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No space for refugee children in consulates

As a visitor to Boulder I’d have never imagined writing to the local newspaper but can’t let Mr. McCarthy’s letter [“An army of refugee children,” Letters, Aug. 21] go without comment.

The basic premise of his letter, that if the children were “true refugees they would have found refuge at the

American Consulates in their home country” is so wrong, that I was inclined to laugh.

Mr. McCarthy is clearly clueless about the size of the countries, the locations of the American Consulates, and the very rigorous security at these consulates. While it’s quite possible that a few children might make it to the consulate, it’s pretty certain that

almost none would make it through security to apply for refugee status.

Even if 50,000 children got there, what would Mr. McCarthy have the consulates do? Keep them on site? Ship them back to the USA (for free?) or tell them “Hey, too bad, go home”?

While the subject of refugee status see LETTERS Page 10

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Highroad Burger King pulls a Whopper on us

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urger King, the fast food giant, bills itself as “Home of the Whopper,” a name intended to convey to burger eaters that this one is jumbo, chockfull and a whale of a deal. But “whopper” also means a prevarication, a crock, flim flam, a tall tale — ie, hogwash.

Both meanings apply to Burger King’s current effort to take over Tim Hortons, a Canadian coffee-and-donut chain. The $10 billion price certainly is

a whopper — the most ever paid to buy out a fast-food purveyor. And the deal would result in a mondo corporation, with 18,000 restaurants in 100 countries, making about $22 billion in annual sales.

But the deal is also a whopper in that it’s based on a fabrication, a scam, a con. While Burger King’s CEO, Daniel Schwartz, offers some credible business reasons for the combine, what he doesn’t want BK’s American customer’s to know is that the clincher in the deal is that it provides a huge tax dodge for his corporation. In U.S. tax law, something called an “inversion” (actually, a perversion of law) is a loophole allowing an American corporation that merges with a foreign one to reincorporate in the foreign country — and dodge its tax responsibilities to our nation.

Schwartz intends to do just that, renouncing Burger King’s U.S. citizen-

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ship so it can get a lower tax rate as a Canadian citizen. Schwartz & Company would still be headquartered in Miami, Burger King would still haul in billions of dollars in sales from its U.S. outlets, and top executives would still enjoy all the benefits that the USA affords them — but without putting a corporate dime into our national treasury.

Why should we buy this whopper?

There are plenty of burger stands — why put your dollars in the one that says it doesn’t want to be a U.S. citizen? If Burger King won’t support America, American’s shouldn’t support it.

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commentary Why Nicaraguan kids aren’t fleeing

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hile many kids from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras flee to the United States, few children from neighboring Nicaragua do. Nicaragua is poor like those nations, but it lacks what experts consider to be the main cause for the migration: high crime and violence. El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras have corrupt and oppressive security forces, while Nicaragua’s police and military were totally transformed after the Sandinista revolutionaries overthrew the Somoza family dynasty in 1979.

Today, Nicaragua is the second safest country in Latin America, according to the United Nations.

Nicaraguan National Police Commissioner Fernando Borge said their law enforcement agencies have a “community policing” approach which he describes as “a model of shared responsibility, that of person-familycommunity.” They are active in identifying and helping at-risk youth.

Even the U.S. government is impressed and is now recommending a version of “community policing” in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras as part of the solution to the child migrant crisis. But can this model work in those countries without more fundamental change? After all, Nicaragua had a social revolution.

It is ironic that the U.S. government is looking to the Sandinistas for help.

In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan attempted to depose them by economic strangulation and a large-scale terrorist war. In a TV address, Reagan warned of an invasion of America by Sandinistas. He said they were “just two days’ driving time from Harlingen, Texas.”

Reagan claimed the Sandinistas were going to create a communist oneparty regime. In fact, Nicaragua held a multi-party general election in 1984. A wide variety of rightwing and leftwing parties participated. International observer teams (including the European Economic Community) found no evidence of election fraud. The Sandinistas won 67 percent of the vote.

The international development organization Oxfam stated that from its experience in working in 76 developing countries, “Nicaragua was ... exceptional 8 September 4, 2014

in the strength of that government’s commitment... to improving the condition of the people and encouraging their active participation in the development process.”

In 1986, Nicaragua appealed to the International Court of Justice in The Hague to end U.S. efforts to destabilize its government. The court ruled in its favor, ordering America to end its interventionist policy and to pay massive reparations to Nicaragua. Reagan immediately rejected the ruling. In 1987, the UN General Assembly called on the U.S. to comply with the court’s ruling. Reagan continued to ignore the ruling. The UN repeated its demand the following year.

In 1990, the Sandinistas were voted out. Then there would be 16 years of relative peace and rightwing economic policies of privatization and dismantling of social programs. In 2006, the Sandinistas would be voted back to power and re-elected in 2012.

Back in the 1980s, many Boulderites protested against the Reagan administration’s war against the Sandinista government as well as his support of brutal military dictatorships in El Salvador and Guatemala.

In 1984, Boulder became a sister city of Jalapa, Nicaragua. The Friendship City Project (FCP) has built several gravity-fed potable water projects, constructed two preschools, a primary school and a high school, supported a women’s sewing co-op, organized and sponsored a radio program for women’s health issues and donated an ambulance in the Jalapa Valley.

Greg Bowles has been working in Nicaragua for 14 years for the FCP as well as a Gettysburg, Penn., sister city project in the city of Leon. I interviewed him via email.

Bowles dislikes President Daniel Ortega, who has turned the Sandinista party into his own “private political machine” but “his government has managed to improve the quality of life in the country for its poorest citizens.”

He says, “there are no political prisoners. Both daily newspapers despise Ortega and show it in every word they write about him, and yet there is not even a hint of closing them down.” see NICARAGUAN KIDS Page 10

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Department of Agriculture, So where are the victims? in 2014 94 percent of U.S. To hear the nation’s anti-GMO soybeans, 93 percent of corn activists tell it, you would think that the and 90 percent of cotton aisles of our nation’s supermarkets will be produced from genetically mod- would be choked with corpses, that ified plants. most of the nation’s farmers and their So are 95 percent of U.S. sugar families would have one foot in the beets. About 55 grave, that the percent of U.S. country’s cows, pigs sugar production and chickens, comes from sugar which consume beets. most of its corn NATION’S ANTI-GMO What’s more, and soybeans, substantial would be dying or ACTIVISTS TELL IT, amounts of GMO dead in their pens YOU’D THINK THAT THE (genetically modiand coops. fied organism) But none of AISLES OF corn, cotton, and those things have SUPERMARKETS WOULD happened. soybeans have been grown and What has hapBE CHOKED WITH consumed in the pened is that CORPSES. U.S. for the last 14 American farmers years. In 2000, are harvesting about a quarter of record crops this U.S. corn and more year. than 50 percent of U.S. soybeans This year’s corn crop is expected to and cotton were produced from GMO exceed 14 billion bushels, with a yield varieties. of 167.4 bushels per acre — both new According to the anti-GMO all-time records.

Center for Food Safety, “It has been Ditto for soybeans. The 2014 crop estimated that upwards of 75 percent of is expected to surpass 3.8 billion bushprocessed foods on supermarket shelves els, with a yield of 45.4 bushels per acre — from soda to soup, crackers to consee DANISH PLAN Page 11 diments — contain genetically engi-

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is a complex one, and the abuse of said status to gain entry to the USA one that deserves protection. The fate of even 100,000 children shouldn’t be beyond the wit and wisdom of one of the biggest and richest countries on the planet. After all, it’s not the millions that have been displaced and are living across the border in the Middle East and Africa, often as a result of U.S. policy.

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Energy Future, and Amory Lovins’ Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era, he might shift his energies from urging us to love his fracking oilman profiting from new fracking technologies to exposing business waste and political power that are major obstacles to global independence from fossil fuels.

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While I laud the notion of wilderness set asides for all the reasons mentioned in your article [Re: “Growing wilder,” Boulderganic, Aug. 28], I don’t understand why mountain bikes are lumped in with motor vehicles.

Several trail studies have been done that find very little difference in trail impacts between mountain biking and hiking and more studies are always welcome.

All of the reasons that Bill Ikler states for loving the spiritual side of being in wilderness are the exact reason I love backcountry mountain biking. I think many see mountain bikers as Mountain Dew swilling adrenaline freaks, but those of us who would venture into the long, back country trails are in pursuit of a spiritual high, not an adrenaline high.

I feel that the wilderness movement could gain the backing of the ever growing mountain biking community to protect more land from true motorized use and development if we could come to agreement on this issue. We shouldn’t be opponents, we should be allies in this fight.

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I agree with Paul Danish [Re: “No blood for oil,” Danish Plan, Aug. 21] that ending national dependence on foreign fossil fuels is desirable (21 August, pp. 8-11). But, as I put down his article to rush out and find a “fracking oilman” to hug for increasing domestic supply, I stopped and asked myself, “Won’t decreasing demand end our dependence without increasing supply? The answer is yes.

Three government policies could decrease demand — one unpopular with the public and two unpopular with vested interests. The Federal Government could ration gas and electric appliances to make the public consume less. It could stop subsidizing fossil fuels and launch massive subsidies for renewables. And it could force energy extracting and using industries to eliminate the massive waste and inefficiencies of businessas-usual practices. The best policy is reducing demand by raising efficiency.

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Bowles adds that “even if many Sandinistas are disillusioned with the party and Ortega, many of them also know that whatever the failings of the revolution or the current-day government, more people were given hopes and dreams due to that revolution than anywhere else in Central America, where the goal was simply to crush any hopes, usually with U.S. help through military aid.”

If there is hope, people don’t leave.

They stay to fight for a better life.

If you are interested in more information on Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal is one of the speakers at this year’s America’s Latino Eco-Festival that starts on September 11. Cardenal

was born in 1925 in Nicaragua and attended both the University of Mexico and Columbia University in New York. He is a former Catholic priest who studied in Kentucky with the scholar, poet, and Trappist monk Thomas Merton, Cardenal has been involved in the tumultuous political scene in Nicaragua, and Central America generally, since the 1960s.

He was the Minister of Culture in Nicaragua from 1979-1988. Cardenal continues to be a political figure both in Nicaragua and abroad.

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— both new national records.

(Cotton production also set an alltime record, but per acre yield was down, probably due to drought in Texas and California.)

Thanks to versions of crops to which a gene from Bacillus thuringiensis has been added, a bacillus that occurs naturally in soil and is toxic to insect pests but not humans and livestock, U.S. farmers who plant BT corn, soybeans and cotton are applying about 40 percent less chemical insecticides (which are toxic to humans) to their crops.

Farmers who plant “Roundup Ready” crops — crops engineered to be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer — don’t have to plough as frequently for weed control.

Low-til agriculture conserves water and top-soil.

In other words, genetic engineering is helping American farmers produce bumper crops with a paucity of collateral damage.

However 14 years of benign and beneficial experience with GMO crops hasn’t stopped anti-GMO activists from claiming that GMO crops are a ticking time-bomb and that the only reason the truth hasn’t come out is that Monsanto and other companies have paid off scientists — thousands of them — to skew their studies, and pressured politicians to approve their seeds.

And that GMO crops of any kind shouldn’t be planted until they have been proved completely safe or hell freezes over, whichever comes last.

And that there are millions and millions of victims out there. Somewhere.

Well it may not be a double blind study, but the fact that tens of millions of Americans have been eating GMO food for 14 years with no discernible ill effects constitutes pretty compelling evidence that GMO food is a safe as any other food.

Don’t think so? Where are the victims?

In November, Colorado will vote on a ballot proposal that would require disclosure labels on food with GMO ingredients in it.

National anti-GMO activists are quite open about what they hope to accomplish with labeling initiatives.

Consumer choice isn’t their first priority.

“If we have it labeled, then we can organize people not to buy it,” says the Center for Food Safety head Andrew Kimbrell.

“GM foods must be banned entirely, but labeling is the most efficient way to achieve this,” says Joseph Mercola, who has made his pile by selling natural products over the web.

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In short, they want to do to GMO crops what the anti-nuclear power movement did to nuclear power — emasculate it.

The upshot of the anti-nuclear power movement was a huge increase in the use of coal to generate electric power and a massive increase in CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. The consequences of banning GMO crops could be far more lethal and evil, however.

Genetic engineering companies like

the routinely libeled Monsanto are currently preparing to introduce droughtresistant varieties of corn and other field crops. If anticipated global warming results in anything like the drought conditions that climate models are predicting, and if the planet’s populations keeps increasing by about 80 million a year, those crops will be crucial to preventing killer famines.

Fighting climate change is voluntary. Adapting to climate change is

mandatory. Quickly developing and introducing crops that can thrive in more extreme conditions like hotter summers and drought is a core survival strategy, and one that is far too important to the future well-being of both the country and the planet to be left to a bunch of thinly greenwashed food cranks.

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ISIS MURDERS ANOTHER JOURNALIST ISIS, an Islamic militant group that now controls lands in Syria and Iraq, has brutally murdered another journalist. Steven J. Sotloff, 31, was taken hostage by militants shortly after he crossed into northern Syria approximately one year ago.

The freelance journalist who covered conflicts for numerous news organizations including Time and Foreign Policy was handed over to ISIS at some point after his capture and was not seen again until he appeared in a video alongside fellow journalist James Foley two weeks ago. That video went on to show conflict journalist Foley being beheaded by an ISIS militant. Sotloff was also A screencap from the ISIS video showing the murder of beheaded.

Steven J. Sotloff.

ISIS claims that it is holding a third journalist, a British citizen, and is threatening to murder him as well if the U.S. does not end its airstrikes against the militants. The Obama administration has stated that the murders will not deter its attacks on the Islamic militants.

Sotloff was the 34th journalist killed so far in 2014 while reporting.

A REASON TO WALK ON 9/11 There’s a lot to remember on 9/11 this year. It is the one-year anniversary of the flood that devastated Boulder County and of course the date that will forever be associated with the World Trade Center tragedy that birthed two wars that are still being fought to this day.

But a non-political event sponsored by the Lemon Tree Group and the Interfaith Community of Boulder is out to remember something else: these tragedies also taught us that we live in a county that is inclusive, kind, and tolerant of diverse ways of thinking and believing, and that is worth celebrating.

In order to remember our difficulties while embracing all the good that has come from them as a community, everyone is being invited to participate in an evening of peace and recognition of our interdependence beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.

The following is the schedule of the evening’s events as posted on Lemon Tree Group’s Facebook page: • 4:30 p.m.: Meet in the Boulder Islamic Center Parking Lot located at 5495 Baseline Road.

• 5:15 p.m.: Participants will walk together to Congregation Har Hashem at 3950 Baseline Road.

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• 6:15 p.m.: After walking a short distance to St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, which is located at 3700 Baseline Road, vehicles will depart for the Boulder Court House.

• 6:45 p.m.: Meet in front of the Boulder Court House in the 1300 block on the Pearl Street Mall.

• 7:15 p.m.: Ceremony of Commemoration with Faith and Civic Leaders along with musicians and the community.

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news A new shade of green Americas Latino Eco-Festival is a six-day CONFERENCE for people of every color

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ote to Boulder County citizens resilience. who care about the environ“Reconnecting with our ‘Green’ legment: the Americas Latino acy and infusing the shifting demoEco-Festival is not an event graphics of the North with the ecologiintended solely or even primar- cal legacy of the South is the new shade ily for Latino audiences. While the fes- of green.” tival is hosted by some of the most When current demographic trends respected and well-known leaders of described in the festival’s mission statethe global Latino community when it ment are considered, it becomes clear comes to the why brownarts, sciences, ing the green environmental movement is activism and essential to public policy its success at creation, it is every level. hosted for the Latinos benefit of in the United everyone who States tend cares about to live in the future of places with our planet and greater envibelieves that ronmental each of us, problems, regardless of such as high the color of levels of our skin or ground level where we live, ozone. has the right to clean air Nearly half and clean of all Latinos water. live in counThis cartoon by Alex Falco of Cuba is one of many The botties with such works which be featured at the Americas Latino Eco-Festival. tom line is above average that the green ozone that movement needs to get a lot more can be life threatening to those with brown sooner rather than later, or else asthma and other breathing disorders. stopping global warming and creating As a result, Latinos are three times as environmental justice for all peoples likely as whites to have an asthma simply isn’t going to happen. The mesattack requiring a trip to the emergency sage of this year’s festival as presented room. in its mission statement puts it sucGlobally, 80 percent of Latinos live cinctly: in areas which fail to achieve EPA air“Mother Earth has been the backquality standards. That’s 15 percent bone of the indigenous peoples of the higher than the African American pophemisphere for more than 20,000 years. ulation and 33 percent higher than for Today it still drives the spirit of the whites.

