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Danish and sex

As a general rule, conservatives like Danish are sexually repressed. But if there is one thing that will give him an erection, it is unlimited corporate profits — whatever the cost. Mr. Danish worships unrestricted capitalism and corporate greed as if they are divine creations — straight from the mouth of Jesus Christ himself. There is a problem with this worship. Without regulation or oversight, these entities — which are not people, and not guided by a moral code of conduct — will kill, rape and destroy anything in their path just for the sake of a higher quarterly profit statement.

As long as Mr. Danish is not personally affected by the actions of unchecked capitalism or corporate malfeasance, he could care less. His self-absorbed sociopathic Ayn Rand type of thinking will be our downfall.

W. Clarke, M.D./Thornton Paul Danish replies: H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

If he were alive today, chances are he would define Progressivism as “the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be making money.”

P.S.: Thanks for pointing out that I’m sexually repressed as a result of changing my party affiliation. I just turned 70 and have been attributing it to old age. Anyway, I’ll try to do something about it when I reread your letter.

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It was a sunny Saturday morning in Boulder, in July, early enough that the air

was still cool. I was taking my dog for a walk on her leash. She stopped to sniff around the trash can and read a few peemails that only dogs can read — with their noses. She left her own mark and moved along.

A happy yellow golden retriever came running towards my dog. “Hello doggie,” I said, and he turned his direction from my dog to me. His friendliness overwhelmed him, and me. I didn’t mind when he put his paws up on me. From about 20 yards away, a young lady called him, but now he was busy saying hello to

my dog. “I’m sorry,” she said. “It’s hard to control him sometimes.” She was holding a coffee cup in one hand and a fetchstick in the other. “It’s OK.” I was in my play clothes, no harm done. “He’s a nice doggie.” She smiled, agreed, and stood there and watched as he romped around the park.

I took my dog a little further. Near a few benches and some trees, three men were sitting on the grass. Homeless men.

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Highroad Where’s the ethical balance of America’s scales of justice?

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the poor. As we’ve seen, Wall Street barons have 31-year-old in rural Alabama, got caught up in this grossly fattened themselves by running frauds and privatized probation system over a speeding ticket. scams that wreaked trillions of dollars in damages to Her problem mushroomed, and she was unable to working families, homeowners and taxpayers — yet pay, so the corporatized legal system locked her up and hit her with company fees for each of the 40 not a single one of them has been indicted or even days she was behind bars. Her seriously pursued by the law. More original $179 ticket has now surrecently, such corporate profiteers For more information on Jim passed $3,000. She was not told as GlaxoSmithKline have paid bilHightower’s work — and to that she has a right to a courtlions of dollars in fines for serious subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter, The appointed lawyer or offered any criminal acts, but the executive Hightower Lowdown — visit alternatives to more fines and jail. criminals who pulled these capers www.jimhightower.com.

“We hear a lot of ‘I can’t pay the have skated free without ever fee,’” says one of the private prosebeing charged. cutors, adding chillingly that, “It is not our job to Now, meet Gina Ray, who is neither a CEO nor figure that out.” a serious offender, but a hard-hit, low-income For more information, contact the Southern American. She’s one of hundreds who’re being Center For Human Rights: www.schr.org. jailed, not by the police, but by a growing network of corporate fee-chasers empowered by state legislaRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com tures to fine and imprison poor people who’ve comThis opinion column does not necessarily reflect the mitted minor infractions. Ms. Ray, an unemployed views of Boulder Weekly.

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he headline read, “Jobs that film and a change in state law. All of died in 2011.” There at the those achievements represent hours of bottom of the list, beneath hard work in the newsroom, teamwork stock brokers, toll collecand years of dedication to the profestors, video store clerks, real sion we all still hold dear, one in which estate agents and U.S. postal carriers, we still strongly believe. was “newspaper reporters.”

The conversation, and especially Journalist/filmmaker Michael de Michael’s comment, left a satisfied feelYoanna, a close friend, shared the link ing in my chest. What I didn’t share in on his Facebook page, sparking a conthat thread is that I was planning to versation among a handful of mutual leave journalism. friends from our Colorado Daily days After 20 years, this will be my last about the changing world of journalism. Uncensored column.

OK, that’s giving the conversation ••• too much credit. After a single post I started writing Uncensored in about the number of layoffs in the 1992 for the Colorado Daily, which was Denver Post’s newsroom, the thread then an award-winning, independent, quickly devolved into reminiscing about employee-owned paper. I was prompted good times, hard to write by an opintimes and glory ion piece about rape days. The posts written by a dolt I felt compelled who stated that ranged from the women soldiers news we’d reported to not leave the should “expect” to to the news we’d public discourse to get raped because made to the news men who were so the military is a we wished had never man’s world. As a happened, like the crippled by their Columbine massarape survivor — I own sexism that cre. Then the thread was sexually assaultthey didn’t know moved on to include ed when I was 10 by things like our the father of a classshit from apple worst-ever frontmate — I felt combutter. page glitch, practical pelled to speak out jokes in the newson these issues and room, and people of not leave the public the opposite sex discourse to a bunch who were conspicuof men who were so ously hot. crippled by their own sexism that they (The irony of this conversation didn’t know shit from apple butter. among journalists taking place on the My intent when I launched the colInternet via social media, both of which umn was to write about women’s issues have contributed to the struggles news- from an unapologetically feminist perpapers are facing, was not lost on us.) spective. There were no women on the As the thread began to wind down, paper’s opinion page, and I had gotten Michael posted, “Reading all the comtired of reading what men had to say ments here — every one of them — about abortion, sexual assault and intimakes me think this: Here’s a group of mate partner violence. I was also confreakin’ awesome people who made a cerned about things that weren’t being difference in the world as reporters. covered, including the struggles of incarcerated women, single mothers and And, no surprise, whatever they are Native women. doing now, they’re still freakin’ aweI wish I could say that the public some.” discussion about women’s issues has I could say the same thing about the moved forward since then and that reporters I’ve had the pleasure of workwomen are better off today, but we’re ing with at Boulder Weekly over the past not.

In fact, the opposite is often true.

10 years as well.

Together and individually, we’ve Society still blames rape victims for made a difference in our community being assaulted, asking the same hateful and the world. We’ve amassed an amaz- questions we asked then — “What was ing number of national and state jourshe wearing?” “Where was she?” “Was nalism awards, two prestigious national she alone?” “Was she drunk?” — as if awards for radio, an almost-finished the victim’s behavior explains why a 8 August 30, 2012

quotes “No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that we were born and raised.”

—Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a speech in Michigan, referring to discredited past reports that President Barack Obama was not born in the U.S. “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is enough.’ For me, that time is now. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. Over the past three years, I have been subjected to a two-year federal criminal investigation followed by Travis Tygart’s unconstitutional witch hunt. The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today — finished with this nonsense.”

—Cyclist Lance Armstrong, saying he will no longer fight drug charges from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.

“Right now, it seems like we’re taxed so much, but if that would be the only way to go, I guess I’d have to be for it, to preserve it. It’s extremely important to me.

It’s most of my income.”

—77-year-old widow Marge Youngs of Toledo, Ohio, reflecting a new poll indicating that most Americans would agree to a tax increase if it would secure Social Security benefits for future generations

man decided to rape. We can’t seem to move beyond the primitive, misogynist notion that sexual assault victims somehow “asked for it.”

Abortion was certainly an issue in 1992, with right-wing religionists trying their best to shut off funding to Planned Parenthood. But even President Reagan asserted that women whose lives were in danger should have access to abortion because, as he said, everyone has a “right to self-defense.”

His stance would be viewed as liberal by today’s more extreme and virulent anti-choice activists, who, based on the GOP’s current platform, allow no exceptions.

How very Sharia of us.

Of course, no law will prevent women from choosing abortion, but illegal abortion means that women will die. The religious right is evidently OK with that.

Reproductive stupidity was in vogue back in the early ’90s, too. Todd Akin’s unforgivably ignorant comments about rape and pregnancy are only the most recent in a long string of moronic comments made by old Republican men on that issue.

In 1995, I wrote about North Carolina Rep. Henry Aldridge, who said: “The facts show that people who are raped — who are truly raped — the juices don’t flow, the body functions

don’t work, and they don’t get pregnant.”

I titled that column “The flowin’ juices theory of rape” and asserted that what Aldridge knew about sex and women’s bodies wouldn’t fill a condom.

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The same anti-choice activists who swore they only wanted to save the “pre-born” and had no objections to contraception are now out and open about their desire to eliminate women’s access to the most effective forms of contraception as well, waging a war on women’s reproductive freedom that seems to have as its primary goal a return to a female reproductive and sexual submission.

I don’t regret focusing so much of my work on women’s issues. Despite the hate mail and the accusation that I was a “one-note Nellie,” I felt that my columns constituted a drop in the bucket toward achieving “equal time” in the global media, which treat “male” as the standard-issue human and “female” as a less significant subset.

That’s no accident. Although women make up the majority of journalism students, women are underrepresented in most newsrooms. The disparity grows greater when you reach the level of newsroom management, and Boulder Weekly

letters greater still when it comes to opinion columns. It’s been my experience that having a woman in the newsroom means the difference between women’s issues being covered and being simply overlooked.

The accomplishment of which I am most proud? Haunted by the stories I’d heard from inmates who’d given birth while incarcerated — the first story I sold to Boulder Weekly, “Woman in chains,” dealt with this very topic — I wrote the original language of the 2010 shackling bill that became Senate Bill 193. Watching as it was passed into law, making Colorado the ninth state to ban the shackling of inmates during labor and delivery, was the highlight of my career.

I came into this profession to be a voice for women, to change the way women are treated. Through SB 193, I succeeded in a very small way.

••• Those closest to me know I’ve been frustrated with the opinion column format for many years. In an opinion column, a writer has about 600 words to make an argument about some issue.

There’s very little room for nuance.

You’re either pro or anti, or you come off as dull.

My experiments with longer essaystyle formats and efforts to bridge the gap between polarized points of view through Boulder Weekly’s short-lived Common Ground feature fell flat with a reading public that has come to expect strong emotions, not balanced thinking, on the opinion pages. We are addicted to conflict here in the United States, and as much as I’ve contributed to that, I’m also weary of it. Even on issues like abortion, my true, deeper views rarely found expression in these pages. As a result, writing Uncensored gradually became less rewarding for me personally. That figures prominently in my desire to halt the column.

As odd as it seems, I’ve spent 20 years spouting off, and yet few people know what I really think about anything.

So what will I be doing? Writing women’s fiction.

I’ve wanted to write novels since I discovered the magic of reading at age 9. I spent a day lost in the world created by Marguerite Henry in Misty of Chincoteague, and I knew that’s what I wanted to do — write worlds in which people could lose themselves. I didn’t muster the courage to try fiction until 1994, and I found it degrees of magnitude more difficult than journalism. But I persisted, and my first novel was published in 2003.

I’ve been asked more than once why I would leave journalism for a career of Boulder Weekly

writing romantic fiction, and I’ve explained repeatedly that romantic fiction is inherently feminist in that it takes the world we know and transforms it into a world where the heroine is able to win the life she wants for herself, both in and out of the bedroom.

But the deeper answer is more complicated.

Fiction is much more difficult, more frustrating, but ultimately I find it more rewarding. The 10-year-old girl who was held down and raped on the living room floor of a Martin Acres home has found more healing in writing fiction than she did writing news stories and columns. Where journalism required me to put on armor and face the world with shields up, writing fiction has slowly stripped that armor away.

Still, I cherish the time I’ve spent as a journalist, from my first day as a columnist through becoming the first woman editor of first the Daily and then the Weekly. I learned so much. I experienced so many unusual things, from the sublime to the terrifying to the bizarre. I met so many outstanding people — and more than a few wingnuts.

More than that, I’ve formed lifelong friendships with people I love and admire, people who did so much to support me day in and day out as a journalist, an author and a friend.

There’s the national award-winning crew from the Daily: Terje Langeland, Oakland Childers, Chip Livingston, Mark Collins, Amanda Hill, Mark Slupe, Mark Saunders, Fred Baerkircher and Brian Hansen. And there are my dear newsroom colleagues, past and present, from my decade with Boulder Weekly: Jefferson Dodge, David Accomazzo, Elizabeth Miller, Katherine Creel, Quibian SalazarMoreno, Marissa Hermanson, Vince Darcangelo, Grace Hood, Erica Grossman, Dale Bridges, Dana Logan, Joel Warner, Pete Miller, Paul Danish, Joel Dyer and Wayne Laugesen. I owe each of them a debt of gratitude — and some of them a beer.

I also have to give thanks to my mentors Timothy Lange, Marti Durlin and Debra Melani, who shaped my view of journalism, honing the skills of a cub reporter and fledgling editor; and to Clint Talbott and Stewart Sallo, who made a place for me in their newsrooms.

And this brings me to my point.

The job of newspaper reporter hasn’t died; it’s alive and thrives at independent newspapers across the country.

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It’s with a full heart that I pass the torch to them.

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packed up in bags, or knapsacks, or rolled-up blankets. They sat in a semicircle. In the middle were some paper cups, probably coffee, and some food items they were sharing. They weren’t bothering anyone and no one was bothering them. At least on that morning.

My dog moved towards them, they said hello, I said hello. They each petted her. I pulled her back when she headed for their food. They petted her some more. She seemed happy with that, we continued on. We did a little circle around the park, and as we came back, the golden retriever came bounding up to us again. The lady was closer this time.

“I’m sorry.”

“Yes, I know. It’s OK, just a happy friendly doggie.” I petted him, our dogs greeted each other again, and we started to stroll away.

Her dog ran past us, right towards the homeless men. I could see them each petting the dog, and smiling. One of them reached into his bag, took out a bottle of water and tried to give the friendly retriever a sip.

“No! Don’t feed my dog. Come now, Freddie.” She turned to me and asked me, “How can I teach him the difference between homeless people and regular people?” she asked me.

“Maybe there’s not much of a difference,” I said. “Except that they’re homeless.”

“Oh no, not in Boulder,” she said.

I walked away, leaving the park.

Maybe I should have said, “How can your dog teach you?” Or, “Why don’t you put Freddie on a leash?” But I didn’t say that. As we left the park, my dog stopped to write a little pee-mail. I wonder what she wrote.

