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This is a product of the budget slashing frenzy imposed on our schools in the past 15 years or so by Koch-headed, anti-public ideologues and unimaginative, acquiescent education officials. Beset by budget cuts, too many school systems are accommodating the slashers by shifting the cost of educating America’s future from the general society to the parents of students who’re presently enrolled. Want to play a sport, take a class trip to a museum or participate in a debate tournament? Pay a fee. Want art, music, drama or other cultural courses? Pay a fee. Need a uniform? Pay a fee. And now comes a new level of monetizing public education: The ubiquitous yellow school bus. Yes, just getting to and from school is increasingly being treated not as a necessary public service, but as a private “luxury” to be billed to the families of students. Districts in California, Colorado,

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Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, Texas and elsewhere are charging around $400 a year per child. For the poor and the downwardly-mobile middle class that’s a real hit, yet another barrier to educational access for America’s majority. What’s next; a daily debitcard deduction for kids to enter a classroom? If our society won’t even pay for bus rides, how’re we going to get to the future we want for our children? It’s time to reject the small-minded budget-slashers, reinvest fully in public education and get America moving again. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. September 24, 2015 7

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re we ruled by fear? When Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney got will the “war on terror” all hot and bothered. end? What would happen if Ben Wikler, Washington director of the U.S. experienced anoth- MoveOn.org, notes there was “a maser spectacular mass casualty terfully executed vote-whipping operaterrorist attack like September 11? tion driven by the White House” and That question is in the back of the the congressional Democratic leaderminds of all politicians. For over a ship to stop the GOP-led sabotage bill. decade we’ve been at war, but many The peace advocates were vastly outmay not notice it because few have spent but had more grassroots clout. been involved in combat. The public Wikler says the 37-group coalition of certainly doesn’t want another disaster deal supporters made 141,631 phone like Bush’s invasion of Iraq. But there calls to Congress, sent 288,990 emails isn’t much public anti-war sentiment. to congressional offices and collected The military is the 1,181,307 signatures most respected supporting the institution in the deal. They organized 207 public country. events. They Republican showed up at concern about EVERYAugust recess pubIslamic fundamenWHERE ENJOY THE lic appearances by talism is approachBASIC RIGHTS OF members of ing post-September 11 levels, HEALTH CARE, HOUSING, Congress. They visited hundreds of according to a surEDUCATION, JOB congressional vey this month by EQUALITY AND A SAFE offices in their the Chicago home districts and Council on Global CLEAN ENVIRONMENT, in Washington, Affairs. Sixty-six THERE CAN BE NO percent of GOP D.C. JUSTICE ANYWHERE.” voters think it is “a This might be critical threat,” up a unique victory. —WILPF from 48 percent Progressives have one year ago. This been fighting the shift in attitudes White House over might be due to the wild and the Trans Pacific Partnership but this crazy blather of the Republican canditime Obama was on their side. Quite a dates as well as those blood-curdling few in the national security elite of the ISIS videos. Forty-eight percent of U.S. and Israel spoke up for the deal. Democratic voters are similarly Hopefully this is a turning point. alarmed — which is up from 35 perMeanwhile, the peace groups chug cent last year. along. Since 1983, Boulder’s Rocky Tom Hayden argues that the lack Mountain Peace and Justice Center has of a “powerful Peace Lobby, on the been a modest local mover and shaker. scale of the civil rights, women’s and Not so well known is the Boulder labor lobbies in Washington, leaves a branch of the Women’s International vacuum” in mainstream politics. League for Peace and Freedom Militaristic solutions can dominate (WILPF), which has been around public discussion. since 1968. It was the first non-student Nevertheless, those of us who preBoulder group to oppose the Vietnam fer peace and diplomacy just had a war. remarkable victory with the Iran nucleIn 1970, University of Colorado ar deal. sociology professor and WILPF activAmerican Israel Public Affairs ist Elise Boulding donated the Committee fought it with a $20 milInternational WILPF archives to CU’s lion campaign. Former Republican Norlin Library. This year is the organiSenator Norm Coleman led a $10 million attack. Neoconservative hawks like see ANDERSON Page 10

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Ms. Beverly Gholson apparently did not read what was written [Re: Letters; “Reviewing the Law,” Sept. 17], but rather what she thought was written. My original letter never said this is the law, and you must thereby do such and so. What I cited were common-sense RULES and offered ways for cyclists to cultivate a better (and by implication safer) travel experience. And, yes, many of these rules have been codified. I’m glad that Gholson took the trouble to look into statutes, etc. CRS 42-4-1412 is quite helpful, as is CDOT’s “Colorado Bicycling Manual, 8th Edition.” Now I hope she will more fully understand some basic concepts such as impeding traffic, and what many of these not-just-legalese terms mean in practice. The most important takeaway? Bicyclists have the same duties and rights as a vehicle driver. Duties, you say? These begin with “Obey traffic signs and signals.” How straightforward could that be? What an officer of the law tells you depends on what he or she is asked. And few of them know all of the law. Even judges don’t. So it is best to err on the side of caution, and responsibility. Gregory Iwan/Longmont

Passion without logic is bad

Boulder Weekly found this letter from last year but still felt it was relavant for publication. CCRN (parent of BCRN, child of CELDF) was a group that I respected for their passion. I thought that their

mistakes came from a place of naïveté. What they want to do isn’t “illegal,” it’s just not within the law. It’s like saying, “We’re going to eliminate fracking by putting the Emancipation Proclamation in the tax code.” It’s dumb, and they already know they can’t win. Not because of shady corporate forces against them, but because we have a system of laws. How many Americans want to repeal the constitution in order to ban fracking? There are many ways that Coloradoans can push the law to make changes to protect the environment at the local, state and national level. All of the anti-fracking initiatives potentially going to the ballot in November (with the exception of CCRN’s 75) could be upheld by the courts. The Longmont case could be decided in a way that permits home rule municipalities to ban fracking or at least zone surface operations. Any citizen may petition the COGCC for a rulemaking that could change how oil and gas development is regulated in the state. Nationally, Citizens United could be overturned by a constitutional amendment reserving the bill of rights to natural persons. CCRN says the legal way isn’t working, when the legal fight has barely been going on for three years. It’s clear that their agenda has nothing to do with protecting the people of Colorado from the harmful effects of oil and gas development. It has everything to do with losing “noble battles” to glorify their egos. That’s a shameful see LETTERS Page 10

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disservice to the families who are forced to breathe toxic air, surrounded by dirty industrial practices. Those people don’t deserve to be victims, they deserve victory. PS. I’m the author of a 100-page thesis on the local regulation of oil and gas development in Colorado, and I am a natural resources attorney who has done extensive work on the issue. For more information on the national level organization behind the community rights issue, and why their strategy is deliberately meant to fail, please see this article: zcomm.org/ zblogs/community-rights-as-an-organizing-strategy/ Kate Toan, Colorado Environmental Law/Boulder

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I would like to thank Paul Danish for his recent article relating to the Supreme Court’s possible decision on the Longmont ban on hydrofracking [Re: “Longmont Fracking suit: What if Longmont wins?”, Sept 3]. Although the most important points he brings up are not directly mentioned, they sit alongside of the article with sharp clarity. The conflict that Danish addresses here is one of historic origin. It is the

inherent conflict between property rights and human rights, which in modern environmental debates isn’t actually supposed to be a topic of discussion so much as a foregone conclusion. With fracking, like mining, injection wells, GMOs, the adoption of a local living wage, local rent control, the authority has been taken by the state to protect property interests as superior to what communities consider safe, sustainable, just, or otherwise necessary so to protect their health, welfare, and safety. It’s this conflict between what property owners consider their right and what the people consider as necessary that identifies nearly all social movements in our nation’s history. The slave states considered African Americans their property and thus exempt from power or rights and women were relegated to the property of men, which is why disenfranchisement was legally acceptable. The labor movement was seen as a violation of the property rights of the robber barons and corporations, and segregation of business was reasonable because it was the choice of the property owner to determine who sat at see LETTERS Page 11

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zation’s 100th anniversary. In 1915, over 1,000 female peace activists from around the planet gathered at The Hague in the Netherlands to call for an end to war while World War I raged. Two future Nobel Peace Prize winners took part in the U.S. delegation: Jane Addams, the co-founder of Hull House, and the sociologist Emily Greene Balch. WILPF was one of the first NGOs to receive consultative status at the United Nations and has constantly monitored, informed and lobbied government representatives at the UN. A WILPF pamphlet states: “Until all people everywhere enjoy the basic rights of health care, housing, education, job equality and a safe clean environment, there can be no justice anywhere.” As a result, WILPF connects peace, environmental, racial and social justice issues in its work. On Thursday, Sept. 24, Boulder WILPF and Norlin Library will pres-

ent “Talking with My Grandmother: World War I and the Women’s Peace Movement.” This is a performance piece created by and featuring longtime WILPF activist Robin Lloyd, whose grandmother was a founding member of the organization. The event will be held from 4-7 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies at Norlin. On Friday, she will repeat her performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Frasier Meadows Retirement Community, 350 Ponca Place, in the Assembly Room on the fourth floor. Norlin has a WILPF 100th Anniversary Exhibit near the library’s east entrance. It contains material from the International WILPF archives. It’s inspiring that WILPF not only survives after a century but makes a difference. For more information, contact Anne Marie Pois at pois@colorado.edu. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly

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his lunch counter. Thankfully, people conducting those movements didn’t buy it, and moved to create structural legal changes that recognized people as superior to property. The fracking issue is no different, and the reason it can’t go away is the same reason that the civil rights movement didn’t give up when Rosa Parks got arrested for failure to give up her bus seat. The legal system that protects the oil and gas industry, true to its historic role, protects the rights of the few while guaranteeing the harms of the many. That is the conflict that fracking has created, which has historic remedies starting to be discussed today. The solution to the fracking problem will rely upon the creation of similar legal changes that recognize the rights of people, communities and our natural environment as superior to those of corporations. The Colorado Community Rights Amendment, which is being readied for the 2016 elections, accomplishes exactly that. And because the amendment goes directly to the heart of the matter, we can expect the system to join the campaign with every strategy in its book to make sure the measure is either disrupted, confused or outright crushed. People have learned through experience how the powerful derail the many, and this time around it might not be so easy. So that’s where it stands today, and of course we hope the Colorado Supreme Court does right by the people of Longmont and other Front Range communities. But Danish’s suggestion that we all just save up and buy the mineral rights if the Court fails to protect our rights is about as flat as suggesting that the Abolitionist movement should have saved up money to buy the slaves instead of freeing them. Luckily our national history has had much more audacious, inspiring and necessary views, and it was those ideas which prevailed. Finally, laws that are necessary for the common good have a way of pissing off the powerful, and sometimes those laws reveal the real nature of the problem. It is the conflict between the many and the few that Americans have experienced from the very beginning, and we don’t have to look further than the Declaration of Independence for an example. The first complaint against the King of England listed by the colonists in that document reads, “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” Sound familiar? Let’s hope the Court does what’s right by the people, and prepare for the Boulder Weekly

next steps if they don’t. Cliff Willmeng/Lafayette

Stand fast for liberty

Conservative Republicans who are being accused of holding firmly to their positions and refusing to compromise. The lesson from this battle should be clear to all. If the Republican majority in Congress is to govern, it must refuse to yield to the obstructionist liberal minority. If the election victory of

2014 is to have any meaning, the Republican leadership must prove that it can outwait and outlast the Democratic leadership. Peter J. Thomas, Chairman, Americans for Constitutional Liberty

