This version of The Odd Couple could spell doom for his and Felix’s takes place almost entirely within friendship. While maintaining its hetOscar’s (Len Matheo) expansive erosexuality, the relationship quickly Manhattan apartment. The play opens takes on the traits of a stereotypically during a weekly poker night attended dysfunctional 1960s marriage. Oscar is by a cop, Murray (Sam Gilstrap), an the slovenly, inattentive husband always accountant, Roy (Ryan Goold), a neblate to dinner and never offering bish, Vinnie (Greg Alan West) and a enough praise for it, while Felix is the churl, Speed (Scott Cuzac Tuffield). needy housewife forever fretting about Having divorced a few months earlier, overcooked roasts, dirty dishes and dirty Oscar’s home has become such a pigsty clothes on the floor.
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This dynamic leads to some kneeslappingly good exchanges executed effortlessly by Matheo and O’HaganMurphy. With a delivery reminiscent of a gruffer Jimmy Kimmel, Matheo’s performance hearkens back to those of the two most famous Oscar’s before him, Walter Matthau and Jack Klugman. Matheo excels at the balancing act between the prickly elements of Oscar’s personality and his pure, sweet humanity, and he is easily the most relaxed performer on stage O’Hagan-Murphy similarly pays homage to famous Felix forerunners Jack Lemmon and Tony Randall while still making the character his own. He embraces the numerous moments of physical comedy the script affords him, and when he takes the two frisky
English neighbors, Gwendolyn (Missy Moore) and Cecily (Samara Bridwell), from a sexy boil to a weeping simmer in two sobs flat you can’t help but doff your hat to his acting. With only a select few scenes to work with, it would be easy for the supporting cast to get lost in the shuffle, but each actor makes the most of his or her minutes on stage. Though given the least to do, Ryan Goold steals one of the later poker night scenes as he struggles like a drowning man to reach and disable an accursed air-freshening unit installed by Felix. Scott-Cuzac Tuffield and Greg Alan West present as the most authentically New York of this group of purported New Yorkers. Sam Gilstrap astounded me with his range. When last I saw him, he played a hot-headed yokel. Here, he plays a softie urban cop with equal skill and a significant amount of warmth. The only complaint I have about The Odd Couple is its tendency toward volume overload. Perhaps it was just a case of opening night adrenalin, but every character seemed to be yelling most of his or her lines. While many moments — whether it’s Speed carping about the glacial pace of the poker game or Oscar blowing his top at Felix for ruining their date with the neighbor ladies — demand a forceful delivery, some simply do not. I firmly believe that more modulated, nuanced line readings scattered throughout the play would greatly enhance this production. Even so, The Odd Couple scores easily as a success. It’s a production well worth seeing. Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com
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JAY MOHR Tuesday, July 29: eTown Hall presents Jay Mohr with special guests. 7:30 p.m. eTown Hall. 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
SNL alum, radio host and bestselling author Jay Mohr is bringing his standup act to Boulder this week.
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Camptown. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
Thursday, July 24 Music The Almond Butters. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Grant McIntosh. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.
Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Colorado Music Festival: Berlioz, Schumann and Copland. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
The Boulder Swing Collective. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Mezzo Mestizo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Brazil Night hosted by Francisco Marques of Ginga. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Nick Berry. 5 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 210 S. Public Road, Boulder, 303-449-0884.
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Saturday, July 26: Boulder Outdoor Cinema presents ‘Aliens.’ 7 p.m. Boulder Outdoor Cinema 1750 13th St., Boulder, 855262-9324.
Aliens
Boulder Outdoor Cinema mostly shows its films at night. Mostly. And the flick of choice this weekend is Aliens, James Cameron’s 1986 sequel to the Ridley Scott film that did for space what Jaws did for water: fill it with sharp teeth and impending dread. In said film, intrepid astronaut Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) has survived the trip back home after her battle with the alien in the first film, but rather than mark that spot on the star chart with “here there be dragons,” the giant evil mining company she works for has set up a colony on the same planet she worked so hard to escape from. After communications are cut off, Ripley is sent back to planet hell in order to advise a team of Marines and a corporate weasel played by Paul Reiser, almost all of whom die horrible, wonderfully cinematic deaths.
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The Skipping Stones. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-396-1898. Turkuaz at Fox Theatre. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Events Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & WCS. 6:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303. Summer Games I: Street Ping-Pong & Trivia — With Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. 6 p.m. Civic Center Plaza, Boulder, 303-443-2122.
