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“We knew challenging the status quo

would be neither quick nor easy, but our efforts are paying off: the PUC has given us a path forward and our pressure is motivating Xcel to propose closing coal plants. So, buck up, Boulder! Let’s keep our eyes on the climate prize!”

— Suzanne Jones, Boulder Mayor

“Given what’s happening at the national level,

“Don’t be fooled.

now is the time to take bold leaps forward on clean energy. Creating our own municipal electric utility is the only way we'll be able to meet our goal of being powered by 100% clean, renewable energy.”

— Steve Fenberg Colorado State Senator

“Boulder’s persistence

in working toward democratized, decentralized and decarbonized local energy makes me proud. As long as we are bound to Xcel and the Public Utilities Commission, our opportunities to innovate and reach toward a zero carbon future are seriously constrained.”

A ‘no’ vote will lead us back to the swamp of rate increases and debt burden associated with Xcel’s intent to spend as much as possible, passing the costs to us. And we’ll have no control over their decisions.”

— Leslie Glustrom Clean Energy Action

“We now have a clear path for municipalization. Conceding now, at this critical time of horrifying national politics, would significantly set back the essential effort to decarbonize, decentralize, and democratize the energy system.”

— Matt Appelbaum Former Boulder Mayor

— Susan Osborne Former Boulder Mayor

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departments 7 THE HIGHROAD: Time for Democratic Party Leaders to get going — or go 8 THE ANDERSON FILES: Helping heal the wounds of division 8 GUEST COLUMNS: Sustainability should not be legally impossible; Why Xcel’s system can’t work for Boulder 11 LETTERS: Signed, sealed, delivered, your views 17 ENDORSEMENTS: 2017 election endorsements 39 OVERTONES: The Bad Plus finds a new sound 43 ARTS & CULTURE: ‘Rock of Ages’ entertains at BDT Stage 45 BOULDER COUNTY EVENTS: What to do and where to go 53 POETRY: by Wesley McNair 54 SCREEN: ‘The Trip to Spain’ is blandly, darkly quixotic 55 FILM: Cold irony and sober reality in ‘Thank You For Your Service’ 57 THE TASTING MENU: Four courses to try in and around Boulder County this week 59 NIBBLES: Can Chipotle’s Velveeta-free chile cheese dip compete?

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Highroad Time for Democratic Party leaders to get going — or go

by Jim Hightower

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ood news, people — at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine and are beginning to act like... well, like Democrats!

In particular, a majority of Dems in the U.S. House are responding to the rising public demand that decent health care be treated as a right for everyone, rather than being rationed by profiteering insurance conglomerates. Nearly six of 10 Dems in the House have now signed on to Rep. John Conyers’ “Medicare for All” bill, which is being carried in the Senate by Bernie Sanders.

So — Hallelujah, progress!

Yes, but there are many speed bumps to overcome before

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the Democratic Party gets onto the moral high road of politics — Rep. Nancy Pelosi, for one. When the leader of House Democrats was asked if the party should make health-carefor-all a major issue in Congress and in the 2018 elections, she replied with a flat “no.” Basically, Pelosi says “the American people” aren’t ready for it — by which she really means that the narrow slice of the public that inhabits her world — health industry executives, lobbyists and campaign donors — aren’t ready. Meanwhile, a good 60 percent of regular Americans are damned sure ready, telling pollsters that our government has a responsibility to ensure that everyone gets the care they need.

Let’s be blunt: When it comes to the fiery leadership that America’s grassroots people want and need, the Democratic Party establishment is weaker than Canadian hot sauce. When you’ve got 60 percent of your party’s rank-and-file congressional members ready to go, and 60 percent of the public is also ready to go — it’s time to go! The national party’s “leadership” must get going on health care for all, or the leadership itself must go.

To help push both the party and the issue forward, go to www.NationalNursesUnited.org.

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the anderson files Helping heal the wounds of division by Dave Anderson

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he massive 10-part PBS documovement worked with U.S. intelligence mentary series on the Vietnam (the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA) War by Ken Burns and Lynn in fighting the Japanese and NaziNovick starts by saying the war collaborationist French who were occuwas “begun in good faith by decent peo- pying Vietnam. ple out of fateful misunderstandings, In 1945 at a massive rally in Hanoi, American overconfidence and Cold War the Communist-led Vietnamese nationmiscalculation.” alist movement put forward a Ken Burns told Reed Richardson of “Declaration of Independence,” whose The New Yorker that documentaries trafirst three sentences came straight from ditionally advocate a position like an the U.S. version. The struggle against editorial but his films are works of the French continued until the “emotional archeology. ” He once said, Vietnamese won in 1954. During this “I want to bring everybody in.” He told war, the U.S. bankrolled and supplied Richardson that after people see the the French. Vietnam was then divided series, “A lot of people will think I’m a and the U.S. created a client regime in Commie pinko, and a lot of people will the south. In 1956, the U.S. supported think I’m a right-wing nutcase, and cancelling national elections to reunify that’s sort of the way it goes.”

Vietnam. Eisenhower later said that Ho If you watch the entire 18 hours, the Chi Minh would have won those elecnotion that the American war was tions. “begun in good faith” is debunked conThat’s only part of the inconvenient stantly, episode by episode with meticuhistory of the war that is recounted in lous documentation. The series impresthe series. But the main focus is on the sively reveals the sordid lies and deceppersonal stories of combat veterans on all tions of American sides. John policy makers and Musgrave, who was the horrific indea Marine, talks cency of a decadesabout how racism long genocidal was crucial to basic THE ENTIRE 18 HOURS neo-colonial war. training. “Turning OF KEN BURNS AND The series offers people into objects LYNN NOVICK’S little comfort to is an important tool the right-wingers when children are DOCUMENTARY SERIES who have tried to fighting your wars,” ON THE VIETNAM WAR, convince he says. He THE NOTION THAT Americans that the describes how his war was, as Ronald personal demons THE AMERICAN WAR Reagan put it, a almost drove him to WAS “BEGUN IN GOOD necessary “noble suicide after the FAITH” IS DEBUNKED cause,” which could war. He became have been won if it empowered when CONSTANTLY. weren’t for the suphe became an activposedly liberal ist in the Vietnam media and the Veterans Against weak-kneed liberal politicians. the War (VVAW). In 1971, he and The series acknowledges that about 800 other veterans individually Vietnamese communist leader Ho Chi tossed their medals, ribbons, discharge Minh was also considered the leader of papers and other war mementos on the the nationalist movement against French steps of the U.S. Capitol, rejecting the colonialism. Ho appealed several times war and the significance of those awards. to the U.S. to recognize Vietnam’s right As someone who politically came of to independence, only to be ignored age during the war and participated in each time. The first time was in 1919 at the anti-war movement, I found the the Versailles Peace Conference followseries spellbinding but also somewhat ing World War I. He attempted to pres- bewildering. As historian Maurice ent U.S. President Woodrow Wilson Isserman points out, Burns and Novick with his proposal for Vietnam’s indepen- “manage simultaneously to offer a thordence, but was turned away. see ANDERSON Page 10 During World War II, Ho and his

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guest column Sustainability should not be legally impossible

by Nora Gayer

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write today on behalf of the Boulder Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). This is our statement of solidarity with frontline communities worldwide, and in particular with East Boulder County United, the Boulder County Protectors, and the Erie Protectors.

We share the fundamental analysis that fracking is imminent in Boulder County and that fracking is the result of a system designed to harm people, rather than a fluke in an otherwise harmless system.

Over the past few years, Colorado courts have struck down fracking bans enacted by the citizens of Lafayette, Longmont, Broomfield and Fort Collins. These court decisions are symptomatic of the fact that our current system of law was designed to protect corporate profits over the rights of workers, communities and nature itself. On May 1 of this year, the Boulder County Commissioners ended the Boulder County drilling moratorium that had been in place since 2012 and began paving the way for the County to be fracked. In order to preserve the possibility of a habitable climate, we reject this system and refuse to lend legitimacy to the laws that make sustainability legally impossible.

Many people in Boulder cannot bring themselves to believe that corporations — with the blessing of both major political parties — would force poison upon their children. This is not their

experience in life to date: the consequences of extraction have always fallen most heavily on indigenous people, people of color, poor folks and people living under Western imperialism. It is not lost on us that we are writing this statement on territory that belongs to the Southern Arapaho, the Cheyenne, and the Utes, who were ethnically cleansed from this land and forced onto reservations so that Euro-American colonizers could mine for gold. For that reason, we also express our solidarity with local indigenous leaders in opposition to the continued legacies of colonialism and extraction.

Regardless of what people would like to believe about Boulder County, we are about to get fracked. And it is happening because ordinary people currently have no legal avenue by which to refuse industrial activity in their communities.

We have heard self-declared environmentalists accuse the Boulder County Protectors of making the perfect the enemy of the good. But in the words of Naomi Klein, “‘Perfect’ left the station a couple decades ago. We’re not letting the difficult be the enemy of the necessary.”

Even if there once was room for compromise with the fossil fuel industry (hint: there wasn’t), by now the hour is far too late for anything but an all-out fight. The industry is literally dragging our planet to hell, along with those of us who live on it. see SUSTAINABILITY Page 9

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Nowhere in Boulder County are humans safe from extractive industry. Air and water don’t stand still — Boulder County already has an “F” from the American Lung Association for air quality due to oil and gas extraction in neighboring counties. The fossil fuel industry has our planet on a fast-track to becoming uninhabitable, and we see the evidence right here. The latest science out of Oil Change International indicates that, to meet the Paris Climate Accords targets — targets that many climate scientists believe do not go far enough — there can be no new fossil fuel infrastructure. Boulder County is not immune to that scientific fact. As such, the County Commissioners’ recent pledge to uphold the Paris Climate Agreement targets is meaningless and cynically misleading in the absence of an attendant immediate ban on fracking.

The Democratic Party has shown that it has no plans to stop this menace.

In 2011, Commissioner Jones advocated for collaboration between industry and environmental groups in Natural Gas 360, which is nothing more than an industry propaganda outlet. She also personally met with 8 North, a subsidiary of Extraction Oil & Gas, during Boulder County’s drilling moratorium.

As a public official, Commissioner Jones owes us transparency on important issues like this. However, she did not inform the public of the meeting. Nor has she released notes from the meeting, which she apparently intended to keep a secret.

When pressed, Commissioner Jones

defended the meeting by likening a meeting with industry reps to a meeting with constituents.

Now 8 North has submitted plans to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to drill in Lafayette near Pioneer Elementary School and fields, where children spend their days going to school and playing soccer. Outside of Lafayette Council member Merrily Mazza, the remaining council members have no viable strategy to fight drilling.

As the wells line up, they are now flailing to maintain some political credibility while keeping community members acquiescent in plans that threaten to poison their children. The Lafayette City Council, it would appear, is operating from the same playbook as the Boulder County Commissioners. Since they ended the drilling moratorium in May, Commissioners Jones, Gardner and Domenico have continuously reassured the people that we have nothing to worry about. Their talking points are tailored to maintain order rather than justice, so that our community might “peaceably” accept the violence of fracking. Nine months ago, East Boulder County United and the Boulder County Protectors presented the County Commissioners with the Climate Bill of Rights and Protections, which would not only ban fracking, but also fundamentally shift the balance of power away from corporations and empower community members to defend ourselves against any industrial activity that impinges on our fundamental right to a

healthy climate.

For nine months, citizens have urged the commissioners to put the Climate Bill of Rights and Protections to a vote of the people, and the commissioners have refused. In other words, they will not grant the public — the living, breathing public — a vote in whether or not the oil and gas industry poisons us.

The Commissioners have subverted democracy for too long.

This isn’t just about being right; it’s about our very survival.

It’s about the fact that we currently have no legal avenue by which to protect ourselves from an industry that wants to burn us alive — as the recent explosions in Brighton, Mead and Firestone remind us. When our elected officials prove themselves unwilling to defend us, we have to defend ourselves. We refuse to sit idly by as this beautiful county is turned into an oil field.

We are socialists because we envision and fight for a world in which democracy extends into every arena of our lives.

Currently, the course of ordinary people’s lives is determined by a set of institutions over which we exert no democratic control. The fossil fuel industry’s planned assault on Boulder County epitomizes capitalism’s incompatibility with democracy.

In DSA, we say “Socialism or Barbarism.” This isn’t merely a slogan about some hypothetical future; barbarism is here. Barbarism is the U.S. letting Puerto Rico, a colony in everything but name, starve in the wake of Hurricane

g u e s t I wish I could vote in c o l u m n Boulder’s muni election

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by Bill McKibben

’m not lucky enough to get to vote in the wonderful City of Boulder. But if I were, I know that I’d be voting YES on ballot initiative 2L to keep the movement going strong toward the municipalization of the utility.

This is a truly important task. It stands entirely to reason that Xcel Energy has been trying to get in the way of it with their usual blizzard of silliness. And I have no doubt that people in Boulder understand that now of all times — with the craziness in Washington — is the time when we have to stand up for things close to home and get the job done where we are.

This is a big step in the fight not only for giving Boulder effective control over an important commodity, but also in the fight against climate change and for a workable future for us all.

Most people by now understand that climate change is a deep problem. We are under attack from climate change, and our only hope is to mobilize on every front as we did in World War II. Climate change keeps unleashing a series of brilliant and overwhelming attacks.

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tracts look like Dresden after the bombing.

And this is a war in which winning slowly is just another way of losing. We need to pick up the pace.

Back in 1989, when I wrote the first book about climate change, we knew we were in trouble. What we didn’t know is how fast this was going to happen and how hard it was going to pinch. It is sobering to reflect on how much we have already changed our planet. This is already the biggest thing that human beings have ever done, and also the most unjust.

What is the damage likely to be in the years ahead if we keep doing what we are doing now? Even if all the nations of the world kept the promises that they made as part of the Paris Climate Accords, the promised actions are small enough and slow enough that the temperature would continue to rise something like 3.5 degrees Celsius in the lifetime of today’s college students. And if we indeed allow that to happen, we cannot have the civilizations that we are used to having. That is the bottom line.

Fortunately the possible pace of the future is very different. We have been given a great gift in the last decade.

During that time, the price of a solar panel has fallen 80 percent. Around the world, in most places, wind energy is

Maria. Barbarism is brutal police repression of the Native-led mobilization against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Barbarism is FEMA’s abandonment of poor communities in Coastal Florida in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Barbarism is our County Commissioners opening the doors to 8 North and Crestone poisoning the County’s citizens and intensifying the (un)natural disasters already being brought on by climate change.

The only way out is to build the power of ordinary people. We are nonviolent.

Our opponents are clearly not.

We acknowledge that in this fight there will be casualties. But when our side wins, the casualties are the profits of the oil and gas industry and, possibly, the political careers of the Democratic Party bureaucrats who collaborate with them. When the other side wins, children get leukemia and houses explode.

We encourage everyone in this county who breathes air, drinks water and loves the land we live on to consider what they would do to protect the resources upon which our lives depend. Obedience to a set of laws that guarantee our poisoning is not an option.

We can win this fight, but no one is going to do it for us. Please join us in defending Boulder County. Start by signing up for direct action training at eastbocounited.org.

Nora Gayer/Secretary, Boulder DSA This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

now the cheapest way we can produce electrons. That means that it would be possible to move far beyond the commitments of Paris. Mark Jacobson and his Solutions Project team at Stanford have produced plans that show how everything in the world — not just electricity but transportation, heating and cooling, and industrial processes — could be 80 percent renewably powered by 2030.

So we have a consensus on the science, and we have the technology. But the fight, as most fights are, is about money and about power. And the fossil fuel industry, the richest industry the world has ever seen, has had the money and power to continue the fight. Industry leaders’ hope has been to extend their business model for another two or three decades. And they are willing to do that at the cost of breaking the one planet we have. There has never been a corporate crime of that magnitude.

Our job now is to speed up the pace in our local communities, especially now that we have Donald Trump blocking change in Washington. It’s gratifying to see citizen action is springing up all over the world. We need to show that one man can’t block the actions that an entire planet requires, and Boulder is one of the places we can make that clear.

Bill McKibben is a Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College.

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g u e s t Why Xcel’s system can’t work for c o l u m n Boulder by Cindy Carlisle and John Gerstle

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s we’ve been out talking with voters, we’ve been impressed by the quality of questions they are asking. Boulder is lucky to have such an intelligent and engaged electorate.

In particular, we have discovered that Boulder citizens have enormous expertise about climate change and the energy approaches that have the potential to address it. Our biggest source of emissions is our electricity use, and that is simply because we are currently stuck with Xcel, which has invested huge amounts in coal. And the unfortunate truth is that most of the simple ideas put forward to change that situation will not work.

The picture that Boulder’s experts have painted for us is that we have a peculiarly antiquated approach to managing electricity, unlike what exists in much of the country. Much of the country has converted to what is called competitive power. The details vary, but the common element is that customers, either individually or collectively, are able to make choices about who supplies them with power, and, with that, what kind of power it is. And the suppliers compete for customers. A coordinating entity matches supply with demand to ensure that the system works.

Boulder, unfortunately, is stuck with a vertically-integrated, privately-held monopoly that supplies its power. In fact, Xcel was created in 1998 as a holding company to buy up these monopolies in various states, and to capitalize on their captive markets,

knowing that it’s a lot easier to manipulate the regulators than it is to compete on the open market.

That’s why it is so hard to move forward on our climate change goals — Xcel has its investments in coal and natural gas plants, and a guaranteed rate of return on its investments, and is not about to give that up without a real fight.

That’s why if you install solar on your roof, you can’t just credit it against your usage anymore (what we used to call “net metering”). Now you have to install a separate meter and take the price that Xcel offers you for what you generate.

And you can’t share your excess with your neighbors, for the same reason.

