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An uphill oil/gas battle
It is refreshing to know that there are still newspapers that will expose what governments and corporations do not want exposed. I applaud the Boulder Weekly for their May 2 article “Longmont-area farmer struggles to access evidence for oil and gas fine hearing.” I further applaud Rod Brueske for his relentless pursuit of the facts and the truth regarding the degradation of the
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Highroad Let’s join the Army!
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magine “net zero.” That’s the wonky phrase attached to an elegant idea — namely, converting communities to total renewable energy, complete recycling, and a culture of conservation to bring humankind’s carbon footprint into a sustainable balance with a healthy earth. Now, imagine the least likely place you’d expect this ideal to take root — and even flourish. How about an Army
health of his family from hydraulic fracturing and the complete consequences resulting from the practice. I wish that I could say that I am both surprised and appalled. But I am neither. The behavior of the COGCC and their attorney (the office of the attorney general) are completely consistent with everything that has transpired since members of the public throughout the state have examined the actions of
base? In Texas, no less! Astonishingly, America’s net-zero future is being pioneered at Fort Bliss, a sprawling military base of 35,000 soldiers in El Paso. The post already has a 1.4-megawatt solar array and has placed rooftop solar panels on all base housing (generating 13.4 megawatts of energy), and it’s in partnership with El Paso Electric to add a 200-acre, 20-megawatt solar farm by 2015. It also has a plan to convert post waste into energy; is engaged in wind power, geothermal and conservation projects; is promoting energyefficient vehicles; and is building bicycle lanes. The Army! Who knew they cared? Bliss’s rank-and-file soldiers, as well as the brass, are committed to achieving the goal of net zero by 2018, meaning the base will generate all of the energy it uses — and do it with renewables. Adding to the effort, the troops have planted nearly 15,000 trees and have
the oil and gas industry; the state agency “fostering” the development of oil and gas resources while allegedly regulating it in the interest of public health, safety and welfare; and the ascendance of John Hickenlooper to the governor’s seat and his subsequent role as the industry’s most powerful lobbyist. The roadblocks that the governor, see LETTERS Page 8
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become converts to recycling. To encourage the latter, the base commander, Gen. Dana Pittard, has put the million-dollar-a-year revenue from recycling into skating parks, exercise facilities and other morale-boosting recreation projects. “Everybody is getting involved,” he says, noting that the effort is changing behavior and fostering a conservation culture, which he hopes “our soldiers will then take with them when they go on.” There’s hope for the Earth when even the Army begins to care, take action and change attitudes. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Boulder Weekly
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ast year, while attending city council meetings in Longmont, where the town’s new oil and gas regs were being debated, one particular family in attendance caught my attention. This family included a couple of kids, never missed a meeting and, to put it mildly, was very pro-fracking and pro-drilling, whether it was in neighborhoods or anywhere else. Their weekly speeches to council pretty much followed the Colorado Oil and Gas Association’s (COGA) flag-waving talking points: energy independence, importing oil funds terrorists, and so on. COGA is the industry group that organizes, or fabricates, depending on your point of view, most of the industry support at such local meetings. But what really caught my attention about this particular family was the sincerity of their patriotic rhetoric. When the youngest boy, perhaps in his early teens, was telling city council t that it just had to support domestic oil and gas development because it would save American lives, he meant it. His entire family believes that when we import hydrocarbons we are funding terrorist organizations hell-bent on destroying our way of life and taking away our freedom. They really think that by allowing fracking in the middle of our neighborhoods and parks, we can avoid future wars and terrorist attacks. Now I disagree, of course, but I don’t hold anything against that family. I applaud their civic involvement. But I can’t say the same for the oil and gas industry that is exploiting them and millions like them who have been blinded by industry lies and manipulated by way of their own misguided nationalism. Every time I drive by a drilling rig with an American flag attached to it I want to tear it down and hand-deliver it, along with a few choice words, to the industry marketing jerk who signed the order to put it there. It makes me mad, because under the current realities of the energy extraction industry and global markets, wrapping rigs in flags or painting them red, white and blue is nothing short of a slap in the face to the entire U.S. citizenry. Industry execs know exactly what they are doing. They have made a conscious decision to exploit ignorant, misguided American patriotism to increase their Boulder Weekly
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profits from foreign markets. And by wrapping the industry in the flag, both Democratic and Republican politicians at every level of government have been given the political cover they need to do the bidding of their oil and gas industry backers instead of those who elected them. I have little doubt that we will one day look back on the current shale gas and oil boom and see it as one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on America. Here’s the truth about those flagdraped rigs: There’s a good chance they are drilling a well paid for with foreign investment capital, with the intention that the gas produced will be sold overseas. That’s right, all we get is the air and water contamination for our part, while the whole process doesn’t make our country one lick safer or less dependent on imported anything. All of us are getting screwed, but hyper-patriotic conservatives have been duped into fighting for the rights of the oil companies to pollute our neighborhoods, air and water for nothing more than an export product. And people have been fooled into believing that this drilling boom has something to do with “energy independence,” the new mantra of the patriot vernacular. And this exploitation of all things red, white and blue is just getting started. The Obama administration has just passed new rules for fracking on the nation’s 440 million acres of federal land, 20 million of which are in Colorado. The rules are watered down and nearly meaningless. Most environmental groups see them more as protecting industry from regulation than regulating the industry. But what is important here is the motive behind these new rules. The administration admits it wants to exploit shale oil and gas as an export product before China gets its shale gas online in the next five to 10 years. Think about it. We are actually going to allow the private oil and gas sector to transform our public lands into pincushions over the next few years for the sole purpose of ensuring that the shareholders of a handful of corporations can make a massive, quick profit by exporting and selling our public energy reserves in other countries. I wonder if they’ll slap a flag on our back before they bend us over. see DRILLING Page 11
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commentary Is your boss ripping you off? by Dave Anderson
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virtually unnoticed crime wave is under way. The perps are our most respected citizens. The crime is wage theft. This happens when you aren’t paid the minimum wage or overtime, are forced to work off the clock, denied meal breaks, have your tips pocketed by the boss or just plain not paid at all. The Economic Policy Foundation, a business-funded think tank, estimated that companies annually steal $19 billion in unpaid overtime. In 2009, the National Employment Law Project (NELP) released a survey of more than 4,000 workers in Chicago, L.A. and New York, which reported that 26 percent of them got paid less than the minimum wage, 76 percent were denied overtime and that workers lost an average of $2,634 a year due to these and other workplace violations. Rep. Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont) says wage theft is “the worst kind of theft. It takes away people’s abilities to care for themselves and care for their families. This isn’t about stealing a TV or stealing a car, but about stealing someone’s ability to have a home or to have enough food to put on the table.” Singer introduced a bill in the Democratic-controlled state legislature that would have made the nonpayment of earned wages — now a civil matter — a crime in cases where employers were solvent and able to pay. It was killed in committee. He had a similar bill in the previous GOP-controlled session that suffered the same fate. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment helps employees who are victims of wage theft, but unfortunately they have only a few employees to help the thousands of workers who file claims for owed wages every year. This is not unusual. In These Times recently reported that “as the ranks of low-wage workers have swelled since the recession, Democratic and Republican legislatures in more than a dozen states have quietly slashed funding for agencies that enforce minimum wage law. ... State labor officials and researchers around the country tell In These Times that low-wage workers facing abusive employers increasingly have nowhere to turn.” Agencies that enforce labor law are being singled out for attack by rightwing groups such as the U.S. Chamber 8 May 23, 2013
of Commerce. They claim that businesses will obey the law without any policing. Last year the chamber claimed, “Regulations have an impact regardless of whether a company gets inspected.” Jacob Meyer, a staff lawyer with the National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia Law School, disagrees. He co-authored a 2011 study on state and local enforcement of labor law which warned that lack of meaningful enforcement is leading to a “regulatory race to the bottom” among states attempting to attract business. “It directly undermines those employers who abide by the law,” Meyer says. Meanwhile, in Boulder and Denver, private grassroots groups end up trying to play cop. Boulder County Labor Justice Committee (BCLJC) has been assisting victims of wage theft in this county. In the year it has been around, more than $3,000 has been recovered for unpaid work. In a meeting of BCLJC I attended at the Boulder YWCA, we went over pay records of individual employees of a Boulder County firm to find hours where the minimum wage was not paid. Only a few of this company’s employees attended the meeting, but it was suspected that others were ripped off and were too intimidated to speak up. In Denver, El Centro Humanitario has a Wage Claim Clinic in partnership with the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Victimized workers actively participate in worker’s rights trainings, provide investigative services, and participate in collective actions on their own behalf. Since its inception in 2002, the program has recovered $80,000 to $100,000 in lost wages per year. Recently, fast food workers in several major cities held short, courageous strikes demanding raises to $15 an hour and the chance to form unions without intimidation. They also called for an end to rampant wage theft. Fast Food Forward released a survey saying 84 percent of New York City fast food workers reported that their employer had engaged in some form of wage theft in the last year. These are calculated criminal acts. An employer who knowingly violates labor laws is no different than a pickpocket or bank robber. Lock ‘em up! Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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the attorney general’s office, and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission are placing in Mr. Brueske’s way should not be allowed to stand. As the article states, Mr. Brueske is a farmer, not a lawyer. All three of the aforementioned obstructionists know full well that they are intentionally denying justice for Mr. Brueske. The COGCC is not and never will be — under current statute, representation and mandate — an agency created for the protection of public health. It is unconscionable that Mr. Brueske as a lay person should have to struggle through the convoluted bureaucratic procedures of the COGCC as well as hostile positions of the agency and the attorney general. It is time for a committed attorney to step up to the plate and represent Mr. Brueske, pro bono if necessary. He should not have to face the state attorney and an army of Encana attorneys on his own. Kaye Fissinger/Longmont
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We were intrigued by your cover story “Kidnapped: a Boulder resident’s involuntary journey in Venezuela” (May 9) as we, too, recently had a brush with kidnapping when we traveled from Boulder to Venezuela. We spent time in Caracas, and certainly the city seemed to live up to its reputation as one of the more dangerous cities in the world. We were there on a commission for the Royal Geographical Society in London, to write an article for its publication, Geographical, about a unique river in southern Venezuela called the Casiquiare — one of the strangest rivers on the
planet since it appears to flow uphill. At the end of our journey to the Amazon basin, we made the mistake of crossing the border into Colombia, where some FARC guerrillas tried to kidnap and hold us for ransom. As you might guess, we managed to escape. But we were sufficiently impressed by our FARC confrontation to write not only the commissioned article, but also a book called Along the River that Flows Uphill – from the Orinoco to the Amazon. It uses math, science and reason to assess the risks of adventurous travel — something that we, clearly, had not done very well before our Venezuelan journey. When we returned to Boulder after our trip we contacted the State Department to report the attempted kidnapping and to see what kind of government assistance we might have received. Not much, apparently. We don’t fault our government. There’s not a lot it can do in these situations. Its website already warns of the dangers of kidnapping in both Venezuela and Colombia, so its message is clear: Don’t go there — unless, of course, you’re fully aware of the risks that are involved, and are willing to deal with whatever happens. Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt/ Boulder
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(Re: “The bad news: Hickenlooper is not delusional,” DyerTimes, May 9.) Your article on Hickenlooper and fracking was outstanding. Thank you for the information and advocacy on behalf of life on the planet! Marti Hopper/Boulder Boulder Weekly
