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Two CU professors use plant science to solve murders by Amanda Moutinho
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Sports made Randy Soler a better person so he can help you be a better person by Tom Winter
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Highroad Why can’t our economy promote equality and shared prosperity? by Jim Hightower
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ou don’t have to be in “Who’s Who” to know what’s what. For example, if a tiny group of Wall Street bankers, billionaires and their political puppets are allowed to write the rules that govern our economy and elections, guess what? Only bankers, billionaires and puppets will profit from those rules. That’s exactly why our Land of Opportunity has become today’s Land of Inequality. Corporate elites have
bought their way into the policy-making backrooms of Washington, where they’ve rigged the rules to let them feast freely on our jobs, devour our country’s wealth and impoverish the middle class. There’s good news, however! A growing grassroots coalition of churches, unions, civil rights groups, citizen activists and many others is organizing and mobilizing us to crash through those closed doors, write our own rules and reverse America’s plunge into plutocracy. Called “Take On Wall Street,” the coalition’s structural reforms include: •Getting the corrupting cash of corporations and the super rich out of our politics by repealing Citizens United and providing a public system for financing America’s elections. •Stopping “too big to fail” banks from subsidizing their high-risk speculative gambling with the deposits of us ordinary customers, making them
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choose to be a consumer bank or a casino, but not both. •Instituting a tiny “Robin Hood Tax” on Wall Street speculators to discourage their computerized gaming of the system, while also generating hundreds of billions of tax dollars to invest in America’s real economy. •Restoring low-cost, convenient “postal banking” in our Post Offices to serve millions of Americans who’re now at the mercy of predatory payday lenders and check-cashing chains. To learn more about this campaign and its reform agenda to democratize America’s financial system, go to TakeOnWallStreet.org. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. September 1, 2016 5
danish plan Why the anti-fracking initiatives failed by Paul Danish
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he anti-fracking petition drives did not fail for lack of institutional support from environmental organizations. According to the Denver Post, the petitioners were backed by the 350.org Action Fund, Colorado People’s Alliance, Food and Water Action Fund, Food and Water Watch and Greenpeace USA. They did not fail for lack of money. According to the Wall Street Journal, the petitioners raised about $500,000. That was far less than the $13 million the energy industry raised to fight the measures, but it was more than enough to mount successful petition drives — especially on behalf of ballot measures that have attracted a lot of passionate volunteers. They did not fall short because their message was drowned out by their opponents. Over the past three years, the anti-fracking movement has had no trouble getting its message out; it has probably received more earned media than just about any other environmental cause in Colorado. They did not fail due to sloppy petitioning. According to Lynn Bartels, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State, more than 70 percent of the signatures on the two anti-fracking petitions were found to be valid, which is high compared to other petition drives. Only 58 percent of the signatures submitted by the successful petition drive for an initiative to raise the minimum wage in Colorado were valid. However the supporters of that initiative turned in 189,000 signatures. The anti-fracking initiatives turned in 106,626 for Initiative 78 (to ban new oil and gas drilling within 2,500 feet of an inhabited structure) and 107,232 for Initiative 75 (to give local governments the power to limit or ban oil and gas development in their communities). To get on the 2016 ballot, an initiative’s petition had to have 98,492 valid signatures. The anti-fracking petitions each contained fewer than 10,000 signatures over the minimum required — which means each of them would have had to have had more than 90 percent valid signatures in order to have been approved, a near-impossible hill to climb. 6 September 1, 2016
Nor did the anti-fracking initiatives fail because of possible fraud on the part of the signature gatherers. Although the Secretary of State’s office seems to have uncovered one possible instance of a petitioner forging signatures — three of them — there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of systemic fraud. The anti-fracking initiatives failed to get on the ballot because despite the best efforts of the petitioners, they couldn’t get enough people to sign the petitions — which is a nice way of saying that not very many Coloradans agreed with what they were trying to do. And why might that have been? My guess is it was because the case for the initiatives was fundamentally dishonest. The initiatives were portrayed as attempts to ban fracking, a particular industrial process, but their real agenda was to ban oil and natural gas production in Colorado and virtually everyone on both sides of the issue knew it. Most Coloradans are not in favor of destroying the state’s oil and natural gas industry. They see the economic and social benefits of an industry that in 2012 contributed more than $23 billion to the state’s economy created 93,500 jobs. It is not that they don’t see the potential environmental costs in terms of pollution and global warming. They think the risks and costs are acceptable and the benefits outweigh them, and the anti-frackers never made a convincing case to the contrary. Beyond that, the overwhelming majority of Coloradans drive cars and heat their homes with natural gas. It doesn’t take a genius to see that banning oil and gas production is self destructive. The initiatives’ supporters argued for replacing fossil fuels with non-carbon energy sources like wind and solar, but, most Coloradans intuitively understood that green energy alternatives that cannot be implemented in less than 10 to 20 years are not acceptable alternatives for an immediate ban on oil and gas production — and that it is both intellectually and politically dishonest see DANISH PLAN Page 7
guest column How to steal an election without really trying by Rob Smoke
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tep one: Get a group of buddies together, make it the kind of people who’d enjoy traveling First Class together, or maybe sharing a really nice men’s room somewhere. You don’t want trashy, low-income types — people who don’t know how to use a bidet, that kind of thing. Step two: Give your group an upbeat, friendly, chi-chi sounding kind of name, like, uhm, “Building A Better Colorado,” or maybe “Raise The Bar.” Hey, that’s a winner! Step three: Hold “grass roots” gettogethers around the state. Demonstrate to everyone that you really respect their input, even though you’re mainly asking for help with a problem you already figured out with your wealthy business buds and lawmaker pals. Step four: Never forget that you’re a winner. Remind people that your ballot item is good because THEY helped make it good! They sat enraptured as you demonstrated how “obscene” the number of citizen ballot initiatives has been. They stared wide-eyed as you detailed the suffering and misery of the kind and sincere lawmakers, the very ones who couldn’t ensure that you would have a stranglehold on the Colorado constitution unless you got Amendment 71 on the ballot. This is the King Shit of all amendments; the amendment to end all
amendments — literally! Let’s be clear: I wouldn’t be doing my curmudgeonly gadfly-tistic best at complaining, if Amendment 71 were simply labeled “the voter self-disenfranchisement act,” because that’s exactly what it is. Alternatively, it could be called the “protection of entrenched interests act.” If you vote for it, you are voting to devalue your own vote — to have it count less than it normally would in some future election where you otherwise might actually favor a citizen-initiated constitutional amendment. For those who feel like they may be one step behind the curve, passage of 71 would make it more difficult to place a citizen-based constitutional amendment proposal on the ballot, which would then be required to get a 55 percent super-majority to pass. Presently you need roughly 100,000 valid signatures to get on the Colorado ballot — and those have never been easy to get. Under 71, the proponents of an initiative would also be required to get 2 percent of the electors in each of 35 senate districts in the state. That may not sound like much, but in several districts you’d be very lucky to get those signatures without spending 20 bucks or more per signature, certainly a lot more than a citizen-based “public interest” initiative is likely to raise — and exponentially more than the one to two dollars per signature generally see GUEST COLUMN Page 7
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rated as a necessity these days. The cause of the price jump is pure logistics. Senate districts aren’t neat little parcels of land. In portions of the state you’d have to hire drivers and people with research skills to even certify for yourself which district you were getting signatures from. With current levels of gerrymandering, it’s more than likely that a few of those districts will be nearly impossible to tackle — and all that’s needed is one district where you failed to meet the 2 percent requirement to have ALL of your signatures become worthless paper. The Secretary of State’s office alone would need a legion of workers just to handle the certification process. This issue alone makes 71 not a “raising” of the bar, but an actual dropping of the bar on the heads of anyone who dared think the citizen amendment process was the way for frustrated groups to deal with an intractable legislature. Let’s stop and consider, for a moment, just HOW intractable. Prior to Amendment 64, there were constant attempts by cannabis activists to create some level of change through the legislature. There was year-round lobbying, there were constant talks on the criminal justice reform front — there was no traction ANYWHERE for any kind of meaningful change. In 2006, Colorado activists made a push with Amendment 44, with the glum result of only 41 percent voting in support. That might have been the end except for the determination of people — some of whom happen to be
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or at least independence in oil and gas production. Government has been spectacularly unsuccessful in achieving that goal, but starting in 2008 the country’s oil and gas companies demonstrated the goal was achievable. The anti-fracking movement has never spoken to why that goal should be abandoned, much less made a convincing case for abandoning it, but that is the consequence of what it is advocating. Most people intuitively understand that as well. This opinion column does not reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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letters A Russian-friendly president is wise
The article “Putin’s Got A Friend in Trump” by Dave Anderson (Aug. 11, 2016) misses the most vital issue regarding Russia and Vladimir Putin: U.S. national security. The article echoes the U.S. media narrative criticizing Donald Trump’s friendly comments toward Putin. I don’t support Donald Trump, but he understands the importance of maintaining a strategic relationship with Russia for national security, fighting ISIS and avoiding World War III. U.S. media has become state propaganda that demonizes Putin and blames Russia whenever it’s convenient (such as leaked DNC emails from WikiLeaks). The Obama Administration managed to jump start the Cold War over the 2014 Crimea secession in the Ukraine. After Russian troops moved into Crimea, the U.S. called it an act of aggression. Economic sanctions were imposed on Russia and NATO troops have moved right up to the Russian border. In 2016, NATO forces have quadrupled in the Ukraine. Russia has nukes and has said they will use them if they are attacked. Russia feels threatened by NATO. Just imagine if we had Russian troops on our border. Warning of the consequences of the Ukraine conflict is Stephen Cohen, Russian Studies Professor and writer for The Nation magazine. His Ed Schultz interview “We’re in A New Cold War — Stephen Cohen On Mounting US-Nato Military On Russian Border” (YouTube, Feb. 18, 2016) explains the current danger. Ukraine was in a state of political crisis in 2014. The eastern part of Ukraine relies on Russia as its main trading partner. They speak Russia. Is the Ukraine, worth the money our Federal Reserve is spending to create an EU-friendly/anti-Russian country? Putting NATO troops on the Russia border is an act of aggression. During the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy toward the Soviet Union was about avoiding a military confrontation with the nuclear super power. There were red lines that neither side crossed. Today, those red lines seem to be forgotten by America. Between the civil war in Ukraine and the conflict in Syria, we could be dangerously close to crossing those red lines and ending up in World War III with Russia. After Sept. 11, 2001, Putin helped the U.S. by allowing American Troops to supply and enter Afghanistan through Russia. The Northern Alliance in Afghanistan was part of an old
