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Erie mayor fracks with nature

(Re: “We want Erie’s next check,” ICUMI, Feb. 14.) Mayor Joe, for numerous weeks I have read your opinions in the Colorado Hometown Weekly and watched you bumble your way through with more name-calling (melodramatic, over-the-top fracktivists, and you even had the audacity to cut down Al Gore.) Who really has the tunnel vision?

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by Jim Hightower

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ny remake of the 1950s movie The Bad Seed should cast Monsanto in the title role.

This biotech behemoth has a monopolistic grip on the creation and sale of Frankenseeds — the seeds of corn, cotton, soybeans and other crops that have had genetically modified organisms spliced into their natural DNA structure by corporate lab-techs.

Why insert risky, inadequately tested GMOs into our food supply? To produce crops that can survive heavier

This is what I read in the Erie Health Study Data Report: Cynthia Elwood of Lakewood-based Pinyon Environmental Inc. reviewed the air sampling performed in Erie last year.

Cynthia really covered her butt in this report.

Elwood states: #1. “Concentrations of various (not all) compounds are comparatively low and not likely to raise significant health issues of concern.”

#2. “However, it is unable to estimate the potential risk due to exposure from multiple chemicals at the same time which may be higher.” #3. “Let me just say, that this is not a perfect study. It is limited.

There are 18 data points and it was a one-month period and it’s one well pad.” (18 data points out of hundreds) Mayor Joe Wilson, how can you

doses of toxic pesticides — specifically, pesticides marketed by Monsanto. The corporation gets more profit, we get more pesticides and new man-made health risk.

That’s enough to make a truly horrific movie about the bad seed, but Monsanto has added to the horror by almost sadistically applying another level of its monopoly power. Having patented the GMO technology, the corporation asserts that when the plants grow in a farmer’s field and subsequently produce their own seeds, those second-generation seeds do not belong to the farmer, but are Monsanto’s private property.

Thus, the seed-saving ethic that has sustained agriculture all around the world for centuries has been decreed illegal to benefit Monsanto — and the profiteering giant prowls the country to find and sue any of its own customers who dare practice the sensible art of

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

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seed saving. The bully has 75 staffers and a $10 million-a-year budget dedicated to monitoring, investigating, prosecuting and intimidating small farmers, even if some second-generation GMO seeds crop up in their fields inadvertently.

This is a case of one deep-pocket corporation perverting patent law in order to monopolize the sale of seeds, gouge thousands of farmers, and endanger both human health and the environment. What a deal!

To fight the ongoing horror of this bad seed, go to: www.

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Th e Co lorado Oi l & Ga s As so ciatio n ap ol og izes to th e Ci ty of Fo rt Co lli ns fo r fa ki ng mos t of th e sig natu re s on th e pro-frac ki ng pe ti tio n we pres en te d to Ci ty Co un cil .

Cooperating on health care

by Dave Anderson

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any people believe Obamacare (or the Affordable Care Act) established a universal health care system like those that exist in every other industrialized country.

But even after ACA fully goes into effect, as many as 30 million Americans still might not have health insurance (out of the 50 million currently uninsured).

ACA requires all Americans to purchase private health insurance coverage, and consequently prohibits private insurers from barring someone from purchasing coverage because of a “preexisting condition.”

But there are no cost controls. That is an enormous problem. A study in The American Journal of Medicine showed that more than half of all personal bankruptcies are due to disastrous medical bills. So there is a provision in ACA that allows a state to obtain a waiver from the federal program to create a different system.

Sen. Irene Aguilar (D-Denver) wants to use that provision to establish a Colorado Health Care Cooperative.

Under this plan, Coloradans would form their own self-insurance pool to pay for the cost of medical care. Every resident of the state would be memberowners. It would be run by an elected 15-member board.

The cooperative would use a highly successful business model. More than 29,000 cooperatives can be found in every sector of the economy and in every congressional district. The majority of America’s 2 million farmers are members of the nearly 3,000 farmerowned cooperatives. More than 7,500 credit unions provide financial services to 91 million U.S. consumers. More than 900 rural electric co-ops deliver electricity to more than 42 million people in 47 states. Some 350 million Americans hold co-op memberships.

Under Aguilar’s cooperative, employers would pay a 6 percent payroll tax for each worker, while employees would pay a 3 percent share. Currently employers and employees pay on average 11.8 percent of payroll for health insurance. Employers also pay for workers’ compensation insurance, which includes medical expenses that would be covered by the cooperative.

All Coloradans would get “platinum-level” health plans, the highest level of benefits under the ACA. Those 8 February 28, 2013

plans would include primary and specialty care, hospitalizations, emergency visits, prescription coverage, mental health care, substance abuse treatment and some limited dental, vision and hearing benefits.

A new economic study from University of Massachusetts Amherst economist Gerald Friedman estimates Colorado would spend $4.8 billion less on health care in 2016 under the cooperative than if the state proceeded with changes under the ACA. The savings are expected to increase over time, with an estimated $10 billion in savings in 2020 and $16.8 billion in 2024.

This shouldn’t be too surprising, since under the cooperative, health care providers interact with patients directly.

The private, for-profit insurance industry would no longer be a middleman.

One-third of each health care dollar currently goes to “administrative costs.”

Our premiums pay for Kafkaesque paperwork, obscene CEO salaries, marketing, lobbying of politicians, campaign donations and sales commissions.

According to Health Affairs, physician practices incur substantial costs in time and labor interacting with multiple insurance plans about claims, coverage and billing for patient care and prescription drugs. Physician practices spent $82,975 per physician per year.

Nursing staff, including medical assistants, spent 20.6 hours per physician per week interacting with health plans.

When Aguilar’s plan gets on the ballot, she will be attacked by a tsunami of lies and deceptions in creepy and ominous TV commercials. We need a grassroots mobilization to fight back.

Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports that U.S. retailers and restaurant chains are considering cutting working hours or paying fines rather than enrolling employees in health insurance plans mandated by Obamacare. David Dillon, CEO of the Kroger supermarket chain (which includes King Soopers), said that some firms might decide to pay a penalty for not providing insurance because it could be cheaper than the cost of coverage.

That is shortsighted. If we had a universal health care system in this state, firms would be able to spend less on health care. As a result, Colorado would be more attractive to business. Wouldn’t that be better than those stupid (and ineffective) “enterprise zones” which cut business taxes and undermine city and state budgets?

by Joel Dyer & Dave Kirby

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I see it too!

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keep insisting that, “This is terrific news for Erie families, who have been misled into believing they were at significant risk”? You are not just working against Erie citizens, you’re fracking with nature, and past statements will come back to haunt you. Of course, when we do have earthquakes, like the ones now occurring in Texas, you’ll just say it’s because we’re on the fault line!

David L. Johnson/Erie

Frank Danish

(Re: “Want to bring back the draft? Here’s how.” Danish Plan, Feb. 21.) I’ll be damned if I don’t have a single criticism for Mr. Danish’s article this week.

As always, he’s saying what no one wants to hear by frankly stating the obvious — I respect that.

Crystal Hendry/Boulder

One correction to your review

Regarding Steve Weishampel’s review of Seeking Asian Female (Feb. 14), I would like to make one correction.

The connection I made with Sandy in China began with eight months of emailing and almost nightly hours of web-cam communication before my first trip to meet her in China.

I have now been to China nine times. I met Sandy there on my fifth trip, on which we were together for 10 days. Then another to meet her parents. Then another to visit and get

to know each other better.

Then a trip to go through the immigration process at the U.S. Embassy, and finally bring her here to the U.S. Since we have been married, we have gone back to see family and sightsee.

It was a nice long courtship and we knew each other much more than what you have assumed. We are both computer-savvy and communicated often with translations via each of our computers. We had a lot of fun doing that. Most of the time we did not need to do that.

Sandy’s English was minimal at first but she is an extremely fast learner.

We have been married three and a half years now. Pretty happy too.

Steven Bolstad/via Internet

Thanks for coverage

Thank you for your wonderful and well-researched article “Fish on the line” (Boulderganic, Jan. 17).

I am delighted that you included my Colorado Ocean Coalition perspective in the article. This is an important topic and many people do not realize that they have a significant impact on ocean health by simply making personal choices. I have had many calls regarding the opportunities for people to engage in this somewhat complicated topic, and I thank you for covering this in Boulder Weekly.

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he City of Boulder has reached another milestone in its effort to explore creation of a municipal electric utility company. Staff has prepared a 285-page memo for city council members explaining that it is, indeed, possible for the city to successfully create a municipal utility company that meets all the guidelines set forth in the city charter.

The findings in the memo were presented at a council study session on Tuesday, Feb. 26. The memo contained five different economic models based on varying criteria, including three different estimates of the acquisition and stranded costs from Xcel.

Based on the city’s models, it appears that municipalization gets a green light at this point.

But not everyone agrees with the city’s findings or models.

Municipalization tends be somewhat of a minefield. Just when you think it’s safe to move forward, another unforeseen and potentially explosive problem blocks the way. There is no question that city staff and their hired experts did a great deal of quality work to arrive at their conclusions. But even so, their report to council is based on several assumptions that simply are not as black and white as they would have us believe.

When the time comes, despite all the assurances from the city’s legal team that they are absolutely certain of the city’s rights under the law to take Xcel’s grid and customers for their own, Xcel will have several of the nation’s leading energy attorneys sitting on the other side, making very persuasive arguments as to why the city can’t do what it is trying to do — or at least has to pay far more for the privilege.

In the end, barring some sort of partnership between the city and Xcel, this will come down to a legal battle between the City of Boulder’s attorneys and those representing one of the most powerful and politically influential corporations in the country. And Xcel will not simply be fighting to keep its monopoly over Boulder intact, it will be fighting to keep its very business model intact, thereby maintaining the value of 10 February 28, 2013

its shares. Xcel may lose, but it will not go gently. **** While the city’s economic models appear to be quite well-researched, conservative and therefore very feasible, there are several factors that could potentially alter or even derail the city’s ability to create a utility that have not been modeled to date.

One of the municipalization mines remaining to be defused is how the cost of creating a city utility would be divided among ratepayers if any of the major local energy users, like IBM, the University of Colorado, the federal labs and/or Ball Aerospace were to find a way to opt out of the city’s utility.

Heather Bailey, Boulder’s executive director of energy strategy and electric utility development, acknowledges that those entities have “pounded on us pretty hard” about the implications of municipalization, but she says they would likely come around when they see how low rates can be when buying wholesale power, as the city would do.

Still, Bailey acknowledges that there are fixed costs that would have to be split fewer ways — more per ratepayer — if one or more of the major players weren’t helping shoulder the costs. But city officials say they haven’t modeled that scenario because the large industrial

power users don’t really have a choice under Colorado law. According to the city, they have to get their electricity from the city once a municipal utility is formed, unless, for instance, a company like IBM builds its own power generation plant. But this may be too simple of a reading on the situation.

While it’s true that, under the city’s interpretation of the law, the large users would have to stay with Boulder’s municipal utility once it is formed, it doesn’t speak to the distinct possibility that one or more of the largest users could attempt to separate themselves from a future Boulder utility — prior to the formation of that utility. In other words, they might be legally able to separate themselves now, or during the next several months. Such a move would be tricky, and would no doubt require the cooperation of Xcel, but it may be possible, and there is no reason to assume that Xcel would not be a more-thanwilling partner in such an effort.

If the fixed costs were spread among fewer users, it’s unclear how much rates would increase, because this is not one of the scenarios that the city has modeled. Would it change the rates to the degree that they could be higher than those currently being charged by Xcel, a fact which would violate the city charter, which only allows for creating a municipal utility if the rates being

charged to customers is less than those charged by Xcel? Again, it’s simply unclear.

IBM spokesperson Mike Stratton was noncommittal about the company’s position on municipalization when contacted

by Boulder Weekly.

“We’re just kind of waiting to see what happens when it’s all said and done,” he told BW. “We don’t really have an opinion that we want to share publicly. Whatever we get is what we’re going to use.”

He declined to disclose how much electricity IBM uses, but he acknowledged that reliability is a big issue, considering the impact a power outage could have on its customers.

“It’s important for us to have reliable, cost-efficient power, that’s what we’re looking for, but it’s not like we’re looking at options or anything like that,” Stratton said. “We’ve got to work with whatever’s there.”

He acknowledged that IBM officials have been “sharing their concerns” about reliability, but he said he is not aware of any IBM threats to not be part of the municipal utility, or any plans to pursue another provider or build its own power generation facility.

Similarly, Frances Draper, vice chancellor for strategic relations at CU, acknowledged that CU officials had provided input to the city at the city’s request, but she stopped short of saying that university leaders had expressed any opposition toward municipalization.

“We are certainly monitoring it because one of our largest expenses for the campus is energy,” she told BW, adding that the campus needs a reliable source of electricity to support crucial activities like housing students and maintaining animal labs and other research projects. “We’re very concerned about reliability and rates, just like any other big user. I would not say that we have gone to the city and expressed our concerns and said this is a bad deal, or a good deal. We are really sitting back and watching the process evolve.”

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larger percentage of its own electricity.

But Draper said the campus is under no contractual obligation to Xcel for using a set amount of energy, and that while the campus would eventually like to get to the point where it could power itself if necessary, there is no scenario in which it would be disconnected from the grid.

“We have not gone to the city and said we’re going to pull out,” she said.

But Xcel Regional Vice President Jerome Davis tells a slightly different story, and he wonders whether primary power users are reticent to speak out for fear of retribution from the city.

“I can’t speak for IBM and I can’t speak for CU, but I’m pretty sure they’re exploring every other option,” he says.

“We’re looking at a multitude of options from the companies’ perspective. We don’t see it as being as black and white as the city is portraying it.” **** Another point of contention between the city and Xcel is the extent to which the city would have to compensate the company for its substations and other infrastructure, like the Leggett terminal at Valmont Station, which is outside city limits. Xcel officials say that if the city condemns and takes one of its substations, it will have to give the company enough money to build a new one. Bailey, on the other hand, insists that it is common practice to co-locate multiple utilities at a shared substation, removing the need for Xcel to build a new one. (Naturally, there is a major cost difference, and this argument reflects what is sure to become a recurring pattern, with Xcel trying to collect as much as possible from the city, which for its part wants to limit its payout to the company any way it can.)

Davis says the company probably will need its substations physically replaced because it has no intention of being tied into Boulder’s system.

He says that Xcel is no different than many of the area’s large businesses that use industrial power.

“We don’t have any confidence in them running our utility,” he says. “We want a clean break.”

This could cause significant problems for the city’s municipalization plans. At the council study session, Councilman Ken Wilson pressed staff for what it would cost to replace Xcel’s substations if it turns out that the company can’t be forced to co-locate with the city after condemnation. At that Boulder Weekly

point, Senior Assistant City Attorney Kathy Haddock told Wilson that the city hadn’t modeled scenarios that it knew wouldn’t occur based on case law.

Wilson pressed the point for a dollar amount, just in case Xcel’s attorneys might turn out to be right. In the end, Haddock stated that the system doesn’t

work without co-location.

If this is true, and the city’s models don’t work without co-location at the substations, then expect this to be a hotly contested point by Xcel.

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other parts of Colorado to fund this enterprise for us.”

Davis says that, despite that statement, Boulder has now roped in about 5,700 Xcel customers from outside city limits who would be folded into the new municipal utility, even though they did not have a chance to vote on it.

