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A miss on municipalization

The BW article “Municipalization minefield” (cover story, Feb. 28) does an excellent job highlighting the economic complexities surrounding the City’s effort to create a municipally owned electric utility, but it lacks in offering a holistic perspective.

First, as highlighted in the subsequent article within the same edition, “Is city’s municipalization plan the next ghost at Valmont Butte?” a continued dependence

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Highroad Can sanity finally conquer reefer madness?

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esides being founders of our Republic, what did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington have in common?

Answer: Hemp.

America’s founders were strong promoters of this extraordinarily useful agricultural crop, and both Jefferson and Washington grew it. The first draft of our Constitution was written on hemp paper, and as late as World War II, the

on electricity from coal-fired power plants simply advances the economic burden associated with electricity generated from coal-fired power plants to future generations.

Moreover, Dyer and Dodge neglect to provide proper emphasis in addressing the environmental and societal benefits citizens would gain if the City chooses to municipalize. To their credit, they correctly identify that the city’s efforts might not make that big of difference in the overall

global mitigation of greenhouse gases, but they failed to take into consideration that other communities might follow suit and/ or that a transformation of the entire electric utility might occur due to the actions taken by the City of Boulder. It is all too easy to say that one person or one community will not make a difference in a world of over 7 billion. However, our actions do not occur in a vacuum, and by

government urgently pushed farmers to grow the crop as part of a “Hemp for Victory” program.

So why are American farmers today prohibited from producing this patriotic, profitable, pesticide-free plant? Political nuttiness. Most recently, in a frenzy of reefer madness, U.S. drug police decided that President Nixon’s “Controlled Substance Act of 1970” not only outlawed marijuana, but also its non-narcotic cousin, industrial hemp. If ignorance is bliss, they must’ve been ecstatic, yet their nuttiness remains the law of our land.

The good news is that a wave of sanity is now wafting across America. In Colorado, for example, farmer Michael Bowman and Denver hemp advocate Lynda Parker helped pass Amendment 64 in last fall’s election. It legalizes personal pot use, which got all the media attention, but it also directs the legislature to set up a program for “the cultivation, processing and sale of industrial

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hemp.” Bowman now hopes to be the first American farmer in generations to plant a legal crop of it — hoping to do so on April 30, the 80th birthday of familyfarmer hero and hemp champion Willie Nelson.

The red state of Kentucky is also on the move. Its Republican ag commissioner, backed by its chamber of commerce, is campaigning to legalize hemp farming, and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is co-sponsoring a national bill with Oregon Democrat Ron Wyden to take hemp off the controlled substance list.

To help spread this seed, go to www. votehemp.com.

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commentary The Democratic Party’s two faces

Really Bad Ideas Wha t do I do if some one wa nt s to loo k at ou r public re co rd s?

by Dave Anderson

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he real struggle within the Democratic Party is where you stand on income inequality and whether the government needs to be a part of fixing that problem. The demographics that the Democratic Party must attract are the people who need responsive government.” —Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus I know quite a few progressive Democrats who say they won’t vote for Gov. John Hickenlooper when he runs for re-election.

The main issue is his aggressive promotion of fracking.

He also recently opposed a bill in the state legislature giving firefighters the right to collective bargaining.

It’s indicative of national tension within the Democratic Party. Progressive Dems are upset by President Barack Obama’s willingness to cut Social Security, Medicare and other elements of the social safety net. This is a national problem. AFL-CIO political director Michael Podhorzer notes: “There’s no denying that there are two Democratic parties. One that has a fair amount of allegiance to Wall Street and to the notion that it’s no big deal to raise the retirement age or cut benefits. They see the Democratic coalition of the future being more upscale. But there’s a big part of the party that still sees Democrats as still being anchored by downscale.”

Political scientist Thomas Ferguson looked at the results of the national election and found that something significant had changed since 2008. The split between Democrats and Republicans along income lines has grown. He says: “Obama’s vote percentage declines in straight-line fashion as income rises. He got 63 percent of the votes of Americans making less than $30,000 and 57 percent of those making between $30,000 and $50,000. Above $50,000, the Other America kicks in. Romney won 53 percent of the votes of Americans making between $50,000 and $100,000 and 54 percent of the votes of Americans making above $100,000.”

By contrast, in 2008, the Democrats were basically even with the Republicans among Americans making not only more than $50,000, but more than $100,000.

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the vote were high in 2008, but not as lopsided as they were last year.

Obama presented a positive vision of government helping workers, consumers and the down-and-out. He decided to attack Romney on Bain Capital and other Wall Street issues, against the advice of bigwigs like Cory Booker and Bill Clinton. On Election Day, Latinos became a new dynamic political bloc and African Americans were solidly behind him. The labor movement was crucial in turnout drives. Feminists (outraged by jaw-dropping sexism by the Republicans) revived as a force. The LGBT community became important and no longer isolated from “normal” politics.

Clearly, Obama has a progressive mandate. But his top priority is a deal with the Republicans to reduce the deficit. This is self-defeating. The economy will not get moving again unless we have massive government spending to create jobs so that people can buy stuff.

Well, there is another way to grow the economy. Economist Jeff Faux says: “The president’s Council of Economic Advisers will not admit it, but their default strategy for growth is to let American wages drop far enough to undercut foreign competition. That is the only possible policy rationale for Obama’s enthusiasm for the Trans Pacific Partnership, a further deregulation of trade that will strip away the last protections for American workers against a brutal global marketplace of dog-eat-dog.”

We want to hear good news — that without too much effort on our part, political leaders will eventually do the right thing. Given the influence of the rich and powerful on our politics, this is a fairy tale. If living standards continue to decline, there will be nasty social and political consequences.

We need prosperity by way of government investment in such areas as infrastructure, research, education, improved economic and environmental security for working families, limits on corporate political power and more widespread unionization. These measures will provide stronger, more equitably shared economic growth that wipes out budget deficits.

We need a big coalition for economic justice, stronger democracy and environmental sustainability that kicks ass and engages in non-violent social disruption.

We won’t get big change through normal channels.

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No proble m .

Just say it w ill co st th em $1,000 an d th ey ’ll go away.

Wor k s ever y ti me.

I don’t think it’s supposed to work that way.

So much for Sunshine Week.

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proving that an environmentally conscious and resilient energy infrastructure is possible, Boulder can be a catalyst towards moving the rest of our society in the same direction.

The City of Boulder should take this important step to ensure that future generations inhabit a world with not only economic stability but also increasing social and environmental well-being.

Josh Kuhn/Boulder Frankly, I expected a whole lot more from the reporters at Boulder Weekly. Yes, the subject is complicated, but that doesn’t make Jerome Davis (XCEL) the smartest guy in the room. He may be suave, but his slick answers provide me more, not less, reasons to support municipalization.

After all, isn’t he with the same oufit that botched the smart grid, and still expects us to pay for it?

David Hawes/via Internet Since when did Boulder Weekly decide to be a PR outlet for Xcel? Your “Municipalization minefield” article consistently gave the final word on legal and technical matters to Xcel’s community relations director, Jerome Davis — though he is neither an attorney nor an engineer.

The primary take-home from your article is that Xcel intends to oppose the City of Boulder at every possible opportunity. Was that really “news”?

Xcel’s spokesperson compared Boulder to a thief stealing Xcel’s belongings. Did you check the Constitution and state statutes that prove the clear legal right of municipalities to form municipal utilities? You could have traced it back to

the FDR years and the original fights over ownership of the electrical grid.

One thing we know for sure is that staying with Xcel means dealing with over $1 billion in recent investments in two large coal plants that they intend to keep online until 2041 and 2069. With Xcel we would be chained to coal plants for many more decades, as wind and solar become ever more competitive. What about those moral, legal and economic minefields that would go with staying with Xcel?

Your “Municipalization minefield” article seems to suggest that there is no legal or technical way to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Would you also have argued that there was no legal or technical way to end slavery?

Your article’s implication that renewable energy is more costly than Xcel’s fossil fuel resources directly contradicts Xcel’s own testimony at the PUC that adding wind to their system lowers system costs.

Boulder spends over $100 million a year on electricity. Boulder Weekly could deliver more balanced reporting that would help the City make a thoughtful decision about how to spend that $100 million in ways that lighten our load on the planet.

Chris Hoffman/Boulder Editor’s note: Boulder Weekly will gladly run corrections or clarifications in response to any specific factual errors identified in the coverage of the municipalization issue.

Gov. Frackenlooper

Couldn’t agree more with your Feb. Boulder Weekly

letters 21 “DyerTimes” column (“Hickenlooper’s drinking problem,”) regarding our governor.

Do you have a primary candidate in mind?

Did you consider that Hickenlooper would simply run and win as an independent?

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Real conspiracies

(Re: “The new era of conspiracy thinking,” commentary, Feb. 7.) Sadly, there are “conspiracies” and there are “conspiracies.” In other words, when people are urged to stand tall against “conspiracies” that aim to take away their guns ... or that undermine Christian values through environmentalism ... or that threaten their embryonic miracle cures ... or that aim to murder defenseless embryos and fetuses, few consider that those doing the urging are conspiring to inflame our passions and mold our thoughts to serve their unspoken goals, e.g., they’re a conspiracy. I speak from personal experience because I once belonged to such a “conspiracy,” a conspiracy comprised of congressional staffers, members of the President’s Council of Bioethics, Religious and Pro-life Leaders, White House staff, and several scientists.

A perfect case in point concerns the Cornwall Alliance, a group of ultra-conservative religious extremists funded by Big Oil and Gas to portray global warming, climate change and anything progreen as being a threat to “God’s plan for Man and Earth.”

For four-plus years, I took part in the world’s stem-cell debates as a “pro-cures” activist. During this time, I twice served as surrogate stem-cell spokesperson for the G.W. Bush White House and interacted daily with national biotech “advisers.” I learned through this involvement that social issues can be far otherwise than they appear to the general public — that those who control society control us by inflaming worldview bias and keeping us divided to stymie social changes, entrench status quos and serve financial special interests.

Under a “false flag” guise of defending the Second Amendment, the war against gun control is only part of a strategy to keep us divided, programmed and blind to the leash that controls us.

James P. Kelly/Manitou Springs

Jones sells out

Editor’s note: The following is an open letter regarding County Commissioner Elise Jones.

This commissioner has not lived up to her environmental background. She has sold out Boulder County to the oil and gas companies just like our Gov. Boulder Weekly

Hickenlooper. She will ruin our way of life by not banning fracking. Please do articles on the dangers of fracking and how it will destroy our economy and way of life.

A concerned mom, Karen Groover/Superior

Slick oil ads in the Camera

You really have to wonder why EnergyfromShale.org placed two slick advertisements in the Daily Camera recently, showing idyllic scenes of a man fishing, with an unconventional oil well strategically located in the background.

Can fishing, requiring clean, flowing water, exist side-by-side with toxic, fracked oil wells? The location depicted is North Dakota, home of the biggest domestic oil patch, where tens of thousands of wells are flaring natural gas, visible from outer space. Flaring natural gas raises atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, contributing to global warming. Can our planet afford to get any warmer? Has warming contributed to the severe drought in North Dakota and the rest of the high plains? Who else might need the water downstream that is being destroyed by fracking? Farmers? And what about the people, the livestock and the farmland of North Dakota, all suffering the ill effects of an industry gone wild?

The Shilke family, highlighted in The Nation, had 32 fracked oil wells within three miles of their home. The result: a water well contaminated with a brew of toxic chemicals — and health issues for Jacki Shilke and her husband, including chronic lung pain, unexplained rashes, loss of fillings in their teeth, body pain.

Doctors diagnosed Jacki with neurotoxic damage and constricted airways. Five of her prized Angus cows dropped dead and they can no longer sell their cattle. Is this a vision of Nirvana? This story plays out over and over again throughout the oil patch in North Dakota — from cities overrun with man camps and crime to millions of truck trips disintegrating their roads, and billions of gallons of water being destroyed — forever removed from the hydrologic cycle. Is this a wonderful legacy? Or leading to the end of mankind — as we continue to destroy our life support system? If you Google, “damage to North Dakota from fracking,” there are plenty of examples of harm to people and animals as well as the rape and pillage of the lands. See for yourself. Is this what we want in Boulder County? If you don’t want this toxic legacy, sign up to help — with Boulder County Community Rights Coalition (http://bococcr.org/) and with Frack Free Boulder (http://abrahampaiss. com/frackfreeboulder/who-we-are/) to see LETTERS Page 11

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BLOWING SMOKE We love how University of Colorado officials are still using the same old excuse they used last year for attempting to shut down the campus during the 4/20 marijuana protest.

Aw, geez, they whined, we don’t want this massive congregation of pot-smokers to interrupt our teaching and research activities, upsetting impressionable young college students and forcing faculty to close their office windows along Norlin Quad.

The catch is, this year April 20 falls on a Saturday, when there are hardly any faculty, staff or students doing anything resembling teaching or research.

And yet, Chancellor Phil DiStefano continues to wax poetic about how he must protect “CU’s missions of research, teaching and service” and how last year a Boulder judge upheld the university’s right to “take reasonable steps to avoid disruption” of those sacred missions. We’d like to see a judge try to make the case that any of those missions are going to be significantly disrupted on a Saturday.

Still, the press release from CU this week beat the same sad drum, saying that the campus must avoid “disrupting the important work of a world-class university.”

Um, on a Saturday, among most quarters, that involves sleeping in and going for Bloody Marys.

The release goes so far to state that on this particular Saturday, CU’s “normal academic and cultural activities will continue as scheduled.” Uh, like, a pick-up Ultimate Frisbee game?

Even CU spokesperson Bronson Hilliard was dutifully quoted by the Camera as saying, “We cannot have this kind of unscheduled, unorganized mob event on the campus and still conduct teaching and research.”

Not sure how much more scheduled you can get than 4:20 p.m. on April 20 of each year. Plus, as far as protests against outdated federal drug policies go, this one is pretty organized. And there you go again, with your nonexistent Saturday teaching and research. Last we checked, classes were scheduled Monday through Friday and faculty didn’t exactly work seven days a week.

At least they aren’t placing any of that stinky fish fertilizer on the quad or trying to pay a performer enough money to avoid mentioning pot in his lame sideshow concert, like last year.

SURVEY SAYS: THEY DON’T CARE Hey, Boulder residents, what do you think city government should do about … wait, you know what? Never mind. City council does not want to know.

City spokesperson Sarah Huntley recently told the other paper that the city would discontinue plans to conduct an online survey about municipalization after city council members declared that other recent surveys were “unscientific” and don’t actually represent public opinion.

