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Highroad How to lift up America’s middle class by Jim Hightower
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ome days, I get a bad case of “trichotillomania” an irresistible compulsion to tear out my hair. My latest outbreak was triggered by a New York Times opinion piece by Peter Georgescu, the former chairman of the giant PR outfit, Young & Rubicam. He issued a clarion call for his corporate peers to reverse the dangerous widening of income inequality Boulder Weekly
in our country by increasing the paychecks of America’s workaday majority. “We business leaders know what to do,” he wrote, “but do we have the will to do it?” Apparently, no. But he says he knows just the thing that’ll jar the CEOs into action: Corporate wagehike subsidies. Yes, he actually wants us taxpayers to give money to bloated, uber-rich corporations so they can pay a dab more to their employees! As Lily Tomlin says, “No matter how cynical you get, it’s hard to keep up.” First of all, paying to get “good behavior” would reward bad behavior, completely absolving CEOs and wealthy shareholders of their guilt in creating today’s gross inequality. They’re the ones who’ve pushed relentlessly to disempower labor unions, downsize and privatize the workforce, send jobs offshore, defund education and social programs, and otherwise dismantle the framework that once sustained
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America’s healthy middle class. Secondly, Georgescu & Company are proposing that working families be reduced to charity cases, lucky to be “given” a dollop of aid by generous bosses. He’s obviously clueless about the deep democratic yearning that has sparked a rising worker rebellion across our country. People are not seeking handouts, but the economic and political power to lift themselves up. As Larry Hanley, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, said in response to Gerogescu’s offer of charity: “Strengthen labor laws, and we can have democracy and equality again.” This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. August 27, 2015 7
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olorado may become the first tors to limit patient choice. Under state to establish a universal ColoradoCare, you could go to any dochealth care system in the tor, hospital, chiropractor, physical therU.S. In July, the Secretary of apist (etc.). The patient will choose the State certified a proposed doctor and hospital, not an insurance initiative for the 2016 ballot that would company. create a universal cooperative plan called The private, for-profit insurance ColoradoCare. They have to collect industry would no longer be a middle 99,000 valid signatures by October 16 man. That would save an enormous (they are planning to get 120,000). amount of money. Our current multiThis is the project of the Colorado payer non-system with 400-plus insurers Foundation for Universal Health Care is incredibly wasteful. The Institute of and its campaign arm, Medicine estimates that on a national ColoradoCareYES. basis, 27 percent of health care expendiThe board chair of the foundation, tures ($765 billion in 2012) are unnecDenver journalist and filmmaker T.R. essary and avoidable. Private health Reid, has traveled insurers spend bilthe world and lions on paperwork, compared the bright and shiny “crazy quilt” U.S. marketing, stupendous executive salahealth care system WORLD’S INDUSTRIAL ries, etc. A recent with those of other DEMOCRACIES PROstudy showed that developed counbetween 1970 and tries in three films VIDE HIGH-QUALITY 2010, the number for PBS and a HEALTH CARE FOR of U.S. physicians best-selling book, EVERYBODY — ALL OF has increased about The Healing of 200 percent while America: A Global THEM, THAT IS, the number of Quest for Better, EXCEPT THE WORLD’S Cheaper, and Fairer administrators has RICHEST COUNTRY, Health Care. increased about Reid says: “All 3,300 percent. THE USA.” of the world’s Administrative —T.R. REID industrial democcomplexity continracies provide highues to grow with quality health care the private insurfor everybody — all of ance-based ACA. them, that is, except the world’s A study of the ColoradoCare plan richest country, the USA. Obamacare by economist Gerald Friedman of the has significantly expanded coverage — University of Massachusetts at Amherst but it falls well short of the goal. If concluded that ColoradoCare would Obamacare works perfectly, according decrease the total cost of health care by to the Congressional Budget Office, it $4.4 billion by eliminating administrawill still leave 31 million people unintive waste. sured in 2020 — including some Under ColoradoCare, all billing 400,000 in Colorado.” from health care providers would go The ColoradoCare plan is based directly to ColoradoCare and it would upon a proposal by State Senator and be paid for through a tax. Employees physician Dr. Irene Aguilar. She was would contribute 3.33 percent of gross prompted to work towards a state-wide income and employers would contribute initiative after hearing numerous com6.67 percent of payroll. There would be plaints about the Affordable Care Act no premiums, no deductibles. There (ACA or Obamacare). She says that would be no co-pays for most prevenunder the ACA, premiums are too high, tive and primary care, and those co-pays some people can’t afford health insurwould be waived if they cause financial ance even with the subsidies and cohardship. pays, co-insurance and deductibles can It would be cheaper for employers as be prohibitive for people with chronic well as employees. Reid says currently, diseases. employees spend 6 to 10 percent of Under ACA, insurance companies are creating “narrow networks” of docsee COMMENTARY Page 10
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Under those circumstances, Biden might have a chance. I’d vote for anybody Elizabeth Warren was propping up.
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y friend died last night. I found him early this morning. Todd Matthew Williams was just 51. He suffered from congestive heart failure — at least that’s what we guessed. Despite a life of work — six years in the U.S. Army, several years teaching Native American children on a reservation in South Dakota, several years working for a nonprofit in Albuquerque, driving trucks in Portland — Todd had no health insurance. He never went to the doctor and so he died. Young. Wait! Wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to eliminate all that? Todd was fired from his last trucking job for getting into some fender benders and had been healthy his whole adult life until relatively recently. Looking back, I suspect he was simply beginning to show symptoms of his heart condition a year ago. But he was a private man and in some ways all too typical of many men, who, as Dave Barry once wrote, usually wait to see a doctor until something serious happens, like decapitation. When will we finally decide as a nation that we should learn to follow the example of every other advanced nation on Earth from Canada to Japan to all of Europe to Australia and on and on — universal health care? We endure more than 26,000 premature adult deaths annually in America because millions still have no real access to a health care system that is
advanced and can prevent early mortalities? My friend Kent was diagnosed with a congestive heart condition when he was 60. He was, and is, insured. He is 74 and going strong, with proper care and medication. Todd finally told me on Sunday that he was having trouble walking. He showed me his legs, swollen and with the bruises typical of edema often produced by congestive heart failure. A routine check-up a year ago may well have treated and largely corrected this. But of course health care is a privilege in the USA. It is your right, as a U.S. citizen, to have more than 7,000 expensive nuclear weapons on obscenely costly Trident submarines and Stealth bombers, all prepped all the time to destroy life on Earth. It is your right, as an American, to project power and dominance from approximately 1,000 military bases on the sovereign soil of other people’s lands, costing far more than universal health care would ever cost. No other country does this. Find me the Chinese bases in Europe; find me the Russian bases in Oceana or Africa. Look in 153 of the 193 nation-states on Earth and you’ll find only U.S. bases. Look in Todd’s room and you won’t find him. He and thousands of others are sacrificed on the altar of militarism every year. Can we change this? Can we replace elected officials until they finally fix it? Please? Dr. Tom H. Hastings is Founding Director of PeaceVoice Boulder Weekly
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Correction: Last week’s Eco-Briefs (August 20), contained an incorrect date in the story titled “Graywater may no longer be used to flush toilets.” The article stated that a stakeholder hearing on graywater would be taking place on August 25. The article should have said that the hearing is taking place on August 28 at 9 a.m. For more information go to http://tinyurl.com/ o54psut
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Joel, I happened across your article regarding Boulder City Council petition shenanigans (Re: “Wanted: Fifty Boulder voters who think local government matters”). Thanks for exposing the bullshit, and for alerting us all to the need to go downtown. I rode over there, found the table, was glad that full transparency ensued so I could decide which petitions to sign (I can’t say “people to support” but that wasn’t my direct mission at this time). I always look forward to reading BW’s election coverage and endorsements. Bart Windrum/Boulder
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recently completed citizens’ study used publicly available data to double-check the city’s modeling. The study shows that the city results were, if anything, conservative. The study compared two options for Boulder’s energy future: staying with the current utility, the Public Service of Colorado (PSCo) “status quo,” or opting for a Boulder municipal utility. The results show, with 90 percent confidence, that the municipal option is significantly more likely to provide lower emissions and better financial value for Boulder customers. For example, in a randomized analysis with 10,000 trials, the range of total customer cost per kWh for the municipal utility is not only competitive with the PSCo status quo in the highest cost trials, but also has a better opportunity for lower cost in the lowest cost trials. Also, emissions driving climate change are significantly lower with the municipal utility option, which limits CO2 pollution to far less than half of the pollution from the PSCo status quo over 20 years. Joe McDonald/Boulder
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gross income on health care and businesses (according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) pay 10 percent of payroll. ColoradoCare would operate using the cooperative business model. It would be owned by and accountable to the residents of Colorado. An elected Board of Trustees would hire and oversee the professional staff. The board would have 21 elected representatives from seven districts in the state. While it would be a political subdivision of the state, it wouldn’t fall under the legislature, governor or any administrative department or agency. There are many cooperatives in the United States such as credit unions (which, as a group, topped one trillion dollars in assets in 2012), Recreational Equipment, Inc. or REI (with 17 million members), Group Health Cooperative in Seattle (a large insurer and health care provider since 1947), the winning Green Bay Packers football
team (owned by the residents of Green Bay), and Rural Electric Cooperatives (which increased the number of rural homes with electricity from 10 percent in the 1930s to 90 percent in the 1950s). Every Coloradan would have comprehensive health care — including mental health and some vision and dental — at all times without any exceptions. ColoradoCare is possible due to the “state opt-out” Section 1332 clause of ACA which allows a state to create its own system if it is as good as the ACA. That will be easy. We were ahead of every other state when we legalized marijuana. Let’s do the same with universal health care and join the civilized world. Find out more at www. ColoradoCareYES.co. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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the Boulder Rural Fire Department, as well as Karen who witnessed my accident, for helping me as I was lying on the ground with my bike at the intersection of 63rd Street and Highway 119 after a car had made an unexpected and illegal right turn across my straight path. To turn right onto 119 toward Boulder you have to take the exit ramp to the right before the first traffic light. As I started across the intersection, I was suddenly squeezed to the right and to the ground. The lesson for me is that at that intersection I need to check also that any car on my LEFT is not about to turn RIGHT across my path. The state trooper at the scene told me later, “He never saw you!” In sunshine, 2 p.m. —“He never saw you!” Marc Bekoff had the same experience, as have many others: “She didn’t see me!” (Bikes and lights, 7/27/15). Thanks to my rearview mirror I am always wary of such right turns in town, but at 63rd/119 riding south, I wasn’t since I had never seen anyone turn right there, though the trooper said that right turns are actually not illegal there. As Mr. Bekoff suggests, I’m now also turning on my taillight during the day. The realities here are: if the cyclist doesn’t see the car, he may be injured or killed; if the motorist doesn’t see the cyclist, it’s still the cyclist likely to be injured or killed, but the motorist risks neither. The recent complaints against “bike-friendly” streets and the reduction of motor vehicle lanes are baseless as motorists in their cars never risk life or limb from cyclists riding their bikes, whereas cyclists run these risks every day. As Council Member Mary Dolores Young writes: “You are being asked to sacrifice a little bit of time for the sake of your own and others’ safety” (7/4/15). Major problems for cyclists are, in my view: 1.Driver cuts cyclist off turning right/left; 2. Driver has one hand on wheel, the other on cell phone, while turning; 3. Driver rushes to intersection, wheels barely stopping, as cyclist crosses, unsure it’s safe; 4. Driver signals left turn only 1-2 feet, or no feet, before turning, instead of 100 feet; 5. Driver races to pass cyclist before traffic circle without allowing cyclist to pass safely, though sign warns against it. This is but a short list of the risks, but it grows longer as driver distractions increase and the pace and complexity of the hectic Boulder life-style go up along with driver impatience. Boulder Weekly
The days of being able to car-zip from Gunbarrel to downtown Boulder in 15 minutes, as one lady complained years ago, are over. The remedy for such complaints is planning, which is even more important for cyclists than motorists as they can’t just push on the gas pedal. That said, I haven’t missed or been late for an appointment by bike in many years.