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MESSAGE FROM GOD It’s like the 10 plagues were descending on the site of the Republican National Convention in Florida.

And one of them was Ron Paul.

First, there was Hurricane Isaac, which is a sure sign from God that Mitt Romney should not have gotten the nomination for president. Any day now, Pat Robertson is going to come out and tell us what else God is using the storm to punish us for.

Luckily, the prayers of a few narrowly averted disaster. Yes, a pastor in Florida claimed that his congregation was praying around the clock, and these good gay-fearing folks successfully convinced God to change the storm’s path away from Tampa.

“After you watch from the very beginning where they were saying it was coming, and now where they say it is going, then it has really moved out of the way for us and we appreciate God doing that and moving it for us,” Rev. Jesten Peters of Keys of Authority Ministries told the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Hey Justin, or whatever your name is, you want to make yourself useful? How about getting your peeps to pray for some national debt relief?

If the tropical storm weren’t enough, there’s been a rash of West Nile virus cases in Florida, and after the storm, residents were being advised to “Drain and Cover,” kind of like that “Drop and Roll” admonishment you learned as a kid for when you caught on fire. Of course, “Drain and Cover” refers to things like draining standing water and covering yourself with pants and long sleeves, which is a real delight in that heat and humidity.

Which is, among other things, why we live in Colorado. We usually don’t have to worry about hurricanes. We can spend our time praying for other things, like a Broncos Super Bowl win.

MUSIC ON MARS Of all things that NASA has wasted money on over the years, and that’s a long list, perhaps this is one of the most amusing.

This week the Mars rover Curiosity beamed a new song by Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas back to Earth, for some reason. We can see how this might have been useful if it weren’t a publicity stunt and had been audible to possible life forms beyond the ones sitting in the control room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

Wouldn’t it have been cool to blare music, complete with some kickin’ bass, across the surface of Mars, just to test the Martians’ taste in music and broadcast our own?

But seriously, we could do a helluva lot better than Will.i.am.

Come on people, you’re representing all of Earth here! Did we somehow miss our opportunity to vote?

At least in 2008 NASA had the good taste to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Beatles song “Across the Universe” by transmitting it into deep space.

“Obviously, deep space hasn’t sent us anything back,” a NASA spokesperson was quoted as saying this week.

Maybe we should try a Rolling Stones tune.

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hen most of us think of Monsanto, we think of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, as they are most often called.

It’s an understandable connection. After all, Monsanto dominates the genetically engineered crop space and as a result,

when scientific debates over the safety of such crops in our food chain inevitably erupt, it is Monsanto that usually gets painted as the mad scientist behind the creation of these so-called frankenfoods.

But what if the potential health risks of GMOs were actually not the biggest concern when it comes to Monsanto and the handful of other mega-corporations that now dominate the seed industry? What if every day that we spend arguing over the environmental impact of GMO crops — not to say such discussions are not incredibly important — is actually playing into Monsanto’s larger plans for the food system?

What if the patented technology behind GMOs has less to do with feeding the world and improving crop yields, and more to do with a predatory business model that is rapidly taking over our food supply, and what if this control will continue to exist regardless of whether or not we eventually turn away from GMOs in the marketplace?

Unfortunately, these questions are not part of some crazed, anti-corporate conspiracy theory. They are the questions that we should be asking based on the current realities on the ground in farm country.

And it’s important that we answer them quickly if we are to have any chance to avert the potential disaster that is looming on the horizon, a disaster perhaps best described as Monsanto’s point of no return.

November showdown Boulder Weekly has previously reported on California’s GMO labeling ballot initiative that will be going before voters this November (see http:// tinyurl.com/8twms8a and http://tinyurl.com/d6tk7tp).

The following is a quick recap of the initiative’s purpose and potential short-term impacts on the marketplace.

Should the initiative pass as expected, it will require all foods containing ingredients that have been genetically engineered to be labeled as containing GMOs. Because California consumes such a large percentage of the U.S. food supply, approximately 12 Boulder Weekly

percent, it is quite possible that it would be cost prohibitive for the nation’s larger food companies to produce labeled products for California while still producing non-labeled products for the other 49 states.

And if history is any indicator, it’s also likely that the passage of the ballot measure would quickly result in other states following California’s lead by passing their own GMO labeling requirements.

For these reasons, many observers have speculated that come November, provided the ballot measure passes, GMO labeling may well become a reality for the entire nation, finally bringing the U.S. in line with Europe, Russia, China and much of the rest of the world, where, for the most part, such information is already made available to consumers by way of labeling requirements.

The labeling of products containing genetically engineered ingredients is also important because, eventually, such information should steer the U.S. system of agriculture toward a more sustainable model by way of marketplace pressures. But it is on this point of sustainability that the real showdown over the U.S. food supply will likely be fought in the coming days.

If GMO labeling and its subsequent consumer reactions in the U.S. were to play out as they have in Europe and elsewhere, then we should expect to see American consumers shying away from purchasing products with GMOs in favor of their non-GMO counterparts, even if the non-GMO products are priced at a premium. And once this occurs, it will be only a matter of time before grocery outlets, for the most part, stop stocking products containing GMOs because of lower sales.

The near refusal to buy GMO products in Europe has been traced to the fact that today’s food consumers are more health-conscious and also more skeptical of promises by corporate and government sources who

claim they can be trusted to ensure that food safety will always be more important than profits in the marketplace. The poor government/corporate handling of the outbreak of mad cow disease in Europe during the 1990s was the final straw for many European consumers, and the memory of that debacle continues to affect the EU’s food-system decisions to this day.

This same corporate and government skepticism also appears to be alive and well in the U.S. and helps account for the results of recent polls that found that more than 90 percent of U.S. citizens, regardless of political affiliation, claim they want GMOs to be labeled. It is one of the few things we all seem to agree on these days.

The implications of labeling GMOs in the U.S. are far-reaching and could actually expose a number of very serious problems within our food system.

Consider what has happened in Europe, for example. European farmers have made it clear that they want to plant GMO crops because they have been led to believe that the yields, and therefore profits, from such crops are higher. Yet despite this desire, they instead are being more or less forced by consumer preference to grow traditional crops because there simply isn’t a market for GMO crops should they produce them.

As a result, farmers in the European Union can still save their own seed each year to replant for the following season, something that, as will be discussed shortly, is not possible with GMO seeds. This ability to save and replant seeds means that European farmers, though begrudgingly in some instances, are still operating under a mostly sustainable model.

This is not the case in the U.S., thanks largely to Monsanto’s business model, which exploits the idea of technological innovation as a mechanism for obtaining massive and dangerous levels of market penetration, which then creates an unsustainable system requiring seeds be repurchased each year from one of the companies that have monopolistic control over the industry.

This is important because there is now mounting evidence that should the majority of farmers in the U.S. suddenly need to plant non-GMO seeds due to a swing in marketplace pressure brought on by GMO labeling and its resulting consumer choice, it would not be possible. Those who control the seed supply in the U.S. have made sure that such a rapid transition back to traditional, non-GMO seeds would be diffisee MONSANTO Page 15

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This chart was originally perpared by Professor Philip H. Howard of Michigan State University. It was first published Dec. 8, 2009 in the journal Sustainability.

Pharmaceutical/chemical companies Seed Companies Biotechnology firms and others Fully owned subsidiaries Partially owned This map is an animation of industry changes from 1996 to 2008. Further consolidation has occurred since.

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cult to impossible to achieve. This is the point of no return.

Industry consolidation To say that the U.S. seed industry has become dangerously and quite possibly illegally consolidated is an understatement. The latter, of course, depends upon the court system’s interpretation of existing antitrust laws, which have lately been seen as nonexistent for any company that knows how and who to lobby, but that’s another story.

As the seed monopoly map on page 14 illustrates, control over the seed industry rests primarily with Monsanto.

Dupont and Syngenta are also major players, while corporations like Dow Chemical, Land O’Lakes and Bayer represent a second, yet still significant, tier of consolidated control.

According to U.S. House Committee on Agriculture testimony, most economists share the belief that when 40 percent or more of any given industry is controlled by fewer than four players, that industry is no longer considered competitive. In the seed industry, according to a report issued by the Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering, the largest 10 players control more than 65 percent of the market for the world’s proprietary seed (seed subject to intellectual property protections such as patents). Even more disturbing, from an anticompetitive standpoint, is that the largest four corporations in the seed industry control more than 50 percent of the proprietary seed market and also 43 percent of the commercial global seed supply, which includes both genetically modified seeds as well as traditional, non-patented public seed varieties.

But even these alarming consolidation figures do not reflect the actual concentration levels when you consider that all of these companies have joint ventures with some or all of their supposed competitors (see chart on page 16).

Likewise, these numbers and charts do not reflect the true extent of Monsanto’s control over the food industry, where its patented seed traits are licensed to the other competitors in the sector and often represent influence over 80 to 90 percent of all seed sold in the U.S. in major crop categories such as corn, soy, sugar beets and cotton — and increasingly fruits, vegetables and alfalfa. GMO wheat is a reality but has yet to take off due to the refusal by China, Russia and Europe to allow such wheat to be imported into their countries.

It is accurate to say that nearly every food product in the grocery store has Monsanto’s fingerprints on it in one way or another, and this becomes more true with each passing day. Monsanto’s business model is not only built for attaining full control of the market, it is built to do so with previously unimagined speed.

Paving the way for monopolies, your tax dollars at work There would be no monopolistic Monsanto business model if not for a couple of controversial decisions made by U.S. government officials in the 1980s.

Prior to that time, no actual patent had ever been issued for a living organism. As a result, most advancBoulder Weekly

es in crop research were conducted in the public realm by universities, and so knowledge gained and improvements in areas such as seed quality and crop yields were readily shared and benefited everyone.

But the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which was created as a means to generate new revenue streams to fund public universities, changed the equation. The act made it possible for the first time for universities to receive patents on publicly funded research projects.

Once a patent was issued, the university could then sell the patent or license it to the highest bidder.

Corporations were quick to figure out how to exploit this new law. Corporate funding for university research projects took off in exchange for exclusive access to the resulting patents and licenses. Obviously, the larger corporations that could afford to pay out billions to universities for research and development were the winners in this new world. Monsanto and the other chemical and pharmaceutical giants were some of the early adopters of the new system created

by Bayh-Dole and have benefited most from its creation.

As a result of the act, many of the smaller seed companies were either absorbed by the industry giants through acquisition, which gave the larger companies control over even more of the nation’s seed stock, or simply shut down because they could no longer compete, lacking their own research divisions or means to fund university projects.

In the end, the well-intentioned act created an explosion in corporate funding for public research, while causing public R&D funding to all but disappear. This shift in funding sources has led to secrecy in the university system, along with an unwillingness to share findings and results with both the public and other institutions, a lack of peer review for supposed discoveries and even an aversion to allowing nonfunding entities the right to study and test new, patented products for public safety, including Monsanto’s genetically engineered seeds. Today’s higher education mantra is that if you fund it, you own it, and Monsanto certainly funds it.

But the Monsanto model still needed another element to achieve its ultimate goal of market domina-

tion, and it got that missing ingredient by way of yet another sudden, and some would argue suspiciously convenient, change of heart on the part of the U.S. government.

In 1980, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed its 190-year-old position that a living organism capable of reproducing is not something that can be patented. The door to this radical departure in policy had been cracked open a decade earlier when Congress passed the 1970 Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA). Prior to 1970, Congress had held numerous debates concerning the ability of plant and animal breeders to patent their advancements. The problem was that Congress realized that allowing a patent on something that reproduced naturally would eventually create market concentration and throttle the ability of farmers and researchers to share genetic resources.

Congress finally passed the PVPA as a compromise to corporate interests that had become increasingly frustrated by the political roadblocks to full patents for biotechnological innovations. The PVPA gave a form of temporary intellectual property protection to companies doing plant research, but exempted farmers and other researchers from the act. It was an unenforceable, toothless patent of sorts, but that changed in 1980 when the first utility patent, the same type of patent issued for inventions, was issued for a genetically engineered bacterium that was created to aid in the cleanup of oil spills.

Once the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the bacterium patent, the door was flung fully open, and within a few years Monsanto was getting patents on its genetically engineered innovations, starting with a glyphosate-resistant gene for the canola plant that could be genetically engineered into a seed to produce a canola plant that was resistant to Monsanto’s branded Roundup pesticide. In other words, buying Monsanto’s patented seeds meant you could spray Roundup poison all over your crops, and only the weeds would die. It was quite a boon for a company that made money on the seeds as well as on the pesticide.

The Monsanto model was now ready for launch.

And thanks to the federal government having knocked down the barriers that had been in place for nearly two centuries, barriers that existed in part to prevent market consolidation in the food supply, Monsanto’s business model consumed its competition at an astonishing speed and pushed the company to market leader in the global seed industry in less than a decade. It was an unheard-of feat in the corporate world, considering that the seed industry had been established for a long time and was already stacked with major players.

And now, only a few years later, it’s fair to say that Monsanto is the market, particularly in the U.S., where the company’s sizable political influence — Monsanto is often referred to as the retirement home for Washington’s power brokers — has thus far allowed it to fend off the GMO labeling requirements that have stunted its growth in other parts of the See MONSANTO Page 16

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world. And while GMO labeling in the U.S. may be changing come November, it may be too little too late to reverse course in this country.

This chart represents cross licensing agreements for transgenic traits between the largest six companies in the seed industry.

The Monsanto model Remember the earlier question: What if the patented technology behind GMOs has less to do with feeding the world and improving crop yields, and more to do with a predatory business model that is rapidly seizing control over our food supply? Well, look no further than Monsanto to see that the latter is the more likely motivation behind recent biotech innovations. To understand Monsanto’s rapid rise to market domination we must examine its use of patented traits as a means to its end.

A trait is simply that, a particular quality that is genetically engineered (GE) into a seed to create an adult plant that exhibits a certain characteristic. For instance, Monsanto’s most successful GE traits to date are the BT trait, which causes the plant to be resistant to certain insects, and the Roundup Ready trait, which makes plants able to tolerate doses of Monsanto’s branded Roundup pesticide. Other traits include things like creating adult plants with extra long stalks, which makes them more effectively harvested by machine and, more recently, such things as supposedly drought-resistant traits said to increase a plant’s ability to endure longer stretches without water. It is only the traits that can be patented, not the underlying germplasm (seeds), but any seeds containing the traits are by default controlled by Monsanto by way of its government-issued intellectual property protections.