No-till is no good

I sincerely hope you have received many others that are better stated than mine. I don’t know if Ms. Evans could be this uninformed of the GMO debate and still be writing an organic

column? I have no qualifications other than growing up in Kentucky on a small farm, watching no-till become popular, then watching the extension of those “best practices” into the GMO monster we have today. Here in Hygiene, I am surrounded by farms that spray Roundup on all crops. I moved to Colorado in 1981 and have been organic gardening for over 30 years. Joseph Lemmon/Longmont

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iving in what some refer to as the Boulder bubble, it’s sometimes easy to tune out the surrounding world and bathe in the beauty of this olivesized oasis. Conscious Alliance, a Boulder-based nonprofit, is trying to minimize that mentality. Beginning with a food drive at a String Cheese Incident show in 2002, the organization has continued to team up with a multitude of bands and music festivals across the country to provide food to communities in crisis says Justin Levy, executive director of Conscious Alliance. In 2007, Conscious Alliance began partnering with natural food partners to provide nutrition to youth. The organization’s latest focus is a food bank on Pine Ridge Reservation. Located in Oglala, South Dakota, the Pine Ridge Reservation is roughly the size of Connecticut and has only one grocery store for 30,000 residents. Exacerbating the situation, nearly half of the population is under the age of 18 and unemployment ranges from 80 to 85 percent, creating a recipe for food shortages. To add, the reservation is the eighth largest in the country, and the counties within it are among the poor-

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est in the nation. Alcoholism and dire living conditions contribute to low life expectancy, which hovers around 50 years old. Denver is six hours away from the reservation, making it the closest major city, which Levy says is one of the largest motivating factors for Conscious Alliance getting involved. Populated by the Oglala Lakota tribe, or Sioux, the name given by the French, the economically isolated community is largely rural outside of the Pine Ridge Village where the tribal offices are. Conscious Alliance has had a presence on the reservation since 2002; however, the food bank, also called the Food Sovereignty and Youth Empowerment Center, just opened its doors a few weeks ago. Open every Tuesday to anyone in the community, Levy says the 40-by-20-feet building can hold 25,000 pounds of food and is more than just a food bank. The building will also serve as a base for youth programming, including nutrition and exercise education. Conscious Alliance receives most of its funding from the music industry by teaming up with bands and musicians for fundraising efforts. The organization also receives some grants and has joined forces with natural food companies — Justin’s, Plum Organics, KIND Snacks, Boom-Chicka-Pop and Suja Juice — in what Levy calls a “melting pot” of fundraising. In 2014, with support from these companies, the organization launched an all-natural products backpack program called “Bring Nutrition Home” at Loneman School, serving kindergarten through eighth grade in the town of Oglala. Boulder Weekly

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suicide. From December 2014 to May 2015, nine people between the ages of 12 and 24 committed suicide. To get kids involved in something after school that teaches work ethics and dedication, Conscious Alliance has teamed up with the Denver-based Stronghold Society to build and facilitate a world-class skate park on the reservation. Partly funded by Jeff Ament, the bassist of Pearl Jam hailing from rural Montana, the two organizations have opened two skate parks on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the first in 2011 and the second this year. Levy and Conscious Alliance donated professional skate decks designed by the same artists that create Conscious Alliance’s concert posters. Wounded Knee Skateboards also gave away decks. Levy says kids thrive when they get the right equipment and a professional skatepark. “It’s amazing,” Levy says. “I know that kids didn’t skate before that and now, going to the second skate park opening, there are 12-year-old girls dropping into the bowl and just tearing it up, and it’s so impressive and so awesome to see.” On Oct. 8, to help support the nutrition and exercise education programs on Pine Ridge, Conscious Alliance is teaming up with Chef Hosea Rosenberg of Blackbelly Market, and Nahko, of Nahko and Medicine for the People, for a fundraiser at eTown Hall in Boulder. At this second annual “Art that Feeds: Harvest Celebration,” local chefs will be preparing hors d’oeuvres in addition to an open bar and silent auction. Conscious Alliance’s relationship to the community continues to get stronger everyday, Levy says, as long as the organization continues to put in the effort. “It’s like working with any kids, it’s important to continue to show up.”

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states, oil and gas development remains the largest threat to the bird in Colorado. Put succinctly, BW found the language in the plans vague and likely to allow continued oil and gas development in the sagebrush habitat. Plus many of the mitigation efforts outlined in the plans, such as the Colorado Habitat Exchange, rely simply on voluntary efforts and fall short of strong regulations that could truly curb habitat destruction. While the majority of stakeholders want to praise the collaborative results of the conservation efforts, our investigation conclusively found the plans inadequate to address the continued decline of the greater sage-grouse. Making the recent decision even more critical, as an umbrella species, the health of the sage-grouse population is indicative of over 350 other species that call the sagebrush habitat home. As these landscapes continue to be disturbed, and destroyed, by continual oil and gas development in Colorado, the West as we know it may be at stake. Although the final management plans are a vast improvement over previous conservation efforts, “They’re still going to allow levels of development that are going to drive sage-grouse populations to go extinct and are going to cause the disappearance of other wildlife species as well,” Molvar says. “Here was a great opportunity to solve some of the West’s most serious environmental problems in one fell swoop, and the administration bungled it.” Molvar says WildEarth Guardians, along with its environmental partners will be scrutinizing the “legal inadequacies” in the federal and state plans to see if there is legitimate recourse to the DOI’s decision through the courts. Boulder Weekly

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ollowing the unveiling of several aspects of the federal Climate Action Plan this summer, including the Clean Power Plan and the Environmental Protection Agency’s methane regulations, Gov. John Hickenlooper released the Colorado Climate Plan on Sept. 16 without much fanfare. “The goal of this document is to promote state policy recommendations and actions that help to improve Colorado’s ability to adapt to future climate change and increase Colorado state agencies’ level of preparedness while simultaneously decreasing our greenhouse gas emissions,” says Taryn Finnessey, climate change risk management specialist at the Department of Natural Resources and spokesperson for the multi-agency plan. But while the plan is the result of a joint effort between several state agencies, it was subject to little public scrutiny before the final version’s release. Less than 15 “key stakeholders,” selected mostly by the agencies involved, were given a draft of the plan and asked to provide comments in May. A few additional groups, after hearing about the Boulder Weekly

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more “extensive, rigorous” process, whereby the draft document is released to the public followed by a comment period before a plan is finalized, it is not a requirement, Finnessey says. Plus, there will be a number of public engagement sessions in the future, according to the plan, hosted by different state agencies and focused around water, public health (greenhouse gas emissions), energy (renewables as well as oil and gas industry regulations), transportation, agriculture, tourism and recreation and ecosystems (wildfires, forests and wildlife). Even though there were no legislative hearings as part of the development of the Climate Plan, Finnessey did give an annual climate change report to the legislature and sought feedback from representatives on the state’s efforts. “And really, while we had a limited, targeted stakeholder outreach process, this is the beginning of the dialogue, it’s not the end of the dialogue,” Finnessey says. “I don’t think that we have shortchanged any stakeholder or the public process at all. I think that going forward there are plenty of opportunities See CLIMATE PLAN Page 16

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is just delusional,” Cross responds. “This is public relations, really more than anything else.” He argues that a state climate plan should incorporate annual emission reduction goals that would end in carbon neutrality and then put together a plan for reaching those goals on an annual basis. Finnessey says there are measurable goals as part of implementing the federal Clean Power Plan, which seeks to move away from coal-fired power plants. While this may be true, the federal plan has been criticized for its reliance on natural gas production, which also adds to greenhouse gas emissions, to meet energy needs. Plus, as of Sept. 4, Colorado is part of a multi-state lawsuit against the Clean Power Plan because “The rule is an unprecedented attempt to expand the federal government’s regulatory control over the states’ energy economy,” said Attorney General Cynthia Coffman in a press release announcing her decision to sue. “To my knowledge, the Governor has committed to developing a plan for the implementation of the Clean Power Plan and [Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment] is moving forward,” Finnessey says. “At this time we have no further indication of what will happen with that lawsuit and given the time constraints that exist on implementing the [federal] plan, we are moving forward as though it is the law.” Although Cross acknowledges “the good things Colorado is doing,” he challenges the state to develop an adequate plan with annual goals, much like Fort Collins and Boulder have done already. “We need to start treating global climate change like the existential threat to civilization that it is. All governments have a role to play in this process,” he says. “Sadly, the 2015 Colorado Climate Plan does not even begin to rise to this challenge. We need to demand that our state government do better.” Boulder Weekly

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he Western Apicultural Sometimes you will hear people say that Society conference, in pesticide reduction comes from an emoBoulder Oct. 1–3, will tional place — we try to base all of our host the key players in decisions on the best research available regional pollinator issues and make decisions based on science and including beekeepers, industrial agriresearch.” culture companies, ecosystem bioloDecades of research and policy work gists and policy makers. These groups created the open space surrounding the don’t always get along or see eye to city that provides valuable habitat for eye, but the conference is an imporbees. New programs focus on increasing tant forum to host the vital discuspollinator friendly forage inside the city sions of how to promote pollinator — in people’s lawns, along roadsides and health. It is a rare opportunity for in city parks. Then, all of that planting is apiculturists and bee enthusiasts to be scrupulously protected by increasingly a part of the conversations that are strict restrictions on pesticide use. And, forming our national and state level prompted by the decision to hold the policies to protect pollinator health. WAS Conference in Boulder, Mayor “The problem with bee people is Matt Appelbaum declared September that the only thing that keeps them Pollinator Appreciation Month with in common is bees,” says Beth city-sponsored movies, panels and festiConrey, president of the Western vals held throughout the month. Apicultural Society and organizer of Earlier this year, the federal executive A honey bee carrying pollen. Beekeepers and pollinator health experts will descend on this year’s conference. “We have a branch began to tackle the issue of polliBoulder for the annual Western Apicultural Society Conference on Oct. 1-3. very diverse demographic that keeps, nator health, too. The nation’s food studies and works with bees, and we security is interwoven with the health of don’t come together on much outside of the bee attention to local biodiversity studies led the pollinators — roughly one-third of crops in the world. We are tied together by a bug — and we don’t Department of Integrated Pest Management to recog- United States rely on pollinators, which is worth $15 agree on what to do about the bug either. But we will nize the complex issue of pollinator health with prior- billion a year. With economic and food security at get together and talk about them for a few days ity. stake and broad public support, the White House because, well, because I am an optimist. Even if we Rella Abernathy, manager of Boulder’s Integrated released the National Strategy to Health of Honey don’t agree, we can make a tremendous amount of Pest Management Program, says the key to the city’s Bees and Other Pollinators. The plan outlines an aveprogress if we act like a colony.” success is their focus on science. “We spend a tremen- nue to pollinator health by increasing suitable habitat The conference finds an eager and well-suited dous amount of time reviewing scientific studies about and then protecting that forage from harmful pestihost in Boulder. Beginning in the 1990’s, city-intenot just honey bees, but other insects, soil and other cide applications — the very priorities that have led grated pest management policies were put in place organisms. We are looking to see what the impact of Boulder to become a bee haven. that focused on the reduction of the adverse impact of pesticide use is there, including human health. We try Whether or not the National Strategy for pesticides on the environment and human health. to make the best decisions we can when we do use See BEE CONFERENCE Page 22 Years of careful management driven by scrupulous pesticides to understand what those issues can be.

