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Send Danish with the departing ship
Given the recent spate of departures from your esteemed writing staff (Fong, Dodge, now Accomazzo), is it not possible to retire Paul Danish, too? Some of your more elderly Libertarian readers may enjoy his journeys into madness, but his latest call for nuclear war against the Russians suggests he may be ready for a long rest.
For the record, the Crimea was part of Russia from 1873 till Nikita Khrushchev “gifted” it to Ukraine in 1954. Putin’s “designs” on the Crimea are no more criminal than the U.S. seizure of Hawaii or England’s colonial nightmare in Northern Ireland. More to the point, they are none of our business. None of our business. Did I mention they are none of our business, too? Alex Cox/Boulder
A fracking travesty
The recent agreement with the oil and gas industry around control and monitoring of methane emissions from fracking wells is a complete travesty. Essentially, it is an unenforceable agreement. Laws and regulations may make the regulators and politicians feel good, but unless they are see LETTERS Page 8
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Highroad Millionaire lawmakers can rise above their financial handicap by Jim Hightower
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ark Twain spoke for me when he said: “I’m opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the
position.” One danger that such wealth brings is that many who have it become blinded to those who don’t. Thus, the news that more than half of our congress critters are now in the millionaire class helps explain why it has been striving ceaselessly to provide more government
giveaways to Wall Street bankers and other superwealthy elites, while also striving to enact government takeaways from middle-class and poor families. Take the richest House member, Rep. Darrell Issa, with a net worth of $464 million. A right-wing California Republican, he has used his legislative powers to try denying health coverage to poor Americans, even as he tried to unravel the new restraints to keep Wall Street bankers from wrecking our economy again. Issa and his ilk are proof that a lawmaker’s net worth is strictly a financial measure, not any indication at all of one’s actual value or “worthiness.” I hasten to note that many millionaires in America have been able to rise above their financial handicap, serving the public interest rather than self or special interests. For example, when Rep. Chellie Pingree was elected to Congress in 2009, she was an organic
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farmer and innkeeper in rural Maine. Definitely not a millionaire, she was a stalwart fighter for such progressive policies as getting corporate money out of politics, enacting Medicare for all, and reining in Wall Street greed. But in 2011, Pingree married — of all people — a Wall Street financier and was suddenly vaulted into the ranks of the 1-percenters. So, naturally, her legislative positions changed — not one whit. See, even in Congress, being a millionaire is no excuse for becoming a narcissistic jerk. Siding with plutocrats is not an incurable condition — it’s a choice. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. March 20, 2014 7
danish plan The green whine over U.S. gas exports by Paul Danish
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hen Russia took over the Crimea at the start of the month, there were widespread calls in Congress and among the chattering classes (including from me) for the U.S. to fast-track the export of natural gas and oil to Europe in order to lessen Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and crude. Predictably, American greens were pissed off. According to the political website Politico, they claimed there’s no reason to think gas shipments would weaken Russia’s leverage over Europe’s energy supply, but that exporting American shale gas could drive up prices for consumers and manufacturers at home, while encouraging the spread of fracking and lessening incentives for power companies to abandon coal-fired power. “Exporting LNG (liquefied natural gas) is no quick fix to this international crisis,” said Athan Manuel, the Sierra Club’s senior director in Washington. “The main beneficiaries of allowing more exportation of fossil fuels would be the companies that produce those fossil fuels,” said an opinion piece published on the environmental website Grist. Coming from environmental organizations, the solicitous concern about the American consumers being socked with higher gas prices resulting from American natural gas exports is touching and about as surprising as Jack the Ripper coming out against vivisection. For years, American environmentalists have argued for raising the price of fossil fuels by the imposition of carbon taxes, and cap and trade schemes, by moratoriums on the production of coal, oil, and natural gas on public lands, by attempts to derail Canadian oil sands and U.S. shale oil development by blocking the Keystone XL pipeline and other pipelines, by a big-lie campaign against fracking, and by a defamation campaign against the oil industry generally, among other strategies. American environmentalists favor higher fossil fuel prices, and they don’t give a rip about the consequences for the American consumer or the American economy generally. Their sudden solicitude toward the American consumer is disingenuous, dishonest, self-serving, and above all hypocritical. Grist is correct that oil companies would be among the main beneficiaries 8 March 20, 2014
of American gas exports to Europe – as would about 500 million Europeans who are currently paying about three times as much for gas as American consumers and who a couple years ago saw their gas supplies cut off by Vladimir Putin in the dead of winter for political reasons. Greens may not think that increased American gas exports to Europe would weaken Russia’s leverage over Europe’s energy supplies, but that isn’t the way at least four eastern European countries see it. A week after Russia’s Crimea grab, the ambassadors to the U.S. from Poland, Hungary, The Czech Republic, and Slovakia — all of whom are NATO members — sent letters to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stating that the “presence of U.S. natural gas would be much welcome in Central and Eastern Europe,” and urging Congress to support speedier approval of natural gas exports. They also warned that energy security questions threaten the region’s residents on a daily basis. Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk put it even more bluntly during a press conference prior to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. “Germany’s dependence on Russian gas may effectively decrease Europe’s sovereignty. I have no doubts about that,” he said. “The question of Ukraine is a question of EU’s future, EU’s safety, and a correction of EU’s energy policy,” he added. “We will not be able to efficiently fend off potential aggressive steps by Russia in the future, if so many European countries are dependent on Russian gas deliveries or wade into such dependence.” The Sierra Club’s Manuel and other greens are correct when they say that exporting liquefied natural gas to Europe is “no quick fix” to the Ukraine crisis. So what? There are no quick fixes to the Ukraine crisis. Like sanctions, exporting American gas to Europe is a form of economic warfare. Economic warfare may be many things, but blitzkrieg is not one of them. It takes years, sometimes decades, for it to have an effect. Selling American natural gas to Europe is a long-term response to what is going to be a long-term problem: see DANISH PLAN Page 11
Really BAD Ideas
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Di ss em in at ing m isi nf or m at Be t we en th os e “f rack ing ion e th is a great busines s mo de l. is go od fo r yo u” an d up com ing ”GMO lab eli ng ” m ak es fo od mo re ex pe ns ive rd ads, this co uld be a re co ye ar fo r ad re ve nue!
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enforced they are only so much wasted paper. Given the number of wells to be monitored, along with the fact that the industry will basically be monitoring itself makes this agreement meaningless. Enforcement is the key to any law, and regulation and enforcement comes at the whim of those who currently hold the reigns of power. Change who is in charge and you change the level of enforcement. There is no way that the agreement can or will be enforced. There are not enough people to do the job, and enforcement costs money. Allocation of funds is also at the whim of those in power. Any funds allocated to monitoring the agreement will be insufficient, especially when those in charge of monitoring really don’t care. The agreement is ripe for corruption. Any group or individual who claims to be an “environmentalist” will deny any part in this travesty. Harm is being done to the public and will continue to be done until fracking is banned and until the subsidies currently being given to the oil and gas industry are moved over to the alternative energy industry. Sorry folks, but this agreement won’t work. It is just a political massage to make everyone feel nice as we go coughing off to the cancer treatment centers. Jim Wilson/Longmont
Debates over retaining County Coroner Emma Hall
As the Criminal Justice/Forensic Science instructor for the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD), I have
had the pleasure of working with Boulder County Coroner Emma Hall since November of 2012. As a Career and Technical Education Teacher I must maintain an advisory board of representatives active in the field of Criminal Justice or Forensic Science. Based on Ms. Hall’s experience and professional reputation, I invited her to be an advisory board member for BVSD. To my delight, Ms. Hall personally and promptly returned my call and committed to serve on the board. Ms. Hall is a valued board member and because of her expertise in Forensic Science, she frequently offers ideas on subject matter and teaching methods for classes. She is an appreciated resource in designing hands-on mock crime scenes for student competitions. In a recent board meeting Ms. Hall suggested the most relevant college courses for students to take in my program to establish a good foundation in the field of Forensic Science. Ms. Hall annually offers an opportunity for my students to visit the Boulder County Coroner’s Office. The students experience an informative, interactive presentation learning about the Coroner’s office, death investigation, cause and manner of death, and autopsies. This learning opportunity is unmatched in any other program. Ms. Hall’s wonderful demeanor and outstanding staff have attracted numerous BVSD high school students to my program each year. see LETTERS Page 11
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BIG BANG Researchers announced this week that they have seen B-mode gravitational waves (ripples in space-time), a sighting that constitutes the strongest evidence to date of the existence of the Big Bang. The research was a collaboration between astrophysicists at HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the University of Minnesota, Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and if confirmed, is likely to be amongst the most important discoveries in modern physics.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY SANS GUINNESS h Like St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, beer companies are working to g drive the homophobes out of St. Patrick’s Day. Two of the nation’s biggest St. b Patrick’s Day celebrations, those in Boston and New C York, were on the business end of a vicious PR back- B handing when beer giants, Sam Adams, Heineken v and Guinness pulled out as parade sponsors just days B before the parades over the respective festival’s discrimination against groups that wished to march as openly LGBT in the parades. Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York and Marty Walsh of Boston also B skipped the festivities. A chemical burn, that is, r boyo. b f SOCHI SANS PUPPIES w Colorado Olympian Gus Tenworthy made head- p lines blare and hearts swoon when he announced that he would adopt a family of stray dogs displaced H by the construction in Sochi to be sure they weren’t t rounded up as part of the Russian puppy pogrom to t clear the streets for the Olympics. After nearly a month of paperwork, a long jour- n ney, and an appearance on NBC’s Today Show in New York, Tenworthy’s trio of c totes adorbs dogs arrived in Colorado this week, ensuring that they would be safe c and Tenworthy would never lack for a date ever again. o Tenworthy is also working to improve adoption programs, both here and in w Russia. c m SCHOOL SUPERS PUSH FOR FUNDING i In possibly the least cool super-teamup ever, Colorado school superintendents w have launched a coordinated letter writing, outreach and lobbying campaign to f combat years of education cuts. They say that though the state’s economy is recov- w ering, funding is not, and they are reaching out to parents, legislators and anyone who will listen to drive their point home. r “Politicians and special-interest groups have really started to shape the K-12 e agenda, and absent from any conversations regarding that have been superinten- a C dents,” Cherry Creek Schools Superintendent Harry Bull told the Denver Post. i Superintendents are reportedly paying weekly visits to the Capitol. f i DETROIT DISCOVERS 100 SERIAL RAPISTS It’s something of a punchline that Detroit is about as close to a full-time Mad d Max larping extravaganza as you’re likely to find in the First World. But headlines m that emerged this week showed how unfunny that is. A warehouse full of 11,000 t unprocessed rape kits discovered in 2009, representing DNA evidence of rapists t dating as far back as the 1980s, has already revealed more than 100 serial rapists, S though only 1,600 of the backlogged kits have been processed so far. a To date, the effort to process the backlog has resulted in 14 convictions. a It’s estimated that 400,000 kits nationwide remain unprocessed. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com u This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. h b p Boulder Weekly
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Putin’s desire to reincorporate into Russia some or all of the lands that seceded from the late Soviet Union when it imploded at the end of the Cold War. If you doubt this is Putin’s real agenda, consider this: According to the Bloomberg news service, on March 21 Russian lawmakers were scheduled to consider legislation that would allow Russia to incorporate parts of countries where the central authority isn’t functioning and local residents want to secede. Sergei Markov, a Kremlin adviser and