Americas of the South. Latin In only seven years, more than half Americans have ‘nature’ in their genes of all Colorado high school students and it resonates in their religions, their will be Latino, a full third of Denver social structures, their agricultural prac- County’s population will be Latino and tices, and their arts and crafts. even 24 percent of Boulder residents Reverence for Mother Earth and what under the age of 18 will likewise be we now call ecosystems and ecology is Latinos. In less than 50 years, Latinos not a recent achievement but an organizing metaphor for daily survival and See LATINO ECO-FEST Page 14 Boulder Weekly

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will make up more than 30 percent of the entire U.S. population. And as a matter of global perspective, almost 70 percent of the total population of North and South America are Latinos.

Despite such facts and figures, Latinos have been largely left out of North America’s organized environmental movement. Common sense says it’s hard to change the environmental direction of a hemisphere if 70 percent of the population isn’t represented at the negotiating table.

And it’s not just any 70 percent. It’s the 70 percent most impacted by global warming and toxic polluters and the 70 percent who are already living more sustainable lifestyles connected to the Earth. Such an oversight is a recipe for failure.

Consider this warning from the festival’s website; “If conservation initiatives do not become relevant to our cities, engage with Latino youth and diverse communities in general, our ability to shape the future of our planet will be undermined.

“The Latino community in the

United States, vibrant, young and enthusiastic, is fundamental to the development and prosperity of our country. We want to be direct participants contributing with ideas, examples, inventions and resolutions in favor of the environment.”

Considering the current, corporatesponsored state of most national environmental organizations, which are increasingly at odds with grassroots environmental activists fighting toxins in their own backyards, inclusion of the Latino perspective could be just what the doctor ordered when it comes to the health of the planet.

This is why Boulder County is so fortunate to have been chosen as the location for the Americas Latino EcoFestival. It gives local environmentalists a seat at the table where the future of the planet will be shaped. It is both a privilege and a challenge.

This year’s festival includes a wide variety of speakers and panelists such as actor/activists Edward James Olmos and Ed Begley, Jr., along with other speakers such as Bianca Jagger and

Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Some of the world’s best-known Latino artists, poets, writers, musicians, dancers and filmmakers will be present as well as inspiring grassroots environmental activists from around the world such as Juan Pablo Orrego, a Chilean environmentalist who won a Goldman Environmental Prize in 1997 for his fight against a series of dams on the Biobío River.

With dozens of inspiring and enlightening panel discussions, presentations, readings and talks sprinkled throughout this six-day festival, the largest of its kind in the world, there is surely something of substance and interest for everyone.

This year’s second annual ALEF will also be partnering with Boulder Green Streets on Sunday, Sept. 14, for its annual Boulder Ciclovia, the oneday, car-free, environmental festival that allows bicycle and foot traffic to take over miles of Boulder’s streets for the day. Attendees on Sunday will find miles of car-free streets filled with live music, healthy foods, exhibits, local products for healthy living, along with many free workshops, classes and demonstrations, including some affiliated with ALEF. Boulder County residents understand

that time is running out for our planet.

We need to live in a sustainable way or we will cease to live at all. That is why BW has dedicated much of this week’s issue to the Americas Latino EcoFestival. We believe that, over time, this festival can play a pivotal role in bringing more Latinos into an organized and politically powerful grassroots-oriented environmental movement. We think that incorporating the tens of millions of Latinos living in this country and those living in communities from here to Cape Horn will revitalize the environmental movement in many important ways. We also believe that there are many valuable lessons that Latinos throughout our hemisphere can teach all of us when it comes to sustainability and living in harmony with our environment.

And lastly, we don’t believe that we can win the fight against global warming and create a world where everyone has the right to clean air and clean water without working together with 70 percent of the Americas’ population.

And we need to win.

We hope you enjoy our coverage of this important event and encourage all of you, our readers, to make this festival a success by way of your attendance and participation.

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Ending the campaign of disinformation Americas Latino Eco-Festival leader is on a mission to brown the green movement

By Caitlin Rockett Courtesy of Irene Vilar

Irene Vilar, founder and director of the Americas Latino Eco-Festival

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he woman behind Americas Latino Eco-Festival isn’t your typical environmentalist. Irene Vilar is not rallying citizens with battle cries over a megaphone or leading large-scale petition initiatives. The Puerto Rican-born writer and publisher’s environmentalism comes from a different place — a “quiet activism,” she calls it, “always searching for meaning regarding identities and the fluidity of identities.”

But it’s difficult to look at Vilar’s career and describe it as “quiet.” In fact, simply meeting Vilar is a flurry of warm greetings, hugs and candid conversation. Her life, quite literally, is an open book.

Her two memoirs — The Ladies’ Gallery and Impossible Motherhood — have received domestic and international attention for their critical look at

social and political history. Her work examines how self-destructive patterns get transmitted from generation to generation.

“I look at everything from the perspective of psychohistory … it puts the ball back on people — it says it’s not history that makes us, but that we make history, and what particularly of us makes history are our group fantasies, our delusional fantasies, our childhood dramas. It is from that intimate place that we create history,” Vilar says.

And the Americas Latino EcoFestival is Vilar’s answer to what she calls a “campaign of disinformation” about the history, the very perception of Latino Americans and their place in the U.S. environmental movement.

“The festival was born last year as the first multicultural environmental festival hosted by Latino Americans.

This is a Latino festival, but it’s not just for Latinos,” Vilar clarifies. “Why hosted by us? Because the call to action for the future in terms of the environment resides in [Latino Americans].

We are the shifting majority. In six years, 52 percent of high schoolers in Colorado will be Hispanic. We cannot be the problem — we are the solution.

And the U.S., it has for long been brown. That’s why we call it a new shade of green. But the media keeps telling people that [the environmental movement] is not brown, it is not multicultural. [The U.S.], from its origins, is a multicultural society, but we have been brainwashed that it is not” Vilar points to a perfectly timed illustration of her frustrations, a report by the University of Michigan-based See CAMPAIGN Page 15

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Dorceta Taylor. Taylor’s believe in global warming “Green 2.0” report examines while only 60 percent of surwhy, despite decades of promveyed whites said they ises to diversify, mainstream believe. environmental organizations Vilar is also the founder are still white. Vilar says that of The Americas for many environmental organizaConservation and the Arts, a tions claim that the problem nonprofit group that promotes educational initiatives lies in a lack of nonwhite for Latinos. The Americas leaders.

Latino-Eco Festival is one “Total fallacy,” says Vilar. such initiative, and to Vilar, “The leaders are there. There’s the festival’s mission is far something to be said about all larger than simply discussing these big conservation organizations, billionaire organizaVilar says that the people of Boulder and the city’s sustainable environmental issues.

“We suffer the most from tions, and they have no line in culture were inspirations for the Americas Latino Eco-Festival. climate change. Most of our their budget dedicated to outconstituencies are migrant workers, reach and inclusion.”

“It’s finally happening because all they work outdoors in construction and But Vilar says that things are these polls are coming out and proving agriculture,” she says.

“They disproporchanging with some key environmental that Latino Americans are not only the tionally suffer from poor air quality. organizations such as the Sierra Club, fastest growing consumer group, but Our children suffer from asthma and the National Resource Defense also the greenest.” She points to a are hospitalized 50 percent more than Council and the League of National Resource Defense Council white children.”

Conservation Voters. study showing 93 percent of Latinos

Latino immigrants change cities from the inside out

But culturally, says Vilar, Latino Americans are poised to make a change.

“Culturally we have values that are attached to ‘madre teirre,’ Mother Earth.

‘Pachamama’ is a part of our mythology.

When you have societies where Mother Earth is still very central, that impacts the overall trends of how people perceive their own responsibility towards sustainability,” says Vilar. “So the invisibility [of nonwhites in the environmental movement] … the [message that the] problem is that we’re not environmentally aware or don’t care, that’s all a lie. So instead of saying, ‘You know we have to teach you, all Latin Americans being born with this culture,’ it’s more, ‘We have to remind you of your legacy.’ Empower them.

Validate them. You empower communities here, but you reconnect them with cultural origins by telling them there’s a long legacy to tap from.”

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hen Latinos move to the U.S., they bring with them their own beliefs, their own food, their own community.

Integrating that amalgam of culture and opportunity into the American cityscape is what city planner James Rojas is trying to do.

Raised in “one of the oldest barrios in the country” in east Los Angeles, Rojas eventually found himself at Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying urban planning. He says discussions there focused on “good cities and bad cities,” but that there was a severe lack of understanding about the Latino community and how it contributes to American cities.

Now, Rojas runs the Latino Urban Forum, a group dedicated to improving and integrating Latino communities into cities and towns across the country. He’ll be presenting “Latino Urbanism” at this year’s Americas Latino Eco-Festival at 11 a.m.on Boulder Weekly

Sunday, Sept. 14.

Rojas says Latino immigrants are changing American culture from the inside of its cities outwards. Latinos bring with them from their home countries everything from colored murals to food carts to walkable neighborhoods.

Rojas says the transition has been underway for years.

“It’s happening now informally,” Rojas says.

“One of the really important issues is how Latinos use front lawns.

A lot of Latinos turn their yard into a plaza, reminiscent of a plaza in Central American cities.

They use it more as a social use.”

The issue for many Latinos, of which the lawn-as-plaza trend is evidence, is that American cities are slow to change and adapt regulation that supports these neighborhoods.

Rojas says it’s “hard to change anything in the urban planning process” due to regulation. For instance, many immigrants illegally live in garages in

The Latino environmental movement is largely based in that D.I.Y. mentality and so planning for Latino communities to grow organically is critical to the environmental movement as a whole.

“People are changing Urban planner James Rojas says Latino immigrants are reshaping American cities and suburbs with new cultur- their communities to al attitudes and traditions. make them more sustainable. Latinos are planting Los Angeles because there is a demand corn and gardens in their front yard,” for housing. But because their living says Rojas, which he says is not typical situation is not typical in American of many American households.

One of the issues Latinos face is society, it’s difficult to find common that they are often forced to move to ground with regulators and begin to areas with poor air and water quality, make those communities safer and like urban centers and industrial zones, more accommodating to Latino combecause that’s all they can afford as munities. And because these changes in community norms “changes America to immigrants. Because the areas are in something different,” there will be disrepair, Latinos take the issue into pushback and misunderstanding from their own hands, by and large, and community leaders, Rojas says. work to beautify and clean their comThere is a strong “do-it-yourself ” munities. mentality in the Latino community, “It makes people integrate into the Rojas says, and getting by these regula- neighborhood. A lot of Latinos move tory hurdles to allow that cultural indi- to those areas because the rent’s cheaper viduality to flourish is part of his goal See IMMIGRANTS Page 16 as an urban planner.

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and nobody else moves there. They’ll start to organize and campaign and clean these areas up. The park movement in L.A. is very much based by Latino movement because [Latinos] live in these areas,” says Rojas.

In fact, Latinos are even gaining employment out of these communities in everything from landscaping to community organizing to construction due in no small part to their initiative and sense of local responsibility, Rojas says.

This mindset that your city or community can change dramatically based on the work you put into it is distinctly Latino, Rojas says — “They do it sub-

consciously” — and with continued Latino urbanization, that idea will spread throughout the country to all communities, instilling the ability for everyone to take part in managing their community. At least that’s the thought.

“It’s important to get people involved,” Rojas says. “It’s important for people to know the environment around them and that people have a role in shaping it.”

For more information on Rojas or Latino urban development, visit www.

PlaceIt.org. His presentation on Sunday will be at The Dairy Center and admission is free.

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A lifestyle worth sustaining Two Brazilian-born architects showcase some of Latin America’s most sustainable communities

by Caitlin Rockett

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o Carmen Vidal-Hallet, an architect and urban planner based in Chicago, a sustainable city revolves around the community.

“To me, what makes a sustainable community is a combination of working with professionals that deeply understand the subject, and the community. Without the community, nothing ever happens,” she says.

On Sunday, Sept. 14, Vidal-Hallet will join New York-based architect Leticia Wouk Almino for a presentation on the best sustainable practices in Latino communities across the Americas, providing examples from Brazil, Colombia and Chicago.

Both women are well-suited to the task. Vidal-Hallet was born in Brazil and spent the first 10 years of her life moving from Brazil to Spain to Venezuela and finally back to Brazil.

“I was there in Sao Pãulo until college ... Sao Pãulo is crazy — traffic is horrendous. It’s so difficult to be there, and even though I am from Sao Pãulo and I wanted to help, I didn’t want to live there,” Vidal-Hallet admits. “My parents moved for a while to Curitiba while I was in college and I saw that place as paradise. That’s how any city should be.”

The Brazilian city of more than 1.7 million people opened the world’s first bus rapid transit system in 1974, creating a citywide shift from individual car travel to mass transit. Curitiba uses

about 30 percent less fuel per capita than other Brazilian cities of similar size.

Vidal-Hallet says that it was about 10 years ago, while she was working with former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, that she started researching sustainable communities in Brazil.

“Mayor Daley wanted Chicago to be one of the most sustainable cities in the U.S. and I thought, why not to get inspired by my own culture and the city of Curitiba in Brazil,” she says.

She and her husband used a Graham Foundation grant to travel to Curitiba to complete a multimedia comparison between Curitiba and Chicago.

“I’ve studied [Curitiba] since I was in college in Brazil and I went there looking for the specifics of what I remembered, but we found a lot more,” says Vidal-Hallet. “[Curitiba] is famous for the most rapid transit, and that is the core of sustainable cities — you want people to use mass transportation rather than their own car. How could that be translated into other American cities? We also looked into how they recycle and how they use land or zoning as one of the tools to preserve historic architecture, or even to get open space for everyone and to also create affordable housing. All those are the main components of a sustainable urban plan.”

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But Vidal-Hallet says that perhaps the most important element to creating a sustainable city involves the environmental education of the community.

“You go to the school and you start with [children] and they bring then the priorities to their parents, and the children are the most important thing to their parents and that’s how you get to the parents,” she says. “I believe in youth and the community to help us do that, to transform a city.”

She also believes that pieces of Hispanic culture fit perfectly with the type of culture that sustainable communities promote.

“I find it interesting in the Latino community that we have life on the streets — walking, playing dominos on the sidewalk,” Vidal-Hallet says.

“Those little activities on the streets show you how the communities live, and as a urbanist and architect we want to promote that kind of life that transforms the city.”

“Try to remember walking in front of a big-box retail store as opposed to walking on a street full of little vendors,” Vidal-Hallet asks. “If you think about the distance, you’re going to feel so much more tired walking in a parking lot than walking through an area filled with smaller stores — the mind, the body are all engaged. You don’t even notice you’re doing the exercise.

That’s how the environment of Latino communities is.”

And here is where Leticia Wouk Almino’s expertise comes into play.

Since her graduate school days at Yale, Almino has been studying public spaces in capital cities, or former capital cities — how those spaces are successful or not successful at promoting a center for public life. Almino, like Vidal-Hallet, is Brazilian, and has also spent her life moving from city to city.

“This research in a sense is very personal, perhaps even autobiographi-

cal,” Almino says. “I grew up in Brasília; Washington D.C.; San Francisco; Lisbon and London, and I’ve been living in New York and New Haven for the past eight years. So I have spent a lot of time growing up in capital cities of different countries. I’ve essentially grown up living through many case studies.”

Almino says that spending so little time in each city, she’s never had much time to get to know the places, so the idea of walking through the city and experiencing it through the eyes of a visitor has always interested her. Her research looks at public squares in four cities in Portugal and Brazil, with Lisbon as her primary study, then using Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília to show the transformation of public squares across Brazilian capitals. Her investigations focus on how pedestrians arrive in a space and what they experience while they are there.

Almino says that the public square is no longer a welcoming space, and she attributes this, much like VidalHallet, to the introduction of the car.

