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Gross Reservoir expansion environmental impacts grossly understated

Certainly the proposed tripling of Gross Reservoir’s capacity threatens water supplies and stream/riparian habitats in western Colorado, many southwestern states, and even Mexico.

But the consequences right here in Boulder County are also serious [Re: “Proposed water diversion and Gross

Reservoir may trigger all-out water war,” Cover story, May 1]. One might expect that an 11,000 page Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that took four years to prepare would be serious and comprehensive. It is not.

In commenting on the Draft EIS four years ago, we noted that it didn’t mention the extraordinary chinook winds that blow from the Divide down

through Nederland to Rocky Flats, which would make dust pollution during dam construction far worse than would be addressed by the generic fugitive dust mitigation proposed. The response of the Final EIS: “wind data are not as available” as other weather data near Gross; the nearest stations are Rocky Mountain Airport in see LETTERS Page 8

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Highroad Corporate lobbyists challenged by a growing ‘Populist lobby’

by Jim Hightower

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magine a headline blaring, “An Army of 1,500 Lobbyists Swarms Capitol Hill.”

But that wouldn’t be news, since it happens every day. In fact, an occupying army of Gucci-clad corporate lobbyists is permanently encamped in Washington, numbering not a mere 1,500 — but more than 12,000. Yes, that works out to nearly 22 lobbyists for every member of the House and Senate,

and they come armed with explosive levels of campaign cash to keep lawmakers toeing the corporate line.

Yet, on April 28, the headline I mentioned should’ve been a news story, for on that Monday our corporate-coddling congress critters were startled to be greeted by a very different army of “lobbyists.” This one did not come from the infamous K-Street corridor of corporate lobbying firms, but from your town and mine, armed with a decidedly un-corporate agenda.

They are part of the growing majority of Americans who’ve been knocked down by the low-wage economy — an intentional inequality being imposed on working (and non-working) families by Wall Street, corporate chieftains, and their congressional enablers. To the surprise of those clueless elites, however, workaday Americans — even the lowest-paid and supposedly least-powerful — are not going to be passively herded

For more information on Jim Hightower’s work — and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown — visit www.jimhightower.com.

into that plutocratic future. To the contrary, they’ve been organizing, strategizing and mobilizing, and the April contingent of 1,500 that went to Congress as the “Populist lobby” are members of three fast-growing, grassroots groups: National People’s Action, National Domestic Workers Alliance, and the Restaurant Opportunities Center.

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked. People know they’re being kicked — and they’re simply not going to take it.

To keep up with (or to join) the grassroots rebellion, go to www.npa-us.org.

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by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby

Labor dispute may push shuttle drivers’ pay below poverty line

by Dave Anderson

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f you’ve had an early morning In doing so, SuperShuttle has shifted, flight from DIA, you might have in its own words, ‘hard to manage varigotten a ride to the airport with able costs from the company’ to the SuperShuttle. Everything seemed drivers, making ‘gross profits more stanormal. The driver came to your ble and predictable.’” door and was helpful and friendly.

Judy Robertson, head of franchising What you didn’t know is that, for five at the company, says, “We offer an years, the drivers have been in a fierce opportunity to independent business fight against a humiliating system of people who want to be in business for indentured servitude. themselves a solid foundation, a good In 2009, 94 drivers began organizcompany, association and the means ing for a union after Denver with which to be successful.”

SuperShuttle brought on many new That is nonsense. The job is a trap, employees, a move that reduced the not an opportunity. take-home pay across the unit. Drivers A SuperShuttle driver has a lot of had to work expenses — he has 60-hour weeks and to buy or lease his van and pay insursix to seven days ance on it. There is each week to coma hefty payment to pensate. They HAS SHIFTED, IN ITS become a franchijoined OWN WORDS, ‘HARD see. He can’t afford Communication TO MANAGE VARIABLE paying that up Workers of front so he pays a America (CWA).

COSTS FROM THE regular fee at a Al Kogler, the COMPANY’ TO THE high interest rate.

CWA organizing DRIVERS, MAKING There is a weekly coordinator, notes system fee (wheththat it took two ‘GROSS PROFITS er he works or not) years before the MORE STABLE AND workers could for using the PREDICTABLE.’” vote. In the meanSuperShuttle resertime, he says the vations and equip— EMMA SCHWARTZ, company fired ment as well as fees WASHINGTON POST union leaders that SuperShuttle without cause, charges him for instituted harsh customer discounts disciplinary actions, or additional bookmanipulated the National Labor ing fees from third-party Web sites.

Relations Board (NLRB) proceKogler says the company makes dures, made unilateral changes to the more money from their drivers than conditions of employment and tripled from the passengers. driver fees.

In addition, since they are “indepenBefore the drivers could vote on dent contractors,” SuperShuttle doesn’t union representation, they had to go have to pay payroll taxes, reimburse for before the NLRB to argue that they business expenses incurred while perwere employees and not “independent forming the job, or make payments contractors.” under workers’ compensation, unemWashington Post reporter Emma ployment insurance, disability insurSchwartz explains: ance, and Social Security. The company “Once, drivers of this ubiquitous doesn’t have to comply with minimum blue-van airport shuttle service were wage and overtime laws or provide meal full-fledged employees, earning a modperiods and rest breaks. erate (and dependable) hourly wage.

Independent contractors can’t form But over the past 13 years SuperShuttle a union either. Fortunately, the Denver has transformed its cadre of drivers into regional office of the NLRB ruled that so-called franchisees — what the company calls independent business owners. see SHUTTLES Page 11

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Broomfield and Mountain Research Station near Ward. Huh? Has the Army Corps of Engineers not heard of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), or NOAA’s Boulder Labs, or the Denver/Boulder Weather Bureau, located just 5-to-6 miles from Gross Reservoir? They archive wind data back decades online. Needless to say, analysis of high wind threats in the Final EIS is wholly lacking.

Another example: local residents wonder how much worse the truck and car traffic will be on the local, narrow, twisting, often dirt roads in the neighborhoods. To make that estimate, the Corps would need to know the current traffic volumes on those streets. But they can’t do it, the Final EIS says, because “no traffic volume data exists for county roads.” Huh? Try googling “Boulder County CO traffic volumes” and the first link is to a map showing traffic volumes on many county roads, including Gross Dam Road.

Finally, the Gross expansion project clearly violates the purposes of Forest Service plans for this region emphasizing large animal habitat (e.g. a major elk migration route) and the Boulder County Comprehensive Plan, which specifies two major “Environmental Conservation Areas” (ECAs) surrounding the north side of the reservoir. But the Final EIS dismisses the relevance of the Hawkin Gulch/Walker Ranch/ Upper Eldorado Canyon ECA saying “it would not incur impact” from the project because it is “located below the dam.” Huh? Much of it lies at elevations above the reservoir, including

Twin Sisters peaks, which tower 1,500 feet above Gross.

People need to object to the incompetence of this EIS treatment of sensitive lands in rural parts of Boulder County by responding to the Corps (Google “Army Moffat”) by June 9, when the public comment period closes.

Clark & Y Chapman/Nederland

I’m for Emma

I have known Emma Hall for many years, and I know that she has devoted her life to raising the level of professionalism, organization and careful investigational capacity of office of the Coroner in Boulder County.

Emma’s compassion is reflected in the 24 hours she performs her job and devotes her life to our community and to law enforcement. It is a tough balancing act to respect the need for confidentiality in law enforcement investigations, with the needs of families suffering the most critical grief of their lives.

She has been actively involved in many aspects of elder justice in Boulder County, working determinedly to insure that deaths of elders that may reflect neglect or exploitation are viewed carefully — precisely because of her compassion for those who may have suffered.

Emma Hall has worked tirelessly to raise the bar on the Coroner’s office and involve herself in this community — benefiting each of us in ways that see LETTERS Page 11

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SCIENCE EDITOR: FOX NEWS CUT CLIMATE CHANGE CONVO If you’re an expert science journo, you just might appear on Fox News’ Fox & Friends to opine about all things futuristic, like Google’s robot cars, gene therapy and how we’ll all be traveling in spaceships one day. Just don’t bring up climate change. That’s what Michael Moyer, an editor for Scientific American, learned last week. Asked what tops his crystal-ball-gazing list beforehand, he told a show producer “climate change.” That’s apparently not a good subject in Foxland.

“I was told to pick something else,” Moyer alleged in a tweet. Undaunted, he went on air and mentioned the gorilla in the future’s room anyway, but when he saw the segment, mentions about climate change were gone. And... commercial.

That led Moyer to tweet, “I kinda feel like I should take a shower.”

Hosts from the show definitely read tweets, and were in near-histrionic form the following day chiding Moyer for being humorless and ungrateful.

“He stabs us in the back!” one host claimed. Moyer blogged up a retort, citing a study that found that, “in general, Fox hosts and guests were more likely than those of other networks to disparage the study of climate science and criticize scientists.”

Why appear on Fox in the first place? “I did go on the show to discuss the other topics, because they are genuinely interesting and I love to share cool science with whomever will listen,” he wrote.

RACISM IN COLORADO AND BEYOND If you thought allegations of racism are a thing of the past, look no further than recent headlines. Exhibit A: Donald Sterling, the uberwealthy Los Angeles basketball team owner caught on tape telling his former girlfriend “don’t bring black people” to the games. For that, Sterling, the owner of the Clippers, was banned for life from the National Basketball Association.

Exhibit B: Comments made by Colorado state Sen. Mary Hodge, of Brighton, decried as “ignorant” and “racist” in a Facebook post by fellow Democrat, Rep. Joe Salazar of Thornton. The claim came after Hodge delivered the key vote in killing a proposal to provide Native American college students with instate tuition. At issue: Hodge’s comments to Indian Country Today Media Network.

“I don’t know how long we can make reparations [to Native Americans] or how far we’d have to go back,” she said. “I guess my point is we can’t fix what we did.” Hodge has not been banned from the Legislature.

Exhibit C: Don’t call your dopey friend a Neanderthal to win an argument.

Not only are you committing a fallacy in the art of argument known as ad hominem (Latin for “make everyone laugh at your opponent instead of addressing the matter at hand”) you are also mischaracterizing Neanderthals. University of Colorado Boulder researcher Paola Villa says the primitive people were not cognitively inferior, as long thought: “Researchers were comparing Neanderthals not to their contemporaries on other continents but to their successors.”

Now who, we ask, are the dimwits? We’re left looking at a long line of caveperson scholars (with the exception of Villa [but only if he’s right]).

THIS WEEK IN NEW JERSEY’S ‘QUALITY OF LIFE’ Lately, we haven’t heard a peep from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. He’s the guy who skewered Colorado for its “head shops” and pot tourism; for being a place that’s “not the quality of life” he envisions for his Garden State. Given the boasting, we admit we’ve been staring at Jersey, even though we don’t want to, just to see if we can find a hint of a pang of jealousy. Still waiting. We learned a few things, including that Christie’s state is 32nd of 50 when it comes to business and careers, according to Forbes (Colorado is 5th). And the students in Jersey seem, for lack of a better term, as pissy as their governor. Sixty-three Jersey high school students were arrested for urinating down the hallways in a revolting prank that shocked authorities’ 1950s-ish sensibilities about what makes a prank a good one.

“When you’re doing something lighthearted, that’s one thing,” Ken Trump, a New Jersey school safety advisor told The Los Angeles Times. “When you’re talking about urinating and breaking into an alarmed structure, that’s another.”

But don’t judge Jersey too fast. A couple of kids in Boulder made headlines after zinging rocks at some fuzzy-headed, groggy-looking defenseless ducklings, prompting a commando rescue by a heroic resident and the Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Lesson: Some lame ducks can be loved.

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don’t always touch our lives, but protect and serve our community in a critical area. She deserves to continue her exceptional, careful work.

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Municipalize Internet, too

The FCC’s decision to abandon “net neutrality” has convinced me that communities, including Boulder, need to start building and managing their own high-speed networks. Not only for prices, but to ensure that the

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Denver SuperShuttle drivers were employees. (The ruling didn’t apply to SuperShuttle drivers elsewhere in the country.)

In October 2011, 95 percent of the drivers voted for representation with CWA. They began negotiating with the company in 2012. During this time, Kogler says SuperShuttle retaliated against workers who spoke out for the union with such things as changed work assignments and shift bids.

Crucially, a leading negotiator for the union was fired.

Nevertheless, he says that twothirds of an agreement was worked out but they got stuck on economic issues.

In October of last year, management presented their “last, best and final offer.”

It was put up to a vote and rejected by 93 percent of the drivers.

On March 17 of this year, the company unilaterally ended the bargaining and imposed a first contract.

The CWA went before the NLRB and argued that this action violated federal labor law.

On April 28, the NLRB responded favorably.

Kogler says this contract amounts to a 30 percent cut in pay and will push many drivers below the poverty line.

“They work very hard and don’t complain about that,” Kogler says.

“Most of them are immigrants. Eighty percent are Ethiopians and 10 percent are North Africans and Egyptians.”

The drivers want respect, don’t want to live in poverty and want some control over their lives. Is that too much to ask?

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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Internet continues to be a level playing field for small innovators. Given the density of technology startups in the Boulder area, we should have a particular interest in supporting equal access.

At heart I’m a free-market capitalist, and generally don’t have much faith in the ability of government to provide quality services as good prices. I oppose Boulder’s municipalization of electricity, largely because none of its supporters in city government are willing to

bet their own jobs on its success. I hope I’m wrong, but I expect prices to go up, and nobody on city council will say “my fault” and resign.

But energy monopolies are sufficiently regulated to avoid abuse.

Thanks to the FCC’s decision, that is no longer true of internet providers.

Therefore the only option is to give the monopolists (which they effectively are) some competition, and given the economics of data networks, government is the only entity that can afford

to do that.

There are some caveats. A municipal network should, like long distance phone networks, be open to any provider that wants to offer internet plans. It should be structured to prevent institutionalizing a bloated, subscriber-funded job bank (c.f.

Massachusetts Turnpike Authority).

And existing operators should be welcome to continue operating, without any passive-aggressive obstructionism.

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Imagining the ‘unimaginable’

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ast week the quiet town of Waseca, Minn. narrowly avoided becoming “one more in a long list of school shootings” (I will come back to this language of the CNN report). A boy, 17 years old, had plotted to kill his family and bomb the town’s junior and senior high school, to “kill as many students as possible” and then be killed by a SWAT-team. Thank God a neighbor caught on to his suspicious behavior and called the police. It turns out he had already planted a couple of crude bombs in neighborhood playgrounds that, by grace or good fortune, did not go off.

Throughout the coverage of the boy’s nick-of-time arrest, the expression used by one police officer became a refrain: We have averted an “unimaginable tragedy.” But the problem is, it was all too imaginable.

Teenagers in particular — though not they alone — spend more hours consuming media than they ever spent in school, more than they spend hanging out with friends or in any kind of human interaction. This would be harmful even if the content of those media were not so disturbing, so damaging to the human image. The choice seems to be violence, sex or both (and sex, the loveless way that it’s presented in most of these formats, is just another form of violence). By contrast, most examples of a potentially uplifting alternative, where human beings are presented with dignity and their connectedness acknowledged — the wouldhave-been reality check on all this alienating stuff — are sappy and unrealistic.