Russia fighting force, that did much of the fighting against the Taliban, thus saving American soldier’s lives. Russia was a strategic ally. What did Bush do in return? Pull out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and move NATO troops closer to the Russian border. During the Obama Administration, both Russia and China were critical to imposing sanctions against Iran and negotiating the Iran Nuclear Deal. Still we view Russia as the enemy. It is fair to criticize Putin on his human rights record, but let’s be objective. U.S. allies like Saudi Arabia have far worse human rights than Russia. Rather than focus on the faults of Russia, we should be focusing on the many injustices and atrocities our own government has committed, both at home and abroad. Our foreign policy of REGIME CHANGE has created failed states in the Middle East. Both the invasions of Iraq and Libya have destabilized the region with no end in sight to the chaos and human suffering. U.S. weapon sales to Saudi Arabia have led to their brutal war against Yemen and helped arm Islamic terrorists. The war in Syria is the most dangerous of all conflicts. Russia is working with the Syrian army to defeat ISIS and other rebel groups. U.S.-NATO forces are bombing ISIS and calling for the removal of the Assad Regime of Syria, simultaneously. The U.S.-NATO coalition is in violation of international law being in Syria. Both our bombing campaign and support of rebel groups fighting the Syrian army, puts us in a dangerous position with Russia, that could lead to a world war. What is our real interest in Syria? The answer has something to do with the Trans-Arabia Pipeline and the Qatar-Turkey Pipeline. Having a Russian-friendly president in the White House is wise. The hawkish, neoconservative foreign policy of Hillary Clinton will do more military interventions and increase tensions with Russia. Bernie Sanders said, “regime change has consequences.” History has proven him correct. Mark Rolofson/Boulder
NATO threats and expansionism
I appreciated the article by Angela K. Evans, “Nobody Wins a Nuclear War,” form August 4. What RMPJC is trying to tell us should be shouted from every street corner. I agree, we (the planet and its people) are being pushed right now to the brink, if not the actual outbreak, of Nuclear War. In this age of sound bite news, perhaps people are missing just how important and danBoulder Weekly
letters gerous the current antagonism toward Russia is. Perhaps the problem is painting Russia in black and white terms, which is what the politicians and media are doing. And, NATO is creating a lot of tension, along with its American backers. I mean what would you (as an American) think if Russia deployed forces along our border inside of Mexico. That is exactly what is happening in Europe now. Despite the fact that the U.S. and the NATO countries promised years ago not to do that. Russia has to respond, it has been attacked by European powers several times over the last couple of centuries. While not instigating war in Europe, itself. So, Russia is wary and untrusting. Anybody that has been paying attention to international news sources over the last couple of years would probably know that the people of Crimea did vote to stay with Russia. That the same people that are part of the attackers on Crimea, etc. were of the same political ideology as the those that sided with the Nazis during WW II. That Prince’s Xii or Blackwater, or whatever you want to call the World’s Largest Mercenary Army, has been reportedly involved in Ukraine since the coup that brought the current regime to power. But, perhaps you wouldn’t know that with the current anti-Russian antagonism in the press. And, Mr. Putin has said that he doesn’t want to live in a unipolar world with western hegemony as the only game on the planet. No matter what you may think about that, you have to admit that he has a formidable arsenal, both nuclear and otherwise. A person like that you would think would be one that you would want to get along with as best you can, not antagonize. We have to get beyond the simple stereotype, not everybody is a HITLER. Some people represent their people, and Mr. Putin enjoys very high support amongst his people, while we seem to not like our leaders, congress, candidates and politicians very much anymore. It is time that the American people take notice that the same attitudes that have brought us success in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Syria, Chile, etc. are now at the forefront of antagonizing the Russians, the Chinese and others. And some of those are capable of making a real hell out those attitudes if it comes to nuclear exchanges. We all are standing on the brink, do what you can to bring us back from it. Even if just standing on a corner and shouting. If Boulder Weekly
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Clinton’s Salazar pick undermines her progress on fracking
In response to Secretary Clinton’s appointment of Ken Salazar as her White House transition team lead, Greenpeace USA Democracy Campaign Director Molly Dorozenski said, “Secretary Clinton’s appointment of former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar as head of her transition team is the wrong move for a candidate who needs to strengthen her progressive policies, not weaken them. If Clinton plans to effectively tackle climate change, the last thing her team needs is an industry insider like Ken Salazar. Salazar’s track record illustrates time and again that he is on the side of big industry, and not of the people. His most recent opposition to the antifracking initiatives in his home state of Colorado directly undermines Clinton’s alleged support of local control over fracking. If Secretary Clinton wants to be the environmental leader that she claims to be in campaign speeches, she has to put the people before industry insiders.” Cassady Sharp, Greenpeace.org
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Clinton and Trump are flawed candidates running for president. Clinton has questionable scruples, and she has made significant mistakes. As secretary of state she set up an unsecured private server in her home for government email communications and sent and received secret and top secret information. She had ultimate responsibility for the Benghazi debacle where our ambassador and other Americans were killed by Islamic terrorists. Her foundation accepted contributions from foreign entities. Trump is the most unqualified person to ever run for president. He is a vile loudmouth with possible bigoted views who only cares about himself, and he does not respect our constitution and our institutions. Trump could have dictatorial tendencies. He has no knowledge of government operations and has no understanding of our domestic and world economies. His lack of knowledge in foreign affairs and military matters will hurt us in the world. The choices are: Vote for who you dislike the least, or vote for a third party candidate, or do not vote. How sad. Donald Moskowitz/Londonderry, NH
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office counted fairly or that his office was in anyway unbiased in its handling of these or other initiatives. While I have no evidence that the count was improper, I do have plenty of evidence suggesting that the Secretary of State is very tied to the powers opposing these oil and gas initiatives, the same powers who put him into office presumably to handle times just like this should they arise. And therein lies the bigger issue. Our state government has a very real credibility problem and it doesn’t matter if it is the result of impropriety or simply the appearance of impropriety, because both are equally destructive when it comes to the political process. If you want to understand the negative impact that the appearance of impropriety has on our democracy, all you have to do is read my emails from this past week. Many supporters of these initiatives are expressing their absolute belief that the Secretary of State’s office is controlled by the oil and gas industry and others opposed to 75 and 78, and that the signature count was rigged to make the measures fail. As a result of this belief, I think many of these folks will likely become even further disenfranchised from a political system they no longer trust and many may well feel pushed toward more radical forms of opposition in their effort to protect themselves from the health impacts of oil and gas extraction near their homes. I’m referring to the health impacts that have been confirmed by “radical eco-terrorists” like the researchers at Johns Hopkins University whose three studies this year concerning people living near fracking operations have found that proximity to this highly polluting industrial practice increases the likelihood of premature births, high-risk pregnancies, migraine headaches, asthma and more. So is this skepticism surrounding the Secretary of State’s office warranted? I’d have to say the answer is yes, but that doesn’t mean that I believe the count was rigged. I don’t think there was any reason to fudge the numbers. As far as I know, no proposed initiative with so few signatures to spare has ever made it to the ballot. But this lack of valid signatures doesn’t mean that
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et me start by making one thing very clear; the reason that local control and setback Initiatives 75 and 78 failed to make the November ballot is because proponents of the initiatives failed to gather enough valid signatures to safely see them through the process. But it wasn’t for lack of effort. They failed because they were up against more than $20 million spent against them by a very coordinated collection of oil and gas front groups, pro-business organizations and wealthy individuals who have literally taken control of Colorado’s political system. Under the circumstances, this grassroots effort by Coloradans trying to protect their families’ health, the environment and their quality of life from unbridled oil and gas extraction near their homes was impressive. And I for one would like to thank them for their efforts to protect my family. Had 140,000 signatures for each initiative been turned in as was the original target, it wouldn’t have mattered who did the final counting. The initiatives would have stood the test and voters would have finally had the opportunity to combat the oil and gas industry and its backers who have hijacked Colorado’s democracy. Instead, only about 107,000 signatures were turned in for each measure and the Secretary of State’s office, after purporting to do a random 5 percent sample test, claimed that there were not enough valid signatures to warrant a full count. The Secretary of State estimated that only 77-79,000 signatures would have been validated, leaving the initiatives short of the required 98,492 signatures needed to make the ballot. Let me make another thing clear. My acknowledgment that supporters of these two initiatives failed to gather enough valid signatures does not mean that I believe that Secretary of State Wayne Williams’ Boulder Weekly
Wayne Williams and his band of Republican-activist employees in the Secretary of State’s office are honest brokers when it comes to matters that concern the oil and gas industry. Let’s review the powers that put Williams into office and what their goals are for Colorado. Wayne Williams’ story will sound familiar to Boulder Weekly readers. He’s just one more political puppet put in place by the Colorado Concern/ Starboard Group machine that we have been writing about for the past year. As you may recall, the Starboard Group was founded by Republican political operatives Kristin Strohm and Katie Behnke. Starboard has been described as the most powerful Republican fundraising and consulting firm in the Western United States and increasingly the nation. It is not an exaggeration to say that anyone hoping to get elected at the state level in Colorado has little choice but to seek office byway of the Starboard Group. That’s because Starboard controls a great deal of the money being contributed by the state’s largest campaign donors, including both corporations and individuals. So how does Starboard decide who gets the money and the other benefits of its political connections? As previously reported by BW (see boulderweekly.com/news/behind-the-curtain/) Starboard’s donors are the ones who ultimately choose whom the firm works with, gives money to and as a result, who wins. So who are these “donors” who are determining who gets elected? They are disproportionately represented by the oil and gas industry and large developers and many are members of Colorado Concern, the 118-member, invitation-only “business organization” that lobbies, donates to campaigns and otherwise has come to more or less own Colorado’s political system. But, of course, it’s more complicated than that. Starboard’s Strohm is married to oil and gas consultant and former state senator Josh Penry. The pair has been called the first couple of fracking because of their oil and gas industry ties and pro-industry political activities. Starboard rents Strohm out as the executive director of the Common Sense Policy Roundtable (CSPR), the pro-oil organization founded by Strohm with ties to the Koch brothers, and which controls the REMI research program at CU’s Leeds School of Business. The REMI program is the mechanism the oil and gas industry uses to produce shallow pro-oil-industry research reports whose headlines are then distributed via sound-bite advertising or as news by oil-industryfriendly media like the Denver Post. Strohm is also on the board of Vital for Colorado, a pro-oil-and-gas front group that works closely with CRED (Coloradans for Responsible Energy Development), another industry front group created and funded by Anadarko Petroleum and Noble Energy, both of which are represented by members of Colorado Concern. Strohm’s husband Josh Penry works for EIS solutions, a consulting firm providing such services as the creation of fake grassroots movements (astroturf See DYERTIMES Page 12