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Tango class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Friday, July 25 Music Another Heartbreak. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Billy Shaddox. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. see EVENTS Page 38
Hipsters Courtesy of The Iguanas
Friday, July 25: The Iguanas perform live at the Louisville Downtown Street Faire. 6-9 p.m. Front Street, Louisville. To say that The Iguanas have diverse influences is putting it lightly. Over the last two decades, its members have played with everyone from Emmy Lou Harris to Pretty Lights, and the home base for its partially Spanish-language music is New Orleans, a city known for its French-speaking and jazz-playing population. But mash all those Chicano, rock, R&B and various Latin styles together and you get a seriously groovy sound, and one that will be on display in the Colorado streets this weekend when The Iguanas play at the Louisville Street Faire. In addition to The Iguanas, The Louisville Downtown Street Faire offers excellent food and drinks from a number of local sponsors as well as children’s activities, arts and crafts and a number of other sundries.
Thursday, July 24-Sunday, July 27: The Underground Music Showcase. South Broadway, Denver. Hundreds of bands will take over the streets of Denver for the annual Underground Music Festival, in which a single wristband will get you into more than a dozen venues in Denver’s South Broadway strip to see countless of touring and local bands over the course of four days. Headliners include national acts like Real Estate, Blonde Redhead, People Under the Stairs, Aan, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and more, but there’s also a metric butt-ton of Colorado’s finest, including acts like The Yawpers, Inner Oceans, Snake Rattle Rattle Snake, The Epilogues and so many more. Get more info and a complete lineup at www.theums.com.
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arts The 21st Century Madonna — by Longmont Figure Arts artists. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925 — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Aug. 31. At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. “I Fell, Eiffel, Eyeful,” David Brackett — 2008 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Aug. 31. Beyond Pop Art — Tom Wesselmann. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 14.
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Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554.
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. Eggshell Mosaics — Artist Dorette Carlson. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Aug. 1. Elegant Simplicity — by Michael Gabridge. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel Sprick. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov.
2. Films and Works — by Paul Sietsema. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Oct. 12. 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. Game Changer — Various artists. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 14. Photography — Artist Richard Warner. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Aug. 1. 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 Jan. 25, 2015. Still Memories — works in fiber by David Bracketts. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Summer in 3D — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 21. Unbound: Altered Environments. Theater Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Digital Creations. Upper Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Five Installations. Main Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through Aug. 31. Unbound: Sculpture in the Fields. Outdoor Gallery, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-8987255. Through Sept. 30, 2015.
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EVENTS from Page 37 The Cabin Project. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-3175522.
Connally & Ramey. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Randall Dubis. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.
Country Touch. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Dino Romanelli. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-4492911. Ginga. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Indulgers. 10:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614. Colorado Music Festival: Berlioz, Schumann and Copland. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Lucky Few. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. The Mighty Twisters. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Naughty Professor. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. New Family Dog. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 9 p.m. Bittersweet
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RockyGrass. 12 p.m. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 West Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422. Sammy Dee. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Steve Thomas Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Toney Rocks. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Events “What Can I Do?” Multimedia Environmental Presentation. 1 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-8411. Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-4408303. Tango Practica at BTS. 8 p.m. Village Arts Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.
Saturday, July 26 Music The Appleseed Collective. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bill McKay Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
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Bluezhouse. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Cat Jerky. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164. Chris Daniels & the Kings. 7 p.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Connally and Ramey. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Elephant Wrecking Ball. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. High Parkway. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Jacob Larson. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Jeremy Mohney Quartet. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
theater The Tempest. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 10. Henry IV: Part 1. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 10. Henry IV: Part 2. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. July 27 and Aug. 3 only. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, 227 UCB, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Through Aug. 9.
Colorado Shakespeare Festival/Patrick Campbell
The Producers. Jester’s Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Jester’s Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through July 26. Spring Awakening. Centerstage Theatre Company, Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 27.
Ruby HorsThe Odd Couple. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 ethief,Through ColoWashington Ave., Golden, 303-931-7241. Aug. 24.
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is putting on Henry IV: Part 1 through August 10th.
Keith Norsdstrom. 6 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746. Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Papa Juke. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Randall Dubis Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. RockyGrass. 12 p.m. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 West Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422. Ron LeGault. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Events Calico and Boots. 7 p.m. Glenns Den, 10178 Empire Drive, Lafayette, 303-440-8303. David Polka ‘Vanitas’ Showcasing. 7 p.m. Madelife, 2000 21St., Boulder, 303-927-0802. Investigating Dinosaurs Grand Opening Party. 10 a.m. WOW Childrens’ Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. James Peak Invasive Weed Removal. 8 a.m. James Peak Wilderness, Nederland, 303-715-1010. Knitting Man — A Gay Men’s Knitting Group. 9:30 a.m. Out Boulder Pride House, 2132 14th St., Boulder, 303-746-8579. Stars of a Summer Night. 9 p.m. Sage Trailhead, Boulder Valley Ranch, Boulder.