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VALMONT PROJECT LINGERS We found out last week from city of Boulder officials that the ongoing cleanup at Valmont Butte that BW devoted a 10-part series and 38,000 words to last year has been delayed — again. We reported in November that the $5 million cleanup of the 103-acre contaminated property that the city bought more than a dozen years ago was running $1.4 million over budget and three months late. It was supposed to be completed in December, but we were assured it would be done by March. Well, March has come and gone, and project leader Joe Castro, facilities and fleet manager for the city, says the weather — like the heavy snowstorms we got last month — have delayed the project’s completion until June or July. But he insists that there have been no additional budget overruns. Curious that weather would have caused such a lengthy delay. Are the prairie dogs staging a fierce uprising against the placement of rocks over their favorite area to burrow into contaminated earth? We can’t wait to see what happens next. MONSANTO MADNESS You may have heard that a “March Against Monsanto” is being held on Saturday, May 25, in cities around the world, including Boulder, and we can’t wait to see how many anti-GMO activists show up. The Boulder protest against the genetically modified food behemoth starts at noon in Central Park, at the southwest corner of Canyon and Broadway. The “March Against Monsanto” website says the protests will occur at the same time in more than 250 cities, in 36 countries, on six continents. This company has a real PR problem on its hand, doesn’t it? It’s never a good sign when thousands, if not millions, of people all over the world are lining up to protest against you. It’s just another reminder for Monsanto, major oil and gas companies and any other corporate powerhouse that thinks it can just buy its way through profitable endeavors that could endanger public health. All the money in the world won’t help you spin the facts. The people will see through the haze, to the truth. And they will not go quietly. WHAT THE FRACK? We got an interesting email from Cliff Willmeng of East Boulder County United about one of the lesser-known impacts of fracking: truck traffic. Willmeng took a look at the“Boulder County Oil and Gas Roadway Impact Study” recently presented to the county ommissioners, and found that each well fracked in Boulder County would take about 2,206 truck trips to complete. Given the commissioners’ estimate that up to 1,800 wells are conceivable in Boulder County, he says, this equates to 3,970,800 truck trips to complete these wells. And according to Willmeng if we assume that the average tractor-trailer length is 70 feet and we lined them up bumper to bumper, the resulting line of trucks would span from New York to Los Angeles and back to New York more than 10 times. He rightly points out that the study assumes the wells are only fracked once. In reality, wells can be fracked up to 18 times, Willmeng says. “Can you imagine, from truck traffic alone, what the sky above Boulder County might look like to someone from on top of the Flatirons by the end of this process?” Thanks Cliff, we couldn’t have said it better ourselves. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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So who is paying to drill all those shale gas and shale oil wells that are pumping millions of tons of contamination into our air and groundwater? It’s probably not who you think it is, because it’s darn sure not who the industry wants you to believe it is. According to Bloomberg, Chinese companies have pumped $5.5 billion into the shale gas and oil-drilling boom, primarily to gain our technology. Japan has kicked in another $5.3 billion, along with companies from other parts of the world, like India ($3.55 billion), Korea ($1.55 billion), the U.K. ($3.95 billion), France ($4.55 billion) and Norway ($3.38 billion). Norway, really? And in case you missed it, which nearly everyone did, because that’s what the administration intended, the Department of Energy just this month authorized the export of gas to countries, regardless of whether or not those nations have a trade agreement with the U.S. Now that’s special treatment, indeed, for an industry that hardly needs it. “Energy independence” — what a joke. None of this should make anyone launch into a Lee Greenwood song. It’s not your fault you didn’t see this coming. We’ve been duped by a massive, sophisticated marketing campaign that includes everything from flags on rigs to those slick TV commercials with the blonde spokeswoman telling us about all the environmentally friendly gas we’re finding while creating jobs and energy independence here at home. And most of your elected leaders are spouting the same disingenuous horse crap. The truth can be hard to find when it’s buried under enough money. There is a simple, common-sense solution to this problem: Make it illegal to export oil or gas produced in the U.S. If such a law were passed, a number of things would happen very quickly. The first thing we would see is that the drilling of shale gas would come to a quick halt. That’s because we have a glut of gas and no market for what has already been tapped. If we weren’t going to export it, we would have no reason to develop any more of it for years. By that time, the science would likely catch up to the drilling and we would either be able to extract energy safely for both people and the environment (unlikely) or we would be in a better technological position to move on to other cleaner, safer renewable sources of energy. Oh yeah, and we would at least have a shot at energy independence, if that matters to you. Such a law is a long shot, but it could buy time for those cities and counties like ours that are trying to figure out how to save their communities from the drilling tsunami that has already overwhelmed so many parts of the country, just to exploit that five-year Chinese window. Boulder Weekly
Support for such a no-export law might also come from some unexpected places. The chemical, steel and other manufacturing sectors have voiced their opposition to energy exports because they realize that it means higher prices for energy here at home. Strange bedfellows for environmental groups, to be sure. But that’s the point, we’re all in this together. It’s time to stop saluting a dirty, greedy industry just because it’s mastered the art of fake patriotism. Now is the time to start fighting the very real problem of allowing oil and gas wells funded
by foreign entities to decimate our communities in order to export the gas underneath our towns to somewhere overseas, all for the benefit of short-term profits. Conservatives and progressives alike have good reason to join forces to stop this destructive activity before it is too late. Think of it this way, would anyone listen to the arguments made by the industry and its political bagboys about energy independence if it was a Chinese or, heaven forbid, Norwegian flag on top of that rig? I don’t think so, and that’s a far more honest depiction.
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One woman’s struggle for a PTSD diagnosis and how a now-suspended veterans program helped her by Elizabeth Miller
T
he list of symptoms of PTSD — hyper-vigilance, sensitivity to noise, difficulty sleeping, irritability — was a checklist for Mary Swan’s complaints after she came back from active duty in Afghanistan. But because she never came under direct fire and never saw corpses or body parts, it took two years, two stays in a mental health hospital and four 90-minute interviews with Veterans Affairs staff before she was diagnosed with PTSD, assessed as disabled and unemployable and given VA benefits. And moving forward with her future started with a week-long stay at a wilderness retreat program that has since lost its funding. Swan had put in 14 years of weekends and two-week stretches for the Air Force National Guard when she was called to active duty shortly after Sept. 11, 2011. For the first seven years of her active duty, she worked mostly from her home in Great Falls, Minn. Then, with just six months of experience after cross-training to public affairs, she was sent to Bagram, Afghanistan. Because of her rank, she became the deputy public affairs officer — second in command of an office that was the international headquarters for military operations in Afghanistan and included 32 public affairs personnel from around the world covering 8,000 troops. “I was in way over my head,” Swan says. She was also the only Air Force person in the public affairs office. “Everybody else was either Army or Marine Corps, so they have a whole different way of doing business,” Swan says. “They chew their people up. You make a mistake, they’ll get in your face and they’ll just rip you a new asshole. … Because of my rank and because of my service — because I was Air Force — they didn’t feel like they could get up in my face and rip me, but they ostracized me. I think that was even harder than getting ripped.” She sucked it up, she says, and learned a lot, but calls the 100 days she was in Afghanistan the loneliest of her life. “I felt like I might as well be on the planet Mars,” she says. “I mean, just Boulder Weekly
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alone and separate and fearful and yet trying so hard to look capable and competent and ready. It takes a lot of energy to keep that façade up, and, you know, I knew kind of right away when I got home that I was having some difficulties because I couldn’t bear any noise.” Listening to children playing in the yard was enough that she’d nearly come unhinged. “My mom would look at me like, ‘What the hell? What happened to you while you were deployed?’ and I’d say, ‘I want to go out there and beat those kids,’” Swan says. “I started just going off on people. I mean, like I didn’t have any tolerance for people’s selfishness or their self-absorbed-ness and their petty complaints. Like, ‘Oh, I’m not going to eat this because it doesn’t have the right kind of mayonnaise on it,’ and I’m like, are you fucking kidding me?” But she approached the Department of Veterans Affairs to apply for disability benefits with some hesitation. Those benefits applied to people who lost limbs and faced enemy fire, she says, and she kept thinking she should just suck it up in favor of people who came under fire. At her initial meeting, an hourand-a-half long exam with a VA psychologist, to determine the level of
disability and the monthly benefits she would receive based on that disability, that was his response as well. He asked if she’d come under fire, and she talked about the scud attack that required evacuating from their tents and taking cover, and then the time an unexploded ordnance was found under her tent, but no, no one had ever shot at her. And no, she’d never seen body parts or corpses. “It just kind of went from bad to worse because I’m thinking, this guy just thinks I’m trying to pilfer money from the VA and I’m thinking, this guy’s an asshole,” she says. “And he said, ‘Then you don’t have PTSD.’ And I said, ‘OK.’” She had returned home from Afghanistan and retired from the service in time to care for her parents, who were in poor health and died in successive years. It was right after their deaths that she really hit her limit. “When I retired, I felt like I didn’t have any more meaning or identity,” she says. “I just, completely — I mean I completely fell apart. So I was hospitalized there at Fort Sheraton, which is the regional hospital for veterans with mental health issues, and I was treated there for two and a half months.” After she was hospitalized, she went through another exam. Then she was hospitalized again, and had to do
another exam — in two years, she took the 90-minute exam to determine if she had PTSD a total of four times. At her last exam, despite the thick case file on the desk in front of him, the examiner asked her to start from the beginning and explain why she was there. “So I went off on the guy, I just, like, I’d fucking had it, I went off on him, and I said, ‘You guys, you don’t even take the time to read the file,’” she says. In a previous interview, she’d been asked if she was having trouble in her marriage, though Swan is single. “So he said, ‘So what’s your deal, do you have PTSD?’ And I said, ‘Well, I think I do, but the boys from the VA think I don’t because I never saw any mangled body parts.’” He asked about symptoms — did she prefer to sit with her back to a wall instead of a door, was she hyper-vigilant, did she avoid situations that reminded her of combat? Yes, to all of the above. She came away with a disability rating of 70 percent. When she went to apply for individual unemployability — that she couldn’t do the job she’d done before her time in combat — again, she says, she was told she didn’t qualify by the “redneck good old boys” who worked at the office. She told him he had a job because of her, not the other way around, and filed anyway, just to see what the VA had to say. Her rating went from 70 percent to 100 percent and she received full disability benefits. “Here’s how it reads: Because of what I experienced while I was on active duty I have social, emotional, psychological fallout, which makes it literally impossible for me to return to the line of work for which I was trained,” she says. “It’s not saying I couldn’t get a job, but I could not be successful in the kind of job for which I was trained.” She continued to go to the veterans center for counseling and support. At the point when the VA counselor she was seeing mentioned The Women’s Wilderness Institute’s veterans retreats to her, she was still so anxiety-prone and hyper-vigilant that she would go See PTSD Page 14
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three or four days at a time without leaving her house. “She said, ‘They’re having a women’s wilderness retreat in Colorado and the VA will pay for it,’ and I said ‘No, thanks,’” Swan says. “She kept presenting it, and I kept saying ‘No, thanks.’ I hit some kind of wall shortly before the retreat was offered … I was between a rock and a hard place and I needed some help. So I went to see her and I said, ‘That offer of Colorado, is that still on the table?’ and she said ‘Yeah.’” So, she applied for the Women’s Wilderness Institute Women Veterans Retreat, an all-expenses-paid wilderness retreat offered by the Boulderbased organization at locations around the country. When she arrived at a camp near Buena Vista, she found herself sizing up the other women and the staff, expecting to hang out, do some outdoor activities, and if one of the women wanted to talk about combat, good for her. “Because the event was being sponsored by the VA I thought, ‘Well, these counselors will be well intended, but they won’t be very competent, because it’s the fucking VA.’” As the retreat unfolded, however, she found herself surrounded by staff well prepared for the issues facing female veterans, for how withdrawn they might be, for handling their hyper-vigilance and for setting up the situation so they were willing, and comfortable, to share. The retreat blended practical advice on occupational and financial counseling with theory and practice on stress reduction and conflict resolution. “We taught some classes to help participants understand what PTSD and military sexual trauma, MST, really are and what the physical and biological impacts are on a person and their brain, as well as the emotional ones,” says Shari Leach, executive director of the Women’s Wilderness Institute. “Then we taught tools for how to manage those impacts and how to change the impacts they were having on your life.” Subsequent days put the participants in low stress situations, like a rock climbing wall, that allowed them to practice those tools. “They’d probably experience either some fear or some stress, and we could have a conversation about, ‘OK, how does that feel in your body? What are some of the tools that you think might work for you? Do you want to try to work with that fear or that stress in a different way?’” Leach says. “So giving 14 May 23, 2013
Veterans practice teamwork, communication and stress management in a group exercise at a Women’s Wilderness Institute retreat.
them opportunities to truly practice using tools that affect how the PTSD and MST affect their daily lives.” The approach is pretty nontraditional, Leach says. But the program also set itself apart by being available only for women. Typically, when a female veteran goes to a veterans office, she’s surrounded by men who both fill the waiting area and provide her services. In an all-female environment, Leach says, women can share experiences men might not have had, like being afraid to go to use the bathrooms on the base at night out of a fear of being assaulted or attacked on the way. “To be in a group and to have other women say, ‘I know just how you felt,’ was really moving,” Leach says. “It really helped women reconnect with their experiences and then to be able to make decisions about where they were going to go forward.” The Wilderness Institute created a “circle of safety,” with a few basic rules for active listening. The women sat down together with an agreement to be completely present for one another. “It was pretty magical to look around the circle and see that seven other women were poised and respectful and listening, or at least they appeared to be listening,” Swan says. “It was transformational — it was the beginning of transforming.” The message was: You are worth listening to, she says. It lifted a burden. “People were encouraged to share whatever level they were comfortable with of their experience, and I’ve got to tell you, I was stunned by the women’s willingness to share, and I was stunned by the level of abuse these women had suffered at the location they were deployed, everything from
rape to a threat at knife point, to even being sexually violated back home, here at their home units, by people who were in positions of authority,” she says. “While it was hard to hear, it was also reassuring to hear that hey, I’m not the only one.” Women, who make up 14.5 percent of active duty forces, face pressures to compete with predominantly male peers that leave them with a sense of needing to just suck it up. They turn, instead, to coping mechanisms that range from substance abuse and sexual promiscuity to cutting. For the first few hours, Swan says, she thought she’d just fake it and wait for the moment it became clear the event facilitators didn’t really know what they were doing. Instead, she says, it seemed like the people running the group were always one step ahead of the veterans. “I would think, ‘Oh I just want to kind of let go,’ but I wasn’t going to allow myself to let go because it’s just too hard and it’s too risky and if I do this, I might not be able to pull myself back together,” she says. “There’s so much crap in there that it just busts loose. This could be a mess.” She paid close attention — to the facilitators and the risks other women were taking. “I just kept thinking, you know, I’m not doing myself any favors by sitting on the sidelines and watching everything and thinking, ‘I can’t,’” she says. “If I’m going to get any measure of relief, I’m going to have to take a little risk and just see where it goes.” High in the Colorado Rockies, away from daily distractions, without televisions or radio and only limited cell phone access, it became easier to settle in.