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Our ancestors would sometimes listen to war epics at an annual festival, but we are putting the fire of artless violence in our minds upwards of five hours a day.

Once we’ve made violence imaginable, and for some an idée fixe which at some point they can’t help acting out, we also make sure the tools of violence are readily available. Anyone can learn how to make a bomb on the internet; we have become a nation armed against itself, full of people who harbor weapons in a desperate attempt to find some meaning and some security — which, as we almost saw yet again last week in Minnesota, has the opposite effect.

And so for this 17-year-old, who idolized the mass murderers of Virginia Tech, Columbine and Newtown, such violence was all too imaginable. And for how many others? In a nation where CNN can almost off-handedly refer to “one more in a long list of school shoot-

ings,” how can children feel safe in their schools? And if they cannot feel safe, how can they learn?

On the whole, I think we would almost be better off not even hearing about those massacres; but that is not what I’m advocating. Of course we have to read about these horrors; but we also have to learn from them. And from the relentless scientific studies that show how media violence and, for that matter, the mere image of weapons, makes people more aggressive. And, for that matter, from our own experiences.

When I was very young, and had already seen my share of cowboy and gangster movies, I had a bad dream one night that I was being chased by a fiendish giant. But I somehow had a gun, and turning around I frantically pulled the trigger. Nothing. Click, click.

It was a dud. At that point I woke up, but I remember to this day how I would have given anything in that dream moment for a gun that worked. So I sympathize with the fears of gun owners, and I can sympathize with the hunger of television and movie viewers, with video game players who may be seeking some excitement from the drab realities of everyday life or giving themselves the feeling that violence will make them strong and protected.

But the difference is, I woke up. I call out to gun lobbyists and gun buyers, to movie producers and viewers of media where the human image is degraded and mayhem extolled, to wake up from their nightmarish fascination with violence.

Maybe a kind of awakening is beginning. Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is setting up a $50 million fund to counteract some of the political muscle of the National Rifle Association, which is an interesting first step. But most politicians, when in office, are apparently unprepared to listen to this kind of reason. When that happens it is opportune to start small — simply don’t expose yourself to violent media and try to live in trust instead of fear. We make a difference as individuals, and we must make our difference in the right direction.

Michael N. Nagler writes for PeaceVoice, is professor emeritus at University of California, Berkeley, and President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. His latest book, The Nonviolence Handbook, is available from Berrett-Koehler publishers, San Francisco.

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Lyons Historical Society announces flood history project While it seems like none of us will ever forget last September’s flood that changed so many lives forever, the truth is our memories will fade and the facts will be lost along with the many amazing stories of fear, joy, sadness and heroism.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

The Lyons Historical Society (LHS) is on a mission to collect flood information from all those impacted by this historic event in whatever form it now exists. According to the Historical Society, their collection “will include: recorded stories, written accounts, emails, texts, photographs, newspapers, videos and artifacts.” In short, if it is about the flood in Lyons, they want to make it a permanent part of their collection.

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State investigation concludes birth anomalies not linked to a common cause such as oil and gas development Earlier this week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released the results of its investigation into 22 reported anomalies in unborn children in Garfield County.

The cases had been reported to CDPHE by two Glenwood Springs clinics, “A Woman’s Place” and “Women’s Health,” which found this relatively large number of rare congenital anomalies while examining prenatal ultrasounds of mothers living in various parts of Garfield county during 2013.

According to the CDPHE report, no common underlying cause for the birth anomalies could be determined.

According to the CDPHE’s May 2 press release regarding the report, Dr. Larry Wolk, department executive director and chief medical officer, said, “There is no state or federal registry of pre-birth anomalies that would show whether the cases referred to the department are greater or less than the number of cases occurring in the general population. While some may have expected the investigation would identify one or two risk factors that link these cases, no such link was found. It is natural to look at even a single birth anomaly and ask why. But sadly, birth anomalies do occur.”

The release went on to describe the state’s investigation. “Department epidemiologists looked at more than a dozen factors including each mother’s place of conception and current address; drinking water source (municipal and well); proximity to active oil and gas wells; proximity to each other; the age, health, and family history of the mothers; the mother’s use of medications, supplements, tobacco, alcohol, caffeine and other substances; each mother’s prior pregnancies and deliveries; and ethnicity. While there were different risk factors identified for individual cases, no pattern emerged to suggest a common risk factor for the reported anomalies.”

Following the research released earlier this year out of the University of Missouri, which found endocrine disrupting chemicals in Garfield County ground and surface water in areas near where oil and gas industry spills had occurred, many area residents had voiced their concern that the anomalies could have been the result of oil industry contamination.

In many areas of Colorado where oil and gas development including hydraulic fracturing has become a major controversy, the CDPHE is viewed skeptically by activists who believe it is merely doing the bidding of Governor John Hickenlooper, a major supporter of the oil and gas industry. For that reason it seems unlikely that the state’s investigation into Garfield County’s birth anomalies will be the final chapter of this sad story.

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by Michael de Yoanna Eric Ewing stands outside the Noble Energy Inc. fracking site that’s starting operations across the street from his rural home in Weld County.

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is what Weld County’s Right to Farm Statement says: “Weld County is one of the most productive agricultural counties in the United States, typically ranking in the top ten counties in the country in total market value of agricultural products sold. The rural areas of Weld County may be open and spacious, but they are intensively used for agriculture. Persons moving into a rural area must recognize and accept there are drawbacks, including conflicts with long-standing agricultural practices and a lower level of services than in town. Along with the drawbacks come the incentives which attract urban dwellers to relocate to rural areas: open views, spaciousness, wildlife, lack of city noise and congestion, and the rural atmosphere and way of life. Without neighboring farms, those features which attract urban dwellers to rural Weld County would quickly be gone forever.”

Those locally-cherished words describe to a T why Eric Ewing moved out of the Denver suburbs eight years ago to his tiny piece of paradise, a home nestled in the vast farmland of eastern Colorado. He’s not a farmer. He’s a stuffed shirt. He moved out here with his wife to raise their two kids on a little less than two acres amid the lazy hayfields, a symphony of birds, meandering cows and a picture-perfect view of the snowcapped Rocky Mountains. When he moved in to his home on County Road 40, east of tiny Gilcrest, he noticed the occasional oil and gas site. Most were relatively small and unobtrusive, sitting in fields. The sites were hazards to watch out for, referenced in the same breath of the Right to Farm Statement as agricultural equipment, irrigation ditches and territorial farm dogs.

Ewing, a human resources worker in Greeley a few miles from his home, never paid those beige-painted tanks and pipes much mind. They were quietly mining the rich oil and gas deposits of the enormous Wattenberg field that spans beneath his house for miles in every direction.

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Ewing says. “I’m not debating that.”

As a Republican, Ewing supports oil and gas development. But his views on how and where that development should take place have changed as the oil and gas economy has boomed in Colorado. Over the years, the operations around Ewing’s home have grown. The clatter of machinery, hum of engines and smoke spewing from towers are slowly driving his family “kinda crazy every day,” he says. The latest nuisance is right outside his living room window: a hydraulic fracturing operation that’s ramping up operations in the field catty-corner to his home.

In March, when drilling began at the Noble Energy Inc. site, the Ewings were stunned.

“You could feel the pulsating in here,” Ewing’s wife, Cokie, says, motioning with her hands in her living room. “The entire house was shaking — day and night.”

Ewing called Noble Energy, as he has often in recent weeks, to complain. The company knows Ewing well, and has attempted to deal with his concerns at various stages as the site grows. But whatever remedies the company offers, they never seem to be enough.

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The view from home: Noble Energy’s fracking operation starts up across the street from Eric Ewing’s house.

When the drilling was taking place at the site, the company offered to put the Ewing family up in hotel.

“They said they would pay for us to stay in, I think, a Holiday Inn Express in Greeley,” Ewing says. “I had to laugh. That’s where all the oil and gas workers stay, too.”

Though he appreciated the effort, the offer wasn’t enough. What Ewing really wanted was for the drilling to quiet down. So he and his family retreated into their basement, sleeping there as drilling droned on.

“Think about what we were being asked to do,” Ewing says. “We couldn’t pick up our entire life and move away to a hotel while drilling was going on for days. My wife works from home. Everything she needs is in her home office. We have children and pets. Our lives are here.”

Eventually, Ewing turned to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the state agency that “promotes the exploration, development and conservation of Colorado’s oil and gas natural resources” while aiming to “prevent and mitigate adverse impacts to public health, safety, welfare and the environment.”

In his complaint, Ewing claimed that for several days the noise emanating from the drilling made it impossible for his family sleep and eat, “causing health and mental stress and anguish.”

On March 31, at 6 a.m., Mike Leonard, a state inspector, came and performed a sound survey at Ewing’s home. “Results indicated that the drilling rig appears to be impacting the residence with noise,” Leonard wrote.

Asked via phone by Boulder Weekly whether a sound violation actually occurred or not, Leonard said the report, referenced online, “is what it is,” adding that the matter is in the “enforcement process,” meaning it could go to a hearing or result in an administrative order, including fines. Leonard was unable to say what the maximum fines might be, but critics have pointed out over the years that COGCC fines tend to be small or nonexistent.

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the industry’s attention.

In February, when Ewing complained to the commission about trash from the site, an inspector found containers had been left uncovered. In that case, the inspector told Noble to cover them in the future.

Sean Casper, lead operations landman for Noble, says the company is aware of Ewing and working with him on such issues.

“We try to be in frequent, close contact with Eric,” Casper says.

The company, he adds, has a mitigation plan for the site with a goal of minimizing the impacts of “dust, traffic, noise, visual impacts and a litany of other things.”

Casper declined further comment, deferring to a public relations expert at Noble. That person could not be reached by deadline.

This kind of trash didn’t used to be on County Road 40. It’s a rutted country road where, in the past, mostly farmers in their pickups and ATVs traveled.

Now, with each passing day, Ewing says it feels more like he’s living in the city he left behind.

“All I hear are trucks coming down the road,” he says, pausing as a semi truck rumbles by his home, loose chains clanging on its empty flatbed trailer that’s bouncing along the washboard road, kicking up dust.

He watches as its engine growls, leaving a puff of black smoke wafting over his yard. “Like that! It’s like that all day now,” he says just as a dump truck rounds the corner in front of his yard, followed by a black SUV. Traffic could get worse, he fears. Noble’s site is approved to include a water station with as many as 10 20,000-gallon water tanks to support fracking operations. “Hauling hours (truck trips to and from the facility) shall be 24-hours a day, seven (7) days a week,” state Weld County planning department documents filed in care of A&W Water Service Inc., which is slated to service the site. “The maximum number of trucks utilizing the site is 100 roundtrips per day.”

That’s a staggering number to Ewing. “Onehundred trips!” he says. “Think about that.”

When is rush hour? Will trucks be driving by at 3:30 a.m.? Ewing has so many questions.

“And I’m not getting all the answers yet,” he says.

“It seems that they can come whenever they want.”

Based on what he’s seen so far, Ewing isn’t optimistic about what’s to come. The commercials with happy families saying they are glad to see fracking near their homes don’t exactly resonate. He didn’t think an operation would look like this.

“Is a fracking site meant to be this close to a house?” he asks.

When Weld County Commissioners approved the site, they asked for plans to “address the impacts and attempt to ensure compatibility with the surrounding area” including a screening/sound barrier plan. Those measures have come, so far, in the form of tarps supported by poles and bound hay bales, stacked in blocks around part of the site.

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The Ewing family slept in their basement to escape the rumble of drilling operations across the street from their home.

The barrier might be helping, Ewing says, but it has done little to make the site less annoying. When drilling took place, for instance, the top of the scaffolding was visible over the top of the tarp.

“It was like the county just handed it over with a few easy expectations,” Ewing says. “I’m left with the day to day. On some days, it’s just me and the land man from Noble looking at each other across the road.

And I’m saying, ‘This won’t work’ or ‘That won’t work’ and it’s like they just keep going along with business. I understand it’s millions of dollars to them, but this is my home.”

Weld County Commissioner Douglas Rademacher, who represents District 2 where Ewing lives, is a fourth-generation farmer in the area. He’s also watched the oil and gas industry evolve in the region.

“We’ve had some of the first wells in Weld County drilled on our property so we’ve had to work with the industry for a long time and the working relationship between the industry now versus what it was in the ’70s is night and day,” Rademacher says. “In the ’70s they came in and said where they wanted to drill that well and they drilled it regardless of your backlash or your complaints. They just did what they wanted to do. Today’s operators are much different. They can drill from a corner now and capture all the resources underneath that farm. And I will never take that negotiation away between the landowner and the industry. I don’t want to become a middle man in those negotiations. I don’t think the county — the government has no right be a middle man in there.”

There’s a balance that the county sees, Rademacher says, between those who own mineral rights, farms where operations are located and nearby residents. A lot of that balance has to be struck by the industry, he says. For instance, some fracking operations have more lighting that could be considered a nuisance than others and there’s no standard — not from the state or the industry — to regulate it. So Rademacher looks for good examples and hopes others will follow.

“They’re working all the time to better their industry, their standards and their operations, but obviously we’re still going to have people complain,” he says. “I realize that.”

What does Rademacher do about complaints?

“I’ll personally go out and look at the site and if the site is doing everything they can to mitigate it, it

is what it is,” he says.

But if that’s what it is, it’s not working well for Ewing. He says his conversations with the company have been difficult.

He’s not sure who to trust. He’s not sure what to do when problems that are supposedly solved resurface.

It’s not just noise and traffic that Ewing fears. It’s the stuff he can’t see, or, on the other hand, might be seeing in the form of a brownish, yellow haze on the horizon.

“It looks like pollution,” he says. “I just don’t know. I do know that sometimes I can smell a gas odor in the air.”

Ewing has had a scratchy throat often in recent months.

He’s felt dizzy after working outside. His daughter has a rash. None of those problems have been linked to pollution in the area, but Ewing is asking his doctor about it.

Studies have associated health-harming air pollutants with oil and gas operations. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found that emmissions associated with oil and gas drilling in the Weld County town of Erie were causing dangerous increases to ground-level ozone. Those results caused Erie to enact a moratorium on new drilling, triggering a wider battle over the science of pollution measuring. Erie reversed the ban after hiring Pinyon Environmental Inc., a Lakewood company.

The company concluded the health effects on lifetime residents would be “low,” stirring controversy.

Ewing knew of another study, one he saw in the headlines. The Colorado School of Public Health found an association between congenital heart defects in babies and the nearby presence of oil and gas operations. Some birth defects, according to the study, are up to 30 percent more common for babies whose mothers lived within 10 miles of natural gas wells.

“That’s what I worry about here,” Ewing says. “As the operations around me grow, I worry about my kids.”

But Larry Wolk, the chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, a state agency, has said the study, based on his agency’s data, was not conclusive.

“Overall, we feel this study highlights interesting areas for further research and investigation, but is not conclusive in itself,” Wolk said in a statement. “We agree there is public concern about the effects of oil and gas operations on health, including birth outcomes. While this paper was an attempt to address those concerns, we disagree with many of the specific associations with the occurrence of birth defects noted within the study. Therefore, a reader of the study could easily be misled to become overly concerned.

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one of their children might have had a birth defect. Many factors known to contribute to birth defects were ignored in this study.”