Sunday, July 27 Music Andrew Grams and AmyJo Rhine. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. The Annie Booth Trio. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Banshee Tree. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Blues & BBQ: with Eef. 2 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Bonnie & the Bluegrass Clydes. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Honey Cutters. 5 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Redleg Husky. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. RockyGrass. 12 p.m. Planet Bluegrass Ranch, 500 West Main St., Lyons, 800-624-2422. Tyler Thompson. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Newcomers’ Hike to a Flatiron. 9:30 a.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, Boulder.
Monday, July 28 Music see EVENTS Page 40
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Christopher Shugrue. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
The Sleepwalkers Guide to Dancing — by Mira Jacob. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-4361070.
Get Pop-Cultured: Comic Convention Collectibles Weekend. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349
Tuesday, July 29 No Man’s War — by Angela Ricketts. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.
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Gone West — by Victoria Wilcox. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727. Get Pop-Cultured: Comic Convention Collectibles Weekend. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349
Outsmarting Autism — by Patricia Lemer. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Kat Duff will be signing and talking about her book The Secret Life of Sleep at The Boulder Bookstore on Wednesday, July 30th.
Saturday, July 26 Get Pop-Cultured: Comic Convention Collectibles Weekend. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349 Mitchel Evan. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303. Sunday, July 27
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Get Pop-Cultured: Comic Convention Collectibles Weekend. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349
Shadows in the Vineyard — by Maximillian Potter. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-3227727. Wednesday, July 30
Dog Days Salon. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Great — by Sara Benincasa. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727. The Secret Life of Sleep — by Kat Duff. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Seth Hoffman. 3 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.
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EVENTS from Page 39 The Best of Rufus Wainwright. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282.
The Environment: Saving the Future. 7:30 p.m. Sandbox Stage at the Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3133.
The Boulder Concert Band. 7 p.m. North Boulder Park, 9th Street and Dellwood Ave., Boulder.
Smokes and Jokes. 8:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.
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Wednesday, July 30
Cinema Program free screening of The Shining. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Citizen Science Hike: Understanding Our Air Quality. 12 p.m. OSMP Bobolink Trailhead, Boulder. Citizen Science Hike: Understanding Our Air Quality. 6 p.m. OSMP Ranger Cottage, Boulder.
Tuesday, July 29 Music The Alphabet Club: A Weekly Queer Hosted Dance Party. 9 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-8600. Boulder Timberliners Barbershop Chorus. 7 p.m. Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1680 Balsam Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4151.
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Sat August 23 - Concert Series Mantis Made & The Crown Collection present:
Colorado Music Festival Mash-Up: San Fermin with Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Nolan McInnis. 5 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Patrick McDevitt Quartet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Trio Con Brio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
with kaminanda & special guests
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Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Appleseed Collective. 8 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bands on the Bricks with The Country Music Project. 5:30 p.m. Pearl Street Mall & Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder. Esther Sparks. 5 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384. Jazzebel Vocal Piano Duo. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Nelson Rangell. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Red Baraat. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. San Fermin & Jeremy Messersmith. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
Events Great Books Discussion Group. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390. Karaoke Night. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Palmer Park Run. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th Street and Pearl Street, Boulder, 800-8076179.
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ince his 1991 debut, Slacker, writer/director Richard Linklater has quietly become the most reflective director in American cinema. In the documentary Double Play: Jack Benning and Richard Linklater (Gabe Klinger 2013), currently available via Video on Demand, he casually outlines his philosophical thesis: “I think ultimately the most interesting view out of a train is the back window. ... You can’t really see out of the front of the train ... but the back is yours, and that’s interesting because it’s what’s behind you, you know?” Linklater’s latest work, Boyhood, which expands into a wider theatrical release this weekend, is a movie filmed entirely out the back window. In one of the most audacious approaches to storytelling, Linklater and company filmed the actors for a few days every year for 12 years. Starting in 2002 and culminating in 2013, Boyhood follows Mason (Ellar Coltrane), his sister Samantha (Linklater’s daughter Lorelei) and their two divorced parents (Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette) as they live, work and play their way across the state of Texas. Mom tries her hardest to raise the children, Dad delivers philosophical epithets every other weekend and Mason and Samantha observe with a wide-eyed wonder the adult world that surrounds them, and will one day consume them. Boyhood isn’t about the fear of growing up; it’s about the inevitability. “Who do you want to be, Mason?” a teacher asks Mason. “What do you want to do? What can you bring to it that no else can?”