Update: Before this went to press, a common repeat of # 4 above: I, the cyclist, ride straight toward intersection; oncoming driver has just stopped at point of our intersecting paths, ONLY THEN signals left turn; as I proceed across slowly, not yet having passed our point of intersection, driver’s wheels start turning — slowly but moving, before I have crossed the intersection. It’s a fail-
ure to yield properly; it’s dangerous, it’s illegal, and it is normal for most Boulder drivers. Did I mention that on the day of my accident, June 26, Fort Collins cyclist Steve Studt was not so lucky and became the 10th cyclist killed by a vehicle in Larimer County since 2000? I think it is safe to say that Boulder County’s record isn’t much better. Manfred Schwoch/Boulder
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news Boulder City Council weighs how to tax, regulate short-term housing rentals by Matt Cortina
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n Thursday, Aug. 27, the Boulder City Council will determine the fate of two ordinances that seek to regulate and tax short-term rentals of homes within the city. One ordinance will codify rules and regulations for any Boulder homeowner wishing to rent their home on a short-term basis on sites like Airbnb and VRBO. Those regulations could include home inspections and license requirements. The other ordinance would put forth on the November ballot a question to raise about $400,000 through a 7.5 percent tax on these short-term rentals. Some homeowners say the regulations go too far and may even threaten their ability to rent their houses, apartments and condos. City Council heard concerns from more than 40 shortterm renters in the city upon the ordinance’s first reading several months ago. Thursday’s vote will bring out of the woodwork even more renters who question the feasibility and fairness of the proposed regulations. And it’s a large group — homeowners in Boulder who rent out their living spaces for days or weeks at a time. The number of listings on Airbnb, for instance, increased from 31 in 2008 to 1,800 last year. Granted, Airbnb started in 2008, but the statistics show that it’s too popular for City Council to ignore any longer. Renting out your home is technically illegal in Boulder because renters are not subject to the same taxes and regulation that hotels and other short-term dwelling establishments are. So the regulatory ordinance, first and foremost, legalizes the practice. There has long been a majority on Council that the practice should be legalized; the discussion has always been about how much regulation needed to occur. “My best guess is we will probably pass something
this year that will legalize short-term rentals, but there will definitely be restrictions on them,” Mayor Matt Appelbaum told Boulder Weekly earlier this year. The proposed regulations on short-term rentals were approved at the first reading in June. These rules would be codified on Thursday, if approved. The first ordincance would do the following: Renters would have to meet all the requirements of a rental license, and obtain said license. Long-term renters in Boulder already have to acquire this license, which stipulates standards on lighting, ventilation, heating, fire safety, cleanliness and occupancy. And short-term rentals would only be allowed on the renter’s main property, and the renter would have to live in the unit at least 275 days per year. This regulation is meant to prohibit serial renters or big spenders from coming in and renting out multiple units, in which they do not live, on a short-term basis. The ordinance would also allow for short-term rentals on spaces one step removed from the main living quarters, like rooms, attached dwelling units and second floor apartments. And, short-term rentals would be prohibited in permanently affordable housing units. The second ordinance, meanwhile, will put a 7.5 percent tax on short-term rentals. The tax is similar to the hospitality tax that hotels in Boulder have to pay. Voters in November will be asked if they want to increase taxes by $400,000 annually through this tax if the ordinance passes. Meanwhile on Wednesday, Boulder City Attorney Tom Carr said that the Council Agenda Committee (CAC), which consists of Appelbaum, Suzanne Jones and Tim Plass, requested that an alternate ordinance
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be placed before Council that would completely ban all short-term rentals in the event that the second ordinance, the tax measure, fails. Aside from that, there are concerns about the logistics of both ordinances. Starting with the tax issue, some short-term renters think it’s unfair to tax a homeowner who already pays taxes on his or her property. “I have an issue that I already pay taxes to live in my house, and I pay school taxes,” says Benjamin Buren, a longtime Airbnb renter in Boulder. “The people who are coming to stay in my house are adding a great revenue stream to this town. I don’t feel overly comfortable being taxed again.” Buren also says he takes exception with the proposed tax rate, saying it “seems rather high to me.” “We want to make it fair to hotels, but I don’t think we’re on the same playing ground,” he says. But Henry Parry-Okeden, co-founder of the Boulder-based short-term rental site InvitedHome, says the tax is fair, and common in many of the resort towns that his company operates in. “I actually think it’s fine,” Parry-Okeden says. “We view it not as a tax to the homeowner, but as a tax to the guest. If you go to a house, you’ll see the price is broken up very clearly. We add that on top of the charges because that’s the same way a hotel does it. A lot of that tax revenue goes to the town to support things that benefit tourists. The owner shouldn’t perceive that as a tax to them.” One of the gray areas of the ordinance is just how Boulder will collect these taxes, which are collected by the renter. Parry-Okeden says there are always those who try to skirt the rules and collect the tax, without reporting it or passing it along to the city. But there’s also no real way for Boulder regulators to know just how often someone is renting out their space, and thus how much in taxes they owe, Buren says. Meanwhile, the current ordinance will discourage people from following rules because of all the hoops Boulder Weekly
news they’ll have to jump through, he says. “It’s going to encourage people to not follow rules,” Buren says. “They’re set too strict right now. Airbnb has no obligation to turn over information to the city. The only way the city can regulate it is to send people out and act as Airbnb [users] and make sure they’re following the rules.” Parry-Okeden says that in some towns, city regulators will go through all the Airbnb, VRBO and other listings and contact the owners of those units for taxes owed. Airbnb just announced it would collect taxes upon each booking in its largest operating city, Paris, on behalf of the owner. The company has done that in other cities like Philadelphia, Chicago and San Francisco. “There’s definitely ways for the government to regulate this,” ParryOkeden says, adding that in towns like Breckenridge, Vail and Aspen, where short-term rentals have been allowed and regulated for years, the wrinkles have already been ironed out. “[Regulation enforcement] varies from location to location,” he says. “A lot of them [resort towns] have been operating with them [rentals] for so long that they’ve kind of determined their way of handling things. … In a town like Boulder that maybe hasn’t figured all those things out, there may be some give and take until they find the best solution.” Buren says the other main aspect he and dozens of other short-term renters in Boulder take issue with is the proposed regulation on the housing unit’s maintenance. “The other aspect is having to get my house inspected by four to five different entities that say I’m up to [the] code that I already have to adhere to just by owning my house,” Buren says. “The city’s going to spend an inordinate amount of money to inspect them.” The city’s plan is to spend about $150,000 to $350,000 on inspections, though, the city says in its review of the ordinance that “the range is large due to not knowing for certain, at this time, what the scope of regulatory allowance may allow,” and that that information might not be known until 2017. It’s just another part of the give and take Parry-Okeden says Boulder will have to endure before it figures out the balance of how it wants to regulate short-term rentals. The ordinance on Thursday has eight amendments attached to it that will be discussed. The first amendment refers to Boulder’s so-called “sabbatical exception,” which allows homeowners to rent their homes without a license if Boulder Weekly
they leave the country rental licenses distributON THE AGENDA: for up to 12 months. ed to 1,000, while elimiPublic hearing and secThe city recommended nating the stipulation ond reading of two shortterm rental ordinances. 6 that the exception is that the units have to be p.m. 1777 Broadway, eliminated, thus requirowner-occupied. Boulder. ing short-term renters Councilwoman and those who rent Mary Young recomwhile out of the country to obtain a mended an amendment that would permit. simply limit each person to one perAnother amendment seeks to upmit; thus eliminating the owner-occuend the whole ordinance in a way. It pied restriction. would limit the amount of short-term The last notable amendment
would grandfather in those who have been renting their units for shortterm stays for a long period of time. Those who can prove that they have a history of this wouldn’t be subject to certain aspects of the tax and regulation. To read more about why Boulder homeowners say short-term rentals help them afford to live in town, read BW’s original report, “High density, low confidence” from April 30 on boulderweekly.com.
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Jeanette Vizguerra leads chants with her daughter Luna during a monthly vigil in Sept. 2014 protesting the for-profit immigration detention facitiliy operated by the GEO Group in Aurora, Colorado. Jeanette has spent over 40 days in the facility since 2009.
Someone like me The immigration journey of mother and advocate Jeanette Vizguerra by Angela K. Evans
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ome may call Jeanette Vizguerra an advocate, a leader, a hero. Still others label her illegal. But she identifies herself as a mother — “A mother that loves her children so much and that is going to do anything that is needed to be with them always,” she says, via an interpreter. “And also I want to do everything that is necessary so that no one else has to go through what I’m going through.” While the Aurora-based mother of four, grandmother of three, tirelessly speaks out about immigration reform, she continues to fight her own deportation and separation from her family. On Monday Aug. 24, she was granted another six-month stay of removal from officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while she continues to pursue every avenue to permanently stay in the U.S. with her children. Jeanette walks into our interview smiling, holding the hand of her youngest daughter Zury, age 4. “Her family name is Cookie. She’s a cookie monster,” Jeanette says in English, as Zury runs to find the toys Boulder Weekly
at the American Friends Service Committee office in downtown Denver. Posters of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Statue of Liberty that reads, “No Human Being is Illegal,” hang on the walls. Jeanette appears reasonably calm, despite the uncertainty of her present situation. She won’t know until later in the evening if her application to stay has been approved. For now, she officially has a final order of deportation and could technically be removed at any moment. She watches her daughter play as we make small talk. Our interpreter, Jennifer Piper from the Colorado Immigrant Rights Program, brings in a pitcher of water. After we all settle into our seats around the conference table, and Zury is content with an iPad in hand, I ask her mother to start at the beginning. She tells me that she and her husband, Salvador, moved to Colorado in 1997 for security reasons. “It was not for money. Economically we were doing really well. He (Salvador) got paid every single day at the end of his shift,” she says.