Critics of Wolk have responded by questioning his methods.

To add to the confusion, a bill in the state Legislature aimed to sort out such disputes by requiring an analyses of studies that explore the health effects of oil and gas operations was killed amid heavy opposition lobbying from Noble Energy, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., the Weld County Commissioners and others. Opponents of the legislation argued that studies would be redundant since Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment plays a role in overseeing oil and gas operations.

Ewing says he doesn’t know what to make about the debate. It’s common sense to be cautious when you see pipes burning fuel, exhaust smoke, dust and other pollutants around your house, he says.

“You only live once,” he says. “I know one thing by now: I don’t trust the oil and gas industry to tell me what’s healthy for me and my kids.”

Ewing’s fears multiply when he turns around in his yard. Just south of his house, he points to a large natural gas plant. In the opposite direction, about a quarter mile away, is another drilling operation. About a half mile on the horizon, next to an onion field, there’s another, spewing out gassy vapors that distort the image of Long’s Peak in the distance. Over a ridge, there’s a natural gas compressor station. A lot of this has popped up, or expanded, in recent years.

Ewing has also complained to the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission about another site: the DCP Midstream natural gas processing plant that’s behind his house. In a home video, Ewing filmed a flare being burned at the site during the night. It’s light pollution, he says.

“It also scares the bejesus out of my kids ages 3 and 5,” Ewing adds in an inspection complaint. “They scream ‘fire Daddy, fire’ and come running inside.”

Ewing has also filed complaints about noise from that plant, calling it a year-round nuisance.

He says he knows he’s developed a reputation as a grumbler. What does he say to his critics?

“I say to them, ‘How would you feel if you were me and my family?’”

And Ewing isn’t the only one complaining. In Greeley, parents have fought various proposals by Mineral Resources Inc. to drill up to 67 wells near Frontier Academy school. They’ve

won some concessions, but those who want no operations near the school are still fighting.

In Texas, a couple living on a 40-acre ranch in Texas was awarded $3 million by a local court after Aruba Petroleum drilled 22 wells within two miles of their home. The couple, who appeared in the Gasland 2 documentary, claimed that their property values plunged, their health was harmed and their water was contaminated. Aruba, which is appealing the case, has argued its operations were in full compliance with federal and state regulations.

Even as Boulder Weekly was investigated this story, Ewing was contacted by Bradford J. Gilde, the attorney in the Texas case who emailed him the message, “If I can be of assistance to you and your family, please let me know.”

Ewing says he has not yet contacted Gilde, but is considering retaining legal help.

He’s still talking to Noble, though, with senses of guarded optimism and despair. A voicemail from a company employee says operations are on hold.

“I do want to let you know we have put the frack operations on hold kind of indefinitely here so, you know, we’re kind of just sitting tight and trying to work some things on our end operationally, you know, with some mitigation stuff…” the employee said.

Casper, the landman for Noble, confirms that the project has been temporarily halted to work with Ewing.

He hopes they can find a way to coexist in his rural neighborhood, but Ewing is increasingly doubtful there is a way.

Asked about his house, Ewing tries to hold back tears.

“Sorry,” he says. “It’s just that this is my dream.”

And he feels that he is losing his grip on his dream. He wonders if the property value will fall. Ewing doesn’t own the rights to anything of value underground; he can’t turn his home into a fracking site. He jokes that if he did try to sell the place, maybe someone from Noble could move in.

“I could put up one of those signs that says, ‘If you lived here, you’d be home by now,’” he says with a laugh.

Thinking of the prospect of increased traffic at any hour of the day on any day, including the holidays, he wonders who’d be crazy enough to buy.

But for now, moving is not on the table.

“This is my family’s home,” he says.

“I’m defending it.”

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arth Guardians’ 14-year-old Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez waited five months and two delays to have the chance to address the members of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and the director of the Colorado Department of Natural Earth Guardians attended the April Colorado Oil and Gas Resources. When he finally got Conservation Commission his 20 minutes of time at the hearing to ask the state to stop issuing fracking permits. microphone, he got right to the point.

“I’m here to remind you of the failures the COGCC has had protecting the state of Colorado and the people of Colorado,” Martinez told the commissioners at their April 28 hearing.

Martinez spoke on behalf of his fellow Earth Guardians members, whose ages ranged from 9 to 15 and seven of whom attended the 2 p.m. do their job of protecting the people of Colorado hearing, following up on a 54-page petition submitand doing what is in our best interest, not the best ted by Earth Guardians to the Colorado Oil and interest of the fossil fuel industry.”

Gas Conservation Commission. The petition asked “He highlighted all the studies I had done in the the commission and Mike King, the director of the past only using the state’s data to show they’re not Colorado Department of Natural Resources, to susadequately prepared and equipped to allow more pend issuing permits that allow hydraulic fracturing permits to happen in the state of Colorado just (fracking) until the process can be completed withbased on their failures of the past,” Davis says. out adverse effects to human health and Colorado’s The issues with oil and gas development Davis environment. points to include that 43 percent of oil and gas oper“The petitioners are youth, who represent the ator spills in Weld County lead to contaminated youngest living generation of public trust beneficiagroundwater; that in 2009 a well casing failed in ries, and have a profound interest in ensuring that Weld County that contaminated a private landownthe climate remains stable enough to ensure their er’s well 1,000 feet away as well as Colorado’s largest right to a livable future,” the petition reads. aquifer; that the state has only 17 inspectors, 13 of Martinez’s presentation was based on data gathwhich are in the field at any given time, to inspect ered off the oil and gas commission’s own website 52,000 active oil and gas wells annually — a rate of with the help of well-known anti-fracking activist 4,000 per inspector per year — and 80,000 abanShane Davis, who has spent years compiling data on doned wells every five years. oil and gas development from the commission’s web“The single greatest failure that the state currentsite. ly has is that they don’t look at their old information, “It was really, really intense because I really called they don’t quantify or qualify their own failures to further protect the future and the environment of them out and I don’t think they were expecting it at tomorrow,” Davis says. “So I think it’s an epic failure all,” Martinez told Boulder Weekly a day after the hearing. “It was definitely calling them out on all the and it’s definitely in bad faith, in my mind. They use mistakes that they’ve made and how they’ve failed to adaptive management — they say, ‘Let’s wait for a

problem to happen and then we’ll figure out a way to fix it.’

It’s too late. It’s already failed at that point. So we basically had to counsel them and scold them but really educate them and try to empower [the commission] to say, if the COGCC is not providing you with the information of the past, showing you all of their failures, how can you make adequate decisions to allow permitting to go forward?

You can’t.”

During his presentation to the COGCC, Martinez cited Davis’s data on groundwater contamination, and asked, “How is that safe? How is that protecting the air, the water, the safety of the people? These are toxic, carcinogenic chemicals that are getting into the air that we breathe and the water that we drink.”

He also called the number of wells per inspector an “enormous fail,” cited studies from the Colorado School of Public Health connecting cancer incidence with individuals who live within half a mile of a well and showed photos of playgrounds and houses with oil and gas production equipment and condensate tanks looming nearby.

“The children of this state are being endangered because of your lack of responsibility when it comes to doing your job,” Martinez told the COGCC. “Two tons of hydrocarbon vapors every year, multiplied by the hundreds of thousands of these hydrocarbon vapor tanks, these industrial waste tanks that there are across the state, across the country, that is a major point source of pollution and you know it.”

Among his concerns about climate change and fracking, Martinez pointed out that it’s a process that requires millions of gallons of groundwater and releases methane, a greenhouse gas with a more potent effect on global warming than carbon dioxide.

“I’ll leave you with this, especially for you, Matt Lepore,” Martinez said concluding his presentation to the COGCC and directly referencing the commission’s director, “Everyone that has had your job before you has failed to protect the people of Colorado when it comes to natural gas extraction,

The youngest fractivists speak Young Boulder activist petitions oil and gas commission to stop issuing permits

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but you, all the people here in the room, commissioners, you have the responsibility, you have the opportunity to turn things around to make a better choice, to make a difference and be the commission that changes Colorado, that stood up for the rights of the children, that stood up for the rights of the people in these communities that are going to be impacted, to clean up the water and the air.”

He told Boulder Weekly, “I think it was really powerful — we got a really clear message across that we’re not going to sit idly by while they make decisions that threaten the survival of everyone here in Colorado.”

His presentation was followed by responses made by executives from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Air Pollution Control Division and Environment Epidemiology and Occupational Health section, the Department of Natural Resources’ Colorado Water Conservation Board, the Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation and Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, Colorado Oil and Gas Association and Colorado Petroleum Association.

“I was really impressed with his presentation,” Garry Kaufman, deputy director of the Air Pollution Control Division for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, told Boulder Weekly. “He’s very well spoken and certainly very passionate about the issue and I think he raised a number of good points. As I told the commission, it’s important that we all consider these issues, that there are impacts from oil and gas development and we need to have an open and honest discussion about that and I think the petition helps advance that dialogue. Again, we also need to look at all the facts and look at both sides when we’re considering what’s the best policy to make.”

During his response at the hearing, Kaufman pointed to new oil and gas regulations passed in February that expand the types of facilities for which air emissions regulations apply and push for low-bleed devices and tighter constraints on release valves.

“We estimated that approximately 93,000 tons of volatile organic compound emissions will be reduced a year, and VOCs, it’s kind of a host of chemical compounds anything from propane to butane to benzene to toluene, some of them are toxic, some of them are not, they’re all a concern with Boulder Weekly

respect to the formation of ground level ozone,” Kaufman says. The public health department estimated that the rules would also reduce methane emissions by about 60,000 tons per year.

“We’re still trying to figure out exactly what’s being emitted from the entire industry, but it’s a pretty significant chunk,” Kaufman says.

He also pointed to the state’s 2010 draft inventory on greenhouse gas emissions to put the oil and gas industry in context with other sources of greenhouse gases. According to that inventory, he says, vehicles, electric generation and residential, commercial and industrial fuel use are the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the state — about 76 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from the state, while oil and gas production accounts for 6 percent.

“There was a lot in the petition about how it was necessary to stop oil and gas production because of the greenhouse gas emissions, and I don’t dispute it’s part of the inventory and certainly we’re very interested in finding ways to reduce the impact, not only on the VOC side but also on the greenhouse gas side,” Kaufman says.

“If you’re going to take a comprehensive look at this issue, the climate change issue, really you need to look at all the sources and figure out what’s the best strategy to be employed to try to reduce emissions from those.”

Davis says he sees the math differently.

“Over 90 percent of all the fracking and the oil and gas operations in Colorado are for oil because the price of natural gas is so low that they’re just waiting for the price influx to go back up, they’ll flip the switch and then they’ll pull natural gas,” Davis says.

“Here’s the point: Now that they’re extracting oil, they’re just venting a lot of this natural gas or burning it off or both, just like North Dakota, I think the estimates were roughly one third of all the natural gas that’s encountered in these operations in North Dakota are being burned off, and if you’ve seen North Dakota, you know that it looks like it’s on fire because there are so many flares.

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I think that the Nobody knows health departand if they give ment has really you any number approached this Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, age 14, is the youth direc- from the perit’s absolute tor of Earth Guardians. bullshit, spective of, ‘We because they’re really don’t have not conducting the information good science.” that we need, so we need to make sure Michael VanDyke, Environment that we have the strongest controls Epidemiology and Occupational that we can implement in terms of Health section chief with the Colorado regulations,’ and I think CDPHE has Department of Public Health and done a pretty good job of implementing those regulations over the past few Environment, addressed the Earth years.”

Guardians’ statement of reasons the The most recent regulations — commission should grant the petition, those passed in February — are eviwhich included that the “science dence of that statement, he says. unequivocally shows that hydraulic “Even without the studies, you’re fracturing is adversely impacting proceeding down the line to really human health and impairing Boulder Weekly

news control the emissions to prevent possible health effects, even though we don’t know if those health effects are occurring or if they would occur,” VanDyke says.

But in response to Martinez’s presentation and the subsequent testimony from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on the fact that studies don’t exist or have limitations, Jake Matter, assistant attorney general for the state of Colorado and the counsel of record for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission’s lawsuit against Longmont for its fracking ban, asked, “Why haven’t those studies been done? Oil and gas has been being produced for a century and no public health agency has done these studies.”

He continued, “Even though I didn’t like it when Mr. Martinez was telling me I should be ashamed, this is something we should be ashamed of. I really have trouble with us hiding behind comments of limited value, many limitations, no studies exist, significant limitations, short period of time, inherent limitations. I have trouble with that. I have trouble with hiding behind our ignorance. And I would really, really, really like for our public health agency people to be fighting for me and my health.”

Davis, who personally cites health issues with migraines, palsy, a burning throat, nosebleeds and severe rashes, asks “What ever happened to the precautionary principle? That is good faith due diligence … to say let’s make sure this is safe before we put it out there. … I told the commission, ‘How can you say that this is safe when you have no objective science to prove it?’

Speculation is harmful. This is a really bad business model when you look at short terms gains and long term health effects. I lived in it. I had 75 wells around my house. I know what a nosebleed for a year and a half is like. They don’t.”

The Earth Guardians petition centers on the public trust doctrine, a principle that dates to the Roman empire and England’s Magna Carta that states that natural resources should be preserved for public use.

“The public trust doctrine does not apply to water quality, air quality or [greenhouse gas] emissions in the state of Colorado,” Jaime Jost, representing the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, said during the hearing.

The motion to put the petition in place was dismissed in a unanimous vote by the oil and gas commissioners.

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legal complications as an excuse to not take actions when you know they’re in the back pocket of the oil and gas industry,” Martinez says.

Davis told Boulder Weekly what he learned was that they really needed to take the petition to the legislature.

“The COGCC does not have statutory authority to allow this permit and this type of regulation change and the stopping of drilling permits to

happen,” Davis says. “Like I told Xiuhtezcatl when we were sitting there, ‘Just tell them we’ll be back, we’ll definitely be back,’ and it’s pretty sad that they wasted taxpayer money just to entertain us and to shoot us down by not telling us from the start that we were in the wrong venue.”

For his part, Martinez says, he’ll continue to organize educational events, demonstrations and petitions to

ban fracking.

“I think there’s a lot to move forward from here,” Martinez says. “The industry plans to drill another 100,000 wells in the next few years and they’ve already drilled 132,000, so what that’s going to look like for the people of Colorado, what that’s going to look like for the health of the people is really, really devastating.”

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Citizens question the validity of the utility’s six back-to-back rate increases since 2003

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recent report from Xcel Future report, the Colorado division’s payer,” says PUC spokesman Terry Energy detailing earnings pre-tax profits have grown from $316 Bote. on electric energy in million to $691 million between 2003 Bote says the commission created Colorado shows the utility and 2012. Weaver says the company the profit-sharing mechanism as a proexceed the maximum profit filed more than 700 million in pre-tax tection, for customers when the utility set by the Public Utilities Commission profits in 2013. exceeds their target profit.

(PUC) by more than 11 percent.

In a May 1 press release, Xcel When asked how he would respond Despite excess earnings for the company’s Colorado subsidiary, known as the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), a May 1 statement from Xcel says the utility plans to file for future electric rate increases in the state in 2015 and beyond.