Those votes could have easily swayed the 2011 ballot questions 2B and 2C the other way, considering that the two initiatives passed by margins of 212 votes and 1,027 votes, respectively.

“We don’t see the steps we’re taking to define a service area plan that makes sense for reliability as something that goes against that pledge,” city spokesperson Sarah Huntley says when asked about Davis’ claim.

She adds that the city has the legal authority to condemn non-city lands for this purpose, and that the 5,700 people outside Boulder will have plenty of opportunities to have input on any municipal utility, from a nine-member advisory board to a March 13 open house. In addition, she says, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) would step in if Boulder attempted to charge county residents higher rates than city customers.

Davis says that while the city has addressed “stranded costs” — the ongoing debt payments that Xcel will have to make on investments it made on Boulder infrastructure if the city pulls out — and the value of the Xcel property it intends to acquire, city officials have not sufficiently addressed the costs of separating its geographically irregular borders into its own grid as well as the expense of “going concern,” which is the amount Xcel stands to lose in rates that would have been paid to the company

by Boulder customers over future years.

At the recent City Council study session examining the report on the feasibility of creating its own utility, city officials stated that the separation costs had been built into the models and were included in the acquisition and stranded costs estimates. They claimed that the detailed information on separation costs was intentionally withheld because it was considered a part of the city’s legal strategy that would eventually be used during negotiations with Xcel. Xcel says that the city has greatly underestimated the separation costs.

The company says that the city added the 5,700 non-Boulder residents into its plan purely for the reason of trying to decrease the separation costs, by including everyone on a line instead of trying to stop at the city limits, a pro-

cess that would have required them to pay for another way for those farther down the line to reconnect to Xcel. Xcel claims that this tactic has backfired, however, and that it simply shifted and magnified the expense by greatly increasing the amount of “going concern” compensation that Xcel will be seeking from the city.

Even if separation costs are not a deal breaker, going-concern costs are.

Xcel officials estimate that the city will owe them $300 million in goingconcern costs, should the city move forward to municipalize. And the recent addition of the 5,700 customers outside city limits could add another $17.2 million to that figure.

All of the city’s modeling to date has been based on three economic scenarios: a low-end total price of $150 million, a mid-range option at $277.5 million, and a worst-case scenario of $405 million to create a municipal utility. At even the $405 million level, it becomes far more difficult for the city’s models to work within the guidelines of the city charter’s utility requirements. So what happens if Xcel is correct about going-concern costs, and $405 million becomes $722 million? Like the other potential problems with moving forward on municipalization, such a scenario has not been modeled by the city, but it would seem to be a deal killer for sure.

However, Huntley says city attorneys don’t believe Boulder is liable for those going-concern costs, thanks to a state statute allowing recovery of those losses only when a rural electric authority is involved. She points out that one of Xcel’s own attorneys, in a previous job with the city of Loveland, successfully argued that if a utility is investorowned, the municipality has no such liability.

“There are going to be issues where our lawyers say one thing and Xcel’s lawyers say another,” Huntley told BW. “We feel very confident in our legal counsel, and I’m sure Xcel feels very confident in their legal team. It will be a matter of taking these issues to court and making the best arguments we can and seeing where the court falls.”

**** Another question being raised is whether Xcel’s ratepayers outside of Boulder might have to pay increased costs if the city pulls out of the system.

Some suggest that the state’s major electricity users might object to seeing their rates go up as a result of the Boulder withdrawal.

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news But Bailey says there are regulatory processes, under the PUC and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), that are intended to keep Xcel and its customers “whole, and not left holding the bag.” She notes that the PUC can dictate how Xcel uses its proceeds from a takeover to keep its rate holders from suffering.

Davis says he doesn’t expect Xcel customers to foot any of the cost of a Heather Bailey Jerome Davis Boulder municipalization, “because we’re going to get every dime” from the city.

Xcel and others have Davis agrees that the city’s offer will questioned the ability of a city bureaube “close to what they know it is worth.” cracy to run a business and actually But he didn’t rule out pursuing Xcel’s come through on its promises on such legal costs from the city, especially if things as lower rates. Critics point to municipalization doesn’t move forward. the glaring example that the city hasn’t “Our belief is we’d go after it,” Davis even been able to stay on its budget for says of the amount the company has studying municipalization. In 2011, vot- spent on legal fees defending itself. ers approved a $1.9 million annual bud- “The assumption is we’ll probably try to get, based on the former Xcel franchise recoup our legal costs as we go forward.” fee, to be used to study the issue. But “We’re not paying Xcel’s legal fees,” the city has already had to dip into the Bailey counters. “Our attorneys say general fund to the tune of an addition- that’s not the case.” al $300,000 to pay for what city leaders Once again, all the attorneys, on now claim is just city employees tempo- both sides, are confident that they are rarily reassigned to the project. correct, which usually only means one Huntley says city staff and the thing: It’s most likely going to get majority of council agree that the $1.9 expensive for everyone. million was to be used for external costs like hiring engineers, attorneys and **** Bailey. While the majority of the And while both sides accuse the $300,000 is going to cover the regular other of not revealing specific figures for the possible scenarios of how this bout duties of a public relations staffer and could end, the city is at a distinct disadcity attorney who have been reassigned vantage, being a public government to the project, she acknowledges that a agency that is subject to open records portion has gone to consultants, such as laws, while Xcel can hold its cards the search firm used to recruit Bailey.

Call it what they will, but in busitightly against its chest. In fact, this ness an expense is an expense and some- week Xcel filed an open records request one, usually the customer, or in this case to obtain copies of the models the city the taxpayer, has to pay for it. used to create its recommendations for taking over the company’s system. **** And Davis defends its right to do Yet another possible unanticipated so, describing the city as a thief stealing expense for the city is the money Xcel his company’s belongings. has spent dealing with the municipal“It’s like if a burglar comes into your ization issue, including its legal costs. In house,” he says. “You don’t say, let me the case of condemnation, Deputy City show you around and tell you where Attorney David Gehr told BW that the everything is.” only way Xcel could collect legal fees is if the final valuation of Xcel’s acquired **** property, determined after litigation, is Obviously not everyone is as opti130 percent of the city’s final offer for mistic about creating a municipal utility that property. In other words, the city as the city’s staff, but if the utility does only pays if it lowballs Xcel on what the come to exist, will it actually make a system is worth, and Gehr says the difference? Will it, in reality, help lower chances of that are “very low” because greenhouse gases and save the planet? the city has a good appraiser.

That is the goal, after all. But as with Boulder Weekly

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other issues surrounding municipalization, the answer is not exactly clear.

Critics of the city’s plan say that Boulder’s proposed influx of renewable energy is not going to reduce the planet’s greenhouse gases. The logic behind such a view is based on the fact that a small municipal utility like Boulder’s won’t have the power to alter the mix of the larger companies in a world that already has too much excess energy.

Boulder says that it is going to use its power purchase agreements (PPAs) to actually cause more renewable energy sources to be added to the system, in addition to buying current idled capacity from, say, a wind farm at night. For this reason, Boulder staff claim that they will, in fact, be lowering greenhouse gases.

But is it true? Major players like Xcel make their highest profit on electricity created by dependable energy sources like burning coal. Their next most profitable source is electricity derived by burning natural gas. For this reason, those two sources of energy are always on and always being given top priority in the system.

On any given day, it is the less profitable renewable, less reliable resources that get turned on and off as needed to accommodate demand.

So critics argue that when Boulder contracts with a company somewhere to have more renewable electricity placed into the grid, the Xcels of the world don’t in turn reduce their amount of highly profitable coal-fired or gas-fired product in the system, and such a reduction would be the only way that greenhouse gases would actually be lessened. In reality, Boulder’s PPA that brings on more renewable electricity from a particular source into the grid may simply be causing other, less profitable, renewable energy somewhere else to be idled. In that scenario, the net

reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is zero. In reality, the only thing that changes is Boulder’s ability to claim it is greener or is meeting the requirements of the Kyoto Treaty. To lower greenhouse gases in the real world, Boulder will need to construct nearby renewable energy sources such as wind and solar facilities, and use the energy it actually generates without uploading it to the national grid. The city acknowledges that this is the ultimate long-term goal, but says it will take a while to get there.

Davis argues that the infusion of renewables promised by city officials will not happen for a long time.

“You can throw in some flour and sugar, but the bottom line is you don’t see the real cake and ice cream for years down the road,” he says.

This explains why the city seems to be eying the gas generation facility at Xcel’s Valmont Station for possible purchase. It would supply the reliability for a large, local, renewable base of energy.

But Valmont comes with its own set of risks for the city, should it move to attain the property from Xcel (see page 14).

Xcel officials argue that since electricity supply is never increased beyond demand, the city’s purported infusion of renewables will only cause an equivalent decrease in renewables elsewhere on the grid.

Jonathan Koehn, the city’s regional sustainability coordinator, says the theory is that as the city’s new renewable energy enters the grid, “the dirtier sources can be ramped down.” When asked why Xcel would dial down its most lucrative products, he declined to comment.

At the council’s study session, councilwoman Suzanne Jones asked city consultant Bob Lachenmayer of Schneider Electric, a global leader in energy, whether Boulder could reduce greenhouse gases faster by municipalizing its system or working with Xcel to cause the company to create more renewable sources. Lachenmeyer responded that one can’t optimize a system unless one controls the whole system.

City utility or not, Boulder will not control the whole system.

“It’s a shell game,” Davis says.

“They’re not increasing renewables and not reducing carbon.”

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hen Boulder voters narrowly voted in favor of the 2011 measure to authorize the study and possible approval of a municipal utility, city leaders may not have realized some of the extra costs their grandchildren — if not greatgrandchildren — might be inheriting.

Among the unanticipated costs that the city might take on is the responsibility for cleaning up a site that is likely more contaminated than the adjacent Valmont Butte property, a site that Boulder Weekly devoted a 10-part series to documenting in 2012 due to the environmental hazards the city has inherited after purchasing the property in 2000.

The city of Boulder employees charged with analyzing whether or not the city can create its own power utility admit that it would be nice to own a power generation facility close to town, particularly one that could offer consistent flows of electricity to offset any ups and downs among the renewable sources of power it intends to rely on heavily in the future if, in fact, a city utility becomes reality.

So it’s no wonder that these employees have discussed the possibility of acquiring Valmont Station, with its natural gas facilities.

But to acquire Valmont Station would likely also mean acquiring Xcel’s coal-fired plant, now scheduled to be decommissioned in 2017, as well as the rest of Xcel’s property, including the three cooling lakes associated with the aging power plant, which was constructed in the 1920s.

City officials acknowledge they have discussed the possibility of acquiring the plant. But even if the city decides it doesn’t want Valmont Station, depending on who you talk to, it could wind up getting the old plant as a result of its need to condemn the Leggett terminal, which is located on the west side of Valmont Station.

The city acknowledges that it hasn’t created an economic model that includes acquiring Valmont Station, despite the fact that neither Xcel nor the city has ruled out that possibility. It’s just one of the many variables that is missing from the city’s analysis to date. That’s unfor-

tunate, because it’s not something that can be quickly added into the modeling down the road. That’s because acquiring Valmont Station would — or at least should, if handled responsibly by city leaders — require an extensive environmental evaluation before any condemnation procedure or purchase moved forward.

Decommissioning the old coal-fired plant would likely cost between $10 million and $20 million, based on an examination of similar plant decommissionings around the country. But that is where the real potential expense for the city would begin. **** The acquisition of Valmont Station would create a unique risk for the city because of its location, which is south and adjacent to the city’s 102-acre parcel of land on Valmont Butte currently undergoing its own $6.2 million environmental remediation.

As chronicled in BW’s “Ghost of Valmont Butte” series, which ran from January to June of last year, encompassing some 800 hours of research that resulted in a 37,000-word exposé, one of the primary reasons that Valmont Butte was not treated as a Superfund site was because the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to follow its own protocol when the Valmont Butte site was evaluated and scored for possible Superfund status.

The EPA requires that the entire area contaminated by a single source be treated as one site, regardless of how many people own the contaminated property. In the case of Valmont Butte, Allied Chemical’s fluorspar milling operation contaminated both the city’s 102-acre parcel on the butte as well as Xcel’s property to the south, including the lakes themselves, where millions of gallons of lead- and arsenic-filled water were dumped for decades.

The city’s parcel missed becoming a Superfund site by less than one point on the scoring because the contamination on Xcel’s property was scored as an entirely separate potential Superfund site known as the Culbertson Mill property.

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news as one contaminated location, then several of the incorrect assumptions by environmental regulators at the state and federal levels — assumptions that have made it possible for the city to do a relatively inexpensive remediation on its property, while leaving all of the contamination in place and simply covering it with rock and dirt — would likely not have been allowed.

One of the more questionable assumptions regarding the city’s Valmont Butte property was that there was no groundwater above the primary holding pond, where about a million tons of radioactive soil containing dangerous levels of heavy metals is now being stored in perpetuity.

If it was determined that groundwater above the primary storage area existed, then that would mean that it is possible for groundwater to migrate down the original drainage ditch, through the contaminated materials, to an 80-yearold earthen dam that is the only barrier between contaminated groundwater and the aquifer below the dam that is used for drinking water and irrigation by nearby property owners.

As described in Part 5 of BW’s series (“Valmont Butte’s got a dam problem,” March 1, 2012), a bizarre incident took place in 1985 wherein an EPA contractor drilled a well above the primary pond, set casing, made a phone call to an unknown person, then inexplicably ordered the casing torn out and the well filled in. This well was not left in place long enough to have tested for slow or seasonal groundwater, yet it has been used as nearly the sole justification for why contamination at Valmont Butte should be allowed to be left where it is rather than going through a very expensive remediation to remove it.

That could change, however, if the city were to come into ownership of the Xcel property. That’s because while doing its own contamination remediation in 2007, Xcel drilled two groundwater monitoring wells on its property, literally just a few feet away from the location of the 1985 “dry” well. Both Xcel wells reached groundwater. While these two Xcel wells were of little consequence to its cleanup of the property south of the city’s parcel, they should have proven that it was likely that groundwater was, in fact, moving into the primary pond at Valmont Butte and, therefore, either the contamination should have been removed from the property altogether, or at minimum, monitoring wells should be placed below the dam to watch for any contamination leaching into the aquifer.

This is something that the city has refused to do, citing the supposed lack of groundwater, as demonstrated by the 1985 well.

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It’s unclear how the city could justify such lack of action, or its current Valmont Butte remediation plan, for that matter, if it were to suddenly become the proud owner of two monitoring wells that would show that its groundwater assumptions have been badly flawed.

There are other problems that could arise, should the city condemn or purchase Xcel’s Valmont Station property.

The EPA found groundwater contamination at the east end of the city’s Valmont Butte parcel some seven years

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And finally, at least as far as we know, there is the selenium problem.

Selenium is common in the waters surrounding coal-fired plants, and Valmont Station is no exception. Xcel has a special permit that allows it to release selenium-contaminated water into the watershed. Selenium is bad stuff. In humans it causes clubbing of the fingers, skin lesions, loss of hair and nails, tooth decay, convulsions, paralysis and even death. In fish, it can cause missing fins, protruding eyes and grossly deformed spines and heads. In North Carolina, as many as 19 species of fish were killed off from a lake due to selenium in wastewater being discharged from a coal-fired power plant over a 12-year period.