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groups) that appear to support increased oil and gas extraction in Colorado. It has been described as the industry’s dirty tricks machine. Long story short, if you want to get elected as a Republican in Colorado, you have to have the support of Colorado Concern and the Starboard Group. And if you want their support and their money, you have to be pro-oil and gas, pro-fracking and anti-direct democracy. And it’s not just Republicans dancing to Colorado Concern’s tune. The largest funder of Colorado’s Democratic Party, Tim Gill, is also a Colorado Concern member, and supposed Democrats like Governor John Hickenlooper have many connections inside Colorado Concern. And Colorado Concern’s stated goals are pretty simple. Among a few other things, they want oil and gas production to be unimpeded by government and the state constitution and they want to make it nearly impossible for the citizens of Colorado to use direct democracy by way of the initiative process in the future. That’s right, it’s Colorado Concern members who are the real force behind this year’s Amendment 71, known as the Raise the Bar initiative. This initiative, should voters pass it, has been designed specifically to make it nearly impossible for ordinary citizens to ever use the direct democracy process offered by the current initiative process again. Number 71 would make it many times more expensive and logistically more difficult to get an initiative on the ballot in the future, leaving the process open only to extremely well-funded organizations such as, you guessed it, Colorado Concern, CRED, Vital for Colorado and other industry groups. So back to our friend Secretary of State Wayne Williams. What can I say about the way he has handled this year’s initiative process? First, I should point out that Williams was indeed chosen by the Starboard Group’s wealthy, pro-oil donors to run for Secretary of State. And I think it’s clear now why they chose him. Consider this recent incident: When his own hand-picked communications director Lynn Bartels inappropriately tweeted out photos of empty boxes and questioned whether proponents of 75 and 78 had turned in enough signatures to make the ballot, Williams didn’t do the proper thing and fire her on the spot. No, Williams sat silently by as her partisan, industryinfluenced tweets were, as I suspect was the plan all along, turned into news headlines questioning whether the 12 September 1, 2016
whole Initiative 75 and 78 signature turn-in had been nothing more than a publicity stunt. I should also point out that the only “news” outlets running these headlines derived from Bartels’ tweets were from organizations getting oil-industry ad dollars, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. Then consider the path of another recent Secretary of State spokesperson, Rich Coolidge. This guy left his Secretary of State position in 2015 to work for none other than Josh Penry’s EIS Solutions. And where does Coolidge’s name show up these days? He’s listed as the contact person for the Raise the Bar initiative. Another remarkable coincidence, don’t you think? Seriously, could the Secretary of State’s office get any deeper into bed with the oil and gas industry and its backers? Yep. Now there are questions being raised about alleged campaign finance violations concerning the Raise the Bar initiative, so what is Secretary of State Williams doing about it? Is he launching a thorough investigation into the allegations? No, instead he’s apparently intervening on behalf of Initiative 71, an initiative supported by Colorado Concern and being managed in part by at least one of his former employees who just happens to work with William’s campaign fundraiser and consultant’s husband’s oil-and-gas-funded firm. Can you say inbred? Maybe Williams’ office could have more thoroughly looked into the alleged violations concerning the Raise the Bar initiative if it hadn’t been so busy scrutinizing all the signatures on Initiatives 75 and 78. But at least that extra scrutiny paid off for Williams’ puppeteers. Miraculously, Williams’ office was able to turn up three “potentially forged” signatures out of the 214,000 that were submitted for Initiatives 75 and 78. Yes, you read that right; three as in 3 as in III. So what possible purpose, or more accurately put, motive, could Williams have had for putting out a press release about three questionable signatures gathered by some pimple-faced, 18-year-old signature gatherer? The answer would be “none” if not for the Colorado-Concern-influenced Denver Post that treated it with the overblown importance of a Lynn Bartels tweet. I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. As most of you know by now, the CEO/Publisher of the Denver Post, Mac Tully, the ad salesman turned exec who has the power to decide who gets laid off and who runs the newsroom at the state’s largest newspaper, is actually a member of Colorado Concern. That’s right, the principle watchdog over the
intersection of corporate influence on elected officials is a member of the state’s largest corporate influencer over our elected officials. I know I use the word “actually” every time I write about this, but I just can’t help it. I’m still dumbfounded that this incredible conflict of interest is allowed to exist and that the newsroom at the Post isn’t telling its readers about it and demanding that it be stopped. It must be an incredible embarrassment for the serious journalists left in that newsroom. And it is a big deal. As BW reported a few weeks ago (see boulderweekly.com/news/behind-closeddoors-2/), a representative of CRED — the industry front group funded by Anadarko and Noble — was heard on a recording provided by Greenpeace at an industry gathering describing how CRED uses the Denver Post’s editorial board to help it create a “one-two punch” against the anti-fracking movement so it can do things like take over local city councils to make sure nothing gets in the way of fracking. I don’t have to tell you that when a newspaper being run by an executive tied to a pro-oil and gas lobbying group like Colorado Concern is being used to help the industry “take over” local city councils in order to further the industry’s goals, it makes for a big credibility problem. It naturally raises the question of what other areas of news coverage, aside from fracking, are being slanted at the Post. How about coverage of K to 12 education “reform” or construction defects laws, two other areas of interest where Tully’s Colorado Concern has been actively attempting to sway the state legislature. Are stories on these subjects getting the same sort of special treatment as the oil and gas industry? We just don’t know, and that’s the problem when a newspaper loses its credibility. Now we have to question everything it writes. So in addition to Secretary of State Williams wasting taxpayer dollars to find three potentially forged signatures out of 214,000, he now says he may turn them over to Attorney General Cynthia Coffman for prosecution so we can waste some more taxpayer money. FYI: most attorneys general would laugh off such a request for prosecution but like Williams, Coffman too was funded and chosen for office by the donors of the Starboard Group. So who knows what her marching orders are. The only logical explanation I can come up with for Williams and Coffman pursuing this silly three-signature retaliation is that it would create more Denver Post headlines to discredit those opposing oil and gas extraction near their homes, and to send a mes-
sage to any who would dare to attempt to put forward anti-oil and gas initiatives in the future. I have to admit, it’s a powerful message to tell people who might someday want to volunteer to gather signatures for an initiative not supported by Colorado Concern or its industry pals; that collecting one bad signature could get you prosecuted by the state’s attorney general. It’s both powerful and sad and just another example of what I view as impropriety or at the very least, the appearance of impropriety on the part of the Secretary of State’s office. Our elected officials may run for office as a Republicans or Democrats, but once they take the oath of office they are to serve all of the citizens of Colorado fairly and without bias. I think it’s impossible to look at the treatment of the various initiatives this year by the Secretary of State’s office — treatment that appears to be based upon whether an initiative is supported or opposed by Colorado Concern and the oil and gas industry — and not see it as uneven, unfair and unworthy of Colorado’s democratic process. So what should we do about it? First and foremost, we need to be informed voters. These polluting oil and gas corporations and wealthy individuals can only rule us if we continue to let them. Vote down their Raise the Bar Initiative 71 and thereby preserve our last defense against their ability to buy our public officials and push their self-serving agendas. And then vote against every politician or initiative receiving money from the Starboard Group and/or any member of Colorado Concern, regardless of which party they are in. Take back your democracy, Colorado. Take it back from the people who have stolen it from you. It doesn’t matter if you are a Boulder fractivist, a gun-rights proponent from Grand Junction, a religious conservative in Colorado Springs, an environmentalist in Durango or a fifthgeneration farmer from the San Luis Valley, as long as the oil and gas industry and its millionaire backers are deciding who gets elected in this state, you lose. This is bigger than any one issue. This is about whether we are going to choose to restore our democracy or continue to be governed by a handful of the state’s wealthiest individuals and corporations. And it’s our choice not theirs. So follow the money before you check that box on your ballot. It may be the most important thing you’ll do this year. Boulder Weekly
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andy Soler is animated, his words cascading into the warm air of summer in sweetly accented English, fueled by a triple espresso that sits half-consumed in front of him. A former surfer and skateboarder who stumbled upon triathlons, it’s not the espresso that excites him, it’s the potential. The potential for greatness and the potential to exceed limits. But it’s your potential that Randy Soler is the most excited about. After injuries forced Soler to break away from boardsports as a teen, he became obsessed with triathlons, an oddball event that none of his peers in Puerto Rico were doing. It was an obsession that drove him to become one of his country’s best athletes in the sport and led him into a career as a coach and motivational speaker, neither of
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boarding that I started in the gym and gained 50 pounds of muscle,” Soler recalls. “So then I had to lose some Randy Soler has turned weight and started running, and I his passion for exercise into a career as a became obsessed with running. I did my coach and motivational first 10K and a friend suggested to me I speaker. should try triathlons. It was a sport I hadn’t even heard of. “It was an amazing experience,” says Soler of his first race. “I never had sports in my family, and my mom told me, ‘You won’t do it, you can’t do it.’ But I like to prove to people I can do things, so I bought my first bike, it was an old bike, and I decided to compete. I was all about racing and trying to win — I went all in — and I was going so fast on a downhill biking section that I crashed. But I finished after the crash, and it was the most satisfaction I had had in years as an accomplishment. I was 17 years old at the time and it was a big, big deal to prove my family wrong.” That first race was a turning point for Soler. Hooked on the sport, he developed quickly as an athlete, competing at the highest levels, including as a member of the Puerto Rico National Triathlon Team for the 2002 ITU World Cup in Mexico. But the pressure of elite competition along with the death of his father in 2001 proved to be more than he could handle. “In my case sports saved my life,” Soler says. “When my dad died, I was screwed up. By 2006 I couldn’t handle all of the pressure I was going through — I just couldn’t handle it. I wasn’t ready mentally or emotionally and was more into drugs and less into exercise.” Soler is frank about that period of his life: “From 2006 to 2009, that was my darkest period. It was three years of darkness because of the drugs,” he admits. “But in 2009 I started dealing with myself and got back into triathlons, doing races without pressure. Triathlon saved my life. Sports saved my life. I now have a new perspective about having fun more than getting results.” Soler’s story of success then failure and, finally, redemption is not unique. But what makes his particular journey special is that his return to triathlons wasn’t just about returning and doing well (although that is part of the story). It’s that his return to becoming an elite athlete parallels his personal journey of becoming a father, mentor and a coach to both elite and disabled athletes, where the results and success of others matters more to him than any personal glory could. This journey, precipitated by the tragedy of losing a father, was also profoundly influenced by the birth of a son, who suffers from cerebral palsy, as well as his subsequent move to Boulder. “Puerto Rico is very expensive for medical services,” Soler says. “I went to Vail on vacation. Then we missed a flight out of Eagle, so a friend came and picked us up and took us down to Boulder. And I thought Boulder was a fake country, everyone was saying, ‘Hello,’ ‘Good morning,’ very polite and happy, and I thought immediately that this is a place I want to be. I immediately decided to check out the medical services for my kid, and the care was great and affordable, so I came back two years later. I am so glad we decided to make the step. My son