Those three questions lurk beneath the surface of entire film, though they are only explicitly asked late in the movie, with Mason as a high school student. The teacher (played by Tom McTigue) asks out of frustration, but they are the questions Mason, and the rest of us, must answer. Boyhood is an ambitious production, and for that fact alone it deserves to be seen, but it is how Linklater and his editor, Sandra Adair, handle the year-to-year transitions that imbue the work with a sense of grace. The passing of time lacks title cards and obvious signposts, simply allowing each shot to flow into the next. Periods become commas and the passing of time is punctuated by music on the radio and the proliferation of pop culture: Dragonball Z, Harry Potter, Britney Spears, Victoria’s Secret, Oregon Trail, Game Boy, Iraq War, Xbox, Tamagotchi, Internet Porn, Vigor Boards, Funny or Die, Nintendo Wii, Obama, Facebook, Star Wars, Kurt Vonnegut, Lady Gaga, Beer Pong, FaceTime, etc. They not only mark time, they invoke a particular memory for each viewer, taking them back to a particular place, a particular emotion, a particular reference point in their life. Often, we move through life unaware of what is happening while it happens, merely going through the motions of the day to day. Only after the fact can we gaze out the back window and identify the moments that held the greatest impact. With Boyhood, Linklater found those moments and wove them into a beautiful tapestry. You would be a damn fool to miss it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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any dream of becoming professional artists and musicians, but there’s a slightly odder starry-eyed dream that has shared practice space in garages over the last 20 years: making it as a beer brewer. Just like those bands who feel they have mastered their chords and progressions, though, “homebrewers are a dime a dozen,” says Michael Memsic of Sanitas Brewing Company. And despite how good your friends say your award-winning homebrew is, there’s a lot more to it than recipe development. In fact, the best way to describe a professional brewer would be as a glorified janitor, plumber and mechanic. With the explosion of breweries in the U.S. (a 56 percent increase from 2010 to 2013, according to the Brewer’s Association), more brewers Michael Memsic, with Sanitas Brewing Company will be needed to meet the demand of jobs. So how does one build their resume to stand above the crowd? At June’s meeting, two of them, tually became head winemaker. He has In a small, rented space above a Orion Chandler and Trevor Johnson, sat since moved back to his home state of Chinese restaurant in Boulder, the on a back couch discussing their latest Colorado with his wife and daughter with us homebrew club Hop Barley & the Alers brews. Each are looking to become pro- and works as a realtor,Connect focusing on meets monthly. Although a majority of fessional brewers, but that is where their working with fellow homebrewers. He the formal discussions are about food similarities end. initially intended on getting a job as a and beverage assignments and where the Chandler has a degree in brewer for a local brewery, but the $11/ best new drinking locations are, a few Fermentation Science from Oregon hour pay rate was not enough to supindividuals are there with larger ambiState and began working at a winery in port his young family. Chandler would tions. Oregon after graduation where he even- still like to brew professionally one day,
but it would have to be the right fit with better pay. “I really like the idea of an employee-owned brewery,” says Chandler. “In this way everyone is paid fairly for their labor and love of craft beer.” Johnson was born and raised in Boulder and dropped out of CU to pursue his passion of brewing. His friends that stayed were having trouble finding work after they graduated, which helped him realize he’d made the right decision. “Having a degree didn’t equate to job security or happiness, so I decided to chase my dream,” says Johnson. He has since been shadowing at several breweries for the past three years, and approaches them with the pitch that he’d like to learn more about profesConnect us have sional brewing. with The breweries reacted positively. “To date, not a single brewery has refused to teach me how to do something or refused to answer a question, ever! Try to find that kind of love in any other industry,” Johnson says. He intends on opening his own brewhouse, Black Cat Brewing, once he and a group of carefully chosen advisers have raised enough money. Which of these individuals has the see HOMEBREWERS Page 44