That’s right: City council thinks there are better ways to find out what the public thinks than asking the public.

I guess that’s one lesson you can take away from the city’s most recent survey, asking about overconsumption of alcohol in Boulder. That’s a priority for city council, clearly, so they can’t have been thrilled that more than 75 percent of respondents said “No” to “Do you think alcohol overconsumption is a problem in Boulder?” and 86 percent said there shouldn’t be more regulations on bars and restaurants. In fact, every single answer flies in the face of what city council already wanted to do and what they’re still going forward with.

One problem, though: If city council is so sure surveys aren’t useful, they’d better change the language in the city’s action plan for alcohol, which calls the 86 Percent of Respondents Want You to Stop Acting Like Babies survey “the most successful Web survey that the City of Boulder has ever conducted.”

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keep this toxic industry from taking over our county. Once this industry gains a foothold (like Weld County), you can never get rid of them. Protect our quality of life — our beautiful Boulder and Boulder County. We banned it in Longmont — now, how about the rest of Boulder County?

Teresa Foster/Longmont

Then count the cars entering and leaving the Walmart lot — if Boulder allows it to hang its shingle. There’s nothing like cheap Chinese crap to keep us American consumers feeling flush and like we “belong.” Consume, or die. But that’s how we keep up with the Joneses, or the Waltons. Isn’t it?

Gregory Iwan/Longmont

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E-470 corruption

The Colorado legislature has actually voted for the COGGC (a state agency) to promote the development of natural gas in Colorado.

The methods of promotion have been completely irresponsible, which is to be expected when industry legislation is rubberstamped by our representatives. There is an inherent conflict when an agency is tasked with both regulating and promoting natural gas. The legislature needs to reverse this legislation and follow Germany’s example of supporting solar energy. Solar and wind can be converted to hydrogen, which can be stored/handled/used the same way as natural gas and yields pure water as its only waste product. Geothermal is another option available in Colorado, which could also be used to make hydrogen via a Stirling engine concept. The big IKEA store uses geothermal for heating and cooling.

Generally speaking, a geothermal well is twice as deep as a hydro-fracking well.

What this means mathematically is that for every two fracking wells that have been drilled we could have had one geothermal well. What a backwards choice our Colorado legislature has made!

Cliff Smedley/Lafayette

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E-470 letting me know about the expired card- not to be turned over to a collection agency, who tacked on fines that took the charge to over $70.

I don’t know who is making money off this scam, but I will never drive E-470 again and will do everything in my power as a citizen of Colorado to stop this. They are ruining people’s credit ratings.

This reeks of corruption and greed.

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Even if it is “Walmart ‘Lite,’” it’s still the Bentonville Bunch, and folks are right to be concerned. I have helped chase the Waltons out of two cities (one is in the Denver metro), and it still can be done.

But I recognize from long real estate experience (no, not a broker) that property owners will sell their grandmothers to keep the rent coming in. As the macroeconomy silently shrinks and landlords leverage up their holdings, they see anything short of begging in the streets as a necessary and rational mode of “doing business.” Well, so do the rest of the streetwalkers.

Walmart promoters might tell you that the “demands” and shopping habits of its customers dictate its location and marketing decisions. Try selling me the Golden Gate Bridge, why don’t you?

collection tactics used by E-470. I am a long-standing customer and driver of E-470 and recently received a letter from a collection agency about a $24 charge, which occurred because my credit card expired. I attempted to correct this on their website but was unable to login despite using my exact information. I also tried calling but was on hold for over 20 minutes each time.

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f you aren’t a member of the news media, you may not be aware that it’s officially Sunshine Week, so here’s your chance to celebrate. It shouldn’t just be journalists who are taking time this week to appreciate our socalled sunshine laws — we all benefit greatly from their existence. Without these important laws, it’s not a stretch to say that our government — local, state and federal — would be far less democratic, far less effective and far more dangerous for all of us.

So in light of it being Sunshine Week (pun intended), Boulder Weekly is proud to share several of the best columns from around the country that were written this week to reflect on the importance of our nation’s sunshine laws.

As you will see on the following pages, there’s quite a diversity of such laws for every level of government in every state, and while some are better than others, at their core, all are trying to accomplish the same thing: to make government more open, transparent and accessible to the citizens it serves.

For instance, it’s the sunshine laws that require our city council meetings to be open to the public and well-publicized. Such laws are also the reason why three or more city council members can’t meet together privately, because that would theoretically constitute a secret meeting.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and, in our neck of the woods, the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA), are also examples of sunshine laws. Any newsroom worth its salt would literally be unable to perform its duty as a watchdog over government without these laws to grant us fair and inexpensive access to public records.

That’s because such records are maintained and stored by the very government entities that often have a vested interest in keeping such information buried away from public view. Without sunshine laws none of us would be guaranteed the right to see these records, and many important documents would be finding their way into the shredder instead of the filing cabinet.

But journalists aren’t the only ones who should be celebrating this week.

We have no special rights under the sunshine laws that every other citizen doesn’t have. Everyone is allowed to access their public records, hence the name. But sadly, this is not always the case, as government at every level these 12 March 14, 2013

days is increasingly creating contrived legal arguments in an effort to keep their actions beyond the scrutiny of public view.

Chalk it up to human nature, but elected and appointed government officials and those who report to them aren’t always happy to have so much of their work lives made public, and I can’t blame them at all. It’s one of the reasons I’m a journalist and not a politician or city attorney or city manager or city anything. But there is a simple solution to their dilemma. If they want to work for the taxpayers, but don’t want those taxpayers knowing everything that they do at work, then they can and should quit. Get out of government. It’s as simple as that. Be completely transparent or be gone.

That’s what they can and should do, but instead, many simply attempt to create roadblocks to keep public information secret from the citizens to whom it belongs.

At the federal level, the words “national security” are now being applied to everything from banking and transportation to the illegal use of

drones to covert operations in which our government can kill U.S. citizens abroad or read your email without a warrant. Even Congress is being told it can’t read the documents it wants to see. Our national security apparatus is out of control, but the critical information that would prove to what extent is being illegally kept from the public. It’s clear that we need even stronger sunshine laws for such important issues.

On the local level, one common ploy to thwart the sunshine laws is the abuse of executive session. There really are some things, such as personnel issues, that should be discussed by city councils and other governmental entities in executive session, away from the public and news media. But government officials all across the country are increasingly using executive session as a way to meet and make important decisions and backroom deals outside of public view. This was never the intent of executive sessions. Again, we need stronger laws to break through this roadblock and access the public information to which we are entitled.

Another questionable ploy to cir-

cumvent the sunshine laws, which is increasingly being used around the country and in Boulder, is the broadening of the definition of attorneyclient privilege within city governments. For instance, if a council member wants to keep some aspect of public records away from public view, he or she need only discuss the issue with the city attorney, who then declares all public records related to the issue off limits due to attorneyclient privilege.

This is, of course, a gross breach of the intent of our sunshine laws and particularly disturbing in a system of government like Boulder’s where, unfortunately, the city attorney is an appointed, not elected, employee dependent on city council member’s good graces to keep his or her job and get that next pay raise. It must be tempting for council members, knowing they can pull an attorney out of their pocket like an eraser to make any embarrassing or politically damaging public information disappear behind the wall of attorney-client privilege.

For that matter, since in theory the city attorney represents the entire city government, a city attorney could potentially, under this strained pretense, declare virtually any public records off limits due to attorney-client privilege. At that point the only way for the public to see its own records would be for someone to file a costly, time-consuming lawsuit against the city government that is supposed to be working for them. It’s no wonder why this “get out of jail free card,” as some misguided Boulder city council members jokingly refer to it, works so well. But it is no joke. It makes a mockery of the intent behind our sunshine laws.

This broadening of attorney-client privilege has become a controversial and destructive tactic increasingly deployed by less-than-open local governments all across the nation. I shouldn’t have to say that such a shameless scam to evade the sunshine laws has no place in a progressive community like Boulder, a community that once proudly touted itself as “the people’s republic,” but sadly, it needs to be said.

Perhaps the most disturbing and obvious attempt by Boulder officials to keep public records away from the public is the idea of making citizens and news organizations, at least some citizens and news organizations, pay excessive amounts of money for a look at what is already, according to the law, Boulder Weekly

news theirs to see.

It seems clear to me that both the City of Boulder and certain quarters within county government are using this pay-to-play public records ruse as a way to try to punish those it deems to be its critics and watchdogs, while often providing free access to records to those it views as its friends and cheerleaders. In some instances, it appears that this demand for excessive money is simply being used to actually prevent public access to records. Case in point, the Boulder County Clerk’s demand for more than $7,000 to see certain public records as reported in the story on page 16.

Enough.

We are well aware that some on this current city council and in county government don’t particularly like us, and honestly, we don’t particularly care.

That’s not our job. The most important part of our job is to serve our readers by providing the critical watchdog role over government that every government needs to function effectively for the benefit of the citizens it serves.

In order to do our job, we need to regularly go through large volumes of public records to make sure that the public’s interests are being properly served. It is the citizens of Boulder who are being shortchanged when public records are removed from media scrutiny by some contrived manner such as an overly broad interpretation of attorney-client privilege or excessive fees.

By doing many stories from public records over the past 20 years, BW has saved the city and county tens of thousands of dollars by reporting on things like improper disclosure during open space land transactions to government employees stealing taxpayer money. We have written such stories for a couple of decades now, and I should point out that we can’t remember ever being charged for anything more than the copies that were made when it came to public records, and most of the time those were provided for free as well because it was understood that the media is providing a public service when it disseminates information contained in public records.

But those days are apparently gone.

I believe this city government is seriously sidestepping the intent of the sunshine laws and severely limiting our and the public’s access to public records.

It seems to have little regard for conducting its business in an open, transparent way while being willingly, and I can’t stress that word enough, willingly, scrutinized by the media and other concerned citizens.

And while we can talk about the city attorney or the city manager or the city spokesperson or the IT guy who mostly gets stuck handling our CORA requests, they are ultimately not the issue here, because they are simply employees working directly or indirectly for the city council. It is the members of this city council alone who are

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Media and public both have roles in oversight

he caller on the other end of the phone line was near exacerbation. He had been given the run-around by government officials, the very people he put in office to represent him, and his quest for answers was met time and again with roadblocks.

I don’t recall the specifics of the man’s concern, or the public officials who he was trying to spur to action in a cause he passionately believed in that he related in the conversation years ago. But one thing that he said has stuck with me, and it is something that I go back to time and again whenever someone calls with similar concerns.

He told me that the paper needed to pursue getting the records that he sought and had been denied. “They have to give it to you,” he said. “You’re the newspaper.”

I told him that government agencies did not have to comply with record requests simply because they came Boulder Weekly

responsible to the citizens of Boulder for whether or not public records are accessible in a fair manner.

And please, council members, when it comes time for you to defend the current sorry state of the public’s access to their records, please don’t give us the oft-repeated line that this is about recovering the pittance of money it takes to have someone look up records requests. We are talking about our government, and you owe it to every member of the Boulder community to set aside a tiny speck in the budget in order to run an open government.

If this council can find the money to plant flowers on Pearl Street; if this council can actually have serious discussions about whether it wants to spend $100,000 a year in perpetuity to take care of a buffalo herd being offered as a gift to the city by shameless self-promoting celebrity restaurateur Ted Turner; if this council can find an extra $1.5 million laying around to pay for cost overruns at the Valmont Butte cleanup site; then this council, if it wanted to do so, could find a way to afford a $25,000-a-year employee to pull public records for CORA requests.

And no, every single CORA request does not have to go into City Attorney Tom Carr’s office, where the request may get denied based on attorney-client privilege, seemingly depending on who submitted the request.

by Jim Lee from a newspaper, or any medium. We have no special right to access. In fact, public records laws, and well as open meetings laws, are in place to guarantee that any citizen has access to information concerning how their government is doing business.

The press, over the years, has embraced its role as the Fourth Estate.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees a free press, which means that it will not be run by the government, and professional journalists across the country have made careers out of serving as community watchdogs over what their government is doing. But beyond the protections offered by the First Amendment that

say the government cannot control the media, we operate under the same rules and utilize the same tools as are available to any average citizen.

This is Sunshine Week. Sunshine Sunday was launched in 2002 by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors after the state legislature that year tried to create scores of exemptions to the existing open government laws.

Because of the increased publicity, most of those measures failed.

Today, the American Society of News Editors, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and other organizations, along with help from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Bloomberg LP, contin-

Most other cities, cities that don’t hold themselves up as beacons of social justice to the rest of the world or even refer to themselves as “people’s republics,” don’t do this kind of shoddy governance. So why does Boulder? It is becoming more disturbing every day to watch the city council of one of the nation’s great progressive communities operate in this fashion.

Here is an idea: As a celebration of our sunshine laws, someone on city council could propose a solution to the public records problem that the members of this council have created, either out of a twisted sense of entitlement or by apathy. Even if the proposal doesn’t ultimately become law, it would give the public a chance to have a voice on the issue, and it would give each council member a chance to go on the record about why they do or don’t support open, transparent government and easy and free access to public records, the same kind of access we have had until recently.

I, for one, would like to hear each council member explain in public why they can find millions of dollars for the projects they like, but not one red cent to make public records available free of charge to the public, all of the public, not just certain people and organizations. And if we hurry, we can get all of this done before November, which would be very helpful to voters.

Happy Sunshine Week.

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com ue to promote open government through Sunshine Week.

According to the Sunshine Week website, “Sunshine Week seeks to enlighten and empower people to play an active role in their government at all levels, and to give them access to information that makes their lives better and their communities stronger.”

To play that active role, people need to keep watch on their elected or appointed officials to ensure that they are operating in the best interest of the community. But it isn’t always easy.

At all levels of government officials are bent on locking the public out of the governmental process. They do this by holding secret meetings or illegally going into closed sessions when the topics they are discussing rightfully should be discussed in open meetings.

They do it by discussing issues via email exchanges, or by making major decisions through similar private See MEDIA AND PUBLIC Page 14

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Federal scientists face obstacles sharing knowledge

by Celia Viggo Wexler

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id you hear the story about the federal scientist and the two-headed fish? The fish?

Maybe, but likely not the scientist. That’s because the scientist in question turned down the chance to tell his story to The Daily Show, discouraged from making the appearance by his bosses at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

And that’s too bad, because it would have given a federal scientist the opportunity to directly engage with an audience of millions of viewers, and explain how science won the day. The scientist in question studied the impact of a mining operation in Idaho, linking its toxic by-products to the appearance of the two-headed fish, and refuting mining company claims that the selenium from its mining activities had nothing to do with the mutation.