Monsanto is both a seed supplier and trait provider, but it is the traits that account for the majority of the company’s profits, which are often then used to make further acquisitions of competing seed companies, allowing Monsanto to continuously increase its control over more and more of the world’s seeds. This continuous acquisition element is an important component of Monsanto’s business model, because such purchases allow the company to either add its traits to the newly acquired seeds or phase the seed strands out of the marketplace, eliminating them as potential competition to seeds with patented traits.

It is the selling and licensing of its patented traits that has given Monsanto near total control over certain sectors of the food market. For instance, even though the company may only account for 30 percent or less of the seeds sold, 88 percent of all the corn acres in the U.S. are planted with one or more of Monsanto’s patented traits, because it either sold the seed directly through one of its subsidiaries or licensed its traits to another company such as Dupont that 16 August 30, 2012

when Monsanto enters a market sector, its royalty fees are generally pretty low at first, and this affordable pricing and promises of higher profits entice most of those farming a particular crop to switch to seed with one or more of Monsanto’s traits.

However, once the market has been effectively conquered to the tune of 80 percent to 90 percent penetration, the royalty charge for traits starts going up quickly and seemingly without justification on a technology already fully developed.

For instance, according to the Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Generic Engineering report, the royalty for the Roundup Ready trait on a bag of soybeans cost about $6.50 when it was introduced. But just a few years later, after more than 90 percent of soybean farmers were using the patented trait, the royalty started increasing until it had nearly This chart was originally pertripled to more than $17 on the same pared by Professor Philip H. bag. That’s a difference of about Howard of Michigan State University. It was first published $11,000 every time a 1,000-acre farm Dec. 8, 2009 in the journal is replanted.

Sustainability.

Considering that popular traits such as Roundup Ready and BT sold the seed with Monsanto’s patent attached. don’t actually improve yield — it is the underlying Similarly, more than 90 percent of all soy acres in the quality of the unpatented germplasm, or seed, that U.S are planted with seeds containing Monsantoultimately determines yield — these unprecedented patented traits, as are nearly 95 percent of sugar beet price increases, along with higher prices in the comacres and most of the U.S. cotton crop as well. Due to modity markets being paid for non-GMO soybeans, recent acquisitions, Monsanto is also the largest owner sent many soybean farmers scrambling to try to return and reseller of fruit and vegetable seeds in the world. to planting cheaper, traditional non-GMO seed, It is the way that Monsanto uses its patented which would also allow them the option of keeping technology (traits) to enter and then gain control of back seed to replant the next season. Just one probmarket sectors that is most alarming to critics, even lem. In many instances, farmers quickly discovered those who support the idea of genetically engineered that they could no longer purchase non-GMO seed to food crops. plant. It simply wasn’t available.

Beginning in the mid 1990s, U.S. farmers adopted As early as 2008, finding non-GMO seed was Monsanto’s GE traits without hesitation, even though already becoming a serious problem. In an article that this mass acceptance of patented traits guaranteed ran that year in The Organic & Non-GMO Report, that farmers had to repurchase new seed every growU.S. Soy President Jim Skiff said, “We heard from ing season or face lawsuits and even criminal prosecu- other growers who said they couldn’t get non-GMO tion if they held back seed with patented traits to seed. There is getting to be less seed available.” replant. They saw the new seeds as relatively inexpenAlso in the article, Klaas Martens, owner of sive and convenient and were often led to believe, Lakeview Organic Grain, stated his belief that “the though some recent studies contradict the claim, that high adoption rates of genetically modified soybeans yields and therefore profit would be increased by the by farmers are ‘artificially engineered’ because seed traits as well. companies are shelving non-GMO varieties so farmIn addition to forcing farmers using its patented ers have no choice but to grow GM.” Skiff went so traits to buy seed annually, Monsanto’s business model far as to claim that he “heard reports that Monsanto is places a separate royalty or fee on every bag of seed telling its seed suppliers that they would not get for each patented trait contained in the seed. That’s to Roundup Ready2 varieties when they become availsay that if a bag of seed contains two or three or eight able if they continue selling non-GMO soybean seed.” traits, a process known as stacking, then two or three This was the market condition five years ago. It or eight separate royalty payments are assessed on has only gotten worse since. each bag of that seed. see MONSANTO Page 18 More than one critic of this system has noted that Boulder Weekly

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This is what happens under the Monsanto model, which has become something akin to a technological treadmill. The company continuously makes technological advances in the form of patented traits, which it then stacks onto seeds to be sold by its subsidiaries and partners while simultaneously cutting back on the available supply of less profitable seeds, which are those containing fewer or no traits. In fact, eight-trait seeds are becoming the new norm.

As one-trait seeds gave way to twotrait seeds that gave way to even more expensive three-stacked traits that have now given way to eight, seed companies directly owned by Monsanto or influenced by the company through its secretive trait licensing agreements have for years been eliminating the less profitable seeds from their inventories.

As a result of this culling of inventory based on what seeds are most profitable, it’s becoming increasingly hard for farmers to find and purchase an affordable seed with just one patented trait instead of three or eight, most of which the farmer may not need, let alone want to pay for.

But far more disturbing, considering what may soon occur in the retail food market as a result of GMO labeling, it has become quite difficult to find nonGMO seeds that can be grown in a sustainable fashion year after year without having to continually repurchase new seeds from the likes of Monsanto.

And if it’s difficult to find such seeds now, what will happen if and when there is a sudden and massive rush for non-GMO seed as a result of GMO labeling’s impact on consumer choice?

The short answer is that consumers and farmers will likely pay a staggering economic price, while Monsanto may well see its profits further increased.

Faster than a speeding bullet or government oversight Monsanto has a history of capitalizing on market upheaval. For instance, Bloomberg recently reported on Monsanto earnings under the headline, “Monsanto Sees Advantage In U.S. Drought Testing Corn Output.” The article goes on to say that “the world’s biggest seed company said it stands to gain from the worst U.S. Midwest drought in a decade because the difficult conditions may demonstrate its superior yields and create seed shortag18 August 30, 2012

es for competitors. Drought may cut seed output at smaller U.S. competitors, while Monsanto has the option of shipping more seed from Latin America.”

This is, in fact, what has happened.

Several of the last remaining independent seed companies, companies that provide the only real competition, albeit minor, to Monsanto and its multinational friends, have stated their concern that the drought may well drive them out of business, further consolidating the already monopolized seed industry.

Another example of how Monsanto’s business model can adapt to, and even thrive on, market obstacles is found in the company’s successful takeover of the sugar beet industry. You may recall the long debate over whether or not Monsanto’s Roundup Ready sugar beets should have been allowed to be grown on Boulder County open space. The debate, which went on for month after month while our county commissioners kicked the can down the road, repeatedly claiming that more study on the issue was needed, finally concluded last year that Monsanto’s GMO sugar beets could be grown on our public lands.

By letting so much time pass while supposedly studying the science and safety of GMO sugar beets, the commissioners played right into Monsanto’s plan. They had been played to perfection by the company that understood what the commissioners did not, namely that while Boulder studied the science, Monsanto so thoroughly took over the sugar beet market as to make planting anything other than GMO sugar beets virtually impossible. Here’s how it worked.

When Monsanto introduced sugar beet seeds with its patented Roundup Ready trait, the market embraced the technology. Sugar-beet farmers had long been plagued by weeds that had grown resistant to the pesticides they were using. Farmers knew that the Roundup Ready trait would offer at least a temporary fix to their weed problem, at least until the weeds developed a resistance to Roundup. But what happened next caught even the GMOhappy beet farmers by surprise.

Within 24 months of its launch and without any environmental impact study having been conducted, Monsanto’s GMO sugar beets comprised more than 95 percent of the total U.S. sugar beet market. At that point, Boulder Weekly

SANDAL CLEARANCE The Center for Food Safety filed a lawsuit claiming that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) had violated the law by licensing Monsanto’s genetically engineered sugar beets without performing the required study.

A federal judge found in favor of the center and ordered that Monsanto’s sugar beet license be revoked until the study was completed. That’s when the true power of Monsanto’s business model reared its head.

In an article for Grist, journalist Tom Laskawy describes what happened next.

“The problem with the judge’s order, however, was that Monsanto had so successfully crowded out sugar beet seed competitors that once he ruled the beets ‘illegal,’ it quickly became clear that there were no conventional sugar beet seeds to be found. So America faced the prospect of a 20 percent reduction in that year’s sugar crop. In response — and in defiance of the federal judge’s order — the USDA allowed farmers to plant GM sugar beets anyway.”

In June of this year, the environmental impact study by the USDA was finally completed. All the while Monsanto has been selling its sugar beet seeds with impunity to help stave off a threatened sugar shortage that the company largely created. The study found that Monsanto’s GMO sugar beets do have the ability to contaminate, by pollen drift, not only nonGMO sugar beets — should any such plant still exist — but also table beets, Swiss chard and wild beet varieties.

The environmental study also predicts that the Roundup Ready sugar beets may also contribute to the growing problem of both superweeds and superbugs, which are becoming increasingly resistant to glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup.

Yet despite these concerns, the study recommended full deregulation of GMO sugar beets. This means that the GMO beets qualify for unrestricted planting. The study says that it gave great weight to the fact that there is not enough conventional non-GMO seed left in the marketplace to prevent a sugar crisis, should the Roundup Ready beets have been restricted.

Victory Monsanto. By distributing its patented trait seed while removing much, if not most, of the non-patented competition from the marketplace, Monsanto was actually able to win for no other reason than it backed the USDA into a corner. The agency had to Boulder Weekly

either allow Monsanto to continue to sell its patented sugar beet trait with absolutely no restrictions, or cause a sugar shortage that would have revealed USDA’s completely impotent oversight of the food industry. Brilliantly played.

Our poor county commissioners never had a chance against that kind of firepower.

It’s unclear exactly what Monsanto will do if GMO labeling becomes the law of the land, thereby destroying much of the market for the company’s GMO seeds. Monsanto has said that if California passes its labeling initiative, food prices will spiral higher out of control. Considering that Monsanto also has a near monopoly ownership on most traditional, non-GMO seeds as well as those containing its traits, it can probably make that prediction come true.

If the USDA was too afraid of a 20 percent sugar shortage to take action to restrict Monsanto’s business practices, how will it deal with the possibility of major shortages in the corn, soybean, cotton, sugar beet, fruit and vegetable sectors?

And what else could Monsanto have up its sleeve to ensure that farmers are forced to buy seeds from the company every year, as opposed to saving and planting their own seed? One answer that has activists trembling is the knowledge that when Monsanto purchased a genetically engineered cotton seed company called Delta Pine and Land a few years back, it acquired what is commonly called the “terminator” trait. While Monsanto insists that such a technology is simply too controversial to be used at this point, it hasn’t said that it has abandoned the technology. A seed stacked with the terminator trait would produce a plant that would only grow one time. Even if seeds were saved back from a crop of terminator plants, they would be useless because they would not grow.

For obvious reasons, there are many myths surrounding the terminator technology that are more science fiction than reality. But who can say what Monsanto, the world’s largest and most influential provider of the basic ingredient for the global food supply, will do if come November it is faced with the potential rapid decline in the use of its most valuable patented products? I suspect the company will not go quietly into the traditional seed business.

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Some profs shielded from oil/gas attacks, thanks to tenure

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W

hile certain faculty members around the country have felt the heat from the oil and gas industry for raising questions about the possible health impacts of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” not all have been canned.

Not all are like Geoffrey Thyne, a researcher highlighted in the Aug. 16 issue of Boulder Weekly who blames controversial comments he made about fracking for the fact that he is no longer employed by the Colorado School of Mines or the University of Wyoming.

Luckily, controversial research is Robert sometimes still proHowarth tected by tenure, or by the university itself.

Robert Howarth, who holds an endowed chair at Cornell University called the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, is another faculty member who has been targeted by the oil and gas industry because of his research.

“Unlike Thyne, I’m a tenured professor, which gives me some protection,” Howarth tells BW. “The tenure is the important thing.”

Howarth, who began working at Cornell in 1985, says he started his research on fracking about three years ago, specifically focusing on the greenhouse gas footprint of shale gas extraction in hopes of filling a void in the research at the time.

“No one had published any sort of study on what the greenhouse gas emissions from shale gas were,” he says of an energy source that had been widely touted as a clean fuel. “There was nothing, absolutely nothing. …

People were perfectly content to have no studies.”

Howarth says he began circulating drafts of his study results in spring 2010, and those early reports showed that methane emissions from the extraction of shale gas were higher than they were from coal. (His ultimate

findings were that while shale gas emits less carbon dioxide than coal or oil, when it comes to the much more potent greenhouse gas methane, shale gas has a larger impact than coal, oil or conventional gas.)

But his preliminary findings got distributed more widely than he had intended, resulting in inquiries from the press. In a message posted to his website, he announced that his research was not yet done, but he says his work continued to gain media attention.

Howarth says even the White House took notice and directed the Environmental Protection Agency, which hadn’t updated its natural gas studies since 1996, and the U.S. Department of Energy to look into the matter. The EPA released studies showing similar increased gas emissions beginning in November 2010, he says.

His finished paper, co-authored

by Cornell colleagues Renee Santoro and Tony Ingraffea, was not published until April 2011.

But it seems that someone got a copy just before the paper came out, judging from a story published in The Hill that described an earlier draft — a draft that a reporter said he got from industry insiders and that Howarth says was only available on his and his two co-authors’ computers. He’s not shy about suggesting that someone in the oil/gas industry stole it.

“That’s the most likely explanation, but I can’t prove it, and it sounds paranoid, right?” Howarth says. “I think they probably hacked into my computer, from the looks of it.”

And he says it didn’t take long for America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) to find people to debunk the research, funding an ad that to this day still shows up as the top sponsored link on Google searches of Howarth’s name.

The industry group’s list of bashers is titled “Howarth: A Credibility Gap.” The subtitle is, “Research on methane emissions from natural gas discredited by scientific community.”