vice rector of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in Moscow, told Bloomberg that the bill was not needed to make Crimea part of Russia because the region had already declared its independence from Ukraine, but it would allow for the annexation of parts of eastern Ukraine, although Russia would only want to do that if it’s sure “we are welcomed with flowers.” In addition to eastern Ukraine, obvious candidates for a Russian partitioning and annexation operation include Georgia and
Moldova, which are already partially occupied, Kazakhstan (with a 23 percent Russian ethnic minority population) Latvia (27 percent Russian), and Estonia (25 percent Russian). Unlike Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia are members of NATO, which means the U.S. is obligated by treaty to defend them if they are invaded. It’s an overstatement to say, as Senator McCain recently did, that “Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country,” but not by much. The Russian economy is heavily dependent on oil rev-
enues, and the Russian government is more dependent still on them. In addition to breaking Europe’s dependence on Russian gas, American gas exports would do real and likely irreversible damage to Putin’s ability to run Russia as a petro-tyranny. That’s the sort of “consequence” that might cause him to think twice about future invasions, with or without flowers. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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Ms. Hall has gone out of her way to help my Forensic Science program grow and has been a valuable asset to both the community as the Boulder County Coroner and to the students of Boulder Valley School District. Please vote to retain Emma Hall as the Boulder County Coroner. Carolyn Berry, MCJ/Boulder
I am a former employee of the Boulder County Coroner’s Office. I resigned after working for Emma Hall because of Hall’s lack of concern for families of the deceased, the unhealthy work atmosphere she creates, and her poor fiscal management abilities. I believe Betty Reiss summed up Hall’s office philosophy best in her letter to the editor (Feb 24): Hall fails to treat families with compassion. Hall’s new office policy is to withhold death certificates until collaborating agencies complete their reports. Postponement is often unnecessary; the cause of death will not change based on another agency’s report. This policy results in a 2-3 month delay for a death certificate to be issued. Families cannot settle affairs without it. More importantly, grieving families cannot find closure in this waiting period. Hall has a 100 percent turn-over rate of her inherited staff. We were experienced professionals with passion and commitment to serving Boulder County. A common theme we observed is that Hall covers her ignorance in this field with arrogance. She is detached, intimidating, and provides unclear direction and guidance. Clearly her management style has not improved as the turn-over rate has recently increased to 43 percent with her new hired staff. Hall mismanages the office budget. She orders 36 percent more autopsies and she pays a contract pathologist per autopsy. She purchased unnecessary uniforms and meaningless badges for her revolving employees. Her 2013 budget is over $141,000 more than her predecessor’s budget. Hall requests Boulder Weekly
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Lots of folks seem to have jumped on the bandwagon for compostables. Putting a compost in your yard is a great thing to do as it diverts organic material (your food scraps but not including the paper or corn products) from landfills decreasing the amount of methane, which by the way, is 20 times worse than CO2, that goes into the atmosphere. But as far as the compostable products such as to-go containers, corn cups, coffee cups, etc...There is a lot of controversy. For one thing, it takes a lot of resources to make these items and energy for transporting and lots of energy to dispose of properly. So again, reduce and reuse is so much more important. But secondly, most of these products are ending up in the landfill, creating lots of methane! I have noticed a lot of business offices here in Boulder have compostable cups available for their customers but they don’t have compost bins to collect the discarded items! Recently, I was at a big environmental event where a vendor had great organic food and was using compostable containers but there were no compost bins. I didn’t want to be rude so I offered to collect all the items to make sure it would get to a compost. I don’t mean to sound offensive here but basically these folks are thinking they are doing a great service to the planet by offering compostables but actually making things worse as most of it is ending up in our landfills creating methane. There are a lot of articles out there on this topic, just Google. Laurie Dameron/Boulder
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is still expanding the list of retailers carrying meat unfit for human 12 March 20, 2014
consumption to Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and 970 locations in California alone. About 8.7 million pounds were shipped all through 2013 by Rancho Feeding Corporation of Petaluma, Calif. The recall comes in the wake of USDA’s new “inspection” program that allows the meat industry to increase speed of processing lines and replace federal inspectors with plant employees. According to the USDA inspector general, this has resulted in partial failure to remove fecal matter, undigested food and other contaminants that may contain deadly E. coli and listeria bacteria. Traditionally, the USDA has catered more to the interests and profitability of the meat industry than health and safety of American consumers. Consumer interests come into play only when large numbers of us get sick. Having USDA protect consumers is like asking the fox to guard the henhouse. The Obama administration should reallocate responsibility for all food safety to the Food and Drug Administration. In the meantime, each of us can assume responsibility for our own safety by switching to the rich variety of soybased meat products offered by our favorite supermarket. Rudolph Helman/Boulder
This week’s Time magazine cites several reasons for vegetarians living longer. The article was prompted by a report by the American Medical Association’s Internal Medicine that a vegetarian diet lowers blood pressure, a key factor in risk of heart failure and stroke. The Mayo Clinic notes that vegetarians are at lower risk for developing diabetes, another factor in heart disease. Indeed, an Oxford University study of 45,000 adults in last year’s American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that vegetarians were 32 percent less likely to suffer from heart disease. Moreover, researchers at California’s Loma Linda University, examining records of 70,000 patients, concluded last year that a vegetarian diet protects against colorectal and other types of cancer. It’s no wonder that a 2012 Harvard University study of 120,000 people concluded that meat consumption raises the risk of total, heart, and cancer mortality. A more recent six-year study of 70,000 patients at Loma Linda found that vegetarians have a 12 percent lower risk of death. The good news: each of us can find our own fountain of youth by adopting a meat and dairy-free diet. An Internet search on “vegan recipes” or “live vegan” provides ample resources. Stanley Silver/Boulder Boulder Weekly
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commentary Ski area bosses, conservationists should seek progressive solution for Eldora expansion plan Collaborative, adaptive management approach could yield environmental, social benefits Bob Berwyn courtesy of U.S. Forest Service
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the resources, and not he debate over a prothe process. posed There is preceexpansion dent. In Breckenridge, at Eldora town, county and ski Mountain Resort industry officials could easily break hammered out a fordown along familiar mal Memorandum of fault lines, pitting the Understanding to ski industry and the address some of the U.S. Forest Service concerns associated against conservation with the Peak 6 advocates and commuexpansion. Similarly, the Forest Service nity activists over a participated in a rigplan that envisions orously facilitated adding about 15 trails negotiation over a across 58 acres, as well proposed motorized as a few new lifts and recreation trail, evensnowmaking. tually finding some Opposition has common ground with simmered since the resort first announced nearby neighborhoods its plan a few years and towns that had ago. It threatens to bitterly opposed the A map from the draft environmental impact statement that shows the layout of the U.S. Forest Service preferred alternaboil over again as the plan early on. tive for Eldora’s expansion. Forest Service takes Another example comment on a recently is a recently finalized released draft environmental study that degradation of water quality. obsessing about legal and procedural deal between Denver Water and Trout compares impacts of a couple of differTo many, it appears the Forest minutiae, while forgetting about the big Unlimited. Instead of lunging forward ent expansion options. Service simply rubberstamps ski indusquestion: How do we manage those into an all-but-certain legal battle, the The Forest Service is hosting infortry proposals. Often, concerns are national forest lands in the best interest water bosses and fish lovers agreed to mational sessions on the draft study 5-8 voiced about the all-too-cozy relationof the public? work together to closely monitor and p.m. on March 25 at the Nederland ships between the Forest Service, the Put another way, the proposed mitigate the effects of new diversions Community Center, 750 Colo. Hwy. ski industry and the independent conexpansion has a high recreational value from the Fraser River. If the plan 72, Nederland; and 5-8 p.m. on March tractors who compile the required envi- that can be expressed measurably, for works, conditions in the depleted 26 in Boulder at the West Senior ronmental studies — a justified conexample by the increase in capacity at stream will actually improve over the Center, 909 Arapahoe Ave. Written cern, according to Kevin Lynch, an the ski area, which translates to dollars next few decades. public comments are due by mid-April. assistant professor at the University of and cents. This is the key lesson for the sides Information on comment is online at Denver’s Environmental Law Clinic. But the land also has less tangible lining up to do battle over the Eldora www.eldoraeis.com. Similar criticisms have been raised with environmental values attached to it that expansion plan: The Forest Service These showdowns have almost regard to the Keystone XL pipeline, as can’t be quantified as easily — the ecoshould invite environmental advocates, become a ritualized form of political a company working on the environsystem benefits of healthy wetlands, concerned neighbors, state and local and social theater in Colorado, at least mental study was found to have had riparian corridors and wildlife habitat. officials and even federal environmental for people who follow ski industry and close ties with the oil and gas industry. To its credit, the Forest Service does experts from the Environmental public lands doings. And the mainThat presents at least the appearrecognize and try to capture those valProtection Agency and the U.S. Army stream press reports it that way. From ance of a conflict of interest, Lynch ues in plans and decisions, but it often Corps of Engineers to develop an adapVail’s Category 3 (now Blue Sky Basin) says, adding that each case has to be feels like an apples to oranges compari- tive, restoration-based alternative that showdown over lynx, to last year’s bitlooked at individually to determine son. Time after time in Colorado, ski enables Eldora to meet growing terly contested Peak 6 project at whether there is any real conflict. area expansion projects have gone down demand, while at the same time resultBreckenridge, the issues are similar, as These story lines often culminate this path, but there is a better way. ing in long-term environmental Eldora’s proposal, a relatively small the Forest Service tries to balance with appeals to regional and national improvements within the expansion project in a discrete geographic area, demographically driven demands for Forest Service officials, and sometimes area and on surrounding public and prirecreation with environmental concerns, with costly legal challenges, where posi- could become the model for a collaborative approach that focuses attention on See ELDORA Page 18 including habitat fragmentation and tions become fixed and everyone is Boulder Weekly
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news Mystery agenda perplexes critics of U.S. 36 construction finance deal by Michael de Yoanna
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he new private consortium that has been granted the right to finance construction and charge a toll on U.S. 36 could be operating illegally. That’s according to Karen Hammer, an attorney with the Drive SunShine Institute, a group that envisions a world where Colorado’s highways produce a lot less air pollution. Hammer says the 50-year deal allowing millions of dollars in tax-exempt bonds to be issued could be slowed or halted for myriad legal reasons and the public officials supporting the plan are to blame. “The lawsuit is coming,” Hammer says, promising, “We’re going to court.” The suit is expected to take issue with environmental impact studies allowing construction on U.S. 36 of a lane for buses, carpoolers and drivers paying a toll of as much as $6. The suit may also allege that HighPerformance-Transportation Enterprise’s (HPTE’s) board of governor appointees and state transportation commissioners illegally made changes to a critical Feb. 19 meeting agenda. As evidence, Hammer produces a web snapshot taken roughly three days before that meeting. It states HPTE would hold a “lunch meeting” at noon and start its “Regular Board of Directors
Meeting,” including a discussion about U.S. 36, at 1 p.m. Yet, on the morning of that meeting, Hammer was stunned to see the agenda had changed. The new agenda stated the meeting, including discussion of “U.S. 36 matters,” would begin an hour earlier, at noon. Clearly, Hammer alleges, HPTE was trying to avoid the scrutiny of the public, especially her clients. That’s a violation of Colorado law requiring “full and timely notice” of public meetings, she adds. But making the case for her side of the story, especially to the HPTE board, has proven more than challenging. When Hammer objected about the agenda during the meeting, video shows she was shushed by HPTE Chairman Tim Gagen and told to sit down because she was talking out of order. The board was conducting a “work session,” she was told, even though such a session is not specified on any version of the agenda. When Hammer later attempted to testify during the period the board officially grants members of the public, she ran afoul of Gagen again. At his behest, the Colorado State Patrol ushered Hammer and two members of the Drive SunShine Institute out of the meeting hall. That’s because Hammer violated
