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news & views How to quit worrying / 6 (and save the desert tortoise)

by Paul Danish On the Cover: Sowing the seeds of sun / 14 Lawmaker, industry find common ground for ‘solar gardens’

by Jefferson Dodge

buzz God’s favorite success story / 19 Asylum Street Spankers find salvation (after a little sin)

by Dave Kirby Overtones: Zoso’s Led Zeppelin tribute can be better than real thing / 23 Overtones: Seabird flies into town on breeze of success / 24 Arts & Culture: Following the strands of rope art / 27 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Elevation: Yoga can be a circus / 41 Cuisine: Boulder’s one-woman winery / 45 Cuisine review: The Boulder ChopHouse & Tavern / 47 Dessert Diva: Gingerbread Star Cookies / 49 Screen: Repo Men; The Runaways / 53 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 55

departments Letters: New Yorker, go home; Sins of the fathers; End pit bull ban / 4 The Highroad: Drowning democracy in corporate cash / 4 Police Blotter: Get in, gimme money; Wiring money; Forgetful driver / 11 News Briefs: Erie dog gets valor award; WOW! hosts casino night / 11 EarthTalk: E-waste / 12 In Case You Missed It: Not safe to get sick yet; Nipples in the news / 17 Sophisticated Sex: Sex and jealousy / 38 Classifieds: Your community resource / 57 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

staff Publisher,, Stewart Sallo Editor Editor, Pamela White Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Katherine Creel Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno Editorial Interns, Eli Boonin-Vail, Lauren Duncan Contributing Writers, Rob Brezsny, Ben Corbett, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Christina Eisert, Clay Fong, Jim Hightower, Dan Hinkel, Adrienne Saia Isaac, Elliott Johnston, Gene Ira Katz, David Kirby, Dylan Otto Krider, Adam Perry, Danette Randall, Saby Reyes Kulkarni, Alan Sculley, Isaac Woods Stokes, Adam Trask, Gary Zeidner Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman, Production Intern, Alex Paul Martineau Circulation Manager, Cal Winn Inside Sales Manager, Dayna Copeland Associate Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland Senior Advertising Executive, Allen Carmichael Account Executives, Rich Blitz, Joe Miller, Francie Swidler Circulation Team, Halka Brunerova, Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, Alan Jones, George LaRoe Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Lowell Schaefer, Karl Schleinig Assistant to the Publisher & Heiress, Julia Sallo 10-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo March 25, 2010 Volume XVII, Number 33 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to: editorial@boulderweekly.com. Any materials sent to Boulder Weekly become the property of the newspaper.

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Clarification: Boulder Weekly thanks the YMCA of Boulder Valley for contributing several photos to the 2010 Kids’ Camp special edition. Camp photos on pages 10, 12, 15, 18, 19 and 22 were provided by the YMCA, and BW apologizes for not giving the camp credit for those. See www.ymcabv.org for information about YMCA camps.

New Yorker go home (Re: “Poop, plants and pollution,” Cover story, March 18.) Wow, I just don’t get people who move to Colorado for the beauty and open spaces, then complain about everything around them!

Just wait until these farmers go out of business because of uptight New Yorkers like this. Then the land will be filled with subdivisions and cement and the only waste to smell will be the garbage coming out of each other’s mouths!

Go back to New York!

C. Nicoll/Longmont

Sins of the fathers (Re: “The dogma of bigotry,” Uncensored, March 18.) Amazing job, Pamela. Couldn’t have said it better myself. In a religion where serial child abuse has been overlooked, I wonder what impact one child being evicted from school can have? What will it take for the masses to climb out of the mundane to even glimpse the sadness of complacency?

Thank you for speaking for so many of us.

Barbara Truskalo/Boulder

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Once again, Pamela White, you’ve demonstrated the very powerful power of the pen. Your writing just keeps getting better. Thank you for your editorial about the hypocrisies of the Church’s decision.

You are very brave and very wise.

Karen Nozik/Internet While the church is kicking out kids

The Highroad

an five votes make a difference in America’s democratic elections?

You betcha, as Sarah Palin might say. Especially when those five voters are Supreme Court justices hell-bent on allowing the unlimited money power of corporate giants to drown out the people’s democratic voice.

But wait, say apologists for the five Supreme voters who hung this plutocratic albatross around the neck of our democracy — it’s not just corporations who were freed by the Court to spend billions to elect or defeat candidates. They smugly point out that labor unions, too, can now take their members’ dues money and dump as much of it as they want into their campaigns. So, see, the ruling justices took care to be “fair and balanced.”

Where have we heard that phrase before?

Balanced? Even if every union were to liqui-

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of lesbian parents — I actually think the kids and the parents are lucky that their kids will not go to a house of bigotry and hatred in the name of God — let’s see what else is going on: Rape and mistreatment of children by the church is not a U.S. phenomenon.

In Canada, England, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Australia, Switzerland, etc., it has been found that the church has been sexually abusing children.

Drowning democracy in corporate cash date all of their assets and set aside every dime they have for elections, their total war chest would be $6 billion. Just one Wall Street firm, Goldman Sachs, doled out three times more than that in bonus payments to its bankers this year alone.

Indeed, the combined union assets of $6 billion add up to a mere one-tenth of 1 percent of the assets held by only the four largest banks in our country.

Yet, the Court’s corporate supremists have now

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The Pope’s brother Georg Ratzinger, an official of the church in Germany, is implicated in the cover-up.

And the big question is why the church has let this happen for decades, if not centuries, and turned a blind eye to the most vile of crimes.

The only answers seem to be that the church needs the priests, abusers of

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

equated the freedom to spend money on elections with our people’s freedom of speech. This means that those with the most money get the most speech.

What’s fair about that?

As an indicator of how imbalanced our brave new world of money-based elections will be, check this out: the 100 largest American corporations have annual incomes totaling $13 trillion. Henceforth, they can tap this ocean of political clout to elect policymakers who will do their bidding — not ours.

To help undo the Court’s coup against us, connect with freespeechforpeople.org.

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children or not. The priests bring in the money. No priests — no money. And the other reason — the rot reaches all the way up to the top.

It is time that the church be fully investigated by civil authorities, with no-holds-barred access to all church records, subpoena power — talk or go to jail, for the bishops, priests, etc.

And when the smoke clears, Ratzinger will be history; much of the hierarchy will be history.

And mankind will be free from this apparition that has yet to excommunicate Hitler — born and baptized a Catholic in very Catholic Austria — for 50 million deaths.

And to make the scene worse, the German Pope Ratzinger last year un-excommunicated a Bishop Williamson, who is a holocaust denier.

They say the lessons of one’s youth stick with you for a lifetime. BenedictRatzi was born in 1928 and raised in Nazi Germany. Need I say more?

Steven J. Smith/Annapolis, Md.

End pit bull ban I am a former resident of Denver. I chose to move back to Arizona when my 4-year-old pit bull was picked up for no reason other than her breed. I find it astounding that Denver would spend a quarter of a million dollars on putting dogs to sleep.

Wouldn’t it be more productive to take the quarter of a million dollars and create a program that allows animal control to police pit bulls in a more civil way? For example, pay a few specialists to make random visits to pit bull owners’ homes to ensure the safe keeping of the dog as well as to examine the dog’s temperament. I believe that this would be a means of ensuring that the dogs are not raised in violent homes.

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one day this ban will be lifted so that I can move back to Denver.

Elyssa Ruane/Tucson, Ariz.

Obama’s rhetoric returns Did anyone else notice that Obama’s soaring oratory returned only after he ensured that the public option would not be included in the corporaterrorist bailout bill? As soon as Obusha knew that the insurance cartel would be safely ensconced in endless profiteering with no end in sight, he started to give great speeches for the need for quote, unquote, health care reform.

Capitalism is where people use their capital to make money while they sit on their ass and do nothing. That’s why its called capitalism.

Socialism is where the government uses our taxes for social programs that benefit society, like public schools, libraries, etc.

Its not taxing the poor to give to the rich through subsidies, kickbacks and bailouts.

So where are we?

More like the middle of the end.

And not just of this great nation. For Western Civilization, and perhaps all of human civilization.

The beginning of the end happened even before this nation got started, when England invented the limited liability corporation concept to allow the East India Company to plunder India without legal consequences. Thus was invented Corporate Personhood, the ultimate source of the majority of evil in the world today.

Victor Forsythe/Lakewood

Israel vs. Palestine There is a ridiculous double standard whereby Israel is expected to act like Snow White in a neighborhood of angry, murderous thugs. Palestinians have never pursued peace. They consider Tel Aviv see LETTERS Page 9

Gallup Poll taken a couThat’s the good news. But then ple weeks ago found that there’s this from the New York Times.

Americans’ worries According to green energy writer about environmental Todd Woody, the staff of the California issues have dropped to a Energy Commission last week recom20-year low, which the pollsters mostly mended approval for the state’s first attribute to economic concerns. I think new big solar power plant in nearly two there’s more to it than that, but first the decades — after a two-and-a-half-year poll findings. environmental review.

The poll found that for each of Two-and-a-half-freaking-years to eight environmental issues, the number approve one lousy solar power plant to of Americans who worry “a great deal” be built on desert land. And the process about them has dropped dramatically still isn’t complete. compared to a year ago. For six of the The plant in question is to be built eight issues, the drop hit record lows. at Ivanpah, Calif., by BrightSource In the case of three of the issues — Energy, the corporate successor of the waterways pollution, air pollution, and company that built almost all of toxic waste contamination — the drops California’s existing solar plants in the were 25 percentage points or more 1980s. It is designed to produce up to compared with 1989.

392 megawatts of energy by using The poll also found that of the arrays of mirrors to concentrate suneight issues, Americans worried least light on a central tower, where it will about global warming. (They worried produce steam that will be used to drive most about drinka turbine. ing water polluThe plant will They may have tion.) The number produce no carof Americans who bon dioxide, sulconcluded that worried “a great fur dioxide, NOX deal” about global or mercury emisenvironmentalists warming has sions. And it will dropped to 28 peruse relatively little are incapable of cent from 41 perwater, because, cent in 2007. unlike some solar distinguishing thermal power In a separate between minor plants, it will poll, the Gallup recycle its cooling organization found impacts and exiswater. The nearby a record number of golf courses will Americans, 53 pertential threats and use more. cent, say economic So why the growth takes preceof setting priorities. two-and-onedence, even if it half-year approval hurts the environprocess? Well, it ment, according to Frank Newport, Gallup’s editor in chief. turns out environmentalists were trying to block the project. According to “The economy is swamping everyWoody, the Sierra Club, Defenders of thing,” he told USA Today.

Wildlife and the Center for Biological Well, there’s more going on here Diversity say the plant would harm rare than pocketbook issues. plants and animals like the desert torFor one thing, the poll likely contains some good news disguised as bad. toise — all the while claiming to be all for solar energy.

Chances are Americans are a lot less Surveys have found 25 desert torworried about water, air and toxic waste toises on the site. pollution than they were in 1989 Other environmentalists claimed because the country’s air and water are that the thousands of acres of mirror a lot cleaner than they were 20 years ago, and thousands of toxic waste sites see STUPID Page 8 have been cleaned up.

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fields and 459-foot tower would mar the visual beauty of the desert.

The critics wanted BrightSource to move the plant to a site with more disturbed land. BrightSource demurred, because the current site is near existing high voltage transmission lines.

(California enviros have been fighting the construction of new transmission lines, as well; their main complaints are habitat disturbance and aesthetics.)

So in order to get an approval BrightSource agreed to downsize the plant by 450 acres to accommodate the tortoises and the plants, reducing its generating capacity from 440 megawatts to 392 megawatts — and prompting the environmental groups to complain that it hadn’t done enough.

The California Energy Commission’s staffers disagreed, saying the mitigation measures were sufficient as far as the critters and shrubs were concerned. As for the visual impacts, they said they couldn’t be reduced, but in view of “overriding considerations” (like saving the planet) the plant should be built anyway.

And it took two-and-a-half years to arrive at that point.

And what has been going on during that two-and-a-half years?

Well, the world’s environmentalists have been telling us morning, noon and night that global warming poses a clear and present danger to both the planet and civilization as we know it — and that there’s not a second to lose in

reducing our carbon footprint. And they’ve been telling the American people that they are stupid for not embracing their warnings with more urgency.

Meanwhile, during the same twoand-a-half years, the United States has burned two-and-a-half billion tons of coal, producing about seven billion tons of carbon dioxide.

What do you suppose ordinary Americans make of all this? And make no mistake, the American people, having been told they are stupid, are paying attention.

Well, they probably concluded there isn’t an environmental problem here that couldn’t have been solved in 60 days had there been any real interest in solving it. They are probably wondering (as am I) why the tortoises weren’t moved or put in a captive breeding program or offered up for adoption under an existing federal program. They probably also are wondering if the shade, water and fenced sanctuary of a solar plant might be attractive to them — kind of like marine life is attracted to offshore oil platforms.

They may also have concluded that environmentalists are totally incapable of distinguishing between minor impacts and existential threats and setting priorities.

And when the Gallup Poll comes calling, they say: If the Sierra Club doesn’t have any real sense of urgency about global warming, why should we?

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“You start coming to the truth of who you really are, and that can be very ugly.”

—Tiger Woods, regarding the process of coming to terms with his infidelity and his sex scandal “It’s a victory for common sense.”

—Barack Obama, after the House of Representatives approved the health care legislation overhauling the country’s medical system “If Google is blocked, we will see nothing but darkness.”

—Chinese biologist Ma Yuanye, responding to the prospect of Google pulling out of that country if China continues to censor the Internet 8 March 25, 2010

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and the entire Jewish State to be a “settlement.” Does anybody really think this is just a real estate transaction and a few more acres will seal the deal? It is high time for President Obama to distance himself from his long-time relationship with Jeremiah Wright and choose sanity and peace over hatred and war.

Tom Kornfeld/Denver

In 2000, President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to help the Palestinian people create a state, including 98 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, to be connected by an underground highway. East Jerusalem was offered as its capital.

Imagine, had that offer been accepted, how much economic progress the Palestinian people could have enjoyed in these years. That momentous point in history was greeted by Palestinian suicide bombers murdering innocents. Then Israel withdrew all its settlements from Gaza, to test the idea that Israel could create a Palestinian state without an agreement and was greeted by daily missiles fired into Israeli population centers.

Israel awaits a Palestinian leadership ready to agree to build a state for its people and live in peace with Israel. Such leaders do not exist, as even the more “moderate” leadership in the West Bank just last week proclaimed as a hero a terrorist who murdered innocent Israelis.

While Israel waits for peace, it continues to build housing for its growing population in areas adjacent to existing population centers, including East Jerusalem. This building should help pressure the Palestinian leaders to seek a state and peace before they lose more land in their potential state. Despite being well aware of this Israeli policy, President Obama forced a stop to building in West Bank settlements months ago, a move which created a delay in potential negotiations and created terrible unemployment among Palestinians in the West Bank.

And now the routine approval of more housing units in an existing Jerusalem neighborhood has been elevated by the Obama administration into a major crisis, which threatens once again to be used by the Palestinians to delay real negotiations and, in the short term, has been used as another excuse for violence instead of negotiations.