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be a plurality of interests with no single constituency holding a majority.” A key advocate of such collaboration is the Pollinator Stewardship Council, a national group that will speak at the WAS conference and is dedicated to protecting and advocating for pollinator health. The PSC is a recent victor in a landmark pesticide decision in the 9th district court that vacates the EPA licensure of sulfoxaflor, a neonicotinoid like systemic pesticide. In the case, the PSC argued that the EPA admitted, according to their own registration process and documents, that they had flawed and insufficient data to register the insecticide, but did it anyway. On Sept. 10, 2015 the court ruled in agreement with the plaintiffs, effectively removing the chemical from the market. The ruling casts pointed suspicion on the notorious family of bee-threatening neonicotinoids, but the bulk of its significance lies in the new standard of accountability that it imposes on the EPA to better enforce its own standards and rules. Although a court decision can paint an adversarial scenario, Michele Colopy, program director of the PSC and their representative at this year’s conference, is eager to express that this sort of regulatory change is an important part of establishing institutionalized collaboration as a part of protecting pollinators and our food security. “We are not about banning pesticides, we are about protecting our crops and protecting our bees,” Colopy says. “Pollinators increases crop yield, not pesticides. Pesticides only conserve losses. It is pollination, basic plant biology that bees help facilitate, that increases crop yields. If pesticide users began talking with beekeepers to protect bees, they would protect pollination, increase yields and improve relations with bee keepers and farmers. If only we just all worked together better, because it takes all of us to grow our food.” The upcoming Western Apicultural Society Conference is a rare opportunity for the diverse stakeholders in pollinator health to come together to affect the shape of emerging city, state and national pollinator health policy. In the face of over a decade in yearover-year declines in pollinator populations, their well-being can’t be ignored just because getting along is hard. Bees aren’t in any immediate danger of going, but how we manage land and food production systems is among the most vital of our environmental issues. Attendance to the conference is open and the public is encouraged to attend. Boulder Weekly

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Population sizes of fish, birds, reptiles, mammals and amphibians in the world’s oceans have declined by almost 50 percent since 1970, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) annual Living Blue Planet report. Species hardest hit in the decline include tuna and mackerel, who have experienced a decline of almost 75 percent. Coral reefs, which house more than 25 percent of all marine species, have also dipped by more than half in the last 30 years. “In the space of a single generation, human activity has severely damaged the ocean by catching fish faster than they can reproduce while also destroying their nurseries,” said Marco Lambertini, direcJim Maragos/Wikimedia Commons tor general of WWF International, in a press release. The report cites human stresses on the globe’s oceans, such as ocean acidification, habitat destruction, climate change and overfishing as the main drivers of these declines. The world’s oceans are a crucial resource for human populations, with more than 3 billion people consuming fish as a main source of protein and 10-12 percent of the global population relying on the oceans for their livelihoods The report also stresses the potential for the oceans to rebound from the deficits if efforts are quickly made to protect marine wildlife and curb rising carbon dioxide emissions. “Stopping black market fishing, protecting coral reefs, mangroves and other critical ocean habitats, and striking a deal in Paris to slash carbon pollution are all good for the ocean, the economy and people,” said Brad Ack, WWF’s senior vice president for oceans, in a statement. “Now is the time for the U.S. and other world players to lead on these important opportunities.” —Grant Stringer

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THERE ARE SOME SPECIAL PEOPLE HERE Boulder Sports Hall of Fame inducts four new members by Caitlin Rockett

Lynn Hill video tapes a climber at Hueco Tanks, Texas, in December 2006 as part of Lynn Hill Climbing Camp. On Saturday, Sept. 26, Hill will be inducted into the Boulder Sports Hall of fame.

you want to be on the silver screen you home. move to Los Angeles, and if you want to “Over the years I realized — and I’ve lived here break into musical theater you head to since 1976 — that Boulder is unique. It’s a special New York City. place, and the people who get inducted represent But if you want to be a professional that,” Sandrock says. “That spirit of excellence and athlete, Boulder is your destination. that commitment and drive to be the best they can The temperate climate, high elevation and stunbe, to excel not for monetary gain — or they would ning views attract athletes from around the world to have been football players — but for it’s own sake. train: former speed skater Apolo Ohno trained for his The best climbers are here, the best triathletes, the first Ironman here, and four-time Ironman world best runners, some of the best cyclists. Taken all champion Chrissie Wellington rents a home in North together you just step back and say, ‘There are some Boulder. special people here.’” But many athletes decide to put down roots and And within the climbing world, there is perhaps Courtesy of Michael Sandrock call Boulder home for good, and no one more singular than Lynn for those folks, the city is more Hill. than just a place to train — it’s a Hill’s career is bursting with community that nurtures the comfirsts: in 1979 she became the first petitive soul. person to free climb Ophir Broke At least that’s how long-disin Colorado, rated 5.12d. While tance runner and sports journalist in college in New York, she perMichael Sandrock feels. In 2011, formed an on-sight first ascent of Sandrock founded the Boulder both Yellow Crack and Vandals, rated 5.12c and 5.13a, respectively. Sports Hall of Fame to honor the In the early ’90s she was the first city’s athletic legacy. On Saturday, woman to climb routes rated 5.14 Sept. 26, the Hall of Fame will get and 5.13b. four new inductees: climber Lynn But it was her free ascent of Hill, cyclist Dale Stetina, triathlete “The Nose” on El Capitan in Tim DeBoom and marathoner Yosemite Valley, California, in Benji Durden. Procceeds from the induction 1994 that stunned the world. Hill ceremony support One World was the first person, man or Running, an international program Former pro-cyclist Dale Stetina perse- woman, to free climb The Nose, vered after a 2013 accident left him founded by Sandrock that proand it was nearly 20 years before with a traumatic brain injury. motes health, fitness and nutrition Tommy Caldwell replicated the by providing running shoes to feat. those in need in the United States and around the For Hill, the ascent was a message to the world. world. “In the end your motivation is really important,” This new collection of inductees carries on the she says. “You have to have the skills that you train Hall of Fame’s tradition of paying tribute to the best for and all that, but just knowing that my entire life I athletes in these four disciplines who call Boulder felt like girls haven’t been given the same opportunity, Boulder Weekly

not treated the same, not viewed as being capable of doing and achieving… as a child it gave me great happiness in doing activities that little girls weren’t viewed in doing positively. It was always something I felt was an injustice. My free ascent of The Nose was an expression of that: This is what’s possible if you have vision and believe in yourself. It’s probably the biggest achievement of my entire career.” Local climbing legend and free-ascent pioneer Roger Briggs was inducted into the Boulder Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, and as such was a part of the committee that chose Hill to be this year’s climbing inductee. “What Lynn did back in the early ’90s as a woman was like winning an Olympic gold medal in a men’s event,” Briggs says. “It’s never happened in any sport. And yet she clearly wasn’t just almost as good as the men, she was maybe better than anyone at that time. It’s far beyond climbing.” And for Briggs, it’s far beyond gender. “I hate to make too much about her being a woman in a way because she’s a human being that’s performed at an astounding level, and she’s inspirational to all of us,” he says. “Being a woman is almost secondary.” But there’s no shortage of inspirational figures in this year’s group of inductees. Cyclist Dale Stetina’s story is the kind that makes mere mortals straighten their backs, grit their teeth and dig just a little deeper than they thought they could to persevere over a lifealtering situation. Through the 1970s and ’80s, Stetina was a U.S. national team cyclist and two-time winner of the Coors Classic. He also holds winning titles for the Mt. Washington Bicycle Grand Prix and the Tour of Costa Rica. He was the record holder for the Mt. Washington Hill Climb event for 20 years. After 18 years, Stetina retired from professional see HALL OF FAME Page 26

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cycling in 1983, but continued to nursays her husband started out on a tanture the next generation of professional dem bike and is now able to ride solo. cyclists by coaching Team 7-Eleven. He’s done rides from Washington, But in late August of 2013, Stetina D.C. to Virginia Beach. was involved in an accident on Unfortunately, Anne says, her husLefthand Canyon that left him with a band will have to miss the induction traumatic brain injury. His wife Anne ceremony at the Boulder Sports Hall of says doctors didn’t expect him to live Fame — because he’s riding in the through the first few days, but, as World Cycling Championships in always, her husband didn’t give up. Richmond, Virginia. “Dale came out of Stetina will be Courtesy of Michael Sandrock it just incredibly posihonored in person at a tive and knowing that later date. this would maybe slow Representing the him down a little bit, triathlete discipline at but not much,” Anne this year’s Hall of says. “The rest of us Fame is two-time questioned it, including Hawaii Ironman world the doctors. The docchampion Tim tors said they didn’t DeBoom. No want him on a bike for American has won the two years, and that Ironman world chamwould be now.” pionship since But Stetino has DeBoom scooped up been back in the saddle his second consecutive since his days in rehab victory in 2002. at QLI Rehabilitation And while his Center in Omaha, world championship Nebraska, just months wins were the crown after his accident. jewel in DeBoom’s “One of his theracareer, there was little Benji Durden competing in the pists rented a tandem doubt he would 1982 Houston Marathon. achieve such greatness: bike and they would He placed in the top take him on the five at three other Ironman world grounds of the facility because he championships, won numerous other wanted to feel the wind in his hair,” full and half triathlons and took the Anne says. bronze medal at the 1999 Pan When Stetina got back home to American Games. Boulder, Michael Sandrock brought Just this year DeBoom took on a him into a fold of runners as a kind of new challenge by retiring from the pro informal physical therapy. triathlete scene and focusing on other The running group was good for aspects of his life, namely his life at Stetina, but it was equally important home with his wife Nicole, a triathlete for his wife. herself, and their daughter Wilder Jette “It was just amazing, that outpourDeBoom. On top of that, he went back ing of support that we got from the community, especially the athletic com- to school to complete his degree in exercise physiology and anatomy. munity in town,” Anne says. “I don’t (Boulder Weekly was unable to conthink I could have done it without them. As the caregiver of someone who nect with DeBoom before press time.) Rounding out this year’s inductees has a traumatic brain injury, it’s been is marathoner Benji Durden, who conessential to have the support I’ve had. siders himself something of an accidenDale needed to be kept busy and he needed this physical outlet, and to have tal runner. “I was a very good student and one these people step forward and say, of side effects of being a good student ‘We’re going to come over and go run is that your peers don’t appreciate you with him and we’ll pick him up and we’ll bring him home,’ it’s phenomenal. very much,” Durden says. So he started looking for a way to We’ve been very blessed.” overcome that feeling of ostracization, Stetina’s brother Wayne, a former and naturally, he says, he turned to pro cyclist himself and the current vice sports. president of Shimano USA, got his “I was quick, so football initially brother involved with Ride 2 Recovery, would kind of work, but I didn’t like a bicycle rehabilitation program for wounded veterans. Many of the vets see HALL OF FAME Page 27 have injuries similar to Stetina’s. Anne Boulder Weekly