Boulder Weekly

news The site claims that Howarth and his co-authors “make inaccurate and extreme choices far outside established science at virtually every turn. The result is a report that misleads the public about important facts involving natural gas production.” Among the more than 10 individuals and institutions cited by ANGA is one of Howarth’s own Cornell colleagues, Lawrence Cathles, who is quoted with his team as saying that Howarth and his coauthors “assume implausibly high leakage rates and fail to provide any clear evidence of methane leakage from shale gas wells during completion, or from all gas wells during handling, transmission, storage, and delivery of the gas, that would significantly increase the greenhouse impact of simply burning the methane. Moreover, they dismiss the impact of existing technology for reducing whatever emissions are now problematic.”

Howarth describes Cathles as a former oil/gas employee who doesn’t believe in climate change.

The ANGA site also says Howarth is an “evolutionary biologist,” who “is not credentialed to do the kind of chemical analysis required for this field of study,” even though he describes himself as an earth systems scientist with 35 years of experience who has chaired committees at the level of the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition, Howarth is targeted on the website for the data he uses, which he himself acknowledges as being deficient, due to the dearth of studies that have been done on the issue.

“The quality of the data is terrible because industry is very secretive and not very honest,” Howarth says.

The ANGA site also quotes the EPA’s Roger Fernandez, team leader for oil and gas climate change programs, who questions Howarth’s claims about the amount of methane emitted from shale gas extraction.

Howarth maintains that Fernandez’s comments were taken out of context at a panel discussion, and that Fernandez later acknowledged that Howarth’s figures were accurate.

“Five minutes later, he reversed himself and said I’m right,” Howarth says.

Despite the attack, he says there has been some redemption in the fact that most of the studies that have been conducted since his research has been published have upheld the basic tenets of his team’s paper.

“As real science comes along, I think it’s making our stuff look pretty good,” Howarth says.

And in December 2011 Time magazine named him and co-author Ingraffea, along with actor Mark Boulder Weekly

Ruffalo, among the “50 Others That Mattered” in the publication’s “Person of the Year” issue.

But there have been consequences associated with his controversial findings. Howarth says that in addition to the ANGA critics, he saw a significant decrease in the number of graduate students who applied to study with him, for one thing.

“Industry is framing the debate by having that ad float out there,” he says.

“So if you want to compare what’s happened to me with Thyne, I’m in a helluva lot better position, I’m hugely protected. I have highly respectful colleagues. I’ve had a huge number of scientists I’ve never met before who have contacted me, and we’re now working together towards increasing the quality of the science in this area. There’s a lot of positive stuff, but I’ve also come under a huge amount of attack, personal attack and professional attack, and it definitely colors how non-scientists see me or approach me.”

For instance, last spring, he says he was approached by a contractor for National Geographic about helping the magazine pull together the information on a graphic for an article. He says he provided a summary of where methane comes from globally, including both natural and human sources.

Earlier this month, he learned via a third party that the contractor had been told by an editor at National Geographic that “they perhaps should not use my work,” Howarth says, because the editor had heard from ANGA that his research had been “discredited.”

“I am still in discussions with the contractor and others at National Geographic, so I do not know how this will resolve,” he says, “but if they end up truly not using my work, I would think it newsworthy that an industry PR and lobbying group has that level of influence.”

And when asked whether his university superiors have pressured him because of the blowback?

“They wouldn’t, because it would be pointless, but they haven’t,” he says, citing his full professor status, endowed chair, tenure and continued funding, including grants from Cornell. “I’m certainly not being undercut by the university, and I’m probably receiving good support, I’d say. … I would be really surprised if industry has not spoken to some administrator here, I’d be very surprised, but no one’s told me that, and certainly I haven’t felt any of that pressure. I’d be surprised if it’s not there, but I’m buffered from it, and the structure of the university should buffer me from it. If there is pressure, the system is working as it should.”

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University of Colorado faculty member who published findings last spring showing that air pollution caused by hydraulic fracturing may contribute to health problems for those living nearby says she has not experienced any blowback from the oil/ gas industry as a result of her research.

Lisa McKenzie, a research associate at the Colorado School of Public Health on CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus, was the lead author of a paper published by Science of the Total Environment in May. The research, which involved examining three years of data, found potentially toxic petroleum hydrocarbons in the air near wells in Garfield County, including ethylbenzene, toluene, xylene and benzene, which the Environmental Protection Agency has identified as a known carcinogen. The study found elevated risks of cancer and non-cancer health problems (like eye irritation, headaches, sore throat and difficulty breathing) among people living within a half-mile of wells. And the greatest impact was seen during the well completion period, when fracking occurs.

The research was funded by Garfield County in an effort to measure health risks associated with wells around the community of Battlement Mesa.

Despite the well-publicized report — and her subsequent testimony about her research before a congressional panel in May — McKenzie says she has felt no pressure from her superiors or the oil/gas industry.

“From the University of Colorado, I’ve received no pressure at all,” she told BW. “And the industry also has not contacted us at all, or me directly.”

McKenzie added that to her knowledge, no one at the school has heard from oil/gas companies either.

“I’ve had no pressure, and no one above me has pressured me or spoken to me about it,” she explains. “What I don’t know is if there’s been any discussions at a higher level, and they don’t think they need to worry me about it.”

She says the only feedback she’s heard has been through media reports.

For example, Davis Ludlam, execu-

tive director of the West Slope Colorado Oil & Gas Association, told The Denver Post that members of his group “concur with Ms. McKenzie’s recommendations that additional study is needed,” and he pointed out that the industry is working with Colorado State University on another air-quality study.

“I guess we knew that industry would have a response and would have their own take on our study, so we did anticipate that,” McKenzie says of the reaction.

But she declined to say that the credibility of the CSU study, which is being funded at least in part by the oil/ gas industry, would be suspect.

“The researchers at CSU are credible researchers and shouldn’t be biased,” McKenzie says.

One of her co-authors on the CU paper, Lee Newman, says he hasn’t felt any repercussions from their research either.

“My experience has been that here at the University of Colorado, I’ve been really delighted with the amount of academic freedom that I’ve had and that our group has had to study even things that to some people seem controversial,” he told BW. Similarly, Ken McConnellogue, spokesperson for former oilman and CU President Bruce Benson, says he doesn’t believe the president has felt any blowback as a result of McKenzie’s research.

In fact, CU may soon receive a significant chunk of money, not from the oil/gas industry but the federal government, to fund a large research project on the impacts of gas extraction. A group of CU-Boulder faculty from a variety of disciplines has applied to be the lead institution receiving a $12 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project titled “Routes to Sustainability: Natural Gas Development and Air and Water Resources in the Rocky Mountain Region.”

NSF officials say the recipients of the grant money, which is part of a new NSF program called Sustainability Research Networks, may not be announced for a couple of weeks.

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People can apply biomimicry to solve many challenges we face as humans, Zanowick says.

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lion years of research and development, and the only organisms that survive are the ones that follow life’s principles.”

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by Boulder Weekly staff In 2009, the documentary The Cove released onto the world the story of a small town in Japan where dolphins were being herded into a shallow, hidden cove to be hunted and captured. The film won an Academy Award and acclaim at Sundance. But this year, on Sept. 1, the dolphin hunt that film exposed resumes.

The filmmakers from The Cove estimate that more than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed each year off the coast of Japan.

In the one small town mentioned in the film, Taiji, 2,000 die each year.

The film has raised awareness and, according to the website for The Cove, only 800 dolphins died in Taiji last year.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates there are, at minimum, 600,000 bottlenose dolphins worldwide.

Conservationists argue that there are still ongoing threats to the dolphin population, including nets that fish for tuna and

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worldwide where rallies will be organized that day.

Rally organizers say their intention is to educate the public and push to end the slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Dolphins are hunted in the waters near Japan as a tradition, a food source and a method of controlling the dolphins’ impact on local fish populations, and they are captured to be sold into dolphin shows, according to a press release from local rally organizer Heather Hintz.

Members of the Ocean Preservation Society, a nonprofit organization that creates film, photography and media — including The Cove — to inspire people to save the oceans are A cove during a dolphin hunt. expected to attend, as are members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation sonar and munitions tests by organizations Society of Whale Wars on Animal like the U.S. Navy.

Planet and the Colorado Ocean Coalition.

So on Aug. 31, members of local The rally will be held at 11:30 a.m. Friconservation groups are rallying at the day. The Japanese Consulate is located at Japanese Consulate in Denver to protest 1225 17th St. in Denver. the opening of this year’s dolphin hunting Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com season in Japan. Denver is one of 94 cities

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Some college students at the Green Associate and an active student Aalto and other students are brainUniversity of Colorado Boulder are being of biomimicry and permaculture. Aalto storming ways to make this information exposed to biomimicry in their work at suggests thinking about how nature uses more accessible to students and the genthe university’s Environmental Center. passive solar and how installing radiant eral public.

“I’ve been telling my students barriers — which reflect the sun’s about it,” says Sarah Dawn light rather than absorb it — Haynes, program assistant for the into attics mimics what happens Environmental Center.

“I’ve been in the natural world.

Aalto suggests thinking about how “We’re always trying to figure sharing what biomimicry is and nature uses passive solar, and how how to apply it, and it’s just been out what we can do to live more installing radiant barriers — which putting people on fire. It’s trigsustainably and lessen our impact reflect sunlight — into attics mimics gering these students to think on this planet,” says Aalto. what happens in the natural world. about the world they live in and “Following nature’s principles is a to find new inspiration for probgreat way of doing it because lem-solving.” nature has been doing it a lot longer “Maybe we need to rephrase these “We need to find a way to stitch it than we have.” terms and figure out ways to show that all together,” continues Haynes. “How Aalto also talks about the need to they are common sense,” says Aalto. “It’s do we look at the amazing design of bring principles like biomimicry and exciting because we are at the beginplants and animals — notably spider permaculture into schools and into the ning, but also at a breaking point. Now silk, which is three times stronger than mainstream. In a biomimicry workshop it’s just a matter of education and showsteel, pound for pound — and incorpofacilitated by Zanowick of the EPA, ing people that these principles work.”

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Biomimicry is based on six life principles, which anyone can consider while tackling any human problem: evolve to survive; be resource-efficient (with both material and energy); adapt to changing conditions; integrate development with growth; be locally attuned and responsive; use life-friendly chemistry.

In approaching any human challenge, Zanowick suggests thinking about how nature functions to communicate and organize, being mindful of those principles.

“Every organism on the planet follows these life principles except humans,” says Zanowick. “And, we’ll be extinct one day if we don’t learn and apply them.”

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Chhiring Dorje Sherpa on the summit of K2, in a photo taken by Pemba Gyalje Sherpa

mong mountaineers Sherpas hold nearly mythical status.

They have this seemingly superhuman ability to perform incredible climbing feats,” relates Peter Zuckerman, coauthor of Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day (W.W. Norton). As any high-altitude climbing enthusiast knows, Sherpas — part of a Nepalese ethnic group who live in the shadow of the world’s tallest mountains — are hired by Western climbers to escort their more celebrated clients up and down Himalayan peaks like Mount Everest and K2 — the latter, at 28,251 feet, the second highest mountain in the world.

Being a sherpa is a stressful and physically demanding job,

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one that includes scouting routes, fixing ropes, establishing camps, pitching tents, rescuing fallen climbers and, of course, ferrying equipment and supplies. Yet despite their importance to virtually every climbing expedition in the region, the stories of these high-altitude workers are rarely told, in part because the accounts of Western climbers tend to be self-serving, but also because their employers cannot speak Ajak Bhote, Burushaski, Shar-Khumbu tamgney, Rolwaling Sherpi tamgney, or any number of other endangered local languages.

To craft Buried in the Sky, Zuckerman and his cousin Amanda Padoan went out of their way — really out of their way — to tell the stories of Chhiring (CHEER-ing) Dorje Sherpa and Pasang (Pah-SONG) Lama, who together narrowly survived the 2008 disaster on K2. Not only did Zuckerman and Padoan make seven trips to Nepal and three to Pakistan, Zuckerman trekked to the

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home villages of both men — Beding and Hungung — which are so far off the beaten path that many of the inhabitants had never seen a white man before Zuckerman hiked into town. But being that the villages are a sixand 10-day trip from the nearest road, respectively, he had plenty of time to get to know his subjects, and on one notable occasion, to get high on yarsagumba.

This isn’t to say that the authors’ focus on Chhiring and Pasang takes away from their re-creation of the catastrophe that unfolded when 29 climbers tried to reach the top that fateful August. Everest may be a universally recognized name, but K2 (sometimes referred to as “The Savage Mountain”) is far more deadly. For every four climbers who have reached its summit, one has died trying. In 2008, the odds turned out to be even less favorable; 18 climbers summited and 11 died, including Pasang’s cousin, Jumik Bhote, and two Koreans, who spent a night in the Death Zone — that is, above 26,000 feet — hanging upside down, hopelessly entangled in climbing ropes.

In the following interview, Zuckerman reveals the challenges he faced in terms of researching the book, and also addresses the mistakes that led to one of the most dramatic disasters in mountaineering history.

Can you paint a picture of what it took to interview Chhiring Dorje Sherpa and Pasang Lama?

The first challenge was finding Chhiring, Pasang, and the other people I wanted to interview. According

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View of K2’s “Bottleneck” with a fissure

to custom, Sherpas have one of seven names — the day of the week they were born. Surnames aren’t used, and when filling out legal forms, most Sherpas put their week day as their first name and Sherpa as their last. It’s a dysfunctional system. If you say, “I’d like to talk to Chhiring Sherpa,” well, there are like 20,000 of them in Nepal! Making matters more confusing, primary names can be altered or scrapped based on events in an individual’s life. And sometimes the same Sherpa goes by different names depending on context. For example, when addressed by his lama, Chhiring goes by Dorje.

Eventually I figured out where Chhiring and Pasang were, but then I had to get to their villages. The first step was to take a plane to the nearest airstrip. Then I would take a jeep as far as the road would go and just started walking. While a lot of people are used to places that don’t have running water or electricity, this was a whole new level. There was no metal or petroleum or machinery out there.

And there are separate languages or

dialects spoken at each village, so people from adjacent villages can’t understand each other. It was that isolated.

I talked to anthropologists who study the region and they didn’t know of any Westerner who had been to these villages. Some of the adults had seen white people before [in other places], but most of the children had never seen anyone white.

In terms of the interviews, I had to go through two layers of translators.

There would be somebody who translated from the local language to Nepali and then from Nepali to English. I would ask questions like, “How old are you?” And then the Nepali translator would say, “How old are you?” And then the Sherpa language translator would say, “How old are you?” Then the person I was interviewing would give me a look like, “What kind of question is that?”