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is doing much better. The coaching opportunities here opened so many doors. I feel like it is home. “It is all about my kid,” adds Soler, who credits his son for getting him involved in the International Paralympics movement as a coach. “Not too many kids want to do exercise, but that is my passion. There are not so many programs for kids to go train as disabled athletes, so that is one of my passions, helping change that.” If Soler’s brushes with addiction and the challenges of raising a disabled child have left him grateful and more personally aware, it’s also empowered him as an athlete. National records compliment his inclusion on the Puerto Rico national triathlon team last year for 1,500 and 800 meters at the Puerto Rican Masters Swimming Championships in 2012. “Representing my country in triathlon in 2002, it felt like nothing,” Soler admits. “But last year was huge for me, because I was 32 years old it and it was like, ‘I have big things on my shoulders wearing a Puerto Rico shirt.’ It represents a lot to me and to other people in my country and a lot of people are counting on me.” The personal and athletic challenges Soler has faced have infused him with confidence and that, Soler says, is the key to success. “Self confidence as an individual, that’s the key thing I’m trying to bring coaching,” he says. “Self confidence is my passion, because it allows you to enjoy the process of getting results as much as the results.” The mentality, he says, also is a key attribute for a coach as well as an athlete. “It is a learning process in all aspects every single day,” Soler says. “Dealing with all kinds of people and all kinds of minds helps me help them. The work is individualized and personalized, it’s not like, ‘This is your training.’ The key is the confidence to work with everyone as an individual and give them the confidence that they can exceed their individual goals, just as I have.” Through his company, Extreme Outdoor Training, Randy has had the opportunity to train a diverse pool of athletes, from disabled kids to elite swimmers to casual athletes looking to improve their performance to people who just want to feel better. These are his secrets to get fit, take control and be happy: Boulder Weekly
It won’t happen overnight “People are looking for a diet or to get fit in a fast way. But if you are looking to exercise and get in shape, everyone knows how to do it. They just need to work with their head and make it happen — there is no magic thing. There is no magical pill, so start to work with your mind and make it happen.”
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Give yourself one month “As soon as you start with a physical routine, keep going. In one month your body will tell you can’t eat shit like fast food burgers or you can’t keep smoking. Then it’s time to diet or work on stopping smoking. Put your mind towards one goal at a time.”
Keep it balanced “Do not sacrifice family time for exercise. Excercise can be obsessive. It’s kind of an addiction. You are working with endorphins in your body, so as soon as you start becoming obsessed, you have to make some priorities for your family. If you are starting to run every day, bring the kids every day on their bikes, include the family in the lifestyle. Or, if you don’t have a family, make time for your friends, don’t be afraid to go out and have a beer.” And on the physical side, do not overdo things. Start doing weights on your upper body and then the next next day focus on your legs — don’t overdo it. If you don’t keep your workouts balanced, you will get injured.
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elanie Yazzie is an artist. She’s a painter, printmaker, sculptor, jewelry designer and an art teacher. As the head of printmaking at the University of Colorado, her most important piece of advice for her students is to make art every day — words she lives by. “I have four new pieces over there,” Yazzie says, gesturing to a nearby table in her classroom as she’s mopping up an ink pile left behind by a student new to printmaking. “I’ve been making work for over 30 years now, so it’s all the same — different facets of my story in different ways. It might be a pen and ink drawing, it
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might be a print, it might be a painting, it could be a sculpture work. But because I’ve been doing it so long, I can go into any of those mediums and make the work I need to tell my story.” Yazzie has two new exhibits at The Dairy Arts Center, both showing through Sept. 25. In Early Dawn, Yazzie conceptualizes a time period, she says, that is very sacred to her Navajo culture. The work is about waking up early and going for walks, where she can pray, give thanks, ask for good in the world and create balance. “There are different lines that look like river see YAZZIE Page 26
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waves and pathways. They are speaking about travel, about the river, how it goes through the land, but also about our internal sides, like the intestines,” she says. “It’s like how the land is like the body, and how you should respect the land and also respect your body.” For Internal Pathways, Yazzie looks to the body again. The series deals with her diagnosis with type 2 diabetes, which she’s been living with for six years. The artwork reflects on the time she had a camera inserted to check for cancerous cells. For the work, she uses pinks and reds to elicit those interior landscapes, and she focuses on circular shapes. “A lot of the circles represent that whole process for me of thinking that nothing bad is growing and that things are clean and healthy,” she says. “Because when they put the camera inside you, they’re looking for polyps, which are these little points. So you always want a clean image.’” Diabetes is runs in her family, and it’s a problem in Native American communities. According to the American Diabetes Association, American Indians are 2.2 “Internal Pathway #5”/Melanie Yazzie
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buzz times more likely to have diabetes compared to non-Hispanic whites. But even though the numbers are higher for Native Americans, addressing that is not Yazzie’s purpose with her work. “Yes, it’s a fact that different minority cultures have a higher risk of living with diabetes,” she says. “But I don’t really focus on the statistics or the history, it’s more of a personal story that I’m working with.” Yazzie has always been drawn to the personal with her work, especially drawing from her own culture. “It’s from where I come from,” Yazzie says. “All the traditions and stories and ways in which make me a Navajo woman have me see the better sides of what’s happening in the world.” As a Native American artist, she’s spent her career battling stereotypes. “When people hear I’m an artist they think I make traditional jewelry, that I’m a traditional Navajo weaver, that I do sand painting, that I paint on drums, that I do bead work,” she says. “Then when I tell them I’m a print maker and a painter and that I do abstract contemporary work, I think people at times are disappointed because they have this idea they were meeting this ‘Native artist.’ When I’m not making these ‘Native’ things, they’re disillusioned.” But when people hear more about the reasoning behind their artwork, she says, they start to understand her perspective. The artwork she makes attempts to humanize herself and present issues that she intimately deals with. “[My art] deconstructs that idea of what a Native American should be or what our artwork should look like,” she says. “They get to know me on a personal level, as opposed to the pointing action of, ‘Oh, that’s a Native American, that’s a teepee,’ or some object that we get paired with, a headdress, a drum, imagery like that. I don’t have that really in my artwork. There are different things I use, my own symbols and images.” When she first started making art, her work was confrontational — challenging preconceived notions and damaging perceptions. In one series she dealt with blood quantum, using images of her certificate of Indian blood, which shows she’s four-fourths Navaho and has her census number from the tribe on it. But Yazzie realized her work alienated viewers. “There was a lot of people who were afraid of the Native angry person and would sort of turn off. And then I’d Boulder Weekly
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[only] be speaking to the choir, people who really understood my work,” she says. “But there were people who didn’t know what a reservation was or why being Native was important or just people who were ignorant of different ways of being in the world. “And I realized if I made work that
wasn’t as confrontational then I could reach those people and educate them more. We could come to a place of having a conversation that might not have happened if I had this work that was really in your face.” She wants her work to serve educational purposes, and she now focuses
on presenting her ideas with more positivity, like her Early Dawn series. The shift didn’t just take place in her art. Yazzie says she’s become less angry overall. She says now she makes work from a calmer place. This also allows more room for patience, which she says as a minority person, is very hard to have. She still see YAZZIE Page 28
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ate last year, sometime in October, Rod Argent got a call from Billboard. The Zombies’ new album, Still Got That Hunger, had debuted at No. 35 on the Top 100 — their first album to grace the chart since 1969. Argent laughs as he admits, “It wasn’t there for very long.” Short lived as it may have been, it was a testament to the impression the mid-’60s psychedelic pop band left on the musical landscape in just four years — enough of an impression to successfully crowdfund Still Got That Hunger. They were a band ahead of their time during the British Invasion that brought them to American shores in 1965. While The Beatles still wanted to hold your hand, The Zombies were embracing the swirling abstract sounds of psychedelic rock that typified later work by The Fab Four. The Zombies were playing pop music, sure, but they eschewed the guitar-driven sound of the day in favor of Argent’s jazz- and classicalinfluenced organ and piano, rich threepart backup harmonies and mixed time signatures, all punctuated by lead singer Colin Blunstone’s high-pitched, breathy vocals. And while success came quick for the five lads from St. Albans, England, it was also complicated and fleeting. In 1964, their debut single, “She’s Not There,” peaked at No. 12 in the U.K. and No. 2 in the U.S. They were off to the States after that, to play seemingly endless sets like the gigs they played for DJ Murray the K’s Christmas show in Brooklyn’s Fox Theatre. “[We played] six shows a day, as I remember it from 8 in the morning... it was a long time ago,” Argent says. “We finished at 11 at night. Then we had to travel the subway back to our hotel.” It was a dream come true for these young men to be “in the land of our heroes,” as Argent puts it. “We couldn’t believe it. Everything we liked, to us, was American,” he says. “Being in love with the early music of Elvis, who seemed like a mythical human being, from a mythical place. Suddenly, not only were we topping the charts in America, but we much, much later found that Elvis had our songs on his juke box.” Boulder Weekly
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While The Zombies would have two more charting singles in the U.S. (and even more in Scandinavia and the Philippines), “She’s Not There” was their only hit in the U.K., a fact Argent says damned the band’s commercial success. “In those days, the world was a much bigger place and things weren’t as international, so people were, for the most part, based in their home countries,” he says. “In the U.K. we only ever had one hit; we later found out many years later that in our threeand-half years of being professional, we always had a hit [somewhere in the world]. That seems inconceivable now, but in those days you just didn’t know.” In 1967, the band recorded their second album, Odessey and Oracle (the misspelling of odyssey was a mistake by the artist who designed the album cover). They had no money for session musicians — Argent and Chris White, the songwriters of the group, paid for the stereo mixes themselves — so they used a Mellotron, a keyboard that allowed them to mimic orchestral instruments. But the album wouldn’t take off in the U.K. and almost didn’t get released in the U.S. at all. By 1968, The Zombies had broken up. “The reason we broke up was commercial,” Argent says. “The sense that the songwriters in the band always had plenty of money — because we had very honest publishers — it meant it was a continuing income stream.”