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getting hit,” he admits. “Baseball, well, Association of Road Race Athletes. I didn’t like a ball coming at me at 60 Their first event as a group was the or 70 miles an hour. Basketball wasn’t 1981 Cascade Run Off in Portland, an option; I never got tall enough.” Oregon. At the completion of the race, Then he found pole vaulting. Durden and other top runners from Durden was about 80 pounds at the the association defied a sport-wide ban time, and the event still used bamboo on openly accepting prize money. Their poles as opposed to today’s fiberglass or rebellion made running a professional carbon fiber poles. With bamboo, career where top performers no longer Durden says he was competitive — he needed to depend on under-the-table couldn’t win, but he could place. payments to make a living. It also He moved up in weight class and opened the door for professional bascontinued to enjoy the sport. That’s ketball and hockey players to compete until the switch to in the Olympics as fiberglass poles. professionals, not ON THE BILL: Boulder Sports “This was the just as amaetur athHall of Fame Induction Class of 2015. 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, mid ’60s and back letes. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 then you landed in The Georgia Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303. Purchase tickets at raked sawdust, not native moved to bouldersportshalloffame.com or the foam pads they Boulder in 1985 to by calling 720-675-8923 or 303545-6147. Tickets can be purhave now,” Durden run the Bolder chased for $20 each, which says. “This kid, his Boulder, but he said includes two drinks. he immediately felt father had bought like he was home. him a new fiberHe’s been here ever glass pole. They since. were kind of fragile when they first “Here’s an interesting anecdote,” came out. Any defect and they shatDurden offers. “The first year I’d been tered. He came up and he came down here I was running down the road, and broke a collarbone and I became a runner.” down Folsom and Alpine, and I looked And quite a runner he became — up and coming at me from the other he completed 25 sub-2:20 marathons direction was the 7-Eleven [cycling] in less than a decade. His career was team guys. Coming down Alpine was crowned by a qualification for the 1980 an Olympic Nordic skier, a guy in the U.S. Olympic marathon team, but it sky above me was hang gliding and wasn’t meant to be; that was the year another guy was parasailing. You can’t the U.S. boycotted the Olympics in do any better than this. Sometimes Moscow. people forget what a special place The following year, Durden began Boulder is.” advocating for a professional status for While tickets are a suggested $20, runners. He and another dozen-odd Sandrock says that no one looking to runners of equal caliber formed the attend will be turned away. Boulder Weekly

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ne word resonates through my mind when movies suggest the existence of “the Other” or people exchange scary stories: fake. It’s fun to watch horror films and pretend there are witches, ghosts and monsters lurking about, but it’s just that — imaginary. While part of me wishes to believe in the mystical, logic wins the debate every time. Yet, that doesn’t lessen my curiosity and enjoyment in exploring the thought of other dimensions. Who knows? With the right bit of proof, I could become a believer. So, when we heard about last weekend’s Spirits of Colorado Paranormal Convention in Cripple Creek, a coworker and I leapt at the chance to see supernatural evidence. We prepared to be scared, shocked and even ready to question our biases. Perhaps we’d be like the skeptics in the horror movie that

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spout disbelief, only to get violently attacked by zombies in the next scene. The weekend promised a jam-packed schedule of paranormal activities and experts — or at least we hoped it did. Otherwise why make the two-and-a-half hour drive down to the secluded mountain town? On the ride, the gorgeous scenery should have had a calming effect on us, but it felt too perfect. We saw few other cars and felt as if we were driving through a film’s opening credits sequence where ominous music plays and warns the protagonists to turn around. After countless twists and turns of the road, we arrived in Cripple Creek. Once an old mining town people flocked to in the 1800s to get rich, but nowadays it’s a casino town where handfuls of people see LOGIC Page 30

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mosey to with the same goal. Surrounded by deserted open space, any sightseeing only requires walking a few blocks in any direction. And what is it about small towns that demand a ghost? As if ghosts have nothing better to do than hang around the place they were murdered... But following the mandate, Cripple Creek boasts a roster of spirits haunting various corners of the city. Spoiler alert: none of these ghosts were seen during our time there. The convention was split between the Imperial Hotel and the Hotel St. Nicholas. Both are the kind of place where you project your own scary vibes by reading too heavily into the finer details: textured wall paper, ornate fixtures, flickering overhead lighting, and odd decorations like creepily detailed portraits of children and oversized trunks — maybe big enough to hide a body? Each shadow could hold meaning and each sound was a question mark. The radiators clanged, every floorboard creaked and thin walls enabled us to hear someone down the hall sneeze. The eerie setting provided the perfect backdrop for us, ready and willing to be convinced. With various events and activities, the convention covered a plethora of topics from ghost hunting to the existence of Sasquatch. The attendees were eager to participate and spent breaks trading anecdotal ghost stories. (“Trust me, the Ouija board is not a toy.”) A smattering of big hats, head-to-toe black and the occasional cape or witch’s costume were seen throughout the crowd. The schedule was packed with workshops for those who wanted to pick up some “practical” skills. There was one on dowsing, the act of using rods to locate hidden material such as

gemstones... or buried bones. The rods can be made, as the demonstrator showed us, by the complicated process of clipping wire hangers into L shapes. Then, by taking one rod in each hand, special forces guide them to swing in directions hopefully leading to unmarked graves and hidden riches. Not an exact discipline, of course, but with some practice and patience, the presenter said a majority of us would be successful. During the hour session, some participants furiously took notes as if the big test was on Monday and they had to remember the specific instructions — hold wires approximately 6-8 inches apart, step slowly and remember to tuck in your elbows. Finding dead bodies isn’t really my forte, but being able to read tarot cards is a fun party trick. In the tarot workshop, after being handed a deck, each of us was to decipher our own hand with some ambiguous directions. When translating your cards, it seemed whichever card you pulled could be interpreted as good or bad. This not so much proved the precise science of the readings, but helped confirm the bogusness of the practice. As the teacher went around the room and helped extract meanings, the class skewed closer to self-help than divination. (“Great things are in your future, if only you work harder for them!”) The convention also featured an event with the “telephone to the dead,” a device Thomas Edison worked on in the last decade of his life, which can supposedly enable the living to contact the dead. To me it just looked like an old timey radio, but what do I know? After roughly 50 minutes of the allotted hour was spent explaining the machine, shockingly, there were only a few minutes left to test it out. But first, there were some brief aura readings Boulder Weekly

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where one woman was told she was wearing the wrong shoes because her chakras were misaligned. Finally the box was turned on but, oh no!, the signal was very weak. Even with a stern talking to (“Come on ghosts, speak up!”), still no chatter from the undead. Eventually it sort of, kind of worked. But despite the presenter saying the telephone had delivered full sentences in the past, apparently these ghosts were more monosyllabic and could only be heard by him as he operated the machine. Can you say suspicious? For the real doubters, there were also presentations of “irrefutable” evidence. The photographic proof of the existence of ghosts consisted of mists, orbs and bursts of light. Within these anomalies, supposedly, you could see eyes, a nose, mouth, and sometimes, if you looked really closely, you could even see old-fashioned garb. Funny. They just looked like basic, nondescript blurs to me. Now someone might point out several explanations for these phenomena — odd weather, dust in a camera lens, strange lighting or any of the other several logical explanations. Personally, I vote for the dusty camera lens. As the day went on, it was hard to tell who was more out of sorts, the people running the events or the people in the audience hanging on every word. It felt strange to hear the passionate reactions from the crowd. Presenters would tell stories and the audience would collectively gasp. “We were playing, then I saw the ghost boy kick the ball to my friend.” “Ooohh.” “The ghost called out my first, middle and last name.” “Ahhhh.” Boulder Weekly

“The spirit passed through my hand as it crossed to the other side.” “Wow!” At all the events, in a shroud of solitude, we sat in the back raising eyebrows, nudging each other, sarcastically chuckling and occasionally yawning. Like a used car salesman selling a clunker to a first-time buyer, the audience took everything as fact and severely lacked any sort of questioning. It was almost too easy. But it’s tough to argue with vague explanations, twisted logic and shaky reasoning including, “We communicated telepathically,” “The spirits told me so,” and “My intuition is never wrong; I’m just asking the wrong question or not asking at the right time.” There were never concrete answers for how or why, usually just a shrug and a, “I don’t know how it works; it just does!” By the end of the day, the mystery fell and presenters seemed more like talented storytellers than paranormal professionals. And some crossed over the line into nonsensical babbling. The events were fun if you don’t think too hard. If you do apply too much thought, some of the practices and people can venture into the territory of exploitative and corrupt. But they can tell a heck of tall tale. As the convention came to a close, top hats got exchanged for baseball caps and cloaks for T-shirts and jeans. Sadly, I wasn’t turned into a believer, not even a little. As we drove back to the real world, we conversed about pop music and television shows, with the convention just a distant memory of bizarre stories and fuzzy pictures, only slightly tinted with disappointment. Once a skeptic, always a skeptic.

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n interview with Gregg [song] that’s on the new record (Back question about the setlist he and his Allman can easily go off To Macon, GA) that came out called eight-piece band (including a threetopic, which in this case ‘Kerosene.’ That one will be on that man horn section) will play at its means several intended — well it may be or maybe not. It’s September and October dates somequestions — including those already on this [live] record, so if we how turns to a brief discussion about about his new concert CD/DVD, Gregg run out of space [it could get left off his distaste for Spotify, the online serAllman Live: Back To Macon, GA, and the next album]. I usually like to go in vice that streams music by thousands of the status of Midnight Rider, the movie and cut 20 [songs] and pick from that artists, but, he says, pays artists next to biopic about the Allman Brothers that because I always like to put as close to nothing for the rights to play their was shelved after a train accident music. Danny Clinch on the set left one dead and six “Making records anymore, injured — go unasked. with things like Spotify, is a joke Allman has a way of starting as compared to the way it used to to answer a question, only to be — because it’s free,” Allman have his thoughts take him down says. “Usually they pay us, but a completely different path. not Spotify. I’m thinking seriousThat’s not a bad thing because ly about yanking all of my stuff Allman’s answers sometimes lead off of that station. I mean, a lot to stories (or even revelations) of people have, and one by one, that are easily as interesting as every day someone yanks their anything he might have said had stuff off of it because they don’t he stayed on point. even pay the writer.” For instance, a query about As things continue, Allman what has been a busy year of touches on a disparate range of touring for Allman and his road other topics. band quickly turns to his immeHe praises his excellent tourdiate plans for 2016. ing band, which on the Back To “That’s the way it is when Macon, GA CD/DVD sounds you have new bands,” Allman potent and tight, tells the story says about his decision to tour about how he fell in love with extensively during 2015. “You the guitar — and music in genwant to get out and get as many eral — as a pre-teen youngster people to check out your band as and how his brother, Duane, you can. And in February, we essentially forced him to become plan to go straight to Muscle a lead singer by threatening to Shoals (studio) with Mr. Don boot him from their pre-Allman Gregg Allman talks about his new live album, recording his next studio album and the Allman Brothers’ final Was (producer) and cut all new Brothers Band group, the shows last year. material.” Allman Joys. And there it is, a simple Finally, storytime comes to an break-the-ice opening question reveals a dozen as I can [on an album]. Then end, leaving one last question about the plans to make a new studio album you wind up with plenty in the can, if Allman Brothers Band’s final shows last working with producer Was, whose there’s a call for them, even the next October. The group played six shows many credits include projects with the year. That’s the way the Brothers used that culminated at the Beacon Theatre Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Paul to do it.” in New York on Oct. 28, 2014 with a Westerberg, Bob Dylan and Willie Right there, Allman’s thoughts turn marathon four-hour set drawn from the Nelson. to a potential project that would classic first five albums released by the Allman, in earlier interviews, has undoubtedly create plenty of curiosity group from 1969 to 1973. talked about plans to some day make a and anticipation among Allman “Man, that was a real magic six solo album of all-original material, Brothers Band fans if it ever happens nights, it really was,” Allman says of titled All Compositions By… — a compilation of the group’s unrethe final Beacon shows. “Each night, Apparently, the next album will not be leased material. we were smoking, man. It was very that project. “I was thinking about that the other good. You could almost change your “There are so many (tunes) I want day, if I could round up all of that stuff, mind about it being the last (show). to cut,” Allman says. “There’s like four I mean, there’s great stuff on outtakes But it was a very beautiful thing, 45 different Jackson Browne songs that I [by the Allman Brothers]. I would love years, with all its changes and ups and have all different kinds of arrangeto have [that released],” he says. downs. If I could do it over again, I ments to, and there are some old, old, “There’s a lot of stuff, actually.” don’t think I’d change much of anyancient blues songs. There’s one Allman is on a roll by this time. A thing.” Boulder Weekly

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arts & culture ON THE BILL: Outside Mullingar, through Oct. 11, Dairy Center for the Arts — Presented by BETC, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Tickets at betc. org, $16 and up.