Selenium has been found in a groundwater monitoring well on the city’s Valmont Butte property, at the point where the city’s land is closest to Xcel’s lakes. There is no known historical activity that took place on the city’s property to account for the discovery of selenium, meaning that it most likely came from the lakes or fly ash.

Again, this is important because Xcel’s cooling lakes, two of which were naturally formed, are in contact with groundwater. If the selenium in groundwater on the east end of the city’s 102acre butte property came from Xcel’s lakes, then it is possible that other aquifers to the east and north that are used for drinking water wells could be in jeopardy of similar selenium and/or heavy metal contamination. This is something that should be determined before the Xcel property is purchased or condemned by the city.

Such environmental discovery is particularly important, considering the city’s desire to condemn parts of the Valmont Station property, such as the Leggett terminal, especially if Xcel claims the city has to either take the entire property or none of it at all. That’s because the law is unclear when it comes to condemning contaminated property. If the property were sold, rather than condemned, then both buyer and seller would likely be held responsible for the cost of any future cleanup of the property. But if the city takes the property

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through condemnation, it may well be taking full financial responsibility for all future environmental cleanup. That is a substantial risk when you’re talking about a 90-year-old coal-fired plant that had millions of gallons of lead-contaminated water poured into its lakes from an Allied Chemical milling operation, to go along with whatever contaminants it created by its own doing.

Clearly, it is difficult-to-impossible to model such unknown expenses as Valmont Station into an analysis of whether or not to create a city utility, but this example does show the kind of problems that the city may well run into in its efforts to form its own utility.

When asked about the likelihood of the city taking Xcel’s entire Valmont property, as opposed to just the Leggett terminal needed for running a local electricity loop, both the city and Xcel were noncommittal, but they acknowledged that there would be a contamination cleanup involved for whoever owns it.

“There are environmental risks with that site, obviously,” says Jonathan Koehn, the city’s regional sustainability coordinator, adding that while a local power generation source is desirable, city officials haven’t decided whether they would try to acquire the entire Valmont plant. The city says the acquisition of Valmont Station is not necessary for providing energy stability, since independent power suppliers can assure continued reliable service. Koehn and Heather Bailey, executive director of energy strategy and electric utility development, agreed that an extensive environmental assessment would have to be done before the city considered taking on that property and its contamination issues.

When asked whether the city would have to acquire the entire Valmont plant in the municipalization plan, Xcel Regional Vice President Jerome Davis says, “I really can’t tell.” But he doesn’t rule out the possibility that the city could end up owning the whole property “and all of the associated issues.” Davis adds, however, that even if Xcel ends up keeping most of the property, the cost of decommissioning the coal-fired plant in 2017 has already been built into the rate structure currently being charged to customers.

Neither side could say definitively whether Xcel would still be liable for any environmental cleanup costs if the city acquired the property through condemnation. They said their attorneys were still looking into the matter.

“We’re in uncharted territory,” Davis says.

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proposed the the City of Boulder. When “temporary Linenfelser and his colmodification” leagues tested samples of to the water effluent from six of the comquality companies allowed to discharge mission. into Boulder Creek, a pharThe 75th maceutical company’s effluStreet water ent had a markedly higher treatment arsenic content than any facility other dischargers — about achieves “min154 times higher than the imal” arsenic applicable state arsenic stanremoval, dard. That company is one according to of four pharmaceutical comBoulder Creek consistently tests above the state level recommended for arsenic in water used for fishing and drinking.

Linenfelser’s panies that have permits to testimony to discharge their wastewater the water into Boulder Creek. quality commission in support of the temporary “Our opinion is that it doesn’t play a role,” modification. But the minute water leaves the facili- Linenfelser says. “Their concentration may be elevated compared to others, but the amount of flow from ty, it begins accumulating arsenic again. A couple one particular industry is a very small portion.” miles downstream, tests show even higher arsenic “Our picture of the arsenic in Colorado is pretty levels than those found when the water entered the limited,” Ross says. “I don’t think anything’s increasfacility.

“Yes we do see the level of arsenic increase below ing, but that’s just based on what we know today.” the city of Boulder wastewater treatment facility Asked if the current levels are safe, Ross [WWTF],” Linenfelser clarified in a follow-up responds, “I honestly don’t know.” email to Boulder Weekly. “Although we do not know The current standard for drinking- and fishingthe cause for sure we assume it is from runoff from water was calculated to result in cancer to one in 1 million people of average weight who drink average lands downstream of the WWTF (which is mostly amounts of water. When meeting this standard open space and agriculture).” emerged as a statewide problem, a workgroup was “We know there’s elevated arsenic in the Front created.

Range, which we think came from pesticide levels,” “Boulder believes that the workgroup process is Ross says. the most productive avenue,” reads the city’s response Agriculture isn’t the only industry contributing arsenic to waterways. Ten large corporations have See ARSENIC Page 22 Industrial Wastewater Discharge Permits issued by

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hen scientists tested arsenic levels at 38 sites along Boulder Creek over six months in 2011, every sample contained arsenic levels at least 10 times above the applicable state standard. Low levels of arsenic are unavoidable in Boulder Creek and other Colorado drinking water sources, city and state officials say, and trying to reduce current arsenic levels to meet state standards for drinking and fishing water would be too costly.

Arsenic is a naturally occurring element that can be carried into water by natural processes, like erosion, and human activities, like mining and agriculture.

“Arsenic is a carcinogen at low levels,” says Andrew Ross, groundwater quality coordinator at the Water Quality Control Division at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “At high levels, it’s an acute poison.”

In April, the Colorado Water Quality Commission will hold a hearing on relaxing arsenic standards for 13 rivers and river basins around the state. The commission already adopted a temporary modification, effective Dec. 31, for one segment of Boulder Creek, located just downstream of the city.

“Segment Nine is designated as drinking water supply,” says Bret Linenfelser, water quality and environmental services coordinator for the City of Boulder. That segment’s arsenic standard is set — until 2021 — at “current condition” instead of a numerical value.

Segment Nine became a problem when the 75th Street Wastewater Treatment Facility needed to renew its permit. Its effluent contained arsenic at levels over 18 times higher than the applicable arsenic standard — on its good days. The city couldn’t hope to comply with the standard in time, so they

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eco-briefs FT. COLLINS BANS FRACKING

Following in the footsteps of Longmont, the Fort Collins City Council voted to approve an initial ban on hydraulic fracturing within city limits.

A 5-2 vote adopted the ordinance calling for a ban on fracking and passed a resolution requesting regulatory power from the state to regulate oil and gas exploration within the city’s limits.

“Rather than delegating authority to the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission, for example, local authority could be held over oil and gas regulation,” Laurie Kadrich, director of Community Development and Neighborhood Services, said during a city council meeting.

The resolution requests local control over decisions such as fracking within city limits, supporting the City of Longmont’s decision to self-regulate. Regulation of oil and gas exploration currently falls under the jurisdiction of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC).

“This resolution would provide support to the City of Longmont for local regulation over oil and gas and the efforts they have underway,” Kadrich says.

The City of Longmont is currently in litigation with the state over municipal drilling regulations.

The COGCC is a division of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. Some of the commission’s goals, as stated on its

website, are to “promote the exploration, development and conservation of Colorado’s oil and gas natural resources,” as well as “prevent and mitigate adverse impacts to public health, safety, welfare and the environment.”

A final considErica Lindberg eration meeting for the Fort Collins City Council will be held on March 5.

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to questions from the commission about their plan to eliminate the need for a temporary modification. But the workgroup effort has been slow.

“It was delayed because there were quite a bit of different opinions about how we should move forward,” says Sarah Johnson, standards unit manager at the Colorado Water Quality Division. “Dischargers and entities who have large sewage treatment plants, like the City of Boulder, have

one set of issues, and construction dewatering projects have a different set of concerns.”

The water quality division’s new proposal promises that “no effluent limitation shall require an ‘end-of-pipe’ discharge level more restrictive than” three parts per billion, which is 150 time greater than the state water and fish standard, though still less than the national drinking water standard, which is 10 parts per billion. But dis-

chargers with permits by June 2013, like the pharmaceutical company whose effluent was found to contain arsenic exceeding that level, will have “current condition” as their standard until 2021.

Does the standard have to be changed? When an engineering consulting firm was hired to provide the city with an independent evaluation, their memo concluded that the current standard “may be achievable with the

use of multiple treatment processes.”

“I think it’s possible to adopt new technologies,” Linenfelser says, but “it would cost multiple millions of dollars to even try.”

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For traveling across the frozen terrain of the northern reaches of Canada in search of the wolf ancestors of these canine companions, dog sleds still beat motorized means of travel.

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ooking at a map of Saskatchewan, wolves have retained many attributes that set them one can’t help but notice the glaring apart from household pets. Physically, they have larger lack of human infrastructure in the heads, narrower chests, flatter tails and most impornorthern reaches of the province. tantly, broader paws that excel in snow travel. And Civilization fades out on the map just unlike tame dogs, they have an unmitigated prey drive north of the city of Prince Albert, the last significant — one of the reasons why trying to wrangle a wolf outpost before the Canadian prairie blends with the into the role of a pet is a poor idea. While they mainsub-Arctic boreal forest. Here true north begins: an tain fierce loyalty to the pack, strangers of both the immense and disorienting matrix of rivers, lakes and canine and human variety will be met with hostility. coniferous forests uninterrupted by mountains. The In the battle for precious few resources, any threat will heavy footprint of man is nearly absent from the wilbe handled with impunity. derness, save a few remote Bart Deferme mining and energy operations. This wild frontier is the kingdom of the gray wolf (canis lupus), a noble apex predator with the savvy and strength to endure harsh winters and sweltering summers. In the dead, January cold, photographer Bart Deferme and I traveled to Prince Albert National Park in search of these magnificent animals.

During the length of our week-long stay, the highest the temperature got was minus 20 and temps regularly dipped below minus 40. If that fact alone Miles and miles through pristine doesn’t earn your respect boreal forest, where bald eagles, great grey owls and wolf tracks for the gray wolf, nothing serve as reminders that these will. Wolves remain active woods are teeming with wildlife. through the caustic winter chill, hunting prey that are equally diminished from the stunning cold. Working Where civilization meets wilderness, wolves are in small but efficient packs (normally six to eight wary of men. Studies have shown that wolves can diswolves), the pursuit of elk and deer is a life or death tinguish between the threat potential of armed and matter. This urgency contributes to the cunning strat- unarmed humans. Many wolves have adapted methegies used to ambush prey — and the brutality of the ods to disarm traps by digging around them until they kill. One local woman unexpectedly witnessed a trio are harmlessly triggered. Staying out of sight is the of wolves dismantle an adult male elk on an exposed best strategy because you can’t kill what you can’t find. forest road. The attack was so disturbing and violent This makes tracking them a rather tricky business. that she has since refused to step foot in the forest.

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They retain some hints of their ancestry, but these working dogs can be petted and handled without danger. Healthy, happy dogs love to run, and we are glad to give them the opportunity.

The sled dogs aren’t going to magically lead us to wolves, and in fact, encounters between dogs and wolves are rare (wolves aren’t eager to tangle with other dogs unless they have to). Rather, they will haul us and our supplies to a backcountry camp, where we will search for tracks with the dogs, then continue the pursuit on snowshoe.

A howling troop of huskies aren’t about to sneak up on anything, so why not use snowmobiles if noise is a moot point?

There is a fascinating phenomenon that occurs on the hard, frozen lakes that one must inevitably cross to reach optimal wolf sighting locations. Water can freeze so hard from the sub-zero cold that it becomes super-dense. This overload causes fractures in the ice. When ice cracks, it releases a rush of briny, liquid lake water that floats above the base ice but remains insulated from immediate freezing by blankets of snow on the surface. Slush results, sometimes two to three feet deep, and any snowmobile that attempts to cross a burdened lake will be paralyzed by liquid water bonding and flash freezing to burning cold metal. Many times, a snowmobile will remain immobilized until spring, and then it’s a race against time to extract the vehicle before the spring thaw sinks it in the depths of the lake.

Dogs don’t love the slush either, but they can deal with it, sloughing it from their paws in stride.

Humans can employ snowshoes or simply higher, waterproof boots. Most often, man and dog slog side see WOLVES Page 26

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A musher can ride while his dogsled team traverses flat ground, but if it turns uphill and the dogs sense they’re working harder, they’ll look back to signal him to “help” by getting off the sled and running next to it to temporarily lighten their load.

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by side through slush while the sleds are unweighted. their anchors and the sleds powerfully jolt to life. And Each sled can hold a musher, one passenger and a then, silence and inertia take over. This is the moment light array of gear. We have two sleds, each powered the dogs have pined for: the chance to run. As soon as by eight huskies. Our additional guide is Joël Potié, they are off, the forest reclaims its calm and details are 26, an experienced musher whose soft-spoken, goodabnormally audible. Only the rhythmic pace of the natured personality goes over well with both clients dogs’ breathing and the muted sound of the sled runand the dogs. ners can be heard. Recent studies have shown chemiPhotographer Bart and I help with dog chores cals in working dogs’ brains are triggered to release before setting off into the wild. Entering the kennels unleashes a torrent of excited energy, because Bart Deferme when strangers come to say hi it means there’s mushing afoot. Alaskan huskies are smaller than some would imagine, rarely weighing as much as 45 pounds. Larger breeds, such as the Alaskan malamute and Greenland husky, are powerhouses but lack the drive, endurance and swiftness to cover large distances in good time. This is why racing teams, such as those in the world famous Iditarod, employ smaller huskies and even huskythemed mutts.

While hooking up the lucky, chosen pups into their harnesses, howls of anticipation start as muted whimpers from a few individuals, then explode into a roaring chorus of barking frenzy.

Prior to launch, the sleds have triply redundant anchors and, in some cases, a fourth human anchor is added. Smart as they are, dogs have no time the same neurological impulses that create a “runner’s to wait for humans to be comfortably loaded onto the high” in humans. The easy flow of our teams seems to sled. As soon as they can, they will run — passengers verify that conclusion. or not.

In the hour-long mush it takes to reach the canvas When our two sleds are finally loaded and ready cabin that serves as our camp, we see several instances to go, the mushers communicate with us primarily of certified, fresh wolf tracks. There is no doubt the through hand signals as the noise from the dogs wolves are out and about. Most of the tracks head off drowns out any feeble attempts at verbal communicainto dense spruce groves. Our best chance of seeing a tion. Without muttering a word, our mushers release wolf in action will be on the large, frozen lakes, 26 February 28, 2013

though as temperatures begin to threaten minus 50, even wolves are keen to stay in the shelter of their dens.

After reaching camp and unloading our gear, we quickly set off on dog sled to probe the deep woods.

Again we spot numerous wolf tracks, but to our frustration they tend to lead into the woods rather than toward the open lakes. The three-hour tour is surprisingly comfortable until the seemingly impotent sun begins its slow slide below the horizon. A new level of cold is our signal to seek shelter, and just as darkness falls over the land, we return to camp.

Amazingly, the dogs are fine sleeping outside on an impromptu bed of straw. After being fed and given a few treats of heavy fat, they curl up and drift off to a well-earned sleep.

Our tent is warmed by a modest portable wood-burning stove, but the biting cold reduces the radius of effective heat. Brad and Joël prepare a carb-heavy feast, perfect for staving off the evening chill. There is talk of the northern lights, but an overcast sky prevents any chance of seeing the magical, dancing auroras. During the night, we take shifts fueling the fire and sleep is fairly restful.