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best chance of becoming a professional somebody with experience, and somebrewer? It’s hard to say. Traditional jobs body who has been here and hussled,” often require a set amount of education Memsic explained. and several years of experience; however, He does say that if someone already brewing is by far no traditional occupafits in with their culture and has the tion. To find out what it takes, two local education, they will be a step ahead, but brewers at Sanitas and Fate Brewing the school of hard knocks is still the Companies in Boulder offered their norm, and he’s much more willing to advice. promote someone who has worked for The CEO and co-founder of Sanitas proving themselves. Sanitas, Michael Memsic, began homeFate’s head brewer, Jeff Griffith, brewing in college at CU, where he also started out as a homebrewer, and decided one day he’d own a brewery. His after getting laid off as an engineer first position was working on the canstarted working at Golden City ning line at Oskar Blues in Lyons. Brewery in Golden, following a lead “On paper, from a friend. All Courtesy of FATE Brewing Company worst job ever,” said of his experience Memsic, referring came from “on the to the inconsistent job training,” said hours and $7/hour Griffith. He then pay. However, “it went to work with was the greatest I Fate’s owner several had ever had,” said years later to develMemsic. op the brewing side He says it was a of the business labor of love within from the ground a passion industry. floor. Griffith is on After graduating he his second assistant was out of the beer brewer, and says he biz for six months, looks for someone but returned by who can hit the working the botground running without much tling line at Boulder Jeff Griffith, Fate’s head brewer. training. From an Beer Company educational perwhere he eventually spective, Griffith says it seems as moved up to the brewhouse the followthough everyone has some sort of eduing year. It’s much more common for cation as opposed to ten years ago someone to spend 4-5 years on a canwhen he started. He still says it isn’t ning line, or even more, before moving necessary, but definitely plays a factor up to actual brewing, Memsic explains. Learning about process flow and what is more so than it used to just because more people have it. The biggest barrihappening at each stage of the business er is learning how a professional brewis how one gets experience. Memsic eventually left Boulder Beer ery works, so the best way to break into the industry is to “ask around to see if to start Sanitas Brewing with several they could do anything, because they’re other brewers who came up much the not going to walk in the door and start same way he did, by either volunteering brewing,” said Griffith. Cleaning kegs, or working menial jobs in breweries to prove they had the mettle to work in the bottling and packaging, “the little things,” are what an entry-level brewer brewhouse. should expect to be doing. He will eventually need additional “It’s not glamorous,” explains staff for his quickly growing brewery, and he’ll be looking for individuals with Griffith. What both Memsic and Griffith brewing experience, but most imporagree on is that you have to have a pastantly, he’ll be looking for those who fit sion for and dedication to the industry. in with the culture and are willing to Those first few years won’t be worth make a sacrifice. Memsic gives the scrubbing kegs for minimum wage if example of their sales lead who sold a profitable liquor store to join Sanitas for you don’t. However, if you love working with like-minded individuals and can a significant pay cut. make the initial sacrifice, you may have “[He did it] to take something over what it takes. Although education is with the promise that we’re going to do playing a larger role these days, fitting in something significant,” said Memsic. with the brewing culture and having a Although education is important, penchant for hard work will put you in Memsic prefers to educate his employthe best position every time. ees in the way he does business. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com “What I’m looking for in a brewer is Boulder Weekly
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This year’s National Tequila Day falls on Thirsty Thursday (July 24, to be precise) and Boulder’s Suerte Tequila is set to release four batches of limited-edition, Extra Añejo, or “ultra-aged,” fiveyear-old tequila this fall. Each of the four batches is drawn from a different charred American white oak whiskey barrel — making each batch unique. For Tequila Day, one of the company’s ideas for a distinguished tequila cocktail recipe to try is the “Rabbit Cooler,” a Suerte Blanco Tequila mixed with cucumber, Anaheim chili, lemon juice, sea salt, simple syrup and tonic water. Suerte Tequila, located at 1930 14th St., is made in the highlands of rural Jalisco, Mexico by Pedro Hernandez Barba, a former attorney in Guadalajara. Barba uses a tahona — a traditional, handcarved stone wheel — to crush blue weber agave and cooks the piñas of the the agave in a brick oven. For more recipe ideas and store locators, go to www.drinksuerte.com. — Maalikah Hartley
LOCAL FOOD THINK TANK WANTS SOLUTIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM
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FLAGSTAFF HOUSE WINS WINE SPECTATOR’S GRAND AWARD
It was recently announced that Boulder’s prestigious mountain restaurant, Flagstaff House, was one of 74 restaurants worldwide to be awarded Wine Spectator Magazine’s most esteemed Grand Award — an honor they’ve won every year since 1983. Qualified restaurants typically offer 1,500plus wine selections spanning the world’s classic wine regions. Service, wine cellar and ambiance are among the other criteria examined for the annual award. Flagstaff’s commitment to fine wine and their 15,000-bottle wine cellar has made them a top contender. “We’re thrilled to be recognized again for the commitment we have to offering one of the best wine cellars in the world,” owner and general manager Scott Monette said in a press release.