Documentation compiled by local Xcel watchdog agency Empower Our Future shows that Xcel has asked for, and been granted, six back-to-back This graph, created by local energy watchdog group Empower our Future, shows that Xcel’s electricity rate increases since 2003. profits in Colorado have substantially increased even though sales and capacity have remained the same between 2003 and 2012.

With record profits in 2013 and the company’s plan to seek a seventh increase in 2015, acknowledged that as a result of their to criticism of the record profits stemsome citizens are raising questions last rate increase — a first-time, threeming from the multi-year agreement, about the validity of the utility’s year rate plan that set up tiered increas- Mark Stutz, a spokesperson for Xcel/ requests. es from 2012 to the end of 2014 — the PSCo, says that “it’s difficult to predict “I think the overall allocation of company has asked the PUC for persome aspects of our business in terms of profits for utilities probably needs to be mission to credit customers across the weather, in terms of what your expenses reviewed — are we setting up incentives state with $45.7 million. will be.” Stutz reiterates Environmental Entrepreneurs correctly so that we get the behavior we So beginning Aug. 1, Bote’s statement that want out of the regulated monopoly residential customers in the authorized profits that provides us with power?” says Colorado would see a from the multi-year setBoulder City Council member Sam $1.17 credit per month tlement were found to Weaver, who acted as the main author while small business be “prudent” by all parof the report from Empower our Future owners will see a $2.33 ties involved, and the prior to his election to Council last year. credit each month. profit-sharing mechaWeaver says he used federal 10-K The three-year nism had not been so financial filings and public reports from agreement raised rates by well defined in previous Xcel to compare the utility’s sales and a total of $114 million. settlements. generating capacity to their pre-tax “At the time that this Regarding the utiliprofits from 2003 to 2012. three-year plan was ty’s plan to file for future “When you look through the [U.S. approved, it was rate increases, Stutz says Securities and Exchange Commission’s] approved as part of a it would be the compa10-K forms where [Xcel/PSCo] file settlement agreement ny’s preference to have Sam Weaver says Xcel’s allocation of profits should be their peak capacity [in megawatts] and that was reached by another multi-year plan, reviewed. they files sales in terms of kilowatt pretty much every party “because we think hours, it’s pretty straightforward,” says in the case: Xcel, PUC they’re good for the cusWeaver. “Demand is not growing. Even staff, the [Office of ] Consumer tomer and good for the utility.” though they are not providing us with Council, a number of medium and large While Colorado’s Consumer additional sources of electricity or addi- electric consumer groups and trade Council — an advocate for customers tional capacity, Xcel is getting huge groups, and all of them agreed this was of electric, gas and telecommunications increases in profits.” a fair resolution to the case and providbusinesses — agreed to the multi-year According to the Empower our ed fair rates to the company and raterate increase plan, director Cindy Boulder Weekly

Schonhaut says it’s not in the public’s best interest.

“We don’t like multi-year plans in this office,” says Schonhaut. “We think [multi-year plans] allow for this opportunity to overearn and later keep some of [the excess profits] and then give refunds, which is not in the longterm consumer interest. [The longterm consumer interest] is to pay the right rate at the time they are billed.”

Weaver says that the system that governs the profit-making of the utility seems “a little broken” to him.

“And it’s really not simply Xcel’s fault. It’s a matter of [how] Xcel, PUC, and the state legislature has set up a series of incentives that allows Xcel to make increasing profits as it makes additional investments in generation faculties,” says Weaver. “Xcel has every incentive to build more whether or not additional generation is needed.”

The last coal-fired power plant built in Colorado, the Comanche 3 plant in Pueblo, was heavily criticized by environmental groups who questioned the facility’s impact on emissions and surrounding wilderness.

“The tragic part of all of this is that Xcel’s back-to-back rate increases during the worst economic crisis in a century have taken hundreds of millions of dollars from their ratepayers, including businesses both large and small as well as fixed and low-income ratepayers, to pay for a billion-dollar coal plant that never should have been built — a billion dollar toxic and polluting mistake that is rapidly becoming a stranded asset,” longtime Xcel watchdog Leslie Glustrom said in an email to the Boulder Weekly.

Xcel says that future rate increases in Colorado will go toward completion of infrastructure investments, “including the estimated $1 billion investment in the Colorado Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act,” which aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 28 percent.

Property tax expenses and “other cost changes” will also be covered by rate increases, according to the utility.

“If the legislature was doing to taxes what the PUC has been doing to electric utility rates, all hell would break loose,” Glustrom added.

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s has been reported on numerous occasions in Boulder Weekly over the past 18 months, local governments have been using excessive research and retrieval fees to thwart access to public records that are necessary for proper government oversight.

In the city and county of Boulder for instance, it is not unheard of to be quoted estimates of $1,000 to $7,500 just to get copies of or even access to some public records.

But a bill signed into law by Governor John Hickenlooper earlier this week could help to finally put an end to such abusive government tactics, tactics that are clearly in conflict with the intent of the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA).

HB 14-1193, which will take effect on July 1, 2014, was sponsored by Rep. Joseph Salazar (D-Thornton) and Sen. John Kefalas (D- Fort Collins) and requires all municipal, county and state governments to cap research and retrieval fees for public records at $30 an hour. It also requires that the first hour of research and retrieval must be free to anyone. This free hour is important because many CORA requests involve electronic searches of email that shouldn’t require an employee more than a few minutes to complete and therefore such searches should be free to the public going forward.

Previously, charges beyond staff ’s time for research and retrieval such as examination of all documents to be released by a city attorney were calculated into CORA estimates at rates as high as $275.00 an hour, often times with a one-hour minimum.

In a press release concerning the bill, Ethics Watch Director Luis Toro said, “It’s hard enough for Colorado citizens to stay informed about what our government is doing, and hefty fees threaten to make citizens and journalists stop asking questions. No longer can government use inconsistent and hefty fees to deter public scrutiny. In addition to noting that this was the right thing to do, we are also pleased

that people from all ends of the spectrum got behind access and transparency to make this CORA reform happen.”

The bill was supported by The Independence Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, Colorado Common Cause, the Colorado Press Association, Colorado Broadcasters Association and the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition.

In many — if not most — jurisdictions, Toro’s optimistic statement will likely prove an accurate assessment, but not everywhere to be sure. One would think that this new bill, coupled with Boulder’s enlightened city charter requirement that time spent on research and retrieval in response to public records requests be documented accurately and itemized, would end the city’s ability to restrict citizen and media access to public records. But that has not been guaranteed by the passage of HB 14-1193.

As reported previously in BW (see links at the end of this article), Boulder officials have been prone to making very high monetary estimates for research and retrieval and then charging exactly the estimated price without providing any proof of who spent how much time doing what. Even when such a breakdown of time spent has been specifically requested by BW in accordance with the city charter, no such breakdown has ever been provided.

Therefore, in Boulder and other locations in which governments have shown a propensity to roadblock open records laws, the new bill may still be rendered impotent. It’s only when elected city and county officials hold public employees accountable for providing accurate time reports for research and retrieval that actual change can occur. The bill is a good start, but it won’t stop dishonest municipalities from fabricating ridiculous charges byway of fraudulent overestimates of the time needed to produce records.

For additional BW stories on Boulder’s CORA problems go to: http:// tinyurl.com/as5vn2o, http://tinyurl.com/ ky5k8ue, http://tinyurl.com/ccf3tbl.

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sites, the majority of fish ou may want to across the region had conthink twice before centrations that were below frying up that most benchmarks associated batch of fresh trout from your with impaired health of fish, favorite Rocky Mountain wildlife and humans.” lake. Federal scientists say More research is need to they’ve found high levels of fully assess potential risks to toxic mercury in fish from human health and wildlife, many remote lakes and Eagles-Smith adds. streams around the West, “This is a wake-up call,” including Rocky Mountain says Flanagan Pritz. “We National Park. Brook trout need to see fewer contamiin Mirror Lake and fish in nants in park ecosystems, the Upper Colorado River especially contaminants like were among the most pollutmercury where concentraed. tions in fish challenge the A new federal study show toxic levels of mercury in fresh water fish from around the West, even in remote lakes and steams.

Mercury levels in some very mission of the national fish exceeded U.S. parks to leave wildlife mercury in small prey fish were espeEnvironmental Protection Agency based fishing guide Wallace Westfeldt. unimpaired for future generations.”

(EPA) health thresholds for potential “As a guide, it’s irrelevant, because it’s all cially concerning because the toxins get Mercury is generated during fossil more concentrated higher up the food impacts to fish, birds and humans, catch and release. ... I do harvest for my fuel combustion, volcanic eruptions and regionally even from mining activities. according to National Park Service and home, I do pick high-altitude locations.” chain. More fish should be sampled from those parks to assess ecosystem Atmospheric mercury levels have U.S. Geological Survey scientists. The Westfeldt adds that he wants to and human health risks, she says. increased at least three-fold during the study sites spanned 21 national parks in know more about the mercury contami10 western states, including Alaska, nation.

In a few spots, direct environmental past 150 years, and some ocean fish test including samples from 1,400 fish.

Only one fish from Yosemite impacts from the widespread toxic polpositive for potentially dangerous levels on a regular basis.

Only 5 percent of the sampled fish National Park had levels of mercury lutant are starting to show up, but the scientists said the biggest surprise was The widespread contamination had levels of mercury that are directly above the level at which no human conthe great variability in mercury levels across remote backcountry areas may toxic to the fish themselves. But in sumption is advised, but fish from Zion, from fish living just a few miles apart. seem surprising, but mercury warnings about one third, concentrations were Capital Reef, Wrangell-St. Elias, and Those findings suggest that site-specific are not new in Colorado, where the above a threshold putting sensitive birds Lake Clark national parks all contained chemistry are a key factor. state reports elevated levels of mercury at risk. sites in which most fish exceeded “We are we seeing toxological from popular Western Slope fisheries Mercury contamination is measured benchmarks for the protection of responses in some of those parks,” says by nanograms per gram of weight — human and wildlife health. In the Utah like Elkhead Reservoir, in the northCollin Eagles-Smith, U.S. Geological minute measures for an element that is parks, says Colleen Flanagan Pritz, west, and Rifle Gap Reservoir, where poisonous at microscopic levels.

National Park Service ecologist and co- Survey ecologist. “Although fish mercury concentrations were elevated in some See TOXIC TROUT Page 30 “It’s a surprise to me,” says Boulder- author of the report, concentrations of

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pregnant and nursing women are ment in fish and fish-eating advised to not eat any of the larger birds. walleye pike.

The average concentration of The bottom-up mercury conmercury in sport fish from two tamination is concentrated in topsites in two Alaskan parks exceedtier aquatic predators like pike. ed EPA’s human health criterion.

More information is available at Mercury levels in individual fish the state water quality website. at some parks from other states In all, there currently 20 fish including California, Colorado, consumption advisories posted at Washington and Wyoming also the state water quality website. exceeded the human health criteFor now, water experts say they rion. The other study states were have no plans to issue advisories Oregon, Montana, Utah, Nevada based on the new data from and Arizona.

Rocky Mountain National Park, so anglers won’t know if their What to do? favorite stream or lake is contamiMercury is so toxic that an nated. But more research could international coalition of more spur a state process that eventually than 95 public interest environleads to a warning. mental and health non-governMercury is a neurotoxicant.

The most common way humans are exposed to mercury is by eating fish containing methymercury, mental organizations from more Outbreaks of methylmercury poi- a neurotoxicant that can damage the brain, kidneys and fetuses. than 50 countries from around sonings have made it clear that the world was formed in 2005 adults, children and developing apparent pattern to the contamination, which reinby the European Environmental fetuses are at risk from ingestion exposure to mercury. forces the idea that site-specific chemistry and other Bureau and the Mercury Policy Project to reduce When mothers with no symptoms of nervous sys- local factors are critical. Reactions with other subanthropogenic mercury sources to zero — a huge tem damage gave birth to infants with severe disabilistances in the water changes the mercury to a form task, given all the potential environmental pathways. ties, it became clear that the developing fetal nervous that fish can ingest, Watry explains.

Reducing emissions will require a global effort on system is more vulnerable to methylmercury than is Mercury levels in most fish from Rocky par with the treaty that curtailed emissions of an adult’s nervous system.

Mountain National Park were below the risk bench- ozone-destroying chemicals several decades ago.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and marks used in the study, but brook trout from Talks under the auspices of the United National Prevention, exposure to high levels of mercury in Mirror Lake and suckers from the Colorado and Environmental Program are ongoing.

MANI/PEDI :: SKIN CAREIn October :: MAS 2013, international delegates agreed on the text of a humans may cause damage to the brain, kidneys, and Fall rivers showed concentrations likely to exceed global mercury convention, which has 97 signatures the developing fetus. Pregnant women and young chil- EPA human health limits at that could impair bird but only one full ratification. MANI/PEDI :: SKIN dren are particularly sensitive to the effects of mercury. breeding.

In the U.S., the Natural Resources Defense The most common way people are exposed to any Watry says mercury levels also varied from year Council tracks mercury issues, calling for stricter form of mercury is by eating fish containing methylto year at some sites, but not at others. All in all, EPA regulation of industrial emissions, including mercury. the data suggest that there should be follow-up power plants.

These industrial facilities are the secOther exposures include breaking products constudies to help characterize the potential mercury ond-largest source of man-made mercury emissions taining elemental mercury and using compounds that risks. in the United States. contain mercury. More information is available on the Scientists compared fish mercury concentrations New standards under consideration would cut EPA website. among sites within an individual park, as well as many tons of mercury each year, but industry is from one park to other parks, and identified areas fighting back. Standards for industrial boilers Local results with elevated mercury levels.

They also compared the mercury concentrations Scientists sampled 19 sites in Rocky Mountain adopted in 2013 face a legal challenge. As a result, in the fish to a range of health :: benchmarks includNational Park, where the average mercury concentrathere are currently no national limits on toxic air MANI/PEDI SKIN CARE :: MASSAGE :: PARTIES jloungespa.com • ing human health guidelines established by the EPA pollution from industrial boilers — and these stantions were lower than the statewide mean across all for fish consumption, and wildlife risk thresholds parks. Within the park, levels vary more than six-fold, dards are already almost a decade overdue.

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Before and after: A renewed pulse of life, and recreation, flows along Washington’s White Salmon River after the removal of Condit Dam in a scene from DamNation.

FILM ON DAMS AND RIVER HEALTH SCREENS IN DENVER Once a testament to human ingenuity, river dams are now more often cited as examples of human intervention gone too far in manipulating the natural world. We’ve begun to better understand the effects of dams on river ecology and fish populations and raise concerns about their effects on the life and health of rivers. DamNation, a documentary film, explores that evolution from the welcome the Hoover Dam received to the welcomed destruction of dams and the free flow of water that resumed.

Filmmakers piled into a van with a few cameras and a list of dams and began to stack up miles and interviews with various stakeholders in the issue, from Nez Perce elders to dam owners and politicians.

“As the miles, months and dams began to stack up, it soon became clear that our original vision of a year-long project would take much longer,” the directors’ statement reads. “We were hard-pressed to find a free-flowing watershed, and finding an intact fishery was impossible.”

The film made over what would become a three-year journey, an engaging and emotional one, screens in Denver at 7:30 p.m. May 14 at the Mayan Theater, Filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel, from Colorado, will attend the screening.