That’s also why the notion of partnerships with Xcel, while appealing in the abstract, can’t work in reality. Xcel won’t give Boulder a better deal, because under state law it has to offer everyone the same terms. And that’s why trying to advocate for change while remaining Xcel’s customer is so frustrating — Xcel has enormous leverage with its regulators, the Public Utilities Commission, and the end result of most efforts of the various environmental groups to cut deals has been only marginally better than if nothing had been done.

So we’ve come to the conclusion that we should press forward on the muni and see what the results are in terms of cost, as Joel Dyer pointed out in his Oct. 12 analysis [RE: “Municipalization: More important now than ever.”] Bottom line, we need to fund the engineering and assessment work to see if the muni can keep rates at or below Xcel’s and get cleaner ener-

gy besides. The side benefits are that our effort keeps the pressure on Xcel to move toward more renewables itself.

We’ve also learned that some of the objections to continuing don’t stand up to the evidence. The issue of “stranded costs” — Xcel’s power plants that might not have a market if Boulder exits the system — seems unlikely to be a problem, simply because Xcel already is planning to strand a number of plants as part of its new scheme to clean up its act. So Boulder’s tiny demand, around 3-4 percent of Xcel’s energy, is lost in the noise.

Some are concerned that Boulder does not have the expertise to run a muni. But we have learned that Boulder already has on board the former manager of Fort Collins’ muni, and has the former manager of SoCalEdison’s huge distribution system on call, as well as some really expert City staff, including the former manager of a huge transmission system.

Let’s be clear — none of this means that the muni will succeed. The separation costs plus the purchase price of the local distribution system may be too high. Or other issues may show up. But for us, it’s at least worth putting in the time and money to see. That’s why we will be voting for 2L. In addition, we will be voting for 2O, to make sure that once the analysis is completed, voters will have a final say regarding whether to proceed with the muni after we have all the answers.

Cindy Carlisle and John Gerstle are candidates for Boulder City Council.

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protesters ever spitting on a veteran.

The stories only emerged many years later after the release of the Rambo movies. In 1990, the stories really proliferated as a war fever was drummed up in preparation for the first Persian Gulf War. Lembcke collected over 200 “I was spat upon” stories and found many had implausible details. He doesn’t say that anybody lied to him and concedes that he couldn’t prove the negative (that the stories weren’t true). However, he cites considerable evidence of antiwar protesters expressing empathy for the troops. From early on, anti-war marches had huge banners saying “Bring Our Boys Home.” Unlike mainstream

media, anti-war publications covered every G.I. and veteran protest. There were many anti-war G.I. coffee houses which popped up around military bases.

They were enthusiastically supported by the civilian anti-war movement. In the last years of the war, the VVAW played an important leadership role in the movement.

Despite its flaws, the series is an impressive and moving work. Burns hopes it will help heal the wounds of division in the country. That’s unlikely, but perhaps it will dampen the hawkish spirits being stirred up these days.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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ough indictment of the war, and a dismissal of most of the people who were committed to ending it.”

You get the impression that antiwar sentiment primarily grew out of a wish to avoid getting drafted and that the movement against the war regularly disparaged veterans of the war. There is the urban legend of U.S. soldiers being spat upon and insulted by antiwar protesters upon returning home from the war. In his study The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam, sociologist and Vietnam veteran Jerry Lembcke says there isn’t any contemporary evidence from newspaper, magazine or TV accounts of antiwar

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Misdirection is a form of deception in which the attention of an audience is focused on one thing in order to distract attention from another thing. Managing the audience’s attention is the basis of theatrical magic and illusion.

Although they are not magicians, several opponents to Boulder’s local electric utility option have been using misdirection in spades.

They vociferously worry about the debt that the City might take on, should voters approve the purchase of Xcel’s system. They want you to ignore that our electricity bills right now include interest on roughly $350 million of capital for the current system. It’s not free.

Xcel’s average cost of capital is 6.8 percent (including 9 percent to shareholders), while Boulder’s borrowing costs are much lower. But don’t look there.

Professing concern about climate change, they tell us working with Xcel will meet our goals. Meanwhile, Xcel still plans to be 45 percent fossil-fueled in 2026, 23 percent coal, while running its coal plant for another 50 years. But don’t look there.

On one hand they claim we could do better working with Xcel like Denver, but ignore the other hand where Denver’s “plan” is simply a goal with no details. Boulder’s plan is detailed and actionable. They want you to ignore the fact that repeatedly trying to work with Xcel got us nowhere. And, Boulder keeping a community power option available gives Denver leverage on Xcel. But don’t look there.

They say they are concerned about rates. Meanwhile, Xcel is planning to increase its base rates over 9 percent, proposing a 14 percent overall increase through 2021. But don’t look there.

They proclaim better, cheaper ways.

Yet, they haven’t presented any detailed costs or plans. But they hope to keep your eyes where they want them.

Don’t be fooled. Vote YES on 2L, 2O and 2P. Tom Asprey/Boulder

Think twice on Four Mile fire spending issue

Some residents call it the Taj Mahal and others call it MTB for Money To Burn. What is it? The very expensive Four Mile Canyon Fire Station. And now, residents of Four Mile Canyon are being asked to greatly increase our property taxes.

If ballot initiative 5B passes, Four Mile Canyon property taxes will be much higher than all neighboring mountain towns, including Sunshine, Sugarloaf and Gold Hill. But they don’t Boulder Weekly

have such a brand new large and fancy fire station or a paid staff. Four Mile overspent and mismanaged funds.

Sunshine, Gold Hill and Sugarloaf are all volunteer fire departments: Why should Four Mile have paid firefighters?

Mixing volunteer with paid staff obviously isn’t fair to the volunteers and creates resentment. If we don’t have enough volunteers, that is the reason why.

On the whole, Sunshine is a wealthier canyon, but they will pay 89 percent

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less in property taxes than we will.

Gold Hill will pay 240 percent less and Sugarloaf will pay 133 percent less. So I guess if you feel richer than the residents of those canyons and didn’t mind the 30-38 percent increase in assessed value, vote for higher taxes.

Boulder County property taxes were assessed 30-38 percent higher last year.

Why is now the time for each of us to pay even more? According to the Boulder County Clerk and Recorder

Election Division, you will be taxed $10.80 per $1,000 assessed value every year to have the only paid firefighters in the area. So if your property is accessed at $500,000 you will pay $389 next year and it will go up every year your accessed value increases.

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t’s May 2014 at an annual event called Boulder Startup Week. The topic is entrepreneurs and politics.

Congressman Jared Polis (D) has a taunting message for the tech community (as reported by the business news website Xconomy.com). “Wouldn’t it be nice if you could safely ignore politics? But that’s not the case. The biggest principle to remember is if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu, and that’s the same for startups and politics.”

Also present at that event is Brad Feld, one of four men who established the Foundry Group, a major venture capital firm with its headquarters on Walnut Street. Feld has by now garnered various titles and awards. In 2011 Forbes placed him at No. 100 on its Midas List of Tech’s Top Investors, and Business Insider named him the “most respected venture capitalist.” Feld and Polis know each other well, having cofounded TechStars, a Boulder seed-stage investment fund, in 2006, along with two other men. On the subject of attaining political goals, Feld has this to say at the forum: “Signing petitions doesn’t work, but taking action and participating does. Do it the way entrepreneurs do it, and just do shit.” He voices his frustration with his inability to achieve the impact he wants, complaining that his efforts have led to “almost no discernible outcome.”

It is noteworthy that the bandwidth company Zayo Group, led by CEO Dan Caruso, has sponsored this event for years and in 2017 was its largest contributor. All three men are wealthy by any standards (Polis’s net worth is estimated at $400 million).

This story is about converting money into political power in Boulder.

It is a cautionary tale about how one of the most progressive and educated populations in the country has failed to look behind catchy marketing phrases in recent elections. And it’s a case study of what can happen when nonprofit 501(c)4 groups throw their weight into politics, while concealing their donors, legally. It seems the voters end up on the menu.

In June 2014, a nonprofit corporation soon to be known as Open Boulder was formed and duly registered with the Colorado Secretary of State. We don’t know much about the inner workings of this organization. To this day, Open Boulder refuses to name its major

donors. Requests for transparency to board members Jessica Yates, Michelle Estrella and Alexandra Lindsay went unanswered.

What we do know is that in February 2015, Open Boulder announced the hiring of an interim executive director, Andy Schultheiss.

The position was salaried. Interestingly, Schultheiss arrived at this job after working as District Director for Congressman Polis. Schultheiss, in his opening press release, stated that the planning of Open Boulder was in the works for a year and a half. (An email to Schultheiss received no response.)

Open Boulder, then and now, describes itself as “a grassroots, nonpartisan movement.” The organization touts itself as the voice of people who came to Boulder to “live, work and play.”

The verbiage continues with a long list of “who we are:” “We are parents, we are young and not-so-young professionals, students and recent grads ... We are employees and business owners,” it goes on. The words are innocuous. They are also bizarrely similar to a guest opinion written for the Daily Camera (August 31, 2014) by another member of the Foundry’s original group of four, Jason Mendelson (along with a couple of colleagues). They wrote: “We are women and men. We are parents. We are veterans of the military ... We are graduating students,” and so on. The guest opinion was an angry rebuttal to Councilman Macon Cowles’s assertion that Boulder’s startup economy consisted of highly paid white men and that it was pricing out families and others. (Cowles later apologized.) The tech writers found this statement “to be ignorant and offensive.”

Open Boulder’s website today emphasizes the innovation economy, rather than general business interests. It presents opposition to rapid tech growth, in the context of Google coming to town, as “unthinkable in most places.”

Trying to learn who its major donors are, I reached out to Colorado House Majority Leader KC Becker (D), who is listed as a member of Open Boulder’s steering committee. “I’m not on the steering committee,” she told me. “I haven’t been involved for a while.”

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resigned, even whether it was during 2017 or a previous year. It was all very unofficial, she said. Becker, it should be noted, has endorsed the entire Open Boulder slate of candidates for this election. In our conversation, she claimed to know nothing about the source of funding. She followed up by sending me links to bills she sponsored on transparency in politics. This was the day after the story broke about a complaint against Open Boulder for alleged campaign finance violations. I had the distinct feeling that Becker was distancing herself from what could be a political liability.

A tantalizing trail of crumbs led to Feld and Caruso. In a helpful email, Feld confirmed: “I’ve been a supporter of Open Boulder since their inception in 2014. I’ve been writing about the issue of progress for many years, and a post I wrote in 2014 titled ‘The Endless Struggle that Boulder Has with Itself ’ probably happened around the time that I got involved in Open Boulder.”

Feld further clarified that this included financial support. The post to which he refers appeared at the end of December 2014. On April 30, 2015, Feld and Caruso hosted a meet-andgreet at Zayo, announced by Feld in a since-deleted post from April 24.

Caruso was unavailable for comment.

Looking back at that period, it becomes clear that executives at the Foundry were growing increasingly unhappy with the Boulder community, which it seems they perceived as ungrateful for the prosperity brought to the city by hi-tech. There is a distinctly us-versus-them mentality in their blog and newspaper writings. The anxiety escalated later that year with the introduction by Livable Boulder of ballot measures 300 and 301, designed to empower neighborhoods and impose additional fees on developers. The four founding members, Feld, Mendelson, Seth Levine and Ryan McIntyre, posted a joint call to vote against the measures, issuing a dire warning: “The city we love risks shutting its doors.”

Much has been written on the battle over these ballot measures by the progrowth and slow-growth camps. What is relevant here is that Open Boulder and Better Boulder joined forces to create One Boulder with the aim of defeating these measures. The campaign’s image depicted a snapshot of the Flatirons ripped in two, with the accompanying words: “Don’t Divide Boulder.”

The slogan should not have been effective, as either side could have made that plea. Yet earlier this fall it was recycled in the title of a controversial guest opinion in the Daily Camera by candidates Bill Rigler, Jill Grano and Matt Benjamin.

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Few voters knew much about One Boulder, though the donations were a matter of public record. In total, the new organization raised over $180,000.

The donors are a who’s who list of realtor associations and developers, including companies associated with W.W. Reynolds, Stephen Tebo, Dan Otis and Lou DellaCava. Colorado House Majority Leader Becker appears as the first donor, chronologically. One Boulder tried hard to portray itself as a grassroots organization, prominently listing residents supporting its position.

Of the 265 names, only 59 made donations to One Boulder. Once you remove board and steering committee members of Open Boulder, Better Boulder and Boulder Tomorrow, you learn that fewer than one sixth of the people on the list were committed enough to make a donation, however small, to One Boulder. Looked at another way, almost $150,000 was donated by fewer than 40 companies and individuals. One of those groups was the Foundry, which provided $5,000 to the cause.

The backers of the two measures raised about $40,000, less than a quarter of the war chest of the opposition.

About 140 individuals contributed.

While the measures were flawed, it is unlikely they would have been so roundly defeated without the imbalance in funding.

The 2016 elections showed Open Boulder spending large sums of money (from unreported donors) to influence the political process. It single-handedly financed the issues committee Boulder Voters for Term Limits. About $45,000 dollars were spent trying to persuade Boulder voters to support a three-term limit for City Council members. About $30,000 consisted of in-kind donations, including over $3,000 for Schultheiss’s salary and over $20,000 to collect signatures. Caruso donated $1,000 directly to the issues committee. Nothing in the public records indicates either grassroots donations or extensive volunteering.

“Diversity” on Council was one of the selling points, yet Open Boulder’s endorsements for City Council in 2015 consisted of four white men and one white woman. As opponents showed, Boulder has experienced a healthy turnover on Council, so the motivation for term limits was unclear.

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reaction from Open Boulder was swift.

Current board member Alex Lindsay claimed I was spreading “dark conspiracies.” Her letter followed what has by now become a familiar pattern in Open Boulder writing (as I’ve noticed on the op-ed pages of the Camera): a person introduces herself, usually as young and often as a newcomer looking for a welcoming town — and then goes for the jugular.

It is paradoxical that attempts to shed light on the dark nature of a 501(c)4 corporation that is unaccountable to the public, yet plays a decisive role in our local elections, are consistently met with accusations of this sort, including the now favored “fear-mongering” charge.

The term limits measure passed.

Lisa Morzel, a longtime advocate for ordinary Boulderites, who points out that she is neither a wealthy elite nor a member of that circle, will vacate her seat on Council in two years.

Boulder, as anyone who lives here knows, is facing an affordability crisis.

Last year the Camera reported that the median home sales price had topped one million dollars. The recent spate of commercial construction has increased the number of daily commuters to over 60,000. Boulder, according to the National Geographic, is also the happiest city in the country. This suggests extreme demand. Any individual or organization with a political message has to address these issues.

The most influential local organization for decades was PLAN Boulder, associated with slow and steady growth and open space acquisition. Its primary source of funding is members’ dues, according to board officer Leonard May. PLAN, which has posted a broad, affordable housing proposal on its website, is losing ground. It has become a punching bag for other organizations and some city council members.

PLAN, according to this school of thought, wants to fossilize Boulder, turning it into an exclusionary enclave.

This, in my opinion, is a caricature, deliberate or not. Meanwhile, Open Boulder prefers to use the term “attainable housing.” Several people pointed out to me that Open Boulder has a distinctly libertarian, as in non-interventionist, free-market, bent. Both Open Boulder and Better Boulder are touting density as a solution to problems of affordability. Boulder now has a decent supply of apartments, vacant at aboveaverage rates, that are not affordable to the middle class; I find the density arguments unpersuasive but cannot delve into them further here due to space limitations.

The Foundry has emerged as a powerful force in the 2017 elections. Three

of its founding members — Feld, Mendelson and McIntyre — are allied with Caruso’s recently established Engage Boulder. The newcomer backs the same slate of five candidates as do Open Boulder and Better Boulder: Mark McIntyre, Bill Rigler, Jill Grano, Jan Burton and Eric Budd. McIntyre is on the steering committee of Open Boulder.

Meanwhile, the fourth Foundry member, Levine, is chair of candidate Rigler’s campaign. In an email inviting people to an event at Galvanize to meet Rigler, he wrote: “There are groups in Boulder that want to take us back 30 years and squash anything that looks like progress and they’re organizing around their candidates for Council.”

This level of involvement is not exactly surprising, as the Foundry views Boulder as its home turf. Feld’s 2012 book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, dedicates a section to Boulder. In it Feld explains that he has “come to think of Boulder as [his] laboratory for thinking about startup communities.”

The stakes are high. Trying to control the outcome of political processes makes sense. Feld has made himself available for election events aimed at the tech community, including one held at the Oskar Blues brewery, which drew a young crowd, and another in mid-October that sold out.

It is widely assumed that Caruso is trying to obtain a contract with the City of Boulder for the Zayo Group to supply local fiber optic broadband. Three Council members, all supported by Open Boulder in 2015 — Aaron Brockett, Jan Burton and Bob Yates — oppose the closely-watched issue of municipalization of the electrical utility, which is closely intertwined with choice of broadband for reasons of infrastructure. Yates’s history includes working with Caruso at Level 3 Communications. Already in the summer of 2016, in a report prepared by the city manager, the city attorney, the director of information technology and a policy advisor, exploration of the public broadband option, as in “the model deployed by Longmont,” was dismissed on grounds of lack of interest by “Council and the community.”

The majority on Boulder City Council is usually referred to as “progrowth.” For two years, residents’ concerns over annexations, rezoning and building height variances have been given short shrift. Council has gone further, eliminating long-standing checks and balances, such as reducing the fourbody review process to three, and removing a middle-of-the-road member see GUEST COLUMN Page 15

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of the planning board, John Gerstle, in an attempt to obtain desired outcomes.

(Gerstle is now running for Council.)

Council members Yates and Burton, in the spring, expressed a desire to strip the planning board, which is less politicized than Council, of some of its power. Said Yates, according to the Camera: “It’s always mystified me that the Planning Board, which we appoint, has veto power.”