“You could see people just kind of unfolding,” Swan says. Counselors met fidgety, overamped women with techniques for calming down and sleeping — and practiced them with the women. “It wasn’t like the VA method — they’ll just give you something on a hunk of paper and say ‘This has been shown to work,’” Swan says. For the first time since before her deployment, she slept not just to avoid how she felt while she was awake. “Just that much was like a pretty serious victory,” she says. “Another huge thing was, they were so grateful for our military service. … That resonated with me, because it’s nice to be thanked, and it’s nice to have that sacrifice acknowledged, instead of, ‘Well, women don’t really belong in combat. You were just an administrative puke over in the desert, you never really fired a shot, therefore you shouldn’t really have trauma.’ To be with women who were sensitive and really grateful, that went a long ways with me.” Building a community for women, who culturally value relationships over the skills-based competitions their male counterparts turn to, has been a driving force for The Women’s Wilderness Institute, based on the research of its founder, Laura Tyson. Tyson personally directed the veterans program. The institute ran six six-day retreats total, three in 2011, one of which included Swan, and three in 2012 at locations in California, Colorado, Connecticut and New Mexico. All of the expenses associated with attending, including airfare, were paid for through the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010, which allotted $2 million each year for a retreat program for women who had recently separated from the armed services. A total of 134 women participated. The results they saw, Leach says, were dramatic. “We did a pre-test, a post-test and then a two-month-after post-test, and what we saw was dramatic reduction in PTSD and improved quality of living for vets across the board,” she says. Their measurements were taken using a symptom checklist and a psychological wellbeing scale that were both developed outside the organization. “To have those things continue for two months or more after the end of a retreat is really significant in the psychological findings. It’s easy to change someone’s life for a day. It’s harder to See PTSD Page 16
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change their life.” the technical representative with the Participant feedback forms submit- VA responsible for monitoring the ted to Women’s Wilderness included contract given to the Women’s the following comments: Wilderness Institute to run the pro“Attending this retreat made me gram. “They felt that they benefitted realize that I am not alone with my from just being together as a group. PTSD. My anger does not control me, That’s kind of hard to do for female I can control it any way I feel fit to.” veterans in the military because it’s 80 “The stress management skills, ten- percent male and 20 percent female, so sion release there’s not an exercises, and opportunity for methods of just female veterthinking about ans to get together things continue for two ourselves are a lot of times, and useful tools for this was where months or more after helping me get they were together the end of a retreat is through my for a total of six really significant in the days at a time days in a retreat in my life when setting. … It’s psychological findings. I’m very conimportant for It’s easy to change fused about any group that someone’s life for a day. what I should has experienced be doing now trauma to be It’s harder to change and what the able to get their life.’ — Shari Leach, future holds for together with executive director of The me. I now have other members new, more posiof that group and Women’s Wilderness tive ways to just to be able to Institute channel my get together and fear, negative discuss their feelthoughts, appreings.” hension, and depression.” His report has been sent on up the “This retreat has given me a chance lines at Veterans Affairs, and will to share things that I have kept to eventually be reviewed by the Veterans myself for a long time. It has also Affairs committees in the House and taught me how to care for myself. I Senate — the same groups that funded have neglected myself for so long. I the pilot program in the first place. forgot how to laugh. I have found Until the committees make a decision myself again and I feel much happier. I and allocate additional funds for the feel I am actually ready to plan my program, the Women’s Wilderness future.” Institute Veterans Retreats are on hold. The report on the pilot program “Since sequestration has happened filed by the VA’s Readjustment and because it was a two-year pilot, Counseling Service Western Mountain there’s currently no funding available Regional Office, which oversaw the for anyone to do any kind of work like program, was similarly positive. this that we know of,” Leach says. “We felt it was extremely successful “It was a pilot program funded for for the women,” says Donald Smith, two years, so when the two years was
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news up, that was it,” Smith says. He would recommend it for additional funding, he says, but whether it gets that funding is in other hands. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) was chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs committee when the legislation funding the retreats passed, and she had spearheaded the issue. Murray has since been replaced as chair by Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.). “All I can say about the future is everything depends upon congressional legislation, and we don’t control that,” Smith says. A report by the Army’s Mental Health Advisory Team concluded that women soldiers are no more likely to see their mental health affected than men, but other studies have come to different conclusions. A study on Gulf War soldiers showed female soldiers twice as likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for PTSD, and a RAND Corporation study that focused on differences between genders during service in Iraq and Afghanistan also found women at higher risk for developing symptoms of PTSD and major depression. The fact that until recently women have been prohibited from serving in assignments with a primary mission of engaging in direct combat on the ground, according to the RAND Corporation, may actually have a greater effect on whether
female soldiers advance in command than whether they develop PTSD. Since completing the Veterans Retreat with The Women’s Wilderness Institute, Swan has returned to school and is now halfway through a master’s program in organizational management with an emphasis in criminal justice. Both her physical and mental health have improved, she says, and moving from VA to Medicare health care has brought the cost of psychiatric appointments down from $300 to $35 per hour, so she can see someone in private practice. Things, now, are good, she says. “They’re different than I ever thought they would be, but they’re good.” Despite the ongoing need for programs to ease the transition for veterans, particularly women veterans, from military to civilian life, the veterans retreats are suspended until at least 2014. “Our greatest concern is that clearly there’s a need for programs like this, and that there’s no government funding available, so we are just beginning to explore the possibilities of foundation or private funding to try to continue work like this because we think it’s so valuable,” Leach says. “We’re just saying, we’re sorry, we can’t run the program right now. We’re just starting to accept that reality that we think the government funding is a long ways off.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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lowed by a question-and-answer period. His sequel to the groundbreaking documentary highlighting the possible dangers of fracking premieres on July 8 on HBO and focuses on three of the states he is pictured visiting in the original film: Texas, Wyoming and Pennsylvania. Among other things, the film follows the reason why government at all levels has not been more responsive to the outcry over the oil and gas extraction process: The industry holds too much control over our public officials, thanks in no small part to its financial contributions, Fox says. He explains that while Colorado does not play as prominent a role in the second installment as it did in the first (a Weld County resident was shown lighting his tapwater on fire in Gasland), the state is at the forefront of the See FRACKING Page 18
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industry employees and board members from serving on the commission. (Current law allows the COGCC to have up to three industry employees.) Fox accuses oil and gas companies of following the tobacco industry model from decades ago, even hiring the same PR firm and engaging in the same tactics of misinformation and creating doubt in the public’s mind regarding health threats. When asked about the city of Longmont being sued by the state over its voter-approved fracking ban, Fox points out that similar legal battles are being waged around the country, including in Pennsylvania, where Gov. Tom Corbett’s attempt to suppress local efforts to ban fracking has ended up in that state’s Supreme Court. “We need to create forms of democracy that are a little more insistent,” he says. Granted, Fox has his critics. And one of them was in Boulder this week at the exact same time, apparently to create a bit of competition with Fox’s event. The conservative Colorado Women’s Alliance hosted a screening of the pro-fracking film FrackNation at the Boulder Marriott the same night of Fox’s screening, and the movie’s director, Phelim McAleer, was on hand for a Q&A after the screening. On Tuesday, May 21, McAleer tweeted that he was “off to Boulder tomorrow to show people an alternative 2 misrepresentations in [Gasland].” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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any people, when they hear the word “grange,” think of a ZZ Top song, or, at best, something about a farm. Some might recall that it is a sort of community building for farmers, and one of Boulder County’s last remaining granges is reinventing itself as a center of the local farm-to-table movement and holding a signature event on June 1 that combines history, the outdoors, sustainability and local goods. The Altona Grange, a structure Donlyn Arbuthnot and built west of Longmont in 1896 by Henry Poirot show off Colorado pioneers who initially came some of the historic photos on display at the to the area for precious metals in Altona Grange. towns like Gold Hill — but who then settled in the lowlands as farmers and ranchers — has seen a resurgence in recent years. A core group of volunteers, some of whom are descendants of those who ran and even built the grange, began restoring the dilapidated, historic agricultural center in 2006, at a time when its mean the nation wouldn’t have enough farmers to feed membership had languished at only a handful for sevitself, so he formed a group that would go on to eral decades. Today it has about 60 members, and the become a force for rural men and women to share organization hopes that its June 1 event, titled “Home ideas about agricultural best practices and other skills. on the Grange,” helps propel it back into mainstream The Altona Grange, on Nelson Road just east of relevance as a driver of the local food movement. Highway 36, was number 127 of the nearly 500 grangDonlyn Arbuthnot, who currently serves as the es that once existed in Colorado. It is one of only two grange’s lecturer/historian, is a fourth-generation that are still operational in Boulder County; the other member whose family helped construct the building is Pleasant View, near 95th Street and Isabel Road. and who served for three years as its “master,” or presiThe headliners at the June 1 event at the grange dent, recalls visiting the grange as a young girl growing are the Montana-based Sisters on the Fly, a national up in Boulder. group of women who love camping and fly-fishing — “We love the history, we love the building,” she and revamping vintage RV trailers in classic styles. The says. “Every other Saturday we were out here at the group will be bringing as many as 20 of its custom cargrange. … If you had told me when I was at Boulder avans to “Home on the Grange” for the public to tour, High School that I would be master of the grange, I as well as selling its wares and collecting donations for would have said, ‘You’re crazy.’” its main cause, Casting for Recovery, a charity that takes women who are fighting breast cancer on campShe says the grange system was started in 1874 ing and fishing trips. when former President Andrew Johnson was conThe event will also feature emcee “Rockin’ Robin,” cerned that Civil War injuries and casualties might
who has a vintage clothing shop in Niwot; a mini farmer’s market with locally produced goods, including eggs, honey, herbs and homemade pies; children’s activities like face painting, old-time photos with a pony or donkey and a fishing pond; and local artisan beer, wine, whiskey and cocktails. There will be live music, a silent auction featuring locally donated items, various local vendors selling their wares, fly-casting demonstrations, an evening campfire sing-along, dancing and food outlets featuring barbecue, gourmet and other freshly made meals.
**** Like other granges around the country, the Altona Grange began as a haven for farmers and ranchers to build community. And in the early years, it became a national lobbying and collective bargaining voice to rally for things like rural postal delivery and fighting back against monopolistic railroad companies that were gouging food producers on the cost of transporting their goods. The Altona Grange was even at the center of the water war that spawned Colorado’s “first in time, first in right” water law. Grange leaders say that when Longmont-area residents balked at Altona’s Left Hand Ditch Company diverting water upstream, even going so far as to blow up its dam, the battle went all the way to the Colorado Supreme Court, which found in favor of the ditch-diggers’ claim to the water. Like other fraternal organizations formed at the time, secret passwords and handshakes were required to gain entry at meetings, mostly to keep railroad executives out. But it was never intended to be a boys’ club. Altona Grange leaders say women were always welcome, and in addition to teaching its members about things like
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WATER FOR PEOPLE HOSTS FREE MUSIC FESTIVAL TO RAISE MONEY FOR GLOBAL WATER CRISIS Globally, 783 million people do not have access to safe drinking water, and every day, almost 6,000 people die from water-related illnesses, according to Water For People. The nonprofit organization dedicated to providing people in developing countries with safe drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities is hosting a free music festival to raise awareness and money for its campaigns. Coors Light and other local organizations such as Downtown Denver Partnership and Denver Water have partnered with Water for People for the event. The Festival For Water will include performances by The Motet, Bonerama and Broken Tongues. Denver food trucks will provide food at the festival and donate all proceeds to the cause. The Festival For Water will take place from 4 to 9 p.m. on
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family to Colorado. Today, as massive corporations like Monsanto have taken over much of the nation’s food production, granges are becoming a resurgent voice in the local food movement and the effort to restore small farms as a prominent force in the attempt to achieve local sustainability. However, Altona Grange leaders say they don’t pick sides when it comes to large-scale conventional farmers who grow genetically modified crops and the
organic farmers who have become so important to Boulder County’s farmers’ markets and community supported agriculture programs. They say all are welcome to join their organization, regardless of the politics involved. The organization hosts seminars on everything from bee-keeping to raising chickens. The motto of the grange is “In essentials, unity. In non-essentials, liberty. In all, charity.” Current Altona Grange Master Henry Poirot says it’s time for the
grange to give back to the community after being the beneficiary of donations over the past seven years, when the grange building was being restored. “We’re not the needy ones anymore,” he says. “We’re trying to reach out to others.” A donation of $2 per adult is requested at the June 1 event. The festivities start at 10 a.m. and end at 6 p.m. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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t was like running on a treadmill — except that we were outside. We were running uphill, directly into a steady 30-mile-per-hour headwind. As part of our training to run the Bolder Boulder on Memorial Day, my 9-year-old son and I were running in a 5K race on a brutally windy spring day in April. Less than a kilometer into the race, the course turned a corner and we were faced with the daunting task of tackling this gusty uphill challenge. Holding our running visors in our hands, we bowed our heads and trudged up the incline. My legs were moving, but I didn’t feel like I was going anywhere. Tim, my son, was having an even more difficult time. “Dad,” he gasped, “can we slow down?” “Sure,” I replied, though I didn’t think that we could run a whole lot slower. We finally made it to the top of the hill, where the course made a U-turn. We absolutely sailed back the other way. I was holding myself back from going too fast, feeling like I was running down a hill three times as steep as it actually was. After a few more kilometers, we finished the race, wind-whipped and tired, another step closer to our goal of completing the Bolder Boulder.