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teve House was seeking a better way to train after he was forced to turn back during his attempt at Pakistan’s Masherbrum, a 25,659-foot peak, in 2003. He’d had overtrained for the climb, according to Scott Johnston, who stepped in to provide some advice. Johnston shared concepts about training for climbing as athletes train for other sports — and House, hoping to find a way to avoid situations like Masherbrum, was open to it. He felt like he had reached a plateau in his climbing.

“He was never dictatorial in his advice or approach to coaching; he was always teaching,” House says. “And when I would go and try to learn more on my own, it only reinforced what Scott had taught me.”

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That advice on training is compiled climbing,” says Johnston. “Building by the two in their recently released their strengths not on the rock, but at book, Training for the New Alpinism: A completely different settings allowed Manual for the Climber as Athlete, which them to make pretty big steps.” lays out how a methodical training rouJohnston remembers a few who tine, like those used in more convenexcelled in his climbing generation tional athletic sports, can help a climber because of their gymnastic training, like improve climbing performance more Jim Collins. Collins, now known for his effectively than just climbing for Eva House/Courtesy of Patagonia training.

It could be said that they have rewritten the book on climbing performance, considering authors House and Scott strived to enlighten those fixated on the concept that more is better, addressed the misconception that climbing is the only activity that can improve climbing performance and showed climbers that weight lifting is not committing sacrilege. A few have said that their book is an updated and more extensive version of Mark Twight’s Extreme Alpinism, since they both support the concept that some climbs should be replaced with other training activities in order to improve overall climbing performance.

House and Johnston’s proposed training regimen to improve climbing performance involves running, strength-training and Author Scott Johnston running Rocky Mountain National Park. core-focused exercises, and it actually has Boulder roots.

Johnston started experimenting and absorbing training techniques here business publications, such as Built to in the ’70s.

Last, an exposé on the performance of He drew influences from fellow companies, is still an avid climber to climbers in the Boulder climbing scene this day. He celebrated his recent 50th in the ’70s who were setting high stanbirthday climbing the 3,000-foot dards through training.

“Nose” route of El Capitan at Yosemite “They were ahead of the rest of us Valley. Robert Candelaria, the current because they had developed a way to owner of Colorado Athletic Training train for climbing by not actually School, was another from that time

who was able to advance so quickly in climbing because of his gymnastic training background. Focusing his training on improving his climbing allowed Candelaria, teamed up with fellow climber Roger Briggs, to capture what’s touted as the first all-free grade five climb in Colorado by completing “Naked Danz” (5.11) in Eldorado Canyon in 1975. Candelaria was also able to take on the V12 bouldering problem, called the “Butt Slammer,” which is rightly named for its cringe-worthy landing, and was featured in Pat Ament’s A Climber’s Playground: A Guide to the Boulders of Flagstaff Mountain.

Ament, well known for accomplishing the frustrating “Right Hand Mantel” on Flagstaff after training himself using a one-armed mantel on a two-inch wide wood ledge on a wall, says this concept of using gymnastic skill to improve climbing ability was developed by Jon Gill in the ’50s, and allowed Gill and himself to make groundbreaking ascents at the time. The book Training for Climbing: The Definitative Guide to Improving Your Performance by Eric Horst also attributes Gill as being the first person to engage in highly regimented training for climbing. Even though Candelaria was the secondgeneration using gymnastic skill training to improve his climbing, he still received flack from the climbing community.

“I started setting new standards for myself, and I got accused of cheating,” says Candelaria. “People would say ‘Training like that is cheating,’ but that’s like saying since I study extra in the library to get a better grade, and that’s cheating, too.”

At that point, training for climbing off the rock was considered unconventional. There weren’t climbing gyms like there are today. Since even climbers who saw the benefits of training didn’t have the ease of just going to a rock climbing gym, some creativity was required when it came to training.

The Macky Auditorium provided just the right venue with a basement corridor with sandstone walls, nicknamed “The Pit,” Johnston says, where he would train by traversing back and forth across the walls. He considered it the place everyone went to train for rock climbing after work or school at the time. He noted how the climbing scene was more tightknit back then.

“We all kind of grew up together and knew one another,” Johnston says.

“Because it was small, and once you were inside of it, it was very collegial and close knit. [We] pretty much knew everyone in the climbing scene. When you would go to Eldorado Canyon you would know everyone.”

Even though Collins and Candelaria were among the first Johnston saw cross training with other activities to progress their climbing, the person most famous in his generation for this method was not from the Boulder climbing scene, but actually Tony Yaniro, made famous by his California accomplishments. In 1978, Yaniro conquered the world’s hardest climb at the time, the “Grand Illusion” route in Sugarloaf, California, with a rating of 5.13 b/c. To train for the climb, he built a few wooden crack simulators for his home, which allowed him to mimic some of the movements necessary to complete the climb. In the New Alpinism, one of Yaniro’s contribusee ALPINISM Page 34

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tions is a piano movers’ metaphor that illustrates how specific training, and training for efficiency produces the best results. In his example, when there were more movers who were untrained, they were actually less effective than fewer nmovers who really knew what they were doing.

House notes that he’s proudest of the contributions to the book, like the ones Yaniro made, along with contributions from other climbing greats such as Charlie Fowler, Mark Twight and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner.

“I’m proud of the essays that came in from other contributors because they contributed so much depth and richness to the book,” House says. “They brought history, experience, perspective that Scott and I alone could never replicate.”

House and Johnston might have used the contributions to show how well-known climbers have dealt with certain situations, but they had the hard task of determining what made the cut in the rest of the book. Both felt a responsibility to do the best job they could, considering they started developing the book after House received so many questions about what he did for training during his book tour for his Beyond the Mountain, which was about his personal experiences completing some of the most challenging climbs the world has to offer.

“In some cases, a single paragraph is relating knowledge it took scientists years to understand, so we had to make many judgments about how much to educate our readers,” House says. “Our difficulty was not so much to give them only correct information but to give them the right amount of information, so that they can self-coach and train themselves.”

In New Alpinism, the authors summarize scientific findings and research and show how these findings can be applied to climbing. The book provides sample workouts, including a maximum strength circuit workout that is comprised of frenchies, box step-ups, onearmed isometric ice ax hangs and overhead squats. The authors provide extensive nutritional information and sample training guides to get a climber started.

They also try to connect the dots for the reader when they describe how the body should be operating during different workouts and training, and how honing in on certain areas makes the biggest difference.

One of the important aspects they point out, which House experienced during his Masherbrum attempt, was making sure not to over train. For each

person, this level is different. Even though the book went into detail about what to do for training, what level to train at and what to consume while doing so, House and Johnston have made the point during their book tour that the book is meant to be a resource, not a cover-to-cover guide. The training regimen examples in the book are meant to be examples, Johnston says.

Each person requires a training program that is developed from his or her capacity for training and might need to be changed along the way, depending on the body’s response to the training.

“What we tried to do in the book that I think is unique is we really empower the reader to monitor their own training, to decide when how much is enough,” Johnston says.

“Because that’s really what a coach and athlete do working together. You need to do enough to get better, but shouldn’t get to the level where you are exhausted. The higher the level the athlete, the harder to determine where that line should be drawn.”

Johnston’s ideas about training for climbing haven’t always been as regimented as is outlined in the book.

When he was younger, he would run up Flagstaff with his buddies while they all carried their rock shoes and would do some bouldering along the way. Now, he says, he realizes they were already combining the two aspects, endurance from the running and strength training by working on bouldering problems, which are considered essential for training in the book. But when they set out for these activities, it was very unstructured. They weren’t basing their choices on science — as the book now does.

Just as he discovered what worked for training from activities such as his Flagstaff outings, being a guinea pig by trying methods out on himself and coaching others in cross-country skiing, he says, climbers have to find out what works for their own bodies.

When it comes to the aerobic exercise, suggested in the book as being vital for improving climbing performance, House noted that Rocky Mountain National Park and the whole Front Range are ideal areas for training.

“One under-popularized asset that Rocky Mountain National Park has is great climbs with long approaches,” House says. “Climbers, including me, generally loathe long walks to the base of the ‘real climbing,’ but these long walks are great base training, which as we describe in some detail, is the most important component of one’s fitness for alpine climbing.”

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Confidence, obtained through training, may be an important factor in climbing, Johnston says, but there is a balance that needs to be obtained considering how hubris, an over-confidence, can ultimately lead to death during a climb. He says a climber just can’t stop as in a running race when they hit a wall. Climbers have to make sure they can continue all the way down to the bottom of the route, which requires a constant assessment of their mind and body. This concept that a climber has to be constantly in tune with both mind and body is shown to be essential for training success. It also goes along with a statement that appears in the book: “Nothing has come close to the blunt power of climbing to inform us about ourselves.”

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The patron saint of the lyrically scorned Esmé Patterson talks ‘Woman to Woman’

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oman to Woman, isn’t Denver musician Esmé Patterson’s first go at a concept album. Years ago, before starting the band she’s best known for fronting, Paper Bird, she and Paper Bird’s future guitar player gave it the old college rock try.

“We wanted to write an album that was in the same form as Faulker’s Sound and the Fury, in that there are four different characters’ perspectives on the same story,” Patterson told BW. The songs were written, but never recorded as Patterson Boulder Weekly

started Paper Bird a few months later and shifted gears altogether.

Now? “I don’t even remember most of those songs,” says Patterson. “I think they were cool.”

But unlike her first go at the concept album, Woman to Woman, Patterson’s second solo album, was put down on tape and was released by Greater Than Collective, the label run by local burrito purveyors Illegal Pete’s.

Woman to Woman takes iconic songs written to or about women and responds in the voice of those that the song is addressed to.

“Your man don’t mean a thing to me, he keeps leaning in,” she sings in the character of Dolly Parton’s nemesis, that famous Auburn-haired jezebelle, Joleeeeeeeeene.

Patterson also takes on the perspective of Eleanor Rigby, Alison (of Elvis Costello fame), and more. And while many of Patterson’s subjects were lyrically scorned or objectified, she doesn’t see Woman to Woman as striking back in any way, see PATTERSON Page 38

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Esmé Patterson takes on the perspective of iconic female song characters such as Eleanor Rigby and Jolene in her new concept album Woman to Woman.

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just expanding the dialogue. trum, everything from Leadbelly to of Woman to Woman with an in-store “It’s not an angry album,” says The Beach Boys, the backing tracks performance at Denver’s Twist and Patterson. “I’m not coming at male for Woman to Woman stick largely to Shout on Friday, May 23, a show that songwriters. It’s more of a reimagining the indie or alt-country sound. It’s has now been rescheduled twice. Twist of popular songs and trying to see if more raw than her work in Paper Bird, and Shout says those that buy the there was another angle album early will get first we could see them from.” entry into the reschedShe also wrote a ... uled performance. wholly unangsty response At a recent preIT’S MORE OF A REIMAGINING OF POPULAR to Fleetwood Mac’s release performance “Rhiannon,” in which viewable on SONGS AND TRYING TO SEE IF THERE WAS Stevie Nicks gushes wicThePopShopStudio ANOTHER ANGLE WE COULD SEE THEM can about the mystical channel on YouTube, lady R, but that one Patterson brought up a FROM.” — ESMÉ PATTERSON didn’t make the album. series of notable local “I liked it in that it musicians such as was this song about a Reverend Deadeye and woman, written by a Gregory Alan Isakov to woman,” says Patterson. perform the songs she “And then the response was responding to on turned out to be like, ‘Yeah, I’m so with copious blues notes from a grunWoman to Woman. But she doesn’t mystical.’ It wasn’t that interesting. gy slide guitar and Patterson cranking think it’s likely you’ll hear any of them That one I kind of abandoned.” up the twang in her voice. Patterson try the same trick with songs written Another song that didn’t make the says much of the sound comes from about men. cut came from the lady who was not the fact that nearly all the tracks on “I was joking with my drummer Michael Jackson’s lover, Billie Jean.

Woman to Woman were recorded live that he should do the opposite, that he “I already had a song that was a with a backing band, including memshould write songs in the perspective of response to a song about a guy knockbers of punkers Bad Weather men,” says Patterson. “He kind of gave ing up a girl and I didn’t want to bela- California. up. He said there’s nothing for the men bor that point,” says Patterson.

“We had a lot of fun recording,” to say. The women are usually right.”

While the songs Patterson respond she says.

Touché, Miss Patterson. Touché. to come from across the musical specRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com Patterson will celebrate the release

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t will be Six, Nine and out for Robert Olson.

The founder and artistic director of the Colorado MahlerFest has announced that he will retire after the 2015 festival of music by Gustav Mahler. This year’s festival, the 27th and Olson’s next-to-last, features the “Sixth Symphony,” with performances in Macky Auditorium on May 17 and 18.

The 2015 festival hasn’t been announced yet, but Olson suggests that it will probably be the “Ninth Symphony” that closes the door on his MahlerFest career.

“That’s the most appropriate piece on the planet to say goodbye with,” he says.

MahlerFest has been so close to Olson’s heart over the past 27 years that it might come as a surprise to fans that he would give it up. But, he admits, “I’m getting up there in years, and it’s just time to start cutting back.”

Olson reflects on the festival he started with some satisfaction.

“MahlerFest does not do many things differently, for better or worse, than we did from the very beginning,” he says. “And I’m actually kind of proud of that.”

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the future of MahlerFest over the coming year. In the meantime, Olson has this year’s concerts to direct. The “Sixth,” sometimes referred to as the “Tragic” symphony, is one of Mahler’s most direct and approachable compositions.

“I think it is maybe one of the easiest symphonies of them all to conduct,” Olson says.

That’s partly because it falls into the standard four-movement pattern and partly because each movement has a clear design and character. The first movement combines an aggressive march with a beautiful second theme that Alma Mahler, the composer’s widow, said was written as a portrait of her.

Next is a slow movement that Olson characterizes as “one of the most painfully beautiful pieces of music ever conceived,” followed by a dance-like scherzo movement.

“The challenge, like all Mahler symphonies, is the scherzo,” Olson says, describing the uptempo convention that began with Beethoven and evolved to take the place of the minuet. “This one is just an incredible delight, but it’s so hard to find just the right character. One section is one of the most elegant, transparent minuets you could ask for — but with changing meters every bar!”

Mahler’s widow Alma claimed that the composer “described himself and his downfall” in the Finale, a movement of turbulent emotional expression that seems to end in despair and tragedy. At crucial moments Mahler notoriously calls for a large hammer is to be struck loudly against a resonant box. According to Alma, the composer said these represented “blows of fate.”

Dramatic as they are, these hammer blows create all kinds of problems in performance. To start with, Mahler originally called for three, then later removed the third — symbolically fatal — blow.

Today, orchestras do both versions, with two or three hammer blows — what you might call “fate light” and “ultimate fate” renditions.

Going for “ultimate fate,” Olson will have all three hammer blows.

“I didn’t have to think about that for 30 seconds,” he says. “Three just seems to be the right number of anything connected with death.”

The sound of the hammer blows can be a problem, too. It needs to be more than a dull thud; it should be loud and ominous.

“The first time we did it, we screwed around forever, because it isn’t just a box, or a box with a rug on it to muffle the sound,” Olson says. “You’ve really got to work at it.”