The next day, we again set off to explore new areas. We encounter a few of the aforementioned slush traps on several lakes but they were shallow enough for the dogs to fight through (with us humans running alongside the sleds). We spot owls, a pair of bald eagles, several elk and more tantalizing wolf tracks, but still no actual wolves. The sun shines bright but offers only minimal warmth. Our target area encompasses both Prince Albert National Park and the boundary lands just past its borders. Come Boulder Weekly

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In the end, we never did see any wolves. There were plenty of tracks and even tufts of wolf fur snagged on shrubs — but no actual wolves. We were hoping for that glorious encounter, a live viewing of a wolf kill, the same scene that had so disturbed the local woman unintentionally privy to all its ferocious glory. Retrieving tennis balls or joyfully rolling over to accept belly rubs has dulled our view of the original canine purpose. The respect due to those wild dogs still enabled with the power and mastery to execute the kill is an awesome thing to behold, and despite our best efforts, it was not to be seen.

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ator within. The boreal forest is strikingly beautiful. The pastel palette of dreamy pinks and yellows offset by deep pine green and dark gray trees is majestic, deceptive and magical. The presence of any life in these harsh conditions borders on miraculous, whether it be ungulate, avian or the preposterous river otter, who plays in the open river flows in the coldest of weather.

Best of all, this Saskatchewan adventure filled in a notorious dark spot on the map. It is not nothingness that fills the space, but vital and hearty life.

It remains the unchallenged domain of the gray wolf, and though we were not worthy to gain an audience, it was nonetheless an honor to be invited to the kingdom. Wild places are essential, as are the struggles and drama that play out beyond the scope of the camera eye.

The very fact there are places we cannot manipulate for our impatient pleasure is satisfying. Let us hope there will remain places where only the wolf knows what it is like to gaze at a blazing sky of northern lights and where, hidden in some clever hollow, he watches his fellow husky cousins at work and ponders that fateful allegiance made with duplicitous man.

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‘Because I like them’

Local woman’s son inspires book on boys who wear dresses and challenge gender norms

by Stephanie Riesco

In

grade school letters at the top of a piece of printer paper, 6-year-old Ronan carefully spells out the words “Boys” and “Girls.” Using the couch’s ottoman as his desk, he kneels on the floor near his mother, Eileen Kiernan-Johnson, who discusses her self-published children’s book in their Boulder home. Though an “s” may be backwards here or there, it’s clear that the kindergartner isn’t just doodling; he’s adding to our conversation.

Coyly keeping his intent a surprise, he whispers a question in his mom’s ear.

“No, there’s no ‘g,’ even though it sounds like there is,” KiernanJohnson responds. “It ends with a ‘k.’”

Ronan returns to the task of spelling correctly, his face firm with concentration. Finally happy with his work, he waves the paper to get his mom’s attention and then proudly holds it up for me. “Pink” is written not only in the “Girls” column, but in the “Boys” column as well.

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surprised by her son’s initiative. “We’ve talked about what things some people think belong to girls and belong to boys, but we haven’t done this exercise before.”

Like the main character in his mom’s book, Roland Humphrey is Wearing a WHAT?, Ronan loves butterflies, flowers and the color pink. He identifies as a boy, but some of his interests stretch beyond what is traditionally acceptable for his gender. Since showing an interest in dress-up a few years ago, Kiernan-Johnson says clothing has become an important form of expression for Ronan.

“Initially we tried to steer him to more boyish things that had color and flair. We got him really cute neckties and stripy jackets, some things that had more interesting fabrics,” Kiernan-Johnson says. “But he pressed forward with each step. He started wearing T-shirts around his waist like a skirt. And when he got to pick things on his own, he picked things that were more girly.”

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about spiders. But it wasn’t until recent- room for levity and pointing out the ly that Kiernan-Johnson noticed someabsurdity of these rules.” thing was missing from his bedtime In the story, Roland’s choice to wear stories. While books often depict girls pink to school leads other kids to point playing sports or wearing pants instead out that he broke the “color rules” for of skirts, tales of gender-bending boys boys. This attitude from others was a were sparse. concern Kiernan-Johnson and her hus“Last year we were looking around band had for Ronan’s move to kinderfor books where there were little boys garten. Over the years she and her huswho enjoyed sparkles and rainbows and band have read articles, met with a play dresses and were sort of the male anatherapist and talked with Ronan’s prinlog of the tomboy,” cipal and teacher to Kiernan Johnson understand how to says. “There just best support him.

ON THE BILL: Roland Humphrey is Wearing a WHAT? is wasn’t a lot out She says they have available at Boulder Book Store, there.” also practiced what Tattered Cover Book Store and Roland he should say in through Amazon.com. Eileen Kiernan-Johnson will read her book Humphrey is case confusion at Local Authors Afternoon at the Wearing a WHAT? leads to cruel words Boulder Book Store, which has been not only gives from others. rescheduled for an unknown future date.

Ronan a character “We wanted like him, but also him to say whatevchallenges gender er was comfortnorms and promotes ideas of accepable,” Kiernan-Johnson says. “But one tance. When Kiernan-Johnson began of the things we practiced if someone explaining the challenge of writing the said, ‘Why are you wearing girl book, Ronan perks up from his list, clothes?’ was just, ‘Because I like them.’ which now includes “polka dots,” That’s the truth and you can leave it at “ostrich” and “stars” — in both columns. that.” “[Writing] would be a lot of work,” So far, Kiernan-Johnson says the Ronan says. “And the biggest challenge community has been overwhelmingly was getting the words right.” supportive, and Ronan’s teacher and Kiernan-Johnson laughs and agrees. other teachers at his school have read The family has read My Princess Boy, a Roland Humphrey is Wearing a WHAT? well-known children’s book about this in their classrooms. As soon as they same subject. However, My Princess Boy received their first 1,000 copies, approaches this issue from a parent’s Kiernan-Johnson says Ronan was eager perspective, whereas Kiernan-Johnson’s to share the story with his friends and book is told through the eyes of a child. their families.

Kiernan-Johnson says she also wanted “Ronan filled up his suitcase, and he to bring a lighthearted tone to a tough brought one for each kid in his class topic. the next day,” Kiernan-Johnson says. “[My Princess Boy] does a beautiful “We got tons of feedback from other job of showing how hurtful it could be parents. A lot of people told us that it for the little boy and for his mom and sparked really good discussions with family when people say unkind things,” their kids. …

Kiernan-Johnson says. “With my book “And I think kids at Ronan’s school I wanted to raise questions of why these are like ‘Oh, OK, Ronan likes girl rules are in place and to write somethings, next thing, move on.’ It’s really thing a little more playful. I think often been a non-issue.”

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T

he Colorado Shakespeare Festival is one of those Boulder institutions that, like the genre it celebrates, seems like it’s been around forever.

Though longevity has its place, could a series of present troubles threaten the CSF’s future?

While no one is ready to hit the panic button just yet, changes to the CSF’s funding structure — combined with the recent, unanticipated resignation of Producing Artistic Director Philip Sneed, who on Feb. 1 took a better-paying job as executive director of the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities — have raised questions about the direction of the 55-year-old summer event, including concerns about the CSF’s financial viability.

Steven Leigh, dean of the University of Colorado Boulder’s College of Arts & Sciences, which oversees the CSF’s operations, has already set about finding Sneed’s successor, appointing CSF staffer Timothy Orr as interim producing artistic director while a search process unfolds. Leigh says a new chief will likely come from the ranks of theater professionals with academic credentials or tenure-track faculty prospects skilled at running a major producing organization.

Citing state budget cuts that have slashed per-student spending by 50 percent over the past 10 years, Leigh says, “We’re a tuition-funded university, so if we’re going to do a quality festival, we need to integrate it with the life of our students. We’ve been subsidizing the CSF on and off for some time — $135,000 this past year. It has to contribute to our academic mission in order for us to spend money on it.”

And if the CSF doesn’t, or can’t, adapt?

As Timothy Orr (left) temporarily takes over for departing Producing Artistic Director Philip Sneed (right) at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, funding issues could theaten the festival’s viability.

As leadership changes, questions arise about Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s future

by Jim Lillie “We may not be able to do it anymore,” Leigh says. “But I think we can make it and that subsidies can be justified — if our students are gaining directly from that subsidy.”

Sneed points out that state policy further complicates matters by prohibiting university-related institutions from accepting grants from the Scientific Cultural & Facilities District, an organization often credited with supplying lifeblood to Denver-area cultural institutions.

There’s also the question of how to continue offering a product that’s priced at the same levels charged by larger, local professional theaters — but may not always measure up in overall quality.

“You can’t charge $50 for tickets with only student actors playing the roles,” Sneed says, explaining that, at those prices, even the most sympathetic audiences have a hard time looking past an undergraduate portraying one of Shakespeare’s older characters, no matter how good the actor might be.

“I was committed to maintaining the standards and quality of the work so that it could compete with the Arvada Center and Denver Center,” he continues. “With competitive ticket prices, I wanted competitive actors. To do that costs money. … We were gradually professionalizing. I certainly thought we were getting to the point of balancing

the budget while maintaining quality.”

Regardless of which direction the CSF takes, mounting the current season remains the top priority for Orr. “The timing was pretty difficult. Phil gave notice five days before our auditions, with 300 people competing for 24 acting positions — a process I hadn’t been involved in previously. I had to get my head wrapped around all of that.

[The new direction] is one we’ve all been having great conversations about.”

Orr says he intends to keep on expanding the CSF’s outreach to area schools, as well as to look for creative ways to attract new audience members.

“Our core focus is our summer festival. But everything else we do is intended to enlarge the family. And to produce these plays, which are worthy … I’m not worried at all. It has always been the case that, for a lot of people, you discover these enrichments later in life. My concern right now is on educating people, removing roadblocks to getting here.”

For now, then, the Ship of Bard continues to sail, no matter how tempesttossed the ocean beneath, nor how portending the cannon fire, near or far.

An angel could step forth to endow a permanent artistic director position. An entrepreneur might start the ball rolling on opening up access to SCFD funds.

Old and new, warring against each other, might create something newer still, something that hasn’t yet been envisioned — either on or off the stage.

It’s Shakespeare, after all, the playwright whose works have well outsold all others combined throughout the history of the known universe. As his plays so often remind, the only limits to realizing continued success are largely selfimposed.

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EVENTS AND MUSIC FOR FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS 3pm-8pm

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park • Craft beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors Sponsored by: Avery, Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

7pm

Frozen Dead Guy Days Opening Ceremony@ Hwy. 119 Roundabout • Open Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland’s roundabout with the famous Skeleton Dancers.

8pm-2am

“The Good, The Bad and The Frozen” Blue Ball @ Black Forest Inn Restaurant • Ice Queen and Grandpa Look-a-Like costume contest for Helicopter Tour prizes • Live music with Billy’s Rock Billy, a fusion of Nederland’s finest, and Gipsy Moon • Tickets are $12 at the door 10pm-2am

8pm-2am

Live Music @ Area restaurants and bars

Saturday, March 9 8-11am

FDGD Pancake Breakfast @ Nederland Community Center • Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes Sponsored by Nederland Area Seniors

8-11am

Event Day Registration and Waiver Wristband pick up/Parade line up @ Teen Center • Register for the Polar Plunge and Coffin Races • Waiver pick up for ALL FDGD events.

• Line up for the parade. All event participants must sign a waiver and get waiver wristband. If you are planning on doing any events, this is a great place to get your waiver ahead of time.

10am, Noon, 2pm & 4pm

Grandpa’s Tuff Shed Tours @ Sunnyside Barber Shop • Hour and a half tour of Grandpa Bredo’s Tuff Shed – limited to 13 people.

• Sign up at www.frozendeadguydays.org

11am-Noon

Cryogenic Workshop @ Wild Bear Mtn. Ecology Center • Meet Professor Cryo, a wacky scientist and performing magician. Hammer nails with bananas, shatter beautiful flowers and make ice cream with nitrogen.

• Silent auction

11am-8pm

Brain Freezer Tent @ E. First St. • Craft beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors Sponsored by: Avery and Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

11am-8pm

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl @ E. First St. • E. First Street is transformed into a pedestrian mall so revelers can enjoy the Brain Freezer Tent, participate in contests and more.

11am-8pm

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park • Craft beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and food vendors Sponsored by: Avery and Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

11am-4pm

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed @ Black Forest Restaurant • Watch the award-winning Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed short film every half hour

Noon

Parade of Hearses @ Teen Center and E. First St. • Parade participants must check in at the Teen Center

Noon-5pm

Tiny Disco @ Tuff Shed near Roundabout • Put a little boogie in your butt

1-2pm

Costume Polar Plunge @ Chipeta Park • Take the freezin’ plunge!

• $20 entry fee Sponsored

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Music Line Up

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

ReAnimate Yourself Tent stage (Chipeta Park, south side of Boulder Creek) 3-4:15pm: Hot Soup 4:45-6pm: Power Lung Rangers 6:30-8pm: Rocktin Grove

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 SUNDAY, MARCH 10 ReAnimate Yourself Tent stage (Chipeta Park, south side of Boulder Creek) 11am-12:15pm: Acoustic Mining Company 12:45-2pm: Horse & Sparrow [1 HOUR BREAK FOR COFFIN RACES, 2:00 TO 3:00]

1 and 5pm

3-4:30pm: The Zydecoasters 5-6:30pm: Jababa featuring Jubal with special guest Jaden Carlson 7-8:30pm: Fox Street Allstars

The Newly-Dead Game & Funny Films Talk @ Black Forest Restaurant • Funny collection of movie and TV scenes and a quiz for couples on how well they know each others last wishes Presented by Gail Rubin

2-3:30pm

Coffin Races @ Chipeta Park • Teams race with a coffin and “corpse” over a course of obstacles, mud and snow • Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place, Best Costume and Most FDGD Spirit • $100 entry fee

3-4pm

Brain Freeze Contest @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St. • Contestants race against each other downing ice cold treats for prizes • $5 entry fee

3-4pm

“Iceman” Bo Schafer Book Signing @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St.

4pm

Pioneer Inn’s Frozen Tip & Trip @ Pioneer Inn’s “Graveyard” • Team-building contest with frozen T-shirts and can-can dancing!

• $20 entry fee (includes shirt)

3-5pm

Icy Turkey Bowling @ E. First St. • Test your poultry bowling skills in the Icy Turkey Bowling Contest • $5 entry fee

6:30pm-1am

Grandpa’s Pub Crawl – Live Music @ Local pubs and bars

Brain Freezer Tent stage (E. 1st Street, ‘downtown’ Nederland) 11am-12:15pm: Greg Schochet & Kyle Ussery 12:45-2pm: The Zimmermans 2:30-3:45pm: Highway 50 4:15-5:30pm: Holden Young 6-7:30pm: John McKay Band

ReAnimate Yourself Tent stage (Chipeta Park, south side of Boulder Creek) 11am-12:15pm: She Said String Band 12:45-2pm: Onda 2:30-3:45pm: Stereo Giants 4:15-6pm: DeadPhish Orchestra Brain Freezer Tent stage (E. 1st Street, ‘downtown’ Nederland) 11-11:45am: Doug Brightwood & Friends 12:15-1:30pm: Kort McCumber & High Road 2-3:15pm: Lesley Kernochan & Full Band 3:45-5:15pm: Fat Rabbit

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8-11am

FDGD Pancake Breakfast @ Nederland Community Center • Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes.