walk barefoot across the wood floor at home, let alone run any more miles. I never came close to running the race. The injury lingered for a long time, and I basically stopped running for the next three years. During that time, I saw a podiatrist (twice) and a physical therapist, had custom insoles made, got new running shoes, and stretched and stretched and stretched my calf. The pain in my heel, though significantly lessened, was always there. I started biking and doing other general fitness activities, but limited my running to about once a week. Though I stretched my left calf constantly and applied ice religiously, it appeared my running days were more or less over. Or so I thought. This fall, Tim ran the most laps in his school’s jog-a-thon fundraiser, and he was awarded a free entry into the 2013 Bolder Boulder. I wanted to run the race with him, but could I get back into running shape without the heel pain returning? Would we be able to find the time and dedication to train for the race? Along our running journey, those questions, as well as some unexpected ones, would be answered.
Training for more than a race Prepping for the Bolder Boulder with his son takes a father to new places as a parent by Dave Belin
**** I’ve been a recreational runner most of my life. I like to run for exercise but don’t typically run much more than three or four miles at a time. I’ve run a few races in the past, but nothing all that serious or competitive.
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I am motivated by goals, however, and four years ago I decided to run the Bolder Boulder. I started training for it in early March by following a “Couch to 10K” plan. Even though I took the training slowly and increased the mileage gradually, I ended up with a wicked case of plantar fasciitis (an inflammation of **** the connective tissue) in my left heel. I was stubborn Obviously, Tim is a good runner. He is really and tried to push through the pain, but every stride motivated and likes to challenge himself. The first felt like my heel was landing on a small, sharp rock. time we ran six miles, he wanted to do 6.2, just to see On the Entire run that would turn out toof beClothing, my last, I got Footwear, if he could actually run the full 10K. Our Inventory about 100 yards before I turned around and walked We started training in early February, 16 weeks &crying Travel &(and Sunglasses home; I Camp was almost fromGear the pain also before the race. During those pre-daylights-savingfrom the frustration of having to give up). I couldn’t time days, we squeezed our running sessions between
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school, work, karate, early darkness, homework, and making dinner. Even though the distances early in the training were relatively short, we often got home just as dusk was turning to darkness. After we gained an hour of daylight at the end of the day, the weather became the bigger factor, as Boulder had some of the snowiest weather in its history from late March into early May. More than once we trod carefully on slushy roads and icy sidewalks, bundled up in hats, gloves and light neck gaiters to ward off the below-average temperatures. We did discuss a couple of times going to the Rec Center to run on the treadmill, but decided together that we would rather enjoy the fresh cold air and the daylight than the sweaty monotony of the indoor workout. Tim never once complained about going out for a run, no matter the conditions. In looking for ways to train for the 10K race, I turned to the crowdsourced media of choice: Twitter. A friend suggested using the RunKeeper app on the iPhone. The app uses the phone’s GPS to keep track of all our running data (route, pace, distance, etc.) and has integrated training plans for races of various distances. We have been using the sub-55-minute 10K regimen. The plan gradually builds distance and endurance, and incorporates intervals, which I had never really done before. It’s like having your own running coach right on your phone, telling you when the next interval starts and when to increase the pace, all while keeping track of your splits and mileage along the way. It also shows maps of the runs, along with pace and elevation data, which we both enjoy analyzing after our workouts. The data from the RunKeeper app
is something Tim and I talk about on our runs. I ask him questions like how long it will take us to cover a certain distance at a certain pace, or where we need to turn around on an out-andback run. We also practice converting from kilometers to miles and back again. I sometimes feel like a math teacher asking a student a word problem: “So if 10K is 6.2 miles, how far is 1,000 meters?” “Why are the 8K and 5-mile markers so close to each other on the race course map?” My heel pain has not been as much of an obstacle as I anticipated. In the past few years, minimalist running shoes and emphasis on correct running technique have become popular. I did some reading and watched several online videos about modifying my running stride from a heel strike to a more neutral landing. I also picked up a new pair of Newton running shoes, the really gaudy, brightly colored ones worn by much more serious runners than me. Mine are bright blue with fire
pick for the next movie night, his top three favorite ice cream toppings, the form he is practicing for his next karate belt and what he wants to be when he grows up. On a longer run in early April, Tim turned to me suddenly and said, “I have to water my daisy seeds.” I thought about this for a second and, assuming he meant he had to go to the bathroom, I responded, “Well, we can stop behind that tree around the next corner.” “No, I have to water my daisy The father-son duo at seeds,” he insisted. the end of the Frank “What daisy seeds?” I replied. Shorter RACE4Kids’ “The ones from my Easter basHealth 5K ket.” I’d forgotten that the Easter truck red laces and neon orange soles. I Bunny had brought some daisy seeds look a bit clownish, but the specially along with chocolate, and that the boys designed shoes, along with shortening had planted the seeds in small pots on (and quickening) my stride, have really helped to minimize the plantar fasciitis the kitchen window sill. So he actually was talking about watering his daisy pain. It hasn’t gone away entirely, but seeds, though we now use that phrase enough that I have been able to focus as a euphemism for needing a rest stop on the training. while out on the trail. Often the conversations turn to our **** goal of running the race in 55 minutes. My wife and I, like many parents, We talk about pacing, training, comtry to spend quality time with our kids mitment, putting in the work necessary doing fun things together. We have a to achieve the goal and setting yourself couple of routines and rituals that we up for success. We talk about how runhave incorporated into our schedule ning is hard, but that if it was easy, over the years: weekly ice cream nights everyone would do it. We talk about and movie nights, Sunday morning trying your best. We talk about how breakfasts. We ski and hike together, some days running are good days, and too. Parenting experts will tell you that the structure of having intentional rou- other days are hard. We talk about challenging yourself and the satisfactines is important to your kids feeling tion of completing a goal. grounded and part of a bigger unit. I’ll I realize that many of these convertell you that it’s just fun. sations are exactly what a father should The miles Tim and I spend togethbe talking to his son about. It’s sort of er running have also turned into one of clichéd, but many of these lessons are these opportunities for bonding. While we run, we talk what homework he has for school, what movie he wants to see RUNNING Page 26
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ones that extend beyond running and into life — working hard, doing your best, challenging yourself and finishing a goal. As a father, I hope that Tim will remember these lessons as he gets older, whether it is in school, work, relationships or life. It turns out that, at least for me, the goal of running the Bolder Boulder has a larger goal embedded within it of spending quality time with my son. **** As the days grew longer, so did the runs. We traded our winter hats and neck gaiters for running visors and shorts. While our typical running route was a couple of laps around Waneka Lake, the longer runs took us to various new locations: the rolling hills of Teller Farms, the awesome views from Davidson Mesa, the shade and serenity of the Coal Creek trail. The Centaurus High School track, busy with afterschool Warriors lacrosse practices and soccer games on the field, served as our destination for the interval workouts. While I had run in many of those locations previously, I enjoyed watching Tim get excited about running in a new place, his uncertainty of how far we had to run on the first visit becoming a relaxed confidence by the time we returned. While most other people on the trail don’t give me a second look, many would give Tim a high-five, a thumbs
up or just words of encouragement along the way. On the Waneka Lake trail, several people we didn’t know commented what a good job we were doing training for the race. On the dirt trail shaded by the large cottonwood trees at Teller Farms, a runner passed us from behind. As he did, he gave Tim a pat on the back and said, “Great job, keep it up!” I could tell without looking at him that it made Tim feel special to receive those supportive gestures. Our goal is to finish the race in 55 minutes. Tim and I are both looking forward to the event — the crowds, the cheering, the people, the bands, sprinklers and belly dancers. My plantar fasciitis appears to be in remission, and we are eager to see if we can accomplish our intended goal. As a father, I have been reminded about the importance of actively seeking out situations to spend quality father-son time together. Last week, my other son Sam and I went to our first yoga class together. I wasn’t sure if he would like it, but afterwards he said contentedly, “I’m so relaxed!” We are planning to return for another class on Saturday morning, which I’m hoping will become our new ritual. As the boys grow, I know that I will continue to look for new challenges, new opportunities and new goals to achieve with them. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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Fast times at Boulder highs League for high school mountain bike racers sees booming growth by Elizabeth Miller there and say ‘Let me fix this for you.’” That mindset can last for a lifetime, they say. And so can participation in cycling. “Cycling is a lifelong endeavor,” Boyer says. “It’s not like something you
do in high school and then hang up your cleats and you’re done.” Their fourth race season opens Sept. 8 in Granby. Teams are always looking for assistant coaches to help out. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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After all, why get back together now? When Soundgarden broke up, rumors circulated about bad blood and creative differences. The dearth of collaboration between members since then seemed to hint that the creative energy that turned Soundgarden into grungerock royalty was no longer. But when the band took the stage, the swirling doubts — how has Chris Cornell’s voice held up, how revitalized is the band, is this a “comeback,” a “reunion” or a “cash-making victory lap” — evaporated. The group launched into the plodding, churning, “Searching With My Good Eye Closed,” and then plunged into the relentless, jaunting riffing of “Spoonman.” As the band thundered into “Jesus Christ Pose,” a blistering single from the 1991 album Badmotorfinger, it had become clear: Soundgarden was sharp as hell, the band’s chops seemingly no worse for the wear after its 12-year hiatus. But more importantly, the guys on stage seemed like they gave a shit. They were playing with passion. Cornell was stomping all over the stage, lifting his guitar in the air and cracking jokes about how high the band would get being downwind of a bunch of happy Coloradans. Drummer Matt Cameron played with inspiration. At the end of the show, after a four-song encore that finished with the anvil-onyour-chest-heavy “Slaves & Bulldozers,” guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Ben Shepherd stayed on stage, coaxing distorted squeals and rumbles from their instruments before Shepherd threw his bass into the drum set and the show
ended. That’s not just fan-boy fancy speaking there. When asked by Boulder Weekly, Cornell called the show “memorable … one we wished we’d filmed.” “I think in terms of how we define Soundgarden shows, one of them is [if ] we all are excited about it at the end,” Cornell says. “Because that’s not always the case — everybody has their own individual experience … and everybody in the band loved that one in particular. There was something about it that was really special. We had played Red Rocks before, and I had also played it with Audioslave. They’re always somewhat memorable, just because it’s an interesting place to play, but that one in general, that specific show, was great.” The 2011 tour ended, and Soundgarden hit the studio for the first time since the mid-’90s. The result was King Animal, released in November 2012. And despite the long hiatus, the album contains moments that actually sound like vintage Soundgarden. It is, at times, difficult to pin down where 1996’s Down On The Upside ends and King Animal begins. The album’s opener, “Been Away Too Long,” finds Cornell singing the apt refrain, “I only ever really wanted a break / I’ve been away for too long.” Many fans would agree. However, the lyrics came to him before the band started recording, he says. They seem like a triumphant return to glory, but as Cornell tells it, it’s just a lovely coincidence. “Yeah, it wasn’t really the intention, but it seemed to work in the context,” Cornell says. “It seemed like a lot of Boulder Weekly
buzz people, you know, reviewers, took it at face value and thought that’s exactly what it’s about. Which is fine, I don’t really care. … It wasn’t about the band getting back together, but it seemed to work on that level.” Soundgarden’s popularity peaked after Kurt Cobain and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” ushered in a new era of rock ’n’ roll, but the band predates Nirvana considerably. After all, Soundgarden had already been nominated for a Grammy before the word “grunge” entered the popular lexicon. (Thayil fondly told Stereogum that the guys in Nirvana felt like “little brothers.”) The group’s roots stretch back to 1984, when Cornell joined bassist Hiro Yamamato and Thayil and dubbed themselves Soundgarden, after an art structure, “A Sound Garden,” located on the northwestern shore of Seattle’s Lake Washington. At first, Cornell was doing double duty on drums and vocals; the band soon added a drummer to free Cornell to be the frontman. Cameron became the permanent drummer sometime around 1986, and the band went on to release two EPs on Sub Pop in 1987 and 1988. Soundgarden signed with indie label SST that same year and released its first full-length album, Ultramega OK, at the end of 1988. The band was reportedly nonplussed. The title is said to be a reference to how the band felt about the album — definitely not bad, but not as good as it should be. Nevertheless, the band received a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance, and Soundgarden signed to a major label, A&M Records, a division of Polygram Records, later that year. Louder Than Love came out in 1989, and with its lineup finalized when Ben Shepherd replaced Yamamato on bass, the band released Badmotorfinger in 1991. The band’s success arguably peaked with 1994’s Superunknown, led by the singles “Black Hole Sun,” “Spoonman” and “Fell on Black Days.” The album eventually went platinum five times, cementing Soundgarden’s place as rock royalty. 1996’s Down On The Upside wasn’t as great of a commercial success, but it contained some of Soundgarden’s best work yet, like Cornell’s stratospheric vocals on “Pretty Noose” and the strangely melodic yet aggressive “Burden In My Hand.” Yet all was not good for Soundgarden. Cracks started appearing in the band’s live performances, culminating with an outburst by Shepherd at a 1997 show in Hawaii, when, frustrated by equipment failures, he threw his bass down and stormed offstage. On April 9, 1997, Soundgarden faxed out a short press release saying: “After 12 Boulder Weekly