Unfortunately, scientists are discouraged from speaking in far more venues than late-night comedy shows. Federal scientists are often denied the opportunity to share their research and views directly with much more conventional media and with the general public.

Journalists from local newspapers to big national outlets tell us that federal agencies regularly stonewall them when they seek scientific information, especially around sensitive issues that involve powerful industries. And scientists from dozens of federal agencies have relied on us to help them deal with efforts to suppress their work.

As someone who has been a journalist and a public interest advocate for equal portions of my career, I value both professions. They tend to share one value above all others: a respect for transparency.

When the government keeps infor-

mation secret or discourages federal scientists from publicly sharing their research, everybody loses.

Rigorous science helps address our nation’s biggest problems and inform and civilize public policy debates.

Whether it’s the damage caused by the BP oil spill, the levels of toxic air pollution in New York City after the Sept.

11th attacks, or the concerns of Food and Drug Administration scientists about new medications or medical devices, the public is harmed when information is kept under wraps.

The reason we have taxpayer-funded research, after all, is to help us study big issues that affect all of us.

Which brings us back to the bigger picture. Fish and Wildlife isn’t the only federal agency that has made it difficult for scientists to communicate their findings and views directly to the media and the public. Our Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists is about to release a report card assessing 17 federal science agencies and their written media policies advising scientists on how to deal with media requests and use social media to communicate with the public.

We found a mixed record and lots of room for improvement. For starters, there was the availability of the policies themselves. In at least two instances, agency policies that should be about transparency were themselves not publicly disclosed. While some agencies, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, do a relatively good job freeing their scientists to speak about the oil spills, climate change and weather events it tracks, others do not. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, for example, which retains strong ties to the industry it regulates,

still keeps a tight lid on its scientists.

Since our last report card in 2008, the Obama administration has made some significant strides in improving transparency. Nevertheless, too much institutional and industry pressure on federal scientists still remains.

The First Amendment ensures not only the free-speech rights of all Americans, including scientists, it also protects the free exchange of information. A democracy thrives when information freely circulates and when scientists are free to communicate with journalists, and to use new social media outlets to communicate directly with the public.

After all, the public has a right to know the views of federal scientists whose research they fund. If those scientists have opinions that diverge from agency policy, they should be able to express their views as citizens, provided they make the distinction that their statements are their own and do not represent the position of their employers. Scientists also should have the right to review the way their research is presented to the public to ensure that their work is not manipulated or distorted.

The Obama administration must do more to help agencies live up to his promise to “restore science to its rightful place” and make government more open and accountable.

That’s another value that transparency advocates and journalists share: respect for the truth in service of citizens.

Celia Wexler is Senior Washington Representative for the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Sunshine Week partner.

Wexler is also the author of Out of the News: Former Journalists Discuss a Profession in Crisis.

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viduals not associated with any media outlet.

Major media outlets still have an advantage in being able to spread the word when elected officials act outside the parameters of open records or open meetings laws, but more and more often word of wrongdoing is spread by citizens through their own social media outlets, such as Facebook or Twitter.

Social media outlets can also bring people with common interests together more quickly than might have been possible in the past, shining a brighter light on officials’ attempts at secrecy and spurring communities to action.

Increasingly, citizen activists are tak-

ing an interest in and learning about their state’s open records and open government laws. They are fighting attempts by governments to close off access to records or hold secret meetings, and they are demanding a higher degree of accountability from elected officials.

Overseeing government at all levels is not a press right, it is a right of every citizen. And the more citizens exercise that right, the better our government will become.

Jim Lee is editor of the Carroll County Times, where this column ran on March 10. Email him at jim.lee@carrollcountytimes.com.

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exchanges that deny the public access to their deliberative process. And they seek to make it difficult, if not impossible, for the public to track what they are doing by delaying or outright denying public records requests for information that, by law, citizens have a right to.

The traditional role of newspapers and other types of media as leaders in the charge for open government is evolving with advances in technology. As an example, a review of the cases in which Maryland’s Open Meetings Compliance Board issued opinions in the last fiscal year show an overwhelming majority were complaints filed by groups or indi-

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resident Barack Obama began his first term by pledging to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. Although he has done that in some areas, it has become apparent that his pledge came with an asterisk: In matters of national security policy, he has largely continued and even intensified his predecessor’s secretive practices.

But while the common justification for such conduct is the protection of Americans, there is much evidence that excessive secrecy actually harms national security.

First, it impedes information-sharing among government officials, and hampers effective coordination with our allies. It also cheapens the currency of secrecy, leading officials to exercise less care in their handling of classified information. And it results in unwise choices by executive officials who make key decisions about national security policy — for example, whether to go to war against Iraq — without the benefit of broad feedback and robust debate.

Yet President Obama has made secrecy a centerpiece of his national security strategy. He has repeatedly resisted sharing information with Congress. Despite persistent pleas by members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, it took the confirmation hearing of the president’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, to pry loose the Justice Department’s legal opinions on the targeted killing of U.S. citizens. Even then, the administration won’t allow committee members’ staff — who hold top-level security clearances — to see the memos. Nor has the administration shared them with members of the armed services or judiciary committees, which share jurisdiction over the targeted killing issue.

The administration has been equally secretive in court. Although candidate Obama criticized President George W. Bush’s use of the state secrets privilege to shut down lawsuits alleging torture and warrantless wiretapping, President Obama has continued the practice. The Justice Department recently released a report in which it endorsed Bush’s use of the privilege in every case that remains in litigation. Military prosecutions against Guantánamo detainees and alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning have been conducted with strict limitations on public access to filings and testimony. And the administration won’t allow the public to see Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions, which establish the permissiBoulder Weekly

ble scope of the government’s surveillance activities.

Perhaps most surprisingly, the Obama administration has launched a frontal attack on national security whistleblowers. Using the Espionage Act — a statute designed to punish spies and enemies of the state — Obama’s Justice Department has criminally prosecuted more government officials for leaking information to the media than all former administrations combined. Faced with mounting criticism over the prosecutions, the president issued a directive barring agencies from retaliating against intelligence officials who raise concerns about misconduct through approved government channels. If the government declines to police itself, however, officials must keep silent or face prosecution and imprisonment.

Of course, national security requires that some information, such as the time and place of planned military strikes or the identities of confidential sources, be protected from disclosure. The need to shield certain operational details, however, does not justify blanket secrecy for all information related to military or intelligence operations. Nor does it justify concealing entire programs and policies — such as the use of drones outside Afghanistan — from the American public.

The one bright spot has been the president’s approach to the problem of “overclassification” — the classification of information that would pose no threat to national security if released. In December 2009, the president ordered several improvements to classification practices, and he charged his advisory committee on classification policy with developing recommendations for further reforms.

The committee’s recommendations, issued in late 2012, include some proposals that could begin to roll back the pervasive culture of overclassification.

Nonetheless, President Obama’s overall record of secrecy in national security matters threatens the legacy he hopes to leave. It’s not too late to reverse course. The president can still make good on his pledge to bring an unprecedented level of openness to government.

He should begin by recommitting to the goal of government transparency — and this time, remove the asterisk.

Elizabeth Goitein co-directs the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. This column was originally published in Salon. com on Feb. 28.

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County: $7,500 for open records request justified

by Jefferson Dodge

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n what may be another case of a government agency gouging citizens for access to public records, Boulder County officials are defending their estimate that they would have to charge someone $7,500 for documents related to the testing of a controversial ballot processing machine used in the last general election.

Boulder Weekly has been documenting situations in which the city of Boulder and other public bodies around the state have started charging exorbitant amounts for purported “research” costs in response to open records requests, as well as taking longer than what is permitted by state law to produce such records.

Jim August, who was appointed by the Boulder County Republicans to serve as an election “watcher,” filed an open records request on Jan. 2 asking for a variety of files related to the provision and testing of a piece of equipment used to sort and scan ballots. He and Assistant County Attorney Brooke McKinley exchanged letters, and in a Jan. 11 memo, McKinley informed August that the cost of providing the test-related documents would be $7,500, based on research costs assessed at $30 an hour. That amount did not include the cost of copies, which are 25 cents a page.

According to McKinley, Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall’s staff estimated that the request would involve going through about 2,600 pages of hardcopy documents as well as 2,800 digital files.

“Because there is such a large quantity of information and raw data that would need to be reviewed for confidentiality and proprietary information before the information could be released, Clerk Hall’s staff estimates that assembling, reviewing and redact-

ing the information and data will take approximately 250 hours,” McKinley wrote.

Election integrity activist Marilyn Marks of the Citizen Center questioned whether increasingly common responses like these are intended to deter members of the public and the media from acquiring materials under the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA).

“I think it is outrageous, obstructionist and absolutely intended to make activists and concerned citizens like Jim go away,” Marks said of the $7,500 tab.

Case law allows government agencies to charge search and retrieval fees, but only in the case of voluminous requests, and even then, the charges should be “nominal,” or only a small percentage of the agency’s actual costs.

Marks asked how $7,500 could possibly be seen as “nominal,” and she questioned what would be “confidentiality and proprietary information” regarding a piece of equipment used in elections, which are supposed to be among the most open and transparent processes in the country.

“Without full transparency of every aspect of election processing, the election fails to be a people’s democratic process and undercuts the most fundamental concepts of self-governance,” Marks said via email. “And really? A $7,500 deposit for reviewing test data on tests purportedly performed in the last nine months? It is not like August asked for test data from the voting machine purchased for the 1912 Wilson/Roosevelt/Taft election. That might take some ‘research’ to find. It is clearly an obstructionist policy for the county to attempt to claim fees for redaction of records. August is supposed to pay for officials deleting information that is being withheld from him?”

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county’s elections coordinator, says she is not sure what “confidentiality and proprietary information” staff would have been looking for in poring over all of those documents. But she guessed it might have had to do with not releasing proprietary information from the company that made the machine.

“What it would basically be is making sure that we are clear with the vendor, that their information is releasable,” she said.

McKinley could not be reached by press time.

Tayer said the $7,500 charge was not intended as a deterrent against August’s request, and she added that the clerk and recorder’s office is not attempting to discourage others from requesting open records.

“Our goal is to make sure that if we’re asked to go off and do something that would require us to move staff away from projects and go perform specialized work, the taxpayers of Boulder are not paying for that,” she told BW. “If it is something that is not in the normal course of business, and it’s a piece of research on behalf of a particular interest’s request, we’re trying to make sure that they understand that we’re reappropriating resources to do that for them, and here’s what that would cost.”

Another issue is timeliness. The text of the Colorado Open Records Act reads: “The date and hour set for the inspection of records not readily available at the time of the request shall be within a reasonable time after the request. … A ‘reasonable time’ shall be presumed to be three working days or less. Such period may be extended if extenuating circumstances exist.

However, such period of extension shall not exceed seven working days.”

And yet, like the government of the city of Boulder and other government agencies have been doing on a regular basis, Boulder County officials wanted more than the three days, or even the seven-day extension. In a March 4 letter — sent in response to a request filed on Feb. 27 — McKinley told August it would take until March 15 for election staff to produce the files he requested. **** August, who said he has since narrowed his open records request to reduce the cost and expects to hear back Boulder Weekly

from the county on March 15, seems to have pried enough documents out of the county’s hands to support a multifaceted complaint about the ballot equipment in question.

He presented a 14-page report to the Boulder County commissioners last week outlining a host of concerns about the Bell & Howell ballot-sorting machine, which scans signatures and arranges ballots by precinct and style.

Those concerns include whether the purchase of the equipment followed the county’s bidding/request for proposals process, the apparent lack of testing for the machine’s signature verification process and its sorting functions, and evident malfunctions the equipment suffered while it was in use, according to his observations as a watcher.

But Tayer says her office followed the proper procedures for acquiring the system, working with the county’s purchasing department and gaining the commissioners’ approval. She says staff did not use the Bell & Howell’s signature verification process, so it didn’t need to be tested, but the equipment’s other functions were tested, including during the primary.

“We did tons of testing,” Tayer said, noting that August could save some money on his open records request if he would just wait until the staff finishes processing the test records on its own schedule, which she acknowledges has been delayed.

Tayer also admitted that the Bell & Howell system is new to the county, and Hall wanted to take “baby steps” and not “deploy all the bells and whistles” of the equipment immediately. But she insists that it did not malfunction, and that the Bell & Howell staff who were on hand during election day were there as a precaution and just did some “calibrating.”

But Marks says she plans to file an open records request for video surveillance showing all of the work that had to be done on the equipment while it was in use.

“And they better not charge me anything,” she says. “They can’t possibly think that would take a lot of research time. I would definitely challenge them on that.”

Marks posted a video parody of the Bell & Howell machine at www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn4KyPuElHM. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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“The book’s really about how the Pacific defines California and has come to redefine Californians and their enterprising, adventuresome and entrepreneurial spirit, how it links to the Pacific, but I realized in the course of writing, the book is about democracy,” Helvarg says. “We have the world’s best coastal protection under a coastal act that originally the San Francisco Bay. He moves through a history of was voted on by the people as an initiative. When otter hunts and abalone fishing that took those spethey couldn’t get it through the state house in the cies to the edge of extinction, as well as through minearly ’70s — when that means was too corrupt — ing actions (with a hydraulic cannon that used highthey went to the initiative on the ballot.” powered streams of water in a method vaguely preProposition 20, written by the future executive scient to hydraulic fracturing) that dumped so much director of the Coastal Commission, Peter Douglas, sediment into the rivers that they’re only just, 150 passed in a landslide in 1972. It had been three years years later, starting to run clear. That sediment, along since the Santa Barbara oil spill, when a blowout at an with the wreckage of literally hundreds of ships that offshore oil platform released 200,000 gallons of were abandoned by their crews during the gold rush, crude oil into the ocean, creating an 800-square-mile don’t help with the sea level either. slick and washing tar onto 35 miles of beaches. That The Golden Shore, like so many environmental hisproposition was followed by tories, has wince-worthy the California Coastal Act of moments. But it’s not ulti1976, which increased protecmately a sad story.