Boulder. Classes are located on-site at the Growing Garden’s at 1630 Hawthorn Ave. There, Chef Montgomery will demonstrate how to pick ripe, organic vegetables, basic knife set skills, how to use fresh herbs and aromatics, and intuitive cooking. Creative ideas for using and storing tomatoes and squash will also be discussed while fall classes will focus on cheese and bread making, pickling, and preserving. Heirloom Tomato Gazpacho, Squash Fritters and Zucchini Pappardelle are some of the items to be prepared. Classes are held on Thursdays, July 24, Aug. 7 and Aug. 21 from 6-8:30 p.m. and are $40, which includes samples to taste and a recipe packet. To register, visit www.growinggardens.org or call them at 303-443-9952. — Maalikah Hartley Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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recent Twitter conversation with my fitness nut of an ex-boss: Me: “Do you even eat ice cream? I thought Crossfit makes you cut fun out of your diet altogether.” Her: “I Crossfit so that I can eat and drink whatever I want. Paleo was no fun.” By all outward appearances, I’d have to agree. Any diet that cuts out grains, dairy and legumes is going to make for a really crappy bean and cheese burrito. And in general, Paleo is kind of crap, since most people don’t know what to do with it other than what not to Blooming Beets eat. But that’s where the art3303 30th St., istry comes in. In the same Boulder, way Hitchcock’s films became 303-443-3479 more suspenseful from the ways he was forced to shoot around what he couldn’t show on screen, a good chef can turn those limitations to their advantage, focusing not on what to cut out, but how to best use what’s available. That’s the sort of Paleo diet food being dished out at Blooming Beets, a relatively new restaurant in north-ish Boulder. An easy way to see it in practice is the drinks menu, which is packed with locally made, grain-free ciders made from pineapple, lemongrass and berries. There’s also apple if you’re not feeling adventurous. A bowl of chilled beet, ginger-citrus bisque ($7.50) was thick and sweet, a little closer to a porridge than a bisque, but a lovely appetizer with an unusual flavor palate.
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A burger Benedict ($13) from the brunch menu was blended with a smoky seasoning and came atop a bed of roasted yams, beets and onion. The hollandaise wasn’t the most hollandaisy ever, making the whole thing a bit closer to a bunless royal burger (burger with an egg) than any sort of Benedict, but it was still a tasty dish that was a pleasant departure from standard menu offerings across restaurants, which typically offer the same dishes with only minor tweaks, primarily in quality of ingredients. Both the burger benedict and the beet bisque are not going to be found on other menus, because why would they? They’re Paleo. I finished things off with a lovely piece of chocolate lava cake baked fresh using almond flour so to keep things Paleo. And keeping things Paleo is key, as Blooming Beets even has the slogan “The Beauty of Primal Eating,” posted in several places like a mantra. But
here’s the thing: There’s nothing primal about it. The restaurant’s interior is done up in a bright fresh décor, with whitewashed wood paneling and lots of natural light from big windows at the front. The food is far classier than the average middle-class cave person was likely to be chowing down on, and it ain’t cheap. Blooming Beets is lifestyle eating if anything, no different in principle than the hip pizza joint or the restaurant that serves the same chow for twice the price as the corner diner just by adding a white table cloth. I was even turned away the first time I tried to review the joint because I wasn’t a member of the Paleo meetup group who were lunching there that day. Behind the server turning me away was a large supply of empty tables. The service was much friendlier on my second visit. Paleo might not be fun, as my ex-boss alleged, but at Blooming Beets, it’s certainly not the food that will lead you to that conclusion. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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im Sonn, owner of the Pearl Street Pub, had every reason to be apprehensive on July 16. The downtown bar he owns was up for the annual renewal of its liquor license. Normally, it can be handled by mail. But after Boulder’s Beverage Licensing Authority (which oversees liquor licenses) slapped the Pearl Street Pub with an eight-day closure for an incident (which a jury later exonorated Sonn of ), he had to to defend the liquor license, the lifeblood of his business, personally, to the same board he and other local bar owners have spent the last six months clashing with. But the Pearl Street Pub sailed through its renewal process. The only stipulation was next year’s renewal will also require Sonn to appear in person. Board members that only several months earlier had demanded bar owners be drug before the board to answer for their moral failings, even without any charges against them, appeared to have evolved into a more subdued form. But the board aren’t the only ones evolving since the spotlight was pointed on the BLA in Boulder Weekly’s March 27 cover story, “The New Moral Crusade.” After “What Could Go Wrong,” a June 12 follow-up, members of the Boulder City Council contacted BW as well. “I’ve heard from enough restaurants — and ones that are not considered to be problem establishments — that the process isn’t fair,” says City Council member Andrew Shoemaker. “If somebody loses their business for a week or two, the markets are low enough that can kill them.” A proposal to replace the BLA with a legally trained hearing officer was floated in October of last year with a larger package of alcohol reforms. Boulder adopted most of the reforms, but restructuring the BLA was tabled with council members Macon Cowles, Lisa Morzel, Tim Plass, George Karakehian and then Deputy Mayor Ken Wilson leading the punt. Shoemaker wasn’t yet on council when that vote was held, but now that he is, he brought the idea up again at a City Council study session in April. “The public had or was losing conBoulder Weekly