Thankfully, MahlerFest still has that first “blow-of-fate” box from 20 years ago, so the sound should be impressive.

Olson believes it also helps if the audience can see the hammer blow fall.

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“The visual will open with ON THE BILL: Colorado MahlerFest thing is importhe five songs XXVII. Robert Olson, artistic director and tant, too,” he of Mahler’s conductor, Abigail Nims, mezzo soprano, performing Symphony No. 6 and Rückertsays. “If everyRückertLieder. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 17 and 3:30 body can see Lieder, perp.m. Sunday, May 18 at Macky Auditorium what is hapformed by a at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Tickets: http://www.mahlerfest.org/MF27/ pening, they smaller orchesmf27.html. Free symposium at 9 a.m. on can make a tra with mezzo Saturday, May 17 at the Imig Music Building connection soprano Chamber Hall C-199 on the CU campus. between [what Abigail Nims. they see and The songs are a good what they companion to the symphony because of hear].” the contrast, Olson believes.

In contrast to the drama and emo“It’s so intimate, it’s so reflective,” he tion of the symphony, this year’s concerts

says. “I don’t think there’s more beautiful music in the world [than a couple of the songs].”

But very likely it will be the symphony and the dramatic “blows of fate” that bring in the audience, as Olson eventually acknowledges. After a long conversation about the symphony, its movements and its meaning, he ends with a simple message for the audience: “Stick around and you’ll see something really cool in the last movement — three times!”

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hen it came time for relationship. So it’s autobiographical, “Making the sacrifice she made, but singer-songwriter-guibut I’m not the lead character.” still having this insanely hopeful and tarist William Lions embraces a musical aesthetic desperately positive outlook that she Fitzsimmons to start that is not unlike Matthew Perryman did the right thing, that she wants the work on his newest Jones’ 2012 record, Land of the best for this person she created, but project, Lions — which released in Living, combining elements of folk, only being able to do so much to make February — it felt like a personal and pop and Americana to great effect. that happen.” professional reboot.

The title track matches gradually Creating the album has left “The writing was different from swelling folk strains with lyrics about Fitzsimmons in a very calm, peaceful anything I’d ever done before, except his daughter trying to find her birth place, because he made the record he for maybe when I was just starting to mother and encountering obstacles wanted to make, and he made it on write songs,” says Fitzsimmons. “It was along the way, and the ambient piano his own terms. Lions doesn’t pull any a no-pressure, no- Erin Brown punches, and expectation kind Fitzsimmons is of thing. I was just content with the at home, being a results because he dad, and I was didn’t stretch writing music himself thin trywhen it came to ing to please varme, just letting the ious parties or things that were make the content inside my head more palatable to and heart come try and attract out.” more music lisWith the sucteners. cess his albums “That’s exactly have achieved in what I feel: conrecent years — his tentment,” says songs have Fitzsimmons. “I appeared on shows just feel really such as Grey’s confident. I’ve Anatomy, One Tree never been too Hill and Burn offended if someNotice — some one doesn’t like what I’m doing. I people have sugLike Sampson, William Fitzsimmons songwriting power is in his hair. Well, his beard anyhow. totally undergested that he stand. There’s too make his content much variety to more radio-friendassume that you’re nailing it for everyly. The fact that he did not cave in to ballad “Speak” closes the album with one, and you shouldn’t try to do that. those recommendations is admirable a hypnotic, simple, chilling piano That’s not the job that anyone is put enough, but what makes Lions more refrain as Fitzsimmons speaks from here to do.” intriguing is how Fitzsimmons put a the mother’s point of view about the And even when it comes to the fresh spin on the type of content that fallacy of being able to call herself a expectations he had for certain songs, usually appears on singer-songwriter mother after leaving her daughter’s he found a lot of comfort in letting the records: he took the focus off himself. life. “Took” is musically reminiscent music guide him rather than vice versa.

“It’s autobiographical in the sense of “In Your Eyes” while commenting If nothing else, it felt more natural to that it all happened to me, but this one on the wonder of a child being born, go along for the ride rather than trying was not the typical thing I had done and the acoustic opener “Well to control everything. before, which was mining my own Enough” finds Fitzsimmons singing “The worst thing you can do is go experiences and psyche and putting it so subtly that it is barely above a to music,” Fitzsimmons says. “This was whisper as he imagines his daughter’s into a project and try to make a masterpiece,” he laughs. “The best music is more about trying to understand the birth mother pondering if she did never made with that kind of outlook. people around me who were having an enough to have a positive influence It’s people just letting things go through effect on my life — particularly the on her daughter’s life. This last track them. That’s life anyway. Sometimes birth mother of my oldest daughter — is especially meaningful to you’ve just got to let things happen and and trying to understand her and figure Fitzsimmons. react to them as best as you can.” out the role she had in my life and “That song is from the perspective Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com what I was supposed to learn from that of the birth mom,” Fitzsimmons says.

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ON THE BILL: This, by Melissa James Gordon.

Through Sunday, May 18. 7:30 p.m. weeknights, 4 p.m., Sundays. $15-$25

BETC stages Melissa James Gibson’s ‘This’

by Gregory Thorson

B

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oulder Ensemble Theatre Company is wrapping up its eighth season and true to its reputation for producing regional and world premieres of new plays, it’s currently presenting the regional premiere of Melissa James Gibson’s This, in the Carson Space at The Dairy Center for the Arts. The play had its world premiere at Playwright’s Horizons in New York City, an institution with a great reputation for developing new plays.

BETC has done an admirable job with the play’s regional debut.

The audience enters the theatre to Shaun Albrechtson’s gorgeous set of an upscale apartment in New York City that uses the sometimes awkward height of the Carson space very well.

Director Christy Montour-Larson uses the set to stage multiple locations, which keeps the play moving along at a crisp pace, and gives This the feel of Thirtysomething meets Friends.

The quality production design is also showcased in Charlotte Ballard’s costumes, which tastefully evoke contemporary life in the big city.

But strong as those elements are, they ultimately don’t cover up some of the flaws of the play.

The story begins at a dinner party hosted by a married couple with a newborn who are looking to blow off some much needed stream. The new addition to the family, and his inability to “sleep for more than 15 minutes” has put a lot of strain on their relation-

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is presenting the regional premier of This by Melissa James Gibson.

ship. They play a party game that their guest Jane, trying to be a good sport, goes along with. At the party we also meet Alan, the couple’s caustic friend, and a late arriving Frenchman, Pierre, who has been invited to be set up with Jane. Soon we discover Tom, the husband and father of a newborn, has feelings for Jane. Their infidelity sets most of the play’s action in motion. Tom and Jane’s dalliance seems to come out of nowhere, before the playwright has created empathy for these characters. This flaw ultimately causes me to wonder, “why am I interested in these people?”

The short version is that despite

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Gibson’s full deployment of her talents for dialogue, the play falters when its plot takes a turn towards the melodramatic.

Gibson’s previous works are often described as quirky comedies and the same instincts for comedy and use of language that earned that reputation are on full display in This, a big part of why the show had a popular run offBroadway.

The rapid-fire dialogue and pacing brings the production in at a lean 90 minutes, a saving grace for some of the melodrama. The expert use of pacing, tempo and rhythm are partic-

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ularly evident in the first scene, which crackles with overlapping dialogue.

The play gets off to a roaring start but fades down the stretch as the lack of a character to root for lowers the audience’s emotional investment.

But beyond the crackling dialogue, one thing that might keep an audience hooked is the many fine acting performances. Ghandia Johnson is compelling as Merrell, the embittered and vulnerable wife. Jessica Robblee is able to combine likeability and intensity in the complex character of Jane. Jane has the biggest emotional arc in the play and her entrance is one of the play’s biggest surprises. Michael Morgan walks the ambiguities of his character with a mysterious nuance. David R. Russell adds a jolt of fresh energy as Pierre. As Alan, Josh Hartwell delivers the most interesting performance. Hartwell uses a cynical delivery that works well with the play’s dialogue. He provides a lot of the play’s humor and his character frequently stands out as the play’s most interesting character. Gibson’s done a great job crafting this character, but it speaks to the play’s lack of focus that a character who spends most of his time on the emotional sidelines of the play is the one who captures our attention.

Still, I was impressed by This’s production value and the work of the director, designers and cast and overall, Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of This is an enjoyable and amusing night of theatre.

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

Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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

James and the Devil. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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Heroin may be “so passe,” but not the band that sung about it. The Dandy Warhols started 20 years ago in Portland and are still going strong, playing mellow alternative rock tunes with a feel good vibe even when they broach some lyrically bleak subject matter.

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Friday, May 9: John Mulaney. 9:45 p.m.

Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

Friday, May 9: APP. 8:30 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

From Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to Conan, John Mulaney has been making a name for himself in the world of comedy. While writing for SNL, he became known for inserting new jokes into routines to try to make Bill Hader break character from laughing during “Weekend Update” appearances. Mulaney knows how to work a crowd until they’re toppled over with laughter.

After years of being told to put your phone away at the movies, the Dutch are changing the norms with the new thriller APP. Phones are a part of the movie experience, and audience members are encouraged to download the app IRIS before the movie to augment the story.

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43rd Annual Jeffco Schools Foundation High School Art Exhibition. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through May 11.

American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through May 10.

The Art of Data. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122.Through July 6.

Blind Optimism: Spring 2014 BFA Exhibition. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through May 9.

Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13.

Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery — Features works collected by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and more. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through June 8.

Nature Photography by Fi Rust Opening Reception. 6-8 p.m. Friday, May 9, Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.

New Growth — Artist Rashid Johnson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through June 15.

One Thing Leads to Another — Artist Gayle

{Saving the World} one Thursday at a time

Pastels and Digital Art — Artist Terri Hamner.

NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303497-1000. Through May 31.

PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300.

Through June 21.

Photography — Artist Kate Zari Roberts.

NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303497-1000. Through May 31.

Rebranded: Polish Film Posters for the American Western. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through June 1.

A Recognizable Disguise. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Through June 13 Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman.

Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24.

Segna Nengudi: The Material Body. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through July 13.

The Art of Students and Teachers — Art from local high school students and art teachers, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through May 16.

EVENTS from Page 49 Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Josh Vogeler. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Suite 110, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

Kevin Dooley Duo. 5 p.m. Haystack Grill at Haystack Golf Course, 5877 Niwot Road, Niwot, 303-530-1400.

Kevin Dooley. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.

Kristina Murray. 5:30 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303530-0642.

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Crites. BMoCA at Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through June 1.

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Sam Rae CD Release. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4490120.

Thursday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

events Toastmasters. 7:30 a.m. Broomfield Chamber of Commerce, 2095 W. Sixth Ave., Broomfield, 303466-1775.

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

Greenhouse Tour. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. University of Colorado 30th St. Greenhouse, 1380 30th St., Boulder, 303-492-3387.

More Than Physics. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Ignite!. All day. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 6 p.m.

300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720442-8292.

Prairie Constructs. All day. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374.

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

Friday, May 9

The Ringers. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

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events An Evening with Twisted & Tip Records Featuring Hallucinogen. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Americana Highway. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720890-3993.

Bear. 6 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd.

Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Boa And The Constrictors. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Brad Upton Quartet. 8 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Karaoke. 8 p.m. Club Corner Bar, 6551 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303-463-9969.

Cold River City. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. The Congress. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

David Booker. 6 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Eef & The Blues Express. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

El Bando. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 West South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-3390767.

Felonius Smith & Nic Clark. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

The Goonies. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Hazel Miller. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Jon McCartan. 8 p.m. Whistler’s Cafe, 121 S. Jefferson St., Nederland, 303-258-0614.

Lionel Young. 8 p.m. CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-2453.

Lindsay Deutsch. 6:30 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Matt Miller. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-4492911.

Miss Shevaughn and Yuma Wray. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Mojomama. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303485-9400.

Monocle Band. 8 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

Papa Juke. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

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

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

Robbie Jaramillo. 3 p.m. Red Frog Coffee, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd. Suite 200, Longmont, 303-772-7209.

Rush Archives. 9 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

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

Shakedown Street & Deadphish Orchestra.

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

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Prairie Constructs. All day. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374.

8 Foot Orphan. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels.

9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-9932094.

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Grand Opening and Street Party. 11 a.m. Union Station Transit Center, 17th and Wewatta streets in downtown Denver.

Blue Canyon Boys. 7 p.m. Agora at the Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-477-4164.

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Ash Ganley. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 West South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-3390767.

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

Cancellieri & Dusty Catfish. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Cat Jerky. 5 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

The Carbone Family Band. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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Craig Cornett & the Phast and Wreckless. 6 p.m. Sanitas Brewing Company, 3550 Frontier Ave., Boulder, 303-442-4130.

The Dandy Warhols. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.

DJ BearR. 8 p.m. Club Corner Bar, 6551 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303-463-9969.

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Dotsero. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Felonius Smith Trio. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-7720258.

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

Global Soul Experience. 8 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Kutandara Center’s Marimba Madness. 9 a.m.

Table Mesa Hardware, 691 S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-7211.

Kinda Bluegrass Festival. 12 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303444-8448.

Monocle. 7 p.m. Altona Grange Hall, 9386 N. 39th St., Boulder, www.altonagrange.org.

North Boulder Underground. 5:30 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-530-0642.

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Quickdraw Homegrown Music. 6:30 p.m. Bittersweet Cafe & Confections, 836 Main St., Louisville, 303-317-5522.

Rogue 2. 7 p.m. Odd 13 Brewing, 301 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

Springdale Quartet. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 see EVENTS Page 52

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Book Club Happy Hour.

6 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Eleanor Roosevelt — Active Minds Lecture.

7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2510 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

How to Catch a Frog — Heather Ross. 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover Book Store, 2510 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

The Confubalist — Seven Galloway. 7:30 p.m.

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Some of These Days — Living Poets Society.

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

Saturday, May 10 An Electronic Silent Spring — Katie Singer. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2510 East Colfax Avenure, Denver, 303-3227727.

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

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James Rollins and Grant Blackwood will be reading from and signing their book The Kill Switch at the Tattered Cover in LoDo on May 14.

Rocky Mountain National Park — Rocky Mountain Land Series.

2 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Sunday, May 11 Pace Goodman. 1:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

Monday, May 12 The Keeper — John Lescroart. 7:30 p.m. Tat-

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

Wednesday, May 14

A novel of the American West — Jeff Guinn.

7 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Caregiving for the Genius — Jane Barton.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

The Kill Switch — James Rollins and Grant Blackwood. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-322-7727.

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Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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

SmithKlein Presents Oil Painter Gerard Mortier.

All day. SmithKlein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200.

Sweet Spot Trio. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette.

Tom Weiser Jazz Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Two Fish One Bowl. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Sunday, May 11 music Acoustic Jam. 4 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

at.play. 8 p.m. madelife, 2000 21st, Boulder, 303927-0802.

Wild Asparagus Ball. 8 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-440-8303.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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Blues Jam with The Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

The Art of Food. 7 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Connally & Ramey. 10 a.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Ignite!. All Day. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

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

Prairie Constructs. All day. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374.

Dave Honig Songwriters Project. 4:30 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Longmont, 720-4428292.

Radiate Unified Dance Party. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St.,

Dusty Rider & Gina Andrucci. 8 p.m. Lyons

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Esther Sparks. 5 p.m. Left Hand Brewing Company, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

The Ginger Roots. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Live Music. 7 p.m. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-5973.