board processes, claims Amy Ford, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Transportation. Specifically, Hammer failed to sign up on the comment sheet, Ford says. Hammer says she simply wanted to speak for one of her clients, who had signed up. “It was real unfortunate that had to happen,” Ford says, adding that she believes Drive SunShine Institute’s pending lawsuit has no merit. Environmental impact studies are definitive and thorough, Ford says, the product of a six-year-long process. As for Hammer’s agenda concerns, Ford says: “We convened the official board meeting at 1 p.m., at which point we opened it to public comment.” That’s what the original agenda stated would happen. And that’s the agenda that anyone who visits the HPTE website will now see, which leaves Hammer wondering how a “lunch meeting” of public officials becomes a critical discussion setting the stage for $497 million in bonds to be issued in Colorado’s firstever “public/private partnership.” Hammer would also love to find out what happened to that mysterious agenda that appeared and suddenly disappeared when she complained. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
government partnering with the ski area to expand those efforts. The ski area needs to — and probably does — consider the environmental sensibilities of its primary customer base and agree to a phased expansion approach. Making improvements in steps gives the monitoring program a chance to keep up and assess whether mitigation efforts are working. Approvals for subsequent expansion phases would be linked with meeting specific restoration goals. The whole agreement needs to be wrapped up in a formal agreement like an Memorandum of Understanding and adopted as an enforceable provision in the Forest Service permit for the expansion. That makes everyone accountable and gives everyone a longterm stake in the outcome. For its part, the Forest Service should also take seriously the Obama
administration’s guidance on climate by developing a carbon-neutral version of the Eldora expansion plan that doesn’t result in any new greenhouse gas emissions. It may not be possible to immediately achieve a zero-emissions goal, but including a carbon-neutral version as a baseline would give the agency a chance to measure progress toward that goal. Is there any way the ski area can harness some of those howling Eldora winds to generate electricity? Could Eldora help fund a long-term regional forest health program that would provide fuel for a biomass energy plant at the ski area? Reasonable people working in a collaborative spirit with the goal of furthering the common good have achieved far more, so seeking a progressive solution to the vexing dilemma of ski area growth seems like a realistic path. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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vate lands. Instead of settling for the least harmful alternative, the ski area, the Forest Service and local residents should aim high, striving for a plan with a long-term vision to actually improve the environment. If it sounds like a tall order, it is. You can see why some people prefer the lazy way, just letting the kabuki play out. But the end result of a front-loaded process would be infinitely preferable to years of legal squabbling that leave everyone frustrated. Here’s what it would take: All parties would have to commit resources long-term to monitoring conditions on the ground, assessing impacts and developing new management actions to meet emerging issues. Boulder County already has considerable resources invested in protecting environmental assets, so it’s not hard to imagine the
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t the second annual Community Supported Agriculture fair, Boulder residents came seeking a greater connection to local food and farmers and exploring options to foster a relationship for the growing season with a single farm. “What I think is really cool about CSA is you sort of thrive and perish with the farmer,” says Mary Rochelle of Pastures of Plenty, a local farm north of Niwot. “You’re really tied to them. It’s really cool to understand that, you know, if there is a really big hail storm and it pulverizes the lettuce in the fields, you’re not gonna have lettuce that week and you’re gonna have to wait another week. Doing the CSA, for me personally, it’s been really cool to see the impact that the environment and other factors, when they affect the farm, they effect the people who are shareholders, too, so you feel very much connected to the farmer.” Boulder-based Local Food Shift Group hosted the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) fair on Saturday, March 15, where patrons shopped local farms and other local food-related businesses with their produce needs for the upcoming season in mind. Some meat and dairy CSAs were also available. Through CSAs, individuals can purchase shares in or pledge support to a local farm and receive regular payments of produce. Many local farms with CSA programs also offer other benefits to their Peter Volz, owner of Oxford Gardens, Niwot. members: cooking classes, volunteer opportunities and opportunities to bring children to the farm. A CSA program can benefit farmers by providing an avenue for the literal seed money for the of expenses [before the summer], you know, seeds, we upcoming season. By purchasing CSA shares, memhave labor now, any other farm supplies.” bers of farms’ CSA programs enable farmers to make “Your CSA is your operating loan, really,” says necessary pre-season investments in their farms withTisdale’s partner Wyatt Barnes. “It’s a huge funding out having to resort to traditional loans. thing, it saves all of us.” “It’s kind of like public radio, where our members While the program provides necessary capital to are our most secure source of funding,” says Amy local farms, especially new ones, shoppers cited an Tisdale of Red Wagon Organic Farm. “We have a ton interest in building a connection to farmers and local
food as their motivation for considering a CSA. Rose Ruggles 63rd Street came to the fair, Farm Annapurna baby in arms, Collective looking to comAspen Moon Farm pare CSA prices Beyond to farmers’ market Organic Farm Black Cat Farm prices. Bonavida “We like Growers Boulder Family going to the Farms farmers’ market Cure Organic Farm and going to the Dew Farms individual farms, Ela Family Farms just to give him Fairy Glen that experience, to Farms Farmer see were food Cultivation comes from and Center HeartEye talk with the Village farmers” says Ruggles, nodding at her infant son. “I was really trying to find out if the price of a CSA is comparable to going to the farmers’ market. ... Do I want to go to farmers’ market, or the farms, or have it delivered?” Her decision? “I want to go to the farm. I really like that experience,” Ruggles says. “I like going to pick our fruits and veggies, see the animals. I love it, just interacting with the farmers and hearing their philosophy of growing food.” University of Colorado Boulder freshman Courtlyn Carpenter came hoping to find the most convenient CSA pickup locations. Some farms have multiple CSA pickup locations, in addition to the Here is a list of some of the CSAs available in Boulder County:
Microfarm High Altitude Organics Hoot ‘n’ Howl Isabelle Farm Jacob Springs Farm Jodar Farms Kilt Farm Miller Farms Monroe Organic Farm Ollin Farms Oxford Gardens Pachamama Organic Farm Pastures of Plenty Red Wagon Organic Farm Settembre Cellars Sunray Natural Farm The Fresh Herb Company The Valmont Farm Windsor Dairy
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by Boulder Weekly staff that this rearing effort and monitoring after release will provide this generation of finches a more viable The Galapagos National future, according to San Park teamed up with the Diego Zoo Global’s press San Diego Zoo Global to release. create a captive breeding “Each success is a program to save the criticalresult of great teamwork ly endangered Mangrove between the zoo and finch. The Charles Darwin GNPD and represents a Foundation is also contributmilestone for the recovery ing to the recovery of the of the mangrove finch finch, which was made wild population,” famous by Charles Darwin’s Francesca Cunninghame, theory of evolution by natu- Two Mangrove finch hatchlings that the Charles Darwin are part of the conservation projral selection. Foundation scientist ect. The Mangrove finch responsible for the project, population has dwindled said in a San Diego Zoo to between 60 and 80 Global press release. “The birds, existing on only 74 acres, earning reintroduction of the youngsters back into the species a classification as critically the wild will be our next big challenge.” endangered on the International Union —Mallane Dressel for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species. The finches are NEW PERMAFROST AT ALASKA’S SHRINKING experiencing a high mortality rate in their hatchlings because a parasitic larvae that LAKES TEMPORARILY DECREASES DRAINAGE emerges from fly eggs feeds on the CONCERNS hatchlings. New permafrost (frozen ground that lasts The program team decided the best at least two consecutive years) that has course of action was to rear the finches in formed around the edges of shrinking captivity for the first time. They collected 21 Alaskan lakes will improve their ability to eggs and three hatchlings to be artificially retain water, but not for too much longer, incubated and hand-fed 15 times a day. according to research by the U.S. Geological The program’s conservationists have hopes Survey and McGill University in Montreal,
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Canada. The researcher’s model shows that, within seven decades, conditions created by global warming will not allow for the development of new permafrost. “The system harbors a lot of lakes, which are very important in bird migration, but without permafrost there would not be nearly as many lakes or wetlands. As permafrost thaws as a whole, the system is going to become drier,” says Michelle Walvoord, a scientist from the US. Geological Survey who co-authored the study’s results, which appeared in the journal Geophysical Research Letter. According to Walvoord, the prevailing theory behind the shrinking lakes is that, as the permafrost below the lake thaws, the drainage and outflow of water from the lake increases. The increase in plant diversity and complexity, as well as the increase in summer shading, has recently allowed for the development of the new permafrost, which could very well end the cycle of lake shrinking, Walvoord says. In the future, however, global warming conditions will not allow for the development of new permafrost because these lakes are located in an area that is very temperature sensitive. Increasing ambient air temperature will cause subsurface temperatures to spike above the zero degree Celsius temperature the ground requires in order for permafrost to develop. —Mallane Dressel
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Buying local food is better environmental- even larger CSA fair in Denver on ly and also I think it tastes better.” Tuesday, March 25. This is the second year Local Food “Marketing is hard for [local Shift Group has organized a spring farms],” Brownlee says. “And it’s hard CSA fair in Boulder. After seeing a for people to figure out, if they want a similar CSA event in Fort Collins, the CSA, how to choose a farmer. So we organization’s head, Michael Brownlee, wanted to create a space where they decided to bring the spring CSA fair to could come, CARE they could meet lots of :: MANI/PEDI :: SKIN :: MASSAGE Boulder. Local Food Shift now takes farms, get to know them and sort of part in organizing the Fort Collins zero in on where they want to sign CSA fair, the Boulder CSA fair and an up.”
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seems crazy that we’re here, high on the shoulder of Mont-Gelé, massive views of the Alps in front of us. Everything around us is strange: the huge trams that sweep skiers skyward, the babble of different and exotic languages in the lift lines, the vertical relief that eclipses anything in the Rockies. Yup, things are different in Verbier, Switzerland. But one thing has stayed the same — we’ve used our Vail Resorts Epic Passes to get on the lift, saving ourselves 65 euros a day. And 65 euros can buy a lot of après ski beers. If you are a passionate skier or snowboarder, you’ve probably already dreamed of making turns in exotic locations. From the insane powder of Japan to steep spines in Alaska to the legendary expanses of the Alps to the wild and funky steeps of Taos, you’ve looked at the photos in the magazines, watched the latest Warren Miller release and thought to yourself, “One day I’ll do that myself.” But, of course, life got in the way, the snow was pretty good
here in Colorado and you haven’t been there and done that yet. But “one day” might be here sooner than you think. And that’s because of the humble season pass. Season passes used to be the badge of honor for a true local. You’d purchase it in the fall, committed to the fact that you were making a season-long decision about the ski area you’d make turns see SKI ABROAD Page 26
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at all winter. Only tourists and gapers would actually stand in line at the ticket window. And that pass, along with the ski area you chose as your partner in snow, was integral to your skiing and riding identity. Bumpers would ride Mary Jane at Winter Park, aficionados of the steeps, with their duct-taped Gore-Tex would end up at Arapahoe Basin, cruisers and park rats would hit Breck or Keystone, while those who had kids in the learning stage (or appreciation for value) would find themselves at Loveland or Eldora. But times have changed. And your season pass has just gotten a whole lot more interesting. Some of this can be traced back to the battles that erupted between Vail Resorts and Intrawest over the Front Range market. Winter Park fired the first salvo way back in 1999 when they introduced a pass that allowed four unrelated adults to purchase season passes together at what used to be “family” pricing. Vail Resorts quickly responded and the rest is history: Colorado skiers enjoyed a beneficial price war that has made skiing and riding in the state (for passholders) one of the best winter sports values in the world. Season passes don’t come much cheaper anywhere else on the planet and the variety and value for the dollar don’t get much better than right here in Colorado.
Verbier, France’s tough terrain is also on the Epic Pass.