fidence in the BLA and the perception of this is critical,” says Shoemaker. “I was interested in revisiting the idea of whether disciplinary hearings should be turned over to a judge.” In a total reversal, Councilman Karakehian spoke up as well. “It sort of came back to one of the questions related to, you know, if someone could take a breathalyzer test,” he said. “If someone says, ‘Oh, you’re drunk,’ and they say, ‘No, I’m not.’ It’s all visual.” Earlier in the study session, Karakehian asked police representatives if they used breathalyzers to determine whether someone was drunk as part of over-service stings. The answer was no. Karakehian also said he’d received many concerned calls and emails. “I believe we need to take a real hard look at this,” he said. His comments seem to indicate evolution. BW contacted Karakehian several times for further comment, but he did not respond. The lack of clarity on over-service is one of Shoemaker’s concerns as well. “The fact that whether somebody’s overserved is much more subjective for the issue than whether the person has a fake ID or not,” he says. But Shoemaker opposed the other alcohol reforms which forced most bars on the hill to close at 11 p.m. as well. “If the bars close at 11, then you know people are just getting started,” he says. “You just have to accept that in college. And where are they going to go? Are they going to walk to a house party or walk down to Pearl Street?” Shoemaker, a Hill resident, says house parties, not bars, are the topic of frustration amongst neighbors. It’s an issue he views through a personal lens. “My daughter is 14,” he says. “When she’s old enough to drink, I’d much rather she be supervised at a bar than doing grain shots at a house party.” Shoemaker says that if Council wanted to revisit the proposal, the fact that language is already drafted means it could be adopted quickly. But he would need broader support. “If five people aren’t even willing to talk about it, then it’s not worth making a motion,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Dear Dan: I am a gay man and have been in a relationship with my GGG boyfriend for more than three years. We are in our early 20s and have a good sex life. I just discovered that he has been engaging in what can only be described as cyber-infidelity. He had a secret e-mail account, posted on Craigslist M4M, and also had an Adam4Adam account. About once a week, while I was at work in the evenings, he would exchange photos and engage in conversations with other men. He claims he never met with any of them and it was just to exchange photos. He let me look at his secret e-mail account, and there was nothing that pointed to any physical meet-ups. I asked him to delete his accounts, and he did. I am completely shocked, as we have an intimate and loving relationship. He is ashamed and understands that his behavior is wrong. I understand if he wants to look at porn on his own time (I certainly do), but the quantity and secrecy of his actions is obviously not healthy. We have major life plans together, and I don’t doubt that he is committed to me. Where do I go from here, and what steps should I take to make sure it stops? Stressing Over Cyber-Infidelity Dear SOCI: It isn’t true that your boyfriend’s actions can “only be described as cyber-infidelity.” They could be described as “harmless online flirtations.” But you’ve chosen to slap the “infidelity” label on his actions, SOCI, and now you feel compelled to have a full-blown my-boyfriendcheated-on-me meltdown. Try looking at it this way: If your boyfriend regularly stopped at a bar to have a cocktail, and people flirted with him, and he flirted back — and that’s all he did — would that constitute an “appletini infidelity”? If some guys looked him up and down in the locker room, and he looked those guys up and down back, would that constitute a “cardio infidelity”? No and no — and a boyfriend who flipped out about those sorts of interactions would be regarded as jealous, insecure, and controlling. So what difference does it make that your boyfriend did a little online flirting? Is it that your boyfriend jacked off thinking about these other guys? You jack off thinking about other guys when you watch porn. Is it that he jacked off thinking about and interacting with guys he could actually Boulder Weekly
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In the latter part of the 18th century, American rebels and rabble-rousers used to gather regularly in the basement of the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston. There they plotted the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere’s ride, and other dissident adventures that opposed British Rule. That’s why the Green Dragon became known as the “Headquarters of the Revolution.” I think you and your cohorts need a place like that, Libra. It’s high time for you to scheme and dream about taking coordinated actions that will spur teamwork and foster liberation.