The Mother’s Day Invention. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.

Pillars of Ingenuity. 7:30 p.m. Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder, 303-442-1522.

theater Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 11.

Sweeney Todd. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200.

Through May 10.

This — Presented by Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through May 18.

The Madwoman of Chaillot — Presented by Upstart Crow. The Dairy Center for the Arts, Ruby 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-1415. Through May 25.

Horsethief, Colorado River The Madwoman of Chaillot will be playing at the Footloose the Musical. CenterStage Theatre Company. Manhattan Middle School, 290 Dairy Center through May 25.

Manhattan Drive, Boulder, 303-673-0744. May 9-11

Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m.

Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Trio Soles de Mexico. 8 p.m. Enriching Elements, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-2453.

William Fitzsimmons. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

events Annual Juried High School Exhibition. All Day. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303- 651-2787.

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

Ignite!. All Day. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.

Mother’s Day Jazz & Blues Brunch. 10 a.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Prairie Constructs. All Day. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303651-8374.

Monday, May 12 music Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Lyons High School Jazz Band. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

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Pick ‘n’ Brew. 8 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

events Monday Means Business Leads Group. 12 p.m.

Broomfield Chamber of Commerce, 2095 W. Sixth Ave., Broomfield, 303-466-1775.

HAPPY HOUR FOOD 3pm - 6pm

Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-7869270.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tuesday, May 13 music Ash Ganley. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Ayo Awosika. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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San Francisco’s Doe Eye (Maryam Qudus) is the master of a tricky blend: dissonant noise, and smooth pop songcraft. The tunes on her new album Television are apocalyptic dream pop with washes of distorted guitars, electronic noise and jagged, echoed drum patterns beneath smooth and luscious vocals crooning melodies native to the deepest melancholy.

Her first EP was recorded as a demo for her professors at the Berklee College of Music, but after it got sent to a Boston radio station, Doe Eye was quickly hailed as one of the top unsigned acts everywhere from the Alternative Press to Billboard.

That recognition allowed Television, Doe Eye’s second release, to be produced by John Vanderslice, who has worked with Spoon, The Mountain Goats and Nada Surf. Vanderslice’s work is just as solid with Doe Eye, evoking a darkly-themed atmosphere that feels approachable and familiar, a stunning combination.

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Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Eli Cook. 7:30 p.m. Blues and Greens, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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Gasoline Lollipops. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Jazz Supper Club. 6 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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Tuesday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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

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Geeks Who Drink Trivia. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Karaoke. 8 p.m. Club Corner Bar, 6551 W. 44th Ave., Wheat Ridge, 303- 463-9969.

Planting Celebration. 1 p.m. Growing Gardens, 1630 Hawthorn, Boulder, 303-443-9952.

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

Wednesday, May 15 music Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Delta Sonics. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Gabriel Balogh. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St, Boulder, 3003-495-3303.

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

Live Music. 7 p.m. The Kitchen [Next Door], 1039 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-5973.

Mark Brut. 6 p.m. Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

events Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Wednesday’s Broomfield Leaders Leads Group.

12 p.m. Baker Street Pub Westminster, 2931 W 120th Ave Suite F1, Westminster, 720-382-1026.

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film Film/STILL 1959

A golden year for the silver screen

by Michael J. Casey

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959: fourteen years after the war ended and five years before The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show, the cinema started to go democratic. Cameras were smaller, weighed less and cheaper, thereby allowing independent directors to make movies they wanted to make about the subjects that were closest to them.

The Sie Film Center in Denver is celebrating 1959 in conjunction with the Clyfford Still Museum and the Denver Art Museum’s exhibit, 1959: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition Recreated. Film/STILL 1959 runs from Thursday, May 8 to Sunday, May 11 and screens seven films. All seven of these films are crafted by writer/directors with a wholly unique perspective, a perfect match to the paintings of Clyfford Still, whose abstract expressionism was anything but usual.

The festival kicks off Thursday, May 8 with the American Film Institute’s Number One Comedy of All Time, Some Like It Hot from director Billy Wilder. Two penniless musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) accidently witness the St. Valentine’s

Day Massacre and have to get out of town fast. Their only way out is to dress in drag and join an all-girl group headed to Florida. Loaded with one-liners and some of Marilyn Monroe’s best work, Some Like It Hot sizzles just as much today as it did in 1959. CU’s Associate Professor of Film Studies Melinda Barlow will introduce the film and provide a multimedia introduction for the festival.

Friday evening begins with The Hudsucker Proxy, the 1994 film from cult icons the Coen Brothers set in 1959 and starring Tim Robbins as Norville Barns, the fictional inventor of the hula hoop.

Paul Newman and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star in this Frank Capra-esque picture of American Capitalism that shows that it’s not just power that corrupts, but success as well. The 1959 science-fiction film, Plan 9 From Outer Space follows and is about as hokey as they come. Often considered to be the worst movie of all time, Plan 9 is not without a sense of charm, and director Ed Wood’s love for the medium is evident in practically every frame.

Saturday screens three of the year’s heavy-hitters, starting with Shadows, the first movie from indepen-

dent New York director, John Cassavetes. Dealing with race relations and featuring an excellent jazz score from saxophonist Shafi Hadi, Shadows is a complete and total break from the Hollywood system.

From the gritty black and white to the gloss and polish of Alfred Hitchcock, North By Northwest features Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill, a dull advertisement man who is mistaken for an enemy spy. James Mason and Martin Landeau play the bad guys and Eve Maries Saint sizzles with Grant as they make their way across America, ending up battling on the presidential faces of Mount Rushmore in Rapid City, S.D. Saturday night closes with the jewel in the crown of the French New Wave, The 400 Blows, director François Truffaut’s debut film about beloved miscreant Antoine Doinel ( Jean-Pierre Léaud).

Simultaneously beautiful, heart breaking and playful, The 400 Blows is like a breath of fresh air in a stale room. If you only have time to see one of these, make it this one.

The festival concludes on Sunday with In Cold Blood, Richard Brooks’ 1967 film of Truman Capote’s book about the Clutter family killing in 1959. Brooks filmed in the very house where the murders took place and paints a very human (and disturbing) portrait of the two murders, played by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson.

All seven movies screen at the Sie Film Center in Denver. More information about screening times and ticket prices can be found at www.denverfilm.org Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Download the app called IRIS before the movie, and then you’ll get extra content to enhance the experience while you watch this Dutch-made thriller about an app that goes too far. Is this the future of filmmaking, or just a fad?

You decide. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Hitherto rarely presented and added to the Bolshoi’s repertoire in November 2013, this swashbuckling ballet was recreated especially for the Bolshoi by French choreographer Pierre Lacotte. Starring David Hallberg. At Boedecker.

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CU physics professor Uriel Nauenberg has been selected to receive the university’s highest recognition for teaching and research, the Hazel Barnes Prize, for his work in high-energy physics. His lecture will be followed by the new film Particle Fever, which follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter.

At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, estranged from her family, unsatisfied with her surroundings, and generally not happy about life, Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast of Oregon to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years and attend her granddaughter’s wedding as an unexpected guest. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary cast of characters and discovers that you’re never too old to learn something about life and about yourself. At Boedecker.

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Renowned ball-room dancer Pierre Dulaine takes his program, Dancing Classrooms, back to his city of birth, Jaffa, to teach Jewish and Palestinian Israelis to dance and compete together.

“The initially reluctant, moving duets they finally perform make you feel like, yes, dancing,” says New York Daily News. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER Not much was known of photographer Vivian Maier until 2007 when her work was discovered at an auction house in Chicago. The find unleashed a treasure box of photographs taken between the 1950s and 1990s by Vivian, a nanny, who lived between France, New York and Chicago during her lifetime.

The filmmakers interview dozens of people who knew Vivian and unlock the mystery of a photographer who exposed some of the greatest street scenes and faces of the 20th century. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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VISITORS Steven Soderbergh presents Reggio’s latest, which has the viewer staring intensely at a series of black and white images and faces while listening to an original score by Philip Glass. The images at first seem unfamiliar and strange, but with enough time the viewer finds themselves staring into the face of humanity, discovering bonds we all share. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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Screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman are franchise serial killers, having parasitically attached themselves to Transformers and Star Trek, among others. That two living, breathing human beings can routinely produce content this noxious and vapid without remorse is almost impressive.

Orci is a known conspiracist who believes 9/11 was “an inside job,” so he obsessively inserts sinister secrecy into everything he writes. Here, that means starting a Spider-Man movie with a prolonged action sequence where Peter Parker’s father (Campbell Scott) fights to ensure the truth about governmental bioweapons gets out.

We then skip to Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) fighting The Rhino, played by Paul Giamatti, whose Russian accent makes Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle seem nuanced.

The fight makes Peter miss his gal Gwen (Emma Stone) giving a graduation speech about death, a completely appropriate thing to talk about at commencement. Gwen and Peter are onagain-off-again because Pete feels guilty after her dying father (Dennis Leary) told him to stay away from her in the last film. In case you forgot, the chubby

ghost of Dennis Leary frequently pops up, telling Petey to “quit touchin’ mah daughter!” with his dead eyes.

Enter Harry Osborn (Dane DeHaan), who is somehow Pete’s “best bud” despite the pair not having talked since they were 12. Harry and his daddy have an unnamed familial disease that turns them into goblins. He needs Spider-Man’s blood for a cure; to get it, he enlists the help of Electro ( Jamie Foxx), a newly superpowered bad guy.

Then there’s a violent CGI orgy that fumbles its way to a climax so unearned it’s offensive.

It’s hard to pick one worst moment, but here are some to consider: Gwen insists she join Spidey at the power plant because she “knows the schematics” and can turn the electricity back on, only to arrive and flip one giant, clearly labeled switch. Garfield’s spazzy, twitching delivery turns Peter from “troubled youth” to “mentally unwell.” Foxx’s character makes Urkel from Family Matters look like a babe magnet; it’s easily the most embarrassing thing he’s ever done, and he once played a character named Bunz in the film Booty Call. DeHaan’s hair, both before and after his goblin transformation, is a follicle hate crime. I have more...

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a dire warning of where our current superhero movie binge could lead. Offensively dumb, clumsily performed, lazily conceived, it is a descendent of the 1990s Batman sequels. To borrow from Aliens, this franchise (and Orci and Kurtzman) should be nuked from orbit, just to be safe. But hey, at least the costume looked neat.

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Vineyards, the wine-making “It’s a great place for ridbehemoth based in California’s ing, it’s a great place for food, Central Valley, Friday, May 9 is everybody loves Tuscany,” he officially “Moscato Day,” in Villa Nonna Ferdano, where you can dine under the Tuscan sun with chef Fabio Flasays. which winos the world round gioello, head chef at PastaVino.

On the trip, people bike can show their appreciation ride around Tuscany for for the gateway wine. Maybe around 40 to 50 miles a day, you don’t have a six-record ploy that comes with booze. So count us in. come back to the villa for lunch and relax by deal like Nelly, or Drake, Soulja Boy, or Gucci In related news, Moscato Day will also be the pool for a bit before dinner. For dinner, Mane, or any of the other rappers who have a rich source of material for busted rhymes about Moscato, contributing TextsFromLastNight.com the following morning. Flagiello either cooks, teaches a cooking class or leads the group into town for dinner. to a 73 percent spike in sales, according to “It’s an experience of being in Italy with FLAGIELLO AND DUGGAN’S EXCELLENT the 2012 New York Times article “Vines by the an Italian chef and riding with an Olympian, Rhyme.” But you probably have a Twitter ADVENTURE and it’s the whole experience,” he says. account, and the brothers Gallo would love A chef, a cyclist and a gaggle of RSVP to flagichef1@gmail.com if Italian for you to tweetsta-rap about Moscato on Boulderites walk into a house in Tuscany. It food, bikes and Italy has always been your social media using the hashtag might be a joke somewhere, but in this col#MoscatoDay. Shameless marketing ploy? ideal vacation. umn it’s what will be going down in Absolutely. But it’s a shameless marketing Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com September.

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he PR and marketing department for the newly-opened The Protein Bar has been lobbying BW for its approval, sending over a catered lunch and emailing this reporter offers to set up an official tasting, as if there existed some alternate universe in which the grizzled old cynics I report to would let gushing journalistic about a place that tossed me a freebee slide as a legitimate review.

But the fitcats running this small health food chain literally have nothing to worry about as The Protein Bar is arguably the most Boulder restaurant in Boulder.

The clean, modernist design is warm earth-tones and desertesque geometric patterns, with several of the walls boasting sans-serif font proclamations of health and wellness. “So proudly we kale,” the wall by the agave syrup soda machine boasts.

There is even a stunning view of The Flatirons from either the raised patio or the large picture windows in its west-facing Twenty-Ninth Street mall location. The only thing that view needs to be more quintessentially Colorado is a group of thousand-feet-tall folks in swimwear playing volleyball.

Then there’s the food. The menu is a mix of wraps, bowls and salads, most based around quinoa and averaging 400-600 calories, counts which are marked on the menu along with their grams of fat, carbs, fiber and protein.

The Buffalo Bar-rito ($7.29 and 580 calories) is a

Another standout choice is the Capone ($7.29 and 510 calories), which wraps quinoa, chicken and spinach up with a rich marinara. Like nearly everything on the menu, it can be made vegetarian or vegan by substituting tofu.

Also on the menu is a variety of raw juices, smoothies with your choice of dairy or a wide variety of dairy substitutes and several yogurt and egg white-based breakfast bowls.

This reporter’s fave is the Pikes Peeled, with chocolate, peanut butter and banana blended up into a frothy delight.

With a menu thats loaded with stylish, rapidly-prepared health food, it’s a mystery how The Protein Bar is based out of Chicago — spiritual home of the nacho — and is just now making its way to Boulder, the land of soy milk and local honey.

Whether or not you have been to The Protein Bar or are a consummate Boulderite who attaches the word “conscious” to everything and prefers to only eat carrots that are served with their biography, know that this place’s food, decor and overall spirit already exists in your heart. The only way it could be out-Bouldered would be if a café opened up in which one had to scale a rock-climbing wall to place their order. Which, just in case any budding restaurateurs are reading this, would be a totally fun way to order spaghetti.

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combo of chicken, greens mix, quinoa and blue cheese wrapped up in a whole wheat tortilla with a vegan buffalo sauce, a sauce that is typically made with butter.

Like most of the bar-ritos, it’s also available as a bowl or salad, though by going that route you would miss out on the earthy grit of the whole wheat tortilla that says to your tongue, “This isn’t Buffalo, this is Boulder. We just, you know, have a team called The Buffaloes.” You’d also get that from the dish not being quite as spicy as one expects from sauces labeled “buffalo,” but it’s got just enough zip to get by, and the quality of the chicken is top-notch.

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and an overall drop of 18 percent in Brazil’s output of Arabica beans.

As global demand for coffee has surged over recent years, farmers have rushed to plant more coffee trees. It is these young trees which are most susceptible to water shortages.

Coffee farmers and traders are also concerned that the quality, as well as the quantity, of the crop might be affected by the adverse weather.

The pattern of Brazil’s climate has been undergoing considerable change in recent years. A 2013 NASA-led study says the drought rate in Amazonia over the past decade is unprecedented over the past century.