But the live gig money wasn’t there, and the boys weren’t 19-year-olds fresh out of high school anymore. They needed real paychecks. But there were no hard feelings, Argent says, just a sense of reality. Even the surprise success of Odessy’s closing track, “Time of the Season,” wasn’t enough to get The Zombies to regroup and hit the road — but it did lead to some fake Zombies touring groups, one of which included two future members of ZZ Top, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard. Argent says he only found out about this a few months ago. “I think that’s absolutely hilarious,” he says. “I said when I’m done with all of this [Zombies touring], I’m going to start a fake ZZ Top band.” It’s hard to say when Argent and the current Zombies line up — Colin Blunstone, Steve Rodford, Tom Toomey and Jim Rodford — will have that chance at a fake ZZ Top band. Their music endures — and not just with those who grew up listening to it. “We played in the Philippines last year. We were huge in the Philippines in the ’60s,” Argent says. “A grandmother brought her 18-year-old granddaughter to the show, and afterward the girl told me, ‘I came along kicking and screaming, but you played this song, “A Rose for Emily,” and I was crying at the end.’ “That was fantastic,” Argent says. “That it can actually move someone in 2015. It feels magical — it feels like a real privilege.”
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hat qualifies us to talk about Gilmore Girls like experts?” Kevin Porter asks co-host Demi Adejuyigbe, during the inaugural episode of their podcast Gilmore Guys. “Well I have a PhD in Gilmore,” Adejuyigbe answers. “And you went to school for Girls I believe, right?” “Yes, I got a major in girls and a minor in women,” Porter jokes. The Gilmore Guys got their start in the fall of 2014 when Netflix began streaming all seven seasons of the classic WB show, which ran from 2000 to 2007. Friends Porter and Adejuyigbe decided to start a biweekly podcast watching and analyzing every episode — Porter a major fan of the show and Adejuyigbe never having seen an episode. At first, the podcast was just a fun side project. But since then, the guys have flown through the show and have recorded nearly 200 episodes. Gilmore Guys has built a loyal fanbase and following on social media, even spurring a fan podcast Boulder Weekly
called The Gilmore Guys Girls. The success came as a surprise. “You don’t start a podcast because a million people are going to listen to it,” Porter says. “It’s always like, ‘Oh maybe a few people will find it and enjoy it, and it’ll be this weird little thing.’ When you make a podcast, you make it for yourself as much as for anyone else.” Porter says his first inkling that the podcast was more than just a side hobby was during their first live show in April 2015. They’ve gone on to do several live podcasts, selling out venues across the country. On Sept. 18, the Gilmore Guys will be at Boulder Theater, where they will dig into episode 19 of season seven, “It’s Just Like Riding a Bike.” “It’ll be a big community party, Stars Hollow town meeting blowout,” Porter says. The appeal of the podcast comes partly from hearing Adejuyigbe’s perspective as a newcomer to the series. Fans tune in to hear his musings and to see if they agree with their theories, including one of the most debated questions: Who was Rory’s best boyfriend? With only a few episodes left until the series finale, Adejuyigbe says confidently that he does like the show. “Growing up it was always marketed to me as the same as any other teen drama of its ilk,” he says. “Watching it makes me realize it’s a lot more adult than you’d realize. But it also has something for everybody in the sense that if you don’t
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care about Last year, Gilmore Girls one aspect of fans got a surprise when it, there’s 10 Netflix announced a reboot other aspects about it that you of the show, something the can glob on to.” guys had theorized freThe podcast has received quently on their podcast. praise for overcoming gender Four 90-minute episodes are stereotypes — they nabbed debuting this November, the number one spot on and the guys only have one BUST magazine’s “7 wish: Awesome Podcasts That “We’d love to see all Challenge Gender Norms.” three of the boyfriends get in a car wreck and pass away,” Despite originally labeled as Porter jokes. a teen drama, geared at In reality, Porter says he’s “girls,” neither guy thinks of cautiously optimistic. Gilmore as a “girls-only” “The worst thing that show. could happen is if the revival “I think, truthfully, the becomes not fan fiction, but marketing on the WB was Join the Gilmore Guys at the Boulder Theater as they ponder pressing questions, such as who was Rory’s best boyfriend? if it seems like it was written kind of a disaster,” Porter says. by someone who really just “They really had a pretty wants the audience to like it, where interesting, multilayered show that they “So I think the perception that it they keep making references to the old had to cram into the WB brand of got was almost inevitable,” he says. show,” Adejuyigbe says. “I don’t want it Dawson’s Creek and Seventh Heaven, “It’s nice to have some distance from to be like, oh they said, ‘Oy, with the with breakups and needle drops galore it, so it can reclaim its truer, more poodles already,’ or Dean’s back and he’s from the late ’90s. And it wasn’t that appealing status as a cultural converstill working at Dosey’s. I want everykind of show. sation.”
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one to be grown up and acknowledge the past, but not just lean into how much we loved the past.” Unlike other reboots, Gilmore Girls sits in a unique position. The show’s creator and writer, Amy ShermanPalladino, left before the final season, but she’s back for the revival. “Amy didn’t end on her own terms, and the revival serves to rectify that,” Porter says. “Full House, Arrested Development, X-Files, Twin Peaks, I think all those ostensibly ended on their own terms with their authors. But this is the case that it didn’t.” The Gilmore Guys will finish up the original series in the next few weeks, closely followed by the revival episodes. And for their “Epilogue,” as Porter calls it, they plan to tackle Sherman-Palladino’s one-season, cult favorite Bunheads. But only one question remains: Team Dean? Team Jess? Or Team Logan? “I’m Team Rory,” Porter says. “Through and through.”
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Banshee Tree. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. CU Keyboard Faculty. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, Boulder, 303-492-8008. Christopher Laughrey. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Eef and the Blues Express. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark
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Becoming Imperceptible — Adam Pendleton. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 11.
The Haunted Windchimes. 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 2, The Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
“Untitled” (1958), Courtesy the artist Becoming Imperceptible is and Pace Gallery, New York. the largest solo presentation of Photograph Kelly Shroads artist Adam Pendleton’s work. The exhibit features film, wall paintings, ceramics and silkscreens from the past eight years, and it tackles cultural and political movements of the 20th century. Pendleton borrows from many schools of thought and theories, including minimalism and conceptualism, drawing from history, such as the Civil Rights Movement and pre-war avant-garde. See his work now at MCA Denver through Sept. 11.
The Haunted Windchimes play the folk music of yesteryear. Their sound is grounded in a vintage quality reminiscent of the past, but also in the realities of today. With elements of country, blues and bluegrass, their brand of folk delivers the best of each world. Blending the sounds of the ukulele, banjo and guitar, the band’s musical backbone lends itself to the vocal harmonies of its members. Watch as they take the Gold Hill stage and fan the flame for an Americana revolution.
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Mac Demarco. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467. Mac DeMarco and Ryley Walker. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. Mark Kaczorowski. 7 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Nancy Walker Trio. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Tilt Pinball, 544 County Road, Louisville, 303-665-8770.
Ana Maria Hernando: We Have Flowers. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Oct. 22.
Finishing School: BLISS. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 11.
Becoming Imperceptible — Adam Pendleton. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Sept. 11.
Frank Buffalo Hyde #FBH. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Sept. 25. Janelle Iglesias: Even a Simple Call Can Turn Into a Complex Racket. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Sept. 10.