Please do whatever you can to encourage the United States government to focus on demanding real negotiations from the Palestinian leadership and an end to incitement to hate and violence against Israel. This will help the Palestinian people more than creating crises with the United States’ greatest ally, Israel. Pushing for a real peace agreement that recognizes Israel’s security needs is the only way to help the Palestinian people to create a state that can live in peace and prosperity with its neighbors.

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Mark A. Levy/Denver Israel’s decision to build Jewish “settlements” in land bought by Jews in Jerusalem is not the obstacle to peace.

Where is your censorship of the culture of hate promulgated by the Palestinian leadership? Where is your outrage when a children’s soccer team is named after a shaheed (a terrorist martyr) who blew herself up in the heroic act of slaughtering Israeli children?

Where is your condemnation of government-sponsored children’s television

using cartoon characters to incite children to kill Jews (note: not just Israelis, any Jews) in the name of Allah? Where are your deadlines and timetables that would hold the Palestinian leadership accountable for their systematic inculcation of hatred and martyrdom? Do you not think that this is a significant obstacle towards peace? Or is Jew-hating so normal that you simply trivialize it?

Only when the depth and gravity of Islamic anti-Semitism is confronted and included in the conversation can any serious movement towards peace occur.

As one who voted for you, President

Obama, I am deeply frightened and profoundly disturbed by your opacity in this regard. Where is your moral courage?

Miriam Pollack/Boulder

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Erie dog gets valor award An Erie dog named Kenai has been named Valor Dog of the Year in the Humane Society of the United States’ third annual Dogs of Valor Awards. Kenai, a 14-year-old Bernese mountain dog mix, awakened one of her owners, Todd Smarr, in the middle of the night to alert him to a carbon monoxide leak in the vacation home where seven adults, two children and three dogs were sleeping. All escaped without harm. The awards honor dogs who exhibit an extraordinary sense of courage by heroically helping persons in need. The dogs are considered by a panel of celebrities, including “Heroes” actress Kristin Bell, Sally Pressman of “Army Wives,” and retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman. For more information, visit www.humanesociety.org/dogsofvalor.

WOW! hosts casino night Treasure Quest, the WOW! Children’s Museum’s fifth annual auction and casino night fundraiser, will be held on Saturday, April 10, from 6 to 11 p.m. Activities include a magic show, a live and silent auction, casinostyle gaming tables and pirate-themed fun. Also included are a Caribbeanthemed buffet dinner and complimentary cocktails until 9 p.m. Ken Clark from FOX31’s Good Day Colorado will be present as a special guest emcee. Tickets are $70 per person or $500 for a table of eight, and proceeds

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benefit WOW!’s 2010 Scholarship Fund, which provides free and reduced-cost museum admissions and memberships for families in need. The event will be held at the A Spice of Life Event Center. Tickets can be purchased online at www.wowmuseum. com or by calling 303-604-2424.

County Line Road gets bike lanes Construction of bike lanes and other work on County Line Road in the Erie area began recently, kicking off a construction process expected to last 90 days. The work includes the construction of a four-foot paved bike lane from Austin Avenue to just short of South Main Street, stormwater improvements and bike-lane striping.

Some daytime lane closures on County Line Road will result, and motorists should expect delays, although traffic control signage and flaggers will be on site to facilitate movement through the construction area. Between the hours of 4 p.m. and 8 a.m., both lanes will be open, with shoulder closures and traffic controls delineating the roadway edges. The County Line Road Bike Lane Project is part of the federally funded American Recovery and

Reinvestment Act. For more information, visit www.erieco.gov.

Cemetery team wins award The City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department’s Columbia Cemetery Conservation Corps has been selected to receive the first Betty Chronic Preservation in Action Award. The corps received the award for its work since 1999 toward the rehabilitation, restoration and conservation of the cemetery, which continues to be one of Boulder’s premier historical resources. The award was given during the annual membership meeting and awards ceremony for Historic Boulder, Inc., which was founded by Chronic. Chronic, who passed away recently, was a longtime advocate for preserving Boulder history. For more information about Historic Boulder, call 303-444-5192.

Boulder Housing Partners gets grant Boulder Housing Partners (BHP) has been awarded $1.5 million in lowinterest bonds for energy efficiency and renewable energy projects. The Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds were authorized through the American

Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as well as the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, and will be used to fund energy-related projects at BHP’s public housing properties. Specifically, BHP will use the bond proceeds toward a $2 million Energy Performance Contract that will reduce energy and conserve water at eight public housing sites. The contract is expected to reduce carbon emissions in BHP’s housing by 6,915 metric tons over the project’s life.

Trail guides, junior rangers needed The City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) Department is looking for volunteers to traverse OSMP trails and enhance visitors’ experiences. Guides will provide information on area features, natural and cultural history, seasonal changes and management practices.

Guides are also responsible for reporting visitor issues and inquiries as well as area conditions to staff, and for contacting emergency services when necessary. Periodic training is offered. For more information, call Susan Ross at 720-564-2013. OSMP is also accepting applications for the Junior Ranger Program, which allows teens 14 to 17 years old to conduct trail maintenance, weed removal and other maintenance projects for five weeks during the summer. The program incorporates job see BRIEFS Page 12

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Get in, gimme money Boulder police are investigating an aggravated robbery, second-degree kidnapping and criminal conspiracy that occurred on March 22 at about 7:20 p.m. at 14th and College streets.

Two young men reported that they got into a car with three men who held them at gunpoint and demanded money before letting the victims out of the car. Officers located the suspect vehicle later in the evening and took the driver, an adult male, into custody.

Detectives say they expect additional arrests. The investigation is continuing, and no additional details are being released at this time.

Wiring money On March 13, a Boulder County sheriff ’s deputy responded to a report of a “suspicious male doing something with wires” on an electrical pole at the corner of 95th Street

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and Niwot Road. The deputy arrived at the intersection and found a man sitting next to a ditch with his bicycle nearby. When questioned, the man told the deputy he was “just hanging out.” The officer noticed a hammer in the bicycle’s basket and then discovered a pair of wire cutters, a pair of gloves and two rolls of copper wire. Upon questioning, the man reportedly told the deputy that he had taken the wire from the electrical poles “for money.” Xcel estimated the damage at $850 and the value of the wire at $50.

Forgetful driver On March 13, a deputy from the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office attempted a routine traffic stop after spotting a car going 49 mph in a 35 mph zone in the 1500 block of Main Street in Longmont. The driver of the car, however, continued to drive,

reportedly changing lanes without signaling and running a red light.

After slowing down and speeding up several times, the report says, the car came to a sudden stop at 11th and Gay streets. When the deputy asked the driver why he hadn’t stopped, he said, “I must have forgot.”

Assault suspect arrested Investigators from the Boulder Police Department have arrested a suspect in connection with a lifethreatening assault that occurred in the early hours of March 6, at the southeast corner of 11th and Walnut streets. The suspect, Eric Anthony Bustillos, 21, turned himself in on March 17, after detectives obtained a warrant for his arrest, police said.

The suspect was identified after police released a composite sketch prepared by a witness and shared information about the crime with

the University of Colorado Police Department. An e-mail sent out by UCPD resulted in a significant tip.

According to police reports, the victim, Charles Gonsher, and a friend had left the Walrus Saloon and were attempting to get a cab when they got into a confrontation with a group of three men. Bustillos is accused of punching the victim in the face, causing him to fall to the ground and lose consciousness.

Gonsher, 23, remained unconscious for several minutes, and according to doctors who treated him, he suffered brain hemorrhaging, as well as broken facial bones and might have died if not seen quickly by medical personnel. He is expected to need additional surgery.

Police said Bustillos was booked into the Boulder County Jail on a charge of second-degree assault.

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EarthTalk boulderweekly.com/earthtalk E-waste Dear EarthTalk: I work for an office equipment company selling copiers, fax machines, computers and printers.

Each year new models come out making old ones obsolete. As a result, we have loads of trade-ins with nowhere to go.

What can we do with this old equipment? — Jeff P., Worcester, MA

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lectronic waste, or “e-waste” as it’s called, is a growing problem in the United States and abroad, as obsolete or broken computers and other electronic equipment are taking up increasingly precious amounts of landfill space and potentially leaking hazardous substances into surrounding ecosystems.

The nonprofit Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition reports that 70 percent of the heavy metals in U.S. landfills are from discarded electronics — even though the e-waste itself accounts for only 2 percent of the trash by volume. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reports that Americans trash two million tons of unwanted electronics each year — six times the amount they recycle. To make matters worse, U.S. companies often ship old equipment to poor nations, where the landfills and incinerators are ill-equipped, subjecting struggling populations to lead, cadmium, beryllium and other contaminants.

So what can be done? If your old units still work but have merely been eclipsed by newer models, then by all means donate them to a needy cause that will either put them to good use or resell them to help fund their programs. You’ll earn a tax deduction for a charitable donation and, by keeping the equipment alive, prevent the manufacture of new units and thus, if ever so slightly, reduce the footprint of your operations.

But not every charity accepts old equipment, and no one wants to spend all day calling around to find one that does.

A good place to look, then, is Goodwill, which will accept your equipment and then sell it through any one of its 1,500 retail stores across the country. Proceeds fund programs to help the disabled, illiter12 March 25, 2010

ate, homeless and those on welfare by providing job training and placement programs. The Salvation Army runs similar programs and also typically accepts donated old office equipment.

Another option is to donate your equipment to needy schools, either directly or via a service like iLoveSchools. com, which helps teachers find free supplies and equipment for their classrooms.

The National Cristina Foundation also matches donated technology with needy schools and nonprofits. Also, the website GreatNonprofits.org maintains a list of charities in need of various types of office equipment. You can also offload equipment via Freecycle, a free service that helps find homes for unwanted stuff.

While finding a new home for your old gear is preferable, recycling is also an option. Recyclers harvest parts from old equipment that can be reused or resold.

Several websites, including My Green Electronics, E-cycling Central, and Earth911, list electronics recyclers across the U.S. Some of these vendors will charge a small fee to recycle an item for you; others may do it for free. Also, Office Depot, Staples and some other stores will take back used electronics — even if not purchased there — usually for a small fee.

CONTACTS: Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, www.svtc.org; Goodwill, www. goodwill.org; Salvation Army, www.salvationarmy.org; iLoveSchools.com, www. iloveschools.com; National Cristina Foundation, www.cristina.org; GreatNonprofits.org, www.greatnonprofits.org; Freecycle, www.freecycle.org; E-cycling Central, www.ecyclingcentral. com; Earth911, www.earth911.org; Office Depot, www.officedepot.com; Staples, www.staples.com.

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skills, stewardship and environmental education, and Junior Rangers also participate in team-building activities that help define their work experience. For more information, call 303-413-7615.

Applications for both roles can be found at www.osmp.org.

Caregiver training begins in April Boulder County Aging Services is offering the National Caregiver Training Program for family caregivers of older adults on Tuesdays, April 6 to May 18, from 1 to 4 p.m., at the East Boulder Senior Center. The course is open to county residents caring for a relative, partner or friend who is 60 or older (50 and older if the care recipient has dementia).

Preregistration is required, and class size is limited. Registration is free, but donations are welcome. Financial assistance for respite care (substitute elder care) during class periods is available.

The 21-hour course, taught by a registered nurse, helps family caregivers acquire the skills needed to provide safe, confident home care for older loved ones. Classes include DVDs, detailed instruction, demonstration and handson practice. For more information and to register, please contact Emily Cooper at 303-678-6116 or ecooper@bouldercounty.org.

Sort yard needs hosts Boulder County is seeking individuals interested in helping promote community-based forestry by volunteering as Community Forestry Sort Yard hosts.

The CFSY program was established in 2008 as a public service to help forest landowners become more active stewards of their land and to increase use of locally produced sustainable wood products. A collaborative effort with PeaktoPeakwood.org, the program aims to provide private forest landowners a free-of-charge location to dispose of trees cut from their land during forest health improvement, bark beetle and defensible space cutting projects.

The Meeker Park CFSY, located on the Peak-to-Peak Highway near Meeker Park, will reopen to private forest landowners in early May and will operate until mid-July. A new Nederland CFSY, located on Ridge Road just north of Nederland, is anticipated to open in early August and will operate into October.

Volunteers greet people as they enter the yard, collect data on the material they are delivering and provide outreach to users about forest ecology, bark beetles and wildfire mitigation. Volunteers will not be responsible for helping unload woody biomass, but should be able to commit to two- to four-hour shifts, a minimum of eight hours per

month. The greatest need is for volunteers on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and all necessary training will be provided on April 26.

For more information, contact Wayne Harrington at pinebeetle@bouldercounty.org or 303-678-6368.

Applications for this volunteer opportunity are due by April 17.

For more information, visit www. bouldercounty.org/foresthealth and www.peaktopeakwood.org.

Register for PERL program People of color interested in civic engagement across Boulder County are invited to register for the free People Engaged in Raising Leaders (PERL) training program. The five-week curriculum focuses on connecting communities of color with nonprofit organizations and commissions ready to embrace inclusion.

In an effort to increase the representation of people of color on boards and commissions, Boulder County Community Action Programs developed PERL to teach individuals from the county’s diverse communities about the inner workings of boards and commissions. Participants learn about communications, budgeting and fundraising, the difference between boards and commissions, and much more.

The PERL training program will be held April 6-May 25, from 6-8 p.m., at Boulder County Community Services, in the Sundquist Building, at 3482 N. Broadway in Boulder.

For more information or to register, contact Perla Delgado at 303-441-3956 or pdelgado@bouldercounty.org.

Youth mentors needed Boulder County is looking for volunteers willing to dedicate their time on a weekly basis to help local teens achieve positive life changes.

The Boulder County Community Services Mentor Program is seeking adults — especially male mentors — who can work well with teens, be a positive role model and commit to three hours of mentoring per week. Volunteer time essentially consists of activities enjoyed by participants, whether it is going to a ballgame, watching a movie or just grabbing a bite to eat.

Volunteers are required to complete a 13-hour training and commit to mentor a teen for one year. The training will be held on April 7, 8 and 10. Mentors will meet with their teens once a week for several hours according to a flexible schedule that meets their needs and the schedule of their mentees.

The deadline to apply is April 2. For more information, contact Janice Allan at 303-441-3718 or jallan@bouldercounty.org.

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eople who live in apartment complexes — or shady spots — may soon have more access to the economic and environmental benefits of solar power, thanks to a deal brokered this week between a legislator and Colorado solar companies.

Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder, agreed to make a couple of concessions to the local solar industry to gain its support for one of her bills, HB 1342.

But she turned down others, saying the solar companies seemed more concerned about protecting their market share than expanding the use of solar energy in the state.

Solar industry representatives counter that they were simply trying to clear up areas of confusion and save jobs, and they are quick to thank Levy for compromising.

HB 1342, which was amended and passed by the House on second reading March 23, is intended to expand the use of solar energy in Colorado by extending rebates and renewable energy credits beyond just solar panels located on a single customer’s property.

The bill would direct the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to broaden the ways in which electricity is generated from renewable sources. (HB 1001, signed by Gov. Bill Ritter on March 22, increases the minimum amount of Colorado electricity that must be produced from renewable energy sources from 20 percent to 30 percent by 2020.)