years, the members of Soundgarden have amicably and mutually decided to disband to pursue other interests. There is no word at this time on any of the members’ future plans.” Band members would subsequently voice complaints about how the business side of the music industry ground the band down, but Rolling Stone, in its article on the breakup, noted that “those close to the Seattle group suggest that the breakup was caused by a blend of creative differences and personnel problems.” Cornell went on to record a few solo albums, before teaming up with the three instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine to form Audioslave. Cameron did a few side projects before joining Pearl Jam in 1998 (he remains a member to this day). Thayil and Shepherd did a few side projects but mostly remained inactive. Then, on Jan. 1, 2010, Cornell tweeted, “The 12-year break is over and school is back in session. Sign up now. Knights of the Soundtable ride again!” Soundgarden, it seemed, was back. Knights of the Soundtable referred to the band’s long-dormant fan club, but that didn’t seem to matter. Word went viral over social media. Soundgarden had entered the next phase of their career, rebooting in the digital world. Turns out, music wasn’t immediately a concern when the band members began the talks that would eventually end the hiatus. “Well, we started by getting together and talking about doing different things to reinvigorate the catalog and reconnect the fans,” Cornell says. “It had become apparent that someone needed to do that, someone had kind of needed to be in charge of keeping the music legacy vital, and reminding people that it’s out there. “It’s easy to not focus on, I suppose, but if you think about bands who had a long musical legacy and released a lot of records and kind of seemed to be important in music, there’s someone behind there creating something or doing something, even if it’s one surviving member, or someone that was never in the band, even if it’s just a fan that runs a website or something. There’s always someone involved in keeping fans connected to that musical legacy. And no one was doing that with ours. “We just sort of decided that’s how some classic bands go away. Now that we were convinced we were a classic band, we wanted to deal with that. The rest of it rolled out simply because we
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were together in a room.” ideas that we had, most of which were It had been 12 years since all the in a state of infancy,” Cornell says. members had been in the same room, “Then we would arrange them, and Cornell says. The creative energy flew then we would try different ways of easily and naturally, and if there ever making a song out of it.” were any hint of bad blood, Cornell Soundgarden never really courted wouldn’t acknowledge it. the success that seemed to come so “There were never really any hard readily and easily. Their pre-hiatus feelings,” Cornell says. “Hard feelings records are filled with odd time signawere never really a part of it. We didn’t tures and heavy riffing punctuated at split up because we didn’t like each times by somewhat tripped-out jam other. We split up because we were sick sections. Absent are the power ballads of the music business and all the pitand straightforward love songs that falls of being a band permeated so much within it.” rock music of the When the band time. Cornell’s lyrics ON THE BILL: announced the have always been Soundgarden plays Tuesday, reunion, it was bleak, obscure and May 28 at the 1stBank Center. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are important to the often personal, $49.75. See www.1stbankcenter. members that it not seemingly not built com for more information. be perceived as strictfor the mainstream. ly a moneymaking Cornell says his venture, Cornell says. approach to lyrics Maintaining the band’s artistic integrity comes from a desire to pull the listener was key. into a world created by the song. “The first thing I think we did as a “I’ve never been one to have an band when we announced we were back experience and then go home and write together was say no to a bunch of a song about it,” Cornell says. “With tours,” Cornell says. “That first year we very few exceptions, when I hear a had offers to go to Europe that were in song that sounds like someone had an the millions of dollars, and a whole experience and then went home and bunch of U.S. festival offers and a tour wrote a song about it, I don’t want to that was in the millions of dollars, and hear it. I was always interested in we essentially said no to all of it. And I music that was escapist and drew you think that was probably the most out of your life and into some weird important thing that we did. We all environment created by the music, the knew then that no one individual in lyrics and the landscape. There are a this band wanted to get back together few exceptions. Then there are writers to reconvene because we wanted to that kind of write stories that aren’t make money. That decision to say no stories based on their personal life but was unanimous, and it was kind of are kind of fiction. A lot of Springsteen definitive in that way. We were doing it songs are like that. Characters that are because we wanted to do it.” created that might be based on someThe band interrupted the recording thing but really he’s just writing short process to tour (an appeasement to stories. That I do like. restless fans, Cornell says), but once the “I think you can even get closer to members got in a rehearsal space to reality by experimenting with fiction, write, things proceeded as normal. sometimes, rather than trying to direct“We mostly just kind of stood in a ly write about a thing.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com rehearsal room and showed each other 34 May 23, 2013
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ka music has a rough-andbe having fun even though it could be tumble energy. The energy the last time that they are together. He comes easily for Hatrick says that the members will be having Penry, whose members have fun, no matter what emotions show an average age of 19. Like all themselves backstage. things, though, eventually the music “We’ll definitely be emotionally comes to an end, and Hatrick Penry unstable, but in a good way — crazy,” will be playing its last show as a band at Rosenstein says. “We will be excited. the Fox Theatre on May 25. Lots of memories and everything — it A run like Hatrick Penry has had is will be all of it together.” different than most other bands, conThe band has had some memorable sidering its origins in the hallways of experiences. Jake Johnson, a saxophonthe members’ high school. ist, recalled one great memory that the Paul Schirmer, band had in its two lead guitarist, Ian years together — ON THE BILL: Hatrick Penry Rosenstein, bassist, when they opened plays the Fox Theatre on and former member for ska legend Saturday, May 25. Doors at 8:30 p.m. Synthetic Elements and The Drew Volz [who Goldfinger. A-OKS open. Tickets are $10. 1135 left the band in the “Probably the 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. fall of 2012] met in Goldfinger show 2011, and would [was our best memory],” Johnson says. later be joined by “The horns got to Chris Roob, drumplay on stage with them. That was the mer, as well as Jake and Eli Johnson. best part, I think. We got to meet with This kicked off what would be a wild them and play with them. It was a run for the band that would see it win blast.” the title of best local band in Boulder Though nothing is imminent or has Weekly’s 2012 Best of Boulder. Although the atmosphere at the Fox been explicitly discussed, Roob hinted Theatre has the potential to be a somat possible reunions in the future. ber one, considering the circumstances, “We talked it out, and nothing is in Roob says that the show will be an stone, but we will probably try to get exciting night for everyone inside. back together at least once a year — “We expect it to be a crazy party,” but we will keep it a secret,” Roob says. Roob says. “It’s going to be a packed The members say they are very house. It’s going to be all of our friends appreciative of the fans who helped and family there. It’s going to be nuts.” them get to where they are. Rosenstein says that the band will “A lot of our fan base started with Boulder Weekly
kids in our high school, but as we started to get more shows in Denver with the other local bands, then the local ska community started to grab on to your sound,” Roob says. “We started to have fans that we didn’t actually know from before we started playing music.” “The coolest part was getting to know those people,” Rosenstein says. “Everyone in that scene is awesome.” The members of Hatrick Penry may be closing out this chapter of their musical careers, but they insist that they will continue their relationships in the future. The group isn’t separating on bad terms. The breakup was simply because life had taken precedence over Hatrick Penry’s music. “It’s not a negative thing,” Roob says. “It’s just as we are growing up, some of our paths go different ways, and opportunities arise. It’s been the greatest run I think that we have had in the Colorado music scene in the past two years. It’s something to be thankful for.” “In the future, as we are all working on different things, we will go out and just support each other,” Schirmer says. “By no means is this an end of friendships.” Although this seems to be the last time that Hatrick Penry will take the stage as a group, the band’s music will not soon be forgotten by their friends, family and the members themselves. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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Thursday, May 23 music Green Light Radio Grants. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Jah Nyne. 10 p.m. The Walrus, 1174 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-443-9902. Joe Olney — With Digg. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Los Bohemios. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Marvin Straus Plays and Sings. 6 p.m. Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Phil Beckett and Friends. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Sammy Dee. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-4433322. Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922. Tom Weiser and Paul Fowler Jazz Duo. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Troubadours. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
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Nuns and crossdressers collide in And Then There Was Nun, playing at the Vintage Theatre in Aurora through June 16.
And Then There Was Nun. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-8391361. Through June 16.
Dividing the Estate. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 26. The Doyle and Debbie Show — At the Galleria Theatre. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through July 14. Fiddler On The Roof — Presented by Jesters Dinner Theatre. 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-468-2030. Through July 14. God of Carnage. Curious Theatre, 1080
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Playhouse, 1224 Washington St., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through May 26.
Guys and Dolls. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Market Place Drive, Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through June 16.
Paranormal Murder — Presented by Marne Interactive Productions. Adams Mystery Playhouse, 2406 Federal Blvd., Denver, 303-455-1848. Through June 8.
Henry V — Presented by The Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through June 8.
Sense & Sensibility the Musical — Presented by Denver Center Theatre Company. Stage Theater, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through May 26.
Les Misérables. Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-468-2030. Through May 26. A Little Night Music. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200. Through June 1. The Memory of Water. Miner’s Alley
sex.Now! — Dangerous Theatre Company, 2620 W. 2nd Ave., Unit 1, Denver, 720-233-4703. Through June 8. The Wizard of Oz — Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., 303-4496000. Through Aug. 31.
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Drink up the history of everyone’s favorite brewed beverage at BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap, at the Boulder History Museum.
All That Glistens: A Century of Japanese Lacquer. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Oct. 5.
American Visionaries — Works by Dorothea Lange and Maynard Dixon. Longmont Musuem & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374. Through May 26. Arvada Fine Arts Guild Annual Spring Membership Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through June 2.
Through June 2014. Herbert Bayer 1900 to 1928: The Bauhaus and Pre-Bauhaus Years. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 14. Margaret Donhol, Heidi Wagner. NCAR Visitor Center, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-4971000. Through May 31. A Moment in Time: Here. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-8655000. Through July 21. Museum of Broken Relationships. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through May 26.
BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464. Through Oct. 27.
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Our Global Village — Multicultural art. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through June 14.
Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik’s World of Ballet and Theatre — Solo show by Karen Kilimnik. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 23.
Primal Seen — Selections from the CU photography collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through June 22.
The Denver Salon: Then and Now — Fine art photography. Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-9433. Through May 31.
Rocky Mountain Majesty — The paintings of Charles Partridge Adams. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 21.
Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist — Works on paper by the artist and his circle. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through June 30.
This Is Not a Test: The Atomic Art of Doug Waterfield. Rocky Flats Cold War Museum, 5612 Yukon St., Arvada, 720-287-1717. Through Sept. 8.
Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century. Norlin Library second floor, CU campus, Boulder, ucblibraries.colorado.edu.
Unmasked: The Language of Cultural Identity — Various artists. WESTend at The Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869. Through June 29.
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Buddha Plays The Blues
The Angel’s Share. 4:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826 x110.
event. Noon, ATLAS room 200, CU campus, 303735-4577.
Beer Pong. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das. 7 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnt St., 303-4407826 x110.
Boulder Salsa Social. 6:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-668-7355. A Butterfly’s Life – A Beginner’s Guide to Butterflies. 7 p.m. Lafayette Public Library, 775 W. Baseline Road, Lafayette, 303-678-6214. Conversations in English. 11:15 a,m, Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-4941. Free Music Software Hands-On Workshop. 12 p.m. ATLAS 200, CU-Boulder, 303-35-4577.