He worked as a public bus driver, but was held at gunpoint three different times while armed men told him to drive away from crowded public areas, then robbed everyone on the bus and even called family members demanding small ransoms. “One time I was on the bus while my husband was driving, and I couldn’t even imagine what would happen if he didn’t obey these guys,” Jeanette remembers. “They had the gun right to his head, it was so scary.” Luckily, their oldest, and at the time only, daughter Tania was at home with grandparents. Shortly after this happened for the third time, one of Salvador’s coworkers was found in his abandoned bus with a bullet in his head. He left behind a wife and two small daughters. “That was the deciding moment. My husband decided he needed to go elsewhere to look for a way to support our family,” Jeanette says. “It seems like since that time it’s just been one hard decision after the other.” Salvador would go first to live with relatives in Denver, and then send for Jeanette and Tania when he could. With tears running down her cheeks almost 20 years later, Jeanette describes the day Salvador left Mexico City for good in September 1997. They sat on a bench in a park near their house and cried together. It was their wedding anniversary. After a week, he called to say he was in Juarez looking for a way to cross the border. A week later and he called to say he had made it to Colorado. And a few months after that, he called to say it was time for Jeanette and Tania to join him. “It was difficult to decide. My mother was pushing me to go be with my husband,” she says. “But my See JOURNEY Page 16
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father didn’t want me to go. My daughter was the I was so hungry,” Jeanette says laughing. only grandchild on either side, and she was very well She both laughed and cried several times throughloved.” out our interview. Emotions that were both genuine Jeanette did decide to come to Denver, traveling and heartbreaking. At one point, she left the room to with six full suitcases and a 5-year-old on a bus driven take Zury out to Salvador who had come to pick her by a friend from Mexico City to Juarez. The bus was up. She came back into the office shaking her head stopped at two different checkpoints, where police and smiling. “The woman in the hall just asked me if officers asked for identification and bribes from every- I was the cleaning lady,” she says. “Well that’s offenone, including several people from Central America. sive,” Piper responds. True to her character, Jeanette told them not to speak, After that first Christmas, the first Christmas any knowing their accents would give them away. She of the Vizguerra family had ever seen snow, Jeanette would speak for them. She refused to pay any bribes struggled to set up her new life in Colorado. Unable and even wrote down the badge number of an espeto rent their own apartment without a social security cially menacing officer, threatening to report him. number or credit report, Salvador and Jeanette relied Everyone made it to Juarez. on the kindness of other immigrants to get on their She then spent over a month living in the border feet. “At each place on our path there have been peocity, waiting to cross into the U.S. When the time ple that have really tried to help us,” she says. came, she sent Tania in a car with an American citiEventually, Jeanette began janitorial work at large zen, coaching the 5-year-old to call this Courtesy AFSC other woman mom. “It was scary because only my husband knew this [woman]. I didn’t really know [her], and I wasn’t exactly sure that [she] would take her to be with my husband if I wasn’t able to cross,” Jeanette remembers. “I was really nervous and really anxious, and I wanted it to be over as fast as it possibly could.” She walked across the border with forged documents and without any issue, joining her daughter in the car on the U.S. side. But the car was stopped at a border patrol checkpoint near Las Cruces, New Mexico, where Jeanette was taken out of the car and detained. The woman, along with Tania, continued on to Colorado. Despite consistently asking to make a phone call and how long they would be held, Jeanette wasn’t given any information about what would happen next. She was held, with another woman, at the checkpoint all day and they were fed once, each Luna, Roberto and Zury Vizguerra with their mother Jeanette. given a burrito, which was foreign to Jeanette. “They don’t eat burritos in Mexico City,” Piper explains. Jeanette was eventually driven back to the border, office buildings around Denver. She and Salvador got where at about 3 a.m., “They put us in a gated, individual tax identification numbers and paid taxes enclosed hallway and the only side that was open was from the very beginning. “Even though I’m speaking into Mexico,” she says. out on these other things (immigration rights), I’m Alone in the notoriously dangerous Juarez in the doing my best to follow all the rules that I can,” she middle of the night, Jeanette found herself running says. through the city from three men trying to rob her. She worked for $5.25 an hour and then $6.20 for While she was running, another man grabbed her and supervisors and bosses who were demanding, cruel pulled her into a small restaurant. “I’ve always had a and who often overworked their employees, Jeanette lot of luck where the right people are in my path at says. She eventually discovered she was part of a labor the right time,” Jeanette says. This man was a journal- union, Service Employees International Union ist, and after chiding her for being out alone at night, (SEIU) Local 105, and she asked for a copy of the he arranged for her to stay with the restaurant owner. contract. “I’ve always been somebody who’s really curiIt took another few weeks, but resolved to find a ous, who has a lot of questions,” she says. “I asked a way to be with her daughter, Jeanette attempted to lot of questions how do you file a complaint, what do cross the border again, this time successfully. On the you do if the police show up. You know, everything U.S. side, she met up with a contact her husband that touches that system.” arranged and drove through the interior Border Patrol As Jeanette learned the contract cover to cover, she checkpoint early in the morning before it was open. began advocating based on what she read for other Jeanette made it to Denver on Christmas Eve janitorial employees around downtown Denver. “It’s 1997 where she reunited with both Salvador and always been a part of who I am from high school on Tania. “The first thing I did was give her (Tania) the … if I saw somebody doing something wrong it didn’t biggest hug ever. Then we just went out to eat because matter if it was a teacher or a student or a director of 16 August 27, 2015
the school,” she says. “I would always say something.” Eventually the leadership at SEIU asked Jeanette to work directly for Local 105, where she improved her English, traveled to other states and became well versed in politics and immigration. She also became a member of Rights for All People, an Aurora-based grassroots organization fighting racial and economic injustice, where she served for 13 years. “A thousand things happened in those 13 years,” Jeanette says. “I was able to really learn how to stand up for your rights and win,” she says. “I also learned to have a good instinct who was actually fighting with their heart for people not just cashing a check.” Plus it gave her a strategy to fight her own immigration battle, as she knew exactly what she had to do when she was first arrested, and how she had to do it. In 2009 she was pulled over while driving from her second job to apply for a third job. At the time Salvador was recovering from cancer treatment, and she was the only member of the family bringing in any income. The cop said he pulled her over for dirty plates — as in the license plates were too dirty to read. The first question he asked: “Are you legal or illegal?” With all of her experience in the labor movement, Jeanette knew her rights and refused to answer the question. She was arrested for driving without a license, never ticketed for anything on the vehicle, and her immigration case began. After her arrest, the officer found papers in her purse that she was planning to, but hadn’t yet, use to get the third job. Although she had been told the papers were forged — a made up identity — they were actually stolen. She was charged, and eventually convicted, with a misdemeanor in Arapahoe County. “That’s important because ICE views identity convictions as an issue of moral turpitude, that you have bad moral character,” Piper says. “The whole immigration [system] functions on this idea of good moral character and has for over a century. So the burden on you is to prove you have sufficient good moral character that you should be allowed to stay.” Jeanette was detained for 34 days at the private, for-profit Aurora Detention Facility operated by the GEO Group. That’s when she began a very public campaign through Rights for All People, as she was still fighting the identity theft charges. “I wanted to do the campaign not only based on my own experience, but of the experiences of so many other women that I met and heard in detention,” Jeanette says. “I left detention with so much rage at the injustices that were happening and I wanted to give voice to that. I wanted people to see what was happening every single day.” She recognized the risk of vocally and publicly raising awareness, but Jeanette, already in deportation proceedings, felt she had nothing to lose. “I knew it was a double-edged sword to have a public campaign. It could be something that could help me in my case or it could be something that would give them a reaSee JOURNEY Page 18
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“All of the work and the seeds that I plant along the way seem to give fruit at the last possible second. And that’s my intuition in this moment,” Jeanette says. “Everything I’ve been doing is correct, and at the end of the day it will have results. And every resource that crosses my path I gather it up to use it at the right moment.” And she may be right. Although ICE has only granted her another six months instead of the year she was hoping for, Jeanette received a U Visa certification from the Denver Police Department on the afternoon of Aug. 21. A U Visa is reserved for victims of certain crimes who aid officials in the investigation and/or prosecution of that crime. As a victim of a crime over 12 years ago, the details of which she was unwilling to talk about, Jeanette is cooperating with the investigators making her eligible for the three-year visa, with which she can apply for permanent residency and then eventually citizenship. The police department certification does not guarantee her the U Visa but it does help her case with ICE as U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) processes her visa application. “The agency’s (ICE) standard practice is not to deport someone who is in the application process. The whole point of the U Visa is for people who are undocumented to feel safe enough to come forward and cooperate in an investigation,” Piper says. “So if you deport during that process…” There is a U Visa quota each year, which will most likely be met by the deadline in October. Plus the application could still take Jeanette and her lawyers several months to complete. But USCIS can make a provisional determination at any point throughout the year, and Piper says the family is hopeful they will hear back before this most recent stay expires in February. While Jeanette slowly goes through the process, CELEBRATE WITH JEANETTE AND HER she’s spending as much time with her children as FAMILY: 1:30 p.m. possible. She describes recently spending all day Saturday, Aug. 19, with Zury, Luna, 11, and Roberto, 10, learning Ralston Central Park and Splash Pad, 5850 Garrison about their new passions and talents, as they were St., Arvada. getting ready to start school. In these moments she finds strength and resolve to keep fighting. But she does admit that her legal troubles are having an affect on her kids. “Sometimes when they are playing they talk about when they grow they will tell other people about the fight that we’ve raged and the things we’ve done together,” she says. She describes watching her youngest daughter, Zury, re-enact different situations with immigration and police officers rather than playing with dolls like she should be. With her background in child psychology from Mexico, Jeanette recognizes the impact the immigration system is having on U.S. citizen children — children like Zury, Luna and Roberto. “They are really the future of this country and the psychological damage that is being done by the system that we have now is going to have impacts for generations to come,” she says. “The system is making them mature and grow up faster than they need to,” Jeanette continues. “It’s also making these children very sensitive to what’s just and what’s unjust because they see directly the impacts of the laws that we have on their parents.” If in the end, ICE and/or USCIS rejects her applications and she ends up back in Mexico, she says she’ll leave her children in Colorado with Salvador. “If they win and deport me, I will go alone. If somebody has to make a sacrifice it will be me not my children,” she says. If that happens, she plans to move as close as she can to the U.S.-Mexico border and rely on American friends to bring her children across to visit as often as possible. And she speaks frankly to her children about the situation they are in. “I think that I have given them the confidence to know that even if things get really difficult that I will never stop fighting for us and no matter what happens,” she says. And as she pledges to keep fighting the prejudices, stereotypes and injustices she’s both seen and been subjected to as an undocumented immigrant in the U.S., she’s also aware of the current national conversation in both news and politics regarding immigration reform and immigrants themselves. Her response is simple: “I want you to look into your history. I want you to learn more about your family. It’s almost for certain that your ancestors are not from here. And that person that immigrated here came here so that you would have the privilege that you have today. So that you would be able to be the person you are with the rights and the privileges that you have as a citizen,” Jeanette says. “That all started with someone just like me.” Boulder Weekly
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The recent discovery of intersex fish — males with eggs in their testes — in 60 percent of male black bass in North Carolina waterways adds to the growing accounts of intersex fish across the country. Scientists at North Carolina State University conducted the as-yet unpublished research. They tested 20 rivers and streams throughout North Carolina for contaminants known to disrupt hormones finding 43 of the 135 contaminants they were looking for. The scientists are still analyzing differences in waterways and as such have not disclosed affected waterways. Intersexuality in fish is caused by endocrine-disrupting chemicals including industrial chemicals, pesticides, excreted birth control and natural estrogens. When male fish develop female characteristics, reproductive problems can follow, threatening fish populations. “Males guard the nest, create spawning nests for young and guard fertilized eggs. Males are crucial for hatching success and their male behavior could be altered by exposure to contaminants and the presence of the intersex condition,” Crystal Lee Pow, a Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University, one of the researchers on the project, said to EcoWatch. Intersex fish have been previously documented across the country. A 2009 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study showed that of the smallmouth bass population in the Yampa River in Lay, Colo., 70 percent were intersex. Vicki Blazer, a USGS biologist, told the Washington Post the fish are “an indicator that something else is really wrong.” “What are these things [pesticides] doing to the natural environment?” Blazer said. “If we find these things in wild organisms, there’s a good chance they’re also affecting people.” — Nicole McNulty
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his was my father’s car, and now it is mine,” says our taxi driver. “And this is my son, and he will start driving it soon, too.” He nods toward the dark-haired boy in the front passenger seat. My 14-year-old son and I are in Cuba in midJune, rattling in the backseat of a 1950s Buick headed for Central Havana. We’ve brought a rolling suitcase and a backpack stuffed with toothbrushes, pencils and medical disinfectant wipes to distribute — everyday items hard to come by in this island country. Two months ago, I’d stood in my kitchen contemplating a new journalism project. My son was finishing eighth grade, hurtling toward college and independence. I’d started hoarding his childhood, stacking up memories against the future. We were heading to Cuba soon, and it seemed perfect. President Obama had recently announced intentions to normalize relations between our governments. If diplomacy was an instrument, he’d just plucked the string connecting Cuba to the U.S., and I’d be observing the vibrations in this former Caribbean paradise. Paradise. I look around uncertainly as our driver negotiates Havana’s rush-hour traffic. My son and I have just shared a 50-minute flight with a handful of foreign backpackers and a Cuban-American family transporting Tide, an air conditioner and tires to their relatives. They’ll need them. The streets here are studded with potholes. Pedal taxis weave between old American cars, East German Trabants and the odd Peugeot. Cuba’s roads are a time portal to 1959, when Fidel Castro led a socialist revolution and received an American embargo in return. Despite this, our own taxi isn’t in bad shape. The seat springs may have collapsed in the Carter era, but the air conditioning is a Boulder Weekly