ON THE BILL: David Helvarg will read tions, and the World Bank, “The book itself is the from The Golden Shore at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 18 at the Tattered Cover, Douglas has said, now rates happy ending to the not 1628 16th St., Denver, and will attend the California’s coastline among always happy story of how we Colorado Ocean Coalition’s Blue Drinks at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19 at Ocean the world’s most well protectlive by the sea here,” Helvarg First Divers, 3015 Bluff St., Boulder. The ed. It’s taken political will to says. The process of getting to Colorado Ocean Coalition is still organizing the Colorado delegation for the Blue Vision enact science-based solutions. that ending has meant involvSummit. A registration link is on www.colo“It’s taken us a long time, ing all of the stakeholders in radoocean.org and additional information on the Blue Frontier Campaign is at www. but as a very late marine froncrafting ocean management bluefront.org. tier, we’ve come through the policies, and Helvarg gives a cycle of resource exploitation chapter individually to reviewand the frontier mentality of ing the early developments, take what you can get, when you can get it,” says the ports, the Navy, the surfers, the oil and gas develHelvarg, who also wrote 50 Ways to Save the Ocean, opment and the science, among others.

Rescue Warriors and Saved by the Sea. “We’ve evolved “There’s no single industry or special interest that to really learning how to live well by the sea and both gets to dominate, and where I’ve seen coastal oceans been protecting and restoring our ocean health.” decline, it’s where you have that domination of a speThe history Helvarg charts begins with the earlicial interest,” he says. “So in New England, where the est settlers of California who, arriving 12,000 years politicians think the fishermen own the ocean, there’s ago during the last ice age, when ocean levels were no cod off Cape Cod. We’ve seen serial depletion and more than 300 feet below their current levels, would decline of fisheries. And we know that the oil and gas have walked across a river delta that has since become industry dominates in the gulf off Louisiana where

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I’ve seen 100 dolphins and a humpback whale trapped and dying in the oil during the BP blowout.”

Taking a more collaborative approach has led to choices that have benefits all around, he says. In northern California, the Yurok tribe, the state’s largest, has worked with farmers, the government and the PacifiCorp energy company to start the process of removing a dam on the Klamath River. In 2004, a dispute over the Klamath’s waters led to diverting the water to eastern Oregon farmers, despite research that showed keeping the water in the river would have 30 times the economic benefit downstream with the salmon industry than upstream irrigating the fields of potato farmers. But the political ploy meant to help President George W. Bush’s efforts to win Oregon (he’d given up California for lost) killed 70,000 of the 1.5 million salmon in the Klamath River.

“It was a shock to the system that made people realize that being divided and fighting for the water wasn’t working,” Helvarg says.

“So we developed this collaborative program with the eastern Oregon farmers … And the collaboration today is now leading to a marginally productive dam’s removal that will make the river massively more productive in terms of restoring habitat for what was once the second most productive river on the West Coast.”

In southern California, Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Geraldine Knatz, the first woman and the first marine biologist to run a major port, has brought the country’s largest ports into a clean air action plan that has reduced the air pollution around the ports by 70 percent — and the surrounding communities have reported a decline in cancer and childhood asthma rates.

“The shipping industry and the trucking industry were brought kicking and screaming into the clean air agreement in the ports, but as a result, they’re now seeing expanded opportunity with new terminal construction,” Helvarg says. “It’s this collaborative process that applies across all examples of good ecosystem management, which is the understanding that it’s not just a question of clean air and cormorants.

Once you establish the best practices for maintaining the ecosystem, you also see that the economy’s become more sustainable.”

Helvarg also coordinates the Blue Vision Summit, which strives to bring ocean leaders together in Washington, D.C., to discuss the issues facing ocean conservation and unite, both on the issues and as a face of constituents with Congressional representatives. This year’s summit, which is May 13-16, will

Author David Helvarg comes to talk about how California’s ocean management techniques could apply in Colorado’s mountains

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A field study conducted by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) shows that dust and microorganisms help spur precipitation, which California counts on for its water supply.

The recently released CalWater field study traced aerosols from the Sahara desert all the way to the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The fact that winds can carry aerosols from continent to continent at high altitudes is not news. What is news, however, is that although pollution particles can suppress precipitation, dust and biological aerosols tend to enhance precipitationforming processes in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

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Vicki Nichols Goldstein, founder of the Colorado Ocean Coalition, is one of the founding board members of the Blue Frontiers campaign and the Blue Vision Summit.

“Part of the effort of the Blue Visions Summit is that collaborative approach where we’re bringing in people from all over the country to focus on a couple of issues that we can all collaborate on so the ocean organizations aren’t moving in 15, 20 directions,” Nichols Goldstein says. They’ll share information, craft common themes and build a partnership framework. The idea of partnering with other organizations has guided Colorado Ocean Coalition to start

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n a sunny September afternoon in Vedauwoo, Wyo., Mary Jackson stands addressing a group of six women, drawing three circles in the sand with the toe of her shoe.

The circle in the center represents your comfort zone — things you know how to do, do often and maybe even do well.

The outermost circle likely means a fatality, or at least failure. But that ring in the middle is what she’ll call the “learning zone.” It’s the place just far enough from comfort to be reached for without killing yourself. It’s also the place these women are going to be spending the next three days. They’ve come to Vedauwoo, many with little or no previous experience on rock, to rock climb for three days with a trip run by The Women’s Wilderness Institute. They’ll scuff their shins on the rock, learn to safely tie-in and belay, laugh at their own struggles and cheer one another in those moments of success. The phrase “I can’t” will evaporate not because it’s banished but because it’s slowly chipped away.

And what Jackson, one of their trip leaders, has outlined in the dirt at the center of their campsite is the guiding principle that will lead everything that happens over those three days: It’s the “conscious choice curriculum” developed by licensed counselor and wilderness therapy researcher Laura Tyson, who founded The Women’s Wilderness Institute in 1997.

Tyson decided that women might need a model for learning on wilderness programs that differed from the “challenge by choice” model that has shaped so many other outdoors programs.

The history of many of those other programs starts in 1941 with Kurt Hahn and the creation of Outward Bound — which began with the original mission of training soldiers to increase their chances of survival.

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At the end of the day, whether those women are talking over their dinner, whispering to one another in their tents or simply sitting quietly at the campfire, they’ll be turning over the questions, the gentle prompt to check in with body, mind and spirit, contemplating where they’ll go next and reflecting on where they’ve been that day. The time spent outdoors, exploring activities that are unfamiliar, in new social settings that quickly develop into communities and in living conditions that are far from the suburban standard, and the decision to get to the top of a rock climb or climb a mountain — they’re all small choices that can serve as a metaphor for much more daunting obstacles in real life that would also mean temporary discomfort and unfamiliar settings.

“For someone like me, it’s like, rock on, rock climbing — that was amazing,” says Jackson, who has been a climber since completing a semester with the National Outdoor Leadership School nine years ago.

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“Laura [Tyson] stopped and she said, ‘I wonder if 13-year-old girls need to learn something really different from young men who are headed into the military?’” says Shari Leach, executive director of The Women’s Wilderness Institute. “When I think about that young male age group, it’s a lot about how to sit down, wait a little while, listen to other people, figure out how to compromise, not always have your opinion be the one that’s heard or the dominant one. In contrast, girls tend to be very good at all of those things and they need support finding their voice, learning to speak up, engaging in conflict in a healthy way and creating relationships that allow for that healthy conflict to occur, and so it’s entirely different skills that need to be learned.”

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Lori Schneider and Empowerment Through Adventure — Schneider, first woman with Multiple Sclerosis to climb to the summit of the tallest point on all seven continents, comes for a book launch and signing of More than a Mountain. 5:30 p.m. Mercury Café, 2199 California St., Denver, 720-369-4940.

Raptor Nesting Closure Program — With Ranger Rick Hatfield. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20 Fitzroy: A Patagonia Climber’s Challenge — Presented by the American Alpine Club.

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Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 2775 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-9255.

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to something in their real life? … I just went up that rock climb, what does that mean? … It’s helping people to develop that ability to make decisions about their life. It’s like an awareness of personal needs, whether it be something physical or emotional or an action to take, recognizing your capacity to do so and make a good decision for yourself.”

The women’s programs that catch, or specifically cater to, women in stages of transition, like Next Steps, which is offered in alternating years, has a greater chance of creating some change than some of the other programs, which can have as narrow a focus as offering a daylong introduction to rock climbing.

“I think even adults, adults can get stuck in a rut and not recognize maybe they need a change, or know they need a change, and be like, ‘I don’t know what to do, I don’t know if I have the confidence or capacity to make that change in my life,’” Jackson says. “It can be circumstantial, contextual.”

But it’s the girls programs — and the chance to catch adolescent girls when they’re in a state of constant flux anyway — that really form the heart of the operation. A lot of the rest of the programs the Women’s Wilderness Institute runs, including their upcoming Gear & Cheer fundraiser, come back to supporting the Girls’ Wilderness Program and the scholarships they offer to 40 girls, ages 8 to 18, each year. Ninety-four percent of the 2012 scholarship recipients were girls who lived in Colorado but had never camped or hiked before. In the 16 years since the program was started, it has

never turned away a girl because of financial need.

The program offers a chance to change a life before it gets so tied up in habits that change becomes difficult.

“When we think about things that have changed our lives substantially as adults, a lot of them happened when we were between the ages of 8 and 18 years old,” Leach says. “Having been a 16-year-old who went on a long backpacking trip and I’d never been backpacking before in my life, it truly changed my entire life because I believe that it had the potential to do that, because it changed me, and that changed how I related to other people, my confidence level, my willingness to say, well, I don’t agree with everybody else in the room and have that be OK.” After a month-long backpacking trip with a small summer camp in Colorado, she says, she returned to Boulder High and found herself unwilling to do what other girls were doing just because someone said she should.

“I came back and I just was comfortable thinking for myself, and I knew that I was strong and capable and competent, and I could figure things out because I’d had to figure things out, whether it was reading a map or how to get the stove started,” Leach says. “I’m not sure that I would expect the same thing if I went on a two- or three-week trip right now as an adult, because to some extent I think I’m more mired in my belief systems and I have more behavior patterns that are harder to break the longer you do them. A part of Boulder Weekly

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being an adolescent is it’s about constant change and getting to try on new aspects of yourself every day.”

In other words, it’s goth one day, and valley girl the next.

While the programs only last a week or so, the feedback received at the end of those programs, as well as studies and later follow-ups with girls who participated in their programs, shows that the girls report doing better in school, having more self confidence and feeling better about their bodies over the year following their program.

Some of the responses from feedback forms and thank you letters every girl is asked to write to the sponsors have included: “I changed because of a quote, ‘If you feel like you are too small to make things happen, you’ve never been in bed with a mosquito’”; “I felt courageous when I took a chance and pushed myself up on the rock wall. It makes me feel happier about myself and my future”; “It feels like a world of new possibilities has opened to me! And that makes me have hope in a bright future.”

In 2011, Sedona Franks-Hankins also went to Vedauwoo to rock climb and camp overnight. Instead, it snowed, and they sledded and practiced snow travel instead, while still covering how to stay safe and minimize impact as backpackers. Sedona, now 15, can list those skills and says she’s come home with a greater desire to keep hiking, biking and camping, but she also talks about becoming more familiar with pushing herself to get out of her comfort zones, both physically and socially.

“It really started to help me with realizing that I really do, I do better as a leader, I found, in that group during that time,” Sedona says. “Because I helped a lot with people who weren’t very sure about themselves and weren’t comfortable doing it. It was not fun for the most part, just because I’m not used to working with so many girls. I’m used to working with guys just because that’s my preferred friend group.”

At one point, the girls were asked to talk about their past experiences and how they felt.

“I wasn’t very open with, at that -time, opening up but as I sort of worked through that time, I started to really feel OK with talking about my body and who I am as a person, and I started to really open up from that, and though I didn’t really step up and talk about myself much during that time, I found myself afterwards really opening up and talking about my personality and what I like to do with my time.”

Her mother, Carrie Hankins, says she’s seen Sedona step up at school in ways like taking a performing role in school productions, and stepping up, Boulder Weekly

even as she’s moved into high school now, to take on more leadership.

“I feel like I really found a place in which I was OK with voicing my opinions and telling other people what I want to do, through these other girls [the trip leaders] showing me all these other things that I could do with myself, and that I don’t need help from other people,” Sedona says.

“I think for Sedona — I think for any young woman it’s good to do things that are hard or uncomfortable, and I

think it was challenging for her, and because of that I think it was good,” Hankins says. “She came back exhausted and worn out and proud. And snowy. … I think programs like that are so important because girls are not really given good examples of how strong we are. … Strength in young girls is not really fostered. They get a really clear image from the media that they’re not supposed to be super strong, and I feel like the girls wilderness programs at The Women’s Wilderness Institute are

phenomenal because they really do take them out of their element and support them and let them see their own strength.”

Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com The Women’s Wilderness Institute will host its 11th annual Gear and Cheer fundraiser for the Girls’ Wilderness Program at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, at HUB Boulder, 1877 Broadway, Suite 100, Boulder, to raise money for scholarships.

Additional information and tickets can be found at www.womenswilderness.org.

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n Taarka’s fifth studio album, Adventures between the two ideas,” David Pelta-Tiller says. “It in Vagabondia, the band’s well-traveled was Americana to some extent, but still had a lot of sound puts down a few solid roots for gypsy flavors and a Euro-edge. And the one before the first time. that was much more jazz and jumped around the Having finished a busy East Coast map, and the one before that even moreso. So now tour, the husband-and-wife duo are currently enjoywe’ve gotten closer to Americana roots and sort of a ing a brief return to their roots in Colorado, and new acoustic music styling than in previous records.” released the new album in January. Taarka member Beyond this natural shift, Taarka’s evolving style David Pelta-Tiller says, so far, the response to their can simply be attributed to two curious musicians new, refined style has been more than positive. who like to explore their talents. David Pelta-Tiller “It seems like it’s been a lot provides the mandolin, bass, guiof people’s favorite of our stuff,” tar, vocals and bouzouki (a Greek David Pelta-Tiller says. “Our musical instrument) for the band, ON THE BILL: Taarka plays music is always out between while Enion Pelta-Tiller plays the Rogers Hall on Saturday, March 16.

Doors at 7 p.m. New Time Ensemble genres and, with this one, I think violin and sings. David Peltaopens. Tickets are $16. 400 High St., people who are interested in Tiller says diversity in their music Lyons, www.highstreetconcerts. multiple genres and people who comes from a desire to learn more com. aren’t can all grab onto it.” about their craft.