Democracy requires informed voters, a fairly level playing field and politicians with a mission of public service. At every tier — national, state and municipal — we have a dearth of all three elements. The latest twist in the ongoing Open Boulder story raises serious concerns about the viability of the City’s campaign finance laws, which date back to 1999. Committees registered with the city clerk, the legal fundraising vehicles for campaigning, are, in this city, restricted to a $100 donation per individual or entity. Yet Open Boulder, not its unofficial candidate committee, recently sent registered voters color fliers titled “Boulder Council Elections 2017,” asking “14 Candidates ... How do I decide?” The text includes instructions to “See inside for Open Boulder’s endorsements for City Council.” In response to a complaint to the city clerk, Schultheiss told the Camera: “The advertisements and statements ... were either properly funded by Open Boulder’s unofficial campaign committee, or merely publicized the slate of Council candidates that Open Boulder has endorsed.” The claim, in plain English, is that five photos with positive descriptions of these candidates, accompanied by the question ‘how do I decide?’ do not amount to a call to vote for them. This stretches credulity. Yet, City Attorney Tom Carr, and the office of the city clerk dismissed the complaint, arguing in an email that “under both the U.S. and Colorado constitutions,” the City can only regulate “express advocacy,” which means use of words such as ‘vote for’ or ‘Smith for Council.’ The elections literature, as it appeared in fliers and in the Camera, with its patently unsubtle message, was deemed not to be “express advocacy.”

This matter could well continue to the courts. To date, with almost two weeks to go before the elections, Open Boulder’s spending to promote its chosen candidates is estimated at $15,000, at the very least. To put this in perspective, most candidates opt for matching funds and are then restricted to a total budget of $20,000 for their entire run, collected in small amounts.

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Yet now a 501(c)4 organization can spend an unlimited sum of money collected from one or two major, anonymous donors.

This type of action, even if it is deemed legal, washes away the level playing field.

It is paradoxical that a city that voted 2-to-1 for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton — one of the most progressive cities in the country — may not be able to reject the influence of extreme

wealth and the spectacle of City Council members serving special interests. The problem is not restricted to one side of the aisle or the other, to Republicans or Democrats. If there is a dividing line in Boulder it is between moneyed interests and ordinary people (of all income levels). The Foundry, readying itself for influence on the state level and heeding the eat-or-be-eaten advice, is Polis’s top contributor, as he makes his run for governor. In 2017-18,

the Foundry at $15,800 has donated more than twice the amount of the runner-up contributer. Meanwhile, Polis for Colorado is sending out emails in which the organization promises not to accept contributions of more than $100 per individual or any Political Action Committee money.

It sounds good, and that’s all that matters these days.

This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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CU’s roots: Tales of the founders by Paul Danish

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ack in the days when the University of Denver had a football team, DU students used to taunt University of Colorado students by calling CU “Boulder College.”

They even had a song, sung to the tune of “Glory, Glory, Colorado,” that went like this: To Hell, to Hell with Boulder College...

To Hell with the nickel and the brass, your ass.

Children can be so cruel.

But they had a point there — about CU being Boulder College, that is.

It would be wrong to say the University of Colorado was the creation of the City of Boulder — but not by much.

Think of the relationship this way: “CU: Official University of the City of Boulder.”

Here are some yarns that highlight the role Boulder played in the founding of CU. Boulder’s first residents wanted a state university to be located in the city and started working to make it happen in 1861 — 15 years before Colorado became a state.

To put the audacity of this in context, this was less than three years after the first settlers arrived in the Boulder Valley (on Oct. 17, 1858).

They were looking for gold. Three months later, (on Jan. 15, 1859), they found it, at Gold Hill 10 miles west of Boulder.

(The original find was in Gold Run, behind the Gold Hill Inn.) A month later, there were 2,000 men and 17 women living in what’s now Boulder.

Most of them were living in tents.

Two years later, a man named Robert Culver, a New Englander who had opened a quartz mill in Gold Hill, began working to create a state university and get it located in Boulder.

And darned if he didn’t almost pull it off right then and there.

On Feb. 28, 1861, the U.S. Congress created the Colorado Territory out of pieces of the Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and New Mexico Territories. Culver and his allies actually got the First Territorial Legislature to pass an act locating a “state” university in Boulder.

According to Glory Colorado, William E. “Bud” Davis’ massive two-volume history of CU, it happened like this: The First Territorial Legislature was scheduled to convene in the fall of 1861.

Delegates from the mining region that

included Boulder and Gold Hill were to be picked at a convention to be held in Golden.

Each legally organized mining district, regardless of its size, was entitled to have one delegate at the convention.

Culver approached another Gold Hill resident, Charles F. Holly, who later became Chief Justice of the Territorial Supreme Court, and told Holly he’d help get him elected if Holly promised to run a bill locating the university in Boulder.

And Culver did just that — by causing a bunch of new mining districts to be organized that then chose delegates to the

Golden convention. Culver then obtained the proxies of most of them and used them first to get himself picked as secretary of the convention and then to get Holly nominated and elected.

Holly kept his end of the deal. He introduced House Bill 150 that called for creating a Territorial university and worked hard to get it passed with an amendment naming Boulder as the university’s site. The amendment passed on Oct. 31, 1861. The bill also created a Board of Trustees for the putative university.

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A week later it was signed by the Territorial governor, William Gilpin (Gilpin County is named after him). They worked fast in those days.

CU doesn’t list Culver and Holly among its founders, but that’s how it began.

You have to admire their can-do spirit.

And there things stood for the next nine years.

At the time the Colorado Territory was organized in 1861, it was widely assumed that statehood would quickly follow. It didn’t. A bill granting statehood to Colorado wasn’t passed by Congress until 1865. Then President Andrew Johnson vetoed it.

No state, no state university. But Boulder never gave up on getting CU, and when Colorado got serious about pursuing statehood in the 1870s, Boulder citizens were ready to step up again.

A lot of CU’s history resides in the names of its buildings, and a good place to start looking for the Boulder connection is in the Kittredge dorm complex.

All the dorms there — Andrews, Arnett, Smith, Buckingham and Kittredge — are named for those who had a hand in CU’s creation. All but Kittredge were Boulderites.

The Board of Trustees created in 1861 had stayed in existence, and toward the end of the 1860s it began looking for land in Boulder for a campus. And in early 1872, Smith, Andrews and Arnett gave it what it was looking for.

On Jan. 8, 1872, George Andrews, Marinus Smith, and Anthony and Mary Arnett donated the first parcels of land for the CU campus — 21.98, 25.49 and 3.83 acres respectively. The tracts had a combined value of $1,026.

Old Main, and eventually Hale, Woodbury, Macky and the original core of Hellems were built on the Smith tract. Norlin Library and the UMC are on the Andrews tract.

The Arnetts also donated 80 acres two miles north of Boulder — valued at four horses and a wagon, it turned out. (More about that later.)

Charles Buckingham didn’t give land, but after CU was founded, he gave books. His $2,000 gift paid for the books that formed the core of CU’s first library.

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rizing the operation of CU as the state’s university and giving it an operating revenue stream, a 1/5-mill state property tax.

What motivated these guys?

Boulder’s struggle to land CU was driven in no small part by what today is genteelly called “economic development.” But to focus excessively on that misses a deeper motivation: CU’s founders had a near-theological belief in the transformative role of education in the lives of individuals, communities and nations.

The attitude was exemplified by the impassioned speech Col. Kittredge gave in support of his CU bill.

He saw “popular education” as liberating mankind from millennia of ignorance, superstition and serfdom; as allowing “three millions of educated free men” to win the American Revolution; and as leaving the country “an inheritance ... of liberty, of freedom and self-government.”

And that was just the first two paragraphs.

CU’s founders saw synergism, not conflict, between idealism and economics. They had a point there. Idealism without a business plan will get you only so far.

The 1872 land donation created a remarkable situation: Boulder had the land for a campus, but it no longer had the designation for the university. That was because the act passed by the First Territorial Legislature placing the university in Boulder was repealed in 1870.

The matter of where CU was to reside and how to pay for its construction was finally settled in 1874, but not without a lot of drama.

There are two Boulderites who played pivotal roles in the founding of CU who do not have dormitories named after them.

Their stories are perhaps the most intriguing, and fraught, of all.

Their names are David Nichols and Clinton M. Tyler. What they did was recounted by J. P. Maxwell in a 1927 interview with the Rocky Mountain News.

In 1874, Maxwell was a Boulder representative in the

Territorial Legislature. So was Nichols.

Nichols not only represented Boulder in the Territorial Assembly, the Legislatures’s lower house, he was also Speaker of the body, and like Smith, Andrews, Arnett and Buckingham, he was a ferocious advocate of locating CU in Boulder.

Around midnight on a cold night in January 1874, Clinton Tyler was roused out of his bed by an incessant pounding on CU used to be his door. way out in the It was Nichols. country, away from Boulder Nichols had just ridden Proper on land seven hours through a donated by people whose storm from Denver to names are on Boulder on an urgent campus buildings.

Good thing they mission. The Assembly didn’t stop growth was about to consider a back then. bill that would locate the state’s university in Boulder and grant $15,000 for its construction ­­— provided Boulder matched the state appropriation with $15,000 of its own.

But the bill had encountered opposition, much of it centered in the mountain counties, whose representatives questioned the need for a university. Passage hinged on Nichols obtaining promises from prominent Boulder citizens that the community was good for the matching funds.

The first door Nichols knocked on when he got to Boulder was Tyler’s. Tyler, who was an old army buddy of his, was also a strong supporter of locating CU in Boulder. Tyler immediately promised that he would take personal responsibility for raising subscriptions for the full amount. Nichols then extracted similar promises from other prominent Boulder citizens, got a fresh horse and rode back to Denver. He was in the speaker’s chair when the assembly reconvened at 10 a.m. to take up the bill, at which time he announced that he had been to Boulder and had been assured that the $15,000 would be raised.

The leading opponent of the bill was a representative from Gilpin County. He demanded to know what evidence Nichols had that Boulder would raise the money.

“I have the evidence of Captain Tyler,” Nichols replied.

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“The hell you say!” the representative from Gilpin County exclaimed. “I know Tyler. He used to live in Blackhawk. He’s a square shooter. What Tyler says David Nichols was key in creating a goes. I withdraw my objection.” university in And the bill passed.

Boulder — and in murdering Native Tyler served as one of the leaders of the subsequent Americans at the fund-raising drive. He personally gave $500, one of the Sand Creek Massacre. larger amounts. But it was his promise to Nichols that night that tipped the balance in the bill’s favor and brought CU to life in Boulder.

A total of 104 Boulder Citizens contributed $16,806.66 to the university fund (more than $362,000 to $483,000 in today’s dollars depending on how you calculate inflation). The largest contribution came from Marinus Smith, who gave $1,000 in addition to the land he had also contributed. Andrews gave $250, the Arnetts gave $500, and Buckingham and his brother gave $500. Robert Culver, the man behind the first attempt to create a university in Boulder, gave $500.

A.J. Macky, who in 1860 had built one of the first frame houses in Boulder (on the corner of 14th and Pearl), gave $300. When he died in 1907, he bequeathed $300,000 to CU to build Macky Auditorium.

The smallest contribution, $15, came from Boulder Sheriff William A. Corson. Maybe he saw trouble coming.

A number of the contributors subsequently fell on hard times.

In 1902, Mary Rippon, CU’s first female professor (after whom the outdoor theater that’s home to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is named), called on some of the original subscribers still living in Boulder. One family that gave $500, in the words of the wife, “couldn’t raise five cents now.” Two other subscribers were represented by widows who were supporting themselves by taking in washing. Many others told her they had had to borrow the money they contributed.

Her general impression was that in many cases the money for bringing CU to Boulder was raised at great personal sacrifice.

Why hasn’t CU named a building after Nichols or Tyler?

In Tyler’s case, it was because of the horse trade.

Remember those 80 acres north of Boulder that the Arnetts had donated to CU in 1872?

In 1883, Joseph Sewell (CU’s first president; Sewell Hall bears his name) traded the tract to Tyler, who was a regent at the time, for a team of four horses and a wagon to haul coal to the campus.

It’s not as crazy as it sounds.

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Back in the 1960s, CU’s Henderson Museum had a big photograph of Old Main hanging in a hallway that had been taken from a hill in North Boulder a couple of years after CU opened. Old Main appeared as a small, lonely structure on a barren plain, dwarfed by the towering mountain backdrop and the Flatirons, an isolated outpost of civilization in a hard land. It could have been captioned “Tranquility Base 1883.”

In 1883, Old Main lacked central heating, indoor plumbing and electricity. The campus was separated from Boulder by a mile of treeless prairie.

During the winter, drifts would cut off the campus from the town for days at a time. Without a way to get coal to the campus, CU couldn’t operate in the winter.

Thus the horse trade.

The Arnett tract is bounded by Jay Road on the south, Violet on the north, 26th Street on the east and 19th Street on the west.

The property is about two miles from the campus, and in 1883, there was nothing that CU could do with it except sell it, assuming it could have found a buyer.

Even in free-wheeling 1883, the land for horses deal drew, as we say today, “scrutiny.” Fourteen years of scrutiny by state officials.

The final settlement wasn’t made until 1897, when the land was transferred to Tyler’s estate. Tyler had died more than a decade earlier, in 1886 — the same year that his daughter, Ella Tyler-Whiteley, became the first woman to receive a degree from CU. His son had also attended CU and would have been a member of the university’s first graduating class in 1882 — but he had fallen ill and died a year earlier.

More than anything, the land-forhorses trade shows how hard life in the West was in 1883, and how hard it was to keep CU open and functioning — and warm.

The land for horses deal outraged a lot of people in 1883, but I think CU should get over it and hang Tyler’s name on a campus building.

Outrageous or not, CU owes Tyler more than it could ever repay with 80 acres of land. When the chips were down on a cold night in 1874, he had CU’s back.

As for Nichols, CU did have a dormitory named for him for several years.

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named it after Fleming and changed the dorm’s name to Nichols Hall in 1961.

But in the late 1960s, student activists began lobbying for dropping Nichols’ name, because in 1964 Nichols had commanded a detachment of cavalry that had participated in the Sand Creek massacre. Protests continued for nearly 20 years, and in 1987, Nichols’ name was removed from the dorm, which was re-named CheyenneArapahoe Hall.

Since then, Nichols has pretty much been a non-person as far as CU is concerned.

I’ve always felt CU has done itself no favors by trying to run away from Nichols. There’s an important lesson to be drawn from his life. If it were up to me, CU would put up a statue of Nichols west of Norlin Library at the opposite end of the quad, with the following inscription: Captain David Nichols, 1828 – 1900, through whose efforts the

University of Colorado came into being on this site. Second in Command at Sand Creek. In every human being there is a capacity for great good and great evil. Choose carefully. Do not forget.

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Lining the agenda for the three-day conference are issues pertinent to the future of national organic standards, which guide the certification process for organic farmers and food producers in the United States. The board members will hear comments and debate several measures, namely two: revisiting current organic seed policies and the potential for hydroponic operations to be considered organic.

The certification process, run by the National Organic Program (NOP), a subset of the USDA Agriculture Marketing Service (AMS), determines what can and cannot be labeled and sold as “organic” in grocery stores, farmers’ markets and stands, and restaurants.

This biannual meeting is in place to ensure the NOP’s certification process reflects the most current state of ever-evolving organic politics. The public is encouraged to provide input, opinion and feedback, though at press time both the webinar and in-person comment slots are full; it’s possible to reserve a chance to voice your opinion via the waiting list — which is to say there’s much to be discussed about the future of organic standards, and many farmers, producers and consumers want their input, ideas and opinions heard.

Perhaps the most pressing topic on the bill for discussion is organic seed. Right now, a loophole exists

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To solve this problem, the new proposal will demand farms show “improvement in sourcing and use of organic seed ... every year until full [use of organically grown seeds, annual seedlings, and planting stock] is achieved,” according to the NOSB Proposals and Discussions Document.

“I don’t think we’re ready to tighten the seed source rules yet,” Dabbs believes personally, because most of the existing organic seeds are not yet suitable for climates across the country. Farms in Colorado, for example, might not be able to keep up with this demand as quickly as other regions in the Midwest, where organic seeds have had more time and research backing their performance. “More research money and time is needed in the organic seed industry [overall] before the rules are tightened.”

The need for more research and time has become a common refrain throughout organic politics in the past few years. Wyatt Barnes of the 70-acre Red Wagon Farm in North Boulder says, “If you were to put some of the brain power that has made conventional agriculture so successful in doing things nationally, you’d have

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Barnes is one of several certified organic farmers to lease land from Boulder County Open Space. Right now, about 5.5 percent of Open Space’s leased farming acreage is certified organic, with about 7 percent currently in transition. The land and consumer benefits of going organic are multifold, but can generally be boiled down to the reduced and regulated chemical usage. Though, to be clear, “The [national organic] program itself is strictly a marketing program,” Blake Cooper, Boulder County’s agricultural resources division manager says.

To become a certified organic farm, farmers must wait 36 months from the last conventional farming practice, apply to the NOP, pay inspector fees, register their land and products, and go through a variety of other hoops and hurdles (which are constantly changSee ORGANIC STANDARDS Page 28

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While it’s understood that “USDA Organic” is not an environmental or health initiative, Boulder County is proud to incentivize its farming tenants to transition to organic practices by reducing lease rates during the “laborious” three-year transition process. “We want to help our tenants be in a position to take advantage of this growing value-added market,” Dabbs says.

From there stems a dissonance between the bureaucratic NOP certification process and the on-the-ground farmers, which Barnes feels acutely in his daily work as an organic farmer and champion of clean, naturally-grown food. “The standards are crap... a lot of people don’t even know it’s a minimum standard,” he says. “We feel like we go pretty far beyond what [the NOP] requires... The [national organic standards] are watering down the concept of organic, [all the while] making harder and harder to get and stay certified.”