Levy’s bill would require the PUC to adopt new rules extending existing rebates and renewable energy credits to “community solar gardens” — solar facilities owned by 10 or more custom-

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ers, at a shared location.

Currently, the rules provide for those rebates and renewable energy credits for solar facilities at the customer’s site, leaving out many renters, residents whose homes have physical characteristics that preclude the use of solar panels, people whose houses are heavily shaded and low-income residents.

Levy’s bill would let such residents band together to set up an array of solar panels on the rented roof of an apartment complex, for instance, or at another location within the city or county.

“The purpose of solar gardens is to give more people the benefits of solar,” she tells Boulder Weekly.

The bill would allow solar gardens to generate up to 2 megawatts, or 2,000 kilowatts, of electricity.

(Photovoltaic panels generate only about 5 kilowatts on average for the typical single-family home.) The legislation would also require utilities like Xcel Energy to reach out to lowincome customers as part of any plan for a solar garden.

Industry concerns But local solar companies, represented by the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association (CoSEIA), questioned some of the details of the proposal. According to Levy, those concerns arose primarily from a perceived threat to the revenue stream provided by traditional residential solar

projects.

For instance, she says, the bill originally defined solar gardens as “community-based projects.” By state law, each kilowatt-hour of renewable energy generated at a “community-based project” is counted as 1.5 kilowatthours. So that would have given Colorado utilities like Xcel 50 percent more toward their renewable energy quota than what they get for traditional solar projects. Some say that was seen by the solar industry as a threat, because it could give Xcel an incentive to favor solar gardens to get that additional credit to meet its quota.

But CoSEIA Executive Director Neal Lurie counters that defining solar gardens as community-based projects would have led to a net reduction in the amount of solar energy produced, because 6 megawatts would have counted as 9 megawatts on Xcel’s quota sheet, which is not accurate and would have allowed the utility to meet its minimum percentage of renewable energy without providing the full amount required otherwise. He also called it “preferential treatment” for solar gardens that could have led to job losses in the industry.

Levy agreed to remove that language from the bill, so the current version no longer defines solar gardens as community-based projects.

“I think we’ve made tremendous progress, and CoSEIA has removed its opposition to this bill,” Lurie says of the changes Levy made to the legislation. “The intent is to ultimately grow the amount of solar installed in Colorado, but we looked at the details in the bill, and we had a significant number of areas in question and areas of uncertainty.”

Levy, however, stopped short of granting another of the solar industry’s requests, related to how rebates for solar gardens would be paid by Xcel.

HB 1001, the clean-energy bill signed

by Ritter this week, sets categories under which utilities must meet their quotas. There is “wholesale distributed generation” and “retail distributed generation.” The latter can be residential or nonresidential and refers to renewable energy generated at a customer’s site and primarily for the customer’s use.

Levy told Boulder Weekly that CoSEIA initially wanted solar gardens classified as “wholesale,” so that they wouldn’t compete for Xcel rebate money with traditional solar projects in the “retail” category.

Levy categorizes solar gardens as “retail” in her bill, leaving the question of “residential” or “nonresidential” up to the PUC. “I could not agree to that,” she says of the request to make solar gardens wholesale. “It’s not consistent with what wholesale power is.”

The wholesale category is for largescale projects that give Xcel economy of scale by allowing it to fund higherefficiency projects at a lower per-watt cost, and applying solar gardens to that category would be “wasting wholesale [subsidies by] subsidizing what is essentially retail,” Levy says.

‘Bad policy’ She adds that solar industry representatives seemed to be more concerned with their bottom line and less concerned about a net increase in the amount of solar energy being generated in the state.

“I thought that was bad policy and not an environmentally friendly approach,” Levy says. “It is a position motivated solely to protect their business model, not with any interest in the long-term environmental interests of solar gardens.”

But CoSEIA’s Lurie disagrees, respectfully. He says the suggestion to

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make solar gardens wholesale was part of earlier discussions on the bill, and that stakeholders agreed it wouldn’t be an appropriate categorization because wholesale is for massive projects that produce 10 or 20 megawatts — much more than could be produced by any solar gardens.

“We need to make sure solar gardens are classified consistent with the size of the systems that will be added,” Lurie says.

Still, he says CoSEIA is now hoping that the PUC will categorize solar gardens as nonresidential retail, not residential retail, which is the territory of traditional rooftop solar projects and a separate rebate budget line for Xcel.

“I don’t think anyone wants to replace 400 rooftop solar projects with one large solar garden,” he says, adding that it’s not about protecting market share, it’s about avoiding replacing one type of solar with another. “The intent is to increase the aggregate amount of solar.”

Levy made another concession to CoSEIA. Some in the solar industry felt threatened by the prospect of a large solar garden generating as much as 2 megawatts, which Lurie says very few Colorado solar companies could handle.

Most companies that do such big projects are out-of-state, especially in California, he says.

“And those aren’t going to fit on a roof,” Lurie quips.

Jacob Jenkins of Boulder’s Standard Renewable Energy agrees.

“Those are enormous solar-factory farms,” he says. “Those would not fit on the roof of Boulder High. None of the local retailers could handle the installation of a 2-megawatt farm.”

So in an effort to keep the initial emphasis on small-scale solar gardens, the original bill called for a two-year introductory period in which utilities would be required to purchase a minimum amount of their solar-garden energy from gardens producing 500 kilowatts or less.

Levy has since agreed to extend that period to three years.

“We thank and congratulate Rep. Levy for her support of the solar industry and for her willingness to address our concerns,” Lurie says, calling the extension to three years “more time for the market to adjust.”

Lurie also thanked Levy for strengthening language in the bill that caps solar gardens at no more than 20 percent of the “retail” category during those first three years. Originally, the bill stated that utilities “shall not be obligated to purchase the output from more than six megawatts of newly installed community solar garden generation.”

Six megawatts equals about 20 percent of that retail distributed generation, according to Xcel spokesperson Tom Henley.

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Xcel agreeable Henley says Xcel had no problem with Levy’s changes to the legislation.

“We are in favor of those amendments,” he told Boulder Weekly. “We are fine with them. It was done to ensure widespread support for the bill.”

Officials at local solar companies say they are all in favor of solar gardens.

But they share some of the concerns about the original version of the bill, and say that Levy could have involved the industry earlier.

“We were left out of the bill-writing process,” Jenkins told Boulder Weekly.

“We were brought in late in the process, and so we were put on the defensive.”

Jenkins agrees that a major issue was whether the bill would displace Xcel rebates for traditional rooftop solar with funding for solar gardens.

“We wanted to make sure it didn’t cut too much into the pie,” he says. “We like solar gardens, we just want to see an even playing field. … The residentialretail is the area that all of these local companies operate in, so to have a chunk of that money suddenly pulled out for solar gardens would be problematic, as we see it.”

Geoff Manchester, general manager of Boulder’s Lighthouse Solar, says the rebate is a major driver of the recent boom in the solar industry, because it can cover about half the cost of installation. Projects of more than 10 kilowatts generate an additional monthly rebate, he says.

Manchester told Boulder Weekly that local solar companies are just trying to stay competitive, at least until the energy industry reaches “grid parity” — when the ever-decreasing cost of solar and the ever-increasing cost of electricity meet in the middle and cost the same.

“We want these incentives to stay around until, in a perfect world, we don’t need them,” Jenkins says of the pending grid parity, which some say could happen as early as 2012. “We’re getting closer to the point where those two lines intersect on the graph.”

Manchester says that one has to be flexible in the solar business.

“You’ve just got to follow the ball in this industry,” he says. “If they change the game, you’ve got to be versatile.”

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Nipples in the news again For a progressive city, Boulder is sure full of prudes — constipated, uptight, irrational prudes.

It started with nude bike riders and naked pumpkin runners, who pedaled and ran with their junk showing. Prudes complained to the cops because — gasp! — there’s really nothing more horrific than seeing another person’s genitals. The cops cracked down, leaving several harmless pranksters facing the possibility of being classified as sex offenders.

So the city’s leadership decided it was time for a new ordinance, one that would enable the cops to cite bike riders and pumpkin runners, but would spare the latter from being lumped in with rapists and child molesters. This almost resulted in female nipples being outlawed, as well. Thanks to the leadership of Macon Cowles and Lisa Morzel, that provision of the proposed ordinance was eliminated.

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out to garden in a legally permitted state of undress — topless and wearing a thong — and the prudes freaked again.

The police, rather than telling complainants that Pierce was within her legal rights to go topless, showed up and asked her to put on a shirt out of concern for children playing nearby.

Because if a child ever saw a woman’s tits, he’d be scarred for life.

Pierce, to her credit, refused. And there wasn’t a damned thing anyone could do about.

This has set the prudes to asking whether City Council needs to restore the ban on female nipples to the proposed ordinance.

What’s the message here?

Perhaps it’s this: “Women have the freedom to go topless like men — as long as they choose never to do it.”

Or this: “Female nipples are bad for children to see (unless babies are sucking on them), but male nipples aren’t.” (It’s doubtful that any Boulder cop has asked a man hanging shirtless in his yard to cover up for the sake of nearby children.)

Or maybe this: “Police will try to enforce nonexistent laws if enough people whine.”

Well, here’s our message: Boulder prudes who are offended by the sight of female nipples should move to Colorado Springs, where similarly minded prudes will spare them even the sight of pink puppet cleavage.

Colo. lawmakers scale back on drug war It wasn’t an admission that the war on drugs is a failure, but it was still significant. On Tuesday, March 23, the House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of House Bill 1352, which would reduce sentences for drug use, possession and marijuanarelated crimes. The bill is designed to save the state about $50 billion on incarceration costs and to shift the emphasis from imprisonment to drugtreatment programs, which have proven to be more effective at helping people with drug addiction than a stint in prison.

Hey, it’s about bloody time. If we want to help drug addicts rather than simply punish them, prison isn’t the answer.

Treatment is.

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Top 10 Stories Week of March 18 -24 1. Working out the kinks: Ray Davies 2. Poop, Plants and Pollution Is it one man’s journey to save Boulder County’s groudwater from the contamination of biosolids or is he just sick of the smell?

3. Environmental impacts of the Haiti earthquake 4. Body Worlds arrives in Denver 5. Community first, near and abroad 6. Astrology (3/18) 7. Colorado attorney general joins lawsuit challenging health care reform 8. More than a brewpub 9. Let the nipples roam free 10. Panorama (3/18)

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Not safe to get sick yet It was an epic battle, almost Homeric in scope. Sides were taken.

Lines were drawn. Aspersions were cast, lies told, accusations made. But in the end Congress passed a health care reform bill.

And yet what drama preceded that last vote! How surreal it was to watch Americans argue against their best interests, tossing the word “socialism” around as if they actually understood what it means. But that was no stranger than watching Catholic bishops sound off on health care reform as if it they, not Congress, had been elected to represent the people. And then there are the Republicans, who made it clear for the record that they value corporate profit more than people.

Still, the bill passed. And that is, as Vice President Joe Biden so eloquently put it, “a big fucking deal.”

But don’t think it’s safe to get cancer just yet. Though the bill will be signed into law on Tuesday, March 30, its most important measures don’t become effective until 2014. Health insurances companies have until then to put their profits before humans.

That’s a long way off if you had the bad timing to get sick right now.

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Would you donate your body to a museum exhibit like Body Worlds?

• Absolutely. My body is banging! 25% • No way! It’s kind of gross. 36% • I’m not sure. Would my genitalia be showing? 13% • It’s against my religion. 25%

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Are solar gardens the way of the future?

• Of course! We should live off the sun!

• Nah. I’ll stick with my coal and gas.

• Um. What’s a solar garden?

• It’s an option among many others.

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Slideshow Check out photos from the new exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Body Worlds & The Story of the Heart.

The exhibit will run from now until July 18, 2010.

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A context-free shot of one of the highlights from the Found Footage Festival.

Thursday, March 25

Found Footage Festival — Two comedy writers present some gems from their found footage collection. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Friday, March 26

Salsa Dancing — Salsa dancing is a great first date because you don’t have to touch your partner unless you get really enthusiastic. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

Saturday, March 27

Music and Mimosas — Get your Saturday started the right way with tunes and booze. Every Saturday 9-11 a.m. The Curious Cup Café, 1377 Forest Park Cir., Lafayette, 720-890-4665.

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or those who haven’t had the pleasure, South

By Southwest (otherwise known as SXSW) is the yearly arts festival held over the last week of winter down in Austin. Initially a music convention prowled by eager publicists trying to keep their underpaying jobs, burned out music journo/ blogger types glumly flapping their plumage at each other, and aspiring Next Big Things playing their makeor-break gigs before dispassionate and usually sozzled industry tastemakers, the thing has grown to include technology, graphic arts and assorted other things that people gather in conventions to talk about, watch, twiddle with, talk about, listen to, talk about … etc., etc.

But it’s still mainly a music thing, and while we wouldn’t begrudge one of America’s greatest musical meccas its yearly pridefest — nearly orgiastic in the sheer crush of talent and near-talent — we couldn’t help but wonder if it’s sort of crazytime for the locals, especially the local players.

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So unsurprisingly, we were told it might be a bit of a trick to get Christina Marrs on the horn last week, with the convention in full gallop. Founder and grande-dame of the Austin landmark Americana franchise Asylum Street Spankers, we conjured images of her and her bandmate-husband Wammo sneaking around spiking the punch or hosting some freakishly costumed court like some vaudevillian Gomez and Morticia, freaking out the trendy L.A. industry types with Bix Biederbecke covers in five-part harmony and washboard.

But actually, we caught her at home, quietly waiting for Wammo to get back from the store (“He can’t manage a trip to the store without calling me four or five times,” she says).

SXSW has kind of lost its zing for Marrs.

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Chicago — Check out one of the finest musicals ever written.

12 p.m. & 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Monday, March 29

Avery Tasting Room — Tours and tastings at one of Boulder’s many fine breweries. 12-8 p.m.

Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Tuesday, March 30

Jazz Night — Supercollider plays the Laughing Goat. 8:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday, March 31 151 Days of Tequila: The Finale — We’re just bummed we missed the first 150. 6:30 p.m.

Zolo Southwestern Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-0444.

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center, maybe go to a few panels. Me personally, now I just go to our own showcases and call it quits. There’s a lot of people who want to see the same things you do, so good luck getting in.

There’s just so many thousands of more people in town, it’s craziness down there.

“It’s funny — most of the music biz people don’t even see a lot of the music, they’re just there for the parties. I mean, this is our 14th SXSW… and you can see what it’s done for us,” she laughs.

“We did meet our Japanese label guy at SXSW one year. … That was probably the biggest thing that came out of it for us, getting a Japanese label and getting to tour Japan a few times.

‘Course, that was also the year I had to leave Tom Waits’ show early to go play my own showcase. We had to walk out after about half his show. … That was extremely hard to do; I think we inched out backwards the whole way. We had our bandmates set up our equipment ahead of time and then we ran all the way to the venue.”

The Spankers have little to prove anymore after a decade and a half of deep-roots Americana, braided into musical theater, post-hippy vaudeville, social commentary and a little goodold-fashioned, cheek-slappin’ secular raunch. Secular? Well, maybe a break from that on their latest CD, God’s

Favorite Band, a nearly plausible speculation for a collection of (mostly) gospel tunes (e.g., “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,” an old Louis Armstrong nugget from the ’30s, a roadside diner read of “Last Way of the Mile,” a slightly honky-tonk “Wade in the Water,” plus the slightly woozy and offcatechism “Volkswagen Thing”) harkening back to the days when the band played its now renowned huevos ’n’ worship “gospel brunch” at La Zona Rosa, a local Tex-Mex joint.