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godsend. We unload at one of Cuba’s government-run hotels. I’ve constructed a general itinerary: Havana first, then a visit to the 16th-century town of Trinidad. From there we’ll head north to the agricultural town of Viñales. I plan on using the Internet to fill in details as needed. My guidebook has assured me that Internet access is available at hotels, but when I question the receptionist about it, she shakes her head. Our room is simple but clean, the decor more inviting than I’d expected. Breakfast is served on the balcony in view of Havana Harbor. My son can sleep like a champ, but we’ve agreed on a reasonable wakeup time. We stock up on bottled water, then set off for Central and Old Havana. The city’s streets are packed with ornate buildings, signs of the country’s former gilded age when sugar funded a robust economy. The world is condensed here, the neighborhoods a collective endeavor of Moorish, French, Baroque and Art Deco influences. There’s opulence in some places, a faint sheen of Hollywood that evokes the days when the plush Hotel Nacional de Cuba attracted patrons like Sinatra and Winston Churchill. Painted tiles, elegant columns and wrought-iron
balconies are standard fare, as are pastel colors. I’ve never seen colors being more completely themselves: rich orange, sunset pink, a blue so pretty and light it makes you thirsty. The effect is part Arabian Nights and part fairytale, and I’m enchanted. I look over at my son. He’s recently taken an interest in photography, and he’s busy positioning his iPhone. A Buick’s sparkling hood ornament; a dog dressed in hat and bowtie to solicit tourist dollars; a produce stand with plantains dangling like crescent moons. He collects these images on his camera roll. Later we walk down the Paseo del Prado, a tree-lined street reminiscent of a sweeping Parisian boulevard. It stretches to the Malecón, the five-mile-long sea wall bordering Havana’s coast. I take a picture of him gazing out at the harbor that once braced against pirate ships and bade farewell to ships bound for Spain. Cuba has not been entirely cut off from the world, of course, despite the 1960 American trade embargo, but there’s a palpable air of isolation here. Many walls are literally crumbling, their wires exposed like loose stitching. The few shops we see are sparsely stocked: bottled water, rum, nail polish. The Cubans we meet are excited to learn we’re Americans. We think more will come! they tell us. They sit on stoop after stoop in their neighborhoods, and I can’t tell if they’re content see CUBA Page 28
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adorned with a plastic-covered couch and or daydreaming of an alternate reality. In Santería dolls. I’m uneasy at the claustrothe meantime, street bands fill the air with phobic quarters but too sick to object. We the sounds made famous by Buena Vista sleep fitfully that night and resume our Social Club. There’s a subtle thrum of gritty search for rooms in the morning. A pedal celebration, and I’m dying to dance. taxi driver named Alex rescues us from the We discover Internet service inside the sidewalk and offers to help, pedaling us to lobby of the upscale Saratoga hotel. For $6, his friend’s apartment near the Paseo del we receive one hour online. It’s too slow for Prado. It’s the nicest one we’ve seen, and downloading television shows, and my son we gratefully install ourselves there. is stuck watching the same two old epiMotivated by our unsettled stomachs, sodes of The Walking Dead on his laptop we cancel our plans in Viñales and spend each evening. I search TripAdvisor for resour final days in Havana. Now familiar taurant advice. Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul, with its neighborhoods, our eyes stray became Cuba’s President in 2008. His limfrom street level to absorb other details. ited support of private enterprise has Images of Raul and Fidel Castro seem inspired the establishment of paladares scarce, but Che Guevara’s famous visage throughout the country. Family-run restauis everywhere. An Argentine Marxist and rants that serve homemade Cuban food, Castro’s second-in-command during the paladares primarily operate out of family Cuban Revolution, Guevara’s image homes, serving guests at tables laid with appears on car headlights and on pins mismatched tablecloths and silverware. worn by city residents. Beneath his These are heavily reviewed on TripAdvisor, intense gaze, Cubans tell us excitedly and we end up following a trail of the best that the American embassy is due to paladares throughout our stay. The food is delicious, consisting mostly reopen soon. Most of them have a relaof white rice, seasoned beans, roasted tive in the U.S. and say they hope to visit squash, steak and seafood. In the 1990s, to America. help address food shortages faced in the In a shop in Old Havana, a man noticwake of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Cuba es my Lonely Planet guidebook. He leans shifted its focus to organic food production close. “Everything in that book is a lie,” he and educated city residents on urban farmwhispers. “They make it seem like our ing. One of the paladar owners tells us that government is good, but they’re all liars. most of the food comes from farmers’ marThe Internet is coming soon, and then kets. And because they can earn in one they’ll know the truth. Tell your friends.” week what other Cubans make in a month, He raises his head then and comments A man sits in front of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Trinidad, a city that was it’s no surprise when owners encourage us loudly on the weather. built on profits from sugar and slave trade. Today, Trinidad relies heavily on tourism to drive its economy. to recommend them on TripAdvisor after On our last day in Cuba, we take a douevery meal. ble-decker bus to the Plaza de la Other entrepreneurial Cubans rent out rimmed with Spanish Colonial houses once owned Revolución, the site of many speeches by guest rooms and apartments. The standard rate is $25 by wealthy town residents. At night, live music pours Fidel Castro to Cuban citizens. Later, a taxi carries us per night, total. Everybody seems to know someone through the grillwork of nearby restaurant windows. beneath Havana Harbor to the dual fortresses of Morro who has one. Before we leave for Trinidad, our hotel We walk Trinidad’s cobblestone streets, passing and La Cabaña. Between them lie the remnants of the receptionist calls a friend. Six hours and a sweltering rows of one-story pastel houses with terra-cotta American U-2 spy plane shot down over Cuba while bus ride later, we arrive at her house. Our bus was roofs. Cowboys ride by on horseback while older the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war during late, and she’s already rented the room. She introduces men with sun-weathered faces sell bread from their the Cuban Missle Crisis. They lie in a stark field, and us to her neighbor, Jenny, and within minutes Jenny bicycles. Above the Plaza is the Cathedral of the suddenly the beautiful city my son and I have both has stuffed her belongings into plastic bags and left us Holy Trinity, a 19th-century church with broad come to love feels deeply weary and embattled. I feel alone in her tiny apartment. We sleep on twin beds brown doors. We watch as a man in slacks and a weary, too, as I consider the many ways in which neatly made with lime-green blankets. The floor is button-down shirt sits on the front steps, arms slung humans succeed in harming one another. tile, the bathroom barely big enough to accommodate over his knees, head bowed as if he’s waiting for The U-2’s wing lies nearly flat on the ground as if the shower. The kitchen has a hotplate and a cursomething to happen. My son steps quietly in front it’s just spiraled down from the sky. of him and takes a picture. tained cupboard beneath the sink, and I feel oddly At 9 that night, the cannons sound loudly at La We watch the sunset that night from the tower of like I’m visiting my grandmother’s house in 1970s Cabaña. It’s a tradition dating to the 17th century, the Museo Histórico Municipal. As the sun eases Queens, New York. when Spanish colonial officials shot cannons to notify toward the horizon, it folds Trinidad’s sherbet-colored Havana’s residents that the city walls were opening or Trinidad has none of Havana’s urban vibe, and I houses into its glare. They soon darken like an overwonder if the news of shifting diplomatic relations closing. Opening and closing, creating a world withexposed negative and disappear. with the U.S. has been absorbed here. This is a rugout and within. Our bus back to Havana gets a flat. While we wait ged town in the province of Sancti Spiritus. Founded Elizabeth Wolf is the director of a non-profit, a freefor repairs, my son and I grab a ham sandwich from a in 1514, it’s now a World UNESCO Heritage Site. lance journalist and resides in Boulder County with her roadside stand. We know it’s a mistake when our Built on profits from the sugar and slave trades, the son and their two cats. 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that all the dialogue from all my friends I made up.” Since the early ’90s, Moore has delighted his readers with more than a dozen novels filled with these imaginary friends — relatable characters and some not-so relatable, like Jesus Christ and Santa Claus. Frequently appearing on the New York Times bestseller list, Moore’s books sit right in the middle of the everyday life/fantasy/humor Venn diagram. His latest book, Secondhand Souls, is a follow-up to 2006’s A Dirty Job. Secondhand Souls revisits betamale Charlie and his 7-year-old daughter Sophie, who happens to be the Luminatus, aka the Great Death, as they figure out who’s stealing the souls of San Francisco’s dead. As the baron of the bizarre, Moore’s books present a typical world with an outlandish twist, be it an average girl who turns into a vampire, a hypochonsee MOORE Page 32
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driac who becomes Death or a giant slutty lizard invading a small, sleepy town. “It’s more interesting to have a normal person you can identify with who’s thrown into a bizarre set of circumstances rather than somebody who is the Princess of Narnia having to get through something like, ‘Oh no, another day with the dragons and the talking lion,’” he says. “I like extraordinary things happening to ordinary people, and that’s how my work has gone.” Moore’s flair for writing began at a young age. He grew up in Ohio and was influenced by writers such as Jules Verne and Ray Bradbury. From his cop dad, Moore developed his dark sense of humor, a side effect of dealing with crime and death. Moore was around 12 years old when he realized he could make people laugh with his writing, even though sometimes not everyone was amused. “I got in trouble one time for an editorial I wrote for the school paper — it was about required attendance at a pep rally in high school,” he says. “I had five coaches write rebuttals and my journalism teacher said, ‘I’ll give you an A for the rest of the year if you don’t write anything else.’ So I sat around and played cards.” In defiance of this early journalistic setback, Moore continued writing, setting his sights on being a serious horror author, the likes of Robert Bloch and Richard Matheson. “In fact, when I got back to writing in my mid 20s, I had gone to a writers’ conference with horror stories,” he says. “And just the way I turned a phrase made people laugh when I read them. I realized, ‘I guess I don’t write horror stories, I write comedy.’” Despite his funny genre, Moore’s novels are far from silly stories. He might not be writing non-fiction but Moore’s stories are filled with facts, imagery, details and authentic language, and they come out of months, or even years, of research. Whether it’s trips to England or France, or walks through his current location of San Francisco, Moore says he’s always searching for the details to make his stories richer. For Lamb, a comic retelling of the story of Jesus Christ, he did three years of research and visited Israel to create the world of first century Palestine. “Initially I wasn’t going to [go to Israel], because I thought, well, the people I’m writing about have been
dead for 2,000 years, nothing’s going to be the same,” Moore says. “My wife said I need to go because it always adds something to the book. … So I went to Israel in August, which was not a great idea. But it really added to a lot of vividness. Just the roughness of the country, which is not going to be any different now than it was 2,000 years ago.” Moore says he chooses the subjects he wants to learn about — such as French impressionists for Sacre Blue or global death traditions for A Dirty Job and Secondhand Souls or spending time on a boat with humpback whale researchers for Fluke. He says he feels the reader deserves some truth. “I’m asking the reader to believe so much bizarre material that the real stuff has to be real ... “So then when I ask you to believe that, alright, these whales are actually ships and there’s people inside of them, you go, ‘Oh OK, well I trusted you on this other stuff.’ It’s going back to the juxtaposition between what’s real and what’s not real.” Sometimes his previous research also gives him pseudo expertise in strange subject areas. Recently, Moore says he wasn’t surprised to find out that the female version of Viagra uses serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Several years ago, a clinical psychologist told him that taking people off their antidepressants made them depressed and horny. This inspired his novel where a whole village goes off their pills at the same time. “To find out that that they’re using that to stimulate female libido really cracked me up,” he says. “And I remember saying to somebody, ‘Yeah, I wrote a book about that,’ and they said, ‘You did?’ and I said, ‘Yeah, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, and they were like, ‘That doesn’t sound like a book about antidepressants.’” The research is also beneficial for Moore’s characters, especially with their dialogue. For Fool, a novel based on King Lear from the fool’s perspective, Moore studied British dialects and Shakespeare. For his teenage goth character, Lilly, he studied blogs on MySpace. “The more layers you give a character, even a minor character, the better chance he or she is going to be believable,” he says. Inspiration for his characters can come from research, like his character the Emperor of San Francisco, based on Joshua Abraham Norton of the 1800s. Boulder Weekly