And it’s only getting better. Vail Resorts’ recent announcement that they added Niseko, Japan, to the company’s Epic Pass is merely the punctuation mark on an evolutionary process that has seen season passes
become much more than a local’s ticket to ride. Passes now offer a slew of options to go farther afield. One of these, of course, is Europe. If you have an Epic Pass next year, you’ll be able to use it at Niseko,
Verbier as well as Les 3 Vallées, a massive French resort that features literally hundreds of lifts and endless powder skiing opportunities. Catch a deep day there and you’re not going to ever want to go home. Closer to home, there’s the wild southwestern flavor of Taos. Steep, uncrowded and funky, Taos’ skiing culture is complimented by rich Native American and Latino influences, from the nearby pueblo to the jaw-dropping choices of salsa at the local grocery. Approximately five hours south of Boulder by car, Taos is one of the mountains you get to ski for free with a Monarch One Pass. The pass includes three days at Taos along with free days at Copper, Loveland, Steamboat, Winter Park, Silverton and Revelstoke, Canada. The latter is an intriguing destination, as the ski resort has received acclaim for a combination of deep, stable snow and steep terrain. We aren’t thinking about Revelstoke or Loveland, though, when we catch the first lift ride at Verbier. At the top, the Alps smack us directly in the face, jagged and beautiful and bigger than anything we’ve seen before. For those of us who are experiencing Verbier for the first time, it’s a breathtaking sight, and one we will never forget. The terrain is equally impressive. As trams reach impossible peaks, endless see SKI ABROAD Page 28
Upcoming Events THURSDAY, MARCH 20 Alpenglow Ascents Rando Series. 4:30 p.m. Arapahoe Basin Ski Area, 28194 U.S. Highway 6, Keystone, www.arapahoebasin.com. High Summits — With Fred Wolfe discussing his new book, High Summits: 370 Famous Peak First Ascents and Other Significant Events in Mountaineering History, then a film about Goran Kropp cycling from Sweden to Mt Everest, which he climbed without oxygen. 8 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-8866. SATURDAY, MARCH 22 Spring Has Sprung — A leisurely, two-mile hike to look for signs of spring. 10 a.m. Hall Ranch Open Space, one mile west of Lyons on Highway 7, Lyons, 303-678-6214.
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where I’m from.” Apparently, he came over to the United States with his wife seeking economic opportunity, only to find the American immigration dream wasn’t quite as rosy as it had seemed. As soon as he could, “me and my wife gonna get the fuck out of here.” He had some interesting ideas about marijuana. “If everybody had weed plants, the hole in the ozone would shrink,” he says. “It helps to make you think outside the box they put you in, you see.” All this talk of ganja and mind expansion made my seatmate crave some marijuana. Since I am from Colorado, he asks if I have any. I do not. We continue chatting; I learn he is 19 and from Wyoming, hasn’t talked to his mom in years and that his father didn’t pay him too much attention. We talk a bit about weed; I tell him what it is like living in a state where the drug is legal (it’s boring, at least for me, as a non-user); he tells me he is on his way to visit a girl somewhere in the South. Things settle down for a while until we hear a woman a few rows up complain about her seat. “I got a bubble butt and it hurts on this seat. I’ve got a black girl’s ass.” The source of the voice gets up to go to the bathroom. Lo and behold, it’s the woman from the greyhound station who sang a song with my friend John. She’s got thin, wispy blond hair and a wide mouth, wearing a floral-print long-sleeve shirt and faded blue jeans. My seatmate swings his head around to me. “I bet she’s got weed,” he says with a smile. When the woman leaves the bathroom, he says something flirtatious and inquires if she’s holding. “I’m not a cougar or anything, but you’re hot,” she says. “You’re a handsome young man.” “Did you hear that? I’m a handsome young man!” he says, grinning at me. This, apparently, is an opportunity to enter the conversation. Talking at a mile a minute, she asks if she can tell us a story. She just finished a six-month stint at a homeless shelter somewhere, and the shelter rules say that no one can live there for more than six consecutive months. She dated a 29-year-old at the shelter, and she proudly tells a story about how she had a friend watch the door while she and her bf fucked in the shelter bathroom. “He reminds me of my son and sometimes I remind him of his mother,” she says, love in her eyes. She expounds on how great her boyfriend is, eventually dropping, “He doesn’t even take Go Fast! He just drinks.” see AUSTIN Page 34
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focus is on housing. The situation is up in the air, and the band decides to plow on through to the next destination. We grab dinner at a diner and begin the overnight drive to the western end of the panhandle. One hour-and-half of roadside sleep and several shifts of overnight driving later, and the band arrives in Guymon, a town best known as home of one of the largest pork slaughterhouses in the country. The best way to describe entering Guymon from the east is that it looks like a truck stop that stretches for miles. Gas stations, weigh stations, diners and low-rise motels as far as the eye can see. We check into our hotel, and crash for many hours. I spend the day writing and collecting my notes, and before I know it I get a text from Nate. Apparently, the opening band has started, and I need to grab my notebook and make my way to the venue. The venue is called the Pickle Creek Center, a nondescript metal warehouse behind a Day’s Inn. For some reason, I’m reminded of Patrick Swayze’s bar in Road House, but when I enter, the scene is far more subdued. At the far end of the warehouse, maybe 300 feet away, there is a stage, with a respectable light set up, and scattered throughout the space are circular tables surrounded by folding metal chairs. The opening band is playing a cover of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” and the singer is so out of tune I begin to forget how the melody of the song actually goes and begin to wonder if the singer actually has it right. There are 20 or 30 people in the crowd. The band ends and The Yawpers begin to set up. I start chatting with Josh Setzer, the guy responsible for bringing The Yawpers to town. He said he wants to turn Guymon into a destination for music. “The owner [of the Pickle Creek Center] pretty much said ‘Here are the keys to the building. Bring music to Guymon,’” Setzer tells me. The Yawpers were the first act he booked. The space may be empty, but the Yawpers do their best to put on an energetic show. It’s a bring-your-ownbeer type of night, and the crowd is sipping on Budweisers and Coors Lights. After a couple songs, Cook addresses the crowd, which has remained seated at their tables, which are maybe 40 or 50 feet from the stage. “You know, you guys can dance if you want to,” Cook says. “Can we two-step in here?” someone shouts from the back. Touché, Guymon. Cook presses on, announcing that the next song was a drinking song. “Is it ‘Red Solo Cup’?” a girl stand-
ing next to me asks, referring to the Toby Keith song. I shake my head, no. It’s strange for a rock band to sing about David Foster Wallace in Guymon, Okla., but The Yawpers do their best. After the show the band retreats to the side kitchen and munches on white rice with olive oil and spices, served in Styrofoam cups. It’s delicious. We talk with some of the Guymon residents, and, surprisingly, it’s the most diverse crowd we’ve met so far. There are Nigerians, Mexicans, Nepalese people, all converted fans of The Yawpers. After a couple whiskey shots and beers, it’s time to go. Nate liked that show, he says. “But about three-quarters of the way through the show, the vibe changed,” he says, but he can’t put his finger on why. Neither can I. So we head back to the hotel and crash. The next night we’re headed to Dallas. **** Say what you want about the Texas state government, but once we cross into the Lone Star state, the roads instantly improve. Somewhere along the road to Dallas, the guys mention that the South by Southwest showcases are going to be very important. At one of the showcases, a representative from a major label the band asked me not to name will be in the audience. I asked them if they were nervous. “No,” Cook says. “No, it’s not something to be worried about,” Parmet adds. There are so many things outside of their control, it’s not worth fussing about, they say. But still, there’s an air of tense anticipation as we approach Dallas. The venue is called Three Links, and it’s a punk venue, and the three other bands on the bill are unambiguously punk rock. The headlining act is a band called Get Shot, a punk band famous for shooting a porno on the lawn of the Westboro Baptist Church. It’s also the only band supplementing its income running a porn website. “I love women,” the singer tells me. “And sex is fucking great! Fuck condoms and fuck misogyny!” Soon, it’s time for The Yawpers. “We’re gonna play some stupid fucking rock ’n’ roll for you guys,” Cook says, and the band kicks off the set. Attitude-wise, you could say The Yawpers have a bit of punk rock in them. But musically, it’s not even close. The Yawpers, though, are about the only acoustic guitar cover band with a kickass cover of “Ace of Spades” by
Motorhead up their sleeves, and by the time they play it, the crowd starts dancing and moving. That night the four of us crash in a double hotel room, and the next day take off for Austin. The Holy Grail of the trip. The moment everyone’s been waiting for. But as we hit the enormous line of cars backed up on the way into Austin, everyone in the van is feeling a bit under the weather, to various degrees. It’s Tuesday, and the band doesn’t play any shows until Wednesday, but everyone, Cook especially, is feeling a bit ill. Cook shakes his head, muttering, “I can’t go out tonight,” annoyed by not being able to experience SXSW. But as we pass Sixth Street, the throbbing heart of the festival, and witness the mayhem happening there, Cook changes his mind, to the dismay of his bandmates. Shomberg and Parmet really wish he would stay in. The band is splitting up for the night. Cook is going to meet his wife and parents at a hotel, Parmet has a room with his girlfriend somewhere, and Shomberg is crashing at a house in East Austin. Shomberg and I go out to catch some music, and we learn that Cook has checked into the hospital with a 102-degree fever. Cook cancels some of the showcases on Wednesday, to the chagrin of Parmet and Cook. However, on Thursday I walk up to the 512 Club, where The Yawpers are playing as part of the Colorado Music Party showcase, and Cook’s in good spirits. It’s about 2:15 p.m., and Cook is shirtless, wearing aviators and holding a beer in his hand. He sees me and grins, puts his arm around me. “Hey buddy!” he says. I ask how he’s doing. He said he feels much better. All he needed was a day, and now he felt fine. A 102-degree fever would waylay most people, but chalk Cook’s miraculous recovery up to the power of rock ’n’ roll, or at least the power of SXSW. Watching The Yawpers play on the 512 rooftop, surrounded by friends and famly from Colorado, I couldn’t help but think how similar they were to the people I met on the Greyhound. We are all travelling somewhere, hoping to someday arrive at the place of our dreams. But since we all know the destination might not match up with our expectations, the least we can do is make the journey worthwhile. Not all treks end up at a festival surrounded by music, booze and people you love. But along the way, a crackhead might show you how to do the splits and a homeless guy might write you a poem. And sometimes, that makes it all worthwhile. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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eople — well, some, at least — bemoan the e-assault on the printed word. Progress is making tombstones of tomes. It’s easy to believe that the days of Sunday newspapers waiting on doorsteps and magazine racks standing sentinel at checkout counters will soon pass into history’s mists. Before long, the librarian may meet the centurion on the junk pile of superannuated vocations. Still, sports columns, novels, memoirs and the like continue to find readers, albeit on iPads and The Catamounts take a poetic tumble with There Is A Happiness That Morning Is. Kindles rather than on ink-freckled wood pulp. Poetry, however, faces far direr straights. Aside from the occasional poetry slam and the fact that the U.S. still appoints a Poet Laureate each year (currently Natasha Trethewey — I dare you to tell me you’ve heard of her), poetry minor miracle. seems to be fading from the collective cultural conThe play concerns itself with Bernard ( Jeremy sciousness. It is sadly going gentle into that good Make), Ellen (Amanda Berg Wilson) and Dean ( Jim night. Walker). Bernard and Ellen are professors of poetry. Why does this matter? Because poetry is more They both focus on the works of William Blake, and elemental than prose. It howls and screams, but even they happen to be lovers. Dean is their boss and is its whispers can rend the sky. For this reason if no currently at odds with the two educators for reasons other, There Is A Happiness That Morning Is is an that I cannot divulge but which drive the proceedings. extremely important play. It is a play about poetry that In a bit of deftly done and welcome role reversal, is also, effectively, a poem itself. The language, full of Bernard is the less-credentialed, almost debilitatedly couplets and quatrains, feels almost Shakespearean at love-struck and starry-eyed one in the relationship. times. Its crafting, by playwright Mickle Maher, is Ellen possesses a Ph.D., a more practical worldview nothing short of an artistic marvel. That such an inge- and a harder edge. She is, at times, decidedly angry nious piece of theater not only champions poetry but and even defiant. The play tells us why Ellen feels as also plucks at the audience’s heartstrings and puts she does, but again, that is a secret I will not share as wide smiles on its faces qualifies this work as at least a it is central to both character development and plot.