She gets asked about it a lot, but

pointed out to us, “Now, there’s all kinds of gospel brunches around town, but I’m pretty sure ours was the first.”

But gospel’s more than novelty for Marrs.

“It’s the genesis of all American roots forms. It’s the very beginning of everything.

“I really like it. It’s hard to listen to gospel music without tapping a foot. …

It’s so harmony-rich, and it’s just such a joyous musical form, even if you don’t subscribe to a dogma or get the whole message out of it. I love it. I love tango

music, too, and my Spanish is about good enough to order dinner.”

We noticed on their website a public call for a new mando-multi-instrumentalist, hardly a shock for a band that, since the departure of co-founder Guy Forsyth a decade ago, has churned through nearly two dozen players.

We couldn’t help but ask if Marrs was a tough boss.

She laughed.

“I think … when I think back on all the people that have come and gone, you know you’re dealing with human beings. Some people just don’t like being on the road, especially with the kind of schedule we’ve been keeping, 180 gigs a year, most of those outside of Texas. … We replace someone about once a year.

“At this point, it’s just so old hat for us. I remember the first person that quit the band, I was devastated. ‘How can we ever go on?’ It’s funny because it was our bass player, and at this point I can’t even count the number of bass players we’ve had.

“And we’ve had to rebuild this band from the ground up. We got to the point where it was just me and Wammo, and we were about ready to pack it in.

But we thought, ‘hey, why can’t we put this back together’. So we did.

“And that was 10 years ago.”

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By Dan Hinkel

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issertations have been written about tribute bands, which present a very cool opportunity to use the word “simulacra.”

But to deconstruct Zoso — “The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience” — is to miss an opportunity to enjoy its beautiful, backward-looking simplicity. These guys play Led Zeppelin’s songs like Led Zeppelin, and they look like Led Zeppelin did in 1974. Precision is key. Creativity is irrelevant. They are not a cheaper version of the real thing. They are the most realistic imitation of a thing that no longer exists.

Led Zeppelin’s drummer is dead, and one need only re-watch The Who’s Super Bowl appearance to presume that watching younger guys imitate Led Zeppelin would be more fun than watching older guys be Led Zeppelin. If singer Robert Plant can ever be lured back from being a critically acclaimed countryfolk musician to go on a reunion-farewell tour, that spectacle would be an expensive, saddening living wake. A competent facsimile of the past is now preferable to the present.

Zoso singer Matt Jernigan is not immodest enough to make that point, but he appears to recognize his band’s awesome business model. Jernigan — a Georgian with a syrupy Southern accent who now makes his living impersonating a Brit who imitated black Southern blues musicians — is an accidental Plant. He and his band were slugging away as an original act in L.A. in the 1990s, making little progress with their own blues-rock, when a manager suggested they try out the Zeppelin tribute concept.

Turns out Jernigan and the guys weren’t bad in their roles and, 15 years later, they still tour aggressively as one of the more elite acts in the disrespected subgenre of live tribute music. The show rolls into the Fox Theatre on March 25.

Jernigan gives much credit to Zeppelin’s huge cat-

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alog of great music for his group’s longevity and popularity.

“If you like rock and roll, you have to like them,” Jernigan says.

True, in the vast rock ’n’ roll empire, Led Zeppelin is less a band than a mandatory cultural experience.

Their sexy Gandalf music — a catalog that alternates between juicy eroticism and Anglo-dork storytelling — is ubiquitous on classic rock radio. If you liked hard rock in the 1970s, you were there with Zeppelin.

If you grew up without a CD player in your car in the 1980s and 1990s, Zeppelin was still there with you, like a friend who always needs a ride. New Led Zeppelin fans continued to be minted through the 1990s, and we’ll see if that has continued in the 2000s. Indeed, “D’yer Mak’er,” the witless but catchy reggae stomp from Houses of the Holy, just started playing in the cafe in which this story is being written.

Led Zeppelin is riper for tribute than any other

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acts other than The Beatles and Elvis. They also are not easy to ape skillfully. All three instrumentalists — John Bonham on drums, John Paul Jones on bass and Jimmy Page on guitar — are elevated as models of instrumental style and technical competence, while the open-shirted Plant, simultaneously virile and womanly, cracked glass with his breathy shriek.

Zoso is exacting, from the clothes to the gear. The Page guy ( John McDaniel) has the iconic Gibson Les Paul and the double-necked SG; the Bonham guy (Greg Thompson) plays clear amber-colored drums.

Jernigan can walk you through specifics on amps.

“That’s the way you get that tone,” he said of instrumental authenticity.

Jernigan is confident in his band’s ability to rock anyone who even passingly likes Led Zeppelin. He recalled a venue owner who, clearly aware of the dubious credibility of the tribute music movement, told customers that, if they didn’t like the band before the third song was over, they could get their admission money back on the way out the door. The owner later said no one left, Jernigan says.

“It’s got something for everyone,” he says.

If Jernigan has tired of this lucrative creative dead end, he isn’t talking about it with a newspaper writer.

He says the Zeppelin’s huge catalog of nine studio albums, eight of which contain at least one classic track, means the music doesn’t get stale. He claims to not have favorite and least favorite Zeppelin songs. He says he wouldn’t want to pay tribute to any other band.

He acknowledges that, like the real band, the members of his band will someday grow too old to play the young version of the old band. He says he’s not sure when that might happen. As for new fans, Led Zeppelin awareness remains high in American society.

“All I can say is, I’m hoping it’ll just go until people don’t wanna hear it anymore,” he says.

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Cool breeze of success Seabird flies into town

by Brian Palmer

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sually bands — and their labels — try to milk their newfound success for all they can before moving on to another record, so it was something of a surprise when Seabird recently released their sophomore album, Rocks Into Rivers, a mere 18 months after their 2008 debut, ‘Til We See the Shore.

Tracks from Shore appeared on TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy, Numb3rs and Pushing Daisies, plus they were featured in a Paste CD sampler, and with good reason: this quartet makes piano pop songs that are among the best around. It is something of a wonder that more people have not yet latched onto this band, but this quartet is gradually making its presence known on the music scene, and the steady influx of new fans should continue for the foreseeable future.

The band’s first single off Rocks Into Rivers, “Don’t You Know You’re Beautiful,” is a perfect representation of the album’s tone and sound. A tale of a woman whose world has shattered to pieces because of her parents’ divorce, it is an epic love song meant to remind her — and all of us, really, regardless of where we find ourselves in life — that we are all far more valuable than we can possibly imagine. Skyscraping guitars and strong vocals from singer Aaron Morgan bring the message home with stark clarity and power.

Like this track, most of the album’s 12 songs are simultaneously loaded with the sort of beauty and fire that some bands strive for their entire careers, yet rarely achieve.

Much like their debut album, most of the tracks on Rocks Into Rivers are sung and performed with such passion that they feel cathartic, which is fitting because a lot of the material the band writes is deeply personal to them. Songs like “The Good

King” and “Baby I’m in Love” are filled with the vitality of new life as they focus, respectively, on life through a newborn’s eyes, and realizing how your pregnant wife is already becoming an amazing mother. Songs like “The Road” and the title track stir up some soul-searching questions and feelings as well, delving respectively into the difficult curve balls that life throws at us and the unfortunate reality that we take far too many things for granted far too easily.

The band effectively mixes glorious melodies and exciting rock ’n’ roll grooves with just the right amount of quirkiness, subtle moments and insightful lyrics to be more than just a good time. Unafraid to give their audience meaty sounds and meaningful content, Seabird is bound to put on a show that will resonate with the audience’s emotional side without devolving into emo-style histrionics. Fans of Coldplay, Maroon 5 and the like should be pleased by what they hear.

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One of the other acts appearing will be the California-based quintet, Sherwood.

One listen to half the tracks on their Myspace page and you can sense that not only are they on their way up in the music world, but their material is likely to play well on stage too. Their latest release, QU, is a hybrid of indie rock and anthemic power pop that is loaded with energy and filled with everything from ethereal guitars to hand-clapping beats and surround sound-style echoing choruses.

From the Vertical Horizon-esque “You Are” to the hints of Barenaked Ladies heard in “Hit the Bottom,” there are more than a few double-take moments on this album, but that is far from being a bad thing. Even when they sound similar to other bands, the band infuses enough creativity into their tracks to make the songs their own.

Whether by using minute-long piano interludes before exploding into one of their songs, or employing an almost choir-like team of background vocalists to fill out some of the tracks, Sherwood takes the familiar and makes it sound fresh.

Also appearing will be the electro pop stylings of Reece and the emo-meets-pop-meets-rock sounds of Black Gold. Reece matches his semi-catchy tunes with thin vocals and falsettos reminiscent of JC Chasez and Justin Timberlake, but on the whole the material is forgettable and fairly bland. Black Gold’s songs on the other hand, have an odd appeal with their mixture of lilting, sometimes dreary vocals and rapid-fire delivery colliding just right with funky, jangly guitars, subtle drums and moody keyboards.

This is a solid concert lineup and the folks who have tickets to this concert should be in for a great time.

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“Each rope has a personality. When three ropes crisscross and overlap, there is a conversation,” Becker says during an interview at her downtown Boulder studio.

Ropes is part of the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s winter/spring exhibition, on view through May 23. The show also features oil paintings by North Carolina artist Beverly McIver and three mixedmedia installations by Denver artist Steve Steele. thick rope with a lime green and blue herringbone Joan Markowitz curates the exhibit. pattern intersected by a thin rope with tan and white A film about Becker’s rope art produced by The diagonal lines. Smooth brown and orange ropes Studio Project runs in the Ropes space. The Studio wrapped around the patterns add a splash of color to Project is a teen-led program organized by BMoCA the maze. “Ropes in Aqua, Rust, & Brown” features and local high school students to explore contempoaqua/brown and rust/brown color patterns accented by rary art and social issues. a smooth brown rope.

Ropes are embedded in Becker’s psyche. As a child Becker sees length, width and depth as she draws. growing up in Kansas, Becker She brings this 3-D sensibility to remembers the fire escape rope her pen-and-colored-pencil On the Bill Exhibits by Pattie Lee Becker, coiled up in her bedroom nook, drawings by adding white space Beverly McIver and Steve Steele ready to use for a quick getaway. to the works. The pieces on paper will be on display through May 23 Nautical knots meander in take on sculptural qualities that at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Becker’s mind when she recalls seduce the eye to dive into the Boulder, 303-443-2122, www. her sailing days. When Becker drawings. The artist’s sculptures bmoca.org. thinks about rock climbing, a are a tactile portrayal of how she sport the artist took up a few draws. years ago, she sees lovely ropes.

“Rope Pile Triptych,” a 30-inch-by-80-inch penLast summer, Becker released her rope reflections and-colored-pencil drawing, and “Rope Pile,” conon paper with “Rope in Celadon on Grey.” That structed of handmade ropes, offer viewers a path into drawing morphed into the series on view at BMoCA. Becker’s creative process. The triptych contains a flowThe works explore lines and shapes through complex ing maze of patterned and solid ropes in orange, brown, patterns, lively color combinations and more. neon blue, red and manilla colors. The rope pile fea“Ropes in Blue, Green, Tan, & Orange” contains a tures ropes of many textures and colors colliding on a

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“The viewer understands the 3-D space I am seeing when I draw, because I am doing it for them in the sculpture,” Becker says.

Becker’s vision crossed mediums while earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design after studying philosophy and fine art at Colorado College for two years.

“I saw that every chair was designed by an artist and that every magazine had a layout and font. I saw that everyone has a hand in every manmade object,” Becker says.

Becker’s eclectic studio, which spills into her home, reflects the artist’s ability to see drawings as future sculptures, pillows, lamp shades or puppets. The cheery front room contains a bookcase filled with many titles; a soft sculpture of a tall creature; and a drawing table.

Drawings ranging from whimsical narratives to abstract botanical art to a piece bursting with color, lines and psychological investigative possibilities adorn the white walls. A small room contains a sewing machine. In the corner, red and white ropes drape over an oval container. A large, soft man sculpture dominates the space. A glass room on the south side of Becker’s studio home features tools, colored pencils and lots of light.

In January, Becker’s residence resembled a quilting bee as friends gathered around a long table to help the artist color “Rope in Blue, Green, Orange, & Brown,” a 51-inch-by-110-inch drawing.

“The intimacy of the space and the meditative quality of coloring provided a safe environment for rich and honest dialogue,” Becker says.

This spring, Becker will be a visiting artist for one month at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, where the artist plans to develop current ideas and possibly do more with ropes.

“Thinking about something in as many ways as I can defines me as an artist,” Becker says.

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music Candy Kane. 7-10 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Dueling Piano Players — Sing-A-Long.

Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

Jason Vigil. Baker Street Pub, 1729 28th St., 720-974-9490.

Kraig Kenning. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Mark Diamond, Chris Lee & Andy Weyl.

6-9 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Mongolian/Bluegrass Exchange. 6 p.m.

Daniels Hall at Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Music with a View — With Windy Peak. 7 p.m. Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7272.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116.

Paul Alexios Kimbiris. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

Rankin Scroo — Reggae. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-4405858.

Run Bambe Run. 9-11 p.m. Buffalo Rose Saloon, 1119 Washington Ave., Golden, 303278-6800.

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

THUNK. 6:30 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Wild Earl — With K.C. Grooves & Betse Ellis. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Zoso : The Unlimited Zeppelin Experience — With The Digger Trends. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399

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A bunch of ladies rocking out to AC/DC. Guaranteed to be cool. With Primasonic. 8:30 doors/9 p.m. show. The Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Argentine Tango. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tangocolorado. org.

Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Chicago. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

The Cody Rivers Show — Comedy show.

7:30 p.m. Nomad Theatre, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 1-800-838-3006.

Dance Home’s Barefoot Boogie — Freeform dancing. 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. The Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-2074.

Found Footage Festival — Presented by The Onion. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

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6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

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Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050. www.flamenco-boulder.com.

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Ayurveda. 11 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Battlefield Band. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall at Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-7771003.

Brent Loveday. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz.

7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667.

Flor de Cana. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

Get Down Science. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

The Gristle Gals. 7 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Hell’s Belles — With Primasonic. 8:30 doors/9 p.m. show. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

The Hollands. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Hot Cheeze Soup. Baker Street Pub, 1729 28th St., 720-974-9490.

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

John Nemeth Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Lion Souljahs — Reggae. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Lionel Young Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Martin Zellar. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre at Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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Boulder/Denver Area 100+ Years of Colorado Art — Paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints.

Kirkland Museum, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200, through April 4.

Embrace! Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000, through April 4.

Extraordinary Images of Ordinary Things — By Brad Hatch. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750

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Face to Face — By Beverly McIver.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through May 23.

Facebook — By William Stoehr. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, through March 26.

Landscapes — Navajo weaving and textiles. Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 North Broadway, 303-4926892, through May 30.

Life on the Range — Selected paintings from the Francis King Collection of Western Art, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200, through April 4.