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GED Classes. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Araphoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3142. Getting Started With Adobe InDesign, Part Two. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Greenscreen Video Tecnhniques. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-8750276. Ignite Wellness: Spark Healthier Habits and Real Results. 6 p.m. Co-Motion, 3200 Carbon St., Suite 101, Boulder, 303-579-0500. Music Software Hands-on Workshop — Free
Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee. 6:30 p.m. Boulder County Courthouse, 1325 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-678-6268.
Friday, May 24 music Bill Staines. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Cafe, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Bluegrass Delta Force. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Danny Shaefer and 21st Century. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Hank Smith. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Idlewhile. 10 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Joe Pug and Anais Mitchell. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Cafe, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003. The Long Run — Eagles tribute band kicks off Boulder Creek Festival. 7 p.m. Boulder Bandshell, 1212 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, www.bceproductions.
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Marlo Narwhal with Big Thirsty Girl and Arturo Complex. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
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Ron Thompson. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Ryan Bingham. 8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Sambadende. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Signel-Z — With My Romance. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Steve Thomas Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Boa and the Constrictors. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-443-3322. Damon Wood’s Harmonious Junk. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Deadwood Quartet — With Eugene Christopher. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
The Angel’s Share. 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826 x110. Boulder’s Upstart Crow: The Life of King Henry V by William Shakespeare. 7:30 pm. Carsen Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-1415. Conversations in English. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4414941. Conversations in Spanish. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4414941. Herbal Medicine Class/Pick An Herb! with Emma Leigh Hranilovich. 10 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303579-1644. One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das. 8:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826 x110. Yoga Pod: Fourth Friday Urban Flow. 7:15 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. YMCA Open House Pool Party. 11 a.m. YMCA, 2800 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 303-664-5455.
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James Pieper. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.
Randall Dubis Band. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985. Sammy Dee. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Soul Quatro. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Vin De Glo. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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Active Minds Lecture: The Emancipation Proclamation. 5:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070. Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Cafe, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-5791644. She Left Me The Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me — by Emma Brockes. 5:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave, Denver, 303-436-1070.
Monday, May 27 So, You’re a Poet? — an open reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. An Evening of Indie Fiction — Authors Barry Wightman, Mark Stevens & Mike Keefe. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070. The Power of the Herd — by Linda Kohanov. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St.,
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EVENTS from Page 41 Boulder’s Upstart Crow: The Life of King Henry V by William Shakespeare. 7:30 p.m. Carsen Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-1415.
March Against Monsanto. 12 p.m., Boulder Central Park, southwest corner of Canyon Boulevard and Broadway, 303-505-2547.
WOW - Women of Wisdom at Meadows. 2:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Dairy Comedy Night. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das. 6:30 p.m. Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., 303-440-7826 x110.
Sunday, May 26
Blues & BBQ featuring Ash Ganley. 2 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Sweet Sister Strength. 2 p.m. Southeast Boulder, RSVP for directions by emailing shaelanoellamusic@gmail.com.
Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Dance Party and live radio show — Feat. DJ/ MC Cool Style and Lady Midnight. 9 p.m. Cool Spirit Nature & Star Elements, 4949 N. Broadway St. Suite 117, Boulder, 720-239-2761. Fly Fishing 101 — Free class. 9 a.m. Orvis, 629B S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-554-0122.
Volunteer Orientation. 3 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-800-4647.
Home Vibes and Shine Collaboration Launch Party. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.
Wildflowers of Heil Valley Ranch Hike. 10 a.m. Heil Valley Ranch, Old St. Vrain Road and Red Gulch Road, Lyons, 303-678-6214.
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The Big Pick Open Folk and Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303258-7733. Bluegrass Explosion. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0883.
Blues Jam with Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St. Boulder, 303-4433322. Jarod Grive & Morgan Ward — With Helicopterbearshark. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Mello Cello Sundays with Sam Rae. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Randy Rogers Band and Casey Donahew Band. 5:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 W. Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494. Skanson and Hansen. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
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Monday, May 27 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
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Locotango Spillover Milonga. 6:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-7184798. Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.
events Bolder Boulder. 7 a.m. www.bolderboulder.com. Boulder Creek Festival. 11 a.m. Downtown Boulder along Boulder Creek, www.bceproductions.com/boulder-creek-festival. Gathr Previews: 100 Bloody Acres. 7 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Kegs, Eggs & Sore Legs. 10 a.m. West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-3535. “So, You’re a Poet,” — Open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Bobby Doran. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Face. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Ludovico Einaudi and his Orchestra. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder. 720-865-2494. Mathias and the Crooked Streets. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094. The Nice Work Jazz Combo. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Open Mic — Hosted by Maus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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between Terence and a lovely young woman as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Jackie Robinson challenged prejudices when Branch Rickey signed him to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rated PG13. At Colony Square and Century.
Oz the Great and Powerful
Alois Nebel
James Franco and Mila Kunis star in this prequel to the Wizard of Oz tale. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks.
Alois Nebel works as a dispatcher at the small railway station in Bily Potok, a remote village on the CzechPolish border. Suffering from hallucinations, Alois ends up in the sanatorium where he gets to know The Mute, a man carrying an old photograph who was arrested by the police after crossing the border. His past propels Alois on his journey. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Pain & Gain Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson star in this action comedy flick about bodybuilders who have more brawn than brains when it comes to crime. Rated R. At Colony Square.
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Paradise: Love
After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart... along with anyone else who gets in her way. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
On the beaches of Kenya, they’re known as “Sugar Mamas:” European women who seek out African boys, selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next, and finally she must recognize: On the beaches of Kenya, love is a business. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
Ain’t in It for My Health: A Film about Levon Helm We find a founding member of The Band at home in Woodstock in the midst of creating his first studio album in 25 years. He’s overcome drugs, bankruptcy, the bitter breakup of The Band and a bout of throat cancer — but then, as the rueful title indicates, he wasn’t in it for his health. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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The Angels’ Share The latest film from legendary filmmaker Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Lavery, The Angels’ Share is a bittersweet comedy about a young man from Glasgow with a criminal past who wants a way out. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
At Any Price A firm believer in the big-agribusiness mantra “Expand or Die,” ambitious Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid) wants his rebellious son Dean (Zac Efron) to help expand his family’s farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Beyond the Hills Inspired by a case of alleged demonic possession that occurred in Romania’s Moldova region in 2005, this is a portrait of dogma at odds with personal liberty in a society still emerging from the shadow of Communism. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Big Wedding This wedding comedy will surely provide plenty of family antics and an excuse to see Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robin Williams and Susan Sarandon in a movie together. Rated R. At Colony Square.
Black Rock Three young women get together for a private campout at an empty island off the coast of Maine, but when they encounter three recently-returned servicemen who have come to the island to hunt, a misunderstanding turns to tragedy, and the women find themselves the targets of the hunt. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Company You Keep The world of Jim Grant (director Robert Redford), a public interest lawyer and single father raising his daughter in the tranquil suburbs of Albany, New York, is turned upside down when a brash young reporter named Ben Shepard (Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
The Croods 3D A caveman family road-trips to a colorful world in this Flintstones-meets-Avatar animated kids movie. Rated PG. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.
Epic When Mary Katherine visits her father, she gets lost in the forest near his house and discovers tiny warriors that her father has been studying. She joins them in a war against evil while trying to find her way home. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
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Pieta A loan shark uses brutality to threaten and collect paybacks from desperate borrowers for his moneylender boss. When a mysterious woman claims to be his longlost mother, he gradually accepts her into his life and quits his job. However, he soon discovers a dark secret from his past. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
The Place Beyond the Pines The Grapes of Wrath An Oklahoma family who loses their farm during the Great Depression travel the United States as migrant workers, looking for work. At Boulder Library.
The Great Gatsby Set in New York during the roaring ’20s, Nick Carraway is thrust into Jay Gatsby’s world of lavish parties and disposable wealth. But as the writer pieces together the truth about his dazzling neighbor’s unrequited love, Carraway’s vision of the American Dream begins to crumble. Rated PG-13. At Colony Square, Twin Peaks and Century.
Fast and Furious 6 In the series’ sixth installment, the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service offers to clear the gang’s criminal records in return for their help taking down a mercenary organization. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Frances Ha Living in New York and apprenticing at a dance company, Frances struggles with maintaining her relationship with her best friend Sophie and following her dreams to be a dancer. Rated R. At Century.
Four Funny Films Four classic comedy films from the silent era will be accompanied with live music. At Meadows Branch Library. — Library Film Program
The Hangover Part III After the death of Alan’s father, the guys get together to help Alan with his mental issues. Of course, things don’t go as planned, and Doug is kidnapped. The wolfpack must find the gangster behind the kidnapping to save their friend. Rated R. At Century, Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
The Iceman This film was inspired by a true story and follows a contract killer, Richard Kuklinski, from his first days as a young mobster until his arrest for having killed more than 100 people. His family had no idea of what he did for a living. Bet his wife was surprised. Rated R. At Century and Mayan.
Innocence Tomas, a highly esteemed physician, finds himself embroiled in a scandal when Olinka, a 14-year-old patient, accuses him of molestation. As his once-idyllic professional and personal lives descend into chaos, To-
mas must also contend with a police detective who has a personal interest in putting him away. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society
In the House Sixteen-year-old Claude insinuates himself into the house of fellow high school student Rapha, writing about his family in essays that perversely blur the lines between reality and fiction for his jaded literature teacher. The boy’s intrusion sparks a series of uncontrollable events. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Iron Man 3 3D When his enemy leaves Tony Stark’s personal life in shambles, he must suit up once again as Iron Man. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
Kiss of the Damned
Director Derek Cianfrance’s new film starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling pits a cop against a man who committed a crime to support his child. Both of their lives will be changed forever. Rated R. At Mayan and Century.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist At an outdoor café a Pakistani man named Changez tells Bobby, an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back 10 years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking fortune and glory on Wall Street. At SIE FilmCenter. — Landmark Theatres
Renoir Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Gilles Bourdos’ lushly atmospheric drama Renoir tells the story of celebrated Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in declining health at age 74, and his middle son Jean, wounded in World War I. At SIE FilmCenter and Chez Artiste. — Denver Film Society
Djuna, a beautiful vampire, tries to resist the advances of human screenwriter Paulo, but eventually gives in to temptation. When her troublemaker sister Mimi arrives unexpectedly, Djuna’s love story is threatened and the whole vampire community becomes endangered. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
Royal Opera House’s Tosca
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The Sapphires
This film recreates the amazing adventure of explorer Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific Ocean crossing in 1947 in a balsa wood raft with five men. Rated PG-13. At Esquire.
Inspired by a true story, the dramatic comedy The Sapphires follows four vivacious, young and talented Australian Aboriginal girls from a remote mission as they learn about love, friendship and war when their all-girl group The Sapphires entertains the U.S. troops in Vietnam in 1968. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
Mud When two boys discover a mysterious stranger hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River, their lives and those of everyone in their small town are changed forever. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square.
Oblivion Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman star in this visually amazing film. As for plot, Cruise battles to save the entire planet Earth, of course, in some far-off future time. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks and Colony Square.
One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das In 1970, Jeffrey Kagel walked away from the American dream of rock ‘n’ roll stardom, turning down the chance to record as lead singer for the Blue Oyster Cult. Instead, he sold all his possessions and moved from the suburbs of Long Island to the foothills of the Himalayas in search of happiness and a little-known saint named Neem Karoli Baba. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty This film utilizes a tapestry of live action and multiple styles of animation as it documents the relationship
Powerful music, a gripping story and a tragic end: Puccini’s ever-popular revival piece stars Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Something in the Air It’s 1971, and in the wake of the revolutionary fervor of May 1968 a group of youthful Paris radicals are trying to live their ideals, contributing to the revolution they believe is just beginning. At SIE FilmCenter. — Landmark Theatres
Star Trek Into Darkness When the crew of the Enterprise return to earth they find the whole place in chaos. Captain Kirk takes his merry band of space-pals to a forbidding prison planet in order to restore order and exact revenge. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.