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Internal Pathways & Early Dawn — Melanie Yazzie. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Sept. 25.
Tyler Grant. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
International Artists Residency: Tomoko Sauvage. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., 303-443-2122. Through Aug. 31.
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Mysterium Tremendum: collecting curiosity. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 17.
ménage à trois: down to play. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Photography/Photoshop/Lightroom One-On-One Consulting. 10 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Friday, September 2 Music
Oculus Menis — Penelope Sharp. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Sept. 25. On Desert Time. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 8, 2017.
Native American artist Melanie Yazzie exhibits two solo shows at The Dairy through Sept. 26. Read more about Yazzie on page 25.
Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.
Setup — Guido Ignatti. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through Sept. 25.
Faces of Little Luck — Marco Antonio Garcia Noguera. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Sept. 25.
Antonio Lopez. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.
Women of Abstract Expressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 25.
Arena Rock Allstars. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Atomga. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
The Miners Ghost. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
Augustus. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.
The Haunted Windchimes. 9 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.
Bass Physics. 9 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 720-645-2467.
The Heresies. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Quick Draw Homegrown Music. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.
Beauty Of My Land. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Lee Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
Brian Rezac. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Mccrossen/Kopper/Junnman Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Clay Rose. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Contraband. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Dan Harris Trio. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — presented by Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Footloose. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through Sept. 3.
Escaping Pavement. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Gumbo Le Funque. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home
Ravin Wolf. 8 p.m. World Of Beer, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-728-9155.
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Desert Radio. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411.
Groove a Licious. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Ramaya & The Troubadours. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Upstart Crow stages the Tennessee William classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, playing through Sept. 11.
The Phantom of the Opera. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239. Through Sept. 11.
Various Blonde, Rubedo, Blue Lane Frontier, The Velveteers. 6:30 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145. Events Exploring 2-D Art: Painting, Printing, Collaging, And More. 3:30 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. First Friday Guest Artist: Laura Prill. 6 p.m. Settembre Cellars, 1501 Lee Hill, Suite 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892.
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UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL
Masterpiece Markers (Ages 3-5). 1 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. SmithKlein Gallery Presents New Works By Hilario Gutierrez. 2 p.m. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, Kelly Weaver 303-444-7200.
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Fun on the Farm: Cows, Goats, and the Milky “Whey.” 9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, Boulder, 303-776-8688.
Thursday, Sept. 1 Anne Waldman. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
WILD Cities: A Photographic Exploration of Urban Wilderness. 7 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-885-1234. Saturday, September 3 Music Amberly Chalberg, Joe Mazza. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Ani DiFranco & The Shook Twins
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Blues on the Lamb. 3 p.m. GoodBird Kitchen, 1258 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 720-588-2883.
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Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Monday, Sept. 5
Wednesday, Sept. 7
Poetry Writing Circle. 10 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Shannon Baker — Stripped Bare. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Margaret Coel — Winter’s Child. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Kevin Wolf — The Homeplace. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Lindsey Saunders. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
Sunday, September 4
Carry Me Ohio. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Chicos Malos. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Marcus Lucas. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.
Citizen Dan. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Mary Lynn Gillaspie. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555.
Cloud Kickers International. 9:30 p.m. The Dark Horse, 2922 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-8162.
Michele Castro and Victor Mestas Play. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Dan Harris Trio. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.
The Mixers. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.
Deadset. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Palmico Sound. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Sammy Dee, Michael Belmont. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Defunkt Railroad. 8 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.
A Shadow of Jaguar with Red Petals. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Digg. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Stephen Brooks Trio. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Enion Pelta Tiller & Ryan Drickey. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345.
Swing Dance with Crystal Swing Band. 8 p.m. Barrio E’ Centro, 471 Main St., Longmont, 787-914-9554.
Erik The Viking and Carter. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE.
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Orgyen Chowang — Our Pristine Mind. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Farmers’ Market, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-910-2236.
Bonnie and Taylor Sims, Halden Wofford and the Highbeams. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
David Coile. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.
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“So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
The Symbols. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Happy Hour Live Jazz with Holly and the Husbands. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.
Throwing Rocks, Sliver, Dramad, Radroach. 7 p.m. The Forge, 4919 Broadway, Boulder, 303-396-8145.
Hippie Buckaroos. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Whiskey Autumn. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.
Joe Stevens Live. 7 p.m. Jensen Guitars, 350 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3163.
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Boulder Creek Hometown Festival. 12 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, Broadway and Canyon, Boulder, 303-413-7200.
Kung Fu. 4 p.m. Wibby Brewing, 209 Emery St., Longmont, 303-776-4594.
LWVBC Voter Registration Drive. 8 a.m. Boulder Farmers’ Market, 13th St., Boulder, 303-910-2236.
Kutandara. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.
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508-873-9185. The Matt Human Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Mic Hosted By Brian Rezac. 8 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Open Mic Hosted by Danny Shafer. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic with The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. SKEYE Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Events Boulder Mountainbike Alliance Beginner MTB Ride. 6 p.m. Various Locations, Boulder, 575-496-3785. Dairy Center: Behind the Scenes — with Boulder Ensemble Theater Company, LOCAL Theater and The Catamounts. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
Dotsero. 5:30 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467.
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Malai Llama. 9:30 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.
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American Life in Poetry: Column 594: Readers of this column have probably noticed how much I love poems that give us new ways of looking at things, and in this example Faith Shearin does just that. I especially like “four-legged relative / of the moon,” which so perfectly describes the coat of a possum in partial light. Shearin lives in West Virginia and her most recent book is Orpheus, Turning, from The Broadkill River Press. — Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate He was a surprise of white: his teeth like knives, his face a triangle of albino dislike. I had seen him before,
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on our back porch, where my father sometimes left watermelon rinds, and he dipped his tongue into them, his skin glowing beneath our lights, like some four-legged relative of the moon. I knew him as a citizen of the night: a fainting, ghostly presence with a tail so naked it was embarrassed to drag behind him. But that morning, terrified and violent, he was different: a hissing fury at the bottom of the garbage can, a vampire bathed in light. We do not accept unsolicited submissions. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2015 by Faith Shearin, “Possum in the Garbage,” from Orpheus, Turning, (The Broadkill River Press, 2015). Poem reprinted by permission of Faith Shearin and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2016 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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ind blew light rain this way and that as streams snaked down the sides of Pearl Street. The days are still hot and sunny, but evenings like this one make it obvious — fall is nipping at
summer’s heels. Soon, eating a cold salad will feel ludicrous when a hot casserole full of cheese and pasta will warm the very soul. But if you spend a whole winter eating casseroles, you’re going to be very displeased with yourself come spring. Finding that perfect blend of healthy but filling, hearty but light, will become crucial in the coming months, and Zeal is one place where such juxtaposition exists. Zeal was founded, it seems, on the idea that you don’t have to sacrifice flavor for health, and eating “whole” and “unprocessed” foods doesn’t have to mean you spend a cold winter eating cold food. So on this chilly, rainy evening, I made my way to Zeal to see if I could sate my need for something warm and satisfying without feeling guilty. It’s a warm environment, for starters, with a few rows of micro greens sprouting under florescent lights at the host’s stand. The kitchen is open and the seating is snug, but not uncomfortable. The bar serves up Zeal’s own white and red wines on tap, plus a few other wines and microbrews. There are at least a dozen types of house-made smoothies, half a dozen organic cold-press juices and maybe eight or nine “other interesting beverages,” but we can’t get into all
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of that because I really went to Zeal to eat. Cue the Rainbow Curry. Curry is a versatile dish that originated in India. Today you can find it being served in nearly every corner of the world. It was the British, actually, who dubbed the adaptable dish “curry,” as such meals had many names in India prior to their arrival. The variety of dishes that we call curry here in the states can contain meat — fish, beef, chicken or shellfish, typically — or only veggies. The blend of herbs varies as well, just as it does from region to region in India, whole or ground, cooked or raw, and the very flavor of the herbs can change depending on the time at which they are added to the dish. You can have a wet curry with lots of “gravy” based on yogurt, cream, legume purée, broth or, as we tend to eat it, coconut milk. A dry curry cooks all the liquid out and leaves the goodies, veggies or meats, coated in a delectable concoction of spices. The folks at Zeal serve a dry curry using seasonal vegetables, toasted coconut and lentil sprouts over whole grain rice. The veggie selection was all autumn, with carrot cuts as thick as a pinkie finger, yellow squash, zucchini, parsnips and mushrooms. It was
quite honestly a rainbow of veggies. The coconut flavor of the dish was mild, and the toasted coconut really only serves to add a bit of texture. The vegetables came piping hot but still crispy in the case of the carrots, and firm in the case of the squashes and fungi. But what serves the dish best is the portion of rice it comes with — just enough to sate the need for the traditional serving of rice that comes with curry, but not so much rice that you end up eating more rice than veggies. And with a bowl so chocked full of colorful vegetables, who wants to fill up on rice? Zeal. 1710 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-708-6309.