Relational Fabric in Space & Other Works for the Dark — By Steve Steele.

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through May 23.

Ropes — Pattie Lee Becker. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through May 23.

Serendipity: Unexpected Paths to Expression — By Steve W. Whitehead.

Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, through March 26.

Time Machines — Sculptures by Randy Mulder. Loveland Museum/Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave., Loveland, 970-962-2410, through March 28.

Weaving Memories — Prints by Melanie Yazzie. CU Museum, 1035 Broadway Ave., Boulder, 303-492-6892.

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panorama boulderweekly.com/panorama Mostly Joe Hawkins. 7-9 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.

Niwot Timberline Symphony. 7:30 p.m.

First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-442-3770.

Open Mic — For poets, comedians and musicians. 7 p.m. 8 Port Coffee & Tea House, 1727 15th St., Boulder, 303-955-2221.

Revelation 19. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe.

5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste I, Boulder, 303-4435108.

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

Wet Pizza. 10 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-0486.

events Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Chicago. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Grace & Glorie — Directed by Robert Kramer. 7:30 p.m. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Ste. 200, Golden, 303935-3044.

Gudjieff Movements Class. 7:30 p.m. The Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303939-8463.

Murder Mystery Dinner. 6:45 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

12-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing Co. Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No.20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Saturday, March 27

music Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108.

After Grass. 10 p.m. 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

The Alltunators. 6-9 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Artnat. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe. 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz.

7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667.

Chella Negro. 6 p..m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Crowboy. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Eric Church — With Josh Thompson. 7 p.m. door/8 p.m. show. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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

Jeff Strahan Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Lionel Young Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Hazel Miller — R&B and dance. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

House of Wax Presents — With 3 the Hardway, One-Eyed Kings, Milogic and DJ Shor-T. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Jeremy Dion — With Megan Burtt. 8 p.m.

Tuft Theatre at Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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

Long Road Home — With Grant Farm and Patrick Dethlefs & Friends. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Pete Kartsounes. 4:30-6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room 1800 Pike Rd, Unit B Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Phil Robinson. 7:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696.

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

events Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning/ Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. O Dance Studio, 1501 Lee Hill Rd., #4,

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John McPhee’s Silk Parachute. 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-4361070.

Open Mic Poetry — “So You’re a Poet.” The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

John Thorndike’s The Last of His Mind. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Friday, March 26 Stephen Cannell’s The Pallbearers. 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303322-7727.

Sunday, March 28 Christopher Moore’s Bite Me. 2 p.m. Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

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Tuesday, March 30 Paula Reed’s Hester. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, March 31 Rocky Mountain Land Series. 7:30 p.m.

Tattered Cover, Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

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Jeff Strahan Band —

Cut-your-fingertips blues from this Texas group will set your toe tapping.

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

Boulder, 303-415-1877.

Bug — By Tracy Letts, directed by Brenna Freestone. 8 p.m. OpenStage Theatre, 400 North College Ave., Fort Collins, 970-4845237.

Chicago. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Class Matters — Workshop. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder, 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder, 505-2317724.

Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. Millennium Harvest Hosue Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 888-575-3884.

Earth Hour. 5 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut Street, Boulder, 720 406-9696.

Gear and Cheer — Masquerade party and fundraiser. 6 p.m. The Spot Bouldering Gym, 3240 Prairie Ave., Boulder, 303-938-9191.

Grace & Glorie — Directed by Robert Kramer. 7:30 p.m. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Ste. 200, Golden, 303935-3044.

Laser: Space Odyssey. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, Boulder, 303-4925002.

Music and Mimosas — Every Saturday 9-11 a.m. The Curious Cup Café, 1377 Forest Park Cir., Lafayette, 720-890-4665.

Photoshop Hands-On Intensive. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Through March 21. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

12-6 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing Co. Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No.20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Sunday, March 28

music Acoustic Jam — With Jax Delaguerre. 11:30 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400.

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Derel Evilsizor — A Frank Sinatra tribute.

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

Fox Street All-Stars. 10 p.m. Vine Street Pub, 1700 Vine St. Denver, 303-388-2337.

Go, Go, Gershwin! 2 p.m. Rialto Theater, 228 East Fourth St., Loveland, 970-9622120.

Halden Wofford & the Hi-Beams. 6 p.m.

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

The Infamous Stringdusters — With Pete Kartsounes. 7 p.m. Daniels Hall at Swallow Hill, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Jazz Jam with Mark Diamond — Players welcome. 7:30-10 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Irish Session. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Kirk Margoles. 8:15 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Michael DeLalla. 9:45 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m.

Avery Brewing Company, 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

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

Richard March. 3 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Wild Earl — With K.C. Grooves & Betse Ellis. 6-9 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303485-9400.

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Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Chicago. 12 p.m. & 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to noon.

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E-Town with Jakob Dylan and Danny Barnes. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Grace & Glorie — Directed by Robert Kramer. 6 p.m. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Ste. 200, Golden, 303-9353044.

Hawaiian Chant Class. 5:30-6:15 p.m.

Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772.

Hawaiian Hula. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Sunday Afternoon Tea — Live traditional Japanese music with tea and traditional tea snacks. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3612.

Wizard of Oz — Presented by the Peanut Butter Players. 2 p.m. Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Americana is a dish best served with cold beer. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303546-0886.

Monday, March 29

music Acoustic Plug-In. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

The Asylum Street Spankers. 8 p.m.

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

Fox Street All-Stars. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-5430886.

Getting Started with jQuery. 6-9 p.m.

Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-875-0276. Through March 31.

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m./6:30 p.m. sign-up, D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Mondays at Metro — Student recitals. 2 p.m. King Center Concert Hall, 855 Lawrence Street, Denver, 303-556-2296.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe. 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

events Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Boulder County Alcoholics Anonymous. Happy hour group. 5:30 p.m.

5375 Western Ave., Boulder, www.

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Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m.

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

Hymnographic Content in Znamenny Chant — Music Colloquium series. 1 p.m.

Chamber Hall, CU Campus, Boulder, 303-4928008.

Learning While Burning: Peak Oil, Changing Climate and Our Future. 7:30 p.m, Macky Auditorium, CU Campus, Boulder, 303-551-3675.

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

“So, You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Urban Density and Climate Change — PLAN Boulder County forum. 7-9 p.m.

Sherpa’s Restaurant, 825 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7151.

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music The Atomic Pablo Band. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303443-5108.

Bluegrass Pick. All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303998-9350.

Dexter Payne — Brazilian jazz 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Faculty Tuesdays — With Margaret McDonald. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU Campus, 303-492-8008.

Greensky Bluegrass. 8:30 doors/9 p.m. show. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St, Boulder, 303443-3399.

Insomniacs. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322.

Jazz Night — With Supercollider. 8:30 p.m.

Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Master Class — With Charles Castleman, violin. 4-6 p.m. Chamber Hall, CU Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008.

Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Peace & Love & Jigs & Reels — Celtic music. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Weekly Bluegrass Pick. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

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theater Boulder/Denver Grace & Glorie. Miner’s Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through April 25.

Love, Lies and Lockpicks. Rialto Theater, 228 East Fourth St., Loveland, 970-962-2120. March 26-27.

Mama Hated Diesels. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th Street, Denver, 303-8934100. Through May 9.

Othello. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th Street,

Denver, 303-893-4100. March 26 through May 1.

Over the River and Through the Woods. Longmont Theatre, 513 Main St., Longmont, 303-772-5200, March 26-28.

Postville. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, through March 27.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities.

6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7201, through May 15.

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Boulder Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028.

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m.

Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464.

Sustainable and Organic Gardening — Presentation by Growing Spaces and Global Childrens Gardens. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.

Tips on Travel Photography. 7 p.m. Free Traveler’s Tuesday program. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Wednesday, March 31

music The Clam Daddys. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Kamikazee Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m.

Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

Latin Jazz Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU Campus, Boulder, 303-4928008.

Nelson Rangell — Jazz. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-6652757.

Reggae Wednesday — Natty Nation. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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

events 151 Days of Tequila: The Finale. 6:30 p.m.

Zolo Southwestern Grill, 2525 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-0444.

Arvada Business Connection. 5:30 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Brothers Past. 8:30 doors/9 p.m. show.

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

Chicago. 5:30 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m.

George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350.

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister.

12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

International Film Series — Starship Troopers. 8 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU Campus, www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m.. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4440190.

Morning Music Meditation. 10 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Passive Solar Home Design: Just What You Need to Know. 7:30 p.m. Meadows Library 4800 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-4414390.

Su Teatro in Caniones de la Huelga. 7 p.m. Boulder Public LIbrary Canyon Theater, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, March 25 Adventures Beyond the Solar System.

10 a.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, Boulder, 303-492-5002.

Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Laser: Symphony of the Stars. 1 p.m.

Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, Boulder, 303492-5002.

So Rim Kung Fu for Children. 4:30-5:30 p.m. A Place to B Studio, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-440-8007.

Friday, March 26 Camp Muddy Paws — Spring Break camp.

9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Humane Society of Boulder Valley, 2323 55th St., Boulder, 303-442-4030.

Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-442-1665.

Preschool Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Saturday, March 27 Costume Character Storytime. 10 a.m.

Barnes & Noble. Crossoads Commons, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-1665.

The Wizard of Oz. 11 a.m. & 1:45 p.m.

Harlequin Center for the Performing Arts, 990 Public Rd. Lafayette, 303-786-8727.

Sunday, March 28 Baby Boogie — Bring kids to dance. 2 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-

463-6683.

Go Club — Learn to play the ancient and mysterious board game known as Go. 2 p.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

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Tuesday, March 30 Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

Storytime for Children. 10:15 a.m.

Boulder Public Library, George Reynolds Branch, 3595 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303441-3120.

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303441-3100.

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Sex and jealousy

by Dr. Jenni Skyler

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ne of the most frequent questions I hear is: Should I be jealous if my partner fantasizes about someone else when we are in bed?

Sure, go ahead and be jealous.

Honor this very natural feeling surging through your system. Then take a deep breath and remember that fantasy, even about someone other than your partner, can be one of the essential ingredients to sustaining a satisfying sex life.

Society’s best-kept secret is that most of us fantasize about someone other than our partner — and that’s OK. Fantasy and reality are entirely different paradigms. Some couples even report feeling closer when they can comfortably share their fantasies with one another.

These couples recognize that there is nothing to be jealous of when there is enough permission and room to express those things that live only in the world of fantasy.

That said, there isn’t a single relationship that hasn’t been touched by the seething green tide of jealousy. And if you think you are the exception, you haven’t been together long enough. In relationships, jealousy often bears its hideous head when the sanctity of sexual intimacy is threatened.

The girl pulling daisy petals as she softly hums down the hallway thinking of the boy from physics: “He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me… Crap, he’s walking toward me with that cute cheerleader from Spanish class! Guess he loves me not.”

The recently divorced man who sees his wife’s new profile on Match.com, irate because lots of unknown men have already sent her “winks.”

The woman who stalks Facebook every day just to keep tabs on how many female co-workers are messaging her husband.

The guy who pouts in the corner of the party, upset that his boyfriend is being showered with compliments.

Jealousy is one of the most common and natural emotions we can experience.

But jealousy is often only a perception that we are unlovable and that our partners wish to be with someone else. It’s the body’s somatic reaction to the perceived threat that we will be abandoned or that we are not good enough. Even the most compassionate polyamorist

with exceedingly high levels of compersion has done his/her time treading water in the deep end of jealousy.

(Side note, Sex-Ed 101: Polyamory stems from Greek (poly) and Latin (amor) and means “many loves.”

Basically, it is consensual non-monogamy, or the practice and acceptance of having loving, intimate relationships with more than one person — based upon the knowledge, consent and communication of everyone involved.

Compersion, in this context, is a feeling of authentic and empathetic happiness when one’s romantic partner experiences pleasure and joy with another romantic interest.)

What about when the jealousy is founded? What if this so-called irrational envy of another person manifests as an affair that was tangible, real and raw? This proves to be a more difficult journey to heal from the abandonment and betrayal. But it doesn’t change the fact that you are still the lovable, wonderful human being that deserves so much more.

Regardless of relationship status, the story boils down to the same point. Am I lovable enough? Am I good enough?

The answer is still yes, but now the individual has to find that within him/ herself. We can free ourselves from the anguish of jealousy by learning to be confident in ourselves rather than focus on others. Having faith in ourselves that we are loveable and good enough is one of life’s hardest tasks. We are so accustomed to getting this validation from outside, from others, from a loving relationship.

The relationships that are strongest and least susceptible to jealousy are those where both partners have done the hard work to develop internal validation. When both partners have consciously identified triggers that make them anxious and envious. When both partners can calmly hold ground to invite this conversation with empathy, allowing the other to vent and express uncomfortable feelings.

The best way to expel jealousy from our sex lives is to believe that we are lovable simply for who we are.

Jenni Skyler, PhD, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist. She runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www. theintimacyinstitute.org.

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Thursday, March 25 Canyoning in Ouray — presented by Charly Oliver. 7 p.m. Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Ste. A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

Nature Hike for Seniors. 10 a.m. Agricultural Heritage Center, 8348 Highway 66, west of Longmont, 303-678-6214.

Friday, March 26 A Long Trek Home: 4,000 Miles by Boot, Raft and Ski— With Erin and Hig McKittrick.

7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St., 303-583-9970.

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Yoga mat? Check. Big red clown nose? You betcha.

Welcome to hatha yoga with more than a twist — it’s a pratfall, a silly walk, a goofy stunt, some tumbling and juggling.

“It’s for play,” says the Boulder ringleader, Braddon Hall. “For kids age 7 to 97, we like to say, but especially for adults afraid of regular yoga.”

Yoga as play is something Hall takes seriously. Which seems all the more incongruous in that he’s teaching it in one of the United States’ oldest and most respected Ashtanga studios, the Yoga Workshop founded in Boulder by master teacher Richard Freeman in 1987.

Hall says he’s been practicing hatha yoga for 20 years. About four years teacher of CircusYoga in Colorado. ago, he was turned onto this variation “It was instant recognition,” he called CircusYoga offered at a meditasays. “Everybody likes the circus. This tion retreat in is about taking the Crestone by seriousness, the founders Erin competitiveness For more information: Maile O’Keefe out of so much CircusYoga of Boulder and Kevin that’s in yoga www.circusyogaboulder. com/Site/Welcome.html.

O’Keefe. classes today.

Yoga Workshop, 2020 21st St., The O’Keefes Creating an enveBoulder, 720-237-1023 met in 1997 and lope where everyturned their pasone can have fun sions for commuand contribute nity yoga, communal play and circuses without asking themselves, ‘Can I into a distinct variation of hatha yoga touch my toes?’ or thinking, ‘I don’t that has spun off teachers and classes look good enough in yoga poses.’” across the country. Hall is the only Hall teaches children in after-

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Saturday, March 27 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m. Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

Spring Awakening: Bears in Our Backyard? 1 p.m. Foothills Nature Center, 4201 N. Broadway, Boulder, 303-618-6214.

Sunday, March 28 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

Monday, March 29 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:30-6:30 a.m.

Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720-565-6019. school programs and thought yoga circus-style would be an excellent “carrot” to help students of all ages get over their mental blocks.