Love, Irish style

BETC takes a roll in the clover by Gary Zeidner

he Political Correctness Shanley, an American of Irish company. At nearly 10 years old, howPolice seem to have a blind descent, clearly knows his ancestral ever, BETC has matured into a formispot when it comes to the home. With Outside Mullingar, Shanley dable theatrical organization, a fact Irish. Racial slurs against paints a picture of modern-day, rural underscored by its recent receipt of a African Americans, Asians, Ireland that’s both vivid and softNational Theatre Grant from the etc. are obviously right out. Heaven focused, both grounded and fantastical. American Theatre Wing, the group forbid you should question Caitlyn Outside Mullingar is a well-crafted that created the Tony Awards. Jenner’s beauty or courCommenting on Michael Ensminger age. And you can’t call the honor, BETC’s the 350-pound, 5-footProducing Ensemble tall woman at 7-Eleven Director and coclutching a 64-ounce founder, Stephen Double Gulp full of soda Weitz, explains, “We in one hand and three are incredibly proud orders of nachos in the that an organization other “fat.” But jokes like the American about drunken Paddy Theatre Wing would getting jiggy with a sheep recognize the quality on his way home to his of our work, the clarity 15 kids still get the of our mission, and the thumbs up from pretty impact we seek to much everyone. make in our community.” So the first reason Mullingar is a among many to praise real-life small town John Patrick Shanley’s in the Irish midlands Outside Mullingar is that Emily Paton Davies and Timothy McCracken both give great performancfilled with farms and it gives nods to some of es as Rosemary and Anthony in Outside Mullingar, a play about land disputes and love set in the midlands of Ireland. the families who run the classic Irish stereothem. Outside types without lampoonMullingar concerns ing them. Its four charcomedy containing just a skosh of itself with two long-resident, neighacters all, at times at least, exhibit the pathos. It’s a good, if not excellent, play boring families, the Reillys and the characteristic querulousness for which with broad appeal, and it’s no wonder Muldoons. Widower Tony Reilly the Irish are known. The four also why the Boulder Ensemble Theatre (Chris Kendall) and his 40-someembody, to varying degrees, the lyriCompany (BETC) chose it to open its thing-year-old son, Anthony cally fatalistic faith typical to Irish 10th season. (Timothy McCracken), open the country folk in particular. Guinness is It’s hard to believe that BETC has play hosting recently widowed Aoife drank and pubs are mentioned, but already been around for 10 seasons. Muldoon (Billie McBride) and her none of the four are lushes. Ireland’s Owing in large part to its consistently 30-something-year-old daughter, failure to win any gold medals — even expert productions and its penchant for Rosemary (Emily Paton Davies). in boxing — at the 2008 Olympics is producing challenging, novel material, A few things become immediatethe only reference to any proclivity for BETC continues to feel like a young ly clear. The otherwise affable relafisticuffs.

tionship between the families is marred by the sale many years past of a strategic strip of Reilly land to the Muldoons. With the Muldoon patriarch having passed away, the contended land now belongs to Rosemary, who is loath to return it. Anthony’s relationships, both with his father and with Rosemary, serve as the dramatic engine of the play, which, more than anything, is a playful consideration of love. During the course of Outside Mullingar, it’s the love stories, both past and present, that drive things, and this lends the play — especially at its finale — a simple sweetness that will have most audience members smiling wide. Director and BETC co-founder Rebecca Remaly has assembled a stellar cast and gets everything she could want from them. The ever-amazing Chris Kendall rules the Reilly roost with evident pleasure. Billie McBride, another actor of earned renown, shines during her limited time on stage. In the meatiest role, Emily Paton Davies turns in another laudable performance. And even saddled with the play’s least credible story arc, Timothy McCracken makes Tony both interesting and sympathetic. Accents are always a challenge for actors, and if poorly executed a bad accent can sink an otherwise outstanding performance. All four actors in Outside Mullingar pull off their Irish brogues, which is by no means an easy feat. Dialect Coach Gabriella Cavallero deserves a big round of applause all her own for that triumph.

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Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Ash Ganely. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bluegrass Jam. 7 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Bluegrass, BBQ & Bourbon. 8:30 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Community Music Night. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

George Nelson Trio. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Grant Daniel Reed. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Grupo Chegando L and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. K.C. Groves. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Dave Honig’s Latin Quarter. 6 p.m. Cantina Laredo, 1680

Kamasi Washington 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Los Angeles native and saxophonist Kamasi Washington brings his renowned jazz ensemble to the Boulder Theater as part of the tour for his criticallyacclaimed album The Epic. Washington has made waves in the jazz community with The Epic, which debuted at No. 1 on iTunes Jazz charts in the U.S. His ensemble, which includes the prolific bassist Thundercat, also sports two drummers, two bassists, two DJs, horns, a full orchestra and a full choir. Washington, who has worked with artists including Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Lauryn Hill and Flying Lotus, is perhaps best known for his instrumentation in Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly. — Grant Stringer

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Ride Boulder Green Streets 6th annual Ciclovia! 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, Route from North Boulder Rec Center to Boulder Community Plaza to East Pearl, 720-722-2314. Boulder streets will shut down on Saturday, Sept. 27 for Ciclovia, a city-wide event that opens miles of roads for biking and walking, as well as dozens of free activities and food and drink vendors. Participants can travel freely from the North Boulder Rec Center to East Pearl and enjoy the festival on car-free streets. The event is hosted by Boulder Green Streets, an organization that focuses on sustainability and communitybuilding through events like Ciclovia. Green Streets also works to promote healthy alternatives of driving such as biking and public transportation and encourages participants to pledge a car-free lifestyle. Check out bouldergreenstreets.org for a full Cicolovia map. — Grant Stringer

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Longmont Studio Tour 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 26-27, Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Artists across Longmont will open their studios to the public free of charge for the 16th annual Longmont Studio Tour. Nationally acclaimed artists, as well as lesser known locals, will showcase a diversity of mediums, from watercolor and acrylic paintings to ceramics, sculptures, photography and more. Viewers will have the opportunity to meet, engage and connect with over 50 artists in their own studios and travel through the tour as they please. Stop by the Muse Gallery for the Preview Exhibit to decide who you want to see before heading out on the tour, and visit LongmontStudioTour.org for brochures and maps. — Grant Stringer

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Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Open Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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Relapse. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Spoonfed Tribe. 9 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Them Raggedy Bones. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Trevor Hall. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303447-0095. Events The 11th Annual Boulder International Fringe Festival. All day. Various Locations, Boulder, 303803-5643.

Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29. Fired: Glass, Iron, and Ceramics. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 20.

Pretty/Dirty. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through Jan. 31.

Check out the last weekend of Max Siegal’s photography at NCAR through Sept. 26.

Photography by Max Seigal. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971174. Through Sept. 26.

Boulder Pollinator Appreciation Month Film Series. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Gunther Gerzso: A Mexican Master. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.

PUSH.POP.KICK. Firehouse Art Center, 667, Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Sept Sept. 27.

Can’t Ain’t Nothing but a Four-letter Word. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

In Bloom. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 11.

Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10.

Commemorating the 2013 Flood. All day. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Mixed Media by Joanna Whitney. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through Sept. 26.

Rocky Mountain National Watermedia. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303279-3922. Through Oct. 25.

Creative Screen Printing. 6 p.m. Claudia Lewis Studio, 5707 Gunbarrel Road, Longmont.

Native American: Showing of Black Pinto Horse and Bryan Redmoon. Gallery of Badd Art , 339 B Main st,Lyons Co. 303-823-5329. Through Oct. 1.

Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3.

Geopolitics Series. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. No Apologies, No Regrets: My Music, My Journey. 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4423770. Public Art Presentations for Highway 287 Bridge Project. 6 p.m. Longmont Civic Center, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont, 303-776-6050. Seniors Nature Hike. 10 a.m. Mud Lake Open Space, 3491 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-6786214.

Painted Paper Movements Through Collage. BMoCA at Macky, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through Nov. 15.

Broadway St., Boulder, 720-849-8458. Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Full Belly. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

SolidFire Inc. Blood Drive. 9 a.m. SolidFire Inc., 1620 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-523-3278.

Ginga. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Take a Paint Class. 7 p.m. Your Creative Side, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 210, Longmont, 303478-0175.

Global Soul Experience Live. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom. 4:30 p.m. CU Boulder Norlin Library, M549, 1720 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-4927521.

Great Avery Boulder Fest. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Friday, September 25 Music Aulternate Reality Jazz. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533. The Bakersfield Band. 7 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-7747698.

Hillary Scott. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. The Indulgers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Jeff Brinkman. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 N. US Highway 287, Lafayette, 303-449-8623.

The 4 Seasons of Veronica Read. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 11.

Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970259-3555.

Rodney Black & the Blacklist. 5:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. South to Cedars. 6 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642. Trevor Hall. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303447-0095. Troy Clayton. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Tyler T. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914. Whitherward and The Unsiblings. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Los Cheesies. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

The Woody Pines. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303776-BIKE.

Ben Hanna Band. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Makeshift Funk Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Xandra Wong. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Bonnis & the King. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

MaryLynn Gillaspie “Friday Night Live!” 7:30 p.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, 303-665-0955.

Yamn with The Funk Lives. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Boxcar 79. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Mojomama and The Dr. Izzy Band. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Danny Schafer. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380.

Old’s Cool Rock. 8 p.m. The Tandoori Next Doori, 623 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

David Booker. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Paul Sullivan’s Folk-a-rama. 6 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303665-0625.

Dead Floyd. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 38 September 24, 2015

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Events The 11th Annual Boulder International Fringe Festival. All day. Various Locations, Boulder, 303803-5643. Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes. 10:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. see EVENTS Page 40

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Handmade in Colorado Expo in Boulder. 11 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 720272-7467. Late Summer Group Show: Grier Torrence, Chris Campbell and Others. All day. Fine Art Associates Boulder, 1949 Pearl St., Boulder, 303413-1000. Nas: Time is Illmatic. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303442-3282. No Apologies, No Regrets: My Music, My Journey. 6:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church of Boulder, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4423770. Partner Painting. 7 p.m. Your Creative Side, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 210, Longmont, 303-4780175. Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. Atlas Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., University of Colorado, 303-735-4577. Saturday, September 26

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As You Like It. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720865-4239, Through Nov. 1. BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000. Through Nov. 14. Guys and Dolls. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through Oct. 11. Lookingglass Alice. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Oct. 11. The Murder Room. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont, 303772-5200. Through Oct. 3.

Outside Mullingar follows two families as they dispute land boundaries and one neighbor who pines after the other. Read more about the regional premiere of the play on page 43.

My Name is Asher Lev. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through Oct 18. Outside Mullinger — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through Oct. 11.