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What I will say is that Ellen and Bernard share an abiding, arresting and realistically complicated love. The first half of There Is A Happiness That Morning Is features very little dialogue. Instead, Bernard and Ellen alternately ON THE BILL: There Is A expound and Happiness That Morning Is is recite. In what presented by the are essentially a Catamounts at the Dairy Center for the Arts through set of extended March 30. Tickets are $15-$35. soliloquies, the For tickets or information, visit lovers slowly www.thecatamounts.org or call 303-444-7328. illuminate the viewer on the beauty of William Blake’s — and Mickle Maher’s — poetry, the nature of their own relationship and the prime mover of the play’s plot. In the second half of the play, the two begin to converse more with one another and, later, with Dean. Throughout, the words they use and the images they convey are positively beauteous. All three actors earned the rousing applause they received at the end of the performance I attended. Jeremy Make resembles, sounds, and even acts somewhat like a younger Will Ferrell, and if his work in There Is A Happiness That Morning Is is any indication, he could end up just as famous. Amanda Berg Wilson reminded me of Carla Gugino circa Sin City. She made me believe and feel Ellen’s every utterance. As Dean, Walker actually plays the most complicated and comical character, and he pulls it off with aplomb. With There Is A Happiness That Morning Is the Catamounts have a rafter-shaking hit on their hands. Far more than a literary science project, this play unites poetry and theatre in a way I have never experienced before. It will inspire you. The only question is in what way, and to that question there are as many answers as there are members of its audience. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com
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hen we caught up to him after a morning jog at his home in Hawaii, we expressed some interest that Evan Bartholomew (aka Bluetech) had chosen Laika, the Russian dog remembered as the first living being to be launched into earth orbit, as the title of the leadoff track of his 13th album (really an EP), Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 1. Not just that he might have chosen the famousin-Russia dog, but that the title mirrors another ambient track recorded by Norwegian ambient pioneer Geir Jenssen (aka Biosphere) in 1997. Bartholomew hadn’t heard it, but just as well, as the two pieces bear little resemblance. Biosphere’s stark, meditative piece, anchored by a simple twonote piano figure and trimmed with gauzy, Russian language mission-control voices, trailing off into an endless and grimly melancholic fade. By contrast, Bartholomew’s piece evokes a playfulness and buoyant spirit, fragmentary melody lines colliding gently against each other like friendly singlecelled amoebas playing slow motion bumper cars in a turquoise Petri dish, as if Biosphere was reflecting on the dog’s lonely death, and Bartholomew on his reportedly spunky and eager-to-please demeanor. “We actually did a prose piece to go with [the song],” Bartholomew says. “If you go to my bandcamp page and look up Spacehop Chronicles, you’ll see it posted there. We’re writing a sort of alternative history from the first person perspective of Laika; each release of Spacehop Chronicles will be another piece of that, in a more melancholic tone. But in our version, Laika doesn’t actually die, but goes on to explore space.” If this all sounds conjured from the mind of a grown-up space/sci-fi geek, Bartholomew will readily plead guilty. “I’m a huge fan of the graphic novel as an art form,” he says. “And there’s something about serialized narrative that I think is really exciting. People waiting to get the next piece. ‘Oh, here’s something really cool, enjoy it, but ah, it’s not done yet, where’s the next bit of narrative?’ So, in kind of bemoaning the loss of the album in our digital download age, and the age of the single in our sound-bite culture, I kind of wanted to bring back that mystery of a concept album … but instead of a bloated fourvolume massive set, do it as a serialized, 42 March 20, 2014
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guys. Those are the artists I grew up graphic novel format.” Bluetech has produced down-tempo listening to.” As for Spacehop Chronicles Vol. 1, electronica for better than a decade now, a virtual eternity in the elusive and ever- one is likely to detect some of the earlier generation’s DNA coursing changing electronica club scene. His work has ranged from ambient/drone to through the proceedings — sequencer psy-hop to progressive, released various- lines, subdued chill passages of restrained lushness, and even a bit of ly under his given name and his pseudscrape. Digital music is all too often a onym. Bred from the early days of victim of its own precision — clean and Burning Man and the burgeoning club fast and shiny plays fine on the dance scene that grew up in its smoky wake, floor, but the Bartholomew form can dissolve draws from a into its own variety of elecshimmer when tronic discimined for plines, but humanity, when cites unapoloframed as a song getically rather than a British ambitrack. ent clubsters Bartholomew is like Alex keenly sensitive Paterson (The to this — the Orb), Richard closing “Light D. James (aka Years From Aphex Twin) Home” drifts in and Ben and out of aimWatkins ( Juno less direction, Reactor) as the fragmentary murbedrock of his murs of harmony work, as well Canine astronaut inspires pioneering serialized and texture suras the early albums from Bluetech. face and subBerlin school merge, strung electronic piotenuously together by filaments of melneers (Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel ody seemingly ready at anytime to vanJarre, et al) and the space jazzers ish and let the whole thing collapse into (Herbie Hancock, Sun Ra). Longtime electronica junkies are prone to lowering disarrayed slumber. This is a subtle art, lacing the pertheir heads in reverence at names like fection of digital music production with that, but the modern electronica scene, a hint of gentle chaos. to Bartholomew’s mild chagrin, has a “I do like that, especially on pretty short memory. Spacehop,” Bartholomew says. “I wanted “It’s amazing to me,” he laughs. “I’ve been releasing records for 12 years, to give it a little something of ‘not quite right.’ I wanted to go a little left-of-cen13 years almost, and man do I feel old! Most people don’t know what was hap- ter with the progressions. … I used to make very clean, very precise music, and pening six or seven years ago, let alone 13 years ago. maybe it’s me getting older, but now I “My classic moment of the state of found I’m drawn to a little bit of dirt.” today’s scene came when Skrillex posted Bartholomew credits his classical up an Aphex Twin track, and people piano training for his compositional complained. ‘Where’s the drums? Where’s sensibilities, a background relatively the bassline?’ They just didn’t get it.” uncommon in the electronic scene. So the scene is rewriting itself con“I spent a fair amount of time stantly. A mile wide and an inch deep? studying classical piano, where I got to Bartholomew pauses. the point to the where I was actually “It is in North America,” he answers re-writing my etude and composition carefully. “Outside of North America, I pieces I was given to perform, because I get booked with The Orb, Steve was way more interested in doing them Hillage, Juno Reactor — you know, my way,” he laughs. “And then I heard classic artists. It’s a super honor for me [The Orb’s] ‘Little Fluffy Clouds.’ And to be considered, if not in the same tier, it was all over.” in the same aesthetic universe as those Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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they started adding guitars and Farfisa organs and created this new genre.” It’s tough to characterize chicha, which has spread, in part, because of two Roots of Chicha compilations put out by Brooklyn’s Barbés Records, that are just plain mind-blowing. Describing chicha, according to Lee, is like describing rock ’n’ roll. It’s not a set of parameters so much as a spirit, though the essential idea is “ethnic folk hough guitarist Mike Lee — different” that turned Lee on to Santana music on rock instruments.” who founded the Boulder as a kid, but more focused on toying Lee grew up in Menlo Park, which band Chicha — was a late with the native Latin rhythms and is famously where the Grateful Dead bloomer in terms of permusical sensibilities that’ve fascinated got its start along with Ken Kesey’s forming, his deep love of Lee the last couple years. trailblazing love affair with LSD. So the music dates back to his childhood in the “I really wanted to start playing out genesis of chicha music — Amazonian Bay Area. again after the Dead thing didn’t work musicians’ passion for both American “My first real exposure to music was out,” Lee explains. “As a guitar player psychedelic rock and ayahuasca, a powdriving around with my brother,” Lee around [Boulder] it’s mostly jambands, erful natural psychedelic that’s been says. “When he first used for centuries by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco started driving, he Amazonian shamans — had tons of cassettes. makes almost as much He played a lot of sense to Lee as the genChicago. I also loved esis of Bruce transistor radios and Springsteen’s music remember being in might make to a native bed [with] the radio of Asbury Park. under my pillow.” However, all this is Then he heard not to say that Chicha Santana. — which mostly gigs “I was blown around Boulder but is away,” he recalls. “It hoping to expand its was so cool, so exotic, audience soon — plays like this other world. only chicha music, It was something difthough Lee says the ferent.” plan is to work in more. Lee fondly The seven-piece outfit Mike Lee is grateful to be in Chicha, instead of his Dead cover band. remembers camping (drums, percussion, guioutside Oakland tar, bass, keys and two Coliseum at age 15 to see Santana at vocalists) draws from a wide range of and I didn’t wanna play that stuff. one of the late Bill Graham’s Day on Latin music and even does a Latin ver[Latin-influenced music] was the first the Green concerts, which Lee talks thing that really grabbed me, but electric sion of “I Will Survive.” about with hushed tones in hindsight. “It took forever to get the band guitar is really not featured in Latin together, mostly with Craigslist,” says With Santana, Ritchie Blackmore music outside Santana. So I thought ‘I’d (Rainbow, Deep Purple) and Terry Kath really love to play Latin music but there’s Lee, who calls Chicha’s repertoire “modern Latin” and explains that the act (Chicago) as his idols, Lee “dicked really no [electric] guitar in there.’” around on guitar” in high school and It was then, as if by providence, that tries to keep things “danceable” but really enjoys stretching tunes out to showcollege (University of California, Santa Lee discovered his band’s namesake: Barbara) but, for whatever reason, didn’t chicha, a genre that’s relatively unknown case its impressive musicians. Even bassist Dave Lyons takes solos. “start to get serious in the United States “It’s a team concept,” Lee says. about guitar” until and creatively adds ON THE BILL: Chicha opens for Lee’s team opens for Latin-rock entering his 40s, electric guitar-tinged Los Lobos at the Fox Theatre on stalwart Los Lobos — a band that’s playing rhythm in psychedelia to native Saturday, March 29. 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EVERYONE ORCHESTRA
CONDUCTED BY MATT BUTLER FT. MEMBERS OF NEW MASTERSOUNDS, THE MOTET, TEA LEAF GREEN, FURTHUR, BIG GIGANTIC & MORE THURS. MAR 27 8:30 PM BEATGASM.COM PRESENTS
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UNDERSTANDING PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINE W/ Q&A PANEL FOLLOWING SAT. MAR 22 7:30 PM 97.3 KBCO & WESTWORD PRESENT
THE SUBDUDES WITH ORIGINAL LINE-UP SUN. MAR 23 7:30 PM 97.3 KBCO & REGGAE MOVEMENT PRESENT
STEEL PULSE
SELASEE & THE FAFA FAMILY THURS. MAR 27 6:00 PM COSTA PRESENTS
FLY FISHING FILM TOUR FRI. MAR 28 & SAT. MAR 29 8:00 PM
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G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE ETHAN TUCKER
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JOHNNY CLEGG BAND
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WITH JESSE CLEGG
GHOST KING DUDE
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MRS. SKANNOTTO & THE A-OK’S
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BENEFITTING VETERANS EXPEDITION
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THE CHAINSMOKERS ROOSTER MAGAZINE PRESENTS
RIFF RAFF
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THE NAKED & FAMOUS WHITE SEA & STRANGE BABES
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SHARK’S INK. Talk featuring artist Mildred Howard. Thursday, March 20, 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Thursday, March 20 music Afrotunado. 6:30 pm St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Antonio Lopez. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co. (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Ste. 110, Boulder, 303-449-2911. Arthur Lee Land & gogoLab. 7:30 pm Ferg’s Inn, 349 Main Street, Lyons. Bluegrass Pick Under the Sun. 8:30 pm Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Bluegrass Pick. 6:30 pm Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Bonnie Sims & Lauren Stovall. 5:30 pm Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Flatland Harmony Experiment. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5874. Frankie Paul. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Isa & JoeAlan Band. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. John Bunzli. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 5th Ave., Longmont, 720-3404169.
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Friday, March 21: Lindsey Saunders & Her Band. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
The humorous tale of how a mysterious girl named Eva goes on a journey of self-discovery happens during a snow day caused by the biggest blizzard in 107 years. As she comes across 15 other teenagers, the play dives into the ideas of teen spirit, and what can happen when a group of people believe in something.