And again echoing Vidal-Hallet’s sentiments, Almino says that the Latino relationship to the outdoors — the tendency to use the outdoors as a gathering place — is a great basis for a sustainable community.

“Latin Americans in general use the outdoors as an extension of their homes. I think in the U.S. people … like their cars and they like their houses farther away,” says Almino. “It’s much more difficult to meet in the public space. Coming form Brazil, being outdoors is so much more important.”

Presentation information: Sunday, Sept. 4: Best Practices of Latino Sustainable Communities in the Americas: Built environment examples in Brasil, Colômbia and Chicago, Dairy Center for the Arts, East Theater.

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Americans and Why We Are the Asthma, for instance, is twice as likely Solution and Not the Problem,” on in Latino children as it is in white chilSaturday, Sept. 13 at 12 p.m. at The dren, according to an EPA study.

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Environmentalism is a part of Latinos care more about water, air Latino culture and as immigrants conand land conservation, ending tax tinue to build lives in the U.S., a new breaks for oil and gas companies, proera in conservation and eco-maintetecting against wildfires and drought, nance is burgeoning. Many of the panand creating national parks and monuelists in the Sept. 13 discussion come ments, according to several polls and from organizations that help bridge studies including those from the Sierra Latino environmentalism to major local Club and the Latino Sustainability and national policy change and eco iniInstitute. tiatives.

More than half of Latinos see a Mark Magana, president and connection between pollution and pub- founder of the environmental network lic health and three-quarters of all GreenLatinos, has worked in the White Latinos believe climate House and on Capitol change is currently hap- Gracefullyglobal.com Hill to develop legislapening — only half of tion that addresses all Americans believe Latino environmental that. concerns.

The numbers conRod Torrez, director tinue — and will be of HECHO (Hispanics addressed throughout Enjoying Camping, the conference — but Hunting and Outdoors), why do Latinos care will also sit on the panel. more about the environHis organization works ment than others? to build and conserve For starters, clean outdoor recreational energy and conservation areas in order to “continefforts provide jobs for ue centuries-old cultural Author Grace Tiscareno-Sato the Latino community traditions.” HECHO will discuss why Latino enviengages and organizes in the U.S. At nearly 11 ronmentalism with the panel.

Latinos to protect atpercent unemployment, risk land and promote eco-friendly iniLatinos see initiatives like the American Jobs Act and renewable ener- tiatives.

The panel, moderated by Sierra Club gy legislation as opportunities for gainnationally syndicated columnist Javier ful employment. In fact, three out of Sierra, will also include Jennifer Allen, four Latinos believe renewable energy the former Latino Outreach Program can bring immediate jobs to their community — a much more optimistic view director at the League of Conservation Voters; Pati Romero Lankao, deputy than other U.S. populations. director of the Institute for the Study of Latinos also have deep conviction Society and Environment; Adrianna that acting as environmental stewards is Quintero, National Resources Defense part of their moral duty. More than 92 Council senior attorney; and Grace percent of Latinos polled in a Sierra Tiscareno-Sato, author of Latinnovating: Club study said they “have a moral Green American Jobs and the Latinos responsibility to take care of God’s creCreating Them. ations on this earth — the wilderness Tiscareno-Sato travels around the and forests, the oceans, lakes and rivers.” country speaking in schools and busiRecreational opportunities also facnesses about the opportunities available tor into Latinos’ view of the environto the Latino community — and to ment — 94 percent of Latinos say that businesses looking toward new ventures outdoor activities like fishing, picnics, — due to the fact that there is great camping and visiting national parks are interest amongst the Latino community important to them and their families. in environmentalism and that they are Many of these activities are connected perhaps the most prepared group in the to deeply rooted traditions that Latino country to be environmental entreprefamilies bring with them to the U.S. neurs, business leaders, teachers and Lastly, personal health is a big issue innovators. for Latinos. Latino immigrants often The panel will ultimately consider have to live in urban centers or near what real effect the Latino community industrial complexes — often the only can have on issues related to air and places where families new to the counwater quality, conservation, climate try can afford to live. This puts Latinos change and clean energy within the up against poor air and water quality, next four years. lack of access to recreational facilities Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com and increased risk of chronic illness.

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f Boulder Creek dried up, “The river literally flushed and the bridge on Broadway that out, and brought this wholespanned nothing but an some, healthy experience,” empty stretch of sand, and it Figueroa says. stayed that way for decades, Pitt was there for two weeks eventually people would forget to watch as children who had what it had meant to see a stream never seen the Colorado River running there. To have place to running through their town were put feet in the water, a green bank brought out to see it, and elders on which to sit, a surge to seed who remembered the river before the cottonwoods and willows it began to shrivel up and dry out downstream, an exhale from the in the 1960s were brought to see mountains when the snow it and remember that past. A unpacks itself into melt water month later, photos showed that each spring. there were taco stands, live music That’s the way it has been in and a ferris wheel alongside the San Luis Rio Colorado — a city river, and boats floating in it. in Mexico of about 160,000 peoThey were still celebrating its ple named for the Colorado River return. that hasn’t seen a consistently wet “When I was down there for riverbed since the 1960s. In that pulse flow, the song that kept March, the Morelos Dam near going through my head was, ‘You the U.S.-Mexico border made a don’t know what you got ’til it’s unique and deliberate release of gone,’ but in some ways, when Local community groups and student groups volunteer at restoration sites along the Colorado River water. The so-called pulse flow something’s gone for a really long to plant cottonwood and willow tree seedlings. was .7 percent of the annual flow time, and you get decades into it, of the Colorado River — a fracpeople kind of get used to the Environmental Defense Fund, one of river has been 16 inches wide and 6 tional imitation of the spring runoff the parties instrumental in orchestratinches deep, and you have three genera- absence. Like, the kids had no memory floods the river saw for eons — but for of a river,” Pitt says. “But then, if it ing the bi-national agreement between tions of people, that’s what they’ve had a few weeks, it brought water back to a Mexico and the U.S. to allow for this since 1960, a river that’s 16 inches wide reappears for a moment, you get this river city without a river. glimpse of what could be. I think a lot flow of water. and 6 inches deep, then suddenly you The people threw a party. of people got a little glimmer of what a “We’re talking about a bed of the have a river that’s 200 feet wide and 16 “People really turned out for it, I restored river could look like, and so I river about 200 feet from bank to bank, feet deep,” says Jorge Figueroa of think because they knew it was being the bed of the river is virtually just Western Resource Advocates, who went think it’s in that that we have a real hope for long-term progress in this sent there deliberately to see the good sand, and it has been like that since down to document the pulse flow. area.” that it could do, and also because it 1960, with some exceptions of water Before the water came, people went to Western Resource Advocates has hadn’t flowed like that for a long time,” coming down maybe four times. But the riverbed to use drugs and drink says Jennifer Pitt, with the from 1960 to now … the Colorado alcohol, run motorcross bikes and jeeps. worked on Colorado River issues for

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threatening to the endangered the last 15 years, beginning with species, including the Yuma clapdam operations and endangered per rails, Virginia rails and species, but also now working on California black rails, and migrathe water use programs designed tory birds such as warblers and to help cities live within their flycatchers, that rely on that vanmeans when it comes to water. ishing thread of green.

They’re often looking at the issue “There were still some flows from the “30,000-foot level,” talkgoing down there, but really, over ing in acre feet and wrangling the drought over the last 10, 15 with policy. For this trip to years, it got extremely dry and Mexico, Figueroa wanted to focus on a different story — the people. even the remnant habitat that was An egret in the Laguna Grande restoration site. The riparian and wetlands areas in the lower ColoHe also wanted to bring this down there was beginning to disrado River provide critical habitat for birds, many of which are endangered. story home to the upper Colorado appear,” Pitt says. standing water sits in the river bed, River, and helped to convene a Morelos Dam,” Figueroa says. “This This spring, for less than 24 continuing to support habitat and wild- hours, while the tide was up and that panel at the Americas Latino Ecoissue of grandmothers and their grandlife in those areas.

Festival to discuss the pulse flow and daughters enjoying their majestic river, pulse of river water was reaching for its “It’s kind of a no-brainer for restowhat it meant for the ecosystems and or being deprived of such a majestic ancient home, the Colorado River the people far down river. Speakers river for three generations, should reso- ration as far as ecosystems go, because it touched the sea. is so resilient and we’re at a point right include himself, Pitt, the Sonoran nate with all Colorado River water In 1944, the U.S. and Mexico now where we can do a lot by doing a Institute’s Colorado River Delta users, whether you’re a farmer or somesigned a treaty on how the waters of the little bit. We can add water and do Program Project Manager Karen body who lives in Denver, or in Colorado and Tijuana rivers were to be these very no-brainer restoration efforts utilized. The treaty failed to provide a Schlatter and San Luis Rio Colorado Phoenix, or a federal policymaker. I and get really great ecosystem response, share of water for ecological protection, resident Nancy Saldaña, who led a think this resonates more than acre so we get habitat established, wildlife campaign to clean up the river bed feet of water. … I would hope that the however. coming back,” says Schlatter, with the before the water arrived, clearing four cat is out of the bag, that after this “As with every other piece of legisSonoran Institute, which has led an tons of garbage that included needles, event, hopefully it’s going to be very, lation, interstate compact, treaty, et effort to plant thousands of cottonwood cetera, from the early 20th century, we glass and cars. very hard to deprive these people of and willow tree seedlings in the area “Most people, at least in the United their majestic river.” just weren’t putting environmental and removed nonnative salt cedar to States, don’t see it as a river that actualRight below the Morelos Dam at management on the table in a straightmake space for native vegetation to take forward way,” Pitt says. “And largely, ly goes to Mexico and reaches the Sea the U.S.-Mexico border, there was of Cortez, or that should reach the Sea water most of the year from leaks in the root. my view is that that had to do with the From the city of San Luis Rio of Cortez, so this experience for me dam, often only about three feed deep. fact that our population wasn’t as large Colorado, the pulse flow of water conreally crystallized the fact that all Farther down river, more water dries as it is today, so we didn’t really see the Colorado River water users are an inte- up. In some areas, the river channel was tinued on down toward the delta at the limits on our resources. So it wasn’t Sea of Cortez, once 2 million acres of gral part of the Colorado River — from completely dry all year round. In places until the late ’60s and early ’70s that wetlands and riparian habitat. The delta the headwaters to the Sea of Cortez, it’s in the middle, where groundwater and See RIVER Page 22 has since gone so dry and dead that it’s agricultural return flows are higher, our river. Our river does not stop at

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you started to see environmental legislation both in the United States and in Mexico and really nothing that predates that era takes managing for the environment into account in an explicit way.”

Getting the river to run again took a lot of people working through a lot of issues, says Pitt. The push to get a river for the sake of a river hadn’t gone anywhere.

“It kind of became clear to us that just talking about the environment and just having the two countries and getting the attention of the level of policy and decision maker we needed to have to get an agreement could never only be about the environment. It just doesn’t rise to the priority level of them expending the effort to get there,” Pitt says.

Flexibility for future clarifications or adjustments to the 1944 treaty was built in with an ability for the International Boundary and Water Commission, the enforcement authority created by the treaty, to craft new rules, added to the treaty as minutes. The agreement for the pulse flow, written up in Minute 319 of the treaty, included clarifications on how the U.S. and Mexico would define shortages and surpluses and a provision to allow Mexico to store water in U.S. reservoirs — increased clarity to help water managers plan for the future, and a commitment to binationally share in water conservation and perhaps even water generation projects, including a possible de-salination plant off the Pacific coast of Mexico.

The water for the pulse itself came from a project the U.S. funded with $22 million to line an irrigation ditch in Mexico, decreasing water loss there.

Essentially, Pitt says, the science team was “handed a bucket of water” and told to pour it out how they thought best. The team included scientists from both countries, and one who had worked on the experimental flow program in the Grand Canyon. The advice from that scientist was clear: Whatever you design, it isn’t going to be right. His suggestion was to deliver the water in a way that the signal of what the water was doing would be clear.

“Ecosystems, rivers, are a real landscape, it’s not like a lab experiment where you can tightly control all the variables,” Pitt says. “We believe this pulse flow will have done some good at the end of the day and we also believe we’re going to learn a ton from it and the conservation community is definitely going to be working hard to make sure we get an opportunity to do another pulse flow in the future, to make sure

there is more water committed to the area and hopefully we’ll do it next time with the hindsight of this pulse flow and do it better.”

There’s precedent to suggest that the results will be positive. In the 1980s and ’90s, flood events brought water to areas of the delta that had been dry for decades.

“Everyone had kind of given up the delta for dead, like a dead ecosystem that had been desecrated and degraded, but after these flows, a lot of the vegetation was able to come back, so that demonstrated to the conservation community and scientists that this is a pretty resilient ecosystem that can withstand long periods of no flows, little flows, and then boom, you have water and the vegetation can make a comeback,” Schlatter says. “That’s what sparked the idea to dedicate environmental flows to the region with the notion that even a little bit of water in this area can really make a difference and bring back a lot of habitat.”

Figueroa visited a restoration site the size of 15 football fields where trees have grown to 10 or 15 feet in height three years after they were planted.

“The people working on the restoration sites have shown that if you have the capacity, the knowledge and the resources and especially the water to do restoration, you can have a huge, significant impact and you can do it fast,” Figueroa says. “The beauty of the pulse flow was that you had this extraordinary response from the ecosystem with just a little bit of water.”

In the Sonoran Institute’s restoration efforts in riparian habitat, removing nonnative species like salt cedar and replanting native ones, the saplings are irrigated for two or three years, and then have root systems deep enough to tap into the groundwater. The area has a level of groundwater favorable to restoration efforts that’s fed by agricultural return flows, and Minute 319 also allows for base flows into the Colorado River in Mexico to support those efforts.

“It is resilient, but it does need water, so without any intervention at all, there’s resilience up to a certain point, and if we keep taking water from the system, the river system never sees water again, it will eventually collapse and the invasive species that have already established there will become too dominant for native species to reestablish if there were ever flows in the future,” Schlatter says. “So I think the pulse flow came at a really critical time in this ecosystem’s trajectory where going too much longer with these flood flows is kind of a dangerous thing Boulder Weekly

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because you’re never sure how long is too long and when having a flood flow actually won’t be enough to restore the system because it’s lost its resiliency, so it does require intervention at some point.”

The pulse this year was intended to stimulate the germination of native vegetation — cottonwoods and willows require flood conditions to germinate, and the pulse, on a very small scale, simulated the kind of floods that used to hit that region each year.

“When some of the scientists who really brought up the idea that a pulse flow could do some real good for the delta’s ecosystem, the original speculation was that having that kind of a pulse flow every few years would probably be enough, because it’s the creation of cottonwood and willow habitat that’s critical, when you get the water up over the river’s banks, you create that disturbance that can cause those seedlings to grow. You don’t need to have that happen every year, but you do need a little bit of water provided year round, all the time, so that seedlings can continue to grow,” Pitt says. “Historically certainly it happened every year, but given that we’re fighting the uphill battle for getting just a little bit of water into this ecosystem, the thought is that every few years would work, every four or so, on average. So there is a need for some year round water to keep the roots wet, and in some places there’s adequate groundwater to do that already.”

Work to secure that year-round water has been done by the Colorado River Delta Trust, a private trust established by the Mexico-based conservation group Pronatura Noroeste, which, in addition to the Environmental Boulder Weekly

Defense Fund and the Sonoran Institute, has been buying up water rights to make sure there’s a little bit of water in the river to sustain what the intermittent pulse flows, assuming they’re approved again, create.

The delta now has just a small remnant of a river left, but the big drink of water it just had is producing green up and down the river. An intensive monitoring effort undertaken by federal agencies from both countries as well as academics and nonprofits is scrutinizing details down to counting seedlings and wildlife, and should start producing numbers to quantify the effort in the coming years. It’s tough to know now, Pitt says, where things like the groundwater saw a recharge while the effects of this one-time pulse flow are still being studied.

When the five-year agreement that Mexico and the U.S. have settled on runs out at the end of 2017, they’ll be back to the drawing board and making a decision on whether to allocate water for this kind of water event again.