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f modern nerd culture has a “patient zero,” it was Mr. Trekkie (or Miss Trekker, if you’re nasty). Their legendary attention to detail is exceeded only by their willingness to speak Klingon in the most intimate of settings. And they’re really, really going to hate Star Trek Into Darkness. Director J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot got a surprising free pass from the community despite a twisted-pretzel-logic attempt to simultaneously keep Billy Shatner’s Captain Kirk “in continuity” and completely start over. But the latest installment blatantly turns a blind eye to huge moments in the “Trekkie canon,” which is likely to get the filmmakers loaded into a Trekkie’s cannon. To the loyalists, the fact that the blockbuster is remarkably entertaining, exceedingly well-produced and magnificently cast is but a band aid on a photon torpedo wound. Abrams is addicted to secrecy; he gets high on the frustrated whines of geeks who “wanna know right now!” At least officially, he managed to keep the villain’s name out of the trailers, so it’s off-limits here. Just know that Benedict Cumberbatch plays a bad dude intent on blowin’ up Starfleet officials, specifically Admiral Marcus (Peter Weller). Having been separated for “violating the prime directive” (which sounds like a sex thing but isn’t), Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) reunite to take down their super-strong, super-smart, superBritish foe. If Star Trek Into Darkness makes a mistake beyond urinating on their smallbut-devoted fan base, it’s not allowing enough time for the delightful ensemble players to interact. Scotty (Simon Pegg), Bones (Karl Urban), Sulu ( John Cho),
Checkov (Anton Yelchin) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) are barely ever even in the same place, let alone the same plotline. And while they’re fun individually, they are far more pleasing in bunches. Actually, fun is pretty hard to come by in this installment, but putting “into darkness” in the title should have been a head’s up. The Internet and critics have thrown ample shade upon Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof for their script for mostly no good reason. No rational human can argue that what happens at the end of this film is any less kooky or “magic” than Spock’s rebirth in Star Trek III or the globe-saving, timetraveling whale retrieval in Star Trek IV. Would it have been nice to see Cumberbatch’s character developed better? Yep. Just like it would have been nice for us to see a myriad of tinier adventures to ground the Spock/Kirk relationship, which only works in this film because of our collective memory of their relationship elsewhere. But it looks good, with Abrams making a foot-chase seem as intense as a spaceship-to-spaceship battle. And it sets the stage for at least one more go with this cast; Abrams, on the other hand, is journeying to a place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. From the original series through modern incarnations, Star Trek has always been smart. But that intelligence has, in some cases, bred nerd hubris among some Trekkies. Star Trek Into Darkness is blockbuster-y goodness sure to be derided by purists but beloved by the masses. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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’s China, a lightning rod for controversy with the Boulder police and the city council for years, has closed its doors, its owner citing the city’s scrutiny. Now, the “problem” business is looking to change its image as NoEntiendo, a South American restaurant that aims to be a more mature business, although the new owner says the pressure continues. “Certain people are coming after us,” says Kyle McNamara, the new owner of NoEntiendo and former bar manager of K’s. “They have kind of fabricated a lot of things that we’ve done wrong that we haven’t, and we’re hoping to go to the liquor board and show them that it’s absolutely ridiculous, because most of the things are made up and we’ve actually changed things and have been doing everything right.” McNamara is taking the torch from his former employer, K’s China owner Bo Mai, who recently sold the University Hill restaurant and bar, alleging the city had targeted his business. “We feel like the city of Boulder and its employees just manipulate the law,” Mai says. “They can do anything according to their need, and this is not good, it’s illegal. We are not able to face this trying organization, so we decided to quit, and by doing that we lost $70,000 just on the sales contract.” Mai says that he plans to sue the city for the amount he lost. McNamara says he jumped at the opportunity to reinvent the restaurant into “a fusion of Colorado steez and South American swagger,” as NoEntiendo’s Twitter profile says. NoEntiendo looks to start offering its new menu
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NoEntiendo faces obstacles in replacing K’s China by Joseph Wirth on June 1 and, at present, the restaurant will continue with the liquor license restrictions that it inherited from K’s. K’s was required by the Beverage Licensing Authority (BLA) to report its monthly food sales to prove the company was making at least 15 percent of its gross profit from food, and those requirements, along with a few other smaller restrictions, including an outdoor noise limit for music and required ID checks, still apply to NoEntiendo. NoEntiendo’s hearing with the BLA to transfer K’s liquor license was continued from May 15 and will now happen on June 19; that hearing could change the conditions on NoEntiendo’s license. Carlene Hofmann, the Boulder Police Department’s liaison officer for the BLA, says she understands McNamara’s position, but says the city expects NoEntiendo to adhere to them. “I understand that Kyle feels really targeted, but these are the conditions placed upon him and he agreed to them, and so he can try, but he has to follow
those special conditions,” says Hofmann. “As for special conditions, yes, he’s the only one who has special conditions placed upon him and unfortunately he has to follow those to the letter. He can’t just say, ‘Well, I’m trying’; he has to follow them regardless.” McNamara seems willing to work with the city to get his business up and running, with the remodeling of the restaurant’s environment as a major goal. McNamara says he’s looking to create a new, more welcoming atmosphere for permanent Boulder residents and get rid of the stigma that was attached to K’s of being a place for college students to party. He says K’s was one of the businesses that contributed to the segregation between CU students and permanent residents on the Hill, and that since the switch over to NoEntiendo the customer diversity has already started to increase. “We’ve immediately started to see families come in, we’ve started to see older people coming in, and it’s just great to watch them interacting with the college students, because it’s not like the college students are going anywhere, and it’s just a much more laid-back, open environment,” McNamara says. The potential for McNamara and NoEntiendo to overcome the negative “college party” stigma of K’s and serve the community, both permanent residents and college students, has city officials optimistic, yet still a little skeptical. “It would be wonderful to have a new restaurant that caters to a larger clientele, but I don’t know anybody that went to K’s China to get Chinese food,” says City Council Member Ken Wilson. see NOENTIENDO Page 50
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addition to Longmont’s Main Street dining scene. Ambience here is upscale, with contemporary Southwestern art and dark woods, creating a sense of elegant intimacy. Yet Antonio’s is still the kind of welcoming spot that features a children’s menu and prices more reasonable than the trappings would indicate. Antonio’s has an intriguing pedigree, prefer to assess how the kitchen handles as the owners also run a sibling restauthe basics. rant in Taos, N.M., that hotbed of In this spirit, friend Jon and I began Southwestern cuisine. The menu here is dinner with an $8 chile con queso starter. at once both familiar and surprising, The normally loquacious Jon was renand entrees fall into “traditional New dered speechless by his first bite — it was Mexican” or “traditional Mexican” cateabundantly clear this wasn’t your usual gories. Interestingly canned chile and enough, there isn’t a Velveeta special. Not Antonio’s — A Taste of Mexico as thick as some bowl of green chile 246 Main St., Longmont on the menu, and overwrought ver303-772-9923 the only sopapilla sions, the texture offered is a savory closely resembled one. New Mexican that of a lusciously offerings include enchiladas, tacos and creamy French master sauce. burritos. Fresh diced chile made this stunning The Mexican menu counts the com- dish come alive, although even if this mon fajita as one of its selections. ingredient was missing, this decadent Beyond that, there’s a corn truffle (or appetizer would still rank as the best I’ve smut) enchilada with green mole, a tasted. Not so incidentally, this preparaground-beef-stuffed relleno, and seafood tion also arrived with a side of smoky yet options, including enchiladas loaded fresh-tasting red salsa that every aficiowith lobster and crab. Our top-notch nado of this dip should sample. server, Ronald, recommended the seaMastery of the classics was apparent food paella special. But when trying a in Jon’s $11 chile relleno, prepared with Mexican restaurant for the first time, I a plump Hatch green chile. My friend
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was quick to note that the quality of the Monterey Jack cheese within was noticeably above that of most examples. Those who prefer a softer, eggy batter versus a crisp exterior coating will likely embrace Antonio’s interpretation as the benchmark for this dish. From the Mexican category, I opted for the $16 Barbacoa de Borrego. Unlike the barbacoa dished out at popular burrito chains, Antonio’s takes a cue from the cuisine of central Mexico and uses leg of lamb instead of beef. Marinated in guajillo pepper, cumin and garlic, the lamb was all at once flavorful, moist and tender, with a texture resembling that of pulled meat. It arrived wrapped in a green banana leaf, which, as Ronald pointed out, helped the lamb retain savory juices. Putting the meat into warm, soft, flour tortillas and alternating bites of the expertly prepared beans and rice made for a wholly satisfying dining experience. Since sopapillas were not on the dessert menu, we had to make do with a $6.50 slice of chocolate cake. This dense and fudgy number was accented by a subtle whisper of chipotle pepper. Fans of spiced Mexican hot chocolate will enjoy this sophisticated finishing touch. As illustrated by this dessert, Antonio’s puts a fresh spin on Mexican (old and New) dishes with a level of high, perhaps even flawless, execution at unexpectedly decent prices. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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uitlacoche, also known as corn smut, or the more appealing-sounding corn truffle, is an ancient delicacy prized by both the Aztecs and Mayans. Like mushrooms, huitlacoche is fungus, although this one is unique in that it is exclusively found in corn. Most farmers outside of Mexico consider it a blight, while informed diners enjoy its earthy, woodsy qualities, tinged with vanilla. Besides being found in such dishes as enchiladas and quesadillas, it’s also popular in omelets, where the eggs help bring out this ingredient’s truffle-like flavor. Often, cooks combine huitlacoche with onions, garlic and peppers for taco filling.
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Wilson, who has lived on the Hill for 18 years, says that the best way to create more cohesion between permanent residents and students on the Hill from a business perspective is to create a more diverse marketplace that meets the needs of the larger neighborhood within walking distance. “We need more diversity of businesses,” Wilson says. “We need a grocery store, we need more highend restaurants, we simply need more variety.” McNamara says he really wants to create something new and different for the Hill and he seems serious about NoEntiendo tackling the segregation issue, which he says he has seen his whole life in Boulder. “There are a lot of older people on the Hill that were afraid to come here before,” McNamara says. “And now we want them to be able to come up here and socialize with the younger people and have them hang out too and not be afraid of a drunken rager.” NoEntiendo’s menu offers a large variety of South American foods with 22 different appetizers/street food items, including food indigenous to several Latin and South American countries, as well as four main entrees and eight different desserts that are all South American style. The original K’s Chinese menu will also still be available for delivery. NoEntiendo is still in the process of redesigning and reaching out to new customers, but city officials still have yet to voice their views on what role
they see NoEntiendo having for the Hill neighborhood. “I feel like we have an overabundance of some types of businesses on the Hill, and late-night alcohol places are to some extent focused on that,” Wilson says. McNamara and NoEntiendo will continue to operate normally until their liquor board meeting, but their restrictions still have them in the same situation that caused Mai and K’s to leave Boulder. “I am sure that they have made other changes, but you still have to abide by the conditions, and they haven’t done that,” Hofmann says, referring to issues with checking IDs at the door. But Mai argues that the strict conditions that were placed upon K’s and now on NoEntiendo are unjustifiable. “There is no right for them to ask the restaurant to [check] everybody, including the food and to-go customers,” Mai says. “Nobody does that. If you go to any full-service restaurant in Boulder, you walk in and nobody checks your ID; and they forced us to check ID [at the door] and they suspended our business because we didn’t check the ID of [everybody].” If you want to try NoEntiendo’s new South American flavor, remember to bring your purse or wallet, because two forms of I.D. are required for everyone to enter the building at all times, and as friendly as they are there, they’re serious about it. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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oulder County’s craft beer explosion isn’t done yet — or that’s the assumption for the owners of a new wave of breweries-in-planning that are shooting to open this year. We count at least eight breweries that have made some degree of progress toward opening.
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If you hadn’t noticed, one of our favorites is BRU, the brewery owned and operated by Jax chef Ian Clark. Currently brewed in Clark’s garage, BRU is opening Susan France BRU Handbuilt Ales & Eats as soon as June 1 at 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Unit 1 in Boulder, Clark’s wife Bryce Clark says. Another brewery already at work without a space is Twelve Degree Brewing, the Belgian-focused brewery setting up Jon Howland at 820 Main St. in Louisville. Owner Jon Howland said on May 20 that Twelve Degree is “shooting to open [its taproom] in about a month.” Its collaboration with FATE Brewing, the rarely seen IPA-like Belgian style Hommelbier, should be ready “very soon.” The current holdup for Front Range Brewing Company is the unusual “We need a gas meter from Xcel,” brewer and owner Chris Dutton says. The Lafayette brewery, located at 400 South Boulder Road, Ste. 1650, is aiming for a June 29 opening. Its website lists styles like a farmhouse ale, an imperial milk stout and a rum-barrel-aged coffee quadrupel.
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Tom Horst, the owner and brewer of Crystal Springs Brewing Company, is moving his three-year-old garage operation to Louisville, aiming to open in July. Horst couldn’t confirm an address, but says the taproom will have 13 taps. Lafayette’s superhero-themed Odd13 Brewing, opening at 301 East Simpson St., groups its brews into the superhero beers The Odd Squad (yearBoulder Weekly
round beers like a red IPA, a saison and a porter), the villainous Legion of Odd (rotating taps including multiple IPAs and Belgians) and the rare Sidekicks. Co-owner Kristin Scott says Odd13 is “hoping to open in late July or the first weekend in August.” That’s the same opening period that Sanitas Brewing is looking at, according to co-founder Zach Nichols. The Boulder brewery-in-planning run by Boulder Beer Company alumni will occupy 3550 Frontier Ave., Unit A, in Boulder. It is planning two year-round cans — “one is bold and full of hops, and one is light and refreshing,” Nichols says — and “quite a bit of barrel aging.” He name-drops imperial stouts, double browns and barrel-aged sours as possibilities. Sanitas will announce its year-round beers on Facebook June 3.