He’s known Freeman and his wife, cookbook author and Yoga Workshop director Mary Taylor, for years. It was only recently, however, that Hall mentioned CircusYoga to Taylor.

Freeman and Taylor were re-opening the studio under their direct management and have long sought to bring yoga into the community, Hall says.

CircusYoga appealed as “a new flavor to attract people.”

Tuesday, March 30 Tips on Travel Photography. 7 p.m. Free.

Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303494-9735.

Wednesday, March 31 Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com.

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by Chuck Myers

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Yoga Workshop began offering CircusYoga classes in February, and for the month of March attendance has been free. Drop-ins are welcome, and the number of regular students hovers around 10.

At a recent session, an assortment of adults met with Hall to practice goofy introductions, followed by a trust-building exercise at pretending to be Superman (allowing oneself to be lifted and paraded around in the air), and some Simon Says-like silliness.

Amid the laughter and mugging, there are the traditional yoga poses, the asanas. Even these are done with a difference. Balasana, the Child’s Pose, brings all foreheads down to the mats, which gives Hall the opportunity to glide around, placing a red clown’s nose before each head to be donned. A one-legged standing pose is done while touching in a circle, putting a literal feeling of community in the balance.

A floor pose incorporates what Hall calls the “SpongeBob SquarePants pelvic lift!”

The class finishes up with the traditional calm of Savasana, the Corpse Pose, prone on backs as Hall leads with a guided meditation that ends with chimes from his brass singing bowl. Students rise from the floor with smiles and the distinct look of people reluctant to leave a party.

Except for the Corpse Pose, Hall says, CircusYoga classes are free-form and encourage spontaneity. Some sessions might involve acrobatics or juggling. His role is to direct activities as indirectly as possible, eventually getting the students to take the lead, including extending the community outside classroom walls.

“Do people ever get together afterward, you know, for coffee or something?” one student asks Hall.

“Sure, it’s all part of CircusYoga,” he says.

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e often form a tight bond with our exercise shoes. So it can be a bit difficult to let go of them when they no longer provide suitable support.

Most running and walking shoes can typically last up to 500 miles. But how, where and how much the shoes get used can shorten their useful time.

Running on pavement, for instance, can lead to quicker wear and tear of shoes than running on a dirt track or hiking on trail.

How do you know when to let go of exercise shoes that have outlived their effectiveness? Here are a few indicators: Press Test: Perform this test to determine if the midsoles still provide proper cushioning. With your thumb, push on the outsole upward into the midsole. If the midsole shows heavy compression lines with a minimal amount of compression, there is little or no cushioning left. The midsole on new shoes will compress into lines or wrinkles.

Appearance: Don’t worry about dirt and grime. They’re signs of use. What you should look for are signs of wear and tear, such as heels that have stretched out and outsoles that have worn down. Also, if your shoes have seemingly molded to your feet, that’s another indication of excessive wear.

Feel: Aches and pain in your feet, knees, hip or back are a strong indication that your shoes have lost their cushioning. Additional signs include friction or blisters in unexpected places.

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Boulder’s one-woman winery

By Charmaine Ortega Getz

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ince there are no easily confirmable statistics to cite, it’s hard to say if Augustina’s Winery is truly the only one woman-run commercial winemaking operation in the United States, if not the world.

But as far as Marianne Walter knows, she’s the only “wine chick” doing everything from hauling her own grapes to crushing them in her bare feet to bottling and shipping the results.

“Grape-stomping isn’t as easy as it looks,” the woman who says she’s been known as “Gussie” since babyhood admits.

“It gets pretty tiring, and they’re really cold.”

Which is why she limits that activity to about a couple of hundred pounds of grapes a year. Otherwise, she crushes them through mechanical means. This year, she expects to produce between 5,000 and 5,600 bottles of wine, out of a space smaller than many convenience stores in an industrial-business strip off north Broadway.

Wines with labels such as WineChick, Bottoms Up! and Venus de Vino don’t exactly evoke images of sophisticates opining about the character of a vintage’s bouquet. Which is how Gussie prefers it.

“I’m not a wine snob,” she says. “My tastes are pretty low-end, and I find people who just like a nice zinfandel to be more interesting.”

Low-end her prices may be, between $9 and 12 a bottle on average. But even an experienced wine merchant will say there’s nothing cheap about the taste.

“We sell about 500 bottles a year. They’re good, really fun wines,” says Phil Morich, wine department manager for Boulder’s Liquor Mart. “A good deal for the consumer. And they’ve got those fabulous labels.”

When a tiny winery has to compete with the bigname boys, let alone the 20 or so Colorado operations Liquor Mart consistently stocks, cool-looking labels help.

Gussie dropped her original label design in late 1997 or early 1998 after she discovered the retro-label paintings of local artist Brandy LeMae. The bright colors and saucy poses of pinup girls were “just my style” — a style that evolved from a period Gussie says was about learning to differentiate “your identity from your image” and expressing herself in terms of how she actually felt about wine.

“Every winemaker I knew about,” she says, “had

these classical, pastel labels that didn’t suggest that wine was fun. I think of wines as dessert, something that follows the real main course.”

For Gussie, “the main course” means enjoyable activities, whether having potluck with friends, backpacking, reading Thomas Hardy, or porch-sitting while listening to Jimmy Buffet. She confesses to having a difficult time coming up with food pairings.

One of her most popular labels, Boulder Backpacking Wine, is an homage to her first husband, Jeff Deen, killed in an accident in 1994 while working as a geologist in Peru.

Gussie, then a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, said that at the time, “the only thing I could enjoy was my hobby, making wine. I desperately wanted to go away for awhile.”

With the added inducement of a departmental downsizing, Gussie put aside her geochemistry degree and obtained an apprenticeship with a small New Mexico winery. After nearly two years she returned, and eventually set up Boulder’s first winery in the industrial-zone strip mall at 4715 North Broadway.

“My first year I produced 1,100 bottles,” she says.

Gussie sold and served her wine at local theater performances, art exhibits, concerts and farmers markets. All while holding down part-time jobs with caterers and at breweries. It wasn’t until 2004, she says, that sales pulled ahead enough for her to quit the supplementary work.

She takes pride in using nothing but Coloradogrown grapes, some even from within Boulder County. When it’s harvest time, she’ll even make the trek to haul back the crop herself.

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o one would characterize salt-craving Lisa seemed to enjoy it. the Boulder ChopHouse She didn’t take nearly as much plea& Tavern as particularly sure in the buffalo shrimp, at $1.48 inexpensive, given such apiece. These specimens were so volumimenu options as a $35 nous you’d surmise they came from a lobster tail entrée. However, the bar-only nuclear reactor cooling pond — one menu is much more reasonably priced, couldn’t fault these for size or even clean and these offerings present a screaming taste. The problem was that the buffalo deal during the 4 to 6 p.m. happy hour, wing sauce overwhelmed the shellfish’s when food items are 50 percent off. The delicacy. Lisa asserted that the shrimp bar here is a comfortably elegant setting, were “killing me tangy,” although the with the dark woods and conservative sauce would have excelled on poultry. ambience you’d assoNext time, we’d go Boulder ciate with an old-line for the alternative of ChopHouse steakhouse. having these shrimp & Tavern Friends grilled and served as 921 Walnut St. Boulder Konstanze, Lisa and I a cocktail.

303-443-1188 started with a quartet Beef was our of appetizers, includcommon entreé ing the bargain-priced denominator. $2.97 Rhode Island-style calamari, fried Konstanze said, “There’s nothing like up in cornmeal batter. Two sophisticated dead cow,” a particularly apt sentiment at dipping sauces — a herbal green chimia place called the ChopHouse. Given churri and another composed of subtly this moniker, it’s also unsurprising that sweet and tangy red pepper — added each course arrived perfectly medium new complexity to this bar food staple. rare, as we requested. Konstanze relished The squid tasted fresh, and the assertive her $7.97 steak frites, a generous serving batter wasn’t at all soggy, leading us to of tender beef tempered by assertive blue quickly devour this plate. cheese flavoring. Equally pleasing were A $2.47 helping of kettle chips satisthe skinny fries, the epitome of crispy fied our junk-food cravings. While perfection. advertised as being served warm, these Lisa’s $7.98 grilled steak salad was a spuds were only slightly above room lighter choice, although she still received temperature. More heat would have a steak’s worth of beef. A bed of arugula improved both flavor and texture, and ripe tomatoes provided a less heavy although this didn’t hinder our overall counterpoint to the meat’s heft. Savory enjoyment. The kitchen again provided additions included nifty caramelized an unexpected dip, a pungent olive taponions and a vinaigrette that successfully enade. Regretfully, this condiment’s flavor balanced the sour and sweet without was more sodium than olive, although detracting from the other ingredients.

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liders (the diminutive sandwich, not the ’90s sci-fi series that featured SallahfromtheIndianaJonesmovies)areapopularlocalhappyhour item.TheChopHouseservesupatenderloinversion,whileMurphy’soffers a short rib interpretation. Conor O’Neill’s offers a culturally appropriate corned beef slider. While many attribute the term “slider” to the White Castle burger chain, others argue for a military origin. It’s said the name comes from military base sandwiches that were so greasy they would slide through the diner. Or it might come from burgers that slid across the grill aboard storm-tossed navy ships.

My choice was an $8.98 10-ounce prime rib sided with cheddar mashed potatoes. While the jus didn’t leave an impression, the horseradish sauce effectively combined creaminess and sinusclearing heat. At risk of incurring my mom’s wrath, I’d venture that this prime rib rivaled hers, as it possessed comparable deep flavor and velvety tenderness.

A full-priced $5.95 apple bread pudding with a shovelful of butterscotch ice

cream for an extra dollar provided us with ample dessert. The textures ranged from that of moist apple cake to creamy custard. The butterscotch enhanced this dish’s vanilla tones, and while the dollop of whipped cream might be gilding the lily, we had no problem with this adornment. Indeed, there was little to take exception to during this happy hour meal, a study in extraordinary value.

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St. Julien will go dark The St. Julien Hotel & Spa will observe Earth Hour on Saturday, March 27, at 8:30 p.m., by turning off all nonessential lights and hosting a candlelight celebration. From 5 p.m. to close, the hotel will offer locally grown, sustainable food and beverages, and at 8:30 p.m. guests are invited to partake in a celebratory toast as the lights are switched off. The hotel, Jill’s Restaurant and the T-Zero Martini Bar will all “go dark,” and entertainment by local artist Phil Robinson will liven up the evening. It is estimated that if all Boulder households and businesses switched off their lights for one hour, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by 18 metric tons.

The St. Julien pledges to turn off more than 1,150 lights throughout the establishment as part of the blackout.

Avery debuts barrel-aged ale Avery Brewing Company will host a release tasting of its Depuceleuse Barrel-Aged Wild Ale, the fourth in its series of barrel-aged beers. The brew has spent one year in zinfandel wine barrels and has matured into pungent flavors of sour cherry, aromas of aged wood and gentle spice. The release tasting and bottle event will take place on Friday, April 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Avery Tap Room.

Guests will have the opportunity to purchase up to six bottles of Depuceleuse ale as well as sample up to 22 other Avery beers. Admission is free. For more information, visit www. averybrewing.com.

Biodynamic wine dinner at Arugula Arugula Bar e Ristorante will host a five-course dinner paired with Colorado biodynamic wines on Wednesday, April 14, at 6:30 p.m. The menu will feature seasonal produce, Colorado lamb and Idaho sturgeon.

Wines will include Pinot Gris, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and a red blend, and winemaker Lance Hanson will be present at the dinner to discuss his wines. Cost is $65 per person (not including tax and tip). Reservations are required; call 303-443-5100.

Transitioning to local Boulder-based nonprofit organization Transition Colorado is making progress in its EAT LOCAL! campaign, aiming for a 10 percent shift into local food sourcing throughout Boulder County. The 10-year campaign is designed to draw closer connections between members of the community and local food producers.

Since its inception in 2007, the campaign has made significant changes throughout the county: restaurants have increased their use of local ingredients, county government has formed the Food and Agriculture Policy Council, CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shares have increased, and the Boulder County Farmers Market is now one of the top 10 in the nation.

The overarching goal of the campaign is to put into place a more resilient local food system that is less dependent on fossil fuels. To obtain an EAT LOCAL! guide, visit www.eatlocalguide.com. For more information about Transition Colorado, visit http:// transitioncolorado.ning.com.

Local finalist in Cocktail World Cup Mark Stoddard, a mixologist at The Bitter Bar, has been named one of three U.S. finalists to represent the United States in the New Zealand competition, the 42Below Cocktail World Cup. Stoddard is a previous first-place winner of the Colorado Bartenders Guild cocktail contest, and also was selected to compete in the national finals. The 42Below World Cup will take place March 23-28.

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Gussie is still a regular at farmers markets, and she maintains a modest tasting room furnished with quirky art pieces at her winery. (It’s open Saturdays and by appointment between March 31 and Nov. 11. For more information, see www.winechick.biz) But even today if you ask her which of her wines pairs well with what kind of food, she’s stumped.

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with some advice.

For example, Bottoms Up! White Wine goes well with “listening to Richard Thompson tunes and contemplating where to hang your hammock.”

Harvest Gold is recommended for gossiping on porches, while Boulder Backpacking Wine is to enjoy “by the campfire ... while reading John McPhee.”

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ust a spoon full of sugar Gingerbread Star makes my desserts taste sweet. Cookies OK, “helps the medicine go down” is actually the way that 3 1/4 cups flour tune rolls, but adding my own 1/2 tsp. baking soda lyrics makes me feel oh-so-creative pinch of salt and musician-y.

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So not only am I providing you a baking sheet with parchment paper with delectable goodies, I also am or lightly spray sheet with Pam. providing the opportunity for super- Lightly flour your counter and roll califragilisticexpialidocious to myste- out each disc, one at a time, about 1/4 inch thick, with floured rolling pin. riously fill your soul and have you singing and dancing all the live-long Use star cookie cutter or cookie cutter of your choice. Sprinkle each cookie day, I know it worked on me. Of with granulated sugar and place cookcourse, it might be the Jagermeister I drank while baking the ie onto prepared baking sheet. Bake Gingerbread Star Cookies … magifor 9-11 minutes until edges are just starting to brown. Take out and place cal indeed. Just a spoon full of Jager on cooling rack. Enjoy! helps the medicine go down.

You can watch the Dessert Diva Go check out the production for every Monday at 8:35 a.m. on yourself, it is playing at the Buell Channel 2. To contact Danette at the Theatre until April 4. MP (that’s station, visit 2thedeuce.com, and click what I call her) flies — she flies!

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The Boulder Draft House 2027 13th St. Boulder 303-440-5858

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ccupying the former Redfish location, Boulder’s Draft House lives up to its name, as it features numerous craft beers from the Colorado Brewing Company. This cavernous but inviting space also serves up several enticing food specials, such as Monday’s $7 burger-and-a-beer deal, and Happy Hour runs all day Tuesday. To its credit, this eatery also goes beyond the predictable wings and nachos by offering such endearing options as a lobster mac and cheese and fried artichoke heart po’ boy sandwiches.

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Antica Roma 1308 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-449-1787

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ith its Roman Holiday décor, Antica Roma offers up a mix of panini, pizzas, pastas and entrées, ranging from an ambitious smoked salmon pizza to a more traditional chicken marsala.