The seed loophole is an example of something Barnes hopes to see fixed, but he isn’t getting his hopes up. “I see a huge need for something to replace ‘organic’ entirely.” Barnes says. He throws out words like “biodynamic,” “regenerative” and “hydroponic,” but then follows each with adjectives: “bullshit,” “disaster” and “never good.”

As far as hydroponic systems go, the NOSB reports the public and the board itself is divided on whether or not “organic certification should require plants be grown in soil that is connected to the earth’s surface.” Currently, hydroponic operations, which grow plants in water-based liquid nutrient systems, are

allowed organic certification at the discretion of organic certification agencies.

Some agencies choose to, and others don’t, and it’s this lack of consistency that had driven the issue to the board for a definitive answer.

The board discussion will revolve around finding a holistic solution to managing hydroponics’ place in organic production, whether or not food grown outside of soil can be considered “organic” by its very nature and how introducing hydroponics permanently into the organic market could potentially influence the market’s prosperity.

Barnes is as wary of including hydroponics in the conceptual organic field as he is of the entire NOP’s existence. From his experience, he’s determined the NOP’s certification standards have diluted what “organic” means, and believes adding more limbs like hydroponics to the marketplace is merely a move to strengthen the USDA’s financial stronghold on small-farm production, all the while drawing “organic” away from its intended roots.

“Maybe they’ll just keep coming up with labels to further muddy the waters,” Barnes says. In years past, he’s relayed his frustrations with the modern organic concept to the USDA, but he feels like nobody’s listening.

“Do I go send stuff off to the [NOP] when I’ve already complained a lot? Somebody up there knows, and they just don’t care.” He sighs when asked how consumers can help keep alive the integral organic concept — the one that prioritizes human and land health rather than marketplace values — when the political route doesn’t go as planned, or there’s no room for one to speak. “Just... know your farmer, that’s what you can do.”

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Michael Saari measures his life in hills. Up. Down. Rest.

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The ritual is simple, yet strenuous; one he’s perfected during his three years traveling by a recumbent bicycle of his own design. Faced with a hill, he unhitches a heavy trailer, filled with everything he owns, attached to the back of the bike. Leaving the trailer at the bottom of the hill, Saari sits back in the bike’s reclined seat and pedals to the top. He returns by foot to retrieve the trailer. At the top once again, he reconnects bike to trailer, marvels at the view and prepares to enjoy the momentum of the downhill ride.

Saari, who goes by Michael-On-A-Cycle, left his home in Wakefield, Michigan, three years ago, with one motivation in mind.

“I was wondering, how can a person be free? No bills, no work, no nothing, but still make it; still have food, still survive, still travel,” he says. “This is my way of being free.”

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start his journey.

After being married for 20 years, living in a typiA look inside cal house and enjoying all the amenities of a tradiSaari’s tent. tional home for most of his life, Saari decided it was time to make a change.

“One day I just realized we’re going to be working forever. We paid off the house, the car, the kid’s gone to college and is married with his own career,” he says. “But even though everything is paid for, we’re just going to keep paying and paying and spending all the money we make buying stupid things and ending up with a house full of junk.”

In an attempt to simplify their lifestyle, Saari asked his wife to consider installing solar panels, planting a garden and raising animals. Unfortunately, she didn’t share his goals, and a confluence of factors caused their marriage to end. It turned out that this was just the push Saari needed to fully adopt the lifestyle he craved.

“I didn’t want anything. I didn’t fight for my half of anything,” he says. “I gave her the house, I sold my truck and I bought a bike.”

From there, he hit the road and kept working on the bike as he traveled, making the necessary changes and additions to turn the bike into a home. Three years later, the bike is equipped with unique features, including a solar panel, flashing lights, turn signals, several cameras, an electric motor and a horn. Saari also keeps his speaker pumping music during his rides and uses a GPS to navigate.

The bike certainly draws a crowd, something Saari is happy to encourage.

After leaving Michigan, he pedaled to Wisconsin to share his bike with cyclists at a recumbent bike rally, where his creation won the Most Unique Bike award. Last month, Saari visited Boulder to attend University of Colorado Boulder first annual Bike Fest, where he chatted with students about his lifestyle, and even let a few people ride his bike.

Jumping into a new self-sufficient lifestyle also helped Saari leave Michigan to be closer to his mother. For more than 10 years, his mother had been staying in an assisted living facility in Colorado after a brain aneurism and seizure prevented her from living on her own. Saari welcomed the opportunity to spend as much time with her as possible.

“I came out here to see her, tell her goodbye and give her some hugs,” he says.

The trip west to Colorado took about six months with Saari riding 20 miles a day. When he stopped in a town, he spent one to two weeks there, relying on the kindness of strangers to survive. His strong background in building homes and furniture allows him to make money on the road; he trades labor for a place to pitch his tent, and, if he’s lucky, a meal or two.

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“I’m not sure if I’d be classified as homeless since I have my home with me, but I guess in a sense I am,” he says. “But I want to show people that if you’re going to be homeless you can still have some stuff, have some comfort, have some security with you.”

Although Saari’s bike offers some shelter from the elements, he cannot ignore the fact that another Colorado winter is fast approaching. After arriving a year ago, he planned to head south before the cold weather could complicate his travels. But he finds himself here still, enjoying the time spent with his mother, yet facing a second challenging winter. He hopes to journey to California later this month.

From there, he’ll look for a job on a ship headed to Hawaii, where an acquaintance offered him a place to stay. But getting his bike across the ocean is a whole new challenge.

“I have a few options. I could turn it into a submarine and go underwater, put pontoons on it and go on top of the water or turn it into a hot air balloon and float over the ocean,” he says.

Jokes aside, Saari would like to work his way across and take the bike with him in a shipping container. As far as long-term goals are concerned, when he has the time he’d love to write a book about his alternative lifestyle. When it comes to finding solutions to the challenges in his life, Saari wants people to know that he’s “not crazy, just creative.” If he can make it up those hills, he can make it through anything.

“I remember getting to the top of about the 50th hill in a row,” he says. “I pedaled up to the top and it was the last one. I started crying. I could see downhill forever.

“You just have to keep going.”

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t has become increasingly obvious that we all, in one way or another, are shaped by a culture of rape. Last week, thousands of women and men across social media admitted not just that they had been affected, but how. One-byone, the stories painted pictures of the perversity of the act; together, they exposed a more archetypal sort of narrative.

It is increasingly hard to ignore that our society of perpetrators, victims and bystanders rests on a social structure founded upon nonconsensual sex. For centuries it’s been hidden in a violence so intimate it has evaded direct and compre-

Michael Yates Crowley’s new play, The Rape of the (Left to right) Matthew Schneck, playing The Sabine Women, by Grace B. News/Others, and Mathias, set to open on Oct. Rodney Lizcano, playing Teacher/ 27 in Boulder as produced by Others.

Local Theater Company, is an invocation and challenge to the cultural history of assault.

The title itself is a namesake to no less than six paintings and sculptures now in the permanent collections of museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Louvre. Portrayed in each of them is a different version of the rape of the Sabine women, also known as the founding of Rome.

The story takes place in a series of events that tell the founding of the great city. To ensure its future prosperity, Romulus invites the Sabines to a feast during which his army drives off the men and abducts and rapes the women. Soon they will marry them and father their children. Three years later, the Sabine men will attack Rome in revenge, but the women rally to stand in the way, holding off the violence to insist, instead, on peace. Or, at least, this is the version of events told by the historic canons of Western civilization.

But, says Local’s artistic director Pesha Rudnick, these

The Rape of the Sabine Women,

by Grace B. Mathias

Local Theater Company explores rape culture in its latest production

by Sarah Haas

hensive scrutiny, but now in the personal we are finding the universal.

However, just a week after #metoo took over the internet, it has already been dubbed by many a movement bound to fail.

Yes, it woke us up to a virulent truth bubbling up from the worst depths of humanity, but can a wave of narratives really make a difference? Does changing the predominant version of our culture’s history really matter?

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(Right) Adeline Mann plays Grace B. Mathis (Below) Brynn Tucker as Monica, Grace’s cheerleader friend.

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paintings and sculptures are limited representations.

First of all, they are made by men and carry the bias of that perspective. Secondly, they are restricted by their two- and three-dimensional forms. Frozen in both perspective and time, they amount to mere memorializations of one version of the story. “[The story of the Sabine women] is constantly reinterpreted throughout history and, depending on the storyteller or the artist, you get a different bias,” Rudnick says. “In that this play is an act of recreatGeorge Lange ing an art historical piece and story, there is something exciting about it; it brings all of us involved into the mindset of a renaissance, reinterpreting this canonical painting through a play, in a theater and a set.”

As a playwright, Crowley deals in a four-dimensional art form, one that requires both time and a multitude of voices to create. Yes, he is a man and in that way the script stems from male bias, but he too is a part of the renaissance Rudnick describes. He chose to tell the story of Grace because of his increasing awareness of the masculine complicity in rape culture, and he chose to confront it though his version of art, replete with vulnerability and comedy.

“Particularly as a man, I knew writing this play had to be more about listening and not about talking so much, which is weird for a playwright, right?” Crowley says.

“If it is going well and I am doing my job, I’ve provided a crack into rape culture that will enable someone to talk about it with the understanding that rape exists, not as a lone incident, but as something that is sort of inbetween us all, a part of our social fabric, including mine.”

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This animation is achieved through Crowley’s brilliant satire, which, at times, is so hilarious the audience is taken with disruptive bouts of laughter.

The humor is effective because of its ability to confront the deviant aspects of our personal and social behaviors, holding our subconscious and conscious vices alike up to ridicule.

The play itself tells the story of Grace, a high school student, who, like many young women, enters into a budding romantic relationship with someone

she really connects with, enough to take the timid but brave first steps into exploring physical and emotional intimacy. And then, in a foggy, drunken, confusing experience, she is raped and her confidence and innocence is ripped away from her.

The bulk of the play’s action focuses on what happens next, on the whirlwind of events that come

to shape and even define the event after the fact, none of which have to do with Grace herself. Every other character in the play exhibits their take on the events, telling Grace how to act, how to feel and even that she’s a liar. These narratives are punctuated

by The News, personified as a character on the stage, who hijacks the story until it is all but detached from the actual events.

In this way it weaves together the news of rape as if incorporating our current events (like what President Trump says he can do with a woman’s pussy or the unveiling of Harvey Weinstein’s endless path of assault) without having to name them specifically. Crowley knows he is telling a universal story and depends on that rather than statistics. This is not to avoid the painful fact that one out of every six women in America has been the victim of rape, but to lift such facts into broader and shared contemplation.

Silently at the center of it all sits Grace, searching for a way to make sense of the events, to make sense of her own experience and to find a way to ultimately move past them and into her own understanding of the world.

She does not want to forget or abandon the rape, but she doesn’t want to dwell in the space of the crime either; she doesn’t want to succumb to being the victim others seem to want her to be.

Early in the play, Grace sits among the rows of high schoolers in a lesson about the play’s namesake painting. Distracted from its actual elements, she wonders instead about what happened next, from the women’s perspective. Looking for answers she cannot Boulder Weekly

find in the classroom, she turns to Wikipedia, personified into a character in the play, and speaks directly to it.

GRACE: But what happened to the women?

WIKIPEDIA: They married the Romans.

GRACE: The ones who just... I don’t understand.

WIKIPEDIA: The Sabine women married the Roman men and had babies.

GRACE: The same men? How did it happen?

WIKIPEDIA: Article not found.

GRACE: When did they get married?

WIKIPEDIA: Article not found.

GRACE: Did all of them get married?

The conversation fades away because it has to, because the story we have been told about rape is still incomplete. Grace arrives at her moment of existential crisis on behalf of all of us as we struggle to deal with rape in a culture that so rarely examines the crime and consequences from the woman’s point of view.

“In this play you get to see Grace admitting that the absence of this information is making her feel really isolated, grasping to put together the pieces of the missing information, and embracing her quest to understand how she can continue to exist,” says Adeline Mann, the actor playing Grace.

“It’s a perfect example of what I love so much about theater and a testament to what the form is capable of.

Unlike the paintings that play such a prominent role in this story, this play gives you more than just one moment; you get a string of them, you get to see relationships in motion and in movement. You get to see a character, a human being, take a journey, grow and discover a new way of being in the world.”

The play floats in the present moment, achieved by the sophisticated minimalism of the set, designed by Susan Crabtree and characteristic of Local productions.

It’s not much, just a few nods to the play’s high school setting, with props and pieces introduced sparsely, forsaking an aesthetic for poetic highlights instead. It’s a subtle complement to both the play’s humor and severity.

“This script itself is so strong that designing the set was all about getting out of its way,” Crabtree says. “In some plays, the sets need to be delivered with a heavy hand and in that case, I will design a set as if I was adding a character into the play. But with this play I quickly realized we were working with a Boulder Weekly

piece of art bigger than me, or any one of us for that matter, and so my job was to subtract in order to support.”

There is humility in those words, “to subtract in order to support,” and in The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Mathias, we get both. It encapsulates not just what the play so deftly accomplishes, but is what the world seems to need right now. Gently, it shifts the narrative from one that imagines the Sabine women as necessary victims that bear peace through

their pain, to one humble enough to ask the women what is it like to be raped and brave enough to let them answer because this is how the narrative will change. And yes, because the story we tell matters.

“Theater, at its core, is storytelling,” Rudnick says. “It’s a gathering together to hear another’s life story, to see ourselves in those stories in ways that make our own stories make a little more sense and to experience that catharsis as part of an audience.”

buzz ON THE BILL: The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Mathias. Oct. 27-Nov. 29, The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Tickets are $15-$45 and are available at localtheaterco.org.

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In the thick of transition The Bad Plus finds a new sound

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P

eople from around the world know the Curtis Institute of Music is highly selective. With just a 4.8 percent admission rate, Curtis only grants admission to the number of students necessary to fill a single orchestra and opera company. By all accounts, Reid Anderson, bass player of the jazz acoustic trio The Bad Plus, shouldn’t have been one of them.

“Let’s just say it’s unusual to have only been playing your instrument for only one year and get in to Curtis,” says the Minnesotan turned New Yorker with a humble chuckle.

Ready or not, the young Anderson was soon immersed in an academic study of classical music. His lessons came according to the school’s value of “doing,” and his potential was molded into adeptness as he played. But with his place among the elite of the music world all but guaranteed, he found himself doubting the sureness of his path.

“My god! What have I done? What have I gotten myself into? I really don’t want to be a classical musician,” he says he thought to himself. “I want to play jazz.”

From among the rows of virtuosos all playing their proper roles, Anderson had uncovered an undying zest for Boulder Weekly

free creative expression. As soon as he graduated from Left to right: Reid Anderson (bass), Curtis, his living became a David King (drums) musical process, one that he and Ethan Iverson (piano) refers to as “the search.”

“I like to be surprised,” he says. “For me, there always has to be some level of mystery in what I am doing in order to keep and compel my interest. It lies in the depths that you can’t quite see or in the magical process of writing music where you will suddenly be like, ‘Where did that come from?’

“You’re wondering because it wasn’t derived and it didn’t come from some kind of formula or an established way to get there. All of a sudden you just have this music coming out and you say...” he stops, abruptly, presumably looking for a word big enough to sum up all that he loves about jazz.

“Wow,” he finally says.

For 17 years now, The Bad Plus has been the jazzy manifestation of “the search,” which is to say it’s been a long term investment in collaborative seeking.

“The Bad Plus is the sound that happens when these three people get together,” he says. “What we do requires the committed energy of this specific trio performing and playing music that we have played for all of these years, over and over, and with the kind of musical communication see BAD PLUS Page 40

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that exists between us, that has always role but also bring his own style, ineviexisted between us.” tably transforming the long-estabYou have to take Anderson’s comlished sound of the band. ment in the context of the jazz world, Anderson isn’t interested in lingerwhere it’s rare to have a committed ing on the transition; suffice it to say group able to last for four or five years, he thinks Evans an “obvious and natulet alone 17. It’s just a part of the culral fit” and that yes, the sound will ture to have wandering players, lending inevitably evolve thanks to his influa physical spontaneity the genre ence. But while The Bad Plus may be depends on. But The Bad Plus forfeitrigid in its commitment to group ed this formula for randomness in music, there’s still room in the ethos favor of a unique and for individuality and developed sound you can personal expression.

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While the band’s they have always served Tickets and information: tenet of group music to lift their collabora303-786-7030. and sound held them tive effort. Take together like glue, it was Anderson, for example, also, always, full of the who has taken to workpotential to tear them apart. Ebbing ing long hours in his home electronic levels of commitment to the band studio, surrounded by analog synthecaused not just fissures, but fractures sizers, old samplers, drum machines that cut deep. As a result, the last few and sequencers. A lifelong fan of elecyears have been full of harried tensions tronic music and now a practitioner within the trio. himself, he says it is only a matter of And so pianoman Ethan Iverson is time before he releases his solo work on his way out. With his last show to the world. scheduled for New Year’s Eve, The “As ubiquitous as it now is, there Bad Plus is welcoming Orrin Evans, is a lot of potential in electronic who will not only step into Iverson’s music,” he says. “It’s like jazz in that

Ethan Iverson (left), is on his way out from the group.

Newcomer Orrin Evans is an “obvious and natural fit” for the future, according to Anderson.

it allows me to make some music without knowing where it comes from in a way that really surprises me and takes me somewhere new. But it’s also a different process and I like that. I like being able to explore another side of myself.”

Where and how Anderson plays may take a variety of forms, but whatever he does is always somehow in service to The Bad Plus, the obra maestra of which he is a humble part, sharpening his skills for the sake of the trio, despite its changing lineup and evolving sound.

No matter how understandable or timely, transitions are rarely easy, but in this case it’s probably best to be like jazz and let the discordance happen, without interrogation, appreciating it instead for the new inroads being laid for continued exploration.