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As you weave your way through the next chapter of your story, I suggest you take inspiration from the turtle. You may even want to imagine that the turtle is your animal ally, a guide that helps you access the gradual and deliberate kind of intelligence you will need. Moving quickly will not be appropriate for the leisurely lessons that are coming your way. The point is to be deep and thorough about a few things rather than half-knowledgeable about a lot of things. There’s one other turtle-like quality I hope you will cultivate, too: the ability to feel at home wherever you are.
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“When one has not had a good father, one must create one,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. What does that mean? How might you go about “creating” a good father? Well, you could develop a relationship with an admirable older man who is an inspiring role model. You could read books by men whose work stirs you to actualize your own potentials. If you have a vigorous inner life, you could build a fantasy dad in your imagination. Here’s another possibility: Cultivate in yourself the qualities you think a good father should have. And even if you actually had a pretty decent father, Scorpio, I’m sure he wasn’t perfect. So it still might be interesting to try out some of these ideas. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to get more of the fathering energy you would thrive on.
SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:
“If I seem free, it’s because I’m always running.” So said Sagittarian musician Jimi Hendrix, widely regarded as one of the most inventive and electrifying guitarists who ever lived. Does that prospect have any appeal to you, Sagittarius? I don’t, of course, recommend that you keep running for the rest of your long life. After a while, it will be wise to rest and ruminate. But I do think it might be illuminating to try this brazen approach for a week or two. If it feels right, you might also want to mix in some dancing and skipping and leaping with your running.
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In the next 11 months, Capricorn, you will be given some choice riddles about the art of togetherness. To solve them, you will have to learn much more about the arts of intimacy — or else! It’s up to you: Either work your ass off as you strengthen your important relationships, or else risk watching them unravel. But don’t take this as a grim, sobering assignment. On the contrary! Play hard. Experiment freely. Be open to unexpected inspiration. Have fun deepening your emotional intelligence. That approach will work best.
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LEO
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According to the legends about Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, the boy who would ultimately become King Arthur didn’t know he was heir to the throne while he was growing up. His future destiny was hidden from him. The wizard Merlin trained him but made sure he never found out he was special. When the old King Uther Pendragon died, a tournament was staged to find a replacement. The winner would be whoever was able to withdraw the enchanted sword that was embedded in a large stone. Quite by accident, our hero got a chance to make an attempt. Success! I have reminded you of the broad outlines of this tale, Leo, because at least one of its elements resembles your destiny in the next 11 months.
VIRGO
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When a crocodile slams its jaws shut, the energy it summons is powerful. But when the beast opens its jaws, the force it exerts is weak. That’s because the muscles used to close are much more robust than the muscles used to open. I’m wondering if an analogous story might be told about you these days, Virgo. Are you more prone to close down than to open up? Is it easier for you to resist, avoid, and say no than it is to be receptive, extend a welcome, and say yes? If so, please consider cultivating a better balance. You need both capacities running at full strength in the coming days.
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Hypothesis: The exciting qualities that attract you to someone in the first place will probably drive you a bit crazy if you go on to develop a long-term relationship. That doesn’t mean you should avoid seeking connections with intriguing people who captivate your imagination. It does suggest you should have no illusions about what you are getting yourself into. It also implies that you should cultivate a sense of humor about how the experiences that rouse your passion often bring you the best tests and trials. And why am I discussing these eccentric truths with you right now? Because I suspect you will be living proof of them in the months to come.
PISCES
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In 1961, Paul Cezanne’s painting The Artist’s Sister was on display at a museum in Aix-en-Provence, France. Then a lucky event occurred: It was stolen. When it was finally recovered months later, it had been ripped out of its frame. An art restorer who was commissioned to repair it discovered that there was a previously-unknown Cezanne painting on the back of the canvas. As a result, the appraisal of the original piece rose $75,000. Now both sides are on view at the St. Louis City Art Museum. I foresee a comparable progression in your life, Pisces. An apparent setback will ultimately increase your value.
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