Signs point toward a momentum and support building for it, Pitt says, and the agreement has drawn some attention from the international community as an example of the kind of collaborative work countries can undertake to help preserve endangered transboundary rivers around the world.

“It gives me hope that we can manage our way through this and end up with the West that we want with limited water resources,” Pitt says. “That idea that the community responded and that there’s a path forward for them to take a role in stewardship of the Colorado See RIVER Page 24

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o question, the overarching goal of tell- The task would call for more innovative work than paning the history of climbing in the ning over or zooming in and out on pretty pictures.

Yosemite Valley in a single film must So Sender Films’ Pete Mortimer and Nick Rosen have been daunting. This year, Sender called on Montana-based motion graphics artist Barry Films is using the Reel Rock Film Thompson to use all of his talents and unique skill set for Tour, with its round-the-world schedule motion design on the project. Thompson that includes hundreds of stops, to showhas worked with them for eight years, INFO BOX: Reel Rock 9, case the feature-length documentary often on credits and title sequences and featuring Valley Uprising, Valley Uprising: Yosemite’s Rock Climbing occasionally dressing up a shot inside a premieres 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at Chautauqua film. Without him, they say, the film Revolution, which aims to do just that.

Auditorium, 900 Baseline might never have come to be.

The film tells the story of how climbing Road, Boulder. A second show takes place at 7:30 “We really wanted to choose these began answering the call for a generation p.m. Sept. 12. Tickets are specific time periods where we could drop of people in the 1950s looking for a life $20 and at www.chautauqua.com. you in and where we had the footage and more interesting than one set in the secuthe photos and these amazing dramas rity and tidiness of post-war American were taking place, so really the whole suburbs and how climbing continues to conception of the film started with Barry be a mecca for dirtbags on the fringe. But and with the ability to take these old sort of static images then scale down to the details of getting the task done, and almost put you inside of that,” Mortimer says. “I and it meant finding a way to take half a century of think where Barry’s stuff is the strongest is in the 1960s, climbing photos and give them not just the breath of life but the adrenalin to sate audiences accustomed to actionsee YOSEMITE Page 28 packed shots of climbers pushing the edge of their sport.

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YOSEMITE from Page 27 Brett Lowell

because we have these shows John Bachar beautiful photos from on a boulder, and the Glen Denny and the camera seems to great story between approach him, creepRobbins and Harding ing over the rock — Robbins the visiontoward him while ary and the ethicist sunlight shifts and Harding the iconthrough the pine oclast and rebel. I trees behind him and think what we’re hopchalk dust rises from ing happens is you’re his fingers. watching this story “When you’re unfold and you’re just watching anything in in it like it’s happening cinema, it usually has right now. … It wasn’t movement from like an afterthought of whatever they’re the film or like, ‘OK, shooting plus the we want to do this or camera plus the way what can we do that’s the film works — cool,’ it was really part the way the film runs of the conception of through the camera the film.”

— and digital loses “Pete said, ‘I want that natural, subtle the audience to feel jumpiness, there’s this, like they’re on the the fluidity I guess. I rock, but all I’ve got Tommy Caldwell on El Capitan’s Dawn Wall. Caldwell has contributed to the ongoing efforts to pioneer new and ever harder also try to bring that routes in Yosemite. are these old photos. back into my scenes, How can I give them so I add that back into vertigo? How can I my shots. It’s really a give them the expansiveness of Yosemite? How can I you’re not fully working in three dimensions,” subtle effect, but it gives it something, it gives it more give them the feeling of being a rock climber in the Thompson says. life, it doesn’t feel like a dead photo moving at you,” ’60s, ’70s — there’s drugs being done and fights and Three shots in the film get even more advanced Thompson says. “And we bring in true cinematic people soloing and dying,” Thompson says. “So we work that involved working with camera mapping and grain on top of these images.” really tried to use the different techniques of separata 3-D artist who sculpted the rock itself. One treated Thompson, founder of Barndance, a creative ing photos, moving photos with syncopation to the to that more intensive, and expensive, motions work motion design studio that produces visual designs for music, getting energy that way.” videos, independent films and documentaries, also Charlie Row Using computer programs Photoshop and After worked on First Ascent, the six-part television Effects, Thompson separates an image into someseries produced by Sender Films and sponsored by thing between three and 15 layers, cuts them up and National Geographic Channels International, as repaints in behind them, filling in the gaps created well as the award-winning film I Am (2011) directon a rock face or a forest, so he can essentially move ed by Tom Shadyac and Red Gold (2007) directed the camera’s eye through the image. “The more layby Travis Rummel and Ben Knight. He’s received ers that you get in the photo, the more fun it is to awards from the Banff Film Festival, International look at,” he says.

Mountaineering Film Festival, Graz International “If you’re moving through a forest, you’ll cut it Film Festival and Telluride Mountain Film up and you’ll bring in more trees. So what I do is I Festival. start with a base photo, let’s say climbers on a boulFor previous films, like last year’s “High Tension” der, and I’d cut up and separate the rock, so I’ve got on the dispute between climbers and sherpas at the rock and that plane of reality, and then what’s Mount Everest, his work with motion design next is a rock on the ground, so I’ll cut up that layer, allowed them to move among newspaper articles and whenever you cut up a layer you have to repaint and to choose colors and elements that built an what’s behind it, so it’s a whole process of taking atmosphere of confusion and stress through the use something out and then repainting behind it. … of contrasts, high saturation colors and flashes.

Then I add other elements that might be in the Thompson applied the same sense of aesthetics scene like dust or any pollen in the air, sunbeams. to Valley Uprising, adjusting the color tint and satuThen I’ll add depth of field to the shot.” ration to give viewers a sense of visual difference There were even occasions when the Sender between one era and the next. team went back to Yosemite and shot the areas “There’s magic in these stills, but we didn’t want around the historic photos they wanted to use to to do the — no offense to Ken Burns —but the Ken add in those backgrounds. The result is that the still Burns effect,” Rosen says. “We didn’t want to let faces of climbers in decades-old photographs appear still images slow this film down. We wanted to be with clouds drifting behind them, or the view kind of punk rock and dynamic and express the swings around a climber ascending a pinnacle — the movement and color and dynamism that our films climber caught mid-reach, the forest and sky movcultivate.”

Lynn Hill on Half Dome in 1977. Hill was the first person to free climb the Nose in Yosemite. ing around him.

Rosen and Mortimer selected the images to use “It’s kind of like two-and-a-half-D, because and essentially storyboarded using historic photo28 September 4, 2014

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Warren Harding on the last pitch of the Dawn Wall in 1970. Harding was among the characters driving the foundations of climbing in Yosemite one piton at a time.

graphs collected from climbing photographers including the famed Glenn Denny, as well as Yosemite park staff — a particularly useful trove when it came to illustrating the conflicts between park rangers and “outlaw” climbers.

“For me, it’s just like, it’s life, it’s pixie dust, it’s this magic wand that he waves and all the sudden the people in the frame are coming alive. It’s really cool,” Rosen says.

Some of the photos and reel-to-reel tapes even showed up in cardboard boxes in garages.

“An editor like Pete or Nick would start putting together a sequence for me and so, because they know the story so well, they’re close to it, that they’ll just go, ‘shot shot shot shot in a row’ and then they’ll hand it to me, but it’ll be super rough. Then they’ll say, ‘We don’t know if the edit is how we want it, but just go with it.’ I’ll sit down and listen to the narration, then start fine-tuning their work and start moving the photos to give them life.”

The main inspiration, Thompson says, was Stacy Peralta’s Dogtown and Z-Boys film on skateboarding and surf trends from the 1970s in California, a style Thompson describes as like slamming photos in, almost punk style.

The story itself isn’t an unbroken narrative of everything at Yosemite. It focuses instead on a few key decades and highlights those revolutionary times and the, as Mortimer says, perfect storm of characters and societal change at that time — the first climbers of the 1950s, the Stonemasters of the 1960s and ’70s, and now. The Robbins and Harding rivalry moved to Jim Bridwell and John Bachar in the ’70s, and now, in some ways, to Dean Potter and Alex Honnold. The film is a chance to see the accomplishments of this last pair, Boulder Weekly

who any Reel Rock fan has gotten to know through previous Reel Rock seasons, in a historical perspective.

“Basically we had sort of an ambitious storytelling agenda with this film because we’re trying to do a few things, make a film that does justice to this legendary, 50-year history of Yosemite climbing and really that is where the evolution of climbing has happened in the United States, walls that were bigger than 2,000, 3,000 feet, the first serious crack climbing, first serious free climbing,” Rosen says. “So we’re focusing on this evolution of climbing, and we’re focusing on the intermeshing tensions between the climbers that existed, the one-upmanship and rivalry, the kind of competition that drove the sport forward for decades and really inspired that evolution, and then we have kind of this, I guess you could call it like a subplot but it’s really a big theme, which is that this is a sport that was really born out of and grew into the American counter culture.”

And as to changing up the format, anyone who’s been watching the Reel Rock film tour since the beginning will notice that this is a return to the roots.

While the last few years have seen a Reel Rock Film Tour of shorts, the first few were feature-length films.

It’s been a long ride, Thompson says. His daughter was crawling around Yosemite when they started, and she’s 7 years old now.

There was one photo in particular that stood out to Thompson of a climber lining up slices of bread on the dashboard of his car to heat up in the sun.

“It’s so much like a rock climber, like a lot of these guys are just goofy nerds with muscles. They really are,” Thompson says. “That one photo, I just love it.”

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ments of kingliness, Gandomcar says you can play on a rental, just like a pair of bowling shoes.

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Just a half-hour south of Denver, a few minutes off of Highway 85, and down a dirt road flanked by two enormous salvaged P.F. Chang’s horse statues guarding the entrance like the sphinxes from The Neverending Story (How did they get there? “Everybody knows a guy,” Gandomcar says casually.), the Denver Polo Club offers group lessons starting at $80, as well as fullsize and arena-league play.

Sunday, Sept. 7 it will stage the Survivor’s Cup, a full-day polothon at the club including goal contests, awards and an Argentine barbecue that signals the end of the summer season and the start of the smaller-scale arena league.

Like all matches, it’s free for spectators, with no dress code. Regular league play will resume in May. And for any that see the match and wish to give it a shot, Gandomcar is glad to offer nuggets of wisdom like this one: “It’s like you’re bitch-slapping someone,” she says of the ideal mallet technique. “There’s a lot of bitchslap-

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But next comes the hard part: moving this croquet-match to horseback.

And at least one of the horses is giving me a wary look. Gandomcar poo-poos it though.

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ou probably haven’t been to Antarctica to see a desert made of ice and the microbial life revealed as that ice retreats. Even if a sheep were to swallow a mountain lion whole, you couldn’t see through its skin to grasp the metaphor. You may have a few words to express the depth of frustration at a legacy of Nadia Guthmann inherited environmental woes and the hope that planting a tree, or a garden, or a whole forest can in some way bite back against power plants, automobiles, chemicals in waterways and over-fished oceans. But explaining exactly why we persist in having enough hope to ride bikes and recycle doesn’t come so easily.

Then art steps in, and it creates, if not in words, some frame of visual language, a world’s worth of worry, thought, contemplation and even hope for the environment Nadia Guthmann’s sculptures use animals as metaphors for we live in. ecology and society.

“With art, expressions that are less limited by reason, common sense and values conditioned by history and the dominant culture can emerge,” says sculptural artist Nadia Guthmann. “Viewers also can read those expressions in diverse ways and levels, finding more than one meaning. Then, art contributes to the Boulder Weekly

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awareness about environmental issues in a different way than explanations.”

The Americas Latino Eco-Festival has drawn together an exhibition of artists who do just that.

They each engage with science, climate change and communities in a unique way, and the end result is a cluster of astounding views at this planet we call home — and a resounding affirmation that it is worth acting immediately to preserve.

Andrea Juan’s photography, video and installation art transport the viewer to the literal ends of the earth.

Work that she’d begun on the glaciers in Patagonia in her home country of Argentina, she carried on to Antarctica in 2004, where she came into contact with scientists studying the continent.

“I was astonished about the projects. I began working with them and it was, for me, very useful,” she Rafael Lopez designed a series of posters for the Americas Latino EcoFestival that guide viewers to reawakening to environmental stewardship. says. “Since then, I cannot work without being inspired by them.” of the ice shelf,” Juan says.

She has been the recipient of multiple grants, In 2013, she visited the Larsen Ice Shelf, from organizations including the Guggenheim where an unprecedented disappearance of ice has Fellowship and UNESCO, funding her trips to led to the discovery of a previously unknown ecoAntarctica, where she creates installation pieces system in the Weddell Sea that had been hidden inspired by the scientific research being undertak- under the ice. Juan created “The Organic Project,” en there, specifically that on climate change. She’s a series of photographs of creations that echoed now been there nine times. those new species made from fabric from the “Every year, I work in different scientific women’s clothing firm Varanasi. investigation research, such as methane, the “The idea is to, through a poetic way of workappearance of methane gas or the disappearance ing, show how the new species are appearing in of ice glaciers or ice shelves, and the last three Antarctica,” she says. years I worked with a new species that appeared In her 2012 project, “New Species, New on the bottom of the sea after the disappearance see ENVIRONMENTAL ART Page 36 September 4, 2014 35

ENVIRONMENTAL ART from Page 35 Andrea Juan

Eden,” Juan delved into Antarctica’s paradox itself — that the continent of 5.4 million square miles is covered by an ice sheet nearly three miles thick on all but 2.4 percent of its land mass, and while it holds 70 percent of the earth’s water as solid ice, it hasn’t rained there in more than 20 million years.

“Antarctica is a pristine place, it’s a pristine continent, there is no habitants there, it’s the most important reservoir of drinking water in the world,” she says. “Being a desert is a funny thing because it’s the most important reserve of drinking water, so we must take care of it. It’s the drinking water for our future.”

Her work references rising water, increasing levels of acid in oceans and methane release.

While a single male performer engages with the tulle fabric she’s created to represent plant life, penguins totter through the background. She works with Rafael Lopez melting ice, ice riding on the ocean waves, drips from the tips of icicles that briefly catch the color of a fabric.

She’ll be presenting some of her video work from Antarctica during the Americas Latino EcoFestival.

“I think Rafael Lopez’s simple designs carry well onto community-created murals. that the piece of art makes the message more clear and I think the message of the idea of the research goes directly to the heart, to the soul,” she says.

Sculptural artist Guthmann’s work brings visual metaphor center stage. Drawing from her own science background — she has a doctoral degree in biology — Guthmann creates metal sculptures that make art out of the material of zoology classes and microscope slides.

“I always thought that nature was a bit depreciated in human decisions, and I, in my work, give more importance to those natural aspects and respect of our original energies, and nature’s energies,” Guthmann says.

In working with metal and mesh, she began to utilize that material’s capacity for increased size and potential for transparency.

“In this material, other thing that happened is that I was very interested in nature, in animals, ecology, evolution, and I studied biology and when I went into working with these materials, I made like a connection between the sculpture and the biology,” she says.

“I began to talk at the same time about ecology, biology, society and also the human condition because animals work like symbols, they have many meanings and relation between those animals and human feelings.”

“Water sample” suspends oversized renditions of aquatic life in a mobile. “Migrating root” takes immigrant humans and the non-native red deer, now well 36 September 4, 2014

established in Argentina’s Nahuel Huapi National Park as inspiration — the iron sculpture of a deer has horns that grow to the ground as “roots.” She again links ecology and the human condition as the same in “Patagonic marginalization,” in which she takes the native Patagonian hare, the mara, and puts it inside the introduced European hare, alluding to the displacement of indigenous populations and subsequent colonization.

She conveys the coexistence of ecosystems by placing one animal inside another — the interior creature visible through transparent metallic frames.

“These metal meshes that work like skin, like a biological tissue defines an individual, and skin usually separates individuals,” she says.

“To put another animal inside is to say something else.”

She uses that opportunity to put opposite or complementary energies together — putting a mountain lion inside sheep, for example. One is domesticated and used to produce meat, and the other is wild, free and aggressive.

“I’m talking about these animals that live in the same place, and this kind of conflict, but also I’m talking about society, because domestication is also seen in people that behave like sheep, or could have another energy to be free and wild,” Guthmann says. “Also, I’m talking about original the people that lived here before colonization, and about individual energies, because each one can have a sheep aspect, a sheep energy, domesticated, and very like, sometido [submissive; subjected], and also each one could have a wild energy inside that could save and make more independent and free.”