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musical can act as a snapshot of an era. Some center around the political and social movements of the time — Hair captures the turbulent period of the Vietnam War, and Rent explores ’90s America, post-Cold War and newly introduced to the AIDS epidemic. Others serve as sweet reminders of simpler times — see: Rock of Ages.

Now playing at BDT Stage through Nov. 11, Rock of Ages takes us back to the rockin’ 1980s, with its bitchin’ songs and, like, righteous story of following your heart. This year BDT Stage is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and Rock of Ages marks the company’s 150th production.

The show tells the story of a group of rock ‘n’ roll dreamers on Sunset Strip, taking place somewhere in the mid to late ’80s, or, as the narrator Lonny suggests, “... a sexier time — the Reagan era.”

Specifically, the show follows two young artists who both long for stardom — wannabe actress Sherrie and rock ‘n’ rollgod-hopeful Drew, better known by his stage name, “Wolfgang Von Colt.”

Drew and Sherrie both work at The Bourbon Room, a rock club run by Dennis Dupree and his assistant Lonny. But as German developers come in to try to “clean up” (aka sanitize) the area, rock lovers from around the city fight to save their beloved club.

The show features the music of Journey, Bon Jovi, Styx, Pat Benatar, Poison, Joan Jett, Twisted Sister, Boulder Weekly

Upcoming Events & Entertainment ON THE BILL: Rock of Ages. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 11.

Europe and more. It reminds you of a time in music history when the radio dial was jampacked with songs full of heart... and with songs

by Heart. It’s a show full of songs that remind you they don’t make ’em like this anymore. But instead of being a mixtape full of classics, Rock of Ages strings together a list of hits to tell a story.

I’ve always had a soft spot for the ’80s. You can’t choose the decade you’re born into, but you can choose the decade you fall in love with. As a ’90s baby, I always lusted for the previous decade. Maybe it was upon my first viewing of a John Hughes movie or my first attempt at a Rubik’s cube, but for as long as I can remember, I’ve always preferred the totally rad, neoncolored world of the 1980s. Rock of Ages serves as that warm dose of nostalgia, whether you’re just a fan girl of the decade or were lucky enough to live it firsthand.

The show is a great example of a jukebox musical, a show that utilizes previously released songs as its score, à la Mamma Mia or Jersey Boys. Rock of Ages creates something new with familiar puzzle pieces. The show avoids feeling like a greatest hits concert by using the songs in unexpected ways. The songs aren’t frivolous choices, but are frequently used satirically and as winks to the audience.

The show’s strength is in its humor.

This means amping up the cheese factor on purpose: excessive use of the fog machine and poking fun at ’80s tropes.

Rock of Ages doesn’t take itself too seriously, which is for the best. The show’s self-aware nature lets the audience know that it’s in on the joke, allowing for a night of light-hearted fun.

The cast of BDT stage always delivers a performance full of energy,

and Rock of Ages is no different. Everyone feels like they’re having fun — and it’s easy to have fun when you’re belting out karaoke staples.

The highlight of the show are leads Tim Howard (Drew) and Olyvia Sydelle (Sherrie). Howard delivers his performance with the same charm and talent as any legendary rock hero, sporting a beautiful head of long wavy locks, which I pray to the rock gods is actually real. Sydelle is a delight to watch, infusing her character with spunk, agency and a beautiful voice to boot.

They’re supported by a motley crew of characters, like feisty activist Regina (Valerie Igoe), bluesy, cool Justice Charlier ( Joanie Brosseau-Rubald) and lovably quirky German developer Franz Klinemann (Brian Cronan). Along with club owner Dennis (Scott Beyette), narrator Lonny (Barret Harper) and rocker Stacee Jaxx (Scott Severtson), these characters function as the backbone of the show, rather than just throwaway background elements.

The technical aspects of the show add to the delight, featuring fondly remembered ’80s memorabilia and a costume lineup full of leotards, bustiers, leather, lace and tulle. There are also some interesting lighting choices.

At times, larger-than-life shadows are projected on the walls, making the medium-sized theater feel like an arena.

Rock of Ages is a versatile crowd pleaser. It sits in that sweet spot of the stage: appealing to theater lovers and mass audiences. There’s more than enough fun to go around for everyone.

But there is a price to pay when you see Rock of Ages. Any patron attending the show should be forewarned: Prepare to spend the next few weeks singing ’80s tunes to the annoyance of yourself and everyone around you.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Annual Chili Cook-off.

8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26 and Monday, Oct. 30, Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 28, The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons.

Everyone’s Halloween favorite, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, comes to Boulder Theater for two nights this Halloween season.

Although the Oct. 26 show is IMDb already sold out, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is back for a second night due to popular demand.

Get your tickets fast. You won’t want to miss the performance by Colorado’s Elusive Ingredient, a nationally recognized cast known for holding the world record for the largest Rocky showing of over 8,000 tickets sold. The cast expects audience members to be interactive and encourages them to yell, scream, dance and throw things while they perform scenes from the movie. Tickets are $5.

—Eliza Radeka

Do you have a special family recipe for hearty and delicious chili?

Enter the annual Breville USA/Wikimedia Commons Lyons Garden Club Chili Cook-off and share your signature version of the dish with dozens of other chili enthusiasts. Simply bring your creation in a crockpot to the Stone Cup and be prepared to sample other recipes from members of the Lyons community. Red, green and vegetarian entries are welcome. Not much of a cook? Come and try chili for just $.50 a sample and vote for your favorite. The winner will receive a People’s Choice prize: a $50 gift certificate to Gwynne’s Greenhouse. Don’t forget your ladle!

—Eliza Radeka

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Nederland Witches Ball featuring The Widow’s Bane.

6:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Saturday Oct. 28, The Caribou Room, 55 Indian Peaks Drive, Nederland.

Public Domain (Wikimedia Enjoy a spooky evening at Commons) The Caribou Room with Boulder band The Widow’s Bane. This band will put you in the Halloween spirit with its murder ballads, gothic rock and vaudevillestyle numbers. The band defines its sound by a genre of its own making: Zombie-Death-Polka.

Members sport zombie-style makeup and wear costumes reminiscent of Great Depression-era clothing. Lead singer Mortimer adds to the spook factor with his creepy animatronic dance moves. The Widow’s Bane has released two albums, The Widow’s Bane, and Don’t Be Afraid, It’s Only Death. These haunting themes are sure to thrill this Halloween season. Tickets are $12.

—Eliza Radeka

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Andrew Wynne. 7 p.m. Por Wine House, 836 1/2 Main St., Louisville.

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Black Angels. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver

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Sunday, Oct. 29

Fall Greenhouse Tours.

Senior Student Recital: Nicolas Killeen, jazz saxophone.

Bluegrass Pickers. 7 p.m. West Flanders Brewing, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder.

Bob Seger. 7:30 p.m. Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

Brooks Hubbard — with Girlfriend Duties. 8 p.m. Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St., Denver.

A Tour of Italy, Featuring Internationally Acclaimed SoloDuo. 7:30 p.m. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

David Ramirez: We’re Not Going Anywhere Tour. 8:30 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

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Disney in Concert: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas™. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.

11 a.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder.

Tess Additon and Tom Lemieux will offer an exclusive tour of the Biology Greenhouse, highlighting some of the important and interesting plants.

How to Increase Citizen Engagement in Scientific Research.

1 p.m. Norlin Library, 1720 Pleasant St., Room N410, Boulder.

This talk will focus on the benefits of creating a citizen science project and how to do so yourself.

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2 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder.

Tess Additon and Tom Lemieux will offer an exclusive tour of the Biology Greenhouse, highlighting some of the important and interesting plants.

Happy Hour Bingo. 6 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

I The Mighty — with Hail The Sun, Good Tiger. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Kung Fu. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 26 7:00 PM

COLORADO SKIES 9:00 PM

LASER: MGMT FRIDAY OCTOBER 27 7:00 PM

LASER: HALLOWEEN AND SPOOKY MOONS 9:00 PM

LIQUID SKY: DEAD ON THE DOME PART 1

Lostboycrow — with Prelow: Spin The Globe Tour. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

Markeisha Sings Nina Simone: A Tribute to the High Priestess of Soul. 6 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Me Me Monster, Gort v. Goom, Television Generation. 9 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E.13th Ave., Denver.

Nocturne Entertainment Presents: Spectacle & Anomalie with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Rebecca Rosen. 7 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

10:30 PM

Sam Coffey. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

11.59 PM

Shred Bots Presents “R3BOOT.” 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

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Events Brad Williams. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Cadence. 8 p.m. The Bakery Arts Warehouse, 2132 Market St., Denver.

Halloween Film Series: Casper. 7 p.m. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

The Improv Games: Denver’s Short Form Showdown. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver Life Animated Documentary Film. 7 p.m. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver.

1:30 PM

Momma McCracken Variety Show: Rotten Mummy. 9 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

3:00 PM

Movie Think & Drink... Arrival. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

LASER: HALLOWEEN AND SPOOKY MOONS WE ARE STARS 4:30 PM

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(Next to Coors Event Center, main campus CU Boulder)

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Naughty Pierre’s Burlesque & Comedy Show.

8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Neustadt JAAMM (Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies and Music) Festival. 7 p.m. Mizel Arts and Culture Center, 350 S. Dahlia St., Denver.

Night of the Living Dead...Live! On Stage. 8 p.m.

The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver.

The Olde/New Way of Deathcare: In the Parlor Documentary and Symposium. 6:30 p.m. The

Fall Greenhouse Tours.

Leveraging Multiple Forms of Expertise in Museum and Community-Based Collaborations.

3:30 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder.

Molly Shea explores how museums can collaborate and incorporate community expertise (informal education) into research and programs to better reflect the communities they serve.

Chamber Orchestra.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

PROGRAM: Edgard Varèse: “Octandre”; Juhani Nuorvala: Variationes ex “Bene quondam”; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550.

Thursday, Oct. 27 CMCI Homecoming Reception.

5 p.m. Philadelphia Club, Downstairs Courtyard, 1301 Walnut St., Boulder.

Meet Dean Lori Bergen and faculty, mingle with other alumni and learn more about the new College of Media, Communication and Information.

Doctoral Student Recital: Maria Kurchevskaya, piano.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

PROGRAM: George Crumb: “Three Early Songs”; Claude Debussy: “Ariettes oubliées”; Leonard Bernstein: “I Hate Music: A Cycle of Five Kids Songs for Soprano and Piano”; Nikolai Medtner: SuiteVocalise in F minor, Op. 41; Witold Lutosławski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini for Two Pianos.

Nomad Playhouse, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder.

Spirit Animal Speaks — Halloween Workshop.

7 p.m. The Lotus Meditation, 228 Broadway, Denver.

Spooktacular Parade! 2 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville.

Friday, October 27 Music The Arrival. 9 p.m. Temple Denver, 1136 Broadway, Denver.

Blind Melon — with Special Guests. 8 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

Chelsea Wolfe. 9 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

10 a.m. Macky Auditorium, 1B03B, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Featuring Alex Heffron, guitar; Leo Argüello, bass; BK Kahn, drums; Rocco Williams, vibraphone; and Daryl Gott, tenor saxophone

Tuesday, Oct. 31 Music Lecture: Galarraga, Hernandez, Wilmore.

10 a.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

A music lecture featuring Lazaro Galarraga, Cuban percussion/voice; Katie Hernandez, voice/dance; and Bobby Wilmore, Cuban percussion.

Faculty Tuesdays: Schubert and more!

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

PROGRAM: Franz Schubert: Rondo in B minor and Fantasy in C Major; Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a; Reza Vali: “Three Romantic Songs” and “Love Drunk.”

Wednesday, November 1 MDRP Colloquium and Brown Bag Series: Gino Canella and Krissy Peterson.

11:30 a.m. Institute of Behavioral Science, 1440 15th St., Boulder.

GSA, and MDRP Faculty: “Building an online and public presence as an academic.”

56th Annual Madrigal Festival.

1:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

PROGRAM: Traditional Xhosa Song: “Lizela”; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Lacrimosa” from “Requiem”, K 626; Susan Brumfield: “No Time.”

Ann Axtell Morris — Breaking New Ground.

3:30 p.m. CU Museum of Natural History, Henderson Building, 15th and Broadway, Boulder.

Speaker Inga Calvin will speak about writer, artist, and archaeologist Ann Axtell Morris.

LASP Public Lecture: Monitoring Earth’s Energy Balance from Space.

7:30 p.m. LASP Space Technology Research Center, Room 299, 1234 Innovation Drive, Boulder.

Come learn how LASP is contributing to space measurements of Earth’s energy balance with the TSIS and CLARREO Pathfinder missions.

Pendulum New Music Ensemble.

7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, C112, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

PROGRAM: Elena Spect: “On the Summit”; Jordan Holloway: Prelude for Alto Flute, Op. 19; Drake Rutherford: Pavane for String Quintet; Danielle Griner: Four Sketches for Viola; Selena Wellington: “Pied Horizon”; John Boggs: “Focus Shift.”

Disney in Concert: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas™. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.

Face. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Flying W Wranglers Concert. 6 p.m. LifeBridge Church, 10345 Ute Highway, Longmont.

The Good Kind Halloween Show. 5:30 p.m.

Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway, Boulder.

The Infamous Stringdusters. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

The Invasion. 9 p.m. Dillinger’s Food and Spirits, 1202 Centaur Village Drive, Lafayette. see EVENTS Page 48

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UPCOMING AT eTOWN HALL

Jack Hadley Duo. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

The Arrival. 2 a.m. Temple Denver, 1136 Broadway, Denver.

J.Lately — Be F-ing Happy Tour. 9 p.m. Streets of London Pub, 1501 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

John Mieras. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

Arthur Lee Land Trio. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder.

Jackopierce. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

Lori’s Cuisine. 3:30 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

A Baroque Potpourri — with Winds and Strings. 7 p.m. St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, 7520 South Boulder, Boulder.

John Mieras. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont.

Los Fear of Shrimp. 8 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Lost Kings. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

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The Max Mackey Band. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Papadosio “Rave from the Grave.” 8 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Roka Hueka’s Annual Halloween Bash — with Don Chicharron and more. 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Wildermiss (EP Release). 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver.

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Tranceblues Festival & Jam Workshop

Brandon “Taz” Niederauer, CJ Chenier, & more

Boulder Chorale: Carnival Brazil. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder.

Birds of North America — presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Dairy Arts Center, Grace Gamm Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through Nov. 12

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Stop Making 14 Sense

Pre-show Talking Heads Karaoke!

Second Annual Halloween Block Party. 6 p.m. Deviant Spirits, 2480 49th St., Suite E., Boulder.

After School Zone Halloween Dance.

6 p.m. 1050 Lashley St., Longmont.

Brad Williams. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.

Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Cadence. 8 p.m. The Bakery Arts Warehouse, 2132 Market St., Denver.

Convergence. 7:30 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver.

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Crystal Bowersox Singer-Songwriter and American Idol Runner-Up

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The Rocky Horror Show. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through Oct. 28.

It’s the tail end of the big, bad 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging hard. The music of hit bands Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and more drive the Tony-award nominated musical Rock of Ages, now playing at BDT Stage through Nov. 11. See BW’s review on page 28.

The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. 7 p.m. Embassy Suites, 1420 Stout St., Denver.

Firehouse Ghost Hunters. 8 p.m. Denver Firefighters Museum, 1326 Tremont Place, Denver.

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A Delicate Balance — presented by The Edge Theater Company. The Edge Theater Company, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through Nov. 5.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — presented

by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through Oct. 28.

Siren Song: A Pirate’s Odyssey. Buntport Theatre, 717 Lipan St., Denver, 720-9461388. Through May 14.

The Snowy Day. Conservatory Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Nov. 18.

Seussical — presented by Peanut Butter Players. Harlequin Center for Performing Arts, 1376 Miners Drive, Suite 106, Lafayette. Through Oct. 28.

A Year with Frog and Toad. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through Dec. 19.

Laser Halloween and Spooky Moons. 7 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

ManorCare HarvestFest. 5:30 p.m. ManorCare Health Services, 2800 Palo Parkway, Boulder.

British Master: Walton & Holst. 7 p.m. First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder.

Night of the Living Dead...Live! On Stage. 8 p.m.

The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver.

DMX w/ Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

On The Spot. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

The Fabulous Boogienauts Dimeanight EPO & Los Hitos. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S Broadway, Denver.

Password:Comedy. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont.

Trick or Treat Street. 9 a.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Childrens Museum Drive, Denver.

Wicked Good Halloween Gala and Fundraiser.

5:30 p.m. The Millennium Harvest House, 1345 28th St., Boulder.

WOW!’s Halloween Party. 5:30 p.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.

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The Music Man. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Drive, Johnstown.

Through Nov. 5.

Rock of Ages. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through Nov. 11.

Fate of The Comedy Show. 8 p.m. Los Tacos Famous Taqueria, 600 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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Macbeth. Space, Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1345 Champa St., Denver. Through Oct. 29.

Return to the Twilight Zone, a Parody — presented by Theater Company of Lafayette. The Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette. Begins Oct. 27.

Through November 18.

Edgar Allan Poe is Dead and So Is My Cat. 8 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Full Concert

Midnight Party Machine. 11 p.m. Angel’s Land-

The Rape of the Sabine Women — presented by Local Theater Company. The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Begins Oct. 27. Through Nov. 19.

’80’s Halloween Party! 10 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.

BOOlesque & Comedy Show. 8 p.m.

The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

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The Medium. 4 p.m. Syntax Physic Opera, 554 South Broadway, Denver.

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Blacklight Sideshow Halloween Party! 7 p.m. Phoenix Asylum, 2510 47th St., Unit D/Dd, Boulder.

Movie Night at eTown Hall

Lee “Scratch” Perry + Subatomic Sound System — with Special Guests. 9 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

The National Parks. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Sammy J, Anuhea. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Workshop & Performance

Ben Hammond. 6 p.m. Rayback Collective, 2775 Valmont Road, Boulder.