For seasoned Taarka fans, the “We often write in order to toning down of these “multiple genres” may come as teach ourselves something about the music,” he says. a surprise. David Pelta-Tiller and his wife, Enion “If we hear music we really like or if it inspires us, we Pelta-Tiller, are known for reveling in a variety of try to learn something about the music, and somegenres like gypsy jazz, Celtic, Eastern European folk, times we really internalize it and try to write a new Indian, punk and classical. Though not a complete piece.” departure, Adventures in Vagabondia steps away from The band, which used to be entirely instrumental, many of their worldly influences and focuses more has started experimenting with vocals in their recent closely on old-timey American folk and bluegrass work, and several songs on Adventures in Vagabondia sounds. But David Pelta-Tiller says this choice wasn’t feature Decemberists-like tales that weave through random; albums like their 2009 release, Seed uplifting melodies. While David Pelta-Tiller doesn’t Gathering for a Winter Garden, were already guiding want to speak for his wife, he says the feel of the them in this direction. album was inspired in part by Enion Pelta-Tiller’s “The record before was kind of a halfway point love of Songs from Vagabondia, an 1894 collection of 28 March 14, 2013

poetry by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey.

“I know she was enjoying the poems and looking for ways to tell ideas at the time,” David Pelta-Tiller says. “They caught her attention, and she grabbed onto them and spent a lot of time with them.”

The two originally met in New York City, where they were each discovered playing in separate subway stations by a banjo player recruiting for his band, Brooklyn Browngrass. After playing together for a year, the couple decided to break off on their own to begin writing music together. Taarka was officially formed in 2001 in Portland, Ore., and in 2006, the artists decided it was time to pack up and head for Lyons. Pelta-Tiller says they were interested in Colorado’s brand of bluegrass and folk, and fell in love with the state’s music scene.

“We’ve got a lot of great friends who play music here, and I love the sociability,” he says. “It’s very different than how I find the West Coast music scene, but the East Coast is fairly like this too.

There’s a whole network of musicians in the string world that connect and get together and play music together, and this is pretty common around the Boulder area.”

David Pelta-Tiller adds that no matter what style they’re playing, a Taarka show has one main focus.

“People shouldn’t expect a lot of acrobatics with our bodies beyond our fingers and our musical ideas at our shows,” he says. “We just go as deeply into the music as we can and see what happens when we come out the other side.”

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rika Rae’s evangelist “It was almost like a therapy for upbringing imprinted some me. We all realized it was more fun to unusual beliefs upon her. As laugh about it than to be angry. And a teenager, she believed the option of that was that being able demons were behind every to laugh about it put me in a place accidental misstep, from rock ’n’ roll to where I was actually able to move on forgetting your keys. In her memoir and actually want to be able to move about how she ended up leaving forward in some sort of spiritual jourbehind her radical religion, ney.”

Devangelical, she puts it this way: The seeds of Rae’s apostasy were “Whereas the older generations sown when she was young — she believed that demons and angels existbefriended people outside the church ed and fought for spiritual ground, my — but it was when she started pursugeneration believed that demons and ing her graduate degree in linguistics angels fought over that she started pebbles.” questioning the In a world historicity of the ON THE BILL: Erica Rae will bursting with Bible upon which sign copies of Devangelical at Barnes and Noble on March 23 at demons hiding she had based so noon. 2323 30th St., Boulder, 303behind your shoulmany of her 444-1066. ders, an exorcism beliefs. She studied here or there wasn’t original texts and unusual. Rae writes their translations, about performing one herself. But emerging with skepticism and an encyunlike the well-defined Catholic rituals clopedic knowledge of the Bible’s linyou see in movies, Rae’s religion didn’t guistic inconsistencies. have many well-defined traditions “There are 14 mentions of Hell in regarding exorcisms. She describes the New Testament, depending on the expelling the demon in her friend as edition you’re looking at, and every “more or less a matter of ordering a single one, with the exception of one, demon out of somebody in Jesus’ name is translated from the word Gehenna, and sitting back and letting the unseen which is an actual place ... outside powers battle amongst themselves.”

Jerusalem,” Rae says. “And it used to These are just a few of the lifebe a trash dump. There were fire style elements Rae describes in detail incinerators that burned there 24/7. in Devangelical. Her story is compelThat’s where they burned the bodies ling but not an uncommon one for of dead criminals, or animals, or trash. ex-evangelists: She grew older, … It’s very different than eternal damreceived more education and freedom, nation.” and began asking a series of questions Devangelical is Rae’s 10th book, her that led her to leave the church. But second to be published and the first unlike so many who grew up strictly under her own name. She works as an religious, Rae doesn’t seem to resent editor for a couple of websites, and she her upbringing. Instead, she tells her has ghostwritten a memoir. She now story with a healthy dose of humor lives in Fourmile Canyon with her husand calmness. When writing her band and three kids, whom she takes memoir, she reached out to old to a church in Boulder that is, to say friends from her hometown of the least, more open-minded than the Colorado Springs. Many did not one she attended with her parents. She share her attitude. likes the church’s “enlightened” stance “A lot of them were angry,” Rae on the Bible and social issues. told Boulder Weekly. “For making us do “I like it, from the standpoint of these things that they would consider my kids, that it gives them kind of a today as a waste of time, or ignorant. context to at least kind of open their But for me, these things were amazmind to searching [spiritually],” Rae says. “I’m not going to tell them what ingly funny, too, if you just stop and take a look at this. I did an exorcism at to think.”

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Verdi went out with a bang with ‘Falstaff’

by Peter Alexander

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erdi’s Falstaff is one of the great stories of opera.

No, not the plot, although it is delectable in its own right. I mean the story about the opera (Falstaff, directed

by Leigh Holman and conducted by Nicholas Carthy, will be presented March 15-17 by the CU Opera at Macky Auditorium.)

In 1889 Verdi was 76 and had already retired twice. He was celebrated as the greatest living opera composer, a reputation built on his deeply moving tragedies, including Rigoletto, La Traviata and Aida. Only two years before he had completed the greatest of his tragic operas, Otello, based on Shakespeare.

Lured out of retirement one last time, the master of tragedy then did the most unexpected thing: he wrote Falstaff, a scintillating, joyous comedy, also based on Shakespeare. And how did he end this unprecedented masterpiece? With a big aria or a triumphal chorus? No, with the most unexpected thing possible, a fugue.

“But it’s a jokey fugue,” insists Carthy.

Indeed. Usually thought of as the most academic of musical techniques, the fugue in Falstaff is anything but stuffy. It’s a jovial ending to a madcap opera — not to mention a joyous final note for Verdi’s career. Sung to the text “All the world’s a jest,” it ends with the words “he laughs well who has the last laugh” — perhaps a gentle poke at Verdi’s critics over his lifetime.

Carthy says that Verdi “always wanted to write a comedy. There are fabulous bits in Verdi’s tragedies,” he says. “Iago and Cassius (in Otello) are a scream — it’s laugh-out-loud funny.”

Verdi had written one previous comedy, 50 years before Falstaff, but it was not a success. So why hadn’t he attempted another comedy?

“He never had the right libretto,” Carthy says.

The “right libretto” was created by Arrigo Boito, who had previously lured Verdi out of retirement with his distilled Shakespearean libretto for Otello.

Verdi particularly loved Shakespeare — which may have been his precedent for combining tragedy and comedy — so he was unable to resist either of Boito’s excellent librettos.

Falstaff’s plot is full of hilarious twists and turns; briefly put, it is about Shakespeare’s “fat knight” from Henry IV and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Somewhat down and out, Falstaff tries to woo two married women as a way of gaining a piece of their fortunes.

In the course of his inevitable comeuppance he is dumped in the river with dirty laundry and lured into the woods at midnight, only to be mocked by the whole town. In a side plot, the happiest of Verdi’s lovers, Nanetta and Fenton, are brought together at the end.

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Fortunately for all of us, Falstaff takes his humiliation in good spirit. He even leads the closing fugue, singing “All the world’s a jest.”

“It is absolute magic,” Holman says of the opera. “The way Verdi uses the music to enhance the drama — he’s an absolute master at it.”

But magic is not always easy to pull off.

“It’s a super-duper challenge,” Holman admits.

The music is intricate, with fast-moving ensemble numbers, quick changes of mood, and a multitude of rapid entrances and exits. Or, as Carthy says, “There’s a lot of running around to do, a lot of notes to sing, a lot of words to sing.”

But, he adds, as a training company for students, “That’s what we do! We go in for challenges. And Falstaff is just a fantastic learning tool. As well as singing lots of notes and words, the singers are also getting this experience of doing character roles and being really funny on the stage. These roles are perfect because they put the acting up on a level with the singing.”

With its fast-paced action, one thing Falstaff is not is a traditional stand-and-sing opera with big, show-stopping arias. The best tunes emerge from the action, and blend seamlessly back into it.

“Fenton’s aria is gorgeous, and so is Nanetta’s,” Holman says, “but even Fenton’s aria is interrupted at the end.”

“There are so many [melodies] that you can’t take notice of them all before they’re gone,” Carthy says.

“It’s as if he has them to throw away. The melodies come so thick and fast that by the time we’re thinking, ‘Oh, that’s a wonderful melody,’ we’re on to the next one.”

For the audiences, it’s all about enjoyment, Holman says. “Be prepared to laugh. I want the audience to know that they have that freedom, even though they see that great composer’s name, ‘Verdi.’

If you’ve never been to an opera where you’ve laughed out loud from your gut, be prepared to do that in Falstaff.”

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arts & culture Exploring a legacy

Brakhage Symposium examines late filmmaker’s influence

by Jim Lillie

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o one can say for sure what the late Stan Brakhage would think of the Brakhage Center Symposium — except that he would both hate and love it.

“He spoke in superlatives,” says Don Yannacito, a Brakhage colleague and longtime staff member of the University of Colorado Boulder’s film studies department, where Brakhage reigned as resident genius from when he began teaching in 1981 through his retirement in 2002.

“It was like walking a tightrope, and you’d have to know what would tick him off. His generation was fighting a society that didn’t know art or culture. And he felt he needed to defend it with these huge postures and logic. He’s an iconic figure worldwide. He’s the real thing.”

Brakhage died in 2003. The fight to further his adopted religion of art and culture has continued, thanks in part to the symposium.

“The symposium is about the art form Brakhage championed,” explains film studies professor Dan Boord, director of CU’s Stan Brakhage Center for the Media Arts. “And it’s also meant to start a discussion among the artists and scholars. Which it always does. It typically attracts people who already have some knowledge in the field. But people coming into it fresh would find the presenters very accessible.”

The gathering marks its ninth year this weekend. The first day’s events include a presentation by Glenn Phillips, a curator at the Getty Research Institute, and Mark Toscano, an archivist and preservationist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A pair of guest artists will also show their recent work: Jennifer Reeder will premiere a new installation, while Jennifer West will introduce “One Mile Parkour Film,” which was made by adhering a one-mile-long filmstrip to the entire length of New York’s High Line elevated park for one day.

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Phillips, a specialist in media art, which exploits video as a medium instead of film, plans to examine how artists were using machines to create art in the 1960s and ’70s, sometimes without even using a camera, and to highlight how artists imbued those works with conceptual, political, emotional or narrative content.

“They’ve brought in the Woody and Steina Vaskula archives,” Phillips says. “They may not be household names, but they’re incredible pioneers in the history of video art. … It’s great to see people gathering from all over who share an interest in an art form that’s a very important part of culture these days.”

Day two, as organized this year by Yannacito, centers on Brakhage and his work — including a set of three “under-talked-about” films, completed in 1971, known as the Pittsburgh Trilogy. Sally Dixon, who helped Brakhage gain access to the three institutions studied — the police (Eyes), the hospital (Deus Ex) and the morgue (The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes) — will talk about this period in Brakhage’s career. Images filmed at the morgue are extremely graphic, yet thoroughly artful.

ove. It’s life’s sweetest reward. If you let it flow, it floats back to you. Love can be exciting. It can be new.

And if you get on board with love, it might even be expecting you. You could be the captain of your own ship or just someone else’s gopher. Your broken heart might need a doctor or maybe some time spent bending the ear of a sympathetic bartender. Whatever course or direction

“He realized that people don’t want to see death or deal with the things they don’t want to deal with,” says Yannacito, noting that Brakhage effectively hid behind the camera while filming the autopsies.

“Emotionally, that allowed him to do it.”

On a different end of the spectrum, attendees can witness Brakhage’s Persian Series 1-5 shown via continuous loop on a large contraption called a film tree. Once used exclusively by the National Park Service to continuously play films in NPS visitor centers, the newly built device, installed by projectionist Anthony VasquezHernandez, will be showcased for only the second time outside of NPS use.

The symposium, while drawing from the past, doesn’t intend to get stuck there. The heyday of experimental film has never been confined to a single person, time or place. And Brakhage wasn’t alone in urging people to see the world differently.

“Stan wasn’t in isolation,” Boord says. “There was John Cage in music. Merce Cunningham in dance. The Living Theater. [That period of experimentation] was as watershed as any movement of that time.”

“Film was the orphan of all those arts,” adds Yannacito. “The other artists had a harder time understanding his films than he had understanding their work. … He could speak their language, but they had a hard time speaking the language of film.”

“The symposium is rooted in experimental film, which is as old as the late 19th century,” Boord says.

“But we always connect with what’s going on in the contemporary world.”

Brakhage, whose influence remains as palpable as when he worked years ago in the bowels of the nowdemolished Sibell-Wolle building, wouldn’t have it any other way.

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manages time after time to mount sincere and heartfelt productions. TCL’s nearly annual Halloween tradition Twilight Zone parodies are calendared by many other can’t-miss events. With Almost, Maine, TCL proves it understands the peaks and valleys of love as well as it does those of suspense and satire.

Written by John Cariani, who played Julian Beck on Law & Order and the hilarious “autistic reporter” Michael Falk on the much less long-lived Onion News Network, Almost, Maine presents nine vignettes about the comic and tragic nature of love. Each of the nine short tales takes place at 9 o’clock on a Friday night in mid-winter Maine.

The first story, which unfolds throughout the Veronica Straight-Lingo and Erik Wilkins in Almost, Maine play and acts as a framing device, is the simplest and sweetest. It is the story of Pete (Garrett Salter) and Ginette (Kate And in a section entitled “Seeing the Moore) taking their first, tentative steps Thing” that should really be called toward love. It is so slight that some “Friends Finally Fuck,” rough and tumpeople might deem it a one-note trifle, ble Rhonda (Katherine Myers) and her but I found it to be the most touching buddy, Dave (Erik Wilkins), leave and effective segment of the show. friendship behind to embark on a new After Pete and Ginette we meet adventure together. many more deniTo various zens of Almost. degrees, all of the ON THE BILL: Almost, Maine, preIn a typical romactors acquit sented by the Theater Company of com setup with themselves well, Lafayette, plays through March 23 at the Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. an unexpected but one held my Simpson Street in Lafayette. Tickets rapt attention. In a payoff, a woman are $10-$16. For tickets or informasmall role as a (Katherine tion, call 720-209-2154 or visit www. tclstage.org. waitress in one Myers) jumps on story and in a a plane, then much larger role in takes a 100-mile another, Veronica taxi ride on the Straight-Lingo showed herself to be a spur of the moment to find the man formidable actress. I would welcome she left behind years before (Bill the chance to see her again in the Graham). At the local bar, a sad sack’s future.