One standout is the rotolo di pasta, a sheet of pasta spiraling around a filling of ricotta and spinach and sliced to resemble a savory jelly roll. Another is the fritto misto.

Elephant Hut 2500 30th St. #101 Boulder 303-284-0308

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lephant Hut is a swank Thai eatery, serving the obligatory staples of this Southeast Asian cuisine, such as curries, entrée salads freighted with fresh papaya, noodle plates and spicy, citrusy soups. While some dishes, such as the pad see ew, wide rice noodles stir-fried in soy sauce, are traditionally served with meat, vegan and vegetarian versions of most selections are available. One noteworthy choice is the duck noodle soup, which comes with a fullbodied broth, expertly cooked noodles and flavorful morsels of waterfowl.

Beau Jo’s Pizza 2690 Baseline Rd. Boulder 303-554-5312

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n $8.49 pizza and salad bar buffet is a darn near unbeatable bargain, as long as you’re not expecting a display of culinary trendiness. What you will get is a smorgasbord consisting of a soup of the day, an oldschool salad bar replete with Kraft dressings and potato salad, and an impressive array of Beau Jo’s formidable pizza pies. On a recent visit, a meatless pepper and cheese number was a creamy-yet-spicy winner, and the peach dessert pizza was a cut above this establishment’s signature finish: simply dousing the leftover crusts in honey.

Le Peep 2525 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder 303-444-5119

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he breakfast menu here presents the proverbial something for everyone, including omelets and waffles, as well as biscuits and gravy, French toast and a Rocky Mountaininfluenced trout and eggs. The breakfast burrito with chicken is particularly remarkable, loaded up with poultry, eggs and potatoes, and a zingy-but-not-pyrotechnic green chile sauce. A perfect venue for families, Le Peep presents everything from a sizable kids menu to espresso drinks.

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That’s not bad, considering that Thunderbird’s beef is of the fresh, never frozen variety. The priciest burger is the $12.99 “4x4,” which features four onethird-pound patties accompanied by four cheese slices. Healthier options include chicken sandwiches, veggie burgers and salads for all appetites. The barbecue menu offers ribs, chicken, brisket, pork shoulder and hot links.

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he offerings at Snarf ’s, which is indisputably a Boulder institution, are classic sandwiches, with the addition of entrée salads, such as the venerable Cobb; soups; and a multitude of specialty sandwich offerings. The latter includes the prime rib and provolone, rotisserie chicken and, for the vegetarian, a portobello and provolone combo. Standouts include the tangy eggplant parmesan and a winning French dip.

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hile the contemporary ambience and Guernica-sized mural of Chinese village life suggest the potential for high prices, meals here are reasonable. Most lunches are priced well under $10, and there’s plenty to choose from off the predominantly ChineseAmerican menu. There are old chestnuts like broccoli beef and a winning chow fun, as well as more traditional tripe dishes, Shanghai-style cold plates and whole steamed fish.

Sunday brunch. A traditional feast in a welcoming — if not clubby — atmosphere, this brunch features such old standbys as carvedto-order prime rib and omelets prepared to your specifications. Other offerings include oysters on the half shell and an endearingly eggy French toast. As for desserts, the bitesized flans and hearty bread pudding are can’t-miss items. A Boulder classic!

Suki Thai Noodle House 675 30th St. Boulder 303-444-1196

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uki Thai Noodle House carries on the proud Asian tradition of serving noodle soup as a satisfying and economical onedish meal. Their noodle bowls come with steak, chicken, tofu or pork, either in the form of meatballs or in honey-glazed red roasted form. For a dollar more, one can add calamari, shrimp, or both. Select a broth according to spice level, and the addition of fresh vegetables and rice noodles makes for a fine entrée soup.

Thunderbird Burgers & BBQ 3117 28th St. Boulder 303-449-2229

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hunderbird Burgers & BBQ offers a surprisingly varied menu, with reasonably priced items such as a $4.99 hamburger.

ffering light and healthy Asian, Tibet Kitchen also serves choices seldom seen in other restaurants. It offers cooked-to-order momo, or Tibetan dumplings, with fillings of beef, vegetable and chicken. An array of vegetarian choices includes bean curd with baby bok choy, and a hearty dish of sliced potatoes with spinach and red bell pepper. There are also handmade pastas in a choice of broths.

The Huckleberry 700 Main St., Louisville, 303-666-8020

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hile it serves all three meals plus afternoon tea, Louisville’s Huckleberry is perhaps best known for its breakfast and brunch offerings, including pancakes, breakfast burritos and egg dishes. Southern standbys like chicken-fried steak and biscuits and gravy have also contributed to this eatery’s reputation. Also check out the baked goods. While wait times may be long, it lives up to its reputation.

The Boulder Cork 3295 30th St. Boulder, 303-443-9505

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ome long-running restaurants are content to rest on their laurels with predictably stale menus. Not the Cork. Some of the unique selections include crab cakes, fish “carnitas” and Asian-influenced entrée salads. Of course, steaks and chops still enjoy pride of place here, and the Cork’s filet mignon is a perfect combination of tenderness and flavor.

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epo Men was awful. Graphic, bloody and with a staggering body count, this is all that’s wrong with Hollywood action films, a glossy sheen on a completely vapid, empty story that works against itself in scene after scene. Then, the worst of all is the surprise ending, a twist that’s always frustrated me. I won’t reveal it, but if you do suffer through this dreck, you’ll know exactly why it’s a formulaic ending that’s almost always a death knell.

Repo Men explores a dystopic future where cities look curiously like the brilliantly realized urban landscape of Blade Runner and artificial organs, “artiforgs,” have been perfected and are manufactured by a variety of global companies along with the black market (a la Minority Report). Problem is, these artificial body parts are extraordinarily expensive, so just about everyone opts for a payment plan. Miss a few payments, though, and the repo men show up to reclaim their wares.

Remy ( Jude Law) and Jake (Forest Whitaker) are repo men working for The Union, one of the companies that sells replacement organs to hapless citizens.

Remy and Jake are top repo men for the company, fast, efficient, and they clearly enjoy their work, which generally involves tasering overdue artiforg holders then brutally slicing them open and ripping out the artificial organ.

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grade school and still interact as if they’re schoolboys, roughhousing and harassing each other with an almost homoerotic familiarity. Remy’s wife Carol (Carice van Houten) is sick of his unpredictable hours, and gives him an ultimatum: change jobs or she’s outta there.

Remy decides to switch, and on his last repo job the equipment fails and he wakes up in the hospital fitted with a Jarvik-39 artificial heart, made and owned by The Union. In debt, the hunter becomes the hunted, but in a daft story twist, his artificial heart causes him to find his own “heart” and unable to accomplish the occasional repo job.

Carol dumps him, but that’s okay because he

Running with it

rich and surprisingly old-fashioned musical biopic, The Runaways has neither the bloat nor the blather of your average Hollywood treatment of stars on the rise. It’s pungent and quick on its feet, capturing the clubs, the shag-heavy interiors and the Farrahhaired vibe of mid-1970s Los Angeles in look and spirit.

Writer-director Floria Sigismondi has worked in photography, sculpture and music videos, and she gets behind the eyes and into the nervous systems of her subjects, without turning them into instruments of easy pathos. Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two-fifths of The Runaways, take center stage here. One suspects Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, who have never been stronger or freer on screen, were able to bring all sorts of private, teen-idol Sturm und Drang to bear on these real-life teen idols.

Jett, Currie and their bandmates were brought together by music industry demi-player Kim Fowley, and one of the strengths of the picture is its ambiguity regarding this jailbait-obsessed puppetmaster. He’s played by Michael Shannon with a twitchy comic intensity. Everything about these lives is intense. The band’s story is a show-business fable of razor-thin lines, between rock stardom and teen exploitation, between the right amount of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll ( Jett figBoulder Weekly

quickly connects with lounge singer Beth (Alice Braga) who has all sorts of artificial organs and is way overdue on her payments. It’s not long before the repo men are after the fleeing couple.

Here’s where the film slams into a wall: in the interest of clearing the slate for everyone with overdue organs, Remy wantonly slaughters any and everyone in his way, including scene after scene of graphic and unnecessary murders. If it’s your humanity that’s propelling you to try to help people, wouldn’t you be reticent about killing others?

The film is very well-assembled. The environment is an interesting mix of futuristic and dystopic settings, and there were some aspects that were intriguing: the film opens with the news that the government is about to declare bankruptcy, and there are omnipresent TV screens running news non-stop, including a snippet about the wryly named Operation Hope Springs Eternal about a pending war in Nigeria.

Still, a pretty film with good special effects, nicely choreographed fight scenes and shiny props can’t mask a wreck of a story that has no internal logic and is disgusting, scene after scene, with no ultimate climax that explains what’s happened and leaves the viewer fulfilled. When Ninja Assassin is better, well, you know it’s time to hire better scriptwriters for director Miguel Sapochnik’s next film.

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ured that one out) and too much (Currie didn’t, though she lived to tell about it all in the book Neon Angel).

Stewart’s Jett is paradoxically less mannered than some of her other screen portrayals, perhaps because Jett is such a righteous embodiment of teen fearlessness, as opposed to the heroine of the Twilight saga, a symbol of waiting and wanting.

“Girls don’t play electric guitars,” Jett’s music teacher informs her, chuckling. This is the sort of line every music biopic has, and it takes you right back to The

Benny Goodman Story, when the oldschool Viennese instructor, upon hearing of Benny’s late-night gigs, exhorts, “No! Benny! Not zat ragtime!”

Yet the corn doesn’t corrode The Runaways. The film invests real feeling in telling these intertwined stories. Currie was conceived by Fowley (and, implicitly, herself ) as the trashy Valley version of Brigitte Bardot, while Fowley saw Jett’s appeal as more complicated — which is true, and it’s why The Runaways meant something beyond the packaging. The component parts of The Runaways are familiar — rehearsal scenes, backstage trysts, onstage triumphs — but it has an exceptional hangout factor. The characters and the performers simply are good company, even in extremis.

I don’t know what The Runaways’ real rehearsal trailer looked like, but the one we see here — a fabulously grimy model contributed, or found, by someone under the supervision of production designer Eugenio Caballero — is perfect. Caballero’s credits include Pan’s Labyrinth. The subject of The Runaways, really, is just another labyrinth, and the teenagers making their reckless way toward adulthood and selfhood are running, and playing, as fast as they can.

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Alice in Wonderland

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Director Tim Burton’s new extravaganza, the second Disney-backed Alice and a bookend to the cheerily benign 1951 animated version, won’t be for everyone. It’s a little rough for preteens, and it doesn’t throw many laughs the audience’s way, but along with Sweeney Todd, this is Burton’s most interesting project in a decade. Wonderfully wellchosen Australian actress Mia Wasikowska plays Alice, and Johnny Depp continues his fruitfully nervy collaboration with Burton by playing the Mad Hatter. PG (fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and a smoking caterpillar). At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

Oh, those crazy days of slasher films, when every summer camp became a potential slaughterhouse.

The Burning was one of the flood of movies that followed the success of Friday the 13th, and it’s more notable today for an unexpected roster of talent than for its success as a horror movie.You will note that the opening titles feature the unusual credit of “Created and Produced by Harvey Weinstein,” and sure enough, this is the first feature film bearing the name of the future Hollywood mogul. We’re at Camp Blackstone, where a disfigured loony, still sizzling after getting burned by unhappy campers years earlier, exacts his revenge on the empty-headed current crop. Among the campers are future Seinfeld star Jason Alexander, Fisher Stevens, and (in a smaller part) Holly Hunter. There’s a vintage early-’80s synthesizer score by Rick Wakeman, but the real star of the movie is effects whiz Tom Savini (Dawn of the Dead), who does his bloody best with the murders.

We don’t care much about the teenagers, but students of gore will savor the throat-cuttings and the finger-loppings. At Starz. — Denver Film Society

The Blind Side Based on a book by Michael Lewis, this film fumbles a true story of an African-American product of the Memphis projects who ended up at a Christian school and in the care of a wealthy white family, then went on to NFL glory. The star is Sandra Bullock, whose character is conceived as a steel magnolia with a will of iron. Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), now a tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, has been sidelined in his own story. At its queasiest The Blind Side veers perilously close to the concept of poverty tourism. PG-13 (one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references). At Flatiron. — Michael Phillips The Bounty Hunter Three films into his romantic comedy career, Gerard

‘Chloe’

In director Atom Egoyan’s latest film, Amanda Seyfried stars opposite Julianne Moore as a prostitute hired to tempt a faithless husband.

Chloe Butler has finally reached “watchable.” With The Bounty Hunter, the bemused Scots leading man comes closer to setting off sparks with his newest leading lady, Jennifer Aniston. Butler plays Milo Boyd, a bounty hunter, tracking down crooks who skip out on bail, handcuffing them even if he has to chase them, on stilts, through the middle of a July 4th parade. When Nicole (Aniston) misses a court date and her bail bondsman is out $50,000, Milo takes the gig. Aniston

doesn’t bring her old A-game to this. But at least she’s not quiet and no-energy, her approach to too many roles of late. Director Andy Tennant makes sure the whole shooting match devolves into a shooting match, which only makes one appreciate Butler’s romantic comedy efforts more. If he’s co-starring with Jen, at least he’s not making another “Gamer.”

Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks, Colony Square and Flatiron. — Roger Moore.

Atom Egoyan, Canada’s hit-or-miss or miss-by-amile cinema surveyor of the terrain of sex, finds mild chills and modest surprises with Chloe, a softcore variation on Fatal Attraction. The filmmaker, noted for occasionally fetishizing young starlets in awkwardly twisted films such as Exotica, here semi-successfully remakes the kinky French drama Nathalie, a tale of Catherine, a jealous wife

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who hires a gorgeous young prostitute to tempt her husband. Julianne Moore, who takes over the title “best actor never to win an Oscar” now that Jeff Bridges has been honored, gives Catherine shades of wounded motherliness, a wife and mom still making the effort, but not trusting her husband (Liam Neeson, deliciously flirty) and not on speaking terms with their musician son (Max Thierot of Nancy Drew). She is lost, and Chloe, played by Amanda Seyfried as a wide-eyed but knowing young woman who has learned to figure out what people want and how to give it to them, is cat to her mouse. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century and Mayan. — Roger Moore.

Crazy Heart There’s a powerful symmetry at work in Crazy Heart. It’s a parallel between protagonist Bad Blake, a country singer at a nadir of disintegration, and star Jeff Bridges, whose exceptional film choices have put him at the height of his powers in time to make Blake the capstone of his career.

It’s a mark of how fine a performance Bridges gives that it succeeds beautifully even though the besotted, bedeviled country singer has been an overly familiar popular-culture staple for forever.

Rated R (language and brief sexuality). At Century, Colony Square and Esquire. — Kenneth Turan Diary of a Wimpy Kid Why Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Because you’re never too old for a good booger joke. Jeff Kinney’s irreverent illustrated diary about one tween’s nightmare middle-school experience comes to the big screen with all its boogers, bullies, bad decisions and maybe a few more trips to the toilet than you’ll remember. Crass, gross and juvenile in all the best (and worst) ways, Diary is aimed squarely at a tween “don’t touch the cheese” demographic. And if you don’t get it, maybe you’re just too old for a good booger joke. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore.