All About The Brass. 7 p.m. Grossen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont.

Gemini Syndrome with Deadset Society, Spoken. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Ghastly at Fox Theatre. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Good Old Fashioned Boat Party. 9 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Halden Wofford & the Hi*Beams. 8:30 p.m. oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Happy Hour Live Jazz. 5:30 p.m. Tandoori Grill South, 619 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-7339.

The Infamous Stringdusters. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

ing, 2014 S. University Blvd., Denver.

Old’s Cool Rock. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Papadosio “Rave from the Grave”. 8 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Rat’s WoodShack BBQ. 3 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont.

Sipapalooza 2017. 6 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

SNAP! ’90s Dance Party, DJ A-L (The Soul Pros/Future Classic Music). 9 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Soul School Band. 9 p.m. Jazz@Jack’s, 500 16th St., Suite 320, Denver.

Stranger Brunch - A brunch in the upside down — with DJ Hollow, DJ Tower. 10:30 a.m.

Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Thunderthief, Mammoth Water, Fed Rez, Gioto, Pheel. 8:30 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E 13th Ave., Denver, 303-860-4516.

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events Tom “Bones” Malone — with Trio (Colorado Jazz Workshop). 9 p.m. Dazzle@Baur’s, 1512 Curtis St., Denver.

Tom Keifer & Lita Ford. 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver.

The Widdler, Pushloop, Cloud-D, & Dillard (Sub. mission Agency Showcase). 9 p.m. The Black Box LLC, 314 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Events Third Annual Great Gatsby Zombie Ball. 5:30 p.m. Nocturne Jazz and Supper Club, 1330 27th St., Denver.

7th Heaven Halloween Bash. 7:30 p.m. Dannik’s Gunbarrel Corner Bar, 6525 Gunpark Drive, Boulder.

Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver.

Halloween BOOlesque & Comedy Show. 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Monster Mile. 10 a.m. Cheesman Park, 1599 E. Eighth Ave., Denver.

Night of the Living Dead...Live! On Stage. 8 p.m.

The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver.

Halloween Kids Fest. 10 a.m. Downtown Aquarium, 700 Water St., Denver.

On The Spot. 8 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Halloween Tea at the Byers-Evans House.

12:30 p.m. Byers-Evans House Museum, 1310 Bannock St., Denver.

Pick Your Poison — Pole & Aerial Dance Halloween Showcase & Party. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Haunted House. 1 p.m. St. Charles Rec Center, 3777 Lafayette St., Denver.

Pumpkin Carving. 8 a.m. Longmont Farmers Market, 9595 Nelson Raod, Longmont.

Lott Of Laughs Drag Show. 8 p.m. Mile High Hamburger Mary’s, 1336 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

SciDance. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Institute, Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., Boulder.

Spark It Up! Halloween Dance Party. 8 p.m. Vali Soul Sanctuary (formerly the Adi Shakti Center), 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder.

Spooktacular! Spooktacular! — Once Upon a Spooktacular Night. 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Historic Grand Avenue, 216 S. Grant, Denver.

Spooktoberfest. 9 p.m. Govnr’s Park Tavern, 672 Logan St., Denver.

Trick or Treat at the Denver Firefighters Museum. 5 p.m. Denver Firefighters Museum, 1326 Tremont Place, Denver.

Trick or Treat Street. 9 a.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Childrens Museum Drive, Denver. see EVENTS Page 50

103.5 The Fox’s Halloween Hair-Ball. 7 p.m.

Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver.

41st Annual Halloween Parade. 9:30 a.m.

Roosevelt Park & Main Street, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

The Agency: “Bits and Pieces.” 8 p.m. Voodoo Comedy Playhouse, 1260 22nd St., Denver.

Alley Halloween. 7 p.m. Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 West 38th Ave., Denver.

Boo At The Zoo 2017. 9 a.m. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver.

Brad Williams. 7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

Cat Jerky Costume Party! 8:30 p.m. Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Coloween 2017. 9 p.m. The Curtis Hotel, 1405 Curtis St., Denver.

Cadence. 8 p.m. The Bakery Arts Warehouse, 2132 Market St., Denver.

ComedySportz Denver. 7:30 p.m. Avenue Theater, 417 E. 17th Ave., Denver.

Convergence. 7:30 p.m. Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre, 119 Park Ave. West, Denver.

Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) Spanish/ English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) Spanish/ English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder.

Denver Broncos Trick-Or-Treat. 10 a.m. Sports Authority Field at Mile High, 1701 Mile High Stadium Circle, Denver.

Denver Halloween — Ninth Annual Charity Event. 8 p.m. McNichols Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Denver Halloween Bar Crawl. 8 p.m. Howl at the Moon, 1735 19th St., Denver.

Denver Halloween Costume Ball. 9 p.m. Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver.

Denver LoDo HalloWeekend Pub Crawl. 4 p.m.

1515 Bar & Lounge, 1515 Market St., Denver.

Denver MonsterDASH 5k/10k Kids Run. 9 a.m.

Berkeley Park, 4544 W. 46th Ave., Denver.

Edgar Allan Poe is Dead And So Is My Cat. 8 p.m. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Exotica Erotica Ball. 9:30 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder.

Firehouse Ghost Hunters. 8 p.m. Denver Firefighters Museum, 1326 Tremont Place, Denver.

Fright Night Halloween Party! — Two Floors of Fun! 8 p.m. Society, 1434 Blake St., Denver.

Ghost Walk, Ghost Talk. 4 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

Halloween — Freak Out Halloween Party! 9 p.m. Breakers Grill, 380 Main St., Longmont.

Halloween 2017: Lost Hotel. 9 p.m. Tracks, 3500 Walnut St., Denver.

Halloween Hootenanny. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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“A Camel for the Son” by Fazal Sheikh

Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013, is a survey of the nearly 25-year career of the critically acclaimed photographer Fazal Sheikh. See it at the Denver Art Museum through Nov. 12.

Artistry And Craftsmanship: Ruskin Pottery, Enamels, and Buttons. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Britain’s Golden Age. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Canaletto: Masterwork Restored. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver.

Through Nov. 19.

Common Ground. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 12.

Depth & Detail: Carved Bamboo from China, Japan & Korea. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Discovering Generations Of Thy Reincarnated Self — by Kia Neill. Paramita Gallery, 3285 30th St., Boulder. Through Oct. 27.

Elemental Forms. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through May 2018.

Faculty Exhibition: 2017. University of Colorado Art Museum, Visual Arts Complex, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Through Dec. 23.

From The Fire: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Robert and Lisa Kessler Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Front Range Contemporary Quilters. NCAR’s Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through Oct. 27.

Glitterati: Portraits & Jewelry from Colonial Latin America. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Out of India: Drawings and Photographs — Sherry Wiggins. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17.

Grand Gestures: Dance, Drama, Masquerade.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 19.

Retratos De Los Muertos — featuring Travis Hetman. Firehouse Art Gallery, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. Through Nov. 5.

Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Jan. 14.

Revealing A Mexican Masterpiece: The Virgin of Valvanera. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Feb. 2018.

Latin America: Endless Transformation. Redline, 2350 Arapahoe St., Denver. Through Oct. 29.

River Paintings Curated by Courtney Stell — Stephen Batura. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Nov. 17.

Legacy — presented by Gallery 1261 and Denver Public Library. Denver Central Library, Level 7, Vida Ellison Gallery, 10 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Dec. 31.

Lined Out — Ted Larsen. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St. Through Jan. 21.

Neo-Cubism: A New Perspective — by Roger Reutimann & William Stoehr. Dairy Center for the Arts, McMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder.

Begins Oct. 27. Through Dec. 3.

Sinner in Gingham. Boulder Museum of Contempoarary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through Jan. 21.

Spiritual Dimensions. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison Gallery, MacMillan Family Lobby, and HandRudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Begins Oct. 27. Through Dec. 3.

Then, Now, Next: Evolution of an Architectural Icon. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver Through February 2018.

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Trick-or-Treat Street. 9:30 a.m. Heart of Longmont, 350 11th Ave., Longmont.

plugged. 6 p.m. Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, 1215 20th St., Denver.

Simo. 8 p.m. The Soiled Dove Underground, 7401 E. First Ave., Denver.

Witches’ Brew Halloween Tea. 11:30 a.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder.

Him. 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Sunday, October 29

The Jet Set. 5 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Spooktacular Trunk or Treat & Spooky Organ Concert. 5 p.m. Mountain View UMC, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder.

Music William Patrick Corgan. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Don Alder. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder. eTown Live Radio Show Taping — with Deer Tick & Garland Jeffreys. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder.

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Events

Koo Koo Kanga Roo. 5 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver.

Boo At The Zoo 2017. 9 a.m. Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele St., Denver.

The Love Show. 7 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont.

BOOlesque & Comedy Show. 7 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

An Old Time Band Concert. 4 p.m. Silver Creek High School Auditorium, 4901 Nelson Road, Longmont.

Boulder Comedy Show. 6 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder

Papadosio “Rave from the Grave.” 8 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

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As a medic drafted into the South African military in 1990, John Lockley had a powerful dream to become an African Shaman.

Lockley speaks about his book, Leopard Warrior, at the Boulder Book Store Nov. 1.

Thursday, October 26 Sort of Spooky Author Reading with Kevin Purdy. 4 p.m. Louisville Public Library, 951 Spruce St., Louisville.

Lois Levinson. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Zach & Kelly Weinersmith — Soonish. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Sunday, October 29 Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor — It Devours! 5 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Tuesday, October 31

Scott Bruce. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Laura Pritchett & Kevin Wolf — Making Friends with Death and Brokeheart. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Wednesday, November 1

So, You’re a Poet: Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

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John Lockley — Leopard Warrior. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

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Costume Ride. 10 a.m. Marshall Mesa Trailhead, Boulder.

Denver Halloween Costume Ball. 12 a.m. Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, 1550 Court Place, Denver.

Halloween Bat Craft. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette.

Halloween Kids Fest. 10 a.m. Downtown Aquarium, 700 Water St., Denver.

Halloween Moon. 11 a.m. Dabble Paint and Sip Studio, 2330 Main St., Suite E, Longmont.

Haunted Library. 2 p.m. George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Laser Halloween and Spooky Moons. 4:30 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

Louisville MonsterDASH 5k/10k Kids Run. 3 p.m. Community Park, 955 Bella Vista Drive, Louisville.

Midnight North — Sinful Sunday Halloween Party! 8:30 p.m. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Trick or Treat Street. 9 a.m. Children’s Museum of Denver, 2121 Childrens Museum Drive, Denver.

Monday, October 30 Music Bruno Mars: 24K Magic World Tour. 8 p.m.

Pepsi Center, 1000 Chopper Circle, Denver.

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The Wrecks. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver.

Events Addams Family Burlesque Ball. 8 p.m. The Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe St., Denver.

Broadway Cabaret Dance. 4 p.m. Boulder Jewish Community Center, 6007 Oreg Ave., Boulder.

Cobalt. 8:30 p.m. Hi-Dive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver.

Hiss Golden Messenger. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Day of the Dead. 4 p.m. Centro Mexican Kitchen, 950 Pearl St., Boulder.

Real Estate — with Lucy Dacus at Fox Theatre. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder.

Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Halloween. 5 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette.

Events Black & Blu — Comedy/Variety Show. 7 p.m.

Tennyson’s Tap, 4335 W. 38th Ave., Denver.

Tim Burton Double Feature: Fun + Fright Movie Night. 5 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver.

Halloween. 5 p.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette.

Wednesday, November 1 Music

Halloween at the Y. 5:30 p.m. Arapahoe YMCA, 2800 Dagny Way, Lafayette.

The Bad Plus. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Halloween Costume Party x Monday Night Football. 5:30 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Celebrate Día de los Muertos — Day of the Dead! 7 p.m. The Denver Turnverein, 1570 Clarkson St., Denver.

The Improv Hootenanny. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Cypher 4. 9 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Movie Night: Bram Stoker’s Dracula. 6 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Dear Luna. 7 p.m. Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 S. Broadway, Denver.

The Roast of Halloween. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver.

The Devil Wears Prada - No Sun/No Moon Tour. 6 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Music 22 Crew Halloween Massive. 6:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont.

Alvvays. 8 p.m. The Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Boulder Phishin. 7 p.m. Owsley’s Golden Road, 1301 Broadway St., Boulder.

Halloween Night Menagerie ft. Wabakinoset, Metafonics, Zeta June, King Friday. 8 p.m.

Cervantes Masterpiece, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

ITCHY O Hallowmass 2017. 8 p.m. Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St., Denver.

Justin Martin’s Halloween Masquerade. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Mystery Skulls. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Evelyn Evermoore. 8 p.m. Your Mom’s House, 608 E. 13th Ave., Denver.

Kirk Cameron’s REVIVE US 2. 7 p.m. Denver Pavilions 15, 500 16th St., Denver.

Mapache. 10 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder.

Slowdive. 8 p.m. The Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Events Day of the Dead. 4 p.m. Centro Mexican Kitchen, 950 Pearl St., Boulder.

Denver Film Festival. 12 a.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Weird Forgotten Dreams: An Improv Graduate Show. 7:30 p.m. Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa St., Denver.

Token: Have You Seen Him? — with Special Guests. 8 p.m. Cervantes’ Other Side, 2637 Welton St., Denver.

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ook, by now you either mildly enjoy watching Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat food you can’t afford in places you’ll never visit while making conversation you don’t mind or you hate everything about it. Theoretically, someone somewhere loves the shit out of these navel-gazing, self-referential expeditions or there wouldn’t be an inexplicable third installment of the Trip series. That said, much like Yetii, Bigfeet and truly informed undecided voters two days before a presidential election, no one has ever actually met a wildly enthusiastic fan of these films in real life. If someone goes bananas for The Trip to Spain, please extensively document that person to verify their legitimate existence.

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‘The Trip to Spain’ is blandly, darkly quixotic by Ryan Syrek The bulk of humanity will find Coogan and Brydon’s latest precisely on par with their previous. What makes this installment distinctly different from The Trip or The Trip to Italy is that, this time out, the duo cavort and snort their way through middling-to-pretty-good celebrity impressions in Spain. That’s it. That’s the difference. Otherwise, it’s still Coogan vacillating between rampant narcissism and blatant insecurity while Brydon tiptoes the line between goofily affable and downright smarmy.

The light-as-a-feather-stiff-as-being-bored narrative involves Coogan being ditched by his agent, expressing his love for a former flame and discovering a surprise involving his son. Brydon is left implying something about marital fatigue versus loving long-term commitment and seemingly fighting off an urge to turn to the camera and ask the audience if they liked it because, if not, he could try again.

Director Michael Winterbottom does blatantly hammer home a somewhat satisfying, if horrifyingly obvious, motif through repeated incantations of Don Quixote. From mentions of windmills in songs to actually having Coogan and Brydon dress as Quixote and Sancho Panza, the metaphor of self-aggrandizing idealism isn’t so much implied as Gilbert Gottfried-ed through a megaphone. What’s satisfying, though, is that there’s a bit of savageness to it all.

Most films with aging white men as the near-entirety of the cast seek to validate the inherent “specialness� of the leads or the false presumed universality of their privileged experiences. The Trip to Spain confirms that Coogan is a pretentious joke, shows that Brydon is little better, and concludes with a sequence that very nearly made the whole experience into a darkly comic gem, had it gone a bit further down an unexpected gravel road. The Trip to Spain, at the very least, deserves credit for exposing men like these as frauds and not endearingly redeemable middle-aged heroes.

Given that the pair do some of the very same impressions as they did the last time out, and even repeat several entire routines during this film, this has to be the end of the Trip movies. It simply has to be. Right? The footprint the trilogy leaves will be as a modestly pleasant travelogue filled with mildly meaningful observations and minutely funny dialogue. In other words, The Trip to Spain completes a franchise that is exactly as significant and meaningful to the world as watching two wealthy white dudes talk and eat.

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Cold irony and sober reality in ‘Thank You For Your Service’ by Michael J. Casey

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hen writer/director Jason Hall’s brother returned home ON THE BILL: Thank You from the 1990s conflict in For Your Service. Century the Middle East, he did so Theatre, 1700 29th St., Boulder. with his “arms and legs and sense of humor intact.” However, the more Hall Tickets start at $7.65: talked to his brother, the more he realized cinemark.com something inside him had changed, something unspoken.

It was a familiar realization, one anyone related to a soldier of war would recognize. Hall saw it in his uncle, who fought in Vietnam, and his grandfather, who flew in World War II. As Hall put it, the distance between him and those who returned from combat became “the unspoken space between us.”

Those unspoken spaces between soldier and civilian form the core of Hall’s latest film, Thank You For Your Service.

Based on the non-fiction book by David Finkel, Thank You For Your Service tells the story of three soldiers — Adam Schumann (Miles Teller), Tausolo Aieti (Beulah Koale) and Will Waller ( Joe Cole) — returning home from Iraq; all with minimal physical scars but deep psychological ones.

Schumann, Aieti and Waller quickly discover that they are incapable of vocalizing what combat was like or discussing what they saw and did. Schumann feels particular guilt for having dropped a wounded soldier, further crippling him. Nightmares haunt all three and sleep is rare. Drinking is common, particularly in each other’s company, where they feel as relaxed as possible.

This does little to help their relationships at home, which only become further strained by a lack of communication and empathy. One fiancée decides it’s too difficult and leaves without saying goodbye. Another grows distant. The unspoken spaces between become chasms, and the soldiers fear that the future awaiting them is far worse than anything they faced in combat.

Thank You For Your Service is no rah-rah propaganda wrapped in the American flag; it is a grim and sobering story about the difficulties soldiers face as they return home, the apathy with which non-soldiers look at them and the frustrating Department of Veterans Affairs. The scenes at the VA, just enough and not too much, give a sense of a very different kind of hell that awaits those who gave so much; one populated by kind people and ruled by infuriating bureaucracy. These VA workers try to do their best, but with little resources and a finite number of hours in the day, there is only so much they can accomplish. But try telling that to the soldier who hasn’t slept in weeks and just wants help.