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No breweries are slated to open in late summer. Which of course means 10 or 12 will. We’ll keep our eyes open.
October
Dan Distlear of 300 Suns Brewing says the brewery has a “potential location” in Longmont. Ditslear says he’d like to open before the Great American Beer Fest, Oct. 10-12. 300 Suns brewers have homebrewed (and posted to Facebook) beers like a strong ale, an IPA, a stout and a French Biere de Garde, similar to a saison.
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The Big Red F restaurant group will open The Post Brewing Company at 105 W. Emma St. in Lafayette in November, according to events manager Iva Townsend. Bryan Selders, former brewmaster for Delaware’s Dogfish Head, will lead the brewing. He says he has “penciled in” 25 percent of The Post’s opening beers to be lagers. Brewery equipment and grain orders are on their way.
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Additionally, Creek Festival sponsor MorningStar Farms will be at the festival on a stop of its Feel Good Grilling Tour. The Boulder Creek Festival is held along A TASTE OF LODO Boulder Creek, from Ninth enver Gourmet Tours Street to 14th Street offers a tasting tour of the between Canyon microbreweries and restauDenver Gourmet Tours Boulevard and Arapahoe rants in the neighborhood Avenue. The festival is open around Coors Field so cusfrom 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on tomers can experience the Saturday and Sunday and is open from 11 Denver food scene. The walking tour stops at a.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday. four to six destinations. The tour takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 25. The event starts at Coors Field, 2001 Blake St. in MUCH MUSIC ON MEMORIAL DAY Denver. The tour costs $49 per person. For he Gold Hill Inn will host a Memorial Day more information, visit www.denvergourmetMountain Music Fest and Barbeque on tours.com or call 303-775-5038. Monday, May 27. The music festival will fea-
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Giant Sequoias are the biggest trees on the planet. Many are more than 300 feet tall and 30 feet wide. Their longevity is legendary, too. They can live for 2,000 years. And yet their seeds are tiny. If you had a bag of 91,000 seeds, it would weigh one pound. I suspect there’s currently a resemblance between you and the Giant Sequoia, Gemini. You’re close to acquiring a small kernel that has the potential to grow into a strong and enduring creation. Do you know what I’m talking about? Identify it. Start nurturing it.
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Don’t take yourself too seriously. The more willing you are to make fun of your problems, the greater the likelihood is that you will actually solve them. If you’re blithe and breezy and buoyant, you will be less of a magnet for suffering. To this end, say the following affirmations out loud. 1. “I’m willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.” 2. “I’m sorry, but I’m not apologizing any more.” 3. “Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. I’d rather travel.” 4. “My commitment is to truth, not consistency.” 5. “The hell with enlightenment, I want to have a tantrum.” 6. “I stopped fighting my inner demons. We’re on the same side now.”
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JULY 23-AUG. 22:
Would you buy a stuffed bunny or a baby blanket that was handcrafted by a prisoner on death row? Would you go to a cafe and eat a sandwich that was made by an employee who was screaming angrily at another employee while he made your food? Would you wear a shirt that was sewn by a 10-year-old Bangladeshi girl who works 12 hours every day with a machine that could cut off her fingers if she makes one wrong move? Questions like these will be good for you to ask yourself, Leo. It’s important for you to evaluate the origins of all the things you welcome into your life — and to make sure they are in alignment with your highest values and supportive of your well-being.
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Having good posture tends to make you look alert and vigorous. More than that, it lowers stress levels in your tissues and facilitates the circulation of your bodily fluids. You can breathe better, too. In the coming weeks, I urge you to give yourself this blessing: the gift of good posture. I encourage you to bestow a host of other favors, too. Specialize in treating yourself with extra sweetness and compassion. Explore different ways to get excited, awaken your sense of wonder and be in love with your life. If anyone calls you a self-involved narcissist, tell them you’re just doing what your astrologer prescribed.
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Are you ready to go deeper, Sagittarius? In fact, would you be willing to go deeper and deeper and deeper? I foresee the possibility that you might benefit from diving in over your head. I suspect that the fear you feel as you dare to descend will be an acceptable trade-off for the educational thrills you will experience once you’re way down below. The darkness you encounter will be fertile, not evil. It will energize you, not deplete you. And if you’re worried that such a foray might feel claustrophobic, hear my prediction: In the long run it will enhance your freedom.
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In the course of his 91 years on the planet, artist Pablo Picasso lived in many different houses, some of them rentals. When inspired by the sudden eruption of creative urges, he had no inhibitions about drawing and doodling on the white walls of those temporary dwellings. On one occasion, his landlord got upset. He ordered Picasso to pay him a penalty fee so that he could have the sketches painted over. Given the fact that Picasso ultimately became the best-selling artist of all time, that landlord may have wished he’d left the squiggles intact. In every way you can imagine, Capricorn, don’t be like that landlord in the coming week.
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“I was often in love with something or someone,” wrote Polish poet Czesław Miłosz. “I would fall in love with a monkey made of rags. With a plywood squirrel. With a botanical atlas. With an oriole. With a ferret. With the forest one sees to the right when riding in a cart. With human beings whose names still move me.” Your task, Aquarius, is to experiment with his approach to love. Make it a fun game: See how often you can feel adoration for unexpected characters and creatures. Be infatuated with curious objects … with snarky Internet memes … with fleeting phenomena like storms and swirling flocks of birds and candy spilled on the floor. Your mission is to supercharge your lust for life.
PISCES
FEB. 19-MARCH 20:
Scientists in Brazil discovered a huge new body of water 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon River. It’s completely underground. Named the Hamza River, it moves quite slowly, and is technically more of an aquifer than a river. It’s almost as long as the Amazon, and much wider. In accordance with the astrological omens, Pisces, I’m making the Hamza River your symbol of the week. Use it to inspire you as you uncover hidden resources. Meditate on the possibility that you have within you a secret reservoir of vitality that lies beneath your well-known sources. See if you can tap into deep feelings that are so deep you’ve been barely conscious of them.
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Dear Dan: Twenty-one-year-old female here. When we were both 14, my first boyfriend took advantage of me. I wanted to explore my sexuality a little, but things went further than I wanted. One day, we were kissing with him on top of me. We were both fully clothed, and he started rubbing up against me. I didn’t realize he was dryhumping me until after he had to leave to clean himself up. He never asked for my permission. Once I understood what had happened, I felt violated. He’d also groped my boobs on another occasion without asking. He broke up with me a couple months later. I haven’t spoken to him in seven years. For the most part, this hasn’t scarred me too much. I’m comfortable with my sexuality. However, it’s very painful for me to think about what happened. I also avoid having sex with someone on top of me, because it reminds me of what happened and I start panicking. I want some closure so I can move on with my life. I don’t want to report him to the police because it’s not necessary — it happened so long ago. As far as I’m concerned, it wasn’t rape. But I
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SAVAGE by Dan Savage do feel like I was exploited, and it was not consensual. I want to contact him and ask him to apologize because I feel a sincere apology would help me get over this. The problem is that he lives on the other side of the country, and I have no way of contacting him besides looking him up on Facebook. I don’t think FB is the right place to talk about this, but it’s not possible to talk in person. How can I get in touch with him in a way that’s appropriate without having to see him? —Would’ve Said No Dear WSN: Let’s game this out. While it’s possible your ex-boyfriend did this on purpose — he knew you wouldn’t agree to it, he went ahead and did it anyway, you feel violated because you were violated — it’s also possible that this was an accident. I’m not excusing his behavior, particularly the nonconsensual boob groping, but as a former 14-year-old boy myself, WSN, I feel obligated to
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speak to him about this — on Facebook or face-to-face — you’re unlikely to get the apology you want. Ask yourself how you’ll feel if he responds to your request for an apology with GIFs of people laughing their asses off. If the answer is “infinitely worse,” don’t contact him. P.S.: Two more tips to avoid feeling worse: Don’t go to the police with this and stay out of the comments. This week on the Savage Lovecast, Dan chats with the amazing Mistress Matisse about where kink comes from, fantasy BDSM versus nonconsensual abuse, and how to meet a kinky mate. All at savagelovecast.com. His newest book — American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics — has been called one of the best books of May by Amazon.com, and Publishers Weekly says its’s one of the best books of the summer. And it comes out this week. Look for American Savage in bookstores now! Send your questions to mail@savagelove.net, and follow Dan on Twitter @fakedansavage. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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lthough I’m generally encouraged about the rules and regulations passed by the Colorado Legislature to regulate marijuana like alcohol this month, the rule that still bothers me allows a jury to infer that someone whose blood level shows five nanograms of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) per milliliter to be impaired or intoxicated. Nobody is arguing that there shouldn’t be some way to determine impairment. Nobody wants intoxicated drivers on the road. The rub is in this particular method. The law-and-order contingency says blood-level tests are necessary tools to help identify intoxicated drivers. What can be wrong with that? In a column a couple of weeks ago I discussed studies that many lawmakers seemed to have overlooked while preparing this regulation, and a Boulder Weekly reader asked a couple of pertinent questions in response. 1) Can someone tell me exactly how much cannabis would it take to register 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood? Even just a range would help, e.g.: one puff, five, 10, 15 puffs off of a plain glass pipe? 2) Is there any correlation between amount smoked vs. height/weight vs. time of initial use of user? The simple answer is that there is no way to tell exactly how many puffs are going to put you one toke over the 5 ng/ml line. THC concentrations are vastly different for each particular strain, so height or weight won’t make much difference. The standard study on THC blood levels was done by Skopp and Potsch, who found that when marijuana is smoked, THC levels peak rapidly and immediately in the first few minutes after inhaling, often to levels above 100 ng/ml in blood plasma, but then decline quickly to single-digit levels, usually within an hour. “High THC levels are therefore a good indication that the subject has smoked marijuana recently,” the researchers conclude, adding that THC can remain at low but detectable levels of 1-2 ng/ml for eight hours or more without any measurable signs of impairment in one-time users. For oral ingestion, they found that “instead of peaking sharply, THC rises gradually over a couple of hours to a plateau of around 2.5-5 ng/ml in
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tration of THC in the bloodstream comes immediately after you smoke, but the highest level of impairment comes 20-40 minutes after using — and as THC blood levels are dropping precipitously. And since blood tests would be done later, the blood-test levels won’t remotely resemble those at the time of the incident. “This would be the equivalent of lining up three tequila shots, and after the first shot a person would have their BAC be .15 then after three shots it would be 0.02,” Armentano says. Given those properties, a higher nanogram per milliliter standard probably won’t work, either. And let’s not forget that the U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the same that last week asked for a lower standard for alcohol intoxication, warns clearly and absolutely that “it is not advisable to try and predict effects based on blood THC blood.” concentrations alone.” So you can probably expect to have a blood level of Perhaps it can be argued that some law needed to be more than 5 ng/ml if you take a few puffs of marijuana in place in order to regulate marijuana like alcohol. and then get in your car and start driving. Meanwhile, we can certainly expect challenges to this But are you impaired at that point? And will law one from medical marijuana patients who are already enforcement be able to prove it? Here’s where it gets driving but are not necessarily impaired, and probably tricky. Dr. Don Misch is assistant vice chancellor for health many others, too. Perhaps it can be argued that some law needed to be and wellness at the University of Colorado Boulder. As he explains it, alcohol metabolizes in the body in a pretty in place in order to regulate marijuana like alcohol. Meanwhile, we can certainly expect challenges to this linear, detectable way, enough so that you can look backone from medical marijuana patients who are already wards and determine that if your blood is at a certain driving but are not necessarily impaired, and probably level when the test is taken, it would have been higher a many others, too. (At press time, Colorado resident couple of hours earlier. Brandon Baker is suing to block the bill. “I don’t feel Many people assume that there must be a similar blood level that would determine marijuana impairment. they’re about getting impaired drivers off the road,” he But THC metabolizes in a completely different way from told the Associated Press. “I feel it’s more of a law to alcohol. “It’s not linear, and it’s often stored in fat, so the infringe on a selected group of people.”) The real answer is that we need to keep searching for numbers are not as meaningful as with alcohol,” Misch says. Someone who smokes medical marijuana might not a better way to measure marijuana driving impairment. Just because this one doesn’t appear to work doesn’t mean be impaired at all at 5 ng/ml, but an occasional or new it can’t be done. Responsible cannabis use means you user might be seriously impaired even at a lower level. Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML, takes shouldn’t drive impaired. In Colorado, especially with this it a step further, explaining that, again unlike alcohol, the new law coming into effect soon, the only safe thing, if peak effects of THC lag well behind the time when your you’re smoking, is not to drive afterwards. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com blood levels are highest. So the period of highest concen-
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