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Thursday, March 20: Snow Angel. 7 p.m. Longmont Theatre Company, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-4496000.
After releasing Art Heffron Photography her debut album Nothing Normal at the age of 18, Saunders has grown to be a force to be reckoned with after performing at the artist showcase at Durango Songwriters Expo, Indie Diesel Music Competition and Denver RAW Artists last year. Saunder’s subtly complex acoustic guitar work, along with her crystal-clear voice, make her songs about love and relationships the perfect soundtrack for summertime and long drives.
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Saturday, March 22: Something Underground. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont 720297-6397. Something Underground, a rock band from Denver, contains three male singers whose voices blend into a seamless harmony. The band with their rock-roots and reggae style, has the ability to make the audience sway to their slow, smooth sound in one moment and then to whip up a dance-floor frenzy in the next.
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WEDNESDAY MARCH 19 THE GREAT LEGENDARY SINGING WONDER
FRANKIE PAUL
W/ STRANGER, CORAL THIEF & DJ BLOODPRESSAH
THURSDAY MARCH 20
SHWAYZE
W/ FUTURE HEROES, COURIER & H*WOOD X THE ELEVATION
FRIDAY MARCH 21
MIKE STUD W/ SPLYT & BMBC
SATURDAY MARCH 22
FELABRATION CELEBRATION OF THE MUSIC OF FELA KUTI FEAT MEMBERS OF THE MOTET, EUFORQUESTRA & ATOMGA W/ DUBSKIN
THURSDAY MARCH 27
POINT.BLANK, AFK & JPHELPZ W/ SEKTAH & FREQUENT
FRIDAY MARCH 28
ANDRE NICKATINA W/ GLITTA KINGS (FEAT FUNNY BIZ OF WHISKEY BLANKET), RIMES, DEVAN BLAKE JONES, SHAW MONSTA & DJ SWU, ILL 7 & GREENHOUSEFX
SATURDAY MARCH 29
BROWN SABBATH TUESDAY APRIL 1 “THE HOTTEST MAN ALIVE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR”
STARRING BEENIE MAN & FRIENDS W/ SELASEE & THE FAFA FAMILY
SATURDAY APRIL 5
THE WERKS W/ JET EDISON
SATURDAY APRIL 12
JOEY PORTER’S SHADY BUSINESS FEAT JOEY PORTER (THE MOTET/JUNO WHAT?!), NIGEL HALL (LETTUCE), ADAM “SHMEEANS” SHMIRNOFF (LETTUCE), THE SHADY HORNS – ZOIDIS & BLOOM (LETTUCE), ALVIN FORD JR (DIRTY DOZEN), GARRETT SAYERS, JEN HARTSWICK (TREY BAND) & MANY MORE
WEDNESDAY APRIL 16
PATO BANTON & THE NOW GENERATION FRIDAY APRIL 18
COLLIE BUDDZ (EXCLUSIVE CO PERFORMANCE W/ LIVE BAND) W/ VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
SATURDAY APRIL 19 (4/20 EVE)
FLATBUSH ZOMBIES & DIZZY WRIGHT SUNDAY APRIL 20 • EARLY & LATE SHOWS!
METHOD MAN & REDMAN EARLY SHOW W/ HIGH FIVE, LILY FANGZ & DIRTY BONG WATER
TUESDAY APRIL 22
WAKA DJ CLASSIC SATURDAY APRIL 26
Z-TRIP & PHIFE DAWG (OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST) W/ LIVE PAINTING & LECTURE BY JUSTIN BUA & DJ ABILITIES
SATURDAY MAY 3
ZOOGMA
MONDAY MAY 5
“CINCO DE MAYHEM!” FEAT J.WAIL LIVE BAND, NUMCHUCK (CHUCK MORRIS OF LOTUS) & DELTANINE
FRIDAY & SATURDAY MAY 9-10
THE M & M’S
EVERY THURSDAY @ THE OTHER SIDE
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3/20: BRUSHFIRE STANKGRASS & EVERGREEN GRASS BAND W/ THE CROOKED STREETS 4/3: THE MALLET BROTHERS BAND W/ RAGGED UNION & SWEET LILLIES 4/10: TOWN MOUNTAIN W/ ACOUSTIC MINING COMPANY WEDNESDAY MARCH 19
IAMSU!
W/P-LO, SKIPPER, LIVEDLIFE MOVEMENT (HUSHLIFE &(UNIT)E) DJ LUCKY I AM, JACK FLASH, MGD & J-KRUPT
FRIDAY MARCH 21
EVERYONE ORCHESTRA
FEAT EDDIE ROBERTS (NEW MASTERSOUNDS), JANS INGBER (THE MOTET), REED MATHIS (TEA LEAF GREEN), JOHN KADLECIK (FURTHUR), TREVOR GARROD (TEA LEAF GREEN), JEREMY SALKEN (BIG G), JENNIFER HARTSWICK (TREY BAND) & BRIDGET LAW W/ MIKE DILLON BAND & JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY
SATURDAY MARCH 22
THAT 1 GUY
SUNDAY MARCH 23
SNOW THA PRODUCT W/ CASKEY, RIMES & DIY
TUESDAY MARCH 25 SUB.MISSION PRESENTS
ELECTRONIC TUESDAY FEAT SUKH KNIGHT & SQUAREWAVE W/ LOCKBOX, DJ ERIC M, VERDUZCO & DANKFISCHT
THURSDAY MARCH 27
JOHN BROWN’S BODY & SEE-I
FEAT MEMBERS OF THIEVERY CORPORATION
FRIDAY MARCH 28
ANALOG SON
W/ TIGER PARTY, ATOMGA & THE STEEPWATER BAND
SATURDAY MARCH 29
EUFORQUESTRA
CD RELEASE PARTY W/ JOEY PORTER’S VITAL ORGAN
MONDAY MARCH 31
D-STYLZ BIRTHDAY BASH & MIXTAPE RELEASE PARTY FEAT D STYLZ, JAY RECLUSE, O.N.E., 2BE, JACK FLASH, LOS & BONES
WEDNESDAY APRIL 2
P-NUCKLE
W/ JET WEST & KINDSIGHT
WEDNESDAY APRIL 9
SLEEP (OF THE CHICHARONES) & XP (XPERIENCE OF STEP COUSINS) W/ DJ ZONE, ETHER XOXO & SPECIAL GUESTS
SATURDAY APRIL 12
40 YEARS YOUNG
DYRTY BYRDS PLAY NEIL YOUNG FEAT MEMBERS OF BLOODKIN WITH VERY SPECIAL BLOODKIN ACOUSTIC SET & DYRTY BYRDS CD RELEASE W/ IGNATIUS REILLY
MONDAY APRIL 14
THE UNDERACHIEVERS
W/ DILLON COOPER, DENZEL CURRY & MORE
WEDNESDAY APRIL 16
SIR MIX-A-LOT W/ RITHIM
SATURDAY APRIL 19
Nick Cave’s Second Skin exhibition is on display at the Denver Art Museum through April 24.
Critical Focus — Artist Ian Fisher. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through April 13. Epic — Artist Joseph Stashkevetch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through July 13. Ed Tangen, the Pictureman. Boulder Public Library, Carnegie branch for Local History. 1125 Pine St., Boulder. 303-441-3110. Through April 19. Interlaced: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through March 22. A Language of Structure — Artist Derrick Velasquez. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633. Through April 13. The Land, The Space, The Square — Artist Anibal Catalan. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-1633. Through April 13. Left to Right, Top to Bottom — Features the work of Joel Swanson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through March 30. Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery — Features works collected by Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, and more. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 8. The Month of Printmaking – Features the work of Theresa Haberkorn, Cheryl Rogers and Debbie Clapper. The Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont. 303-651-2787. Through April 6. Nature as Muse — Features works collected by Frederic C. Hamilton, Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-
5000. Through March 23. New Growth — Artist Rashid Johnson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-2987554. Through June 15. Second Skin — Features the work of Nick Cave, Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through April 24. Seen in Passing: Photographs by Chuch Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-856-5000. Through May 25. Steel Powder Painting and Landscape — Artist Kim Jongku. Macky Auditorium, 285 University Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8423. Through March 30. Oil Paintings by Jan Burch. NCAR. 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through May 29 PAPER/PRODUCT: Portfolios from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through June 21. Paintings by Elen Feinberg. NCAR, 3090 Center Green Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1000. Through May 29. Rebranded: Polish Film Posters for the American Western. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through June 1. Seen in Passing — Artist Chuck Forsman. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through May 24. Stories in Print — Features the work of Cynthia Brinich-Langlois, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.
CUNNINLYNGUISTS SUNDAY APRIL 20
LEFTOVER SALMON (IN THE STREETS) TUESDAY APRIL 22
SLICK RICK
CELEBRATING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT ADVENTURES OF SLICK RICK ALBUM W/ MIKEY THUNDER, EDDIE KNOLLS, BULLHEAD*DED & CURLY ONE
SATURDAY APRIL 26 AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH
FRIDAY & SATURDAY MAY 16-17
W/ PRIME ELEMENT & LIVEDLIFE MOVEMENT (HUSHLIFE & (UNIT)E)
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YOUNGBLOOD BRASS BAND
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Collect: The Art of Colorado Individuals, Corporations and Institutions. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., 720898-7200. Through March 30.
“STRANGE UNIVERSE WEST COAST TOUR” W/ SADISTIK, J LIVE, NEMO ACHIDA & ROLPHY
FEAT JOHN MEDESKI (MMW), STANTON MOORE (GALACTIC), ROBERT MERCUIO (GALACTIC) & PAPA MALI (7 WALKERS
CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD
American West: Selections from the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303492-8300. Through May 10.
EVENTS from Page 45 Men’s Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Enriching Elements, 2712 28th St, Boulder, 303-515-7974. Marrakech Express. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. The Prairie Scholars. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-5300642.
Boulder, 303-443-3322. Third Steam. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
events Brazil Night. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, (303) 440-4628. Improv Show. 7 p.m. Madcap Theater, 10679 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, (303) 460-3854.
Southern Exposure. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.
Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
Steepwater Band. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St.,
The Month of Printmaking Exhibition Opening. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.
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Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
‘A Moment in Time’ by Xenia Sease. 6 p.m. Enriching Elements, 2712 28th St., Boulder, 303-515-7974.
Protecting Your Backyard Bees. 7 p.m. East Boulder Recreation Center, 5660 Sioux Drive, 303-499-7261.
Improv Show. 7 p.m. Madcap Theater, 10679 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, (303) 460-3854.
Shark’s Ink. — Talk featuring artist Mildred Howard. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122.
Live DJ and Dancing. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.
Textiles and Tea Fashion Show at Flatirons Terrace. 12:30 p.m. Flatirons Terrace, 930 28th Street, Boulder, 303-939-0898.
Friday, March 21 music Acoustic Mining Company. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW. Bethy Love Light Performing Muzoetry. 8 p.m. Tonic Herban Lounge, 2011 10th St., Boulder, 303544-0202. Bill Kopper Quartet. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway Street, Boulder, 303-499-2985. The Blue Krewe. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Boulder Women’s Sing Dance Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Boulder Mennonite Church, 3910 Table Mesa Dr, Boulder, 303-443-3889. Brushfire Stankgrass. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
The Month of Printmaking Exhibition Opening. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, (303) 651-2787. The Prairie Scholars: Tacos, Tequila & Tunes. 8:30 p.m. CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-2453. Tango Practica. 8 p.m. Boulder Tango Studio, 6185 Arapahoe Ave, Unit B, Boulder, 720-278-4213.
Adam Hunt. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Big Hibiscus. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Brushfire Stankgrass. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Great American Taxi. 7 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696. The Goonies. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355. Hell’s Belles. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, (303) 447-0095. Last Men on Earth. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Patty Larkin. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Dr., Boulder, 303-4423282. Them Raggedy Bones. 6:30 p.m. The 28th Street Tavern, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-1562.