There would be discussion between all the interpreters and the message would come back to me: “I was born during Buddha’s Harvest Festival.” I realized that the concept of a calendar didn’t work there.

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Thank goodness for anthropologists who were able to help. I could go to them and say, “They kept giving me this answer and I don’t know what it means.” They would say, “Ah, here’s what you need to know.”

In Pakistan it was a little easier to get around. Amanda and I could get to most places by jeep. But it was dangerous having to drive through Taliban territory. At one point we were riding along and our driver said, “When Daniel Pearl was murdered that was his fault. Nobody who is Jewish should be going through this part of the world. That’s like someone who is gay coming to this area. How dumb can you get?” And I was like, “Yeah, that’s a really dumb thing to do.” I was worried that people in Pakistan would investigate who I was, but fortunately Google isn’t all that prominent there.

Can you paint a picture of what a traditional Sherpa village is like?

The villages have different languages and religious customs, but there are patterns. Most things are made out of rock and dung mortar.

All the villages are near a mountain that is seen as very sacred. The mountain goddess is worshipped and is very important to their religious tradition.

Beding was really sad because you could tell that it used to be a thriving village and that the people there were all old and bitter. They didn’t like the fact that their kids were leaving to become mountaineers. Within a generation or two, no one is going to be there anymore.

How do villagers view the mountaineers who climb the likes of Everest and K2?

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[They consider climbing a mountain sacrilegious because you are invading the territory of the gods.] They worry that not only will their children be punished but that their whole family will be punished. But the young people — especially in Pasang’s village, Hungung — think that mountaineering is the cool thing to do, that it’s your ticket to getting rich.

But in Pakistan, Amanda and I met orphans who didn’t understand that their fathers were dead. Others asked, “Why did these foreigners take my father away and let him die?”

From their standpoint, the kids felt like: These people come, they take my dad, and he doesn’t come home. And we never see the people who took him ever again. It was hard for them to understand why.

Are young people less afraid of the gods than their elders?

In general, yes. Old people still say it’s terrible to climb, and if you read old mountaineering journals you find stories about Sherpas who are afraid of the mountain gods. But now so many people have climbed Everest, the thought is that maybe the mountain goddess doesn’t really mind. Everest’s goddess [Miyo Lungsungama] is the goddess of prosperity, so maybe if you are getting paid well to climb Everest, she’s OK with it.

It’s hard to keep saying that the goddess hates you for climbing when people come back perfectly fine and have made lots of money.

How do Sherpas feel about the way they are stereotyped [as highaltitude load carriers]?

They have mixed feelings about it.

Some think it is fine because being a sherpa is very prestigious in Nepal.

On the other hand, saying an ethnic group is [equivalent to] a job is offensive. It would be weird to say being Jewish means you’re a banker, as in: He works with a Jew — that Wells Fargo.

But my overall impression is that they tolerate the stereotype and that it helps them in terms of making money.

I don’t think they are aware of how they are stereotyped in the U.S., where you can buy the Sherpa Dog Carrier, Baby Sherpa Maternity Belt, and the Short Haul Sherpa diaper bag. Some of that is culturally insensitive. But there are worse stereotypes; they are viewed as being really strong, hard

workers.

What were some of the mistakes that the 2008 expedition made?

One was putting together a [summit] team who didn’t all speak the same language and hadn’t worked together before and didn’t like each other. They also didn’t respect the turnaround time, continuing to go up when they knew they were going to have to descend at night. They tried to set fixed ropes from start to finish — same as on Everest — without realizing that they didn’t bring enough rope. They failed to bring some basic equipment, including a stove [to melt water]. And they had bad luck, as a big chunk of ice broke off [above a part of the route called the Bottleneck], which took out a lot of the fixed ropes, trapping climbers up high.

To be fair, it’s easier to identify these mistakes in retrospect. A lot of the same mistakes are made on expeditions that go well. It’s just that nobody reads about it unless there’s an accident.

Are Western climbers learning anything from disasters like the one in 2008?

Yes, I believe they are. K2 hadn’t been summited after the 2008 tragedy until this year, which suggests that climbers are being a lot more careful than before. The problem is that as the equipment gets better and climbers learn more and get better at mountaineering they feel they have to do more to distinguish themselves. As things get safer, people take more risks.

Why do you think it’s important to tell this story?

It’s a good adventure story that hopefully inspires people, although it is horrifying that so many people died.

But it’s also the story of these amazing athletes that rarely get written about.

My hope with the book is that it makes a small contribution to the way we tell stories, not just in mountaineering but in general. And that people will more deeply appreciate and respect the sherpas in their own lives. We are all surrounded by people we don’t notice very often, like the person who prepares your food at a restaurant or the mechanic who checks the plane before takeoff. I like the idea that there are sherpas all around us and that this disaster shows we can’t afford to ignore them. They need to be seen for who they really are, because our lives so often depend on them.

Jason Zasky is the founder and editorial director of failuremag.com.

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That’s evident on their cover of Hall and Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That,” which features Nicki Bluhm offering a mean kazoo solo. Released in March, it’s their 17th such “Van Session” video and it blew up quicker than an Italian sports car. To date it’s received more than 1.5 million views and the kind of viral validation you just can’t buy.

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“We were all keeping track of stuff and sharing when Bette Midler tweeted it.

Then Wil Wheaton and Cameron Crowe. We were a little pod of excitement sharing amongst the band. It was definitely a fun time.”

It’s just another element in a storm of attention beginning to swirl around Bluhm and her band the Gramblers since her decision last year to really go for it with the release of their second album, Driftwood. Bluhm had been a grade school teacher who also worked with horses. She caught her husband’s ear performing an impromptu blues song at a New Year’s party and he encouraged her to write music. He’d later offer to produce her 2008 debut, Toby’s Song.

“I grew up listening to the Hips and all my boyfriends had loved the band, so I started going to shows as a teenager. He was definitely one of my favorite songwriters of all time and always has been,” she says. “I trust his opinion and he’s made some really amazing records. So if he wanted to help me make a record, I was really flattered and honored.”

Shortly after the album’s release they were married, but it was still a couple years before Bluhm committed to really chasing this, a strange plunge for a 30-year-old woman to make. But she had plenty of encouragement.

“I had the support of my parents, which was huge,” she says. “And Tim really believes in me, and that helps a lot too.”

As if that weren’t enough, she’s also recruited guitarist Deren Ney, a childhood friend since first grade. Together they mine a ’70s AM radio glow, blending the golden country strains of Ronstadt’s one-time backing band, The Eagles; the sun-kissed jangle of the Bay Area’s folk-psych legacy; and Muscle Shoals soul. The playing is sharp and everyone contributes to the songwriting, though center stage frequently belongs

to Bluhm’s simmering croon and its torchy swoon.

They’ve kept busy. Aside from stepped up touring, and a remastered, rerelease of Driftwood this summer, Tim and Nicki unite on a new eight-song collection, Duets, and The Gramblers have also recorded a follow-up album. It comes out early next year, and Bluhm can’t wait.

“We kind of do a little bit of everything,” she says. “There are four songwriters in the band, so we definitely have a diverse collection of songs. I’m really proud of it. Really excited to have it come out. We’re actually playing some of the songs live. We just can’t help ourselves.”

One of the new tracks that has found its way into the set is “A Little Too Late (To Die Young),” a greasy rocker with a jammy Black Crowes feel.

You can find it on YouTube already.

Another even newer one to watch for that hasn’t made it online is “Chill I’m Blue,” which Tim wrote with steel-string guitarist Scott Law (Tony Furtado, The String Cheese Incident).

It’s perhaps a strange vocational change to make at 30, but when you get to see the world with your lifelong best friend and your husband, who can complain? Unlike most clueless 20-somethings who fall backassward into music, Bluhm had a plan.

“It really is business. There’s so much to it other than the music. Watching Tim I saw the structure in it, so it wasn’t just like one day, ‘Let’s make rock music.’

It was very organized,” she says.

It was a change she’d definitely make again.

“They’re all my best friends; I love everyone in my band so much. We’re like a family. We’re really lucky that our chemistry is so good … and I feel like I’m constantly growing and becoming a better performer.”

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o help generate a buzz for the release of its latest CD, If Not Now, When, Incubus’ management came up with a novel idea. The band would rent out a gallery storefront in Los Angeles, set up its instruments and play shows in this small space for six nights over a week’s time. Fans could find out when the shows were happening by contacting Incubus through social media and get invited to attend.

Clearly, playing at the storefront to an audience of dozens — instead of on a big stage to thousands of fans — was quite a switch from the usual Incubus concert, but bassist Ben Kenney says it wasn’t a completely foreign setting for the group.

“It really wasn’t all that strange because we do little promo stuff all over the place,” Kenney says, noting that launching a new album typically involves playing at radio stations and for other movers and shakers.

“Usually the difference is that we’re traveling around for these sort of things, going and doing little private performances and things like that.

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“That was the main difference, that and getting to get to hang out with people who are probably our most hardcore supporters, that was really cool,” Kenney says. “Every day after playing I would just hang out and there would be 20 or 30 people and these people were very into what we were doing and very supportive of it. And just getting to talk to everybody was nice.”

The six performances were streamed live on the Internet, and now the highlights of those six nights of storefront performances are available to everyone in a new DVD/two-CD set called Incubus HQ Live.

The two CDs capture the full performances of songs from across the seven-album Incubus catalog (although the sets emphasized material from the band’s four most recent albums). The more unique part of the set, though, is the DVD. Seeing the band perform in full electric format in such an intimate space gives a unique perspective on Incubus, and conversations with fans that were captured on film and interviews shed light on the band’s inner workings and the personalities of its five members — Kenney, singer Brandon Boyd, turntable artist DJ

Chris Kilmore, guitarist Mike Einziger and drummer Jose Pasillas.

And somehow it seems fitting that Incubus HQ Live arrives just as Incubus is completing its touring cycle behind If Not Now, When by co-headlining the Honda Civic tour with Linkin Park.

Once the tour ends, it looks as if it will be awhile before Incubus returns to action.

“We have no plans, to tell you the truth at the moment,” Boyd says. “We are, for the first time since 1996, we are free agents again. We’re without a record label. So what we’re kind of doing is trying to get our bearings as to what we should do next, just as a band, but also as a band that is kind of off in new territory again.”

Boyd says nothing has been decided about how long a break Incubus will take, although he said he hopes it won’t be as long as the two-year hiatus that preceded the making of If Not Now, When?

“What we like to do is arrive with the best of intentions and try and create music from a sense of urgency as well as purity and not necessarily based on a schedule,” Boyd says. “I know that that can be a little bit frustrating for our listeners and stuff. But I think that we’ll make better music as a result. So the plan is to have no plan.”

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Monsters in the dark

Podcast explores humanity’s fear of the unknown

by David Accomazzo

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n the summer of 2010, Jeff Emtman, then a student at Fairhaven College, was suffering a sleepless night when he had an epiphany. “[It was one of those] early morning insomniac revelations that you have sometimes, and I woke up and I realized that most of the decisions I make in my life are in some way stemming from fear,” Emtman says. “The path I’ve chosen in my life is to avoid uncomfortable situations, to avoid discomfort and rejection and to avoid potential heartbreak. I’ve just set up my life based around these fears.”

He decided to start facing his fears head-on. Having a self-described “unhealthy” fear of people he didn’t know, he set out on a 51-day journey during which he hitchhiked into Middle America and back, befriending total strangers and sleeping in parks and truck stops. After the trip, he moved to Boulder to pursue a radio story about a friend of his who was trying to become a boxer, but it fell through, leaving him jobless and in need of a new project. Still fascinated with those moments when humans confront the unknown, he birthed a podcast called “Here Be Monsters,” which he describes as “about monsters, not just the kind you find in picture books, but the kind that lurk in the uncharted corners of your mind.”

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The first episode dissects an experience with “prisoner’s cinema” — hallucinations that naturally occur in absolute darkness — Emtman had while playing hide and seek in an underground bomb shelter. The second examines how pre-Columbus mapmakers illustrated the unknown. The latter inspired the name of the podcast; medieval cartographers would draw sea serpents in water and put warnings such as “here are dragons” on uncharted or exotic territories. He won a SoundCloud Community Fellowship to support his work, netting him up to $5,000 in financial assistance, and he is currently wrestling with new ways to generate income, including applying for grants or begging listeners for donations, anticipating the day the money runs out.

Emtman’s style stems in part from his experience studying journalism in college. The content in traditional media such as newspapers bored him, and faced with uncertain job prospects, he decided to throw caution to the wind and make content that he would be interested in consuming.

“When I was in my journalism classes … there was this subtle fear that seemed to be underlain in every professor’s tone, since a lot of professors also worked at newspapers. And I could just feel them each year I went to college get more and more stressed out about

their job security,” Emtman says. “And I was like, ‘Well, I think I can see the problem here. I don’t buy newspapers because I think they’re boring.’ … I would buy newspapers if they interested me. So I was like, why don’t I make media that I would want to be the consumer of.”

The podcast certainly doesn’t follow radio journalistic conventions regarding storytelling, that’s for sure.

It’s like the public radio show Radiolab at its most esoteric. Emtman calls friends and puts the conversation into the podcast, simulates himself Googling a centuries-old book, and interviews an expert in maps, all placed over a rich sonic background of guitar, low droning tones, minimalist music and atmospheric ambience. There’s little that’s traditional about the podcast, and that stems from his dislike of traditional journalism.

“It was so interesting how much I love journalism and how much I didn’t love what they were teaching us to do,” Emtman says of his journalism education. “Sometimes I debate whether or not I consider myself a journalist or not. … My goal is to allow people to understand different perspectives and find the similarities and differences in their own opinions for themselves.”

Visit radio.jeffemtman.com to listen to “Here Be Monsters.”

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Thursday, August 30 music Acoustic Night. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

B.B. King & Tedeschi Trucks Band. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Blind Child. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

The Bluegrass Delta Force — With Chelsey Flaherty.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Dechen Hawk — With Murder of Prose. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

John Hiatt & The Combo — With Kyle James Hauser.