(Erik Wilkins) random run-in with his Though a couple of the stories end ex leads to even more random and on down notes, most of Almost, Maine humorous results. A guy who can’t feel is meant to uplift. The play exudes pain (Garrett Salter) meets a woman optimism and hope, and it does so in a who knows all too much about it way that — though sometimes a bit (Veronica Straight-Lingo). twee — is never overbearing. I attendA hiker hoping to see the Northern ed with a friend who proudly selfLights (Heather Woodruff ) camps out on a local’s lawn ( Jason Boughn) in one identifies as jaded, and even she had to admit that she enjoyed her visit to of the more complicated stories of the Almost, Maine. night with, oddly enough, the most Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com tidy, almost groan-inducing ending.

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OLDE TOWN ARVADA’ S SECOND ANNUAL FESTIVAL JOINS A LIST OF LIVE MUSIC AND PARADES AT D NOTE, OSKAR BLUES, CONOR O’NEILL’S AND MORE.

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

Electric Red — With Summa. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Fox Street Allstars. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Henhouse Prowlers. 8 p.m. Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554.

G Love & Special Sauce — With John Fullbright. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-7867030.

Mountain Fest 2013 — Hosted by the Colorado Mountain Club, with clinics, museum tours, open climbing and slacklining. 6 p.m. American Mountaineering Center, 710 10th St., Golden, www.cmc.org.

Gobs O’Phun with Peggy Fasing. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Indigent Row — With Gipsy Moon. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Blue Grama Bluegrass. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

Brandon Hagen. 8 p.m.

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Finders and Youngberg. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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Snowshoe History Trail Tour — Advance reservations required. 10 a.m. Eldora Mountain Resort Nordic Center, 2861 Eldora Ski Road, Nederland, 303-449-3464.

Three’s Comedy — Comedians Abigail Booth, Lorraine Larocque and Nick Trotter. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-4432122.

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Janine Gastineau & her Rhythm. 7:30 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637R S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Neptune’s Only Daughter. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

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

Smooth Money Gesture & Twiddle. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Tribute to Miles Davis. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

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

Big Paddy — St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Celebration. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Mary Beth Cross. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music Cafe, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Bonnie & the Clydes. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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.

Silent Bear and Friends. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

events The Guard — Presented by the Library Cinema Program. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001

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

Crazy Mountain Billies. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.

Boulder Comedy Night at The Dairy. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Boulder Filmmaking Incubator. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Critical Positions: Perspectives on Art History, Curatorial Practice and Art Criticism — With Griselda Pollock. 5 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. lecture. Eaton Humanities Building, Room 150, CU campus, www. cuartmuseum.colorado.edu.

Tiny Gods: Shuffling Home to See the Queen — Presented by TinHOUSE Experimental Dance Theatre and Hoarded Stuff Productions. 8 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, www.tinhouse.weebly.com.

Saturday, March 16 music Altan. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Daniels Hall. 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

Azra Sings — Traditional music from Bosnia, Herzegovina and the Balkans. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Bad Brad — With Fat Cats. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Chris McGarry and the Insomniacs. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Tuft Theatre. 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Dechen Hawk and A Murder of Prose. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Eoto. 9 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Falstaff — By Giuseppe Verdi, presented by the CU Opera. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247.

Fallen’s Refuge — With Lucrezio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Glitterbox — St. Patrick's Day Celebration. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.

CU’s 10th Annual Poetry Slam. Glenn Miller Ballroom, University Memorial Center, 1669 Euclid Ave, Boulder, 303-492-7704.

Falstaff — By Giuseppe Verdi, presented by the CU Opera. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247.

The Mazer Cup International Mead Mixer 2013. 7 p.m. A Spice of Life Event Center, 5706 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-3464.

Hey Penny Bridge Irish Band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road,

Month of Photography Celebration. 8 p.m. Museum

see EVENTS Page 40

Hey Lady! — B-52’s tribute band. 9:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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arts

“Rita and Cora Aiming” by Lucas Foglia

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.

FRIDAY MARCH 22

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

THE SHORT CIRCUIT TOUR

FEAT EDDIE ROBERTS (NEW MASTERSOUNDS) & JERMAL WATSON (DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND) W/ SPRINGDALE QUARTET & THE PEOPLE’S ABSTRACT

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SATURDAY MARCH 23

The Denver Salon: Then and Now — Fine art photography. Byers-Evans House Gallery, 1310 Bannock St., Denver, 303-620-9433. Through May 31.

FRIDAY MARCH 29

W/ FROGS GONE FISHIN’ & GRANT SABIN

MONDAY MARCH 25 • FREE SHOW!

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SATURDAY MARCH 30

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Hoodie Allen — With Aer & Jared Evan. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Jenn Cleary. 6:30 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, www.jenncleary.com.

The Longest Day of the Year, The StereoFidelics.

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

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

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

“Peace Through Music” Concert — With Spirit Voices Women’s Ensemble and Janis Kelly. 8 p.m.

First Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787.

The Prairie Scholars. 9:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 S. Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094.

Split Jive Broadcast. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

FRIDAY MAY 10

FRIDAY & SATURDAY APRIL 19-20

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FRIDAY APRIL 26

St. Patrick’s Celebration — Presented by Music Train Family Concert Series. 4 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

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

National Photography Month Photo Exhibits.

The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 19.

A Neurotic Erotic Alphabet.The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303440-7826. Through April 19.

Not In Your Face. Center for Fine Art Photography, 400 N. College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-2241010. Through March 30.

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

What is Modern? and Olivetti: Innovation and Identity. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through March 24.

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 17

SHOES FOR RUNNING 2013 WORLD TOUR W/ SPECIAL GUEST KILLER MIKE

Month of Photography — With works by Lucas Foglia, Pablo Gimenez Zapiola, Mario Zoots, Adraian Ramíc, Paolo Cirio. Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 7.

ZOOGMA

W/ FORWORDMUZIK, SPACESHIP POSSE

SUNDAY MAY 5 THE NICKATINA EXPERIENCE TOUR 2013

More Scapes. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 28.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 27

PERFORMS “TRACKING BUFFALO THROUGH THE BATHTUB”

QUANTIC

Georgia O’Keefe in New Mexico: Architec-

Hazel Barnes and the Existential Challenge in the 21st Century. Norlin Library second floor, CU campus, Boulder, ucblibraries.colorado.edu.

Through June 2014.

UNCLE LUCIUS & OTIS HEAT

FEAT MEMBERS OF OCTOPUS NEBULA & THE MALAH

THURSDAY MAY 2

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

ture, Katsinam, and the Land. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Pkwy., Denver, 720865-5000. Through April 28.

W/ DAYQUIL VS AXEL MADDEN

SATURDAY APRIL 27

THE BIG WU

EcoCreations4 — Art from Recycled Objects.

Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-6787869. Through April 27.

Lucas Foglia photographed communities in the southeastern United States that had chosen to leave mainstream society and live off the grid for A Natural Order, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver.

St. Patty's Party with Indigent Row. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685.

St. Patty's Party with Kevin Dooley Duo. 4:30 p.m.

Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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

Woodsongs Ukulele Hootenanny! — Workshop &

Jam, 5:30 - 7 p.m. HB Woodsongs, 2920 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-0516.

events Intro to Gardening I. 9-11:30 a.m. Growing Gardens Greenhouse, 1630 Hawthorne Ave., Boulder, 303-4439952.

Playback Theatre West: A Night of Improvisational Theatre. 8 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

Second Annual St. Patrick’s Day Festival. 12-6 p.m. Olde Town Arvada, Grandview Avenue and Olde Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada, www.historicarvada.org.

Third Saturday Swing — Swing Dance. 7 p.m. The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, avd@columbine. net.

Tiny Gods: Shuffling Home to See the Queen — Presented by TinHOUSE Experimental Dance Theatre and Hoarded Stuff Productions. 8 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, www.tinhouse.weebly.com.

Town Hall with Sen. Rollie Heath and Bruce Messinger, superintendent of Boulder Valley School District. 10 a.m. Boulder City Council Chambers, 1777 Broadway, Boulder, www.senrollieheath.com Whole Planet Foundation Fair. 11 a.m. Whole Foods Market, 2584 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-499-7636.

Sunday, March 17 music Acoustic Jam. 3 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Back Beat Jazz Band. 2 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Boulder Weekly

events Big Paddy — St. Patrick’s Day Celebration. 6 p.m.

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

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

The Big Pick Bluegrass & Folk Jam. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

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

Nataly Dawn with Lauren O’Connell. 8 p.m. Swallow Hill Walnut Room, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

Falstaff — By Giuseppe Verdi, presented by the CU Opera. 2 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder, 303-492-4247.

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

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

Felonius Smith Trio. 7 p.m. Left Hand Brewery Tasting Room, 1265 Boston Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258.

Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Gadbaw, Kimmel, Sirotniak & Wu Irish music. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events

Indigent Row St. Patty’s day party. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

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

The CU Buffoons — Third Tuesday Lunchtime Concert Series. 12 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

events Master Playwriting Class. 10 a.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.

St. Patrick’s Day Celebration — Irish dancers and live music all day. 8 a.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

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

Mezzo Mestizo. 7 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696 Open Mic — Hosted by Maus. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.

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

events Attention Homes Spring Fashion Show. 7 p.m.

Shine, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Monday, March 18

Living to 100 — With Dr. Zack Alme. 6:30 p.m. The

music

see EVENTS Page 42

Boulder resident Joshua Rollins’ play Concealed Carry, based on CU’s concealed weapons debate, will show at the LOCAL Lab new play festival.

theater

Treatment by student interns in a communal open room in zero gravity chairs

music

Matt Flaherty Band. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Tradition, Tartans, and Tears — Library Concert Series. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Appointments start at 5:30pm Sliding Scale $10 - $25

Tuesday, March 19 Ash Ganley. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

St. Patrick's Day Lunch Concert — With Fennec.

12 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Monday & Wednesday Evening

“So, You’re a Poet” — Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m.

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

Jazz Jam — With Mark Diamond & Big Swing Trio.

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

Ripple Green — With Isa & JoeAlan. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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DAILY SPECIALS

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

Chesapeake. Loft Theatre, University Theatre Building, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-0515.

Through March 17.

Church Basement Ladies.

Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 12.

The Doyle & Debbie Show — Presented by the Denver Center Attractions. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver, 303893-4100. Through July 14.

Falstaff— Presented by CU Opera. Macky Auditorium, 17th Street and University Avenue, Boulder, 303-786-7030 ext. 303. Through March 17.

Jon — Presented by The Catamounts. Dairy

Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through March 16.

LOCAL Lab — A new play festival. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, www.localtheatercompany.org. March 15-17.

Pippin — Boulder High School. Boulder High School Auditorium, 1604 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 720-561-2285. Through March 16.

Those Crazy Ladies in the House on the Corner — With the Player’s Guild. The Festival Playhouse, 5665 Olde Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 303-422-4090. Through March 17.

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

The Villain of Guy Gulch — Heritage Square Music Hall, 18301 W. Colfax Ave., Golden, 303279-7800. Through May 19.

A Walk in the Woods — by Lee Blessing.

Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303294-9248. Through March 29.

MON - $2 PBR, Jim Beam, Smoked Tacos TUES - $2 Rolling Rock, $14 Caribbean Jerk Chicken WED - $3 Craft Beers, Smoked Reuben THU - $4 Tall Boys, $15 Beef Short Ribs FRI - $5 Texas Slush, $18 Smoked Prime Rib SAT - $4 Margaritas, $13.5 Smoked Pork Chops SUN - $4 Bloody Mary’s, $5 Smoked Wings

St. Patrick’s Weekend!

DRINK SPECIALS

$4 Jameson, $4 Grandma’s Whiskey Slush, $2 Rolling Rock

Acoustic open Mic NO MINORS

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Author Dan Baum will speak about and sign his new book, Gun Guys, about his trip around the country to meet gun owners.

Thursday, March 14 Margaret Coel — Poetry reading.

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

Pandora’s Lunchbox — By Melanie Warner. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Friday March 15 PBJ Friday. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-5791644.

Saturday, March 16 10th Annual Poetry Slam — Presented by CU Program Council. 8 p.m. Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, 303-492-5157 Sunday, March 17 Children’s Poetry Reading. 3:30 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

Monday, March 18 The Golden Shore: California’s Love Affair with the Sea — by David Helvarg. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Gun Guys — by Dan Baum. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

So, You’re a Poet? — Open reading. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat Coffee House, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Tuesday, March 19 Geology Underfoot Along Colorado’s Front Range — by Lon Abbott and Terri Cook. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Tiger Writing: Art, Culture and the Interdependent Self — by Gish Jen. 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 20 Andrew Zawacki — Poetry reading. 7 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-579-1644.

The Good Cop — by Brad Parks. 7:30 p.m.

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

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Verdi’s

Falstaff

Life House, 309 Waneka Parkway, Lafayette, 303-6730442.

Wednesday, March 20 music

Family Dance Planet — International Dance. 9:30 a.m.

The Avalon, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-6418901.

Chris Wilson & Planet Earth — With Lindsey Saunders. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

McTeggart Irish Dancers Performance. 11 a.m.

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

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

Sharon & Grant Country Duo. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

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

Macky Auditorium

Tickets start at $14

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Beautiful melodies, elaborate scenery and brilliant orchestration combine in Giuseppe Verdi’s last opera. The comedy, Falstaff weaves the Shakespearean tale of a portly, drunken and greedy knight who pledges his love to two married women.

When the women discover his deception, they plan revenge, involving a parade of comic characters who leave us to conclude that, “Everything in the world is jest!” Sung in Italian.

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Camp Oonie Koonie Cha Kids Concert — Proceeds for Project C.U.R.E. 4 p.m. Mountain View Methodist Church, 355 Ponca Place, www.campooniekooniecha.com.

Blues Jam — Hosted by Todd Johnson. 8 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

French Montana — With Chinx Drugz. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

March 15–16, 7:30 p.m. & March 17, 2 p.m.