The study also suggests that the effect of what scientists call a megadrought in 2005 in an area of Amazon rainforest twice the size of California is far more serious than previously thought, with indications that the forest is taking many years to recover.

The fear is that drought conditions — and increasingly volatile weather patterns — will hit a large part of Brazil, one of the world’s major agricultural producers.

In its latest report the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says coffee production is likely to decrease worldwide as temperatures rise.

One possible bright spot for coffee drinkers is that prices are unlikely to rise this year – or by not much, at least.

Most of the big coffee houses tend to buy on what’s called the futures market — locking in a set price for their goods, often for years in advance. Traders are also holding large stockpiles of beans after a bumper harvest last year.

But there are signs that speculators are piling into the market, anxious not to miss out on what could be a big step up in prices. So the advice is — drink that coffee now. Don’t wait any longer.

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n last week’s edition of the Boulder Weekly Beer Tour, we told you about a new Tuesday-night running series at Under the Sun in South Boulder.

Well it turns out they’re not the only brewery interested in trying to make you puke. Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing has started a run’n’chug series of its own, the “Beer Run” Running Club, which will be going down every Saturday from noon-1 p.m.

“Each runner is encouraged to go at their own pace (if you want to walk instead of run, that is absolutely fine!),” Morgan Zamora, administrator for Left Hand Brewing wrote in a press release.

Go ahead and canter or mosey if you like. You’ll still get a free carboloaded pint of brew come 1 p.m.

But that ain’t the only way to get a free pint from Left Hand this week.

Friday, May 9, Left Hand Brewing will be giving free drinks to the right hands of progress: teachers. To celebrate Teacher Appreciation Day, the brewery will give a free pint card with every pint purchase to anyone with ID showing they work for a school system. It starts at noon, around when the morning kindergarten classes will be letting out, and continues past quitting time until 9 p.m.

You can also fight against multiple sclerosis at Left Hand this weekend, with a fundraiser on Saturday, May 10.

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Hand Brewing bike team will be raising funds for the cause by selling handmade mugs and steins from 1-5 p.m.

But hey, Colorado has a few other breweries besides Left Hand. And a lot of them will be partying down come Monday, May 12, which is the official start of American Craft Brew Week.

Boulder’s Twisted Pine Brewing will be holding a kickoff party on Monday, May 12, in which American Amber pints will be half-price all day.

But the real action will be up in Fort Collins where they said, “American Craft Brew Week? Not on our watch. It’s Fort Collins Beer Week.”

Ignoring that every week in Fort Collins is pretty much already Fort Collins Beer Week, the official Fort Collins Beer Week will run Sunday, May 11 to Sunday, May 18 and feature dozens of special events, pairings, performances, bottle-openings and more.

Two of the biggest attractors will be the opening night party on the Tony’s rooftop, which will feature every brewery in town hocking their wares in the sky on Sunday, May 11, and the Brewer’s Olympics on Wednesday, May 14, in which teams of brewers will face off in shenaniganry the likes of which may never be seen again. Until next year’s Fort Collins Beer Week anyhow.

Complete details and schedule are available at www.FortCollinsBeerWeek. com.

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TAURUS

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Free jazz is a type of music that emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against jazz conventions. Its meter is fluid and its harmonies unfamiliar, sometimes atonal. Song structures may be experimental and unpredictable. A key element in free jazz is collective improvisation — riffing done not just by a featured soloist, but by the entire group of musicians playing together. To prepare for your adventures in the coming days, Taurus — which I suspect will have resemblances to free jazz — you might want to listen to music by its pioneers, like Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Sun Ra. Whatever you do, don’t fall prey to scapabobididdilywiddilydoobapaphobia, which is the fear of freestyle jazz.

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Apple and Exxon are the most valuable companies in America. In third place, worth more than $350 billion, is Google. Back in 1999, when the future Internet giant was less than a year old, Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tried to sell their baby for a mere million dollars. The potential buyer was Excite, an online service that was thriving at the time. But Excite’s CEO turned down the offer, leaving Brin and Page to soldier onward by themselves. Lucky for them, right? Today they’re rich and powerful. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Gemini. An apparent “failure” may, in hindsight, turn out to be the seed of a future success.

CANCER JUNE 21-JULY 22: “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” is an Englishlanguage proverb. It means that you will no longer have your cake if you eat it all up. The Albanian version of the adage is “You can’t go for a swim without getting wet. “ Hungarians say, “It’s impossible to ride two horses with one butt.” According to my analysis, Cancerian, you will soon disprove this folk wisdom. You will, in effect, be able to eat you cake and still have it. You will somehow stay dry as you take a dip. You will figure out a way to ride two horses with your one butt.

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Don’t fret, though. Your stint as the Wild Sublime Golden Master of Reality probably won’t last for more than two weeks, three tops. I’m sure that won’t be long enough for you to turn into a raving megalomaniac with 10,000 cult followers.

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See yourself as you are now, sitting next to the wise elder you will be then. The two of you are lounging on a beach and gazing at a lake. It’s twilight. A warm breeze feels good. You turn to your older self and say, “Do you have any regrets? Is there anything you wish you had done but did not do?” Your older self tells you what that thing is. (Hear it now.) And you reply, “Tomorrow I will begin working to change all that.”

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I have no problem with you listening closely to the voices in your head. Although there might be some weird counsel flowing from some of them, it’s also possible that one of those voices might have sparkling insights to offer. As for the voices that are delivering messages from your lower regions, in the vicinity of your reproductive organs: I’m not opposed to you hearing them out, either.

But I hope you will be most attentive and receptive to the voices in your heart. While they are not infallible, they are likely to contain a higher percentage of useful truth than those other two sources.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Kangaroo rats live in the desert. They’re at home there, having evolved over millennia to thrive in the arid conditions. So well-adapted are they that they can go a very long time without drinking water. While it’s admirable to have achieved such a high level of accommodation to their environment, I don’t recommend that you do something comparable. In fact, its probably better if you don’t adjust to some of the harsher aspects of your environment. Now might be a good time to acknowledge this fact and start planning an alternate solution.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

“Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled,” said writer William Blake. I think you will challenge this theory in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Your passions will definitely not be weak. They may even verge on being volcanic. And yet I bet you will manage them fairy well. By that I mean you will express them with grace and power rather than allowing them to overwhelm you and cause a messy ruckus. You won’t need to tamp them down and bottle them up because you will find a way to be both uninhibited and disciplined as you give them their chance to play.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Would you please go spend some quality time having non-goal-oriented fun? Can I convince you to lounge around in fantasyland as you empty your beautiful head of all compulsions to prove yourself and meet people’s expectations? Will you listen to me if I suggest that you take off the mask that’s stuck to your face and make funny faces in the mirror? You need a nice long nap, gorgeous. Two or three nice long naps. Bake some damn cookies, even if you’ve never done so. Soak your feet in epsom salts as you binge-watch a TV show that stimulates a thousand emotions. Lie in the grass and stare lovingly at the sky for as long as it takes to recharge your spiritual batteries.

PISCES

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Dear Pisceans: Your evil twins have asked me to speak to you on their behalf. They say they want to apologize for the misunderstandings that may have arisen from their innocent desire to show you what you had been missing.

Their intent was not at all hostile or subversive. They simply wanted to fill in some gaps in your education.

OK? Next your evil twins want to humbly request that you no longer refer to them as “Evil Twin,” but instead pick a more affectionate name, like, say “Sweet Mess” or “Tough Lover.” If you promise to treat them with more geniality, they will guarantee not to be so tricky and enigmatic.

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Dear Dan: The sitch: Tend bar with a hot girl who has a boyfriend. Hit on her anyway because I’m that guy. She says I can fuck her but only if her boyfriend gets to watch and eat her out after. I don’t want anything to do with that scene. I was down for some traditional cheating, not this kinky shit. But I’d still like to fuck this girl. Any advice for me?

Blue-Balled Baller Dear BBB: Nope.

Dear Dan: I’m a 28-year-old straight female. I’ve only ever been able to orgasm if I self-induce while alone or if I’m on top during sex with a guy and my clit is being rubbed on the guy’s abdomen. (This works best with bigger guys.) When there is no abdomen rubbing my clit, I fake it by squeeze as if I’m coming. Any suggestions?

Wants Real Orgasms Dear WRO: You’re having real orgasms, WRO. When your clit is fully engaged — using your hands or toys when alone, rubbing against the abdomen of a big guy during intercourse — you get off. Some women’s clits are fully engaged during intercourse without any extra effort (they can come “just” from fucking), but they’re in the minority. If climaxing during intercourse is important to you, WRO, you’ll have to sleep with big guys exclusively, rub your own clit during sex, or instruct skinny dudes to rub your clit for you.

Dear Dan: My fiancé is 35 years old.

Between 20 and 30, he was in and out of jail. He has admitted to me that while in prison, he had sex with a [trans woman].

I know he loves having sex with [cis] women, but I found out that he watches [a porn genre that features trans women who have penises]. He says he is just looking, but I know he masturbates to this [porn genre]. To be fair, he watches tons of porn featuring [cis] women. A lot. He loves watching [cis] women and having sex with [cis] women. My worry is that he wants to have sex with [trans women]. Is this a legitimate worry? He doesn’t watch gay porn. I just want to make sure of everything if we are going to be married.

Fiancé Lusts After [Trans Women] Hottie Dear FLATWH: You would be foolish to waste your time wondering whether your fiancé wants to have sex with trans women, FLATWH, as it’s clear that your fiancé wants to have sex with trans women. The question you Boulder Weekly

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Dear Dan: I’m a married straight man. My wife and I have been married for five years. I thought my wife was GGG and open to new things, so six months ago I brought up my desire to wear lingerie — she did not react well.

We struggled a bit but gradually got back to normal, with me just not mentioning it again. My birthday is in May, so I proposed a weekend of indulgence of my fetish as a birthday present. I thought that would be easy enough to accommodate. I was wrong and got totally and uncomfortably denied. I’m at a loss for what to do. I don’t want to destroy a marriage over a small sexual interest, but I don’t want to be locked into vanilla sex forever. Any advice?

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Dear PANTIES: Someone can be “open to new things” without being “open to everything.” So your wife might be up for exploring other sexual kinks, positions, and circumstances — hubby-in-lingerie isn’t the only form of non-vanilla sex out there — but seeing you in panties could be a “libido killer,” a term coined by Emily “Dear Prudence” Yoffe. If that’s the case, PANTIES, she may never come around. But if it’s not a libido killer, if it’s just something she hasn’t had time to wrap her head around, your best course of action is to drop the subject for now. Let the wife see that your interest isn’t all-consuming and you still enjoy vanilla sex in genderconforming underpants, and indulging this particular kink may come to seem less threatening.

Dear Dan: Where can straight women find men who won’t make odd sexual requests?

Dumped One Again Dear DOA: Graveyards.

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by Leland Rucker

Cannabis, family values not mutually exclusive

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his is my one-year anniversary writing this tourists coming to Colorado are certainly coming to column, and I think I’ve just gotten the sample legal cannabis, but when I checked today, best news ever. You’ve probably heard there is still no mention of cannabis on Colorado.com, about the Colorado Symphony’s announce- the website of the Colorado Tourism office. This ment that it will hold three private, adulthead-in-the-sand attitude amongst our tourist offionly, BYOW (“bring your own weed”) fundraising cials will change, too, though it may take some time. concerts this summer. How could you not have? It’s But as more hotels, B&Bs and rentals opt for canbeen all over national television, NPR stations, nabis-friendly patrons who come to Colorado for the Reuters and the Washington Post. All the headline symphony, and the tourism folks finally notice that it’s clichés have been used already: Wolfgang and Weed; not the Rainbow People who are in the stores, I think Orchestra Hits ‘High’ Note. they’ll start coming around. The distinction I see is It’s a brilliant marketing coup for the symphony, that cannabis isn’t bringing a new breed of tourist — which is seriously in need of new markets, followers though there will be those — but rather tourists who and supporters, are thinking of while the concerts coming here anyare certainly indicway and legal canBUT RATHER TOURISTS ative of the grownabis is the dealWHO ARE THINKING OF COMING HERE ANYWAY AND ing acceptance of clincher. Once cannabis in again, family valLEGAL CANNABIS IS THE DEAL CLINCHER. Colorado. ues are not cannaThe series, bis-exclusive, nor “Classically is cannabis use Cannabis,” is being confined to single presented by the people. (This is symphony and Edible Events Co., with shows schedsomething the prohibitionist groups completely foruled for May 23, July 18 and August 15 at the Space get.)

Gallery in Denver, that will feature symphony ensemThroughout the year, I’ve met a lot of people in bles, food and cannabis. All proceeds benefit the the industry — shop proprietors and employees, lawColorado Symphony, and a final benefit is scheduled yers, ancillary business owners, lobbyists, bankers, real for September 13 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. estate owners, tour guide operators — and I can’t tell This is exciting news on so many levels, and peryou how impressed I have been with the degree of haps most importantly, yet another reminder that can- professionalism I find everywhere. nabis and family values are not incompatible terms.

If there’s one thing that’s going to break down It’s fantastic that the symphony, which is in a serious walls that have held strong for more than 40 years, it’s struggle for funding, a home performance space and a the kind of people, many of them young, who are trynew audience, is reaching out to a potentially lucrative ing to make it in an industry where an owner must support base. pretty much open up her entire life history to the state “We’re not passing judgment on whether smoking government in order to operate. There is certainly marijuana is a good or bad thing,” symphony chief opportunity to make a lot of money (and an equal Jerome Kern told The Los Angeles Times. Good for chance to lose money, too), but only if you’re willing them. to open your checkbook, put up with endless regulaThe symphony might be thinking forward, and tion changes and have a mind for constant adaptation

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and innovation.

Interest in the cannabis business is at fever pitch.

Would-be ganjapreneurs are looking for opportunities across the state. A local lawyer says that about a third of the people seeking his services are out-of-staters looking to get into the cannabis business, most wanting to make a lot of money as quickly as possible.

That will happen to some, but if you aren’t the kind of person ready to pay federal income taxes in cash to a government that considers what you did to earn it a felony, you might want to look elsewhere for a pot of gold.

Sanjay Gupta’s two CNN “Weed” specials on medical cannabis certainly drew massive attention to our state over the last six months. The programs, both well-researched, documented and presented, alerted many Americans to what the heck was up with medical marijuana and cast a bright light on a high-CBD cannabis strain that eased symptoms of certain types of epilepsy in children. Today, people are relocating here to get the “Charlotte’s Web” strain.

But watching Gupta apologize for believing the government’s case for the War on Drugs was, along with the symphony’s announcement, a powerful moment for me and millions of others who have been watching the Drug War. Science, he found after carefully evaluating the government’s case, has had nothing to do with it, and he spoke for the millions of Americans, many who don’t use cannabis, who are voting for change in the madness that is the War on Drugs.

“I mistakenly believed the Drug Enforcement Agency listed marijuana as a Schedule I substance because of sound scientific proof,” Gupta said. “Surely, they must have quality reasoning as to why marijuana is in the category of the most dangerous drugs that have ‘no accepted medicinal use and a high potential for abuse.’ They didn’t have the science to support that claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things are true.”

Is it really any wonder millions of American voters have changed their minds about prohibition?

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