8 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Johnny O. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Laurie Dameron. 7:30 p.m. Frasier Meadows, 350 Ponca Pl., Boulder, www.lauriedameron.com.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Thunderhoney. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

The Ugli Stick. Niwot Rock N Rails Concert Series. Whistle Stop Park, 1st & Murray, Niwot, www.niwotcolorado.com/events.

Rachel Harrington. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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Benefit for EarthDance Boulder. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

The San Giovanni and Claudio Morelli Winemakers. 5-7 p.m. The Boulder Wine Merchant, 2690 S. Broadway St., Boulder.

Too Close to Home — Facing Sand Creek on the CU-Boulder campus, with Patricia Limerick. 7 p.m.

Native American Rights Fund, 1506 Broadway, Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Friday, August 31 music

Matt Flaherty’s Phish Tribute. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Alexis Pastuhov — With Isabelle Davis. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

The Milk Carton Kids. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Barbara Paris & Billy Wallace. 6-9 p.m. Niwot Market, 780 Niwot Road, Niwot, www.barbaraparis.com.

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The Grant Farm. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill, 77 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003 x2.

Laurie Dameron. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Mohammed Alidu & The Bizung Family. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

The Nacho Men. 8 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

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

Primal Mates. 7 p.m. Wanda’s Sipping Lounge, 138 E. Main St., Lyons, 303-823-5030.

Bonnie & The Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Sarah Angela, Mac Williams, Birds of a Feather, & Fiction is Fun. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Brian Parton. 9 p.m. No Name Bar, 1325 Broadway Ave., Boulder.

Sena Ehrardt. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Cameron Powers. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Sound Rabbit. 8 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

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

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

Drop Switch. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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panorama Wendy Rochman’s pulp paintings and collages are on view at NCAR.

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FEAT BILL KREUTZMANN (THE GRATEFUL DEAD) PAPA MALI, GEORGE PORTER JR & MATT HUBBARD W/ SAM HOLT BAND THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29

GYPSY LUMBERJACKS

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 30

ALAN EVANS TRIO W/ FUNK ARK

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

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FEAT MURS, ELIGH, SCARUB OF THE LIVING LEGENDS W/ PROF, ABSTRACT COLLECTIVE & CYSKO ROKWEL SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

DENVER BATTLE OF THE BANDS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

DIGITALISM W/ M MACHINE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 REGGAEMOVEMENT.COM & THE CLINIC PRESENT

EASY STAR ALL STAR’S THRILLAH W/ PASSAFIRE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

SHREDDED BEATS – DELTRON 3030

FEAT DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN, KID KOALA, DAN THE AUTOMATER & FULL LIVE BAND W/ PAUL BASIC, AIR DUBAI, THE REMINDERS & SPECIALGUESTS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

FIGURE

W/ROBOTIC PIRATE MONKEY, LAZERDISK PARTY SEX & VINNIE MANISCALCO

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

DJ PREMIER VS PETE ROCK W/ MU$A & SPECIAL GUESTS

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

JUNO WHAT?!

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

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THE LUMINARIES W/ THE RAP LEAGUE

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

SOUL REBELS BRASS BAND

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W/ FROGS GONE FISHIN’, THE REVIVALISTS & DIGG

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

Chief Niwot: Legend & Legacy. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Through Nov. 25.

Carol Walker, Wendy Rochman. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through Sept. 30.

Illusion. The Center for Fine Art Photography, Art Center of Fort Collins, 400 N. College Ave., 970-224-1010.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

THE CANOPY

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

THIS MUST BE THE BAND (TALKING HEADS TRIBUTE) W/ GROUND UP

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

ILLUMINATED PERCEPTION

The Yawpers. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

events Color-Ado Art Show. 12 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Grand Opening — Includes yoga, food, conscious hiphop, DJ Orpheus. 6-10 p.m. Adi Shakti Kundalini Yoga Center, 2014 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-252-3962.

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Zyzzyx Road. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. ATLAS Institute, Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., CU campus, Boulder, http://sanssoucifest.org.

Boulder Brew and Music Festival. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

EVERGREEN GRASS BAND W/ BUSTER BLUE & JAMI LYNN

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 BRIDGING THE MUSIC PRESENTS

MONDAY MADNESS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS

FREE ELECTRONIC TUESDAY FEAT KUEDO & DAWN SAFARI W/ DJ STEELZ, TIP-Z, TETSU, BLASTEK & CAUSTIK

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

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

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS

FREE ELECTRONIC TUESDAY FEAT KODE 9 & SUBLIMINAL

SmartRegs Inspector Training and Exam. 8:30 a.m.

– 4:30 p.m. Alfalfa’s, 1651 Broadway, Boulder, www. coloradogreenbuildingguild.org.

A Taste of Colorado. Civic Center Park, Denver, www. atasteofcolorado.com.

Saturday, September 1 music Abi Robins — With Folk Ragout. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Brian & The Zydeco Travelers. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Elisa Garcia. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Idlewhile and Monocle. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17

Wiz Khalifa — With Mac Miller and Chevy Woods. 7:30 p.m. Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 18300 West Alameda Parkway, Morrison, 720-865-2494.

Absolute! Fabulous Gorgeous! — Boulder County AIDS Project’s drag show and celebration. 7:30 p.m.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder 303-444-7328.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12-13 SONIC BLOOM & CERVANTES’ PRESENT

THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS SILVER SKY SPRING TOUR

Visual Rhythm. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122. Through Sept. 9.

The Importance of Dying — In the Bardos with Dzogchen. 7 p.m. Through Sunday, Sept. 2. Naropa University, Paramita Campus, Virya Room, 3285 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-0232.

FEAT ILYA, ISHE, INTERGALACTIC FANTASY SAFARI & SKYLESS

W/ NATURAL VIBRATIONS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10

Open for Design — A Denver Art Museum Community Challenge. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000.

Through Sept. 2.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18

Karen Barnett, painter, and Cheryl Pennington, hand-colored black and white photographs. The Old Gallery, 14863 Hwy. 7, Allenspark, 303-747-2089.

In the Courtyard, by Aliza Lelah; Industrial Heirloom, by Anne Mondro; Infotainment,

RALLY ROUND THE FAMILY

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G’ Jai’s Juke Joint. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

THE GREEN

by Evan Colbert; Past Lives, by Hilary DePolo Collective. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Johnny O. 6:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Rd., Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914 x313.

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

Trout Steak Revival. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Waterloo’s 5th Birthday. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Boulder Creek Hometown Fest. 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Central Park and the Boulder Public Library Lawn, Canyon Boulevard, 303-604-0203.

Color-Ado Art Show. 12 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

CU vs. Colorado State. 2 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. 7 p.m. ATLAS Institute, Black Box Theater, 1125 18th St., CU campus, Boulder, http://sanssoucifest.org.

A Taste of Colorado. Civic Center Park, Denver, www. atasteofcolorado.com.

Sunday, September 2 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m., Traditional Irish Session 7:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-4491922.

Alive On Arrival. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

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

The Hawks & The Found — With Noah Peterson.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio.

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1st Wednesday Music Club. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Monzingo Paradiso. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303485-9400.

Lindsay Meredith — With Chris Wilson. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Teresa Storch Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events Boulder Creek Hometown Fest. 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.

Central Park and the Boulder Public Library Lawn, Canyon Boulevard, 303-604-0203.

Color-Ado Art Show. 12 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Monday, September 3 music

Kelly Richey. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Open Mic. 730 p.m. Nissi’s Bistro, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

Terra Gatos. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

events DocuWest International Film Festival. Through Sept.

9. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, American

Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, www. docuwestfest.com.

10 a.m. Five senses discovery hike. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes. org.

55th Street Luncheon Series: Protecting Your Retirement Nest Egg. 12 p.m. Elevations, Wilderness Peaks Support Center, 2300 55th St., Boulder, 303-4431454.

Friday, August 31

KIDS CALENDAR

Blue Moon Hike — Explore the world of nocturnal animals. 7:30-9 p.m. Sawhill Ponds, North of Valmont Road, Boulder, www.naturehikes.org.

Thursday, August 30

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Spanish Story Time — Sounds. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Harmony on Harrison — Instrument Petting Zoo. 11 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Saturday, September 1

Storytime and Children’s Hike. 9:30 a.m. Story time.

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Art Stop. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contempo-

Brad Goode Jazz Jam. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Cajun Cookout and Concert — Feat. Lil’ Brian and the Zydeco Travelers, the California Honey Drops, Country Dog. 12-5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461.

Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Rickie Lee Jones — With Madeline Peyroux. 8 p.m.

Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

events Boulder Creek Hometown Fest. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Central Park and the Boulder Public Library Lawn, Canyon Boulevard, 303-604-0203.

Color-Ado Art Show. 12 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Dog Days of Summer — Dogs allowed in the pool.

4-6 p.m. LaMont Does Outdoor Pool, 500 South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

“So, You’re a Poet,” presents an open poetry reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder.

303-440-4628.

A Taste of Colorado. Civic Center Park, Denver, www. atasteofcolorado.com.

Tuesday, September 4 music Ash Ganley Trio. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

Dan Treanor. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Gasoline Lollipops. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

George Gershwin 75th Anniversary — Program includes “Short Story,” “Three Preludes for Piano,” “Selections from Porgy and Bess,” “Excerpts from An American in Paris,” “Two Songs” and “Suite from Girl Crazy.” 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St. & Euclid Ave., Boulder, music.colorado.edu.

Greg Harris Vibe Quintet. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Hank 3. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Open Stage. 7:15 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Out to Lunch. 7:30 p.m. Absolute Vinyl, 5630 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-803-8349.

events Copywriting for the Web. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Financial Peace University. 6:30 p.m. Cornerstone Church, 1190 South Lashley Lane, Boulder, 303-4995559.

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Cinderella. Boulder’s Dinner Theater, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 1.

Comic Con con Comedy. Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson Street, Lafayette, www.tclstage.org.

Fiddler on the Roof. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown, 970-7443747. Through Oct. 28.

The Glass Menagerie. Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company. Dairy Center for the Arts,

2590 Walnut, Boulder, 303-444-7328. Through Sept. 8.

PANORAMA from Page 43 rary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.

French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sunday, September 2 Go Club for Kids & Teens. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tuesday, September 4 Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Tactile Tuesday. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Wednesday, September 5 Storytime with Judy Volc. 10 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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

Watercolor Wednesday. 10:30 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., 303-604-2424.

Physical Therapy & Supervised Exercise

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Patricia Limerick’s new book, A Ditch in Time, will be celebrated at a release party on Sept. 5.

Thursday, August 30 Charles Squier — Poetry reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-5791644.

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Erin Likins and Allan Andre — Reading from Traveling by Mirror: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Tenderness. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-5791644.

Tuesday, September 4

Sunday, September 2 Workshop on the Collected Works of Barbara Guest — Reading “The Location of Things,” Archaics,” and “The Open Skies.” 10 a.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-5791644.

Monday, September 3 “So, You’re a Poet” — An open poetry reading.

8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St.,

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Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy — By Paul Thomas Murphy. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore, 1203 13th St., Ste. A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Wednesday, September 5 A Ditch in Time: The City, the West, and Water — By Patty Limerick. 6:30 p.m. Old Main, CU-Boulder campus, 303-492-4879.

A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget — By National Priorities Project, With Mattea Kramer. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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‘Hit and Run’ tries to merge genres, then wrecks

by Ryan Syrek

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verybody needs a little help.

Writer/director/actor Dax Shepard could have probably used another writer, a third director (David Palmer already co-directed) and a better group of actors for Hit and Run, a movie that is a cinematic traffic accident with multiple fatalities. Comedy, drama and action were all pronounced dead at the scene, and romance passed away on the way to the hospital. There’s nothing to see here, move along.

Hit and Run is about a former getaway driver in the witness protection program who now goes by Charles Bronson (Shepard). Get it? His girlfriend, Annie (Kristen Bell), believes he simply happened to see a crime he testified about and thus feels no remorse about planning a life with him, unconcerned about the potential of passing Shepard’s horrid hair genes on to future offspring. Despite knowing the risks, when Annie is offered a shot

at a dream job in L.A., Charlie ditches his U.S. marshal, Randy (Tom Arnold), and takes off in a muscle car with his gal.

This doesn’t sit well with Annie’s ex, Gil (Michael Rosenbaum), who is able to really easily deduce Charlie’s former identity using Google, which has probably made real-life witness protection a difficult gig. Gil uses this information to let Alex (Bradley Cooper), the man Charlie testified against, know where to find the stool pigeon. Why Alex isn’t in jail after murdering someone is never really explained, but details all get hazy as Shepard becomes obsessed with car chases and what he thinks is clever comedy.

Case in point, there’s a discussion about the use of the word “fag” as a synonym for lame. It’s a good explanation and socially responsible at that.

Unfortunately, it comes well after the introduction of a gay character who is

practically a sexual predator that we meet talking about getting handjobs from strangers. Not so good, Dax. It’s hard to make the semantic discussion of language choices stick after you reveal such a stupid, stereotypical joke of a character.

Speaking of characters who were a total joke, Randy could have been quite funny. Representing the slapstick relief, the hapless lawman bumbles and falls, discharging his gun, wrecking his car and so forth. Honestly, the situations could have been hilarious, if Arnold wasn’t a human representation of the place where funny things go to die.

Because they are a real-life couple, hands-down Shepard’s finest accomplishment to date, he and Bell have splendid little moments that mostly drown in a sea of uninteresting

Recyclists

‘Premium Rush’ rides on clichés

by Ryan Syrek

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his is not a good movie. It’s important to establish that early on so that you can understand how an appreciation of its moving parts doesn’t fully remove one central thesis: Premium Rush is crap. It may, however, be somewhat fun crap, depending on your tolerance for scenery chewing, “look how current we are” cultural references and spandex.

Actually, spandex is a good place to start, as Premium Rush is basically a superhero movie, written and directed by David Koepp, who worked on SpiderMan. Our hero ( Joseph Gordon-Levitt) was once a mild-mannered law student who discovered he had a supernatural gift involving bicycles stripped of gearshifts and brakes. Thus, he dropped out of school and became The Bike Messenger: The man without gears!

OK, he doesn’t call himself that, but he does change his name to Wilee, which is just as stupid.