Sponsored by Nederland Area Seniors

11am-6pm

Brain Freezer Tent @ E. First St. • Microbrew beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors Sponsored by: Avery and Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

11am-6pm

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl @ E. First St. • Nederland’s E. First Street is transformed into a pedestrian mall so revelers can enjoy music in the Brain Freezer tent and participate in Brain Freeze, Frozen T-shirt, Icy Turkey Bowling contests and more

11am-8pm

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park • Microbrew beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors Sponsored by: Avery and Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

11am-2pm

Salmon Toss and Sunday Brunch @ Sundance Café • Farthest flung fish wins the prize • Come by anytime

11am-2pm

Snowy Beach Volleyball @ Chipeta Park • Speed tournament, first come, first serve • Colorado Heli-Ops tour prize Waivers be signedmust be signed • $20 per must team/waivers Sponsored by: Play It Again Sports

11am-4pm

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed movie @ Black Forest Restaurant • Watch the award-winning Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed short film every half hour

Noon-1pm

Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies @ Wild Bear Mtn. Ecology Center • Sasquatch information from the experts

1-2pm

Frozen T-shirt Contest @ Chipeta Park E. First Street • Try and slip into something frozen at the Frozen T-shirt Contest for prizes • $10 entry fee

1-3pm

Ice Carving with Bongo Love @ Chipeta Park

1-3pm

Icy Turkey Bowling @ E. First St. • Test your poultry bowling skills across the street from the Brain Freezer Tent • $5 entry fee

2-3pm

Brain Freeze Contest @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St. (outside) • Contestants race against each other downing frozen treats for prizes • $5 entry fee

1pm and 5pm

The Newly Dead Game & Funny Films for Funeral Planning Talk @ Black Forest Restaurant • Funny collection of movie and TV scenes about funerals, cremation, and cryonics and a quiz for couples on how well they know each others last wishes Presented by Gail Rubin

3pm

Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest @ First Street Pub • Race to eat as many Rocky Mountain oysters as possible

3-4pm

Iceman” Bo Schafer Book Signing @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St.

5pm

2013 Frozen Dead Guy Days Closing Ceremony @ Hwy. 119 Roundabout • Finish off the 2013 Frozen Dead Guy Days in grand fashion at Nederland’s roundabout

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Friday, March 8

EVENTS AND MUSIC FOR FROZEN DEAD GUY DAYS 3pm-8pm

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park • Craft beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors Sponsored by: Avery, Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

7pm

Frozen Dead Guy Days Opening Ceremony@ Hwy. 119 Roundabout • Open Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland’s roundabout with the famous Skeleton Dancers.

8pm-2am

“The Good, The Bad and The Frozen” Blue Ball @ Black Forest Inn Restaurant • Ice Queen and Grandpa Look-a-Like costume contest for Helicopter Tour prizes • Live music with Billy’s Rock Billy, a fusion of Nederland’s finest, and Gipsy Moon • Tickets are $12 at the door 10pm-2am

8pm-2am

Live Music @ Area restaurants and bars

Saturday, March 9 8-11am

FDGD Pancake Breakfast @ Nederland Community Center • Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes Sponsored by Nederland Area Seniors

8-11am

Event Day Registration and Waiver Wristband pick up/Parade line up @ Teen Center • Register for the Polar Plunge and Coffin Races • Waiver pick up for ALL FDGD events.

• Line up for the parade. All event participants must sign a waiver and get waiver wristband. If you are planning on doing any events, this is a great place to get your waiver ahead of time.

10am, Noon, 2pm & 4pm

Grandpa’s Tuff Shed Tours @ Sunnyside Barber Shop • Hour and a half tour of Grandpa Bredo’s Tuff Shed – limited to 13 people.

• Sign up at www.frozendeadguydays.org

11am-Noon

Cryogenic Workshop @ Wild Bear Mtn. Ecology Center • Meet Professor Cryo, a wacky scientist and performing magician. Hammer nails with bananas, shatter beautiful flowers and make ice cream with nitrogen.

• Silent auction

11am-8pm

Brain Freezer Tent @ E. First St. • Craft beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors Sponsored by: Avery and Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

11am-8pm

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl @ E. First St. • E. First Street is transformed into a pedestrian mall so revelers can enjoy the Brain Freezer Tent, participate in contests and more.

11am-8pm

ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent @ Chipeta Park • Craft beer from Avery and Left Hand breweries • Specialty “Corpse Reviver” and “Grandpa’s Spirit” drinks • Live Music • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and food vendors Sponsored by: Avery and Lefthand & Roundhouse Spirits

11am-4pm

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed @ Black Forest Restaurant • Watch the award-winning Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed short film every half hour

Noon

Parade of Hearses @ Teen Center and E. First St. • Parade participants must check in at the Teen Center

Noon-5pm

Tiny Disco @ Tuff Shed near Roundabout • Put a little boogie in your butt

1-2pm

Costume Polar Plunge @ Chipeta Park • Take the freezin’ plunge!

• $20 entry fee Sponsored

by RC Rental

Music Line Up

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

ReAnimate Yourself Tent stage (Chipeta Park, south side of Boulder Creek) 3-4:15pm: Hot Soup 4:45-6pm: Power Lung Rangers 6:30-8pm: Rocktin Grove

SATURDAY, MARCH 9 SUNDAY, MARCH 10 ReAnimate Yourself Tent stage (Chipeta Park, south side of Boulder Creek) 11am-12:15pm: Acoustic Mining Company 12:45-2pm: Horse & Sparrow [1 HOUR BREAK FOR COFFIN RACES, 2:00 TO 3:00]

1 and 5pm

3-4:30pm: The Zydecoasters 5-6:30pm: Jababa featuring Jubal with special guest Jaden Carlson 7-8:30pm: Fox Street Allstars

The Newly-Dead Game & Funny Films Talk @ Black Forest Restaurant • Funny collection of movie and TV scenes and a quiz for couples on how well they know each others last wishes Presented by Gail Rubin

2-3:30pm

Coffin Races @ Chipeta Park • Teams race with a coffin and “corpse” over a course of obstacles, mud and snow • Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place, Best Costume and Most FDGD Spirit • $100 entry fee

3-4pm

Brain Freeze Contest @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St. • Contestants race against each other downing ice cold treats for prizes • $5 entry fee

3-4pm

“Iceman” Bo Schafer Book Signing @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St.

4pm

Pioneer Inn’s Frozen Tip & Trip @ Pioneer Inn’s “Graveyard” • Team-building contest with frozen T-shirts and can-can dancing!

• $20 entry fee (includes shirt)

3-5pm

Icy Turkey Bowling @ E. First St. • Test your poultry bowling skills in the Icy Turkey Bowling Contest • $5 entry fee

6:30pm-1am

Grandpa’s Pub Crawl – Live Music @ Local pubs and bars

Brain Freezer Tent stage (E. 1st Street, ‘downtown’ Nederland) 11am-12:15pm: Greg Schochet & Kyle Ussery 12:45-2pm: The Zimmermans 2:30-3:45pm: Highway 50 4:15-5:30pm: Holden Young 6-7:30pm: John McKay Band

ReAnimate Yourself Tent stage (Chipeta Park, south side of Boulder Creek) 11am-12:15pm: She Said String Band 12:45-2pm: Onda 2:30-3:45pm: Stereo Giants 4:15-6pm: DeadPhish Orchestra Brain Freezer Tent stage (E. 1st Street, ‘downtown’ Nederland) 11-11:45am: Doug Brightwood & Friends 12:15-1:30pm: Kort McCumber & High Road 2-3:15pm: Lesley Kernochan & Full Band 3:45-5:15pm: Fat Rabbit

Sunday, March 10 Frozen Daylight Savings Time begins at 2am on Sunday, March 10. Be sure to “Spring Forward” so you don’t miss anything!

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FDGD Pancake Breakfast @ Nederland Community Center • Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes.

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Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed movie @ Black Forest Restaurant • Watch the award-winning Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed short film every half hour

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Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies @ Wild Bear Mtn. Ecology Center • Sasquatch information from the experts

1-2pm

Frozen T-shirt Contest @ Chipeta Park E. First Street • Try and slip into something frozen at the Frozen T-shirt Contest for prizes • $10 entry fee

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Ice Carving with Bongo Love @ Chipeta Park

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Brain Freeze Contest @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St. (outside) • Contestants race against each other downing frozen treats for prizes • $5 entry fee

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The Newly Dead Game & Funny Films for Funeral Planning Talk @ Black Forest Restaurant • Funny collection of movie and TV scenes about funerals, cremation, and cryonics and a quiz for couples on how well they know each others last wishes Presented by Gail Rubin

3pm

Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest @ First Street Pub • Race to eat as many Rocky Mountain oysters as possible

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Iceman” Bo Schafer Book Signing @ Brain Freezer Tent - E. First St.

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2013 Frozen Dead Guy Days Closing Ceremony @ Hwy. 119 Roundabout • Finish off the 2013 Frozen Dead Guy Days in grand fashion at Nederland’s roundabout

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overtones Jersey Shore and beyond

Mickey Hart looks to his roots for Sandy benefit album

by Dave Kirby

I

John Werner

n the wake of the pitiless thrashing that Sandy delivered to Northern New Jersey and the NYC metro area last November, plenty of musical artists rallied together for benefit projects (most notably the 12/12 Concert) to aid families and towns along the coast. A few of the big-name artists, of course, have famously drawn about getting it done so fast.” from the uniquely calloused mythos of The single spearheads a full twoboardwalk towns, strip-mall suburbia hour release from the Mickey Hart and big city borough life and woven it Band, which also includes four tracks into their careers — Springsteen, Billy from the band’s last studio effort Joel, Bon Jovi — but add to that list Mysterium Tremendum, a 2012 recordMickey Hart, who is mostly closely ing project that Hart based on the proassociated with a band from San cessed signals of galactic and intergalacFrancisco. tic light waves captured through obserHart still carries a pretty salty vatories and labs at Penn State and Brooklyn brogue, having been born Lawrence Berkeley, as well as some live there and grown up on Long Island. cuts from the band’s last appearance at The real-time images of Sandy’s masthe New Jersey coast in August 2012, sive surge and its including Dead covmind-bending destrucers like “Scarlet/Fire” tion prompted Hart to and “Brokedown ON THE BILL: The Mickey write a piece about his Palace.” Proceeds Hart Band plays the Fox old hood as a benefit from the release go Theatre on Thursday, Feb. 28.

African Showboyz open. download for Sandy to Clean Ocean Doors at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are relief.

Action, a relief orga$25 in advance, $30 day of Widespread Panic nization that has show, plus $2 for under-21 tickets. 1135 13th St., Boulder, bassist Dave Schools, organized more than 303-443-3399. who holds the bass 3,800 volunteers chair in Hart’s band since last November. these days, says that the Fans catching the piece, titled simply “Jersey Shore” and a band this time around on tour will likefeature number on the band’s current ly hear some of this material as well. tour, featuring the achingly poised Schools got the job of picking out vocals of Hart Band lead singer Crystal which Dead covers to include in the Monee Hall, was a pretty quick wrap. set.

“Mickey was watching the news “You know, I’m not sure how I got reports of this storm unfolding on TV, that mantle,” he says and laughs, literally while was it was happening,” “except maybe because I’m the guy who Schools says, “and it all pretty much accepted it in the first place. came to him at once. Lyrics, song “But the real motivator for me, I structure, the whole unifying idea. It all think, in picking out which Dead songs happened just like that. We got in and to do was figuring out which ones the arranged it and — presto, change-o — vocalist can really sell. And I don’t the thing was done. We set up the mean that in the commercial sense, release and that was it. We just got it necessarily. But … like when you hear out about a week ago, and it’s doing Crystal doing her sort of bluesy, gospelsome good already — we’re really happy y take on ‘Brokedown Palace,’ you really Boulder Weekly

believe what she’s singing and feeling, that she’s communicating the song the way it was meant to be sung.

“Crystal really wasn’t a Dead fan when she joined the group, but over time she’s been listening more and more to the stuff, and she’s really getting into it, finding ways to approach the material. She was just saying ‘I really want to try “Greatest Story Ever Told,”’ and I think she’s such a terrific, incredible talent that she can take it and make it her own.”

Schools, of course, is best known for his role in Widespread Panic, one of the more song-centered of the topflight jambands on the road today, so his own musical instincts are deftly balanced between carving out a deep groove for jamming and meticulously supporting a vocals-driven tune, a perfect grounding for a band like Hart’s that relies on tactical use of the drummer’s spacious-meandering pedigree as a foil against relaxed but keenly mature song structure.

Ultimately, for Schools, the song comes first — doesn’t matter how hard you can jam, everything up there has to serve the song.

“That’s it, exactly, that my mantra.

‘Serve the song.’ This band is an ensemble, everybody has a part to play and everyone contributes, but it’s not about blowing as hard as you can. It has to be about serving the song, making the thing organic. My main goal is just not to step on anyone else or trip them up.”

Which left us thinking about his other projects — Stockholm Syndrome, an upcoming project with Todd Snider.

And Panic. How do you trip up a guy like Panic guitarist Jimmy Herring?

Schools laughs.

“You can’t trip up Jimmy, man, he just always lands on his feet,” Schools says. “And anyway, you know what they say. ‘If ya drop a brick, drop three more and call it jazz.’”

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overtones The passions of Bach

Boulder Bach Festival focuses on composer’s religious works

by Peter Alexander

B

ach’s St. John Passion is a dramatic musical work that tells the story of Jesus’ ON THE BILL: The Boulder betrayal and crucifixion.

Bach Festival continues its season at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, From other perspectives, March 1, at St. John’s Episcopal it is a great work of art, a powerful reliCathedral in Denver, and at gious experience and a Lutheran devo7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 2, at Mountain View Methodist tional event. And it forms the centerChurch in Boulder. Tickets are piece of this year’s Boulder Bach $25 in advance, $30 at the Festival. door, $10 for students and $5 for children with purchase of The St. John Passion will be peran adult ticket. Visit www.boulformed under festival music director derbachfest.org for more inforRick Erickson at 7:30 p.m. Friday, mation.

March 1, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Denver and Saturday, Bach’s manuscript for the St. John Passion, March 2, at Mountain View Methodist which will be the centerpiece of the Boulder Church in Boulder. The Boulder Bach Festival Chorus and Bach Festival’s season Players will be joined by tenor Tony Boutté as the evangelist, plus soprano Sarah Brailey, countertenor Ryland Angel, tenor Daniel Hutchings, bass-baritone Joe Damon Chappel and bass- tury Lutheran church. The narrative is told by the evangelist — baritone Adam Ewing. a tenor soloist — reciting the Biblical text from the Gospel of Last year, Erickson decided to step out of the rotation of John in Luther’s translation. major works that had characterized the Bach Festival for many The soloists and the choir also take dramatic parts in the years and present a number of smaller works. This year, the fesnarrative, singing the words of Jesus, Peter, Pilate, the high tival returns to the familiar model of building the program priests, soldiers and the mob, among others. around a larger work.

The choir actually has many roles, dramatically representing “I don’t know that we will always do what are called the the mob and other groups in the story, but also standing in for major works,” Erickson says, “in part because the literature is so the faithful Lutheran congregant in the form of church chorales, broad. We’re working on understanding Bach not as a grand art- which were very familiar to Bach’s audience. These portions of ist but as someone who lived in a very rich culture. Sometimes, the passion were especially significant at the time, since the choto meet the weekly working Bach of the cantatas presents a difrales were a treasured tradition of the Lutheran church, and one ferent view.” of the things that most clearly distinguished Lutheranism from But this year, he says, “it’s great to come to the St. John the Roman church.