Many movies have covered this territory — The Best Years of Our Lives, Born on the Fourth of July and Coming Home to name a few — but they pale in comparison to the number of films that fan the flames of combat in the name of patriotism.

Thank You For Your Service helps balance the equation. It is not a perfect film, nor will it fix the multitude of problems surrounding war and veterans, but it can help get the conversation going. We have to start somewhere.

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unday mornings are meant for taking it easy (you’re welcome for that earworm). Olive and Finch is as easy as it gets. The neighborhood eatery located on 17th Street, one of Denver’s most walkable and denser neighborhoods, gives off good vibes and serves classic food made from scratch. What’s best about the setup is the combination of counter and table service. Walk past a case of fresh baked goodies (just try to resist) and step up to the cashier to place your order.

Take a number, sit down and wait for delicious food and drinks to come your way. Now, Sunday morning also calls for breakfast, and nothing says breakfast like hash. Olive and Finch’s Sonoma hash brings to mind its namesake: two eggs sunny side up are reminiscent of the sundrenched valley, while a wholesome portion of roasted vegetables, potatoes, arugula and goat cheese fill the stomach and the soul. The potatoes and vegetables are soft but not mushy, and the arugula provides a peppery crunch that contrasts the silky, buttery umami flavor of the egg yolks. We suggest pairing it with a buttermilk biscuit — lightly crispy on the outside, soft and moist on the inside — or sate your sweet tooth with a beignet. $10.95.

s there a dish that comforts more than shepherd’s pie? It’s like an electric blanket on a cold day — warm, familiar and you won’t want to move once you get into it. The dish is a specialty of The Hungry Toad, which offers a number of English staples from London Broil to fish and chips to bangers and mash. Its shepherd’s pie features meaty sirloin tips, carrots, onions and celery tossed in a Guiness gravy and buried under air-light mashed potatoes. The potatoes are singed on top, providing a crispy texture, but the reason we come is for the meat and gravy. It’s peppery, half-sweet, half-savory and piping hot. The accompanying Fuller’s ESB, Boddington’s or whatever British or American pub brew you choose from the taps makes it just a little better. $16.95.

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oulder’s ethnic groceries are treasures.

The Mediterranean Market & Deli is one of the best, with a small café and a store filled with spices, teas, sauces and much more sourced from Greece to Pakistan. And it’s all pretty cheap. You should check it out. If not for the interesting finds, then for the jam-packed and flavorful gyro. Lamb and beef are grilled, then dressed with red onion, tomato, cucumber and a dill yogurt sauce. The pita itself is chewy and thick, with welcomed bits of blackening from the grill. If you can fit your mouth around it, the gyro makes for an incredible bite — tons of different flavors, textures and temperatures. Served alongside similarly robust stuffed grape leaves, the meal packs a wallop for cheap. $8.

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QUESO

Can Chipotle’s Velveeta-free chile cheese dip compete?

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hile con queso — we just call it “queso” — may be the perfect global comfort food.

Everybody gets partial credit for the comforting combo of cheese and chilies ranging from Mennonites in Mexico to the states of Arkansas, Texas and Chihuahua, who derived it from Swiss fondue and French mornay sauce.

Queso has become an obligatory menu item at almost every Tex-Mex and Southwestern eatery in Colorado, plus brewpubs, bars and sports venues.

Up until now, there was one notable holdout to queso domination: the

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Denver-born fast casual giant Chipotle Mexican Grill. Where Taco Bell was a place that assembled pre-made ingredients into meals, Chipotle built its brand on freshly chopped ingredients cooked in each location. That stereotypical queso with the garish Cheetos hue and processed texture didn’t seem to fit in.

So when Chipotle recently announced it was adding queso to its menus nationwide, cries of protest were heard from the chain’s devotees. Some viewed the arrival of queso as a sign the company was caving in to corporate interests and messing with the sacred tradition of Chipotle’s San Francisco-style burritos. After tasting it,

others claimed that it wasn’t “authentic queso.” That may be because it is not made with Velveeta and Ro-Tel canned tomatoes with chilies.

Surprisingly, queso is not on the diet my primary care physician recommended, so I wasn’t able to research and taste Boulder’s Top 10 chile cheese dips.

However, I did sneak into several Chipotle stores to sample the controversial queso made, they say, with “real cheese, jalapenos, tomatillos and spices.”

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orange, with flecks of red. The not-toosalty queso clings properly to corn chips without having that slippery processed mouthfeel. The cheese flavor is prominent along with great roasted chile flavor and heat, although it’s not too fiery for general consumption.

I’ve always liked Chipotle’s steak burritos and bowls, but the final product is essentially served warm. The shredded cheese is mainly just texture unless you took the burrito home to microwave. Queso adds an element to the steak burrito that hasn’t been there before. The hot cheese sauce pulls the flavors of meat, beans and rice together in a way crema and salsa can’t.

Finally, you have to try the hack of combining Chipotle’s queso with the corn salsa. It is a beautiful thing.

I found that the queso varied a little from Chipotle to Chipotle — a little thicker here, a little spicier there. I found that strangely reassuring. I’ll trade a little food science consistency for real ingredients, flavors and cooks.

With the festive holiday party and sports season ahead, you should learn to conquer queso. My recipe is very forgiving and adjusts to the ingredients you have on hand.

Chile con queso

2 tablespoons butter 3 Pueblo or Hatch green chilies, roasted, peeled, seeded and chopped (Substitute canned roasted green chilies) 1 jalapeño chile, seeded and chopped 2 large cloves garlic, finely chopped 1⁄2 medium white onion, finely diced 2 to 3 tablespoons flour 1 1/2 cups warm milk (whole milk makes it creamier) 4 cups (approx.) grated extra sharp cheddar cheese 2 cups (approx.) shredded queso asadero (white Mexican cheese) 1 cup canned diced tomatoes Garnish: Chopped fresh cilantro, pickled jalapeños Melt butter in a saucepan and add chilies, garlic and onion. Cook over low heat for about five minutes. Sprinkle on the flour, blend it in and cook for about three minutes. Be careful not to scorch it. Slowly mix in the warm milk and stir constantly for a few minutes until the sauce starts to thicken. If the sauce is too thick, thin it with more milk or warm water. Turn the heat down and very slowly stir in the cheese a little at a time until it is completely melted and blended. This process works out better if you do not use bagged, pre-shredded 60 October 26 , 2017

cheese. Add tomatoes and stir. Taste, and add salt only if you must.

Note: Options include adding serrano or chipotle (smoked jalapeño) chilies. Some recipes blend in sour cream or crema before serving.

For your Halloween menu

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Yakiimo Dayori, a new, warm, roasted sweet potato drink, is available now from vending machines at train stations across East Japan. ... A Fluffy Mascarpone Cheese Mousse and Mixed Berry Grape Smoothie is available at McDonald’s in Japan. ... The hot new Chinese beverage is Kinfone Tea King — that’s oolong iced tea topped with frothy, salted cheese.

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Happy 30th birthday to Boulder’s iconic West End Tavern, opened by the late Steve “Beaver” Goren and Marc Minion in 1987, long before that end of Pearl was anything resembling cool. Early on I had a culinary epiphany on the Tavern’s rooftop terrace when I tasted a bowl of pork green chile stew that was broth-based, not flour thickened, with lots of roasted peppers and bay leaves. ...

Sommelier Paige Bodin is celebrating 30 years of giving wise wine advice at the Flagstaff House. … A fire recently damaged the kitchen at Niwot’s Colterra Food & Wine. No reopening date has been set. … Learn to make your own horseradish and fire cider Oct. 29 at Broomfield’s Crescent Grange. They provide the root. You bring kitchen tools, vinegar, honey and pint jars. crescentgrange.org. …

The Colorado Artisan Cheese Festival Oct. 29 in Pueblo features Colorado cheesemakers including MouCo, James Ranch, Philpott Goat Dairy and Laz Ewe 2 Bar plus samples of other local foods. coloradocheesefest. com … Fall workshops at The Farmette in Lyons include Bitters & Cocktails (Nov. 11). lyonsfarmette. com.

Words to chew on

“You undercook everything in this country! When I ask for meat well done in a restaurant, I’m treated like I’m a barbarian.” —Anthony Hopkins John Lehndorff is the former Dining Critic of the Rocky Mountain News. He hosts Radio Nibbles at 8:25 a.m.

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“I thought I had eaten tomatoes but these things were freaking awesome,” he says. “As a scientist, I just started to get really curious about it, wondering how I went through all these years of higher education and never had any idea where my food was coming from, or the nutritional quality of food, or how the food system was set up.

Ollin Farms’ Mark Guttridge says Boulder County agriculture can help save the planet by Matt Cortina

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ow is an important time in agriculture.

It’s been said, perhaps best by renowned food writer Mark Bittman, that to care about food now is to care about the future of the country. Food Susan France impacts everyone, and it impacts every issue from immigration to climate change to livable wages and more. And, it all starts on the farm.

Mark Guttridge of Ollin Farms knows this.

If you’re not tuned in, his fast and twangy manner of speaking obscures the hard science of biodynamic agriculture that he effortlessly reels off; the astute observations and opinions on local farming regulations; and the mindfulness of sustainable agriculture’s intimate connection to nature.

Guttridge, too, thinks world salvation starts on the farm. Maybe on a local farm. Maybe his.

“I think there’s a new paradigm of agriculture coming, and I hope it can be born here in Boulder County,” he says.

Just over a decade ago, Guttridge and his wife, Kena, moved to the land just south of Longmont that would become Ollin Farms while his grandmother, who owned the land, battled Alzheimer’s. Guttridge had received a master’s “I realized it wasn’t just about having food for my degree in water resource management from CU, and family,” he says. “I really wanted to provide for the was beginning work in the field. Though the farm had whole community; there really was a need for nutrinever produced crops, Guttridge began to garden in ent-dense food grown in healthy soils.” the backyard, and when friends and family tried the Guttridge worked (and still works) as an environfruits of his labor, they were impressed. So was he. mental consultant, a paycheck that helped his family

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launch and sustain the farm it its first years. But Mark Guttridge grows over 150 his scientific background varieties of crops also provided a technical throughout the year at Ollin Farms. foundation upon which the farm could grow — for instance, one of the reasons they even started gardening was because Guttridge wanted to test out a drip irrigation system he was learning about in his graduate studies.

It also instilled in him a curiosity to find out how to maximize land to improve the lives of people. Seeing his grandmother battle Alzheimer’s and a friend undergo cancer treatments, Guttridge sought to explore from day one how what we eat (and how it was raised) impacts our bodies.

“I’ve never had any conversation about nutrition with my doctor. It’s always about this symptom and this treatment, and it got really frustrating for me,” Guttridge says. “So I had to define myself as a farmer, like, ‘How am I going to grow the most healthy, nutrient-dense food possible?’ I did a lot of research and networked with a lot of farmers and ended up finding out really it’s about physically growing a healthy, active topsoil.”

This is the movement in farming, and the crux of Guttridge’s mission (very much simplified): nurture the land and it’ll reward you. This starts by looking at how the land has historically been used, understanding its true nature.

“What was this area before it was the Front Range?” Guttridge asks. “It was prairie grasses, and twice a year the buffalo would come in, they’d eat the grasses, they’d shit, they’d die, they’d move on, and the grasses would rejuvenate without a lot of water.

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soil. How can we take that and put it on a small farm?”

Cultivating topsoil has myriad benefits, Guttridge says. It sequesters carbon, first of all — there’s a “cool feedback system,” wherein the plant, via photosynthesis, takes in carbon, passes it through the roots and into the soil.

Microbes in a healthy soil, then, breath out carbon dioxide, which the plant takes back in to compensate for its

“loss.” In order to make this model of “regenerative agriculture” (about which a conference is to be held in Boulder next month) work, farms must grow some kind of crop throughout the year (to retain the cycle’s CO2), and mustn’t till the land (which would release the carbon). So Guttridge plants winter wheat, berry bushes and more to serve that purpose.

That’s all important because

Guttridge says most farms don’t plant such cover crops, thus carbon is released in mass quantities during the offseason.

Healthy topsoil also means chemicals aren’t necessary, Guttridge says.

“If you have a healthy plant, you don’t need fungicides and herbicides and pesticides because the plant has its own immune system,” he says. “A lot of those bugs and diseases are there because that’s nature’s way of taking out

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the weakest link. That’s what they’re there for in nature: to eat the stuff that’s sick. And in all our genius, in the last 50 years, we designed all these chemicals to keep the sick plants from being eaten by the things that are supposed to eat them and then we eat that stuff and then wonder why our healthcare system is the way it is.”

But there’s also a poetic reason to support regenerative farming initiatives, Guttridge says. The care and intention needed to cultivate healthy topsoil and nutrient-dense crops are passed from the farmer to the crop itself, he says.

“There’s nutrition in food but there’s also these subtle energies. When we’re doing it by hand, I think [these energies] come from our intention, and... it’s really important when you’re getting beautiful food in from a beautiful farm that people are happy to be working there. That’s what we want to make available in the community.”

Now if you think it’s a done deal that Boulder County will become the sustainable agriculture center of the world, think again. Guttridge points out the fact that 80 percent of farmers who started farming via a County open space program went out of business within a few years. Too, there are real limitations on the small sustainable farm model — they’re up against “a global food system that’s really pushed cheap, low-value food, and it takes a while to educate why things might cost a little more.” And just this week, the Boulder County Commissioners ended a sustainable agriculture research program amid controversy on how best to (and who should) implement a transition to non-GMO crops.

Labor costs are prohibitive as well, and so Guttridge has diversified his onfarm income, including hosting educational and social events. Galvanizing a section of the community to help with on-farm work is a new project Guttridge and other farmers are working on, with the hopes of getting up to 50 or so people out to, for instance, move fences for rotational grazing, or move heavy winter squash in cold weather in exchange for, say, a CSA share.

So, OK, maybe it’s a long road between here and a moment when regenerative agriculture saves the world and Boulder County farmers beam with pride from their hay pedestals. But Guttridge, at least, is prepared for the journey ahead because the answer is all around us if we keep our eyes open.

“There’s no silver bullet in farming,” Guttridge says, “just as there’s no silver bullet in nature.”

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es, Colorado may be the state of craft beer but when one thinks of Colorado breweries, one towers over the rest like a snowcapped peak on a Silver Bullet can: Coors.

Founded in Golden, Colorado, by Adolph Coors and Jacob Schueler in 1873, the Coors Brewing Company quickly became successful and profitable. And with success and profit came a powerful and prosperous family, the kind that became a target for desperate men looking for large sums of money.

In February 1960, one such man, Joseph Corbett Jr., an escaped Californian convict, saw that sum in the form of the 44-year-old chairman of the board and CEO of Coors Brewing and CoorsTek: Adolph Coors III, or Ad, as his friends called him. Corbett scouted his locations, learned about Ad’s habits and plotted to kidnap the wealthy heir.

The kidnapping, FBI investigation — including an intervention from bureau director J. Edgar Hoover — and the highly publicized trial are energetically documented in Philip Jett’s latest MIchael J. Casey narrative non-fiction book, Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors and the Murder That Rocked an American Brewing Dynasty.

The unfamiliar story of Ad Coors’s kidnapping crossed Jett’s path while he was enjoying the Coors brewery tour and noticed one of the Coors portraits was missing from the family picture hall.

“I’m thinking: ‘OK, this is a black sheep, he did something wrong,’” Jett tells Boulder Weekly.

But a quick Google Author Philip Jett search revealed that the grandson of Adolph Coors was not the family’s black sheep, and so Jett quickly began digging. The more Jett found, the more fascinating the story became, especially considering how little known the story was.

“It totally fell through the cracks,” Jett says. “Nobody really thought anything about it anymore.”

While the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh’s child is taught in most high schools, the story of Ad Coors and Joseph Corbett carries similar beats yet is largely unknown, even to those who call the state home and drink Coors’ ubiquitous brews.

“You see these stories that are just written about, written about, written about, just into the dirt,” Jett says somewhat surprised. “And then you see this one, you know, a well-established powerful family here in Colorado, and they just missed it.

I don’t know how.”

Jett started his Death of an Heir research in 2010, 50 years after the kidnapping, and he has became a fortunate witness to the passing of time. Whether it was interviewing an assistant district attorney on his deathbed or visiting the house of Ad and wife Mary Coors days before the current owners renovated it, Jett paints the flavor of 1960 Colorado as well as he documents the investigation and trial.

“There’s only a couple of these people I interviewed that are still alive,” Jett says. “I did get in under the wire, and I feel very fortunate.”

And now with Death of an Heir available, their story will no longer slip through the cracks of history. Enjoy it with a Banquet Beer or two.

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that “the best way to know life is to love many things.”

But I also think that the next 12 months will be an inspiring time for you to be focused and single-minded in your involvement with love. That’s why I encourage you to take an approach articulated by the Russian mystic Anne Sophie Swetchine: “To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” Halloween costume suggestion: a lover celebrating a sacred union to the love of your life, to God or Goddess, or to a symbol of your most sublime ideal.

cycle to scour bathrooms, scrub floors, shampoo carpets and wash windows. But the imminent future will be an even more favorable period to purify your motivations, tonify your emotions, purge your less-than-noble agendas, calm down your monkey mind and monkey heart, disinfect the moldy parts of your past and fact-check the stories you tell about yourself. So which set of tasks should you focus on? It may be possible to make great strides on the second set as you carry out the first set. But if there’s not enough time and energy to do both, favor the second set. Halloween costume suggestion: a superhero who has wondrous cleaning powers; King Janitor or Queen Maid.