Wilee loves the rush of being a bicycle courier in New York City in literally the exact same way Patrick Swayze’s character in Point Break loved surfing. His girlfriend, Vanessa (Dania Ramirez) is simultaneously Boulder Weekly

attracted to and repulsed by this fact, as she wants to quit this job and become a boring office worker. Her roommate, Nima ( Jamie Chung), requests Wilee from the messenger office to take an important envelope for her. The problem is, this is an envelope also coveted by a degenerate, murderous and corrupt police officer (Michael Shannon), who can only be defeated by street-level GPS. Let’s just stop right there because you get the idea: cat and mouse chases through dangerous intersections with a lot on the line. It’s not sophisticated and at times it is horrendously executed, culminating in a climactic bike flash mob that apparently stops the villain by being irritating. The backstories given to each character are just goofy and never pay off, including Wilee’s onetime law aspirations, Vanessa’s relationship strife and

sequences.

And then there’s Cooper. Bradley, Bradley, Bradley … Roles like this are supposed to be fun, a chance to play odd and unkempt against your normal cool-guy-with-abs persona. So why did you play it exactly like yourself only with ridiculous hair? The only answer is that is literally all you have to offer.

Please turn in your SAG card and enjoy your Hangover royalty checks.

Hit and Run is drab, boring and messy. Only Bell escapes unscathed, shielded beneath a protective layer of adorable, the sole survivor of a fourgenre pile-up.

— This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

fellow courier Manny (Wolé Parks) having mad hatred for his nemesis Wilee.

Again, Premium Rush sucks. But Gordon-Levitt is kind of a perfect hero, an exact match for Spider-Man and not a certain pointed bat-cowl he has flirted with.

The ground-level action isn’t revolutionary, nor is the gimmicky “start and stop time” trick, but they work in a simplistic, “what the hell” way. And then there’s Shannon.

There is no need to apologize for rolling around in Shannon’s epically hammy, mustache-twirling performance. An entire spin-off featuring just his squeakyvoiced, maniacal and yet somehow totally lazy villain would be an absolute delight. This isn’t Gary Oldman or Al Pacino over-emoting with flecks of spittle flying everywhere; this is something new, something more calculated and controlled. Shannon damn near moved this movie into “actually good” territory.

Good job. Good effort. But no cigar, Mr. Shannon.

Premium Rush is done in by its adherence to action routine and lazy writing, combined with a sense of trying way, way too hard to be “fresh,” as though flash mobs aren’t only seen in cell phone commercials now.

Still, this is the time when studios take out their trash, dumping the crap between the summer season and awards season. So, at least Premium Rush is fun crap.

—This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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reel to reel 2016: OBAMA’S AMERICA

A film by Dinesh D’Souza, author of Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream, speculates on how another four years of Obama as president would allow his sordid past to ruin America’s future. Rated PG. At Century.

KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE From the legendary Hayao Miyazaki comes the beloved story of a resourceful young witch who uses her broom to create a delivery service, only to lose her gift of flight in a moment of self-doubt. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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THE APPARITION

LAWLESS

A presence unleashed during a university parapsychology experiment haunts a young couple. Rated PG-13. At Century.

Because when the law says you can’t drink, only criminals will have alcohol. Based on the true story of the Bondurant brothers, bootleggers who fought back against the injustice of Prohibition. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

Forget concerns about star power and familiarity. Fight to see this movie and to let it be seen. We have never needed a coming-of-age fable set against environmental and poverty concerns as much as we need this. And it is more than up to the challenge. Rated PG-13.

At Century and Mayan. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

LOVE NEVER DIES

The Possession

So, if I open this box, the makings of a really terrible, predictable movie will come out? Whoopsie!

THE BOURNE LEGACY

As the Bourne series continues minus its star, Matt Damon, we find out about another super-secret spy program that produced super-secret super spies. Jeremy Renner stars as one of the program’s experimental subjects who, after the program is terminated, becomes the subject of a global manhunt, with Rachel Weisz starring as Renner’s doctor friend/sidekick/love interest. Rated PG-13.

At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s much-anticipated sequel to the multi-award winning The Phantom of the Opera takes us on a journey to New York, where the Phantom has escaped the fire at the Paris Opera House to begin a new life amongst the freaks and sideshows on Coney Island. A fully staged performance at The Regent Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

Sandra commences the investigation, following step-by-step instructions from the caller no matter how invasive they become. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the Revolution. Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres

COSMOPOLIS

THE GREEN WAVE

Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis play dueling politicians who are only slightly more addled and alarming than our real ones.Vulgar but hilarious, unrealistic but not without its own point, this is consistently funny, which is all you can ask for in a genre like this. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

New York City, not-too-distant-future: Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a 28-year-old finance golden boy dreaming of living in a civilization ahead of this one, watches a dark shadow cast over Wall Street. As he is chauffeured across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut at his father’s old barber, his anxious eyes are glued to the yuan’s exchange rate: It is mounting against all expectations, destroying Eric’s bet against it. Based on the novel by Don DeLillo. At Century and Denver Film Center. — Denver Film Society

Green is the color of hope. Green is the color of Islam. And green was the symbol of recognition among the supporters of presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who became the symbolic figure of the Green Revolution in Iran last year. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society

Once more, writer/director Wes Anderson dips his stylish pen into murky, melancholy tales of whimsy. This time out, the Royal Tenenbaums auteur follows a young “Khaki Scout” who flees from his troop and troop leader (Edward Norton) while camping on an island to unite with his prepubescent and troubled gal pal. Her parents, played by Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, and the island cop (Bruce Willis) give chase in this Instagram fairy tale. At Mayan. ­— The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

HIT AND RUN

NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND

See full review page 47. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

CASTLE IN THE SKY

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

HOPE SPRINGS

A young girl with a mysterious crystal pendant falls out of the sky and into the arms and life of young Pazu. Together they search for a floating island in the sky, site of a longdead civilization. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax — Denver Film Society

Director Christopher Nolan’s D.C. superhero legacy comes to an end as unwelcome and reluctant hero Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) dons his cape and deepens his voice once more. Batman battles for the future of Gotham against ruthless criminal Bane (Tom Hardy) with the help of the “catty” Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway). Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a married couple seeking to rekindle a big romance in the hands of a couples counselor (Steve Carell) in a small town. Tommy Lee at his most endearingly gruff and Meryl at her most blushingly flustered. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

The debut film from Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa is considered by many to be his masterwork. Set in a devastated future world decimated by atmospheric poisons and swarming with gigantic insects, Nausicaa is the story of a young princess whose love for all living things and passionate determination to understand the processes of nature lead her into terrible danger, sacrifice and eventual triumph. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax — Denver Film Society

THE IMPOSTER

THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN

Documentary meets film noir in the riveting jaw-dropper The Imposter, a true story that has the twists and turns of a thriller. In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems. At Boedecker. — Landmark Theatres

A young couple learns to expect the unexpected when it comes to children in this frolicky romp of a story that purposefully comes off with too much shine to be taken seriously.

Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square.

THE CAMPAIGN

CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER

Celeste (Rashida Jones) and Jesse (Andy Samberg) met in high school and are a young married couple who are growing apart. Now 30, Celeste is the driven owner of her own media consulting firm, while Jesse is once again unemployed and in no particular rush to do anything with his life. Celeste is convinced that divorcing Jesse is the right thing to do — she is on her way up, he is on his way nowhere. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

COMPLIANCE

Based on true events, Compliance tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a busy day at a suburban fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra (Ann Dowd) receives a phone call from a police officer saying an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky (Dreama Walker) has stolen money from a customer.

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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS The latest installment in this series based on the popular books sends the wimpy kid off on appropriately wimpy summer misadventures.

Rated PG. At Colony Square.

THE EXPENDABLES 2 The Expendables reunite for a bloody film bulked up with a cast that includes Sylvester Stallone, Jet Li, Chuck Norris, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren and Mickey Rourke. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

FAREWELL, MY QUEEN The period film Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoît Jacquot (A Single Girl, Sade) and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of

THE INTOUCHABLES The Intouchables, by French writer/directors Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, is the inspiring true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres

MOONRISE KINGDOM

THE OOGIELOVES IN THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE The Oogieloves — Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie — must track down five missing magical balloons for a secret surprise party. Toni Braxton, Cloris Leachman and Christopher Lloyd, who have nothing better to do with their time, help out. At Colony Square.

PARANORMAN 3D Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) sees dead people. This comes in handy when a witch that haunts his hometown is on the verge of creating mass hysteria and destruction. With Boulder Weekly

reel to reel few trusting friends and family members, this pre-teen makes with the funny and delivers a vastly important message, all while ducking brain-eating zombies. Not too shabby. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. POM POKO In this Studio Ghibli masterpiece, the forests are filled with groups of magical tanuki, mischievous raccoon-like animals from Japanese folklore that are capable of shape-shifting from their standard raccoon form to practically any object. At Denver FilmCenter/ Colfax — Denver Film Society THE POSSESSION A little girl buys a box full of trouble at a yard sale. The spirit inside is determined to inhabit and then eat her. Her family, and a rabbi, come to the rescue. But how films like this get to tag themselves as “based on a true story” is the real mystery. Rated PG-13.

At Century and Twin Peaks.

PREMIUM RUSH See full review page 47. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES With the epic dimensions of a Shakespearean tragedy, The Queen of Versailles follows billionaires Jackie and David’s rags-to-riches story to uncover the innate virtues and flaws of the American dream. At Chez Artiste — Landmark Theatres THE RAID: REDEMPTION As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown apartment block. Then a spotter blows their cover. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater THE REVENANT A horror comedy in the vein of Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland, the film tells the story of a soldier (David Anders, from TV’s 24 and Vampire Diaries) who is killed in Iraq and then finds himself resurrected as a “revenant,” or one who has returned from the dead. He turns to his slacker best friend (Chris Wylde, of Descent and The Ten) to help him manage his newfound thirst for blood, and the duo quickly realize that this zombie-fied state is a perfect opportunity to become vigilante crime fighters. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society ROBOT & FRANK In the dramatic comedy Robot & Frank, set in the near future, Frank, a retired cat burglar, has two grown kids who are concerned he can no longer live alone. They are tempted to place him in a nursing home until Frank’s son chooses a different option: Against the old man’s wishes, he buys Frank a walking, talking humanoid robot programmed to improve his physical and mental health. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres RUBY SPARKS Calvin (Paul Dano) is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing — as well as his romantic life. Finally, he makes a breakthrough and creates a characBoulder Weekly

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SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED In this scrappy romantic comedy, an unusual classified ad inspires three cynical Seattle Magazine employees to look for the story behind it. They discover a mysterious eccentric named Kenneth, a likable but paranoid supermarket clerk, who believes he’s solved the riddle of time travel and intends to depart again soon. At Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. — Denver Film Society

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SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN In the late ’60s, two celebrated producers discovered a musician in a Detroit bar — an artist who reminded them of a Chicano Bob Dylan, perhaps even greater. They believed the album they subsequently produced with Rodriguez — Cold Fact — was the masterpiece of their producing careers. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and became a phenomenon. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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The new kitchen ingredient: old cookbooks

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eter Peckham and Patricia Edwards, who goes by the nickname Ed, are the husband-andwife team behind an Internet company called www.oldcookbooks.com that sooner or later will show up on the computer screen of any serious cook or food lover. Their inventory of vintage cookbooks, heavy on 20th century American classics, numbers well over 10,000 volumes.

All are for sale. And, as these avid cookbook collectors attest, the volumes offer far more than recipes.

What’s the attraction of vintage cookbooks?

Patricia Edwards: Old cookbooks appeal to three

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kinds of people. First, there are collectors — maybe they collect a particular subject, like cookbooks from the old South, or maybe they specialize in illustrated cookbooks. There are also replacers. Maybe their mom passed on a cookbook they want to replace because their copy fell apart. Or they want to get it as a gift.

Peter Peckham: Others enjoy vintage cookbooks because often they’re fun to read and offer a good way to learn about history and culture. They tell a lot about life when they were written. Several of the American classics are thick cookbooks, which give a lot of information not just about recipes and how to cook, but also about homemaking in general, how to set the table, how to serve food, how to entertain.

PE: There are some very interesting wartime cookbooks that talk about how to cook with the lesser amounts of rationed sugar and eggs and so on. It provides an interesting picture of what life was like during World War II.

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LUCKY LOCALS REWARDED WITH MORE YUMMY CREATIONS

Locally owned Lucky’s Market has announced plans to open a bakehouse and creamery adjacent to its store, adding another element to a shopping center that already features the natural grocer and Lucky’s Café, a breakfast and lunch joint.

Beginning in October, Lucky’s bakehouse and creamery will serve all natural ice cream and will feature cakes and pastries created by Chef Jen Bush. It is scheduled to be open seven days a week.

Lucky’s Market, Café and the anticipated bakehouse and creamery are located at 3990 Broadway.

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by Clay Fong

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ramble and Hare — the Sandy and Steve and I were tempted name evokes an English by this offering. However, we felt countryside pub, perhaps a we’d better appreciate the kitchen’s spot in the Cotswolds. capabilities by ordering a small plate Waggish diners may initially assortment. dismiss this as Black Cat Bistro Chef We began with the $7 Detroit Eric Skokan’s attempt at creating a sort beet salad, an expertly balanced mix of Locale Next Door. of sweet and tart. A Yet this new selfcrisp mix of organic Bramble and Hare styled farmhouse greens served as the 1970 13th St., Boulder kitchen and pub disunderlying founda303-449-9110 tinguishes itself by tion for chunks of offering locavore golden sugar beet and small plates as well as pleasantly chewy a relatively affordable prix fixe menu farro, barley’s smaller-grained cousin. spotlighting ingredients from Skokan’s The ingredients’ earthy qualities were farm. winningly complemented by the dressing’s vibrant citrusy tones.

A sign near the door depicting a Less compelling was the $5 soup of culinarily trained hare echoes illustrathe day, a colorful beet and apple gaztions from Alice in Wonderland. A dark, pacho.

Flavored with spices that hinted intimate and comfortable space, at Szechuan peppercorns or the seasonBramble and Hare combines the urbane ings associated with Ethiopian doro sophistication of the bistro with rustic wat stew, our initial take was that it was farmhouse comforts. One intriguing too acidic.

But after a while, Steve proatmospheric touch is the use of liveclaimed, “It starts to grow on you.” stock pelts as a design accent. My inner The ambitious $10 dish of buffalo larcenous self was sorely tempted to sweetbreads would have benefited from appropriate a soft snowy white sheepa warmer serving temperature.