Saturday, March 16

Puppets and Things on Strings: Adventure in Reading. 11 a.m. Boulder Public Library George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120 & 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library Meadows Branch, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.

Sketchbook Studies: Exploring Nature. 11 a.m.

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

Tribute to The Hank Williams' Sr., Jr & the Third.

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

Sunday, March 17

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Monday, March 18

Dishcrawl Food Tour of Downtown Boulder. 7 p.m.

Register for meeting location, www.dishcrawl.com.

Boulder Teen Advisory Board. 4 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Hovenweep: New Findings — Presentation in collaboration with Boulder History Museum. 7 p.m.

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

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

KIDS CALENDAR

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

Thursday, March 14

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

Tuesday, March 19

Thursday Storytime. 10 a.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, 303604-9098.

Friday, March 15

Wednesday, March 20

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

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

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

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

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Rosebraugh investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem placing us on the brink of disaster. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres

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 ABCS OF DEATH The motion picture is composed of 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death. At SIE FilmCenter.

— Denver Film Society

THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE Very few people realize that actor Steve Buscemi, who plays a goofy magician in this film, was the actual model used by Edvard Munch when he painted his iconic masterpiece “The Scream.”

Filmmakers Peter Miller and William Hechter chronicle the life of rock ‘n’ roll icon Doc Pomus from his childhood battle with polio through his induction into the Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater

Curtis: Driven to Stardom; AKA Doc Pomus; From Shtetl to Swing; A Fire in the Forest; Beyond the Boundaries; Dolphin Boy; Hava Nagila. At Boedecker.

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ARGO 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 Mayan.

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD A 6-year-old girl, buoyed by her childish optimism, believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society BEETLEJUICE

Sight gags and puns abound as the diabolically funny title character (played with gruesome wit by Michael Keaton) helps “newlydeads” Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis rid their home of obnoxious new owners Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Winona Ryder. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres BICYCLE DREAMS What begins as the adventure of a lifetime is transformed in an instant when tragedy strikes the race. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society BOULDER JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL This festival runs for two weeks and includes My Australia; Precious Life; Tony Boulder Weekly

When three crazy, disfunctional magicians try to outdo each other in their effort to be the top dog on the Vegas strip, funny things happen. Starring Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey. Rated PG. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

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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.

THE INCREDIBLE BURT WONDERSTONE

Through screenings and discussions the ninth Brakhage symposium will explore art practices, and assumptions about cinema art, the historical avant-garde and the media arts. At VAC Basement Auditorium.

— International Film Series THE CALL Halle Berry plays a 911 operator who takes a call from a kid that launches her into a suspense-filled quest to track down a killer. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century and Colony Square.

DEAD MAN DOWN Colin Farrell is a man who has lost everything, or rather has had everything taken from him. Now he’s out for revenge. He doesn’t have much to say in this high octane action thriller, but his message comes through loud and clear. Rated R. At Colony Square, Twin Peaks and Century.

EMPEROR

General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation after Emperor Hirohito’s World War II surrender. At Chez Artiste and Century. — Landmark Theatres

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.

THE JEFFREY DAHMER FILES

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

In the summer of 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. The film explores this Midwestern city by meeting those surrounding Dahmer during and after his hidden spree. Part of The Watching Hour series at SIE FilmCenter.

— Denver Film Society

FROM SHTETL TO SWING: A MUSICAL ODYSSEY

Lower East Side kids Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, the Marx Brothers, Artie Shaw, and numerous others, and how they turned into legends, forever changing the face of American popular music. At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater THE GATEKEEPERS The head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service, is present for every decision made.

Six former heads share their insights and reflect on their actions and decisions. At Chez Artiste. –– Landmark Theatres A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD

Quentin Tarantino does to slave owners what he did to Nazis in Inglourious Basterds. Rated R. At Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

John McClane (Bruce Willis) is out to get the bad guys in Moscow, but this time his son is helping him do it. Believe it or not, a whole bunch of people get shot and blown up, and at some point, Bruce is so banged up you just can’t believe that he can win in the end. But we won’t spoil it, maybe this time the bad guys get the best of him. Rated R. At Colony Square.

The real life rock ‘n’ roll fairy tale of Filipino Arnel Pineda, who was plucked from YouTube to become the front man for iconic American rock band Journey. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

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ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH

DJANGO UNCHAINED

DON’T STOP BELIEVING: EVERYMAN’S JOURNEY

The director of Horrible Bosses returns with a redemption tale. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

LA SCALA’S CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA AND PAGLIACCI Opera fans’ favorite double billing, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, are two brief operas that pack a big punch. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater THE LAST EXORCISM PART II Nell picks up the pieces after an ordeal she can barely remember. But the force that terrorized her isn’t finished. Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

LIFE OF PI 3D A storm ravages a boat carrying a zookeeper’s family and menagerie, and the only survivors are the family’s son, Pi, and a Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Rated PG. At Century and Colony Square. — The Reader of Omaha, Neb.

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That’s enough, James Franco

In ‘Oz the Great and Powerful,’ the hero is the villain

by Ryan Syrek

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t one point, our collective return to Oz (not be confused with Return to Oz, sorry Faruza) was going to see director Sam Raimi deploy Robert Downey Jr. as his titular wizard.

The short list after Downey split must have consisted of just two names: James Franco and “a bag of dirt and sand.” “A bag of dirt and sand” must have had schedule conflicts.

Look, James Franco must be stopped.

For too long we have been held captive by what we assumed was a dopey but charismatic grin but what is, in reality, the modern face of banal attractiveness at its absolute worst. He is a talentless, vacant black hole of suck, an ignoramus so gifted at ineptitude that the tornado featured here was no special effect but a byproduct of his trying to have an original thought.

Without him, literally with almost any other actor, Oz the Great and Powerful would be a visual diversion and not a pretty cupcake with a turd on top.

The film begins in black-and-white in 1905, with Oz (Franco) as a struggling carnival magician and successful womanizer. His hot-air balloon ride deposits him in Oz, where he promptly meets Theodora (Mila Kunis), a witch with abandonment issues. Her sister, Evanora (Rachel Weisz), is the guardian of the throne in the wake of the king’s death.

She claims that the land is being plundered by Glinda (Michelle Williams), an accusation the audience has a hard time buying knowing Glinda’s given Christian name is “The Good Witch.” With the aid of a good flying monkey (Zach Braff ) and a tiny china doll ( Joey King), Oz sets out to fulfill a prophecy about a wizard that defeats the wicked witch. We know where things wind up, the ultimate peril of proposing a prequel, but along the way

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there are munchkins, mischief and miscues by the man in the top hat too numerous to count.

Take Franco out and course-correct some wonky acting by Kunis, and this is a fine film that expands the Oz universe thanks to a script lovingly crafted by Mitchell Kapner and David LindsayAbaire. There’s just one other problem: It’s actually pretty misogynistic. Cursory research reveals that L. Frank Baum was married to a suffragette and was, in fact, the secretary of the South Dakota suffrage organization. The equality of women mattered to him, so his heroes were always heroines; in fact, the one male hero in his book series, Tip, was revealed to actually be the female Princess Ozma in hiding. Yet here comes a Hollywood adaptation focusing on a lustful wank redeemed with more lies. And that’s not what’s most troubling.

Three great actresses with three prominent parts? Oh, my stars and garters! But Theodora is depicted as a commitment-obsessed banshee; Evanora is the stereotypical “bitch in control” and Glinda, despite having actual magic, can’t deliver her people from bondage until a big, strong man saves the day. Dorothy’s water-chucking and wizard-exposing seem downright Gertrude Stein-esque.

While promoting this, Franco opened the Daytona 500 by declaring “Drivers and Danica, start your engines!” That verbal miscue is pretty descriptive of a movie that sees women circling a man for no reason. Visually, it’s just nice. But Oz isn’t supposed to be nice; it’s supposed to be magic.

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

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Left to fend for themselves, five German children undertake a harrowing journey.

At Esquire. –– Landmark Theatres MY AUSTRALIA

Tadek and Andrzej grow up in Poland and begin to hate Jews until their mother moves to Israel to teach them about their roots. At Boedecker.— Boedecker Theater OSCAR-NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2013: LIVE ACTION

This year’s program is being hosted by last year’s winners: William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. At Boedecker. — Landmark Theatres OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL 3D We know all about Dorothy and have heard the Wicked Witch’s take. Now it’s the Wizard of Oz’s turn. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

in totally different country? Searching for Sugar Man tells the uplifting, almost unbelievable true mystery of Rodriguez, a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about him. 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.

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Everything is sanitized and clichéd enough to make this a feel-good romance. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

SNITCH

SOUND CITY

Forty-nine million people in the U.S. — one in four children — don’t know where their next meal is coming from. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

Deep in the San Fernando Valley, amidst rows of dilapidated warehouses, was rock ‘n’ roll’s best kept secret: Sound City. At SIE FilmCenter. — Denver Film Society

PRECIOUS LIFE

STOKER

Precious Life tells the story of Mohammad Abu Mustaffa, a four-month-old Palestinian boy from Gaza who was born without an immune system and requires a bone marrow transplant, which can only be done in an Israeli hospital. A desperate plea from his doctor leads Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar to document this complex and touching story of Israeli and Palestinian doctors’ attempt to save Mohammad’s life. The film explores the challenges and prejudices that must be overcome when officials from conflicting nations attempt to put aside their differences for a noble cause.

At Boedecker. —Boedecker Theater

When India becomes infatuated with her weird uncle Charlie, strange things happen.

Rated R. At Century.

Beecham House is abuzz when an unexpected singer returns home. Rated PG-13. At Century and Esquire. — Landmark Theatres RUST AND BONE Macho Ali has just been given custody of his five-year-old son and is struggling to care for him. He finds work as a bouncer and extreme fighter, and meets Stéphanie when he protects her in a fight at the club where he works. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater SAFE HAVEN Girl is in love. Girl gets hurt. Girl must learn to love again. Just act like you liked it, guys. Rated PG. At Century.

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THE STORY OF FILM: PARTS 5 AND 6 Part 5 of The Story of Film shows how the trauma of war made cinema more daring.

Part 6 explores the story of sex and melodrama in the movies of the ’50s. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater TONY CURTIS: DRIVEN TO STARDOM

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oulder loves beer — we get it.

With more than 20 microbreweries putting down roots in Boulder County, where general attitude favors local products, Boulderites seem to love their hoppy, heavy, high-in-alcohol-content brews.

But have we forgotten about something in the hype of hops? Not all good beer comes from Colorado microbreweries, says Zdenek Srom, owner of the new Bohemian Biergarten on 13th Street between Pearl and Spruce.

“The Bohemian Biergarten will be the traditional European drinking establishment,” says Srom.

The Bohemian Biergarten is not a restaurant, it’s a pub, says Srom, and traditional pilsners will dominate the taps. Long community tables made from recycled 100-year-old barn wood line the inside; the back room will be the biergarten, complete with an open grill serving sausages and homemade pretzels. The biergarten will also offer two local brews, one of which will come from neighboring brewery Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place.

The Bohemian Biergarten, expected to open on April 1 at 2017 13th St., pending approval of its permits, is tapping into a not-so-known niche in Boulder. High-quality import beers are

revive.

“Biergarten means that you have big tables, community tables, you are drinking beer in steins with pretzels and sausages, and that is what we’re going to do,” says Srom.

“We’re going back in time to the era when beer gardens started; this is how beer is supposed to be drank.”

In the Czech Republic, where Srom was born and raised, the pub is where community happens.

“All the business is done in the pub.

You want to sign a deal, buy a house, it’s done in the pub,” he says.

Extending beyond the pub, Srom hopes to help revive the 13th Street community by teaming up with Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place and Conor O’Neill’s to host a 13th Street party the 13th day of every month.

Cultivating a community on 13th Street was inevitable, since Srom and his staff have been regulars at Conor O’Neill’s for nearly a decade, says Ingram.

“We’ve known these guys for years, so there is already a cooperative spirit between us,” she says. “We’re always looking to bring more people down to 13th Street. ... It’s really great for us to have another place with a similar sort

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not as easy to come by in Boulder as they were 10 years ago, according to Wendy Ingram, manager at Conor O’Neill’s.

“The craft beer thing is a huge interest, and we do support our local breweries, but there are very few places that pour Guinness or Boddingtons,” says Ingram. “We do really well with those beers because we’re the only ones that have them, and now you can go to the biergarten for the imported Czech, German and Austrian beers.”

Juxtaposed to typical mountain beer culture, the Bohemian Biergarten is going back in time to the AustrianHungarian monarchy that ruled Germany, Czech Republic, Austria and Hungary following the end of World War I. Hand-painted images of Bohemian crests and antique tiles craft the atmosphere, and a map of the region hangs on the wall as an ode to the history Srom says he hopes to

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COTTONWOOD INSTITUTE HOSTS BEER RELEASE PARTY AT WYNKOOP

Cottonwood Institute, a Denverbased nonprofit that works to connect students with the outdoors and empower them to tackle environmental issues, has partnered with Wynkoop Brewing Company. The two are hosting a beer release party for a limited-edition beer called Cottonwood Organic White, which will benefit the Cottonwood Institute.

Between March 28 and April 30, Wynkoop Brewing Company will donate $1 per pint of Cottonwood Organic White to support the nonprofit’s student outreach programs.

The beer release party starts at 5 p.m. on March 28 at Wynkoop in Denver.

SNARF’S ANNOUNCES PLANS FOR EXPANSION

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owadays, canny developers poached. I could Poppy Cafe of big-city high-rise resitell they were of 3601 Arapahoe Ave. dential buildings know it’s correct consisSuite D-181 (inside not enough to offer a welltency based the Peloton), Boulder appointed gym or ample on how they 303-544-9000 parking. The big draw for potential tenquivered when ants is the on-site eatery, made all the they were set more appetizing by a Michelin-starred down on the or celebrity chef pedigree. Closer to table. Another original touch was a home, the Peloton complex off small pile of peppy arugula on the side, Arapahoe seems to have acknowledged which played nicely with the traditional this trend by holding space for both Hollandaise’s unmistakably suave Basta and the Poppy Cafe. creaminess.