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out a taste. You have to swallow. When you have five more fruit pies to rate you can’t say, “I’m full.” You Judging a pie contest takes dehave to judge pie No. 15 with the same gusto you termination — and had for pie No. 2. strategy. The kicker: When you get to the end you’ll probably have to go back and re-taste the first few to make sure you have your Top 3 pies. The first pies they bring you to judge at a pie contest inevitably taste good. My pie judging history is long and messy, but I’ve been rating pastry for more than 30 years — not constantly — including Chief Judge at the National Pie Championships. The subject is on my mind because I’ve managed to schedule two contests this weekend, Hygiene on Saturday and Louisville on Monday. Usually I like a month in between to swim a lot of laps. To prepare to judge you can’t be ravenously hungry and you can’t be full. My advice: Eat lots of lean protein beforehand and avoid sugar. In the pie judging business we call this “un-carb-loading.” Here are the criteria we use to judge a pie: • You will be shown the whole pie so you appreciate the artistic effort involved. You can also tell by looking at the crimp around the edge whether it was a premade crust from the supermarket. • Next, check out how a slice of pie looks on a plate and the cut-pie look. It’s a problem if the filling is too thick or too runny or if there is a “dome,” an empty space under the top crust. • A slice of pie is delivered. No à la mode, whipped cream or sauces allowed: Pie has to stand on its own two crusts (or crumb topping). Taste the bottom crust (to see if it’s baked), the top crust (to see if it’s tender and flaky) and the crimp (to see if it’s scorched). Sample the filling to see if its flavor and texture are appropriate. If it’s a fruit pie and you can’t tell which fruits by tasting, that’s a pie with a problem. Is the starch in the filling, or “slurry,” thoroughly cooked? • Finally, you decide how much you love this pie. Is it memorable? Would you have another slice? Meanwhile, the people who made the pies are most likely watching you intently, trying to discern from facial twitches whether you like their toasted hazelnut pie. As you judge, the pies start ordering themselves. The third pie is good but not as tasty as the second pie and so on. One tough part is keeping your palate clear of butter, sugar, spices and crust after every pie you taste. Vodka works well for this task but is not recommended because it also numbs the buds — never a good thing in a food judge. Water, coffee and saltines help to clear the slate for the next pie. In the end, you have to pick the three best pies that you tasted and rank them. see NIBBLES Page 52
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Sometimes the results show judges all agree about the winners, other times not so much. I continue judging because I want to see pie-making survive and besides, the next pie could have the X factor. Sometimes I’m presented with a pie that looks right and I taste it and everything’s right. I’m just enjoying pie, not wondering if they forgot the salt. It’s hallelujah time. I’ll glance at the other judges, raise my eyebrows, and they grin. The commentary includes such pithy comments as “Yum,” “Damn-good crust.” There are also usually some deep sighs. Long ago at one of the first Great American Pie Festivals in Boulder, I judged a Concord grape pie that was simply perfect and pretty. The grapes had been individually de-seeded. To this day I can recall exactly the wonderful aroma and flavor. Please enter one of the pie contests this weekend or come by for a slice of pie. The Hay Days Pie Contest starts at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3 at the Stone Church of the Brethren in Hygiene. There’s a special contest for kid pie bakers under 14. Results announced at 2:30 p.m. when the Pie Social begins with homemade and donated pies sold by the slice. Registration: hygienecommunityassociation.org. The Louisville Homemade Pie Contest is Monday, Sept. 5 at Memory Square Park. Pie judging begins at 11 a.m. with pie slices available at around 1:30 p.m. Registration: thehuckleberry.com.
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Denver’s Humble Pie Store has introduced gluten-free “Naked Pie” consisting of a scoop of Liks ice cream over warm pie filling. ... With the retirement of the owners, Mickey C’s Bagels has closed at the Table Mesa Shopping Center. ... Allyou-can-eat spaghetti Tuesdays are coming to Longmont. Boulder’s Gondolier Italian Eatery will open a second eatery at 1217 S. Main St. in Longmont in 2017. This is currently the Main St. location of Longmont favorite Deli Cioso whose owner Rudy Masias is retiring in September after almost 30 years of dishing green chile ... Longmont’s GoodBird Susan France Kitchen, 1258 S. Hover Road, becomes Post Chicken & Beer on Sept. 8 after some menu and décor upgrades but the fine fried chicken and cherry pie remains the same. ...Speaking of chicken, Lakewood’s iconic White Fence Farm now sells its pressure-fried bird and fixings at 7685 W. 88th Ave. in Westminster. There are no farm animals here, just take-out chicken, pickled beets, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn fritters and, of course, pie.
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“You think cooking is a cute job, eh? Like Mommy in the kitchen? Well, Mommy never had to face the dinner rush when the orders come flooding in, and every dish is different and none are simple, and all of the different cooking times, but must arrive at the customer’s table at exactly the same time, hot and perfect! Every second counts, you cannot be Mommy!” — Colette, the sous chef in the animated film Ratatouille. John Lehndorff hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m. Thursdays on KGNU, 88.5 FM (kgnu.org). Read his blog at: johnlehndorff.wordpress.com. Complaints to: Nibbles@ Boulder Weekly
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you take action soon, you can prevent a full-scale decomposition. But be forewarned: Things could get messy, especially if you intervene with the relentless candor and clarity that will be required for medicinal purification. So what do you think? Are you up for the struggle? I understand if you’re not. I’ll forgive you if you simply flee. But if you decide to work your cagey magic, here are some tips. 1. Compile your evidence with rigor. 2. As much as is humanly possible, put aside rancor. Root your efforts in compassionate objectivity. 3. Even as you dig around in the unsightly facts, cherish the beautiful truths you’d like to replace them with.
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of your inhibitions? Are you curious to find out what it feels like to cavort like a wise wild child? If you want to fully cooperate with life’s plans, you will need to consider those courses of action. I am hoping that you’ll accept the dare, of course. I suspect you will thrive as you explore the pleasures of playful audacity and whimsical courage and effervescent experiments. So be blithe, Taurus! Be exuberant! Be open to the hypothesis that opening to jaunty and jovial possibilities is the single most intelligent thing you can do right now.
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relationship with your feet? Have you been cultivating and cherishing your connection with the earth below you? The reason I ask, Gemini, is that right now it’s especially important for you to enjoy intimacy with gravity, roots, and foundations. Whatever leads you down and deeper will be a source of good fortune. Feeling grounded will provide you with an aptitude for practical magic. Consider the possibilities of going barefoot, getting a foot massage, or buying new shoes that are both beautiful and comfortable.
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have similar elements: from uncertainty to grace; from agitation to relief; from constriction to spaciousness. To take maximum advantage of this blessing, don’t hold onto the state you’re leaving behind — or the feelings it aroused in you.
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the SubGenius, the Fake God that masquerades as the Real God, or the nagging little voice in the back of your head. So why am I going ahead and divulging this oracle anyway? Because I love Go to RealAstrology.com to check out you. My loyalty is to Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO you, not those shadowy HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE powers. Therefore, I am HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes pleased to inform you LEO are also available by phone at that the coming weeks JULY 23-AUG. 22: In 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. will be a favorable time one of my dreams last for you to evade, ignore, night, a Leo sensualist I undermine, or rebel know advised me to take smart pills and eat an entire chocoagainst controlling influences that aren’t in alignment late cheesecake before writing my next Leo horoscope. In with your soul’s goals. another dream, my Leo friend Erica suggested that I compose your horoscope while attending an orgy where all the SCORPIO participants were brilliant physicists, musicians, and poets. In a third dream, my old teacher Rudolf (also a Leo) said I OCT. 23-NOV. 21: The dictionary says that the verb “to should create the Leo horoscope as I sunbathed on a beach schmooze” means to chat with people in order to promote in Maui while being massaged by two sexy geniuses. Here’s oneself or make a social connection that may prove to be how I interpret my dreams: In the coming days, you can advantageous. But that definition puts a selfish spin on an literally increase your intelligence by indulging in luxurious activity that can, at least sometimes, be carried out with comforts and sensory delights. artful integrity. Your assignment in the coming weeks is to perform this noble version of schmoozing. If you are offering a product or service that is beautiful or useful VIRGO AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Play a joke on your nervous anxiety. or both, I hope you will boost its presence and influence with the power of your good listening skills and smart Leap off the ground or whirl in a circle five times as you conversations. shout, “I am made of love!” Learn the words and melody to a new song that lifts your mood whenever you sing it. SAGITTARIUS Visualize yourself going on an adventure that will amplify your courage and surprise your heart. Make a bold promise NOV. 22-DEC. 21: If you are attuned with the cosmic to yourself, and acquire an evocative object that will symrhythms in the coming weeks, you will be a source of bolize your intention to fulfill that promise. Ask yourself teaching and leadership. Allies will feel fertilized by your a soul-shaking question you haven’t been wise enough to creative vigor. You’ll stimulate team spirit with your savvy investigate before now. Go to a wide-open space, spread appeals to group solidarity. If anyone can revive droopy your arms out in a greeting to the sky, and pray for a vision procrastinators and demonstrate the catalytic power of of your next big goal. gratitude, it’ll be you. Have you heard enough good news, Sagittarius, or can you absorb more? I expect that you’ll inspire interesting expressions of harmony that will replace LIBRA SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: The Illuminati do not want you contrived versions of togetherness. And every blessing you bestow will expand your capacity for attracting favors you to receive the prophecy I have prepared for you. Nor do can really use. the Overlords of the New World Order, the Church of
CAPRICORN
DEC. 22-JAN. 19: The fictional character known as Superman has one prominent vulnerability: the mineral kryptonite. When he’s near this stuff, it weakens his superpowers and may cause other problems. I think we all have our own versions of kryptonite, even if they’re metaphorical. For instance, my own superpowers tend to decline when I come into the presence of bad architecture, cheesy poetry, and off-pitch singing. How about you, Capricorn? What’s your version of kryptonite? Whatever it is, I’m happy to let you know that you are currently less susceptible to its debilitating influences than usual. Why? Well, you have a sixth sense about how to avoid it. And even if it does draw near, you have in your repertoire some new tricks to keep it from sapping your strength.
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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: It’s quite possible you will receive seductive proposals in the coming weeks. You may also be invited to join your fortunes with potential collaborators who have almost fully awakened to your charms. I won’t be surprised if you receive requests to share your talents, offer your advice, or bestow your largesse. You’re a hot prospect, my dear. You’re an attractive candidate. You appear to be ripe for the plucking. How should you respond? My advice is to be flattered and gratified, but also discerning. Just because an inquiry is exciting doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Choose carefully.