buzz They can also come from less conven“My dad died when I was fairly tional places, like a popular character young, 21, really suddenly,” he says. from Secondhand Souls, who works as an “There was sort of this vacant space — ex agent of death and wears a green suit. the sound the light bulb makes when “Minty Fresh came from a mouthit’s breaking, and there’s a vacuum wash commercial,” Moore says. “In a there, suddenly. So watching and caring 1989 commercial, someone spit out for someone as they were dying slowly their mouthwash and said, ‘I’m minty — there’s a lot more time to think fresh!’ And I thought that is a strange about it. I had a lot more experience in name, and I put it in a notebook and life to apply to it.” carried it around until I decided to use Moore doesn’t pretend to know the it for a character.” secrets of death, but in his observations As most authors, Moore is a metiche’s come across a conclusion that he ulous note taker, with notebooks dating says is rather “duh” and banal: be aware. back to the late ’80s occupying space in “That’s really, in a way, the subtext his garage. He says he feels nervous of these death books,” he says. “To when he doesn’t have one on him. Even make a statement of being aware — on a casual run, Moore has a small they’re obviously more for entertainmoleskin in his back pocket. ment and comedy, but the underlying “When I lived in Hawaii and used philosophy is to taste the cheese you’re to swim laps for exercise, I had a water- eating, and be aware, and be conscious proof pen and paper at the end of the of what’s going on. You have to do that to be good at what I do.” pool,” he says. “I had to remember an Fifteen books later, Moore is still idea just long enough to get to the end pushing himself to be more mindful of the pool, and I’d dry my hands and and do something different. He doesn’t write it down and go on.” want to write the same book every time, Those notebooks come in handy saying he didn’t when starting a new become a writer to book. While Moore turn out widgets on isn’t a fan of planON THE BILL: Secondhand ning every single an assembly line. Souls — Christopher Moore. 7 detail, he does write Over his career he p.m. Friday, Aug. 28, Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., basic outlines and says he’s gained Denver, 303-322-7727. timelines. Some more confidence in planning is essential, himself and his considering how ability to turn out complex Moore’s stories can get. He stories. introduces a plethora of characters, “It keeps your job interesting,” he intertwines their storylines, tosses in a says. “As long as you’re trying to do cannibal or demon, then spins in a bit something you’re not sure you can do or of humor — all in a process that, he setting a challenge, hopefully you get says, is anything but effortless. better. And to be 58 years old and to “It’s just as slow and complex as it still be going, ‘I can still get better at looks,” he says. “It’s not any sort of this, and I can still be challenged by stroke of genius where I just blast it out this’ — that’s a great thing to have. I on the page and then shape it into what feel really lucky to have that. it looks like. There’s a lot of thinking “It’s more linear than geometric in involved and a lot of circles and arrows the way that I’ve evolved,” he says. being drawn.” “Maybe I haven’t evolved, maybe I’m In his latest tale, Moore revisits the just better at doing it. Not that it’s easy, subject of death, a topic that he feels because you endeavor to challenge yourgets compartmentalized and put away. self, but now I have a lot more confi“Part of the reason for writing the dence that I’ll probably be able to do it. book is that as Westerners we put death Regardless of the confidence he’s in a closet. We don’t really accept that gained, Moore still has his momentary it’s a part of life,” he says. “Guys come lapses. in with gurneys and shuffle off the “In every book there’s a point where dead. ... Yet it’s something that we’re all I’m fairly well convinced that I should going to experience and we’re going to have never done this and it was a stupid encounter multiple times.” idea, and I’m going to die penniless and Death was not a subject that Moore alone in a cardboard box under a bridge says he had thought a lot about until he cradling my urine-soaked remainders,” was faced with it multiple times over he says. “But now I know after 15 the past few years. He cared for his books that’s just part of the process, and dying mother back in Ohio for five I’ll probably be on the other side of this months, then soon after helped care for at some point. It’s just gonna suck for a his wife’s mother before she passed. while.” Boulder Weekly
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fter more than a year of interviews and a handful of tantalizingly oblique online manifestos aligned with the mission of a shadowy group called The Starset Society, Dustin Bates, lead singer and concepteur behind the Columbus, Ohio-based quartet Starset, wants everything to be clear. ON THE BILL: It’s not about conspiracies, Starset. 8 p.m. Aug. 27-28, Fiske Planetarium or an impending alien inva414 Regent Drive, sion, or a World Order takeBoulder, 303-492-5002. over. It’s not, so just have a Tickets are $25 at fiske.colorado.edu/ craft brew and relax. The Message will be revealed shortly. Everything Starset brings their appropriately named band to the Fiske Planetarium. will make sense then. That’s all they can tell you for now. “I have to admit,â€? Bates says, “that [the scarcity of information] is intenpetitioners and (presumably under-lawStarset returns for a follow-up tional. The band Starset, like the other yered) high-tech corporate officers. engagement at Fiske Planetarium, after outreach campaign, is sort of a marketThe USCOO also has a website — a thunderously received set there back ing tool for this outlook, this narrative, down for maintenance, if you go out in February of this year. Playing planethis philosophy. And it’s kind of waiting and check for yourself. tariums is a cool idea in the abstract, for a critical mass, before delving into Hmmm. but Bates agrees, acoustically anyway, greater specifics, for numerous reasons “I understand that it’s vague,â€? Bates it’s harder than it looks. that will be more apparent, when those concedes, “and the band has had to deal “For one thing, [planetarium P.A.] specifics are put out there.â€? with some of the negative aspects that systems are not made for a rock show in Bates is an interesting fellow. come from that. People attaching their general,â€? Bates says. “So we have to augThirtyish, a veteran of earlier bands in own paranoia or conspiracies to our ment them with our own P.A. and extra Ohio (including his most recent, movement, which is absolutely not the equipment. And add to that, the science Downplay, with whom Epic Records goal. ‌ Standard government paranoia of the acoustics is very unique. Like, flirted for a brief spell) Bates is also a stuff, Illuminati. That’s not what this is.â€? when you’re in Grand Central Station, Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineerWell, that’s kind of what it looks under the dome, and someone on one ing with some research experience with like, but no matter. One presumes that side is whispering and someone on the the Air Force, as well as some relationa cabal of government MIB types other side can hear it, that essentially is ship with the International Space hijacking and manipulating technology happening at all points along the dome. University. He formed the band, on any scale capable of bending the arc And there’s this crazy reflection because according to their self-published bio, of history wouldn’t bother naming their of the omni-directional aspect of it. We after being contacted a couple of years club, let alone give themselves a logo work hard to dial it in.â€? and host a website they evidently can’t ago by someone named Dr. Aston With a second album in the works, Wise, a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepre- keep on the air. The band’s own website as well a graphic novel, tour dates deep links to the Society, so readers are free neur heading up something called the into the fall and a continued focus on to follow the URLs and judge for Starset Society, a grassroots organizaaligning the band’s fortunes with those themselves. tion chartered to thwart the hijacking of the Starset Society, Bates himself is All of this is immaterial to the fact and/or stifling of privately developed riding a wave that he admits has taken that the band, mission statement or no, technologies by the government. him pretty far from his Ph.D. camThe Starset Society has a website is on a roll. Their debut album paign. (apart from the band’s own site) and a Transmissions dropped about 15 months “Well, I’ve done all the course work physical address, which looks a lot like ago, sending its first single “My for the Ph.D., and I was ramping up for the back of a warehouse on Google Demonsâ€? into the Billboard charts for the dissertation, and I had funding Earth, and their chief nemesis is somean unprecedented 43 weeks and follow- from the Air Force... and then this hapthing awkwardly titled the United ing up since with two more charting pened. It’s funny, because some of my States Capitalism Oversight singles. Forged in a gleaming, bracingly old professors still want me to do it. Organization (USCOO), an equally assaultive alloy of craft metal and edgy One of them told me they had a bet shadowy cabal of corporate elites and electronica a la NiN, Starset manages to whether I’d come back to it. off-hours government bigwigs allegedly stamp a kind of sci-fi futurism on ang“I sometimes worry that my brain... playing larceny with technological sty self-identity testimony without may be losing some of that pinpoint breakthroughs, intimidating patent sounding pretentious or hackneyed. ‘engineeriness.’â€? Boulder Weekly
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Cleo Parker Robinson reflects on 45 years with ‘Passages’ by Lauren Archuletta
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leo Parker Robinson’s entire career as a audience is “ready for that experience” when they buy a dance instructor can be compared to a tree, ticket to her productions. with roots deeply embedded into the “Boulder is a dance community,” Parker Robinson Boulder community and branches that touch says. “Everybody wants to dance, and we actually give the lives of hundreds of dancers over the them the opportunity to dance.” years. As the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble Parker Robinson’s dance career has been influenced prepares to celebrate its 45th anniversary, Parker by more than a handful of choreographers and students, Robinson chuckles as she reflects on the “seeds” she and on Sept. 12, she will relive her experiences at planted early in Boulder and nourished over the years. Chautauqua Auditorium with her production, Passages. “My history is in Boulder, and when we perform The choreographer calls Passages a “very important here I just think, ‘Oh my God, I really feel like Courtesy of the Cleo Parker Robinson Ensemble I’m home,’ because there’s just a spirit here,” Parker Robinson says. “When you can sustain a company this long in this region, there’s a lot of grace you’ve been given. These things don’t happen in every community, but we’re not one of those wonderful companies that had to fold so early.” Parker Robinson’s career spans back to the late 1960s, when she was appointed the first director of the Black dance program at the University of Colorado. She laughs as she remembers “stealing” dancers who were pursuing non-dance related degrees at the college. “Most of the young men [in the Cleo Parker Robinson ensemble] came out of CU, and most people don’t know that,” Parker Robinson says. “Curtis Fraser was quite the scholar, but I took him out of the engineering department and made him a dancer. He ended up stay- moment” in the ensemble’s history, and she says she ing with me for 19 years and we went all over the plans on featuring excerpts from her earlier choreoworld together.” graphed productions, including pieces she first created In 1970, dancer-turned-teacher-turned-choreograwhile at CU. pher Parker Robinson founded her ensemble, a compa“We have done so many works in the last 45 years, ny whose work is largely based on the African and it’s been a challenge deciding which ones to perAmerican experience. form at Chautauqua, which ones truly tell our story,” “I think we were one of the first to develop a modParker Robinson says. “I like to premiere new work and ern dance company with such a high quality of dance bring in the older ones because those are fan favorites. repertoire and sense of culture,” Parker Robinson says. Some of my pieces like ‘Rain Dance’ become classics, “Much of our success comes from always being conand I like to think of my older pieces as good home nected to so many beautiful artists.” cooking, just things that bring you back to your roots.” She says that she and her dancers share a strong In all of her years of teaching, Parker Robinson has bond with the Boulder community, adding that the never considered leaving Boulder. While she’s traveled
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ON THE BILL: Passages with the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12, Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4423282. Tickets $35, or $32 for concert members, at chautauqua. com.
the world with her ensemble and still continues to do so, she says her experience in the Boulder area, particularly Chautauqua, never changes. “It’s wonderful that a venue like Chautauqua has existed for as long as it has,” she says, adding that she “gets tickled” when she looks out into the crowd to see familiar faces after all these years. “It’s wonderful to stand on this rock and revel in the beauty of everyone coming together. When I come to do a concert at Chautauqua, I share with the audience that there’s nothing like that Rocky Mountain soul, and that’s what we’ve got.” As Parker Robinson prepares for the debut of Passages at Chautauqua, she reflects back on the first performance she saw at the auditorium and the first time she “felt the life force” of that atmosphere. “The first choreographer I ever saw at Chautauqua was Merce Cunningham, and I remember thinking that it was just so strange, because really it’s incredible to be in that kind of environment,” Parker Robinson says. “I also remember working with a group of dancers that were used to seeing Mount Kilimanjaro every day, and when I brought them to Chautauqua, to our mountains, they just kept saying, ‘The sky’s the limit!’ Well you know, I think that’s what’s so beautiful about Chautauqua, you’re closer and just keep getting closer to something that’s higher.” Passages, she says, will allow everyone to look back at the ensemble’s history while looking forward to their future and the legacy they are leaving behind. Her ensemble is currently working with artists in Brazil, Japan, Mexico and Kenya, and for the first time they are broadcasting their classes and concerts via satellite around the world. She says that she and her dancers will continue motivating and innovating in the world of dance while they decide where they will go next. “We have access to the world in such a better way today,” Parker Robinson says. “It’s easier to be global, and as a result of that we can have a greater impact on the influence we have on the rest of the world.”
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Cashmere Cat. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Austin Tuley and Jason Leonard. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. Barrel of Blues. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Blue Lotus. 9 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bo Depena. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St.,
The Watkins Family Hour 8p.m. Friday, August 28, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030
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Before the countrywide tour and the critically-acclaimed debut album, the Watkins Family Hour was just a monthly show in L.A. for musicians to come let loose. Hosted by Sara and Sean Watkins, the show has evolved into an album and tour in which the Watkins’ intend to recreate their original folk-centric and cover-heavy Family Hours at every stop, inviting local musicians on stage to perform with the group. Among the musicians who make up the Watkins family Hour is Fiona Apple, a star in the alternative music scene who provides a great additon to the Watkins show. —Sam Routhier
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Danny Bastos Collective. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Danny Shafer. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169. Dave Honig’s Latin Quarter. 6 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-2260. DJ Royal Swan and Friends. 5 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. see EVENTS Page 40
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9 p.m. Sunday, August 30, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303447-0095 Boulder, prepare to thrash. Since 1982, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, or D.R.I., have been paving the way for punk and thrash bands with their hardcore selections. The group, known in the indie circuit for songs like “Syringes in the Sandbox” and “Acid Rain,” have persevered through lineup changes and guitarist Spike Cassidy’s battle with cancer to continue a heavy touring schedule that takes them across North America and Europe. Any D.M.I. show would be incomplete without some epic mosh pit and slam dance happenings, so batter down the hatches and don’t be surprised if you walk out of the show with a few new cuts and bruises. —Sam Routhier
Tombstone Rashomon Launch Party
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5:00–7:00 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, Backcountry Pizza & Tap House, 2319 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-4285 Filmmaker and former CU Film Professor, Alex Cox, returns to Boulder with the announcement of his latest film project and Indiegogo campaign, Tombstone Rashomon. This western will explore the character of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral from five radically different perspectives. It will be written by famed novelist and screenwriter, Rudy Wurlizter, and produced by recent CU alum, Merritt Crocker. Anyone interested in the project is welcome to attend the launch party, and backers of Tombstone Rashomon will receive a free beer, a slice of pizza and a chance to meet some of the production team. — Michael J. Casey
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EVENTS from Page 39
George Nelson Trio. 8 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
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Grupo Chegando La and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. The Lonesome Days. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303444-8448. Nikka Garcia. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
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Sarah Clanton. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120. Steepland String Band. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Thunder The Radar. 7 p.m. Cafe Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-993-8131. Todd Adelman and The Country Mile. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Events Elevations Credit Union Blood Drive. 8 a.m. Elevations Credit Union, 2300 55th St., Boulder, 303-443-4672.