In addition to the Biblical narrative and the chorales, a third Passion. It’s a glorious work, and it seemed like the right choice element of the passion text is free poetic insertions from Bach’s at the right time. own time, commentary on the story set as solo arias. “And final“Of the two passions that exist by Bach [St. John and St. Matthew], the St. John Passion is the grittiest, it’s the earliest, but ly,” Erickson says, “you have the last movement of both the St. Matthew and St. John passions,” lengthy choruses on a poetic it is a powerful, dramatic explication. It tells the passion narratext that translates roughly into “Sleep Well, Jesus.” tive opening with the Garden of Gethsemane, and stretches “In both passions they’re big choruses, both long and very, from there through the crucifixion. very important,” Erickson says. “That’s because the Lutherans “It is really one of the most gripping tales. Quite frankly, wanted to clarify that when you die you sleep, as opposed to whether you are a person of Christian belief or not, it is a comfloating around in heaven with saints.” pelling story. It has highly dramatic confrontations with Jesus, This is one of many doctrinal issues that would have been Peter’s betrayal and denial, the inciting of mob violence, and the obvious in Bach’s time, but that audiences will not immediately political plays between the secular authorities and the church recognize today. And while he studies those historical nuances, authorities.”

Erickson does not think that is especially important in a perforIt was written for Good Friday in 1724, during Bach’s first mance. year in charge of music at two churches in Leipzig.

“I think it’s about hearing the music and the story,” he says.

“Here’s Bach now arriving in Leipzig,” Erickson explains, “From a storyteller’s standpoint, from someone who really wants “and the church authorities want a really gripping performance to not do a kind of a stained-glass, ‘This is a great sacred relic of the passion narrative. And Bach uses the various elements and we’re going to do it again because it’s so great,’ it’s of more that are at his disposal.” interest to me to actually re-enter into the story so that it’s alive.

Those elements were defined partly by musical tradition, “That’s what I like to go for.” since there had been settings of the passion story written before Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com then, and partly by the doctrinal considerations of the 18th-cen36 February 28, 2013

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SHE IS...

THE SCHIFF DANCE COLLECTIVE EXPLORED HOW WOMEN DEFINE THEMSELVES AT A SERIES OF WRITING AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS. “SHE IS...” PRESENTS THE RESPONSES. 8 P.M. MARCH 1 & 2 AT THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS.

courtesy of the Schiff Dance Collective

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Rehearsals for “She is...”

Thursday, February 28 music Adam Bodine Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Ben Hanna Band — CD release party. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. iPop Shuffle — Fairview High School 2013 Pop Show.

7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100.

BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap Sneak Peek Opening Reception. 5:30 p.m. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa — Cinema Program Screening. 6:25 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Geopolitics Series. 1 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lyons High School Jazz Band. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

Getting Started with Adobe InDesign, Part 1. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Mickey Hart Band — With African Showboyz. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Nature Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Carolyn Holmberg Preserve at Rock Creek Farm, Boulder, 303-678-6214.

Mike Finders & Ryan Dickey. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-4425847.

Nan Stop. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Nearly There. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

Open Mic. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Pete Kartsounes — With Michael Kirkpatrick. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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

Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee. 6:30 p.m. Boulder County Courthouse, 1777 6th St., Boulder, 303-678-6261.

Renaming Celebration for HospiceCare. 4:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-604-5222.

SmartRegs Energy Inspector Training/Certification. 8:30 a.m. Alfalfa’s Community Room, 1651 Broadway St., Boulder, CuzzolinoM@bouldercolorado. gov.

Window & Door Installation Training. 9:30 a.m.

Alpen High Performance Products, 6268 Monarch Park Pl., Longmont, info@bgbg.org.

Friday, March 1 music AdrienneO. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

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

FullBelly. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303449-1922.

Gasoline Lollipops, Halden Wofford, The HiBeams. All day. Jamestown Town Hall, 118 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Ginga. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303449-0120.

Greensky Bluegrass — With Ryan Montbleau. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

Idlewhile. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. iPop Shuffle — Fairview High School 2013 Pop Show.

7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100.

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

Johnny Barber & The Rhythm Razors. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Maynard Mills Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

Nacho Men. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Old Fashioned Hootenanny. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Otis Taylor & Friends. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

talk by Sara Avery, Quanta Change Guide. 7 p.m. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4493066.

Cry Rock. Niwot Native American Film Festival series, Elysian Fields Auction Co., 6924 79th St., Niwot, 303931-3084.

HeARTifacts — A workshop for pARTners. 6:30 p.m.

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

PBJ Friday. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

The Schiff Dance Collective: She is…. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826.

Saturday, March 2 music AJ Croce. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

BLOrk Concert. 7:30 p.m. ATLAS Black Box Studio, 1125 18th St., Boulder, 303-735-4577.

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

Boulder Bach Festival — St. John Passion, BWV 245.

7:30 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, Boulder, 303-776-9666.

Carry Me Ohio. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Chris Malley & Bob Schlesinger Project. 7:30 p.m.

Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Christine Lavin. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

So What Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Boulder Bach Festival — St. John Passion, BWV 245. 7:30 p.m. St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver, 303-776-9666.

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

Collage Concert. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247.

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

David Patryas Trio. 6 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

events

Greensky Bluegrass — With Ryan Montbleau. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-4433399.

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

The Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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Contemporary Realism, at Gallery 1261, explores the interactions between images and narrative.

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Alchemy — Bronze sculptures

by Kerry Cannon. Andrew J. Macky Gallery, Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247.

Through March 24.

Art of the State — Featuring 160 Colorado artists. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7255. Through March 31.

BEER! Boulder’s History on Tap. Boulder History Museum, 1206 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303449-3464. Through Oct. 27.

Black Maps — A solo show by David Maisel. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-4928300. Through May 11.

Colorado Watercolor Society Exhibition.

Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303279-3922. Through March 24. Opening reception at 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 1.

Museum of Broken Relationships. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through May 26.

Not In Your Face. Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-2241010. Through March 30. Opening reception at 6 p.m. March 1.

Primal Seen — Selections from the CU photography collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 22.

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ENJOY ALL NATURAL TREATMENTS, RELAX AND LOUNGE!

iPop Shuffle — Fairview High School 2013 Pop Show.

2 p.m. & 7 p.m. Fairview High School, 1515 Greenbriar Blvd., Boulder, 720-561-3100.

Highway 50. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Indigent Row. 4 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing, 6778 79th St., Niwot, 303-547-6152.

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

Local Super Jam. 9 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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

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

Energy Healing Workshop. 1-5 p.m. Labyrinth at the First United Methodist Church,1421 Spruce St., Boulder, RSVP at patricksfworkshops@gmail.com Final Cut Pro X Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

The Intergalactic Nemesis Book One: Target Earth — A live-action graphic novel. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Schiff Dance Collective: She is…. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Visit the Agricultural Heritage Center. 10 a.m.

Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway, Longmont, 303-776-8848.

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

One Ton Pig. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Anthony Ruptak & His Midnight Friends. 7 p.m.

Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303834-9384.

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

The Big Pick — Hosted by Family Dog. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Tim Crawford Band. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

Tim Carl. 12 p.m. The Red Frog, 15 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-772-7209.

events

Fauxgrass. 4 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Adam Carolla & Dr. Drew Reunion Tour. 8 p.m.

Paramount Theatre, 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, 303623-0106.

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio.

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

Chickens in Your Backyard — Raising and caring for chickens. 11 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Ute Highway 66, Longmont, 303-776-8688.

Mello Cello Sundays — With Sam Rae. 7 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Educate!’s Annual Ball — For the Future of Africa, with music by Selasee. 6-9 p.m. Spice of Life Event Center, 5706 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, www.experienceeducate.org/annualball/.

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Laura Letinsky: Still Life Photographs, 1997-2012. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 24.

From Cherry Blossoms to Snow Gardens — Japanese prints. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through March 23.

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Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration — With Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee. Norlin Library East Lobby and West Lobby, CU campus, Boulder, ucblibraries.colorado.edu. Through March 8.

Portraits 2013. Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-224-1010.

Through March 23. Opening reception at 6 p.m.

March 1.

Hen Scratch. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Georgia O’Keefe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720865-5000. Through April 28.

Contemporary Realism — Works by national artists. Gallery 1261, 1261 Delaware St., Denver, 303-571-1261. Through April. 15.

Gumbo Le Funque. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

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

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

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Traditional Irish Session. 7:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Tuesday, March 5

“Under Paris Skies” — Jazz by Amelie Trio featuring Britta Larree. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

music

Valley Young. 8:30 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

events

Craig Corona. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Discovery — An evening of art presented by Boulder RAW Artists. 6 p.m. Absinthe House, 1109 Walnut St., Boulder, www.RAWartists.org/boulder/discovery.

Final Cut Pro X Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303875-0276.

Free Form Yoga. 10 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Salón Avalon Milonga — Tango Dance. 6:30 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 720-346-2215.

Salsa Dancing. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Danú. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247

events

music Big Daddy Love. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Wednesday, March 6

Takács Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music Building, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8008.

events Arabic Literature Discussion Group. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach — Cinema Program screening. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

FAMILY NIGHT!

music Blues Jam — Hosted by The Firebreathers. 10 p.m.

Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

theater

Caesar & Cleopatra. Boulder’s Upstart Crow Theatre Company at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-442-1415.

Through March 9.

Catch Me If You Can — Presented by the Denver Center Theatre Company. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303-893-4100. Through March 10.

Church Basement Ladies. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4496000. Through May 12.

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

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

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

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 N. Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

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

StrangeByrds. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Summer Camp on the Road 2013 — With Hot Soup, Malai Llama, Policulture and others. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Buntport Theater Company and Stories on Stage present Very, Very Short Stories: The Sequel, performing two- to five-minute flash fiction stories.

Almost, Maine — Presented by Theatre Company of Lafayette. Mary Miller Theatre, 300 E. Simpson, Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 23.

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

Environmental Science Series: Alternative Energy Sources. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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Open Mic — Hosted by Maus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Monday, March 4

Open Jovan — Open mic Jimtown style. 5:30 p.m.

Jamestown Mercantile, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

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Thurs., Feb 28, 7:00pm

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

Boulder County Day School’s Preview Day. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Boulder County Day School, 4820 Nautilus Court North, Boulder, 303-527-4931 x248.

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

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Gasoline Lollipops. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Wild Collected Sourdough Starter and Biscuits.

9-11 a.m. Lyons Farmette, 4121 Ute Highway, Lyons, 720-865-3519.

Drunken Hearts. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

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Close Ties — Presented by Coal Creek Theatre of Louisville. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant St., Louisville, 303-665-0955. Through March 9.

Consider the Oyster. Aurora Fox Arts Center, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora, 303-739-1970.

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Jon — Presented by The Catamounts. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 16.

Danny Shafer Sun., Mar 3rd

Stephen Thurston Band Mon., Mar 4th

George Nelson Quartet Wed., Mar 6th • 5pm

Dechen Hawk Trio

Fri, Mar 8th - Pete Kartsounes Sun, Mar 10th - Open Stage • 9pm Mon, Mar 11th - The Heavy Cats Wed, Mar 13th - Pete Kartsounes Band

The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, 4747 Marketplace Dr., Johnstown, 970-744-3747. Through March 30.

Very, Very Short Stories: The Sequel — With Buntport Theater Company and Stories on Stage.

1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 2. Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center, 721 Santa Fe Dr., Denver, 303-494-0523.

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Fri, Mar 15th - The Strangebyrds Sun, Mar 17th - Happy St. Patty’s Day! Mon, Mar 18th - George Nelson Quartet Wed, Mar 20th - Stereofedelics

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The Furthest City Light — By Jeanne Winer. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

New Basics Poetry Open Mic — Foray Artist Collective. An open reading. 4 p.m. Absolute Vinyl, 5360 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-955-1519

Joining Forces: Book Arts in Collaboration — With Kitty Maryatt and Sammy Lee. 7 p.m.

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The Last Outlaws — by Thom Hatch. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.

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7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074 So, You’re a Poet? — Thomas Peters & beat book shop birthday reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Tuesday, March 5 Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal — by Melanie Warner. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

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

Wednesday, March 6 Caroline’s No Nightshade Kitchen: Arthritis Diet — by Caroline Thompson. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

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Sunday, March 3

Boulder Green Streets Community Gathering. 5 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Baby Boogie, bring your kids into dance! 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Impact Awards 2013. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Go Club for Kids & Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Library Commission Meeting. 6 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Lions, Bobcats, Lynx, Oh My! — Nature for Kids & Parents. 2:30 p.m. Chautauqua Ranger Cottage, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.bouldercolorado.gov.

Sun Dance — International Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 415-290-9242.

Monday, March 4

Town Hall with Sen. Rollie Heath. 6 p.m. Salto Coffee Works, 112 E. 2nd St., Nederland, www. senrollieheath.com.

KIDS CALENDAR Thursday, February 28 Thursday Storytime. 10 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Friday, March 1 Friday Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Kids With Spirit — Children’s weekly spiritual exploration, classes through April 12. Caritas Spiritist Center, 5723 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4493066.

Spanish with Kena. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

Saturday, March 2 French/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Reynolds Reading Pals. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

WOW! Craft Club — Delightful Dinosaurs. 11 a.m.

WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Monday Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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

Tuesday, March 5 Bilingual Spanish/English Storytime. 10:15 a.m.

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

Reynolds Reading Pals. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-441-3120.

Tactile Tuesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Tuesday Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Zumbatomic for Kids — Dance Fitness for Kids. 4 p.m., The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-604-9098

Wednesday, March 6 Reading Buddies. 4:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Storytime for Children At Meadows Branch.

10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Toddler Hour. 9 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-604-2424.

Watercolor Wednesday. 10 a.m. WOW! Children’s Museum, 110 N. Harrison Ave., Lafayette, 303-6042424.

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‘The House I Live In’ makes a compelling case to end the drug war

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certain segment of the population has always believed Nixon’s War on Drugs to be a tragic waste of time, money and human life. A damning statistic, familiar to those with even a minor interest in the drug boondoggle, comes early in The House I Live In: “Since 1971, the War on Drugs has cost over $1 trillion and resulted in more than 45 million arrests. During that time, illegal drug use has remained unchanged.”

And that’s the documentary in a nutshell. The House I Live In makes an urgent, humanity-based case for ending the drug war while adding little to the conversation.

Yet few end-the-drug-war movies have ever woven all the infuriating threads into one cohesive narrative as filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger, Move Your Money) has, and those who remain ambivalent about the drug war are in for a jarring shock should they view the movie.

The documentary starts small-scale and then pulls back to show a broader picture. Jarecki focuses on his black caretaker, a woman named Nannie Jeter, who was “like a second mother” to him. He was close with her family and children growing up, but as he got older he noticed a growing disparity between their two families. Jeter’s children struggled with hard drugs. Jarecki then asks the next logical questions,

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Hardly dying

ohn McClane (Bruce Willis), the hyper-violent man perpetually wrong in place and time, has always been Rambo by way of “grumpy cat.” The only thing that makes Die Hard actually Die Hard is the surly sense of humor McClane spouts while committing copious homicides. Sadly, A Good Day to Die Hard turns him into a boring dick who you wish would find death a little less difficult to embrace.