In addition to the works that will come and go, some works will Andrea Juan’s work is inspired by scientific research in Antarctica, where be created during the festival to she has traveled to create photographs, videos and installation art. stay, including a mural by artist David Ocelotl Garcia and one painted by the community led by Rafael Lopez. artists of any skill level can contribute to completing Garcia’s depicts Mother Earth struggling with an and gets together a group of people to complete the imbalanced set of natural resources, localized to task in just a few days.

Boulder with references to the September 2013 “It’s not really about creating a pretty picture, it’s floods, and has been painted on one wall of the Dairy not about decorating a wall, it’s more about bringing Center for the Arts. The mural will be unveiled durthe people together,” he says. ing the festival.

He tries to create images that are easily readable Lopez’s has been designed, but part of the point, and relatable, so any viewer can look at it and read he says, isn’t about what ends up on the wall at all. something personal into it that’s loosely related to the “The mural is really just an excuse to bring people theme given. together. I could easily throw a party and introduce “You see a sun, usually it doesn’t say depression, it each other, but doing a mural is a lot more fun,” he says sunshine,” he says. “When you see a bird fly, it says. In other places where he’s helped to coordinate murals, as here, he creates a simple graphic design that see ENVIRONMENTAL ART Page 38 Boulder Weekly

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can say freedom, but it can also be ferently. So how do you do that, by about your own personal freedom or realizing that we are all humans, an your own personal evolution or whatev- intricate part of this environment, its all er was holding you back.” interwoven because whatever we do will In this case, the focus was on the effect the environment positively or environment and making a positive negatively.” change in the ecosystem.

The “Re-imagine” poster gives a red “I think that art, it’s the perfect bird human legs and feet, a reminder, escape to actually externalize a lot of Lopez says, that “We are the environthings about who you are. … It’s this ment, we can become agents of good excuse or this instrument of bringing change and we live in this intimate people together interaction with the that would othernatural world, we wise be too shy or cannot consider ON THE BILL: An opening too reluctant to try ourselves apart reception for the art exhibits at the to do something as because whatever Americas Latino Eco-Festival will be a group,” he says. we do to the enviheld at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12, at the Dairy Center for the Arts.

“You create this ronment will effect Artists present will include Margarita bond between us,” he says.

Cabrera, Andrea Juan, Rafael these people For Lopez, Alan Manuel, David Ocelotl Garcia and James Rodriguez. because you have “Re-awaken,” he this common thing shows a hand with you’re enjoying, an eye in its palm, Rafael Lopez you’re enjoying the the center of the flower making the iris creating of something, in the eye. so you open yourself “What we do will up to new ideas, to effect the changes perceptions of other whether they’re going people and welcome to be good or bad, so them and say OK, I the hand in a way think this way but this symbolizes our particother person feels this ipation and whether other way, maybe by we’re doing somedoing this together we thing positive like have more power than collecting trash, or by myself. trashing our environ“Art is also very ment,” he says. “The permanent, so it’s a hand, to me, symbolmessage that continues izes our participation to be told every day as physically into doing you drive by, so it’s a Rafael Lopez’s “Re-imagine” emphasizes that humans and something with the reminder of, whether environment, we do a it’s a positive or nega- nature cannot be separated. lot with our hands, so tive message, it’s something you’re going to be looking at over by having this rebirth, this blooming of and over and over again on a daily basis the flower, the message was, yes we can effect the environment, but let’s effect it if you drive by this mural.” in a positive way.”

Lopez also designed the four postThe last one says “re-flourish” — ers used to advertise the festival, all taking off with new words that spin off the and shows a flower rising from the pinched fingers of a human hand that famous “re” words — recycling, reuse, reduce. He chose to build a progression miraculously hold a pool of water to nourish it — a call to put human hands that begins with “reflect,” and moves to work in aiding in the rebirth of anythrough “reimagine,” “reawaken” and thing human hands have destroyed in “re-flourish.” the past.

“The first one should be that one “By doing all these things, we which says reflect, look what’s facing us. reawaken the minds of our selves and We have a lot of challenges ahead the new generation,” Lopez says. He because of what we have done to the returns to that image from reawaken of environment in a negative way, so in a the hand in the eye. “Like your soul way it’s this person reflecting on how reopens its eyes to see things now difwe have trashed our oceans and the oil spills and how it’s effecting the environ- ferently. You will never see things the same old way you used to see, or ignore. ment. The first thing we need to do is You have reawakened your mind and reflect about that negative impact we your spirit in a way that from now on had … it’s time to reflect and to take you will be aware of your interactions action,” Lopez says. “After you reflect with the environment.” and you realize what we have done you Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com have to re-imagine what we can do difBoulder Weekly

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Acclaimed Paraguayan classical guitarist makes a rare area appearance

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Cuban saxophonist Paquito he leadoff track D’Rivera, on a tour called “In the “Tambito josephino” Footsteps of Mangoré,” and with (“Tambito from San whom she recorded Día y Medio, Jose”) from Berta Rojas’ recent release nominated for Best Instrumental Salsa Roja will surprise few of her in the Latin Grammy in 2013. In followers for its lithe and masteraddition, she was artistic director ful guitar work. Rojas is one of of the First Agustin Barrios International Competition and the most accomplished classical Festival in Paraguay in 1994, coinguitar instrumentalists on the ciding with the 50th anniversary scene today, and the twin hallof Barrios’ death, as well as creatmarks of her playing — unrelenting the first online classical guitar ing humanism and technical precompetition, the Barrios World cision — are in full evidence on Wide Web Competition in 2009. this track.

Rojas has also gained internaWhat may be surprising about tional acclaim outside of South the track, though, is that the America — she has played constring and percussion ensemble certs at Lincoln Center, Carnegie backing up Rojas’ guitar, The Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Recycled Instruments Orchestra Center and opened the proceedof Cateura, is comprised of kids ings at the Summit of the First from Asunción, Paraguay, playing Ladies of the Americas, attended instruments recovered from, and by then First Lady Hillary in some cases constructed from, Rodham Clinton. She holds a garbage heaps in the Paraguayan master’s degree in music from the capital.

Peabody Institute of The Johns “One little girl, Noelia, who is Berta Rojas showcases the purest expression of classical Hopkins University and has been 12, played a guitar made of two guitar through her graceful style and technical precision. honored as a Fellow of the cans of sweet potato marmalade Americas by the Kennedy Center when I met her in December — for the Performing Arts for her artistic now she plays on a formal guitar,” Rojas and folkoric pieces for the instrument. told NBC News last year. “She plays on Sometimes referred to as “The Paganini excellence.

And for anyone who has picked up the opening acts on my CD — when of the Guitar,” Barrios was a masterful a classical guitar and noodled around you hear the part of the second guitar, guitarist from the Paraguayan countryit’s Noelia playing. I’m very proud of side and a staggeringly prolific compos- with it, watching her performances can be a buoyant and beguiling experience her accomplishments. We are only er with over 300 titles to his name (at — the instrument in its purest expreshelping.” least those that were written down and sion is fiendishly invested in both Rojas’ abiding interest in the forsurvived his death in San Salvador in nuance and technical discipline, and tunes of the young in 1944 — it is thought few players anywhere can approximate her hometown is he composed many ON THE BILL: her graceful and, at times, furiously hardly the only examothers), although his Berta Rojas 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, aggressive technique. ple of a world work was largely forThe Dairy Center for the Arts, But the accolades and the honors renowned classical gotten in the wider 2590 Walnut St., Boulder 303are, in some basic sense, a little beside instrumentalist taking world until Australian 440-7826. $6-10 the point. Rojas is one of a handful of an interest in musical classical guitarist John truly international artists who flourish education, or the poor Williams re-animated in both the humanism of folk music for that matter, but it is emblematic of the catalog with an all-Barrios recordand the rigid disciplines of classical the deep cultural connection that South ing in the late 1970s.

American classical guitarists build their Barrios is now regarded as a nation- repertoire, a distinction in the tradition of South American classical guicareers upon, and especially Rojas, who al hero in Paraguay, and to some extent tar rendered by her countryman shares a native pedigree with one of the Rojas has become something of an Barrios practically without meaning. instrument’s greatest composers, inheritor to, and tireless promoter of, She is hardly the only player working that legacy. Born in Asunción, her first Agustín Barrios Mangoré. in this rich genre, but she is frankly recording in 1992 at age 26 was an Simply put, no classical guitarist interpretation of Barrios’ work, and it is one the very best, and lovers of the hailing from South America, and few instrument miss her performance at a well that she continues to draw from from elsewhere, progress far without their peril. generously. She has been touring off coming to a reckoning with Barrios, and on over the last few years with who composed both classically framed Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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tion with her Puerto Rican roots. The Latino community surwith live visuals from rounding her was a diverse collection of families from across the Latino world, and she used Spanish with them daily.

“I had a huge amount of respect for Latino culture,” she says.

Today, her two teenage children and have a less intimate connection The spring 2014 Barrio E ensemble.

From left to right, Barrio E Director Tamil Maldonado, Lisa with their heritage.

Shook, Jennifer Bustamante, Gabriela Espinoza , María Sepúlveda, Mariella Hollines, Nivia “We are living in a community Fernández, and Barrio E Co-founder Daniel León. where they are the only kids of Their unique and beautiful sound is illuminated through poetic & color in a lot of circumstances,” she soulful vocals, spoken word, and an eclectic array of instrumentation. says. “My kids had virtually no exposity in the Caribbean, with influences When she came to Colorado three And, singer/songwriter sean hayes Get Cooking at The eTown Kitchen sure to Puerto Rican culture other than mainly"Lake from Africa, Spain and the years ago, Maldonado searched for an Street Dive are the future of pop music." - new York Music Daily whatever sad cooking I can do to try Taino people (the indigenous populaartistic community that included and replicate Puerto Rican cooking.” tion of Puerto Rico).

Latinos. She couldn’t find one. So she Since February, Sepulveda has seen Using traditional instruments like and Leon founded Barrio E. her children’s relationship to their culgoatskin drums, the Sept. 13 perfor“Violence or trouble with immigraThe members of Sphere bring a wealth of musical experiences the group, alltion havingisclassical training possessing tural heritage change. Increasingly, her mance will and present the customary calloften thebuttopic of discussion singer/songwriter Eilen intoJewell musical loves and tastes. kids are engaged with their ancestry, and-response act that is iconic of a diverse background whenoftalking about Latinos,” says namely because of a Boulder organizaBomba.

Maldonado. “Or people think Latinos tion called Barrio E (‘Neighborhood Drummers will be drumming, are only about having fiestas. But the Is’). dancers will be danctruth is that Latinos are doing so much Founded by husing, and the audience in our community and bringing so band and wife Tamil will be humming much to a better world vision.”

ON THE BILL: Influencias: The Legacy of Maldonado-Vega and along. That kind of Leon sees Barrio E and the Bomba. 5 p.m. Saturday, Daniel Leon (which community participaAmericas Latino Eco-Festival as two Sept. 13, at the Dairy Center is his second, artistic tion is exactly what examples of how Boulder County is for the Arts, www.americaslatinoecofestival.org. persona, his first Maldonado wants. It working to improve inclusion and being as City of is exactly the kind of awareness of ethnic diversity. You get Boulder Human community organizthe feeling he thinks more can be done, and Relations Commission board member ing that is in her blood. but he focuses on the positives, like the Jose Beteta), Barrio E is collaborating As a child, Maldonado watched her fact that he was possibly the first Puerto Rican home get turned into a with artists from around the world for undocumented person in the country summer camp every year for neighbora performance called Influencias: The to be appointed to a city board (the hood kids who couldn’t afford summer Legacy of Bomba on Sept. 13 for the City of Boulder’s Human Relations camp. Her father was in charge of Americas Latino Eco Festival.

Commission), and that Maldonado was music instruction, there were exercise Sepulveda and her daughter and son, awarded Boulder County’s workshops on the terrace and each Mariella and Javier Hollines, will be Multicultural Award in the Arts this room held a group of neighborhood performers. year.

Started in 2012, Barrio E provides kids working Wed on Oct different “Barrio E is a very important com1-Seminar: art projects its members, through dance and music, led byWomen community members. ponent of the [Americas Latino Eco-] Spiritual Leaders Equinox Talks 2014: EDGEWaLKERS with the technique and history of “My father took charge of bringing Festival because we try to teach people Fri Oct 3- Full Concert Series: Matis Made presents: Oct 3 - COnCERT SERiES: Bomba, a type of dance that demonpeople together,” Random RabMaldonado & Lux Moderna says, a Random Rab & LuxPage Moderna see BOMBA 46 strates the convergence of ethnic diver- legacy she would continue.

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about everybody’s dreds of years before connection with it became a trend in everybody,” says the U.S.,” he says.

Maldonado.

He thinks of his As a child, grandparents’ farm in Maldonado grew up Costa Rica. in a mountainous “Electricity was more community where of a luxury. Forget people looked out for about air conditioneach other. If someing. It was shacks. one was growing The beds were hamcassava, someone else mocks. They lived was growing avocavery happily and dos and someone lived off resources else was growing they had, like the plantains, people food they planted. I shared. They used don’t even remember what they needed waste at all because and they traded what everything was Bomba dancers in Mexico. they didn’t with already naturally neighbors. packaged. It doesn’t For Sepulveda, come in a plastic bag, that community-oriented vision lives you eat it and the rest you just comon in Barrio E, which doesn’t just post. That experience made me realize attract Latino members, but people you don’t need much to be happy or to from every background. live. It made me feel like I never really “I could gush on and on about how needed to have fancy things to feel like beautiful the mission [of Barrio E] is,” I was accomplished. It made me feel she says. “You see people from every that the major investment in life is background. I mean there are people family, friends and happiness.” from India and Ireland in the group.

For Sepulveda, that is exactly what There is total diversity in the particiBomba and Barrio E has provided. The pants, and learning about the history of intimacy she sees growing between her children and their heritage isn’t just cultural influences on Bomba created about Latinos. this safe zone where people started “Barrio E has given my kids a exploring, ‘Hey, where am I from?’” chance to share their cultural identity.

Bomba gathered bits and pieces of different cultures across years of tumul- But in that, there is more,” she says. tuous history, including slavery and col- “They are bringing it up with their onization. From African slaves, it inher- friends who, in most cases, look totally ited the call-and-response singing tech- different from them but who can then talk about their own history and then nique and the ever-important drums, they can draw similarities between which were originally crafted from the their different cultures.” cargo barrels Europeans used to transWatching a group of Barrio E port goods and then topped with goatmembers practice Bomba rhythms on skin. From Spanish colonizers, Bomba tall drums wedged between their legs, inherited its iconic Flamenco-like dancyou see their hands — brown, whitish ing, consisting of moves that, if capbrown, white — fly madly over the tured in photographs, would produce goatskin, and it isn’t obvious this is an images making the dancers look caught art form dating back to the 15th centuin a dramatic pose. From the indigery. Then again, the legacy of Bomba nous Taino people, Bomba inherited isn’t just history. It’s still happening. the maraca, made from a cantaloupe“A lot of musical genres spur out of size fruit called a higuera.

To make a maraca, the higuera fruit something bad that has happened in gets hollowed out, the shell dries and is society,” says Leon. “Bomba spurred out of people’s need to be able to comthen filled with pebbles and seeds that municate across ethnic divides, to feel make the “ch-ch” sound of a maraca.

The fruit that was scooped out is ined- community with each other, to feel strength within the context of hardible, but it is composted. ships going on at that time. It is music It’s easy for Leon to connect of the people.”

Bomba to the environmental moveAs a free event on Sept. 13, it is ment that he says in many ways is just music for the people, too. inherent in Latino culture.

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Rick Najera’s ‘Almost White’ highlights how lack of diversity affects Hollywood and the green movement

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hen they found won’t read about it.”