DJ Bedz. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-2176.
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Everyone Orchestra. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. HomeSlice Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Holly y Los Esposos Malos. 5 p.m. Restaurante 100% Mexicano, 2850 Iris Ave Ste H, Boulder, 303440-4141. Lonesome Rolan. 6 p.m. Front Range Brewery, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Suite 1650, Layfayette, 303339-0767. Maynard Mills Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322. Miniscus. 7:15 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Street Church, 1237 Pine St., Boulder, 928227-0474.
The New LPs. 10 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. The Sacred Music of South India: Emmanuelle Martin. 7:30 p.m. Pine Street Church, 1237 Pine Street, Boulder, 303-442-6530. Something Underground. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720297-6397.
Sambadende. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Trio Con Brio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.
Steve Itterly. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.
subdudes. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Tight Like That. 6 p.m. EG’s Garden Grill, 1000 Grand Ave, Grand Lake, 970-627-8404.
Slanted Jack. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.
Whiskey Autumn. 10 p.m. No-Name Bar, 1325 Broadway, Boulder, 303-447-3278.
Split Jive Broadcast. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Women Rock the Night. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322.
Watersong. 5 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186.
3rd Friday Dance Party- White Party. 8 p.m. Osho Meditation Center, 1025 Rosewood Ave. Suite 107, Boulder, 303-449-8837.
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Ragged Union. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
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Deborah Stafford Trio. 7 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985.
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Clouds & Mountains. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
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Bowen. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, 303-322-7727.
Goodness To Go — by Fran Hamilton. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074.
Tuesday, March 25 The Aviator’s Wife — Bookclub. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Nils Michals & Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303495-3303. Redeployment — by Phil Klay. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727. Friday, March 21
The History of Rock and Roll — Active Minds Lecture. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, 303-322-7727.
Daniel Levine will read from and sign his book Hyde on Tuesday, March 25 at the Boulder Book Store.
The Answer to the Riddle is Me — by David Stuart MacLean. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
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events Bohn Park Flood Restoration. 8 a.m. Bohn Park, E. 2nd Ave, Lyons. Boulder Burlesque. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120. Cheech & Chong. 8 p.m. 1stBank Center, 11450 Broomfield Lane, Broomfield, 303-410-0700. Improv Show. 5 p.m. Madcap Theater, 10679 Westminster Blvd., Westminster, 303-460-3854. iPhoneography. 10 a.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-823-6399.
The Month of Printmaking Exhibition Opening. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, (303) 651-2787. Wisdomkeepers, Paqo Andino. 7 p.m. Unity Church of Boulder, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.
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Wednesday, March 26 The December Project—Sarah Davidson & Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Café, 1203 13th St., Boulder, 303-495-3303.
Seicento Baroque Ensemble. 2 p.m. Stanley Hotel, 333 E. Wonderview Ave., Estes Park, 970-577-4000. Singer Songwriter Showcase. 12 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Steel Pulse. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.
Traditional Irish Music Open Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. The Van Allen Belt. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, (303) 440-4628.
events Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio at The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2690 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. The Month of Printmaking Exhibition Opening. 6 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, (303) 651-2787. Reception with Reverend Frank Schaefer. 5:30 p.m. Out Boulder Pridehouse, 2132 14th St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.
Monday, March 24 music
Bluegrass Clydes. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
David Sheingold. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, (303) 440-4628.
Open Jovan. 5:30 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Dukes of Winter. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Heavy Cats. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel & Home of the Blues, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. Lake Street Dive and E0ilen Jewell. 6 p.m. eTown Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.
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Life is a Wheel — by Bruce Weber. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.
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Hyde—Daniel Levine. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Open Mic Night. 6 p.m. Bootstrap Brewing Company, 6778 N. 79th St., Niwot, 303-652-4186. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Pick ’n’ Brew. 8 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125
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events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270. Open Jovan. 5:30 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Tuesday, March 25 music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
theater Almost Maine. The Theater Company of Lafayette, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209-2154. Through March 24. Jack and the Beanstalk. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through March 22. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through April 19. Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. 5501 Arapahoe
Ave., Boulder. 303-449-6000. Through May 11. There Is A Happiness That Morning. The Dairy Center for the Arts. 2590 Walnut Street, Boulder. 303-440-7826. March 7-30. Snow Angel. Longmont Theatre Company. 513 Main St., Longmont. 303-772-5200. Through March 22.
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Good People. Curious Theatre Company. 1080 Colorado River cutline tk Acoma St., Denver, 303-623-0524. Through April 19.
FACE. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757. The Prairie Scholars. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397. Piano Jazz Tuesday. 6 p.m. Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-2985. Open Mic with Kristina Murray!. 7:30 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300. Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Soul Explosion. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, (303) 440-4628.
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n Monday, March 24, 7 p.m., 52 couples from around the globe share their secrets of sticking together in 52 shorts. This screening of six of these shorts will be followed by a provocative discussion about love and relationships with one of the filmmakers. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Grand Budapest Hotel Writer/director Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums) returns with The Grand Budapest Hotel, which recounts the adventures of Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The dramatic comedy involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune — all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent. All-star ensemble cast also includes F. Murray Abraham, Tom Wilkinson, Owen Wilson, Adrian Brody, Tilda Swinton, Mathieu Amalric, Jason Schwartzman, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Saoirse Ronan and Edward Norton. At Esquire. — Landmark Theatres
through her cooking. She desperately hopes that a new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan (Irrfan Khan, Life of Pi), a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears and even small joys. In the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes and dreams, Ila and Saajan become lost in a virtual relationship that could jeopardize both their realities. Co-written and directed by Ritesh Batra. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres
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harles Dickens — famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success — falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens — a brilliant amateur actor — a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, secrecy is the price for both of them, and for Nelly a life of “invisibility.” Starring Ralph Fiennes. Rated R. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
he Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life – At 109, Alice Herz Sommer is the world’s oldest pianist… and its oldest Holocaust survivor. At the heart of her remarkable story of courage and endurance is her passion for music. Karama Has No Walls – When protesters in Yemen added their voices to those of other nations during the Arab Spring, the government responded with an attack that left 53 people dead and inspired widespread sympathy throughout the country. Facing Fear – As a gay 13-year-old, Matthew Boger endured a savage beating at the hands of a group of neo-Nazis. Twenty-five years later, he meets one of them again by chance. CaveDigger – New Mexico environmental sculptor Ra Paulette carves elaborately designed and painstakingly executed sandstone caves, driven by an artistic vision that often brings him into conflict with his patrons. Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall – In a maximum security prison, the terminally ill Jack Hall faces his final days with the assistance of hospice care provided by workers drawn from the prison population. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
Lucrezia Borgia: San Francisco Opera
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im Jenison, a Texas-based inventor and the visionary behind the desktop video revolution, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo-realistically — 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. Spanning eight years, Jenison’s adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist
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n the early ’90s, Tbilisi, the capital of the newly independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, is plagued by violence, war on the Black Sea coast and vigilante justice. But for Eka and Natia, 14-year-old inseparable friends, life is just unfolding: in the street, at school, with friends and elder sisters who are already dealing with men’s dominance, early marriage and disillusioned love. For these two girls in bloom, life hangs on the edge between tradition and modernity, childhood and adult life, innocence and selfdetermination. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
The Invisible Woman
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enee Fleming returns to San Francisco Opera in the title role of this bel canto masterpiece. She sings “with raw intensity and earthy richness, utterly inhabiting the character” (The New York Times). She is joined by Michael Fabiano and bass Vitalij Kowaljow. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater
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n the romantic drama The Lunchbox, middle-class housewife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time
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Particle Fever
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magine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist? Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine. At Mayan. — Landmark theatres
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n acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, Jiro (voice of Hideaki Anno, co-director of the Evangelion series) — inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni — dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan’s plunge into war. Jiro meets and falls in love with Nahoko (Miori Takimoto), and grows and cherishes his friendship with his colleague Honjo. Writer/director Miyazaki pays tribute to engineer Jiro Horikoshi and author Tatsuo Hori in this epic tale of love, perseverance and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world. Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature. (Fully subtitled). At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres
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Speedy and irritable ‘Need for Speed’ is neither fast nor furious
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he most important thing to know before attempting to endure the lumbering bore that is Need for Speed is this: every single character in the film is unspeakably dumb. Presumably set in a world where humans never mentally evolved from an animal state, the movie features increasingly nonsensical behaviors by derpy morons whose ability to dress themselves is as impressive to us as their ability to defy physics with cars. It nearly causes physical pain to recap the lobotomized shenanigans brought to life by writers George and John Gatins and director Scott Waugh, but here goes. Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul) is our generic, blue-collar, smalltown , car-racing hero. The film wastes no time cashing in its first cliché trifecta, as we discover Tobey’s dad just died, he’s behind on his loan and his former girlfriend, Anita (Dakota Johnson), is now dating the bad guy, Dino (Dominic Cooper), who (gasp) also races cars. This next part is gonna sound like a spoiler, but (A) something has to have once been “fresh” to be “spoiled” and (B) it happens early, motivates the whole plot and is so obvious they may as well have named the character “Ima Gonnadie.” Pete (Harrison Gilbertson), Anita’s little brother, is killed by Dino in a three-way race with Tobey. Despite literally hundreds of witnesses, Tobey is blamed and does two years for vehicular manslaughter. Once out, he does what anyone seeking revenge would do: He convinces Julia (Imogen Poots), the hot assistant of a British billionaire, to let him drive a $3 million car across country to compete in a secret, underground Boulder Weekly
car race run by a reclusive DJ named the Monarch (Michael Keaton) to shame Dino. This one’s for you, Petey! It really can’t be emphasized enough how cosmically ignorant these characters are. Here are but a few examples: Dino wants to prevent Tobey from making the race, so he offers a million dollars to anyone who stops him from making it there; but when the pair run into each other in a hotel, Dino doesn’t call the cops and say “hey, that paroleviolating guy you lost in a high-speed chase, I know where he is right now.” A character strips nude while quitting his job, for no discernable reason. Dino bribes authorities to cover up Pete’s murder but doesn’t destroy the car he used to kill him. While driving crosscountry, Tobey declares they are in such a hurry they can’t stop for gas and must “hot fuel,” as his posse tops him off while driving side-by-side. Then he stops for gas 20 minutes later. And so on and so on. What the Fast and the Furious movies understand is how to have fun, suspend our disbelief and get us to root for the charismatic cartoons driving gravity-defying speed machines. Despite having much more talented actors in Paul, Cooper, Johnson and Keaton, Need for Speed is a pale, inert, impotent, wholly imbecilic impression of its competitor. If you fall into the target demographic of “person aroused by car commercials,” have fun. No one else will.