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Dear FFQ: They make lovely paper- professional singer in Los Angeles, so the weights, FFQ, and perfectly proporsong was pretty spectacular.) I’m a Femme tioned pacifiers for adult babies. But at Dom who loves ropes, while he’s pretty our place, we use decommissioned butt vanilla. Despite that, we’ve had a dynaplugs to play cornhole— mite sex life for the last eight © Rachel Robinson which is a beanbag toss years, in part because he’s so game that became popular GGG. Early on, I got him to in the Midwest some years start reading your column, after I moved to the West and that concept made a Coast. (It’s true. Google it.) huge impression on him. When I was a kid, we were Here’s the verse from his instructed to run from song/vows that you inspired: drunk uncles at family pic“Now next I should obey you nics who suggested a little / But that one’s a little tricky cornholing before dinner. / I’m what you call “vanilBut that was then. la”/ And on top of that I’m picky / Instead of blind obeDear Dan: We all have to dience / I hope it’s underdie, Dan. How would you most like to go? stood / I promise to continue / Being giv— Genuinely Not A Threat ing, game, and good!” Thanks for all you do! Dear GNAT: In a tragic rimming — Beloved Revels In Dan’s Love Education accident. Dear Dan: My partner and I got married last weekend. For his vows, he wrote a hilarious, wonderful song. (He’s a
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kink-discordant couples everywhere. Perfect fits, sexually speaking, are rare. But whip a little GGG into the mix, and that imperfect fit can become a perfect match! Dear Dan: I’m a 26-year-old gay male, and I like to explore my feminine side by wearing female clothes. I have a boyfriend who likes to do the same thing, but he doesn’t have the courage to tell his parents that he’s gay and explores his feminine side by wearing female clothes. I want to adopt early school-age boys and teach them that they can explore their feminine side by wearing female clothes. My question has two parts. First, in regard to my boyfriend, how can I encourage him to tell his parents he’s gay and wants to explore his feminine side by wearing female clothes? Second, in regard to adopting early schoolage boys, how do I teach an early school-age boy that it’s okay for them to explore their feminine side by wearing female clothes and also teach them that they don’t have to be gay at the same time? — Dressing A Future Together Dear Dan: Wear whatever you like, DAFT, but please don’t adopt any chil-
dren — boys or otherwise, early schoolage or newborn, not now, probably not ever. Because a father who pushes his son into a dress is just as abusive and unfit as one who forbids his son to wear a dress. You two don’t need kids, DAFT, you need a therapist who can help your boyfriend with his issues (the closet, not wearing female clothes) and help you with yours (your extremely odd and potentially damaging ideas about parenting, not wearing female clothes). Before I sign off: a big thank you to the Dan Savages who filled in for me while I was on vacation — Dan Savage, Orlando-based sportswriter; Dan Savage, London-based theatrical marketing executive; and Dan Savage, Brooklyn-based designer. You guys did a great job! And here’s something clients of sex workers can do without going public: The Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) is running a pilot program to help incarcerated sex workers. Send a book to an imprisoned sex worker, become a pen pal, or make a donation by going to SWOPbehindbars.org and clicking on “10 Ways to Help Incarcerated Sex Workers.” Non-clients are welcome to help, too! Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter.
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consider whether or not the City’s regulations should be more aligned with the state’s code. Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) regulations tend to be less concerned with nuances of regulation in order to focus on its primary goal of pushing all illicit activity into legal and regulated spaces as called for by Amendment 64. While Boulder’s more complex city code may be frustrating to Boulder marijuana businesses that believe it makes them less competitive with other similar businesses in the state, the ability for cities to add such detail is a crucial part of the state’s law. At a February meeting of MAP, Jim Burak, director of MED, praised this function as the “genius of the Colorado marijuana framework at work,” saying, “This panel offers an example of and appreciation for how city culture and state regulation all comes together.” The final recommendations offered by MAP tend to strike a balance between maintaining Boulder’s unique approach to regulation while removing unnecessary deviances from state code. Their list of recommendations includes allowing dispensaries to stay open longer, to advertise at events attended by adults over the age of 21, to sell marijuana-branded merchandise and to co-locate medical and recreational businesses in one building. Each item on the list is a result of the panel’s attempt to balance community concerns with the reality of legal marijuana and the obligation to work
toward regulating it like alcohol. It required a delicate balancing act due to prejudiced positions held by industry and community stakeholders alike. “It wasn’t an easy process. It wasn’t a cakewalk,” said Andrea Meneghel, a panel member representing the Boulder Chamber, at the study session. “But as we questioned each other, we got to a better place.” A salient example came in the consideration of whether or not to allow marijuana businesses to sell or give away branded merchandise and was discussed by the panel at length at a June meeting — the conversation gave testament to the importance of the diversity of interests on the panel. Boulder Valley School District representatives presented studies that connected increases in advertising of products to increases in adoption by youth, and argued that this potential threat posed by more marijuana advertising in Boulder was a “very real, if unintended consequence.” And industry player Travis Howard of Green Dream Cannabis offered his insight into the hypocrisy of not allowing marijuana businesses to advertise amid the proliferation of alcohol ads in the city. “I see a proliferation of stickers for breweries all over the place in Boulder,” he says. “And you know what? I also see marijuana stickers everywhere, they just aren’t from Boulder dispensaries. So, it isn’t just that Boulder isn’t treating marijuana like other industries, but that by doing so we are being put at a considerable disadvantage in the state.” City Council will now review the full list of recommendations before drafting laws and holding public hearings on any changes to city code. The Marijuana Advisory Panel made progress on a daunting task, reaching compromise on dozens of controversial issues along the way. Not all of the stakeholders are happy with each result, but at least it is a big step toward fostering a sustainable and thriving cannabis industry supported by its community. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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porters are said to have substantial resources available to them and should be able to mount a vigorous campaign. The initiative with the best chance of passing is the one in California. The legalization measure, Proposition 64 (coincidentally a similar name to Colorado’s successful Amendment 64) was easily petitioned onto the ballot, and at least two polls have found more than 60 percent of those surveyed in favor of it. Supporters have raised $11 million, opponents only $185,000. The initiative has been endorsed by California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Medical Association and the California Democratic Party, among others. The most high profile opponent is Senator Dianne Feinstein. In Nevada, a poll taken by the Rasmussen organization between July 22-24 found the legalization initiative had a 50 percent to 41 percent lead. The pro-legalization camp has made a $800,000 media buy on Nevada TV stations. So far there has been virtually no activity from the anti-legalization camp,
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but that is almost certainly misleading. Casino owner and multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who is virulently antipot, will likely pour millions into an effort to defeat the initiative. In Maine, a poll taken in mid-May found 55 percent support for legalization. That seems to be the most recent poll. The initiative survived a ham-fisted attempt by the Maine Secretary of State to keep it off the ballot by disqualifying thousands of petition signatures on a technicality; supporters swiftly went to court and won. Beyond that, little is known about how things are going. On the medical marijuana side, the Florida initiative seems to have a good chance of passing this year. The most recent poll shows 68 percent support. However the initiative needs 60 percent support to pass. In 2014 a similar initiative came close with 58 percent. The pro-legalization campaign is well funded, but the opponents will probably mount a multimillion-dollar attack funded by Adelson, who also funded the successful campaign to kill the 2014 initiative. In Arkansas, there might be two medical marijuana initiatives on the ballot. A June 21 poll of 751 likely voters found 58 percent support for medical marijuana. In North Dakota, one of the most socially conservative states in the country, a medical marijuana initiative has been petitioned onto the ballot. One poll appears to show plurality support (at 47 percent) on the issue, but the fact that there was sufficient support to petition it onto the ballot in the first place is in itself noteworthy. In Montana, an existing medical marijuana initiative was gutted by the legislature. An initiative to restore it made the ballot this year and appears to have strong support. Chances are there will be an avalanche of polling data and news on all of these initiatives after Labor Day. Stay tuned.
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The human pile of garbage known as Chris Brown has proven once again that he should move to a deserted island in the middle of the ocean to rid the world of his abhorrent antics. Tuesday, Brown’s houseguest, Baylee Curran, called 911 after Brown allegedly pointed a gun in her face. After a 14-hour standoff with the police, they obtained a warrant to search his home. Wikimedia Commons During the ordeal, Brown took to the pulpit fitting for the situation: Instagram. “Y’all gonna stop playing with me like the villain out here. Good luck when you get the warrant ... you idiots,” he said. It’s “luck” those idiots must have had when they arrested Brown on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. But Brown was unfortunately released on $250,000 bail Tuesday night. This is just the latest vile incident Brown adds to his resume of vile incidents: -In 2009, he was arrested for beating R&B singer and then-girlfriend Rihanna. -In 2011, he threw a chair out at a window on the set of Good Morning America. -In 2012, he dressed as an Islamic terrorist for Halloween, posting a picture on his social media with the caption “Ain’t nobody f---kin’ wit my clique!!!” -In 2013, he was arrested for punching a man in the face in Washington, D.C. -Also in 2013, he voluntarily entered a three-month rehab program, but was kicked out after only two weeks for breaking rules of the facility and acting violently. Not to mention being involved in various fights with celebrities, both verbal and physical, probation violations, accusations of fraud and a current ban from entering the United Kingdom and Australia. It was Brown’s neighbor Rodu Akbarian that gave the most relevant comment about the situation to The Mirror: “I think he’s a piece of s***.” Couldn’t have said it better.
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Anyone just tuning in to the 2016 political season would come away with the impression that voters are completely fed up with all the dysfunction in Washington D.C., and are going to finally make some change this time around. You hear that, Washington politicos? We aren’t going to take it anymore and we’re going to send you all packing... well some of you at least... well maybe a few of you anyway... oh hell, you can all stay. What is wrong with us? The whole country is melting down, the gap between rich and poor is spreading like a fault line in the movie San Andreas (it’s a B-movie starring The Rock that you didn’t see), Obamacare is on the verge of collapse because greedy healthcare companies are collapsing it, and Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are our choices for president. So what do we do with our votes in the primaries? We reelect John McCain, Marco Rubio and effing Debbie Wasserman Schultz, three of the biggest turds our political system ever laid. If we can’t even flush these dishonest panderers, then how are we ever going to escape the will of the corporations and billionaires who rule our imaginary democracy? We deserve what we get. We suck as voters.
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