Rick Najera, he But he wrote those things was passed out because he felt it needed to be in a pool of his made explicit that Hollywood, own blood. the world he lived in, had a “Luckily my wife was Anglo, long way to go, and those saybecause if she was Latino, she ing otherwise were way off. would have looked for a good “It’s the typical media spin alibi before calling the cops,” he when you’re not the group half-jokes. receiving the back end of racAnd so begins his memoir, ism, then everything is fine,” he Almost White: Forced Confessions says. of a Latino in Hollywood, which While much of Najera’s Najera will perform the stage story focuses on the film indusversion of as part of the try, and its treatment and Americas Latino Eco-Festival underrepresentation of Latinos, on Saturday, Sept. 13. the issues those events speak to The former writer for In are much larger than a single Living Color and MadTV had industry, which is a big reason that Najera’s performance is collapsed and hit his head from included in an environmental a case of undiagnosed pneumofestival. nia. He then lapsed into a coma. Rick Najera’s experiences writing for film and TV form the basis for his book and per“The images of Latinos is, When Najera awoke, he formance, Almost White: Forced Confessions we’re running across the border began some serious self-examiof a Latino in Hollywood. with the Ebola virus in one nation. hand, the SARS virus on “I thought, ‘I almost died, another, and a bag of marijuana on the back,” he says. and my children, would they know who I was?’” he “There’s a lot of stuff that’s not seen about Latinos, says. “So I wanted to leave them something behind so and one of those things is our deep love of nature, and they could understand me a little bit better.

Najera began writing about the experience and his this festival helps activate that and put a spotlight on life. But writing about that experience quickly turned it.” into writing about larger experiences involving being Najera grew up catching salamanders in his backLatino, or “almost white.” He wrote anecdotes and yard in San Diego, and going on long hikes in the one-offs. He wrote about statistics showing that Sierra Nevadas.

Latinos are consistently underrepresented or hyper“I grew up in nature,” he says. “And in nature, I sexualized in film. He wrote about cultural assumpnoticed a change. I go back to the same house, and tions. And he did it with so much insight and punch there’s no salamanders; it’s too dry.” that some worried the book might burn professional Najera says the fish he used to catch are now fewer bridges for one of Latino culture’s brightest talents. and farther between, signs of climate change. And he “Luckily, people in Hollywood don’t read,” Najera thinks the solutions are in the Latino community. says. “So no matter what I write in my book, they “We’re the ones working in the fields, in construc-

tion,” he says. “So we’re the ones that are going to make a difference.”

But how does that connect to his experiences in the film industry? Najera says the root issue is the same: A quest for diversity and representation.

“Diversity is really talking about justice and inclusion,” he says. “And inclusion is necessary for the green movement. Latinos haven’t really been involved.”

And Najera feels his book puts a spotlight on those issues.

“You see a man that in the public, especially in the Latino culture, is seen as indestructible,” he says. “I used to think that. And then all of a sudden, you end up in the ICU. And then you look at that, and ask yourself what the legacy is. Those are the issues in Almost White.”

A major component of legacy is what will be left behind environmentally, he says. If he can use the tools of his trade to encourage others to examine theirs, to ask what they are leaving behind for the next generation, then that’s work worth doing.

The stage version of Almost White is shorter, more concise, “timed to the limits of the human bladder,” as Najera says, and has been performed around the country to strong reception. Najera first worked it out on stages in East Los Angeles and then took it on tour.

“One minute you are laughing at a joke about speaking Spanish and the next, wondering how could a whole generations have been so easily and quickly stripped of their language?” wrote reviewer Zulmara Maria. “The show will make you think … about what it means to be Latino, Mexican-American, CubanoAmericano, Puerto Rican, African-American and “almost white, but not quite … in these United States today.”

After the show, Najera will be answering questions about the text and his work in general.

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VHS Found Footage Festival, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU Boulder Campus. 303-4921531.

It Was 50 Years Ago Today (Beatles Tribute Shows). 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303440-4628.

Jason Klobnak Quartet. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Juliette Ashby. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-2587733.

Lez Zeppelin. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Live Jazz Jam. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Monte Selbe and Larry Clyman. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Nancy Walker & Larry Clyman. 7:30 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-3404169.

Power Lung Rangers. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, see EVENTS Page 52

Oddballs Courtesy of Found Footage Festival

The Found Footage Festival is a live comedy show presenting the most absurd videos recorded on VHS. Joe Pickett and Joe Prueher, who have both written for The Onion and Entertainment Weekly, are the curators. For 10 years they have been mastering the art of picking through garage sales and thrift shops around the country to discover the (often unintentionally) most hilarious and odd video clips from VHS tapes. The festival itself is a guided tour of their finds. The show has been featured on National Public Radio, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

It has sold out the Boulder Theater for several years and is making its debut at the International Film Series.

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Oddball Comedy Festival, Sunday, Sept. 7, Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre. 720-8652494.

Oddball fest is coming to Red Rocks this weekend starring Aziz Ansari, Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Chris Hardwick and many more. Funny or Die is teaming up with Live Nation to present what has been called the world’s largest comedy festival with a lineup of the world’s greatest comedians. The festival has got some big names on the lineup, but the real oddites will be found at the Cut Throat Freak Show, a circus sideshow-type of act where a “roaming troupe of misfit performers” might be doing things like swallowing swords and lifting heavy objects with chains attached to their eyelids.

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The Fresh A.I.R. Series — Various Artists. Community Art Program gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174.

Through Sept. 27.

Game Changer — Various artists.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

Through Sept. 14.

Buy— Sharon Feder.

Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-4928423. Through Nov. 16.

Fictions: Recent Works — Artist Daniel Sprick. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through Nov. 2.

It’s the last week to see Game Changer, which will be on display at B-MOCA through Sept. 14.

Summer in 3D — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 21.

Chinn Wang. Firehouse Arts Center, 667 fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787. Through Oct. 5. exp.

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Beyond Pop Art — A Tom Wesselman retrospective. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 14.

Photography and Vision: The Influence of Joyce and Ted Strauss — Various artists.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.Through January 25, 2015.

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At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 21.

First Glance/Second Look: Quilts from the Denver Art Museum Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through March 22, 2015.

Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives — Various artists. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through January 18, 2015.

Bubble Garden — Architect Paul Andersen.

MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303298-7554.

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

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

A Table (Somewhat): Conversations Between Objects — Richard Artschwager. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through Dec. 20.

ART/TEKNE: Part 3 “Metaphorming Nature: Connecting Human/Nature’s Creative Potential” — Todd Siler. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through Dec. 20.

EVENTS from Page 51 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

The Railsplitters. 7:30 p.m. Harmony Music Hall, 2525 1/2 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444.

Rhonda/DJ Joie. 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Steve Manshel. 5:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Wolftones. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Events Adaptive Diving Social. 6:30 p.m. Ocean First Divers, 3015 Bluff, Boulder, 303-444-7234.

Advanced Design With Google SketchUp Pro. 6 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

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Boulder Salsa Social plus Blues & WCS. 6:30 p.m.

Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd. Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Blue Krewe. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

David Shiengold. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Harmonious Junk. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Hazel Miller Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

Innerspace. 8 p.m. Club 156, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-7704.

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

Portrait Photography. 1 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.

John Statz. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Tango Class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

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

Friday, September 5

Lucas Swafford. 7 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770.

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

Michelle McAffe. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rol-

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Windigo Island — by William Kent Krueger. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Be Bop, Blues & Random Riffs — by Harry Reed. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

Night of the White Buffalo — by Margeret Coel. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

ABA Field Guide to Birds of Colorado — by Ted Floyd. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store.

2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Friday, Sept. 5.

Missing Microbes — by Martin Blaser. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Saturday, Sept. 6 Writing Group. 9 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Malcolm Brooks will read from his book Painted Horses at The Tattered Cover on Wednesday, Sept. 10.

Welcome to Jimtown — by Sylvia Welner. 5:30 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349 Sunday, Sept. 7 Harlan County USA — Tattered Cover Film Series. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

An Afternoon with Local Authors — Peter Griffiths, Richard Williams, Ann Marie and Jeannine Lee. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Active Minds Lecture — John F. Kennedy. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

David Axelrod. 6-7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe.

1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7-8:30 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Painted Horses — by Malcolm Brooks. 7 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store. 1628 16th St., Denver.

303-436-1070

Tuesday, September 9

The Evolving Soul — by Linda Backman. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

linsville, 303-258-0649.

Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Nina Storey. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Minecrafternoons* at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Rhythm Allstars. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. Atlas Black Box Theater, 1125 18th Street (off Colorado) University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder.

Saturday, September 6 Music

Smooth Money Gesture. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Second Annual Gala & Expansion Celebration. 6 p.m. The Barn Events, Wasatch Road, Longmont.

Sphere Ensemble Season Opening Show. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

The Bear on Guitar. 6 p.m. ClubNed, 154 Highway 72, Nederland, 303-258-7981.

Split Jive Broadcast. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

Bonnie and the Beard. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

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

Travellers Music. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Wall of Records. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Curly Karen. 8 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.

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

Ethyl & The Regulars. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Events

Hotfoot. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448.

Boulder International Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

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

CFOOTMAD: Boulder Community Contra Dance.

8 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Club de literatura en español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Family Game Night. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch

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Dan Abernathy. 6-7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

The Lewis Man — by Peter May. 7 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

The Randy Rogers Band. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Molly Brown. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store.

2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Monday, Sept. 8

Randall Dubis. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

FILM SERIES

Wednesday, September 10

Suicide Prevention Reading. 7-8 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Winter’s Journey — by Stephen Dobyns. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder,

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theatre Shrek the Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 6.

The Producers. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through Oct. 5.

West Side Story. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303682-9980. Through Sept. 7.

Sleeping Beauty. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-

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682-9980. Through Sept. 6.

Arsenic and Old Lace — The Upstart Crow Theatre Company, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-440-7826. Through Sept. 13.

Playback Theatre West: a Night of Improvisational Theater. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. 303-440-7826. Saturday, Sept. 6 only.

Bug. The Bug Theatre, 3564 Navajo St., Denver, 720-984-0781. Through Sept. 29.

Death by Design. Spark Theater, 3190 Wadsworth Blvd., Denver, 303588-6761. Through Sept. 27.

Dead Man’s Cell Phone. Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 800-838-3006. Through Sept. 7.

cutline tk Equinox Theatre Company is staging Bug at The Bug Theater through Sept. 20.

EVENTS from Page 53 McKay Brothers Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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Monte Selby. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

World’s Largest Environmental Festival Hosted by Latino-Americans.

Nina Storey. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Nolan McInnis Band. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303339-0767.

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North Boulder Underground. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270.

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Robert Louis Cole. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Shower Me Blue. 7:30 p.m. Spirit Hound Distillery, 4196 Ute Highway, Lyons, 303-823-5696.

CONCERT

Signel-Z Live Jazz! 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Strangebyrds. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303776-1914.

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The Sweet Lillies. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

The Symbols. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Co., 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, Courtesy of West Water 303-772-0258.

Outlaws

THE Band with a message

West Water Outlaws. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

ALSO PRESENTING: Openers by Denver Sound Musicians, "Tarantella" & "Elin Palmer"

7:00 p.m.

Events West Water Outlaws, Boulder’s rockers in residence, will be playing a free show at the Boulder Theater so the band can say thanks to its hometown.

1st NUESTRA MADRE AWARDS Honoree: Dolores Huerta

Tickets start at $42 Students/Seniors $25 Children 12 and under $10

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BodyMantra. 10:30 a.m.

Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Boulder Swing Dance - Saturday Stomp. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Boulder Valley Beer Fest.

2 p.m. Superior Community Park, 1530 COALTON Road, Superior.

The Boulder Valley Beer Fest will take place in conjunction with town of Superior’s annual Chili Fest. There will be 15 breweries taking part.

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Adobe Illustrator HandsOn. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-8004647.

Conversations in English.

4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Doggie Dash. 9 a.m. City of Boulder Reservoir, 5565 North 51st St., Boulder.

French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

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Gravity Brewing’s Second Anniversary Celebration. 12 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine St., Unit B, Louisville, 303-544-0746.

Longmont Farmers’ Market. 8 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 720-8646460.

Loom Against Cancer. 2 p.m. Outdoor DIVAS, 2317 30th, Boulder, 303-449-DIVA. Revisiting 1864: The Civil War Just Became Much More Interesting. 9 a.m. CU-Boulder, Benson Earth Sciences Room 180, 2200 Colorado Ave., Boulder.

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. Atlas Black Box Theater, 1125 18th Street (off Colorado) University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, 303-735-4577.

Storytimes en Español for Children. 11:15 a.m.

NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder, 303441-4250.

3 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Blake Aaron Russell. 7 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8008.

Getting Started with Javascript. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303800-4647.

The Boulder Jam. 9 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Frankie & Floyd. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Boulder Timberliners Barbershop Chorus. 7 p.m.

Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1680 Balsam Ave., Boulder, 303-443-4151.

Gasoline Lollipops. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Iron Chef Ramen! 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Christina Jennings. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Live Jazz Music Duos on the Patio. 6 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway St., Boulder, 720-4774164.

Coral Creek String Band. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Mirco Altenbach. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Tuesday, September 9

Face. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Music

Faculty Tuesday: Christina Jennings, flute. 7:30

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Scandinavian Weekly Dance. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303440-8303.

Trivia Night. 8:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tango Night at BTS. 9 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Sunday, September 7 Music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Blue Ribbon Healers. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. Blue Ribbon Healers. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

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

Jeff and Paige. 4:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Jeffery Brinkman. 4:30 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Co., 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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

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

The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Rajeev Taranath. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

The Stillettos. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

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

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Events Boulder Israeli Dance. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Boulder Market. All Day. Central Park, Boulder, 303449-1582.

Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

LocoTango. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Movement Mass. 10:45 a.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Monday, September 8 Music Luke the Knife & JackLNDN 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

Events Arabic Literature in Translation to English Discussion Group. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Citizenship Classes. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Conversations in English-Literary Discussions.

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September 20 & 21, 2014 11:00 am to 5:00 pm

Courtesy of Limited Partnership

Free, self-guided tour of artists’ studios in Gilpin County

Limited Partnership Premiere from Out Boulder, Monday, Sept. 8, Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-499-5777.

Same-sex marriage is now sweeping across the country, but the first same-sex couples to be legally married were hitched here in Boulder all the way back In 1975 when then Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex issued marriage licenses to six same-sex couples.

That story is chronicled in the new documentary, Limited Partnership, which will screen on Monday, Sept. 8 at the Nomad Theatre in Boulder.

The film recounts the love story between Australian Tony Sullivan and Filipino-American Richard Adams. After being married in Boulder, the couple sought their marriage benefits and applied for a green card for Tony, but were denied in an offensive and brutal manner.

“You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots,” the government response read.

Outraged by the response and desperate to prevent being separated by Tony’s impending deportation, the couple filed a lawsuit against the federal government. It was the first lawsuit against the federal government seeking equal treatment for same-sex marriages in U.S. history.

Decades later, the issue has not been resolved. Despite advances, marriage equality is not yet legal in Colorado.

The event will include a question and answer with former Boulder County Clerk Clela Rorex and present Boulder County Clerk Hillary Hall. Out Boulder, an organization that is the mecca of support for Boulder County’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,Transgender and Queer communities, is hosting the Boulder premiere of Limited Partnership. Everyday, Out Boulder provides help, information and services for the issues that impact the daily lives of the Boulder community. The screening is an event of Boulder Pridefest 2014.

potters • painters • sculptors • jewelers • collage • mosaics • 12 stops in all

To download a printable map and more information go to our facebook page • www.facebook.com/GilpinArtStudioTour OR you can pick up a map at many Gilpin County businesses

Thursday, September 11th 5:30 to 7:30 pm • Gilpin County Library, 15131 Hwy 119

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Events Boulder Folders: Learn Origami. 6:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m.

Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Das Boot Trivia. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Meadows Creative Writing Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-4414390.

Pages and Paws. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Tango Class for Beginners. 6 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Tuesday Fiction Writers. 6:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Tuesday Night Swing. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Tuesday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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David Booker Band. 8 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

FACETS: Queer Youth Cabaret. 7 p.m. Shine Brewery, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Flood Anniversary. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Ian McFeron. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Josh Quinlan Group. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Events Cinema Program free screening of Floods of Boulder County. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Midday Music. 12 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Open Art | Drop In Art Class for Children Under 5.

10 a.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. Suite B, Boulder, 303-503-1902.