A Good Day to Die Hard is not Die Hard; it’s also not good and mostly takes place at night. So really, the whole title is a lie. What’s more, it doesn’t even follow its own most basic formula, as this isn’t a good cop in the wrong place at the wrong time. McClane kinda, sorta causes all of the problems in the movie.

Let me explain.

Within a few minutes, McClane leaves whatever passes as “the comfort of New York” for Russia, where his son, Jack ( Jai Courtney), is on trial for murder.

When a jailbreak occurs, McClane finds his son helping a prisoner to escape. You see, Jack isn’t a bad guy but a good guy, a CIA guy, and he’s on a mission … a mission that McClane screws up.

Had he just stayed home, his son would have escaped with his hostage, having not been delayed by his dad showing up and basically pointing the bad guys to him. This is the first Die Hard film where the Boulder Weekly

looking at the history of mandatory minimum sentences and examining why minorities seem disproportionately affected by the drug war. By the end, you emerge with a clear overview of the absolutely crazy way American society has chosen to enforce drug laws.

The documentary takes pains to interview members of many facets of the drug war, including smalltime dealers, prison guards, cops, felons, sentencing judges, lawyers and more. Every dose of sobering statistics is followed by an interview with a human personification of the issue. Seamless editing makes these transitions barely noticeable, helping to condense what could be a multi-volume book into a two-hour documentary.

David Simon, creator of The Wire, plays a prominent role as a sort of secondary narrator to Jarecki, and fans of the show will recognize many of his insights as the ones revealed via the characters of his drugaddled Baltimore. Simon adds concise storytelling and fact-relaying to the documentary, along with his star power, and he serves as the voice of reasonable moral outrage as the film builds to its conclusion.

This is the type of documentary that makes you want to call your congressman.

Again, there’s not much new here to those who have closely followed the politics of prisons and drug laws. But the documentary admirably pulls together the disparate elements of history, politics, statistics, sociology and criminology to make a cohesive whole, filling the documentary with enraging “ah-ha!” moments without feeling overburdened. Though The House I Live In adds little to the conversation, it’s a powerful summary of it, and that is enough.

The House I Live In screens at Muenzinger Auditorium at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5. Visit www.internationalfilmseries.com for more information.

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father before he doesn’t, each with about as much compelling motivation. Even the goofy action extremes of the last so-so film in the franchise, Live Free or Die Hard, have been replaced by repeated shaky-cam jumping through plate glass.

Die Hard hasn’t been sacred since the first sequel saw an on-the-ground ejection from a plane, so the biggest crime of this latest installment isn’t the sullying of some holy character so much as it is being boring as hell. Bullets and noise, sturm und drang, do not inherently make for excitement, especially when you don’t care who is shooting at who. And you won’t. You absolutely won’t.

It’s obvious that Willis really likes this series and this character, so it’s shocking he didn’t throw a fit at what writer Skip Woods (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and director John Moore (The Omen remake) did to both here. This is tracking huge at the box office, guaranteeing a sixth Die Hard movie. Here’s a thought: before someone writes and directs the next one, have them watch the first film at least once.

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

‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ ignores every word in the title

by Ryan Syrek

best thing our hero could have done to save lives is not leave the house, as the wild car chases through the rest of the film had to result in at least a few dozen innocent casualties.

The “villain” is as irrelevant as his evil plot, which makes absolutely no sense. Let’s just say that his plan is like a Rube Goldberg machine assembled in the dark. Speaking of things that are completely devoid of light: Jack is a shadow of a character. He hates his

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but as a photographer of expressive precision. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

In this comedy from the writers of The Hangover, one beer inevitably turns into many more the night before Jeff Chang’s medical school interview. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE KEYMASTER: PATRICK OLWELL’S STORY Olwell is one of the great wooden flute makers of all time. This documentary weaves together his story; making flutes, music, laughter, tears, and interviews with world famous Irish musicians. At Boedecker.

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Starting in 1964 with Seven UP, the UP series has followed 14 children from diverse backgrounds from all over England during their lifetimes, asking them about their experiences and their dreams for the future. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres AMOUR

Georges and Anne are a couple in their 80s about to experience one of the perils of mortality, dementia. Rated PG-13. At Century and Chez Artiste. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. ANIMATION: ASIFA-COLORADO 2012 MEMBER’S REEL

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The lesson here is: Life is more fun when you let your friends make bad choices for you. But it’s also more likely you’ll end up living in your mom’s basement than becoming a doctor.

The Colorado Chapter of Association Internationale du Film d’Animation is showcasing 20 short pieces from members. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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Ben Affleck’s latest directing project (in which he also stars) is based on true events from the Iranian revolution in 1979. Rated R. At Century and Esquire.

Drop City was an experimental community on the plains of Southern Colorado that blended practices of art, architecture, and resourceful living in ways that came to define a global counterculture. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

AUGUSTINE Writer-director Alice Winocour has adapted a true-story case of a progressive 19th century doctor/therapist and his unusual patient. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater BEAUTIFUL CREATURES A Romeo and Juliet-esque love story set in a supernaturally charged South. Rated PG-13.

At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD A 6-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD This critically acclaimed production is a feast of delicious behind-the-scene stories about Hollywood’s greatest stars and a legendary costume designer. At L2 Arts and Culture Center. ­— Denver Film Society DARK SKIES A couple begins to fear for the saftey of their family after they’re plauged by a series of unexplainable events. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino does to slave owners what he did to Nazis in Inglourious Basterds.

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ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH An animated space hero (voiced by Brendan Fraser) fights to defend his planet, Beeb. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

FIRST COMES LOVE Single at age 41, Nina Davenport decides to have a baby on her own, never minding the odds stacked against her or the extra hurdles of living in New York City. At SIE FilmCenter — Denver Film Society THE GIRL Struggling with the loss of her child to Social Services, a single mother is trapped in the quicksand of her south Texas life.

When her path collides with a young girl from Mexico, she begins a journey that will change her life. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD See full review page 45. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

GRANNY’S FUNERAL Although he made no effort to see his grandmother in her waning years, Armand must now deal with her funeral arrangements, in a comedy stamped with caustic wit. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS

The Brothers Grimm fairy tale is the latest victim of the ever-expanding quest to produce a gritty reboot of every franchise or concept in storytelling history. Rated R. At Twin Peaks.

HAPPY PEOPLE: A YEAR IN THE TAIGA

Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Encounters at the End of the World) presents this visually stunning documentary about the people of the small, snowbound village of Bakhtia in the Siberian wilderness. At Esquire.

— Landmark Theatres THE HOUSE I LIVE IN See full review page 45. At Muenzinger Auditorium.

IDENTITY THIEF The director of Horrible Bosses returns with an Odd Couple meets Planes, Trains and Automobiles redemption tale. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

THE IMPOSSIBLE A beautifully acted survival tale based on the 2004 tsunami in Eastern Asia. Rated PG-13.

At Mayan. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. JACK THE GIANT SLAYER 3D Jack climbs a beanstalk, fights giants and adds to a list of other action fairytale flicks.

Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

JOHN DIES AT THE END Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. But that’s not what it gets. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society JOURNAL DE FRANCE Depardon’s brilliant self-portrait takes a surprising point of view on the great documentarian’s life — not only as a filmmaker,

After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee Young-ae) is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her own daughter. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society THE LAST EXORCISM PART II In this sequel to The Last Exorcism, Nell picks up the pieces after an ordeal she can barely remember. But the force that terrorized her isn’t finished yet. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Century.

LEONIE As an independent young woman seeking to overcome the restrictive female roles in turn-of-the century America, Leonie Gilmour becomes the editor for the famous Japanese poet,Yone Noguchi. Part of VOICES at SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society LIFE OF PI 3D A storm ravages a boat carrying a zookeeper’s family and menagerie. The only survivors are the family’s son, Pi, and a Bengal tiger. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. LINCOLN Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln during the Civil War trying to pass the 13th Amendment. Rated PG-13. At Century and Colony Square.

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The Griswolds and family head by station wagon for the California fun park Walley World. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres NEDERLAND’S DANCE THEATER’S AN EVENING WITH CRYSTAL PITE Renowned for her flowing, organic and poetic style, Crystal Pite has succeeded in bringing her surprising and innovative dance approach to a wide audience. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater NEIGHBORING SOUNDS Identical, gleaming white high-rises dominate the skyline, obscuring the nearby ocean and also the urban poverty that has been central to Brazil’s social and cinematic identity for decades. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series OLDBOY Boulder Weekly

reel to reel Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private “prison” for 15 years. At SIE FilmCenter.

— Denver Film Society OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2013: ANIMATED

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Tabu is a Portuguese drama that begins with a silent movie style prologue about an explorer in the African jungle coming across a melancholic crocodile. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series

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The stories of six people are woven together by the excitement of India’s largest kite festival. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

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PERSECUTION A brutally intimate close-up of the moment-to-moment dissolution of a love affair. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

TRAILER WAR

To protect the world from KGB threat during the Cold War, a submarine captain (Ed Harris) must lead a dangerous mission.

Rated R. At Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

It’s not so much a movie as it is a featurelength compilation of trailers — gloriously bizarre, gleefully tasteless vintage trailers from low-budget exploitation flicks, in the vein of the old 42nd Street Forever compilations. At Muenzinger Auditorium. — International Film Series

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A singer returns home and shocks everyone. Rated PG-13. At Century and Esquire.

— Landmark Theatres SAFE HAVEN In the latest tearjerker from a novel by Nicholas Sparks, a young woman moves to a small town looking to leave a dark past behind. Doesn’t happen. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN A musician whose albums bombed in the U.S. unknowingly became an icon in South Africa. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres SIDE EFFECTS After her husband returns home from jail, a woman takes pills for anxiety that may cause her to murder. Rated R. At Century and Colony Square.

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Although the film has the trappings of drama, everything is sanitized and clichéd enough to make this a feel-good romance between attractive people. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb. SNITCH Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays a dad who must become a drug cartel-fighting informant to save his son from a wrongful conviction. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

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Quinoa at the White Mountain Farm in Mosca, near Alamosa

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rom food bars to bulk bins, we see it sprouting up in Boulder left and right: quinoa, “mother grain” to the Incas, a fresh addition to the Western superfood obsession.

It’s not just our tastebuds that are tingling with the Incan delight, our ears are ringing from all the buzz about Western demand causing problems for South Americans. Recent stories featured in The Guardian, the Associated Press and The New York Times have stated that the Western demand for quinoa is driving up costs in Bolivia and Peru, and people there can no longer afford to buy South American quinoa.

But amidst all of the tingling and buzzing, there’s another chapter being added to the quinoa story: Grain breeders are now working with farmers to make quinoa a sustainable crop in North America.

“It’s kind of mind-boggling how many growers are calling and emailing and just trying to learn as much as they can about it,” says Kevin Murphy, a Washington State University barley and alternative crop breeder. “And within the next couple of years, we’ll probably see a

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North American production stirs mixed feelings

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significant increase in acreage of growers.”

Colorado’s White Mountain Farm, located in Mosca (near Alamosa), became the first large-scale quinoa operation in North America back in 1987.

Since then, a few more farms in Canada and small-scale farmers throughout the Northwest have been experimenting with the super-seed. In 2012, a quinoa trial project for farms in the Northeast was led by Elizabeth Dyck, founder of the Organic Growers’ Research and Information-Sharing Network (OGRIN). Dyck reported that quinoa

grew well at both of the testing sites located in New York.

The push for North American growers to cultivate quinoa has been building for the last decade, according to Murphy.

“It’s just about the huge increase in demand,” Murphy says. “There just hasn’t been a huge push for us to get production up, but I think we’re in the middle of it now. I have no doubt [quinoa] can be grown on a large scale and organically. Starting this year, we are actually working with several growers who would be considered large-scale, who are certified

organic.”

Others, however, doubt the ability of North American growers.

“I just don’t think it will ever be as quality,” says Christopher Algea, founder of Keen One Quinoa in Boulder.

“Maybe someday it will be on par, but you’ve got to think about it. It’s like anything else. Something grown out of its native land, nine times out of 10, is going to be better than if it’s hybridized to grow in a climate that it’s not native in.”

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Local ice cream company Boulder Homemade Inc. will nationally launch its USDA certified organic gelato Figo! at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, Calif., on March 7.

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Figo! will be available in eight different pint-sized flavors such as Chocolate Duet, Coconut Almond Chip and Cool Limone.

Beginning this spring, Boulder Homemade Inc. will be nationally distributed starting in natural food stores and supermarkets in the Rocky Mountain region.

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Julia’s Kitchen hile I am admittedcream were perfectly 4457 Broadway, ly a carnivore, I’ve balanced, but this Boulder observed there are wasn’t this selec720-389-5578 two main paths tion’s neatest trick. that vegan restauOften, lentil soups rants can follow. On one hand, have flavors best there are the eateries that use soy described as muddled. But in this and other non-animal ingredients instance, judicious seasoning to create compelling stand-ins for enhanced the soup’s clean and such products as cheese, chicken bright qualities, avoiding this pulseand sausage. The other route presrelated pitfall. ents ingredients for what they are, Zoe, a gluten-free adherent, letting chickpeas be chickpeas, so to ordered a $9.50 veggie pancake speak. Followers of this path often saute. The accompanying tomato adhere to simple, unpretentious ginger sauce was another fine presentation with a more-thanexample of bright and balanced flapassing nod to ethnic cuisines. vors. Additionally, it begged the North Boulder’s Julia’s Kitchen question: Why aren’t these two follows the second route, as eviingredients more often in combinadenced by its completely organic tion? Certainly this sauce’s tang and plant-based menu. There’s a provided an appropriate contrast to house-blended veggie patty, salads, the bed of fluffy quinoa. As to the hummus pizza and a selection of pancakes, these consisted of sproutraw snacks such as onion crackers ed beans and vegetables, contributand nut-based sweets. Some of the ing to a smooth, if not outright dishes friend Zoe and I shared over mellow, taste. Its colorful appearwhich rounded out the flavor by lending welcome a recent lunch were also unquestionably influenced by ance dotted with bits of produce reminded me of the nuttiness.

Eastern cookery. jun, the savory Korean pancake. While Zoe had Next up was the $5 red lentil curry coconut soup, When we arrived, the noon crowd was starting to ordered her dish prepared mild, I wondered if the a perky concoction that wouldn’t be out of place in a build as we ordered at the counter. This humble cafe more spicy version could further evoke the liveliness decent ethnic joint. The curry’s spiciness and coconut is a cozy spot, with a welcoming quality of Eastern cuisine. reminiscent of natural foods establishWhile I found the $9.50 kitchari, billed as “Indian comfort food,” to be ments of decades past. It has an unpreless assertive with respect to spicing than tentious, lived-in feel that has become the soup, it had inarguably restorative increasingly hard to find in town. qualities. A light yet still satisfying blend As we waited for our hot items to of mung beans and brown basmati rice, arrive, we munched on $5 kale chips, owadays, many folks are interested in a gluten-free diet for reathis dish was pulled together by a comserved up in a brown paper bag. These sons ranging from managing chronic health conditions to pelling mix of turmeric, lemon and gindistinguished themselves from the stanenhancing athletic performance. However, it seems that cutting out ger. In particular, the medicinal root and dard preparation consisting of leafy gluten wasn’t always synonymous with good health. Back in the citrus made for something that both greens baked and drizzled with olive oil. ’70s, my mom would go to the natural food store to buy gluten stimulated and soothed the palate. This Julia’s version was produced in a dehybread. The loaves had the same basic shape as supermarket white bread, but they were noticeably denser, chewier and darker in dish summed up all that’s right with drator, which prevented the veggies from color. I’m still puzzled by what the benefit of this bread was supJulia’s Kitchen, namely mixing wholecrumbling into dust as baked ones posed to be, although I would guess it was related to a marginally some and nutritious ingredients with sometimes do. Here, the kale retained higher protein content. balanced yet intriguing flavors. crunch and a surprisingly hearty texture Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com augmented by pumpkin and chia seeds,

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Murphy contends that it’s all about finding the right variety.