Music Big City West. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Chris Smith Organ Trio. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. The Clarks. 7:30 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville, 970-259-3555. Dave Honig’s New Standards Project. 6 p.m. Thai Shi House, 3033 28th St., Boulder, 303-4443133. David Potter. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Co., 297 N. Highway 287, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-908-6036. Defunkt Railroad. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698. Delta Moon. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Elise Wunder. 8 p.m. Samples World Bistro, 370 Main St., Longmont, 303-327-9318. The Garms Family. 6 p.m. Messiah Lutheran Church, 1335 Francis St., Longmont, 303-7762573. Greg Warren Duo. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. The Growlers. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Happy Hour Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill Southside Bar, 619 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339. Home For the Bewildered. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064. Jeff Brinkman. 6 p.m. Altona Grange, 9386 N. 39th St., Longmont, 303-709-0334. Joe Marson. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. KC Groves. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Commemorating the 2013 Flood. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-543-1411. Lee Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Lettuce with Branx. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Many Mountains. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-6650625. Mayhem Gulch. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewery, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. North Boulder Underground. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-9974164. Old’s Cool Rock. 9:30 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303678-6235. Porcelain City. 8:30 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Princess Fearless. 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Punch Drunk Monkey Funk. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Radiate Unified Dance Party with DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Robinson Quintet. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Spiritual Rez. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Thomas Gronberg. 10:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Tony Dollar and 2-Bit Palomino. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Whiskey Autumn. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Wine Night with The Prairie Scholars. 8 p.m. 2020 Food + Wine Bar, 2020 Ionosphere St., Longmont, 720-491-3578. Events

10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. 12 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. The 11th Annual Boulder International Fringe Festival. All day. Various Locations, Boulder, 303803-5643. Bee Boulder Festival and Celebration Family Event. 10 a.m. Central Park, 1236 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-413-7200. Can’t Ain’t Nothing but a Four-letter Word. 4:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770. Commemorating the 2013 Flood. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Commercial Garment Construction Serger Retreat. 9 a.m. Studio BERNINA, 2850 Arapahoe Road, Suite 100, Lafayette, 303-447-0852 Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299. Egyptian Medicine: Was It Art or Science? 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Family Painting Fun. 10:30 a.m. Your Creative Side, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 210, Longmont, 303-478-0175. Fashion’s Night Downtown Boulder. 2 p.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4493774. First Annual Buddy Bash. 6 p.m. Jacky Murphy Arena, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-6786235. Geology and Landforms of Hall Ranch. 9:30 a.m. Hall Ranch Open Space, 31635 CO Highway 7, Boulder, 303-678-6200. Handmade in Colorado Expo in Boulder. 11 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 720272-7467. Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. 12:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Learn to Paint. 2 p.m. Your Creative Side, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 210, Longmont, 303-478-0175. Boulder Weekly

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Thursday, Sept. 24 William Powers — New Slow City. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. Monday, Sept. 28 “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, Sept. 29

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Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Susan Pashman — Upper West Side Story. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Alexandra Kleeman’s novel ‘You Can Have a Body Like Mine’ is a mix of mystery and a look into contemporary culture. She’ll be at the Boulder Book Store on Sept. 30.

Wednesday, Sept. 30 Alexandra Kleeman — You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Listen to Me Marlon. 5:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Lucy Moore. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. Atlas Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., University of Colorado, 303-735-4577.

Mary Gauthier and Secret Special Guest Band. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Saturday Art Experience (SAE) Art Classes. 12 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Mikal Shapiro and Chad Brothers. 1 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-2580649.

The Second Mother. 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Mikal Shapiro and Chad Brothers, Von Strantz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Shred Fest Family Event. 2 p.m. Shredder Urban Ski and Snowboard Park, 6655 Arapahoe Road, Suite J, Boulder, 303-396-1754.

Nate Hancock. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

STEAM Saturdays CU Science Discovery: Pollinator Power. 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Scott Von. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Tinker Time. 10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave., Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902. Yoga on the Plaza. 9 a.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722. Sunday, September 27 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Arthur Lee Land. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. The Concert Series Presents: Modern Works for Viola and Piano. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Espresso. 9:30 a.m. 767 Pearl St Boulder, CO 80302, 767 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. Gospel Music Concert. 3 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, 1820 15th St., Boulder, 303-402-6400. Jababa. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. KC Groves & Oklahoma Jake. 9:30 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Left Hand Artist Group Showcase. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Boulder Weekly

Slidin Delta. 7:30 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Tim Ostdiek: BBQ & Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Von Strantz. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Yoshi and Dan. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-5932066. Events 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse. 12 p.m. Chautauqua Picnic Shelter, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder 303-442-3282. The 11th Annual Boulder International Fringe Festival. All day. Various Locations, Boulder, 303803-5643. DIY Party. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303441-3120. Fiske Planetarium — Meteorites and Rockets. 3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Gold Hill Gold Rush. 9 a.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 see EVENTS Page 42

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Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Handmade in Colorado Expo in Boulder. 11 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 720272-7467. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772. Longmont Studio Tour Preview Exhibition. 11 a.m. Longmont Council for the Arts, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Octoberfest. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. A Streetcar Named Desire. 3:30 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Take a Paint Class. 1 p.m. Your Creative Side, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 210, Longmont, 303478-0175. Twyla Tharp Dance. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1595 Pleasant Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Watch the Moon Disappear! 7 p.m. Beech Open Space Shelter, 3100 Neva Road, Boulder, 303-678-6222. Monday, September 28

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Events Extraordinary Measures. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-2523962. Monday Make Art Night. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Art Therapy Collective, 1400 Lee Hill Drive, Suite 7, Boulder, 303-593-0277. Women of the West Monday Group. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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The Steph Johnson Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628. Events Learn to Paint. 2 p.m. Your Creative Side, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 210, Longmont, 303-4780175. Smokes and Jokes. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Wednesday, September 30 Music

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Purity Ring with Hana. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Skeye Brewing, 900 S. Hover St., Unit D, Longmont, 303-774-7698.

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Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Upslope Brewery Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

The Lehnerts have been one of the preeminent musical families in Colorado for the last 30 years and they continue to enrich the classical music community both at the CU College of Music—and internationally—as peerless soloists, chamber musicians, and pedagogues. The Lehnert Trio brings together this genuine musical passion along with their enormous individual energy which has inspired them to meld all the years of well-deserved recognition into this unique husbandwife-son liaison.

Open Mic. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Blues Night. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Open Jam. 8 p.m. The Lazy Dog, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Hotfoot. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185.

Mike Tolle. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020. Open Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Longs Peak Pub & Taphopuse, 600 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-651-7886. Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922. Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Paakow’s Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Purity Ring with Hana. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Third Circle. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Events Aromatherapy for Women. 6 p.m. Colorado Aromatics, 340 Lashely St., Suite 220, Longmont, 303-651-2062. Intercambio English as a Second Language Class. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Introduction to Square Dancing. 6 p.m. Longmont Senior Center, 910 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Manhattan Short Film Festival. 7 p.m. The Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th Street and Pearl Street, Boulder, 800-807-6179.

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here are three perfect scenes in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Not “good” scenes. Not “great” scenes. Three perfect scenes. Now, as a whole, The Scorch Trials is not a perfect movie. Nor is it a great one. But it is very good, and most of that has to do with director Wes Ball, who wrangled derivative, cliched content into a thrilling, emotionally captivating adventure-gasm. If you haven’t seen or read the first Maze Runner… I have no idea why you’d be reading this review. But if you haven’t and plan to see it or read it, eject your eyes from these words now, as you can’t talk about The Scorch Trials without spoiling the crap out of the previous installment. Picking up minutes later, we see the survivors of “The Glades” maze as they arrive via helicopter at some kind of militaristic facility. A soldier escorting them suddenly yells “CRANKS!” and everybody with a gun gives their trigger finger some exercise. Once safely inside, our hero, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), starts piecing together that they may not be safe at all. The facility is populated with survivors from several different mazes, including Aris ( Jacob Lofland), who quickly helps Thomas confirm they are, indeed, quite screwed. ‘Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’ isn’t totally original, but it Once more, Thomas does have a few scenes that will blow you away. leads his friends, including Minho (Ki Hong Lee), Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) on a wild escape, this time through “the scorch.” If it sounds like the scorch is no fun, it isn’t. The world is now a hot sandbox of death populated by “Cranks,” former humans turned zombie by “the flare virus.” So Thomas and pals must navigate the nasty post-apocalypse and find shelter, if such a thing exists anymore. Honestly, the concept is little more than mashup fanfiction. Young kids immune to a virus fighting zombies in a dystopian future is as rote as young adult content can be these days. And I know you were worried, but yes, there is a wholly unnecessary love triangle between the only two women given any substantive screen time and our blank-slate hero. Honestly, the cast does a hell of a job with the generic generalness of their largely amnesiac characters. Charisma and body language go a long way, even in “the scorch.” But this movie is about its director. Give Wes Ball a Star Wars movie, a Marvel movie or, hell, let him do whatever he wants. Those three perfect scenes? One: The downtrodden posse silhouetted atop a desert dune who all pause when they hear a mournful, significant sound. Two: The introductory zombie chase unfolding in a way that feels new in a world with seemingly millions of such scenes. Three: The “out of the frying pan” sequence that starts with Thomas and Brenda (Rosa Salazar) surviving a collapsing building and ends with Cronenberg horror in an underground tunnel. A good director lives up to the level of his content. A great director elevates it. A very special director takes average-at-best material and turns it into a rousing thrill ride that never loses its humanity. The Scorch Trials isn’t perfect, but man, some parts really are. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Nebraska.

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CineLatino celebrates cinema to the south by Michael J. Casey

eptember is Hispanic Heritage month and ON THE BILL: to celebrate, the Sie Film Center welcomes CineLatino Film Festival. the return of CineLatino, a four-day film Sept. 24-Sept. 26, Sie Film festival featuring 12 titles that showcase Center, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 720-381-0813. Passes exemplary work coming from countries and at denverfilm.org. cultures to the south. This year’s lineup features many fine works from countries including Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Peru. Of the 12, the Colombian Manos Sucias (Sept. 26) is an exemplary piece of work about two estranged brothers hailing from the port of Buenaventura — the most dangerous city in Colombia — who find themselves at the bottom of the drug trade. Hired to transport a torpedo filled with cocaine up the Colombian coast, Jacobo ( Jarlin Javier Martinez) and Delio (Cristian James Abvincula) reconnect as director Josef Wladyka juxtaposes the horrors and violence of the drug trade with the quotidian: discussions about soccer, the prettiest girl in Buenaventura and fantasies about who their sons will grow up to be. All of this set on a rickety boat cutting through the Pacific with lush greenery as a backdrop. There is a familiarity to the Colombian film Manos Sucias follows two brothers who story, but Wladyka tells it well get caught up in the drug trade. and from an angle rarely seen. For his efforts, the Tribeca Film Festival awarded him with the Best New Narrative Director Award. Manos Sucias isn’t the only entry from South America as CineLatino opens and closes with two uplifting documentaries from South America: one revolving around food, the other music. Finding Gaston (Sept. 24) opens the festival with a look at Peruvian master chef, Gaston Acurio, and his mission to bring Peruvian cuisine to the restaurants of Peru — where French cuisine still has a sizeable foothold — and, eventually, the world. Acurio travels to various locations and learns the local recipes, but more importantly, he learns the stories behind them. Food is much more than substance for the body; it is a story and represents the people that cook these foods. Gaston makes it his mission to identify, disperse and preserve these recipes and stories. Finding Gaston is an excellent doc, but not one you should see on an empty stomach. Thankfully, the film center will host a pre-show reception to commemorate the festival. The closing night documentary, Landfill Harmonic (Sept. 27), transports viewers to Cateura, Paraguay, a city of 2,500 families roughly 7 miles south of the capital, Asución. Asución is home to 2 million and is capable of producing 1,500 tons of trash daily, almost all of which end up in Cateura, making Gancheros — workers that comb through the rubble looking for recyclables — a major employment opportunity. For Favio Chavez, an idealistic teacher, all this garbage might lead to something more, and he recruits craftsmen to fashion musical instruments out of the refuse. The instruments are effective and Chavez uses them to teach children to play and assembles the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura. The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura is a hit. Their YouTube videos go viral, they go on tour, share the stage with Megadeth and bring exposure to their small town. But while music soothes the savage beast, it cannot stop the waters from rising, and Cateura is dangerously located in a flood plain. Landfill Harmonic is a hopeful but honest look at how art can be used to transcend the personal struggle. CineLatino offers movies, receptions, special introductions and activities for the whole family. Visit www.denverfilm.org for more information. Boulder Weekly