Open Studio | All Ages Art Class. 3 p.m. Tinker Art Studio, 1300 Yellow Pine Ave. Suite B, Boulder, 303503-1902.

Palmer Park Run. 5:30 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

Waltz Etcetera. 7 p.m. Boulder Dance Coalition, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 800-807-6179.

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ALEF, ‘Go For Sisters’ & Edward James Olmos

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Sayles has been living on the he Dairy Center for the fringes of independent cinema since Arts is doing something his 1979 debut, Return of the Secaucus unique, so pay attention.

The Americas Latino Seven, and even if he Eco-Festival Film Forum has lost a few steps covers three continents (North and over the decades, he South America and Antarctica), proregains his footing vides a much-needed voice for the with Go For Sisters.

Latino community, discusses politiWhat begins as a cal and human interests and address“ripped from the es a multitude of ecological issues. headlines” hook It’s a four-day, 14-movie crash about the shadowy course in a world that doesn’t get the goings-on of the exposure it deserves and demands U.S./Mexico border your attention. is instilled with local flavor and old fashNow in its second year, the ioned detective work reminiscent of Americas Latino Eco-Festival (ALEF) returns to Boulder and the novels of Raymond Chandler. In Denver in hopes of raising awareness the hands of many other directors, Edward James Olmos has been a Hispanic film staple since the 1970s and has been an advofor environmental issues and contin- cate for the Latino community.

Go For Sisters could have been mired ues the ongoing dialogue of mobiliby the procedural aspects of deteczation and social justice. The Dairy tive work and the political maneuCenter for the Arts will be hosting the Film Forum ers Marcelina Cravat, Petra Costa, Coury Deeb, Mark vering between gangs, local officers and border patrol, portion of the fest, among others, and as their website Kitchell, Anthony Powell and Denise Zmekhol, as but Sayles dispenses all of that in favor of deeply states, “The event will showcase celebrities, experts in well as Skyped-in interviews and discussions. developed characters and Go For Sisters is all the the arts and sciences, and community and public poliThe 14 movies ALEF is screening are both exten- stronger for it. cy leaders, as they propose solutions to inspire our sive and impressive, but the one that immediately Go For Sisters focuses on two friends — Bernice communities to take an active role in claiming leader- stood out to this reviewer was John Sayles’s criminally (LisaGay Hamilton) and Fontayne (Yolonda Ross, ship in the browning of the conservation movement.” underseen Go For Sisters, which will play Friday, Sept. who garnered a Spirit Award Nomination for her perAttendees will include Jean-Michel Cousteau (who 12 at 6 p.m., and will feature a Q&A with one of its formance) — two girls who were so close as children will speak on his father, Jacques Cousteau), filmmakstars, Edward James Olmos. that they could “go for sisters” or at least pass as rela-

BALLANCHINE/MILLEPIED

Two ballets, by Georges Balanchine and Benjamin Millepied, from the Paris Opera Ballet. At Boedecker. — Boedecker theater

CLASSIC AT THE BOD: RED RIVER

The perfect movie to play as the final feature in the doomed small-town theater in The Last Picture Show, this movie represents the best of a genre, but it also carries a complexity uncommon to the genre, and represents some of the best performances of its varied cast. It succeeds equally as history of the West, grand cinematic art, and a tight character drama between two powerful men. Howard Hawks, 1948. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

FINDING FELA!

Finding Fela tells the story of Fela Kuti’s life (1938-1997), his music, and his social and political importance. This in-depth look at the man who created Afrobeat (a fusion of jazz, traditional West African rhythms, funk, highlife, and psychedelic rock) brings audiences close to Mr. Kuti’s fight against the dictatorial Nigerian government of the 1970s and 1980s. With his audacious music and a great deal of courage, Fela Kuti helped bring a change towards democracy in Nigeria, promoted Pan Africanist politics to the entire world and became an inspiration in the global fight for the rights of all oppressed people. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

FOUND FILM FESTIVAL

The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event showcasing videos found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters

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throughout North America. Curators Joe Pickett (The Onion) and Nick Prueher (Letterman, Colbert) take audiences on a guided tour of their latest and greatest VHS finds. September 5, 7:30 only. At Muenzinger Auditorium. —IFS

IDA From acclaimed director Pawel Pawlikowski (Last Resort, My Summer of Love) comes Ida, a moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, makes a shocking discovery about her past. Anna (stunning newcomer Agata Trzebuchowska), an 18-year-old sheltered orphan raised in a convent, is preparing to become a nun when the Mother Superior insists she first visit her sole living relative.

Naive, innocent Anna soon finds herself in the presence of her aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza), a worldly and cynical Communist Party insider, who shocks her with the declaration that her real name is Ida and her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This revelation triggers a heartwrenching journey into the countryside, to the family house and into the secrets of the repressed past, evoking the haunting legacy of the Holocaust and the realities of postwar Communism. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

JODOROWSKY’S DUNE David Lynch’s 1984 film of the novel bombed at the box office and with critics. In this doc, Director Frank Pavich’s examines what could have been by looking at the parts of the work that Lynch left out. Jodorowsky and others close to the work are interviewed. September 9, 7:30 only. At Muenzinger Auditorium.

LA DINER, VIDEO OF THE PLAY

The Boedecker Theater will screen the video of the play The LA Diner, which opened its world premier to several sold out shows in April, 2014, at The Dairy Center for the Arts. Set in a little diner in Hollywood in 1962 near the 20th Century Fox studio where Marilyn Monroe is making her last, and ultimately unfinished film, Something’s Got to Give. Characters from the movie set: Evie, Marilyn’s stand in; Walter, the movie’s script writer; and Ariel, from the studio’s commissary, mix, mingle, trade barbs, hopes and fears with Denny, the diner’s owner; Em, his elderly hostess; Erica, a waitress; and a self-absorbed reporter named Jimmy. Each are on their own journey of transformation to learn that, to quote Em, “You have to be the answer to your own prayer.” At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

NIGHT MOVES Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard star in this tense drama that pitches personal committment to a cause against personal trust as three radical environmentalists look to execute the protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

THE SARATOGA MANUSCRIPT This film is Polish director Wojciech Has’s bizarre literary epic. It is a three-hour-plus mind game that was clearly created for the enjoyment of the stoned. It’s an adaptation of Jan Potocki’s colossal eighteenth-century tome. Watch at your own risk. September 10, 7:30 only, Muenzinger Auditorium Respond: letters@boulderweekly.

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tives. As it goes with childhood, Bernice and Fontayne’s friendship was at the mercy of their families’ paths, and they ended up going in separate directions. Neither could have predicted how separate until Fontayne, an exconvict, entered the office of Bernice, now a parole officer. It was strictly a chance meeting, but chance meetings in movies have lasting effects.

The story further develops when Bernice’s son, Dez (Mahershala Ali) turns up missing and Bernice reaches out to Fontayne for help. A little investigation work leads them to believe that Dez may have been kidnapped by a Chinese gang and taken south of the border to Tijuana. The two hire a retired lawman turned private eye, Freddy (Olmos), to help them track down Dez. Freddy suffers from a rare eye disease that is quickly taking his sight and he takes the case as a chance to get his feet back under him one last time.

Like a great detective novel, Go For Sisters slowly reveals its plot through twists and turns while developing characters alongside the world they inhabit. While the three search for Dez, Sayles gives the audience a walking tour of Tijuana’s backside, a side that no casual tourist would be privy too. What the trio uncover is much more than a simple missing persons case, and a very complex and profitable abduction and kidnapping system is revealed. Sayles occasionally paints with a broad brush when depicting the community of Tijuana (the Chinese gang in particular feels more like an after school special than a wholly realized entity), but it is in the quiet moments of characters talking to one another where a great deal of truth is revealed. The more we Boulder Weekly

learn about Bernice, Fontayne and Freddie, the less we see them as movie characters and the more we see them as real people doing the best they can with the hand they were dealt.

As the title suggests, the focus of Go For Sisters is the relationship between Bernice and Fontayne, but the star of the show is the incomparable Olmos, who plays Freddy like an old and beaten up Philip Marlowe: easy going, knowledgeable and ready for the worst while hoping for the best. Olmos has been a Hispanic movie star staple since the mid-1970s. In 1985, he was awarded both the Golden Globe and Emmy for his role as Lieutenant Martin Castillo in Miami Vice. His performance as teacher Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988) earned him an Academy Award Nomination for Best Actor (he lost to Dustin Hoffman’s Rain Man performance).

In addition to his acting, Olmos’s personal website, www.edwardjamesolmos.com, lists an extensive amount of advocacy work that spans anywhere from political activism to working with the Latino community, establishing the Los Angeles Latino Film Festival in 1997, co-founding the nonprofit Latino Literacy Now and even founding Latino Public Broadcasting in 1998, where Olmos served as the chairman.

He continues to visit juvenile halls and detention centers to speak with at-risk teens as well as a serving as an international ambassador for UNICEF. ALEF is giving viewers the opportunity to engage with this phenomenal actor following the screening of Go For Sisters. Tickets for Go For Sisters and the rest of the ALEF Film Forum start at $6 and can be ordered online at www. thedairy.org.

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s a nurse, Americas Latino Eco-Festival volunteer Tanja Johnson worked all over the world. She says that everywhere she went, she saw that food was a core part of what made and drove the culture. She says she learned that “food is where we gather, food is community and food is collaboration.”

“In Kosovo there was no money, but there was always enough [food],” she says. “Why? Because they grow their own food and share with one another.”

But it wasn’t until Johnson became pregnant with her daughter that she moved from being an observer to a practitioner.

“I wanted to do the best I could for my daughter, for my fetus,” she says. “Every year I learned more and more. And food became my passion. On a grassroots level, I started talking to all my neighbors about organic milk, organic eggs, and I would get all my friends and neighbors around. And it created a cultural change, and people would thank me.”

ON THE BILL: Latinovating Johnson says that by the age of two, her Food Fiesta. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 13, outside The daughter would ask people if things had Dairy Center for the Arts, 26th corn syrup in them, and would then turn and Walnut, Boulder. them away if they did, and even knew to Free. wear booties on her shoes at farms to avoid impacting the soil.

That’s why Johnson felt that addressing food and its larger cultural implications had to be a part of the Americas Latino Eco-Festival. Food is a key ingredient to culture and its cultivation has major environmental implications. If you can shift the culture of food in the Latino community, then the weight of that population can make large advances for the environment.

And it isn’t just the size of the Latino population that makes it powerful. Johnson says there are unique elements that can address

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tions using terms denoting healthy concepts have more effect on consumer food choices than the actual relative healthiness of the items themselves.

“About 38 percent of adults agree that if a healthy menu item sounds tasty in the menu description, they are more likely to order it. Moreover, some 27 percent of consumers say they like to order healthy meals with ingredients they are familiar with,” Mintel said in a press release.

The study ultimately says that even if ingredients are healthy, people aren’t likely to order them unless it fits their existing frame.

It also says that around a quarter of those surveyed aren’t interested in healthy menu options because they view eating out as a treat.

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EBOLA OUTBREAK EXACERBATING HUNGER ISSUES

The UN is paying close attention to the effects that quarantine efforts to control the current Ebola outbreak are having on hunger issues.

“A health crisis will become a food crisis,” World Food Program spokeswoman Fabienne Pompey told The Washington Post.

The epidemic has shut down markets, limited trade and made game-animals suspect. Farmers are in many cases prohibited from farming due to government bans on public gatherings as part of control measures, and getting in aid has also become more difficult.

Experts have estimated the food stocks as enough to last one or two months, and there have been riots in Liberia over limited food access.

UN Food and Agriculture representative told The Washington Post. “People are saying: ‘We’re not afraid of dying from Ebola, we’re starving.’ ” — Josh Gross

THREE LEAF FARM WORKSHOPS

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But if you’d like to be a part of that effort, you can do so this week with an Introduction to Beekeeping workshop at Three Leaf Farm in Lafayette on Saturday, Sept. 6. The class will offer information on how to start and manage hives that has been gleaned from Three Leaf Farm beekeepers Mike Haynes

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The class costs $25 and runs from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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On Friday, August 29, Ian Blackford, one of the original founders of Boulder’s beloved restaurant/microbrewery Mountain Sun, died of colon cancer. Blackford was only 46. We at Boulder Weekly would like to extend our condolences to Ian’s family and friends. We would also like to acknowledge how much his vision and energy meant to our community. He helped to create a business that truly reflects Boulder’s best qualities.

His inspiration to give the people of Boulder free live music while supporting local musicians helped launch the careers of bands like String Cheese Incident and Yonder Mountain String Band that played some of their first shows at Mountain Sun. Ian Blackford has moved on but he will never be forgotten. Thanks for making Boulder a better place for all of us.

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s the meat-eating members of the Simpsons once taunted Lisa: “You don’t win friends with salad.” But MAD Greens is giving it a shot.

The Colorado chain has been slinging spinach since 2004, steadily growing from a single saladteria in Denver to a dozen locations statewide, with company owners saying they are looking to open as many as 50 more outlets in the next five years. MAD Greens may not be winning friends by The Simpsons’ metric, but it’s certainly influencing people.

There are two locations in Boulder, one on the University of Colorado Boulder campus and another in the 29th Street Mall. Both are part of the growing trend of restaurants that combine the rapid-service model with higher-quality preparation and ingredients, with company founders saying on the eatery’s website that they built their practices around the idea of a 20-minute lunch. MAD Greens even locally sources many ingredients and list their origins both on their website and on a whiteboard in the restaurant.

That’s something you certainly don’t get with McDonald’s.

The layout for the 29th Street location is similar to a Subway, with salad artists tossing on command. Preexisting recipes are available, all named after famous weirdos like Edgar Allan Poe, Crazy Ivan and Ty Cobb, or you can build your own.

The Don Quixote I ordered ($6.85 small, $7.50 large) came with baby greens, mango and avocado

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overstated. Mona Lisa (pesto, mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, MAD Greens balsamic and onion)? Was 1805 29th St., Boulder she even a person or DaVinci 720-496-4157 in drag? Marilyn Monroe (turkey, sun dried tomatoes, cucumbers, goat cheese and pesto)? Since when is one crazy for starring in Some Like it Hot, and lapdancing a Kennedy? Veggie Hamlet (portobellos, jack, artichokes and red onions) works though. Seriously, suck it up Hambone. You’re the Prince of Denmark. Show some dignity or else you’ll end up with a sandwich named after you.

Thankfully, none of the veggies on that sandwich are rotten. You know, because “something was rotten in the state of Denmark”? Anybody?

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My dining companion went for the MAD Molly Brown, with mozzarella, tomatoes and grilled sweet onions on spinach. True to legend, it didn’t sink in either of our stomachs.

Like most rapid-service establishments, the restaurant’s interior is a bit sterile, designed for efficiency of cleaning more than ambiance. But it’s by no means uncomfortable, and the elevated patio features a stellar view of the flatirons. So sit outside if you’re feeling as mopey as a certain emo Prince.

MAD Greens isn’t perfect — few places are — but it’s focus on combining the efficiency and pricing of fast food with the taste, health and sustainability elements of the foodie movement is exactly what chain restaurants need more of. Maybe you can win friends with salad after all.

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tossed with roasted corn and jack cheese. As per the menu’s suggestions, I went with the creamy ginger dressing and added southwestern grilled chicken. Like most salads: it tasted like the sum of its ingredients. But since those ingredients were all good, then everything worked out.

I added a cup of the daily soup (green chili), and a cookie. It was a rich enough green chili, though not an epically spicy one — “salad people,” amiright or amiright? — but at the end I was still a bit hungry (#SaladProblems, amiright or amiright?), and resolved that on a return trip I’d augment MAD Greens’ greens with a MAD panini in order to avoid leaving MAD Greens hangry, or, you know, “mad.”