“Yeah, quality is a huge issue,” Murphy says. “A lot of the stuff we’ve grown here is just as good as anything from Bolivia or Peru, and, again, a lot of it’s not. It’s about figuring out what’s good and how it came about.”

Right now, Murphy and other researchers are working to make sure there is enough genetic diversity in North American fields to hinder the spread of major diseases like Downy mildew, which can cause plant tissue to die. They’re also intercropping quinoa with leguminous crops, such as corn and potatoes, to keep weeds down and provide more nitrogen for the plants.

“We might need to be creative for how it’s done, but I think we can do it,” Murphy says.

Even if North American farmers find a way to grow high-quality quinoa, local businesses say they would question whether to buy from them.

Betto Diaz, founder of Quinoa Delight bars, grew up in Peru, where he now buys all of his quinoa and where his family still owns a farm.

“Probably, yeah, I would buy from North America, but I don’t know,” says Diaz. “The main thing is I want to help these people over there. The economy of all these farmers is improving a lot. The government is creating a lot of programs

to help poor people — poor people living in the mountains — teaching them to grow better harvests to support and sell in local markets.”

Asked if he would buy for Keen One from North American farmers, Algea responds, “It’s hard to talk about that stuff. I mean, I like supporting poor countries or people that don’t have as much opportunity as we’ve been given.

That’s always felt good.”

For Diaz, Algea and other vendors, there’s yet another layer to the quinoa conundrum. Algea worries that with North American production comes mass production. With mass production comes the destruction of intricate Incan farming practices, which date back thousands of years.

“I believe that as the demand grows, and it does start to yield more in the U.S., they’re gonna start mass farming, mass producing it so much in the U.S. that it’s going to take away kind of the love about quinoa,” Algea says.

While Murphy and other breeders remain confident in the future of North American quinoa, doubts still linger for Boulder buyers.

“You’ve just got to keep your values pretty high,” Algea says. “We did. We were able to find an exclusive buyer down there who only buys Royal Yellow.

It’s quinoa from farmers who are Bolivian born and bred.”

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n Northeast Ohio, where I’m from, Great Lakes Brewing Company is pretty much the beginning and the end of the craft beer conversation.

Maybe nobody else makes good craft beer — I wouldn’t know, I moved when I was 18 — or maybe everyone’s too hooked on Elizabeth Miller Bud Light to embrace good beer, but the effect is the same: Great Lakes exists in a bubble — so much so that its taphouse doesn’t have anyone else on tap.

In Boulder County, that would be pride bordering on blindness.

Having other breweries on tap is only sensible. There’s tons of good beer around, first of all, and most brewers seem to want to serve good beer no matter who makes it.

And then there’s the whole community thing that’s such a big deal here.

Craft breweries are popping up left and right, but the consensus — maybe even unanimous view — is that they aren’t battling for customers. They’re way more likely to collaborate than compete.

Community is definitely the theme at FATE Brewing Company, one of Boulder’s newest. Headed by a veteran of Boulder’s Big Red F restaurant group, Mike Lawinski, and a former brewer at Golden City Brewery, Jeff Griffith, FATE is starting off with strong ties the brewing and restaurant communities.

The way the brewpub is opening is only strengthening those connections.

Although, more accurately, FATE isn’t a brewpub yet. Its brewing room in a corner of the restaurant is draped in plastic sheets, as Griffith and Lawinski decided Boulder Weekly

to open the restaurant before FATE could start brewing its own beer.

Its first batches are expected to be ready in March, but for now, FATE’s rolling through collaborations it did with other breweries in Boulder and beyond. Its Cocoa Punk’n Porter, made with Asher Brewing, was a favorite for our group, with strong chocolate notes and great depth.

The other collaboration on tap, Cherry FATE stout with Mountain Sun, didn’t have much punch but showed notes of Mountain Sun’s cherry chocolate stout — as in, more sour cherry than sweet.

Sadly, at the time we were there, the Twist of FATE Rye Brown (with, naturally, Twisted Pine) was all tapped out.

FATE has collaborations coming out soon with Broomfield’s Big Choice, Upslope, BRU and Lone Tree.

And then there’s the guest tap list.

That’s usually off-limits by the beer tour’s rules, but we made the rules, so we can break them, and FATE’s eclectic and varied list is one of the best we’ve seen, drawing heavily from Colorado, California and the Pacific Northwest, as well as six straight from Belgium.

We have high hopes for FATE. If they like beers this good, they’re likely to try to make beers that are even better.

When their brewing operation gets started, we just might double back.

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ike many Vietnamese restaurants featuring this nation’s signature soup in its name, Lafayette’s Pho Cafe offers other dishes, such as rice and noodle plates as well as Thai-inflected entrees.

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3601 Arapahoe Ave. (inside the Peloton) Boulder 303-997-8775 izzeria Basta recently changed its name to Basta — not necessarily a bad thing, as this eatery also dishes out exceptional contemporary fare in addition to its signature pies. Chef Kelly Whitaker makes the most of the restaurant’s impressive wood-fired oven and time-consuming sous vide slow-cooking techniques to turn out distinctive preparations. These include wood-fired vegetable salads and Niman Ranch chuck flap beef sided with smoked potato.

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2525 Arapahoe Ave., #A05, Boulder 303-442-4133 he recently opened Rincon Argentino brings Argentine fare to Boulder in the form of traditional hot sandwiches and exquisite empanadas. This friendly, orderat-the-counter spot also features such beverages as Malbec wine and yerba mate, the traditional South American tea. Top choices include the archetypical steak sandwiches, available in both a basic and completo version augmented by ham and mozzarella.

Can’t-miss empanadas include the spicy steak, and the vegetarian will likely enjoy the Patagonia, an open-faced number featuring garlic, onion and cherry tomato.

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3325 28th St., Unit 5, Boulder 720-565-0707 orth Boulder’s Five Spice, like most decent Chinese restaurants, is a pleasantly unfussy place with straightforward service and reasonable prices.

It also differs from similar places in that it offers a far-reaching range of Asian dishes, including Japanese tempura, Vietnamese rice noodle bowls and Thai curries. Asian pastas are a strong suit, particularly the flavorful drunken noodles and the delightfully crunchy Hong Kong-style pan-fried noodles.

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Piece, Love & Chocolate

805 Pearl St., Boulder 303-449-4804 he go-to spot for all things chocolate in Boulder, Piece, Love & Chocolate, might also be the place you’d most likely spot an Oompa Loompa peering out of the back room. Featuring an impressive selection of artisan chocolate bars, drinking chocolates and housemade truffles, cookies and cakes, there’s plenty here for the most ardent cocoa connoisseur. Top choices include the basil and ginger truffles, and the salted caramel chocolate truffle torte.

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3390 28th St., Boulder 303-998-1234 oulder’s 3 Margaritas is a local outpost of a Coloradocentric Mexican restaurant chain. A self-described family restaurant, this ethnic eatery features reasonably priced combination plates spotlighting classic tacos, burritos and enchiladas, presented alongside chips and salsa, as well as rice and beans. Comforting selections include the chockfull-of-pork chile verde and the complex chicken mole.

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1335 Broadway, Boulder 303-442-RIBS he Rib House, formerly located in downtown Boulder, has relocated to University Hill, bringing with it loads of classic American barbecue meats perfumed with wood smoke. The hickory-scented offerings include the achingly tender baby back ribs, hauntingly smoky brisket and sides ranging from traditional cole slaw to mac and cheese wedges. Top these off with the house barbecue sauces, such as the sweet and subtly peppery XXX hot version, and you’ll have yourself a classic smokehouse experience.

1125 Pearl St., Boulder 303-447-BREW earl Street’s West Flanders Brewing Company unsurprisingly features several Belgian-inspired brews of its own creation among its beverage offerings. These include the Daisy Cutter, which is a strong ale, the Trippel Lutz and the dark red St. Mark’s Dubbel. Besides beer, they also serve standout bar food like ale cheddar soup, grass-fed beef burgers and more atypical offerings such as pumpkin risotto and pork chops.

1265 South Public Road, Lafayette 303-666-9559 afayette’s recently reopened Ting’s Place has all of the staples of Chinese-American cooking, such as sesame and lemon chicken and Kung Pao dishes of different stripes. But perhaps its strengths are in some of the more traditional and authentic offerings, such as the spiced duck with steamed buns, essentially a scaled-down Peking duck.

Another top-shelf selection is the superlative steamed flounder, seasoned with such traditional Chinese aromatics as ginger, scallions and cilantro.

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7980 Niwot Road, Niwot 303-652-0238 undays are ramen days at Sachi Sushi, nestled in the Niwot Market grocery store. The noodle soup here is a far cry from the dime-a-pack fare favored by starving students, and comes with a choice of salt, soy sauce or spicy miso broth. Toothsome noodles couple with such ingredients as pickled red ginger, sweet corn, fish cake and roast pork. For those desiring something other than noodles, this family-friendly spot also features reasonably simple sushi rolls and nigiri.

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3075 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder 303-442-4427 he three Boulder branches of Moe’s Broadway Bagel have been pleasing local appetites for doughy discs for two decades. Bagel varieties include sweet staples like blueberry and cinnamon raisin as well as savory specialties like onion and tomato cheddar. The more complex bagel sandwiches are more than worthy of consideration and include The New Yorker, a classic lox bagel with such garnishes as red onion and capers, as well as the classic Reuben, piled high with corned beef and sauerkraut.

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1730 Pearl St. Boulder 303-442-3003 oulder’s Pizzeria Locale has solidified its position as a go-to spot for wood-fired, Naples-style pie. Starters such as arancini, an addictingly rich fried melding of risotto and cheese, and desserts like the sensual butterscotch budino, an upscale pudding, have also burnished this eatery’s reputation. Firsttimers might want to try the Margherita, perhaps the most emblematic of Naples pie, with buffalo milk mozzarella, basil and tomato.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19:

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In 1993, Frenchman Emile Leray was on a solo trip through the Sahara Desert. In the middle of nowhere, his car suffered a major breakdown. It was unfixable. But he didn’t panic.

Instead, he used a few basic tools he had on hand to dismantle the vehicle and convert its parts into a makeshift motorcycle. He was able to ride it back to civilization. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically similar development in your future, Aries. You will get the opportunity to be very resourceful as you turn an apparent setback into a successful twist of fate.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

Your power animal is not the soaring eagle or the shrewd wolf or the brave bear. No, Taurus, it’s the rubber chicken.

I’m serious. With the rubber chicken as your guardian spirit, you might be inspired to commit random acts of goofiness and surrealism. And that would reduce tension in the people around you. It could motivate you to play jokes and pull harmless pranks that influence everyone to take themselves less seriously. Are you willing to risk losing your dignity if it helps make the general mood looser and more generous?

Nothing could be better for group solidarity, which is crucial these days. (Thanks, Gina Williams.)

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

In the language of the Huron Indians, “orenda” is a word that refers to the spiritual power that resides in all creatures and things. If you’ve got enough of it, you may be able to declare at least partial independence from your own past.

You can better shape the life you want for yourself rather than being so thoroughly subject to the limitations of your karma and conditioning. I happen to believe that your current supply of orenda is unusually abundant, Gemini.

What’s the best use you can make of it?

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

When I lived in Santa Cruz years ago, some of my published writings were illustrated by a local cartoonist named Karl Vidstrand. His work was funny, outrageous, and often offensive in the most entertaining ways. Eventually he wandered away from our colorful, creative community and moved to a small town at the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, near where the Space Shuttles landed. He liked living at the fringes of space, he told journalist R. D. Pickle.

It gave him the sense of “being out of bounds at all times.”

I suggest you adopt some of the Vidstrand spirit in the next three weeks, Cancerian. Being on the fringes and out of bounds are exactly where you belong.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22:

The history of your pain is entering a new phase. Gradually, almost imperceptibly at first, an emotional ache that has been sapping your vitality will begin to diminish. You will free yourself of its power to define you. You will learn to live without its oddly seductive glamour. More and more, as the weeks go by, you will find yourself less interested in it, less attracted to the maddening mystery it has foisted on you. No later than mid-April, I’m guessing that you will be ready to conduct a ritual of completion; you’ll be able to give it a formal send-off as you squeeze one last lesson out of it.

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“When looking for a book, you may discover that you were in fact looking for the book next to it.” Italian writer Roberto Calasso told that to The Paris Review, and now I’m passing it on to you. But I’d like you to expand upon its meaning, and regard it as a metaphor that applies to your whole life right now. Every time you go searching for a specific something — a learning experience, an invigorating pleasure, a helpful influence — consider the possibility that what you really want and need is a different one that’s nearby.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

At least once a day, a cell in your body mutates in a way that makes it potentially cancerous. Just as often, your immune

system hunts down that dangerous cell and kills it, preserving your health.

Do you understand how amazing this is? You have a vigilant protector that’s always on duty, operating below the level of your awareness. What if I told you that this physical aspect of your organism has an equivalent psychic component? What if, in other words, you have within you a higher intelligence whose function it is to steer you away from useless trouble and dumb risks? I say there is such a thing. I say this other protector works best if you maintain a conscious relationship with it, asking it to guide you and instruct you. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to deepen your connection.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

Some rules in the game of life don’t apply to you and can therefore be safely ignored. Do you know which ones they are? On the other hand, do you understand which of the rules in the game of life are crucial to observe if you want to translate your fondest dreams into real experiences? To recognize the difference is a high art. I’m thinking that now would be an excellent time to solidify your mastery of this distinction. I suggest that you formally renounce your investment in the irrelevant rules and polish your skills at playing by the applicable rules.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

“Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter,” wrote the Persian mystic poet Rumi. “It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” I think you’re like that winter garden right now, Sagittarius. Outwardly, there’s not much heat and flash. Bright ideas and strong opinions are not pouring out of you at their usual rates. You’re not even prone to talking too loud or accidentally knocking things over. This may in fact be as close as you can get to being a wallflower. And yet deep beneath the surface, out of sight from casual observers, you are charging up your psychic battery. The action down there is vibrant and vigorous.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

“When you come right down to it,” says religion writer Rabbi Marc Gellman, “there are only four basic prayers.

Gimme! Thanks! Oops! and Wow!” Personally, I would add a fifth type of prayer to Gellman’s list: “Do you need any assistance?” The Creator always needs collaborators to help implement the gritty details of the latest divine schemes.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you would be an excellent choice to volunteer for that role right now — especially in tasks that involve blending beautiful fragments, healing sad schisms, furthering peace negotiations, and overcoming seemingly irreconcilable differences.

AQUARIUS

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In the movie Fight Club, there is an animated scene at the very end that required an inordinate amount of time to produce. Each frame in this scene took the editors eight hours to process. Since there are 24 frames in each second, their work went on for three weeks. That’s the kind of attention to detail I recommend you summon as you devote yourself to your labor of love in the coming days, Aquarius. I think you know which specific parts of your creation need such intense focus.

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