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t’s hard to get excited about juice. They serve juice in little plastic cups with foil tops at hospitals and blood drives. At diners, orange juice costs $4 per thimble Wonder Press for some reason. 946 Pearl St., Rare is a time when Boulder, 720-484I find myself saying, 4927 “You know what I could really go for right now? A big glass of juice.” Juice just exists, in a way. It’s there when you’re a kid; it’s there when you’re sick; it’s kind of good for you and kind of not. It tastes good, but if you drink too much, you’ll get acid reflux. But the folks at Wonder Press on Pearl Street in Boulder are doing their best to make juice not only worthwhile, but sexy. Wonder cold-presses all their juices and nut milks inhouse, using all organic ingredients, and the juice is never pasteurized or pressure-processed. In short, you’re getting the good stuff, and Wonder has created unique juice blends, milk blends, coffee drinks, shakes and more to make what has become a health food trend more accessible, exciting and substantial. Add to that a prime location on Pearl’s West End and some swanky design, and juice suddenly seems irresistible. The exterior of the shop looks like you’re about to enter a marble store and the interior’s design makes you healthier just by stepping inside. You’re directed straight to the back of the store, passing an illuminated neon “juicing” sign — I’m sure that was a first for the artisan who made that — toward a health-nut’s dream scene set-up with a rainbow of juice glasses on two shelves in the refrigerated display. The juice actually matches the design of the shop — or is it the other way around? They are clean, polished, healthful, bright and exciting. Yes, the juice is

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of the blend. That’s sort of the thing with Wonder juices: you can taste each element in every sip, while also enjoying the full harmony of flavor they create in a blend. I was also able to try two green blends: “spicy greens,” which was made of cucumber, celery, parsley, spinach, lemon and ginger; and “emerald,” made of cucumber, pineapple, celery, kale parsley mint and lemon. The spicy greens tasted like fresh cut grass at the end of September — or, a good thing. Wonder is also big on using turmeric, a spice whose health benefits have long been ballyhooed. I had it in their golden blend — coconut milk, coconut water, coconut oil, turmeric, ginger and honey — and it tasted like a slightly less thick yellow curry that had been made more palatable for drinking consumption. I also tasted a banana chip shake. It was made of coconut milk, house nut milk, banana, cacao nibs, coconut oil and vanilla. It was bright with the flavor of fresh banana, and the abundant chips were delicious and fun at the beginning, but a little bothersome and attracted to tooth gaps by the end. By far the highlight, though, was the butter coffee. It’s gained a lot of popularity because, supposedly, consuming fat in the morning with caffeine helps the body release the caffeine over time, as the fat is processed in the body, leading to a more sustained release of energy. I liked it because it tasted awesome. Rich and buttery, it’s made of coffee, ghee (clarified butter), Brain Octane oil (I don’t know what this is, even after a Google search, but it’s made from coconuts and apparently jacks you up), coconut oil and some sweetener. It’s an addictive, great-tasting drink and will single handedly bring me back to Wonder many times over. I’ll probably get some juice while I’m there.

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exciting! Take for instance, the blush blend. It’s a beautiful shade of reddish-purple, and is the product of pressing apples, cucumbers, cabbage, lemon and ginger. The ginger hits your palate first, adding some kick — that pleasant spiciness is common throughout much of Wonder’s juices — but there’s also a very interesting tartness, likely the product of the fresh lemon and apple juices. If tart is your thing, you’ll love it, and I do, so I love it. The cabbage in there also adds a slight earthy funk. Another interesting blend was the yam spice latte juice. It’s a blend of yam, carrot, apple, baking spices, ginger and almond milk. The textural play is really fun here, because it’s a thin juice yet has the flavor that your mind associates with thickness, either as a cookie, bread or coffee drink. The yam and carrot juices serve as the base of the drink but that’s not to say their flavor gets washed out by the brighter elements

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on Tuesday, Oct. 6. The dinner is one in the ongoing series of specialty dinners at The Post. The dinner starts at 6 p.m. and features three Latininspired dishes paired with drinks from The Post. The first course pairs the Howdy-rita, a beer cocktail, with a ceviche and sweet potatoes, Fresno chilies and basil. The next course pairs Elkhorn Lager with a pork belly and shrimp picadillo. The last course pairs a fresh IPA with salt-roast whole fish, pickled tomatillo, rice and a jalapeno and cilantro relish. The dinner costs $40 per person and reservations are recommended for the event.

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to celebrate both on Oct. 9. Plus there’s going to be fire and lasers,” said Josh Mishell, organizer of Makers After Dark, in a press release. The Makers After Dark event will run from 6-9 p.m. on Oct. 3 at the Rocky Mountain Center for Innovation and Technology in Loveland. For tickets, or more information, visit www.nocomakerfaire.com.

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Boulder Food Rescue, a local organization that works to minimize food waste, is hosting their third annual Feast of Fermentation on Nov. 7 at the Museum of Boulder. The event will highlight several fermented products including cheese, tempeh, bread, wine and beer. There’s also going to be live music and games, and craft cocktails will be provided by Vapor Distillery. The event supports Boulder Food Rescue, which has saved more than 1 million pounds of healthy food over the last four years and distributed it to people in need on bicycle. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.boulderfoodrescue.org.

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On leaving the brick and mortar for the mobile restaurant by Noel Philips Courtesy of The French Twist

n the movie, Chef, Jon Favreau as Chef Carl Casper storms out of the brickand-mortar world after a scathing review and a public display of outrage at the reviewer. He eventually decides to “take it back to something simple,” finding his passion and joy again as he opens a food truck. The plot is a common one: jaded protagonist reinvents himself and discovers new meaning in life, but Chef touches on more than one man’s journey to regain vision. Chef also brings new focus to the food truck industry and some of the reasons behind the increasing number of gourmet chefs leaving birck-and-mortar fine dining to run a truck. Food trucks have been around in some form or another in the States since the late 1800s, but it wasn’t until 2008 in L.A. with the opening of Kogi BBQ by Chef Roy Choi that the scene truly exploded. Not only did food trucks allow chefs more freedom to explore their passion and be fully in charge of what they wanted to present to their customers. With the recession of that same year, opening a food truck became a cheaper alternative for chefs who had been considering establishing a brick-and-mortar restaurant. And with the simultaneous rise in smart phones and social media applications, it was the perfect storm. Food trucks have planted themselves firmly and successfully in the culinary world of cities across the nation. For Michael DeBoer, chef and co-owner of The French Twist food truck, opening a truck was also his ticket to running a business

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in Boulder where he grew up, and where his parents still live. “Boulder has a great restaurant and food culture, but I didn’t have the money to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant. We barely had the money to do the food truck,” he says. Using locally sourced, fresh ingredients, The French Twist offers “mobile cuisine beyond the routine” with their French-influenced, made-from-scratch fine food. With items like frogs Provençal and escargot, along with salade Niçoise, duck confit and croque mademoiselle, DeBoer hopes to set the bar for the local food truck scene. The financial reasons were not the only appeal to the DeBoers in opening a The French Twist. A truck is a smaller, more intimate environment and lends itself well to being a more family-friendly enterprise. With fewer concerns about maintaining and managing a large staff, Michael has been able to partner with his wife, Lori, and even allow their teenage son to work the truck and gain valuable hands-on experience in running a business. “It’s an exciting, innovative environment,” Michael notes, and “it’s also a great way to test a concept and build a following.” With Lori’s food writing and editorial background, The French Twist has had little trouble building that following through their strong social media presence, a key component to the success of any food truck since people have to be able to find the truck. see TRUCKIN’ Page 52

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But social media alone won’t win fans. The food has to be consistent and good. With over 25 years of experience working in high-end restaurants, combined with his degree from the Culinary Institute of America, DeBoer is confident in his ability to provide fresh, unique dishes with something for everyone. “Some of our guests are trying French food for the first time. In that way, truck fare is kind of like a ‘gateway’ food to high-end dining.” Food trucks are not enjoyed by everyone, however. Brick-and-mortar establishments have expressed mounting fears and resentment toward what they feel are unfair advantages. And

shakes and bounces and requires regular maintenance. Chefs at restaurants are able to stay in one location for their 12-15 hour days. It is intense work, but different than the more gypsy lifestyle of food truck chefs. “With a food truck, breakfast is at one location, then you go back to the commissary to clean and reload for lunch. Then you do the same routine for lunch and dinner. You are basically loading your kitchen before every service and unloading it afterwards.” And food trucks don’t have the purchasing power a larger restaurant would have, forcing them to look for more creative ways to keep costs down. And without the storage Courtesy of The French Twist space a restaurant enjoys, many food truck operators look to shared commissaries where several vendors rent space to store, prepare and receive food. “We’re tired but having a blast,” Lori says. And Boulder’s recent discussions regarding the diversity that food trucks Michael DeBoer and his wife Lori stand outside their French Twist food truck. can add to a community has the some say that certain cities, like DeBoers, as well as other vendors, excitBoulder, have created prohibitive rules ed for the upcoming Boulder Food Park that restrict food trucks in order to which will give trucks a location from which to operate year-round. “protect” restaurants. But in many citAs more cities pave the way toward ies across the nation, those rules have removing regulations, the food truck been deemed unconstitutional. “It’s not the responsibility of govern- trend will continue its upward growth. ment to protect businesses from compe- And increasingly, brick and mortars are seeing the value toward adding a food tition; we didn’t protect The Kitchen from Salt opening right next door. Plus, truck to their operation. A truck gives chefs the ability to experiment with if a brick-and-mortar can’t compete edgier dishes that may be too risqué for against a food truck, they’ve got bigger the restaurant; offers charity and caterissues to contend with,” DeBoer says. ing opportunities for restaurants; and Additionally, DeBoer feels there is even gives brick and mortars a chance to no unfair competitive advantage of research a new location. food trucks over brick and mortars. The DeBoers are happy occupying “Certainly, the cost to entry is the food truck niche for now, enjoying lower, but food trucks do not run the the invigorating and thrilling experivolume of business that brick-andence, as well as the ability to interact mortar restaurants do; it’s not even with their customers more than they close. We are highly weather and seawould be able to in a restaurant. And sonal dependent and do not have the the customers seem to love the advantage of continuous operating DeBoers, demonstrated in their happy hours.” Add to that the high turnover chatter across social media and their of owners with a lack of restaurant experience who get into the food truck encouragement to friends and whomever will listen to go try The French Twist. business thinking life will be smooth “You’d be surprised how many peoand easy, not realizing the amount of ple ask me where our restaurant is,” work and energy it takes to operate. DeBoer says. “And I tell them: ‘I’m A food truck can be more labor standing in front of it.’” intensive than a restaurant. Everything Boulder Weekly