The panini menu continues on the famous lunatic theme, though some of the choices’ nuttiness may be

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environmental concerns. tested against those that aren’t; an event For one: “Latin families are historifor kids teaching them how to make cally known for big families, big meals,” natural snacks from scratch; the “somshe says. mellier showdown,” which will be a sort The size of the meals means they of Pepsi challenge for wine; and the are more likely to be made from “stuff it burrito challenge for dads,” in scratch, which makes that cuisine an which local padres can test their burriideal demographic for organic products. to-rolling skills. The fastest dad gets Then there’s key ingredients in the bragging rights and everyone gets to eat cuisine like limes, which can effect pH their burrito afterwards. balance; cilantro, which Johnson says There will also be a variety of can function as a detoxifier for endobooths and information about CSAs, crine disrupting organic produce Susan France pesticides; and and how to green corn, which in your family’s dinaddition to being ner table. one of the most “We know omnipresent elestatistically that ments in Latino the Latino comcuisine, is also munity doesn’t primarily farmed have as much using GMO access to these seeds. Get foods because of Latinos to reject their socio-ecoGMO corn, and nomic status,” you dramatically Johnson says. shift the market.

There will And: “If we also be the “Farm can get families to Laughter” to get their corn event, which will from their local offer up a muy CSA, then they fancy farm dinner before a perwouldn’t be formance from effected by the Rick Najera, a national price swings,” she says. Key ingredients in Latino food, such as corn, have former writer on In Living Color, To make that large environmental impacts. and just after a shift happen, Johnson is heading up the Latinovating screening of Food Chains, from producer Eva Longoria. That dinner costs $80 Food Fiesta at the Americas Latino and includes pre-dinner drinks from Eco-Festival, which will happen on Suerte Tequila.

Saturday, Sept. 13 at the Family Day Of course, Johnson isn’t so naïve as and Green Markets Fair, which is part to believe all it will take is a big shindig of the Americas Latinos Eco-Festival like this and the world will immediately taking over The Dairy Center for the self-correct. But she feels that Boulder Arts from Thursday, Sept. 11-Monday, is a unique place to seed that larger Sept. 15. change, because of its existing cultural “Last year we had no food compointerest in healthy food, because of its nent,” says Johnson. “We threw a huge festival and we barely had any food. Just affluence making healthy food more accessible, and because of its relative some baked goods. We wanted to say closeness to large agricultural assets like this is how you do it.” farms, and smaller ones like fruit trees In addition to the speakers, films located along Boulder Creek. and workshops already offered by the “It starts at the local level,” she says. festival, many of which have food “We’re not going to change it up here themes, there will be a series of events [at the national level] because there’s highlighting ways that people can hartoo much Big Ag. We’re going to ness the power of food to create envichange it with our people sand our local ronmental change. farmers. And from our local farmers Events on the schedule include the we’ll see the political change. Boulder is Boulder Restaurant Challenge, in the perfect place to do it, and we’ll see which local restaurants created a Latino-inspired dish using local, organ- that change measured in the next three to five years.” ic and GMO-free ingredients; the But you’ll be able to taste that Supremo Salsa challenge, in which salchange on Saturday, Sept. 13. sas made from local organic and Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com GMO-free ingredients will be tasteBoulder Weekly

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Barrel Part of the Company in beauty of this Denver sold style of aged beers is the unpredictabilimore than 10,000 barrels last year. ty of it.

“It’s very difficult to find whiskey “When brewers decide to lay a beer barrels right now, so more brewers are down inside a barrel, they are taking a trying different barrels,” says Jon Levy leap of faith. Each barrel is different and CFO of Rocky Mountain Barrel hence imparts a different flavor to the Company. “Everyone wants bourbon liquid inside,” says Alex Violette, brewer barrels and there simply aren’t enough at Upslope Brewing. “If you are using a to go around.” whiskey barrel, it depends on the type of Last year only one other category of spirit and char on the inside of the barbeer (IPA) had more entrants at the rel, while wine barrels are thicker, which Great American Beer Festival than barslows the process. You can sometimes rel-aged beer, so it’s safe to assume we end up with a completely different result will see many more outlandish offerings than planned.” from brewers appearing daily. Beer conDue to the variability of the finnoisseurs would not have it any other ished product from each fermentation, way. the liquid the public drinks is often a Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but I’m going to suggest that you monitor the number six.

My hypothesis is that six has been trying to grab your attention, perhaps even in askew or inconvenient ways. Its purpose? To nudge you to tune in to beneficial influences that you have been ignoring. I furthermore suspect that six is angling to show you clues about what is both the cause of your unscratchable itch and the cure for that itch. So lighten up and have fun with this absurd mystery, Aries. Without taking it too seriously, allow six to be your weird little teacher. Let it prick your intuition with quirky notions and outlandish speculations. If nothing comes of it, there will be no harm done. If it leads you to helpful discoveries, hallelujah.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

In English, the rare word “trouvaille” means a lucky find or an unexpected windfall. In French, “trouvaille” can refer to the same thing and even more: something interesting or exceptional that is discovered fortuitously; a fun or enlightening blessing that’s generated through the efforts of a vigorous imagination. Of course I can’t guarantee that you will experience a trouvaille or two (or even three) in the coming days, Taurus. But the conditions are as ripe as they can be for such a possibility.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

The Dutch word epibreren means that even though you are goofing off, you are trying to create the impression that you are hard at work. I wouldn’t be totally opposed to you indulging in some major epibreren in the coming days.

More importantly, the cosmos won’t exact any karmic repercussions for it. I suspect, in fact, that the cosmos is secretly conspiring for you to enjoy more slack and spaciousness that usual. You’re overdue to recharge your spiritual and emotional batteries, and that will require extra repose and quietude. If you have to engage in a bit of masquerade to get the ease you need, so be it.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

When James Franco began to learn his craft as an actor, he was young and poor. A gig at McDonald’s paid for his acting lessons and allowed him to earn a living. He also used his time on the job as an opportunity to build his skills as a performer. While serving customers burgers and fries, he practiced speaking to them in a variety of different accents. Now would be an excellent time for you to adopt a similar strategy, Cancerian. Even if you are not doing what you love to do full-time, you can and should take stronger measures to prepare yourself for that day when you will be doing more of what you love to do.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

Here are a few of the major companies that got their starts in home garages: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mattel, Amazon and Disney. Even if you’re not in full support of their business practices, you’ve got to admit that their humble origins didn’t limit their ability to become rich and powerful. As I meditate on the long-term astrological omens, I surmise you are now in a position to launch a project that could follow a similar arc. It would be more modest, of course. I don’t foresee you ultimately becoming an international corporation worth billions of dollars. But the success would be bigger than I think you can imagine.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

“I have a hypothesis that everyone is born with the same amount of luck,” says cartoonist Scott Adams. “But luck doesn’t appear to be spread evenly across a person’s life.

Some people use up all of their luck early in life. Others start out in bad circumstances and finish strong.” How would you assess your own distribution of luck, Virgo?

According to my projections, you are in a phase when luck is flowing stronger and deeper than usual. And I bet it will intensify in the coming weeks. I suggest you use it wisely — which is to say, with flair and aplomb and generosity.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

When my daughter Zoe was 7 years old, she took horse-back riding lessons with a group of other young aspirants. On the third lesson, their instructor assigned them the task of carrying an egg in a spoon that they clasped in their mouths as they sat facing backwards on a trotting horse.

That seemingly improbable task reminds me of what you’re working on right now, Libra. Your balancing act isn’t quite as demanding, but it is testing you in ways you’re not accustomed to. My prognosis: You will master what’s required of you faster than the kids at Zoe’s horse camp. Every one of them broke at least eight eggs before succeeding. I suspect that three or four attempts will be enough for you.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

Peter the Great was the Tsar of Russia from 1682 until 1725. Under his rule, his nation became a major empire.

He also led a cultural revolution that brought modern European-style ideas and influences to Russia. But for our purposes right now, I want to call attention to one of his other accomplishments: The All-Joking, All-Drunken Council of Fools and Jesters. It was a club he organized with his allies to ensure there would always be an abundance of parties for him to enjoy. I don’t think you need alcohol as an essential part of your own efforts to sustain maximum revelry in the coming weeks, Scorpio. But I do suggest you convene a similar brain trust.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

In Roald Dahl’s kids’ story James and the Giant Peach, 501 seagulls are needed to carry the giant peach from a spot near the Azores all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to New York City. But physics students at the U.K.’s University of Leicester have determined that such a modest contingent wouldn’t be nearly enough to achieve a successful airlift.

By their calculations, there’d have to be a minimum of 2,425,907 seagulls involved. I urge you to consider the possibility that you, too, will require more power than you have estimated to accomplish your own magic feat. Certainly not almost 5,000 times more, as in the case of the seagulls.

Fifteen percent more should be enough. (P.S. I’m almost positive you can rustle up that extra 15 percent.)

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

So far, 53 toys have been inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. They include crayons, the jump rope, Mr. Potato Head, the yo-yo, the rubber duckie, and dominoes. My favorite inductee — and the toy that is most symbolically useful to you right now — is the plain old cardboard box. Of all the world’s playthings, it is perhaps the one that requires and activates the most imagination. It can become a fort, a spaceship, a washing machine, a cave, a submarine and many other exotic things. I think you need to be around influences akin to the cardboard box because they are likely to unleash your dormant creativity.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

I’m not opposed to you fighting a good fight. It’s quite possible you would become smarter and stronger by wrangling with a worthy adversary or struggling against a bad influence. The passion you summon to outwit an obstacle could bestow blessings not only on you but on other people, as well. But here’s a big caveat: I hope you will not get embroiled in a showdown with an imaginary foe. I pray that you will refrain from a futile combat with a slippery delusion. Choose your battles carefully, Aquarius.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

During the next six weeks, I suggest you regard symbiosis as one of your key themes. Be alert for ways you can cultivate more interesting and intense forms of intimacy. Magnetize yourself to the joys of teamwork and collaboration. Which of your skills and talents are most useful to other people?

Which are most likely to inspire your allies to offer you their best skills and talents? I suggest you highlight everything about yourself that is most likely to win you love, appreciation, and help.

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The same goes for watching TV, looking at magazines, you name it. A lot of this stems from her best friend ’s cousin, who worked with people in the porn industry and seduced underage girls into sexual acts. To her, watching porn is the same as what this guy did, but I am pretty sure that I am not a sexual predator. I’ve never made any kind of sexual advance toward anyone else in the time I’ve been with her, and until my admission, she assumed I was a generally good person. At this point, I’m not sure how to get her to see me for the person I am rather than the person she thinks I’ve become.

How do I convince her I am still the same person she fell in love with and get her to put aside this irrational fear she has about me?

Sincerely Not A Pedophile Dear SNAP: DTMFA There’s just one thing you should be trying to convince your wife of right now, SNAP, and it’s this: You aren’t gonna put up with her abusive bullshit anymore. So go gather your things together — don’t forget your balls — and move the hell out.

Because this conflict has nothing to do with porn, it has nothing to do with your character, and it has nothing to do with the criminal behavior of your wife’s best friend’s cousin.

(Whatever the fuck to that rationalization.) The issue here — the only issue — is that you made the mistake of marrying a controlling, irrational, abusive psycho. Sticking around to reason with a CIAP doesn’t get you anywhere. Begging and pleading with Boulder Weekly

your wife — desperately trying to convince her that you’re the person she fell in love with — only demonstrates that you’ll take whatever she dishes out and come crawling back for more.

Get out. Leave. Don’t look back.

DTMFA. Want a second opinion? I posted your letter to my blog, and here’s what one of the more astute commenters had to say: “This is what happens when you marry someone you already know you have to lie and cheat to be with. She set her conditions plainly — she feels porn use is evil. You knew you were fine with porn use and used it yourself.

You should have broken up for irreconcilable differences then and there. But instead you chose to lie and to pretend to be someone you weren’t. Break up now and find someone who accepts you for who you are.”

There you go, SNAP: This advice columnist and an anonymous commenter both agree that you have to leave this woman. Do you fear being alone? You shouldn’t. Being alone — and being free to enjoy porn — is better than being with someone like your wife. But if you can’t stand the thought of being alone, if you absolutely, positively must stay with this woman for reasons you don’t list (does she have any redeeming qualities?), then you will have to tell the CIAP what she wants to hear: You did a terrible thing (you didn’t), you’re an addict (you’re not), you have a problem (you don’t). Find a therapist for some confidential sessions, talk about the weather, then come home and tell your wife that you’ve been cured and that you will never look at porn — or other women — ever again.

And even if you never look at porn ever again — which isn’t likely — your controlling, irrational, abusive spouse will find something else to blow up at you about. If you don’t take my advice and DTMFA now, SNAP, you’re gonna have to DTMFA at some point.

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grew up in a family with Democratic blood, and reform begins to look as disingenuous as saying frackI’ve voted on that side of the fence more often ing fluid is safe because he once sipped some. than not. Though I’ve been registered as an On the other side, we have Bob Beauprez. Given independent for the last decade or so, I voted for his positions on almost everything, I couldn’t vote for John Hickenlooper as governor of Colorado four this Republican candidate for governor under any ciryears ago. cumstances.

Leland Rucker Hickenlooper’s eight-year Which brings us to Mike tenure as mayor of Denver had Dunafon, the mayor of Glendale been impressive, and I was eager since 2012 and married to the to see what he could accomplish owner of Shotgun Willie’s, who as governor. That’s when his past is also running for governor as came crashing into the present. an independent. And yes, he’s With Colorado ground-zero for perfectly aware of how crazy it the fracking debate, former geolsounds to be running for the ogist Hickenlooper has consishighest state office without party tently made decisions that tend money or affiliation. to line up with oil and gas inter“We have got to change our ests and, in many people’s eyes, operating system and say to ouragainst citizens and municipaliselves that we are going to ties. change this,” Dunafon told me last week. “If I get my ass kicked, He moved into the mayor’s so what?” seat after creating a Denver Glendale is tiny, just 0.6 brewing dynasty, and upon square miles in size, with a popbecoming governor vocally ulation of about 4,200. Cherry opposed the passage of Creek runs through the middle Amendment 64. Hickenlooper’s of it.

It’s surrounded on all sides a bright guy, and he must know Mike Dunafon is running for governor, too. by Denver.

Besides the strip that cannabis is far less dangerclub, Glendale boasts a worldous than alcohol for most people — heck, his beer buddy, the class rugby facility, something president, has said as much. So that Dunafon had a lot to do his stubborn opposition and seeming lack of curiosity with, too. Glendale uses a system of government simiabout the subject has both puzzled and irritated me. lar to Boulder’s, with a city council that appoints a He admitted to early use but said that it made him city manager. One difference is that the mayor only stupid and he didn’t like it, as if that were a good reavotes if the other six council members are tied on a son to keep it illegal. Since its passage, he has folparticular issue. Which means that even though lowed the law, but he’s been holding his nose all the Dunafon is never shy about his opinions, he’s as much way. referee as rulemaker in a town where they regularly To his credit, Hickenlooper has praised the legalpurge outdated laws from the books. ization roll-out and admitted that cannabis has helped Dunafon says he’s the only mayor in the metro the economy during a tough period. But watching the area to support Amendment 64, and he’s spoken at guv playing pool and drinking beer with the president 420 rallies. He says that Amendment 64 showed peowhile continuing to be unsupportive of cannabis ple that they could go out and make a difference.

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“But it’s a tragic mistake,” he adds, “if you only think you have one liberty or if you’re not ready to defend your neighbor’s liberty. You may not like it — you may not like homosexuals — but you better defend them. Because you don’t get to pick and choose those liberties. It’s all or none. Marijuana is a great metaphor for liberty.”

Dunafon is fiscally conservative and pro-gay marriage. He’s not opposed to fracking per se but wants to see oil drilling taking place someplace outside our cities and towns. He would free all non-violent offenders from the prison system and has some interesting ideas about how to get them back into the system.

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Adherence to party affiliations and reliance on corporate money are at least two things feeding the current dysfunction and say-no politics in Washington.

What Dunafon’s candidacy reminds me is that perhaps the only way to chip away at the two-party system is to “vote the bastards out.” More than anything else, I really like the idea of the governor as more referee than policymaker, somebody who can goad both sides toward more common, non-partisan goals.

Some suggest that a vote for Dunafon might help Beauprez. But though he’s not a libertarian, Dunafon sounds enough like one that he could just as easily take voters away from a status-quo Republican teapartier like Beauprez as a pro-business Dem like Hick.

By all means, make your own decision based on the best facts you can find. (More on his positions at www.dunafonforgovernor.com.) But if you’re as fed up with party politics as I am, at least consider this alternative.

You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu/category/features/weedbetween-the-lines/ Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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