Poppy occupies the space formerly The quality and quantity of the inhabited by the Gindi Cafe. It retains ingredients in my $12 country lamb much of the contemporary airy ambihash would easily command much ence and impressive Flatirons vistas if more as a dinner item at a pricier you tilt your gaze above the storefronts establishment. My first bite of the across the street. On a recent Sunday hearty cubes of rosemary-scented lamb excursion with friend Mara, we found was a tad on the tough side. But for the this spot to be moderately crowded. most part, the meat was tender with Regular Sherlock Holmes that I am, I medium doneness. deduced that some of our fellow diners Unfortunately, the accompanying were residents living well within walkchunks of potato could have used more ing distance. thorough cooking. However, the assortment of roastmay subjectively favor crisper bacon, but there was The weekend brunch, served from 10 a.m. to 3 ed vegetables, which included cauliflower, fresh no questioning the underlying quality of this pork. p.m., features a menu that’s surprisingly comprehen- The thick strips featured a pure, minimally processed beets, carrots and celery, left nothing to be desired sive given this eatery’s relatively modest size. Salads regarding doneness. I also appreciated that the two taste, with an authentic smoke aroma. eggs on top arrived with slightly runny yolks, which range from a simple green number to entree offerAs with any genuine Benedict, the eggs were both ran into and enhanced the formiings anchored by such exotica as pandable foundation of meat and vegetaroasted halibut or smoked salmon. bles.

Omelets include a classic Denver preMy friend and I shared the overall pared with bacon, a meatless Boulder impression of pleasant surprise regardwith goat cheese, and the Lafayette, ing this cafe’s selections, as meals here which includes smoked salmon. are of a quality to draw in more than Minimalists may embrace basic waffles, an Francisco is one of the few places that make Boulder’s real just a neighborhood crowd. Portions bacon and eggs, and eggs coupled with estate scene look relatively cheap by comparison. In the City by were generous — a side of toast and housemade soy sausage. the Bay, one can pick up a nice two-bedroom condo in the jam was superfluous — and the kitchBoth of us chose selections from the Millennium Tower for a paltry $4.5 million. Of course, there’s the reqen effectively conveys a rusticated brunch entree section of the menu. uisite gym, and the RN74 restaurant is nestled on the ground floor.

Mara’s meal consisted of a $14 crab gourmet sensibility. I suppose that’s RN74 is a Michael Mina restaurant, and Mina is best known for having Michelin stars for his flagship San Francisco and Las Vegas eaterconsistent with the restaurant’s tagline Benedict featuring lump shellfish as ies. However, it is unclear if owning a unit in the Millennium guaranof offering “farm fresh foods,” which it well as a ration of bacon. The crab came tees a reservation at the restaurant. most assuredly serves up — and then in the form of a hefty but delicately some. seasoned cake, not too salty and brimRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com ming with clean shellfish flavor. Some

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The newly planned expansion will continue in these markets as well as into Texas, according to a recent statement released by the company. Snarf’s hopes to have a total of 50 stores up and running by 2018. It has also announced that it will open a hamburger restaurant in Boulder.

CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN INTRODUCES NEW BEVERAGES

California Pizza Kitchen has announced the launch of a new beverage series, which will include wine flights, craft beer and a Diet Pepsi Mixology program.

For $12, patrons can now sample three different three-ounce pours from the restaurant’s wine list. California Pizza Kitchen has also expanded its craft beer selection to include Crispin Cider, Newcastle, Arrogant Bastard Ale and Rogue Brutal IPA. All craft beers will be served in 22-ounce bottles, and all draft beers will be served as 18-ounce pours.

Finally, the restaurant chain has developed a Diet Pepsi Mixology program, in which guests can choose from three low-calorie combinations: Berry Lean, Blueberry Lime and the Dark Red. All three drinks are nonalcoholic and incorporate fresh fruit and Diet Pepsi as ingredients. The new beverage program is available at all California Pizza Kitchen locations, including the one in Boulder at Twenty Ninth Street.

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of idea and similar customers.”

Conor O’Neill’s, Shine and the Bohemian Biergarten all have small- to medium-sized venue spaces to facilitate a pub crawl with entertainment.

“I’ve approached Conor O’Neill’s and Shine and want to do a pub crawl with music,” says Srom. “Hopefully even the coffee shops and other businesses will want to pitch in.”

None of the three establishments seem to be worried about competition from one another, and they have high hopes that the biergarten will help bring more traffic to the area.

“We’re thrilled that they’re opening there. We found that the more stuff there is to do on 13th Street, the better we do. Once someone crosses Broadway and heads towards the west end of Pearl, they don’t come back.

Hopefully people will want to be on 13th Street more,” says Ingram.

The building the biergarten now calls home has had a tumultuous history. It was previously home to Shug’s Low Country Cuisine, b.side Lounge and Trilogy Wine Bar. Its revolvingdoor past is of no concern to Srom, he says. The back room, now being used predominantly as the biergarten, was more commonly used as a venue space and is what other businesses did wrong, according to Srom.

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a failure for this space. They couldn’t really fill it up and make money off the back only using it as a venue,” says Srom.

The biergarten will offer live entertainment in the back, but patrons will still be able to sit at the community tables, which can fold up and be stored in the wall during larger shows.

“We are definitely going to have music, but maybe not the whole fivepiece band with electric guitar, rehearsing since 5 [p.m.] set-up. The back will function as biergarten, at least in the beginning,” says Srom.

Saying goodbye to the past failures of the space, Srom and his crew completely gutted the inside of the building to start over. Crafting an authentic atmosphere directed most of the design, and many of the materials used to rebuild the inside were reclaimed, he says; the wood-paneled floors were made from tree trunks destroyed by pine beetles. Srom compares his design to “steampunk,” but with his own industrial twist.

“It’s a 100-year-old building and we wanted to bring that history back,” Srom says. “It’s such a cool place, but the way they had it before, it just didn’t really go. The idea was to gut this place and bring a new life to it.”

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But one that’s less obvious until you see the space for yourself is just how small some new breweries are. Sure, they’re called nanobreweries, a term generally understood to mean a four-barrel (or smaller) production system. But the term doesn’t really illustrate just how tiny the operations are at places like garage-housed Crystal Springs or BRU or Bootstrap’s 3.5-barrel system. It’s like operating a convenience store with one shelf or a school with six textbooks.

It looks like that’s the direction craft beer is going in this county, and nowhere is the trend as evident as J Wells Brewery, a two-month-old nanobrewery tucked away in the Pearl Parkway warehouses with the Parkway Café and Redstone Meadery.

You can’t find J Wells’ beer on tap in restaurants or in the cooler at the liquor store. In fact, with a production capacity of just one and a half barrels, it’s a shock that the brewery itself stays in stock.

How nano is this brewery? The bartender on Thursday afternoon when we arrive is a part-timer who just happens to be named Jamie Wells. Like Tom Horst of Crystal Springs, who gave his title as “owner, brewmaster, keg washer” when I spoke with him a few weeks ago, Wells wears many hats.

Based on his comments from behind the bar, Wells apparently runs the marketing department, decides recipes, buys ingredients, brews, bartends and cleans up shop at the end of the day.

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So did the Lights Out imperial Russian stout, a strong, malty brew. Or, as it was called on the hastily edited whiteboard menu, Lig ts Out Stout, possibly because a quick Google search reveals at least five different breweries make beers called Lights Out Stout.

One effect of J Wells’ tiny production is that the beers can rotate in and out at lightning speed. The brown ale has already been replaced by a best bitter session ale — which, if you’re like me and have never heard the phrase, is an ESB with lower alcohol content.

As quickly as the big boys — Avery, Boulder Beer, Left Hand, Oskar Blues — are expanding across the country, that trend is no match for the speed at which tiny breweries are popping up in the county. It’s a very encouraging development. We’ll gladly grab a stool in every garage and warehouse in the area.

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4700 Pearl St., Boulder 303-447-1833 on’t expect anything too fancy at the Parkway Cafe, a classic American diner nestled among light industrial businesses off East Pearl Street. Serving up classic breakfast and lunch fare, this unpretentious eatery spotlights friendly service and expertly prepared staples like Denver omelets and not-too-spicy green chile burgers.

Other dishes worth checking out include the breakfast burritos and Friday New England clam chowder.

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ing 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.

Sachi Sushi

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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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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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.

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4457 Broadway, Boulder 720-389-5578 orth Boulder’s Julia’s Kitchen dishes out a completely organic and plant-based menu. Highlights include a house-blended veggie patty, salads, hummus pizza and a selection of raw snacks such as onion crackers and nut-based sweets. Other highlights include kale chips seasoned with pumpkin and chia seeds, and the kitchari, citrus and ginger-perfumed mung beans and brown basmati billed as “Indian comfort food.”

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Moe’s Broadway Bagel

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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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, order-at-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’tmiss 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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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 chock-full-of-pork chile verde and the complex chicken mole.

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“Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings,” says poet Muriel Rukeyser in her poem “Elegy in Joy.” “Not all things are blest,” she continues, “but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” I urge you to adopt this perspective in the coming weeks, Aries. Be extra sweet and tender and reverent toward anything that is just sprouting, toward anything that is awakening, toward anything that invokes the sacredness of right now. “This moment,” sings Rukeyser, “this seed, this wave of the sea, this look, this instant of love.”

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20:

As you seek more insight on your current situation, consider the possibility that the bad guys may not be as bad as they seem. They might simply be so deeply under the spell of their own pain that they can’t see straight. And as for the good guys: I wonder if they are as purely good as they would like you to imagine. It might be the case that they are at least partially serving their own self-interest, while pretending to be utterly altruistic. If there’s any truth to these speculations, Taurus, you’d be wise to stay uncommitted and undecided for now. Don’t get emotionally riled up, don’t get embroiled in conflict and don’t burn any bridges.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20:

Here’s your mantra: “I get fresher under pressure.” Say it 10 times right now, and then repeat it in 10-repetition bursts whenever you need a tune-up. What it means is that you stay cool when the contradictions mount and the ambiguities multiply. And more than that: You actually thrive on the commotion. You get smarter amidst the agitation.

You become more perceptive and more creative as the shifts swirl faster and harder. Tattoo these words of power on your imagination: “I get fresher under pressure.”

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22:

“Stories happen to those who tell them,” said the ancient Greek historian Thucydides. Modern radio journalist Ira Glass goes even further. “Great stories happen to those who can tell them,” he has said. Let’s make this strategy a centerpiece of your life plan in the weeks ahead, Cancerian.

I have a suspicion that you will need firsthand experience of novel, interesting stories. They will provide the precise nourishment necessary to inspire the blooming of your most soulful ambitions. One way to help ensure that the best stories will flow your way is to regale receptive people with transformative tales from your past.

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JULY 23-AUG. 22:

“Dear Rob: I’m spreading the word about Beer Week in your town, and I’d love to see you and your beer-loving readers at some of the events. Any chance you can include some coverage of Beer Week celebrations in your upcoming column? Cheers, Patricia.” Dear Patricia: I don’t do product placement or other forms of secret advertising in my horoscopes. To allow it would violate the sacred trust I have with my readers, who rely on me to translate the meaning of the cosmic signs without injecting any hidden agendas. It is true that Leos might be prone to imbibing great quantities of beer in the coming week, simply because they’d benefit from lowering their inhibitions, getting in touch with their buried feelings, and expanding their consciousness. But to be frank, I’d rather see them do that without the aid of drugs and alcohol.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:

Hoping to stir up some fun trouble, I posted the following message on my Facebook page: “Don’t judge someone just because they sin differently than you.” A torrent of readers left comments in response. My favorite was from Sue Sims, who said, “Yeah, they might be better at your kind of sin and you might learn something!” That advice is just the kind of healing mischief you need right now, Virgo. It’s a bit ironic, true, but still: Take it and run with it. Study the people who have mad skills at pulling off the rousing adventures and daring pleasures and interesting “sins” that you’d like to call your own.

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SEPT. 23-OCT. 22:

The French verb renverser can be translated as “to turn upside-down” or “to reverse the flow.”

The adjectival form is renversant, which means “stunning” or “astonishing.” I think you may soon have experiences that could be described by those words. There’s a good chance that a dry, impoverished part of your life will get a juicy, fertile infusion. A deficiency you have worried about might get at least half-filled. An inadequacy that makes you feel sad may be bolstered by reinforcements. Alas, there could also be a slight reversal that’s not so gratifying. One of your assets may temporarily become irrelevant. But the trade-off is worth it, Libra. Your gains will outstrip your loss.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21:

Professor Martyn Poliakoff creates short YouTube videos to help teach the public about chemistry. In one video, he explains why an explanation he gave in a previous video was completely mistaken. “It’s always good for a scientist to be proved wrong,” he confesses cheerfully. Then he moves on to speculate about what the right answer might be. I love humility like that! It’s admirable. It’s also the best way to find out the truth about reality. I hope you will summon a similar attitude in the coming weeks, Scorpio: a generous curiosity that makes you eager to learn something new about stuff you thought you had all figured out.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

On the one hand, menopausal women are no longer able to bear children. On the other hand, they often overflow with fresh possibilities and creative ideas. More time is available to them because their children have moved out of the house or don’t require as much care. They can begin new careers, focus on their own development and devote more attention to their personal needs. So in one way their fertility dries up; in another way it may awaken and expand. I suspect that whether or not you are menopausal, you are on the cusp of a comparable shift in your fecundity: one door closing, another door swinging open.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

The TV reality show Freaky Eaters profiled a woman named Kelly who had eaten nothing but cheesy potatoes for 30 years. Her average intake: eight pounds of potatoes and four cups of cheese per day. “I love cheesy potatoes,” she testified. “They’re stewy, gooey and just yum-yum-yummy.

They’re like crack to me.” I’m a bit concerned that you’re flirting with behavior comparable to hers. Not in regards to cheesy potatoes, of course, but to some other fetish. I will ask you to make sure that you’re not starting to overspecialize. It would be wise to avoid obsessing on a single type of anything.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

In the 17th century, polite people referred to mountains as “warts” and “boils on the earth’s complexion.” So says Robert Macfarlane in his book Mountains of the Mind.

Annie Dillard describes the peculiar behavior of educated European tourists in the 18th century. When they visited the Alps, she writes in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, “they deliberately blindfolded their eyes to shield themselves from the evidence of the earth’s horrid irregularity.” Don’t be anything like those dumb sophisticates, Aquarius. When you spy irregularities in the coming weeks, consider the possibility that they are natural and healthy. This will allow you to perceive their useful beauty.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

You are not for sale. Remember? Your scruples and ideals and talents cannot be bought off for any amount of money.

You will not be cheated out of your birthright and you will not allow your dreams to be stolen. Although it’s true that you may have to temporarily rent your soul from time to time, you will never auction it off for good. I’m sure you know these things, Pisces, but I suspect it’s time to renew your fiery commitment to them.

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