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Combining pumpkin spice and bitters at home to make something useful by Matt Cortina

o, in math, multiplying two negatives equals a positive. However, conventional wisdom says two wrongs don’t make a right. Given that we can’t use arbitrary precedent, how do we determine if combining two food trends is good or bad? The short answer is that we do it on a case-by-case basis. Butter coffee combined with a trendy restaurant concept (as seen in this week’s cuisine review) is good. Posting photos of avocado on toast on Instagram is bad (and also the sign of the apocalypse in Etruscan lore). So how do we grade a combination of the much-mocked trend of pumpkin spice and the firmly at-its-peak trend of bitter liqueurs? I say it’s good because it elevates the pumpkin Wikimedia Commons spice flavor that still has merit but has been made lazy by Globo-flavor Enterprises, Inc., the fictional and shadowy conglomerate of chain restaurants and house spray companies that killed this once promising flavor superstar (also to blame are the tired jokes about white girls consuming pumpkin spice everything; it’s already dead, guys). It also elevates the bitter liqueur, which often gets reduced to brand names like Fernet or Cynar by bros at bars who for some reason take shots of this stuff instead of sipping them around meals as they were intended to be. But the best melding of pumpkin spice and bitter drinks might come in the creation of pumpkin spice bitters. By doing so, you can concentrate the flavors that make pumpkin spice desirable, add in or segment out what you like or don’t like, and add it to any number of cocktails to add an autumnal kick. Fortunately, it’s easy and pretty fun to make bitters. You need three ingredients: a bittering agent, alcohol and a fruit, vegetable or herb for flavor. You can do this at home in a sealable glass jar, and it’ll take about five weeks to complete. First, you’ll need to get something that will imbue bitterness into the bitters. That sounds right. This is usually a bark or root, and by far the most common bittering agent, and most easily accessible, is gentian root. You can find it at many health food stores, ethnic groceries or, if all else fails, online. You can also use cassia bark, wormwood or certain fruit rinds or peels. Next, you’ll need a fruit, vegetable, herb or a combination of the three for flavor. For our pumpkin spice bitters, we’ll use roasted pumpkin, cinnamon, cardamom and clove. You can add in other baking spices, fresh herbs, sweet potato or peach. And lastly, you’ll need alcohol. Most home-made liqueur and bitter recipes call for the use of a high-proof vodka or grain liquor. You can certainly use that here, but bourbon whiskey and pumpkin are soul mates and so that’s the recommendation. From there, you’re set. Get yourself an empty 750 mL bottle. Roast 12 ounces of cubed pumpkin meat until they’d be just about ready to eat, about 25 minutes at 400 degrees. You can drizzle a very small amount of olive oil to ensure moisture if you’re paranoid, or you can pull them out early if they start to dry up too quickly. Cool the pumpkin, and pour them into the bottle. Add in a half dozen crushed cardamom pods, a cinnamon stick or two (you can determine the flavor, and you can also put in crushed cinnamon if you have some fancy stuff ), and a dozen or so cloves. Fill the rest of the bottle up with your favorite bourbon — Wild Turkey 101 or Knob Creek is recommended because they’re spicy and high in alcohol. Shake your mixture daily and in four to five weeks, you can strain the mixture through cheesecloth or a coffee filter. For added sweetness, make some brown sugar simple syrup and add it to the mixture as desired. In subsequent batches, add and reduce ingredients to meet your taste desires. If the bitters are too bitter, you can actually age them in alcohol in a separate bottle and mix the bitter blend with the flavor blend at a later date. When your bitters are done, you can add them to any number of cocktails — they’ll taste great in bourbon drinks like an Old Fashioned or a Boulevardier. Also, dashing them into a dark rum or even a coffee-based drink would be pretty excellent. Boulder Weekly

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You are destined to become a master of fire. It’s your birthright to become skilled in the arts of kindling and warming and illuminating and energizing. Eventually you will develop a fine knack for knowing when it’s appropriate to turn the heat up high, and when it’s right to simmer with a slow, steady glow. You will wield your flames with discernment and compassion, rarely or never with prideful rage. You will have a special power to accomplish creative destruction and avoid harmful destruction. I’m pleased at the progress you are making toward these noble goals, but there’s room for improvement. During the next eight weeks, you can speed up your evolution.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Taurus-born physicist Wolfgang Pauli won a Nobel Prize for his research. His accomplishment? The Nobel Committee said he discovered “a new law of nature,” and named it after him: the Pauli Principle. And yet when he was a younger man, he testified, “Physics is much too difficult for me and I wish I were a film comedian or something like that and that I had never heard anything about physics!” I imagine you might now be feeling a comparable frustration about something for which you have substantial potential, Taurus. In the spirit of Pauli’s perseverance, I urge you to keep at it.

GEMINI

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In 1921, the French city of Biarritz hosted an international kissing contest. After evaluating the participants’ efforts, the panel of judges declared that Spanish kisses were “vampiric,” while those of Italians were “burning,” English were “tepid,” Russians were “eruptive,” French were “chaste,” and Americans were “flaccid.” Whatever nationality you are, Gemini, I hope you will eschew those paradigms — and all other paradigms, as well. Now is an excellent time to experiment with and hone your own unique style of kissing. I’m tempted to suggest that you raise your levels of tenderness and wildness, but I’d rather you ignore all advice and trust your intuition.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

The astrological omens suggest you could get caught up in dreaming about what might have been. I’m afraid you might cling to outworn traditions and resuscitate wistful wishes that have little relevance for the future. You may even be tempted to wander through the labyrinth of your memories, hoping to steep yourself in old feelings that weren’t even good medicine for you when you first experienced them. But I hope you will override these inclinations, and instead act on the aphorism, “If you don’t study the past, you will probably repeat it.” Right now, the best reason to remember the old days is to rebel against them and prevent them from draining your energy.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

You may laugh more in the next 14 days than you have during any comparable 14-day period since you were 5 years old. At least I hope you will. It will be the best possible tonic for your physical and mental health. Even more than usual, laughter has the power to heal your wounds, alert you to secrets hiding in plain sight, and awaken your dormant potentials. Luckily, I suspect that life will conspire to bring about this happy development. A steady stream of antics and whimsies and amusing paradoxes is headed your way. Be alert for the opportunities.

VIRGO

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

❝I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth,” wrote author William Faulkner. Some astrologers would say that it’s unlikely a Libra would ever say such a thing — that it’s too primal a feeling for your refined, dignified tribe; too lush and unruly. But I disagree with that view. Faulkner himself was a Libra! And I am quite sure that you are now or will soon be like a wet seed in the hot blind earth — fierce to sprout and grow with almost feral abandon.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

You and I both know that you can heal the sick and raise the dead and turn water into wine — or at least perform the metaphorical equivalent of those magical acts. Especially when the pressure is on, you have the power to attract the help of mysterious forces and unexpected interventions. I love that about you! When people around you are rendered fuzzy and inert by life’s puzzling riddles, you are often the best hope for activating constructive responses. According to my analysis of upcoming cosmic trends, these skills will be in high demand during the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Some astrologers regard the planet Saturn as a sour tyrant that cramps our style and squelches our freedom. But here’s my hypothesis: Behind Saturn’s austere mask is a benevolent teacher and guide. She pressures us to focus and concentrate. She pushes us to harness and discipline our unique gifts. It’s true that some people resist these cosmic nudges. They prefer to meander all over the place, trying out roles they’re not suited for and indulging in the perverse luxury of neglecting their deepest desires. For them Saturn seems like a dour taskmaster, spoiling their lazy fun. I trust that you Sagittarians will develop a dynamic relationship with Saturn as she cruises through your sign for the next 26 months. With her help, you can deepen your devotion to your life’s most crucial goals.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

The coming weeks will be a favorable time to break a spell you’ve been under, or shatter an illusion you have been caught up in, or burst free from a trance you have felt powerless to escape. If you are moved to seek help from a shaman, witch or therapist, please do so. But I bet you could accomplish the feat all by yourself. Trust your hunches! Here’s one approach you could try: Tap into both your primal anger and your primal joy. In your mind’s eye, envision situations that tempt you to hate life and envision situations that inspire you to love life. With this volatile blend as your fuel, you can explode the hold of the spell, illusion, or trance.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.” So advised author Ray Bradbury. That strategy is too nerve-wracking for a cautious person like me. I prefer to meticulously build and thoroughly test my wings before trying a quantum leap. But I have observed that Aquarius is one of the three signs of the zodiac most likely to succeed with this approach. And according to my astrological calculations, the coming weeks will be a time when your talent for building robust wings in mid-air will be even more effective than usual.

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asked your roommate not to fuck your FWB in your absence despite having already invited her to fuck him in your presence and your roommate went ahead and fucked your FWB anyway (violation #1), and you told your FWB that a threesome with your roommate without prior discussion was a misdemeanor so he should’ve known that initiating a twosome with your roommate would be a felony but he went ahead and twosomed the shit out of your roommate anyway (violation #2). Taking your questions one at a time: Can you continue being friends with your FWB? That depends on what your roommate means by “work.” If she means your FWB overcame her initial reluctance to fuck him solo with some flirty talk and assurances that you wouldn’t mind, then, yeah, you can continue to be friends with your FWB. People have managed to salvage friendships out of relationships that imploded much more spectacularly, BFF. If someone can get past an infidelity or a betrayal or a child conceived with a piece-on-the-side and remain on friendly terms with their cheating, lying, breeding ex, you should be able to work through this. But if what your roommate means by “work” is that your FWB coerced her into having sex, you shouldn’t want to salvage a friendship with that rapey POS. Do you need to break off your friendship with your FWB because you’ve realized you want something more from him, i.e., a committed relationship? Someone in a FWB arrangement wanting to be more than friends — boyfriend or girlfriend or nonbina-

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ryfriend — is the leading cause of death for FWB arrangements. And while normally the friend who wants to keep things casual is the one who ends the arrangement, BFF, if you want more and you know he can’t give it to you, or if you fear you can’t trust him around current and future roommates, then feel free to end it. But if you really like him — despite the violation and, emphasizing this again, only if the “work” he did on your roommate wasn’t coercive or rapey — then go ahead and ask him to upgrade your FWB arrangement to GF/BF relationship. What can your FWB do to mend this? He can apologize to you and your roommate and toss his dick around more considerately in the future. What can you do? You can try to see this for what it was: Two people who’d already fucked — two people who fucked in front of you at your invitation — got drunk and fucked again. You can choose to see that encounter as a violation that requires drastic retaliatory measures (friendships ended, leases broken), BFF, or you can choose to see it as the messy denouement of an ill-advised/ rushed threesome that you set in motion. Dear Dan: What does it mean when you find a pair of tit clamps in your “vanilla” boyfriend’s dresser? — Told Him I’m Not Kinky Dear THINK: It means he’s the pope — what the fuck do you think it means? It means he owns a pair of tit clamps. It could mean he’s slightly less vanilla than he’s let on, THINK, or it could mean he has a kinky ex who left a pair of tit clamps behind, or it could mean he got a pair of tit clamps as a dirty Secret Santa gift and isn’t phobic about being perceived as even slightly

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