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TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: “Yes, We Have No Bananas” is a silly

novelty song that became a big hit in 1923. Its absurdity led to its wide use for humorous effect. For example, on the kids’ TV series The Muppet Show, puppets made out of fruits and vegetables sang parodies of the tune. That’s why I find it droll that the “No Bananas” songwriters stole part of the melody from the “Hallelujah Chorus,” the climax of classical composer George Handel’s religious oratorio Messiah.

I’d love to see you engage in comparable transmutations, Taurus: making serious things amusing and vice versa. It’s a time when you can generate meaningful fun and playful progress through the art of reversal. Halloween costume suggestion: a tourist from Opposite Land or Bizarro World.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: In the next two weeks, you may have to

navigate your way through careless gossip, distorted “facts,” superficial theories, hidden agendas, fake news and official disinformation. To prevent problems in communication with people who matter, take advantage of the Halloween spirit in this way: Obtain a bicycle helmet and cover it with aluminum foil. Decorate it with an Ace of Clubs, a red rose, images of wrathful but benevolent superheroes, and a sign that says “No Bullshit Allowed.” By wearing this crown, you should remain protected. If that’s too weird for you, do the next best thing: Vow to speak the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and ask to receive the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: Watch out for a fake pizza-delivery

driver who’s actually trying to issue you a legal summons.

Be careful you don’t glimpse a blood red sky at dusk, in case it’s a prophetic sign that your cell phone will fall into a toilet sometime soon. Beware of the possibility that a large bird carrying a turtle to its nest accidentally drops its prey into a rain puddle near you, splashing mud on your fancy clothes. JUST KIDDING! All the scenarios I just described are stupid lies. The truth is, this should be one of the most worry-free times ever. You’re welcome, of course, to dream up a host of scary fantasies if you find that entertaining, but I guarantee that they’ll be illusory. Halloween costume suggestion: an indomitable warrior.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: What is the material object you want

most but don’t have? This is an object that would serve your soul’s highest purposes, although not necessarily your ego’s.

Here’s another question: What evocative symbol might help keep you inspired to fulfill your dreams over the course of the next five years? I suggest that you choose one or both of those things to be the inspiration for your Halloween costume.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22: Did you get a chance to go to

circus school when you were a kid? How about magic school? Or maybe detective school or time-travel school or superhero school? Probably none of the above, right?

Much of your education revolved around what you HAD to learn rather than what would be fun to learn. I’m not saying it was bad you were compelled to study subjects you felt ambivalent about. In the long run, it did you good. But now here’s some sweet news, Virgo: The next 10 months will be a favorable time to get trainings and teachings in what you YEARN to learn. Halloween costume suggestion: a student.

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SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: “You never sing the same song twice,” said chanteuse Billie Holiday. “If you sing it with all the same phrasing and melody, you’re failing your art.” That’s an extreme statement, but I understand what she was driving at. Repeating yourself too much can be debilitating.

That includes trying to draw inspiration from the same old sources that have worked in the past. I suggest you avoid this behavior in the coming days. Raise Holiday’s approach to a universal principle. Fresh sources of inspiration are available! Halloween costume suggestion: a persona or character unlike any you’ve ever imagined yourself to be.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21: How can you enjoy the lavish thrills

of rebirth later unless you die a little inside now? It’s the trickiest phase of your cycle, when your energies are best used to resolve and graduate from the unfinished business of the last ten months. I suggest that you put the past to rest as best as you can. Don your funniest sad face and pay your last respects to the old ways and old days you’ll soon be leaving behind. Keep in mind that beauty will ultimately emerge from decay. Halloween costume suggestion: the mythical phoenix, which burns itself down, then resurrects itself from its own ashes.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: There are no such things as magic healings and miraculous redemptions and impossible breakthroughs. Right? Hard evidence provided by science precludes the existence of exotic help coming from spiritual realms. Right? Well, no. Not right. There is in fact another real world that overlaps the material world, and it operates according to different laws that are mostly imperceptible to our senses. But events in the other real world can have tangible effects in the material world. This is especially true for you right now. Take advantage! Seek practical answers and solutions in your dreams, meditations, visions and numinous encounters. Halloween costume suggestion: white-magic sorcerer or good witch.

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JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Many years from now, in your last hours on earth, you will have visions that show you how all the events in your life were crucial to your life story. You will understand the lesson that was provided by each twist and turn of your destiny. Every piece of the gigantic puzzle will slip into place, revealing the truth of what your mission has been. And during that future climax, you may remember right now as a time when you got a long glimpse of the totality. Halloween costume suggestion: the happiest person on Earth; the sovereign of all you survey; the wise fool who understands yourself completely.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20: You might be able to pass for nor-

mal, but it will be better for your relationship with yourself if you don’t. You could try to tamp down your unusual urges and smooth your rough edges, but it will be smarter to regard those urges and edges as fertile raw material for your future happiness. Catch my drift? In the coming weeks, your main loyalty should be to your idiosyncratic intelligence. Halloween costume suggestion: the beautiful, interesting monster who lives in you.

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Dear Dan: In a frank exchange early in our courtship, I told my girlfriend that I have no kinks. As a faithful reader of Savage Love, I’m obviously not opposed to kinks — but I’ve never had any inclinations in that direction and am probably a typical hetero vanilla. As a result, I’m damn near clueless in that area. Last night, my girlfriend placed my hands around her neck and asked me to choke her. My instant reaction was to say no, not out of any objection in principle but because I thought it might be dangerous in my inexperienced hands. Later I did comply, but I was definitely holding back. I dearly love my main squeeze — © Rachel Robinson clever pun there, huh? — and I want to be GGG, but... well, you see my misgivings. I know about safe words, but can we count on them when the recipient’s larynx is being compromised and she may be close to passing out? For the record, I had no difficulty in acceding to her request to be bitten, as I know where and how hard I can do that without causing damage, but choking is an area of darkness for me. And let me note that my girlfriend has no grounding in medicine, physiology or anything that would lead me to be comfortable trusting her judgment about choking.

— Choke Holds Obligate Kink Education Dear CHOKE: I have friends who are professional Dominants — women who will stick needles through the head of their client’s cock and post the bloody pics to Twitter — who refuse to do breath play and/or choking scenes.

“It’s impossible to control for all the variables,” said Mistress Matisse, a professional dominatrix with more than 20 years of experience. “People think choking isn’t kinky, but it is. People think it’s a low-risk activity, but it’s not. Choking isn’t just about the lungs. It can affect the brain and the heart — it can affect the whole body — if the bottom has underlying health issues, things can go disastrously wrong. I feel strongly about this.”

Wrapping something around someone’s neck — your hands, a belt, a rope — is the most dangerous form of breath control/play, Matisse emphasized, and simply cannot be done safely. Fragile bones (like the hyoid bone), nerves, arteries, veins — the neck is a crowded place, it’s vulnerable, and putting sustained pressure on someone’s neck is extremely risky.

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slaughter charges — if the person who asked to be choked should die. People have gone to jail for this kind of ‘play.’”

Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101, not only takes a similarly dim view of choking, CHOKE, he’s served as an expert witness at the trials of people who choked someone to death during sex.

“It’s always inherently life-threatening, and it’s always inherently unpredictable,” said Wiseman. “It’s more dangerous than suffocation, as you can get into deeper trouble more quickly. People have died from a few seconds of being choked.

There simply are no landmarks — meaning, you can’t say to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that if you ‘only’ choke someone for 30 seconds, they’ll be okay. People have died after being choked for less than 30 seconds.”

I’m tempted to leave it there, CHOKE, because I worry that anything else I might say — anything remotely equivocal — could result in one idiot choking another to death. But the fact of the matter is that choking, despite the risks, is a relatively common kink, and almost all deaths related to breath play occur during solo scenes, not partnered scenes. So I’m going to give you a little advice about meeting your girlfriend’s particular needs safely, i.e., without wrapping your hands around her neck.

So your partner wants to be choked?

“What most people who are into choking want is to feel controlled,” said Matisse. “So put your hand over her mouth. Grab her hair, wrap an arm around her shoulder — not her neck — and put your other hand over her mouth. That should satisfy the urge.”

Another option, CHOKE, is a gas mask. If it’s not too disturbing a look — if it’s not a boner-killer — you can put a gas mask on someone, cover the breathing hole with the flat of your hand, and cut off your partner’s air. All they have to do when they need a breath is shake their head, which will break the seal created by your palm and allow them to breathe.

And finally, CHOKE, you could — if you really like this woman — take a stage combat class or book a session with a fight choreographer. There are safe choke holds used on stage, where the person being choked is in control and no actual pressure is placed on the neck.

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ast week was the opening week of NBA basketball, and I was glued to the couch watching the 76ers play the Raptors in Toronto.

One of the best parts about the first two weeks of the season is that the NBA League Pass is free, so I can get the local broadcast of my family’s teams all the way out here in Colorado.

I love local broadGovernor’s Office/Tim Larsen casts. In part because it’s fun to hear an announcer who is also an unabashed super-fan narrate a game, but mostly I love them for the local commercials.

Watching the hometown used car salesman or mattress slinger tout their products fills me with grand appreciation for the nuances of our microcultures. Generally, they amuse me, but that day in between the 76ers and the Raptors’ jump shots, I saw one that made my jaw hit the floor.

There on the screen was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, standing next to a woman who, according to the text hovering beneath her, was Vanessa, labeled a “recovering heroin addict.” As if two players on the same team, they talked together about the opioid epidemic now facing New Jersey (perhaps the state hardest hit by the crisis) and encouraged viewers who needed help to call 1-844-REACH-NJ, the hotline for the state’s addiction task force.

From politicians interested in repealing prohibition (which Christie is not), such sentiments are nothing new, but even for them it would be near political suicide to stand next to a heroin addict in a commercial airing during a highly watched NBA game.

It’s not that it shouldn’t happen, just that it doesn’t, and up until that moment I didn’t think it

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possible for such a juxtaposition to exist within the framework of criminalization. The rhetoric of prohibition requires a set cast of villains — the evil substance, the demonic pusher, the morally implicit user — in order to paint its version of a good, drug-free world.

That’s because in order to buy into a set of policies that lock drug users up, we need to believe they deserve to be in prison.

And, just to be clear, Christie’s Reach NJ program does nothing to change or challenge prohibition. It merely redirects drug criminals through drug court instead of probation (although about 50 percent of enrollees end up in prison when they fail their probation) in what he says is an attempt to support an addict and save their life rather than punishing them.

Reach NJ is a major point in Christie’s political portfolio and a behemoth effort on behalf of his state to address the ever-rising threat posed by opioids. It houses a fourpronged program — a mandatory drug court to treat offenders, recovery coach programs, funding to treat overdoses, and it puts limits on opioid prescriptions (including a prescription monitoring program). Since its inception in 2014, it has not only received broad bipartisan support at the state level, but also federally, as it earned Christie the chair position on Trump’s “opioid commission.”

Critics of the program, however, call it a waving hand meant to redirect public attention while even more freedoms are stripped from the inner city population — those not most likely to use drugs, but the most likely to be arrested and convicted for use. And, according to research conducted by the Drug Policy Alliance, drug courts are a paradoxical mix of treatment and punishment that do not reduce incarceration, improve public safety or save money when com-

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pared to the wholly punitive model they seek to replace.

This week (in a long overdue acknowledgement of the crisis claiming more than 50,000 American lives a year) President Trump plans to declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency. When he does so, it is Christie’s Reach NJ that will be used as a model for the national plan of attack, and it will be Vanessa who will champion the campaign.

Vanessa, side by side with Governor Christie, smiling, the champion of an emerging era of drug policy.

Nice to meet you, Vanessa Vitolo, tell us a little more about yourself.

According to her, she was raised in a small town with good parents. She was a cheerleader in high school and in a sorority in college. She was happy and doing just fine until, one day, she got hurt and received a prescription of opioids from her doctor. Before she emptied the first bottle, she was addicted.

Soon, she was homeless because, she says, it was easier to get drugs while living on the street. Then one day she realized she needed help and went to drug court, and it “saved her life.”

“I mean, look at me, I’m sitting across the table from you,” she said in March of this year when giving testimony at a listening session on opioids and drug abuse, seated directly across the table from Governor Christie, President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

After her tear-filled testimony, Trump is quick to interject: “And what did your parents say during this whole process? Because honestly, I am looking at you and you are like... all-American. Perfect. You are a perfect person, and I am saying it’s hard to believe you were living on the streets.”

Maybe it shouldn’t have shocked me as much as it did to see Christie standing next to Vanessa because Trump’s question didn’t surprise me at all. Through the eyes of a “perfect,” “all American” woman, surely the political establishment is willing to concede the possibility of faultlessness in drug addiction, especially if it started innocently enough, in a doctor’s office. As for the rest of us...

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by Paul Danish

Three dot pot shots... and the beat goes on

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nd the beat goes on (Part 1) ... The latest figures on marijuana arrests are out: In 2016 there were 653,249 tallied arrests for marijuana in the U.S., 587,700 of them for simple possession... In 2015 there were 574,641 arrests for simple possession... There were more people arrested for simple possession of pot in 2016 than for all “Part I” crimes combined, Part I crimes are the ones the FBI classifies as violent... Now that really makes you feel safer, doesn’t it...

• • • • And the beat goes on (Part 2) ...

Meanwhile support for legalization continues to grow around the country... The latest poll from Connecticut, a state that doesn’t allow legalization initiatives but does have a horrendous budget deficit, found that whopping 70.6 percent of those surveyed favored legalizing and taxing marijuana “as an alternative source of revenue.”... A similar poll taken in 2015 found that 63 percent of Connecticut voters favored legalization...

The polls were conducted by Sacred Heart University Institute of public policy... In Utah another poll, this one taken by The Salt Lake Tribune and the University of Utah Hinckley Institute of Politics, shows continued robust support for a 2018 ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana; 75 percent of Utah voters either strongly or somewhat supported the initiative... A poll taken in July found 77 percent favored the initiative... Last January a TribuneHinckley Institute poll found 54 percent support...

New Jersey doesn’t allow marijuana legalization initiatives, but this year’s election to replace outgoing drug war dead-ender Governor Chris Christy

amounts to one... Democratic candidate Phil Murphy has pledged to sign a legalization bill into law within the first 100 days of taking office if elected... Democrats in the state’s legislature appear to have the votes to pass the bill... Lt. Gov. Kim

Guadagno, Murphy’s Republican opponent, is against legalization but favors decriminalizing pot possession... Three likely voter polls taken earlier this month show Murphy with leads of 14 to 25 percent depending on the poll... Both candidates have favorability ratings that suck; according to a Monmouth University poll, only 33 percent have a favorable view of Murphy, while 31 percent have a favorable view of Guadagno... on the other hand, a Quinnipiac University poll taken last month found 57 percent of New Jerseyans have a favorable view of legalizing marijuana...

• • • • And the beat goes on (Part 3) ... Politicians and politician wannabes (sometimes called candidates) continue to come out in support of legalization... In Kentucky there’s been a big coming out; Republican State Senator Dan Malano Seum has announced he will sponsor a bill to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana...

Seum has been a state senator of 20 years, and he’s caucus chairman for the State Senate’s Republicans, so he has some clout and this is a big deal... In Illinois, Democratic candidates for governor in next year’s election held a debate recently in which most came out for marijuana legalization, and only one opposed it... Entrepreneur and philanthropist J. B. Pritzker and State Senator Daniel Biss both said they support legalizing pot in Illinois, saying it’s a matter of keeping people out of the criminal justice system... Madison County regional schools Superintendent Bob Daiber said he would be willing to support legalization, but would want the people to approve it in a referendum... Businessman Chris Kennedy said he was “for full decriminalization” (whatever that means) but also called for a study by the University of Illinois of marijuana’s effects... the only candidate to oppose legalization was Activist Tio Hardiman... In New York City, independent mayoral candidate Mike Tolkin said he was “100 percent in support of marijuana legalization.”... “It has turned into a plus for my campaign,” he said.

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icumi (IN CASE YOU MISSED IT) AN IRREVERENT AND NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE VIEW OF THE WORLD

SMOOTH MOVE, EINSTEIN

Hey, great advice, Einstein, you should invent a time machine and an anti-death machine and go back and tell yourself that before advocating to build the atomic bomb.

Einstein penned the (actual) one-line theory after being told he’d won the Nobel Prize in Physics. He handed the bit of scribbled wisdom to a bellboy in lieu of a tip, saying, it’ll probably “be worth more than a regular tip” because it came from Einstein himself, which is kind of a dick move.

Moral of the story: Einstein knew a lot about physics, but he was a real blockhead when it came to happiness. Time to take down that poster of him sticking his tongue out, kids.

This week, Albert Einstein’s handwritten “Theory of Happiness” was purchased by somebody who totally understands how to be happy at auction for $1.3 million.

The first line of Einstein’s theory is roughly translated from German as: “If in, like, 95 years, a copy of this shows up at auction, the only way to achieve true happiness is to buy it, copy it and forward it to 12 of your friends. Otherwise, you’ll experience two years of bad luck!!!!!!!”

Much more accurately, the theory translates as, “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”

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PLEASE ACCEPT OUR CONDOLENCES On behalf of all of us here at Boulder Weekly, we’d like to extend our heartfelt sympathy to the family of President... err, well, the big guy with the goofy hair who grabs women and lies. Anyway, we’d like to thank him for his service. Obviously he knew what he was signing up for, but we suppose it still hurts when you get impeached. And because it sounds like you might be crying or something and we’re incapable of human emotions, we’d like to promise to send you a check for $25,000. Don’t spend that promise all in one place. Oh, and we should mention that we really hope you find this condolence message comforting — did you see how great our cover looked last week? — in your time of grief and tell everyone how great we are. But, if you don’t find it comforting, don’t even think about complaining out loud or we’ll tweet your grieving asses all the way back to lil’ Jared’s dad’s prison cell. If you don’t say we did the best job comforting you of any newspaper anywhere ever, we’ll make you spend the holidays with Tiffany and give Eric everybody in the family’s phone number. You better effing appreciate us or else. So sorry for your loss.

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