Deep skin for use as a car seat cover. Criminal temptations aside, it’s an ideal spot for a frying also obscured the flavor of these romantic rendezvous or refined latedelicate tidbits. Similarly, the $6 night repast, since its hours extend until steamed bun with beet and goat cheese, 1:30 a.m. which seemed intriguing on paper, The $29 fixed price dinner on the didn’t quite click in its execution. night of my visit featured confit chicken Sandy thoroughly enjoyed the $7 legs with couscous, a starter of charred smoked Mulefoot pork served with apple salad with pecans and dessert. cooked greens and lentils. Raised by New friends and fellow epicureans Skokan, this pig possessed full flavor,

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Clay’s Obscurity Corner Solid hooves

ulefoot hogs are a domestic pig noted for their noncloven hooves, resembling those of a mule. Originally brought to what would become the American Gulf Coast in the 1500s by the Spanish, these pigs were well-suited for growth in damp environments. The solid nature of their hooves made them immune from the dreaded “hoof rot,” and these animals could grow to 400 to 600 pounds in the space of two years. At one point, the number of Mulefoot breeders dwindled to one in the United States, although this pig’s compelling flavor has led to its welcome comeback.

augmented by accomplished smoking that put the insipid flavor of mass-market hogs to shame. Bits of meltingly tender meat also enhanced this memorable dish. Similar textural pleasures were also apparent in the poultry anchoring the $10 roast chicken plate with beans and squash, shot through with pleasing vanilla accents.

Our hands-down favorite of the evening was a sophisticated $7 “doughnut” embellished with a piping of duck pate and a bright marmalade. The orange cut the luxuriant richness of the

bird while underscoring the fine qualities of the doughnut, which more closely resembled an unsweetened puff pastry. This dish was worthy of a Parisian bistro.

There’s no question that Bramble and Hare brims with culinary ambition.

Some dishes, like the soup, that fall short are more the product of bold experimentation than a lack of competence. But when this eatery hits the right notes, as it does with the duck doughnut, it’s awfully tough to beat.

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This fall, the 7,000-square-foot space will be home to a full-service bar and restaurant, as well as a full-production brewery. In addition to indoor seating for more than 200 guests, Fate will feature five core beers and specialty releases.

Echoing the sentiment of so many Colorado craft brewers before him, Fate founder Mike Lawinski says the bar will honor other members of the craft industry by dedicating some of the 30 beer taps to other great-tasting local beers.

Lawinski promises a memorable experience for those who come into the restaurant, and has plans to distribute Fate brew to liquor stores and bars throughout Colorado. Look up fatebrewingcompany.com for more information.

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If Avery keeps up this pace, tap room patrons may start volunteering to stick around and help out with chores.

The local brewery was named as one of Outside Magazine’s “Best Places to Work” in the September issue of the publication, which recently hit the newsstands. Celebrating innovative companies with an adherence to a healthy work/life balance, the list placed Avery at No. 49 out of 100.

In citing Avery’s awesome benefits, a communal atmosphere and a weekly case of beer for each member of the production team, the “Best Places to Work” list may set off pangs of jealousy for some. Wash them away with some great craft brew at 5763 Arapahoe Ave.

A BATTLE WITH MEN USING SHARP KNIVES

In the words of local food lovers, “Allez Cuisine!”

On Sept. 13, the Farmer Cultivation Center will host the FlatIron Chef Local Food Cookoff at the Spice of Life Event Center at the Flatirons Golf Course. In addition to a six-course farm-to-table dinner featuring local wine and beer, the fundraiser will showcase local chefs in a cooking competition. Jaime Martinez from Aji Latin American Restaurant, Ryan “Ko” Cunningham from Rollin Greens and Kyle Mendenhall of The Kitchen will square off to create a meal from a basket of local ingredients in only 45 minutes.

Tickets to the event are $75, and can be purchased at www. everybody-eats.org. Proceeds from the event go to the Farmer Cultivation Center, which goes to help train new generations of farmers on planning and managing techniques.

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At Baker Street Pub & Grill, you don’t need an excuse to party, but they are throwing one anyway.

After Labor Day, the month of September can get a little monotonous. Yet some clever lad or lass figured out the 15th is six months until St. Paddy’s Day, so what better way to celebrate than a Halfway to St. Patrick’s Day celebration at Baker Street?

All locations, including the one at 1729 28th St. in Boulder, will be featuring live music, prize giveaways and luck o’ the Irish toasts.

Happy hour specials will run until 9 p.m., and of course green beer will be served.

Check out bakerstreetpub.com for more details.

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Are cookbooks appreciating in Peter: Cooks often write notes in their value and how much do autographed cookbooks, and to a lot of our customcopies increase the value of a cookers, these are very desirable. They give book? the cookbook a provenance, an authenPE: They are going up in value, but ticity of somebody having used this only for specific titles, for instance, rare book for a long time and an indication and difficult to find cookbooks, such as of which recipes are good. Often there a first edition Joy of Cooking, and midare suggested ingredient substitutions or 20th century cookbooks in excellent recipe changes. condition. An example would be a 1965 Does that add a kind of voyeuristic dimension to acquiring a vintage cookBetty Crocker binder cookbook. It’s relbook? atively easy to find, but difficult to find PE: I think that’s sometimes part of in excellent condition. Those are going for $100 to $150 in excellent condition. the charm. I’ll read what’s been written What genres in the cookbook appeal most to and think about cookbook collecthe person who “I’ve had people send tors? was using it and PP: American what their life me emails telling me, classics, which was like.

‘My mother cried when cover a wide range What’s your she opened up her of American recipes most requested Christmas present.’ Most cookbook? from the 20th century. The most PE: Our recently, it was Lily Walpopular tend to be most requested lace’s New American the larger, more offering is a tiny Cookbook, a thick ’40s comprehensive advertising bookcookbook a daughter cookbooks: Betty let put out by Crocker, Fanny gave to her mother, who Baker’s Coconut Farmer, Meta called Animal is now in her 80s, beGiven. Also popuCut-Up Cakes. It cause her original copy lar are what we call sells for about had fallen apart.” community or $40. There are fundraiser cookfour or five dif— Patricia Edwards books put out by ferent versions churches or junior and each has difleague organizaferent cakes. We tions. What’s interhear all the time: esting about these “Oh, my Mom is that they are from a group of folks in let me pick a cake from this for my a specific area and a specific time, so birthday every year. And now I want my they offer a picture of that community kids to be able to do the same thing.” at that particular time.

The cakes are just adorable.

PE: And they often use the regional For a lot of people, cookbooks offer foods. Cross Creek Cookery, while not a an emotional connection, don’t they? charity cookbook, is a regional cookPE: I’ve had people send me emails book from Florida, and was written by telling me, “My mother cried when she Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, who opened up her Christmas present.” wrote The Yearling. It has a recipe called Most recently, it was Lily Wallace’s New Creamed Pokeweed on Toast.

American Cookbook, a thick, ’40s cookWhat are some of the things you’ve book a daughter gave to her mother, found between the pages of old cookwho is now in her 80s, because her origbooks that come into your possession? inal copy had fallen apart.

Peter: We have folders full of stuff. We Who does the cooking in your famoften find handwritten recipes someone ily? Do you consult your vast shelves of has taken down from someone else and cookbooks for recipes? tucked into a favorite cookbook. A lot PP: I’m the cook in the family. I’ve of old coupons, which are fun to see, always enjoyed cooking. I’m really excitbecause they’re often for products that ed about food from other parts of the don’t exist any more. world, especially Thai cooking and PE: We’ve found letters. Flowers Vietnamese cooking. One of the hardest pressed between the pages. parts of the job is to be constantly lookPP: Grocery store receipts from 40, ing at all these cookbooks and want to 50 years ago, some handwritten. try everything. But there are only so PE: Mostly we come across recipes many meals in a day. that people have clipped or written in — www.featurewell.com the margin of their cookbooks.

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The usual suspects of grilled cheese and BLTs with avocado share space on the lunch bill of fare alongside meatless specialties like Gardenburgers and a tempeh Reuben. The abovementioned huevos are adorned with particularly flavorful red and green chiles, and the Monte Cristo sandwich serves up sweet and savory satisfaction.

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meatless nacho starters to dairy-free cupcakes. The seitanbased meatball sub is a winner, as is the Soul Bowl, a surprisingly compelling take on Southern fried chicken sans poultry.

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oused in the former site of Juanita’s on West Pearl, the new Pastavino is a winning exercise in fairly priced Italian classicism. Featuring entrees like veal legs, New York steak and baked fish cioppino, this eatery also unsurprisingly features a plethora of noodle dishes. Daily pasta specials include the veal canneloni, a rich concoction of meat and cream sauce, and one can’t-miss item is the spaghetti vongole, featuring Manila clams in a perfectly balanced white wine sauce. The rare beef Carpaccio and Fritto Misto mix of fried calamari and bay scallops are noteworthy starters.

espite Thai Avenue Rice & Noodle’s humble appearance, quick service setup and rock-bottom prices, it unquestionably stands as one of Boulder’s top choices for Thai. Located in a basement food court on University Hill, this order-at-the-counter spot dishes out heaping portions of topnotch Pad Thai, with subtle hints of tamarind and egg. The red curry stands out for its winning complexity of flavor, punctuated by the perfume of fresh basil.

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earl Street’s Cured, a small and welcoming shop, is the perfect spot to indulge cravings for fine wine, cheese and charcuterie. This open brick-and-wood space also includes the sublime Boxcar Coffee’s retail outlet. Cured is a go-to destination for top-notch gourmet sandwiches artfully combining the best crusty baguettes in town with artisan charcuterie, like prosciutto and salami, and small-batch cheeses.

For a special occasion or picnic, signature platters of charcuterie and cheese are just the ticket.

Boulder favorite since the early ’90s, the Mountain Sun continues to dish out its winning combination of microbrews, salads and sandwiches. Burgers range from your standard-issue cheeseburgers to more distinctive selections like the brightly herbal basil blue cheeseburger.

Other offerings, such as the tender Monterey chicken sandwich and hearty hummus starter, also hit the culinary mark.

t’s easy to associate the West End Tavern with bar staples like chicken wings and beer, which are in fact available. But this association doesn’t acknowledge this eatery’s considerable acumen in replicating American cookout standards.

Back-to-basics choices like the Tavern burger, with its unpretentious pairing of Colorado’s Best Beef meat and aged cheddar, illustrate how the simple can create great satisfaction. Barbecued items from the smoker, such as pulled pork, beef brisket and ribs, are also worthwhile selections evoking summer tastes.

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dhering to the ’50s eatery theme, the StarLite Diner and Lounge features burgers, sandwiches and pizza, as well as breakfast faves like French toast and Denver omelets. There’s also an assortment of ice cream treats, including milkshakes and hot fudge sundaes. New York pizza adherents will enjoy the thin-crusted pies, and burger fans will appreciate the reasonably priced grass-fed offering.

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I dreamed you were a magnanimous taskmaster nudging the people you care about to treat themselves with more conscientious tenderness. You were pestering them to raise their expectations and hew to higher standards of excellence. Your persistence was admirable! You coaxed them to waste less time and make long-range educational plans and express themselves with more confidence and precision. You encouraged them to give themselves a gift now and then and take regular walks by bodies of water. They were suspicious of your efforts to make them feel good, at least in the early going. But eventually they gave in and let you help them.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22:

In the spirit of Sesame Street, I’m happy to announce that this week is brought to you by the letter T, the number 2, and the color blue. Here are some of the “T” words you should put extra emphasis on: togetherness, trade-offs, tact, timeliness, tapestry, testability, thoroughness, teamwork, and Themis (goddess of order and justice). To bolster your mastery of the number 2, meditate on interdependence, balance, and collaboration. As for blue, remember that its presence tends to bring stability and depth.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

In the creation myths of Easter Island’s native inhabitants, the god who made humanity was named Makemake. He was also their fertility deity. Today the name Makemake also belongs to a dwarf planet that was discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune in 2005. It’s currently traveling through the sign of Virgo. I regard it as being the heavenly body that best symbolizes your own destiny in the coming months. In the spirit of the original Makemake, you will have the potential to be a powerful maker. In a sense you could even be the architect and founder of your own new world. Here’s a suggestion: Look up the word “creator” in a thesaurus, write the words you find there on the back of your business card, and keep the card in a special place until May 2013.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

When novelist James Joyce began to suspect that his adult daughter Lucia was mentally ill, he sought advice from psychologist Carl Jung. After a few sessions with her, Jung told her father that she was schizophrenic. How did he know? A telltale sign was her obsessive tendency to make puns, many of which were quite clever. Joyce reported that he, too, enjoyed the art of punning. “You are a deep-sea diver,” Jung replied.

“She is drowning.” I’m going to apply a comparable distinction to you, Libra. These days you may sometimes worry that you’re in over your head in the bottomless abyss. But I’m here to tell you that in all the important ways, you’re like a deep-sea diver. (The Joyce-Jung story comes from Edward Hoagland’s Learning to Eat Soup.)

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In Christian lore, the serpent is the bad guy that’s the cause of all humanity’s problems. He coaxes Adam and Eve to disobey God, which gets them expelled from Paradise. But in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, there are snake gods that sometimes do good deeds and perform epic services. They’re called Nagas. In one Hindu myth, a Naga prince carries the world on his head. And in a Buddhist tale, the Naga king uses his seven heads to give the Buddha shelter from a storm just after the great one has achieved enlightenment. In regards to your immediate future, Sagittarius, I foresee you having a relationship to the serpent power that’s more like the Hindu and Buddhist version than the Christian. Expect vitality, fertility, and healing.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

In Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen tells Alice that she is an expert at believing in impossible things. She brags that there was one morning when she managed to embrace six improbable ideas before she even ate breakfast. I encourage you to experiment with this approach, Capricorn. Have fun entertaining all sorts of crazy notions and unruly fantasies. Please note that I am not urging you to actually put those beliefs into action. The point is to give your imagination a good workout.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

I’m not necessarily advising you to become best friends with the dark side of your psyche. I’m merely requesting that the two of you cultivate a more open connection. The fact of the matter is that if you can keep a dialogue going with this shadowy character, it’s far less likely to trip you up or kick your ass at inopportune moments. In time you might even come to think of its chaos as being more invigorating than disorienting. You may regard it as a worthy adversary and even an interesting teacher.

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