Dirt! The Movie Inspired by William Bryant Logan’s acclaimed book Dirt, the Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, directors Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow employ a colorful combination of animation, vignettes and personal accounts from people to teach us about dirt — where it comes from, how we regard (or disregard) it, how it sustains us, the way it has become endangered, and what we can do about it. The fresh and generous spirit of Dirt! The Movie is simple and energizing. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Ghost Writer Director Roman Polanski turns a conventional conspiracy thriller into a triumph of atmospheric menace. A hated politician (Pierce Brosnan, playing a variant on ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair) owes his publisher an autobiography. Enter the ghost writer (Ewan McGregor), who arrives on Martha’s Vineyard to research his subject.

Some may perceive this as an anti-Bush polemic, but Polanski is less intrigued by specific topical reference points than by the cramped corridors of power and what misdeeds lie in the shadows.

Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Michael Phillips Greenberg Something went wrong once for Roger Greenberg.

Something big. It happened years before, and its result is as plain as every bug-eyed twitch on Roger’s face.

He’s a guy devoured by the terror of expectations. At 41, unlike his peers, he never learned to “embrace the life you never planned for.” Greenberg, the latest writing-directing effort from Noah Baumbach, is another droll, sensitive essay in dysfunction. It’s a movie that falls midway between his exquisite The Squid and the Whale and his woefully miscalculated Margot at the Wedding. Ben Stiller leaves his silly side behind for this sometimes funny character study. Stiller walks a fasci56 March 25, 2010

nating tightrope with this guy, underpinning much of what happens between medications with a midlife crisis: a generational angst that allows Baumbach to pass judgment on “kids today” even as his anti-hero alter ego is no one who should be passing judgment on anyone. Rated R. At Century and Esquire. — Roger Moore.

Green Zone Director Paul Greengrass delivers a skillfully made package, but this feels like a too-soon proposition. Green Zone is partly real and partly outlandish in its wishful thinking. An Army officer hunting for WMDs in 2003, the fictional Miller (Matt Damon) knocks heads with everyone in Baghdad, from a neocon Pentagon huckster (Greg Kinnear) to a scary Special Forces op (Jason Isaacs). Everyone’s after one of Saddam’s top military figureheads (Khalid Abdalla), who has gone underground and who knows what Miller wants to learn. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Hot Tub Time Machine Hot Tub Time Machine’s title may say it all. But just in case it doesn’t, here’s an alternative: “Back to The Hangover.” A sloppy, raucous, time travel farce in the grown-men-gone-wild Hangover style, it’s a surprisingly satisfying, if not exactly “LMAO,” riot. There are some big laughs, a few great running gags and the Back to the Future sweet moments of reflection mostly work. It’s not The Hangover, but at least this Hot Tub won’t have you hating yourself in the morning. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

— Roger Moore.

How to Train Your Dragon An animated comedy adventure of a misfit Viking teen who encounters a dragon that challenges his tribe’s tradition of heroic dragon slayers. With the voices of Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Kristen Wiig. Based on the book by Cressida Cowell. Directed by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders.

Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Los Angeles Times The Hurt Locker Vivid, assured and extremely suspenseful, director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest (and strongest) film takes moviegoers by the collar and throws them headlong into one horrifying life-and-death situation after another. Jeremy Renner plays a soldier in Iraq running toward the explosives while everyone else is ducking and covering. He’s a bomb tech whose job entails disarming one Improvised Explosive Device after another, day after day. Time will tell if this politically neutral war movie is a classic, but it’s certainly a formidable experience. R (war violence and language). At Colony Square and Mayan. — Michael Phillips The Last Station The final years of Leo Tolstoy’s life were all war and no peace. The savage rivalry for his attention and legacy between his redoubtable wife and his craftiest disciple has now been turned into a showcase for tasty acting by performers who really know how to sink their teeth into roles.

Under the accomplished direction of Michael Hoffman, who also wrote the script, The Last Station is well-acted across the board, but the film’s centerpiece is the spectacular back and forth between Christopher Plummer as Tolstoy and Helen Mirren as Sofya, his wife of 48 years.

Rated R. At Colony Square. — Kenneth Turan The Paranoids Gabriel Medina’s wonderfully crafted debut feature is a fresh, visually innovative, and often hilarious glimpse into the lives of some very offbeat, yet human, characters. Thirty-something Luciano Gauna is odd. A failing screenwriter in Buenos Aires, Luciano lives in an

almost intense state of paranoia, afraid of everything from STDs to even his doorman. When his childhood friend Manuel, a very successful TV producer, returns from Madrid with his stunning new girlfriend Sofia, his world is thrown into a near desperate funk. He discovers that Manuel has unflatteringly modeled him as the lead character on a successful Spanish TV show called The Paranoids, which Manuel is now bringing to Argentina. When Manuel leaves on a business trip to Chile, Lucian’s remaining grip on reality unravels when he’s left alone with Sofia and her alluring charm. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief The first installment in Rick Riordan’s five-book series suggests that this could be the start of something adequate. Its limitations are less a matter of scale than of imagination. It may be director Chris Columbus’ fate to initiate a fantasy franchise destined to be improved by his successors, as with the Harry Potter juggernaut. Now, Columbus has taken on this fantasy construct in which Greek gods threaten war in modern-day America over Zeus’ missing lightning bolt. PG (action violence and peril, some scary images and suggestive material, and mild language). At Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Prodigal Sons Prodigal Sons tells the story of three fascinating siblings: filmmaker Kim, a transgender woman; Todd, a gay man; and Marc, their adopted brother who discovers he’s the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. The bond between longtime rivals Marc and Kim, which defies both Kim’s gender and Marc’s pedigree, exists as the fascinating heart of the film, and is orbited by a colorful, articulate cast of characters, including jailhouse chaplains, Montana farmers, intrigued high school classmates, and Orson Welles’ soul-mate Oja Kodar, among others. Directed by Kimberly Reed. Not rated. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres A Prophet The crime sagas that end up ensnaring the public imagination often do so by delivering their thrills with a crafty sort of hypocrisy, casting the hero in a mold unnerving enough to keep the viewer on edge, but heroic (or attractively anti-heroic) enough to develop a rooting interest. Such is the case with A Prophet, a violent and gripping French film trafficking in both gangster mythology and the prison picture. It comes from Jacques Audiard, who has won many awards in France and beyond for what Audiard himself has described as “an anti-Scarface.” Rated R. At Chez Artiste. — Michael Phillips Remember Me Teen audiences, particularly female, are likely to fall headlong into this dour romantic drama because Robert Pattinson and his fwoopy hair are both in it. Pattinson plays an NYU student who dares to ask out a girl (Emilie de Ravin) despite the fact that she’s the daughter of the cop (Chris Cooper) who recently arrested him.

The story takes place largely in New York City in early 2001, so 9/11 looms. Pattinson is a good actor, but he struggles to find a through-line to the film’s generalized notion of F. Scott Fitzgerald/ J.D. Salinger raw youth. Rated PG-13 (violence, sexual content, language and smoking). At Flatiron.

— Michael Phillips Repo Men See full review on page 53. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron andTwin Peaks. — Roger Moore.

sidewinding line readings can make the stupidest material sound temporarily funny. Half of this film takes place in a Judd Apatow comedy, or tries to. The other half takes place in a drably photographed Pittsburgh, where Kirk (Baruchel) works as a Transportation Security Administration employee. An attractive babe (Alice Eve) coming off a bad relationship decides to give Kirk a try, much to the bewilderment of his goofball friends. Rated R. At Twin Peaks, Century, Colony Square and Flatiron. — Michael Phillips Shutter Island A U.S. marshal (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his amiable new partner (Mark Ruffalo) hunt for an escaped patient at an insane asylum run by a shifty doctor (Ben Kingsley), whose island clinic may harbor sinister doings in the name of progressive health care. The esteemed Martin Scorsese directs this adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel, but Scorsese overcooks the stew.

Not even supporting players as deft as Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley and Emily Mortimer can make this more than classy, well-acted junk.

Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips Siddhartha A young man born into a rich family searches for a meaningful way of life. His path takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth and self-revulsion. He learns the secret of leading a meaningful life cannot be passed on from one person to another, but must be achieved through experience. Simi Garewal’s nude scene caused controversy in India. The Indian Censor Board, at that time did not even permit on-screen kissing in Indian films. (89 min.) Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. At Boulder Public Library. — BPL Starship Troopers Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s book (Hugo Best Novel, 1960) incorporates ethics of society, warfare and juvenile delinquency in a militaristic, sci-fi tale of interstellar war. Rated R. At International Film Series. — IFS Tapped Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig’s debut feature is an unflinching examination of the big business of bottled water. From the producers of Who Killed the Electric Car? and I.O.U.S.A., this timely documentary is a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. A powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry, this revelatory film features those caught at the intersection of big business and the public’s right to water. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Young Victoria Starring Emily Blunt as the 18-year-old queen of England circa 1837, this delicious historical romance is a rich pastiche of first love, teen empowerment, fabulous fashion and fate.

Filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee has captured that hot blush of pure emotion that comes before kisses, sex and heartbreak. Credit also goes to Blunt and to Rupert Friend, who plays the equally young Belgian Prince Albert. They have been given a lot to work with and make the most of it. PG (some mild sensuality, a scene of violence and brief incidental language and smoking). At Chez Artiste. — Betsy Sharkey

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March 21-April 19:

All but one of our planet’s mountain ranges have been mapped: the Gamburtsev Mountains, which are buried under 2.5 miles of ice in Antarctica. Recent efforts to get a read on this craggy landscape, aided by a network of seismic instruments, have revealed some initial details about it, including its role in forming the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

I recommend that you regard the Gamburtsevs as an iconic metaphor in the coming months, Aries. They’ll be an apt symbol for one of your life’s featured themes: the discovery and exploration of a massive unknown territory that has been hidden from view.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

It’s my opinion that everyone has a duty to periodically check in with themselves to make sure they still are who they say they are. Over time, there’s a tendency for all of us to fall into the habit of believing our own hype. We get entranced by the persona we project. We’re tempted to keep capitalizing on our past accomplishments in ways that lull us into complacency and give us unconscious permission to stop growing. You, Taurus, are in no worse danger of doing this than any of the rest of us. But the coming weeks will be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for you to do an intensive check-in.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

The odds are higher than usual that you’ll encounter a future soul brother or soul sister in the coming weeks. Potential allies are gravitating toward you, even if neither they nor you are aware of it yet. You’re also likely to brush up against a tribe or team you could benefit from knowing more about.

That’s why I’m counseling you to be extra open to meeting people you don’t know. Talk to strangers. Ask your friends to introduce you to their friends. And consider the possibility of skipping over the customary social formalities so you can reveal some of the core truths about who you are right from the start.

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Sci-fi author Neil Gaiman sometimes invites his readers to get involved in his creative process. While working on the story “Metamorpho,” for example, he Twittered, “Trying to decide if broccoli is funnier than kohlrabi in a list of vegetables.” When a number of fans suggested “rutabaga” instead, he took their suggestion. (Thanks to The New Yorker for that report.) I’d like to borrow Gaiman’s approach, as you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll have maximum power to shape your own destiny. So here’s my question: What accomplishment would you like your horoscope to say you will complete by May 15? Email me at Truthrooster@gmail.com.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

From the 9th to the 15th century, the Khmer empire thrived in what is now Cambodia. Its rulers were regarded as deities who had privileges that common folk didn’t have — as well as special responsibilities. For example, each god-king was expected, according to custom, to engage in sexual relations with a sacred nine-headed serpent every single night, whether he was in the mood or not. (An actual human being usually served as a proxy for the magic snake.) I suspect you may get an inkling of the god-king’s double-edged situation in the coming week, Leo. On the one hand, you’re likely to be presented with the possibility of experiencing uncommonly interesting pleasure. On the other hand, there may be an obligatory quality to it — a slightly oppressive pressure that is fully blended with the bliss.

VIRGO

culture: brilliantly executed, gorgeous to behold, and perversely seductive, even though its subject matter is degrading, demoralizing, and devoid of meaning. In my role as a kickass educator, however, I encourage you to watch the video at least once. I think you’d benefit from seeing such an explicit embodiment of the crazy-making pressures you’ll be wise to avoid exposing yourself to in the coming weeks. You can find it at tinyurl.com/ycx6p34 or tinyurl.com/ycvkkdz.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

“Most of the time, life does not talk to you,” writes Robert T. Kiyosaki in his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad. “It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, ‘Wake up.

There’s something I want you to learn.’” Different people respond in different ways, Kiyosaki says. “Some just let life push them around. Others get angry and push back.

But they push back against their boss, or their job, or their husband or wife. They do not know it’s life that’s pushing.”

I’m here to tell you, Scorpio, that what he says is particularly apropos for you right now. And I hope that you will neither allow yourself to get pushed around nor blame the wrong source for the push. Instead, make yourself available to learn the lesson that life’s nudging you to pay attention to.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

NASA scientist Richard Gross believes that the recent magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile was so strong that it shifted the planet’s axis and shortened the length of the day.

The amounts were relatively small — three inches and 1.26 microseconds — but it was enough to make “the Earth ring like a bell.” I predict a somewhat comparable seismic shift for you in the coming weeks. The main difference is that yours will not be generated by a painful jolt but rather by a breakthrough that’s half smart and half lucky.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

In a library in Warsaw, there is a 1,000-plus-page memoir written by my great-great-great-great grandfather, Leon Dembowski, a close advisor to the last king of Poland.

Someday I’ll make a pilgrimage over there, photocopy that family heirloom, bring it back to America, and have it translated into English. The task I envision for you in the coming weeks, Capricorn, has a certain resemblance to mine. I think you will have the chance to uncover a wealth of material about where you came from, but it’ll take a lot of footwork and reinterpretation.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

There’s no need for you to get a t-shirt that says, “Oh no, not another learning experience.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are not about to have an embarrassing stumble that could in retrospect be euphemistically referred to as a “learning experience.” On the contrary, the educational events you’ll be communing with will be pretty pleasurable, and will more closely resemble a hop, skip, and a jump than a stumble.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

I’m inclined to prophesy that in the days to come, you may be able to read the minds of people whose actions are critical to your success. I also suspect that you will know exactly what to do in order to banish a minor health problem. I’m even tempted to believe that when you gaze into the mirror you will be more intrigued than you’ve been in a while.

Have you ever heard a bird sing a song just for you? Did you ever find a small treasure you assumed was lost forever?

Developments like those are in the works. There’s only one catch: To get the most out of this grace period, you will have to summon more faith in yourself than you usually do.

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

According to the oracular priestess at the ancient Greek shrine of Delphi, whom I consulted in my dream last night, your code phrases for the week are “luminous shadow” and “hidden light.” That was the gist of her entire message; she didn’t provide any more practical clues. But here are some ways I might interpret her prophecy if I were you: What dark place in your life might soon shine forth with a new radiance?

Or: What secret beauty is aching to be found? Or: What odd asset have you been concealing for no good reason?

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

In my role as moral sentinel, I strongly urge you not to watch “Telephone,” the music video by Lady Gaga and Beyoncé.

It epitomizes everything that’s crazy-making about our

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