September 3, 2015 7:00 p.m. Nalanda Events Center 6287 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder $15 Advanced Registration ($20 at the door)
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Ansel Adams: Matsterworks. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Aug. 30. Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20.
Through Oct. 11. Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.
Explore cultural intersections in the Biennial of the Americas exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver through Aug. 30.
Biennial of the Americas. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Aug. 30. Conscious and Unconscious: Subjects of the Real & Surreal. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 30. Flatlander. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 13.
Hike For Seniors. 10 a.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, 4241 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-678-6200. I Love the Land. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
In Bloom. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.
Mountain Kids Story Time. 12 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424. Navigation For Sailors and Pilots. 6:30 p.m. Unitarian-Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-494-0195. Silent Disco. 12 p.m. Free Motion Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Story Club in Motion. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Friday, August 28 Music Albny and School Dance. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-3288328. AmorAmora Nedfest. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Arthur Lee Land. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776BIKE. Banshee Tree. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
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Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29.
FRESH Art+Farm Exhibition. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6512787. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont. 303-678-7869. Through Aug. 29.
Late Summer Group Show: Grier Torrence, Chris Campbell and Others. 5:30 p.m. Fine Art Associates Boulder, 1949 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-413-1000.
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Beautiful Creation. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Booster, Real Talk. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. The Brothers Warde. 7 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. The CBDs. 6 p.m. Kathmandu Restaurant, 110 N. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-1169.
Concerts in the Park. 6:30 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont 303-774-4756. The Copoetics. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Damn Tall Buildings. 9 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Danny Shafer. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Dave Tamkin Band. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.
Mixed Media by Joanna Whitney. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303497-1174. Through Sept. 26.
Painted Paper Movements Through Collage. BMoCA at Macky, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 15. Photography by Max Seigal. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Sept. 26. Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10. Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3. The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 11.
Old’s Cool Rock. 9 p.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720864-6460. Paul Sullivan’s Folk-a-rama. 6 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303665-0625. Potcheen. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. REMember and Hey, Lady. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Them Travelin’ Birds. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
DJ Jon Krunk. 11 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
Tim Ostdiek. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Friday Night Jazz. 8 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.
Wellington Bullings. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Interstate Stash Express. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303- 823-6685.
Events
JackLNDN. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.
Anthony Grant: Living Color. All day. pARTiculars Art Gallery and Teaching Studio, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 720-890-7888.
Jeff Brinkman. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-5507813.
Cobain: Montage of Heck. 10:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Johanna Winkel. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Festival on Main. 6 p.m. Downtown Longmont, Main Street and Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-6518484.
Lindsey Saunders. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
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Living Easy. 5 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-8903993.
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NedFest. 5:30 p.m. Jeff Guercio Memorial Baseball Park, Boulder Canyon Drive and East Street, Nederland, 720-539-5370. Saturday, August 29 Music The Alcapones. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. AmorAmora. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Antonio Lopez Duo. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. AOA — Alive On Arrival. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Arthur Lee Land. 7 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Augustus CD Release. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Big Hibiscus. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Billy Shaddox. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Bonnis & the King. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Always a Bridesmaid. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through Aug. 30.
Through Oct. 11. Mary Poppins. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 5.
Book of Mormon. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239, Through Sept. 13. Defending the Caveman. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-8654239, Through Sept. 13.
Misalliance — presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826. Through Sept. 12. Take a trip back in time with Suds: The Rockin’ 60s Musical, playing at the Longmont Theatre Compnay through Aug. 30.
Guys and Dolls. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980.
Catfish Kray Blues Band. 9 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728.
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Cosmic Mesa. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303- 823-6685.
New Latitude. 6 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Danny Shafer. 7 p.m. Longs Peak Pub, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886.
North Boulder Underground. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
Eric Adrian. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Foxfeather. 4 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303530-0642. Global Soul Experience. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Out of This World: A Chorale Odyssey. 5 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. Radiate Unified Dance Party with DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Good Touch. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
Them Travelin’ Birds. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.
Happy Hour Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill — Southside Bar, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.
Wild Mountain Honey. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
Highway 50. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.
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John Patrick Halling with The Ancient Wild. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Kevin Dooley Trio. 8 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258. Lionel Young and John March. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-4992985.
Adobe Illustrator Hands-On. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Best of Enemies. 6 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. ConnectHer: Women’s Retreat in Boulder. 9 a.m. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Longest Day of the Year. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.
Handmade in Colorado Expo in Boulder. 11 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 303449-3774.
Los Cheesies. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
I Love the Land. All day. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
The Mighty Twisters. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.
Lyons Red Rock Ramblers Square Dancing. 7:30 p.m. Lyons Elementary School, 338 High St., Lyons, 303-823-5215.
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Mother Daughter Book Club. 3 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
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Snow White. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through
Suds. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through Aug. 30.
7 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303443-6461. NedFest. 11:30 a.m. Jeff Guercio Memorial Baseball Park, Boulder Canyon Drive and East Street, Nederland, 720-539-5370. Pints in the Park. 12 p.m. Louisville Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville, 303-6666565. Smokes & Jokes: The Show! 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. STEAM Saturdays: CU Science Discovery: Harness the Wind. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Taste of Tomato. 10 a.m. Gateway Fun Park Center, 4800 N. 28th St., Boulder, 303-4424386. The Tribe. 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Venus De Miles: All Women’s Bike Race. 6:30 a.m. Prospect New Town, Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. When Marnie Was There. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Yoga on the Plaza. 9 a.m. 29th Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Young Professional Philanthropists: Wibby Brewing, Sneak Peek. 1 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 720-837-5603. Sunday, August 30 Music AmorAmora. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649. Andrew Duhon Trio. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Blues & BBQ with Defunkt Railroad. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Boulder Weekly
events Danny Shafer: BBQ & Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Electric Red. 4 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Escaping Pavement. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Handmade in Colorado Expo in Boulder. 11 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 303449-3774. The Hunters. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Park Circle, Lafayette, 303-665-3080. Avista Hospital Blood Drive. 8 a.m. Avista Adventist Hospital, 100 Health Park Drive, Louisville, 303-688-5176.
Open Mic. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder.
Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Open Hack for Youth with Coder Dojo. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Tuesday, September 1
Punch Brothers. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Summer FIELDWORK. 5 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Boulder Valley Adobe User Group. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
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BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-2523962.
Brian du Fresne, Organist, In Concert. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-5246.
Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline
Chuck McMordie. 8 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. see EVENTS Page 44
Left Hand Artist Group Showcase. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Longs Peak Dixieland Gospel Band Concert. 1:30 p.m. Longs Peak United Methodist Church, 1421 Elmhurst Drive, Longmont, 303-776-0399.
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Mini-Me. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Music in the Yard with Kyle Ussery and Greg Schochet. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Out of This World: A Chorale Odyssey. 6 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder, 303-492-5002. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303- 823-6685. Robby Wicks. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Scott Von. 8 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Summer Songwriters Series. 4 p.m. Faith Community Lutheran Church, 9775 Ute Highway, Longmont, 909-776-8771. Tony Furtado Duo. 7 p.m. Canyon Door, 160 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-5000. Events ConnectHer: Women’s Retreat in Boulder. All day. The StarHouse, 3476 Sunshine Canyon, Boulder, 303-245-8452. NedFest. 11:30 a.m. Jeff Guercio Memorial Baseball Park, Boulder Canyon Drive and East Street, Nederland, 720-539-5370. Prairie Mountain Zen Center Morning Meditations. 9 a.m. The Meditation Place, 940 Kimbark St., Studio 4, 303-246-8333. Monday, August 31 Music Andrew Martin Duo. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. I & The Many. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Liebermonster. 9 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Prospect Sound Bites Summer Concert Series. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Events 4BR’s Third Annual “Summer Sizzle” Networking Event. 4 p.m. 95a Bistro, 1381 Forest Boulder Weekly
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Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.
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Secondhand Souls — Christopher Moore. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
The Man Who Fell From the Sky — Margaret Coel. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.
Monday, Aug. 31 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Purple Squirrel. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Events Artists Den Presents alt-J. 7:30 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583. Cartel Land. 4:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. North Trail Study Area Expert Panel. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. University of Colorado at Boulder Staff Council Blood Drive. 9 a.m. CU Rec Center, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-6880. Web Development Fundamentals. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800807-6179.
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Like the name implies, the third annual Green Beer Fest focuses on environmental awareness, particularly water quality, while providing live entertainment and beer tasting. “Water is a finite source. It may be difficult to engage people and talk about water quality,” says Wade Norris, the event organizer. “But it’s very easy for people to relate to the price of their beer becoming more expensive because of mismanagement of water or lack of forward thinking on conservation.” Beer will be served from 3-9 p.m. with free beer for the first hour. After that it’s $20 for a bottomless beer mug. The event is sponsored by Liquor Mart and will feature beer from Arch Slope, Avery, Oskar Blues and others. The music line-up includes performances by Foxfeather and the Tortuga Beats, as well as a variety of blues, hip-hop and funk artists. And it’s all for a great cause. Completely volunteer run, the Green Beer Fest will benefit the Colorado Ocean Coalition (COCO), a Boulder-based nonprofit working to connect inland communities to ocean conservation efforts. “Bringing the idea of beer, water and our mission to protect our watersheds from the source to the sea really tied together [into a] collaborative mission,” says Vicki Nichols Goldstein, founder and director at COCO. The Green Beer Fest will benefit COCO’s Ocean Ambassador Program. With an application deadline of Sept. 1, the program accepts 20 individuals for 50 hours of teaching and solution-based training about ocean and watershed issues in Colorado and across the nation.