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abolic functions. That is why you can grow fresh food by upcycling kitchen scraps: tinyurl.com/regrow-veg. Most any item that hasn’t rotted to the point of inedibility can be considered living. This is one of the selling points of a raw foods diet, as living with Connect foods contain enzymes and other molecules that cooking destroys. A paper published in Current Biology during July of last year indicates that cyclic exposure to light and dark causes fruits andus vegetables to regulate Connect with their cellular metabolism such that the amounts of certain compounds are
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increased, some of which are beneficial. The paper’s researchers, based at Rice University and the University of California at Davis, have published previously on the phenomenon of “entrainment” in plants. Entrainment refers to the programming of an organism’s circadian rhythms into certain routines. The group had examined how exposure to light influences the ability of Arabidopsis, a plant in the cabbage family, to ward off insect damage. They found that the plant ramps up its levels of natural insecticide chemicals shortly before dawn, when insects begin feeding. In a controlled experiment, the researchers were able to use light/dark cycles to dramatically slow the rate at which caterpillars devoured a leaf. According to one of the team’s leaders, Dr. Janet Braam of Rice University, one category of insect-discouraging chemical, glucosinolates, is known for anti-cancer properties in human, and she says there might be others. “We have found that two plant hormones that are critical for plant defense are controlled by the circadian clock, that is, their levels vary depending upon time of day. We hypothesize that these hormones regulate the levels of metabolites important for defense,” Braam said via email. Her team’s new paper examined the
effect of simulated day and night cycles on the internal clocks of blueberries, spinach, lettuce, carrots and squash. All of these exhibited entrainment in response to light. “It is surprising that carrots responded to the light/dark cycles because they are typically underground and not, therefore, exposed to light,” Braam says. “However, the carrot cells retain structures that are related to chloroplasts [plant cellular structures where photosynthesis takes place] and perhaps in response to light these structures remain light responsive.” This research could have implications not only for how food is stored, but how it’s prepared, and when. The jury is still out over whether micromanaging your produce’s internal clocks will yield enough health benefit to justify the trouble. But maybe, someday, refrigerators will have crisper lights to mimic outdoor daylight. Or even if the refrigerator light is destined to remain off when the door’s closed, this research might open other doors into our understanding of how post-harvest treatment of plants affects their nutritional values. It also adds more nuance to the idea of living foods, and begs questions about what other environmental cues they can be responsive to. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly
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And if you want to compare the relative hiping brisket and beet tacos. Look out Torchie’s. ness of the menu to the hippest taco joint in My dining companion didn’t care for her chopped America, Torchie’s Tacos in Austin, Texas, which salad, a mixture of corn, tomato, avocado and pepwraps everything from jerked chicken and mango, pers tossed with romaine in a cumin vinaigrette. to batter-fried portobellos in a tiny tortilla, then the From the bites she shared, I had to agree as it had a more standard selection of Mexican-style meats def- slightly bitter and generally lackluster flavor. In the initely falls short. world of chopped salads, it was far But that’s fine. There’s absolutely from my favorite. Pica’s Taqueria nothing wrong with carnitas in need But the posole verde I had on a 5360 Arapahoe, of fixing. And in that department, return trip was another matter altoSuite F, Boulder Pica’s delivers. The fried and pulled gether. Thick and rich, it was spicy 303-444-2391 pork on the carnitas taco ($3.50) was without being overbearing and sweet without being saccharine. It could have rich and smoky, with a dollop of tomatillo salsa and the standard onion and cilantro used a bit more hominy, but the fresh-fried tortilla that garnish. An al pastor taco ($4) I also had was strong came on top for dipping was an especially nice touch. Pica’s also offers a selection of burritos and quesain the taco cart tradition and was dressed up in the dillas, as well as their monthly three-course pork sweet, tanginess of pineapple and smoked chiles. shoulder meal, El Milagro. And since it’s Boulder, But even with a side of rice and beans and a glass there’s also a selection of fine beers that you can enjoy of horchata ($2.50), I was still kind of hungry. Part of the reason it’s important for tacos to be cheap is to be on a lovely sunlit patio out back. You know, if you’re into that sort of thing. able to get a lot of them. It took a second order, on Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com which I took advantage of the daily specials, includ-
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In T. S. Eliot’s poem “The “When you plant seeds Love Song of J. Alfred in the garden, you don’t Prufrock,” the narrator dig them up every day to seems tormented about see if they have sprouted the power of his longyet,” says Buddhist nun Go to RealAstrology.com to check out ing. “Do I dare to eat a Thubten Chodron. “You Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO peach?” he asks. I wonder simply water them and HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE what he’s thinking. Is the clear away the weeds; HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes peach too sweet, too juicy, you know that the seeds are also available by phone at 1-877too pleasurable for him to will grow in time.” 873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700. handle? Is he in danger of That’s sound advice losing his self-control and for you, Aries. You are dignity if he succumbs to almost ready to plant the temptation? What’s behind his hesitation? In any case, the metaphorical seeds that you will be cultivating in the Libra, don’t be like Prufrock in the coming weeks. Get your coming months. Having faith should be a key element finicky doubts out of the way as you indulge your lust for in your plans for them. You’ve got to find a way to shut life with extra vigor and vivacity. Hear what I’m saying? down any tendencies you might have to be an impatient Refrain from agonizing about whether or not you should control freak. Your job is simply to give your seeds a good eat the peach. Just go ahead and eat it. start and provide them with the persistent follow-up care they will need.
TAURUS
OCT. 23-NOV. 21:
Born under the sign of Scorpio, Neil Young has been making music professionally for more than 45 years. He has recorded 35 albums and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In early 1969, three of his most famous songs popped out of his fertile imagination on the same day. He was sick with the flu and running a 103-degree fever when he wrote “Cowgirl in the Sand,” “Cinnamon Girl,” and “Down by the River.” I suspect you may soon experience a milder version of this mythic event, Scorpio. At a time when you’re not feeling your best, you could create a thing of beauty that will last a long time, or initiate a breakthrough that will send ripples far into the future.
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I bet your support system will soon be abuzz with fizzy mojo and good mischief. Your web of contacts is about to get deeper and feistier and prettier. Pounce, Gemini, pounce! Summon extra clarity and zest as you communicate your vision of what you want. Drum up alluring tricks to attract new allies and inspire your existing allies to assist you better. If all goes as I expect it to, business and pleasure will synergize better than they have in a long time. You will boost your ambitions by socializing, and you will sweeten your social life by plying your ambitions.
There should be nothing generic or normal or routine about this week, Sagittarius. If you drink beer, for example, you shouldn’t stick to your usual brew. You should track down and drink the hell out of exotic beers with brand names like Tactical Nuclear Penguin and Ninja Vs. Unicorn and Doctor Morton’s Clown Poison. And if you’re a lipstick user, you shouldn’t be content to use your old standard, but should instead opt for kinky types like Sapphire Glitter Bomb, Alien Moon Goddess, and Cackling Black Witch. As for love, it wouldn’t make sense to seek out romantic adventures you’ve had a thousand times before. You need and deserve something like wild sacred eternal ecstasy or screaming sweaty flagrant bliss or blasphemously reverent waggling rapture.
MAY 21-JUNE 20:
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JUNE 21-JULY 22:
During her 98 years on the planet, Barbara Cartland wrote 723 romance novels that together sold a billion copies. What was the secret of her success? Born under the sign of Cancer the Crab, she knew how productive she could be if she was comfortable. Many of her work sessions took place while she reclined on her favorite couch covered with a white fur rug, her feet warmed with a hot water bottle. As her two dogs kept her company, she dictated her stories to her secretary. I hope her formula for success inspires you to expand and refine your own personal formula — and then apply it with zeal during the next eight weeks. What is the exact nature of the comforts that will best nourish your creativity?
LEO
JULY 23-AUG. 22:
The Google Ngram Viewer is a tool that scans millions of books to map how frequently a particular word is used over the course of time. For instance, it reveals that “impossible” appears only half as often in books published in the 21st century as it did in books from the year 1900. What does this mean? That fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects are less impossible than they used to be? I don’t know, but I can say this with confidence: If you begin fantastic and hard-to-achieve prospects sometime soon, they will be far less impossible than they used to be.
VIRGO
AUG. 23-SEPT. 22:
The Tibetan mastiff is a large canine species with long golden hair. If you had never seen a lion and were told that this dog was a lion, you might be fooled. And that’s exactly what a zoo in Luohe, China did. It tried to pass off a hearty specimen of a Tibetan mastiff as an African lion. Alas, a few clever zoo-goers saw through the charade when the beast started barking. Now I’ll ask you, Virgo: Is there anything comparable going on in your environment? Are you being asked to believe that a big dog is actually a lion, or the metaphorical equivalent?
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“Thank you, disillusionment,” says Alanis Morissette in her song “Thank U.” “Thank you, frailty,” she continues. “Thank you, nothingness. Thank you, silence.” I’d love to hear you express that kind of gratitude in the coming days, Taurus. Please understand that I don’t think you will be experiencing a lot of disillusionment, frailty, nothingness and silence. Not at all. What I do suspect is that you will be able to see, more clearly than ever before, how you have been helped and blessed by those states in the past. You will understand how creatively they motivated you to build strength, resourcefulness, willpower, and inner beauty.
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AQUARIUS
JAN. 20-FEB. 18:
Every now and then, you’re blessed with a small miracle that inspires you to see everyday things with new vision. Common objects and prosaic experiences get stripped of their habitual expectations, allowing them to become almost as enchanting to you as they were before numb familiarity set in. The beloved people you take for granted suddenly remind you of why you came to love them in the first place. Boring acquaintances may reveal sides of themselves that are quite entertaining. So are you ready and eager for just such an outbreak of curiosity and a surge of fun surprises? If you are, they will come. If you’re not, they won’t.
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f A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis ing. It required a great deal of flexibility, physicians and business owners — Prohibition sometimes reads as if it patience and persistence when we were involved in building a new green econowere being written as history was traveling.” my from the ashes of prohibition. unfolding, that’s because it was. Martin and Rashidian witnessed One of the key stories in A New Leaf Journalists Alyson Martin and federal crackdowns on medical business- is the 2010 Proposition 19 ballot initiative. Nushin Rashidian began working on A es. They went to California for the Proposition 19 would have allowed adults New Leaf as the cannabis reform moveProposition 19 effort. They were in in California to possess cannabis and grow ment was gaining momentum. Seattle for the vote on legalization in it for their own personal use under local “I’m from upstate New York, and I 2012. They spent time in Denver with government regulation. traveled to California,” Martin said dur- leaders of the campaign, including “It was so clear that something was ing a recent interview. “I had never been Mason Tvert of the Marijuana Policy happening with Proposition 19,” said to Venice Beach. Rashidian. “We were in I opened the car D.C. when that was up, door and smelled and we decided we SERVED AN EVEN BIGGER PURPOSE FOR marijuana and should be there. We jetasked how they ted across the country COLORADO AND WASHINGTON IN THEIR SUCCESSFUL were able to have and hung out two days CAMPAIGNS JUST TWO YEARS LATER. it. They said it before the vote. It was was legal there. It clear that it was strategiwas immediately cally brilliant, but the kind of federnobody saw it at the al-state clash that time.” attracted me. It Proposition 19 was was illegal in most places and legal in Project. They visited the federal farm at ultimately defeated by voters on Nov. 2, California.” the University of Mississippi near 2010, but it got people talking about Martin and Rashidian met in classes Oxford, where the federal government cannabis around the country. grows cannabis. at Columbia University. They began “Proposition 19 revealed many of the dos working together and found they made “The road trip really helped us,” said and don’ts for Colorado and a good reporting team. Martin. “We continued to do reporting. Washington,” Rashidian explained. “When we got back to New York, We wrote up to deadline in April 2013, “First, by obtaining 46 percent of the we started digging,” says Rashidian. and we edited it through the summer. vote, Prop 19 revealed that legalization “‘Why were they using it as medicine We had to write it that way.” was within reach. The campaign unveiled in some states and not others?’ And What they came up with is a coalitions and brought together groups we realized it was an ongoing trend.” refreshing, personal up-to-date — it like the NAACP and UFCW. They They left New York in September of mentions the James Cole federal guidemoved the messaging from ‘legalization’ 2010 and found the growing community lines for states last September — toward things like tax revenue, civil rights of cannabis supporters across the contiaccount of the long road from prohibiand jobs. The proposition forced a nental United States. tion to the current momentum for national conversation about legalization “We drove 30,000 miles,” Rashidian decriminalization/legalization. They that wasn’t happening before.” said. “We hit every state with medical look at the long history of cannabis The book follows closely the legallaws except Alaska and Hawaii. My usage before the United States outlawed ization campaigns in Washington and background is in daily journalism. This it in the 1930s. Along the way, they talk Colorado. Both states learned from was a challenge — the idea that, while I to the people — activists, medical Proposition 19, but Martin and was reporting, the story was still unfold- patients, caregivers, lobbyists, farmers, Rashidian outline the similarities and
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