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iopics are lies. Oh, don’t get me wrong, all storytelling is fundamentally fibbing. But it seems somehow more disingenuous to airbrush actual human histories, to select which warts to ignore and which redemptive moments to exaggerate. Documentaries exist for a reason and, while they too require editing, at least the filmmaker has to show his work. This is a long way of saying what Straight Outta Compton has is quite good, but what it doesn’t have is a big problem. We’ll get there. This is the story of N.W.A., a group that exploded out of California in the 1980s and changed music (and culture) forever. At some point, Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins) convinced Eazy-E ( Jason Mitchell) to take money he made from dealing drugs and start a label called Ruthless. Dre snagged Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson Jr.) to write the rhymes along with MC Ren (Aldis Hodge) and brought in DJ Yella (Neil Brown Jr.) and the D.O.C. (Marlon Yates Jr.) to help him in the studio. The group caught the attention of manager Jerry Heller (Paul Giamatti), who ‘Straight Outta Compton’ starts strong and ends soft. promised Ruthless’ owner, Eazy-E, that eternally Faustian deal of fame… with a price. In short order, the band was a phenomenon. What started in their neighborhood suddenly ballooned to coast-to-coast success, with sold-out shows and millions of records. But if you’ve ever watched a musical biopic (or seen any form of dramatic narrative), you know what comes next. Ice Cube bolts because Jerry screws him on his contract. Dre leaves for the same reason. Thus, arguably the best rap group in history made one album with all original participants before falling into a whirling maelstrom of feuds and disparate career choices. Director F. Gary Gray’s first half here is something special. Buoyed by the performances of Jackson and Hawkins, the film captures the soul of N.W.A.: exceptional artistry filtered through anger at systemic racial inequality. But the innate flaw in the music biopic is the inescapable pattern: meteoric rise before heart-rending fall. The rise is great here, but the fall is underwhelming. Gray doesn’t invest his time well; giving Suge Knight (R. Marcos Taylor) so much space makes little sense when, in context, he is just a plot point and footnote in the history of N.W.A. But that’s not Straight Outta Compton’s big problem. Its big problem is the same one N.W.A. had: women. Much has been made about the failure to include the infamous assault of journalist Dee Barnes by Dr. Dre. But it’s deeper than that. N.W.A. had every right to tell the police what to do with themselves, but their treatment of women lyrically and physically was reprehensible. The catch 22 of a film like this is that the only way filmmakers get cooperation from the subjects is if they gloss things over, leave things out, exaggerate the positive. Lie. Had the reallife surviving N.W.A. members been as brave now as they were when they started, it could have been redemptive honesty. Instead, what we get is a visually thrilling, musically electric rise of an important band, followed by a pillow-soft landing into trite cliché. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
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n Sept. 10, 1991, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” hit the airwaves forever changing pop, punk, rap and rock while the cultural world embraced, assimilated and commoditized “Teen Spirit.” If record sales and critical acclaim have anything to say, then the message was clear: “Teen Spirit” was the revolutionary anthem the world had been waiting for. But did Nirvana front man and songwriter, Kurt Cobain, know that “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was going to be a game changer or was he simply venting teenage angst? This intersection of the public and private is at the heart of all works of art, but for Cobain, that intersection proved to be a blessing and a curse. Documentarian Brett Morgen explores this territory, familiar and unfamiliar alike, in the stunning pastiche, Cobain: Montage of Heck, a movie eight years in the making — two years of production and six years of legal wrangling — fully authorized by wife Courtney Love and daughter Frances Bean Cobain. Their cooperation is crucial to the success of Montage of Heck as Morgen searches for, and finds, a staggering amount of honesty and personality in the never-beforeseen or heard images and sounds from one of the most prolific artists of the late 20th century. Focusing mainly on Cobain’s teenage years and drawing on a wealth of Cobain-produced sound collages, spoken word recordings and home movies; and incorporating archival footage and animation inspired by doodles from Cobain’s diaries, Morgen crafts a surprising and engrossing portrait of the artist as a young man. Much like James Joyce’s hero and alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Cobain sought to, “forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race” long before he met bandmates Dave Grohl or Krist Novoselic. By depicting Cobain’s day-to-day activities and musings, Montage of Heck shows that Nirvana’s success was not happenstance. Cobain had high hopes for his art, and from the darkest recesses of his mind, Cobain produced a mountain of work. Morgen culls from these archives an image of a man, deeply disturbed, but clearly motivated toward fame and fortune via artistic expression. What drove this motivation was also what connected Cobain with his public: the painful confessions of rejection, humiliation and shame. While Cobain exercised his personal demons, he managed to tap into something universal. His personal struggle became public and that image was co-opted by the “over-bored and self-assured” masses. But public success rarely equals private relationships and Morgen never stoops to lionize or glorify Cobain and his choices — some are despicable, others are understandable. Instead, Morgen shows that while Cobain’s words may have connected with millions of strangers around the world, his actions held those closest to him at arm’s length. A choice that ultimately cost Cobain and his loved ones dearly. Yet, two decades on, the life and work of Kurt Cobain is still being discussed, consumed and processed. Montage of Heck doesn’t just contribute to that conversation; it elevates it to a whole new level.
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his is different. When I order takeout from the new, small Chinese shop Flower Pepper on Broadway, I’m excited not only to taste what I got, but also to find out what half of it is. Flower Pepper touts authentic homemade Chinese cooking, and it’s easy to believe. The menu is small, written on a chalkboard, and it contains things like stewed pork belly over rice, Chinese crepes, DanDan noodles, tiger food and dumplings. To be honest, Flower Pepper’s reputation preceded my visit. In just a few short months of business, Flower Pepper has already amassed dozens of emphatic reviews online. The story of the restaurant’s owners is also intriguing: Jeff (Tao) Gao ran two restaurants in Beijing, with one (Little Yunnan) winning best new restaurant at the 2012 Beijing Dining Awards. He and his wife Jennifer moved to Colorado, a place he’d always wanted to live, with plans to set up this shop. So admittedly smitten and ignorant about the concept of Flower Pepper, I dove in on the menu. (And just a note on the takeout: You’ll probably want to take this food home; the dining space is really narrow and not good for anything other than a solo lunch or an afternoon dumpling.) I brought home the famed DanDan noodles, a cup of wonton soup, pork and cabbage dumplings, Taiwanese stewed pork belly over rice and a dish omi-
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From one home to another Flower Pepper offers authentic Chinese home cooking in Boulder by Matt Cortina nously called tiger food. The dumplings were hand rolled and sealed, and were very bright and citrusy. The pork and cabbage were tender and warm. You can also get leek and egg dumplings or the daily special dumpling. They were thinner than other dumplings, and refreshingly less chewy. The DanDan noodles came in two parts: a tray of thin and fresh wheat noodles and a cup of sauce, which is made of ground pork, chili, pickled vegetables and chili oil. The noodles by themselves again had a bright lemon character, while the sauce alone could’ve been a soup. Together, the dish was magnificent. The noodles wrapped up the chunkier bits of the sauce and the chili stuck to each fork and ladleful to carry a bite throughout the consumption of the dish. There was such a deep, rooty flavor in the sauce that
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Leaves are changing and so are drinking and eating appetites. To honor this year’s harvest and the coming of cooler weather, head out to the Longmont Oktoberfest celebration from Left Hand Brewing on Friday, Sept. 11 and Saturday, Sept. 12 in Roosevelt Park. Nine local breweries will be pouring their regular and seasonal beers, including Left Hand, Oskar Blues, Pumphouse Brewery, 300 Suns, Grossen Bart, Long’s Peak Tap House, Shoes & Brews, Skeye Brewing and Wibby Brewing. There’s also going to be a bunch of German food like brats, schnitzels and pretzels. There will be live music from 10 bands throughout the weekend, too. And no Oktoberfest celebration is complete without German games like a brat-eating competition, a stein-holding contest, malt bag races and a Best Dressed of the Fest competition. You’ll also stumble upon a parade and a few games of giant foosball. Best of all is that entry to Longmont Oktoberfest is free, though a $5 donation, which goes to several local charities, is recommended. You’ll still have to pay for beers and brats. For more information, visit www.lefthandbrewing.com.
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NEW BREWERY COMING TO LONGMONT Wibby Brewing is making its grand opening in Longmont over Labor Day weekend. Wibby specializes in, fittingly for the season, German-style lagers. Its three flagship beers will be the Wibby India Pale Lager (IPL), the Moondoor Dunkel and the Lightshine Helles. The IPL is a “hop head red lager with a smooth malt finish and pungent, citrusy hop aroma that leaves you wanting more.” The Dunkel is a “supple and crisp … incredibly drinkable dark lager,” and the Helles is a “light, sweet finishing, Bavarian influenced lager.” Wibby is located on Emery Street in Longmont, between Second and Third Avenues, just a block off of Main Street. For more information on the brewery or its grand opening celebration, visit www.wibbybrewing.com.
Autumn is a great time to be a beer drinker. You start getting into the dark stuff, the lagers and the pumpkin beers. You’ve probably seen orange-covered beer labels pop up overnight in the beer section of your local liquor store, and though we’ve still got one or two death blows of summer still in our system, football is just around the corner. So crack open those pumpkin and Oktoberfest brews, you. One new seasonal local beer you might reach for is the Dragonhösen from Boulder Beer. Their description is a bit better than what I can muster: “Late at night in the dark cellar or among the rows of towering vessels at Boulder Beer, if you listen carefully you can hear the eerie sound of the Dragonhösen. Brewed with generous amounts of Vienna and Munich malts for a rich, full-bodied malty flavor, Dragonhösen begins as a traditional Oktoberfest lager, then stealthily breathes fire with 9 percent alcohol by volume. Now available in 4-packs!” Alright.
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bout eight months ago I made a New Year’s resolution to “get into” Scotch. Scotch, or “single malt whisky,” as I’ve since been corrected numerous times like some dumb alcoholic child, had never made it into my drinking portfolio, even though I love bourbon and rye whiskeys, and even though I had tried to like single malt Scotch whisky dozens of times in the past. So while other people made resolutions to get in shape and write books and take that trip to Bali, I resolved to drink more brown liquor. I also made a resolution to play with more dogs. 2015 has been a big year. So on New Year’s Day, I hopped in the car and drove down to Pints Pub in Denver, the home of the largest single malt whisky selection in the world. It was a good decision. The barkeep, who also owned the restaurant, and whose name I forgot by the time I stumbled out, walked me through the lay of the land. First, single malt Scotch whisky is made with water and malted barley. That’s it. The two things I’d always associated with Scotch — peat and smoke — come from the water, the barrel and the roasting of grains. There are other types of Scotch whiskies, which add in whole grains (called single grain whisky) or which blend multiple single malt whiskies together (called
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blended whisky). These whiskies come from four major regions in Scotland: Lowland, Highland, Campbeltown and Islay. Each region has its own characteristics; for instance, Lowland whiskies will be milder, while Islay whiskies tend to be robust, salty and peaty. The terroir greatly influences Scotch whisky, as for instance, Islay whisky can often taste like seaweed, iodine or band-aids, because of the peat from the area that is used to smoke the barley before it is put into the whisky-making process. The Lowland and Campbeltown regions now only have three distilleries each. Meanwhile, the Highland is the largest producing section, and the coastal region Speyside, which once resided in the Highland, has now become its own official region. Armed with this new foundation from which to build an appreciation of Scotch whisky, I asked the bartender to pour me a “beginner Scotch.” Judging by his face, I realized my question outted my ignorance and naivety, like when a freshman raises his hand to ask if he can go to the bathroom in a college lecture. He asked what I typically drank, and I told him bourbon. He poured out three single malt whiskies: one each from Highland, Speyside and Campbeltown. “These,” he said, “will bring you from bourbon to sin-
gle malt whisky.” Important to the process is learning how to drink single malt whisky. A dropper of water cuts the edge, but you should smell it, regard its color, start it neat and sip. Like any fine indulgence, have on your mind the flavors and scents you’re likely to find in it: smoke, peat, seawater, mud, hot wood, fresh grass, flowers, citrus, baking spices, tobacco, leather and more. And so on that day, I can’t say I fell in love with single malt whisky, but it gave me the tools and a starting point to make the transition. Now, eight months and many glasses of Scotch later, I’m all in. Traveling around Boulder County bars and reading guides like the highly recommended Michael Jackson’s Complete Guide to Single Malt Scotch (and, yes, laugh all you want at his name, but this man can very well save your life), I learned to love the spirit, and I thought I’d pass along a map of the road to Scotch whisky, no matter what liquor you’re starting at. A note about why you want to do this: About three years into drinking bourbon on a serious level, I noticed the breadth of the spirit was starting to narrow. There is a point where you have tried dozens of bourbons and the variability between them just doesn’t see SCOTCH Page 54
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Bourbon
Bourbon in many ways is the best entry spirit into single malt Scotch whisky. They’re both woody and hot with typically long finishes, though the corn (and often heavy wheat) in bourbon makes it sweeter than single malt whisky. A bourbon that is heavy in rye like Elijah Craig 12 year might be your best jumping off point. The rye mimics the malted barley in a mild single malt whisky, and the stiff aroma will hit you well before your first sip. There’s also a smoky, campfire quality to the Elijah Craig 12 year that other ryes and bourbons don’t have. From there, you’ll want to check out one (or all) of the three single malt whiskiess I had at Pints Pub on that fateful visit: Glenfarclas 10 year, Glengoyne 10 year and Springbank 10 year. The Glenfarclas will be the most mild and similar to bourbon, but Springbank is the best of the three, and I recommend it to seasoned drinkers and newbies alike. It is salty and powerful, and just hints at peat, which is a good way to acclimate your tongue to some of the more serious Islay malts.
Rum
Fortunately, aged rum has undergone a renaissance and has really fallen into favor with U.S. and Caribbean producers over the last five to 10 years. Aging rum, often times in used whiskey or wine barrels, produces many of the flavors you’ll find in a good single malt whisky. They’re all sweeter, but you’d be surprised how barrel aging subdues the sugars in many rums. You’ll find Appleton Estate in a lot of Colorado rum aisles, and that’s a good place to start your transition. You might also reach for the esteemed Zaya 12 year Gran Riserva, or Colorado’s own Montanya Oro Dark Rum, which is aged in Stranahan’s whiskey barrels. Then for your Scotch whisky, you may want to jump into a Balvenie 21 year Portwood, which is finished in port wine casks, or the ubiquitous
Glenmorangie 18 year, which is light and smooth, and has tastes of sweet honey and fruit.
Gin
Gin, too, is undergoing some changes due to the massive popularity of the craft distilling market. One local craft distiller, Vapor Distillery, has the unique “Ginskey,” which is gin aged two years in bourbon barrels. They call it a “botanical bourbon,” but when I tried it, it tasted incredibly smooth and warm, like you might find in the Glenfarclas 10 year mentioned previously. Barrel aged gins continue to grow in popularity, so any that you find would be a good start. You might want to get into a Glenfiddich 12 year, which is light, floral and just a little spicy.
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The anejos of the world are a good place to start. Drop a fat ice cube in your favorite old tequila and work from there. Now I can’t say I’ve had this, because it’s expensive, but Tears of Llorona No. 3 Extra Anejo is on par with the top-end names in any spirit. It’s been called the “Pappy Van Winkle,” of tequila, to give you an idea, and they compare themselves to a high-end cognac. For something more attainable, you could start with the Espresiones del Corazon series, which matches tequila with the barrels of the fantastic whiskeys of Buffalo Trace — Eagle Rare, George T. Stagg, Sazerac Rye, etc. From there, I don’t know why you’d be holding onto tequila flavors, because you can get the salinity, punch and earthiness tenfold in many single malts. To start, you might want to do a Talisker 10 year, though it could be a bit abrasive at first. It’s a fine whisky, though, and if you made it to sipping extra anejo tequila on the regular, you’ll make it through a bottle of Talisker in no time.
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You like to run ahead of the pack. You prefer to show people the way, to set the pace. It’s cleaner that way, right? There’s less risk you will be caught up in the messy details of everyday compromise. But I suspect that the time is right for you to try an experiment: Temporarily ease yourself into the middle of the pack. Be willing to deal with the messy details of everyday compromise. Why? Because it will teach you lessons that will serve you well the next time you’re showing the way and setting the pace.
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Are you ready to revise your ideas about how love works? Would you consider re-evaluating your relationship to romance, your approach to intimacy and your understanding of sex? I hope you will not only be willing but also excited to do these things. Now is a favorable time to make changes that will energize your love life with a steady flow of magic for months to come. To get the party started, brainstorm about experiments you could try to invigorate the dynamics of togetherness. Make a list of your customary romantic strategies, and rebel against them all. Speak sexy truths that are both shocking and endearing.
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This is the deepest, darkest phase of your cycle. The star that you will ultimately make a wish upon has not yet risen. Your pet monsters seem to have forgotten for the moment that they are supposed to be your allies, not your nemeses. Smoke from the smoldering embers in your repressed memories is blending with the chill night fog in your dreams, making your life seem like a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a taco. Just kidding about that last part. I wanted to see if your sense of humor is intact, because if it is, you will respond resiliently to all the cosmic jokes in your upcoming tests.
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According to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, here’s what God says to each of us: “Go the limits of your longing . . . Flare up like flame and make big shadows that I can move in. Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” Whether or not you’re on speaking terms with the Creator, this is excellent advice. It’s time to give everything you have and take everything you need. Hold nothing back and open yourself as wide and wild as you dare. Explore the feeling of having nothing to lose and expect the arrivals of useful surprises.
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Querencia is a Spanish word with many nuances. At its simplest, it refers to your favorite spot, a place where you long to be. But its meaning can go even deeper. Querencia may be a sanctuary where you feel safe and authentic, or a situation that enables you to draw on extra reserves of strength and courage. It’s a special kind of home: an empowering shelter that makes you feel that you belong in this world and love your life. Can you guess where I’m going with this message, Gemini? These days you need to be in your querencia even more than usual. If you don’t have one, or if you don’t know where yours is, formulate a fierce intention to locate it.
The sun and the expansive planet Jupiter are currently making a joyful noise in the sign of Virgo, which is your astrological House of Career and Ambition. This does not necessarily mean that a boon to your career and ambition will fall into your lap, although such an event is more likely than usual. More importantly, this omen suggests that you will influence luck, fate and your subconscious mind to work in your favor if you take dramatic practical action to advance your career and ambitions.
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The art of effective communication consists of knowing both what to say and what not to say. It’s not enough to simply find the words that accurately convey your meaning. You have to tailor your message to the quirks of your listeners. For example, let’s say you want to articulate the process that led you to change your mind about an important issue. You would use different language with a child, an authority figure and a friend. Right? I think you are currently at the peak of your abilities to do this well, Cancerian. Take full advantage of your fluency. Create clear, vivid impressions that influence people to like you and help you.
LEO
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Arthur Conan Doyle first used the term “smoking gun” in a story he wrote over a century ago. It referred to a time the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes burst into a room to find a man holding a pistol that had just been fired, along with the fallen body of a man who had been shot. Since then, the meaning of “smoking gun” has expanded. Now it’s any piece of evidence that serves as compelling proof of a certain hypothesis. If you can’t find the cookie you left in the kitchen, and your roommate walks by with cookie crumbs on his chin, it’s the smoking gun that confirms he pilfered your treat. I believe this is an important theme for you right now. What question do you need answered? What theory would you like to have corroborated? The smoking gun will appear.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
At least for now, I suggest you suspend the quest for order and refinement and perfection. The wise course of action is to disengage from your fascination with control, and instead give yourself to the throbbing, erratic pulse of the Cosmic Wow. Why? If you do, you will be able to evolve faster than you thought possible. Your strength will come from agile curiosity and an eagerness to experiment. Do you remember when you last explored the catalytic wonders of spontaneity and unpredictability? Do it again!
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On August 28, 1963, Capricorn hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech to a crowd of thousands in Washington, D.C. In that address, he imagined what it might look like if African Americans were free of the bigotry and oppression they had endured for centuries at the hands of white Americans. In accordance with your astrological potentials, I encourage you to articulate your own “I Have a Dream” vision sometime soon. Picture in detail the successful stories you want to actualize in the future. Visualize the liberations you will achieve and the powers you will obtain.
AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
If you have been patiently waiting for a propitious moment to buy a new yacht, pledge your undying love or get a tattoo that depicts Buddha wrestling Satan, now is as close as you’ll get to that propitious moment, at least for a while. Even if you have merely been considering the possibility of signing a year-long lease, asking a cute mischief-maker on a date or posting an extra-edgy meme on Facebook or Twitter, the next three weeks would be prime time to strike. Diving into a deep, heart-crazed commitment is sometimes a jangly process for you Aquarians, but these days it might be almost smooth and synchronistic.
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Ready for a ritual? Get a piece of paper and a pen. Light a candle, take three deep breaths and chant “YUMMMM” five times. Then spend ten minutes writing down the qualities you would like your perfect lover to possess. Identify both the traits that would make this person unique and the behavior he or she would display toward you. Got that? When you are finished, burn the list you made. Disavow everything you wrote. Pledge to live for at least seven months without harboring fixed beliefs about what your ideal partner should be like. Instead, make yourself extra receptive to the possibility that you will learn new truths about what you need. Why? I suspect that love has elaborate plans for you in the next two years. You will be better prepared to cooperate with them if you are initially free of strong agendas.
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hen first experimenting in healthy ones (a major side effect of chemothe 1970s, I immediately therapy and radiation). began reading everything I Yes, you read that correctly, and it’s could on the subject of worth repeating. From the cancer institute’s marijuana. And right from own website: “Cannabinoids may be useful the beginning, what I was finding, especialin treating the side effects of cancer and ly the material coming from the newly cancer treatment. Other possible effects of minted Drug Enforcement Agency, was not cannabinoids include a) anti-inflammatory in sync with what I was experiencing with activity, b) blocking cell growth, c) preventthe product. ing the growth of blood vessels that supply My favorite from that period is the old tumors, d) antiviral activity and e) relieving saw about marijuana robbing you of incenmuscle spasms caused by multiple sclerotive. While it might have been a familiar sis.” stereotype back in the “be sure to hide the It also advises that “cannabinoids are roaches” days, it didn’t correspond to anyuseful in treating cancer and its side effects thing that was happening to me. If anyby smoking, eating it in a baked product, thing, I was toking up and getting really drinking herbal teas, or even spraying it motivated. Once you got past the “I got under the tongue.” Nowhere does this govstoned, and I missed it” clichés and ernment website say that cannabis causes Cheech and Chong routines, cannabis was cancer. no hindrance to motivation, and I found it Yes, the U.S. government has finally admitted that THC can help battle cancer. The disturbing part is that the Department of Health has disavowed this laughable — still do — that it was even for years, and that it has persisted in its part of the conversation. If a person wasn’t denial and kept marijuana on Schedule 1 even as its naturally motivated, pot might not work positively, your IQ, for goodness’ sake. leaders have learned about the research over time. but it wasn’t the drug’s fault. As an artist told Sanjay The new scare tactics include that legalization will Bills are circulating in both the U.S. House and the Gupta on one of his “Weed” specials, “It’s my favorite increase the availability of cannabis and lead to a Senate to change it to Schedule 2 so research can be way to work.” “large and rapid” epidemic of marijuana users, start a resumed. So I have been suspect of anything that has been major crime wave and put thousands of stoned zomFinally, I can’t help but find it amusing that the written or disseminated officially about cannabis. All bies loose on our highways. So why shouldn’t there be ingredient in marijuana that seems to inhibit cancer scientific research on its medical possibilities was halt- a suspicion in any American that with all that “evigrowth in cells is THC, the very same cannabinoid ed decades ago in the United States (it has continued dence,” some of it must be true? that produces the “high” that anti-pot advocates are in other countries), and the application process was Thankfully, there are others more wise than me willing to spend billions of dollars to deny to the rest made so onerous that none could even be attempted who are helping separate fact from fiction. here. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned writing this Organizations like the Drug Policy Alliance and of us. column for a couple of years it’s that the old bullshit I NORML have websites filled with up-to-date inforPerhaps large pharmaceutical companies, which smelled back then still often permeates the discourse mation about marijuana and its myths, and there are profit from chemotherapy and radiation therapies and about marijuana legalization today. dozens of other publications already acting as watchnarcotic drugs that get people high, are already seekRead the headlines. Marijuana can give you candogs coming online all the time. ing to separate the buzz from the THC. We wouldn’t cer. It causes schizophrenia. It damages your heart and Just this month, while the major news media have want people who are healing to enjoy themselves, arteries. It’s a “gateway” to harder drugs and as addicbeen slobbering over Donald Trump, it slipped by that would we? tive as heroin. It’s stronger and more dangerous than the National Cancer Institute, which is part of the You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column it used to be. It impairs cognitive functionality and Department of Health, admitted that cannabinoids and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on can make you quit school or your job. It even lowers can be used to inhibit cancer cells without harming KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed
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Dear Dan: Please do a public-service announcement about the Ashley Madison hack, and request that NO ONE look up information on ANYONE other than their own spouse. I’m a former AM user. I’ve been married to my wife for 20 years. We met when we were both 20 years old. Seven years ago, I made a selfish decision to have an affair, and five years ago, my wife found out. She hated me for a while, but we worked things out. I have been faithful since then, and our marriage is better than ever. Since my wife already knows everything, I have no worries about her finding out. But what about every other person I know? It is mortifying to think about my colleagues or my wife’s family poring through my profile information. I’m going to assume the best — most people have the common decency not to snoop into their neighbors’ bedroom habits — but it would be great if you could ask people to respect other people’s privacy. — Really Enraged Guy Requesting Everyone’s Tactful Silence
Dear REGRETS: I’m happy to back you up, REGRETS, but I don’t share your faith in humanity. Most people are only too delighted to snoop into their neighbors’ bedroom habits — particularly when doing so induces feelings of moral superiority. And I like to think the kind of puritanical busybodies who would go looking for names in the Ashley Madison dump are unlikely to be readers of mine, so they wouldn’t see my Ashley Madison PSA anyway. But I have to disagree with your suggestion that people should look for their spouses’ names in the AM data. If someone in a shitty, high-conflict marriage needs an excuse to get out — because no-fault divorce isn’t good enough for them — okay, sure, that person might wanna search for their spouse’s name. But people who are in loving, functional, lowconflict, happy-ish marriages might want to think twice. Finding out that your spouse cheated — or fantasized about cheating — is impossible to unknow, and it’s something many people can’t get over. Caveat coniunx.
Dear Dan: I’m one of those morons who had an Ashley Madison account. But for me, and probably for many others, AM has been a strong antidote to the urge to cheat. Spending some time on AM taught me the following: (1) I’m nothing special — there are millions of other men looking for the same thing, and most of them are younger and better-looking. (2) The women on AM are nothing special — the few who even bother chatting with you are often looking for money, and your wife starts looking damn good by comparison. (3) The whole thing is basically a scam to separate horny middle-aged guys from our wallets. And it doesn’t even have the relatively honest sleaze of a strip club. — Ashley Madison Mark
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